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12 year ago
"He looks a lot like you Ausar."
In a realm far away, and deep in a forest, was a hidden village and in this village were 30 homes made out of wood all together in a circle.
In the middle of the circle were the villagers, surrounding a giant fire that warmed them all.
Everybody were eating and talking happily.
Children played with each other, laughing.
A couple of people were singing of their past, the crops, the well known fights, their heroes and their love of their families.
A group of children were all sitting down together, listening to a young storyteller, telling a story of myth and adventure.
The children's mouths were open with awe and shock, some giggled, some laughed, some gasped, some said "shh!", wanting to listen to the stories without interruptions.
But away from the villagers was a couple, happily looking at their three month old baby son.
Apolla and Ausar were their names.
In Apolla's arms was their son, Jolinar.
"Hmm. Really?" Ausar leaned closer to their son, trying to see what his mate was talking about.
"Of course! He has your brown hair instead of my purple hair."
It was true. Jolinar's hair was as brown just as his father's. Apolla's hair was purple.
"He also has your face!" Apolla laughed at Ausar's questionable look.
Then, Ausar smiled. "Well… he may have my face, but he most certainly have your eyes."
Jolinar's eyes were blue, just like Apolla. Ausar's eyes were gray, almost like a metallic color.
Little Jolinar looked around. For the first time, he was able to see things clearly and not blurry.
There was curiosity… and confusion.
He did not know who or what these talking creatures were.
"Oi! Ausar!"
Ausar looked up and saw the young storyteller, who was actually his little brother, run up to him, with the children following him like little ducklings.
"These little demon spawns-"
In the background the children complained, "Hey!"
"Okay! These little angels-"
"That's even worse!"
"Alright! These demonic angels-"
"That doesn't make sense!"
"Okay! These children-"
"We're not children, we're kids!"
"Yeah!"
The young storyteller sighed mockingly, "Fine… These kids-"
"That's better."
"These kids don't believe that giants roam the world. We saw a giant right Ausar?"
"He's telling the truth childr-"
"Boo!"
"Kids-"
"Yay!"
"He's telling the truth kids." Ausar put a serious face on.. "We saw a giant with our own eyes-" he pointed his two eyes, "It was about twenty feet tall and had a deep voice capable of breaking your eardrums."
The children's mouth dropped.
"It used a tree for a weapon and had a bad temper. One swing and it can kill ten people." the children gasped.
The storyteller, Enlil was his name, and Ausar looked at each other with their gray eyes and threw their heads back, giving a good, healthy, hearty laugh. Apolla laughed as well. The children, and Jolinar, looked at the three of them confusingly.
After a while, Apolla was the first to recover. She started taking deep breaths, a few chuckles escaping now and then.
She sighed, "I'm sorry chil-kids. They made it all up!"
A little girl, Asani was her name, kicked Enlil's shin, "Meanie! You made that story up!" the rest of the children began to complain as well.
Enlil, finally stopped laughing, shrugged, "I'm a storyteller. I'm suppose to make stories up."
The children-- kids, kept on grumbling.
Ausar sighed, "You just made an enemy out of the kids. Better give them a tale else the- oof!"
A dark giant animal, a dog, jumped towards Ausar, knocking him down. The children laughed as Ausar struggled to get up, trying to escape from the slimy licks the dog gave him.
"Gerr off Enki! Oof! Go-Ow! Go bother Enlil!"
The dark dog, Enki, understanding, got off of Ausar and looked at Enlil with happy eyes.
"Oh no… go back...don't listen to- No, back! EEE!" Enlil backed up.
Enki, knowing that Enlil didn't want any of his licks, approached slowly. A predator scaring his prey. His tail wagged happily, albeit his face looked ferocious.
Enki crouched, ready to pouce.
"No.. don't you dare! No-don't! I'll give you meat if- no don't!" Enki jumped towards Enlil, but Enlil raced off, causing Enki to miss.
Enki chased after Enlil, tail wagging, tongue out. The villagers watched in amusement as Enlil ran around the village, Enki behind him.
