A Blue Room: Part III

Night fell fast and none of us were ready for it. We had gotten deep enough into the forest that turning back to spend the night in a city wasn't an option, but not deep enough that we could travel to the other side of the forest. We were in the center of the forest at the dead of night.
"Good night," some unrecognizable voice said.
"Good night," another voice mumbled.
"Night," someone growled.
"Good night," Selene's soft, recognizable voice cooed.
"Night," I called back, finishing the "good nights" and letting the sleeping start. Little did I know, I wouldn't be able to get much sleep that first night.

Screaming awoke me. I sat up and looked around. Lelantos and Selene had just waken up because of the scream too, but the old man and Carnage were missing. I tried to listen to the voice and guess who it was while I stood and took my sword from the satchel hanging on the side of my horse. Recognizing the voice as the old man's, I began pumping my legs as hard as I could, bringing myself towards the cry. Lelantos stood too and was running not to far behind me. When I found them the old man was on the ground, cowering away from Carnage who was thrashing a tiny, sharp object towards him. Carnage turned towards me, a wild look in his eyes. All I could do when he lunged towards me, the sharp thing held out in front of him, was jump out of the way. Lelantos was then there, holding Carnage and smashing the object in a huge fist. He held Carnage like a trophy.
"What do I with him?" he asked turning towards first me, then the old man. I turned towards the old man too.
"Kill him," the old man sneered with obvious hatred for the goblin. Lelantos turned towards me for confirmation, but I just remained silent, still in shock. Lelantos closed the fist that held Carnage, making it look like he had no neck to begin with. I turned away from the gruesome display and saw that the old man watched with a smirk on his face as the goblins body went limp. Lelantos dropped Carnage.
"What happened?" Selene was suddenly standing there asking, with her hands over her mouth.
"He tried to attack me," the old man mumbled, "tried to steal from me and run away in the night. He never actually wanted to help us, he only wanted to steal from us and go back to his life," when he finished his smirk had become a look of disgust.
"Well, what do we do now?" I asked.
"Keep going, we have no other choice. Be more careful, and don't die," Lelantos said. The old man nodded in agreement. I turned towards Selene who I could also see agreed. And, oh though it was still dark we gathered our things and began walking again.

The city on the other side of the forest was smaller, but more civilized. Everyone knew each other and trusted each other. Everyone hated outsiders.
"Here to bring the badness of the world to our quaint little city?" we were greeted by a man sitting on the ground.
"No, we're here for a place to eat and sleep," I called to him, not even paying attention to the man himself. Soon we found an inn called "The Great Woods Inn". It was an elf inn, people wouldn't like it that we were staying there, but we didn't need any of these people to like us. As soon as we entered the inn Lelantos went to get a drink. The elves were scared of him because he was so large, and them so small so they quickly began serving him drink after drink. Me, Selene, and the old man went and sat at a table. Right when we sat down though, the old man said something that startled me.
"We don't know Lelantos, maybe we oughta leave him behind." I looked over at Selene to make sure this startled her as much as it did me. It had, her eyes had become angry.
"We'll need more than us three to stop Eos!" Selene cried across the table at the old man, "And if we didn't I'd think it be smarter to get rid of you, the weakest of us!" She stood and left to go get a room in the inn. The old man just sat there, calmly.
"Fool," he mumbled, "she doesn't know that a traitor like that goblin can end us before we even me up with Eos, we oughta get rid of everyone but you and me Plutus," but I stood and left too. I was not going to sit and talk to this crazy old man any longer than I'd have to. As I was leaving I heard him shout. "You're making a mistake Plutus! Together, we'd be unstoppable!" I didn't look back, just went to my room.

I lay on my back in the soft inn bed and think. How was it that the group I had handpicked to kill the greatest wizard of all time, was a thief, a vampire, an conspiring old lunatic, a warrior with no heart and myself, a useless fighter. What had made me think this was a good idea?

"I do. You're right. What kind of survivor would I be if I didn't want revenge? But that doesn't mean I need to plan on actually one day getting it."
"And why not?"
"Because we never will."

