Trevoor: *Walks in with an eyepatch.*
Aelita: What happened to you?
Trevoor: I have stupid friends…
Yoshi: %& $%&%#^*#&$% !#$^%?
Isaac: Obviously…
Trevoor: Let's just drop the subject, will someone do the disclaimer?
Rayquaza: Trev doesn't own Runescape, but he does own a fake eye.
Trevoor: Come-on guys!
The Rune Chronicles
Ch. 3
After a rather uneventful dinner and a soothing night's sleep, Aaron awoke with a faint smile on his lips. He looked around his new room, in his new home, in his new life. 'This isn't so bad,' He though happily as he got off his bed. He quickly got dressed and ran downstairs into the dining hall to find Valient reading a newspaper, Jade talking Duke Horatio's ear off, and the poor Duke himself politely listening to the excitable girl.
"Morning Aaron!" Jade cheered before returning to deafening the poor Duke. Aaron gave her a small wave in return before sitting down next to Valient, eagerly waiting for breakfast.
Valient's eyebrow suddenly shot up while reading the paper, "Horatio, listen to this: "Break-in At Artisans Workshop, Large Amounts Of Ingots Stolen."
"That's odd," Horatio replied, "I wonder who could have stolen those ingots?"
Valient shifted in his seat and scanned the paper over again. "Says here several onlookers saw a lean man with white hair run in and back out with several sacks of the metal."
"Well, if it was one man I'm sure the dwarves can handle it," Duke Horatio said confidently.
"Yeah," Valient shrugged, turning the page.
The group waited several minutes, Valient reading, Jade talking off Horatio's ear, and Aaron laying on the table in boredom, before Trev marched in with several plates of eggs, toast, and slices of ham for the hungry members of the castle. He quickly dropped plates off in front of each chair and plopped down in the empty seat next to Valient where he began to wolf down his breakfast, to his friend's disgust.
"Can't you eat like a normal person?" Valient asked, poking at his egg.
"'ohp," Trev replied with a full mouth and a huge grin.
"You're disgusting," The knight mumbled while taking a bite of his toast, earning a glare from the wizard.
All in all, breakfast only lasted a few minutes before each plate was squeaky clean. Horatio rose from the chair with a small bow. "My apologies, but I do have some work to get to, try to stay out of trouble will you?" Horatio quickly left the dinning hall, presumably to his own room. Trev and Valient jumped up after the Duke had left the room.
"We should get going as well, let's go," Trev said happily, beckoning to Aaron and Jade.
"Where are we going?" Aaron asked cautiously.
"Well," Valient began, "You are our apprentices, we have to teach you two something."
Aaron and Jade shrugged and began following the two older men. They got to the door before Jade looked back, "What about the dishes?"
"Hm?" Trev grunted while looking over his shoulder, "Oh Hands, could you come here?"
On cue, a glowing white hand appeared from upstairs and floated over to the wizard, giving him a happy wave.
"Good morning to you, too," Trev greeted with a smile, "Sorry to do this, but could you clean up down here for me? We have to run." The hand replied with a thumbs up and floated into the dining hall. Aaron and Jade stared wide eyed at the floating appendage.
"Oh right, Hands!" Trev called the hand back in, "Hands, these are our new apprentices, Aaron and Jade. Aaron and Jade, this is Hands, my assistant."
"Nice to meet you Hands," Jade greeted happily, shaking the magic hand. Aaron, on the other hand, just grunted at the creature with a quick nod. Hands gave a quick salute and flew back into the dining hall.
"Now let's go," Valient called from the front door of the castle.
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"I'm sorry, could you run that by me again," The black suit of armor with the glowing red eyes growled while sharpening a black broadsword on a grindstone.
"Um, well, I, uh," Servientis stuttered, staring wide eyed at the sword on the spinning rock, flinching at every stray spark, "Um, uh, Hypnos was, um-"
"Spit it out!" The dark suit of armor roared.
The raggedy man straightened up and saluted. "Hypnos failed sir! The knight and the wizard were there! They're currently training the boy and the girl! What should we do sir?!" Servientis shouted, trying his best not to cry.
The dark man in armor walled over to his throne and slouched down into the chair. "Any good news?" He asked rubbing his temples though the horned helmet.
"They are splitting up for the day, we could easily strike them," The ragged man said happily, showing his master a crystal ball. The red eyes peered over the orb to see the group split into two at a fork in the road. He began to chuckle while taking the ball into his gauntlets.
"Send Hypnos right away, divide and conquer!" The red eyed man said happily.
Servientis instantly frowned, "He can't, his jaw is shattered, Karina said that he should stay in bed for a few weeks, maybe a month."
The armored man's mood died again, "We will not lose this opportunity, I'll send you if I must!"
"Why don't we send Karina? There's nothing else she can do for Hypnos." Servientis suggested, fearing for his life. His master rolled his neck to think it over.
"Very well, send her at once," He agreed while turning his attention back to the crystal ball, "While you're at it, get this boy, he may be of some use to us," He continued while pointing to the redhead boy shown in the ball. The rag cloaked man peered into the crystal ball to watch said boy as he held up a poor young girl while snorting and laughing.
"But, take all the time you need to get the boy," The armored man said with a small amount of disgust.
"Yeah," Servientis agreed while walking off to find Karina.
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"Aaron, calm down," Valient said forcefully as they walked north of Lumbridge.
"What if something happens to Jade while we're not there?" Aaron demanded, fearing for the girl's safety.
"I highly doubt something will happen to them, the Wizard Tower is one of the safest places in Gielinor," The knight assured the young boy, "And if something does happen, Trev will be there."
