The Forgotten
Dawne looked up from her bed, the only thing that she could make out from that was that the roof of the building was completely wood. Remember the city, it seemed to her that all of the houses in the village seemed to be like that, very rustic on the outside, and inside too. But that rustic charm hid the true nature of the town, for inside dwelt some of the most powerful creatures that had never roamed the Earth... and some that hadn't.
She lifted her torso out of bed so she could take a good look around and hopefully find out where she was. The room that she was in was sparse at best; her bed was in the left back corner next to it was a chair with a pale blue lamp on it, the lamp's dim glow barely managed to penetrate the two opposite corners of the room. There was a small circular table in the middle of the room, with five chairs surrounding it. On the direct opposite other side from her she could see a polished silver mirror, large enough to allow anyone a good look at their entire outfit. Dawne looked at herself in the mirror, realizing that it had been the first time in a long time that she had actually looked at herself. She saw a very ragged and pale girl, with ratted dirty blonde hair, ugly brown eyes and other features that were unfortunately a bit smaller then she really desired. Now she remembered why it was that she didn't look into mirrors too often.
It was while she was looking at herself in the mirror that she heard the door open, a near flood of light came in with it and blinded her slightly so that she could not see who had entered. "Dawne." A strange voice from the brightness began. "It is good to see you awake, I would have hated to have woken you up myself. Anyway, I have been talking with Naxos and he seems to think that we should all take ourselves out of this realm as soon as possible. I must say that I cannot agree completely with his logic on the matter but some of it does seem interestingly enough, especially the idea that our summoning abilities were sterilized by living in this realm, a very interesting idea indeed. Don't you think?" Suddenly the man in the doorway came into focus it was Racule, the summoner that had not decided to join Kain in his quest that long time ago. Now though he looked quite aged and not very healthy looking either, very stressed out it seemed, for there were great black bags
under his eyes.
"Yeah I agree with the idea totally, sense I was kind of the one who came up with it." Dawne said trying to herself up with her sheets.
"Oh, I see. Very interesting, well Naxos never did say where it was that his idea came from. I just assumed that... Anyway, I am glad that you think this way as well, we will be meeting with everyone from the smallest child to the greatest summoned in our meeting tonight, and there we will decided weather or not to continue and move forward with the idea, though after just learning about how we had been manipulated and how then you and Naxos did save us, we all do owe you a great debt I suppose."
"I suppose, where is Naxos anyway?"
"I'm not sure to tell you the truth the last time I talked to him was a couple of hours ago and he said that he was running off to the library."
"To meet with Leviathan?"
"I don't know."
"I do." Said that dark voice that she knew almost too well, from right behind Racule; who had forgotten to close the door behind him. "Good to see you up again Dawne, I've been quite busy getting everyone to accept the idea of moving away from this realm."
"And how has that been going?" Racule asked Naxos as he entered into the room and sat down on a chair around the table.
"These people are as stubborn as rocks, and half as intelligent." Naxos said with the cynicism he loved on his breath.
"Those are your people too Naxos." Racule added, trying to sound quite the diplomat, but not really succeeding by Dawne's standards, he still somehow sounded greedy when he talked, just like he always did when he was younger.
"By blood yes, but now the blood that binds me to those people feels like water, they don't even remember me! The ones that I remember that I played with as a child can't even remember who I am. Let alone do they understand why I'm trying to get them to move away from their homes; it's so light-damned frustrating!" Naxos said with an inner rage burning in him, Dawne thought if he wasn't careful that inner burning would burn him from the inside out one day. But for some reason she was starting to loose concentration.
"Well what do you expect Naxos!" Racule began. "How would you feel if someone just came to your home, killed a horrible death monster and you praised him for that, and then suddenly he tells you that you should know him and that you and everyone you know need to come away from our safe lives here and live in a place that not even our greatest elders remember?" Dawne listened to him, but know she was having a lot of trouble hearing.
"I have no home Racule. This place was never my home, none of its people were ever my friends, and a hideous death beast would be welcome company some times. You don't know the suffering I feel, you don't know the lengths to which I'd go..."
"Oh, go and get over it Naxo..." Dawne barely managed to get out from her weak body, and then she collapsed on her bed.
