2014-08-01, 09:34 | Link #61 |
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
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finally got some time and finished with the new chapter and now the story goes deeper into plots and starts new arcs and story lines.
the number of chapters have gotten too far and lot of the content of the story is not yet covered, so now i will be focusing on the plot more and will keep it fast paced. "Chapter 30: An Upcoming Threat" Spoiler for Chapter 30: An Upcoming Threat:
At the council...... Ewen was searching though the Gareth’s pending documents in the deep archives of the council library. Holding a few books, scrolls and some papers as he came out of the documented section of the library holding the huge pile and she stood there as if waiting for him, “Ewen, I see you have been browsing through your old master’s works. Let me remind you that you have been given this important position for your research and it would be wise of you if you kept your head in it, instead of digging into dead people’s things.” said Griselda “well so far, we got no progression about his murder. Am i suppose to just sit and wait for the murderer to come up on his own?” he said “it was a sad incident, but we have bigger problems happening right now and we need everyone to perform so get your priorities straight” she said, before ewen could speak next ,she turned and walked away, her coat flapping behind her. Later Ewen was sitting in the pile of scattered documents on the floor of his office, trying to find something of significance, Avaline was seated on the couch. “take a look at this” he said handing over a note. She took it and opened, “its a copy of an emergency order and it does not have the crest of the council only his signature, that means it is not filed officially” he said “but this order is not recent, its to disable the guild called Scourge Chaos in Lybster and the contract was given to Dragonest. I heard Scourge chaos was nullified some time back and an unfortunate accident occurred at Dragonest that destroyed it and is no longer a guild” she said “accident, seems strange” said ewen, he placed the note aside. ................................ At the far western edge of Azpacia was the port city Dagor along its line towards south was dense wilderness after which was a small village few miles away from the rocky coast. Somewhere in the forest, Arystar, Gilbert, Fiora and Arwin were on foot. “are you sure this is the right way?”asked Fiora “we’ll know if we reach there” said arystar, “just keep walking and we’ll reach our destination” “we better not end up in a cave of trolls instead” said gilbert “that could happen, keep a look out, we are in the mystic woods, we are sure to run into some creatures” Arwin was looking all around as they walked, he saw a tortoise at the base of a tree, its shell made of rock was covered in leaves and a couple of red capped mushrooms, on the branch a green snake covered in moss was hanging minding itself. There were tiny creatures just floating about leaving a trail of sparkling dust behind them, he saw a tree different than others, was covered in white scales pointing outwards, as soon he touched it, hundreds of butterflies flew off the tree, the swarm of butterflies moved in a swirling pattern and flew away. “this place amazing” he said After walking some distance, a silky thread like substance wrapped around arwin’s hand, he pulled it off and noticed it closely, his eyes widened when he recognized the substance, he slowly looked above. Other were moving ahead, they suddenly heard a loud girly scream from behind. They turned and saw a gigantic spider with its large and drooling fangs trying to rip its prey and arwin struggling for his life under it. Fiora quickly stretched her palm towards him, a string of zaiphon script formed around arwin and she pulled him, he was dragged quickly on the grass to them. Gilbert jumped ahead and set the vile creature on fire, he controlled the blue flames so as not to ignite the forest around. In a minute the creature was turned into ashes. “i can’t believe you screamed like a little girl” said gilbert, “are you that afraid of spiders?” “who in their right mind is not” said arwin and he got up, suddenly they heard rattling noise, they looked above and the trees above them were filled with similar spiders but even bigger in size, “oh fuck the entire family is here”said arwin “Run!!”yelled arystar and they all ran behind each other blindly in any direction as the spiders leaped after them. They were running where they could find space, arystar spotted an edge to the woods and went there, he came out running and right there was a cliff. He slided and stopped at the edge. On the other side was a waterfall forming a rainbow at its top, falling into the lake many hundred feet below. Behind him came Fiora running at speed “oh stop!, hold on” he grabbed her at the edge, just next came gilbert looking behind and running forward and dashed into them, arystar somehow held his them at the edge as they almost fell off it, then came arwin, eyes closed and screaming. “no! wait you fu—!!” as gilbert was yelling, he dashed into them and they fell off the cliff, going down into the lake. They fell into the water with big splash, arwin opened his eyes underwater and saw a whole new world there. A few moments he held his breath. The water was clear and could see far, there were various corals pink, blue, purple, green and in many different shapes, some looked like tentacles of a sea monster, some like gigantic flowers while some like actual creatures moving through the aquatic vegetation. In the open space was a pair of serpent like long creature with fins and gills, another corner a big rock monster was moving, its limbs, head and body as if small rocks stuck to a large rock. He was losing his breath when he realized he was not moving upwards, instead of floating his body was going down like an anchor but very slowly, he moved his hands and legs in panic like a fish out of a water, trying to swim to the surface. As his breath was running out his movements stopped and he was still in the water, at the bottom of he saw a light which lead to a route even deeper, from there a creature came swimming towards him having top half of a woman and bottom half of a fish. She halted right infront of him face to face, he was mesmerized by her beauty, her dark hair floated around her face and her deep dark eyes, he couldn't move his eyes away from her. She came closer and looked at him curiously, she touched his hair and smiled, arwin was just as strange of a creature to her as she was to him. Suddenly he felt a different sensation in his body, he was not able to move at all, he was stunned and his eyes looking directly into hers, she cupped his face and moved closer. Just as her lips almost touched his, a blue fireball came from above and hit her, throwing her away. Gilbert dived directly behind arwin and wrapped his arms and legs around him. At the surface arystar was casting a spell on the surface, he waved his hands upwards, in a moment gilbert holding arwin in his arms came out flying and crashed on the ground. They coughed water, gasping for air, they settled down in a while. “why is it, where ever you go trouble follows!” said gilbert “that thing it—” said arwin as he was getting up squeezing the water from his clothes. “it was a mermaid”, said arystar “you were lucky we stopped it in time. You were like a plaything to it, it would have dragged you into deep waters” For a moment arwin thought where she came from and where would she have taken him, “we should get a move on” said fiora. They got ready and went on, They made the next few miles with some minor to no such incident, the exotic wild trees and creatures were less to be seen now and the ground was mostly leveled, at some distance they noticed some movement in the bushes. They stopped at some distance, “hold on, i’ll look” said arwin, he slowly moved towards the bushes making no noise, he covered his hand in black lightning and made a surprise attack on whatever was hidden there. Behind the bushes were two kids, playing making shapes on the ground with sticks, arwin quickly stopped himself but gave the children a scare, they screamed for the dangerous person attacking them and ran away. He looked on the ground and saw a particular design, his eyes widened the deep pain within him surfaced, the wound in his back started to burn and pain his spine as the drawing on the ground was the same tattoo on vincent’s hand. (Arwin) what is this, what is this doing here?, could it be, is it really him, but why, why here, after all this time, would it be just like that to reach him, finally. Was it him, it has to be, he is here, i have to find him, i have to.....i.......i........ His mind was flooding with painful thoughts and memories, he looked up and the children were still in sight, he ran fast and went after them. “Arwin, wait!” said fiora, the rest of them followed him but he was already too ahead. He ran without noticing his surrounding, his eyes were only on the target ahead. He dashed on a tree from the side, bruising his arm but he kept on running, he tripped on over grown roots on the ground and fell on his face, still he got up and went on. He went through tall bushes small branches and leaves of small trees that made small scratches and cuts on his face and neck. He keep on running and hit his head on a low hanging branch but even that didn’t stop him. He ran and ran, a stream of blood was coming down from the side of his face. The children were out of sight now but he still followed the direction and suddenly he was out of the forest and at the border of the village. The children he was following were already lost, he was breathing hard, sweat and blood dripping from the corner of his face. A few moments later others reached him as well, “hey, good job, you found the place” said arystar patting arwin’s back, “yeah, ......that’s what i was going for” said arwin The village infront of them, was like any other village, small simple houses, people going about their work. Domestic animals like goose, chicken grazing in flocks, a few dogs here and there. “so this is it?” said fiora, “lets get a room at an inn and rest up” “you guys go on ahead, i’ll catch up in a few hours” said arwin, “i’ll meet you there” he pointed to a rock monument at the crossroads of the village. The sun was already going down, he spent the rest of the evening going around the village and checking up on people trying to find any clue that could lead him up to Vincent. Even though he found those children again, he couldn’t interrogate them as they were stuck to their mother’s skirt all the time. He looked at other places, but found nothing, that design on the ground back there kept flashing in his mind making him restless. He kept going on in circles and then came to a halt, he was too tired now to keep searching for something that was probably not there. His body ached and his stomach growled of hunger. He then went on to the marked place to meet up with the others, when he reached there he was the only one there. He waited a few minutes and the rest of them showed up, “so what happened at the inn?”he asked “its seems like the villagers are being hostile to us for some reason. Suddenly there was no room in the inn” said arystar “what!?, why?” “they were giving us this look as if we were bandits or spies or something, also a homeless crazy old geezer came to us saying, ‘you will not take this village, you will not take us’ and then he ran off into the woods” said fiora, “it seems they are not used to outside people here and looks like we scared of some children” “you wouldn’t happen to know anything about this, would you? and where were you?”asked gilbert He paused for a moment, “........of course not, how would i know anything of this. I went up ahead, another mile that side, there’s a cliff, hundreds of feet down is the sea. I went to see the sunset.” They simple looked at him with an obvious expression to his response “...what!? can’t i have a hobby?” “atleast they were kind enough to sell us some food. We need to go and camp at the outskirts near the woods” said arystar As they went on, all the villagers shut themselves in their houses, there wasn’t a single soul outside. Later two roasted chicken’s remains were hanging from a stick on a campfire around which they were seated on beds of dry leaves and twigs. “hey does any of you know what this is?” asked arwin and drew something on ground while he munched on the chicken leg. It was the tattoo on Vincent’s hand. “its from a very old folk lore, its not heard of recently.”said Arystar, he moved his fingers two small spectral images emerged from the campfire and moved over it. “there were two great beings, some called them powers or gods or spirits and some called them wizards” the spectral shapes formed into humans, one was shining brightly and the other was dark and black, “one was the brave hero and the other was the evil villain”, they were battling over the campfire, “they fought a death battle for a long time and finally the hero defeated the villain and brought justice and saved everyone from the evil. They use to tell this story to children to give them the idea of the good defeating the bad.” Everyone watched the show intently until the spectral shapes disappeared over the fire, “Fascinating, but what does this story has to do with this sign?” arwin pointed at it on the ground. “that is the crest of the hero who defeated the evil” said arystar Arwin was dumbfounded for a moment at the answer he got, “that’s it, that is all. This stupid story, is there nothing else to it. It means nothing else?” “yes that is all”said arystar, “why sudden interest and where did you find it in the first place?” “i saw it drawn on the ground, so i was just curious” “looks like they still tell this story around these parts” (Arwin) looks like they don’t know anything else, there has to be something else to it. Then as the campfire died out slowly with burnt wood glowing red, they rested prepared for the next day. ............................................... Ewen was moving stealthily on the highest floor of the tallest tower of the council near the Archmage’s office whom he was stalking. The floor was empty and he crawled upside down on the ceiling concealing his magic essence as best as he could. As the elder wizard walked ahead on his own work, he followed him into his office. He used light magic and restrained the light of the glowing orbs from reflecting from him, hence rendering him invisible in plain sight. (Ewen) Come on old man, just what are you up to....... Belzarius took off his council cape and got a ragged cloak from the wardrobe and covered himself, he then placed a magic circle on the floor and cast a spell, a portal opened with non-uniform geometric edges as if tore open the space itself and he walked inside of it. As he went in, the portal was closing behind him. Ewen quickly jumped off from the ceiling and cast another spell before the portal closed completely. The portal opened up with his magic and he jumped in. When realized his surrounding he was in a forest in the middle of nowhere, ahead of his lay ruins of a fortress long forgotten in time. At a broken arch, he recognised a cloaked person, he moved in closer and climbed up on a nearby tree and hid in its cover. In the middle of the ruins was a campfire and another figure waited for Belzarius, which still was too far. He opened a small scroll with a magic circle drawn on it, he swiped his thumb on the trunk making a cut. He dripped some blood on the scroll and placed the hand on it. The circle on it glowed once, ewen was stunned unable to move, but his senses were heightened, he felt the wind too cool on his skin, but was also able to feel the warmth from the campfire far ahead, he could hear the waterfall few miles far and could sense the creatures of night go about stalking after their prey just as he was. He saw his targets closely and could hear them clearly. “where is Kevin?”he asked “he is not able, right now i am in command” said Rowena “do you have it?”he asked, she tossed a pouch at him. He opened it and held the black orb in his hand, “finally the heart of Verloren is here. You have held up your part of the deal. But now there is something else coming, much bigger than your internal guild quarrels and i will require your guild” “please refrain from using that term, we no longer operate as a guild. The purpose of this guild was to destroy Dragonest and it is done now” she said “whatever you choose to call yourselves. Six months from now at Talmar, during the festival of cities, i will need your crew of capable wizards prepared for war. Tell this to him, he will know what i speak of” he said “i will convey this message to master Kevin” she said ................................. At the first light of the day, gone far from the village, they stood at the edge bathing in the morning sun, ahead of them into the sea was the rock island. “is that where we are going?”asked Fiora “yes” said arystar,“to the grave of Alvin Flameheart”
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2014-08-30, 13:19 | Link #63 |
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
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exams are done i hope i get to write more before the finals,
i hope all the links and hints from the previous chapters are not completely forgotten, it will all tie up later on. sorry if there is less description lately, the chapter gets too long and lot of story and plot content is remaining, but its moving forward now. so i hope you out your imagination to use while reading. Chapter 31: Peek into the Past Spoiler for Chapter 31: Peek into the Past:
The sea was raging with huge waves and as the water poured heavily from the skies. Arystar and Fiora hold onto the sail while Gilbert and Arwin rowed against the current as hard as possible. “this storm came out of nowhere!, the closer we get to the island the stronger it gets, we can’t keep up for long!” said fiora “i can see that, it’s not a natural, it’s a magical barrier to keep people off the island!” said arystar “you knew this!?, would it have killed you to tell that beforehand!, you din’t tell anything!” said Gilbert “i didn’t!?, oh sorry!, well now you know”he said “i can’t see the shore, where are we suppose to get off?” asked arwin “the island has no shore, it is covered by a rock shell, the entrance is from underwater” said arystar “for fuck’s sake!, is there anything else we should know?”said gilbert “don’t worry” said arystar, then he cast a spell on them, “follow me!” he yelled arystar, and jumped off the boat into the water. They cursed and followed him, while the boat was wiped out by the waves on the surface. Unlike the water from the lake this was ordinary and they could swim in it. They swam ahead lead by arystar. In a few minutes arwin realized he was not holding his breath anymore and was able to breathe underwater. (Arwin) must be the spell he put on us before He looked around and this underwater was a hundred times larger than the lake, various multi-coloured corals and plants on the giant rocks and hills. As he went deeper he saw various magical creatures of waters, many different shoals of fishes moving in beautiful patters getting hunted by a giant sting ray with a shark’s head. On one side was a bale of turtles with abnormally long neck and spiky shells moving in a formation. At a far distance was herd of big seahorses that had on its back top half of human riding them, each carrying a spear. On the seabed were many shipwrecks on the hills or at the bottom among the aquatic vegetation. Some hills on the seabed had opening at its mouth that released powerful stream of bubbles. As he floated idly being fascinated by the world around him, others had gone ahead. He realized and followed quickly. They went through a route in the hill at the base of the island, a tunnel lead them at a position directly below the rock island. The route opened up into an open space with streams of bubbles coming from the bottom, above they could see the surface and went up. It was huge dome of rock with the top part open for skylight, they got out of water. Inside of the dome was all small plants and rocky land, some birds were hunting the fish in the water and some small creatures ran about. At the far corner of the dome was another opening that led deeper. They rested for a while, dried themselves and were ready to move on. Deeper inside the cove was another chamber where a single ray of light fell on the leveled pile of rock on which was a tomb, a grave structure made of white stone with an altar at the bottom of it. “so what are we exactly supposed to find here?”asked fiora “this is the only place where i could find fragment of his magic essence” said arystar and when he touched the grave, lightning sparkled and quickly stepped back “this place is cursed” he said, “Alvin must have put up a barrier so that even someone get here somehow, they couldn’t disturb his sleep.” “so what do we do now?”asked arwin “Using Alvin’s magic essence from the surrounding we are going to get into his memories and find a way to destroy the dragon soul. Marco knew something about it but he could not pass on that knowledge to anyone” said arystar “fiora i want you to use Zaiphon and lift up the curse, your magic is the only one as ancient as alvin’s, it should work” Fiora came forward, murmuring an enchantment, she got to the floor and placed her palms on the grave, no sparks this time but long strings of zaiphon script moved around her. “its working, but it’s strong, I can hold it for an hour and a half, two at the most” she said “ok kid your turn”he said to arwin and turned towards the altar. “woah, wait a minute, what do you want me to do?”said arwin “you will have to go into his memory and find out the answers we need” said arystar “wait what?, why me?, why can’t someone else do it?” “you are the only one who can do it, fiora is holding up the curse, I am performing the memory magic and I need gilbert on guard in case we get ambushed” “yes but….” Arwin couldn’t say much to it, the responsibility and the burden on him to find what they needed made made his legs shake and put his mind in dismay, but with everyone doing their part, he couldn’t say no. He lay on the altar and arystar placed his palms around his head. “you have done this before right?, are there any risks?” “no, actually I have never tried this on a human before” said arystar, “if the attempt did fail, the worst that could happen is, it will tear your mind and consciousness apart, you could lose your mind and become a lifeless body or it could go haywire and go berserk” “you are telling me this now!?, are you insane!?” “don’t worry, it should mostly go as it should” “well now I am having a hard time believing it” A silver aura appeared around his palms but a spark pushed his hands aside, “there is something, rejecting me” said arystar, concentrated again and then spoke with a shock, “you are housing a spirit inside you!?” “well……it’s a long story. try it again and I’ll take care of it” (Arwin) Hey!, stop messing around and let us do our work (Zeke) oh, first i thought someone was bothering me, but this is something else. Finally something new and exciting in your head Then arystar performed the magic and connected his aura with arwin’s mind, he then concentrated on the surrounding. White aura from the surrounding especially from the grave was sucked out and flowed into him. Arwin closed his eyes, suddenly he felt a force pushing him aimlessly. The space around him was swirling like liquid and slowly started to settle and take form. It was great hall, on either side row of pillars, red carpet from the doorway till the thrones where the duke and duchess were seated. It was noisy, the court was filled with people and the proceedings were in order. The duke was giving the judgement and the duchess was waving a hand fan with boredom. (Arwin) where am i? what is going on? The doors behind him opened and a group of guards walked in formation, he quickly leaped aside and hid behind a pillar. He looked around and on the opposite side just like him behind another pillar was zeke, in his appearance of a young boy with his fangs out and his tail whipping about. “what the hell are you doing here?” said arwin “oh, you think I am going to miss this” said zeke (Arystar) Ariwn you are in one of Alvin’s memories…. (Arwin) Arystar?, are you in my head too? (Arystar) No, but the link of my magic and the memory you are currently in, is strong enough to make communication. Listen carefully, this is just a replay of a memory you are not really there, people will just walk through you, they can’t see you or hear you, but be careful you mind is living the memory. If you get in the middle of something fatal, nothing will happen to your body but your mind will feel the pain of it and it could be dangerous to your conscious. So better keep your distance and stay away from everyone. Now Alvin must be there somewhere, you have to find him and you might see something of value. And be quick if you are too late and Fiora couldn’t hold the barrier then your mind will be lost from your body forever. I won’t be able to talk to you again, good luck. Arwin realized of the importance and the danger of the situation he was in. If he couldn’t gather any relevant information they needed, he would have failed the mission and if he if was too late to do anything, he will be lost and as good as dead. All the things started to