The Blessed Stones <Complete>

The Last Leg of the Journey

Tyde and Evelyn leave the island by jumping off, into a lake that was on one of the plateaus below. They both know where they need to go next, the city. It takes them another day to get there so they rest up near a lake for the night, where they eat some food and get some sleep, ready and energized for the last leg of their journey.

When they reach the city, its exactly as you might imagine a big and busy medieval city to be. Big stone walls surround the perimeter, and inside people are scurrying everywhere with wagons, horse and carriages and just horses. There's a huge market full of people both buying and selling, trying to make a living. In another part of the city, it looks grand. It's full of beautiful houses and gardens that are filled with wildlife. Over a drawbridge, seperated from the city is the castle, Tydes home, and the location of Evelyns current mission. Tyde manages to smuggle her inside, but now that she's there, she's on her own. Tyde has told her where to go, and now its just a matter of getting there. She has to dress up in a set of wizards clothing and has to conceal her weaponry under it. She gets to the main tower that Tyde told her about and inside is a ginormous staircase. The final stone is at the top, and guarded no doubt. She begins to make the exhausting climb up.

Evelyn finaly gets to the top floor. It's a circular room with a pillar in the middle that has a ladder going up another floor. Across the room from Evelyn is a man, tall, and nimble. He looks up to her.

"Ahhh, welcome to the wizards tower of Straxand, I'm the arch-mage here, and you're in my territory. Unfortunately, you're going to have to leave... Now" 

Evelyn looks at him and takes off her disguise to reveal her weapons. "I'm afraid I can't do that, so if your not going to let me take the stone, I'm going to have to fight you for it. She makes a firm grip on her cutlass before pulling it from her.

"Well, if you wish, but I warn you, you'll struggle more against me than you did against the other arch-mages..."

"If you say so..."

The conversation falls silent. They stare eachother down. In his hand, a rapier appears. They charge at eachother and the battle begins. Clashes of steal can be heard from halfway down the staircase. After a while the man grabs Evelyns cutlass and begins bleeding, he endures the pain and lifts her up by just the blade and slashes her across the stomach, throwing her back in the process, it quickly heas though, with the help of the earth stone.

"Hm, impressive, you've acquired the Blessed Stone of Earth... I know you have the Blessed Stone of Water... but do you have the other two? Let's find out..." He jabs his hand out and a ball of fire bolts into Evelyn, but the Blessed Stone of Fire just absorbs the damage.

"Well, that's three out of five... do you have the Blessed Stone of Air...?" He pushes a gust of wind from his hands at her, but the veil of air surrounding her just absorbs it.

"Yes... One thing I don't think you do have though... is the Blessed Stone of Lightning!" He punches the air and a bolt of lightning comes from his fist. It hits Evelyn and it pushes her back into the wall. She groans before getting back to her feet. She charges at him with her cutlass in hand, and the clashing of steel begins again.

"This again...?" He asks, "don't you find it boring?"

"No... because I need to do what I can..." She slashes his rapier with her cutlass.

"So I can finish this god forsaken job done!" She slashes it again, stronger.

"And get back home to Earth!" She slashes it a final time at her highest strength. His grip losens on the weapon and it flies out of his hand. She cuts one of his hands off, the one he was using his weapon in. It becomes a fountain of blood, a puddle of the red liquid forming quickly on the floor, staining the stone below. He holds on to it for a minute, screaming in agony. He quickly uses another lightning spell, throwing her out of the way.

"What the hell... is wrong with you..." he asks.

"You left me no choice..." She pulls her bow from her back and readys an arrow in it. She shoots it into his chest, making him fall down on the ground, in pain, unable to react.

"Now you can't fight... do you wanna try actually listening to me instead?"

He doesn't answer, just looks at her.

"I'm not here to steal the stone, I'm here to move it so I can finish this job thats been given to me for some damned reason, so I can go home to Earth... understand. Now, if you'll let me leave with the stone, I'll let you hold the Blessed Stone of Earth to heal yourself.

"Never!" He screams at her and implant his fingers in to the floor. All the walls start cracking, and Evelyn knows she needs to grab the stone now. She climbs the ladder as quickly as possible and when she gets to the very top of the tower, she takes the stone from the stand. She tries to get back down the staircase, but the tower just starts falling to pieces before getting even a part of the way down, forcing her to freefall down through the air.

"Is this... what its all come to... this? Just... death?" she screams at the air. Suddenly, she hears a strangely familiar roar. She looks down, and she sees the dragon from before. It catches her on its wing and she slides down onto the magical beasts back. It swoops down to the ground and drops her off in the town center, where the structure she saw in the lights on the altar in the Cathedral of Water. People all over the city just gaze at the dragon in awe. Tyde finally escapes from the castle and joins Evelyn in the center of the city for the final showdown.