A Tale Of Sister's Revenge

"THE LIGHTNING STAVE"

The eruption of the ice volcano was the largest volcanic eruption in thousands of years. The explosive eruption deposited tons of snow on the grounds near the volcano’s base. Even more devastating than the eruption, however, was the devastating flow of winter winds. Nearly two weeks had passed since the volcano eruption, but the aftershocks could still be felt. After an eruption as widespread and devastating as this one was, which ground much of Antarctica to a dead stop for days, maybe now has recovered from it. The weather has got normal and quiet. A group of six people were looking around as if they were searching something. Their search came to an end when they found an unusual creature buried under the snow.

A creature that looked as he was made up of ice. Beneath the snow, beneath the cold dark moon, lay the Iceman. The frost was his winter jacket and the frigid a salve for his crystalline pale grey-white skin. He has long wispy white hair, however, his most notable trait is his glowing blue eyes, which were partially opened and partially closed. The creature was alive and breathing.

After few hours he started to regain some consciousness. He slowly tried to open up his eyes, but awake once more, he found himself surrounded by a group of people who he hardly knows. Those people were eagerly waiting for him to gain some consciousness and start giving answers to some of their questions, but the Iceman was the first person to ask something.

“Who are you people?” ice man asked. It was the first one, followed by a lot many. “For how long was I unconscious? Where are the other members of my team?”

Those people were shocked to hear that he has a team which means that there may be more ice creature just like him, buried or awake.

“We will tell you who we are, but you need to give your introduction first.” One of the member asked, now it was there turn to interrogate. “Which planet do you belong to? Why did you come to earth?”

“My name is Mark Adams.” He told “and what rubbish are you asking? I am not an alien, I live on earth.”

“So he is from earth.” Said one of them

“But I have never seen or heard about such a creature.” Said another

“I have not either.” Other one agreed

“I am a normal human being just like you all and what creature creat.. are you saying?" Mark intervene their conversation.

“Now, that is enough.” One of them shouted and pulls out his dagger. “Either you start talking truth or die.”

“Very thing that I have said is true,” Mark replied

“He won’t start talking this way.”

One of them threw his dagger on the Iceman, but as the dagger was about to go inside his body he turned intangible and the dagger went right through him. Everyone was shocked after seeing this. Even Mark could not believe what he just did. Now his hands were also free from the ropes that they tied him with. Men with daggers started throwing more daggers and arrows in his directions, but every dagger went right through him.

“That is enough.” The leader of the group shouted in anger and he drew a long sword from his belt.

The blade made a hissing whisper as it was removed from the sheathe. He started walking towards Mark. Mark did not know what he should do as he has not even killed a mosquito till date so how will he fight against a trained warrior. The swordsman charge towards Mark and as he was about to cut him with his long sword Mark defends himself with his ice hands. Then swordsman again rushed at Mark. Swordsman dipped and weaved right as he was about to reach him and slashed downwards with the sword. Mark parried with one of his hand clashed against the metal sword that sent sparks flying into the air. The swordsman was quick and uppercut slashed at the hand to hand warrior, attempting to catch Mark off guard, but he could not.

Looking at Mark fight so good other warriors too drew their sword and attacked Mark, but he handled them as a pro. It didn’t look as it was his first fight and more importantly, he was winning it. Everything was going good, but suddenly his ability to turn intangible wasn’t working. The swordsman saw this and he again tied him with a rope, but this time with a magical rope.

“We should take him to the Queen’s Alliance headquarter.” Leader said after taking a deep breath of relief.

IN THE HEADQUARTER

Lot of things has been going around Eva in past few days. She has faced a lot of tough situations lately like losing her father, war with Aurora and convincing the council to accept her as their queen, but the toughest of them all was her vision of apocalypse. Even a small thought of the vision coming true scares the hell out of her. She wants to stay ready for any such attack so she told the council about her visions.

“After the great war of sisters, there has never been any such threat. We all are living in harmony and happily.” King Andri breaks the long silence of the hall.

“This is not about living in harmony, it is just about living, the same thing is coming for all of us,” Eva replied in a bossy voice

“Ovi and her army are locked inside a cage for thousands of year and they cannot break out of it. There is nothing to fear. Close your eyes and pretend it is all a bad dream.” King Andri said in a sarcastic tone

“This is serious. I wouldn't be here if it wouldn't.”

“I don’t think it is serious at all and think it is another bad joke." king Andri is not ready to except

“We all know what she is capable of. I am just asking all of you to stay cautious and watchful.” Eva pleas to the council

There was a pin drop silence in the whole room and even the clock hand sound could be heard. After giving a deep thought to Eva’s proposal, Lord Brandon agrees to her and ready to do whatever she needs him to do and soon the whole council followed lord Brandon and agrees to Eva.

“We need to keep lightning stave safe, it is the first thing that she will come for.”

Ovi had the most destructive weapon of the ancient times which was named as the lightning stave. Nuevida broke that stave into three and hide those parts away from each other. One part is with sorcerer another with the knights of water and the last with the elves.

