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Chapter 1:Kikaz’s Plan, Confessed to Kizox
Nizo was an island off the shore of Kiniz, continent of the kinors. It was a field, as trees didn’t grow on it. It was about a meter above sea level at its highest point. Two kinors lived there.

Kizox was a kizaz, he was a runt who had been left on Nizo at the age of seven, with his twin, another runt, Kikaz, to die, for there hadn’t been a runt, or any twins, for about 350 years and the kinors had no intention in keeping them, for they wanted `pure` blood. Kikaz was a kisas, he was also a runt.

The twins had been left with the gifts of their parents:cloth, fabric and a sewing kit. Kizox and Kikaz wore plain beige clothes that were poorly extended. Kizox had dark crimson hair and bright golden eyes. Kikaz had dark teal hair with bright purple eyes.

"How much longer are you going to keep your plan a secret Kikaz?” asked a frustrated Kizox.

"Fine, I’ll tell you, I’m making a boat-”partially replied Kikaz.

"Why?” asked Kizox.

“I was getting to that, when I was five I read that once every thirteen years the ocean rises by nine meters. The tides are rising, soon Nizo will be nothing, for about a month.”

“So we’re living in a boat?”

“No, we’re going to Kion, where we lived.”

“They don’t want us though.”

“We’ll go on a cargo ship, to the elves. They have a wonderful library. I’ve wanted to read again for ten years.”

“Well, we have no choice, I guess.”

“Exactly, I’d like some help though.”

“Why didn’t you ask me, before?”

That day the twins made a raft. The seven moons passed in alignment, pulling up the water with their immense gravity. The twins fell asleep on the raft, waking in the ocean. Nizo had already vanished, now they just had to travel west, with a terrible storm threatening them...

Chapter 2:Magick is Learnt Through Experience
The kinor twins were traveling to the port when a crackle shuddered their skulls. It was absolute chaos, they took down the sails. The storm was unnaturally powerful and it had just begun, heading west.

“Lay flat, head up!” Kizox screamed through the loud storm.

The storm howled for hours, the two kinors were soaked. They had to keep making sure that the raft was heading west. It was lucky they made a raft, for it wouldn’t sink from the rain...

The next morning, they arrived at the port. It wasn’t large, two long planks of wood held the only boat, but could hold two boats, and a single shack supervised the trading. There was a beach, for smaller crafts. A male kisas was waiting there. He wore a red shirt and orange pants, his hair was a dark grayish red.

As soon as they hit the shore the kisas coldly replied “You should be dead. I have my reasons...”

“I don’t understand you.” replied a confused Kizox.

The kisas concentrated and suddenly a bright beam of energy rapidly flowed towards them. Kikaz put out his left hand in reflexive impulse and somehow caught the energy in the palm of his hands.

“Good catch, you plan on going delirious? Because I’d release it.” calmly replied the kisas.

Kikaz limply raised his hand and the beam flared towards the kisas, the kisas extinguished it.

“Do you know anything about magick, runt?” the kisas rudely spat out.

“N-no?” Kikaz staggered the word in utter delirium and confusion.

Suddenly, the kisas fell with a clunk, revealing Kizox holding a rock the size of his head.

“He’ll be up in fifteen minutes or so. We better leave now.” Kizox explained.

Kikaz replied by vomiting, just before feinting.

Kizox scouted the border, dragging Kikaz. At the entrance, a fikos that wore a green shirt, a red vest, blue pants, large sack, and a sword in a wool tube greeted them.

“I see you dealt with Dazanra, the kisas who summons storms, without my aid. I’m Fikar, I’ve come to escort you both to Zovna.” Fikar stated.

“What do you mean ‘us’?”Kizox questioned

“You’ll see, now come. They’ll be looking for you two soon...”

Chapter 3:A Talk about Magick and Weaponry
The outer area of Kion was made hard earth, full of hard minerals like iron and nickel and granite. It was a perfect place to build a foundation on, as the kinors did, and it is the reason that most of Kizo’s towns are built on the coastal line, beside the advantages of trade and plentiful source of salt and fish. Trees didn’t grow on this area and the grass was short. As you went deeper into Kion, the grass got longer and the minerals were more tender, and the terrain was plentiful in cinnamon and birch, which had evolved to flourish in this ecosystem.

