Character 42
To ElenaLOVER: thanks that means a lot this will be the turning point in the story, as in everything will come together for the main plot to move.
If there's any questions I don't mind answering about the story.
This will be a turning point in Elena's life knowing now what she must do.
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Cullen sat on the throne in King Kritis castle, sitting there in his lap was Borgan he had gotten the faun during the dream realm he was in. The child was shaking in fear not knowing who this man was, give it around a day or two Alexzander will be here. Knowing the Divines will send them his way, as he pet the faun's head, even with his eyes we're closed he could tell that someone was coming.
"What is it Youlen?," Cullen cracks one eye to look at the older faun, Youlen was scared Cullen could smell it on him. The older faun grips at his cape before telling Cullen what happened, "they have Volance..." Youlen says as he try's to make himself smaller as he watched the room start to crack, and peal away Cullen's anger starting to show.
"I see..and what do you think we should do hmm?" Cullen stands putting Borgan in a purple ball, pushing the child away when getting up from the throne, stepping towards Youlen the warlock leans in as he towers over the older faun.
"W-we could uhh...you know use the dead?" Youlen squints his eyes, before peeking to see what Cullen thinks. To his surprise the warlock had a look of joy, if you even call it joy "well I'll be you're right I have forgotten about the book, and I have a person that can help us, quickly follow..." Cullen says forming a gray smoke, walking through "and get the pest please I don't want to have to deal with it when it dies."
"Man...that's cold.." Youlen takes the small purple ball in his hand he looks down at Borgan, "I really don't know what Cullen is planning, an I'm starting to regret even following this man..."
"Youlen!"
"Coming!"
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The two walked along a beach side on the coast of Canesse, Valisia and Volance lands had a coast line, except Dass, Fahraan, and Sesto. When hitting a rocky side Youlen could see a shipwreck destroyed by rocks, "why are we here?"
"Remember about the Hevanas?"
"Those raging pirates that went around causing problems around the 17 seas?, yeah what about them?" Youlen watched as Cullen moved his hand his powers rebuilt the ships moving it closer so they could get on board. They walked up the plank now at the center of the ship, Cullen waving once more black sludge seeped from the wooden boards, they formed different sizes of people before they turn into living things.
"I give you 'Traitor of Canesse' Ethel"
The man name Ethel didn't move his hair was red as well his beard, a dressed in a long dark coat and a brown shirt with black pants, "umm...he's not moving?"
"Give it a bit" Cullen snapped his fingers Ethel and his crew men blinked before realizing their alive again.
"By the Divines?!, where are we?" Ethel looks around before his eyes lands on Cullen and Youlen, pulling out his sword in one go Ethel yells at them, "explain yourselves or ye old me is going end you here!" Cullen holds up his hands, "there's no need but I have to ask you remember Alexzander?"
"How could we, he was the one that did this to us with his darn knights!, how long were we out?" Ethel asked leaning in wanting to here Cullen's words, "3 years?, you didn't miss much really?," Cullen smiles "Canesse do they still stand?"
"King Garret still stands and his wife still breathing," Cullen watched as Ethel shakes then yelling causing near by animals to runaway, "I will kill you!" Ethel yells "I will have you head King Garret alongside that good for nothing prince!"
Youlen backs away with Borgan who was crying in the purple ball, Cullen nods approvingly "but I need you to do me a favor,"
Ethel looks at Cullen "an what's that?"
"I want you to kidnap a girl for me her names Elena," Cullen hands over a drawing of Elena, "this is her and when you do get her I'll be right there with you,"
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Elena was sitting in a chair along side Alexzander's bedside, with LIarm, Isabel, and Jake. When seeing them Elena wanted to scold them but seeing their faces, LIarm had already beaten her to it. They waited till the elf woman comes back her name was Elas, and she is a Divine priest to the light.
She asked everyone to come into the other room, Elena grips Alexzander's hand before leaving the room, they stopped when Elas turns around.
