《The Hundreds》 The Prologue The Hundreds Prologue Narrator: Once, long ago there was a war that raged on in the land of ¡°Uh¡± between humans and beasts. This had created a separation of equality for both sides. Many had died and many were tired, therefore both leaders of each side had came to decision, a decision that would bring peace for all without heartache. The two leaders would make a treaty that guarantee the separation of beast and humans by giving the two sides, their own parts of the world that could not be set foot on by each other. Both sides had a special request signed onto the treaty that signified the trust that they did not have. The beast side of this special request was simple humans would supply beasts with whatever materials they need at anytime, but the humans on the other hand had a more complicated request. The humans wanted beast that were willing to come to their side to serve them. This request was argued upon by the leaders of the beasts and beast themselves, but was passed on by the belief that no beast would ever go to the humans side, yet many beasts had. The war was over leaving humans to create there own part of the world known as ¡°Whoa.¡± It was a time for peace not war therefore to keep peace leaders of the human race had two different resolutions for this. The first resolve was by creating the council, a place that oversaw the treaty. The second resolve was to make a contingency plan to save the humans just in case the treaty would be broken and a war would be waged. Seven kingdoms were placed throughout Whoa. The main attack force were three kingdoms that surrounded the Hogeku (the empty area between the humans and beasts ) known as called Kern, Makunan, and Sine. A kingdoms called Camolot was placed behind the three for fending off the enemy until they got to the two last kingdom. The two last kingdom, Macedon and Lembus were the final stand for the humans if anything were to go wrong, Yet nothing did for 100 years until the day three kids from a little town called Azfult tunnels got a letter that complicated whoa. Azfult Tunnels 1501: Azfult tunnel was a dirty old western town, known for having a train station that ran thorough all kingdoms and carries from time to time the bypass( the train that supplies the beasts with supplies). Azfult tunnels had many travelers day in and day out because of the train station, but no one actually settled in besides the few that already lived there. Being small the town has a population of 95 people, has one bar, one grocery store, one pit shop, a few house for the few who lived there, and many apartments for travelers. Azfult tunnels was way out west to all kingdoms, sitting next to old western town was Camolot as its nearest kingdom. Azfult tunnels was just not the ideal settlement for people, instead it should had just been a train station. Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings. Azfult tunnel¡¯s bar, late at night. Azfult tunnels bar where many travelers every day drank, laughed, fought and drank even more. With 24 table, 120 chairs, up stairs rooms for the travelers, and a employee break room, the bar was actually classy even though it was still western looking with the old western gate door. The bar was a mess during the night, broken glass and bottles everywhere on the floor, there was even a demolished window. You could see recent blood stains on the tables and the counter were travelers fought. ¡°Jeez. Why is work so tough all the time.¡± Jennifer complained closing the blinds. Jenifer was a 17 year old, light skinned women with huge breasts. She had long silky black hair that could glister in the sun and had brown eyes to match. She was 5¡¯6 so average height for a girl, a complainer, and loved a man named Yakuza. "You didn¡¯t do anything except get complements from every traveler that came in, while I on the other hand had to stop at least 30 fights, drink a whole barrel of ale bull crap, and on top of that I haven¡¯t slept in 2 days.¡± Leo said falling asleep at the counter. 16 year old Leo had white hair, ocean blue eyes, and unfortunately paled skin no matter how much sun he got. He still had a bulk figure from working really hard and was on average 5¡¯10. ¡°Where¡¯s Yakuza?¡± Jennifer asked Leo. ¡°Yakuza¡± Jen whispered. ¡°What are you doing? He¡¯s in the employee¡¯s room with Gramps. The employee room opened with a deepish, but still manly voice coming out of it.¡± Leo! Jen! Get your cushions in here we got another mission.¡± Chapter 1: (Preview) Who¡¯s The Man Behind The Door ? Another Mission? Chapter 1 The man who opened the door revealed himself to be Yakuza, A tan toned fellow about 5¡¯11 in height with black hair, purple eyes, and a bulky figure . Yakuza wasn¡¯t wearing the bartender get up that Jen and Leo were wearing, but instead wore a trench coat, blue pants, a black T shirt that you could barely see because of the coat, a red scarf around his neck, black gloves, and black boots. ¡± Hurry up we got another mission Jen¡± Yakuza said going back into the room ¡°Coming Yakuza.