Windsbane-I am humbly accepting this award for the movie I recently made with the help of some of my...
-Jeremy, Daniel, Terry and Janet rush inside the building with so much anger in their eyes a charging rhino would have been cowering in fear-
All 4 of them in unison- Windsbane you and Zephyr are going to pay for this!
-They charge at Zephyr and me when 4 burley security guards jump in front of them. They run into the security guards while their cracking their knuckles and bounce harmlessly off.-
Guard #1- Who are these clowns Windsbane.
Zephyr- Just some angry actors from our movie who got the bad end of a business deal. Please escort them outside.
Guard #1, 2, 3, and 4- Will do. Come on.
-Zephyr and Windsbane watch and wave as the gang is dragged off by the guards toward the exit-
Ch 3: The Mountain of Wind
Over the past month I was training with my Hypnos sword learning some basic combat techniques and I mastered quite a few psynergys too. Also I met two creatures called Djinn that seemed to amplify my power. The first was called Draft who could create a wall of air to protect me and the other was called Cloud and could cover me in a cloud so foes couldn't see me. I just finished packing my bag with a 3 day supply of food just in case and was now ready to take on Airs Rock.
I started the hike to Airs Rock in the evening to avoid people asking me about what I was doing. Normally it would take 4 hours, but I knew a shortcut where the river was shallow enough to walk through cutting the time in half. As I crossed the river I started to think about the idea of psynergy and adepts. Where did adepts come from and how was this power created? And why did so few people posses it? I was hoping that Airs Rock would be able to give me the answers, but I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
When I reached the base of the rock I found a bunch of monsters there. Almost instantly and an Emu charged straight at me and struck me right in the chest with its beak causing a large gash. I staggered for a minute then quickly countered with a well aimed slash at the neck of the creature. It fell but then a Kobold started to try and slash me with its sword. I parried and went into a melee of blows, however it blocked all of my attacks with its shield until my sword glowed with a blue and grey aura. It unleashed the moon's air causing the Kobold to fall asleep and I struck it down. Another group of monsters approached so I decided to get serious. I raised my hand and focused on the sky and a barrage of blue lightning bolts (Blue Bolts) struck the entire group of enemies. They were electrocuted and either died or were paralyzed. Energy was focused into my hand and released it to perform a healing ability called Calming Winds to close that nasty cut on my chest. My first real taste of combat was kind of exciting.
I started to climb the main part of the rock. It was an incredibly steep climb. When I got up about half way I lost my grip and started to fall to certain death. I closed my eyes but I never hit the ground. I opened them to find myself spinning in a whirlwind. I looked over and saw a statue spitting out small twisters and by luck I had been caught in one. I landed up on a higher ledge where I noticed a cave that led into the center of the rock.
I entered to find a horde of monsters a lot stronger than the ones I had fought earlier. Without hesitation I started to kill off the first ones. I was struggling to hold off a team of 3 Ghouls on my own, when a huge Harpy swooped in and desperately I dropped down on the ground. The harpy had just barely missed and scraped my shoulder and came back for more, so I aimed an Astral Blast of stars straight at it. That took the bird down and it landed with a thud unconscious. I returned to fighting off the 3 ghouls by casting Whirlwind. My Whirlwind had pushed all of them down into a pit and onto spires. A greenish liquid came oozing out of the ghouls, which grossed me out. I casted another Whirlwind to hold off the remaining enemies for a bit. Instead of hitting the enemies, it hit this rock in the shape of a tornado. The wind circled around it while I watched in awe as a humungous bolt of lightning hit all of the enemies causing them to die instantly. I figured that it must be the wind stone I heard about which amplifies the powers of wind.
