Chapter 9: discovery if the Dark Elves

One week earlier

'Oh if I don't prove that I didn't kidnap a sprite, destroy buildings, and didn't murder 20+people. I will die before the end of the week by the king, just usual stuff I guess.'

'Ahhh it's just a normal tuesday, we got this'

I finally stop talking to Greed and ask Sol

"So sol, what's the plan to make me not die"

"Why do I need to come up with a plan to make you seem innocent, you are the one who should know what to do to not die."

You're telling me, my ex best friend, doesn't have any idea on how to save me, but still wants to try and find proof that will save me?? 

"Zeph, is there anyone who can prove you didn't do any of the crimes?"

"Well ya, there's the sprite they accused me of kidnapping, there's Bob, and whoever healed/ found me can probably help me."

"Bob is at the young prince tama's house" Soa said this like it was nothing new

"How do you know this"

"Everyone knows Bob, prince tama took him as a guest."

"Okay so do we…" me and sol look at eachother, I can tell me and him agree but we look at soa 

"Do we what?" she's looking at me and Sol very confused and like a light switch suddenly being flicked on, I can see it in her eyes

"No, no no no, we can not do that"

"We have to, what else can we do"

"Not that, we are not breaking into Prince tama's house"

"Well we don't have too, only zeph and I have to"

"I cannot and will not allow you two to break into prince tama's house, even if it means that you will live, there must be another way. Let's go to where you fell off at Rock Fall.

She turns around and starts walking to a large cliff very far away.

I can tell myself and Sol already agreed what we are gonna do, now we just need to find a way to escape from Soa.

We find a wagon for free because of Soa's relationship with the king and we travel for a few hours, we eventually pass by the campfire Bob had set up so long ago

"Sol come down with me" we both hop, and we look at it and Soa is still sitting in the wagon, it's being pulled by a large bull with metal horns and huge back legs and tiny front legs.

" so Sol what's the plan"

"I'm going to tie a rope around mine and kreios legs and you will make greed run around a tree, when he goes behind the tree, then I will say his name and he pulls me when he comes out, and it will seem like I'm being kidnapped, then I will throw a rope around you and yank you and we will run tell Soa cant find us."

"Wow, dang that's smart, good idea, Okay I'm ready whenever you are"

At some time we finally get to the cliff where was thrown off

"How far did you fly off the cliff?"

"Sol, summon your bird and me and Sol will fly on it, we will fly away till it seems like what I remember."

Sol whistles and just like last time, Kreios shows up with incredible fashion and this time burns the ground when landed. We hop on and I am very nervous.

"Zeph, let go, it's getting hard to breath"

"No, never, I am not falling off again"

"Ugh fine"

And we slowly hover over the cliff, and i'm looking at soa, 50 feet, 60 feet, 70, 100,

"Okay stop, this looks about fine"

"Soa how far away are we?"

"Approximately 212.5 feet away"

"How do you know that?"

"I do"

"Okay nevermind then, hey Sol fly down to the ground, lets see if we can find where i landed"

We are on the ground and I'm looking for any hint of an impact of something, and I keep looking back at the cliff, and Soa is still on top, man that cliff is high, how am I not dead? Ya right, Soa

"Soa, how are you gonna get down from there"

"With ease"

And she jumps off, with no hesitation, and falling, falling, falling. I don't know what her plan is but she's falling very fast, and she shows no regard for slowing down. She kind of reminds me of a water drop, falling from the cloud, all alone, and doesn't care what she hits. And then *plop* she disappeared, only making a little sound.

Me and Sol run over and discover there is a small pool at the bottom. Gosh she scared us and didn't care to tell us that there was water here, she had me worried but Sol doesn't seem to care. He heads back to look for clues and I help Soa out of the water

"And I thought I was dumb"

"I'm not dumb, I did what I did becuase I knew I wasn't gonna get hurt"

She seems so strong, her and Sol both do. Why can't I fall off a cliff and act like it was nothing

"Hey you guys, come check this out"

We ran and we found what Sol was looking at.

