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A Place of Old Friends
Naxos looked at Kain with movements that Kain understood
as his fears. Though from Naxos face
usually nothing could be deciphered. "Now look I'm not going to lie to you, I need your help. And should you should decide to help me then
you must know that the journey will be long and dangerous. But think, if your great great however many
greats grandmother had not taken a little danger neither you or any other
humans would be here."
"We understand that Kain." Dawne told him. "But, we
cannot in all good conscience leave behind this place. It is our duty to everyone here, to create
more callers." She said as though she
were embarrassed by it.
"And, " Racule interjected. "You want us to use our
summoning abilities. Well, think about
how powerful we will be. Dawne is the
strongest among us and she can barely summon and control Shiva."
"That is because you don't have the necessary battle
experience. I'm going to tell you right
now. We spend two, three days tops,
inside of the cave between the two worlds and I'll make you three to five times
more powerful." Kain paused looked at
Dawne for a moment realizing that she was the exactly how he imagined Edge and
Rydia's child to be, a thin girl of medium height, dark completion, very dark
green hair, and that faint shadow of stealth that Edge always had. "Dawne I look at you and I know that you're
no where near close to the power of which you could have."
"And how do we learn magic simply by fighting these
demons? As you say we can." Racule questioned him disbelievingly.
"I know not. Now
look, you know I am as useless with magic as an ogre. But, I do now that that was how Rosa, Rydia, Cecil, and Edge
developed the majority of their magic."
"All right, say we do train and become much
stronger. What do we do when we come
back? By that time no one that we know
now will have survived with the exception of the summoned ones." Dawne stated simply.
Kain looked down as he answered them. "I can only tell you that, yes. If you come with me you are going to have to
make sacrifices." Kain paused for a
moment realizing that in order to conscribe one must not talk about the dangers
of battle, only it's rewards. "But also
I've been thinking, what is the only difference that could have caused the
ability to summon to lack so. Location
is the only difference. I would suggest
that maybe just maybe if you went back to the upper world you're chances of
creating summoner offspring might be greater."
The three looked at Kain together, curiosity in their
eyes. Then finally Naxos simply leaned
back in his chair and stated. "All
right, I'm going and if either of you two want to come with me then I'll
welcome you. Though if you don't want
to come, please don't try and stop me." Naxos then gave Kain a faint gleam in his eyes, this man in his late
twenties wanted to go adventuring. Kain
could remember seeing that near-identical face, that near-identical look, in
Edge's eyes.
[Cecil looked at Edge, his body was very much burnt, but
so was everyone else. "Well Rubicant is
as dead as we can make him, what are you going to do now Prince Edge of Eblan?"
"I'll tell you what he is going to do. He is going to come back with me and these
soldiers, settle down, get a wife, and rebuild the castle with us." The stuffy chamberlain of Eblan said as he
entered the room.
"No, Chamberlain. I'm going with them to help stop this Golbez character before he
destroys the world, or conquers it, or whatever he wants to do!" Edge looked back at everyone behind him,
Kain caught the faintest gleam in his eyes.]
Dawne and Racule looked at each other, then Racule looked
back at Kain and said. "Well I don't
care, I'm staying here. And personally
I think your nuts Naxos, just to go off and fight for the good of mankind. Haven't you learned yet? Mankind is evil anyway. Even the light of hope forsakes us all. Humans are chaos incarnate, and someday we will
destroy everything we hold dear." Dawne
looked at him in amazement.
"How can you think that?" Dawne exclaimed.
"It's true, think about it. Why do we..."
"Maybe your right," Kain interrupted "but we still go off
and fight the good fight in hopes that one day people can change. I too believe people are evil. However the only reason they are acting evil
now is because they follow an evil leader. Should we replace this 'Guardian' who is in control of the world with
someone who is good, righteous, and is not tempted by power, then you shall see
that humans can be good, and can follow order, not chaos." Racule looked at Kain disbelievingly and
then looked down at table and shook his head back and forth.
"I'm coming too Kain." Dawne said softly "Your right, all
we need to do is set up something new. That and what if Kain is right about us, what if we really are killing
off our own people by being too close to those that we summon. It's possible and I'd like to see whether
it's true of not." Kain, Naxos, and
Dawne stared firmly at the finale caller left.
"It's like I said, I'd rather stay here. I'm sorry, call me a coward if you will but
I don't think that we could change anything anyway. I just think that it's a
fool thing all of it. Kain I respect
you, but what you talk of. I'm sorry I
just can't agree with any of it."
