JTB: I finally have a new chapter up
SK01: You could have had it up earlier... You weren't THAT busy
JTB: Sure I was... I went the Nickelback concert and the Linkin Park Concert...
SK01: And you were busy playing Disgaea: Hour of Darkness and reading webcomics AGAIN!
JTB: Well there is that to...
SK01: * sighs * You could have made this longer
JTB: Silence wench
SK01: WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!?!
JTB: A wench... umm... read and review
SK01: BAKA
* I apologize to everyone I pissed off by going to a Nickelback and Linkin Park concert and rubbing it in your faces... and for calling SK01 a wench*
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Chapter 11: The Third Act
Sloan looked around the dark tunnel he now stood in, finally his saffron eyes landed on the gray-eyed, blond boy. The emerald haired warrior raised an eyebrow and said ", Who are you supposed to be?"
"You," replied Jessy ", Well, sort of." He held up a hand to stop Sloan from speaking ", Let me explain," he said. "You are the reincarnation of me, well the original me. We have to merge so we can fulfill our ultimate destiny."
Sloan snorted and asked ", What makes you think I'll merge with you?"
"Ultimately you don't have much of a choice Sloan. We can always force you to merge with us, though I don't really want to have to do that." Jessy pulled out his wand and tapped it against his leg.
The older teen smirked ", How would you make me? As far as I can tell you're a regular human."
"I'm a wizard Sloan I can stop you easily, you are nothing against magic," he glared at his counterpart. "I offer you a final chance to merge willingly." Sloan glared, but nodded and walked toward Jessy. The gray-eyed teen held out his hand to shake Sloan's, Sloan grabbed his hand.
With a flash of light they were one. Emerald green hair fell to Jessy's shoulder, the bang's spiked forward and down. The black trench coat and all of Sloan's weapons remained, as did the wand and the original Jessy's lean muscles. Sloan's eyes also remained, the same saffron color. He was about six foot four, wearing black jeans and a black shirt under the trench coat. Jessy smirked ", Time to go to my next reincarnation."
With that he walked into Hell.
In a medieval world with dragon's, elves, and sorcerers a child was born. The father was a powerful half-demon mage of the shadow order and his mother was an elf, trained in the art of white magic. They named their son Reeve son of Loki. He had pale blue eyes, jet-black hair, and pointed ears.
Reeve had a strange childhood at best, having to follow both the traditions of the elves and of the shadow order, and having to live with his mismatched parents. His father trained him to use a variety of Swords and how to manipulate shadows, while his mother taught him basic white magic. When he turned thirteen, he was sent to an academy for magic and fighting that let him take five areas of study. His choices were Shadow Magic, White Magic, Item and Weapon Creation and Combination, Black Magic, and Sword Techniques. While the first two years in the academy were interesting his third year at the academy, while he was fifteen was the most important.
The entrance of the Academy
Reeve stood staring at the academy, returning here for the third time. The academy was a series of small castles, open fields, dorms, and training areas. Reeve's hair was pulled back into a tight ponytail, the tail almost two feet long, his long, pointed elf ears clearly visible. He was tall, and appeared to be frail, his lean muscles hidden under his baggy black shirt with a red trim, baggy black pants, and a red scarf wrapped around his neck. His skin was pale and he had the sword his father had given him when he first left for the academy. The sword was a long sword with a leather handle, the name Striker engraved along the blade, a ruby was set in the pummel. The metal used for the blade was strange and seemed to glow slightly.
"Hey Reever," yelled a small group of people, running toward him. There were three of them, a female elf, a female human, and a male half- human half-beastman. The elf was the stereotypical elven female, long blond hair, bright blue eyes, flawless skin, and so on. She was about 75 years old in human years, which meant she was about fifteen to the elves. Her name was Heather and she was Reeve's cousin. The female human had fiery red hair, brown eyes, she had freckles on her face, and was only about five feet five inches tall. She was also fifteen and her name was Kathy. The half-beastman was about seven feet tall, he had wild brown-orange hair, stripes on his face, and a tail. He was sixteen and was named Jake.
Heather threw her arms around Reeve ", It's so nice to see you cuz," she said, hugging him hard.
