The arcanic runes circle around Edith's mother as the ruby is placed not but a foot or two in front of her. The runes start to glow as her eyes close and the ruby starts to float in the air in front of Edith's mother. A strong gust explodes from out of the ruby, blowing everyones hair back, but everyone stands still, watching the ruby float in front of the spellcaster deep in concentration. The runes peel off the floor like a ripple in the ocean. Individual branches of the runes split and branch out again, the circle of runes getting larger and larger. By the time that the runes have stopped branching out and expanding, the circle comes out about 7 feet in each direction from Edith's mother, and where the runes hit the wal, the remaining runes from that branch climb up the wall, like moss and vines spreading up walls and across the floor.
"Woah, this is truly magical," Barney chuckles as he stares at the runes, watching them climb up the walls and crawl across the floor. Edith smiles as he says that, looking at her mother, trying to learn something from watching a master at work.
The different runes inside the circle of coalescing runes pop off of the floor and wall and float around Edith's mother's head, surrounding her like a halo of runes that lash out and shoot towards the ruby, flying through the air like a snake slithers along the ground. The line of sharp runes flies towards the ruby, shattering its forcefield like shield. The arcanic runes just fuse with the ruby, being absorbed in the red ruby.
The ruby pulses, the light being emitted from it pulsing with it. A subtle crackling noise emits with the light. Cracks begin to appear on the surface of the ruby, like ravines being formed on planets. The cracks expand, and the light from the sun begins to emerge from inside the ruby, making the four people not casting spells cover their eyes, protecting them from the blinding light that was trapped inside the ruby.
The cracking sounds begin to crescendo as the ruby almost stretches before exploding into several pieces, each of the pieces flying across the room and shattering into even smaller pieces as they collide with the wall.
The sounds die down, as the sun that was captured in the ruby floats in a small ball in the centre of what was the rune circle, rotating around what is supposedly its axis.
The sun expands, the light blinding everyone in the room now that Edith's mum had opened her eyes after completing the spell. The sun expands to a point where it takes up most of the room, before it seeps out of the window, going back to its place in the sky. Light is restored to the slarge town looked over by the castle on the hill.
Edith went back to the market, after restoring the sun with her boyfriend and his friends, now hers as well. She went back to Granny Magdalena's bookstall, smiling warmly at the old woman, who was selling books from the countless piles of books that tower over her small stature.
"Hello Granny Magdalena, how are you today" Edith asked, walking up to the stall, absentmindedly looking at all the books that were laid out on the main art of the stall, seeing some more on alchemy, the processes of life and death, and even some on the transmutation of people and objects.
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A/N
Hey Night Children,
That is the end of my short story, Darkness and the ruby. Sorry for the really short and anticlimactic story ending, but I have not really had much inspiration for the end of this story as I have had another story idea that will be my next story, so the last few chapters of this story might be a bit lackluster.
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f.1 || Darkness and the Ruby
FantasyMarket day in the city of mysteries is rudely interrupted, and the town goes into complete dissaray and madness. What caused this madness, and what needs to be done to end it? Find out by reading this dark fantasy short story written by avid-writer...
