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Bandon looked at Xu and replied "Yes you have but why are you the living dead? And you must get equipt for the coming war that we must fight. First of all though, you must heal, go to the right wing and find Saw Bones, my healer, do not go in any of the rooms besides the medical room. Are you hungry though?" Bandon lifted his helmet off once again and revealed his horrid face. He then ripped a piece of chicken off and started eating it. How long must he wait?

"...War?!"
"Why is it Always WAR!"

Xu then Promptly marched down to the Healing Room, and then wondered how; before falling to the ground once more.

He got up, and went into the room...

Airien turned to Bandon when Xu left the room. "You can sense it as well? That feeling I have been here before yet it feels like it was so very long ago, before my time, which is stupid because that isn't possible. Yet I feel it all the same." She said

Hawke got up. "Wait a minute, War? Do we even know who we're fighting, or where they are, never mind whether we can with only about 8 people. It's ridiculous!" He said angrily.



Optimarus sat, thinking. He had a suspiscion that one of his mages was a spy. He wondered...Well, there was a test.
"Guard! Bring Xenos in here." The guards bowed, and hastened to obey.
Xenos was a thin, nervous looking man, but was a surprisingly powerful mage.
"Yes, lord? You sent for me?" He asked.
Optimarus smiled. "Yes...come with me. You!" He addressed his guards. "Accompany us to the mountain."
Optimarus and Xenos, with the guards, began to climb a long staircase of stone steps carved inot the side of the mountain not far from Optimarus underground fortress.

"I know because I have a spy in the enemies court and also I was dissecting an assassin alive and he told me much. Besides my men even though there is few of them are the elite of the elite. They will serve us well. Now I hope everyone is ready? Tulak cannot stay sleeping forever." Bandon replied while eating. He did not need to eat but he found out that people seem to trust a living creature and not a dead one so it was for cosmetic reasons.

Around Corbep, a dark cloud was forming. It blotted out the stars and a fog of undeath covered the scene. Suddenyl the cloud shifted to reveal four gaps and one massive scar at the bottom. It took on the appearance of a colossal skull, and there was a star in each eye socket. As if by necromantic energies, the cloud skull started laughing and Lightning flashed from its eyes, crashing into the homes of corbep and even outside the city nothing was safe. Lightning bolts of incredible proportion screamed like a tortured banshee as they ripped the skies asunder.

The cloudskull gave a tremendous roar and out came a truly massive bolt of pure light. It was Izath the Executor, with Salvanar riding on his back. The monstrous lightning elemental burst from his effigy of evil and roared like a rogue star across the skies. Salvanar was impressed. "A great ploy, Izath! They never suspected us! We're going to escape them this time!" Izath nodded. "Maybe you should continue your training for other elementals elsewhere." He said. Salvanar agreed with him, and Izath once again thundered across the landscape, his trajectory as erractic and uncontrolled as lightning hitting the earth.

Salvanar wasn't one to waste time. "We must make haste to Bandon's Fortress! Now that he is more or less on our side, we need to make him feel part of the team, as it were." Izath looked at the ground, and then back to Salvanar. "Agreed, we should be at the fortress in an hour at most, a few minutes at the least." He said. "Let lightning roar!" Izath commanded as the laughing skull spat tremendous energy orbs in defence of the escaping pair.

Toro and Koroa had arrived and were wondering around the fortress. The rooms and corridors were big enough for the graceful Koroa, despite being a large creature, though small for her species. Then they heard one word....
war...

Cibhi was sat down.He didn't take the food,or the healing,even with an arrow wound on his shoulder.He felt cold inside.War.Again.And his people wanted to capture him,put him under lock and key.He could already see the flaw in their plan.If they kept him locked up until he was a father,how would he meet the woman he wanted to bear his children?He sighed.Someone was at the bottom of this,someone working for the Third Empire.He'd have to ask the Grand Vizier to be more watchful of spies if this ever got sorted out...
"So,when do we go?"He said.

