Hi! This is my fic that is going to be the longest of all since I don't really know any places where I would be able to make a story break to make a sequel, or even another story after that! Oh well. The blurb below is just something of a intro like the kind you see in movies where one of the main character are talking and there is just a background or the person isn't actually talking. Example- X-men movie. The beginning with professor X and at the end with Jean repeating what professor X said at the beginning. Sorry if you have not seen that movie, but that is the only one right now that I can think of that has that kind of thing, if I think of another, I'll add it to a later one! :) Anyway, I should let you get to the story so that you don't get mad at me and end up not reading it after all! Bye! Hope you like it!
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When you are young, you realize something, that life is short and that there is always an end to your life. As you reach your middle ages, you start to realize that life for you may be coming to an end at any given time for any given reason. Once you start to realize this, many people start to think of the fantasy about being given the "gift" of eternal life, or the ability to never die, to become immortal. As the last few years of ones life arrive, you give up on this dream of never ending life, because you realize that this is never to be possible. When you die, people remember you long after you are gone and no matter what, be permanently recorded in some way or another. But, what if the ability to become immortal was given to a mortal being, would it be amazing, new, exciting and wondrous? Or, would that person realize that they were cursed with a burden until the end of time…………
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The lightning struck the ground only a few meters away from where she was standing, looking out at the trees just beyond the Dhorisha Plains. Her Shin'a'in stallion shifted uneasily and pawed at the ground with his large hooves.
"I know, we need to get going before the lightning hits us." Firewind, the woman about twenty-one summers old, said to Clyde, her stallion. She knew that he got uneasy in storms, but she had never seen him this panicky before. Firewind patted his neck and was about to mount when rain droplets started to fall upon them.
Clyde side stepped just as Firewind went to put her foot into the stirrup. The next she knew, he was rearing and flailing his hooves in every direction as a bolt of lightning came too close for comfort only about a meter to their left. When the bolt came in contact with the ground, she felt the ground shake beneath her, and heard the thunder so loud that it made her ears ring for minutes afterwards.
Firewind looked up from the ground and swayed slightly. In the distance, she could see Clyde galloping away at top speed towards her village. She let out a squeak as she realized that she was alone on an open plain while a lightning storm raged on above her.
The clouds sent down another blow which missed her by about a foot and she jumped back and tripped over a small rock half buried in the ground. Firewind looked up to see the last thing before her life went black, a glowing red bolt of power and electricity shoot down from the clouds and hit her head on.
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Firewind's eyes fluttered open and she gasped for breath. She took the air into her lungs in large gulps.
When she finally took the time to look at her surroundings, she noticed that she was no longer laying on the ground of the Dhorisha plains, but she was laying on a path-like strip in what seemed to be the night sky. The path was see-through, but cloudy, and the air seemed to have sparkling little particles floating in it.
Firewind looked in front of her and noticed that there was an old man standing in front of her smiling. She looked in all directions wondering if there was someone else, other than him, around and to try and find out where he had come from.
"Firewind, do you know where you are?" The man asked her. His voice seemed to come from all directions at once. Now, he had a slight glow to him, and he almost seems slightly transparent.
"No, but it seems to me that it has been described to me from one person or another. Where exactly am I?" Firewind picked herself up from the pathway and automatically dusted her clothes off, even though there was nothing that could have attached itself to the cloth.
"You are in the realm of the gods and their avatars, you have most likely imagined it when a shaman had described it to you, we get quite a few of them who visit one avatar or another." He waited to see he reaction to this, and when she looked at him like he was crazy, he continued, "I assume that you are wondering why you are here, right?"
"Yes, why have I not passed on regularly, like all the others who die?" Firewind stepped cautiously towards him to test her leg strength and to see if the "path" would hold her.
"Firewind, you have a gift that has not yet awakened, and that gift would help the world you just came from if trained and used, but you are the one who will decide how to use your gift and be the one to decide how you are going to react with what it is." The man said. "Right now, the gods are waiting to reveal your "gift" from them, will you follow?" He asked signalling towards one direction that the path took.
"What have I to lose by following you into an unknown abyss?" Firewind shrugged and followed the older man farther and farther down the path until they reached a clearing that was about two times the size of the Dhorisha Plains. Above her were human like figures, she recognized the one. The one figure was her own Star-eyed god.
