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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It was a nice day when I took the kids into town. It was Lena's 16th
birthday, and I decided to let her pick out her gift. My son, Max,
was with us, looking to get a small protective weapon to train with.
When Max turned 10, he expressed an intrest in adventuring. I thought
that this was a good thing. When the third evil would come, I would
need help. Lena already developed the ability to use Magic Scrolls.
Only four years ago, Vet disappered, on a charge of murdering her husband.
Isis never said anything about that, but I had suspicions. As we
were leaving a dress shop, where Lena had just gotten a Powder Blue Magic
Robe, when Max said, "Dad, 'Route' members are over there."
We all looked in there direction and saw them. Then,
Lena looked and said, "My goodness, they have captured KLar. We have
to rescue him." After Vet and her family had visited us four years
ago, Lena had fallen in love with him.
I looked at my daughter and said, "We will follow them, but
we have to be careful. I think that JaNa is working with the 'Route'."
Max looked at me and said, "Why would she do that?"
"Remember when I told you of St. Marius?" He nodded
and I continued, "When he died, part of his spirit flew out into our world.
When we returned, Vet was told that JaNa had fallen ill, and your mother
told me of a prophecy about the children."
"Do you think that JaNa had KLar capture?" Lena asked
with concern. I nodded and she started to cry. I watched the
cult head to the town hall. I motioned to my children to follow quietly
and we followed. We entered the town hall and looked around.
There was almost no sign of the cult.
"Where have they gone?" I said as softly as I could.
The town hall was a big building since the Magi Quest, but it never had
any secrets to my knowledge. We proceded carefully, until I almost
ran into the mayor of our city.
He looked at me and asked, "Rich, what are you doing?"
I looked at him and responded, "I'm sorry, your honor, but
I have reason to believe that a friend of the family has been captured
by some evil people."
He looked puzzled and said, "Why would they be here?"
My daughter quickly said, "We followed them here. I
think they are going to kill him."
The mayor looked at us and said, "If one of the heroes of
Isis says that there is evil hiding in this building, I must trust them.
The evil ones might come after me next. I hope you are successful."
He left and we started to search the building.
As we approached a stairway, Max called me and said, "Father,
I hear voices down these steps." Lena and I ran over to him and listened
carefully. As we stood there, we heard the voices speak.
The first voice I heard was a high voice as it said, "I can't
believe how the master managed to frame her. This way, we don't have
to search for her as hard as we did before."
The second voice, a deeper one responded, "You would not
be talking like that if the spell wasn't cast on you. You did try
and mate with the target, and this is your punishment." I then realized
that these must have been the demons that Skiz told me about. I wanted
to slit their throats, but I wanted to hear more.
The first voice grumbled and said, "Well, she shouldn't have
been so good looking."
The second voice just said, "Brother, to you, a Medusa is
good-looking." I finally decided that if we were going to get past
these demons, we would have to disguise ourselves, particularly Lena.
The last thing I wanted was my daughter to fall victim to a demon.
The second voice then continued "Besides, the Annointed One has a way to
overcome the failure." I then started to piece everything together.
JaNa must have framed Vet when she killed her father by mistake, and now
she had captured her brother.
I looked at my daughter and said, "Lena, do you have an invisablity
spell on you?"
She looked in her booklet that she had made. Since
her ability started, she had been looking for spells and gathering them
in a book. "I have one that can hide us from all, and it mutes speech
except to those who know us."
"Good, cast it." She immediately cast the spell, and
magic envelope was surrounding us. I then said, "This should keep us out
of sight, but stick together." We then started down the steps.
At the bottom, we saw the demons guarding a portal. We started to
approach the door, when one of the demons stopped talking.
It sniffed the air and said, "Hey Vey, do you sence the presence
of a lady?" My head flooded with fear, and a look of fear crossed
Lena's face when this was said. Would the spell work? Would
my daughter be safe?
The other looked around and said, "Oy, you moron, you must
be dreaming. There is no female anywhere around here. Now watch
for anybody, especially any of heroes of Isis." If only those demons
knew I was right near them. We contined into the portal and started
down some more steps.
When we were about to reach the bottom, the pattern of a
giant maze was in front of us. When I saw this, I said "Now what?"
Lena looked through her book of spells. She was hoping
she would have a spell to tackle this, but she didn't. Max was looking
at the maze and saw something in the center. He turned to me and
said, "Dad, I think that in the center of this maze is the temple."
Lena then said, "Father, I think I have an idea. I
could cast a temporary spell to let Max lead us through the maze.
It is risky though."
I didn't need to hear that. I gave her an eye of concern
and said, "How risky?"
My daughter would never lie to me. She looked me straight
in the eye and said, "There is a good chance that I might fry his brain."
I was almost ready to refuse that idea when Max said, "Let's
do it. We need to save KLar, and I don't know of any other way."
I wanted to argue, but I couldn't argue with them. They were right in their
choices. Lena cast the spell and I watched as blue lightning shot
into Max's head. He started to shake as if he were in fits, but in
a few minutes, he was breathing normally.