flood his mind and he froze where he stood. Then a hard fist connected to his face and he fell to the ground. On him was zeke, holding his shoulders. “are you just going to stand here and do nothing!?, don’t you have something to achieve?, don't you want your vengeance you crave for so much?, you cannot afford to die here and if you die I will never be free. So now get up and act! Or we both will cease to exist!” Arwin came back to his senses, he was not going to die here, there was much left for him to do. More to that, he was the one in the memory, everyone had agreed for him to do this, he could not fail them or himself. He got up, then a familiar name struck their ears. “bring the next criminal. Marco Mitchwell” said the steward standing on the side of the duke on a lower step. Arwin and zeke rushed ahead to see the accused and there he saw him, The guards dragged in a man in dressed in common clothing, it was Marco in his mid-forties, dirtied and bruised. “you are accused of witchcraft, black magic and to have small children involved in your sinful practices” “that is all rubbish, I have nothing to do with this” said marco struggling in the guard’s tight grip “do you deny that you are a mage and skilled one at that” said the steward “no, but--” “my lord, this man has been luring people to him, by showing them pretty tricks and used them for his own sins and now he has fallen even further to abduct a child, who came to him to see magic and is now missing.” “I did not invite, they came by themselves to see my work. It is not my fault if someone's kid is lost. I had nothing to do with it” said marco “we also have a confession from his accomplice who is in the prison at the moment and admitted of committing the sinful deeds together with this man” “I have no such accomplice. These are all lies!!” The duke took a moment then he spoke, “put him in the prison, he will be interrogated to get further details on this matter” “no! you have got the wrong person, I did not do it!!”, he yelled on as the guard dragged him out. Arwin and zeke rushed out the doorway, outside was large estate of the duke, gardens, quarters, etc. people of the castle going about their work, commoners, nobles, servants and guards. “they took him out from the other side of the fortress, the gates from outside are barred” said zeke “we’ll scale up the wall” said arwin They grabbed the corners of the wall and started climbing, stepping on the structures and carvings on the wall, they pulled themselves grabbing on the metal bars on the glass windows and got on the lower roof. Arwin looked back and saw the city, so many years ago the buildings were short, and no large monuments or structures of the buildings. He could not recognize the city they were in, may be it was different kingdom far away from Azpacia. They went across the roof to the backside, he saw the guards dragged marco towards the prison. They got down the same way and followed. Through the back yard and several steps going down was the prison. A tower at the edge of a rocky slope, the guards pushed open the door, guards were circled at the centre as a duel was in progress and they placed their bets. The guards holding marco pushed through the crowd and went downstairs. Arwin and zeke stayed at the door, “should we just go through them” said zeke “we could, but the room is filled with guards all armed with weapons, if we get even a little cut it might be dangerous” said arwin “aren’t you being too paranoid, they can’t feel you or hear you, you are not even here” “maybe I am, but you know what he said better to keep our distance, we must look for another way across the room”said arwin Zeke looked around, the room was filled with guards, workers and servants ,at the tables drinking, playing cards and some of them simply making noise with the duel going on at the centre, he looked up and the ceiling was quite high “in that case I have a way” said zeke and turned his palms into large claws like a werewolf, but without the fur. A few moments later, they were crawling upside down, on the ceiling. Zeke was small in size but he had held arwin between himself and the ceiling to which he grabbed with his big claws. They were moving over the duel. Suddenly his claws slipped and they both were falling straight down. Arwin quickly grabbed his tail and threw him back up, he flipped and landed right between the duel, zeke was back on the ceiling and then a sword went through arwin’s torso, another slashed through his skull, then few more slashes and stabs, he got caught up between the swordplay . Though the blades went straight through him he was stunned and fell on the ground unconscious as the guards carried on, Zeke jumped off down, quickly grabbed him and pushed through the thinnest part of the crowd luckily without anymore scrapes. On the altar arwin’s body was reacting like a fish out of water, black lightning formed around his hands and swing them randomly, accidently stabbed arystar in abdomen, “ahhhh!!” he yelled as his blood splashed on the ground, Gilbert quickly grabbed arwin and held him straight, “what’s going on?” he asked “his mind is tearing apart” he said as he moaned from the wound. Zeke carried him underground to the cells. He placed him on the ground, his magic essence was pouring out from the places he was cut. “come on!, wake up you”, zeke shook him, but he was like a dead body and his essence was fading slowly. Zeke placed his hands on his torso and transferred his essence into him. A moment later arwin opened his eyes and got up, he felt the pain running through him. Zeke’s figure had gotten translucent and weak, “what happened to you!?” said arwin “don’t worry about it”he said, exhausted, “I’ll have to disappear for now, go on ahead and find what you are looking for” “Listen what you did just now, i….you….” “save it for later, you don’t have much time” said zeke and then vanished into thin air. On the altar arwin had stopped moving and was still, “is he dead?” asked gilbert “no, he is fine now” Gilbert quickly took out a bandage and wrapped around arystar’s wound, but the blood still dripped and formed a puddle under him. “he has to get it done quick”said fiora “I can only hold a few minutes” Arwin was running past the cells, with prisoners everywhere, he finally caught up to marco. The jailer threw marco in, that was already occupied. “there!, stay with your friend who betrayed you, you might as well kill each other” said the jailer and went away. Marco got up and saw his so called partner in crime, he came running to the man and kicked him in the guts, “who are you and why are you doing this to me!?” The man stood up coughing and stumbling, “is that any way to greet you old friend” he said and threw back his hood and it was Alvin, roughed up and bruised, his hairs grey hanging his face that was getting old, he was probably in his late fifties. “by the god of heaven and hell , bloody fuck, is that really you?” “Well it’s no whore standing naked in front of you, he chuckled Marco came to him again and punched him in the gut, Alvin fell to the ground. “what the fuck are you doing here? and why have you dragged me here and what is going on?” asked marco Alvin sat up and rested against the wall, laughing and breathing hard “are you alright?, that punch wasn’t that hard” said marco “come here my friend, I need to tell you something, that’s why I had to frame you, to get you here”, marco sat next to Alvin. “15 years ago I left, to journey on my own and to unravel the secrets of the dragon soul in me and I did it. I have learned the secret of the dragon soul” “and…” “the dragon soul will only reach its full form if it is contained in a single host as one, that’s why it cannot sustain divided forever, the soul needs to be one” “wait, then that means--” “yes I am going to die soon. But together the soul complete, corrupts its host and will take over the person. That is what the dragon spirit wants, to have a physical form in this world, but it has been hidden from men for too long. I have already divided the one half in me into more pieces and hidden it, never to be found. My brother is in the darkness he will come after it, promise me you will save him from the dragon spirit and himself. If the spirit becomes one inside him it will bring a new era of darkness. Promise me you will avoid that no matter what.” “i…..i’ll try” “you won’t be able to do it alone, you will need help. Get out of here and form your team, gather the wizards and witches. I am sorry I have to put this burden on you, but this part of our journey, you will have to make without me” said Alvin, “I’ll need to rest now” then he rested his head on the stone and closed his eyes Arwin witnessed the entire scene and then his surrounding melted again and swirled around him, he closed his eyes and when he opened he was laying on the altar. Arystar fell back holding his wound, fiora also fell back exhausted and weak. “got you out at the last moment” said arystar with grin, “you didn’t really think I’d let anything happen to you?” “actually for a moment I did thought so” said arwin as he slowly got up on the altar, then he saw the wound on arystar, “ I…..did that?” he said “never mind that, tell us everything you saw” And then he told them about the meet of Alvin and Marco he saw. They did got the information they wanted, but as limited as it was, even after long discussion none of them could come up with a way to destroy the dragon spirit. “I am sorry I couldn’t get more relevant information” said arwin “there wasn’t really much that you could do” said arsytar “so what do we do about it?”asked fiora “I’ll find a way to deal with it, for now we return back Isengard. There is nothing left here” said arystar “please tell me you know a way out of here” said fiora “ofcourse I know. But how about we try to find one” said arystar “oh no” said the rest of them with a sigh in unison
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2014-10-14, 14:52 | Link #65 |
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
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finally able to post the next chapter, its exams season and i have finals coming, so probably the next update might also be late, i hope the readers have not completely forgotten the story or alteast remember the main points of it.
These delays really mess up with my writing, but what can you do important stuff in real life, i am glad if someone is still reading this XD will try to post next update as soon as possible. "Chapter 32: Renewal" Spoiler for Chapter 32: Renewal:
All the pieces were brought together, all that remains is the ritual to be done. Ever since his fight with Lukas when the spirit powers in him had burst out, he has stopped healing and his body was slowly getting weaker by every passing day. Rowena, Kevin and the healer, sat on the floor of kevin’s study in their guild fortress. Kevin was covered in enchanted wrappings that held his injuries but it couldn’t heal completely. Drawn on the floor was a pentagram inside a spirit summoning magic circle. At each point of the star a piece of Alvin’s dragon soul was placed. A orb, a goblet, a model of a pyramid, a pocket watch and a pendant.
Kevin coughed blood in pain from the injuries he had suffered. “are you alright?, can you make it” asked Rowena “this is nothing, I have waited long for it and now my suffering shall end” said kevin He took off the excessive clothing and the wrappings off, his shirt stained by the gore underneath and stood between the circles, they moved back. Using the dragon spirits essence he performed a summoning ritual, the drawing under him began to shine. Suddenly he felt a tug in his chest and he was suspended in the air with a magical aura surrounding him. The fragments of the spirit from each container started flowing into him. Grey dragon wings emerged from his back tearing his skin, lines of blood all over it and dripping on the floor, in a few moments his injuries began to heal rapidly as the power surged through his body. The next moments in a flash all the magical presence vanished and kevin fell to ground on his knees and the wings around him like a shield. Rowena slightly touched him, he looked up with little blue smoke escaping from his eyes and mouth, his eyes had changed to dark red. “Kevin?” she said He got up, “finally the relief I feel”, he took a deep breath and started walking out leaving a trail of dark aura behind him. She could feel the magical pressure from him, there was a definite change in his magic essence. They followed him. He came to the balcony in the hall, placed high and the rest of the guild was standing below looking up towards him, chatter ran among them as they gazed upon the new appearance of their master. He spread his wings and he released his magic displaying them his newly found power. They stomped and cheered, admiring him as they felt his power. A few moments later, some of them fell to the ground lifeless and a few more followed. The healer on Kevin’s side fell as well. Others were surprised to the sudden change in the nature of the room, which was a moment ago majestic and bright, now was dark and murderous. One by one they fell, until only a handful of them remained. Kevin looked at them with amusement, then he turned towards Rowena, “so, belzarius wants us in, into yet another of his schemes. Well go ahead, but these are the only ones needed” he said gesturing towards the few wizards than remained, “do as you will, you are in charge now. Do not disturb me, no matter what.” he said, walked back into his study and slammed the door shut. Rowena was on her toes almost to jump as he spoke to her. He spoke with a dark voice and his magic had dangerous intent she felt. She calmed and looked down, they watched as if seen a ghost or a god. ………………………………………….. While they were away, Gus, Erica and Irena had managed to make the warehouse more suitable to live in. They still sat on barrels but now there was a table cloth on the table and supplies in the storage. After they returned, they shared of what they had learned yet there was no possible solution. They all spent the morning cleaning and arranging the warehouse, some of them were out on odd jobs trying to make up funds for their little group. At noon, they all were gathered “we really need a big job, if we want to keep operating in any way possible” said irena “its really hard to get a proper job for a wizard not from a guild” said Erica “I heard they have assigned a new guild for the city, called Shadow Rage”said gus, the name ring a bell in arwin “excuse me what you said?, which guild?” asked arwin “Shadow Rage” he repeated (Arwin) oh fuck After some time there was a knock on the door and an unknown person stepped in, cloaked but his white robes with blue lining still visible. “I am looking for the wizard of dragonest, the town’s people told I could find one here” he said, everyone looked at him suspiciously “who are you and what business do you have?” asked Gus, while Erica was slowly moving on the left of the stranger. “my name in Ewen and my business is with dragonest” he said, next moment Erica moved past him swiftly ripping out his cloak, on his back was the insignia of the magic council. “he is the magic council!” she yelled The next moment ewen blocked gus’s fist from the front that slightly pushed him back, fiora released an arc of zaiphon string, he ducked as the arc slightly chopped his hair bangs. He caught a crimson blade from behind in his bare hand, he pulled on it and caught Erica by her throat and threw her on gus who was approaching from front. He looked above and gilbert was upside down fired a stream of blue flames. Ewen jumped into the flames and passed though it without a scratch, in a flash he was behind gilbert upside down, he caught him by the collar, and jumped downwards, in midair he twisted and slammed gilbert on the floor. Erica leaped at him with blades blazing in her hands, he stepped ahead and caught her wrists, he heard lightning crackling behind him, using her as support he pulled Erica down and jumped over her, arwin attacking him with speed dashed into erica, they rolled over on the floor and hit the wall. Ewen landed on his feet and took a hit by gus’s enhanced fist in his stomach. The force behind gus’s attack broke the floor under ewen’s feet. Ewen, grabbed gus and hit him in the same manner, he went flying and crashed on the barrels. Suddenly magic blast infront of ewen, that slide him backwards and arystar stood infront of him. Other mages got on their feet and surrounded him. “enough!” said ewen, “it seems I have found what I was looking for. I only mean to talk, so stand down” “what do you want to talk?” asked arystar “I need your help” he said A few moments later they were all seated at the table, the mages looking at him with suspicion and caution, ready to react at any surprise. “what do you want?” asked arystar Ewen placed a note on the table, “this is an undocumented mission, assigned to this guild at urgency, by my master Gareth Blackwood, few months ago.” He said, “he was murdered and I need to know if you have any information about this matter" “that is the mission we were assigned to, to disable the guild in Lybster, that is all to it” said gilbert “It has nothing connected else connected to your master” said arystar, “And why would we help you after what the council did to us” “I do not follow” said ewen “as you would have already heard that this guild was destroyed. We were attacked by our enemies and the council had a hand in aiding them against us” he said “I know nothing of this.” “then you are even a bigger fool that you look, you don’t even know what the council is using its powers for” said gilbert “if what you say is true. This is not the council’s operation, a higher wizard from the council must have helped your enemies, not just me but no one as heard a single word of this in the council. This is someone’s personal business.” said ewen “it seems there is a lot going on everywhere and I can’t help but think, all this is somehow connected” said ewen , “I came here looking for clues that could lead me to my master’s murderer, but now there is something else coming, bigger than anything and you guys are perfect for it. I want to hire your gang” Everyone reacted with surprise, “what are you talking about?” said gilbert “there is a conspiracy among the council and the nobility, that could plunge this country into chaos and put the wizards and nobles in a state of war” he said and placed a sketched picture of Rowena on the table, “the archmage has hired her guild for a special purpose, to take place four months from now, during the Festival of Foundings.” Arystar’s expression changed into disbelief when he saw the picture, the opportunity he had been looking for had come to his doorstep. “why would we want to meddle in the matters of---” gus was saying “we will do it” arystar cut in between, everyone looked at him, confused and surprised. “your task will be to uncover this plot and assist me during the festival and destroy her guild, there could be battle” said ewen “yes, we are ready for it. but no group can function without funds” said arystar “I understand” said ewen and placed a parchment on the table, “there is a fixed deposit in the state treasury, use this to get your funds form my account. You have four months to prepare.” After discussing a few other formalities, he was gone. Everyone jumped at arystar with questions, “what was that?, why did you agree to work with him?” asked erica “I thought we were to strike against our enemies” said arwin “That picture, she is our enemy” said arystar, “she is Kevin’s wizard and he as well as his guild will be there at Talmar for the festival. This is the perfect opportunity for us to strike. Everything that Marco started has come to this, by the time the festival ends, so shall Kevin.” At his words there was a motivation and a fire among the rest of them. They were ready to fight and avenge their guild and finish what their master had started. As the sun was down, arwin was wandering the streets after running some errands. He walked alone but could hear the footsteps that followed him at every corner he turned and ever street he walked. He walked into a dark alley and stopped, full aware that he was being followed for some time now, “okay step out” he spoke, “I know you are there”, then a few figures dropped from above, and infront of him was a familiar face, “I am not surprised to see you here” said arwin “well after the way we parted the last time, I had to give you a visit” said Bryce, “and now since my guild if the operating one of this city, it was just a matter of time until we ran into each other” “what do you want?” said ariwn “do you remember the last time we meet?, you cost me my mission, because of you I had to return failed, I was humiliated!” “so?, not my problem” “ofcourse it isn’t, its my problem and I have found a proper solution for it”, Bryce and his lackeys closed in surrounding him. “you want to do this?, you’ll regret it”, said arwin a foot hit the back of his knee, he stumbled and they caught his arms and held him in place. “oh really” said Bryce, grabbing arwin’s hairs and pulling his head up “with six of us and one of you, I think I’ll take my chances” , and a fist hit in his stomach another kick on his face and he blacked out. His eyes opened a little, his vision blur and his head exploding with pain. As he was lay sideways on the ground, he could taste blood in his mouth and feel the filth of the street on his skin, then he was unconscious. Later at night, with their usual income gone they all had shifted to living in the warehouse where most of them slept wherever they could. Irena walked up to the roof and saw arwin laying on the roof tiles in the open, gazing into the starry sky, she came to him and sat next to him, “aren’t you cold out here?” she asked He turned and said “a little………..”, and she saw his bruised face, especially a big red mark under his eye. At first she was surprised and concerned, but then spoke with a taunt, “you seem to have a knack for getting into trouble” “it seems so” he said chuckling and back to gazing into the dark skies “what are you thinking so much about?” she asked “wondering, what I set out to do and where I am, from the guild to now with the council” he said “you might never know where you end up” she said He sat up sitting close next to her, “where were you before coming to this guild?” he asked, out of everyone else Irena was the only one with whom he could open a bit and share little about himself and ask the same. “as far as I can remember, I don’t know what place it was but surely far from here. I used to live on streets and slums, orphaned and alone. There theft and murder was common, I too had to steal and kill to survive. One day I was starving to death and there was another group of kids who had food, I begged them, but they simply laughed at me. One of them threw some crumbs of bread at me, as I went for it he stomped on it. At that moment I wanted nothing more but to kill them all, just to see them fill their bellies while I starve made me mad, then suddenly I felt a surge of power in me. The weakness was gone and my body reacted in a strange way. The ground below me cracked and the stones were floating, I waved my hand and they were knocked back to the wall with great force, I beat them all to pulp and stole their food. The only thing remained of them was gutted corpse and spattered blood. Word spread around quickly of a witch on the streets and I was arrested by the city watch. I was sentenced to death and to make the execution as public as possible to make an example of one who uses magic to steal. In the town square at my beheading when the blade was about to fall on my neck, a masked man suddenly appeared and caused a chaos blowing up the crates and carriage and used a smoke screen. A few moments later when my eyes opened, I was being carried by him far away form that place and under that mask was marco. How he found me I do not know but it changed my life. He taught me how to control my powers but still I can’t control them, it simply comes and goes that’s why I can’t perform normal magic and now here I am.” Arwin simply looked at her, the way she smiled and he could never see the harsh past in her. Despite her suffering she was not troubled by her past. He felt envious the way she had left that part of her behind forever, something he was never able to do that still haunted him. “so are your powers dangerous?” he asked “yes they are and it has grown over time. But don’t worry I won’t kill you by mistake” she said humorously He chuckled, “we all have demons inside, I literally have one” he said , they laughed and talked some more until they both fell asleep on the roof facing the dark sky lit by stars.
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2014-11-30, 08:41 | Link #66 |
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
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for any one who still reads this, thank you so much for following it this far, i will be getting on to writing now, already started on the next chapter and will update it here in a few days.
"Chapter 33: Old Enemy, New Friend" Spoiler for Chapter 33: Old Enemy, New Friend:
Now with a big job in hand and their personal task in line with it, the funds for their group were secured and there were resources in their storage. They focused on their final confrontation with their nemesis few months from now, unaware of the bigger danger brewing somewhere else that will put the entire system of the mages and nobility into chaos.
