Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 18:14:09 +1100 From: gtr01r@hotmail.com Subject: La lumiere et l'Obscurite Unie / Light and Darkness United - Chapter 5 La lumiere et l'Obscurite Unie / Light and Darkness United - Chapter 5 This story is all fiction. Any similarities of characters and events with real life is purely coincidental. It will contain scenes of sex and love-making between the 2 primary teenage boy characters in later chapters, and if that content disturbs you, you are free to leave at any time. All local National and State laws apply. Please E-mail all questions and comments to gtr01r@hotmail.com Thanks and I hope you enjoy the story. Chapter 5 "Tromperie!!!" roared Vieux. "What have you done with Andrew and Johnathan?!! Where are you keeping them?!!" yelled Vieux as he rampaged through the villa. Opening and slamming doors to random rooms situated throughout the hallways of the Marquise's Villa. A look of pure anger was etched on his face. He already despised the Marquise enough as it was, and to know that she might've harmed the two boys threw him into a dire rage. He finally made it to a room which he remembered all too well. A room now covered in dust, with spider webs in the corners, and furniture covered in cloths. This room was clearly abandoned, but not entirely forgotten. The door wasn't boarded but the room had clearly not been used in many years. Though this came as no surprise to Vieux; it was his room after all. For the way the Marquise had slowed down over time, he didn't exactly expect her to still be the same vibrant ball of life that she once was. Vieux stood and gazed at the room in a reverie, as memories came flooding back. 14 years ago... "Vieux, stay, please stay" entreated the Marquise De Tromperie. "Madame, I can't, my first grandson has just been born. I've promised my son that I'll help them out, just until they get comfortable and I'm no longer needed. I'll be back here with you soon, my love." "No you won't! You say that you'll be back but you won't. Like last time, remember you went away on that hunting trip, you said you were only going to be gone a couple of months, and then I didn't see you for three years. How about the time before that, you went on a voyage to speak with that sorcerer so you could develop your skills, that was again only supposed to take three months, but I didn't see you for fifteen months!" replied the angry Marquise. "I promise, my love, this time I will be back before the new moon. My son told me himself that he won't need me for more than a couple of weeks." "You'd better keep your promise Vieux; I can't take this much longer. My love for you will only keep burning as long as you are with me. This distance you keep creating; it will ultimately be our end." A Week after the New Moon... "So where were you tonight my dear?" catechized Tromperie bitterly. "I was with my son, my love, you know that." replied Vieux innocently, unaware of where the Tromperie's current mood was coming from. "No you weren't. You were off at another villa, spending the night with a courtesan!!" retorted Tromperie, while fighting back tears. "Where would you get a ridiculous idea like that? Oh, let me guess. Ingenieux told you. If there is anyone who's been cheating, it would be YOU, my dear," Vieux fired back while pointing at the Marquise in ridicule. "I had no other choice!!! In the past four years, I've only gotten to spend a maximum of six months with you at a time. You know the type of woman I am, you were aware of the problems that may occur if you didn't spend time with me before we started this relationship. Ingenieux was here when you weren't, you could see him and I getting closer, yet you still decided to go off on trips and voyages. So don't you dare begin lecturing me on morals!! This relationship fell apart because you didn't keep it going, you were never around to." "So that's it, is it? You feel no guilt; you don't see anything wrong, do you? Well, then I'm leaving!!" "Leave then; leave the good life I've given you behind. Remember that I own this villa, I am a Marquise, and you are only a Monsieur. A noble, yes, but nothing of my ranking; you won't ever have this type of life again, you know? The wealth, the power, the parties, the hunting grounds, the abundant eternal supply of deer, the vast library with an infinite supply of knowledge, and most importantly ME. You won't ever have another woman like me, not with my beauty, with my wit, my charisma, my charms, nor my influence. You won't ever love another woman like you do me Vieux, because of the fact that we are made for each other. Your heart has the same dark capacity as mine, you share the same interest in magic as I do, and if we start a war it will be one that isn't finished till we are both lying on this marble floor unconscious, staining it with our blood." "If that's the case Madame, then let it be. You already have Ingenieux. You don't need me." With those last words, the Marquise had had enough and telepathically threw a chair at Vieux. He blocked it with a quickly conjured invisible shield, and it fell to the