The Fate of the First Hero of Light

"Zelda can you sense it?"

"Yes, living beings."

"ARE YOU SURE GEIR WE SHOULD NOT ENTER WITH YOU?"

"Yes, Geir do you not believe we should stay together?"

"Knight, Fire Mage we still do not know if all the enemies are destroyed. Also the life we sense might give off a poison. I am immune to all poisons."

"GEIR ARE YOU NOT PULLING AT STRAWS!"

"To be honest I do not know how to act?"

"Geir what do you mean?"

"Fire Mage did any of the cables lead into the upper rooms."

"I could not tell. I even melted the walls clean. Why Geir?"

"How long have the things been alive. Where does the food come from? How do they life?"

"THEY!?"

"Yes, Knight there are 4 beings above us."

"That seems impossible Geir. How could they possibly survive these many suncycles?" asks the Fire Mage.

"Geir"

"Grandmother?"

"Go we will wait here. Zelda you go with Geir."

"I understand Teela."

"NO, YOUR MAJESTY PLEASE!"

"Yes, I cannot except this. Geir is someone that if he believes, Your Highness and himself discovered forbidden knowledge. He would kill himself and Your Highness without fail."

"Geir son even I do not know what is up there. I only worked here, be careful many Dwarfs lost their lives when working up there."

"I am going up."

I move to open the doors.

The material the doors are made of an inorganic substance.

It is flexible you can push it, it returns to its former shape, clearly transparent like the finest of glass.

I use my crystal magics on it, it shatters.

A putrid smell enters the room, everyone is coughing.

I am inside of the room, I closed the broken door behind me and froze it shut.

I also change the crystals transparency, you cannot see through it anymore.

I close the hood of my parka I lift the mouth piece up. The mask like covering on my face acts like a filter.

The first level there is nothing in the the rooms they are empty.

I freeze it completely closed. Touching my ice I feel using my magics into and throughout the room.

There is no hidden objects or mechanisms that can deceive the eyes.

I move to the stairs, leading upwards to the next levels there are corpses.

THEY ARE HUMES?!

They wear the same dress as one wears at a medical facility.

I reach the second floor.

There was a great battle here.

The Humes corpses are scattered about they are mangled.

These injuries look similar, than those when the Knight catches someone disrespecting Zelda.

The creature or person who killed them must have immense strength.

I move closer to inspect the bodies.

Some of the bodies have been eaten, but the chunks were spit out. The taste must have been unpalatable to the being who killed them. Well let us see who it is...

"You can come out. I know you are there."

Behind a desk a figure stands up.

The figure is wearing a white dress, like a person going in for surgery.

My eyes are wide open.

"Zelda is that you?!"

I know she is not here, I can still sense her below me.

This person is definitely the same as Zelda, her life energies I can sense it.

"Wie is Zelda? Wat maak jy hier? Ek is so honger! Hoe proe jy?"

Immediatelt the being is on the floor.

I have the being in an arm lock, I dislocate the shoulder.

"Fokkit! Neeeeee!"

I freeze the being against the wall.

I will ask Uncle Thandall to speak through a gap in the door with it.

Then I will ask some questions.

The third floor even more destruction...

The Hume's bodies are cut into pieces, it looks similar to the cuts my ice magics make when I shatter something.

"Come out!"

Someone charges towards me.

I kick the young man between the legs. He stumbles for one second. I hit him behind the neck he collapses. But almost immediately he recovers.

I freeze him.

"Sorry young man, you are to dangerous to let live."

Before I move to shatter him.

"Stop asseblief I want nie dood gaan nie."

"Have you been learning our language while we have been fighting inside?"

"Yes, ons probeer to julle te understand."

I take various things in the room and ask him the names of them, I teach him our language's equivalent.

I contacted Vivi through our soul bond and told the party of my situation.

They are searching for a "crack" that could lead us home.

I shatter the ice, I tell him to fetch the woman, he does not want to go.

I escort him downwards.

When he sees her immediately he goes to attack, she also frantically wants to break free from her restraints and fight.

These many hundreds of suncycles.

The smallest misunderstanding getting worse with the suncycles.

Unable to forgive their hatred grew so much that each had claimed a level.

Like wild beasts they protect it as if it is their territory.

I produce an ice pick in my hand. I explain how I would discipline them. I tell the young man even together they could not even harm. The woman breaks the ice, together with the young man they attack me. I beat them so severely, they have to help each other move. I instruct the scared woman to learn to understand my language. The boy is whispering to her. They are making plans. I glare over my shoulder their eyes open wide. The young man starts pointing at objects and saying their names.

The fourth floor again destroyed.

The corpses of the Humes, look as if they were killed only recently?!

I freeze the room.

Otherworldly screams are heard, the door is encased in black crystal. I have never felt danger as strongly as this. Instinctively I used my strongest ice magics to construct a black crystal over the door.

"This room how is it constructed?"

"There is thick metal above and onder. There is ook ice around dit above and onder."

"Onder?"

He shows me his one hand and puts the other hand below it.

"Underneath."

"Ice" he means crystal or their word "plastiek".

I use my crystal magics I can feel the "plastiek" surrounding the room. I feel that I can manipulate it now that I have constructed the crystal door.

I increase its thickness, change the composition, finally transmuting it into my crystal magics.

I start turning it into an unbreakable black crystal layer completely encasing the room.

The "thing" will not be able to leave this room for at least 200 suncycles.

The corpses of the rooms inhabitants are slowly becoming more Dwarflike.

The fourth floor...

