Kabiru And The Blue Hawk Called Monkey
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Well no one could say the launch day was not amusing for the players in the temple. A lot of them were already recording the video of a noob player who made the racial choice of vampire and then decided to go outside in what could only be high noon, and got burnt for his efforts.
Ben took a while to calm down. His hand was blistered red, burnt so badly he hardly recognized it. He realized being a vampire was not going to be as easy as he thought it would be. If he was playing to be a ranker, he would be very much behind other players who were capable of playing during the day time. Ben’s hand eventually started to heal at a rate visible to the eye. In fifteen minutes every damage he had sustained had already been healed. As he contemplated his choice of a race, the shadow of a person covered him.
Ben could not help but drop his jaw at how extravagant this person looked. His hair was bright pink, and as spiky as those of anime characters. He had a white headband on his head, while he wore what could only be an armored leather vest, leaving his chest bare to the world. And below that was a white trouser that was quite reminiscent of Indian or middle eastern garbs.
“Hey Vampire, are you ok?”
Ben was still a little miffed by his face to face experience with the curse of the sun so he replied testily.
“My name is Cassius, not vampire and do I look ok to you?”
“Don’t be getting mad at me I am not the sun, and how could I have I known that your name’s Cassius. I am not a mind mage you know. And even if I am, its rude to read someone else’s memories. It goes against my duties as a dragon rider and warrior of Olodumare’s temple to do such things.”
“Indeed!”
What the hell was wrong with this dude, and since his back was turned to him Ben could not see the expression on this strange guy’s face. Besides how could his voice change all of a sudden.
“Don’t be stupid, you should be able to see my IGN……oh. You’re…...you’re an NPC!”
“What’s it with you travelers and calling me an NPC. My name is Kabiru Ahmed, dragon rider and the warrior priest Olodumare’s Temple, you got that?”
“Indeed, yeah you got that? We wouldn’t want to repeat ourselves.”
Ben was surprised, the name Kabiru Ahmed was floating over the head of this guy, but the main mode of attraction was the blue Hawk floating above him, with the name of Monkey.
“That’s a Blue Hawk named Monkey?”
“Yeah, you got a problem with that?”
“yeah, do you? And my name is Monkey; do you have any rats?”
“It’s a talking Blue Hawk named Monkey…... wow!”
“are you stupid or something I said that already didn’t I?”
“Yes you did. Well then nice to meet you Monkey, Kabiru. I am sorry for my earlier outburst. I was having an off day.”
“yeah no problem it’s not as if I was angry or something.”
Ben took a little step to really examine this two…...well man and cat in front of him. It was almost impossible to notice, but Kabiru’s skin had some sort of ligaments and patterns on it that almost looked like……………. scales! It was strange, since Kabiru did not look anything like a lizard man. As for the Hawk, apart from being blue and can talk, he had wings that spanned a foot and a half from left to right. But its way of flying showed no indication he was using the wings, but some sort of floating magic.
“So what are you and Monkey doing here Kabiru?”
“Oh well, our Temple had a mission to subjugate a hydra that was terrorizing this capital city almost a month ago. But we caused extensive damage and now I was chosen as a scape goat to serve community service for two months. My job today was to clean the temple. My team mates already left me, the traitors.”
“Kabiru you know you were the one who caused the most damage. That’s why you were chosen.”
“That’s a lie, Eniola froze an entire orphanage.”
“Which of course would be fine just as long as the ice melts, which might I remind you is already done. You on the other hand burnt the royal palace to the Ground. You are lucky the king of the Eko kingdom was grateful enough to not care about the destruction or you would already be dead.”
Kabiru started grumbling inaudibly to himself about how unfair life was and that a drunkard was supposed to be punished too. Ben didn’t care one bit, but when he looked at these guys, all he could smell was a quest opportunity around the corner. Let’s see how far this goes.
“Kabiru. If you want, I can help you clean the temple. As you can see I have no where to go as it is, being a vampire and all.”
“Really? You would really help us?” Monkey asked in surprise
“yes of course. You’ve both been nice to me when everyone else was laughing at me. I want to return the favor.”
“You are the nicest traveler I have ever met, (sniff) all the other ones kept calling me a pet even when I told them I was Kabiru’s best friend. Some even called me a quest reward. But you were so nice to me, even if you don’t have rats, we will be friends forever.”
“yeah that’s right Monkey, your reward for helping us, is our undying friendship. For now, and forever.”
[[SYSTEM ALERT:]]
[QUEST: B CLASS DIFFICULTY:]
[ MAKING FRIENDS]
[ the dragon rider and fire warrior priest of the high temple of Olodumare’s in the moon continent has asked you for help in cleaning the temple of travelers in Eko city in exchange for his undying friendship: (rewards) ?????: (time limit) twenty-four hours
[ACCEPT QUEST: YES/NO]
[ACCEPTING QUEST……...]
[QUEST ACCEPTED]
COUNTDOWN: 23:59:33
“Well let’s get to cleaning then. We have a lot to do if we are going to be done in time for dinner, since Cassius can not come out in sunlight as a sign of our friendship, monkey we are not having lunch!!!!”
“Indeed! wait what?”
“Let’s go!”
- Writer
