The Fire Gem (1) Introduction I have loved writing stories for as long as I can remember, although I started some stories which were brilliant, but never finished them, like I won’t forget the Max Thomas story, and I might start it again, and actually finish it this time, but I did write some good stories, like King Arthur, all about me (Hamish Roberts, although most people call me Ham and Cheese) just slipping down a whole on my bike, and going off to Camelot, and helping King Arthur in several ways, then bringing him to England in the year 1999, where we (most mysteriously) were being attacked by Greece, so me and the King Arthur, and his Knights chopped off all of the enemies heads. This story is quite different, it has much more sadness and , real action, and I won’t tell you about it, because you either just read, and decided to read the introduction, or your just about to read it, because this is the end of my Introduction. By the way, I’m going to write a sequel! Good bye! Chapter One. The Creation of the Gem A Witch, a Dwarf, and a creature which is not known in this world, called a Sagorn, the King of which, wanted to rule the Planet of Karoma. Karoma is a planet which is very like ours, infact there is only two differences, the inhabitance, and the fact that there is magic in one of them, but not the other. A sagorn, is the worst form of Oemonas. Oemonas are mostly good creatures, all except Sagorns have hair on there noses. most good and wise kind are the woodland kind, called Hon ones they are taller than most creatures, and can produce magic bows, that can be shot from a mile a way and still hit a Sagorns heart. The next kind come from the North, and are the shortest of the kinds of Oemonas. They are called Sodacers and they are great Black smiths, and make Swords end Spears and other weapons of all kinds. They sell these mostly to the Rarckers, these come from the West and South, and are great Warriors , though not so wise as the Others. And Finally we come to Sagorns which come from the East in the dreaded land of Garlosia. It is hard to believe that these things are Oemonas at all considering there great and evil deeds that they have done. But they were a form of Oemona from another world where they had betrayed the world to a Dark Lord, so were given evil hearts and Fearsome Bodies, and banished from the World. They are now feared by all who dwell in Koroma. The King Sagorn was locked up, far beneath the ground, but was found by The Witch and the Dwarf, and here they planned to gain power of Karoma, to rule it. "How shall this be done? " said the Witch " We shall need some magic for sure" replied the Dwarf. " My magic is not great enough to take the whole of Komara!" cried the Witch. "Somebody’s must be." Whispered the Sagorn "And who else than the great Saebane" "Aaaah, but you are forgetting Saebanes Daughter, Deasater. Said the Witch harshly." Surely she will be able to undo what ever we will force Saebane, Son of Raesane, to give us the Power". "She cannot stop us!" cried the Dwarf. " Once we have all Koroma in our power, we will be unstoppable!". They kidnapped the Saebane, and tortured him. "Give us the power to rule Koroma, or perish. "All right" chocked Saebane. "Conan saya gorlaya dea madder sumacue!" The Witch, the Dwarf, and the Sagorn, shielded their eyes, as a blinding light, shone in all directions. Then, appeared a gem. "Travel to the lands of Garlosia, then alight it by putting it in the Flame of Uracaya. It is magic and is alight under the Great Lake, close to the Eastern entrance of the Waterfalls of the Oceans. Then, you will have all power of Koroma." " And only we can use it?" hissed the Sagorn " Other People can use it-" "WHAT!" Yelled Sagorn. " But only if there heart is that of a Dragons!" cried Saebane. " That is unlightly", said the Dwarf. "How could anyone get a Dragon heart. "I suppose so. Then let us-" Out of the Shadows came a cloaked figure. Infact, this was Deasater, Saebanes Daughter. "You have hurt my Father!" Deasater cried " DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE" with that she pointed her finger at the Witch, the Dwarf and the Sagorn. There was a flash of blue and they were gone. With that she took her father home. "Deasater, there is something there-" "You can tell me back home Father" "But it must be destr-" " Never mind father, we must get home. Soon after a man by the name of Zaconard walked along to the Place where the Gem had been created. Once, this man had come close