Post by Adain on Sept 25, 2006 0:37:08 GMT -5
Note: this is chapter one if there is enough demand i will write a second chapter. Also there is alittle gore in there but not so much that it would be rated m its more of a teen story.
Chronicles of Adain: Book One
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My name is Adain, and this is my story. Unlike most stories this is one of pain, death, and vendetta. Most stories start at the beginning but this one starts at the end, or is it the start of the story, well that’s for you to decide.
I felt a sharp pain shoot through my body as I looked down to see the shaft of an arrow sticking out of my armor. I moved my hand up to remove the bolt from my chest, before I could touch it another arrow shot forward and pierced the arrow in my armor and thrusted its self through my remaining armor and embedded its self in the flesh of my chest. I tried to pull it out but the strength in my arms and legs was leaving me. I looked back down to my chest to see blood gushing down the shaft of the arrow. “Damn… I have to live to protect the people….” I said this as my memories of life flashed through my eyes, but in my dazed state a mountain of a man approached me, a grin spread across his face and he lifted his axe and swung aiming for my neck. Before the massive blade could reach my neck a bolt from the heavens smote him and his gigantic weapon, then a voice boomed out of the heavens proclaiming “Adain your time is not now, Athena has need of you for a job he thinks only you can accomplish.” Then when the voice finished I felt my concise drift into darkness…
My body felt as if it was floating, I heard a soft voice singing a melody, which brought me out of the darkness. When I opened my eyes I was blinded by an enormous light, I fluttered my lids to get adjusted to the barrage of light that assaulted my eyes. When my sight had cleared I saw a strange woman staring into my eyes, something about her just radiated through the room it was as if she glowed. “Adain, I am Athena, I have been caring for you since you arrived here in Mount Olympus, thank Zeus that your wounds have healed.” Said the woman I now knew as Athena. “How long have I been here? Is my family alive? What has happened in the battle?” I shoot off my questions as I stared into her blue orbs. “I am sorry your people lost the battle and everyone was lost, the enemy massacred the whole city-state. This happened a year ago.” When she said this one thing burned in my heart and that was the vendetta that I would hold against the Spartans for the rest of my life. Athena saw the fire that erupted from my soul and my need for vengeance, she sighed as she started her next statement “I can give you a weapon to defeat your enemies but it comes at a great cost, you will be my slave for all eternity.” She knew my answer before I could even speak it. “That’s fine with me.” Right when I finished saying this she stood and snapped her fingers and my body lifted out of the bed and I hung with my arms spread out, then a black tar like substance appeared and she sighed again as she pointed to my body. “With this I give you the strength of a titian.” When she said this the tar like substance came upon my body, it burned as if it was just dug up from the pits of Hades. Then she sung a verse and a spear appeared and she said, “This spear is the spear that was used by myself.” Then she set me down and looked over my now glistening black body, and my untouched head. She then kissed my forehead and said with a slight tremble in her voice “May Zeus be with you.” And with that she turned and disappeared, after she left my sight I suddenly was brought up by a tremendous force but I could not do anything to stop it and it took me out of the mountain and flew me towards Sparta.
The force stopped and dropped me about a day’s walk from Sparta. I could see the massive walls of the city from where I was, but the walls will not stop me I thought as I started running towards the walls. At first I thought I was running at my top speed but then I started moving faster and as I did this I could feel the suit I now wore move against my skin. As I started to approach the city I started to hear more and more of roars of wild beasts. As I approached a clearing I saw something jump out into the clearing ahead of me and it was a mentor, its legs and head were that of a bull and its body was that of a man. It roared and charged me, but its attack had no affect on me with all the battle experience that I had accumulated from wars. I side stepped its feeble attack smote it on the arm with the shaft of the spear, when I did this I heard a crunch and the arm lay uselessly by its side. This only angered the mentor more and it came rushing me again this time when I side stepped to its left so I could hit its arm, it lashed out with its horns and threw me aside like a rag doll. I got up realizing that I needed to finish this so my revenge could finally be realized. I angled the back of the spear forward and put the blade of it behind me and ran forward. As I closed the distance with the mentor it started to run towards me also, when I was just five feet away from him I stopped abruptly and swung with all my force the spear lashing out with the blade I decapitated the mentor with one fatal blow.
