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|2013-09-05, 23:46
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Your imagination
I was able to understand the Lukas and Wolgrin battle fine. It was interesting to see the two "bosses" face off. I think the Erica and Raegen battle seemed rushed, which was why it seemed more confusing.
I'll be looking forward to it.
|2013-09-05, 23:52
|Link #42
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
|2013-09-08, 15:29
|Link #43
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
well it took me almost one month to finish this one, actually got caught into a lot of other stuff, so i couldn't manage to make time to write the story, and my exams will be starting soon it means less and less time to write this, but still i 'll keep writing little by little and post it as soon as possible.
with this chapter the current arc comes to an end and new things and some revelations will start from the next chapter.
i am happy that people keep reading my work, thank you very much, i hope you are enjoying reading it as much as i enjoy writing it.
"Chapter 15: Strike Back"
Spoiler for Chapter 15: Strike Back:
(Arwin) I see now, i am scared to feet but if i haven't the courage to face these monsters then how can i ever face him
He put a finger in his clothes and using his blood he wrote something on the blade of greywand like making , he went to Erica he took her hand and made the same marking on her palm with his blood
"get ready"he said
They nodded to each other and dispersed, arwin approached Raegan and Fynn head on, fynn came forward, arwin was running fast, fynn swing his claws, he got on the ground and slided between his hind legs and below him and got to his other side, he quickly got to his feet and jumped away from fynn. He struck the greywand on a stone nearby, the blade pierced the stone and went through it. He swung the sword, the stone slipped from the blade and went flying towards raegan, he quickly turned and blocked fynn's claws with greywand, he locked his claws with his sword cutting between them, fynn was using his strength to push arwin to ground, arwin used his strength and held him but was slowly falling down.
Raegan put a field of decay magic, the stone through it without any effect, raegan was startled,
(Raegan)Damn it, he figured it out
he snapped his fingers and shattered the rock in two in mid air, as soon as the stone split in two, he saw markings with blood on the inner side of the rock.
(Raegan)of course that's why he used his blade, he first pierced the stone with his blade, to place the marking on the inner side of the stone.
Raegan was taken by surprise, the red markings shone and Erica appeared right in front of him in mid air where the pieces of stone were, she twisted and kicked in his face, then quickly summoned a simple sword and slashed him from his shoulder to his chest , in a vertical swing as she landed on the ground, spray of blood came from the wound on his torso and pouring the red on the ground, he fell back. Fynn almost had arwin on the ground and was about to tear his throat with his jaws, raegan falling down in pain formed a magic in his palm and fired a big compressed ball of decaying magic, Erica threw her sword towards, it decayed in mid air and only rust fell down, she quickly stepped back, when fynn was about to kill arwin in a moment, she touched arwin with the hand in which he had made the marking, instantly they both disappeared and the decaying magic hit fynn throwing him into the rubble of rocks. Raegan fell to the ground in the pain of his own wound. The two were teleported at a distance, they saw the werewolf squealing loudly like a dog, first his fur fell off then his skin started to burn and tear open, blood was sprinkling out of his body, the flesh blackened and decaying it fell off the body in bits, a puddle of blood formed below him, all the while the life still in the werewolf, it was moving vigorously like a fish out of water, tiny pieces of the decaying flesh and blood falling here and there, his organs and innards fell out of the body and streams of blood popping out of them and his squealing grew small and small.
Erica and arwin witnessed the entire scene, Erica turned her face away when the werewolf started decaying, but arwin was struck with horror and fear at the sight of gore of a live creature decaying and dying in such a way. He eyes wide and jaw dropped, his body was shivering with fear by the thought that he had escaped such a fate by a few seconds or it could have been him.
After some moments when the squealing was gone, he pulled her hand off and fell to his knees and hold his mouth to stop the vomit. Erica saw him
(Erica)what a pain, if he can't handle it then why was he watching it with wide eyes
She patted in his back ,"come on, this was suppose to be part of the plan, get yourself together" she said
He got a hold of himself, wiped his mouth and got up, he saw at the werewolf only the skeleton was left with the floor painted black by the blackened blood. He saw
Raegan came infront of them holding his wound trying to keep his body in place, his face and eyes boiling with anger and pain.
"die now !!, all of you die!!!" he yelled
"this is our chance, let's go"saying arwin broke towards raegan with greywand in hand shining green and spilling black, he slided on the ground picked up a stone in his left hand and quickly got up and threw the stone towards raegan, this time to avoid any risk raegan simply moved aside and the rock went behind him, raegan sent waves of decaying magic towards arwin, arwin threw the greywand towards raegan, the sword went through the magic unaffected, raegan ducked at dodged the sword. He got up and approached arwin, the next moment greywand thrust out of his chest piercing his heart, he stood still speechless in shock and pain, he turned his head and saw Erica behind him holding the greywand through his body, he coughed blood, a stream of blood ran down the sword and drip on the ground, she pulled the sword out caught his shoulder and stabbed again,he yelled spitting out blood and splash coming from his chest and back,Erica pulled out the greywand and slightly pushed him, raegan dropped dead on the ground.
The two stood still for a moment or two, arwin took a breath of relief,
"that went well"said Erica
"tell me, how did you figured out the stone thing? and why did your sword not broke against his magic?"
"well, you told me he could decay any material, when you were fighting them and when his attack struck. I saw the fabric of your clothes decayed much faster than the metal of your blades and the crystal sword broke even more slowly. so i thought may be rocks don't decay, i mean we hear about temples and big statues of great figures are there from hundreds of years, are all made of stone and i have never heard or read exactly what does rocks decay into, even if the rock decayed it would take like hundreds of years. Although i was not sure, it was a gamble, i thought i could use teleportation to get close enough to him to strike with a powerful physical attack, so when you appeared right infront of him , it surprised him , that was the most crucial part.
And about the sword, well the greywand does not decay, decaying is the same as ageing of things, it does not age, the wizard from whom i took told me it was the same when she took it from another wizard before her and it hasn't changed a bit. It's not indestructible, it can of course break but it does not age" he explained
"i see"she said
(Erica)the teleportation markings he used, were just marking used in basic spell, the basic teleportation spell is sometimes used to avoid traps, it's not a combat spell, but he somehow managed to pull it off. May be he isn't as dumb as he looks.
"let's move now"said arwin
"just a minute" she said, her pants were short in one leg and 3/4th in another and her boots were fine, but her top was in scrapes, both sleeve torn, below the chest and upper back portions were also torn, the top now only covered her bosom shoulder and lower back now, she used a summoning spell, summoned a top and a sleeveless short jacket appeared from a mage circle. She removed her top and was about to put the new apparel suddenly she realized that she was half naked in the presence of a guy, she flushed in embarrassment and covered herself with the top, she slowly turned her head thinking that arwin was there and ready to pluck the eyes out of his head, but he was nowhere to be seen.
"hey i found a way out!, we better move quick at meet up with the others!" he yelled as he had already moved forward.
She quickly got dressed and followed.
Gilbert stepped out of the greenhouse, small blue flames all over his body and a wicked grin on his face, the greenhouse behind him was filled with blue fire like a furnace, he looked behind and saw a figure covered in blue flames that was soon gone. He dusted off the flames on his body and moved forward.
Gus stretched his arms, twisted his neck a little,his hands were completely red from the tip of his fingers to his wrists, a splash of blood on his face, he walked to the window and wiped off the blood with a curtain and then walked away, leaving behind a hall with it's floor flooded and blood splashes on the walls, at the centre lay the body of Edmyg in the puddle of his own blood, his arm twisted and broken, his leg barely attached to the main body and his body ripped apart at the neck and chest, as if one pierced his bare hand in his body and tore it apart.
Lukas and Wolgrin were battling by pressuring each other with their magic essence, the hall was shaking, wolgrin held out the black orb, Lukas couldn't move by the magical pressure loaded on him.
"your essence is slowly diminishing young wizard, soon you will cease to exist,.....ah i sense four approaching us, wonder which guild they belong too", said wolgrin
Suddenly he realized the four mages approaching them, a hole broke in the ceiling opened above wolgrin and gus jumped in attacking directly. wolgrin moved aside and caught him, he swung him and threw him aside, Erica and Arwin appeared sideways swinging their blades, he ducked and pushed them away with magic hold, a ring of blue fire appeared around him, he sucked in all the fire in his free hand and fired a fireball of the same blue flames at hit gilbert standing behind a pillar.
The four mages got up and approached wolgrin again together, wolgrin used the black orb golden lines emitting from it, he blasted a large force of magic throwing everyone behind, the windows of the hall shattered open, the pressure of his magic essence suddenly increased very high, cracks started to appear in the ceiling and the walls, Lukas fended off the pressure with his own magic essence but could not move while doing so, others had crashed in the hall at different places and were unconscious except arwin, he caught his head and was yelling in pain as if his brain was about to explode, Lukas saw this and realized may be weaker minds were not able to resist this magic.
Now that all the windows were open ,sunlight fell into the hall and on lukas from all directions, he needn't move, he used his light magic and a light screen appeared blocking wolgrin's view, giving Lukas few second to react, he moved with blinding speed in the light, he first came to arwin and hit him behind his neck and knocked him unconscious, he then moved towards wolgrin just before he reached him the light screen wore off, but Lukas was close enough to strike, he hit wolgrin's orb hand as hard as he could and pushed him with another hand, the orb was knocked far away behind and went out of a window. Wolgrin and Lukas both fell to the floor, Lukas quickly got up even though paining, he came to wolgrin who was still lying on the floor out of breath,
"yo..you are nothing but just a tool,... you have no idea what's happening around you, the council must be destroyed" said wolgrin
"funny how such words only come out when one's neck is in another's hand"said Lukas
"fine, then be with it"said wolgrin, Lukas formed a magic in his hand and kept it over his neck, a laser shot out and pierced through wolgrin's throat, a spurt of blood came out of his mouth and was dead.
Lukas got up and quickly jumped out of the window, there was grass everywhere, at some distance he saw an object shining under a rock, he took out a bag of cloth, he put his hand inside the bag and picked up the orb, he flipped over the bag and tied it. He went inside, the others were getting to their feet,
"well, our job here is done"said Lukas
By the nightfall they arrived back at Isengard, they were back to the guild and the job was done.
" "......council need to be destroyed." Is what he said"said Lukas
"i can't exactly tell what he might have been pointing at, even if there were some cracks in the council, let them deal with it "said Marco
"and what do i do of this"asked Lukas holding up the bag of cloth.
"store it in the vault for now, i'll contact the higher ups soon", Lukas nodded and he quickly glanced at the window, he went there and peeked outside.
"what's the matter"asked Marco
(Lukas)i thought i saw something...... my imagination?
At the magic council...
A young man named Ewen, the youngest of the six main members of the council,he wore a blue shirt with a white vest with black lining over it, white pants and a long full sleeve coat, from back the coat reached till the back of his knees, he walked into Gareth's office.
"Ewen, what brings you here this evening?"asked gareth, as he was making notes in thick book, Gareth was the eldest of the six, he was short and old, he wore grey robes and a dark brown coat over it.
"i looked into the matter of the guild named Scourge Chaos"said Ewen
"i have already taken care of it, it was getting out of hand i din't had time to go through any formalities"said Gareth
"that's not why i am here, the guild rebelled against the council so we had to put them down"said ewen
"you very well know how the system works, we cannot afford to take this lightly, if we do not maintain this fear among other guilds, then mage war would break out every other day, that is the one of the main purpose of the council, to maintain the fear among the guilds of getting destroyed"said gareth
"i understand it, but it has been a long time since a mage war and has been silent ever since, but this event is giving me bad vibes, it is not new for a war to start with a rebellion, it's feels like a calm before the storm"said ewen
"even if the guild i sent for the job fails to undo scourge chaos, we can take a direct heavy action and end it for good"said gareth "even if this act is a start for a war it will not proceed"he explained
"what if all the guilds turned rebellious, then even the council won't be able to stop them"said ewen
"that will never happen, because most guilds fight among each other for power or to sort their own conflicts, none of them rebels, they are not slaves, there is absolutely no chance of a large rebellion taking place against the council. Even if it happens it will never work, the Archmage has made sure that the strongest guild answer to him"he said
"i see"said ewen,but still unsure.
"and it has been peaceful for everyone like this. It's very unlikely that anyone will go through the trouble of starting a war"said gareth.
Last edited by mystogan; 2013-09-18 at 12:27.
|2013-09-19, 15:43
|Link #44
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
well i din't thought i will be able to write anything for a few weeks, but i got some time in my hand and wrote 80% of the chapter very fast in one sitting, luckily we have the 16th chapter,
i hope by now you have gotten a pretty good picture of the characters and the universe and the magic,
Chapter 16: Ghost of the Past
Spoiler for Chapter 16: Ghost of the Past:
Somewhere in the forests, a hole opened up in the ground and a large closed flower like structure rose from it, it was enclose by two large petal like outer coverings, it slowly opened and Vanora fell out of it. The inside of the flower was burnt and smoke was rising from her body, her clothes burnt and torned , she suffered some wounds along her body and red marks of the burns, she was laying almost nude on the ground, after a moment she started to move coughing heavily.
(Vanora)barely made it
She formed a green magic in her palm, fresh plants started to grow around her making a bed, creepers grew from the ground and covered her body, her wounds began to heal and the burns started to fade away. Her nudity was covered by leaves and vines.
A small boy sitting in the shadows of a corner in a room locked from inside, shivering, blood was running from his temple there were more such wounds on his arm and back, his skin blue and red from the beatings, his clothes stained red, it was dark everywhere and nothing was properly visible there was banging at the door, the door break open and a teen girl stepped inside holding a cane, her face not visible in the darkness, she came to the boy and started beating him with the cane, he curled into a ball ,she struck him in his back very hard , he arched in pain. The boy was yelling and crying begging for mercy, she kept beating him. In a moment to survive he caught the cane and pushed the girl back and ran out of the room, he ran down the corridor of the mansion and entered another room, there was middle-aged woman sitting at the study table doing her work, the boy ran to her and fell at her feet
save me!, save me!he yelled please! Please help me!, the woman couldnt hear him and ignored him as if he wasnt there, he looked behind and saw the girl standing near him, she swing the cane at his head.
Arwin suddenly woke up in his bed drenched in his sweat and breathing heavily, he looked around and he was alone in the bedroom, he let out a breath of relief and rested his head on his palm.
(Arwin)why am i seeing something like this all of a sudden.
Later on he was walking in the streets making his way to the guild he saw a familiar at some distance walking ahead of him,
hey Fiorahe said, she turned around and greeting him with a smile.
morningshe said going to the guild?
yeshe replied
They were walking together and chatting, as they went ahead arwin saw at the corner of his eye, a man in an alley dressed as worker caught a small boy and was hitting him, the boy was shouting, other people around just went by ignoring it.
Arwin slowed down and let Fiora get a few stepped ahead, he broke away from her and sprinted into the alley he dashed into the man, letting the kid go free, arwin pined the man down got on top and started hitting him, the man tried to yell but arwin dint let him, striking his fist into his face, he kept hitting the man, the man spat blood, arwins hand were covered in blood. Fiora came to him and tried pulling him away,
what the hell are you doing? Are you out of your mind!?she said, he resisted her, stop it she yelled
He pushed her behind and stood up leaving the man and turned towards her,
Fiora was shocked to see the devilish face of him, she saw arwins face covered spots of blood and his hands all red,he had had a wicked grin on his face and madness in his eyes, she could see the bloodlust in him. Fiora stepped back and suddenly arwin came to his senses.
He looked down, i-i am sorry,... i have to gohe said walking away from her, go ahead, ill come laterand went in another direction with quick steps.
Later he came arrived at the guild and joined the rest of them at the bar desk, Fiora shot him an awkward glance and none of them spoke anything about it. Irena brought the drinks,
this job was tougher that i thought, i guess, cause its not like you to be in so many bandages Ericasaid Irena
well i have arwin to thank for itshe said giving him the a cold look.
its not my fault that you could not fight themhe said
but it is your fault to chicken out and run away and hide with your tail between your legs in the middle of the battle and abandoning me while two monsters were attackingshe said
if it wasnt for arwin we wouldnt have had to fight them separatelyadded gus
fine! its my fault, its all my fault !!, so..?, what better did you do anyway? said arwin with frustration
i defeated my opponent and did not risk the lives of my teammateshe said
Arwin opened his mouth but had nothing to say because what gus said was true, he looked at others hoping that someone would back him up, he looked at gilbert who was actually enjoying seeing arwin getting trashed, he looked at fiora, she looked back and both looked elsewhere awkwardly. everyone was sharing a laugh at their verbal battle.
excuse me Mr.Bigshot then why dint you do everything by yourselfsaid arwin
because it was a team assignment you dumbasssaid gus
let it go arwin, you wont be able to outsmart him in a talksaid Irena
Arwin just turned away and sipped on his drink, they kept chatting for a while. A hawk flew in, with a letter gripped in his talons and dropped it infront of them, irena picked it up
its addressed to arwin she said, quickly gus snatched the letter from her hand
ah ha, look what this issaid gus fluttering the letter
give it back you bastard!said arwin as he tried to take the letter, but gus held it away with one hand and pushed arwin with another.He opened it and pulled out paper and began to read,
its blank there is nothing on itsaid gus, then a blue coloured petal of a flower fell out of the envelope. Arwin picked it up and his eyes widened when he watched it closely.
(Arwin)what the fuck!?
i have to gohe said and quickly went off
that was wierdsaid gilbert
may be he just realized he is missing something in his pantssaid gus, giving another wave of laughter among others.
Arwin got to the outskirts of the city around the forest area, he walked further away from any people around. He finally stopped at the edge of the forest.He waited still for a moment, he turned and suddenly he was wrapped in a girls arms hugging him, he stood still like a stone, with a serious expression on his face.
i knew youd take the hint from the envelope, how have you been?she said in his ears, i have missed you
Arwin pulled down her arms down and slightly pushed her a few steps back and stepped back a few steps himself, the girl was dressed in rich clothes not like the nobles but not like anyone walking on the street either. She wore long purple shirt that extended till her thighs with golden metal lining work around her waist, pants and brown leather boots with high heels and a thin silver chain necklace with jewelled pendant.
Arwin threw the blue flower petal in front of her, what is the meaning of this? and why are you here?he asked in a rough voice
why the tough face?, of course i have here come to bring home my baby
brothershe said
i am not your brother and i am not going anywherehe replied aggressively
come on now dont be like thatshe said getting close to him you are my little brother she said trying to kiss his cheek
He instantly pushed her away, she fell to the ground.
GO AWAYhe said loudly, i am not going anywhere! and you stay away from me, if you appear before me again i swear ill chop your head off and send it back to where you came fromhe said, and walked away, without looking back and got away as fast as possible.
He punched on the tree in frustration cracking the bark, he was somewhere else in the forest alone.
(Arwin)why the fucking hell is she here!?, and she wants to bring me home?, as if id trust her word now, but why did she had to appear infront of me like that, i thought they d never find me, i though finally i was free,.....
He landed another punch on the tree, suddenly many images and memories started to flood in his mind, he grinded his teeth and hit the tree again.
Later he came back to his room and spent the rest of the day thinking hard, lost in his thoughts and trying to take out his frustrations and anger, he punched the mirror, it cracked cutting his skin and dripping drops of blood from his fist. He looked up and saw a cracked image of himself in the mirror, suddenly lot of forgotten things started to come to his mind. He yelled and jumped out of the window and grabbed a hanging lantern and pulled himself to the roof. He jumped on the opposite roof , he dropped into the balcony then stepped on the railing and jumped ahead by the side of the building, be grabbed a rod and swung and landed on a window shade , from there he jumped and grabbed a hanging decoration pot at the corner and swung the corner and got on the other side of the building, he landed an metallic platform usually made for plants and creepers he ran along it, he caught railing of a balcony and pulled himself on a higher ground, from there using the railing as a foothold he leaped to the adjacent building, he caught the edge of the roof and pulled himself up, from there he went running from one roof to another, swinging and jumping. He kept on running aimlessly, trying to outrun himself.
It was evening and he finally came to a stop, he sat on chimney watching the sun drown into the horizon, his thoughts still tangled in his mind. He looked below and saw Fiora walking by in the alley below him.
Fiora was on her way through the alley suddenly a figure dropped behind her she jumped ahead and quickly turned and it was Arwin
you startled me and is this a new way to greet someone dropping behind them from above? she said
well sorry about that, i couldnt find a quicker way downhe said , Listen what happened about today--
what is wrong with you, i can understand if you were trying to help that kid, but the way you beat him to a pulp, did you had any personal grudge against him?she asked
actually my mind was somewhere else and But when i saw him harassing that helpless kid....
that man you beat up is a vegetable vendor in the market and that kid was probably a thiefshe said the kid might have stolen something from his stall
i...i dint realize ithe said with embarrassment
of course you didnt you were too busy beating the crap out of himshe said hey if you want to go beating people around town go ahead, just let me know if i have to look out for some similar violent episode while being around you
no its not like that, i was frustrated by something and it came out at a wrong time at a wrong place...i am sorry you had to see me like that
so you troubled by something,huh, well whatevershe said
yeah,.... and its done now,i am fine and thank you for not telling anyone about ithe said, after a little chat they left on their ways
In a small house in a cramped alley the man beaten up by arwin was resting on the bed with bandages and blue marks on his face, his daughter sat by his side and his wife putting a moist cloth on his forehead. Through the window from afar, from within the shadows arwin peeked into the house and checked out he man, even though he hit him a lot his attacks were not very powerful. Arwin left the place going towards his room through the rooftops.
After getting close he sensed someone following, he looked behind, two other figures were tailing him, he stopped the other two stopped at a distance as well. He sprinted in a flash jumping over the rooftops, the other two followed him, he dropped from the side of a building in to a long balcony he ran along its railing and jumped to the corner of another building, grabbing a lantern he swung and got on another side, he used the rods as a foothold and kept moving, the other two followed him using other routes but kept close to him. He got up to a lower roof and just behind him he saw the other two had gotten at a higher roof, as they were going over the roofs arwins fired bolts of lightning, some missing and some getting blocked by them, he came to a halt at the edge of a roof of a very high building below he saw was an alley, there were some merchant stalls stacked with goods like rugs ,carpets etc, he looked at them and leapt in the air, spread his hands sideways and his body straight like a cross, he went a little ahead in the air and then straight going down head first, they followed, in mid air arwin turned facing the other two and fired a huge arc of black lightning, it hit them throwing them off the trajectory and he crashed into the stall. The goods and the cloth shade cushioned his fall, but still he was shaken by it.
