The War Of The Magi

Chapter 4

" Wake up! Wake up!" A voice shouted. Machate opened his eyes and found Zayne yelling at him.
" What time is it?" Machate asked groggily.
" In the middle of the afternoon. Now get up!"
" What? It's in the afternoon."
" Yes, now are you ever going to get up!" Machate looked around he was in a bed. Zayne was standing by the bed. This was the first time he saw her face. Her hair was long and glossy and black as a raven. The thing that caught his attention was that her eyes were purple and particles floated around them.
" Your eyes. There, there ....."
" Yes, my eyes are purple. I was born blind. I lived my life in darkness until I was ten years old. My mother taught me magix. I was a prodigy at it and after several months I produced a spell that let me see again. Though if you compare my vision to yours. It would appear to be more dark."
" You, you do dark magix." Machate stuttered.
" Yes, my mother was a sorceress and my father a warlock. My mother taught me magix, but saw I am strong in dark magix." He sat up and gasped at the structure. This wasn't what Machate expected. The ceiling was a huge white dome with carvings of the serpent, Silvia.
" Is this your temple?" Machate asked. Zayne smiled proudly and responded.
" Yes, this temple was built for me from my father. With marble and quartz from the finest of mines. "
" Your father must really love you and must be powerful."
" Yes, he loved me" she paused for a moment with a hurt look on her face " But now he's a tyrant. He is the lord of Transmere. Since my mother died he had become a brutal man. He is now not the father that I had once loved. Now, Transmere is trying to expand by invading other villages. " There was loud bang on the door.
" Quick, get under the bed!" She hissed.
" Why?"
"Just get under the bed!" Then Zayne pushed him off the bed and kicked him in the chest. " Quick, they must not see you!" Machate crawled under the bed and barely fit.
" I request permission to enter your temple room."
" You may enter." The door opened and a soldier with a black cross on a uniform came in. " Your father wants to see you from running off last night, after curfew."
" I only went out because I sensed other dark magix."
" You still disobeyed one of the rules."
Then the soldier looked down at the bed.
" Is there something under your bed?" Machate saw Zayne flinch. " Let me look under there." Then he gasped at what he saw and grabbed Machate's shirt.