I guess that this is the second chapter. Well, that's it. Oh, by the way. . . Please review.
Disclaimer: Yeah umm I am working on that whole 'make a million dollars' thing. Not working out well. So until then I guess Relm and this games still belongs to them.
Chapter 2 Running For Your Life
Life is without meaning.
You bring meaning to it.
The meaning of life is what ever you ascribe to it.
Being alive is the meaning.
Joseph Campbell
Panting, again. 'Is that all you ever do, run and run some more?' Well, now wasn't the time to be arguing with herself. She needed to think of something. Relm was being tested and she wasn't one to fail. This was her final test to get into the Elite Magi Warriors. She would be the youngest Magi Warrior ever, at age ten. 'Yeah, I can do this. Thamasa history books here I come.'
Most Magi Warriors were about 35 or 40 before being accepted as an Elite. Relm had gotten to know many of the warriors over the past 4 years, and she found out one thing: old people are boring. Gosh, can't they make new memories and stop living in the past. Well, she knew she could change all that.
She was determined to be accepted by them and to become the strongest of them all. She had been so motivated since she was about 6. Why? She couldn't even remember why anymore. All she knew was that she had to be strong and not be a burden on her grandpa. That was why she was stuck here now, once again, running for her life.
Her last test was to find the entrance to the cave on the western side of the island. 'And they said that the monsters were the only thing to worry about.' Well, she would soon prove them wrong. Relm found the cave with ease but there was another part to the test: Find the statues of the goddesses and read the inscription. Then she had to return and tell the inscription to the old guy. . .umm . . . Elder.
Shortly after entering the cave, she found a huge room. It seemed like there was nothing in it. She walked into the room and looked around. In the center of the room were three golden statues. A beam of light came down from the ceiling and the statues made a circle around it. She found the Goddess Statues! Now all she had to do was read them and go home. Nothing impressive to read about; it just talked about the creation of the whole UNIVERSE.
'Yeah, that's all well and good, but did anybody mention how to get out? Sure, they send in a curious 10 year old and don't expect her to look for a quick way out.' Okay. While she was exploring the cave some more, she found a room where light seemed to falling in from the roof of the cave in 3 different spots. She looked around and realized that the light wasn't coming from the ceiling, it was coming from the floor! But there were no holes in the ground. It was as if the rocks themselves were creating the light. Rocks doesn't normally do that, right?
Well, she did what any true 10 year old would do. She did something she wasn't supposed to. Which was to step onto the one of the three points of light. The first two teleported her to different places in the cave that she had already been. And the last took her to a new area that was a large empty cavern. In it was nothing but the way out.
Well there was nothing there when she teleported in. After walking around for a while, and searching every crevice, she decided there was nothing. So she went to leave, until the entire room lit up with a holy light. But holy was not how to describe the new visitor. He looked like night itself and, as it stood next to the wall, it seemed to engulf the entire room. All of the cavern started to become as dark as the visitor.
This is why she ran. She knew that she had to get away from this creature. It seemed to be pure evil. She ran almost the whole way back to the entrance of the cave when she finally ran out of breath. "Remember when you get back, 'buy a pair of Sprint Shoes." She told herself. Finally she got her breath back. She once again looked around the entrance to the cave.
"Was it always this dark?" She stopped. "Oh Nooo!" She tried to run, but it was to late; something dark was standing in front of the entrance to the cave. "Why does everything have to be so fast." She was to angry right now to care that she was talking to a living shadow.
"Well somebody is ungrateful." 'What? Ok, I did not just hear a shadow creature talk to me. I Did Not!'
She pulled out the small dagger, that she kept only for emergencies, and stood in her favorite attack pose. She heard a noise from the shadow, it was something between a growl and a laugh. "What are you laughing at me for?"
She ran forward towards the entrance with the dagger. All she intended to do was get through it to the entrance, but the shadow took a solid form. It looked just like a normal person with dark skin and eyes, about 20. There was something about his eyes. . .There was something wrong with the pupils. They were like cat's eyes, slanted vertically instead of round. Everything about him seemed dark except his sparkling blonde hair that stood out among his dark features. He had a smirk and was holding a sword lazily in his hands. "Phantom has no time to fight children."
"Good, I see no children here." Relm replied ready to strike. She was trained well with a sword. Her speciality was her agility though. She was fast enough that nobody could touch her (if she didn't want them to.) She wasn't sure what she was doing. 'He is a freakin' shadow. How do you kill a shadow?' With that thought she quickly lunged forward.
It really seemed unfair, a small girl with a small dagger against a tall man with a huge, glowing sword. But, despite the obvious size and weapon difference, Relm was holding her own. She even managed to get her back to the entrance for a quick escape if she needed it. The only problem was that they were an equal match. 'Darn, this shadow. I am one of the strongest in my village and I can't even beat this thing.'
"I am Phantom. Not a shadow." The dark haired man said. "Just in case you didn't know, there is a difference." She continued to dodge his attacks. She was about to make another strike for him when . . .
'Wait.' She stopped with her dagger in mid-strike. 'I didn't say that out loud. I know I didn't.'
"Well, you are quite right. You thought it." He stood still as well.
"Now you are telling that you are not only as good as me, but you also read my mind. This is ridiculous."
"No more ridiculous than a 10 year old trying to find a way into The Elite Magi Warriors. You have trained for the last 4 years and have achieved a level of refinement that it took those men over 20 years to attain."
"Well, it didn't take you to long." She looked again at the man in front of her. He couldn't be older than 25.
"Actually the only way I could keep up with you was because you think far enough ahead that I could read your mind and move to counter before you had even struck." That was it. She knew he had to have cheated. She was the strongest person in the village again. "But that is not all. . ." He looked around slowly. "I have also had 275 years of practice."
That was a jaw-dropper. 'He can't be human. No way. But what. . .'
"Don't even think that! I am not a demon. I am what your people call an esper."
ok that was chapter 2. Hope you enjoyed it. Well I got this way cool idea for the rest of this story. I have to hurry.
