Adventures in the Dragons Realm  
                               Chapter Two
                            "Learnning the way"
                              by Lord Dizzy           
                             edited by Eric42
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     The night had been uneventfull and my sleep had been light and not
  very helpfull.  When the dawn broke over the mountains, I went to the
  bakers shop to get some breakfast of rye bread and milk.  While I ate
  my food near the town well, I looked around to see just what this city
  had to offer.  The town looked different in the light compared to the
  dark of last night.

     In the dark of night the town looked old and ransacked, but in the
  rays of the sun, I could see that my first assement was wrong.  The
  building were in fact very well maintained, probality from all the gold
  that seemed to be all around from the other travelers who were in town
  for the same reason I was.
        
     The first place to open it's doors was the trainning hall.  The person
  who opened the door was an older man who had wisps' of gray hair peppering
  this thick brown top and beard.  He was coming out of his hall for a
  second time to post a banner on the side of the building announcing
  something of importance, at least that is what I got from all the commotion from several other 
  travelers that had grouped around the sign. 
        
     Next to open was the town smithe, who was getting ready to shoe some
  of the horses that were in the stable next to his shop.  The next two
  guys to open up were a pair that shared the same building they were the
  armour and weaponier.  The odd thing about them was the large number of
  wares they each had in their stores, yet I didn't notice any ingetts of
  steel in the smithes' shop for making fighting equipment.  Somehow they
  had to get the equipment from somewhere but the question of "where" was
  escaping me at the moment.  In the back of my mind I told myself that I
  would find out at a later date. 
        
     With my recon of the town finished and my food gone, I felt it was
  time to go look at the banner that was of so much talk.  As I approched
  the sign, the words at the top were bigger then the sign it's self or so
  it seemed. in bold face it read:
                

                     WANTED.. KNIGHTS, MAGI, AND THEIFS
                 for the service of the realm, brave souls
                 willing to fight the creatures of the land
                 that are controled by the RED DRAGON.  Any
                 whom take of this offer will be given GOLD
                   and credit towards farther training at 
                          this hall of chivalry  

                  
     Now there was something that I did not expect, I mean did it really
  say a red dragon.  I had heard all the stories of dragons and mythical
  monsters, but here was the writting on the wall and it was signed by the
  king himself.  There had to be a real dragon or this king would have been
  made a laughing-stock of it was not true.  Now that my intrest was caught,
  I took a look at the sign over the door that read "Turgon's Warrior
  Training".  Just inside the doors, I saw the largest inside area I had ever
  seen outside of a kings court or within a churches walls.  Men and squires 
  of all ages slashed, conjured, and lurked about this place of learning.
  At the front table sat a lad of no more then ten years of age scribbing
  a book of records.  I ask the lad about the sign and just who I would
  recieve the gold from that was mentioned in it's ink.  He proceded to talk
  in a way that I had never heard before. 
        (this was a strange town indeed) 
        
     "Well..Ya See..(a cross of southern & bronx) yose..got to go thru
  _R_ 11 step pro'gram first..ya start with that little wimp of an id'jut
  over ther.. his name be Halder..if you can kick his lame, grayhound
  looking hide..yose get marked in this book, and get a better price for
  the garbage out in the woods."
        
     A better price?  A price for what?
        
     "Well.." he continued "as of this moment..yose got nose training
  according to myse book here.  And you'll get 5 gold per body..BUT..
  if yose beat girlie-boy over ther's.. yo'll get 10 per head..GOT IT?..
  GOOD NOW SIGN THE BOOK.."

     I signed my name on the dotted line."Tanks Mac..now go woop him..
  HEY HADLER..HERES A NOTHER ONE!"

     The End of Chapter 2

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     Adventuers in the Dragons Realm  
     Chapter Three - "The Road to Herohood Begins"
     By Lord Dizzy