Yay for new stories! Yay for Stormflight being back *again*! Enjoy!

Every story has a beginning. Some are more dramatic than others. Some begin with a frightened woman. Some begin with information, such as a length of time between two points. Some begin with a young girl ho just wants to find her father. Some begin with a description of a legend. They begin in many ways, but are those truly beginnings? Many of them are not. Many of them could have started long before they did.

It took a grand total of sixteen years for our heroes to finally win in the end. Allow me to take you back even earlier than where it all began. Allow me… To take you back to the Origins, to where the entire story truly began.

Gingka stood atop one of the Mayan ruins, his scarf flowing with a light wind that was blowing. The redhead looked around, shifting his bag slightly on his shoulder in an attempt to ease the soreness that was present from having carried it for so long.

"There you are."

Gingka smiled and turned. "Well it took you long enough to show up, Yuki"

"Very funny. You were so late that I cooked and ate an entire meal in the time after you were supposed to be here."

"... Wait, I thought I was on time?" Gingka blinked.

Yuki facepalmed. "You're a full hour late, Gingka."

Gingka looked sheepish. "Oh… Sorry."

Yuki chuckled and shook his head. "Come on. We'll go to my place, since it's getting dark."

Gingka nodded. "Lead the way then."

Yuki chuckled and carefully scrambled down the stairs of the ruins, using vines and outcroppings as he carefully climbed down. When he got to the bottom, Gingka was waiting for him against a tree about fifty feet away. Yuki blinked.

"How did you…?"

Gingka laughed. "I jumped off the top. Who needs to climb down?"

"... Me." Yuki said, sweatdropping. "You could have gotten seriously hurt by doing that you know."

"Well, I didn't." Gingka chuckled, stepping away from the tree and following Yuki into the forest.

"You are an idiot." Yuki said as he pushed a branch aside.

"Guilty as charged. At least I'm not stupid."

"... What's the difference?" Yuki looked back and grinned mischievously before letting go of the branch.

Gingka's eyes widened for an instant before he was smacked in the face and knocked flat on his back.

"Yuki!"

"Problem?" Yuki laughed, bending over Gingka, who had placed a hand over his nose, which was bleeding heavily.

Gingka glared at Yuki and used his free arm to knock Yuki's legs out from under him. The Anubis blader fell flat on his back with a startled yelp.

"Problem?" Gingka asked with a grin as Yuki sat up and glared at him.

"You're-" Yuki suddenly froze, his eyes widening. Gingka sat up slightly, still holding his nose, and raised an eyebrow.

"S-snaaaaake!" Yuki screeched, scrambling off down the path. Gingka turned around, eyes widening, only to find himself face to face with a very large snake.

"Wait for me Yuki!" The redhead called an instant later, scrambling to his feet and after his friend with surprising speed.

That… Was too close." Yuki grumbled as he and Gingka stumbled into the observatory where Yuki lived, nearly an hour later.

"No kidding." Gingka said, panting and sniffling, trying to clear his stuffed-up nose. "So were you trying to break my nose? You do realize that I just recently finally didn't have to do treatments for when that happened before, right?"

Yuki shrugged. "Just trying to be spontaneous and reckless, like you."

Gingka sweatdropped. "I'm beginning to think that I'm not the actual idiot here."

Yuki chuckled. "Says the person who thought that it'd be a good idea to swim across the piranha-infested river on the way here WITH A BLOODY NOSE."

"... Better than trying to use a snake as a vine to swing across."

"Says the person who couldn't help but let out a Tarzan yell and as a result attracted that highly friendly tribe of natives."

"Pegasus scared them off easily enough."

"Yeah, after you nearly killed us by knocking over that tree."

"It didn't hit us!"

"That's because I shoved you out of the way and dodged it!"

"Yeah, but you shoved us right into that panther's den."

"There wasn't a panther in it!"

"It came back before we got out!"

"That tribe fought it off and we got away!"

"I got an arrow through my scarf!"

"I got-... No more comebacks, apparently."

Gingka chuckled and ruffled Yuki's hair. "I win then."

"Hey! I could have not led you here and let you wander around out there you know!" Yuki exclaimed.

"I can see the headline now, "Yuki Mizusawa responsible for death of Gingka Hagane." Gingka snorted.

"We can make that happen." Yuki chuckled.

"You wouldn't dare." Gingka smirked, crossing his arms.

"... Yeah… You've got me there." Yuki admitted sheepishly.

"Well then, we can go on to more serious matters, such as why you dragged me all the way out here when I was having a nice relaxing time training with Kyoya."

Yuki blinked. "'Nice relaxing time' and 'training with Kyoya' do not at all go together, you know."

Gingka chuckled. "True, true. We were relaxing between training. Well, I was. He was too occupied chasing down a lion that stole his dinner because he wasn't paying attention to it while it was cooking."

Yuki blinked, then fell over laughing. "That is so totally a Kyoya thing."

Gingka chuckled. "He never did get his dinner back."

Yuki got up wiping tears from his eyes as he calmed down. "Anyway, I called you here because something we fought in the past has decided to pop up again."

Gingka raised an eyebrow. "Is that so?"

Yuki nodded, the expression on his young face becoming extremely serious.

"Are you gonna tell me what?" Gingka asked.

"The Garcias."

Gingka nearly fell over with a snort. "I had almost been wondering what they'd been up to. It has been a while since we heard anything about them."

"Nearly seven years." Yuki chuckled. "We've heard nothing since the end of that incident with the Spiral Core."

"Exactly. So what about them?"

"Come with me." Yuki said, heading up towards the telescope. Gingka followed him. Yuki angled and adjusted the telescope before stepping aside. "Take a look."

Gingka looked, then blinked and looked again. "Well that's a rather large building there."

"The Garcias are there and running it." Yuki said. "They've started an organization that we should probably keep an eye on. It might become troublesome later."

"Well this is the Garcias we're talking about." Gingka chuckled. "Of course they'll be troublesome. I doubt they've changed their ways since we last saw them."

"The question is, how do we know if they're doing something without them knowing that we know they're up to something?" Yuki asked.

"How should I know?" Gingka asked.

"We'll figure it out."

Gingka chuckled. "Just like we've figured out everything else."

Yuki grinned. "Exactly."

"Well then… Let's begin."