Filler

I'm sorry. I admit it. My mind is blank. Utterly blank. I don't have a chapter for you. I don't even have a Exciting product from a small company. My mind is utterly blank. Sorry. I'm serious, no post. Go away. Shoo. Ta-Ta. Adios. Your still here? I told you to leave. Get out. Have some fresh air. curl up and cry. Just stop staring at me like i'm going to post. I already told you. Its blank. Completely and unexplainably blank. So get up go out, and stop looking at me like that. Thats it. I'm closing my eyes. Now your gone. You've disappeared. Gone. Like my thoughts. All. Gone.

Stay gone. Till next week at least. then you can come back. I'm going to leave now. Bye. See ya. Have a blast. I'm gone. Till next week. Gone.

A sickly piece of history

The desert. The largest expanse in the world, with more ore underneath it yellow flesh then any other part of the world, and people wave it off as a barren wasteland, the home of the diseased. The most name it has is simply a misguided classification.

Ah, But i suppose that the stories are what keep most away, the stories of the blighted ones, the Once-Elves…

It's said that the desert was once the home of the elves, back then it was the forest Orgona. One day a plague swiped across the land, causing those who could to flee to Highaven. Almost all who stayed died with the forest.

When the plague dispersed, Orgona had become the desert, and the few elves who survived were ravaged by the plague as well, Flesh, once vibrant blues, Greens, and whites, turned black as night, hair, once as vibrant as the greatest jungle, as beautiful as the best jewels, was dulled to black as well, their eyes, once a rival to angels, turned a demonic, blood red.

They are said to live deep within the desert, and are generally thought of as evil creatures.

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These thing Birch recalled as he prepared to sleep for the night. The Blighted Ones, his reason to be in this desert…. He hoped they weren't as bloodthirsty as they are in the stories.

End part II: Ugers Throne

Begin part III: The Desert of Blight

Plans and dramatic hints

Gem and Jue, along with Plain-Walker, returned to the cottage, and that night, they discussed their next course of action.

"The brain eaters have been following us, they have already surrounded the mountain, we'll have a rough time leaving, to say the least." Said Plain-Walker. "They cannot enter the river running down from the mountain, so our best bet is swimming."

"Which is good, since the man we need to meet lives on the shore of the river, somewhere near Highaven." Said Jue. "i say we stay here in the cottage tonight, and leave in the morning."

"Gem? You up for it?" Asked Plain-Walker.

"…….. Okay……."

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In a room covered in paintings of fish, Sprites, and Nymphs, Slept a man somewhere in his late thirties, and, at the side of his bed, lay a blue staff….

End Part II: Ugers Throne

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Announcement

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The mirror tale

Jue began to change, Her hair, at first blond, slowly changed to red, Her eyes, once red, became the beautiful green of melons, she became taller, and many, more subtle changes came upon her.

After all these changes, Gem found herself looking at an older version of herself.

"Greetings Gem, fear me not, for I, I am you, and you are me." Jue smiled.

Gem's eyes grew huge i disbelief.

"Gem come here, let me show you how we became two."

Uneasily, Gem walked to jue.

"Look in the mirror."

Gem did.

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"Shush, Iris, It will all be okay, i promise." Spoke a strange, silver skinned man.

"I… I think I'm going to die, Ulain." Said the woman called Iris "I want you to take Gem, I know that you would protect her, you-

The mirror blanks, and then another scene appears.

"Oh, great Uger, I have come before you with a request." Said Ulain, he then held up a baby girl. "Bless Gem, Great Uger, with your protection!"

Lhokoz, the great dove took the baby, and split it into two forms, giving one back to Ulain

The scene changed again.

Ulain is in an Alchemists shop holding the baby yet again. The figure of birch, ten years younger, is also there.

"Wizard, i have heard you are in need of an apprentice. The child's mother is dead, she has no where to go, please care for her."

Birch, Smiling, said yes.

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In a pocket dimension, Gem's other half grew quickly, and, under the guidance of the great dove Lhokoz, Learned the way of the huntress.

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The mirror returned to its swirling colors.

"Come Gem, it is time to go." said Jue.

The mirror of truth

"Gem, we shouldn't stay here. It's sickening." Said Plain-Walker. "What do you say about a mountain trek to help us settle down?"

"...........Okay.........."

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"This is Ugers Throne, the biggest mountain inn the world. Some say if you go up far enough, you can ask the celestial that is said to live there anything, and it will give you an answer!" Said Plain-Walker. "Now, feel ready to hike?"

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Their journey was much longer then Birch's, but just as uneventful. after four days of hiking, they came across a hut, inside were three beds, a room full of food, and a stairway.

"We'll stay here for a time, and then we'll go up." Said Plain-Walker.

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The next day they went up. First Jue, then Gem, and then Plain-Walker.

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When Gem reached the top, she found herself in a forest of diamonds, amethyst, and emeralds. A path led to a great temple of jade. As Gem made her way to the entrance, Jue appeared, and beckoned her to follow.

As they made their way through the many halls, they came before a giant room, in the center a mirror stood, within a seemingly endless cycle of color twisted within itself.

Jue motioned for gem to stay where she was, and then she went before the mirror.

What Gem then saw was unearthly, to say the least.

A dream of cheated warlocks

Now that we are up to date on Birch, we shall return to Gem and company.

There was much tears as they explored the ruined town, but they found nothing important.

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That night Gem had a troubled sleep, and had many nightmares. One of which was clear like the one in the chamber and the one of Krik and Logar.

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"This is where the Leviathan was spotted?" Asked a man.

"Yes! I saw 'im with me own eyes!" Answered another man. "'e was 'uge, bigger then the Black Crown itself if i say so meself!"

The first man was young, somewhere in the prime of his life, with dark brown hair and blue eyes. He held in his left hand a brown bag.

The second man was middle aged, and looked to be a local fisherman.

"Thank you for showing me." said the first.

"O! Not a problem, not a problem at all!" Said the second.

They went to shore, and that night the first went out on a rowboat alone to that spot and pulled from the bag a smooth, red ball, and began to chant, "Sy te Devil i call tee, tee to sattle!" he chanted this three times and then waited.

The water below him began to bubble, and then the water erupted before him, and a gargantuan beast appeared. Its entire body was covered in blue-green scales, its head was like a snakes, and its neck was like a snakes body, its torso was like a whales, and it had four fin the size of warships.

"Leviathan" He muttered, in total awe.

Quickly, he recovered and, holding the ball in from of him, chanted six times "Berve ab uy uabter devil incb sody!"

Almost immediately it began to change, it grew six more necks and heads the first three heads had two horns, and the rest had one, a crown circled each horn, and evil runes burned into ever head, its torso became a leopards, its fins became bear paws and legs, and its heads, now much smaller, became like lion, though keeping the horns and runes, its had six hundred and sixty six razor sharp teeth.

When the transformation was complete, the man kneeled and worshiped it after which the man said "Master, i have done as you wished, now, give me the power you promised me!"

The beast laughed, or, more accurately, roared with the impression of laughter, and spoke "Ah, yes, of course! I shall give you immortality, Wallace!"

The beast stole Wallace's soul, and left him as a half spirit creature living in his slowly rotting body. He was known then after as Uan Ill, Man Kill.

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