Xu was sitting on Saw Bones' examination table while he was being healed. "You have multiple breaks in your left leg and you are starved. You need to eat but mostly you need to rest. I have done all I can with your leg and it should be fully healed in 3 hours. Get some food then sleep. " Saw Bones then turned to heal the assassin who got tortured by Bandon...
Bandon gave the call for his guests to have free access to all the rooms just in case they were curious on what was inside them. Mostly just relics of dark power and books of pure evil. He just hoped noone would touch the Necronomicon. He waited a little longer so everyone was ready and finished exploring.

Xu's leg was in Massive pain, after Saw Bones had "healed" it.

Xu, again, attempted to cast an energy ball into the air, out of a window, but it failed to travel far.

Xu sighed, and went to Bandon.

"Please, can you tell me which room is available?.."

"You choose oh not the one with the pentagram on the door. That is mine. And not the one with a white cross on it either. Other then that your choice." Bandon walked out of the throne room and went inside his grotto. He forgot that it was filled with undead, lava and otherworldly things. All well, he needed to rest....

It was going to be until tommorow (hopfully) until this "war". This was good though, as Koroa was starving....and tired, same with Toro and looking like almost everyone.
"So..." Toro said to Koroa. "Another day, another war." Koroa got the message, and were both fearing it. But unlike the last battles they had fought, this was different.
He felt no hope at all...
Toro found a room, to get settled in to. Luckily, this had no window in...just incase of the worst.

Hawke got up, and decided to find a room and sleep...he was so tired.
"Well..i'm off, people." He said wearily.
"Oh, me too...I'm tired after that trip here." Selena said, also getting up.
Selena chose a room that looked at least clean, with a window, and Hawke chose the one next to it, which was cold. He had slept in cold drafty rooms for most of his life, being a criminal, so it felt more familiar.

Xu wandered into a room, to be greeted by Koroa.

"Oh...Sorry" Xu backed away, and found an empty room. It was smallish, and had an empty bookshelf, and a small window, with torn curtains. He looked up at the glorious full moon, and sighed.

"Goodnight, Coralie..."
He then closed his eyes, and began to drift into sleep....

Lightning started flashing through the hallways, slowly at first, but speeding up. A sudden flash ensued, and the door of the fortress was smashed open. The beam of light settled to reveal Izath, who wasn't happy. "When I knock, will someone please open the door?" He shouted. Salvanar looked at him. "You call electrifying the hallway 'knocking'?" He asked. Izath laughed out, his voice rippling through the halls. "Well, I guess so!"

Salvanar dropped down and looked at the fortress. "Hi all" he said as Izath whipped his stormfront back into its usual shape.

Bandon looked up from meditating with anger in his eyes. He span round and went throught the magical door back to his fortress. He turned and marched down the halls intil he found Izath. "How dare you! This is my home! My sanctuary! You do any more damage to this old structure and so help me I will blast you into oblivion!" He turned to Salvanar and said in a kinder and softer tone "Do not let your pet do that again. Keep it on a leash or else. The guards do not take kindly to damages like that." He flicked his hands and a skeletal crew ran to the door and started fixing it. "Make sure you are properly equipt and is well rested. We leave tomorrow! Rooms are availiable if you need them. Good night." Bandon walked back to his grotto and went back to meditation...

