Original Post Date: Aug 3rd, 2018
Archaia brought her latest captive forward, another outsider who had somehow made her way into Arcadia. Her scouts had spotted her right away. This one had put up a bit of a fight, but they managed to subdue her without to much trouble, anyone without an oroth was easy to handle in a fight.
Malnova: who do we have here…
Archaia lifted the woman’s face towards Malnova. She had light greyish silver eyes and silver hair with a slight pink highlight.
Malnova: Ahhhh, Caltessah, you’re a long ways from home.
Caltessah: Let me go you bastards, I’m only here to get my father’s soul back.
Caltessah: you give him back, now!
Malnova: your in no place to make demands here.
Caltessah starts to struggle in her bonds, and Archaia gives her a punch to the head.
Archaia: you’re not going anywhere, you’re going to be finding a new home here.
Caltessah looks up at Archaia with a slightly bloodied nose.
Caltessah: I’m going to get out of here, and when I do I’m going to make you wish you had let me go when I asked.
Malnova: You lights are all the same… You think you’re so high and mighty, and that you are always on the side of your so-called justice. Your kind always thinks your so much better than everyone else.
Caltessah: what does that have to do with anything? And what you’re supposed to be a dark is that it? I’ve got news for your lights and darks have been at peace for a while.
Malnova: Oh yes this so-called peace that was brokered many years ago. What a joke it was, you do not think that the light has always had the upper hand? Well, I have news for you my dear Caltessah, those days are done. The dragons time is coming to an end, with your world’s demise soon upon us, the number of our kind is getting smaller and smaller. And who do you think is at fault? The darks? hah, it was you lights who failed us.
Caltessah: but who kept causing problems to make the world fall apart?
Malnova: Perhaps you are right, that some have done more damage than good, but that is beside the point. We darks have been oppressed for far too long. Your laws, your justice, its all a method of control. Chaos breeds order, but order breeds chaos. It’s a cycle of death and rebirth of empires. And this is the death of yours, and the beginning of mine.
Caltessah: Don’t make me laugh like you will ever have an empire
Malnova: It doesn’t matter that much, so long that dragons do not go extinct, I merely wish for us darks to lead the way to a better future. One where the tyranny of the lights doesn’t cause us all to die off.
Caltessah: Who the hell are you people anyway? And what does this have to do with me or my father?
Malnova: this has everything to do with you Caltessah, you and your father.
Caltessah: Why do you keep calling me that? my name is Cal –
Malnova interrupts her, “Calveera Silvhawk”.
Caltessa goes pale and seems to be paralyzed with fear.
Caltessah: h-h-how do you know that name? … no, it can’t be… your one of them… you were there, you were with Ezear and Magilavex.
Caltessah starts to cry slightly.
Caltessah: No, no, I just wanted to find father… I didn’t want this…
Archaia: Welcome to Arcadia Canaan, Caltessah, welcome to your new home.
Paige: I’ve seen enough.
Paige sheathed both of her blades and the whirlwind silenced. The sounds of nature around them returned, and the warmth of life, and the summers sun once again filled the ruins.
Godalt: Was your intention not to kill me?
Paige: I was sent here by Archaia, at the request of Malnova to slay you yes. But you see it works just as well if I am slain instead.
Godalt: So what will you do now?
Paige: Did you want to pay them a little visit? The Silver Arrow?
Godalt: Not really…
Paige: They will come to kill you again you know, either Malnova or the Jodkin. If you kill one of them first, it seems unlikely the other will be after you.
Godalt: You think the Jodkin would forget about me for slaying Malova? Interesting suggestion… I can’t see why they would care much either way.
Godalt: Our kind do not make deals, least of all with the likes of the Jodkin.
Paige: Perhaps your not the same as me after all…
Godalt: Your an outsider, yet claim to be one of my kind? And also you have dominion over death a lot like me. Who or what are you really?
Paige: I was going to ask you the same thing.
Godalt: Why do you wish to see Malnova dead?
Paige: because he is malice, he is a breed of chaos that should not be allowed to exist in Canaan, or anywhere else for that matter. I’ve dealt with his kind before, but he is something that may prove much more dangerous than those before him.
Godalt: Because he is more powerful?
Paige: No, because he speaks the truth.
Godalt: what? about the lights and darks of Dragons? interesting…
Paige: He isn’t from here originally, I don’t think. Then again, I’m not sure where he’s from or what he really is for that matter…
Godalt: He is a whirring shadow. An enigma of time and creation. I do wonder what the Jodkin would say to the death of a creature such as that… Do you know, outsider, that Gods are an ancient relic of the past in this world, to even pray to one is a crime. They were all destroyed long ago, however… Malnova may be a lost god, who was not destroyed.
Paige: Is that why Archaia was asking for an oroth with the power to kill a god? No she wouldn’t turn on him… What would they want that for…
Godalt: They what? They are looking to kill a god? But… There isn’t any left…
Paige: Maybe there is at least one alive, one they want to see dead.
Godalt: You have my curiosity now… What was your name, outsider?
Paige: It’s Paigelia Keisner, or Paige for short.
There was a crash as the ceiling collapsed in the main hall of The Silver Arrow.
Malnova: Well what do we have here, unexpected guests.
Kilana: Give me back my daughter.
Malnova: What is it with your family coming here and making demands…
Kilana: So? We’re really not all the demanding, but sometimes exceptions will be made… Like when someone takes what isn’t theirs.
Malnova: Yes, Dilanasky… When someone takes what isn’t theirs. Like when you and your mate took the lives of your own children to prolong your lives? When you covered up the connection between the creation core and the spiritual plane core? When you and Zazilmena split the creation core to give it to that child? You think that the core belonged to you to decide where it doesn’t go? You have awakened Rezi and that was a mistake.
Kilana: So where is she? and the shard of Kiro?
Malnova: You will get nothing out of me, except maybe a cell next to your daughters.
A pair of blades made of wind and light appears in Kilana’s hands. In a gust of wind and a flash of light, she charges at Malnova. Malnova’s dragon shape seems to stretch and he grabs Kilana from the wind and slams her into the wall with a paw.
Kilana: What is this…
Malnova: Your tricks won’t work too well here. You’re so uninformed of the world around you.
Several slice marks appear on Malnova’s extended paw, as Asbridallias appears in the room from the same hole in the ceiling that Kilana had entered from.
Malnova: More unwanted guests…
Malnova flicks his other paws claws towards Asb and a series of claws made of black light appear around Asb, slicing him multiple times. Asb hits the claws with a blast of white lightning, exploding the claws into multiple smaller claws.
Malnova: You are both fools to come here and expect to win without an Oroth between the two of you. I have more important things to deal with than the likes of you. You lights are always the same, when my kingdom of darks rises your souls will be recycled into the oroths of my army of peacekeepers.
Asbridalias: Kingdom? Peacekeepers? what do you think your some kind of Nykasar? Making a kingdom of peace?
Malnova’s other paw extends and crushes Asb.
Malnova: Don’t you dare ever speak that name in my presence again! AND DON’T YOU DARE EVER COMPARE US!
A black-scale dagger with a dragon handle made of glowing amethyst stabs into Malnova’s left eye.
Phagikarasis: So you really hate grandfather do you?