Snow
Chapter five: Scarlet Mage
I don't own the Tamora Pierce characters or Tortall. I do own the Bat-Demons and i.e. Ateo, Queen Ratellciea and others, the Empire of Imp, Emperor Imp, the Wolf-Demons, and other demons. I own, made up, Buck and Myka the Shang Owl. If you wish to use them e-mail me at kurumi2244@aol.com it's that easy!
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"All able bodies to fight! All able bodies to fight!" A messenger cried as he ran down the halls in the Knights floor. He pounded on all the doors shouting the same thing at them all. Alanna came running out of her room fighting to put her tunic on over her shirt. Neal was pulling up his pants and ran out of his room, Kel behind him pulling on her tunic. The bell sounded three times an alarm for emergencies only. The bell woke all those not awoken by the screaming messenger. All knights and their Squires were running to the grounds of the palace.
"Well someone tell us what is going on here?" An older knight yelled as the ear-piercing bells awaked him.
"Ba-ba-bats! Bats! Thousands of them! Flying here! It's- it's crazy! All of it!!" A hysterical page yelled was calling as he raced into the knight's floor. "Not all of them all bats- mind you! Half bats half people most of them!!"
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Numair stood there pacing madly as he trembled. Daine had fallen under the horrid sleep spell the night before, making Numair worried. But now he knew why, he knew why this misery was in Tortall, and abroad. The Scarlet Mage, that vile Scarlet Mage was scattering all her pain on them. She must of allied with the Bats, Numair reasoned with him self. She must be behind all of this. It's a great cover, a bat-demon, and their untouchable! She'll kill us all. That Scarlet Mage. Numair scribbled something down on paper and took hawk shape and flu out the window.
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She paced, very much like Numair, she paced. Her hands clung to her scarlet rob and she paced. It, her rob, was open to revile a scarlet gown that shaped her figure. The pacing woman's beauty would put even Thayet to shame. She was the evil woman, who killed Roger.
"She must be really evil if she culled Roger." Tillion told his sister.
"Yeah, Tillion! Someone's coming!" Buna told her brother.
"Yikes! Lets get out of here!" Tillion said.
"Arram," They heard the lady say as they ran off. She closed the by a hair's breadth open door. She cursed herself for leaving it open that long. The hawk that came in her window screeched and landed on her chair. "Yes, yes I know." She pulled a dressing screen out of her dressing room and the hawk flu behind it. The shadow of the hawk changed to that of a human male. A tall man he was, at least 75 inches. He came out, fully dressed in a black rob. "You didn't know how to do that before, but before when you came you didn't need to." She smiled wickedly.
"Don't be funny my dear," The man told her.
"Don't play games with me Arram, or is it Numair you go by now?" She asked, with a furtive smile still planted firmly on her red lips.
"It's Numair now." He Numair told her impassively.
"Why are you here Numair, my love?" She asked and pawed her way to him, discarding her scarlet rob to show her sexy scarlet dress.
"Stop it," He told the woman firmly. " You know very well we are not lovers anymore."
"Numair you tease me so," She told the stern man. "You mean you enjoy being with that child, more then I?"
He placed a finger on her painted lips. "Ah, and you enjoy seducing other peoples lovers."
"Only If I want them to be mine." She said, her evil eyes dancing in her head.
"Never again shall I be yours." He told her.
"Fine, if you are not here to have your way with me, then why are you here?" She demanded. "Is it because of your little friend that you tease me so?"
"Alison, Scarlet Mage," He began. "I just want Daine back. But you'd probably not understand love you just enjoy seducing people."
She cried, "You! Arram! Are not any better then you have been in your teenage years! Go to your child-lover! You—"
"She isn't a child you heartless whore!" Numair raged.
"GO TO HER!" She cried and said a word that was incomprehensible to human ears alone. Numair vanished into this air cursing. "Danm you, stealer of hearts."
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The battle ragged, humans against bat-demons. Blood all across that battlefield, Mages trying to hold up the barrier to hold Tortall from more mass destruction. Cries of pain could be heard through out the valley. Kel struggled to hold her own to a female bat. The bat muttered something that Kel could not hear. The bat touched her temples and said in slow clear words.
"Sleep my child." And Kel fell under the sleep spell.
"Kel!" Neal yelled tripping over his own feet to reach her. The bat smiled and touched his temples.
"You want to be with this girl? Then, sleep." She told him.
"No…" He muttered, but it was to late.
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End chapter 5. Review please!!!!!!!
Preview of next chapter:
The sleep spell isn't what it seems, taking the souls of people in, and not letting them out. I can't tell much more… Heehee ^^;
My friend read it and didn't under stand what Duke Briad was doing; you know when Merric fell into the spell. Okay so I'll explain it. He's touching special pressure points and ejecting magic in them, keeping their bodies there and not in the bat-Realm. It makes the person vomit whatever color magic has been used okay?!
Aeris
