Yumemi spotted the unfinished game of chess atop the pedestal and remembered a conversation she had with Tsuke some months before. How he had described battle like a huge chess game and that only when all the pieces where in place would victory be assured. She went up and examined the dusty chess board and realized the black queen piece was missing. Wheeling around she poked around his collection of metal and glass sorcery pieces till she found it. Secreted away in the back was the missing piece.
She grabbed it and examined it briefly-the queen piece was heavy and its crown glittered with gems.
She placed it carefully in its place on the chessboard where it made checkmate with the white king. There was a grinding sound of cogs in the work and the chess board slowly moved outwards in an arc to reveal a deep recess in the pedestal. From within rose a black embossed dome carved with symbols Yumemi did not recognize. And she saw them shimmer for some time before she realized the symbols were moving over the dome. She gulped-these symbols looked very very old. But she steeled herself since she had to go through with her revenge. Thinking of Cameron and Crave made her feel angry again and she slammed her hand on the eye at the top of the dome.
The symbols stopped moving and glowed purple before a loud CRACK emanated from the eye splitting the dome in half. The halves retracted into the pedestal revealing a glitter from the hollow interior
Yumemi held her breath for a moment ..and saw a dingy old book with an black leather bound cover lying on velvet locked with a gold lock glittering with studded pearls. For a minute Yumemi looked at it with a sense of both awe and annoyance.
Seriously she could still not believe this mangy book was the dark tablet of power. Apart from its gold and jewelled lock it looked too frail and old to be considered worthy in her eyes.
Yumemi reached out to examine it but before she could a loud rushing wind blew through the room making her screech in surprise. When it had died down she saw the shadows in the room had blackened somehow more than before-and felt an ominous presence in the room.
“Good evening my precious Queen. How fortunate that you should come precisely when I require your-services”
Yumemi froze and saw a shadowy form walk out from the shadows of the bookcase. She knew that voice and a cold fear gripped her.
“Lord Cameron” she spat “You filth. You followed me!”
Cameron smirked at her, running his hands through his unkempt hair. “Indeed. And how sweet of you to show me the place where the dark tablet of power is hidden. But Tsuke would be most disappointed after all the trouble he went through to hide it”
Yumemi who stood still with anger moved at the mention of Tsuke “Don’t you DARE dirty his name with you foul mouth you filthy son of a-”
“Uh uh uh no swearing my pretty mouthed queen. Especially since Tsuke and I are one now since he kindly lent me his flesh to move around in this realm-”
“DIE !!”
Yumemi screamed loosing all her power to fling a materialized black spear straight at this heart.
Cameron stood calmly as the spear went through his chest with a sickening sound of metal on flesh. He raised an eyebrow at her heaving with rage and calmly pulled the offending item out of him.
Yumemi again felt cold fear engulf her as Cameron smiled wanly at her, examining the spear tip.
“It appears without your shadowy counterpart, you don’t even have a chance of damaging me”.
He tossed the tip to the side before raising a hand so the shadows gathered from around the room. Waving his fingertips he coiled them around Yumemi and pinned her arms to her side, gagging her mouth for good measure. He then closed his eyes momentarily healing the wound before dusting himself off. Yumemi’s struggled and screamed through the gag uselessly and Cameron walked forward taking the book ,a triumphant look on his face. Feeling the leather that bound it before stowing it safely in his shirt, he flicked his hands and Yumemi twirled into a vertical position mid-air . Yumemi made even more struggles as Cameron took a vial from his cloak and uncorked it . The vapor seeped into Yumemi’s nose till her struggles ceased and she floated limply ,her eyes fighting to stay awake.
Cameron smiled at her and bent down to her ear and whispered ‘I hope you realize those symbols you broke could only ever be undone by a true mortal with the blood of Kuraizen’s royal running through them. If you-in your anger and recklessness and arrogance-had stayed put I would not have been able to open the seal let alone touch the sacred Dark book which is the source of dark power handed to you by the gods themselves.’
The oily voice slipped away as Yumemi felt true panic and foolishness-she was to blame-she had spoiled everything-
‘No’ she thought in a panic as her eyes drooped as tried to focus on Cameron’s face-it seemed to her that she could see Tsuke’s face marred with distress and disappointment as she fell into a deep slumber.
Cameron looked at her unpityingly . Not surprisingly, the foolish girl had led her right to the tablet as he had anticipated. Tsuke’s mind was indeed very useful-it had helped greatly in analyzing her behavior . He held his hands out holding her bodily before commanding the shadows back to their place. As her thing weight settled in his arms he felt a speck of pity for her.
It passed quickly.