Enlil looked back, "Gaaaah!" he quicken his pace.
Enlil encircled the fire once, circled Ausar and Apolla twice and hid behind the group of kids.
"Save me!" he told them.
The children looked at each other and grinned evilly.
"Revenge!" they all yelled and moved aside, exposing Enlil to the giant dog.
"Traitors!" Enlil yelled after them.
Enki pounced and landed on Enlil, "Oof!" two paws on his chest. Enlil howled in victory and began licking Enlil's face. Enlil put his hands up, trying to protect his face from the slimy licks, but he got even more dirty.
"Eewww!" the children said as Enki got off of Enlil.
Enlil's face was covered in dog slime and his black hair was in a mess, tangled by sticky saliva.
"Enki that was very bad! Bad dog!" Enlil got up and dusted off dirt from his pants.
The children went to Enki and petted his head, "Good dog." they all said. The children were three feet tall and Enki was five feet tall. The children had to stand in tip toe in order to scratch his head. Enki, satisfied, walked to Apolla who scratched his head affectingly.
Jolinar giggled and stretched his hand toward Enki. Enki leaned toward Jolinar, tail wagging as Jolinar petted him.
Ausar smiled and crouched to be in eye level with his son. Jolinar looked at him confusingly, "This is Enki Jolinar. He's our dog. He's family. He's the biggest and tallest dog in the village, probably the biggest there is in the whole world. When you're older you might be able to play with him" Enki licked Jolinar's cheek as if in agreement.
"You'll pla-"
"AAAAAHHHHH!"
Everybody, including Enki, looked at the source f the scream. Asani was pointing at an arrow, barely an inch from missing her.
The trees rustled ahead and arrows began to rain upon them.
Everybody started to move. The adult villagers, even the elderly, began to chant. Before the arrows can reach them, a light erupted from the villager's hands.
The villager's light flew towards the arrows and once the light touched the arrows, the arrows disintegrated.
The children ran to a particular house made of stone to hide.
Men dressed in black jumped from the trees and into the village, carrying swords and bows. The villagers chanted again, and light again flew from their hands.
The men chanted something as well and the light boomeranged. Instead of going towards the men, the light changed direction and flew towards the villagers.
The villagers jumped out of the way of the acidic light. One of the lights flew towards one of the homes and the house caught on fire. One third of the villagers went to tend to the burning house and the rest began to deal with the assassinators.
"Hurry!" Ausar told Apolla, who was holding Jolinar tightly, "You must go with the children! Stay there unt-"
"No! I refuse to go and hide like a coward! I refuse to wait and do nothing while you-"
"Apolla! If you won't go hide for yourself, go for Jolinar! Put him somewhere safe!" Ausar's back was turned, so he couldn't see one of the men coming towards him, sword ready.
Apolla did see him though. She said something and the giant fire that everyone was surrounding before, threw a string of fire towards the man. The assassinator screamed as he caught on fire, letting go of the sword and trying to pat out the fire. Ausar grabbed the fallen sword and thrust it towards the burning man, killing him.
More men went towards the villagers, killing some.
A villager chanted and then pebbles and rocks jumped from the ground and attacked the assassinators. The men got distracted by the flying rocks, which was enough for the villagers to get and advantage.
Apolla looked at Jolinar, who looked at her back, and sighed, "I'm going to torture for this." she said to Ausar.
"I look forward to it."
Apolla ran towards the forest, then stopped. She went to one of the houses and took out a sword that was on the wall. She ran back outside and went to hide behind the trees, sword in hand and Jolinar in her arm.
She looked at the fight happening, looking for Ausar. She found him attacking more men with his charms and sword. It seemed that the villagers were winning. The men were beginning to back off, retreating back into the forest.
"See?" she said to Jolinar and to herself. "We're winning."
In a way, she doubted it. She just had a bad feeling in her gut…or it may have been the burned meat that Enlil gave her. She didn't know which… But! Something wasn't right. Who sent these people? There were less men in the village now.
"Ausar will let me in right?" she asked herself.
