Chapter 28 The Crown

The two awoke in laying in the snow looking up they saw the mountain climbing in to the clouds, as they got up and whipped the snow form their clothes they stated to feel the cold bite of the snow.
"Why did he send us down here?" asked Lady.
"I don t now, but it doesn t matter now, we need to keep warm before he carry on."
He made a fire barrier to keep them warm, generating a bubble around them, as they moved though the snow. In the distance was a small stack of buildings to make village, as they grew closer they spotted a tavern close to the edge.
"We can get are bearings in here." said Necro.
The two walked in and he stopped the fire bubble as they walked over and sat at the bar next to a hooded stranger.
"What brings you here?" he asked with out turning away form his drink.
"We where looking for magic." said Necro.
The man laughed, "How do you go looking for magic." he said, as he spoke something was eerily similar.
"I was looking for someone to shed some light on it."
"Well so am I." said the man.
"Why?" asked Lady.
"I used to have great and powerful magic, but is was taken away from me."
"What happened?" wondered Necro.
"The Dragons saw me as abusing my powers, and so they gave me a second power, to and I quote balanced it out."
"Well, you know that some magic can enhance the use of another."
"Really, you don t." say said the man.
"Yes, really." Necro replied.
"Well." he said "It was nice meeting you." he said as he downed his drink before leaving.
Necro watched as he turned away form them to get off the stool, watching him leave he thought he recognised him.
"Necro what is it?" asked Lady.
"I think I now." said Necro. "Hay." he called turning the bartender. "Who was that guy."
"Someone saying he was on his way to climb the mountain." they replied.
"Did they give a name?" Necro pushed for.
"Yeah, he called himself the Necromancer of the tomb."
"How is that possible?" asked Lady.
"Maybe the dragon sent us back here, to show us something." thought Necro.
"And you juts told him, about steeling magic."
"We have to stop him." he panicked racing out of the tavern.
"Necro wait." called Lady.
Out in the snow Necro spotted the young San -saw as he raced faster towards him he called out to him.
"STOP!" he shouted.
"You again." he replied stopping on his climb up the mountain only tuning slightly, still covering his face.
As Necro reached out to grab him and yanked at his cloak and it fell down, he fell flat in the snow and looked up in horror.
"Necro." called Lady as she came up behind him, she stopped at the sigh of his face.
They where both shocked as they seemed to be looking at Necro himself.
"You made a good point back their." he said. "And now I m going to kill that Dragon and take it s power."
"No, I won t let you." he said as he shot ice sharps at him.
"You can t kill me." he boomed as they bug deep in to his flesh.
"No but I can." said Lady and she flung out her hand as she used all her strength to kill him.
He was gone as the wind started to batter them with snow
"What have we done." panicked Necro.
"What do you mean?" asked Lady.
"We juts altered the future, I m not born, my father s not born, Bella meets him to later from the guild, Nova s father will never be trapped Nova might not even be born."
Lady fell to her knees besides Necro.
"For all that I wished was diffrent, the past can never be undone, I, I have to take over." he insisted.
"What!" Gasped Lady.
"I have to take over, I have to do what he did."
"You can t."
"I have to set things right, weaver I like it or not I ll still my Grandfathers grandson."
"You can t do this alone." said Lady. "You haven t got his powers."
The two took each others hands as they rose up, Necro took his dragon from as he flew back up to see the Dragon.
As the two parted though the clouds the Dragon smiled to see them return.
"You have come back." he said.
"What do you mean."
"I had to show you that to let you move on."
"Wait so I don t look like my father?" he asked.
"No."
"And I didn t juts set are lives in motion."
"No."
"Then please tell me what I saw."
The Dragon sighed.
"Your father." he started "Was born with life magic, this power was used to help give and brief life into the world, but wile the others only used their powers wile they where alive, he used his to keep himself alive and make himself powerful and well off."
"So how did he juts choose to become a Necromancer."
"No, he was seen as to powerful to give life, that we dragons came together and cursed him to carry the mark of death know as Necromancy."
"I thought Necromancy was good."
"No, Necromancy is inherently evil magic, and was seen as a curse and many who had it served under those seeking power in high places."
"What happened ounce he had the power."
"He tried to give life and took it away, so he was shunned, but he learnt how that this could work in his favour, his power only grew until he became hungry for more." said the Dragon "So he came for my power and I lost an arm but banished him away, so he went to the next best source."
"The covens."
