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The ruby in my hand glowed with an inner fire, bright and clear. “No not this one.” I said for the umpteenth time, didn’t this guy get I wanted one with no flaws? The jeweler side ruefully, “Ser,” he began “that is the most flawless one we have right now, why don’t you come back in a week or two we should have another shipment by then.” “I don’t have time to wait for a week or two I’m leaving in two days,” I state, “now I know you have at least one completely flawless ruby just in case a noble shows up, well I’m no noble but I shirr as hell have enough money for it.” I give him a little incentive by pulling out the “money” pouch I was caring. “I’m sorry ser but I cannot sell you that ruby.” His eyes stared greedily at the bulging sack.
I don’t get it, I thought as I exited the fourth jewel shop id been to that day, why would these people sell me a ruby? I had the money, maybe it was because I was young but that shouldn’t matter money dominates over age every time. I was so engrossed in thought that I didn’t see the beggar until I almost ran into her. Her boll of money spilled on the ground and the coins the people hear used rolled every which way. “I’m so sorry,” I stammer out “I’ll help you pick those up.” She stares at me like I have horns and glowing red eyes. “I’m not gona hurt you.” I say in my most soothing voice. I bend down and scoop the money up as fast as I can. Being in this city gave me the creeps.
I stand back up and hand the money back to the woman who stood in front of me like she was petrified. “There have a nice day.” I say tiring to get a reaction out of her but she just stood there like a statue. Her eyes were quivering in their sockets, then I realized why it looked like she wasn’t looking at me, she wasn’t.
I turn around casually even thou every part of my body was ready to run or defend. The man dint just stand over you he loomed. I had a terrible erg to back up and suppressed it this oaf looked like he would take something like that as a reason to mess with you. He was wearing the armor the city guards wore, but that dint count as much, from what I had seen these guys were just big idiots with too much time on their hands. If the higher ups wanted to get rid of the crime so much they could just fire all the guards and half of it would disappear. “What do you think you are doing?” he boomed.
I stammered a reply, “I was just-“he cut me off, “Not you, her.” And he pointed over my solder at the beggar woman. She still hadn’t moved and looked about ready to faint. ”What did I do?” she quavered meekly. The guard sneered at her “Where’d you get all that money?” he demanded. She looked down at the boll in her hands speechlessly. “You can’t tell me you begged for all that.” His voice if it was possible even sounded like the sneer his face was wearing. “I gave it to her.” I spurted. He looked down at me like I was the scum of the earth and had just ruined a game for him, farther compounding my dislike.
I gave him that same look but with a little oomph to it. I made my eyes flash red for an instant, just long enough for even his thick skull to absorb. He backed away from me very quickly with a stuttered ‘good day to you sorry for the inconvenience’. Wow, I thought, who would have known he knew a word like that? I turn back to the beggar to find she had disappeared.
I got home about 20 minutes later hoping I never saw that guard again. I reach for the door and realized my barriers were broken every one of them. I stopped reaching for the door handle and closed my eyes; I let my personal shield go and slid my inner eye look into the room. There were two people in it standing on either side of the door waiting. I scanned the rest of the room nothing was missing or even touched. So they were waiting for me huh? Well they can go on waiting. I turned to go when one of the moved. Presser like I was being smashed with a landslide hit me. I staggered to the left and into a wall. The man that had moved started for the door I charged a ball of power in my hand and shot it at the door. It smashed inward and smacked the man into the wall across the room.
The magic that held me pinned let me go and I ran down the hall as fast as my legs would carry me. A bolt of magic smashed the wall in front of me, and I jumped threw it. I hit the ground at a roll bounced back and began to run to the nearest ally. Suddenly I tripped and fell. “I got him with a trip Sam!” a female cried out. I lashed out with a leg and sent her flying with the same type of ball I used on Sam. I got right back up and ran. I ducked and weaved in and out of streets, alleys, and buildings. I could still feel the magic of the first one, the one the woman called Sam. It was hard and slightly warm like a stone in the sun. The woman’s was alive and green; it reminded me of a forest. What they wanted with me I had no idea and did not care to find out. The guards seemed to be in on it as well. They were running around like bees whose nest was disturbed.
I decided to go back to the inn I was staying at. At the very least I was going to get my stuff back. It took me about an hour to get back; I couldn’t see any one around and didn’t want to risk someone noticing my magic again so I just let the limits on my senses go. I always put limits on my senses of smell and hearing when I’m staying in a city, without them I would probably go crazy. To many smells and sounds not enough brain to hold it all. I saw a guard smash down the door of one of the stores I had gone to that day. At least on my plain and in America the police couldn’t do that.
Why did I have to try to teleport, I wined in my head, why? All that happened was that I got sent hear and scared the s**t out of my sister and my aids. This place was not exactly hospitable but it was the first city I came to and I was tired of wandering around lost. Lucky for me there was a small lay line running true this city. That was another weird thing, no one was using it. Usually there would be quite a lot of activity in a lay line, if not on purpose, subconsciously. There are several types of animals that live off of lay lines. Like those little blue butterfly things, they might be annoying but they should be all over the place here. I pushed the thought from my mind so I could focus. I heard one person at the mouth of the alley. No way around it I had to knock um out and run to my place.
