Ben was walking, walking, walking, the slave quarters were on the oppisite side of the town, and with no money he couldn't pay for anything to give him a ride. He was lost in his thoughts "good day" he tipped his hat, one he had worn for years. He was thinking about the objects he had crafted, 3 of the most powerful things that could possibly exist and he didn't know what to do with them. The city shone distracting him. He looked around, the city was magnficent, one of the centers for trading in this remote corner of Kingdom Of Fendra. Haven, although small had tall buildings, mostly unheard of. With the influx of artisans fleeing the regiem of Kingdom Of Gowoth, the town had been able to eveolve into an influential power in the world of architecture. The town reminded Ben of the city he had been born in. He started to remember, a beautiful woman tossing him in the air and catching him, he tried to look at her face, the suddenly his mind blacked out and an intense searing pain roard through his skull like a tiger, he fell to his knees, feeling a mixture of pain and bewilderment. Bemused, before this when he had tried to look at her he snapped back into reality. He fell to his knees clutching his head. People walked around him looking at his collar, they were distained, irked by the thought that a slave could roam the streets without a msater. But they had recognized him and knew not to bother him. BEcause of his line of work he had been given a pass to walk around town, so long as he did not leave the city limits.
Suddenly Kylie was at his side, holding him tightly. "Ben are you okay she asked, gazing into her eyes, Ben looked back into hers wondering how a human could ever have such beautiful eyes.
"Yes I'm fine," Ben said dreamily, he couldn't tell if it was Kylies radiance or what had just happened. "especially now that you are here," he mumbled under his breath, thinking that Kylie couldn't hear him forgetting her superhuman ability. Kylie grabbed his hand and brushed him off. "Why don't you come stay at my place tonight?" she asked, Kylie had seen the effects of the Slave Quarters on Ben.
"Yea sure," still mumbling
"Speak up Ben,"Kylie stated
"Yea sure," Ben whispered a little louder, still sounding like a frightened mouse. He clutched Kylie's hand tightly as they walked to her nearby home, the inn, she had her rent paid for by the mages of the Academy.
Kylie helped him into bed, laying him down gently(having needed to support him the entire way) and the pulling a bblanket over his sleeping form, before kissing him goodnight. "I love you," She murmered in his ear, then she walked over to the couch and fel l over, ready for a good nights sleep close to the one she loved. She fantizised about freeing him from slavery, yet as his work had grown and grown the price to free him had become exponentially huger. She fell asleep dreaming...
Suddenly, before she had slept at all she was awoken, but not gently, there was a blaring noise outside, ungodly and ringing. IT was the alarm! she realized. There was something attacking the city. She looked outside people were running and screaming and she could cleary see what from. It was a beast. Tamed by the Gowoth army, they stood 4 men tall they were covered with posionous acid, when they stood up on two legs they could knowck over a building. Her army, mages and soldiers alike had been trying to counter them for years alas they were part of the reason why Gowoth had managed to plunge so deeply into their kingdom. It took an entire squad to subdue just one beast, they were fast and cunning and with help from the tatcically aspiring Army of Gowoth, they had been able to maximize their damage, destroying villages and towns without armies quickly and efficiently. But this town was different, and Kylie was ready to fight, this is what she had been practicing her magic for all these years. To kill a beast! She would not allow it to destroy her one and only home, the place where she had lived since childhood, the place where her lover would lie, the place she would die peacefully with Ben holding her in his warm arms beside her. She looked pitside again the beast was approaching.
"Wake up Ben," she cried as she heard the footsteps coming closer and closer. She was frantic she couldn't just leave Ben here, like most people would have left a slave. For a second it was calm, she had a second to wonder what had happened to Ben. Should she pick him up, would she be able to carry him? Alex burst through the door "You need to get out of here!" She yelled then started taking a good look at the situation, "umm Kylie is that Ben on ypur bed, you know what happens to slaves that fall in love."
"NO, its not like that," Kylie exclaimed, "Help me get Ben out of here.
Alex lifted Ben off the bed quickly and was out the door in a flash even carrying Ben Alex's warrior body was faster than Kylie. They rushed out the door afraid to look back, the light's flashed as they ran past open windiws with gaping faces the fourntanetly the brightness of the moon helped illuminate their path, it was a dead sprint, not looking back.
"Its following us!" Alex Screamed, and sure enough it was.
Kylie looked back, what could healing magic do against such a big thing. She thought back to her training trying to remeber what to do.
"Can you overload it with power" Alex yelled.
"NO" Kylie yelled baxk but teied to remain calm, "that thing has 10 times the power I hold, there is no way that I can even come close! Maybe one of the elders, but the extertion would kill them!"
They kept running, the beast was so close.
"Ben wake up!" Kylie tried to shake him even more than Alex's shoulder already had. He tossed gasping his eyes opened and Kylie saw something, they wete gold the purest gold with a iris in the center that was so black it seemed to suck in light. Kylie nearly tripped over a rock as she started after seeing his eyes.
"Ahh" he yelled seeing the beast behind them. He twisted off of Alex's back and was sprinting as he hit the ground. But then, he turned and stopped. Facing the beast. A blast of pure white energy blasted from his palms it didn't just look pure it felt pure, like the start of a universe, no taint. Kylue felt it flood her felt the magic veins in her body pushing out her energy and replacing it, she felt clean like she had been bathed on a water from the most beautiful place on the earth. Alex felt something similar, but the cleaning flushed her muscles, she had never felt this strong it was like she had been shocked. But the beast felt it differently. Its entire being was impure filled with magic from the darkest points on the earth, when it was hit it's entire body was flushed and its very nature prevented it from allowing the new energy in. It stiffend it's entire body hardened and then it shattered into millions of pieces that drifted away like a cloud. Kylie gasped and then she saw it, a vision.
