Tomb Raider: Curse Of The Sword
Adapted By Josh14Raider
Disclaimer: This is based on the storyline of the Game Boy colour game with the same title. I do not own any of the characters, they belong to their respectable owners. This is just for entertainment reading.
- Introduction
Using dark magic as they say has serious consequences if caught, but can be very rewarding to the ones who get away with it. It is the type of magic that is used for personal gains, and can be misused for many causes, such as destruction or indefinite misfortune on others. Some call it black magic, while others call it chaos magic and all relate it to the themes of evil and ritual settings. Many years ago, Madame Paveaux had raised herself to immense power, thanks to her many practices of this type of magic, for her own personal gains. Being a magician, she became feared across the underworld of New Orleans in America by various outlandish methods. One example of these methods, were sacrificing humans and many other malicious techniques owing for her experimentation.
It wasn't until Madame Paveaux had gone too far with her devilish ways. The people of New Orleans had decided to stand against her, and had riot against her practises of a dark magician. Some might say that the only way to defeat a magician is to pit them against another one, and see who comes out victorious. The people used this method and enlisted the aid from a powerful benevolent magician, so they could stand a chance of fighting and succeeding. The aftermath of the rebellion was that the people of New Orleans were able to break into her underworld mansion, and burnt it down to the ground. Although many of the rebels against Madame Paveaux were killed thanks to the evil magician and her minions, she was struck with one final blow from the benevolent magician and had fallen.
The people of New Orleans rejoiced and celebrated that the death of Madame Paveaux had brought safety and peace back to the atmosphere of New Orleans. They threw her body into a deep cliff and as her body fell, it had landed upon the sharp jagged precipices. Her body became torn and shattered. They believed that her dark presence had truly disappeared from existence. But they were unaware that one of Madame Paveaux's apprentices had survived the incident, and had followed where they had taken the deceased magician's body.
Once the people had left the cliff and Madame Paveaux's body to rot, the apprentice still very faithful to his Mistress had a plan of reviving her body and soul. He set himself the task of rescuing what was left of her at the bottom of the cliff, and taking her remains to a secret location. This was where he would be able to perform an ancient rite, to unleash the soul left from the body remains and seal it into a sacred container. The apprentice successfully extracted the soul of his mistress in the lair. The soul looked like a long multi-coloured snake with a human skull for a head, as it began circulating around the chanting minion.
"Soon Master..." the apprentice had said, as he reached out for his mistress' soul within the lair.
"Soon you will be free..." as he completed the ritual and finally had sealed her soul within a sword, including a written carving upon the stone it was on, 'PAVEAUX 1796-1844' it read.
"Free once again..." the apprentice promised, as he began his search for a suitable body, and the correct incantations that would bring his treacherous mistress back to life. Only by using the darkest of objects, and the most secret of sayings would the apprentice be able to bring his plan to fruition.