The Warlock Chronicles.

This the First chapter of my story

The Warlock Chronicles

Book 1: The Start of a war.

By Will C. De Man

prologue

Adriye 53^rd king of Arknen launched himself at the Wyrm. Dark Wizards known as Golem had brought to life a Demon of Shadow. This Giant serpentine creature from the darkest part of Hell was known as Wyrm. In the native tongue of Arknen Wyrm means 'Living Death.' Some of Adriye's greatest Warlocks had been killed by the 'living death.' Ethan the scourge killer, Argus Shadowdeath, and Snark Druidkiller. A quarter of the land had been contaminated by the Wyrm's wrath. Crops of rice, wheat, and barley poisoned. Water un-drinkable. Thousands dead. Wyrm was the scourge of the land. Wyrm was raised by Golem from the only physical entrance to the land of Death, Doom, Despair and Destruction, The four Demon sons of Wyrm. All who entered this land never returned.

Adriye was locked in battle with Wyrm. Adriye was king of Arknen. It was his duty to protect the land that had been entrusted to him by his subjects. He had slain countless Druid, cat-like pets of all demon, Golem, trolls, demons, Wyrm crone, and goblin. He may not be a Warlock but he could fight with the best of them. His vicious defense Arknen was fueled by the anger of from the death of his general Argus Shadowdeath. He would kill Wyrm if he lost his own life. This was the 5^th time he had met Wyrm in battle. They both bore the scares. For Adriye, It was his left ear, a gash in his side, several fingers and toes, and countless cuts and bruises. For Wyrm, it was severed horns, the end of his tail missing and its right eye. The only reason that Adriye had gotten this far was because he had the blessing of Nike.

Adriye and Wyrm grappled with each other they had fought for hours. They had killed countless others in there melee.

Adriye thrust up to Wyrm's under belly. The thick plates held and sent Adriye's sword flying. Wyrm flicked the remains of his tail and caught the back of Adriye breastplate.

Adriye managed to snag a spear and thrust it into the Wyrm's neck. And With that Wyrm, scourge of the land died.

Unfortunately no mortal blade could kill him.

Chapter 1: The Sign of Impending Doom.

“So a duel then?” Valk asked Gretch. Since day one they had been arguing which was better. A sword or a wand. Both were training to be magicians. Valk was training to be a warlock and Gretch was training to be a Master of Magic. Gretch's sister Adalah was training to be a Magikus. Gretch was completely convinced that a wand is the best possible weapon you could have. Valk thought that a sword was mightier than a wand. Finally he had challenged her to a duel.

“Fine, what is the dueling ground for Warlock Vs. M.o.M?”

“10 yards 2in, two weapons, all spells aloud,” Valk said.

Okay a few are gonna be explained. First off, different types of magician and how people are sorted into them. There are more then 50 types of magician. Each has a symbol, and a specialty magic.

Warlock's symbol is the lightning bolt, and its specialty magic is combat magic. Warlocks train for 12 years starting when they're six. They learn how to fight with and without magic. They also have to learn by experience how to battle 10 magical beasts to pass their grade. They must learn learn the dueling grounds for different types of magicians. There are more then 2500 of these combinations.

A Master of Magic is always a female. There can only be 13 of these at a time and they can't come from the same country. Their symbol is the grain of rice. Rice is a magical restorer. They have to be proficient in all types of magic and train for 18 years. They start 6 months after they're born. The only reason they can do this is because they are extremely smart even as a newborn. Gretch could read when she was 3 months old and was able to do long division.

A Magikus is a trainer of magical creatures. Their symbol is the Wolf.

Their specialty magic is green. In order to pass their grade they must be able to speak Dragonese, Wolvish, Scrall, and Gnomish. they train for 12 years as well.

You're sorted into what you train at birth. If you are born with one of the symbols of one of the groups on your hand then you train for that group.

Also the heroes of our story are royalty. Yup. Gretch and Adalah are the daughters of the king and Valk is the son of one of the King's sons. So Gretch and Adalah are Valk's aunts even though they're the same age. This is kinda weird for Valk. Their personalities couldn't be more different. Gretch is smart and resourceful but not too athletic. She has a high respect for rules and is the most studious of the trio.

