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The Flows
Kain could fell the tram going
down and down into the underdark of the world. He watched as the light inside of the tram appeared,
disappeared, and then suddenly appeared again. He looked at Phantine besides him; she looked so innocent and pure while
she was asleep. Luckily for Kain she would
probably be awake by the time they arrived it Giodd City. For Kain had woken her up once already on
their journey, and that was something he was not going to do again. "Giodd City." He thought. "I can only assume that that was the site of
what was once the capital of the dwarven kingdom."
In the back of his mind, Kain began to remember what he had told the two teenagers. ["What I need for you two to do is go to this Giodd City and find the most likely person to lead the dwarfs in some kind of a revolution. See if there isn't already some kind
of rebellious group doing
something. Remember one thing above all
else while you are doing this though, you know the truth. The truth is an awesome weapon, when used
correctly."
"Well where are you going to be
doing while we try to free an entire race of slaves by ourselves?"
"I'm going to find the land of the
summoned monsters. There I know I shall
find support from the beings who serve bahumet, as well as those who were the
former masters of Mist."
"Where is this 'land of the
summoned monsters' then?"
"When I was last here it was on an
island floating on top of a sea of magma."
"An island on one of the magma
seas! How on earth are you ever going
to get across that?"
"I plan on taking control of an air
cruiser and piloting it to where I remember that island was once."
"Taking control of an air
cruiser! You're mad. And you're even madder if you think that you
can pilot one."
"I piloted air ships back in my day. Besides I'm a very fast learner. Now keep your voice down. Do you want everyone in the underdark to know what we're doing, because if you do...."]
A buzzer began to ring on board of
the tram; Kain realized that this signaled that they had reached the bottom of
the chasm. Kain looked out the window
to see a great city before him, however, only most of it was great. Kain could see the slums on the west side of
the hills.
Phantine and Dekan both woke
up. "Are we at Giodd City yet?" Dekan
said groggily.
"No, from what I understand we
still have about three hours till we reach there. However if you wish to get off here no one will stop you."
"Of course I don't want to get off
here Kain. It's just that I haven't had
a good night's sleep sense we found
you."
"I am genuinely sorry." Both Dekan and Phantine looked at him with
death in their eyes. "Must have thought
I was being sarcastic." Kain thought to
himself.
* * *
When they did arrive at Giodd City
the Kain had to separate from Dekan and Phantine immediately. Kain reminded Dekan to practice the forms
everyday, although as soon as he said that he realized that Dekan needed no
reminder. Kain also gave them both a
reminder to be careful, only kill when completely nessicary, and finally never
make yourself noticed, never draw attention. Kain did realize though that those two could and would take care of
themselves fine. He hoped he had turned
them into fairly competent warriors in the space of only two weeks, but he was
not completely sure. It was at that
moment though that Kain realized that he had enjoyed teaching them the skills
of survival that they would need. After
the good-byes Kain turned around and began traveling towards the
aero-facility.
Before he reached the
aero-facility Kain checked part of one of the papers that he had hidden in a
pocket in the back of his coat.
King Cecil Baron – Born B.A.
28 Died A.A. 50
Queen Rosa Baron – Born B.A.
26 Died A.A. 51
"I will avenge both of you." Kain said silently to himself; then
added. "If it weren't for not having
emotions, I might cry for you right now." Kain took his Spear of White out from behind him then he took his
Dragoon Mask out as well, and put it on so that it covered his face like a
mask.
He walked into the Aero-Facility
immediately there was a security checkpoint. "Excuse me sir," the man behind the rail said, "You're not allowed to..." Kain leaped through the air and down
onto the center of the area, as he landed he whispered to himself. "Thank the light for these enormously high
ceilings." At that point he heard the
beginnings of an alarm and Kain decided against leaping for as long as possible
though. Instead he ran like everyone
else through the halls, the only difference was that he was running towards,
and they were running away.
Kain ran through one of the many
passageways in the facility that he hoped would lead him to an air
cruiser. Suddenly though in front of
him he could make out what appeared to be a giant of some sort. Looking closer at it he realized it was familiar
looking, then he realized why it looked familiar as he dashed straight towards
it running past laser
streaks and emission
flares. "How did they manage to
re-create Mac giants?" Kain asked
himself.
Kain leaped up, and then straight
down at the giant but from another side a beam of fire hit him in the chest and
he was propelled into a wall. Kain
looked to see what had done this, only to see another Mac giant. The two giants began to mercilessly try to
incinerate Kain with their barrages of beams and swipes of claws. Suddenly, Kain felt within him
one of the only emotions
he had left, rage.
Pouring his rage into the first
giant with his spear he managed to remember where some of the vital systems of
the giant was, and promptly shut them down by means of plunging his spear into
the circuitry. The first giant fell
with a giant crash. Kain heard shouts
behind him; he looked backwards for a second to see a near wall of fully armed
security personel pointing their near-cannon sized guns at him. At that point Kain decided to leave. Though when he turned to go the second giant
was blocking his path, he heard from behind him. "Freeze and drop your weapon or we will commence firing."