"Very well," Kain told him calmly. "We shall go without you. Note though that
we probably will never see you again, after we leave here."
"All right, I'll miss you all. But don't expect me to loose any sleep over it." Racule told Kain
as calmly as Kain had talked to him.
Kain stood up from the table where all four sat, looked
at Dawne and Naxos that gave them the faintest single of "we're leaving." Naxos and Dawne got the message and all
three exited leaving Racule behind alone. When the door was closed Racule said to himself. "Damn fools, now the chance of any more
callers is near nonexistent. Damned
fools all three of them."
* * *
Kain told Dawne and Naxos to go off and tell their
friends and family their good-byes. Then pack everything that they would need for the trip they would be
taking. As the two callers left Kain he
decided to visit the basement of the library where he had first met the Lord
Leviathan and Lady Asura. When he was
down the second set of stairs he saw that Leviathan and Asura were in the
company of many different called monsters. All of them were frantically discussing what was going on. Then as Kain walked down from the stairs
everyone froze and stared directly at him.
"Well, well, I must say Kain you sure have created quite
the ruckus among all of us here. You
must realize that some here would object to you taking away those few that have
the spark within them. So would you say
to calm these members of our society?" Leviathan told Kain questioningly.
Kain looked around at the cloaked faces. However, he was disgusted by the fact that
he could not make out any faces, for he could see none. All that was visible of any but Asura and
Leviathan were the eyes under their hoods. Kain wondered to himself why they bothered camouflaging themselves as
humans at all. When they could all just
remove their cloaks and live their lives in their true forms. Suddenly Kain remembered the question set
before him, he began to hope that the summoned ones simply though he was in
deep thought. But, Kain knew exactly
what to say. "Lord Leviathan, Lady
Asura, I tell you right now that no harm shall come to these two as long as I
am living. I will also help them by
teaching them the ways of battles, how to survive, and the ways of today's
world."
"Yes we know that, Kain." Asura said placental. "But our question is more that we want to
know what you are going to do with them."
"They will be a symbol more than a weapon if that is what
you are wondering. You see, no one will
believe that I am the Kain of legend without some kind of proof. Your two summoners are that truth; they will
be a symbol of what the world was like before the Guardian took control. People will see this and they will flock
toward a much better life. Yes, they
will flock towards a life where those that rule do not do so with an iron fist. They rule instead with the will of the
people behind them. That was the world
I left behind, that is the world that the two callers shall help me to create
again." Everywhere in the somewhat
small room the called monsters began to nod approvingly.
Leviathan looked at Kain with his aged eyes and face, he
than looked at Asura, gave her a faint smile and said to Kain. "Take them Kain, your methods and reasons
are sound."
"I thank you. And
hopefully soon, so will the rest of humanity. Though to tell you the truth I came down here not to ask
permission." A quite stream came from
that comment. "But! I did come here to talk with you my Lord of
times long past. Though someone did
tell me before only a fool thinks of the past when the present stares him in
the eye, I must confess to you though that I do need to talk; in the very least
so that I can remember better my old friends." Leviathan nodded and looked at those who had collected themselves in his
room, he looked at them with an air and a message of "We need to be alone." And with that all of the summoned ones began
to file out of the room except for Leviathan and Asura.
As soon as the
room was cleared of all, but those three, Leviathan said. "I remember the first time that..."
* * *
Kain, Naxos, and Dawne had all met at the altar of
transportation as Kain had called it. Around them had formed a circle of humans that should have been Callers
themselves.
"We will miss you."
"Take care."
"Be careful."
"Do exactly what Kain tells you to do."
"Only do what you can do."
"Have fun."
"Good luck."
"Don't take any fool chances while you're up there."
Kain could tell
that they were even more warnings and pieces of advice being tossed at them but
Kain ignored them as the cold haze of teleportation came through him.
When the three arrived in the cave Kain looked at the
faces of his two companions and said, "So, are you ready to begin your
training?" Though when he saw
their faces he thought to himself that anyone with a face that pale might need
an hour or two before starting to train. "Don't worry that happens to everyone their first time going through a
dimensional transportal."
After a few minutes Kain got off of the altar and then
helped the other two off. After the two
callers had regained a bit more sense Kain told them to pick up their gear
because they're going to go.