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I had gone farther into the rock and say a large twister heading upwards. I took a chance and jumped into it and it blew me high up near this ledge that seemed to be suspended in mid air. I landed on a ledge and noticed a door with very odd markings on it. There was a message written in the ancient language of Garoh. I read it to myself:
"The 4 elemental rocks contain great powers over each element that they correspond with. These rocks are also the source of alchemy's power. The Jupiter star one of the four elemental stars used to absorb the powers of alchemy was crafted from the wind crystal in the very heart of this mountain. It was predicted by ancient wind adepts that a time would come when alchemy would be unsealed or the world would erode into nothing. There would be 8 adepts (2 from each element) that would relight the beacons on the elemental lighthouses after the fire clan's strongest warriors stole them. A young adept from the mercury clan would seek to claim all the power's of alchemy under the influence of a mysterious shadow, but would fail due to the golden sun's might being transferred into 4 parts. One in the jewel of mars, one into the golden sun itself, one in the city of the sky and part will be released into the person that unlocks the power hidden within the elemental mountains themselves after defeating the spirits of the elements. The one that first break the seal on any of the mountains will be the heir to the power of alchemy sealed within, but a single adept won't be able to complete the journey alone due to the need for adepts of all 4 elements in every sacred mountain. The power will be spread through the 4 new bearers that may rise up to defeat the evil of the shadow controlling the water adept, completely restore alchemy to the world and restore the lost lands. The power to see the unseen lies ahead but the true power of the wind is hidden even deeper within these verses:
'If you seek what cannot be seen in your face,
Use the power to see the unseen and trace,
The markings of your hand on the magic seal,
Alchemy's power will then reveal,
Not on the ground but above into the clouds,
Will come the guardian of wind's power proud,
To test the abilities of the seeker,
If the adept is stronger and not weaker,
They will be granted the wind's true power,
After the moon is full at sun's risen hour.
I looked at the puzzle wondering and then stared at my palm. It had a birthmark shaped like a wing on it that I couldn't remember not having. I pulled out a pen and paper to make a copy of the writing and worry about what it meant later. Now was the time to enter the chamber of Airs Rock. I pushed the door open.
The inner chamber was a gigantic room filled with clouds and a floating platform in the center with a large stone tablet. It gave you a mystical feeling as though there was some huge source of energy inside, but a creepy feeling of a bottomless pit if you fell. There was no way to get to that platform however so I tried something very crazy. I took a running head start and jumped over 4 ft to a pillar and used a huge blast of wind to push myself off of it. I was right above the bottomless pit and about to make it when I started to fall very fast. As the wind rushed past my head, desperately I took a grappling hook out of my back pack and concentrated my psynergy on it. It moved and grabbed onto a torch stand near the tablet and luckily I was able to pull myself up.
"Phew!" I told myself. I never imagined that it would be this hard to climb Airs Rock.
I turned and faced the tablet, which read "Ye who wield the power of the winds, lay thy hands here and I will grant you the power to see the unseen". So I carefully put my hands to the tablet, and then it started to glow. I was shocked as I rose up into mid-air with nothing holding me up along with the tablet. Then a million small lights came out of the tablet and into my body. Finally both the tablet and I went back to the ground. I tested the power to make sure it actually worked.
"Reveal," I said and sure enough I saw a strange bubble appear around me and I could see something that I couldn't before. There was a statue that looked like an angel with a wing mark on its hand. I remembered what was in that cryptic poem and traced the wing mark on my palm on the statue's mark.
"BOOM."
A thousand lightning bolts shot around me engulfing me in a circle. My body glowed purple and I started to disappear. First my hands and feet, then my arms and legs, soon my whole body was gone. I didn't remember what happened next, I had completely blacked out.
-Jeremy and co get chucked in a dumpster outside of the studio in an alley way-
Janet- Ewww! This will take weeks to get out my hair.
Daniel- Jeremy lets just forget about getting Windsbane and Zephyr. We've already been humiliated 3 times.
Terry- No we have to get them back for this.
Jeremy- Right we'll have our reven... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
-Garbage truck comes and picks up the contents of the dumpster to be taken to the dump-
-Meanwhile inside-
Windsbane- Now as I was before I was rudely interrupted. I humbly accept this award for my movie made with the help of some of my friends. Also please check out my current story The Secret of The Elemental Rocks.
Zephyr- Please read and review it since it stars me.