Age of the Apostles, 531 23rd of Tid,
Kaelmerus Chapter One - A Price To Pay
Sorus stood still. Although it was already spring, the breeze made the hair on his legs stand up. This is it. The moment he has been waiting for.
He held his sword and took it out of its sheathe. He has been waiting for this moment, practicing for this day, since he died.
His brother was the only person who could truly understand him, but now he's gone, gone because of the man standing in front of him: Liemus, the betrayer.
It had taken Sorus months to track him down, and now he found his brother's killer, cornered into a wall.
"You really think that I would let this all go?" Sorus chuckled darkly, "You killed my brother, you filth. I've planned for this day to happen, you are in this exact place in this exact situation due to me pulling all of the strings! I did all of this for the sake of my brother! And now... I'm going to end you, right here, right now!"
"Of course I knew this would happen. Do you think I'd be dumb enough to forget about you, little Sorus? But your little game here won't matter. I'm stronger than you. I can kill you right now if I wanted it to happen. But no, I will be merciful today. So go home, cry in the bath for all I care. Move on with your life already, kid. Learn that you are outmatched here," Liemus said.
But Sorus has something that Liemus doesn't: the physiology of a Half Elemental. "Here's the thing, Liemus. You don't know anything about me. You don't even know what I am. But I'll tell you now. You're the one outmatched here, because I, Sorus, am a Half Elemental!" "You're lying. If you really are a Half Elemental, then why was your brother so easy to kill?" Liemus gave him a wicked smile. This caused Sorus' face to distort into anger. "Take that back now!" He shouted, and sent a flash of light into a 20-meter radius, eviscerating everything into ash.
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The sun-like ball engulfed everything in flames, only leaving a crater of ash, and a man burning to death. "A-Agh! My barriers! You worm! H-How could you do this to my face?! I'll kill you! I... I'll..."
"Die,"
Liemus commanded and sent a palm of solar magic, knocking the man down the crater, and falling to the ground, dead. Outside the alley screamed a girl, witnessing the death of Liemus.
"AAAAAH! MURDERER!" She wailed in panic and ran. Guards quickly followed into the alleyway. "Goodness, what have you done?!" a guard asked, looking at the scorched body of Liemus. "I... I killed him... I really did it! I did it..." Sorus was in a state of shock while the guards quickly apprehended him by cuffing him with Voidsteel handcuffs. "I did it, brother... we're finally free...."
Sorus, depowered, was contained in a cage of the same material as his cuffs, that is carried by a big lizard. The man riding the lizard kept it steady. "Can't believe they managed to capture a mage as powerful as him. Must've been a hell of a fight, huh?" The carriage's, rider asked him, but all Sorus could do was sleep.
Sorus dreams of his brother. The best and only friend that he could have. His brother smiled at him as they walk into a field of diamondbloom.
"Sorus... I'm going. We're all going... And when we meet again, I want you to never forget who I am..." Astiel, his brother, walked further into the field, slowly sinking and he stepped in, the field swallowing him whole.
"Astiel! Wait! Don't go! Don't!" Sorus sobbed, falling onto his knees. "I can't lose you! I don't want you to go!"
And so he awoke, anew.