Chapter 10
Orders are Orders
"Xellos!" her voice echoed in the large, darkened room, no sooner had her word been shouted, then her servant, appeared, kneeling before her.
"Yes my mistress?"
"There has been an astral disturbance recently. Dynast and I have gone ourselves to search the area where the astral glitch occurred. I was quite surprised to find that it had almost the same magic and energy pattern the last time this happened." she did not say it, but he knew what she spoke of. There had been a time disturbance. It had only happened once, but due to events beyond their control, they were unable to stop him from drastically changing the world... "But the difference is the casters signature pattern was left, woven in amongst the deepest part of the spell, and we must find whoever it was who cast it, and find out as much as we can before we make a decision."
"How do you suggest I track them Beast Master?"
"Whoever it was, appeared outside the village of Terrin, I have searched there and found traces of blood, and magic still in that area, you can follow the clues from there. It is important we find out who it is, they could destroy whatever may be... Do whatever you must to find out who it is, but be discreet. You're dismissed."
And with that one word he teleported away.
Xellos teleported to the outskirts of the town and began searching for the power his mistress had described, holding out a small amethyst, which dropped from his hand, held in the air by it's golden chain, it began to glow softly and tilt straight in front of him. Soon enough he found the magic signature and found the traces of blood, as he looked at it, he plucked the stained blades of grass smelled, than tasted it. It was human blood, and it held power in it. He closed his eyes for a moment, tainted power. He opened his eyes and began following the path and soon enough there was another patch of grass, stained with more blood in this area, but this time, there was a signature of a high magic pattern, white magic. The sorcerer must have been found by a Priest or Mage or a healer.
"You got very lucky." he whispered to the person, "It seems you were severely wounded and weak, too bad you didn't die. If you had, it would save me the trouble of most likely having to kill you later." He stood up and walked into the town. No need teleporting in, he didn't want to cause a scene.
Two hours of searching earned him more surprising facts then he thought he would find. Discovering there were only two inns, he checked the largest inn first with no luck. The second inn informed him that the mighty Rezo, the Red Priest, had stayed at their inn and that he had come in with a red headed girl in his arms, quite beautiful in fact. Xellos sighed as he realized the boy who worked at the inn, and who was currently telling him the story, must have had a crush on her at first sight.
"Yes, yes, lovely, but do tell me, do you know where they were going?" he interrupted the boy.
"Well I remember he did do a lot of healings that day after taking care of her... A little boy had asked him if he was going to come back and he mentioned he had to be on his way to visit family, but he would try." his voice wandered off as he tried thinking about it more and more.
"I see, well, where were they headed?" Xellos asked patiently.
"Oh, they headed towards the more expensive part of the residential area." he informed him.
"I see. Well thank you oh so very much." he smiled innocently and then walked out the door.
Because of the fact Rezo was possessed by Lord Shabranigdo, the higher Mazoku kept tabs on him, and his kin. And being right beneath his mistress in social level, it was important he know much about her plans, even if he is usually never told everything. Meaning, he knew about Rezo's family, and he knew where they lived. Well this WAS going to be interesting...
"Dear can you answer that? I'm doing the dishes!" Melandy called to her husband. Rendal sighed and put down his chisel and set it a top of the stone carving he was doing. He walked over to their door and opened it to find a man with purple hair, holding a staff, and dressed like a priest, on his door step.
"May I help you?" he questioned with a smile.
"It's I who need the help I'm afraid." he paused, putting forth a sigh. "My companion Rezo the Red Priest was rumored to be here. I am afraid I need his help, I am a priest, and my.... temple, is in need of his services."
Rendal frowned, "Oh, I see, well I'm very sorry to have to be the one to tell you this, but he's all ready left on a quest with my son and Lina."
Xellos raised an eyebrow, "Lina?"
"Oh, forgive me priest, you do not know of her, she is the girl he rescued from deaths arms. My son was quite taken with her." he half laughed, "You know how young boys can be."
Xellos smiled winningly, "Of course, well is there anything I should know before I try to... hunt down my old companion?"
"Hmmm, well if an area of the woods goes ablaze, that's probably Ms. Lina attempting to cook again." He said this with a grin. "They were headed toward Sairaag though if it helps."
'That's what I was looking for.' Xellos bowed slightly, "Well thank you for the information Mr. Rendal Greywers, may you be blessed with an interesting life." he then left.
As Rendal closed the door and went back to his chisel humming, his mind began running over the conversation he had had. While carving out the hair on the stone girl he was making, he paused as a very eerie fact ran through his mind. 'I never gave him my name...'
Notes: To explain the significance of this ending I'll explain, It is not a public fact that Rezo Akahoushi is related to the 'Greywers' family. That's why it's eerie. The priest shouldn't have known. True he may have learned through the village, but doubted it would be his first name, being of a higher class. And anyway, it's my story ignore the glitches laughs
Oh by the way, seeing as I re-edited and corrected EVERY chapter, some things were changed a lot, and if you see a glaring prob, gimme a note kay?
Wow, the last time I updated was January 7, 2002.
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