Stories, Thoughts and Snippets
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"Awesome. Let's go." We ran out into the back yard and Dylan started scooping up pinecones.
"The orcs are attacking!" Dylan screamed.
"Defend the castle, when the first wave falls we lead the counterattack."
I started slashing away at my foes and Dylan fired pinecones ducking and weaving, occasionally calling out the name of some spell he was casting.
"Behind you, Dylan!" I rolled and came up in a lunge dispatching a particularly fiendish orc that was poised to run Dylan through.
"Thanks, James." Dylan turned and threw another fire ball and then turned back to me.
"We should have other names." He said to me.
I lowered my plastic edge. "My name is going to be Sir Arimus Dark, but everyone calls me Blade."
"Cool. My real name is going to be Raphael Winter, but only you know that, my mage name is Midnight, because I always wear black."
"Cool, here's our story, we were friends when we were kids, I was the son of a Baron and you were an orphan that someone left on our doorstep in the middle of the night..."
"That's awesome it goes with my name. And your Dad wanted to kill me or send me away, but your mom insisted on keeping me and we grew up like brothers until one day I accidentally did some magic..."
"Yeah, and then you went to train with a wizard and I stayed at home and practiced swordplay and fighting, and went on adventures with my dad, until one day we returned home from killing a dragon, and found a demon had killed my mother and taken the castle and was planning to begin a kingdom of evil in our land, and my dad fought him but he wasn't strong enough and the demon used magic and killed him..."
"And then you escaped and fled the country vowing to become stronger and return and avenge your parents and claim your birthright..."
"And so I came to find you, and the two of us have been traveling and becoming more powerful and now we're finally returning to the castle to kill the demon and break his evil hold on the land."
"Awesome. So we're not defending the castle then, we're assaulting it."
"Fight our way through! Once we reach the gates they won't be able to swarm us!"
"There will be powerful monsters inside before we reach the demon in the throne room, Blade."