7even Towers: Chapter Three

Story by Averis on SoFurry

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#3 of 7even Towers


About 12000 BC

Enivid (Then known as Resiyk and translated from a Nostratic language)

The old Rabbit appeared worried when he said "You are a black lion given the gift of the Caelestis. When did your ability first appear?"

The voice in my mind merely scoffed at the old one before me. It told me things, and I said to the rabbit "You are a fool, you do not even use your power to prevent aging, a most simple task that even children could understand."

Before my eyes he seemed to fade, but then he appeared again, a black Rabbit with a grey marks on his face that signified the magic of god which he used. Sitting straighter than before he said "Who is the fool young one, the superstitious people of this world believe that the power we use ages us, it is important to keep them at bay in the simplest way possible."

Standing before him I accessed my power in the way that the voice told me, I could feel the energy building within me, the one before me had a very minor power that paled entirely in comparison to mine. I built a shell of my own energy around me; I could see a silvery fog seem to appear around me.

Standing himself the Rabbit drew a robe around himself and said "You have an impressive natural gift but pure power doesn't beat experience."

As the Rabbit finished talking I raised my hand and channeled power straight from god. A silver flame shot forth and incinerated him, but it didn't stop there, it continued to spread around the room, consuming everything in its path. I simply walked through the fire, it didn't touch me for as the voice told me, I was the envoy of god to this world. As I left the village I knew that it was last I or anyone else would ever see of it, the silver flames of god quenched their thirst for rebirth on the fearful non-believers.

About 3000 BC

Beatus

To my family I was just the crazy old patriarch who came to visit because my mind was going, and that it was only circumstance that my visits always coincided with a birth. But something felt different about this birth, my rare gift of prophecy was acting strange, I couldn't see the future of this child until a few millennia had passed.

Arriving at the house of my daughter I remembered when she met her mate, I could feel that somewhere in his family history there was magic but he didn't have any. Knocking on the door I knew Sarlia's mate would answer so I made ready to be the grumpy old man. When he opened the door I looked fully like a grayed out panther, when I saw Ravic I growled and said "Who are you, where is my daughter."

Just like every other time he had answered the door for me he said "Good morning father, as usual your timing is astonishing. I'm supposed to let you in to see Sarlia so you can name any of the kits if you choose to." As he stepped aside I grumpily stomped through the house while smirking inside, knowing that he was a good mate, I was the only one he yielded to, all others he stood before and refused to back down.

Going into the birthing room without a second of hesitation as usual I saw my other 3 daughters looking over her, there was a kit in Belaina's arms already, with Eviran taking and cleaning a second, she handed the young kit to me upon seeing me actually look at one of the kits for once. I looked into the girl's young eyes and knew, she was the one I had forseen years before and the one who was so important. As I heard a loud noise at the front of house I put the girl down and quickly created a small pendent that would read Railyn to all who read it, whether or not they could even read, and placed it around her neck.

Right as I left the room I felt her use her power for an instant, such tremendous power with an edge to it that almost felt lethal, such as the untamed black magic user was said to have. Walking back in to the room I saw that the kit was gone, feeling the texture of the magic to attempt to follow I finally realized why I didn't see a future for her until five millennia had passed, she had taken herself through time, simply because her power allowed her to.

Striding out to the front of the house I waved my hand and shouted " Magi Temporal Ceasani Exisani!" my family was frozen, and the Caelestis users out front were free to discuss events with. When I saw the Black Lion leading them I froze, the leader of the magic purging crusades was upon my daughter's doorstep. Regaining composure I said "Greetings master of the 8th Tower, I assume you felt the momentous event that was my grand daughter's birth."

Nodding he said "Tha' gurl, ya need ta hand her over, I promised my Lord tha as his envoy to this worl I woul take the souls of evary Black magic user to the rivar Styx."

One of the others to his said started to say "That girl, you..." before I cut him off saying "Silencio moronicia." which caused a metal plate to appear over his mouth and stretch all the way around his head to prevent him from speaking, "That will last for an hour, your Lord is not difficult to understand, don't ever presume that he is again." Turning back to Enivid I said "She used her magic to travel through time, I don't know when she will appear again, if you do not believe me you have 4 hours to search the house before we are on same time plane as my family again."

Shaking his head Enivid said "Thare is na reason for ya to lie, for ya know tha we coul bring the wrath of God ta consume ya." Turning they walked away and I took the time to fix the memories of my family, so that they didn't remember Railyn or myself coming for the birth, in a week they would receive the company of my rabbit caretaker who would inform them that I had died by a lightning strike.

2010

Enivid

Across the field of honor I saw the last Black user in existence. Her appearance had changed drastically after she summoned what they called her secondary conduit, and her so called primary conduits had also changed, they appeared to be made out of the flame of God but I knew it was a trick meant to disorient me.

'Do not lose sight of my task for you; this is the final step to purge the world for my coming. I shall arrive on your world in forty two days time; I will be greatly disappointed if you fail to use my gifts to you to consume her.'

