Post by Koalingo Academy on Nov 11, 2011 17:24:16 GMT 10
"I have told you alot this evening that I wonder even at this moment as to whether I should have or not," the old man said as his emerald eyes watched pensively across the room to the young man crumpled in the armchair opposite his cluttered desk. "I would have you share with me now,"
The young man began to protest but the old man raised a slightly shaking hand to broke that broke no challege, "I dont ask it lighty, I know what it could mean to me and to all others if you share with me, that which you should not - but I must know, I feel I must,"
Jack moved in his chair uneasily, the material protested against the friction between it and the unknown material that comprised of his cloak. He looked up at the ancient wizard, into the eyes he had seen many times before, both from this man, and in the mirror.
He heaved a great sigh, "I knew this would happen, and I was admant I would not give into you," he said his eyes not straying from his Grandfather's face, "Everything I have told you so far is the truth, you are my Grandfather, and your son Godric is my father,"
Elwyn remained silent as he listened, prompting Jack to continue, "I am not from so far into the future as you might expect, my mother is already carrying my first form with her,"
"You could be barely twenty-five"
"Than you understand the urgency of my mission here," it wasnt a question. "Not too long from now, others will come,"
"Others?" Elwyn was immediately perplexed by the vague statement he expected.
"Others like you," the young man continued, "It was amazing at first, they looked so much like the others that only you and I were not fooled,"
"The others looked like which others?"
"I'm sorry, I dont know if I can"
"You said I wouldnt remember this conversation,"
"I did,"
"So?"
"Grandmother, Lord Ruberagon, Lady Ameraid," the likeness of them was uncanny.
"They-?"
"Dopplegangers... complete perfect copies,"
"A spell perhaps?"
"Perhaps, but one cast a very long time ago," Jack told him as his brow creased more and more with each passing breath, "But it was not they who used a spell to look like Grandmother, Rubeus, and Amberley, it was Grandmother, Rubeus, and Amberey who were spelled to look like them,"
"How is this possible?" Elwyn's back was rigid as he drew himself up in his chair, "It must have been very old magic, I saw their natural development-"
"There was nothing natural about their development, Grandmother, Lady Ameraid, and Lord Ruberagon were supposed to look like them, it was how they would know when it was time to return,"
"Return? What return? Who are these others?"
"The Eccnatiwa, thats the only names we ever got from them,"
Elwyn's complexion paled visibly as the word reached his ears, "That is not possible, all of the Eccnatiwa are dead," he sounded angry and a confused expression began to spread on Jack's face, "Long ago, their decendants live, of course, but the Eccnatiwa are no more,"
"You told me you didnt know what Eccnatiwa was?" it was almost an accusation,
"I cant imagine why," Elwyn, "Rubeus, Amberley, your Grandmother, and I are all that exist of that particular legacy,"
"You are-?"
"Yes, as close as it is possible to be, I would have been passed the entire Eccnatiwa legacy for the Emerindyl line if it were not destroyed when Astilon burned,"
"A legacy?"
"The lessons of the Taewhan, our Taewhan to their Eccnatiwa, I have told you this, there were eight, eight Eccnatiwa,"
"You havent mentioned the word before,"
"Perhaps not in my native tongue,"
"You have never spoken of a native language of Astilon,"
"Astilonian we called it, the ancient world called it Atlantean, but whatever you call it, the language is, and has always been known as Avanirkylin,"
"So the word means?"
"To put it simply; Apprentice"
"But the line of Apprentices ends with-"
"Your Grandmother, Rubeus, Amberly, and myself, the other four lines are deceased,"
Something passed through Jack's mind not quick enough to for Elwyn to miss it.
"Dont be tedious now, young man,"
"Just something one of them said, we always thought there might be others, so there were another four, we're having a hard enough time dealing with three," he said with a defeat staring back at him through his own eyes, "I just dont understand who they are though, they call themselves the Eccnatiwa but they cant be,"
"Well that isnt entirely true..." Elwyn said thinking as he spoke, "Remember the Gods? They called themselves the Taewhan in their language; the teachers who came to our world and taught us magic. "
"I still dont see the-"
"They taught my ancestors; the original eight Apprentices were named Eccnatiwa, the Taewhan taught that they were once Eccnatiwa but having outgrown their own teachers, they were now teachers themselves,"
"But that would mean that these were..."
