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DARK KNIGHT CHRONICLES #1 "Ugh," David groaned. Considering my older brother David had been a squire for three years and I was experiencing my last day as being a page, I was doing a well. "Heath, David, time to eat," his father said. I walked toward the door. "Father, thank you so much for promoting me," I said. "Well, you are thirteen, and have excellent swordplay skill for your age." "Well thank you again." Father laughed, "You can stop thanking me, now let's get to dinner!" I was nervous. Something felt odd. I had seen six horses at the stable that were not ours. When I went to look at the chickens this morning, all the chickens had been gone. Something is about to happen, I just know it. "SURPRISE!" everyone yelled as I came to the table. I gasped, they had made this a party, and everyone was there like Father Brown, some other local knights, and the rest of the family. However, as I asked, I still got my chicken leg. There were so many people; they had to have four turkeys. This is turning out to be one of the best days of my life. Thank you God! Praise the lord! When dinner was done, Father stood up. He said," I have an announcement to make. Heath is going to be a squire to the greatest knight in England, Sir John of Meheithin." Everyone gasped. I was going to be the squire of possible the strongest soldier in the world. I could not be happier. Then I heard a knock on the door. Father went to the door, and came back minutes later. "Bad news," said Father sighing, "very bad news. That was Sir John's messenger, Hope. Sir John died yesterday of an unknown disease." Everyone gasps; Sir John was the best commander we had. "Will anyone take him in as a squire?" my Father asked. "I will," said a knight at the table, names Sir Phillip, "It won't be as exciting as being the squire for Sir John, but I am one of the kings most trusted, with the greatest, strongest, Fortresses in all of Briton. He will be the safest he could be." "Please Father?" I begged. I always was excited to go to his castle. There was so many hallways, you could easily get lost in it. Everyone had gotten lost in it at some point, even Sir Phillip! "Please?" "All right, you will leave tomorrow." In the morning, I packed my stuff like my bow, wooden sword, parchment, quills, and other things. After I had packed, I headed outside. Then I realized something, how was I going to bring the horse back I borrowed? Maybe the messenger will bring a horse for me to ride on. Or... As I walked out, Father had a horse with him that I did not recognize. It was a black warhorse, with a white splotch that looked strangely like a skull. "Father," I said, "I like your new warhorse." "Not my warhorse," Father said, "Yours." I cried out in glee, he looked like a great friend and comrade, just like a good warhorse should be like. An hour later, I was all packed and on Rouge- my black warhorse- ready to head for Sir Phillip's castle. "Farewell," cried everyone, "Farewell." It was a pleasant ride to Sir Phillip's castle. The scenery was really nice, giving off a distinct comforting smell. Sir Phillip's messenger, Grant, pointed out a hidden cave under a giant oak. He said that there were many legends about it; all saying that ever goes down into the cave are never seen again. For the rest of the trip, I wondered how it was created. It had looked as if it was not a natural cave. We then arrived, seeing a gigantic fortress, the castle of Sir Phillip. As we entered the gate, we were showered with pink flowers, shot out of their trebuchet. We were greeted by Sir Phillip. "Welcome," said Sir Phillip, "I hope your ride went well, I will lead you to your room personally." As we went through the hallways, I look at all the things on the wall. He has all these random items like this flat rock he has. It has all these runes on it. The one thing I could understand putting on the wall is the giant copy of the Ten Commandments. It had taken his scribes 7 years to do, and the strokes were so big, you would think God wrote them on the parchment himself. I saw a sword and shield on the wall that looked curious. I asked "Sir, why does this sword and shield look abnormal to me? Sir Phillip stopped dead in his tracks. He said, without looking, "Because that isn't any normal sword and shield Heath, I will tell you about them if you come to the dining hall tonight when the moon is high." I then was curious, what kind of secret could that sword and shield hold that he would have to tell at the dead of night? I was chilled by the thought of it. Sir Phillip then showed me my room, and told me I could get situated, and then come down to the dining room, for dinner was ready to be served. Dinner was great, and Grant introduced me to everyone. There was Hook the