Koron stood outside patiently. He phased the floors and thought a whole lot
about what was going on in the room. He felt out of place standing there
waiting like a statue.
---Meanwhile---
"Taiss how have you been?"
"Busy, I came to Lloverden to find a warrior, for I am assigned to a mission by the Black Hall." He looked at the ground Elaina still buried in his robes.
"What do you have to do?"
"I can't tell you."
"Can I come along, I need to get out of this blasted city please Taiss please." She unburied her face and whined. "I even know a warrior!"
"Elai! You know I can't bring you"
"Well you could you just don't want to." She unwrapped her arms from Taiss and walked behind her desk and went though a drawer of scrolls and letters. A frown on her slender elven face showed she was truly disappointed in Taiss.
"You know your right, Arign probably knew why I was here."
"Yes he did."
"I'm his half brother after all."
"You never told me that." She looked up from the drawer over the top of her desk. She saw the man that she had known from a previous life in the heavens and she had fallen in love with him and had almost forgotten it for she was a simple Heaven girl and he had eternal life from Hades.
"The gods never told you?"
"My love life doesn't concern the gods and goddesses, and the stars tell me nothing of hell."
"Well that's to bad." He walked around her desk and looked at her with his amethyst eyes.
"I'm going with you." She stood firmly. "Whether you like it, love it, or rather loose eternal life I am going with you."
"It's your own life Elaina, and I rather not put you in danger such as this but I might as well deal with it and be happy for it is you and I am glad its not someone else." He took her hand in his and kissed her palm, and Arign walked in and shut the door not letting Koron even get a peek on what's going on inside.
"Brother, what the hell are you doing here!?"
"Well Arign it seems you have a wonderful life in The Temple of White, but I am here picking your girl here up and taking her with me on a mission assigned by the Black Halls."
"Elaina is this true."
"Master Arign it is, I can't stay here forever and you know that as well as I do! I can't spend my life telling people they are liars"
"You still call him master?"
"Taiss he is still my employer in the Temple." She gave him an evil glare for daring him to say another word then she whipped her head back to Arign. "Please just let me go. Some day I shall return."
"I would let you go if it was someone other than my half brother who gains his power from hell." Arign fumed, he was lucky he could withhold his anger until he showed the other oracles out. Koron opened the door for shouting was going on. He poked his head in and Elaina saw it remembering she had left him out there. What a loyal warrior not going anywhere.
"Koron go home, pack your bags we leave in thirty minutes." Elaina sent a star to him from the sky on the ceiling that whispered into his ear then returned back into the closeness of its friends.
"Arign it wasn't your decision it was her own, now let her do it." The two brothers went at it and Elaina packed a small bag of her belongings, she even pulled out her staff she had stashed in an ancient closet in the back of the room. The long black oak handle that reached about a foot and a half over Elaina's head and then the silver crescent moon with a simple silver star next to it. She slung the bag over her shoulder and took her staff in her left hand.
"Good bye Arign please be safe." She kissed him lightly on the cheek then wrapped her arm around Taiss. "Go." She whispered up to him and he transported them outside of Koron's small home. Taiss smiled brightly and grasped Elaina around her waist and spun her in a circle then put her softly back on the ground. Koron opened the door and almost dropped his bag to see them in front of him.
"Koron I hope you don't mind, I found you work. And this is Lord Taiss." Elaina smiled when Koron bowed to the both of them.
"I'm honored to travel with both of you." He looked up to the sky as he though he saw an enormous shadow move overhead. The sky darkened as if a thunderstorm just brewed. Elaina put all her weight on her staff and felt weak, her head pounded with magic. Why hadn't the gods given her more time on knowing this!
"Elaina are you okay?" Taiss put his hand on her shoulder and tried to support her weight
"Get out of here Taiss, take Koron with you."
"Lady Elaina, what's going on?" Koron now worried as well held up her other arm the both of them supporting her weight.
