Darkness of the Ancients
In a world well divided but peaceful, a great evil was fast approaching. While in the world, none were aware of the dangers soon to develop. In the Knight and Mages schools, the students were impatiently awaiting their exams to become true Knights and Mages. Today was the day of their exams.
Temple of Jade: 1 hour until examinations
Damon, walking around the Temple on the Paladin area wondered what his exam would be based on, whether on his swordplay or perhaps his magic or whether it’d be another boring written exam. He wore standard Paladin Armour with a standard steel sword, though he wasn’t to use it in the exam, naturally. His hair was neck length and light brown in colour, his eyes were light green and his face, still unused to battle remained unscarred. Sighing deeply he leaned against the wall, pondering to himself. He knew it was important both for himself and for the Temple, but at the same time he really couldn’t be bothered.
Heading to the Cafeteria, one of the few ‘neutral’ areas for Paladins and Dark Knights to see one another. It didn’t take long after entering before he was pounced to the floor by a seemingly large weight. Looking up he saw Kylie, a friend of his from the Dark Knights side. She wasn’t actually heavy though, it was the overly large Dark Knight Armour she was practically forced to wear.
“Kylie! Gerroff me!” managing to push the weighed down Kylie off him. Black armour aside, all you could see of her was her light skinned face and long blonde hair, well, some of her long blonde hair as the rest was hidden behind her helmet. Rising to his feet he helped Kylie up before grabbing an apple for the ‘journey’ to the exam. His appetite tremendous however, he had already finished it mere minutes after walking out the door.
Temple of Topaz: 1 hour until examinations
“Booooooooooooring! How long are they going to make us wait?” Jessica was sat down on the stone steps outside the exam room; she hated school enough as it is without being forced to suffer waiting to take an exam when sat outside it. Being a Red Mage, she was limited enough that she didn’t need other worries to top it off. She wore standard Red Mage clothing, more for comfort than anything, her light brown hair went partway down her back, but she kept it brushed neatly enough to stop it getting in the way. “Well once it’s over we can go have fun!” Mandi called over, trying to cheer her up. Mandi wore a large White robe with the hood down, revealing her long blonde hair which, if she was much shorter would probably reach the ground in no time. “She’s right you know. Just focus on what you’ve learned and you’ll do fine” Mark called over, not letting his head leave the book he was revising on. Mark wore a single black robe with short black hair, he also had his reading glasses on, and nobody knew whether he wore them for reading, or just to look smarter though, most people weren’t really bothered by it at this point though. “Well that doesn’t help when I barely revised!” Jessica replied, her red hat falling on her face as she leant back. “Where are Ami and Amanda anyway? Shouldn’t they be here? Don’t tell me they got to rearrange the time again!” Jessica moved her hat back onto her head as she sat up again, leaning forward with a groan.
In their room, Ami and Amanda, losing track of time were listening to music, in-between getting ready for their exams. Amanda got dressed into her light green geomancer robes while Ami put on her white and orange time mage robes, after getting dressed the two young girls ran as fast as they could to the stone steps before it was too late.
Shinobi Monastery: Mission Briefing
“Slayer Agent Vikki, you have been selected from among the finest students in this Monastery to carry out surveillance, and possible assassination” Vikki, knelt at this point with her head bowed to the grand master lifted her head to look him in the eyes “Grand Master, I accept. What would you have me do?” clearing his throat the Grand Master lifted a red scroll from under his robes “we wish for you to investigate this young man and, should he show any signs of change I want you to kill him without a second thought. I assume you know what changes I refer to?” Vikki nodded her head “Yes, I do know” rising to her feet, Vikki set off to her target’s destination... The Temple of Jade.
Temple of Jade: Examination Time
Damon and Kylie both joined their respective class sides of the examination fields, the exam to finalise if they were prepared or not would be decided not with courage, wit or iron will but with the steel of their swords. In the first round, Damon had to face a student of the Dark Knights, he didn’t look terribly tough, all looks and no fight. Damon didn’t like these kinds of people and made it a personal goal to put at least one scar on his face before disarming him. Hearing the bell signalling them to begin he readied his sword, a simple single edged longsword before his opponent, slowly circling his foe it was clear his opponent was the furthest thing from ready, his gaze unfocused, his legs and arms shaking and his sword looked to be too heavy for him to even lift properly. Mentally sighing to himself Damon slashed forward, taking care to only cut his cheek enough to scar as he dealt a harsh punch into his opponent’s torso, knocking him straight to the floor, gasping for breath. After a moment of applause Damon stepped down, watching the other fights take place. With such a large arena it was hard to distinguish which Dark Knight was Kylie, which reminded him of the comment that Paladins generally say of Dark Knights, that they all look the same.
