I spose it is about time that I get some kind of thank yous up. I
think I'll put those at the end for all you wonderful people who read my
stories. Oh and to all of you who care this story is being fixed a bit in
the mistakes I made when I first typed it up. Oh and I have been reading
The Circle of Magic and The Circle Opens books finally so that has slowed
this update a little bit.
Disclaimer I don't own the wonderful characters in this story. The credit for them goes completely to Tamora Pierce. I own the plot though.
Dedicated to my cousin Molly for being as terrific as Clare. Also no matter how much we are together or if we are in one of our few disagreements for never getting sick of me even if she doesn't want to do the same thing as me. Thanks Molly.
Recap The wind swirled around Kel making her shiver even more. Now she was sure of it, the room had definitely gotten colder when Neal had left her room. Suddenly, a stark white figure appeared at the end of Kel's bed.
"What the," Kel choked out before the figure looked up at her.
"Hello Keladry," an eerie voice said.
The ghost, as it appeared to be, had bloodshot eyes, shoulder length blonde hair, and appeared to be wearing breeches and a white shirt. The ghost looked at her a malicious grin on his face. He seemed familiar in a creepy sort of way. Then she realized why the ghost seemed so familiar to her.
"Joren..." Kel said horrified at the realization that her enemy, Joren, had come back from the realm of the Black God to get his revenge on her.
Okay now that all the above is done it is time for Chapter 4 of this story.
Chapter 4
Ghostly Revenge
Kel reached for her sword, ready to draw it from its sheath. As Joren's ghost moved closer, Kel pulled it out and pressed it against his nose. "Stay ba..." she started to say before she found her blade had passed through him and he was still coming towards her.
Looking the blade over with disgust Joren said, with a sneer, "Don't be rude Lady Knight. You can't stop me from getting my revenge. No one can help you now." Knocking the sword from Kel's hand with a gigantic wind, which stopped once the sword had hit the wall.
"I didn't kill you, Joren. The Chamber killed you because it was what the gods wanted," Kel said, looking Joren in the eye calmly.
"No, if the gods wanted me dead, they would have done it themselves. I have spent years trying to get out of the Black God's realm. I won't go back there until you are dead," Joren said, venom filling his voice.
"Oh, but of course you won't," Kel said mockingly. "Everybody has to have his or her turn at killing the second lady knight," Kel added, voice was calm and her face Yamani blank.
Joren looked her over with cold eyes. "Still the Yamani Lump I see," he replied scornfully, looking like he was about to spit on her.
Not in the mood to trade petty insults with the ghost of one of her enemies, Kel stood and started to walk toward her desk. Joren floated in front of her and blocked her way. "Where is it you're going so fast?" he asked.
She walked straight through him, not answering him. She had realized since her sword could go through him, she could too, but she didn't think it would make her cold. If she was to banish Joren's ghost, she needed to get to her desk. Kel heard a noise behind her but walked through her doorway into her study anyway.
When Kel had become a knight, she had moved out of her squire rooms. The king had given her a suite of rooms almost as nice as Lord Raoul's suite after the war was over. It had her bedchamber, dressing room, sitting room, a study, and a connecting room in case she took a squire. Now she stood halfway across her study, trying to get to her desk.
A harsh wind started to blow from her bedchamber. The doorway she had just walked through acted like a wind tunnel. She was blown hard against a wall, the wind turning her upside down. She heard a whizzing sound. She saw her sword coming at her head, and moved her head quickly. Just at that moment, her sword flew to where her head had been. There were more whizzing sounds and then there were thuds as her other weapons pinned her upside down to the wall.
Once the noises stopped, and the wind died down, Kel let her head rest on the broad part of her sword. Looking back at Joren, she glared. He was floating in the doorway a nasty grin on his face. Hearing footsteps, he looked to see who was coming.
"Oh, your precious Sir Nealan is coming. I must go before he sees me, but you can just hang there for a while," He said loftily, and then he vanished.
Kel tried to get a knife out of the wall with her foot, but it didn't work. She was still at it when she heard Neal call her name from the other room. "I'm in here, Neal. Do you think you could give me a hand?" She called, still trying to free herself.
Neal walked into the room, followed by Dom, who stared. It was Neal who voiced the question, "What happened to you?"
Kel, who was beginning to feel lightheaded from hanging upside down, was not very happy. "I'll tell you once you get me down," she growled. The two cousins obviously thought Kel pinned to a wall upside down was funny, even though they were concerned. They were trying to hold in their laughter, though their concerned faces were didn't hide it very well.
They walked over to where Kel was on the wall and started pulling out different blades from the stone wall. "Kel, how did these get so deep into the stone, anyway?" asked Dom from her left side.
