Finding Kylian

The search for Kylian was underway but they had to stop at a guild tavern so they could find out about the location of the dungeon he was allegedly being held in.

The tavern wasn't the most beautiful place but the bricks used in making it looked very much like the ones Peter was used to seeing back in Manchester.

They saw a bard at the entrance playing, striking the strings on his lute and producing a most wondrous tune. The bard sang of the tale of the troll king of the western forest and had it not been a pull from Melwise, Adrien wouldn't have gotten into the tavern but stayed and listened to the bard's performance.

When they had all gotten in they were met with cold stares from the adventurers inside the guild and it prompted Peter to ask;

"D'you think they've noticed we're humans?"

"Not yet, If they did we would have been met with swinging blades and spells of the worst kind and not stares," Melwise said.

As they proceeded to move to the guild attendant, two ugly-looking men with broad shoulders and ragged clothing, who reeked of wine approached them.

"Whatcha doin er?" one of them asked.

"We just need information on the dungeons and we'll be on our way," said Peter, boldly stepping forward.

"Oi Brundy, come look at this maggot, he thinks he's better than us cause of his tiny little wings".

"Why are they so angry about the wings?" Alice whispered pulling Melwise's hand.

"They're nomag adventurers and I think we've come into the wrong guild tavern" muttered Melwise.

Brundy who was the head of the B class guild that was currently in the tavern got up from where he was sitting and walked over to Peter, towering over him and looking down at him like vermin.

"Ya little maggot, get out from er before I pluck out ya tiny wing!" warned Brundy, and just then, Melwise heard the most daring things she could hear from a teenager.

"I'd like to see you try, oversized pig!" Peter said fiercely.

At this point the other guild members got up from their seats furiously heading for Peter and his friends.

"Ya—little—runt!" Brundy said grabbing Peter's head with a single hand, but Peter quickly responded and stomped on his foot and he instantly began staggering backward.

The first two adventurers Creel and Boff drew out their swords and pointed them at Peter.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you," Peter said confidently, but his words fell on deaf ears as they moved in to strike him.

Peter dodged and with a transfiguration spell turned both their swords into giant mugs. In anger they threw it at Peter's crew but as it left their hand it turned into paper and gently floated till it fell to the floor. Marie and Adrien, just stood behind Claire, in fear.

"You don't want to bring swords to a spell fight do ya?" Melwise said with a broad smile on her face, thinking the fight would be over in a flash but she couldn't be more wrong. Brundy, creel, and Boff with some other members of the guild were skilled swordsmen who possessed magic items that could not be altered by spells.

Brundy from his sheath, drew out a scepter and pointed it to Peter blasting him with an energy bolt, and sending him crashing into the board of quests.

Claire stretched her wand and bellowed "Temponervorum!" but with Brundy's scepter he reflected, the spell to her, but Melwise absorbed it and blasted creel with it paralyzing him.

Boff was left enraged at the sight of his immobile comrade, so he drew out another sword imbued with tertiary magic and with a slash into the air, a gush of wind knocked Melwise and Claire who were at the front to the ground.

Alice who was already having a scrap at the other end with the other guild members quickly ran over and bellowed "ego dolorem," the spell successfully hit Brundy and he fell to the ground holding his chest as he screamed in pain.

A moment later, he began to pull the hair out of his head because of the intense pain that had shifted to his head, and shortly after blood rolled down his face from his eyes and ears. At the sight the rest of the guild members paused and looked on in terror.

"What are you doing ter him?!" yelled Boff.

"I need you all to back off or I'll make it worse," Alice said, and they all began to slowly move backward.

"Let him go now!" Boff shouted.

"First tell me about the location of the dungeons," Alice said.

"It's located at the foot of the kissing mountains," Boff said, "now let him go please!".

"Thanks for your cooperation," Alice said and freed him from the spell and they picked up Melwise and Claire and on their way, they got Peter who was struggling to get up and they hurriedly left.

