The Heart of Two Worlds By James Miles (Soulbladesky)

Prologue : A long time has passed since...

Many millennia ago, two worlds and peoples lived together in harmony, thanks to an inter-dimensionary rift that had opened between their two planets. On one side of the rift was the planet Dexis, and its inhabitants, the Ouathians. The Ouathians were similar to humans in appearance, but had access to magical powers and many fantasical abilities. On the other, Earth, and its inhabitants, the Humans. The humans did not have any magic powers, but did have ingenuity and advanced technologies.

After the few years of conflict following the rift's opening, the Humans and Ouathians reached a truce and learned to live together and started to prosper. For many hundreds of years, the two races lived in peace, helping each other wherever possible.

Unfortunately, as all good things must, the peace ended. Slaughtered is probably a more accurate term. For you see, a great evil started rampaging across Dexis, and then moved to Earth destroying the defences of both planets as though they were nothing; the combined magic and technology being no match for its sheer amount of dark power and rage.

This evil called himself Ayxbri.

Ayxbri murdered civilians indescriminately and mercilessly, slaughtering entire cities with ease. Attacking both as a man and as a beast, his attacks became feared as unyielding and unforseeable. Most happening under the cover of pure darkness; a darkness he produced magically, which suffocated and choked everyone it covered. He quickly and savagely built his empire of blood and servitude over both planets, his influence was such that it covered every corner of the two worlds, leaving nothing and no-one safe from his brutal attacks.

Many adventurers tried valiantly to stop him. None could defeat him. He was all but unbeatable; when his human form was out of power, he would switch to his beastial form and kill the hero with ease. Many great and highly skilled warriors fell to Ayxbri, none being able to keep up with the pace and intensity of the combat. One by one, every hero fell to him, until Ayxbri got bored of fighting heroes and created hundreds of demonic minions, and started a campaign against the Ruler of Dexis, and the last bastion of hope, The Palace of Dexis. Eventually, he managed to force his way into the palace, and into the throne room. Just when all seemed lost, one last warrior stood against Ayxbri. This warrior was a mystery to all, no Ouathian could recognize him as one of their own; and no human knew who he was. The warrior was was more than an equal match for Ayxbri, and the battle raged on for days, until finally the hero managed subdue Ayxbri in the center of Dexis, but sacrificed his own life in doing so.

Unbeknownst to him, the Ouathians sealed the rift after the fight, to protect the two planets from any other evils that would try to attack whilst the two peoples were at their weakest, much to the human's despair; they had no magic to protect them, no more heroes could help them. Eventually, the humans grew to hate the Ouathians for abandoning them, and killed any Outathian stragglers left on Earth, and the Hero became nothing but a myth; a story that got lost in time.

The charm became swept-up in the post-battle clean-up passing from person to person, shop to shop as the years passed, and the spirit developed conciousness in time, and named itself Hero; because its memories became fractured and it forgot its real name after all the time it spent away from the Hero's body. And from then on it has waited for a suitable host to wield its powers, for all it knew was that Ayxbri would not take long to regain power and rise from his prison...