Ark Lore part 3: Where It All Began

Phayor's Darkest Day

Five Days Later

It was noon the whole city was shut down and guards moved around the streets in anticipation for what's to come. In the palace, Zac and Alvin stood in the throne room anxiously waiting for anything.

"Something should have happened by now!" Alvin shouted, his eyes had bags under them from lack of sleep and he didn't even try to hide them with make up.

"Well we should be glad about this silence," Zac said, he may appear to be calm and collected, but deep down he was panicking worse than Alvin. In a few weeks, Lars and Raymond are scheduled to return. If Zac could just hold out a little longer he would be able to be in the embrace of his beloved and cry his worries away, but no, he has to defend Phayor for Lars.

Phayor Outbanks

"This magical energy, I can feel at least one sacred stone is in Phayor," Clark said out loud while exhaling.

"Let's try something new shall we?" Clark smiled as he flipped through the pages of a withered tome. Clark stretched his arms out to form a T, he began slowly inhaling and exhaling until his body began melting into a purple sludge, and formed a puddle. Soon the puddle disappeared.

In the Throne Room

"Hey do you feel that energy?" Alvin asked Zac.

"Yeah," Zac said while looking around the room. He placed a hand on his tome, so did Alvin

"What energy?" Felix said, shrugging his shoulders as he walked into the room.

"Felix get back!" Alvin shouted as he noticed a puddle of purple sludge appear in the room. Quickly the puddle formed into Clark who looked around the room and began laughing at the people before him.

"Where is it!" Clark shouted towards Zac and Alvin.

"I don't know what you're talking about, and if I did know what you want you ain't getting it!" Zac said as he threw balls of fire at Clark.

"Oh don't play dumb with me mage!" Clark said as a tentacle erupted from the ground and blocked Zac's fire balls. "I know there is at least one sacred stone in this city, you can't protect it and Lars forever," Clark spat his words as he commanded the tentacle to slam down on Zac. Alvin summoned a blue translucent dome shield over himself and Zac blocking the tentacle.

"Felix hit him now!" Alvin shouted.

"On it!" Felix replied as he stretched his hand out, summoning two large spinning magical sawblades. The first destroyed the tentacle Clark was commanding while the second was destroyed by a purple blast that Clark countered with.

"Stay out of my way, you entitled rotten baby!" Clark hollered as he used a levitation spell to make Fleix float off of the floor. Felix frantically wiped the slivers of hair out of his face as the floor got farther away. He tried to kick his feet back down to earth but it was no use. Felix shot a worried glance at Alvin for a quick second but set it back to Clark, who was making Felix float with just one index finger.

"Clark is that you?..." Felix said as he froze in shock.

"Ahh, so you do remember me cousin, too bad no one will remember you!" Clark shouted as he slammed Felix around the room while moving his index finger. After a few seconds, a large electrical blast hit Clark causing him to fall to the ground and drop Felix. Felix hit the solid floor with a thud, he did not let out a moan, but instead blood began to pool around his body.

"I will make you pay for that!" Alvin shouted as he began to charge another attack. But before he could finish charging it, Clark looked up and grinned his eyes as he swiftly turned into pure shadow. Clark disappeared.