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"Dad, have you seen…oh wait…never mind."
"Here you go Jolinar. The next time they give you all this paper work for me to sign, please, be free to burn it."
"Why uniforms? Why couldn't we dress the way we want to? At least these breeches are comfortable."
"They're called pants Jolinar. They just don't call them breeches like we do."
"Pants, breeches, jeans, what's the difference? As long as they're comfortable, I don't care what they're called." Jolinar put on a rectangular card-like necklace. He hid it underneath his shirt so it wouldn't be seen.
"You're still keeping that thing?"
Jolinar jumped when he heard Ausar came up from behind him. Ausar was wearing baggy jeans with a white stripped shirt and a black trench coat. Jolinar nodded. "Of course I still keep this thing. It's the only thing I have before I lost my memory. It's the only clue to my past." he began to toy with the card-like necklace, "All though I wish that I can open this cursed thing. "It must be jammed or something, because I can't open it."
"Well, you better hurry up then." Ausar slapped Jolinar's shoulder. "Enki's waiting for you and apparently, he's growing impatient." As if on cue, Enki began to howl. Ausar and Jolinar grimaced.
When Enki got impatient, he would howl so loud, you would begin to lose sense of your hearing. Luckily, the place where the father and son lived was far away from any neighbor. Far away to the point that no one can hear Enki's cries.
Jolinar sighed and slung his backpack onto one shoulder. He looked back at Ausar. "Later dad."
Ausar ruffled Jolinar's brown hair in response. "Later neh? What happen to 'good bye'?"
Jolinar just waved and left the building. Ausar looked out the window as Enki and Jolinar began to walk to school. His metallic gray eyes soften as he smiled sadly. "See him Apolla?" he whispered sadly. "There goes our son. Aren't you proud?"
He took the keys that were hanging from a hook besides the wall and walked out. "Wait for me Jolinar!"
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Twigs and leaves broke as a cloaked person walked by. Shadows covering the person's face.
Crunch…crunch…crunch…crunch…snap…snap…snap…crunch…snap…crunch.
Rain began to fall suddenly on the lonely walker.
The walker looked down and a despaired sigh escaped from the walker. A lock of purple, graying hair escaped from the hood. From the sound of the sigh, it sounded as a female.
A whisper of wind flown through the rain, flowing to the woman.
"Hmm?" The woman stopped, listening carefully to the string of wind that flown to her.
"Ausar." The wind whispered.
It…It can't be. The woman lifted her head to look at the sky. The shadows disappeared as if the rain washed them away, revealing a clean face and blue eyes.
"Jolinar." The wind whispered again.
Have I come to the right place? The woman thought, the rain disappearing as fast as it came. The trees bristled against each other as if they were answering her.
"A…u…ar." The wind said weakly as it began to disappear.
The woman looked forward and began to walk again, this time quickly than before.
I think I have.
"Jo…i…ar." The wind said weakly.
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"Please don't tell me this is what they ate."
Tristan, Tea, and Yugi looked at the scene before them:
There were bags of chips all over the floor. Cans of sodas that were dripping on the carpet. There were a couple of fries here and a couple of fries there. The same with onion rings. There were candy wrappers as well. There was also a half eaten pepperoni pizza on the floor!
"This is awful." Tea commented.
Yup. A maid's and amother's worst nightmare.
"Yeah, you're right." Tristan said. "Why didn't they invite us?"
Tea and Yugi sweat dropped. They heard a door open upstairs and looked up.
Joey was on the stairs yawning and rubbing his eyes. "'sup guys?" he said tiredly.
"Schools up that's what!" Tea yelled at him.
"Eh…School?" Joey repeated. He wasn't quite awake yet.
"Schooooollll." Tristan said slowly as if Joey would understand that way. Joey stared blankly at him.
"There's school today Joey! Have you forgotten?"
This time Joey froze as dread came up to him. "Did you say school?" The others nodded. "Aaahh! I completely forgot! Why didn't my alarm wake me up?"
"Maybe you forgot to turn it on last night?" Yugi said helpfully, but Joey wasn't listening. He ran off upstairs. "Hey Joey!" Yugi yelled, "Is Mokuba awake?"
"I don't think so!" Joey called back.
Tea shook her head, "I'll go wake up Mokuba."
"And I'll go make sure that Joey doesn't fall asleep on his toes again." Tristan said as he walked off.
Yugi nodded as they left. He went to a seat and waited for them to come back.
/Now you're all going to be late for school./ Yami commented.
