Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 22:27:04 EDT
From: AmanteGuy@aol.com
Subject: Time Stood Still-Chapter 1

****Warning**** If you are under the age of 18 or do not agree with man to
man sex please do not read further.  This is the Chapter 1 to a Fantasy
story. This is a fictional story. It has some elements that may not fit what
some communities deem appropriate. If you are not interested in Gay Male
Erotic Stories please then do not proceed reading the story, please be
advised the story has gay themes (strictly Characterizations) This will be
submitted in a series, I hope those of you reading. Comments Let me know and
hey........ Enjoy!

Chapter one:  Gifts are given

I had always known there was something different about me. Even at a very
young age I had a special gift for some reason animals responded to me very
well as if I had control over them or perhaps had a connection to them. My
parents were aware of this too you see they have 3 children.  I have one
brother that is 6 years older he was off in training in the league for Chal,
young boys that turn the age of 12 (their majority in my time) and I had one s
ister that was only two. My life was pretty peaceful in compared to the time
I lived in when others suffered so much. You see I lived in a time where my
country was ruled by a merciless Warlock named Chal. Chal suppressed the
minds and thoughts of the people and he ruled through fear and intimidation.
My parents were lucky enough to be merchants. Though they did not work for
Chal it was assumed they did for he made life hell for merchants such as my
parents and through most merchants he ruled each township. My mother had for
some reason enchanted Chal's youngest and favorite son Macor, and because of
this my family was spared some of the harsher treatments many others in the
townships faced. My poor father was ruthlessly embarrassed by Chal's son Chal
feared the power from old magic, he knew that the natural magic in the land
would one day a rise again. He feared those that understood this magic and in
the elders there was quite a few. However through violence and fear he
crushed the Elders of natural magic also called Magik.  Magik comes in many
forms the more common skills were the powers of levitation or particle
placement.  Levitation was the ability to move a stationary object and allow
it to hover in place or to move about slightly for extended periods. Particle
Placement was the ability to take a mass in one location and disassemble it
molecularly and make it reappear else where. The latter being much more
difficult and draining. Then there are Magik spells that are learned and when
combined with some of the inborn magik combine to be some of the most
powerful forces in the land. Chal was a student of this era of magic the
learned and the natural. He had as a child the ability to read others
thoughts or sometimes to perceive events before they took place in his
childhood these talents were encouraged, this was an eternity ago or 10 life
times in elder speak. Chal grew more and more evil as those can be when they
have special talents or powers. The thing about natural Magik is that it can
overtake you, if you do not learn to control it, it will in the end control
you and that can lead to self destruction. Chal gained control of this magik
before it over took him, but not before an evil seed was implanted in his
mind. There was a force coursing through his veins, one that is as old as
time, in fact it was a part of time itself. With in all of us there is
usually a balance of good and evil and at some point we lose ourselves to one
or the other even if for only a moment. Sometimes we do not recover and this
is the case for Chal. The evil in him over took him when he allowed the
balance to be disturbed by the magik with in him.

My name is Thialon (pronounced Thye lawn) or Thia for short. My full name
Thialon Spirittrapper. I guess my earliest memory of my talents or gifts was
when I was about 6 years old. My parents always encouraged my individuality
and as such taught me lots of games I could play by myself games that helped
nurture my connection to the natural world. I'll tell ya about my family name
later, for now on with my memories. One day I was playing in our yard when a
Blue jay landed in a tree not to far away. I remembered he was making such a
racket, he was just not very happy.  He was so noisy to the point of it
bothering me. I finally asked him why was he complaining, and to my surprise
he answered me just, he explained to me that he had lost his acorn tree he
traveled very far and was cursing himself because his family was very hungry
He feared his young would starve during this drought other parts of the land
were suffering.  He seemed so distraught that I had to think of something. I
promised to help him. He agreed to meet me here at sunset, and I would have
part of my dinner waiting for him.  Now to the average person it would seem
crazy that I was talking to a bird and to them the bird is just chirping and
tweeting, The following weeks the Blue Jay returned to my yard at sunset and
I would have part of my dinner waiting.  It was one such evening that my
mother became curious, so she followed me to the small thicket just beyond
our yard. My mother made sure to not to be seen by me.  It was in the thicket
that night when I presented to the Blue jay my dinner of that night, it was a
type of corn bread stuffed with peppers and Brilo (a type of fish named for
their jeweled scales). Our conversation started the same. Me calling Mr.
Brightwing (his name as I later learned most upper earth animals had names) I
have a gift for you. He would call back "who calls the me the bird of the
sky, the one that sings and dances among the woods so sly" now to my mother
his reply just sounded as a normal call or bird song of a blue jay. I'd reply
in my human speak "It is I the one named after the spirit among the winds, It
is I Thialon, Mr. Brightwing one of your friends,"  I would then present the
him with the food I had brought. This night however was different. Mr.
Brightwing had a gift for me. After I laid out the corn and pepper bread and
presented it to him on a pile of fern leaves, he called to the woods "Come
forth my children and eat heartily." To my amazement out of the shadows
walked Three of the brilliantly colored birds I had ever seen each a
different shade of blue from a bright flame blue to the deepest aqua blue.
They ate in silence. Mr. Brightwing explained to me these are the children I
helped save. I gave the strength to travel from their lands and flourish here
at the edge of my thicket. To my surprise and amazement Mr. Brightwing landed
on my shoulder and whispered in my ear "For you are one of the chosen,  this
is all I can speak, in time you will know more as will others that seek."
The entire time my mother watched in silence and in awe as I held court with
a bird. Again Mr. Brightwing spoke, this time in clear Human speak "Thia is
not alone in this thicket of his elders, there is another I believe it is the
one the one you call mother."  "No Mr. Brightwing I am all alone, I brought
no one" Just then he flew to a branch just over the bush my mother was hiding
behind "Mother of Thialon please present yourself" just then my mother
stumbled from behind the bush, more by accident and shock. My mother was
speechless. Turning to my mother I said "Mother you followed me why?" Again
the bird spoke to my mother from his branch " Ialona your child has given my
family the gift of life, for his kindness over these many weeks have allowed
my children to live and grow." Just then I noticed standing beside me where
three maidens with hair the same bright blue that colored Mr. Brightwing. My
mother could not speak, so the bird spoke to her. "Ialona, your son has a
gift of a magik old as time, and as he grows older and stronger this gift
will expand and grow. This gift he holds is one you must guard from other
that would harm him. Your child holds the gift that is born of your name, he
will forever speak with the spirits of the forest, and in doing so he will
also speak with the children of the forest" Just then there was a brilliant
flash of a blinding Blue light and before me stood and old man Dressed in the
same bright blue of the birds feathers, in fact it seemed as if his robes
were all feathers, and the sparkled like gems in the setting sun light.

