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The sun is bright. Amber has to sheild her eyes with her hand as she steps outside. The air is warm and crisp, its a beautiful day in spring. Amber takes a look around, then checks herself to make sure she has everything she is going to need. After she convinces herself that she is ready, she locks the door behind her and heads towards the mansion.

It's not far, she reaches the gates and rings the bell. A guard pokes his head outa the little wooden shack on the inside of the gate, to the left.

"Halt! Who goes there?" He says. He knew that was an overused phrase, but it still worked!

"Dammit Roger just let me in!" Amber screams. She had a history with Roger, not a very good one though.

"Ahh, the lovely Amber. When are we going to continue that kiss we shared 2 summers ago?"

"I already explained this to you dumbass, you where drowning in the birdbath, so i gave you CPR. I saved your ******** life, not kissed you!"

"Call it what you will, but you took my virginity that day!"

Amber, getting rather irritated at this point, reached for her Rapier. But quickly remembered why she had come here in the first place. Perhaps it was a good thing that Roger was on duty as the gate keeper this morning, she could use him to her advantage.

"Oh...your right Roger! I finally confess. I love you! I have since i first met you but have been to shy to admit it till just this moment for no reason at all." Amber couldnt help but blush, but not for the reason your thinking. This was extremely embrassing to her, she hoped none of the other guards could see or hear this.

"I knew it! Oh happy day! How could you not resist these good looks and smurt brain of mine! Hahahahahaha!" Roger proclaimed.

Amber glared at him, already regretting this. "Oh please Roger, let me through the gate. I want to...to..." Amber paused, not wanting to get into this next part. But she had to get through the gate, she decided she had no other choice. "Let me in so that i may...ravage your loins and truelly take your, umm, 'virginity'."

Roger's face turned bright red, and his noise started to bleed. Amber wanted to just die right there, but suddenly, the gates opened! Roger stood there, his plate greaves and boxers already down to his ankles! He actually is bigger then i assumed. Amber thought to herself. She took long, sexy steps towards him. Biteing her lower lip and fidgeting with her white blouse. As she approached Roger, she seductively put her arms around his neck and leaned in, as if to kiss him. Roger puckered his lips up, awaiting for the kiss he has waited 2 years for. But, much to his dismay, found only a sharp knee to his exposed crotch. He quickly fell to the ground, eyes glazed over and a mixture of drool and stomach garbage filtering through his teeth and out his mouth. Amber giggled then kicked him in the ribs.

"Moron." She said, spitting on him then hurrying off towards the mansion.

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Amber casually walks into the mansion. It had been awhile since she last stepped foot inside. But she had no time to reminisce about such silly things. She quickly made her way into the kitchen pantry. This is where she would cast her delayed fireball spell. It took her months to learn this, she would cast a fireball, but it wouldnt go off instantly. It would be like a timed bomb, going off at the time she would designate. She gets into the pantry and shuts the door behind her. She waves her right hand and extends her left palm forward. She recits the spell from memory and then places her right palm on the back of her left hand before saying the final word of the spell.

"FIREBALL!" Amber says, a little louder then she ment to. A bright light flashes from her palm, the light quickly fades and finally fizzles into the air.

"I hope i did it right. It should go off in 5 minutes, giving me plenty of time to find daddy and get the keys from him."

Amber leaves the pantry and locks it, then throws the key into the sink, down the drain. No one should be able to disrupt the spell this way, she thought to herself. Now i can finally get those damn keys.

As Amber climbs the rather huge staircase, she hears a noise comming from the study room on the second floor just ahead. She pauses, then slowly creeps ahead. She reaches the door and slowly creaks it open, but she see's no one. She does, however, notice the window wide open, a breeze blowing through the curtains, and a broken vase on the floor that used to stand on the coffee table infront of the window. She shrugs and continues on down the hall to the flight of stairs leading to the third floor. It was prolly just the wind anyways.

