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Chapter 3: The Ethos Returning
From the midnight world,
I came,
Bringing more of my kind,
To cast the darkness over your Realm,
- - - - - - - -Mel was dead bored. If she'd been allowed, she might have stared singing. Or maybe even humming. Humming was always fun.
But a down point was that Zad refused to let her do anything. Not sing, talk or for the sake of Rados, hum. Or even move for that matter. Apparantly he thought that her wizard powers where triggered by movement.
Which they where. Darn.
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"Cameryn!" Kara ran up to the elder girl, tugging on her sleeve. "She's coming!"
Cameryn's dark eyebrow's knitted together in confusion. "Who? Melosa?"
"No! The Ethos! She found us!" Kara tugged her along down the hall, the pointed out the window. A dark storm brewed just east of them. The sky was clouding over and lightning flashed every so often.
"I can't see it. Only the Ethos Sigils everywhere. What's happening?" Cameryn said simply, squinting at the sky.
"A storm. Ethos sigils? You mean... You tell what the Sigil makeup is of casts and objects?" Kara asked.
"Yeah. Miia and I have the same eyes, but different abilities with them. So, they're definitely coming. Let's go." Cameryn wheeled around, and pulled Kara down the the hall.
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Yeili laughed at the storm above her, face titled up towards the dark clouds. Her black hair whipped around her face and she extended her arms as it started to rain. Ridani cawed as he flew around her in tight circles, then landing on her extended arm. The other Ethos would be there. Soon, hopefully. And then the Lost One woudln't stand a chance.
Now this felt like home.
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Adam swore as thunder sounded above the dojo. He skidded down the hall and nearkly smacked into a wall.
"Adam!" Seth ran over, his hair soaked and plastered to his forehead. "They're coming, we've got to get out of here!"
"What?" This was news. "Who's coming? Mel? Malco? Flinch?!"
"The Ethos." Seth said grimly. "Cameryn promised a distraction to get us out of here. Erik's starting the Stormers and Rion's with him."
"Ethos? Seth, you do realise we're not supposed to run from them?" Adam was confused. Weren't they supposed to defeat the Ethos? Not hide from them? "We have time to defend ourselves."
"I know. But without Mel..." Seth trailed off hesitantly. "We'll see." He said, giving in.
"Excellent." Adam grinned. "Mel'll be fine. She's strong, you know."
"Fine. We stay. And then we find Mel."
"I was just about to suggest that."
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Yeili eyed the dojo from the distance away, sopping wet from the rain pouring down around her.
"You're sure they're here?" A tall, black cloaked figure asked her. His voice was deep and gravelly. "The Lost One is here?"
"Yes, Cyrlin. I am positive." Yeili nodded.
"Good. We cannot have mistakes this time." He raised a gloved hand and motioned at several other Ethos hidden among the tree's.
"The boys. Find them and bring them here. Destroy the others." Yeili raised an eyebrow.
"Why destroy them? Couldn't they be used for information?"
Cyrlin paused. "I suppose. Shut down the dojo and lock them away then." Yeili nodded, happy wit the orders and turned to look at the dojo.
"Do you wish to join the attack?" Cyrlin asked in his deep voice.
"Of course. Whatever you wish, sir."
"Then get the boy."
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Yeili pulled her black hood up, concealing all but her eyes; to cover herself from the rain that was now pouring down. A silver Ethos Sigil was emblazoned on the corner dark. She held out her stones as she crept nearer to the dojo.
Other Ethos glided next to her, appearing tall and creepish. Being used to their appearance, she ignored them. The leading Ethos halted; the Ethos all raised a tentacle-like hand and shouted in their gravelly deep voice.
"Twilight of the Ethosian!" The Ethos voices rumbled together like the thunder that sounded above them just moments later. A black shadow swept over the dojo, the temperature dropping several degrees.
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"S-Seth!" Kara shivered with the sudden drop. The Defenders stood on the wall surrounding the dojo. "W-what happened?"
"I don't know." Seth looked over at the approaching Ethos. "Why are they still after us?"
"Who knows?" Erik shivered with cold. "Let's warm this place up a bit though. Forge Fire!" He raised his gauntlet and blasted bolts of energy.
"Pandemonium!" Seth tossed his stones into the air, metal octopuses flying towards the hooded figures. Three met their mark. "Rion, how many do you see?" The younger boy shrugged and hugged himself from the cold.
"Maybe twenty."
"Get down!" Adam grabbed Seth's arm, dragging them both to the ground.
"What was that for?" A dull boom echoed across the grounds and something smashed against the wall, scattering loose rocks and dust over all the Defenders.
"That, was what it was for."
"Oh." A pause. "Thanks."
"My pleasure."
"Shut up, Adam."
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Yeili looked up the wall. Children ran along the tops, throwing their attacks down at them. A boy stopped at a point and threw his stones into the air.
"Black Ice!" The ice slowly froze over the plain before her and Yeili was sent skidding on her back. She slammed into the wall and started cursing violently at the pain in her shoulder.
"Silver Moon!" Yeili shouted, struggling to stand and kept sliding. Silver tentacles grew out of her shoulders as she was lifted off the ground. "Damn this ice!"
Now level with the wall, Yeili took advantage and sent an attack at the boy who had caused the ice. "Black Nova!" She raised her hands and the boy was sent flying backward into another girl, both tumbling into a heap.
Clambering onto the wall, she grinned and ran towards the dojo.
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"Seth!" Rion ran up holding the hoods that the leader had sent him to fetch. "I have them! There's an Ethos in the walls!" He panted, having run the whole way here.
"There in the walls?" Seth pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. "I'll go take care of them." He started walking away, until someone grabbed his shoulder.
"Seth, I'll go." Adam turned him around. "You're needed on the wall's. And someone needs to keep Cameryn sane." He jabbed his thumb over his shoulder at the elder girl. She looked mad enough to send them all over the wall.
"I suppose…" Seth trailed off. "Alright. Knock 'em out and get back here."
"I like that. Nice, simple, easy to remember."
"Just go."
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A/N: Yeah... well. I wrote out most of this already so that's why these currents updates are going up so fast. And after chapter 4 they're going to slow down a little.