Chapter 255 - Chapter 255 Assassins In The Eternal Flame Tavern

As Sarah, Jules, Gwen, Thomas, and the others all sat around the table Sarah stared at Thomas and said "We have something to tell you." Thomas laid his head down on the table and asked "Is this gonna be bad news?" Sarah nodded and said "Unfortunately we got news that a group of assassins came here searching for you." Sarah glanced at Gwen and said "You have the information on this so you can take it from here." Gwen stared at Thomas and said "As you already know you have a bounty, we found this out when we went to this towns unground black market, but I decided to do some digging and found out that there was a group coming after you." Opal glanced at Thomas and asked "Will you be okay." Thomas shrugged and said "Probably." Opal glanced at the others and said "I see he hasn't changed very much." Daisy nodded and said "Yeah he's still pretty laid back." Gwen stared at Thomas and asked "So how are we going to deal with them?" Thomas continued to lay there as he yawned and said "Just ignore them, I'm sure they'll get bored and quit eventually." Gwen set a note down on the table and said "We also found this note nailed to the tavern door." Thomas glanced at the note and read "We have found your location and will be seeing you soon." Thomas blew the note away and said "If they wanna fight tell them to pick a place and time." Lily stared at him and asked "Would you even show up?" Thomas shrugged again and said "Probably not." Daisy stared at him and asked "Then why bother picking a place to fight?" Jules stared at Thomas and said "But when I asked you for a fight you shown up, why wouldn't you show if they asked you to." Thomas stared at him and said "I just figured you'd end up waiting there all day if I didn't show, so I decided that I'd just give you a chance." Sarah glanced at Jules and said "You mean you took pity on him?" Thomas nodded and said "Yeah I guess you can call it that." Mary stared at Thomas and said "Just like Gwen?" Gwen glanced at Mary and sadly said "Let's not talk about that right now." Sarah sighed and said "Are you telling me that so far our only guild member are here out of pity?" Jules and Gwen both nodded as Thomas said "Pretty much." As a man and two women walked into the tavern they shouted "Our detection magic can sense your here come out and stop hiding!" Sarah glanced at them and asked "What are you doing barging in here and making demands!" One of the women stared at Sarah and said "We know he's here, and we'll tear this whole place apart to find him." As the other woman looked around she seen Thomas laying down on the table and asked "Our target is a demi human, isn't he?" The man nodded and said "Yeah, unless our information was wrong." The woman walked past Sarah and asked "There's no way this person is the sadist pirate king." Opal stared at the three people and asked "Do you know him?" One of the woman grabbed a blade and began to swing it down at the back of Thomas's head as she shouted "Of course not but if this is our target there isn't a better chance for us then right now!" However before the knife could make contact Opal stuck her hand over his head and as the knife made contact it shattered into a few pieces. The woman hopped back and asked "Who are you?" Opal stared at the woman and said "I'm a friend of his, also I won't be allowing you to harm him because if he were to die we wouldn't be able to fight ever again." Opal glanced back at Thomas and asked "Isn't that right?" Opal stared at Thomas who was sleeping as she said "He must be tired after traveling through all of that cold snow." Opal stared at the three of them and said "You should give up now, I don't think you'd be able to beat him in a fair fight." The man took a step towards her and smiled as he said "Do you have any idea who your talking to?" Opal shook her head and said "I presume you are a human, am I correct?" The man nodded and said "Well you got my race right, but I'm guessing you don't know anything about my background." Opal shook her head and said "No, and I don't believe I need to." The man swung a sword and pointed it at Opal as he shouted "I can remove your head with a single swing." Opal stared at him excitedly and asked "Are you actually able to inflict pain upon me?" The man turned his sword sideways and shouted "I can cut boulders with this rock, your flesh is nothing before my sword!" As he swung the sword Thomas appeared in front of Opal wielding his own sword single handily as he yawned and asked "Who are you?" Opal stared at the swords and said "I see your power was exaggerated greatly." The man glanced at her and shouted "Watch your mouth or I'll remove that tongue of yours!" Thomas glanced at the other two women and asked "Wait are you guys the assassins?" The man nodded and shouted "Thats right, we're here to take your head!" The man hopped back and began to drink a potion as the two women said "Once he drinks that strength potion and then enhances his strength with magic you'll be sorry you didn't finish this sooner." As he smashed the bottle on the ground Sarah shouted "Hey don't make a mess, your not the one who has to clean it!" Thomas glanced at Sarah and said "I'll clean it up after this, I just need a minute to deal with this guy." Opal stared at Thomas and said "I can deal with them if you want." Thomas turned back to the man and said "No thanks, I'll handle this myself." The man smiled and said "My strength should be ten times yours now." The man swung the sword once and shouted "Even if this doesn't make contact you'll still die!" Thomas blocked the sword using his own and as they made contact it sent a gust of wind throughout the tavern pushing some of the nearby chairs and tables back a few inches. Thomas stared at the guy and asked "Is this it, is this all the power you have?" Opal nodded and said "His power is at its limit right now, and it's quite disappointing." The man glanced at the two woman and said "Quickly if we attack him all at once we can't possibly lose." As the two woman ran around behind him and jumped at him with daggers Thomas glanced at them and asked "Why are they even trying, I can avoid this easily and have the daggers go into you." Thomas turned back to the man and said "But I won't do that, because if I wanted you dead I'd do it with my own hands." Thomas held the sword there with one hand and turned slightly as he said "Assassins should do their job silently, you guys are just nuisances." Thomas grabbed on of the woman by the face and swung her into the other. As he let go of her both of the woman laid there on the ground on top of one another as Thomas said "That takes care of your little trio now beat it." The man stared at the two women and mumbled "What kind of monstrous strength is this?" As they both lowered their swords Thomas yawned and said "Now that this is over I'd like to go back to sleeping." Opal stared at Thomas excitedly and said "I can't wait to give him another one of those potions so we can fight again." The man picked up the two women and began to walk towards the door as he mumbled "I should've known better then to challenge a pirate king with only amateurs to help me." Thomas put his sword away and said "Sorry if that was a bit troublesome." Sarah looked around the tavern and said "But I just finished setting those tables back up after cleaning." Thomas walked over to a broom and said "Don't worry about it too much, I said that I'd clean it." Jules stared at Thomas and shouted "That was amazing, why are you just walking away to clean, we should be celebrating!" Thomas shook his head and said "I'm too tired to celebrate, maybe another time." Opal smiled and said "I think I should be leaving soon." Thomas glanced at her and said "Oh yeah come to think of it you've probably been gone for quite a while." Opal nodded and said "If I don't return soon people will begin to worry." Thomas nodded and said "Okay then, see ya soon."