A/N Well after almost a year a new chapter. I just wrote this so that
everybody knows that this story isn't dead yet.
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Kriff looked curiously around the room. He had been blindfolded on the trip to the guild house and only in this room had the blindfold been removed. He was standing in a strange looking room with five corners and a high roof. There were no windows and the sealing appeared to be covered with spider webbings. In each corner of the room was a pillar, each pillar had caring of spiders on them together with some runes that Kriff couldn't recognize, not that he had ever learned to read anyway. He looked around for an exit when a familiar presence entered his mind.
She was in total shock of all the evil she felt in this room. Even when she battled the liche she hadn't felt so much evil. It must have gathered over the years, and that means that this is probably a place of worship to some evil deity. She had to get out of here, no matter the cost. Again she attempted to take control of the young boys body but this time she found his mind fighting her off.
Kriff was furious, "It's trying to take control of me again. I shouldn't have brought it." he thought to himself. "Last time I lost Runt to the slaver and now,....." suddenly he felt the fore that tried to take control of him fade away and was replaced with a soft woman's voice.
Aura was struggling hard when she picked up one of his surface thoughts, "Slaver". Immediately her will to fight was drained away. Carefully trying not to scare the child again she reached out with a bit of her consciousness and send a words to the boy: "Slaver?"
The sudden change of emotion overtook Kriff a little bit be quickly got his mind in focus again: "Yes, Slaver!" he thought while noticing how difficult it is to scream in your mind. He paced around the room remembering how Runt was caught because the sword had worked against him again.
Aura was struggling again, but with her own conscience now, every part of her heart screamed at her for helping a slaver, while her mind though tried to tell her she had done the right thing by saving a human live. As usual, her heart won the battle: "Boy? Are you still there?" Kriff noticed the sudden hesitation in her voice and decided that for some reason she was shocked: "The name is Kriff." She felt relieved although she didn't know why: "Look i'm sorry about what I did. I though you were trying to kill an innocent merchant." Kriff felt his anger rising again: "Innocent? That treacherous son-of-a-....., wait, do you mean that you don't know what is going on around me when your not in control of my body?" Aura was happy, the boy was very observant: "No, Not like that. But every time I take over is very draining, because I have to keep your mental barriers away, which are very strong. I usually fall asleep and only wake up a long time later. When I woke up last time I saw you preparing to attack the slaver, although I didn't know that at the time. Look I'm really Sor,..... Somebody is coming! Quickly put me back behind you belt."
Kriff quickly put the sword back and not a second to late because a well hidden door in one of the walls opened up and three persons walked in. They first to were tall, about the size of an adult and both wore heavy cloaks that had hoods over their heads hiding their faces in the shadow. The third one was smaller and seemed to be of Kriff his age, but this ones identity was hidden too. The looked at Kriff as though they were measuring him for something but since they didn't saw anything Kriff decided to start talking: "Excuse me, uhm, gentlemen. But could you tell me what this is,..."
"SILENCE MALE! You will we addressed when we are ready." The voice from one of the taller ones was obviously female and had a hard cold sound to it. But it had more then sufficient impact to silence Kriff for the time being. After a while the smaller one, who's voice sounded also female, started talking to the two taller ones in a cold sounding language that Kriff couldn't understand. The two taller ones talked back and Kriff came to the conclusion that they were all female. A loosened grip on their cloaks had already told him that they wore black leather armour and carried a lot of weapons. The smaller one walked around him a couple off times as if she was inspecting him when she turned back to the other two woman and said something to them in their own language. The other two nodded and walked out of the room. The smaller walked towards him and threw her cloak off. She was about his age in size but had pointy ears and almond shaped eyes, like an elf. But the most interesting thing was that her skin was jet black, her eyes were red and her long hair that wend down to around the middle of her back was white. Kriff realised that she was a Drow. He knew little about them, and only knew what Anya had told him. The Girl was still looking at him, obviously trying to figure out what he was thinking until she got enough of that: "All Right Male, My name is Maylene'dia of Ara'bund, In public you will address me as Maylene'dia, But while training, May will do. You are now my new training partner for becoming an assassin, if you manage to stay alive you will become part of the guild. But don't get your hopes up, the last one only lasted three months before I, uhm, accidentally killed him. Now follow me and I will show you the place that will be your sleeping spot for the next couple of years." And with that she walked away followed by a very confused Kriff.