* * *
Dawne shivered and shook, she could feel her body chilling at every point, from the soles of her feat to the hair on her head. She couldn't see, but she didn't need to, she knew that she was stuck in some sort of a blizzard as cold as the winter's heart, she'd never been in a blizzard before, but she'd heard about them, so she assumed she knew how they felt.
As she felt her body cringe, shiver, and jolt, she suddenly realized that the cold was not coming from the outside at all, it felt like her soul was cold and that that was what was making her body cold. At that moment she tried desperately to open her eyes and to generally gain control over her body so that she could fight whatever it was that was being done to her. As she tried to control each muscle and fiber of herself individually was when she realized that she was quite naked, and it almost felt as though she was lying on the ground. Which was insane because she was just inside of that little house, how could she have been sent outside, have her soul frozen, and been stark naked and not have known about it at all. "First off," She thought as she tried to regain herself and this was the first that entered her mind with any semblance. "If all of that had happened to me I would have known about it somehow. Because I'd have to be completely unconscious for anyone to even
get close to... I was unconscious, I dropped right after I said that to Naxos." Suddenly a newfound fear had been forged inside of her. What if Naxos had gone off the edge about the comment that she had made, she thought that he might be close, but she just couldn't imagine "What if he had?" She couldn't even bear to think it, it was a worse thought then anything... dragging her out of bed and taking her to the surface and then... she couldn't handle it and she screamed something to make blood curdle.
"Child." She heard a soft voice trying to comfort... a voice so familiar yet in the infinite pain of even thinking about what could have happened she did not recognize it at all. "Poor child, my touch is hurting her, it does this to some and I never know why it does, we shall ask her when she comes back to us I think." Dawne could not hear a word that was said after child.
Blissfully, the cold exited her soul and she found herself simply laying there; finally being able to stop her near seizure like activities. Slowly she began to open her eyes and as she did she found a great woman standing above her... it was Asura, in her natural form or some would even say, battle form. "Queen Asura, what was that awfulness, and why am I here, and naked." She said as she looked around the room and saw that she was underneath the library in the Asura's own private room.
"You needed healing, your friend was afraid sleep would not suffice, so I decided to help you when he asked me. He can be very charismatic in a way, and also very... odd in other ways." Asura said with a calm voice that when she talked it was like hearing your mother's voice while still inside the womb. "And you are naked because all of these boys behind you wanted to see your beautiful figure." Suddenly every inch of Dawne's body turned a bright red as she turned her head around and got herself ready to scream once again, but behind her their was nothing but walls, furniture, a wooden desk, and a couple of chairs, one of which a small fairy sat in.
Dawne looked back at Asura reading to release the full fury of hell upon her. But as she was about to speak from behind her came a small voice saying. "Well we are technically genderless by your standards, but I do find her appealing for some reason." And as she heard this, her head moved yet again, and the brightness returned to her. Now she didn't know what to think or feel for that matter.
Asura simply laughed and said. "Child, my touch chilled your very soul for some bizarre reason, so I removed your clothes so that I could study exactly what was happening to you." The near giant like six armed women replied.
"Should I thank you then?" Dawne asked, quite unsure whether this mother queen of the monsters had healed her or hurt and embarrassed her.
"If you wish, you are better now, though the chilling that was caused by that perplexed me to be honest." Asura said, and suddenly without even a flash or a transformation, she was back to being a regular fairly old woman who just happened to look like a queen.
"Well then I do thank you, but why did you invite this Slyphid in with you?" Dawne asked sounding only slightly indignant.
"She is here to make sure that I do not make any mistakes or in any way tap myself out. You know, it is always a good idea to have another person with you when casting spells or doing anything... magical you know?" Asura said, quite matter-of-factly.
"Yes, I suppose. But is this the closest you could come to a female mage to help you?"
"Should I be offended?" The Slyphid asked, but was ignored.
"This was the closest yes, there are so few of our kind that practice the white arts anymore." Asura said, sounding quite tired and almost apathetic towards everything.
"Oh!" Dawne was quite surprised; back in her time there were a great deal of white mages who could have helped Asura to do this. How could they all have disappeared? "Asura, what do you mean that there are few that practice the white arts?"
"There are almost no summoned ones such as myself that practice the white arts." Asura said calmly, rationally, and logically.
"Why did you not ask one of the white mages to help you, or are their none left?" Dawne asked suspiciously.
