Original Post Date: July 20, 2018
Enwaqu knew that trying to fight this dragon alone was a bad idea, why had he thought otherwise and accepted that demons offer? he wondered that now.
Dragon: The one who sent you was a hadren by the name of Dershadrawk, a cursed being, a creature with a fate much darker than your own. And your’s has forever changed now that you have stepped into my cave, the cave of Malnovak Irridimus.
Enwaqu: So I’ve been tricked by a cursed being to meet my end here by your claws?
Malnova: No, I have other plans for you dark elf.
Malnova placed the stone Enwaqu had been sent to collect in front of him. He then took out a vial of blue liquid and opened it, he poured one single drop upon the stone. A puff of smoke suddenly filled the cave, and Malnova flapped his wings, a gust of black wind pushed the smoke around Enwaqu and surrounded him.
Malnova: Breath deep Enwaqu, for you, now have the rare honor of becoming apart of something much more.
Enwaqu: What is this?
Malnova: A vile of life, and the stone, well let’s just say it’s a remote to something greater. A rare prise both of these. Together well, let’s say they have some strange effects. You will be a test subject of mine.
Enwaqu began to cough and began feeling pain all throught his body, he soon collapsed to the pain. His body withering as something beneath the surface forced its way out. A pair of black wings, draconic, a tail, his dark skin turned to hard scales…
When the smoke cleared, Enwaqu was no more a dark elf, he was a drelf a half dragon, half-elf.
Malnova: interesting, it seems the proximity to dragons blood altered the reaction… Well, your no good to anyone know, a freak which will be hated by both dragons and elves. I wonder if that foolish wizard on Astra who was performing those experiments would find you useful…
And so it was that Enwaqu was taken by Guanis, the star mage, the mage of Adrian’s court. Guanis performed many experiments on him, and broke his mind and spirit, only to fix it and then return him to suffering again. Then one day he heard Guanis proclaim his success, he had found a way to replicate the process that turned Enwaqu into a drelf, without the need of the stone or the vial of blue fluid. Enwaqu was left alone in the dungeon of the Wizards tower… Many days passed…
Enwaqu woke up to hear a voice…
It was the demon who had healed him, who had sent him on this failed quest…
Dershadrawk: So you failed Enwaqu…
Enwaqu: …
He tried to speak but found he could not having been left in that dungeon, chained, for too long without food or water.
Dershadrawk: I already saved you once before, but now it’s too late. He has taken the stone and is gone. But in the end, that’s probably for the best, if he had remained here it would have been much too dangerous. You see it loses its power the farther it is from the creation core. And it seems he’s taken it pretty far this time. Perhaps the core was searching for it’s remote.
Enwaqu: …
Dershadrawk: My brother will be after it soon enough. After all, it was his fault anyway.
Enwaqu: …
Dershadrawk: You’re a lot like me now you know… something that fate has left broken and cursed. Discarded. You and I should work together, work towards breaking this foolish system.
Enwaqu stared at Dershadrawk not knowing what was about to happen, not believing any of his words, he had been responsible, he was to blame for this situation. He sent him to that cave, to that thing who disguised himself as a dragon…
Enwaqu: M…A…O…A…
Dershadrawk: whats that?
Enwaqu managed to get out one word, the name…
Enwaqu: Malnova
Dershadrawk slashed at the walls around Enwaqu releasing his chains.
Dershadraw: Yes. that’s right… Help me destroy him. His maliciousness is the source of more pain than you will ever know.
Enwaqu fell to the floor with a thud, he managed to get himself up.
Dershadrawk: Come with me then. I have much to teach you.
Enwaqu shook his head. “No”
Dershadrawk turned away. “Why?”
Enwaqu simply stared back at Dershadrawk.
Dershadrawk disappeared into the shadows ” I see… goodbye then”
Enwaqu eventually found some strength and managed to get out of the tower, and found himself wandering in a forest, a forest littered with the dead corpses of dragons, elves, drelves, and other creatures and things he had no words for. This had been the fall of Adrian’s kingdom. The drelf wars had begun. He learned quickly the dragons wanted him dead, and so did the elves. He cloaked himself in the clothes of a fallen elf and hid as best he could among the refugees, heading away from the kingdom, trying to find any way to get off Astra, the planet was once again at war, and he was branded villain number one.
Eventually, after wandering for what seemed like days, he ran into a group of Mogators and their drones scavenging the remains of a battlefield for weapons and armour. He knew this would be his chance, these Mogators were from off-world, looking for things to sell. He soon found their ship and snuck on board…
As the ship began to take off, one of the mogators approached his hiding place.
Mogator: I know your here stowaway. You show on the ship’s scanners.
Enwaqu: Please, I just want off this world… I don’t want to be a part of this war… I’m not like the others, I’ve been tortured by that mage, I’ve been haunted by demons, and made an experiment out of by some kind of dark god.
Mogator: come out drelf, let me see you.
Enwaqu came out of the crate he was hiding in. The mogator that stood before him was unlike any he had seen before, he was much taller than most, and had silver and white fur with purple eyes.
Mogator: A dark drelf?? How odd, I was told that the dark elves had all left Astra, they only turned light and fo\rest elves into drelfs. Well let me introduce myself, my name is Holly. Perhaps you’ve heard of me, I run a special kind of store.
Enwaqu: Holly? Yes actually… but I thought that was just a myth… I’m Enwaqu, well I guess I used to be… I’m not sure anymore… I used to be a mercenary from Lunixia, but they abandoned me, and then I was turned into this. And then that wizard…
Holly: How about I offer you a job. And in return, I can get you far away from Astra.
Enwaqu: A job? What did you have in mind?