He got up stumbling and looked around there was nothing, he turned to get out of the alley and there they were the two person who were tailing him unharmed standing in his way, they wore black hoods with their dressing and mask covering the lower half of their face, he stepped back and was surrounded by two more of them. All attacked him at once except for one, arwin began fighting swinging fists and kicks, but they dint fight him ,they grabbed a hold of him and restrained him, soon he was held tight by three of them and not able to move, but he kept struggling, the one who was holding back came to arwin pulled down him hood and the mask.
Bryce!?, what the hell!?, is this suppose to be funny!!yelled arwin you motherfucking cock sucker!
Bryce picked up a stone and smacked it into arwins head, they released him and he fell to the ground his vision became blur and he passed out.
Later the alley was empty anyone who was in there was now gone.
In the darkness of night somewhere Along the forest line between Talmar and Agarta, were small ruins from long lost time, the place was an open structure of walls with artistic designing surrounded by broken and cracked pillars. Vanora came to the ruins and walked in, she was wearing a simple shirt and trousers probably stolen from a worker and a cloak to cover her from the cold winds of the night, she found a man standing by the campfire, she stood before him, the man wore dark cloak covering his dressing, the man pulled out a pocket watch and saw the time. He moved towards vanora pulled down his hood.
i am glad you are on time but your appearance and condition displeases mesaid Emilio
She looked down, i am sorry master,.. i failedshe said
do you realize how much trouble it took me to place you there and you couldnt do a single stealing job
please forgive me mastershe said but wolgrin rebelled against the council, because of which the guild was attacked by Dragon Nest , their mages were too powerfulshe said bowing her head not looking him face to face.
where is the orb now?
it...it is likely in their possessionshe said
i got you out of jail because you had talent and this is how you repay me! With failures and incompetence! he said
please master Emilio give me another chanceshe said
another chance!?, you had yours he said, guards started to appear from behind the walls,
She quickly jumped behind and prepared her magic to cast, suddenly she felt all her magic energy draining out of her, she couldnt move, she felt a strong magic presence around her she was getting pulled down to the ground. Emilio came to her, he slide a stiletto out of his sleeve, he caught vanoras head by her hairs and slit her throat, a spray of blood came out of the cut, her body fell down with the sliced throat blood kept flowing from it forming a puddle underneath her body.
The figures of guards disappeared in thin air. A man stepped in from the shadows, his dressing and face completely covered by a hooded cloak.
so the Heart of Verloren is in dragon nestsaid the man
you said that wolgrin would be appropriate for this job, i trusted your word and now it is out of our reachsaid Emilio
On the contrary it is exactly where it needs to be, i know a way in which two birds can be hit with the same stone and it will be delivered to us safely , by the time it is needed it will be in your grasp said the man and started to walk away.
it better goes as you say, dont forget who funds your enterprises and researches that are off the record said Emilio
The man paused for a moment and then continued on.
After a while Emilio was on his way into the night leaving Vanoras body to the wild.
|2013-10-01, 15:17
|Link #45
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
well the recent chapters have been fast to write, as i am not playing any games and have run out of animes to watch(temporarily), so now most of my break time other than studies goes into writing, so i have been able to write.
i hope you are liking the story build up behind the protagonist although the entire of it is yet to come in next chapters.
"Chapter 17: Rescue"
Spoiler for Chapter 17 : Rescue:
They were snacking and drinking at the guild bar as usual,
wow, irena this new cocktail you made is so horrible said gilbert
yeah it taste likes the berry in it puked and then the lime puked watching the berry puke in it, speaking of vomit said gus where is arwin id like to vomit this on him followed by a laughter
dont you think you are going too much on him lately said irena
of course not, im just playing with him, its all fun he said
well, he dint seem like having fun yesterdayshe said
i said fun, but for me not him he replied with another grin, Irena sighed and just went about her work.
where is he by the way, he usually shows up by this time said gilbert dint see him ever since he ran off suspiciously yesterday
yeah dint see him at all after that added fiora awkwardly as she had met him
Erica was in the masters office, he was seated in his chair going through routine paperwork,
master you summoned me said Erica
yes, our sources from the city has informed us that they saw a person being carried bearing our guilds insignia he explained , one of our guild mage has been kidnapped and it seems it was arwin
how did they know it was him? she asked
who else is missing from the guild right now he said, it is most probable that a rival guild might have abducted him for information, if he spills anything our guild will be at risk
understood she said , but where am i suppose to go?
first gather your team and ill inform you of the location he said
Erica exited the office at the same time Irena entered,
Marco explained the situation to Irena
can you track him asked Marco
i can, lets hope he is still wearing his wrist band she said
That was the true purpose of a guild insignia, the custom of guild mage wearing a guild insignia ornament was about a few centuries old, in previous times the insignia was branded and planted on the mage forcefully so that if a mage went rogue the insignia could be used to track him down. However, as time passed the purpose of a guild insignia was kept a secret and only the most loyal and trusted members were told of it, as years passed by wearing it became a fashion, the mages wore it just because everyone else in the guild did ignorant of the secret, but till today the insignia serves its true purpose when required.
Irena took a seat, closed her eyes and concentrated. She was the one who made the insignia on arwins wrist band, so she left the signature of her magic in it enabling her to track it to arwin.
After few moment she opened her eyes, i know where he is
Outside, At the bar....
guys we have business to take care of she said, it seems someone had abducted arwin, we have to get to him before he spills out anything about the guild
They were struck with shock, Fiora sprayed her drink out of her mouth and gus almost fell from his chair,
(Fiora)what the devil!?, we met last evening and he was abducted after we parted?
now he went and got himself kidnapped said gilbert
it appears so, we got to go now said Erica
yeah...., well i have better things to do than rescuing princesses from castle said gus and ran away.
looks like there isnt much choice here, we cant let the guilds details get out said gilbert
can i come too said emily as she appeared behind Erica
this isnt a kids job said Erica,
i worked with arwin, going through the city when the noble war was going on, i think i can handle it she replied
alright lets get going then, but where are we going?said Fiora
ill tell you said Irena as she came out from the office and joined them.
Irena put out her hand and everyone placed their hands together with her, she used her magic and transferred the information into others minds. Images started to appear in their heads, their minds were flooded with the information about arwins surrounding and his location.
it doesnt seem there are many mages around him, its just a small teamsaid gilbert
lets go thensaid Fiora and they left to the rescue.
Arwin was held at a war tower at a cliff by the sea, it was abandoned for some years. During time of wars these towers were efficient to look for any threat at long distance and to temporarily hold a prisoner, it also served as a point to carry a signal or message.
Arwins eyes slowly opened, his eyes were feeling heavy, he felt a burning around his wrists and ankles, he looked around and found himself in a cell, the walls were old and rotting and metal bars in front of him. His hands and legs were bounded by manacles chained to the walls. His clothes were on, but greywand was missing. Then he started to remember the events of last night
(Arwin)what the hell happened?, i was going back and ...i was followed yes, it was bryce that bastard smacked me, but how in the world did i end up here.
Then he heard footstep approaching him, Bryce walked infront of him, he unlocked the door and entered
you might be wondering what you are doing heresaid Bryce
yes, but more than that i want to kick your asssaid arwin
ya, good luck with that lying here chained uphe said, i am of the guild Shadow Rage i took up a job of a certain man, he hired me and instructed me to bring you to him, Malcolm Klein, does that ring any bell to you
arwins expression hardened on hearing the name,
Malcolm Klein hired you to kidnap me and bring me to himsaid arwin
he dint specify like that, but i chose the methodhe said, nothing personal i am just doing my job, but to watch you like this, my pleasure is personal, he laughed at arwin and walked away locking the bars behind him.
Arwin said nothing and was lost in thought, he looked beside him and jumped in surprise, there was a skeleton chained in the same manner as he was
alright, i got to get out of here before i end up like this dudehe spoke to himself
Erica,Gilbert,Fiora and Emily were hiding in the bushes outside the five story tower with a pointy roof, the tower was much higher for a five floor building, with prison on the top floor.
there are seven of them inside including arwin. Three are on the ground floor, two of them are on second floor and the rest two are at the top floorssaid emily and opened her eyes
looks like the only way in and out is through ground floorsaid Erica
then i guess our route of action is pretty clearsaid emily
Arwin shook his manacles vigorously still they wont come out, he dropped to the ground, he then looked at the skeleton,
you wont mind if i take this would you?, you dont need it anywayhe said to the skeleton and pulled the bone from his forearm, he put the bone in a crack in the wall and pushed it downwards it broke with a crack leaving a piece of bone with pointy end in arwins hand. He put the pointy end of the bone in the key hole and tried to pick the lock hoping that the blind attempt would open the lock.
Three mages of Bryces team were sitting at the ground floor chatting, suddenly the door burst open, and four wizards jumped in, as soon as they entered the two groups started attacking each other, one of them used a telekinetic spell and threw miscellaneous objects at them such as tankards, stones, pieces of wood etc. Emily put up a force field infront of her team and all the objects bounced off. Erica summoned a sword and went in a frenzy slashing between the enemies, one of them touched the floor and formed ice on it, Erica slipped on it sliding and crashed into the wall, gilbert used his flames and burned the floor, the ice melted leaving water behind. Another one of the mages used lightning sparks on the floor, using the water at advantage hitting all of the four intruders with his lightning. Emily created a force field and expanded it pushing the enemies behind, Erica continued with melee attacks, more two enemies entered from above and joined in the fight, they kept firing magic at each other. Fiora spot the way to the upper floor, as soon as she got an opening she escaped the scene and head above to the rescue. The original plan the entire time was to distract the mages while one of them sneaks away and get arwin out of the prison and then escape.
Bryce was on the upper floors, he sensed a magic colliding below his feet, he quickly went up to arwin.
After few moments he gave up and tossed aside the bone aside. He calmed himself, he picked up the pointy bone and charged it with his lightning, the pointy end of the bone was covered with a black layer of electricity increasing its penetrating power, he then took away the skull from the skeleton, he placed the pointy end of the bone and the chain and hammered it with the skull. After few more blows the chain broke freeing from the wall, he did the same on remaining chains and was free from the wall but the manacles and chains still hung from his wrists and ankles.
Then arwin also felt numerous magic colliding below,
(Arwin)what is that?, something is happening downstairs.. but now how do i get out of the cell
He walked up to the bars, trying to find a way out, he heard footsteps approaching fast. he quickly got back to the wall and sat there as if he was still chained to the wall. Bryce came in running in a hurry, he opened the bars and came to arwin.
you are coming with mehe said
Arwin instantly dived ahead and dashed into Bryce and pushed them out of the cell, they got up, arwin saw the greywand was on Bryces waist
oh i am not going anywhere with you and you have something of minesaid arwin
well seehe said
Bryce fired up his magic and moved around the room with blinding speed jumping from ground to wall to roof, he hit arwin from behind the next moment he hit arwin from front the next moment he hit arwin from the side, arwin swing the chains on his wrist in mid air, the chains hit Bryce throwing him off his trajectory and fell down. Arwin attack with a straight punch , Bryce blocked the attack while arwin pushed him by the waist, arwin quickly stepped back and pulled the chain on his left hand that was fixed to Bryces belt, arwin swing the chain in his right hand, while Bryce blocked the swinging chain, he pulled the left chain and separated the greywand away from him, he pulled the chain and caught the sword. Before arwin could unsheathe Bryce was already close to him , he caught arwins right arm and punched him in the gut, arwin bend over in pain, Bryce grabbed his neck in his arm pulled him to the ground and rolled backwards, slamming arwin on his back, arwin coughed and curled.
They got up and were about to go at each again, the door blasted open and Fiora walked in, Bryce quickly used the distraction and blasted the wall,
(Bryce)damn it!, this is done here
And jumped off from there, arwin followed to the edge and saw below, but there was no sign of him as if he disappeared in thin air.
whats going on? asked Fiora, listen first tell me did you---
i am fine by the way thank you for asking he said i know why you and others are here and no they did not interrogate me and i did not give away any information about the guildhe said
lets go thenshe said
you leave, i cannot go back there is something i need to dohe said
what are you talking about?she asked
i am not coming with you......... i must go somewhere elsehe said
The walls on the ground floor were decorated with blood and the floor with the dead bodies of five mages of which none was from Dragonest, the rest were heading upstairs when fiora came back
where is arwin?asked Erica
he is goneshe said
what do you mean? said emily
well he is not on the other floors and not in the cell and i saw him escaping on a hawkzile
what is he that idiot doingsaid gilbert should we follow him?
no use he is already gone farshe said
but why would run awayasked emily
who knows looks like he dint wanted to come with ussaid fiora
i guess we are going empty handed then, we failed here, we were suppose to bring him back to the guild said emily
it seems so said Erica
(Fiora)you better have a good reason for this
The group left the tower and went back. A few hours later after they left the tower arwin cautiously stepped outside the tower and was on his way to Ritherhithe.
Back at the guild......
you think he will be coming back asked fiora
i dont know said gilbert
he is coming back said Irena
how can you be so sure?asked fiora
because he is still wearing his wrist bandshe replied.
|2013-10-06, 16:47
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Your imagination
Those were some interesting defeats! It was nice to see Arwin and Erica work together to defeat Raegan and Fynn.
Now I'm wondering what will happen between the guilds and the council and what Arwin will do if/when he meets more members of his family.
|2013-10-06, 23:09
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The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
i am glad you liked it, had to think it through a lot, particularly the one you mentioned.
there is a lot going among the guilds and council in the shadows right now.well you'll soon see what will Arwin do
|2013-10-17, 08:05
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The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
so luckily this was a quick chapter to write, so i was able to finish it quickly and so here is the 18th chapter.
Now it has been one year since i started this story,i din't thought that this will last this long and i am thankful for those who have been reading it since then. But i think i am 8-10 chapters behind to where i wanted the story to be now, however by the end of November my exams will be over after which i will have time and will cover up as fast as possible.
Now i hope you liked the back story of the protagonist, however there is much more to it and it will be coming in the next chapters.
"Chapter 18: My Home"
Spoiler for Chapter 18: My Home:
Ritherhithe was a town like any other, it contained high class people who are not nobility, lesser nobles and dukes of the city. At one end of the city was a mansion that Belonged to Malcolm Klein, the house was not as big as that of a noble mansion but was rich and lavish than the common residents. The mansion had garden in the courtyard with a fountain in the center. Arwin walked in the gardens and entered the manor. He walked down the hall but there was no sign of any person.
He finally walked into the study and at the other end was a working desk and a person seated in it, he saw arwin entering the room, he got up from his chair and came infront of the desk.
Malcolm Klein was a man in his fifties, he wore a pale blue shirt under dark vest and a long coat and ash grey trousers, even though he was no noble but his attire spoke otherwise, his shoes polished as if they were new and not a single crease on his clothes.
"have you finally come to your senses boy" he said, his voice strict and rough as ever
"did you sent Giselle to get me"asked arwin
"yes, but it seems you put up some hindrance. Nevertheless you are here now"he said "now you—"
"i have come here to say one thing father that i am not coming back, i have my own life now "said arwin
"what life?, you have no life, five years ago you ran away. I let you go so that you would know yourself how cruel and hard the outside world is, just look at yourself dressed like a street rabble, untidy and disgusting. Your place is here now, you have had your little adventure but it's time for you to get real. You will work for me now" said Malcolm
(Arwin)NO...no!,this is not what i want
"NO! Father, i will not stay here and work for you.....i am better off on my own"said arwin
"how dare you!, you defy me, i am your father i raised you providing you with the best things, you are my son and you owe me"
"you might have given birth to me but you were never a father, none of you were a family to me, the moment my mother died i decided i had nothing to do with you people. You do not own me"he said
"it was your fault you mother is dead. She worked day and night on you, to make you better, to improve you and you were so incompetent that you just sat at once place doing nothing but complain. She put so much effort in you that it ultimately killed her and you, instead of taking responsibility atleast after her death, you ran away. I thought the world will make you grow,make you responsible, that you will get mature. But still today you are nothing but a big cry baby!!.
You have caused nothing but trouble and pain for others, you have been nothing but a nuisance and failure ever since you were born"
Even today his father's voice made him shiver, he was trembling with fear. His words cut arwin deep inside, but what hurt him the most was that everything his father said was truth and then images stated to appear in his mind, how he had failed everyone in Lybster, how he had risked everyone's life, he had failed to deal with the noble conflict in Isengard on his own. Tears started to drop from his eyes as he heard his father speak.
But then faces of some people started to appear as well, how Fiora had picked him up from the street and brought him into the guild, Irena had fed him even though he had no money at that moment, gilbert had saved him once in alley from being bullied. Whatever the kindness they had showed to him was enough for him.
(Arwin)just shut the fuck up you asshole, you say you are my father but you never saw the pain i always suffered. You say i caused pain to others but i was the one in grief the most. I was weak, incompetent, failure then where were you when i needed a father! why did you not see my troubles!
Arwin wanted to shout and say all of it, but the words just won't come out of his mouth.
"just leave me alone i don't want anything to do with you people now, i have my own home now"he said weeping
Malcolm came near arwin and slapped him in the face
"i worked hard for our family! for you!, so that you could have everything i never had as a child, you had no troubles in your life. Grow up arwin!, you are Nineteen years old stop acting like a child"said Malcolm
"you still don't understand a thing do you?,........ i..huh, nothing matters now, because the time has already passed. Now i don't want anything from you or this family. No matter how pathetic my life is right now it is better without you in it. So to hell with this family and to hell with you"
Malcolm raised and swing his hand in another slap, but arwin caught his hand. Tears were flowing down arwin's eyes and were burning with anger and hate.
Malcolm was feeling a pressure in the air around him.
"i am warning you Mr. Klein, i am not the same boy i was five years ago, if you interfere in my life again, i will not hesitate to kill my own father"he said
Arwin pushed him aside and walked out of the study while Malcolm stood there see him go.
He walked down to the main hall, the girl in the purple top who met him in Isengard appeared behind him
"where are you going?"she asked "you finally came back. Please don't go you are my baby brother and i love you so much"
As soon as he heard it he instantly moved and hit her, she crashed into a wall before she fell to the ground arwin caught her by neck in his grip and lifted her by the wall,
"listen Giselle the only reason i am letting you live right now is because you are my sister. If you ever appear in front of me again, i promise i will kill you"he said and let go of her
She fell down grasping her neck and coughing while he walked out of the manor and left never to return.She got up and wiped the blood off her mouth and a wicked grin stretched on her face
(Giselle)oh this is not over arwin, i will never let you live in peace.
At a distance from the main city in the outskirts of Ritherhithe was a large graveyard. Arwin stood there in front of the grave of Kathaleen Klein.
"you just couldn't accept me, you were never satisfied with my capability so you destroyed my life and here i am. I will never be the son you wanted, i am fine just the way i am and i have found my own life now away from you and i no longer need you" he spoke, he stood there for another moment and left.
This time when arwin entered the guild, the eyes were on him as he walked to the bar
"so you want to explain something"said Erica, while others simply watched his reaction.
"i am sorry i caused trouble. i....i had some personal matter to take care of" he said
"what of this problem you say?"asked Erica
"oh...it doesn't matter anymore"he said trying to avoid it, "so what have you guys been upto lately?"
"fine"she said, "nothing much just rescuing the damsel in distress"
"ha ha very funny" he replied trying to put and forced awkward laugh.
After he left the guild he was walking along the river bank, there was slope of grass to the river channel below. He sat down on the grassy slope his head down on his knees. Since meeting his family he had started to feel lonely, his father's words echoing in his head.
(Arwin)may be i am a nuisance to them after all
Erica appeared behind him sneaking up on him but when she was close enough she realized he was silently weeping. suddenly she jumped infront of him
"what personal matter" she said "what are you planning?", he looked at her and got up
"is this suppose to be a joke"he said
"i am no fool arwin"she said "if i learn that you were..." he started walking and came close to her
"i am no fool either i know why you are here, i know the old man put you up to keep an eye on me" he said "but since you asked i'll tell you one thing honestly, so that you stop looking for it everytime you are around me. I am not an assassin or a spy hired by someone, whatever i am concerned with, has nothing to do with this guild."
"how can i believe you are saying the truth" she asked
He started to walk away, "well you could believe or waste your time looking for something that does not exist" he said and walked away.
At night when all the moons were up, arwin sat on the rooftop gazing the sky
(Arwin) you have left that place, you are here now, you don't need any of them.
He sat there trying to suppress the thoughts of his family and put them behind, he had left them now he was his own, they were nothing to him now.
After that as few days passed arwin was back to himself in his own life, his pain from the recent visit to his family was gone for now.
In the fortress of the guild named Dragon's peak located far away from civilizations and hidden within the mists, the main hall was dimly lit. Master Kevin the guild master was seated in his throne with a long red curtain behind his throne. Kevin was a man in his 40's, he wore leather pauldron on one shoulder, a steel chest guard mixed in his clothing and thin steel plated bracers. A man entered the hall he wore a special clothing but was hidden under a hooded cloak so was his face under the hood, he had the crest of Magic Council on his right shoulder of his robes.
"to what do i owe the pleasure of your visit here, this isn't a place where i can welcome someone of your standards" said Kevin sitting lavishly in his throne, the man stood in from of him
"i have an offer for you"said the man
"i am listening" said Kevin
"i can make on opening for you, so you can get what you want"he said
"now you offer me help after denying it all this time "he said "....what's the catch?"
"i have intel that the Heart of Verloren is in Dragonest's possession. If i present an opportunity for you, you can go ahead and do what you want, but i want you to secure the heart for me while you are at it"
"i see, so you need my help more than i need yours" said Kevin "as i am the only one who can do this.....what if i refuse to get your item..." saying instantly he was standing behind the man with his ripped cloak in his hand ".... Master Belizarius, Archmage of the Magic Council"
The man was Belizarius, he wore a cape with the council's crest on the back over his blue-gold combat robes. He turned towards Kevin and smiled.
"i see you are playful as always" he said
Kevin smiled and bowed, " i apologize master, i just couldn't resist"
Suddenly his eyes widened as he felt and enormous heavy magic pressure on him coming from the archmage, the hall began shaking and cracks started to appear in the ceiling as dust fell down from it. Belizarius felt the presence of a few other mages around him who were watching them hidden in shadows, but it din't bother him a bit.
"but i am not playing, i want the heart that is of top priority, do not forget i have kept you out of trouble and eased your problems. Numerous times Marco pleaded for investigation. But i kept denying his request to keep you secured from other members of the council" he said, slowly the pressure went away.
"i will be expecting word of your success"said the archmage and then left.
Kevin went back to his throne and sat, Rowena appeared before him.
"Master what do we do now?"she asked
"order everyone to make preparations"he said
|2013-12-02, 23:20
|Link #49
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
so exams are over and now i finally have some time and i can write, sorry for the delay
i have the new chapter here and i hope you have not lost track of the story so far, i hope you like the new chapter.