"Nice to see you to Heather," he said while squirming to escape her. Once he escaped his older cousin, he fell victim to the giant Jake who squeezed him a little bit to hard. "Let go Jake I can't breath," he gasped. Jake let him go and Kathy hugged him, Reeve hugged her back, blushing slightly. ", So how has everyone been?" he asked after he and Kathy separated.
"We've all been well," Kathy explained ", We've all got the courses we wanted, here's your course outline, expert level on all your classes. No real surprise there."
Reeve grinned and took his course outline from Kathy. "Even after all the different stunts a pulled last year in Black Magic and Sword Techniques." He looked at his friends and said ", why don't we go to the dorms so I can unload my stuff."
"Where is your stuff cuz?" asked Heather.
Reeve grinned and withdrew a small box from his pocket ", I managed to create a Infinite Box over the break." They muttered in slight amazement and the quartet walked to the dorms.
A couple of weeks later
Reeve drew Striker and held it in front of him, in a ready position. His opponent, a Drow named Raven, drew two short swords and held them at his sides, also in a ready position. The sword techniques teacher, a beastman named Gareth swung a hand upward and roared ", BEGIN."
Raven quickly ran foreword, striking at Reeve with the blade in his left hand then the one in his right. Reeve dodged the first one and parried the second, he then kicked Raven in the chest sending him stumbling backwards. Reeve pointed Striker upwards and yelled ", BLADE CHARGE, LIGHTNING." A bolt of lightning hit his blade and it began charged with electricity. Reeve jumped foreword and slashed Raven across the chest, slightly electrocuting the Drow.
Raven quickly recovered and yelled ", SHADOW RAGE." Reeve's shadow raised up behind him and tried to strike at the black haired youth. Reeve just smirked as his shadow passed through him and hit Raven instead. The Drow was knocked off his feet. "How?" he managed to gasp.
"Shadow manipulation is one of my specialties," replied the teen, he waited for Raven to get back on his feet then attacked. "SHADOW REAVER," he jumped foreword but instead of striking Raven he hit the Drow's shadow, causing him to yell out in pain and faint.
Gareth clapped and walked toward Reeve ", Good job Reeve, well fought, though I do think it was a bit overkill." Gareth then threw a powder at Raven that woke him up and healed his wounds slightly. "As for you Raven, you are over confidant and need to train harder at developing your techniques." Raven glared at Reeve and stood up. "Class dismissed," announced Gareth. The students left in a hurry to get to their next class.
Reeve who was already finished his classes for the day went to his dorm, which he shared a demon named Seth. Seth appeared fully human except for pointy ears barely longer then a regular humans and canine teeth that were slightly longer then normal. He had blond hair that fell over the red headband he constantly wore. His wardrobe consisted of sleeveless shirts and baggy pants, mostly black. He majored in sword fighting, sword techniques, and fire magic. He had green eyes and he wasn't very social.
He opened the door, walked in, and lied down on his bed. Seth was looking out the window intently, as if waiting for something. Reeve fell asleep without giving his roommate's behavior much thought.
A few hours later Seth shook Reeve awake, his face was grim ", Reeve the academy is under attack." At that moment the dorm shook, sending the two flying into the wall. "The teachers and keepers are melding all the buildings into one, so we can put up a better resistance against the attacking force," explained Seth.
"Who's attacking anyway?" asked Reeve getting to his feet and steadying himself against the wall.
"Rogue demons from all the tribes, mercenaries, some goblins and orcs, and a army of humans from a kingdom I've never heard of," replied Seth ", my guess is that the army is from across the ocean."
Reeve nodded, the continent of Terra had never been in good relations with the only other continent, Raga. The people of Terra didn't know much about the people on Raga and it was the same the other way as well. "Let's get out of here and see if there's anything we can do to help," said Reeve as he grabbed Striker and his Infinite Box, and ran out the door with Seth following closely behind.
The walls were unfamiliar to the two teens as they ran down the halls, they burst through the exit doors of the dorm building to find a strange new building. It was a giant castle surrounded by high walls, the castle was attached to the dorms and several other buildings and in the center of the enormous castle was a training field that was an easily a few acres large. The two blinked and quickly ran to the first teacher they saw. "Logan is there anything we can do to help defend the castle?" asked Reeve.
Logan was a elf and master archer he glanced quickly at them then said ", Seth go help the fire mages attack the armies, Reeve go find Heather, Jake, and Kathy." The two teens nodded and ran their separate ways.
