Zar sat listening to the others talking on the boat , a small boat with enough room only for the party and the drow guide who was leading them through the underdark.
He looked from Oto to Pan to Lyra and then to the guide. The guide reminded him of himself when he was a drow.....however to make him what he had become ,a shade, he remembered how he
had betrayed all who trusted him....
Zar walked up to the messenger holding the famous jewel,the dragon heart, in his hand. He stared at the shade with his white drow eyes "so what is it you want after all the fighting"
The shade simply looked at him and smirked "our king is glad you came do you have the...." "yes" said Zar cutting him offholding up the dragon heart. "Ah goood ,now follow me"
he said leadig him up the shadow stairs.
Zar must have been crazy to come to this meeting but it might stop the shades from attacking again shame he had to come on his own these shades were tricky.....powerful and
tricky...not a good mix.
He followed the shade up the stairs and along a coridor witch was filled with guards who all eyed him carefully as he walked along,his red sorcerers cloak swishing behind him.
The shade opened a big door and ushered him into the room .He walked in and saw a big table with mages and the shade king sitting beside them. "ah zar orath i belive "said the
king in a booming deep voice sniling evily at him.Zar sat opposite him on the round table "Yes now what is it that you have to say i have come alone and brought the dragon heart
as you asked ,everyone is ...curious as to why you have called my counsul"The king smiled still "ah yes zar well you see ,we have been watching you during this war and we have
seen that you have much potential ,you could be a great sorcerer.....and i am offering you a chance to be part of a great and powerful empire"
Zar blinked a couple of times "what .....what are you saying exactly?" Zar had always valued power over most things and this sounded interesting to say the least "zar" said the king
" i am offering you to become one of us ,forget those others you knew like Elminster they are simply using you as a pawn....join us...you shall be respected and all the power in the
universe could be yours ". Zar listened to this with a gleam in his eye , he was right what did he care about elminster and the others. He wanted power more than anything and here it
was right infront of him like a ripe fruit waiting to be picked. "yes......your right "all of a sudden it all made sense he was destined for greater things and elminster was holding him
back ."Your right theres great things happening and why shouldnt i be respected " the king smiled a wide grin " ah yes zar welcome to the empire of the shades" zar smiled and the king
stood "now come zar and you shall become one of us " zar stood nervously followed him , what did he mean , whatever it was it made zar excited and nervous at the same time .He followed the
king to an open space in the room and the mages stood round him in a circle and started chanting a spell moving there hands round ."hold stil zar this will only take a second " said the
king.
In the back of the room was the mage Hadrune he didnt agree wtith this but he was ready to put his own plan into action in just a few seconds.
Zar stood in the middle of the room at first he didnt feel any different then he was slowly lifted off his feet he held his hands in front of him as he saw shadow start to move round him.
no through him?!?! every bit of him started to tingle and he felt like he was disintigrating from the feet up his heart pounded and he felt weird ..not unlike his soul being plcked from his body
but it seemed to go the other way round as if his body was being ripped from his soul. His body was now disappering and it was the weirdest feeling he had ever sensedeverything was being replaced
by the shadowy substanse that made te incorperal shades and soon he found himself on the ground againhis eyes opened like twin shutters and he looked at himself now completley a shadow figure.
now one of the shades. "i..." but he didnt get to finish that sentance as hadrune snatched the dragons heart from his hand "Ahha i have it , none of you have the imagination or ambition to use this
hahaha but now i have it and your all doomed "he laughed as he opened a portal and a few of the mages fired a barrage of magic missles at him but he deflected them with ease and steped through the portal.
Zar blinked out of is day dream as they crossed the lake he remembered that fateful time he killed Hadrune ,a story for another time perhaps, to him it was redemption for all he had done he could finally get on with his life and instead of valueing power over everything he would use the power he had to protect what he now held above everything else......suddenly a kaotoa leviathon fliped the boat overand all his companions went flying into the lake he was throw slightly from the boat with the gust of wind it created .....now he would use his power as he saw his friends in the water firing spells and swiming toward the nearest island he would use his power...and his sword to protect that new found value of his something which was evn more rewarding to him than a lust for power was..the thing which he had grown to now after all the years of hurt and aloneness........friendship...and now was the time to fight for it.