"Chapter 19: Invitaion"
Spoiler for Chapter 19: Invitation:
A 16 year old arwin was standing in a square in an unkown town all around him were happy and cheerful faces with sound of laughter and joy, there was woman among them in her twenties, when the young arwin looked at her his face brightened up. The next instant it was a dark evening with a red sky and silence everywhere, all the cheerful people now lay dead around him in a pond of blood on the ground, his eyes were wide open and hands completely red with blood from the tip of this fingers to the elbows, he looked ahead and saw the woman he was happy to see was criucified to a pole in the centre of the square. He just stood there, tears won't even flow from his eyes, he looked around for any sign of life, at afar distance he saw a man walking away, arwin's vision became blurry and all he could see was a tattoo at the back of the man's hand.
His eyes opened, he was lying in his bed. He got up picked up the greywand and simply looked at the sword.
(Arwin)i can't wait any longer..
Arwin was at the bar drinking his usual when a raven flew in and dropped a letter at Irena, he quickly went upto her to see what it was about, he looked at her curiously as she opened the letter
"it's just a payment from the client for the job done"she said
He nodded and got back to his seat, lately he was excited about every notice that came in, in the anticipation for it to be a letter from the council that may contain any relevant information he needed. Irena knew about his little misadventure the last time he visited the council, ever since rumors had started to fly around the guild about arwin trying to take on a member of the council. Among every group the rumor took a different story, some believed it to be some personal dispute, some believed it was a publicity stunt while some thought it was all a lie and that arwin made up the story to get attention. But none confronted him about it.
"i know what you are looking for"said Irena to arwin
"do you now and what is it?"he said
"i know you are looking for any news about Vincent Klaus, i know what you tried back then"she said
He glared at her for a moment and then sipped his drink and looked elsewhere pretending, "i don't know what you are talking about" he said
"oh, of course you don't"she said with a chuckle.
He walked out and little girl bumped into him, she dashed into him and fell to the ground on her butt, arwin gave her a hand and helped her up
"watch where you are going emily .....and what's the hurry?"he asked
"oh, nothing i was just roaming around"she said " ok i have to go" and she went on her way walking quickly with fast steps.
Arwin looked back and saw she had came from other side of the building not from the main entrance.
(Arwin)Ah whatever, might be searching for something she lost.
Later when he got to his room as soon as he locked the door and turned around, there he was Vincent standing infront of him, arwin instantly sprang ahead and tackled him, he went through Vincent and dashed into the bed. He quickly turned and before he could take another step he was frozen on the spot.
"you motherfucking bastard!"he yelled
He then realized, what stood infront of him was a spectral shape of Vincent, it was a projection of his real self casted to appear infront of arwin.
"it seems you have some business with me, meet me here at the third night from now when all the moons are up and then we shall see"said Vincent, and images of a location started to appear in arwin's head he fell to the ground and when he looked up, the projection was gone in thin air.
He got up, steadied himself and now he knew what he must do. He went back to the guild and straight into Marco's office, he was standing by the window looking at the drowning sun.
"i sense some disturbance in your magic essence"he said
"you know why i am here"said arwin,"i have to go"
"and that is your final descision?"asked marco
"yes"he said, Marco was silent for a few moments and then he spoke,
"then you leave me no choice. You are here by expelled from this guild and no longer affiliated with Dragonest whatsoever"
Arwin simply bowed and left the office and then the guild without making contact to anyone else.
Arwin realised that Marco knew no matter what, he would still go after Vincent. So Marco played a smart move by kicking out arwin out of the guild. Now when arwin will confront him, at that moment he would not be a mage from Dragonest, so the next day when the issue arises technically no problem or atleast minimum of it would befall the guild. It was the best Marco could do to secure the guild in these circumstances either way arwin would be dead by then.
He was at his room preparing, he wore a white full length shirt, a sleeveless black vest, the vest had black metal plating at the shoulder blades on the back from the outside connected to the pauldrons, he wore leather bracer on his left arm and an elbow length glove in the right and knee length greaves. He wore the full length hooded coat black in colour and blue around the shoulders. The greywand was strapped by his waist on the belt.
He put on his hood, jumped out of the window and climbed onto the rooftop and was on his way out of the city in the dark of the night, he was almost at the edge of the city when he turned into an alley and a familiar face appeared before him.
"i know where you are going and what you are about to do. i cannot allow that."said Erica
"i am no longer a Mage of this guild" he said "get out of my way", his voice was cold and hard.
Erica saw his eyes were filled with rage and he spoke like a different person as if everything else was oblivious to him.
"i believe even you are not that foolish to think that you can defeat a member of the council on your own, even if you go and confront him, you will die"she said
"humph, you cannot even match equally to me and you think you can kill him"she added in a mocking tone
"you underestimate my power"he said"....and besides this is none of the guild's business so why are you here exactly?"he said
"that doesn't mean there won't be any consequences, i cannot let you put my guild to risk for your petty selfish reasons" she said, she summoned the
Archangel, a white magic circle appeared in her palm and she pulled out the sword, it's blade was shining and had metallic wings at it's hilt and a cross at the pommel pointing outwards.
(Arwin)i don't have time for this shit.
"get lost. I am warning you this is no game, if you stand in my way i will kill you" he said
She laughed a little at first, "i'd like to see you try" she said
They attacked each other, he moved slightly and swung the greywand deflecting the archangel, Erica quickly turned and slashed, he quickly stepped back. She jumped ahead with a straight strike, he deflected with the swords grinding against each other, he stepped ahead and attacked with round up kick, she ducked and summoned a dagger in other hand and aimed for his leg, he quickly placed his hand on the ground and lifted himself and kicked the dagger out of her hand with another leg, she stepped back and he got back on his feet and fired a an arc of black lightning, she blocked with her sword and cut through it. He used magic force and jumped higher and caught the corner of a window. He moved with a quick thrust of magic across the alley in the air, landed with his feet first on the base of a balcony, using his feet like spring he thrust himself right angle downwards from the base of a balcony right above Erica approaching her straight with the greywand pointing at her. She stepped sideways, the greywand landed on the ground straight, arwin used it as a hold and turned in a circular motion swinging his leg. Erica ducked and kicked his sword knocking it out of the ground, arwin lost his balance and fell down but then got up quickly.
They crossed their blades again, after a few minutes arwin realised he wasn't getting overwhelmed by her nor was he able to attack her properly.
(Arwin)Bitch!, she is purposely stalling me so that i tire myself out here.
He took out a small black shiny rock and crushed it in his hands. Instantly the alley was filled with black glitter smoke, providing a cover for arwin. Few moments later when the smoke cleared arwin was not in the alley. Erica looked up and saw some moment on the roof, she looked around and spotted a ladder at the corner and quickly climbed up, when she was at the top, she found herself alone on the roof.
Back at the guild Irena was cleaning up the bar table, when she was done she opened the ledger to make some account details. She found something tucked between it's pages. She picked it up and saw it was arwin's wrist band bearing the guild's insignia. She walked up to the window holding the wrist band and looked out. The night was silent, the skies were pitch black with a red moon in it.
(Irena)looks like he is gone for good this time, won't be seeing him again.
Arwin was going though the wilds jumping from tree to tree, his heart was pounding as his target was at his fingertips, the moment he longed for had finally arrived.
.................................................. ..............
Four years ago,...
In a town named Grasmere, a woman was walking along the streets she turned the corner in an alley and saw a young boy beaten up and lying unconscious on the ground. His hair was dark brown, he wore common man's clothes but a rich coat that was torn at many places and broken pocket watch was lying near his hand.
She came near and picked up the pocket watch and put it in her pocket, she then waited there for a few minutes but no one came looking for the boy. She then picked him up and took him with her..........
|2013-12-18, 09:54
|Link #50
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
well this chapter took a lot longer than i expected it, it is also quite long but it reveals the major past of Arwin.
it is also very fast paced as i had to put lot of stuff into one chapter, it has been the most difficult chapter to write till now,so i hope you like it.
"Chapter 20:Four Years Ago"
Spoiler for Chapter 20: Four Years Ago:
Four years ago, in a small town named Grasmere...
A 15 year old arwin woke up in a bed, he was bandaged and his head still trying to cope up with recent events. He looked around he was on a bed in a small room, wearing a shirt and trousers that weren't his. He looked sideways there was woman cooking something in a pot at the fire place, he could smell it, his stomach made a loud noise for not eaten in a few days. The woman turned around,
"so you woke up finally"she said
"who are you? And where am i?"he asked
"i am the one who saved you and you're in my house"she answered, she came near with a bowl and spoon in her hand and offered him the bowl of stew.He accepted the bowl, at first he looked at the food but did not eat it,
"don't worry if i wanted you dead i wouldn't have picked you from the street"she said, he rapidly put spoonful into his mouth one after another, in minutes the bowl was empty. He eyed the woman, she wore a white top, trousers and a sword rested on her hip. The woman came near him, she put aside the sword and took a stool and sat next to the bed,
"so what is your name? And what were you doing lying there unconscious all beaten up?"
"it's Arwin, a bunch of guys tried to rob me and i put up a fight, i....wait where is my watch?"
"you mean this watch"she showed him the broken pocket watch hanging from her palm
"that is it"he said and extended his hand, she pulled back.
"oh no, i am keeping this as a payment for my hospitality"she said, he then didn't had say anything to say as he had already eaten the food.
"what was your name again, arwin what?"
"Arwin Klein"
Suddenly a guy opened the door , "Sabetha come on it's Vincent he is fighting the street gang, you don't want to miss this" and went ahead hurriedly
"come on kid, we have to go" she said, she strapped the sword on her waist and handed him a pair of boots
"this is women footwear"he complained
"oh please, you are wearing a woman's clothes and you complain about the boots?, come on put them on we got to go"
He unwillingly wore the boots and followed her out. There were running through the streets, they went into an alley and from one turn to another went on going deep into the inner streets. Finally they came to a square, this was the uncivilized part of the city filled with unsophisticated people consisting of workers, vendors, small shopkeepers, thieving crews and beggars. They people were crowding at the centre of the square.
They met up with the guy who had appeared before at Sabetha's house, from there they went to the roof of a nearby building from where they could see the centre of the square clearly. There he saw an unarmed man dressed in proper clothing against five men.
"what's going on?"asked arwin
"just sit back and enjoy the show we got the best seats"said the guy with them.
The five men were armed with knives and daggers as they attacked him he dodged with sharp reflexes. They surrounded him and attacked from all sides, suddenly he disappeared and there was a blur of his image in the area at multiple places at the same time hitting all of them, then he stopped and could be seen once more, a mage circle appeared beneath him, as soon as the crowd saw the circle they moved back making more space for the fighters. He took out a veil and emptied it in his mouth, one of them attacked him head on he dodged and sprayed liquid fire on him, another dashed him from the side, he jumped over him and placed his palm on his back, he was thrown away with blast of magic on his body. Then he threw a spell at another one that paralyzed him on the spot, he picked up a knife that had fallen and threw it charged with magic, it went through the shoulder of the paralyzed guy. The other two guys were near him, he quickly coated himself in a cloak of lightning and soon as the other two hit they were electrocuted and fell down.
He looked around and saw they were dealt with, he looked above and noticed the spectators on the rooftop.
"what was that about?"asked arwin
"He is Vincent, our leader. Those other guys hired us for a job and later refused to pay"she said
"hired?, who are you?"
"we are guild mages"she answered
"but not official yet. And i am Billy by the way"said the guy with them
"hello people, i hope you enjoyed the show"said Vincent who was now standing behind them,"it seems we have a new guest here"he added when he saw arwin
Sabetha pulled him aside from them, "listen i found him on the street with this on him", she showed him the pocket watch
"well that is certainly not a commoner's item, so what is he a noble?"
"i am not sure but, but he surely is not from the common rabble. May be he is lost or ran away, but we can use him and get some big money from his family acting as ransom"
"it could work, and we need of funds for the guild" he said
"alright then i'll keep him with me and try to get the info on his background from
him"she said
Arwin was eyeing Vincent, he was fine handsome man, he wore violet-blue robes, brown pants and boots. He din't look the part of street rabble like others did. Arwin noticed he had a crest like tattoo on the back of his hand.
After their talk they joined others and came down the roof, after a little chatter Vincent and Billy went on their way, Sabetha and arwin went the other.
"so listen would you work for me, i could use a hand. You work for me and you get food to eat and a place to sleep. Or do you have somewhere else to go?"
"no, i....uh i'll work for you"he said
(Sabetha)damn it, he is a runaway, i'll have to get him to talk somehow.
After that arwin started to live with sabetha doing odd jobs and household chores for her, he got three meals of the day and a bed to sleep.
Two weeks later,.....
Sabetha and Vincent were meeting at the villa that served as their base of operations for their so called guild,
"it's been so many days, every time i bring up the topic or try to make him spit out some information, he carefully avoids it and slips out of it. i even asked him directly about his family, he made up an obvious lie and then i couldn't counter without him getting suspicious of us"
"i see, wait for a few days, if he still doesn't talk we will use the hard way and make him talk. Honestly i wouldn't like to torture kids but he left us no choice"
Later the next day arwin and Sabetha were walking through the market after some work. At the noon when the market was most crowded they had to make their way through the crowd. A person bumped into sabetha from back and moved along. When they were out of the crowd she felt something missing on her, her pouch of coins was gone. she looked around and saw the man who had bumped into her running in the opposite direction.
"oh!,fuck!"she cursed and went after the man leaving arwin behind. He din't knew what to do, he thought for a moment and ran straight ahead of them.
He went across the street and ran into the alley, taking a few turns he spotted a coffin shop that had a coffin placed against the wall, he sprinted and ran over the coffin and grabbed a window on the building, he climbed swiftly to the roof, he jumped on to the next building and dropped down to a lower roof. From there he spotted the thief closing towards him from right and Sabetha was behind him. when the thief was a few steps short he dropped straight down and landed on the thief both crashing into a heap of cartons by the side.
Sabetha came to them and picked him up and the thief unconscious, she took her money from the thief and kicked in his face. She looked at arwin for a few moments, he was covered in few bruises
"may be you could be of more use"
Later that night at the base.....
"you want to train him, that's a foolish idea. we recruit mages not teach wizardry
"said Vincent
"it's been over two weeks and we haven't gotten any information, rumours or gossip from our contacts about his family. it's seems more like he was kicked out of his house and there hasn't been any search for him, even if we torture him to speak up i doubt his family would take him in more than one piece. I am saying we are stuck with him now and he has skills and the guild can always use a new member. If we can't get any money from his family this way, he might as well work for the guild and make money for us that way" she explained
"fine , but he is your responsibility he better worth this trouble" he said
The next day she offered arwin to join the guild which he gladly accepted, they went to their base and arwin was introduced as the new member of the guild, he met with other people in the guild. Later that day Sabetha took arwin to the backyard garden of the villa.
"i will be training you to use magic"she said, while they were admiring the burning disc drowning into the horizon
"well i already about magic"he replied
"do you now, then things will be easy i guess"she said "you are part of this group now, we built this because we can use magic to do work that cannot be done by any normal person"
"i see and Vincent is your leader, but i rarely see him doing any guild's work"he asked
"Lately he has been very busy with his research. Anyway, you will be having you share of the work from the guild and will be paid likewise."
Later he shifted to live in the villa with others and now arwin was a part of this small faction.
One fine noon arwin and sabehta were sparring in the backyard, when arwin noticed the odd weapon of hers
"that sword of yours is quite different" he said "is it some kind of magical tool"
"of course it is"she said, and she streamed her magic through it and the blade turned yellow "it uses the magic from it's user, so with a different wielder it can have different effects. it's called Greywand"
"how did you get it?"he asked
"my master gave it to me when i was young, he had no longer use of it so he passed it on to me. When i asked him about it, he told me he had won it from another wizard."
"quite a fancy equipment"he said
"a few days ago i encountered a witch, when she saw greywand on my waist and challenged me to a duel and asked for greywand as the prize if she won. she also used magical swords, she could summon different magical blades with different abilities. But was very inexperienced and inevitably lost and then she was gone."
"well i wouldn't cross blades with you now"he said, they continued their training
And then one year passed by, during which arwin learned to use magic and cast spells and later developed his own unique magic. Sabetha also taught him how to use a sword, he couldn't master it but could wield a blade if needed. He not only learned new skills but also made new friends and relations with other people. He would go on mission and adventures with them, train, eat and have fun together. Few asked details for his background but most of them didn't care for it. For the time being he was settled in this place and had forgotten about his runaway from his home.
One such day....
"so now using alchemy his research might go in a whole new direction"said Billy one of arwin's fellow wizard and good friend, "i am working with him on that one"
"he should get some result by now he has been at it for more than a year"said arwin as they sat eating their meal in a nearby tavern, "alright i have to go meet up with Sabetha. I'll see you later"saying arwin ate the last spoonful and took off.
Later at evening arwin and Sabetha came back from their special assignment that she had invited arwin to, they were headed towards the villa,
"i still can't believe you tricked me into coming with you"said arwin, "you told me that we were going to a noble banquet"
"hey we did go to a fancy party" she said
"we were delivering groceries because their vendor was not in place and we barely made it in from the back door"he said "is that what we do now, sell vegetables?"he added mockingly
"hey sometimes we have to suck it up to the nobles to get their support, now shut it"she said
When they arrived at the guild, the place was abnormally quiet, there were a couple of mages in the hall who had also just arrived. Faces who would usually be seen were absent along with Vincent,
"okay listen, you guys go check out the upper floor"she said to other three wizards, "arwin and i will look into the basement"
They made their way down, the room at the far end was lit with floating orbs, as they approached Sabetha noticed a trail of blood on the floor. They silently entered the next room, Vincent was standing at an altar, the floor was flooded with blood, arwin looked up he saw the bodies of the wizards from the guild were crucified on the wall, wounds and injuries all over their body and a trail of blood on the wall beneath each body.
"what the devil!"yelled arwin, Vincent turned and saw Sabetha and Arwin, he wore an aporn over his clothes that was stained with blood and his hands wet with fresh blood till elbows, on the altar was the body of Billy, the chest was ripped apart ,the ribs were sticking out from the side and the torso was torn open. Arwin was shaken by the horror of the site, he was stunned and wasn't able the utter another word.
"what in the bloody fucking world are you doing in here!"said sabetha in shock by the absurdity of the site and the monstrosity she saw in Vincent.
"i am sorry you had to find it this way, it was necessary for the experiment" said Vincent "let me explain....."
"MURDERER!!"she yelled, she quickly grabbed and arwin and ran back up, Vincent took off the apron and quickly followed.
Vincent came running to the main hall and saw the two along with three other wizards waiting for him,
"how could you do such a thing to your own comrades. You will not get away with this"said sabetha
"i needed human sacrifices to experiment, this was part of my research, magic requires sacrifice you know that. We both set out to do great deeds in magic." he said, his voice was calm while sabetha's was shaking.
"not like this"she said
"we started this together and now you dare stand against me. i have come too far and no one will stop me, not even you"he said
The Wizards fired blasts of magic at him, he blocked it by a force field. sabetha attacked him with greywand, he dodged and caught the sword in his bare hand and placed another hand at her stomach, with a blast of magic she was thrown away and crashed into the wall. One of the wizard levitated weapons from the rack and threw towards him, Vincent created a barrier that turned every weapon into dust of metal when it passed through it. Other two wizards attacked him from either sides, he countered their magical energy with his own, arwin appeared behind him and almost touched him with black lightning sparks. He ducked and turned and caught arwin's arm, lifted him up and kicked him in mid air, arwin went flying and crashed into the roof then fell down and crashed into the furniture, suddenly sabetha appeared next to him and swung the sword at his neck.
Arwin coughed up blood and spit it on the floor, hot streams of blood were running down his temple, his clothes were in tatters and was bleeding from his shoulder. He got himself up stumbling and saw Vincent and sabetha were standing close to each other, his on hand was on her shoulder holding her and other hand was half way through her torso, blood was dripping from his fingertips as he penetrated his hand further into her body and then pulled out and let her go, she fell to the ground with a splash of blood. Vincent turned to other wizards. When arwin saw this he got too scared, while Vincent was busy with other wizards arwin jumped out of the window and ran away.
Even though every movement of his body pained him, the fear made him run for his life. He ran away from the villa towards the edge of the city, on the building ahead was a pulley for lifting heavy weights to the roof, he caught the rope and opened the lock, the load came down from other side pulling him up to the roof, from the roof he jumped to the high wall from there fell on the other side into the bushes outside the city. He got up and was stumbling his way trying to get as far as possible, his vision was becoming blurry now due to the blood loss. Suddenly he felt a wave of magic energy pass though him. He looked behind and saw a bright light coming from the city, he fell to his knees as the light expanded from the city then everything was bright and there was light everywhere as he fainted and fell on the grass.
When the next ray of sunlight touched his face, he woke up. His body aching and burning injuries, he somehow got to his feet and when he looked towards the city his eyes widened and his jaw dropped. The city was gone, a giant scorch mark on the ground and few structures standing, while most of the building and the people in it were turned to dust and ash. He walked into the city and there was no sign of life. He saw a few remains of the structures and nothing but ash on the black colored ground. He went towards the villa which was now a small pile of broken woods. He sat on the ground and placed his hand on his face while tears began to flow down his cheeks, all the people from the guild, his friends and Sabetha were all gone now. It was then that he realized that had he not ran away like a coward he would have met the same fate.
He sat there for sometime reminiscing over the some memories with them from the past year, then something caught his attention. He saw something shining on ground, he moved the pile of trash and found the greywand beneath it, the events of previous night came rushing into his mind. Now there was rage building up inside of him. He took the picked it up and was on his way.
Present day....
On the send night after arwin left Isengard and when all the moons were in the dark sky, arwin was running through the woods and kept on going until he finally reached a cliff and stopped.....
|2014-01-11, 01:51
|Link #51
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
i am sorry for a very late update, i was on vacation for two weeks and after i returned got caught up in one thing after another, but the next chapter is here and is filled with action, i hope you'll enjoy this chapter, it's a long duel but i am sure you'll like it.
i'll try to make the next update as soon as possible
"Chapter 21: A Long Awaited Moment"
Spoiler for Chapter 21: A Long Awaited Moment:
There he was standing against the man with the crest on the back of his hand, the moment he longed for had finally arrived. The man in cloak turned and saw arwin face to face.
"who are you? and why do you want to kill me?"asked Vincent
"you got to be kidding me"said arwin
"you look familiar, have i tortured you before"
"may be this will remind you", arwin unsheathe out the greywand and held it infront of him and Vincent's expression changed to a surprise.
