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Selene -> The story of Saphiria (2/27/2012 5:22:27)
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The story of Saphiria
Named after the famous vampire queen, I wasn't born, but resurrected i a forest by a powerfull necromancer, with a unknown name. He or she left me behind in a dark forest, where I was weakened, and shaking with shivers, noticing something shining in the
reflection of the moonlight. I started to dig it up, it was some sort of amulet, a red ruby surrounded with a dragon.
I decided to hold on to it. Dressed in the peasant rags I had, I wandered towards a nearby village. Outside the village I rubbed the amulet, and in the sky, I saw a big black dragon approaching me, while I ducked away, it landed next to me. 'Is this dragon mine?' I wondered. I mounted it and instructed it to start flying again. 'Yes. Yes it is...' I muttered while I flew over the village and circled around to land in the forest again. I released the dragon and wandered into the village. I had no gold or anything to pay people with, so I decided to take some jobs. I found a cabin which read 'Dragonfang Inn'. I had named my dragon "Vayle", for some reason. I didn't know why, but I heard that name before. Inside the Inn I wandered to the Dragonlord whom was in charge of the patrols and the knights guarding the village. "Welcome Stranger!" he spoke. "Thanks" I replied. "I see you are in posession of a dragon amulet, but yet you have no armor?" he said. "Indeed." I replied. He opened a cabinet and got me a dragonlord armor, bloodstained red. "Put this on, it would look good on you. I take it you're looking for a job?" he asked. "Yes, I could do with some gold." I replied. "Here's a sword, take a patrol job around the forest" he spoke handing me a sword. I wandered back outside and headed for the forest. There countless undead things were to be found,
but I was undead myself too... so I was asked to slaughter my own kin. Sadly, I had to do what it takes. I proceeded further into the darkness,until my eye fell on a skeleton arm which was attached to a bloodstained red blade. It looked like a sword. One of my 'enemies' recognized it and approached me in peace with his hands bare. "That, miLady... is the Necrotic Sword of Doom" he said. He wasn't like a skeletal minion, but a man in a red bloodstained armor. "Identify yourself!" I said while I raised the weapon. "I wouldn't take a hostile position against me, MiLady. We are both the same darkness. My name is Sepulchure!" he spoke. I lowered the weapon as I had heard that name before. "I'm sorry Lord." I spoke. "We will meet again!" then he vanished.
I continued my patrol, slaying undeads. And returned to the dragonfang inn where I received a paycheck from 500 gold. It wasn't much, but enough to wander around town and get information on how to get to the famous city of Falconreach. From there, I wandered back into the forest and summoned my dragon, Vayle. Mounted her and flew off to Falconreach. Once I arrived there, I walked inside the Inn, where I met Laetitia. A young mage with high potential. Me being undead, already had skills needed and I offered her greater power if she would become my apprentice. "Yes, I would love to become your apprentice, but first we must dress you a wee bit better, my teacher. Come with me to Amityvale and from there I will have Thursday to make you a cape and some goodies to help you defend against darkness." said Laetitia. "That would be great, thank you!" I spoke. "First I have a helmet here...I've got two of them..." spoke Laetitia. "What kind of helm is it?" I asked. "It is said it belongs to warriors of the Shadowscythe Empire... the Doomknights. Your Dragonlord armor looks a lot like the doomknight, so the helm
would match you!" answered Laetitia. "Thank you greatly!" I replied while I put the helm on. "There you go, now you look like a Doomknight. Did you choose the side of the Shadowscythe Empire, or are you with the 'goodies'?" asked Laetitia. "I have been evil all my life... a villain to most." I replied. "That's what got me killed." I continued. "You are Undead!?" asked Laetitia. "Yep, as Undead as I can be. Did you notice my pale skin, my hollow eyes?" I replied. "Yeah, now that you mention" she replied. "Doesn't mean I'm not nice to you, hahaha." I smiled.
"So, apprentice. Let your practice begin" I spoke. "Where are we off to?" asked Laetitia. "When I was alive, I trained Ash too" I said. "Ash the noob?" asked Laetitia. "Yeah, him." I replied. "I'm honoured to be your apprentice, Saphiria." said Laetitia while she stared at me. "My goal is to become a elemental, just as powerfull as Sepulchure, which requires me to obtain the Orb of Darkness." I replied. "You will have to defeat Sepulchure to get it" replied Laetitia. "First, go after your dragon, talk to Robina in the forest. Return to me afterwards, apprentice!" I said, and I sat down at the Inn with a mug of Raspberry Juice. After sending her away, I headed down to Oaklore and spoke to Captain Rolith, an old pal of mine. "Saphiria!" he spoke surprised. "You are dead..." he continued. "Well I feel pretty much alive, Rolith." I replied. "I can see that" he relied. "I just came to visit you" I said to him. "They've left you, dead in the forest, Saphiria. You are dead." he spoke. "Okay, I will tell you the truth. Some necromancer revived me, for some reason, but I am not enslaved to their powers." I answered. "And you look like a Doomknight" answered Rolith. "Doom Dragonlord" I would call it. "My apprentice, Laetitia would come to you and search for your help, i'm begging you to help her." I continued. "I will help her, don't worry Saphiria. Just don't let any necromancer get a grip on you." said Rolith. "Not to worry, I will get the Orb of Darkness which will make me untouchable." I smiled. We walked inside the local Inn to continue our conversation. "So you want to fight Sepulchure himself?" he asked.