She ran from her hiding place and back to the village. She ran to Ausar, who was sending fire to the remaining assassinators, who screamed as he caught on fire.
"I thought I told you to hide." he said.
"I did."
This is taking far too long. She thought. She was about to enter the fight when the earth began to shake.
Every body stopped what they were doing. The trees began to part and revealed a person coming through. He was dressed in black with a hood covering his face. He walked in a slow pace, taking his time.
The assassinators bowed when they saw him and the black figure stopped. His hood turned as if he examining everyone. A moment passed as everyone waited in silence.
"Kill them."
And with that everybody began to attack again. Villagers vs. assassinators.
"He must be the leader." Enlil was panting and holding his left arm. A long bloody wound that stretched from his elbow to wrist was bleeding. He had a sword on his right hand. Enki was beside him, his teeth and claws covered with blood and some flesh of his enemies.
"You should go get him Ausar. The rest of us are somewhat disabled." he pointed at his wound, "And the others are weak from making spells."
"Ausar's not the only strong one here you know. I may be able to help." Apolla looked at the two of them displeased, for they have forgotten about her. "I can make a portal, but I'll need time."
"I can make a distraction." Ausar didn't wait for a reply. He ran towards the leader, Enlil and Enki behind him.
Enlil and Enki fought off those who got in the way and Ausar went straight towards the leader without difficulty.
Ausar lifted his sword and stroked the leader, but was blocked b the leader's own sword. Ausar striked again only to have his sword blocked. Again and again Ausar struck, but he was only blocked.
Apolla on the other hand was chanting. She put Jolinar down and created a shield around him, so nobody can get him. As she chanted, light appeared in her hands, growing with every second. The last chants turned into shouts as the increasing light was ready.
She whistled twice, which Enki heard and Enki gave a big howl, signaling Ausar that Apolla was ready.
Ausar looked at the cloaked leader before jumping over him, grabbing and pulling his hood at the same time. As Ausar landed, he turned and looked at the leader's face in shock.
"Aron!" Ausar and Enlil chorused.
"I thought you killed him!" Enlil shouted at Ausar.
"I did! Well… I thought I did."
"You nearly killed me." said Aron. "If you haven't left me at the fire to burn to death and finished me off, I wouldn't have been here. Thank you so very much." he said sarcastically.
Enki growled at Aron, true anger blazing in his eyes.
"But what would you know? You and your villagers just assumed- no, hoped that I was dead. How does it feel that I'm back? Back to get me my revenge!" Aron took a dagger from his belt and threw it at Ausar. Ausar put his sword up to block the dagger, but the dagger was thrown with such force that the dagger pierced through the sword and into Ausar's right shoulder.
"Argh!" Ausar crouched and took off the dagger from his shoulder, wincing as blood spurred out as he did it.
At that time, Apolla released the light and the light flew towards Aron. Aron smiled as he saw Apolla.
"Ah! Dear Apolla. How wonderful it is to see you." he saw the light coming towards him. He put his hand in front of him and chanted. The light stopped in midair.
"Apolla… I heard rumors that you and 'the powerful Ausar' are mates. Is this true? Would you really choose him over me?"
"of course." said Apolla defiantly.
Aron frowned, "Hmm… I also heard that the two of you have had a son. Is this also true?" Apolla and Ausar instinctively looked at Jolinar, who was looking at the fight curiously. Aron growled and threw the light that Apolla made towards Jolinar..
"No!" Apolla and Ausar watched in horror as the light came closer to their son. Apolla ran to Jolinar, released the shield and held Jolinar tightly.
"Apolla! Jolinar!" Ausar was about to go to them but then Aron chanted and Ausar couldn't move. His legs were bounded together and his arms were stuck to his sides. He struggled to move, but he just fell hard to the ground.
"Apolla!"
He looked in horror as the portal stopped in front of her and began sucking in everything.
Apolla didn't have anything to hang on to so she and Jolinar were quickly sucked in. In the portal, Apolla held Jolinar tightly as she positioned herself into a ball, the darkness pulling and pushing her around.