"ah, you are that kid, so you lived and now here you are came to take revenge for all your friends i killed or is it for a special someone among them.....Oh did you fancied her?", arwin din't reply at first, "by god! you did, so it is for her that you seek vengeance"
"do you think i am that obvious?, i am here for no one but myself, i have nothing else to say to you"said arwin and took a fighting stance. The hate and anger in his voice and on his face was clearly visible.
"well then let's see just how strong your hatred and desire for revenge is"
They were standing at wide open area with a cliff at the far end. Vincent touched the ground with his palm and released a spell he had already prepared forth. A red coloured circle encircling a pentagram with incantations on it was shining beneath him. Suddenly bones started pop out from the ground. Skeletons started to rise from the earth, their bones were rotten brown-red and some of them were still decaying, the skeletons wore armor and weapons from a few hundred years back that were broken, chipped and soiled. Around 20 such figures rose from the earth and all of them turned towards arwin and approached him.
(Arwin)what in the world is this, there are too many of them
He took a step back but then held himself. Two blades pierced his coat from behind, the swords moved and ripped his coat apart, but arwin was not there. Like a flash of lighting he moved between the undead and chopped the skull off a few of them. The greywand was shining green and spilling black sparks, he blocked a sword from the side turned slightly and dodged a spear at this stomach, he caught one of them and broke it's hand by twisting it then swiped with greywand that cut it's spine. He caught another attack and pulled it to block an attack from another one. he grabbed one from its collar bone and jumped over him and landed a kick on another one's skull that popped out and rolled on the ground, as he landed on other side he blasted the skeleton he held in his hand with an explosion spell. Two of them attacked him from either side he stepped back and their swords crossed infront of him, they swiped their sword and he quickly bend backwards as the swords moved like scissors above him. He rolled backwards and got some distance.
In the heat of battle he din't realise but now he noticed that he was cut at the shoulder, waist, forearm and his shin. Thick blood was flowing out of each wound but he did not stop and launched into another combo of magic and sword among the skeletons. He dodged a strike of a giant battle axe from above, he stepped on it and jumped higher in the air and launched thunderbolts of black lightning that hit a few of them, he landed on one of them snapping its neck. He was pushed by a strike of another giant sword that he blocked head on. He got in a crouching position and fired a stream of lightning, as the mummified skeletons were caught in the magic attack, arwin quickly moved among them, tagging few by hitting them slightly with his palm. When the sparks cleared he quickly jumped away from the crowd and made a hand sign, all the skeletal figures that were tagged blasted into pieces. He continued fighting them, but few moments later he realised there was no end to them, even the ones that he cut were moving in pieces and getting attached again. He was now catching his breath, suddenly his eye caught the attention of Vincent standing on red magic circle.
He stood still and was surrounded by the undead, as they attacked him again, he quickly touched the ground and launched himself high in the air with magic force. he moved in a projectile motion coming straight towards Vincent, he stuck the pointy end of greywand outwards ready to strike him. As arwin closed him, Vincent stretched out his palm and as soon as the greywand's tip touched his skin, their magic clashed and tried to push each other, for a moment he was in mid air opposing to Vincent magic force. He dropped to the ground and broke vincent's red magic circle by placing a lightning palm on it, Vincent took a step back then punched arwin in the face with enhanced force, he went flying and crashed on the ground few yards away. As soon as the magic circle broke the undead soldiers turned into dust.
Arwin got up holding his face, the skin beneath his left eye tore like red crescent moon from which stream of blood was flowing.
"looks like you can fight a real fight now"said Vincent, he took off his cloak under which he wore grey combat robes.
Arwin started feeling a heavy pressure on his magic essence, his adrenaline came down and was feeling cold and isolated. Vincent's magic essence pierced arwin's, he started to tremble and the fear clouded his mind, the next moment Vincent was close to him, he hit him with another enhanced attack, arwin flew another few yards and fell. The greywand had slipped from his hand and fell where he stood before. Arwin slowly got up coughing blood, he felt as if someone punched a hole in his torso.
(Arwin) what was that, this feeling that i get from him. I can still fight but this feeling does not go. What the hell is happening!?
Suddenly he felt a strong pain in his head as Vincent forcibly entered into his mind, flashes of random images started flowing rapidly. Vincent saw arwin from the last few years. Then the pain was gone when he withdrew. He looked up and Vincent was still standing infront of him. They both casted an enhancing spell and broke towards each other. Arwin blocked his kick by exerting equal magic force. Vincent pushed him back punched him into the ground. arwin caught his arm, placed both his legs around his arm and twisted on the ground by which Vincent was pulled and twisted as well and slamed on the ground on his back, arwin quickly locked his legs around vincent's neck, with big surge of power he pulled on his arm and broke it, arwin quickly released his hold and backed up. Vincent got up with left arm hanging by his shoulder lifelessly.
"ah, you have learned to fight well and improved"he said grinning with no sign of pain of a broken arm, "however it won't be enough"
"we'll see about that"saying arwin leapt on him.
Vincent avoided his attacks with flexibility while a few hit him, at one opening Vincent altered his right hand, his fingers became thin and long with long and pointy fingernails, he stabbed in arwin's right arm, his finger pierced into his flesh, he twisted them and pulled away and tore the skin and flesh off arwin's arm. Arwin fell back holding the injury and yelling in pain, he saw vincent's devilishly altered hand drenched with blood and pieces of flesh stuck in the fingernails. He flung off the gore from his hand and then it returned to normal.
Arwin tore the rest of the sleeve of his right hand and wrapped around the wound.
"you see now, i can kill you even with one hand"said Vincent, then a magic circle appeared at the his broken hand's palm, his left hand got covered in his magic energy and then energy burst out of his left hand like steam, he twisted his hand once and his broken hand was instantly healed and working fine.
(Arwin) what the fuck!, i definitely broke that hand at it's shoulder and elbow and he healed it instantly in a second!?
"it's not over yet"said arwin
A magic circle appeared at his left hand, he conjured a powerful black lightning and formed a dense lightning bolt and fired it, Vincent simply stood there and took the attack head on, but the lightning missed it's target by a few centimetres.
"huh, was that your best shot, you couldn't even aim it properly"
"oh i did aim it properly" saying arwin pulled back his left hand and Vincent noticed magic radiating from arwin's left hand, then he sensed another magic projectile right behind him, he slighty turned and the greywand was inches away from him, then he realized the lightning bolt was not for him but it was aimed at the sword to charge it and to link arwin's magic to it, so that when he summoned the sword, it would come flying to him but Vincent was standing between them. Vincent ducked to avoid a fatal blow, the greywand pierced into his shoulder and came out from front with a spurt of blood tainting his grey robes.
Vincent got on one knee as the blade was sticking out from his shoulder at the same time arwin quickly launched a stream of black lightning towards him. Vincent quickly grabbed the hilt of greywand with another hand and pulled it out with a spray of blood. The sword instantly turned from green to red, he held the sword ahead and absorbed the lightning into it. He swung the sword and fired it back at him, arwin conjured more lightning into his palm and countered his own magic. He tried to pull the greywand back but the sword won't respond to him now.
With blinding speed Vincent moved around arwin and slashed at his waist, the next moment there was a cut at his thigh, another slash was blocked by the metal plating on his jacket but it was tore off by the force of the blow, then he felt his own sword at his right side of the chest. Blood spurt out of him from different places at the same time. His clothes were wet with blood and sweat and the red liquid was flowing from both side of his face.
(Arwin)damn it!, i can't even get close to him now. Just what has all these years been for?, was all my struggle for this. I thought i was capable of this but i am nowhere near him, he is too strong for me.
Then a very powerful hit landed on his back, he flew ahead sliding on the ground, he felt a few ribs cracking. He was on the floor and the streams of blood was dripping from him. His vision was slowly blurring due to the blood loss, suddenly Vincent appeared above and slamed his face into the ground making a hole in it. He got beside arwin, he caught his hair and lifted up his head. His face was injured and a thin voice was coming out of him.
"at first i thought it was a silly attempt to avenge you loved one, but you now i see you are quite complicated one....now i can tell exactly why you are here...." then he got close to him and slowly whispered something into his ear and then withdrew.
"let me tell you something, you are filled with arrogance and stupidity and you are so ignorant about the things around you. Do you have any idea what this crest on the back of my hand means......." he said showing it to him, ".......of course you don't, you are so blinded by your anger and your stupid desire for vengeance that you lose the sight of the big picture."
Arwin could say nothing but squeal in pain. Vincent got up and stood above arwin, he placed a foot on his upper back to hold him in place, "here's a parting gift, something to remember me by", in a single thrust he stabbed arwin in the lower back with the greywand and the sword came out form his stomach and got buried in the ground. Arwin arched his head backwards and cried in pain, he pierced the sword further in and nailed arwin to the ground. He then placed his hand on the blade and with a spell corroded the material of the sword and broke the greywand in half, he threw the hilt part aside with the remaining part of the blade still sticking out from arwin's back and torso, even after breaking the sword it was still shining red from his magic.
"don't worry, i have avoided any vital spots, it will continue to pain however unless you pass out, so you hope that you lose enough blood in time so that you pass out or else you might die just from the pain"
And then he disappeared from there, in an instant he was gone. Arwin lay there nailed to the ground by his own weapon, squealing in pain and crying, the tears fell from his eyes and got mixed in the puddle of blood beneath him. He kept on crying not because of the pain but because of his failure. After whimpering in pain for sometime his eyes started to doze off he din't knew if he was to pass out or was about to die, everything was a blur and he saw a pair of boots moving infront of his face and then his eyes shut.
|2014-01-21, 14:23
|Link #52
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
alright so here is the next chapter, i hope you are enjoying the way the story is going, soon there will be even more elements involved.
"Chapter 22: There and Back Again"
Spoiler for Chapter 22 : There and Back again:
Slowly his eyes opened, he couldn't feel anything but when his vision opened he was facing the ceiling and Erica,Glibert,Fiora,Gus and Irena were leaning over him and watching him, he saw he was surrounded by all the faces looking curiously at him.
(Arwin)dear god not again
And then he fainted again, others saw he him pass out again and looked at each other.
After some time his eyes opened again, this time he was seated in a chair and he saw no one was infront of him, he took a breath of relief,
"oh thank god, it was dream i thought those idiots were just waiting for me to wake up" he spoke to himself, but then he realised he was in familiar building, "oh wait i am still in the guild—",
Someone smacked him on the head from behind, "Damn right you are"said gus, as everyone was standing behind him all the time, then they walked infront.
"Ooww...",then arwin looked at himself he was covered in bandages, his forehead wrapped and the bottom of him left eye was also bandaged, he wasn't feeling any pain at the moment.
Now everyone was standing in front of him, "how long was i passed out"asked arwin
"since last night probably"replied Erica" looks like you have some explanation to do"
"yeah i don't think so"he said "i have to go now"he said
"go ahead, try it"she said
he tried to get up from the chair and suddenly sparks of pain went through his body and he moaned and fell back into the chair, then the events of that night flowed into his head, he placed his hand on his forehead and closed his eyes as they became moist.
"hey! You think this is your personal whorehouse, than you come in anytime and fuck around and leave as you wish"said gus angrily "why were you fighting one of the council heads, explain yourself!"
"there is nothing to explain!"yelled arwin in return, "he killed my friends and i intend to exact vengeance upon him, that's all.................. I was a guild mage once and Vincent Klaus was the leader, one day he just killed everyone but i survived, that's why i want to kill him"said arwin
A moment later Gilbert's fist landed on his left side of the face,
"great, hit an injured man, very nice of you"said arwin
"you motherfucker, you risk the lives of people for those who are already dead. Have you rocks in you head instead of a brain!?"said gilbert
"this has nothing to do you people, this is my personal matter" said arwin
"and you think the council will not suspect us of being involved" said Fiora
Everyone started arguing what consequences arwin's action would lead too and everyone's conclusion came with arwin being guilty and placed blame on him. All were shouting abuses and insults, they tried to come up with a solution for the situation, in which every solution ended up with arwin being handed over to the council.
"enough!"came the guildmaster's voice from behind as he walked in, "everyone go back to your place!, we will decide what is to be done when we receive the council's response tomorrow"he said, one by one they started leaving. Gus came to arwin and grabbed him by the collar,
"if we receive a threat from the guild, no matter what anyone else says, the first thing i will be doing is kill you"he said and pushed him back into the chair.
Marco eyed arwin, he said nothing and ordered Irena to place him in the guest room for the time being and then left.
Irena came to arwin and help him stand on his feet, "wait, how did i get here?"he asked
"that boy brought you here"she said pointing towards a kid standing by the door, he was around twelve year old, he was wearing a white puffy shirt, with a short dark red coat with black borders and golden linings, he wore brown pants and blacks boots. His dressing was almost as that of a noble.
Arwin immediately broke away from Irena and approached the boy, he directly caught the boy's coat and dragged him outside in the yard and threw him against the wall.
"who are you!? and how did you find me?"he asked
"i am the one who saved your life, so i'd appreciate if you show some respect"he said, even though a kid his tone was that of a young adult.
"i have never seen you before, how did you know to bring me back to this place?"he asked, arwin was getting a strange feeling from the boy, he suspected him to be a wizard of some sort but he was definitely not a normal kid.
"when you were lying there infront of me at the brink of death, i looked into your mind and went through all your memories and though you had planned never to come here again after your battle, but as you were dying, i thought this was the best place to bring you to save you"said the kid
"what are you?"said arwin in panic
"i am a spirit from "The Other Side", and you summoned me into this word, you are my master"said the kid
Arwin's started having a headache, for a moment he simply stood there trying to figure out what was going on, "wait, you looked into my memories?"
"yes and you have quite an interesting past, it made me laugh so much when you were beaten like a prisoner in your own house and that time when you-- "
Arwin quickly caught him by the collar and held him up against the wall, "i don't know what you are and where you came from, but you utter one word to anyone around here and i'll make sure you are forever stuck in this world"said in a threatening voice.
"relax, i cannot discuss my master's secrets without his permission"he said, then his eyes started to glow red like rubies and his canines grew out of his mouth,
"now if would you put me down"
Arwin quickly released him and stepped back "begone demon and do not return until i call for you"said arwin
A black arrowhead tail popped out of his pants from behind, he shook the tail and then his body melted into the air and he disappeared into thin air. After that Arwin went back in to get some rest.
Next morning.......
Irena helped arwin to clean his wounds and change his bandages, she helped him out of the guest room. Everyone was already present in the lounge. Arwin took and seat, stings of pain went through his back when he bent to sit. For a few moments everyone was silent, then a raven flew in carrying an envelope, it dropped the envelope infront of irena and flew outside. Irena picked it up and opened it
"read it aloud"said the Marco
Irena read the letter, "this is to notify that Vincent Klaus, one of the main head of the council of mages has resigned from his post for the well being of his health and to continue his research. All of his official matters regarding the mage guilds will now be assigned to other head members."she spoke, " that's all it says"
"what happened?"asked Erica
"looks like it was not brought into the council's notice"said marco
"are you sure?"asked Gilbert
"if it was reported then they would have taken immediate action" said marco,
"even back when arwin first attempted to assassinate him, Vincent suppressed the matter and no action was taken by the council, looks like he did the same again. And now that he has resigned, this thing might not be a problem for us now."
Everyone took a breath of relief, for some reason arwin was sitting there in shock. Marco came to arwin,
"promise that you will not do anything like this again and if you honor that promise you can stay as a part of this guild"said marco
Arwin stood up struggling with pain," i promise, thank you very much and i am sorry for the trouble i caused"
"apology accepted"said marco and went into his office. Everyone got back to their usual self and their hostile vibe towards arwin changed back to normal.
Irena threw something at arwin, he caught it and saw it was his wrist band with the guild's insignia in it., "as long as you are here, you might as well wear it"she said to which he simply nodded and put on the band.
"that was a close one mister, be careful from here on"said Irena to arwin.
Gilbert and arwin just shared a look and nodded to each other which was worth more words.
Fiora came to arwin holding something in a cloth "listen arwin there something else you should know", then pulled away the cloth and gave him the two broken pieces of greywand, "the boy who brought you here gave this as well"she said
"yeah it was broken during the fight, it's just scrap now" he left the pieces on the table. He walked up to irena, "can i have that"he said pointing to the note. Irena handed it to him, he took it and went straight out without any word.
He spent the entire day locked up in his room in the dark, without eating or drinking. He was lying on his bed his hand placed on his forehead across his eyes, then a drop of tear came from his eyes and went sideways on his cheek followed by more others.
(Arwin)He is gone now. i had once chance to get my vengeance, to set things right, to finally let go of the burden and i failed. Now the burden just seems to grow. I should have prepared better, it wasn't suppose to go this way, all these years i had only one thing on my mind, that was my purpose and now it's gone, it's lost forever, i won't find him again. I have failed myself.
He stayed like that for a while, after some time he woke up and hurried out of the bed he went to the table and picked up a knife, he placed the knife at his wrist to cut his vein. He pressed the knife against his skin, he tried to swipe it but just couldn't, the blade cut the top of his skin forming a band of blood around his wrist and dripping drop by drop.
"Ahhhhhh!, damn it"he threw the knife aside and ran and jumped out of the window. he climbed on to the rooftop and went on.
Later than night Fiora was going through the street back at her place, she turned into an alley taking the shortcut, a sight caught her attention. At the end of the alley beyond which was the river canal, a man sitting with legs spread and back rested against the wall. Four or five bottles of various alcoholic drinks were lying around him, his clothes were simple and soiled, his hair covered the upper half of his face, it was unable to see his face in the dark, but he wore a band in his hand with Dragon Nest Guild's insignia. Erica went near the guy and lifted up his face from his chin and saw it was arwin. she saw his face was blank and his eyes were open but as good as dead, he was lifeless.
"dear god arwin, what are you doing here?, ah!, you reek of liquor"she said, then she saw the blood around his hand, "what happened to you?"
"uhhh, l-l-let go of me"he said, and then tried to get up. She held his hand and tried to help him, but he pushed her hand away, "i don't need your ......h-h-help"he said while stumbling but somehow got on his feet.
"your're drunk!"she said, "you'll hurt yourself"
"oh yeah!, whats it to you bitch!, you are good with your friends fluttering around, what do you care if i live or die, you Fucking! Ugly! Whore!"he shouted at her
"i am telling you for the last time let's get you out of here and back into your senses" she said
"i don't need you!, leave me alone!"he yelled and pushed her.
"bastard!"she said and slapped him, he whimpered for a moment then yelled in anger and punched her in the face. She fell back against the wall, he came close to her and hit her again. He went for another hit, she caught his hand and punched in his face and he fell to the ground.
"fine!, then rot here"she said, a red mark was forming on her cheek, she spit blood beside him and went away.
He crawled and sat against the wall, his back was hurt and paining, some of his wounds opened up and started to burn, he picked up a bottle around him and took a sip but he bottle was empty, he screamed in frustration and smashed the bottle against the wall. He lay there for the rest of the night.
|2014-03-01, 17:03
|Link #53
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
sorry for the late update, there has been a lot of things going on in life and couldn't write because of it also this chapter was difficult to write, but thank you for the constant views
sometimes the chapters might be late to come but i will definately write it, not leaving this story unfinished, i'll try to upload the next chapter as soon as possible.
for now here is the 23rd chapter
"Chapter 23: Hangover"
Spoiler for Chapter 23: Hangover:
The next day early in the morning arwin came to guild extremely hung over. There was no one in the guild, only Irena cleaning up the bar counter and arranging the bottles of liquor accordingly. Arwin entered and came to the bar stumbling and fell into a chair. He wore a white soiled shirt and muddied pants, his hair were messed up and there were dark circle beneath his eyes.
you look terrible, rough night?she asked while putting a roll of cloth into wine class to wipe it.
my head is exploding!, give me a drink to stop my senses.......or a loaded crossbow to shoot myself between the eyeshe said in a tired voice, .... i have to stop this now
stop getting drunk?she asked
no, stop getting soberhe said
looks like you are still drunk, why dont you try drinking water she said
Suddenly a hand came from behind and grabbed his collar and pulled him, arwin stumbled almost falling to the floor and saw gilbert standing infront.
what are you doing!?, you mad?said arwin, gilbert grabbed him by the shirts collar and dragged him outside, Leave me!, you fuck. What are you doing!?, gilbert took him into the yard and from there into the woods in backside of the guild. He pulled him and threw him against a tree,
you motherfucker!, how dare you touch her yelled gilbert, he was furious, she was trying to help you and you hit her!?, for a moment arwin stood breathing heavy and holding his head.
so she sent you, what are you her lap dog?he said
just shut your gob said gilbert have you gone completely mental?, getting drunk and behaving like this, cant you see you are hurting others
hurting others!?, let them get hurt!, what of me!?, i am hurt i am in pain, nobody sees that!he said
i dont give a shit what your problem is, it does not give you any right to take it out your anger and frustration on others
of course you dont, nobody does. i know why you are here, i hit her in the face, may be that caused some problem when you were stuffing your cock in her mouth
Gilbert quickly swung his hand and slapped arwin with all his might, arwin fell on the ground holding his right cheek, cowering and almost sobbing.
say that again and i will rip out your tonguesaid gilbert, all you have ever done is cause problems for us, you are nothing but nuisance, an utter and complete failure
Arwin was still lying on the floor, he sat up and rested against a tree, what do you know about failure, you are the fucking Flame Wizard who ended the noble war in Isengard and saved the city, what could you ever possibly understand!?
hey!, you think others dont have any problems, you think i dont have any problems? that girl serving drinks at the bar doesnt have any problems?, we all have our issues and you must deal with them yourself said gilbert Fiora is the one who patched you up when that kid brought you to us half dead, you should be grateful to her but instead you behave like a total asshole and hit her, dont you have any shame?
For a moment arwin dint had anything to say,
stop acting as if youre the only one who is going through hardshipsaid gilbert
easy for you to saysaid arwin
you know what your problem is, you act all tough and cool infront of others while in truth you are weak and insecure and you want other people to be sympathetic to you about your problems and when they are, you like to show them as if they are idiots who cant understand anything. You just like to live that moment where you show off others where you have gone through lot of hardship and suffering and that they cannot understand it.said gilbert
what is wrong with you?, do you have rocks in your skull?he added
Arwin couldnt think straight anymore, listening to gilbert made his head pain even more but he started to think that if that is really how he behaved like gilbert said, the more this thought came to his mind the more anger started to boil within him
just fuck off he said
and i thought that you were a smart and clever guysaid gilbert
clearly you dont know shit about mesaid arwin with a hardening expression
there it is again, ...huh, do whatever the fuck you want, but stay away if this is how you are going to be.......he said and turned around to leave
Mark my words, the only reason of your suffering is yousaid gilbert
NOOO!!!!yelled arwin and quickly leapt at gilbert,
gilbert turned and caught arwins hand, he got behind him and locked his hand at his back, he place his leg between arwins and pushed him, arwin tripped and was slamed on the ground. As soon as he hit the ground an immense burst of pain rose from his lower back at the spot where he was stabbed.
truth isnt the only thing that hurts, is itsaid gilbert with and walked away.
while arwin lay in the dirt sobbing, then the liquor from the last night came into effect and he threw up hot vomit which was mostly stomach juice.