"White mages? To what are you referring to Dawne?" Asura spoke as though she had never heard the term before in her life.
"The humans in this village that use white magic? You don't know about them?" Asura shook her head. "What the hell is going on here?!" Dawne shouted at the walls in the room around her. All that she could think about now were all of her friends that she had known that had been taught the white ways. She had never had any skill for white magic so she concentrated on her summoning and black magic, but those were her friends. But now that she thought about it, she didn't remember seeing any of them when she was outside.
Now though she didn't even want to look at any more of the summoned ones, she didn't want to look at anyone or anything, this was all to weird... too wrong, this was all just far too wrong.
Dawne stood up and started to walk towards the door, she didn't even think about how she didn't have any clothes on; the temperature was always nice anyway. She didn't think about how Asura and the Slyphid were calling to her, they were just voices anyway. She didn't notice everyone in the library staring at her as she passed through and up to the city; they weren't anyone she knew anyway. She went to the mage's school where she had taken her schooling before, but it wasn't there, at least she didn't need schooling anyway. She cried on the sidewalk, naked, alone, tired, and she didn't have anything left to believe in, she didn't have any willpower left, not that it mattered she felt like she didn't have anything more to live for anyway. She collapsed, she didn't think, she didn't cry, she didn't do anything except fall to the ground and pray that it was all just a dream.
* * *
"What's wrong with her?" Naxos asked Asura, both of them looking down at Dawne who was being covered by a white sheet. Naxos had just walked through the door, and he looked down at Dawne with sympathy and sadness, and also curiosity as to why she did what she did; it's not everyday you walk around a corner and find a long good friend of yours naked laying down on a street with a crowd of people around her waiting for something to happen.
"I don't know, and that disturbs me to no end; for I always know. This is quite unnatural whatever it is that is happening to her. I think it might be some force that lies outside of this world, and maybe yours too." Asura told him with purpose on a voice that was so close to almost trembling. "Do you have any idea what could be causing this?"
"Well, when we journeyed here she seemed fine... she was quite able to teleport us from the surface world to the lower world where the cave to here is located. Though when we did enter the cavern there was a near legion of soldiers lying dead on the ground. When I looked at them with eyes unhazed by reality, I found that it looked as if their very souls had been taking from their bodies. And that is never a natural thing by any means."
Asura looked slightly confused "Teleported, like transportation. Anyway, didn't you say that it was our Milon that had caused all of the deaths that you saw?" Asura asked.
"That's what I thought, but maybe I should go back and explore all of the corpses for more clues. And to think I thought she collapsed by emptying herself out."
"What do you mean?" Asura asked.
"I mean... well you know how we all have a point when casting that we simply cannot go any further and we need rest." Asura looked confused and very worried. "If I was to cast a spell like Exploding fire about 15 times then I'd probably collapse because at that point I reach my empty point. Its like I run out of spiritual energy and that saps my energy as well."
"You can cast magic!" Asura was flabbergasted.
"Well yes." Naxos said slowly, he had forgotten just how much had been taken from all of their memories. "All callers do, I can, so can Dawne here. How did you think we had killed Milon?"
"I didn't know, and it's not my place to ask. I would have liked for Leviathan to have told me though." Asura said with aggravation trying to seep out of her. Asura was very good at keeping her emotions under check, but Naxos always had an eye for others emotions, most didn't believe that he did however sense he always seemed to not care. Well that was because he didn't care, not because he didn't know.
"Yes, she cast a very powerful spell do destroy Milon. She collapsed because she reached her empty point." Asura looked at him blankly, like she was trying to understand. "Queen Asura, can you do the magic of psych?"
"No, I heal and very little else."
"Do you know any who do?"
"I believe that any of the sylphs would."
"Can you get one to come here?"
"Yes, give me a moment." Asura walked by Naxos and through the doorway. A few moments later she returned through the door with a small greenish sylph in tow.
"You know how to use the *psych don't you?" Asura asked the sylph.
"I do." It replied
"Good." Naxos started. "Because what we're going to be doing will take a little bit of innovation." Naxos smiled at the sylph and then at Asura.
"What are you thinking?" Asura asked.
"Have you ever inverted a spell?"
"No, not really." Asura admitted.
