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« on: January 15, 2009, 05:54:42 pm »
After being healed i was unsure what to do..
I lost to an animal a creature on 4 legs.
Just like .. that time. at my home..
"HALT! where do you think you’re going young dwarf?" said a loud voice.
"But dad.. I just want to fire the ballista just this once." I whined. then a marks dwarf from the background said "why don't you start with something smaller?"
I did not waste time and grabbed a nearby crossbow now all I needed was some bolts. but before I found any my dad grabbed the crossbow and said "son , I think he meant this sling shot. go ahead and hunt some vermin or cats.. no one will miss a cat or two. I was furious not because I couldn't shoot the ballista or the crossbow but my dad actually wanted me to shoot some vermin. I couldn't believe how my dad didn't know anything about the production line of our fort. "The After-Morning of Ale" I think someone had to much to drink when they thought of that name. our production line consists of cloth and dwarfen cheese. most of the cloth is from pigtail but we also use silk from the spiders and the maggots give us the best cheese of the country. oh well I will shoot some cats to shrug it off I guess..
after a few weeks of shooting cats I felt like I could use some bigger prey we had a lot of foxes outside but I would need a bigger weapon then a slingshot to shoot them.
I kept asking my dad for a crossbow and I also kept trying to steal one.
I think in the hope I would stop asking for a crossbow he gave me a puppy. i named it Aban this did not how ever stop me from my goal I will have a crossbow.
then I saw a peasant walking around with a crossbow I quickly asked him where he got it from. he pointed to the carpenters shop he said they were making a whole bunch of them because we were planning on a war. he also said he could use some help hauling them over .
I knew this was my chance I rushed over to the carpenters shop and grabbed a crossbow from the bower there was also a stack of arrows next to him which I quickly grabbed.
all that was left was sneaking past the guards which should be an easy task as there all are busy in the archery range.
I was past the hallway only 2 war dogs left but they wouldn’t be alarmed by a dwarf so I made it!
EF! EF EF!
Damn it the puppy followed me and started barking when it saw the bigger dogs.
before I knew it my dad was coming from around the corner as head of the marks dwarf squad he won't like it I stole a crossbow and some bolts.
“Where do you think you’re going Ankas?! and why do you have a crossbow?!” he asked with a firm tone.
“Sir!, I asked Ankas to bring me my crossbow and some practice bolts sir! I think I have healed enough to train some sir!” when Ankas looked at the dwarf he said this he noticed it was the same dwarf that gave him his crossbow.
Thanks to him my father relaxed a bit and said “ well hurry up then Ankas give Cerol his crossbow”
“Yes dad” I replied as I walked up to Cerol. Then Cerol started talking to me but not loud so my dad couldn’t hear us “You almost made it there if it wasn’t for your dog, what is the dogs name ?”.
“Aban” I replied. Then Ceros said “ Why don’t we train Aban to be just as stealthy as you.“
I took up his offer and we started training right away.
As the days went by on training Aban. Cerol sometimes would let me shoot his crossbow once or twice while my dad wasn’t looking. After a while dwarfs started to recognize me even my father became proud of me. Then the fortress manager came to me and said that I was in charge of training animals and taking care of them. I didn’t mind I had a great time raising Aban. But little did I know that training war dogs is different than training a little puppy. Countless times they scratched or bit my hands. I was at a loss and didn’t know what to do so I went to Cerol for advice. He gave me a pair of old steel gauntlets he said that the dogs weren’t strong enough to bite trough the steel. I immediately believed him because these gauntlets were so heavy I had trouble holding them I would never wear a full steel amour it would impair my movement to much.
I thanked Cerol once again and went on training the best war dogs the fortress had ever seen.
But the goblins sieged out castle and all the dogs were assigned to fight with the soldiers.
Aban and I were save inside. But my other dogs, Cerol and my dad were not that save.
The siege was over. My dad came walking toward me with a puppy but he didn’t seem happy.
He told me Cerol died.. and that they found this puppy next to his body it seemed Cerols war dog gave birth to a single puppy in Cerols dyeing moments.
I and the whole fort believe that this puppy is the recantation of Cerol and I adopted him straight away to train him as one of the best, to one that would never leave my side.
The next day Cerol was already up and running and very lively I took him to the kennel where me and Aban started to wrestle a little with him nothing major but as the days passed we had little mock up fights and even Aban got bested once or twice. After a year Cerol seemed ready. There was just one test he had to pass a mock up fight with me.
We were both ready for it he charged me head on. I was surprised by his ferocity of his onslaught and was taken down.
When I opened my eyes I saw a giant elephant.
( got a little caried away here =O this is part 1 of my background XD should almost make a seperate topic for my background o-o hope you don't mind its this big =p anyway next time i will get that beast! also xonara's background is spot on thats freaky)
