It all started in a sunny day with the wind flowing and making the flowers move with the sound of the birds in the air but then a strange force appear and start to make the flowers vanish as if they were burned down to ashes but… this ones didn't turn to ashes they just burned like it would be with a paper and they were gone.
The entire place start to shake, it show a pillar and a river very close to it with green fields. Where the pillar is… the same place start to shine until it start to crumble around it. The Pillar start to fall as some people start to jump from the pieces of the earth that was falling along with the pillar. Then you could see that it was a floating island and the pillar fall down while some people only stare.
In another place where a water fall was… there was a castle and on top of a tower a man was there but he didn't look normal… he have pointy ears as an elf. He have tan skin, brown-gray hair, a dark bear, and silver eyes. His wearing dark clothes that look of a pair of pants and a sleeveless shirt that show his well tone chest with an earring in each ear.
- That's the third pillar that has fallen, four more and this magical world will parish.- said the man who is an Outsider and the guardian of time.
- What are you doing here, Gass? I'm busy at the moment. I'd no time for games now.- said another man with pointy ears but he has light tan skin, reddish hair, and golden eyes. He's wearing reddish clothes with a dark red cape on his shoulders. He's skinny since his arms are showing his skin,
- I know.- said Gass as he look at him but he was staring at the sunrise.
- Then shut up and wait. I'll take you on once I get back.- said the reddish man.
- Munto, nobody has ever return from the world below.- said Gass.
- Do you really believe that I wouldn't make it back either.- said Munto.
- I'm not going to wait around here just to settle the score with you. Go ahead, hurry up and get out of here, then the fate of the Heavens will be on the palm of my hand. Just go and die.- said Gass.
- You don't have what it takes to save this world.- said Munto as he the wind keep making his spiky hair fly with his cape. And he lean forward and he fall down to his doom.
Then while he vanish to be on the world below… Gass stay silent and never look at him and then a girl land next to him, she have orange hair, light tan skin, pointy hears, and dark-pink eyes. She's wearing a purple clothes the same stile like Gass only that she covers her chest and lets her stomach show. Her hair is tie-up in a high ponytail.
- Wow, he really went. That seems pretty stupid to me, I guess that's it for the Magical King.- said the girl.
- Let's go, Airyta.- said Gass as he fly away.
- Gass! Hey, wait up!- whine the girl as she try to catch him up.
Meanwhile…
In a part inside the castle in open air.
-Ms. Ryuely! Ms. Ryuely! King Munto… he's in trouble. Munto… please don't die!-said a young boy with blonde hair, fair skin and blue-green eyes.
He was watching a mirror made of water from a little lake with a tall woman with purple hair, fair skin and light purple eyes that didn't show her pupils since she was blind.
He's wearing a green tunic with a green hat. While she was wearing a light purple dress. Then everything start to shake as another pillar start to fall. He boy is a student to become prophet while the woman is a prophetess.
Meanwhile…
In the World Below.
The pillar could be seen falling and about to land on a dry and death land while a girl with dark-brown hair could see everything. She's dress in a white dress above her knees as she watch the pillar reflected on her dark-brown eyes.
In Our World…
The same place was in the ocean as the sky is dark because of the dark clouds and then the clouds open up very strangely as if something have made them open up and land on the ocean as the same seas made a tsunami and make the ships closely be destroy.
Back at the World Below…
It show how the pillar land the same way it appear on our world but in our world the pillar never show itself and in the world below it did even if there wasn't even water. Only that it crash on the earth and start to vanish from bottom to the top as if it never existed in the first place but leaving a crater on the ground.
From a top and faraway place, the same girl watch the whole scene without taking her eyes away from it. Her hair is tie-up in a ponytail with a golden ribbon and letting two short fangs on each side of her face, and a forelock but her hair shows to be short since it reach half way of her neck.
