part one
the joining
Prologue
the beginning
It came. Like an explosion within the very core of the Earth, it came. The Dark Mist. But it appeared out of nowhere. Somehow.
It overtook the animals, turning them wild and evil, and some humans, the very same. Within an hour's time, it had covered both the Northern continent Galicia and the Western continent Rialno. Inhabitants of the continents fled by sea to try to reach the central continent, those who's minds still kept their thoughts. Unfortunately The Dark Mist fed off of the dark thoughts it had spawned, making it stronger.
It created storms to stop those who were planning on escaping by sea. Out of thousands of boats, only one made it to the central continent Jurissol. The boat held two people. The young girl was about 6 and still alive, though barely. The other who could only be her biological mother, was dead.
Bright, blue eyes were seen in the distance. The person with the blue eyes stepped up to the girl. She was a woman, and a man came up behind her.
"Are they alive?" the man asked.
"The girl is, but I'm not sure about the woman..." she said.
"Well Liedel, we can't just leave them here!" he exclaimed.
"I know Garret, I know," Liedel told Garret. "We must get them to a hospital..." but she was cut off as the girl started to stir. "Watch Out!" the girl screamed, but it was too late. A voice yelled "SEIKEN!" and a blinding light flashed.
As the light cleared, it could be seen that Liedel and Garret were laying on the ground dead. The woman who killed them, stepped towards the girl, raised her weapon, the Stilco, and was about to cast the spell when a man appeared. He grabbed her arm and said "Strange to find you here Noira," he said. "What have we here?"
"Hello to you too, Raiko" Noira replied testily. "These two escaped from the continent Galicia, but how, it is unknown. Why did you stop me?" she asked.
"Noira, are you so blind you did not see the mark?" indeed their was a mark. It was on her arm, a strange one indeed. It was a triangle and in the middle was a crystal shape.
"I'm sorry Raiko," Noira said apologetically.
"With the mist around, the world will be in pandemonium, just as Sikaru wished. If this girl is left living, it will be interesting as to what erupts, will it not?" Raiko said, somewhat pleased. He picked up the girl, and carried her off into the town nearby. Noira found distant relatives of the girl's for her to live with. "If Raiko wants pandemonium, then he'll get it." With that said, she took out her staff, and pressed it hard against the girls arm, removing the mark. "When the mark resurfaces at age 15, Sikaru will get her wish." Noira took the child to the home of her relatives the following day, explaining that her parents were dead. They took it very badly that the girl's parents passed on, but how, she said nothing.
Noira thought to herself; now the mist must be reaching Iraliec the Eastern continent. Well, what's done is done.