A 16 year old arwin was standing in a square in an unkown town all around him were happy and cheerful faces with sound of laughter and joy, there was woman among them in her twenties, when the young arwin looked at her his face brightened up. The next instant it was a dark evening with a red sky and silence everywhere, all the cheerful people now lay dead around him in a pond of blood on the ground, his eyes were wide open and hands completely red with blood from the tip of this fingers to the elbows, he looked ahead and saw the woman he was happy to see was criucified to a pole in the centre of the square. He just stood there, tears won’t even flow from his eyes, he looked around for any sign of life, at afar distance he saw a man walking away, arwin’s vision became blurry and all he could see was a tattoo at the back of the man’s hand.
His eyes opened, he was lying in his bed. He got up picked up the greywand and simply looked at the sword.
(Arwin)i can’t wait any longer..
Arwin was at the bar drinking his usual when a raven flew in and dropped a letter at Irena, he quickly went upto her to see what it was about, he looked at her curiously as she opened the letter
“it’s just a payment from the client for the job done”she said
He nodded and got back to his seat, lately he was excited about every notice that came in, in the anticipation for it to be a letter from the council that may contain any relevant information he needed. Irena knew about his little misadventure the last time he visited the council, ever since rumors had started to fly around the guild about arwin trying to take on a member of the council. Among every group the rumor took a different story, some believed it to be some personal dispute, some believed it was a publicity stunt while some thought it was all a lie and that arwin made up the story to get attention. But none confronted him about it.
“i know what you are looking for”said Irena to arwin
“do you now and what is it?”he said
“i know you are looking for any news about Vincent Klaus, i know what you tried back then”she said
He glared at her for a moment and then sipped his drink and looked elsewhere pretending, “i don’t know what you are talking about” he said
“oh, of course you don’t”she said with a chuckle.
He walked out and little girl bumped into him, she dashed into him and fell to the ground on her butt, arwin gave her a hand and helped her up
“watch where you are going emily .....and what’s the hurry?”he asked
“oh, nothing i was just roaming around”she said “ ok i have to go” and she went on her way walking quickly with fast steps.
Arwin looked back and saw she had came from other side of the building not from the main entrance.
(Arwin)Ah whatever, might be searching for something she lost.
Later when he got to his room as soon as he locked the door and turned around, there he was Vincent standing infront of him, arwin instantly sprang ahead and tackled him, he went through Vincent and dashed into the bed. He quickly turned and before he could take another step he was frozen on the spot.
“you motherfucking bastard!”he yelled
He then realized, what stood infront of him was a spectral shape of Vincent, it was a projection of his real self casted to appear infront of arwin.
“it seems you have some business with me, meet me here at the third night from now when all the moons are up and then we shall see”said Vincent, and images of a location started to appear in arwin’s head he fell to the ground and when he looked up, the projection was gone in thin air.
He got up, steadied himself and now he knew what he must do. He went back to the guild and straight into Marco’s office, he was standing by the window looking at the drowning sun.
“i sense some disturbance in your magic essence”he said
“you know why i am here”said arwin,“i have to go”
“and that is your final descision?”asked marco
“yes”he said, Marco was silent for a few moments and then he spoke,
“then you leave me no choice. You are here by expelled from this guild and no longer affiliated with Dragonest whatsoever”
Arwin simply bowed and left the office and then the guild without making contact to anyone else.
Arwin realised that Marco knew no matter what, he would still go after Vincent. So Marco played a smart move by kicking out arwin out of the guild. Now when arwin will confront him, at that moment he would not be a mage from Dragonest, so the next day when the issue arises technically no problem or atleast minimum of it would befall the guild. It was the best Marco could do to secure the guild in these circumstances either way arwin would be dead by then.
