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THE FALL OF ABRIA, Chapter 1This story may contain adult content. |
| Written by jake | |
| Wednesday, 04 June 2008 | |
IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN DAY IN ABRIA, A MAGICAL LAND OF MAGIC AND WONDER. IT WAS RULED BY MANY PEOPLE. A KING RULED A CITY, A LORD RULED A TOWN, OR GUILD. THE HIGH KING, WHO RESIDED IN ABRIA'S LARGEST AND MOST POWERFUL CITY, KERIN, RULED ABOVE ALL LORDS AND KINGS, AND EVEN HELD RULERSHIP OVER THE GOLDEN SEA. HIGH KINGS WERE GRANTED SPECIAL POWERS, AND COULD LIVE FOR AS LONG AS A MILLENIUM. MOST, THOUGH DIED IN BATTLE. THE HIGH KING, A JUST, WISE, AND KIND MAN, WAS MELKON SON MELHRAN. HE, S DID ALL THE PREVIOUS KINGS OF ABRIA, RULED IN PEACE, WITH A FAIR AND GENEROUS HAND. HE LEAD HIS FOCUS ON THE PEOPLES ISSUES, VALUEING EDUCATION AND SUCH OVER CONQUER AND WAR. IT IS INDEED IRONIC THAT AS PASSIVE AS MELKON IS, HE IS UNDEFEATABLE IN COMBAT.KERIN WAS A GREAT CITY, STRETCHING TEN MILES WIDE AND LONG. IT IS FULL OF MARKETS, HOUSES MADE OF MUDBRICK, AND MARBLE, TEMPLES AND CHURCHES, AND SEVERAL SCHOOLS. IT IS FILLED WITH WINDING STREETS AND PASSAGES, AND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY IS THE SIX STORY, PALACE. THE PALACE CONSISTED OF AT LEAST 296 BEDROOMS, FOUR KITCHENS, A THRONE ROOM, A STUDY, A LIBRARY, A GRAND HALL, A MEETING HALL, A FEASTING HALL, ETC. IT WAS A TRULY GRNAD PLACE. SURROUNDED ON THREE SIDES BY A FABULOUS COURTYARD FULL OF RARE AND EXOTIC, BUT BEAUTIFUL PLANTS. THE PALACE ITSELF IS HUGE, CONSISTING OF MANY CONNECTED BUILDINGS LINKED AT THE WALLS. IT IS NO CASTLE, IT WAS NOT BUILT THAT WAY, MANY COMPARE THE PALACE TO A TRIPLE SIZED CATHEDRAL, SINCE IT HAS MANY DOMED ROOFS, AND VAULTED CIELINGS. IT IS FULL OF MOSIACS, TAPESTRIES, STATUES, MURALS. ALL OF THE KINGS HAD A TASTE FOR ART, AND IT IS RICH IN ABRIA. THE LIBRARY WAS VAST AS WELL, HOUSING BOOKS COLLECTED BY ANCIENT KINGS AND ALL THOSE, SUCH AS TUTORS AND SCHOLARS, WHO RESIDED IN THE PALACE. THE FRONT OF THE PALACCE, THE ONLY PART NOT SURROUNDED BY THE COURTYARD, IS THE ENTRANCE TO THE PALACE. GRAND STEPS LEAD UP TO THE TWO, TEN FEET TALL GOLDEN DOORS THAT LEAD INTO THE CASTLE. LINING THE STEPS ARE STATUES OF THE TWENTY GREATEST GODS. TEN ON EACH SIDE. IN THE CENTER OF THE STEPS, WICH SEEMS TO DIVIDE THE STEPS INTO TWO SIDES, IS A DIAMOND STATUE OF THE KING OF THE GOD'S, CALIBUR, THE PATRON OF KINGS. AS FOR THE CITY AGAIN, IT IS SURROUNDED BY A SIXTY FOOT WALL ON ALL SIDES, WITH A LARGE IRON GATE LEADING INTO THE CITY. TWO GUARD TOWERS, INTERCONNECTED TO THE WALL, LYE ON EACH SID EOF THE GATE. THERE, MANY GUARDS, KEEP A STRONG LOOKOUT FOR INVADERS. THE CITY GUARD IS A FORCE OF MEN THAT PROTECT THE CITY FROM OUTSIDERS, AND ARE NOT CONSIDERD A REAL PART OF THE ARMY. THE CITY KEEPER'S ARE A FORCE OF MEN WHO DEAL WITH CRIME AND SUCH FROM WITHIN THE CITY, LIKE A POLICE OFFICER. THE ARMY OF KERIN IS VAST ALONE, CONSISTING OF A FEW HUNDRED THOUDAND OF HIGHLY SKILLED SOLDIERS, NOT INCLUDING THAT KERIN CAN DEMAND ASSISTANCE FROM THE ARMIES OF ALL THE KINGS IN ABRIA. