Chapter 1 - The Heartful call for help answered...
The attack came faster than the world expected. The world, named Hato-lon, has been struck by darkness. An evil lord of darkness who simply calls himself the "Dark Master" has seized the kingdom, imprisoning the populus, and holding the daughter of the kingdom, Princess Hantvica, inside the castle dungeons. Everyone lived in fear of the Dark Master, as the entire world fell into total darkness in a few short days and stayed like this for 10 years. Hato-lon became a quivering hollow shell of it's former self.
Almost 10 Years ago, At the council of Warlocks, witches and warlocks were discussing how to take care of the evil. Months have passed since the fall of Hato-lon, and they were running out of options at this point. They tried everything they could to repel the Dark Master, but casulties were piling up.
"This has gone on far enough," One of the warlocks said, "None of our magic powers are able to effect the Dark Master, and we are running out of options. Anyone with any possible options left?"
"I-I don't know anymore," One of the witches said, "We are helpless against him."
One Warlock rose up. He looked like he was in his 40s, having dark gray hair, and stood about 5 foot 11. "I have one last option though," He said, "There has to be someone from the world called 'Earth' who represents the very foundation of love. Gender or age doesn't matter. The only one who knew the power of love in this world had since been slain by the Dark Master. We cannot harm him. Only defend ourselves from his dark, hateful magic."
"What do you suggest we do?" The witch replied.
"We are going to create a necklace, and place a pure love filled gem on it, with the power to protect from the Dark Master's evil magic. One of us will place our essence inside the gem, and the necklace will be sealed inside a book, talking about our history. Half the book will be blank so we can place the necklace inside and hide it. Only one believing in love will be able to open the seal protecting the necklace."
"Our call better be answered. As of now, the Dark Master is getting ready for a ritual which requires 10 years to finish. One which spells doom for the whole universe. All life as we know it being obliterated by pure hate energy."
"You mustn't worry. It will find it's way to someone before then. I will volunteer to put my essence into the gem."
After the council was adjurned, the Warlocks and Witches constructed the necklace, silver in color, and around the size of an amulet. A pink gem was infused with magic that protects from the Dark Master's own magic and placed into the necklace. One warlock wrote the complete history of Hato-lon from what it used to be all the way to the current state it was in. Preparations took months, and by then, tyranny spread across much of the world by then. Forced sacrifices, raiding of villages and towns, genocide. Once it was assembled and the necklace placed inside the hollowed area of the book, the book was brought to the ritual hall to be sent off to Earth. Using a teleport spell, the Warlocks and Witches of the council teleport the book off to Earth. Nobody noticed about it until a book enthusiast from Misono Female Academy saw it, and decided to bring it to it's library.
Almost 10 years later, Planet Earth
At Misono Female Academy, the cheery Heart Aino was looking through books at it's library, while Saki Tsuzura was standing nearby puzzled. "Heart..." Saki asked, "Why are you so anxious to find this book in the first place?"
"Maori told me this book was special in some sort of way," Heart replied, "and I want to see if this is true."
"I don't know why Maori believes that. It's just a legend. It may not even be true."
Heart finally found the book she was looking for. The Warlocks titled the book "The fall of Hato-lon" on there. She looked at the cover of the book, and the book was big as a text book and looked like it had about 400 pages inside. "This is it, Sa-Sa!" She said.
"Please stop calling me Sa-Sa..." Saki responded, "Anyways, that's the book? I expected it to be... more ancient..."
"This book looks like it's brand new, but it's hard to believe it's been around for almost 10 years!"
Later, after school...
Heart, Saki, and Maori were walking from the gates of the academy. "That must be the book I told you about," Maori said.
"It sure is, Mao-Mao!" Heart replied.
Saki still wasn't keen. She didn't think the book was that special, and her childhood friend seemed very interested in the book. Heart let Maori take a look at the book while the three were walking home. "This is a very mysterious book," Maori told Heart, "Looking at the title of the book. It sounds like the story involves a kingdom falling into darkness. But what caused it to happen?"
