Bearing the Creation and Destruction of Power: Part III
Mutant grundos were streaming in the windows, armed with various weapons. An extremely large grundo bust the door, ducking to fit through the doorway. Most of the pets in the room froze in surprise, except for Tensio, Hallazi, and me. Tensio drew his Million Degree Sword, I held up the gem, and Hallazi grabbed a nearby chair.
"Guys!" I yelled. "Snap out of it! Come on, grab a weapon."
The lead grundo took a swipe at me with his Grundo Sword of Justice. I ducked and held the gem out in front of me. "Taiya! Wish for something!" Tensio called.
"Like what?" I asked desperately.
"I don't know! Smash a table on his head or something!" he told me, running a grundo through with his sword.
Dodging another lunge of the grundo's, I remembered a Grand Lightning Beam that I kept just in case. Tightly clutching the gem, I wish for the wand to come to me. It appeared in my hand, and I used it to blast my attacker.
Chancing a quick glance at the rest of my group, I saw that Dialin, Alysen, and the rest of the pets had come out of their daze. They grabbed any handy furniture they could find and joined the fight. I noticed that having the gem in hand made me a better fighter. Blasting another grundo, I managed to escape the fight for a second. Gasping, I looked around.
Enclella and Tilando were back to back, fighting two grundos at once. Noticing them, I levitated a table above one of the grundo's heads. Smashing it down, I sneaked up behind the other grundo. Blasting his with my Lightning Beam, I looked around at the other pets in the room. Dialin had collapsed on the couch, Alysen was sitting down on a chair that looked as if it were about to lose one of its legs, and the rest of the pets in the room were either sitting on the floor or leaning against the walls. The enemy was defeated.
"Is anybody hurt?" I asked shakily.
"I've got a few scratches," Tensio said.
"Me too," added Hallazi and Enclella.
"Okay, I think I have some healing potions." I ran to the bathroom and looked in a cupboard. I pulled down three healing potions and went back to the living room, distributing the potions as needed.
I collapsed in a nearby vacant chair and looked around at the ruined chairs and tables. "Who d'you think those mutant grundos were?" I asked wearily, toeing the body of the extra large grundo. Hallazi started to examine another grundo.
"Hey, what's this?" she asked, puling a necklace off the grundo. As soon as the necklace was free of it, the grundo and necklace vanished. I gasped and knelt to inspect the big grundo. It too, had a necklace. The necklace had a strange symbol on it. It looked something like two intertwined cobralls. I pulled it off the grundo, and the necklace vanished along with the mutant pet.
"This is really weird," Dialin remarked. Alysen nodded. We went around removing necklaces from the grundos. Each necklace was exactly the same. I shivered. This was too creepy. After having removed the necklaces from the grundos, I collapsed into my armchair. "Now what?"
"Dunno," Alysen mumbled. "I wonder what this has to do with Sakirina's warning."
"Where is the note?" Alysen asked. I looked frantically around the room, searching with my eyes for the note.
"It's gone!" I shrieked. "I put it down on the desk and now it's gone!"
"Oh no!" Dialin exclaimed. "How could it have just disappeared?! There wasn't even anybody that could have taken it!"
"I don't know!" I fumbled through the piles of unfinished stories on the desk, looking for the note, but I was positive-it was gone.
"Wait a minute..." Alysen said slowly. "What if...what if one of the grundos was holding the note when it vanished?! And then the note went with it?"
"You're right!" Dialin agreed. "I bet that's it."
"Umm, guys? Do you realize they now know we have the gem and what it is?" Kyonga asked.
"Oh, Fyora help," I muttered.
"I wish I'd never dug that hole in the sand," Kyonga grumbled.
"Yeah, really," Dialin said.
"I think we know what Sakirina meant about 'destruction,'" Alysen decided.
"Yeah..." Hallazi trailed off.
"Maybe we should try to find out more about the gem and this Sakirina person. That guy who created the gem too," Enclella suggested.
"That's a good idea," I replied. "Maybe we'll have a better chance of it with more knowledge of what the gem can do. Let's try the Neopedia."
So we all filed out of the house to walk to the Neopedia. It was only a few blocks away (I chose that house for this reason because I use the Neopedia a lot for stories), so it didn't take long to get there. We were soon packing into the Neopedia building, sifting through pages of information. "Adee the chia...Advisor Wessle...Aisha Myriad...let's try the g's," I muttered to myself. "Dialin, why don't you look in the S's for Sakirina."