Reeve went to the first most obvious place to find his friends Heather and Kathy's dorm room, he ran up the stairs and opened the door. He glanced around and saw Kathy sleeping on her bed, Heather was no where in sight. 'Probably went to help the injured,' thought Reeve as he walked over to Kathy. He blushed then reached down to shake her awake. "Wake up Kathy," he said, she stirred and opened her eyes, she then screamed.
"REEVE WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY ROOM WHILE I'M SLEEPING!?" she demanded as she knocked him across the room.
"I was sent to get you," he explained grimly as he stood up. "The academy's under attack," he said. The half-elf picked up Kathy's bow and handed it to her, she stood looking at him dumbfounded. Before she could respond the black haired teen grabbed her arm and pulled her out the door ", We have to find Jake and Heather then report to Logan."
"It'll be quicker if we split up," Kathy said running beside him.
Reeve shook his head ", No way it's best if we're together, especially if the attackers get in somehow," he explained. They reached Jake's dorm but had no luck he was gone, his equipment to. "He's probably gone to help on the walls, quick lets go to the infirmary," Reeve said running out of his friends unoccupied dorm room.
The two exited the dorm building and ran across the training field two the infirmary branch of the castle. Heather and Jake were both there, the elf healing the half-beastman, he had a large cut going down the side of his right arm. A faint green light surrounded Jake's arm and the cut healed rapidly and he was on his feet in a matter of seconds. Reeve stepped foreword ", Jake, Heather we need to go find Logan. He wanted me to find you all, so lets go report to him," explained Reeve, turning and running out of the infirmary and across the field with his friend's close behind him.
When they finally found Logan, he was instructing the archers on how to fire at the enemies outside the walls. He turned to the four ", Go to the keepers chamber, they will give you instructions," ordered the elf without looking at them.
Reeve and the others bowed then turned and ran to the main entrance, Reeve opened one of the doors and held it open for the others. The other three walked past him and he let go of the door, letting it close on it's own. The four ran up the stairs, Jake now leading with Reeve at the rear. After over ten minutes of running up stairs they reached the top floor. They walked down a long hall with portraits of previous teachers, keepers, and students who went on to do great things. They paused at the door and studied it for a moment, it was twice the height of Jake. They were great black doors made of some black stone, there were designs of silver and gold. Jake reached foreword and opened one of the great doors, Reeve was the first to step in closely followed by Kathy, then Heather, who hesitated before entering, and finally Jake entered closing the door silently behind him.
The room was massive with a high ceiling, the walls were crimson with black designs going along them. There was a great thrown-like chair at the back of the room and in it sat a celestial. Celestials were half-human half- angel, they had wings and holy powers but they weren't immortal. This celestial had long white hair that flowed in the air without any wind, and piercing green eyes. She had two pairs of wings that shone brilliantly. Her laid his eyes on the four and beckoned them to come closer. The four teenagers bowed and the keeper said ", Stand my friends there is no need nor time for formalities," she stood as Reeve and the others rose ", I have a mission for you four," she explained ", you must go to the nearest kingdom and ask for assistance against the attacking forces."
Reeve gaze met that of the keeper ", Surely there would be others better suited for such a thing."
"There is no time, you four were the ones whom Logan sent to me, so you must go," explained the celestial. The four bowed again and without another word turned and left for their mission.
They said nothing until they reached a shadowy area at the bottom of the staircase. "So," said Heather ", How are we going to sneak past that huge army?"
Reeve motioned to the shadows ", I'll transport the four of us through the shadows and into the forest near the invading army."
"Then we should hide until dark," added Jake ", just to be on the safe side." The others nodded.
"Okay every one make sure you're in physical contact with me and the shadows," instructed Reeve ", otherwise I may not be able to transport you to the right place." The others nodded, Jake grabbed his shoulder, Heather did the same with his other shoulder, and Kathy grabbed his right hand. The four sunk into the shadows and then were gone.
That night
Reeve dropped silently down from his hiding place in a tree, Kathy jumped out and he caught her easily. Jake crawled out from some nearby bushes and Heather dropped out of a different tree. Reeve motioned for them to move. Slowly the four sneaked through the forest making hardly a sound, if they were lucky they would not be seen.
Their luck didn't hold out.
