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Sin story part 4: Unwelcome followers
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Intro
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We pick up the story in one of the streets in Vabbi. Our by now more famous sin, even w/o a name, is meeting with a Ranger. We can not here what they are saying as they are wispering but we can see them making moves with arms and face that suggest they talk about something very serious...
After a few but intense minutes of talking they both go their seperate ways. Our sin eventualy shadow stepping to an unknown place that we can not follow him to.
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We find ourselfs in the valley of knowledge, on an Island away from the Cantha mainland. Its a beautiful valley, alot of people that want to use their time to gather knowledge, rest or other things come here. Even people that want to commune with the spirits come here cos its isolated and peaceful. You could call it the garden of Eva from Cantha, even the Emperors gardens arent this beautiful.
Yet on this nice summer afternoon, the sun is high, birds fly arround and sing, the sweet smell of flowers in the air. The valley is deserted. No human is to be found in the valley... well no realy living human that is.
The moment he appeared all sound of birds or other living animals stopped. The wind turned ice cold and the sun seems to have lost its warmth.
Than a ice cold voice where no emotions could be felt in spoke, giving shivers to anyone or anything that hears it.
Unknown person: "Aaaaaah atlast, the center of knowledge of whole Cantha. Even the great shiro came here to seek a way to reserect himself long ago! To bad hes not here anymore, he would have been a great puppit to abuse *snigger*"
The following hours our evil person spends alot of time going through almost all the knowledge in the library. Eventualy he takes a few scrolls and leaves.
He decided to make a walk through the valley, afterall long ago when he was still a small kid and very much alive. He walked this very same valley with diffrent intentions as the ones he has now. After some walking he found himself at the spot he always sat and watched for hours and hours. He even recalls that it was so bad hes parents had to drag him away from it in the evening. Yes this spot had something magical and enchanting for him. Even now after soooo many years, it still makes him stop and watch it.
Many hours pass, the sun goes down, even during the night he stood there and just starred at the waterfall. With the first sun light to come through and shine in the valley he moved again, he blinks his eyes and looks arround. He closes his eyes and stands still with moving one muscle. Than he opens them and quietly says: "Someone is following me... not too wise, he should know better than to follow me... perhaps a little test to see how far hes willing to go" an evil smile comes on his face and all the silent serenity fades away in an instant.
Quickly he starts moving towards one of the caves nearby, he knows them well, very very well thanks to his childhood. On his way to the caves he runs passed one of the Zunraa shrines, the same Zunraa's that have been guarding and protecting this valley and cleansed them from the stuff that shiro left behind. He looks at the shrine and notices that there is a glow arround it. This means the Zunraa wants you to summon him... and even more important.. it can only sence living souls. This just confirmed that he is indeed being followed, the person is even in the valley as hes seeing this.
Fast he moves into the caves. A certain part of the cave is an open area that is close to the sea. He runs to the center and starts speaking a very old and actualy even forgotten language that no living person would reconize. As if pulled from the ground, 3 enschackled spirits pop up.
Spirit: "You have called master?"
Unknown evil person: "Yes... i have *evil smile* I want you too watch this simple yet very dangerous curse i've putted in infront of you...stay hidden and report to me if the person following me.. survives it."
Spirit: "Your will is our command.."
The spirits fade away and are invisible. Satisfied, he checks his trap on the floor, thinking that if someone survives this curse, its going to be a very high trained Sin.
Our Evil person looks arround one last time, than opens a portal of darkness and simply walks through it. As soon as he disapeared, the birds started singing and flying arround, the wind was warm again and even the sun gave warmth again.. everything came back "to life".
A few miles away from the caves a familiar sin is checking the scrolls in the center of knowledge.
Sin: "Hmmz some very important and ancient scrolls have disapeared... I dont know which ones they were and what about but I dont like the feeling of this!"
