TRA: A God's Sorrow

Chapter 7: Dark times

Grall soon recovered enough strength to create a pathway to Whitewater. After explaining the situation to Grodak, they took an unconscious Cassandra to a room, leaving her with Sakurako. It would be a while before Cassandra would wake, and longer for her to be able to return to her training.

Grodak, realizing his fear and the possibility of death, decided it was time to train himself. He used the horn had created out of Talengars orb to enter the Shadow World and began to train under Wreag. Unlike Grall, Grodak had a knack for Wreags training and benefited more from it.

Outside, however, the storm that had formed behind Cassandra had yet to dissipate. The air chilled for three weeks as the storm seemed to spread across the world. No one dared to step outside for fear of death.

Imp, using the towers scrying pool, sent messages to those of the Dasari and Pyroniam races through magical means. It didn't take long before his newly built city had lines of both races looking for new housing. Imp, being as kind hearted as he was, made sure everyone had a home to call their own.

Jaxale and Dronde took a week to rest and heal their wounds. When they were set to go, they had decided it was time to find work more suitable to them. As they started to set off, an envelope appeared before them in mid air. Jaxale hesitated for a bit, as he watched the envelope slowly fall to the ground, before snatching it out of the air.

Grall, feeling that, even as he was, he was still too weak, decided to find the islands of souls, Partak. He had heard of the island from Fluffles and decided it would be best to pay the island a visit. However, no matter how much Grall looked for it, it seemed to have vanished from existence.

Adrian hung out at the bar for the most part, playing with his pets the entire time. When he had heard the news that Cassandra was attacking innocent people he laughed, not wanting to believe it. News soon reached him about how Grall had managed to contain her long enough for her to regain her senses.

Adrian felt horrible for not being there for his friend when he needed him the most. To make amends for his laps of judgment, he took up guard over Cassandra as she slept in the castle. Adrian knew he wouldn't be able to stand a chance against the altain, but he would at least be able to take her away from Whitewater long enough for Grall and Grodak to come up with a plan to defeat her.

Two months passed, the grounds outside were saturated so much that mud ran like a river down the streets. Grodak, who had spent the equivalent to twenty years in the Shadow World, had trained his body and mind to equal even Grall at his best. Grodaks fears were no more, in his mind, the only thing he feared was the loss of Xierma and the people of Whitewater.

Grall, after spending the first month looking for the location of Partak, spent the second month meditating. He knew that, physically, he could not get any stronger, so he set forth strengthening his mind, something that most of his past enemies seemed to exploit.

Imp had spent the two months setting up laws and a court system for his town. As he worked tirelessly on the judicial system, he would occasionally hear rumors of a dark cult who hid theirselves in a cavarn not far from his city. He made a resolve to go and see if the rumors held any truth to them, and if they did, destroy them before they could bring harm upon his citizens.

Jaxale and Dronde spent the two months exploring the lands, which were far different from his version of Xeno-Movia, before deciding to settle in the town that was mentioned in the letter.

Grodak

"I don't care how bad the rain is coming down. We need to find food for the citizens or else the rain will be the last thing that troubles us." Grodak screamed st the council, he had spent the better part of his time outside the Shadow World yelling at them, trying to take care of his people.