CdS Guardian Journey

Destiny Storm, Welcome to the universe

*All elements of Cirque Du Soleil belong to Cirque Du Soleil…elements of "The Void" were created by Mua. I wrote this in a blog on CdS-Guardians, a Cirque role-playing fan group of mine on deviantart…after this chapter, which describes how you would be summoned to the Void to become a Guardian of Cirque Du Soleil, I'll go into my story of how I became a Guardian ;)

It all starts with you taking a walk through the woods outside your home...

As your walking, you suddenly notice how dark the sky is...you hear thunder, and run like heck, hoping to find some form or another of shelter...as you approach the end of the path, you see a building you've never seen before...it looks like a gold and blue library building, something you've seen in...a dream, once...?

The thunder roars again, this time louder, as the rain begins to fall...without thinking twice, you run into the building, which is mysteriously unlocked...

As you catch your breath, you look around the room...there's nothing but two shelves FILLED with books, that look like they haven't been touched in AGES...you realize the shelves are actually the walls, forming a HUGE corridor...there's only one lone table, with one book laying on the table.

Curious, yopu approach the table, and take a look at the book, which is titled "Historie Du Cirque Du Soleil," (History of the Circus of the Sun) you open the book...and a sun shaped key falls out. As you pick it up to examine it, there's a glow from the end of the corridor...

You follow the glow, which gets dimmer and dimmer as you get closer...when you finally reach the end, you realize that the glow was coming from behind a door with the same sun-shape on it as the key in your hand...on top of the door is a message in a mix of different languages you've never heard before...

"What we once were, you are now...
What we are, YOU ARE ABOUT TO BECOME."

Curious, you find yourself placing the key into the lock, unlocking the door...you find yourself surrounded by red curtains...falling forevor into an unknown fate, surrounded by scarlet curtains...losing consciousness from the dizzying fall...

You awaken from your strange fall...you recognize the red curtain from your "dream," and watch in amazement as it is swept away, as if by some invisible force to reveal an AMAZING auditorium, filled with water, and amazing stage set peices, as if a mergence of multiple different places in one space...the space is FILLED with water, and has Lily pad-shaped platform steps, ropes, climbing ladders...everything needed for getting around...

"Amazing, isn't it?"

Yopu whip around, and sitting there, on the steps, is a woman in a dress of white with black hair...but what REALLY catches your attention is that she has stilts for legs.

She smiles kindly at you, her blue eyes sparkling behind her half-moon glasses. "Hello, Guardian."

"Um...hi?" you say shyly, uncertain whether or not this is even REAL anymore...

"I am Artemis, one of the Elder Stilt Guardians of the Void."

"Void?"

"Ah, yes, you're new here...the Void is a portal to many realms...the very heart of the Universe of Cirque Du Soleil."

"Cirque-Du Soleil? Is that French?"

"Yes," Artemis replies smiling, "It is the Circus of the Sun, for that is where we are from...the Sun. We beings came from the sun to merge our power of Solstrom with the theatrical arts...and the Cirucs arts...to create realms of magic that inspire you humans of Earth. However...our universe is in danger. Strange creatures of darkness that mimic us have been tormenting us...we call these creatures Lune Ombres."

You shake a little, "I-I know "Lune" means Moon, but..."

"Ombre" means "Shadow," Artemis finishes for you, "So Lune Ombre means Moon Shadow, because they mostly appear at night...they torment the beings of our worlds...taking their hearts, diminishing their Solstrom...and turning them into Lune Ombres themselves!"

You shake even more...as hard as this all is to believe, it feels to real NOT to believe!

"Th-that's...horrible...! Can't...can't you defend yourselves?"

"To some extent, we can defend ourselves, yes," Artemis replied, "but our Solstrom can only be used for performing our talents...so even though we can defend ourselves, we can't ACTUALLY battle them...however, that's where YOU come in, talented Guardian."

"Me...GUARDIAN?" You ask, suddenly surprised.

"YES! The Void called YOU here, to become a Guardian of the Void! YOU have the ability to wield the power of an Elemental Solstrom, through any talent of your choice, to battle the Lune Ombres and save our realms from their darkness!"

Now I'm going to switch into role-play format, to show you a bit of what role-play comments would look like on deviantart:

You: "...so, this is like a video game?"
Artemis: "What...NO SILLY! This may seem like a dream to you, but it is REAL! YOU will go down to the Elemental Solstrom Guardian's temple, across the water, and once you've embraced your Guardian talent, you may travel to the realm that calls out to you, meet the character of that realm who serves as your familiar, and discover yourself in Cirque Du SOLEIL!"

With this, she leaves you...you are left confused...all you know is that you need to go to the sun shaped temple with the different elemental symbols surrounding it...

And in the next chapter, I switch to first-person point of view to tell of MY journey to becoming a Guardian…