Yami Shorts

 The Official License  Strena and the rest were walking for hours and hours until the sun had come down when they arrived at a modest building. It had two floors and was painted in purple and gold. It had a small set of double doors. Chashathrophogh looked up and around the building as Strena looked at the windows. She noticed that there were some that were bricked up but others were not. She looked up at the upper window and looked at the bottom ones. At the top was one rectangle horizontally, one square, another rectangle. There was a diamond after. Then one rectangle, one square, diamond. Three rectangles, diamond, rectangle, square, rectangle, square, diamond, rectangle, square, rectangle end. The ground floor windows were; square, square, rectangle, square, diamond, three rectangles, diamond, two squares, diamond, square, rectangle, square end. She circled the building to see that it was like that all around. “Urm, Master Chashathrophogh, is that normal?” She asked. He lo...

 The Painting They all looked up at a large box. It was jet black, just like the rest of the walls of the chamber, almost like it was made of black glass and the whole room was littered by those glowing mushrooms. The box itself was black metal and covered with many black precious crystals and gemstones. In the centre was a padlock, also black. “Tell me-” Cerpheres darted to the lock and looked in the hole. He looked around the box. “What? Can’t pick it?” “Nope! That’s a trick lock…” He purred, more to himself. “And how do you know?” “There’s something wrong with the inside. It seems to be riddled with spikes, I assume that they have many nasty little things hidden in them to kill us. Also, by the size of the lock, it seems to be a holder of something, it could be something very, very nasty for us naughty lot!” “And what will help open it?” “I dunno. Do you have an idea, my dear?” Strena looked around. “Not on the box. Also I don’t think that this is the chest we’re looking for.” H...

 The Temple’s Traps After spending time in the shade Chashathrophogh stood up and looked at the group. “Right, time to get into the temple. So what should you do during this time?” “Look for the way in?” He looked at Cerpheres, deadpan. “What!” “Access the temple door. It seems to have no doorknobs. So there must be a way in by a puzzle so-” She spoke as she looked at the door and lightly stroked it, looking for anything out of place. “-all we need to do is find any gaps.” She looked at each edge but found nothing. She would have huffed at noticing very quickly that it was a dead end, until she saw the waves that she recognized engraved into the doors. Yet she walked away and walked to the side and looked at the doors at the left wall. To see that it was writing of her native land! “‘Let the royal speak their title to enter.’” She translated. “What’s that?” “What it says here. So-” “All royals must declare what we are as royals.” “Prince!” Said Cerpheres. Nothing happened. “Are you...

 Journey To The Temple  As it was night, they all decided to spend the night in the tavern. Yet, as she slept there, Strena looked at Orion and Darkector in her hands, thinking about what Chashathrophogh had said. That Phorap The Mad always wanted to visit the time before The Black. Yet, she too, now had that desire. She too wanted to know what was beyond the veil of nothingness that came before. She wondered if there were old relics of that time, hidden in those ancient tombs… “I wouldn’t think that there are.” Why not Orion? “The gods and goddesses of The First Age Of Gods snuffed them out.” Wonder why they did that? She thought as she drifted off. She woke up naturally early, feeling refreshed. She did not remember her dream, but all she did remember was the strange lion that she saw there. Well it was a lion that turned into a lamb and an eagle at will. The strange creature filled her heart with such peace that she had never experienced before. Yet they all had their bre...

 The Quest Board  Strena had just finished writing about all of Bash’s bounty hunts when she was approached by Chashathrophogh. She felt her stomach drop slightly yet she could strangely feel her heat increase as she tried not to look directly at him. Nor did she want to focus upon his handsome features. No, she had to focus on the fact that he would have killed her under any other circumstances and keeping as calm as she could. “That’s very neat handwriting.” He commented. “Thank you Master Chashathrophogh.” She said, trying to keep her voice as calm and emotionless as possible. “Alright! As I can sense that our dear Dark Lord and Dark Lady are somewhere behind us, probably near Animéga, I need all of you to sit down!” “Why?” “Who put you in charge?” “Do you want a punch my dear Prince Captain?” Cerpheres licked his lips and raised his eyebrow. “Don’t tease me!” He rolled his eyes. Bash and Zaryb pulled him down as Leonardo, an artist who they had picked up from Bash’s bounty...

