The next day when the sun had not even risen, Nyara with her mother and father, her grandfather Daniel and servants of the house were at the entrance of the stable where the black griffin was prepared and waiting for its owner. Nyara was wearing a large red cloak that hid her whole body and a hood covered her face. In her hands she had a clawed glove made of reddish metal with runes in black. He said goodbye to everyone, his mother and the maids who were crying.
- Mother and Valeria, I will be fine! - I don't even know what my uncle wants, it must be nonsense. And besides, every place I stop I'll send a letter saying that I'm fine.
- Do you promise? - Her mother looks at her with her eyes swollen from crying so much.
- I promise. - She kisses her mother's forehead and Valeria's face.
- Take care of Mom, Dad! -She hugs him-
- Of course, now leave before your mother doesn't let you go anymore. - She rides the griffin.
- Goodbye! - She spurs the griffin leaving very fast - Maro, hold on.
- Dear I have a feeling this call won't be a simple trip. - Nyara's father comes close to her mother and hugs her
- What we can do is pray that everything goes well. - Daniel looks at his granddaughter with a worried look on his face.
Evans is a very large continent with a great variety of peoples trying to live in a certain rather fragile harmony. One of the reasons Nyara's family doesn't like her to leave is because the roads are very dangerous, thieves, monsters and other natural difficulties made traveling only dangerous. So people made use of teleportation or caravanning.
After a day and a half of traveling she decides to stop to give her griffin some water and to stretch her bones. Then she leaves the road and rests in a small clearing.
- Let's make a stop Logan, I hear water around here. Am I right Maro? - The little fairy comes out of her pocket.
- Yes Nya, there is.
- Great, let's stop and get something to eat. -She finds the river and sits on a rock at its edge and starts eating the food they left for her and shares it with Maro. -
- Maro, how many days does it take to get to Tassy?
- One week if there are no problems.
- Humm right, a week is a good time...- Then she hears a scream of a child and something approaching, she draws one of her swords and the griffin becomes alert. Then a child emerges, she is wounded and crying. She lowers her weapon and grabs the child.
- Let me go!
- Calm down, I won't hurt you, I'm a good person. What happened?
- We were attacked, my family...
- You were attacked by what?
- A gang of thieves. They attacked us. And I... - Starts to cry...
- Calm down, calm down... Show me the way.
The child runs and together with Nyara to a destroyed area where there were wagons and some injured people. The child runs to a man who hugs her.
- Father!
- My child, I'm so glad you're all right.
- Where is Mama?
- She was taken away like the other women. - Nyara looks at the destruction and says nothing, but takes out of her bag some bandages and herbs and begins to heal the less seriously wounded and the more seriously wounded, Maro used magic.
- Thank you. - Nyara looks around the place and sees tracks of footprints so she mounts Logan and starts to walk away- Where is he going?
- I think he's going to face the thieves.
- Crazy alone will get him killed.
- Did you see what he rides? He can't be an ordinary person.
Nyara had little to walk and soon found the enemy's hiding place in a cave not far away. She hears the screams of the women and the cries and laughter of the men mocking them. She dismounts the animal and tells it to hide until she calls. Then she crawls into the lair.
She sees the men grabbing the women and mistreating them, she gets angry the world might be big but there were still a lot of stupid people. When she sees that one of them was going to be raped by two men she jumps up, grabs the arm of one of them and throws it at the drinkers, and the second one she breaks her arm and throws away.
- What else is this drug? - The leader looks at who had just arrived and laughs- Now a stranger has entered the den of thieves. I don't know if he's brave or stupid. - Everyone starts laughing - Get him. - The thieves go towards her and she dodges the thieves' attack easily and starts beating them with her hands only. Then Nyara stops and looks at him. - So we have a stuck-up hero. Now we like the stuck-up heroes because they have a code of honor and the knights we love to put you guys to the test. You guys beat him up and then kill him.
They throw her to the ground and start beating her with punches and kicks and laugh and curse at her but still think they are men. Then after a few minutes the leader tells them to stop and asks them to stand up and hold her.
Not far away the attacked caravan was still nursing its wounds when it heard the sound of hooves. The first one was riding a black stallion he was quite a bit taller the biggest of the four, his position was one of power and might. Broad shoulders, an imposing chest, muscular arms, a narrow waist, solid thighs, his hair was like fire itself, so red it went down to his shoulders, and his blue eyes were almost white. A woolen blanket covered his body and at his waist was a large two-handed sword with a beautiful sapphire inlaid into the hilt.
The second was tall and slender, his features perfectly sculpted, his eyes brown, his blond hair longer than the first, his infectious smile, a slightly debauched air and his charming nature made him a favorite with the ladies, married women and young people. He rode a brown mare.
In third came a woman wearing imposing armor with a lean but defined body, ample breasts, and a slender waist. She had black eyes, brown hair tied in a large braid on her back, had a sword and a shield on her back, and rode a white horse.
Last came a woman who was half-elven because of her slightly pointed ears and wearing a richly decorated cloak. She had tanned skin, a thin body but full of curves that would drive any man crazy, short black hair and light brown eyes.
When they look at the caravan they go towards them and stop at the side.
- Hello, what happened here?
- We were attacked by bandits from this region, when we were heading towards Tassys.
- Was anyone killed?
- No, but they took all our women. - The red-haired man who looked like the leader gets angry-
- Where did they go?
- That way to the north. - He says, standing up with difficulty and points.
- What do we do? - asks the blond next to the red-haired man.
- Let's help them, it's not right to leave this group of thieves behind, they can soon make more victims and even more hostages.
- Some time ago a stranger went after them, I think he came to help us. - As he says this a tremor is heard and a cloud of smoke in the distance. - What was that?
- Come on, we have to rescue the women, stay safe. - The leader spurs his horse and rides off at great speed and the others follow.
- Back to Nyara, she was angry, very angry even, so when she sees that the leader is no longer holding the woman, she starts to act.
- What are your last words, you idiot.
- You beat like a globlin. - Her body heats up and the guy who was holding her can't hold on so she lets go and hits them both with punches and the guy in front of her she raises her hand and throws a fireball.
- What a magician! Mages are weak, they couldn't take a beating like that. Get him!
- I'll teach you how to hit properly! - She starts beating each thief and throws a fireball that makes the thieves run away. She looks at the women and tells them to run away.
Not far away the group of knights arrive on the scene and look at the women running to their aid then look at the mysterious guy in the red cloak the hood listening to his face so they just watch as he massacres all the thieves with his hands. When a thief throws his dagger to kill him he dodges and throws a rain of lightning all over the place leaving the enemies fallen.
- He is good! - says the blond guy looking at the fight, then the guy stops and turns his gaze in the direction of the group. - I can't believe he heard me, I didn't speak so loudly and here he can't look at us.
- It looks like he's looking at us. - Then the guy whistles and a roar is heard and a noise behind them gets closer and closer. Then a black griffin flies past their heads and lands on the side of the guy in the red cloak.
- Hey wait a minute. - He climbs onto the griffin and gives a brief good-bye wave and leaves. - Damn, he's gone.
- But look what he did, he single-handedly defeated the thieves, by the sound of explosions he must be a mage.
- Let's forget about this for now, we have to take care of the victims.
- Aff by your face you intend to help them. - says the woman in the sexy clothes.
- Yes let's go, they lost their escort, they won't make it to Tassys in one piece.
- Aff always wanting to be the good guy.
- Stop complaining girl. Let's take the victims to their families.