My mother still unable to speak managed to stand. She suddenly realized she
was face to face with a spirit of the forest, and his children were also
spirits of the forest. The three maidens moved to stand beside the old man
and from with in the large sleeves the removed three small boxes that seemed
to glow. The first maiden approached me and I was to stunned to speak. She
was perhaps one of the loveliest creatures I had seen not human and yet human
her eyes burned like a blue flames and when she spoke her voice was musical
like that of a birds song and yet it was human speak "Thialon Spirittrapper,
because of your kindness you have helped to break the spell evil Chal had
placed on us. In my gratitude I give to you this gift" She opened the box she
held and looked inside then placed her hand upon mine and I felt a small
surge of energy around my finger, I looked down and there in my ring finger
of my right hand was a gold band with a bright blue stone. she continued "
This ring is a gift of the most precious sapphire, in time you will learn of
its special power" and she stepped back in place and lowered her eyes. The
second Maiden stepped forward dressed in a slightly darker aqua blue still
brilliant and her eyes sparkled, I was still amazed and looking at the ring
on my hand when she placed her hand under my chin lifting my face to her gaze
and spoke in the sing song voice of a bird "Child of Ialona, child of
thickets and briar, you have set me free and this is the gift I give to thee"
again the second maiden opened the small glowing box and with a flash of her
eyes around my neck there was a braided cord with stones the color of her
eyes."This gift has a power that is as old as time, our essences is now
connected, yours with mine" again she stepped back in place and lowered her
eyes. The final maiden stepped forward. She was perhaps the most mysterious
to me and a little frightening. She was dressed in a deep midnight blue her
hair a strange silvery blue that danced in the approaching moonlight. My
mother was now standing off to my side, just amazed at what she was witness
to, she knew something special and magical was happening, and somehow she
knew this was also a part of something bigger, and she sat in worried
silence. This is a day she would later say she knew she lost her son and he
lost his innocence (which was actually much later to come in a very different
way that would me my elderly mother weep), I would indeed be a target for
Chal. As the third and final maiden of Silvery Blue approached, her voice was
sort of dark and enveloped me and yet her mouth did not move and for the
brief moment she spoke her voice was more in my mind as she opened her box it
was just she and I, I lost all visual contact with my surroundings I was lost
in her voice in my head. It send chills down my spin and her voice spoke with
that chill a warning "Child in birth you have been given a gift, but this
same gift that is special and which brought me to you, is a gift that has
marked you. Your life is in danger from setting me free, this gift I know
give you is a part of me" with that she touched each hand to either side of
my head just over my ears, I felt a serious pain from deep within my mind she
could see into my soul and she knew more about me then than I knew about
myself even at a young age it was clear to her my true self. She smiled an a
strange smile and stepped back in line, but she broke the pattern and turned
to my mother "One day Ialona, this child will bring you great pain, your
heart will break, but you must endure never lose the love you have held for
him" she smiled that strange creepy smile and I saw my mother flinch for the
first time and her breathing became slightly forced. The maiden then lowered
her head, but not before the old man Mr. Brightwing gave her a disapproving
glance. Mr. Brightwing then stepped forward and said aloud for all to hear
"Thialon SpiritTrapper, from this day forward your name shall be among the
folk of the wood Thialon Brightwing" this made each of the maidens raise
their eyes to their father with a look of shock, he brushed their glances off
and continued "In one life time I shall visit you, and in the year before
your majority will be our last year together in this one life time I shall
teach you to command your skill, this will be my gift to you as you are now
my son by spirit and so shall be known by all"  This all seemed like a dream
to me and my 6 year old mind was not totally understanding it all. I knew
something powerful happened that day in the woods.  On our walk home in the
darkness we were watched by all the spirits of the woods and the forest
itself it seemed to sing in our ears as we walked home.  As the bird family
watched mother and I walk home, The third maiden spoke aloud to her father
"he will have a deep struggle inside of himself, one I am afraid he will not
conquer, I just hope we will be able to temper that spark, it could be
dangerous."  The old man spoke "I agree, however for yo warn his mother of
something in his soul that even he does not yet know was very wrong my
daughter, in time you will learn just how strong he is, I fear also you will
have to face his anger one day" it was her turn to shiver at her father's
warning. She had sensed the power, even in such a young child, it would not
be long before Chal found him out, it was a good thing he has some charms of
protection, but the God's help Chal when the day comes he meets Thialon
Brightwing. With that the four spirits vanished in a flash of bright blue
light, back to the world of magik.