Once they were farther south from Kion, and Kikaz was awake, Fikar stopped and called for a rest below one of the many hills at the forest’s border. They had some bread and water, when Fikar dropped the large bag and opened it to reveal:two old looking encyclopedias with blank orange toned red, seven simple shruikens, a sharp dagger, a rope and sacks that jangled with the sound of jewels.

“So, you are Kikaz, the kisas, and your are Kizox, the kizaz?”Fikar asked.

“Yes.”the two replied.

“Well, Kizox, let’s start with you, a dagger is a very short sword, light and simple, best used with stealth. Now, the shruiken is a bladed disk, if you throw it correctly it’ll be circling you or you could throw it so that it comes back to you, like a boomerang. It all depends on weather, temperature, air, the way it was thrown and it’s shape. These are seven basic shruikens. Here’s a book on physics and physical combat tactics,” Fikar told Kizox while handing him one large book, the dagger and the shruikens. “Now Kikaz, here’s a book on magick and magickal tactics,” he handed Kikaz the other large book, “make sure to fully understand Chapter 1:The Laws of Magick, and Chapter 2:The Consequences of Magick. It is vital information to assure that you don’t receive a foolish death.”

“I’ll do that.”replied Kikaz nervously...

Part 1:the Basics
There are three basic types of magick:spells, natural, and automatic. Natural is where you invoke energy to create and maintain the attribute chosen, this strand of magick is energy consuming and is quite simple to use. Spells consume no energy, but are time consuming, some take years to cast, some take only a few minutes. Spells don’t use words but matter, herbs, minerals, spices, blood, etc.

Part 2:The more Complex Areas of Natural Magick
The minds of wizards, natural magick users, has an area in the brain, that normally isn’t used, to generate enough energy to generate an attribute’s force. This task requires the heart to direct more blood through a secondary vein in the neck, ensuring dizziness and nausea. The body will feel weak and numb, because its blood is going to the brain. If you use it carelessly, you will die. The farther the target, the more energy it requires.

Part 3:The more Complex Areas of Spells
Spells are very simple. Anyone can use them. They just require the knowledge of how chemicals in matter will react to the other chemicals in other matter. Spells are simple, they are like potions and medicine. Some people buy them, those who make them are called alchemists. Part 4:The more Complex Areas of Automatic Magick

Automatic magick is the most powerful, deadly(to user and target) and complex of all the magicks. The minds of magicians, automatic magick users, have a part in their brain like wizards have, except it acts instinctively and is more powerful, because it has an extra reserve of energy in the brain. You cannot control when or how you use it. Little is known of it because it’s hard to research...

Chapter 5:An Explanation is Demanded
By the second day, the three had ventured into the forest. The minerals were softer and more tender. The hills had flattened from erosion and trees had grown. Only rich cinnamon trees and mighty birch trees grew, giving the forest a gloomy and mysterious feel.

“You know, you never told us what the place your taking us to is like, so I and Kikaz have decided to demand an explanation.”Kizox demanded on the second day.

Fikar straightened and easily replied “I expected you to ask soon, and I’ll tell you all I am allowed to tell, and that’s not much. First of all, I’m not with Serval. The kisas who attacked you was with that guild. I’m with Zovna, which is on Juroz, the island of the Humans. I am a mere escort for you two, I am bringing you to see our warlord, by orders of the master. Once we get to Zovna, the warlord will explain all he wishes to tell, and then you will be brought to the master to dine and converse.”

Kizox quickly laid out his new questions “What do you mean by ‘guild’ and who is this ‘warlord’ and ‘master’ of yours?”

Fikar reflexively replied “A guild has a turf which other guilds will try to take from its owner. That guild controls that area. The larger your turf, the more it is attacked and it is harder to find the intruder. The master is its leader and the warlord is its combat organizer. I may not tell you any more than I have told, but I may give you this map of Synava, our planet. Zovna will give you both an advanced education, as you only learned to read, write and talk from your parents...”

