“Have you found anything?” The Black Baron shouted out to his comrades of the black knight unit, ‘Black Steel’ as they started to gather in the blackened woods once more.
One of the armored nights shook his head. “Sorry Captain Koan! We have been unable to find the Mistress’ target.”
“DAMN!” Captain Koan cursed his luck as he and his men continued to lack luck in finding their target. “Mistress Ekana is going to have our heads on pikes if we don’t bring him back!” Not that he didn’t mind when his mistress was an evil sadistic bitch, after all he liked it when she played rough. But there was a difference between ‘playing rough’ and outright murder.
“We should continue searching, sire!” One of the black knights shouted to get the attention of their commander. “We can keep it up if we have to. He has to be here! Thanks to the Mistress Ekana’s Magics, this realm becomes something of a prison maze for those not of the darkness.”
“Only for those born of Ja’an...” Captain Koan stated. “It might have some effect on him, but I don’t doubt that if he tries hard enough, that he will break free and leave this place.”
“What do we do then?” Another of the Black Steel knights shouted. “If he makes it to Ja’an, he’ll be out of the Mistress’ reach!”
Considering that, Captain Koan knew that even if the pigtailed boy managed to leave, he would come back to them. There was no way he’d leave that little girl that looked so much like his gloriously despicable Mistress Ekana.
Still, he knew that the Mistress wouldn’t forgive them for loosing the boy. They had to find him! Looking out to his men, he shouted, “We have no choice. Who is carrying the golden flute?”
One of the knights of the Black Steel suddenly sat up on his horse. “But, sir! We can only summon it another three times. Mistress Ekana said to use this only when necessary!”
“And this IS necessary!” Captain Koan shouted. “At this point, the damned boy might have gotten out of the realm of Na’aj and into Ja’an, where we can’t follow! No, we need the creature which CAN go back and forth between the realms.” He looked towards the shoulder. “SUMMON IT!”
Nodding his head, the Black Steel knight KNEW this was a bad idea. Mistress Ekana might punish them even worse for wasting a ‘use’ of a powerful creature which was limited in how many more times they could call it. ‘Maybe if I tell her the Black Baron forced me, she won’t cut my balls off’, the knight considered as he reached into a black leather pouch on the side of his horse’s saddle.
Slowly, the knight took a long flute made of carefully crafted solid gold out of the pouch. Lifting up the visor of his helmet with his free hand, the knight of the Black Steel then brought one end of the gold flute to his lips. With fingers of both hands taking hold, he began to play...
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Slowly, the slumbering creature opened an eye as its ear was tickled by the faint musical sounds that seemed to call out to it... so, it was time again, was it?
Getting up from straw on the floor of its gave it was using as the bed, the creature moved its body, working the stiffness out from it’s musculature. Satisfied with it’s limberness after a few minutes, the creature then took off from its home like a shock, moving quickly as it followed the sounds of the flute, moving quickly through the forest, past darkened tree after darkened tree.
Finally, it reached the opening, causing the men to rear their horses back to give it some room. It appreciated the fear these creatures radiated in its presence.
When the music stopped playing, a deep voice rumbled forth from the summon beast.
“Now five times you call me here, before those filled with mortal fear. You may call me so only twice more, and then you shall call nevermore.”
The creature them looked right towards Koan, causing the Black Baron to shiver in unease. Damn it, he knew they had no choice, but he hated summoning...
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