Aldor struggled to stand up and then helped Darin up. They stood there all
three men in a row looking the direction they had taken the two girls.
"Well shit."
"Shit is a nice word to stay compared to what I am feeling." Aldor rubbed his hand up his arm where he landed first. "Why Silva?"
"Not that I don't blame him.have you ever really looked at her?"
"No shit Darin! Of course she is beautiful and smart and funny and elegant. How can she be all those things at once?"
"You mean that don't you?"
"Yes! I love her for Tunare's sake! So I guess I just answered my question for me, Myosin took her because he knew I loved her."
"Now we have to get both of them back." Nimandle grumbled and bent down staring at the black dust. "What the hell are we going to do-other than going after them, I know we are going to do that already, so don't state the obvious Darin." Nimandle caught the dwarf before he opened his mouth. "We have to get going or we will never get this over with!"
"Well where do we go first?" Aldor twirled his finger in circles creating a green neon line that followed his fingertip. "I suggest we go into Highkeep."
"Why?" Darin put his hand over the mage's finger. "The light bothers me."
"Because that's the way they headed and it is the next closest city. It makes sense." Aldor relit the light and touched the dwarfs nose then burned it out.
"Whatever lets go." The dwarf adjusted his axe and led the way. "You know Highkeep has been abandoned for awhile."
"So I have heard but we have to ignore the fact that no one is there and this continent is falling apart and get Tersha and Silva back, it's the only way"
"Tell me Nimandle, tell me why you want to save this Tersha girl. What's in it for you? Because she looked pretty dead earlier."
"Nothing, absolutely nothing. But if she were dead they would have left her there. But did you see her on the ground? Something was glowing around her neck, it was green." "Ok lets go Nimandle." They all zoned into East Commons and then ran though West Commons traveling on though to HighPass. They zoned in and there were a group of orcs standing there ready to attack.
"Aldor take care of it would you?" Darin smiled and the group stood by and watched each orc fall lifelessly to the ground from a single blast of Aldor's magic. "Thanks bud." Darin smiled again and ran past the rock wall leaving the others by the zone. His little legs carried him as fast as they could go across the bridge and up the hill to Highkeep. Aldor and Nimandle were close behind and they noticed why Darin had stopped at the entrance. Two guards dressed in black stood at the side of the walls. Their black skin and white hair gave them away right then and there.
"Darin get back here!" Nimandle motioned to the dwarf as he scooted back towards the others. "For some reason I think we found them, and they don't look to happy.
"Of course we are happy to see you again, I am surprised you found us so quickly for it feels like we just left you." Myosin stood in between the guards. "Boys can you watch these two, I would like to bring Nimandle in to see something."
The guards nodded and crossed their arms. Aldor stepped forward his hands ready to cast a spell, red sparks flung from his fingertips and he reached out and struck Myosin.
"Don't do that again Mage." Myosin smiled and thrust his hand out swiftly and a green blast hit Aldor in the chest. "Next time you should learn to keep your spells to yourself."
"Never." Aldor casted again and was aiming right at Myosin's head.
"Don't Aldor, think of Silva!" Nimandle turned to Aldor and knocked his hands down. "Your making things worse."
"Aldor stop it." Darin pulled Aldor back to where he was standing then he nodded at Nimandle. "Go on Nimandle, now you don't go and do something stupid in there."
"Don't let him cast at the guards please Darin."
Nimandle zoned in after Myosin and he noticed Highkeep was the same has he had remembered when he wad little and it was a bustling city. He looked around and saw what Myosin wanted him to see. Tersha sat on the gravel steps with her head in her hands. Her long black hair over her hands and her bare feet were scarred. She was bleeding on the arm and her tunic and pants were torn and were becoming a little revealing, the green necklace glowed in the middle of the courtyard the pendent off the chain it once hung from. Silva was sitting in a corner shivering her blonde hair knotted and her robes were different.
"This is what happens when they don't do as a I ask."
"Bastard." Nimandle unclipped his blade quickly and swung at Myosin.