/Yeah. I'm afraid so./
"I SLEPT IN?" Yugi jumped as he heard Mokuba yell. He heard thumps from upstairs, meaning that Mokuba was in a hurry.
Tea came back downstairs, looking triumphant. She saw Yugi's questionable look and answered, "I think I found out the way to wake up Mokuba faster."
"Aah."
"Gotta hurry. Gotta hurry. Gotta hurry. Gotta hurry." Joey was hopping down the stairs on one foot, trying to put on the shoe on the other.
"Joey, you're going to break your neck!" Tristan said from on top of the stairs.
Joey ignored him. He just put on the shoe and began to look around the place.
"Where's my backpack? Where's my backpack? Where's my backpack? Where's my backpack!"
"It's right here Joey." Mokuba was coming downstairs with Joey's backpack on his hands. He was dressed up and his hair was a little messy but it was hardly noticeable. His hair was messy enough. He ran to the doorway and looked back. "Hurry up! We're going to be late!"
"Since when has he cared if he's going to be late or not?" Tristan asked.
"Mokuba's right." Tea said. "We're going to be late if we don't hurry up." They all began to run outside to the limo where the driver was already waiting.
"Sorry to keep you waiting mister." Yugi apologized. The others nodded in agreement. The driver just waved his hand and drove off.
Like always, the driver dropped off Mokuba to his school first and then drove off to drop the others.
"Well, at least Mokuba won't be late to class and get a detention." Tea said.
"Pfft. Lucky him." Joey said, "What about us? Hey look!" He pointed out the window. The others looked out where to where he was pointing at. "It's Jolinar." Indeed. They all saw Jolinar and that other dude with the dog walking to school.
"Hey mister, can you drop us off here?" Yugi asked the driver. "We can walk from here." The driver stopped the car and waited for them to get out.
"Hey Jolinar!" Tristan shouted as the limo drove off.
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Jolinar walked off with Enki by his side, already wondering what was going to happen that day. Enki growled as if saying, "It's about time you got here. You take to long to get dressed." Jolinar just stuck out his tongue in annoyance.
"Wait for me Jolinar!"
Jolinar looked back and saw his father run towards them. "What's wrong?"
"Oh nothing. I was just wanting to walk to you to school."
For five blocks, they were silent.
"So…" Ausar said, trying to make a conversation.
"So…" Jolinar repeated.
"Hey Jolinar!"
Jolinar and Ausar looked at the other street beside them to see Yugi, Tea, Joey, and Tristan waving at them.
"Who are they?" Ausar asked Jolinar suspiciously.
"Just…a couple of…friends?" Jolinar said weakly. He didn't really know if they were friends of his, but they sure acted like it. The group ran across the street and met up with Jolinar, Ausar and Enki.
"Hey Jolinar!" Yugi said.
"Hey."
"Pleased to meet you Mr. Marduk." Tea said politely as she offered her hand.
"Uh…same here?" Ausar said questionably as he shook the offered hand.
Joey looked at Enki with bulging eyes. "Wow! That's a big dog!"
Enki straightened, looking proud. His height going to its impossible five feet five inches.
"What's his name?" Tea went to scratch Enki's head.
Ausar Answered her. "Enki."
"Enki." Yugi repeated. "Isn't that the name of a Sumerian god?"
Ausar looked confused. "Sumerian?"
"It's an ancient civilization dad." Jolinar said. "There must be a Sumerian god whose name is Enki."
"Aah." Ausar finally understood. They all began to walk to school.
"So what brings you here to Domino?" Tristan asked.
"We're…" Ausar searched for the right words, "…Looking for something."
"Say Yugi." Jolinar changed the subject, "where did you get that necklace?" he pointed at the puzzle.
Yugi held on to the puzzle. "Gramps gave it to from Egypt."
"What's it do?" Ausar squinted at the puzzle, "It's practically blazing with mag-ouch!" Ausar looked down to see Enki biting his trench coat and Jolinar elbowed Ausar hard on the ribs. "Blazing in the sun I mean."
"What do you mean?" Yugi asked.
"I mean what's it for? Is it for decoration or jewelry? 'cause it's rare to see someone having a millennium item in the-"
"How do you know about the millennium items?" Yugi's voice changed. Yami was here!
Ausar stopped walking and looked at the puzzle less then a second before grunting in pain and started rubbing his eyes. He grumbled and cursed. "Too bright." they heard him mutter. Yami and the others stopped walking as well. Ausar blinked a few times before he started to blink normally.
