Smoke drifted into the sky A beacon of carnage of which none survived Not a man woman or child intact, limbs and mangled corpses torn apart by a rabid beast left a sour taste on the onlookers. Faces paled in horror at the carnage is what one would see, that is, if it was a human village razed to the ground. The grass and soil dyed a unnatural shade of putrid green as ripped apart goblins lined the trees like cristmas lights. the fire and smoke alerted the city guards and the smell led them straight to the source. Gridus walked the scene with some fellow adventurers that were called in on short notice. They had no idea what they would find but they had never expected this, Donald's bloodied body smack dab in the middle of a goblin camp razed to the ground and slaughtered without regard or mercy.
" Someone get the boy washed up and get him out of here I don't know what happened but he's the only one still breathing." another adventurer who was lean and covered in hardened leather, his hair tied back in a red bandana walked over to Gridus. " It could of been a turf war of some kind mabey a bloodwolf pack came through here and used it as a feeding ground I mean look at the corpses." He walked over to a dead goblin warily picking it up, the guts had been torn out and devoured its limbs chewed down to the bone with bits of flesh losely hanging from them. " I know it's a stretch but the kid doing all of this seems pretty unlikely, it looks like a monster rolled through here and devoured or diced up anything it could get its claws on."
Gridus looked over at the adventurer and stood up taking in the picture of rubble "Thought the kid was crazy taking that job but he's still alive... that counts for something. it's a total bloodbath whatever did this has got to be a 3 or 4 star monster, it could be a pack of them but it seems unlikely. if there was a whole pack they would o picked the place clean but some of the corpses are allmost completely intact." the man scratched his head in an attempt to fight back a massive headache before considering it a fruitless endeavor. " let's head back to the guild, send a clean up crew out here, the way things are looking I see a mountain of paperwork or worse coming in my future." with the matter decideingly settled he walked back to the rest of the adventurers to gather records and collect parts before heading back to the city.
Donald lied face up comatose not even the bumpy ride of the carriage could wake him from. Beside him sat a woman in long flowing cloth, a soft offwhite undercoat; a student blue leather with red straps embroidered with a blood red cross. beside her sat a long staff belonging to a healer or mage of some kind as she knelt next to the unconscious Donald. soft green light flowed from delicate runes that flew from her hands as if notes strung from a harp, soothing his battered bones and mending the tears of his diced up flesh." What was that man thinking letting a kid like him take on that mission!" with a humph the lady got back to her work patching the boy up as she wondered what could have possibly left him in this state."I'll need to give him a talking to when I get back he should of left a job like this to the red cross not some child trying to be a hero." she let the matter rest for now and allowed Donald to get some rest as they made their way back through the city gates. She gave a pleasant wave to the guards as they passed through the main street the throngs of people parting to let the carnage through till they made their way back to the guild hall leaving the boy to rest in the carnage as she practically stormed inside. "GRIDUS YOU HAFWIT MAN GET OUT HERE!" she drawed the attention of many in the guild pausing for but a moment to glance her way before going back to their drinks.
" best not to get involved she looks angrier than usual" a muffled voice from across the bar said a few others nodding along to the man and sharing small talk over ther mugs of ale.
" Calm down lass I'm coming sheesh." the man in question Gridus strode out from the stairwell behind the counter walking toward her with naught a care in the world."Keep it down your disturbing the customers what seems to be the problem Islena?"
"THE PROBLEM!? The problem is there's a kid out there barely even a F Rank unconscious and riddled with mortal wounds do you Expect ME To Be CALM?" she slamed her fist down onto the bartop as Gridus tried to reason with her
" Islena I never thought he would get caught up in something like that who could of expected a monster to come out of nowhere and decimate a goblin settlement like that. He took a reason mission I never thought he would het caught in the crossfire!"
" recon my ass that boy was torn to peices out there its a wonder he is still alive! how could you let a newbie like him anywhere near a dangerous place like a goblin village huh?"
" he didn't really give me a choice he was mad I tell ya, he grabbed a mission as soon as he signed up and bolted out the door before I even knew what he was going to do!"
" then you should of stopped him!" she said steam practically flying out of her ears. "You all you care about is getting wasted and fighting can't you take a second to think you muscle brain! gahhhhh!"
"calm down and just breathe okay... I'm not the best at planing but he's alive right? what do you want me to do?! I've already put up some new quests to scout and hunt down the monster that caused this."
"right and that makes it OKAY? what if he wasn't, we could be burying another newbie cut down before they even make it out of this dump, oh right just another corpse on the pile, say our condolences and move on!" She yelled and argued trough gnashing teeth as she tried to figure out what went through the guild masters thick skull.
"just listen okay? I never wanted anything bad to happen to any of our guild members and it eats away at me every time we have to put one to rest but We AREN'T! the boy is alive and when he wakes up mabey we can get some awnsers but I'm not going to sit here and ponder all the what if's." he stopped to quickly chug down his glass of drink before he spoke. " This guild is my responsibility and so is he so if you want to be mad at me so be it but at the end of the day we have bigger fish to fry, and a 3 star monster on the lose just outside of town. So, if you want to just sit here and scream all day then do it outside I still have paperwork to do and places to be so good day!" he slamed his mug back onto the bar as Islena charged out the door slamming it shut behind her as the man sighed and looked around the room all silently watching the whole ordeal."yeah yeah get back to ya mugs I got better things to do." with that he walked away back upstairs as Islena thrashed about outside, punching and breaking the crates and rubbish off in the ally till she was left with splinters across the dusty cobble as she looked up thinking about the past.