Love and magic

Chapter Two

   Outside the tavern shouts are heard. Loud booms and flashes of light coming from spells. The sound of metal hitting metal where swords meet. The streets are in chaos. From the tavern rushes Mystia and Orym "WHAT HAPPENED?!" Orym asks a random man who is rushing by "THEY CAME OUT OF NOWHERE YOUR HIGHNESS! IT WAS A AMBUSH!" he says as he quickly turns to block an attack from a close by enemy. Orym takes out his sword and jumps in to help the man fight what looks to be a dragonborn but they didn't look like a normal dragonborn, something was wrong.

"MYSTIA!! BEHIND YOU!!" Mystia hears Orym shout, quickly she looks behind her and sees a man coming at her from behind a battle ax above his head ready to strike. She quickly throws bolts of lightning at him and as he hits the ground she sees a glint of metal around his neck. She walks over to his body and sees a strange symbol hanging around, one she's never seen before. She quickly rips it from his neck with the intention of showing it to Orym later, maybe he knows what it is.

Knocking her back into combat she sees the large wings of a familiar griffon, Kila and her owner Randoul the Loyal, a knight of Malvadir and good friend to both her and Orym "My lady, what's happened?!" he asks after landing next to her "Well Randoul we were in the tavern and all of a sudden there wa- WATCH OUT!!!'' She gets interrupted by someone shooting a crossbow at them, Randoul puts up his shield and then pulls Mystia off to the side to finish getting all the information he needs. "Anyway we were in the tavern and all of a sudden we heard screaming and came outside to see this. We only just arrived outside not long ago but... I did find this on one of the bodies'' she says showing him the symbol she found

"Damn it" He curses under his breath "Get prince Orym and get to safety. GET TO THE PALACE MY MEN AND I CAN HANDLE THIS FROM HERE!" He yells running off into battle alongside Kila. "WHAT?!" she yells after the knight but then turns to find Orym seeing him fighting off a half orc mage. "ORYM!! WE NEED TO GET TO THE PALACE!!" she yells to him as she runs over "WHAT?! WHY?!" "I DON'T KNOW!! BUT RANDOUL TOLD ME TO GET YOU TO THE PALACE SO THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I'M GONNA DO!" she answers, putting a hand on his arm teleporting them to the palace steps "Come let's get to your parents, they need to be informed" she says dragging him to where she knows his parents study is.

In a beautiful decorated study in the middle of the palace sits the King and Queen doing their normal paperwork until they interrupted by the sounds of loud footsteps fastly approaching "Seems like Orym and Mystia are at it again dear" says Queen Ochaudita smiling to her husband King Darcassan as the aforementioned come storming into the room "Where's the fire?" the King says chuckling " I apologize your majesty but the city was attacked tonight we've just come from there on the orders of Sir Randoul" says Mystia bowing her head apologetically

They both stand up abruptly at this news "Where my child? Did you see who they were?" the king asks, walking over to the young woman he has always seen as a second daughter " Outside of Torgan's tavern on main street sir. I'm not sure who they are but I did get this off of one of them." she says handing him the symbol necklace. He takes the necklace observing it closely, showing it to his wife, "And you say they were wearing this?" asks the Queen "Yes but that's not all, it's almost like... they were changed but not by magic. The man I took this from as well as the dragonborn I saw Orym fighting looked... possessed is the only way I can describe it. Their skin was paler than normal, almost as if they were well.. Dead. Their eyes were fully black, no iris." she says looking at them both to see if she can read the looks on their faces "Well.. this is the symbol of Apsephion, the God of Darkness. Some necromancers chose him as their patron instead of the Goddess of Death like your mother. Long ago, centuries ago he along with a few other Gods and Goddess' betrayed their kin and decided to take a darker path giving some of their power to those who would use it for evil. In turn their souls also turn to pure evil which is why they look the way you saw them" says the king

"I don't know what they are doing in the city though.. Makes no sense at all." he says looking over at his wife, as she goes to speak someone knocks on the door "Sir, Madam, High witch Esadora is here to speak with you" says one of the guards "Bring her in please, thank you" says the Queen "What's grams doing here?" Orym leans over and whispers to Mystia "How would I know I've been with you this whole time!" she whispers back "Esadora my dear friend, as much as I would love for this to be a happy visit I'm going to assume it's not and take it you've heard or more likely seen" says the King walking over to Esadora as she enters the room seeing her granddaughter and young Prince "You'd have assumed right Darcassan, hello sweet Ochaudita" she says smiling over to the Queen who smiles and bows her head "Do you know who did the attack Darc? My vision only showed so much"

The King sighs and lowers his head before saying "Dora.. they were followers of Apsephion. Mystia took this off one of them before Randoul had her and Orym come here" he hands her the symbol "So it's true, that feeling i've had for months" she says looking up at him "...Something bad is coming"