"Are you ok dad?" Jolinar looked at Ausar concerned. Enki whimpered at him.
"What now?" said Ausar, not listening before.
"How do you know about the millennium items?" Yami repeated.
"We used to hear stories about them back home." Ausar answered still dazed about whatever happened. "The storytellers talked about them a lot."
"How do your storytellers know about the millennium items?" Yami looked at Ausar and Jolinar suspiciously. If what Yugi and him suspected was right and Jolinar was Kaiba, he understood how Jolinar might know about the millennium items. But Ausar? There was something weird about him. Something not right. Something alien.
"They're generation stories." Jolinar cut in. "The ancestors of the storytellers pass down the legends or stories form time to ours. Besides, that item of yours fit's the description of the millennium items."
"Where do you come from again?" It dawned to Joey that Yami didn't trust Ausar.
"The forest village." Ausar said.
"And where is that?" Joey asked.
"None of your business mutt!" Jolinar yelled suddenly.
"What did you just call me Kaiba!" Joey said angrily. The word mutt bought him to think that it was mean Kaiba calling him instead of polite Jolinar.
"I called you a mutt." Jolinar crossed his arms and narrowed his eyes. "You just look like one. Maybe a blond mutt. And stop calling me Kaiba."
Tristan had a thoughtful look on his face.
"You know, Jolinar's right. Add a few dog ears, canines, grow fur and walk in all four, you'll really look like a mutt-eeh!"
Joey went over to Tristan and started strangling him. "Whose side are you on man?"
Tristan was already turning blue.
"Y-yours." He managed to say.
"Good." Joey let go Tristan satisfied.
"Whew! I can breathe!" Tristan said as he messaged his throat.
"Hey hold on a minute." Joey said, "I just thought of something…we've been here for ten minutes.Class just started five minutes ago. What are we doing here?"
Ausar looked at the teenagers looks amusingly. He said out loud what they were all probably thinking.
"Oh crap."
The scene of Yugi, Tea, Tristan and Joey running towards school made Ausar chuccle.
Yugi turned around to shout at Jolinar. "Hey Jolinar! You better hurry!"
Joey stopped running when he heard Yugi. He looked back and yelled. "Hey Jolly! Hurry up man! It may be your third day of school but that school can be really evil if you come in late!" with that he turned to once more start running with the rest towards school.
Ausar sighed and looked at Jolinar. "Well you better get going then. I don't want you to get a bad image with the teachers."
Jolinar just shrugged. "Personally, I think I'm in a good start at school."
"Hmm. You say that now, but later you'll regret even stepping through school."
"Now what makes you say that?"
Ausar looked down glumly. "Bad experience."
Jolinar rolled his eyes. "I better get going."
"Wait a minute!"
Jolinar groaned. Oh boy. Here comes another lecture of don't-trust-anybody.
"Hey! Hey! Hey!" Ausar caught Jolinar's expression. "You may not like this but this is for your own good. Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!" he stopped Jolinar from interrupting him. "I'm sorry Jolinar. But we can't let our guard down. It's too dangerous here."
"Father." Jolinar glowered. "This isn't necessary. Not everyone here is a spy of Aron. We don't even know if Aron even has spies here!"
"I know. But whether we like it or not everyone is a suspect. Our major suspect is star-head,"
Jolinar raised an eyebrow and smiled amusingly. "Star-head?"
"Yeah. That Yugi kid."
Jolinar snickered. "Star-Head?" he repeated.
Ausar chose to ignore this. "That item that he has, it's a millennium item."
"The millennium items are a myth. Just a story."
"Every story has an origin." Ausar quoted one of Enlil's saying about stories.
"What makes you think that Yugi poses a threat? He's a midget."
"That item has magic in it." Ausar looked at Jolinar seriously. "I don't know what type of magic it is, but it's powerful."
"Is that what happened?" Jolinar remembered the tiny incident that happed a few moments ago.
Ausar nodded. "I don't know if he knows that he has magic. Or if he knows that he activated it. But if he does know that that necklace has magic and he knows how to use it, then he poses a threat."
"Jolinar!" Joey yelled from three blocks ahead. "Hurry up!"
"Sorry dad, I gotta get going." Jolinar turned around to leave before Ausar called to him.
"Remember what I said!" Ausar thought for a moment before adding, "And stay out of trouble!"
"I'll try!" Jolinar yelled back. "Bye dad! Bye Enki!"