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Anya was dreaming her beautiful dreams about legends when suddenly: "AAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Cold!" She screamed while jumping out of her bed soaked in cold water. She quickly looked around the room: "All Right! The one who is responsible for this better show himself soon before I get really MAD!!" Only silence followed. When suddenly her finely attuned ears detected a soft chuckling coming from above her, she quickly looked up and saw a boy a little bit older then her sitting on a floating stick. His eyes went wide when he saw Anya make a jump for him but only managing to knock the stick under him away making them both fall on the bed: "I'll get you for this boy!" she growled at the now confused boy. The boy tried the dodge Anya but she was already sitting on top off him, he now looked a bit afraid: "Wow, Relax! PEACE! It was just a warm welcome." Anya looked surprised at him: "Warm? I'm bloody cold!" shivering due to the fact that she was wearing soaking wet cold clothes. The boy smiled at her: "I'll show you were you can get a hot bath and he rolled off the bed and walked out the door. Anya looked surprised for a second but came to the conclusion that a hot bath was better than revenge, for now.
A couple of minutes later the walked down the hallway the boy suddenly stopped and smiled: "I haven't introduced myself yet, I'm Roy Filun Elere, student court jester although my teachers keep telling me that I have no talent at it at all and should become a mime. This is my second year at the academy. You must be one of the youngest students ever. How old are you anyway? I'm 12." Anya was giggling because of the rambling by the boy walking next to her: "I'm Anya, I'm eight years old and I,...." That was as far as she got before he interrupted again: "Wow! Only eight and already in the academy. You must be really lucky, and not to forget you were selected by Maestro Lurye himself." Anya got confused: "Who?" Now Roy looked at her with a slight look of surprise on his face: "You don't know who's Maestro Lurye? But I thought that all the members of nobility knew that." Now Anya got even more confused: "Nobility? I'm don't have blue blood." "You don't??? But your a half-elf, only nobility is allowed to have children with elves. Who were your parents then?" the boy asked, now also confused. "I have NO idea who my parents were!" she answered rather annoyed, questions about her past irritated her. Roy, apparently noticed her irritation decided not to go on about it, instead her changed the subject because he had noticed that they had entered the hallway were the apprentice bath's were located: "We've arrived at the baths Milady." He said with a small bow and quickly rushing forward so that he could open the door for her. Anya blushed and quickly hid it by looking down and quickly rushed inside. She came to a halt in the middle of a beautiful glistering room, her senses, enhanced by the time spend as a thief immediately noticed four exits, the entry she had just passed trough, the openings in the walls on her left and right and a large opening in the wall ahead of her, through the last one came warm steam and the chatter of voices, both male and female, could be heard. When she heard a door slam shut she quickly spun around and felt her eyes widen when she saw that Roy had also entered: "What do you think you're doing?" She hissed at him. He smiled at her and pointed at a picture above the large opening on which a men and woman were pictured: "Shared bath's." Anya felt her face turn even more crimson: "I'm not sharing a bath with you!!!" Roy grinned and raised his shoulders: "There are personal baths too. They are located behind the changing rooms." Now he pointed at two pictures above the openings on the left and right, one pictured a woman and the other one a man. You'll come to your senses later though, usually only new students use the personal baths." And with that he walked away into the male side off the room.
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A/N Well, my computer is now officially dead. Smoke was coming out of it and my motherboard died a dead, even struggling for a few minutes to stay alive, which gave me the time to make some back-up and save some important data. I'm really sorry to everybody but posting will be incredibly irregular and rare the upcoming months since I can only post on school and in internet café's. Sorry to everybody. Anyway, Post fun stories and of course: R&R!
