Chapter 9: Renegade [PART 1]

Jumping Back in Time ~

50 years back!

It was midnight. The town hall of Enchantima was shrouded in the darkness of the night. Two wizards are having a stroll in the dark hallway. "What are we doing, exactly?" said the wizard on the right. They both passed a door and stopped abruptly. "Here" the other one commanded.

Both wizards walk back and through the door, entering into a small room. One of them snaps his fingers, conjuring a small fireball in his palm and places it in the middle of what looked like a dusty table. Both seated, the fire lighting up their faces.

Both were identical. Only difference was the beard length. The one with the longer beard pulls down his hood, "Phew, there's no window here. Biz, could you?"

Biz, the wizard with short beard, extends his hand and taps one brick on the wall adjacent to him. The brick crumbles and vanishes in thin air, making an opening for ventilation. "Now," he said. "Why are we brothers so secretly meeting here?"

"You still look a bit younger than me." the brother scoffed.

"Not my problem that you don't stay active as usual." Biz said.

"Enchantima is almost done with the upgrades, tomorrow our city will be declared as the HQ for wizards"

"Same here for Ragnarok, the young wizards are very promising. They have picked up on the dark spells faster than they could here!"

"Sigh" the brother shakes his head.

"Daruis?" Biz said. Both stayed quiet for sometime.

"Bizadra Da"

Biz stared at Daruis. He never remembered his brother calling out his full name in years.

"As grand warden, i want you awat from Enchantima. You are to be a wizard of Ragnarok and none of the wizards of these two cities may ever see each other again." Daruis said.

Biz stared at his brother. He was waiting for this to happen. It was a few years after the wizards decided to build Enchantima that the question of placing the Dark Wizards rose. By vote of the majority, it was decided that they were to be sent to a new city that would only specialize in working with the Dark Elixir.

Daruis looked at Biz with teary eyes. "It hurts to do this, brother. I fear this might lead to nastier things in the distant future."

"Don't get all emotional on this, you aren't sentencing me to death bro."

"But this is like, an unofficial banishment!" Daruis said, placing his hands on Biz's shoulders.

"What can you do? You gotta listen to those old fools!"

"If i could do something about it..." Daruis hung his head low. Bizadra walks out of the room, followed by Daruis a couple of seconds later to find no one but silence.

"He's gone." Daruis stood in the hallway for a few minutes, took a deep breath consoling himself that everything will be fine and then returns to his quarters.

The Border of Aventis.

Bizadra Da the Renegade (Traitor, Defector etc...)

After guiding the young generation of warlocks of Ragnarok, their all father, Bizadra Da, also known as the Grey wizard who practiced magic of light and dark elixirs disappeared.

It was then, that a traveller got the news of the renowned wizard staying in Aventis, the city that was the border beyond which the northern region laid.

The traveller headed straight for the house where he lived. He knocked a few times, but came no reply.

He tried the knobs which clicked and the door opened. The wizard wasn't careful about security. He stopped. A wizard had all sorts of securities up his sleeve. He flicks his wrists and snaps his fingers, nothing happened.

He cautiously steps forward into a dingy room. There was a chair in the centre. The only furniture in the room with someone seated on it. The occupant seemed half dead.

The traveller pokes the person's head.

Bizadra stirs up from what could be his sleep or unconsciousness. He looks up at a familiar face that has aged over time.

"You're dying" the traveller said, giving a cough he throws his hood back.

Bizadra smiles weakly, "She sent you after me?"

"You're lucky to have such a wife."

"So are you, to be her brother."

Both stare at each other for a while.

"Heh, Deus"

"Hmm?"

"What can you do?"

"Give you a life"

Bizadra clutched the wooden armrests of his chair tightly.

"And I take mine" Deus said.