John addressed Nightwolf as if he were a stranger, "All I remember is your irritating laugh as I fell to the floor. Why did you mock me?" Nightwolf was genuinely amused, "I was not mocking you, heavens no! I was merely remembering the time when I had experienced the same fate as you had. I meant you no disrespect my young campanion. Now then, are you ready to test your new magical abilities?" John replied, in an eager tone, "HELL YES!" Nightwolf was now even more amused, "Ahh, the youthful eagerness, I remember that. Sadly it has left me. Now, you see those mummies outside? They would normally be MUCH too difficult of a fight for you in hand to hand, but with the assistance of your new magickal abilities, I believe you could kill one of those creatures without so much as taking a hit." John was doubtful, but he accepted the challenge. He pushed open the heavy, stone gate that was between him and the corridor of mummies. He saw one that was rather close to him, and summoned the powers that he had seen Nightwolf perform. However, he could only make a cylinder of ice to stop his foe, a powerful spell nonetheless, and was called Ice Blitz by most adventurers. Shockingly, the mummy proved to be very strong, and burst out of the ice. Quickly, John used a spell that he had seen drained his opponent's health, what most adventurers refered to as Blood Barrage. A rushing updraft of blood enclosed the mummy. The damage that was inflicted was immense, and John felt some of his own damage from the treck through the desert to be lifted. The mummy began to crumble into dust, and John found a powerful staff in the pile of remains.
The staff was rather long, with a middle that seemed to be an indent, indicating a grip. Nightwolf watched, and was shocked at John's luck to have found a mummy that was carrying an Ancient Staff. John examined the staff's head, it was dark purple. It had a strange symbol of crosses in a large circular, two-dimensional head. He gripped the staff and held it at another mummy, he cast a spell which he later learned was referred to as Ice Barrage. The block of ice that he had seen Nightwolf cast at the Shanti Pass, had come back. That block of ice appeared around the mummy, and then John cast it a second time, killing the mummy instantly. The mummy, surprisingly, dropped a SECOND Ancient Staff, which John eagerly retrieved. He presented it to Nightwolf as a gift. Nightwolf was shocked, but accepted it.
He then glared at John, and John looked into his blood-red eyes, and knew that death was about to come to him. He knelt down, as a block of ice formed around him, followed by a large rush of blood, just as he had cast on the mummy, then he was hit with warriors made of shadow, and finally, smoke swelled around him, and he became intoxicated with the poisonous gas. He fell to the ground, and died, in a violent fit of coughing, while frozen inside a block of ice. Once Nightwolf was sure that John was dead, he summoned the sand to put him into a mummies coffin, and join the coffins that were situated in the walls of the pyramid. Nightwolf laughed heartily, and summoned purple blocks of magick from above, which surrounded him, and disappeared.
He reappeared in the area of runescape known as the wilderness, and started a massacre of anyone who stood in his path of ancient destruction. He was eventually defeated, and his power was released to the people of the land, where many mages and sages alike used the powers of the ancients to hone their skills, and better themselves, just like he had. The only difference was that they had not become as powerful as he. A few years after Nightwolf's defeat, an adventurer found traces of John's existance, and used some recently discovered magics to revive him from his mummified state.