"Maybe we can have a look through it later!" Heart asked, "Maybe our other friends may be interested too!"
"That's sounds like a good idea. Perhaps we can all meet outside Cafe Aino later so we can check out this story." Maori replied cheerfully, "I'll also see if my family and the others are interested too."
Saki sweatdropped. She couldn't believe Heart would actually go this far to show a book like this to all her friends. To Saki, Heart has always been of disregard, although she is lucky that Heart was there for her during the previous instincts involving the boundaries of the worlds.
Much later, outside Cafe Aino...
Heart and several others (Saki, Maori and the rest of the Kasuga Family, Kamui, Konoha, Lilica, Yoriko, Akane, and Nazuna) gathered around, as Heart opened the book and began to start reading the book. Lilica didn't seem interested, but then again, she really didn't care much for literature. From what Heart read, the entire kingdom was peaceful and capable of great things, until it was slowly becoming corrupted.
Nearby, Kira Daidohji was walking, all while getting annoyed by Catherine Kyohbashi's constant babbling about certain things. "Would you please stop talking about that, Catherine?!?" Kira said angrily to her. After she said that, she noticed the others that have gathered around Heart, while she was reading the book. Kira grinned and snickered a bit. "What are you thinking of doing Kira?!?" Catherine said.
"None of your business!" Kira rudely replied.
Kira walked by casually towards the others. Kamui looked closely at her as she got closer. "What are you up to now, Kira?" Kamui asked.
"Nothing, except that THE DARK MASTER KILLS AINITA HELLEN IN THAT BOOK!!!!" Kira replied, spoiling the rest of what is written in the book.
The others gasped and had shocked looks, as well as Catherine nearby did. Heart's face was in shock, and tears started forming from her eyes. She closed the book and ran inside the entrance of Cafe Aino, crying out loud. Tsuzune looked at Kira with a pissed off look. "How dare you, Kira!" She said, "Spoiling the book like that!"
"That book is incredibly dumb, and I don't know why you all are reading it in the first place!" Kira replied, as she walked away laughing evilly.
Catherine walked up to the others. "Mei-Ling Hua is going to find out about this," She said, "As if her ambitions for world conquering weren't bad enough."
"I don't get how she became a maiden in the first place, that ungrateful little brat..." Tsuzune replied.
Saki walked inside Cafe Aino, looking for Heart. "Heart!" She shouted.
"*sniff* I'm not in the mood, Sa-Sa..." Heart replied upstairs.
Saki's face became more crossed. Not because of Heart's sudden change in mood, but because of what caused Heart's sudden change in mood. Kira had complete disregard with everybody else, and it became much more apparent than it did during the boundary meltdown wars. Saki walked out, and as the others walked away, Kamui still stuck around. "What are we going to do?" Saki asked her.
Kamui looked down. "I don't know," She answered.
"I hope Heart doesn't end up like this forever. It isn't like her to act like that."
"I'm sure she will forget about it overtime and be what she used to be. Be patient."
Cafe Aino, at Night...
In her room, Heart was still depressed and sad, although her mother was there to tuck her in at night. "Don't worry, Heart," her mother said, "It happened. Nothing you can do now."
"But I don't feel well..." Heart replied.
"Get some rest, honey. You'll feel much better tomorrow."
Heart's mother kissed her in the forehead as she pulled the sheets over her. "Good night, Heart," She said as she walked out, turning off the lights on the way out.
"Good night, mom," Heart replied, as she slowly closed her eyes as her mom closed the door to the room.
Heart tried to fall asleep, but try as she could, she was unable to fall asleep. The big spoiler which Kira shouted out during the afternoon was serious enough that it made Heart upset and depressed at the same time, something which rarely even happens to her, considering she was almost always in a happy mood her entire life. Despite hearing the spoiler, Heart had the thought that perhaps it isn't a spoiler at all, and wanted to look back inside the book again. She turned on her lamp and took out the book, and flipped over to the halfway point of the book, the part which was the spoiler itself. She was at the end of the written pages area, and all the other pages seemed to be blank. Heart frantically flipped through the blank pages, hoping that there were pages that actually continued the story, until she accidently ripped a page out of the book, revealing the hollowed out area, and inside it, was the necklace the Warlocks and Witches have forged and stuck inside the book. Heart was no longer depressed, but now confused. "What's this?" She said, as she pulled out the silver necklace.