Chapter 1: Things I Know
(Cynthia's POV)
The sound of the rain woke me up, I rise from my bed but I stay sitting on it as everything in my room is still dark and look at the window that's next to my bed. I pulled the white curtains away to let me see outside, my hair reach below my shoulders and two short fangs on the side of my hands that were below my chin.
I like rainy days. It's the only time when I can see the same sky as everyone else.
I was smiling as I look outside and get off of my bed to get ready to go to school.
Once in the kitchen…
I have a toast breath on my mouth but I was daydreaming as I hear the news on the television. Mom was washing the dishes, dad was reading the newspaper, my little sister was also eating and watching the news but she was almost done with hers, my twin sister was almost also done and watching the news.
Dad was wearing his suit ready for work, he has dark hair, tan skin much darker than us, and chocolate eyes.
Mom was wearing her normal clothes that was a skirt, a shirt and her yellow apron. She has light brown curly hair, light bronze skin and honey-brown eyes. She always has her hair in a ponytail but very low.
My little sister, Iri, she has light brown straight hair and light bronze skin like mom, and chocolate eyes like dad. She always has her hair loose.
My twin sister, Anala, she has dark curly hair, tan skin like dad, and honey-brown eyes like mom. She always has her hair tie up in a
I'm the only one that looks different from everyone. I have dark-brown hair that sometimes looks dark as the night, tan skin neither dark as my dad's or light bronze as my mom's, and dark-brown eyes that look as dark like my hair only when the light of the sun touches my face… my eyes seem brown.
-Next, on to other news. Yesterday, a giant tsunami suddenly appeared off the coast of Kisuido. It is speculated that the abnormal weather of recent years is the cause of this downburst phenomenon.- said the man on the news.
I was already on my school uniform and still keep daydreaming of what I dream just now.
- Cynthia, stop daydreaming and eat your breakfast.- said mom as both my sisters look at mom and then at us.
- All right… - I answered irritate.
Mom have make eggs with toast and milk.
- Sis, you never eat properly because you're always eating junk food.- said my little sister.
- Shut up!- I said to her real angry as I hit my left hand on the table making my twin to jump a little.
We eat as fast as we could since we were late for school and go to the opening to place our brown shoes on. Our uniform is a long white dress with white short shocks. I walked toward a place where we put our umbrellas on. We took an umbrella; I took a dark one and Alana a blue one, we heat to the door.
-We're leaving.- we said in unison.
- Huh?- I asked once outside to open my umbrella and look up in the sky to notice that the rain have stop and the sun was back in the sky much to my disappointment.
- Oh great, the rain stopped.- I said whining.
- Oh, come on, Cynthia. Let's go, we're already later.- said Alana who was already far away from me. I open the umbrella and dash toward her. Once I jump the last stair of our front door the whole place vanish and I seem as if I was floating in the sky which shock me but I keep running.
- Hey!- shout someone from on top of a bridge and I look up. – Cynthia, good morning! I think you can put the umbrella down!-
- Morning!- shout another girl that look shorter than the other one.
- Good morning, Ichiko! Hi, Suzume!- I shouted to them as they wave their hands to me. With that we walk to school together as Alana have finally vanish, maybe she was already in school by now.
Suzume was playing in the water with every step she took, we were already in Middle School.
-Suzume, you're not in elementary school anymore, you know?- said Ichiko.
Suzume was half of my stature and Ichiko was just below my chin so in other words… I was much taller than them… even from Alana who is shorter than Ichiko by reaching her shoulders.
I was silent the entire time and Ichiko notice this.
- Are they floating up there again?- asked Ichiko to me and I look up in the sky making my umbrella to fall a little back to let me see and notice a shadow of an island in a shape of a long diamond.
- Yeah.- I answer as I look back down.
- I wonder what they are… those floating islands that only you can see, Cynthia.- said Ichiku.
- I think I have a screw lose.- I said.
- No, way. If you're the only one that can see it, then that's how it's meant to be. My problem is Suzume. Every day she emails me about her love life.- said Ichiku very irritate.
- His name is Kazuya-kun, right?- I asked her.