¡± Jen said. Jen ran around the counter opening the employee room door. She was almost in, but turned around to slap Leo on the back of his head to wake him up. Leo woke looking left and right then put his head back on the counter to fall asleep again, but was slapped once more by Jen who was placed right behind him. He sprung up in a fighting position saying ¡°what is it? Another werewolf stumbling into Whoa again? I got this one trust me. ¡°No it¡¯s a mission briefing I believe.¡± Jen said going into the employee room. Leo followed right behind her yawning from sleep deprivation. The back room was just as big as the bar in the front except the back room had concrete walls with racked weapons on them like swords, wands, knives, etc. Both to the right and left of the room had lockers that were spread apart from each other and work tables with broken wands on them. The center of the room had one oval shaped table where Yakuza and Gramps were looking at an unopened envelope. ¡°Good you¡¯re all here.¡± Gramps said with a smile on his face and his bartender outfit on. Gramps was the old black man standing next to Yakuza at the table. Only 43 and had gray, white, and brown hair with a tad bit of wrinkles on his face. Gramps wasn¡¯t just any old man. He¡¯s the owner of the bar, an ex-member of the council, and foster father to Yakuza, Jen, and Leo. Trained in hand to hand combat and a expert beast slayer Gramps taught Leo, Yakuza, and Jen at a young age to become beasts slayer themselves for the sole purpose of killing beasts. The children had showed potential, but didn¡¯t like the idea of killing beast so Gramps decided to reform them into bounty hunter, People who are hired to do any job for money. ¡°What is it Gramps? Don¡¯t tell me you want us to hunt down a poor little dog and kill it because I¡¯m not doing it. Nuh-uh sorry I love those things no way I¡¯m killing them.¡± Leo said walking to the table. Both Leo and Jen got to the table looking at the note ¡°No Leo this is more important than all that, it¡¯s this¡± Gramps said picking up the sealed letter. ¡°What is that exactly?¡± Yakuza asked. ¡°Well kids its message from the council.¡± Gramps said with a little smirk on his face. ¡°What does it say? Please be a pool table coming in.¡± Jen said with her eyes closed and hands together like she was praying ¡° I want a dog¡± Leo said nodding his head. ¡°What do you guys think is in that envelope?¡± Yakuza asked confusedly. Gramps looked at everyone really quick, ripped open the envelope and read the letter. The others rushed next to Gramps side to get a peek of what the letter might say. Dear, Leo Kunai, Jen Kunai, and Yakuza Kunai As bounty hunters you have caught the council¡¯s eye with numerous top performance during missions. You have sent wanted mages to jail, captured unwanted beasts, and saved many. We now thank you and ask of a request to stop a dangerous mage within Camelot. This mage has killed countless people and is accused of smuggling unwanted beasts into Whoa. These offenses go against the treaty and the 3rd law of the kingdoms. If you do this particular job you will receive $150,000 gold as compensation. Sincerely, The Council of Uh. P.S, Other groups of people are on the job so better get to it first. Gramps finish the letter and cheered with excitement. ¡°150,000 gold. Now I don¡¯t have to work at this ridiculous bar anymore.¡± Gramps looked at the three who were looking blankly at Gramps. ¡°You kids alright?¡± Gramps asked confused. They didn¡¯t say a thing until Leo fell backwards breaking the trance they were in.¡± Others are on the job.¡± Yakuza quickly said smacking his hands on the table. ¡°That¡¯s what your worried about? When are we going? that¡¯s the real problem.¡± Jen said bending over and smacking Leo in the face. ¡° Wake up, now.¡± Leo jumped up from the ground in excitement and said. ¡° We need some rest for this mission.¡± Leo suggested because he was tired. ¡°When are we departing too? Where are we going again?. Leo asked The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement. ¡°Camelot. And you¡¯ll depart tomorrow morning when the first train leaves.¡± Gramps said with pride. ¡°Get some rest all of you.¡± The three left the employee room and then left the bar while Gramps stayed in the employee room reading the council¡¯s letter. It was dark out only the light of grocery store in front of the bar shined. The three traveled on a dirt road or what you could call the main road to there apartment which was in right to the grocery store. ¡°So what are we going to do in Camelot besides finding the mage?¡± Jen asked twirling and smiling with happiness. ¡°Besides?¡± Leo thought out loud. ¡°Well we could get ice cream or something.