Late one evening
by Brutus
Mon, 1 Jan 2001, at 11:24 p.m. CST
Brutus had been to the abbey had deposited the leathers he had taken from an
angry gator and was setting off back into the woods upon his trusty steed
shadow, heading back to his home in shadowmoor. He trotted along the path he
knew very well without a care in the world. Suddenlty his sences lit up. Brutus
had felt this presence only twice before. Once at a place called Kents back in
Felucia the phantom had rode into the bar seeking something surly evil. Brutus
and his friends were drunk at the time and hardly noticed its pressence. But the
young elf girl Arilyn had seen it and had been instantly over come with fear.
The phantom appeared only breifly and had rode away again as quickly as it had
come. Lyn had chased after it but never did find it. The second time Brutus had
seen the phantom was in a place known as the krypts. He
had gone there along with his good friend and elder ranger Nathan who was
leading a party of rangers to the krypts to find a lost comrade. The phantom had
appeared to the group there and was joined by many servernts of darkness it
seemed at the time that the phantom had some sort of deal with the Magic Empire
of Darkness. The rangers had left the area knowing they were not safe and since
that night had never treaded in that place with the same confidence they had
that day. Today was Brutus's third meeting with the phantom only this time he
was alone....
He knew instatnly that something was out of place. The tempature had grown
suddenly cold and the winds were moving in a very unnatural way. Brutus heard no
steps and it was actually just dumb luck that he thought to look behind himself.
He was shocked to see it walking toward him carrying the same black halberd he
had awalys weilded. It spoke in the same deep beyond the grave voice that it
awalys had. Brutus gulped knowing his day had just taken a very bad turn for the
worst. He could feel the evil coming off of the abomonation as if it were the
wind itself. "Your home has become a place of intrest for Atration Ranger
Youd best see to its defences in the days to come" and with those words it
was gone just as soon as it had appeared. Brutus looked around the tree line for
any sign of danger. He sat for many moments waiting but nothing came. Finally he
exhaled and began riding on again. He picked up his pace and galloped back to
shadowmoor to warn his friends of the coming troubles.
