Mystical Cyrodiil

Chapter 1

A new day begins for Rena, your average clumsy new mage apprentice, when she was woken up by her friend Kudo. Kudo was a young warrior who had helped her get into the Arcane University in the first place, without him she might still be at the front gates begging for them to let her in.

"Rena you really need to stop doing this, you're going to break your neck or something," Kudo began. "How long did you study last night?" Rena was the type who worried about every little detail and made it seem that the mage exams was the end of the world, and that Arch Mage Tavern would kick her out into the cold if her grades were worse than his when he was an apprentice.

"I-I'm sorry, I promise ill try to get some more sleep I swear!"

"That's what you said last time! Yet here you are cleaning drool from your books and the top of your desk you slept on."

"How did you get in here anyway? I locked the door!"

"You seem to forget I know a little about magic myself. Besides, I told Tavern it was an important matter involving necromancers. You know him; he panics at the thought of those necro-dudes taking over the world or something just because they can reanimate the bug he just squashed."

"Oh for the last time would you leave the man alone? He's a wondrous person who only cares for our well-being."

"You speak as if you want him to propose!"

"Shut it you, or ill fry that blue little head of yours! I need to practice my fire spells for the exam on Friday so why don't you donate yourself as a moving target?"

"Rena, why do you have to be so mean? You know that it takes the most skilled wizards in all of Cyrodiil to get my hair this wondrous sky blue."

"Oh I'm sorry; I forgot how much skill is needed to stick your head in a barrel of hair dye! Let me just call up Tavern right now so--"

"So what may I ask?" the Arch Mage himself said as he walked in.

"Um nothing, I was just wondering if you would show Kudo here a few basic spells."

"Hmm...Isn't that something you should know how to do young lady? You do realize there's only 2 days left till the exam? Besides, I already have something I need to show Kudo here. Would you please come with me lad, and say farewell to Rena, I will be downstairs when you're ready," Tavern said as he walked out the door.

"Wow that sounds really important. Well see yea later Rena."

"Yea...bye."

That was the last time I saw Kudo. Tavern had a special task for him, something involving a portal in the Niben Bay. It was weeks till I heard of him. One of Tavern's associates had to tell me, because the Arch Mage himself could not. I was told that the portal Kudo had gone into had vanished, and that the only trace of it was what was left of the island it sat on.

Kudo's father was the important-type of person, even though Tavern still wouldn't let Kudo come in when ever he wanted unless he was tricked into it. His father didn't accept the fact that his only son was gone, neither could I. It seemed as though he had just pulled one of his force-dad-to-let-him-join-the-Fighter's-Guild schemes. Once he had run away for 2 weeks. The ironic part is that he hid in my bedroom, on the same grounds as his father, who thought he ran out of town.

After 5 months it sank in...Kudo wasn't coming back this time.