A/n: I am SO SORRY I haven't been updating...my dad started thinking
fantasy was from Satan the other day and...yeah. You get the idea. On with
the story!!! (*Btw: Thank you to my newest reviewer ^^...and I completely
apologize if I missed anyone else.) Note: Gotta read the end of the 13th
chapter again, other this one won't make sense.)
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Ch. 16:
Darkan searched frantically for Tristan, even though the echoes of pain from Eos had long stopped. *Sharptooth, are you sure that the screechy voices stopped?* The sleek, bright-eyed snake hissed an assent. *Where did you find it, burrow-brother?* The snake slithered quickly on the ground, and Darkan hurried to catch up with it in the form of a nimble deer. *Burrow-brother, I need this man NOW. He is important, very important.* The snake's eyes narrowed intently as it tasted the air with its forked tongue...*Man is down. Very Down. Take you and other female there. Call.* ~-~ Eos recieved Darkan's call immediately, and sped to his location with the god-magicks. *You've found him?*
*Yes. Magelet, we have to hurry...Tristan is dying.*
*Let's go.*
As they tunneled furiously through the underground tunnels, male screams grew louder and louder. Eos grimly sent, *Almost there. Then you take on whoever dealt him this and I'll get Tristan back to safety.*
~-~ Roger bared his teeth at Tristan. "You see? I still have much energy left for your demise...everything is set up for your friend." He gestured at a sacrificial altar, with shadows in a bowl and a clean, deadly knife waiting for the goddess-elect. "We need the Goddess-elect NOW, Tristan. Now be a good little boy and tell us where...or else my pet mages will have to help you along." Out of the shadows stepped the grinning trio of Lady Faza, Semally, and Charella..or the living simulacra of them, at least. Lady Semally stepped up, her acquired beauty washing away with every step. With a high pitched giggle, she said to Roger, "He was very good. Can we keep him?" Roger turned softly to Tristan and raised an eyebrow in silent question. Well? Tristan nodded, defeated as Roger began to laugh.
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Darkan blew into the room, stopping Roger's laugh. Quickly, easily, he used several daggers to hit Roger on target...but they hit a shield. Roger looked almost indignantly at him. "Did you honestly think that I wouldn't have shields?" He nodded slowly, as his female minions happily chained Darkan up. "Nope....but here's a chance." Roger mockingly opened his shields for one moment before blasting him in a blinding flash of light.
~-~ Eos screamed, "No!!!" She threw up a huge shield...a cataclysmic shudder ran through the earth as she came into her full power. Animals ran, people screamed aboveground as an unnatural earthquake ran through Carthak city. Buildings falling, toppling...people dying as if destroyed by an unseen army...bright light....As she chanted underground, a huge surge of power reflected Rogers huge attack and rebounded it, ripping him and his minions to shreds forever. As the power became alive, Eos's body became no more....and returned.
Mithros steps up. Thundering voice. "You are the goddess-elect. You must live with us; you have not the choice as Daine did." Eos screams in fury, but the gods still held her in the circle. "No, goddess. You are one of us. You must fulfill your destiny." Suddenly, the Mother comes. "It is wrong, my son. It is wrong to trap her like this unwillingly....her daughters can carry on the duty until the destiny is fulfilled. For now, she must live." The gods nod, and step back into the shadows....
Eos woke up.
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A/n: *wince* Right, I know. That was a horrible, horrible ending. Any suggestions?
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Ch. 16:
Darkan searched frantically for Tristan, even though the echoes of pain from Eos had long stopped. *Sharptooth, are you sure that the screechy voices stopped?* The sleek, bright-eyed snake hissed an assent. *Where did you find it, burrow-brother?* The snake slithered quickly on the ground, and Darkan hurried to catch up with it in the form of a nimble deer. *Burrow-brother, I need this man NOW. He is important, very important.* The snake's eyes narrowed intently as it tasted the air with its forked tongue...*Man is down. Very Down. Take you and other female there. Call.* ~-~ Eos recieved Darkan's call immediately, and sped to his location with the god-magicks. *You've found him?*
*Yes. Magelet, we have to hurry...Tristan is dying.*
*Let's go.*
As they tunneled furiously through the underground tunnels, male screams grew louder and louder. Eos grimly sent, *Almost there. Then you take on whoever dealt him this and I'll get Tristan back to safety.*
~-~ Roger bared his teeth at Tristan. "You see? I still have much energy left for your demise...everything is set up for your friend." He gestured at a sacrificial altar, with shadows in a bowl and a clean, deadly knife waiting for the goddess-elect. "We need the Goddess-elect NOW, Tristan. Now be a good little boy and tell us where...or else my pet mages will have to help you along." Out of the shadows stepped the grinning trio of Lady Faza, Semally, and Charella..or the living simulacra of them, at least. Lady Semally stepped up, her acquired beauty washing away with every step. With a high pitched giggle, she said to Roger, "He was very good. Can we keep him?" Roger turned softly to Tristan and raised an eyebrow in silent question. Well? Tristan nodded, defeated as Roger began to laugh.
~-~
Darkan blew into the room, stopping Roger's laugh. Quickly, easily, he used several daggers to hit Roger on target...but they hit a shield. Roger looked almost indignantly at him. "Did you honestly think that I wouldn't have shields?" He nodded slowly, as his female minions happily chained Darkan up. "Nope....but here's a chance." Roger mockingly opened his shields for one moment before blasting him in a blinding flash of light.
~-~ Eos screamed, "No!!!" She threw up a huge shield...a cataclysmic shudder ran through the earth as she came into her full power. Animals ran, people screamed aboveground as an unnatural earthquake ran through Carthak city. Buildings falling, toppling...people dying as if destroyed by an unseen army...bright light....As she chanted underground, a huge surge of power reflected Rogers huge attack and rebounded it, ripping him and his minions to shreds forever. As the power became alive, Eos's body became no more....and returned.
Mithros steps up. Thundering voice. "You are the goddess-elect. You must live with us; you have not the choice as Daine did." Eos screams in fury, but the gods still held her in the circle. "No, goddess. You are one of us. You must fulfill your destiny." Suddenly, the Mother comes. "It is wrong, my son. It is wrong to trap her like this unwillingly....her daughters can carry on the duty until the destiny is fulfilled. For now, she must live." The gods nod, and step back into the shadows....
Eos woke up.
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A/n: *wince* Right, I know. That was a horrible, horrible ending. Any suggestions?