Johanna #2

• Posted by Jack Griffin December 22, 2013 - 272 views

  I pulled him out of the dust, feeling less hopeful than before-hand. The boy, I knew, wouldn’t have any fighting abilities, however, he might be useful if I ever needed something I couldn’t quite “reach”. I knew it was terrible, using the boy for thievery, but… what else could he do? A voice brought me back to my senses. “Thank you miss, what’s your name?” he said. “Johanna” I replied half-heartedly. “And you?” “Ranmte” he replied. We kept on walking for a while, unsure where we were going, to be honest. But eventually, we found a rather small hole in the wall. I couldn’t get through, but Ranmte could. He crawled through and waited on the other side. I asked him “Can you get in the tower from the outside? They’ll be a lever in there to open the gate.” He didn’t reply for  a while until eventually he found a parting with a few loose bricks. “I found some loose bricks, should I push them, miss?” I sighed, “Isn’t that was I said, Ranmte? To get inside? Yeah, try and push ‘em” He pushed and the bricks fell with ease. He lifted himself and jumped inside. He grabbed a torch from the scone and looked around the room. He saw a few barrels, sacks and of course, the lever. He pulled down on it, but it wouldn’t budge. He pulled harder, and harder. After what seemed like an eternity (I’m not very patient) I shouted to him “What’s going on?” He didn’t say anything except for “Please wait, miss.” He looked inside the barrels for anything that could be used to flick the lever. After looking in the last barrel, he found a pickaxe. He rested it about the lever, and pulled down. It flicked with less than a second of trying. I shouted out “Good job, Ranmte!” When he climbed out, he was beaming.  Until the wolves came. I instinctively swung my axe. Ranmte dashed behind my back, and I made sure not to swing backwards. I slashed at the first one, and it ran to the side. There were three of them, but soon, there was one. It ran straight towards us, but I had different plans to becoming wolf food. I dashed to the side and swung in its middle. It fell right before it got Ranmte. Ranmte wasn’t too happy after that, and I didn’t blame him. He didn’t talk to me until we got to a few rather large stones. Each one had something engraved on it. Ranmte pulled on my arm and pointed to the one on the far right, I nodded and we walked over to it. Ranmte reached out his arm and touched the stone. The engravement on the stone grew light, and a beam shot out of the tip. Ranmte jumped back. A light flashed around Ranmte and I gasped. And then, just like that, the light stopped. And there was a deep growl.