Chapter 1
The Sign
"She knows."
"How? No mortal has ever figured out the secret to the door."
"The gods. They chose Dragon's daughter as her body."
"That still doesn't explain how she knows about the prophecy."
"Merlin."
"That blabbering wizard? He was never any good."
"If they find out about their true powers that will be the end of your life. I don't suppose you still believe your son will protect you."
"He has betrayed me. He will never be my heir."
"Then you must stop them and kill them before it is too late."
"How do I do that?"
"Find their worst nightmares and use it against them. Separate them and do as you must do. The Four must not survive!"
"Yes sir. And thank you for giving me a chance."
"Dark Wizard you were never fit to be a threat. As an ally you might be some use to me."
"What about the girl? She came back to life once, she could do it again."
"Whatever you do she must be destroyed. She has the blood of Sha'ri and Saraki coursing through her veins. If she finds her element she will not be an easy kill. SHE MUST BE DESTROYED! UNDERSTAND ME?"
"Y-yes my king, of course."
"Then go. Oh and Dark Wizard…"
"Yes my lord?"
"Do not fail me…or becoming a demon will be like a slice of heaven compared to what I will do to you."
"Ow!" Alaska let out another yell of pain that she quickly silenced as her boyfriend, Npm, ran over the long scar on her arm with a wet cloth soaked in super restore.
She had been fighting turoths for her slayer assignment and was caught unaware by a big one creeping up behind her and received a nasty wound.
Now here she was at Catherby next to the ocean, brought there by an emergency teleport, her boyfriend carefully tending to her wound with her flinching at every sting.
She hated having to show him how much she hated pain. He seemed to flinch slightly every time she did. He had dark ruffled hair, wore a robin hood hat on his head, and wore clothes that always shown his biceps slightly underneath unless he wore his dharok armor with his zammorack god sword and he wore a fletching skillcape.
She had flaming red colored hair with a black cavalier and she wore a verac brassard with flared trousers and dragon boots. She also had beautiful light blue eyes that seemed to sparkle unless faced in battle.
He sighed as she flinched for the thousandth time. "Just hold still, it's almost healed."
"I can't even feel it." She muttered to him, turning her head.
He smiled slightly at her stubbornness. She hated showing any signs of weakness. She hated showing any emotions at all. He knew that she always wanted to be a leader from the day he met her and to her leaders needed to be fearless and show that nothing fazed them.
"You know…you don't have to be brave all the time. It's me! Just be yourself." Npm urged her.
She turned to look at him. "This IS who I am."
"Then where is your smile?" He teased gently.
She turned away. She used to smile all the time, more so at him. Ever since her resurrection she seemed even more determined to not show a smile.
Once he was sure the wound was healed, he looked closely at her. "I bet I could still make you smile." He smiled playfully.
She raised an eyebrow. "I highly doubt that. The only jokes you know are perverted." She teased. She got up and turned away from him, casting her attention toward her wound to make sure of no infection.
"It's easy." He began. "Just do this-" He stopped as his hands suddenly met her sides, dancing on them as he surprised her in a tickle attack.
She let out a gasp of surprise as she, by instinct, flung herself in the grass and she tried to curl up into a ball, laughing loudly and playfully.
"Alright…alright….stop!" She gasped between laughs. He finally ceased the tickling and drew his hands away.
As she caught her breath he learned closer to her as she lied on the ground. "I told you I could make you laugh." He smiled happily.
She turned to look at him, her eyes sparkling more than ever. "Oh, yeah? Let's see how you like it!" She stopped as she lunged toward him, pinning him to the grass as she started tickling his stomach with a playful smile.
Suddenly he grabbed her arms and flung her beside him, forcing her to stop. She quickly attacked back and they began rolling a little bit farther from the water until they finally stopped, Aklase on top of Npm, laughing as they caught their breath.
"Ahem."
Aklase looked up to see a man towering over them with a smirk on his face. She looked down, saw the position her and her boyfriend were in, and quickly scrambled up to dust herself off.
"What are you doing here, War?" Aklase growled, embarrassed being caught in such a position.
This was her other friend. War was a high level with blonde hair that usually stuck out even though he wore the questing skill cape and hood. Aklase had always thought of him as a brother…an annoying stuck up brother.
