The Word Cloud

Pandemonium

by Jaana [aka Cyane] 

Iceberg's Rider

The last moments of Ice nation were very painful for them. The Fire warriors comploted to Queen's Xenada life and King Trion killed himself few hours after his wife have been murdered. The elves were saved by Sirion, prince of Silver Crane Royal Clan, who guide them 'till the west forests of Nahgir where the Silver Crane elves are the most powerful seers of elf kind.

Sirion summoned his crane and asked him to fly, he borrowed the bird's eyes and all the old trees of Nahgir forest were so little like a green river covered with white ice. The bird screamed and Sirion stopped from running being attentive to every noise that could be their last call. To the bird's second scream the elf boy ordered to the others to hide somewhere and to not get out 'till his signal. The others grab themselves to the forest's trees but some of them decided to fight near to Sirion's side and they climbed the trees preparing their weapons for battle. All they could hear was some sharpened whistling of fire creatures who were lead by some red knights who destroyed the old Uehem Gates for penetrate in the heart of the Nahgir forests and soon in the city.

Sirion and the others jumped from the tall trees and attacked the creatures cutting their tendons to paralyse them and to kill their masters by unbalancing them from their saddles. Sirion's bird took one knight in the air and pulled his arms and legs out eating them letting the body to fall and to strike by the nearest iceberg of the Nahgir city. A girl have seen the scene and she knew that the bird was the Sirion's guardian. She opened her big white wings and jumped in the air flying high to watch over the battle that she was able to hear it from long way. She observed that Sirion was helped by some elves, she felt anger when she saw the old Uehem Gates were destroyed being covered with fire and she grab herself down hiding her wings and pulled deep air in her chest and blow a strong cold wind covering all around with ice. Sirion was close to become like the others, frozen, but he opened in time his Resurrection Gates and protected the other elves by being frozen statues. He closed the dark gates and advanced fast steps till the little girl and looked in her grey eyes, who were big and innocent like the strong moon's light in the clearest night ever. "Princess Selone, what are you doing here?" asked Sirion covering himself with his white mantle "You have made a strong noise with your battle that i couldn't sleep at all. Be more careful when you are getting near to my lands cause you know that i have fine ears Prince Sirion" said the little girl touching one of the big yellow bells from her dress making a wonderful sound and from soil raised a white big wolf who crossed his head gentle to her hand "You better guide the elves quick to the city, something tells me that these fire warriors will come back soon. I'm sure that mom will be happy to see you...Later" said Selone climbing the wolf's back and leaving letting in her back a crystal rain. Sirion continued his journey guiding his friends to Nahgir City.

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They have arrived in Nahgir in little time after the battle. Some young boys have helped Sirion and the others to find their quarters and to prepare themselves to face the Royal family. Sirion remembered when he have seen last time the Nahgir walls, he thought that have passed 5 years but Selone told him that he should put more 2 years "I can't believe that u forgotten the last time when u asked me to marry you, i heard that you fell in love with another girl but nobody told me who is my rival" she said taking Sirion in her arms and he laid his head on her chest with tears in his eyes "She is dead" he said touching Selone's lips feeling her relaxing breath and he raised his head and looked in her eyes with fear, fear to loose her like he loosed his old beloved with little time ago. Selone kissed him and disappear like a shining white cloud letting him to rest for few hours.

