[Sakura]

Entry 8

I was heading to leilong when I was approched by a young woman. She seemed frantic and worried. When she spotted me she talked really fast, something about a letter... before I knew it she had slipped a note into my hand and ran off. The note simply said "Point Harbor"

Alex and Elixir came running up from Fort Llast, I told them what had happend. We agreed to go to Point Harbor to see what was going on. On getting to the Docks we were approched by the Captain of the ship, he was upset that he had gotten pickles instead of his order. We agreed to board his ship and help him eat the pickles.

Elixir helped himself to many pickles, Alex felt sick after he had eaten a few. I tryed to stay away from them... they smelled awful. I helped by cleaning up the pickles, the ship rocked and swayed.. and the sea was choppy the pickles kept flying over board. The Captain talked about Ghost pirate sea monsters, and how we should be ready for anything. He porptly attacked Alex, who defended. My note grew hot and when I read it said that people know of my powers and they will try anything to get it.The captain seemed like he was up to something but, I could not understand what he was up to.

When we got to Point Harbor there was a old woman that seemed like she didn't really like us. She called Alex a begger.. and totterd off. As we moved along we heard a scream, we thought that it came from the merchants area. But when we got there Ashley said that she hadn't heard anything.

We went back to the docks to investigate, over near were we were there was the old woman splatterd accross the wall. Over in the corner stood a young woman, she seemed shaken. she stutterd about a red flash and ran off. Ashley said that she had to attend to the bugbears and left us to try to figure out what was going on. We then went to the door she ran to and asked if we could talk to her, she slowly opened the door. She told us that she saw a red flash that it kind of looked like a sword, before she could tell us anymore there was a unsettleing wind and a red flash as she fell to the ground dead.

It was unsettling to see someone die like that. I looked away, as I did I saw two Gnomes picking up the old womans dead body. We asked them what they were doing, they said that they were Point Harbors Gnome clean up team. They blamed me for the womans death as they scampered off with the womans remains.

The note burned in my pocket, as I took it out it simply said duck. As I ducked a Elf appeared infront of us, his skin was black I had never seen any elf with dark skin. Alex and Elixir told me that he was what was called a Drow, I had never met a Drow before. He was cold and heartless as he told me that everwere I was going the poeple around me would die. He left us stuned, we seemed to drop into a void.

All around us there was nothing but darkenss. A few moments later the darkness faded to snow, endless snow.. we walked aways to be met by a Giant Creature. He tryed to tempt me to discover my powers the easy way if I signed a contract with him. I refused and said that I would do this my own way the right way. The snow faded into nothingness as the creature taunted us asking if we could fly. We dropped back on to the platform in the void...

The void became filled with snow again but this time it was diffrent, Elementals came at us and attacked it seemed that they would never end... as the last one fell the void changed into a pit of lava, we all belived that it was not real.. and the pain was not real.. it seemed so hot... Fire Elementals and other fire creatures came up from the fire and attacked we fought them off with fury.

We regouped near the center of the platform and teamed up to fight them, we seemed to reach the end of them as the void took shape into water all aound us.. fish swam around us and there were sharks in the distance. Water Elementals came up from the water and came at us fast and hard, they pounded us into the ground. It seemed like forever before the last of them dropped. The void changed again this time into a very earthy feel, Earth Elementals came up from the ground. They charged us surrounding us we fought hard to survive. It seemed that they just kept coming until the last, we fought hard to live.

The area cleared back into the void, and all the representing Elementals came forth. And a girl came out from the void, and told me that I had passed the test and I was now ready to be granted blessings from all the Elements of the weave. She told me that I had a deep bond with my sword and magic, she placed the ropes and I needed to tighten them. I took those words to heart.

The void was replaced by a teleporter when we stepped on the platform we were teleported back to Leilong like it was all a dream, but I feel stronger and my path in life has been chosen for me. My Weapon and my Magic are my life and I will do everything in with in my power to keep the weave, and my loved ones safe from harm.