A rose and it's thorn

Chapter 2: A new world

As Usha got up and stood in the light of the camp fire, you could take a good look at her for the first time. She was about 6'8 tall and looked as if she was a bit under 350lbs heavy. She had quite the beautiful and feminine face. Brown eyes and brown hair tied to a ponytail reaching a bit below her shoulders. Her body was thickly muscled, her arms and legs, aswell as her shoulders were big and lean. She also had a chiseled eight pack abs, but somewhat unnaturally had a big bosom and a fleshy ass that complemented her wide hips. She was muscular and lean but had thick and round tits and ass.

As she turned around you noticed that her back was also proportionally muscled. Usha lifted her arms streching herself. She had bushy armpit hair. Both women now entering the tent, you slowly let the fire burn itself out over the long night and sat there thinking over the last 24 hours and trying to understand what had happened.

Really early in the morning Usha emerged out of the tent.

It was quite surprising seeing an unhostile version of Usha, after your first altercation with the green warrioress. "What weapon do you normally wield Ravens?" A rather serious tone to it, Usha asked you picking up her warhammer and proceding to put it across her shoulders hanging both arms over the ends of the handle. You were a bit puzzled by that question, since you never even had a weapon in your hand, if you don't cound pitchforks or kitchen knives. "Ahh...hmmm...well none actually, see I was a farmer, or the son of a farmer and thus didn't really get to wield weapons, never had to either." You said slowly. "I only have a Zweihänder to spare and I doubt that the girl will be able to even lift it off the ground." She said holding out the handle of the long sword for you to take.

"Bu-b-but I don't know how to use it." You told her truthfully. "Learn it!" She answered briskly. "Learn it, or go down with it, don't really care but since you two seem to be in need of protection..." She trailed off. "You'll need it more than me." She finished swiftly.

You took hold of the sword and put the straps of it around your shoulder but only when you pulled it out of it's sheath, you noticed that it wasn't heavy at all but rather really light, not that it was so light as a feather but it wasn't as heavy as you had initially thought.

"Why are you giving me the sword?"

"Ok, thank yo-" You were cut short as you heared the stamping of horses and then a loud, condescending and pompous voice started. "Well hello there." A tall and actually handsome, blonde, young man was coming out of the woods, backed up by none less than three more riders. "Have we at last found you, you green skinned abomination, haven't we?" He didn't even act like he wanted a response. The four men were armed, each with a sword and a shield, strapped to their forearm, also every of these men had on armor, consiting of a breastplate and a chainmail below it, leather and thick cloth wraped over their legs and arms which made them look quite intimidating. "And who did you capture? Don't be afraid my boy, we will free you."

Now looking at Usha you saw a frightened, cornered and ragefilled look in her eyes. You had to do something, you knew it. Suddenly the same courage, that had overcome you the night before filled your body. You gave the captain of the riders a stern look "How about we deal about this situation another way, shall we?" Clearly taken aback by that request the blonde man came down, off it's horse. "What do you propose boy?" His voice now becoming audibly more dangerous but still not losing his condescending tone and smirk. "How about a duel?" You said briskly.

"Only if it's you." The man said with a laugh and in a joking manner. "Just because you coward know I would kill you in a duel. You rat." Usha expressed her hatred in a vicious tone. "I'm in!" Your acceptance of the challenge surprised everyone, including you. "What, why Ravens?"

"Can't let them kill you, can I?" You said gently smiling at the Orc. "What? HAHAHAHAHA..." the men were now laughing all together now. "Okay as I see it, you have lost your mind, but who am I to deny the wishes of a young boy." He said lively and bowed slowly. "If you win, we leave you alone and we won't see eachother ever again, but if I win-" As if on cue Abby came out of the tent a bit groggily and stood just about ten feet behind you, still in sight of the riders. Abby had on nothing more than some scraps of cloth, reaching just below her belly button aswell as a rather short scrap to hide her crotch. "If I win we'll take you two-" indicating at you and Usha, "and execute the orc and throw you, boy, to the rats and we take the girl for a little ride so the horses could get some rest." The men started laughing again, now rather loud and shooting dirty looks at Abby.

The last part made your blood boil and you felt a small pain in your back. "No weapons, that is my only proposition." You felt your face fall to a sinister expression. "Sure, as if you would be able to beat a soldier of the king in hand to hand combat." The mocking tone and smug grin made you even more furious. "Then it's on."