Arwin walked in the yard to where arystar stood few steps from him, lost in his own thoughts he ignored when arwin came and stood next to him, “I need to talk about something” said arwin “what troubles you?” he asked “ewen from the council said there is a conspiracy going on and it was to unravel at the festival, maybe we should look into that, this could be even a bigger danger that we are underestimating” he said “he did not ask us to investigate, he asked us to prepare and train, for now we wait for further orders” said arystar “about that, there is something else I want to ask” said arwin “I am listening” “will you train me in magic and in combat?”, arystar looked at him surprised “what makes you think I could train you?, I have never taken an apprentice, I do not know how to teach and I am not really the teacher kind, sorry but I cannot train you” said arystar, “but I will tell you this, that start preparing right now, it will be best for you to improve as much as possible” Arwin let out a frustrated sigh, “fine, I understand” he said and walked away. ………………………………………….. At the council….. Belzarius was strolling in the corridor outside his office, he went in and saw a familiar face sitting in his chair and his feet rested on the table. “do you have any idea what madness will breakout, if anyone was to see you here” said belzarius “I know, that’s why I am here, getting comfy in your seat, where no one enters without your permission” said Vincent as he took a bite form the apple he was tossing. He jumped out and came to belzarius, “so do you have the heart of Verloren?” he asked and took another bite. Belzarius walked past him and opened a secret compartment in the wall behind his chair. From within he took out the black orb, golden lines floating around it like its aura and showed it to Vincent. Vincent took the orb, and looked at it intently and a grim smile stretched across him face. He took out another orb, this one was completely transparent but with the same golden lining pattern on it. “Heart of Erloser” said vincent “are you sure of it?” asked belzarius “yes my friend, I was born with the memories of this and all the past, I have lived through many ages with different lives, different bodies but one soul and the purpose of each life has finally led to this” he said, placing the orbs on the table. “Legends become bed time stories, the reality and its importance fades away. However the stories remain the same across the ages. These orbs are the source and essence of the power. One is the evil that will plunge the world into chaos and other is the savior that will sacrifice itself and save the world. That is the truth that I was born with and it has remained the absolute conclusion in every age” said Vincent “Then what difference does it makes this time” asked belzarius “The difference is, that this time I have both the powers” he said with a grin lifting the orbs one in each hand, “……and nothing will come in my way now” “Yes, but that’s enough of your fantasy, do not forget for what purpose we need these powers” said belzarius “of course” he said, “legends will have to wait while real conflicts are at hand and I am grateful to you, had you not sucked the money we required for the search form the that noble dick Sanza, I would not have found the heart of Erloser” said Vincent and tossed the black orb back to belzarius “Yes, I am to meet him tonight, he along with a few other nobles have arranged to play their hand during the festival” “The bastard doesn’t realize there are more players in this game, I believe you have played it well and everything will go as planned. I will meet you when the time comes” said Vincent, a dark aura swirled around him and he disappeared in thin air. Later that night…. Belzarius travelled through his long distance portal, the spell would usually require some preparation to cast but made travel much easier, especially when concerned with an important matter as this. He arrived at an abandoned watchtower, in the route between Isengard and Talmar. There were two horses in the stable and a cat, pointy ears and large claws, crouching on the lantern above the entrance, he realized he was at the right place. The cat turned into smoke and slid underneath the door. Belzarius followed, inside the cat waited for him, the creature walked down the circular stairs that went underground. The cellar was lit with floating light orbs and two noblemen waited inside. Emilio Sanza dressed in his rich attire, his symbol of higher nobility, the shiny sapphire broach on his coat and Ricardo Ferenz was seated helped himself to another glass of wine. “isn’t this place too open to meet?” asked belzarius as he walked in. “it is in the open, but not in use and this cellar is hidden, even if someone worked here, he would not find it” said Ricardo “Gentlemen, I believe we have time for idle talk later” said Emilio “Master Belzarius, I hope all my investment in your magic ventures have not been for nothing, do you have what we require?” said Emilio “Be at ease my lords, I have it”, he took out the black orb and placed it on the table. Emilio smiled at seeing the object, ricardo poured three glasses and handed one to each. “You have delivered” he said, “and finally we are here. Now the only thing to do wait till the festival”, they raised their glasses and drank. “Invitations to the court dinner has been sent to all the higher noble houses” said ricardo “I have hired the group of rogues, just in case if there is any resistance. There is a minor complication however” said belzarius, “there is someone in the council who suspects that something is about to happen. And is sniffing around” “if this person is getting close to us you must silence him, as simple as that” said Emilio and sipped another gulp “rest assured, by the time of the festival this won’t be a problem” said belzarius The three drank at the success of their deal and further discussed about the use of the black orb. The wizard went from the cellar itself making a portal and the noblemen wore dark robes to hide themselves in the dark and went opposite ways on their steads. Emilio took the black orb with him, which was the key to the success of his plans. As the day of the festival approached closer, so did the disaster. ………………………………………………………. At dusk, the final golden rays through the forest that parted at every tree among which arwin had begun his training by himself. He blasted several trunks with his lightning. Even though he practiced the magic he did not felt any improvement, he felt an uncertainty, the feeling of not knowing what to do to get better. He spent time staring into the air trying to think, but it was a welter of confusion, doubt and uneasiness that clouded his mind. He conjured a jag of black lightning in his right palm, ran forward and shoved it into a tree, its truck blasted into smithereens. Both his hands from the tip of his fingers to his forearms were red and covered scratches, cuts and bruises drenched in blood from the hours he had spent doing this. The more he did it the less was his confidence. His own dilemma was not the only thing that was eating him, the pressure of their fight and the pressure of his peers only added on to it. From over the top of a tall rocky hill, arytsar watched over him for some time, he saw arwin struggling physically as well as mentally. But the longer he waited for arwin to get better on his own, the worse he became instead. At last he went down to him. He looked at the mess arwin had made of himself and the surrounding, “looks like you are onto something” he said Arwin looked at him through the bangs of his hair, “if you are not going to help at least don’t mock me” he said breathing heavily “what’s the problem?” he asked “it’s that….” He was hesitant to talk, but he had to speak up now, “how could I get better, how do I become stronger. Everyone else is better at magic and combat than me, I know that and they expect no less from me……….. you would expect no less from me, I cannot fail them. Knowing that they are already ahead of me only makes it worse, I just can’t think straight. I just don’t know what to do” Arystar listened to him but could not think of any appropriate words to comfort him, but he knew what must be done now, “fine, I’ll train you” he said, suddenly a ray of hope shined in arwin, but then with his usual cynical thoughts it diminished again. “you will?, but why?, why would you do it for me now?” asked arwin “you are right, I expect no less from you and I cannot have someone weak and doubtful on my team” ,he placed a hand on his shoulder, “ but more than that how could I lead you if I cannot help you when in need” he said, arwin felt the words comforting. “we have a few months, but I cannot train you here. In a few days we will have to go to some other place I know. Wrap up whatever business you have here for now, in few days we leave this place” said arystar
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2015-01-03, 14:25 | Link #67 |
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
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finally i am able to update the story and post it here, lot of things going on and i am just not able to write as much as i want to, but i will keep trying to post new chapters as soon as possible.
"Chapter 34: Knowing" Spoiler for Chapter 34: Knowing:
At the council…
Ewen had been researching the archives of the council for weeks trying to find a clue as to what was going on in the shadows, who were the people pulling strings. The more closer he felt the farther things got away from him. So far he knew that someone with a big authority had something planned for the festival and someone from the council has a hand in it. But his investigation were interrupted one night when he sneaked into the private archives of the council’s high wizards and read up on their records, for the information he found there was enough to get himself killed. At dawn Avaline came to Ewen’s chambers, when she opened the door and looked inside, the furniture was broken and lying on the floor, the room was a mess as if a berserk troll was set free into the room. Blood and piles of ash scattered on the floor, she looked around and saw him. At the far corner of the room, ewen was on the floor leaning against the wall in pool of his own blood, holding the blood from the stab wounds with one hand and a bottle of wine in another, there were cuts and bruises on his face and arms and three stabs in his torso. She came running to him quickly grabbed a cloth and pressed it against the wounds. “what happened!?” she asked, frightened “Assassins, three of them caught me by surprise. I got injured but killed them off. When I went to unmask them, they set on fire and within minutes burned down to ash. Few moments later the poison kicked in and I was paralyzed, somehow got against the wall and held the wound to stop the bleeding” he said “who would do this to you?” she asked “many people actually. Though I am speaking right now, but I am in a lot of pain”he chuckled, “i put all my strength into my arms and was somehow able to move them, have been drinking all night to make the pain go, yet it pains so bad that I did not pass out by the booze. I feared if I crawled outside more of them might show up” “I’ll get you fixed” she said, she got her hands around him and picked him up. She carried him out and to the infirmary. After few hours of waiting while the healers did their work on him, she went in and saw him resting on the bed. She sat next to him and held his hand, “are you alright?” she asked “I am fine”he said, “ …but this place is not, someone here really doesn’t want me finding about what is going on in the council and that someone is among the remaining high wizards” Belzarius barged in, “oh master Ewen look at you, how did this happen?” “A late night hunting trip, the dire wolves in the forest are shaken it seems they don’t like anyone getting in their territory, as if they are hiding something, strange wouldn’t you say” said Ewen, though his story was vauge but the meaning was oblivious to belzarius “well I wouldn’t know about that” said belzarius, “i am sure you will make a full recovery. Now if you excuse me there matters await my presence” “a word of advice though master ewen” he said standing at the door, “you shouldn’t be hunting in such dangerous places, this time you barely made it out with your life, who know what might happen next time…..”, then he strolled off Avaline turned to ewen with concern, “what did he mean?” she asked “it means we are getting close to our target and belzarius doesn’t like it. The oddest thing I noticed in the archives of the high wizards is that he ordered various vague searches and expeditions for magical research, however none of the council’s funds were used and the one who led these expeditions, was Vincent Klaus who retired and disappeared without a trace.” “what do we do now?” she asked “I need to get to find out what belzarius is doing” he tried to get up, but groaned in pain. She pushed him back on the bed “you are not going anywhere!” she said ,” you need to rest and recover, leave it to me” ………………………………………………………… “so he didn’t tell you where they went?”, asked erica, gulping the rest of the drink from her cup “no, he said they it was for training and it could take some months, if they are late they will join us at Talmar” said Irena “I never thought artystar was the teacher type” said gilbert sitting beside her “neither did I” she said, “ but arwin said that arystar wanted to take the trip somewhere else” It had been a few days since they left and others were getting on with their work and training, preparing for their final job in the big city. Among the eastern forest was small village where usually merchants and travelers rested in between their journey. The village was nothing other than ordinary, chickens, pigs, sheeps roaming the streets, people going about their work, group of kids beating up some other group of kids. Young men eyeing the fair maidens while some ugly hag begging and babbling at the people. Some merchants had set up tents selling fancy goods from the various cities to the simple people of the village. The inn and the bar made a good business from these travelers. They had rented a room in the local inn and wandered off into the woods after filling their bellies at the breakfast. In the middle of some grassland they stood, face to face “where do we start?” asked arwin “before we begin, I need to understand how to train you, I need to know your magic, the way you fight..” said arystar walking around him, “for that I need to look into your memories” “no way” said arwin “do not worry I do not intend to pry in your past, I can isolate the events of your recent fights and look just into them” he explained “if you want me to train you, it is necessary for me to know you” Arwin did not like the sound of it, but he had come here now and there was no going back, the only thing that mattered right now for him was to become powerful. “alright” he said bitterly, “but don’t fuck up my mind” Arystar came closer to him, then an aura came out of arwin and manifested infront of them in an appearance of a boy, with a pointy tail and dark red eyes. “before you go on a your mind date, let me get out of here. I wouldn’t wanna get squashed between your stupid matters again” said zeke and walked away as quick as he can and wandered out of sight “now that we have no one to interrupt us with their comments, let’s start” said arystar He placed his hands on arwin’s shoulder, palms outstretched. His aura flowed out of his hands and surrounded arwin’s head. Arystar closed his eyes and when he opened, he was in a large underground hall. He was in a spectral form in the surrounding and infront of him was arwin fighting a werewolf. He observed it carefully as erica and raegan entered the scene and arwin struggled to fight, but somehow he was able to get control of himself and devised a make or break strategy and together with erica they defeated their enemies. He went deeper into his mind and witnessed his battles during the noble war in isengard, his death match with Vincent where he almost died, many encounters with Bryce, all the fights he picked up at the guild. These scenes played infront of him and he observed the way arwin fought and how he used his magic, his strength and his weakness. He also saw all the people he killed, some for his missions, some for his gain and some brutally in pure anger. In all this arystar noticed that during battle arwin would often fall weak due to his inner conflict and emotions, sometimes he bounced back sometimes he did not, either way mostly he got beat up. This anxiety and emotional weakness of his almost cost him his life but sometimes he killed in burst of anger. He could not understand the reason for such turmoil in him. Then he felt a raging aura, it was like a different section of memories that were shut off. Arystar thought he could find some meaning in them but did not wanted to look into his past life. But with all that he had seen till now he was confused and could not figure out arwin’s mental state in battle. He then tapped into his deep memories, suddenly it started to overflow in arystar’s mind, the entire life of arwin form his childhood till now started flowing into his head and most of it was just suffering and pain. Outside they stood face to face and arwin’s memories caught hold of him and pulled him in, he was not able to sever their connection. Blood started to flow from their nose and ears. As arystar went through arwin’s life experiencing his tragedies and despair, arwin cried in pain as he himself was experiencing the same all over again at once, arystar groaned in pain but they were stunned. In the moment all arystar could do other than suffer with arwin was utter a few words, “you are a poor, miserable person!” he said “please stop it!, get out of my head, leave me alone!” cried arwin, tears running down his face “I don’t want to know you!” said arystar, the magic exploded between them and threw them opposite directions. But before they disconnected some of arystar memories flowed into arwin’s mind. He saw flashes of arystar walking through various unknown places, but in all of them he looked the same as he looked right now, as if he had never aged a day and there were no memories of his childhood. He saw arystar and marco together, in which marco was a young man and arystar was still the same and then arwin found himself in chapel, arystar stood in a groom’s outfit and a woman in a wedding dress, her hair jet black with dark violet highlights, it was the same woman who’s picture Ewen had shown them, the one who was now operating Kevin’s guild. Arystar stood with her for marriage and then his memories were gone. Arwin just lay on the grass stunned after reliving everything and the shocking revelation of arystar, more blood flowed out of his ears and nose. Arystar got up stumbling and walked away without a word and left him behind. By night fall arwin had managed pick himself up and dragged himself to the inn’s bar where he sat drinking by himself trying to make his mind numb but the booze was not helping. When all the people were gone and arwin was sitting alone with another bottle of rum, arystar came in “hey listen..” he reached out his hand to arwin. Arwin quickly turned smashed the bottle on the table and pointed the broken edge at arystar, arwin was frightened and in terrible state. “who and what are you?”asked arwin “you need to calm down, its me, what are you talking about?” said arystar “don’t play fool with me, I saw in your memories too, how is it that you are same age over large span of years. what is going on? And that woman, you are married to that woman who commands kevin’s guild, do you work for her!? are you going to kill us!?” said arwin confused and scared “I’ll tell you everything but first settle down, I am not going to hurt you” said arystar, somehow arwin felt like trusting him still being on guard at all times, after a few minutes when they were seated and calm. “I am four hundred and thirty nine years old” said arystar, arwin looked at him with shock “how is it even poss—“ he cut off arwin with a wave of hand. “it all started many hundred years ago, that time magic was still a mystery. However I had a talent for it since I was boy. When the word of my skill spread, the people in my village believed that my mother was a witch and had spawned the son of devil. So they tied my mother to a wooden pole and burned her alive, she had sent me away that day and saved me. After that I kept running keeping my skills hidden, but I could not just accept the misery and suffering that came upon me. I researched into magic learning new spells and new types of magic. After years of studying, one day I tried to resurrect my dead mother using necromancy that backfired on me, the life that is supposed to be poured in the dead was put into me and my life extended exponentially, which resulted in agelessness. I kept searching for more years after that, but eventually had to accept there was no magic that could bring the dead back and had to live on with this curse and I became an unwanted witness of history and time. Throughout the years I traveled many places, got involved in many things, all the time learning and trying to make magic a better useful tool. I never thought I would see this day when magic is used so commonly. But when I had lived over a hundred years I was lost, frustrated, depressed not knowing what to do and wising for my life to end. Sixty years ago I was simply wandering aimlessly, scrapping from the streets among beggars waiting to die. Marco found me, I do not know how or what brought him to me, but he found me out and helped me. He gave me a purpose to live, a purpose to use my skills for, he gave me a new life. Ever since then we have been at chasing after Kevin. That is why I use to visit the guild rarely, so others would not notice me.” It was a lot for arwin to take in, to first believe he was sitting next to an immortal man, but some things about arystar would make sense with this story. As everyone would call marco as master, arystar called him by name and he often acted as an elder looking down on them as kids. It took him a few moments to process it “…..and what of that woman,Rowena. She commands kevin’s mages now. How are you related to her?” asked arwin “four years ago, I was on a mission. That was when I met her in a town and we fell in love, after my mission was done I stayed there for her. We had gotten very close to each other and decided to get married. In the midst of passion and affection I had forgotten what I was. All my life I had lived watching my loved ones die and this would have been no different, I could not do this to her. So on the day of the wedding I ran away. It was a cruel thing to do to her, but I thought it would be best for her to find someone normal and live a happy life, never in my wildest dreams could I have thought that I would meet her again as my enemy bent on taking revenge on me. I am the reason she is fighting against us.” “do you still love her?”asked arwin with suspicion “do not worry, I will not let my comrades die over a fool’s love” said arystar “I…this…, I don’t know what to say, this is too much to take in” said arwin “This is the truth of my life and this is it. we are here now, what do we decide now is what matters.” said arystar, “I have experienced your life as well arwin. All the pain and suffering from your own people, I get it. The hate and anger you feel because of all the disasters happening around you and the frustration of failing yourself. I have been dealing with all this shit for hundreds of years. So I get it, we both lack the guts to end our own lives so we just live on, the only thing we can do is try to make it better in any way possible life has been unfair and unjust to both of us, but that doesn’t mean we stop trying. I am with you and I will make you stronger, will you follow me now.” “and how will you do it” asked arwin “we both have gone through your memories in pain, but atleast something good came out of it. Now I know you and I know how to train you.”
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2015-02-06, 12:33 | Link #68 |
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
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i know its quite late since the last update but have been busy with exams, but now its almost over.
the story is entering its final phase i dont want it taking forever, so i'll buckle down and write as much as i can as fast as i can. will try to update the story atleast twice in this month. so better got to it. hope you like the new chapter. "Chapter 35: Training" Spoiler for Chapter 35: Training:
Avaline placed her foot and climbed higher, she was hundred feet above the ground. In the cover of night she was climbing onto the highest tower of the council’s main tower. At this height, it would be impossible to guard the tower from outside. She climbed on further as the cold breeze of the night touched her skin, her grip loosened and she slipped but quickly caught on the wall with other hand. She kept on going higher until she reached a glass window. She peeked inside belzarius’s office and was shocked to see Vincent talking with him, since the window was sealed glass, she could not hear the words, but from their expressions she could tell, this was no friendly reunion.
