Prologue
'By the distant fire!' Cried Nexus as he let yet another flaming ball loose on the screaming goblins below. It spiralled through the air, growing in size until it ceased to be a ball of flame, and became a pillar. It engulfed a pocket of goblins and scattered many others onto the cold grassy turf. Rigitorious clapped Nexus on the back with a laugh, and hurled a freezing bolt of ice from his fingertips into a goblin, who instantly froze, his closest comrades also freezing, and their closest comrades freezing, and theirs simply falling over and dying with the cold. The two Elemental Mages of Wisthorpe looked down at the advancing column of goblins from their perch at the top of the hill. They would never get all of them, with just two mages.
'Stay your hand, Nexus' Rigitorious said, just before Nexus could release another fireball.
'You don't want to waste your magic' He said, doubtfully. The goblins screeched in triumph from the bottom of the hill, advancing ever faster.
'But Master, I must! They will kill us!' He insisted, flaming the grass in front of Rigitorious with anger.
'Then we must call for help' Rigitorious said simply, while quelling the flames that had now caught his robes with a conjured splash of water.
'But who is there to help?' Nexus asked, keeping an eye on the monstrosities below.
'You will see when I send the signal' Rigitorious said.
'The signal…what-' He began, before a massive blue tidal wave crashed down the hill, washing goblins to their deaths, and in some places, freezing them to death. The water seemed to dance forwards, twisting and turning, moulding itself into shapes. They were humanoid in form, but were made entirely out of water. Red bands encircled their wrists, granting them the power to live. They rushed the goblins, wrestling them to the floor and freezing their organs. The remaining ones shouting and running from the tall creatures. Rigitorious looked on with pride, and turned to his trainee.
'I think it is time I taught you of the conjuring of Denizens,'
'Yes' Replied Nexus, visibly awed by the presence of such amazing creatures.
'Think of fire' He said quickly. Nexus obeyed. 'Think of a person in the same picture' Nexus obeyed. 'Imagine those two into one' Nexus, once more, obeyed. 'Conjure what you see, but be warned; make sure you encircle their wrists!' But he was too late.
Nexus opened his eyes, and black fire shot from his fingers, encircling Rigitorious as if it were a snake. It whirled round and round, tightening its searing hot grip. Rigitorious screamed as it forced its way down his throat, his skin rippling and blackening, until he resembled ashes in the fire that Nexus had made, his hair shot backwards, glowing orange and red like licks of flame, his boots turned black as the coal. Rigitorious collapsed on the ground, as Nexus, or at least, the spirit inside nexus, laughed evilly.
'From the depths of eternal fire, I conjure thee, the bringer of Death, the Denizen of pain, the king of the undead hordes, Chaos!'
The fire that Rigitorious had been raged up and spiralled in a wall of fire, twisting and turning like a maelstrom, and from the depths of eternal fire, stepped Chaos.
Chapter One - School