"What is it? I've never seen that thing before"

"What could have caused this?"

"Well look around, tell me what you see."

I walk over to it and look around, and there's nothing on the ground, but I look up in the trees and I see a whole, a straight shot to where I was standing.

"What could have caused this?

"Well my guess it was you"

Sol is looking at the ground and the hole in the tree's canopy. 

I look back, I'm looking at the site, it looks like a crash site, I must have caused it when Tama hit me off the cliff. I must have landed here, so that means that the crater is from me. And the thing inside of it must also be me, but I have no idea how. It's a crater. A large one, and in the middle of it is a sword, or something that looks like a sword. Sol goes to the middle and tries to grab it, his hand passes right through it. It's just like Greed and it looks like black clouds around it. and Soa joins in afterwards and tries to grab it but her hand passes through too. And I tried to grab it, but when my hand went through it, I felt this pain, pain in my soul and I lost the air in my body. My mind went numb and breathing started to hurt, I dropped to the ground but I didn't pass out. And I looked at my arm that touched the sword cause it started to burn. It feels like I stuck my hand in a blacksmith's forge and its melting. I look at the sword and it slowly starts to vanish. I look at my arm and scream as I see the marks of the sword appearing on my arm, Sol and Soa are around me trying to help but I can't hear a word they are saying, and once the sword is gone the burning in my arm still hurts, but right before I pass out, it goes away, faster than it even started.

"What was that?"

"I don't know, but it reminds me of an incident a few months ago"

"What happened a few months ago?"

"Well actually it's been popping up alot, but this is the first time about me learning of someone surviving it'

I look at Soa and ask her, with the little air I have "surviving what"

"There have been reports of weapons in black being found around the country, and whenever a chosen one grabs a weapon, it kills them instantly"

Sol looks confused, almost as much as me" where are they coming from"

"That's the thing, no one is placing them where they are found, but they have a connection with… Dark elves "

"What are dark elves"

"They are elves who didn't receive Rofanas blessing. They are violent and specialize in killing, espionage, and being silent"

I finally get feeling back in my legs and stand, I look back at Soa and ask "So what does that mean for me?"

"Your probably gonna die"

"Oh my god, when aren't I gonna die, like seriously"

"Hey don't get all moody, everything I just said is all I know"

"Okay…. What do we do now?"

Sol looks at me and I know what he's thinking but his lips say something else to make Soa happy" we look for more clues, search for anything that could help"

I see him go to the cart and grab rope as soa heads in the opposite direction, and kreios comes to him quietly, and he ties it around both of their legs, and greed comes up to me

'No go around that tree, and get kreios attention.'

'Okay sounds good'

And he disappears behind some shrubs and soon Sol's familiar chases after him, fast, and just like planned Sol disappears.

"Soa, Sol is gone"

"What?"

"I don't know where he went"

And then I feel something grab my back, now it's my turn to escape as well. But I need to act scared so Soa finds it believable.

"Um Soa, something go….. AAAAAHHHHH"

 And something pulled me past the shrubs, sweet just as planned, Sol is doing very good of holding me and being quiet, I never even heard him throw anything.

"Sol you can put me down now, Soa is not gonna find us"

And he's silent, why is he not talking? And the next thing I see is Greed in front of me…

'Greed, why are you here?'

'Oh, I forgot what you said, so i decided to come see you'

'Oh… makes sense, did you perhaps get chased by kreios?'

'no?'

I swear. On god I swear if Sol doesn't answer I'm not gonna even freak at this point

"Sol"

 I turn around and it turns out it's not Sol, but an elf…. It's a dark elf.

"FUUUUUUUUUU..."

I'm in a temple now, at least that's where I think I am. I heard the elf say it to someone else. I mean im blind folded. What do I know? At this point I'm done, like seriously, can I not catch a break. I hear something and I get picked up again, my hands are tied to my feet and they grab me by the rope, I feel like luggage.