Enki barked a good-bye.
You're being too hard on him. The guilty, inner voice in Ausar said. You need to let the kid have some fun. Have some friends. That group of kids seemed friendly. Jolinar needs that. He has no memory of his past. What if Aron isn't after the three of you? You're being too hard on the kid.
I'm trying to protect him! The protective father part of him argued
Maybe a little too protective don't you think? Come on Ausar. We're talking about your son. Have you forgotton how it was like before all this trouble? No worries. No looking over your shoulder. Just having a good time with your friends! Jolinar needs that. Friends. He won't get any if you forbid him to trust anyone.
Yes, but what if those "Friends" are in liege with that bastard Aron?
Well what if they aren't? Be realistic. There are many realms, dimensions, worlds. How can Aron have spies in every place in existence? It's impossible. There has to be a handful of places that Aron doesn't have spies in. Maybe this place is one of them. Give the kid a break for goodness sake!
Maybe….
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"It's raining, it's poring, the whole class is snoring. I'm bored to tears, I'm going to die if I have nothing to do here." Joey looked out the window of the school. It was definitely poring outside. It was gloomy and dead looking.
"Where is that car?" Joey yelled frustratingly. There was no way that they were going to walk to the mansion without an umbrella, -which they don't have- in this storm.
A clad of thunder burst through the skies, illuminating the city.
Joey looked around the classroom that he was in. Tea and Tristan was there. All looking gloomy, just wanting to get out of there. Apparently, Yami was taking over and Yugi was in wherever he usually was. He looked at one of the corners and there was Jolinar reading a hard covered book. He squinted his eyes to see the title of the book: Dragon Rider. Joey looked outside the window again to see if there was any sign of the familiar car. No such luck.
"Finally it's here!" Tea ran out to the window and pointed at a limo that was starting to park.
"Hallelujah!" Tristan shouted. "It's a miracle!" he and Joey ran out the classroom to the exit and into the parking lot where their ride was waiting.
Tea and Yugi began to follow them before Yugi walked back into the classroom to talk to Jolinar. Jolinar was occasionally looking outside the window, looking for something.
"Hey Jolinar?" Yugi said questionably to him. Jolinar looked up from his book.
"Hmm?"
"Do you want to hitch a ride with us?"
Jolinar seemed to be puzzled by the question.
"Do you want us to give you a ride home?"
"Oh." Jolinar paused and turned away to look at the window. He seemed to be thinking before he looked back at Yugi. "Sure."
"Great! Let's go!" Jolinar closed his book and followed Yugi to the poring rain outside.
Once they reached the car, the driver looked up from the window and looked at Yugi and the new comer. His face paled when he saw Jolinar.
"Eeh! Um...Senor Kaiba sir! I can't believe it! You're here! Oh Mokuba will be so happy! Where were you?" the driver asked in a Hispanic accent. "Oh never mind that! Point is, you're here!"
Jolinar looked around, trying to see who the driver was talking to, "Who's Kaiba?" he asked.
The driver looked questionably at Yugi. Yugi just laughed weakly. "That's not Kaiba." He explained. "He's Jolinar."
"Oh." The driver looked at Jolinar carefully, trying to see a something that didn't look like his old boss. He then grinned and scratched the back of his head embarrassingly. "Heh heh. Sorry son. My mistake. I didn't know that. It's just that you look alike like senor Kaiba-"
"So I'm told." Jolinar said quietly to himself. Yugi heard this and looked at Jolinar, who looked quite sad.
"Come on Jolinar, it's a lot drier inside."
Jolinar entered gratefully into the dry car.
"You decided to join us Jolly?" Joey joked as the car started to move.
"Of course mutt. There's no way that I'm going to walk home in that weather."
"Grr. What is up with this whole mutt business?" Joey shouted. "Do I look like a mutt or something?"
"I thought I answered that question this morning." Tristan said.
"Shut up Tristan!"
"Well, if you keep calling me Jolly, I'll then have no choice but to call you mutt." Jolinar explained.
"Hey senor Mouto." The driver called back. "It's alright with that new kid if we pick up Mokuba first? He'll be quite worried if we don't pick him up soon."
Yugi looked at Jolinar, who nodded his approval. The driver began to drive to Mokuba's school and then tried to start a conversation with Jolinar.
"So Jolinar, where do you come eh?" the driver made a right turn.
"From the forest village." Jolinar answered.
"Forest village eh? Sounds like a remote place."
