You Follow Cl'eir through the ferns and into the circle of Faes and Nymphs. The air becomes still, with a feeling of waiting, And Cl'eir leaves your side and flys up to hover alongside the beautiful Gem. Hundreads of eyes look up at Cl'eir, all attenion focused solely on her, and though you lift your gaze to her, you can't help but glance at the magical Gem, which is at the moment, a lovely shade of viol- or umm white? You force your attention back to Cl'eir as she begins to speak... " Ten million years ago, when this world was young, before The Dark, and The Era, a small group of Faes and Nymphs set out to find a place, a place that would always be peaceful, and safe to live in. Long, they looked, without much success until the day when they stumbled upon the Cavern Of Rainbows. It was there that they met the Guardian, and were awarded this Rainbow Gem..." A very appropriet name, you think to yourself. " They learned that this Rainbow Gem would protect them from harm, and would keep whatever place they chose to live in, safe and peaceful even in the darkest of times. But, warned the Guardian, every century, at the coming and going of the two moons, the Gem would become vunerable, and it would be up to us to protect it and keep it from harm. That is why now, at the coming of the two moons, we, the people of Magic Hollow, have gathered here, to use our combined magic to cast on our protector, a protection charm..." Cl'eir paused for a minute, as if to catch her breath, before continueing. Then She turned and looked up at the sky. With all the bright lights and mirror leaves about you, you hadn't even noticed that the sun had already fallen, and the stars had come out. Now, as you look up at the clear night's sky, every light in Magic Hollow simultaniously goes out. You are left, staring wonderstruck into the dark and watching two, huge, full moons, rise slowly into the sky. Looking up into the tree tops of the five, tall, grand trees, that grew here you see a thousand gold, crater studded glowing chards, as if a great glass moon had fallen into the treetops, and lay there, unfixable, but still there all the same. Then, for second, you think you see something...else. And though you've no idea as to why, you feel your spine prickle and your blood run cold. The two great moons are now alomost level, and, ten flickers of starlight later, they have merged, into a single, shining orb. Then, something happens. You wouldn't have had any time to act if you could have. In a split second of stunned shock, you watch as a huge, raptor-like thing, covered in black feathers, jumps from the nearest of the tall mirror trees, and, uttering a terrifing screech, knocks the Gem to the ground, where it is smashed to a thousand glinting, moonlit chards.Unfixable, but there all the same. In the next instant you watch as an uncountable number of spells are flung at the creature, those that miss hit fellow faes and nymphs, whom you watch in a horrified stuper sink, bleeding from wounds unvisibal.Those that hit simply dissapear without ever doing any damage to their target. The shadow fixes it's blank eyes on you , and you slowly feel as if you are falling, falling into the nothingness of those eyes, you look down at your hands, and watch as their atoms begin to seperate... ... Listen Look |
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