Legacy.
Hey it's been a while since I updated this one, sorry for the delay. Enjoy!
Chapter Four:
Nosedive awoke with a start. Sweat covered his brow and his body shook. He leant his head back against the wall and tried to slow his breathing down and told himself he shouldn't be scared. He was an adult he could take on the universe if he wanted to.
"I am so dead." Nosedive sighed and got out of bed, moving slowly he pulled on some old clothes Angel had found and washed for him and went to find his saviour. She was in the library on the ground floor at the north end of the building, or in this case castle. They'd been there for three weeks recovering and looking for whatever it was that was going to help them find something Angel called the old lands. She was reading through yet more books.
"You know the first thing the saurians wasted was the libraries and any way of learning." Dive said taking a seat opposite her and picking up a book that was written in funny symbols.
"Knowledge is power," Angel said not looking up from the book she was reading, "There may have been a way for your people to stop them in your books so they destroyed them."
"So how come these weren't destroyed?" Dive asked finding another off the shelves written in English and sat back down to read through it, it wasn't a comic but at least he felt he was helping in some way even if it wasn't his usual taste in reading.
"Because there was no need," Angel replied closing her book and reaching for the one with funny symbols, "all other races on this planet are forbidden to come to this kingdom, any who do and are found are killed and aside from me there isn't anyone left to read them after they got through anyway."
"Oh," Dive gave her a funny look after she'd seemed to read a few pages, "You can read that."
"Uh huh they're runes," she explained, "they're a pain to learn and on this world a long dead method but I was taught how to read them when I was little."
"Cool so what are we looking for?" Dive asked reading a paragraph about the definitions of magic.
"Any clue as to where the old lands may be, I still haven't found my father's secret study yet so in between I've been reading up on anything to do with magic, magical lands that sort of thing."
"Can you cast other things other than that healing spell?" Dive asked.
"Sure, but not much else, I used a Fireball in Draganus' stronghold to get us out and I can cast Lighting, but anything stronger like resurrection or even a flare arrow and I wouldn't know where to start." Angel looked up at Dive who looked totally confused.
"He . . . you lost me at lighting."
"Well that healing spell I cast on you was recovery it's great for any non fatal wounds but when they're serious it's not always enough so then you should use resurrection, those two spells along with lighting are white magic spells used by medics and priestess' and so on. The fireball is a black magic attack spell along with the flare arrow and the more powerful Gaav flare or the devastating Dragon slave." Nosedive tried to listen but found himself more interested in the way Angel was explaining everything so enthusiastically, "then there's shamanistic magic which includes things like the Ra tilt and the elmekia lance. They're spells that can attack you're astral body and are especially useful against monsters."
"Monsters!" Dive said alarmed, "You mean like the bogey man?" He said more jokingly.
"Something like that but in this dimension the monsters are an entire race."
"Okay, well not only do we have saurians to worry about but monsters as well, great!"
"I wouldn't worry too much as far as I know the last time any dangerous monsters were sighted was before I was born and lesser demons are easy to deal with!"
"That makes me feel so much better!" Dive said sarcastically. "Hey what's that?" There was a glimmer of light coming from the back of the room, like something was there and the light was reflecting on it.
"I don't know I've never noticed it before." Angel got up and followed Dive over to the wall where they found a small gold disk embedded into it. Nosedive noticed some writing on it and squinted to read it but it was too dusty so he used his sleeve to wipe it. Something moved the entire wall along with the book shelf moved back and behind was a set of stone stairs. "An invitation if ever I saw one." Angel said as she walked past and started to climb the stairs, Dive shrugged and followed. At the top they found a circular room with a weird skylight, telescopes, and unusual tapestries and yet more books, but one caught Angel's eye. It was on an old wooden table at the back of the room.
"I don't believe it!" She said when she saw the cover.
"What?"
"This, It. . .It . . ."
"What!" Dive demanded.
"It's my ancestor's," she said picking it up carefully, "this is Lina Inverse's journal!"
"That's a good thing right?"
"Oh yes it means I've got a few spells to try out and if memory serves there should be detailed instructions of how to get to the old lands in here, they'll be in code of course but that shouldn't tale long to decipher." They went downstairs and got comfortable before opening the ancient book. Nosedive grabbed the book he'd been reading earlier and allowed Angel to read for a while. "Here it is! It says we have to go to Saillune first to get a sacred item kept there and then we travel to the valley of dreams where we have to chant this incantation and wait for a guide who will take only those worthy to Avalon."
"Avalon, I thought we were going to the old lands?"
"We are that what they're called!" Angel got up and walked out of the room mumbling to herself about various things they would need for their journey and how they would need a map to make sure they got to saillune as she hadn't been there since she was three and wasn't entirely sure it was still there. Nosedive shook his head and smiled, then made himself a little more comfortable and carried on reading his book; "the basic theories behind the various forms of magic."
There ya go a new chappy, sorry it took so long, hope you like it, please review. Toodles Angel xxx.
