A/N: Here we are, yet again. Silvale is still trying to say I'm evil, but this time we find that his Priest, Ariethas, up to no good. Poor, poor Kali. Will she get to fulfill her dreams? Or will that perverse clergyman stop her? Let us pray…
Also, remember, yes, it is supposed to be corny and exaggerated. Enjoy! Part one found here
It was yet another beautiful day in the land of Rune-Midgard. Our hero, Cornflakes, a Poring, was happily bouncing about the land with his best friend Kali Jadyn, an Acolyte.
About three years ago, Cornflakes had defeated a mean, nasty, bully of a Knight named Silvale. Silvale was a cruel hearted person that had tried to kill poor little Cornflakes, for Silvale was the worst sadist in the whole entire continent. Cornflakes managed to defeat this menacing foe with the help of Kali Jadyn. Together, they hoped they rid the world of Rune-Midgard of him and his terrible ways. Sadly though, they came to find out soon enough that they were wrong, and that a new threat had risen.
So anyway, on this very beautiful day, Kali was going to finally become a Priestess. Oh how she dreamed of becoming one so that she may be able to further help the residents of Rune-Midgard! Cornflakes encouraged her every step of the way, knowing no one deserved such an honor as his good hearted, most loving friend Kali.
They were walking along the streets of Alberta, heading for the boat that would take them to Izlude. They were minding their own business, though stopping to help and heal anyone who asked them so kindly. Little did they know, they were being watched.
Staying just a few steps behind them was a lecherous, thieving Priest named Ariethas. He eyed Kali in a most unholy like way. The young Acolyte wearing the Angel Wings in her short brown hair looked so pure and innocent. He inspected all of her goods, but mostly his eyes were on her purse filled with zenny.
Kali and Cornflakes continued forward, innocent and carefree when Ariethas decided to strike. He ran toward Kali from behind, and, pretending to accidentally knock into her, made them both fall to the ground. Poor Kali was so startled by this that she hadn't noticed that his hands found their way to her purse as the evil Priest faked being sorry and continued his false apologies as he helped her back to her feet.
"It's ok, really…," she said feeling awkward and he felt the need to "brush off the dirt" from her back. As he was making to "brush off" her front as well, Kali backed away from him. "No really, it's ok," she tried to smile.
Ariethas put on his most fake, phony innocent smile. "Ok sweetie, you take care of yourself now" he said before taking off like a shot in the other direction.
Cornflakes looked up to Kali and they both laughed about how odd he was. But sadly, all was not funny when they reached the boat bound for Izlude. Kali looked as if she was going to cry when she found out her purse was missing. Cornflakes wanted to cry too, but he had to be strong for Kali.
"It's ok Kali," Cornflakes squeaked. "I promise I'll find it for you. I bet you that Priest took it!"
"Now now Cornflakes," Kali said trying not to sound upset. "You can't go blaming others like that. I bet I just dropped it when he knocked me over. Let's go back and see if we can't find it on the ground." Cornflakes had his doubts, but he faithfully listened to Kali.
Meanwhile, Ariethas had not taken his eyes off the duo. Seeing their despair gave him a satisfying, unnatural, very sadistic pleasure. A devious thought crossed his mind, and a wicked grin crossed is face. As Kali and Cornflakes made it back to the spot that the "incident" occurred, he decided to step in and "play hero."
As soon as Cornflakes spotted him, he bounced up and down in anticipation, "There he is! He has returned to the scene of the crime!"
Kali gently picked up the excited poring, "Shh, now Cornflakes, we don't know that. It isn't nice to accuse others without proof. I'm sure it was just an honest mistake." She turned to the approaching Ariethas and said softly, "Excuse me sir, but did you happen to see a zenny purse lying around here?"
Ariethas shook his head, keeping his face straight as he lied through his teeth. "No my dear, I haven't. I am so sorry."
Kali frowned, as did Cornflakes, seeing his poor friend get her hopes shattered. He knew how much she was looking forward to becoming a Priestess, and now they were stranded in Izlude, with no zenny, and no blue gems for warping.
