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[Red]

Stone Song
The story of Aeger the Red


Chapter one, Aeger the Nord

Aeger sat down on the corpse of a recently killed bear, Mara knows how. He had been lost for three hours, and when walking through a completely white sheet of ice, time goes slowly. He sat, trying to catch his breath, talking to himself. "Okay, what did father say, umm, don't stop going left, I think.Oh, why couldn't it just be fighting some trainer instead of going hours away from the village and bringing back the body of a Draugr?". Aeger was confused, lost and soon to be in danger of his life. He thought back to the hours before he left, saying goodbye to friends and family, packing his backpack with three knives, two torches, a net and among other things, a currently useless map.

Aeger started hacking at the Bears body with his knife. Though he was a pretty good fighter, many of is best skills included a knife and an animal, for his mother skinned animals and made pelts while his father added them onto and inside of armour's and sold them. He kept hacking and cutting, his strong muscles strained as they helped him do so. Within twenty minutes he had an increadibly large pelt made of Bear skin and fur. He wraped it around his lightly armored body. He packed the meat of the Bear and said a prayer for the poor lifeless Bear and started walking left again.

Left, right, left, right, left, right, his walking was like the beat of a drum. Aeger loved drums, the way they made his heart pound, the loud, booming sound they created, the way they could accompany any instrument, Aeger loved them. Aeger kept walking and thinking of drums, almost forgetting about all of his problems. He kept walking until someting caught his eye, which was a cave with a large boulder infront of it. He walked cautiously to the boulder and examined it. Words had been carved into it, but obviously not with a tool or wepon, for it was neat and well organized. Aeger took atleast twenty minutes pushing the rock as hard as he could before using his new bearskin "robe" as a sleeping bag.



Chapter two, The cave of sharp words


Aeger woke up half out of his "sleeping bag", appearently he had gotten too hot in the bearskin. Aeger looked at the stone again, and thought long and hard. "Hmm" said Aeger, coming to a conclusion "What if I read these passages, maybe it will help me understand how to open it". Aeger was a smart man and thanked the gods for that. There were many paragraphs and stories, many of them Aeger had seen before, but one was very strange, and read;

Kind gods, please forgive our feeble attempts. We thought we could stop these men but the bodies felled in the water proved us wrong. Please let this boulder stand forever as a monument to those who died and let it remind us to never again be this arrogent when faced with danger. These men have been killed and stored in their writeful tomb, except for their captain, who we have locked up in the tomb and left to die. These are trying times in our village, so we sing our songs and curses into this rock and our riddles too. I just hope that the Draugr we have placed in the tomb is enough to keep it safe incase our riddles and songs cannot. Leki help us.

Aeger was amazed by the informative paragraph, but had many questions that could only be answered by entering the tomb. Aeger kept pushing and pulling, lifting and even trying to turn, but nothing helped. Aeger read more of the stone, but much of it was just old poems and riddles, but one riddle was very intrigueing.

Inside you want, outside you are. The eye comes first, then the third, then the first. Greedy you sound, but in you go.

"one, two, three, six. No? umm, twelve?" Aeger was really confused by the riddle, so he kept guessing and thinking. "Inside you want, outside, greedy, something about an eye. Could it be that I'm greedy? No, that's to far off. Oh, maybe it's inside, outside, read, but." Aeger went on thinking for ten minutes, reading the riddle at least eleven times, until something in his brain clicked, for no riddle was too hard for a brain like Aeger's, which constantly thought of questions and answers. "Oh! see. This is kind of like that read my words riddle. Eye want inside!" a loud snapping sound was heard, and Aeger was able to push the boulder a third of the way to be completely open. Aeger squeezed through the crack, happy he would not have to answer any more riddles. There was an old, cracked door about ten feet from the boulder, and it was covered with three sliding locks and one enourmous turn lock. Aeger used much of his strength to turn the lock which scratched and scrapped the cold hard rock that surrounded the door.

Aeger looked around the cave, which had horrors deeper than death. Deep scratches had been etched into the walls and large pools of water had long ago eroded large tunnels into the seemingly ancient walls. Aeger suddenly felt weak and dizzy, and soon fell down to the ground breathing heavily. A mysterious force pushed his body hard into the ground as if a rock of ebony had been tied to his back. Whispers hit his ears harder than screams and his vision started showing black, white and green dots and said dots started to grow and move. Aeger's mind started going blank, the millions of questions he was thinking were starting to dissapear until only two thoughts remained. The thought was echoed throughout the caves and tunnels and answers were screamed back. What if this was the place the gods ignored? What if this was the place that was it's own blasphamy? Aeger was disturbed by the answers the cave yelled back. NO GOD STANDS IN THIS HIGH HATE! THE LOST LORD STANDS UNDER LOST! Soon Aeger passed out and as he fell to the floor, he watched as the stone closed the way once more.