At the sunset Sirion woke up, opened the windows and took some fresh air happy to see a new crimson sleepy sun. He washed his face with cold water and change himself in some beautiful shiny clothes and opened the door going to meet the others in the garden. He touched the flowers from his right side and saw two kids playing with Selone around the others and he broke one rose and grab himself to the girl and give it to her with the most gentle smile that somebody saw it in its life. King Elode started to sing, when he saw Sirion's smile, a ballad about a warrior who after he killed all his enemies he died with an innocent smile on his lips happy that he done a big service to his people. Sirion recognized the song and he took a deep breath and turned his eyes to the king like he wanted to read something strange in Elode's thoughts but he couldn't find nothing, he was lost in the song's power who made him to remember the old battles he fought in the past. Selone touched him and he was shaking like he was awakened from a long sleep "Are you ok?" she asked him curious, he embraced her gently and he smiled "Yes, now i am ok, 'cause i am with you". He feels so weak when he's thinking to Belle and Edhith, his best friends, who killed themselves months ago. Selone fall asleep in his arms and he left with her in the little garden inside of the palace, he lay her down to the white stone bank and touched the water from the shining fountain near to them and he felt a strong presence in his heart, like something wanted to awake inside of him, he started to breath hard and his body was shaking like a leaf ready to be broke from the tree's branch while a storm has passed quick, like the summer ones. He heard a voice inside of his head, a voice that wanted to drag him to madness, the voice was laughing like the demon's last moment of glory, Sirion raised his arms to his head and tried to cover his ears but the voice didn't disappeared, the laughing was more stronger than before and he pulled his dagger out from the sheath and shoved it in his arm pushing himself to the reality. His blood dripped in the fountain covering the water with deep crimson liquid, and he saw a demon face in the fountain trying to pull him inside catching his arm with enormous fingers, the dark big nails has scratching his arm when he was trying to escape from its tightly power. Sirion raised the dagger in the air and desperate he cut the demon's arm and an strong yelling escaped from its neck disappearing like a dark cloud and the water became clear like before. Sirion tried to calm down but his body still was shaking, he kneel down and stretch his hand to Selone's angelic face trying to touch it but failed when he fell down unconscious.

Female voices woke Sirion up, his eyes were clouded but he was able to recognize the queen's face, near to her was a blonde woman, tall and beautiful, who changed his bandages from his left arm and helped him to get up and drink some water. " What is going on? Why I am here?" he asked confused, "Later, now you have to rest" said the queen touching his forehead and he felt his eyes heavy and fell asleep again.

The clock's lines were to lazy to move quick, she thought that the power of the time is the most faster than the mind's agility. She wanted to see Sirion, but she couldn't move none of her muscles, Selone was afraid that she will end in his arms forever. She felt a devastating pain in her heart when she remembered the little conversation she had with him when he asked her to marry him but she didn’t hear his voice, all she saw was his lips moving but no sound. She couldn't stand it.

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Outside it was snowing, the storm was strong, the City's Gates were opened by the guards and three men came inside with a girl, an elf girl, who was cared by one of the Selone's personal guards until the palace's garden where Queen Caullenis was reading one of the Old Era's scrolls. The young man lay the girl down and he searched in his bag a little box which contains the most powerfull herbs who were made by long generations of the Uehem and Nahgir Clans. The queen stopped reading the scroll and joined the young man worried about the girl " Who is she Edmen? she asked cleaning the girl's wounds. The boy fell on his knees and lubricate the girl's wounds and whispered some ancient words and the wounds healed themselves very fast. Edmen raised his head to the sky and continued his whispers " Elem S'hieh Helion Sahge'eid. Telome Guahji Saota". When he finished the words he took the girl in his arms and answered to the queen " I found her to the Iceberg's walls, must she had a fight, i think they are still here. I need to take her to the hospital's quarters, I will take care of her my queen." He left with the girl and queen Caullenis knew that the Fire dogs were still out of there and she grab herself to the palace's windows, she wanted to put an end to all suffer of her people and to save this land from the Fire Nation's hands but she knew that this was impossible for her, because she realized she is not as strong as them.

Sirion walked alone around of the castle's walls and he found Selone watching to the moon, she was lost in thoughts, he still couldn't see normally, he's eyes were still clouded. He leaned slowly to the walls and keep his eyes on Selone, he realized how beautiful is she, he knew in his heart that he felt something powerful for Selone from the first day he met her, ten years ago when he was guest to her seventh birthday party. Sirion remembered when she gave him one harp, a differenttt one, it was one of the most beautiful instruments created by one of the Nahgir Druids, it was differentntt one because it was created on two wings, black wings, two legends who were the power of Adegere, Mother of Darkness and Hell, and it wdifferentent because the harp's sounds were the most gentle ones but very dangerous when the one who sings on that harp loosing his concentration, the sounds become more powerful and in final will eat the souls of all the ones who are around of the harp, which its power is coming from the black wings. Sirion never tried to sing on that harp because he never had musical skills but it was a present from Selone. He ordered, when he was back to his lands, to lock the harp in the most deepest dungeons of the castle. The only one who have the key its him, no one have the permission to unlock the harp's chamber.

