Ninx watched the man move down the street, he followed a few steps behind.
The elf made no sound, as walked behind the young man, he past by people on the street, as he continued to follow the man, no one had noticed him ,it was as if he simply didn't exist .
The young man came to a corner and stopped, in his path stood three men, with knives in their hands .
The larger of the three men ,with a spiked Mohawk stepped forward, and demanded the man to give them his money .
The other two men had moved behind him, cutting off any escape .
Realization hit the man ,knowing he had no choice but to give up his money, he was not a fighter and the three men were much bigger than him, and they had knives what else could he do .
" Ok take it, that is all I have, just don't hurt me I don't want trouble " said the man in the white hoodie ,handing over his wallet.
The man with the Mohawk grabbed the wallet, and just as he did the head lights from a car ,shined down the street, the men quickly ran ,before they could be clearly be identified and disappeared.
Leaving him alone and shaking ,on the street with no money .
" great this is just great ,can my life get any worse" said the still shocked young man to himself .
Turning around he began to make his way back to his flat, what could he do with no money ,except go home and watch tv he thought to himself .
Half way home things were about to get worse much worse .
Turning the corner and the young man in the white hoodie ,was confronted by the three thugs that robbed him.
Only this time the victim that they had surrounded, was a woman who appeared to be in her twenties.
She had been returning home with Chinese food for dinner, when she was suddenly surrounded by three large men, with knives in their hands.
They had threatened her and she tried to run, that was when the man with the red Mohawk grabbed her? and pushed her to the ground, just as this happened a young man came around the corner, and saw the woman in trouble.
He did not think of himself he just reacted,and yelled leave her alone, as he ran forward towards the man standing over the woman.
The young man put himself in front of the woman, and told her to get up and run, she ran and as she did the man with the Mohawk, stabbed his knife between two ribs of the young man in the white hoodie.
The tip of the knife had hit the young man's heart, the wound was fatal and the man knew it as he pulled out his knife.
The man collapsed on the ground, the young woman had not gone far ,before the short stocky man who had his face hidden by the black hoodie he wore, sliced his knife across her throat and fell to the ground.
Ninx cast a spell, there was a brilliant flash and all the thugs were unconscious.
Ninx gathered the woman the three thugs and the man he believed was his King in one place, and cast a spell in the blink of an eye Ninx and all the humans had relocated to the top of a building.
Once on the roof Ninx quickly got to work,first he drew a magic circle around the bodies of the humans, then he placed the humans in different points of the star that was drawn inside the circle.
His king he placed in the middle of star.
Ninx took a large silver flask that glimmered with magic from his jacket, the flask held the blood of the King .
The magic kept the blood fresh, and had done so for a thousand years.
Ninx opened the mouth of the young man, and emptied the whole flask down the man's throat.
He then placed the crystal over the man's heart, and stepped out of the magic circle.
He began to speak the words of power, focusing his intention and his power into the circle.
Ninx began the ritual to bring back the King.
The magic flowed into the circle and light up.
Ninx could sense the life force of each of the people inside the circle, the woman and his King would not last much longer.
Quickly Ninx went through the ritual,the blood from the unconscious thugs,suddenly came out of their bodies and rose in the air .
The blood of the woman did the same, and at that moment they all died.
As they died the blood raced around the circle, then entered the body of the young man in the center of the magic circle .
The blood mixed with the blood of the king.
Quickly spread into every cell of the young man's body,and the crystal on his chest had merged with his heart.
Every cell was being ripped apart and then remade .
The pain was insane, and when the blood hit his brain he passed out .
While the young man was unconscious his body had changed, he was taller now six foot three inches tall ,his hair was now black as night, and his complexion had changed ,he was much paler than before, but not so much as to attract attention .
He now had the muscular frame of an athlete or warrior.
Ninx took a deep breath ,and thanked the gods of night, that the ritual had worked his King was alive, but it would be a day or two before he would wake .
Ninx cast another spell and the king and himself, relocated to cave high in the mountains on another world.