“The other members of the alliance will provide their soldiers to keep the lightning stave safe,” Eva commands the alliance

It was extremely tough, but Eva finally convinced the council to stay watchful and ready for any kind of attack. The whole council leaves to do their job for the Queen’s Alliance on Eva’s command. After the meeting gets over Eva goes to talk to Rohini.

“So how was the experience Rohini?”

“It was great. I am really enjoying my life here.” Rohini seems to be extremely happy.

“That is good to hear, but the life is going to get tougher from here. I want you to acquire more skills. You should learn kung fu from Master Du Jinglin, he the best in the world.” Eva said

“I would love to,” Rohini replied in excitement

“You should start from tomorrow, and then we will have a fight once I come back.”

“Come back! Where are you going?” Rohini asked in anxiety

“I am leaving for Somako the land of dreams. I have some work there and will be back soon.”

“You will lose the kung fu fight to me when you will come back.” They both had a laugh and went ahead with their work. “So happy journey and see you soon.”

Master Aurora has trained Rohini to be one of the finest warrior just like her grandfather was, but she needs to acquire more skills to fight in the war if there is going to be one. So, on Eva’s command, Rohini goes to Master Jinglin to learn kung fu.

“Hello, Master Jinglin.” Rohini said, “I am….”

“I know who you are. You are the Dragon Warrior. This is what people call you I guess.” Master said in a gravelly voice. “Why are you here?”

“Eva wanted me to learn kung fu and said you are the greatest kung fu Master on earth. So I request you to please teach me kung fu.” Rohini replied

“I will teach you if you can answer my question,” Master said. “You are a little nomad wind in the garden of the world. They wish you to grow into a flowering tree. What is the most important part of such a tree?”

“There are many branches and the flower I speak is of legacy,” Rohini said proudly

“Thank you for untangling your elusive metaphor. We begin with roots from tomorrow morning so be on time.”

Master Jinglin was impressed with Rohini but didn’t want to show that. He knew in his heart that she will be a great hero and wanted to prepare her for that day. As Master Aurora had taught her to be a supervillain, he will try to teach him to be a superhero.

“You are late girl,” Master asked

“Sorry Master. I was praying to god, which took some time.” Rohini replied in a wobbly voice

“From today you will pray only to one god and that is death, and there is only one thing we say to death not today.” Master smiled and said.

“I am not Arya Stark and this is no Game of Thrones.” Rohini said in a sarcastic way

Master snapped himself into the tiger mindset. The tiger was the only one whose nature did not significantly involve defence. He went in one direction, always forward, towards the prey, all offence no holding back.

“Let us see what you got,” Master said

Mater formed his hands as if he was gripping imaginary tennis balls and launched himself at her. He dug his fingers into the bicep of the swinging arm and ripped at the muscle, while striking the forearm on the same side, straight in with the heel of his palm, the “paw” as it were. It was a thousand-year-old battle protocol from the great Kung Fu masters: first, attack the arm that attacks you.

“In Kung Fu, we say one hand lies and the other hand tells the truth.” Master ripped into her face with the middle and forefingers of his right hand. “You are dead, try again.”

“If one day you will get back to your home, what would you tell your friends about the strange world of Kung Fu? Would you tell them that it means to fight or would you say like a monk from Shaolin that it means to summon the spirit of the tiger.” The speed of Master’s strick increased as he was saying and Rohini had no clue about how to stop these.

“Kung Fu means supreme skill from hard work, practice, preparation, endless repetition until your mind is viary and your bones ache, until you are too tired to sweat, too wasted to breath.” Master shouted a Kiai, the warrior yell, and launched a double palm heel strike. “That is the way, the only way one acquires Kung Fu, unfortunately girl you have not.”

Rohini trained day and night to master the art of Kung Fu. There were times when her body would say no more, but her soul makes her train.

“You seems different today. What happened?” Master asked

“I received a letter from my mom. It said that she is sick.” Rohini softly spoke

“Oh, you are troubled. Good trouble is the perfect time for training.”Master attacks Rohini “You are not here, you with your trouble. If you are with your trouble when fighting happens, more trouble for you.” Today Rohini is able to defend some of Master’s attack it seems she has finally started to feel the Kung Fu magic. “How can you be quick as a snake or as quiet as a shadow when you are someone else, you are fearing for your mother that is right, but you have to learn this to keep her safe.”

Rohini ducked under the second swing and strike the aggressor in opposite directions and even Master didn’t see this counter attack coming. It would appear to be one simultaneous tornado of movement, of blinding speed, a blur too fast for the eye to follow and today she defeated the Master.

“You are improving,” Master said and gave her a proud smile. It was the first time that he praised Rohini in all these days. “But get ready again as the level is going to be increased from now on.”

“Bong- bong…” suddenly a long deep sound of a bell could be heard.

“What is that?” Rohini asked

“If this is what I think it is, then it is bad news.” The happiness on the face of Master has changed to some sort of fear. “We are under attack I guess.”