A Fateful Encounter- Chapter 1

"You shall never forget what you did. I won't let you forget." The voice said in the dream.

"Huh?!" Manah awoke from the dream and slipped out of bed almost falling to her knees in weakness.

"Are you alright, Manah?" Nowe asked looking at her.

"Yeah. I'm fine, Nowe." She said back.

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Manah and Nowe were traveling together destroying the disticts to free the people from the clutches of the Knights of the Seals. They had first met when Nowe and Eris had traveled with Sir Zhangpo to the District of Soul Flame. Manah was able to defeat Zhangpo and free the people of the District of Soul Flame. But they had caught Manah and were going to execution her. Manah had used her magic to escape.

General Gismor had invited Nowe to have a drink with him. Nowe accepted thinking Gismor was congradulating him. But he had found out soon he was seriously wrong. Gismor had given him the same drink he had given Oror. Nowe had begun to change as he felt his anger rise at hearing what Gismor said. His hair had changed from brown to being white. And his eyes had also changed in anger. He had moved swiftly and had cut Gismor's arm off.

Soon he and Legna had left and had once again met Manah on their journey escaping the Knights of the Seal. She had saved them from the Knights and they had begun their journey together freeing the people of the districts.

Then they had traveled to the District of Hallowed Water. Where Nowe found out Hanch was also in on Oror's murder. They where able to defeat Hanch and her pact beast.

Then they had met up with Urick. Who had known Nowe since he was little. Urick had joined their party to search for the one-eyed man. But first they had traveled to the District of Precious Light where they had fought against Yaha and his pact beast the Gnome.

They were able to defeat him and his pact beast. They had left the building with Yaha dead. As they had left the building and where surrounded by soldiers. There was commotion behind the soldiers. The soldiers turned around and began to fight against the man that had stopped them from arresting Nowe and the others.

At that moment Nowe, Urick, and Manah had decided to escape while the soldiers were fighting against the man. Manah had looked towards the man and felt her eyes opened wide at who she had seen.

"Manah, come on!" Nowe yelled towards her.

"I, I'm coming," she said to him.

They had left the city and decided to hide out for a while. Until everything had cooled down.

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"Good morning you two." Urick said smiling at them.

"Morning Urick." Nowe said.

"Morning," Manah said sounding exhausted.

"What wrong with the Princess?" Urick asked Nowe.

"I'm not sure. She said she was fine when she had woken up this morning." Nowe said looking at Urick.

Urick looked at Manah and saw she had looked a little pale.

"Are you alright Princess?" Urick asked looking at her. "You look pale."

"I'm fine Urick." Manah said smiling at him.

"You've been acting strange since we had escaped those soldiers." He said looking at her.

"I'm fine, really," Manah said smiling at Urick.

Nowe looked at her with a worried look.

Manah had seen the worriness in his eyes. She smiled at him as she said, "there's nothing for you guys to worry about."

"It must have been him. I'd reconize that man anywhere." Manah thought to herself.

She had gotten up and walked out of the house they were hiding out.

"Manah wait!" Nowe yelled fallowing her outside.

"I need to be alone for awhile, Nowe." Manah said leaving.

Nowe watched her until she was out of his sight.

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The man had thought about the woman in anger knowing she was the one who destroyed his life eighteen years ago. He had thought of a way to exact his revenge on the woman.

"I know it was that woman who destroyed my world eighteen years ago. She had driven my sister to her grave and turned my best friend on me. I thought she would have been dead by now. But it looks like she's trying to repent her sins she commited back then. By helping the people. Let's see how well she is at helping them when she's nowhere to be found." The man said angrily.

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Manah had walked up a mountain path and walked up to the edge. She had sat down looking at the open feilds. Her hair had blown in the wind as she thought about her nightmare. She had laid back and closed her eyes as she thought about what happened in it. And the voice that kept repeating that she should never forget what she had done.

"It was Caim. I know it was him." Manah said as she felt her heart beat fast at the mention of his name.

She had kept her eyes closed. So she never noticed the man had fallowed her.

She opened her eyes as she heard footsteps by her. She sat up and looked behind her thinking Nowe had fallowed her. But it wasn't Nowe. It was the man who had haunted her dreams for so long.

It was Caim.

"It's you," she said standing up.

"You look like you haven't been getting enough sleep." Caim said grinning at her.

"I-," she said as she stepped back and began to fall from the cliff.

Just as Manah had reached her arm out. Caim took it and brought her up to face him.

Manah could feel her heart beat hard in her chest making it hard for her to concentrate on what was going on.

Caim smiled as she had fainted. He picked her up and had left the area.