- I'm already overworked by my after-school activities.- said Ichiku which I only smile looking at Suzume who was in the middle of us but pretty far away too.
- I think it's cute.- I said.
- I guess so. But Suzume is so naïve.- said Ichiku.
That's when I felt and see that someone was coming down from the sky… a man with reddish hair and reddish clothes with a dark red cape. I gasp and look up in the sky while we wait to cross the street. I blink many times to see if anything happen but I never see anything.
-What's wrong, Cynthia? Cynthia?- asked Ichiku to me since I wasn't responding but I lower my head before I answer with a smile on my face.
- Oh, it's noth….- I said when an explosion happen next to us and I cry in shock as the wind was too strong that I let go of my dark umbrella. Then I look to where the explosion came and to my shock he was there.
The man with reddish hair, and reddish clothes with golden eyes. His pupil look the same shape as the island… a diamond. He was kneel down in front of me as his spiky hair was flying around.
- It's you. I finally found the Girl of Destiny.- then he rise up and I notice that he was very tall and handsome. I practically reach his shoulders. – There's not time. Lend me your power.
- W-Wh…What's that?- I asked him very shock and afraid since he have pointy ears.
- Come on.- he said very gentle as he took a step toward me but something stop him as electricity pull him back as he hold his right hand back. – Damn! It's the Space-Time Continuum… You. Human girl. Can you hear the sound of my voice?-
- What?- I asked again.
- There's no time. Come with me. Now!- he shout at me when something pull me back.
- Cynthia!- shout Ichiku as she was holding me while I open my eyes again and I was back to reality.
- What happen, Ichiku?- I asked them.
- Nothing happen. What's the matter with you?- she asked me.
- Huh? Ichiku… You didn't see that?- I asked her.
- See what?- she asked me.
(Munto's POV)
I was standing in the same place on the World Below holding my hand that was shaking in pain, I was enduring it.
This is the Space-Time Continuum… I couldn't even touch that girl…
I make my hurt hand a fist while I look up at the sky.
So now, I have to use the power only available to an Outsider, is that it?
Flashback…
Back at the Heavens…
Magical Kingdom.
-Munto… Do you plan on interfering with the Space-Time Continuum in order to save this sinking kingdom- said Gass as he look at me. – You do know that's breaking the taboo of the Heavens. I won't let you go easily.- with that I was ready to face him right there. – Calm down. I did not come to stop you.-
That surprise me and I calmed down as I look at him.
- Gass… Even though you're the Guardian of Time, you're going to let me pass through?- I asked him.
- The fate of the Heavens has already been decided. Even if I curse you right now, I won't be able to stop the destruction of the world. Ever since that Calamitous Day in the distant past, I've lost the object which has been passed down to Outsiders for generations to guard. There's nothing left for me to guard in this place.- said Gass.
- Did you come here to tell me such meaningless things? You're free to choose whether to give up or not. But, if an Outsider goes against his fate…- I said.
- I know. Munto, answer a question for me.- said Gass as he took me off guard with that. – What did you see? The almighty power, Akuto, is running out. This world is going to fall. What exactly did you see from that darkness-filled world?-
I turned around and look back at the horizon that was in front of me.
-A girl.- I knew that I shock him. – I dreamt of a girl.-
End of Flashback.
I keep staring at the island above me.
I will not let the Heavens fall. It is my sworn duty as king. I will definitely get past that wall.
Some Time Later…
I was sitting down on a rock meditating everything that has happen.
That girl's world and mine… are in a different time and space. Yet, it's the same world, like the opposite sides of a coin. But, there's a fine like that I cannot cross. This is harder than I thought.
Flashback…
Back at the Heavens…
In the Magical Kingdom.
-Ryuely, I'm still far away from the future of the Heavens that you showed me.-
Ryuely cut her eyes as the same blood fall on the water as I watched when a mirror of water appeared and show me the future. I watched carefully as it show me my world and deep down in the darkness… two lights of a girl trying to touch each other and far away… a young girl with dark-brown hair, dark-brown eyes and tan skin was looking at my direction and inside her eyes… the Heavens was seem and far away the light was.
