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I never read the Cursed Dragon, but I read the Empty Lord's tale and I loved it. I will watch this.

If the gods are mobilizing, it can only mean one thing: Soon, Guthix surely must wake, and regardless of the circumstances, the world will end.

17-Dec-2009 02:09:17

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New story

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17-Dec-2009 02:54:34

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Part One: Apocalypse Dawn
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Chapter 1: The Outcast

After the third consecutive day of rain, Riga*us was complaining nonstop. “There’s work to be done!” he barked. “This cursed rain’s gonna make us go hungry, it will!”

“Relax, Riga*us,” said his wife sweetly. “You and Al could use a rest. Enjoy it.”

“Hmph,” Riga*us snorted. Riga*us and his wife Leah were a poor couple with only one son, Alaric, or Al for short. They subsisted entirely off of the trees that Riga*us and Al cut in the forest south of Edgeville, where their little cottage escaped notice of the people in the city. Riga*us had reason to be upset about losing work; the family was so poor that they might very well starve if Riga*us and Alaric failed to get any more wood to sell soon.

The thunder clapped again, bathing the dark sky with light. The storm had been virtually unceasing for several days now, and the darkness seemed to have something unnatural about it. The rain pounded against the crude wooden frame of the cottage, drowning out most other sounds from the inside.

Then, there came a sound outside. On the path up to the door to the cottage, they heard something big splash in one of the huge puddles. They could also make out muffled sounds of heavy breathing and groaning.

Riga*us got up, and then he went to a window. They couldn’t afford glass windows, so it was an open one with a wooden cover. Riga*us pulled back the cover for a moment, and he scanned the path.

“There’s someone out there!” he exclaimed, and then he closed the window and went to the door. Al and Leah followed behind him, and they waited by the door as Riga*us sprinted out into the downpour. He came back moments later, carrying a limp body over his shoulder.

18-Dec-2009 05:35:05

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Riga*us cleared a spot on the dry wooden floor, and then he carefully laid the body there. It was a warrior they had found; all could tell from his heavy armor. It was armor of Saradomin, in all but the helmet. The warrior's long black hair was in disarray, and his face was a mess of cuts, bruises, and blood. Alaric noticed that the warrior's body was wet with more than just rainwater; blood poured out of open gashes in the armor.

Leah knelt beside the fallen warrior. "He's still breathing," she said.

"Can you hear us?" asked Riga*us.

The warrior twitched, and then with a bloody cough, he opened his eyes. "Yes," he replied.

The stranger tried to lift himself up off the floor, but his muscles gave out, and he crumpled back onto the wood. "It's no use," Leah said. "You should rest, or you'll never get better."

The warrior shook his head. "I'm never getting better. A warrior knows when he's beaten. I'll be dead soon."

Alaric jumped. "Get him out of here," Riga*us said, but the warrior spoke up.

"Please, let him stay. I would like more than two people here."

"He's just a child."

"He should learn the ways of the world." The warrior turned his head to Alaric. "What is your name?"

"A-Alaric," the boy replied nervously.

"Well met, Alaric. I am Saren, a Temple Knight of Falador."

"You really shouldn't be talking..." Leah interjected, but Saren waved her off.

"I need to speak. My only friends are too far away to speak to me... I would like some company."

Riga*us smiled, a rare feat for a man like him. He obviously respected this warrior. "Well, Saren," he spoke up, "tell me, what are you doing here in your state?"

"I was fighting the monster," he replied. "The one that... was causing all the rain."

"A monster caused all this?"

"Yes. I need you...to send word back to Falador for me. Tell them...that my body is here. And that... I killed the water Sinthigian."

18-Dec-2009 05:36:04

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