Topic: Breaking the news.

Populi X

Date: 2006-01-13 07:17 EST
In the personal forge of the Ring Manor, the two weaponsmiths continued to their daily work, to have weapons aviable for any that wished to buy them, and thankfully Rhy'Din was always full of those looking for a weapon. Shaping up a sword, the saiyain and the chimera toiled with the wares. Maris finally speaking. "Han, perhaps it's time to tell you this. But I think you're about ready to new that bits of knowledge I have to share with you about what we do."

Han stopped, his large black eyes just look at him, almost shining. Mastery of any form of training brought something out of Hanzo that few do see from one considering just a warmonger person. "You mean I've nearly master all you know now? What do I have left?"

Maris grinned as he placed the hot blade into the cooling poiling, letting the steam rising up from the pool as the blade cooled down. "Get a jewel, any kind will do, and place into the sockets on the handguard. You're gonna be the one enchnat this place per the customer's requested desires with the blade. The requested enchant was to allow the sword to become imprinted with a lightning spell to allow the weapon to cast said spell at least once a day. That's the tricky part, the imprinting the spell is easy, the enchantment to limit the use is rather hard. You mess this up, you could either destory the sword, which is bad. Destory us, the sword and the manor, much worse. Make a weaker Irgaak by far the worst case.... To be continued later.

Populi X

Date: 2006-01-20 02:52 EST
Han did as requested of him, he got the said jewel and brought it over and set it in the socket of the weapon. "Right so now what's the spell we're enchanting the jewel with?"

Maris grinned and plopped the spell book down opened to the page. "This one right here, the one that allows the blade to never require sharpening. It's rather simple a spell, compared to what we're normally asked."

Han nodded and read over the spell, to be sure he had all the motions for the spell's flow and the words for the enchantment down perfectly. Han didn't want to mess up the spell, since it was his test for mastery of Maris' arts, not only smithing but the magical ascepts of all he'd learned. So he did all the parts of the spell for a practice run to be sure he had all things down pact.

"Nervous aren't ya Han? Just like how you were when I first started teaching you. Remember that?"

Han chuckled. "Yeah I do, I thought I had no capicity to learn your ways, but well in a way I still don't think I am right to learn it." He cleared his mind and started to try to cast the spell for real. Han felt the energies of magical force flow within him as he flowed and chanted what he needed to do per the spell book.

Will Hanzo Kazatma pass the test? Find out in the final installment of this small story.

Populi X

Date: 2006-02-11 05:07 EST
Just a small bit of time being skipped ahead here, the Nexus can do such things, but now this had transpried in the time that has been since the last part of the story, Nothing much other than the saiyain apprentice completing the work as Maris had instructed him to do. For this Maris was glad. And the Chimera grinned to the Saiyain. ""Congratulations to you, my first only and finest student." Maris patted down the back of his tired and most decidely so apprentice. "I have nothing left to teach you. In other words, you've mastered all my teachings, so you may do as you please, open your own shop, which I wouldn't suggest personally, since that might drag down my business. Or if you wish, continue to work for me as a partner. We have equal work loads between since we're both masters of our arts. No need to answer now, but do give it some thought. I wouldn't want to lose you at all personally, we've spent a lot of time together and you've been the son I've got to have, you're family and always welcome back here." With that Maris left the forge to let the Saiyain think on the offer. However this part, Hanzo's decision will be learned by all later, once he decides for himself.