C26: Note to everyone reading this, I may have already finished the story by the time you finish reading this. I was up to chapter 5 when I posted chappy 1
Chapter 6: The cold embrace of death
Ivan stared around. Where was he? His vision was clouded by a sea of darkness. Then he heard the girl he'd followed speak. "Do not be afraid Ivan, nothing here can harm you" Ivan glanced around "Where are you?" he asked, but got an answer when he saw the girl step out into his line of sight.
"Ivan, we are not from this realm, we cannot be harmed by anything from it" as she finished Ivan began his next question "Who are you? Where are we?" the girl smiled, an annoying grin.
"Ivan,
this is what Isaac has been working towards for three years, he is
taking control of Weyard before overlaying this world into ours. The
four elemental lighthouses will be overlaid by the towers of Saturn,
Neptune, Uranus and Pluto. Follow me" the girl finished and walked
off into the darkness, Ivan followed, curious trying to keep her in
his view.
Eventually they reached a tower, a lighthouse! This one
was a scorched orange colour. "Which one is this?" Ivan asked the
girl and without turning around the girl replied "Saturn, it will
replace Mercury, Follow me inside". Ivan reluctantly followed into
the entry lobby, it was a splitting image of Mercury lighthouse, but
the orange colour of the entire tower. The girl took Ivan inside to a
colossal arena. Like a Colloseum, except the entire floor was frozen,
there were icicles pointing upwards from the floor. But as he got
closer Ivan realised these were people, and that one in the middle
was... Mia?
Ivan skidded across the icy floor, tripping over every so often, but eventually reached the block of Ice that Mia was encased in. The girl came sliding after Ivan and came to a halt.
"Ivan, she isn't dead, she's frozen herself to buy us some time to kill Isaac."
Ivan was confused, what sort of mind-altering drug was she on?
"To replace a lighthouse, each one in this world needs the body of an adept from the clan it replaces, Mia has frozen the way through the lighthouse shut, so we have some time to go and kill Isaac"
"You still haven't told me your name" Ivan mentioned, steering the conversation another way. She sighed and replied "Morca" Ivan was surprised "Morca, Queen of Tolbi?" Morca smiled at his response with a comment "I know, you expected someone "older" but I'm Queen"
Ivan ran his fingers along the smooth watery surface of the block of ice.
"Isaac needs a sacrifice of an adept from each clan to replace each lighthouse in order to light Sol lighthouse at the centre of this realm"
Ivan sighed at her comment and asked "How many are left?"
"This one can't be lit yet, apart from that they've all been dealt with" With that, Ivan slid his way back to the entrance again and started to walk on, followed by Morca.
"Where the hell are you going?" She asked.
"Sol lighthouse" Ivan replied blankly and continued walking.
"Whoa! Ivan, you can't just walk into Sol lighthouse"
"Why the bloody hell not?" Ivan yelled.
"Because," at this point she grabbed him by the arm stopping him "d'you even think there is even the slightest possibility that Isaac has left his base unguarded? It'll be crawling with the undead soldiers!" she finished very matter-of-factly.
"Because I know Isaac's secret" Ivan grinned.
"I TOLD YOU! LEAVE ME BE!" Isaac yelled at the darkness, this was getting seriously annoying now. "LET ME GO!"
"Isaac, the dead are coming!" what did he mean?
"What?" Isaac asked the darkness.
"The dead are coming" It chanted "The dead are coming! THE DEAD ARE COMING! COMING! COMING! COMING! COMING! THE DEAD ARE COMING! THEY ARE MINE ISAAC! WEYARD IS MINE! YOU ARE MINE!" NO! STOP IT! LET ME GO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
Gust: Ohh, "chilling"