Aaron scoffed, "That's your argument, 'she'll be safe with the jackass?'"
Valient rolled his eyes, "'The jackass' won't let anything happen, he already adores the girl."
Aaron shook his head and dropped the subject, "So, where are we going?"
"There's a decent armory in Varrock, we'll get you some armor and weapons and if we have time, let you break them in on a punching bag," Valient explained while marching on.
Aaron followed behind the large knight with a bit of stride and a small smile, he was going to be a knight, and he was going to be the best knight there ever was.
Valient was right, nothing would go wrong.
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Meanwhile, Jade was happily following the dark wizard westward towards the Wizard Tower he had mentioned back at the fork in the road.
"So I'm going to learn magic?" She questioned excitedly.
"Yup," The wizard replied with a smile.
"Will I get a hat like yours?"
"Yes."
"And I'll shoot magic from my hands."
"Indeed."
"And I'll fight monsters?"
"Correct."
"And I'll be able to fly on a broomstick."
"If you get good," Trev said with a smirk, happy the young girl was so excited about being a witch.
"I can't wait!" She cheered, throwing her hands in the air excitedly.
The wizard let out a small chuckle, "Can you at least wait until you get a staff?"
"Yeah," Jade replied with a slight blush as she put her hands behind her back.
Trev just shook his head with a small chuckle and continued walking down the worn forest path. They walked only a few moments before Jade spoke up again.
"Aaron was worried something might happen," She said solemnly.
The wizard looked at Jade with concern. He quickly put on a confident smile and, "He doesn't know what he's talking about." He puffed out his chest slightly and kept walking, "You'd sooner be struck by lightning then attacked with me around."
Jade giggled at his confidence and jogged up to his side. They walked in a comfortable silence until a large drop landed on the rim of Trev's hat with a loud 'plop'.
"Uh-oh," Trev mumbled while looking up to the sky, wondering when the grey clouds had blown in, "Looks like Saradomin wants to test my theory."
Jade stepped closer to Trev worriedly, causing him to laugh nervously, "Don't worry, I'm just kidding. Let's go before the storm hits us."
Trev ran off down the trail, being quickly followed by Jade. It only took a few seconds before they hit a stone bridge that led to a small island with a large tower standing proudly in the center. Trev calmly walked across the long bridge and walked into the tower without a thought, followed closely by a worried Jade. Their shoulders released their tension as they heard the storm start only a second after they entered the building.
When they entered the stone tower, they were greeted by a large group a wizards and witches dressed in blue robes and hats. Jade stood shyly behind Trev but calmed after several mages gave them kind welcomes and move so they could reach the library located at the back of the room. Once inside, Jade marveled at all the colorful books on magic in the room.
Trev turned to Jade as she browsed one of the shelves with amazement, "Stay here, ok?"
Jade turned to him and nodded before returning to the shelf. She looked over the many books on the wall on different spells, potions, curses, and enchantments. The more she browsed around the more excited she got about learning magic.
"Alright, here you go," Jade snapped up at Trev's voice. She spun on her heel to find the wizard in front of her holding out a leather bag, which she cautiously took. She peered in to see several stones with colorful symbols on them.
"What are these?" She asked, cocking her head.
"Runes, they are what allows us to use magic," Trev explained, "Now that you have them all you need now are robes and a hat." Trev snapped his fingers and Jades cloths changed into black robes like Trev's own and a matching witch's hat.
Jade twirled in her new robe and hat with a happy giggle, "I love it!"
"Glad you like it," Trev said with a smile, "Now let's make some magic."
Jade stared at him with wide eyes, "In here?"
"Sure why not?" Trev replied with a shrug, "Now imagine having a ball of air in your hand."
Jade looked down at her hands and held them out. She began concentrating and a white ball of wind appeared in her hand, causing Trev's eyes to widen in shock.
"What? Did I do it wrong?" She asked avoiding his stare.
"No," He said softly, "You're a natural!"
"Really?" The witch-in-training cheered.
"Yup," Trev nodded happily, "Let's go show the guys, you've already accomplished everything I had planned for today. Tomorrow we'll teach you some more spells and get you a staff, o.k.?"
They started towards the door, Trev complimenting the new witch and Jade blushing the whole way, until they heard a crash and a few screams from outside. The duo's eyes widened and they ran to the door, Trev tore the door open violently.
"What's going on ou-," He stopped mid-sentence with wide eyes, "Aw, fuck..."
Trev was instantly shot backwards though the air by a bolt of electric blue lightning. Jade screamed as she watched the wizard slam into the bookshelf and collapse onto the ground twitching from the electricity. He slowly rose to his feet, only to have the shelf he crashed into to fall on top of him covering him in splintering wood and blazing books.
"Trev!" She screamed as she ran towards the burning pile that covered the young man. However before she could reach Trev, a low, slightly husky voice called from behind.
"I wouldn't little girl," The voice called tauntingly, "You might get burned."
Jade slowly turned around to face a pale young woman with long, wavy black hair and dressed in the same black robes and hat she was. In her hand she held a staff with a smoking turquoise bulb on the end.
"I don't think we've been introduced," she said with a fake smile, "I'm Karina, and I'm going to kill you two."
XxXxXxX
Rayquaza: A cliffhanger! Oh my god!
Isaac: I thought you were a god…
Rayquaza: Something about screaming: 'Oh my me!' sounds weird…
Yoshi: $%# $% #%$& $%&^ $%^ !
Aelita: I don't know, it sounds redundant and egotistic.
Trevoor: Yeah, my eye has been cut open and you guys don't care, great…
Isaac: You're right; I shouldn't turn a blind eye to your problems.
Trevoor: …I hate you.