Magnamund Tales #1: Flight to Holmgard
by PJ
 
Based on characters and the world of Magnamund created by Joe Dever.

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    Alyss waited by the side of the road, flicking blades of grass with her small feet.  The young
girl sighed to herself, then gazed north, her face creased with impatience.
 
    The elemental's pretty face brightened when she heard boots pounding towards her.  Close to
the boot falls were the howls of Doomwolves, their harsh cries echoing in the woods surrounding
Alyss.  The girl crossed her bare arms behind her back, tilting back and forth on the heels of her feet.
 
    The owners of the boots came into view, two young Kai warriors dressed in their order's
traditional green tunics and cloaks.  The first Kai was a boy, roughly seventeen years old, with short
black hair that was plastered wetly to his head at the moment.  The boy's blue eyes were wide with
fear, but wary as well.  He held a well-cared for broadsword in his right gloved hand, a sword etched
with runes of power.  Behind the boy ran a girl, about sixteen, with flaming red hair that dangled
behind her in a braid.  The girl was shorter than the boy, slender and delicate.  She wielded a long
quarter staff in both hands, the weapon inscribed with runes from tip to tip.
 
    The boy raised his sword when he spotted Alyss waiting by the side of the road.
 
    "I mean you no harm," smiled Alyss warmly, raising her palms.  "I can help you with the
Giaks."
 
    "There are too many!  Run!" advised the boy, resuming his flight down the road.  Alyss
turned to regard the approaching Doomwolves, their snarls sharp and filled with blood-lust.
 
    "I can't help you unless you fight them!" called out Alyss toward the Kai warriors' retreating
backs.
 
    The girl stopped, she spun to face the charging Doomwolves.  The Kai's staff crackled with
blue energy, then spat out a tongue of lightning that instantly killed the leading Doomwolf, his flesh
blackened and smoking, the stench of his burnt fur fouling the air.
 
    "Storm Dancer!" cried out the boy, quickly rejoining his companion's side.
 
    The young Kai sliced open the Giak that had ridden the now dead Doomwolf. The Giak
screamed in agony, foul blood splashing over the boy's tunic and face.  Four more Doomwolves with
riders appeared, racing to tear the Kai apart.  Alyss stood behind the sweating warriors, smiling
optimistically.
 
    Storm Dancer smashed the tip of her staff into a Giak's head, smashing it into pulp.  The boy
hacked off a Doomwolf's head, then turned the blow into an upper-cut that laid the rider's innards
open to the air.  The girl punched her staff through a Doomwolf's skull, its brains gushing out to
stain her leather boots.  A Giak raised a short bow and fired, the black shaft thudding into the boy's
chest.  Storm Dancer leveled her staff at the archer, casting another lightning bolt that blasted the
Giak's torso apart.  Frightened by the death of its rider, the Doomwolf mount turned tail and fled
back into the woods.  One Giak and Doomwolf remained, the Giak smiling wickedly as he urged his
mount forward, a serrated sword pointing towards Storm Dancer's heart.
 
    "Run!  Forget about me!" groaned the boy, clutching the shaft buried in his heaving chest.
 
    "I won't leave you, True Blade!" retorted Storm Dancer with a shake of her head.
 
    "Use your magic again," advised Alyss from behind the girl.
 
    "I..I can't, I don't have the strength," admitted the girl, her staff the only thing keeping her
upright while the Giak and wolf padded closer.
 
    "I will lend you some of mine, Kai," said Alyss, moving close to Storm Dancer, placing her
hands on the trembling girl's shoulders.
 
    Storm Dancer stiffened when Alyss poured pure magic into the girl's body. The Kai's eyes
smoldered with jade fire, her staff burned with the light of a star.  The Giak cried out in pain,
shielding his blinded eyes.  Storm Dancer lowered the tip of her staff and cast a lightning bolt.  The
crack of thunder shook the road and made the surrounding trees quiver violently.  Blue electricity
coursed across the unfortunate Giak and the Doomwolf, melting them where they stood.  Storm
Dancer gazed down in amazement, stunned by the sheer destructive power of her spell.  She grasped
the hem of her cloak and covered her face when the reek of burnt flesh and fur hit her.
 
    "Let's get True Blade away from this stench," suggested Alyss, helping the wounded Kai to
his feet.
 