cook, Stephen the smith, and a field worker named Nemi. I was extremely tired, excited, and scared all at the same time. I wondered still at the thought of what was causing him to be so secretive about this. But I did not have time to ponder the thought longer as I fell to sleep. "AH!" I cried, to find Sir Phillip at the front of the bed. "Shush," he said, "Why weren't you in the dining hall? You wanted to know about that sword and shield don't you?" "Yes" "Then listen. That shield and sword is one of the eight elemental weapons. The eight elements were Fire, Water, Stone, Earth, Air, Ice, Life, and Death. The last two are the strongest of the eight. All of the set weapons were destined for a certain person, a certain person that would be one of the strongest knights in the world. All of them got their weapons long ago, except the Death, which has never yet met its destined one. When someone besides the destined one touched the weaponry with their bare hands, their hands would be burned. All of them have died, except the Life Knight possibly, for he just disappeared. The set of weapons you saw my squire, was the only set of weapons never to have seen it's destined one, the Death set of weapons. The king found them long ago, and with me having the strongest fortress in the land, gave them to me to guard till we found the chosen on for them. "Wow," I breathed, "I never knew that it was so important, you really are the kings most trusted!" "Yes," said Sir Phillip, "So you know that it is of utmost importance that you tell no one, NO ONE, about this." "Yes sir!" The next week was normal, as I practiced swordplay in the yard, and served Sir Phillip as often as possible. But I was distracted by something as I did all these things, love. Yes, I am in love with the field worker Nemi. I just could not stop looking at her, her jet-black long silky hair, her gentle pale face, and most of all, the eyes. Yes, the ocean blue eyes that made you feel you were on a raft in the middle of the ocean with her. One morning, a week and a day after I had come to the castle, I woke up to screams! I ran out to find an army of men had somehow had breached the walls of the strongest fortress in England. I ran out, heading out toward the front gate in hope that my Nemi still lived. A second later, I found myself against a wall with a man-in-arms swinging a sword at me for a fatal blow. I grabbed the sword and shield behind me, and parried his stroke. As I did this, shadows leaped up from the shield, swirling around and finally, etching a skull into the air. All the men-in-arms screamed at the sight of it, and ran away as fast as a rabbit. I then scrambled out the front gate, with my shield and sword, toward my beloved Nemi's house. As I entered her house, I saw a man-in-arms there, about to strike a fatal blow to my gorgeous Nemi. I lunged, crying, "Nooooo!" Crash! The blades met a millimeter before my darling Nemi's head. The man suddenly spoke, "Don't get involved in this boy. If you don't want to die a painful death, I'd scurry your little butt out of here." I did not move a muscle. "You really think that you, a squire, can beat me, a trained soldier, in a fight to the death?" he asked, "Then fine, whoever wins gets the girl which you can do whatever with, and your opponents weaponry, deal?" "Deal," I said. "Then let us fight!" he cried, swinging his sword down like a club. I deflected it, and then slicing the blade through the air toward his left thigh he parried it, then sending a blow toward my head. I blocked it, then realizing the need to end the battle quickly, for reinforcements could come any second. I then swung my sword as if I was going to go for his same thigh, but then thrusted the sword up between two sheets in his armor into where his heart should be. The man then fell, as the thud echoed throughout the whole house. "Nemi," I croaked, "Go get my horse, were getting the heck out of here." Without a word, Nemi headed out toward the barn. I picked up the armor and weapons, carrying the items out toward the barn. I found Nemi on Rouge with his saddle and supply bags. I stored the armor and weapons, and then jumped on. As I encouraged Rouge into a trot, Nemi said, "You realize the sword and shield your carrying are the strange weapons we're trying to protect." I took a closer look at my sword and shield as I realize the sword and shield I was carrying was the sword and shield of the Death Knight. I was speechless. I was the Death Knight of legends. I knew everyone would be looking for me. That, I realized, was why when I held the sword and shield, the shadow skull was etched into the air, it must be like a ritual for when the chosen one is found. "Well, now I know where we’re not going to go," I said, "We can't go to my house. So, wait, we can go in the