The Keepers

The Keepers 02 - A Deadly Encounter

Damon looked puzzled-someone knew who he was.

"How the hell does he know my name?" he wondered.

"Please come in Damon," the voice requested.

He opened the door of the old run-down shack. There, he found the mysterious hooded figure sitting on a chair that was rotting away. The figurestood up, unhooded his cloak and looked at Damon. Damon stood there wondering who the character was.

"I'm sure you have a lot of questions regarding my identity."

Damon pulled out his dagger and held it to the character's throat."Why do you have the Flame Keeper's mark burned outside your house?"

The character reited an incantation and the dagger flew from Damon's hand. He recited another incantation and tendrils sprouted from the place where Damon stood. The tendrils grabbed Damon, he was trapped.

"Go on, kill me!"

"Your rushing yourself, Keeper. We'll get to that soon. But for now, let's talk about your dead friend."

"How do you know him?"

"Patience Keeper, all will be revealed to you. Walk with me Keeper," he snapped his finger and the tendrils released Damon.

He shook of the dust from clothes and walked with the character.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"My name is Severin, I was the Keeper of Excellis. I was a Flame Keeper - until the incident."

"What incident?"

"After your friend was buried, there was heaviness in the air. Only I felt it. The heaviness remained for days. Then one day, it happened. The dark Eithelus that must have been in your friend's grave went inside my body, it consumed me, it corrupted me, and worst of all it devoured my soul," he continued, "A few days later, I found myself passed out on a bed in the town infirmary. The doctors had chained me up. they told me that i nearly destroyed half the town. I was puzzled. I told them what happened to me and they reported me to The Council. They stripped me of my power and took away my position."

"If they took away your power, how come you can still do magic?"

"The dark Eithulus that flowed through my body gave me power. It gave me power to create and manipulate objects. I became the very beings the Keepers tried to destroy - A Watcher."

Damon tried to pull out his crossbow but a force took control of his hand.

"Have you not heard what i just said? I can manipulate objects. Now, let go of the the crossbow."

"What are you planning to do?"

"It's more like what I'm not planning to do."

"What are you gonna do?"

"You'll see," he then disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

"DAMMIT!! He escaped. He was my only lead."

It was hopeless. The only lead he had in finding the Tablet escaped, and worst of all, Severin lead him to an uncharted place. He felt like giving up. But just as he was about to give up, he noticed something unusual flickering on the ground. He picked it up and immediately noticed that it was a piece of cloth from Severin's clothes, but there was something unusual about it, i had turned to metal. Very strange, but nonetheless a lead. He reicited an incantation and and a burst of light appeared in front of him. He opened a portal. He stepped into the portal and foun himself in a cave.

"A Keeper has followed you here" a voice from further inside the cave said.

Suddenly, tendrils appeared from the ground and grabbed Damon.

"Hello, Keeper. We have been expecting you." a mysterious figure in the distance said.