Brundy was slowly helped up by Boff as blood streamed down his ears.

"The-y'll.....pa—pay for this," said Brundy weakly.

"We'll get 'em, boss, we know where they headed," Boff said.

After running for a while they came to a stop to catch their breaths and they began walking.

By nightfall, they had left the town and were entering the Rocky plains that led to the kissing mountains.

The journey through the Rocky plains lasted almost six days and it wasn't an easy one, they encountered wild boars that could shapeshift, snakes that spoke and were able to cast spells, and the scariest of all was a large werewolf that was resistant to magic.

It was the toughest monster they faced, it gave Adrien a cut so deep he lost a lot of blood and passed out, and had it not been for Marie's vast knowledge of healing techniques for open wounds he would have died.

They had to be creative when they fought against the magic-resistant werewolf, with Peter using himself as bait to distract the werewolf Alice and Melwise drove a spear that they conjured into its back but it still wasn't enough to put it down.

After deep thought, Claire conjured an enchanted cage around it but the werewolf was so strong it dismantled the cage, the cage reappeared again and it kept on reappearing every time it got broken till they were able to heal Adrien and leave the Rocky plains into the bed of mountains.

The bed of mountains got its name from numerous mountains which covered a vast piece of land making it difficult at first to locate the kissing mountain, but it was quickly sorted after Alice used a location spell to find the exact location of it.

Two days passed and they finally reached the kissing mountain and it was a very amusing sight.

The kissing mountain got its name from two tilting mountains sightly touching each other at their zeniths, and seeing it in Person for the first time the children smiled, something they hadn't done in over a week.

"So where's the dungeon, I can't see anything," said Claire.

"We'll look around and hope those adventurers didn't lie to us," Alice said and left to tour the place with Melwise.

They climbed down some rocks and were finally standing just in front of the monument. Just then a reflection of light caught Alice's eye coming from the base of the mountain, she got closer and saw a cavity made with silver on the base of the mountain and she immediately called Melwise's attention.

"What do you think might that be?" Alice asked Melwise.

"A sort of key maybe?" Melwise said, after which Alice conjured a piece of circular silver and stuck it in the circular cavity on the wall and almost immediately a great cold fell upon them and a large portal opened just under the kissing mountain.

They were about to go in when Brundy and his guild members arrived at the scene.

"How did they get here so fast?" Peter thought to himself, but before he could even finish thinking Brundy shot an energy bolt that sent him crashing into a rock.

"Flammeum!" Adrien bellowed, pointing his wand towards the ground in front of boff. A large flaming spear struck the ground and the flames from it caught his leather boots, prompting him to jump and shout in agony to the amusement of Adrien.

While Adrien was distracted, Brundy with his magic scepter, struck him with a lightning bolt and he was quickly thrown to the ground. Brundy's reinforcements began to swarm the location attacking Peter and his friends, but Peter with an explosive spell bombarded the adventurers scattering them all over the rocky grounds, excluding Brundy, Boff, and creel (who was now fit to join the Battle).

"I don't want to have to kill you," Melwise said.

"Ya couldn't even kill me even if ya tried!" Brundy said and laughed out underestimating them until Alice bellowed;

"Neco!" and killed Creel who was sweating from all the fighting he'd been doing.

"Creel?" Creel?!" Boff cried again but it was of no use, he had already died.

"Now I won't spare ya!" Brundy shouted and with his scepter, he attempted to strike Alice but she deflected it and grinned at him.

"I told you I didn't want trouble but you still came after us anyway," Alice said.

"How do you even manage to kill, you're just a child," Boff said.

"It's a wicked and evil world and only the strong survive," Peter said. "We try our best not to take lives but we will not also hesitate when the situation demands it".

Peter, Melwise, and the rest of them entered the portal but as the portal closed Brundy threw a pocket knife into it piercing Claire on her back and the portal closed.