A soft, faintly green glow eminated from the computer screen barely illumitating the figure who was viciously chipping away at the keyboard. The room was too dark to tell much of her appearance, but anyone who knew her could tell you she had thin wire glasses and they could say little else. What they could tell you is that she was young, barely fifteen, but was most unnaturally brilliant beyond her years. They would also tell you that she was a lost cause.A loner by choice she was up every night working at her computer. What she worked on no one can tell you.
She hated people in general for their innocence and free spirits. Not because of envy, no, she hated them because of how they pitied her. They thought she had family problems or had a tramatic incident as a child. Not one of them thought for a moment that the reason she never smiled or laughed and was constantly giving people dirty looks for just talking to her, was because she knew the frutility of an existance that was hopeful and caring. She knew that the only way to get anything worthwhile in life is to take it from some unknowing fool who was idiotic enough to work for it the good and kind way. She was not insane as most thought and that made her all the more dangerous.
Back to the story....
It was well past midnight and still the girl worked on the unknown project. Her pace did slow though and over the span of minutes her head drooped, her fingers stilled and she fell fast asleep onto the keyboard. She could have not done anything more foolish. As her head fell gently against her hands poised on the input device her finger hit the enter key. The screen turned blood red and bold black lettering flashed on the screen. "Begin Portal Formation Sequence"....
She woke with a start as a blinding white flash, too bright to have been made by the computer, erupted around her. Before she even realized what she had accomplished, she was falling. Wild colours whizzed passed her as she plummeted through the portal making her wish she hadn't eaten that leftover pizza with extra cheese hours before. Then it all stopped.
With a painful grunt the dizzy girl lifted herself off the ground from which she landed on and straightened herself to her full 5'6" height. She then procceded to take in her surrondings. It appeared , from her point of view, that she was standing in a dark forest and a thick fog hugged the ground. Only a slight bit of light could be seen at all and it was coming from three partly full moons. On seeing the moons which could never belong to the planet Earth, a smile spread across her pale face. Not the kind of smile that meant joy or happiness, but the kind of smile that meant only a sence of knowing what one has achieved. At that, she began to walk.
The black velvet cloak, that had magically appeared on her person when she entered the Realm, swirled the fog around her so that it seemed she had an invisible force of some sort preventing anything to come near. It covered her head to foot, but a few whisps of dark blond hair could be seen escaping the hood. Nothing else could be seen of her through the cloak.
She walked briskly and soon came upon a clearing that looked to have been a town at one one time, but had been reduced to rubble long ago. Stone blocks littered the area making it difficult to navigate for the multiple moon's light made eerie shadows. The cloaked girl was not afraid though, she knew no harm would come to her here.
She slowly made her way though the treacherous terrain having to climb some fallen pillars of what probably was the remains of a temple of sorts. Her efforts revealed that she wore black leather boots that only went a quarter of the way up to her knee, leggings and sash of a red darker then blood and a plain, short sleeved black dress that stopped slightly below her knee with a slit up the side so she could walk. The dress also showed off her small, thin frame.
After what seemed like hours, the girl made it to the centre of the ruins. There, on a raised platform that would have been used as an area for performers stood a dark figure. She approached the figure and bowed.
"I've come oh dark and powerful Lord of the Realm," she stated as she looked up into the face of the evil one himself, Venger.
"Yes, I see you have, young Mage. And at the perfect time as well," came his deap and echoey reply. "You will join the new group of Young Ones and offer your survices to them as one of their own," Venger paused to retrieve a small clasp, that was in the shape of a bird that seemed to be made of fire, from thin air, "And you will need this relic to control the power given to you by the Realm."
Her hauntingly blue eyes sparkled at the sight of the clasp and bowed her head as Venger gave the firey bird to her.
As the Mage's hands attached the magical relic to her cloak, Venger spoke again, "Use it to destroy the new Young Ones and you will be greatly rewarded."
She replied with excitement, "Of course great Venger, your every command I shall follow and every wish, obey."
"Turn against me and you shall deeply regret it."
"Oh, never shall I do that. I'm not a fool."
"Good," and with that, Venger vanished.
The Mage stood still for a second then jumped into the air with a yell of triumph.
"Now I finally have the power I deserve," she shouted to the heavens, "and soon all shall know my name and fear me for I am Alexia the Mage of the Phoenix!"
With that Alexia raised her arms out in front of her and placed her palms together creating a ball of red fire. She then blasted it toward a dead bush that had managed to grow in between the crumbling stone. It burst into flames and the sight was not only reflected in her glasses but also in her eyes.
Turning about face, Alexia ran through and over the ruins as if she was flying and disappeared into the forest.
The only onlooker of this display bowed his bald head and with a sad yet determind face whispered, "You shall find your way young child, but you must first find the ways of others." And the small man known as Dungeonmaster vanished to find the Young Ones and help them with this new turn of events in the only way he knew how; give them advice that only when the time came would they understand.
