Chapter 3: The Love of Death (Edited)
Victoria had just broke the number one rule of the universe, never ever go looking for trouble with a statement like 'I hope nothing goes wrongs' or 'What's the worst that could happen?'. Not the smartest idea, especially with her luck.
Over in the small kingdom of Tiance, trouble was brewing for the forces of good and it meant serious business.
"How much longer? I can hardly see anything." Complained a female voice from inside the thick murky grey fog.
"Not much longer now, darling." Replied another voice, but a male one this time.
"What's this surprise you keep telling me about?" Asked the voice that sounded absolutely sick and tired of walking blindly through the fog.
"I'll show you when we get there." The male promised in a low quiet voice.
A tall teenage girl with short cropped brown hair that framed a young round face, intense onyx black eyes, and dark olive skin walked out of the fog. At her side was a very pale boy with sharper features, a slightly taller stature than her, short black hair that was similar to a military haircut and dark blue eyes with gold flecks.
They wore the usual silver robes worn by all elementals that dedicated their lives to learning the extent of their elements, but with the one altercation. Instead of the symbol for peace between elements, they had hand-stitched the malevolent elemental crest onto both of their robes.
They were death elementals that had made it their mission to cause trouble for benign elementals. They had found each other trying to sabotage one of the Gladiator contests and had instantly become partners in crime. After a few more weeks of working together, they had fallen in love and ran away from their homes together.
After a few more minutes of walking, he stopped and the girl reluctantly stopped as well, unsure if they were even in the right place.
"We're here." The boy announced.
The girl looked around unimpressed and commented rather disappointingly, "That's a bit anticlimactic. I expected something more amazing."
"You don't get it, do you?" He asked looking slightly saddened.
"Get what?" She answered back. She looked around trying to understand what he saw in these run of the mill, run-down and ivy covered ruins.
"This is where the First Great war happened. The one that nearly destroyed all magic-users. This is where the malevolent elementals died." He finished dramatically.
"Well that's depressing. This is where you take us for our one year anniversary?" The girl inquired thoroughly unaware about what is about to happen to many others lives and how drastically different the world would be afterwards.
"You haven't seen the best part! Follow." He exclaimed excitedly.
"What next we get to kick puppies or strangle kittens, that'll be fun." She grumbled sarcastically.
"How does world domination sound to you, Catherine?" He said mischievously. Catherine's black eyes suddenly lit up like a child's on their birthday.
"World domination you say. Now that's a bird of a different colour, Johnnie." She replied back happily.
Johnnie laughed at her strange metaphor. "What does that even mean?"
"No idea. What did you have in mind to achieve this task?" She questioned thoroughly excited.
"Well after the First Great war, they buried all the dead benign in shining coffins and lowered them into furnished tombs, whilst the malevolent were buried here in that ugly, damp, exposed tomb." He said while pointing to the moss-covered tomb.
"If you're gonna do what I think your gonna do and before you mess with anything you shouldn't mess with, two things: One, we'll get into trouble with the council and we're already in enough trouble as it is. Two, are you nuts!? They wouldn't listen to us, they'd kill us after we're of no use to them." Catherine exclaimed trying to talk Johnnie out of his crazy plan.
Johnnie walked up to her and grabbed her hands. He looked at her lovingly, put on his most confident smile and started his spiel he had prepared just in case.
"Now listen here. If we do this together, we could be powerful enough to get rid of the council once and for all, and with our combined power over the dead we could control them with ease." Explained Johnnie calmly.
"We try this one time and that's it. If it doesn't work we abandon this crazy and stupid idea. Okay?" Catherine compromised while looking at Johnnie pleadingly.
"You won't think it's stupid, when I prove you wrong." Muttered Johnnie under his breath snidely.
"What was that?" Catherine shouted at Johnnie who was making his way towards the tomb
"Nothing. Come on chicken." Johnnie teased while starting to jog towards the tomb.
"You are on." Catherine shouted chasing after Johnnie.
Catherine and Johnnie walked into the tomb cautiously, holding back their desire to run in like they usually did when they were committing some crime that would inconvenience their enemies also known as any benign elemental they found irksome.
The moment they entered the drafty tomb, they almost automatically felt a sharp plummet in the temperature. They walked hand-in-hand, so as not to lose each other in the thick and suffocating dark.
"Hey, if you add some creepy torches, this would be your dream house." Johnnie said trying to lighten up the slight feeling of impending doom.
"Oh, shut up." Catherine laughed while she punched Johnnie on the shoulder with her free arm. "So who do we wake up first?" She asked curious as to what trouble they're inviting.
"Only the most important of the malevolent elementals. I seem to remember a certain girl idolizes him." He acknowledged smirking.
"Oh my gosh, best anniversary present ever." Catherine admitted as she tackle-hugged Johnnie.
"Be quiet you'll wake up the dead." He half-whispered, as he attempted to stand up.
"I thought that was the point." Catherine replied smiling, while also trying to stand up without slipping any more on the slippery moss-covered floor.
"It is. I'm just pulling your chain, Cathy." He said grabbing her hand and tugging her forward.
"Hahaha, very funny." She said falling in step with Johnnie once more.
They kept walking forward till they reached a dead end. Johnnie's hands groped along the walls looking for the rumored switch that was meant to open the secret second chamber that continued the actual tomb.
Despite the second chamber being a secret, Johnnie had done his research we'll and had found the answer after quite a bit of bribing. Eventually he found the switch and flicked it on.
Suddenly a tiny click shattered the silence and the giant concrete door swung open. The young couple entered the room filled with all one hundred malevolent elementals that had died during the First Great war.
"He's at the end." Whispered Johnnie, while pointing at the only coffin in the room.
They walked slowly and cautiously towards the coffin. The inscription on the box said 'Here lies the great and malevolent, Bale Bauron'.
They slowly opened the lid to the coffin and inside was the skeleton and the silky and magnificent black robes he wore when he lost a battle against the benign Devin Arrow and was slain.
"Together?" Johnnie asked.
"Together." Catherine echoed back.
They shut their eyes and pictured the currently dead Bale, alive and healthy. In that moment they had set in motion a great ripple that will be felt throughout many dimensions.
With a blinding flash of light, the great and powerful Bale awoke. He was of Russian descent and was 6'4. He was very buff and very large.
"Thank you for that my children of the night. Now to awake the rest of my brethren. Don't fret I can handle this spell." He roared in a deep and poison-spiked voice.
He waved his hands in a dramatic way and the room filled with blinding white light and the room suddenly was filled to the brim with all one hundred malevolent elementals.
They were speechless at how fast things were going and despite Johnnie thinking he could bring them back from the limbo their souls were trapped in, he had his doubts it would work.
Bale turned to us and replied menacingly, "Thank you for all your help. That will be all." He raised his hand and suddenly they flew into his open coffin and the lid shut over them.
Catherine and Johnnie threw themselves against the lid with all their might, but to their surprise they found that the lid had been glued to the coffin with a locking spell. Their desperate shouts fell upon uncaring ears.
The troop of malevolent elementals marched out of their tomb and into the world to execute their plans for revenge, destruction and world domination. Each one ecstatic that they weren't trapped in the limbo that nearly all malevolent elementals went to after death.
Once they left, Catherine and Johnnie tried every spell they could think of, but to no avail. They were trapped and they would stay that way for at least the moment.
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