For my trip to meet with the Prince I bring my spear and broadsword along with a mail hauberk and as always my armored gloves, for attendants I choose Urza, Anastasia, and Amani for their varied abilities and we grab a small covered wagon and horse to carry our supplies while Urza will ride Fluffy alongside and as we get ready to leave Althea runs up to me and gives me a small bag of supplies she made for me herself including jerky and wine after which she says:
"You better come back to me safe and whole my powerful Chieftain otherwise I'll have to hunt you down myself"
"Of course my beautiful WarQueen your wish is my command" I say as I start moving towards Cerulean for our meeting with the Prince
3 hours later
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"So tell me Jaeger how did you meet Althea I always meant to ask" Urza asks while we're traveling
"Oh yeah we met just after we were both enslaved and pretty much on first sight I basically fell immediately in love with just how strong and kind she is"
"Huh yeah I guess that makes sense Jeager because your mother was kinda like that"
"That reminds me how did you and Jaeger meet because I didn't think that an orc would get along with a human" Amani asks
"Oh yeah that , well when Jeager was a child he got lost in a blizzard and my tribe took him in until the snow melted and after his tribe came to rescue him our fathers had Jaeger visit every couple weeks and encouraged our friendship so they could arrange a marriage between us and join our tribes together"
"Hahaha that's cute although I'm having trouble imaging Jaeger ever getting lost in the woods"
After Amani says that we continue on down the road for a couple of minutes in complete silence until we see five people in the middle of the road effectively blocking the way forward which is going to delay us so I wave to the people in front of me and say "Good afternoon gentleman is there anyway we could go past you because I am on a tight schedule"
After saying that the tallest of the five men says "Of course my good man but first you gotta pay the toll "
"What toll"
Looking confused at my question the leader says "Well the toll for crossing me road here"
"How much is the toll"
"Well iffin you ain't got any coin you could leave one of dem pretty ladies you got there or youse could give up the orc and her direwolf"
"Okay just for curiosity's sake why them specifically"
"Not dat it's any of your business but we're going sell her to dis guy I know who likes da orcs and we're going to skin and eat the wolf"
"Yeah that's not going to happen sorry fellas"
"Well dat doesn't really work for us so we's gonna have to kill ya and take da gals"
"Not gonna happen" I say as I jump from the seat of the wagon and dropkick the nearest bandit to me smashing his ribcage while everyone else springs to action
The first one to move is Anastasia who leaps forward with her falchion and slices off her bandit's hand right at the wrist spraying blood all over himself and causing Anastasia to say "I love it when men bleed for me"and then she licks his blood off of the edge of her blade with a sinister smile and after doing that she says"Hmm not my favorite vintage but passable nonetheless"
Next to act is Urza and Fluffy who charge their bandit who starts running away from the road block into the woods but Urza and Fluffy catch up and she slices off his head while Fluffy chomps into his torso and starts tearing into his corpse
Next Amani advances towards her bandit who wildly swings a machete at her which she easily ducks and rather than draw either her tulwar sword, bow, or dagger she leaps forward and wraps her lower body around him and snaps his spine in two
After Amani finishes off her bandit it just leaves the leader of the bandits for me to deal with and as I move towards him he swings a battle axe at me which I parry with my spear, then I jab him in the knee making him stumble, then I kick him in his now exposed stomach and stab him right in the throat ending him and after making sure they're all dead we arrive at the gates of Cerulean and check into an inn that's specially built to handle a lamia like Amani and we cool our heels for a bit before our meeting later today