"Once I'm down, I'll tell you the whole story, Dom," Kel said, grateful they were getting her down.
Once they had gotten all of the weapons out of the wall, they caught Kel before she hit the ground. They set Kel on her feet, and she walked over to her desk chair and sat down. Dom and Neal pulled up chairs beside her. Kel sighed and then dove into the story of what had happened between Joren and her.
"So he was the reason for the screams?" Neal asked, as horrified, as Kel had been when Joren had appeared.
"Yes, I think he was trying to scare me," Kel said.
Dom hadn't said anything yet. He didn't know Joren as Neal and Kel did, but he still knew Joren had gone bad while he was alive. He had met Joren when the own had been on the spidren hunt, and he had disliked him about as much as Kel and her friends.
"So what are you going to do about Joren?" Dom asked as Kel started to dig through her desk.
"I'm going to get rid of him once and for all. I'm going to need Yuki though," Kel said still digging.
"How are you going to get rid of him, and why do you need Yuki?" Neal asked.
Kel pulled out a spirit bag that a Yamani shaman had made her. It was an amulet created just for her. She held it up to both the men to show them. "I'm going to use my spirit bag to get rid of him," she said.
"I remember that thing," Neal said. "You showed to us in one of Tkaa's classes."
"You're right, Neal. I also need Yuki because she has some of these and other Yamani things to rid people of spirits or ghosts," Kel said, standing up.
"I'll go get Yuki, and Kel, keep that thing with you for now," Neal said as he left the room.
Dom stood a moment then swept Kel up into a tight hug. "I'm glad you're alright," he told Kel. Kel hugged back just as tight. She couldn't wait until she sent Joren back to the Black God's realm. She didn't want to deal with him any longer than she had to.
A/N Okay I got a beta reader to let you all know and I would personally like to thank her for being my beta reader. Thank you Amanda. Okay now onto other thank yous because my lovely people did such a nice job review.
-Snowflake- I saw the 100% a flame thing and I was wondering about that. Thanks for reading and thanks for the constructive criticism. The beta reader site helped I hope it is better. I chose Amanda as my Beta reader (Lady of the Lilacs). Also I'm sorry it took me so long to change some things. I was busy reading lots of books. I'm almost done so hopefully I can update more I'm on Shatterglass. I will try not to use modern phrases.
-Sarawathi- thanks for reading and for the tips I have corrected some stuff in chapter one. I've gotten a beta reader and I'm trying to add more detail to my story. I'm hoping that my earlier chapters weren't so badly edited that you won't continue to read.
-Dom's Lover- I've written more in Life Goes on and there is still more coming. I see what you mean about the "okay" thing. I will try harder.
-Evilstrawberry- I know I need to add more detail and I'm working on it slowly. I changed the kiss part in chapter one so it isn't sooo sudden. I got a beta reader so that should help. Yea the sreaming was his doing. Thanks for reviewing.
-Pinky- Joren is scary. I am updating so you can read more.
-Wake-Robin- I want someone to throw me a surprise birthday party too, but what can you do. Yea I thought the dream was interesting too. I like to add twists to my stories their fun.
-Wildphire- I will work on reading your stories if I haven't already. I do have some idea where this is going. I like doing fluff but I don't see how you can't like Kel (gasp) No I'm just kidding everyone is entitled to their opinions.
-Freshman0620- I spose I do need to slow down a bit but I wasn't sure if it was going to be a one shot or not so I put the kiss in but now it isn't a one shot so I think I'll slow down
-lost-magic- Kel and Dom are cool and I agree Kel doesn't always have to be desperately in love. I don't think I could find your stories.
-legofiance- I continued see. See.
-rootless californian- Dom is cute. I did continue.
-eat paper- I continue you see? The second chapter was even shorter.
-anon- not a one shot I'll keep going.
-dreamerdoll- I'll fix that when I edit chapter two. If cliffies are so evil that why do you do some in your fics?
-doozer-12- I didn't leave it out and thanks for telling me that that song was by her.
-me- Thanks anna read more will you?
-DestinyHunter- I like to bring in people that the readers probably won't expect.
-MJSLSBS- I hope you keep reading since you can't wait for more.
-Lady Knight Wolfy- I think I should have written more there too but I didn't I'll try to fix it when I edit.
-t-d- yea it was a cool ghost wasn't it.
-Erkith- He is a good bad guy but this chapter explains how you fight a ghost.
-Allimba- Thanks it does add to the plot.
-oceanspike- I was trying to be descriptive but I only did a little better though the cold was one of the best parts with Joren coming back
-Fantasizing-Lady-Knight- I know evil cliffies. I'm writing.