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Ok, soon you will know more of the Shakur and RP tie-ins. This is my subbmission for the contest and it will be updated on a irregular basis. Enjoy!

[Red]

Okay, new rough copy, hope you all love it and remember to post comments.


Chapter three, High fear and a man named Serjo


Aeger regained conciousness eventually, though he was dizzy and cold. The cave was quite and was now brighter than before, though there was no visible source of light. Aeger walked around the cave, it was covered in lichens and mosses and plants that Aeger had never seen before. He kept walking through the opening near the cave opening. More moss and lichens covered the walls, and as Aeger walked, he felt more and more scared. Aeger looked around the lighted cave, but there was nothing. No Draugr, no Bone Hounds, just mosses and lichens. "This is rediculous, why am I so terrified?" Said Aeger as he walked through the tunnel, now on the verge of crying. He took four steps until he stopped at the opening of a room.

His fear diisapeared and was replaced with awe. Axes, spears, swords, daggers and any other wepon you can and cannot think of were hung on the walls and laid on small shrines. Paintings of gods, heroes and battlefields were hung throughout the room. Aeger walked into the room, and watched as the cave lost all of its light. Aeger pulled out his favourite dagger and after thinking the situation through, pulled out a torch. A flint and steel. He forgot to bring a flint and steel. Laughter was heard in the cave. A loud, rude laugh it was, and it was followed by coughing. "Son of a... house of th... decrepit piece of... no, no. Just calm down, it's only a bit of darkness. if the light came go that quickly, it can come that quickly, so I'll sit here and wait".

Aeger waited for twelve, long, scary minutes. Twelve minutes that felt like an hour and a half. And after that time, or what ever time Aeger thought had gone by, there was a flapping sound, and then light filled the cave. It was as bright as an imperial temple, though the interior it iluminated was not exactly temple like. Aeger walked farther into room, and noticed the large square cut into the middle of the room. It was big enough to hold four men laying on their backs side to side, and that was what it did. Well, to be exact, four long dead men.

The four skeletal men were wearing bear and wolf armors, with enchanted wepons laying beside them. One caught Aeger's eye though. A double sided axe with nordic words whispered into it, expensive no doubt. He started to reach for it, but saw a note under the head of the axe. He pulled the note out, and read the madness written onto the paper;

You are smart to check this letter, Serjo. Me and the others have left our calm house and now reside inside of this crazy den. The others don't say much anymore, but they're still good to have around. But enough about me Serjo, this is about this axe. Now, those Skaal are smart, but I have figured out a way to get this axe. The axe has a very powerful shock spell that goes off in the handle when touched. There are gloves of shock absorbtion in the next room, but you'll have to avoid another trap. Talk to you in a few minutes, Serjo.

Zavim Gherusib,
Necromancer.

Needless to say, Aeger was shocked and confused. A necromancer lived here? And a man named Serjo was here? And their was others? Aeger's thoughts were interupred by a cracking noise, and then a deep moan.Aeger thought quickly, and drew his dagger. There was a very long hissing sound, and then a roar. As the sounds got closer and closer, louder and louder, a ten foot tall bonewalker entered the room, much of its height was added through adding bones and flesh. It moaned, then hissed and once again, cracked a bone. It walked closer and closer, drooling what looked like blood. The bonewalker had a stomach of criss-crossing bones, and Aeger knew that thats where he had to attack. Aeger ran to the side of the undead bohemoth, but when he went to stab, the bonewalker knocked him backwards with a hard push. Aeger started to lose balence, which the bonewalker used as a oppertunity. The undead skinwalker punched him hard in the side of his arm, sending Aeger into the pit with the dead bodies. his face fell onto the head of the huge axe and, nothing happened. "The shock is in the handle!' Aeger exclaimed. The bonewalker moved back, and furrowed the flesh and bone that used to be his eyebrows. Aeger picked the axe up from the head and pushed the handle into the bonewalker's criss-crossed stomach. The bonewalker felt the enourmous shock, and died instantly. Well, re-died instantly.

Aeger had killed the beast, and now, to take a trophy. Aeger took the axe by the shaft above the handle and swung into the bone walker's neck, seperating head from body. He put the head into his pack, along with the note. "Now let's just hope that was the last of those horrible monsters. Though now that I have this, I should be able to take them" Aeger said, feeling proud about himself. And he had every right to be, killing a horrible monster using only his wit and cunning.

This post has been edited by Red: Aug 21 2005, 02:52 PM