"Oh it is. Really, really a remote place. You probably would never have found it if you wanted to."
"Do you live with your parents then?"
"I only live with my father and our dog Enki."
"You mean a giant dog." Tristan said. He looked at the driver. "You should've seen him! It was huge!"
"I hope I don't meet him. I'm allergic to dogs." The driver changed the topic back to Jolinar. "What about your mom? Doesn't she live with you?"
"No." Jolinar said. "I never met her."
There was silence. Tea spoke softly. "How did she look like? Was she nice?"
Jolinar stiffened for a moment. "I don't know how she looks like. I've got no memory of her. And my father doesn't tell how she looked like, or how she disappeared. Only that she was strong." Jolinar chuckled a bit. "And extremely stubborn."
"Your father never described your mother in sixteen years?" Yugi said.
Jolinar hesitated before speaking. "I've-I've got no memory."
Tristan, Tea and Joey looked at him questionably. They had no idea what he was talking about.
Jolinar looked at them neutrally. His face having no expression, except a hint of sadness. "I've got amnesia. I don't remember anything of except of what happened these last seven months."
"Oh." Joey, Tristan and the driver said, finally understanding. This confirmed what Yami and Yugi suspected.
The car stopped at a parking lot and immediately, Mokuba came in the car, looking wet and annoyed. "Do you know how long I've been waiting?" he asked. He sqeezed some of the water from his hair.
"Sorry senor Mokuba." The driver said. "Traffic jam."
Mokuba looked at the others before setting his eyes on Jolinar. There was silence in the air before Mokuba broked it with a little, "Seto?"
Jolinar resisted the urge of smacking his head. Not this again.
Before Mokuba or anybody can speak, Jolinar put his hand up, "Ok. Before you say anything. I'm not Kaiba. Or seto. I'm Jolinar. Ok? Jo-li-nar." Jolinar then smiled and offered his hand, "I'm Jolinar Marduk. And you are…?"
Mokuba shook Jolinar's hand shockingly. "Mokuba"
"Nice to meet you Mokuba." Jolinar looked outside the window and saw quickly that they were close to his home now.
"Hey driver, I can get off here."
"Here?" The driver said questionably. "Are you sure?"
Jolinar nodded. "I can walk from here." The car stopped and Jolinar quickly got out. "Thanks for the ride! Nice to meet you Mokuba!"
He didn't wait for a response before he started running towards home.
There was something...disturbing about Mokuba. Not evil disturbing, just disturbing. something nagging. Oh, he was going to be in big trouble once he got home. Oh yes. Ausar is going to be furious. But still...
A thought came up to him.
Wait... it can't be close yet. He thought. Let me think...one...four...six...eleven...it is! This is great! He quickly thought up of plans in his head. I have enough enough money, it's cheap enough. And besides, dad and I haven't done anything together in a while, this can be like a little party. Now if there's just a store around here that has some...
All dread of Ausar getting mad at him disappeared. Jolinar turned and ran towards the nearest shop that may have what he was looking for.
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"Damn it! Where is he?" Ausar paced in circles around the living room. Enlil looked outside the window, searching for any sign of Jolinar.
I was still raining outside. Poring. It was dreadful. No sense of going outside there.
"I told him to wait for us!" Ausar said angrily.
Oh he wasn't angry. He was furious. He specificaly told Jolinar to wait for him at school. But did he listen?
Ironically, a part of him cheered and applauded for Jolinar. Cheered that Jolinar had some spice in him to disobey Ausar's order.
The other part was practically steaming because of the fact that Jolinar wasn't listening to him. Doesn't that kid know that he's trying to keep him safe!
The protective father side of him was worried. He didn't know if Jolinar really decided to come home by himself or if this was Aron's doing.
Oh boy. It seemed that he was starting to get paranoid about Aron. That's unhealthy.
"That's it. I'm going to go look for him." Ausar took out a sweater with a hood and walked out the door, Enlil right behind him. He got immediatly wet after five steps.
"This is unusual weather." Ausar muttered. Enlil barked in agreement. Ausar looked up at the sky, thinking that something wasn't right about the weather. But he brushed it aside. He hasn't been here enough to know if this was usual or unusual weather in these parts.
After ten minutes, Ausar stomped angrily at the ground. This is ridiculous! This was going to take forvever if he didn't take any, oh I don't know, shortcuts.
Ausar sat on the sidewalk curb. Any one passing by would think that there was just someone sitting and waiting for the rain to pass.