"Well, I hope it will be quite simple... would you mind showing me what it is that you do to create the psych effect good sylph?" Naxos asked
The sylph looked at Asura and then Naxos, then it nodded its head as if signaling it was going to start. It lifted it's arms above it's small little head and then brought them down to both with palms outward and seemingly with it's wrist bones pointing towards a chair off in the distance it then said "Derentzon grenfral ormiumo natrion set mesk artrir!" Suddenly small green orbs appeared out of the chair and flew towards the sylph, which seemed to quickly absorb them.
"That is how I use the psych." It said looking quite proud of itself.
"Interesting, very very interesting." Naxos said as he looked over at the wall lost in thought, trying to figure out how to do the exact opposite.
Suddenly from seemingly out of nowhere Naxos raised his hands above himself, then put them forward to him, and then pulled them back towards his chest as he shouted out. "Mesk artrir con netrion deretzon grenfral ormiumo!" Suddenly yellow balls of light burst out of Naxos and then flew into Dawne's body.
Naxos knew what was coming, and knew that he would feel weak; unfortunately he didn't realize that he would fall down on his ass with such speed. His eyes began to haze as he tried to get up from the ground, and then he felt even more disorientated as his efforts at trying to get up failed miserably and he was on the ground once more. But he forced himself to not go unconscious like his body wanted him to; he forced himself to regain everything. He heard a voice though that made him know that he had done the right thing. He struggled and fought his way back from the darkness of sleep, towards the light. Naxos then felt himself lying down at the floor, with a small greenish creature looking at him from a few inches above his head. It looked down and said. "You are either the dumbest man I've ever met or the bravest, and I don't know yet." Naxos heard that, and knew that he could let himself fall asleep.
* * *
Naxos opened his eyes, and noticed that he was in the room where they had put Dawne down to rest when she was first not feeling well. It was the building only a short block from the library that nobody used. Naxos looked around to try and see if anyone was around, he felt fine now and with that luckily his vision was much better too mach. Sitting beside his bed was a small green sylph, who looked it was reading a book. Over sitting on the table was Dawne, slumped over looking quite bored.
"How long have you two been waiting for me?" Was the first thing out of Naxos's mouth.
Dawne turned around immediately with a giant grin on her face. And next to him the Slyphid jumped up as if he had frightened it's heart out of its chest. "Only about four hours!" Dawne exclaimed happily.
"Really, well I'm glad that I didn't make you two wait too long then." Naxos said with heavy breath.
"I'm so glad you came around quickly Naxos... They told me what you did, and I'm quite impressed to tell you the truth." Dawne paused looking him over. "Impressed by your unfathomable stupidity! You could have destroyed the entire city, the entire realm! You don't just play with arcane forces like that, you occasionally tweak things a little bit here and there, but to do what you did was stupid. Imagine what would have happened if..."
"I just came to me all of a sudden, for the briefest of moments I could see everything, I knew everything about our arts and I knew exactly what to do... if that hadn't of happened I would probably have studied all night to make sure that I was doing the right thing, but it just hit me." Dawne gave Naxos a bizarre look, one that he had no idea what it meant other then maybe, I'm letting you off this time.
"Naxos now would you care to tell me what the hell is going on then?"
* * *
Kain looked out the window to the bleakness of space, all he could see were bleak stars everywhere he looked, wherever he was going, it was taking him a much longer time to get their then it had ever taken before. "It is no longer a Ruby Moon, but a Ruby Planet I suppose. Or maybe even a Ruby meteor." Kain could not help but to stare at everything in space, even though that seemed like nothing at the time, for now he could no longer make out the Blue planet that he had come from. Nor could he see the gray, dead, moon that still circled the Earth. He could still see the sun, but looking at it no longer impaired his vision as much as it used to, for it was becoming very dim. Kain sat down on one of the beds in the back of the ship, but he could not fall asleep. He had been trying to sleep for nearly three days, but it never came to him. Kain began to wonder why the sleep would not come. Was he nervous over his friends who were still on the Earth? Or was he nervous that maybe
this ship really didn't have any idea where it was taking him... though if he touched the crystal again it would take him back to Earth, but he wasn't about to do that yet, he still had to find the Ruby moon, it was still out there... he could feel it.
"Those who write reviews shall be karmically rewarded."
