This is bad, I don’t know what to do! …. Those bad guys took Mr. Vlad away from us… It was just too much having to see him get hurt like that…. The big mean bad guy in metal stepping on his hand like that was just hurt.

  And it seemed like I wasn’t the only one upset seeing Mr. Vlad like that. Mr. Mordred was very, very mad. I still remembered how angry he looked earlier. Acting all mean and out of control compared to how he normally would act... I liked it better when he would be nice enough to let me ride on his shoulders all the time and play with me when he wasn’t busy.

  What’s worse, Mr. Mordred was injured really badly when he faced that big metal bad guy and the big thing he always used didn’t look too good! I’m just glad he gave him a beating as well! But right now, we need to do something to help Mr. Mordred! He wasn’t looking too good, there’s a lot of cuts on him and he wasn’t breathing right!

  That’s when I remembered how something like this happened before and how last time Mr. Vlad helped us out! That’s right, he asked me to look for plants that would help someone recover! What was it again…. I think it was Healing Herb, I think it was what Mr. Vlad called it?

  So, I immediately tried to concentrate; I needed to use that thing Mr. Vlad called Search, he said it was my Skill, I think? I dunno what that is exactly but I’ll just have to try my best!!

  I closed my eyes and tried to focus, thinking about those Healing Herb and trying to imagine where they could be at. Once I had an image in my head about them, I opened my eyes and noticed something glowing a bit away. That seems to be how this Search works apparently.

  I didn’t have long. I quickly ran to where the glowing lights were leading me, passing by the others that Mr. Vlad would often call his ‘minions’. I still don’t know what that means but it must have been awesome since Mr. Vlad kept calling them that. Many of them were also injured so I’ll need to find a lot of those Healing Herb plant things!!

  Thankfully the glowing lights were close by, so I didn’t have to run too far off. I didn’t want to worry anyone. Once I reached where the glowing lights were at, I was glad to see that there were lots and lots of plants!

  I immediately scooped up as much as I could put in my bag and returned back to everyone. I took them to Mr. Mordred first since he looked the most hurt right now.

  “Mr. Mordred, I got something that should help!!” I called out to him, though he didn’t respond. He still laid on the ground, his breathing being all over the place.

  I tried to bring the plants to him, but I didn’t know what I should do with them. I would usually see Mr. Vlad use his cool powers to make them all powdery but I don’t know how to do that.

  I tried to put them on where it looked like it was hurt but it didn’t seem like it was working. I was almost ready to cry, I didn’t like seeing everyone hurt like this… but I didn’t know what else I could do….

  Just then though, the nice bear came by and looked at the plants I had carried with me. He didn’t usually say much, but I could tell he’s just shy. Not like he needs to say much, he immediately came to me and patted me in the head…

  I felt…. A bit better and managed to keep myself from crying. Once he saw that I managed to calm down he started to talk to me.

  “…. better? … that’s good….” He then grabbed a couple of the plants in his hand…. Looking at them before he continued. “…. these need to be grind up…. I’ll do it…. You bring it to everyone who needs it….”

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  I nodded while still trying to recover from almost tearing up and waited for him to do this grinding thing with this weird looking tool he had on him. Once he was done, he handed me what looked like the same powdery stuff that Mr. Vlad made so I knew what I needed to do with them.

  I took what I got and immediately placed it in the places that looked like it hurt Mr. Mordred! They quickly started to work and the places that looked like they were hurt started to grow smaller. Mr. Mordred even started to breathe a bit calmer now! He looked like he was going to be okay!

  I was happy he was going to be ok, that’s when I remembered that the others needed them too. I kept running around, giving the powdery stuff to everyone who needed it while coming back to Mr. Damian for more.

  Afterwards, everyone got what they needed. And I plopped on the ground feeling a bit tired from having to run around so much…

  Mr. Damian came up to me and gently patted me on the head again as he quietly spoke. “…. Good job V….”

  It made me happy to get praised by him. He thinks he’s hiding the blush under his fur, but I can definitely see it, but I won’t tell him. ~

  We decided to let everyone rest for the night, helping those who needed to get to resting places and went to bed for the night. Though Mr. Damian decided to stay up to keep watch, not wanting to have what happened to repeat. I wasn’t sure how I was going to go asleep though, not when I worry how Mr. Vlad was doing…. I hope he’s alright….

  Somehow, I managed to go to bed. Though I still couldn’t stop thinking about everything those bad guys did. I decided to go and check to see if everyone who was hurt was alright. But I suddenly heard some loud noise, and I was worried something would happen again, so I hurried out to check!

  Turns out that noise was coming from Mr. Mordred. I’m happy that he’s ok now but he still looked pretty banged up! He shouldn’t be moving, but he was shaking everyone who was trying to keep him back.

  “Come on sir, you need to rest!” One of the goblins I know said.

  There was one kobold who was doing his best too “I doubt the chief would appreciate you getting more injured!”

  “I don’t care!! The boss needs me, and I failed to protect him!!” No matter who was restraining him, whether it was the ones who were the same species as Mr. Vlad or even those big Orcs, even if they were badly injured as well, no one was able to keep Mr. Mordred down for long.

  That was when Mr. Damian walked up, he just stood there and stared down at Mr. Mordred with his arms crossed. He didn’t say anything, but it made Mr. Mordred respond.

  “Get out of the way Damian. You I know both know we need to save the boss as soon as we can!!”

  Mr. Damian only shook his head in response, as usual it’s cool how he doesn’t speak much. But this is really serious. I want to save Mr. Vlad as well but Mr. Mordred needs to rest as well!

  “You won’t stop me bear! I will save the boss no matter what you do!!”

  Suddenly, Mr. Mordred started to charge straight at Mr. Damian, pushing away everyone who was trying to keep him down. Without much expression on his face, Mr. Damian took out his hands and locked arms with Mr. Mordred, pushing him back!

  “I said move Damn it!! Do you not care about the boss at all?!” He asked loudly, his voice sounding angry, but the look in his eyes was easy to say how worried he was.

  It looked like Mr. Damian was trying to hold back his emotions. But it was starting to fall apart as a tear was starting to come out of his eye. This seemed to shock all of us, even Mr. Mordred. He finally let go of his grip on Mr. Damian, calming down enough to hear Mr. Damian out.

  He wiped the single tear out of his eye as his body was shaking as he struggled to speak. “…. I…. I want to save Vladdy as well, I finally been able to act more like myself with him….”

  He then glared at Mr. Mordred straight in the eye. “…. But do you think he would appreciate it if he found out we recklessly went to save him and we got badly injured doing it?”

  This was the most I saw Mr. Damian speak. What he said was enough to make even Mr. Mordred go quiet; it seemed he couldn’t argue against it.

  They were silent, I thought I should say something, so I spoke up. “U-uhm, I’m sure Mr. Vlad will be ok. Maybe if we go nearby, I could try to find out where he is.”

  Mr. Damian managed to calm down and returned to that look of not showing emotion. “…Yes, with your abilities V we can at least get an idea of what we should do.”

  He then looked at Mr. Mordred and the others. “…So, this is what we will do.” He then squeezed his fist. “…. We’re going over the Mivtic Kingdom, but we’re going to be careful…... We’ll only locate Vladdy using V’s skill…. After that we will decide what to do next. Are you up to the task?”

  He looked back at me, and even gave me a light pat on my head. He trusted me to help out and I was ready. “Of course! Let’s go save Mr. Vlad!!”