Ausar got comfortable and then closed his eyes. He breathed slowly, clearing every thought from his head. This was easy stuff. Back when he was young, being an appretence to the village mage, it took him hours just to reach the source of his power. Now it just took him seconds.
Clearing his mind of all thoughts, he felt himself surrounded by darkness, with a few sparks here and there. He went further into his mind, feeling the familiar tinging that was his power. Immediatly, he saw a small wooden sword coming towards him. The sword was blazing with light that was his power. Every mage-in-training knew that they had to put all their magic into a small object so the magic won't go out of control. Ausar's small object was the wooden sword that every person taking up apprentencship first practiced with.
Ausar's invisible hand twitched out a small string of light from the wooden sword. He took out just enough for what he wanted and slowly opened his grey eyes.
There were people walking around. Some with umbrellas and some without. There were a few children splashing in puddles, laughing. Ausar smiled at the memory of the kids at his village, all happily going home dirty, courtsey from splashing in mud puddles.
There!
There were two glowing strings in front of him. Nobody was stopping to see what the lights were. Nobody could see it except Ausar.
One of the strings lead to Enki, who was scratching himself. Probably fleas.
The other string lead to Jolinar who, by judging by the width of the string, wasn't far away. Ausar sighed with relief. So nothing bad happened. Good.
"Come on Enki. I found Jolinar." Enki began following Ausar, occasionaly sniffing the air trying to catch Jolinar's scent.
As the string of light began to get thicker in Ausar's view, Enki barked happily and ran towards an alley, where Ausar heard,
"Oof! Ew! Get off Enki! You act like you never seen me before! Enki...Ew...you're putting siliva all over me." Ausar went to the alley and saw Enki starting to get off of Jolinar. Jolinar got up from the ground, his uniform covered with mud paws from Enki and part of his face covered by siliva.
Jolinar wiped off the siliva from his face. "Ew."
Ausar laughed. This reminded him of when Enki did the same thing with Enlil.
"Quit laughing why don't you?" Jolinar tried unsuccesfully to wipe off the mud off his uniform.
"But why? You look so funny. I have the right to laugh.You should laugh."
"No thanks."
"I shall laugh for the both of us then. Ha!" Ausar laughed.
"Shaddup." Jolinar said gloomly. But he couldn't help but smile a bit. At least his father wasn't mad.
Ausar stopped laughing. "Now tell me." Ausar crossed his arms, "Where were you?"
Whoops. I was wrong. Jolinar thought. Now his father was mad.
"I...uh-heh heh...got lost?" Jolinar said dumbly. He already had an excuse, but the look on his father's face made him feel guilty. Maybe he should tell him-Nope! Never mind!
Ausar just raised an eyebrow. That had to be the saddest excuse he ever heard. Of course, he also used it on many occasions.
Jolinar raised his hands, "Ok! Ok! I went for a walk."
Ausar chuckled. "In the rain?"
"Yes. In the rain."
"May I ask why?"
"Well, I wanted to know the neighborhood. You know, the stores, the buildings, the street."
"In the rain?" Ausar asked again.
"Well, I thought that you were going to take forever to get me, so I took the liberty to know the neighborhood."
Ausar raked his hand through his wet, brown-grey hair. That sort of made sense.
"Can we go home now?" Jolinar shivered. He was damp and cold. His uniform was soaked, the mud already dripping off. His wet brown hair clenched his face. And his book was ruined! Now he'll have to wait for the book to dry and hope the ink wasn't damaged enough.
"Yeah. Here." Ausar took off his sweater and carefully put it on Jolinar as if he were just a child. "You'll get the sneezes if you don't cover yourself from this rain." He put the hood over Jolinar's head, brushing off Jolinar's brown hair that was similar to his.
Jolinar just nodded and shivered as a gust of wind flown around him. The three of them began walking home, walking quickly to get out of the rain.
Jolinar shivered again, suddenly feeling cold and dread. He looked around, searching every face that he saw. There was nothing unusual...maybe it was just his imagination, or maybe he was coming up with the sneezes. His villages' way of saying that he was coming up with a cold.
They kept on walking, Jolinar noticed that Ausar was starting to walk more slower.
"Dad, you better pick up the pace, or else I'll catch the sneezes and it'll be your fault." Jolinar joked. He looked at Ausar and noticed that his face was neutrual, his eyes determined. "Dad? Are you ok?" Jolinar asked questionably. Ausar suddenly grabbed his arm and pushed him towards an empty alley.