After a few more battles of varying excitement, Damon was called up again, not for an award but instead to fight the strongest among the Dark Knight pupils. An unusual request when he’d only fought once, until he saw quite clearly he was set to fight Kylie. Not a person he was expecting to fight, he never exactly thought of her as much of a fighter, from her light hearted attitude.
Temple of Jade exam rooftop beams: Damon vs Kylie
Having watched the entertainment, or lack thereof Vikki was slowly starting to see little point of watching. The fights were FAR below par, until the two strongest were set to fight. Vikki, while still not expecting much turned to look, seeing Damon however reminded her of someone. Taking out the red scroll from under her Ninja robe and opening it, her suspicions were correct. This ‘Damon’ was her target, being in a battle situation could rouse him, she thought. It would be better to remove him from battle as soon as possible, but at the same time, a Ninja who shows their face is a dead Ninja. Remembering her Ninja tools she found a single unused smoke bomb, if things got messy she could use it to kidnap Damon and get out before anyone spotted her.
Temple of Topaz: Examination in Progress
Having been organised into two rows facing one another, the examination was to begin. All being given staffs they were then addressed by the High Magi “those on the left, attack those on the right with your mightiest spells! Those on the right, defend those spells with mighty shields!” among the rows of students, Mark was to attack the defending Jessica, Amanda was to attack the defending Mandi and Ami got one of the students to defend against. Their ways of attacking and defending were free for all as long as they were used in the correct fashion.
Jessica, seeing her opponent immediately began to shake; Mark was by far the best Black Mage in the school, even among the higher order of Magi he was on par, while she was a Red Mage with no outstanding qualities. Mark could easily destroy her...
Amanda, being placed to attack Mandi knew her attacks were unique among the Magi branches, consisting of magic produced by the environment. However, Mandi was a very powerful White Mage; it would be far from an easy battle. This was quickly shown when Amanda launched a blast at wind which was practically brushed aside by Mandi’s reflect spell, flying into the ceiling. Amanda expected nothing less from such a powerful White Mage but was nonetheless worried that she wouldn’t be able to lay a finger on her.
Ami, stood before her attacker was to defend his spells, watching the nervous pupil having issues with hitting a girl let off a below-par fire spell, not even having the power to reach Ami. Sighing very openly at this she uttered a single word under her breath “stop” immediately her opponent was frozen to the spot, capable of little more than breathing. She thought her skills were up for better examination than this.
Mark, more than prepared for the examination closed his book and put it under his robes “I assume you’re ready? Relax! I’ll go easy on you” Jessica, while quite relieved he wouldn’t use his more powerful spells, still didn’t feel right to ‘cheat’ the exam. Slightly smiling she nodded and readied her staff. Mark used a simple fire spell, arrow shaped and deadly fast. At Mark’s level however it was many times stronger than anything that could be mustered by the other mages, Jessica countered with her own fire spell which, while obviously outmatched she managed to divert it’s direction to avoid her. Passable at least, even if a poor display of power.
As the students were about to finish for their results an explosion erupted from the ceiling, an out of control spell perhaps?
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And there’s chapter 1 finished, feel free to comment ^^ who will win between Damon and Kylie? Or will Vikki intervene to stop the mysterious ‘change’? And what was the explosion caused by? Was it truly a magical mishap? Or perhaps something else? Find out next time
Loving it so far. I think it's going to turn out even better than your first one. Can't wait for chapter 2. 
Nice job, Damon, it's a good read. Has a bit of a Hogwarts feel, with the Knights' school thrown in the mix.
), I don't want to be a good guy for a change. 
Bastard. I'll be talking to him about that. HIS GLASSES ARE JUST TO MAKE HIM LOOK SMART.
I can tell already... xDDDD
once my internet wants to work with lappy i'll have the next chapter up
Especially with the inclusion of Zardan and Kelly, who/whatever they may be. Keep it up!