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Chapter 4: Into the Dark Realm
Left behind,
By those whom I trusted,
More than I do myself,
Expendable,
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Adam hid behind his cloak, invisible to any passerby's. He carefully walked down the hall, so not to make any sound. Running footsteps echoed down the passage behind him and Adam turned around, cluching his Di-Gata stones tightly.
"Rider of Yin!" A black cloaked figure skidded into the hall and in a flash of dark light, armour plates formed over her clothes.
"Power of the Guild!" Adam threw his stones towards the Ethos, a large metal dart which buried itself into the pillar behind her. It exploded in a burst of red dust.
"Ridani!" The cloaked figure stepped foreward. "Icy Wind!" A jet black raven formed in a flash of violet light, blasting dark energy from it's beak.
Adam swore under his breath. "Decepter! See if you can find me now!" through the red dust, other Adam's stepped out, looking identicle.
"Nice try." Yeili smirked as her guardian landed on her outstretched arm. "Ridani! Airbo-" A pair of hands covered her mouth and she and her attacker tumbled backwards.
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"Cameryn!" Thymene ran up to the elder girl. "The Ethos are inside the walls! A couple got in the dojo."She panted, hands on her knee's.
Her eyebrows knitted together, her mind thinking. "Thank you. Find Rion! As soon as possible! I need him to do something." She hurried away, down the stairs paced along the wall, towards a small door, leading under the wall.
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"Stay quiet." Adam said softly to the Ethos. He hand one hand over her mouth and another around her waist. "Where's the bird?"
'Yeili, I am getting help.' The Ethos' guardian spoke in her mind. 'Stay where you are.' Yeili shrugged, struggling to get out of his grip.
"Stop moving!" Adam stood up, dragging her with him. "You're going to walk foreward and stop when I tell you." In response, she just stepped on his foot. Hard.
"Owe... That hurt!" Yeili just rolled her eyes.
A deep voice spoke behind him. "Not as much as this will." Adam turned around, tightening his hold on Yeili. Three tall, floating and cloaked Ethos dripped on the floor, a mere few feet away.
"I have her. You won't want to hurt this girl." Adam nodded towards the Ethos.
There was a gravelly chuckle. "She's expendable." Yeili struggled against the thief, trying to get away.
"Wait a sec, you mean I don't have anything I could give you to let me walk away free?" Adam asked, biting his lip as Yeili elbowed in in the stomach. Quite hard actually.
"No. Sorry. Nightmare of the Realm!"
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Cameryn crouched down in the room, next to a small grate, only as tall as her waist- the perfect size for a small boy. Like RIon, for example.
"Rion, you're going down here." She pulling off the grate with a crunch, placing it against the wall.
"What? No!" His head barely grazed the roof of the room. "I'm not going." Rion said firmly, stepping away from the opening.
Cameryn glared at him. "Oh yes, you are. Once a good ways down, set this off." She held out a Henge Stone. A Dako-Nega Henge glowed a dark red.
"Oh... well, okay." He faltered and accepted the stone. He paused, staring at it. Cameryn rolled her eyes.
"Get going already!" She snapped, pointing at the small opening.
"Right, sorry."
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Yeili could feel the pain in her chest spreading across her body as she lay on the cold marble floor. Cyrlin had attacked her. Called her 'expendable'. This had hurt more than the attack itself, being useless to the Ethos.
A voice spoke through her black daze, "Get the boy! Hurry, before the cast wears off." Cyrlin. She could hear the drips as the two other Ethos glided past her.
"What about her?"
"Leave her. I was ordered to leave her here, where Lian belongs." Cyrlin replied. None of the other two questioned his orders. Yeili tried to sit up, but found it impossible. A dull boom echoed through the dojo, along with a high wailing.
"Get going!" Cyrlin, one of the High Lords, even sounded slightly scared at the sound. "Portal!"
Yeili sighed deeply. Either way, she couldn't move. She breathed deeply, and thought no more.
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Mel stared at that one spot on the wall, the tiny painting of a woman, dark haired and small with gray eyes. She looked somewhat familliar. Zad was sitting in a tiny chair, apparantly built just for him. He hadn't moved an inch in over an hour.
"Well," She coughed slightly. "How's the weather?"
Nothing. Zad didn't even blink. Talkative much.
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Kara and Rion walked through the dojo's winding halls in search of Adam. Their footsteps echoed slightly along the walls.
"Where could he be? You don't think he's hurt or something?" Kara asked the other Defender.
He shrugged. Rion didn't really want to say what he thought. "I hope not. He was supposed to be back an hour ago."
Kara glanced down a hallway to their right, then doubled back. "Down here!" She took off quickly towards a dark figure sprawled on the floor. Kara stopped several feet away, waiting for Rion to catch up.