She reaches the hallway and notices that it is very dark. She goes to light one of the candle-lamps hanging on the wall, but notices that they are missing. Though not worried, she does starting to wonder what is going on. She reaches her fathers bedroom and knocks on the door.

"Daddy? It's your lovely and precious daughter! May i come in?" Amber says in her most girly voice she can muster.

After not hearing anything for some time, and worried her fireball spell may go off any moment now, she takes it apon herself to open the door and let herself in. Her eyes suddenly grow wide and she lets out a gasp. Her father is in the corner, shakeing like a mad man. He is holding one of the hallway candle-lamps in his hand as a weapon.

"Daddy, whats the ma-"

"NO! GO AWAY!" Amber's father shrieks, cluthing the candle-lamp tightly to his chest. "I dont have the statue i swear it! Please! Leave me alone!"

Amber furrows her brow and cautiously approaches her obviously now insane father.

"Dad, your starting to scare me. Now tell me whats going on!" Amber demands.

"Oh, Amber! Thank the gods! They havnt gotten you yet! Quickly, we must get all the money and bonds we can carry and leave this place before its too late!."

"Wait wait, tell me whats going on first!" Amber's heart starts to beat fast, her fireball spell should be going off very shortly and she hasnt gotten the keys yet.

"It's the REPOR gang! I...they...there was this statue, a solid gold statue of an elven queen. It's suppost to have magical powers of somesort, they where smuggling in onto one of the ships at the port when i stumbled across them. They musta thought i was somone else cause they dropped the crates and took of running. One of the crates broke and inside it was the golden statue. It was so pretty, and musta been worth a fortune. So i took it! Now they are after me, trying to kill me in order to get it back! I'v even been told they hired a strong mercenary to come and kill me!" Amber's father takes a deep breath before continueing. Amber just stands next to him, hands on her hips, slouching and rolling her eyes. "And as if things werent bad enough. One of the prisoners in the dungeon managed to escape! I'm sure he is after my head too! Not to mention the many theives trying to steal the statue from me. Its been like a war in here this past week! Everyday im running for my life! That is why we must get out of here, we must leave Rigsby and lay low for a while."

Amber, not wanting to waste anymore time listening to the ramblings of an insane old man, trys to hurry things along. "Yes daddy, quickly, give me the keys and i will go get the money while you pack your things!"

Before her dad can get to the desk with his keys, a huge explosion erupts from the kitchen. s**t, Amber thinks to herself, it went off already! Suddenly, guards just outside began barking orders and demands. Her father rushes to the window and looks down. At the gate, standing over Roger's now dead body, is a tall man with long blue hair. He holds a sparkling sword pointed at three guardsmen. He cant tell what the guards are saying to the tall man, but there spears are pointed at him as well.

"This must be the mercenary come to kill me! Quickly Amber, we must...Amber?" The mayor peels his eyes from the window and looks behind him. Amber is already gone, the dresser door wide opened, its contents spilled all over the floor. And the key is missing! "Damn you Amber!" The mayor yells. Then all of a sudden, the door to his bedroom shuts on its own. A dark figure stands in the shadows by the door. Bright red eyes glareing at him.

"Where is the statue old man?" The mysterious figure says. His voice sounds like that of an adolecent, and judging from the height at which his eyes stand, could be as such.

"Who...who are you?" The mayor stammers, suddenly realizing he doesnt have his candle-lamp anymore. "And how do you know about th-"

"I was in here the whole time, listening to you and your daughter. Now tell me where it is!"

"I wont tell you, and only i know where it is, so it would do you no good in killing me." The mayor says, defiently.

"No, but it would calm my nerves abit." The mysteriously short figure says, followed by the sound of two swords being drawn. The steel glints off the sunlight showing through the window. The mayors eyes go wide, he starts to scream, but it is quickly changed into a gurgle as his eyes glaze over as blood fills his lungs.