Chapter 1 The Book of Peace
Bell, the young goddess of chaos, stared down at her small version of the Earth. Suddenly she heard a chittering, and saw the stars all around her form into constellations of monsters, that moved around and snarled and roared, Bell smiled and said, "Wake up my pretties, rise and shine, it's a new day, and the mortal world is at peace." But then she smiled maliciously, "But not for long." She reached down, touched the earth and pulled out a white thread that was attached to the earth. "I pull one little thread, and their entire world erupts into chaos." Bell pulled on the thread and it snapped, "Glorious chaos." Suddenly she saw something that the chaos goddess could use to her advantage, "And what could be more perfect then this?" Bell saw a regal looking, blue, and gold ship, with matching sails, "A noble prince." Suddenly a blue light emanated from the windows of the main cabin, "A priceless treasure." And behind the ship was another one, black and red, with red Asian looking sails with designs on them, and a monstrous face was painted on the front, "And a black hearted thief. Oh, this is going to be fun." She turned to one of her monsters, "Cetis? You know what to do." The monster quickly swam through the air, and began to descend on the Earth, as it did so, its body became covered with yellowish green skin, and it splashed into the sea.
Aboard the pursuing ship, all of the crew lined up, except for the first mate, the lookout, Diego, who was hanging upside down from a mast rope, and of course the captain who was addressing his crew, with his purple dog Courage at his side. "Gentlemen, the worlds greatest treasure is on its way to Serecuse." He turned around and anyone looking could see he had red hair, tied in a ponytail, under a red bandana, he had red eyes, and he wore a dark red vest that was a brighter red around the shoulder area and didn't cover his arms, he had a red sash like belt around his waist, he wore red pants and black boots, and he carried two swords on his back. He turned around and said, "A shame it will never get there." This caused the crew too laugh like mad, he laughed as well and said, "After this, we retire to Fiji!" This time the crew cheered, and got ready to do some raiding. The captain watched them get ready, suddenly he heard his brother Butch, call, "Hey Brick what do you think of these bad boys?" Brick turned to see Butch unsheath his blade claws, brick's brother was wearing his usual wardrobe; he had a green headband, a red shirt, and a green sash around his waist and tan pants. Brick looked up to see his other brother Boomer at the helm, awaiting orders, in his usual outfit, no shirt, silver earrings, a swirling tattooed design on one shoulder, a blue sash around his waist, yellow pants, and black boots. "Boomer. Take us alongside!" "Aye, aye captain!" said Boomer, Brick leapt to the front and held onto the rigging, "Courage!" The purple dog quickly pulled a lever and a number of scythe blades popped out of the side of the ship. "Now lets get rich!" yelled Brick as they came alongside and the blades drove into the other ship. Brick quickly swung aboard, flipping through the air as he did so, and when he was about to land on the deck, he unsheathed his swords. Brick landed in the midst of a mob of royal navy soldiers, and knocked them all away. His crew leapt aboard, and began to battle the royal navy soldiers. Boomers managed to rip off a wooden plank that was part of the ship, and use that as a weapon. Butch quickly threw three grenades at the feet of a bunch of soldiers, and it blew them flying. Brick laughed, this had to be the best time he had ever had! He kicked one soldier and began to spin his sword, with his own to fend of two others attacks, then he knocked them away. Suddenly one came at him and tried to get him, but Brick used one sword to flip off the guys helmet, and smack him in the face with his forehead. Suddenly the young thief found himself surrounded by soldiers, he only smiled, Brick drove his two swords and using them to keep himself up, he spun around and kicked at all of them, knocking them all flying. He sheathed his swords and turned to Boomer who had one guy in a headlock, and said, "Did you see that last move? Pretty sweet huh?" "I actually think you over worked it just a little." Said Boomer knocking out the guy with one punch. "Oh come on!" said Brick, suddenly another soldier swung his sword at Boomer, but Boomer grabbed it in his teeth, and then flipped the guy overboard, still with the sword in his mouth. Brick smiled and said, "Oh, and I over worked it?" Boomer spat out the sword and they both looked up to the deck, where a warrior their age was fending off Bricks crew, he had red hair, wore glasses, a blue coat with a gold belt like thing around it, he had grey gloves, purple pants, and brown boots. Suddenly Brick recognized his old friend, "Dexter." "Oh, this just got interesting. How long has it been?" asked Boomer, "Years." Said Brick, and the two walked towards him. Dexter blocked Butch's blade claws and kicked him in the face numerous times, before kicking him back. "You still fight like an old lady." Said Brick, Dexter turned in surprise and said, "Brick?" At that point some of Bricks crew took the opportunity to tackle him to the ground. "Ooh, that's gotta hurt." Said Brick, Butch and another crew man Mac pulled him to his feet, "Brick? What on earth are you doing here!?" "I'm working." Said Brick and he pulled out a knife, drove it into the keyhole, of the main cabin, and ripped it out, "You?" "What happened?" asked Dexter, "Where have you been?" "Hey love to catch up, but I've got things to do, places to go, stuff to steal." And Brick walked inside, Dexter pulled out of Mac, and Butch's grips and walked in after him, Butch was about to grab him again, but Boomer stopped him, by putting out one arm. Brick looked towards the center of the room, and saw his prize, it was an open book on a blue pedestal, and a light blue glow was coming off from the pages. Brick whistled and said, "Oh yeah." Dexter walked in front of him, and said, "Brick we need to talk." Brick simply shrugged him off and kept his eyes on the book, " Heard about it, read about it, never actually seen it." Brick walked closer and stared down at the pages, it was like looking through a piece of glass, it was all blue, and on it where light blue designs, and a light blue outline on the pages. "The Book of Peace." Dexter came up beside Brick and said, "Its my job to bring it safely to Serecuse." "Really, well now I just feel bad, because you're gonna lose your job." "You can't be serious!" cried Dexter, "You disappear for 3 years, then show up and rob me?" "I wish it wasn't you." Said Brick, "Really I do." "But it is me." Said Dexter, "Dexter, we had a secret handshake, some code words, even a secret hide out. It was fun, but… we where 6." "We where friends!" cried Dexter, "You're not going to steal this." said Dexter, "Not from me. And what would you do with it anyway? It protects all of us in the Twelve Cities." "Exactly." Said Brick, "So guess how much all of us would pay to get it back." "Brick, a long time ago you and I where friends." Said Dexter, "If that ever met anything to you prove it now." Brick sighed and said, "You're right Dexter, that was a long time ago." And he reached for the book. Dexter grabbed him by the hand, flipped Brick away and grabbed one of his swords at the same time. Brick quickly drew the other sword, and said, "Come on don't get all heroic Dexter." Said Brick, he tried to take a step towards the book, but Dexter slashed at him with the sword, the two slashed at each other a few times, then they stood with their blades pushing against one another. "If you want to get the book." Said Dexter, "You have to go through me." "Okay." Said Brick, suddenly a huge yellowish green tentacle smashed through the wall, it knocked them both to the floor. It retracted, and Brick said, "What the…?"