-Kain DeLuman
*psych is the spell that drains MP, in case you forgot or something
Dawne looked up from her bed, the only thing that she could make out from that was that the roof of the building was completely wood. Remember the city, it seemed to her that all of the houses in the village seemed to be like that, very rustic on the outside, and inside too. But that rustic charm hid the true nature of the town, for inside dwelt some of the most powerful creatures that had never roamed the Earth... and some that hadn't.
She lifted her torso out of bed so she could take a good look around and hopefully find out where she was. The room that she was in was sparse at best; her bed was in the left back corner next to it was a chair with a pale blue lamp on it, the lamp's dim glow barely managed to penetrate the two opposite corners of the room. There was a small circular table in the middle of the room, with five chairs surrounding it. On the direct opposite other side from her she could see a polished silver mirror, large enough to allow anyone a good look at their entire outfit. Dawne looked at herself in the mirror, realizing that it had been the first time in a long time that she had actually looked at herself. She saw a very ragged and pale girl, with ratted dirty blonde hair, ugly brown eyes and other features that were unfortunately a bit smaller then she really desired. Now she remembered why it was that she didn't look into mirrors too often.
It was while she was looking at herself in the mirror that she heard the door open, a near flood of light came in with it and blinded her slightly so that she could not see who had entered. "Dawne." A strange voice from the brightness began. "It is good to see you awake, I would have hated to have woken you up myself. Anyway, I have been talking with Naxos and he seems to think that we should all take ourselves out of this realm as soon as possible. I must say that I cannot agree completely with his logic on the matter but some of it does seem interestingly enough, especially the idea that our summoning abilities were sterilized by living in this realm, a very interesting idea indeed. Don't you think?" Suddenly the man in the doorway came into focus it was Racule, the summoner that had not decided to join Kain in his quest that long time ago. Now though he looked quite aged and not very healthy looking either, very stressed out it seemed, for there were great black bags
under his eyes.
"Yeah I agree with the idea totally, sense I was kind of the one who came up with it." Dawne said trying to herself up with her sheets.
"Oh, I see. Very interesting, well Naxos never did say where it was that his idea came from. I just assumed that... Anyway, I am glad that you think this way as well, we will be meeting with everyone from the smallest child to the greatest summoned in our meeting tonight, and there we will decided weather or not to continue and move forward with the idea, though after just learning about how we had been manipulated and how then you and Naxos did save us, we all do owe you a great debt I suppose."
"I suppose, where is Naxos anyway?"
"I'm not sure to tell you the truth the last time I talked to him was a couple of hours ago and he said that he was running off to the library."
"To meet with Leviathan?"
"I don't know."
"I do." Said that dark voice that she knew almost too well, from right behind Racule; who had forgotten to close the door behind him. "Good to see you up again Dawne, I've been quite busy getting everyone to accept the idea of moving away from this realm."
"And how has that been going?" Racule asked Naxos as he entered into the room and sat down on a chair around the table.
"These people are as stubborn as rocks, and half as intelligent." Naxos said with the cynicism he loved on his breath.
"Those are your people too Naxos." Racule added, trying to sound quite the diplomat, but not really succeeding by Dawne's standards, he still somehow sounded greedy when he talked, just like he always did when he was younger.
"By blood yes, but now the blood that binds me to those people feels like water, they don't even remember me! The ones that I remember that I played with as a child can't even remember who I am. Let alone do they understand why I'm trying to get them to move away from their homes; it's so light-damned frustrating!" Naxos said with an inner rage burning in him, Dawne thought if he wasn't careful that inner burning would burn him from the inside out one day. But for some reason she was starting to loose concentration.
"Well what do you expect Naxos!" Racule began. "How would you feel if someone just came to your home, killed a horrible death monster and you praised him for that, and then suddenly he tells you that you should know him and that you and everyone you know need to come away from our safe lives here and live in a place that not even our greatest elders remember?" Dawne listened to him, but know she was having a lot of trouble hearing.
"I have no home Racule. This place was never my home, none of its people were ever my friends, and a hideous death beast would be welcome company some times. You don't know the suffering I feel, you don't know the lengths to which I'd go..."
"Oh, go and get over it Naxo..." Dawne barely managed to get out from her weak body, and then she collapsed on her bed.
