Stormblood [4.0]: Post may contain potential spoilers.
Castrum Oriens
Looks like my fears were correct. Fog. I can never escape this beast. Its even more worse than that of the blizzard. I just hope something good will come out of it for the new zones I shall be exploring the next 98 days. To be quite honest, I don’t really have much else to say at the moment. I suppose I should get back to my story of the day. More accurately. The second part of the story since I ran out of time yesterday.
Wielder part 2
“I understand for your concerns, but I don’t expect this event to appear again next year.” The Minister focuses further on the line of people failing one after the other. People cheering and amping up their loved ones. Some with dismay finding out they weren’t fit for the role.
The queen takes no further action towards the minister and simply watches the event unenthusiasticly. Time goes by and while the crowd hasn’t diminished in their hopes. Both the Queen and Minister begin to fill in doubt whether this would succeed. The some of the folks that were on the line decided to walk away instead of participating. Which begins sow doubt as well. Unfortunately, one of the participants that laid their hands upon the sword found themselves flund straight up nearly reaching the top of the stands and fall directly onto their head unmoving about 10 feet away from the podium. Some of the guards recognizing what had happen rush towards the silent body and pick them up away from the crowd’s eyes. While this all unfolded. The crowd’s cheers dissipated into nothing. One could almost hear the sounds of their own heartbeats due to how quiet everything is.
The remaining participants that stood in line begin to slwoly retreat back through the gate they came from. The Queen looks over and glares at the Minister. Meanwhile the Minister occupies in his own head to avoid further shame. However while the participants walk back to the gate. Two small figures slowly pass through them.
The Minister caught a glimpse of these two figures and was intrigued. No longer occupied with himself. He decided to scan the crowd of people to seek for these two figures once more. Right at the front of the crowd closest to the sword did these two individuals appear once more and baffled the eyes of the Minister. The Queen occupied on what to do with the Minister happen to notice a sudden change in the man’s experession. She looks back towards the crowd of people and was shocked by its revelations.
Two boys hardly of age. Walk towards the sword. One of them clearly took notice that the whole crowd eye’s bores through them and had taken a rather meek stance behind of the other child no more taller than him. The other boy while the clothing he wears are in tatters and only a smidge of white remains on him. Even through all of the mud. Confidence oozes out of the boy and his steps are unwavering.
“Did you allow kids to particpate in this event?!” The Queen nearly thrown herself out of the chair stares directly into the eyes of the Minister. Thankfully, no one outside of the awning took notice of her raised voice but the nearby guards.
“I did no such thing. Guards stop those kids from reaching the sword. I don’t want another incident.” Desperately trying to keep himself calm. The Minister didn’t know how the kids got through when it was ordered that none can participate. Hoping that the guards would intevene in time.
The guards rush towards the two boys. The confident boy took notice and realizing that the sword was too far away. He begins blitz towards the sword. The meek boy shocked by losing his only protection from the eyes. Rushes towards the boy. With the distance closing between the guards and the two boys. It became clear to the Minister that guards wouldn’t make it time. He slouches into his chair and drops his head hoping that some miracle would stop the boys. Unfortunately, no miracle came and the closest boy reaches the sword first. Just around him the guards begin circling the boy almost afraid of getting any closer to the sword more so than the boy. One of the guards motioning his hands towards the boy to walk away from the sword. The meek boy was caught by one of the guards and couldn’t move any forward. The last boy grins towards the guards and places his hands on the sword.
The guards in fear of the boy being reppeled at one of them reflexively protect their bodies and wait.
Nothing.
Nothing happened when the boy laid his hand on the sword. Some of the guards recognizing that no boy flew into them, open their eyes and were befuddled with what happened. The silence of the crowd dropped even further. Now, one can hear the blood flowing through their veins. The boy looks around and his grin grew wider and then he attempts to life the sword. The guards once again protect themselves and the caught boy drops his head expecting shame. However nothing came again, but this time the sword was lifted off of the pedestal it was on and everyone saw the blistering beauty of the sword shining in the light.
The Queen baffled along with the Minister. None had expected this kind of outcome and as such the Queen begins to laugh outwardly. The Minister was taken aback and begins looking at some of the nobles that happen to be nearby. One of the nobles spouting in knightly armor begins to rush towards the Queen with great haste. One of the guards that stood by with the Queen and Minister attempted to stop the man, but were pushed aside. The nobleman drops himself down to a kneel and looks at both the Queen and Minister.
