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Wizards Of Aegis
redbaron
The wild pig was not 50 feet infront of me, i quietly took out my bow aiming towards the pigs chest. Right before i shot something startled the pig, out of panic i shot my bow grazing the pigs leg.  It made a gross squeal before running into the bush. "Blast it!" I muttered to myself. i ran up to where i hit the pig. and found a trail of blood. "Finally my luck is changing". i smiled with gratitude and moved on to find this pig. it didnt take long i found him without much of a problem. I walked up and pulled out my hunting knife and made quick work of it. My father taught me never to waste a good kill, as for my family is poor. I thought to myself about my family. My mother Died of onmonia, a rare dease that humans get, every other race seems to be immune to the affects of it. my father was crippled in the Orcish wars. gus leg does not work no longer. we live in a small shack up on a hill beside alkhazar with my cousin ombie. Before i knew it the pig was skinned and i took all available pork off of the pig. i walked back still thinking about my family. I was almost to my house. i could see my father plowing the fields with old bessy, and ombie pealing potatos for tonights dinner. When ombie saw me he smiled and yelled "Oh! The glorious hunter has got us food for the winter has he"? I couldnt help myself from smiling in return.  "How does it feel knowing a 16 year old could hunt better then you a 21 year old ombie"? "Ha! young gabriel soon i will show you how a real bowsman shoots, i am part elf as you know". This was true, his mother, my mothers sister.  Married a elf prince and had ombie. they were killed somehow and neither my farther nor cousin will tell me what happened. right before i was about to whip out another sentance my father came limping along. they both looked oddly alike even though they had no blood relation. they both had brown hair and blueish green eyes. the big nose and sizable muscels, but my father stood at a towering 6'4 while ombie was only 5'11/ i took my mothers, abigale, side of things. deep brown hair with hazel nut eyes. "Are You to at it again? when will you two accept i am the best bowman here! now both of you go in the house. i can hear our stomachs becoming agree with us . dinner must come soon". me and ombie just laughed and went inside looking to start cooking. When we finished and the meal was ready we all sat down together. My Father did a prayer and then we dug into our food. Around half way into the meal my father began to speak. So gabriel and ombie the carnival is tomorrow, would you two be willing to go and sell our crop? "Ofcourse we would". ombie said almost instantly .  i wasnt so sure i wanted to, alkhazar is a busy place and i liked the peace of our mountain side. but i nodded my head none the less. My father smiled and pulled out a bag of coins. He split it up and gave it to both of us. a total of a 100 minas each. "Wow father i cant accept this.. this is to much"/ ombie was about to say something but father put his hand up. "no this is my gift to you for looking after the farms as i cannot because of my injury. His injury truely cippled him, he can no long bend with out extreme pain, about the most he can do it work the plough but thats because its the horse doing all the work. "You will take that money and leave at dawn for the carnival to sell the wheat". father said. "okay me and ombie will do that. but now i am going to bed, im very tired. i feel a storm is brewing also". ombie nodded and i waved good bye until i exited the room. The night passed quickly as i wrote in my journal.  i finally feel asleep, hearing the rain trickle down my window.  a soothing sound. i woke to the large thud of a boot hitting my bed.  i woke with a startle just to see ombies face looking at me. i groaned and said "why so early? it must be 5!" ombie just smiled and walked about the room. when i got dressed i walked out to see bacon sitting im the table waiting for me. my mouth started watering and i ate it quickly. then i jumped outside to meet my cousin who was already leaving. we had our cow bessy pulling a large wagon with chests on it and all our wheet. "becareful, that wheat is our life"! i said.  he laughed in reply. "not very talkattive today are you ombie"? he just looked at me, his eyes were wide and said. "ill tell you about it later". i immediatly wanted to know more but i knew to hold my tongue and keep silent. After what seemed hours we finally got to alkhazar. the city was robust with people moving everywhere and the carnival band playing. we walked through the streets, having our wagon searched by the guards. children were laughing, adults were discussing prices in shops. i didnt like how crowded streets were.  the noise hurt my ears. i told ombie i would be off to the story teller to see what stories he had this time. ombie nodded and i ran off, picking up a fresh loaf of bread from the bakery before entering the carnival grounds. i saw junn sitting around. with people gathering around him. perfect timing i thought to myself. and then the story began and junn began to speak.... "As most of you know my name is junn the story teller.  