Okay so bad news, I'm not in a particularly good mood today so this will be the only chapter. But anyway here is the first chapter of the supposedly epic story of 'The Light Within the Darkness.' I bet some of you are wondering why I named it that, some of you don't really care about this authors note and just want me to get to the story, and some of you just skipped the authors note and went right for the story (to you lot just mentioned I ask … why?). Now let me just clear something up, this is in fact the first book meaning that there will be more stories on this if it is popular enough. But I digress, to the story! But first the disclaimer.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything or anyone except the shadowy figure to be revealed later.

(Phineas's POV)

A long time ago my brother Ferbalot and I, along with the water sprite Isabell, the barbarian Bufavulous, and his companion Baljeetolas defeated the evil Malifishmirtz and his horde of meat-lings. After the party (and Malifishmirtz's escape) the water sprite Isabel had to return to The Lady of the Puddle, and Bufavulous took Baljeetolas and returned to wondering. It has been a year since then and winter is finally on its way out in a few weeks. I have not seen any of them save for me brother and Perrible. "Ah Perrible" I said as I lay under the tree in our yard petting Perrible awaiting my brother to return from the blacksmiths with his new sword "I wonder if we will ever see any of our former adventuring companions, or go on a quest any time soon?" Parrible just made his usual dragonpus sound and closed his eyes. Over the year Ferbalot and I had gained quite some skill in adventuring, Ferbalot had started warring armor and was getting a better sword and although I was still a wizardling I had learned to maintain a spell long enough for it to be effective some time ago. I stood up and walked over to a miniature targeting range that Ferbalot and I set up to help me hone my skills. I pulled out my staff, took a deep breath, and sent a blast of arcane force at the practice dummy. The blast hit the target knocking it over "how was that Parrible?" I asked looking at the dragonpus. He just opened his eyes and made his usual sound "ya, I thought it was a bit off to" I readied myself for another shot just as I heard someone knocking.

As I walked over to the gate to see who it was I heard a voice come from the other side "Phineas …" it said weakly. Recognizing the voice, I ran the rest of the distance to the gate and threw it open. As I did, I looked down in horror as I saw the water sprite Isabell lying motionless on the ground "Phineas …" she said again.

I reached down and picked the tinny water sprite up "Isabell …" I said worried "what happened?"

She slowly opened her eyes and smiled "Phineas … I finally found you" I got more worried hearing the strength in her voice fade.

I started walking over to the tree cradling Isabell in my arms "Yes Isabell, you found me, now tell me what happened"

Her smile disappeared as she started to whimper "I …" she looked away from me "I … don't remember"

My eyes widened as I heard her speak "what do you mean?" I asked.

She brought her arms to her sides and started shivering "I … I can't remember anything"

I was shocked by what she just said, but at the same time confused "Isabell, if you can't remember anything then how-" I was interrupted by a dagger streaking right by my head and imbedding itself in the tree.

I slowly turned my head and saw a hooded figure standing on the fence "that was a warning shot" it said. It pulled out another dagger and pointed it at me "give me the water sprite or the next one won't be"

I looked at Isabell then back to the mysterious figure "what do you want with Isabell?" I demanded.

It lowered its dagger, hoped of the fence, and then started walking towards us "I would rather not waste time with an explanation that you wouldn't understand, so I will ask again, hand over the water sprite before this gets out of hand"

I took a step back and grasped Isabell with my left hand "you're not getting Isabell"

It pointed its dagger at me again "that's not an option" it said taking a few steps towered us "give me the water sprite or I will take her"

I moved my left hand so that Isabell would be out of harm's way, and raised my right hand to ready myself for the inevitable fight "over my dead body"

There was an awkward moment of silence as the figure pulled out another dagger "you should really watch what you say wizardling" I readied myself for his attack, but I was caught off guard by his speed. Before I could even blink he had made his way over to me, and his dagger had already traveled from my left hip to my right shoulder. I reeled back in pain as his speed took me by surprise again. While I was off balance for what was no more than half a second, the mysterious figure took Isabell form my hand and had already made it a good five feet away from me "well not exactly dead but I have what I came for" thinking quickly I fired an arcane blast at him, only to have him nock it away with his bare hand. "Is that the best you've got?" he asked me mockingly. I quickly fired a few more arcane blasts at him in rapid succession, only to have him deflect them with less difficulty than the first "you know even for a wizardling you're rather weak"

I glared at him while trying to think of a way out of this situation 'of course it's weak, you're holding Isabell and I don't want to hurt her' my mind calmed down a little as I closed my eyes 'but even if it was at full power my arcane blast would still not be strong enough to hurt him … so what do I do?'

As I was thinking the mysterious figure started walking backwards "well if you can't stop me then I guess I'll just-" he was interrupted by Parrible giving him an uppercut to the jaw, causing him to drop Isabell, who Parrible quickly snatched before the figure could get his balance back. After Parrible was a safe distance away I fired a full powered arcane blast that slammed into the mysterious figure, knocking him off his feet. "Oh so that's what's going on huh?" he stammered around a bit as he got to his feet "well if that's the way you want to do this then-" as if expecting it, he turned around and (using his daggers) blocked an attack from Ferbalot, who was attempting to catch this guy off guard by coming up from behind. "Another time perhaps" he said deflecting Ferbalot's attack and using his amazing speed to make his way to the top of the fence "another time wizardling"

I took a few steps toward him "who are you?" I asked.

He slowly turned to look at me "the next time we meet, you may address me as … Abiectio" and with that, he disappeared in a cloud of dark mist.

After he disappeared I rushed over to Parrible and retrieved Isabell "Isabell, are you alright?" I asked her cradling her in my arms.

"I'm fine thank you" she responded filling me with relief.

Ferbalot walked over to us and sheathed his sword "so what's the story here Isabell?' he asked.

She stared at Ferbalot and blinked twice "I'm sorry but … who are you?"

I could tell that my brother was shocked to hear that Isabell couldn't remember him so I quickly told him what I knew "Isabell can't remember anything aside from me … apparently" I turned my head to Isabell "why is that?"

She shook her head "I don't know Phineas, all I can remember is this location and you, I was hoping that you could help me with my memory because …" she started crying "I don't know where else to go"

"Don't worry Isabell" I said "we will find a way to restore your memory, and we'll also find out why Abiecto is after you"

She smiled "Thank you Phineas, I knew I could count on you" she started flapping her wings slowly "my wings are still weak, I can't fly yet"

"Then I'll carry you" I said putting her on my shoulder. Her face turned red for some reason but I decided to pay it no mind and instead I stood up "Ferbalot, we have our quest, help Isabell recover her missing memory"

And that's the end of the first chapter. I hope you liked it. I will update this story every Saturday and in times when I'm exceptionally happy. Its most likely going to be very very long, so for people who want to know what makes me exceptionally happy I will tell you that I'm am happy under mainly several circumstances, 1. I finish a story, 2. I get lots of reviews 3. I read an exceptionally good story (not to say that there all not good), 4. people vote on the poll I have set up. "what's changed?": nothing in this chapter has changed from the original script but my ideas for future chapters have changed so much while I was writing this chapter.

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