Krystal the Ray
Chapter One: Try a Normal Day for Once
It was a bright day, the sun was up and there wasn't a cloud in sight. This was especially true for the inhabitants of Cinnian Island, a floating island that was obviously not just what it seemed lets dive a little more into it.
This island was home to all of the rays that inhabited this world and also other strange creatures. Going into a specific part of the island, there's a large grassland much larger than any city or town on its own, this was Forest Hill, one of the lesser known lands of the island despite its size. There were seven ray children around they all seemed the age of around that of a teenager's. (For those not familiar with what a ray is, they are the type of species Rayman is. Humanoid, big nose, no limbs.)
The first of them wore a dark purple hoodie over his head. His eyes beamed dark black with a tint of yellow and his hair was somewhat a mix of black and purple. He was quiet, and also sleeping. His name was Dusk, and he had the emblem of something that looked like a pulsing aura on his chest. Let's not bother him, shh.
The second was quite large in size and had a bulky build compared to Dusk. He wore a light blue tank top and his eyes were covered by dark shades. He also wore sweatbands around the wrists that were never there. He wore a dark blue bandanna around his head. He seemed to be working out at the moment. His name was Jet, the emblem that covered his chest was the shape of a water drop. Better not mess with his workout, he may punch us down to where we belong.
Third one was wearing the same thing as Dusk but a lighter shade of color making it look like a light pink. His eyes were closed but he wasn't sleeping, the only hint to what he was doing was his glowing spiral emblem on his chest. His eyes were black with a tint of gold behind those eyelids though. This was Dawn, and he was really in the moment, don't mess him up.
The fourth of them was taller than the rest and had a slim body. He wore a light green coat and had a dark blue tint in his eyes. His gloves were longer than the others as well and were made of a strong rubber. The emblem on his chest was somewhat like a lightning bolt, and his name was Spark. He was working on building something strange, let's leave him to it.
The fifth one was only a little bit smaller than Jet, you almost couldn't tell the difference if Jet didn't hunch a bit when he stood. He was wearing a burning red sweater, despite not having arms, but the sweater was still a large one even with nothing in the sleeves. His eyes were a pure black with no tint. Besides Jet he was the only one not wearing gloves. The emblem that resided on his chest was resembling a flame. He slept on the ground with a loud snore causing Dusk to lose some valuable rest. This guy's name was Burst.
Second to last was the only girl out of that group, somewhat the ringleader of the siblings if anything. She was the oldest and not girly in the slightest. She had on a dark magenta sweat suit on and her eyes were pure black just like Burst's were. She wore black gloves with the finger parts cut off. Her emblem was the shape of a plain square, but it definitely doesn't mean she doesn't have any power, just wait and see. Her name was Regal, and as for the moment she was watching over her other siblings no not much going on for her at the moment.
And finally last, the smallest and the youngest of the group. He wore a small white jacket that unfortunately did not have an emblem on it, everyone pretty much thinks he's a ray with no actually abilities or power, or did he just not find his strength yet? Probably the first choice. What's his name? Only something truly fitting of course. Steven! He's sleeping on top of Burst, man this family loves to sleep.
Well those are all of the members of this Ray family, but none of those names even match this fic, guess we're going to have to search this place a bit more. Going up, into the sky lines, many fluffy clouds floated carefree over Forest Hill. "What's so special about them?", someone may ask. Some ray was sleeping up in those clouds, who was it. Whoever it was strange ray, he had a tail for some reason! His tail was was cover in a dark thick gray coat, and it separated from the rest of his body like any part of a ray. He had beady eyes. (Like how rays looked in Rayman 1.), telling easily that he was quite young. He slowly began to open those large beady eyes, his rare brown skin and his 3 black hairs shining a little from the sun's light.
He had on black gloves with a red trim and his belly was covered by a black shirt, the emblem on it was a sixteen sided star, you couldn't tell if you weren't close enough. He wore a red scarf that seemed to have life of its own inside. He gave a barely audible yawn, he didn't want to wake the others the wrong way, he didn't normally release his yawns with them being quite abnormal and obviously quite the alarm. Of course he didn't know that it was actually midday by now and mostly everyone was taking a midday nap.
"Ah. . .What a good day!", he said stretching out his limbs that were never there.
He looked down to the ground from the cloud he was sleeping from, it was a long way down, and he didn't have helicopter hair like certain rays did, he was a different type of ray, and one that normally couldn't learn powers from a nymph. Instead, he stood up on his ankle-less feet and hopped down from the cloud with a big grin on his face and laughter, this was like a children's game to him if anything. Just before he came near to the ground another type of helicopter was put into play.
