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Chapter 17 - The Expulsion of a Shadow

Orion checks to make sure his apprentices are ok and then he says, "I am sorry my pupils I have failed you. I allowed my fear and anger to overcome me and I let out my other side and killed the humans and shadows even though I caught one and yes Night, I know it was your father that I have kept in hopes that we can actually free him of the shadow but I am afraid we may have to torcher him to get the shadow out. I may have to kill him. But I will do everything to free him even if it means ending his life. With that he pulls out the stone and sings and the cottage now has 6 bedrooms and a holding cell he takes in the cat man and chains him to a wall. Then he turns around and starts singing the song of truth, and he sings the song of pain then he sings the song of truth the cat man flips between pain and calm Orion ask so Shadow what does it take to remove you. The shadows laugh and says like I would tell you over the next few days wile everyone is outside and practicing their sword and magic. Orion was busy attacking the shadow song wasn't working so he decided to stab him in the Sholder and see if the living sword could draw it out the only thing that happened is that the shadow just laughed a him and told him he is only hurting the body and not him, so Orion Kept trying to find a way to break the shadow and tried all kinds of torcher constant singing of the song of truth, breaking and healing the body over and over. The shadow laughed and said you are not causing me pain just this body. The next day Orion ask the orcs to pull out all the books in their swords storage and see if there is anything on the shadows and how to remove them from there host after years of having control over them. And he study's his books too after2 days the orcs came to him and said Dragon fire Orion said then we need to find a dragon and see any thing else then that might work Orion then said let me try one thing he moves to the caged Shadow and he said to the others sing the song of truth as loud as you can then he moves into the room and breathes his dragon fire. Over the cat man and the shadow. They hear a scream and the shadow tears himself free of the man had only to die in the flames as they sung the song. Surprisingly the cat man was not burnt but he didn't look alive. He looked like his soul left his body. He was in a coma. Orion sang a song of guidance for a lost soul. Night sang along and called to her father Gallo. Orion included his name in the song and the next morning Gallo woke up, Gallo looked around and asked where he was. Night looked in his eyes and said "Poppa. Do you remember me Poppa"? Gallo looked at night and ask "kitten, is that my little Night"? Night says Poppa. Orion ask "is this really him or is it the shadow still just acting like its him"? Night says "I'm sure". Orion ask Gallo "do you remember anything about the shadow world". Gallow Starts by saying "they control city's and even a kingdom. There are more of them possessing people than you know. Whole cities have been taken over kings and Queens and the entire blood line has been taken over. They even have a king above them all. They know about you and they know you have 2 Apprentices now they might know you have 5 now. They killed all the dragons they could find because dragon fire can burn away anything that's not true". Orion said "this explains why we use dragon cores in the living swords. Its also where the song of truth comes from. I wonder if I had sung the song of truth when I had the sword in Gallo's shoulder. If it would have lit up and burned the shoulder or enveloped him in fire. I am sure there is a reason why the swords always had dragon cores and why the runes on the swords are all about truth that's why they bond with us with the oath. Without the song of truth, and without the oath the swords can't bond to a new user. So, I wonder if this can help us in some way. I think I will continue to look through my books see if you guys can find anything that tells you more information."!!everyone but Night and her father starts searching for better ways to get rid of the shadows who have possessed people for long periods of time. Night and Gallo cooked for everyone and talked about the past and how she knew when he was first possessed and how her and momma knew that he was taken over and why he left. They mourned him like he was dead. Gallo said that at first it seemed like he was having very negative thoughts towards people and when he questioned these thoughts, a justification just was there and it made sense. This was the start of the possession and I knew I needed to leave before I hurt you or Momma. Do you think I can train to be a Sword mage as well. Night says we need to talk to Orion. They then went to talk to Orion about training Gallo. All the information Gallo had told night was explained to everyone and it was then they agreed to sing the song of truth every morning together. They started training Gallo the orcs taught him hand to hand forms and he felt like he was being ganged up on he had 3 teachers right away. And all three focused on him. The girls helped too and Orion would chime in every now and again

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