The Dark Path: Stygian Days

Constants, Variables and Infinity (1)

Jamie turned around and shook her head. Sitting down, she continued. “It seemed like forever but Mother Nature came out victorious. She claimed that the power of the wind was too powerful to be controlled by one spirit. It was close to rivalling the power of the Dark Lord but by a generous margin. To ensure that nothing like this would ever happen again, she split the element of wind into five; Hurricane, Typhoon, Cyclone, Gale and Breeze. This would not have been possible for the Higher Elements like Light, Darkness and possibly Sound.”

Jamie searched through her folder and pulled a few papers. “Your friends, Tyson and Sylvia, are Typhoon and Cyclone respectively. I have a track record on their recent whereabouts. They have been travelling across the globe but there doesn’t seem to be a clear reason as to what they have in mind. One of their stops was Antarctica, strangely.”

I took a moment to soak it in and looked at Enzo. “Did you know about all this?”

Enzo shook his head. “This is the first time that I’m hearing like you. The latin American mechanic that you met, Gabe, I thought he was the only wind elemental, THE wind elemental. That’s why you saw him at the conference room.”

“Yes, Gabe is Gale.” Jamie said to Enzo, who sat back looking at the ceiling.

“Let me guess. Gabe doesn’t know about this.”

“No. I feel it is now the right time that you tell him. He has the right to know.”

I leaned forward and clasped my hands together. “That’s three. What of the other two?”

Jamie looked at a few more documents. “There is a female wind sibling in France. The notes say she is currently part of a fashion magazine company in one of France’s busiest towns. She might be Breeze. As for Hurricane, the documents are missing on him or her.”

“That will do for now. What I need to now is where Archer could have gone.” I said to her.

“The file I gave him is strictly confidential. It is one of the things that I am sworn by oath to the Great Mother herself not to speak. I wish I could share but this more serious stuff compared to the Wind siblings.”

I nodded my head. “I understand. I just need Archer to know that what happened in the chambers was beyond his control and not his fault. Where he is going and what he intends to do…he’s on his own now, it seems.”

[Archer’s POV]

I looked out of the window in my throne room, down at the silent waterfall. As I stood there, I sensed a presence approaching. It was my most trusted aide, Dokkalfar. He helped me sort books a long time ago. Now, he’s helping look for a temple. The Temple of the Einstein cult, it was called. That was the name I found in the documents that Jamie gave me.

“My lord, we have successfully discovered the area at which the temple is located it is a very thick jungle and the sun shines too bright for our kind.” Dokkalfar said as he kneeled before me.

“What do you mean too bright? We have some major injuries on the reconnaissance team. The wolves were panicking when the light shone on them.”

Syschela appeared out from the shadows. “You will survive, my lord, but you must head to this temple by yourself.”

Dokkalfar nodded. “I have discovered that there is a train that leaves from a large town that is safe for the shadow people and arrives at a small town that is a few several kilometres from the temple. The temple is reported to be surrounded by an extremely thick jungle. The humans may cut down the trees for years and never see the temple.”

“Thank you for your assistance, Dokkalfar. Go and take a rest. You have earned it.” I said to him.

“My lord.” He said before turning and leaving the throne room.