The Price of Power......

[ElvenNimruin]

~ He settled upon the opening, perhaps about months before he actually decided to perform this task. The spot was perfect and it gave him the room he needed. The opening was about a six feet by seven feet room. Thin shards of grass laid upon the soft ground. Beautiful flowers laid around the opening, that varied for one color to another. The trees that surrounded him was as tall as the castle walls and as thick as them as well. They were magnificent and yet they held a gentle song with in there own will. There singing rang in his ears as they all sung the same tone. Looking around his stoic face showed that the song would give no hindrance to his plan. The trees were begging him not to, but he would not listen.

~The words forbidden crept out of every trees in the forest as they focused it on his will but he did not falter. He had to do this act of salvation or he would fall completely into a despair that might make his more vunerable than he already was. He walked around the opening with a prideful stride, placing five dark staff around his circle. Atop of them he place five black candles, as he set the staffs up. After that he begun to draw several complex arcane symbols in the soil of the earth. They would be the most important to his spell. If he drew them wrong in any way, the spell would falter and possiblilty kill him. As he finished he looked up at the sky and beckoned the stars to come to him. He needed they strength to unleash his spirit form this meloncally mood. He stared down at the forest, and still without no emotion he spoke, "I am ready".

~He stood in the middle of circle and raise his left hand, as he raised his staff with his right hand. Closing his eyes he activated his magical Ring. It flared a dark color as its flame reacted to his summoning. The flame crept up his body and found its way into his mind. It went through his ears and spaces between his eyes as the Magical list he placed within the ring laid down before his mind. Finding the needed spell he begun to chant. His words was rythmic and moved onto every other word as he chanted. The words cause the candles to blaze a dark black fire and the circle he had drew burned with a blue aura. As he chanted the trees song a louder song of anguish as they warned him........"Forbidden....It is Forbidden" ~

~Shoving his eyes closed tighter he raised his voice. His voice trembled as every word he spoke took a different strength from his soul. The circle's blue aura started to grow as its own flame raised upward around him. The candles Blazed a Dark flame that rose with his voice as well. The candle's flame bursted forward and seemed to topple the Circle's aura, Covering his circle with a dark shroud. The Blue Flame allowed its itself to be consumed, but as He raised his voice again the aura bursted outwards, parting the black flame and moved upwards. The blue aura that surrounded him reached all the way into the sky, as a signal light.

~The tension inside of the circle was enough to destroy anyone who dared opposed it. He was the only one who was chanting, so therefore he was the cause of the power rage. The pressure that was emitted after his chant was so tremendous that if he wasn't in his tranze he would have toppled over and cried. His silver long hair reacted greatly to the pressure as it started to rise with the aura's of power. His eyes no longer took its normal ice blue orbs, but rather resided in a Pure whitish color. They were voidless like his soul. Only his facial expression matched the void of his eyes. His mind was in complete focus. He was not even aware about what was happening around in the vinicity.

~Again he raised his force, but the auras did not rise anymore. They were at the peak of they height. Only the gods resides beyond where his Auras reached. He was almost at the end of his chanting. He had been chanting for at least ten minutes, but to him it seemed like days of waiting. His voice held true and every sound was perfected A gust of wind came and stopped as it slammed against his Circle of power. He finished step one.

~ Out of a sudden moment that it seemed that his body would collaspe and melt away into the wind, he spoke out with a clear and deadly voice. "Arise now, Mother Of NimRuin, Arise and meet thy Son for I am summoning you here. Not your Body, but your Soul and in this I shall sacrifice..." His voice faltered as he continued with a confidence matched by non. "I shall offer My soul To meet Thee. Come now from the depths of hell or the Heavens of Gods, Come now!" His voice rang as his command was complete. Infront of him was a Bright light of energy. His body than began to glow with a dark black Aura as his eyes blazed with an unearthy fire.~

The Light began to open as a screaming sound rose from it. Inside the opening was nothing but true nothingness. It was neither light or Dark, but seemed as if it was higher than both of them combined. A figure drew out of portal as the woods around him backed away some how. The ground trembled the coming of his mother. How? How can she command such presence for a commoner? he thought to himself. The women he gaze upon looked as beautiful as every forest combined. She also possessed long silver hair, but it was so different that he questioned his own hair. It shrone with a light powerful enough blind him if he wasn't at the time covering his eyes with his hands. She held a Long staff that looked so much heavier and longer than his, but she held with it ease as she Gazed at him. Her Cold Blue eyes piered at him with a pure content of illness. She was dressed in a white gown that was link with pearls and diamond braids. She looked at him and in the same breathe she Spoke........

