War of the Immortals

[Angelus]

"I just witnessed something that I never want to witness ever again. I saw Ether get tortured and I did nothing to stop it. I could have stopped it at any time and I didn't. I have become a person that I am not proud of. I can no longer wear the robes of a white mage as I can not call myself one."

With that Cristian took his robes off and threw them to the floor before he turned and walked off, leaving them laying there. When he reached outside he continued to walk until he found a clearing which had no buildings around and sat down on the grass. He then closed his eyes and began to raise off the ground then he opened his eyes and screamed out, "You never told me that this would happen. How can I be a mage of light when I did nothing to stop the suffering of one person! I do not deserve to be one of the lights in this war!"

You must do everything that you can to win this war and restore balance, even if it means sacrificing everyone around you or even yourself. the voice in his head said.

"If I must sacrifice myself then I should do it now and get it over with. If that is what will restore the balance and stop this war," Cristian said as a small white fireball appeared in his hand that he pointed at his chest.

 

[Isolde]

Adriana

Adriana had run after Cristian and appeared in the clearing just as he put the ball of light to his chest. Knowledge of what he intended to do flowed through her but she could not call out as she was breathless from running after him.

Before he could destroy himself, she ran up to him and grabbed his arm. Looking him in the eyes, she put her hand into the ball of fire and put every effort she could into dispelling the magic. She did not bargain for the strength of Cristian's magic however and she had not learned to control her own yet. With a brilliant flash, the ball of flame exploded and threw them both backwards. Adriana fell, hitting her head on a rock as she did so and fell into unconsciousness, the pain coursing through her body he last memory before darkness took her.

 

[Angelus]

As soon as Cristian opened his eyes he got to his feet and walked over to where Adriana lay. He picked her up and walked with her in his arms over to the healers house and placed her on the bed then walked out of the house. He wanted to be alone right now and this house was one that had too many memories in it.

When he walked away from the home he made his way to the largest group of trees and once again raised himself off the ground then closed his eyes and began to rest and meditate. He knew that after what he did he could no longer call himself a white mage so what was he; an orderless mage, a rogue or an uncontrollable mage that if he could not be stopped would one day turn into that which he was fighting, Garath.

His eyes opened when that thought came into his head and he wondered what had happened to a mage like Garath that had made him take the path that he was now on. Was he born like that; no that was impossible or did something drive him in that direction- the same something that had caused Cristian to give up his white robe.

 

[Cryo]

Ether slowly opened his eyes. He was still in the prison of energy, but had no knowledge of such. A forboading man still loomed infront of him, but he had still no clue as to his identity. There were significantly less number of people looking at him, and noone was asking questions anymore.
Looking to his right, the elemental saw a strange weapon sitting on the table. It was a blue sword.



*flash* I will fasion my sisters soul into this weapon. Guard her, and use her well *flash*




Ether cried out as the strange image flashed through his head. Putting hands up to his head, he bawled and cried out untill the thought had passed. Looking at the weapon once more, he met it with indifference and unrecognition.

 

[poohlive]

Garret propped himself up on his elbows. He looked at her. She torchured someone? Garret thought back to the night he had left.
He hadn't torchered anyone, just simply killed them, killed them all, except for his sister. She was bent madly on his own death.
He reached out to Isolde, hugging her tightly. He didn't know why exactly, but now felt like a good time for hugging.
"Shhh, it's ok. Sometimes things happen. You have a good heart Isolde, whatever you did, you did because you knew it would help people."
He looked at her, his eyes tightly drawn to hers,
"You wouldn't consciously hurt anyone. I know you, I don't know why exactly, but I do. I know you are a good person, and whatever you did was for good."
He hugged her, pressing her tightly against him. He could feel himself shivering slightly. She needed someone right now, she truly needed someone, and he knew that he wasn't the person she needed, but they were a lack of people at the moment. It was him or nothing.
He didn't want to leave her alone anyway. He needed someone too.
Garret sighed into her hair. Such lovely hair.
"Come now, you promised to teach me archery," he smiled at her.