"Get 'em," they heard someone shout. Twenty armed men jumped out of the bushes and some trees. Before anyone could blink an eye Kathy had already felled one of the attackers with her bow. Jake removed a battle-axe from his back while Reeve withdrew Striker from his back. Another fell to Kathy's bow. Reeve did a flip foreword and preformed a downward slash on one of the attackers head. Jake swung his battle-axe at one of the attackers midsection, cutting him clear in half. Reeve, spotting someone trying to sneak up on Heather, manipulated her shadow and turned it into a blade that cut the would-be attacker down, he then parried an attack and countered, stabbing the man through the chest. Jake grabbed one of the men with one hand and threw him into another, knocking them over. Kathy was loosing arrows like crazy, felling many of the men.
There were more men now, and even more on their way. "Run," Reeve ordered ", I'll hold them off. Go inform the nearest kingdom of the attack, I'll meet up with you later." The others nodded and began to retreat. Reeve sheathed his sword and put his hands in front of him, his thumbs and pointer fingers in a triangle shape ", TRI-ELEMENTAL BLAST," he yelled. From his hands beams of water, then lightning, then fire struck his enemies, felling most of them. He turned and ran after his friends, they had already gotten quite a way. As he ran he got hit in the side by a fireball which sent him flying into a tree. His head swam as he tried to regain his senses, suddenly the tip of a blade was at his throat. He looked up at his attacker but all he could make out was flames, a flame demon.
"Hello there boy," said the demon in a raspy voice, before he hit Reeve with the pommel of his sword, knocking the teen out cold.
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JTB: So how you like it?
SK01: I guess it's pretty good... 'just swallowed my pride there...'
JTB: Woot anyway to those who were wondering the Nickelback concert was awesome (lots of sweet pyro) and Linkin Park was twice as good, in my personal opinion (even if there was a lack of pyro). The other bands at the concerts were awesome as well... they were Three Days Grace, Staind, Story of the Year, Hoobastank, and POD.
SK01: Stop rubbing it in baka
JTB: Okay... * under my breath * wench
SK01: I HEARD THAT * chases Jess around with a keyboard *
JTB: PLEASE REVIEW, ARGH * gets hit in the head by keyboard *
SK01: You could have had it up earlier... You weren't THAT busy
JTB: Sure I was... I went the Nickelback concert and the Linkin Park Concert...
SK01: And you were busy playing Disgaea: Hour of Darkness and reading webcomics AGAIN!
JTB: Well there is that to...
SK01: * sighs * You could have made this longer
JTB: Silence wench
SK01: WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!?!
JTB: A wench... umm... read and review
SK01: BAKA
* I apologize to everyone I pissed off by going to a Nickelback and Linkin Park concert and rubbing it in your faces... and for calling SK01 a wench*
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Chapter 11: The Third Act
Sloan looked around the dark tunnel he now stood in, finally his saffron eyes landed on the gray-eyed, blond boy. The emerald haired warrior raised an eyebrow and said ", Who are you supposed to be?"
"You," replied Jessy ", Well, sort of." He held up a hand to stop Sloan from speaking ", Let me explain," he said. "You are the reincarnation of me, well the original me. We have to merge so we can fulfill our ultimate destiny."
Sloan snorted and asked ", What makes you think I'll merge with you?"
"Ultimately you don't have much of a choice Sloan. We can always force you to merge with us, though I don't really want to have to do that." Jessy pulled out his wand and tapped it against his leg.
The older teen smirked ", How would you make me? As far as I can tell you're a regular human."
"I'm a wizard Sloan I can stop you easily, you are nothing against magic," he glared at his counterpart. "I offer you a final chance to merge willingly." Sloan glared, but nodded and walked toward Jessy. The gray-eyed teen held out his hand to shake Sloan's, Sloan grabbed his hand.
With a flash of light they were one. Emerald green hair fell to Jessy's shoulder, the bang's spiked forward and down. The black trench coat and all of Sloan's weapons remained, as did the wand and the original Jessy's lean muscles. Sloan's eyes also remained, the same saffron color. He was about six foot four, wearing black jeans and a black shirt under the trench coat. Jessy smirked ", Time to go to my next reincarnation."
With that he walked into Hell.
