CHAPTER 1
It
is a peaceful day, as usual, in the town of Graydon. The streets
are filled with noise of merchants and their customers. The
children are running around in the grassy fields. The farmers
tending to their animals and the performances of the local
playwriters. The focus now shifts, away from the noise of the
merchants, the children, farmers and performances. We shift over
to a nearby forest. The tall, green, cascading trees. The birds
chirping in the trees. Now listen. If you listen well, you will
hear the sounds of Lucavi a young man of about 16 years, training
in the depths of the forest. He is a tall man with short brown
hair and brown. He has a medium build and ressembles Vesuvius
quite a bit. He is sharpening his sword skills, slashing at the
trees. Then, suddenly he hears a branch snap. He turns around and
holds his sword up to the neck of a beautiful woman. She is a
woman of average height with long flowing brown, deep blue eyes
and a very beautiful face. She has fair skin and a slim body. She
stands there, fearless of what is to come. She speaks.
"Good day Lucavi, how are you doing today?" Lucavi
lowers his sword.
"Oh, hello Chantelle." Lucavi responds. "I’m
doing great. Just trying to get in some training. "
"I’ve been meaning to ask you something for a while. I
mean, why do you train so hard if we live in such a peaceful
world?" Melanie questions.
Lucavi begins to describe his reasons "Well there are a four
reasons. First, I do it because I find it to be quite relaxing.
The life of a Prince is quite stressful and frustrating. Second,
I guess it is a desire to live up to Vesuvius name. I wish to try
and keep the Royaume name, one that represents strength and
justice. Third, I feel that, eventhough we live in such a
peaceful world, that evil can strike down at any time. If evil
were to return, there is no one prepared to stop it. The evil
would destroy the world. The last reason…"
Suddenly, Lucavi and Chantelle hear an enormous amount of screams
"Ahhhh! Oh my god! Stop them! Somebody help!"
"What is going on? Where are those screams coming
from?" Chantelle asks.
"I’m not sure, but I think they’re coming from the
town. Chantelle come one, let’s go check it out!"
Lucavi responds.
Lucavi grabs his equipment and the two of them rush for the city.
When they arrive back at the city they see a massacre going on.
They can see a group of goblins terrorizing the city. People are
getting dismembered and decapitated. The people try to fight back
with whatever they can find but it is to no avail. Chantelle and
Lucavi and shocked at what they are witnessing.
"Chantelle, come with me quickly. We must get to my
room." Lucavi commands.
"What are you talking about. We have to do something about
the goblins. We can’t just leave these people to die."
Chantelle sharply replies.
"I know that, but we can’t do anything like this. I
have some equipment up in my room. If we don’t hurry, then
everyone will surely perish. Now come, hurry." Lucavi
retorts.
Lucavi grabs Chantelle’s arm and they dash for the castle.
The goblins are too busy to pay any attention to them. The two
reach Lucavi’s room, which is on the second floor of the
castle. Lucavi opens up a chest that is sitting by his bed.
Inside are a finely sharpened long sword, a crossbow, a quiver of
arrows and a plate mail. Lucavi slips on the plate mail and
firmly grasps the sword. He gives the crossbow to Chantelle. She
holds the crossbow in her hands.
"Do you know how to use this?" Lucavi asks Chantelle.
"You know what? If you were to ask me that before I would
have said no, but for some reason there is this strange knowledge
of battle filling my head." Chantelle responds while putting
on the quiver.
"Are you ready Chantelle?" Lucavi adds.
"As ready as I will ever be. Let’s go" Chantelle
says nervously.
Lucavi looks out the window and sees the goblins approaching the
castle. He thinks of a plan.
"Alright, Chantelle, this is what I want you to do. I am
going to jump out the window. When I am out of your range, I want
you to shoot the goblins with your crossbow. You stay up here and
keep shooting them while I work down there." Lucavi
explains.
Lucavi readies himself and dives out the window. He comes dashing
down with his sword thrusting down. He lands on top of the
unsuspecting pack of goblins. He quickly removes his sword from
the goblin and quickly tackles another. One of the goblins comes
up behind Lucavi, with an axe raised, ready to slash but all of a
sudden he drops. It’s Chantelle. She begins to unleash a
stream of arrows, killing a bunch of the goblins. Lucavi turns
around to see another pack of goblins, charging towards him.
"Where are they all coming from? I don’t know how much
longer I will be able to hold off these goblins." Lucavi
ponders.
Then, out of nowhere, a bunch of lightning bolts come crashing
down from the sky. Completely annihilating half of the group.
Lucavi spins around and see a couple of people coming toward the
castle, riding on horses.
"What was that!?" shouts Chantelle, filled with both
excitement and fear.
"I don’t know, but I think that it may be some remnants
of black magic." Lucavi retorts.
"Do you think so? Well if it is, I hope that they are here
to help us out." Chantelle adds.
Arriving into the town, riding on two black horses, are a man and
a woman. The man is dressed in a black cloak while the woman is
draped in a deep blue cape. The woman jumps off her horse and
begins to chant,
"Controller of lightning, I command thee, arise. Unleash
your power to stop this demise. Eradicate all evil, I know
it’s your goal. Strike forth with fury and torture their
souls"
The
sky turns black, begins to fill up with clouds. The wind begins
to howl. Thunder begins to roar and lightning strikes. The clouds
part and out comes a huge beast. It raises its arms in the air
and then quickly thrusts them down. Then, the lightning bolts
that were filling the sky now strikes down to the earth and hits
the goblins. Some of the goblins explode while some simply drop
dead. The beast leaps back up into the sky and the sky clears up.