The pushing and pulling stopped and she dared to look down. There were specks of light and tall, very tall buildings.
Apolla thought, Those lights seem to be growing and coming closer…
She looked up and saw the small portal she made in the sky.
Wait a minute- sky?
It dawned to her that she was actually falling.
She was about to position herself to lighten her fall as she was taught, but stopped. That would only harm Jolinar.
She was miles up from the ground and still falling. Apolla closed her eyes and chanted a spell that will slow her fall and put a shield around her so she wouldn't die. When she was done, she turned her back towards the ground and her front to the sky so she wouldn't squish Jolinar.
She looked at Jolinar-He was sleeping! "How on earth can you sleep at a time like this!" she turned her head down so she can see what the ground looked like. She saw that she was going to fall into a forest and not far from the forest was a house. A moment later, she felt her back crashing into thick branches of trees before she hit the ground.
She coughed as the crash took her breath away. She looked at Jolinar, who was now awake and not crying. Hooray!
Apolla got up and looked at the sky and saw that somebody else was falling from the portal. It was not one of her villagers. It was one of those assassinators. She growled and quickly hid behind the tree.
She looked as the man did as she did: slowing down his fall and putting a shield around him. But instead of falling on his back, he positioned himself to lighten his fall so he wouldn't lose his breath like she did.
Before he landed, Apolla put down Jolinar and put a silencing spell around him, which would wear off in a couple of hours.
"Don't worry." she said to Jolinar, "Mommy will be back in a moment."
Apolla took the sword and readied herself to attack. The man noticed her on his fall and took out a sword of his own. When his feet touched the ground he quickly attacked.
Apolla blocked off his attack and striked. The man blocked and striked again. Apolla and the man attacked and defended but no was getting an advantage. Apolla got frustrated. She attacked and she was blocked,but then she thrust her knee into his…uh…umm…yeah., and quickly jumped high into one of the branches of the tree.
A thought came to her. I can-no…but it's the only way- but it won't be fair for Jolinar, he- yes it will be fair to Jolinar! He'll be able to survive- but- No! It's the only way.
She tied her sword around her belt, jumped down, went to the man and held him even when he struggled.
She was physically trying to hold down the man, not letting go, and mentally drawing up her power. She chanted as light appeared around her and her captive. Her captive, knowing her plan, struggled more. She was about to finish when a thought came up to her.
Somebody will find Jolinar right? Maybe somebody in that house will find Jolinar…
…Right?
She didn't have time to wonder, because the next second the light engulfed her and her captive, swallowing them and evaporating along with anything that was away five feet from them.
Poor Jolinar was awake, unknowingly watching his last moments with his mother. He just lied there, confusingly looking around, searching for either the man or woman that cared for him.
It wasn't until the next day that a couple was passing through the small forest, taking a walk. By that time, Jolinar had begun to cry.
"Dou hear that?" asked the woman looking around, "It sounds like… a baby crying."
"Yeah… I hear it."
The woman looked around and finally found Jolinar, "Look!"
The man looked at where she as pointing, "Who-?" he looked around, seeing if there was anyone who the baby belonged too.
He cupped his hands over his mouth, "Hello!" nobody responded.
"Who would leave a little baby here?" the woman picked up Jolinar and looked around, rocking Jolinar in her arms. "Hello?" again, no one responded, "Hon, maybe we should go home. He seems as if he hasn't eaten anything." the man nodded and off they went to their home.
A couple of days later, they spread the news of having a missing baby. Anyone missing a baby should contact their home and phone number, etc.
But weeks passed by and nobody came with reports of missing their child. Months past before the couple decided to adopt the liitle baby that they found.
"What will be his name?" a woman in front of a computer was writing down the adoption papers.
The couple looked at each other happily. He may not be their real son, but he soon will be.
"Seto." said the couple.
"Seto." repeated the woman as she typed down the name.
And in a realm far away, and deep in a forest, was a hidden village.
And in that village was Ausar.
Saddened and despaired, thinking that his mate and son were dead…..