"One of the Divines would like to speak with you Elena," Elas opens her hands her body glows white as if she was allowing something to enter her, then her body went slump leaning over before getting back up, her eyes were yellow Elena could feel the atmosphere in the room changed.
"What a wonderful site to finally see you child~"
Elena felt awkward she never really you know spoke with a Divine before, it was something different "hi?," Elas chuckles before motioning Elena over, without thinking Elena did as if someone toke over her, Elas have her a hug at first Elena didn't know what to do. Till she felt a warm and calming feeling in her as if she was going to sleep right there, "I'm so happy that we finally met child if I might ask are you still a Pure lady?"
"E-excuse me?!," Elena blushed hard trying to get out of the hold before she was calmed again, "I'm sorry~ normally I won't be this forward but I must know as the gem is still in need of repairs~" Elena looks up at the woman, "what do you mean?"
"The gem is one of Otlous eye, the god of spirit the one that travels through the dead and living willingly, you we're in his realm not long ago?" Elas says as she smiles at with Elena's face was in aw, "now then you must head for the temple of Otlous," she let's go of Elena "I will send you there~"
Elas waves her hand over forming a portal for her, "w-wait I need my scepter!, I can't do anything without it!," Elas smiles "the scepter is a tool just like the royal sword but they do play a important role in your life, very well if it makes you feel safe then I have no right in taking it away."
Elas form a ball then handing it over to Elena who held up her hands, her scepter drops down "I will guide you through the temple and through the undead~" Elena wanted to ask something, "why is the undead rising?"
"That would be Cullen's fault as well as Umva the Divine of hatred," Elas says "wait?, a Divine is helping him?" Elas shakes her head no "those rocks Alexzander had found was the remains of the Divine, before we created these lands there were five Divines instead of four, Umva hated everything we made to the sky all the way down to the souls of humans, this caused him to blame us of choosing~"
"Choosing?" Elena wonder what that meant, "and so a war broke out later on to the point where Umva had raise the undead, and we asked the priestess to help us," Elena remember the name right away "Foma..." Elas nods, "yes and at the last moment after we destroyed Umva, and King Kritis had fallen the Divine of hatred weaseled his way into a broken man..." Elena could tell this topic wasn't something the Divine wanted to remember, "the man you called Cullen was the aftermath of our mistakes, the man was in pain as we had taken the one person that cared for him, I must ask please help us Umva body is still around, being used by Cullen for his experiments of trying to raise King Kritis," Elena mind started to hurt "I don't know why you need me of all people?, I'm just a simple crown princess that rules over Avalor?"
"Do in time you will understand, not everything can be explained by simple words child~" Elas smiles shoving Elena through the portal leaving her alone in a plain she never known of, it was a large temple it had a statue of a Divine on top its four arms draped over the temple, it was run down parts of the temple was cracking from the frozen ice, Elena shives as she hurries inside the temple, as she stepped in her body became warm. The walls glowed in light green hue reveling markings on the wall, as Elena looks at it she could see a Divine pulling at its head, then handing it over to the Ice Giant she could see Dwarfs, Elves, and Humans at the Ice Gaint's feet. Then it was telling how the royal sword was forged, "man...this place never wants to stop telling about the tales in Valisia?" Elena walks further in.
She stoped when a large ball of light heads her way, "is that you umm... you never really told me you're name?" Elena watched as long hands grew from the ball of light, then a large single eye opens up from the sphere, Elena moves back in shock then looks down at the out reached hand, there was the gem from Alexzander's royal sword, she could tell it cracked more when taken the gem in her hand.
"Gaaaoooo...~"
Elena shivers from the noise it was unheard of, like a wail of some sorts she looks around the area, holding her scepter up ready to fight. She looks over to the corner of her eye, there was a undead it was transparent it dragged it self towards a wall, that had a carved door seeing it couldn't be open, as there would have been dragged marks. Then more started to appear some sounded as if their crying, others as if they we're prying, Elena watched as they walked the ball of light went thought the wall.
