Okay! This is the 2nd arc of the story. As the story goes on on how to revive the legendary hero and to save Kippernium from danger! This will be much short, but a decent story nonetheless. So, enjoy. Oh yeah, since I'm still fixing up on all the chapters, I kinda expect mistakes here. Tenses will be a majority, but I'm checking it already! Quite a few. Just review if it really lacks.

Oh yeah! And remember, by the end of this arc, the next arc release should be 450...on second thought, 90 visitors, not hits. I'm still putting this. So the condition stays! I won't erase it.

Seeing the whole residents of Kippernia Castle being burned completely has left a deep scar on Jane and Jester's hearts. Dragon seems to be depressed as well, seeing all the cows being burned and the people being completely ashed. However, instead of being completely depressed, he is extremely angry and raged at the person responsible for this madness.

At the evening, they head towards Dragon's cave, their only safe haven for the time being. Dragon then land them to let the two out of his back. Jane then run to a nearby place to let out all her tears, crying and sobbing as she remembered every single thing she saw that afternoon. Jester seems to cry for a bit, but he tried to hold back her tears so that he, Jane and Dragon can find a way to bring everyone back to normal. He leave Jane to sulk since he knows that Jane is overdepressed seeing their friends being burned in pain in front of her eyes. Dragon tries to comfort Jane, but Jester stop him and said

"Leave her. She just saw her own parents, our friends and Gunther burned in front of her innocent eyes. It isn't good to disturb her at this time. Please, Dragon."

Dragon just nodded to leave her alone. They all couldn't sleep as a result of this incident.

As the mourning continues, deep and heavy minds are taken in by our heroes. Jane happens to be consumed by pain and sadness all at once that even the mightiest roars and laughters may not be able to sooth her swarming mourns of pure depression. Jester can't bear to see her cry and sob all day. But he knows best at which he is not to interfere. Supposingly, he has to be confident and hope for the best in all of Kippernium's interests. Dragon just sulk and keep on cursing himself as he looked Jane from afar, still looking as glum as a princess' pain. His body is heated and is full of rage that can even pound the most powerful man alive if not controlled. However, he has to keep a cool check on his thermometer rage, or he will harm someone innocent.

At nightfall, Jane is still looking as sad as a suffering prisoner. Jester tries to read the scripts he manage to save from the morning before, trying to find some answers on how to find the hero forementioned. Dragon keep on thinking about Gunther's action on saving Jane. If he hadn't sacrificed his life to save her, he would be the one who is sulking and crying and Dragon would be supremely angry. So he keep on thinking like this with a really worried look on his face. (As if he is facing a nightmare..)

Jane and Jester have been feeling a little better after a few hours. They manage to sleep with Dragon together so they wouldn't feel really depressed too much. Though the three have nightmares with very scary scenes of their loved ones disappearing from them. Its hard for them to sleep in that state of mind. Dragon dreams of cows that melts right in front of his eyes as the cow is mooing and thinking about Gunther, who he seems to be feeling pity towards now.

Then dawn comes after a few hours, Jane and Jester wake up in a rather uncomforting feeling. The amount of distress that they have felt over the last few hours ago still haven't been shrugged off from their crushed hearts. Jester though, has a glimmer of hope in his face. He, who has the idea on how to stop and end this monstrosity, finally spoke after a few minutes of silence. Dragon wake up after awhile as Jester spoke of the plans he is trying to explain to.

"So, there may be a way to find them and return everyone back to normal." Jester said.

"Really?...But we saw them just now, they were all being burned to crisp. There's nothing that we can do now Jester...they're all dead." Jane speak as if she is going to give up.

"Look..if you could just listen to my idea first-" Jester is stopped by Jane.

"And what can you do about it? We saw them all being burnt! There's no way to reverse life Jester and you know that witchcraft hasn't develop such powerful magic yet!" Jane screamed as she felt the pain still aches inside of her.

"Jane..." was all Dragon could say, not wanting to interfere with the conversation.

"..I-I'm at a loss now..I am.." Jane spoke rather silently this time. Jester looked as if he had been mocked by a council being looked like a joke and suddenly brought out an unusually angry tone in his voice.

"Jane! Will you snap out of this! You may think the other is dead! But miracles may happen if we believe strongly to our passion! You are a knight, Jane! And knights do not give in to their own demise! If there is indeed a small speck of hope that may change everyone in the castle back to their normal state, we should believe it as such! I can't believe you would belittle such power that you believe their loss to the point of depression!" Jester speak his own ideas to Jane, hoping she would shut her mouth to prevent anymore negativity from leaving her thoughts that may hurt their feelings. Dragon then said to Jane "Floppy hat's right Jane, if that magician we met 2 days ago really gotten into that state, then it must mean that he has some magic that mustv'e caused the castle residents to be burned like that."

Jester objects to this idea "No Dragon, The wizard is innocent I can clearly tell you that. Since I happen to met him yesterday morning looking flustered and worried. He also told me this." Jester brought out the scroll he took from the Royal Library and the one he read yesterday. Its about a spell.

"Here, read this. This is most important." Jester said seriously.

Magician's Spell

As most of you all know, many people are born with least to none capabilities of witchcraft and magic. Only chosen people who have at least learned have mastered the basics of sorcery. And even more fewer magicians can learn the most variable of spells. These magician spells I have collected will prove to be of use to those who wanted to practice the art of the Magic. In Kippernium, there are only a few handful of wizards and they are rare to find since the world's population in Kippernium has a majority of knights and warriors than wizards. I felt a little apprehensive of other worlds since they have many talented magicians in their own levels. Anyways, I shall enlist the spell list here. Read them and you may practice them if you are of wizard blood and alignment.

