For the Love of Etaine

by naturesenshi

When Kelnia, a priestess in training gets called out to join the Alliance of Light in the war against the Union of Fury, she finds herself placed in situations and areas which are alien from home and must choose her duties, her faith in her goddess, her love and family when her young brother is called to the front lines. Become enthralled by my endearing first fanfiction story.

Chapter One

"Etaine... Where are you?" I heard a deep coarse voice whisper. A figure began to form from a swirl of dust before me. I took a cautious step back, holding a defensive stance. "Etaine... Why won't you answer my cry?" the voice struggled.

The figure became clearer, the dust settling to form a green-brown skin. A monster stood before me, wearing armour made from skin of the creatures from the Union of Fury, carrying a double edged axe. Its face covered with the bloody stains of defeated enemies, my allies. A despicable scar ran down from his pupil-less right eye. "Etaine, how could you? Cast us down into the dusk and leave us there to rot. We were the first... and we loved you," it pointed accusingly at me.

'I am not Etaine...' I wanted to say but it came to my surmise that it would be unwise to do so. Instead I forced myself to remain silent. A foul stench filled my nose then I realised I had not taken notice of the environment surrounding me. Dark clouds hid the sun away, the ground infertile, dirty and grey. I twisted around to see what the foul stench was and my eyes widened in shock at the sight of the wasted bodies of my kin.

"Help … me..." one of them croaked and I rushed immediately to his aid. I pulled his quiescent body unto my lap, wrapping my arms around his head and waist like a mother cradling her child. A glow emerged from my hands and the healthy peach colour that we all shared began to return.

"You left us to rot!" the monster spat, approaching me slowly and then stopping within arms reach.

I found that I could hold in the pain no more and burst out "You're a monster! See what destruction you bring!" choking through the tears that I struggled to fight back but losing in the end. "You have killed so many..."

"No..." it replied in a tone that seemed almost sorrowful, heartbroken and heavy with a burden that could not be told. "You..." it continued, lifting up it's axe in an executional posture, his voice growing huskier and angrier at each word until it became a roar, "are the one who tried to kill your own beloved children!" At his last word, he swung his giant axe down at me and the silence after my cry was absolute.

I gasped deeply as my eyes sprung open, frightened from the story my mind had just told me. I had never set my eyes upon a real Nordein before but the monster that had stood before me resembled the spitting image of what the scriptures had described. An image of it's horrifying face flashed before my eyes. I jerked upwards, thrusting the sheet away from me and dragging myself away from the bed and onto the floor.