to death, for his heart had been pierced. But he had Justin time traded some gold( for he was a rich man) for a dragon’s heart. This he replaced for his own. He walked along, and saw a Glint. He walked over saw that it was a Gem of incredible beautifulness and picked it up. It looked as though it was worth a Fortune, so he( for he was greedy )took it. He looked up and saw Saebane galloping towards him. Saebane looked around anxiously around, and then said asked Zaconard if he had seen a Gem. "Why" replied Zaconard cunningly. Saebane then told him about what had happened and what the Gem could do. "I Believe there is a person named Zaconard who has a Dragon’s heart and he is the type who would somehow find out and use the Gem. " Your right" said Zaconard smiling "I know Zaconard very very well. He’s got a Dragon’s heart, But he’s my best friend. We’re as close as two people can get. Closer, rather." "I don’t understand, I-" Saebane stared at Zaconard , suddenly scared, realising that he had been telling the very person that he was hoping wouldn’t find out what the gem was. "You’ve worked it out, have you? You fool, haven’t you been wandering what I’ve been hiding behind my back? Yes, I have got the Fire gem!" From a mile away, you could have heard Saebanes cry as he fell to the Ground, dead. "NO!" cried Deasater, as she galloped on horse back, to the scene of crime. "Die!" she yelled, as she struck an arrow into Zaconard’s head and wept at her Fathers dead body. "No!" she wept "No" She grabbed the gem, and through it as hard as she could. An Eagle caught it and flew, far to the East. There the Eagle, dropped it in to the Great Lake of Surabaya. If Anyone had gone to Savoyard’s body and felt his chest, they would have realised that his heart was still beating. At the very moment the Fire gem had been dropped into the Great Lake, Nick Thomas had been born. Many Years later, Disaster came to talk to Nick Thomas, on his eighteenth birthday. Nick lived in the Town of Lario in the West, and in the Land of Droebane. He lived in the Castle of Raesane, and was training to be a knight. His hair was light brown, and had blue eyes, and quite thin(for a Human anyway). He was son of Gilovin, who actually was the Heir to the Ancient King of Karoma, when the days were peaceful and although he did not know it, Nick’s father was Deasater’s brother. " Good mourning Nick" said Deasater. "Wha-"yawned Nick "Oh good mourning Deasater- what’s the Time?" "Nine o’clock. I need to talk to you." "Okay- at Breakfast." No, I need to talk to you alone!" Okay Deasater. You sound rather worried!On my birthday and all!" "Do I? Well there’s no surprise there. This is Urgent!" "Oh" said Nick; abit taken aback, for Deasater was never very serious before. "What is it then?" "Have you heard of the person called Zaconard?" "Of course! The person who’s famous for having a Dragon heart." "He’ll be famous for being the powerful Dark Lord ever if you don’t this!" " Don’t do what? I don’t understand." "You have heard of the Legendary Fire gem, have you not?" "Yes but that is only a fairy tale" "Well it looks as though the fairy tales just come true" " What! But only people with Dragon hearts can that-Oh" "And who’s famous for having one?" " Are you trying to tell me that Zaconard, has one?" " No. Many years ago he stole one but it was taken from his grasp. Then An Eagle carried it away and dropped into the Great Lake of Urasayer, in the land of Garlosia. It has remained there for eighteen years. And in those eighteen years, his spies have brought news and now he knows where it is." "And what do I have to do?" Nick was now starting to feel fear coming up his spine, for he new just how dangerous the Fire gem could be and he did not like the name Garlosia. " You have to go to Garlosia, and destroy the gem. Choose two companions. " Nick stared at Deasater, with utter fear. "Why me?" he whispered "You were born on the very moment that the gem was cast away into the River. You were chosen to do this. You are meant to do this. To destroy the Fire Gem!" Chapter Two The Waterfalls of theOcean Nick lied in his bed, fearing the Day after tomorrow, for it would be the Day when they set out to the Lands of the East, through the Forest of Lario, and then they would never see Lario again. Nick Thomas, was human, for these creatures dwelt in Koroma to, and common in the west. However, they were rarely found the East, and never were they seen in Garlosia, though they were mildly found in the South, but the