The figures, now what Firewind figured were gods, were having conversations with each other. The old man that she had followed cleared his throat and all the gods looked down on the two. "She is hear as you requested." He moved to the side and used his hand to push he towards the all-powerful ones.
"Firewind, I am sure that Urtho has explained to you what is going on and what exactly we want you to do, correct?" Star-eyed said. Her voice also sounded like it came from every where at the same time, but she was transparent where the older man was not.
"Is he-" She pointed towards the man who had lead her to the clearing.
"Yes Firewind, that is the legendary Urtho, but much, much older."
"He did tell me about what is going on, but he did not exactly tell me what you wanted from me." Firewind was puzzled, what could there be that THEY would want from HER?
"I am glad he forgot to leave that out, I was sure that since he was so keen on that he would have ventured into that topic. Anyway, Firewind, you have the gift that the people call one "mage" gift. You may know of the Tayledras who use it, but your own people, the Shin'a'in do not. We have concluded that if this power was trained and used, it could come in handy for saving most of your world's people, not just the Shin'a'in. We are willing to train you in anything that may come in handy for you and to prepare you for the long journey ahead." The Star-eyed gazed down on her and waited for a response. When Firewind choked out a reply that sounded somewhat like a grunt, she continued. "We will be giving you a 'gift' of our own. Sometimes you may look at it as a curse, but we think that by the time you accomplish half of your tasks, you come to see the reasoning behind it. Firewind, we are going to "bless" you with the power to never die, to be immortal. If you refuse this offer, the world that you know will change while you watch it from here, in the spirit world. If you accept this offer, you will be known for longer than anyone could think. Are you willing to accept this?"
"I-I'm not exactly sure right now. Will you seriously give me immortality? And train me with this new power, and allow me to live my life I want while accomplishing you set tasks?" Questions were pouring out if her mouth at a speed she thought that even she could not acquire.
"I can assure you that all you have asked has the answer 'yes'." Her god looked down at her and Firewind made up her mind right then and there.
"I'll do it."
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What do you think? Interesting? Boring? Appealing? Well, review me and please tell me. I want to update this story a lot and you will probably see that since I have so many different ideas stuffed into my head right at the moment! Lol. I'll await those reviews anxiously and hope that they are good, even though I cannot always hope for that! :) I'll continue this and my other fics soon!
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When you are young, you realize something, that life is short and that there is always an end to your life. As you reach your middle ages, you start to realize that life for you may be coming to an end at any given time for any given reason. Once you start to realize this, many people start to think of the fantasy about being given the "gift" of eternal life, or the ability to never die, to become immortal. As the last few years of ones life arrive, you give up on this dream of never ending life, because you realize that this is never to be possible. When you die, people remember you long after you are gone and no matter what, be permanently recorded in some way or another. But, what if the ability to become immortal was given to a mortal being, would it be amazing, new, exciting and wondrous? Or, would that person realize that they were cursed with a burden until the end of time…………
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The lightning struck the ground only a few meters away from where she was standing, looking out at the trees just beyond the Dhorisha Plains. Her Shin'a'in stallion shifted uneasily and pawed at the ground with his large hooves.
"I know, we need to get going before the lightning hits us." Firewind, the woman about twenty-one summers old, said to Clyde, her stallion. She knew that he got uneasy in storms, but she had never seen him this panicky before. Firewind patted his neck and was about to mount when rain droplets started to fall upon them.
Clyde side stepped just as Firewind went to put her foot into the stirrup. The next she knew, he was rearing and flailing his hooves in every direction as a bolt of lightning came too close for comfort only about a meter to their left. When the bolt came in contact with the ground, she felt the ground shake beneath her, and heard the thunder so loud that it made her ears ring for minutes afterwards.
Firewind looked up from the ground and swayed slightly. In the distance, she could see Clyde galloping away at top speed towards her village. She let out a squeak as she realized that she was alone on an open plain while a lightning storm raged on above her.
The clouds sent down another blow which missed her by about a foot and she jumped back and tripped over a small rock half buried in the ground. Firewind looked up to see the last thing before her life went black, a glowing red bolt of power and electricity shoot down from the clouds and hit her head on.