Nodding I stepped forward when the bell rang, her rash nature showed itself as she charged into battle. I allowed my Lord a brief step down from heaven as his flames burst forth from me, I saw her avoid it by disappearing from sight. I remembered Beatus mentioning that teleportation magic was her favorite. Perhaps the battle with the last Black would finally provide a challenge.

Ursa

Watching the battle from my seat upon the master's stand I saw several flaws in both fighter's styles. Railyn still relied on her speed and her mastery over her seven magic tattoos. I could feel the energy as she activated each, first her tattoo to allow her to use a magic third arm to help catch and move bullets between guns, she reversed the polarity of Enivid's silver flame explosion. As she shot the exchanged bullet she covered it with her own Caelestis flame to protect the bullet.

She activated her third tattoo to use her favorite teleport spell, she had previously been able to use it over a thousand times a day without tiring, now it was not unreasonable to think she could use it millions. As she appeared sixty feet behind Enivid her bullet from before impacted the front of him, as he was flying from the explosion she holstered both her guns and activated her sixth tattoo to mix every school of magic into a pure black dragon's head, as it sent forth it's black flame it was visible to the trained eye that she had even mixed in the Caelestis silver flame.

Drawing her guns again she took the time to switch the bullets before shooting, the bullets exploded forth from her guns and the two bullets combined power equaled her original spell and white flames mixed with black upon the body of Enivid. He fell to the floor of the coliseum, smoldering, before stand and dusting himself off. It was almost impossible to tell normally if he was burnt due to his black fur but this time it was obvious, the monster black lion was covered in white and grey, if the legends were true then this was the first time he had ever been touched in a duel.

Railyn

As he stood up I took gauge of the magic energy in the air. It was a trick that I had never told Da or any of the others about, It was the focus of my eighth tattoo, I had applied it myself in the time bubble. Activating the tattoo I felt the remaining energy from our attacks flow into me, positive and negative power surrounding me.

As this was happening I saw Enivid stand up and raise his hand, "Tha will na be allowed, heathen non-believer." The energy I had been absorbing seemed to change and suddenly all of the energy around me exploded. The force of it ate through my shield and threw me almost straight up due to the fact that the energy had been gathering at my feet to send a shockwave.

When I landed on the ground Enivid was standing just to the side of me with a sphere of silver flames aimed at my head. Shouting with power I said " Deeps!" before teleporting a few feet away. Feeling through the energy my guns had gathered I brought forth his spell and fired it from both guns at him. Gathering energy I shouted " Vitriolic Pestilent Fulgurating Static Hellfire Inferno bolt!" from my hands shot forth a sphere of electricity arcing between globs of acid with all of it burning hotter than the sun, raising my guns I poured forth the same amount of energy into each and fired, with both bullets speeding forward to sync up with the original bolt.

As they approached Enivid I quickly shouted " Cease Deeps!" and watched as time removed it's arms from Enivid and the triple tri element bolt impacted him with an explosion of the three elements, the acid eating away at him with the lightning arcing between him and the ground and all of it being consumed by fire hotter than a white dwarf star.

Before the air had cleared I found myself teleported up to the stand with Da and the other Masters. Hearing a popping sound I saw a completely white Enivid appear on the other side of the stand, he seemed completely unharmed and he preceded to speak, "Thank you Railyn, I have been cursed with that energy since my birth, but there is a danger coming to our world. Please do not call me Enivid, that was his name, and it was most appropriate for he was anything but divine, call me Resiyk."

It was then that the ball of elements fell apart and we saw the black Enivid still standing where he had been, but his eyes were different when they looked at us, they appeared to be made of molten silver. Turning towards us entirely it spoke, and we knew it was no longer anything mortal "The world you call home shall fall before me in 42 days, the so called Masters of your schools of magic and your highly spoken of Black Learner will all fall before my will, this body was but one preparing the way. Nothing can be done to stop me coming." As it speaking the body burst in a bout of blue silver flames, the eyes were the last thing to disappear.

Sighing Da said "We have a lot to discuss, Railyn please teleport yourself back, each Master if you can please lay a hand on her so she may take you back, I will use the collisica spell to send back the rest of the magi community."

Preparing the spell I pictured Da's study and as soon as I felt everyone's hand and particular magic within range to be affected I whispered "Mass" and we were there. As everyone stepped back I raised my hand towards Resiyk and said "Edoceo Vera" As his magical aura became visible I looked it over and saw that it was nowhere near as dense as it had previously been, there was also something indescribable that had been in it before that seemed to be missing now. Looking at Ursa and around at the other masters I saw that Ursa, Resiyk, and Raven the white-green necromancy teacher, were the only others that could see auras and they were the only ones who knew what I was doing.

After Da appeared and had looked over the changes in Resiyk's aura I said "Cease." As the aura dissipated Ursa created nine chairs in a circle, one for each of us. Speaking up first I said "He has a completely different magic aura than before, and we all saw that thing disappear back in the arena, even whatever magic determined a victor decided that I had beaten it."

Nodding Da said "Railyn, due to the relevance to this situation, please recite the different magic schools and minor details."