Chapter 6:The First Lesson:Runes
“Runes are one of the 3 strands of spells, there are different strands of runes, the most commonly used strands are potions and runes,” Fikar stated on the third morning while having cinnamon for breakfast, “You should write this down with charcoal on your birch bark,” the twins immediately peeled some birch and received charcoal. “Runes are stones filled or lathered with ointments. They are useful in a number of ways, such as:bursting smoke to escape when you’re at a total disadvantage or creating an energy free energy beam. Some runes are forbidden to create, such as the doom rune. Which if it touches any DNA, it causes a chain reaction of destruction of that DNA, killing the victim. It takes 3 years to create,” Fikar dictated for the two of them, “Rune blades are swords containing runes in them. Their usual price range is from 100 platinums to 10,000 platinum ... My sword is a rune blade ... It would sell for about 3,500 platinums it has a gravity rune in it, making it light and cunning and an energizer rune, allowing me to act longer, use more magick and require little sleep...There’s a rune blade called Ultima that would sell for 750,000,000,000 diamonds, if you were stupid. It’s truly priceless. That blade was created by Tyr, who was the greatest alchemist to have lived. It’s customizable, never breaks, has 7 slots and they open on the holder’s command, it has the seal rune, the only one. Unfortunately, Tyr’s manuscripts on the creation of spells were buried deep in a mine, for it is blessed, with powerful alchemy, to never be destroyed.”

Kizox than asked “Can I eat some breakfast? I’m starving and your speaking faster than I write.”

Kikaz then chipped in “Ya, I’m only at the price range of rune blades.”

“Fine”Fikar responded and repeated the paragraph for the twins to copy, followed with “That’s all for today, we need to cover ground...”

Chapter 7:An Enemy is Met
At noon, the group ate more cinnamon and traveled for about ten minutes when they heard a rustle in the trees, Fikar immediately stopped and waited.

“You two, over here, we’re being followed.”

Immediately the two ran to form a triangular defense position. Kizox took out the dagger and the shruikens, but Fikar told him not to use the shruikens, so he put them away. Fikar took his sword and Kikaz prepared to focus his mind.

Fikar then called out “We know you’re there and we will continue to consider better formations, come out.”

That is when Kizox saw a shruiken going towards Fikar. He leapt forward extending his hand farther, and it happened. The shruiken severed his hand, he bled, he fell, he yelled, Fikar turned, another shruiken came, Fikar caught it, Fikar threw it back, something else yelled, a skullka with a shruiken in his knee ran out and charged his massive body at the three, Fikar started to lose his defining features, the skullka tripped in shock, Fikar became a glob, the skullka shot up, Fikar started to become taller, the skullka thought for a moment, Fikar gained skullka features, the skullka charged forward, Fikar gained his unique features, the skullka prepared to send a blow, Fikar (as a skullka) feinted on the skullka, the skullka tumbled under Fikar, Kikaz threw an energy ray at the skullka, the skullka passed out and Kikaz vomited.

Kikaz, now in a drunken state, pulled Kizox away and woke him up. They then hauled Fikar, with his sleeves ripped, shirt stretched and pants looking like shorts, away and woke him up...

Chapter 8:Another Explanation, Another Lesson
Kikaz asked immediately, “What did you just do?”

This was when Kizox stepped into the conversation “I think we should be healing my hand now.”

Fikar bent over and said “Kikaz help Kizox, I’m going to be feinting and vomiting all day, we’ll talk in the evening, once I’m a fikos again ...”

That evening, when Fikar was a fikos again, Kizox had a question. “I have a question for you, how do you change your form?”

Fikar hesitated before replying “I am a morpher. I can control my DNA and other shape factors, very few can morph, though there are morphing runes...Morphing is an advanced magick, write this down,”the twins retrieved birch and charcoal. Fikar continued “Advanced magick is high on energy consumption, there are 6 basic advanced magick:(fikos) morphing,(kinors) soul bond, (shadons) pigment,(elves) pressure, (goblins) inertia, (skullkas) hormonic, (spiros)pure energy... Few can use their advanced ability because there are conditions...You two can soul bond, no questions now please...Kinors must be twins and must have brain development being similar, in order to join energy flows...Fikos must have simple form factors...Shadons must have a secondary vein... Elves must have high mental growth and a large secondary vein...Skullkas must have a secondary vein...Goblins must have a brain capable of neutralizing energy...Humans require a secondary vein...Spiros must have lots of energy, about 5000% more than I’m capable of. They require a high capacity and many energy reserves...All need the gene for that brain function too...”