"Yes, he took their magic by force or by teaching, soon he left his life giving magic behind took a new name and became a Necromancer."
"I was bale to use my power to replace my arm but not undo what I had done to the world." sighed the Dragon "But he didn t rest, creating a group to hunt down and strip dragons of their powers to ensure he could control magic. He saw them as those who took his power and knew that by taking theirs he could grow his own, and that of those around him."
"I m sorry for what he did to you." apologised Necro.
"Now that you know this what will you do, the knowledge is with in you and…"
"Knowledge is power." he cut in.
"Yes, yes it is." said the Dragon
"But the grater power is not to use it, but learn form it. I will never again teach this magic and let it fall to legend, never again will someone have a power which is that of a god."
"You are a wiser man then I." said the dragon bowing "I should of taken his power, but as a dragon I see magic as sacred."
"Your did what you thought was right and because of it, we are where we are."
Then the Dragon bent down. "As a parting gift I will send you home and transcend this plain to the next, but before I go I will gift you all my magical knowledge."
Necro watched as the dragon was engulfed by a growing tornado, as he slowly faded away his skeletal hand reached out and handed him a parchment.
"What does it say?" Lady asked.
"It s blank."
"That seems silly."
"No, don t you see."
"We already have it, this is for the Bella s book, as a forward."
As the the two looked back they where back at the castle Necro now in his human form, standing in the looked room before the open book. Looking back down at the book they turned the pages over until only the cover was left and laid the parchment to rest at the front the words sprung to life to mark the page, reading 'This book contains all the magic in the world and how to use it, this sacred resource is only to be used as a way to pass on the knowledge of magic and is to be kept for all and to be used by one, the book s keeper. Necro moved the pages over and came to another black page the one after Necromancy and wrote down life magic and all it s details he knew. Ounce the words had faded in to ink he closed, and now he and Lady where both stuck.
Nova came down the hall and opened the door tacking of the enchantment, she was accompanied by Bella.
"They wanted to it the other day, but didn t have the time, I thought I d better do it before I forget." said Bella.
"That s okay." smiled Nova.
"What did you lock it with."
"A seal only broken by a secret."
"And what s that."
"A secret." smiled Nova.
As they opened the door they found the two inside laying on the floor.
"How did you do that?" asked Bella.
"We went to see the Dragon." said Necro as they got up.
"On that mountain." Lady added.
"Why?" asked Nova.
"Lady wanted to learn how to live forever but couldn t because it was not of the original necromancy." Necro explained "To cut a long story short, San-saw had life magic before Necromancy.
"We can leave that all in the past now." said Bella.
Necro sombrely agreed.
As Necro looked in the black mirror he was looking at his scar his milky white eye where the cut had been made still remind on his face, as he looked though the mirror, the days following the loss of his eye had been hard. Moving on from his past and letting it be had been hard and he was now forced to undergo a new change as more people started to came to the guild to learn Necromancy. As he looked at the mirror he looked at his own face, he had not shaved in days and more stubble was starting to show and he had also hadn t cut his hair and it was starting to grow bushy. He looked down at his clothes. His cloak gone he was now in a get up that was more basic as he sported a rigged jacket he found deep in the castle, it s brown leather had faded away and he was also in dark trousers and boots. He looked more like a man then anything else, it was time to move on and he had.
"Come in." he said.
The knock had not even come down, but a simple look in the mirror showed the open door and Lady standing in the doorway.
"Look at you." smiled Lady "Your starting to look more like a hermit."
"I have been for years, I might as well look the part." he said.
"You don t have to change your self to look less like your grandfather."
"I know, it s juts I wanted to do nothing for a wile and that included shaving."
"Well, Nova s asking for us, in the meeting room." said Lady.
"I ll be by shortly." he said.
Lady was about to leave when.
"Oh and I think your new suit works well."
Lady smiled, she had donned her new gear only after their return form the dragon as she started to learn with the other Necromancers. Her gear was black all over, the leather amour strapped on with streaks of purple flurried over, she was kitted out with a few handy items on a belt. Her hair had been pinned back in pony tail and cut a little, the change was good as she was starting to take control of her power and grow as a person.
In the meeting room Bell and Kyle sat down with Harris, he had changed the least of the four, his hair was cut short and more jagged with the new official amour for the kingdom. The steal plated amour he had on sported the kingdoms crests a red dragon of filed of yellow that faded in to orange, sporting a sheath for his new iron with a bow and quiver as well swung on his back.
"How long until the others arrived?" he asked.
