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Chapter one:Of Many Happenings Many people were out in their farms, working hard and others simply enjoying thewarmth of the lovely early spring morning. Undoubtedly they were totally unawareof the doing of all the other inhabitants on Trellock (the country in which theylived).“Thank God the winter is finally over.” said Hathon. Hathon was the king ofblazeton and he had black curly hair, a green gown and a red cloak, he had amustache that matched the color of his hair, his face was tired looking but hishazelnut eyes were always bright.‘Yes it tis’ rather good. I myself was tiring of the frosty cold mornings andsometimes even the snowy cold mornings” said the kings trusted counselor and closefriend. He was not as tall as Hathon and not as richly dressed but he was stillrather like Hathon in a way, he shared the same hair color as Hathon but his hairwas long and mattered, he had no mustache or beard, he wore a cream white torsoand grey colored pants he also had a wedding ring and he wore a brown cloak with ahood. “But now finally we can start growing our crops, and building up ourfortifications, and I recommend we do so very early this spring, for then we willhave a head start before the dragons come out of hibernation and decide to plunderand attack us.”“Hmm yes I think that a great plan my friend” said Hathon in a friendly manner.“If only this town had more sorcerers then perhaps we would have a chance offending off those murderous dragons” said Hathon thoughtfully “and I wouldn’t besurprised if they have joined Morgruss” (a greatly feared dark sorcerer withterrible powers). The Counselor gasped, “But why do you think that my lord?“Well merely because he is a great dark sorcerer who has a certain way of meddlingwith peoples’ minds, and well in this case with dragons’ minds, which comes backto my original thought, and that may well just lead us straight to our doom, andthat I daresay is information that will not be released to my people. Do youunderstand that Counselor?” questioned Hathon, intently meeting the Counselor’seyes.The counselor replied with the utmost speed “Yes of course that information issafe with me. You need not worry my lord you can trust Me.,” said the Counselor ina definite tone.“Thank you counselor. It is good to have someone around whom I can trust. Its raretheses days you know” The counselor laughed“Now I must go and see a very old wise man, and well of course you know I’mtalking about, Sereon, on some very important business” said hathon in a ratherconversational tone.“O but of course my lord. I shall get the door for you”“Thank you my friend. I shall discuss further with you my thoughts and feelings onthe subject of which we were just talking of over dinner tonight, and I trust youwill remember your promise will you not”? Said Hathon“Yes yes you need not worry. Well goodbye then, it has been a pleasure to talkwith my king as always.” Said the Counselor, “yes goodbye Counselor I shall meetyou in this castle at 6.30”.Hathon walked out of the Castle, past the extremely well kept garden, through thegate and out into the open air at last, for hathon had been inside for at leastthree and a half hours.Hathon went straight over to Sereon’s rather large but nice looking wooden house,knocked on the door and entered into his house he sat down on a mighty comfortablechair, and when he was offered tea he accepted it gratefully.“How are things going for you then Hathon?” queried Sereon,“Not as bad as they could be, be right now but if you meant that question to bedirected at me particularly, well I’m not so bad my self” replied Hathon, “now
 
then what have you come to discus?” asked Sereon in a tone, like if they were veryold friends who hadn’t seen each other for years.“Well Sereon you are a wise, powerful, great man, and I need your help.” Sereonlistened intently, “Sereon is there any chance at all that the dragons will stopharassing my people? They just seem to me to be motivated by an invisible force tojust completely and utterly destroy us. And Now I am having suspicions that theyhave joined up with that dark sorcerer Morgruss, and if this is so then my worstfears have been true, Morgruss must know of the story of how this unfortunate townhad been cursed. We stand no such chance against both forces, we are mostcertainly doomed SereonCan you please help me’ pleaded the king.Sereon stayed in deep thought for a while and then slowly answered, “yes… you mustbe correct if Morgruss has learned the curse that was put upon this town an ageago then he must be planning something terrible, for he has many many followersand if he has joined with the darak (an ancient word of sorcerers which meansdragons) there will be much more blood shed before the end” “but” Hathon cutacross him, “you are a sorcerer and you have foresight do you not can you not comeup with any plans of action what so ever?” asked Hathon in a sort of demandingmanner, but Sereon stayed calm and merely said “you are the king I leave thedecisions up to you, but if you want my opinion listen carefully to what I amabout to say”.“I am sorry my dear Sereon I did not mean to get angry, I am impatient some times,and I loose control of my self” said Hathon in an apologetic tone “that is quietalright Hathon,” said Sereon.