(To be Continued)

[ElvenNimruin]

~ The clouds parted abover his head as he stared at his mother. For the first time in his life of two hundred years, he was speechless. This was the woman who left him, because she wasn't strong enough said the other Matrons to him, when he was a child. This was the woman Who threw away her life for him: was told by his father. This was the Women who beared me and loved me with all her soul and heart, This IS my Mother, He told himself. His mouth graped at his mother as she approached, her face was unmatched by no ones as the white light eminated from her body gave her such commanding presence.~

~She looked at him and than spoke. Her voice was rivaled by non, not even the voice of Eilistraee compared to her sound as she spoke in a dreamy song. "I am here to who that calls, and if you do deem it so, i wish to return. Your act is forbidden and you will be dealt with by the Gods." She spoke before she looked clearly into his eyes. Her mouth opened wide as tears swelled her eyes. "My son? My Baby? How is it you?" Her voice was stricken by grief as she came closer. "My heart, my child, my soul, What have you done. Why? Why have you done this my child?" Tears filled her eyes even more as she looked at the immpliments of the spell. "You sacrificed your soul to meet me and yet you still have so much life left. You foolish Child." She came to him and dropped to her knee before him. Her hands bearly held on to her staff as she cried.

~ He looked at her as she cried. "Mother, why do you cry so? I am here aren't I, You are here aren't you? Why cry when we are finally united?" His face still held its stoic expression as a white beam flew from his body. He fell to the ground as a white spirit was extracted from his body. His body fell and went limp on the ground as only his eyes searched around from the ground. His mind still working, but the strength of his body left him as his soul depart. "Mother, my life is done. All i wanted to do was to see your face. Now i am releashed from my content struggle." His eyes were quickly losing its color as his mind was shutting down.

~His mother just piered at her son with a stricken face of pure anguish. She then stood up and began to walk towards him. The Circle's aura protected him against anything that he conjured up (the same when you conjure a demon. It is not aloud to step inside of the circle.) As his mother came foreward she placed on hand on the circle's aura. The Flame burned her hand severely, but she cared not for the pain. Her cry rang through out the forest as the tree seems to bend down before her pain. The trees kept on their endless song of warning.~

~His mother pressed the circle of power with her own might. There the suffering of a thousands deaths she passed through the circle. Her body was burnt and darkened beyond repair. She held her son in her hands and looked around. Her staff was placed on the ground beside her, as she beckoned her son to wake up. The ground trembled as the power that was releashed had no commander. For power NimRuin summoned went not wild, but became a bit unstable, but still held true to his summoning.~

She held her sons head and again asked him to come back. She stared in him and gently kissed her forehead as his own anguish was releashing from his body. Tears streamed down her face as she wept a new tears for every second of the lingering day. Her own pain did nothing to match the pain that her son releashed from his heart. As she shook him, she still beckoned for him to wake up. Nim was gone. She lowered her head, as Two Horid laughters sounded in opposites directions of her.

~One cloaked figure walk out of the darkening woods and just laughed. His dark form was something that not even NimRuin himself could have matched. "Thy son was weak! And now he has releashed me and he shall now be eternally condemned.!" The shere laughter of the moment made NimRuin's mother scowl. The Cloaked figure was Raistlin, Nimruin's Master.

~Out from behind her came another presence, even darker by far than Raistlin. It was Lloth, the Queen of Chaos. Her body was laid in darkness and the only part that showed on her image was those Red eyes of anger. She looked at NimRuin and shrill a laughter so harsh that the trees around her grew dead. "So finally he is dead, Now he will be forever mine." She spoke as her laughter combined with Raistlin.

~The light of NimRuin's Mother, Liriel, shrone a new as she stood up. She raised her staff and than spoke one word. "Silence" The sound of her voice shattered the taunting laughter. The clouds darken above as she looked at Lloth and then At Raistlin, before she scolded them both. "You are the reason for my Son's hurt. You are the reason for his behavior. Your obession with power has claimed his body and his mind, and now he is releashed from this world. you have tampered with his nature and Now You shall be dealt With!." Her voice rang over several high octaves before she lowered it to something that could be heard without the straining of the their ears.

~Raistlin laughed again as he regarded her, His look was of pure idoicy as he finally look at Lloth. Lloth was not laughing however, She stood there trembling. A goddess trembling did not mean this was going to turn out well he thought to himself. How could Lloth tremble before one woman? He regarded her before he began to attack Liriel. He started to make rythmic movements with his fingers as he summoned his own magic against that of hers. Lloth upon seeing the reaction of Rasitlin scream out with all of her power. "Raistlin, No, Do not attack she is the......" her own voice was shrilled away by the silence of Liriel's hand.

~Raistlin's power drew forth and shot out of him like a bolt of firey flames that only the King of Hell could possess. The energy he created disappated the earth upon its touch. As he came toward Liriel she only smiled. Raising her hand gently she chided the earth to assist her. Raising her own power she brought forth a sheild of pure light. It was a massive sheild as her skill in magic was matched by non. The white sheild held true as the Dark flame slammed against it. Raistlin's magic did not even budge the sheild as he drew forth his entire being into the blast. He stared at her and just went wild.

