Post #2504127 in Fire and Ice Collide, a roleplay on RPG

Keanu was in the training room, practicing his swordsmanship, when Tamar came in looking rather distraughted. "My dear, what has seemed to be the problem?" He asked, which she quickly replied with "Master Keanu, darling? Have you noticed anything odd in how Crystal is behaving, lately?" He thought for a moment, it was hard for anyone to tell if Crystal was behaving odd, as she always is.

Though with the concern clear across Tamar's face, he knew she meant more unusual then normal. "Well, she did seem rather interested with the Eldurians than she normally is. But that might just be because of all the rumors and talk going around the castle." He shrugged, with a small smile.

The prince's smile, however, quickly disappeared when Tamar continued. "When I told her of Ahuv's quest to avenge her mother and older sister, the princess freaked out. It's almost as if she had met the Inferno Paladin somewhere. If so, with Ahuv bent on revenge, there is no telling what could happen to Crystal. If he considers her a hindrance to his goal..."

His face was serious now. "It'll take too much time to gather soldiers and to inform the family. Quick, do you know where she might have gone?" His voice was calm and steady, but he feared for what might happen to his little sister.

Tamar frantically answered "We've got to get to the outskirts! If we can stop Ahuv and finally bring him to his senses, we may be able to save Crystal, as well! I know the Inferno Paladin's fighting style! I can disable him in melee, if necessary!"

Luckily, since they were in the training room, they had a few weapons at their disposal. "Here take this." He handing Tamar a sheathed long sword. "It's a weapon we retrieved from Eldur that can harness the power of the flame." He told her, also giving her a weapons belt which consists of a short sword and dagger. He too buckled a weapons belt to his waist and a long sword. Though his long sword harnessed the power of ice.

Keanu and Tamar ran to the stables. He hopped up on his horse, Spirit. "Take Ramona." He said, pointing to the chestnut friesian horse. "She is Silvia's, but don't worry, Vee won't mind once we tell her what had happen." Once they were all settled, they took off towards the ocean. Both horses running at max speed.

Nearing the beach, Kai suddenly halted and reared up. Which caused Crystal to fall off of his back. "Kai! What the hell!" She yelled, standing up and dusting her clothes off. Once she got a hold of her horse's reins, she took some time to look around and see where she was. Her eyes widening as she realized she was near the ice dome.

She had tied Kai up by a tree, as he would not come any closer to the dome because of the heavy feeling of magic weighing around. Besides the usual melancholy surrounding she felt every time she came here, there was something else too, something that wasn't ever there before. She created her ice bow and arrows and cautiously made her way closer to the open dome area, ready to shoot if she needed to. She stopped dead in her tracks, seeing Ahuv standing next the Jaydan's headstone. Her heart dropped. She stood out in the open, frozen, just like she was when she first spotted Ahuv. Once she found her voice, she pointed an arrow at him and screamed "Get away from there!" Running over to stand in between him and the tombstone, "Get back!!" she yelled again, still aiming her arrow at Ahuv.

When he posed the question, "Is there something so sacred of this place that I am forbidden to come near it?" her eyes stung as she felt them watering. She lowered her bow and arrow, as the melted away in her hands.

"Yes..." She forced out, she was not going to cry in front of him. "I was nine...Me and my twin brother, Jaydan, were out playing in the woods. Somehow a group of five Eldurian soldiers were able to get close enough to the castle that they ambushed us without being noticed. All I could do was hide behind Jaydan as he tried to fight them off with his small dagger. But we were knocked out and tied up, being held captive for a ransom...I was the first one to regain consciousness and noticed right away that we were no longer in the woods. We were somewhere by the ocean, right here actually. When Jaydan came to, the five soldiers tortured him. I screamed at them telling them to stop, but each time I did, I got whipped. Jaydan got really angry and he tried to fight his way free, which only caused himself to be harmed even more. Somehow Jaydan was able to get free, which he took up a knife from one of the kidnappers and killed him. He ran over to me and was able to cut me free, though the other four soldiers surrounded us. One had stabbed him and dropped his limped body next to me. They were laughing it off, saying it was an "accident" and joking around..."

She paused, taking a deep breath and reached up to grab the stone hanging from her necklace. "I was so scared and so angry my ice-stone necklace broke...It unleashed this immense power that created a protective dome around Jaydan's barely breathing body and myself...As you can see, spikes formed all over it. The four soldiers probably thought it was regular ice, so they used their power to try and melt it. But by doing so, the spikes shot off the dome and scattered everywhere, hitting any moving thing around it that wasn't inside the dome. I felt extremely weak afterwards, but I forced myself to stay awake and checked on Jaydan...He was still breathing when they dropped him, but when I saw him, he was laying in a patch of blood red snow, not moving...I cried out his name pleading him to move, but he didn't.I cradled him in my arms and lap for a moment, before I passed out from exhaustion. That caused the ice dome to only melted half away..."

Taking another deep breath, Crystal looked Ahuv straight in the eyes, "The Eldurian soldiers who kidnapped us spoke about that being their revenge on Vatnis because of the raid two years prior. I doubt you ever knew that." She glanced up at the sky, it was getting a bit cloudy. When she looked back at Ahuv, she continued "That's why I told you before, 'if you dwell to much on the past, your mind set on vengeance, your heart will fall into a pit of darkness. You might never be able to crawl out'. Those men where so set on revenge because they too had loved ones who died in that raid, that they lost their lives."

She knelt down by the tombstone, blue sparks coming from her fingertips. "It was two years until I was able to bring myself back here. That's when I made this headstone...I come here every year on the day Jaydan died." Her back was to Ahuv as she created flowers out of ice and placed them down in front on the tombstone. When she stood up again, she didn't look back at Ahuv, instead she was staring down at the headstone. "Are you still going to go after that man? Even though he might not be alive anymore?" Now she turned around at looked at him again. "I told you that too, that man probably is already dead by now. But you still insist on coming back here and looking for him?"

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located in Jorindra, a part of Fire and Ice Collide, one of the many universes on RPG.

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