 

[Angelus]

Garath

Garath was pacing around his throne room, everything was going well but he had felt a great amount of power less than an hour ago and was wondering what it was. Just then there was a knock on one of the large oak doors and he told the person to enter.

The door opened and his personal guard, Kaylen walked into the room and knelt before him, "Sir, there is a young girl out in the hallway that says she may be able to help you."

Garath looked down at Kaylen and said, "Well send her in then. I should talk to her before I decide whether or not to destroy her."

Kaylen got to her feet in an instant and the when she brought the young girl in the first thing that Garath noticed was the look on the girl's face and the pure evil that emanated from her.

"Okay how can you help me?"

"I can tell you where those fools are because I can sense where my brother is and I know that he is with the people that are trying to stop you," the young girl said in a voice that was unholy and seemed to come from the grave.

Garath smiled at this and said, "Tell me more."

 

[Isolde]

Isolde

I sat there for a moment, letting this human comfort me and feeling my feelings of self hatred ease even if they did not go away.

Looking up at him, I smiled,"I did at that but I am afraid that things have changed and we will not have the time. Therefore you must promise me that you will stay alive so that I might make that promise come true."

I did not know why I wanted so much to keep the promise to this human or why my sense of magic went crazy around him. I felt great power with an undercurrent of darkness and it confused me. The power seemed natural but the darkness did not.

Sitting back, I decided to pry a bit,"Garret, tell me why I sense so much in the way of magic coming from you. If I pry too much than tell me but I worry for I sense a battle of powers inside you almost greater than that that Cristian went through."

I hoped he would not shun me for my curiosity but I sensed a great sadness and loss with this man and it disturbed me more than I cared to let on.

 

[Isolde]

Adriana

Adriana rose from the bed and ignored the protests of the healers as she stepped groggily to her feet. She must find Cristian and talk to him.

It took her awhile before she could find him but finally she stumbled upon his meditations. After watching him for awhile, she stepped out and let him see her.

"What are you doing?," She said,"You have lied to me. You said that the Cristian I knew was still here-in this form sitting before me but you lie. You are different and you scare me. I do not know what to do anymore as I feel I have lost my dearest friend spiritual and am about to loose him physically as well."

Tears welled up in her eyes and streamed down her face,"Come back to me, Cristian, I need you."

 

[Angelus]

Cristian opened his eyes when he heard Adriana's voice and looked at her. When he saw the tears in her eyes he started to say something but found that it had caught in her throat. She was right, where was the person who had told her that he was her dearest friend- he felt that he was a distant memory and had been replaced by the person that was now floating off the ground in the elven village.

He then lowered himself to the ground and after he stood he walked up to her, wiped the tears from her eyes and said, "You are right. I have lied to you. If you think that you are scared with the person that I have become then you know how I feel. Everyday I feel like I am changing and if I don't stop it I could become a person like Garath and that scares me more than anything. The battle that I had with myself changed me and left me with scars and I am asking you now to do one thing for me. Help me, more than anything I need the help of my dearest friend."

He then stood back and waited for her response, unsure what it would be.

 

[Isolde]

Adriana

Adriana did not hesitate but flung herself into Cristian's arms and hugged him tight. "I will always be here, my dearest friend. You have but to ask and I will do all in my power for you."

Standing back, she looked up into his face. The face that was so familiar, yet that of a stranger. "But you are trying to do this alone. I know you worry that if you involve me I will be hurt or killed but I am afraid that if you do not than you will have that fate."

"I was sent to you for a reason, Dear Cristian. The gods knew what they were doing on that day. Stop trying to protect me and use the gift the gods have sent you. I may get hurt but if anything happened because you refused to let me help than I would be dead inside more surely than if I was hit by an arrow through the heart."

 

[Angelus]

Cristian

Cristian stood there and felt the words hit home. Adriana was being totally right, he was trying to protect her from harm and in doing so was putting himself in more danger. He did need her, the gods had sent her to him for a reason and up to this point he did not know what that was. He looked into her eyes but saw the look at them and knew what it meant, she did not like the way that he looked as though he were a total stranger instead of her dearest friend.

"You are right Adriana. I have been doing something very stupid by shutting you out. I do need you as you are my closest friend and I need friends more than anything right now. But I have to do one thing for you before anything."