* * *
Dawne shivered and shook, she could feel her body chilling at every point, from the soles of her feat to the hair on her head. She couldn't see, but she didn't need to, she knew that she was stuck in some sort of a blizzard as cold as the winter's heart, she'd never been in a blizzard before, but she'd heard about them, so she assumed she knew how they felt.
As she felt her body cringe, shiver, and jolt, she suddenly realized that the cold was not coming from the outside at all, it felt like her soul was cold and that that was what was making her body cold. At that moment she tried desperately to open her eyes and to generally gain control over her body so that she could fight whatever it was that was being done to her. As she tried to control each muscle and fiber of herself individually was when she realized that she was quite naked, and it almost felt as though she was lying on the ground. Which was insane because she was just inside of that little house, how could she have been sent outside, have her soul frozen, and been stark naked and not have known about it at all. "First off," She thought as she tried to regain herself and this was the first that entered her mind with any semblance. "If all of that had happened to me I would have known about it somehow. Because I'd have to be completely unconscious for anyone to even
get close to... I was unconscious, I dropped right after I said that to Naxos." Suddenly a newfound fear had been forged inside of her. What if Naxos had gone off the edge about the comment that she had made, she thought that he might be close, but she just couldn't imagine "What if he had?" She couldn't even bear to think it, it was a worse thought then anything... dragging her out of bed and taking her to the surface and then... she couldn't handle it and she screamed something to make blood curdle.
"Child." She heard a soft voice trying to comfort... a voice so familiar yet in the infinite pain of even thinking about what could have happened she did not recognize it at all. "Poor child, my touch is hurting her, it does this to some and I never know why it does, we shall ask her when she comes back to us I think." Dawne could not hear a word that was said after child.
Blissfully, the cold exited her soul and she found herself simply laying there; finally being able to stop her near seizure like activities. Slowly she began to open her eyes and as she did she found a great woman standing above her... it was Asura, in her natural form or some would even say, battle form. "Queen Asura, what was that awfulness, and why am I here, and naked." She said as she looked around the room and saw that she was underneath the library in the Asura's own private room.
"You needed healing, your friend was afraid sleep would not suffice, so I decided to help you when he asked me. He can be very charismatic in a way, and also very... odd in other ways." Asura said with a calm voice that when she talked it was like hearing your mother's voice while still inside the womb. "And you are naked because all of these boys behind you wanted to see your beautiful figure." Suddenly every inch of Dawne's body turned a bright red as she turned her head around and got herself ready to scream once again, but behind her their was nothing but walls, furniture, a wooden desk, and a couple of chairs, one of which a small fairy sat in.
Dawne looked back at Asura reading to release the full fury of hell upon her. But as she was about to speak from behind her came a small voice saying. "Well we are technically genderless by your standards, but I do find her appealing for some reason." And as she heard this, her head moved yet again, and the brightness returned to her. Now she didn't know what to think or feel for that matter.
Asura simply laughed and said. "Child, my touch chilled your very soul for some bizarre reason, so I removed your clothes so that I could study exactly what was happening to you." The near giant like six armed women replied.
"Should I thank you then?" Dawne asked, quite unsure whether this mother queen of the monsters had healed her or hurt and embarrassed her.
"If you wish, you are better now, though the chilling that was caused by that perplexed me to be honest." Asura said, and suddenly without even a flash or a transformation, she was back to being a regular fairly old woman who just happened to look like a queen.
"Well then I do thank you, but why did you invite this Slyphid in with you?" Dawne asked sounding only slightly indignant.
"She is here to make sure that I do not make any mistakes or in any way tap myself out. You know, it is always a good idea to have another person with you when casting spells or doing anything... magical you know?" Asura said, quite matter-of-factly.
"Yes, I suppose. But is this the closest you could come to a female mage to help you?"
"Should I be offended?" The Slyphid asked, but was ignored.
"This was the closest yes, there are so few of our kind that practice the white arts anymore." Asura said, sounding quite tired and almost apathetic towards everything.
"Oh!" Dawne was quite surprised; back in her time there were a great deal of white mages who could have helped Asura to do this. How could they all have disappeared? "Asura, what do you mean that there are few that practice the white arts?"
"There are almost no summoned ones such as myself that practice the white arts." Asura said calmly, rationally, and logically.
"Why did you not ask one of the white mages to help you, or are their none left?" Dawne asked suspiciously.
