S.I.R.O. by streamingcrystal (summer reading list .txt) 📖

~1~ The Attack for Light

We're running fast and hard through this lush, tall grass we called home. Not much of a home now, since the war against our 'kind.'

“I have such a small window for chit chat, so listen carefully,” I yelled to everyone through the noise of clashing swords and the pounding of feet and hooves on the ground. “It is my job, to protect you. Make sure you stay close, got it!?”

“Yes, Ma'am!” all three royal 'guards' yelled.

“Save it for another time, ladies.” I replied, “lets go! Stay close.” We rounded another corner and I added, “and ladies, do be quiet.”

After conversations pass, I led them down a small pathway, on the side of the royal house. Passing windows and doors, and only stopping to take care of a few stragglers from the Other Side. These 'creatures' lacked what we had, nice sharp steel. I had this ability to control steel and other rare metals. I can form them to my will, even in the coldest of times.

Ever since I was a little girl, I could speak to the metal, and I promise it good forms. Since then, I have mastered that ability. I now called upon my Andiatum metal. A metal found only on this planet.

Whispering I started to sing, “Se va rei, va croa, tue...

form to my will, take my shape, that favors.”

As I sung, power pulsed through my body. During this time, I was pumped with energy and I was trying to locate the one I favored to save the most, before something bad would happen to her. Only when we went inside did I realize how badly she was wounded.

I grunted as I pulled my sword from one of the creatures and escorted the girls inside. I found another warrior and asked him to follow, just in case I needed a temporary guard for these 'ladies.' He gladly chose to follow. Of course being the highest ranking SIRO agent, has its perks.

Crouching low by the stairs in the main hall I looked back at our group, “Stay here,” I turned to the warrior, “Please make sure they don't wander off, I am trusting you.”

“Aye, sire!” the warrior replied, “you can count on me!”

I grabbed him by the collar, bringing him face to face to me. I told him slowly, and angrily, “Did I not tell you to be quiet?”

“Sorry sire,” he replied like a small child in trouble. I dropped him, showing my anger and stood up.

A few seconds went by and I sensed something, “Keep down!” I yelled to them as I saw a black figure run in our direction.

My sword ready in hand, I pounced on the figure and rested my sword near its neck... wait... its... neck?

I thought to myself. “Who are you?” I whispered close to its head, and tapping my sword closer to its supposed neck.

Still groaning from falling, it began, hesitantly, “why... should I... tell... you?”

“Because if you don't,” I smiled cockily, “then you can say goodbye to your life, and you WON'T be able to come back. I promise you.” I tilted my head up a little as I spoke.

After a few seconds of much needed thought, she sighed, “my name... is Drantina.”

“Well, Drantina, are you legit?” I asked leaning over, involuntarily tapping the side of her cheek with the amulet around my neck.

“Yes, I fight those things, and if you don't mind--”

“Wait!” I yelled before she could finish. I focused and then realized, my fears were coming true. I jumped up, making everyone confused on my actions. “No!” I yelled as I darted down the hallway and to the giant double doors at the end. On the other side was surly going to pain me, more than the creatures I would have to destroy.

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Pushing through big double doors at the end on the long hall, I saw what seemed like a corpse, placed almost neatly in the center of the big room. Her clothes were ripped off showing her bare body. Slowly walking toward the middle of the room, I heard a voice. A voice I have heard before. Only, a very long time ago.

“So, you are the one to come, to rescue the pretty thing?” It asked in a hash tone, trying so hard to keep hidden in the shadows.

I could feel the girls heartbeat, slow, but it was there. I sighed a sigh of relief and smiled.

“Oh, you wont get off that easy...” it replied to my reactions

“Show yourself, daemon!” I yelled at this voice. I started to whisper something, anyone with normal hearing could not hear. Not even the creature this voice belonged to, could hear. I tightened my grip on the hilt of my sword.

When it wouldn't show itself, my sword began to glow, showing me every thing in the room. I saw a small black figure in one of the corners, sulking deeper into the bend of the wall. These daemons may have wanted the Light, but they could not handle it. Thus the reaction this creature gave now.

“You are a holder of the Light!?” it screamed at me painfully. I could hear the roughness of its voice as the Light burned it's black skin.

