Songs of War: In the shadow of a hero

Prologue

Everyone knows about the Thidesinger right? But what about me? I'm Natarian Nestoris, sister of Achillean.

I get up in the middle of the night, with someone knocking in my window.
"Natarian! Are you awake?" I heard a familiar voice.
"Ingressus? What time is it? What are you doing here?"I questioned him in half asleep.
"Midnight, but it's not important." he started, meanwhile I hardly wake up. "Come with Achillean to the pillars. I have a surprise for you." he said, than hurried back to the edge of the village.

*

My brother and I were sneaking out of Nestoria on my side, now dressed.  Ingressus was already waiting for us there with a wide smile on his face.
"You're finally here!  I'm ready to go back for you!" The young Ardoni joked. They made their superhard secret high five with my brother and sat down on the grass.
"Why did you wake me up? So we can't go to training tomorrow beacuse of fatigue?" I asked jokingly.
"Sure! Why else?" he continumed to joke "But seriously, for this!" he said and he leads us to the forest near the village "I hid two songs in there, so whoever finds these sooner and comes back to me will have it." Ingressus began with a smile "The rules are simple.1.: Do not push and fight!; 2 .: don't cheat! Who one cannot get a song, it climbs to the top of the pillars on the middle of the day." the Nestoris finished "Do you understand?
"Yes!"
"Of course!"
Ingressus looked at us contentedly and finally began to count backwards.
"3;  2;  1;  start!"
We started looking. I went right and Achillean left. I looked everywhere, but I didn't find any anywhere.
When I had been searching for about half an hour, I heard some weird sound, I started paying attention to where it was. Then I saw something on the top of the mountain. I got closer and saw that it was a mobilium song, but it was very high.
Since we've been climbing here with Achillean a few times before, I've known how to get around here and start going uphill.

*

When I was halfway there, I saw another figure climbing up in the direction of the song. Then I realize: this is Achillean! And he's 13 blocks higher!
I looked around to see if I could find any abridgment to prevent it. There was a chasm that I should have avoided to get to the other side, except there was a tree on the other side facing me, one of the thick branches of which stretched over the chasm.
If I do that jump well, I can overtake my brother! So I took a chance and jumped.

*

I could tell, that Ingressus watched from the top of a tree and saw what I was up to.  He teleported to the mountain with his own Mobilium song, but 3 blocks next to the abyss.
He watched with his muscles tense when he had to throw himself after me.
And I jumped off the ledge of the chasm. For a second I thought it wasn't going to work, but then I felt the rough surface of the tree branch. It worked! I do not believe it! Using the momentum, I jumped up 5 blocks from the top of the mountain. I quickly clung to it and looked at where my brother was.  He was not far above me and was just staring at me with big eyes.
I'll start going upstairs by the time he does. I climbed to the small excurrent rock next to the peak and threw myself at the song.
Before my brother could touch it, I grabbed it and enclosed the glowing yellow cube in my hands.
I was so happy that it was only after a while that I noticed that I was falling.
Sure, when I threw myself at the mobillium song, I dragged it down into the deep with me ...

*

I started to panic. Ingressus used his own song and threw himself after me. My brother was just standing there on the top of the mountain in despair, with his face dead.
Ingressus couldn't catch me, and I could only think I was there next to Achillean at the top of the mountain. Then I had a strange feeling, and suddenly flashing yellow streaks began to form around me, and then I saw not the forest below me, but that I was somehow falling towards my brother.
Ingressus was already down at the foot of the mountain and just watched me very surprised. And Achillean just stared down and looked for me.
"Achillean!!!" I shouted at him before it was too late.
My brother turned around so quickly that his neck was cracked. He stepped away, so I wouldn't bump into him. And I landed, but so that I couldn't breathe for a moment. As soon as I could move, I sat up, heard Ingressus teleport to us, and now he was looking at me with a scanning look.
"Natarian, are you okay?" Ingressus asked anxiously, and before I could figure it out. "What the hell happened?"
"I don't know." I began, gasping.
Ingressus and Achillean just went silent, and I got my glimpse between the two of them.
"Then what's up now??!" I began to despair "What do you want to keep from me??"
"I'll get you something." Achillean said quickly, and hurried away.
When he left, the silence was a little awkward, and it didn't help, that Ingressus was still staring at me with a scanning look, and finally he spoke a few minutes later.
"Do you still have the mobillium song?"
"Yes, it is here. Why?"
"Nothing, I just asked."
Then we didn't talk to each other again for a while. Ingressus was still just staring, and it was already getting quite annoying. Then I tried to start the conversation.
"Why does this weird sound come from the songs? And why so loud?" I asked, because it already hurt my head
"I don't know why it sounds, but what is it very loud? I can barely hear it." Ingressus said in surprise "Are you okay?"
"Yes, I'm fine, but can you really barely hear?" I asked back, but before he could answer, I heard a very different voice coming up, "Do you hear that too?"
"What?" Ingressus asked, looking at me more and more.
"Well, this very loud thing that's coming!!"
Achillean appeared with a huge chest in his hand. How could he get this out of the house at all? And he stood at the foot of the mountain.
"Would you come down here? I won't be able to carry this there!"
By the time we went down, he was already starting to unpack all sorts of things from the crate.
"Is that what I think you think?" Ingressus asked
"Yes, this is it." my brother replied, certain that I did not know what they were talking about.
"Where is this from?" I asked, pointing to a supporium song that was the source of the sound.
"That's.. Well ... from nowhere."  Achillean said a little nervously.  "As a whole, I collected and buried things in the ground so that no one would find them."
As he told me, I took the song into my hands, everything darkened and a series of images cleared in front of me.
A vendor offers the songs for sale, to which a young Nestoris goes and buys this glowing cube. The image blurred and was replaced by a new one. An Ardoni goes home and gives it to Ingress in exchange for the price. He gives it to my brother on his 19nd birthday. And Achillean puts it in a crate and digs it in the middle of the woods.
It all went dark and I found myself again at the foot of the mountain next to the open chest.
"Natarian! Are you okay?" they asked in chorus
"What happened?" I spoke
"Well, when you grabbed the supporium song, you teleported out of here, it fell out of your hands, and now you reapeared" Achillean concluded.
"I teleported? How? We haven't even put the mobilium song in the pillar!I " I asked back, but by the time I got the answer, I fainted.

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Words count: 1383
Made on: 28. Oct. 2020.
Published on: 10. 12. 2022.