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A day had passed and Rulf was now in the forest near his home. He was in his new armor that he had worn for the portrait and had his new sword with him, but that was sheathed away in a metal and oak sheath. He wasn't doing much, just wandering around hoping he'd run into something strange and wonderful. He knew the chances of finding something like that in this forest was very low because no one had ever heard any strange stories about this place. No strange creatures, no tales of brutal battles or anything like that. The only bad thing he heard about this forest were thieves.

Almost as soon as Rulf thought of thieves, he heard the distinctive sound of a sword being unsheathed and before he knew it, he had his own sword in his face. He quickly looked past the sword, and saw a familiar giggling weavile. "Taleen!" Rulf exclaimed as he backed away. "What were you thinking! You're lucky I didn't knock you out!"

Taleen simply giggled a little as she stuck the sword into the grassy ground. "I'd like to see you try! You have the reflexes of a zombie with a rotting brain!" she teased him.

"Shut up you mad woman! Now, why by the gods' forsaken foreskin did you creep up on me, and take my sword?" Rulf questioned her as he walked up to his sword and pulled it out of the ground.

"To teach you a lesson!" Taleen exclaimed.

"What lesson were you trying to teach me? Never trust an insane weavile?" Rulf quickly retorted.

"Well, there's that lesson, and also to always be aware of your surroundings! You never know when someone might just creep up on you and decapitate you!" Taleen told him in her usual loud voice

"I can handle a few bandits and thieves." Rulf stated as he sheathed his sword.

"I'm a thief, and I took your sword and pointed it at your face before you even really knew what was going on!" Taleen pointed out as she looked very smug.

"You're no normal thief though, you're a master at thievery." Rulf said to her.

"Awww, that might be the nicest thing you've ever said to me! You know, apart from that time you wanted to marry me!" Taleen reminded him as she let out a loud giggle.

"I was drunk, I didn't mean it." Rulf said as his voice grew a little quieter.

"Marriage isn't my thing anyway, that's more of a religious human type thing, like you!" Taleen said with a smile.

"Don't have to be religious to get married." Rulf told her.

"Are you trying to tempt me into marrying you?" Taleen playfully asked him as she grinned and looked up to him.

"You're messing around with me, right?" Rulf questioned her.

"Not yet, you've still got your clothes on and gold with you. But that could change soon!" Taleen replied as she smiled.

"You're like a more insane female version of Sarkis." Rulf said before sighing and walking away.

"No I'm not!" Taleen defensively said.

"You really are." Rulf said with a smile.

"No I'm not!" Taleen repeated, just a little louder this time.

"You are! I don't see how you can't see how similar you both are!" Rulf replied.

"I'll have you know I'm still a virgin!" Taleen exclaimed.

Rulf's walking pace slowed down just as he heard those words. "You are?" he asked out of disbelief.

"Yep! So guess we're not as similar as you thought we were!" Taleen said before sticking her tongue out at the human besides her.

Rulf chuckled at her childish actions before saying, "I still think you're both pretty similar."

"We're not!" Taleen yelled at him.

Rulf knew he was going to have fun getting on her nerves this way. He was glad to have something to do on the long walk back to their home.

A few minutes later, Sarkis opened up the double doors to his mansion from the inside before waving off his two male zangoose friends. He was dressed in his red robes, and he was glad he put it back on because he soon saw Rulf and Taleen coming up to the mansion. "Shit, if they spot this bulge it's gonna be an awkward conversation... Again." he quietly said to himself.

Taleen looked at the two white and red furry creatures that had just left the mansion before looking back at Rulf with a grin on her face and saying, "I saw one of them walking out of here with a limp last time they were around."

Rulf felt like laughing but he held it back. "Don't make me laugh." he replied with a big smile on his face.

Sarkis looked at the smiling weavile and human before saying, "You two look happy, you haven't been up to anything without me have you?"

Taleen giggled fiendishly before saying, "I see your close friends have been around. I hope you didn't leave stains again!"

Sarkis simply chuckled as he crossed his arms and smirked. "Those weren't my stains." he replied.

Rulf's mind suddenly kicked in, reminding him of something. "Hang on, those stains on my bed..." he thought out loud as he gave Sarkis a nervous look.

"Hehe, sorry." Sarkis responded before laughing a little.

Rulf quickly became confused, sickened and slightly angry all at once. 'But... that was a really big stain.' he thought to himself before simply sighing and walking passed Sarkis, not wanting to talk to him again today.

Taleen smiled at Sarkis and asked, "So, how were they?"

"Fun, creative and surprisingly flexible! They're great! I don't have to pay them, I don't have to worry about their wives, boyfriends or angry parents trying to kill me, and their tongues are amazing!" Sarkis stated before chuckling.

"Looks like they got you very excited!" Taleen replied as she pointed at the bulge hidden by Sarkis' robes.

"Wanna help me with this?" Sarkis inquired with a smirk as he pointed to his crotch.

"Gladly!" Taleen excitedly said before approaching him and then suddenly walking away. "After you convince Rulf to have a little fun with us!" she yelled back over to him as she ran away to her room whilst giggling.

Sarkis then let out a sad sigh. "Great, aroused and alone... I should have asked those two to move in, they'd help me with this." he said to himself before closing the door to the mansion and walking off to his room as be began thinking of anyway to get his reluctant friends into bed.

One month later...

