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The Requiem of Souls {Breath of Fire Part 1}
By: Stellice
Act 01 – Scene 00
Prologue ~Year of the Yorae:???~
It was a dark night, barely a star was visible in the sky, but it would not last for long. The darkness soon gave way to light as thousands of meteors shot across the sky.
It was an event that occurred every hundred years. Many nomadic tribes prayed and danced on this night, believing it a sign from the gods, perhaps on this particular occasion they were right.
Lorkath leaned as far out the small window as he could without falling and stared intently at the meteor shower. It was not however the meteors that intrigued him; he had already seen them on several occasions.
Tonight was truly a special night, even by his standards. For nearly a century Lorkath had studied the dragon gods and the legend of the Yolei. He believed tonight was the night that the Yolei would be born.
Minute after minute went by, each seeming like an eternity to him, patience was one of his virtues, but it had worn out on the last meteor shower. Finally his waiting and paid off as an intense blue light shot through the sky, crashing within miles of the tall tower.
Just as Lorkath was about to turn away from the window, his attention was caught by yet another intense blue light. His eyes nearly jumped out of their sockets as it split into two, one piece landing even closer to the tower than the original and the other shooting off to the eastern hemisphere.
Lorkath nearly skipped out of the room, his long dark blue robe flapping behind him. As if his calculations being right hadn't heightened his mood enough; the mere thought of there being more than one Yolei made him happier than he had felt in many a century.
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Nu-Zai looked up from his hiding place in the bushes and watched as the blue robed figure made its way to the horseless carriage in front of the tower. Quickly and silently, much like a shadow beat, he followed the carriage as it bumped and bobbed its way down the rarely traveled road.
Lorkath was no fool, he had not spent the past centuries building power and becoming the most feared sorcerer in the land by being naïve and unaware of his surrounding. However, he liked to toy with his enemies and decided it would be most fun to allow the savage following them to remain alive for the time being.
A faint blue light emanated from the carriage as an image of another blue robed figure appeared in a small mirror on the wall. Bright red lockets of curly hair cascaded from the inside of the deep cowl, but no face or even a hint of one could be seen.
'I have come in contact with the first Yolei Master; he seems quite disoriented and may become violent' a raspy female voice said.
'Very good Teila, do not endanger yourself more than necessary, keep yourself hidden and follow him if you must.' Lorkath spoke, with no hint of emotion.
Without another word Teila nodded and the image in the mirror faded along with the blue light.
'Would it not be faster for you to fly my master?' a small demonic sounding voiced piped up from the corner of the carriage.
'I have power beyond the dreams of most mortals Zafga, but it is a god we are on our way to meet, I wish to play it… safe'
'Forgive me for my impudence master' the voice responded.
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After nearly a half hour the carriage came to a halt and Lorkath wasted no time in hopping out and dashing off into the deep darkness of the forest, a small imp like creature on his shoulder and Nu-Zai close behind.
With unnatural speed he ran through the trees like a demon. Despite his years of training and discipline, Nu-Zai was very hard pressed to keep up with or even track the powerful sorcerer.
It wasn't long before Lorkath made it to the new clearing in the forest, decorated with a small crater. In the middle of the crater sat a naked woman, the likes of which he had never seen.
Long curly crystal like white hair flowed down her sparkling smooth silver tinted white skin; cascading over her back and arms as she sat crossed legged, arms covering her ample breasts
He felt drawn to her, forgetting all caution he made his way down into the crater, not caring about his safety; he had to see her face. His wish was granted as she looked up at him and he was greeted by the most amazing site he had seen in his many centuries of life. Looking into her eyes was like into the night sky, you could literally see the galaxy in them.
Lorkath halted in his tracks, mesmerized by the sight and nearly forgot about the savage following him. A loud war cry knocked him out of his reverie and he nimbly side-stepped as an elaborate looking spear crashed into the ground where he had been standing a second ago.
Both Lorkath and the Yolei observed the attacker. He stood an average height for a savage, with long brown locks of hair braided in many ways overcastting his darker toned skinned. A collection of different colored animal skin rags made up what his priests called holy clothes. The various markings on his arms hinted at his being a highly praised warrior.
Nu-Zai jumped to his spear, ripping it out of the ground and swinging it up and to his side, nearly taking off Lorkath's head. Upon missing his target, the savage did a back flip; landing on his feet and spinning around fully - spear first, this time it did not miss.
His arm held out to block it, Lorkath had let the spear embed itself into the bone. Nu-Zai grinned thinking he had gotten the better of the sorcerer, but his grin soon turned to a look of dread.
Eyes glowing red from under his deep cowl, Lorkath muttered a short spell and the spear vanished, followed shortly by Nu-Zai wrapping his arms around his stomach and howling in pain.
A moment later the butt end of the spear shot out the top of his head and the tip stuck itself into the hard clay. His body slowly slid down the shaft of the spear as his vision faded and darkness consumed him.
Lorkath then turned his attention back to the Yolei as the wound on his arm healed completely. The look in her eyes fascinated him; he had expected to see at least a slight hint of apprehension in them after what she had just seen. He instead saw excitement and curiosity.
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I apologize in advance, but production of this fanfic will be rather slow because I don't remember many of the names, places, important bits of history, etc. from Breath of Fire 4, so I have to play through it again and try to find some info on the net. If anyone has any information they can share, it would be GREATLY appreciate. Thankies! ^_^
On the note of not remembering things you might have noticed the ??? for the year, I'll change it as soon as I figure out the dates and such.
Despite what you might think, this fanfic will not entirely center around Fou-Lu, there are many new and original characters and if you've played the first two game you will recognize some names too.