“Your Majesty and Minster! I come requesting to take the sword away from the boy whom has shown disrespect of out people!” The nobleman drops his head expecting a response.
The Queen stops her laughter and looks over the nobleman amused. “And how do you expect to take the sword away when not even you could wield it?”
In response to the queen the Minister also speaks towards the kneeled man. “While many of us weren’t expecting these results. However, once the sword has found its new bearer. None can revoke the bearer’s right to the sword.”
Slamming his fists down into ground. “I can not accept this! Please allow me to duel the child to prove whether he truly deserves to wield it!” At this stage all of the nobles could hear what was being said towards the Queen and Minister Some of the other stands were also able to get tidbits.
“Very well, I’ll allow you to humilate yourself towards the people.” The Queen motions the nobleman away from her.
The nobleman said no more words, but clearly was disgruntled by her Majesty’s response. He stood up and walked away from the awning and towards the podium.
The boy who is now the bearer of the sword passively waited around the guards. All of guards where befuddled on what to do now that the boy had the sword. Before any of them could take ant actions. A man in knight armor stood pushes some of them aside and stood before the boy. The man pulls his sword of the scabbard and points it towards the boy menacingly.
“You lowly peasant how dare trudge on our symbol.”
The boy looks at the man unflicthing. Meanwhile the other boy off to the side breaks free from the guards and runs up between the two. He then raises both of his hands in an attempt to stop the engagement.
“Please sir! My brother only did it because we needed food and some of the folks at the stands would give us some if he attempt to grab the sword. Please sir don’t hurt him.” He then bows, nearly smacking his head against the floor.
The man scoffs.“You think I care what the reasons are! You two defiled our most sacred treasure!” The man swings his sword at the boy that was inbetween them. However before the sword made contact with flesh. The meek boy flings his hands up and through magic means repels the man away from them.
The crowd becomes shocked by the turn of events and began murming over themselves. The Queen watched the event unfold and stood up with a strong grin. The Minister attempted to stop here but realized the futility and sat in his desposed.
The Queen reveals herself to the people and all eyes turn towards her. The Queen raises her hand towards the boy with the sword and spoke proudly.
“We have our new sword bearer!”
End
Oh boy. What was I trying to do with this story again? Wait there was no real point behind it. I simply wanted to start typing a longer story that wasn’t beholden to a 10 minute limit. While I didn’t really achieved much of the main points I wanted, but then again you can argue that this was a rough draft. If I really wanted to. I can spend the next hours refining it and adjust things to better achieve whatever goals that I wanted to achieve. Also I plan on adding another post that just has the whole story since I figure some people would prefer all of the excess fluff out of the picture. One thing that I try to avoid was giving names to the characters since I really didn’t have any idea on what I wanted. Plus there’s a bigger plan going on here that I intend to do.
There’s this story that I’ve been working on for the past 5-6 years. Its mostly been in my head, but its gotten to a point where I really want to start stamping some words into it for people to see. I want to see if people would have an interest in this kind of story and plus just as a way to finally lay down the foundation that I need to solve some of my conundrums. To be quite frank, I’ve hit a wall with the story and the main reason for that is because I don’t have a every single piece laid out to use. More accurately, I don’t know where the story should go because I don’t have any tangible story to work off of. Its a bit weird for me to say it in some ways. Plus the main problem I’m dealing with is a massive twist in the story that more or less forces me down a path that I rather avoid.
Before I ever get close to start talking about this story. I decided that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to start introducing this world and some of its characters. If I can start shaping these characters into words sooner I can get a better idea as to what people think of it. Obviously, this blog site doens’t offer any direct means of communications, but I don’t really intend to worry about that. I know a fair amount of people that I could ask instead.
For those wondering on how often I intend to make these posts. I have zero plans right now. Its kind’ve something spontaneous unlike most of what I worked on the past few months. There’s no plans to work further on this story, but I’m thinking about introducing another set of characters and sort’ve dive a bit into that portion of the world.
All I can realisticly say is that I hope you found this post to be interesting and I hope you folks have a good day/night!