It didn't take long for the soldier to take of his weapons and make himself ready for a fight, all the while the pain in your back streching and growing. You walked infront of him and took a fighting stance, though it didn't take long for him to laugh again "HAHAHA, the boy really got some balls." Now was his time to take a similar stance as you.

As it started he walked slowly towards you, pretty fastly he started jabbing, the fist one easily avoidable for you, the second a bit harder to evade. After what felt like half a minute you started blcoking the punches as he started working with both fists.

You tried to focus more but it was hard, only because your mind was racing and filling with pain streching from your back. You might have even felt his punches hitting you if the pain hadn't already numbed your senses. Then it happened.

He was somehow moving slower and you had more time to dodge the hits, like you had half a second more to work with. You then lifted your left arm turning it, your palm from facing right rolling downward and blocking the oncoming hit early, then gripping the arm and swiftly moving inside, cocking your right fist downward and connecting with the chin of the blonde man. That uppercut was like the hit of a big warhammer, it was so powerful that it lifted him about a foot off the ground, quickly shifting your body asto tackle the waist of the captain and take him to the ground slamming his head hard on the rocky terrain. As you straddled him and readied your fists to further pound on him, you noticed that he was ****.

You stood up and looked to the three men still on their horses. "I guess he lost the duel." you said coldly. "Would you now get your captain and just leave us?" The furthest away from the scene came forward and lifted the man from the ground on his horse and the soldiers galloped away.

"You didn't have to do that. I DIDN'T ASK YOU FOR YOUR HELP." Usha told you with a livid tone. "Didn't only did it for you but for her too." Gesturing towards Abbigail who hid behind the tent opening, tense and frightened. Usha flushed red again looking to the ginger girl before looking to her feet. "Best we part ways here, I only mean pro-" You cut her off. "Where do we go now, what's the plan Usha?" She was clearly not understanding, she looked owerwhelmed. "You saw what just happened, didn't you? I'm a sought after criminal." She tried to explain. "What did you do?" You asked swiftly.

A anguished look streched over her eyes and face. "Don't want to talk about it." She said shamefully. "Ok, won't press it." You said with a warm smile on your face before turning to Abby. "Let's help Usha to wrap up the camp and... and... where should we go right now, actually, are we still near the capital?"

It was true since you woke up after the let's say incident, you weren't in your old village but in a sort of forest near the same river you were right now. "Which capital?" Her tone was indifferent "Ok, I guess since we're in Myran you mean Celestine, capital of the righteous humans." An unmistakable dislike and hatred came from Usha and had it's peak when she said the word 'Righteous'. "Yes we are still near Celestine, now if you want to go back to your kin, we will part ways right now, if you don't, well then, only if you want you can come with me, I'm going to Diebstahl in Rokon, passing through my tribes old lands in Rokon." Usha layed down her plan to you and next turned to the ginger girl, starting to blush slightly. "I could help you protect her aswell." She said.

Out of nowhere your body started shaking and your posture cracked, a wave of unimaginable pain started rolling over you leaving your mind hazey. "Talk with Abby about the plan and I...will..." Unable to finish your sentence you just stopped talking and tried to walk off but Usha grabbed your arm tightly. "Are you ok, you seem out of yourself."

"I'M FINE!" Your voice boomed and Usha let out a rather unusual girly shriek and even Abby was looking at you, eventhough she was well over 30 feet away from you two, she looked like she was just in arms reach as your voice boomed. While your voice boomed the river seemed to stop flowing, you heard some loud cracks and falling trees and even the, until then set up camp, was sent flying through the air and fell down onto the ground violently. "Just give me a moment, just prepare for leaving and I'll come back as fast as I can, just give a minute." Your body still shacking brutally strong, you turned away from the two to walk to a rock about half a mile down the river.

The shaking and the sundering pain left you sitting behind the rock hiding you from the two, with both knees up at your chest. The pain was almost mind shattering and after the longest two minutes you had ever lived through, the pain started subsiding, drawing out of your whole body first leaving your legs and arms, then leaving your head and then it drew into your back and faded away fully.

You went back to the two women who haven't had the time to talk about the plan and the oncoming journey. "So, what now?" Asked Abby a bit anxiously, talking to you from behind Usha, almost as if to hide or seek safety from you. "We will follow Usha to Diebstahl in Rokon. We will leave Myran Abby." Finishing with a note of sadness not picked up by anyone present. "Ok I'll follow you and Usha."

"Then it's set, on to Diebstahl."