In a medieval world with dragon's, elves, and sorcerers a child was born. The father was a powerful half-demon mage of the shadow order and his mother was an elf, trained in the art of white magic. They named their son Reeve son of Loki. He had pale blue eyes, jet-black hair, and pointed ears.
Reeve had a strange childhood at best, having to follow both the traditions of the elves and of the shadow order, and having to live with his mismatched parents. His father trained him to use a variety of Swords and how to manipulate shadows, while his mother taught him basic white magic. When he turned thirteen, he was sent to an academy for magic and fighting that let him take five areas of study. His choices were Shadow Magic, White Magic, Item and Weapon Creation and Combination, Black Magic, and Sword Techniques. While the first two years in the academy were interesting his third year at the academy, while he was fifteen was the most important.
The entrance of the Academy
Reeve stood staring at the academy, returning here for the third time. The academy was a series of small castles, open fields, dorms, and training areas. Reeve's hair was pulled back into a tight ponytail, the tail almost two feet long, his long, pointed elf ears clearly visible. He was tall, and appeared to be frail, his lean muscles hidden under his baggy black shirt with a red trim, baggy black pants, and a red scarf wrapped around his neck. His skin was pale and he had the sword his father had given him when he first left for the academy. The sword was a long sword with a leather handle, the name Striker engraved along the blade, a ruby was set in the pummel. The metal used for the blade was strange and seemed to glow slightly.
"Hey Reever," yelled a small group of people, running toward him. There were three of them, a female elf, a female human, and a male half- human half-beastman. The elf was the stereotypical elven female, long blond hair, bright blue eyes, flawless skin, and so on. She was about 75 years old in human years, which meant she was about fifteen to the elves. Her name was Heather and she was Reeve's cousin. The female human had fiery red hair, brown eyes, she had freckles on her face, and was only about five feet five inches tall. She was also fifteen and her name was Kathy. The half-beastman was about seven feet tall, he had wild brown-orange hair, stripes on his face, and a tail. He was sixteen and was named Jake.
Heather threw her arms around Reeve ", It's so nice to see you cuz," she said, hugging him hard.
"Nice to see you to Heather," he said while squirming to escape her. Once he escaped his older cousin, he fell victim to the giant Jake who squeezed him a little bit to hard. "Let go Jake I can't breath," he gasped. Jake let him go and Kathy hugged him, Reeve hugged her back, blushing slightly. ", So how has everyone been?" he asked after he and Kathy separated.
"We've all been well," Kathy explained ", We've all got the courses we wanted, here's your course outline, expert level on all your classes. No real surprise there."
Reeve grinned and took his course outline from Kathy. "Even after all the different stunts a pulled last year in Black Magic and Sword Techniques." He looked at his friends and said ", why don't we go to the dorms so I can unload my stuff."
"Where is your stuff cuz?" asked Heather.
Reeve grinned and withdrew a small box from his pocket ", I managed to create a Infinite Box over the break." They muttered in slight amazement and the quartet walked to the dorms.
A couple of weeks later
Reeve drew Striker and held it in front of him, in a ready position. His opponent, a Drow named Raven, drew two short swords and held them at his sides, also in a ready position. The sword techniques teacher, a beastman named Gareth swung a hand upward and roared ", BEGIN."
Raven quickly ran foreword, striking at Reeve with the blade in his left hand then the one in his right. Reeve dodged the first one and parried the second, he then kicked Raven in the chest sending him stumbling backwards. Reeve pointed Striker upwards and yelled ", BLADE CHARGE, LIGHTNING." A bolt of lightning hit his blade and it began charged with electricity. Reeve jumped foreword and slashed Raven across the chest, slightly electrocuting the Drow.
Raven quickly recovered and yelled ", SHADOW RAGE." Reeve's shadow raised up behind him and tried to strike at the black haired youth. Reeve just smirked as his shadow passed through him and hit Raven instead. The Drow was knocked off his feet. "How?" he managed to gasp.
"Shadow manipulation is one of my specialties," replied the teen, he waited for Raven to get back on his feet then attacked. "SHADOW REAVER," he jumped foreword but instead of striking Raven he hit the Drow's shadow, causing him to yell out in pain and faint.
Gareth clapped and walked toward Reeve ", Good job Reeve, well fought, though I do think it was a bit overkill." Gareth then threw a powder at Raven that woke him up and healed his wounds slightly. "As for you Raven, you are over confidant and need to train harder at developing your techniques." Raven glared at Reeve and stood up. "Class dismissed," announced Gareth. The students left in a hurry to get to their next class.
