Walking down the trail Rial feels warmth coming from the brown leather journal he is carrying. Finally opening the journal his curiosity spiked to a all time high. Turning to the first page he noticed some writing he did not understand. Looking at the other ninety nine pages they all seemed empty with nothing. Although there was slight red mana leaking like fog from each page as he would turn to the next page.
"Rylla look, can you read this? I cant understand this writing at all." Rial looks at Rylla and shows her the page almost seemingly shoving it in her face on accident. To be honest he is still confused how he is even understanding Rylla at all. Looking at the brown journal he knew this had something to do with it.
"Its in Elvish so yea I can that's my native language." Rylla looks at it and her face becomes surprised and her eyes go wide. "Its a quote written by the great Vorlox, he was one of the greatest hero's that stopped the major wars." Looking back at him she seemed to be surprised. "Listen to what it says... Worrying does not take away tomorrow's troubles, It takes away todays peace. Stay strong Shawn Hasburg. ~ Vorlox Eisan. This means you are holding a possession of the shunned hero Shawn." Starting to walk again she starts to explain what she knows of Shawn.
"Shawn Hasburg was originally a great hero in the worlds wars. He was a Sword master and only one of the few magical swordsmen in the world known of. Supposedly him and the other hero's ninety years ago split up to go back to their homes after the wars. They all lived long lives and made many great achievements. Although, with time you start losing people and each one passed away but Shawn seemingly disappeared after being shunned from the Keisel empire once the new king had taken place. Him retiring younger and belonging to the kings father he was shunned due to not supporting the current king. That's what we know at least, there are still rumors about being other things like jealously. A lot of older fairy's used to say he always looked depressed after the wars and only mourned and did not do anything useful. But who knows? Maybe this journal was a gift from Vorlox to Shawn and Vorlox actually wrote it. Either way its a prized treasure." Rylla now looking at Rial with a serious face placing her hand on Rial's hand. "Don't lose it." Now looking away continuing to walk. A silence fell between them for a long time. Rial was still looking at the journal wondering what to do with it. It kept releasing a faint red aura from mana in it, no matter what he could not figure out what's causing it in the journal. "probably a spell" He thought when he put it back on his belt and looked up. He was tired and exhausted, its almost like his eyes were working completely against him.
Then there was a loud impact noise as Rial looked to the side of him. An arrow was lodged completely in the tree next to him.
"RUN!" Rylla looks and screams at him franticly as the arrow has a certain mark on it. Its a blue arrow with faint pink aura emitting off of it. On the arrow there is a red shield with wings in the middle. Her heart dropped and started beating fast as she took off in the opposite direction.
*Crack
Rial tackles Rylla mid run to stop her from entering a spot but then she smacks him and backs off. Her heart sunk even farther, almost as if it stopped completely.
"I'm sorry Rylla but look in front of you. Please." Bowing he points behind her to the battlefield he stopped her from entering.
Rylla (letting a loose smile from him bowing) looks behind her and vomits in the bushes they were in. There were body's everywhere and screams breaching their ears. Looking into the battlefield there were elf's and fairy's killing each other with the distasteful stench of bodies filling the air. Explosions and sword play rattling the ears with deathly screams. "BAM" The thunder started to crash like the scream of a soldier near them getting drained from the fairy's life magic. "Boom" A red hot boulder was launched near the fairy and knocked the near dead soldier into the bush barley alive.
Rylla looking at him instantly recognized him as one of the royal guards who watched over her at the castle "providence" where she lived.
Smirking he looks at her "Rylla is that really you? Haha of course only the disgraceful traitor bitches live. Your lucky im on the ground." Spitting at her, he then reaches for his sword but fails to unsheathe it again with his hand falling like the life was gone. Another boulder landed near them. "Rylla lets get out of here already." Looking back at the battlefield it looks like the Elf's are starting to retreat in defeat. There silver armor shining in the sun as it peaked out of the clouds in the sky. There's small linings of ruby throughout there armor. Some held swords and some held a variety of what looked like to be magic tools used for mana. The fairy's who were going through ensuring the already dead elf's were dead, A couple of the commanders were dressed up in gold armor and emerald lining throughout the chest piece. Flying above everyone else making sure everything was doing fine and everyone was doing there jobs. The lower soldiers were wearing a mixture of chainmail, leather, and some were even wearing metal armor.
Rial starts talking and slowly turning around "seems like you elf's have a more sense of unity and the fairy's-" Rial looks to see Rylla curled in a ball crying with the sword in her hand near her neck. All of a sudden her hand thrusts the sword towards her neck. Smiling at Rial the sword pierces the skin leaving a wound and Rials eyes went wide.
"Rylla NO, PLEASE I NEED YOU!" Hand out he jumps at her in a attempt to stop the suicidal elf. Thinking to himself that if anyone should kill themselves it should be him. He has thought about it the past night but could not leave her alone. All of a sudden in the same moment as he puts his hand out the journal glows a intense purple light shining the whole area. A flop was heard as Rylla hits the ground passed out...but without a sword in her hand. the wound she left herself on her neck was barley non fatal leaving blood everywhere. Confused he hears footsteps start running towards him.
"The light came from over here! Those damn elf's are up to something!" A elf soldier running over towards the area there in.
Rial not understanding anything there screaming gets up and puts Rylla on his back to start running. "Found them!!! Someone is saving a elf, don't let them escape alive the damn traitor!!" Rial's adrenaline kicks in and the book finally stops glowing purple. As it stopped glowing it felt like his exhaustion just hit a maximum and running while carrying a girl became suddenly to much. Falling over he looks at the journal again and then looks at Rylla. "please get me out of here...I-I have a goal now. This is not some form of love or pity, I just want to protect someone that I care about and helped me. Please...Please do something." Rial touches Rylla's hand expecting the end.
The journal grows purple yet again and starts emitting black mana with purple signatures in it. Rial feels a hard pain as if something was being sucked out of him before passing out.
"My eye's!" The soldiers look away as a bright purple light lit the area like the sun lights the sky. The ground starts to rumble and the wind starts to blow. Then it all stopped. The once green tree's in the area were now just lifeless with no leaves attached to them from the strong winds. Looking down the soldiers saw nothing but a couple foot area that looks like a small explosion happened there.
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Authors note - IM BACK FINALLY, after getting covid and REALLY sick im back to writing. From now on the authors note section is going to give a 3 day period for every chapter release, I don't want to do a same day because when college starts back up I don't want to promise something and then stress myself on single day marks. But chapters should be coming out weekly-semi weekly now. I have also been reading up and learning how to write better hopefully it will be noticed in the next couple of chapters!.
Next chapter - Jan. 3-5th - 2 chapters.