"Okie dokie," Dialin replied. I grinned to myself. Looking for the Gem of Truth, I started sifting through the g section. "Gadgadsbogen...Garon the Lupe...wait a minute!" I separated two articles that had been stuck together. The one on the bottom was...Gem of Truth!
"I fount it!" I called to the others. They hurried over, carrying the piles of paper they were currently looking through. I carried the paper over to a lamp so I could see it better. Here is what it said:
The Gem of Truth is a powerful stone, which can be used for many purposes. It is a bright sapphire blue in color, and measures 4 cubic inches. The easy way to use the stone is to wish for something (such as moving an object), while holding the gem. The harder, but more reliable way, is to learn the words of power, which will work the stone. A man named Hillius Sirkeng created the stone. Not long after creating the Gem of Truth, Sirkeng discovered that the stone had unimaginable power, which no one could control for long. Sirkeng was soon corrupted by the stone, and never seen again. The last known owner of the Gem of Truth was Sakirina the lupe, a well-known adventurer.
We stood in silence, gathered around the paper, barely breathing. "So Sakirina was a lupe. If she was a well-known adventurer, how come we'd never heard of her before this?" Alysen wondered.
"Good question. Well known when this was written maybe, but not now," I replied.
Dialin started flipping through her pile of S articles. "Hey look! I found Sakirina. That was easy."
Dialin began to read the article about Sakirina. "Sakirina the lupe was an adventurer, most well known for being the bearer of the Gem of Truth. She had a few run ins with Hubrid Nox, until she finally disposed of the Gem of Truth, which was what she was after. A famous quote of hers is 'Bearing the Gem of Truth is something that gives you the glorious experience of people trying to steal it from you.'"
"How fun," I muttered. "I believe those grundos were trying to steal the gem. All they got was the note."
"Then they'll probably try to steal it again," Dialin said reasonably.
"Why did I ever have to go to Osiri's pottery in the first place?" I replied, grimacing.
"It's you fate." Alysen said mystically, giggling.
"Oh great."
To be continued...
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Mutant grundos were streaming in the windows, armed with various weapons. An extremely large grundo bust the door, ducking to fit through the doorway. Most of the pets in the room froze in surprise, except for Tensio, Hallazi, and me. Tensio drew his Million Degree Sword, I held up the gem, and Hallazi grabbed a nearby chair.
"Guys!" I yelled. "Snap out of it! Come on, grab a weapon."
The lead grundo took a swipe at me with his Grundo Sword of Justice. I ducked and held the gem out in front of me. "Taiya! Wish for something!" Tensio called.
"Like what?" I asked desperately.
"I don't know! Smash a table on his head or something!" he told me, running a grundo through with his sword.
Dodging another lunge of the grundo's, I remembered a Grand Lightning Beam that I kept just in case. Tightly clutching the gem, I wish for the wand to come to me. It appeared in my hand, and I used it to blast my attacker.
Chancing a quick glance at the rest of my group, I saw that Dialin, Alysen, and the rest of the pets had come out of their daze. They grabbed any handy furniture they could find and joined the fight. I noticed that having the gem in hand made me a better fighter. Blasting another grundo, I managed to escape the fight for a second. Gasping, I looked around.
Enclella and Tilando were back to back, fighting two grundos at once. Noticing them, I levitated a table above one of the grundo's heads. Smashing it down, I sneaked up behind the other grundo. Blasting his with my Lightning Beam, I looked around at the other pets in the room. Dialin had collapsed on the couch, Alysen was sitting down on a chair that looked as if it were about to lose one of its legs, and the rest of the pets in the room were either sitting on the floor or leaning against the walls. The enemy was defeated.
"Is anybody hurt?" I asked shakily.
"I've got a few scratches," Tensio said.
"Me too," added Hallazi and Enclella.
"Okay, I think I have some healing potions." I ran to the bathroom and looked in a cupboard. I pulled down three healing potions and went back to the living room, distributing the potions as needed.
I collapsed in a nearby vacant chair and looked around at the ruined chairs and tables. "Who d'you think those mutant grundos were?" I asked wearily, toeing the body of the extra large grundo. Hallazi started to examine another grundo.
