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Lost King
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"Would you care to see a demonstration?" asked Tash as he sifted through his satchel for another set of runes. The two kids gazed at him with frightened looks like two statues. "You enjoyed the show I gave you with the goblins didn't you? How about I incinerate this entire forest? Or I should I turn the earth upside down? Maybe even relocate that little pool of water over their?"
Now Tash was certainly serious. There was no doubting his intentions. And now he wanted to prove them to the children anyway.
Magenta was the first to act. She quickly leapt back and shouted, "You monster!" She reached into her own pouch of runes to try and find a suitable spell; something that could get rid of this wretched man.
"Too slow my dear." Tash was already a step ahead and clenched his fist towards her which made her body instantly stop. "A couple body runes and some other assorted ones and then you have a finely working snare."
Magenta was now in full panic. Her trembling could not be seen from the fact that her body was frozen in place. Her immediate thoughts all believed she would die at this exact moment. Her only hopes would be that she would wake up right now to find that this was all just a dream. Luckily for her Tash began to move away towards the boy lying fearfully on the ground.
"So I hear you have quite the magical ability." Tash stood over the boy and peered down upon him with a friendly stare. "Are you aware of the powers that these runes hold?" He turned to look at Magenta who was still locked in place and only able to view the current situation. "These tiny stones can stop objects in their tracks." He looked back at the piles of ash from when he first arrived. "They can cremate living things." He reached back into his pouch to pull out a handful of runes. "And from my experiments, I've found they can even change a beings entire form."

11-Feb-2008 18:07:30 - Last edited on 14-Mar-2008 02:53:22 by Lost King

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At this point the spell on Magenta had begun to wear off. Starting in her toes and fingers she could feel motion begin to return to them. She waited to make sure that all of her limbs had regained movement before choosing to move, and the moment that she could feel motion all throughout her body she spun around and made a mad dash into the woods back the way they came. She doubted that she had ever ran this fast before in all of her life.
It took a brief moment for Tash and the boy to realize what had happened. "Oh pity, it looks like she got away. Quite a nice friend you've got there." The boy was too entranced in fear to recognize the insult Magenta had just received. "Now where were we? Oh right! I was just about to show you the results of one of my latest experiments. Now I just need a target." Tash stopped to look around until his eyes paused on Daskal. "Your furry little friend will do just nicely." He reached out to the cat on the boy's shoulder and plucked him off. "Now let's see." He sifted through the collection of runes in his hand.
"You're the one from the abandoned house in Varrock! Aren't you?" shouted the boy as Tash was looking at his palm. "You're the one who blew up that house and killed that man! You did it with magic! You did all of that with runes!"
Tash sighed. "So you were there to witness that then? You're right about it all. But it was just another one of my experiments." He laughed. "I assume you saw the star imprint on that man's back?" The boy nodded. "Just so you know that man was just an old homeless fellow who wandered into that house. It was inconvenient for him I'm sure, but it was highly convenient for me seeing as I got to test out my new bomb spell."
"Bomb spell?" The boy's mouth gaped. "You mean you tested a bomb on that man!"

11-Feb-2008 18:10:19 - Last edited on 14-Mar-2008 02:57:41 by Lost King

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"Well it's more of a human explosion spell. But it just makes it sound all evil, but then again, given my future intentions I shouldn't really be worrying about those sorts of things. Anyways the star on his back was all part of the procedure. By placing specific runes in that shape I was able to form a new sort of spell which in a sense released all of that man's magical power causing it to form a giant fiery explosion since I had used fire runes as my element."
"You released his magical power? But how could that man have had enough to destroy that building?" The boy's fear was slowly being overcome with curiosity.
"Every human and possibly even beast has magical power. His was no different than an average workman's would be. That's just the power of the runes I had used. The star shape resembles a human, or at least their appendages. So it just forced out the energy through each limb. If I had used the spell on a high class magician I may be able to destroy an entire castle, or maybe if I used the spell on you..." The boy edged back a little ways. "Don't worry; I wouldn't perform the same experiment if I already knew it works. Now one that I will try is transformation."
The boy looked at the plotting grin on Tash's face and then down at Daskal who was captured in his arms. "Give Daskal back! Don't harm him!" The boy fought to stand back up and retrieve his cat but was knocked down by a firm stomp from the man.
"Daskal you say? Well at least now I can customize it." Tash sneered and picked up from where he had left off. "If my theories are correct then it may be possible to convert objects, living or inanimate, into other objects just from the powers of runes. Now let's see."

11-Feb-2008 18:15:10 - Last edited on 14-Mar-2008 03:03:31 by Lost King

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Holding Daskal out in front of him Tash raised his other hand with the runes in it above him. He clenched his fist and let out a burst of magical energy accompanied by a flash of light. The boy quickly rubbed his eyes to regain his vision, and to his dismay all he saw was Tash standing with an awestruck look as he held a finely crafted long sword in his hand.
The sword's blade was pure white like no natural metal seen before. It almost resembled the armor that the White Knights of Falador wore but it had a cleaner feeling to it, which was more than the painted armor those knight's had. This was surely pure white metal. At the bottom of the blade the hilt curved in a crescent fashion almost like two claws from a cat's paw, and it was made of another awkward metal only this time it was orange. The handle looked like the leg of a feline with orange fur like material covering it. The pommel completed the leg with what appeared to be the paw of a cat and on the top of the paw was the letter D inscribed onto it.
"It...worked." Tash stood astounded at his own work. A low chuckle worked its way into a bellowing laughter as if he had just conquered the world right then and there. This appeared to be his greatest achievement in the world of magic from his whole career.
The boy stood up shakily and with a low voice he spoke, "Daskal? Where's Daskal? What did you do with Daskal?"
Tash's laughter subsided. "Daskal you ask? Why my boy, this is Daskal!" he said as he held the sword above his head in a triumphant pose.
The boy collapsed on the spot, and Tash resumed his victorious laughter. The entire world had come crashing down on the boy. His only friends had left him, and now he lay at the foot of possibly the most powerful mage in the world. He felt as though his life had ended right there.

11-Feb-2008 18:17:01 - Last edited on 14-Mar-2008 03:05:21 by Lost King

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"Don't be so glum, boy. I have no reason to end your life right now," spoke Tash in a cheery voice. "I'll even give you your darling cat back, not exactly in the same form you remember but at least you'll have him. To be honest, I haven't put much time into figuring out how to get these objects back into living forms." He stepped over to the boy on the ground and crouched down to his level. "Here, I'll just place him right there next to you for when you feel like getting up." Tash stood back up and looked to the west. "I know it's foolish to leave such a worthy opponent like you alive but I just can't bring myself to kill someone with as much magical potential as you. I'm sure you'll seek revenge on me for the rest of your existence, so I'll be living in the west if you ever want to come find me."
Those were the last words the boy heard from Tash. It was the last time he had seen Daskal in his true form. And it was the last day he would spend as the nameless boy of Varrock. That day sparked the beginning of his new life.

11-Feb-2008 18:18:21 - Last edited on 04-Apr-2008 00:44:29 by Lost King

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