* Chronicles of the Riders of the Mithril Star *

~ By GnomishKrunchies ~

Chapter the Seventh: Darkpo Deuxelven

(A/N: finally got around to writing more chapters. i wrote 2 ::winkwink:: chapters, and the middle part of chapter 5 {and accidentally didnt write it in first person}.... now i'm gettin off my lazy butt and writing more normal chapters that all my loyal fans can read.. hahahahahaha, i'm not that conceited... i'm also going to not abbreviate anymore cuss words, i find it makes me lose my train of thought... enjoy!)

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On the way back to Sanenah's apartment Celebiel hurriedly explained in elvish to Bugems how she met up with Leibelec, Jraxel, Ishtrak and Drizts. Bugems smiled at Leibelec. Leibelec grinned, and quickly started taking to Jraxel and Dyce in Dark Elvish. "That druid trusts us, how nice." Ishtrak was talking to Porin in ogre, "Dwarf warriors are very good, i like fighting side by side with them.", and Ommundani was talking to herself in the Erudite language. Leibelec noticed this and frowned.

As the group was walking through a crowd infront of Sanenah's apartment, Leibelec saw a tall Dark Elf woman with extremely pale blue skin and close cropped black hair. The woman turned around and the black X's over her eyes could be seen. "LEIBELEC!" She started running towards the group. She pushed past Sanenah, Bebase, Celebiel and Bugems. Her robes were ragged and she looked like she had been attacked. She was panting for breath, and said hurredly in Dark Speak, "LeiLei... Look what those fuckers did to me now." She opened her robe to reveal a rough letter tatooed on the skin between her breasts. "Who did this to you?" Leibelec's eyes narrowed. "Miss Istrak, who is this?" Porin looked to the ogre. "Oh.. i'm really rude.." Leibelec blushed. "This is Darkpo Deuxelven, my younger sister. Darkpo.. uhh... Porin, Polandra, Bugems, Barmane, Ommundani, Llandra and Wolfton.. they are friends of Ella.." Celebiel hugged Darkpo. "Darkpo, you look worse than normal.. let's get you fixed up.." Sanenah opened the door to the apartment, and the group went inside. Celebiel led Darkpo to the main room, Closely followed by Barmane. When Darkpo's wounds were wrapped and healed, She started to tell the story of what happened.

"I was visiting Grand-Nana, and she asked me to go find Little Celistio and give her an errands list. Well, someone jumped me from behind, and when i woke up i was strapped to a table, I was there for a week... They raped me, and when they were done, they tatooed this damn 'J' on me." Darkpo's face was scarred. Her thin lips were a line.

"Who did this Dark?" Leibelec hugged her sister.

"The Neriak Guards." Darkpo lowered her eyes. "Please stop staring at me." She looked at Wolfton. "You make me uncomfortable... please.."

"C'mon hun.. let's go for a walk.." Llandra took Wolfton's hand and they left the apartment, followed by Barmane. Ommundani left a few moments later, looking rather upset.

"I couldn't find Celestio.. and when i eventually made my way back to Grand-Nana, they had been there, and they Tatooed the 'J' on her... she wasnt molested, but i fear for Celestio.. she is so young, and has suffered much since Jugernaght has been gone... i donot want her to suffer like i have." Darkpo Stopped talking a moment and looked into Bugems eyes with great intensity. "That Gnome... she is odd... i donot believe her to be as she appears.. is she an enchanter like myself?"

"Ommundani is a wizard..." He spoke slowly. Darkpo was very intriguing. The irises of her eyes were red as blood, and she had black X's tatooed over her eyes. Her facial features were the smooth aqualine features of a HighElf, and she was as tall as Celebiel. She frowned and Bugems realized that he had been staring. "Sorry Miss Darkpo..."

"oh... something about her is very odd..." then she smiled. "It is allright.. many men look at my face... it is one of a kind.. the blue skin and the high elf features... tis part of the reason my life has been hard... men cannot help but be intrigued... many of the rapes i have suffered.." Darkpo looked like she was about to cry, and Celebiel hugged her. "I've been running for days.. i need to rest.. Grand-Nana told me that Leilei and Drizts found you, Ella... so i came to see you and to tell about Celestio going missing.. I need to rest.." Darkpo fell out of the chair she was sitting in, and Drizts caught her.

