Undead Asylum

Pelanor woke up in a dark room. It was a dirty cell with walls of crumbling stone. There was a rusty iron door with bars instead of a full door. "I'm in dark souls"he thought.

He heard a creaking above him. He looked upand saw a corpse fall into the cell from a trap-door above him, about 15.3 feet.

He saw a knight with a familiar helm peek in next, and watched as he walked away.

"Only one thing to do now..well, several things, but first.." Pelanor said as he looked at himself.

"Hmm.. leather armor, metal hat, but no mask... I must be a warrior of some sort..what's my starting gift then?"He thought, searchingfound a small fanny pack onhis waist, and opened it. A strange ring was inside.

"The old witches ring..okay, not the worst, but divine blessings would be nice.." he thought as he slipped the ring on. He approached the corpse and took the key from its loincloth. After opening the door, orange scribbles appeared on the floor.

"I know what these say, no need to read them."

There was a skinny, malnourished, pale-looking man smacking the wall with his head in the hallway in front of Pelanor. "..Uh, hi there, are you hostile?"

Hearing no response save for a few moans from the hollow, he walked over to it, patted it on the head, and kept walking.

There were a few more hollows, and a ladder that led to a courtyard with a small bonfire in the middle.

As he approached the bonfire, he looked a little closer to see not only ashes, but bones and skulls in the pile the sword was stabbed into."Never really looked at it like this..that's a little eerie.." he thought.

Heattuned himself to the fire after lighting it. It gave him a strange comforting feeling inside.

Speaking only to himself, as he was alone currently, said "So, open the doors, run past demon and to the left, rest at new bonfire, and figure everything else out from there." There was not much to figure out, as he knew this place like it was his homeawayfrom
home.

Doing exactly as he said, opening the large, iron doors, that had aged for some time, and were thus covered with moss, carefully stepped into the large open room.

Stopping suddenly, he shouted "I FORGOT TO SAY HI TO THE STRAY DEMON!" Not entirely

knowing why he said this, took one more step before breaking into a sprint to the door on the left.

About halfway to the door, he heard a loud roar, and felt the ground quake, signaling the Asylum Demon made his appearance. Dashing through the doorway, the door slammed behind him. He turned around and looked at the demon and said, "Hey! Nice ass!"

The demon responded by smashing the door with its hammer. "Rude" he thought, and walked to the next bonfire down some stairs. Quickly attuning himself to it, walked to the next doorway where an archer was waiting for him. Rolling through the door
/way toavoid arrows, ran to the left cell, and grabbed the heater shield off the corpse.

"Lucky me, I think this is the best shield to start with."Running and rolling as necessary to avoid arrows, quickly gainedground on the archer. Seeing this, the archer quickly ran to his right, into a short hallway.

Pelanor stopped before the doorway to his foe, nabbed the longsword and held it in his right hand. "Ah, this will come in handy.. hehehe.. that was bad." Quickly sprinting into the hallway, jumped at the archer and cut deeply into its
/belly.

Blue wisps swirled from its corpse and into him. "Ahh, dear souls, I cherish thee.." moving foreword to the stairs, he saw a boulder at the top. Baiting it out, he rolled to the side to avoid being crushed by it, and thus rollingonto

the other set of stairs. "Ow." He complained, though not really meaning it. He walked down the stairs and opened the door to the first bonfire. "I'll need this later."And went back up to see Oscar. As he approached him, Oscar said "Oh you,
/you're no-"

"I'm no hollow, no. I came to help you."

"I'm done for, I'm afraid."

"Not if I can help it."

"Heh, you can't."

Removing Oscar's helmet and slapping his face, Pelanorsaid "shut up and take a swig of estus. You're not dying on my watch, Oscar."

"-how do you know my name?"

"...I know the future?"

"You're a prophet?"

"No, I'm not. I just know the future."

"That's a prophet." Oscar said after drinking from his dull green flask.

"Fine, whatever, just don't call me that."