Selone raised herself from the rock and grab faster to the castle but she saw Sirion sleeping gentle, she touched his arms and she lay down near to his body, he was warmth, she watched for the last time to the moon and gently she closed her eyes and fell asleep on the Sirion's side. All seems to be ice around, Sirion recognized Belle's home, the forest where he and Belle used to meet and play words games. He saw a light in the front, it was an arrow, he tried to avoid the weapon but with an amazing speed, that Sirion couldn't tell when he lost the blade from his eyes sight, hit his heart and he strike the ice with his body, he felt his soul frozen and saw Belle trying to cover his wound with her hands crying and shouting desperate something that he couldn't hear, like he was lost his hearing sense. He felt he's loosing his strength and closed his eyes. Sirion woke up scared, shaking like a child in the middle of the snow storm, Selone took him in her arms trying to calm him. " It is ok, you had a bad dream...That's all" she said going to the fountain and washed her face with refreshing cold water. It was morning, the sun raised its shining arms around the world and the day's light woke up in the same time with the songs of the birds and the sounds of the forests. Sirion and Selene followed Queen Caullenis to the hospital quarters and she told them that she wanted to introduce them to somebody. When they opened the gates of the medical quarters they saw Edmen with some towels around his hands, dirty ones, with blood. Selone thought that it was his blood but he didn't say nothing and he washed the towels in a little green vase. Selone run to Edmen and she took his hands in her arms and searched all his body worried that he could be hurt but she didn't find any wound. " Don't worry sis, i am ok, but i can't say the same for her" said Edmen lookind to the elf girl with sadness. Selone turned her eyes to the same place as Edmen had his eyes and she felt fear, the elf girl's body was covered with blood as like Edmen's hands. " What in the world can do this to her? Who is she?" asked Selone scared taking Edmen in her arms. "I am pretty sure that they are here" said the young boy touching Selone's shoulders and kissed her forehead like a protector big brother. Selone knew what he talked about, she was sure that the Fire nation will come to the end and will start the war that she was afraid of, but she didn't forget the promise that she made to herself, she will not let her lands in the enemy's hands, she will fight and she will protect her people. She touched the elf girl's hand and felt a bit of her pain " I will protect you all, no matter what" she said with a different look in her eyes, a look of an warrior, a warrior who will do everything to protect the ones that she love. Queen Caullenis asked Selone and the others to leave her alone with the elf girl and she make them sure that she will take good care of her.

More days passed and the elf girl's state didn't change, she bleed every time when Caullenis tried to change her bandages and the girl's pain grown up every time when she was loosing blood. Caullenis wanted to see Xeneme, one of the medical master from the Uehem clan, she was known as the Iron Lady because of her miraculous powers in healing every wound or mental problem. First the queen needed to pass the Kethor grottos and to cross the iceberg’s walls which were the most dangerous ones in the winter time, but she wanted to ask for the last time the Iron Lady's help, she wanted to help the elf girl and to end her pains.

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When Caullenis was close to the Heolem Woods she knew that soon she will find Xeneme's house but she didn't do many steps that she have been surrounded by three Fire nation's warriors. " Well well, what we have here, if its not the Queen Caullenis of Nahgir. What are you doing here so far?" asked a girl preparing her weapons for attack " Calm down Fang'Yun..." said the other girl pushing the girl's blades down " I'll take care of her, you should go with Sen and find Lady Xeneme". Fang'Yun hesitated " What do you mean, you want us to let you alone here with her? That's impossible, i will not leave without you" she shouted desperate. " Calm down, i will come as soon as i will finish with her" " I am afraid that's impossible" said a woman showing her face into the silver light of the moon " You are on my woods, so i will not allow you to touch that woman. What is your purpose here? asked Lady Xeneme touching her glasses with care. The one who tried to calm Fang'Yun down advanced four steps near to Xeneme and took her sword trying to cut Xeneme but she was too fast and she avoided the blade, she jumped to the queen's side, she touched the queen's hand and two books appear to their other hands and they opened them and many rows of silver dense chains have born from the their pages, the three warriors of fire prepared themselves for battle but they didn't saw when Xeneme and Caullenis attacked because the chains were to fast. Fang'Yun heard her friend's screams, the silver chains were eating her " Camen, nooo..." shouted Fang'Yun but Camen released herself in the last moment and she took the horn from her bag and blow with power in it and some strange sounds emerged from the instrument, no long 'till they heard strong sharpened whistles from all the parts of the woods and after she released her friends and took them away from the chain’s strong thirst of blood.

