***A/N: I'm really, really sorry about this stupid story format I'll try
and edit it or something but for now I really don't know what else to do. I
can't seem to upload it right sorry!!!***
Chapter 6: The true power of the Maiar
Roby found himself being abruptly awoken out of one of his strange dreams about his people's history, by icy cold water being thrown on his face.
"Sorry, Rob, but I didn't know how else to wake ya'." Apologized John, standing next to Roby.
"Yeah, yeah." Responded the young Black, reaching for a towel. No sooner did the words leave his mouth that his gaze fell upon the empty bed of Kira. Kira was acting very strange lately; she was always avoiding Roby and his friends and making some stupid excuse for it afterwards. Should I, asked a voice in Robert's head? He was pondering whether or not to read Kira's mind or not. He had mastered the technique quite well and was always reading his teachers' mind whenever he didn't know something; not for tests just in class.
"Hey!" greeted Richard stepping into the dimly lit dormitory. "Don't tell me you two haven't been to breakfast yet?"
"Oh, no." awoke Roby. He quickly got dressed and went to a large futuristic cafeteria. This is how it was here; every corridor looked ancient and when you went into a classroom it was as if you were just teleported into the future. Roby thought it was extremely stupid, but everyone else thought it was completely normal. He sat with John Silver at nearby table on chairs suspended in mid air.
Three hours later, the three young elves were eating apples under a large oak tree. John and Richard were studying for an upcoming test, but since Roby had already sucked out all the information he needed out of the teachers' heads, he never had to study. One time he found himself correcting his history teacher on a very complicated event. History was something; even Roby didn't need to use magic for. He knew all the history like the back of his hand. His sensitive ears picked up something whooshing towards him and he looked to his left; a great green ball of. some sort of spell was rushing towards him. The young elf's eyes turned white and the spell stopped in thin air and disappeared quietly. Once it did, Roby saw Kira tugging away at an older elf; the elf kissed her and she smiled feebly. Shock and anger sprang into the elf's head, sinking to his eyes, making hot tears of anger drip from his icy, blue eyes.
"Aw. look the poor baby is cwying." The older elf taunted him.
A circle was assembling around the two elves. Roby grinned and regained his cold nature, his eyes turning icy blue. "Nice little spell you had there. What was it supposed to do give a zit?"
The older elf's grin disappeared. "Well, well, well. looks like we have a little potty mouth." He attempted to concentrate on a spell but Roby's abilities greatly surpassed his and the young Black cut him off:
"Irmo ostendo sese morsus!" the elf yelled. Irmo was the master of dreams and visions, in the elven religion; the spell means: "Irmo show him pain". It hit the opposing elf and filled his mind with horrible visions of death, disease, torture, blood, and people being tortured savagely. This was too much for the weak, young being and it made it howl in pain and sink to its knees holding his temples. The entire crowd went completely silent; their chants of: "Fight, fight!" had died away and the only thing that could be heard were the screams of the tortured elf. Roby kept his finger pointed at the elf, with no expression on his face. Kira rushed to her new boyfriend and started crying hysterically, and begging Roby to stop. Finally Robert Black finger dropped to his side and the elf passed out, from the torture. Kira stormed over to her former friend and attempted to slap her, but her hand was caught by the ruthless elf.
"You jerk, you could."
"Oh?!" Roby exclaimed loudly. "I'm the jerk, huh? You could have at least told me, you BACK STABBER!"
The elven girl was steaming with anger, and breathing hard and slow. At the elven boy's cold words her anger subsided and guilt was written all over her face. "I'm sorry." she attempted.
"Oh!! I'm sorry." Taunted Roby, coldly. "You're not sorry.not yet anyway." His eyes turned white again and the elven girl was levitated about ten thousand meters above the ground and dropped suddenly; screaming she hurled towards the earth, faster and faster. The young Black snapped his fingers and Kira stopped just above the ground, a few blades of crass tickling her nose. She was then dropped on the floor and Roby passed away signaling his friends to follow.
John and Richard rushed to Kira and attempted to help her up. She was crying harder than ever before and looked at the back of Roby's head, which was walking slowly towards the old school. His heart was broken completely and he could feel it sink to his toes. Finding refuge in a small remote corner, Roby sat down slowly sinking his face into his hands. Had he done the right thing? He couldn't stay mad at her though; the ancient light of the Valar was in her face and he had the feeling he had extinguished it. He got up started walking towards the court yard, where the whole unhappy event happened; slowly at first but his pace grew faster, as he realized just what he had done. He came face to face with the elven girl and she could see the despair and guilt on his face. Kira broke out crying again and ran into his arms, feeling his warm embrace.
"I'm so sorry." She cried, on his shoulder.
"I'm sorry too." He apologized, kissing her forehead. "I shouldn't have done that.it was.it."
She kissed him and hugged him again. "No.I deserved that. I shouldn't have left you." She laughed slowly. "But what can I tell you? Peer pressure."
They both started laughing, remembering all the stupid health videos they had watched on this stupid subject (those are really annoying). "So who was that guy?"
"Some fifteen year old, that asked me out." Kira responded. "All my friends, kept telling me to go out with him, and I guess I just gave in."
Regret sunk back into her face remembering the scene in the courtyard. "It's ok; I guess I haven't been the greatest boy friend in the world either." Roby admitted. "From now on, we should both promise to be a better couple."
"Agreed." Said Kira, smiling. "Oh. I just realized were gonna be late for class." They ran into a futuristic class room, with many pictures and documents from history. They took their seats and listened carefully to their teacher.
"Very well, class." The teacher began in his deep boring voice. "I hope you are all prepared for our test today."