secret cavern under that tree." "Not the one that no one returns form?" Nemi said. "The same," I said, "we'll stay near the entrance, ok? There's no other place safer right now." "You have a point..." "Yes, I do have a point, now let's go!" I cried, urging the horse into a gallop. We had to search for hours on end, but we finally found it. Nemi and I dismounted and took the "tree" off. We coaxed Rouge to jump into the cavern. He finally did, after we took some grass and threw it down into the cavern. When we jumped down, we nearly doubled over in surprise; we were in a cavern full of rubies, pure rubies. Light shone down on them from crevices in the ceiling, causing them to sparkle with radiance worthy of the sun. After our few minutes of amazement, I told Nemi to go gathering for food, and take the sword with her in case. "I," I said, "am going to explore these caves." "Be careful, you know what the legend says." Nemi said. "I won't go that deep in." I said. I then started exploring, and after 100 feet I found myself with emeralds shining on me. Another 100 feet down, I found black quartz around me. Every 100 feet I found some new precious stone. I then found brown quartz, and sapphires. I was coming up on some diamonds when suddenly "Freeze." "Who's there?" I questioned, "What do you want? Come into the light." Oh yah, the man came out into the light all right. It was just that it was a grizzly man with a white sword and shield! As I walked into the light out of amazement, the man blinked. "Didn't think you'd come here kid," he said scruffy, "This was the place I thought you'd defiantly not come to." "Are you, the Ice knight of Legend?" I asked stunned still by the sight of the weaponry. "Yes," he growled. "But your dead!" He says nothing. "How did you supposedly die?" "You haven't heard? I was fighting the Light Life Knight. I knew I was going to die if I did not do something, so I did the only thing possible, I survived death. When one of us die, a cloud of the color representing your element appears, and blinds everyone, and I mean everyone, from seeing you. When the cloud leaves, it leaves nothing. No body, no blood, nothing. If you try to duplicate this and teleport away, you always, obviously not now, die. It was worth a try though; I was going to die anyway. And so it worked, but it left me gasping for air for days. Once I recovered, I came here to the hideout of the Elemental Knights. And I have been here ever since." "But you should have died of old age by now." "Not when you're an Elemental Knight boy. I thought you would have caught on already. You are immortal boy. An Elemental Knight only dies of combat, or when the time comes that we are not needed. This is one of the many burdens being an Elemental Knight is. "A burden, ha!" I laughed, "To be immortal is everyone's dream. To say it is a burden is like to say life's a pain." "It is a burden after two centuries," he mumbled, "At least you're stuck being 13, I'm stuck being 32." I suddenly felt had some pity for the old man. "What is your name?" I asked. "Icarec," he growled, "What's yours?" "Heath." After that talk, I told him about Nemi, and how I felt about her, but after that we were silent for a while. I finally asked, "Well, as you know the ways of the Elemental Knights, and I still need training, would you be my teacher?" "Yeah," he muttered, "that's why I had to live, and I was destined to. You better leave now; your ‘beloved Nemi' will think your dead by now." "Oh my gosh!" I cried, as I grabbed my weaponry. "Bring your stuff down here to live, the deeper in, the better." "K, I will." I then shot toward camp where my worried Nemi waited. "Where have you been?!!" Nemi scolded, "I thought you were dead!" "You want to know why no one has ever returned from here." I asked, "It is because the discovery of an Elemental Knight being alive couldn't be revealed." "You mean to say an Elemental Knight is in this cavern? "Yes, and he would like us to move down to where he lives, he thinks it's safer." “Are you sure we should do that?” “What else do we have to lose?” We arrived with a gruff greeting from Icarec and told us we should first build a house for Nemi and me. As we worked on a house for me and Nemi, Icarec muttered "You're right about Nemi, hold on to her Heath, hold on to her with your dear life." The finished home looked pretty good, made from wood, vines and leafs, and looked like it would do well as our "house." Icarec suggested that we would get some extra sleep that I would especially need for tomorrow's training. Nemi and I agreed, so we pulled up our fur blankets to our chin for a restful night. The night was not so restful because every time I went to sleep I had a weird nightmare, where I could not see anything at all as if I were in the pitch-black