“Now what I would suggest you do is. You must send someone on a journey someoneyou trust mind you, they must journey from Blazeton through the Iron forest andthey must somehow find a way through over or under the Shattering Mountains, butbeware there are a whole lot of bandits hanging around in that area, so they mustbe very cautious about where they tread. Then they must travel any way possiblealong the mountains to avoid being seen across the border of the dark clan for ifthey are spotted…well then the enemy will know our plan, which is exactly what wedon’t want, anyway they must end up getting to Empka” but at that moment Sereonhad a heart seizure and fell on the ground in pain for Sereon was old, he wasabout 290. Hathon jumped out of his wits and got down to hold Sereon whilstyelling to anyone that could hear him to: “get help please anyone” he yelled andafter a couple of minutes a very experienced nurse from the village dashed throughthe door with a bag of herbs and medicines and a wet cloth, she ran over toHathon’s side and thrusted him out of the way so that she could get a good look atthe old sorcerer, and by this time Sereons heart seizure had stooped thankfullybut he was still on the floor breathing heavily as if it took all his energy tobreath. The nurse was madly rummaging through her medicine bag, but Sereon said“just get that bottle of green bubbling liquid and ……” he coughed very heavily,but the nurse was quick to understand so she dashed over to a marble bench grabbedthe vile of green bubbling liquid ran back over to Sereon and poured it in to hisopen mouth and he swallowed it down, coughed again but not as violently this time,and much to not only the nurses but also to Hathon’s surprise, he got up of thefloor and sat back down on his chair as if nothing had happened.“Thank you my dear nurse. That is the only substance that will get me out of thathorrible state” said Sereon to the still stunned and confused faces, “it is apotion that I have made my self, it is made of folio tree bark, seeper oil from afar island north west from here, and the last ingredient is fresh pine needlesfrom our very own iron forest” finished Sereon.“I am so sorry to frighten you like that but I am very old and not as strong as Iused to be 60 or so years ago”“That is quiet alright Sereon although I do hope you will live much longer for youare a great man” said Hathon sympathetically” “you may now leave us nurse, thankyou very much for your assistance, this will not be forgotten I promise you”“Why thank you my Lord. Goodbye sire, goodbye master Sereon,” said the nurse
 
bowing her head in turn to each of them, and she than gathered up he things andleft.“Now where was I” said Sereon, more to himself than to Hathon, “O yes I remembernow, they must get to Empka” Hathon at this moment intervened and said “but howwill they get to Empka it is almost impossible, if they try and navigate throughthe mountains all the way to the south they will most likely be attacked or worseeaten by the wild torks, (a group of wild wolf, pig like sort of animals that cantravel 3 times the speed of a horse, and has razor sharp pointy teeth)And not to mention those nasty goblins, and there is no other way to get to Empkathen the mountains” protested Hathon “yes there’s no other way that you know ofHathon” said Sereon“Well what way is there then,” said Hathon immediately“Well they can travel across the Econs river, I know a boatman there that will bewilling to take them across, and once their across they must travel through toFlaresta and speak with the Elven master, he has a magical portal that will takethem to the ruins of Nartry and from there they can travel to Empka for there isalso a boatman there that can take them back across the river, and then once theyare in Empka they must find a man called De’role, he is a sea merchant and he willlendThem one of his ships but mind you they may have to give De’role quiet a handsomeamount of gold, something like 150 Mora’s, (one Mora could buy 2 loafs of breadand a tub of jam) but I’d say they could bargain it down to about 100 Mora’s ifthere smart with there tongue” added Sereon hastily at look of surprise anddisgust on Hathon’s face.“Once they have the ship they must set sail as quick as possible for Tamoon. Ifthe weather is favorable and they don’t meet any unsuspected dangers the tripshould only take a day and a half. Once they have reached Tamoon they must find aman magician his name is Amon Siel and they must tell him that I have sent them toask a favor.Now li-……………… at that moment Sereon started to cough, and it sounded hard andraspy as if he couldn’t breath. Hathon reacted immediately he jumped up out of hischair and ran over to the desk where the green elixir was but in his haste hetripped over a pot plant and collided with the table that had the green elixir onit, the vial got knocked over and crashed on the floor spilling the liquid allover the carpet witch soaked up the liquid almost immediately.Hathon swore and got up off the floor and run back to Sereon who had now fallen tothe floor with his eyes closed taking desperate breaths in between the heavycoughs“Pleas…e w-wat—ter” gasped Sereon, Hathon immediately obeyed and poured the coolliquid down his throat, Sereons coughing was not as raspy but he was stillfighting for air.“Is there any more potion Sereon…anywhere” said Hathon his face now filled withtear’s for he was very found of Sereon. “n-no there’s n-n no…thin-g y-y…ou ca-ndo, I—‘m old l..et m-me go” wheezed Sereon finding it hard to speak now, meanwhileSereon was despairing and saying “no n-no there h—has to be a way” “n-o the..resn-not b………ut listen, they m—ust g..et t-t-o gre—son” and with his last breath hesaid “find……Jarek” and with that he died. “No no how could this be happening S-Sereon d-d” and with that he burst in to tears sobbing over Sereon, and the thecounselor came rushing in through the door saying “I heard all this crashing andcou…” but as soon and he laid eyes on Sereons pale white face he stopped speakingstood dead still and slowly walked of to Hathon and said quietly “h-how w-whathappened sire” stuttered the Counselor, now also he had tears running down hisface for when the counselor (his real name was Jod) was little he used to spend alot of his time listening to his amazing tales and his own made songs byfirelight.“I don’t want to be king any more I’m…I’m so clumsy and stupid” Hathon let out ahuge wail but he still continued “its all my fault if—if I hadn’t tripped thatelixir wouldn’t have fell and I-I could have saved him”
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