The errand at the Marketplace - Part 1

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A few moments later, I get back to the room, after I've been discussing with my old friends at the cage. I told them almost everything about the story of how I've got here. But I didn't told them about Fiona because it was a bit too much for them when they realized I met the King and got put on two warfare campaigns (technically speaking, it was only the one against Turkish Empire, the one against Moldovia was not even a campaign, more like a small battle, then a combining force moment).

"Oh, Judah." says Fiona worried. "Where have you been?"

"Um... I was outside." I lie to her. "I-I looked at the sky."

"Judah. I know when you lie you look left-right-left-right and bite your lips."

"What? No. I do not do that." (I did that.)

"Judah. You can tell me. You are my squire for almost three years. Soon you will become a fully fledged knight."

"Partially?"

"Right... Partially." (I become half official knight because of the king deciding to build an Academy for us warriors where we will learn three years of basic fighting).

I sigh, and then I tell her about the situation of my two childhood friends being captured, looked in a cage and probably about to be killed and transformed into dishes for this family of demons disguised in human skins.

"I see. In that case, we will try and start a possible attack tomorrow."

"Huh?" I say surprised. "That soon?!"

"We did not get the information. But we got something much more important. The Big Father will send us tomorrow to a mission to gather the poison he ordered from someone at the marketplace. And, if the memory of the slave woman I possess tells me right, the poison won't belong to us or nay human, rather to someone on his level."

"How?" I asked feeling a bit sceptical about all of this.

"The woman slave was once... used (raped) by the Big Father Thornosian. And he said something about poisoning someone the same as him a few days later." she looks at the small window on this room. "If he will poison the other member of the Demons, we might be able to hit two rabbits with one arrow."

"Tomorrow it will be the day."

"I hope so. You can summon an animal of yours to send a message to the king."

"You men Vulture?"

"He can do that? I remember he can only tell us the surroundings and the terrain."

"He can also send things to a location. But he can only send it. So writing on a parchment it will be great."

"The only problem is that we do not have any piece of parchment." says Fiona.

"We will have to "borrow it" from the people here." I say to her, and she nodded her head in agreement.

I was about to head outside, but Fiona, told me to stay here, and sit here. She told me she has to do it because I am a valuable asset to this small mission. And I agree with her because if I get caught, who will summon the "Vulture" with the small wand hidden under the clothes of mine?

It didn't took long for Fiona to come back with a piece of parchment and with a small feather in ink used to write. Fiona quickly used all of the ink on that feather to write a short message to the King. The message written was: "Dinner tomorrow. Prepare the elite forces and strongest knights.". And after this, she looks at me and told me to summon the eagle to deliver this message to the King Julius.

I summoned the bird by suing the spell "Vulture". I told the bird to fly to the Kingdom of Romania, Palace and deliver this message to King Julius. The bird nodded in agreement, took the parchment by using his beak, and fled out of this room fast.

When the bird left, Fiona and I are going to our beds. We stay up for a few more moments until our eyes closes, and we are fading into the dream's world. I don't know if Fiona was dreaming, but I sure as hell I was not dreaming, I just slept without dreaming about anything.

***

Tomorrow morning, we are wakened up by the sounds of an explosion outside this house and our basement. We quickly get on our feet, we put our boots and leave the basement in a hurry. Thankfully, we have slept in our slaves clothes from the days we have come here. As we got outside, we see there the source of the explosion.

Outside, there is a man, dressed in noble clothes, huge, fat and with orange long hair, having a big cigar on his mouth. He has a cane that radiates fire and his shoes are literally on fire. Outside it was not only us, it was also the demon family, who were not surprised as us. They looked happy at the huge man with fire.

"What are you two doing here?" asks the Big Father Thornosian angry at us. "You two have to go to the marketplace!"

"Y-Yes, sir." says Fiona acting scared.

Fiona and I are walking inside the house, we go into the storage room, and we take from there the basket with a parchment list put by the Big Mother Thornosian. On the list it says we have to take more than what we thought we have to take. And there is also a small bag with gold coins which it is going to be used to buy the things.

"Before we leave." says Fiona to me. "I want you to inform you, that man is the third demon. He is dangerous as these. So we have to be careful how we will act tonight, okay?"

"What is going on tonight? We will attack, then?" I ask her.

"Maybe... If things go well."

"If it is. We will save the people from the cells?"

"We will, Judah."

We both then look at the door from the hallway, that it leads to the cells where the unlucky people are trapped, locked and await for their death. On this night, it might be their day of freedom.