Tales of Vesperia: A New Time, A New World

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AN: This is not my first story but, my other stories were short lived and honestly not great. The possibility of me losing interest and no longer writing this story is high. I am willing though to try and write an enjoyable story. My grammar is bad so do not be afraid to go full grammar nazi on me simply PM me my mistakes and I'll do my best to fix them and avoid them in the future. Thank you for your time now onto the story...

Ch. 1 The World Blinked (Revised)

Terca Lumireis, what a wild world. Yuri had lived on it his entire life and still couldn't understand how it worked. This world had taken him and his friends for a wild ride, taking them in every direction and back again. With his companions, they had traveled the world and changed it completely and utterly, in ways men who had tried their entire lives to change and influence the world, couldn't even compare to one eighth, to what they had done in a single wild year. Now, far older, and arguably wiser, Yuri had truly and fully realized how crazy their adventure had been. To go from chasing a simple Blastia thief for the lower quarter, to uncovering an evil conspiracy to drive the world into war, then a journey to discovering the true meaning of the Child of the Full-Moon, the secrets of the Entelexeia, and the existence of Zaude and how it kept back the threat of the Adephogos, and finally stopping The Tower of Tarqaron. It was insane where their journey had taken them.

"What a wild ride," Yuri thought "That journey was a long time ago now here I am, an old man, thinking about the glory days." That journey had changed them all greatly and over the years how they had continued to affect the world showed that clearly.

Raven had done the least out of all them, being old, the immense stress of the journey, and living on borrowed time hadn't done him very many favours. He had spent his last years right after the journey getting his affairs in order, taking care of last minute business, notifying everyone of his imminent death, ect. the works. Finding successors to his work, he had put a lot work in the last bit of his life to make sure his passing would go smoothly and peacefully, we … we helped him succeed at that as our next guild job. His passing was not a shock, but he was dearly missed.

Repede got his newest title as the oldest dog that ever lived being to stubborn to die when he really honestly should have, being 55 years old the day of his passing. He had been surprisingly fit for a dog of his age, his body still covered in corded muscles, being able to keep up with his grand puppies up to his fifties. He really started to slow down after his reaching 45, needing to Rest more and more, until he died. The old bastard apparently hadn't wanted to leave till he had given me his favorite dagger and seen to me one last time. Repede died surrounded by his friends and family.

Rita … Rita had surprise us all she was younger than most of us excluding Karol, and it was clear she had awhile to go but, fate decided otherwise. She had spent her life researching mana and spirits, while living with Estelle in Halure. Rita had changed the least out of all of us still headstrong, still always determined to have it her way while being the big softy under that mean mask she kept up. Rita had decided to stay with Estelle for the times she wasn't taking the odd trip with the gang to fly around, keep in shape, or do more research.

Rita's research had borne fruit, finding ways to interact with mana to form spells and artes it was just a lot more difficult, the hard part was that you basically had to do it all yourself. Forming the concept, providing the power, putting it into action, and perfectly executing it. The ways of artes and magic became an entire school for warriors, researchers, and adventures to learn how to defend themselves. She had been so proud of her accomplishment, right up until Estelle glomped her. Most of her time not researching was spent with Estelle, she and Estelle were far more than they let the rest of the world know, practically being married in all ways that mattered. They had loved each other dearly anyone with eyes could have seen it. It had continued that way until that day. Rita had been 63 when it happened, she had caught us all by surprise she was exploring with some understudies and one of them had been stupid enough to ignore her instructions not to touch anything, and well accidents happen.

Estelle had been telling stories to the children of Halure. Telling them about the legends they had read and heard, of our adventures, and the funny moments in between that made no sense she even wrote a book about it. She hadn't changed much in way of actions, but she had grown to be a coy little thing able to tease and mess with the heads of even the most coldblooded of people, I blame Judy the cheeky woman. They had been doing well together, with their books and research. To say Estelle didn't take Rita's death well would be an understatement. She was devastated after Rita died she seem to lose that spark to keep living, just going through the motions. We did our best to be there for her even in our own grief. It helped but she never truly smiled again until her death. She had been seventy-two, honestly none of us had expected for her to last more that eighty maybe 85, but the period of using her artes while using her lifeforce certainly made sure she wasn't going to live as long as she should of. The cost of Rita was to much for her she died in her sleep even earlier than we thought.

Karol in the meantime had done well for himself, very well for himself. He had grown in the time that had past no longer being a small little runt. He had grown to be head or two above me, now fully capable to wield one of his two-handers with one arm, Karol had become more than strong enough to lead his guild. Karol once he had gotten some confidence and some fire in his belly he had proven to be a natural leader, and Karol might of gotten bigger but his personality had stayed the same for the most part, he was now just the big lovable giant, always seen with a smile on his face. He had risen from small time guild, to his dream of Don, the title named after Whitehorse. Our guild Brave Vesperia has inflated with recruits and skilled members, since the discovery of our adventures, thanks to Flynn being unable to let things go. Karol has become the newest leader of Dahngrest, and with the help of the other major guilds he has lead and protected his city to prosperity and peace.