He was at his room preparing, he wore a white full length shirt, a sleeveless black vest, the vest had black metal plating at the shoulder blades on the back from the outside connected to the pauldrons, he wore leather bracer on his left arm and an elbow length glove in the right and knee length greaves. He wore the full length hooded coat black in colour and blue around the shoulders. The greywand was strapped by his waist on the belt.
He put on his hood, jumped out of the window and climbed onto the rooftop and was on his way out of the city in the dark of the night, he was almost at the edge of the city when he turned into an alley and a familiar face appeared before him.
“i know where you are going and what you are about to do. i cannot allow that.”said Erica
“i am no longer a Mage of this guild” he said “get out of my way”, his voice was cold and hard.
Erica saw his eyes were filled with rage and he spoke like a different person as if everything else was oblivious to him.
“i believe even you are not that foolish to think that you can defeat a member of the council on your own, even if you go and confront him, you will die”she said
“humph, you cannot even match equally to me and you think you can kill him”she added in a mocking tone
“you underestimate my power”he said“....and besides this is none of the guild’s business so why are you here exactly?”he said
“that doesn’t mean there won’t be any consequences, i cannot let you put my guild to risk for your petty selfish reasons” she said, she summoned the
Archangel, a white magic circle appeared in her palm and she pulled out the sword, it’s blade was shining and had metallic wings at it’s hilt and a cross at the pommel pointing outwards.
(Arwin)i don’t have time for this shit.
“get lost. I am warning you this is no game, if you stand in my way i will kill you” he said
She laughed a little at first, “i’d like to see you try” she said
They attacked each other, he moved slightly and swung the greywand deflecting the archangel, Erica quickly turned and slashed, he quickly stepped back. She jumped ahead with a straight strike, he deflected with the swords grinding against each other, he stepped ahead and attacked with round up kick, she ducked and summoned a dagger in other hand and aimed for his leg, he quickly placed his hand on the ground and lifted himself and kicked the dagger out of her hand with another leg, she stepped back and he got back on his feet and fired a an arc of black lightning, she blocked with her sword and cut through it. He used magic force and jumped higher and caught the corner of a window. He moved with a quick thrust of magic across the alley in the air, landed with his feet first on the base of a balcony, using his feet like spring he thrust himself right angle downwards from the base of a balcony right above Erica approaching her straight with the greywand pointing at her. She stepped sideways, the greywand landed on the ground straight, arwin used it as a hold and turned in a circular motion swinging his leg. Erica ducked and kicked his sword knocking it out of the ground, arwin lost his balance and fell down but then got up quickly.
They crossed their blades again, after a few minutes arwin realised he wasn’t getting overwhelmed by her nor was he able to attack her properly.
(Arwin)Bitch!, she is purposely stalling me so that i tire myself out here.
He took out a small black shiny rock and crushed it in his hands. Instantly the alley was filled with black glitter smoke, providing a cover for arwin. Few moments later when the smoke cleared arwin was not in the alley. Erica looked up and saw some moment on the roof, she looked around and spotted a ladder at the corner and quickly climbed up, when she was at the top, she found herself alone on the roof.
Back at the guild Irena was cleaning up the bar table, when she was done she opened the ledger to make some account details. She found something tucked between it’s pages. She picked it up and saw it was arwin’s wrist band bearing the guild’s insignia. She walked up to the window holding the wrist band and looked out. The night was silent, the skies were pitch black with a red moon in it.
(Irena)looks like he is gone for good this time, won’t be seeing him again.
Arwin was going though the wilds jumping from tree to tree, his heart was pounding as his target was at his fingertips, the moment he longed for had finally arrived.
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Four years ago,...
In a town named Grasmere, a woman was walking along the streets she turned the corner in an alley and saw a young boy beaten up and lying unconscious on the ground. His hair was dark brown, he wore common man’s clothes but a rich coat that was torn at many places and broken pocket watch was lying near his hand.
She came near and picked up the pocket watch and put it in her pocket, she then waited there for a few minutes but no one came looking for the boy. She then picked him up and took him with her..........