"If I have to, as we speak, he's after the orbs right now, all I have to do is wait for him to get the Darkness Orb, from
which I know where that is." I replied. "Handy, but where?" said Rolith. "The necromancer. whom revived me IS the Orb." I replied. "So you are going to teach your apprentice to be evil too?" asked Rolith. "I think she already made that choice for herself" I answered.
"Speaking of my apprentice, where is she anyway?" I asked. "Don't know, but she'll be back, relax." aswered Rolith while we drank our raspberry smoothies. "I at least have the feeling I am doing a good thing, being undead even. Teaching people my knowledge." I said while looking away for a bit. "Do you mind taking off that helm?" asked Rolith. "No." I replied and took the helm off. "Except for your ghostly look, I wouldn't say you were undead, Saphiria." he smiled. "Thanks I guess." I replied. "Saphiria! I am back!" said a voice which I recognized as Laetitia. "Apprentice! How did it go?" I asked. "I still don't have the egg, its on the sneevil dumpsite... can you come along?" asked Laetitia. "I could, but then we have to face Akriloth first" I answered. "Before you can invite me to the battle" I continued. "Ow. And your friend?" asked Laetitia. "I'm sure Rolith would like to help you out, wouldn't you, Rolith?" I smiled. "Sure. To get the dragon egg of that pile of junk?" he asked. "Yes." answered Laetitia. "Okay, lets set out." he said. "Mistress, may I assume you take a haircut? I think longer hair looks better on you" said Laetitia. "I will." I answered and I set out for the local barber shop. Meanwhile I had the time to think what I wanted more, with Rolith and Laetitia on their way to seize the dragon egg, I had the time to figure out where the darkness orb would be, even if it were to use it for Vayle, then I would be a step further. I went outside and summoned my Vayle to travel to the Necropolis... the best place to start my search for the orb of Darkness.
Artix was there, a friendly paladin whom would help me out in my needs. "Saphiria, I thought you were dead" he spoke. "Kinda" I answered. "You have no business left here, you are a fully trained paladin, necromancer and death knight, but that is not what you came for, is it?" he spoke. "I came for the Darkness Orb." I answered. "Oh, we both know Vayle is the Darkness Orb" he replied. "There is no way that we can obtain the orb?" I asked. "So far, no. But what good would that be to you?" asked Artix, looking at me a bit frowning. "Hmmm, I just need it for a few reasons." I replied. "Try searching Vayle" he replied. "She's the one whom resurrected me, Artix." I replied. "Then she's easy to find for you." he replied.
After my encounter with Vayle, I was supposed to have the darkness orb, but I couldn't find it anywhere. I returned to the Inn in Falconreach where I met up with Rolith and Laetitia. "Laetitia, come, apprentice. I'll show you Akriloth." I spoke a bit firmly. "Akriloth?" asked Laetitia with big eyes. "Its a draggy" I replied. "Wait a minute... didn't we kill him already?" asked Laetitia. "We can still practice on his clone, brought back by evil" I replied. We went off to fight Akriloth. "Akrilot prepare for your doom!" I shouted. "Eek!" shouted Laetitia. "What? Never fought a dragon before? Its good for your practice" I smiled, while I attacked Akriloth with my Frozen Claymore. "The nasty thing is attacking me instead of you, Mistress!" said Laetitia. "Not to worry, he will focus on me in a bit." I replied while I attacked again. "Good Draggy!" I laughed. "Do not taunt me, Doom Dragonlord!" roared Akriloth. "Meh" I replied while attacking again. "Prepare thy downfall!" I said while I attacked again and gave him the fatal blow. "Wow, Mistress. I feel honored!" spoke Laetitia while she hugged me. "Mistress?" said Laetitia. "Yes?" I answered. "Would you mind taking your helm off? I think you look much better without the helm" she said. I did as she asked and put the helm in my backpack. "But I look like a ghost" I muttered. "Thats because you are undead" replied Laetitia. "And maybe we should dye your hair black..." she continued. I agreed to that plan. After doing that I felt myself a lot better. "Laetitia, I will now take you to the Necropolis, to teach you the basics of necromancy. There you will follow me in my footsteps to become a powerfull necromancer. I still have to wait for Sepulchure his invitation to become a doomknight." I said to her. "I would be in great honour, mistress." replied Laetitia. "Then so we shall let you
train as a Necromancer!" I said to Laetitia. "Mistress, isn't it smarter to first retrieve my dragon egg?" asked Laetitia.
"Good point, lets do that first, honey." I replied. "I will assist you" I continued. "Yeah, but we can't go on quests together Mistress... I don't know why. You took me to Akriloth... but from there you disappeared." said Laetitia. "Yes its odd." I replied. "You can always take my friend Rolith on the quest with you, my apprentice." I replied. "I want to be able to quest with you myself, but that isn't always possible, but Rolith here is willing to assist you and you report directly to me after a quest." I continued.
"Thats a deal" replied Laetitia. "I will continue working with Rolith, and report to you each time I make progress?" she continued. "That would be a great idea!" I replied.
To be continued........
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Mritha
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