    Storm Dancer took True Blade's other arm, lending him her strength as all three companions
walked a short distance south along the road until the smell of battle was behind them.
 
    "I know a safe place where he can rest," offered Alyss, guiding True Blade off the road
towards a cluttered hunting trail.
 
    "We have to keep going towards Holmgard!  We have an urgent message for the King!"
argued Storm Dancer, tugging back on True Blade's arm.
 
    "The bridge over the River Uneram is guarded by monsters, True Blade will never make it
with that arrow in his chest," pointed out Alyss.
 
    "Let me rest for a few hours, Dancer," grunted True Blade through a sheen of sweat.  "I can
Heal myself."
 
    Storm Dancer regarded True Blade for a moment, her young face softening.
 
    "Very well, I suppose we could rest for a short while."
 
    Alyss held True Blade's hand and led him into the thick trees, with Storm Dancer close
behind them.  The trio walked a short way, then entered a small glade with a tiny stream that
gurgled south to join the River Uneram.  Alyss helped True Blade sit close to the stream so he could
quench his thirst and wash the stains of battle from his face.  After washing, the Kai grasped the
arrow jutting from his chest and yanked it out with a grimace of pain.  Alyss knelt next to True
Blade and placed her small hand over his.  True Blade looked at the girl with a curious expression.
 
    "Use your Healing," said Alyss.
 
    True Blade narrowed his eyes, focusing his will to invoke his Kai Healing skill.  Alyss
pursed her soft lips, transferring some of her magic to the boy.  True Blade's hand glowed with a
warm, golden light as he held it over his wound, the healing magic closing his flesh and infusing it
with new strength.
 
    Alyss took her hand away when the Healing was complete.  True Blade reluctantly allowed
her to remove it.
 
    "Who are you?" inquired Storm Dancer from further upstream, water drops still glistening
on her chin.
 
    "My name is Alyss."
 
    "You're not..human, are you?" murmured True Blade hesitantly.
 
    "No, I'm not," admitted Alyss.
 
    "Then what are..?"
 
    "Thank you for aiding us, Alyss.  We couldn't have escaped the Doomwolves without you,"
said True Blade, flashing Storm Dancer a warning glance.
 
    Storm Dancer snapped her mouth shut and concentrated on the running stream in front of
her.
 
    "I'm going to patrol the woods," announced the Kai girl, shooting abruptly to her feet and
disappearing into the trees.
 
    Dusk turned into full night.  True Blade crossed the glade, sat at the base of a tree, and
reached into his pack to retrieve some bread and cloth-wrapped cheese.  The young Kai split the
small loaf in half and offered Alyss a piece.
 
    "I really don't require food," commented Alyss, sitting in front of True Blade and accepting
the bread.  "But I do enjoy it."
 
    True Blade grinned, biting deeply into his own loaf.  The elemental and the Kai ate in
silence.  True Blade drank from his water bottle, then offered the container to Alyss.  The girl
drained the bottle before walking to the stream to re-fill it for True Blade. Alyss rejoined the resting
boy and gave him back his water bottle.  True Blade nodded in thanks, replacing the bottle inside his
pack, then resting the pack next to him against the rough tree trunk.
 
    "Why were you waiting next to the road?  Were you waiting for us?"
 
    "Very perceptive," complimented Alyss.  "Yes, I was."
 
    "Why?"
 
    "I..do favors for Kai sometimes," shrugged the girl.
 
    "Kai?  My god?"
 
    "Yes," nodded Alyss.
 
    "Is our mission that important?"
 
    "It is crucial to the survival of Sommerlund," said Alyss gravely.  "If you do not warn the
King, Sommerlund will fall to Kekataag, and the armies of the Darklord will march across
Magnamund, laying waste to everything until this planet is overwhelmed with Darkness and the
Balance finally shifts in favor of Naar."
 
    "I..I had no idea," stammered True Blade, his face filled with horror.
 
    "You will succeed, young Kai," smiled Alyss, caressing True Blade's cheek tenderly.
 
    "You're just as young as me, younger," grinned True Blade.
 
    "This is just a shell that I use when I'm in your world, I'm really much, much older," smiled
Alyss softly.
 