"It will be allright, M'Lady... I shall not let you bet hurt anymore..." He kissed her on the forehead, and walked up the stairs to the second floor.

Leibelec sighed and flopped into one of the chair that were around the table. She sat there for a moment, and Jraxel put his hand on her shoulder. "Jraxel... we must find Celestio.." She almost jumped out of the chair, but his hand kept her down. "Dear, i know.... but we must also keep our heads... if someone attacked Grand-Nana, You and Drizts are DEFINATELY not safe... She is barely related to Jugger... you are Jugernaught's half-sister.. I donot want you to be raped... you're mine..." Leibelec stood up and glowered at her lover, and muttered a curse in Dark Elvish. She stormed upstairs, and Jraxel sighed. "Leibelec... I meant you were my fiançe.." He looked to Bugems and Bebase, and they shrugged in unison. Jraxel sighed again, and ran up the stairs. "Leilei.. i'm sorry..."

Sanenah giggled, "What about cousin Masta? Where did he go? I thought Celebiel said that he was travelling with you all.." Bugems grinned at the girl and hugged her.

"I can see that Bebase has very good taste in women." He kissed her on the cheek. "Your dear cousin Masta has run off to get married to another ranger, Bebase's and my cousin Cairenna. They left us a note in the Butcherblock Moutains, and are taking thier honeymoon in the Plain of Knowledge. I suspect that they are going to be re-joining us soon, because i shall go to the Plain of Knowledge and drag them out of bed if i have to." He grinned and Celebiel laughed out loud.

"Well.. now we just have to find Porin, Ishtrak, and you someone.." She smiled at Bugems, and when she saw the look on his face, it faded to a frown. "Ishtrak have a man, Cele... him iz big ogre Shaman... name iz Irigwak.." Ishtrak smiled at Celebiel, and took her left gauntlet off, to show her a platinum ring with a large red ruby in it. "Oh.. Ishtrak, it's so beautiful, did you make it?" Celebiel took the large hand and looked at the delicate tooling around the band. "Ishtrak made it for Irigwak, him telled me it wuz for his sister.. but him gived it to me.. and asked Ishtrak to marry him." Celebiel grinned. "OH! Ishtrak that's wonderful!"

Porin grinned, "I had a man, a Cleric named Hsabcm.. but he died.. now i am going to reamin chaste, i shall not dishounour Hsabcm's memory by letting another man..." she stopped talking. "So Bugsy, do you have a special lady?"

"no.. never..." He stood and left the room. Celebiel watched him walk out, and there followed an uncomfortable silence.

Bebase sat down at the table and Sanenah sat on his lap. "So..." the girl started to twish his hair between her fingers. "Sanenah... stopit..." He grabbed her wrist. "You are messing up my hair." She kissed him on the cheek and gave him a wink.

Celebiel saw it and said. "Porin, i think these two need some alonetime."

Porin smiled and nodded. "You two can go out.. i think we can handle this crazy bunch, even if Wolfton comes back.." Bebase smiled and grabbed Sanenah's bottom. "Let's go!" He stood up, and carried her out of the apartment, she was giggling the whole way.

"So.. can you cook, Cele.." Porin looked at Celebiel and grinned. Polandra, who had been silently listening, laughed. "We can Try!"

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Leibelec hugged Jraxel when he caught up to her. "I'm sorry." she whispered, then she started to cry. "Leibelec.. what's wrong.." Jraxel kissed her on the top of her head. "Celestio is our baby... if anything happened to her.." she started crying harder. "Donot worry LeiLei.. We will find Celestio.. Celebiel will help.. maybe even her mates.. It will be allright.."

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Llandra, Barmane, and Wolfton were sitting along a main street in Freeport. Wolfton had gotten a little excited at the sight of another Northernman, and followed him to the rogue guildhall, and was beaten to a bloody pulp by the angry rogues. "Wolfy.. why, why, why... did you follow that guy?" Llandra was binding some of his wounds, while barmane was giving him a potion that made the poison from their daggers less potent. "I dont know..." He frowned. "well.. you need to be wary of strangers in this town.. there are many not-very-nice people here..." Barmane stood up and cast a heal spell on Wolfton. They started walking back the Sanenah's Apartment. "Wolfton, you need to talk to that girl, Darkpo, and tell her that you will not threaten her." Llandra looked to Barmane, and asked. "Why, i donot understand."