North was mostly made up of Oemonas. Nick finally fell into troublesome sleep, in which he had a dream none of would like to have. Nick was in a dark tunnel, and was completely alone. The middle I will not tell you, for the most dreadful things happened in it. But at the end of the dream, he was staring at his own body-lifeless. Nick woke up; afraid he had been decided to come to the Land of the Dead, rather than his spirit resting in peace. He looked around, and saw that it was his own comfortable room in the comfortable castle of Raesane. He rolled over, and went to sleep. The next day Nick walked along, by the River of Karoma incredible River that encircled the whole of Karoma, when he passed by Joey Kinder and Richard Harris. These were the chosen companions of Nick to stand by him all the way to Garlosia, although they weren’t the ideal sidekicks. "Hey-hay look who it is Rich!" Joey was a tiny little guy, with shiny blond hair and Rich was tall merry fellow, with lively eyes and dark hair. " What! Are you talking about that chap over there?!" Richard pointed to a hooded figure on about in the great river. "No no no no no, I’m talking about that person to your left. Oh that chap over there, right, I see your point, But who is this blocking are way?" " My mother I think; who else could it be?" Joey and Rich were always like this, but this time they were not nearly so merry, for as soon as soon as Nick had laid his eyes on that hooded figure felt a terror set upon him. " Er, Joey, Rich er- let’s go shall we?" "And why would we want to do that, on our last day at Lario!?" "Er for-for food!" said Nick " Food!" cried Joey "Why ever not! Come along now." " Later that day, Nick found Deasater walking towards him. " I have to talk to you, about the journey ahead" "Ok. Will you need a map of Karoma" " It would help" While Nick was walking along, to get the Map, he realised how much he would miss Lario, the Castle, and most of all, his Father. I have not told you about his father: Gilovin except his relatives. The First King of the whole Karoma was Jaesane, the all mighty King. He then had just one Son, Daebane, then went Yaegane Kaemane Quaetane, Xaelane Laejane Vaehane Zaerane Baedane Raesane and then Saebane. Saebane, had a daughter with Reasatar. This was of course, Deasater. But they also longed to have a boy, so they could also have a Queen at last, but still also have a King. So they prayed the god Xenmaseor, for them to have a baby boy. There wish came true. But two weeks later a man kidnapped the baby. However, he was killed in battle, for this man was a great warrior, though he was evil. The baby was abandoned, and found by Vilovin, a Oemona of the Honone type, a person from Haedon, in the North, but he had travelled to west, and wished to stay there permanently. Vilovin already had a son, Kilovin, and named the baby, Gilovin. He brought him up until Vilovin was sent on an urgent journey, to which he not told his sons, or rather his son and Gilovin. Vilovin, son of Jilovin, never returned. He was presumed dead. Nick walked along, got the map, and went back to Deasater. Deasater was just round the corner, when he glanced at the hooded figure. Yet again he felt a chill come down his spine. He stood in silence, when suddenly he felt a warmth shine upon him. However this was not comforting. Nick turned around and saw a site that no one would like to see. He stood there in terror. Nick was looking at a body slowly coming towards him. A body made completely of fire. Nick wheeled round and ran. He ran with all his might. He ran to Deasater, but she was not there. He kept on running, picturing a black shrivelled body on the floor, he ran passed the forest of Lario, and jumped into the river of Karoma. He thought he was okay, until an arrow made of fire narrowly missed him. He flung some water at the body of fire , and quickly got out of the river. However, a flick of water was only a few seconds delay to this body of fire. It was soon behind Nick, shooting arrows of fire. Nick soon realised that he was going in the direction of his fathers house. He kept on running and saw his father (Gilovin) . Nick turned around, and saw an arrow of fire going strait for him. He could not seem to move, even though he tried. "No!" cried Gilovin, and Gilovin kicked a log, that he used for fire. The arrow hit the log and the log burst into flames, went off course and soured in the air and hit Gilovin in the heart. " Aaaaah!". Gilovin fell to the ground in flames and