    "So it's alright if I do this," replied True Blade as he leaned forward to kiss Alyss' pink lips.
 
    "This isn't a good idea," observed Alyss, slowly backing away from the hot-blooded Kai.
 
    "When you helped me Heal, we formed a bond, I can feel you..here," said True Blade,
placing his right palm over Alyss' heart.   
 
    "True Blade..," murmured Alyss, lowering her bright eyes.
 
    The young Kai ran his left hand over Alyss' head, kissing her a second time, a long, intense
kiss.  Alyss knew she should pull away, but she didn't, she returned the boy's passion, opened her
mouth so he could flick his tongue over hers.  True Blade gently pushed Alyss onto the soft grass,
removed the girl's simple green tunic.  The boy lowered his body over Alyss', devoured her lips
while he fondled her small breasts.  Alyss moaned inside True Blade's mouth, her tits aching
deliciously, her nipples flaring when the boy stroked and teased them with his fingers.  True Blade
caressed Alyss' face as he sucked on her breasts, his tongue flicking and stroking her golden, flushed
skin.  Alyss held onto True Blade's neck, panting loudly, her tongue sliding over her moist lips.
True Blade tasted those lips again, his right hand descending to the girl's crotch, slipping between
her slim thighs to fondle her bare pussy.  Alyss moaned from True Blade's touch, her arms tightened
around the boy's neck while he ran his palm up and down her cunt, stimulating her clit until it was
throbbing with need.
 
    Alyss rolled the young Kai onto his back.  Turning around on top of the boy until she faced
his crotch, Alyss opened his trousers and lowered her mouth onto his swelling cock.  True Blade
groaned when he felt Alyss slurp on his shaft, her tongue wet and agile as it slithered up and down
his pounding member.  Alyss lowered her ass onto True Blade's face, the boy didn't lose a beat as he
buried his mouth inside her moist pussy, driving his tongue up into her gleaming vagina.  The
elemental girl moaned around True Blade's cock, her lips stroking his engorged tool, her hands
gently squeezing the boy's firm balls.  True Blade ran his tongue up and down Alyss' cunt, he
nibbled on her clitoris, making her shiver in bliss.  Alyss sucked on the head of True Blade's prick,
licked it over and over with her tongue until it threatened to spew across her face.  Rubbing her left
cheek against the shuddering pole, Alyss changed position again, arranging herself with her pussy
over True Blade's thick shaft.
 
    The young Kai sat up, entwined his strong arms around the naked girl's thin waist.  True
Blade thrust forward at the same time as Alyss, their crotches crashing together, the boy's cock
ramming sharply into the girl's yielding slit.  Alyss moaned deeply, experiencing sensual pleasure
that she hadn't felt in over a century.  The elemental girl leaned her body against True Blade's, his
skin hot and beaded with sweat, his muscles caressing her as his flat belly pressed against hers.  True
Blade thrust into Alyss over and over, his mouth sucking her bobbing left breast, his right hand
squeezing and fondling her pert ass.  Alyss hugged True Blade's neck, she arched her back, pushing
her cunt onto the boy's stabbing meat, ecstasy overwhelming her senses. 
 
    True Blade pushed faster and faster, his cock bulging, his breath hot against Alyss' graceful
neck.  Alyss slid her fingers into True Blade's short, raven hair, embracing him, sucking hungrily on
his lips.  The orgasm made Alyss' vision blur, golden stars floated around the girl's head while a
white-hot flame licked up her vagina into her quivering stomach.  Alyss felt True Blade's seed
splash inside her, filling her vagina, coating the walls of her fuck hole with thick, warm stickiness.
 
    True Blade held Alyss for a time, his breath slowing, his hands stroking the girl's smooth,
creamy back.  He nuzzled Alyss' small nose, then kissed her affectionately on the mouth.
Reluctantly, Alyss climbed off of True Blade and slid her tunic back on.  Storm Dancer entered the
clearing, her sharp, green eyes switching from the perspiring Alyss to the prone True Blade who was
busy adjusting his pants.
 
    "We should head for the bridge now," said Storm Dancer in a cold voice. She left the glade,
marching in the direction of the road.
 
    Standing up with a guilty expression, True Blade followed his fellow Kai into the trees.
Alyss sighed to herself, moving silently into the wood after her young Kai charges.
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