Chapter 1: Legend Awakening

As winter was approaching the darkness began to blanket the town for the remainder of the day. Knut never really liked winter because the sun never seemed to rise and not to mention a lot of people tended to be a bit more depressed due to the lack of sunlight. Some people managed to become addicted to drugs, others go shopping and the unfortunate commit suicide. Knut usually spent his winters in the library. It was always peaceful there and it gave him time to read and escape from his daily routine of life. Knut entered the library and began browsing through many shelves of books. As he was approaching the mythology section, a book falls right in front of him.

"A Chinese book? " Knut said to himself with curiosity. Knut opens to the book to find out that everything is written in Chinese. I've never studied Chinese in my life. How is it that I can read them now? Knut thought to himself. It read as follows:

"This is the story of a girl who made her dreams come true after she gathered the seven stars of Suzaku together. And if you, the esteemed reader, should read to the end of the story, the spell hidden from within will bestow you the powers of the priestess and will grant you your wish."

"That's nonsense! You can't gain powers from just reading a book nor have your wish granted." Knut said in disbelief.

The strange things that people read nowadays, it makes you wonder how unstable they really are. Knut thought to himself with disgust.

At that moment a blue light appeared and dragged Knut inside the book.

"AAAAH!" Knut screamed.

For a split second Knut sees a blue dragon and becomes unconscious on the ground. He wakes to find himself near a village.

"Where am I?" Knut said to himself.

He walks around to find everyone staring at him. Knut stood out like sore thumb with not only his outfit but with his blond hair and eyes.

"Take a look at that. Where do ya suppose he's from?" a villager said to another.

"He's definitely of a different race. I've never seen hair that fair or anyone with blue eyes" said another villager.

Knut felt really awkward knowing that people were whispering things behind his back. Knut is stopped by some thugs at knife point.

"A foreigner like you must be loaded with money. Stranger if you wish to live you will hand the money over!" Said one of the thugs.

"I don't have…" Knut said struggling to get the words out.

"You don't have money eh? What should we do with him boys? Your clothing looks nice maybe we'll get a lot of money if it's sold." said the leader of the thugs.

Knut was defenseless against the men and only wishing he'd brought a gun or something to defend himself. He didn't want to die but how could he escape? He was way too weak to break through the thug's grip and if he had tried to break free the thug would stab him. As the thugs were about to rob and kill Knut, there was a sound as if coming from a flute which not only distracted the thugs but the piercing sound from the flute managed to vanquish them as well.

Knut looked around to see where the sound of the flute was coming from. There stood a man with a flute in front of him.

"Are you all right? Don't worry those guys won't hurt you anymore." said the man with the flute.

Knut couldn't believe that the sound from the flute had killed those men.

"How did you…."

"I put my ki into the flute, my name is Amiboshi. What's yours?"

"I-I-I'm Knut Olofsson ….? "

Knut decided to trust Amiboshi and they arrived at the palace. Where they were met by the emperor, Nakago, his twin brother Suboshi and Soi. Nakago approaches the foreign boy.

"Where are you from boy?" Nakago demanded. Nakago also had blond hair and blue eyes. Was he also a foreigner?

"I'm from …..another world entirely." Knut said nervously.

Could he be the one who will summon Seiryuu? But that can't be! It's supposed to be done by a woman. Unless he's the reincarnation of the priestess of Seiryuu! Nakago thought to himself.

"Is something wrong Lord Nakago?"

"Nothing that concerns you, Soi. "

Nakago takes Knut to the emperor and announces that he will summon Seiryuu. The king looked at Nakago in disbelief knowing well that according to the legend that it would be a girl from another world and not a guy.

"Seiryuu?" Knut asked.

"He is one of the four gods. He protects the east along with the seven constellations: Amiboshi, his twin brother Suboshi, Miboshi, Soi, Tomo, Ashitare, and I included. Traditionally a priestess from another world gathers all constellations and brings them together to summon Seiryuu. Then once Seiryuu is summoned the priestess is granted three wishes."

"So you think I'm the priest of Seiryuu?"

"I have my suspicions but since you're from another world it could be possible that you are in fact reincarnation of the priestess. Will you accept the role Lord Knut?"

"I'll do it!"

Back at the Library in Sweden, a friend of Knut's, Björn is waiting for him. Where is he? He told me to meet him at the library and he's nowhere to be found. Björn thought to himself. He continues to search the library until he comes across the mythology section and sees a book on the ground wide open. He picks up the book and sits down at a secluded table. He begins to read it.

"The man with the flute saved the boy from facing death…the boy then accepts the role of priest in order to summon Seiryuu …..The other celestial warriors were very suspicious of the foreign boy and seemed untrusting…."

Could it be Knut? Did you get sucked into this book? Björn thought pensively.

Nakago then handed Knut a blue scroll.

"What is it Nakago?"

"This is our Universe of the four gods. With this scroll you can locate the rest of the Seiryuu seven."

"The warrior Nakago gave the boy the scroll of Seiryuu in order to assist him in finding the rest of the Seiryuu constellations…." Björn read on. Just after reading that, a green light appears and takes Björn into the book.

"What's going on? AH EARTHQUAKE! AAAAHHH!"

Björn awakes to find himself on a snowcapped mountain overlooking a village.

"W-w-where is I? Did I get transported into the book too?!" asked a shocked Björn.

Nakago then informs Knut that Seiryuu and Genbu are the only constellations that have not summoned their gods yet. That they must make sure that they summon Seiryuu before the Genbu constellations do. At that very moment Soi approaches Nakago and asks:

"Could this boy be from the same place you're from Lord Nakago?"

"No Soi, even though we both share fair hair and blue eyes we are not from the same tribe. His speech pattern seems to carry some sort of up and down melody that makes him unique."