With the mentor dead I could continue on my search for vengeance. I gained my barring again and headed full blast towards the city-state, as I neared it I could see the wall more clearly. There was guard posts every ten meters and two archers manned each post, which lead me to laugh at the way this was turning out. At this rate I wont have to wait long to reach my goal, I thought to my self as I dodged the multiple incoming arrows. I jumped onto the wall and started running up it as I went the archers just stared dumbfounded, when I reached the top I throw my spear and impaled an archer into the wall. I then ran up to the other one whom had his sword drawn and I came at him with only my fists. He lunged with his sword hoping to pierce me threw but I grabbed his arm and with my new found strength I squashed his arm, which caused him to emit a scream of pain. He dropped his sword but before it could hit the ground I grabbed it and slammed down with it, splitting the warrior in half causing his blood to spew out and cover me. When I looked down at my suit it started to absorb the blood and turn a dark maroon in my right arm; this mused me into wondering why it only turned that way on that one place. But I thought to my self, I don’t have time for these petty thoughts. I then extracted my spear and jumped off the wall and into the city.
I headed towards the army barracks, as I neared them I saw that they wear guarded by two mentors. I rushed towards the one on the left and slid under it, when I popped out behind it I stabbed my spear into the base of its skull killing it instantly. But in doing this I left myself open to attack from the second mentor, this was an opportunity it could not pass up so it scooped me up and tightened its grip on me trying to crush me. As this was happening I moved my sword so that it would slide up into the mentor and pierce its heart. I then thrust my sword up into the mentor and watched its face as it died with a smug grin on my face.
When the mentor dropped, I looked at the now unguarded entrance and let out a laugh. As I walked into the building I heard the sounds of slumbering men, I thought to my self. The insolence of these people amazes me. I then yelled “Wake ‘men’ of Sparta and face me!” with this every sleeping person in the room roused and when they saw me standing there they jumped into their battle armor and came at me. I swung my spear with such force that when it hit the first man in the stomach his intestines sprayed out onto his comrades causing one to vomit. But before he could recover from it I came crashing down with my sword into his head causing it to split and spew its contents onto the ground. I finished off the rest of the force with much ease, and then I heard a loud thunderous voice boom out “What have you done? You dare kill the Spartan warriors in there own homeland? I will punish you for what you have done.” With this I turned to see a Cyclops standing there with a club that looked to be a tree, it came crashing down with the club but I jumped up and landed onto it. I ran up its arm towards its neck and grabbed on with my arm, I then came crashing down with my sword but it just bounced of its head and the giant laughed at my attempt to kill it in one blow. It then said in its bellowing voice “You have to try harder to beat me than just a simple strike from a sword.” With this it threw its self to its back, it had hoped to crush me but I let go and jumped off. As I saw it roll to its side to get up I rushed towards it again but this time I threw my spear and hit it right in the eye. I then jumped up and latched onto the giant’s arm and climbed it to the thick neck of this beast. I slashed my sword in a crescent shape across the neck of the Cyclops silting open its neck causing a river of blood to flow out of it into the streets of Sparta.
I looked over the corpse of the giant and laughed to myself at how easily I had defeated it, I then turned my attention towards a voice that had invaded my head. At first I was confused on who it was then I remembered the Goddess Athena, and what she said startled me “Oh my precious, how you have fallen from the beauty you once possessed. Now you are a bloodthirsty savage like those you seeked to destroy. How I long for the old Adain, but now you have a new mission which will further separate you from the one that I had fallen in love with.” And with that I then weaped out “My revenge has been full filled, I am now left empty of hate and anger. I only wish to live now.” With saying this I thought back to when I had first met her back on Olympus, and how my body had earned for her but my sorrow had possessed my mind and demanded for retribution. I then completed my statement “I only want to live with you now….” But she answered that with “I told you the cost of this weapon and you accepted it with out a second thought, now you will be the enforcer of the gods. You can be loved by no one. This is your fate.” Said Athena in a fading voice. I then slipped into darkness and appeared in a cell, the cell had in writing on the wall “All that see this are the gods to control to their will. You have forfeited your life to have a weapon and to be a weapon.”
