Taiss woke up first recognizing the figure in the chair and then the
shivering girl on the bed. She seemed naked without her robes on which he
grew so fond of. Taiss pulled the covers from the bottom of the bed and
placed them over Elaina's shoulders bringing almost instant warmth to her
small frame. He smiled and pulled his long black robe on with gold hems
down the side, and he walked down the hallway to where the bar was vacant.
He left the inn and stood outside a moment wondering where he should start
this so called mission. But he pushed it out of his mind and wondered how
they were going to get Elaina across the continent without totally ruining
this mission.
Elaina woke up suddenly and looked around not seeing Taiss but smiled when she saw Koron still asleep in the chair. She pushed the covers off her body and swung her feet off the side of the bed then gracefully hopped down. She rummaged in her bag and pulled out a long white dress that was clasped with a gold pendant at the halter-top. The clasp held an identical white cape that had no sleeves. She took her breeches and tunic off and slid the dress over her elvish body then pulled her gold bracers out of her bag and clamped them on over each wrist. She then took out her gold coin sash and clipped it around her waist and the single banded gold circlet sat comfortable on her head. It slid neatly under her red curls and lay nicely on her forehead. She looked out the window to see Taiss standing there his black robes pulled tightly around him to block the start of winter's brisk air. She walked down the hall and out the door Taiss had used earlier.
"Taiss?" She leaned against the doorframe her white dress created no warmth. Taiss spun around and faced the girl.
"How interesting, the archangel is dressed in white." He nodded his head. "And me dressed in black."
"It suits you though." She smiled and looked around. The ground was covered in frost and the trees were bare. The forest of evergreens and spruces were all that added color to the winter barren land. The sky still covered in over hanging gray and slate colored clouds promised snow later that day.
"What do the gods see for today?"
"Snow." She closed her eyes pressing her body against the wooden frame of the door. "More armies to the north, they are working east towards the Green Temple of Land."
"So lets see, they wipe out the White Temple of Plains and Heavens, They are wiping out the Land Temple, they are going to want to take down each temple so---."
"So they can control the world with what magic their mages acquire within the depths of each temple, but of course they have to find the charms to each temple. The blue tower-is seen as attacked last." She stumbled over her words. "The Water temple creates more magic then any of them together, if you are going to do this mission you must hurry the Black Temple will fall before the blue one does."
"You know the cycle of destruction?" he stepped back surprised the gods told her their deepest secrets.
"Diamond, jade, ruby, onyx, sapphire. The magics of this world always follow the same pattern. The temples form a pentagon on the land." Elaina flickered her eyes open and stared at the black mage who was becoming over whelmed by the information Elaina could just pull from the gods at random moments.
"You surprise me. But the charms have to be found to acquire the magic correct?"
"Of course. There is one thing stopping the armies now which is the Temple of White charm is no longer present."
"Who is actually ruling these armies?" Taiss couldn't help but pull all the information out of her as he possibly could.
"Gods tell me things Taiss but they don't show me the world as it is, they show me the world as it could be."
"Elaina if you know so much and your reborn only to live again, does that make you a goddess?" Koron walked though the door not looking at either one of them. "Humans are not as foolish as one would wish for." Koron spoke in a monotone voice holding his sword hilt tightly. "You know Elaina your more beautiful in white then you are in green and blue." Koron turned and stepped towards her. He slid the back of his fingers down the side of her cheek and took her eyes and held them in his own.
"Koron what are you doing." She whispered. Elaina was almost turned on by this sudden act of affection from a warrior.
"Cant a man show a girl he has fallen in love with her?" Koron pulled Elaina's chin up to his height and kissed her passionately on the lips. Elaina struggled to wrench herself free of the strong warrior's grasp but couldn't. Taiss stood there gripping his staff firmly, his anger level rising. Koron wrapped his arms around the elven girl and then thrust her forward his dagger fiercely approaching her neck as she was turned in front of him. "How would the gods like it if a human had a dagger who can kill one of their own?"
"Death is not a debt I am yet willing to pay" (Purraj of Urborg) Elaina closed her eyes and her hair seemed to blow into numerous directions. The red curls straightening as her eyes flared open her irises flashing amber from the original emerald. Of course Elaina as well as Taiss knew if the Flowstone Blade, its long polished brass hilt and the blade itself forged in the depths of hell against the gods of good. But it had been lost for centuries and now recovered in the hands of a human mortal.