-Mr. Hurley- You are slow. Lol I'm just kidding. And read the books before you say I'm racist. Also the phones ARE different colors so there.
-Krissy-
Disclaimer I don't own the wonderful characters in this story. The credit for them goes completely to Tamora Pierce. I own the plot though.
Dedicated to my cousin Molly for being as terrific as Clare. Also no matter how much we are together or if we are in one of our few disagreements for never getting sick of me even if she doesn't want to do the same thing as me. Thanks Molly.
Recap The wind swirled around Kel making her shiver even more. Now she was sure of it, the room had definitely gotten colder when Neal had left her room. Suddenly, a stark white figure appeared at the end of Kel's bed.
"What the," Kel choked out before the figure looked up at her.
"Hello Keladry," an eerie voice said.
The ghost, as it appeared to be, had bloodshot eyes, shoulder length blonde hair, and appeared to be wearing breeches and a white shirt. The ghost looked at her a malicious grin on his face. He seemed familiar in a creepy sort of way. Then she realized why the ghost seemed so familiar to her.
"Joren..." Kel said horrified at the realization that her enemy, Joren, had come back from the realm of the Black God to get his revenge on her.
Okay now that all the above is done it is time for Chapter 4 of this story.
Chapter 4
Ghostly Revenge
Kel reached for her sword, ready to draw it from its sheath. As Joren's ghost moved closer, Kel pulled it out and pressed it against his nose. "Stay ba..." she started to say before she found her blade had passed through him and he was still coming towards her.
Looking the blade over with disgust Joren said, with a sneer, "Don't be rude Lady Knight. You can't stop me from getting my revenge. No one can help you now." Knocking the sword from Kel's hand with a gigantic wind, which stopped once the sword had hit the wall.
"I didn't kill you, Joren. The Chamber killed you because it was what the gods wanted," Kel said, looking Joren in the eye calmly.
"No, if the gods wanted me dead, they would have done it themselves. I have spent years trying to get out of the Black God's realm. I won't go back there until you are dead," Joren said, venom filling his voice.
"Oh, but of course you won't," Kel said mockingly. "Everybody has to have his or her turn at killing the second lady knight," Kel added, voice was calm and her face Yamani blank.
Joren looked her over with cold eyes. "Still the Yamani Lump I see," he replied scornfully, looking like he was about to spit on her.
Not in the mood to trade petty insults with the ghost of one of her enemies, Kel stood and started to walk toward her desk. Joren floated in front of her and blocked her way. "Where is it you're going so fast?" he asked.
She walked straight through him, not answering him. She had realized since her sword could go through him, she could too, but she didn't think it would make her cold. If she was to banish Joren's ghost, she needed to get to her desk. Kel heard a noise behind her but walked through her doorway into her study anyway.
When Kel had become a knight, she had moved out of her squire rooms. The king had given her a suite of rooms almost as nice as Lord Raoul's suite after the war was over. It had her bedchamber, dressing room, sitting room, a study, and a connecting room in case she took a squire. Now she stood halfway across her study, trying to get to her desk.
A harsh wind started to blow from her bedchamber. The doorway she had just walked through acted like a wind tunnel. She was blown hard against a wall, the wind turning her upside down. She heard a whizzing sound. She saw her sword coming at her head, and moved her head quickly. Just at that moment, her sword flew to where her head had been. There were more whizzing sounds and then there were thuds as her other weapons pinned her upside down to the wall.
Once the noises stopped, and the wind died down, Kel let her head rest on the broad part of her sword. Looking back at Joren, she glared. He was floating in the doorway a nasty grin on his face. Hearing footsteps, he looked to see who was coming.
"Oh, your precious Sir Nealan is coming. I must go before he sees me, but you can just hang there for a while," He said loftily, and then he vanished.
Kel tried to get a knife out of the wall with her foot, but it didn't work. She was still at it when she heard Neal call her name from the other room. "I'm in here, Neal. Do you think you could give me a hand?" She called, still trying to free herself.
Neal walked into the room, followed by Dom, who stared. It was Neal who voiced the question, "What happened to you?"
Kel, who was beginning to feel lightheaded from hanging upside down, was not very happy. "I'll tell you once you get me down," she growled. The two cousins obviously thought Kel pinned to a wall upside down was funny, even though they were concerned. They were trying to hold in their laughter, though their concerned faces were didn't hide it very well.
They walked over to where Kel was on the wall and started pulling out different blades from the stone wall. "Kel, how did these get so deep into the stone, anyway?" asked Dom from her left side.
"Once I'm down, I'll tell you the whole story, Dom," Kel said, grateful they were getting her down.