¡± The three turned the grocery store corner seeing their apartment building. The apartment building was small only looking like it had about 30 room which was correct. Going to the front door to the right off in the grass there was a sigh stating only customers can step foot around the apartments perimeter, and if you went further towards the door there were two white old steps that led to two green front doors. ¡°Well I¡¯ll tell you guys right now we¡¯re not venturing around. This seems like a serious mission so no messing around hear me.¡± Yakuza said. The three walked up the two steps really quick and Jen open the door. The three walked into the lobby see nothing but black. ¡°Sorry, Yakuza I¡¯m a party guy I always mess around.¡± Leo laughed. ¡°Shut up Leo. Why is everything dark?¡± Jen asked. Suddenly the lights turned on above us. ¡°What are you doing it¡¯s late. I thought you were a band of thieves.¡± The owner said. The owner was a fat chick in her mid thirty smoking a cigarette behind the front desk. ¡°You kids should hurry on to your rooms.¡± The landlord said coughing because the cigarettes. ¡°Alright land lady we¡¯ll be heading to our rooms.¡± Leo said waving and rushing to the corridors. The Corridors was just a hall with apartment rooms. The three walked till room 15 and turned right heading upstairs. Upstairs was just another corridors except only had 10 rooms 20-30. They walked to the end of the hall where they¡¯re rooms were and a little window were you could see the town bank. ¡°OK make sure to wake up early got it.¡± Yakuza said looking at Jen. ¡°Got it see you guys in the morning night.¡± Jen said opening the room across the room Yakuza was opening with his key. Jen went in her room and turned in the light to see a mess. You see Jen lived with a roommate named Sally and she liked to party. Jen turned to head to Sally¡¯s side of the room which was clean and looked at sally¡¯s bed where she was sleeping. Jen then looked at her dresser which was to the right of her next to the door and grabbed the alarm clock. ¡° Sally wake up.¡± Jen angrily said. Jen waited for a sec and when sally didn¡¯t reply Jen decided to throw the alarm clock at sally. Sally popped out of her bed, gently held the top of her head, and said. ¡° That hurt Jennifer.¡± Sally was a Goth like girl. She had her nose pierced, wore black all the time, wore black makeup (even when she slept), had brown eyes, and dyed purple and black hair. Jen mad a angry looking face and said trying to be calm. ¡°Well it should because.¡± she stopped what she was going to say because sally was wearing her shirt. ¡°Why the hell are you wearing my shirt you tramp!¡± Jen yelled. Jen was breathing heavily trying to calm down, but couldn¡¯t. ¡° What is my three rules!?¡± Jen asked. Sally sat up sitting on the her bed saying. ¡° don¡¯t go through your things especially clothes, don¡¯t go to your side of the room, and don¡¯t talk to you.¡± Sally nodded her head and looked at Jen who was hovering over her. ¡± Sorry.¡± sally said shrugging her shoulder and looking at the ground. Jen slapped her on the head and said. ¡° You broke all three of those rules today that¡¯s like imposable, but you did it¡±. Jen stopped slapping her and laid on her bed. ¡°Don¡¯t disturbed me. Oh and sally I¡¯m leaving to Camelot tomorrow so don¡¯t ruin my stuff while I¡¯m gone OK.¡± Jen put her blanket on her and started to fall asleep. ¡°Hey tramp can you turn off the lights.¡± Jen said to sally. ¡°Sure, whatever big breasts¡± Sally shut off the lights and slept on her Chapter 3 Azfult Tunnels Apartment Building room 29 ¡° Oh my god what should I bring? Jen said in her closed closet. Sally sat on her bed in crisscross leaning on the wall behind her. ¡°Why did you wake me up?¡± she asked and then yawned. Jen peeked her head out closet and said. ¡°Your suppose to help me pick what to pack.¡± she put her head back into the closet saying, ¡°Are you going to help or not¡± in a muffled voice. ¡°Sure.¡± Sally said getting off the bed. ¡°What do you need to pick exactly?¡± ¡°Well I need the right clothes.¡± Jen responded. ¡° You think I should bring a hair dryer?¡± Jen asked still in a muffled voice from the closet. ¡° Only if you have magic batteries for it.¡± Sally snuck up to the closet door to see what Jen was doing just before Jen barge out hitting Sally to the ground. Jen came out with a pink dress, high heels for shoes, and plastered in make-up. ¡°There it is.¡± Jen said in relief grabbing a wireless hair dryer from on top of her dresser next to the door. ¡°God I¡¯m gonna be here all day packing at this rate.¡± Sally stood up looked at Jen¡¯s bed seeing 3 empty duffel bags and a suit case. Everything became slow to sally. She turned her head swiftly looking at Jen shaking her head side to side in slow motion. Sally started to sweat and think. How do I get her out of here faster. Think Sally THINK! Sally suddenly calmed down talking deep breath. The sweat that came down from her face stopped. ¡°Oh my god Jen I have an idea.