The day was about to shine, Camen took the iceberg's path and she was running fast knowing that was too hard to get away from Lady Xeneme's eyes. She saw a enormous iceberg coming with speed and the one who was riding the iceberg was Selone. The young princess stick her white blade in the iceberg and her wings raised big like the silver curtains of the waterfalls, her eyes were frozen, like ice, and her muscles were so concentrated that you could have seen her dress broke little by little, she took her hands off from the sword and she raised them up and called all the druids to give her strength to broke the seal that she had when she was born " I will take you all with me in Hell" she screamed feeling a strange power running inside of her body " For eternity...Release Adegere's Forbidden Gates" shouted Selone touching the iceberg's ground and many white and enormous snakes with crowns on their foreheads and crimson red eyes attacked the fire creatures from left and right sides of her iceberg. Camen released once more the horn's sounds and the second fire army showed up, Xeneme and Caullenis tried to stop them but they were to many, Selone saw her mother wounded and touched all the four bells from her dress that everyone was able to hear the beautiful sounds that resound from them. An army of thousands of wolves, white and big like bears, raised from the iceberg jumped in the air and tear the fire army apart. Some fire creatures jumped above Selone's head but from her arms grown fast blades from her flesh and cut them apart sprinkle the white iceberg with blood, her body was half naked because her dress was broke when she was fight with those creatures. The iceberg she was riding stopped and she fell down feeling every muscle of her body was ready to explode she lost the control of her body and another presence took life in her, she raised up and started to laugh strange, like her voice was more strong and sadistic in the same time " Well, the brat summoned me at least, i will make sure that those fire dogs will come back with me in Hell". No doubt that Mother Adegere herself have come to end this fool war, but Caullenis knew that she lost her child forever.

Sirion saw Caullenis and Xeneme fighting with some fire warriors and he joined them to help. He tried to find Selone but he couldn't see her " My queen, where is Selone?". Caullenis looked to the air and showed him the big battle from the iceberg, he saw Selone fighting so fast and using so much power to destroy the enemy, and also he saw the snakes fighting near to her and protecting her from the unexpected attacks. But something wasn't right, he felt too much energy in the air, Selone's body it is too little to handle such a power. The air became hard to breath, Selone's body released a big energy visible to the human eye, the energy was growing in the same time with Adegere's anger. Her eyes were black and she twisted the energy like an ice vortex. All the fire creatures and warriors transformed in ice and fell to the ground and broke in thousands pieces. The only ones who survived were Sirion, Caullenis and Xeneme thanks to Sirion's Resurection Gates. After the vortex calmed down, Caullenis and Xeneme fell down from exhaust and Sirion run to the iceberg and catched Selone's body from falling, she opened her eyes, having the same look like the first time when they met years ago, innocent eyes. " Selone you will be ok" he said feeling the desperation growing in him " Sirion, you are here... tried Selone to speak ...you know, today its cold outside... she said coughing blood " Don't speak save your strength, i will take you to Xeneme" said Sirion but she refused " No Sirion, it is over for me, she ate all i had inside, i am empty, let me go, this darkness is to dangerous if i will stay any longer here, we will meet again..." her hand fell down from Sirion's chest and she stopped breathing, his eyes became demonic and he felt fury and fear. He wanted to scream but he couldn't, the demon voice from his head laughed again but louder than before, he felt his head heavy, like in any time will explode " No no, why i have to loose all i have, to suffer like this?" he said bumping his forehead in the iceberg and hurting himself.

He woke up and saw a woman meditating " Hi there, i am glad you came back" he raised his head and he didn't know what to say " Rhiannon, what are you doing here?" he asked like he didn't expected to see her. She hit him in the face gentle and he fell back down in the bed " You need rest, later for explications"? said the woman kissing his forehead send him back to the dreams world.