.................................................. ....
At the magic council,......
At twilight after his evening tea Ewen was headed to the Gareths office which was on the second highest tower of the main building structure of the council in Agarat. When he entered he saw gareth sitting at his desk making some notes in a ledger who saw the young wizard entering. He took off his reading glasses and rested his quill in the ink bottle.
good evening mastersaid Ewen
good evening to you toohe replied what speculation have you come up with this time
do i really need one to meet my mentorhe said, then gareth looked at him with an obvious expression, but there is something i want to askhe said
there it is said gareth,go ahead what is it?
its about master Vincent, he resigned a few days ago suddenly, he told that he wanted to dedicate his time to his researchsaid Ewen
yes, a pity though he has been at it for years even before he joined the council but hasnt yielded any real output from itgareth explained.
his research is really something though, he has been trying to use alchemy to heal the human body. if he creates a new spell or method to do so, it will revolutionize the medicine with the use of magic, right now the only magic that can at the most heal injuries is by using Zaiphon and it is limited to only those wizards who have been practicing it for yearssaid ewen, however my curiosity is, wont it be easier for him to do his research here at the council, is this really the only reason he left?
we all have our secrets ewen, i can understand your curiosity, but unless it concerns with the council or the magic world, what he does is none of our businesssaid gareth
i understandsaid ewen
They talked some more as the moonlight was now shining over the main towers of agarat, later ewen left the main towers of the council and went to his quarters.
One week later......
The guild was as usual, usual people working, drinking and hanging out with an exception of a certain person missing.
have you seen him anywhere?asked Irena
the last i saw any of him was like almost a week agosaid gus, so what did he quit or something?
oh he better not, he has bills pending here to be paidsaid Irena
he is probably locked himself upsaid gilbert
locked himself?, the last time i saw him, he came here drunk early in the morning and you took him somewhere, what did you do to him?
nothing, we just talkedsaid gilbert
the way i saw it you started talking with your fist, so now it makes me wonder if he is lying somewhere with a broken jaw
he is finesaid gilbert.
Later than noon Irena took a trip at arwins apartment, with a gift basket covered with cloth, she came to his apartment and found a staircase from the side that led upstsairs, as she went up and came near the door to arwins room, she could smell a foul odour.
(Irena)what the hell is this?
She knocked but first but no answer came , she knocked again and said her name still there was no response. She twisted the nob and pushed hard with her shoulder and door popped open and she entered. His place was a two room apartment with a connected study and bedroom so it looked like a one large room. The room was dark and the windows were closed shut, she somehow saw a lamp nearby, she twisted the circular ring over the lamp until it was glowing sufficiently to lighten the room, she looked around and everywhere saw stuff lying around, clothes, food, books, apparels, accessories etc. The room was still having a dense layer the foul smell, she went to a window and knocked it open, with a cloud of dust falling outside. The entire place was one big mess, but she couldnt see arwin anywhere.
She went towards the bed and at the other side of the bed hidden from view was a figure sitting on the floor rested against the bed in a pile of bottles, with his head hanging downwards and his hairs covering the face, Irena came closer, she was nervous as to if he was dead which would explain the smell in the room. She moved arwin by the shoulder and called his name, he slighty moved as if waking up from sleep. She was relieved to find out he was still breathing, she moved his hairs aside and held his head upwards, she was taken by surprise and she pounced backwards with a yell.
who are you!?she said
ugh.....he coughed first, .......its me
arwin?, what have you been smoking in here, have you taken a look at yourself?, she looked around and saw the mirror was shattered with blood dried around the cracks.
what happened to you?, are you alright?she asked, arwins skin had become pale his hairs were hanging more lower around his face and he had big dark circles under his eyes. He looked weak and sick.
i have never been betterhe said, as he was stumbling and moaning in pain from his back as he tried to get up on his feet while he was half asleep.
lets get you seated she pulled him and placed him in a chair along the line of a closed window. She placed the basket aside and went inside the door opposite to the bed, she came back with two wooden buckets filled with water and splashed the water in his face, he jumped and yelled in surprise
what the....grasping for air, then she splashed another bucket at him, and he reacted the same again, ok! ok!, i am awake now!he said
what are you doing here?he asked tiredly, ....are you here to lecture mehe said
i am not here to lecture you, you have bills pending at the guild that you must pay
so thats why you are here
doesnt matter and you are also my friend does that mean anything to you, id like to know you are wasting your life soaked in liquor
yeah right, why would you even care?he said
well i did come here and went through the trouble of waking you up, so i am not leaving without an answer, he dint say anything for a moment.
She picked up a small bottle from the floor and smelled it, what are you even drinking, this not even alchohol
it was lying on the street and i needed some booze, so i just picked it and drank in one gulp
it is a laxative medicineshe said
ah, that explains that unexpected session in the toilet the other day
id rather not hear itshe said with a gross expression. She took out a bottle from the basket with a dark green liquid in it and offered him, here, this will make you feel good
oh thank you so much, give it herehe plucked the bottle from her hands shamelessly, he opened it and started drinking it and suddenly sprayed it all out.
what the fuck is this?he said and spat particles and drops of the liquid from his mouth.
you actually dint think i would give you anymore alchohol, did you?she said with a chukle, she got up and opened the window. Hot and bright rays of sunshine came in and fall directly on arwin.
oh! holy mother of...... stop it,please!!, then she closed the window and came and sat infront of him.
He looked at her and she was waiting to listen to him, fine!, you want to know!?, then listen and then he told her about the events from 4 years back, how he met Sabetha and Vincent and how it turned his life upside down, however he completely left out the part that he had ran away from home as it was a living hell for him there. After an hour of the unpleasant story the way arwin told it, he finally finished it. Irena thought for a moment
look i understand you are trying to avenge your loved one, but its was not your fault, you---
woah, hold on, loved one?, i did not loved her, i am doing this only for my sake and nobody elses
what?said Irena in surprise, so you dont love her and yet you put your life on the line for her?
not for her i want to avenge myselfhe said
ok listenshe said you are a very confused kid, you think it was not love because she was your mentor, but from everything you told me, looks to me you loved her
see this is why i dint wanted to say anything!, you all!, you make your own assumption and wont ever try to understand my side
ok what is your side?
i never loved anyone, when Vincent killed everyone and set the town on fire, i ran like a coward. The reason i want to kill him is to rid myself on this burden, that i was incompetent, that i couldnt do anything, that i failed!, his eyes became moist as he said it.
She dint say anything for a few moments, then she spoke
that is the most stupidest thing i have ever heardshe said you failed?, you survived, be happy for that and besides you fought him now, you got your chance, clearly i dont have to explain you the difference of skill and power between you two, then why are you still fixated on this
because i failed again, i did not killed him and he wound me and let me live, and the worst that he has left the council. Now i have lost every link to him, he disappeared so that i keep suffering because of it forever. My struggle for all these years have been soiled over, i cant let go of that so easily, but i have lost him for good, .........i have nothing left and then he left silent, a drop of tear rolled down his right cheek.
who said that you are a failure?, you are the one who is tagging yourself that, cant you see that hell that you say you are living is that of your own making. You battled a member of council and not just survived but got away clean with it, that itself is an like an achievement and you have potential do much better things, just let go of things that are way too far for you and focus on the things that are present around you
how is that not the same as giving up, i do not give up and i do not get by on just surviving, i aim for higher and Vincent has hurt me personally, why should i not pursue him he said, huh, you speak the same as gilbert, all of you, none of you can understand anything
this is what i am saying, you are so obsessed with this stupid mindset of yours that you have made, you are losing all the good things around you that are right now. Ok, you have some issues and i am not in the position to tell you what you should do?, but all i am saying is that you not lose the companionship of good people around you right now just for the sole purpose of killing someone who hurt you many years ago.
and what good will it do?, its not like anyone actually cares for someone else?
For a moments Irena was silent when she heard those words from his mouth
excuse me asshole, then why do you think i am here?she asked
to be honest, i have no ideahe replied
Her jaw dropped to the surprise of arwins insensitiveness, do whatever you want......she said and got up and walked towards the door
stupid, mean, bastard....... she murmured as she went out and slammed the door behind her.
Arwin sat there alone in the chair, he placed his elbow on his knee and rested his for head in his palm, his head started to ache from the unpleasant talk. he searched the rubble on the floor and picked up another bottle of liquor and placed it on his lips.
|2014-03-18, 14:53
|Link #54
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
first of all this story has become a hot thread in the forum, so thank you very much to everyone for all the views and reads, i hope you continue enjoying the story.
this chapter was very exciting to write, though it took some time mostly because of my others works and stuff. But the chapter is here, its a bit long ,but all that exciting and a very big event is to come next in the story.
"Chapter 24: Scars"
Spoiler for Chapter 24: Scars:
At a fine night when the lights of isengard were shining and the city was lovely as always, the two moons in the dark sky were partially aligned. Fiora was walking through the streets escorted by a man, she wore a white frock tunic with a tight black corset that lifted her cleavage, short sleeveless jacket, black leggings brown boots, she turned an alley and was making her way towards home.
oh come Fiora, just one, just one real date he said, he walked a few steps behind her which looked as if he was following. He wore fine clothes and looked a man with a high status.
go home Fred, i already told you a straight no. Stop bothering me again and again she said with frustration.
give me chance, just tell me what you need me to do?, he kept following her while she turned in circles to get rid of him, she finally came to her doorstep with him still lingering behind her.
come on now he said and caught her hand. She quickly turned and pulled away her hand.
leave me!, i said i am not interested. I am saying nicely so just go awayshe said
He came closer and caught her hand tightly and pulled her towards him, oh shut up!, i have waited enough for you to open your legs by yourself, ill just do you right here, forcibly if i have too, he held her and tried to tear off her shirt.
A figure dropped near them from the roof above,the lady said she is not interested. Get lost or youll never be able to fuck a woman said arwin
Fiora saw arwin, he looked fresh and neat, his hairs were cut short than usual. He wore a dark green tunic with a black vest unbuttoned and folded outwards at the top, belt with knot tied on the waist corner, his usual insignia wrist band on his left and a leather bracer tied with four buckles on his right forearm, black leggings with boots and he looked better than ever.
what did you say!?yelled Fred, he pushed fiora aside and approached arwin,
you little shithe said and attacked arwin.
Arwin blocked his fist and caught his hand, he turned and got behind him in an arm lock, he pushed him ahead and kicked him in the back. Fred fell to the ground on his face, arwin turned towards fiora
since when do you have a crazy stalker? he said and then he was thrown away with a sudden blast of magic , he flipped mid air and landed on his heels sliding backwards. He looked ahead and saw Fred on his feet with a magic aura in his hands.
so you can use magic, both arwin and Fred leapt at each other with their magic at hand, suddenly they were surrounded by strings of Zaiphon, it pulled back arwin and kept Fred in place, arwin looked behind and saw fiora use her magic.
dont you dare touch him said Fiora to Fred, please go back, before this turns ugly she added. He stepped back and retreated. Arwin got up and came to fiora
why would you save the guy who was just now trying to rape you!?said arwin
its enough, he is the nephew of Lord Renoux, a spoiled rich brat , its been a few days since he is following me around, let him go for now we dont want unnecessary troubleshe explained, and what were you doing here by the way, stalking me yourself?
Arwin knelt in front of her on one knee and bowed his head, i am ......sorry, i misbehaved and hurt you when you trying to help me and also said foul things about you, i am sorry. And thank you for healing me when i needed it he stayed like that for a few moments to hear her response, but she said nothing, he looked up and saw she was grinning and enjoying the moment. she took his hand and got him up,
apology acceptedshe said with a broad smile.
Later that night when they went to the guild, everyones eyes were fixated on arwin.
i am sorry for how i behaved and ill be careful from here onhe averted his eyes downwards as he said, then he looked at them, they had their lips shut as if holding something in their mouths, fine go ahead he added
Everyone burst out into laughter,
you should look at your face said Gus while laughing
just relax man, were cool whats with the apology said Erica while laughing
oh please you were enjoying it dint you said arwin
well, i wont say no, it was very funny she replied
well it wont be any fun if one of us dint snap like that ones in a while. But still its good that youre back to your senses said gilbert
Later when everyone was gone, arwin was standing alone in the back yard in the silent night under the moonlight, gazing at the stars on the horizon. A light gust of wind was blowing that wriggled the grass and the tips of his hair.
you look better, came Irenas voice who came beside him and gazed in the same direction as his.
are you okay?she asked
i am finehe replied
so what will be your course of action from here on?she asked
i need to figure things out first he said
alright then she said and left
(Arwin) but i know what i want, i will kill him no matter what, no matter where he is, i will find him.
Next day arwin came to the guild and met everyone as usual, he took a chair to sit at their usual table, when he sat the chair collapsed and arwin fell to the ground, while everyone laughed at the comedic moment.
oh you are getting really fatsaid Erica
i am not fathe said while lying on the ground , how did it even broke, he took the broken leg of the chair and saw the nails were pulled out forcibly at the joints of the seat
He tossed it aside, ya very funny gus said arwin angrily
why are you looking at me?said gus chuckling, he had a smug face and shared a look with erica
When arwin tried to get up, suddenly a burst of pain rose in his back, mid way standing he moaned in pain and fell again.
oh!!, mother fucking!.. son of a bitch!he yelled, placing on hand on his back and twisting on the ground, ahh!!,kill me nowhe said
ok fine i pulled out the nails of the chair, it was funny prank ok, it was me. Stop overacting to be hurt. Its just patheticsaid gus
to hell with you and your prank asshole, my back is killing me, i am not pretendinghe said
you really hurt? asked Erica
what the hell does it look like?he said
ok ok, lets get you up
They got him up and settled in a chair, it took a while for him to get adjusted and back to normal, till then he was moaning and yelling abuses.
wow, you are even more delicate than a little baby. How can just falling from the chair hurt you that much?asked Erica
its not the chairhe said, its been happening for a few days now, my injury in the lower back is paining from the inside,i thought it would go in a few days, but....
thats right, you were stabbed in the lower back till the stomach on the other side said Fiora
cant you do anythinghe asked her, you patched it up before right
there is only so much i can do with Zaiphon, you could try some potions but it will only stop the pain temporarily she said
looks like what you need is a proper healer, luckily i know someone who is bothsaid gilbert.
Later than afternoon, arwin, gilbert, Erica, fiora and gus were going through the forest in the outskirts of the city.
how much further it is?asked arwin, i dont understand why the rest of you are coming
well who ever this doctor is, she will have to test how much it pains, rightsaid
so i think it might amuse mesaid gus
Arwin released a sigh and carried on, they followed a brook and climbed and jumped over some some fallen trees, which was much difficult for arwin with the pain screaming in his back. After every turn, gilbert was tracking their course. After some time they finally arrived at Muriels place.
They walked infront of the door in the trunk of the giant tree, surrounded by giant roots. gilbert knocked the door and held his insignia locket infront of the emerald peephole. There was a click sound and the door swing open.
The young group entered the tree, as usual the place had an odour of potions and scents, various things hung from the ceiling in baskets other than alchemical lamps, such as herbs, crops, ingredients and many other stuff. The table and the shelf on the wall were filled with books, instruments, jars, potions, etc. They came inside and saw a lady dressed in a blue-white gown standing in front of them.
what is the meaning of this? gilbert, why are there so many people in my house against my will?
who is this woman?asked Fiora
hey i know you, Muriel right?said gus, good to see you, i thought you were dead?
well i am also glad that i am not dead she said
my friend here needs your help said gilbert
No, what do you think this is, a fucking infirmary she said, that you bring anyone here and i fix them up
trust me i am not really enjoying being here, i wouldnt be here if this could be done somewhere elsehe said
After arguing and convincing Muriel, she finally agreed to take a look at arwins condition, he lay on the inner bed topless on his chest while the others waited at the distance and watched.
ok kid now tell me how much it hurts, she tapped a wooden stick on the point of pain in his back.
it doesnt hurt on the outside the pain is from the inside, its like.... , she swing the stick on his back.
AHHHH!!!!, ill cut you bitch!!! he yelled in pain, she did it again and he again screamed in pain, while the others watched,
hey it does amuse mesaid gus with a chuckle
so its that bad, huhsaid Muriel, she placed her palms around the scar in his lower back, a magic circle appeared around his wound, she murmured some incantation and a dark aura appeared between his hands, there was a spark and she was pushed back. she got back to arwin and examined the injury, she pulled his pants little down to a lower waist line.
hey!, what are you doing?he said
not what you think, besides i am not interested in kids like youshe said, she further examined the injury and the pain. she closed her eyes and cast another spell, images of arwins battle flashed in her mind and she saw how he was stabbed. suddenly she slipped into another memory and some other images of memories from long ago started to flash in her mind. Large amount of painful memories poured into her head, she quickly severed the connection and opened her eyes and was back in her house again. She got up and asked arwin to dress up.
there is a curse set upon your injuryshe said, it is a dark spell that is keeping the wound from healing, it has only healed from outside but the pain will reside on the inside. Using potion and drugs wont be any help but for now, i have reduced the pain so that you could do your tasks with minimum hindrance. But it is still not healed and i do not know how to break the curseshe explained
you cant?, then what am i suppose to do nowshe said
be cautious, do not take another hit in that placeshe said, thats all i can do for you. Now get out of my house
Arwin got up and joined the others and they exited the tree, as soon as last one of them was out, Muriel fell to the ground shocked and shivering
(Muriel)that kid, such darkness in him, there is nothing but pain and suffering......
As the young party of mages were at the outline of the forest,
who is she really?, how do you know her?asked Erica
she was in the guild before you and Fiora joinedsaid gilbert, she is a very skilled alchemist and herbologist, uses magic for healing and...a.... she.....
....she was courting the masteradded gus
the old man used to court her, a woman so much younger than him?questioned fiora
oh no, she is actually a eighty-six year old hag, she uses magic to maintain her appearance and her physicsaid gilbert, .....so but they broke up and she left the guild and came here to live. She wanted to leave long ago, but the old man has something precious of hers without which she cant leave. And he doesnt let go of it, so as to keep her close. Wouldnt surprise me if he sneaks out every now and then and comes here secretly to meet her
ya wonder if this is where some of his meetings took placesaid arwin chuckling, who was fine now and the pain had disappeared thanks to Muriel. But the painful scar still remained.
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Ewen was rushing through the corridor of his office on the fourth floor, in the second tallest tower of the councils main structure. He was breathing heavily and drops of sweat were running down in neck. He dropped down from the balcony, used magic to stick to the outer wall of the tower and slided down straight towards the ground. When he reached the first floor , he kicked off the wall and leapt ahead and landed on the cobblestones. He quickly sprint towards the next tower,he jumped over the decorative plants crushing some beautiful flowers under his heels, he ran through the fountain spoiling his white coat and finally reached the base of the tower, where everyone else was already arrived at the scene.
He slowly came forwards and his eyes widened in shock with the sight before him, gareth was crucified on the outer wall of the tower, with a stream of blood running down the wall and formed a red puddle at the base. Ewen was shaken as he saw the bloody corpse of his master.
A murmur broke among the crowd, and people looked at each other with suspicion,
thats enough!, get him down from there ordered the Belizarius, the archmage, to a party of knights, and get him inside and cleaned. All the high wizards gather for a meeting immediately, rest of you get back to your work. At his command everyone started moving except for ewen who stood still in shock.
A hand came on his shoulder, come on ewen, we have to gosaid avaline, a young woman in her mid twenties same age around ewen and one of the high wizards of the magic council.
Half an hour later, the four high wizards were in an dimly lit enclosed space, there was a giant magic circle on the floor, with each of them standing on their own circles , floating in mid air.
as you are already aware, a serious crime has occurred just now. Our fellow wizard Gareth Blackwood has been murderedsaid Belizarius
the criminal not just killed him, but nailed him on the wall. It was clearly a message to ussaid Griselda, another of the high wizards. she was a middle-aged woman in her late thirties.
master ewen, i can only imagine what you must be going through, but you have to be strong. First Vincent left and now gareth is dead, our position has been weakened like never before, that is why the event of his death shall be kept a secret. said archmage
a secret!?, what are you saying!?, a proper strict investigation must be issued. We must contact the nobility for their assistance said ewen
he is right archmagesaid avaline, we not know where the criminal must have fled by now, we need help of the nobility and their guard forces
silence!, young ones. Lady avaline i do not have to explain you how delicate is out position with the nobility. I understand master ewen is in grief and i respect his sentiment, but we cannot appear weak in our standing with the noble houses
so what!?, we do nothing!?, someone just kills a high wizard and walks away, clearly the criminal is no ordinary assassin. Gareth was very highy skilled in combat as well as his knowledge of the magic, the assailant is no ordinary person
rest assured about that matter, as you have said this is no ordinary person, so i myself will be investigating this matter. With my power and authority in the nobility and the guilds i promise you i will bring justice to gareth said the Archamge
for now i suggest that gareths body be safely concealed in the frozen tombs of the ancient among the secret vaults, where only the four of us have access said Griselda, and for now the gates of Agarta have been sealed, so we execute a mass memory spell, to erase the memory of this event from the minds of everyone who works in the council. We cannot risk any leaks of information.
i understandsaid ewen and he disappeared avaline followed behind him and the two young mages were gone.
keep an eye on himsaid Belizarius to Griselda, she simply nodded and disappeared as well.
Ewen appeared in the corridor out of thin air, as the only entrance to the secret meeting place was to teleport there. Avaline appeared in the same place as him, but by then he was already gone.
Late in the dark night when everyone is the council was back in their quarters, Ewen was sitting alone in the gardens on the pavement of the fountain. Avaline came and sat next to him.
are you alright?she asked
i am fine. But something is not right, even though he was old it wont be so easy to kill gareth in silence. why would someone kill him in the first place
Belizarius is clearly trying to hide this matter, to protect his political positionsaid avaline
its on the inside, something is going on in the shadows and its here in the council. With gareth gone, i cannot trust anyone here. Clearly gareth must have been an obstacle to some scheme, thats why he was killed.
what now?she asked
i will find the murderer and i will open up whatever this conspiracy is. Ava, are you with me?