Today i come with abit of a different story then my usual and i bring you a story about the order of wizards! now, this is a story of the undead, and there fight against order of wizards. there was two young apprentices in the order, at the time of this story there was hundreds of wizards, all with there unique abilities, the names of these two apprentices were Iblees and availer. now these two were partners in the acadamy and did most of there work together. iblees did not much like availer, availer thought of iblees as his idol thought. inblees knew of this and took advantage of it. He got availer to do everything. he made him do the magic problems they had to do. but this did something that oblees did not expect. it made availer a strong wizard. One fatefull day iblees discoverd a book. it was not just any book. it was a necromonicon.  you may ask what this book is and ill tell you what i know. i know it was a book of great power, and had the secrets to become undead. and be one of the strongest sentinet beings in aegis. iblees took it in greed. reading it day and night, remembering, never forgeting. until one day he did the ritual to become undead.  write iblees mages stone turned from green to red. the council of wizards felt the sudden disturbance and put the acadamy on full alert... but it was not enough. iblees seeked power. and the councils mages stones was the key to that . the wizards formed the walls of the castle and watched and waited. they did not expect what iblees would do next.  he summoned zombies in the middle of the castle, forever wizard there was 5 zombies. he watched from afar as his minions of evil struck the acadamy at the heart. there wasnt much of a fight, the acadamy fell with easy. iblees saw the council chambers were still surrounded by a shield so he moved into the city. when he got close he tried to touch the shield. it gave him a shock that would kill a normal man . he laughed at the attempt and summoned a volt of lightning to hit the shield. he heard the screams of the wizards inside dieing as they tried to maintain the shield then the screams stopped and the shield fell instantly. he walked in alone into the chamber the council members sitting in there normal seats. looking calm and firm. The head council memeber jeremy spoke. "What is the meaning of...." he wasnt able to finish iblees had killed him with a flick of his wrist iblees said " i do this for the power".  then finished off the rest of the council. iblees did not count on availer not being at the caslte though, availer was off on a mission from the council. when he returned he saw the castle on fire. everything destroyed. when he saw this availer fell to his knees, sobbing, he was the last true wizard in aegis. thats how the council of mages fell to iblees and how our proud wizard is as strong as he is. "  junns eyes seemed glass, as if he felt sad, i thought to myself. the group clapped, and the junn walked off stage in a hurry. it was getting late and i saw ombie so i ran towards him. he grabbed my arm and rushed me into a empty tent. he said "okay now i will tell you, today your father found something" . i looked at him with confusion.  "we believe it to be the mages stone of the wizard jeremy" . i stood in shock stareing at ombie.  he looked gravely at me. there was a thunder outside but it was a clear day. Hmm wierd.. i thought to myself. stareing at ombie with a blank expression thinking millions of different things there was a scream outside. i looked back at ombie and then we both walked out the tent. there was smoking billowing from our house on the mountain, and undead swarming the streets. "oh lord father"! i exclaimed. i started running towards the mountain but before i could take my first few steps ombie grabbed my arm and pulled me back. "no your father knew this would happen". i stared at him in disbelief. "your father told me to give you the stone and run grabriel , run like your life depends on it"! i couldnt find my tongue i tried to pull away one last time but ombie held firm. "listen to me you cannot go up there please trust me gabriel!". every inch of my body wanted to run after him but something clicked him my head . i nodded and grabbed the stone and ran down the street. not looking back . people were screaming everywhere running, i almost got clocked in the head by a big man running with a shovel in his hands. some kind of dark magic from off in the distance shot a fire ball hitting a building beside me.  a piece of wood splittered off and hit me in the temple, making me fall to my knees , my vision went black around the edges before i finally passed out... i woke to the warmth of a warm fire at my feet.  i thought it had all been a dream. i lifted my self up and was startled to see junn sitting there looking at me. then i relized how much pain the side of my head was. i groaned from the pain. "Where am i"? i asked. "well your in the warrior wastes. east of alkhazar".  "So it wasnt a dream"! i said in horror . "im afraid not, no citys are safe for you right now, not with your mages stone". i relized i was still clinging to the stone. it was slightly glowing. i dropped the stone and looked at junn again. "How did i end up here"? he explained about how when he saw me get hit by the piece of wood he dragged me to a horse  and then rode off to where we are now. "so tell me gabriel, what do you knowabout that stone of yours"? i stayed silent, i did not know what junn wanted and i didnt know what was going on. "well boy what do you have to say"? after several minutes of staying silent i finally broke "its jeremy the wizards stones of magic". junn look at me suprised and said, "that is correct, how did you know that"? i explained to him the story of how ombie told me and how i was not sure how he got it. "Hmm well theres some things i must explain first, the man you thought was your father is actually not related to you at all, and he knows this.  Your father was once a wizard of the great acadamy",  i started to shake my head saying no but he put his hand up. you will see in time young gabriel but first i think we should teach you how to use that stone!" this is all to much i thought to myself, how can i use the wizards stone? he seemed to of read my mind cause he said, "you can use it ! you have the mages blood !" at this point i tried to stand, i failed and my knees gave out on my. i fell back down. "ah do not fret my boy your strength with will return, here i made this while you were asleep . he then passed me a bowl, it had soup in it and was still hot. how did he keep it hot? i didnt see it on the fire? "so ill give you the benefit of the doubt.. what do we do now"? "now we wait here, i have a small house over there we can live in. i will teach you the ways of the wizard and how to survive in the wilf . "that brings up another thing. how do you know about wizard training at all"? "thats a story for another time my dear boy, you will see in time". i was going to ask more but decided against it. he grabbed my hand and helped me up, i put my arm around his shoulders and we walked to the cabin. once inside i sat down and and watched junn. he sat down behind a oak desk at the other end of the room and started writing, i asked what he was doing and he said. "writing in my journal boy, helps my think". i just responded with a oh. i thought about my journal back home, i wonder if it is still there? The fireplace in the cabin rawred and crackled, i watched his curiously, i thought to myself what if it got so big it it lit the books on the shelf above it on fire? the fire made a sudden bright flash and the fire grew to a impossible height from the only one piece of wood in there. the top of the fire licked the bottom of the bookshelf and set it ablaze. Junn was startled and looked up, then looked at me and smiled, as i see, you have discovered magic on your own". he then looked back the book shelf and the fire stopped all of a sudden. the fire place went back to normal and all seemed well. "Magic? impossible i am no wizard"! "You touched the stone gabriel! it liked you and has bonded with you, the first time in centuries"! he said quickly. "you speak of this stone as if it is alive! its just a shiny green stone!" i exclaimed. he shook his head and then pulled his hood off.  "Dont you feel it? the power within you"? i can admit i do feel something different about me.. i thought to myself. "This stone, you speak of it as if its alive..". "boy it is alive! it may not speak.  it may not move. but it is alive none the less". "This makes no sense junn"! he looked at me sympatheticly and said "i know boy, go to the bed down the hall, we'll talk in the morning". and with that i went off to bed, not knowing what tomorrow will bring .  i woke up feeling refreshed. much better then the night before. i got out of bed and stretched my legs and arms, i felt where i was hit by the piece of wood. there was a nasty bump there i smelled food being cooked in the other room so i got up and went into the dining room there was papers on the table, but junn cleared them off . "how you feeling today boy"?  