"Basic Sorcery"

Spell level that involves very basic skills such as moving objects and creating very normal-tiny things like brooms and make people fly. Spells involve running away and appearing out of nowhere counts as such. I have mastered this spell with ease.

(Dragon looked as this spell with utter jealously as he sees the "fly" word. Thinking how shortlives can fly as he does so.)

"Elemental Sorcery"

Spell level that can manipulate elements. These can be dangerous depending on what type of element they are trained for and what their advantages of use are. I can use basic spells like Thunder and Ice, but not Fire.

(Jane looked in confusion and seems to be convinced that the wizard didn't started this act.)

"Neutralizer"

A very rare element of magic that can cancel all elements and all magic. I've heard rumors that the clad knight in armor has this type of magic and is crowned as a paladin as a result. Knights of all ages respect this man as a hero, with the exception of Kippernium.

(Jester found a connection to the Alexandria's battle hope. But its not important right now as they read the last segment of the scroll.)

"Necromancer"

This magic involves dangerous spells like purple fire and manipulating human lives. They usually can't do this spell without an object to increase the potential of the magic used. This spell is dangerous that people who discovered this sort of magic got arrested and hanged as a result. This, eventually, causes Necromancers to hide in some worlds and was only accepted in a few worlds.

There are other class types of magicians who the wizard mentioned. But Jane caught the eye of one final class level spell on the bottom of the scroll.

"Deity"

This type of magic can manipulate virtually, literally and psychologically anything that they have and their surroundings. They can destroy, alter and even move the foundations of all magic itself. It also affects mortals and any living and non-living materials that they observe. These types of magicians are said to be blessed by The Above and the one who inherit some of His powers. However, they are of weak and sensitive physical state. Any slight contradictions in their lives may be the end of all humanity and life in all worlds. I mention this because there have been reports of this magician doing this type of magic in Kippernium. Whereabouts of his location is still unknown.

If you read this letter, I assume the castle is in great danger. Please use this information to stop the monstrosity that befalls the castle and all of us.

"There's a deity sorcery out and about. And we found out that a necromancer is behind the incident. We may need to find this "necromancer" and pay for all that she did to our kingdom." Jane said, finally calming down.

"Wait? Her? What are you talking about?" Dragon asked.

"I saw a shadow of a woman who looks like she wasn't from around the castle. She also looked evil and menacing as well, so she may be the person we are looking for." Jane told her.

"Jane, even if we manage to find her, unless we can find a way to destroy her, it won't be of use to just simply confront her like that. We need a plan!" Jester told her.

"Then how do you suppose we "plan" this out? We know that we can't just confront her without well-planned preparations!" Jane countered.

"See this Jane." Jester pointed Jane to the "Neutralizer" section where it says "-clad knight in armor has this type of magic and is crowned as a paladin as a result. Knights of all ages respect this man as a hero, with the exception of Kippernium."

"We may be able to stop the Necromancer if we can find this paladin!" Jester said.

"But how can we find him? For all we know, this man may be miles away from here." Jane debated.

"That's where you're wrong." Jester said as he brought another scroll that he saw in the Royal Library.

"This is the royal battle that we've been mentioned about. There is a connection that this hero should still be around Alexandra and Kippernium if the wizard knows a few things about this paladin." Jester said.

"There's also this scroll I manage to find." Jester showed another scroll unfamiliar to the two. He then showed him a scroll containing letters in runes that Jane and Dragon seem to be familiar with.

"These runes..they seem to be similar to those of Dragon's..!" then Jane finally realized what the scroll is.

"A dragon scroll?...Jester, what does this mean?" Jane asked to Jester.

"Well...I've manage to get this one scroll that seems to have a translation of the scroll in runes." Jester explained.

"Really! Then lets see if we can find something about this." Jane then read the scroll and Dragon tried to help translating it. Though it is in simple rune language, the structure sentences that was written in the scroll is much more readable than the one in Dragon's cave.

It reads as such,

"Thou who wish to find the hero, find the 3 golden clues hidden around the land of Kippernium and the Europe areas. He is hidden in a place that you will least expect. Find the clues, lead its way and open the path to victory..Heroes."

"Its odd..this seems to be perfectly written in basic runes that it is translatable." Jane seems to be suprised as she said so.

"But it seems odd, why would this scroll be found in the Royal Library? And why does it seem that this scroll knows that we are anticipating a danger in the first place?" Jester asked in confusion.

"! Maybe its for the shortlives to give us a warning or something. Shortlives do tend to be very cautious in the times I've been with them." Dragon said.

"Hmmm...These clues. They may lead us somewhere. We should probably look around the kingdom and the Europe continent. We may find these clues and fins the hero we were searchin for!" Jester said enthusiastically.

Jane looked at Jester's confident face. She seems to be in a much better mood now. She anticipating for finding this hero as soon as possible. She then says "Dragon, Jester, let us head off then. We can't just sit here doing nothing."

"Jane..I'm glad to see that you're confidence has returned. Let us head off. Dragon, are you ready?" Jester said

"Of course Floppy! I'm ready whenever you are." Dragon exclaimed.

"Jane..what about supplies? We may have to stop at a market to buy some for the trip..and I doubt we have any pennies right about now do we." Jester told to the reckless partners.

"Well..I suppose we do need some money. But we have to make due with what we have for the time being." Jane said to Jester.

Jester gave an sigh and then the two climbed onto Dragon's back and he then flies towards the sun, signifying that the adventure has begin!