I don't own Orphen and this is a re-write of my old story which is labeled the same sorry about that but I felt it needed changes.
Chapter 1: Dreams or Reality?
Orphen was a down to earth guy so when he started to get dreams about a strange mist that seemed demonic he was starting to worry. I mean he usually dreamed about Cleo and always finding her in his room that next day. Of course they weren't staying at any inn they were camping. He figured he could blame this on Cleo's cooking since he hated it. Where did that girl learn how to cook exactly? But at the moment he was more worried about the strange mist that seemed to flow around him like a fountain.
Looking around he saw Totokanta and a few feet in front of him. He wondered if something had happened the City was abandoned and the buildings were ruined like some great disaster had struck the city. Putting that behind him he knew he had to find Majic and Cleo and find out what happened.
"Hey Cleo, Majic…anyone there?" He called, "hello."
He managed to find his way to the tavern which Majic's father owned. The place was all dusty and seemed to be trashed. Normally he'd find the old man there complaining about how Orphen wasted his money by not teaching his son any tricks. But not even the old man was spotted.
"Hey Old man you in here?" Orphen asked.
He didn't receive and answer and was getting a bad feeling. He walked inside and looked around. He stepped over something and spotted something. He found a humanoid figure and walked over seeing Majic's shape.
"Hey Majic there you are…tell me what's going on," Orphen said.
The figure didn't move. Orphen was about to get annoyed when he realized Majic was a statue. A spell? If so who could do this much damage besides Azalie and himself they were the best sorcerer's in the Tower of Fang and as much as he knew that was the only place of magic around.
Orphen went back outside and managed to get to Cleo's house. The mansion was in the worst shape. He found Cleo in the same state. Normally he'd be glad Cleo was a statue and not annoying him but part of him was worried about this whole thing. He never thought he'd miss Cleo's voice even in a nightmare.
"What's going on here?" Orphen asked.
He heard a laughing and spotted someone in a black cloak who had apparently been watching him the whole time but for some reason Orphen had just noticed him. This person was apparently very strong if Orphen couldn't sense him. He must've done this but he wasn't from the Tower of Fang.
"Don't you like my decorating?" The figure asked.
The voice seemed almost demonic so he couldn't tell if this was a girl or a boy. Not that he could tell much of anything right now.
"You did this?" Orphen asked ready to cast a spell.
"Yes…and you will be next," The voice said.
The black figure seemed to be quicker and Orphen was blasted back into the mansion which seemed to crumble and the debris fell onto him. He heard the figure laughing as he got crushed by the falling debris of the mansion.
Orphen woke up near a campfire sweating heavily and breathing the same way.
'A dream?' Orphen thought, 'or was that a premonition…?'
"Hey so you're awake about time I was about to pour water on you," Cleo said, "Hey are you alright?"
"It's nothing, don't worry about it Cleo," Orphen said, "How long was I out?"
"A few hours you got said my voice was giving you a headache and fell asleep," Cleo replied, "I'm making supper."
Majic came back with some food and being chased by animals as usual.
"I said bring food not the entire forest," Cleo said, "Geeze can't you do anything without being attacked by birds or other forest creatures?"
"You try going into that forest Cleo," Majic replied, "They're scary and the birds thought I was trying to get to their nest."
Cleo growled and seemed to yell at the younger sorcerer more and this made Orphen glare at his two companions. 'Can't they go five minutes without bugging me?'
"Hey you two knock it off before I hit the both of you I just woke up I'm crabby and I don't want to hear it from you two right now!" he yelled and stood up walking off to an area to think.
"Geeze who woke up on the wrong side of the Tower today? Majic I wonder if it has anything to do with that dream?" Cleo asked.
"Orphen's been getting bad dreams for awhile now…I've noticed it…I wonder what they're about he never tells me…" Majic replied.
"Now that you mention it he did seem bothered by something when I saw him earlier well I'm sure he'll tell us eventually so let's just leave him alone to think," Cleo replied, "Oh well we'll just have to make a good supper and he'll cheer up. C'mon Majic your helping since it's both our faults he's in his normal bad attitude."
Majic sighed but helped Cleo out.
Sorry it's so short. But please Read and Review. Constructive Criticism is allowed but no saying stuff likes 'your story stinks' please don't say that.