CHAPTER ONE: HEROES UNITE, AND THE BATTLE BEGINS!
At the peaceful village of Crescent Isle, Vyse the Legend, as well as his two friends Aika and Fina were on the ledge that led into the meeting room- which was the highest point that anyone on the island could reach- viewing the sunset. Vyse, Aika and Fina weren't any ordinary citizens of Arcadia; they were Air Pirates, or Blue Rouges to be exact. However, staring out at the sunset on this day made Fina sad. Her transforming friend, if you wish to call him that, Cupil, had spent the entire day trying to cheer her up. Vyse and Aika were worried about their Silvite friend as well.
The thing about Fina is this. Fina wasn't a normal Arcadian before she even came onto the planet. In fact, she is a Silvite, which is a descendent of the Silver Civilization. There were six Civilizations that each existed under its color moon. Technology was advancing back in the old world, and the Civilizations declared war on each other, and built weapons of mass destruction called the Gigas. The Gigas destroyed all of the Civilizations, but the Rains of Destruction, a Moon Stone Shower, did most of the work.
A Moon Crystal controlled each of the Gigas, which is the purest form of Moon Stone, which helps the citizens of Arcadia with their lives. About a year ago, the Gigas were brought back from their sleeps, only to be defeated by Vyse, Aika, and Fina. However, the Gigas that was the cause of the Rains was the Silver Gigas, Zelos. Zelos was the last Gigas that Vyse, Aika, and Fina took down.
Back to the Silvite Story. The Silver Moon Crystal's shards are in every Silvite. It is the source of their lives and can only be removed by death. Now I'm done with that story. Back to the main story now!
Vyse decided to finally ask Fina, "Is there something wrong?"
Fina silently sighed, and then answered, "Do you know what day it is?"
Aika answered, "Of course we do! It's Monday!" But a look on Fina's face decided that Fina wasn't talking about the day of the week.
Fina lowered her head, and then said, "It was one year ago- today- that Ramirez… died."
Vyse and Aika quickly knew what she was talking about. Ramirez was also a Silvite. He was also Fina's best friend before she even came here. You see, when the elders needed the Moon Crystals colleted, they chose their best swordsmen, which was Ramirez. He went to Arcadia alone. When the elders didn't hear from him, they sent Fina to replace Ramirez, who at the time was presumed dead. However, after a short time, she had learned that Ramirez had turned over to the dark side (The Old Valuan Empire), and eventually she had no choice but to fight him. Ramirez attempted to destroy Arcadia, but was destroyed along with Zelos. His Moon Crystal Shard was tossed overboard to rest in peace shortly afterwards.
Vyse looked down as well, and sighed, "Fina, I'm sorry about that."
"It's okay, Vyse," Fina replied shortly. "It had to be done."
"Hey, look!" Aika exclaimed in total amaze.
Vyse and Fina quickly looked up, and saw a red light shining down towards the Nasr capital of Nasrad. However the light slowed down as it approached the city.
Vyse, Aika, and Fina looked at each other, all knowing what they had to do. Vyse then smiled, and the glow that always was in his eyes right before an adventure appeared again.
Vyse then gave the order, "to the Dephinus II! Let's see what's going on in Nasrad!"
So the trio went below to the port, and headed for the Dephinus II, since the Dephinus I was now in Valua with Emperor Enquire and Empress Mogei. With the ship started up, they headed for Nasrad….
Blade woke up, and the first thing he realized was that he was on a one-way crash landing in a beautiful desert city. The second thing he noticed was Maine was flapping his little wings for their lives depended on it. Knowing Maine can't really help decrease their altitude speed, or the really painful affect of the landing, he quickly flipped back right-side up and triggered his Air Shoes. As he was slowing descending into the city, he thanked God that his dad is a scientist, and invented several of the gadgets Blade uses.
When he got to a mere five feet above ground, he deactivated the shoes, landing softly, and let out a big sigh of relief. Also, Maine was still flapping as fast as the little Chao could. Blade laughed at his little friend, "Maine, the crisis has been resolved. You can stop now."
Just as Maine stopped his flapping, Blade realized that he and Maine were the city's main attention. Civilians were looking at them in total awe at the two mysterious figures that fell from the sky.
Maine whispered something in Blade's ear, and the mouse nodded. Blade then said, "I assume that you all are completely amazed that there's a talking mouse in your city that fell from the sky, aren't you?" The nods of these desert people, as well as looking up to see the moon red made the two realize they weren't on Earth anymore. Suddenly, cannon fire was coming from outside of the city. Blade then asked, "What the hell is going on?"
Rushing out to port, taking his sword out, and to see that there were pirates attacking. Also, there wasn't a sea. Ignoring the sea comment, he eyed the pirates.
The captain of the pirates seemed to have a black beard, and a green hat. When he saw Blade he asked one of his crewmen, "Is that one of those other worldly animals?"
The crewmen said, "Aye, Captain Baltor! He looks like one of them."