Chapter 9:Kikaz and Kizox Escape
Once Fikar believed the twins were asleep and had fallen asleep, they spoke in a whisper.

“I think we should run away,”Kizox muttered again, like all the other nights, “We can use a soul bond to have two advantages, he’s out numbered and we can soul bond.”

“ But now we know he can morph. Besides he told us we can soul bond, why would our enemy tell us our strengths.”Kikaz pointed out.

“ He never told us how though.”Kikaz objected.

“... You’re right... Fine, we’ll leave tonight... ”Kikaz thoughtfully remarked.

That night, they traveled ahead through the path as it rained and had cinnamon during the day. They walked for three days without sleep and slept deep in the forest.

Fikar’s three days
When Fikar awoke, he saw the runts had left and immediately panicked. First he called out for them and looked around the area when he found their tracks in the mud. He tracked them, using his rune blade to run for the day down the trail, but he hit a fork in the path and the mud had dried and the rain had ceased to exist in the forest now. He chose left, but they had chosen right, had he looked at the cinnamon trees, he would have seen one tree 38 meters away peeled in one area. He traveled on for three days down the empty trail...

Chapter 10:A Warlord Disagrees with his Master
It was a bright, hundred meter tall room with a pure diamond window making the ceiling and roof, from it hung a titanically enormous chandelier that reflected the sun’s rays of light with every jewel you could possibly name (It was ninety meters tall with a diameter of twenty meters at the largest point and 1 jewel(1 cm) at the lowest part). The entrance door could have two people enter at once and was made of fine topaz. The enterer would have a golden velvet rug to walk to the master. The walls were pure silver and the floor was tiled with an assortment of jewels. At the southern end, regally sat an elf, young and powerful, yet far from his prime. He wore a peacock-blue robe(to fit his peacock-green eyes) and had his jet-black hair cut at chin length at the back and the front of his ear’s top. He wore peridot earrings. On the northern end lazily stood an odd creature, it wasn’t of the eight races but was a creature that looked as if it didn’t know what it was supposed to be, it had black goat legs (with rusty orange fox feet), an emerald-green snake’s head (with mystically metallic teal colored cat eyes that when gazing at directly seemed as if they were reading your mind), rusty colored cat ears, white mouse hands and black bat wings that could wrap its ferret like body. The only tokuru-like thing about it was that it had a humanlike anatomy. It wore a dark-green short-sleeved shirt with dark-red sleeves coming out from beneath the short sleeves(with two holes in the back for the wings to squeeze out of). It wore a dark-blue hood that pointed at the top (at the end of the point were three long and very acute triangular strands of dark green silk. Underneath the hood was a titanium tiara, it had an opal eye (the pupil being a pure amethyst) in the center and the sides were ruby, with emerald bordering around the tiara. The pants were dark-aqua-green silk and baggy for its thin legs. It wore black gloves that had holes for the razor sharp mouse claws that held a diamond katana, containing an energizer rune, an energy-absorber rune and an anti-gravity rune.

“I need more turf, how much longer until the two runts get here?”demanded the elf.

“Fikar is the escort, not me,”the odd creature replied, “now why did you call me?”

“I need more turf.”the elf stated again.

“We are dealing with intruders, we don’t have enough warriors to ambush another guild.”the creature calmly replied.

“Draft the villages”the elf retorted.

“We are here to help them, not draft them.”the creature countered.

This was replied by the elf yelling out while standing up “...You might be the most powerful mortal here, but I will not tolerate your rebelling of orders anymore! You will cooperate or be expelled from this guild, fiend.”

At this, the creature took a rune out and threw it at the window saying "Yes, I am quite a fiend aren’t I?”. As the rune hit the window, it cracked, letting out its true rune, a destruction rune. The diamond shattered at contact with the rune and the creature flew up and out of the room, away from the palace, away from Juroz...