Karol had kept it quiet but him and Nan had eventually gotten together, though it had been pretty rocky at first, Nan had been extremely distrustful at first not quite believing he was actually interested in her. It had been until their first major date at Halure's Tree where she realized that Karol did care and was giving it his best shot. That date had been a nightmare and a half, I had to spend an entire day researching a route around the tree, making sure it stayed private and watching for last minute problems. Rita had helped with that last part, and Estelle had kept trying to give advice to Karol. It had been a mess but the smiles they had worn that day had been blinding. It hadn't quite been smooth sailing after that, but they worked out, they actually worked out very well. I was even the best man at their wedding imagine that. Karol had been a father at 30 and a proud grandfather at 61. Nan had become a big part of Karol's life being his support for the more difficult times, laughing with him during the happier ones, they couldn't have been happier together. Karol is still alive looking like the old man of old mans, though what that said about myself, I don't want to know want to know. Despite that he also looked like he could pick up a building at throw it at ya.

Judith had retired returning with Ba'ul to live with the Krytia at Myorzo. We still see her flying around at times, but she had mellowed out over the years. Taking her twilight years easy just keeping watch out for any problems that the world needed to know about, or strange occurrences. She hadn't really done much but help with the guild until she felt she was getting to far along in her age. Judith was pretty much the elder of the guild, who looked harmless until she stood up to kick your foolish ass across the guild floors and back. She was the Feared Granny as she was later dubbed by the rest of the guild.

Flynn still lived having basically become the Drake of the knight after living most of his life as commandant of the empire. He had with the help of Ioder put in the Rule of Law, a declaration that all are equal before the law. It was strange how after that they had to replace a bunch of knights, nobles, and council members. Also strange how Ioder already had competent replacements for them. Sodia had finally gotten the guts to ask Flynn out a year after the adventure. It really was the only way to catch his attention, Flynn was dense at the best of times, when it came to love though you might as well try to siege a castle with balloon swords. The entire had brigade roared out, finally, or so I had heard, but considering how they blushed when I mentioned it, it was probably true if possibly exaggerated. No children but they were happily married, and are currently living peacefully in retirement.

As for me well I had done well but nothing major, just training for immense strength and skill, I was probably the fittest old man that ever lived. I Took care of the guild's smaller problems and infighting. Assigned guild jobs to members, helped manage the guild basically. I had taken on a few students but none truly outstanding yet, but I was sure someone would come along. Currently I was sharpening my skills, taking care of small pests to clear the road, again.

_ToV:NTNW_

Yuri was casually walking through the forest surrounding Ehmead Hill or what was left of it, the knights had to build an entire road around the place. It had been considered to rename it Ehmead Crater but was later discarded. His style of cloth had changed vastly from when he was younger. Wearing a long black coat, with blue trim, he wore a black and white hat with yellow embroidery. Underneath he wore simple black form fitting armour, while wearing black pants and boots. His wrinkled old face crinkling in annoyance as he looks over the area, shaking his whitening hair, before letting out a sigh.

"I swear they know when someone stronger is hunting them, it use to be they just rushed me and I easily killed them before handing in the mission," Yuri thought "Now they run and hide and I have to chase them down, damn, what a pain." Idly shooting an azure edge at a seemingly empty bush killing one of the many monsters he had to take down this week. "Yeah definitely gonna be a pain," he said out loud.

_ToV:NTNW_

Sitting his tired old ass down at the cliff face overlooking the sea he settled for a rest, at least this cliff area had survived. Honestly if someone were to ask where the journey truly started for him, he would answer it would be at these cliffs where he realised just how small a world he had been living in. Getting up he reached down into his inventory, a spell one of the only ones he had ever learned and his most useful skill to have. It had allowed him to basically store an armoury fit for a small army of weapons and equipment, for his journeys. Rita had taught it to him shortly after they had visited Halure for the first time and he had seen her use it. He smiled faintly remembering how many time he had blown himself up under Rita's supervision trying to learn it, cussing up a storm all the while, before she helped him. He had been devastated about having to sacrifice it to destroy the Adephagos, and had been overjoyed to hear he could remake it with mana. He even found a few gels and pieces of food in it after remaking it despite the fact he had being sure they used them all and cleared it out before and during the fight with Duke.

"Bah, look at me reminiscing like an old fart," he said, never minding the fact he was an old fart. " I need to set up camp, before nightfall so I can start dinner. Don't want to get to sleep late again." The past tended to sneak up on him while he was alone, odd flashes of the adventures and bonds he had made with his friends. Maybe he should go around again visit with them see how they were all doing. "Still I wouldn't mind going on adventure with everyone again, it's been far too long since then." His mind occupied with the past as he set up his tent and made dinner, as he went to sleep all he could think about was when they were younger and traveling the world.

_Tov:NTNW_

It was but just a moment Mana and Aer occupying the same space in large amount only for a moment. It seemed as though the world blinked and the tent on the cliff disappeared without, a trace. A giant of a man working late at his desk, or more accurately sleeping at his desk disappeared. The only sign something had happened was slight increase in mana in the area. The spirits that had sensed it looked, but couldn't tell if anything else was admiss. Only time knew what had occured.