went to a different world than Karoma. "FATHER! NO! Nooo." I never told you that much about Gilovin. You only heard him speak twice. But if this was sequel to a book about Gilovin, then you would have had grief set upon you. Right then Deasater arrived and saw Gilovin’s dead body. She walked over to Nick. " I am sorry." "Sure." " We must set out in three hours." "What. You expect me to leave Lario, on the day of my father’s death?" "It is the only way." " I don’t care about Zaconard getting a stupid fire Gem, I don’t care if he rules Karoma, or even all of the worlds there are, the only thing I want is for my father to come back!" "Do not speak like that!" cried Deasater, suddenly very angry. Nick stared at her. "I’m sorry, I’m so sorry. But when I come back (if I do) I can’t imagine what life would be like in Lario without him." "What killed your father Nick?" " I don’t no what it was. It was like a human, except it was, well it was completely- completely made of Fire." Deasater stared at Nick. " We cannot go through Lario on land." "But the river only will take us North and South, and the Little river does, but soon the little river goes in the Ocean." "I know. We will have to go by the Waterfalls of the Ocean." "Where’s that?" "The Western Entrance is just in the Ocean." "And why do we have to go this way?" "For Fire human’s are swarming the whole of our route through Xagane." Xagane is the country in which the town of Lario is. " So that’s the name of the creature which killed my Father." " Yes. They are workers of Zaconard." And inside the Waterfalls of the Ocean?" "It is a tunnel trough the whole of Karoma. We will through Xagane inside it. " The whole of Xagane in a dark tunnel!" "That will be little of our journey." " Where else are we going to go to?" " I cannot tell you of that now. We mist have a meal before we go." With that Deasater went and walked away. Nick looked at where she had been but she was nowhere to be seen. He walked to Gilovin’s body and took his Gilovin’s sword. "May your sword bring hop to me, Father." Nick berried his father’s dead body, and wept. He had never felt such sadness. At the Feast they talked of many things, but none talked of The Fire Gem, for they wished to take the fear away from them for this merry hour before they set of on the long and fearsome journey, But Nick could not help thinking about it. Suddenly he remembered that he had glanced the hooded figure before the Fire Human had appeared. Had he been the reason for Nick’s father’s death? Nick saw the moon come out from behind the cloud’s. " A toast" said Nick " He-hay" cried Joey. "C’mon Nick." "Er, to Deasater, for always helping me out in difficulties." "To Deasater!" "Er and also to my- my father, Gilovin for incase you didn’t no, he, er he died today." There was complete silence in the hall where they were eating" "To Gilovin." Nick said " To Gilovin." "Um I need to er go and get my stuff, I er see you have already got yours er you can go on without me, I’ll catch up. Nick raced to his room and got his stuff and walked back down.. He stepped outside , and was just about to run after the other’s when he felt a cold chill come up his spine. He wheeled around, and saw the hooded figure. Nick stood still staring at the hooded figure. Then an Echo came from the hooded figure, like he was hissing in a large stone room. "Joelnoe FORMDAEEET!" "Nick was filled with unimaginable terror. Then one hundred Fire humans came after Nick. Nick turned and ran. Terror filled his heart as he sprinted into the Forest, slashing trees out of his way. A fire Arrow was shot at him which he narrowly dodged, and another he knocked away with his sword. "I will avenge Gilovin!!" he yelled. One of them leapt over Nick, blocking his way. Nick jumped, thinking that this was his last hour. But he felt a hand grab him and pull him round the Fire human. He opened his eyes, afraid what he might see. It was Deasater. " We must fly y y y" she echoed and they rose from the ground, and soared trough the air, and back down to the ground at the edge of the forest. She ran a boat at the Little river of Lario, and got on with Joey and Rich. Nick stood at the edge of the forest. "Come!" cried Deasater, "Come!". Then suddenly all the Fire humans came through. Nick ran, yelling "NOOOOOOOO!" He leapt onto the boat as Deasater cried "Gola Karayer!" Round the boat came a huge bubble. All the fire arrows rebounded off the bubble and at once the boat started to go down the river. For a day they went