‘That fiend!’ the elf thought to himself in disgust ‘breaking my window! It takes a year to fuse diamonds together...I’ll have to summon my alchemists...’

Chapter 11:Soul Bond
The twins had woken to the sound of a birch twig cracking under a foot. They were always alert for Fikar. They had chosen a secure area, thick with trees around them and on a hill, to give them an advantage. The hill contained strong minerals in it, holding it together and not allowing trees to grow well on the hill.

“Fikar?”Kikaz asked to the form below.

“I’m not Fikar, I’m Tezre, the skullka.”the voice came low and powerful as the skullka they had met, walked up the hill.

The twins wanted to run but the skullka’s legs were much longer. Kisas threw an energy orb at Tezre, but he held out a rune and the energy diminished to nothing.

“This is an energy nullifier, it absorbs and then destroys the energy,” Tezre explained to the vomiting Kikaz, “now come with me, magick is useless and I overpower both of you by a longshot in strength.”he was taking out his sword while talking.

“Your going to kill us anyways.”Kizox spat out at Tezre while taking his dagger out and shruiken designed to deeply cut into flesh.

Kikaz than thought of an idea. If Kikaz sent his brain waves to Kizox they might be able to converse, if Kizox could use magick...As Kikaz sent his thoughts to Kizox he remembered that Kizox had a smaller secondary vein too, it might allow enough blood to get the brain. As Kizox received the message ‘focus your thoughts to Kikaz’ the vein expanded to let blood through to the brain. Kikaz received an emotion, not a message, of confusion. Kizox vomited from his first telepathic message. Now it struck Kikaz that maybe a soul bond is combining the energy of two minds. Kikaz sent the message to Kizox to send his energy to Kikaz. Kikaz than focused on sending a weak strand of energy to Kizox. As the weak energy wouldn’t be enough to feint Kizox. Kizox sent a slowly growing strand of energy to Kikaz. Kikaz and Kizox now thought as one and sent a weak strand of energy towards Tezre. Tezre took out his energy nullifier rune. The rune was absorbing the energy but as it had no time to destroy the energy it heated up and burned Tezre’s hand, he dropped it and was struck with the strand. He passed out after awhile, as he would be for the rest of the next day. Meanwhile Kikaz and Kizox, after taking the energy nullifier and Tezre’s entire rune sack (including a flask), walked away vomiting and delirious, while Kizox mournfully remarked “I don’t like telepathy or anything to do with magick anymore, I no longer envy your ability to use magick, but pity you...”

Chapter 12:Conversation at the Pub
Fikar ran for many days until he had reached where the three had been traveling to, Kizo, it held trade with the humans and fikos. It also had solid minerals in its soil and their was a mine here. The foundations were wide and tall, at the entrance was one, the only, apartment, it was very tall. The port had 17 docks for trade, 3 for cruisers, 30 for personal use and 30 for defending the port. The town was built on a large hill. It was the largest foundation on Kiniz, for the guild master of the largest portion of Kiniz lived there, in the central tower (the guild was Serval). Fikar knew that the only pub in Kizo was a prime source of information, if you could tell the were drunkards from the sobers. The pub was large, but it was still full, mainly of drunks. It’s rock floor was lathered with different alcohols and the scent was revolting to the nose. When he reached the local pub he paid the fee of one ruby coin to ask a question at the stage. When he reached the top he asked “Have any of you seen two kinor runts?”

The crowd first erupted with the drunkards laughing and yelling that the runts were left on Nizo a decade ago. But one of the people who had come to talk of gossip and have coffee and tea maybe some alcohol to sip at for a couple of hours yelled out “Just this morning some masked rich person asked the same thing, only he also asked for a Fikos named Fikar too!”

Fikar immediately responded anxiously “Where is he?”

“I’m not going to yell over these screaming drunkards, come over here!”the person screamed over the laughing drunkards.

Fikar leaped off the stage and jolted towards the gossip table. Three kizazs and two kisasis sat there, one of the kisas was having dark coffee, the other green tea, one kizaz was drinking light coffee, the second was sipping at her beer and the third was having herbal tea.

