“She's got bette davis eyes.”
Dr. Frankenstein* #quote
I went to my card game thing today. Much fun was had. My Pokemon
cards went to epic war and nerdy battles of cardboard fury. Anyway
onto the flash fiction!
The Unlabeled Artifact
The Wizarding Guild of the Ruby Dragons had a great treasure vault
where everything was labeled perfectly. Nobody would bother stealing
anything since the vault was so famous a thoroughly documented(and
guarded) everyone would know where it came from. It would be like
stealing the mundane world's Mona Lisa. Except the vault was guarded
by a near uncountable amount of enchantments. All of these
protections made it so that tourists could visit the many magical
treasures inside.
One of the treasures wasn't labeled. A single artifact. This made it
quite feared. In the world of magic not knowing what something did
could make something quite dangerous. It could very well cure
diseases. Or turn the user into a god. Or destroy the world. But
nobody could tell. Nobody could know what the little unlabeled pot
did. They just knew an incredible amount of magic came from it. So
much that it glowed blue all on its own. They put a sign on it “Do
not activate” and put barrier after magical barrier on it.
But not all things can be left to sit. And something like that
became the source of much curiosity. So much curiosity that a very
wealthy man of the most curious kind hired the most talented thief in
the world to break into the guild and take it. The thief had been
looking for an excuse for a long time.
The thief enjoyed using his stupid, dorky looking face. He looked
like the most bumbling of wizards with a fat chin and dumbfounded
gaze. He didn't steal it in the deepest, darkest moments of the
night. He used his demeanor, his very wizard's robes and the tricks
of an illusionist and not a magician.
He stole it in a broad daylight. When a crowd was around the
displays he pushed someone into it while being nearby and with a
slight of hand, the trick of an illusionist, put it into his robes.
He replaced it with another artefactual he paid good money to a
powerful wizard to be made to magically resemble the unlabeled
artifact. And soon he left with it.
The wealthy curious man got his opportunity to use the unlabeled
artifact with the thief watching. The thief planned to steal it if it
turned out to be something non-leathal to the user. His employer both
served to pay him and be guinea pig.
The wealthy man used a basic artifact activation spell and smoke
came out from the pot that soon materialized into a genie.
“Thank you for freeing me mortals.”
The wealthy man smiled. “You're welcome oh, mighty genie. You must
have been the powerful source of magic in the pot. For my first wish
I desire eternal youth!”
The genie laughed. “What? Oh no. This isn't a magic lamp. This is
a magic pot. I don't grant wishes. I just got stuck. Funny story
really how I got in there. But I'd like to go so maybe I'll tell you
later. Sorry, but no wishes.”
The genie then vanished.
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