Chronicles of Adain: Book One
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My name is Adain, and this is my story. Unlike most stories this is one of pain, death, and vendetta. Most stories start at the beginning but this one starts at the end, or is it the start of the story, well that’s for you to decide.
I felt a sharp pain shoot through my body as I looked down to see the shaft of an arrow sticking out of my armor. I moved my hand up to remove the bolt from my chest, before I could touch it another arrow shot forward and pierced the arrow in my armor and thrusted its self through my remaining armor and embedded its self in the flesh of my chest. I tried to pull it out but the strength in my arms and legs was leaving me. I looked back down to my chest to see blood gushing down the shaft of the arrow. “Damn… I have to live to protect the people….” I said this as my memories of life flashed through my eyes, but in my dazed state a mountain of a man approached me, a grin spread across his face and he lifted his axe and swung aiming for my neck. Before the massive blade could reach my neck a bolt from the heavens smote him and his gigantic weapon, then a voice boomed out of the heavens proclaiming “Adain your time is not now, Athena has need of you for a job he thinks only you can accomplish.” Then when the voice finished I felt my concise drift into darkness…
My body felt as if it was floating, I heard a soft voice singing a melody, which brought me out of the darkness. When I opened my eyes I was blinded by an enormous light, I fluttered my lids to get adjusted to the barrage of light that assaulted my eyes. When my sight had cleared I saw a strange woman staring into my eyes, something about her just radiated through the room it was as if she glowed. “Adain, I am Athena, I have been caring for you since you arrived here in Mount Olympus, thank Zeus that your wounds have healed.” Said the woman I now knew as Athena. “How long have I been here? Is my family alive? What has happened in the battle?” I shoot off my questions as I stared into her blue orbs. “I am sorry your people lost the battle and everyone was lost, the enemy massacred the whole city-state. This happened a year ago.” When she said this one thing burned in my heart and that was the vendetta that I would hold against the Spartans for the rest of my life. Athena saw the fire that erupted from my soul and my need for vengeance, she sighed as she started her next statement “I can give you a weapon to defeat your enemies but it comes at a great cost, you will be my slave for all eternity.” She knew my answer before I could even speak it. “That’s fine with me.” Right when I finished saying this she stood and snapped her fingers and my body lifted out of the bed and I hung with my arms spread out, then a black tar like substance appeared and she sighed again as she pointed to my body. “With this I give you the strength of a titian.” When she said this the tar like substance came upon my body, it burned as if it was just dug up from the pits of Hades. Then she sung a verse and a spear appeared and she said, “This spear is the spear that was used by myself.” Then she set me down and looked over my now glistening black body, and my untouched head. She then kissed my forehead and said with a slight tremble in her voice “May Zeus be with you.” And with that she turned and disappeared, after she left my sight I suddenly was brought up by a tremendous force but I could not do anything to stop it and it took me out of the mountain and flew me towards Sparta.
The force stopped and dropped me about a day’s walk from Sparta. I could see the massive walls of the city from where I was, but the walls will not stop me I thought as I started running towards the walls. At first I thought I was running at my top speed but then I started moving faster and as I did this I could feel the suit I now wore move against my skin. As I started to approach the city I started to hear more and more of roars of wild beasts. As I approached a clearing I saw something jump out into the clearing ahead of me and it was a mentor, its legs and head were that of a bull and its body was that of a man. It roared and charged me, but its attack had no affect on me with all the battle experience that I had accumulated from wars. I side stepped its feeble attack smote it on the arm with the shaft of the spear, when I did this I heard a crunch and the arm lay uselessly by its side. This only angered the mentor more and it came rushing me again this time when I side stepped to its left so I could hit its arm, it lashed out with its horns and threw me aside like a rag doll. I got up realizing that I needed to finish this so my revenge could finally be realized. I angled the back of the spear forward and put the blade of it behind me and ran forward. As I closed the distance with the mentor it started to run towards me also, when I was just five feet away from him I stopped abruptly and swung with all my force the spear lashing out with the blade I decapitated the mentor with one fatal blow.
