Fallen to the Shadows

Elemental Dance

I stood in the middle of the clearing on a platform of earth surrounded by water.  I created coliseum like area for the people of the Shadow realm to watch.  Most were skeptical and scared of my abilities but I was used to it.  Most of the Forest Realm was here and the Maidens had the best seats in the house of course.  Griffon gave me a nod and I took two deep breaths.  This was my dance that is very special for my kind and I made it my own.  I'm doing this so that I can gain the respect of the Shadows here.

The water began to make rings appear at random and the wind stirred very little creating a small draft.  Light flashed from nowhere then the earth began shake.  I snapped my fingers and there was patches of ice everywhere.  I shook the earth and the ice burst into snow.  Pillars of water and earth shot from the arena floor.  Waving fire all around me water began sizzle and a mist began to form in the arena.  Then everything seemed to stop.  The mist started to form a funnel as I waved my arm in a circle. I split the funnel into smaller funnels sent them out.

Using lightning, and having it ark from funnel to funnel and then I kneel and pull my arm up and down shaking the entire earth.  The audience even bouncing off the seats with it getting faster and faster and then I stand and snap my fingers and everything was coated in ice and then I stomp on the ground the ice shatters and everything was as it was before with snow ever so slowly falling down to the earth.  It was truly beautiful and then I blacked out.

Chapter: Document from The Raven

The performance had left my Shadows in awe.  The air and energy had been cleaned and all was well and whole.  This awesome power was no longer feared but rather something of a spectacle to them.  The next morning...

My father sat on the edge of the clearing.  He had settled himself into the massive roots of a tree, surrounded with moss.  The roots were like veins in the ground from this oak and as they went into the earth so did my father into his thoughts.  It was here my Father would reside often now in his new home at the Forest Realm.

He held his hand on his chin, arm resting on his knee as the other searched through the moss, just feeling the ground.  After this he regained himself and rested back onto the tree with a sigh.  He was alone, and the forest was alive.

"What's going on?" A matured woman's voice invaded my father's inquiring.  It was Gray, she came up from behind the tree, the Shadows busy on duty in the clearing behind her.

My father glanced around the tree to see her approach and then rested once more on the bark. "Nothing, I'm just thinking..."

"About what?" Gray asked seeing Prince still deep within himself on the moment.  Prince stayed quiet wondering how to explain.  "How's the Angel?" Wondering if she'd asked too much she continued.

She was not much of a friend just yet, but she and Prince have talked a few times since the massacre.  Gray was an odd one, stubborn about what she did and wanting to make friends with Prince for one sole purpose.  Like the others she knew what happened to him and his family, she wanted to make sure he wasn't alone.  Even if for a moment with his own thoughts.  Over everyone else she cares about her friends almost as much as her vow.

"He's fine." Prince said simply and offered her to sit with him.  "On break huh?"

"Yeah, just for a bit. I gotta help clean the area." They had been gone so long the realm's main camp was stick and leaf ridden.  That was hardly an issue however. Fox sat on a nearby root with him despite the morning dew.  "Why don't you tell me about what you're thinking about?" The wolf met eyes with her under the shadow of the tree.  They kept this locked look for the moments my father thought over the offer.

"I just want to know what's going on." Prince said his gaze looking to the moss again.  "What in the hell happened at the fire pit..." No one really knew exactly, madness just erupted.  Many soldiers died, far too many, wither innocent or those who killed. "What could have caused everyone to start fighting?"

"No one is sure." Gray said still wondering herself.  "I'm sure the Commanders are doing what they came to narrow down the causes, that is what Griffon is doing now.  He is writing messages to the others, they are trying to draw a picture of the fight from all angles."

"That still keeps the problem at hand.  Who can we trust, out of even the Commanders how do we know?" My father spoke not with lost of hope but with rise of defense.

Gray stayed silent before coming to his conclusion. "It'll just take time."

"Time is men's lives at this point, every day is a danger to the Maidens.  But that is all we can do is wait. Wait and defend." My Father said with command as he sat up again.

"And William is meant to help us." Gray brought up the point coming to her questions.

"Yes... we can only wait." Father stated still in thought.

"He's incredible, the things he can do.  If he is truly on our side I have no doubt he can defend us and our Maidens."  This was a bold statement for a Shadow.

"He won't be the only one." Father said letting her into his thoughts, "We are going to have a high defense."  Before Gray stood to leave their moment was interrupted by a shout from the forest.

"Warrior's Call!" A strong voice shouted and followed by him a league of Shadows cried out like in war.  Always a preferred entrance for the fiercest Shadows known to the land.  When they cried out the shout made the illusion a hundred of them were charging from the forest.

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