The goblins are all destroyed. Chantelle runs down to Lucavi.
They approach the two mysterious aides.
"Thanks for your help and, I don’t want to sound rude
but who are you?" Lucavi interrogates.
"First of all, your welcome and no, you are not being rude.
I am Solduvius and this is my sister Britney." responds the
man in the black cape.
"Where are you from and how did you know about the goblins.
We have so many questions to ask you. Please come with us to the
castle so we may rest." Chantelle interjects.
"We would love to. Please lead the way." Britney
answers.
" First we should check out the city, to see how much damage
the goblins causes." Lucavi suggests.
The
four head toward the town. As they enter the town, the ground
begins to shake.
"What is that? An earthquake?" Soluvius wonders.
"I don’t think so. Look at that" Chantelle
replies.
Coming toward the four heroes is a big goblin surrounded by a
bunch of smaller goblins.
"You guys take care of the smaller goblins. I’ll take
the big one. Let’s go" Lucavi instructs.
Solduvius begins to chant a spell, to help clear the way for
Lucavi.
"Highest of Mages, I call upon thee. Give out your wisdom
and power to me. I honor and worship and love you my sire. Scold
all my foes, destroy them with fire."
A
ring of flames surrounds the goblins. All of a sudden, the ring
of flames closes in and burns a good amount of the small goblins.
Chantelle begins to unload arrows on the goblins. Lucavi charges
for the Head Goblin. Any goblin that got in his way got sliced or
diced. He arrives at the Head Goblin. The Goblin is slightly
larger than Lucavi, which, for a goblin, is pretty big.
"Well, what do we have here? A brave kid trying to make a
name for himself by trying to defend his city." snarls the
Head Goblin.
"What are you doing here? Where did you come from? Answer me
demon!" Lucavi demands.
"Don’t you worry about any of that. All you need to
know is that once my master is resurrected the world will be
ours. HA HA HA!" growls the Goblin.
"Your master? You can’t possibly mean Diablos. That is
impossible. Vesuvius destroyed him three centuries ago. There is
no way he can rise. I will not allow it. Now have at you."
replies an angered and confused Lucavi .
The
goblin draws his sword and charges toward Lucavi. Lucavi jumps
over the goblin and slices its back. Then, he charges up and
dives at the goblin to tackle it. The goblin quickly swings
around and strikes down Lucavi.
"It is not going to be that easy to defeat me boy." the
goblin snarls.
Lucavi jumps up and thrusts his sword down towards the goblin.
The goblin blocks the attack with his shield and strikes Lucavi
in the chest, knocking him to the floor. Lucavi is hurt. The
goblin comes toward Lucavi and raises his sword.
"Any last words boy?" the goblin asks in a deep
growling voice.
Lucavi hears something inside his head.
"Focus Lucavi. Look within yourself and unleash the power of
the sword." says the soothing voice.
The
goblin thrusts his sword down but it is knocked away by
Lucavi’s sword. Lucavi kicks the goblin away and jumps up
from the ground. Lucavi begins to focus. The goblin charges at
Lucavi and strikes with quick slashes of the sword but Lucavi
deflects every attempt.
"Alright. Now its my turn." Lucavi says.
Lucavi raises his swords and dashes at the goblin with glaring
speed. He slashes the goblin in the chest three times then jumps
up and kicks the goblin to the floor. Lucavi raises the sword
into the air and begins to focus once more. The voice then
reappears.
"Focus Lucavi. Unleash the power of the sword. The power,
unleash It." repeats the soothing voice.
The
sword begins to glow, at first green than it turns black.
"Unleash it Lucavi. Unleash the Dark Slash." repeats
the voice once again.
The
goblin begins to get up and see the sword glowing in
Lucavi’s hands. Then, all of a sudden Lucavi comes at the
goblin and performs a devastating 10-slash combination attack
that completely destroys the goblin, leaving only a small pile of
flesh and blood. Lucavi turns towards the other to see how they
are doing. Just as he does this, he sees Britney setting up for
another summon.
"Master of Earth, I command thee, arise. Unleash your power
to stop this demise. Crush these low creatures with all of your
might. Triumph over evil, make all wrongs right." Britney
chants.
The
earth begins to tremble. Suddenly, the earth begins to split
under the goblins and out from the crack rises a huge stone
creature. The creature rises and then smashes the ground with his
fists causing some of the earth to rise and knock the goblins
into the crack. Then the earth seals up as if nothing has
happened, swallowing up the remaining goblins. Britney, Solduvius
and Chantelle run over to see how Lucavi is doing.
"You guys are not going to believe this but while I was
fighting the Goblin, it told me that his master was Diablos and
that he is going to be resurrected." Lucavi illustrates.
"But that’s impossible. Vesuvius his allies destroyed
him 300 years ago. How can this be?" Chantelle inquires.
"Well what are we going to do now?" Solduvius
questions.
"The only thing we can do. We must journey and destroy
whatever is trying to resurrect Diablos before it is too late. We
cannot let such evil back into the world." Lucavi exclaims.
"Come on. Let’s go back to the castle and see how
everyone inside is doing" he adds.
With Solduvius and Britney joining Lucavi and Chantelle, they
have formed a formidable team to go up against the force of evil.
But where do they begin and what kind of evil is already
unleashed into the world