Once again summoning the power of
his rage, and channeling it through the powers that the wind itself had granted
him, Kain leaped straight through the center of the second Giant. He landed a good 150 feet away and continued
to run as he heard the giant crash to the ground.
After three more Mac giants, and
four teams of security Kain finally made it to a point where he could gain
access to an air cruiser. Kain rushed
through the doorway and into the cruiser. Inside he was glad to find the cruiser empty. He ran to where he knew the controls of the cruiser would
be. As he entered he saw the two pilots
sitting in their seats
laughing and drinking
coffee, "So then I sayz to Mabel I
sayz...Who the hell are you!"
"Call me Kain, now start up the
engine and teach me how to fly this thing, quick. Then when I am finished with my business I will let you go. Whether you go dead, or alive is your
decision." The pilots stared up at him
in complete terror as he pointed his spear from one to the other. Kain thought to himself though, "I wonder
why these two stayed if
the alarm was going
off." Then he realized that the alarm
wasn't going off in the cruiser, inside Kain laughed at their stuipidity.
* * *
Kain watched as he came up upon
the island that he was searching for, an island in on ocean of magma. Kain looked back to see the two still
terrified pilots, "I'm going to let you land this." He pointed to what looked to be the higher ranked of the two
pilots.
"Yes sir." Was his response. The higher ranked pilot nearly ran to sit on the seat next to Kain's. Kain watched the pilot as he maneuvered the
buttons, levers, and other controls. After about a minute Kain felt the cruiser touch down on the island.
Kain got off of the cruiser after
giving explicit directions to the two pilots not to go anywhere. However as soon as he was halfway towards
the cave the cruiser lifted up into the air and was on it's way to the end of
the horizon. "A man's word means nothing
today. Oh well, if the callers are down
below like I think they are, I won't have need for that
cruiser anyway." Kain then proceeded to walk to, and into the
cave that lead to the land of summoned monsters. At that point Kain thought to himself, "Why couldn't we have just
given it a regular, shorter name."
Entering he found that at least
this place was probably one of the only places left on earth left untouched for
the past 750 years. He walked through
the cave always avoiding the red patches on the ground as Rydia had told him
before to do.
["Inside of the cave there are going to be spots on the ground that are glowing red. Don't touch them, they will drain energy from those that pass over them." Everyone gave her a questioning look. "I think they have something to do with the temporal flows within the cave. But really no one has any idea."]
Running and jumping through the
cave he began to recognize forms in the distance, demons no doubt. As Kain got closer he saw them better and
remembered that those were Arachanoids, and that he had killed a few on his
previous visits here with Cecil, Rosa, Edge, and Rydia. They noticed Kain and began to run towards
him. "Arachanoids, hah! You're quakes' cannot touch me." He leaped through the air and down upon one
as it collapsed beneath him Kain thought to himself, "I must be stronger, much
stronger. It used to take me three of
four attacks." Suddenly where he landed
the ground shock beneath him and a chasm formed. Kain fell to the bottom of the chasm, pain was shooting through
his body, but Kain had learned to ignore pain all to easily. He leaped from the chasm onto more stable
ground, then another leap took him into the sky and down upon the second
creature. "All to easy, now."
Kain traveled further and further
down through the cave, finally coming upon an erected portal, though to him it
looked more like an altar. Stepping
unto the altar he waited for a second until he felt himself shifting, he could
fell the pattern of his being changing then it all stopped and he was standing
on an identical altar on top of a floating group of wooden structures. Kain looked around and saw nearly a dozen
hooded figures before him. He knew
these were called monsters, relief flooded through him that the Alliance had
not destroyed goodly monsters within here.
"What took you a second human,
took us an hour to decide whether we should let you into our home. Then finally I remembered who you were. It is good to see you again Kain." The old man with the beard down to his feet
said to Kain. Kain looked around at
everyone and then noticed that indeed only the summoned monsters stood before
him
now.
"It is good to see you again Lord
Levithan, but I must ask you where are the callers. I had heard that Rydia established a school of sorts down here
for them." Kain asked.
"That is true Kain, but I'm sorry
to tell you this, but there are only three left with the ability to call us
into their service. If you are asking
though the three callers that are left are with the other humans. We did not summon them as who gets into our
village is none of their affair."
"How can there be so few!"
"No, I mean with those who have
descended but are unable to use the power of the caller. Very odd thing it is usually about 33% of
those that descend from callers that have the ability but, that percentage
slowly dropped and now
the chance that one of
these three will have summoner offspring only 2%."
"Take me to them, I will need to
talk to everyone here anyway."
"Follow, and I shall lead human."
"Oh, and how many years have
passed here while I was gone."
"Two-thousand three-hundred and
fifty-seven." Kain nodded, he was
becoming more and more used to these
kinds of odd
occurrences. "Which begs the question,
how did you survive all this, Kain."
"Those who send
reviews shall be karmicly rewarded."
-Kain DeLuman