Most of the students sighed, but Roby remained cold and untouched. The test rose up from the students' desk and a pen was on top of it. Roby took it and started the test, flying through each question. In five minutes he had finished a twenty page test.
"Excuse me." Rang a voice behind him. "But I don't think you're done."
"And why's that?" Roby replied calmly.
"You have just finished a twenty page test in less than five minutes."
"What's your point, sir?" asked Roby, a tone of arrogance in his voice.
"Because of that, I shall mark your test as it is and show you the great error of your ways." The teacher declared looking at the test. Soon after he returned the test with a great, big, red 100% written on the top. Roby smiled and returned to his seat resting his head on his arms. The four young elves walked out of the class room, sighing with stress.
"Blimey!" exclaimed Richard (this guy is gonna be the guy with the strong English accent). "Could that test 'ave been any longa'?"
"It wasn't all that bad." Said Kira.
"Well, for you two it was probably a walk in the park." John responded.
Roby knew what had happened. Kira had read his mind for all the right answers; he wasn't gonna say anything now though. Plus he was glad that his girlfriend had mastered this ability.
"Conference tonight, mates." Announced Richard.
"That's great; we can see your parents again." Said Kira, turning to Roby.
"Yeah." He smiled. "Hope my dad comes."
"Why's that, mate?"
"Oh, you know, just haven't seen him in a long time, that's all." Roby lied.
"Must be hard having a dad on the M.C.P.A. force." Silver said, nodding starring into space.
"Why's that?" Roby asked curiously.
"Well you know the M.C.P.A. has the greatest death percentage." Kira said.
Roby looked at her strangely and asked: "How did you know that?"
"Read it in some career brochure." Kira answered, waving her hand carelessly.
"Where'd you get that?" Roby inquired again.
"They give 'em out to the graduates, this year, so I read from my.friend." She replied.
"Oh, I see." Roby said, nodding his head approvingly.
"So what do we have now?" John asked.
"Think it's dueling class." Kira replied.
"Oh, Roby is not my partner." John said again, shacking his head.
"I'll be your partner, baby." Kira said softly, caressing his cheek. Richard coughed attempting to stop them, but they paid no attention to him and kissed until they reached a wooden gymnasium with mat floors. "So have you been practicing?"
Roby pondered a short while than asked: "Practice what? Magic?"
"Duh." Kira teased. "I've been coming down here almost everyday to practice."
Roby chuckled softly. "Well too bad that was the time you were ignoring me, otherwise you would have seen me everyday."
Kira scowled with guilt and felt extremely small. "Sorry."
"It's ok." The young elf responded calmly. They were now assembled with other students around a tall elf with a tough build.
"All right, ladies!" the coach like elf bellowed in his horse voice. "Pick a partner and attempt to knock each other out."
All the students got into pairs except for Richard who was forced to combat with the ridiculous coach. John paired up with a girl, who apparently had a certain relationship with him. Kira and Roby set up to the side and all their peers' eyes turned toward them, viewing closely. They bowed and held out their hands waiting for the other to make the first move. Finally Roby's icy, blue eyes turned white and the grown started to shake violently. Kira rose up about two meters above the ground and threw two fire balls at her boyfriend, who blocked them with a wave of a hand. A pillar of solid soil rose up just beneath Kira and she disappeared within it. Roby pulled out a giant sword that he had forged in the blacksmith class (the elf version of tech or shop). It was double bladed and the top was slightly curved, with giant spikes bent toward the user for inflicting worse wounds; the sword glowed an eerie black and gave you the feeling that some strange light source within it. The hilt was lined with five emeralds on the right and five diamonds on the other; the bottom of the hilt was in the form of a serpent eating another serpent with emerald eyes, which was the symbol of Barahir of old. He charged with great speed and his eyes turned red, seeing through the soil and discovering the location of Kira; he snapped his fingers and the pillar disappeared revealing the elven girl. He sliced just below her nose, just enough to scare her and then punched her hard in the stomach, putting a little electricity in the hit to ensure she was knocked out.
Girl took sowing class, to learn how to sow many beautiful dresses and enchanted robes and other such objects. Kira had sown a sky-blue, cloth vest that she was wearing now; she enchanted the vest with healing properties to be cased on the wearer. She quickly got up to see the back of Roby's head who was gloating in front of the class. She concentrated on the spell: Acerbus somnus (dark sleep). But Roby had heard her breath quicken as she readied the spell and turned around at the last second blocking the spell with his sword, which had magical properties of its own (which will be revealed later).
"Tela astralis cedo cessi cessum placidus somnus!" he yelled clearly. A dark cloth sprang out from the elf's hand and covered Kira putting her to sleep and disappearing right afterwards, leaving her to sleep peacefully. [The spell means: Cloth of stars grant her peaceful sleep.]
This spell was initially supposed to keep her asleep for a day but the girl awoke peacefully an hour later due to her enchanted vest. She was on a soft comfortable sofa; the right side of her face was much warmer than the left, due to the fire burning brightly beside her. She felt someone kissing her forehead and got up to see Roby guarding her. She smiled and got up to stretch, and suddenly remembered the parent conference.
"Oh my God did we miss it?" she panicked.
"Calm down!" the elf chuckled. "We still have about two hours until the conference."
She sighed with relief and went to take a shower. How would you smell after being devoured by a pillar of dirt? Roby grabbed a green apple from a nearby fruit basket and bit into it leaving a deep white mark in the fruit. Richard jumped from behind the couch and landed next to his friend holding a blue bag of a green fluid within it. He had gotten quite a beating from the coach, but was finally able to outwit him by casting a ball of light at his feet which temporarily blinded him, leaving him vulnerable to all sort of spells. Richard decided to knock him out with the same spell Kira attempted on Roby, but not before having his head almost torn of by a pillar of ice and his arm being devoured by a giant spider monster summoned by the annoying teacher.