The dark coffee drinker immediately spoke up in a quick and hyperactive voice (it was his seventh cup in the pass half-hour) “He asked and when he saw everyone laughing he hopped off the stage ran down the path that leads to the Forbidden Forest.”

Fikar asked curiously “Why is it forbidden?”

The hyper kisas replied in complete hysterics “Because it has canorks nesting in it, always has, it’s their territory, because the soil has a mixture of hard and soft minerals, that helps grow the rare canork bean tree. They like its beans, I hear it makes a very dark coffee, and a delicious one at that, I’ve always wanted to try canork coffee! In fact now that I think about it, I think he had fox feet, I saw them for a moment. Though it could be just from my caffeinated memory!”and with that the Kisas was laughing on the ground.

The beer sipper responded “He gets a little out of hand, but you learn to ignore it.”

Fikar thought for awhile and than responded “Thanks.”, Then he got up and left for the Forbidden Forest ...

Chapter 13:The Forbidden Forest
Fikar went on running and running in the forest. He ran through the cinnamon and birch, a third tree got added to the mixture, bean trees. Their were more and more bean trees, they slunk down like weeping willows. They took up space, making the path wider and wider, he noticed footprints like fox in the dirt, with the depth showing the muscle power of a goat’s hind legs. He followed the tracks deeper and deeper into the Forbidden Forest. Then he noticed new foot prints, 16 by 30 centimeters wide, 5 centimeters deep, he ran faster. Than he saw an immense creature jolting towards him. Its fur was a tangled smear of brownish colors. Its legs were muscular and its jaws containing 243 layers of serrated teeth (as it was 243 years old and at its prime). They kept their population down by eating each other, for no animals ventured into the Forbidden Forest. They don’t eat their young, they eat others at the age of around 150 years of age. Their natural life span is around 500, rarely will they live this long without being eaten. They can mate at the age of around 50. A pregnant canork will be pregnant for an average of 15 years and will give birth to around 25 canorks.

Fikar immediately pulled himself up a canork tree branch and climbed as fast as he could. Some of his diamond fell out of his sack and landed in the snapping mouth of the canork, it snapped on them and Fikar cringed as he heard them grinding and being crushed into a dust. This got him time to climb out of reach of those terrible jaws. But the canork was hungry, the herd was far away and it wanted a snack right now. It was bashing the tree and Fikar had to hold on with all his might, while holding for his life and staring out he saw a form on a nearby tree. He crawled closer in-between bashes and leaped forwards to be crawling up a branch again with the canork leaping towards him, a bean came hurtling by his head and into the canork’s mouth, this gave Fikar time to clime, like the diamonds had.

When he reached the top he saw that it was the creature. The creature immediately asked “Where’s the twins?”

Fikar answered immediately “They ran away, It’s been 4 days.”

The tree shook, the canork walked away up a hill. The creature spoke quietly “We’re going to go find them and then take them to Zixra, making our own guild, Zovna is drafting, so I was willingly expelled.”

The tree shook hard, the canork had ran down the hill and bashed the tree, Fikar flung in the opposite direction yelling for help. The creature easily created a dense energy field that held Fikar and brought him back to the tree. The creature just had a major headache.

Fikar understood fully of what Nero, the creature, meant. He immediately responded “ Thanks, but the twins took a left turn probably, when I was tracking them.”

The Nero coldly replied “Then we’re going to go and get them, when the canork gives up its attempts to eat us.”

Later that afternoon, when the canork left the tree, Nero slowly descended to the ground, followed by Fikar. They took a short-cut through the Forbidden Forest that would lead to the fork Fikar had encountered in the forest path...

Chapter 14:Two Groups of Two Combine into One Group of Four
The twins had traveled fast and were soon going to be in the Forbidden Forest. They also started to notice the differences that Fikar had noticed when he had traveled through the Forbidden Forest.

They stopped at the sounds of crinkling leaves and than the form of a fikos, they immediately got into back to back formation, keeping their heads close together, to have a stable soul bond.

Kikaz warned to the form“We can soul bond, Fikar.”

At this another form hidden by the shade appeared. The second form moved forward and approvingly replied “Good, let’s see how much you can charge it and what form it takes.”