"White mages? To what are you referring to Dawne?" Asura spoke as though she had never heard the term before in her life.
"The humans in this village that use white magic? You don't know about them?" Asura shook her head. "What the hell is going on here?!" Dawne shouted at the walls in the room around her. All that she could think about now were all of her friends that she had known that had been taught the white ways. She had never had any skill for white magic so she concentrated on her summoning and black magic, but those were her friends. But now that she thought about it, she didn't remember seeing any of them when she was outside.
Now though she didn't even want to look at any more of the summoned ones, she didn't want to look at anyone or anything, this was all to weird... too wrong, this was all just far too wrong.
Dawne stood up and started to walk towards the door, she didn't even think about how she didn't have any clothes on; the temperature was always nice anyway. She didn't think about how Asura and the Slyphid were calling to her, they were just voices anyway. She didn't notice everyone in the library staring at her as she passed through and up to the city; they weren't anyone she knew anyway. She went to the mage's school where she had taken her schooling before, but it wasn't there, at least she didn't need schooling anyway. She cried on the sidewalk, naked, alone, tired, and she didn't have anything left to believe in, she didn't have any willpower left, not that it mattered she felt like she didn't have anything more to live for anyway. She collapsed, she didn't think, she didn't cry, she didn't do anything except fall to the ground and pray that it was all just a dream.
* * *
"What's wrong with her?" Naxos asked Asura, both of them looking down at Dawne who was being covered by a white sheet. Naxos had just walked through the door, and he looked down at Dawne with sympathy and sadness, and also curiosity as to why she did what she did; it's not everyday you walk around a corner and find a long good friend of yours naked laying down on a street with a crowd of people around her waiting for something to happen.
"I don't know, and that disturbs me to no end; for I always know. This is quite unnatural whatever it is that is happening to her. I think it might be some force that lies outside of this world, and maybe yours too." Asura told him with purpose on a voice that was so close to almost trembling. "Do you have any idea what could be causing this?"
"Well, when we journeyed here she seemed fine... she was quite able to teleport us from the surface world to the lower world where the cave to here is located. Though when we did enter the cavern there was a near legion of soldiers lying dead on the ground. When I looked at them with eyes unhazed by reality, I found that it looked as if their very souls had been taking from their bodies. And that is never a natural thing by any means."
Asura looked slightly confused "Teleported, like transportation. Anyway, didn't you say that it was our Milon that had caused all of the deaths that you saw?" Asura asked.
"That's what I thought, but maybe I should go back and explore all of the corpses for more clues. And to think I thought she collapsed by emptying herself out."
"What do you mean?" Asura asked.
"I mean... well you know how we all have a point when casting that we simply cannot go any further and we need rest." Asura looked confused and very worried. "If I was to cast a spell like Exploding fire about 15 times then I'd probably collapse because at that point I reach my empty point. Its like I run out of spiritual energy and that saps my energy as well."
"You can cast magic!" Asura was flabbergasted.
"Well yes." Naxos said slowly, he had forgotten just how much had been taken from all of their memories. "All callers do, I can, so can Dawne here. How did you think we had killed Milon?"
"I didn't know, and it's not my place to ask. I would have liked for Leviathan to have told me though." Asura said with aggravation trying to seep out of her. Asura was very good at keeping her emotions under check, but Naxos always had an eye for others emotions, most didn't believe that he did however sense he always seemed to not care. Well that was because he didn't care, not because he didn't know.
"Yes, she cast a very powerful spell do destroy Milon. She collapsed because she reached her empty point." Asura looked at him blankly, like she was trying to understand. "Queen Asura, can you do the magic of psych?"
"No, I heal and very little else."
"Do you know any who do?"
"I believe that any of the sylphs would."
"Can you get one to come here?"
"Yes, give me a moment." Asura walked by Naxos and through the doorway. A few moments later she returned through the door with a small greenish sylph in tow.
"You know how to use the *psych don't you?" Asura asked the sylph.
"I do." It replied
"Good." Naxos started. "Because what we're going to be doing will take a little bit of innovation." Naxos smiled at the sylph and then at Asura.
"What are you thinking?" Asura asked.
"Have you ever inverted a spell?"
"No, not really." Asura admitted.