"Then what should I call you? You slapped sense into me and saved my life, for I was ready to die, and you know my name, but I know not of yours. And where are you from? I am from the land of Astora."

"I'm Pelanor, also of Astora. But not the same time. You see, time is distorted here in Lordran."

"I see, but we're not in Lordran."

"Eh, details. Anyway, you want revenge on that Demon?"

"More than anything."

"Let's go." Pelanor said, helping Oscar to his feet.

After putting his helmet back on, Oscar followed the man to a stairwell.

Pelanor held up his shield and blocked an attack from the hollow's broken sword and pushed it to the side, parrying it. He then forced his blade into the hollows' abdomen and walked further. After going into an open balcony, Pelanor stopped, and put his
/handfront of Oscar. "Wait." He said. "There's two sword hollows and a bow wielding one. If we bait the other two out, we can kill them here and turtle up and rush the archer."

"Sounds good. When do we-" before Oscar could finish, Pelanor ran to the hollows, and ran back saying "get ready!" as two hollows followed and Pelanor dispatched the hollows easily, as Oscar was a trained warrior, and Pelanor somehow knew

his way around a blade.

They both held up thier shields, and walked through a makeshift fence of rubble to the archer. The archer, not knowing what to do, tried shooting them, but arrow after arrow, they blocked them as the two warriors slowly encroached the hollow. When they
/finallyreached it, the both stabbed the hollow, killing it instantly.

"Okay, Demon is through that wall of fog to my left, but I need an Estus Flask first."At hearing he didn't have one, Oscar froze. "But didn't other knights give you one before you left Astora?"

"They did, but this hollow in the room behind me took it from me" Pelanor lied, trying to convince his new friend.

"...okay, but get it fast, I'm itching to kill a demon."

After bashing the hollows face in with his shield, Pelanor stole the Estus Flask from the hollow as it tried to heal its broken nose and jaw. Then, finishing the job with a swift stab in its back, Pelanor absorbed the souls from his foe. "Almost enough to level up!"He
/thoughtexcitedly.

"Okay, before we go through the fog, I have a plan. We both jump off the small balcony through the fog and stab its face. It should kill it, but if it doesn't, it'll be weak enough for us to easily finish it."

"Okay. On three?" Oscar said.

"Sure. One..two..THREE! VICTORIS ULTRA!" Pelanor shouted as they both ran through the fog and jumped off the edge. Both thier swords plunged deep into the demons' skull, killing it.

"Ahh, much easier than the other two." Pelanor said.

"OTHER TWO?!" Oscar shouted in surprise.

"Yeah, but the other ones use magic, and one is coated in flames. Don't worry, we won't fight them for some time."

After retrieving a large key from the floor, and two humanity, handing one to Oscar, Pelanor opened the large doors leading to a cliff.

"What now, Friend?" Oscar said.

"Well, we go to the edge, and a crow will carry us to Firelink Shrine, where our real adventure begins."

"..fun.." Oscar chimed, with a hint of fear in his voice. "Not a fan of heights?" Pelanor asked, concerned about his friend. Oscar shook his head.

As the duo approached the edge, a giant crow flew up, and grabbed them both, one in each claw, and flew towards Firelink.

Sometime during the flight, Pelanor looked back to see another crow, carrying a large, armor covered figure with a huge sword and shield.

"SHIT, I thought that guy was only in Drangleic!" Pelanor shouted in surprise.

"Where? And who?" Oscar said, following his friends' gaze. "Oh. Is he nice, or are we going to kill him?" Oscar said.

"He is known as The Pursuer, as he relentlessly pursues the undead who bears the curse or whatever, but at this state, we have no hope of killing him. We can only avoid him. unless he's not chasing us.."

Just as he Pelanor said that, the crow carrying the Pursuer veered right, and theircrow veered left to Firelink Shrine.

After dropping them off, the crow flew up into its nest in some ruins up above.

Pelanor ran over to a man in chainmail armor, and said, "Perry! It's so good to see you again!"

"What? Who are you?" Said the crestfallen warrior.

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