Ariethas smiled inwardly to himself, but put up a false frown and said in an oh so sincere sounding way, "Maybe I can help you. Just let me know where you are going and I'll warp you there for free."
Kali looked at him in surprise. That sounded too good to be true. "Really? Do you really mean that?" She could feel hope returning, but Cornflakes wasn't so sure. Despite his fronts, Cornflakes had the feeling this guy was up to something.
"Of course," he said with a big suspicious looking grin.
But, being the good natured person Kali is, she believed him. "If you could, can you please warp me to Prontera? I'm going to take my Priestess quest and it would mean so much to me if you could warp me there."
The thought of this young, pure innocent looking Acolyte girl turning into a luscious, sexy Priestess made Ariethas once again think unholy thoughts. But even so, Ariethas had an even eviler plan. He smiled wide at the naive little Acolyte and said, "Of course my dear, whatever you wish."
He pulled a blue gem from his pouch and threw it to the ground, breaking it into a warp portal. Kali thanked him from the bottom of her heart for his kindness, and then hopped into the portal with Cornflakes in hand.
OH NO! When Kali came out of the portal she and Cornflakes came to a complete shock! Instead of the alive and busy city of Prontera, they were looking at the ruined and desolate surroundings of Glast Heim! Kali's heart broke in two as she glanced around and realized they were stranded in this horrible place. Kali did know her way around; she had been to Glast Heim many times before to battle evil undead things in the castle graveyard. But the spot that the Priest had warped them to was far away from any familiar surroundings. She knew that walking around the desolate city alone and lost was a very bad thing, especially for an Acolyte.
Oh how she wanted to cry, but she stayed strong for she could feel poor little Cornflakes getting upset. She hugged him tight and said, "It's ok Cornflakes, we will find our way back."
Cornflakes gave a little sniffle. He couldn't hide being sad anymore. He knew that Priest was up to no good. "That mean old Priest," he cried. "Why did he do this? I bet he did steal your purse!"
Kali just shook her head. She hated to think such horrible things about people. But the thought of the evil Knight came to mind, and she realized that, despite how much she tried, there was always going to be despicable people in the world. They began to wander around cautiously.
They hadn't realized that Ariethas had followed them. He waited a few minutes before warping himself to Glast Heim as well. It was all part of his devious, perverted plan. He could get the young innocent Acolyte alone in Glast Heim where no one could see what he planned to do.
Ariethas quickly found the Acolyte and the Poring treading carefully through the ghastly city. He began to stalk them, resisting the urge to laugh as he thought about what he was about to do.
As he got closer, Kali and Cornflakes began to realize someone or something was following them. Kali instinctively thought it was a monster. She knew that she had no chance if it was. Most monsters that wandered this city were extremely dangerous for someone such as herself. She quickened her pace.
Ariethas realized Kali had caught on and snickered to himself. "Yes," he said snakily, "run. Chasing you makes it that much more satisfying."
Kali never dreamed that the thing following her was the Priest. Cornflakes tried to act as brave as he could. He did not want to let Kali know he was afraid. But finally, as they could now hear the footsteps getting closer, Cornflakes finally squeaked, "Kali, we should run!" She immediately started to jet away from the sound of the approaching footsteps.
Despite himself, Ariethas let out a bone chilling laugh. Kali heard it and shivered. Cornflakes gasped as he realized what was going on now. "Oh no, Kali, it's that Priest! He's coming after us!" This time Kali didn't disagree. She knew she had to get away from him. Her thoughts shot back to that evil Knight again, and she didn't want to risk being hurt again, especially by a fellow clergy member.
But ever so sadly, Kali could not keep up the chase forever. As she ran she tripped on some of the shrubbery that littered the ground of Glast Heim. She fell flat and dropped Cornflakes beside her. Ariethas caught up now.
He looked down on her wolfishly. Kali glared at him wide eyed. She could not believe a fellow clergy member could be so evil. The Knight was one thing, but a man of God? She prayed that she was mistaken. She could never dream of such a thing as this.
