RPG Heroes For Hire

[Dragon Warrior]

It all began as Stefanos, the incredible and dashing black mage pirate, docked his ship in the town of Lodencure. There, he leapt from the deck to the docks and made his way through the crowds. It was only a matter of time before he spotted what he had been looking for. A man by the name of Enludio. He had stolen some precious loot from Stefanos and Stef wanted it back.

Stefanos unsheathed his awesome scythe from his flowing cloak and ran at Enludio. Upon seeing the raging black mage, Enludio scrammed, leaping onto a rooftop with his nimble thief moves. Stef casted a quick spell and was sent flying up to the rooftop to accompany his foe. Enludio squirmed.

"This is the end of the line, worm," Stefanos murmured. "Give it back and I'll go easy on you."

Enludio cast aside his cowardness and smirked. "I am the great Enludio and therefore, I do not back down." With that, he made a quick move to jump off the roof to some barrels below. Naturally, Stef followed. The chase continued through the streets and Enludio, being as crafty as he was, quickly snatched wallets and purses off the people in the marketplace without notice. Stefanos saw this and grew even more furious. His scythe soon became a problem since it was too big to run with in such a crowded street so he had to put it away.

As Enludio whisked past a woodland man, he nimbly snatched up his gold too. This man was none other than Syprus. Immediately did he notice the steal his keen senses. As Stef rushed past, Syprus followed behind to help catch the culprit.

Same thing happened when Enludio stole from the knight in-training called Torisen. She chased after him too once she saw the two other warriors. Enludio finally made his last mistake by taking from the vampiress Elleina. She immediately spun around and flew forward. Enludio only saw blackness before he was whisked up into the air and tossed.

It was Syprus's turn after that. He skillfully and quickly took out his bow and arrow and shot it straight forward. Syprus fell at the right moment for the arrow pierced the back of his shirt and pinned him to a wooden pole. Torisen charged forward and used her sword to slice the loot bag he had been carrying. The loads of gold flooded out onto the streets. Stefanos finally finished the job by whipping up some black magic and blasting Enludio and the pole sky-high, hopefully never to be seen again by the four.

The group studied their work and collected equal shares of the gold. They returned the bit they knew that belonged to people and at times were rewarded with some of the gold in return. Once they were finished, Stefanos tipped his hat at the other three. "Well, thanks for the help. I've gotta get back to my ship."

"I must get back to training," Torisen grinned.

"But wait," Syprus said and halted the group. "Why thou art leaving?"

"Because," Stef said as if this Syprus fellow was a total loon, "I have places to go."

"But we work so well together," Syprus commented. "Didn't thou just see that? Together, we annihilated thy foe in seconds and were rewarded for our good deeds!" The others looked at Syprus in thought. "We could--yes--we could become Heroes for Hire!"

"People who get paid for good deeds?" Elleina moaned. "No thanks. Money is fine, but no goodie goodie bits for me."

"I agree. I have some piratin-I mean... I have places to go." Stef coughed a little as if it actually covered up as an alibi.

"Thou must stay," Syprus continued. "This is a great opportunity. What art thou's occupations." He peered at Stefanos. "Thou art a pirate," he looked at Torisen, "this'll help thou with thy knight training," and he finally looked at Elleina, "And... and I'mst not sure about you."

"Yeah, I know," Elleina said glumly.

"How did you know about us?" Torisen questioned suspiciously.

"I have an eye for these things," Syprus said. "Come now, we could even be called the Heroes of Hollow."

"The Heroes of what now?" Stef asked.

"You don't know who Hollow is?" Torisen asked. Stef shook his head embarrassingly. "Oy, he's the great hero who sacrificed his soul three thousand years ago to destroy the dark god Morbess who was bent on destroying the world."

"It'd be a honor to thou to be namest after thy hero!"

"Yeah, yeah, save it for the ladies, Mr. Poetic," Stefanos said dumbly. "Listen, I've got things to do. I can't go and do this whole 'heroes for hire' dealy. I've just simply got too much to do."

"I'm with him," grunted Elleina. "I never even wanted to do it."

"I'm for it," Torisen said happily.

"But you have something to get out of it," Stefanos said.

"And so do all of you!" Torisen argued. "You all get the reward money!"

Stef mumbled, but finally nodded his head. "Fine. I do need some money for my ship."

Syprus then turned back to Elleina. "And thou?"

"Yeah, fine, whatever," she mumbled. "But none of you mess with me."

Syprus and Torisen were the only two who cheered. "Then it is settled. We are now the Heroes of Hollow, heroes for hire!"

"But where do we go first?" Stefanos asked, trying to stump the intelligent elf.

"Wherever danger lies," he grinned in response.

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It was a hurried post because if it had more detail and crap, it'd be uber long. Plus, I hate writing beginnings sometimes X/

Knock yourselves out.

[Annie]

[color=darkslategray][i][size=1][b]>.> Looks like I'm the lucky contestant.[/b]

Syprus looked curiously at Elleina. She sighed and folded her fragile arms over her chest.

"Yeah, sure, whatever," she brushed back her hair, "Just a warning, don't get on my bad side."

"Then it is settled!" Syprus jumped with gayous joy. Elleina rolled her eyes and looked over at Torisen.

"So, where now?" Stef questioned, slightly annoyed.

"Wherever crime thrives!!" Syprus threw his hands on his hips.

"Right..." Stef cocked an eyebrow.

At that precise moment, a squeal of terror rang out in the small town. The four turned, readying themselves for a fight.

"What ist going on?" Syprus clutched his bow.

"I don't know, but I'm going to go find out," Elleina grabbed her katana and lept into the air.

She ended up in town square where a crowd of townsfolk had gathered. She walked into the center to find a bloodied body sprawled out on the cobblestone street.

"What happened here?" Elleina asked an olderly woman.

"He was murdered! Murdered I tells ya!"

"Did you see the killer?" Elleina asked colder and emotionless.

"No, I didn't. But this is the mayor's son...such a sweet boy."

Elleina studied the body of the young man. He was handsome, for a mortal. But he held the appearance of arrogance. Elleina grunted and stood up. The others finally showed and were slightly taken by the scene.

"He's the mayor's son. I'm sure we'll be able to profit from this event," Elleina walked up to Stef.

"Profiting from this unfortunate death?! How dare you!" the elderly woman nearly popped a vein.

"Shut it, hag. His greed would have killed him soon enough," Elleina spat.

"Hm, sounds good to me," Stef nodded.

"Well?" Elleina looked at Torisen and Syprus.[/color][/size][/i]