[mystogan]

this update in the story has been very late, actually have been busy with college and stuff, but i'll try to be quick on the update as much as possible

this is chapter 6:"Foul Drink".

as usual please point out my writing mistakes, and this time i have started a continuous arc, hope you like it

Spoiler for Foul Drink:

Isengard: One of the lively and rich cities of the country Azpacia, a river flows from between the city making its way through the city’s architecture, the city’s main governing body consists of two main households among other people of nobility, the “Ferenz” and the “Roussel”, the city has a mage guild “Dragon Nest”.
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Arwin walked into the guild and saw Gus and group sitting at the bar desk drinking beer, first he thought of not going there and changed his direction then he stopped, turned again and went to the desk.he sat at a distance from him,

“Ah, look who is here”

“i’m not in the mood Gus” he said, but that din’t stopped Gus from further making fun of him,with his minions supporting him and encouraging him, he kept on insulting Arwin,”so did your mother forgot to breast feed you, that you looking here for a drink”, soon they caught attention of other people that seemed amused by the show,” look he has long hair may be he is a girl”,said one them, “or may be he is a girl with a dick”, added Gus,the people around started laughing at Arwin,while he sat silently taking all the insults,when Irena showed up to take his order, he ordered an iced tea,”oh! look going for a non-alchoholic drink, it’s a little boy!, looks like he hasn’t grown any hair down there”they continued on. After few moments Gilbert joined the desk,”oi! Gilbert you saved this shit ,that day din’t you, so is he your pet now”, Gilbert was also laughing at that, Arwin was burning with anger inside with the nerve on his forehead bulding out. Gilbert probably din’t realized it but he was actually supporting Gus by adding laughter to his nonsense, but then Arwin din’t expect any support for from Gilbert either, he got up kicked his chair behind and walked away, everyone kept on laughing as he walked away.

When Irena came to take Gilbert’s order and placed Arwin’s order on the desk,”din’t that go a little overboard”she said

“but it’s so much fun”said Gus, still laughing
“whatever it was, i have no idea, but it was funny”said Gilbert”and hey a beer for me..........or wait may be i’ll start today with an iced tea instead”he said picking up Arwin’s order, however there were no comments from Gus and company when Gilbert went for a non-alchoholic drink.

Arwin was walking on the street, adjacent to the river that flow through the city,(who needs to drink there, there are much better places i can go, and that Gus, one day i’ll cut his throat for sure).As he was walking cursing others he saw a man lying in the side alley, he got close to him and saw a bottle of beer next to him he picked it up and saw that it was the same brand that was used in the guild’s bar.He took the bottle back to the guild to see if something was wrong with this weeks order,when he got back to the guild he saw a delightful sight, Gus and party and most of the people in the guild were lying around the floor unconscious with their body shivering and nerves bulding on their body,

“what happened here? Damn, i should have been here to see them fall like that”said arwin with a wicked grin on his face.

Irena came rushing from another room”Arwin!, oh gods! good you are here”her breathing was heavy, she held out a job request parchment,”here you have to go to this job right now, this is a personal request from Lord Ferenz”

“isn’t that the same guy who supplies us the beer of his brand,why would he sent a request when he should be fleeing the city before the crowd steps over his face for supplying poisoned beer.”he said, pointing towards Gus and his men”i’d rather watch them suffer and then may be send a thank-you note to Ferenz later”he said,giving a wicked smile, he turned around and was walking away

“Arwin!..., he is not just a nobleman of this city but also a friend of the guild,we must look into this matter”she explained

“nope, not doing”said Arwin as he was walking away.

“Arwin!...” she called out for him with a plea in his voice

“see you later”he said,Irena came to him caught his hand and dragged him toward the next room, she pushed opened the door and dragged him in, inside the room he saw Fiora unconscious on the bed, he got close to her and noticed her body was burning hot with fever and body was shivering same way as he saw of the others.The smile that he had on his face a moment ago seeing those people suffer had disappeared after seeing Fiora in the same state.

“Master and Erica are out for a Guild Masters meeting, most of our mages are also out on different jobs, the rest of them you can see and Gilbert is already on his way get an antitode for it, he did not drank his regular beer but instead drank the iced tea that you had ordered,he will be on the job once he is back with the medicine,......do you still just want to send a thank you note to Lord Ferenz?”

Arwin snatched the request parchment from her hand and was moving out,”tell gilbert to stay out of this once he gets here, i am doing this job”he said and exited the guild.

Just after a few steps outside the guild, he Emily stood infront of him,it was the young girl who recently joined the guild.

