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Ch 46
A few hours later sen was back at the adventures guild, his mom, dad, ryyla and her sister lyyla were all sitting at a small table discussing something in a hushed manner. As sen walked in he couldn't help notice their secretive behavior and approached them with a smile.
"What's everyone talking about? you know the city lord just gave me some rewards. Anyone want to know what they are?"
As they saw sen approach they all nodded in agreement. Tara was the first to stand up and speak, so she looked at sen and in a serious tone said.
"Sen its time for you to leave."
"Oh ok........................................WAIT WHAT!!"
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Somewhere, in a place that very few can get to, in a place where once your put you can not leave, in a deep dark prison where no sunlight ever touches a tall black panther sits in a cell. Upon his wrist are chains that glow a faint red. Around his neck, a glowing metallic collar with chains extended in three different places around the collar is connected from it to the wall. Around his waist, a metallic bar as thick as a child's arm binds him. It too gives a dim red glow. Strange archaic symbols and runes are carved deep in every wall as well as the floor beneath him and the ceiling above.
The panther tries with all his might, but even with everything he has the shackles and chains don't budge an inch and as he tries to move the symbols in the room light up and a fierce pain rips into the panthers body like no other. This panther that's said to be invincible roars with pain, but he can do nothing. Finally, the symbols return to their dormant state and the intense pain slowly subsides. In this prison no one sees anyone else, how many cells, how many guards, no one knows for sure.
There is no communication whatsoever. Each prisoner is completely isolated from one another chained and bound in darkness cut off from everything. As the panther sits there bound he senses another's presence. The symbols which supposedly seal the cell allowing nothing in or out and yet the panther is not alone. Once more without the panther inciting them the symbols glow again and another wave of extreme pain echoes throughout the panthers body. The feeling is as if his innards are being shredded the panther calls out in a feeble manner.
"Who..who is it? why have you come?"
The symbols again go dormant and a deep sinister voice enters the panthers mind directly.
"You've failed me."
As soon as the voice entered the panthers mind his face paled and his entire soul trembled in fear. He quickly shouted back.
"Master!! I...I, it wasn't my fault. Please, you have to believe me someone got in my way."
Silence permeated for but a moment.
"Who?"
"Master it was an elf and a boy."
"A boy.................. an elf ."
"Yes yes, the boy took your gift from me and the elf she was too strong. When her eyes and hair changed she transformed, it was like no matter how hard I hit she couldn't be stopped.
"What! an elf that transformed.
"Yes, Master. I wanted to complete your mission I swear it, just some bugs got in the way. Please master, please allow me one final chance, let me prove my strength, no my loyalty to you. I swear I won't fail you."
Silence once again filled the small room for but a moment before that same sinister voice said one final word.
"NO."
Once more the runes upon the walls lit up like a fire and the panther screamed in pain.
"Master why?"
But there was no reply. The runes just stayed lit and the panthers body started to fold in on itself very quickly and with it the chains and collar started to bend and twist awkwardly until they toO folded upon themselves. After only a few seconds, the panther released one final roar before his body could hold no more and a loud bone snapping crack echoed forth in the small cell.
Quickly followed by several more pops and cracks until at the very spot the panther sat at there remained nothing more than a puddle of meat paste. The presence that destroyed the panther vanished as though it were never there and the runes slowly faded back to darkness. The room once more became silent and still, only darkness remained.
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50 miles north of Jules city a young dark cloaked boy travels by himself into the world of Gordonia. Headed east towards a city called Grendon, this young boy, of course, is sen and he finds himself confused over yesterday's events.
"Why did they change their mind so suddenly."
Sen pondered over his parents and teachers sudden decision to allow him to travel by himself. After the recent events they decided it would be best for sen to journey on his own for a while so he could personally understand and learn for himself the harshness and beauty of Gordonia and although they were extremely worried after everything that's happened they felt as though if he didn't leave now then they would never be able to let him go.
The other reason is because ryyla was going to investigate the current events and so she needed to go herself. She opted to let kai and tara go with her so they would remain busy and not worry as much for but they decided to remain in Jules city for a while just so they could have a bit of quiet until ryyla returned. And so here we have a young man out on his own for only the second time of his young life. On his way to a distant city to find someone to train him, and as one of his rewards was a letter of recommendation to a sword master. So sen journeyed forth excitedly, but for now.
*grrguurdurr*
Sen couldn't help but rub his stomach. He was so excited to journey by himself that he forgot to not only eat dinner the night before but his breakfast this morning as well.
"Ah so hungry, I forgot to eat and I didn't pack any food, good start so far."
