Iris+BG

After the quest with Sophie and Miki, Iris didn’t know what to do. She couldn’t just go back to her village. She couldn’t see the north gate again. She needed to find the man who killed her brother, Blake. She needed closure. Iris decided that she would go back to her village but only to get some clean clothes and a good nights sleep. After she would go looking for the man who would regret ever killing him. When Iris got back to the village, she was surprised to see her twin brother Christian and her little sister Rose, down by the sea waiting for her.

"Hey Iris. I see you finally made it back. What happened?" said Christian. He was wearing a black T-shirt that their mother had made for him and a pair of shorts. He looked like he hadn't slept in a long time.

"Nothing really. What about you?" said Iris.

"Nothing. You know... Rose was very worried about you. Yeah, she was like 'when is Iris coming home. Will she be home soon?' Yeah, it was kind of annoying. She kept me up all night long doing it." said Christian. You could tell that what he told her was not the truth because Rose looked well rested and she was also shaking her head no.

"Ok. Whatever you say Christian. How about we go inside and see what grandma is making for supper? Ok?" said Iris. She was quite hungry and she didn't want to stand outside anymore.

As they were walking home, Adam and Liz walked up to them. Adam and Liz has been their friends since they started living with their grandparents. Adam was the same age as Christian and Iris. Liz was a year younger then them. Adam and Liz were brother and sister.

"Hey. I can't believe your back." said Liz as she was hugging her warmly. "I've missed you so much. I had only Adam and Christian to hang out with and Christian wasn't too fun because he kept on cry how you should have been back by then."

"Yeah. It turned out to take longer than I wanted but I made some new friends and had a good time. I missed you guys but I wouldn't have changed it for the world. Oh I have to tell you guys all something." said Iris. They then decided that they would all go to Iris' grandparents house. "Hey. Grandma? Are you home?"

"Hello, My dear. How are you?" asked her grandma, Selene. They said there hellos, gave each other hugs, and caught up with each other.

"So, Iris told us on our way here that she had something to tell us." said Liz, giving Iris a little elbow tap, trying to get her to talk.

"Oh, ok. so Tell us what you needed to tell us, my dear." said Selene corisous about what she wanted to say. Selene always thought that whatever someone wanted to say was important no made the subject.

"Well. I was thinking how mom and dad went to find the guy who blow up the north gate and how they haven't found him yet. So I thought that I could go and maybe find him myself." said Iris. You could tell that no one expected that because they all had a surprised look on their faces.

"Oh Iris. I know that Blakes death is hard on you but you have to let that go dear. It won't help to keep it all in." said Selene.

"Don't you understand? I will never get over this until the guy who killed him is found." said Iris who started to tear up. When talking about Blake always made Iris tear up. She secretly missed him. She wanted so badly to find out that he was alive. That the past couple of years had been just a dream. She wanted to walk up one day and see him in his favorite chair for breakfast.

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"What are we going to do Tiger Lily? I don't want to leave them but I just can't stay here." said Iris. She always looked to Tiger Lily for advice. Tiger Lily couldn't talk out loud but she can talk inside a person's head.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">//'I don't know. I think we have to go. If only to get some closure. I feel your loss even if I didn't know Blake.'// said Tiger Lily.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"So we will go. What do we tell the others?" said Iris. She didn't want to tell them because she knew they would try to stop her. Something in her told her that she had to go, no madder what.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">//'We will just tell them that we are going away to meet a friend. We don't tell them why.'// said Tiger Lily.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"Ok. Well lets go get ready. I will need my sword, some clothes, and food for both of us." said Iris. Iris packed everything she needed, told her family what they needed to hear and left.

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<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">//'Where to first?'// said Tiger Lily. They had just left the village by the north gate and started walking down the path.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"I don't know. Maybe theres some kind of clue where the man went." said Iris. She looked around and saw nothing. "I guess we'll just walk straight then." They walk for half a day. And they decided to stop to have lunch. Iris made a fire and cooked chicken that she had packed.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">//'It's a nice day out. Do you think they know by now that we're not going to a friends?' asked Tiger Lily.//

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"I don't think so but if they do we can't stop for long." said Iris.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">//'Well I think I'm going to cool down in the pond over there and then we will leave again.'// said Tiger Lily.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Iris was about to call to Tiger Lily that they had to leave when she saw something in the distance. At first look she thought it was an animal but at a second look she could tell that it was a person. The person came closer and she knew that this was the man who killed him.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"I'm guessing you know by now that I'm the cause of your brothers death. Well at least you think I am." said the man.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"What do you mean I think? I know you killed my brother. I saw the fire. I know he's dead." said Iris.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"I didn't kill him. I took him with me to my place." said the man.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"Why are you tell me this?" said Iris.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"Because. I don't want him anymore and I know you do. How about this? You do something for me and I will give you, your brother." said the man.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"What do you want?" said Iris. She knew that this couldn't be right, that the man wouldn't give her, her brother with out a price and he was about to tell her.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"I want to see if you can make it to my place without dying. There are things that will get in your way. Do you have the strength to get by them? We will see, won't we?" said the man.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"Ok. How do we get there?" asked Iris. She knew that it would take everything she had to find him and she will do just that.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"Theres a pond put both your feet into it and you will find your way." said the man.

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<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">After he left, Iris meet up with Tiger Lily. They put their feet into the pond and waited. They were about to take their feet out when a path on the other side of the pond opened up.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">//'So. This is the way to go.'// said Tiger Lily.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"Yep. I guess so." said Iris. They walked around the pond and stopped at the beginning of the path. "Shall we go or should we turn around?"

