Pieces of the past

Pieces of the past


As Lenore approached the home of the old retired ravened his mind went back to the days of his youth. A time of his life when things were simple; a time when the forest was a place of trees and different animals. A memory of him being tossed up in the air and caught by hiss dad came back to him. Lenore wondered why and from where had this memory come from. A strange sense of not being alone clung to Lenore as these memories came back to him one after another. Then the memories that would confirm what he was told by Amos when he told him of a twin brother rushed over him.
                                                                                                                              Another memory in which Lenore envisioned looked to him as though it was the same moment in time in which Lenore was being tossed in the air by his dad. This time though he was seeing the same scene from another viewpoint. This hit Lenore like a hammer blow, and left a tear in his eyes. Lenore saw that it was not he in the air with a smile on his face, but his brother. For the first time in his life Lenore felt connected to someone, and he felt great joy and sadness at the same time.
                                                            An unfamiliar voice brought Lenore out of his day dream when he hears a man ask may I help you. What is your name Lenore asks? My name is Cosmotron. Do you remember who I am? I do not know you, how I am I to remember you? Lenore after a few moments of gathering his thoughts said to the old priest; I am Lenore of Leo and Nora Trinity. There are things in which we need to discuss.
          The old priest listened to Lenore Trinity with a knowing look in his dark blue eyes. The old priest in the seventies looked at Lenore threw half moon spectacles with dark blue eyes. His hair was long down past his shoulders, and a dirty white. His bread was also long and white with age, and this priest was will kempt in appearance. He wore a long white robe with a cross embroidered over his heart, and along the sides ran a narrow purple stripe. Lenore looked at the priest waiting for him to say something when finally the priest said to him I have been many years waiting for this moment Lenore, and when Lenore heard his name a look of surprise came over his face.
                                                                                                          Without saying a word the old priest went on, yes I know that you’re Lenore Trinity, and your father Leo, and your mother Nora. I would say your reason for coming to my home is to find out what I know of your brother; your older brother Dorado. As he was listening to the old priest Lenore for the first time heard Mankato in his mind saying, honesty Lenore, and there will no longer be secrets. As the priest finest saying what it was he was saying Lenore said to him I have no older brother.
                                                      Lenore said to the old priest I am sorry but I have no older brother. I do have a brother whom I never knew of until recently. He is my twin brother whom I don’t even know his name, and he is not the eldest son of Leo and Nora Trinity.
          I Lenore Trinity was the first born of the twin sons born to Leo and Nora, and the prophesy King Hoaxer’s and yourself try to influence has been fulfilled. I am the one of two; I come by way of Lord Mankato, and as Lenore was speaking this he ask Mankato to shoot fire skyward as a show of proof. The old priest with a look of terror saw flames erupt high up in the night air; that is lord Mankato saying hello.
                                                                                                    So you see I am telling you the truth, and I am being honest as you are to honest with me. I would like for you to tell me all you know about my brother; where he is where you took him and where he is now. First thing I want to know is his birth name, and the name he is known bye.
                                                                                                                        The old priest looked at Lenore for a long time considering and reflecting on what he was just told before he spoke. Are you telling me Lord Mankato has returned, and you are the first born! I am saying I am of Mankato, and we are one. This cannot be said the old priest, your brother was the first born not you. I can ashore you I am the first born of Leo and Nora Trinity, and because of what you took part in all those years ago my family was taken from me. You will now help gather my family; the family I never knew.
                                                                                                                            You are not the first born this cannot be the old priest was saying; to afraid to say anything else. Lenore from deep down inside him felt an immense anger, and before he realized what had happened he spoke in the language of the dragons these words; steel of Mankato. A flash of lightning pierced the night sky in that instant Lenore hold in his left hand the sword of Mankato. Lenore took one step toward the old priest, and then he froze unable to move.
            Lenore, Mankato ask, what are you going to do with my blade? I mean to do nothing with your sword; what happened came out of my anger toward the priest for not answering me what I ask him. Has Amos told you of this, Mankato asked? Has Amos told me of what Lenore asks in reply? The way in which you are to call forth my sword, my blade; no he has not I just spoke the words; they were there in my memory. Mankato says to Lenore this you should not know, this is something that paladin warriors learn only after many other things are taught him.
                                                                    Mankato there was one other that came to me, and could I ask from where and what it means. I will answer any questions you have Lenore. What is it you wish to know? What is Nidalap Riorraw? With a voice as serious as Lenore has yet heard Mankato speak he ask Lenore; what was it you just spoke, and Lenore answered saying Nidalap Riorraw! Mankato, Lenore asked with a touch of fear in his voice what do these words mean. Mankato said to Lenore this is neither the time nor place for a discussion of this magnitude. I will explain back at the temple, but I must ask you not to speak these words to anyone in any language until I teach you what they mean. Mankato spoke not another word and released the hold he had on him.
                                                                                                                Lenore hold Mankato’s sword point to the old priest throat as he starred at the old priest, and he said to him I will ask you one last time; will you be honest with me or die. Your brother Eronoil, and yes that is his birth name, and he is now known as Dorado. Tell me why and how this all took place, and who was behind tarring my family apart The old priest Cosmotron said come lets go inside, and with a load trust of his raven like wings Mankato was off. With a soft touch Mankato landed beside Lenore. I need say more, does he answer your doubts.