He then bent over and ran his hands over his face then began to shout in pain. After a few minutes he stood again and Adriana gasped for he had changed his face to the way that he looked before he had gone into the cave.

 

[Isolde]

Adriana

Adriana almost ran forward as Cristian cried out. When she saw what he had done for her, tears again coursed down her face. He did not have to do this for her but it did make things easier. She was sure that it would make things easier for Isolde also to not have to see her former master every time she looked at Cristian.

"Oh,Cristian," Adriana said,"What is on the outside is of no matter. It is what is on the inside that counts. I should have realized that long ago and been able to look beneath your apprearance. I suppose I am so used to people doing it to me that I found myself making the same mistake."

Smiling at him she said,"But it was the old Cristian who just put himself through pain to comfort his friend and, when I doubt, I shall remember this and know that you are there-no matter your appearance."

Taking his hand in hers she added,"So, shall we return to the village? There is much to do to prepare for our mission and we cannot fail. We will not fail as long as we face it together."

 

[Angelus]

Cristian stood there for a second and knew that he had to get back but he knew that he had to do one thing first and it was something that he couldn't do inside the village.

"I can't go back there yet. I have to stay here for a while and think things through but I want you to stay. I need someone to be here with me and I can think of no other person that I would rather have more than my closest friend."

 

[Isolde]

Adriana

Andriana nodded. She did not completely understand what Cristian had to do but, then again, it did not matter. He had asked her to stay and that was enough.

Sitting back against the tree, she watched as he again took up his position and began to meditate. Her eyes never leaving him-watching over him in case anything should happen.

 

[Cryo]

OOC; I seem to have backed myself into a corner here. I am trapped in a prison, with amnesia, and morgoth is stuck trying to cast a number of spells. On top of that, he seems to have stopped posting, and I need interaction to advance in the story (I will never reach Poohlives's skill, where I can make 20 posts showing my past before joining the storyline)

IC; The elemental looked around confuzed. the forboading man still stood infront of him, but seemed to be frozen in time. Testing his newly limited intelligence, Ether thought that this man has dissapeared, and was but an image in his head. Big mistake.

Crying out in pain, Ether had flashes of something called "unfinished quests", and every time he looked up at the man, he had a very bad feeling of Deja Vou. Eventually it passed, and Ether decided to abandon abstract thoughts for now.

 

[Isolde]

OOC: Okay, Cryo, Garret and Isolde will come rescue you. Just hang on and let me think of something to do.

 

[Angelus]

As Cristian floated there with his eyes closed he thought about where his path was going to take him and what he was going to do. He knew one thing though, he had to be part of the group and not leave everything to himself as that is what got him in trouble. He then realized that is what he had to do, rely on other people as well as himself.

He then opened his eyes and floated down and sat on the grass then called Adriana over. As soon as she was standing before him he said, "Sit Adriana. I am going to teach you how to use your gift, if you would like me to."

 

[Isolde]

Adriana

Adriana sat down eagerly and placed her hands in his.
"Of course I want you to," She said,"I am in your hands."

 

[poohlive]

Ooc: I do what I can.


Garret shook his head, leaning back from her. Was it that obvious? With a mole or something you could hide it from people, he thought you could with magic too. It must not work that way though.
He sighed deeply. Should he? What was the point. She had a right to know, it's true, but was he ready to recall those events again?
He recalled them every minute of every day, but still he knew he would cry more than once before it was over.
Garret took in a deep breath, ready to start the story.
"My mother was a..."
His mind exploded. He fell to the floor holding onto his head.
HELP!!!
Garret looked at Isolde, "Tell me you heard that too?"
She nodded. He got up, and looked towards the village.
"We need to help him," he began to run.

 

[Isolde]

Isolde

Isolde ran close on Garret's heel and then surpassed his stride so that she reached the healer's house first. Entering, she saw Ether laying in the energy field in obvious pain but not of her making. She could see the internal fight that was plain on his face.

Turning to Garret, she said,"I sense great powers in you. I have from the moment that I met you. Can you help him-ease him through a memory recovery? This is tearing him apart."

