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So she had three pieces of armor now; a Gauntlet, a Mantle, and a...pair of panties. Poke doubted the panties would do much but the other parts would be quite helpful. Her set was coming along nicely, and she was determined to keep going and get herself even more pieces of armor. Or be turned back by random bouts of dysentery.

She heard it was going around as of late. Probably due to the food shortages and all. Oh well. She packed up her supplies and saddled up her horse.

Time to go a questing!

Her horses trotted out of the castle gates, her eyes set on the distant mountain, Poke readied her horse into a gallop so they could make good headway this time.

As they galloped along, the knight apprentice caught something small running by her vision. A fast brown blur. Now where had she seen that blur before...

"Oh hey you're back!" She exclaimed at the snarling otter. "I thought something had happened to you! I'm glad you're - OW ******** DAMMIT GET YOUR TEETH OUT OF MY LEG!" She shouted, waving said leg around.

Otter still wouldn't let go.

"DAMMIT IT HURTS! GO FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO CHEW ON!" She shouted, giving it a mighty shake and the otter when bouncing away. Before it could recover she rode out of there as fast as she could.

"Stupid...otters...spiders...everything!" Poke was still pulling cobwebs out of her head by the time she had reached the labyrinth, and she was sure she'd be pulling more cobwebs out until next week too. For now she had to ignore the discomfort and focus on not being eaten by the fire beast. Which meant she had to be quiet and not attract it's attention.

Her horse clopped away on the hard pavement, and she hoped it's clopping wasn't to loud that it would attract the monster.

Sadly, it was.

"RAAWWWRRR"

"DAMMIT TO HELL!" She shouted, her horse riding for all it's worth as their pursurer thundered behind, spouting jets of fire.

There was so much blood and carnage going on around her that it was hard to focus on anything else. However Pokerus had not forgotten about the artifacts that needed to be retrieved for the king, and she was determine to get as many as she could. Now the only problem was getting out of the castle without be swarmed by monsters.

Retrieving her usual supplies, the knight in training found a way to escape the fighting and go off on her quest; she hopped on her horse and galloped as fast as she could out of the back entrance, managing to outrun the majority of the shadowlings. They were more interested in the castle then a lone apprentice.

After hearing so many sounds of swords clashing, people screaming and the various roars and growls of monsters, it was weird to hear the gentle sounds of a forest, complete with the sound of water running nearby.

Poke paused at the source of the sound; a small stream running through the forest. It allowed her to fill her drink bottles and wash her face of the grime that had built up. As she did so she saw something moving out of the corner of her eye.

A lone horse, complete with saddle. It must have belonged another questing knight and ditched him at a moments notice. Oh well, she could use the horse now.

"Now just stay still-" She cautioned the horse, hopping onto it's back. As soon as she did so it reared back, snorting and neighing wildly until she was thrown off, and the horse made it's get away.

Annoyed, Poke picked herself back up and walked through the forest.

Once outside, Poke sat down on the path, Poke spent some time pulling arrows out of her body, flinching with each one yanked out. Her clothes were gonna be so stained.

Once she had performed the painful task, she continued her ascent to the mountain top. At least she was almost done, but she was cutting it close. She only had one potato left.

"Would you like some more food?" Came a voice next to her.

"Woah!" She jumped, then turned to see who it was. "Hey, aren't you the wizard guy from before?"

"Maybe I am, maybe I'm not" He replied, then smiled. "But this food is certainly new"

And then he disappeared, leaving a satchel of food in her hands. With enough supplies, she was able to reach the top and claim the artifact.

Without the light of the sun, it was difficult to navigate in the pitch darkness that was the fields now. Pokerus found she really missed the warmth of said sun. Stupid horsemen. and their 'we're going to block out your warm sunshine and make you feel like s**t." It made her wonder when was the last time she had felt the suns rays on her back.

Gripping the reins, she rode on through the fields, her sights set straight for the moutain. But as the horse galloped along she became aware of something following her-

"UGH! NOT YOU AGAIN!" She shouted, her leg feeling the familiar pain of a otter bite. "CAN'T YOU GO FIND A RIVER OR SOMETHING?!"

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Her leg was still hurting by the time she reached the forests, the scenery now dark and even more spooky then before. Hopping off the horse to bandage up her leg from the bite, she looked around her surroundings as much as she could. Her eyes stopped on something in the distance. Say, was that a satchel of..

"Food!" Poke forgot the pain in her leg and hopped over to the forgotten bag. Indeed, there was more food supplies for her to claim.

She spent some time eating the delicious food before she continued on her journey.