John Silver soon walked in looking extremely happy and excited. He had lipstick all around his mouth and some on his cheeks. His hair was all rustled up and his shirt was missing a few buttons close to his neck.
"Have a nasty 'counter with a laundry machine?" Richard asked sarcastically.
John tried to look confused, but he was a terrible liar. "W-what are you talkin' about?"
They both started laughing; Roby conjured up a mirror and levitated it towards his foolish friend. He looked in it and gasped at his ruffled image. "Oh, crap!" he exclaimed darting towards the bathroom. His friends were rolling on the floor laughing holding their stomach. A girl walked in the dormitory and they recognized her as John's dueling partner. She was giggling with her friend; to a human this would have been a bundle of whispers, but to an elf it was a plain conversation.
"So you went "all the way"?" her friend asked enthusiastically.
"Well." the girl started. ""Not all the way"; just plain making out. He did grab my."
This was too much for the two elf boys; they burst out laughing scaring the elven girls out of their minds. They couldn't believe their ears; quite peaceful John, always with his nose in the book making out with people. The girls walked away with their noses towards the ceiling. Soon after John, returned to his friends who were smiling with their faces as red as the fire, trying to hold in the laughter; letting out gags of laughter every once in a while. Kira finally returned in a white skirt up to her knees and a silk, black blouse; her dark hair was held back in a loose pony tail and was resting on her right shoulder. Roby could see the light of Aman (some old elf thing, used to describe hot people) shining in her face, and felt his deep compassion for her rising. He got up and embraced her around her slim waist and she kissed him slowly. Roby felt the ground disappearing beneath his feet and her hot, red lips on his.
"Ahem." coughed John.
"Oh shut up, John." Snapped Roby. "We know what, you've been up to."
John mumbled something and Richard started laughing hysterically again. A great gong went off signaling the ninth hour was at hand. They walked down a series of stairs and arrived in the futuristic cafeteria were hundreds of parents were bustling about.
"Johnny! Johnny, dear!" an elf woman with a high pitched voice was yelling and waving frantically at John. John scowled and went slowly toward her as if to his doom. They all laughed at him and continued through the crowd attempting to find their parents. They saw John's girl friend being embraced by her mother; her apparent brother was talking to some girl his age trying to ignore his family. Richard was suddenly caught in a head lock by an elf apparently in his twenties.
"Ger' off!" Richard struggled.
"Leave 'em alone." An older looking elf said. "So how's school bro'?"
"Fine. You've seen my grades. How's mom?"
"She's recovering." The younger looking elves said.
Roby was listening with intrigue but Kira tugged at him and said: "This is none of our business." They went a little way longer and heard the door opening somewhere to their left. Six figures appeared, clad in a silvery armor that only had two yellow eye wholes. They were followed by what appeared to be an army of men; the elves started panicking.
"Stay close." Whispered Roby, to Kira. "Get ready to cast a spell." Kira nodded and her hands started glowing slightly. The apparent leader of this group was scanning around; his eyes stopped on Roby and he started walking towards him. Roby's hand was on his sword hilt, which was tucked away behind him around the waistline.
"Hey, Rob!" said the figure.
Roby lifted his left eye brow and lowered the other, in surprise. "Who are you?" The figure pulled off his helmet and Leon Black was starring at them. "Phew, that thing is really comfy and all but my ears were getting sore of listening to Sayeed."
Roby smiled and responded in a whisper. "Everyone is starring at you and your friends, dad."
"Oh." Leon whispered. He turned around and looked at the crowd, speaking just as loud so everyone could hear him: "No reason to be alarmed.just, uh.talkin' to my son. You guys better go wait outside or something." He said turning to his friends.
"Bring my nephew out later though." Commanded one of the figures.
"I think that's a better idea. Come on, kids." Signaled Commander Black.
"Oh, Mister Black?" Kira started. "Have you found anything on my parents yet?"
Leon scowled and guilt was weighing down his proud brow. "Sorry, but I totally forgot with the prophecy and the."
"It's ok." Kira sighed with regret. "I know you're really busy. But if you have the time."
"Oh yeah of course, I'll get Sayeed on it right away."
"Thank you." Kira said, softly.
"So.did you guys get anything on the prophecy yet, dad?" everyone's eyes turned toward them.
"I'll tell you outside." Leon said starring down an elf with a camera.
As soon as they went outside one of the figures with the armor jumped in front of them and Kira yelled: "Ustilo ustulo!" Flame devoured the figure but as soon as it disappeared the figure was still there.
"Sorry, Kira." Leon apologized. "This is my bone headed brother."
"Yeah that runs in the family." Tom said.
"You'd like to think so, wouldn't you?" Roby asked coldly.
"Oh sorry, kid-o!" Tom said.
"Don't call me that." The young elf said.
"Well gee you so cheerful, you could be Orias' son." Tom said pointing towards Orias.
"Could you stop?" Leon interrupted.
"Sorry, dad." Roby said.
"Oh, no I was talking to you uncle."
"Oh, get on with it." Orias yelled from afar.
"Right." Leon said, whistle ling loudly. A horse sprang out of nowhere; it was red with a fiery mane and larger than any horse Roby had ever seen. He reached into the horse's stomach and pulled out numerous objects. Kira whispered: "Eww.", slowly and sunk her head into Roby's shoulder.
Roby repeated his eye brow motion and asked: "What's all that?"