End of the Flashback.
The power of that girl… is the future of this world.
The wind make my hair and cape to fly while the sun keep touching my skin in this isolated world.
(Cynthia's POV)
I was already in school and we were having P.E., already. We were in a room where all the girls could change into dark-blue shorts and white shirts.
- Yes, I get it. But, regardless of how hard I try, I still can't see the sky that you see. I believe you, thought. I believe it exists. But that red-haired guy seem like trouble. My instincts tell me he's dangerous. So Cynthia, don't think about him anymore.- said Ichiku but even if she warned me… I was still thinking about him. – Are you listening!? Hello? I'm worrying about you.-
- I'm sorry.- I apologize.
- Jeez, I'm serious, here. Suzume, you think so too, right?- asked Ichiku.
Suzume only smile which make us be shock, that's until Ichiku got a little annoyed.
- Gosh, have you even been following our conversation? You're worried about Cynthia too, right?- asked Ichiku.
- Yes, I am.- said Suzume.
- Really?- asked Ichiku.
That make Suzume to giggle.
- It's not a laughing matter.- said Ichiku that make me smile.
- Hey, Suzume. Is it going well with your boyfriend, Kazuya-kun?- I asked her to change the topic.
- Yeah!- answer Suzume very cheerful which annoyed Ichiku.
- Some things just don't make sense in this world. Like… why do you have a boyfriend when I don't? I'm tired. Let's go.- said Ichiku real annoyed by this and walked away while I follow her and then…
- Cynthia! Ichiko!- Suzume called us and make us to stop and look back at her. – You know… I'm going to marry Kazuya tomorrow.- that left us shock and silent as we keep looking at her.
Some Time Later…
The boys were doing P.E outside while the girls were doing P.E inside. I was sitting down on the floor waiting my turn with some other girls to play basketball. Then Ichiku came sitting next to me.
- Takashi knows a little about Kazuya-kun.- said Ichiku.
- What did he say?- I asked her.
- I've heard it too. Kazuya-kun is a real troublemaker…- said Ichiku very worry.
- Isn't that just a rumor? Takashi's information can't really be trusted…- I told her.
- He said he injured the third-year gym teacher the other day.- said Ichiku which make me remember how the gym teacher was really injure yesterday and make me gasp at that. – He was suspended and is now grounded at home. I wonder if Suzume will be all right… I'm getting more and more worried about her. The basketball ball was been taken away from the contrary team and it was going toward Suzume.
- Suzume!- they warned her but as she try to hold the ball… the fall hit her.
- Right in the face…- said Suzume before falling to the ground and make us be shock and worry for her.
- Hey, Cynthia, sometimes I think Suzume is a little slow. Do you think she's being taken advantage of?- asked Ichiku.
- I don't think so. She may be innocent, but she knows what's going on…- I told her.
- But we're only thirteen!- said Ichiku as a gym teacher was helping Suzume to stand up if she was alright and then another teacher make the signal for another team to enter and we rise up. While we dash to the field… Suzume was getting out and give us high five.
- I'll meet Kazuya-kun and see what he's like.- I said to her.
- I thought you'd say that. I'll go with you. I've already found out where he lives.- said Ichiku as we play and pass the ball to one another until he make point.
Afternoon…
Once school was over we head toward Kazuya's home to find him. Once we reach his home, his mother told us that he was not home, which disappoint us, but then we thanked her and we head to look for him elsewhere. We head toward a market where people that he used to hang out was. To our shock they were mean people but they told us that he was usually on the edge of the river and we head toward there.
- Over there!- said Ichiku and we found him down really near the river. We dash toward him until we were behind him.
- Kazuya-kun?- I called him and he turned around to look at us.
He have brown hair, fair skin and dark-blue eyes. He was wearing a dark shirt underneath, a light green shirt, a white short and orange sandals.
