After introducing himself to the king and the prince, it appeared that the rookie warrior was stuck in his position. He could not get up after bowing down. "Ah, little help?" he asked and one of the other guards helped him straighten his back. Everyone in the room, especially the prince was beginning to have second thoughts about having Shuichi be his protector.
"Father, you cannot be serious about letting him be my protector." Protested Eiri rolling his eyes. "Look at him, he's pathetic." Those words made the pink haired rookie fume with rage for he was very sensitive when it came to words. But he knew not to speak out of turn in front of the king. Everyone knew that rule. Maybe he wasn't the most experienced warrior or even the bravest or strongest, but he was available so he really had no other choice, after all, many of the off duty soldiers were dead and some of the other at war were either dead or taken prisoner. With no time to waste, the king packed all of their stuff with clothes food and whatever they could use to set up camp just in case. The carriage rider was on his way. Which left them time to enjoy some entertainment from the jester. Sure the entertainment was short lived but it was always worthwhile, especially if the jester, Sakano was giving a show. After the show the king had ordered the jester to go with them on the carriage. After the carriage arrived and the three of them left, their journey was about to begin and it would be a long road; whether the three of them knew or not.
"I can't believe that I have to go and do this damn marriage." The prince complained. Then he glared at his two companions. "Of all the people that I could travel with, it had to be a joker and a coward. Magnificent."
"Who are you calling a coward!" Shuichi shouted.
"I call them as I see them." Eiri said rudely.
The two of them kept quarreling until they were an eighth of the way there and then when the finally stopped arguing, there was some much needed peace and quiet. But that peace and quiet was interrupted when the carriage and the horse were going over large bumps in the road and then one of the bumps got caught in the wheel, this made the horse get out of control and then it galloped away with the driver chasing him thus, leaving them behind in a forest. Sure thing couldn't get much worse than they were right now could they? Well as bad as thing were there was always room for the worst. With the carriage destroyed, Shuichi, prince Eiri and Sakano were left to find their way to Eternias on foot. Surviving in the woods would only get tougher, since the three of them were struggling to survive each other.
"eternias is this way." Eiri said pointing south of the river.
"No, the king said that eternias is north so we follow the river this way. "Shuichi said. And then the two were at it again. They could not agree on one thing since they left the castle. Every little thing someone brings up would spark an argument between them. And this case was no exception.
"You have not even left the training facility so how would you know where Eternias is?"
"You're father told us to follow the river so that's what we should do."
"He didn't tell us which way to follow the river though." Said the prince.
They all walked along the river going north. They were walking several feet along the river and it felt like they were going absolutely nowhere. Eternias was a long way from where they were and though they followed the map that sakano gave them, they were not even close to their destination. The deeper they got into the forest they were in deeper danger as well, though at the time they didn't know it.
It was the afternoon and the group was starting to wonder when they would get to a town, if they could make it to eternias right away they could at least find a nearby city. Then, along the adventure some stomachs were growling from the need of nourishment.
"I'm sooo hungry!" Sakano and Shuichi complained. They were clenching their stomachs and reaching into the bag with some food from the castle.
"if it'll shut you idiots up, we'll eat." Said eiri.
After a few hours of walking in the woods they all decided to take a break and have something to eat before starting on the road again. However, their lunch hour was interrupted by an arrow shot hitting the cherry blossom tree they were sitting under. The group looks up and sees what appears to be a group of bandits. The bandits jump down from the far away trees and run toward their food and then Shuichi and Sakano tackle them in an attempt to protect the prince and their food. One of the bandits pushed Shuichi off of him and he fell to ground. Then another bandit shot an arrow at the prince which luckily missed him. Then another bandit ran towards him and began to beat him down. Shuichi pushed the bandit off of him and then rose and drew his sword and then the bandit pulled out a bigger sword. And when that happened the rookie warrior ran to a nearby tree and hid around it. The other bandits attempted to capture Eiri who, along with Sakano was fighting them off.
Shuichi, trying to fulfill his mission from the king runs after the bandits and draws his sword and despite his fear of fighting, he does fight them off and protect the arrogant prince. As the struggle goes on they continued to lunge at each other with excessive force. Ending the struggle the tree that Shuichi was hiding behind fell on top of all the bandits.
When the fight was over, the group headed back on the road to eternias, they began to have second thoughts about going on this journey, or at least taking the path on foot.
"I have to admit for a coward he is pretty strong." Prince Eiri thought. But then with things slowly getting back to normal, the bickering would start back up again.
"Not bad, for a pansy."Eiri remarked.
"A pansy that just saved your life." Shuichi replied. They continued walking going on like this on foot until night fell and they had to make a decision, keep walking or camp for the night.
"its too dark to keep walking. we should camp here for tonight." suggested Sakano.
"No way! we should keep moving. what if we get attacked again?" the others shouted. finally agreeing on something for once.
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