"This way." Ausar said quietly. Ausar searched the sidewalk. His eyes expressing no emotion.
Enki sniffed the air, growling from time to time.
"Dad what's wro-"
"Shh!" Ausar hissed. He muttered something and Jolinar felt something like...pressure. Somethingt was covering him. Ausar walked out of the alley, his grey eyes searching frantically around him.Nobody looked his way, nobody stopped to look questionably at the one who was frantically looking around him. It was as if nobody can see him.
Maybe that was the case.
Enki whimpered. He swayed as if he were dizzy. He swayed like as a human did when they were drunk. Enki carefully laid himself on the ground, still whimpering. He beganscratching the floor as if it were an enemy.
Jolinars neck prickled. He bent down and reached for a flat small dagger that was placed in his shoe. He straightened, and waited.
A black shadow crawled towards him, taking its time. The shadow went behind Jolinar and took from of a human holding a dagger. The shadows' hands reached for him. One hand reaching for Jolinar's neck, the other holding the dagger.
Enki growled and scratched the floor.
Barely a hairs' length between Jolinar and the shadows hands, Jolinar thrust his dagger into the shadows neck.
The shadow gave out a horrible shriek. Enki put his paws over his ears and howled. Ausar looked at their direction and saw the shadow person clutching its neck, giving out that ears splitting scream. Nobody around them seemed to have heard the scream. Nobody were clutching their ears from the sound.
Jolinar kicked the the shadow persons' head towards the wall, whick made a huge thunk sound, and went to Enki.
The shadow person made another shriek and lunged himself towards Jolinar, his dagger out of its neck and into his hand. Now the shadow person had two daggers.
Ausar quickly went to Jolinar and thrust his own knife at the shadow person. The shadow person shrieked once again and backed off, slashing his black knife wildly. The shadow person managed to make a scratch on Ausar's arms with the black knife. Ausar went to the shadow person and thrust out his knife that he inflicted on the shadow person.
The shadow person fell to the ground. The two daggers, the black one and Jolinar's, fell to the ground. The shadow person was weaponless.
"Jolinar! Are you ok?" Ausar looked at Jolinar.
"Yeah I am! I don't know about Enki though." Jolinar was checking Enki, who stopped scratching the floor and was shivering.
The shadow person began to get up, but Ausar held him down.
"Jolinar."
"Yeah?"
"Hold this person down. I'm going to check his memory."
Jolinar came to them and held the shadow person down. The shadow person struggled to escape Jolinar's and Ausar's clutches but failed.
Ausar held the shadow's person head towards his direction. Again, Ausar closed his eyes and cleared his mind to enter his source of magic. The blazing wooden sword enetered his mind and Ausar twitched out a a bigger string of light than before and opened his eyes. His pupils glowed and stared and at the shadow person.
The shadow didn't have a face but two small lights appeared on his face like Ausars'.
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He entered the big room. There were gaurds everywhere. There were people that were veiled: Mages.
He walked towards the two big doors up ahead. Two veiled people were in front of the doors.
Lord Aron sent for me. He sent the message quitely to the two mages, knowing that they would know it was him.
One of the mages opened the doors to him. He went inside, where Lord Aron was.
"You're here." Aron looked down at him.
Of course. He sent the message to Aron.
Aron nodded, signaling that he heard the message.
What is it that you want me to do?
Aron snapped his fingers. A soldier came in, holding two papers. The soldier gave the papers to him.
The papers held a portrait of two people:
One was a man,maybe in his late thirties, early forties. His grey eyes looked determined, hinting a clue of sadness and a new discovered happiness. For someone his age, he looked pyhisically active. Pehaps he's a soldier. His brown greying hair showed his growing age. Miraclulously, he had no wrinkles. His drawing seemed to say that he was tall, taller then the average person.
The second picture was a portrait of younger person. The person was a spitting image as the last person but in his teens. He could pass as the older one's son. Like the last person, he was taller than the average person and looked capable of protecting himself. The only difference between him and the older one was the eyes. The younger one had blue eyes and looked determined... and confused.
Are they the only ones I'm after? He asked.
"Yes." Aron answered. "But they also have a mutt with them."
This shouldn't be too hard.
"The mutt that they have with them is very smart. Smart enough that he probably knows what everyone is saying. The mutt is extremely loyal to those two. He'll warn and protect them with his life. That's an obstacle that you will have to overcome."
He nodded. He knew what to do with the mutt.
