Prologue.
Calling All Twilight Knights
It was as though a jolt of burning electricity was sent through her spine. The natural order had been usurped and she sensed so, even from one thousand feet above the world below. Her pale eyes opened slowly as she looked around the cold white room. She, along with the towering walls that surrounded her, glowed with an ethereal quality that was entirely indescribable. She hovered several feet off of the floor, suspended within her trance. However as the pulse of evil emitted through the air, she awoke, and planted her delicate feet gingerly upon the ground. She had only felt such a wave of darkness and overwhelming doom once before, but that was long ago.
She threw open the doors of the meditation chamber, and quickly rushed down the hallway, her small feet making light delicate sounds tapping against the platinum metal of the carrier. She reached a large elevator platform, and descended through the various levels of the ship. As the platform began to descend, it was noted that no one was on board the ship, although, she had wanted it this way. She liked solitude, and the more people running about her vessel, the harder it was for her to get it.
She stepped on to the flight deck, where a tall and tan woman with long azure hair was standing at the helm. The woman turned to her, and gave her a salute, and without a word, she moved past her, to a glass case beside the helm of the ship. She gently opened it, and inside was a clear floating crystal. She waved her pale hands over the surface, and the stone began to emit a bright white light. She then turned to the woman with the azure hair who gave her a stern and solemn look
"It's something bad…isn't it?" The azure haired woman asked, looking down at a small copper device in her hands, as it began to pulse with the same white light.
"Indeed," She nodded, pulling a strand of her snow white hair out of her pallid face, "You know where to take the ship…I have to talk to a particular Sky Knight before I meet you all."
"I am confused though," The azure haired woman began, "The Twilight Knights haven't been formally gathered in ages…Advent, is what you sensed really that magnanimous?"
"I fear that it is," She nodded, moving towards the hangar bay hatch at the opposite side of the flight deck, "I will tell you more in due time Nova my dear…but for now, all that I ask of you, is to gather the Twilight Knights on Atmosia…I will meet you back here on the Tempest soon."
"But who are you going to speak with?" The azure haired woman inquired before she closed the hatch of the hangar bay.
"You'll find out soon enough," She replied, as the hatch sealed shut. There were only two skimmers in the entire hangar, which was odd, given that the bay was so large, that it could accommodate some thirty or forty. She moved towards the most pristine white vehicle, besides a rather angular, jet black one, and climbed on to it. She revved the engine, but before she could take off, the blood curdling shiver of doom was sent down her spine once more.
She had only felt a pulse like this once in her life, and she knew that one day she might feel it again, but perhaps not so soon. See, she was more attune to these natural imbalances than others were, given that her kind usually was. Still, she revved the engine of her skimmer, and took off down the airstrip, and into some rather dark and dismal weather. The cold, damp air stung her face as she flew through the sky.
Meanwhile, back on board the nearly empty carrier, the Azure haired woman walked on to the flight deck. She headed towards the control panel, and began entering in several coordinates. She then pushed down on a small white button. After doing so, the button began to pulse with a dull white light, making a faint beeping sound as it did so. She then pulled out a small copper device, that simply looked like a rounded oval crystal set within the metal ring. It was pulsing in sync with the button she had just pressed. The beacon signal had been activated for the first time in years.
"I hope you know what you're doing Advent," She sighed, leaning over the control panel, and looking out into the cold storm that was brewing before her, "For all Atmos' sake, I hope this isn't another false alarm…"
At that moment, all over Atmos, fighters from every terra were similarly removing their beacons, knowing what was about to happen. For the first time in years, the Twilight Knights were about to convene on their grand city in the sky. Each warrior knew what to do, leaving their lives (what little they had) and heading for their skimmers to fly off into the sky. However, there was one Knight still missing from the squadron, who was unaware of her destiny.
The woman in white touched down on the terra Atmosia. It was sunset, although it was difficult to tell, given that dark gray clouds hung in the sky. She dismounted her perfectly white skimmer. And began heading through the streets of the city, her white hood covering her face. She walked to the center of the city square, looking around at all of the faces, looking to her with curiosity. Although, the face she was looking for was not here. She took note of the beacon tower, where she saw the banner of the Storm Hawks squadron waving in the wind. She smiled, as she began walking towards the tower. She reached the base of the building, where she saw a violet and rusty orange skimmer, sitting lazily out front.
"Now where is your rider?" She asked the vehicle as though it would actually answer her, running her fingers gently across the metal.
"Excuse me?" A the voice of a young woman asked, "Who are you, and why are you looking at my ride? Looking to steal it?"
"Starling?" She asked, taking her white hood down, "Formerly of the Interceptors, I presume?" She smiled, turning around to face the young woman. She was in her late twenties, with dark violet hair, and emerald eyes. Indeed, this was Starling.
"I am…" Starling replied cautiously, taking a step towards the woman, "But who are you?"
"My name is Advent," She smiled, extending her hand out towards Starling, "And I have a proposition for you my dear."
[Message from Kingdom Come]: Woohoo! An awesome little prequel to the Regiment of Twilight! I will not finish it before I finish volume II of the original story (because then it would spoil stuff in volume II ;) anyway, this is the only part of the story that will be written via 3rd person omnicent. From here on out, the story is going to be told through multiple perspectives :) It should be fun :D Hope you guys are as faithful to this as the Regiment of Twilight!