But as Ariethas closed in on her, she began to scream. "No! How could you! How can you be so wicked?" She closed her eyes and shook; she could not bear to watch what he was going to do.
Suddenly Cornflakes jumped at the Priest. He bit him in the leg before he could get any closer to Kali. He would not let anyone hurt her while he was around.
Ariethas screamed in surprise. He swatted at the Poring who bounced around to avoid him. "You nasty little punk, I'll kill you!"
Kali opened her eyes and saw Cornflakes leading the Priest away. Still very shaken, she got to her feet in hopes of helping Cornflakes before the Priest hurt him. "Agility Up!" she chanted and aimed for Cornflakes.
Cornflakes felt lighter, just like he did when he battled the demonic Knight. He bounced around the Priest avoiding his swings from his mace. But the Priest just stopped and started to laugh coldly. "Two can play at this game," he smirked. He too chanted "Agility Up!" but then added a "Bless!", "Angelus!", and "Impositio Manus!" before Kali could even chant another spell. To top it off, he then chanted "Decrease Agility!" on Cornflakes.
The Poring suddenly felt heavy and the Priest caught up to him. Cornflakes felt like he could barely move as the Priest cornered him. "Now you die you stupid pink blob!"
Just as he was about to swing his mace down and end poor little Cornflakes life, an arrow came flying from behind him and knocked the mace from his hands. The Priest turned around in complete surprise to find a Huntress named Chisato Arkain standing behind him. She had long red hair which was covered by a Munak hat, which she wore lopsided as to not have her face covered by the paper talisman that hung from the front of it. "What the hell do you think you're doing!" he screamed at her.
"I should ask you the same thing," she said angrily. "I can't believe you would pick on an innocent Acolyte and her pet Poring like that. You should be ashamed of yourself!"
Ariethas gave her a cold look. "Just mind your own business sweetie. Now run along and leave me alone."
Kali rushed over to the Huntress' and hid behind her. "Please help me. He was…he was… oh he was going to do such awful things to me."
Chisato turned to the Acolyte behind her and patted her on head, smiling. "It's ok, I won't let that perverted punk hurt you." She then turned her gaze back angrily to the Priest. "I'm warning you now, leave them alone or you'll have to deal with me."
Ariethas picked his fallen mace from the ground. Cornflakes had bounced over to Kali's side while Ariethas was busy looking at the Huntress. The Priest looked at the three of them with a wide smirk. He raised his mace up high and then rushed at Chisato. He never could expect what happened next.
Before he knew what happened, the Huntress managed to hit the Priest upside the head with her bow. Ariethas jerked back in surprise. Before he could come to his senses, Chisato pulled a few arrows from her quiver, managing to pin him to the wall with a few quick shots from her bow.
As he hung there angrily cursing them out, the Huntress looked back to Kali and Cornflakes. "Are you two ok?"
Kali nodded, still feeling shaken. Cornflakes bounced up from the ground and into Kali's arms. "Thank you so much for saving us," he said.
Chisato smiled. "It's ok. I heard you scream and thought you were being attacked by a monster. Although," she said, looking back to the Priest who was struggling to free himself and continued to curse at them, "I guess you could say you were."
Kali and Cornflakes laughed. Together they all decided to head for the Glast Heim castle graveyard. They knew they could find another Acolyte or Priest there to help them get to Prontera. Chisato protected Kali and Cornflakes from the many monsters as they made their way there as Kali healed and blessed them all the way.
When they found their way to the castle steps, they found a nice Priestess standing there named Bleu. She also wore Angel Wings in her long, braided blue hair. When they told her what had happened with the evil Priest, Bleu could not believe her ears. "Oh my, and a clergy member too, tsk tsk. That's so shameful. I'm sorry you had to deal with that my dear little Kali." And with that, she agreed to help Kali get to Prontera to become a Priestess like her.
Together, Kali, Cornflakes, Chisato and Bleu all warped to Prontera's cathedral. And there, finally, with encouragement from them all, Kali finally became a Priestess. And as for Ariethas? Bleu and Kali let the Head Priest know of his wicked actions. He was booted from the church, never to be heard from again.