I started to run and when I was at the mouth of the alley I shot a small blast of magic at the woman next to it. “Sorry!” I shout and run on. Just inside the hole in my wall a shot of fire went over my head and exploded. I was flung back like a doll. “s**t!” I hell right before I hit the ground. I jump back up and spin around to face my assailant. It was the woman near the ally. “I thought I knocked you out.” I say dumbly. “Think again.” She says. I feel her tap into the lay line, and draw power a lot of it. My eyes start to bug out as I realize what she was doing. “What do you think you are doing?” I ask to confirm my suspicion. “I’m wining.” She says flatly. She starts to gather it in one charge.
She holds up her hands and makes a ball of flame, “Stop!” I shout “There are people in this building!” she smiles, “So?” she shot the flames strait at me, and I reached up with my right hand and caught it. I squeezed it until it smashed and sent a wave of magic right back at her knocking her of her feet. She begins to curs me and all who know or love me. “Wow you’re just a ball of sunshine aren’t you?” I say with a smile. “You disserve that for being rash.” I say mater-of-factly. “I couldn’t agree more.” says a deep male voice directly behind me.
I freeze and turn around slowly. The man was dressed like a mage out of a story book, robes, amulets, and a beard. I didn’t even feel this guy com up behind me. Forget feel I didn’t even smell or hear him! Ohshitohshitohshit! I say the first thing that comes to mind, “Hi.” He looks at me blankly for a then starts to laugh, its starts slow kind of like a chuckle then gets bigger until he’s laughing with all he’s got. I however take the opportunity to duck round him and run into my room. I sweep my arm threw the air and teleport everything into my bag. That’s when I realized it was almost everything, my power core was missing. Those bastards stole it! If they broke it I’m going to kill them! I turn around and came face to face with the stereotypical mage again. “Distracting people with humor is not nice.” He says. I just look at him all the anger drained out of me in the face of his obvious insanity. “What is wrong with you?” I say, he gives me a shrewd look, “Nothing.” He states. I point to the roof and say, “Look a monkey.” He doesn’t even twitch. “Not funny.” All the humor disappeared in an instant. He looked like a totally different person, almost not human. I back up as he starts stepping forward. That’s when I realize why I didn’t notes him coming up behind me, he had the power core, I was so used to its feel I ignored it and he used it to get close. He is most definitely crazy, but he is smart and crazy.
I hold my hands out a little from my body, he notices “I see.” Was all he says before he strikes. A whip of concentrated fire hits the shield I threw up in an instant. “Very good.” he says. His next attack was a bolt of power strait at chest level hit hits my shield and smashes it. I put my right hand in the way and tap into the magic in my glove. The bolt hits it and stops dead. I smash it like I did the fir ball and send the same magic back lash at him. He sucks it up like a sponge. He smiles again, “Not bad.” He sends the same kind of bolt at me again. I don’t have a shield this time and just catch it again; suddenly he was right in front of me. He lashed out with a dagger I didn’t see on him before, so I threw his own attack in his face.
It sent him reeling and he collapsed onto the floor. He was just dazed and I had to work fast, I rushed over to him snatched my core off him and dropped a small mettle figure of a pair of handcuffs. It activated when it hit him binding his hands together, above his head and to the floor. ”Sorry.” I say for the third time today. “No wonder you beat my students,” he says drunkenly, “your stronger then all of them put together and have more experience.” That stops me dead. “Why are you after me?” I ask bluntly. “Now that would be telling.” He says with all the humor he had before. I run out of the inn through the lobby and throw some gold on the counter, “That should pay for the damages!” I yell over my shoulder to the cowering innkeepers.
It takes till almost dark to the gate and about three seconds to get through it. If the guards in this place were any more unobservant they would be corpses. I find a nice clearing in the nearby woods, and then set up a camp of sorts. Instead of a fire I put my power core on a flat rock and set it to give of heat and light. Next I get another crystal and set up an anti bug shield so that I don’t get munched on in my sleep. None of these magic’s would get noticed sense I was in the lay lines path. They would be masked by its current. I hope. It’s horrible when you gang up on yourself. I think.
I’m standing in a city I can’t tell which one and it probably didn’t matter considering the shape it was in. There didn’t seem to be a complete building any ware. Everything seemed dead and cold. Nothing in sight was alive. I could hear screams in the distains. Then I heard a sound much closer, and it froze the blood in my veins. It was the sound of something big moving on clawed feet. I ran not bothering to see what was there because I already knew. I heard it start to run too then I heard the sound of leather on leather then a gust of wind hit me in the back and the running stopped but flapping began. I picked up the pace and stated to run threw alleys, just keeping ahead of it feeling its claws swipe the air not even an inch away.