¡± she said very enthusiastic. ¡° It¡¯ll be fast and easy.¡± Jen started to get closer to sally with open ears as she talked. ¡°Why don¡¯t you pack all your belonging!¡± Jen¡¯s enlighten face turned confused. ¡°That was your idea?¡± Jen nodded her head, smiled, and hugged Sally. ¡±That¡¯s a great idea.¡± Jen went back into the closet with open doors and threw everything onto the ground. ¡°SALLY! Put all those clothes into the bags¡± Sally didn¡¯t say anything just helped abruptly putting Jen¡¯s clothes into the bags. Just shortly after the idea they were finished saying they¡¯re goodbyes. ¡±I hate.¡± Jen said with a most serious face. ¡°I hate you more.¡± Sally said back. They both bowed to each other and Jen went out the door. Sally enlighten with happiness flipped out the door saying her real goodbye to Jen. The door suddenly open again carrying Jen voice. ¡°Don¡¯t change my side of the room.¡± Jen saw sally flipping her off confused asking, ¡°what are you doing?¡± Sally put her middle fingers down slowly and started too dance like a punk rock chick, rocking her head side to side with her tongue out. ¡°WOW. Rock on¡± she said. ¡°Uh¡­ OK? Remember no touchy the color or position of things on my side of the room.¡± Jen closed the door in relief that she wouldn¡¯t have to see Sally ever again. Jen took a step from where she was and knock on Yakuza¡¯s door. Apartment room 30 (Yakuza and Leo¡¯s apartment room) Yakuza and Leo¡¯s room had the same set up as Jen¡¯s. One window that reveled the side of the apartment complex, a closet to the right of the room, and whitish beds. The only difference between the two rooms was the bunk bed held together be duck tape, nails, and melting ice in the middle of the room. Also another big difference was clothes. It¡¯s not because Yakuza and Leo wear the clothes differently from Jen it just that it¡¯s all over the room. Piled on the closet, on the ground, next to the window, everywhere was trash and clothes. Despite it being a mess the smell was much worst. Imagine everything that smells bad in the world in one small apartment and that would be it. Yakuza and Leo even went so far to have masks for visitors to put on so they could come in. ¡°Open up!¡± Jen said behind the door knocking incredibly loud. Yakuza who slept on the bottom bunk woke up stretching his arms on the bed. He sat up with frizzy hair yawning tiredly. Jen knocks became faster and harder trying to get Yakuza or Leo¡¯s attention. ¡° Coming just give me a sec.¡± Yakuza said getting up wearing nothing but his underwear to open the door. ¡±Come in Jen.¡± Yakuza open the door fully waving at Jen to come in. Jen¡¯s face filled red looking like it was about to burst, ¡°Put on some clothes.¡± Jen said in a school girl¡®s tone. Jen¡¯s face suddenly turned green and her tongue come out. ¡°The smell, I forgot.¡± Jen rushed into the room pinching her nose attempting to look for the masks next to the door. She started to dig in a pile of clothes next to the door in hope to find a mask that she eventually found. Jen put it on quickly with relief being able to breath again. The mask covered her chin, mouth, and nose just enough to cover the smell. ¡°The room doesn¡¯t smell that bad.¡± Yakuza hopped on the bottom bunk reaching the top to wake up Leo. ¡°Leo you fat ass!¡± Yakuza yelled in Leo¡¯s ear while he slept. Despite yakuza effort Leo didn¡¯t budge, all he did was snoring even more. Yakuza shook Leo a little bit but still nothing, Yakuza decided to get down from the bunk bed and asked Jen if she wanted to try. Jen shrugged and stood by the bunk. ¡°Do you have a bat somewhere Yakie?¡± ¡°I hate it when you call me that we¡¯re not 2 you know.¡± Yakuza said. Yakuza started to dig in a pile of clothes that was next to him finding blue Jeans that he put on immediately along with a black shirt that resembled batman¡¯s bat signal. Underneath all that at the bottom of the pile he found a bat in which he handed to Jen. ¡° Here. What are you going to do exactly?¡± Yakuza asked combing his hair to the side with his hands. ¡°This.¡± Jen said hitting Leo in the stomach. Leo curled into a ball gripping his now injured stomach. ¡°Ow. Why me?¡± Leo started to lean off the side of the bed, falling and landing on straight on his face. ¡°Why??¡± Leo said with his face in the ground. ¡°Your so lazy Leo.¡± Jen said with a smile on her face putting the bat on her shoulder while she gripped the end. ¡°Can I have this bat.¡± Jen asked politely. Leo got up grunting. On his knees he shook his head side to side saying, ¡°Hell no.¡± Leo stood up with nothing on but his underwear just like Yakuza stretching. ¡°Why is it all guys sleep with nothing but there underwear.¡° She said with a crazy look staring at Leo. ¡°Well why do all girls have tampons?¡± Leo said. Everything went silent for a sec until Leo said. ¡°That¡¯s what I thought.