(A Story And Addendum For Memoirs Of The Heroes. (Previously "Memoirs Of An Adventure's Child."))
(All Characters Are Ficticious And bare no resemblence to living people. Any resemblence to fictional characters is only by chance.)
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"Mommy, tell us a story," said JaNa, her little face smiling.
"Yea, Mommy, tell us a story of heroes." said KLar, his
voice full of excitement.
Vet looked at her children. The twins had been born
a year after she and Skiz got
married. She looked at her children. Many people said that
they were like angels, but that was
because of their background. She was a mutant, and Skiz was a
monster, thus her children were
beasts. She loved them and sometimes spoiled her children.
She looked at her kids and said, "I'll
tell you a story. It is about your mother and one of her friends,
and a very evil man."
KLar, her son, said, "Was this before you met Daddy?"
"Yes, KLar. It was before I met Daddy. It was
also before I looked like this."
"Before you looked pretty, Mommy?" JaNa asked.
JaNa's own skin now started to
reflect the red hue that Vet's had taken over her adventure.
"Yes, it was before that. Let me tell you the story
of how your mother and her friend
save our town." Vet said, and began her story. "It ...................
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It started when news of evil gods in the world reached our
town. I had just turned ten
and Rich was eleven. Rich's father had been away since Rich's
sixth birthday. Rich had
befriended me when I started school. I turned out to be his best
friend, and helped him through
some very tough times. After school one day, Rich came over to
me and said, "I heard some of
the people talking today. They said a stranger arrived, offering
to save us from the invasion that
is coming our way."
I looked at him. Rich appeared to be happy about the
possiblity of no gods controlling
them. The town had been isolated from the rest of this realm
by the mountains. It would
probably take years for the gods to establish a force in the realm.
Other realm or worlds had been
taken over by now, but who could promise to protect us. I looked
at Rich and said, "Who is this
person that said they could do this?"
"He called himself St. Marius, and that he served Isis,
the goddess that created this
entire world." When I heard the name Isis, I figured that the
man had come to save us. Rich then
told me, "He plans to talk to us at the school, tomorrow. If
he can protect us, we might move,
but then how will my father find us." I saw the concern in my
friend's eyes.
I walked over to him and said, "I'm sure that your father
will find us, where ever we
are?" He seemed to relax and I then said, "I guess I see you
in school tomorrow." I watched as
he returned home. That night, I was looking out of my window,
when I saw a man walking
through the town. I couldn't see his face, but I sensed something
about him. I could not place a
word to it, but it seemed familiar. I decided to try and get
some sleep.
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"Did you find out why, Mommy?" JaNa asked.
"Yes, I did, JaNa. And it was my dreams that told
me the answer. You see JaNa,
KLar, I had dreams about a past life. A person in those dreams
filled me with dread. It was then
I discovered that feeling I sensed was evil."
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When I awoke the next day, my father had been at my side.
He always comforted me
when the nightmare's came. At school, I was going to tell Rich
about the person I saw when
Mr.S, my teacher, said "I would like to introduce you to a priest of
Isis, St. Marius." A man came
from the back of the room. He walked, and looked very dignified,
but I felt uneasy around him.
As he passed me, he glanced in my direction. I saw a look of
recognition in his eyes, although in
this life we had never met. I then felt that feeling again, the
one I had the previous night. This
was the same man.
When the man reached the front of the room, he started to
speak. "My children, as you
probably heard, evil is upon us. Isis swore that none of her
people would suffer, and I have come
to take you to her. To protect you from the evil gods, I will
take you to her hallowed home,
where she is." I sensed that he was lying. All though the
day, people were asking him questions,
and eventually Rich came over to me.
"Vet, I want you to stand by me as I ask St. Marius how
my father would find us." I
was surprised that he, of all pepole, would consider believing this
man. Before I could protest,
Rich had dragged me over there and asked St. Marius, "Sir, my father
is an adventurer. If we
follow you, how will my father find us?"
I saw St. Marius looking at me. He had that look again
in his eyes. He then turned to
Rich and said, "Do not worry, my child, he will find us. Or I
will find him, if he is a follower of
Isis." He looked at me again and asked, "Is this your girlfriend,
my child?" He reached out to
touch my shoulder, but I moved back, behind Rich.
Rich looked at me oddly and then said to St. Marius, "No,
Vet is my best friend. She
helps me through the tough times." I couldn't believe that Rich
believed this man. I could see
nothing but evil in the man. Rich must have noticed my uneasiness
and led us out of the school
house. Once outside, he looked at me and said, "Vet, what is
wrong with you? You're acting like
St. Marius is the most evil entity that has ever existed." I
looked at Rich. I couldn't begin to
explain my reaccuring nightmares.
"Rich, I saw him from my bedroom window. I swear he
is evil. I can't tell you how I
know, but I just know." Rich looked at me as if I was crazy.
I ran back home, crying. My best
friend in the known world didn't believe me.
As I sat in my room, my father came up to me and asked,
"What's wrong, Vet? You
never are this upset after school."
I looked at my father through tear filled eyes. "Rich
didn't believe me. I think that the
man, St. Marius is evil. I got the same feelings that I got in
my dreams."