Leon signaled for him to come and he approached the pile examining it, carefully. Leon pulled out two handguns with long multiple barrels. "Sayeed made these for you. They work with this armor here; and don't worry about bullets 'cuz they never run out." He reached for baton and handed it to him. "This is a communications baton. The small screen her displays a map of you current location and all the numbers you have listed."
"It works like an organizer too." Said a familiar voice. Donovan removed his helmet and looked at his former employer, kindly.
"Hey, Donovan!" greeted Roby and Kira waving.
"Ok so this is an invisibility cloak put it on and you won't be seen by evil eyes or be revealed by any spell." Roby rolled his eyes in a manner that said: "No duh." "Oh your mother maid you this shoulder holster." The commander handed him a black, leather holster with places for his two guns. His name was embroiled on it in golden, elven letters. A shadow zoomed about Roby and Kira. "That's your steed; you're gonna have to name it and develop some way to call it. Your mother insisted we buy you a pet so we bought you this hound."
A silvery haze came next to Leon and a big white dog with golden fangs and green eyes appeared. It was as big as a horse and thrice as strong; you could see the smooth outlines of his muscles bulging out. It was breathing peacefully and starring into the eyes of his new master.
"Wow cool." Roby said petting his new hound (it's not a dog it's a hound; that's how it was called in the book that's how I'm gonna call it). "I'll name 'em Kharadras. So what does he eat?"
"Nothing really. It comes from an ancient race that doesn't need feeding or anything. And it rests in the form of that white haze so you don't have to worry about a thing. I found him topside, must have been left behind long ago."
"Are all these things allowed?" Kira asked playing with Kharadras.
"Normally no." said a calm voice behind them.
"Hey, hey it's Ahmed." Wei yelled patting the head master on the back.
"Hm." Pondered Orias. "That's a nice sword, kid."
"Oh thanks.um, Orias." Said Roby pulling out his blade.
"Oh, tot, tot (lol)." Fussed the head master. "Put that away."
"Stop making such a riot, Ahmed." Said Wei, shacking his shoulders.
Leon was starring around, feeling the breeze (yes underground; it was magic); Roby joined him and felt the pain in the air that, which went on for millenniums. "Orcs." He whispered slowly.
"You're good." Leon congratulated patting him on the back.
"Will they assail the school?" Roby asked.
"Nope." Leon said reassuring him. "Their orders are to ambush us when we pass by and their too stupid not to."
They walked inside and the team had to camp outside due to their large party of men. "So what's up with all the men, dad?"
"Their.um.body guards are they called? Yes well, you know about Arien and Tilion, right?" Roby nodded. "Arien told us they would help us and Donovan helped us find them. The Maiar are the ones that gave us most of these gifts; the armor, the bullets, the cloaks and the horses. Let's go inside and I'll tell you."
"Wait!" said Roby. "Before we go, can you tell me about this prophecy?"
Leon's face looked serious now and he led his son behind a tree so none can here them.
"Before I do." Leon began. "You have to understand that you're.no longer an elf."
"What?!" Roby whispered in anguish.
"When you and Kira were involved in this whole prophecy, Neregron the dark lord dubbed you as his equals. We know now that he was a Maiar and now you are too."
Roby shook his head in disbelief, raising a hand to his sweaty fore head. So this is why they had all these powers. He sighed, and tried to look on the positive side. Well for one, this would make it easier to defeat Neregron, and he had great knowledge and power. Now he really needed to train his abilities.
"Well." Leon broke into his strain of thought. "I suppose I should tell you the prophecy now."
Roby nodded, approvingly. "Please do."
"All right, here it is: Inter tui pius, duo consto,
Superne potissimum.
Quod intus sibimet, duo pius
Edo suus sua suum
Amplus itaque pristinus morsus.
Sanguis oriundus Maiar,
Voluntas miscere cum suus sua suum.
Solus tantus praesentia presentia,
Voluntas ualeo subsito colloco potentia Neregron.
Among your kind, two stand firm,
Above all.
Because within them, two kinds
Put forth their own
Great and ancient pain.
[The] blood of the Maiar,
Will mix with their own,
Only of such a size [of] power,
Will be able to stop great, might [of] Neregron.
Roby proccesed the entire thing in his brain and looked lost. He knew what it meant, but what was there to be done? He nodded at his father who returned the nod, sighing deeply and staring at the ground. Leon grabbed his son's shoulder and shook it gently in reassurance. The elf child looked up and smiled at his father hugging him peacefully.
Roby grabbed his chin and remembered one particular Asian vacation: it was the time he and Donovan were training with the shaolin monks. He still had that scar on his left shoulder. "You should consider talking to the shaolin monks; they're noble and good fighters."
Leon chuckled, softly. "We all know that. The shaolin are the only race of human we still communicate with. But they would never touch a gun, and their martial arts are only useful in close range combat."
Roby nodded approvingly. Kharadras came up to him and licked his right ear softly. He scratched his ears playfully and all three of them started walking toward the school.
"So how was your journey to the surface, dad?" Roby asked his father.
"I'll tell you inside. Nyssa!" yelled Leon turning to an armored
figure.
"Sir." She responded.
"Set up a guard around the perimeter and signal the others to set up camp."
"Yessir!" she said turning on her heal and sprinting toward the group of men.
Roby was adjusting his guns into his shoulder holsters and put two fingers in his mouth and blew. A shrill whistle came out and he called: "Anduin!" a shadow immediately appeared next to him and materialized into a giant steed with a fiery mane (yes his horse was named after the river). He patted both his enchanted "pets" if you may, and said to them: "Rest up guys, we're gonna have a lot to do soon enough." They obeyed and disappeared off somewhere. "So tell me about you adventure, dad."
