Cry Of The Carniave
Chadron Comeths
Jay, Shadith and Laura decided to begin their new quest in Glade Village.
"What shall we do?" asked Jay. "I wish we knew where to start our new journey before we even began this quest!"
"How about we all start over from last time?" said Laura.
"No! Let's go a different direction!" argued Shadith. A male voice interrupted the argument before it could go further.
"Going somewhere, Jay?" A friendly teenage boy face smiled from the shop window, shuffling a deck of cards. Suddenly a brutish man with a greasy moustache (the former ring toss keeper at the fair) yelled at him loudly. "But I was just-!" Chadron protested. But the man interrupted.
"No, no, NO! Absolutely NO cards in my shop! GET OUT!" Chadron was literally kicked out of the shop by the shopkeeper.
"The nerves of that bully!" muttered Chadron to himself.
"Hello Chad! Laura and Shadith, this is my good friend, Chadron. He's very experienced in magical cards and knows a lot. Chadron, meet Laura and Shadith… They are friends of mine. We are just about to go on a mission to save some magical Guardians… Care to join us?" Jay introduced. Chadron was about sixteen to seventeen years old, had short ruffled black curls, grey eyes and a saffron coloured cloak. He was always eager for adventure and was very popular with the girls with his well-known jovial friendliness and humour.
"Hello, girls… Nice to meet you! Jay told me a lot about you two… Yes Jay, I'll accept your offer to join your friends on your journey! Want to see a magical card trick? I use a special deck of cards, which has real magic in them. The ancient cards were passed down from my father…" said Chadron with a gentle grin as he continued to talk to Shadith and Laura.
At Tane's Tower, in the dungeons…
"I'm so bored!" groaned Vestra, her flaming hair gleaming a rusty red. "I hope Hadin has told Jay and Laura of our current condition!" The fierce winged Fire Guardian slumped in her prison along with the other six elemental Guardians.
"Yeah," agreed Zephyran, Guardian of Wind. "I wish that she would hurry up though." Thorian, the sulking Storm Guardian raged.
"Could we dig our way out of here?" suggested Aquaria, the dark-blue haired nymph-like Water Guardian as she proposed a solution. The Sun/Light Guardian, Helious, shook his head solemnly.
"No chance, there seems to be a magical force field around this prison. There's no way we can get out of here without our powers… And Tane seems to have absorbed Master's power as well." said sensible Helious, his golden hair shining dimly amongst the darkness.
A whoosh of wind signified Tane's entrance and the dark sorcerer stood outside the force fields. Tane looked like an adolescent despite his age, save for the chain necklace and dark red medieval wizard costume. The secretive sorcerer had desolate silvery eyes, thin wire spectacles, a frowning face and long glossy black hair, which he combed at least ten times a day. He was also arrogant, egotistical and narcissistic.
Back in the old days when Glen and Tane were in Daethren, Tane was one of Leo Naern's students who came top in every exam. He was quite nice, but a bit shy when it came to making friends. Master Glen never really liked him, but they still remained friends despite that. But one day, Tane was encouraged to meddle in the 'Dark Arts'. He became utterly consumed and ever since then, Tane had changed from a pleasant person to one that only wished to see the world's destruction. Master Glen and Tane had an argument after the incident, now all Master Tane Tsand desired was to seek revenge on Glen Usawaii and his Guardians.
Master Glen rattled the bars on his prison, his cerulean eyes glaring fiercely at his long time rival. Tane smirked at Glen, his conceited eyes surveying him.
"Tane Tsand, rival of mine! Your insane plan will never work. What will happen when all the Daethren elements are released? What about all the innocent people you'll destroy? Don't you remember when you used to care?"
Tane was unresponsive at his former friend's statement. He sighed nostalgically.
"There's only one way to find out what will happen, Glen Usawaii. My son will come and when he does, I'll make sure he destroys you first. I can see in my mind's eye that your rescuers are coming in this direction, so I'll simply create an obstacle course for them- of Fire and Wind." Tane spoke sharply as he stared out the window. He made a swift but silent gesture in the air. Suddenly, there was a sizzle and a whoosh, then spitting flames and howling hurricanes spread and began to combine together into one humungous firestorm, which was headed for the far away town of Glade Village…
"What's going on?" yelled Laura, looking up at the ominous darkening sky. Suddenly, blasts of fire began to stream from the clouds, thunder roared and the wind began to become stronger with every gale…
"It's the Daethren elements! When the elements are not guarded, they can cause chaos! And if they are not stopped, who knows what will happen!" explained Shadith. "Right now, Fire and Wind seem to be released! Soon the elements will spread through the entire country, unless we halt the firestorm's progress!"
"Now you tell us?" Chadron yelled, clutching his deck of cards as the wind began to howl even more viciously and burning fire began to hail from the sky. Jay, Shadith, Chadron and Laura watched in horror as the flames fell around them. People started to gasp and scream at the unnatural phenomenon as they started to run indoors. The Glade Forest was set alight with small sparks of flames, the powerful winds starting to blow the flames towards the small town.
"Oh no! Glade Forest is burning!" cried Laura.
"There's no way to stop the fire! In a few minutes, it'll totally destroy our village!" said Jay as he tried to think of something to stop the fire's progress. Unexpectedly, Chadron's quick mind had thought of a full-blown plan.
"Wait! I've thought of something!" Chadron gritted his teeth as he drew out a random magical card from his deck. He placed the chosen card face up on the dirt ground hurriedly. "I call on the Freeze Card!" he screamed, at once an energy beam of ice exploded vertically out of the card into the clouds with a powerful force.
Jay, Shadith and Laura were all taken aback as they watched the ice beam grow thicker and higher with each passing second. Gradually the falling fire melted the column of ice quickly, which eventually poured down as rain. The precipitation teemed down on the forest fire, reducing the blazes into mere flickers before they were extinguished altogether. The falling fire was quenched as well and the wind stopped howling. Then there was silence, glorious silence.
The trio was totally amazed at Chadron's strategy, their mouths gaping in shock at the new arrival. Chadron grinned broadly at the three.
"Did you see that? Chadron just saved Glade Forest!" gasped Jay.
"That was amazing, Chad! How did you do that?" Shadith asked.
"Well, it wouldn't be a secret if I told you, would it?" Chadron winked at her. Shadith seemed to be surprised by his actions.
"I guess not…" mused Shadith.
"Come Chad, welcome to our team!" smiled Jay.
Author's Notes: So, a new team member comes and arrives! But is Chadron really who he says he is! Find out in the next chapter:-D