 

[Angelus]

Cristian

Cristian looked at Adriana and asked her to close her eyes. As soon as she did he placed his hands on either side of his head and asked her to feel the energy that he had in his body. As soon as she did she jerked back as opened her mouth in a silent scream.

He then told her to concentrate and stop the energy from coming into her. She said that she couldn't but he said that if she didn't then it would destroy her as he was about to send a spell straight into her head that would tear her apart.

Her eyes opened at that and she looked at him but she told her firmly to shut them and concentrate.

 

[poohlive]

He was out of breath. Isolde could run, he had never seen anyone run as fast. He was sprinting and she had overshot him like he was standing still.
He looked at her now, his pounding heart forgotten.
"What?"
He couldn't understand what she had said. She wanted him to... to use magic to help this man. He looked down at him. There was pain on his face.
He had used it for pain once before, to help his sister.
Rana.
He looked back at Isolde, "I don't know magic. Honestly I don't. I might have it, maybe even a lot like you said, but I don't know how to use it."
He lowered his head, what was he going to do. This man was in obvious pain, and here he was not able to do anything to help him.
Isolde grabbed on to his hand. She looked at him with hope, something he hadn't seen in a long time.
"Help me please," he asked.
She nodded.
Together they put their hands on the man's chest. A sudden flash came from him. He could feel himself losing something. He was holding something back for the longest of times, and now he was using it. He closed his eyes, straightening his arms.
It left him, he wasn't exactly sure what it was, but it left him just the same.
Garret flew back. He remembered the same thing happening with Isolde. He had tried to help her, and then he was forced back by his own power.
Garret rubbed his head, feeling a dull ache.
"Is he ok? What happened?"
Isolde didn't say a word. She simply looked at the man. Garret's heart sunk. No, he couldn't think that. He couldn't be dead, could he?
He looked at the person. He was breathing, wasn't he? Garret couldn't see. He tried to stand, but shapr pain thundered through his body. He fell back to the floor, breathless.

 

[Isolde]

Isolde

Isolde had felt the power run through her, dark and deep, but there was another feeling also. That of life and hope that coursed through her veins as she touched him. Energy flowed into Ether and she could see him jerk as if an electrical bolt had shot through him. His body tensed and then fell limp as Garret fell to the floor.

She looked at the healer who was examining the elemental and saw him nod. Ether was sleeping peacefully but, for now, the energy prison would remain.

Kneeling down by Garret's side, Isolde smiled at him. "You did it," She said, as she put her arm around his shoulders and helped him to his feet. Well, really, they leaned on each other as she was shaky from the surge of power she had felt.

"Come, lets get you a breath of fresh air," She murmured gently as she helped him out of the door and along the branch 'road' that ran through the trees. "That is a great gift you have there," She said to him as they walked, her arm about him,"I think you underestimate yourself, Garret."

 

[Isolde]

Adriana

Adriana nodded and closed her eyes again, putting away the thoughts of the pain she had felt just a little bit earlier. She concentrated on her breathing and shut out everything else but the look of his kind face.

Concentrating on the friendship, love and trust she had for Cristian, she found her mind opening and her defenses dropping. It was as if her whole soul had been bared before him and she was not afraid.

 

[poohlive]

The feeling was beginning to come back to his legs. He stepped with more courage now. A thin smile came to his lips.
"I don't underestimate myself," he said, finally able to stand on his own, he still kept his hand around her though, "I just don't want to use it is all. It's caused more than enough pain for anyone."
His eyes stared deeply into hers, but then looked away. She looked at him like... almost like a friend.
No, almost like something more, she seemed to look inside him, past his eyes, past his own barriers alltogether, into the real him.
Garret looked away quickly, almost blushing. He walked on silently, staring intently at his shoes.
All of the sudden his shoes seemed like the most important things in the world.
They came to a sort of bench-like device. It was a piece of woven branches made into a chair. He sat down, feeling all of the sudden completely tired.
Whatever had happened must have taken more out of him than he had ever imagined. He waited until his breathing finally become somewhat normal.
"I want to thank you too, whatever I did never would have helped that man if you hadn't have been there."
He touched her hand lightly, "Thank you."