Rulf was walking through the forest, with his sword in his hand. Ever since Taleen had sneaked up on him and stole his sword, he kept a very close eye on it. He wasn't expecting to run into anything, but he had a feeling he wasn't alone in the forest. He had that feeling nearly every time he came to this forest. He didn't know why he liked this forest so much, he guessed it was the peace and quiet. Listening to Taleen's usual loud voice and Sarkis' loud moaning with his very close friends wasn't exactly relaxing for him. Rulf now walked over to a tree stump and sat down on it as he jammed his sword firmly into the grassy ground next to him. Rulf sighed as he wondered why he wasn't really satisfied with his life, he had plenty of gold, a better home than almost anyone in the region, and a pair of good friends. But he still felt like there was something missing from his life, part of him thought it was the action. He did slightly miss cutting through limbs and bringing down his weapon on another fighter to see him almost split in half, but he did not miss the guilt that he sometimes felt that came with the action. He knew he was missing something from his life, he just didn't know what yet.

Rulf stayed sat down and enjoyed the silence for a few minutes before standing up and grabbing his sword, ready to walk back to his home. It didn't take him long to reach the house, and now he was walking up the path. But then he suddenly heard a familiar female voice from behind him.

"Err, Rulf?" were the words he heard.

Rulf turned around to see Taleen's twin sister. He liked her. For a member of Taleen's family, she seemed very sane. She was a little taller than Taleen and she dressed differently, but other than that, they looked exactly alike. The weavile in front of him wore a golden colored dress, and nothing much else. "Loren? Oh, nice to see you again, come to see your sister?" he guessed.

"Err, yes. I just wanted to speak to her a little while, I was just starting to miss her." Loren told him whilst she smiled.

"Come with me then, she should be inside right now because most of the shops and stalls she steals from are closed." Rulf told her.

"I used to steal but... My sister is so rich she bought me a house! Why is she stealing? Is she running out of gold?" Loren curiously asked.

"Unless she buys a whole region or a solid gold house, I don't see her being low on gold any time soon." Rulf replied as he made his way over to the front doors.

Loren shook her head slightly before saying, "I always knew my sister likes to get into trouble just for the thrill."

"I just hope she stops stealing soon, she's very good at what she does but she still might get caught." Rulf said as he opened a door and held it open for Loren. "After you."

"Thank you." Loren politely replied as she walked into the mansion.

"You're welcome." Rulf said as he walked in and closed the door behind himself.

"Taleen!" Loren shouted quite loudly, causing her voice to echo throughout the mansion.

Rulf waited for a few seconds before saying, "I guess she isn't in. You're welcome to stay though."

"Thank you for the offer." Loren politely said before Rulf led her through the big room Sarkis, Taleen and he usually stayed in when they were bored.

Rulf sat down on Sarkis' comfy chair by the fireplace which no longer had a fire burning in it while Loren sat in a chair facing him. "So Loren, what have you been up to recently?" Rulf inquired as he relaxed into the chair.

"Nothing much, I've just been thinking about things." Loren answered.

"What things?" Rulf asked.

Loren was silent for a few seconds as she looked nervous and uncertain of something before saying anything. "Well, I've been thinking maybe it's time for me to settle down." Loren replied.

"Settle down? But you're still young, you've got plenty of time to think about settling down later." Rulf told her.

"You're not so old yourself Rulf. I know I'm not much older than Taleen but... I'm not like Taleen. I don't like danger, I'm just looking for something else." Loren said as she smiled nervously.

"What are you looking for Loren?" Rulf curiously asked her as he leaned forward in his chair.

"Err... Love." Loren admitted.

Rulf smiled as he said, "I hope you find it then. You deserve someone, I bet any man would be happy to have you as their wife."

Loren giggled a little as her smile grew bigger. "I know but I haven't found anyone I'm really interested in yet." she stated.

"What kind of man are you looking for?" Rulf asked.

"Someone nice and kind... And who likes children too. It doesn't matter to me what he is as long as he loves me." Loren excitedly said.

"You want children too? How many?" Rulf inquired.

"I don't know, a few, I don't have a number in my head right now. What about you Rulf? Would you like to settle down?" Loren asked him.

Rulf thought about it for a few seconds, and the more he thought about it, the more he began to like the idea. "I would like to settle down eventually, but I feel like I owe Sarkis and Taleen another adventure. Maybe I'll take them with me to some uncharted land and then start looking at settling down when I get back home." he told her.

"What kind of person would you look for?" Loren asked.

Rulf noticed she said person instead of woman, which led him to believe Sarkis had been spreading rumors about him again. "I'd like a woman that I could trust with my life, someone interesting and somewhat exotic... To be honest, I'd just like someone to love." he said as something suddenly occurred to him. He knew what he was missing in his life, love. He had never had a real girlfriend before, only meaningless sexual encounters. He felt foolish for not realizing this before.

"If you found someone like that, would you marry them?" Loren asked.

"Only if they wanted to be married, I know some do not want to be married because of religious reasons or something else. But if she wanted to get married, I'd do it straight away." Rulf happily replied.

Loren was about to say something else until she heard the door to the room opening. She looked over to the doorway and saw her sister standing there with a smile on her face. "Taleen!" she called out as she got out of her chair and walked over to her.

Rulf smiled as he looked over to the two sisters, he was reminded of his brother. He wished his brother had came with him to Fordin. His smile faded as he looked back down to the floor, and tried to get his brother out of his head. When he looked back up to where the sisters were standing, they were gone. He guessed Taleen must have dragged Loren off because she usually said goodbye first. He got up out of his chair and decided to head to bed for a quick nap, it was still early in the day anyway.

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Author's note: It looks like Rulf finally knows what he is missing, but what is he gonna do about it?T** hank you to BigBossSonic for editing, and everybody else for reading!**