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">//'We will go. If that is what you want?'// asked Tiger Lily.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">"Well lets not wait. Lets go." said Iris. They started their walk through the path. They weren't five minutes into the path when they got attacked. It wasn't hard to take over them but it was hot work. The attackers were half animal, half human. The looked like they were never trained to fight before. Iris felt bad for killing them but if she was to have her brother back, she would have to.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">//‘It will be ok. Lets keep on going.’// said Tiger Lily.

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<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">They walked for a half a day more. They were attacked two more times and they won each time.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">“I’m getting tired. Lets stay here for a while.” said Iris.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Iris started a fire and laid the sleeping bags out near it.She pulled some turkey out of her bag and started to cook it.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">//'So what are we going to do now?'// asked Tiger Lily.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">"I don't know. It should only take another day to get to the place where the guy keeps Blake. You know what? I should probably practice some of my magic before we get there. So at least I can use that in a fight and use my sword." said Iris.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">//'Do you really think that you will need to use your magic?'// said Tiger Lily.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">"I don't know but I have a feeling that in the future I will need it. You know that I've been practicing a lot on my own lately?" said Iris.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">//'No I didn't know. Why?'// said Tiger Lily.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">"I don't know. I guess that when I get in a fight and I don't have my sword that I will be able to fight without it." said Iris. They ate their dinner in silence. When they got up the next morning they didn't say anything to each other. They walked on with silence. That’s when they came to a fork in the road.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">//‘Well. Which way are we suppost to go?’// asked Tiger Lily.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“I don’t know.” said Iris. They were about to go to the right but that’s when they heard a voice in the distance of the road they were about to take.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">//‘Who’s that?”// asked Tiger Lily.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“I don’t know.” said Iris. She tried to look far into the darkness but it was too dark. “Hello. Who’s there?” she yelled.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“You shouldn’t yell like that. I can hear you alright. Oh by the way my name is Jory.” said the voice.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“What is it that you want?” said Iris.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“I want nothing but you want something.” said Jory. He walked out of the darkness to show that the voice talking wasn’t a man but a fox. He wasn’t ordinary fox. It was in fact a giant fox. He was the size of a bear.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“How did you know that?” said Iris.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“I know everything. I know that you lost your brother blake when you were little. I know that you miss your parents. I know your brother Christian is worried about you. I know that rose doesn’t really remember what your parents look like. I know that you had to grow up fast to take care of them both.” said Jory.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“How do you know all of that?” asked Iris. It was true. She had to grow up so that she could take care of Rose. The more and more that their parents were away Rose started to forget them.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“When I was born I was given a gift. The gift of knowing. I’m here because I’m suppost to help you take the path that you need to take.” said Jory.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“Ok so what path are we suppost to take?” asked Iris.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“I can’t tell you but what I can do is tell you to take time thinking about the path to take. If you take time the answer will come to you.” said Jory. After that he left the way he came.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">//‘What was that about”// asked Tiger Lily.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“I don’t know.” said Iris. She thought that the fox was crazy but she tried what he wanted her to do. She closed her eyes and thought about it.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">In her mind she thought about the two paths. One was dark but one had Light. One would lead her to her brother and the other lead her somewheres else. One of the paths were the one she wanted but what one. That’s when it came to her. The one that was dark was the one she wanted. She would take the right path because that is what she believed would get her to where she wanted to get.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“Come on lets go this way.” said Iris.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">//‘I don’t know. I think thats the wrong one. Maybe the one with the light because it looks nicer.’// said Tiger Lily.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“Yeah because its a trick. They want you to go down the path with the light because you think its nice and it appeals to you but really theres a hobgoblin at the end of it that eats you.” said Iris. The hobgoblin was something that was told around the village. People who meet it rarely live to see another day but some have lived to tell the village people about it. The next day they would be dead.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">//‘Are you sure this is the right path?’// asked Tiger Lily.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“Yes. I’m sure. Now lets go.” said Iris. They took the path on the right and it came out to hide a giant castle. “Should we go in?” Tiger Lily gave her a look that said maybe.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">They went to the front door. They didn’t open it and they didn’t say a word. They just sat there and look at it. They door had no sign that anyone had opened it in years. The knocker looked like it was about a hundred years old.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“Well here goes nothing.” said Iris. She opened the door and walked in. They were met with a very clean house. Unlike the outside the inside had no dirt or dust. It was like someone had cleaned it every hour on the hour.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">Off to the left of the house there was a set of stairs. They decided that the best place that they would find her brother was in one of the bedrooms upstairs. They were right about one thing. Her brother was upstairs but he didn’t look hurt. He looked like he was happy to be there and that he wanted to be there.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“Hello, Blake?” asked Iris.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“Oh yes it’s me. How are you guys? I’ve missed you. I wanted to visit but Jory said it wasn’t safe.” said Blake.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“I guess it wasn’t. Are you going to come back now that everything is safe?” asked Iris.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“Yes I will but there is one thing that is needed to be done.” said Blake.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">//‘Whats that?’// asked Tiger Lily.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“There is a man out there that wants to take over the world and some people will need your help.” said Blake.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“Why us? Why can’t they find someone else? How do we even get there?” asked Iris.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“They need you guys because you have magic and you are really good at fighting with your sword. And the last question of getting there.” said Blake.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">As he said that a door made out of purple flame from a dragon. "Heroes. You are summoned. Step Forward, and meet your destiny." said the dragon

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“What is that?” asked Iris.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“That is the way to get there. You will find out who you really are on your journey.” said Blake and with that he was gone.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;">“Lets do this.” said Iris and they both walked through the door and that is where the adventure begins......