Barmane sighed, "She has had a rough life, i could see it in her eyes. I could see all the tattoo's on her arms, and some on her legs. She had many scars that couldnt be seen... She told me that her mother was a high-elf, and her father was a dark-elf.. she and her mother were shunned by the highelves... When she was old enough to leave her mother, she went to find her father and his other children. When she first visited Neriak, she was given those tattoos on her eyes."

Llandra frowned. "That's horrible... they punish her for being a Half-Breed.. it is not her doing.. Let's get back to Sanenah's home, i am very hungry.."

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Ommundani was walking alone near the Mage guilds. She looked at her hands, her skin was getting darker. 'It will happen soon..' She thought as She walked onto the teleport stone, and went inside.. a Tall Erudite woman was in there, dressed in Sapphire Blue armor. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DONOT KNOW WHERE SHE IS!!!!!! SHE TOLD ME THAT SHE WOULD MEET ME HERE AT THIS TIME!!!!!!!!!" She grabbed a guildmaster by the front of her robe, and slammed the poor woman into the wall near Ommundani. Ommundani laughed, "Tsk... tsk... Chasetion.. is that any way to behave in the human city.. you act like those stupid barbarians..." The woman called Chasetion yelled. "GET AWAY GNOME, THIS DOES NOT CONCERN YOU!!" She tried to hit Ommundani with the whip she carried. Ommundani grabbed the whip and pulled it from the Woman's grasp. "You idiot. I am Ommundani." The Erudite stopped, mid-rage, and stared at Ommundani. "Ommu... what the fuck happened to you..."

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Bugems walked into the main stairwell of Sanenah's Apartment. He realized it was more of a boarding house, that had only her as a tenant. Drizts walked down the stairs, and stopped when he saw the saddened look on Bugems' face. "Master Druid, what is the matter?" He patted Bugems on the shoulder. Bugems sighed. "Lady Celebiel said that she must try to find me a woman." Drizts nodded. "oh i see... you like men, don't ya.." Bugems' eyes grew very wide. "NO! it's just that.. well.." he trailed off and looked back into the Kitchen, where Polandra, Porin and Celebiel were *TRYING* to make rabbit stew. "Oh.. i see.. you're a eunuch.." Drizts laughed. "Just kiddin.. you like Ella.. i see.. i think she may like you as well... she spoke VERY highly of you when we were travelling here from Nektulos..." Drizts looked into the kitchen, whatever the girls had put in it was smoking. "I never trusted Ellasandra's cooking.. the first time she cooked for Jugernaght, he was sick in bed for a week." Bugems sighed. "I can never compete with this Jugeranght... she loves him far too much to forget him..." Bugems sighed. "I'm going to the Plain of Knowledge... I think that if we are to find the little Child Celestio, Cairenna and Masta Wranger would be very good to have around."

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A few hours later, Barmane had helped the girls with their Rabbit Stew. Darkpo woke up, and got downstairs, where Wolfton was waiting to tell her that he wouldnt do anything to harm her. She smiled as he tried to speak eloquoently, but Llandra stood behind him and translated for him when he would talk in barbarian. When he was done talking Llandra hugged Darkpo. "You are very pretty Miss Darkpo. Them guys that harass ye, that's horrid.. me dad, he is a human Monk.. Me ma is a shaman.. when she got pregnant with mah older brotha the elders were very upset.... but when he was born and they remembered that children are children and that parentage doesnt matter.. All that matters is family.. and that they love you." Darkpo smiled at Llandra. "That is so true... until i was fifteen i only knew my mother's love, and when i finally found Dyce, Jugernaght, Leibelec, and the rest of my father's family... they loved me, and didnt care that i am illegitimate, or that my mother's people are their mortal enemies... they even accepted my mother into their family... she is living in the Plain of Knowledge right now, but when she has wrapped up all her affairs, she is moving to the commonlands to help Grand~Nana get around."