Once they had gotten all of the weapons out of the wall, they caught Kel before she hit the ground. They set Kel on her feet, and she walked over to her desk chair and sat down. Dom and Neal pulled up chairs beside her. Kel sighed and then dove into the story of what had happened between Joren and her.
"So he was the reason for the screams?" Neal asked, as horrified, as Kel had been when Joren had appeared.
"Yes, I think he was trying to scare me," Kel said.
Dom hadn't said anything yet. He didn't know Joren as Neal and Kel did, but he still knew Joren had gone bad while he was alive. He had met Joren when the own had been on the spidren hunt, and he had disliked him about as much as Kel and her friends.
"So what are you going to do about Joren?" Dom asked as Kel started to dig through her desk.
"I'm going to get rid of him once and for all. I'm going to need Yuki though," Kel said still digging.
"How are you going to get rid of him, and why do you need Yuki?" Neal asked.
Kel pulled out a spirit bag that a Yamani shaman had made her. It was an amulet created just for her. She held it up to both the men to show them. "I'm going to use my spirit bag to get rid of him," she said.
"I remember that thing," Neal said. "You showed to us in one of Tkaa's classes."
"You're right, Neal. I also need Yuki because she has some of these and other Yamani things to rid people of spirits or ghosts," Kel said, standing up.
"I'll go get Yuki, and Kel, keep that thing with you for now," Neal said as he left the room.
Dom stood a moment then swept Kel up into a tight hug. "I'm glad you're alright," he told Kel. Kel hugged back just as tight. She couldn't wait until she sent Joren back to the Black God's realm. She didn't want to deal with him any longer than she had to.
A/N Okay I got a beta reader to let you all know and I would personally like to thank her for being my beta reader. Thank you Amanda. Okay now onto other thank yous because my lovely people did such a nice job review.
-Snowflake- I saw the 100% a flame thing and I was wondering about that. Thanks for reading and thanks for the constructive criticism. The beta reader site helped I hope it is better. I chose Amanda as my Beta reader (Lady of the Lilacs). Also I'm sorry it took me so long to change some things. I was busy reading lots of books. I'm almost done so hopefully I can update more I'm on Shatterglass. I will try not to use modern phrases.
-Sarawathi- thanks for reading and for the tips I have corrected some stuff in chapter one. I've gotten a beta reader and I'm trying to add more detail to my story. I'm hoping that my earlier chapters weren't so badly edited that you won't continue to read.
-Dom's Lover- I've written more in Life Goes on and there is still more coming. I see what you mean about the "okay" thing. I will try harder.
-Evilstrawberry- I know I need to add more detail and I'm working on it slowly. I changed the kiss part in chapter one so it isn't sooo sudden. I got a beta reader so that should help. Yea the sreaming was his doing. Thanks for reviewing.
-Pinky- Joren is scary. I am updating so you can read more.
-Wake-Robin- I want someone to throw me a surprise birthday party too, but what can you do. Yea I thought the dream was interesting too. I like to add twists to my stories their fun.
-Wildphire- I will work on reading your stories if I haven't already. I do have some idea where this is going. I like doing fluff but I don't see how you can't like Kel (gasp) No I'm just kidding everyone is entitled to their opinions.
-Freshman0620- I spose I do need to slow down a bit but I wasn't sure if it was going to be a one shot or not so I put the kiss in but now it isn't a one shot so I think I'll slow down
-lost-magic- Kel and Dom are cool and I agree Kel doesn't always have to be desperately in love. I don't think I could find your stories.
-legofiance- I continued see. See.
-rootless californian- Dom is cute. I did continue.
-eat paper- I continue you see? The second chapter was even shorter.
-anon- not a one shot I'll keep going.
-dreamerdoll- I'll fix that when I edit chapter two. If cliffies are so evil that why do you do some in your fics?
-doozer-12- I didn't leave it out and thanks for telling me that that song was by her.
-me- Thanks anna read more will you?
-DestinyHunter- I like to bring in people that the readers probably won't expect.
-MJSLSBS- I hope you keep reading since you can't wait for more.
-Lady Knight Wolfy- I think I should have written more there too but I didn't I'll try to fix it when I edit.
-t-d- yea it was a cool ghost wasn't it.
-Erkith- He is a good bad guy but this chapter explains how you fight a ghost.
-Allimba- Thanks it does add to the plot.
-oceanspike- I was trying to be descriptive but I only did a little better though the cold was one of the best parts with Joren coming back
-Fantasizing-Lady-Knight- I know evil cliffies. I'm writing.
-Mr. Hurley- You are slow. Lol I'm just kidding. And read the books before you say I'm racist. Also the phones ARE different colors so there.
-Krissy-