"Elaina stop it." Taiss took a few steps closer to the girl realizing her power could reach its peak and she could easily die. Koron thrust the blade closer to her neck and scratched a cut that flowed freely with red blood. Elaina didn't seem to notice.
"I can't believe they expect me to fight with this rabble." Elaina whispered as a gust of wind picked up her soft words and blew them across the courtyard and over the cliff only for them to vanish in a breath of breeze.
"I am surprised you fell for it, all this time I have been playing you, and a goddess who claims she knows when someone is lying. Bah I call that a weakness. And if it is weak I either kill it, or ignore it. Anything else I could do would honor it. And of course I am not going to let my armies suffer from a girl who has the gods on her side." He thrust the blade into her neck her eyes flashed amethyst her staff flickered black then blazed into a brilliant white light and a power serge erupted from the charm around her neck and Koron was shot backwards hitting a large aspen a couple hundred feet away. Taiss covered his eyes from the glare and stumbled backward and Elaina's dress flapped rapidly around her. Taiss dropped to his knees and brought his hands down slowly for the light was dimming.
"Koron son of Drathen the fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy." (volrath) She ripped the blade from her neck. "Return to your hell chamber and reclaim your armies I urge you to bring the Flowstone Blade back to me." She threw the blade across the yard; it skittering to his feet and it spun a moment then suddenly stopped. Her hair fell back into place the curls not returning, the wind died down and her eyes continued to glow amethyst. Koron did not stand up but leaned back in immense pain that the tree had inflicted him. Elaina stepped forward her hand outstretched to Taiss. She pulled him up without even grabbing his hand, her magic surging out of her elven flesh. Taiss looked to the goddess and smiled but his smile failed for she had changed, not just in physical appearance but her mental strength. Still living at nineteen the magic was starting to envelope her soul. He realized her life this time seemed to be going a lot faster. He had witnessed her life twice before and soon she will die only to be reborn to live the same life again unless she fulfilled the legacy.
"Taiss." She didn't look over to him but whispered his name with strength. "Twice I have let the Legacy slip away, never again." (Karn, silver golem) She brushed pass the aspens Taiss close at her heels. They left Koron in the courtyard only to realize he too was running short on time the war would start sooner than mortals will apprehend.
Elaina woke up suddenly and looked around not seeing Taiss but smiled when she saw Koron still asleep in the chair. She pushed the covers off her body and swung her feet off the side of the bed then gracefully hopped down. She rummaged in her bag and pulled out a long white dress that was clasped with a gold pendant at the halter-top. The clasp held an identical white cape that had no sleeves. She took her breeches and tunic off and slid the dress over her elvish body then pulled her gold bracers out of her bag and clamped them on over each wrist. She then took out her gold coin sash and clipped it around her waist and the single banded gold circlet sat comfortable on her head. It slid neatly under her red curls and lay nicely on her forehead. She looked out the window to see Taiss standing there his black robes pulled tightly around him to block the start of winter's brisk air. She walked down the hall and out the door Taiss had used earlier.
"Taiss?" She leaned against the doorframe her white dress created no warmth. Taiss spun around and faced the girl.
"How interesting, the archangel is dressed in white." He nodded his head. "And me dressed in black."
"It suits you though." She smiled and looked around. The ground was covered in frost and the trees were bare. The forest of evergreens and spruces were all that added color to the winter barren land. The sky still covered in over hanging gray and slate colored clouds promised snow later that day.
"What do the gods see for today?"
"Snow." She closed her eyes pressing her body against the wooden frame of the door. "More armies to the north, they are working east towards the Green Temple of Land."
"So lets see, they wipe out the White Temple of Plains and Heavens, They are wiping out the Land Temple, they are going to want to take down each temple so---."
"So they can control the world with what magic their mages acquire within the depths of each temple, but of course they have to find the charms to each temple. The blue tower-is seen as attacked last." She stumbled over her words. "The Water temple creates more magic then any of them together, if you are going to do this mission you must hurry the Black Temple will fall before the blue one does."
"You know the cycle of destruction?" he stepped back surprised the gods told her their deepest secrets.