"I finished getting my 1k monkfish." War shrugged away the question. "What were YOU doing HERE?" His smirk grew wider.
She glared at him. "Pervert…" She muttered under her breath before walking away.
Npm had gotten up and he turned to look at War. "We were just messing around. And no not THAT way." Npm glared at War as he opened his mouth to make a comment.
Aklase came back with a fully restocked backpack. "So where's Jawwie?" She asked, eager to change the subject.
War shrugged. "How should I know? I'm not her babysitter."
"She's been acting weird ever since we got back from the Wilderness." Aklase sighed.
"It's been like 3 months!" Npm sighed. "Can't she just get over it already?"
"She's stressing like the rest of us. The sooner we find our elements the better." Aklase began reverting back into leader mode, which Npm acknowledged with a growl to himself.
"How long do we have to wait?" War grumbled, kicking a rock into the water.
"We wait as long as we need to." Aklase just about ordered him. "I'm going to go find Jawwie." With that said, she turned away and headed toward the bank.
"Dude, your girlfriends starting to piss me off." War mumbled to Npm.
Npm ignored the outburst as he stared after Aklase. He knew that the old Aklase was in there somewhere, he had seen a tiny bit of it today. There had to be a way…no. Impossible. There was no way that he could get her to act like her old self with the prophecy hanging over their heads. They needed a leader now more than ever…and she knew it.
Aklase sighed and shook her head fondly. Jawwie was in the exact place that she thought she would be…the castle wall of Yanille.
Aklase didn't know the story of her and this place but she always came there and sat on the wall and just looked out to the distant ogre infested lands.
Aklase decided to go the quicker way. She grabbed her grappling hook and threw it against the wall and jumped on it, climbing up.
She walked over to Jawwie and sat next to her. Jawwie had her legs tucked against her, her head between them.
"Jawwie…?" Aklase tapped her friend on the shoulder.
Jawwie gasped and sat up with a start. "Aklase! You scared me!"
Aklase held back a laugh. "Sorry…what are you doing up here?"
Jawwie was Aklase's best friend. Aklase was sure the reason was because they were so much alike. Jawwie hated showing emotions as well…though she had her own personal reasons for it. Jawwie had dark, short, pixie hair that was wrapped in a hair band. It was usually covered by her woodcutting cape and hood. She always had her hood on over her head, shielding away unwanted eyes. She wore a blue shirt with blue shorts, unless she was fighting then she wore verac armor like Aklase.
"Just thinking." Jawwie replied to her question.
"About the prophecy?" Aklase dared to ask.
"Why haven't we got our elements yet?" Jawwie suddenly turned on her. "This waiting is killing me. We could be losing the battle while we wait here for our 'powers'." Jawwie groaned.
Aklase shrugged. "Merlin told us to wait and live our lives. There isn't much else we can do."
"How can you be so calm about all this?" Jawwie scraped the wall in frustration.
"If Merlin gave us specific instructions I wouldn't be. But he told us to live our lives and wait." Aklase told her firmly.
"But what if-" Jawwie suddenly stopped as something caught her eye. Aklase followed her gaze as she looked out into the setting sun on the horizon. There was a huge ball of light, it looked like a shooting star. It was heading toward an island that looked small from a distant. It suddenly crashed onto the island, right before their eyes.
"Was that a shooting star?" Jawwie asked in curiosity.
"No…" Aklase whispered. Normally she would agree that that was a regular shooting star. But Aklase suddenly felt a pull toward whatever that was…almost the same pull that Alaska felt when she found Aklase's soul.
"I think…it was a sign." Aklase gasped.
Jawwie whipped around toward her. "A sign? Then this is what we've been waiting for! Where is it? We have to go to it as soon as we can."
Aklase knew exactly where it went. "Ape Atoll." Her feet suddenly felt glued to the ground. She had only been there once with Npm a long time ago…they had nearly died. The neighbors weren't too friendly around those parts. The only way they could get to there is if they had the devices that turned them into monkey's…and only War had such a device.
"Were dead." Aklase gulped. For the first time in a long time…Aklase felt fear.
~To be continued~
WOO Chapter 1 is here! I hope you guys enjoyed it :) Merry Christmas everyone!