"Don t worry, it s been a harsh week for all of us, Nova s been travelling more, we need to give them time." said Kyle.
"He s right a lot has changed." agreed Bella.
Lady was the First to arrive and join the others but when Blair entered no one was ready for what they saw.
"Okay I m ready." she said.
Her hair had been cut, with her natural curls still present know only falling short of her shoulders, but now with cyan dyed hair with her blond hair still remain at the tips to show her heritage. She had on what amounted to a robe but had been cut at the waist and tied around using a belt holding some magic items, the over hang acted as dress witch meet her knee high boots, The colour scheme was obvious, as her clothes where all diffrent shades of blue, the top of her robe was turquoise and faded in to a light blue with a golden coloured belt, then as her boots moved down the light blue became more ocean blue.
"Is everyone here?" Nova asked as she stepped in.
"We still waiting on Necro." said Harris.
"He said he was coming." Interjected Lady.
"Okay then we can hold off a little while longer." said Nova tacking a seat.
Necro soon walked in and sat down.
"Now that your all here I have some news I wanted to share with you." she said.
"What s that?" asked Blair.
"I want to step down as queen."
"Okay." said Necro.
"What why?" begged the others.
"I m to young to leading a kingdom, so in my place my mother will be in charge but she can t lead us, meaning a council will take over until I become of age and will be crowed." Nova explained.
"So you want us to be your council." wondered Harris.
"Exactly, you ve done so well so far it can t hurt for a few more years."
"Okay." said Necro "We ll do it."
Even though none of the had spoken they all had agreed, as they all started to make plans Nova left to leave them to it, but Necro followed, catching her out side he bent down to look at her.
"Are you not happy?" she asked.
"I am, I juts want to now what you ll be doing thought all this?"
"I ll be leaning how to be a queen, and being child, something I haven t done for a wile."
Necro brought her in for hug and squeezed tight "Never grow up."
As the two broke off the hug he stood back up and Nova slowly walked off in to the distance, Lady came out to see him.
"What are you doing out her?" she asked.
"Nothing." he said as he returned to the meeting room.
Lady stopped him "You now what you said is true."
"What?"
"How Lady will no longer need us forever."
"That s why I said it."
"But, what will happen when where all gone?"
"Who knows maybe she juts learn Necromancy and bring us back." he sniggered.
Lady watched he leave back in to the room and pondered on the thought.
When someone passes though time normally they don t see the effects of time, but if someone stands still though time they see everything decay around them. Necro was remind of this everyday as with out his Necromancy he would not have to go though it but for his father and grand mother they all ready had. He looked down at her rope the last remanding peace of magic beyond the amulet witch gave life and stopped death. She had only taken her life a few days ago, the guild had been passed on to him and he felt like he should have said more when they had their last goodbyes, he was putting the cloak to rest in the locked room leaving it to exits out side time.
"Are you okay?" asked Lady who stood behind him.
He said nothing as he turned around his shaggy beard more bushy as it perturbed outwards.
"Come one we have some where to be." she said.
As they backed out and walked down the halls they where in silence time had been good to them both his hair was like an over grown garden wile hers was still neat and trim, there looks hadn t faded and they where still young at heart.
As the entered the throne room Harris and Blair where waiting with many of the other citizens. Kyle had donned the robes of higher up as he held a red velvet pillow with a golden crown upon it.
"Presenting, the royal highness Princess Nova Valentine." Kyle announced.
Nova stepped in, her golden locks had been straightened out, her new dress was pure red silk as it flowed down to the floor, it s golden pattern so light it was nearly naked to the human eye. She had grown up to eighteen it was time for her to take the throne, she knelt down before Kyle and bowed her head.
"By royal degree, as today is your eighteenth anniversary of age, you transcend in to adult hood and with the power dissolve the council you now take your rightful place as queen." said Kyle as he removed the crown and placed it over Nova s head. "Rise Queen Nova Valentine."
As she moved her head up the crown was placed on her head as she stood up she moved over to take the throne and sat down on the gold which now formed a throne, as she sat down she smiled and looked to her mots loyal saviours. Blair the new keeper of the guild, Harris head of the guard and best warrior, Lady and Necro her loyal advisers.
The Dragon Lands Kingdom was now complete with a queen, but as Nova looked out she couldn t help but feel as if after years of peace something else was going to happen, but she knew that the Necromancers Legacy was not to be worried about as Kyle and his wife kept that safe, as the eternal keepers of the book.