Authors forward:

Emissary of the void was my first big and largely successful fanfic. The idea was initial small and simple and evolved into what has become my most successful and well received fic. That does not mean however that it was perfect. Throughout the writing of emissary many small points ground on me, and looking back at it after its completion, there are many points that i wish I had done better.

Because of this the way I will be doing messiah will be slightly different than emissary, primarily in how it is built and posted. I am not changing my basic writing style, but will be breaking the story in to a prologue section and three acts. In addition to this, there will be a slightly greater time between updates, not because I won't work on it, but because I will be trying harder than ever before to make the chapters as good as I possibly can with my skill.

Knowing this I hope you all will enjoy the first of three prequel chapters and I hope you will enjoy the story.

Note: like emissary I own no characters except original characters and original concepts. And the fourth Tiberium war never happened!

Prologue chapter 1 - Nexus

And so it is said that in a world not our own it began! It began with the great teacher, the great messiah, the great leader, the prophet Kane! Kane came to this world not our own and began his great work, preparing it for the gift of Tiberium, and when it came, he was its messiah, its prophet! But lo, the forces of deceit and selfishness would ever be in his way, feeding the people of this world lies about Tiberium, and lies about the prophet! Disagreement gave way to contempt and contempt gave way to violence, this violence then led to great conflicts, the great Tiberium wars. Through these wars the creation of Nod, Kane's chosen children, and of GDI, Nods greatest foe, were created and fought amongst each other, a great battle between truth and lies, between equality and inequality, between Tiberium and stagnation!

In the third of these great wars did our great leader, the prophetess, come to find the truths that Kane would tell. The child of Tristanian nobles the prophetess had an upbringing of great potential, but fate had different ideas for her. The prophetess was flung to the prophet's world, and there was found and taught personally by the great prophet himself. By the great prophet's council, and the teaching of our Brothers from another world, the prophetess came to realize the truth, and that truth was equality through Tiberium!

This world was dying. Though Nod fought to preserve it and bring about the change it needed through Tiberium, its people boldly and wrongly clung to their titles and values, dooming the world, and the prophetess knew that our world was going on the same path! With emotions of sadness filling her heart and tears filling her eyes, the prophetess left her Family of Nod and left the prophet to bring Kane's Word and Nods beliefs to our world, to save it from the doom it was hurtling towards.

The prophetess returned to our world and worked for its betterment, fighting both the fanatical Brimiric church, the nobles and the invading Scrin, all to create a better world where its people would not destroy it! To defend their titles, the nobles and kings came seeking alliance with our might and when their safety from the invading Scrin was discovered, they showed their true colors, and attempted to kill our prophetess and her inner circle. But those true to Nod are not so easily felled. We left Halkeginia, traveling south to this new continent where we were reunited with our prophetess and her inner circle.

Reunited and whole we took this new undiscovered continent of Kania for our own and though hard pressed, prevailed over the difficulties of settlement. Now, with our dark elven allies and our advanced Magic and Tiberium Technologies we have built a great land of promise and equality to work toward our ultimate goals from.

While the great prophet Kane and Nod work toward the ultimate goal of ascension, we too work toward a great goal by the prophetess' light. We too shall ascend to the stars as more than what we are, but as agreed on by all, we shall not ascend until we can do so with all upon this earth! We have one vision and one purpose!

Peace through power!

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"And that is the Told History of Nod and the Crystalists, class." The teacher said in a low voice as he looked around the classroom at the various students around. All the students were still either paying attention or taking notes on their small computers built into their desks. "Alright, as soon as you have finished taking your notes open-," the teacher began before abruptly stopping, causing the entire classroom to look to each other in confusion. Before the teacher or a student could say anything a woman walked into the classroom and stepped up beside the teacher, causing him to bow almost reverently. The woman wore a well-fitting dark sleeveless top and a long black skirt that showed off a bit of her midriff. Her green hair flowed down to the small of her back and she stood there for many moments before smiling to the teacher and speaking.

"You tell the told history well"

The teacher stiffened from the praise. "I- thank you, High General Fouquet. You do me a great honour in saying so."