¡± Leo yawned and stared at the clothes on the ground asking Yakuza where his pile of clothes is. Yakuza pointed at the pile next to the closet. Leo with a hunched over back walked over to the closet from the bed leaving a trail of ice behind him. On accident since Jen was far to close to Leo, Leo actually froze Jen¡¯s foot. Jen closed her eyes and twitch her eyebrows from what she saw. ¡°Leo.¡± she said trying to hold in the anger. ¡°What is it now.¡± He said throwing clothes behind his back which eventually landed on Jen. ¡°You froze my foot you idiot.¡± Jen mumbled from all the clothes. Leo put on all his clothes with was a sky blue shirt, over that was green coat, brown jeans, and black socks. ¡°Give me a sec and I¡¯ll pay attention to you let me just..¡± He said putting on a white pair of shoes and ear muffs. ¡°Ok what do you Jen¡± Leo said turning around not seeing Jen or Yakuza. ¡° Jen, Yakuza, where are you?¡± ¡°Right in front of you!!¡± Jen flailed her arms removing the clothes that were on her. ¡°I¡¯m kicking your ass after this.¡± Leo took a big gulp of saliva and said. ¡° If you do that then who going to help you.¡± leo said. Leo started to grab random clothes from off the ground and putting them into bags he found searching for clothes to pack. ¡°What are you doing?¡± Jen asked. ¡°You better not be leaving.¡± Leo zip up the 2 bags and shrugged his shoulder saying. ¡°It¡¯s either get my ass beat or leave. I chose leave so later.¡± Jen said leaving. ¡°I guess it just me and you Yakuza.¡± Jen said looking right to an open window. ¡°You can open those up, huh?¡± Yakuza was walking by a creek that lead to a sizable pond. Ahead of the pond came to gates beyond this a house. Yakuza got to the gate took a deep breath and said to aloud to himself. "I haven¡¯t seen her in several months because of work and other realistic reason beside I slept with her and left her, right?¡± Yakuza open up the gate walking on a path that led to the stairs of the house. He walked up the stairs knocking on the door three times waiting eagerly for someone to open up the door. Suddenly the door cracked open showing a shortish women that had a large stomach. ¡° Yeah, hello is Lisa here?¡± ¡°Yakuza!¡± The short, but beautiful ,but also fat women said slinging the door open. I haven¡¯t seen you in seven months, what have you been doing all this time.¡± This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it. ¡°She¡¯s not her, so ill be going then, see you.¡± Yakuza said all broken up words. Yakuza then tried closing the door, but the women stuck her finger out just when the door was closing. ¡°It¡¯s me, Yakuza look I still have a fine body, its just i''m pregnant with your baby.¡± she said. Yakuza eyebrows raised in surprise as he started to stared forward instead of lower eyes to see Lisa. ¡°Huh is that right.¡± He said. While looking forward Yakuza saw a man in a tuxedo that was just passing by in one of the hallways and turned his head towards the door. The man then gave Yakuza a deep stare and started to run towards Yakuza yelling, ¡°Bodyguards, Bodyguards.¡± in his loudest voice. Yakuza started to run as the man came closer. Yakuza hopped the fence and ran as fast as he could down the creek trail back into town with 5 bodyguards right behind him. After all the running Yakuza made back into to. Yakuza looked behind himself seeing the bodyguards for away. Yakuza ran a little further taking alleyways and even went inside a store and out its back door as shortcuts to get to the saloon. Yakuza rushed in opening the saloon¡¯s batwing door. Jen was sitting on table closest to the door and Leo was on the ground next to the door. ¡° Yakuza, hey.¡± Jen said. Yakuza didn¡¯t care at all to what Jen said because she rambled on about what Leo did to her while he looked out the window. ¡° Jen close those blinds over there will you.¡± he said closing his side of the blind and point across from his side. Yakuza peeked out through the blinds seeing the bodyguards from across the street come in. ¡°Oh shit.¡± He said running to the bar counter to sit down. The men came in and asked for a man they did not know, but knew he worked here. The men went to the counter and rang the mental waiters bell. Leo got up from the ground went behind the counter and asked, ¡°What is it you need, sir?¡± All off the Men wore black and white tuxedo¡¯s with all black glasses. ¡°Yes, we are looking for a man with black hair, purplish eyes, and uh tanish skin. The man closet to Yakuza said. Yakuza looked down trying to cover his eyes from the men. ¡°He has a good complexion, is 6 foot, and has a mole on his right cheek.¡± Jen said describing Yakuza. All the bodyguards rushed in front of Jen who was swinging her dangling feet from the table nearest to the door . ¡°Do you know this man.¡± One of the bodyguards in front of Jen asked. ¡°I¡¯m not sure, but I know a man like that.¡± She said. ¡°Who is it? A bodyguard asked. "And if you do know who he/she is, where are they?