Suddenly they stopped talking and Vincent turned his gaze at the window, she realized she hadn’t masked her magic presence. An aura was forming around vincent’s palm, before he made another move she let go and was falling straight down. A shockwave of vincent’s magic essence expanded on the higher floor to detect any magical presence which she escaped but now she was headed directly down towards the ground. The wall of the tower was a few feet away from her. With few seconds to her body splattered on the ground she used her magic. White angelic wings appeared on her back, with one flap she was on the wall sliding few feet down but was able to hang onto it and the wings immediately disappeared. She let out a sigh and then quickly climbed onto one of the safe rooms nearby and quickly to see Ewen. “what do you think it means?, now with Vincent in the picture” she asked Ewen still rested on the bed recovering from his wounds, “it means Vincent and Belzarius are in it together. Of course that is why Vincent had left before so that he could keep working on their coup while belzarius hold onto the official things here” he said “so they plan to do something at the festival a couple months from now, but why would they hire mages from Kevin’s disbanded guild” “yes and we can stay assured whatever it is they are planning is not going to be pleasant. Its so much more clear now. Vincent disappears, then garret is killed, his archives are assigned to other wizards, an easy way to alter any form of documentation made by him. Then Kevin’s guild destroys the Dragonest guild. The council takes no action stating dragonest had gone rogue and attacked the guild in Lybster before.” he explained “so if belzarius is the one who took over garett’s archives, it means dragonest was innocent and belzarius erased the proof of it and that kevin and belzarius are allies. It also means that Vincent and Belzarius are ones killed Gareth, despite who did the kill, it was their plan.” said avaline Ewen was now deep in thought, knowing that his master’s killer is above him. But this was not the time he didn’t have proof or the power to stand up against them. “if belzarius and Vincent are our enemies then the best chance we have against them is at the festival itself, it’s a good thing I hired the mages of the disbanded Dragonest and they are more than eager to strike against Kevin’s mages. Everything that has been going on has built up to this, for now we wait until then.” ……………………………. Arwin formed a bolt of black lightning, further increasing it, the lightning was crackling around his entire hand. He extended it further and the lightning was covering his entire body but in a few moments was dispersed. Leaving arwin panting, such extension of his lighting was still difficult for him. (Arystar) To be able to achieve such a feat, cover his entire body in lightning. Incredible and frightening, the physical pressure and pain it must put on his body, no wonder he had a hellish childhood. “now do the same thing using your essence” said arystar “i…….i dont know how” replied arwin “Essence is the very base of your magical energy. You can sense other magical presence right, its their essence. It can be extended, pushed on your enemy, amplify your magic, and even mask you magical presence.” said arystar “I still don’t understand” said arwin “you know Gus’s magic right, it makes him inhumanly strong. But even with his physical brawn he is not huge, yet he can easily smash through walls. He uses his essence to amplify his magic” Suddenly arwin felt heavy magical energy in the surrounding it was heavy and dense as if someone putting kilos of weight on his shoulders, he felt being pulled downwards and hard to breathe. “you can feel it can’t you, its my magical essence” said arystar and then he stopped and the surrounding was normal once again. “Your first task is for you to learn to use your magic essence. once you can use it, it will immensely increase your capability to use magic.” “and how do we do that?” asked arwin “we begin with physical training, even though your body can bear pain it is not strong, it is weak when it comes to attacking your enemy. Your advantage is however your agility, which can be helpful.” And so they began, along with physical training they would spar in hand to hand combat and arwin be easily defeated, as the days passed he went from getting his ass kicked to be able to hold it on with arystar, but still no close to defeating him. With every sparring session there would be time to concentrate on the use of magic essence and just like that a month passed by…… Once again they stood face to face, arwin was roughed up sweaty and soiled. There were numerous small injuries and scratches on his body as a result, but none were deep enough to leave a scar. He took a deep breath and concentrated, a blackish aura surrounded him. He formed his essence and as soon as he released it his aura vanished. He tried again with no different result. “this is not working!” he said in frustration, “its been over a month! I have been training hard, pushing my body to its limits and yet I am not able to use my magic essence.” “you are not working hard enough” said arystar “I am!, I did everything you asked me to, clearly you don’t know what you are doing” said arwin “ok, then I know what to do. We will use a different approach.” he said and suddenly arystar released his essence into the surrounding. Arwin was feeling it, it was heavy but arwin was able to hold on. “get ready.” said arystar and extended it further. The pressure in the air spiked up, arwin was feeling the effects of it and was bending downwards as if the gravity was increased tenfold. The energy arwin felt was even more ravaging. “stop it!” he yelled, “its too much for me to handle” “you can do it, you know how to. The power you need is inside you, you have to bring it out” Arwin let out a scream as arystar’s essence kept increasing and affected him, he fell on one knee and vision was getting blurry. The ground below arwin was cracked due to the energy. Arwin formed all of his essence and released it out in one burst, but was still too less to overcome arystar’s. But now his consciousness was starting to fade, the magical pressure was much if he did not do something it will heavily damage him both externally and internally. All his thoughts came pouring, he had come too far to fail now. Everything that he had been through could not be in vain. The more his thoughts played in his mind the more uncertain he became and was losing his ground. Then he remembered why he had escaped from his home and yet even not much had changed he was still overpowered by others, still under control of others, he was still too weak from inside. He felt lost and he saw a spectral image of himself from four years ago standing before, it looked at him with the same judgment and disappointment that others had looked at him all his life. The more he looked at it the more he felt broken inside, even after doing everything in his power for all these years he was still the same, weak and pathetic. Arwin looked at it and felt his anger raging, everything that he had done till now and all that he had suffered was not a waste. No matter how long it took, no matter how much more he had to suffer, he just and keep going, now failure was not an option. This time many things and people relied on him and despite his weakness he had to overcome it, he had no choice. The image of his younger self vanished from his mind and in a powerful burst of energy his essence broke out and was released. Suddenly he could feel no pain, his essence was now that as equal to how much arystar was releasing right now, their essence were equally powerful and was cancelling out each other, hence they were not having any effect from each other’s magical energy. The ground below him cracked further, he was covered in a black aura and he could feel his energy flowing around him. The two were simply standing infront of each other but were able to feel the energy around them. In a few moments they decreased their essence and their magic energy was gone. Arwin was grinning at his new accomplishment, “don’t get too excited about it, you have just cleared the first stage” said arystar which only extended arwin’s smile. “what is the next stage?” asked arwin “you can release the magic energy inside you, now you must use it.” In the next month, arwin trained vigorously and immensely developing his magic skills using his newly found power. He remained focused on just one task, was to get stronger and now with only a few days remained until they had to rendezvous with the others at talmar. “so you ready?” asked arystar as he was packing up their stuff. “yeah” said arwin, he had bought a new outfit from one of the merchants who specialized in selling rare crafted items. “listen before we reach Talmar, there is some place I have to go, need to deal with some unfinished business” said arwin “Absolutely not” said arystar, he put down the bag and they talked straight to each other, “you know what we are preparing for, this is probably the last job of the guild together. After this it’s up to yourself and go your own way, we can’t risk any delays”. “Arystar, I am not asking, it’s something I must do I can’t go ahead without it and there won’t be any delay, you go on ahead towards Talmar you’ll arrive there one night before, I’ll be there the next morning.” “are you sure?” he asked “I have never been this sure” said arwin, as they picked up their bags “Thanks you Arystar, you have helped me a great deal I will not forget it” “now don’t get all emotional on me” chuckled arystar, “we still meeting in a few days” “ofcourse” he said and they exited the room and went ahead towards their destinations. ………………………………… Others had already left Isengard to meet with arystar and arwin at Talmar. Now with Shadow rage as the official guild of Isengard, there was nothing left for them in this city. Bryce one of the prominent member of shadow rage and one of Arwin’s old nemesis, with the city open to him, he would often wander around, making ruckus with his lackeys and starting fights with people, gangs and other guards but not to the level of causing a major problem. The cover of night was over Isengard and Bryce had spent the day whoring and drinking at the brothels, when he came to his senses at night, he went towards the guild. As he strolled down the path, by the side of the street he noticed a girl simply standing, he had never her seen before in that area. He stopped and checked her out, she was beautiful and curvy at all the right places. The girl saw him and smiled back, she lifted her shirt from the side exposing her leg till the thigh, then bend forward to pick up her basket showing off the cleavage of her big bosoms. Bryce was instantly aroused and walked towards her, she quickly walked into the alley. He followed her but she ran ahead leading him deeper in the dark alleys. When there was no sign of another person around she stopped and he stopped behind her, she turned “A quick little thing you are, so you prefer doing it here in a dark alley?” said Bryce. “Oh shut the fuck up” she said and then she transformed in the figure of a young boy which was Zeke’s preferred form to take. “What fuckery is this!?” said Bryce “Such a predictable dickhead you are” said a voice from behind, he turned and there was arwin. “You cock sucking bastard!, you would play fucking games with me”said Bryce, “ have you not had enough beating already, seems like I will have to pound you once again” “I told you back then, that you would regret it” said arwin Bryce came at arwin with his fist, a few moments later Bryce was laying on the floor rested on the wall. “H..H..How?” he spoke in a low voice, as he was bleeding through the slit in his throat and his chest ripped open and multiple other injuries on his body. He was dying slowly, painfully, suffering to the limit of his body. “this was easier than I thought, too bad I was not able to test my powers to its maximum” said arwin blood spattered on his face and his clothes. He only endured minor injuries. “did you thought I would forget all the trouble and pain you caused me” he said with a blood covered face, “repeatedly I suffered at your hands, and you took joy and pride in hurting me along with your friends. You think it’s funny to hurt someone just because it amuses you, well now you have the result of it” “mo…the..fuck, go ahead k..kill me” said Bryce “no, you keep suffering until death comes to you. I must say I have been itching so much to beat you to death and I have enjoyed this, your lackeys will share the same fate.”said arwin as walked away while Bryce stayed in the filth mourning for death bleeding, until a few minutes later the scent of his blood invited the stray dogs and died a horrible death while the dogs were ripping him apart while he was still in sense. Later that night, more of them those who were together with Bryce lay dead in the most brutal way all around the city all hidden from the public’s eye, it would be till morning that anyone would find the bodies and the news would spread. Arwin stood on the top of the warehouse where they had taken refuge after their guild was destroyed, that was now abandoned, they had left for talmar with nothing behind to come to. None of them would return here, once this was all over everyone would go their separate ways. This was indeed their last job as a guild and the final battle was coming. (Arwin)…but before that I must go to Ritherhithe……
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2015-02-17, 12:30 | Link #69 |
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
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well i am glad i was able to post the next chapter in 10 days, i will try to improve the pace and write as fast as i can.
so this was last chapter of tying up things, after this it will be the final arc which might be lengthy as well but i'll try to write the best and fast as i can. thank you that you have followed this story so far. "Chapter 36: Free at last" Spoiler for Chapter 36: Free at last:
In Ritherhithe…..
As arwin walked through the town, and glanced over the place. All the memories from his childhood came to life, he could hear the voices of himself and those from his past and see the memories as he strolled, not much was changed in the town in five years since he left but then the town wasn’t such to have big changes. He crossed the town and walked onto the outer corners with beautiful gardens and one big mansion, he walked to the front door. The servants watched and he was confronted by the guards. A man in his late twenties walked out of the door, dressed in noble outfit and commanded the same. “Halt stranger!, who are you? Do you realize where you are trespassing” said the man as the arwin was surrounded by guards. “Sir Remont, this is Master Arwin, he is Lady Giselle’s brother.” said the guard captain. Arwin did not utter a single word but simply gave Remont a hostile look. “Cease him at once” said the voice of a woman, from behind. Arwin knew this, it caused him pain even as he heard it. He turned and there she was, his sister Giselle Klein, she stopped at some distance from him. “capture this man and put him in the dungeons at once!, its an order !!” she said The guards hesitated at first but then caught him, holding his arms behind and dragged him to the dungeons. About an hour later, she came to see him while he was seated on the floor behind the bars locked in a cell. Before anyone would speak they simply looked at each other, “how is father?” he asked “he is very sick, arwin. Why have you come here again? The last time you where here, you threatened to kill us. You shouldn’t be surprised to receive such a welcome” she said “so he is dying then” “yes he is dying. After you left us, he was worked to death as he tried everything to clear our debts and keep the reputation of our family. You left us arwin!, it was your duty as his son to take over his place but you ran away from your responsibilities all so that you could live like a low life by yourself!?” she stepped ahead and kicked him in the face and he fell back, “it’s all your fault!. You were supposed to take over the work of this family and I was supposed to marry the man of my dreams and live a happy lavish life. But instead, because of you I had to take over the work.” Arwin stood up and faced her directly, “you have nothing to say!?, will you not even apologize to me!?”she said “I do not have to explain myself to you nor will I apologize for anything” he said in a bitter tone and wiped the blood off his face. She calmed herself, “why are have you come back then?, if you think you will be a part of this family again and take up your place as the head, that is not going to happen” she said, he did not answer, “fine then after a day locked up and hungry, you will probably come to your senses and speak up.” Then she walked and away and arwin sat down on the stone floor. He just remained there, lost in memories, the good, the bad everything was flashing in his mind. As the day turned darker so did his heart, of all those memories only pain and suffering remained. It was evening now and arwin was ready to do what he had set out to do and that was when he heard the open and the guard captain walked in with a plate of food, he came to arwin, “you must be hungry” he said “did my sister sent you” asked arwin “ofcourse not. What happened to you master arwin, you were such an innocent boy” he said with sadness on his face “I was, back then. But everything was just shut in inside me and one day I couldn’t take it anymore”. “You were a terrible bodyguard though” he said with a chuckle “well you can’t blame it all on me when you would slip away and get in fights with everyone else.” For a moment they dint had anything else to say, “do I still hold any value to you, so would you carry out one task for me” asked arwin “what is it?” “take all the guards and servants away from this place , also evacuate the town and send all the people to somewhere else. Only death will come upon them if they stay.” “what you are doing is not the little boy I use to guard. But I will lead others to safety, do what you have to” said the captain and turned to walk away. “consider this as your last order, for you will be free of this family from here on” said arwin He stopped and turned his head hallway, “…and what of you will you be free of this family?” he asked, to which arwin had no answer and then the captain walked out. Then he waited for another hour in patience, zeke appeared next to him. “are you ready?” zeke asked, to which he nodded and zeke blasted off the cell bars “the city is yours” said arwin, I do not want to see any evidence that this place ever existed. “as you wish” he said and disappeared in thin air and arwin went inside the mansion. As he went through the house no servants or guards blocked his way as they were gone. The first place he went to, the master bedroom of his father and as soon as he entered, he saw him lying on his death bed, sick and weak “arwin, is that you?” said Malcolm klein “yes it is me” “so you have finally come to your sense and back here for your place in this family, son” “I am not your son and I am not here for this family” “you! drove your mother to an early grave, you! ran away and abandoned this family. It is your responsibility and burden to bear.” “do not talk about responsibility to me old man!, you never did fulfilled your responsibility as a father, you were not there for this family, never there when I needed a father. And now I don’t need one” said arwin, “and if you still don’t understand your mistakes and why I left, then you are the biggest fool and there is no point talking” “fine then go ahead and kill me if you want. I am dying either way, get on with it” “no, you will stay alive and witness as I destroy this family and everyone in it. Then you can burn inside this house” said arwin and turned to walk. “no!, don’t you turn your back on me boy, come back and kill me!!!” he yelled as arwin walked away. After confronting his father he felt a disturbance inside as to what he was doing, but he shook it off because now was not the time of doubt, he reminded himself why he was here and went ahead. As he climbed the stairs, Remont met him standing at the top looking down on him, “stop right there!, what have you done?, where are all the guards!?” he demanded, arwin simply gave him a cold stare. Arwin continued to the higher floor and finally reached Giselle’s chambers, he entered as the door was not locked and there she was, standing in her personal study expecting him, looking out the window. Arwin stood behind her and threw something at her feet. She turned and looked down, Remont’s head rolled on the floor. She stepped back in shock and looked aside. “is he dead too?”she asked , her voice scared. “not yet, he shall suffer no matter how short his life remains” said arwin Suddenly a wicked grin appeared on her face and she kicked Remont’s head aside the gore and blood sticking to her feet. She chuckled, “so what now!, are you going to kill me too?” she said, her voice completely changed, “stand down you idiot, you cannot kill me. I am you elder sister” At the last word, arwin snapped and leaped at her, he grabbed her by her dress and threw, crashing her into the nearby table. She got up stumbling, “you fucker! , what do you think you are doing!?, you will serve me now” she said, just listening to her voice made him mad and his anger boiling to the surface. “I will do nothing of that, you whore! I have had enough of you fucking up my life. I will rip he flesh off your bones!” “shut the fuck up!, who do you think you are talking to, I am your elder sister you will do as I say because I say so” she said walking up to him and swing her hand to slap him. He caught her hand and twisted her wrist, she bent down yelling and quickly kicked him between his legs. He instantly released her and fell to the floor grasping his cock. She got up and grabbed a chair and smashed it on his back and kept hitting with it. He was simply unable to move and took on the beating. (Arwin) no! no!, get up!, this is nothing compared to what I have suffered at her hands before, so now get up. She went to the fire place and grabbed a fire iron and swung at him, he caught the iron pulling it aside and jumped up. He grabbed her fore arm, locking it with a twist and broke it with a crackling of bones, she yelled in pain and fell back to the floor. “why are you doing this!?, to your own sister. I have loved you so much. Don’t you see that, you monster!” she said “you are not my sister. you tortured me mentally and physically when I was just a small boy, made me do unspeakable things, lie, steal, even kill people just because you dint like them. I still bear the scars of your cruelty on my body and mind. You made me the monster” He stomped on her knee breaking it, she yelled cursing him, “how do you like the taste of your own medicine, ‘sister’ ” “oh fuck you!, you think it was tough for you, you are nothing but a whining cry baby. Had I not toughed you up, you’d still be getting bullied by other people just like you were back then, everything I did was for your good.” she said, “…..and you were always the favorite one!, our parents favored you over me, they never asked what I wanted. I was frustrated and I was angry, so I took it out on you so what? I am your elder sister, I can treat you how ever I want, I’ll kill you simply if I want.” Even now with every word she said he felt a struggle, “…..not anymore” he said He grabbed her arm and placed his foot on her shoulder and pulled it with all his strength, her screams of pain were at the top when her skin started to tear and with a twist he broke arm and with a powerful pull ripped her arm off. Blood spattered on the floor, spraying out like a fountain. He climbed onto her, lightning sparking in his hand. “ha…have mercy “she said somehow trying to speak to save herself, “I am your sister, I am family” she said in a very low voice, tears running down her face. “those words mean nothing to me now” he said and hit her throat crushing her wind pipe He formed the lightning around his palm and thrust into her chest, she screamed but only broken low voice and spurts of blood came out of her mouth. He crushed deeper into her chest and grabbed the heart, she was losing life and nearing to death. He ripped out her heart and crushed it in his palm, the blood and gore spattering on him and he threw it on her dead face. He got up and walked two steps aside and started breathing heavily, he had finally ended his long lasting suffering. After a few moments he calmed down and walked not looking back, leaving her corpse behind. He stood in the gardens looking as the mansion burned and along with it burned away all the suffering of his childhood, he looked at the window of Malcolm’s bedroom who is still in there alive and will die with this house and this family. Arwin turned and walked away for the last time. Ahead of him he saw the town burn as well with which every tie of him to this place will be destroyed. By sunrise there will be nothing of this place and along with it died arwin’s feelings and memories of this place. But there was still one stop to go before he left forever. At the outskirts of the town, in the graveyard where rested the grave of arwin’s mother Kathaleen Klein. Arwin was joined by Zeke who has been destroying the empty town as arwin had ordered. He stood behind arwin who stood there for a while simply looking at the grave. (Arwin) now you see mother I have grown and even back then you never noticed. Before I use to wonder how it would have been, had you seen my suffering and saved me from this family, but you were too busy living your own life and talking of your own troubles. Now I don’t even want to know how it would have been, because I have saved myself. With that thought he struck a powerful lightning bolt, destroying the grave. “destroy this as well” he said “as you wish” said zeke and every grave exploded and the field was set on fire. Once his entire past was erased, as arwin walked out he felt a part of him being left behind and erased as well and with every step he took away from it, the lighter he felt. After all the suffering, all the struggle, This is where it all began and now he was free at last.