Suddenly it stopped, I ran even faster knowing what would happen, I heard the intake of breath then the thundering roar of the flames searing threw the air. The intense heat as it got closer. Then the agonizing pain as it hit me and burned me to ash.
I screamed wake only to find the stench of burnt grass to meet my nose. I looked around the little clearing, and saw it was going to stay a little clearing for a while. The grass was nothing but ash and a few trees were looking weirs for ware. I need to move the lay line will hide the little stuff but not some one exploding. I packed every thing up the old fashioned way; I can’t trust my magic at the moment. I put my pack on and began fooling the flow of the lay line, hoping it would lead to a city. It was several hours latter that I started to feel a large collection of magic. Thank god. I quickened my pace and started to ‘look’ for a road. I found one almost immediately, it was about twenty feet to the left of me. God I’m unobservant. Oh well.
Three hours later I reach the city gates. This city was completely walled in. The wall was at least fifty feet tall and made of some sort of white stone. The gate was open and a small amount of people were clustered in front of what looked like a toll booth. I came to the small crowed and asked a small man leading a pack mule what was going on. “Some one tried to sneak some black magic item inside the city.” He said excitedly, “The role guard tried to take it and he knifed him! But we stopped him from going any farther. The magic in the thing seams to be pretty nasty the guard has got a fever and won’t stop bleeding. Lucky there was a retired healer in line or he would be dead but as it is he probably won’t make it.” He finished sadly. “He was such a nice lad.” “Lets try to keep it that way.” I say, and start toward the feeling of healing magic. I stumbled into a grisly seen. The old man must not have actually seen what happened. This was not a stabbing, it was practicality a gutting. The poor guy looked barely old enough to drink let alone man a government job, but considering the concern on most of the people’s faces this was probably an easy and safe job. Until now that is.
The healer was trying her best, but it looked like she was loosing and tired as well. I walked up to her and taped the lay line, then tunneled the raw magic into her. She looked around wildly and spotted me and went back to her work. I reached out to the young man to see if could help and felt it. I felt my face go hard and cold, I bend down and take over she was about to protest until she felt me drawing the magic she just couldn’t get rid of out. I slid deeper into the boy and felt the depth of the wound. “********.” I said aloud. I drew more power from the lay line and began the slow job of drawing the magic from the wound then repairing the damage.
I was barely concise of other power joining mine when I was tiring, but I ignored it I just kept doing what needed to be done. Finally I sealed the wound and healed it enough so that no mater how much he stretched he wouldn’t reopen it. Then I passed out.
I woke up to the sound of other people moving around, and taking, “He just went in and started to move the magic.” said one voice. “But the question is ware?” demanded another voice. “Isn’t it obvious he put it in the only container he had, himself.” snapped another voice. Suddenly I felt a hand on my forehead and instinctively put a shield up. “Wow,” said a surprised female voice, “he’s quick!” I jumped up and summoned my daggers putting one in-between me and the voices, and one at my back. There were four people in the room two male two female. One of the men was heavily built wile the other was small and frail looking but gave off strong magical vibrations the same with the older woman the younger woman was small but confident looking with an intense expression and a magical vibration that had all the hairs standing on end.
“I do believe he just sized us all up.” the intense one stated. “I agree.” the larger man barks. I see two exits one behind me and one behind them. I ‘look’ at them both the one behind me is a storage closet, and the one behind them opens into a hall way. I tens my legs as I prepare to bolt. The large man takes up a spread legged stance. The young man looks confused and the women just look interested. It’s now or never. I run directly toward the large man, witch he doesn’t expect and his stance relaxes for an instant. I keep running at him full out, and then jump. I collide with his chest right when I start to spin rolling off and around him. Now the young man is the only one in my way, he takes one look at me and panics. He throws a blast of energy at me. I bounce it right back at him and send him careening into a stand with medical supplies on it.
I burst thru the door, and into a woman wearing enough jewels to buy several small countries. The guards on ether side of her jump and stare. I stare right back, and then came a voice id never heard before. “That’s him all right.” I almost threw up. Oh my god I’m going to be killed was all that I could think. I just stood there mouth agape, and stared she stared right back so did the guards, it was a big staring party and nobody wonted to be there. Then I snapped to my senses and took off. I ran outside as fast as I could and striate into the arms of the biggest human I have ever seen.
“Hay there little buddy ware do you think your going?” he asked with a chuckle. “Away?” was all that I could say. He looked at me funny and started to honestly chuckle. ”You think we would really let you go?” he asked. Ohshitohshitohshitohshit!!! I’mgoingtodieI’mgoingtodieI’mgoingtodieI’mgoingtodie!! My brain just refused to work then I herd the large man from inside laughing. Now I’m really dead, he looked like the kind of guy keeps grudges. “You should have seen him Michael!” he chortled, “he did the craziest stunt I’ve ever seen then sent poor Pike threw the air and into a cart of med supplies.” Michael let me go and looked at me critically, “You know I think I believe you he looks like a scraper.” I let this new string of data enter my brain. These guys didn’t want to kill me?
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