I walk through it. I see a bright light shining, I move towards it. I reach the room, it is immaculate and is brightly lit.

The entrance was barricaded.

I kick the door with force.

CRASH

It shatters, the debris are cleared from the entrance.

We enter the room the "computers" are still operational.

The glass surfaces are flickering, shining shapes and various colours.

There are Dwarlic letters, I cannot read it.

I instruct them to tell me what was going on here.

It was an archive it documented the various task and experiments that was conducted here.

At one of the "computers" a female Hume like Dwarf is laying dead.

In front of her is a black book that is closed.

The young woman fetches it and shows it to me.

It is a typing device, it also contains a glass like surface.

I freeze the level around us and shatter everything.

RUMBLE

There are four pillars inside the level they are starting to crack.

Our various attacks on the lower floors, have undoubtedly compromised the buildings strength.

We will not be able to stay for much longer.

I ask for the black book the woman refuses.

I punch her in the stomach, she falls over.

The book is destroyed.

The fifth floor again destruction.

There are no Humes anymore only Dwarfs now.

The creature on this floor is dead it looks like a lizard like humanoid.

I shatter the corpse into nothingness.

I clean the floor of its contents, nothing is left.

The beings are starting speaking to me.

The one looking like Zelda is named Eva and the young man is Set.

"How many levels now?"

"There is only nog twee but we must not further go not."

"Twee?"

He extends his hand, he shows me two fingers.

The sixth floor.

The destruction is intense there is dried blood splattered everywhere.

It looks when we wage war and my Grandmother is fighting as well.

I left the two behind.

They would not move anymore, I could see in their eyes that not even my worst tortures would make them move.

The seventh floor.

There is only one hallway, many Dwarfish symbols and writing is written on the walls and floors, with blood.

"Wat soek jy hier?"

"Already?"

I fly and hit a door at the end of the hallway, the metal door flies free from its frame.

I roll my neck and stand up. I look to the contents of the dimly lit room.

There are corpses hanging from the wall and there is a throne like chair, with a giant machine above it.

There are giant coloured cables leading into it.

I see eyes in front of me.

I am lifted up by my neck.

My throat is being crushed, I freeze my throat.

BAM

I flied now I am in the corner of the room.

He moves so fast, he is sitting on top of me.

He punches me, I block with my arms they snap into two.

How strong is this being?

Again I use my ice magics splinting them together.

While laying underneath him.

I twist my body leftwards I extend my right leg, I move to extend it above his head and slightly past it.

Then drop my leg grabbing his neck pulling it diagonally towards the ground on my right side.

I will twist my hip even more right and pull him underneath me.

Then I will beat the shit out of him.

BAM

My right legs femur is broken into two.

I am so angry now the ice extends outside of me, ripping my parka to shreds.

I heal my leg and forearms.

He has jumped into the other sides corner.

He is a good fighter but I am the Tulok Warchief! My years of massacres, the blood I shed, the hatred in my heart is pouring out and my killing intent forms around me.

You can almost see dark flames covering my whole body.

He is scared.

He wants to run I froze the door frame closed, there is no way to go.

He attacks, his punches do not hurt anymore.

The magics in this room, is so intense it is like a drain when there is a mighty storm.

I am just waiting till I gather enough.

He kicks me.

CRASH

The wall cracks behind me The crystal surrounding my body cannot break anymore.

This is absolutely amazing I have deduced the nature of these beings.

They are manufactured like a finely built machine.

But the twisted magics or mechanisms used to produce this thing must have broken every rule of nature.

He is a man or I only assume he has gender.

He is as tall as myself.

He has blonde hair and like the other two, seems almost otherworldly.

"I have enough magics now. I will be able to surpass my Grandmother before the end of the next suncycle."

"WAT SE JY?!"

Automatically I grab him with my left arm, as if I somehow know what will happen?

Great Father Houzmas Grimmaker's curse is transferred into the being named Adam.

There are runes forming on his skin, his "godly" energy are disappearing.

He is just a normal man now.

Just to make sure I throw him into a wall. His legs are broken, he is coughing up blood.

He cannot understand what is happening.

I break my crystal armor.

He goes to punch me, he connects his hand is folded at the wrist, he grasps pathetically to his forearm in extreme pain.

He always used his "godly" powers. He never learned proper technique his wrist is sprained.

He tries to move to attack me, he awkwardly falls on the floor his broken legs stopping him from moving properly.

"You cannot use your powers anymore. You are just a man now. No, forgive me you are even less than a man."

"WAT WEET JY EK IS GOD!"

"I could only understand "god" your mind will also start slipping soon. The energies running through you have completely disappeared. They can never be recovered."

He starts mumbling to himself.

I freeze the room and destroy the contents.

I ask the Dark Elf if they are outside.

They are many distances away.

I grab the "god" and the two others.

We left the building and are outside.

I extend my hand towards the empty structure.

I start crying, the tears are falling on the ground.

"Why? Grandmother where are you? My ice is crystal clear, if you could only see this!"

I close my hand the entire building disappears, except for the room that is enclosed with the black crystal.

There were many floors underneath as well!

The weight of the crystal block breaks through each and every floor.

CRASH

It hits the bottom with such force the earth shakes.

I freeze the rubble of the remaining floors and shatter them.

The hole is so large I start crying again.

All the magics I collected in that room.

I will have to use all of that to close the hole!

Vivi tells me where to go, I start walking.

"What about us?"

"What do you mean? You are free. You can do whatever you want."

There is niks oor not?

"It is nie my probleem nie."

I say.

Finish.