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2015-03-15, 11:23 | Link #70 |
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
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so i am trying to write as much as possible, yet not much enough. and with all the college work its even more difficult to get writing, but i'll try to write atleast little by little and try to update the story as often as possible.
for now , "Chapter 37: Reunion" we are now in the final arc of the story. Spoiler for Chapter 37: Reunion:
It was the third day after arwin’s training had ended and arystar had arrived at Talmar and met up with everyone else and arwin had still not arrived, he was late. The next day, it was the first day of the festival and people could be seen going around doing preparations to begin the carnival at the evening. They were working on shops, stalls, games, decorations and various other events. This festival lasted for days and made great business for merchants and other shop vendors. People would specially dress up for it and enjoy the annual celebration. There was an aroma of various delicacies as they were being prepared at shops and merchants came from far places bringing many exotic items to sell. People made good money and spend it in the enjoyment of the carnival. While the crowd of Talmar was busy with preparations. The now former guild mages were seated in the lobby of their inn. Arystar who had been out since morning to schedule the meeting with Ewen, as they were here on a job not holidays and still waiting for arwin to show up, “where is arwin?, he is late” said erica “you sure he dint runaway with his tail between his legs” said gus Suddenly everyone could feel a heavy and powerful magic pressure in the surrounding, instantly they were on their guard expecting an enemy, there was a lightning strike at the center of the lobby and arwin appeared out of it. “so you were saying something” said arwin They were shocked to see him. He wore a black coat over a dark green V-necked shirt, he wore a strap that went over his right shoulder and under it to wrap around his left side that kept the coat on his torso in place while the rest under his waist fluttered behind him, black pants and boots. However his attire was not what surprised them, “you…look different “said erica “and you are late” said gilbert “well it’s not like you are actually doing anything , other than sitting around and drinking” said arwin “it seems you not only receive a boost for you magic but also your arrogance” said gus “why, you weren’t expecting me?, you did feel my magic essence though, you feeling a bit insecure now” said arwin “wasn’t the beating you took the last time enough?, looks like you could use more”said gus “you are not one minute here and already getting picking fights, you haven’t changed at all, just the same arrogant brat” said gilbert “why don’t you find out exactly how much I have changed” said arwin “looks like someone needs a good beating” said erica “bring it on, I’ll take all three of you at the same time” said arwin, that hit the last trigger “you couldn’t be any more full of yourself. Alright then you have it, let’s go outside” said erica In the backyard, as the inn was at the corner of the city it gave a big open area in its backyard where they stood in the field ready for a fight. While Fiora and Irena stood at some distance as spectators, “tell me again, what are we doing out here. Cant those thickheads see we still have a job to do here?” said fiora Irena chuckled, “well it wouldn’t be us if such fights don’t keep popping up every now and then” Arwin stood in the middle, while those three surrounded him “you sure you want to do this?” asked gilbert “whats the matter, you getting cold feet now” said arwin “oh you are so going to fall on your face arwin” said erica “you asked for this!” said gus and charged Arwin dodged and moving quickly got behind him, blocked fists from both erica and gilbert. They both were surprised at his fast reaction time, but till then gus was already on his next attack and with no place to dodge arwin blocked his heavy powerful fist head on. The force of the fist sent him sliding behind. But there was no damage as he countered it. From the side Erica leaped at him swinging her sword. Arwin ducked and hit her wrist, quickly twisting it and snatched the sword from her he turned around and deflected gus’s attack using the sword, gus stumbled forward, arwin quickly hit his face with the pommel. He stepped on his knee, then to his shoulder and jumped high in the air. In mid-air he turned and threw the sword at erica, which she caught easily, as soon as she touched the sword felt an electric shock as the sword was charged with his lightning. In mid-air and vulnerable, gilbert attacked with his fire breath. Big stream of blue fire coming at him and now where to go, arwin charged his own body with black lightning. Gilbert cut off his attack and saw arwin was right there crouching under him, gilbert quickly enveloped his body in flames and arwin jumped back avoiding it. “you are distracted” said erica, swiping her dual swords, he let himself fall backwards to the ground and the swords just sliced a strand of his hair. As he was on the ground on his back, gus leaped above from behind her and directly come down slamming on him, he immensely released his magical essence to cushion the attack. And gus slammed on him, breaking the ground under arwin, the ground shook and when the dust cleared. A small crater was formed under arwin with gus pushing him down while he was blocking but shaking. Gus grabbed him and threw him aside, he fell to the ground but steadied himself. Arwin was feeling the effect of it, though it made no major damage. Once again they all stood face to face and they continued to spar. Irena noticed the immense improvement in arwin, he was now more aware of his surrounding, more agile and able to counter various attacks on him. He had worked hard and was now able to hold on against the three of them, which was a great feat for him as he would not have been able to win against anyone of them a few months back. The ones on the field were shocked to see arwin being able to fight back against them and he was a lot more powerful now. At one point arwin was surrounded and they attacked with powerful magic at the same time. As they closed in to attack, arwin covered his entire body in black lightning and expanding it on all directions. They quickly stopped and leaped backwards. “enough!” said arystar as he appeared from other side of the field, “we are here to fight against our enemies not each other” “relax, we were just testing each other out” said arwin “then if you are done, get cleaned up four of you. We have to get to work now” he said and they joined Irena and Fiora. By now it was evening and they were going to a secret location, arystar lead them to a particular pet shop, arystar went to the shopkeeper and said, “show me the best animal you have” The shopkeeper said nothing but just nodded and lead him and others in, he took them to the inner chamber, there were even more various animals here in cages and in the middle was Ewen seated at the table, then the others also sat and settled in. “again why are we meeting in this dump, it stinks here” said fiora “I apologize for the location, but I am an invited member of the council of magi here for the events among the nobles. I have eyes on me and I cannot be spotted with a group of rogue mages.” he said “look at that pair of monkeys , they are fucking as we speak” said erica “if you would concentrate here, on our work instead” said ewen “so what information do you have so far?” asked gilbert “I have confirmed that the Belzarius the Archmage is the one behind this conspiracy, right now we do not have proof or the power to stand against him. Once we are able to expose him we can have the support of the guild masters and a fighting chance against him. Also your old nemeses are in town so watch out for them since they are working under belzarius. If he knows about us then they must be already looking for you.” said Ewen “how come he has being doing all this on his own, he must have allies” said arystar “he does, in the nobility. And one of them is Ricardo Ferenz the current duke of isengard. That is how he has been able to keep an eye on you” he said “son of a bitch!, so after all belzarius and kevin were together behind the attack on us, back then” said erica “yes and all the council’s high mages are in Talmar and there is no sign of Kevin anywhere” said ewen “so what are we supposed to do?” asked arystar “right now, you people stay hidden and blended among the crowd but be on your guard at all times. I reckon soon you will have to face them” After discussing few other things about the festival and what they should be doing, they left the pet shop and walked into the crowd as one of the common faces. Ewen stayed there and as the last of them went out, a secret door between the cages behind him opened and Avaline walked in. “you dint tell them about Vincent?” she asked “not now, one of them has attempted to murder Vincent, telling them about him will cause disturbance among them “ The sun was setting and the city was coming to life, shops and stalls were opened also people performing many kinds of tricks and art. The atmosphere of the festival was up and the streets were getting crowded as people went around with excitement and celebration. The group just wandered looking around the festival trying not to attract any attention. “we keep a low profile, we don’t want……” arystar stopped in middle As they all stood directly in front of Rowena and her mages. Both groups stood face to face and the crowd moved on paying no regard. They were caught by surprised and for a few moments no one spoke but everyone was anticipating the next move. And then she broke the silence, “fancy meeting you here” said Rowena “I don’t see kevin anywhere” said arystar “Kevin is dead, I am the leader of this guild now” she said He knew this could not be true, she was definitely hiding something, but the authority and power she displayed in her voice made him worry as he was blind about Kevin’s status and location. “if you are thinking he is hiding somewhere in the city with more mages, then let me save you the trouble its just us here” she said, “ I can also see this is all of your team” “so what now?”asked arysar, “you want to start a war right now and ruin the festival” “that would be too simple and no fun, let’s play a game” Suddenly arystar and his mages vanished from the sight in the blink of an eye and they appeared somewhere on the high rooftops of the city. They stumbled landing on the roof and got a hold of themselves, “what are you doing!?, we can take them right now!” said erica “No, you think she would just show herself to us just like that” said arystar “what do we do now?” asked Fiora “if she wants to play, then we play a game with her” he said, “we split up in teams of two and search for them , they will be doing the same. We need to stalk them to their base of operation. We start right now but be careful that you are stalking your enemy and not the other way around and no matter what, do not engage in battle with anyone. Keep low and blend in the crowd. We end this now.” and so they formed pairs and dispersed into the city. Irena and Arwin went together, they simply walked through the crowd keeping low and trying to spot their enemy, both had masked their magic presence. For another hour they kept at it, “we are getting nowhere with this” said arwin “stay patient” said irena, she noticed he was constantly looking around at every person and behind every structure, “you are getting too worked up about this, just relax a bit or you won’t be able to work properly” “how can I not, what if we get attacked?” “we won’t get attacked. There are noble guards around, they won’t dare take a risk of breaking out a fight in such a public place. Besides this is the carnival, you should enjoy the atmosphere at least.” she said “I see, well if there is no danger of a battle then it wont hurt to look around a little” For some time they covered more area scouting, but also indulging into the atmosphere of the festival, the stalls with exotic food, merchandise and entertainers. “listen why don’t you find a vantage point and secure our position, there is a possibility that we might be getting followed” said Irena. “but arystar said we should stay together” said arwin “do you do everything he says, we have been just strolling around for hours we need to get some work done. And don’t worry I told you there won’t be a fight here in public, dint I. There.. ”she said, pointing at the top of the watch tower, “that’s high enough for you scout over a larger area” “ok, but you stay here. I’ll get going then” he said and left. He was gone from the sight, then after moment or two “so you let the kid go. I commend you for your bravery, you decided to face me alone” said a man, now standing right behind Irena, having big and bulky physique. “as you heard me there will be no fighting here, let’s move outside” said Irena, her expression and voice now stern. Arwin had went off, as he turned a few corners towards the tower and came across a store of trinkets, just glanced over and something instantly caught his eye. He went in the store and asked for the locket on the display shelf. The locket had a thin chain of silver and the pendant made of white starlight was a three dimensional triangular shaped with a long pointy end downwards with hollow in the center that held an oval piece of bright emerald with thin metal lines caging it in. The ornament was quite expensive for arwin, but was also very beautiful and he might not get another chance to use the locket for what he intended, so he bought it and was back on his way to the watch tower. (Arwin) I hope she likes it, I’ll give it to her when I get off the tower and go back. Few miles outside the city on the barren land, Irena was ready to start the battle between the two guilds. “My name is Uvo and I commend you for your bravery” he said, “you let the kid go and decided to face me alone, but it will end in your demise”. He was a big in size. One could easily see his physical prowess, even without magic he could just as easily fight only with his strength. The dark power inside Irena was surfacing probably from her desire protect her friend or whatever it may be it was still a desire to kill and destroy, that is what her power was for, to kill. A dark aura surrounded her, her right eye was shining with a purple Iris. Uvo was able to sense the murderous intent behind her aura. “you will die here” she said They both powered their magic with powerful aura coming from them and then the battle began.
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2015-04-15, 09:38 | Link #71 |
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
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its been sometime since i made the last update to my story, lot of stuff happening right now, but i am trying to make time for this, hopefully the next update will be soon.
Chapter 38: Revenge Spoiler for Chapter 38: Revenge:
Arwin was crouching on a statue bent outwards, on the top of the tower. But he was not able to see Irena on the ground, his eyes searched but found nothing in the crowd. He focused and released a pulse of his magic essence, he was able to do it now and on a larger scale thanks to his training. It was just as he expected, all the powerful mages must have masked their presence so he dint sense any of them but other minor magical energy from the city, but then he felt a faint magic presence, he knew who it was and was coming from out of the city.
He rushed, running and stumbling on the ground, falling and dashing into people. Somehow made it out of the city into the open lands and ran as fast as he could towards the magic he felt and was fading. And when he reached to the source of it, there she was lying on the ground bloodied and her breath escaping and when he saw he was in shock. As he looked at her, lying in the puddle of her own blood, he felt sudden pain inside him. He ran and got close to her on the ground, “W-What is happening, how are you here?” he said, gasping for air. “….arwin” she said slowly, “I am glad I got to see you one last time” “no no no , this isn’t happening, this can’t be happening” he blabbered tears flowing out of his eyes, his own voice paining his throat as it came out, “I wont let this happen”, he tried to pick her up “no stop stop!” she said, “there is nothing you can do now. Its …..its alright” she cupped his face smearing the blood on his face. “why! , why did you sent me away, I should have been here” he said crying, he clasped her hands. “how could I not, I just couldn’t let your life into such risk” she said now crying herself, “I could not let anything happen to you”, every moment causing him more pain, feeling a tug on his heart. “I got you something” he said and took out the necklace he had brought for her, she touched it soiling the white metal red “its beautiful” she said, “I am sorry arwin but I could only come so far, you have to go on your own now.” he could do nothing but hold her hands and cry into them “listen to me arwin, everything that you have been fighting till now, all the hate and the lust for vengeance its killing you, you have to let it go. Fight for yourself, for your friends, do not waste your life trying to get something that is far beyond you. Promise me you will move on from those shackles of pain that have always pulled you down. Promise me….” “i…..i will try” he said Her hand around his face with last ounce of her magic she pushed her memory into his mind and for a moment the entire battle that took place flashed before his eyes, he could see who her opponent was, how he looked how he fought, what was his magic. And then she fell back He came to and shook of her memory and in his hands she lay dead. The realization took over his mind that she was dead, gone forever in his arms right when he was trying to keep the talk going to just hear more of her voice before the inevitable. He kissed her forehead and hugged her corpse tightly crying his heart out. He looked up and yelled at the top of his voice, his screams louder than the beats of a war drum. But it dint bring her back. Some hours later, arwin carried her body back to their inn. Others were equally shocked and despair surrounded them all. They buried her in the cemetery at a far corner under a tree, as they stood infront of her grave, mourning. “what do we do now?” asked gus “we continue with our mission, we all knew this could happen to any of us. Isn’t that what we put on line when we came here” said gilbert “you are right or else her death would have been for nothing, we carry on with our job” said erica “everyone go back to the inn, we will discuss further strategy over there. And this time move together no once goes anywhere alone” As they left, arwin still stood there paying no attention to others around him, they did not disturb him either. As they were on their way arwin stayed behind along with arystar, “we have to go arwin” said arystar He dint reply, he moved the stones on her grave and dug into the ground and placed the locket into it and buried it along with her. “It was my fault” he said, “she did this to save me.” “There is nothing you could have done she decided to save you, so you better make it count” said arystar “you know me arystar, I cannot just stand here and let this be” he said, “I already talked to Fiora about that, before this happened.” “Then do what you will, I have a team to lead” said arystar, and he walked leaving arwin behind alone. Arwin stood still for another moment and he still remembered her voice, tears started to flow down his face. He wiped it off and walked off in another direction. It was the darkest hour but the festival went on for all night, it was a continuous celebration for days. After his victory Recks went off to the far side of the city, towards the fields and the storage houses. Rest of his comrades were there except Rowena, all five mages including Recks, “hey, what fun are you guys upto here?” said Recks as he walked in, they were all standing on top of a storage house looking at the show. “Fane has gotten in trouble with the guards again” said Breena, as they saw below he was fighting some guards and brutes. “oh let me in on the fun” said Recks and jumped in, he landed infront of fane “Recks you’re back, good thing now take over these fuckers for me will you” he said “sure, just stay out of my way you all” said Recks and Fane backed off to where the rest of them were “Recks sure likes to fight solo” said Trent “you all will pay for messing with us” said one of the guards and two of them attacked Recks He caught the swords, one in each hand and bent them as if they were made of rubber not steel. He caught the guards by their heads one in each and smashed them into each other, exploding their heads and the gore of each mixing into another. The brutes stepped in, one of them caught him from behind and the other grabbed his legs, immobilizing him. Recks released his power the guards barely able to hold on, he turned and bite the brute behind him in his throat, the brute yelled in pain as Recks pulled out his wind pipe from his neck with his teeth. The blood and gore was dripping from his mouth and he continued brutally killing rest of the guards. While the others enjoyed the show, somewhere in the darkness another wizard in black watched the sight of slaughter. (Arwin) He is slaughtering those men like animals and without any hesitation. That man truly is a monster. He is massive and so strong, he needn’t even defend himself just killing them off one by one. He dropped the last body snapping its head and all the guards lay dead on the ground, “hey!, this was quite fun” “You finished them all Recks, now let’s go somewhere else” said Fane “alright, just let me get cleaned-----”, suddenly a portal appeared behind Recks and he got sucked into it, others too surprised to react and he was gone from there. The night was losing its dark now and in sometime the rays of sun would hit the ground. Recks appeared in a wasteland away from the city and infront of him was standing a young wizard, “so are you the one who got me here?” asked Recks to which arwin dint reply, he took of his coat and threw it aside ready for battle. “I see, so you wanna fight, but I’d like to know why? and your face seems a little familiar. You are no ordinary wizard I can sense a disturbance in you magic essence” said Recks “do you remember Irena, the woman you killed some hours ago?” asked Arwin “I remember killing off a woman who had an abnormal magic. Ofcourse, you are that kid who was roaming around with her, now I remember. Was that her name?, I never asked her” said Recks laughing (Arwin) he is not even concerned that he is kidnapped, his aura remains firm, he is completely calm. “so you have come for revenge then” said Recks with a laughter, “I enjoy fools like you who come looking for revenge” (Arwin) get out At a hill top on a high ground, a spectral aura took shape of a boy with a wicked grin on his face. (Zeke) I’ll just stay up here and enjoy the show (Arwin) He dosen't know this location, he is obviously releasing a large amount of magic essence for his comrades to find him. It’s just a matter of time until they arrive here, I must kill him quickly before they detect the location and arrive here. But I can also sense his magic presence I can use it to my advantage. At every word Recks uttered, it fueled arwin's anger. He clenched his fists so hard that blood was dripping from his hands. “You killed her. Now!, you will atone in death!!” Suddenly they both spiked up their magic, arwin quickly fired a bolt of lightning. Recks dodged it and got close to arwin bringing down his fist with massive destructive force, arwin moved around it and away with blinding speed. Black lightning was emitting from his body, he fired one bolt after another, Recks leaped around dodging them, he was moving surprisingly fast for someone of his size. He attacked arwin but missed, arwin was running around Recks too fast for him to track and kept attacking with ranged lightning attacks. The next moment Recks formed a powerful burst of magic and smashed the ground raising a smoke screen of dust. Arwin stopped as he was blind, unable to see Recks or detect his presence (Arwin) fuck!, he figured out I was using his magic presence to aim my attacks while moving fast. Suddenly Recks appeared behind arwin and drove a destructive fist, arwin quickly turned defending with an arm. He went flying and crashed into the hill. Recks grinned, but his jaw dropped in shock the next moment as arwin walked out of the dust without a scratch (Recks) impossible, the power of that attack was so much it should have broken every bone in his body. “was that the best you can do?” said arwin at Reck's annoyance, “you are wasting my time” Recks was angered beyond measure, he released his magic to its full extent even the ground around him cracked as he walked towards arwin. He drove his fist into the ground, creating a shockwave that threw arwin off balance. Recks quickly got near and caught arwin's feet, he swung him over and smashed him in the ground then swung him again and threw him into the hill ahead. Arwin quickly manuevered in mid air and landed on his feet on the vertical wall. Suddenly arwin's entire body turned into lightning itself and in an instant the black lightning traveled on the ground towards recks and arwin appeared behind him as himself, he turned and hit his head with a powerful kick. Recks fell back but it made no big damage, arwin quickly stepped back and he got some distance between them. (arwin) just as I thought his brawn is tough even for my lightning to pierce. “why backing off now, come and fight me” said Recks “its over now” said arwin and activated a spell. Recks could feel his magic disappearing. All the massive power in him from a moment ago was gone, now he was just a simple man with some big muscles. But arwin could still use his, he formed a bolt of black lightning and with blinding speed moved around Recks and hit him from all sides, every hit pierced his body and splattered blood everywhere. Recks fell to his knees, “how did you do it?” he asked “you have trouble understanding, let me illuminate you before I send you to the other side. I have friend who specializes in script magic and she helped me form a particular curse. When you were trying to hit me showing off your power, I tagged you with the curse when I hit you. It forcibly shuts down your magic power. This is not my ability she is the one who crafted it, I merely tagged you with it thanks to her I was able to defeat you.” said arwin “but I made the first hit, how did you survived it, it should have broken you” said Recks “when I trained I formed a new power, it’s a time stop. It is activated and right now my time is stopped. You hit me correctly and my body is probably in all kinds of pain right now, but I have put that to a halt. I will feel its effect later when I release this ability. Now you see, I can use time stop and suffer massive damage and still continue to fight and then suffer the effects later after I have defeated my opponent” he explained “An ability like that, it must have a high restriction” said recks “you are right, it does. It has my own life at stake, when I formed this power I put a curse on myself that I will use it only for revenge, if I used it otherwise I will die right on spot. It’s a self restriction and a covenant with myself. The risk is high, but the stronger my resolve, the stronger is my magic.” (Recks) This guy has an ability to stop his own time and used a curse to cut off my magic. He thought everything through Arwin came closer to Recks who was in no condition to fight back, and hit him with a fist. Recks fell back spilling blood. “you also served other purpose, I could see you having massive amount of magic power, though you use it only to enhance your physical strength and even though its cut off now, its large. If the my friend’s curse is enough to keep you in check then it will surely be enough for your comrades as well. Not just that you served as a perfect opponent to test my own abilities.” said arwin “now you will tell me everything, where are your comrades?, what are their abilities?” “fuck you, go ahead and kill me” said Recks, arwin drove his fist in Reck's face, spilling more blood “why did Belzarius hire you?, who else is behind all of this?” said arwin one hit after another “kill me” he said, arwin kept on hitting him and then he stopped, there were massive bruises on Recks’s body and blood on arwin’s hands and face. “last chance, where are the rest of them?” “screw you” he said laughing and with powerful lighting thrust arwin pierced his heart making a hole in his chest. Recks fell down forming a puddle of red beneath him. (Zeke) Finally after so long his hatred and anger is bearing fruit I can sense the darkness in him growing more powerful than ever. Arwin lowered his magic and now he was sensing other multiple magic presences approaching him rapidly (Arwin)you know what to do (Zeke) yes, that is nothing Arwin released his time stop and suddenly all the pain of his bones breaking came to him, his bones dint break but he could feel the pain of the same. He vomited blood and fell to the ground. He yelled in pain. Recks’s power was far too much for him to handle, he was suffering like a fish out of the water, his body was screaming all sorts of pain, he was gasping for air but unable to breathe and in a few moments he lost consciousness, but still alive. Luckily for him because of his ability, the pain will be gone in sometime. In an abandoned building in the outskirts of Talmar, Rowena was seated as the morning rays spilled through the broken glass windows, with Daren. A young boy in his teen yet equally as dangerous as his comrades. “What if that other wizard is able to kill Recks?” he asked “Recks is a straight dominant fighter, who relies on power and strength. A wizard using secret spells and curses can render his power useless in a fight. If they fail to return with Recks alive, there will be a change in plans” said Rowena.