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> MELKON, THE HIGH KING WITH LONG GOLDEN HAIR, AND A THIN BEARD, STOOD IN FRONT OF THE ASSEMBLY, KERIN'S SUPPORTING GOVERNMENT. A HOST OF EDUCATED MEN AND WOMEN WHO ASSIST THE KING IN HIS RULE, WHO DEAL WITHH A SPECIFIC THING. THERE ARE A TOTAL OF 7GOVENORS.THEYEACH RUN SPECIFIC THINGS, WICH INCLUDE: MILITARY, SCHOOL, BUSINESS, LAW, TRADE, MONEY, AND RELIGION, WICH IS LEAD BY THE FIRST PRIEST. EACH MEMBER HAS MANY HELPERS, WHO ARE AS WELL CONSIDERED PART OF THE GOVERNMENT. " MY FELLOWS..." MELKON SAID, AND GLANCED OVER MERIAL, HIS BEAUTIFUL, BLACK HAIRED QUEEN, WHO SMILED AND NODDED HER HEAD," IT IS NEARING SUMMER, AND OUR TRADE WITH CRYHARD HAS IMPROVED GREATLY.... THANKS TO OUR FISHERMAN, AND FARMERS OUTSIDE THE CITY. FOR OUR SUCESS, I PROPOSE A CELEBRATION... WITH ALL THE CITY INVITED... A FEAST... AND A DANCE... A BALL.... AT THE FIRST OF JUNE..." THE ASSEMBLY CHEERED IN AGREEMENT. " AND THE NEXT NIGHT... A BALL FOR ONLY THE CHILDREN...", HE ADDED, BUT THE CHEERS DID NOT DIMENISH. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> HALFWAY ACROSS ABRIA, IN AN ENCAMPMENT OF AT LEAST A MILLION SOLDIERS, ALL OF DEMONIC, MONSTER, AND EVIL BREED, STOOD A DARK FIGURE. HE WAS TALL, AT LEAST SIX AND A HALF FEET, WITH THICK BLACK ROBES, AND A DARK HOOD. HIS FACE WAS HIDDEN IN A DEMONIC, SILVER, WAR MASK, ONCE USED BY GENERAL UTHENGUNTAR. NOW IT BELONGED TO RIKKIESH, THE MIGHTY AND CRUEL, WHO WAS ONCE A GENERAL, AND A DAMN GOOD ONE, TO SHII' ZINEROX, THE DARK SORCERER, AND RULER OF THE HELLISH LAND OF HELL-KI. RIKKIESH WAS HALF-DEMON, SON OF A FEMALE PRIESTESS, AND THE NINTH DEMON LORDOF HELL, WHO WAS SECOND ONLY TO THE EVIL, EQUAL OF CALIBUR, THE NAMELESS ONE, LORD OF ALL EVIL. RIKKIESH GREW TIRED OF HIS HUMANITY, AND HAVING TO SERVE A MASTER WHO HE KNEW WAS LESSER THA HIMSELF. SO HE FOUND A SPELL TO DESTROY HIS HUMANITY, MAKING HIM MORE POWERFUL THAN HE HIMSELF EVEN IMAGINED. HE THEN DESTROYED HIS OLD MASTER, TOOK COMMAND OF HIS ARMIES, AND BEGAN RECRUITING MORE SOLDIERS TO HIS CAUSE: THE CONQUER OF ABRIA, BY DESTROYING KERIN. RIKKIESH HAD KEPT QUITE FOR TWENTY YEARS SINCE THE DEATH OF HIS MASTER, AND ABRIA ASSUMED ITSELF SAFE. THE EXACT FALSE SINCE OF HOPE RIKKIESH WANTED FOR IT. HOW FOOLISH THEY WILL SEEM WHEN HE CRUSHES THE CITY, AND TAKES THE CROWN FROM ITS KIING, THE SUPPOSEDLY UNDEFEATABLE MELKON. RIKKIESH HAD ALREADY MADE AN ALLY WITHIN THE OPALACE, THE KINGS ADVISOR, HRUNTAG, A SLIMY, SNEAKY, RATTY LOOKING MAN. RIKKIESH HELD UP HIS SWORD, AND HIS ARMY ROARED, HOLDING UP THERE WEAPONS AS WELL. " AT THE END OF JUNE, WE TAKE KERIN!!", RIKKIESH SHOUTED IN HIS DEEP, MENACING VOICE. THE CROWD CHEERED. Copyright 2008 jake |
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