They all ran until they saw a giant structure that could only be the ziggurat.
"Wait" Scnalan called when he noticed what was in front of them
"Uh, Scanlan?" Grog asked
The bard gnome gasped in realization remembering all the details. 'We should focus on this book...it's some kind of fucked up diary'
'These symbols show the sky at a specific time and date'
'I think it's a ziggurat'
"It wasn't a spell book. It was an instrunction manual" Scanlan said and looked at his friends, "The drawings, the symbols, it had to do with the name. Uh, the wha...what was it?"
"The Whispered One" Miel said
"Yeah! That!"
"The Whispered One?" Pike repeated in question
"You've heard that name?" Vex asked
"Once. From an elder of the Everlight. They said he's some sort of undead creature whose soul seeks the power to return to our plane." Pike explained
Miel sighed, "he's a banished god that was involved in a battle between Prime and Betrayers" she explained, earning confused looks from the group
"I get the book, the maps but what's with the star chart?" Scanlan wondered
"It's the solstice, when the barrier between the planes is the thinnest" Keyleth realized
"Oh, sure, sure, the planes. Yeah, yeah, what's that mean?"
"If The Whispered One wants to cross over, now is the perfect time to do it" Miel said, not taking her eyes off the ziggurat in search for either Vax or Cass
"And the Briarwoods must be trying to help him" Pike said
"I don't give a shit what they're doing" Vex said, "I just want my brother back"
"Look, there he is" Miel said and they both saw him at the edge of the stairs before walking towards the Briarwoods.
"Vax"
"Okay, I'll take Vax. Piece of cake" Grog said
"Grog, I want my boyfriend back alive" Miel narrowed her eyes at him
"Oh uh, the I got Cassandra"
"No. She will answer to me" Percy said cocking his gun
"Oh...I never get to play" Grog whinned
"Buddies, we still need somebody to handle Sylas. Any suggestions?" Pike told him
"Um, I don't know, maybe Ripely?" he said, "Doesn't really matter what happens to her" he laughed
"Grog, we need your mighty strength against him" Miel chuckled gently
"Ooh...Goody" he smiled
"Well, that's settled then" Vex said, "Grog's got Sylas, Percy's got Cassandra, Pike's got Delilah, while me and Miel got Vax"
Miel's eyes widened and she looked at Vex, "What?" she whispered shouted, "you two always beat me up!"
"we know him best, which means we know his way of fighting" Vex explained, "Don't worry, I'll hold him down and you try to get him out of his trance" she pointed at her bracelet, "he told me about it, so you should be fine"
Miel looked at her wrist. Pike healed her burns from the lightning earlier, but her wrist was still red from the heat of the bracelet when she helped Scanlan keep them above the acid. 'He did say, if I absolutely needed to use it' she thought and let out a sigh, "I'll try, but this thing is about to burn my wrist off. I think it might burst from all the magic I've been using"
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The Champion's Guard
FanfictionA rogue's love for a warlock-in-training while adventuring with their group. Miel has known the twins since they were kids. They've met in the woods, decided to travel together, train together, and eventually ended up creating a group called Vox Mac...