"It seems they are, the teachers have returned to visit their students - but why?"
"From my point of view, to destroy us,"
"They appeared around my twenty-third birthday the first time. I knew there was something odd when I laid eyes on Grandmother standing outside looking into the house. I was in your kitchen stealing some of the cake she'd cooked herself. She never agreed with how mother always made my cake with magic. It was a sore point between the two of them for every one of my twenty-two prior birthday's and to save it from being a hassle this year I had subtly manipulated them both into the point of offering to let the other do it, and then I promptly pushed Grandmother into accepting at mother's first ingenuine but polite refusal for her to be allowed. I remember Grandmother had spent a great deal of time in the kitchen, the smell of the cake baking was amazing, and even now while it cooled waiting for icing the smell was thick in the air. And I was just a tad impatient."
"I snuck into the kitchen, I knew Grandmother was out feeding the animals. And when I reached to break a peice from the cake and looked up to see her face staring through the window at me my heart almost leapt from my chest. My wife who -"
"You were married at twenty-two?" Elwyn interrupted,
"You were younger, when you married, Grandfather,"
"It was a different time,"
"It was a different millenia, and my time is different to now, you supported it whole heartedly,"
"I'm sure I did," the old man smiled.
"My wife Audrey came into the kitchen with her wand out just in time to stop the cake from crashing to the ground. I took my eyes off Grandmothers for just a moment, long enough to look guiltily at Audrey as she righted the cake. I looked back at the window and Grandmother was gone. I waited all night for her to scold me for it, but when she returned from feeding her animals to prepare dinner with my mother, neither one of them gave the slightest hint that they knew what I had done. Audrey was tough on me, but she mentioned nothing either. It wasnt until it was far too late that I had realised it wasnt Grandmother who was looking in the window."
"I hardly feel looking in windows at a young cake fiend consitutes a term as hard as destroying us,"
"I have seen this woman who looks like Grandmother many times," Jack forged on regretfully, "The final time was when she and her friends defeated you, with Grandmother, Lord Ruberagon, and Lady Ameraid in combat and took you all prisoner,"
The young man began to protest but the old man raised a slightly shaking hand to broke that broke no challege, "I dont ask it lighty, I know what it could mean to me and to all others if you share with me, that which you should not - but I must know, I feel I must,"
Jack moved in his chair uneasily, the material protested against the friction between it and the unknown material that comprised of his cloak. He looked up at the ancient wizard, into the eyes he had seen many times before, both from this man, and in the mirror.
He heaved a great sigh, "I knew this would happen, and I was admant I would not give into you," he said his eyes not straying from his Grandfather's face, "Everything I have told you so far is the truth, you are my Grandfather, and your son Godric is my father,"
Elwyn remained silent as he listened, prompting Jack to continue, "I am not from so far into the future as you might expect, my mother is already carrying my first form with her,"
"You could be barely twenty-five"
"Than you understand the urgency of my mission here," it wasnt a question. "Not too long from now, others will come,"
"Others?" Elwyn was immediately perplexed by the vague statement he expected.
"Others like you," the young man continued, "It was amazing at first, they looked so much like the others that only you and I were not fooled,"
"The others looked like which others?"
"I'm sorry, I dont know if I can"
"You said I wouldnt remember this conversation,"
"I did,"
"So?"
"Grandmother, Lord Ruberagon, Lady Ameraid," the likeness of them was uncanny.
"They-?"
"Dopplegangers... complete perfect copies,"
"A spell perhaps?"
"Perhaps, but one cast a very long time ago," Jack told him as his brow creased more and more with each passing breath, "But it was not they who used a spell to look like Grandmother, Rubeus, and Amberley, it was Grandmother, Rubeus, and Amberey who were spelled to look like them,"
"How is this possible?" Elwyn's back was rigid as he drew himself up in his chair, "It must have been very old magic, I saw their natural development-"
"There was nothing natural about their development, Grandmother, Lady Ameraid, and Lord Ruberagon were supposed to look like them, it was how they would know when it was time to return,"
"Return? What return? Who are these others?"
