Chapter 1 The Making of the Stones

There once was a woman named Zabani Menossu. Zabani lived in a quaint little cottage in the woods a few miles from the town, . Zabani was a scientist, but she also believed in magic and potions and such. She spent many years trying to make at least one potion that worked. Finally, after years of trials and failures, she succeeded. From that point on she'd make just as many potions as scientific discoveries.

Zabani was also a little crazy, you could say; every once and a while she would have 'episodes', as her family called them, where she would act crazy and talk about crazy things. Most of the time they just agreed with her or ignored her. They didn't mind as long as she wasn't hurting herself or anyone else, which she never did.

There was one thing that she had the most 'episodes' about: a magical land where kids were never heroes and were always thought of as being in the way of the adults who would end up saving the kids from whatever danger they ended up in. She wanted to make a potion that could give kids all the powers they could possibly need to save the adults for once, instead of always being treated like worthless children who were just liabilities for the adults.

Her family never thought she would ever actually try to make something like that, because, to them anyways, there was no point to it and it was impossible and just plain crazy. But what they never knew was that she was always trying to make this potion, she just never let them in her lab or know anything about what she did in there.

It was one of these times when our story starts. Zabani was in her lab with a huge pot in front of her; she would mumble something, then drop a few things in and then start mumbling again. Once when she was reaching up to get something off a shelf she accidentally knocked three bottles over the edge and watched them as the fell into her pot. They fell too fast for her to see what they were. The second they hit the mixture in the pot it started to bubble over and then all of the sudden the pot exploded. Zabani was thrown across the lab. She hit the wall and slid down to the floor with her hands over her head for protection.

When the smoke finally floated away and she could think clearly again, she first noticed that her pot was completely gone and on the counter behind where the pot had been there were four cages. Each had a different animal in it and in front of each cage was a small stone, each a different color.

"What the heck..." Zabani said quietly as she sat frozen on the floor. She stared at the sight in front of her with great shock and confusion.

Chapter 2 The Hidden Plot

Not far off in the forest inside a magical containment dome was a hidden country cut off from the rest of the world by its corrupt leaders to keep its people weakened and under their complete control. Inside the great palace of the Cerulean Empire, just one of the many empires of the country; the emperor and his high priest were consulting about how to succeed in their plans of power and domination. They knew they were running out of time, but things weren't happening as fast as they had expected them to.

"If we don't start pushing things along our whole plan will fall apart at the seams!" The priest said agitatedly, pacing back and forth in front of his old comrade and cousin, the emperor.

"I know, I know!" Emperor Timothy muttered as he scowled at his priest. "It's just that the people have been acting up so much lately that I've had to keep a closer watch on them; I'm worried they might rebel soon and-"

"Oh, just cut the crap, Tim!" Anthony, the priest, said as he angrily interrupted the emperor, "I know you and you can't keep using that lame excuse about the people acting up so you can mess up the plan just because you're too scared to go through with it as we get so close to out climax."

"But..."

"No buts, we started this together and you're not backing out now, so just sit here and try not to do anything stupid while I figure out how to get things going."

Tim sullenly watched his old friend and cousin, leave the throne room and quietly said to himself,

"He's gotten so bossy lately" He couldn't help sighing heavily after that statement.