Along the way to the tunnel Kain purposely led the three
of them to every single demon, monster, or anything else that would want kill
them, in the cave that he could find. Kain spent most his time protecting the two while they hurled spells at
those that rushed towards them. Soon
though once they encountered the red anomalies on the ground Kain had to stop
and think. This was because he couldn't
leap across with both at the same time. He began to ponder the situation and as he did Dawne approached him. "What's wrong?"
"I'm trying to think of how to get around this red
patches on the floor ahead of us, without stepping on them."
"You mean you think we could use some height, why didn't
you just ask." As Dawne started the
incantation Kain watched her wondering exactly what she was doing and then out
of nowhere the three of them began to float about a yard off of the
ground. Kain was flabbergasted.
"I thought that, what, I. I mean, that, was the same white magic that Rosa used to
use." Kain exclaimed.
"Yes, it's a float spell."
"But, how are you able to use the white magic? I thought callers couldn't use the white
magic."
"No, it's just that only certain callers can use white
and black magic in conjunction with their calling powers."
"Can Naxos?"
Naxos looked at Kain from where he was floating about ten
feet off and said, "No, besides the only cases of joint conjuration were from
females anyway."
"I see, well then. Let's keep going, shall we." With that the three began floating across the red patch below them. Still though, while they floated, Kain
continued to seek out those that would give these two experience. Every once and awhile though one of them
would run out of energy, but thankfully Kain had expressly told them to bring
plenty of ethers; which they did.
Finally though the three did emerge from the cavern. Kain looked back to see the two callers
behind him. He could now feel their
strengths much more easily. They were
powerful now. Each could now control
the Titan and Dawne would soon learn to control the power of Asura. "It is too bad that we can no longer reach
the Ruby Moon. If we could, I would
send you two up there to gain the strengths' of Bahumet himself." Now it was the two students turn to be
flabbergasted.
"Bahumet exists!!"
"You've met him, on this Ruby Moon?"
"What 'Ruby Moon' their is only one moon."
"Kain, I..."
At that point Kain just ignored them turned around and
said. "Yes I've met Bahumet, he lives
on a moon the color of rubies that used to circle our planet. It no longer does, but it used to. Yes, he is the strongest of all the called
monsters. And no, I don't know where
the Ruby Moon is now, sorry." With that
Dawne and Naxos decided to leave Kain alone and shut up.
The three reached the southern most part of the island,
Kain looked at the two and said. "Well
how do you two think we're going to cross this huge sea of magma?"
"Not even Shiva could freeze all of this." Naxos said almost sounding frightened.
"What about the teleportation that master Couw and I have
been working on?"
"Yes, teleportation might work. But, where could we teleport to; you've never been out here
before Dawn. No caller has for the past
five hundred years."
"Of course, of course I know that. But think, Kain does know this place. If I could just use him to get the knowledge
that I need Kain then we could go wherever we need to go."
"Giodd City is where we will be going." Kain stated simply. "Now, what type of information do you need
from me?" Dawne began walking over
towards Kain then she put his head between her two hands and began an
incantation.
"What are you doi, ahhh!" Icy fire coursed through Kain's head as he felt Dawne presence
flooding through his conscience. He
could feel her absorbing his knowledge of the world, as if she was reading a
map. "Get, out, of, me! Now!" With that Dawne did leave his conscience mind.
"Never do that ever again, do you understand? Do you?!?!"
"I'm sorry, I didn't realize you kept yourself so well
shielded. Otherwise you would have felt
nothing."
"What do you mean shielded, I have no magic to shield me
from any of your spells. All I have is
my armor."
"No, no, no, I mean a mental shield or an emotional
one. Anyone can create one, oh and if
are you wondering what I did." Kain
nodded his head. "What I did was that
for the very briefest of times I connected the parts of our two brains that
store location memory."
"You have definitely advanced the skills of magic quite a
bit sense I was around. I remember that
no one would ever have dreamed then of trying to enter someone else's mind."
"Well I'm not really supposed to do that either, they say
it's dangerous. But we really didn't
have too many options now did we. And
you seem to like danger Kain."
"Only a fool 'likes danger' Dawne. Now can you teleport us sense you have the
desired information that you took from my mind."
"I can and I will." And with that the world began to shift around Kain. The underworld of red and black, became a
world was blue and then green then it shifted towards colors that Kain could
not even recognize. As he drifted Kain
thought to himself of how must people would be mortified by this; but to him,
It was seemed to be pure and untainted beauty.
"Those who send reviews shall be karmicly
rewarded."
-Kain DeLuman