Sen decided to have a seat on a nearby stump to ponder what to do. He knew that he could fly back to Jules city in merely a few minutes to retrieve some food, but he literally just left. If he were to return so soon he was sure his parents and ryyla would laugh at him. So here he sat and pondered, while doing so his stomach continued to grumble and sen couldn't help but sigh to himself. He was simply not prepared. As he pondered what to do next he could see a few leaves flowing through the wind, around him he could hear a few birds singing up high on the trees as well as a gushing sound. As soon as he heard it his eyes widened.
"Water, water might mean fish."
Like a gust of wind, sen dashed towards the source of the noise disappearing into the forest. Running past trees and over a few bushes, sure enough he found the source. Excitement filled his face. Coming into a clearing there was a small stream no more than 20 feet across flowing for quite some distance. The water moved gently and appeared as clear as glass, but that's not what had sen the most excited.
What filled his sight with such joy is what swam in the water. Not very far in, sen could clearly see a small group of fish making their way slowly downstream, sen's lips arched into a sinister smile.
"Hehehe, lunch."
With but a thought sen's eyes glowed a fiery red and three fish flew straight out of the water as though they had wings. Using his eyes, he also pulled some big leaves from nearby and dipped them into the stream to rinse them. He then set them aside and placed the fish on top so the ground would not dirty them.
"Now we need a fire."
Sen gathered a bit of wood, just some branches, and other dried sticks, anything that looked as though it would burn quite easy. He laid a few stones in a circle and placed the wood into the center, pointing his index finger towards the stick pile a small arch of lightning flew out from the tip of his finger lighting a fire instantly. As the fire grew so too did the roars from his small stomach. Sen formed a small blade of wind in his hand and removed the scales from each fish as well as the guts and the tail, sen never liked the tail.
He then fillet them and washed the fishes in the stream skewered them on sticks placing them directly into the ground leaned slightly toward the fire. Within minutes, the smell of cooked fish permeated the air causing sen's senses to tingle as the smell tickled his nose. He couldn't help but lick his lips repeatedly. Drooling quite a bit he wiped his mouth and soon found himself tasting dirt.
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Looking down he saw that he was covered in it, after rushing into the forest to the stream then gathering what he needed he was covered in sweat dirt and a few leafs as well. Looking at the stream it was really a no-brainer. A cannonball later and sen was quickly submerged, coming up for air he began to float on his back. Relaxing a little, he then grew excited thinking about his journey ahead a large smile broke out on his face.
"Hehehe, this is going to be fun."
But just as he spoke aloud the bushes on the shore begin to tremble causing sen to go on full alert. He rushes out of the water and quickly throws on his dirty clothes kind of defeating his goal of getting clean and just as he finished dressing 3 men wonder out into the clearing.
"Arg finally were out of that damn place, it's taken all day."
"You said it, oh boss look there's food."
The men ran up to sen's food snatching it up immediately and biting into it frantically, meanwhile, a look of anger flashed over sens face. He was just about to speak up when one of the food snatchers noticed him and called out.
"Boss look, there's a kid here."
As the boss looks over the three are shocked to see a child alone in the middle of the forest but immediately they see a white ring upon sen's finger and greed fills their eyes.
"Hey kid, hand over that ring."
Hearing this sen became infuriated and he wondered if the ring truly was cursed. Barely a day had passed since he got it yet already he's run into trouble. Sen looked at the three men, but instead of losing his temper like usual a cold smile appears on his face and he calmly says.
"If you want it come and take it from me if you can."
The three looked at sen curiously, usually when they rob someone the other person looks afraid or begs for mercy, but this kid in front of them smiled and offered his valuable. It was safe to say the men felt that something was off but with greed in their eyes they each shook the feeling from themselves and one of the men casually approached.
While sen just stood there still with his calm expression the man reached for sen's hand to take his ring off. At this time, a large torrent of wind suddenly rushed forth blasting the man back several feet, knocking him into the stream. The three men's faces instantly filled with both surprise and anger, one of them shouted loudly.
"Boss! This kid got magic, what should we do?"
Sen continued to stand there calmly with that same smile on his face, he spoke calmly and clearly.
"If you have the ability then take it, if not, then your life is too short."
*hmph*
The boss looked at sen with a bit of confusion, but he quickly suppressed his surprise and hollered.
"It doesn't matter he's just a kid just kill him."
The one that was pushed into the stream jumped to his feet and rushed at sen throwing out a quick punch, but just as before another surge of wind blasted forth knocking the man back and into the stream once more. Again their faces filled with surprise until the one next to the boss started laughing wildly.
