by Berus on March 12th, 2011, 10:10 pm
Berus woke up, looked around… and was promptly hit in the face with a bunch of dirt! He sputtered a minute, looking around at the scene. He was in a gigantic dirt pit with all of the other newer members of the fight crew, with the older members standing on the rim! Darren himself was shoveling dirt into the pit, looking like some insane cult leader! Even as he saw this, he was elbowed in the face and shoved to the bottom of the pile of brawlers who were trying to climb up out of the pit. They weren’t getting far, as the men lining the rim delivered painful punches to those who managed to force themselves to the top.
This is just… surreal… Berus thought as he sunk toward the bottom. His wool cloak was nowhere to be found and neither was his backpack nor his lyre. What the heck is happening! Berus thought, as he saw one of the veterans brutally push a man back into the pit. He wondered who this Darren guy really was, if he went around randomly burying whole groups of men in the middle of the night.
Berus’s eyes flashed blue as he started to crawl to the top of the pile. He uncharacteristically elbowed people out of the way as fear started pumping though his veins and gave him new strength. He reached to top of the pile but had to duck as a hairy fist came flying his way. He grabbed the arm of the veteran fight crew member as it whizzed by, pulling him into the pit. The man tumbled by Berus with a yelp as the bard leapt on top of him and scrambled to reach the top of the pit.
Another man appeared in the bard's way and, grinning evilly, he roughly shoved him back down. Berus grabbed his wrists as he fell, causing the much larger man to fall with him and land painfully hard on the slight bard. For a few seconds, the only thing that he could see, smell, and taste was... beard.
However, the more agile Berus managed to slide on top of the stocky veteran, despite the fact the man was attempting to bite off his ear! The edge of the pit was clear, then, so Berus leapt for freedom…
^ thanks to Cheshire and Darren =D