Valk is also smart and resourceful but he is extremely athletic, has little to no respect for rules, is always in trouble and has no respect for the English language, using slang at any chance he can.

Adalah was the peace keeper between them. If it weren't for her, they would have killed each other already. Adalah was a quiet girl. She spent the time that she wasn't training reading and drawing. Her room was strewn with papers. She was a natural Magikus. She could could calm a raging hydra, stop a kraken from attacking a ship, or straddle a completely wild griffin.

Valk sectioned off the the battleground and got into his starting position.

Gretch put an un-fragmenting spell on her glasses and took up her starting position.

“You ready to get yo heiny kicked?” Valk asked Gretch

“It is 'your' and you are one to talk,” she retorted.

“Guys, what would me and Gretch's father say?” Adalah said.

“He'd say that a duel is the right thing ta do, and that Gretch should book a room in da infirmary.” Valk said.

“Your going to pay for that! Nisugini,” she said firing off the disarming spell.

“So ya wanna play hard do ya?” Valk said dodging her spell “Sakalas!”

A falcon exploded out of his sword. Gretch shot a petrifying spell at it. But while she was distracted, Valk had used the leaping charm to leap into the air and was bringing his sword down on Gretch. She looked up just in time to see him and yelled: “Rikosetes!” the rebound charm. Valk was blasted backwards . He landed with a thump on the ground.

Gretch bore down on him. she stood next to him and was about to say that she had won when Valk leaped up and swiped at her legs with his sword.

“Nusaklteeamase!” he shouted his sword shifting to samurai sword. He had just used the offense spell to make his weapon more powerful.

“Gynoby!” Gretch shot the defense charm churning the sword back to what it had been.

“Akmenese!” Gretch yelled the petrifying charm.

“Avinas!” Valk shouted, a ram bursting out of his wand.

“Uzsaldity Tiek!” Adalah shouted freezing them mid-spell. Literally she froze them. She had used the double freeze spell.

“Atitirpyti Tiek!” she unfroze them.

“Look,” she said pointing to the sky. A word shimmered in the air.

Wyrm

Adalah, Gretch, and Valk stared at the sky. Valk was the first to speak.

“Teryaki Aardvarks, does that say what I think it says?”

“Yup,” gulped Adalah. “Wyrm. Destroyer of worlds, Bane of Arknen, scourge of the land, Keeper of the gate of Alothnin...”

“Otherwise known as the killer of the age of Adriye, murderer of Ethan the scourge killer, and...” said Gretch.

“Death in a can.” said Valk. Gretch glared at him.

“What?” said Valk “Its true!”

“Gretch, we need to tell dad,” said Adalah.

“Definitely.” said Gretch.

“Well dudes, you can do that or we could just go kill the Wyrm, before it can do any thing.” Valk said.

“Valk! What are you thinking! We could die!” said Adalah.

“Well a Warlock, Master of Magic, and Magikus killed it before,” he said.

“But they were fully trained,” said Gretch, “I'm going to teleport us to the palace right now so that Valk does not talk us into his plan, Gretia Judetai!”

Next thing you know they were sitting in the king's court.

“Yo, King, Dude, man, guy, person, Giant Wyrm 'bout to attack yo kingdom, man,” Valk shouted.

The king looked up from his book.

“What did you say Valk?” he asked. Gretch answered instead of Valk.

“What my nephew was so eloquently trying to say was that we have an ensuing war on our hands.” she said.

“Don't make me laugh daughter, why would we have a war?”

“Da Wyrm thingy is back, and he's not happy, dude.” Valk.

“Valk, I thought that warlocks were a serious bunch, don't make so many jokes.” the king said.

“Seriously Man, da Wyrm's gonna total yo kingdom!” Valk said.

“Valk, would you please shut up? Your disrespect for the English language is giving me a migraine,” said Gretch rubbing her temples.

“Whatev',” said Valk.

“Father, what would it take for you to believe us?” said Adalah.

