Chris and The Three Wizards by D.A.Sanford - HTML preview

Overheard fortunes

“What do you mean that I need to give you more!” She yelled. “I paid for two nights. You are just trying to pad your pocket!”

She is a good looking, not young but only maybe mid thirties. Brown shoulder length hair with a little gray creeping in.

My companions stop as I go back to the counter and give him her rent for one more day. She is looking weird at me. “What is that for? I am not a whore. That money won’t get you a romp.”

Not that I would not object, I say, “Please let me do that out of kindness. We just brought in a gang the netted us a large reward. We were just going to find a place to eat. Want to join us? I feel that I need to talk to you about our journey.”

Jim looks at me in a quizzical manner. All I do is nod.

I stick out my hand. “I’m Chris Scofield, this is Jim Archer and the big man is Garth. Do you have any recommendations?”

Hesitantly, she takes my hand. “I’m Sara Acres. I will tell you right now, if you or your friends try anything, I am a sorceress. I will fuck you up. The shop at the end of the street is very good.”

She is correct. We have our food and are eating. Sara, between mouth fulls, asks, “so what is it that you want to talk to me about?”

“This is going to sound very crazy but I have been given some powers and one especially I can share. That is boost, Perception led me to you. . I have unnoticed which allows me to slowly walk and no one sees me. The last is Camel,, I can drink a lot of water then go for a long time without needing to drink.”

Garth can’t resist, “Don’t be around him when he pees, it will knock you out.”

Sara tells him that she has smelled bad before. He tells her that we will show her later.

“May I continue?” I ask. “There is an expanding evil entity. I have been tasked by the gods to search out three mages and then eliminate that evil. You are the second. Jim is the first. Garth is a bonus to the team. If you join us in our search for the last, we hunt bandits for the reward. I know that this is a lot to believe. How about, after we eat, we go outside the wall and have you go against Garth?”

“You are on.” She looks a Garth then says to him, “I’ll try not to hurt you”

Garth looks to me, “Who gets the boost?”

I point to Sara, “I will break a bottle if it seems to be getting out of hand. See me pull the bottle you can run or take a nap. Your choice.”

We finish our meal and walk through the gate. The vegetation has been cut down around the wall for defense. We find a place and I go over what will be happening.

“Garth is strong but he does not have any magic in him, other than charm. Since you are a sorceress, for this I will ask you not to use magic.”

She tells us that she will only use her shield. Garth tells us that it is okay so I remind her, no magic. They start. She is really skilled I can tell that, with magic, she will be a formidable foe.

They fight for a while, she is very skilled but without using magic, she is not up to Garth’s abilities but she is giving him a run for the money. They spar. We can tell that Garth is not hitting her with his full force. If he did, she would be injured.

Now I apply boost. She actually shivers and becomes a brutal warrior. She summons a shield and is now flying on it. Now Garth is having to use full defensive force. She appears to be drunk on power. Now in berserker mode, Sara has blood lust in her eyes,

To prevent Garth from being harmed, I yell for her to stop or I will throw the bottle. She shows no sign of calming down. Garth and Jim retreat as the bottle breaks. Sara falls. We cover her with a blanket and wait.

Bewildered, Sara wakes a few hours later. “What the hell was that? It felt like I was the most powerful entity in this world. Then I find myself on the ground sleeping.”

I tell her that she was acting like she was drunk and started using magic so I broke a bottle of my piss. It puts anyone out for hours. Now I will show you my last power ”

I started to walk very slow and she found that she could not see me. Then I just stopped and I appeared. The look on her face said it all. She realized that what he told her was correct. She felt the boost, she was knocked out by his piss and he disappeared in front of her eyes just by walking slow. She found that she had to believe about his perception.

“There is no denying it. You have proven what you said is true, so I must also believe that there is an evil entity. You have your second wizard. With what I have seen, we should clean up on rewards, One thing I will warn you about. Try any underhanded tricks with me, I will remind you that you must sleep sometime.”

And she pats her dagger.

Point noted.