Final Trial
By: Manluas
In a cave, where the only light comes from a small crack from the ceiling stands Tashwen, standing in the light, and Manluas, standing in the shadows of the cavern, in front of her.
Manluas says "This shall be your final trial, you shall experience things you have never experienced before on previous tests." Tashwen nods and says "I am ready." Manluas closes his eyes, then quickly widens them, his eyes turn black, and an aura of the same color appears from them.
Tashwen vision's fades, then clears after a few seconds, what she sees is a presence behind and above Manluas. The presence begins to hunch over, and spout eight legs,two fangs as long and sharp as daggers, and eight eyes seemingly peering into her very soul.
Tashwen's eyes widened, her body starts to shake lightly, but a dark tether appears on her throat, wrists and ankles, and it increases the grip on them as she fidgets. Tashwen gasps for air, the more she struggled, the tighter the tether became.
Tashwen takes a deep breath, calming herself, the tether releases the grip as she relaxes. Now the giant spider makes its way to her, and thousands of little spiders crawl all over her, covering her body. Her vision is filled with spiders of all sizes. She begins to squirm again, forcing the tether to tighten again around her neck, wrists, and ankles.
Tashwen again takes a deep breath and relaxes herself, the tether loosening. The spiders all stop where they are, and bite her simultaneously, and the giant spider manages to bite her chest, then moves to bite her arm, and all the spiders in her vision scuttle toward her, with hunger in their eyes.
Tashwen tried to fight the spiders off, but fails, the tether tightens again, she gasps for air, as the spider continue to bite. After a few seconds, Tashwen relaxes again, causing the tether to loosen, she closes her eyes, and opens then again, the tether and the spiders are now gone, and she is now in the room with Manluas she was in before.
Manluas says "Good, you have passed your first test. Now for the others." Tashwen nods and says "I am ready."
The light from the crack in the cavern turns green, the walls and ground grows vines at an accelerated rate, trees form out of the ground with the colors of green and yellow. The biggest tree forms in front of Tashwen, and the bark swirls like liquid in a pond, and forms a face.
Treeface: "Ahh, Tashwen, Hello."
Tashwen narrows her eyes and says "Hello."
Treeface: "Why keep to the Vigil? They have never done anything good for you, they killed your family, and they do not allow you to have a child, which you wish to have."
Tashwen: "I do not wish for a child, all I wish is to be by Manluas's side."
Treeface:"Why don't you bring Manluas with you? I can make it so you two can bear a child, which the Vigil doesn't allow you to have, so why fight for the very people you hate?"
Tashwen: "Tavril is the mother of all. she created you."
Treeface: "No! Elf! I am the god of life, I created this though my own power, I am Greenscale!"
Tashwen turns her back to him and says "begone, I have nothnig to do with you."
The treeface screams "NO!" then the trees and vines all wither and die, but turn to sand.
The sand raises and turns into obelisks of gems and gold.
the ground becomes a dry sandy area. In front of Tashwen is a woman, seemly made from sand.
Sandwoman: "I know you love the gems I can provide for you, Tashwen." The sand women opens her hand and reaches it out to Tashwen, showing gems which their luster is unmatched to Tashwen.
Tashwen stares at the gems and pauses then she says "Nothing you can give me matches what I have gotten from Manluas, and Tavril.
The Sandwomen closes her hand then opens it again, forming a giant gem as big as her palm, its luster is higher than the gems before it, then she says "I can offer you everything, a castle made from the gems you love so much, or enough wealth to buy a castle with the servants included."
Tashwen: "I do not care for power, or a castle. I already own a house I do not live in, my home is with Manluas."
The Sandwoman screams as her body hardens and falls lifeless, as the gem-ed and gold obelisks fall into dust. The temperture rises, Tashwen's brow starts to sweat, the ground becomes covered in lava, save two small circles, where Tashwen sands, and the other where a lizardman stands, to the sides of him, are two small volcanoes spewing more lava into the ground.
Lizardman:"I know you have the bloodlust in you, follow me, and you will have battle eternal!"
Tashwen: "I do not care for bloodlust. I have seen enough of this war, I do not wish anymore death."
Lizardman: "I know the bloodlust is within you, you even threatened your own husband with battle."
Tashwen: "This war has been going too long, there is no need for bloodlust."
The Lizardman hisses and his body turns into lava and sinks into the ground, then the lava hardens into rock, the rocks starts to float slightly, as lightening cackles slightly from them, then they start to hover around the area, as a gust of wind suddenly appears in the cavern. A woman in the form of a gust of wind appears.
Gust:"I can give you all you want, power over air, and the ableness to command others."
Tashwen: "I do not wish for power."
Gust: "You have been command all your life, why not change that, and you have command over others?"
Tashwen just turns away from the gust.
The Gust shrieks as she disspears and the rocks fall. The ground turns a dark purplish, the scent of decay on the air, the ground is covered in bones and rotting flesh, four tentacled obelisks rise and surround Tashwen, and an undead Manluas appears in front of her.
Undead Manluas: "Ahh my love, come with me, and end this life of suffering."
Tashwen: "Manluas was full of life, he wanted to live with me forever, and I wanted to live with him."
Undead Manluas: "Death claims all, love, rememeber that, if you come with me, you can be with your family...our family again." Next to Manluas is Aurora, Thelwen, and Felwen all undead.
Tashwen looks to Felwen and just looks away from him with a certain disgust, she looks to Aurora and her face turn emotionless, only to Thelwen she showed any emotion, a soft sad smile, then shakes her head and turns to Manluas.
Undead Manluas: "Come with me, my love, give up this useless struggle, come with me, and we never have to deal with this war and other struggles again."
Tashwen repeated "You are not Manluas, he wanted me to live, and not die."
The Undead forms cry out and disspear, the cavern walls and floor are dust again, but water pours from the cracks in the walls, and fills the ground to her ankles, a woman who almost looks like Tashwen, with drenched in water, and sharp shark-like teeth, with two big red eyes. A presence is also behind the water demon, eight eyes all glowing red.
The Water Demon says, with a deep booming voice behind her "Hello again, Tashwen, we have missed you!"
Tashwen: "I have already killed you, you do not exist!"
Water Demon:"My My, Tashwen, we are not dead, we cannot die, we have been, and always will be here. Remember Tashwen, I have the knowledge on how ascended can make children, come to us, and bring your husband, and you two can have a child."
Tashwen: "I do not wish for a child."
Water Demon: "Fine then, no child, but I can give you power and knowledge, all to your heart's delight."
Tashwen: "I do not wish to have the fog and the rain again in my mind."
Water Demon: "Come with me, and bring your husband, and you will have everything you want!"
Tashwen: "I have defeated you once, and I can do it again, now begone."
The voices boom in laughter and they say "We will never leave we will always be here one way, or another." The presence and Water Demon disappear into water, then the water throughout the cavern is gone, there is only Tashwen and Manluas once again.
Manluas: "I am proud of you, you have finished the trials, and completed them." He reaches for her cheek, and rests his hand on it, and rubs it with his thumb.
Tashwen smiles at Manluas, then collapses.
Manluas gently picks up Tashwen and walks out of the cavern.