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Who knows what it might have in store for me? I know it's out there waiting for me in the shadows I think it wants my youth and optimism, Only to replace it with heartache and wrinkles. I know the future is inevitable and it will bring great sweeping changes. But I'm not ready yet, and I'd like to stay in the present for a while. So I'm sitting here, in the corner, Hiding. /////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Epic -by Ironhorse \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////// Here is a tale, of my deadly life, of horrific nature, and terminal strife. Bid by the king to search a new land, I joined some men, an adventuring band. We ventured to coasts, of bays of green, battling enemies, and creatures we'd seen. "Do not harm the Beholder!" One brave sole had screamed. Plucked out the creature's eye, with a sword I reamed. Then the land grew dark, death grew 'round. The cause was my actions, and the results will astound. I set off the land, tried to run away, yet a terrible storm we encountered, that dreadful dooms day. We lost a few men, we lost many to most, soon I sailed on alone, a lonely host. A vision came to bear, on the rocks to the port, a vision so beautiful, I stopped the boat short. Of flaxen hair at the top, to her mid-section just so, no clothes, just scales, from her waist to her toe. Blood ran from her face, and stained all the rocks. Her once flaxen hair bled red through the locks. The boat I had anchored, despite the violent storm, I fled to her aid, that late summer morn. I cradled her as her life slipped away, then her mouth fell open, as if something to say. "The Darkgate is open, the evil is loose, only you can save us, oh mighty Zeus." The words I had heard came not from her jaw, but from all around, yet no one I saw. "Who bids me a god?" I asked. "You're sorrowfully wrong, 'tis back in my home, where I do belong." "You opened the gate, you where the one, if you now retreat, the darkness has won." "But I am no god," I had to say. "Couldn't you stop it some other way?" The voice was no more. Did my question offend? In my lone mind I thought this was the end. A seaman I'm not, by trade or by gene, my crew hired on, for the riches they'd seen. This quest was not mine, Nor did I want, as I looked to the ship, the sails then grew taut. The boat 'gan to move, the anchor gave way, yet a moment I wait, the dead mermaid had say: "Trust in yourself, trust in your goal, to your pilotless craft, I offer my soul." And her body fell flat, as an empty sack, I jumped to the boat, I dared not look back. --- The ship sailed on, of direction it's own, in minutes I knew I was not bound for home. As the sun fell down, and darkness set in, I saw another, a ship in the wind. No water it's base, nothing to compare, 'twas a beautiful golden ship, floating on air. It rode through the sky, as if some great bird, 'twas many a moment before it's passenger I heard. "Are you the rider of the seawoman's ship?" He knew of my answer. He knew of my trip. "I too was selected by the voice of the sky; an odd trade-off, my ship can fly." "Indeed, I agree, your flight I can see, my ship is sentient of the ways of the sea." "Our forces will join, we'll battle together, though not just yet, we wait another." "How, I ask, did you know of me? And how, is my question, did your boat leave the sea?" "Floating a river an eagle saw I, Went to his aid, and heard from the sky." "And so the bird is now one with your ship, I see, just as the seawoman is one with me." "You are quick, and wise, just as the voice had said - 'a leader of people, on a ship of the dead.'" --- Before I could question more of the voice, our parlay was broken with a thunderous noise. From the water had risen a ship of black, both I and the eagle were taken aback. "The last of our party, as you may so wish, the warrior woman, on the boat of the fish." "You are our leader?" The new woman asked, a finely built compliment to her sex and her class. "The command I take, though with some dismay, hurry, together, let's get under way." So onward we sailed, an odd stack of three, one above, one below, one on top of the sea. Our destination unknown, despite all the information that passed, we knew of each other, we knew of our cast. The flier was, by nature, a cleric, a man of religion, from the land of the Wherewik. His skills were defined, in healing and grace. Though, for protection he carried a mace. The swimmer a fighter, as the flier implied, a fierce combatant, with two swords at her side. And I was a lowly man of the magic. Often my spells were less then tragic. --- Hours later the flier was the first to call, being on top, he was the first that saw, Ahead was a hole, a sheer pit in the sea, I called forth to stop, and we stopped, all three. "It is the Darkgate," the flier had cried as the two boats came to be by my side. "This is the battle, and it's right to the end, life as we know it, on us three depends." Forward we went, on into mystery, a battle for good, a battle for history. Inside the gate, no light could be seen, except for the cleric's radiant holy gleam. Outside the light the evil had cowered, fearing the cleric's newly found power. The warrior got testy, and ran to the field, a demon devoured her leg, and fast stole her shield. Bravely she fought on, as we tried to reach her, blood running down her every feature. With a mighty swing she took two demons surprise, beheaded in one blow, before our own eyes. The flier screamed in terror, I in disgust, as the remaining demons devoured the warrior in blood-thirsty lust. Before we could control the emotions we'd shown, ahead in the gate roared a horrific groan. The cleric fell down, his robe all red, if not for his faith, he would had been dead. His organ of life had up and exploded, tore through his chest, his clothes had eroded. The evil was too great, for the cleric to stand, as death came his way, he held out his hand. He offered to me a golden charm, expected to save him from evil's harm. I took it in honor, of a dying man's will, and I felt in my heart, I would be the next evil kill. The medallion I took, and mounted it then, I fastened it here, to my staff at the end. And as I had finished, the evil arrived, so grotesque a sight, my eyes had cried. Yet I stood fast, awaiting time to command, a demon rose from the side and tore 'way my right hand. In the seconds before death, I held my staff up high and called out the command words as I prepared to die. The great evil took no notice and swallowed me whole, I fell into it's stomach, as black as coal. As I fell in I was burned alive, stomach acid eating all my outside, and when I was finally ready to die, I laid my head down and shut mine eye. Next I knew, I was awake in my homeland, though everything grew small as I began to stand. I caught my reflection in the pool by my ho'e, I had taken the body of my hideous foe. And being alive, to serve an evil way, caused me much panic, had nothing to say, And so my last action, after relating this rhyme, is to end my life, self-judge my crime. So the world may live on, with this evil gone, and as I die, I hear the seawoman's song. 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