She came close to him and put her hand in his and entwined her fingers with him,
i always am
At the same moment on the top floor of the heighest tower of the four, in the archmages quarters,
Belizarius was using his magic, he formed a blue aura in between his palms then he threw it infront, a crack in the space opened up with outlining of blue aura and between it a person could be seen through it.
i have cleared the passage and made an opening for you Kevinsaid belizarius
you have my thanks, i shall make my move soonsaid Kevin
sure and do not forget about the item i asked. Do not fail me, the rest is up to you
you will have your price .............and i will have minesaid Kevin and the connection was gone.
|2014-03-31, 12:01
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The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
so well the next chapter is up and once again thank you for reading and sticking with the story till now.
i will post the next chapter soon and there is something in this chapter so that you can make your guesses about a few scenarios in the future and i hope you enjoy it.
"Chapter 25: Verse of Fate"
Spoiler for Chapter 25: Verse of Fate:
After getting arwins back fixed they returned to the guild that evening, when they were settled arwin gathered their attention, there is something i want to show you he said
He stood up and pulled out a book from within his vest, he carefully opened it to the required page and read a summoning incantation from it and held out his hand. A red-green magic circle appeared on the floor before them, it sparked on the corners with a small explosion of sparkles at the center a figure of a boy appeared out of nowhere.
hey, you are that guy who brought arwin half dead after his battle said Erica , i thought you just went away on your way, the person looked the same as he did that day in same clothing. Fiora noticed the book in arwins hand that said Summoning Spirits.
you are a spirit!?said fiora in surprise, arwin, i dint knew you were a spirit wizard
no actually i am nothe said, that day this thing came out of nowhere
lucky for you this thing.....said the spirit gesturing towards himself, ...saved your skin that time
does any know what is happening, he said that he was summoned in this world because of me and now i am his master, but i never learnt any spirit magic until nowsaid arwin
i can tell youcame emilys voice as she walked in and joined them
it seems that there was a tear in the veil between this world and the other world, and somehow your magic essence resonated with that of this spirit and that why he got summoned where you wereshe explained, and its not very uncommon for such magical things to happens among wizards, is your case you have a spirit in your service even though you are not a spirit mage
what is your name?asked gilbert to the spirit
oh, i dont think any of you humans are even a slightly deserving to have the knowledge of my namehe said, but as is the way of you humans, for now you can call me Zaros
well Zaros, how about i beat the crap out you and then you can talk with some respectsaid gus
you can try but, it will only end with your face under by foot, begging for mercy
enough! stop it!said arwin
As everyone was curious to see such an unusual event happen, they asked even more questions
you are a man or a womanasked Erica
you humans are so low minded, the spirits are not classified by our bodily structures, as we can change our appearance, we are differentiated by our essence, i am a high level greater spirit
you can change your appearance into anything?, can you show us?asked arwin
as you wishsaid Zaros, and then he melted into pure aura, the aura swirled in mid air and then reformed into another being, the aura started to shine and then a woman appeared in front of them.
The woman was beautiful, she had long brown hair and fair skin, she wore a long thin skirt with side slits and a blouse that adorned her bosom and showed a deep cleavage, she was bare feet and her dressing over all high lightened her curves.The men were looking with wide eyes and jaws dropped.
as i said you humans are low minded and focused on outer appearance said the spirit, in a voice like the sweetest melody.
As the guys were staring at her, suddenly the spirit hissed and long bat like wings came out from her back, her canine grew out of her mouth and her tongue extended out like a snake and a long tail came out from behind. Suddenly the guys were repulsed by the horrific creature and the spirit reformed back into its original appearance of a boy.
well that completely turned into something elsesaid awin, he read something from the book again and waved his hand, the spirit melted into aura again and then disappeared into thin air.
so what should i do nowhe asked
first of all, place some safety measures, it is known that spirits tend to attack their masters when their guard is low, like in sleep or when distracted by something else. cause if their maser is dead they are free from their bond and can return to the other worldsaid emily
oh i see and what is The Other Worldasked arwin
it is said to be a different world in parallel to ours where spirits reside, there they exist simply as essence and have no physical formshe said
well then i guess i better start studying about spirit magic
i could help you if you wantsaid emily
really?, that would be a great helphe said
Emily further told them about spirits, they lived for many centuries and when summoned in this world they come across changes throughout history and time. Told them about some of the great spirit wizards and also some great blunders they did that got them killed by their own spirit in service.
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The next day....
so how goes the spirit magic training with emily asked gilbert, as he, arwin and fiora were strolling through the city bazaar, where today was a special day when merchants and artisans from far places came to the city to sell their items.
its not really a training, she just helped me with a few things from the bookssaid arwin,apparently you have to be careful while commanding your spirit, so that it does not backfire on you.
then you better be careful that spirit of yours wont come back to bite you in the asshe said
hey guys there it issaid fiora as they came to street were stalls and stores were lined up. There were many different merchants selling many different things like, rare flowers and fruits, small creatures in cage like a chimera rat or a flaming serpent, perfumes and other cosmetics, spices, jewellery and many other things. Fioras eye caught the attention of a small store at the corner of the street.
look i think its hersaid fiora pointing toward it.
whats that?asked arwin
its a fortune teller, we met her last year as well, lets goshe said
no thankssaid gilbert, last time she said i would be greeted by mysterious creatures and the next month i was attacked by a swarm of blood sucking bats, clearly she doesnt know the difference between a greet and an assault, both of them started laughing at the gilberts incident.
oh come on, that had nothing to do with it, what she says isnt all that real, she said to me that i will meet the love of my life and here i am, but its fun to know what she comes up with. How about you arwin?, who knows what will she tell youshe said
(Arwin) if what she saying true and the fortune teller can really tell my future, then if i am ever to engage Vincent again, i can get a clue for how to reach him. But fiora is saying its not always true the same way.......but its worth a shot.
umm, ok
They went to the fortune tellers store, it was a small place tucked between a building and high wall, that separated the market district, it only had a single door in the front wall and no windows, first fiora entered. On the inner side she moved the drape at the entrance and walked in, inside was dark dimly lit with a small alchemical lamp floating at the ceiling, the room was decorated with exquisite curtains and other accessories and had a scent of herbs, she sat at the table and on the other side was drape of silver strings, a woman appeared from behind it.
hello, my name is Bethy, how can i help you?she said, she was a middle aged woman, she was dressed in dark green robes, the part of her robe from her arm to her wrists were transluscent, her abdomen was exposed and had slits from her thigh to all the way down to her feet, she had various jewellery on her, like a metallic arm band braided with a jewel, various kinds of rings and piercings in her ear and her naval. She came and sat at the table infront of fiora.
i hear you tell other peoples futureshe said
indeed, i can tell your accurate future in form of verse, there are many ways in which that can come true, but will happen for sure, for a simple amount of fifty crownsshe said
okshe said and took out her pouch and counted five coins each worth ten crowns out of it and put it on the table, Bethy picked up the coins and placed them under the table.The fortune teller, took her hands cups her hands into hers and closed her eyes, after a few moments she opened and let go.
your shop will have a strange visitor, half angel half death bringer. Before the secrets are revealed, old friends will meet and the empire will fall but survive.she said
empire will fall?, is something going to happen in the city asked fiora
i cannot tell, it may refer to something else, it could also mean something minor but also major
is it life threatening?she asked
it is nothing threatening to your lifesaid bethy
well it will survive, so may be its not anything big even if its seriousshe said
may be.
Fiora got up and walked out, while the fortune teller kept seated, a few moments after excited arwin walked in, he first looked around and then his eyes caught the attention of the lady before him, arwin was suddenly speechless by her beauty and simply stood infront of her.
sit child and i will tell your accurate future for a price of........well your friend had already told you hasnt sheshe said, arwin placed a small pouch on the table, she picked it up and weighed it to check that it had the complete amount, she placed the pouch below and arwin sat infront of her.
She did the same procedure with arwin, but it took a little longer for her with him. Suddenly her eyes opened with a shock, she suddenly opened her eyes in a shock and drop of sweat ran down her forehead and she started to breathe heavily. She placed his pouch back on the table,
i am sorry i could not see anything, take your money and you may go
Arwin was first surprised by such a reaction but she figured it out that she definitely saw something, he pushed the pouch towards her,
tell me what you saw, i must know it
i am not the messenger who delivers bad fortune
well, i dont carehe said and then placed another pouch of the same weight on the table, please, it is very important to me, no matter what it is, i must know
alrightshe said and plucked away both the pouches, she asked arwin to lean in closer and took his hands in her again. Then she opened her eyes and the pupil expanded completely over the iris.
your shop will have a visitor who will guide through the path of thorns, you are sure to lose some tools but know how to use them, it is that your tools will be helpful, but sometimes the tools are faulty. But before the secrets are revealed the empire will fall but survive, you however continue to walk, for your path has the same end as that of an autumn flower, when she was finished, she closed and opened her eyes again but arwin was already gone.
The trio then roamed the rest of the bazaar, seeing all kind of stuff and tasting some rare delicacies, by the time they were returning the sun had started to dissolve in the horizon.
so?asked fiora to gilbert
so what?
arent you gonna ask what she told me?she asked
no, not interestedhe replied
what about you arwin?she asked
well, she said that i must strive hard and be supportive to my surrounding and that i may even find my love...he chuckled, ...as if thats going happen just like that, fiora joined in the laugh
ya she told me that the way of my magic is hard ,but i will find success in it and the people around me will be benefitted from itshe said as they continued to laugh.
(Fiora) the empire will fall but survive, usually her predictions mean the same thing but go the other way, like it happened with gilbert, but whatever happens it will survive so its probably nothing major or life threatening to anyone. May be i am unnecessarily thinking too much about it,....i guess........
(Arwin)if what she told was truth, then i must find someone who will help me, .......wait a minute, i think i already have..........its emily, she is helping me with my magic. So its probably true, but what is the empire and the tools..........
As they lied to each other continued to keep up the fake smile, their thoughts said something else entirely.
At a distance of a few miles from the isengard a hill, from where the city could be seen gleaming lively with lights in the night, stood Kevin Flameheart, the guild master of Dragons Peak, beside him stood Rowena, both were dressed in their respective combat armor and gear. They watched over the city.
our forces are ready?he asked
yes master
its about time i visited my old friend
|2014-04-20, 12:34
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The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
yes once again i am late with the update, but this time i wrote two chapters because this chapter and the next one are continuous one after another, so i din't wanted the reader to lose the link while i write the next chapter,
i will be posting this chapter now and for the next chapter a little writing part and editing is remaining, so i will definitely post it in the next week.
about this chapter, it is filled with good and fast paced action, i have kept the action scenes short and fast and to the point and avoided unnecessary wastage of words and writing space. i am sure you'll like it and enjoy it.
"Chapter 26: Destruction of Dragonest"
Spoiler for Chapter 26: Destruction of Dragonest:
When the disc of light rose showering its light with a cold breeze in the morning, arwin was sitting on the rooftop lost in his thoughts. Somehow he couldnt stop thinking what the fortune teller had told him.
(Arwin) someone will guide me, i guess its emily cause she is helping me right now. But what are the tools, it is my weapons because i did lose the greywand. Or may be tools mean something else and some of them are faulty and i can hardly guess what the empire is........
He kept thinking trying to make out possible meanings out of it.
what are you thinking so much about said emily as little girl came to roof behind him.
its nothing he said, what are you doing here?
hey, listen i have some big work today, so i wont be able to help you, so how about we do a night session instead?she asked
ok, fine
so meet me by the city library at evening. They have some records on spirit magic made by real spirit wizards.
surehe said, the little mage went back down the building and was on her way, arwin decided to rest for the day as he will be studying at night.
Later when it was noon, at the guild, Irena was having a headache for an unknown reason,
whats the problem?asked Erica as she sat there drinking her ale.
i dont knowsaid irena, i keep having these flashes and images in my head of a building structure crumbling and someone dying
you think its starting again, your visions. May be someone is in danger
no, if i see something i see it clearly, but this is blurry and i dont seem to remember most of it. Its like a dream, maybe itll go after some time
You should take some rest, maybe it is just a bad dream
youre rightshe said, ill get some air, Irena walked out from the side door into the back yard, she spent a few moments in the calm, silent air blowing while she was glaring at the horizon from over the cliff. After sometime her head was lightened and she felt better, she turned back and started walking towards the guild. Suddenly she felt a dense suppressing magic, her eyes widened and she could fell the strange essence of magic through her body, it was so heavy she fell down to her knees and was unable to move.
She looked inside the guild where the atmosphere was normal. She looked around but there was nothing, when she looked up in the sky, there was a tear in the space and from it a dense light, it had a dark aura and was plummeting towards the guild.
(Irena)dear god!, is this what it was!, did i foresee the destruction of my own home!?
She was helpless in shock and unable to so anything as she saw her home about to explode and burn into ashes. Just before it hit the guild, a figure appeared on the rooftop and a spiral space opened between him and the light, which got sucked into the spiral hole. The tear in the space vanished and so did the magic essence, and suddenly it was as if nothing had happened.
Irena came running, the person from the roof dropped infront of her,
Arystar!..she said, ...what are you doing here?, whats going on?, what was that just now?, what...she was breathing heavily and frightened and was almost to burst in tears. He held her by the shoulders and closer.
listen to me, everything is fine. Calm down, its gone now
but that...
calm down Irena, take a deep breath everything is under controlhe said, she did so and calmed down a little, now i want you to go and fetch Lukas and bring him here and do not tell anyone about this
ok, ill go see himshe was back to normal and then went into the city.
Arystar walked inside and went straight in to Masters office and came back out again from the empty room then went to the upper floor, as usual everyone noticed him as he was prancing around. He went to the balcony on the second floor, from where a good view of city could be seen, he came standing next to Marco.
you felt it too, dint you?said arystar
yes, thanks to you. we were saved
dont thank me yethe said, they are coming. Soon we will have to face it, tell everyone the truth.
what truth, that we have been at war with another guild for so many years, that they are nothing but soldiers that have been raised in this guild just to get slaughtered. Things have changed now we have the councils protection. Once i get the council completely on my side--said marco. Arystar grabbed the collar of marcos coat and picked him up and pushed against the wall.
they have the final piece of the dragon soul!, they will come for the one that we have, you and me we both set on this quest together, we will have to face Dragons peak, there is no other choice. Just how many times has the council rejected your request to investigate into the dragons peak. we cannot count on those bunch of idiots to do anything. You gave me this purpose, you showed me the way and I have been at this for too long. Now you will set me free.said arystar with a raging voice
this whole thing was a fools crusade. Put me down!
Arystar put him down and calmed his temper, i am sorryhe said
i understand your rush to get rid of this. I want to be free of this curse as well but it may take a while
We build this guild for the very purpose of defeating Kevin, but now this guild has become a little more than just that. Even the council is not completely on our side at the moment, but we still have its protection, guilds are not allowed to break an open war against each other said marco.
i dont know. I have a bad feelingsaid arystar.
Later Irena and Lukas came to the guild and met up with arystar,
There better be a good reason as to why you called me in middle of my work said Lukas. Arystar took out the satchel tied at his back under his coat, from it he took out a golden scroll and showed him.
Master wants you to keep this safely in the vaulthe said and passed it to him.
if master says sosaid lukas and left with the satchel
whats going on?asked Irena
nothing, we just carry on as usualhe said
About an hour later, lukas was already back and they were sitting at the bar, while gilbert, erica, fiora and gus were seated at their usual table. One of the councils raven flew in, with a piece of paper in its mouth and dropped it on the bar counter. For moment everybody just looked at it then at each other. Then Irena picked it up nervously.
read it aloudsaid marco who was standing behind.
This is to inform that the guild named dragonest has been expelled from the council of magic due to intolerable acts committed by the wizards of the guild and waging war upon another guild. Hence this guild is no longer official and is ordered to disband immediately.
It has the councils seal on it.she spoke
Arystar and Marco shared a look and realised what situation they were into now. Gus, Erica and Gilbert were staring at arwin, suspecting him as the reason of this notice.
things have gotten too much out of handsaid marco, ill be leaving for the council immediately. Arystar, you are in charge till i get back., then he quickly went upstairs to the second floor to make preparations.
For a few moments everyone was just staring at each other with different thoughts but nobody said anything. Then suddenly there was a loud noise of thunder and the ceiling exploded and blew away like a sheet of paper. A strong wind was blowing inside the guild throwing everyone into confusion.
The walls and the windows exploded and shadowy figures wearing masks covering lower half of their faces jumped in and began an all out magical assault on Dragonest.
ill handle him yelled a womans voice among the enemies, with a blast of sparkles she moved at incredible speed and hit arystar, she caught him and moved ahead, they went through the wall behind him into the back yard leaving a trail of black sparkles, then through the outer wall and down from the cliff into the sea.
Irena! the vault now! yelled Lukas at her. She quickly moved holding up her frock gown and jumped out of the window, she quickly tore a slit in her dress along the legs and started running.
Rest of them broke into an open battle with the enemies, there was various magic blasting everywhere, wizards clashing into each other. Erica was waving her twin red blades, while Gilbert covered himself in a cloak of fire and rammed physically into his enemies, Gus had an aura around his fists and broke through the objects that were being thrown at him. But despite their best efforts their enemies had the upper hand.
Lukas quickly spread his essence in all directions to detect the most powerful one who would be their boss, as soon as Lukas figured out the man with the densest magic, he approached him but was blocked by five other wizards. Lukas blocked an enhanced fist on his neck from the side and pushed the guy into another one, he fired a light bolt at the distant one which was easily blocked, an enhanced hit landed on the back of his knee throwing him off balance, one of them caught him from behind and held him up while the other one hit Lukas in the chest and as soon as he touched, Lukas was thrown off by an explosion. From the smoke several projectiles of light flares were fired at them and Lukas moved with blinding speed and appeared behind one of the wizards, he caught him by the neck and instantly twisted it and the mage dropped dead. Others reformed and surrounded Lukas. He placed his palm on the ground and geometric cuts formed on the ground from which intense burning light was emitting, one of the mage got caught in it and instantly burned with only his bones falling on the ground. They continued to battle with, but Lukas was somehow having a hard time as been taken by surprise, also because of the presence of the dominating essence of their boss, the one that Lukas had detected and who was already gone on the upper floors.
On the upper floor he arrived at a closed door to a hall like room, he kicked open the door and walked in and there stood Marco ready for confrontation.
i knew this day would come, Kevin said marco. The wizard took of his mask and there he was, Kevin Flameheart who attacked the Dragonest with his guild, Dragons peak.
this would have been a lot easier if only you would have joined me said Kevin,
but anyway, here we are. I hear there is this vault which contains the items that i seek. Now there is only thing that needs to be done.
Both the guild masters fired up their magic and were emitting massive dense aura, it felt as if the big room was shacking, cracks appeared on the floor around them.
With a splash they fell into the water, Arystar was going down into the sea, he suddenly opened his eyes and realized he was drowning, he quickly moved his arms and legs and came to the surface and swam to the shore. He took off his soaked coat and was breathing heavily, at a distance he saw, was the mage standing who put him in the water. He stood up and faced her upfront. When the mage had his attention she took off the mask.
Rowena!, i knew it he said, you psycho bitch!, people will die tonight, do you realise what you have done.
i dont give a damn fuck about these guilds!, all i want, is for you to suffer she said
you got to be joking me, you still carrying the grudge for what happened four years ago!?
you destroyed my life!
i am sorry!,........ okay!, now get out of my way he said
She moved swiftly and hit him in the face and he fell back holding his bloodied nose, you will pay for what you did to me arystar she said
She attacked him again, he blocked her fist and placed his hand on her abdomen, with a push of force field she was thrown away, she landed sliding on the sand but quickly turned and fired sparkling projectiles. He formed a magical black orb of powerful gravitational energy and sent it between her attack, the black orb sucked in the sparkles and disappeared along with it. He approached her swiftly, as soon as he entered a defined range he was unable to move paralyzed by a magic circle on the ground. She placed both her hands on the sand and more sparkles rose from the ground around him and exploded like fireworks. He was on the ground with burns on his clothes, he made a hand sign and many magic circles appeared all around the field and then disappeared. He approached her again, as he took a step he disappeared and appeared behind her and kicked her and then disappeared instantly as she turned back to react, he appeared in front of her but when his fist touched her, it just stopped as she countered by covering herself in the aura of equal force that of his fist. Rowena caught the startled arystar and pulled him close and started with series of physical attacks, he quickly stepped back and he moved leaving an after images making it appear there were more than one of him, when she hit, her attacks just went through and the after image vanished, she continued until only one remained, he blocked her first kick then she jumped over him, got her legs around his neck and twisted to slam him to the ground. Arystar got himself free of the hold and got some distance, he spread his hand and all the shells in the sand around them rose up floating in the air, he made gesture towards her and the shells were launched at her. Rowena moved ahead and took it head on, many made cuts and bruises on her while some of the chips of the shells sunk in her skin, she moved with blinding speed with droplets of blood flying behind her from the cuts, she went past arystar and stopped. He turned behind to face her and suddenly a cut appeared on his cheek.
Then suddenly his body loosened and his senses were in disarray, his vision became blurry and he fell to the ground, he looked up and was crawling towards the blurry figure he saw,
y-y-y-ou.....poi---sssen.........mmmme he said somehow forcing the voice out of his mouth. And then he his head met the sand and he was out cold.
youre lucky i have to be somewhere else right now she said and left the scene.
Irena was running through the dark alleys of the city with a group of Dragons Peak wizards behind her as she was on the way to the vault. She was breathing heavily and heels of her boots were hurting her feet. She came to a halt and rested against a wall and caught her breath. Her dress was soiled at various placed, especially at the lower parts around her boots. She started back on her course when suddenly a shadowy figure walked in infront of her and then even more of them appeared behind her, she hadnt realized she was being followed by the Dragons Peak mages. They were not wearing their masks.
She was in shock and frightened as she was surrounded by the enemies. The one in front came closer and talked in a rough voice,
okay missy, we are tired of following you around, now tell us where this gods damned vault is or else you will be sorry that you were born a woman.
She stepped back frightened, droplets of sweat forming on her forehead, fuck you!, you mother fucking sons of bitches, i wont tell you anything.
alright take her he quickly commanded the others, suddenly one of them grabbed her from behind, another one held her hands and placed his one foot on hers to immobilize her, a third one tore off her frock from between.
stop!, help me!she screamed over and over again,
you actually think that is going work?, no one is going to help you here, scream all you want, i like when they scream said their captain
They pinned her down to the ground and forcibly spread her legs, as their captain came near her undoing his pants, No!, stop please!she screamed and tears were running down her eyes. He got down and her voice stopped, suddenly there was a presence of dense and powerful magic, the essence was so strong that they were paralyzed and unable to move.
