The Fall of Tortall: The Legacy of the Wildmage
The gods stood in a circle around their sister, now imprisoned in a cage of dead matter and starfire. She shrieked, clawing at the sides. The gods slowly turned their backs on her and returned to their thrones in the Divine realms.
The abandoned one screamed her anguish, slamming her twisting body at her confinements. For many months she continued this self destructive plight.
How she hated those puny inhabitants of Tortall! She was the goddess. Her plans, all thwarted, by a few key mortals! In her fury, she planned carefully for revenge.
Then, two years later, a chink was found in her cage. Snarling in pleasure, she slammed her weight and power against it, and burst free. Shards of cage matter flooded the sky.
She flew through the air, reveling in her freedom.
Mithros and his gods were conferring quietly when an explosion startled them from their ambrosial seats. Sister Chaos shot into the air, her multicolored servants twirling around her. He yelled even as Mother and Father yanked her back.
But it was too late. Grinning in her victory, the Queen of Chaos threw her final vindicative move. Raising an oozing, changing palm, she hurled a ball of venomous Chaos at Tortall before sinking into darkness.
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Daine and Numair, chatting at a court party that evening, felt the sky shimmer and the ground quake under their soft soled shoes. Then, and explosion ripped through their senses, and all was black.
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Daine awoke painfully on rocky rubble. Sitting up, she saw the ruin of the palace and the country as far as her eagle eyes could see.
"Hello?" she yelled, her mind panicking. Where were the People? She stood up, the ruins of her cloud-blue ball gown blowing in the wind. The sky shimmered the vicious rainbow hues of Chaos. Coughing into her sleeve, she stumbled around trying to find Numair. Shimmering flecks flew in her face, and the sulfurous stench clouded her nose.
She ran around in a frenzy, until she saw a shred of black robe fluttering in the wind near a shattered dining table. Running to it, she burst into tears.
"Numair! NUMAIR!" She screamed, shaking him. He remained unmoving, eyes closed against the massive wound he suffered at his temple. His skin was cold and...he was dead.
Sobbing convulsively, Daine whispered, "Dont go" before sinking down next to his body.
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It felt like years later when Daine stood up. Her ears rung from her tears and the emptiness of the air. The People?
Walking away Numair's body, she came upon Neal freeing an injured child from a large piece of wood. "Daine?" he asked. Ignoring him, she moved on towards the south.
"Where are you going?" Neal aimed the small boy towards a group of screaming people, propelling the frightened child gently. "Daine!"
"I can't stay here." Staring into his worried green eyes, she repeated that thought. "I can't stay here."
She squeezed his arm, and walked off again. How could she stay there? Numair wasn't there anymore. Her heart painfully constricting, Daine ran off towards the direction of the smashed forest. Who else died? She couldnt bear to find out. Irrationally, she wandered until the moon was nearly at its fullest.
Sitting at the base of a shredded tree, she stared at her hand. "Just one more month!" she laughed painfully. The sapphire set ring gleamed back at her, mockingly. "And we would have been wed."
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A week later, Daine arrived at the sea. The beach was deserted, quiet. She could not hear any People. And that was for the best, she thought. Any thought of ... Numair ... even his teachings, reduced her to a sobbing mess.
Dabbling her aching toes into the freezing waters, she was suddenly swept up into an iron grip. Yanked onto a slave ship, she did not resist. What had she to live for, anyway?
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Well, this is the beginning. is it too depressing? it will get very sad, i can guarentee that. but i really felt like writing something like this. but, shes gonna go to carthak and meet up with kaddar again.
oh and btw, after the daine parts i will tell what happens the others who live. (who are they? if IF you review, can you give me some names who you would like to live? i'll try put them in!)
please. comments?