hi its me with another story! sorry if the grammar and that is really bad but i am sooooooooooooo tired. i tried to fix it up as much as possible. the title to this may be changed. not sure yet. well enjoy!
dnt own characters.
Kai panted as he stood on shaky legs.
"Boy keep it up. Such a shame you were the chosen one. The power is wasted on such a weakling."
'Great here we go again' thought Kai as he rolled his crimson eyes.
"The least I can do is train you so that you are ready but you aren't even grateful for it you little runt!" Kai's grandfather continued to rave on.
"You are only training me for your own selfish reasons!" objected Kai.
"Our reasons! Once you are at full power we will be the rulers of Magartha. Do you not want that boy? Do you wish for your parents deaths to be for nothing!" shouted Voltaire. Kai winced at the last comment. His parents had been killed when he was young but the memory was fresh. Fire, blood, crimson wings, war. Death. But his beloved companion had been by his side. His friend, his family, his soul. His phoenix. She had been there when the stress had become to great, when Kai's world felt like it was falling apart and it was she who comforted him in the darkest nights.
"Boy stop daydreaming and get back to work!" ordered Voltaire as he whipped Kai. At the feel of the whip hitting his skin, Kai winced at the sudden pain and quickly moved back into to continue the tiring training.
Kai bolted awake. He wiped the cold sweat beaded on his forehead away with a clammy hand and steadied his heart rate and breathing.
"It was only a dream. Nothing more." He mumbled to himself. But the dream had been much more and Kai knew it. The dream was a lost memory, one of the many he had lost years ago. Kai thought he must have been 6 when that had happened and quickly became angry with himself at not being able to remember much more from that time.
Kai was now 16 and scars decorated his muscular and fit body from the time he had forgotten. His crimson eyes shone in the dark as he rolled onto his side to stare at the wall, his dual coloured silky hair falling onto his face. Kai pushed it back with a slightly tanned hand. His face was decorated with four dark blue triangles, two on each cheek. Marks similar to those of his tribe apparently. They had been a gift, a blessing from his mighty phoenix. The one he wished to talk to and seek comfort with.
"Dranzer." Kai called softly. There was a flash and standing before Kai was the phoenix he thought so fondly of. Her feathers were a bold red with golden marks decorating her body. There was one mark that went from the top of her head – which upon it sat a golden V shaped symbol - to the base of her tail. The phoenix's tail was about the length of her body ending in a spade shape. When the golden mark that went from top to bottom reached the tip of her tail, it split in two and traced the edges of the spade at the ends of her tail before finally stopping in a spiral. The bird itself was quite tall, Kai not even being the height of her chest. Her crimson eyes bore into those of Kai's.
'It is aright young one. All shall be fine.'
'Yes. But I yearn to remember. My heart yearns to remember it all. The pain and those who hurt me. But also those who protected me.' Kai fingered the chain around his neck. On it sat a feather and a dagger crossed over each other, circled by a flame.
'I wish to remember them.''
'I know it is hard bu-' the phoenix was cut off and quickly disappeared as the door leading to her master's room swung open.
"Kai?" someone whispered.
Kai sat up to face the person who had intruded. "What is it Carlos?" he snapped.
Carlos faced his leader calmly saying, "There is a new mission. Its for an individual and we were wondering if you would like to take it seeing you haven't been out on your own for a while."
Kai thought over it before replying, "Get all I need ready. I'll be out soon." Carlos nodded and walked out, shutting the door once more.
'Yay! Finally some fun. Another chance for the Flaming Sharks.' Cheered Dranzer as she appeared once more.
'Dranzer shut it will you. I think this will be the one we've been expecting.'
'You can't seriously mean…'
'Yes that one. Come it shall be a long journey and we shall have to think of a new leader for the gang while we are on this journey. We will then send word on our decision and that will be that.' With that Kai walked out of his room and Dranzer disappeared in a flash.
"Grandpa! Must we do this again!" whined 14 yr old Tyson. A kendo stick came crashing down on his.
"Come little dude. You need to be ready ya dig?"
"Yeah, yeah. I dig. Though I so wish you hadn't gone travelling through the portals. This slang thing is really annoying."
'Ha ha. Shush Tyson. He's just having a but of fun.'
'Oh enough! Its your fault for even opening the portals in the first place!'
'It's almost time.'
'D...dragoon. Are you serious? You mean I'm going to meet the others soon.'
'You already know 2 of them. Maybe more.'
'What? Who?'
'You shall soon see.'
'Dragoon, tell me! DRAGOON!!'
Rei laughed as his friend fell once again.
"Lee we need to be able to balance on the bamboo before I can go see Max and Tyson tomorrow. I'm probably going to have to tell them tomorrow as well, which, will hopefully turn out ok."
"I know, I know. I've got plans as well you know."
Rei mocked surprise, "you mean you've actually got a social life!"
"Oh shut up!" Rei laughed again and shook his head, his long black hair swaying slightly at the movements. Rei heard a deep humming sound within his head. Drigger was laughing also.
