Acadama

Episode 1: The Beginning

Life is full of obstacles, but it's the way that you overcome the obstacles that create the person you are. But to keep life in the balance, you need both Holy and Dark to be equal--that's how your destiny is created. We have been told that you cannot change your destiny--you just go with the flow, but how can you just sit around and watch the days go by? For now everything is fun and new, but when life comes down to it, what will you do with it? Keep your destiny… Or change it?

Eyes opened and closed… opened and closed… opened and closed… still blurred, he woke up outside, laying on grass that was flowing with the wind. Picking his head up, he looked beyond himself where the grass seemed to end and merge with the clouds.

"Where am I?" he asked aloud.

"Why, you're at Acadama of course."

The tall young man stood 6'3", he was about 20 years old with blue hair and blue-green eyes, looked up and saw a hand to help him up off the ground.

"I'm Jake." Jake was about 20 as well, with red hair--maybe lighter--hazel eyes, and around the same height of six-foot. "Who are you?"

"…Uh--" as if he had forgotten his name, then suddenly realized, "Brandon!" he replied quickly.

"Well, we're landing soon so why don't you come in with me?" Getting up with an aura that changed from purple to white, Jake was stunned and exclaimed, "WOW! What's with the aura change?"

"Well, uh, I… I… can't remember." As Brandon walked with Jake, he tried to remember, but it was as though he had been stripped all of the memory he had left. One word came to mind though, "Alter." he said.

With that to Jake, the hazel-eyed boy replied, "Yeah, everyone has one." As Brandon began to think, his aura changed to blue. "See! See! There you go again."

Brandon changed again, but this time, he was red. "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!?" He turned purple again, "You startled me…"

"Hey, you know, the color change might be tied with your emotions."

Brandon nodded his head, "But why did 'Alter' come to mind?"

Jake tried to state the obvious, "Well everyone here has one."

"Okay, so now that that's cleared… what is an alter?" As Brandon smiled, his aura changed to white.

Jake just glared and tried to explain, "Well you see, it's… well it's… it kind of is… Well, what you do is… It's kind of inside of you..." Brandon could tell that Jake was struggling, and he just smiled and nodded and smiled and nodded again. He figured it was the safe thing to do. Jake, fed up trying to explain, shouted, "AW, SCREW IT! Let me just show you."

Jake began to go into an impeditive state, his hands becoming fists, he brought them up into the air and thrust them to the ground. Then, opening his hands, palms faced up, chunks of matter from the ground beneath him vanished, and then he was engulfed in flames. He sat there for a minute before powering down, acting all cocky.

"That's an Alter." He flashed a pearly white grin that made a cling noise in the background. "You can be in this state for a long time, but that was just a demo."

Brandon smiled, nodded, then grinned. "So… explain to me… what's an Alter?" Jake puckers and shakes his head from side to side. "Screw you."

Brandon laughed out loud. "Let's go; you're drawing attention."

As they headed inside from the upper balcony, a shadowy figure haunted the hallway. "Good," the figure whispered, "everything's going according to plan."

The Acadama seemed to be a peaceful place where new Alter Users learned to hone their powers, like Jake and Brandon. It was also for those who had mastered their powers, so that they could teach the new novice Alter Users. The Acadama had been created after the original HOLY organization collapsed, so now the Acadama rose from the ashes to start a new and effective organization.

Meanwhile…

"Miss Minori… Miss Minori, where have you run off to? Ahhh, there you are, watching the children, like such a loving mother."

Mimori looked up at a smiling Cougar. "Well Cougar, it's our shift to watch the kids after we give them their lessons on math. You should always find me here with them… Actually you should be right next to me--"

Cougar interrupted, "Oh Miss Minori, I'm… flattered, no, really I am."

Glaring at Cougar, Mimori cried, "Cougar! It's our job."

Crushed, Cougar replied, "Oh… right." Then he paused, giving it another thought. "You know, Miss Minori, we should have children of our own some day."

Shocked, she stuttered, "YOU MEAN--"

Cut off again, Cougar said, "Well, you generally need to do so, unless you want to adopt, but honestly… where's the fun in that?"

Then a child walked up, an inquisitive look on his face. "Where's the fun in what?"

Cougar continued as though it were nothing at all. "Where's the fun in not having se--"

Mimori's face flashed red. "CHILDREN!" Suddenly, she forced a smile. "Why don't you go play on the playground?" As the children ran off, she shot a look at Cougar. "Okay, they're not at that age yet."

Confused, Cougar shrugged, "What age?"

Mimori's eyes narrowed and she mumbled, "You know."

Then it hit Cougar as to what she was referring to. "Oh you mean se--"

"COUGAR!!!"

The Speedster cowered, afraid of the tiny woman. "What?"

She glared. "You're horrible." Then she began to laugh, heading to where the kids were playing. "Oh and… I'd adopt."

Shocked, Cougar stumbled backwards, a hand on his chest, as though he had been dealt the most ultimate blow ever. "Miss Minori, my heart is…like… broken." She laughed again and kept on walking, Cougar following close behind. "No, seriously, it is."

"Your fudging script didn't work this time either. I thought you said it was foolproof, Unkei!" Kat looked over Cougar and Mimori's conversation.

"It was. She must be resistant against my Alter… or maybe… wait… COUGAR KEEPS ON ADLIBBING MY SCRIPT! I just don't understand, it was a perfectly good script, and Cougar had to go and drop it in dog crap and stomp all over it."

Kat busted up laughing. "That's okay, Unkei, we still love you, no matter how much of a fudge up you are."

Unkei sighed, "Yeah, I guess you're--Hey now! That's not nice… or funny." Kat laughed harder and walked off. "I see how it is now! No love for the script artist! I'm just so angry, I… I… I think I'll just go write another one." Then there went Unkei… to his room… to write his script.

"Prepare for landing in: 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…"

The whole floating island landed, causing a small impact, grabbing everyone's attention.

"All members that are going on Med Recon, please report to Commander Zigmarl's office A.S.A.P."

Life is full of obstacles, but it's the way that you overcome the obstacles that create the person you are. But to keep life in the balance, you need both Holy and Dark to be equal--that's how your destiny is created. We have been told that you cannot change your destiny--you just go with the flow, but how can you just sit around and watch the days go by? For now everything is fun and new, but when life comes down to it, what will you do with it? Keep your destiny… Or change it?

A guy named Brandon meets a new face that welcomes him to this new place to him called Acadama. Meanwhile we get a short clip of Comedy for Cougar and Mimori.