I looked at him and asked, "Are you alright?"
He nodded and said, "I see the path through. Follow
me, and be careful." He then led the way through the giant maze.
After a while, he stopped and said, "Trap number one." In front of
us was a checkboard pattern. I recognized what was on the red squares,
Spawn-Seeds. These deadly plants were little pods, until a living
being stepped on them. At that time, they would grow, engulfing the
being, and quickly dissolve them.
"Stay on the black squares," I said, and we carefully crossed
the trap. When we were all across, we continued on until we hit another
trap. This one was worse, for it was Trendrilians. The floor had
four of them covering all but a thin line. By myself, I would have
been able to cross, but Lena was not very agile. She would fall right
into one, and they would kill her. Tendrillian were like flowers, except
they had tendrels insted of pedals, and used them to constrict food to
death.
Lena looked at me and said, "I have a spell that can levitate
us over the creatures." She recited the spell and we took to the
air. In a few seconds, we had pasted the creatures. After a
couple of more twists and turns, Max stopped us again. We looked
around and saw nothing.
Max just eyes the walls and said, "Lasers, intense enough
to destroy anything." I couldn't see them, but then Lena chanted
a spell, and a fog arose. I finally saw the laser beams. They were
at different angles, and spots in the wall. We slowly made our way
though the laser beams, avoiding their deadly touch. When we passed
by the lasers, we headed deeper into the maze. Eventually, I noticed
that we were approaching a hall of crystals. "Pain crystals.
They are designed to harm anyone one not of the cult."
"Apparently, JaNa had no intention of us getting this far
if we discovered the cult. I think that she plans to have us dead
by now. Is there any way we can get past them with out being killed."
Pain crystals were very dangerous. These deadly magical devices would
cause pain in any being that would kill a person.
Lena looked in her book of spells and smiled. "Maybe
a Wall spell can help. It should create a barrier between us and
the crystals." I nodded for us to try it, and she cast the spell.
I could see the glow of the wall's borders. We started to advance
through the hall, as a time passed, the wall started to fade. Just
as we reached the end, the wall fell, and the magical pain crystals started
their evil magic. We ran quickly to the end of the tunnel, and survived.
As we left the hall, we saw the temple room. We had reached the center
of the maze. We found a hiding spot, just in case the illusion spell
wore off.
As we watched, the cult started to enter. It appeared
that they were preparing for something big. I noticed that a large
group was there. I didn't think we had a chance of defeating them,
but we could bring back reinforcements. I also noticed that Lena
was getting very worried. She turned to me and said, "Dad, will we be able
to rescue KLar?"
I was about to answer when all the cult started to chant.
Something was happening, something big. Soon, to my surprise, KLar
appeared, in the cults robes. He held up his hands and said, "My
children, be seated." I looked at my children, and they shared the
same look I had, that of shock. KLar then continued his speech.
"As you all know, the savior's murderer is still at large, and in order
to bring our savior back, we must kill her. Now, after searchining
for years, we have found the Orb of Spirits. In no time, our savior
shall return to the living. But now, we must hold his spirit in the
orb."
I listened as KLar started chanting something. Almost
as soon as he had started, a glowing form went down to orb. The whole
cult started chanting two words I hoped never to hear again. The
whole cult was chanting the name of St. Marius. I hoped that that
vile being was dead, but now I understood why Vet was in hiding.
The cult wanted her dead. Finally, I head the evil voice of St. Marius
speak from the orb. "My children, I have only partially return.
Find the evil being that killed me, and her soul shall be placed in this
sphere."
Lena looked at me and said, "Dad, we must warn the mayor.
He should know about this." I nodded and we slowly got up.
Just as soon as we got up, I felt a hand on my shoulder.
I looked up to see the face of the mayor, but I realized
that he had been a part of this cult. He yelled out, "Annointed
One, there are followers of Isis here. We must kill them."
All of a sudden the cult started in our direction.
With a quick blow, I knocked out the mayor and we started
to run for the maze. I heard St. Marius exclaim, "Stop them.
They will ruin everything." At that moment, I knew that the only
thing left to do was to ask Isis for her help. It was then I realized
that I had one item to help us out of this mess. I reached into my
pack and pulled out the round object. I put it to the wall, and the
mystical Door appeared.
I opened the Door, and yell to Lena and Max, "Children, into
the Door. We're going someplace safe." The cult was closing
in on us and I followed my children through the Door. As it closed,
the whole thing disappeared, unable to be opened again, and we were in
our house. I turned and faced my wife.
Li looked at me and said, "Rich, what's wrong?"
I put my hands on her shoulders and said, "Pack, we are no
longer safe here. St. Marius is back, and he is part of the 'Route
Of Rigge.' The mayor was part of the cult. We leave immediately
for Isis." My wife ran out to the room we had and started to pack.
Once we were set there, we had to find Vet. If she was captured by
the 'Route', her life was over.