As Incathuga walked around the tenth planet he had warped to that day, he noticed that there was very little, if any, sentient life on the surface. He sighed and thought to himself, It’s been a few months and I still haven’t found any clue to Celevescent’s location. I’ve checked every planet in the Western Spiral Arm of the Milky Way and nothing had intelligent life; even Earth, the place Maguses told me to search first, only had a few humans that couldn’t even get a person to the nearest planet.

"There’s not much use walking around here, and I can’t warp anywhere else, so I guess I should just set up camp.”

After a few minutes of walking, Incathuga saw the ruins of an old palace. He decided to stay in a small room on the palace’s east end after reinforcing the ceiling with a few blocks of darkness. He ate his dinner of stale bread and tried to get some rest so he could recharge his magic.

After about three hours of sleep Incathuga woke up from a nightmare of his wife being tortured by a man he couldn’t clearly see. Good, just a dream. Daenotsu will pay when I find him. He can’t be too far away; I’ve searched every planet in this arm for him.

There was a sudden movement and a young man, about eighteen years old, came into view. He had short, light blue hair, tanned skin, and eyes that looked like they were covered in frost. “Sialgus, you’re alive? How? I saw you die, you can’t be back.”

“But I am, and I’ve come to take revenge.” Sialgus prepared an ice spell to kill Incathuga.

“Why? You helped me by telling me about Daenotsu. I’m going to avenge you by killing him! There’s no way you’d attack me unless,” Incathuga thought for a moment, “you must be an imposter.”

“Quite a bit smarter than you look,” Sialgus said in a much lower pitched voice. “I thought I might be able to guilt you into dying.”

Sialgus transformed into a short, middle-aged man with gray eyes and receding brown hair. “You’ve been making me move your wife quite a bit.”

“Daenotsu? I’ll kill you for taking my wife!” Incathuga pulled out his daggers and ran to slash Daenotsu, but ended up slicing through smoke.

“A simple illusion, the same with this one. If you wish to find the real me you’ll need to train. I recommend the dome. There is an entrance to the north.”

“Why are you helping me? Aren’t you my enemy?”

“Yes, I’m your enemy, but fighting someone as weak as you wouldn’t be any fun, would it?”

“Good point, I guess I could use some training. Just an idea though, if you want to talk to me again, at least tell the truth when talking about illusions. I can tell a real person from smoke after a few seconds of talking.”

At this point Incathuga spun around and fired a beam of energy from his sword, which hit Daenotsu in the chest, making him stumble back before warping away. So, this dome is to the north. I’ll find it in the morning.

After a full night’s sleep, Incathuga set off for the dome. When he reached its gates at about noon, he stopped and pulled out his left hand dagger in case he had to defend himself. I guess this is it. I just hope I can find Daenotsu early after this training. I don’t want to leave Cel waiting.

OoC: It seemed a bit shorter than I usually write, but it should work. From now on I might call Celevescent “Cel” for short.

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My BA character, Incathuga Sateerag