Adventures in the Dragons Realm  
                              chapter three
                       "The Road to Herohood begins"
                              by Lord Dizzy           
                             edited by Eric42
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     The young squire made my presents know to Halder, the first level
  master of this training hall.  He walked strongly, yet a little clumsy.
  I knew why Turgon had choose him as the one to be the first fighter, if
  you could not beat this guy, you should find another line of work. 

     "Well..What do we have here?" ask Halder, as he looked me over.  "So
  another stranger come to try to get the king's ramsom on the red dragon?
  Well I'm here to stop you before you even get started.. You may think you
  are good but I'm better!  Come on over here to the fighting ring, so
  everybody can laugh at your loss against me."

     We walked into a corral in the center of the hall.  Everyone was
  chearing and jearing for me and Halder, some were even making bets on the
  outcome of our fight.  We were both given wooden swords and a strange type
  of armour to fight with.  The armour had large leafs swone onto a
  specially made plate armour suit, and little clumps of red dirt were inside
  of the leafs, so if you got hit, the leafs would break open to show that 
  you got hit by the other fighter.  If you got four leafs broken open you
  lost the fight.

     With the suit on and the rules explained, we waited for the the squire
  to start the fight.  "READY left?...READY right?... GO!!!!"

     Halder came out of his corner and tryed to hit my left side, but I
  blocked his piercing move by hitting his sword back behind me, and his
  movement went the same way.  As I turned to follow his move behind me, I
  slashed his back and broke six leafs at once.  The crowd cheared, for
  someone one new had beat Halder faster then anyone before, and even Turgon
  was heard to give a chuckle to Halder's demise.

     "Well.. you have best me in this match, I doubt you'll fair as well
  against your next master, Barak.  He'll really give you a run for your
  money.  Good luck with Barak." Halder said as he turned and waved to the
  crowd, just before returning to his corner of the hall.

     Before I even had the chance to reflect on just what happened, I felt
  a strong hand on my shoulder.  I turned to see who the hand belonged to,
  when his voice boomed out, "Dont feel to proud about your victory against
  little old Halder.  My crazy old mother could knock him out just as fast
  as you did."

     Here was a man who was way to sure of himself.  He overflowed with ego
  and body oder.  The way he acted toward the others in the hall showed why
  his mom had to be crazy, to be able to put up with him.  He took me over
  to his area of the hall and introduced me to the other second level
  fighters.  He asked if I had choosen a field of honor to pledge myself
  to yet.

     "Well, so far, I've ran into a group of thevies, a bunch of knights,
  and some old guy that I tryed to stay the night at on my way into town the
  other day.  I gave them what they asked for and they showed me a thing or
  two.  So what?" I told him.

     "Hummm.." he acted as if he didn't know what to say next, or he was
  just seeing how I would react. "From now on, you will only be allowed to
  study one of the guilds at a time.  For all the guilds, go to check with
  Chance, the bartender, every day to see who is alligned with their group,
  so they know who to train and who not to.  The only guy who can change your
  loyalities is Chance.  And that is if you can find his little bar out in
  the woods.  So pick now and my squire can be on his way to Chance's place
  to let the guilds know who you want to train you."

     "Ok.. I choose the Theives guild!" And with that a small lad took off
  with a list of mine and the other's choices and headed for Chance's bar
  out in the forest.
        
     The End of Chapter Three              
        
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     Adventures in the Dragons Realm  
     Chapter four - "Off to the Forest I go"
     by Lord Dizzy