Disclaimer: The Black Rider belongs to Susan Cooper, and-thats it. o.O Everything else is mine, besides Mordred who belongs to himself, I guess. =/
Craig awoke to the tune of Sounds of Silence
ringing in his head. Shrugging it off, he groggily sat up and examined
his propped up fishing pole. The line had snapped. Cursing, Craig grudgingly
replaced the line and propped it up on the side of the boat again. The
pole hit something and clinked. Craig looked down and saw the smooth metal
with the diamond shaped hole.
He picked it up, not really paying enough
attention, not really caring about a peice of garbage that had blown into
his small boat. But he spotted something that made him think. 'Hisame Ko
Issun'; the same words were engraved on the bottom of the metal. He frowned
again. It was strange.
Suddenly, as he sat there holding it, the
diamond in the center began to glow red. Startled, Craig almost dropped
the piece of metal. From inside the depths of the diamond came a harsh,
cold voice.
"Ah, Craig. How fortunate," said the voice,
bemused. "Someone actually fit to carry on the workings of the Dark."
"You again!" Craig spit on the floor of the
boat for emphasis.
"Yes, it is I, Craig. Or should I say...Mordred?"
Craig's eyes burned with rage. "You...you
took me. You possessed me, controlled me. For seven years I was under your
sway. Black Rider."
"I will not deny it. But I had no idea you
were still alive."
"Those of the kin of Arthur do not die with
a simple strike of a blade."
"But that was what happened to Arthur, was
it not?"
Craig muttered something intelligible, and
the Rider laughed.
"An enchanted sword? You-or should I say,
I-weilded the sword Dimoltre. But that blade was not comparable to the
blade Excalabur, the blade of Eirias."
"How are you contacting me?" Craig spat out.
"Simplistic. These metal pieces are meant
as a communication device for the High Magic. They use them to give orders
to whatever may need to be controlled at the time being. It was a simple
matter for the entire power of the Dark, emassed here, out of time, to
bend it to our own purposes!"
"Well, I hardly seem to think that you need
ME anymore. So I guess I'll be seeing you." Craig took the metal, and was
about to drop it into the sea.
"HAH!" A black smoke began drifting from the
diamond. The metal wouldn't come out of Craig's hand. "NOT AGAIN!" he screamed
as the black smoke entered his nostrils.
With a small kerplunk the metal fell into
the sea. But the man inside the boat was no longer Craig. It was the Black
Rider.
The Rider grinned. "I'm sorry, Mordred, but
its sooo hard to do anything in the mortal world from out of Time, know
what I mean? I just have...uses for you." He reached down at the capsule
half-heartedly. Staring at it, he blinked twice. Astonishment was an emotion
the Rider had not felt in a long time.
"A Balance orb....Mordred found a Balance
Orb!" the Rider began to laugh hysterically. "Yes, Hisame Ko Issun indeed!
HISAME KO ISSUN INDEED!"
A/N: You better have liked it. Oh, and someone better post a review on chapter 3 before I finish it. Of course thats going to happen, because I'm Mike, and I'm jinxed. Now that you're done here go read something that actually is good. ^_~