Reeve who was already finished his classes for the day went to his dorm, which he shared a demon named Seth. Seth appeared fully human except for pointy ears barely longer then a regular humans and canine teeth that were slightly longer then normal. He had blond hair that fell over the red headband he constantly wore. His wardrobe consisted of sleeveless shirts and baggy pants, mostly black. He majored in sword fighting, sword techniques, and fire magic. He had green eyes and he wasn't very social.
He opened the door, walked in, and lied down on his bed. Seth was looking out the window intently, as if waiting for something. Reeve fell asleep without giving his roommate's behavior much thought.
A few hours later Seth shook Reeve awake, his face was grim ", Reeve the academy is under attack." At that moment the dorm shook, sending the two flying into the wall. "The teachers and keepers are melding all the buildings into one, so we can put up a better resistance against the attacking force," explained Seth.
"Who's attacking anyway?" asked Reeve getting to his feet and steadying himself against the wall.
"Rogue demons from all the tribes, mercenaries, some goblins and orcs, and a army of humans from a kingdom I've never heard of," replied Seth ", my guess is that the army is from across the ocean."
Reeve nodded, the continent of Terra had never been in good relations with the only other continent, Raga. The people of Terra didn't know much about the people on Raga and it was the same the other way as well. "Let's get out of here and see if there's anything we can do to help," said Reeve as he grabbed Striker and his Infinite Box, and ran out the door with Seth following closely behind.
The walls were unfamiliar to the two teens as they ran down the halls, they burst through the exit doors of the dorm building to find a strange new building. It was a giant castle surrounded by high walls, the castle was attached to the dorms and several other buildings and in the center of the enormous castle was a training field that was an easily a few acres large. The two blinked and quickly ran to the first teacher they saw. "Logan is there anything we can do to help defend the castle?" asked Reeve.
Logan was a elf and master archer he glanced quickly at them then said ", Seth go help the fire mages attack the armies, Reeve go find Heather, Jake, and Kathy." The two teens nodded and ran their separate ways.
Reeve went to the first most obvious place to find his friends Heather and Kathy's dorm room, he ran up the stairs and opened the door. He glanced around and saw Kathy sleeping on her bed, Heather was no where in sight. 'Probably went to help the injured,' thought Reeve as he walked over to Kathy. He blushed then reached down to shake her awake. "Wake up Kathy," he said, she stirred and opened her eyes, she then screamed.
"REEVE WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY ROOM WHILE I'M SLEEPING!?" she demanded as she knocked him across the room.
"I was sent to get you," he explained grimly as he stood up. "The academy's under attack," he said. The half-elf picked up Kathy's bow and handed it to her, she stood looking at him dumbfounded. Before she could respond the black haired teen grabbed her arm and pulled her out the door ", We have to find Jake and Heather then report to Logan."
"It'll be quicker if we split up," Kathy said running beside him.
Reeve shook his head ", No way it's best if we're together, especially if the attackers get in somehow," he explained. They reached Jake's dorm but had no luck he was gone, his equipment to. "He's probably gone to help on the walls, quick lets go to the infirmary," Reeve said running out of his friends unoccupied dorm room.
The two exited the dorm building and ran across the training field two the infirmary branch of the castle. Heather and Jake were both there, the elf healing the half-beastman, he had a large cut going down the side of his right arm. A faint green light surrounded Jake's arm and the cut healed rapidly and he was on his feet in a matter of seconds. Reeve stepped foreword ", Jake, Heather we need to go find Logan. He wanted me to find you all, so lets go report to him," explained Reeve, turning and running out of the infirmary and across the field with his friend's close behind him.
When they finally found Logan, he was instructing the archers on how to fire at the enemies outside the walls. He turned to the four ", Go to the keepers chamber, they will give you instructions," ordered the elf without looking at them.
Reeve and the others bowed then turned and ran to the main entrance, Reeve opened one of the doors and held it open for the others. The other three walked past him and he let go of the door, letting it close on it's own. The four ran up the stairs, Jake now leading with Reeve at the rear. After over ten minutes of running up stairs they reached the top floor. They walked down a long hall with portraits of previous teachers, keepers, and students who went on to do great things. They paused at the door and studied it for a moment, it was twice the height of Jake. They were great black doors made of some black stone, there were designs of silver and gold. Jake reached foreword and opened one of the great doors, Reeve was the first to step in closely followed by Kathy, then Heather, who hesitated before entering, and finally Jake entered closing the door silently behind him.