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2015-06-11, 13:18 | Link #72 |
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
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once again there were exams and all kinds of stuff, but i have written two chapters now one is finished and here and the other i am editing and it will be up in a couple of days.
"Chapter 39: Guild War" ................................ Spoiler for Chapter 39: Guild War:
Rowena was waiting in the corridor of the royal palace, it had been a few minutes since she arrived and then from the front door came Belzarius and Gresilda, discussing matters with the other officials.
“What are you doing here?” he asked “We need to talk” she said, he signaled the others to leave while Gresilda stayed. “it’s about that guild. I am moving forward with the plan.” said rowena “No, it is too soon, the plan was for the day after tomorrow. You cannot rush in like this” “I don’t give a fuck, it’s your problem if you cannot make the arrangements. They killed one of my men, they will pay for it” “Don’t you dare try to act smart, do not forget who is the one in charge here.” She turned and started to walk away, “This city is going to become a battle field, if you are not up for it then I suggest you pack your bags and leave. You have until nightfall to set your plan in motion.” For a moment they stayed there, “How do we deal with this now, should we dispose of her team?” asked gresilda “No, we will need them. We must meet with Emilio right now and send the invitations to all the noblemen, we will have the royal dinner tonight” he said and they walked away to get their work done. On the other side of the wall, the illusion of light vanished and Avaline appeared from behind a transparent cover. (Avaline) I must tell Ewen about this. .................................................. ............................... He could hear voices, strangers. When his eyes opened, he was in a dark place, he tried to move but he was tied on a chair, in front of him he saw Fane, Breena and Daren watching him. Fane stepped up and attacked him but Breena caught his hand mid-way, “leave me!” said fane, “he killed Recks, I am gonna kill him!” “not before we get him to talk” she said, “Daren do your thing, we will wait outside” Except the young boy everyone else stepped outside of the room. He came closer to arwin, “so what you gonna do kid, sit on me?” asked arwin, he tried to move but was unable to move any part of his body other than his head. “i am going to introduce you to pain” said the boy with a blank face, “and don't bother, you are tied up with special restraining strings, your magic won’t work here. First I'll start with a nail and then we'll see” (Arwin) Zeke, listen to me I am about to be torture, cut off my conscious from my body and keep it in a suspended space in my mind. (Zeke) actually I can’t, these strings have confined my magic as well, the best I can do is move in and out of you. But I think I am gonna enjoy watching this for a while and then leave as soon as I can. (Arwin) oh fuck you! And then he screamed as brier of thorns were wrapped around his hands sinking into his flesh, he pulled a nail from his finger and the more he moved his hand the more the thorns sunk in causing more pain. The blood was dripping on the floor like water. Arwin screamed as his skin was torn but the more he moved yelling the more it cut him. Then daren pulled out another nail from arwin's fingers. Fane walked in to witness the show, “Now, you will answer my questions” said Fane, “where are the other wizards?” “Funny thing, I asked the same thing to Recks right before I ripped out his heart” said arwin with a bloody grin Fane came close and hit in his face, “you cock sucking bastard, I dare you say that again.” Arwin spat blood on Fane's face, “your close friend was he, he was helpless against me, first I stripped him off his power of which he was so proud, then I slowly killed him.” Fane grabbed a scrap piece of metal lying there and stuck it in arwin's shoulder and slowly pushed it in, arwin yelled “yes, moan more, you will feel every pain you inflicted on my friend” said fane “hey!, you are interrupting my session” said Daren, “leave or we will have trouble you and I ” said daren Fane backed off and walked out, “you better not kill him soon, he must suffer” he said Daren came to arwin holding a knife in his hand, “so where were we” he said After some time they walked in, daren was wiping the blood that was all over hands and clothes. “So did he talk?” asked Breena “He was a tough one, after cutting him up he still won’t speak so I had to use some psychological methods.” said daren and put a cloth wet with blood on arwin’s face. “once I was in his head he gave up soon. The others are at the juicy beard inn” said daren “But we can’t be sure they are still there, they must have figured out by now that one of their own is captured and will be tortured for answers.” said breena “Then we will fish them out” said Rowena as she walked in on them, “What are you talking about?” said fane “As I said earlier the plans have changed, we go all out tonight” she said As the sun was coming down and city was moving into another evening of celebration and joy. The streets were filled with people happy and ignorant of what destruction lay that ahead. At the royal palace, twenty-five of the high noble families and the remaining four high wizards of the council were gathered for the royal dinner. A tradition passed down from their ancestors, a meeting among that included the nobles, the magic council and any other big organizations to solve the conflicts of the previous year and head into a new year. They were all seated at their respective tables, Ewen and Avaline shared a personal table. The nobles were dressed in the finest clothing for the biggest event of the year, the ladies were beautiful and desirable and the gents were handsome and royal. On the stage, Emilio stood to address the guests. “Welcome to my humble home, we have all the high nobles and the council’s high wizards here. It is our tradition and this dinner is more than just a fancy meal, it’s an opportunity to dissolve our previous differences and head into a new year with new dreams and new bonds, it is here that we decide the future that we want to leave for our children and the children after them. It has been since our ancestors that we have worked together to form and govern this country in harmony and now is just a next step into doing the same. ……………….” , Emilio continued his speech into dramatic words. Ricardo grinned seated at his personal table, his pet spirit in the form of a cat, lazing on the table. (Ewen) we all know Emilio this dinner is not place for friendship, its all but a charade to play politics to one’s own profit, that is what the nobles are best at doing. That is why they are the ones ruling and governing this country. But what is it, that Belzarius is planning to do here, there is still no sign of Vincent. I must stay vigilant, any moment now….. As Emilio came to concluding his speech,“…..and now allow me to present you with a gift from me to all of you.” From behind the stage belzarius appeared clutching something within his hands, he passed it to Emilio and he held it outwards displaying it to others, the heart of Verloren in one hand and the heart of Erloser in another. At that Avaline recognized seeing the orbs before, she quickly grabbed ewen and teleport them out of the palace, with an escape portal they had kept ready. The two orbs in Emilio’s hands shine brightly. Everyone was drawn to it, Ricardo wore lens to stay protected from its magic. “And now with the power of gods, I will bring a new era in the land. I will be the supreme power and you will all obey me!” All the nobles stood with a blank face. Their minds were not their own anymore, they eyes were hollow without a soul. They were all under the effect of the orbs and were now slaves to Emilio’s will. Outside ewen and avaline quickly climbed up to the top of the palace and watched in through the skylight of the party hall which was out of range of the orbs. “Now I am your emperor, you will obey me.! I ….”, suddenly he coughed blood, he saw below and belzarius's hand had thrust through his chest. Gresilda appeared behind Ricardo and slit his throat, his pet spirit disappeared the moment its masters loosed its control over it. Belzarius pulled out his hand and Emilio fell to the ground,“ you fucking traitor, why? We had a deal” “fuck you, do you really think I will let you nobility take the power and rule. I just needed your authority to bring all the high nobles at one place to use the orbs and bind them to its will,” he said, he picked up the two orbs, “now the nobility is under my control and so is this country” (Ewen) so this was your plan all along belzarius to use the high nobles and take control for yourself. He will send out guards looking for me and avaline, I must go into hiding and contact arystar and his team. Emilio fell dead to the ruins of his own plan to take over the rule. Gresilda ordered a servant to start the fireworks. (Belzarius) Now there are only a few hindrances left The fireworks went off and set pretty explosions in the sky, filling it with beautiful colors and glitter. The commoners enjoyed watching the fireworks which was in fact a death signal as Rowena and her gang stood on top of the watch tower. “it has started. Now go!” said Rowena. They leaped down at different places between the commoners and started a chaos. Fane was furious at his friends death and this was where he could take it out, he went from one person to other chopping of their heads, a fountain of blood came out from each severed neck. People were running, screaming for their lives some hid in their houses. Breena used her magic and exploded the houses and set the stores and stalls on fire. They went in different directions slaughtering people, Daren hold a young boy same as his age from his head and the boy exploded like a bag of meat and blood, spraying the gore everywhere, he went killing people in the most brutal ways possible. The city guards came rushing in but were no match for the wizards and met the same end as the people. The bodies were piling up and the streets were running with a river of blood. A few minutes ago what was a moment of celebration was now a scene of death and chaos. Smoke rose from the burning of buildings and people. Rowena stood at the top watching over the destruction they caused. (Rowena) Recks, can you hear us, we are playing a requiem for you. Suddenly every one of them felt a powerful magic presence approaching them. Arystar appeared behind Rowena on top of the watch tower and at every wizard of Rowena's a wizard of Arystar appeared to stop them. “was all this madness to fish us out?” he asked, “have you gone completely insane” “it was a part of it anyway” she said “My wizards are currently engaging your's, they will put an end to this once and for all” he said (Arystar) something is wrong, their magic essence are amplified and this dark shadow is present in their magic. I am getting the same feeling from Rowena its not like her to do something like this. No matter how much she hates me. “you are right, I can feel their magic essence colliding” she said, “its only appropriate we do the same” She fired a blast of magic, he leaped off the tower to the lower ground and she followed. She unleashed her magic. It was a familiar feeling, arytsar knew this, the magic that was in them was the essence of the Dragon spirit. How Kevin did it he dint knew but this was the thing that turned them into vile killing machines, rowena and her entire was under the effect of the dragon spirit. Zeke and Fiora were sneaking though the city, she masked her presence and best as she could to avoid any confrontation. After leaving arwin Zeke had appeared among them a few hours before the battle began and fiora had decided to go with him, he lead her the same way back he had escaped from and soon they were out of the city. Gilbert suffered from some cuts from fane's energy blades. Fane attacked him, he was so fast gilbert could merely dodge it. Erica stepped in and blocked him off. He backed off and hopped over to higher top on the building. He formed a magic circle and hundreds of blades fell straight at them like rain. Gilbert quickly enveloped him and erica in his blue flames and expanded it deflecting the blades. Daren appeared under gilbert, with a swing of his hand tore off the flesh from gilbert's shoulder. Gilbert fell in agony, before daren could make another move a powerful fist struck him and he went of flying and crashed into some debris, gus helped gilbert up and they were back at fighting. Breena caused explosions around them, from within the smoke gilbert fired a stream of blue flare at breena she easily cut through it. And erica jumped out of the flames and slashed her across the torso, but it only made a small cut on her, the same moment fane knocked her aside and they sparred with their blades. Gus dug out daren from the debri , he held the small boy in his hand and smashed him repeatedly to the ground but making just scratches on him. He touched gus's hand and suddenly intense pain ran through his arm and he fell back. They retreated and regrouped. “our attacks are not working on them” said erica “they are too tough” said gus “alright calm down, we just have to hold them enough for Fiora to do her thing and for arystar to get here with Rowena” said gilbert Gilbert surrounded them in a ring of blue flare and blasted it in sparks, he appeared behind daren and caught the boy and set them on fire, fane moved in to rescue daren but was blocked by gus, fane moved fast and moved around him and buried his blades in gus's body, one in the leg to slow him and another in the shoulder. But gus caught fane by his legs and threw him aside. Breena moved in but was attacked by erica, she dodged her blades. While fane came back moving with high speed, erica summoned a monster sword and smashed it in the ground causing it to quake and throw everyone off balance. Fane tripped and went on sliding and crashed into a wall. Breena had fallen back as she looked above gus was already in the air above her and slammed into her crashing the ground beneath. Gilbert released daren, but he suffered only minor burns, while gilbert was exhausted and had used up all of his power. Gus picked up breena but as he attempted to break her in two, she caused a massive explosion around her heavily damaging gus. Erica and fane drifted apart from others sparring with their blades. Erica caught his blade in her bare hand and head butted him on his nose, moving quickly and stabbed him with his own blade. But fane was releasing his magic and pulled out the sword without major injury on the inside. He struck her and threw her back. Each one of them had suffered big damage and would not be able to continue the fight for long, their enemies were too powerful than they had expected. As they moved for another fight, suddenly they all felt a massive pressure of magic energy in the surrounding, Fane, Daren and Breena were unable to move properly. They could feel powerful magic presences approaching them, a building on their left exploded and arystar and rowena came crashing out of it. Arystar got up and stood with his team and so did Rowena. Both were wounded and bloodied “its over Rowena” said arystar, the side of his face was covered in blood “look at your wizards arystar” she said holding her abdomen, “they cannot continue to fight. You have doomed them, they also made the same mistake of trusting you” The next moment, Rowena and her wizards felt a interference in their magic essence, suddenly their magic power dropped. Rowena was in shock suddenly she felt a massive element in her magic power gone and she felt lighter, then she noticed the Fiora was not among them. “where is the witch?, what have you done!?” she asked “so you are feeling it now” said arystar, “as you have already noticed a wizard on my team is not here, she is the one who developed this curse it forcibly shuts down your magical essence. The only thing the rest of us had to do was tag all of you with it and it seems she has activated the spell now.” “that is impossible, before you arrived I was scanning the entire city with my magic presence and I counted right, I did detect her, there is no way you could have hid her between the battle long enough for her to cast a spell of this magnitude” said rowena “you are right, that's why I send her to the safest place right now, to your hideout, the only place that you would not destroy. The fact that she has activated the spell it mean she has reached there. I can see that your magic power has come down to a normal level. Your team was under the effect of the dragon spirit that clouded your mind. Look around you!, look at the destruction you have caused.” he said “you were always cunning, how you found the location of my hideout is of no importance now. But as you can already see my team is still standing and can still fight and your comrades and wounded. Even though our magic is brought to a lower lever we can still fight.” she said …....................................... Zeke and Fiora entered the abandoned ruins of an old tower on the outskirts of the city. They had come to rescue arwin, after all Zeke could not abandon arwin completely. Fiora had come with him to escape the fight so she could activate her spell when the time comes, they went into the inner dark chambers and there he was tied to a chair and a bloodied cloth on his face. She got close to him and removed it, his face was red with blood and injuries but more horrifying was the expression on his face, scared his eyes were wide open in terror and blood was dripping from them, little air passing though his mouth and he was trembling in fear. And he was completely cut off from his surrounding and stuck in some horrific nightmare in his mind. She quickly untied him, carefully removing the metal shards from his body and lay him on the floor. She drew a magic circle around him and put him under a spell. Then she took out a knife and slit her wrist. As the red liquid came oozing out she poured it over arwin and recited the enchantment. (Fiora) Oh poor arwin what have they done to you. Arystar said this would heal him, let’s hope it does in time. After the blood ritual few minutes passed, Zeke and Fiora were just there watching him, slowly his wounds began to heal and the slits in his body were sealing. Suddenly his body flexed and the broken bones were back in place. Fiora sat on the floor feeling weak from the loss of blood. While his healing progressed, the scroll on Fiora's belt was shining. She spread it out, it was time to cast her spell, she spiked her magic and placing hands on the runes on the scroll she activated the curse which will affect the battle going in the city. She fell down exhausted, the spell had taken too much of her magic power. She came over arwin to check on him, suddenly he woke up launching forward, she grabbed him in her arms and embraced him and tears started to roll down his face. Daren had tortured him physically and mentally beyond his limit to take it, scarring him from the inside with his deepest horrors and had left him in that state until Fiora saved him. In the next few moments he calmed down and he was back to his senses and recovered physically as well. “thank you” he said “at one point I thought I might never escape this, you saved my life.” “well I would have not left you like that, so save your gratitude for later. It is time, please tell me you were able to do it” she said “ofcourse I did, right when they brought me in, I pretended to be unconscious and was able to tag them with my time stop spell. However Rowena was not here at that time she is the only one who is out of my magic” he said. “I am sure arystar will be able to handle that, now go ahead it’s your turn” she said He got up and unleashed his magic, his aura surrounded him and formed the spell into his palms and then released it with a flash.
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2015-07-08, 12:02 | Link #73 |
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
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ok so i have the new chapter here and despite its title its not the final chapter, but it implies the events in this chapter. The story now is very close to its end, a few chapters left for the final conclusion. i am gonna buckle up and write it all down as fast as possible, just a little more to go. until then...
Chapter 40: Final Stand Spoiler for Chapter 40 : Final Stand:
Rowena and her gang moved ahead to attack and then suddenly they fell to ground with wounds and injuries opening on their body, they bled and broke and in a few moments were dead. Rowena stood in shock as to what just happened.
