The Which Within The Books Of Grasharlo Arc Part One

 The First Book

"Right, Loc, we have been, over the course of the past month we have been locating the books of Grasharlo and we have narrowed it down to seven locations. Your mission is to simply retrieve them alright. No me no fuss,  got it." Ringer said.

"Sir, yes sir!" She replied saluting. 

"What did I say?" He barked.

She repeated what he had said.

"Now, the place that we will send you to is a land in the south called Lesnote`. I have arranged for an air yot for you to get there. So, be ready in an hour! What did I say?" He barked. Loc repeated what he had said. "Good,  dismissed."

She nodded and left. She took a quick bath and quickly cleaned her now short hair, Lamia was right, she did suit short hair. She then put on her mission outfit made of unicorn hair and dragon dung, which looked like a stronger version of leather and silk, just thinner and lighter. She took a moment to look at herself in the mirror. She had noticed that the stands of her long fringe covered the black star in between her eyebrows. She looked at her womanly body, it would be forever frozen as a nineteen year old. She had not quite decided how she should feel about that. 

She closed her eyes and her hair was soon dry. She shivered as she felt the cold on the back of her neck. She flicked her long fringe out of her eyes, it had become a habit recently. She knew that she could cut it or use a leather lace or something to plat it out of the way, but she could not be bothered. She then got her gear and was off.

When she was ready she arrived out and up on the roof, she looked at her poker watch that Morgan had given her.

Ha! It only took the quarters of an hour! She thought.

She, upon realising this was her first mission, suddenly felt nervous. She let out a deep breath as she tried to keep herself calm. She did not want to let her emotions get the better of her and mess the mission up. She also had to keep her excitement in check too. She focused on her breathing and kept it steady. She waited and waited but nobody showed. Suddenly she wondered if she was in the right place, but she knew that this was where she was surpassed to be. She checked her watch.

It's alright,  it's only been ten minutes.

She then looked up and saw the double doors open and Ringer and Morgan walled through. They smiled and they looked up to see a black slab. She felt a sigh of relief. This was the right place.

"Morgan? What're you doing here?" She asked.

She smiled.

"Thought I'd see you off." She said. "Now, be careful,  remember I won't be there to keep you safe,  so whatever happens remember your training."

She nodded.

"I will." She said.

Morgan opened her mouth as if she wanted to tell her something, but decided against it.

She then turned and then went into the air yott. Inside the floor was royal blue and coal black walls.

"What's this made of?" She asked.

"Myrithodight, it's the source of a great amount of income on the planet Morth." Said Ringer. 

"Wait,  there are other planets? And they're inhabited too?" She exclaimed as her voice broke slightly.

"That is what I had just said." He said like he was talking to a child.

The corners of her month curled.

"I would like to see one of them one day. Although, sometime after the whole Grasharlo thing has long since passed." She said as she sat on the sofa. She quickly noticed that it was dragon dung.

Dragon dung, interesting.

She then looked at the table and as she stroked it she instantly knew that it was made of silver dragon scales. She smiled. It was so beautiful and it was so smooth to stroke and the different shades of silver made the table look deceptively bumpy.

She looked out of the window as the door closed. She enjoyed the moment of peace as long as it lasted. As she looked out of the window her thoughts turned to her sisters. She wondered what they were doing right now, what evil were they up to? Were they planning on doing something to male her wake up? If so, then what? Why have they taken so long? It had been over three years since she had last seen them, so what did they look like right now? Did they look like her? Or were their hair longer than hers before she had her hair cut? Did they build their bodies like her or were their figures different?

While she was lost in these thoughts she noticed that she had landed. She looked out and spotted that she was looking at another mouth of another cave.

"Why here?" She said out loud.

Oh yeah, Grasharlo once lived in this cave after she had killed her parents. It was said that when their bodies were found they had been killed in a sacrifice after being involved in many different experiments in their daughters' dark magic. She remembered with a shiver.

No, I think that I should stop thinking about that. Just focus on going in, getting that book and leaving. So without a word she put her thoughts into practice.

As she entered the cave her heart increased as she wondered what she was going to face in the cave. Just what enchantments did the dark Lady set in place to keep people from getting her book? 

Well, I'll find out, like it or not, ready or not. She thought as she spotted a suit of armour with a mace in his hands. It had green steam rousing from the gaps. As she looked into the gaps, she saw that there was no man inside. She then shook her head as she went to go on but she saw that the arm fling out, blocking her from going on further. She looked at the suit of armour.

Oh, oh! She let out a long, deep breath as she realised that she had found out what was set to protect the book. How on Merth am I to get past that?

Well I'll have to strategize. And do it quickly.

Then the armour moved its head to her. Her first instinct was to run but she knew that she could not do that. She knew that she would have to fight this one. So she and through her training in her mind and she stepped back and then the arm dropped. She then went to roll and as the leg went to stop her she gripped the ankle and rose it above her head and then went and kicked the behind of the suit of amour this propelled it forward. She rolled back and then looked forward. It rose it's mace and then threw it down as she dodged out of the way she was able to thrust her leg out. She then pushed it against the wall and then thrust her body into the legs. He then collapsed and she flung her hand out and she released something hot from her hand and this set the armour on fire but she only made it worse.

She started to back away and she soon saw the book in the corner of her eye. Instantly she raced to the book and then she heard the clanging behind her. She then felt the heat before the mace in her arm. She flew sideways and then hit the wall. The pain flooded her mind and her head rang. It caused her to go into a moment of shock, but this was interrupted by another swing of the mace but this was to the head. She then rolled away from the armour, just to keep away from the mace. She then looked up and then spotted that the mace was about to hit her again but she jumped up and then jumped over the armour. She then took hold of the helmet and threw it as far away as she could.

She then jumped off the armour and as the armour raced off to get the helmet back, she raced to the book and the moment she touched it the suit of armour took hold of his helmet. She then ran to the suit of armour and kicked the gauntlet off before it could hurt her with the mace again. She then ran to the mouth and out of the cave she looked back and the air collapsed. She ran to the air yot and then it took off.