Knightshade Forgotten.

Breaking Down

Reflet, Reflet, Won't you come home? I'll make sure no one can hurt you anymore, you'll be safe.

"Scales?"

I woke up in a cold sweat to see Faylinn staring over me, a candle in her hand. "You looked like you were screaming." It took me a while to register what she said. "Just a bad dream, I'm fine." She gave me a skeptical look, nodded, and started walking back to her bed. "You're eye is red." She said out of nowhere. I shrugged, I must have strained my eyes in someway. I rolled over and looked at my bag, two more tomes I haven't tried, the book to learn to translate, and my shortsword were inside. After taking account of my gear, I rolled over and went back to sleep.

I was back at my prison, just after I had left. The palace was still burning and the sound of clashing metal came from inside. I walked inside carefully and picked up a broadsword from a fallen soldier. I could see the Wyngerians, losing? Impossible, they couldn't have lost this easily, not while they had the element of surprise. I ran up the stairs to see the Knightshade Molarus on the ground, backing away from a berserker fighter with his bow drawn.

Forgetting that this world was fake is easy, trying to remember it isn't as simple. I ran forward and heard Molarus call for me as I ran past him. I figured I looked terrifying as my target backed away in horror and lost his eyes to my blade. More, more sorrow for them. Kill the bastards, every one of them. I ended running throughout the place brutally murdering every enemy I saw and then ruining their corpse. "You want to do some more don't you?" the recurring voice said in my head. It kept talking to me unitl I reached the highest tower, Lance was standing in front of a wounded Plythus, his greatsword drawn and white lightning sparking around it. He pointed it at something above my head. I ended up throwing my sword to the ground and running at an incoming Black Sorcerer.

I woke much more calmly this time, the taste of iron in my mouth. Faylinn was downstairs singing to herself. I sat up and looked through the drawers in the inn's bedroom. I slipped it on with ease and found some boots in the closet under my hanging robe. I got dressed and walked downstairs and greeted Faylinn. "Hey Fay, quick serious question." She looked over to me. I took a hesitant breath. "Do you want to start learning spellcraft?"

She paused for a while, then her eyes went wide and she ran upstairs. Coming back down with one of my tomes, "Can I learn this one?" I examined it, shoving off the idea that she went through my gear. "Dark magic tomes? I don't know, that's a pretty brutal way to use magic. I mean, I haven't even tried it." I told her. "I know, I just thought thought that since you don't use it-"Knocks came from the door.

I pulled my hood over my face and cautiously opened. "Janggo? Why are you here?" the warhammer wielder stepped inside, "The place you came from, it was raided last night." I felt my stomach drop. "Sit down and tell me. Fay, we're going to have you start with thunder magic okay? I'll see if the others are safe for you to try later." She beamed at me and ran to get the tome. Janggo sat down and set his hammer next to him, "The land you came from, Drachen I'm told it was, had it's keep raided by wyngerians about a month ago, around the time you escaped. Well, apparently that keep is a major tactical advantage and was attacked last night. I don't who yet who it was, but they had a beast there."

I rolled my eyes "Beast shifters you mean? There were plenty of those before, I wouldn't be surprised if they made their move under the cover of night." He shook his finger at me, telling to wait. "Some kind of rare dragon shifter, not any species we've seen before." I sat back in my chair opening the dark magic tome and started reading through it. Janggo leaned closer to me a bit more than I could feel comfortable with, "Your eye is red, why is that?" I shut the tome "Out of all the things that happened, my eye is the most interesting? Some magic in my eyes won't let it decide on a color for some odd reason. It'll change to pink or something soon."

Faylinn started bounding down the stairs as if on cue, "Found it!" I had to practically tackle her to make sure she didn't start a fire or something.

Later...

I decided to take her out to get some sorcerer robes, I had a steady job as a mercenary, I would only take Faylinn with me onharmless jobs. I walked into the shop and heard the witch that ran most of the place, "Reflet! Good to see you again, are you here for some elwind tomes?" I told Faylinn to go look for one she liked "No, I'm here to buy some robes for my sister, she finally broke me down, so I'm going to start training her."

I had to help her figure out her size and tell her what I thought on how she looked, I just wanted to buy her some simple robes, I don't get paid until next week. She came out of the dressing room with a red shirt with front and back waist capes anda long blue scarf, she put on an average witch's hat and held a thunder tome under her arm. "D- do I look okay?" she stuttered at me "I thought that if I would fight then the outfit wouldn't be restricting." I knelt down next to her, "You look great, now let me just pay the hard workers and-ON THE GROUND NOW!"

I pushed her to the ground as a few arrows sailed over our heads, I opened her tome and pointed at a certain page. "If they try to hurt you, just thrust your hand out and...well, yelling the the kind of tome helps okay?" She had tears in her eyes and nodded as she wiped them away, "Most likely they're here for me, so go hide until I call for you." She nodded again and ran off silently.

"Where are you White Blood?! We know what you did in Drachen! You'll die for betraying us." I stood up behind a bookcase with a wind tome at the ready, Calm yourself, Fay ran to the other side of the building, you can go all out. I turned and threw a blast of wind, making all sorts of tomes fly out and explode in their faces. I ran behind another bookcase and pulled out the dark magic tome out of my bag, Just me and my wits against two or more angry barbarians. I could suddenly hear Faylinn scream. "YOU BASTARDS LEAVE HER BE!" I ran out out my cover, pulling out my sword and plunging it into the first guy's back. "Fay! Run, find Janggo and run!" She kept shaking her head as I pulled the bloody body off her "No Reflet, I want to stay with you!" I turned to dodge out of the way of an axe coming at my head and flipped through the pages of the dark tome. I thrust out my hand and caught the attacker in a purple smoke, slowly choking him and making him drown in his own blood.

As I turned, I could see Janggo swinging a sword at an attacker, Poor bastard has no taste in swords.

"Thunder!"

I turned around to see Faylinn on the ground, backed up against the wall and her palm held out, with a corpse without a head in front of her. I started to run to her and felt something hard hit my head, as I blacked out I could see Faylinn get hit in the head and bagged.