The ends of his scarf risen up above his head and began to slowly rotate like a parachute helping him to come to a safe soft touch to the ground without his body falling apart or something of that nature for rays. He took a look around before he saw the seven ray siblings over not far away.
"Hey guys!", the ray said waving his hands over shouting loud but not too loud.
The others peaked their heads up from their naps and looked over to him, smiles coming over their faces the moment they saw him. They all ran over and gave the young ray a tight hug, just, without arms.
"Krystal!", they all shouted in unison.
Krystal, the young ray that once before slept from the clouds was their adopted little brother, younger than Steve somewhat. They found Krystal one day and Krystal found a place in their hearts they would do anything to protect Krystal as they've done on multiple occasions, it never happened to be the other way around, Krystal had abilities that no one would think was possible for a ray, of course he didn't know of this either, like stated before, he's a different type of ray.
The eight of them went to go get some lunch, Krystal staying close behind the siblings.
"Do you guys think I can go around on adventures and help people out like you guys do?", Krystal asked with curiosity of his adoptive siblings.
"I don't think that's such a good idea Krystal. You're pretty young and the adventures we go on can be pretty dangerous for someone as small as you.", Regal said rubbing his head a bit so he wouldn't get hurt by what she said.
But he was disappointed anyway, he would do anything to get to have the type of fun that his siblings had. "It's not fair. . .", Krystal spoke distantly.
"Don't be like that Krys.", Dawn said raising him off the ground using his telekinesis. "Your day will come soon. I can almost sense it now.", Said Dawn.
Only Dawn didn't know how right he truly was. . .
/Meanwhile. . ./
A dark silhouette stared into a magical orb which looked over the Cinnian Island. It was very Dark indeed.
'I have been gone for a long time, but now I intend to come back to the Glade of Dreams. Capturing all of the rays that inhabit this new world should give us a more than powerful enough army in order to beat Rayman. . .', the dark silhouette thought in his head.
Just then he heard footsteps that were coming inside of the room. The room was so dark that you could only see the person's form, and it was a ray.
"Remember , you may have all the ray's you wish for your own deeds, do not harm them in your process either. You already know of my other instructions. . .", said the mysterious person.
nodded to his hidden comrade.
/Back with the Ray's/
"So little buddy. Any choice on what you want to have? It's your choice today.", Jet asked Krystal who was quick to respond.
"Pizza!", Krystal shouted loudly causing the whole gang to cover their ears to ease the ringing of his voice. Krystal blushed with embarrassment.
"Uh, alright. . .Pizza it is. . .", replied Jet , still trying to get the ringing out of his head.
This was a good day for Krystal so far and, if anything, at least he got to spend it with his awesome siblings! Suddenly the daytime sky suddenly flashed to night, making the whole gang widen their eyes up above.
"Uh. . .d-did you guys j-just see that?", Said Steve looking up at the sky in pure confusion.
Krystal hid behind everyone else as Dusk tried to take a good peek to see what caused it, he was confused as well, and he knew more about night than anyone. The opposite goes for Dawn who knew the day time best, but the confusion was one and the same with everyone else.
Spark circled around on his toes trying to see where it came from, he eventually got dizzy from all of the spinning and fell on his rump. "Ow! Okay, who's behind this baloney!", Spark barked, and the sky flashed night two more times.
Spark covered his mouth, but it wasn't him who did it either. Suddenly the sky was completely black! A nasty bunch of evil ghouls began to fall from out of the sky. "GAAAH!", the whole gang screamed as they ran for cover, they were falling everywhere. The gang kept running until a wall made of flames blocked their paths. When they tried to run back the flame wall began to circle around them, it was large and impossible to jump over.
A mysterious figure in a long dark blue coat came floating down observing them. His hat covered his face and the only thing that was visible were his beaming yellow eyes which caused Krystal to back away frightened.
"Now you're mine.", spoke the dark man.
Regal growled but there was nowhere to run now. "We have to keep Krystal safe! I sweared that was our main priority! I'm not going to let him get hurt as long as I have something to say about it!", she spoke to her siblings.
They all nodded and gave a tight hug to Krystal, who didn't know what was going on, and just wanted to go home now. The gap of the flames was getting smaller now overhead.
"We'll miss you Krystal. Good bye. . .", Regal spoke with a small tear coming from her eye before she lifted Krystal, and with all of her strength she threw him over head of the fire just before the gap closed. Krystal looked back in horror as his siblings made the ultimate sacrifice, he only heard their yells of distressed as he flew across the sky, the force of Regal's throw was too strong for him to be able to fly back, it seems that he would never be able to see his siblings again. . .