I own nothing except the Story. Heh, I wrote this when I was supposed to be sleeping. Confound my mind. :D Anywhoo enjoy or Flame I don't care.
The wave of dark magic was rushing towards Ferbalot. Ferbalot braced himself for the dark rush that would inevitably kill him. Something blocked the path of the dark magic. Ferbalot opened his eyes to see one of the Sprites, formerly a water sprite, intercepting the dark magic with her own body. As the black light ended, she sank to her knees and gave Ferbalot a weak smile.
"Why did you just do that?" Ferbalot choked out.
The sprite simply gave him another weak smile before she replied, "This was supposed to be my endgame."
"What?"
"Unfortunately all elemental sprites, in particular those who gain the marks of all four of the elements, know how and generally when they are going to die. When you have such a close knit group as ours, everyone knows when one of their fellow sprites is going to die. This is why Isabelle didn't want me with you brave need to carry on though, you have an important task ahead of you."
She looked over at where her elemental staff was laying. It was slowly turning into dust. She gave a weak laugh before looking into the knight's dark blue eyes. He stared back into her equally dark blue eyes.
"You have to promise this Sir Ferbalot. Promise me you'll tell Isabelle that I felt no pain? I don't want her mourning me because I died a painful death," She pleaded.
Ferbalot struggled to find to words to voice his thoughts, "You want me to lie to her?"
"Yes, I don't want her lingering upon my death. It'll only cloud her judgement when her clarity is needed."
"It has just occurred to me kind lady, that while you know my name I don't know yours."
"Greta, is my name kind sir," was the answer Ferbalot received.
"How long will it be until you are gone, kindly sprite?"
"Not long, my staff is almost gone, then the dark magic will start upon me. However there is a good thing that comes from a death of a sprite, and that is a horrible curse laid upon the one who wrought such a dark crime against nature. We are in fact nature spirits meant to guide the wayward brother and your companions as well as my sister sprites will arrive as I depart this life and service," Greta replied as she stared at the sky, unable to move as the dark magic ate away at her life force.
"Service?" Ferbalot inquired with slight shock.
"I might come back as something else or maybe not," Greta replied with another weak laugh, and then a sharp gasp as the dark magic began to eat away at her body.
"I'm staying with you until you-" Ferbalot stopped as he watched her slowly dissolve into dust. He decided to do one thing upon impulse, a thing he had been wanting to do since a week after Greta was assigned to be his guide by the Lady of the Lake. Ferbalot leaned down and kissed the human-sized sprite on the lips.
To his surprise Greta gave a weak choking laugh, "I fall in love with a human knight and I find out as I dissolve that he felt the same way. Life is ironic that way. Always remember this Ferbalot, I will always be with you in your heart."
With those final words the last of her body dissolved into dust and was carried off by the wind just as his brother and their two friends came over the ridge. The other sprites whom had helped them on their first quest let out a lamenting sound as the dust swirled around them and was scattered in all directions by the wind.
Ferbalot stood up with his sword, Excaliferb, and placed the powerful sword back in it's scabbard. Ferbalot now vowed vengeance upon the Necromancer who killed Greta. The other former Water Sprites as well. The Necromancer had to be tried in front of the Lady of the Lake and the Lady of the Puddle. So the Sprites, the teenaged Knight, Mage, Elf and Ruffian set off to find the Necromancer and bring him back to face his crimes against not only nature but against the gracious Ladies as well, but that's another story for another time.
Ah don't ya just love fictions that come to you at like One AM and you spend almost an hour on it? Review if you liked, heck review if you didn't.