"Well it all began like this:
***A/N: this opens up the next chapter which will come.when I get the time to write it. I know this chapter wasn't too exiting but the story wouldn't make sense otherwise. ****
Chapter 6: The true power of the Maiar
Roby found himself being abruptly awoken out of one of his strange dreams about his people's history, by icy cold water being thrown on his face.
"Sorry, Rob, but I didn't know how else to wake ya'." Apologized John, standing next to Roby.
"Yeah, yeah." Responded the young Black, reaching for a towel. No sooner did the words leave his mouth that his gaze fell upon the empty bed of Kira. Kira was acting very strange lately; she was always avoiding Roby and his friends and making some stupid excuse for it afterwards. Should I, asked a voice in Robert's head? He was pondering whether or not to read Kira's mind or not. He had mastered the technique quite well and was always reading his teachers' mind whenever he didn't know something; not for tests just in class.
"Hey!" greeted Richard stepping into the dimly lit dormitory. "Don't tell me you two haven't been to breakfast yet?"
"Oh, no." awoke Roby. He quickly got dressed and went to a large futuristic cafeteria. This is how it was here; every corridor looked ancient and when you went into a classroom it was as if you were just teleported into the future. Roby thought it was extremely stupid, but everyone else thought it was completely normal. He sat with John Silver at nearby table on chairs suspended in mid air.
Three hours later, the three young elves were eating apples under a large oak tree. John and Richard were studying for an upcoming test, but since Roby had already sucked out all the information he needed out of the teachers' heads, he never had to study. One time he found himself correcting his history teacher on a very complicated event. History was something; even Roby didn't need to use magic for. He knew all the history like the back of his hand. His sensitive ears picked up something whooshing towards him and he looked to his left; a great green ball of. some sort of spell was rushing towards him. The young elf's eyes turned white and the spell stopped in thin air and disappeared quietly. Once it did, Roby saw Kira tugging away at an older elf; the elf kissed her and she smiled feebly. Shock and anger sprang into the elf's head, sinking to his eyes, making hot tears of anger drip from his icy, blue eyes.
"Aw. look the poor baby is cwying." The older elf taunted him.
A circle was assembling around the two elves. Roby grinned and regained his cold nature, his eyes turning icy blue. "Nice little spell you had there. What was it supposed to do give a zit?"
The older elf's grin disappeared. "Well, well, well. looks like we have a little potty mouth." He attempted to concentrate on a spell but Roby's abilities greatly surpassed his and the young Black cut him off:
"Irmo ostendo sese morsus!" the elf yelled. Irmo was the master of dreams and visions, in the elven religion; the spell means: "Irmo show him pain". It hit the opposing elf and filled his mind with horrible visions of death, disease, torture, blood, and people being tortured savagely. This was too much for the weak, young being and it made it howl in pain and sink to its knees holding his temples. The entire crowd went completely silent; their chants of: "Fight, fight!" had died away and the only thing that could be heard were the screams of the tortured elf. Roby kept his finger pointed at the elf, with no expression on his face. Kira rushed to her new boyfriend and started crying hysterically, and begging Roby to stop. Finally Robert Black finger dropped to his side and the elf passed out, from the torture. Kira stormed over to her former friend and attempted to slap her, but her hand was caught by the ruthless elf.
"You jerk, you could."
"Oh?!" Roby exclaimed loudly. "I'm the jerk, huh? You could have at least told me, you BACK STABBER!"
The elven girl was steaming with anger, and breathing hard and slow. At the elven boy's cold words her anger subsided and guilt was written all over her face. "I'm sorry." she attempted.
"Oh!! I'm sorry." Taunted Roby, coldly. "You're not sorry.not yet anyway." His eyes turned white again and the elven girl was levitated about ten thousand meters above the ground and dropped suddenly; screaming she hurled towards the earth, faster and faster. The young Black snapped his fingers and Kira stopped just above the ground, a few blades of crass tickling her nose. She was then dropped on the floor and Roby passed away signaling his friends to follow.
John and Richard rushed to Kira and attempted to help her up. She was crying harder than ever before and looked at the back of Roby's head, which was walking slowly towards the old school. His heart was broken completely and he could feel it sink to his toes. Finding refuge in a small remote corner, Roby sat down slowly sinking his face into his hands. Had he done the right thing? He couldn't stay mad at her though; the ancient light of the Valar was in her face and he had the feeling he had extinguished it. He got up started walking towards the court yard, where the whole unhappy event happened; slowly at first but his pace grew faster, as he realized just what he had done. He came face to face with the elven girl and she could see the despair and guilt on his face. Kira broke out crying again and ran into his arms, feeling his warm embrace.
"I'm so sorry." She cried, on his shoulder.
"I'm sorry too." He apologized, kissing her forehead. "I shouldn't have done that.it was.it."
She kissed him and hugged him again. "No.I deserved that. I shouldn't have left you." She laughed slowly. "But what can I tell you? Peer pressure."
They both started laughing, remembering all the stupid health videos they had watched on this stupid subject (those are really annoying). "So who was that guy?"
"Some fifteen year old, that asked me out." Kira responded. "All my friends, kept telling me to go out with him, and I guess I just gave in."
Regret sunk back into her face remembering the scene in the courtyard. "It's ok; I guess I haven't been the greatest boy friend in the world either." Roby admitted. "From now on, we should both promise to be a better couple."
"Agreed." Said Kira, smiling. "Oh. I just realized were gonna be late for class." They ran into a futuristic class room, with many pictures and documents from history. They took their seats and listened carefully to their teacher.
"Very well, class." The teacher began in his deep boring voice. "I hope you are all prepared for our test today."
Most of the students sighed, but Roby remained cold and untouched. The test rose up from the students' desk and a pen was on top of it. Roby took it and started the test, flying through each question. In five minutes he had finished a twenty page test.