¡± ¡°Huh?" Jen slightly glanced at Yakuza and then asked the guards , ¡°What did this person do, exactly?¡± ¡°It''s classified.¡± The bodyguard said. Once the bodyguard was done talking moments later another bodyguard said. ¡° The dude had sex with the mayors daughter and got her pregnant, isn¡¯t that hilarious.¡± All the other bodyguards looked at him with clueless faces. The bodyguards closet to Jen said with rage and captivity, ¡°What the hell John, this is why we never bring you on cool little missions, You always tell the bad guy what we¡¯re planning or give info to people that aren¡¯t suppose to know, like right now.¡± Jens face became blank and she started to laugh evilly ending the conversation between the bodyguards by freaking them both out. Jen hopped off the table passed the guards and pointed at Yakuza saying in a blank voiceless voice, ¡°That¡¯s him. No fighting in the bar.¡± All the guards looked at Yakuza who¡¯s head was down at the time. All the guards surrounded Yakuza asking him to lift up his head so they could see his eyes. All Yakuza responded with was, ¡°No ones home right leave a message after the beep¡­¡­¡­Beep!¡± All the guards grabbed magic guns from there holster on the they¡¯re hip no fooled one bit by Yakuza lame trick, well all besides John who said right after Yakuza said beep. ¡° Ok, so when you get home could You not leave so We can find you? John got confused turning his head to the side saying, ¡°who am I talking to again?¡± All the other bodyguards shook they¡¯re heads in shame while the bodyguards who was closet to Jen said. ¡°I hate. We all hate you.¡± ¡°I hate you too.¡± Yakuza said keeping his head down ¡°Even he hates you and he hates all of us right now.¡± The bodyguards said once more to show how much everyone dislikes him. Yakuza thinking he could slyly get out the bar by walking around the commotion between the two guards stood up turned his head right whistling around the guards. During this time the guards stopped arguing and looked at Yakuza passing with his head towards the stairs, whistling headed for the doors. ¡°Where do you think your going?¡± A guards said in a deep voice. ¡°Mom wants me home right about now, ha you know moms right.¡± Yakuza said in a sarcastic like voice. John smile and in a cool like voice said to Yakuza behind all the guards, ¡°Yeah I know moms, get going kid.¡± All the guards once more turned to him and nodded there heads. Yakuza took a step out the and rushed out the door towards the road. The guards followed bursting out the door jumping the three stairs down to the dusty dirt road where the guards pointed there guns at Yakuza yelling, ¡°Freeze!¡± Yakuza stopped running and put his hands on his head. Damn it. What I am going to do know. Yakuza thought. ¡°Turn around slowly. said the guards. Yakuza turned around slowly awaiting the guards next direction. The guards started to walk closer to Yakuza with there guns held high. Damn I guess I have to. Yakuza said thinking again. Yakuza put his arms down from his head took a deep breath and dashed straight for the first guard in front of him. The guards that were running for Yakuza stopped and pointed there guns at him. On the tip of the barrel materalizaed a magic circle that shot neutralizing bullets. Yakuza eyes changed in shape from his abnormal purple human eyes to a somewhat even more abnormal dragons shape eyes. Their appended to be a split down the middle of his eyes that allowed him to see the bodyguards magic circles to slowly materialize. Yakuza moved out the way of the first shot by moving swiftly steeping to the right. Yakuza got close enough to the leading body guards who was about to shot again that he round house the pointed gun to the ground and uppercut the bodyguards making him gasp for air. The other 3 bodyguards behind he one Yakuza took down were waiting for the perfect shot and when the guard fell to the ground they had there chance. Yakuza stopped, got in a his fighting stance which resembled a boxer orthodox position, the only different between the two was Yakuza put his left hand way in front of his face and stuck his index finger out, but it was still curled looking like hook coming from his fists, while all three bodyguards fired of all they had in they¡¯re clips. Yakuza stood in the same position dodging all fire that came before him. From tilting his head to lifting his leg Yakuza avoided getting hit. Surprised, the guard to the right dropped his gun and ran up to Yakuza with his arm cocked back yelling, ¡°This will hit you.¡± Yakuza who stood there in his fighting stance got out of it, put a smirk on his face and blew a little flame from his mouth. The guards was so close to Yakuza by then that he took the full impact of the flame which was the incineration of his eyebrows and bangs. The three guards that didn¡¯t do anything ran away while the guards with now burnt of eyebrows picked up the unconscious man and took off the way the other went. ¡°We¡¯ll get you next time!