With the mentor dead I could continue on my search for vengeance. I gained my barring again and headed full blast towards the city-state, as I neared it I could see the wall more clearly. There was guard posts every ten meters and two archers manned each post, which lead me to laugh at the way this was turning out. At this rate I wont have to wait long to reach my goal, I thought to my self as I dodged the multiple incoming arrows. I jumped onto the wall and started running up it as I went the archers just stared dumbfounded, when I reached the top I throw my spear and impaled an archer into the wall. I then ran up to the other one whom had his sword drawn and I came at him with only my fists. He lunged with his sword hoping to pierce me threw but I grabbed his arm and with my new found strength I squashed his arm, which caused him to emit a scream of pain. He dropped his sword but before it could hit the ground I grabbed it and slammed down with it, splitting the warrior in half causing his blood to spew out and cover me. When I looked down at my suit it started to absorb the blood and turn a dark maroon in my right arm; this mused me into wondering why it only turned that way on that one place. But I thought to my self, I don’t have time for these petty thoughts. I then extracted my spear and jumped off the wall and into the city.
I headed towards the army barracks, as I neared them I saw that they wear guarded by two mentors. I rushed towards the one on the left and slid under it, when I popped out behind it I stabbed my spear into the base of its skull killing it instantly. But in doing this I left myself open to attack from the second mentor, this was an opportunity it could not pass up so it scooped me up and tightened its grip on me trying to crush me. As this was happening I moved my sword so that it would slide up into the mentor and pierce its heart. I then thrust my sword up into the mentor and watched its face as it died with a smug grin on my face.
When the mentor dropped, I looked at the now unguarded entrance and let out a laugh. As I walked into the building I heard the sounds of slumbering men, I thought to my self. The insolence of these people amazes me. I then yelled “Wake ‘men’ of Sparta and face me!” with this every sleeping person in the room roused and when they saw me standing there they jumped into their battle armor and came at me. I swung my spear with such force that when it hit the first man in the stomach his intestines sprayed out onto his comrades causing one to vomit. But before he could recover from it I came crashing down with my sword into his head causing it to split and spew its contents onto the ground. I finished off the rest of the force with much ease, and then I heard a loud thunderous voice boom out “What have you done? You dare kill the Spartan warriors in there own homeland? I will punish you for what you have done.” With this I turned to see a Cyclops standing there with a club that looked to be a tree, it came crashing down with the club but I jumped up and landed onto it. I ran up its arm towards its neck and grabbed on with my arm, I then came crashing down with my sword but it just bounced of its head and the giant laughed at my attempt to kill it in one blow. It then said in its bellowing voice “You have to try harder to beat me than just a simple strike from a sword.” With this it threw its self to its back, it had hoped to crush me but I let go and jumped off. As I saw it roll to its side to get up I rushed towards it again but this time I threw my spear and hit it right in the eye. I then jumped up and latched onto the giant’s arm and climbed it to the thick neck of this beast. I slashed my sword in a crescent shape across the neck of the Cyclops silting open its neck causing a river of blood to flow out of it into the streets of Sparta.
I looked over the corpse of the giant and laughed to myself at how easily I had defeated it, I then turned my attention towards a voice that had invaded my head. At first I was confused on who it was then I remembered the Goddess Athena, and what she said startled me “Oh my precious, how you have fallen from the beauty you once possessed. Now you are a bloodthirsty savage like those you seeked to destroy. How I long for the old Adain, but now you have a new mission which will further separate you from the one that I had fallen in love with.” And with that I then weaped out “My revenge has been full filled, I am now left empty of hate and anger. I only wish to live now.” With saying this I thought back to when I had first met her back on Olympus, and how my body had earned for her but my sorrow had possessed my mind and demanded for retribution. I then completed my statement “I only want to live with you now….” But she answered that with “I told you the cost of this weapon and you accepted it with out a second thought, now you will be the enforcer of the gods. You can be loved by no one. This is your fate.” Said Athena in a fading voice. I then slipped into darkness and appeared in a cell, the cell had in writing on the wall “All that see this are the gods to control to their will. You have forfeited your life to have a weapon and to be a weapon.”