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Firewind's eyes fluttered open and she gasped for breath. She took the air into her lungs in large gulps.
When she finally took the time to look at her surroundings, she noticed that she was no longer laying on the ground of the Dhorisha plains, but she was laying on a path-like strip in what seemed to be the night sky. The path was see-through, but cloudy, and the air seemed to have sparkling little particles floating in it.
Firewind looked in front of her and noticed that there was an old man standing in front of her smiling. She looked in all directions wondering if there was someone else, other than him, around and to try and find out where he had come from.
"Firewind, do you know where you are?" The man asked her. His voice seemed to come from all directions at once. Now, he had a slight glow to him, and he almost seems slightly transparent.
"No, but it seems to me that it has been described to me from one person or another. Where exactly am I?" Firewind picked herself up from the pathway and automatically dusted her clothes off, even though there was nothing that could have attached itself to the cloth.
"You are in the realm of the gods and their avatars, you have most likely imagined it when a shaman had described it to you, we get quite a few of them who visit one avatar or another." He waited to see he reaction to this, and when she looked at him like he was crazy, he continued, "I assume that you are wondering why you are here, right?"
"Yes, why have I not passed on regularly, like all the others who die?" Firewind stepped cautiously towards him to test her leg strength and to see if the "path" would hold her.
"Firewind, you have a gift that has not yet awakened, and that gift would help the world you just came from if trained and used, but you are the one who will decide how to use your gift and be the one to decide how you are going to react with what it is." The man said. "Right now, the gods are waiting to reveal your "gift" from them, will you follow?" He asked signalling towards one direction that the path took.
"What have I to lose by following you into an unknown abyss?" Firewind shrugged and followed the older man farther and farther down the path until they reached a clearing that was about two times the size of the Dhorisha Plains. Above her were human like figures, she recognized the one. The one figure was her own Star-eyed god.
The figures, now what Firewind figured were gods, were having conversations with each other. The old man that she had followed cleared his throat and all the gods looked down on the two. "She is hear as you requested." He moved to the side and used his hand to push he towards the all-powerful ones.
"Firewind, I am sure that Urtho has explained to you what is going on and what exactly we want you to do, correct?" Star-eyed said. Her voice also sounded like it came from every where at the same time, but she was transparent where the older man was not.
"Is he-" She pointed towards the man who had lead her to the clearing.
"Yes Firewind, that is the legendary Urtho, but much, much older."
"He did tell me about what is going on, but he did not exactly tell me what you wanted from me." Firewind was puzzled, what could there be that THEY would want from HER?
"I am glad he forgot to leave that out, I was sure that since he was so keen on that he would have ventured into that topic. Anyway, Firewind, you have the gift that the people call one "mage" gift. You may know of the Tayledras who use it, but your own people, the Shin'a'in do not. We have concluded that if this power was trained and used, it could come in handy for saving most of your world's people, not just the Shin'a'in. We are willing to train you in anything that may come in handy for you and to prepare you for the long journey ahead." The Star-eyed gazed down on her and waited for a response. When Firewind choked out a reply that sounded somewhat like a grunt, she continued. "We will be giving you a 'gift' of our own. Sometimes you may look at it as a curse, but we think that by the time you accomplish half of your tasks, you come to see the reasoning behind it. Firewind, we are going to "bless" you with the power to never die, to be immortal. If you refuse this offer, the world that you know will change while you watch it from here, in the spirit world. If you accept this offer, you will be known for longer than anyone could think. Are you willing to accept this?"
"I-I'm not exactly sure right now. Will you seriously give me immortality? And train me with this new power, and allow me to live my life I want while accomplishing you set tasks?" Questions were pouring out if her mouth at a speed she thought that even she could not acquire.
"I can assure you that all you have asked has the answer 'yes'." Her god looked down at her and Firewind made up her mind right then and there.
"I'll do it."
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What do you think? Interesting? Boring? Appealing? Well, review me and please tell me. I want to update this story a lot and you will probably see that since I have so many different ideas stuffed into my head right at the moment! Lol. I'll await those reviews anxiously and hope that they are good, even though I cannot always hope for that! :) I'll continue this and my other fics soon!