Message #39618

[Rakoua]

~Chapter Three, Dark Alliance~
A lone Anteri guard patrolled the outside of the Elef an Vetri (Tower of Fire in translation) like he did for the last two days. The Anteri don't sleep. They consume. He left a trail of fire behind him... To bad there wasn't aything to consume here, on the south pole of planet they are on. It was a desert, like the rest of the souther hemisphere, allways turned to the sun. The Anteri liked the heat of this part of the world. But the Anteri guard was bored... If there is only one thing for which the Anteri would go to the dark side of the world, it was to fight...

An ice spear stabbed trough the Anteri which broke like glass on touch of the ice, and the spear was taken by a man in a white outfit under which was a cooling system. But he was out of place, as  his home was on the dark side of the planet, in the endless winter. Why did he come here?
Because darkness does not allways mean evil...
He pointed the spear toward the ground, from which a pillar of ice emerged and he jumped on it. The pillar started to move, leaving an icy trail in the desert sands which melted as soon as it went out of range of his power.

12 hours later...
Seletic took an energy sword and a laser handgun, and carefully placed them onto his hoverbike. He then got onto the hoverbike and went out of the village, five of his best warriors behind him. Everybody was silent, perhaps because they were convinced it was  a suicide mission, to go into the fiery desert... It was rumored that around the Elef an Vetri was molten glass, and that the tower itself was floating in it. Nobody who went there returned... And Seletic was convinced he wouldn't either. A few meters out of the village's shield it was allready unbarably hot. The shields that the hoverbikes had weren't operational yet, as the light wasn't strong enough to power them. They will only be able to activate on the second day of their journey... If there is a second day.

A strong red light appeared on the horizon and started to get closer and closer. Soon, more of them appeared.
Vertanis... Or, in English, a fire whirl.
And there are more... much more...