My father looked at me and hugged me. "Don't worry,
if he proves to be evil, we shall
defeat him if he tries anything. Remember, your mother always
had said that you were a special
child. Maybe your warning might help us if he tries anything."
I didn't feel better about that. For
the rest of the day, I watched the town from my window.
As the sun was beginning to set, I noticed a friend of mine
walking home. It was Jena.
Jena was a good friend of mine since I came to the town. She
had stayed over once, and we spent
the night talking girl talk. This evening, she was on her way
home, when I saw St. Marius come
into view. He had stopped her. Since they were close to
the house, I heard St. Marius say, "My
child, wouldn't you like to be the first to meet with Isis?"
I watched as Jena went to reply. "I need to.."
I saw a spark of red light jumped from
her eyes to his eyes. She finished but saying vacantly "see Isis.
She can save us." I heard St.
Marius give a sigh of satisfaction. He must have done something
to her. That red light must have
been it.
I gasped, and he spun around. I ducked out of view
of the window. I hoped he hadn't
seen me, but I then heard him say, "You will be the next to go see
Isis." With that, I heard him
walk away. I returned to the window, seeing St. Marius lead Jena
out of town behind him. What
he had just said scared me, because I knew that when St. Marius returned,
he was going to kill
me.
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"What happened to Jena, Mommy?" Both of her children asked.
"I don't know. She is probably dead now. But,
St. Marius had not been gone long, and
he returned to kill me." My children's eyes went wide, and I
then said, "And finally Rich had
believed me, because if he didn't, you wouldn't be here today.
You see The..."
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The next day at school, everyone was wondering where Jena
had gone. I knew what
had happened to her, but before I could say anything, Mr. S. said,
"Children, St. Marius told me
that Jena came to him after school and asked to see Isis, in person.
He said that she couldn't wait
to see the world were we would be safe from evil." I then realiazed
that St. Marius had probably
set everything up. He was going to do the same trick again, and
I would never be seen again.
I had spent the day shivering in fright. Towards the
end of class, Rich tapped me on the
shoulder. I screamed in fright and ran to the door. Mr.S
was standing near the door and stopped
me. I was in sheer terror. I started crying and saying,
"I don't wan't to die. Don't let him kill
me."
I saw Rich walk over to my side. I saw the concern
in his eyes as he asked the question
I knew would give an answer that no one would believe. "Let who
kill you?"
I was in so much fright I could barely say the answer, but
only Rich and Mr.S heard it.
"S-s-st. M-m-marius."
Mr.S stood up and said, "Class dismissed, and everyone head
home." As everyone left
the building, only Rich stayed behind and tried to calm me down.
I could tell that he was finally
seeing what I had seen. Mr.S then said to me, "Vet, how can you
say such a thing? St. Marius is
offering us a chance to be safe from the evil gods taking our realm
over."
"Mr.S, Vet told me about this yesterday, and now I am starting
to believe her. I not
sure how, but something seems wrong. Besides, this seems too
good to be true. I remember my
father saying something like that when I was younger. He said
'If something is too good to be
true, it probably isn't.' and that seem to be it here," Rich said,
now believing me.
Mr.S walked over to the two of us and said, "I don't know,
Rich, but I will
hold a meeting tomorrow night, and if he returns tomorrow, stay with
Vet and don't run into
him." Rich nodded and we left the school.
As we walked from the school, Rich looked at me and said,
"What happened to Jena?"
He was concerned as well about Jena, because he was going to ask her
out. He started to have
feelings for her, and I knew that we would never have feelings for
each other. We were like
brother and sister.
I turned to Rich and said, "I show you from my view point."
I led Rich to my home,
and up to my room. When we reached the room, I led Rich to the
window. "I was here at my
window when I saw Jena heading home. She was stopped by St. Marius.
He asked her if she
want to see Isis. She start to tell him that she needed to get
home, when a spark of red light
jumped between their eyes. She then said she wanted to go.
I gasped and he heard me. He
turned to the window and told me I was next, and then left with her
following him. It was as if
she didn't have a will of her own anymore."
Rich looked at me and said, "Vet, until we can be sure that
you are safe, I am going to
stay here. If St. Marius is evil as you fear, it will be best
for you if someone was here in case he
returns tonight."
I turned to Rich and said, "Okay, but I need to talk to
my father first." Rich nodded and
I went down to my father.
When I got down there, he said, "You want a potion to stop
the dreams for tonight." I
sometimes wondered how my father knew what I wanted. He then
said, "Rich has a voice that
carries, which I have no doubt comes from his father. I'll get
one ready, but sooner or later, you
will have to tell your friends about your dreams." I knew he
was right, but how could I explain
the past life deal. After dinner, I was off to bed. Rich
had stayed up for a while, and then took
the second bed I had in my room. If my life wasn't in danger,
I would have asked him to stay in
another room.
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"So when did St. Marius return, Mommy?" JaNa asked,
with a little yawn.
"Yea, and did he threaten Rich as well, Mommy?" KLar
asked, with a bigger yawn.
The two were falling asleep, and would probably be asleep by the end
of the story.
"He did return that night, and Jena was not with him.
