Prologue

Stillness. Stillness abound. The air was cool and crisp. The very first rays of the morning sun shone their pink light just beyond the snow capped horizon. No one nothing. For miles, nothing but blue-lavender snow, illuminated by the dawn's light. Nothing. Except me. I was waiting for them, buried in the snow, to avoid them seeing me. I had been out there, freezing my butt off for at least an hour. Ready to defend my kingdom, when they attacked.

My name is Ichiyuki Kusinagi, or better known as "The PeaceMaker". I was the guardian of Xemth Kingdom, and today was the day that they were going to attack. They call them golems, as a negative term, and it is regarded as a curse word among children of the Xemth Kingdom. No one knows what they're really called, though. We just discovered them. They're hulking creatures that look like they're made out of tar, with beady, white, pupiless eyes. Some of them have misshapen human figures, and some of them look like giant tadpoles that float and the others look like giant…..blobs with legs and eyes, and they all have a red circular pattern on their stomachs.

They really, have every reason to want to kill us, besides, this is actually their land. The higher supernaturals, that built Xemth Kingdom, discovered the Golems when they arrived here. Their kingdom or, at least, where they live is all bleak and grey. All the structures are made completely of hollowed stone. A large rain cloud looms over the entire area, blocking out all the sun. Golems are really strong, and really fast, when they want to be, but there is one problem; they're very stupid. And have no weapons. When our ancestors discovered them, they overpowered them, and forced them to be slaves to help build the kingdom. And to this day they are still used as servants, and slaves to us.

A stench filled the air, but I remained still. My eyes scanned the land around me, darting back and forth, until I saw them. A thin, black line appeared over the horizon off in the direction of the golem kingdom. It grew, larger and larger, and I could make out the tadpole looking ones hovering over the rest. Then, I saw they're glowing white eyes, fixed on Xemth, behind me. My guess was that they still haven't detected me under the snow. I placed my hand over the now frozen hilt of my sword, closed my eyes, leaped out of the snow, and went into battle.

Four days earlier…

My pleasant nap was broken by the piercing noise of my name being called.

"IIIIIIICCCCCCHHHHIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!" I groaned and sat up in the couch of my apartment that I shared with Morganu Ikaru, my battle partner, and best friend.

Morganu stepped into the living room and stood in front of me, slightly bouncing.

"Ichi! Ichi! I have something important to tell you!" He said in his high pitched girlish voice. Come to think of it, almost everything about Morganu is girlish. He has big black eyes, long, flowy hair, and he wears a skirt! Well, actually, it's a kilt, but it looks like a long skirt. The only thing that gives away his gender is that the only thing covering his top is a patch of white fur that hangs from his neck. Also, Morganu has two pointed, fuzzy ears on the top of his head, because he is a wolf demon.

"Do you realize what time it is?" A low and annoyed voice called from the other room where my other roommates sleep. Out stepped Sega, followed by his older brother, Gia. Kousetsu no Hakushuku or, The Brothers of Snow. Sega and Gia are orphaned brothers, two years apart that have full control over all things frozen. Sega was a little shorter than me, and had a panicked light blue hairdo. Gia's hair was the same color as Sega's, but it was flat on his head, and hung over his face.

Sega was right. It was quite early. I glanced out the window. The sun wasn't up. But the sky was a pale blue. I closed my eyes, lay back down, and pulled the covers tightly over my head.

"What could possibly be so important this early, Morganu?" I moaned. Morganu continued to bounce.

"I just got back from the palace! And guess what?' He said, now waving his arms around.

"…" I waited.

"Guess!!" "I don't know!!!" I don't understand how he could have so much energy, this early in the morning. He turned around to face Sega and Gia.

"Gia! Guess!" He said.

"Oh my god, will you just say it?!" Sega bellowed.

"Okay, okay. I just got back from the palace, 'cuz the king called me there last night. And he said he had a mission for us!!! He wants us all to come to the palace right away!!"

After we all were completely awake, dressed, and fed, we left the apartment to go see the king. It was still dark out, so all the street lights were still on. I love walking around Xemth at night. It's so beautiful. The whole kingdom is a city, really. But it's a mixture of so much different things. Most structures are modern, like buildings you would find in a large U.S city or something, but there are also myan looking temples and medieval stone structures, and small divisions with stores, and buildings that look like they came out of the future. People often greeted us on the street, because we were the saviors of the kingdom.

After walking two and a half miles, we finally reached the palace, the biggest structure in the city. On the outside, it looks like an old English castle, but on the inside, it's like the Ritz Carrolton. We signed in at the lobby, and the receptionist told us that the king was waiting for us in the throne room. We had to go all the way to the top floor, to the king's quarters, were no one could go unless the king asked you to. It was deathly quiet, mostly because the king's quarters were floored with thick carpet and thick cloth couches and chairs that absorbed all the sound. Not to mention that there was no one up there. On the opposite side of the room, there was a large brass door that led to the throne room.

On the giant brass door, at about head height, if you were about my size, there was a small statue of the king's head on the door. We knocked on the door, and the statue's eyes opened and examined us.

"Ah! Finally! I've been waiting for you all" It said, as the large doors unlocked and opened up to a tall, long hallway were at the end you could just barely see the king.

The king was old. Very old. Older than Morganu, and he's almost 500. It's rumored that he's been alive since before the first peacemaker was born. His eyes were narrow, and the only hair he had was on his face, and quite possibly his back.