Her sleeping form would soon be tied up at the central palace. And he would contact Dorian to tell her he secured the dark tablet.
'It has finally begun' he thought swirling his cloak around him,clutching Yumemi and speeding through the door and its traps.
She grabbed it and examined it briefly-the queen piece was heavy and its crown glittered with gems.
She placed it carefully in its place on the chessboard where it made checkmate with the white king. There was a grinding sound of cogs in the work and the chess board slowly moved outwards in an arc to reveal a deep recess in the pedestal. From within rose a black embossed dome carved with symbols Yumemi did not recognize. And she saw them shimmer for some time before she realized the symbols were moving over the dome. She gulped-these symbols looked very very old. But she steeled herself since she had to go through with her revenge. Thinking of Cameron and Crave made her feel angry again and she slammed her hand on the eye at the top of the dome.
The symbols stopped moving and glowed purple before a loud CRACK emanated from the eye splitting the dome in half. The halves retracted into the pedestal revealing a glitter from the hollow interior
Yumemi held her breath for a moment ..and saw a dingy old book with an black leather bound cover lying on velvet locked with a gold lock glittering with studded pearls. For a minute Yumemi looked at it with a sense of both awe and annoyance.
Seriously she could still not believe this mangy book was the dark tablet of power. Apart from its gold and jewelled lock it looked too frail and old to be considered worthy in her eyes.
Yumemi reached out to examine it but before she could a loud rushing wind blew through the room making her screech in surprise. When it had died down she saw the shadows in the room had blackened somehow more than before-and felt an ominous presence in the room.
“Good evening my precious Queen. How fortunate that you should come precisely when I require your-services”
Yumemi froze and saw a shadowy form walk out from the shadows of the bookcase. She knew that voice and a cold fear gripped her.
“Lord Cameron” she spat “You filth. You followed me!”
Cameron smirked at her, running his hands through his unkempt hair. “Indeed. And how sweet of you to show me the place where the dark tablet of power is hidden. But Tsuke would be most disappointed after all the trouble he went through to hide it”
Yumemi who stood still with anger moved at the mention of Tsuke “Don’t you DARE dirty his name with you foul mouth you filthy son of a-”
“Uh uh uh no swearing my pretty mouthed queen. Especially since Tsuke and I are one now since he kindly lent me his flesh to move around in this realm-”
“DIE !!”
Yumemi screamed loosing all her power to fling a materialized black spear straight at this heart.
Cameron stood calmly as the spear went through his chest with a sickening sound of metal on flesh. He raised an eyebrow at her heaving with rage and calmly pulled the offending item out of him.
Yumemi again felt cold fear engulf her as Cameron smiled wanly at her, examining the spear tip.
“It appears without your shadowy counterpart, you don’t even have a chance of damaging me”.
He tossed the tip to the side before raising a hand so the shadows gathered from around the room. Waving his fingertips he coiled them around Yumemi and pinned her arms to her side, gagging her mouth for good measure. He then closed his eyes momentarily healing the wound before dusting himself off. Yumemi’s struggled and screamed through the gag uselessly and Cameron walked forward taking the book ,a triumphant look on his face. Feeling the leather that bound it before stowing it safely in his shirt, he flicked his hands and Yumemi twirled into a vertical position mid-air . Yumemi made even more struggles as Cameron took a vial from his cloak and uncorked it . The vapor seeped into Yumemi’s nose till her struggles ceased and she floated limply ,her eyes fighting to stay awake.
Cameron smiled at her and bent down to her ear and whispered ‘I hope you realize those symbols you broke could only ever be undone by a true mortal with the blood of Kuraizen’s royal running through them. If you-in your anger and recklessness and arrogance-had stayed put I would not have been able to open the seal let alone touch the sacred Dark book which is the source of dark power handed to you by the gods themselves.’
The oily voice slipped away as Yumemi felt true panic and foolishness-she was to blame-she had spoiled everything-
‘No’ she thought in a panic as her eyes drooped as tried to focus on Cameron’s face-it seemed to her that she could see Tsuke’s face marred with distress and disappointment as she fell into a deep slumber.
Cameron looked at her unpityingly . Not surprisingly, the foolish girl had led her right to the tablet as he had anticipated. Tsuke’s mind was indeed very useful-it had helped greatly in analyzing her behavior . He held his hands out holding her bodily before commanding the shadows back to their place. As her thing weight settled in his arms he felt a speck of pity for her.
It passed quickly.
Her sleeping form would soon be tied up at the central palace. And he would contact Dorian to tell her he secured the dark tablet.
'It has finally begun' he thought swirling his cloak around him,clutching Yumemi and speeding through the door and its traps.
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