Max stared up at the sky as he drifted in the water.
'Tomorrow should be the day.' He thought. 'The others don't know its me but I know its them. That dream last night… it's slightly different now. Does it mean we're going to meet the others soon?' Max sighed and closed his baby blue eyes. As long as he had Draciel he would be fine.
Rei arrived in time to see Max and Tyson greeting each other. Taking a deep breath in, Rei let it out with a sigh as he walked towards the pair.
"Hey Rei!" Tyson called, being the first to see the neko jin. Max greeted him soon after.
"Hi guys." Rei smiled at them, fangs appearing over his bottom lip. They set up a fire and sat down talking and laughing with each other.
"So Rei how have you been?" Max asked.
"Good… but…"
"But what?" Tyson asked, worried that something awful had happened.
"Well, you see, there's something I have to tell you. We are all Manipulators correct?"
The two teens listening looked at each other then looked back at Rei, nodding.
"Well I am not just a Manipulator. I'm a."
"Guardian" the group said it together. Tyson's eyes widened while Max had no reaction. They would all have to tell each other some time that night, the 'time' as the elders said, was nearing. Rei was the one who had the guts to say it first.
"I know." Max said quietly. Rei looked up at his friend in surprise, as did Tyson.
"You did?" Tyson asked bewildered. Max nodded.
"How?"
"Because of the dreams. I am the guardian of water. Also the guardian with the power of seeing premonitions. I already knew that you and Rei were Guardians."
"You're a Guardian Tyson!" exclaimed Rei before growling. The elders, they set the meetings up. The first time he had met Tyson and Max hadn't been a coincidence. The elders had known and they set it up!
Tyson sighed as he realised what Rei had, so did Max.
"Well do you know who the others are Max?" Tyson asked as he looked at the blonde teen.
"No. But lately my dreams or premonitions have been changing."
"Oh? And How's that?"
"It was only two, three days ago, when we planned this trip. How about I start somewhere that will make more sense?" the group nodded. "Well I knew about you two because of this dream. The scene that unfolded was exactly what just happened. We told each other of who we truly were. After we planned this trip the dream changed."
Dream/flashback"What the?" Max thought as he looked around. Raging fire surrounded him and when he looked around, he saw the others standing next to him. They were both staring at something and as Max looked in the same direction, he gasped. There facing the small group was a teen with penetrating eyes. Before Max could get a proper look at the teen, the dream seemed to, cut out.
It returned again but all Max saw of the teen was his back as he was flying off, the fires now dying out until they were completely gone.
"Whoa…"breathed Rei.
"So he was fire," mumbled Tyson. Max nodded.
"Tyson's air, Max is water and I am thunder and lightening with traces of earth. Now we wait on fire. And possibly any others. The elders from my dimension used to be unsure if there were going to be others or not. They now think that the others will be a part of it but they may only be Manipulators. The elders in my village agree. Only one half of the prophecy has been located and studied." Rei explained as he stared into the flames of the fire. He sighed deeply as he looked up at his two closest friends and gave them a weak smile. "Guess its time for the fun to really begin." The group was silent, each contemplating their own thoughts.
Tyson broke the silence, complaining, "I'm hungry!" his friends laughed, what was new?
Rei woke and quickly sat up. the sun was only just starting to rise, the sky still being fairly dark. His amber eyes pierced the darkness as he scanned the surrounding grounds. There it was again! He quickly woke the others and when Tyson wouldn't wake up, Rei retrieved his container of water and poured it onto the slumbering teen.
"What's up Rei?" Max asked, ignoring Tyson's complaining.
"Something's near. I can smell it but as well as that I can smell the magic power it possesses."
"So you have the gift of smell and senses." Rei only nodded. "Heh. You are a neko jin so I guess it's to be expected." The group now stood in silence, waiting for an oncoming attack.
Suddenly there was a loud roar and a huge creature came charging through the trees. The creature snorted and looked at the group before him through small red eyes. Two ugly twisted horns cam from the top of his head and his ears stuck out oddly to the side. His skin was also red and he had two arms on each side. His legs resembled those of a goats but being much bigger seeing he was about 3 times the size of Rei who was tallest of the small group. Cuts and other wounds covered the strongly built form of the creature, some bleeding badly.
Rei narrowed his eyes and got into an attack stance looking more cat-like then ever. Max looked fearful and Tyson felt his eyes widen. Suddenly one of the four arms swung at them and as they quickly jumped away, the group was separated and forced to each fight an arm.