“out of the way kid”he said

“i am coming with you, this noble business seems important and i have been waiting for a big assignment”she said

“go home kid, this is not a thing for you, besides there are all alcoholic drinks involved for which i think you are quite young”, he said”now get lost”
Arwin was making his way through the city,he saw what he hadn’t noticed before, a major part of the city was in chaos, , more than 50% of the city drinks were supplied by Lord Ferenz, the foul drink had caused half the people to suffer and other half go mad with anger he looked around and saw people in fights, at other place guards were charging on the civilians, the doors and windows of the houses were tight shut, at some places people were pouring the poisoned liquor on scraps and setting it on fire, some casks of beer were smashed on to the floor and liquid flowed along the streets, like veins on someone’s skin. As he went further inside , a war had started, among the noble guards of Ferenz household and local gangs who had been drinking their bark juice, arwin was making through trying not get involved in anything, he stopped and turned back, there he saw Emily standing behind him

“don’t you think that you should be hiding if you are to follow someone”he said

“i am not following you, but walking with you”she said, after a moment of pause, she broke out and caught arwin “please please please take me with you, i need a big assignment to build up my career as a mage at the guild please help me”she said while arwin was brushing her aside”get off me, stupid brat”.she was making a an innocent face as if she was in dire need of help and used her cuteness and charm to persuade him

“tsh,.....fine you can come, but don’t get in my way”he said,”and you’ll follow my orders”

“thank you, thank you so much”she said excitingly

They were making towards the Ferenz mansion trying to avoid any sticky situation. Crowd was gathering at every turn ranting that the Don Ferenz should surrender to public or should be trailed for his actions and should be charged with severe penalties, some were talking about seeking aid at the Lord Roussel’s against Ferenz, while some said that he should bejust hanged in public, they soon exited from a crowded place, they were walking through the the market area where there is always loud chatter of people and voices of vendor making deals and offers, now was mush silent with few people in the area, most of the stores were closed due to the events of the day, they were nearing the corner of the area when they heard voices of men shouting and cursing each other, the duo slowed down a bit and peeked from the corner at the other side of the street, a riot was taking place among the street gangs and the guards of the Ferenz household, the royal guards wore scarlet vest jacket, full covered gloves,pants, boots and protective gear on the inside and equipped with swords while the gang thieves wore simple random clothing from jackets to tunics and from simple shirts to robes and were equipped with improper swords, broken axes, hovels, pitchforks, long sticks and knives.

“we have lost our brothers because of the rich man, he intoxicated the drink and let out the chaos on the city, the noble dog will pay for this!”said one of the gang member,

“step down you cock sucking insect!, if you show anymore resistance or speak anymore ill of Lord Ferenz, you shall face punishment”said the captain of the guard team,

“that noble son of a bitch is responsible for putting the lives of our people in danger, that bastard will pay for it with his blood”
The captain of the guard captain stepped forward slashed his sword at the his gang thief’s throat from left to right in a fast step, the skin at the throat of that person tear opened and spray of blood came out from the curve made on his throat, the man fell to his knees and then to ground dead.

“there, you have a bastard’s blood”he said and jerked his sword at the ground throwing a splash of blood that was dripping from his blade”the same will happen to all of you if you continue with this”

“Attack boys!” yelled another gang thief, and both the parties broke out in a session of killing. Arwin was peeking on the scene throughout,one of the thief swung an axe towards a guard, the guard dodged and responded with strikes of his sword similar scene broke out with rest of the gang and the guards, clatter of steel on steel could be heard and also sound of a man yelling in pain with every wound placed one each person by another . Arwin and Emily stepped back and went back where they came from in the market area, they got near a closed down stall,

“okay now i can’t see any safe way to our destination, and it will be better if we don’t get involved in this”arwin took out a scroll and held it to Emily

“what’s this?”she asked.”it’s an enchanted paper with the spell of teleportation inscribed on it”

“you are not suggesting that we teleport into the Nobleman’s mansion, where he is, i don’t know might be doing something indecent with his lady, are you?”she said, even though she was young, her way of talking was not childish at all.