Someone was laughing loudly outside the kitchen, and the door slammed shut. "HEY! EVERYONE! I PROPOSED TO SANENAH!!!!" Bebase yelled. "SHE SAID YES!!!!" Celebiel let out a, "YAHOO!!! CONGRATZ BEBASE!" Wolfton left Llandra and Darkpo in the stairwell, and yelled, "GET DRUNK NOW!!" He ran back to Llandra, grabbed her by the waist and lifted her up over his shoulder. She was laughing as he started running around the house, until her kilt flipped up over his head. He fell down, and she went flying into Ishtrak, Jraxel and Polandra. Soon there was chaos in the house, food flying, and a few ice spells from Llandra, just to keep the house cool in the rough summer heat. Barmane got tired of the loud young people, and left to do some trading with local merchants.

Bugems walked into the kitchen, followed by Masta, who was carrying Cairenna. Sanenah squealed with joy to see her cousin. "MASTA!" Masta nearly dropped his wife, who awoke with a start. Masta helped her stand up, and she hugged her cousin Bebase. Bebase laughed, "Cairenna you are way to hyper!",and she replied "Yeh... well you're fucking hyper too.. damn crazy bard." Cairenna grinned mischieviously, and bonked Bebase on the head with her satchel. Bebase grinned and bonked her on the head with a spoon. They kept hitting eachother until Bugems got between them,and Cairenna kicked Bugems in the arse.

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A few more drunken hours passed, and Leibelec and Jraxel had not emerged from the attic. Everyone that was in the kitchen was just sitting arouond talking, except Wolfton, because he had drunk himself under the table. Every couple of minutes Llandra would let out a squeal, and kick Wolfton, who let out a groan. "What is he doing?" Darkpo finally asked the question that everyone else wanted to ask. Llandra blushed, "He keeps putting his hands on my legs, and they're COLD. I'm tired, and going to bed. C'mon Wolfton." She grabbed his large muscled arm, helped him stand up, and went upstairs. Soon Ishtrak, Cairenna, Masta, and Sanenah went to bed, and Bebase went to his apartment a few streets away. Celebiel frowned as she sloshed her ale in it's bottle. "Where is Ommundani.. she's been gone for a long time..." Bugems looked out the window to the moon. "It is Nearly midnight. Maybe we should go find her and Barmane...." Bugems sat back down in the chair opposite Celebiel at the table. Darkpo looked at Bugems, "Master Druid, will you help us find Celestio?" Bugems looked up from his mug of ale, and smiled. "Of course i will help you all find the child, I talked it over with Cairenna and Masta, and they said they would help as well." Darkpo jumped out of her chair and hugged Bugems, "Oh! Master Druid! Leibelec and Jraxel would be so happy! Their daughter is the most important thing to them!"

Leibelec walked into the kitchen, folowed by Jraxel. "I'm starving... what smelled so good earlier?" She sat down at the table next to Celebiel, as Jraxel got 2 bowls out of the cupboard, and filled them with stew. "Yum.. rabbit.." Jraxel sat one bowl infront of Leibelec and sat next to Bugems. She started to eat quickly and was done quickly. "so... whatcha talkin about down here?" she grinned at Darkpo. Darkpo grinned back, and Celebiel realised that the girls had the exact same grin as Jugernaght. "Bugems said that he would help find Celestio." Leibelec's grin turned into a big smile. "OH! BUGEMS THANKYOU!" Jraxel patted Bugems on the shoulder, "thanks... you dont know how much this means to us." Bugems smiled, "Cairenna and Masta will help, and we are more than happy to help, Cairenna was attacked a few years ago, i know what it is like to nearly lose family members. Where does your 'Grand-Nana' live?" Bugems looked at Darkpo and Leibelec. "In the West Commonlands, but very near the East, and that's where Celestio goes to play." Bugems stood up. "Well.. then we had better get some rest, we are going to be busy tomorrow."

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The next morning, Ommundani returned to Sanenah's home, bruised and beaten. She tended her own wounds, declined to help, but wished the group well while they tried to find the child. Celebiel said "It's a good idea that you are staying, Ommundani. When Barmane returns, you can tell him where we've gone to." Ommundani smiled, "Allright, i need some rest, last night I... erm... went to the Dungeon in South Ro.. damn orcs got me.." She walked up the stairs, out of sight. "Why do I not want to believe that?" Darkpo whispered to Leibelec and Drizts. The group left the apartment, and started towards the Commonlands.

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Thanks for reading this chapter. ^_^

I'd been procrastinating writing it for about a month, and getting distracted by TV at college... (MtvU is really fun to watch...) no questions at the end of this chapter.. ^_^ Chapter 8 is coming soon.