"There's no need to be so formal you know. I'm not here for any particular reason."

"So this visit is truly unexpected then." The teacher said before looking to his class and seeing their faces of anticipation. "Would you like to teach the class for a bit?"

Fouquet looked at the class, only then realizing their anticipation. "For a while, I suppose." Fouquet replied, hearing whispered declarations of happiness from the class of students almost instantly.

"Then I'll leave it to you." the teacher said as he backed away and leaned against the nearby wall so that Fouquet could have the class's undivided attention.

Fouquet looked back at the teacher. "This class is year eight, correct?"

"Yes."

"Good," Fouquet said as she turned back to the class. "Let's give you all a simple quiz, shall we?"

Most of the class shook their heads as one student raised his hand. "Is it to be open book?"

Fouquet grinned slightly. "No. Anyone can answer the questions though and they shall be relatively simple. First question then: our historic homeland is Halkeginia, name the countries of Halkeginia."

A male student threw up his hand as he spoke. "Gallia, Tristania, Germania and Romalia."

"You forgot one." Fouquet said slyly.

"I did not. Albion was destroyed by the Scrin; I therefore thought it pointless to count it."

"Huh. Very well, I can accept that logic to a point. Second question; We, the Crystalists, came to this continent after defeating the Scrin at Tristania's capitol. What did we name this continent and why?"

A female dark elf with bright blonde hair raised her hand causing her hair to bounce around, eclipsing her tanned brown skin. "The continent was named Kania after the teacher of the prophetess and the All Father of Nod, the prophet Kane."

"Very good, though I would have been very worried if you had somehow gotten it wrong. When did the dark elves join us and what's the history of it?"

The same dark elven girl raised her hand but stood up this time as she spoke. "My species had been exiled from the elven lands generations ago and had been wandering the wastes south of the elven deserts. We wandered to Kania a years after it had been settled and quickly came to an understanding with each other. Our people have been one with the Crystalists ever since."

"Good. The dark elves are as much part of the Crystalists as anyone else. Final question then: All of our technology is based around both Magic and Tiberium based science, can any of you give a brief example of the types of magic and Tiberium?"

A boy in the front raised his hands and stood up. " Halkeginian magic is based on a pentagram with water, wind, fire, earth and void magic, it should also be noted that elven nature magic is an opposite to Void magic but not on the Halkeginian pentagram, despite being a known magic in our world."

Fouquet nodded in approval. "Very good. I won't ask about the individual magic's, so please answer the questions second part would you?"

The boy nodded. "Of course, General. Tiberium is a noncarbon-based element that has strong ferrous qualities with non-resonating reversible energy. Tiberium absorbs matter around it, especially heavy metals, and can mutate biological materials because of this."

"Not bad. What is the difference between its types?"

The boy suddenly looked ashamed. "Um, we haven't quite gotten to that, all we know is that green is more common and that blue and red are less common."

"That's quite alright." Fouquet said as the boy sat back down. "I'll give you all a little bit of a head start then. Blue and red Tiberium differ in two specific ways. Tiberium becomes blue when it absorbs large amounts of heavy metals, making them worth more, but also hard to find naturally. Red Tiberium is formed when Tiberium absorbs radiation or, more commonly, when it absorbs excess mana from people or the environment. Red Tiberium is what powers most of our technology because of this." Fouquet added as she stepped away from the center of the room allowing its teacher to step back up and clap his hands to gain the students attention.

"Thank you for your time, General Fouquet. I'm sure the students will use your review effectively."

Fouquet let out a smile and waved as she left the room. "I'm sure they will."

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Fouquet walked through the doorway to the Crystalists main research laboratory, and was instantly greeted by a sight that vexed her slightly. In the center of the room stood a single man, his tanned brown dark elvish skin illuminated in the Labs red light. He was as tall as Fouquet, with long white braided hair that made him look older than he was, though not by much. As he typed information into the computer he stood before and muttered incoherently under his breath Fouquet slowly and quietly walked into the lab, the door sliding silently shut behind her. Slowly she walked up behind the man and without touching him, leaned over his shoulder, and kissed him on the cheek.