"Haha, boss, tom can't even handle a kid, how priceless, hahaha."
The boss as well found it amusing, he too began to laugh and as the two were laughing sen still just stood there with that same expression upon his face. Meanwhile the man named tom that was blasted into the stream just sat there soaked, He was not amused but instead frightened.
The first time he was blasted he could have counted it as a fluke, an accident, but to be blasted twice in a row before he could even land a blow and the fact that he was thrown so far. That coupled with the fact that the kid didn't move a muscle and kept a smile on his face, tom knew for a fact something was wrong, but the bosses laughter quickly settled and he yelled out.
"Tom!! what the hell's wrong with you? quit playing around and just kill him."
But tom just sat there frozen, his eyes were locked onto sen's and he couldn't shake the feeling that something was seriously wrong. Seeing this, the guy next to the boss shouted.
"Boss forget it, let me handle this little shit."
And so the man rushed at sen sword drawn, tom seeing this wanted to yell out for his comrade to stop, to not attack, but before he could utter a single word the man was already in front of sen and his blade was slicing through the air directly towards sen's neck. Just as the blade was about to reach sen's throat, just an inch above his skin the man's sword was imediately stopped by an invisible wall of air armor.
"What the heck, I can't cut the brat."
The man tried to pull his blade away for another attack, but sen's eyes turned red and the sword wouldn't budge, it simply stayed in place just in front of sen and although the man pulled with all his might the sword would not move. Sen turned his head upwards ever so slightly looking at the man coldly. His smile left his face and a hint of anger drifted on his voice.
"I told you, If you have the ability then take it, if not, then your life is too short ."
"What the....."
Before the man could say more a blade of wind had shaped around sen's hand and he quickly pierced into the man's chest. Through flesh, blood and bone, instantly appearing out of the man's back. The wind subsided and sen quietly withdrew his blood soaked hand from the man's chest. What was left was a fist sized hole and a look of confusion on the man's face followed by his body collapsing to the ground.
Hard labored breathing came after and in only 5 breaths the man moved no more, death had arrived and quiet filled the air. Tom still in the stream suddenly felt a warmness just below his waist for a few seconds before the water around him once more turned cold. Tom, as well as the boss, had no clue what had just transpired both doubt and fear overtook them and the boss started to tremble.
"NO, no, not me, you ain't getting me."
The boss immediately turned to flee, but before he could take a step he felt his feet paralyzed. Not from fear but from something else entirely. Sen's eyes glowed and he appeared in front of the boss instantly. Once more a fist sized hole appeared and the boss was dead soon after.Sen turned to look towards the stream to finish off the one called tom, but to his surprise tom was nowhere to be seen.
He had vanished too quickly surprising sen greatly, but sen was in no mood. He walked over to where his fish had been cooking and all of it was either eaten or trampled by the men's feet. sen looked at his food with disappointment.
"It's ruined."
Seeing that there was nothing that could be done, sen simply flew into the sky and left.
Nearly a minute after sen left a figure appeared from beneath the surface of the stream panting and gasping for air. Tom emerged looking quite panicked.
*pant....huff......pant....huff*
"That kid, that kid is a monster."
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Several miles away sen spotted a small village near the side of a mountain. He was really in no mood to see more people, but alas his stomach was roaring as though it caged a dragon within and so he quickly descended and rushed to the nearest inn. He quickly demanded a room placing a piece of gold on the counter. Normally the innkeeper would have turned someone away who had an entire arm covered in blood and a child at that, but seeing as how the kid offered up real gold the innkeeper decided to look the other way.
In return, sen stated he only needed a room for the night and for a meal to be brought to his room. Immediately after arriving in his room his meal was quickly delivered and he immediately scarfed it down. Being that he was still a kid and he had gone more than a day without food as well as using magic and fighting his small frame was exhausted both physically and mentally.
He slowly climbed into bed, laying there on his back he looked at the ceiling. Sen raised his blood covered arm lifting it above his head a white ring now covered in blood sat on his finger and as he wondered about the day's events something odd began to occur. The ring upon his finger started to vibrate and as it did the blood on his arm was drawn to the ring and as it got close, the ring to sen's shock absorbed all the blood.
It then turned a pitch black color before it finally settled down and stopped vibrating. Although it was indeed shocking, sen was too exhausted to investigate. Before he could even begin to gather his thoughts on what the hell just happened his eyes were already as heavy as weighted armor and his mind was already in a dream.
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"So you've come again boy and it looks like you've picked up quite the trinket, hehehe."
End of ch 46