"Don't do that Nimandle, it isn't what you want."
"But it is!" Nimandle swung again and scrapped Myosin's black cloak. Myosin quickly casted a spell and hit Aldor in the back and it flung him face first into the wall. The ancient architecture wall crumbled as Nimandle slid down to the cobblestone. Tersha looked up and saw Nimandle lay there and not get up and she rushed over to his side and lifted his head to meet her eyes.
"I told you not to come."
"But I wanted to." Nimandle struggled to get the words out.
"Now look what you have done to yourself! And it hasn't even been two days since you saved me the first time! You had to come and be the warrior and save the druid huh? Foolish."
"Move."
"What?"
"Move!" Nimandle reached for his sword and stood up slowly then charged at Myosin, who stood there laughing. He swung and dodged the attacks that Myosin returned. Blood was dripping slowly from his hands from gripping his sword.
"Give up Nimandle." Silva's voice came to his ears. "It is no use he will ruin you, like he did us." Silva threw her hand and pointed at Tersha who still sat there silently on the ground were Nimandle once laid tears streaming down her face.
"She's right Nimandle. Do give up, you will never win!" Myosin smiled and cast another spell hitting him again. "My power can't be defeated by a warrior such as you. Please do give up before you kill yourself."
Aldor stopped slowly catching his breath and dropping to his knees.
"Do you know what I want from both of these girls here? I want them both dead. Tersha more than the other wench. Aldor more than you. I want to kill all the people who can defeat me! I am a Necromancer Nimandle, I lead a wonderful guild full of destruction and hatred, and why would I want to throw that all away because I was defeated by a druid, or Aldor?"
"Because they aren't the only ones that can defeat you!" Nimandle stood again and slashed at Myosin gauging his leg and blood ran from the wound. Tersha leaped up and grabbed Nimandle putting him in a headlock.
"Stop it right now." She whispered into his ear. "It will be the death of you." Nimandle's body went weak again and he slumped to the ground, his sword was by the necklace that was Tersha's. Myosin walked over to Nimandle and kicked him across the face sending him sprawling to the ground his face in the dust knocking him unconscious.
"Tersha, my dear come here." Myosin held out his hand for her to use to pull herself up. But Tersha didn't move. She sat there and looked at the outreached hand and spit in it. Myosin whipped it on his robe and reached out again. Silva stood leaning against the wall her body weak but she started to cast a spell. Light blue bubbles formed around her and then she disappeared. She gated outside to HighPass leaving Nimandle, Tersha and Myosin in the courtyard alone. Tersha took the hand and thrust it down while she pulled up. Myosin sat on the ground looking disappointed. Tersha grabbed her necklace and held it in her hand then took Nimandle's long blade and shoved it next to Myosin's neck.
"You wouldn't kill me, because you love me to much." The blade quivered in her hand and she cut a shallow cut into his neck.
"That's right Tersha, your right I still love you to much. I destroyed your home; I killed all the people that taught you how to become who you are now. All because I love you and I didn't want you to focus on anything else but me."
"You're a Bastard." She whispered angrily. The blade dropped from her hand and clanked onto the ground. She dropped the necklace and the gem shattered into a million green shards. She stood there and tears trickled down her cheeks. "I never loved you, I never will except it Myosin!"
"I will just leave then, but I will be back for you, and that enchantress, you can count on it!"
"Belil-Gaviel!" She cried in elvish as he stood and gated. Leaving Nimandle and Tersha in the courtyard. The others zoned in quickly panting and then they saw Tersha and the unconscious Nimandle. Darin swiftly walked to Nimandle and shook his head.
"He did something foolish didn't he?"
Tersha nodded. Darin flicked his hands out of his pockets and let blue might glitter from his fingertips which healed Nimandle's wounds then he stood next to Tersha and bandaged her cuts and scraps. Aldor stood there and then looked at Silva. And hugged her. She was caught off guard but instantly accepted the form of passion.
"Don't do that again, don't leave me like that." Silva shook her head no and pushed the tears from her cheek. And they sat there waiting for Nimandle to wake up.