"The Eccnatiwa, thats the only names we ever got from them,"
Elwyn's complexion paled visibly as the word reached his ears, "That is not possible, all of the Eccnatiwa are dead," he sounded angry and a confused expression began to spread on Jack's face, "Long ago, their decendants live, of course, but the Eccnatiwa are no more,"
"You told me you didnt know what Eccnatiwa was?" it was almost an accusation,
"I cant imagine why," Elwyn, "Rubeus, Amberley, your Grandmother, and I are all that exist of that particular legacy,"
"You are-?"
"Yes, as close as it is possible to be, I would have been passed the entire Eccnatiwa legacy for the Emerindyl line if it were not destroyed when Astilon burned,"
"A legacy?"
"The lessons of the Taewhan, our Taewhan to their Eccnatiwa, I have told you this, there were eight, eight Eccnatiwa,"
"You havent mentioned the word before,"
"Perhaps not in my native tongue,"
"You have never spoken of a native language of Astilon,"
"Astilonian we called it, the ancient world called it Atlantean, but whatever you call it, the language is, and has always been known as Avanirkylin,"
"So the word means?"
"To put it simply; Apprentice"
"But the line of Apprentices ends with-"
"Your Grandmother, Rubeus, Amberly, and myself, the other four lines are deceased,"
Something passed through Jack's mind not quick enough to for Elwyn to miss it.
"Dont be tedious now, young man,"
"Just something one of them said, we always thought there might be others, so there were another four, we're having a hard enough time dealing with three," he said with a defeat staring back at him through his own eyes, "I just dont understand who they are though, they call themselves the Eccnatiwa but they cant be,"
"Well that isnt entirely true..." Elwyn said thinking as he spoke, "Remember the Gods? They called themselves the Taewhan in their language; the teachers who came to our world and taught us magic. "
"I still dont see the-"
"They taught my ancestors; the original eight Apprentices were named Eccnatiwa, the Taewhan taught that they were once Eccnatiwa but having outgrown their own teachers, they were now teachers themselves,"
"But that would mean that these were..."
"It seems they are, the teachers have returned to visit their students - but why?"
"From my point of view, to destroy us,"
"They appeared around my twenty-third birthday the first time. I knew there was something odd when I laid eyes on Grandmother standing outside looking into the house. I was in your kitchen stealing some of the cake she'd cooked herself. She never agreed with how mother always made my cake with magic. It was a sore point between the two of them for every one of my twenty-two prior birthday's and to save it from being a hassle this year I had subtly manipulated them both into the point of offering to let the other do it, and then I promptly pushed Grandmother into accepting at mother's first ingenuine but polite refusal for her to be allowed. I remember Grandmother had spent a great deal of time in the kitchen, the smell of the cake baking was amazing, and even now while it cooled waiting for icing the smell was thick in the air. And I was just a tad impatient."
"I snuck into the kitchen, I knew Grandmother was out feeding the animals. And when I reached to break a peice from the cake and looked up to see her face staring through the window at me my heart almost leapt from my chest. My wife who -"
"You were married at twenty-two?" Elwyn interrupted,
"You were younger, when you married, Grandfather,"
"It was a different time,"
"It was a different millenia, and my time is different to now, you supported it whole heartedly,"
"I'm sure I did," the old man smiled.
"My wife Audrey came into the kitchen with her wand out just in time to stop the cake from crashing to the ground. I took my eyes off Grandmothers for just a moment, long enough to look guiltily at Audrey as she righted the cake. I looked back at the window and Grandmother was gone. I waited all night for her to scold me for it, but when she returned from feeding her animals to prepare dinner with my mother, neither one of them gave the slightest hint that they knew what I had done. Audrey was tough on me, but she mentioned nothing either. It wasnt until it was far too late that I had realised it wasnt Grandmother who was looking in the window."
"I hardly feel looking in windows at a young cake fiend consitutes a term as hard as destroying us,"
"I have seen this woman who looks like Grandmother many times," Jack forged on regretfully, "The final time was when she and her friends defeated you, with Grandmother, Lord Ruberagon, and Lady Ameraid in combat and took you all prisoner,"