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The story of the Cursed Dagger

When Jarnios looked at him with dumbfounded eyes Xellos started to explain.  "The story that tells the curse is a long one but I have no choice but to tell it."  He sighed.  "The dagger was made only a hundred years after the Kouma war.  It was made by a smith for his daughter,  at that time the only enchantment on the dagger was that it would always be as sharp as when it was first sharpened.  As time went on the daughter married and had her own daughter.  The woman and her daughter went out one day to go to the town fair.  On their way there she was met by an old sorcerer.

"The Sorcerer had wanted the woman's father to make him a horrible weapon, but the girl had refused to help him persuaded her father.  The sorcerer saw the woman's daughter and was enraged.  He had always loved the woman and the fact that she was now married and had her own child was to much for him. 

"With wild eye's he leapt at the woman and her daughter.  But the woman was ready for the attach and she had the dagger her father had made for her out.  The sorcerer grabbed the dagger from her with his bare hands and as his blood ran down the blade he chanted his own spell.  He took the dagger in his other hand and even as he completed his spell he stabbed her with her own dagger.

"The dagger sank deep into her stomach as the sorcerer whispered in her ear 'I'll come for you in four day's my love.'  The little girl was shocked but had had some training in the fighting arts and tried to get the sorcerer but he just laughed and cast a Ray Wing and flew away.  The little girl knew some magic but couldn't get the sorcerer and help her mother at the same time so she flew her mother into the village where they both had many friends.  One of the healer's took them in to heal the woman.

"What the daughter didn't know was that her mother had heard the spell, and was making her own spell to counter it.  While her daughter took her to the village in with a Ray Wing she had hastily scribbled the counter spell on the hilt of the dagger.  She had just finished when she fell deeply asleep."  Here Xellos paused and indicated both Lina and Varrie.  "Like those two."  Then he quickly went on to finish the story.

"The healer healed the wound in her stomach and tried to wake her up with Wakening but nothing worked.  The woman's husband had arrived a day latter worried about his wife and daughter.  When he got the village an old friend told him where to go, and upon entering the healer's hut he was told the story by his daughter.  They looked at the dagger's handle and saw the counter spell but none could make out the last few words to save the woman.

"The little girl had heard the sorcerer's whispered words about coming in four day's and told every one.  They all agreed to wait for the sorcerer and make him undo his spell.  As they waited the woman slept on, but on the second night she woke up.  They hoped that she was cured, but that was not the case.  When asked what she had on her dagger she answered that she couldn't remember, and then told them that she had heard the sorcerer's spell.

 "It was a curse that any one injured but the dagger would forget every thing and become completely moldable to the injurers desire.  That person would own them mind body and soul, and they would never know any differently. Upon hearing this Jarnios smiled and looked proudly at his soon to be slave.  That earned him another punch in the face and evil hate filled glares from both Xellos and Darick.  Then he realized he had made a grave error and went pale.  "She told them that she was all ready starting to forget her more resent memories.  She told her family she loved them and to always remember that, even if the cures made her forget them.  She also told her daughter that no mater what she was in her heart, she was her heart's blood.  She made her daughter promise her that she would always remember that and that she would take her dagger and keep it safe.

"On her third day she could only remember being married to her husband, her father, and her training in the fighting arts and some magic.  Quickly the woman's memories faded away and by the fourth day the woman kept asking everyone who she was, they all told her but she would not listen to them.  She spent her forth day in front of her window waiting for some one with the right answers to come. 

"Latter on the forth day just like he had said to the woman he came.   He came in the evening at twilight, he cast a sleep spell on half the town.  He called to his beloved,  and upon hearing his call she came to him.  When they heard him call the husband tried to hold his wife down but she was agile and got away.  She ran down to the sorcerer when he called her.  The other's followed her and met the sorcerer.

"When they got there the woman was wrapped in the sorcerer's arms asking him who she was.  When the man saw this he demanded what the sorcerer had done to his wife.  The sorcerer just laughed at them.  He told them that she was his wife now.  That's when the arrow hit her, the woman had told her friends that if they loved her.  and there was no way to cure her, that rather then let her be controlled by the sorcerer they should shot them both in the hearts.

"But that's not where the story ends.  The daughter who had been taught by her mother and father from and early age both magic and the fighting arts grew up.  She vowed to help stop the evil of the world or so what happened to her mother would never happen to any one again.  After a time she met other's like her self, with strong fighting or magic skills who hated evil.  They came together and formed the Flame clan.  In the clan where now six people, three male and three female.  They married and had children and taught their children to fight and use magic and to stop horror and evil.  The woman never stop trying to understand what her mother had written on the dagger.

"One day she made sense of the inscription, she had cut her self earlier and dripped a little on the dagger.  When she cleaned it off the words became clear.  Her mother had sealed her cure in blood unknowingly so only a member of her direct descendants could read it and only after there was some of their blood on it.  The inscription read:

'Blood of my blood, blood of my heart,

One of my clan,

Uncorrupted by hate,

By your pure heart this cures with break

Trust the light,

 The flame of light,

A single tear of one who truly remembers me,

And a true wish made from the heart,

Will restore my light and life!'

 "It was to late to save her mother but she could not try as she might destroy the dagger, so she made it so any one of the six founders of  the Flame clan or their decedents, all of whom where like her own hearts blood could undo the curse.  After that she used an ancient spell to dig a deep hole in the earth and placed the dagger there with a warning that it was a dangerous weapon with horrifying effects.  Then sealed the tunnel with an explosion spell. 

"Years latter after she was dead and all of the records of the dagger lost it was found by bandits while they dug out their hide out.  And they've been using it to bully the sorcerer's guild or at least were until you stole it Jarnios."  Concluded Xellos.