"Well shit."
"Shit is a nice word to stay compared to what I am feeling." Aldor rubbed his hand up his arm where he landed first. "Why Silva?"
"Not that I don't blame him.have you ever really looked at her?"
"No shit Darin! Of course she is beautiful and smart and funny and elegant. How can she be all those things at once?"
"You mean that don't you?"
"Yes! I love her for Tunare's sake! So I guess I just answered my question for me, Myosin took her because he knew I loved her."
"Now we have to get both of them back." Nimandle grumbled and bent down staring at the black dust. "What the hell are we going to do-other than going after them, I know we are going to do that already, so don't state the obvious Darin." Nimandle caught the dwarf before he opened his mouth. "We have to get going or we will never get this over with!"
"Well where do we go first?" Aldor twirled his finger in circles creating a green neon line that followed his fingertip. "I suggest we go into Highkeep."
"Why?" Darin put his hand over the mage's finger. "The light bothers me."
"Because that's the way they headed and it is the next closest city. It makes sense." Aldor relit the light and touched the dwarfs nose then burned it out.
"Whatever lets go." The dwarf adjusted his axe and led the way. "You know Highkeep has been abandoned for awhile."
"So I have heard but we have to ignore the fact that no one is there and this continent is falling apart and get Tersha and Silva back, it's the only way"
"Tell me Nimandle, tell me why you want to save this Tersha girl. What's in it for you? Because she looked pretty dead earlier."
"Nothing, absolutely nothing. But if she were dead they would have left her there. But did you see her on the ground? Something was glowing around her neck, it was green." "Ok lets go Nimandle." They all zoned into East Commons and then ran though West Commons traveling on though to HighPass. They zoned in and there were a group of orcs standing there ready to attack.
"Aldor take care of it would you?" Darin smiled and the group stood by and watched each orc fall lifelessly to the ground from a single blast of Aldor's magic. "Thanks bud." Darin smiled again and ran past the rock wall leaving the others by the zone. His little legs carried him as fast as they could go across the bridge and up the hill to Highkeep. Aldor and Nimandle were close behind and they noticed why Darin had stopped at the entrance. Two guards dressed in black stood at the side of the walls. Their black skin and white hair gave them away right then and there.
"Darin get back here!" Nimandle motioned to the dwarf as he scooted back towards the others. "For some reason I think we found them, and they don't look to happy.
"Of course we are happy to see you again, I am surprised you found us so quickly for it feels like we just left you." Myosin stood in between the guards. "Boys can you watch these two, I would like to bring Nimandle in to see something."
The guards nodded and crossed their arms. Aldor stepped forward his hands ready to cast a spell, red sparks flung from his fingertips and he reached out and struck Myosin.
"Don't do that again Mage." Myosin smiled and thrust his hand out swiftly and a green blast hit Aldor in the chest. "Next time you should learn to keep your spells to yourself."
"Never." Aldor casted again and was aiming right at Myosin's head.
"Don't Aldor, think of Silva!" Nimandle turned to Aldor and knocked his hands down. "Your making things worse."
"Aldor stop it." Darin pulled Aldor back to where he was standing then he nodded at Nimandle. "Go on Nimandle, now you don't go and do something stupid in there."
"Don't let him cast at the guards please Darin."
Nimandle zoned in after Myosin and he noticed Highkeep was the same has he had remembered when he wad little and it was a bustling city. He looked around and saw what Myosin wanted him to see. Tersha sat on the gravel steps with her head in her hands. Her long black hair over her hands and her bare feet were scarred. She was bleeding on the arm and her tunic and pants were torn and were becoming a little revealing, the green necklace glowed in the middle of the courtyard the pendent off the chain it once hung from. Silva was sitting in a corner shivering her blonde hair knotted and her robes were different.
"This is what happens when they don't do as a I ask."
"Bastard." Nimandle unclipped his blade quickly and swung at Myosin.
"Don't do that Nimandle, it isn't what you want."