Optimarus and Xenos reached the plateau on top of the mountain. On it, only visible when standing on the plateau, was a big dome-like stucture, with a large cylindrical apparatus sticking out at a roughly 60 degree angle. At 180 degrees to that was a much smaller tube, with a lense on it. Surrounding the plateau were walls of steel, and a skylight with glass was above their heads. But, somehow, it wasn't seeable when standing anywhere else on the island.
"Welcome...To the Observatory." Optimarus said.
Xenos said nothing, but his nervous fidgeting increased. People were scurrying around, several looking through the small lense.
"What...what is that?" He asked.
Optimarus smiled, though nobody could tell. "It's a telescope, allowing us to see the stars themselves. Go on...take a look through." He said.
Xenos walked, shaking slightly, up to the telescope, and looked through the lense. He suddenly shot back. "Oh, Empartheus save me!" He looked at Optimarus, but could discern no expression behind the golden mask.
"Uh...excuse me, I must go my lord!" Xenos cried, and tried to run past Optimarus down the steps.
"I don't think so..." Optimarus said viciously, shoving Xenos back. It looked like only a light push, but Xenos flew back, and was only saved from hitting the steel walls by collapsing onto somebody else. He looked up, and shot a bolt of lightning from his fist, while chanting. A ring of light formed around his other hand.
The lightning flew into Optimarus, and had no effect whatsoever. Xenos lifted his hand, cried a word, and the ring of light expanded to fill the Observatory.
It was incredibly searing hot, but instead of frying everybody, Optimarus lifted his fist, and it all flowed towards it. It slowly turned black, and the Golden Mask let fly. It blasted Xenos through the steel walls, and he fell down the mountain. By the time he reached the bottom, the magic had eaten away all but his skeleton.
Optimarus wondered if he had been a spy. Maybe, maybe not. To be honest, now, it didn't much matter.

When most had gone, Airien stayed in the main hall, examining things, she seemed to remember most of it, somethings were obviously far newer but she still couldn't work out why she remembered these things when she couldn't ever remember being here, in her lifetime anyway... Thats what worried Airien...

The night was cold in the mountains, a hooded figure stood watching storm clouds gather around the fortress of the being known as Bandon. The hooded figure knew what was happening... Everything was going as it should be, the group was gathering, the Golden Mask was discovering spies in his ranks... Soon, things would come to a head. That was good, that went according to the plan... The Deva were still uniterested I everything that was going on... Times were changing, Grenendia would never be the same, again...

It was half way into the night and Bandon walked back to the main hall. He saw Airien looking at his relics and so he walked closer. "I see that you like my relics? Well be careful, most of these are from the era when they tried something called clockwork. It failed and I hope you do not mind me revealing my face do you? This is from the clockwork incident." Before she had chance to reply Bandon pulled off his helmet and showed her his groutesque face. He walked over to the throne and sat down. "You do know that you can make yourself at home? You do not need to stay in here." Bandon was watching Airien and seeing what she would do...

Airien forced herself not shudder at the grotesque appearance. "Hmm, pretty." She said in a tone of voice that that wasn't actually her opinion. "It is strange that I should remember all of this from so long ago. So long ago that it was quite well before my time. It could just be the atmosphere."

"Actually I lied. My face is actually the product of many battles, that incident and the decay of thousands of years. Now I think you need rest. Pick a room, any room. Do not touch anything that looks evil though. Bad consequences will become of it." Bandon was still eyeing Airien with his only good eye with interest. He feels like he knows her from many decades ago...

"Lovely..." Airien said in the same tone. She then changed her tone. "Any room?"

"What do you mean?" Bandon said fairly suprised. He was thinking about something. "What room did you have in mind?" Bandon leaned forwards on his throne and put his helmet back on. His eyes started to glow red again instead of being their natural colour...

"Hmm, just wondering." She replied. She turned and headed off up a stairwell. She remembered some where here, for reasons she didn't know. She headed upwards mainly, coming across, more corridors that just got dustier and dustier. She then reached somewhere near the top...
The door was locked, it appeared to have been locked for a long time as well. Airien then remembered something that had never happened to her. She put her hands on the door in quite specific spots and pushed slightly and the door immediately opened, the magical locks, unlocking themselves as she pushed. Inside was quite a luxurious room, crimson drapings and carpets, a large king sized bed, crimson as well, windows with ceiling to floor length crimson curtains, an ensuite bathroom, quite a large bath was in it, inset into the floor. Airien remembered this all from before, though from long before she had been born. She got the feeling that she had returned to somewhere she had not been for a very long time...

Xu awoke from his sleep, due to a low grumbling sound.
He got out of bed, and wandered the corridors looking for the noise. He then saw Airien opening a door, this must of been the noise.
"Hey..."