“Maybe I am, but then again, maybe I’m just lucky,” I replied sarcastically as I took a step forward.

“Get away!” it yelled as I came even closer, oh so slowly.

“But I thought you wanted this Light? But of course, you can't handle it.” I told it as I took yet another step forward.

As this daemon snarled at me, shadows began to engulf the room, I was weak from an earlier battle I faced, and I had just enough power to put a shield over just a few people. The warrior felt my distress and brought the three royals in. Very quickly they went toward the girl laying on the ground. No one recognizing who it was, but I knew. One of them rested the girls head on her lap.

When they were ready, the warrior sent me a mental message, even though it was jumbled. I, on the receiving end, ran toward them. My sword already gone and my entire body glowing with writing in our old language. I jumped and began to hover above the small group, my arms open wide as they glowed even whiter. The blackness grew so large, it swallowed everything in sight. Strangely, only the things in the room.

~2~ The Return

Many months has passed since our last encounter with the daemons, and I still have not awoke from my slumber. All my power was drained and I was trying my best to stay alive. A SIRO with out power, is a not a SIRO at all.

Liana, my personal healer, has been by my side for the entire time. Even though my body was in the house, she was not. Just because she is by my side, does not mean she is by my body itself. No, I have been away from this kingdom for a few months yet. Liana has found me, deep inside a mountain crevice. There was a clear pool of nice cool water and yet, it was warm. My 'power,' or what normal people call it, my soul, found its way there only to be confronted by a Goddess. The Goddess Tyr, controller of all light and life.

She was beautiful, her long silvery hair went down to her waist and her eyes, almost white but always purple. She had helped me train, to build power, and most of all, control. Liana came a few days after my training has finished, only to see my power become an orb. She held this orb tightly as she traveled back to my body. She protected me with her life, and more.

When Liana came near the town my body rested in, she held fast and waited. Waiting for what exactly, I could not figure out until later. There were daemons, undercover, in the town, waiting for me to 'return.' Liana, finding them before they found her, and she already had a plan for this.

There was a man, a warrior who helped Liana and myself for many a year. He was in an outpost on the outskirts of the town. Liana went to him, smiled, and simply said, “The Rank of Love.” He understood what he had to do. Asking another guard to cover for him, he left with Liana to the house I rested in.

They slowly made their way to the house, avoiding the daemons that lurked around. Since none of the daemons found them it was pretty easy getting there. They found the room that was marked and sealed by Liana.

When something happens, in this case my power leaving my body, you find that power and return it. You must, and its law, have to seal the room and/or mark it. Only to seal a room for love and to mark a room for rank.

Once inside, Liana grabbed the orb of my power from her bag and threw it into the air, and since I lusted to return to my body, my power flew toward it. Liana and the warrior closed the door and locked the windows as the orb stopped a top my body. After a few seconds of longing, the orb flashed and was gone. My eyes opened and I was now back, and ready to protect what is needed to protect.

~3~ To Leave a Voice

A voice rang through the halls of the royal house. It was so beautiful and sounded like it belonged to the majestic woman alive. Most of everyone in the castles, would stop to listen to the song that echoed through out, what seemed, the very souls of the people.

“To another world, just to fly away! Can you feel the soul of those, who wander in the way? To another place, to control what has been lost... and forgotten.”

The song was high and strong, speaking the truth and wisdom of the past and present, and maybe, just maybe... The Future.

“Bravo! Bravo, my girly,” I yelled, clapping as loudly as I could as I stopped in the doorway. “What a Beautiful song, my dear. Was that for me?”

She gasped, “Shae! Your back...” Running toward me she hugged me tightly, she started to cry. “I was so worried.”

“Hey, hey... now don't start that, you'll make me start to cry too.” I replied to her ecstatic heat of the moment. Wiping a tear from her gentle face I hugged her deeply, “keep your eyes pure, I will find the person who drained your power, my dear. I promise you will be safe.”

“I love you, Shae...” she told me the truth, only the truth.

I have basically raised her, and ever since the daemons found out about her, they went after her to get to me. I was the highest ranking SIRO, after all.

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“Shea...” she pulled away from my body, exposing her frightened face, “Show me... please.” she pleaded. “I want to make sure... that-”

I knew exactly what she wanted to see. Liana stood at