“I'd have to see the Wyrm with my own eyes.” said the king blandly.

“Dude, you serious?” said Valk, “In that case then you give us permission to go slice it up into tiny pieces, and bring it back to you?”

“Sure, why not.”

“Duuuuuuuuddddddddeeeeeeee!!!!!!!” said Valk, “I'm gonna go get ready!” Valk ran off to his room.

“Adalah, Gretch, I think you should go with him.”

“But father, he is a lunatic. He is insane. All he does is fight and his slang will give me a migraine!” Protested Gretch.

“Okay, father.” said Adalah. She went off to get ready too.

“Gretch, I'm not going to make you, but Valk by himself in the wilderness with only Adalah to help him? Do you really think thats a good idea?”

“No, probably not.”

“Then go with them.”

“Fine, but if I come back loopy, its Valk's fault.” Gretch sighed. She went to her room.

“Whats the challenge today?” Valk said as he opened the door to his room. His Warlock master had enchanted Valk's room so that it only opened if he completed a challenge. These ranged from logic puzzles to demon hamburgers. Once he had even had to battle a minotaur.

He opened the door and looked in. There were a bunch of falcons. One had a key. The key to his room.

Typical, he thought.

“Sakalas Asmuo!” he said turning himself into a falcon. He was the only person in the world who could do this. He had been born on the day of, in the month of, and in the year of the Falcon. This had granted him special falcon powers.

He soared into the air and shot after the other falcon. But he didn't expect what happened next. The other falcon attacked him. But he was not surprised for long. He sunk his talons into a falcon wing and hurled it at a group of other falcons.

“Akmenese Tiek!” he said freezing two falcon midair. He sunk his talons into the back the falcon with the key. The falcon squawked and let go of the key. He dived and grabbed the key shoving it into the key hole seconds later. He swooped into the room and turned back into a human.

When Valk said he was going to get ready, he did not mean taking a shower, looking at maps, and putting together provisions. He meant packing an arsenal of sharp objects, practicing potentially life-threatening spells, and putting on battle gear.

He put on his kimono and pulled up his cowl. He slotted his sword into the scabbard on his back.

“Lets blow this Popsicle stand.” he said and leaped out the window. He twisted in mid air, unsheathed talons, and caught onto the wall. He scaled the tower in a couple minutes. He leaped across commons, and leaped onto another wall. He climbed up it swiftly and silently. When he reached the roof he ran across it and jumped to another building. The girl's dorm.

He climbed down the wall and peeked into a window. Gretch was poring over maps and documents.

“'Sup dude.” he said.

“Valk! This is the girl's dormitory!”

“So what, I'm not in it and how did you know it was me.

“Your the only one I know that would leap across the roofs wearing a black kimono and cowl.”

“Whatever dude, but I'm here because I want to know why yo comin' with me and Adalah?”

“Because Adalah is my sister and I don't trust you.” she said.

“Whatev' dude but I think that now that yo com'in we can have some real fun.”

“Whatever you say,Valk.”

“Later dude,”

“Meet you at the gate-”

“Valk out!” he said turning into a falcon and swooped off.

Adalah was down the kitchens securing them some provisions. She loaded them into a rucksack and headed the to stables. Gretch had told her to secure them a ride.

She had the perfect thing. She dropped the rucksack in front of the stables. She went in.

“Daodo,” She said “Eu non estuo aqui para machuci-lo.” she said to the unicorns. She backed them out of the stables to the gate. She saw Valk waiting there. He saw the unicorns.

“Come on Dude, couldn't you have gotten something more manly?”

“Would a black unicorn be okay?”

“Better then nottin',” he said with a shrug.

“Do not let him boss you around, Adalah,” Gretch said coming down the green.

“I gave him an option, Gretch,” she said.

“Okay, are you guys ready to go?” Gretch said.

“Dude, I was born ready,” Said Valk, “Let's blow this ice cream stand.”

“Ready.” said Adalah.

“Nunc Aut Numquam,” Gretch said.

“Translation?” asked Valk.

“Now or Never.” she said. They saddled up and rode into the woods.

Surprise! Gruff is the clue.