Ancient Destiny

[Evelond Formos]

A young elven girl was walking about the borders of Dasaria, journeying to Daris even though she did not know why.

A Varanite saw her, and found a Crusader and killed him. He put on the armour, and walked up to the girl who was about to enter Dasaria.

"Lass, I'm a . . . err . . . guard of Dasaria. There is a fine ye have to pay to enter. But since I like ye, it'll be only ten thousand gold."

"I'm sorry," she said shyly. "I don't have the money required to pay the toll."

"Then ye die!"

He took out his daggar, then felt a white hot pain in his heart. The girl had stabbed him. He died, before he fell to the ground.

The girl knelt down to his corpse. "I am sorry I had to kill you," she said praying. "But if I didn't I would have suffered your fate. And Enlil says I have a mission."

She burried the body, and constructed a gravestone for him.

She entered Dasaria, and traveled to Daris. None of the hostilities along the way bothered her.

She easily made her way to Daris. When she got there, she sat on Popper's Rock and waited. She was mysterious.

Her long red hair dangled below her shoulders, resting at her side. Her blue eyes reflected thge light around her, looking down with sorrow. Her shirt had a heart on it that said something in another language. She was about four feet tall, and looked like an elven preteen. She was concerned, and the shadow on her face showed her shyness.

She muttered something before falling asleep on the rock, and dreaming of what she would do next. Enlil spoke to her in her dreams . . .

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She got up, and muttered a few more words. She went around, exploring Daris, wondering if anyone would show her around. But she would not ask someone herself. She felt that would be rude at the time . . .

She muttered some words, then curiously entered the Redboot Barracks.

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She walked around and eventually came to a cage door. She tried to open it, but it was locked. So, she saw that she was skinny enough to slide through it. She did so, and explored that section of the Barracks.

[Evelond Formos]

"Enlil . . . there are beds here . . . should I be here?"

She did not hear a response as she had in her dreams.

"I do not know . . . no harm can be done, right?"

So she explored more.

[Evelond Formos]

"Oh . . . " she said. "I just know it . . . I'm not supposed to be here. . . ."



Meanwhile . . .

A rat sneaks into the barracks, and sees the girl.

That isss the girl Mistress Mayna wanted . . .

The rat got a clump of dust Mayna gave him before Haru trapped her, and sprinkled it on the door. There was now a forcefield that prevented the girl only, not any Redboots, from exiting that part of the building.

Afterwards . . .

The girl went over to the door, just after the rat left. She tried to slip through it again, but something was holding her back. She knocked an empty space between the bars on the door.

"A forcefield? O no . . . I'm stuck in here . . . I am in the midst of drow magic, I can feel it . . ."

[Evelond Formos]

She muttered some words in another language.

"It appears Enlil can only contact me when I am sleeping," the girl said.

So, she forced herself to sleep on one of the beds (grateful that for once in many many years she could actually sleep on one).

And she waited for Enlil to contact her, telling her what to do . . .

[Evelond Formos]

Oddly, while she was sleeping her eyes suddenly burst open, but she was still asleep. Blue lights beamed out of her eyes, somehow making fake holes in the ceiling. Perhaps X-ray vision? No, it couldn't be that. It must be some accidental illusion.

Words in the same language as the word on her shirt beamed out with the blue light going through the ceiling into the sky.

The rat outside the Barracks saw the light and squeaked. He could see the words in the light! But how is it possible that an illusion could have so great an area of effect? Unless it wasn't an illusion. . . .

It was a ritual . . .

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The blue light disappeared, as did the words and holes in the ceiling.

But then two green lights came down from the sky, with the same language of words. It made holes in the ceiling again, and went right into the girl's eyes . . .

I hope this isn't the part when the lightning comes down . . . the rat thought.

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The light stopped shortly after it began. The rat squeaked with relief. Now all he had to do was get the ring . . . and persuade the girl to destroy it . . .

Barracks

The girl woke, taking in the knowledge that had just been transfered to her. The forcefield could only be broken from the outside. So she needed one of these Dasarians to open the door for her . . . but would she be scolded then?

She thought. How can I get a Dasarian to come in here and open the door? Without getting in trouble, or acting immature?

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She decided.

Ever since that drow cursed me with Immortality((*ooc note at end*)) Enlil has treated me right. I will pray to him . . . or her . . . to send someone a message.

She lay down again, and the blue light appeared again . . . and then the words and the holes.


(( * immortality as in age, staying her current age forever, so will not die of old age but if killed will die*))

[Evelond Formos]

The blue light, holes, etc vanished. After a few minutes a green light blasted into Popper's Rock. It left these green-glowing words carved into the rock:

Elven girl trapped in Redboot Barracks; left barred door needs to be unlocked

The girl woke up, and waited.

[Evelond Formos]

Syphious walked up to Popper's Rock and read:

"Eleven gairs tray ped in Redbot Buhracks, lef ta bare ed doo red neds ta bee un lock ed. What does that mean?"

He walks away, confused. "Why is it that even though I know how to read(I think), I can't understand anything I read?"

He shrugged, then walked to the Farmlands, ready to kill some beetles.

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Haru ran into the village, half-blinded by someone who used a magical "Searing Light" on him. He could see the glowing letters, but they were blurry so he couldn't see them. He walked around, trying to make his way to the Blue Boar.

[Evelond Formos]

Eventually the rat came back and broke the forcefield.

"Thank you, mouse."

He squeaked, then sent her a telepathic message; but Enlil countered it.

Don't let this mouse trick you! He is trying to hypnotize you!

The mouse sent it anyway:

"Nashi's enemy, Mayna Arkenath, is inside this ring. You should destroy it! There will then be less delay of you finding him!"

"Nashi's enemy? Give me that ring."

The rat placed the ring on the floor:

She crushed it by stepping on it.

Mayna's spirit burst out of the ring, and threw the girl out of the barracks through the window. Mayna then took her original mortal shape, and left the girl to die.

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"What have I done? An Arkenath is loose again? Enlil . . . forgive me . . ."

she fainted, then woke a few hours later on Popper's rock again.

She now had a new mission, according to Enlil in her dreams:

She must destroy Mayna once and for all.

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But how could she? There was no way Mayna could be stopped easily. If she is the Valsharess, which she probably was, then she has an entire army guarding her.

[Evelond Formos]

"I will have to acquaint with others in this nation so they can help me . . ."

You mustn't go after Mayna just yet . . . you must destroy Raven the undead dragon, lest Mayna will possess it and use it for evil . . .

"Yes, Enlil . . ."