The forgotten World

21. Visit to Izzet

I picked up my staff and checked for damages and found it didn’t have any then I put it in my bag. I stood up and no sooner was I upright I folded over again. I pointed to the ground with my left hand to create something to sit on and fire blasted the spot where I pointed. I tried with my right hand and blasted the fire scorch mark with ice. “Oh great… I lost my earth power” then I folded in half again and fire flared my left hand and a cold air formed around my right hand, only this time I could not feel the heat of the fire or the cold of the ice. I looked at my two hands curiously and when I brought them close the fire tried jumping off my hand and attacking the ice, the ice also tried jumping off my right hand attacking the fire. I focused on both hands and the fire went out and the ice aura thing went away. I stepped out of the alley with my new found powers and folded in half a third time, I could now feel them clashing inside my body, this was going to take some getting used to. I straightened up again

Then I knocked on the Izzet guild doors and to my surprise they opened faster than I expected. I looked at Melek who I knew from the card game “is Ral here?” Melek looked at me but I could not read his expression simply because of what he was, the best way to describe him is to picture a blue human shaped jelly with lightning coursing through it covered in a golden bronze colour armour with red and blue colouring in patterns around his waist and shoulders, he had a pipe from his shoulder plates running to his wrist guards they looked like the only thing keeping his arms solid “and if he is not?” I looked around “then I will wait” that was not was Melek was expecting “well your more than welcome to wait, come in have a seat, if you can pay your own food have a feed, I’ll find out where Ral is” I entered the guild “thank you” Melek vanished up the stairs and I went and found a seat. No sooner had a found a seat had Ral Zarek sat across from me, he was in blue armour with red belts and bands and other stuff around it, he had two gold colour thing that looked like energy storage tanks and one on his back that looked like it was for calling or making lightning “I heard Melek was looking for me because you wanted to talk” I laughed “you make that sound like he does not know we are speaking” he smiled “he is up there talking to Niv-Mizzet unaware that I am down here talking to you” I looked surprised “Niv-Mizzet calls Sky Hope City home?” Ral shrugged “well this is out guilds home city, why wouldn’t she?” I nodded “good point” Ral waved an attendant over and ordered a Shocking Snack for the both of us then looked back at me “you’re going to love it, some call it our best snack, now you wanted to talk” I looked towards the counter a little worried “err… yah, I was wondering if it would be possible for me to adopt… the name… Ral Zarek?” Ral looked at me surprised “you want to set up a false identity as me?” the orders arrived and I looked at it, it looked like a normal pile of chips except the fact it seemed to have lightning surging though it. “That’s one way to put it” I picked up a chip and it zapped me to I dropped it. Ral had eaten a few while I had been talking “you can use my last name if you can prove your worthy of it, but not my first name and if your can eat the chips your half way to my name” I looked down at the chips like a challenge, have you any clues for eating the chip?” Ral smiled and ate another chit “none that I’m going to give you for this, and by the way, they are horrible cold” for the next few minutes I kept picking up and dropping chips as they zapped me. Then I noticed it, the lightning seems to be traveling though the plate also. I looked up at Ral who was doing his best not to laugh. I watched the bowel, hand hovering just over the top most chips and Ral spoke “nervous are we?” I nodded “just a little, but I will do this” the lighting surged through the bowel and away from the chips for the shortest second and in that second I grabbed a chip and didn’t get zapped, then I ate it “yes” I murmured under my breath. Ral nodded “one down, rest of the bowel to go” I followed my pattern until I got to the chips touching the edge of the bowel. I looked at Ral again who only smiled and nodded. We both knew this next part was going to be harder. I looked down into the bowel the chips seemed to be permanently charged with the lightning. I looked at the bowel, I looked at the chips, I looked at Ral, and none gave me any ideas on how to avoid getting zapped so I did the illogical thing. I tipped the plate the bowel was sitting on sending chips everywhere and from there I noticed they were not surging with lightning so I picked them up and ate them. When the last visible one was gone Ral leaned over and picked up the bowel.