"Excuse me." Rang a voice behind him. "But I don't think you're done."
"And why's that?" Roby replied calmly.
"You have just finished a twenty page test in less than five minutes."
"What's your point, sir?" asked Roby, a tone of arrogance in his voice.
"Because of that, I shall mark your test as it is and show you the great error of your ways." The teacher declared looking at the test. Soon after he returned the test with a great, big, red 100% written on the top. Roby smiled and returned to his seat resting his head on his arms. The four young elves walked out of the class room, sighing with stress.
"Blimey!" exclaimed Richard (this guy is gonna be the guy with the strong English accent). "Could that test 'ave been any longa'?"
"It wasn't all that bad." Said Kira.
"Well, for you two it was probably a walk in the park." John responded.
Roby knew what had happened. Kira had read his mind for all the right answers; he wasn't gonna say anything now though. Plus he was glad that his girlfriend had mastered this ability.
"Conference tonight, mates." Announced Richard.
"That's great; we can see your parents again." Said Kira, turning to Roby.
"Yeah." He smiled. "Hope my dad comes."
"Why's that, mate?"
"Oh, you know, just haven't seen him in a long time, that's all." Roby lied.
"Must be hard having a dad on the M.C.P.A. force." Silver said, nodding starring into space.
"Why's that?" Roby asked curiously.
"Well you know the M.C.P.A. has the greatest death percentage." Kira said.
Roby looked at her strangely and asked: "How did you know that?"
"Read it in some career brochure." Kira answered, waving her hand carelessly.
"Where'd you get that?" Roby inquired again.
"They give 'em out to the graduates, this year, so I read from my.friend." She replied.
"Oh, I see." Roby said, nodding his head approvingly.
"So what do we have now?" John asked.
"Think it's dueling class." Kira replied.
"Oh, Roby is not my partner." John said again, shacking his head.
"I'll be your partner, baby." Kira said softly, caressing his cheek. Richard coughed attempting to stop them, but they paid no attention to him and kissed until they reached a wooden gymnasium with mat floors. "So have you been practicing?"
Roby pondered a short while than asked: "Practice what? Magic?"
"Duh." Kira teased. "I've been coming down here almost everyday to practice."
Roby chuckled softly. "Well too bad that was the time you were ignoring me, otherwise you would have seen me everyday."
Kira scowled with guilt and felt extremely small. "Sorry."
"It's ok." The young elf responded calmly. They were now assembled with other students around a tall elf with a tough build.
"All right, ladies!" the coach like elf bellowed in his horse voice. "Pick a partner and attempt to knock each other out."
All the students got into pairs except for Richard who was forced to combat with the ridiculous coach. John paired up with a girl, who apparently had a certain relationship with him. Kira and Roby set up to the side and all their peers' eyes turned toward them, viewing closely. They bowed and held out their hands waiting for the other to make the first move. Finally Roby's icy, blue eyes turned white and the grown started to shake violently. Kira rose up about two meters above the ground and threw two fire balls at her boyfriend, who blocked them with a wave of a hand. A pillar of solid soil rose up just beneath Kira and she disappeared within it. Roby pulled out a giant sword that he had forged in the blacksmith class (the elf version of tech or shop). It was double bladed and the top was slightly curved, with giant spikes bent toward the user for inflicting worse wounds; the sword glowed an eerie black and gave you the feeling that some strange light source within it. The hilt was lined with five emeralds on the right and five diamonds on the other; the bottom of the hilt was in the form of a serpent eating another serpent with emerald eyes, which was the symbol of Barahir of old. He charged with great speed and his eyes turned red, seeing through the soil and discovering the location of Kira; he snapped his fingers and the pillar disappeared revealing the elven girl. He sliced just below her nose, just enough to scare her and then punched her hard in the stomach, putting a little electricity in the hit to ensure she was knocked out.
Girl took sowing class, to learn how to sow many beautiful dresses and enchanted robes and other such objects. Kira had sown a sky-blue, cloth vest that she was wearing now; she enchanted the vest with healing properties to be cased on the wearer. She quickly got up to see the back of Roby's head who was gloating in front of the class. She concentrated on the spell: Acerbus somnus (dark sleep). But Roby had heard her breath quicken as she readied the spell and turned around at the last second blocking the spell with his sword, which had magical properties of its own (which will be revealed later).
"Tela astralis cedo cessi cessum placidus somnus!" he yelled clearly. A dark cloth sprang out from the elf's hand and covered Kira putting her to sleep and disappearing right afterwards, leaving her to sleep peacefully. [The spell means: Cloth of stars grant her peaceful sleep.]
This spell was initially supposed to keep her asleep for a day but the girl awoke peacefully an hour later due to her enchanted vest. She was on a soft comfortable sofa; the right side of her face was much warmer than the left, due to the fire burning brightly beside her. She felt someone kissing her forehead and got up to see Roby guarding her. She smiled and got up to stretch, and suddenly remembered the parent conference.
"Oh my God did we miss it?" she panicked.
"Calm down!" the elf chuckled. "We still have about two hours until the conference."
She sighed with relief and went to take a shower. How would you smell after being devoured by a pillar of dirt? Roby grabbed a green apple from a nearby fruit basket and bit into it leaving a deep white mark in the fruit. Richard jumped from behind the couch and landed next to his friend holding a blue bag of a green fluid within it. He had gotten quite a beating from the coach, but was finally able to outwit him by casting a ball of light at his feet which temporarily blinded him, leaving him vulnerable to all sort of spells. Richard decided to knock him out with the same spell Kira attempted on Roby, but not before having his head almost torn of by a pillar of ice and his arm being devoured by a giant spider monster summoned by the annoying teacher.