The old man, the old man had convinced him that despite the fact that it wouldn't work, it was the hunger for revenge that would keep the plan going.
"Having trouble getting to sleep?" Selene suddenly asked from my door way.
"You too?"
"I doubt Lelantos and that old fool are getting any sleep either," she said as she walked over and sat on the side of my bed.
"Do you think we should just give up, do you think there was never a chance of success in the first place?" I asked her.
"Those are two different questions," she answered, "We shouldn't give up, but was there ever a chance of success? The definite answer is no. We were just not meant to win." I sat up and looked into her solid black eyes.
"If there's no chance than why not give up?"
"Because there's also no chance we'll be doing anything else with our lives." I stared at her. I saw that girl I could've killed but didn't. I took a small golden dagger from the dresser next to my bed. "What's that?" she asked, moving her head to face the shiny weapon.
"The dagger I was going to kill you with, that night we met. It was made to kill vampires. I kept it and fought with it. It's weak against humans but that didn't stop me," I whispered to her.
"Are you going to kill Eos with it?" she smiled.
"Hopefu-" something thudded against my door. We both turned towards the noise. I put away the dagger and drew my sword, she readied her fangs. I kicked the door down and a body leaned against it went flying. I recognized it as the elf that had served Lelantos. The entire hall was littered with elves. I ran down the hall where, at the bottom of the stairs, I found Lelantos, dead too. Me and Selene both knew who had done this. Eos.

We ran out of the inn and into the forest, following laughter.
"What do we do when we find him?" Selene asked nervously. Suddenly, a flash of blue light came down from the sky towards me. I looked up just in time to see, the old man, floating in the air, the light coming from his outstretched hands. Then Selene jumped in front of me and took the impact. Just like that she was gone. I looked up again, now that the blue light had disappeared. The old man floated there, grinning. Eos floated there, grinning. Eos had been with us all along. Had killed an innocent Carnage, had killed Lelantos, and now, Selene. I threw aside my sword and drew the tiny, golden dagger. Eos shot another bolt of light.

I ignored the shouting behind me. I ignored the blood that came out of my nose, my ears, and my mouth as I ran through the blue light. I felt like I lost all control of my body but the arm holding the small golden, jeweled dagger stayed up, ready when I reached Eos. But suddenly, the blood was gone. The shouted was silenced. I regained control.

A Blue Room: Part II

The sun made it look as if the flames coming off of my city were going up into the clouds. Even though this was not the case the flames certainly did leap high. I just watched as my city collapsed. There was nothing I could do for it now. I would instead go and find the person who burned it, Eos. But I knew I wouldn't be able to take him on my own, I'd need help. As if reading my mind a voice suddenly spoke.
"You want revenge don't you Plutus?" an old looking man asked me, not tearing his eyes away from the fire.
"You don't?" I muttered, turning back towards the fire.
"I do. You're right. What kind of survivor would I be if I didn't want revenge? But that doesn't mean I need to plan on actually one day getting it."
"And why not?"
"Because we never will," the wise man finally turned towards me. "None the less I'm going to help you. Because my want for revenge has gotten the better of me," the old man sighed and then held his hand out to me. I struggled to take my eyes away from the final view of my city I'd get. When I finally managed to look at the old man I shook his hand.
"We'll need more people," I explained.
"Then we'll get more," he said.

So, me and the old man gathered a group of people. Carnage, a goblin who's family had been killed by Eos before he even knew them. Carnage himself had been left living just so he could suffer through life without knowing his parents. We'd chosen him because he'd become bitter and was small and sneaky, could steal and hide. Lelantos, a huge brute of a man who was claimed to have been one of the few people ever to fight Eos and live to tell the tale. He was a valuable warrior and smart when it came to hunting, which would come in handy while tracking Eos down. The last person we needed was a vampire. Luckily I already knew one by the name Selene. I'd met her when a group of vampires began attacking my city before it was burned. As I crept through the night, killing every vampire I had contact with, I bumped into Selene.
"Run," I found myself saying against my better judgment. The young vampire girl looked at me, brushing black hair out of her face revealing deep black eyes.
"Why?" she asked through a mouthful of blood.
"Because you're young. You don't need to die this way." She smiled at me.
"First time with vampires, huh? I'm older than you. But I accept. I'll run. You wouldn't kill little ol' me," and with this she darted away. I watched as she ran. She may not have been young but I wouldn't be the one to kill her, I promised myself that. She was one of the good ones.