"Is it Adam?"
"No." The Ethos girl, the kidnapper; was on the ground before them. "Go get Seth. I'll watch her" Rion reluctantly started down the hall.
Kara, herself, turned back, to the Ethos, carefully drawing her stones in case, then crouched down a safe distance away.
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Adam couldn't see. Well, blindfolds do that to you. Blocking out your eyesight and everything. And he was being forced to walk forwards, turning corners every now and then. He could hear the dripping from the Ethos around him and their heavy breathing. They all sounded like they had a nasty cold.
"Set him here. He can't shift between Realms yet." One deep voice said. Adam was pushed forewords, falling painfully to his knees.
"Shift? Shift what?" He asked, struggling to get to his feet. Adam was plainly ignored by the Ethos around him. There was a low buzzing noise, then the dripping and breathing faded away, replaced by someone running over.
"Adam! What did you do?" Mel hissed at him, untying his blindfold and ropes around him.
"I? Did nothing." He rubbed his wrists where the ropes had been too tight, leaving red welts.
"Really?" She said sarcastically.
"Of course. It was that dako-brained daughter of a sigil-blasted-yin-yanner" He said angrily.
"I've already called Yeili that. She left to go find the Lost One or whatever."
"I thought that was you." Adam stood up, looking around them. Both of them where apparently in a dark glowing purple orb, a prison. Ethos Sigils glowed at them from the ceiling and walls. "Where are we?"
"We're in the Dark Realms. And no, I'm not the Lost One. These Ethos don't even have the manners to let me go after their own mistake." Mel said, standing up next to him.
"Seems like them. Nice and polite." Adam said sarcastically, then his smiled dropped as he turned to her. "What's shifting?"
"Shifting? As in what kind?" Adam shrugged. Who knew? The Ethos could've been talking about anything.
Mel paused for a moment, in thought. "Well, there was two kinds I can remember -aside from shitfing objects around manually. The first was one where you kind of moved from one place to another by going through different dimensions. The second was where a person could open a portal, anywhere, to another Realm and seal it again. There are more, I just don't know what kinds."
"Okay, thanks."
"Why'd you ask?"
"Oh, well… no reason. Just something a friend mentioned."
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Seth finished tying the knot of the rope around the Ethos. He stood up, brushing his hands together, Erik aiming his gauntlet towards the girl in front of them. Yeili looked ready to murder him. Really. She was familiar with the feeling lately.
"Are these really necessary?" She asked, venom in her voice as she examined the ropes. "You already have stolen my stones."
"I prefer the term 'confiscated'. Yes, they are necessary." Seth said, sitting down, cross-legged a good foot away from her, bouncing her stones in his palm. "Where's Mel?"
"The Wizard girl?" Yeili shrugged "Who knows?"
"Not being very specific, are you?" Erik snarled, a nasty look on his face.
"No,"
"How do we find her?" Yeili shrugged off the question. "Okay, how do we get into the Dark Realms then?" Her dark green eyes flicked up at them curiously.
"Why do you ask, Defenders?" She said slowly.
"Because we need to find Mel." Erik elbowed Seth. "And Adam." The leader added at little late.
"The boy? I cannot help you. The Wizard, perhaps. You'll need me first." Yeili had the shadow of a smile on her pale face, like she knew something she was dying to tell.
"What for? Use your stones and cast us in."
"First, you currently hold my stones. And secondly, I can only take a single person with me. And it is one way only." Yeili responded, as if reciting it off a textbook. Seth exchanged looks with Erik, then turned back to the Ethos.
"How do we get there then?"
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The Defenders and company looked over the maps in the dojo library. Cameryn had her arms crossed, scanning over the room with her violet eyes repeatedly. She often stopped to gaze at Yeili for a moment. Her Sigil reading was different, different than the Sigils on the Di-Gata stones Seth had shown her.
"...there are two ways into the Dark Realm. One is by the already established portals. They are most likely being watched. The other, through objects." The Ethos explained. Why she was helping the Defenders? If she got them into the Realm, possibly, she would be welcomed back. They would be taken captive and she would be rewarded. But, things where sometimes better to celebrate after things worked out.
"You need the Great Dagger of Nega-La to create the portal, the Infinorian Glasspiece to mark and see what is ahead and to get to the capital, the Sumosian Shield. They will all be required to enter the Realms."
Kara blinked,"The what's-it?" Yeili sighed.
"You need the Relics of the Celestial Abyss."
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A/N: Ah ha ha ha... No, that's not a laugh. Okay, it is. Forgive me. I like cliffhangers. And for the full story behind the Relics, check out my homepage. Yes, that means click my bio up top and then click the homepage link.