 The Journey On It had been barely a day since they had taken in Corah Chorak and Bash could not help but think about what he had said to her about her and Strena. She had a deep frown in the centre of her forehead as she looked at the sand and the horizon. She could still feel the heat of the sun beating down upon her. She felt a coat of sweat all around her, with the potion protecting her skin, she knew that she did not need to care. “What are you thinking about?” Purred the oily voice of Cerpheres. She gasped and was about to punch him but resisted it. She looked back ahead. “Nothing much.” He smiled as he came close to her. “Doesn’t look like it! Come on! Tell me!” “No.” “Ohh! Why not?” “Don’t want to give you any ideas.” His eyes lit up slightly. “What like the idea of a fire tornado?” He purred as his face had already become red. “Which, I have to say, that was good. That was very good. It really was such a t-” She punched him, then he looked at her like she was an adorable...

 The Final Job “So are you going to stay here for a while?” Bash and Chashathrophogh called to Leonardo as he painted the temple and them. “No. I am known to be the fastest painter where I came from. Although that girl, Strena had potential to paint and work faster than me!” “Well, what do you expect! She has been trained by me!” “Finished!” He sang after half an hour and walked to the next town to the local bounty hunter’s tavern. “I’m going to see if there is a bounty hunter’s board here.” Bash said as she could feel the sun getting to her. She could also see that it was getting to Chashathrophogh too, regardless of how well he was able to mask it. So she soon found one and saw the poster on the board. “Found a good one?” She let out a cross between a scream and squeak as she accidentally punched Cerpheres. He smiled drunkly as his cheeks became coral. Yet he relaxed his face. “Tell me, when you left the bounty hunter’s tavern the other day, you looked very… flustered.” She roll...

 The Blood Priest  Of The Desert  Bash, after three and a half days traveling and becoming low on the sun protection potion, came to another bounty hunter’s tavern. Bash and Zaryb looked at the board as Cerpheres gave Strena another violin lesson. She looked to Zaryb by her side and noticed that he was quite handsome, however she immediately returned to the board knowing that she did not have the time for romance nor did she want to think anymore of it. The first thing she noticed that most of them were far too easy. Then she found one that caught her eye Jaha Bazel Murderer of the Pharaoh Mu Khutaat, All his siblings, wives and children and illegitimate children. Murderer of; Princess Jiro Of Animéga, Princess Joanna Of The West Kingdoms, Princess Ricco Of The Southern Western Kingdoms, King Jenmrogh Leona Of The Queendom Isles, Queen Jerroh Leona Of The Queendom Isles, Their children and illegitimate children, And Yenovanna Ruby Emerald Of The Stone Kingdoms Reward 100,...

 Another Job  They arrived at a bounty hunter’s tavern. Bash and Chashathrophogh felt the heat of the sun was beating down upon them. They could feel their skin burning as their bodies felt ice cold. However, they knew that protective spells and potions against the heat of the sun would be very pricey in this region. So she walked in with Strena and Zaryb. They looked at the jobs on the board and looked at each of the posters. Her eyes narrowed as they looked for their jobs. “What about this one Uncle Zaryb and Miss Bash?” “Too easy for us. Also it’s clear that Chash’ and Bash need the Sun potion so we need to take something that is on par with our level.” Bash looked at him, shocked. “Hold on, she’s on our level?” “Yeah, I train her day in and day out so that she would be stronger than your average woman twice her age.” She nodded as the took a glance at the girl. Then her eyes returned to the job board again. How hard did he train her? Hayan Hotta Murderer and Thief 10 Rubie...