Mark grabbed the door handle as David cut him off. "Maybe I should open it, you know, with your arms like that and all."
"Fine, fine. I still say you guys are over reacting." David opened the door; and there stood a fully robed figure in a partially faded red cloak.
"Greetings." A female voice came from the figure that stood still in the doorway.
"Whatcha want, huh?" Sam cut off David, "David! Don't be so rude!" The cloaked lady walked into the house and took off her hood. She stood about five foot, four inches tall, had shoulder length dark brown hair and blue eyes. She took a seat on the couch and Mark walked in.
"Can I help you?" He asked weirdly seeing the woman.
"Yes, actually, my name is Caitlalandien, but you can all me Cait...And yours is?" Mark walked closer to shake her hand.
"My name is Mark." Mark held out his hand and Caitlalandien spotted the marks on his hand; she jumped up with her hand out stretched.
"So what're you here for?"
"Mark, would you follow me please?" Caitlalandien walked into the kitchen. Mark figured he really didn't have a choice and followed her.
"Have a seat." Caitlalandien pulled out a chair and sat down, Mark soon followed. "We have been looking for a Star shaped artifact that was last seen around here. You wouldn't happen to have seen it, would you?" Mark thought hard whether he should tell her or not; he finally decided he might as well, because what's the worst that could happen?
"Yes, the other day… I think two days ago? It was down in an alleyway."
"Did you pick it up or anything?"
"Yeah. It was really hot and I ended dropping it and it shattered."
Caitlalandien stood up, "I'm going to need you, and those other two, to come with me."
"Why?"
"I'll explain it when we get there." Caitlalandien left the kitchen and waited at the door; as Mark came through he told Sam and David to come with them.
They all followed Caitlalandien into an alleyway about a mile away to a large door. Caitlalandien cracked it open. "Follow me." The door led into a dimly lit tunnel with big silver stairs at the end. They walked until they got to the stairs. "Mind your step." Caitlalandien warned them, and they followed her up the stairs to yet another door, identical to the first, except this one was colored; it had evenly been painted with four colors; Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow; with a multi-colored ball of blue on the middle.
Caitlalandien opened the door and put on her hood. "Do not speak unless spoken to, got it?" Mark, Sam, and David all nodded. They continued through the door behind Caitlalandien. When the door closed, it got very dark; they walked really slowly until their eyes adjusted. Walking for another five or so minutes, they saw a big solid black that door when opened, appeared to just be a black hole. When they walked through, they entered into a room with twelve foot ebony pillars and a dragon statue made of ivory in the middle. On the outer edges of the room, four colored chairs, each grouped in front of its respective colored door. Caitlalandien led them over to the red ones and sat them down. "Do not move." The trio held as still as possible. Caitlalandien walked over to the nearest door and knocked four times.
A voice boomed, "Khat ma'gh hunguar?"
Caitlalandien responded, "Caitlalandien meth Ludoir."
The voice boomed back, "You kah entrea!" Caitlalandien grabbed the handle to the door and pulled it open. "Follow me." The trio followed her through the door into a room sixty stories high with a bridge in the middle that was shaped like the object Mark had found. At each of all but two of the stars points was a big round brazier flaming; at the north end, there was a huge throne where a black and red hooded man sat.
When they reached the bridge, the man stood up. "Caitlalandien khat yera thise polupe?"
"Thise yera tha polupe khat fhound thi spheroa." The man stood up. "Greetings."
"Hello..." Mark gave a really long pause. "You probably have many questions, no?"
"I don't know who wouldn't, to be honest." David got a shut-up look from Caitlalandien.
Mark started off with, "Who are you people?"
The hooded man walked towards them. "I am A'dal Kel'zuthad; Keeper of the Sacred Fires."
"I've got a brother a two sisters; My brother, 'Kalthes; Keeper of the Wind', and my sisters, 'Thesis; Keeper of the Frost', And 'Stephaniea; Keeper of the Stone'.
Sam just had to ask, "So then what's the bluish orb on the door for?"
A'dal gave her a quizzical look, "That's for the element of Magic, with the use of every element; you must use the element of magic, which is the power of Arcane." Sam looked stunned. "Mag..Ma..Magic?"
"Yes magic, you see; that sphere Mark picked up, it carried the power to control fire; and when it shattered, it released its power onto the nearest absorption source, which in this case, was Mark."
Mark look puzzled. "How did you know my name? AND! How did you know it shattered?" A'dal lead the over to a book of about fourty thousand pages; flipped it open to the almost end, and said, "Look." Mark started reading the book, he was suprised it was in English too; He finally got to the part he wanted; "The Kel'thaian Spheres." He began reading carefully, and started reading to himself aloud, "Once every thousand years, four spheres fall to the Earth, thrown by the keeper who holds it. He who breaks the sphere's magical barrier, will be bestowed with the mark of the Lord and power the sphere holds. He will then be brought to the respective spheres lord and keeper; taught how to control the power, and fight the evils who try to destroy it." Mark paused, thought about what he read, and spurted, "WHOA Whoa! Who said we have the power to fight 'evil'?!".
"You broke the barrier, you do now. Caitlalandien show them to their rooms, please." Caitlalandien nodded, and beckoned them over to a door way behind one of the unlighted braziers. There they entered and saw three more doors, one for them each, in each of them a desk, with a letter, and a closest already full of things they would need.
The letter read, "If you are reading this, you will be trained for the next three months with the most talented warriors. You will begin within two days of reading this."