i looked up into his eyes and then said "mcuh better , better then last night". he nodded, "good to hear, we will begin training after you eat". with a mouth full of food i said, "train"? "please junn lets have a break we have been practicing this magic for hours now and i havent casted anything"! "no you must learn, now summon the fire already! my bones are aching from sitting so long. now think, find the energy to summon the fire again"! i looked deep into my mind, looking for this so called energy. then a voice in my head guided me, im not sure what it said but i followed the voice. it lead me to a part of my mind that i had been to only a few times before. when i went alittle deeper into this odd space my mind was suddenly filled with light. in a odd way it blinded me. the tips of my fingers turn red and tips of fire came off my hand before errupting into a full fire. i stared in horror thinking it would burn my hand. it didnt, the flames had a green hint to them. Junn looked and looked at me and said "you have found it, becareful, now that you touched the stone you have a certain level of mana to you, if it runs out your spells with not cast anymore". I stared longer at the flames before i said "so how long until this goes out"? "oh id say any second now".  it wasnt much longer before it went out. "this isnt right, i shouldnt be able to  do this i am nothing but a farm boy". "i will tell you why you can do this and why you must do this! As you know aegis is in choas, iblees in recking havok and the wizard doesnt know what to do because everytime they seem to have iblees he disapears into the nether! they believe iblees is attacking the cloud temple at any point in the week now. and that is why i must train you through magic, that is where we are headed. we must defend aegis. ". "i shook my head, no that is not right i cant be a wizard i am nothing"! He looked at me gloomy "Pack your thinkings boy". i went to my room and got my things ready, my wand. my robes which junn had given me and then walked outside. he had already packed the horses with everyting. he gave me a nod and then we mounted our horses and walked towards the kings road. "Now do you remember what you have learned about magic"? i nodded and said "i believe so i think i know where to look for this power you talked about" . "your going to need to be warry my boy you have no recieved much training but this battle wont be easy". we walked for hours. before i saw the cloud temple , there was a undead horde at the opposit end of the temple. We rushed our horses towards where the general was standing. junn yelled "We have come from oren and i have a wizard with me where should we go"? the general looked at me and said "A wizard you say? join the archers they could use the su"! we ran over to where the archers were, junn grabbed us bows and arrows and were took our positions along the wall of archers. the war hard already began, i heard the screams as the undead ravaged the warriors below. junn looked at me again and said.  "gabriel my boy get the power, power your bow!" i nodded my head and reached for the power, following the voice. the tip of my arrow erupted into a green flame. i released it upon the horde. a large section of the undeads army lit up in flames. i heard the screams of the undead and a portion of the armys numbers dropped. but then more appeared out of no where filling the spot of where they once stood. i shot many arrows with the power until my mana faded. "This is hopeless"! i screamed to junn. he looked and me and said, "availer is on his way, we must hold out my boy. let your mana re" regenerate"! i nodded and continued to shoot my arrows.  for every undead i feel three came back to life. the armys below were about to fall to the undead when there was a bright flash of light in the sky. the general of the army yelled "AVAILER IS HERE! AVAILER IS HERE!". availer cast down bolts of lightning from the top of cloud ruler temple. the undead fell in the hundreds. there was another flash of light but this time it was a dark light from the other side of the field. junn said in horror, "oh lord of aegis! its iblees himself"! there was a dark laughter from a distance and a fireball was shot through the sky. hitting cloud ruler temple demolishing it. We all screamed in horror as we thought availer had been destroyed. the smoke cleared and availer was there, surrounded by some wierd blue bubble. Iblees yelled,"ha your not as weak as you once were availer, but you will never be as strong as me and with that he teleported infront of availer with his sword swinging. availer and iblees crashed swords, the sound of the blow could be heard throughout aegis. iblees did a flick of his wrist and availers sword shattered, sending availer flying back. iblees was about to pounce on availer when i reached for my magic. i lifted my bow and followed the voice. time seemed to slow down, the green fire went on my arrow tips. i yelled "Die iblees"! and i shot my arrow.  iblees looked over and didnt have time to react before the arrow hit in dead square in the chest. he fell to his knees, dropped his sword. held the arrows with his hand and tried to pull it out. as soon as he touched it the arows errupted in flames and iblees disapeared screaming. i ran up to where it had happened, there was a odd sound for a second before it stopped. i looked over to where availer had landed and walked towards him as he got up. "You, what is your name? how did you do that"? availer said. "mmm-mm-my name is gabriel i said". he studied me for a second before saying "hmm gabriel i have big plans for you. big plans indead".