¡± The guards cried ¡°Hopefully there won¡¯t be a next.¡± Yakuza said waving goodbye before he went in the bar seeing Leo who was picking his nose behind the bar counter and Jen who looked very depressed laying on the wooden ground whispering to herself ,¡°Pregnant .¡± ¡°So how¡¯d it go.¡± Leo asked Yakuza who was staring at both Leo and Jen. ¡°Well you guys didn¡¯t help at all, that¡¯s how its going.¡± Yakuza took a deep breath to calm himself down. ¡°The back room now.¡± Yakuza said to both Leo and Jen. Leo who was the closest to the employee room opened the door and then scratched his head. ¡°Who are you guys and how did you get into this room.¡± Leo asked. ¡°Leo, who are talking to, better not be yourself.¡± Jen said entering behind the counter. Jen stopped turning her head 90 degrees right as if she was trying to make something out. Yakuza filled with curiosity hopped over the counter towards the employee room seeing two men and a women in bartender outfits. Chapter 4 The two men in bar-tending outfits stood side by side each other parallel to Leo and Yakuza. The 4 looked similar to each other. The man in front of Leo resembled him, the only difference was his hair style. Their hair color was Snow white, but the man¡¯s hair style was way off. Instead of Leo frizzy, never comb never brushed hair, the man¡¯s hair seemed to be a nice comb over. The Yakuza look a like stood in front of Yakuza smiling. The only difference between them were height recognition, eye color, and hair color . The mans was 5¡¯9 while Yakuza stood 5¡¯11, had blue eyes , and brown hair. The styles of both hair were very close too. They both had spiky hair, but the mans hair stood up more than Yakuza¡¯s. Jen, Who stood right in front of the Women, smiled at her and stuck her hand out in front of her too shake the women¡¯s. The Women glanced at Jen¡¯s hand with a look of discomfort. The Women looked totally opposite to Jen, in structure, size, and color. Jen was lighted skinned, she dark. Jen was skinny, she was big. Jen, beautiful and she on the other hand, completely ugly. ¡°Huh.¡± The women said in a deep voice. ¡°You look just like me!¡° her voice and tone from before change a little from a deep voice to a girlier, but still deep voice. ¡°Oh my god I was thinking the same thing¡± Jen and the Women started to hug kicking their left legs up. The girls separated from their hug while Yakuza search for Gramps. ¡°So you guys I¡¯m guessing are the replacements?¡± ¡°Yes your exactly right sir.¡± The Yakuza look a like said In a cheer kind of voice. ¡°I¡¯m Terry, to the left of me is Landel, and last but, not least our only girl that¡¯s a friend Catty.¡± ¡°Ok?¡± Yakuza said in question. ¡°Where¡¯s gramps?¡± ¡°Oh, The old man.¡± Terry said. ¡°No, Gramps. Do you know where Gramps is!¡± Leo said slowly and loudly as if they didn¡¯t hear what Yakuza said before. ¡°Yeah the old man. Looks to be about 65 or so, but is probably older.¡± Terry said. ¡°This guys not listening.¡± Leo said quietly to himself nodding his head downwards. ¡°Gramps a 65 yr old man who¡¯s most likely older, have you seen him!¡± Terry looked confused so Leo looked at Landel the middle person and asked, ¡±Do you know where he is?¡± The man didn¡¯t respond just looked. ¡±What¡¯s wrong with this guy?¡± ¡°He¡¯s mute.¡± Cetty explained. The employee room door opened hitting Jen¡¯s foot. Yakuza, Jen, and Leo moved next to the three new employees looking towards the door where Gramps was trying to get in. He stood in the door observing the six while stroking his beard. ¡°So now that you¡¯ve met each other let¡¯s get down to business.¡± Gramps gripped a long rolled up piece of paper in his left hand, walking to the middle of room putting the paper on the oval table. The six gathered around the table observing. Gramps spread the rolled up paper flat reveling it to be a Map with the words Camelot on top. The map had labeled areas inside and out of the kingdom walls. ¡°Since You guys are going here might as well know the terrain.¡± Gramps said. ¡°Smart Gramps.¡± Leo said giving him a thumbs up. ¡°I¡¯m only doing this for you, Leo cause I know Jen and Yakuza will figure out a way from being lost.¡± Gramps said. Leo put his head down in shame while Gramps pointed his finger all the way left of the map. ¡°This is only a map of Camelot and not the kingdom map because, Leo would get confused if it was one.¡± Gramps waited a moment after saying this almost like he was waiting for Leo to respond. ¡°This area is outside the wall and as you can see on the map it is called, ¡°Beagle.¡± ¡°Why Beagle? that¡¯s a weird name.¡± Jen said ¡°I¡¯m not completely sure, but I Uther named it the way its named because his favorite swimming spot is in these woods.