"Put me down, put me down right now, I am not having a good enough day to be someones carry on"

"Is this the young master"

"How am I supposed to answer that, I can't even see who asked"

And the one who asked me the question whistles and I feel someone untie the blind fold around my head. I look around and ya, this seems like a temple. Wood arches, paper doors, cool statues all around. And I look at the thing in front of me, ya it's a dark elf. He has long facial hair, and his skin is darker than the one who grabbed me, and he's wearing these red and black robes, honestly looks sick. His hair is long and white, just like tama, but his eyes are pitch black, i can't tell if he even has a pupil or not

"Okay, so why am I here? Like seriously Imma gonna die in a week and I don't have enough time for this"

"Your here cause you where chosen"

"Chosen? What you mean, I was kidnapped and carried here like someone's bag"

"What's going on here?"

"You claim to not know what's going on. Tell me, what weapon chose you?"

"Weapon chose me? Ohhhhhh do you mean this?" I rolled up my sleeve to reveal the very painful tattoo-like symbol on my arm. As soon as he sees it, his eyes widen and he flies towards me, ugaling and drooling at it.

"Oh my, oh my oh my oh my, splendid, indeed splendid, it finally found a owner, this is marvelous, you are very lucky"

"How am I lucky, this thing hurt so much, I don't even know what it is?" The elf stopped ugaling, but still held into my arm

"What do you mean, "you don't know""

"I don't know what it is' ' he's still holding on, but this time, grasping even harder, I feel like he's about to break my arm. But then he lets go and smiles

"Doesn't matter, we are gonna win."

"Win what? Look guy, I don't know what is going on, that should be obvious."

"Win the tournament of course."

"WHAT TOURNAMENT. I DONT KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON."

"Sheesh young master, it's the fallen blade tournament. And with the weapon that chose you, you will win."

"What weapon is this?"

His expression changed suddenly, it went from one of joy, to one of a killer, he lost all warmth about him

"You don't know?"

"It's a sword"

"What sword is it, must I repeat myself you barbaric buffoon, what sword is it"

I look at my arm, what sword is it? I start to get nervous because the dark elf seems to be getting angrier.

"Disappointing, very disappointing, it chose wrong, it chose wrong, how could it choose such an imbecile. You will lose, you will die, oh you will lose. Unless, unless I help you, I must help you"

" Why do I need to know it's name?"

"How else will you be able to summon the weapon and compete in the fallen blade tournament? It's crucial you know its name and history."

"How are you going to do that?"

"Oh, the process will depend on how resilient you are. We will tie you up and torture you until the blade is calling your name, and you call out it's."

I look at him dumbfounded.

"No thanks, I'm good"

And now he looks dumbfounded, like he's never heard of no before

"It's not an option, you were chosen for this, you need…"

"I need to get out of here, and get back to the elf kingdom and not die by the end of the week, what part of that do you not understand? All of it, some of it? Just let me go and we can put this past us"

He's looking furious. I turn around but I walk slowly, in case he says something that could be somewhat important. But he doesn't talk, or speak, or even move. But something is wrong, if he carred so much to have someone kidnap me, it shouldn't be this easy to walk away

"Stop"

And before I turned around, I felt his blade pierce my back, breaking the skin, slicing the muscles with ease, and puncturing the bottom of my left lung, popping such a fragile thing with such a large blade, it felt like a balloon popped inside, and I felt this sharp pain. 

"You will compete in the tournament, we need to!"

"So you… you. Stab me?" I'm starting to get light headed and breathing is hurting the more I do it. I need help, I need something to heal me

"I had to stop you somehow"

"You didn't have rope or anything that won't kill me?"

"I could have killed you with a rope"

"How????? Oh. well I understand then"

"Really? Thank you"

"God no, you stabbed me"