"Well, I hope it will be quite simple... would you mind showing me what it is that you do to create the psych effect good sylph?" Naxos asked
The sylph looked at Asura and then Naxos, then it nodded its head as if signaling it was going to start. It lifted it's arms above it's small little head and then brought them down to both with palms outward and seemingly with it's wrist bones pointing towards a chair off in the distance it then said "Derentzon grenfral ormiumo natrion set mesk artrir!" Suddenly small green orbs appeared out of the chair and flew towards the sylph, which seemed to quickly absorb them.
"That is how I use the psych." It said looking quite proud of itself.
"Interesting, very very interesting." Naxos said as he looked over at the wall lost in thought, trying to figure out how to do the exact opposite.
Suddenly from seemingly out of nowhere Naxos raised his hands above himself, then put them forward to him, and then pulled them back towards his chest as he shouted out. "Mesk artrir con netrion deretzon grenfral ormiumo!" Suddenly yellow balls of light burst out of Naxos and then flew into Dawne's body.
Naxos knew what was coming, and knew that he would feel weak; unfortunately he didn't realize that he would fall down on his ass with such speed. His eyes began to haze as he tried to get up from the ground, and then he felt even more disorientated as his efforts at trying to get up failed miserably and he was on the ground once more. But he forced himself to not go unconscious like his body wanted him to; he forced himself to regain everything. He heard a voice though that made him know that he had done the right thing. He struggled and fought his way back from the darkness of sleep, towards the light. Naxos then felt himself lying down at the floor, with a small greenish creature looking at him from a few inches above his head. It looked down and said. "You are either the dumbest man I've ever met or the bravest, and I don't know yet." Naxos heard that, and knew that he could let himself fall asleep.
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Naxos opened his eyes, and noticed that he was in the room where they had put Dawne down to rest when she was first not feeling well. It was the building only a short block from the library that nobody used. Naxos looked around to try and see if anyone was around, he felt fine now and with that luckily his vision was much better too mach. Sitting beside his bed was a small green sylph, who looked it was reading a book. Over sitting on the table was Dawne, slumped over looking quite bored.
"How long have you two been waiting for me?" Was the first thing out of Naxos's mouth.
Dawne turned around immediately with a giant grin on her face. And next to him the Slyphid jumped up as if he had frightened it's heart out of its chest. "Only about four hours!" Dawne exclaimed happily.
"Really, well I'm glad that I didn't make you two wait too long then." Naxos said with heavy breath.
"I'm so glad you came around quickly Naxos... They told me what you did, and I'm quite impressed to tell you the truth." Dawne paused looking him over. "Impressed by your unfathomable stupidity! You could have destroyed the entire city, the entire realm! You don't just play with arcane forces like that, you occasionally tweak things a little bit here and there, but to do what you did was stupid. Imagine what would have happened if..."
"I just came to me all of a sudden, for the briefest of moments I could see everything, I knew everything about our arts and I knew exactly what to do... if that hadn't of happened I would probably have studied all night to make sure that I was doing the right thing, but it just hit me." Dawne gave Naxos a bizarre look, one that he had no idea what it meant other then maybe, I'm letting you off this time.
"Naxos now would you care to tell me what the hell is going on then?"
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Kain looked out the window to the bleakness of space, all he could see were bleak stars everywhere he looked, wherever he was going, it was taking him a much longer time to get their then it had ever taken before. "It is no longer a Ruby Moon, but a Ruby Planet I suppose. Or maybe even a Ruby meteor." Kain could not help but to stare at everything in space, even though that seemed like nothing at the time, for now he could no longer make out the Blue planet that he had come from. Nor could he see the gray, dead, moon that still circled the Earth. He could still see the sun, but looking at it no longer impaired his vision as much as it used to, for it was becoming very dim. Kain sat down on one of the beds in the back of the ship, but he could not fall asleep. He had been trying to sleep for nearly three days, but it never came to him. Kain began to wonder why the sleep would not come. Was he nervous over his friends who were still on the Earth? Or was he nervous that maybe
this ship really didn't have any idea where it was taking him... though if he touched the crystal again it would take him back to Earth, but he wasn't about to do that yet, he still had to find the Ruby moon, it was still out there... he could feel it.
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-Kain DeLuman
*psych is the spell that drains MP, in case you forgot or something