She felt around the necklace, until her thumbs reached on top of the pink gem in the middle of the necklace's front area, and all of a sudden, light poured out of it, and out of there, came the Warlock who volunteered to place his essence inside of the gem. "Sorry if I alarmed you," He said.
"Who are you?" Heart asked.
"I am the Warlock of Guidance, Encental Garane. I'm from the council of Warlocks from Hato-lon."
"Hato-lon's real? So that means everything written in the book is real?"
"It is unfortunate the story was spoiled, but spoiled or not, the situation at Hato-lon is very grave, as well as that of your world and every other world in existence."
"Every world in existence?"
"Yes. You already know the Dark Master cast the entire world into darkness and killed the only one on the world to stop him. He used his dark, evil, hateful magic to turn the entire world into a nightmare. Bodies of water turned to bodies of lava, trees are lifeless, everything green has been made gray. Villagers were slaughtered, executed, or worse. Children were sent to the dungeons of the Dark Master's castle to be raised as slaves, and livestock is taken away. Now, we all live in fear of him. Fear for that he will do further harm to us. Now, he seeks to wipe out the entire universe just for sport."
"T-that's horrible! I've got to do something about it!"
"That's where I'm getting here. You look like the kind of person who knows of love, judging by the heart shaped ahoge in your hair."
"That's me! I'm the Maiden who seeks the power of love, Heart Aino! Love can solve any problem! I just wished everyone else knew."
Heart's Arcana, Partinias, was listening on this at this time. "And I am the arcana of Love, Partinias." She said.
"Ah. Much more perfect." Encental replied, "You two will be able to do very well against what will be up ahead. Heart, Partinias, with the amount of love radiating out of the both of you, you will have more than a chance to defeat the Dark Master, who even now, is getting closer to destroying the Universe. I don't know how close he is now to achieving his goal, so we must make haste. I advise you get ready right now, Heart Aino."
Heart got up out of bed, and went into her closet to get her school uniform, and on the way to the bathroom to get changed, she grabbed the red ribbon she always used when battling against evil. After Heart closed the door to the bathroom to get changed in there, Partinias talked with Encental. "Heart's a very helpful girl," She said, "I think you made the right choice to call for help."
"The necklace was set to awaken me inside the gem on it if the person touching it believed that love can solve any problem." Encental replied, "Although, how are you able to talk to me as well?"
"I serve Heart, so her problems are also mine, although I can't really intervene, only allow Heart to use my power as needed."
No sooner did the two finish talking did Heart walk out of the bathroom, school uniform on, ribbon tied on and all. Encental walked up to Heart, holding the necklace with his two hands. "Here," He said, "You will need to wear this. I cannot risk you dying to the Dark Master's evil magic like it did to Mistress Ainita. I will also be able to guide you along the way while inside the gem on there. I know much about the world of Hato-lon, and since you will be going in without knowledge of our world, I will hopefully be very helpful to you."
"Thank you, Encental," Heart replied, as she took the necklace and placed it around her neck.
Encental chanted a spell to open a portal near the window of Heart's room, and just by seeing the portal itself, the world on the other side looked very evil. Heart had a shocked look on her face, but she swallowed her pride and dashed right through the portal, with Encental following behind her. When she came out the other side, the two find themselves standing before a forboding castle. Encental returned inside the gem on Heart's necklace. The castle which Heart stood before was incredibly huge. The walls around the castle were extremely long, but not that high. The central part of the castle looked extremely huge, having a couple of tall towers extending up into the clouds, which were at quite a low height. Bolts of lightning were crashing down around the castle. Before she could have any thoughts of whether to go inside the castle or not, the castle gates bursted open and out came a horse with a couple of people riding on it, along with a very nasty creature chasing after them. Heart jumped out of the way into the lifeless bushes as she observed what was going on...