"I'm sorry I can see spirits but acting like one isn't something I can do," Elena says walking over she then touched the walk, placing her head down at the wall she could hear faint whispers, as she listened the walls paintings started to move. It was the Divine Otlous images his four arms moved, then going up towards its face covering its eyes, Elena steps back when the wall moved apart allowing her in. Walking in Elena was met with a long dark hallway, at the end was the ball of light following after she then stopped when she fell over on the other side. Elena stands up in amazement there in the middle of the room was the Divine Otlous, the ball of light was at the Divine's face on the left eye. As Elena was heading that way the undead started to rise, they clawed at Elena as she runs pass them, one nearly taking her hair in its hand rushing over, Elena started to climb up the Divine body seeing a space for the gem to be in, Elena sets the gem in the room begins to shake.
"Gggaaa!" "Ffaaggaa!"
Elena looks down when something grabbed her leg, there was a undead yanking her down Elena pulls out here scepter, "Glow!" Elena yells causing the undead to shield its eyes from the light. Room was still shaking the ball of light was around Elena trying to keeping the undead to touch her, Elena looks up to see a white smoke form it started to spread across the body of the statue.
A single tear ran down Otlous's eye the room glowed revealing the room was cover in the undead, till they all started to vanish into smoke a single whisper asked Elena to remove the gem, but when she did a image flashed through her mind. It was a man riding a white horse he was holding the royal sword, as an army travel next to him he was crying to but it was faint, his face was calm a single word was hear.
"Kritis..."
Elena gasped awake she looked around she was laying on a marble floor, she had a blanket draped over her shoulder, the room was all white. As she looked up she could see the night sky covered in stars, "their beautiful aren't they?" Elena quickly looks back to see who it was. She was shocked to see who it was, Queen Victoria Alexzander's mother she was beautiful in person, she was slim her hair flowed all around her, her hazel eye shined like no other.
"I asked Otlous to give us a chance to finally speak," Queen Victoria smiles "you done so much for my son, and I want to say thank you for looking after him, knowing that I'm not there to see him grow as a man..," Elena looked on "do you know why I'm here?" Queen Victoria shakes her head no, "the Divines won't tell they to say that it's to small to tell, as they are not sure Alexzander is even the one..."
"The one of what?"
"The chosen King..., there will be a war Elena it will spread across the northern lands, and its Alexzander time to be the one to lead it, bring back again to what they fought for in the beginning," Queen Victoria stumbles when the room shakes, "its Cullen!, Elena I need you to head back to the others they must know what Cullen is going to do with my son!"
"What do mean!?"
"Cullen needs a body!, to use for Kritis soul his eyes are on Alexzander if he gets a hold of this gem, then we will loose Alexzander forever my son's soul will never exist!," Queen Victoria falls towards the ground as Elena fell through the now broken marble, as Elena fell she watched as she head down in the open sky, wind rushing pass her arms and legs spread out, as she reached out a single white rope appeared. Grabbing it Elena jerked stoping now dangling in the abyss of the night sky, Elena was breathing hard from the adrenaline rush.
Elena started to cry seeing now what she was meant to do, she was to protect Alexzander all the way till the war beings, she was sending him to his death an not many people come out of it alive.
"Is this to much for you dear?"
Elena looks up to see a old woman holding a bowl of water, it was over flowing endlessly as it drops down the abyss. Sniffing away her tears Elena nods "I thought that Alexzander was to you know have to kill Cullen, but me sending him to a war that he never started, I know he tried his best to stop it but I don't understand stand why he's the only to do this..."
"Some times we will have to do things in our lives we don't want to, but it doesn't mean we can't charge fates will of choosing," the old lady tips the bowl of water over Elena, as it flowed she could see small memories, she smiled at one it was Alexzander and her dancing. She could hear his humming of tone it was calming, as the two swayed back and forth she watched as they kissed. Elena tears formed again "Alexzander...please don't leave me all alone...," the older woman leans in kissing Elena on her forehead, a large form of light formed all around as it was blinding.
"You can changes fates will Elena.., it is only wish to do so?"