Jessi: Yey! Two chapters in two days! I am on a roll!
When Chel came to the world remained stubbornly dark. He blinked several times and waved his hand in front of his eyes. Nothing happened.
A strangled cry escaped his throat. He was blind! He sat up, head shaking, as though trying to clear the darkness from his vision. Hand pressed against his heart he forced himself to calm down. For sometime afterwards, it was hard to measure the passage of time with no sight, Chel sat there while his eyes mended.
It returned, wealy at first, the world turning into a vast collection of blurs and the sunlight stinging. Finally clarity returned and the winged elf stood.
It was day, perhaps a few hours after dawn. Chel had been sitting on the ground, evidentually having fallen from the branch. Bright lances of golden light broke the forest canopy surrounding the clearing. However in the clearing the light was silver.
Kemi floated above the ground, hair writhing in the air, much like Chel's in battle. A aura of platinuim light enfused his surroundings. He appeared to be unconscious.
There was no sign of the lizardmen... almost. A solitary arm lay on the ground, cut smoothly and cleanly from its torso. Half a lizardman lay on the opposite side of the clearing, cut straight down the middle.
Chel opened his wings and flew up to where Kemi hovered. The platinium light shifted a little towards him, but Chel knew this spell. It was no threat anymore... not after it had been active for so long. He cradled the dark-haired elf against his chest, the aura fading, the light gone... almost.
Chel frowned and landed again. Supporting Kemi's head he brushed away the dark strands from his forehead.
There on the ivory-white flesh, above and between his eyes, was a softly-glowing patch shaped exactly like a five-pointed star.
The winged elf's slender fingers brushed the mark, eyes wide. It... it was impossible. Something stirred against his skin and there was a sudden warmth above his heart.
Gently setting Kemi down, Chel's hand went to his neck, his questing fingers finding the chain about his neck. He pulled on it so that the object on the end of it fell against the outside of his robes. It was a symbol of Tiamet, older than the ancient city of Myth Drannor... and it was a platinium star, with five points- now softly glowing like the identical mark on Kemi's forehead.
"Fy arglwydd..." Chel's voice was a whisper of awe.
Jessi: Just a quick note- "Fy arglwydd" is Welsh for "my lord".
Also if any one has seen Vampire Hunter D- Bloodlust (I got it this weekend. Great movie) the vampire Mirai is freakishly like Chel (except Chel's not a vampire). And the movie was released in 2001 the same year that the Dragon God Chronicles was born... Freaky...