"You know if you actually slept once in a while you would be able to work more effectively, Faravis." Fouquet said in a light tone as she continued to lean over his shoulder.

Faravis turned his head and planted a deep kiss on Fouquet's lips. "How long has it been then?"

Fouquet stepped back and walked up beside him, leaning against the computer before answering. "Three days since you've left the lab, four since I've seen you in bed."

Faravis's head hung low. "Oh, I'm sorry. It's just that I-,"

"Since when have you ever needed to explain your reason to me, hmm? I know that you've been stuck in here researching all kinds of things and just lost track of time."

Faravis looked back at the computer and hit a few keys bringing up a series of paragraphs. "Legion, please run through this for any errors." Faravis said before turning around and leaning against the computer like Fouquet was. "Have I missed anything major over the last few days?"

"Nothing much really. Only important thing is that Louise went over to Mirage to check up on the Dauntless's progress, again."

"Ah, it should be done soon, should it not?"

Fouquet nodded. "Yes, just a matter of weeks I'm told. Louise is keeping a close eye on it though, the last we need is for our first naval Dreadnaught to sink on its maiden voyage."

Faravis let out a light chuckle. "That would be pretty bad, but I doubt it would happen. The engineers would never live it down. And the prophetess would be furious at them for months."

"True. Have you seen Clarity recently by chance?"

Faravis gave Fouquet a confused look. "No I haven't, I've been stuck in here for three days, remember."

"Yes," Fouquet answered before letting out a deep sigh. "And here I thought I just wasn't paying attention. What are we going to do with that girl?"

"She's out on a mission with Emelia." came a third voice from behind them.

Fouquet looked up to see Siesta standing in the doorway of the lab, her now grown up body filling out her Kunoichi outfit even better than it had years before, showing both leg and cleavage and her now long black and deep blue hair done into a large ponytail that lifted above her head a bit before hanging down behind her. "Good evening, Siesta. So she's with Emelia then?"

Siesta walked into the lab, the door closing behind her. "I did just say that. If you two lovebirds paid a bit more attention to your own daughter you might have noticed her leave with Emelia this morning."

"Is it so wrong to be in love?" Fouquet commented as she quickly landed a peck on Faravis's cheek. "Besides it's not like you're any different. What mission are they on?"

Siesta walked over to a small computer terminal and brought up a map of the continent. "We've been getting odd reports of strange creatures near the River Nile at the north eastern edge of the continent. I asked the two of them to check on it for me."

"To keep them from trying to sneak off to Mirage again, huh?" Fouquet said with a smile.

Siesta glanced to Fouquet and returned her smile. "Yes, they both can wait before seeing the Dauntless, unlike Louise who just can't wait."

"She just wants to make sure things go well."

"Yes, but her constant visits make things difficult; she may as well set up a bed in the construction yard at this rate!"

"Oh but then you'd become oh so lonely." Fouquet teased causing Siesta to blush slightly as she closed down the Holo-map on the computer.

"Er-, moving on! Have you two heard the news?" Siesta asked after recomposing herself.

Both Fouquet and Faravis looked to each other and shrugged. "What news?"

"Apparently the scan beacons we dropped onto the Threshold Island in the Western ocean have been sending back strange readings. It seems like the Threshold is reacting to something."

"An invasion force?" Faravis asked quietly.

Siesta shook her head. "No, the energy is too little to transport anything, and we haven't gotten any sort of signal through it. Louise is likely going to call an inner circle meeting about it when she returns."

"We could just have it without her; she's the only one missing after all." Fouquet said with a snicker.

"We could but there are a few other things I think she wants to meet about."

"I'm guessing the creature sighting by the Nile and the shadow teams you sent into Halkeginia last month are a couple of them?"

"I can't keep a thing hidden from you, can I!" Siesta remarked.

"Sure you can," Fouquet said with a smile. "It just takes a bit of skill that's all."

"Heh, true enough." Siesta said as she let out a sigh. "I just hope nothing changes to drastically, or too soon."

"True enough. It would be annoying to have to deal with another Scrin invasion with only twenty years of preparation."

"Yeah it would. I guess we can only hope for the best."