darkness of night, or was as blind as a worm. I felt as if I were getting weaker by the second, all the energy being sucked out of me as fast as a twig is burned. I wake up the second I feel faint. I woke up, as I found that the sun at the perfect angle for most of the light to run through the crevices in the ceiling that it the hits diamonds to make them sparkle as bright as stars. I roll over and wake up Nemi, and ask her if I could help get food for this morning's meal. "Sure," said Nemi. So we set off, and found some berries that would do for breakfast. We gathered many, and came back in the cave. We offered some to Icarec, who did not reject the offer, but he had about only ten berries. Finally, Icarec asks me mockingly, "Are yeah ready to start, trainee?" "As if I haven't for the last thirty six hours of my life!" I replied. "Then let us begin, with swordplay!" Icarec roared, as he unsheathed his brilliant white sword. I did the same with my sword, and used the movement from unsheathing my sword to immediately take a swipe at his shoulder with an under swing. He blocked it, and then locked his sword to mine. I knew he had me, but I had a curious idea. I swung myself around like a windstorm, gradually increasing the possibility of disarming Icarec. He then started spinning in the opposite direction, opposing my maneuver. I knew this was going to end in a battle of strength that he would win, so I did something unexpected, I pulled on our locked swords. My sword came flying out, out of my hand. Icarec suddenly stopped his spinning and flicked his sword to my throat. "Dead," Icarec muttered, "nice attempt to disarm me though." "What was I supposed to do?" I asked, "I was doomed the second you locked our blades together." "Not so," he said, "With your small size, you could have dived under me, causing the unlock of our swords, and the chance to flick your sword to my neck." "Ah," I murmured, feeling dumb I had not thought of it before. "Well, come on, were going to do this for another hour or so still." And so we went on, always locking our blades together, and forced me to try and work out of it. By the time we were done, I was pouring in sweat, and still had not successively gotten our blades unlocked, because I always pull too hard and he flicked his sword to my neck. "We're done with swordplay today," grumbled Icarec. "What do you mean done with swordplay?" I asked, "Swordplay is the only thing we need to do for training." "Idiot," Icarec said in his usual growl, "We're not ordinary knights. We are elemental knights, elemental in what? I don't know, oh, maybe in MAGIC!" "Eh," I said nervously. "Let's start," Icarec sighed in his growling manner. "What do I need to do?" "You must go to the deepest part of the cavern, where you'll find a chamber that is made of black diamonds. You will then meditate in the chamber for an hour each day, in which you will try to figure out how to use your magic." "When do I start?" "Now." Icarec told me to go deeper into the cavern where I would find golden quartz. I would the keep on going to a cavern filled with black diamonds. And so I did, and l sat down in the middle of the cavern and closed my eyes in meditation. I suddenly discovered a great energy around me, and energy so thick you could mold it. So I did, molding it into the thing I had always wanted to be real, something I almost wanted to be myself, a dragon. Yes, a dragon, for some reason I always loved the beasts. They just seem to be a beautiful creature even though it has the look of evil and hatred in its eyes. I set to work, carefully drawing out the dainty, delicate wings. I then work on the strong hind legs. I decide not to create arms for my dragon; I have never seen a use for the things. I then start on the most important thing, the head. I carefully sculpt out the horns with all the up most detail I had in my thick, stubby fingers. I then smooth out the delicate scales and eyes. I then "look" at my finished creation. I sadly open my eyes, wishing the beautiful beast could be real. To my surprise, I find a midget dragon before my very eyes! I rubbed my eyes, I could not believe it. The little dragon hobbled to my side as if I was its mother. I knew I had to run back to Icarec and figure out what the heck I did. For the first time, I saw Icarec gasp. "You have learned what the rest of us learn last learn last of all in our training," he said, "If you know how to do this, then you know how to do it all." “We must go to Achia; I am pretty sure that Life boy will be going there next." "Whoa!" I said "Slow down, I have suddenly proven I am really powerful?" "You could put it that way, now let us go!" "Huh?" Nemi says running up, "we're leaving?" "Yes, to the Ice fortress of Achia." |
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