Temptation

[problematic z 477]

The Disappearance of Adeon Fablenight

Adeon opened his eyes to find his legs buried under a building’s worth of rubble, he could not feel them, he could only hope this horrid nightmare would soon be over.

He looked skyward and exhaled, the dark shadowy figure that had been chasing him approached his twisted body, the figure brandished a sword from it’s sheathe, it shined gold and green, Adeon felt the blade penetrate his rib cage and exit through the side of his spine.

Adeon clawed at his eyes as the hallucination faded away, his brow was now bleeding due to the amount of times he had been scratching at his sockets.

Adeon slowly slid up the wall in the corner he had been sitting in, his emotions were mixed, though, the feeling that dominated his thoughts the most was anger.

He grabbed a shovel that was laying near him and let out a great cry and smashed windows in his home and most of his alchemical set.

“Piss off!” cried Adeon, he soon dropped to his knees and let tears stream down his cheeks, “Why do you do this to me” Adeon managed to let out a few words in between sobs, he soon lifted himself to his feet and was angry at himself for letting his emotions go too far, he did not want to show his weakness, he knew it would only lead to the attacker’s success.

So Adeon crawled back into his corner and shut his eyes, it was not long before he felt the cold feel of his attacker’s mind press against his, the pain was near unbearable but he persevered, Adeon’s mouth pooled with blood as he bit into his cheek, he felt numb, as if something was helping him through this, not feeling the pain was a great relief and for the first time in years he thanked Aeriel, then the attackers thoughts and intentions overcame his joy and soon turned it into fear, the attacker was going to create other hallucinations but Adeon refused to show fear or anger in the illusions.

Adeon shut his eyes as tightly as possible until the hallucination took effect, he found himself chained to a wall, a large dark chamber he was in, the roof at least twenty meters tall, the only source of light was that of a small hole in the center of the roof, creating only a single beam of light in the center of the chamber, “could this be a test?” thought Adeon, no, there cannot be any sort of test that involves control over the mind, that would be completely illegal, surely this was the work of a necromancer, a skilful one too, the detail was amazing, it looked real, then he heard a terrible roar from the far end of the chamber, the roar, it sounded familiar, Adeon began to laugh, then out of the shadows an eye the size of Adeon’s head, the eye blinked at him, the pupil, so large he felt as if he could crawl into it and never come out again.

Adeon spat at the eye and shouted at it, he saw a gigantic hand cover the light source in the roof, the room was completely black, the only thing he could see was the large yellow eye that had been staring at him this whole time blink, the sound of the eyelid closing sounded sort of like a clap, then he felt the earth move around him and the room resonated with a low groan, the wall behind him, his chains broke, he was free to run around in the hallucination, he quickly managed to clear the wall that was collapsing behind him quickly, only receiving a few scratches from smaller debris falling, the monster that was before him tried to grab Adeon, to no avail the creature ended up just breaking the ground with it’s clumsy hand.

Adeon made no attempt to fight it, out of the wall that collapsed hundreds of the dead walked towards him, with the archers behind them, he heard many moans and clacking of bones, he cackled madly and charged at the dead, knocking several over before they tore at his skin.

The hallucination ended, but even though the numbness of his skin in reality, the hallucination was painful, he felt as if the dead were still tearing him limb from limb, he refused to show weakness when the attacker was present, he tried best he could to keep a straight face.

Adeon soon felt the attacker’s mind retreat from his conscious, the next time he felt the presence, he would make his move, although the magician that was doing this to him was powerful, he refused to take any more torture, he did not know what they wanted, he simply sat staring blankly at his wall nearest to the bed, he heard strange chatter in his mind, as if there were people sitting by him talking to each other, the chatter made no sense, just random words in all sorts of different languages, the chattering stopped and he heard footsteps outside, he had been locked in his room for days, the piles and piles of books stacked around his room covered almost all entrances and windows, he moved a few books that were stacked next to his window and peered outside, several men in dark robes were advancing though the mist,

Adeon cursed and put the books back into place, he crawled towards the door leading to his balcony and lifted his hands to the stars, he began to feel energy flowing through his limbs and spun around to face the door he had just came from, maybe he was just paranoid, maybe he was just stupid, but if these men came for him he was going to be ready.

He heard three knocks on his door all of them slow but strong, the sound made him shiver, he heard whispers and a hoarse voice was heard from the door “Adeon son of Allix, we have come for you just as we came for your father…”

Adeon stifled a curse and realised he was not brave enough or strong enough to use magic on these people, they were obviously the cause of the attack on his mind, he was still alright with a sword and quickly realised he had left it inside, he did not want to go back in, but he had no choice, the balcony he was on was way too open and he would be easily captured if he stayed there.

He crawled into the room filled with books again and searched frantically for his sword, he saw his sheathe laying on his bed, his sword was inside, he rolled over and reached for his sheathe, suddenly, the door was knocked off it’s hinges and knocked over all the books that were in it’s way “ahh!” cried Adeon he quickly brandished his sword and spun it in his hand, ready to impale anything that got near him, one by one shadowy figures walked into the room, in a line, Adeon cried and stabbed the first one, he heard a clang and realised they were all wearing armour beneath the robes they were wearing, he swung at the neck and heard a sort of grunt, the figure fell to the ground and a pool of black blood formed beneath it’s head.

The other figures seemed a little bit shocked at this, they all stared at Adeon and they all pulled blades from thin air, they lunged at Adeon, he received one of the blades in the stomach but managed to parry the other, the blade that was stabbed into his stomach seemed to knock all the air out of his lungs,

His vision blurred and he fell to his knees and dropped his blade, the room around him got even darker, then a man, not as dark as the shadows, he walked inside and his mouth moved but words did not come out, he seemed to argue with the dark figures, he then drove his sword into one, he was much more skilled with a blade then Adeon, he parried several of the dark men’s swords and kicked one, making it topple over near Adeon, he killed many of the shadowy men and locked the door behind him, he quickly stabbed the man he had knocked over in the face and knelt next to Adeon.

He touched the place where Adeon had been stabbed and whispered two words “Hyluë Nae”

Adeon felt a strange sense of relief and soon fell unconscious, just before he did, he felt the man pick him up, Adeon had dreams of trees, waves, wild animals running free.

Adeon woke up, he did not know where he was, the sound of cooking meat filled his nostrils, he slowly got up from where he had been laying, on a ragged blanket on the ground, he walked over towards the doorway through it was a very bright room, the man that had taken him away was there, he was whistling a familiar tune, one Adeon’s father once whistled.

((Basically I am going to be on holidays and I will not be online for a while, and Mania, sorry for stealing your magic word and putting it in this but I thought it was cool I hope you don’t mind :P and to all my other friends, and to everyone else I hope you had a great New year and Christmas and I am sorry I cannot play with you, hopefully I will get internet soon but otherwise see you later.))

[Elindor 666]

I like it, but a tip for creative writing would be to find more inventive ways of opening a paragraph than 'protagonist does this'.

[problematic z 477]

thank you Elindor i will improve this next time i write anything like this :D

[Ugroth the Dunewalker 15]

I don't know you, but that was amazingly well written. ))

[problematic z 477]

Thanks! I appreciate it :D

[Cosmik 220]

((An enjoyable read, just a few quirks here and there.))

[Danny 2232]

Moved to the Great Library. It shall be sorted into appropriate category shortly.