Irena freed herself and got up slowly, the other men around her slowly got straight still unable to move but could see the surrounding clearly, they were levitated in the air a few inches from the ground. Their captain could see Irena rising, there was a demonic and a murderous aura around her. She looked up and he saw an evil grin stretched on her face with a devil like expression, her right eyeball was completely red and shining in the dark, he could feel the dark and evil intent behind her magic.
She raised her right hand, fingers together, moved in a flash and was back infront of him. The heads of the other mages around her popped form their bodies and fell aside with a thump and a fountain of blood splashed out of each severed neck, the bodies fell down on the ground with the blood flowing out of them and painting the cobblestones. Their captain watched in horror as he saw his men butchered, his eyes were filled with fear as he saw the wicked witch approach him, she placed her hand on his head and then crushed it in her hand, his head cracked and blood sprayed out of his head and then she tossed his body aside.
After a few moments she was back to her normal self, she looked around and quickly turned away her eyes form the mess she had created and quickly walked away from the scene. After a few turns and crossing some alley she came to a stop holding her head.
(Irena)oh, my head is hurting so much. I spent too much time in that state. i.......i......
She took a few steps and fell to the ground unconscious.
.................................................. ..
All the way to the opposite corner of the city, far away from the fighting, inside the general reading section of the city library, arwin sat reading under the light of alchemical orbs floating in the mid-air completely unaware of the events that transpired at the very moment.
Emily walked in through the door holding a packet wrapped in paper, she came to him and unwrapped it and passed him a meat wrap.
it took you some time to bring the dinner he said taking his wrap
well i got distracted near the tavern, there were these other shops and all. Anyway, how goes with the book she said gesturing towards the thick book lying open in front of him.
i read some of it, looks like it will take some more time to finally get the hang of this spirit magic thing he said
it will get better practice she said taking a bite from her wrap.
i dont really intend to use spirit magic a lot in practical, only enough to make some use of the damned spirit thats hung on to me. he said, how about we call it done for today, i am a bit tired
how about we finish eating first and then you can clear up the table and put these books back where you took it from she said
do i have to, tomorrow ill just pick the book right from here he said
you are in here under my permission, so you must follow the rules and procedure or else the authority will cancel my papers and we both will be banned from the library she said
fine he said taking a look across table, scrabbled with books and writing papers and other material, this will take some time.
|2014-04-27, 00:25
|Link #57
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
so this chapter became much longer than i expected so i couldn't fit everything i wanted to in it. so i will have to make one more chapter in continuation,so i haven't yet started to write the next chapter but i will soon and post it ASAP.
i hope you maintain the link from previous and chapter and follow into this one and that you are enjoying the current going arc.
"Chapter 27: Guildmaster"
Spoiler for Chapter 27: Guildmaster:
The two great wizards were moving with speed, bouncing from wall to ceiling to floor in the hall colliding with each other. Kevin caught Marco's coat and twisted, threw him down. Marco landed on his feet cracking the floor beneath. Kevin landed and fired a stream of hooded ghost like beings using a three circle spell. Marco extended his aura in long multiple streams that pierced the ghosts eliminating them. He created and a flat force field in the shape of dragonest's insignia above Kevin and it came straight down on him with great force, Kevin resisted holding it up but slowly fell to one knee then to other, the veins in his arms and forehead were bulging, the floor below cracked and he was sinking down.
"you are even older than me Kevin, that magically altered young body of yours will not save you"
Then a magic circle appeared beneath Kevin and he disappeared, the force field fell on the floor and dispersed, the same circle appeared behind marco and Kevin hopped out of it, swiftly marco leaped forward. Kevin approached him, taking the advantage of his small size, marco slipped under his arms and jumped onto his back locked his legs around his neck and fired a magic blast on his back. Kevin flew ahead and crashed into a pillar. He slowly got up bleeding from his temple, his armored robes had broken and torn.
"i see that your age has not affected your fighting skill, but still my magic is more powerful"said Kevin, his dark aura extended like rope with three pointed claw at each end.
It came at marco with speed, he dodged the first claw as it dug into the wall behind him, Kevin pulled himself towards marco and dashed him, he was thrown above another claw came at him and sunk in his back, Kevin pulled on it and slammed him down. Marco was bleeding from his back and his head, the claw had torn off some flesh along with his coat. Kevin swung two more at him in an arc, marco quickly stepped back, the claws stuck into the pillars on opposite side, Kevin pulled on it breaking the pillars, the ceiling came down and collapsed on marco. In moments the debris blasted off at a corner and marco crawled out coughing blood.
Kevin came closer, "this is your suicide, you know you can't beat me, i have half of the dragon soul in me" he said
"you shall never have the rest of it, even if i have to fight till death"
"then so be it"said Kevin and then hit the floor, a shock wave came from him, marco quickly jumped high and landed sideways on the wall, Marco kicked and leapt towards Kevin.
Kevin jumped towards marco, both formed a giant magic circle infront of them, they came close to each other and their magic collided and sparks were flying around from their magic circles , they were suspended in maid air because of the magic and locked in a power struggle. Kevin formed a plasma bolt in his free hand and pressed it between them. Marco's magic circle started to crack slowly at first and then in an instant it shattered completely, a piercing strike of intense dark magic went through marco's torso making a clear hole through his body, followed by a massive explosion of magic that enveloped them both and the entire room into the magical aura.
When the smoke cleared, Kevin was lying on the floor injured, when he got up, saw marco lying at some distance a lot gravely injured and the only movement was of his slow breathing. He picked him up with one hand, Marco's clothes were drenched in blood and more was flowing out from the hole in his torso forming a puddle below him.
"i told you, you will not win. All this time you wasted your life just to die like this. Soon your mages will also meet the same end. Everything you did was for nothing and now, die knowing that you not just failed him but also your mages and Arystar as well" said Kevin
"you....think this is over, but this has .....just started" he said the last words then
Kevin thrust his hand into the left side of marco's chest.
While the two guildmasters fought on the upper floor. Downstairs was chaos and fire everywhere, bodies of wizards were lying around. The floor and the walls were painted with blood and ash. The back wall had fallen and the building was slowly crumbling. During the battle a fireball landed in the bar counter setting fire to all the rum and alcohol, there was a huge explosion making a big hole in the wall behind it and debris flew around hitting people at random, taking advantage of this distraction Lukas quickly escaped the fight and was making his towards the upper floor, prancing from the stairs to the wall to beams, he somehow got to the upper floor.
When he came reached the entrance to the hall, he saw Kevin, holding master in one hand and his heart in the other. His eyes widened in disbelief and stunned in shock. Kevin noticed the young wizard at the door, he held up the heart in his hand, blood dripping from it and squished it in his palm and blood spurted out from it all over Kevin's face and robes, he dropped the heart that fell to the ground with splash of blood.
"NO!"yelled Lukas
Kevin threw marco's corpse aside and blasted himself upwards, he jumped out from the broken ceiling and was gone. Lukas came running to marco's blood soaked body that lay in the ruin. He picked up his masters body and braced it in his arms. Beads of tears formed at the corner of his eyes and slowly started to fall down as he saw his master's dead face and still couldn't believe that their leader was dead. In a few moments he started realised what he was holding in his arms, the tears now started to flow more freely and rapidly.
Below as the war waged on, the building had started to come down. The walls were cracked and the ceiling was breaking off and there was fire. The enemy wizards were retreating.
"fall back!"yelled gilbert, "it's coming down, we have to get out of here"
"no!, this is our guild we have to save it"said Erica, he caught her by the shoulders
"if we don't get out now, we all will die" he said and pushed her towards the exit. Soon all the wizards were escaping the scene.
Lukas was still for a few moments and then a mass of concrete fell beside him, he realised the place was about to come down. As much as he hated to leave behind his master he had to escape the scene or else he would get buried as well, now he had to save himself. He got up, rubbed off the tears from his eyes and went for the window.
Gilbert and the rest had gathered at the front yard, they could do nothing but helplessly witness the destruction of their guild.
"where is master?"asked fiora, the rest could say nothing and were dumbfounded. As the building was coming down, they saw a figure leapt out breaking a window and fell on the ground. Behind his the entire building came down and with another explosion it was completely destroyed. They came running to Lukas as he slowly got up.
"Lukas!, where is the master? Where is he!?"asked Fiora
For a moment he said nothing, and others began to realise what his silence meant, he looked back at the destroyed guild burning on the ground.
"He is gone" he said
After a few moments the wizards of the destroyed guild just waited in the front yard mourning. Some of the nearby citizens had also gathered at a distance wondering what disaster took place here. From the street ahead arwin and emily came running.At the first sight he was shocked and frightened when he saw the guild burning, he stopped for a moment tried to take in the picture. He looked around and saw the rest of the wizards in the front yard, some resting, most of them injured. There was despair and grief everywhere. The other wizards noticed him but din't say anything, he came to others
"w-what happened?....how...did this happen?"he asked, they just looked at him with silence. Erica came to him quickly and slapped him hard across his face,
"Where were you!?"she yelled at him, her face was soiled with tears and dress with blood. Then she turned and walked away from him.
He looked up and noticed others were in the same sad state as hers, he was feeling the sadness from others, his eyes became moist and he simply stood there, he guessed what must have happened by the absence of the master at the scene. He stood there watching the fire that consumed the guild. Then later on he caught on with the events of the night from other wizards. When the fire had died out and nothing of the guild was left but ruins, everyone was gone by then.
When there was no soul lingering around, Arystar had arrived there and was searching through the ruins, he was going through the debris that was left. He found the drawer of master marco's study table which had surprisingly survived. He opened it and investigated it tapping up and down, he lifted the fake bottom under which he found a letter and a locket with the insignia of the guild for a pendant.
The next day,
Arystar was on his way to the vault, to check if it was intact. The remaining wizards had gathered at a store house owned by dragonest among other store houses of the noblemen at the western corner of the city. The storehouse contained spare furniture and goods supply of the guild. There were a few chairs, tables and barrels that they used for sitting. They had gathered there and were just lingering, but no one had any words to say. Lukas was sitting alone sulking in a corner. Irena was sitting at a corner on a barrel, along with Gilbert, Erica and others who were seated nearby. A sadness was spread all over the place, a
group of mages approached Irena,
"miss Irena" said one of them, "it was a great loss we suffered and we also heard the news that the council has kicked us out and we no longer an official guild. We think that it is best for us if we moved on, this guild is done"
"what do you mean its done!?"yelled Erica at them angrily
"what are we supposed to just stand here all day, now we won't be getting any job requests how is this guild suppose to run. Many of our mages died last night and now there are so few of us remaining"
"so we are suppose to just abandon everything"she said
"it is your decision what you are suppose to do, we have made ours"he said, his group of three placed their guild insignia accessory on the table and went out the door.
Irena did nothing but just saw them, when they were out she stood and came front and made an announcement,
"if anyone else wants to leave this guild now, then you may go"she said and sat on her barrel.
Slowly one by one, many mages placed their guild insignia on the table making a pile of it and exited the guild for good. With every mages that quit it pained her too see the mages abandon the guild her master had build, had fallen apart and was now over. After sometime, Gilbert, Erica, Fiora, Arwin, Emily, Gus, Irena and
Lukas were the only people remaining.
They were seated for a while in silence. Gus was pacing in frustration, he came to them and kicked arwin's stool, he toppled and fell down.
"what the hell is your problem!?" said arwin
"You!!, you are the problem, it's all your fault this has happened, all your fault that we have to suffer like this!" yelled gus
Arwin got up in rage, "fuck you! asshole! I did nothing, this is not my fault!"
"isn't it too obvious, that the we were attacked the moment we get informed that we are out of the council."said gus openly, "you messed with the council arwin!, and we all had to pay the price. This whole attack was the council's plan to destroy our guild because they think you worked on behalf of the guild when you attacked Vincent Klaus."
"NO!, that matter was resolved before. This attack has nothing to do with it"said arwin
"shut you fucking gob! or i'll fill it with horse shit!!" shouted gus furiously and arwin was instantly silent.
Others saw in the ruckus that unfolded before them, some din't even bothered to pay much attention as it was yet another fight between the two like always.
"so i say we kill this motherfucker!..."he said pointing at arwin, "and hope it will give us some peace of mind"
Gus came closer to him and hit him in the face, arwin spit blood on the floor. Irena suddenly felt a bad vibe, she got up and came infront. Gus attacked him again, but arwin caught his fist......
"arwin!, no don't!"yelled Irena, arwin punched gus in the face, pulled him down from the neck and hit him in the face again with his knee and pushed him back.
Gus turned towards arwin with barely any damage from the attack, a bright red aura surrounded his fist. Arwin attacked him again, gus blocked it and locked his arm and hit twice in his chest, with every hit arwin coughed blood, another hit on the face and kicked him in the torso. Arwin went flying and crashed into the table breaking it. He slowly got up with blood running from his busted lip and red bruise on his right cheek and pain sting in his chest. Gus's physical enhancement magic was far superior to Arwin's.
Arwin came running, gus jumped ahead to dash, arwin slided and got behind him, he quickly turned and hit gus on the back of his knee. Arwin caught his arm, climbed over and got his legs round his neck and twisted. It slammed gus on the floor and arwin locked his arm, he pulled on his arm and pushed his neck with his feet, another jerk and it will break the arm.
A burst of magic went through gus's body and was completely covered with the red aura, he caught arwin's foot with his free hand and bend it backwards. Arwin quickly released him and stepped back avoiding any damage. As gus got up, arwin quickly kicked him which didn't even move gus form his position. Arwin repeatedly hit him but din't even a make a bruise on him. Gus came closer and arwin's feet moved backwards on their own, he caught arwin by the collar and hit on the face with his forehead breaking his nose, followed by more such hits. Arwin's head was spinning and his vision a blur.
Arwin was placed against a wall and was taking one hit after another, gus hit him on left eye, arwin fell to the ground swollen, bleeding and sobbing. Then he stopped, the red aura disappeared, he spat on the floor and cursing walked out, slamming the door behind him.
Arwin got up and stumbling somehow came to the long table where the rest were seated and fell into a chair. Usually they would argue and fight all the time, Irena din't realize first but now she saw gus has brutally beaten him. she placed a bottle of rum on the table
"this might help"she said
Arwin snatched the bottle and gulped in hurriedly, he spurted it back out coughing, "that son of whore!, who does he think he is!?, hits me anytime he wants, cocksucker!"
"you couldn't help me out when he beat the hell out of me, could you?, you were just enjoying the show"he said glaring at Erica and Gilbert.
"its not my problem that you make others hit you" said gilbert, Erica just ignored him. Fiora and emily sat at other corner of the table, depressed and nothing to say.
"he was frustrated and angry, i guess we all are. He wasn't thinking straight. Try to understand"said Irena, he drank the rest of the rum form the bottle, the booze helped reduced the sensation of pain and he calmed down.
"No, i don't understand. He is frustrated, that doesn't give him any right to take it out on me. I did nothing" said arwin
"you are right he doesn't have any right"said Lukas, he was standing behind arwin, nobody noticed when he got there, "but what he said was also right" He grabbed arwin and pulled him down, he held one leg of his and dragged him towards the door, everyone got up in surprise.
"not again! you mad man!, leave me!..Ahhh"yelled arwin as the ground hurt him while getting dragged and they were out of the door.
"you guys are still not going to do anything"said Irena
Erica casually sat back in her, "oh let him get beat up. Gus was right, he is reason this happened. Ever since he stepped in this guild, he has caused nothing but trouble for us, it will be even better if he dies. That guy is trouble, we are better off without him. If not for him we might have been fine and in our real guild"she said
"it may appear that way, but it is not his fault and when did we became such that we let our comrades kill each other just to satisfy their anger"said Irena,
"he is the reason our master is dead!"yelled Erica, beads of tears had formed at the corner of her eyes. Irena was silent for a moment.
"you don't really mean that"she said, Erica turned her eyes down and looked other way. She looked at gilbert and he looked away as well, "..........fine, i'll go myself" she said and went out.
Lukas had picked him up midway and brought him in an open field, outside the ware house area and threw him on the ground. Arwin looked at him, lukas was ready to fight.
"i am not going to fight you, master's death has fucked in your mind, you are mental!"he said getting to his feet
"may be i am" said Lukas, with his anger coming up, "the wizard who killed the master is gone but atleast i will eliminate the one responsible for this madness."
"no please stop!"yelled arwin, "it is not my fault, damn it!"
"you have one chance to defend yourself and i will go for the kill"said Lukas, a thin golden aura surrounded him, he formed a dense sphere of light in his palm and fired at arwin.
Arwin yelled in fear and suddenly another magic energy appeared between them and nullified the attack with an explosion. When the smoke cleared, Arystar was standing between them.
"stop this nonsense at once, you were really going to kill him!?"said arystar
"get out of my way, old man"said Lukas, Arystar's eyes widened. with sudden movement he appeared behind Arwin and hit him at the back of his neck, unconscious, arwin fell to the ground.
Arystar came forward, now enraged, "how did you know? Tell me how did you find out!?"
Lukas replied with a chuckle, "oh i have my ways, i know it" he said, "i have been itching for this moment, now i will defeat you as well. Many people has this misunderstanding that you are the most powerful wizard in this guild."
"and when did you betrayed this guild and tried to kill your comrade" said arystar
"he is not my comrade and neither are you, you are not even a mage of this guild. You always disappear and show up once in many months. You just a mercenary" he said
Arystar picked up arwin, crossed the back area and placed him by tree at some distance and then returned.
"alright then, its about time we decided which one of us is better"said Arystar and the two mages were ready to battle.
|2014-04-28, 11:21
|Link #58
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
so some months ago i started posting my story on this other site as well, its me only there and its the same story.
it also contains a book cover for my story which i made myself. this story can be read on that site as well, although i am a little behind on the chapters over there.
|2014-05-26, 18:08
|Link #59
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
sorry it took so long, was busy with exams, but now its over and i can get back to writing,
this chapter was quite difficult to write and as the title says, it contains some big revelations of one part of the story so it is also a bit lengthy. i tried to tone it down and simplify it as much as possible so that is easily understood, cause while writing even i was getting confused at times, lol. so it'll be better if it is read carefully and this arc is about to end, i have already started on the next chapter and will try to upload it ASAP.
"Chapter 28: Revelations"
Spoiler for Chapter 28: Revelations:
Dragons Peak were camped in the ruins of a castle outside the Isengard,
Ahhhh!yelled Kevin in pain, he lay bare-chested on an altar while the healer pushed back the broken ribs sticking out from the side and attended his injuries. Rowena walked in from the crack in the broken rotting wall on the side. Kevin got up and stepped forward towards her.
So did you kill him? he asked, the healer continued his work while he talked.
i was short on time master and our mission was more importantshe said, we have all the pieces of the dragon soul now
what about the Black Orb?he asked, gazing outside in thought.
that..i..she choked, i could not find it, it....it was not in the vault
He turned swinging his hand and slapped her, she fell behind on the ground holding her face.
you fool!, retrieving the orb was equally important, contact our informer immediately and find that gods damned orb! he said, she quickly got up and started walking onto her task.
....and listenhe called, this time, dont fail me or there will be another grave added in these ruins
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The sky was clouded and the sun was hidden, a gloomy atmosphere hung about when the top wizards of the broken guild stood against each other.
Lukas sent a beam of golden light from each hand, Arystar stretched out his palms and the light diverted its path upwards.
you can change the refractive index of your surrounding all you like, but it wont helpsaid Lukas and waved his hands.
The light split into many more beams and moved in a geometric pattern, forming a web of light beams around arystar and started to shine intensely. His skin started to burn and his eyes blinding sent flashes into his mind causing severe pain. He quickly cast a spell and his body evaporated into black smoke and disappeared.
As Lukas was searching for his opponent, a cloud of black smoke appeared behind him in which only arystars head was visible and his body was in the smoke. It surrounded Lukas and swallowed him in. Lukas blinked and he was standing in mid-air, there was a bright full moon in the dark black sky with no stars. He stood on air and below him was a red sea of blood and nothing else but darkness. Suddenly a crack appeared in the space infront of him, a large monstrous hand with scales and spikes came from it and tore it wide, only the large red eyes shining like jewels could be seen and a broad grin with giant fangs, then came a terrifying roar that sent jolts of fear into Lukass head, he held his head and got on his knees. He formed lightning in his palms and sent mild shocks into his brain clearing his mind. Instantly the whole scene tore off like a piece of paper and they were standing back in the field.
He let out a mocking laugh, you think these cheap illusion tricks would work on me. In all the time you had, is this the best you can do?
ill show you the best i can do said arystar and formed a small black hole in his palm, stones from the ground rose up and were floating around it.
They both sprinted at each other, when suddenly a screeching voice came to them.
stop it!yelled irena, who they hadnt noticed in the battle was standing a few yards from them.
the master is dead and you are destroying what he left behind, his two apprentice on each others throat. Just stop it!she said
They stopped, said nothing and dispersed their magic. Lukas turned around and started to walk away, i am sick of this shit he murmured
Arystar took a step to go after him but was halted when Irena placed a hand on his shoulder, let him go, he will come around.....she said, this guild is his home after all
Gather everyone by night in the warehousehe said, i have to go look for something, but ill be there by then, we all need to discuss something, and he left
She looked around and saw arwin was unconscious rested against a tree,
(Irena) i better go wake him up before something else happens to him.
After woken up, arwin went straight to his apartment without a word.
Sometime later, Arystar was going from the rooftops near the river canal, when he noticed a familiar face walking over the bridge with a backpack. Arystar got on the ground and got on the bridge from the opposite side.
where do you think you are going?he asked
i am leaving this god forsaken bunch of idiotssaid arwin, and good that you are here, you can this back to them and tossed his insignia wrist band at arystar.
so you are leaving as well, from what i have heard about you. You spent years to take your revenge upon Vincent Klaus and now you are giving up so easily?
since Vincent has already left the council and this guild is about to disband, i dont need any of them anymore. Give me one good reason why i should stay, for more of this!?he pointed at his black swollen eye, they hate me!, they believe that it was my fault that we were attacked, that i am the reason the master is dead
and what do you think?he asked to which arwin gave no reply
even though you say, that it was not your fault, you are now starting to believe them as well
i dont know what else to dosaid arwin is a sobbing voice
you say you dont need them anymore, still you want to stay because you think it will make you stronger and you like spending time among them. said arystar, But if you keep running from everything, soon you will find yourself moving from one spot to another but never reaching anywhere. Even if it is your fault, wouldnt you want to make it right?
Arwin could say nothing but just stare at the ground. Arystar tossed the wrist band back to him,
the rest, is your choice to makesaid arystar and walked away towards his work, leaving arwin dumb and lost in thought on the bridge.
Later than night ............