"To make your task easier, I'll give you this...gift." Another soldier came in and presented the shadow a black knife.
What's this?
"It's... what I have in mind. You will not kill these three." Aron said coldly.
My job is to kill, Lord Aron. It's against my nature.
"Well I'll pay you a lot if you go against your nature." Aron responded. "Your job is to just stab the younger one with this dagger. Make sure it's not a lethal strike, I need the little one for my plan. After you stab the little one, you are to stab yourself with this dagger and run away."
Stab myself? He questioned.
Aron ignored his question, "The effects will begin some minutes after and then you shall come to me. Regardless of what happened."
What is your plan?
"My plan is t-"
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"Oof!" Ausar was thrown back. He hit the wall behind him with a painful thump!
Jolinar lunged himself over the shadow and tried to held him down. The shadow person grabbed the black dagger began to stab wildly, always missing Jolinar.
"Jolinar get away!" Ausar yelled.
Jolinar quickly got off of the shadow, but not before the shadow managed to stab him in his arm.
Jolinar winced but recovered. The shadow person was starting to get away!
"Damn it." Jolinar cursed. There was no way of stopping him...Unless...
Jolinar relaxed and closed his eyes, breathing calmly and slowly. He did as Ausar taught him months ago: To clear all thoughts and to find the source of his power. He was met by darkness and then in front of him, an image pooped up. It wasn't a wooden sword though. It was the rectangular, jammedcard that he wore around his neck. The card blazed with power and Jolinar took out a tiny string of light from it. He opened his eyes and pointed at the shadow person running away.
"Brisingr!"
The shadow person yelled that horrible shriek again as it caught on fire. He wasn't burning fast enough because of the rain.
"Brisingr!"
Ausar called out the same spell as his and the flame around the shadow grew ten times. Nobody in the streets stopped to look in horror at the flame. Nobody could see it. The people around the burning shadow only felt hot from the flames but thought nothing of it.
Finally the shadow stopped screaming and fell silently to the ground. The fire got extingueshed and there was no trace of the shadow from where it laid. It's remains were gone.
"Are you ok Jolinar?" Jolinar was looking at the wound.
"Yeah I think so."
Enki stirred and got up slowly. He shook his head and looked around drowsingly.
"Are you ok Enki?" Ausar and Jolinar said simoustainly. Enki nodded.
"We should go home." Jolinar said. He looked at Ausar, "You'll catch the sneezes if we don't go to shelter."
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Once they got home, Ausar treated Jolinar's wound from the black dagger. When he asked Jolinar if he was feeling ok, he just said fine.
"Maybe you should stay home tomorrow." Ausar suggested. He laid down on their new couch. He was starting to get a headache.
"Maybe." Jolinar came downsatirs from the bathroom where he just finished his bath. He sat down on a chair carefully. He too was beginning to have a headache, but he didn't tell that to Ausar.
Ausar put his arm over his head and groaned.
Jolinar saw this and asked concernly, "Are you ok dad?"
Ausar just waved his hand, "Super."
"Do you want some pills?" Jolinar asked, although he knew the answer.
"Pfft! Those poisins? No thanks." Ausar got up and went up the stairs. "I'm going to sleep. Night, Night."
"Night, Night."
Enki just barked his good night. He went to the couch where Ausar laid a moment before and closed his eyes.
"Night, night Enki. I'm going to sleep as well. That fight took a lot out of me." Jolinar went upstairs to his room, changed, and went tosleep immeadiatly.
Back at Ausar, he too changed and went to sleep.
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"Ow." Ausar grumbled as the first rays of sun hit him.
"Go away." He muttered to the light. He turned and attempted to sleep.
Key word: attempted.
After ten minutes, he gave up trying to fall asleep. He pulled the covers, not really paying attention, and went out the door. He stopped for a moment in the middle of the hall on the way to the bathroom and stopped.
Wasn't his room more further back? He looked over his shoulder and shrugged. He probably wasn't paying attention. He went in the bathroom and washed his face in the sink. Thank goodness that he didn't had to go to the nearest well to get water.
He looked up to see his reflection on the mirror and gasped in shock.
"Oh crap!" He blinked for a moment. "What the hell happened!"
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Wheee! I'm done with this chapter! Urgh! My poor hands! Now you have to guess what happened. I' would've written it but my hands are so tired and I've been typing this chapter all morning, non-stop and I'm hungry!
I hope you like this chapter. It was rather long.
Thanks for taking the time to read this story! I'm really thankful!