Chapter One- In Which Suzaku finds his first priestess

Must resist...resist...resist... The mantra running through her head was actually starting to get on her nerves...but not nearly as much as her younger brother's cycling through baitings, caterwauling, and accusations were. Should a 16 year old still be doing these things...?

Her mind--which often seemed to argue with itself so vehemently so sometimes wondered for her health--came up with a retort much more quickly than it would have if someone else asked the question. Should a 16 year old be dating 4 12 year olds? No. But does this stop him?

She sighed and focused on her writings on the small computer in front of her. Oh, if only it were true that he goes away when ignored.

Salvation, or at least reprieve, finally came to her in the form of her father's tolerance for her brother's vocal annoyance snapping. A few snarled warnings later, and the overly hyper boy was twiddling his thumbs on the couch, trying to decide which video game to play--and subsequently complain about all day.

Yes, with this little semi-dysfunctional family, it was hard to imagine they were all of genius IQ...they didn't exactly fit the bill of quantum majors, and they often had difficulty scraping together money for bills, foods, and the necessities of life--MMOs.

However, if one knew them, they would find that when not being completely eccentric and spastic, the cozy little family were often desperate to learn everything and anything--and generally needed only to read something a couple of times to have it committed to permanent memory. They also seemed to concentrate their talents on sharpening their wit and mischievous cunning, rather than the diverse fields of physics.

All in all, one could definitely look at the family as a big waste of cosmic potential.

"I NEED TO GO TO THE LIBRARY! AGAIN!" The girl sighed, voice raised in frustration.

The father checked the watch he kept at his computer, and sighed. "I suppose we could make it if we leave now...alright, come on."

The boy looked up from his conquest of a first person shooter. "Going to get mom, too?"

The father nodded. "You better not be on my WoW when I get back."

"Mmhmm..." the boy nodded, pausing his game and jumping on the computer.

Grabbing up a pile of books from her set of eternally-due library books, the girl ran out of the house and jumped into the gray minivan her family had. It was rather nice, aside from peeling paint and a cracked windshield...but they weren't planning on letting anything hit that anyway.

As the van pulled out, the girl lost herself in her thoughts, mulling over books she read, and plans she had for her internet communities. Before long, they pulled into the library, and her father pointed at his watch.

"Go on then, we have 10 minutes."

The girl nodded and ran into the big building with as much a mixture of dignity and haste as she could muster.

When she approached the check in desk, however--as she always had things on hold waiting for her--no staff member was in sight. She sighed in frustration and crossed her arms, looking around for the staff. If she did not know better, she might have thought the library was closed...as there seemed to be no more patrons than staff members.

After a few agonizing minutes, a leather-bound book lying on a nearby table caught the girl's attention. She couldn't explain why it did...it was just...one did not often see leather books in libraries these days. Curious--and, admittedly, bored--she meandered over to the table and glanced at the cover.

"The Universe of the Four Gods?" She frowned in confusion, interest piqued. "What sort of a novel is this?"

Having nothing better to do, the girl shrugged and picked up the book, flipping open the book in the hopes of finding some sort of forward. As she attempted to look for the forward of the book, a dim red light slowly exuded from the book, slowly getting deeper red and more visible. She would not have likely noticed though, as she was caught by its spell. What she thought to be the forward read as this.

Herein contains the tale of a young lady and her quest to gather the seven constellations of Suzaku together...along with her fellow 6 young lords and ladies from around the worlds.

And if you, the esteemed reader, should read to the stories end, the spell continued within this book shall bestow upon you the powers of the heroine, and grant you your wish.

For indeed, the moment the page is turned, the story will become a reality

The light rapidly began gathering space, and as soon as it had, she found herself engulfed in it, swallowed by it, she was the light, and swallowed quickly into the world of the book, though she had no idea that this is where she would be.

The next thing she knew she was lying on the ground, well not the ground per say, or lying either. She found herself propped up against what seemed to be a tree, not that she could see it having just woke up, but the way the bark brushed against her neck, she likely knew.

Likely odd for her, a field of flowers was all around her, and there was a beautiful stream out on the horizon. Most would think they had some how been sucked in a painting, that's how beautiful it was.