Arystar entered the warehouse, Lukas and Arwin were there along with the few that remained, lukas looked at him with a stiff expression but said nothing. Arwin was sitting as far as he could from gus, with a black swollen left eye, a bruise on his right cheek and a black-busted lower lip.
Arystar took a seat at the table and poured himself a glassful from the bottle infornt of him and emptied it down his throat.
are these all that are remaining, he said and Irena nodded in reply. He placed his glass on the table
i have called you all here to tell you something about marco he said
great, a history lesson said Erica
just listen he said, then he spoke, ....about 80 years ago, when the magic was a mystery and there was no council or organisation for magic. There were some random people with knowledge of this craft. One such person was Belgarath and he had three apprentices, of which two were brothers, their names were Alvin and Kevin Flameheart and their friend, the youngest was Marco Mitchwell. The three were young, energetic and eager to know about magic, they were the best of friends.
Their master, Belgarath taught them about magic and often fascinated them with the stories of his adventures, one particular was about the spirit of a dragon from the demon world. Long ago he had fought and conquered the godly dragon spirit, it gave him immense power and skill for magic. But as time passed his body became aged and weak. So he locked away the spirit and hid it away, so that only the worthy to posses such power, would find it one day.
The old wizard taught the boys all he knew, as days went by, the trio would go on adventures and quests, soon they left the village on a journey for greater things, all the while searching for the hidden dragon soul
what is the point of this story? said gilbert, is this just some tribute to the master?
the one who lead the attack on our guild was Kevin Flamhearthe said, everyone was surprised and many questions started to arise in their minds.
He continued, ......Many years went by, Alvin and Marco grew closer friends, the three wizards became powerful and strong. One day in the darkest place, deep somewhere in the mountains, they found it, the Dragon soul, trapped in a jewel of the most beauty in the world. Marco was not powerful enough to contain this power, so the twins decided to contain half of the soul in each of them. With that their dream of obtaining the hidden treasure was complete.
It was after that, when things started to fall apart, the dragon soul corrupted Kevin and made him greedy and selfish. Alvin however was strong willed, the brothers disagreed and fought about everything, soon they split up and marco tagged along with Alvin. Kevin felt betrayed and harboured the feeling or hatred against the two. Years passed, Alvin and Marco went on many adventures and explored many places, but Alvins body had started to weaken now. Alvin thought that this power inside him was too great and dangerous to be possessed by any other person, so to protect it from Kevin and the other humans he broke the dragon soul into parts and sealed it into various objects and scattered it across the lands never to be found again and then he passed away.
More time passed, magic was now started to become a normal thing among common people and the Council of Magic was formed, that was around the time when Marco meet Kevin once again, Kevin knew about his brother and has been hunting for the lost artefacts, he threatened marco to reveal the locations but Marco himself knew none. Then to honor his friends memory Marco began the hunt as well. He founded this guild to form a force of mages under his command as he knew one day he would have to confront Kevin, so he became the guildmaster and i would go across the land in search of those artefacts to keep them safe from Kevin and i was able to acquire two of those, while Kevins mages got the rest.
Arwin and Erica remembered when they were with Arystar in the ruins searching for something and a witch had appeared there and attacked them. Now they realized what that was about.
when he first built this guild it was for the sole purpose to gather mages to fight against Kevin, but then he grew fond of this faction and its people and could not sent them into a suicide battle, so instead he decided to fight to death trying to protect them said arystar
so you are saying that our guild was destroyed and so many of us died, just because of the quarrel between them from so long ago?said gilbert
yes said replied, it may have started like that but now there is more to it. i went and checked into the vault, it is a secret archive underneath the original building of the guild, where all the secrets of the guild is kept and it was swept clean, not just the artifacts of the dragon soul were gone but the place was destroyed and torn down. They were searching for something else as well, but they didnt find it
hold on just a minutesaid gus, If this story is true then Kevin must have tried to attack us before, but we had the councils protection and the moment we are expelled, we are attacked by him, isnt it obvious that the council is behind this attack
we had to face Kevin one way or other, but it looks like the council aided him in this said arystar, but why would council join up with him?
so now Kevin has all the pieces said Fiora, ....and now he will have the entire dragon soul. So what now?she asked
right now we need to focus around us, has anyone taken anything out of the vault recently?asked arystar
Everyone looked at each other, but no one had anything to add.
oh wait, there is something master told me to put into the vault, but i forgot it in my apartment and it was never placed in the vault. It is a black orb that we retrieved from scourge chaossaid Lukas,it was a secret mission of urgency from the council, Wolgrin had a special weapon which he used to dominate the minds of all the people in the Lybster, the weapon was this same black orb, master had asked me to secretly recover it.
Everyone stayed silent trying to figure out and put the pieces together and make any sense out of it. After a few moments,
Holy mother of godsaid arwin, his eyes widened with a growing realization on his face while others watched him babbling.
okay, this is just a theory but... he said it might be possible that Kevin, council and this black orb are all linked together. We have deduced that Kevin and the council are working together, Kevins aim was to destroy us and kill master because he wants the dragon soul. The council expels us and thus opens way for Kevin to do as he pleases and so he does. But as you mentioned they are still looking for something else and havent found it, they are trying to retrieve the orb for the council.
The black orb is what the council wants, or else why would they aid Kevin for free, they must have made a deal in which the council helps Kevin and in return he brings them the orb
that is absurdsaid gilbert, if they want that stupid orb, then why not ask us directly?, why would they want to destroy us?
you misunderstand, the council does not want us dead, Kevin does. The reason why they let him destroy us must be because they might have some use of him and it seems that someone from the council personally made this deal with Kevin and wants the black orb for himself. Someone with very high authority thats why we were expelled so easily
oh you are just brewing some confusing theory to cover up the fact that you attacked a council member and thats why they want us dead said Gus
that could be another explanation but it is not truesaid arystar, Vincent Klaus had already left the council a week ago before arwin fought him. Marco had asked me to keep an eye on Vincents movements after arwin had attacked him the first time
so what do we do now?asked awrin
ill go and get that orbsaid Lukas
fine, but go tomorrow morning said arystar, if you are confronted by Kevin or his mages, do not engage, just run. For now we rest, we will take turns and keep watch. After that everyone else tried to get comfortable in whatever way they could.
Arystar came to Gilbert and showed him the locket he had found in Marcos table, i think you know what must be done with thishe said, gilbert nodded and took the locket.
Then arystar went to Irena asked her to meet him outside and to bring Lukas as well. In a while, they were standing behind the warehouse. Arystar took out a letter from his coat and handed it over to Lukas.
He opened it and read, if you have found this letter i am probably dead. I have made many mistakes and have not given this guild what it deserves, i have failed this guild. But now i pass on my legacy to my three apprentices Arystar, Lukas and Irena. They are the pillars and the bond that will keep this group together and i hope you do a better job at it than me, may you bring joy and greatness to this guild.
All my love to you, Marco Mitchwell , when he finished he had no words to speak.
now you see said arystar, regardless of our differences, we have to work together and make it work, Lukas simply nodded in reply. They went in and arystar took the first watch as he sat on the roof lost, while three spheres of magic were orbiting around him, kept him warm.
(Arystar) i dont know what he is capable of and what exactly happened in their battle, did he look into Marcos mind or what, just how did he came to know about the existence of the vault.
In the cover of night, a dark figure, cloaked and hooded lurked around the warehouses, it left the area and went into the city all the while hidden in plain sight. Always cautious and checking if it was followed. Entering the market district he went into an inn, went straight up to the counter and placed a pouch of coins.
thats twenty crowns for a dayhe said ......with additional twenty and i never came here he said
most generous of you sir. i never saw you come in said the keep, and started counting the money.
The person went upstairs into the room and locked all the doors and windows tightly, then cast a spell. Blue magic surrounded the hands and then gathered infront, opening a crack in the space and Rowena appeared on the other side,
i have some new information or you said the person.
Kevin was seated in a broken stone throne wearing a crimson coat unbuttoned, sipping on ale from a mug while the healer was replacing the bandage on his forehead when Rowena walked in with a bruise on her right cheek.
tell me you have good newshe said
indeed, our informer has tracked the location of the black orb and has also presented us with an opportunity to get itshe said
goodhe said raising from his seat, this time i will do it myself
but master you are wounded she said, let me do it
No!, i shall be the one to put an end to this he said.
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The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
it has been some time since my last update, college started and suddenly got very busy with everything, lately the only time i get to write is at late nights but i am trying to write as much as possible.
As difficult as this chapter was to write, i am glad i was finally able to complete it because the current arc ends here and as the chapter name suggests the main part as the guild is now over, and here on the story focuses on other main things.
now i will be focusing on story and pick up the plot faster because there is still a lot to cover.
but for now i hope you enjoy this chapter and the next one will be up soon.
"Chapter 29: A Guild No More"
Spoiler for Chapter 29: A Guild No More:
Early morning, arwin went into woods behind the warehouse, to the river. Removed his boots and stepped into the water, he cupped some water in his hands and splashed on his face,
"Oh you look ugly", arwin quickly turned, but there was nobody, he turned back and right infront close to his face was Zaros hanging upside down in mid air, arwin was startled and fell back on the pebbles.
"what the hell!?"said arwin, he looked up to the spirit, "what are you doing here?"
(Zaros)well i had to show up, there are a lot of things going on in that head of yours.
(Arwin)wait, what!?,i can hear your thoughts, we can talk like this?
(Zaros)yes we can hear each other's thoughts and don't call me Zaros, i am bored of that name from now i shall be known as Zeke.
"so we can communicate with our thoughts. Wait how did you come here?, i did not summon you"
"i am always here, the summoning is to summon the spirit in this world, after that the spirit lives inside its master. When you disperse me, i go and stay in here" he said pointing a finger towards arwin.
For a moment arwin was fascinated with the knowledge of this, but suddenly his face turned grim,
"if you stay inside my head, then you look into my memories and thoughts all the time!?"
"ofcourse, its the only entertainment i have around here" said Zeke, arwin sighed and calmed, he did not had any energy after yesterday's events.
"what do you want?"he asked
"what i want is a huge castle in the spirit world, with beautiful angels caressing to my every needs. But for now, since you have learned the basics of spirit magic, i would like for you to release me so i could go back to the spirit world."
"and why would i do that?"said arwin
"well since you have no use of me and that black swollen eye tells me you have everything under control. Its good for us that we part ways"
"oh well i have some different plans for you"he said, suddenly Zeke's humorous face changed into a serious expression.
"do tell"
"spirit magic has too many incantations for commands, it is too lengthy. so i have used a conditioning spell on it. Despite your improper behaviour and invasion of my privacy, you have talents and skills that i could use, the condition is, unless i have achieved my goals, we cannot be separated even if i wanted too. So regardless of what you want, we are stuck with each other for a while now" said arwin
Zeke was furious, horns grew on his forehead and black demon wings opened on his back, "how could you?"he said, "undo that immediately and release me or i'll spill out all your secrets to others"
"you can, but i am the master. I'll make you suffer and as a slave you cannot resist me directly. So decide carefully on what you do. Now, it doesn't has to be that way, we can have a proper working relationship if you cooperate."
The helpless spirit couldn't say anything when threatened like that, he glared at arwin,
"i will not forget what you have done to me today, you will pay for this, i promise" said zeke and then disappeared into thin air.
Gilbert arrived at the ruins and remains of the guild, the collapsed building still had the smell of death on it and as he expected to find, there was another person on the other side, came to visit the disastrous site. He walked over to Muriel,
"i knew you would come"he said, "how could you miss a site such as this"
"i am not surprised, the way he handled the guild and the kind of people he let in, it was just a matter of time before the guild came down burning. I believe you not here just to chat" said muriel
Gilbert took out the locket that arystar had handed over to him last night and tossed it to her,
"you are free now, you can go where ever you want. I have no leverage on you now"
"a wise decision" she said, tucked the locket in her dress, "this is the last we meet Flame wizard, good bye" , she turned and walked away.
(Muriel) this is won't be the end of it. They don't see the walking talking source of bad luck that they have among them, that boy with the back problem, he will destroy everyone around him.
Gilbert waited until she was out of sight and then went on his way.
Lukas jumped out of the window, an explosion erupted behind him. He dropped into the lower balcony, from there to the ground and ran. Rowena came out of the smoke after him, she grabbed the shed and flipped up to the roof, from there saw Lukas and followed him from the rooftops.
Lukas turned the street and saw a man waiting for him, he quickly turned into the alley and came out from the other side into the fields, he ran until he was alone in the grass field and then stopped. He looked around, took out a pouch and checked the black orb. Suddenly a number people landed around him like falling from the sky, among them was Rowena as well. He was surrounded in a circle between them.
"hand it over"she said
(Lukas) So what others thought was right, they are after this black orb.
"so you are Lukas"said Kevin walking among them and came before him, "the apprentice of my old friend"
"you!, i saw you that night, holding my master's corpse. You are Kevin Flameheart"said lukas
"so you know of me. Then you might have also figured out that i want the Heart of Verloren, that black orb you have"
(Lukas) Heart of Verloren?, this orb, what is he saying?
"i am running out of patience boy, hand it over and i promise your demise will be quick"said Kevin
"you killed my master, destroyed my home and killed my fellow mages." said Lukas, took off his coat and threw it aside and was ready to battle, "before i send you to afterlife, i need to know just one thing, did the council or someone personally from there, sent you to kill us?"
Kevin laughed, "huh, since you won't live long, yes i made a secret deal with the head of the council. He said he will make way for me to destroy you and in return i will retrieve that black orb for him. Though it's him behind it not the council. Everybody get back!"he commanded, "come now apprentice of my old friend, let's see how good of a teacher Marco really was" and he took a battle stance as well.
In an instant Lukas was standing beside him light shining around him, his fist struck into Kevin's chest twisting with the blow breaking several bones. Kevin went flying with a blast of aura crashing into a pile of rocks. He got up slowly coughing and spitting blood, his ribs were sticking out of his top from his previous injury.
"oh look now, you got me messed up again" said Kevin with a trail of blood pouring down his mouth as he spoke, he pushed the broken ribs back into his torso, screaming in pain.
Lukas moved with blinding speed for another attack, Kevin moved similarly and caught his head in the path, due to the speed Lukas was turned upwards. Kevin pushed him down and smashed his head into the ground. Lukas's body shined intensely, momentarily blinding Kevin's eyesight. He fell back holding his eyes, Lukas quickly fired an arc but the light but got refracted. Kevin opened his eyes and placed his palms on the ground, chains made of aura emerged from the ground and struck Lukas piercing his flesh and binding him.
Lukas spiked up his power and broke off the chains and was now bleeding from various cuts on his body. He formed a magic circle and fired many projectiles of light energy, Kevin formed big magic circles in each of his hand, with one hand he covered himself from the shower of light particles. When the attack stopped he pointed the other magic circle at Lukas and released all the power from Lukas's attack in the form of a thunder bolt that hit him with a big explosion.
When the smoke cleared, Lukas was still standing injured and breathing heavily, his clothes burnt at several places, both the sides of his face were covered in blood. Kevin made a hand sign and several magic circles appeared in mid air between him and Lukas and started a wave of aura blasts towards Lukas. Lukas placed a wall of force field infront of him, the magic circles blasted on the invisible wall.
Kevin could see nothing but smoke everywhere, from within Lukas jumped upwards with trail of smoke behind him, he cast more spells and placed glass like invisible force fields around Kevin. Kevin was immobilized inside it and was unable to move. Lukas landed and took a few steps back and got Kevin exactly at the focal point of the lens formed by the placement of the force fields around him. Lukas then fired a single ray of light, it split and diverged at the first force field then at the next the rays of lights turned their path and converged at the place where Kevin was standing with maximum intensity. The beam of light hit him at his right shoulder, incinerating and melting his shoulder, the right side of his chest and the area around his neck was blown off.
His right arm hung by a little flesh and then fell down lifelessly, a splash of blood came out like a fountain from the damaged right side of his body.
(Lukas) Damn Fuck it! i missed!
Kevin screamed at the top of his voice, suddenly he was covered in aura and waves of energy came out of him breaking all the spells around him. giant bat like wings opened from his back, each the size of his body, grey in colour and covered with scales and blood. In an instant he moved and went past Lukas waving his left hand. A red line appeared on Lukas's neck and his head popped upwards a few feet in the air and fell aside with a spray of blood coming from his severed neck, then the headless body fell to the ground.
The next moment his wings dispersed into aura, almost half of his torso destroyed and unconscious he fell to the ground and blood spattered on the grass under him. Quickly Rowena and the other wizards came to him and wrapped him up in a cloak, the healer surrounded him with his magic and they got ready to depart.
"Rowena, what do we do with him?"asked one of them pointing towards Lukas's body
"Burn it and leave no trace behind" she said
At the warehouse, everyone was waiting restlessly. When the darkness of the night fell and there was no sign of Lukas, they grew impatient with a shocking realization.
Irena was focusing her magic essence as hard as she could, "i cannot sense his magic presence" she said
Arystar got up, "that's it then, they got to him. He is dead and they have the black orb now"
"No!" yelled Fiora, "he cannot be dead"
"this is fucked up" said Erica, "he was the best of us, what are we suppose to do now!?"
"Damn, it!" cursed gus banging his fist on the table
"he would have been our leader" said arystar. The sadness grew in the room and their eyes were tearing up, for the next few moments they all fell silent.
Arwin sat in silence as the sadness filled him when he saw others mourning. Suddenly he noticed not all of them were there,
"where is emily?"he asked
"i don't know, i haven't seen her since this noon" said Fiora. It caught everyone's attention.
"we must immediately look for her" said Gilbert, "we'll go in groups"
Quickly they divided themselves and went off on the search. Arwin, Gilbert and Erica were going together on the streets of the city. All the while arwin was lost in thoughts.
Arwin stopped and was simply staring at the ground.
(Arwin) the vault was ransacked, secrets of the guild, they knew where to find the pieces of the dragon soul, they ambushed Lukas at his apartment. We never heard of them till now and they knew so much of us already even though they never came in contact with us. Master killed, his apprentice the next possible leader of the guild, killed.
"what are you doing!?, you idiot we have to move"said gilbert
"No!, i know where she is!" he said
At the far west corner of the city where the water canals of the city meet with the main river body, boats of fishermen and other waterway travel and business were docked, but it was a late hour of night and the place was empty save for a dark figure that moved about in stealth.
The figure was completely covered and hooded, it approached the river bank and suddenly a stream of blue flame crossed it's path. The figure turned around and saw Arwin, Gilbert and Erica.
"i know it's you" said arwin, " take off the hood, no use hiding your face now."
The figure took off the hood and as he said, it was emily.
"took you long enough" she said. Arwin quickly moved towards her,
"Arwin wait!"said gilbert. Zeke appeared behind arwin and placed a barrier between them so that emily and arwin were inside and others were blocked outside of the barrier.
"what the hell do you think you are doing!?"said erica
"i am sorry, but this is my master's wish" said Zeke
"arwin, i thought you would be the last person to ever figure it out" said emily, "a naive fool like you, still you somehow did it, how?"
"Arystar told us about Marco and Kevin, they were friends before and everyone in despair thought that is how Kevin knew so much" he said, "but Kevin killed Marco, their friendship had died long ago. Kevin knew about the vault, knew how to attack our guild and where to trap Marco in a one on one fight. The only way he would have known so much was through an informer among us.
First my doubt went towards the mages who left the guild after marco's death. But when Lukas mentioned he had the black orb and we concluded that Kevin was after that as well, it gave me another chance to confirm my theory. When Lukas was ambushed and killed, it confirmed that the informer was not among them, but was among us, those who still remained in the guild.
And then you went missing, because your work here was done and you wanted to escape as quickly as possible"
"Bravo, Bravo"she said in a mocking way, "so are you expecting a candy now?"
Ariwn in a blink of an eye got close to her, hold her neck and lifted her up,
(Arwin) Zeke i want you to look in her mind and see if she has any relevant information.
"yes", Emily screamed in pain as Zeke entered her mind and went through her memories and in a few moments it was over.
"she has no information about Kevin and his guild, she never even saw them, just one person Rowena, whom she fed the information" he said
"now i don't need you alive anymore" said arwin and squeezed her neck
"No please, don't" she spoke in low voice and she started to choke
"do you think i am killing you because of what happened to the guild......... you used me!"
"i helped you with your magic, i taught you...."she said
"you helped me to make a cover for yourself, so that i could be a witness that you were not involved in this. That night at the library, you took unusually long to bring food, i should have known then......."
"yes!, i used you!, that night i went to signal the attack. I used you as a witness if it came to that. I used my charm magic on you, so that you could be easily persuaded by a pretty little girl, you were the perfect easy target for everyone to blame"
He loosed his grip and was silent for a moment.
"everyone blamed me........, everyone said that it was my fault that they died, that
i was responsible for destruction of the guild and even i started to believe it." tears went down his eyes, "Every one held me responsible for it, while you were the one who was plotting this attack the whole time", black lightning sparks appeared on his other hand covered in black lightning.
She grabbed on his hand, "no please, you don't want to hurt me, stop!" she looked at him with mercy
"charm magic only works if the victim has any compassion in them, your charm and pretty face won't save you"
"you insane!, you monster!"she yelled
"i lost my sanity a long time ago"he said, his eyes were filled with rage, she could sense the bloodlust in his aura.
He thrust his hand covered in lightning into her chest, blood sprayed on his face, he pierced her deeper, a puddle of red formed below her, his hand came out from her back with splash of blood. He saw her take a last breath cursing him. He pulled out his hand with another splash of red on his face, he threw the body in the river. The body floated up and the current carried her away and the water around her turned red.
Zeke took the barrier down, gilbert and Erica came storming to him,
"have you got shit filled in you skull!, we could have interrogated her and got information" said gilbert
"no use, i already looked in her mind, she held nothing useful us"said arwin
The three watched as the water current washed her body out of the city.
Later all were gathered at the warehouse and told what happened with emily,
"so what do we do now?" asked Fiora,
Arystar got up and walked toward the window gazing outside then he turned around and faced others, "now everything is finished, this guild is over" he said, he took out a metal made guild's insignia and tossed it on the table.
"you are all free to go and do whatever you want"said arystar
"what of you?"asked Irena
"i am going to find Kevin and i am going to kill him, Marco entrusted me with a task and i am going to finish it" he said
One by one everyone tossed their guild's insignia ornament on the table,
"you guys have no obligation to stick to this matter anymore, you don't have to do this" he said
"He was our friend as much as he was yours" said Irena
"and you are going to need a team" said Gus
Arystar paused for moment to consider, "alright then, but we do this as individuals for our own reasons, this guild is no more"
"where do we start?" said Erica
"there is a place we need to go first and get some answers" said Arystar
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