"You may approach me!" The king's voice echoed across the room to us. When we reached him, he briefly looked over us, and smiled, standing up. All of us quickly dropped to our knees, in respect. The king gestured for us to stand up.

"Please, there is no need." He said in his kind voice. Silence loomed over us as the king slowly strolled over to a very big window that allowed him to view the whole kingdom, and gazed out at the sun's turquoise light now showing over the mountains, reflecting off of the rain clouds that hung overhead.

"You all surly must know about the Golem's recent declaration of a revolution, correct?" He said.

"Of course, sir. The whole kingdom is in an uproar." Gia said, with slight fear in his voice.

"Apparently, a Golem named Sig has gained immense power and knowledge from the stone of Gailex." "STONE OF GAILEX?!" We all said in unison.

"You mean the stone of Gailex that PeaceMaker Kusurigama sealed in the planet's core 400 years ago?" I said, shocked.

"The very same."

I am about the 30th in a long line of PeaceMakers. PeaceMaker Kusurigama was the very first and by far the most powerful. Every time a PeaceMaker dies, the soul is reincarnated into another body, and when that body ages to at least 15 years, he or she becomes the PeaceMaker of that Generation. 400 years ago there was a battle between Xemth and another kingdom over the Stone of Gailex. The Stone of Gailex is a shiny turquoise rock that grants the holder power and knowledge 100 fold. In the end PeaceMaker Kusurigama ended the battle by placing it in the planet's core, where no one could get to it.

"It is also rumored that Sig has found a way to pass on his power to all the other Golems, and they are able to sustain a human form. It is known that Sig now rules over the Golems. We have also been receiving threat notes stating that the Golems are developing a super-weapon, and are planning to destroy Xemth Kingdom." The king continued, wile circling around us, and looking at us as if he wasn't sure if we were ready. And now, looking back on that day, I now know why he was.

He gave us four days to prepare, not that he had a choice. The golems declared that they were making their first attack then. In the four days that we had, I exercised, Sega meditated naked in ridiculously low temperatures, Gia dumped all of his girlfriends, and told them that he wouldn't live much longer, and Morganu slept or ate.

Four days later…

We all sat, about ten feet away from each other, buried in the snow. The king told us to treat this like a suicide mission, witch basically means, fight like you won't be there tomorrow. When the Golems reared their ugly heads apon the morning lit horizon, I readied my sword, Morganu unsheathed his claws, and Sega and Gia began building up their energy. You couldn't see it under the snow, but all of our feet were strapped tightly to snowboards, brightly colored, so that we all knew the location of each other.

As the Golems drew nearer, and the stench grew stronger, the ground began to shake, and the snow on the ground rippled, and bubbled. All four of us leaped out of the snow, as an enormous wave of snow and ice picked us up, and carried us in the direction of the Golems. The wave swept up the Golems too and as it did, we snowboarded around them, killing them when we needed to. We rode the wave all the way to the Golem Kingdom.

Normally, the Golem kingdom, like I said, is all bleak and grey, and stone. And quiet, because Golems don't make very much noise when they move. Yet, the first thing we heard when we poll vaulted over the wall was the chatter of voices, and the roaring of machines. The Golem Kingdom had been completely transformed. There were tall, skyscraping buildings and there were no golems to be found. Only….people. I figured this is the result of Sig giving the Golems his power. The king did say that they were able to sustain human form. The dark cloud still loomed, but it was even darker, giving the impression of endless night.

"This might complicate things." Sega said after five minutes of awe. We all hid in an alley, because there was one thing that separated us from the rest. All the others had long, pointy ears, like elf ears.

"Omigod, omigod, what are we gonna do?! What happened to them? Why do they look like us?" Gia said, clutching his hair. Gia was prone to nervous breakdowns. Anytime something surprising happened, Gia would sweat profusely, and get too scared to fight.

"I don't think they'll notice us if we don't show them our ears. We just need to move fast enough so that no one will notice." My eyes briefly scanned the area. In the center of the city, there was a tall black building, with glowing neon green tubes running up the sides. It was taller than all the other buildings, and looked like a perfect place for Sig to watch over his city.

"There" I said, pointing at the building. "That's probably were Sig is. We need to get there, fast." I looked for a way to get to the building, but the thing about it was, it was hovering about 100 feet off the ground.

"What's the rush? We need to take this slow. If we mess up, we'll all die." Morganu asked.

"And if we don't hurry, we'll all die too. Don't you remember what the king said? He kept getting notes saying that the Golems were developing a super-weapon. If that's true, we need to get there, and stop it as fast as we can. Now, I have an Idea."

Because Morganu was a wolf demon, he also had a wolf form that looked similar to a

husky dog. What we did was, we had Morganu transform into his wolf form and we put a

leash on him, and the rest of us put our jacket hoods up. Hopefully, no one would find us

suspicious. As we were walking through the city, we kept coming across these little radios, all over the city, and it sounded like is was broadcasting a speech or something.

We stopped to listen to one, where other Golems had crowded around. It was a woman's voice.

"Fellow Zevros, for centuries, Xemth Kingdom has been using us as slaves against our will! But our leader, and thy savior will rid those cursed beings from this world! Even now as we speak, he is developing a super-wepon, capeable of destroying the entire Xemth Kingdom in one shot!"