“What did you do!?” she asked “They are all dead it’s over now Rowena” said arystar “……but how?, how did you do it?” “Its not me, Arwin is the one who did it” he said “that’s impossible!, even if you managed to rescue him he is half dead and still there is no way he can cast a spell from this far that will have such an effect” “that is where you are wrong, when your mages captured arwin they were under his spell from that moment itself. He has a particular skill, which can stop and continue time of anything or a person as he wishes. All of your comrades were under a time stop, so all the injuries and fatality they suffered during their battle with my wizards did not take place because they were in a time stop. Arwin has been rescued and he just now released his spell and everything and they suffered has come into effect all at once” he explained She chuckled, “brilliant, so this was your plan all along” “when Recks killed Irena, I knew arwin will not stay put and seek revenge. That was not part of the plan but then I had to improvise and take advantage of it, arwin getting captured by you was the plan. And he knew that will be tortured, yet he agreed to suffer all the pain for everyone and for the plan to succeed but more than anything for his revenge” said arystar “I see” she said, at this point she realized that there was nothing left for her and it really is over, she fell to her knees , “fine then go ahead and finish it, it seems you have won and destroyed me once again.” The next moment he appeared behind her and hit her in the back of her neck, she fell to the ground unconscious. “it’s finished” said arystar, the chaos around them was calming and people slowly moved to put out the fires and regroup, the city guards were helping the citizens and the night was silent. “what do we do with her now?” asked gilbert “Our job here is done. I will find kevin, I will get it out of her and finish him” he said, “we decided on to take revenge and justice for our guild and our master and now we have. You are all free to go now wherever you want. I have my own path to go on. Thank you everyone for following me, but this is where we say goodbye” “I understand” said gilbert Arystar moved to Rowena and placed his hand on her suddenly they zapped into a portal and were gone. “so he is gone, what do we do now?” asked erica “we wait for Fiora and Arwin, then we will see” said gilbert At a far place in the woods in the middle of nowhere, Rowena woke up and saw arystar pacing around her. “why?, why did you not kill me?” she asked “I want to know where kevin is and you will tell me” he said “what if I refuse?” “you know I can still kill you and find him on my own, you are merely a shortcut. And I am sure you have realized this by now, no matter how many times you come at me you cannot defeat me” “fine, he is at our guild’s castle” she said and dropped a scroll on the ground, “this will take you to it” “but I want an answer first. All those years ago why did you leave?, I suffered from my family and from my town because of what you did and I wanted nothing but to see you killed, but I never knew why?. you did not show up at the chapel at our marriage, why?” she asked “I am an immortal man Rowena on the run, chasing the directions of a man who is dead. I cannot give you a good life, I made a mistake meeting you. I would live long forever unchanged while you would die one day I cannot be with you like that. You have spent four years of your life trying to kill me and I don’t hold it against you, but now it is time to let go. I have undone you every effort and you should accept it and move ahead with your life instead of wasting any more of it” he said She got up, “you would just let me go after everything I have done?” “there is no point in killing you anymore and I believe you could still do good for yourself. I am giving you one chance to walk away and you better take it before I change my decision” he said She walked away from him, “and what of you?” “there is nothing left for me here, I have my own path to follow” he said She came closer to him and kissed him, for moment of two their lips were together then she backed off, “goodbye arystar” she said and then walked away and never looked back. He watched her as she moved far he too turned away, he picked up the scroll and opened it, the spell released and a portal opened infront of him and leaving everything behind he walked in it. In the throne room of the guild’s castle, walls of glass let in the moonlight crystal blue floor. It was silent and gentle breeze was flowing. Kevin was seated in throne for who knows how long. He simply sat there comfortable and his eyes closed and then he heard footsteps getting louder and they closed in. he looked up and there he was, arystar standing in front of him. “even after marco is dead , you still come here trying to finish his job, the man who lead his guild to destruction and failed himself and everyone else and still you are fighting for him” he said. Arystar watched him with shock at Kevin’s changed appearance. Kevin was topless and he was covered in dragon scales from his back to his left hand and midway on his torso and growing on the neck. Large Dragon wings had grown out from his back. “you have become a monster kevin” said arystar “Kevin is not here, I am the spirit. I have no name I have been entrapped for thousands of years. Then came along those fool brothers Alvin and Kevin who thought they could use my power for themselves. Alvin was weak and died out soon and now I have perfected Kevin’s body to contain myself in.” “you are that dragon spirit, so you have been truly awakened. What are you truly?”asked arystar “I am the unholy offspring of death and magic itself, I am an ancient spirit from long before the time of humans the time when powerful creatures and spirits ruled this realm. You address me as a dragon spirit because I took the form of one and that is how I was once depicted in your texts which are now lost. But now I am back and soon I will be at my full power and then this realm will be mine rule once more.” explained the spirit “You are too dangerous to be left alive, a threat to this age and its existence. Now I see why they tried so hard, why they fought till their death trying to contain you. But this is where it ends I will kill you and put an end to his once and for all.” said arystar He got up spreading his wings and stepped down the stairs from the throne, “so tell me now, how do you intend to stop me?” Suddenly arystar disappeared, a cloud of smoke surrounded the spirit. Arystar appeared in the flow of the smoke and hit in the face and continued with a barrage. He finished with magic blast, the spirit went flying and crashed into the throne. When the smoke cleared to arystar’s shock it stood up with just a few scratches. The spirit opened his mouth wide and fired a beam of pressured energy, arystar teleported behind him, the spirit turned around and hit him with the beam, arystar crashed into the wall behind and he continued firing it until he was out of breath. He grabbed arystar and threw him in the open. Arystar got up, injured and bleeding then he released his magic drive, black markings appeared around his forearm and his neck and instantly his magic power increased tremendously and was surrounded him in a raging silver aura. “you are no ordinary human” said the spirit “I am not, I have lived for hundreds of years continuously growing in power and ability than any being ever could and now I can let it all out without any collateral damage to myself” said arystar The spirit jumped on arystar, he blocked his fist with one hand, pulled him down kicked in his torso and threw him over. The sprit swung its wings, arystar dodged it and moved with blinding speed and ran around him in circles, the next moment he appeared crouching under him, he jumped up grabbing the spirit’s head and smashed it on the floor making a hole and slashing blood on it. The spirit steadied himself holding its head and wiping the blood that flowed down its face. Arystar stepped back making some distance between them, the spirit created a big magic circle before him and unleashed a horde of imps attacking, arystar formed a magic circle in each hand and unleashed a murder of crows, as soon as a crow touched the imp it exploded killing the demon with it, a series of explosion occurred between them, splashing gooey demon blood everywhere as they kept unleashing the magical creatures until their spell ran out. “not bad , but it’s not enough to beat me” said the spirit He flapped its wings and took flight and rained down fire upon him, arystar dodged the meteor shower but got hit by some throwing him aside. Arystar had sustained considerable damage so far, he was bleeding from different injuries on his body and aching on broken bones but his magic held him together. He spat blood and quickly slit his wrist and squeezed out his blood infusing magic with it, the blood surrounded around his wrist forming a whip. He swung it and caught the spirit’s leg in it and pulled him down, throwing him off balance and crashed down. “you are not going anywhere” said arystar “oh really?” replied the spirit He flapped his dragon wings and leaped into the air, the whip still attached to arytar was pulled along. He went up and blasted off the roof and went into the open sky. The spirit was swirling in the air with arystar hanging behind him swaying around as the wind slammed against him. He flew close to the towers and made tight turns and slammed arystar into the walls and glass windows. He endured and did not let go of the whip. Arystar pulled himself up and climbed onto the spirit. Arystar grabbed its wings and with all his force bend them and broke the bones from its back, the spirit was unable to move the wings and they were flying with arytar controlling the wings . Arystar bend one of them outwards turned around towards the castle, they were already very high, so he bend the wings inwards and aimed towards the roof top and they were plummeting downwards with increasing speed as they came closer to surface, arytar placed his feet around the wings and pulled them from the base and ripped them off from his back and jumped off, a fountain of blood spurted out of the its back as the spirit crashed into the roof while arystar landed away from it. Arystar held its wings in his hand as blood was dripping from it, the spirit walked stumbling out of the rubble, “looking for these” said arystar, holding the wings up “you are dead!” the spirit roared A gust of wind came from his roar and knocked the wings out of his hands and blew it away. It came to arystar, caught his head and threw him away. It appeared ahead of him caught him in midair and slammed him in the ground. Arystar crashed on the ground suffering further damage, the spirit came crashing down from above but arystar disappeared, several portals appeared around the spirit. A hit came from behind, then from a side the spirit could just react a moment later as arystar was jumping from portal to portal landing striking from all directions. “you have been dormant for so many years, while have been training and becoming powerful for hundreds of years. I have become more powerful that you” said arystar as the spirit could only hear its voice. Suddenly arystar felt a pull on his heart and he slowed down, the spirit quickly hit him with a distortion spell and the portals disappeared and arystar was infront of him. There was something wrong with arystar he fell to his knees breathing harder, the spirit attacked one magic blast after another that exploded on him, he flew away and fell to the ground paralyzed unable to move. (Arystar) what is happening!?, there is no way he could see me through the portals how did he do it…..unless, he did not do it. That bitch! she poisoned me when she kissed me, damn it! her lips were coated in poison, he must have already drank the antidote to keep herself safe from it. how could I be this blind!? The spirit came to him, dragged him by one leg leaving a trail of blood after him. Placed him against the wall nailed him on the wall with some metal rods from the debri, one in his arm another in leg and a third one through his torso as he puked blood. His vision was blurry as the blood flowing down his head went into his eye and his heart was stopping soon, he suffered many fatal injuries and would die. The spirit moved back to prepare for a final death blow. Realizing this was the final moment arystar fired up his aura drive one last time and pulled out his arm and leg through the rods spraying blood, he grabbed the one in his torso and blasted it away. He stepped ahead quickly forming a ball of dark aura in hand and threw it upwards, a large black hole appeared in the sky above and started sucking. Suddenly the wind started to blow hard and all the debri was floating in a spiral pattern heading into the black hole. “what have you done?!” said the spirit, “it’s a one way portal, it has no other side it’s an infinite nothingness into it you have doomed us both” “if I am to die here, I will make sure that you are lost as well” said arystar As the pull of the black hole increased, the tiles of the roof and the rubble started to lift up and went into the nothing. Arystar grabbed rod sticking out of the shattered wall behind him, he now started to float up but he held on tight. The spirit thrust its fingers into the ground trying to get hold, but it broke off into pieces. The spirit kept on digging on the floor trying to get a hold but kept falling closer and closer the hole. And when the suction of the black hole reached its maximum, the towers fell off and the castle was breaking off and the spirit could no longer hold as the floor he was holding broke off as well and he went straight into the infinite nothingness. Arystar was losing his vision as well as his grip, (Arystar) Marco can you hear me, you gave purpose to my life. All these years what we fought for and died for I have finally concluded it. I got the world rid of the ancient spirit and after hundreds of years of wandering aimlessly I have fulfilled the purpose of my life. His heart stopped with his last thought and he was no more, his body dragged on the ground and then lifted up and pulled into the black hole with everything else. As soon as his body was sucked it, the spell broke and the black hole disappeared and the rubble in midair came down falling. Then the night was silent once more, the ancient dragon spirit was gone and in his final moment Arystar had fulfilled his promise to his friend and the purpose to himself.
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2015-07-18, 15:26 | Link #74 |
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
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This is the final battle now, everything is done, all the ends have been tied up, all roads came to this. we are into the final battle of this story. i will upload the next chapter very soon
Chapter 41: Battle of the Council Spoiler for Chapter 41: Battle of the Council:
The war among the guilds was over and what wizards remained walked the destruction that was left in the aftermath, the streets were running with blood, bodies piled the festival that started with celebration and happiness, now only mourn and death remained.
“so what did he say exactly?” asked arwin, he and fiora had returned and joined the rest of them “he said he will take care of Kevin and that our battle is over” said gilbert “so what now?” asked erica “I guess we all go our own way now, we all knew this was our last battle” said gus “I’d like to speak in on that”, a voice from another side as Ewen and Avaline walked in. Exhausted and roughed up from the entire night’s chaos. “you!?, I thought they must have destroyed your palace and all the people in it as well” said gilbert “There is a lot more going on than you think”said ewen,“the entire high nobility and the guild masters are under Belzarius’s control. My speculation was right he intends to take control of the entire working order of this nation. If he is not stopped we might as well look forward to countless wars among wizards and the rest of the nobility across the land, whatever peace we have achieved among the guilds and the nobility will be gone and this land will be destroyed. Your fight might be over but a much bigger battle is going on. We must stop him and I need your help, we here are the only people who can do it.” Gilbert looked at others and they were more than eager to help for the good, but they were just as exhausted and injured. “alright, we will help but we need some time to rest and gather our strength” he said “we will leave at dusk, you have until then” said Ewen “Leave?, where is Belzarius?” “He and Gresilda have gone back to the council, leaving hypnotized and blank nobility behind in the palace, he will be ready for us. There is something else you should know, belzarius may have been the one who operated this coup but the mastermind behind this is Vincent Klaus and as I have heard, one of your wizard is familiar with him. Regardless he will be there as well” said ewen, he and aveline turned to leave, “meet me at the crossway of the market district after the sun is down. I have to make some preparations” Gilbert turned and looked at arwin, he was stunned and trembling, “so it seems we still have things to finish and battles to fight. Everyone get some rest for now.”, he came near to arwin who was completely blank as if there was nothing happening around him, he placed his hand on his shoulder, “you alright?” he asked “yeah I am fine” said arwin, “ I need some time” and left quickly walking away. During the noon, arwin went far away from everyone and sat somewhere at the corner of a field and Zeke was simply pacing around at his annoyance, “why do you look so gloomy?” asked Zeke “you have seen my past do you even need ask?” “but isn’t this the perfect opportunity for you, to take your revenge” said zeke “yes it is, but after the last time we fought everything that happened around me because of it. It all lead to everyone getting hurt, some even dead and caused me so much pain. And then he disappeared for good and I thought I had lost him and lost my chance forever. All this time I lived believing that I failed and now there was nothing I could to about it and I had to live with it, I just couldn’t let go of it and that failure has haunted me ever since because it was stuck with me forever and worst part of it was that I was even beginning to live with it. But now that fate has laid another chance for me, all that hate and anger has surfaced up boiling and i cant think straight anymore, that he was the one who has been pulling the strings all this time. While I was living a lie and dint knew anything!, he was still here! I thought him lost and believing that I had failed forever!” It was hard to breathe and his eyes were teary and he was shaking, Zeke simply watched him. “………….i am scared” he said arwin, “I am scared and I don’t know what to do” He stayed there for the rest of the day. It was sun down now and was time to leave, arwin joined the rest. He was calm and composed. His feet were shaking this morning but now he stood tall and firm, something had changed in him and now his thoughts were clear than ever before, he knew what he had to do. “I am going to open a portal that will take us to the council, we will find them and put a stop to this madness” said ewen. And so he opened the portal and they went in. They appeared together in the gardens on the council and as soon as they touch their feet on the ground they were surrounded by the knights of the council, guards directly under the order of the council. In front of them were the tall four towers of the council. There were seven of them fighting with a hundred guards. Gus attacked breaking through their armor with brute strength and Erica fought head on carving through them with her swords. They were backed up in a group towards the entrance, “go on ahead” said erica, “we will handle them here” They nodded they entered the towers while Gus and Erica stayed back fighting one after another wave of the guards. As the fight took place below, the rest of them hurried upwards. “There is no way we can look for them everywhere, we need to spit up” said ewen, suddenly arwin made a magic explosion making a smoke screen. Arwin fired up the lightning on his body and with blinding speed moved ahead alone. By the time the smoke cleared he was gone. “What the fuck is he doing?” said ewen “I know, he ran off ahead all by himself” said gilbert “I do not have time for this. Avaline, take fiora with you and go in the east wing of the tower. Gilbert and I will go after awrin” said ewen and they quickly moved. The group split and for another half an hour they kept moving and searching for their enemies. Avaline searched the quarters and found no one then they were going through grand library, “wow, so many books here, what are these all about?” asked fiora, looking about in awe “on everything, from magic to history to science and everything” said Avaline “I’d like to spend some time here someday” she said “wait till you see the deeper sections of the library but come on now, we are not here for sightseeing---”, said avaline and suddenly jumped on fiora and a blast of magic blew away book case behind them. “now look here what I found” said gresilda as she stepped in front of them, she was dressed in magic robes and a blue aura was trailing off of her “Gresilda, you decided to follow Belzarius and now you will share the same fate” said Avaline “Then there isn’t much left to talk” she said and fired another blast of magic at them, they dodged it and it exploded on another shelf of books. Avaline spread her wings, beautiful of white feathers and jumped high and dived towards her, she deflected her away with a ward. Whips of runes circled around her, she deflected them with counter spell and conducted her magic through the runes and hit Fiora spilling blood. A fist landed on gresilda’s face, avaline turned around her grabbing her and lift up high using her wings, she turned midair and slammed her back on the floor cracking it underneath. (Avaline) she is a lot powerful than this, blank attacks like this won’t bring her down I need to do something Her wing magic was wearing off and she came to the floor. Suddenly she felt a tight grip around her and wasn’t able to move, gresilda levitated her squeezed further until she heard a few bones crack then threw her in the debris. Gresilda realized there were runes spread out around her and fiora was standing far enchanting a spell from a book and she was trapped in a circle. Avaline stepped out stumbling and created a tempest surrounding her, the wind was so sharp it cut all over her body, she fell to the ground bleed oozing from the cuts in her flesh and moaned in pain. Avaline saw her and then she felt someone behind her, gresilda appeared behind her drenched in blood, avaline looked back and it was just a puddle of blood there. She grabbed avaline’s head and poured her magic into her, her eyes were shinning with bright light and she yelled as her mind was tearing with her magic and she fell unconscious. Fiora ran deeper into the library and she followed her, she was hiding from gresilda and looking for a book that might help. A few minutes later Gresilda grew tired of playing hide and seek and destroyed everything around her, she blew away every bookshelf one by one and soon found Fiora crawling out of the rubble. Fiora was injured gravely and would not be able to fight physically, but when gresilda attacked her she opened a book and the magic emitting from it threw her off. Fiora summoned a high spirit from the other world. “This ends here” said fiora and they continued. At the other end of the tower Ewen and Gilbert were facing off against Belzarius in the meeting hall of the council. They had been fighting and suffered injuries. “so predictable of you to split up, Gresilda is killing off the rest of your teams.” said Belzarius “don’t you see Ewen I am fighting for us, for the wizards. For long has the nobility been suppressing us but no longer, we will rule this land, you should be by my side” said Belzarius “No! we did have peace with the nobility which you have broken. Nothing good can come out of more wars with the nobility” said ewen “you disappoint me. But you cannot stop me now I am much more powerful than you” he said “we’ll see about that” said gilbert and spewed blue fire from his mouth Belzarius released a shockwave that blew away the fire and threw them into the walls. Gilbert got up wiping the blood off his face. “distract him for me” said gilbert and covered himself in flames, he lit several places of the hall on fire and he transformed himself into flames and moving from the lit fires from one to another he moved so fast that it simply looked as the place was on fire and gilbert was not even there. Ewen moved in close and attacked. Belzarius blocked his fists and caught his throat and slammed him on the floor. Ewen’s body started to melt and exploded into a spray of acid which was a decoy, as belzarius was taken aback by it, he appeared above him and hit him with magic infused strike that sent him flying back and crashed close to one of the flames lit in the hall. Gilbert suddenly appeared out of the fire and attacked, belzarius blocked him and threw him off, but gilbert made a successful physical contact on his arm and quickly stepped back. Belzarius got up and then a purple flare appeared on his arm, he tried to put it off but it just won’t go off and the fire was burning through his arm now, he used magic but still it burned and was spreading. In that moment he pierced his arm and yelled as he cut through it, he cut off him arm using his magic and threw it away. He then quickly sealed the wound to stop the blood and gore dripping from it. “you little shits!, die!” said belzarius, he removed a talisman and thrust it into his chest pushing it though his body and inside spraying blood before him, it was shining through the cavity in his torso covered with blood flowing from it. He started to change, his size increased and the skin tore off forming new hide on him, horns came out from his head and he changed into a monster with a brown and red hide twice in size with a ram’s skull on top. “now there will be only death” said the monster, his voice sounded other worldly He lunged at them, a single swing of its arm sent them flying. “any ideas?” asked gilbert, getting back up “yes” said ewen, “we keep fighting” ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. As the battle below raged on, arwin was on the top floor. He had left others behind trusting that they will take care of others down there. He had located Vincent’s magic essence and was proceeding towards it, every step he got closer was also closer to the point of no return. This was it, everything that happened every choice he made had led him here at this moment. He finally reached at Belzarius’s office and he knew what waited inside for him, he could just turn around and run away from all this. But he knew no matter how far he ran and no matter how long, this curse will never leave him. So whatever must happen now is the time. And then he stepped in……………
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2015-07-23, 14:31 | Link #75 |
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
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i am so happy to finally reach this point, this moment that i had in mind since the beginning. This is the final battle of the story and now we are just one step away from the final ending. i have already written and completed the ending, i will upload it in a while
Chapter 42: Forgive Spoiler for Chapter 42: Forgive:
Belzarius’s office was empty, the room was a big hall and at the end of it he was waiting. As arwin walked, his footsteps were loud and clear and he stopped at the center,