"Hey, what's this?" she asked, puling a necklace off the grundo. As soon as the necklace was free of it, the grundo and necklace vanished. I gasped and knelt to inspect the big grundo. It too, had a necklace. The necklace had a strange symbol on it. It looked something like two intertwined cobralls. I pulled it off the grundo, and the necklace vanished along with the mutant pet.
"This is really weird," Dialin remarked. Alysen nodded. We went around removing necklaces from the grundos. Each necklace was exactly the same. I shivered. This was too creepy. After having removed the necklaces from the grundos, I collapsed into my armchair. "Now what?"
"Dunno," Alysen mumbled. "I wonder what this has to do with Sakirina's warning."
"Where is the note?" Alysen asked. I looked frantically around the room, searching with my eyes for the note.
"It's gone!" I shrieked. "I put it down on the desk and now it's gone!"
"Oh no!" Dialin exclaimed. "How could it have just disappeared?! There wasn't even anybody that could have taken it!"
"I don't know!" I fumbled through the piles of unfinished stories on the desk, looking for the note, but I was positive-it was gone.
"Wait a minute..." Alysen said slowly. "What if...what if one of the grundos was holding the note when it vanished?! And then the note went with it?"
"You're right!" Dialin agreed. "I bet that's it."
"Umm, guys? Do you realize they now know we have the gem and what it is?" Kyonga asked.
"Oh, Fyora help," I muttered.
"I wish I'd never dug that hole in the sand," Kyonga grumbled.
"Yeah, really," Dialin said.
"I think we know what Sakirina meant about 'destruction,'" Alysen decided.
"Yeah..." Hallazi trailed off.
"Maybe we should try to find out more about the gem and this Sakirina person. That guy who created the gem too," Enclella suggested.
"That's a good idea," I replied. "Maybe we'll have a better chance of it with more knowledge of what the gem can do. Let's try the Neopedia."
So we all filed out of the house to walk to the Neopedia. It was only a few blocks away (I chose that house for this reason because I use the Neopedia a lot for stories), so it didn't take long to get there. We were soon packing into the Neopedia building, sifting through pages of information. "Adee the chia...Advisor Wessle...Aisha Myriad...let's try the g's," I muttered to myself. "Dialin, why don't you look in the S's for Sakirina."
"Okie dokie," Dialin replied. I grinned to myself. Looking for the Gem of Truth, I started sifting through the g section. "Gadgadsbogen...Garon the Lupe...wait a minute!" I separated two articles that had been stuck together. The one on the bottom was...Gem of Truth!
"I fount it!" I called to the others. They hurried over, carrying the piles of paper they were currently looking through. I carried the paper over to a lamp so I could see it better. Here is what it said:
The Gem of Truth is a powerful stone, which can be used for many purposes. It is a bright sapphire blue in color, and measures 4 cubic inches. The easy way to use the stone is to wish for something (such as moving an object), while holding the gem. The harder, but more reliable way, is to learn the words of power, which will work the stone. A man named Hillius Sirkeng created the stone. Not long after creating the Gem of Truth, Sirkeng discovered that the stone had unimaginable power, which no one could control for long. Sirkeng was soon corrupted by the stone, and never seen again. The last known owner of the Gem of Truth was Sakirina the lupe, a well-known adventurer.
We stood in silence, gathered around the paper, barely breathing. "So Sakirina was a lupe. If she was a well-known adventurer, how come we'd never heard of her before this?" Alysen wondered.
"Good question. Well known when this was written maybe, but not now," I replied.
Dialin started flipping through her pile of S articles. "Hey look! I found Sakirina. That was easy."
Dialin began to read the article about Sakirina. "Sakirina the lupe was an adventurer, most well known for being the bearer of the Gem of Truth. She had a few run ins with Hubrid Nox, until she finally disposed of the Gem of Truth, which was what she was after. A famous quote of hers is 'Bearing the Gem of Truth is something that gives you the glorious experience of people trying to steal it from you.'"
"How fun," I muttered. "I believe those grundos were trying to steal the gem. All they got was the note."
"Then they'll probably try to steal it again," Dialin said reasonably.
"Why did I ever have to go to Osiri's pottery in the first place?" I replied, grimacing.
"It's you fate." Alysen said mystically, giggling.
"Oh great."
To be continued...
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