The room was massive with a high ceiling, the walls were crimson with black designs going along them. There was a great thrown-like chair at the back of the room and in it sat a celestial. Celestials were half-human half- angel, they had wings and holy powers but they weren't immortal. This celestial had long white hair that flowed in the air without any wind, and piercing green eyes. She had two pairs of wings that shone brilliantly. Her laid his eyes on the four and beckoned them to come closer. The four teenagers bowed and the keeper said ", Stand my friends there is no need nor time for formalities," she stood as Reeve and the others rose ", I have a mission for you four," she explained ", you must go to the nearest kingdom and ask for assistance against the attacking forces."
Reeve gaze met that of the keeper ", Surely there would be others better suited for such a thing."
"There is no time, you four were the ones whom Logan sent to me, so you must go," explained the celestial. The four bowed again and without another word turned and left for their mission.
They said nothing until they reached a shadowy area at the bottom of the staircase. "So," said Heather ", How are we going to sneak past that huge army?"
Reeve motioned to the shadows ", I'll transport the four of us through the shadows and into the forest near the invading army."
"Then we should hide until dark," added Jake ", just to be on the safe side." The others nodded.
"Okay every one make sure you're in physical contact with me and the shadows," instructed Reeve ", otherwise I may not be able to transport you to the right place." The others nodded, Jake grabbed his shoulder, Heather did the same with his other shoulder, and Kathy grabbed his right hand. The four sunk into the shadows and then were gone.
That night
Reeve dropped silently down from his hiding place in a tree, Kathy jumped out and he caught her easily. Jake crawled out from some nearby bushes and Heather dropped out of a different tree. Reeve motioned for them to move. Slowly the four sneaked through the forest making hardly a sound, if they were lucky they would not be seen.
Their luck didn't hold out.
"Get 'em," they heard someone shout. Twenty armed men jumped out of the bushes and some trees. Before anyone could blink an eye Kathy had already felled one of the attackers with her bow. Jake removed a battle-axe from his back while Reeve withdrew Striker from his back. Another fell to Kathy's bow. Reeve did a flip foreword and preformed a downward slash on one of the attackers head. Jake swung his battle-axe at one of the attackers midsection, cutting him clear in half. Reeve, spotting someone trying to sneak up on Heather, manipulated her shadow and turned it into a blade that cut the would-be attacker down, he then parried an attack and countered, stabbing the man through the chest. Jake grabbed one of the men with one hand and threw him into another, knocking them over. Kathy was loosing arrows like crazy, felling many of the men.
There were more men now, and even more on their way. "Run," Reeve ordered ", I'll hold them off. Go inform the nearest kingdom of the attack, I'll meet up with you later." The others nodded and began to retreat. Reeve sheathed his sword and put his hands in front of him, his thumbs and pointer fingers in a triangle shape ", TRI-ELEMENTAL BLAST," he yelled. From his hands beams of water, then lightning, then fire struck his enemies, felling most of them. He turned and ran after his friends, they had already gotten quite a way. As he ran he got hit in the side by a fireball which sent him flying into a tree. His head swam as he tried to regain his senses, suddenly the tip of a blade was at his throat. He looked up at his attacker but all he could make out was flames, a flame demon.
"Hello there boy," said the demon in a raspy voice, before he hit Reeve with the pommel of his sword, knocking the teen out cold.
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JTB: So how you like it?
SK01: I guess it's pretty good... 'just swallowed my pride there...'
JTB: Woot anyway to those who were wondering the Nickelback concert was awesome (lots of sweet pyro) and Linkin Park was twice as good, in my personal opinion (even if there was a lack of pyro). The other bands at the concerts were awesome as well... they were Three Days Grace, Staind, Story of the Year, Hoobastank, and POD.
SK01: Stop rubbing it in baka
JTB: Okay... * under my breath * wench
SK01: I HEARD THAT * chases Jess around with a keyboard *
JTB: PLEASE REVIEW, ARGH * gets hit in the head by keyboard *