"But it is!" Nimandle swung again and scrapped Myosin's black cloak. Myosin quickly casted a spell and hit Aldor in the back and it flung him face first into the wall. The ancient architecture wall crumbled as Nimandle slid down to the cobblestone. Tersha looked up and saw Nimandle lay there and not get up and she rushed over to his side and lifted his head to meet her eyes.
"I told you not to come."
"But I wanted to." Nimandle struggled to get the words out.
"Now look what you have done to yourself! And it hasn't even been two days since you saved me the first time! You had to come and be the warrior and save the druid huh? Foolish."
"Move."
"What?"
"Move!" Nimandle reached for his sword and stood up slowly then charged at Myosin, who stood there laughing. He swung and dodged the attacks that Myosin returned. Blood was dripping slowly from his hands from gripping his sword.
"Give up Nimandle." Silva's voice came to his ears. "It is no use he will ruin you, like he did us." Silva threw her hand and pointed at Tersha who still sat there silently on the ground were Nimandle once laid tears streaming down her face.
"She's right Nimandle. Do give up, you will never win!" Myosin smiled and cast another spell hitting him again. "My power can't be defeated by a warrior such as you. Please do give up before you kill yourself."
Aldor stopped slowly catching his breath and dropping to his knees.
"Do you know what I want from both of these girls here? I want them both dead. Tersha more than the other wench. Aldor more than you. I want to kill all the people who can defeat me! I am a Necromancer Nimandle, I lead a wonderful guild full of destruction and hatred, and why would I want to throw that all away because I was defeated by a druid, or Aldor?"
"Because they aren't the only ones that can defeat you!" Nimandle stood again and slashed at Myosin gauging his leg and blood ran from the wound. Tersha leaped up and grabbed Nimandle putting him in a headlock.
"Stop it right now." She whispered into his ear. "It will be the death of you." Nimandle's body went weak again and he slumped to the ground, his sword was by the necklace that was Tersha's. Myosin walked over to Nimandle and kicked him across the face sending him sprawling to the ground his face in the dust knocking him unconscious.
"Tersha, my dear come here." Myosin held out his hand for her to use to pull herself up. But Tersha didn't move. She sat there and looked at the outreached hand and spit in it. Myosin whipped it on his robe and reached out again. Silva stood leaning against the wall her body weak but she started to cast a spell. Light blue bubbles formed around her and then she disappeared. She gated outside to HighPass leaving Nimandle, Tersha and Myosin in the courtyard alone. Tersha took the hand and thrust it down while she pulled up. Myosin sat on the ground looking disappointed. Tersha grabbed her necklace and held it in her hand then took Nimandle's long blade and shoved it next to Myosin's neck.
"You wouldn't kill me, because you love me to much." The blade quivered in her hand and she cut a shallow cut into his neck.
"That's right Tersha, your right I still love you to much. I destroyed your home; I killed all the people that taught you how to become who you are now. All because I love you and I didn't want you to focus on anything else but me."
"You're a Bastard." She whispered angrily. The blade dropped from her hand and clanked onto the ground. She dropped the necklace and the gem shattered into a million green shards. She stood there and tears trickled down her cheeks. "I never loved you, I never will except it Myosin!"
"I will just leave then, but I will be back for you, and that enchantress, you can count on it!"
"Belil-Gaviel!" She cried in elvish as he stood and gated. Leaving Nimandle and Tersha in the courtyard. The others zoned in quickly panting and then they saw Tersha and the unconscious Nimandle. Darin swiftly walked to Nimandle and shook his head.
"He did something foolish didn't he?"
Tersha nodded. Darin flicked his hands out of his pockets and let blue might glitter from his fingertips which healed Nimandle's wounds then he stood next to Tersha and bandaged her cuts and scraps. Aldor stood there and then looked at Silva. And hugged her. She was caught off guard but instantly accepted the form of passion.
"Don't do that again, don't leave me like that." Silva shook her head no and pushed the tears from her cheek. And they sat there waiting for Nimandle to wake up.