We arrived at an inn where rumor had been spread that she'd been staying. Me, Carnage, Lelantos and the old man stood outside the inn.
"If you guys don't mind, I'll go in on my own."
"It's fine, we'll wait," the old man mumbled. I entered the inn and was hit with a strong smell of alcohol. I cringed. Someone bumped into me.
"You got business here?" a buff voice asked. I couldn't take it. I drew my sword and stabbed the owner of the gruff voice.
"I do," I answered his question as he fell to the floor, getting blood on my clothes and shoes. Suddenly, someone was at my side. A soft voice whispered into my ear. I recognized it immediately.
"I know," it said, "that I owe you. We can go to my room here."

The room smelt no better, but I had begun to get used to it.
"So," she said, "you've finally come back for me."
"What?"
"You're finally gonna kill me, right?" she asked. She looked the same as when I first met her. Her black eyes didn't look angry though, she seemed content with the idea of me killing her. Like she'd expected it.
"I'm not going to kill you. Selene, why would I want to kill you?" I was so confused and shocked.
"That's what most of them want Plutus. That's what vampires are for. So, if you're not gonna kill me what're you here for?"
"I've got a different use for vampires Selene. It's said that they're immune to magic, we want you to help us fight Eos."
"Us?" she asked. I was surprised this was her concern rather than the fact I was asking her ot help me kill one of the most feared wizards of all time.
"I've gathered a group of people who want revenge on Eos too. A group selected specifically for their individual talents that together, we'd defeat Eos. All we need is a vampire Selene," she cut me off.
"I'll do it. Anything to get out of this inn. But we've gotta leave now Plutus."
"Of course we can."
And then the band of misfits was off to fight the most powerful wizard ever. Just like that my dream of revenge was one step closer to coming true. And oh though in my mind everything didn't play out nice I was nowhere near prepared for what was ahead.

A Blue Room: Part I

 I ignored the shouting behind me. I ignored the blood that came out of my nose, my ears, and my mouth as I ran through the blue light. I felt like I lost all control of my body but the arm holding the small golden, jeweled dagger stay up, ready when I reached Eos. But suddenly, the blood was gone. The shouted was silenced. I regained control.
“You’re not in the forest anymore,” a soft female voice whispered to me. I looked around. The voice was right. I wasn’t in the forest anymore. The forest had changed to a blue, glowing room. As if the magic had engulfed me and turned the forest to nothing but magic. Then I saw the owner of the voice. It was Selene, who had gone with us on our quest.
“Selene?”
 “Yes Plutus, it is me. When Eos cast that spell on me this is where I went,” Selene explained. I guessed I had gone there because of the spell he’d casted on me. I studied Selene's shark-like eyes, solid black yet somehow soft, somehow comforting. She was a vampire, brought along because we'd been told vampires were immune to Eos' magic. We'd been proved wrong early in our quest.
"What should we do?" I asked Selene. Suddenly her eyes became cold as I would've expected a vampires eyes to be.
"Well. I don't know about you but I'm hungry." She suddenly lunged towards me, fangs shining in the blue light. I barely dodged out of the way. She brought her head back up to face me again, hissing with the movement.
"Selene wait-" but she lunged at me again and this time got a hold of me. As I writhed against Selene I began to accept my fate as Selene's meal. But suddenly I remembered the golden dagger held with a piece of cloth to my waist. I reached for it and stabbed Selene quickly, not even thinking long enough about where to stab her. When the dagger lunged into her neck she began stumbling backwards, gagging and coughing up blood all over me. I pushed her away and she stumbled backwards on the blue floor. I tried to wipe the blood off of me but it just smeared on my body and hands. I finally thought to look back at Selene who's eyes had turned back to normal. Through the blood and new tears she had begun laughing. I slowly walked up to her and stood over her, holding the bloody dagger to my side. Her laughing pierced through me and I realized that she was Selene again, not the blood-thirsty thing that had just lunged at me.
"Thank you Plutus. Thank you. You have no idea what this room was doing to me." Once she spoke I kneeled down and held her head.
"No," I whispered, then screamed. "No! I didn't want to kill you! You were my friend-"
"It's okay Plutus. You've done me a favor. Now do one for yourself and find your way out. You still need to defeat Eos." Her eyelids drooped as if weights were attached to them, suddenly and witht their fall a different voice emerged from the blue.
"Plutus. I didn't think you'd be the last one left. I figured you'd surely snap before Selene. But, here we are," Eos' voice snarled behind me. Without dropping Selene's head I gripped my dagger tighter.
"You did this. This is your fault," I spit back, without even looking at Eos.
"Then come and get your revenge Plutus." After some thought I decided I would get my revenge and turned to face Eos. I would get my revenge.