The Quest for Excalibur (WIP)
Chapter One: The Discovery
“Arya, you might wanna see this.” The tiny, brunette girl turned away from A Song of Ice And Fire to her younger cousin, Jon. He slid next to her on the couch in their home’s living room, flashing his phone her away. He was on a “Mage’s Only” chat room; on the screen was a video that someone posted, titled “The Gruesome Deaths of Band of Travelers, Located Excalibur.” The girl’s eyes widened and she snatched the phone from Jon’s hands. “Hey!”
“Shush,” she hissed, playing the video. It buffered a little bit before showing a girl with pink-dyed hair holding the phone lense to herself, grinning at her unknown audience.
“Salutations from Elsinore, Denmark!” she greeted. “If you’re watching this, me and my party are in the center of a forest about twenty kilometers east of the city. What you’re about to see will blow your mind.”
“Hey, dumbass! A little less talking and a little more pulling here!” Another voice shouted from off the screen. The girl clicked her teeth, smile falling into an annoyed frown.
“I’m kinda livestreaming right now. I want people to know why the hell we’re here in the first place.”
“Well can you maybe turn and film this way?”
“Fine, bossy. Jeez.” There was some rustling when the girl switched the view. From what Arya could see, the girl was in a crystal-ridden cave with blue light bouncing off of each jewel. Two other people were with her; a blonde girl lighting a fire to the side with her hands, obviously a pyro or some other fire-elemental witch, and a brown-haired boy struggling to yank a rose gold-hilted sword from out of a prison of stone.
“Holy shit,” Arya breathed. “That’s--”
“It could be a hoax,” Jon suggested, but his cousin fixed him with a glare, shutting him up. Satisfied, Arya went back to watching the video.
“This shit is fucking stuck,” the guy trying to pull the sword growled, harshly withdrawing his hands from the hilt. The camera-girl giggled.
“It is because you are not worthy,” she boomed, voice drenched in humor. The boy’s face burned and he flipped the camera off, but his finger was blurred for the sake of demonetization. The girl making the fire finally stopped and stepped back, rubbing her hands together.
“Maybe we should take a break for now,” she offered.
“What? No way. We’ve been out here for weeks and we--” Off to the side, there was a deep growling that alerted everyone’s attention, even making Arya’s skin crawl. The pyro looked up and screamed bloody murder. Camera-girl turned around, flashing the view onto a dark, looming creature standing right in front of her. It was too dark to make anything out of it except for it’s gigantic, bloody jaws and hell-sent eyes. Arya heard one last ear-piercing scream when the monster raged forward, swiping it’s claws at the pink-haired girl. The phone fell, glass cracking and footage crumpling into static. In the background, flesh could be heard getting torn to shred until the video cut off. She stared at Jon’s phone, dumbfounded for a complete moments. Then, boldly, she ventured into the comments section to make sure what she saw was real.
“FAKE.
This is so fake if wtf
fake af smh
omg did they actually died???
was that a bear??? holy shit, i hate beats…
Kinda wish I saw them all get murdered
ur fucked up bro
Srsly tho, that was Excalibur
Like from Soul Eater??????!!!1!!!!11!!!??!!?
EXCALIBUR! EXCALIBUR! FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM, I’M LOOKING FOR HEAVEN, GOING TO CALIFORNIA! EXCALIBUR! EXCALIBUR!
Holy shit Excalibur is real…
Who else is gonna try to pull the sword from the stone now?
You’re fucking crazy
lol good luck m8
But for real tho like this was fake
But what if it isn’t?
Then youre gonna die.”
“I’m totally gonna do it,” Arya decided, handing her flabbergasted cousin his phone then leaping up from the couch. Jon sat there in shock for a minute while she ran upstairs before realizing what Arya said and chasing after her.
“But how do you know if that was real or not?!” He shouted after her just as she entered her room.
“I’ll ask Fenrir! He’ll know!” Jon wanted to protest some more, but she slammed her room door closed, leaving him in a silent state of panic.
“...My Gods, she’s insane…”