Arkadian Knight
Chapter 2:Erratic visions
I was sitting up against a wall with blurry vision and a pounding headache. I moved my hands to rub my temples to ease the pain in my head only to find their progress halted by a solid, cold iron chain, GREAT! "what I wouldn't do for for freakin' asprin, a smoke would be nice too." I said aloud. For some reason I must have expected an immediate response from some unseen being as I could feel my irritation welling up. After a few minutes a flare of light burst to life a few yards out of the barred door of my cell. A flame torch? Where the hell am I? I saw the silhouiette of what appeared to be a gaurd just outside the cell.
"They will see you now, follow me." I seemed to hear it's deep resonating 'voice' more in my mind than with my ears, telepathy? This could get interesting.I studied the chains restraining my wrists and noticed tthem leading to what appeared to be structurally decaying brackets, "maybe if i give it a good jerk..." I trailed off as I flexed the muscles in my arms, grabbed the chain, and yanked. I felt it give a bit but not quite free, all I would need is one more measured pull and it should be enough to rip the bracket free of the wall. I must have overestemated the structural integrity of the brackets because my next pull was more than enough to rip it out of the wall. About a mouthful of sandstone and dust decided to come with it as I spent the next half hour sputtering and spitting to clean it all out. The chain restraining the other wrist came considerably more easily and moved through the sand and gently pushed at the cell door. Expecting to be fighting to get the door moving, I was pleasantly surprised to see the hinges give easily, silently, amost eerily! I took the torch from the sconce in the wall and cautiously made my way down the derkened corridor. I then got to what appeared to be a dead end, running my hand over the ancient stone in search of seams seemed to have triggered some sort of mechanism because a door began grinding open and I walked into a cavernous chamber which was well lit and was greeted by the sight of about 20 elders with distinct markings on their eyes and dark brown robes.
"At last you have come to us, there is much that must be done... Vindicator," my mind swam in their resonating thoughts and at first felt as though I was standing on the roiling deck of a ship. Seeming as though I got my sea legs back the only thing that was on my mind was the simple fact that I wasn't scared out of my bloody wits! Strangely enough I felt completely comfortable with the fact that these elders were speaking to me with their mouthless faces.
"Okay, you guys seem like you're in the mood for stupid questions, so riddle me this, who the hell are you guys? And on a side note, where the hell are WE! they all turned to eachother and, in turn, turned back to me. Near the center of them, one stepped forward and I began hearing it's deep, resonating vioce in my mind.
"We are the elder council, the ones whom forsaw your return to your people. Now you must embrace your destiny, son of chaos, so that we, your people can once again rise out of this sick poverty man has wreaked upon us!" his psyonic voice filled the room quite easily as his passion steadily escalated to the point he was bellowing maniacally. He must have been the more outspoken one of the assembly as the others were unphased by his excitement, unfortunately I was not so used to it and afterwards my head and ears were ringing like echoes off of a powerful stage amplifier. Another among the solemn elders gently spoke up in an equally aged but femanine tone.
"My son, you may be the only hope our people has left and, in order to defeat those of man, you must play their vicious games of death. Once their society has crumbled, we can rise out the ashes of our former existance with a utopian society and they can truely live and prosper." It was at that point that my existance in their world began to fade away, but with so many questions still burning in my head I was struggling to stay.
"What do you want me to do?" I exclaimed to no one in particular. I was fading fast and the last thing i heard was the masculine elder. "Go! Bring forth the fall of man! Exact vengeance in a way that will only be told in legend of our people for centuries!"