¡± Gramps explained. Yakuza pointed at the top of the map where it was still labeled, Beagle, but the terrain was different having no forest and asked,¡± Why does this part of Beagle have no forest its nothing, but flat seemingly dry lands.¡± ¡°Camelot cut this part of, Beagle down for supplied so they could make homes, paper, for warmth, etc¡­¡± Gramps explained to Yakuza. ¡°I see.¡± Yakuza said looking at that part of, Beagle. ¡°Ok, next the wall and inner wall.¡± Gramps said looking at the three employees. ¡° I think you guys should start opening up.¡± The three nodded there heads at gramps going out the employee room door. Gramps picked up were he left of saying ¡°So the Camelot wall surrounds are the whole kingdom, But are centric meaning the outer wall is higher and thicker than the inner wall. Also There are three gates to the kingdom that aren¡¯t like, Kerns kingdom¡¯s fortified bridges or Makunan¡¯s chained gates, Camelot has hinged gated with an outer patrol base next to it. So to sum it up, Camelot is on tough puppy to break through.¡± Gramps said until Leo coughed really loud a few times. Realizing it was a fake cough everyone in the room gave Leo the attention he wanted. The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. ¡°So, when are we departing again?¡± Leo asked ¡°When the next train to Camelot arrives.¡± Gramps said. Jen start to sniffle to where everyone in the room could hear. She turned left to Yakuza and gave him a hug saying, ¡°ill miss you gramps, don¡¯t worry I¡¯m going to make sure these two stay out of trouble for you, OK.¡± ¡°Why are you hugging me?¡± Yakuza said confused. Gramps started to tear up telling Jen, who was hugging Yakuza, ¡°that¡¯ll work, that¡¯ll work.¡± in a sad voice. Jen started to crush yakuza in her arms, to where Yakuza could barely speak. ¡°What does, That¡¯ll work even mean?¡± Yakuza said pushing out his last bit of air sliding out of Jens arms falling to the ground. ¡°Guys we should go now.¡± Leo said next to the employee room door anxious to leave. ¡°You cant leave, not without a few tickles.¡± Gramps said walking towards Leo like a mummy. Leo, frighten by gramps tried to open the door, but it wouldn¡¯t budge. ¡°Hey, gramps we¡¯re going to open the bar right now.¡° Terry said from the other side of the door trying to open it. Leo scared for his life went into the fetal position sucking his thumb. ¡°Wow still scared of getting tickled, Leo?¡± Yakuza said getting back up from of the ground. Leo took his thumb away from his mouth and responded to Yakuza¡¯s comment, ¡°Not scared just horrified that¡¯s all.¡± Leo went back to sucking his thumb and Gramps stopped walking towards him and laughed. ¡°I think you got horrified messed up with a different one, Leo.¡± Yakuza said back to him. ¡°Well you kid should get going to the train station don¡¯t wanna miss out on 100,000 dollars right.¡± Gramps said with his arms open wide. Jen ran giving gramps the first hug. Gramps kissed her and then let her go. Gramps then turned to Leo who was already off the ground and gave him a hug saying ¡°be good Leo,¡± Leo didn¡¯t respond just smiled and waved at Gramps when he got next to the door with Jen. ¡°Yakuza get over here .¡± Yakuza gave a hug to Gramps telling him ¡°it¡¯s going to be alright.¡± Gramps gave Yakuza a tighter hug and in a split second in an urgent voice said. ¡°This man could kill You, Jen, Leo in a second, but I believe that you can defeat him as this is your journey, Yakuza. Yakuza looked at gramps face while still hugging him and asked ,¡°my journey?¡± tell he was cut off by what gramps had to say next. ¡°I''m telling you this because you are the leader of this group and you will keep your team alive like how I taught you.¡± Gramps let go of Yakuza and grabbed his shoulders. ¡° This man is a fable..¡± ¡°Hurry, let¡¯s start this adventure.¡± Jen said interrupting what Gramps was about to say about the mage. Gramps turned to Jen and back to Yakuza. ¡°Just know that he is strong, stronger than you.¡± Gramps lead Yakuza to the door going out with them. The bar had four people inside already while the two guy bartenders cleaned and Catty managed the counter. Leo, Jen, and Yakuza waved at Terry, Landel, and Catty goodbye walking out of the bar door going down the bars steps onto the road the three looked at Gramps. ¡° Later Gramps we¡¯ll be back from this long mission soon with 100,000 dollars in hand.¡± Jen said happily. ¡°Yeah and we¡¯ll come back better men.¡± Yakuza said waving. And leaving with Jen. Leo stood below Gramps with nothing to, but ¡°Don¡¯t die on me old man,¡± running to Jen and Yakuza. Gramps went back in the bar and into the employee room seeing Terry, Landel, and Catty in hunters outfits. ¡° Are you ready?¡± Gramps said from the door looking at the three. ¡° Ha we were born ready.¡± Landel said in a cocky tone way different from when he was spoke to Yakuza, Jen, and Leo. Gramps went to the oval table as terry handed him a map. Gramps unfolded it saying ¡° This is purgatory a prison used by the Council.¡±