Introduction: Hello everyone, I'm BestServedSoup. About last night I found myself writing a story due to a great amount of stress I was having waiting for my results. It's based on one of my most beloved gaming franchises, Final Fantasy, and mostly makes allusions to the classic FF games. Anyway, I decided to post it here to get opinions on the composition, because frankly speaking, I can't tell whether it's good or not (that's a writer's curse right there). I might continue the story if people like it, though I can make no promises if I'll actually finish it. I'll try though!
Tale of the Crystals
It begins with the bearing of one child – a young infant girl born into the vast world known as Lumen Sol. As her weeping eyes opened to reveal a stark blue uncommon to her folk, her lungs screamed with vitality that was true to the namesake of her warrior ancestors. "She is a maiden, but Whitmire nonetheless," was what her mother had said as she rested the girl against her chest, her arms abating from fatigue. Born on Scorpio the 28th, and descendant to the great Warrior Barthus of the Dawn. One could not wish for a better occasion that night.
The town residents of Walse were forced into short-lived celebration however - their expressions of joy quickly turned into that of utter melancholy, if only to demonstrate that all was not well for the little one named Iris, who had been given a feminine name to compliment her remarkable eyes. Not too long after the child had finally grown sullen and fallen to sleep had news arrived from the Crystal Tower, a structure of which stood in the farthest lands, unseen and untouched by civilisations. Such news came in the form of a haggard messenger who, eyes mucked by a tinge of madness, brought tidings of a deceased father. Graver still was that in the wake of such a tragedy, a terrible darkness had apparently surfaced from depths unknown, speaking and stirring even in the light as it had brought wrath down on the four Elemental Crystals circling the tower's peak. The messenger could not state any simpler that the Crystals of Wind, Fire, Water and Earth, gems of which to that point had governed the nature of the world, were nothing more than memory.
Yet on that occasion alongside Iris, another three infants were brought to breathe the air of Lumen Sol for the very first time. And across all corners of the map, only four had been born that day. It was a strange phenomenon, one that seemed more an inevitability than coincidence to the very few who knew, even as the Crystals' untimely demise that night had undoubtedly brought an end to a Golden Era.
It was only upon their eighteenth birthday that the connection would be made, for the children would then come to be known by allies and enemies both as the Warriors of Light. And as unprepared as they were for the menaces ahead, they would also be the ones to save Lumen Sol from its impending ruin.