John Silver soon walked in looking extremely happy and excited. He had lipstick all around his mouth and some on his cheeks. His hair was all rustled up and his shirt was missing a few buttons close to his neck.
"Have a nasty 'counter with a laundry machine?" Richard asked sarcastically.
John tried to look confused, but he was a terrible liar. "W-what are you talkin' about?"
They both started laughing; Roby conjured up a mirror and levitated it towards his foolish friend. He looked in it and gasped at his ruffled image. "Oh, crap!" he exclaimed darting towards the bathroom. His friends were rolling on the floor laughing holding their stomach. A girl walked in the dormitory and they recognized her as John's dueling partner. She was giggling with her friend; to a human this would have been a bundle of whispers, but to an elf it was a plain conversation.
"So you went "all the way"?" her friend asked enthusiastically.
"Well." the girl started. ""Not all the way"; just plain making out. He did grab my."
This was too much for the two elf boys; they burst out laughing scaring the elven girls out of their minds. They couldn't believe their ears; quite peaceful John, always with his nose in the book making out with people. The girls walked away with their noses towards the ceiling. Soon after John, returned to his friends who were smiling with their faces as red as the fire, trying to hold in the laughter; letting out gags of laughter every once in a while. Kira finally returned in a white skirt up to her knees and a silk, black blouse; her dark hair was held back in a loose pony tail and was resting on her right shoulder. Roby could see the light of Aman (some old elf thing, used to describe hot people) shining in her face, and felt his deep compassion for her rising. He got up and embraced her around her slim waist and she kissed him slowly. Roby felt the ground disappearing beneath his feet and her hot, red lips on his.
"Ahem." coughed John.
"Oh shut up, John." Snapped Roby. "We know what, you've been up to."
John mumbled something and Richard started laughing hysterically again. A great gong went off signaling the ninth hour was at hand. They walked down a series of stairs and arrived in the futuristic cafeteria were hundreds of parents were bustling about.
"Johnny! Johnny, dear!" an elf woman with a high pitched voice was yelling and waving frantically at John. John scowled and went slowly toward her as if to his doom. They all laughed at him and continued through the crowd attempting to find their parents. They saw John's girl friend being embraced by her mother; her apparent brother was talking to some girl his age trying to ignore his family. Richard was suddenly caught in a head lock by an elf apparently in his twenties.
"Ger' off!" Richard struggled.
"Leave 'em alone." An older looking elf said. "So how's school bro'?"
"Fine. You've seen my grades. How's mom?"
"She's recovering." The younger looking elves said.
Roby was listening with intrigue but Kira tugged at him and said: "This is none of our business." They went a little way longer and heard the door opening somewhere to their left. Six figures appeared, clad in a silvery armor that only had two yellow eye wholes. They were followed by what appeared to be an army of men; the elves started panicking.
"Stay close." Whispered Roby, to Kira. "Get ready to cast a spell." Kira nodded and her hands started glowing slightly. The apparent leader of this group was scanning around; his eyes stopped on Roby and he started walking towards him. Roby's hand was on his sword hilt, which was tucked away behind him around the waistline.
"Hey, Rob!" said the figure.
Roby lifted his left eye brow and lowered the other, in surprise. "Who are you?" The figure pulled off his helmet and Leon Black was starring at them. "Phew, that thing is really comfy and all but my ears were getting sore of listening to Sayeed."
Roby smiled and responded in a whisper. "Everyone is starring at you and your friends, dad."
"Oh." Leon whispered. He turned around and looked at the crowd, speaking just as loud so everyone could hear him: "No reason to be alarmed.just, uh.talkin' to my son. You guys better go wait outside or something." He said turning to his friends.
"Bring my nephew out later though." Commanded one of the figures.
"I think that's a better idea. Come on, kids." Signaled Commander Black.
"Oh, Mister Black?" Kira started. "Have you found anything on my parents yet?"
Leon scowled and guilt was weighing down his proud brow. "Sorry, but I totally forgot with the prophecy and the."
"It's ok." Kira sighed with regret. "I know you're really busy. But if you have the time."
"Oh yeah of course, I'll get Sayeed on it right away."
"Thank you." Kira said, softly.
"So.did you guys get anything on the prophecy yet, dad?" everyone's eyes turned toward them.
"I'll tell you outside." Leon said starring down an elf with a camera.
As soon as they went outside one of the figures with the armor jumped in front of them and Kira yelled: "Ustilo ustulo!" Flame devoured the figure but as soon as it disappeared the figure was still there.
"Sorry, Kira." Leon apologized. "This is my bone headed brother."
"Yeah that runs in the family." Tom said.
"You'd like to think so, wouldn't you?" Roby asked coldly.
"Oh sorry, kid-o!" Tom said.
"Don't call me that." The young elf said.
"Well gee you so cheerful, you could be Orias' son." Tom said pointing towards Orias.
"Could you stop?" Leon interrupted.
"Sorry, dad." Roby said.
"Oh, no I was talking to you uncle."
"Oh, get on with it." Orias yelled from afar.
"Right." Leon said, whistle ling loudly. A horse sprang out of nowhere; it was red with a fiery mane and larger than any horse Roby had ever seen. He reached into the horse's stomach and pulled out numerous objects. Kira whispered: "Eww.", slowly and sunk her head into Roby's shoulder.
Roby repeated his eye brow motion and asked: "What's all that?"
Leon signaled for him to come and he approached the pile examining it, carefully. Leon pulled out two handguns with long multiple barrels. "Sayeed made these for you. They work with this armor here; and don't worry about bullets 'cuz they never run out." He reached for baton and handed it to him. "This is a communications baton. The small screen her displays a map of you current location and all the numbers you have listed."