"Diamond, jade, ruby, onyx, sapphire. The magics of this world always follow the same pattern. The temples form a pentagon on the land." Elaina flickered her eyes open and stared at the black mage who was becoming over whelmed by the information Elaina could just pull from the gods at random moments.
"You surprise me. But the charms have to be found to acquire the magic correct?"
"Of course. There is one thing stopping the armies now which is the Temple of White charm is no longer present."
"Who is actually ruling these armies?" Taiss couldn't help but pull all the information out of her as he possibly could.
"Gods tell me things Taiss but they don't show me the world as it is, they show me the world as it could be."
"Elaina if you know so much and your reborn only to live again, does that make you a goddess?" Koron walked though the door not looking at either one of them. "Humans are not as foolish as one would wish for." Koron spoke in a monotone voice holding his sword hilt tightly. "You know Elaina your more beautiful in white then you are in green and blue." Koron turned and stepped towards her. He slid the back of his fingers down the side of her cheek and took her eyes and held them in his own.
"Koron what are you doing." She whispered. Elaina was almost turned on by this sudden act of affection from a warrior.
"Cant a man show a girl he has fallen in love with her?" Koron pulled Elaina's chin up to his height and kissed her passionately on the lips. Elaina struggled to wrench herself free of the strong warrior's grasp but couldn't. Taiss stood there gripping his staff firmly, his anger level rising. Koron wrapped his arms around the elven girl and then thrust her forward his dagger fiercely approaching her neck as she was turned in front of him. "How would the gods like it if a human had a dagger who can kill one of their own?"
"Death is not a debt I am yet willing to pay" (Purraj of Urborg) Elaina closed her eyes and her hair seemed to blow into numerous directions. The red curls straightening as her eyes flared open her irises flashing amber from the original emerald. Of course Elaina as well as Taiss knew if the Flowstone Blade, its long polished brass hilt and the blade itself forged in the depths of hell against the gods of good. But it had been lost for centuries and now recovered in the hands of a human mortal.
"Elaina stop it." Taiss took a few steps closer to the girl realizing her power could reach its peak and she could easily die. Koron thrust the blade closer to her neck and scratched a cut that flowed freely with red blood. Elaina didn't seem to notice.
"I can't believe they expect me to fight with this rabble." Elaina whispered as a gust of wind picked up her soft words and blew them across the courtyard and over the cliff only for them to vanish in a breath of breeze.
"I am surprised you fell for it, all this time I have been playing you, and a goddess who claims she knows when someone is lying. Bah I call that a weakness. And if it is weak I either kill it, or ignore it. Anything else I could do would honor it. And of course I am not going to let my armies suffer from a girl who has the gods on her side." He thrust the blade into her neck her eyes flashed amethyst her staff flickered black then blazed into a brilliant white light and a power serge erupted from the charm around her neck and Koron was shot backwards hitting a large aspen a couple hundred feet away. Taiss covered his eyes from the glare and stumbled backward and Elaina's dress flapped rapidly around her. Taiss dropped to his knees and brought his hands down slowly for the light was dimming.
"Koron son of Drathen the fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy." (volrath) She ripped the blade from her neck. "Return to your hell chamber and reclaim your armies I urge you to bring the Flowstone Blade back to me." She threw the blade across the yard; it skittering to his feet and it spun a moment then suddenly stopped. Her hair fell back into place the curls not returning, the wind died down and her eyes continued to glow amethyst. Koron did not stand up but leaned back in immense pain that the tree had inflicted him. Elaina stepped forward her hand outstretched to Taiss. She pulled him up without even grabbing his hand, her magic surging out of her elven flesh. Taiss looked to the goddess and smiled but his smile failed for she had changed, not just in physical appearance but her mental strength. Still living at nineteen the magic was starting to envelope her soul. He realized her life this time seemed to be going a lot faster. He had witnessed her life twice before and soon she will die only to be reborn to live the same life again unless she fulfilled the legacy.
"Taiss." She didn't look over to him but whispered his name with strength. "Twice I have let the Legacy slip away, never again." (Karn, silver golem) She brushed pass the aspens Taiss close at her heels. They left Koron in the courtyard only to realize he too was running short on time the war would start sooner than mortals will apprehend.