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Kriff looked curiously around the room. He had been blindfolded on the trip to the guild house and only in this room had the blindfold been removed. He was standing in a strange looking room with five corners and a high roof. There were no windows and the sealing appeared to be covered with spider webbings. In each corner of the room was a pillar, each pillar had caring of spiders on them together with some runes that Kriff couldn't recognize, not that he had ever learned to read anyway. He looked around for an exit when a familiar presence entered his mind.
She was in total shock of all the evil she felt in this room. Even when she battled the liche she hadn't felt so much evil. It must have gathered over the years, and that means that this is probably a place of worship to some evil deity. She had to get out of here, no matter the cost. Again she attempted to take control of the young boys body but this time she found his mind fighting her off.
Kriff was furious, "It's trying to take control of me again. I shouldn't have brought it." he thought to himself. "Last time I lost Runt to the slaver and now,....." suddenly he felt the fore that tried to take control of him fade away and was replaced with a soft woman's voice.
Aura was struggling hard when she picked up one of his surface thoughts, "Slaver". Immediately her will to fight was drained away. Carefully trying not to scare the child again she reached out with a bit of her consciousness and send a words to the boy: "Slaver?"
The sudden change of emotion overtook Kriff a little bit be quickly got his mind in focus again: "Yes, Slaver!" he thought while noticing how difficult it is to scream in your mind. He paced around the room remembering how Runt was caught because the sword had worked against him again.
Aura was struggling again, but with her own conscience now, every part of her heart screamed at her for helping a slaver, while her mind though tried to tell her she had done the right thing by saving a human live. As usual, her heart won the battle: "Boy? Are you still there?" Kriff noticed the sudden hesitation in her voice and decided that for some reason she was shocked: "The name is Kriff." She felt relieved although she didn't know why: "Look i'm sorry about what I did. I though you were trying to kill an innocent merchant." Kriff felt his anger rising again: "Innocent? That treacherous son-of-a-....., wait, do you mean that you don't know what is going on around me when your not in control of my body?" Aura was happy, the boy was very observant: "No, Not like that. But every time I take over is very draining, because I have to keep your mental barriers away, which are very strong. I usually fall asleep and only wake up a long time later. When I woke up last time I saw you preparing to attack the slaver, although I didn't know that at the time. Look I'm really Sor,..... Somebody is coming! Quickly put me back behind you belt."
Kriff quickly put the sword back and not a second to late because a well hidden door in one of the walls opened up and three persons walked in. They first to were tall, about the size of an adult and both wore heavy cloaks that had hoods over their heads hiding their faces in the shadow. The third one was smaller and seemed to be of Kriff his age, but this ones identity was hidden too. The looked at Kriff as though they were measuring him for something but since they didn't saw anything Kriff decided to start talking: "Excuse me, uhm, gentlemen. But could you tell me what this is,..."
"SILENCE MALE! You will we addressed when we are ready." The voice from one of the taller ones was obviously female and had a hard cold sound to it. But it had more then sufficient impact to silence Kriff for the time being. After a while the smaller one, who's voice sounded also female, started talking to the two taller ones in a cold sounding language that Kriff couldn't understand. The two taller ones talked back and Kriff came to the conclusion that they were all female. A loosened grip on their cloaks had already told him that they wore black leather armour and carried a lot of weapons. The smaller one walked around him a couple off times as if she was inspecting him when she turned back to the other two woman and said something to them in their own language. The other two nodded and walked out of the room. The smaller walked towards him and threw her cloak off. She was about his age in size but had pointy ears and almond shaped eyes, like an elf. But the most interesting thing was that her skin was jet black, her eyes were red and her long hair that wend down to around the middle of her back was white. Kriff realised that she was a Drow. He knew little about them, and only knew what Anya had told him. The Girl was still looking at him, obviously trying to figure out what he was thinking until she got enough of that: "All Right Male, My name is Maylene'dia of Ara'bund, In public you will address me as Maylene'dia, But while training, May will do. You are now my new training partner for becoming an assassin, if you manage to stay alive you will become part of the guild. But don't get your hopes up, the last one only lasted three months before I, uhm, accidentally killed him. Now follow me and I will show you the place that will be your sleeping spot for the next couple of years." And with that she walked away followed by a very confused Kriff.