Clearing my throat and taking a deep breath I said "Most common is the yellow-red or orange conjurors, capable of summoning objects from the nether, causing an elemental shift in the air to change elements otherwise known as evocation, and basic to complex teleportation and subsets there from. Brown druids come next with the ability to manipulate anything made out of wood or metal to varying degrees based on their ability and magic pool, otherwise known as their aura or spell or magic field. Blue-red or purple Illusionists come as the third most common spell caster and their strength depends almost entirely on their imagination, frequently they know a few minor abilities from the evocation part of conjuring and use these in conjunction with illusions to disorient a foe until their opponent has exhausted them self.

White-green necromancers come next and are the most notorious spell casters due to the corrupting influence of being able to draw on the universe constantly decaying to replenish their spells, there are a few that learn to manipulate skeletons etc. Now the cyan transmuters are technically rarest because extremely few chooses to solely specialize in it, but due to the power of transmutation they can create objects and bring life into them, called a homunculus, and through them they can cast another school of magic, normally white-green necromancy or red evocation. White mind or enhancement magic is usable by numerous types of magic users due to it's partially universal nature, it is used for gathering information and for allowing one to push their mind and body to the limits. White has few specialists but those that do can push their limits tenfold.

Grey mimics cannot be taught at all except for how to use their abilities most effectively, they are the rarest breed of magi. I am the last Black Learner in existence, I can learn from every magic school and any teacher that chooses to teach me, and occasionally simply from those who duel me. Finally there is Caelestis magic, It is basically a class of its own, It can appear as Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum flames, the color does not matter for the amount of power, that is a matter of birth, bronze and gold are the most common colors for it, silver occurs in only about ten percent of users, and platinum has not been seen since the death of the last black user." Breathing normally again I said "There was platinum Caelestis fire at the coliseum, and the voice seemed demonic."

Nodding Resiyk said "It was undoubtedly a demon, he killed all of the old Caelestis as well as countless magi of the 7even towers. By the time he was done his crusades were mostly over, after that he hunted down the last of the Black Learners. There was a group of them, nearly a hundred, and they tried banishing him to the deepest depths of the hole in the Ninth level of hell. But something stopped it, and I realize now why it didn't work, because the mind of the one that was possessing me is already in that hole, you can't send something to damnation twice when it's still there from the first time."

Karen

Sitting with Rusty in his strange little compound I felt the importance of what happened at the coliseum finally crash over me in a massive prophecy. This was why I was around Rusty, so he could hear what I said " In One thousand seven hours forty eight minutes thirty six seconds the portal to the infinite abyss will break the points of fifty-one ten forty-four and one forty-nine thirty-four. The name Irryck'ya,grammon'rezzyck will destroy this and every other world, for hell shall fall that day. Only one force can stop it, Platinum Black, but the time will soon be past for that to finish."

Rusty

Finishing recording the prophecy I raised my hand towards Karen and said "Levita" to prevent her from injuring herself. Sighing I said to no one in particular "It's always the same, they ask me to do what no one else wants to do because it's tedious."

Behind me a familiar voice said "Did you ever consider it's because we enjoy your company during those tedious times?"

Turning I saw one of the only magi who could enter my compound without setting off magic alarms. Waving I said "Hey Verne, which trick was it this time, illusion of you still being outside, ice crystals dropping your body temp enough to trick my detection magic?" I always suspected a bit of fox in his heritage but he looked entirely like an American short-hair, his two tails were the result of one of his magic tech experiments.

Shaking his head he said "Put a bubble of illusion around the source of the magic, you forgot to put in that it's never night in your compound. So Karen has you looking over her while she's passed out?"

Nodding I offered him a plate and he said "Blueberry muffin please." Muttering under my breath the component elements I put a chunk of plastic on top before saying "Transi fruita dough" and transmuting the plastic into a few blueberry muffins. Taking one myself before passing the plate over to Verne I bit into it and found that as usual it seemed like it had just been taken out of the oven.

Munching on the muffins Verne asked "So what is this theme from?" while looking around the new layout of my compound.

Grinning I said "The new season of Doctor Unknown."

As Verne walked around the area it was amusing to watching him through the glass floor trying to fiddle with the faux electronics. As he pulled out his PDA which doubled as his conduit I yelled "Those electronics are fake, that little handheld of yours won't do you much good."

As I said that I heard Karen waking behind me, looking over I saw she looked more drained than usual. Walking over I asked her "Are you alright?"

Hopping off my levita spell she nodded and said "That was just a bit more draining than usual, it almost felt like something was trying to consume me." Stumbling a bit she knocked into me and suddenly seized up.

Karen

As soon as I stumbled into Rusty I felt a premonition coming, I was grateful that it wasn't a prophecy because since it came on from bumping into Rusty it involved him. I saw a bright flash and then I saw Rusty in a suit standing in a church with a white lion standing next to him holding a bible, it almost looked like a wedding, but the premonition ended before I could see who he was going to marry.

Stepping back from Rusty I nodded towards the door and as he looked at it Railyn walked in and said "I have to say, it almost seems like fate hates me, one thing after another. Sit down guys, they have one hell of a plan to find out what the deal is with this demon that was possessing Resiyk, that's Enivid's original name."