“ i hardly think he would be doing anything of that sort with things in the city like this”he said”and no, we are not teleporting in to the mansion but out of this area, Now listen carefully”he explained”i need you to hide here while i find a way across..”he pulled out a blue colored crystal “...and summon you there, what you will have to do is that when the scroll starts reacting, place it on the ground and stand over it, understood”

“but why can’t i come with you”

“No, you will be worse than useless to me if things got ugly”he said

“ i can fight good, i came on this assignment so i could perform it not so that i
could be there as a background crowd”

“did we not agree on terms before we came here, listen brat i still don’t need anything of you, i could still dump you here and be on my task, if you not follow my orders then that’s how it will be”he said

“bu...but...., fine.....it’s not fair”she said

“ya , now go hide somewhere, shoo”

Emily went behind some barrels placed by the wall and hid behind them and peeking out through the slits between the barrels. Arwin figured he couldn’t go to the other side from ground he climbed on some crates placed one upon another beside the stall, he got on them and jumped upwards and caught a metal rod sticking out from the wall he pulled up a little bit and swing his body forwards which rotated his body around the rod and got on top of it and got on the roof of the adjacent building, he got towards the other side of the roof where the fight between the guards and the street gang was taking place, he had a complete view of the from above, he noticed there was another rod at the edge of the roof on that side, he saw above was a wire connecting to the building on the other side of the area, he checked the rod was flexible, he got back and came running and jumped on the rod, due to the flexibility of the rod he was pushed upwards in the air, he drew out the Greywand in mid air and got it around the wire above and caught the blade by the other hand, the wire was at inclined towards the opposite building, he slided along the wire using his sword, he was sliding above the area, while below him the guards and the gang where trying to slit each other’s throats , below he saw most of the ground was covered in red and bodies of some gang thieves and guards, some bodies were having extra weaponry through their body while some were missing the joint of their neck.He landed on the roof of the other building at the other end of the roof a man wearing scarlet jacket had noticed him, he sprinted toward the guard.

“you!, are not allowed here, stop!” yelled the guard.he drew out a pistol and aimed at arwin. As he saw the young mage was not slowing down he shot, instead of bullet a shot of compressed magical energy was fired. Arwin was surprised,he slided down on the rooftop to avoid the shot, he quickly moved and threw the Greywand charged with Black Lightning towards the guard, it struck it’s target in the chest and the guard fell on the rooftop dead. Arwin stood up and retrived his blade from dead corpse. He got on the right hand side of the roof then jumped onto the balcony of the next building he jumped down from window to gallery and then finally on the ground, he passed a couple of alleys in this area there wasn’t any outbreak going and had less people moving about. He took out the blue crystal, the crystal shattered into tiny particles in his hand.

Emily was hiding behind some barrels, which proved to be a good hiding spot due to her small body. The fight between was spreading and had now entered the market area, the clashing of weapons was close to her, a guard cornered a thief at a wall near to the barrels,he first slashed the arm of the thief and cut him down diagonally across his torso, the guard hit the barrels with his sword making them topple exposing the hiding girl behind it. The guard stepped to grab her, she quickly stepped behind made a run in the opposite direction, the men on the field were busy cutting each other so none of them paid much attention to the girl save for the one chasing behind her, she turned left from the corner of the wall,
“stop!”yelled the guard”or i shall attack you”, as he followed, she hit a dead end at edge of the platform from where the river within the city flowed, she turned around and the guard was right behind her, his clothes stained with the blood of other people, he spotted the scroll she was holding,”what are you holding ?,give it up”, he advanced towards her

“stay back mister or you’ll be sorry you woke up this morning”she said, but it did not stopped but instead provoked him, he attacked her with a swing of his sword, but the blade bounced back at a distance from her body, he was surprised and made for another attack with a straight strike, the sword bounced from the force field even harder out of his hand, she pushed her hand in the air a force field formed around guard and he was threw him back many feet.The thief gang was slaughtered, the noble guards had cut them down like animals at expense of two men or three, they stood on the blood and bodies of their targets when they saw a man of them came flying from another direction and crashed into the wall make a hole in it, the squad moved to the location to see the source of it, all they saw was a little girl.One of the guard had checked on the fallen one of them he saw the body lay there with crushed parts and dipped in its own blood.

“that girl is dangerous one”yelled the very same man, the guards stepped forward to get her, when the scroll in her hand started to glow, she threw the scroll into the water behind her, it opened up in the water and was floating at the surface,it had runes and written on it with script glowing blue, as the guards closed in she jumped into the river and fell exactly on the piece of paper, the moment her foot touched it she vanished into thin air instantly.

Arwin broke the blue crystal and Emily fell on him from above,”Oww, what were you doing to fall on me like that”he asked

“nothing much, was just enjoying the fight back there”she replied

“anyway let’s move, were almost there”he said,after crossing a few more alleys they finally arrived at the Ferenz manor, but what they saw there brought up more difficulties.