A river, a silver bell, and a lost key. [English]

So I opened one of my favorite writing prompt generators, and got this:
A river, a silver bell, and a lost key.


Fortune hunter groups had gotten quite popular as of late, and no respectable person with such a job would even dare venture by themselves without some company.
They were a rather large team - most had three or four people at most, but they were five, which rendered their quest quicker but also more complicated. More people meant more room for mistakes, and more responsibilities if they found a particularly dangerous situation.
Introducing them would be needed, otherwise it would render this tale quite confusing.
It had been defined, through a tacit agreement, that Sard was their leader: a warrior wielding an axe instead of the more traditional sword, with fire-red hair that had earned him his fortune hunter's name (because, of course, no respectable fortune hunter would use his true name - it holds no meaning). Brave and smart, although sometimes insecure of his own abilities.

His best friend, also member of the team, was simply named Hunter, because sometimes beating around the bush is unnecessary, in his own words. As you probably guessed, he was a hunter, with ungodly skills with whips and a rather sadistic side. Lilac hair - which would be the doom of anyone who dared mock it - covered his face in a rather gloom manner, and no one was sure of his true eye color. Even with a delicate frame, his strength nearly equaled Sard's, and conjoined with his control over different kinds of venoms, it made him a fearsome fighter.

The party was accompanied by an Alchemist - one of the strongest and most respected jobs in the whole kingdom, but also one of the most difficult. Baptized Gold for no known reason (dark hair and eyes, the latter framed by crystal glasses, and ghostly-pale skin, and an attitude that repelled most people), he mastered fire, ice and poison, having ignored the practice of thunder-controlling for reasons known only to him. Although cold to outsiders, his friends and fellow teammates knew he had a simple problem trusting other persons. Rumor had it that his relationship with Hunter was a poisonous hate, although some people begged to disagree.

One of the youngest members of the group was a small girl trained in the art of healing. With Star as a name, she would often stay in the back during fights due to her inability to battle, cheering and curing her friends when needed. She also carried in a large bag many items helpful only to her, since no one else could decipher their use. Her round golden eyes and short chocolate hair would often make their adversaries take the party lightly, but her abilities were envied by even the most powerful mages.

The last member to join their team was a bowmaster by the name of Copper who, although not very talkative, had the aim of Artemis herself. She would make her arrows herself, something not many of her kind did anymore. Keen on the hunt of birds of all kinds, she would take feathers from their dead wings and attach them to her hat, which lead some people to believe she had the souls of thousands of birds helping her. Her long auburn hair would often get in her way while battling, but she refused to cut it for unknown reasons. The rumors, which got quite common once the team reached a high level of fame, said that her brown eyes were in fact the devil's, which she had gotten through a deal, and they gave her her well-known aim. However, these were false, since she was the descendant of a long line of humans which befriended birds eons ago, and were given their eyesight. Ironically, she is allergic to these creatures.


Now that I've bored you with these explanations, I can proceed to the story itself.

When the team was still beginning, they were given a mission "so easy that a child could do it", or so they thought.
A rich woman had been wandering through Silverspring, a meadow known for its aromatic flowers, calm weather and a spring which then became a river, called Argenta. Said woman had apparently left one of her most precious "family members", a Babywolf (a creature which resembled a wolf pup, but never became the ferocious animal, and could live off vegetables instead of red meat), wander through the place, not fearing for its sake.
However, when dusk was settling, she realized that her beloved pet was nowhere to be seen. In despair, she placed a request at the local bar, and it was responded by the aforementioned team, known simply as the Savers. They quickly headed over to the prairie to look for the animal.

Once there, however, it was pretty obvious that it wasn't there.
Even if the meadow was extensive, it lacked trees of any kind, or any other place for the creature to hide. Nonetheless they checked everywhere: in every bush, in the river, they even looked around the underground cave that was nearby, but, as always, its entrance was covered with boulders, with not a single gap.
Sard and Hunter examined the rocks around, while Gold and Copper tried to open the cave with magic and arrows. Star reached them with loud gasping and out of breath, having stayed behind near the river to examine the water.
"You... could... have... waited..." she managed to mumble between breaths. However, before anyone could retort, a soft chiming distracted them. It seemed to come from her leather bag, full of items which could be helpful at any time. She examined the contents to find the source of the noise: A silver bell, small enough to allow her to close her fist around it.
"What does it do?" inquired Hunter, intrigued by the tiny object.
"It detects solatite, a rock used by some ancient civilizations to make keys that could not be imitated." answered Gold before the healer even had time to breathe. "And there is a sort of small lock in the cave's entrance, so maybe these rocks didn't get here by accident."
Copper scanned the grass under them, and noticed a small bump no one else could have seen. Digging it out with her gloved hands, she got out a key, with a dark golden color to it.
"Do you think that... the babywolf is in the cave?" asked Sard, starting to formulate theories in his mind.
"No. The dirt around the key was hard, hadn't been touched in a long time." answered the bowmaster, one of the few times she ever spoke.
"It is still worth checking out." claimed Hunter with a smirk, snatching the item from Copper's hands. Just as he was about to open the "door", a barking sound distracted the whole party, and a tiny wolf-like animal ran towards them, jumping in a failed attempt to "defend his territory". Gold chuckled and then spoke.
"I guess this will have to wait. That woman is very eager to see her pet again."
Star lifted the cute creature and held it in her arms on the trip back, where it fell asleep. They would have to investigate the cave at some other time.