"It works like an organizer too." Said a familiar voice. Donovan removed his helmet and looked at his former employer, kindly.
"Hey, Donovan!" greeted Roby and Kira waving.
"Ok so this is an invisibility cloak put it on and you won't be seen by evil eyes or be revealed by any spell." Roby rolled his eyes in a manner that said: "No duh." "Oh your mother maid you this shoulder holster." The commander handed him a black, leather holster with places for his two guns. His name was embroiled on it in golden, elven letters. A shadow zoomed about Roby and Kira. "That's your steed; you're gonna have to name it and develop some way to call it. Your mother insisted we buy you a pet so we bought you this hound."
A silvery haze came next to Leon and a big white dog with golden fangs and green eyes appeared. It was as big as a horse and thrice as strong; you could see the smooth outlines of his muscles bulging out. It was breathing peacefully and starring into the eyes of his new master.
"Wow cool." Roby said petting his new hound (it's not a dog it's a hound; that's how it was called in the book that's how I'm gonna call it). "I'll name 'em Kharadras. So what does he eat?"
"Nothing really. It comes from an ancient race that doesn't need feeding or anything. And it rests in the form of that white haze so you don't have to worry about a thing. I found him topside, must have been left behind long ago."
"Are all these things allowed?" Kira asked playing with Kharadras.
"Normally no." said a calm voice behind them.
"Hey, hey it's Ahmed." Wei yelled patting the head master on the back.
"Hm." Pondered Orias. "That's a nice sword, kid."
"Oh thanks.um, Orias." Said Roby pulling out his blade.
"Oh, tot, tot (lol)." Fussed the head master. "Put that away."
"Stop making such a riot, Ahmed." Said Wei, shacking his shoulders.
Leon was starring around, feeling the breeze (yes underground; it was magic); Roby joined him and felt the pain in the air that, which went on for millenniums. "Orcs." He whispered slowly.
"You're good." Leon congratulated patting him on the back.
"Will they assail the school?" Roby asked.
"Nope." Leon said reassuring him. "Their orders are to ambush us when we pass by and their too stupid not to."
They walked inside and the team had to camp outside due to their large party of men. "So what's up with all the men, dad?"
"Their.um.body guards are they called? Yes well, you know about Arien and Tilion, right?" Roby nodded. "Arien told us they would help us and Donovan helped us find them. The Maiar are the ones that gave us most of these gifts; the armor, the bullets, the cloaks and the horses. Let's go inside and I'll tell you."
"Wait!" said Roby. "Before we go, can you tell me about this prophecy?"
Leon's face looked serious now and he led his son behind a tree so none can here them.
"Before I do." Leon began. "You have to understand that you're.no longer an elf."
"What?!" Roby whispered in anguish.
"When you and Kira were involved in this whole prophecy, Neregron the dark lord dubbed you as his equals. We know now that he was a Maiar and now you are too."
Roby shook his head in disbelief, raising a hand to his sweaty fore head. So this is why they had all these powers. He sighed, and tried to look on the positive side. Well for one, this would make it easier to defeat Neregron, and he had great knowledge and power. Now he really needed to train his abilities.
"Well." Leon broke into his strain of thought. "I suppose I should tell you the prophecy now."
Roby nodded, approvingly. "Please do."
"All right, here it is: Inter tui pius, duo consto,
Superne potissimum.
Quod intus sibimet, duo pius
Edo suus sua suum
Amplus itaque pristinus morsus.
Sanguis oriundus Maiar,
Voluntas miscere cum suus sua suum.
Solus tantus praesentia presentia,
Voluntas ualeo subsito colloco potentia Neregron.
Among your kind, two stand firm,
Above all.
Because within them, two kinds
Put forth their own
Great and ancient pain.
[The] blood of the Maiar,
Will mix with their own,
Only of such a size [of] power,
Will be able to stop great, might [of] Neregron.
Roby proccesed the entire thing in his brain and looked lost. He knew what it meant, but what was there to be done? He nodded at his father who returned the nod, sighing deeply and staring at the ground. Leon grabbed his son's shoulder and shook it gently in reassurance. The elf child looked up and smiled at his father hugging him peacefully.
Roby grabbed his chin and remembered one particular Asian vacation: it was the time he and Donovan were training with the shaolin monks. He still had that scar on his left shoulder. "You should consider talking to the shaolin monks; they're noble and good fighters."
Leon chuckled, softly. "We all know that. The shaolin are the only race of human we still communicate with. But they would never touch a gun, and their martial arts are only useful in close range combat."
Roby nodded approvingly. Kharadras came up to him and licked his right ear softly. He scratched his ears playfully and all three of them started walking toward the school.
"So how was your journey to the surface, dad?" Roby asked his father.
"I'll tell you inside. Nyssa!" yelled Leon turning to an armored
figure.
"Sir." She responded.
"Set up a guard around the perimeter and signal the others to set up camp."
"Yessir!" she said turning on her heal and sprinting toward the group of men.
Roby was adjusting his guns into his shoulder holsters and put two fingers in his mouth and blew. A shrill whistle came out and he called: "Anduin!" a shadow immediately appeared next to him and materialized into a giant steed with a fiery mane (yes his horse was named after the river). He patted both his enchanted "pets" if you may, and said to them: "Rest up guys, we're gonna have a lot to do soon enough." They obeyed and disappeared off somewhere. "So tell me about you adventure, dad."
"Well it all began like this:
***A/N: this opens up the next chapter which will come.when I get the time to write it. I know this chapter wasn't too exiting but the story wouldn't make sense otherwise. ****