floor. That only further enraged Tromperie, and having knowledge of a wide range of different types of magic, she was able to attack violently. The floor started rising up, and columns of rock started surrounding Vieux. With the foundations cracking, the ceiling began splitting where the columns touched, but still the floor kept rising. A wall of clay and mud started rising in between the columns, fencing in the Monsieur. He attacked back, shattering the glass of the windows with a violently strong wind, sending the shards flying, and knocking the Marquise down to the floor. He shielded himself from the shards, but not the Marquise. She laid on the floor, knocked out cold from the wind and the shock impacts of the glass shards, covered in cuts from head to toe. She was barely alive and breathing shallowly. Vieux calmed the wind, and retreated the columns and wall back into the earth. Being the powerful but benevolent wizard that he was, he immediately casted a Healing Spell on the Marquise. He extracted every piece of glass, and magically sealed each open cut back perfectly. He levitated the Marquise into her room and onto her bed, and then he healed her of every wound, and gave her back her beauty. He felt that even after all that had happened to them, he still owed her this one favour, for without her beauty she would have nothing. With that done, he went back to his room, and packed his stuff but left the mess. He drew a cloth over all the furniture and closed the door, hoping that he would never have to open it again. The Present... Vieux remembered it so well, and so vividly. He looked down at the floor and there was a shard of glass, right at his foot. That brought a tear to his eyes, thinking how he had done so much damage and still it wasn't completely gone. "Touching, Vieux, isn't it? To think that this room had seen so many things, and I'm sure would have seen many more tales to tell. Pity though that even with all the good memories it's had, it's still that last one that keeps coming to the mind. That last one that this room tells so completely, and in such detail." stated Tromperie. Upon hearing that sly, feminine voice, Vieux turned around, and looked at the object of his emotions straight in the eyes. "Where are they Tromperie!!!? Where are the boys!!? You'd better not have hurt them, or this time I won't have the heart to save you from my actions." "Oooh, are you trying to scare me Vieux?" replied Tromperie, in a teasing but nonchalant manner. "I'm much stronger then I was last time Vieux, my knowledge of magic has increased further, and I have Ingenieux now. I very much doubt, Monsieur, that you have enough strength to take on the both of us. But the boys are fine, they're in the dungeons. You've done well this time, bringing those two boys along." cackled Tromperie. "Take me to them, Tromperie!!" ordered Vieux. "Vieux, you are in no place to give orders, you will see them in due time." Shadow panthers started to move towards Vieux, three of them. He was already used to these three, for they were Tromperie's pets. She had a weird fascination with cats, especially exotic and sleek felines. They had by now trapped him in between them, circling him menacingly. Something about the panthers' gaze sent shivers down Vieux's back, so cold and so empty were their eyes. The panthers started to quicken their gait, appearing to move closer to him, their snarling echoing throughout the room. That was when he saw what he feared most, the leader Nieraely opened her jaw and revealed her 9 inch long sabre-teeth; these teeth were knives like no other. Then they did it; with Vieux's focus solely on Nieraely's jaw the panthers pounced. The hypnotism should've meant that when the dust settled, Vieux's body should have been strewn in pieces all over the floor. But not in this case, Vieux teleported himself outside of the panthers' reach and next to the door. The panthers landed in a messy clump amongst each other; Tromperie was not pleased. "I told you I'm better Tromperie; I just wished you'd believe it. You're more than welcome to chase me, Madame; that is if you think it will do any good." chuckled Vieux. "Vieux, I will have you!! Nieraely, get off the floor, you pathetic pet. You have your mark, now hunt him!!" The panthers rose up, got their balance back and set out for Vieux. The hunt was on, and this time they were hell-bent on claiming their prize. "Ingenieux!!" called Tromperie. "Coming, Madame, " he answered. "There you are, I've got a task for you Ingenieux. Vieux is here inside the villa. I want you to take Sheiska and go guard Gabriel. I'll be down soon, I just need to prepare myself should I have to fight Vieux. He has definitely grown in power, and I worry that my own is no longer strong enough. Ingenieux, no matter what, you must not let Vieux near Gabriel. If he frees him, we will have no hope and he will win." "I understand Madame; he will be in good hands. But please be down soon." With that, Ingenieux went off and made his way down to Gabriel. Written by Stig3 (new pseudonym, changed from GTR010R) *Happy New Year 2011, everyone!!!!!!*