"Green Dragons are coming from the north to destroy Lloverden, get out I must go back to Arign." She started moving pushing the two off her and she wobbled down the streets moving all the commoners that looked up to the sky. Elaina closed her eyes and looked for Arign in the Temple, she found him in side her office still. 'Arign get out.' A little star whispered in his ear. 'Get out, the armies have beaten the snows for tonight is the twenty second moon.' Arign looked out the window to see Elaina below him and the star danced near his ear. 'They are twenty minutes from here, get out.' The star cut off for Elaina's magic was being drained. Arign was angry with Elaina for leaving but he wasn't going to let the whole city suffer, he still trusted the girl in the street. Elaina felt extremely weak; her body seemed to bend forward hunched over clinging to her staff. 'Why must the gods take so much power to get me information?' She mumbled before collapsing on the cobblestone her hair fell out of the pin and blew across her face, her robes lay scattered across the area. The warning bell rang, and commoners rushed to get out of the city, taking only what they could carry with them. Taiss and Koron searched for the astrologer everywhere but couldn't find her. Arign got together his armies of mages and clerics and fled as well; only a god can out match a green dragon.
"Koron meet me at the Old Aspen." It was an inn thirty miles west of the city. "I will go find her for I can teleport." Koron nodded and followed the crowd then turned and went west instead of east. Taiss pushed his way though the fighting commoners and saw a green lump in the street up ahead, a long black oak staff in her hand. He teleported over to her side and checked her pulse. It beat slowly and imprecisely hidden in the depths of her elven body. He picked her up and she moaned slightly her body could not withstand anything drastic for nothing flowed though her veins, elven blood but magic is what controlled her and it was all drained for the gods took so much from her. He picked up her staff it shocked him and Elaina woke up stiffly and saw the fireball shoot overhead he ducked as it took out three buildings.
"Thanks Taiss."
"For?" He didn't notice she was awake.
"For your magic." The Shock from her staff sucked all the magic from Taiss's body but his body lived off fear.
"No problem hun."
"Put me down." Taiss set her on her feet then handed her her staff. She sighed heavily and saw four green dragons in her magic's range. She casted and the sky darkened even more and purple rain droplets dropped from the sky each one getting bigger and bigger.
Arign turned and watched the sky darken and his lips curled into a smile. "A Goddess has returned to the city with Star Fall."
If there's so much I must be...
Can I still just be me...
The way I am?
Can I trust in my own heart...
Or am I just one part...
Of some big plan?
---Meanwhile---
"Taiss how have you been?"
"Busy, I came to Lloverden to find a warrior, for I am assigned to a mission by the Black Hall." He looked at the ground Elaina still buried in his robes.
"What do you have to do?"
"I can't tell you."
"Can I come along, I need to get out of this blasted city please Taiss please." She unburied her face and whined. "I even know a warrior!"
"Elai! You know I can't bring you"
"Well you could you just don't want to." She unwrapped her arms from Taiss and walked behind her desk and went though a drawer of scrolls and letters. A frown on her slender elven face showed she was truly disappointed in Taiss.
"You know your right, Arign probably knew why I was here."
"Yes he did."
"I'm his half brother after all."
"You never told me that." She looked up from the drawer over the top of her desk. She saw the man that she had known from a previous life in the heavens and she had fallen in love with him and had almost forgotten it for she was a simple Heaven girl and he had eternal life from Hades.
"The gods never told you?"
"My love life doesn't concern the gods and goddesses, and the stars tell me nothing of hell."
"Well that's to bad." He walked around her desk and looked at her with his amethyst eyes.
"I'm going with you." She stood firmly. "Whether you like it, love it, or rather loose eternal life I am going with you."
"It's your own life Elaina, and I rather not put you in danger such as this but I might as well deal with it and be happy for it is you and I am glad its not someone else." He took her hand in his and kissed her palm, and Arign walked in and shut the door not letting Koron even get a peek on what's going on inside.
"Brother, what the hell are you doing here!?"
"Well Arign it seems you have a wonderful life in The Temple of White, but I am here picking your girl here up and taking her with me on a mission assigned by the Black Halls."
"Elaina is this true."
"Master Arign it is, I can't stay here forever and you know that as well as I do! I can't spend my life telling people they are liars"
"You still call him master?"
"Taiss he is still my employer in the Temple." She gave him an evil glare for daring him to say another word then she whipped her head back to Arign. "Please just let me go. Some day I shall return."