"Dranzer! Hurry!" yelled Kai as he flew through the woods, swerving in between trees and other plants. He flew low to ground and was reaching amazing speeds. In his hand he held a beautiful sword, the hilt golden with a red ruby at the base and another near the base of the blade. Red lined the blades edges and fresh blood was painted across the point. Kai looked up quickly as he saw a shadow over the top of him. He relaxed as he saw Dranzer diving down before swerving up right and flying over him. Kai twisted as he avoided a tree branch and narrowed his eyes as he saw the exit coming closer. Just because the monster was able to quickly get away the first time didn't mean it would happen again. Kai folded his crimson wings in, urging himself to go faster when he saw one of the four arms swing at a navy haired boy. No way in hell was someone going to die because of that thing! He barged through the remaining branches, a war cry emitting from his mouth.
Rei's POV
All of us including the creature, stopped as we heard, then saw, a young man come from the direction the creature had. He was flying fast with a pair of crimson wings and he held a beautiful sword in his hands. Raising the sword above his head, he brought it down with a yell; bending over as he did so and cut own the creatures back. The creature let out a gut-wrenching scream as the young man dragged the sword right down the creatures back, dropping swiftly to the ground as he reached the creatures hips. He quickly dodged the arm coming at him before charging at the creature once again.
I watched amazed as Tyson and Max walk over to join me, they too amazed.
The creature reared back, opening it's mouth and out came a mighty flame. The man held up his sword sideways, one side of the blade facing his face, the other, the creature. The point was actually facing us. We watched with worried expressions as the flame came closer to the man but it stopped as it hit an invisible barrier, centimetres away from the sword. As the flames rebounded, a few flew in our direction. The young man seemed to notice also as he raised his hand in front of him, closing it into a fist, as he did the flames died away, but the other flames that weren't heading for us had already left a mark. Countless trees were burning and traces of smoke filled the air. We flinched as the sword was knocked out of the distracted young mans hand and he was pushed to the ground, a large hand trapping him. He struggled but to no avail. I felt a large amount of guilt, thinking the man would die, and if he did it would be our fault in a way because he was protecting us from the flames. But he surprised us all as he opened his mouth and called for someone whose name was Dranzer
'Not someone, something!" I thought as a beautiful phoenix came down from the sky, talons ready, neck arched, wings raised, beak open and eyes fierce. She clawed at the creatures back, and as the creature yelled and tried to fight the bird off, the man quickly escaped. As he stood facing the two creatures fighting, he made a set of hand signs, before clenching one into a fist and the other wrapping around the fist. He brought his hands up to his mouth and twisted them slightly so his thumbs sat gently on his lips, making it look as though he was about to make a bird call. A small hole could be seen through the two hands and suddenly he took a deep breath and blew. As he blew the hand wrapped around the fist came down to the man's side while his pinkie, ring finger and middle finger fanned out from the fist, leaving just the index finger and thumb. Our eyes widened as the man breathed flames. Well at least we now knew he was a fire Manipulator. The fire continued coming, the creature writhing in pain. As the man ran out of breath, the flames died and the creature faced the man, fully angered now. The man smirked. I frowned. Why on earth would he be smirking? And victoriously? The creature was even angrier now so if I were him I would not be smirking. The man reached for his crossbow that was sitting on his back, which I had just noticed was there, and grabbed an arrow. Aiming at the creature's head, he released the string, still smirking. The creature screamed in pain, clutching at his forehead where the arrow was pierced through its skin. Suddenly a red miasma surrounded the creature and it was gone! We looked on shocked.
Normal POV
The man, no teen, turned to them and it was the first time the group took a proper look at him. He was dressed in black long pants, black boots, a blank tank top and a black leather jacket. His face was framed by dual coloured hair, slate at the front, and midnight blue at the back. Sitting on his face was a beautiful mask; it covered his forehead and came down his right cheek, finishing at his chin. His mouth, left cheek, whick were marked by two blue triangles, and nose were the only things not covered. The mask was a glimmering red and the edges were rough and slightly ragged, but not from wear, it was just the way it looked. The edges were a glittery gold and the gold went around the slits where the teens crimson orbs could be seen, the gold thicker under the eyes. In his hand he held the crossbow, on his back the arrows. The phoenix walked over to stand next to him.
Raging fire surrounded the group.
He held out his hand as he did earlier and clenched it into a fist again, the flames dying away.
Penetrating eyes.
He looked at them, his eyes as fierce as the phoenix's. His wings disappeared and his mask changed. It covered just his forehead and was still a glimmering red but glittery red decorated the edges. Two blue triangles, on each cheek, stood out fiercely. He climbed onto the phoenix's back. The almighty bird raised her wings, arched her neck and with a cry took off.
Flying away.
The group watched as the figure disappeared.
"Kai…" Rei muttered for some reason. 'Wait!' he thought. ' It was rare for a Manipulator to have a phoenix! And he had called her Dranzer. Dranzer was the Goddess of all fire creatures as well as phoenixes! And the mask! The first one was like mine when I use the power of a guardian! And his clothes changed when the mask changed and the wings disappeared. He was fire!'
"Max!" Rei cried. Max nodded.
"It was him." He whispered.
well there ya go! to those who read my other stories, LSAR will be updated this weekend, even if the chapter is fairly short!but it shouldnt be i hope.
byeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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