Leaving Illusions Behind
Written by Li Cruz
Prologue: Legends
Author Notes:
After reviewing the original I've decided to do a complete revision.
There will be a couple of twists… But enough talk. Onward!
Li Cruz (rantermaster@yahoo.com)
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Many years ago, when the world was still young, spirits of incredible strength and power wander the Earth. They were often worshipped by all races as gods. And when I say all races, I mean goblins, elves, giants, and so on. All creatures capable of thought worshipped them. That was before the world became a sundered. The spirits began to bicker about petty things and the world fell under a veil of darkness.
The spirit whom we call Gaea foresaw the disasters that befall if her fellow entities continued their fights. So she called forth a number of valiant heroes, human and non, to aid in stopping the rampaging spirits. Alas to no avail, the heroes were all slain. Gaea, weakened by this news, turned her back to the others. Many dark years passed in these darkened days.
When the entire world, wary and scarred, had given up all hope, it is said angels in guise of mortals descended on the warring world and stilled those fires of hatred and war. Yet this was not so, these angels were merely the children of Gaea. They merely helped those who suffered under these 'gods' and in turn the people of many species rose up and overturned the 'gods'. The 'gods' were forced to see their idiocy. Many stopped but some 'gods' refused to admit that they were in fault. Those who could not stop disappeared off the world. Some say they are still fighting somewhere in another plane of existence.
As for the children of Gaea, I must say did not have a happy ending. Many of the children were killed by the same races they had aided during the darkness. The remaining children disappeared and were not heard again from.
Now, what is important to this story, you ask? Well, the truth is when the races killed Gaea's children. The world was splintered into several planes of reality. Not to mention the thousand of the pocket dimensions this created. This is why some realms can exist in the same place at the same place.
Now that was millenniums ago. Let's come to the present.
A young human is born to a family of demons. A pureblood human out of a pureblood demon family, it is astounding. It is quite impossible. Humans are rare in the world but to have giving birth to one, unthinkable. The mother is scandalized. The father rages at the gods for the accursed luck. Their children watched on disgusted. After a while the parents decide to keep him but he would be come the family's personal servant when he was old enough to walk.
And so it was. The years passed slowly for the poor boy. He wasn't even blessed with a name. Yet unknowing to his 'masters', the boy grow in magical, demonic and holy power and it was just a matter of time before he would break free from his servitude...
On another plane of reality, two other boys were born to do great things.
The first one was a young boy destined to lose his parents to an evil man. The boy would grow up abused by his only living relatives. On his eleventh birthday, he found he was a wizard. Yet he was not just any wizard, but he was The-Boy-Who-Lived, Harry James Potter. Now we all are quite familiar with his adventures. So there is no reason to repeat them here.
Now Harry is approaching his sixteen year of life. Unfortunately his Uncle Vernon has been getting more and more violent. And Harry suspects there is more going on than meets the eyes in Privet Number Four…
Now the second boy is however is a year young than Harry, yet just as important. This boy however lives with his grandfather half-way around the planet. He is also the King of Games and the bearer of the Millennium Puzzle. Yugi Motuo has had his share of dangerous adventures too.
Yugi now is now enjoying the year and a half of peace given to him. Well, relative peace that is. Dark Bakura still gets into fights with Yami Yugi. Bakura still pick on Malik. At least there is no one going after the Millennium items anymore. Too bad the peace is short lived…
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Next on Leaving Illusion Behind:
Chapter One: The Summons
Written by Li Cruz
Prologue: Legends
Author Notes:
After reviewing the original I've decided to do a complete revision.
There will be a couple of twists… But enough talk. Onward!
Li Cruz (rantermaster@yahoo.com)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Many years ago, when the world was still young, spirits of incredible strength and power wander the Earth. They were often worshipped by all races as gods. And when I say all races, I mean goblins, elves, giants, and so on. All creatures capable of thought worshipped them. That was before the world became a sundered. The spirits began to bicker about petty things and the world fell under a veil of darkness.
The spirit whom we call Gaea foresaw the disasters that befall if her fellow entities continued their fights. So she called forth a number of valiant heroes, human and non, to aid in stopping the rampaging spirits. Alas to no avail, the heroes were all slain. Gaea, weakened by this news, turned her back to the others. Many dark years passed in these darkened days.
When the entire world, wary and scarred, had given up all hope, it is said angels in guise of mortals descended on the warring world and stilled those fires of hatred and war. Yet this was not so, these angels were merely the children of Gaea. They merely helped those who suffered under these 'gods' and in turn the people of many species rose up and overturned the 'gods'. The 'gods' were forced to see their idiocy. Many stopped but some 'gods' refused to admit that they were in fault. Those who could not stop disappeared off the world. Some say they are still fighting somewhere in another plane of existence.
As for the children of Gaea, I must say did not have a happy ending. Many of the children were killed by the same races they had aided during the darkness. The remaining children disappeared and were not heard again from.
Now, what is important to this story, you ask? Well, the truth is when the races killed Gaea's children. The world was splintered into several planes of reality. Not to mention the thousand of the pocket dimensions this created. This is why some realms can exist in the same place at the same place.
Now that was millenniums ago. Let's come to the present.
A young human is born to a family of demons. A pureblood human out of a pureblood demon family, it is astounding. It is quite impossible. Humans are rare in the world but to have giving birth to one, unthinkable. The mother is scandalized. The father rages at the gods for the accursed luck. Their children watched on disgusted. After a while the parents decide to keep him but he would be come the family's personal servant when he was old enough to walk.
And so it was. The years passed slowly for the poor boy. He wasn't even blessed with a name. Yet unknowing to his 'masters', the boy grow in magical, demonic and holy power and it was just a matter of time before he would break free from his servitude...
On another plane of reality, two other boys were born to do great things.
The first one was a young boy destined to lose his parents to an evil man. The boy would grow up abused by his only living relatives. On his eleventh birthday, he found he was a wizard. Yet he was not just any wizard, but he was The-Boy-Who-Lived, Harry James Potter. Now we all are quite familiar with his adventures. So there is no reason to repeat them here.
Now Harry is approaching his sixteen year of life. Unfortunately his Uncle Vernon has been getting more and more violent. And Harry suspects there is more going on than meets the eyes in Privet Number Four…
Now the second boy is however is a year young than Harry, yet just as important. This boy however lives with his grandfather half-way around the planet. He is also the King of Games and the bearer of the Millennium Puzzle. Yugi Motuo has had his share of dangerous adventures too.
Yugi now is now enjoying the year and a half of peace given to him. Well, relative peace that is. Dark Bakura still gets into fights with Yami Yugi. Bakura still pick on Malik. At least there is no one going after the Millennium items anymore. Too bad the peace is short lived…
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Next on Leaving Illusion Behind:
Chapter One: The Summons