"I would let you go if it was someone other than my half brother who gains his power from hell." Arign fumed, he was lucky he could withhold his anger until he showed the other oracles out. Koron opened the door for shouting was going on. He poked his head in and Elaina saw it remembering she had left him out there. What a loyal warrior not going anywhere.
"Koron go home, pack your bags we leave in thirty minutes." Elaina sent a star to him from the sky on the ceiling that whispered into his ear then returned back into the closeness of its friends.
"Arign it wasn't your decision it was her own, now let her do it." The two brothers went at it and Elaina packed a small bag of her belongings, she even pulled out her staff she had stashed in an ancient closet in the back of the room. The long black oak handle that reached about a foot and a half over Elaina's head and then the silver crescent moon with a simple silver star next to it. She slung the bag over her shoulder and took her staff in her left hand.
"Good bye Arign please be safe." She kissed him lightly on the cheek then wrapped her arm around Taiss. "Go." She whispered up to him and he transported them outside of Koron's small home. Taiss smiled brightly and grasped Elaina around her waist and spun her in a circle then put her softly back on the ground. Koron opened the door and almost dropped his bag to see them in front of him.
"Koron I hope you don't mind, I found you work. And this is Lord Taiss." Elaina smiled when Koron bowed to the both of them.
"I'm honored to travel with both of you." He looked up to the sky as he though he saw an enormous shadow move overhead. The sky darkened as if a thunderstorm just brewed. Elaina put all her weight on her staff and felt weak, her head pounded with magic. Why hadn't the gods given her more time on knowing this!
"Elaina are you okay?" Taiss put his hand on her shoulder and tried to support her weight
"Get out of here Taiss, take Koron with you."
"Lady Elaina, what's going on?" Koron now worried as well held up her other arm the both of them supporting her weight.
"Green Dragons are coming from the north to destroy Lloverden, get out I must go back to Arign." She started moving pushing the two off her and she wobbled down the streets moving all the commoners that looked up to the sky. Elaina closed her eyes and looked for Arign in the Temple, she found him in side her office still. 'Arign get out.' A little star whispered in his ear. 'Get out, the armies have beaten the snows for tonight is the twenty second moon.' Arign looked out the window to see Elaina below him and the star danced near his ear. 'They are twenty minutes from here, get out.' The star cut off for Elaina's magic was being drained. Arign was angry with Elaina for leaving but he wasn't going to let the whole city suffer, he still trusted the girl in the street. Elaina felt extremely weak; her body seemed to bend forward hunched over clinging to her staff. 'Why must the gods take so much power to get me information?' She mumbled before collapsing on the cobblestone her hair fell out of the pin and blew across her face, her robes lay scattered across the area. The warning bell rang, and commoners rushed to get out of the city, taking only what they could carry with them. Taiss and Koron searched for the astrologer everywhere but couldn't find her. Arign got together his armies of mages and clerics and fled as well; only a god can out match a green dragon.
"Koron meet me at the Old Aspen." It was an inn thirty miles west of the city. "I will go find her for I can teleport." Koron nodded and followed the crowd then turned and went west instead of east. Taiss pushed his way though the fighting commoners and saw a green lump in the street up ahead, a long black oak staff in her hand. He teleported over to her side and checked her pulse. It beat slowly and imprecisely hidden in the depths of her elven body. He picked her up and she moaned slightly her body could not withstand anything drastic for nothing flowed though her veins, elven blood but magic is what controlled her and it was all drained for the gods took so much from her. He picked up her staff it shocked him and Elaina woke up stiffly and saw the fireball shoot overhead he ducked as it took out three buildings.
"Thanks Taiss."
"For?" He didn't notice she was awake.
"For your magic." The Shock from her staff sucked all the magic from Taiss's body but his body lived off fear.
"No problem hun."
"Put me down." Taiss set her on her feet then handed her her staff. She sighed heavily and saw four green dragons in her magic's range. She casted and the sky darkened even more and purple rain droplets dropped from the sky each one getting bigger and bigger.
Arign turned and watched the sky darken and his lips curled into a smile. "A Goddess has returned to the city with Star Fall."
If there's so much I must be...
Can I still just be me...
The way I am?
Can I trust in my own heart...
Or am I just one part...
Of some big plan?