He had a plan, and he was not
going to attack me that night. When..."
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When we woke up and headed for school, I was shocked to see
St. Marius talking to
Mr.S. As Rich and I hurried in, I felt St. Marius look at me.
A chill ran up my back, as those evil
eyes seemed to be searching me. When class started, Mr.S said,
"Class. St. Marius has returned
and brought a message from Jena." He turned the class over to
St. Marius and stepped aside.
St. Marius scanned us with his eyes and said, "Your friend,
Jena, wanted you all to
know that she is happy with Isis. She cannot wait for everyone
in town to join her. But, she
wants one person to come see her." He looked at me, and walked
down to me. "She wants you
to come to see her at your new home. She said that she wanted
you to be next to see Isis, and the
beautiful world she has prepared for you." He made it sound so
nice, but I had seen what he did
to Jena. He wanted to kill me. He knew I didn't believe
his lies. He then left the school. I was
terrified.
Class appeared to go by too quickly for my liking.
Rich and I stayed
behind, because I was afraid to leave. As it neared evening,
Mr.S walked up to us. "People are
going to arrive soon for the meeting. Rich, take Vet home and
guard her with your life. If what
Vet said is true, then Jena is dead." It appeared that Rich took
the blow harded than before when
he heard she had left. Rich then nodded, and we were off.
We hadn't ever reached the first house in town when Marius
appeared. We started to
back away, back to the school when St. Marius said, "Is something wrong,
Vet? Are you afraid
of me?"
Rich pulled out a sword, one that Mr.S gave him to help
protect me. He held it
between us and St. Marius and said, "What do want? You don't
want to save us, do you? And
Vet has seen things you didn't want anyone to known about."
St. Marius' expression changed to a wicked grin. "So
she managed to convince one
person. After she went, you would have been next, boy.
I know that she didn't trust me, and that
she saw what happened to Jena, at least the first part. You can
think of me as a special type of
vampire."
I was really scared now, and for the first time in my life,
my magic abilities appeared. I
created Ice on the ground, and St. Marius fell. I then said,
"You mean to kill us. To drain us of
our blood."
He got up and was angry. "Not just that, but everything
that makes you live. You saw
me drain the will out of your friend. After that, it was easy
to take care of the rest, but once you
two are gone, I will be able to convice this town to follow me to my
lair and feast until the end of
time." He started to advance on the two of us. He wasn't
afraid of the sword that Rich held. He
was about to strike when an arrow hit the ground in front of him.
My father, who was holding the bow, said, "Try that, and
the next one goes in your
heart." In St. Marius' eyes there was a look of humor, as if
he thought that my father could kill
him, or if he thought that they were joking.
He tried to sweet talk them. "I was just going to
help..."
Jena's father finished off the sentance, "yourself to them
as you did to my daughter, you
monster. My daughter is dead, but we'll be damned if you think
we are going to leave ourselves
to the same fate."
St. Marius growled and ran for the exit of town. Some
of the people started to follow
and I heard him yell, "Rich and Vet, I will get my vengence, and you
will both die." For some
reason, I wasn't afraid.
My father walked up to me and said, "You should thank Rich
for that loud voice of
his."
Rich looked at him and said, "And you should all thank Vet
for see St. Marius for his
evil ways."
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"At that, Rich and I were carried back to town, and treated
as heroes for a week." She
looked at her children. They were almost asleep. Vet kissed
each on the cheek and said, "Good
night, my angels." She left the room and headed downstairs.
She was surprised by what she saw.
Sitting in the room was Rich. She ran over to her friend and
gave him a hug.
Standing in the kitchen was Skiz. He was bringing
over some drinks. "Did you get the
twins to sleep?"
Rich looked at me and asked, "Twins?"
"Yes. They're four years old. You haven't been
around for quite a while. I last saw
you at the wedding. What have you been doing?"
"I've been helping Isis, but the solution is temporary."
I had a feeling something was
wrong. He was upset about something. "Have either of you
ever heard of a creature called the
Hani?"
Skiz looked up and said, "I heard that old legend.
It is about someone curse to feed of
other living beings, drain everything from them." I realized
what Skiz just said, I could guess that
answer.
"You mean that..", I said.
Rich finished my sentence, "St. Marius is a Hani.
And only you and I can kill him."
"I can't go on an adventure now. I have two children
to raise."
Rich looked at me sternly, "Vet, if we don't stop him soon,
your children will die at his
hands. He had this planned 2000 years ago." St. Marius
was that old. I started to wonder how
evil he was, and how powerful after being alive for 2000 years.
My husband looked at us both and demanded, "Why can't I
face him? I helped save our
world."
Rich shook his head, "You can't carry the Seven Sword, because
of being a monster."
"Oh, but that doesn't mean I can't help. I can still
fight in place of Vet."
"I wish I could say yes, but the case is that you can't
kill St. Marius. Only Vet and I can
do it. We are the only two of the four chosen ones that can do
this." It was then I realized that
my destiny would force me to face my greatest fear.
I turned to my husband, kissed him and said, "Tell the twins
I will return as soon as I
can." I nodded to Rich and we left the house to begin our quest.