Dawn of a New Beginning
Disclaimer: Fushigi Yuugi belongs to Yu Watase, Flower Comics, Pioneer Animation, Bandai and anyone else I forgot and couldn't remember off of the top of my head. Satura Mel'si, Delika, Garret, and Keldar, and Meriso (our lovable villain-anyone smell the scarcasm in the air yet?) do belong to me.
Prologue
The young woman sighed and put the down the book she was reading. Running a hand through her honey colored hair which fell to reach her waist, she let her gaze fall to a desk piled high with scrolls and notes she had made. There is just no way I'm going to be able to finish this before the next battle. Who would have thought finding information on an old necklace could be so hard! she muttered to herself with a sigh. Getting up from her chair she wandered over to the window.
The late afternoon sun shone down on the villager's cottages and freshly plowed fields, the summer harvest already picked and stored for the coming winter. The gardens inside the protective outer stone walls shown in a radiance of color tinged with gold. A neigh from the stables drew the mage's attention. Her home manor of Rosethorn boasted one of the largest and finest stables of horses in all of Delika. The woman leaned forward on the sill of the window resting her arms on top of it. The clang of metal against the stone window sill drew her gaze down to her gold arm guards. The guards where the only sign of the woman's status. Traced in three circles were the symbols for her name Satura Mel'si which was written in Delikan script, and her rank of tenth level warrior-mage. (The highest rank one could obtain in any magic area in Delika.) They symbol for a warrior mage was a crossed pair of hands with a bloodied sword this formed the second circle.The last of the circles held a pair of hands, one with a wisp of white smoke coming out of it, the other hand held a wisp of black smoke. This symbol stood for one of the most rarest combinations in magic- life and healing magic in one person. Life magic was one of the most dangerous magics in existence. The ability to grant life or death was a heavy burden to bare for anyone. Satura sighed and shook her head she was often conflicted about having Life magic.. Too often it can be misused.' she thought.
Satura finally left the window and returned to the desk. There has got to be some way to stop this war!' she thought to herself. The war she was referring to had been going on for over two years now, but her own country had yet to feel the effects. A wizard named Meriso had world domination and power on the brain. What is it some sort of mental defect? The mage muttered to herself. She then remembered how she had found out about another dark wizard named Tenkouwho had tried to take over the Terran (earth) Realm and the Animal Divinity Realm. One of the god's mikos had along with three of her live guardians and the spirit forms of the other four defeated Tenkou.
Satura being the curious person she was decided to find out not only what these people looked like and their names but their pasts as well. She was very acutely aware that the red-headed seishi named Tasuki had a very genuine, but still hidden love for his miko. The miko, Miaka Yuuki, however was completely oblivious to his feelings. Miaka loved the reincarnation of her seishi Tamahome, Taka Sukanami or at least seemed to love him. Satura had noticed that the romance seemed to be crumbling. The couple got into more and more arguments lately. On the occassions the mage watched Miaka she noticed that the miko seemed to mention Tasuki's name more than Taka's name. Especially when Miaka wrote in her diary. In one entry the miko had written Taka's name once and Tasuki's at least six times. To Satura at least that was a clear sign that Miaka was at least somewhat more interested in Tasuki as more than just a friend.
Hmm, I wonder... Satura reached for the scroll which contained the legend for the Lykolian medallion. The medallion was said for to be the only thing that could save Delika, but for some odd and unknown reason nobody had really bothered to look for it. You'd think more people would look for it, if it's supposed to be the only thing that can stop that idiot'. Satura though to herself disgusted with the lack of common sense as she saw it. So having gotten very annoyed about the whole situation, she had undertaken the search for it by herself. The single scroll was the only information she could find on it. The scroll, however, turned out to be the only information she needed. Opening it she read:
Red phoenix in flight find a land asunder.
A miko's duty she finds she must take up once again.
A bandit's desire, like the flame he yields, will no longer be controlled.
A mage, a wanderer, who walks the divine path, will walk a new road.
A warrior-mage who holds a world's fate will call to those who share her fate.
A bard, who no longer walks the minstrel's path, will make use of shadows and deceptions.
Nyasha's Mark on the Druid will show the forest's secrets.
A guardian, a bond for the six who dare to find a broken treasure,
protector and friend, forever faithful will they be.
Satura stopped reading there. Perhaps it is time for the warrior-mage to gather four of the six. she said getting up and going to her spell books.
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Tasuki no da! You just lost our dinner! The monk named Chichiri watched as a wolf, who had been hiding in a bush came and quickly snatched up the rabbit they had caught, after Tasuki had tripped over a rock sending the rabbit flying. AW! Dammit! DAMN ^%%$$@$# Wolf! I don't believe this! Tasuki exclaimed. Looks like porridge again na no da! ChiChiri said cheerfully, heading back to their camp site. Tasuki groaned and followed, muttering curses as he went.
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Bye Keisuke! I'm leaving! Miaka Yuuki called to her older brother. She was on her way to her boyfriend, Taka's apartment. Miaka was feeling apprehensive about it though, she and Taka were arguing more and more. She didn't know why. She loved Taka, they had gone through heaven and hell to be together. People had given up their lives so they could be together. They were meant to be together. They would have a happy future. They were going to get married and have kids some day. Miaka told herself this over and over agian with great conviction. However after a while it started to lose it potency and reality started to sink in again. No matter what she told herself, she and Taka were fighting. Her head was telling her that it was just a phase they were going through and that they would come out stronger in the end. But how could she do that when she knew in the deepest part of her heart that she was falling out of love with him?
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With a wave of her hand the brown package dissapeared in a swirl of blue-green magic. Satura focused back on her scrying pool "Won't be long now..." she said.