Our sin is busy a couple of hours trying to find out which scrolls are missing. Eventualy giving up cos even the index list where they are listed is gone. He forces himself to give up on that and go on with his chase. He went back to the temple where his love died. After almost taking his life he senced a force he did not notice before and followed the trace through whole cantha, even through Elona into Vabbi. Eventualy it brought him here, the center of knowledge. Every step he makes, he feels that hes getting closer to the person responsible for his loss. Yet he never senced this before and also deep inside feels a sort of fear. He, the sin who never feared anyone, felt fear when chasing this person... meaning who ever he was chasing... he is evil to the bone. After following the trail to a beautiful spot where some form of magic he never saw before was so intense, he continued to follow it into the caves of the valley.
Carefully, he moves into the caves. He knows them, he came down here alot when he was small, he knew every corner, every stone, every hidden spot. He used to freak out kids and other people when he was small. Going through all the whole cave he picked up the trail again that leaded to the outer part of the cave. The place where you had a nice view on the sea, on the other side was the mainland of Cantha. The moment he stepped outside the cave, into the open he senced an increased form of deathly magic, the wind was ice cold, like icyfinger tried to rip of your skin. There was no sounds, not even his footsteps he could hear when he putted his feet down with force as he doesnt make any sound at all while moving. This wasnt right, he smelled a trap, he just knew there was one. Anyone could have felt that there was a trap in this area. He carefully moved in, step by step, watching every corner, checking for runes somewhere or hidden objects. Eventualy he came to the center of the place, he didnt find any trap yet, he checked the entire place but couldnt find anything.
Sin: "Weird... i would have sworn there is a trap here.."
W/o thinking clearly he sits down to check the ground from a bit closer. Triggering a deadly force that pulls him to the ground and flames erupt arround him! Green gasses start erupting with the fire, which changed into spiritual hands that were going to rip out his soul!
He quickly pains his brains to find some sort of way or spell to escape this horrible faith.
He finds one and with the last breath he had left in his body that was being scourged so hard while the spirital hands were pulling his very own soul he screamed: "I AM UNSTOPPABLE!!!!"
Shields of light drop down from the sky and cut of the spiritual hands making them lose the grip on his soul, the fire doesnt get through and eventualy fade. The spiritual arms vanish into thin air. On the floor, exhausted, scourged and pain everywhere, he damns himself for letting his guard down. He was close to being send to the realm of torment itself... in pieces.
Not knowing how much time passed till he recoverd, he got up and checked his surroundings again. The sound of birds, the wind, the sun... all was normal again. He gets up and tries to sence the trail he had been following. Nothing anymore, cursing himself for his stupidity and moves back into the valley.
Eventualy he sits down again to think bout what just happend, what sort of magic he got caught up in, who or what he is chasing and alot of other things. He lost the trail and will have to find a way to pick it up again. Time fades away, the sun goes down and the sin once again shadow steps to another location.
Far away from the valley, the 3 spirits that had seen all of this pop up near their master.
Spirit: "Master, the sin has survived, he used a shield shout"
Unknown Evil: "Is that so? He is indeed realy resourceful than... i will have to keep my eyes open for him... cos i feel that hes gonna cause me trouble."
Spirit: "Master... ?"
Unknown Evil: "You can go back and rest in the underworld... i'll call you when i have use for you.."
Spirit: "As you wish"
The spirits disapear and the our evil person looks to the sky. He had not suspsected the sin to survive that. "Maybe i should have used a more powerful curse, but than again, if i would have used one of them im sure those darn elders will pick up my trail aswell and i dont feel like killing them before i need too..."
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It seems that our Sin got a taste of what he is chasing and our Unknown evil seems to have rather big plans for Cantha or maybe the world as we know it? Dark times are at hand and we should not forget about the warlock, who already took out an elder that binded him. Yet, in all of this, there is something strange about our evil person.. why all the secrecy? He obviously has alot of power, he could do it faster and there for more obvious, he doesnt have to fear anyone... or does he? All we know is, Cantha is in for a hell of a ride.
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End part 4
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Written by: Spawny / Mahow
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but they see it wrong :o I just use screenshots from my characters and others arround me that i ask if i can screen them, but it has nothing to do with the persons that play them 