                                    The old priest was startled at the sight of this mammoth size dragon. Mankato has the appearance of a raven; he is black and sparkles in the reflections of the sun. Running up his back are ivory spikes and on his feet are talons as sharp as razors. His eyes are piercing shade of gray. I am first born of Leo and Nora, and I am one with the dragon; now you will tell me what you did to my family.
                                                                                                      Ok, Ok, said the old priest, but first may we go inside, and with a nod of his head Mankato leapt into the air and was gone, the old priest and Lenore went inside. The Priest home was small but cozy; built of field stone and a thatched roof. The inside was made up of oak planks broads, and in the sitting room were row upon row of books. The priest asked Lenore to have a set, and offered him some tea which he gracefully accepted.
                                                                                        As the old priest gathered cups and a tray Lenore apologized for the manner in which he attacked the priest; Lenore started of their conversation with explaining how all this started for him just weeks prior. When this all started I was just an average boy with no skill with which to make a living. I am the adopted son of ------------------, and I could not remember a thing of my parents except that had a passion for the Forest of Virtues.
                                                                                The passion they both shared they must have passed on to me because that is what I spent a better part of my life investigating. If I weren’t reading everything I found on the Forest of Virtues I would be journeying into the forest where I would try to find what it was everyone said was so evil about the place. What I found was not evil, but good.
                                                        Also a few months ago a fellow moved to Alkalis named Amos, and he is a good guy who never said much about himself other then that he was a story teller. He made his living in Alkalis by telling stories to any that would listen. For some reason this storyteller started asking question of me. He started going to the tavern owned by this man Burke Simons and I started hearing rumors of this Amos asking Burke or anyone else he found of interest about me.
                                                                                              This went on for weeks, and I also learned Amos has an interest in the Goth Cathedral. This made me wonder why he was asking so if they knew things about me. I decided when I got back I had planned that I was going to confront Amos. I wanted to ask him why he was so interested in me; what it was about me he wanted to know. I did not have to wait or go and find him, when I got back from a recent journey from the Forest of Virtues he was waiting for me at my home. You see all these questions he had been asking so many others I had the answers to; they were hiding in my gear where I packed them.
                                                                        You must understand Cosmotron I never heard any of this the story I am about to reveal to you. Have you ever heard of an elfin priest name Ham iota; Lenore ask the priest. Cosmotron looked as if he didn’t want to answer Lenore’s Question; Lenore put a hand on the old priest’s shoulder, and in a soothing voice told him no more secrets. The time has come for truth and honor, no more lies, no more secrets.
                                As Lenore took his set the priest said in a small crack voice; yes I have heard of him. You must know that it was Ham iota who wrote these prophesy. A prophesy which states that in an age to come there will be one of two. He will lead an army of warriors, and he will bring down the Empire of the dragons.  Lenore said, I have kept no secrets from you, and I have shown proof when I asked Lord Mankato to Show himself; I have no secrets.
                                                  Are you telling me you never heard of this prophesy I have spoken to you? I have read of this prophesy I have read these prophesy, and I have studies it for many years. It read that Eronoil of Leo and Nora would be the one of two, not Lenore. I have heard of this high elfin priest Ham iota and that he wrote this prophesy of Lord Mankato. The old priest went to tell Lenore that the prophesy states that the first born of Leo and Nora Trinity, Eronoil would come and lead an army. They would once and for all time put down the evil roomed the earth in the age of the dragon.
                                                                                                                        These prophesy also states that Lord Mankato is of a evil nature, and that Eronoil would be the one who put Lord Mankato to death. It goes on to say that Eronoil and his legion would kill all dragons, and their riders. Lenore says to the old priest this cannot to true; you have with your own eyes seen Lord Mankato and I as one.
                                                                                    This cannot be Cosmotron said; there is something other than prophesy, and what would that be Lenore asks? The dragon stone which controls all magic; a tool used bye the elfin people and the dragons in ages past, a power that finally brought both to extinction, to an age of no more.
                                                                                                          Lenore sat in quiet thinking, thinking of what the old priest had told him. Lenore wondered just what this dragon stone was, and it came to him; Ask Mankato. In his quiet thinking he asked Mankato what is this dragon stone? The dragon stone is that which you must destroy Mankato old him. It is that which Hoaxers the Great used to overthrow the Mystic Dawn. Hoaxer’s the great once was one of the greatest Paladin Warriors, and his dragon was only second to me. His dragon wanted that which he could never have.
                                                                                                                He wanted to be the leader of the mystic dawn, but that was something he could never have. For many year he wanted to sit where I sat. There was nothing in his power he could do, you see a dragon only does his riders will. Only when Hoaxers came along could Congo have a rider that wanted what he wanted, and that was power.
                                                                                      The place from where that power came was the dragon stone, which there is only one. The dragon stone is that which a paladin warrior and his dragon draw there magic. Like every natural element there are two side, and a balance between the two. The age of the Mystic Dawn came about as a result of a war between the elfins and us dragons. Hundreds of year ago there was a time of a great war, a time when dragon did not have a rider. The mystic Dawn came about as a way to end that war; the elfin were to become the riders of the dragons. They would be the law between the elfins and dragons, they were the Mystic Dawn..