AN: Hello, this is my first ever fanfic. Hope you guys like it! Oh, and I don't own Mianite. Also, Mianite characters don't really show up till the end of ch 4.

Chapter 1: Prologue

There were once two siblings who lived in the realm of Ruxomar. Separated by two years they were fairly close, the elder was a girl named Crystalia, though everyone just called her Crystal, and the youngest was a boy named Crisis. The two of them were born in the mountain city of Dankrosa and grew up in relative peace. The two both had hair that was black and brown eyes with fair skin though Crystal's hair was just a bit lighter than her brother's and Crisis's skin turned out lighter than his sister as his sister liked to spend more time out in the sun. As they grew up Crystal kept her hair long and often kept it tied back either in a braid or in a ponytail while Crisis kept his hair cut short. Crisis would eventually grow up to be taller and thinner than his older sister. Crystal would always jokingly complain, and constantly teased him about his skinniness. She always told him he needed to eat more before he became just skin and bones while he would bite back with sarcasm about her height.

From a young age they were trained in the art of fighting after a particularly bad blood moon incident causing many parents to start teaching their children how to fight in order to protect themselves. They eventually became a force to be reckoned with even at a young age. Crystal had become proficient in using a crossbow and a rapier whilst Crisis had become proficient in using a longsword and a bow. Both of them would eventually utilize angel rings provided by Mianite to help them in aerial combat. Crystal ended up customizing her wings to look like those of a fairy's while Crisis made his look like dragon wings. As they grew up they were regarded as the best fighters in the city and had even managed to catch the eye of the town's patron god, Mianite, and at the age of 14 and 16, Crisis and Crystal became knights under Mianite and swore their allegiance to him. He gifted the two with special soulbound angel rings and new specialized weapons as proof of their allegiance. Mianite gifted Crystal a rapier made of ceruclase that slowed her enemies whenever she landed a hit while Crisis received a long sword made of sanguinite that caused his enemies to wither when ever they got hit. They continued to learn more about fighting strategies and both of them learned magic spells to aid them in battle. Crisis preferred using a thaumic wand with a fire focus making it look like he was spitting fire during battle to keep his enemies back while still damaging them. Combined with his flaming arrows and protective fighting style earned him the name Draconis on the battlefield. Crystal took up learning Ars Magica spells that she kept in a book. Her magic was specialized towards ice type spells that sometimes could even slow her enemies. Her magic combined with her quick swordsmanship earned her the name Permafrost. As they grew closer to adulthood the two had started taking more and more missions from Mianite with stranger and more difficult requests. Slowly the the two of them realized that they had become merely assets to Mianite and were no longer his two champions that they had once been. Crystal realized this first and at the age of 18 she took her most prized possessions and her weapons and disappeared into the night. But, to avoid suspicion she had made a deal with an assassin who owed her a favor and asked a mystic to help her warp her brother's memories so that she could be marked as either dead or as a traitor so that she could escape. The next day when Crisis was questioned about her disappearance he claimed that she may have been assassinated as they had planted evidence that there had been a fight and that her body had been taken along with her possessions and weapons for some odd reason. She was marked as MIA until a few weeks later when she was declared officially dead as no evidence was found of her being alive. A few days later after Crystal's "assassination" as planned the spell warping Crisis's memory had worn off. Knowing that his sister would be fine, he stayed in the city and continued taking missions from Mianite as to avoid suspicion and months later he too took his most prized possessions and weapons and fled his hometown as well at the age of 17. People assumed he was kidnapped and after a few weeks of investigation a corpse that people assumed was his turned up and he was declared dead.

When the two of them fled they both took different paths and wouldn't see each other for several years. Crystal took on the name Akiza, dyed her hair a silvery white and wore contacts to make her eyes look blue to hide her identity. She also used a needle gun rather than her rapier as her skills with a rapier were very well known and would've given her away to any gaurd, knight, or mercenary who saw her using it. During her first year she decided that she would go and venture the world and after about a year she had been to many of the realm's dimensions and had collected many things while dodging loyal Mianite followers who would surely capture and return her to her hometown if they saw her. After her year of venturing the world she decided to settle down in a port town named Dagrun. The town was was watched over by the god Ianite and the town's ruler was even said to be her son. Crystal, still using her disguise of Akiza, sold some of her treasures from her travels and bought herself a small shop with a second floor acting as a living space. Here she sold some of the gems and baubles she had collected during her journey to earn some money. She had also set up a small smeltery beneath her shop in order to smelt all of the ores she had collected. After about a month she noticed that there was only one blacksmith in the town and he only specialized in making iron tier weapons and only up to steel tier tools. So, she started offering her services in repairing all sorts of weapons and tools and eventually started making them when she realized she had the metals needed to do it. As she was self taught, at first most of the weapons she made were fairly basic but after a while she got the hang of it and eventually became one of the best weapon smiths in town. Everyone in Dagrun loved her and over the years she had ditched the colored contacts and had made several friends. She was lucky as all of the citizens in Dagrun thought she was just a traveler who had a knack for making weapons and she was able to live peacefully with no one suspecting that her old life had been that of a knight's. She and her brother would not meet for several years until one day merchants from Urulu came to Dagrun selling ores useful for her craft.

Her brother on the other hand didn't travel as much. He took on the name Drago and used a spell to change his appearance so that his eyes were green and his hair was brown just so that no one would recognize him until he got far enough away from Dankrosa. As soon as he left he only traveled for a few weeks gathering things he just happened to pass by until he reached the town of Urulu. Urulu was a merchant town and watched over by the god Dianite. Crisis used most of the money he made during his time as a knight to purchase himself a place to stay for a while before Dianite's champion Mot saw potential in him and helped him get a job as a worker for another merchant in order to earn money. After a while he set up a small shop with machines he made from leftover ores that his boss let him keep. He made good money off charging others for letting them use his machines and by helping people with his knowledge that he had gathered about machinery and thaumaturgy. During his first few years in Urulu he made friends with a chemist and an engineer. The three became close and decided to start their own business together selling mainly machines that they made but also chemical mixtures with many effects that they had managed to whip up. Eventually the three of them had managed to work together and set up a laser drill giving them all the ores they would ever need and more. The three would take turns going to different towns and selling and trading their ores and chemicals. Generally Crisis went to Katsir to trade as it was the furthest from his home town while the engineer traded in Dankrosa and the chemist went to Dagrun to trade. They made a fairly good profit and became well known for the wide variety of ores they sold alongside the occasional rare but useful chemical mixture. Crisis, like his sister was fairly well liked through the town but unlike his sister he still used a bow though he started using one that wasn't as fancy as the one he used during his time as a knight. He was one of the best marksmen in town and was sometimes even hired as a bodyguard for important transactions that required protection from bandits. Though Crisis now know as Drago was fairly well known in his community no one knew where he came from or why he stayed and no one questioned it allowing him to live a life free from the influence of Mianite. He had even shed his disguise after a year but dyed his hair a fiery shade of red. He never really worried about his sister knowing that she was most likely doing fine but he assumed that she would be traveling the world and got quite the surprise when he went to Dagrun to sell ores in place of his sick friend.