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I don't remember this place.. I was talking to Abel and Est, and before I knew it, I was knocked out by something. Marth said it happened to everyone else that ended up here, but how am I supposed to be sure? Is that... Oh that's Ike. Who's the hooded man talking to us?
"All right. I need you nine to go find a group within the hidden kingdom. They are travelling to the castle. Their leader, for a fact, won't let any new recruits in. Especially you and your lot. If you get to said castle before them, beat the dragon god and when they come to you, say that whatever they needed to be done there has already been done. I'm sure that you will need supplies. Go to the town nearest the Bottomless Canyon and get as much supplies from there as you can. You can hunt if you want. I don't care," the hooded man is still talking to us.
"I think we should get going, right??" I asked, looking around at my team members.
Good. They all agreed. Must be tired of listening to this hooded man. We don't even know who he is. Should we go ahead and trust him? He did give us valuable advice. It's getting late.
"Let's get going and set up camp somewhere around here for the night and make our way to the bottomless canyon or whatever in the morning. He said we're here, and here's where we need to go. And here's a map of the invisible kingdom. Here's where we'll land, and the line he made is the most direct route to the castle. We'll probably need to catch food in the morning, too," Ike said, "Should we create a fire for the night?"
"I'll do it," I piped up.
I immediately left in search of some firewood, should we need it. However, I felt like someone was following me. I turned around, and Marth was walking behind me.
"Marth, buddy, what are you doing here? Did you want to help me get the firewood? Or is there something else that I could help you with right now?" I asked, because I clearly remember saying that I would go myself.
"As soon as you left, I thought you might need help gathering a lot of firewood. So Ike and I decided to come and help you gather some."
"Marth, you know they call me the Bull back home, right?"
"Cain, you remind me of someone I know named Kieran. You both seem similar in attitudes but Kieran wields axes instead of lances and swords."
"Really?" I asked, clearly remembering Ike came along with Marth.
"Yeah. Let's get some firewood. We're wasting daylight. Don't want to get the others worried about us."
I gulped and ran torwards the wooded area-- clearly we could get some firewood from there. Seems good enough, but is this where we really should be getting the wood? We're not that far from camp- everyone else can come and help if they want, right?
Come on, help us! There's a dragon god that we're supposed to be fighting, but we don't know how to get there! Meet us at the bottom of the bottomless canyon! Please! I'm afraid we- we're-- going--!
"Cain, you all right? You were zoning out and almost got knocked unconscious! What's wrong?" Marth asked.
"Nothing, nothing. It's fine. I thought I heard some voices or whatever, but... I'll be fine. I think," I shaked, "isn't it getting cold, or is it just me?"
"You know what? If we keep moving, you'll be warmed up. At least we could make it to the canyon. Hopefully," Ike said, "I'll go let everyone else know we're moving."
A voice sounding like the one from earlier cried in my ears again.
PLEASE! Help us! We're ---ate -- your ---p! You're --- only ----! We ---- your ----!
"I heard a faint voice in my head... did anyone else? It's making me really tired, too... I think we go this way..," Ike said, pointing torwards the bridge in the distance.
Ike heard what I just heard... Guess it has different effects each time. But I am pretty tired, too, come to think of it...
"Moving will wake us all up, I think," Titania said.
"Shouldn't we all introduce ourselves first?" Merric asked, "I don't know half of us, and maybe..."
"Haha, Merric, very funny," I said, "but anyways, let's get moving."
"Yeah, yeah. Let's. We don't know how much daylight we have left. But, anyways, let's get moving," Geoffrey said.
"Isn't the Bottomless Canyon this way? And hey, this map shows us the way to go and which way we're facing! That's pretty neat! Anyways, let's go. We've probably got a lot of trekking to do at this rate, and we might want to beat them there, to show them what we're made of, right?" Soren asked.
"Yeah, let's start to head out. If we meet them on the way, what should we do? Didn't that guy that talked to us earlier say that their leader wouldn't let a wolf pack like us join? What if we acted desperate?" Rhys asked as we started walking.
"It's actually pretty cool that we're pretty close there, but I don't understand the point of jumping off of a bridge. Isn't that how people are killed?" Jeorge asked.
"Look! There's a group over there! Should we go talk to them?" I asked, pointing toward the group on the bridge.
"They're covering the whole bridge!" Ike said.
"Who are you?" the leader of the group came up to me and asked.
"I could ask you the same thing, but your entire group is covering the bridge and we need to pass! Let us through! Or I'll push you all of the cliff!" I retorted.
"Please, just leave us alone!"
"Get out of our way!"
The rest of the other group ran for their lives, and dissapeared out of sight.
"Must have been scared of you guys," Lena said, walking up, "Finally found you, Marth. I brought Tiki, too, actually. She really wanted to come."
"Hey, Lena, how's Abel and Est?" I asked.
"I haven't seen them since yesterday, when Tiki and I visited their shop. But they are doing well."
"We should bring Abel back into the knights, right, Cain? Abel might not to be up to training the recruits, but it's worth a try."
We had all agreed to jump off the bottomless canyon.
We should be there, right??? I hope we don't see that group again. I thought