down the river, until the next night they came to the open sea. They had been going west-south, but now they were facing East into a cliff. Deasater said " Vonsilosia!" A diagonal cylinder of salt water disappeared revealing some stone steps. Deasater , Joey , Rich and Nick walked don, until the steps ended. There they saw a Waterfall One by one, they stepped through the first Waterfall of the Ocean. Chapter Three Vilovin Thomas Nick looked around. He could see nothing but pure blackness. " What is the point in taking us to a place completely made of darkness." " That will be delt with." Deasater answered. She cast a spell: "Xakarar!" and a dim ball of light gave a feint shine, revealing many holes that seemed to never have an ending, and carvings of Sagorns torturing Honones, Sodacer’s, or even Wizard’s and witches, like Deasater, dare I say not Gilovin and Nick, for though they are related to Deasater, you have to drink the drink of Vonosayer to become one, and Gilovin wasn’t given it before he was kidnapped. So Nick and Gilovin were just human. " It is late" Deasater sighed. "Let us rest now". That night (as far as they could tell, for they saw no light of day) Nick had a strange dream, just had he had the night before. He was being carried by huge Sagorns. Then he was put down on a table of cold, hard stone. A very big one had an axe. Nick could feel the Sagorns hot breath on him. And down came the axe to his throat. Nick woke up, shivering and drenched with sweat. But this time he did not get to sleep quite so easily. Was that Deasater in the shadows. Or was it was it some thing else? Nick kept looking at the spot where the being was. Nick looked at the carvings on the walls. But when he looked back at where the mysterious shadow had been, there was nothing to be seen. The next day (yet again, as far as they could tell), Nick did not like at all. It is not pleasant to be in darkness all the time, and Nick was also getting nervous. He had not forgotten about the hooded figure in the Shadows. Was it a mere human spy of Zaconard? Or something else? Something much worse? Nick did not like to think of what dreadful things it could be, but he could not help it. Was it A Sagorn? A Witch of the East? Or worst, Zaconard himself? They were walking along when they came to a little chamber. "We will rest here" said Deasater wearily. While they got there blankets out, Nick examined a tomb stone. "Vilovin Thomas. Who was he?" Nick said curously. He looked at Deasater. Deasater thought a moment, then answered. " He was a great Warrior" "Is there nothing else to be told?" Deasater thought yet again. " No. I know nothing more". " Why ever would he do he come down here?" "Why did you?" "Because-well, if I don’t do this, it’ll be the end of all Karoma!" "And he might have been on an equally important quest" " But-nothing could be as important as this, can it?" " Yes. The answer is yes. Let me teach you something Nick. You have heard many tales of dragons and of heroes, but you do not want to no all. The whole of Karoma is very lightly to have been saved by a brave hero that’s on the other side of Karoma, on a completely different quest, and has nothing to do with the Fire Gem. This is only one of the many great tails that will be told in a hundred years. " Ok Deasater. Got your" Nick broke off. Yet again he saw a figure in the darkness. " What is it?" asked Richard curously. Nick then noticed something else, which was much worse. "Wheres Joey!" he yelled. They all turned and saw a secret entrance, in which Joey must of gone down. "We must not divide!" cried Deasater urgently, holding back Richard , as he tried to run down the passage. "It will not do for us all to be separated." Nick was thinking about the hooded figure. How come Joey had disappeared the moment Nick had seen the person in the shadows. "I will stay here. Nick, Richard, you must go and see where your companion is." "But-" "You must go alone." said Deasater firmly. Nick stared at Deasater, not at all liking the idea of walking along in pitch darkness with the only comfort of Rich. "Are we to go in complete darkness." Said Nick "Will this ball of light follow us, or stay with you." "It will follow you" "But how, if you were its creator?" "It will follow you. Just except that." " Okay Deasater" said Nick uneasily. Richard and Nick walked down the dark passage. It seemed as though the place was haunted, as though someone was watching them, getting ready to strike.
Copyright © 2002 Hamish Roberts |