Once in a very long time, a man lived in a village in Spain. The man wasn’t as strong as the others although he wanted to become a Spanish soldier and explore the new world. That man was Alqueraz. Alqueraz is a pale male of 5’11 in height and brown eyes and hair. Even though Alqueraz lived in Spain he would sometimes go to other countries such as England, France, Ireland, and China. Alqueraz had a friend who lived in Ireland whose name was Oighear. Whenever Alqueraz visited Ireland Oighear would greet him and sometimes let him stay at his place for a night or two. One day Alqueraz decided to go to Ireland to trade some goods while on his usual route, he stopped to take a break in a tavern in France. After ordering a beer he sees a beat-up french soldier walk into the bar with a map. A map is so rare that it was thought that it didn’t exist. Alqueraz walked up to the French soldier to ask him about the map even though Alqueraz didn’t know much French ”euh cette carte qui est?”

  Said Alqueraz “I speak English.” Responds the french soldier annoyed. “oh I was just asking about the map and why do you look like shit?” said Alqueraz. “Well if you must know this map is said to lead to where no man has been before, there lives a wizard and his wife that show things that are unimaginable and I had to rumble with other soldiers to get it.” Said the French soldier, “But I think it’s just some bullshit.” Alqueraz seemed amazed and wondered if it was real. “Then why do you have the map?” asked Alqueraz

  “I figured I could get some livres out of this.” responded the french soldier “I don’t know about livres but I have some reals.” said Alqueraz “good enough.” replied the french soldier. Alqueraz handed the French soldier the reals and the French soldier gave him the map. After drinking his beer Alqueraz was preparing to leave the bar when suddenly an angry burst through the bar door “HEY YOU SPANISH BOY!” yelled the man Alqueraz stood up and said, “can I help you?” “YOUR KIND ISN’T ALLOWED HERE!” responded the angry man. The French soldier tried to intervene but he was already drunk and even if he wasn’t drunk he was still roughed up. Then the angry man pulled out a knife and charged at Alqueraz. Luckily Alqueraz ducked and started running in the streets of France. Fortunately, another French soldier stopped the angry man and Alqueraz continued on his way. After boarding a ship heading to England he took a look at the map and like the French soldier said before it led to a place no man had gone. The boat finally arrived in England after 2 hours he went to the nearest inn to spend the night.

  The next morning Alqueraz started to head to another port. Later in the day, he took another break at the bar, this time to eat something. While eating Alqueraz almost gets mugged by a bum this time he comes prepared he pulls out a knife and threatens the bum to back away. After the confrontation, he quickly exited the bar before the guards arrived. As he was walking he saw a crowd of villagers running toward him followed by some barbarians running toward the crowd. But before they could even ram into Alqueraz a group of knights appeared from behind him and blocked the wave of barbarians. Alqueraz was grabbed by a knight and pushed in the opposite direction. Alqueraz ran to the port and boarded a ship going to Ireland. After the ship arrived Alqueraz started heading to Dublin. After a long walk, Alqueraz arrived at Oighear’s home. “Oighear my good friend it is great to see you again.” said Alqueraz.

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  “Haigh, I hope your journey wasn’t too rough,” Oighear said while inviting Alqueraz into the house. Oighear was a male of 6’4 in height and muscular dark brown-haired and ice-blue eyes. The house was littered with swords and armor. One such armor was ice blue with a snowflake pattern. “Damn what kind of armor is that?” said Alqueraz “Looks nice though. Anyways, originally I was going to trade some goods but I bought a map from a French soldier. Here, take a look” Alqueraz handed the map to Oighear. “This looks like this path crosses German and Japanese territory,” Oighear said, pointing to the blue trail on the map leading to an x.

  Alqueraz looked around the workroom and saw a black set of armor with purple neon lining next to a matching scythe. “Some Kaiser guy ordered that armor and scythe. Dude said he would pay 1,000 papiermarks for it.” Oighear said from the other side of the room. “So please don’t touch it.” Alqueraz looked at the armor and wondered why the helmet had two holes and horns on top.

  He didn’t question it for long before a flash of light struck his eye Alqueraz was quick to cover his eyes then he looked around the room and found a Spanish soldier’s suit with a red ribbon across the chest plate along with a helmet with a hawk feather with a Spanish sword beside it he was staring at it the whole time. Alqueraz ran toward Oighear who was in the middle of shaping an arm plate with an anvil. Then he dropped a bag full of reals and said “There are 800 reals in there, take it all, I want the Spanish armor and the sword.”

  “Are you sure? It has quite a conscience.” Oighear continued his work on the arm plate. “Huh, what do you mean by conscience, swords can’t be alive right?” “That is where you are wrong my friend.” Oighear, after finishing the arm plate, raised his arm like he was trying to hold something. Alqueraz got hit on the head by the winter blade as it flew toward Oighear. It settled in his hand. “What was that for?” Alqueraz asked, rubbing his forehead. “Sorry, she’s a bit sensitive. First, try to hold it before paying me.” Inside Oighear’s mind, the ice sword spoke ‘Asshole’. Alqueraz grabbed the sword gently and slowly lifted it. A knock came from the door startling Alqueraz. He fumbled to pick the sword back up “AH SHIT!” yelled Alqueraz.

  Oighear opens the door and standing at the doorway was something that Alqueraz had never seen before, something he hated even though he never knew it existed. At the doorway was a man with fox ears with a tail wearing white and black. The humanoid walked in and said, ^Thanks for the scythe, Oighear!^