“Arwin, I had a feeling I might see you again” said Vincent as he turned, he held two orbs a black and a transparent, one in each hand. “I have come to put an end to this once and for all, this is where you die” said arwin his voice was firm, every anxiety and fear was left behind, he stood strong and fearless “is it? ”said Vincent, “tell me arwin why are you even still fighting against me, does it even make sense anymore?” “your very existence is constant reminder of my failures and weakness, killing you is the only thing that will release me of this curse” said arwin “so many years and you are still the same. Think beyond yourself arwin, even if you kill me what will you have achieved, nothing. Allow me to digress you from our petty differences. I am sure in your study and training with magic you have come across the origin of it. Two great powers one good one evil, the white wizard and the black wizard, erloser and verloren. These two powers collided and from them came the essence of magic” said vincent “yes I know, what of it?, it’s just a folk tale that the elders tell children about good wining over evil” said arwin, it was the same tale that arystar had told him and the others when they were on their mission to find clues about Alvin. “oh no my friend, it is the more than that, truth become rumors then stories then legend then tales. But that is not the entire truth that people know. In every age there arises a good that will save everything and the evil that will lead everything to destruction. I was born with memories and purpose of all this, I am the savior arwin, I am the one who will save and bring harmony to the essence of magic” said Vincent, then he raised the black orb towards arwin and tried to use it, but it had no effect, “just as I thought, you are the evil, the black wizard who will only destroy the essence of magic. This orb is the heart of Verloren , your heart” he said and the black orb shattered in his hand and its fragments fell to the floor. “is this your master plan?, is this why you always killed the people I care about?, since all those years, was everything that happened because of this?!” asked arwin “No it wasn’t, but it was fate that you always ended up where you did. And now you can see why. But there is still more to it, the essence of magic in this world is wearing out. You and I are the last ones in the line, here it will be decided what happens to the magic in this world. Join me arwin, help me save the magic in this world and look at the world through my eyes, together we will be at the highest power and I will give you true peace that you yearn for” he said “do you really expect me to believe this fucking bullshit, this is the justification you have for everything that I have suffered?, that I am the bad one!?. This is the shittiest story I have ever heard, don’t think you can talk your way out of this Vincent!” said arwin Vincent replied with laughter, “well ofcourse this is what I have perceived in my life and this is my side of the coin. The choice is yours and regardless of what you choose weather join me or fight me. I shall do what I must.” “I have already made my choice” said arwin, he took off his coat and threw it aside, a dark aura surrounded him. “I see” said Vincent, “…a pity”, he raised the transparent orb, its power appeared around arwin and threw him back. Arwin fired up the black lightning around him. Vincent raised the orb and then crushed it into his hand and the power emitting from it was sucked inside him. He spread his arms and light was emitting from him and then he was normal again. “I have already reached a level far beyond a human’s capability, there is nothing you can do!” Vincent raised his hand and arwin quickly moved with blinding speed and circled around him. He lunged in to attack, but Vincent swung his arm and arwin was thrown off from a distance by his power. Arwin quickly cast the spell and created multiple portals around Vincent same as arystar could, combining with his own speed he jumped from one portal to another so fast it was almost impossible to predict from where he would attack, only the crackling sound of the lightning and black flashes were visible. At one moment he appeared behind Vincent and thrust his hand through his chest and he stopped, arwin pulled out his hand bloodied till the shoulder. Vincent fell to the ground splattering blood on the floor from the big hole in his torso. Ariwn was stunned at what had happened, he had killed Vincent and his corpse lay in front of him. (Arwin) Fuck! What happened!?, did I really kill him?.......just like that?, is it over?......i did it, I …….. And then arwin felt a hand on his shoulder, he turned around at there he was, Vincent very much alive. He punched arwin so hard, he went flying and crashed into the wall and spitting blood. He got up but the hit wasn’t what pained him, his eyes were wide and his mind in shock. He looked on the floor the body was gone he checked his arm and it was still stained with vincent’s blood. (Arwin) what in the fucking world is happening, I just killed him I did, I still have his blood on my hand, I made a hole in his chest. Is this all just an illusion?.... “whats the matter arwin?, you look like you have seen a ghost” said vincent with a grin Arwin yelled and charged in, he launched himself with so much power, the wall behind him shattered as he jumped. In mid-air he transformed himself into black lightning and instantly went past Vincent and appeared behind him crouching, he got up. A crescent cut appeared across Vincent neck and his head fell off spraying blood on ariwn’s face. “I did it, this is no illusion!” arwin yelled to himself “you are losing your cool ariwn” a whisper in his ears and suddenly he was launched straight up and hit the roof and was falling down, Vincent threw a chain made of his aura that pierced his shoulder, he swung and slammed arwin on the floor. He then conducted his magic through it and arwin was yelling at the touch of his magic. He got up slowly, he grabbed the chain and cancelled it out with his aura. Blood was flowing down from the side of his face, he spit out some more of it. He was breathing heavily but then he tried to calm down. (Arwin) I need to keep it together, he is trying to mentally corner me. Something is not right here, I killed him twice now I know I did, I have his blood all over my body. He is using some trick to fake his death or maybe not. Is he using clones?, but I did not sense any other magic source than him. Or am I in an illusion from the start and in reality I am not even moving. I need to test some things. Zeke I need you to keep my magic essence in check while I fight him. (Zeke) yeah I really don’t feel like doing anything, I would rather just lay back and enjoy the show….. (Arwin)Do as I say you fuck! or I will kill you (Zeke) ok ok fine, could have said please though Arwin ignored Zeke’s comments and focused on Vincent. He fired and arc of lightning, Vincent deflected it with a wave of his hand and threw his aura chains at him, arwin dodged it and attacked physically. Vincent caught his fist and hit him back in the face, then another knee in the stomach. Arwin grabbed his sleeve and jumped on him and sat on his neck he fixed his legs around and bent backwards pulling Vincent along and slammed him on the floor. Arwin quickly stepped back, as soon as Vincent got up a small rune on his robes exploded and he fell aside. “you will never kill me with such petty attacks” said Vincent, a trail of blood fell from his nose and his sleeve. “then how is this” said arwin and covered his body in lightning and attacked Vincent fired up his power, he was covered in a golden raging aura. Both caught each other’s fists and expanding their magical pressure, the floor below them started to crack. But Vincent’s power was increasing while arwin’s was at a limit. He grabbed arwin and blasted him with all his power, it blew away the wall behind arwin and he was nowhere to be seen. Vincent lowered his magic and arwin jumped out a portal on the other side of the hall. He was roughed up but still able to stand, thanks to his last moment save using a suction portal similar to that of arystar’s teleportation. He looked at Vincent and grinned, he raised his hand holding a lightning bolt. The portal behind arwin was still open, a numerous portals appeared around Vincent that all focused the energy coming from that lightning bolt and aimed at him, black thunder from all directions rained on Vincent, resulted into a massive explosion of black lightning. The roof came crumbling down and the pillars fell apart. Arwin lowered his energy and tried to regain his strength. He knew it was not over yet and also what to expect next, “you have grown arwin” said Vincent walking out of the rubble, “you have become a lot powerful than I thought, but even you see now there is no point. You cannot kill me” (Zeke) your essence is not disturbed it is firm and cold and full of hatred as always. This is not an illusion (Ariwn) he still has the blood on his sleeve and the hit on his nose, its not a clone it is the same person. If he is manipulating time then why has it not affected me I am in the same time flow as his. No that is too far fetched, this is something else. “you seem confused. I can see why ” said Vincent, “you have killed me three times till now and yet here I am alive, I’ll tell you how. I have gained the ability to change the reality, you killed me three times and every time it was a successful kill, but this is how the ability works. It’s an individual spell like a curse or a rune, once my life passes out of my body after a few seconds the ability is activated and my reality of the past few seconds changes. Since I am currently dead that reality changes and then I turn out to be alive. I am immortal!, you have failed once again!” “No, I have gone through too much for it to end like this” said arwin With this knowledge about Vincent, that he wouldn’t be able to kill him. He felt powerless again those thoughts of failing that had hunted him always came back rushing. But he was too far gone to just accept it, he activated his time stop spell on himself. Now Vincent was immortal and arwin could temporarily disable the pain he suffers from the battle. The only thing he could do was keep on fighting. They both attacked, exchanging blows and blasting magical spells. (Arwin) there has to be some way to kill him for good, there must be. If his body reacts to death which activates the ability but If I isolate his mind then maybe I could make a fatal blow so that his dying body crosses the delay to get revived by this ability. Vincent got some distance and cast another spell, arwin was surrounded in a magic sphere and trapped inside. Then the air inside the barrier started to change, it turned into a fog and it was difficult to breathe. The fog was acidic and it melted his glove and then the skin on his hand turned red and started to burn. After a while Vincent dispelled it and when the fog cleared arwin was gone, but there was a hole in the floor from where he had escaped. Vincent burst out in anger and hit the floor, the entire floor collapsed and he jumped below to the lower floor. Arwin was standing in the open in front of him. Vincent turned and there they were, Gilbert, Ewen , Avaline, Fiora, Erica and Gus. They all attacked him with their magic at once and Vincent was covered in multiple layers of destructive energies and aura, but he stood still as if nothing was happening to him. The next moment all the magic around him vanished and so did everyone else, except arwin who was standing behind Vincent with his hand next to his neck ready to slice through it but was unable to move, he stepped on a magic circle around Vincent and was now unable to move. “its a good thing I placed some protection around me, though I will commend you for putting me under an illusion, for a moment I thought you friends really did come to your aid” said Vincent , “so you thought if you could kill me while I am under an illusion, it will cross the delay between me dying and my ability getting activated. You really have gotten clever and not just in your magic skill. But your are still too weak” Arwin was struggling to move, he couldn’t even speak but just tilt at the most. “it ends here arwin, it seems you failed in the end after all” said Vincent and then thrust his arm through arwin, his arm went completely through spraying blood from the back. He pulled out his hand and the blood spattered forward on him and arwin fell to the ground, eyes wide and blood pooling around him. Within a moment he was dead. In that moment, he found himself in his inner consciousness. A completely white surrounding, infinite nothingness insight and there he looked below, a hole in his chest and he fell to his knees as tears started to flow down his cheeks. “I now realize it, I have been wrong all this time. I never could have won against him, I made him a target for my failures but in reality it was my own lack of ability to change things that I was fighting” he spoke to himself “I now see it, I could never accept myself and it only fueled my anger which turned into hatred and now here I am at the end of my path realizing it too late. Irena I finally understand what you meant, it was not that my aim was wrong but the path I took to it was, but it took me to come at this moment in death to finally understand it. If only had I made some changes when I had the time, but all of that doesn’t matter now. This is the end I am atleast glad that I did not die in ignorance, I am not dying with the same stupidity that I lived with atleast in the end I could change a little.” “and I……………….I forgive myself, I accept that I am not that strong and powerful. I did fail to do anything back then and its okay I accept it now, I forgive” he said to himself He saw a younger version of himself walk to him and place his hand on his shoulder, the image of his younger self smiling and finally at peace and now so was arwin, then it disappeared. Arwin felt a warm feeling inside, in the end he might have failed but he accepted it and the bitter feeling of failure was gone. Infront of him was Zeke, who came to him and got down to one knee. He took arwin’s hand in his, “you might be dying now, but you are also more powerful than ever. Now that your mind is not clouded your power is raging like a storm inside you. Tell me arwin do you want to end this your way?, do you want to win!?” asked Zeke “Yes and not because of my past, but because I want to fight and win right now in this moment” said arwin “you can do it but your enemy is still an immortal man. I can only give you the power but you have to figure this out, you will still die if you he kills you again and then I won’t be able to do anything, this one chance is all I can give you” said zeke “I understand” said arwin “but there is a price to pay. You and I we have a contract and to grant you this power we will have to rework it and change certain things” said zeke Arwin simply smiled and nodded to it. Vincent was walking towards the door cleaning the blood from his arm and he suddenly stopped with shock and turned around. Arwin was slowly standing up covered in a black aura, the hole in his chest was gone. Vincent could sense his essence and it was more stable and powerful and that it ever was. He stood up smiling in the face of death. His left arm was completely black and the black mark spread till his neck, his green eyes were shining and he looked like a demon. “so it seems I am not the only one who can cheat death” said Vincent, “but now you are starting to annoy me boy” He attacked, arwin dodged his strike. Vincent at point blank range blasted his magic that pushed arwin but he recovered quickly and moved around him. Arwin was still wounded and in pain from his injuries throughout the battle, he grabbed Vincent jumped around him and threw him ahead. He lunged at him with lightning bolt in hand, Vincent blew wind so powerful from his mouth that threw arwin back. They continued to fight in consecutive physical and magical strikes. Vincent twisted arwin’s arm and hit him with his magic, the force of it expelled behind arwin breaking through the rubble. Arwin stepped back coughing blood, he was drenched in blood and suffering injuries all across his body he was in great pain and he was slowly losing the power he got from Zeke. (Ariwn) Even with this power I won’t be able to kill him and he still seems able to fight for long, while I am getting weaker with every moment. Zeke I need to know something, I can use your power does it also means I can use your abilities? (Zeke) yes, you are like a half spirit right now (Arwin)You can freely look through my memories right?, also communicate with me by separating my consciousness? (Zeke) yes but I isolate myself as a spectator so that I don’t have to feel whatever it is that you felt in those memories (Arwin) but when Arystar went through my memories he felt the same pain I did. In a matter of seconds he suffered everything I did in years that took a heavy toll on his mind and body. Arwin climbed up the rubble and got to a higher ground, he looked at Vincent and they both knew this was the final move. He formed a ball of black lightning, the black aura flowed out of him and focused all at one point putting every ounce of his power into it. Vincent released all his power , he was shining in a white light building immense magical pressure, the rubble around him was floating and broke into a crumble and the next moment they fired all they had at each other. The explosion was massive that it blew off the top part of the tower, the black lightning and the white magic flow through it destroying everything in its range……………………………………
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The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
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Finally, this is THE END, the conclusion of the story.
Thank you to all those who read and followed, i am very grateful to you all and it took 2 and a half years to reach here but i am very happy and it feels good to give this bring this story to a final end as i wanted. over the time the story has developed a lot from what i originally thought and i have explored things i never thought of before. not just in the story but i have also realized and learned and developed things about myself, i feel i have become a better person than what i was when i wrote the prologue. with this story i feel like a chapter of myself being over and i feel i have also reached a little closer to the fulfillment of my quest in life. Once again a big thanks to everyone. Chapter 43: Fulfillment Spoiler for Chapter 43: Fulfillment:
The explosion blasted the entire top part of the tower and when the smoke cleared there was only debris left on the destroyed floors. From under the rubble Arwin came out crawling drenched in blood, he was not able to stand and was dragging himself out. From other Vincent came out stumbling, he was too gravely injured but in a better state than arwin.
Vincent saw arwin on the floor and slowly came to him, he kicked him and got on top of him “how many times did it tell you, you cannot kill me, you can never win” said Vincent he was too exhausted to use any more magic so he strangled arwin, but he himself was open was as well. Arwin quickly grabbed his head and suddenly Vincent’s mind was drawn deep into arwin memories. A younger Vincent found himself in arwin’s house, in his family but he was the one in arwin’s position all the pain and suffering from that place came rushing. Then he found himself among other wizards in an unknown guild of which an older arwin was the leader. And then he realized he was living arwin’s memories and his places with arwin were reversed. In moments all the years of fear all the hatred and the pain rushed into his mind tearing it apart. Using Zeke’s abilities arwin isolated himself from it and watched as a spectator while Vincent suffered the same way he did. In reality, Vincent’s mind was completely locked away from his body, trapped inside arwin’s memories. Arwin pushed him over, he was simply just a body with no mind but still alive. Zeke came out and stood next to them “what did you do?” he asked “I let him get to know me the same way arystar did, through my memories. Using your ability I could get myself out of it, but it wasn’t enough so I put him in a loop. He is experiencing it from the start again and again.” Said arwin Zeke looked at Vincent at whose eyes were wide and blank, he could see his mind was locked away. Arwin had successfully separated his mind from his body and not just that but in a way that Vincent will keep suffering for long. Zeke smiled and went back before arwin could begin. Arwin got over him, he fired up the black lightning in his hands with whatever little magic he had left. He hit Vincent breaking his jaw, another one crushing his eye. And then he used to the black lightning to thrust through and he struck him brutally over and over, until his face was completely covered vincent’s blood and gore and he was screaming with insanity. The blood spattered everywhere with each strike, but arwin dint stop and kept hitting him. He thrust through his neck, and then the chest tearing it and ripped out his heart, he got up and crushed his heart in his hand, arching his back and yelled at the top of his voice with madness as blood and tears were flowing down his face. Then he finally fell silent and fell aside on the floor his magic was completely gone now and his eyes closed, but he was still alive. After some time others had fought and won their battles, during which they felt massive magic energies colliding and they knew it arwin fighting at the top. They hurried up to witness the final battle but when they reached the top, it was already over. What they saw was destruction, the top floors were destroyed and only broken things remained. On the floor they saw a disfigured corpse beaten and torn brutally. But they knew it wasn’t arwin since corpse was dressed in robes. That’s when they realized he had done it, it was what he wanted from the start and he did it, he won. But he was nowhere to be seen. They noticed a trail of blood leading towards an edge and then he was gone. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Few weeks later…..The council had been rebuilding, the repairs for the tower and all the other damages were underway, Ewen was the new Archmage now. The nobility was stabilized and in order now. The entire coup devised by Belzarius, Vincent and all their allies from the nobility Emilio and Ricardo was brought into light which led to further discord among the council and the nobility but Ewen proposed a new peace treaty which kept further conflict among them from happening. Erica and Gus joined the council as major operating mages further honed their magic and talents. Fiora was the first one to leave on her own and went on her journey to new places learning more about hidden and lost magic. Gilbert left for his own search, no one knew what he was searching for was but he went on far away. None of them ever saw each other again and after that night of battle nor did anyone of them saw arwin again. A year had passed and a new uprising began against the council, on the basis that the council was too powerful and allowed foolish and dangerous magic to be used which led to the disasters like the one form a year ago. Soon all the noble lords formed an alliance to suppress the authority and power of the council. Countless wars broke out among the guilds and the noble armies across the land. It led to exactly that what ewen had tried to prevent, the collateral damage among the people only gained the mages more disdain. Soon the council was dissolved and the high mages were forced to step down and give up their authority. The entire working order of the mage guilds and the council collapsed and the nobility was the only governing authority. The wars calmed down but there were still mercenary mages who did work for hire, but soon that line of work grew less popular and making a living using magic is not the work one opted for. The magic and wizards still existed but whatever they could do with magic was for their own personal use. Eventually the golden era of wizards and guilds came to an end. As the years passed by, the world that was brimming with magic was now starved of it, the world grew darker and the magic essence in the world was gone. The natural magic energy in the world was consumed and ultimately finished. ……………………………………………………………………….. Few weeks after the night of the battle………………… Far into the woods in the middle of nowhere, arwin made a cottage and lived there for some time. His spirit companion was still with him. Arwin was content and lived there in peace but as the days passed by he rapidly grew weak, he knew what was coming. He had to rework the contract between him and zeke in order to use his powers in the battle. In exchange for his powers, arwin would eventually die in a time of a few weeks but Zeke will not vanish back into the spirit world, instead arwin’s life force will be transferred over to Zeke and he will continue to live in this world as a free spirit. However this was the only part that arwin knew also the only part he cared for. One such evening he was sitting on the front porch of the cottage gazing at the sunset. He held his guild’s insignia that Irena had crafted for him, back then after marco’s death when everyone removed their insignia ornaments, he too did but he sneaked out this one later on. He simply sat silently in the glow of the sunset, flipping it in his hand. “you still kept it , after all this time” said zeke who walked in from the side “I wanted to think of it, in this moment” said arwin He remembered his time in the guild, all the good times and bad. The times he spent with his friends adventuring or fighting both along and with them. It all ultimately led him here, he wouldn’t have wanted any of that to change. “it is time” said Zeke “yes I know” said arwin “are you at peace, are you happy?” asked Zeke “yes I am” he replied with a smile, the most honest and pure expression of happiness that zeke had seen on him ever since he knew him. But he could also see that he was scared ofcourse he would be. Arwin just sat there looking at the insignia and then suddenly he was filled with a feeling inside when he could see everyone infront of him sitting at the table and drinking and enjoying and having fun as they did in the guild, all of his friends. His eyes started to flow with tears and he could not hold the emotion inside any longer and began to weep. At the same time he was glad he could see a glimpse of them at the end. “Thank you for everything” said arwin He was calm now, as the sun was going down he closed his eyes and as the last bit of the sun went down the insignia fell from his hand. Zeke walked over, picked it up and placed it next to arwin. “you have done your part and now its my turn” said zeke, “this world is overflowing with magical essence as long as its there, I could feed on it and exist in this world. And now my path begins here, for thousands of years I have visited this place and now finally this world is mine for the taking. Goodbye Arwin Klein” ………………………………………………………………………………………………. Zeke wandered the world consuming the magic essence at parallel while at other place things led to the downfall of the council and the wizards, was it just the presence of this free spirit in this world that caused it. When the time came Zeke dispersed himself and the energy into this world that fed off of the essence and nullified it, this was the same time when the era of magic and wizards came to an end. Is this the destruction of magic that Vincent prophesized that arwin will lead to or was it just fate or a coincidence?, would it had been different had Vincent won and lead the world of magic?, these questions remains unanswered. Whatever happens in this world hereafter, this story was about Arwin, the path he walked and the choices he made to fulfill his quest which in the end he did. THE END
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