At this the twins caused a steady stream, weak but stable. It struck the form’s hand and Kikaz immediately remembered his first usage of magick. Kizox, due to the soul bond, also remembered Kikaz’s memory as his own memory and they corrupted the link, giving the usual effects of magick. But the form didn’t toss it back, but absorbed it.

The form easily replied “That wasn’t very good, I don’t feel like I’ve been refreshed with water on a hot day very much ... Now stop fooling around, Fikar and I, Nero, have dealt with canorks because of your expedition.”

Kizox, remembering the stories about canorks, amazingly questioned “Canorks?!?”

Nero simply replied “Yes, canorks, now come along we’re going on a merchant ship.”

Kikaz, understanding that they could be slaughtered right now, realized that no harm was meant towards them from Nero or Fikar. Kikaz quickly sent Kizox this explanation. They had found that these tiny mental messages were dealt with easily and that only minor headaches came from doing so. They also had learnt that by thinking as one their disputes were solved less then a second.

Kizox, now agreeing with Kikaz, replied sorrowfully “Well we thought you may kill us, we weren’t sure so we decided to escape for our safety.”

Fikar grinned at this and apologetically replied “Well if that was the case Nero and I would have already killed you both by now.”

Nero now spoke with authority “We should be traveling, the goblins reported Tezre is looking for you two.”

Kikaz proudly replied at this “We met him in the forest and flared him and his energy neutralizer with a soul bond a few days ago. We stole his sack of runes, their’s 6 of them, and we stole this flask.”

Fikar complemented the twins with the words “Great, may I see the runes, we’re heading to Kizo.”

Kizox gave the runes and the flask to Fikar. Fikar read the symbols on the spells and muttered “The flask is an energy tonic and the runes are:an energy neutralizer, a smoke rune, an energizer, a negative magnet, a positive magnet and a magnifier rune... It’s a standard escape pack, it is pretty useful.”

That day the group exchanged stories about their split up. Though Nero was quiet about before he met Fikar in the forbidden forest. That night, around midnight, they decided to sleep at the edge of the forest...

Chapter 15:The Group Stocks up Before Setting of on a Merchant Ship
That morning they traveled to the town market where all the stores were placed. They stopped into a blacksmith to chose some things to buy. It was an early morning and the people of Kizo were just waking up.

Nero chose a table in the corner and stated “So what do we need?”

Kizox sarcastically commented “Food that isn’t cinnamon.”

Nero jotted down :eat at a restaurant, then asked “Anything else? Don’t be afraid, Fikar and I have sacks of jewels.”

Kikaz, at this asked “Are their spells that avoid the effects of magick Nero?”

Nero smiled at this, stretching his hidden scales, and gladly responded “Yes, energy tonics and their not very expensive.”he wrote:energy tonics.

Fikar now spoke “You should get a weapon, Kikaz,”Nero wrote:one dagger, “and we should get our clothe washed.”Nero wrote:four anti-bacterial runes.

That morning was spent buying their shopping list, Kikaz got four more energy tonics and a light dagger. They all ate breakfast at a restaurant and bought anti-bacterial runes.

At noon they headed for the docks, but at the entrance a person in hysteria jolted at them, laughing uncontrollably. When the dark coffee drinker reached them he squealed “Your alive! We thought you were mush now but your alive! Did you get any beans???”

Fikar looked at the hysterical kisas and responded “No, I’m sorry. But we must be leaving.”at this they walked away, away from the kisas who now was glum, his life's hope ruined. The caffeine had lost it’s effects and he sorrowfully walked back to the pub.

At the dock, the four spotted a reliable merchant ship and walked towards it. Nero handed the merchant ten diamonds and the quartet kept walking on. The merchant was to over joyed to ask Nero to remove the mask, as an animal like person was wanted by Serval. The four settled for the next week.

The ship was a well built one, fifteen large oars came out of it’s side to propel it forward with miraculous agility. It’s front bow was a well decorated energy magnifier(with a enormous energy absorber, giving it a upper hand in a conflict. It’s sails were high and quite wide and the twenty-five sails could be brought down with ease, and when the wind was on it’s side, it would travel double the speed of it’s `normal` speed. It’s frame was built with canork lumber...