Author's Note: I don't own any of this, Dragonlance belongs to Wizards of the Coast.
Bitter Sweet
Chapter 1: The Master's new Apprentice
Marlene of Schallsea paces her room in the Tower of High Sorcery, it has been many years after her twin sister death now. She has spent a lot of her time traveling looking for information and such , or what ever else the masters decided to send her to do. Finally today she shall get to meet with Dalamar the Dark, the one that had been with her sister when she died. She stops for a moment to check herself over, the long dark hair hanging loosely and the sapphire eyes looked back at her many having been startled seeing her after her sisters death. They may look alike but deep down they had always been complete opposites, while her sister took on the white robes she took on the black ones. Her sister also having the innocent beauty while she used a far more dangerous one.
Marlene sighs brushing out any wrinkles in her velvet black robes lined with silver embroidery of arcane symbols near the edges, this will be her time to prove herself once she becomes Dalamar's new apprentice. He had not been seeking anyone, but he was finally convinced to at least meet with her before he made a final decision. So now all she had to do was wait to be called. She was about to sit when a knock on the door sounded, she rushed over to open it and an older black Robed mage stood there "He has arrived, he will see you in the study. Follow me."
Marlene bows her head in respect and follows the mage to the study where Dalamar now sits resting with a glass of Elvin wine in his hand. His back to the door, he stands and turns when he hears the door open. His eyes betray him for a moment when they widen as Marlene walks in, he has seen this face before dead one because of actions he did not care to take. He quickly hid his reaction, none noticing unless they were looking for it which Marlene was and she did see. Dalamar quickly glairs at the older mage wondering if this was some kind of joke, but all the man did was bow his head and turns and leaves.
He makes a motion for her to sit down in a cushioned chair across from him which she gracefully glides over to, then once she is sitting he offers her a glass of wine which she declines. He sits again then after a moment deciding not to push the issue of her looking like the dead girl right now, he finally looks up at her "Now what would make you think you would be good enough to be my apprentice?" He finally speaks to her, not caring if he offends for he needs to find out what she is made of.
Marlene sits there a moment thinking crossing her legs in the process, finally she looks back up at him with a smile "Let me ask you a question, what makes you good enough to be my master my teacher? I know what I am made of, and it is some quite sturdy stuff. I study hard and am excellent at finding ways to get what I want done. You on the other hand could be all talk, and just had dumb luck accomplishing some of the supposed great things they say you have done. So what do you say to that?"
Dalamar watches her with an eyebrow raised as she speaks, she is very gutsy and her words do not appear to be there just for show. And those sapphire eyes, those hauntingly beautiful ones that seem to make him shudder every time they fall on him. Those eyes that remind him of the dead girl, she shakes the though out of his head and looks back at Marlene with a smirk "You have a big mouth, and a way with words that will be useful with dealing with me. Get your thing packed and ready we will be leaving within the hour, if you are not ready then your chance is lost."
Marlene allows a confident smile to fall to her lips and she stands bowing her head to him respectfully "I will be ready in even less time then that, you will not regret this decision. I thank you Master Dalamar." She then moves to walk out when all of a sudden as she passes him he grabs onto her wrist, she doesn't turn she just stops and listens "Oh and as for my great achievements, I can promise you it was all my doing no dumb luck about it. I can teach you to make achievements like that and then some also if you are willing." He says with his eyes trailing down her form.
"Yes Master." Marlene says before she pulls out of his grasp and then leaves to go to her room. Dalamar just sits and waits thinking about how interesting this will be as he sips his wine.
Hope you all enjoyed this and review, I will try to add the next chapters sometime this week. I also want to thank the person who has helped my out with this Dal thank you ;-)