I do not own Magic the Gathering nor any relationed to it; I wish I did… but it isn't.

This is my first fic so if you could tell me what I could or should improve you have my thanks.

And for last; English is not my native language so I may confuse a little bit.

Hope you enjoy.

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Cursive is for flashbacks.

Chapter III

Awakening.

As he raised his head he could hear inside his mind a voice that told him to wake up as if this was a dream; but he knew it wasn't.

'Rise' ordered the voice; although he felt it inside his mind he knew that the voice came from the being in front of him; he could see a strange creature, its head out of his body; it seemed to be made out of stone.

''Nephilim'' he said to himself ''The yore gods of Ravnica… according to some travelers… this must be a dream"

'This is no dream' replied the voice of the Nephilim 'Now you must wake up from this rest… and come back to your life…'

Aldric found himself unable to move; he could feel that something was holding him and then all was dark.

He began to visualize every aspect of his past life, he remembered his father's passionate answers and ideas and also his obsession with knowledge and all his weird experiments and the contrast of his mother calm and thought actions.

'I did it!… I' Aldric's father words were suddenly cut down when his creation turned into some kind of plasmatic liquid 'Damn it… I could have discovered a new source of pure energy to… it doesn't matter… because I have my son to continue my job! Am I right lil Aldric?' said his father with a wide smile.

Little Aldric couldn' t answer because his mother quickly interrupted 'No he won't he shall follow his mother's steps and will be a great Senator of the Azo…'

"This is going to get really good" smiled little Aldric, who always enjoyed seeing his parents arguing, not because he liked it because they yelled to each other but to try to understand how two people with totally opposite personalities could get along…

'Rise again….'

Aldric's thoughts of his childhood were quickly interrupted by the voice and suddenly all blackened out.

'Look in the sky!' shouted one sentry 'The golgari are going to attack Center, let's show'em no mercy!'

All soldiers took their weapons and the sky'jeks went to their rocs to fight the incoming menace.

'Aldric!… you too are coming!' shouted a sky squad commander 'It's time to show if you are worthy of being a sky'jek!'

'Yes sir!' shouted as he was preparing himself and his roc to take of.

"I shall crush them no matter what… I have the strength of justice which will always prevail and they won't be able to put a finger on us" smirked arrogantly.

'For my arrogance I paid the biggest price… my life' scorned to himself bitterly.

All the sky night squads took off to face the golgari threats, at first thanks to the help of Feather and their eagerness for battle the 'jeks were able to break the enemy first lines with sword strikes and with the rocs' beaks

The Golgari beetle riders began to counter attack with a constant flow of arrows that seriously damaged the enemy lines, and according to Ludmilla's thoughts the Golgari would have a bunch of new recruits

'Die!' screamed one 'jek when he split the head of a Devkarin with his sword but his war cry was suddenly interrupted when the elf's beetle bit him in his belly and send him to fall in the darkness of the abyss.

Aldric was able to watch the fall of his fellow warrior and created a lightning that struck down the beetle who, by the high temperature of the lightning, exploded creating repulsion in all the near 'jeks.

As for Aldric he continued battling in the best way he could, with magic and with his sword to direct the long range magic attacks and if the enemy got closer, he found himself attacked by to enemy riders but his roc quickly took off the head of one of the beetles making his rider fall but the other quickly drew his bow and shot a poisoned arrow through the roc's neck.

'Bastard!… time to die!' shouted Aldric as he decapitated both rider and beetle with his sword and after he saw them fall he began to try to cure his always loyal companion 'Hold on a sec' he said to calm the roc down ' I'm with you… you'll see that you'll be fine in a sec…' he interrupted when the arrow hit him and saw how the beetle bit his friend's neck.

'Take that… Razia's dog' hissed the rider 'time to… ' Aldric's with his last forces struck the beetle and his rider down and fell to the ground with his roc.

Aldric saw theimages of his dead as he lived that moment again, even the pain was real; but now all was darkness, pure darkness…

Meanwhile a young woman was walking near Centerhome, a week has passed since the attack and there was no bodies of the bloody battle.

'Don't know why he sent me here' complained the woman 'all bodies should have been already cremated and the wounded taken to be cured'

She walked around pointlessly; she wore a robe that make her look like a servant of a wealthy family of the Orzhov elite, the symbol could be seen in her shoulder but still for a servant she was very beautiful, her blue eyes and her long brown hair were one of the best attributes she had; most of the men in the area could hardly believe she was a slave, and some women were beginning to spread some gossips about her and the sources of her enviable beauty.

As she walked something in an alley drew her attention, a strange sound like groaning and wailing could be heard, she always used to come with her master and the rest of slaves by the area and she knew it so well that she could have sworn that that alley wasn't there before, and that the rest of people wasn't aware of the alley as if she was the only one who dared to walk in.

'Damn… it' a male voice cursed from the depths of the alley painfully, the woman just walked approaching fearlessly to the source of the voice.

'Is someone there?' she asked but the only answer she could hear was groans and curses, obviously the man was having a really bad time.

Finally she could see the man, he was lying on the ground and under his body was a little pond of blood, it seemed that he was hurt pretty badly, she ran to help him and kneeled besides him.

'Who are you?' asked him before blacking out.