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Anya was dreaming her beautiful dreams about legends when suddenly: "AAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Cold!" She screamed while jumping out of her bed soaked in cold water. She quickly looked around the room: "All Right! The one who is responsible for this better show himself soon before I get really MAD!!" Only silence followed. When suddenly her finely attuned ears detected a soft chuckling coming from above her, she quickly looked up and saw a boy a little bit older then her sitting on a floating stick. His eyes went wide when he saw Anya make a jump for him but only managing to knock the stick under him away making them both fall on the bed: "I'll get you for this boy!" she growled at the now confused boy. The boy tried the dodge Anya but she was already sitting on top off him, he now looked a bit afraid: "Wow, Relax! PEACE! It was just a warm welcome." Anya looked surprised at him: "Warm? I'm bloody cold!" shivering due to the fact that she was wearing soaking wet cold clothes. The boy smiled at her: "I'll show you were you can get a hot bath and he rolled off the bed and walked out the door. Anya looked surprised for a second but came to the conclusion that a hot bath was better than revenge, for now.
A couple of minutes later the walked down the hallway the boy suddenly stopped and smiled: "I haven't introduced myself yet, I'm Roy Filun Elere, student court jester although my teachers keep telling me that I have no talent at it at all and should become a mime. This is my second year at the academy. You must be one of the youngest students ever. How old are you anyway? I'm 12." Anya was giggling because of the rambling by the boy walking next to her: "I'm Anya, I'm eight years old and I,...." That was as far as she got before he interrupted again: "Wow! Only eight and already in the academy. You must be really lucky, and not to forget you were selected by Maestro Lurye himself." Anya got confused: "Who?" Now Roy looked at her with a slight look of surprise on his face: "You don't know who's Maestro Lurye? But I thought that all the members of nobility knew that." Now Anya got even more confused: "Nobility? I'm don't have blue blood." "You don't??? But your a half-elf, only nobility is allowed to have children with elves. Who were your parents then?" the boy asked, now also confused. "I have NO idea who my parents were!" she answered rather annoyed, questions about her past irritated her. Roy, apparently noticed her irritation decided not to go on about it, instead her changed the subject because he had noticed that they had entered the hallway were the apprentice bath's were located: "We've arrived at the baths Milady." He said with a small bow and quickly rushing forward so that he could open the door for her. Anya blushed and quickly hid it by looking down and quickly rushed inside. She came to a halt in the middle of a beautiful glistering room, her senses, enhanced by the time spend as a thief immediately noticed four exits, the entry she had just passed trough, the openings in the walls on her left and right and a large opening in the wall ahead of her, through the last one came warm steam and the chatter of voices, both male and female, could be heard. When she heard a door slam shut she quickly spun around and felt her eyes widen when she saw that Roy had also entered: "What do you think you're doing?" She hissed at him. He smiled at her and pointed at a picture above the large opening on which a men and woman were pictured: "Shared bath's." Anya felt her face turn even more crimson: "I'm not sharing a bath with you!!!" Roy grinned and raised his shoulders: "There are personal baths too. They are located behind the changing rooms." Now he pointed at two pictures above the openings on the left and right, one pictured a woman and the other one a man. You'll come to your senses later though, usually only new students use the personal baths." And with that he walked away into the male side off the room.
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A/N Well, my computer is now officially dead. Smoke was coming out of it and my motherboard died a dead, even struggling for a few minutes to stay alive, which gave me the time to make some back-up and save some important data. I'm really sorry to everybody but posting will be incredibly irregular and rare the upcoming months since I can only post on school and in internet café's. Sorry to everybody. Anyway, Post fun stories and of course: R&R!