Blade obviously was ready to fight. Baltor only smirked as his crew drew out their weapons. Blade was a bit confused at what they looked like, because they all had the same red aura. Blade charged them by himself, and his swords clashed with one of theirs, and another guy slashed Blade's sword, causing it to break. Thrown off by this, Baltor grabbed Blade's tail and threw him into a wall. After recovering from that, Blade checked to make he still had the emeralds, which he did, but only the dark blue one. However, he also had a small silver orb which he didn't have before he was here. Immediately after checking his pockets, he felt a stabbing pain, followed by a burning one. Looking at his left shoulder, he saw a red cutlass, in it. Baltor grabbed the emerald.
Baltor then ordered his crew, "Half of you, stay here in the port, and make sure that the mouse dies, and no unexpected visitors enter Nasrad. The rest of you, come with me."
As Baltor left, one of the crewmen was going in for the kill. As pure luck would have it, a green aura boomerang hit that crewman in the head, knocking the guy out. The owner of the thing caught it, and said, "Sorry, boys. There will be no destruction inside Nasrad tonight!"
It was obviously a woman, and as they were looking at her, one of the pirates died, because of Blade stabbing the guy in the back with the new cutlass. As the pirates turned to him, they were dropping left and right. Now that he made short work of them, he went up to the trio that helped him out.
The mysterious mouse approached Vyse, Aika, and Fina. Instead of attempting to fight them, he simply said, "Thanks, guys. Remind me that I owe you one."
Vyse then asked, "What's going on? Were you in that light?"
The mouse nodded, and then said, "My name's Blade. Blade the Mouse." Then a mysterious little creature floated by, and sat down on Blade's head. "And this little guy's Maine. I'll catch up with you three in a minute. I need to beat someone with my recently built up rage." And then the mouse ran off, leaving Maine behind.
Aika and Fina looked at the adorable creature floating around. Vyse simply stated, "You know, the guy who knows what's going on here just left, right?"
Aika and Fina looked up from playing with the creature, and nodded. Then Maine said something, which they thought was about a black bearded guy going to some sort of palace, and Blade heading after him.
Fina was shocked, and quickly yelled, "We may not know him, but we have to help Blade protect the Nasultan!"
At this point, no one realized that Maine was coming up with several jokes to that guy's name. But Vyse, Aika, Fina, and Maine headed to the palace.
Outside the palace, it was none other than Baltor holding out a mysterious gem. Vyse got out his cutlasses, Aika her boomerang, and Fina's friend Cupil appeared from bracelet form.
Baltor stomped on the ground, and screamed, "DAMN! I thought the second one would be here in the capital. Well, since I'm already here… I may as well rob the Nasultan." However, Blade jumped out and gave him a swift punch to the face and sending Baltor into a bar, proving that the little hero's stronger than he looks.
Blade then yelled, "Alright, you black bearded coward! You attack this city, ambush me, broke my sword, used my own tail against me, stab me in the shoulder, and steal my emerald! You are about to need eight hospital trips when I'm done with you." Blade then drew the cutlass he stole about a few minutes ago.
Baltor then walked out of the bar, cutlass out as well. "I thought I left you to die out there," the black pirate spoke in a cold tone. He then noticed Vyse. "When I'm done with the pipsqueak Vyse, you and your friends will be next. This ends this afternoon!"
Blade then chuckled, and checked his watch. "No it won't. According to my watch, it's 5: 56. Night starts at 6 pm, so unless you can kill me and- Vyse, was it? - In 3 minutes, it doesn't end this afternoon."
Vyse, Aika, and Fina had to laugh at this random joke. Baltor then scowled, and angrily growled, "Fine, this doesn't end this afternoon. But you can bet it ends very early this evening!"
At this point, Blade and Baltor clashed with their swords. While Baltor was clearly better with the kind of sword, Blade proved to be far more agile. It was a pretty even match, until Baltor kicked Blade's cutlass out of the mouse's hands. Right when Baltor was about to impale his blade into the other worldly being's head, Blade pulled out a mysterious sword and blocked. Fina recognized the sword right away, but Vyse and Aika were having some trouble remembering that sword. Baltor was thrown off balance, which Blade grabbed the pirate and threw him really far, which the guy ended up back of the Blackbeard. The sword that Blade was holding disappeared, and a mysterious sphere took its place, shocking all three of the Blue Rouges. However, Blade smiled, because he walked toward the gem that Baltor was holding earlier, and picked it up.
Blade then headed over to the three Blue Rouges, and then fell over, out cold. Fina walked over, and picked up the sphere, while Aika took the gem.
Vyse then asked Maine, "What the heck is going on, here?" Maine however, shrugged, not knowing either. Vyse just sighed, and then picked up the unconscious mouse. Vyse then said, "Let's go back to Crescent Isle. When he wakes up, Blade should explain what Baltor wanted."
Kingdom Rider92's Notes: I bet one of these questions in running through your minds: "How did Blade manage a Chaos Control? How did Baltor know about the Chaos Emeralds? Whose sword did Fina recognize Blade using there? Why did Baltor attack Nasrad? What was it that Baltor was looking for? How can the writer read my thoughts?" I can't really read your thoughts, but the rest of these questions will be answered later on. Kingdom Rider92 out!