~Looking at her with pure hatred, He than summoned up his power of the Will and the Word. He laughed as when he was locked in NimRuin's mind he concealed the fact that he was actually studing from him inside. Drewing up a tremendous will he focused it on hers. With a pit of rage he screamed his final words. "Be Not!" His will thrusted out as it only shattered in thin air. Puzzled he felt something inside of him explode. His mouth starting bleeding as his organs were being erased. "What did you do to me!" he screamed. His own will took ahold of him and his mind and body exploded into a vast fog of unearthy smoke. Raistlin was finally dead.

~Lloth, upon seeing them back away from NimRuin and his mother. "What did you do Liriel, Highest Preistess and Golden champion of Eilistraee" Liriel looked at her, "When you form your will as he did and manage to to drew up so much, there is only one rule you much follow. You cannot uncreate anything. He intended to do that and so he was vanquished. Now it is time for you to leave Lloth. Never again shall you follow my Son against, Releash his soul he gave you and Leave" Her words were commanding at the end of his speech. Lloth feared the champion of Eilistraee, but she did not yeild Nimruin's soul. "I shall keep his evil soul for the rest of eternity," she laughed she vanished. ~

(To be Continued)

[ElvenNimruin]

~ Liriel looked at her son and fell to her knees. She neither cried this time, but felt the surrow that all mothers felt when their children pasted. "I have seen you come into this world, and i left. Now i am back to See you leave this world, and i cannot leave." Her words broked as she lowered her head. She instantly looked up and beckoned for help. "Eilistraee, Please Answer me and for the last time in the ages of the world come down and touch my son's heart. releash his pain and give him a soul to start anew. Give him a soul to be reborn as a new man. If need be Give him Mine!" Her voice rang out towards the heavens.

~Eilistraee did answer and for the last time in all of the ages, she came to the world. The light she gave off faltered in front of NimRuin's dead body. "Liriel what you ask cannot come to past. You cannot give something you have no control over. Leave it be and let him lie with me in my kingdom. You must leave him." she spoke silently as her eyes neither showed emotion. Liriel looked at her goddess before speaking. "Restore him with my soul Eilistraee. Restored his light with me. ReStore my Son and give him the life he longed for!" She begged and almost commanded of the goddess. "Eilistraee give me back my baby to this world. Give me back him and vanquish me from this world. Give NimRuin back to Earth!"

~At last the grief was too much for her and she fell to the ground before Eilistraee. Than Eilistraee spoke something that non of the other gods would even say to those that try to command them. "Liriel, Your soul is his and he say live again, and you shall die for all eternity. He shall be my highest champion, but you shall never again see the kingdom beyond death. Do you accept your fate?"

~Liriel looked at her goddess and noted the grief in her face. "I brought him into this world, and i left. I Have seen him leave this world..... My fate is complete. Do as you will to me, but make him life." with all the love in her body Liriel Picked up her son only to catch a glimspe of shadows lingering around them. Elven Elves and one human stood in a circle around NimRuin. One revealed himself as hunter. The woman that stood next to him was Tara, her face was stricken with tears. The rest of them stayed revealed as they shadows approached the light between them. They were NimRuin's Spies, they were his friend. In an instant twelve of them bowed low to the floor and stayed bowing before Nimruin.

~Eilistraee looked around "So it will be done." Than she vanished. Her light withdrawl from the world for the last time. Liriel laid her head against her son's head. "Know that I would gladly die again and again to make you live in this world." In that last voice she vanished as the wind torn through her body. She faded into the wind and entered Nimruins body, replacing that what was lost. The breathe of him returned. At first slowly, but gradually increasing in rate. He opened his eyes and they Flamed a bright blue color as the might from his mother infused in his blood and heart. His black robes shrone with a bright light that seemed very impossible for Black to do. As he got up his body allowed him only seconds of strength before he fell to the ground in exhaustion.

~Moving fast than the wind itself, Hunter was there. He caught NimRuin as he fell. Tara was slowly behind him and help carry Nim to a horse that she brought. The old wizard raised his young hand as he beckoned Hunter" To Avalon, my task is not done" with that he feel into a slumber. Hunter looked at Tara and than at the others. "Speak not to anyone about this, it shall remain as a fable through out all history. Go back to your position and know that Our master is strong enough to summon gods." The other spies bowed lowly to the wizard and left without a hint of being there. Hunter looked around him.

~He saw nothing but burnt ground and destroyed trees. The only thing left standing untouched was the Perfection of the Circle that no longer burned with power. The ground was hot around it and tiny crackling laid on the leaves that touched the circle. Naturally Nature will take over the opening, but never will it consume the circle that his master drew. Forever will it be marked of pure power. He turned around, his black coat swinging with him, looked at Tara. Her eyes were hardened but her face was struck with fear. "I will go with you to Avalon."

And so it was complete. No longer shall the Wizard be comsumed by the conquests of his master or the evil of Lloth. He was no longer torn apart, but made whole, by the love of someone who was willing to save his life. That Was the price for his Power. The forever banishment of his mother and soon that will be the revelation of his life.

~End~