If you are wondering why it took too long to update, my excuse is that my laptop charger decided to die on me when i was putting the finishing touches on this. unfortunately i didnt have money to replace it, and it took about a month to get a new charger. so now here it is, oh and random hyper person, you owe me a cookie.
Gol stared at the sun setting over the horizon. It was the only time of the day he could see it through his own eyes and not the eyes through his host. The cloudless red sky began to show small dots of light, indicating the night was to befall him. The last rays of the sun disappeared behind the sea, setting darkness upon him. Immediately, he felt a gust of wind pick up his black coat, sending a shiver up his spine, something that normally doesn't happen.
"Gol, did you feel that?" Mars oracle voice boomed behind him. Gol nodded and turned around, looking past Mar to the rising green star that always rose from the east after the suns set.
"Yes, the low pressure, the sudden gust of winds from the north;" he gasped for breath, "a storms a coming," he stated turning to face him face to face, "and the sudden winds will also cause a sandstorm before hand, not a good combination."
"Shall we warn our sisters?" Mar asked, crossing his arms and tilting his head in interest. Gol didn't hesitate to answer.
"No, I think they should know by now, and I want to introduce to you Azul before the storm arrives, so follow me," he said jumping off the cliff overlooking the west side of the wastelands and taking off. Mar jumped off as well, spreading his wings and following Gol over the sands. They reached to oasis quickly, Mar landing softly next to Gol at the shore.
"An oasis," Mar asked as Gol bent over and tipped the water, sending a ripple that calmed the water with dark eco sparks, "This is where she is too appear?"
"Yes, I was running by here one night when a sudden flash of blue light caught my attention. I stopped and saw our sister rise from the depths." He gasped for air as Azul began to rise like he had explained. "As soon as she laid eyes on me she began to attack me, causing a great sandstorm to cometh."
Azul was now fully out of the water, staring at Mar as she walked forward, talking cautious steps as she examined Mar. Smirking, Gol gestured at him as she reached the shore.
"Azul, this is Mar, our brother of light eco," he gasped for breath as Mar nodded and stretched out his hand, "and Mar, this is Azul, our sister of blue eco."
"Light eco, that explains the sudden outburst of light eco activity in the wasteland," she said walking up to him and checking him out. She smirked, "let's see how good you are at fighting,"
She extended her claws, sending sparks of blue eco about the sands of the wasteland. The next instant she disappeared in a flash of blue light, appearing behind Mar with her arm extended out for an attack. Mar automatically sensed her, turning around and clasping his hands, extending his arms as she attacked to make his light eco shield. Her claws connected with the shield, making blue eco spark about the sphere. She smirked as she used the momentum to jump up in the air, causing Mar to extend his wings and fly up after her.
Reaching the height of her jump, she looked down and began to concentrate blue eco in between her hands. Mar saw this and stopped in midair, concentrating white eco in between his hands as well. As they did this, Gol rose into the air, getting a better view of the fight as he landed on the cliff overlooking the oasis. He crossed his arms and smirked at the sight of his siblings going all out.
Let's see how she handles light eco, Gol thought as the winds began to pick up again.
Azul smirked and sent her attack down to Mar, who launched his attack as well making him go down a bit. Blue and light eco collided in midair, sending a shockwave of the two out into the desert, picking up sand and causing a small sandstorm to go toward Gol, who flinched and covered his eyes with his coat. As the mini sandstorm subsided, he turned and looked back at the fight.
Mar stopped the attack and got on one knee, clasping his hands and making the night sky and the ground glow blue. Above him Azul also stopped her attack, diving straight down at him with her claws out. He looked up in time to jump out of the way of her attack. She jumped at him going for another attack, this time easily dodged by Mar. Using the momentum, he kicked her in her stomach, sending her flying towards the cliffs with the ramps near the oasis. She crashed into one of the cliffs, sending it crashing down on top of her. Gol walked forward as Mar gasped, flying toward the cliff that he had thrown her too. As the rubble settled, Mar landed gracefully at the base, using his psychic powers to sense and see if she was still alive.
Gol landed next to him, placing his hand on Mars shoulder when he showed the intent to dig her out. Mar looked back at him to see him shake his head, and then point at the ruble as it began to move. At the top of the ruble popped out Azul, blue eco sparking about her as she glared at Mar. Before he had a chance to talk, she launched at him, Mar automatically putting up his shield. Before her attack could connect, a flash of red light in between them caused her to stop and jump out of the way. Mar enforced his shield as Gol jumped out of the way as well.
Slamming her fists into the ground, Roja sent a shockwave of red eco out into the dark wasteland night. Mar found himself pushed back, digging his heels into the sand as the shockwave began to disperse. Roja stood up from the epicenter and looked at Mar, before turning around quickly and crossing her arms in front of her, making a red eco shield surround her as Azul's claws connected with her shield. Azul and Roja glared at each other as Roja forced Azul off, jumping at her for a kick to the head, which Azul easily dodged. Azul extended her claws and went for an attack, Roja jumping high into the air to dodge. Azul followed, sending high speed kicks and punches that didn't seem to faze Roja. Roja glared at her as she connected a punch to the top of her head, sending her flying down to the desert at high speed.
She connected with the ground, sending a plume of sand into the air. Roja concentrated red eco into her hands and looked down at the plume as the strong winds blew away the sand, revealing Azul also concentrating blue eco into her hands. Roja launched herself at Azul, Red eco pulsing in her hands as Azul also launched herself at Roja, blue eco sparking and lighting up the dark wasteland night. Gol smirked as he saw Mar launch himself in between his two attacking sisters.
As they both got near each other, and before Mar got the chance to stop them, a flash of green light in between them caused all three to stop in their tracks. Verde was standing in between her two sisters, holding onto their arms and bellowing "Enough!"
Both Azul and Roja glared at Verde, forcing the hold she had on them off as they stood in mid air. Gol frowned as he floated up to them. Mar breathed a sigh of relief as he too floated to them.
"Why have you stopped us?" Roja angrily asked Verde as Gol and Mar reached them. Verde glared at her.
"Why should sisters fight? What point do we have on fighting between siblings of eco? We are all created equally in the minds of our creators, and given the power to rule over our eco's. They entrusted us with these powers to maintain the balance and keep this world running smoothly, and yet here we are, in some random desert island fighting it out for no reason!" she retorted, glaring at Roja as Roja cringed, never hearing her answer back at her like that. Before she had a chance to say anything, Verde gasped and collapsed, falling straight to the desert.
Mar swiftly flew down and caught her bridal style, inspecting her as he flew back to the group, "She is depleted of eco; I'm guessing stopping both attacks took a lot out of her."
"To the Monk temple then," Gol said floating around the group, "Azul Roja and you need to rejuvenate your eco as well,"
"True," Mar said, looking at Roja, who nodded worryingly looking at Verde. Mar then looked at Azul, who scowled but nodded anyway. He then turned to Gol and nodded, causing him to smirk. He then took off running in the air and leaving a trail of dark eco. Azul followed, leaving a trail of blue eco where she ran, followed closely by Roja, who took long leaps in the air, leaving a mini shockwave of red eco where she leapt. Mar flew off, straight to the temple, with the breeze helping him fly faster. He arrived right when Roja landed from her last leap, and landed gracefully next to Gol who frowned at him.
Azul was already at the door, concentrating her powers to open the doors wide open, revealing a Precursor mass in session. All the monks attending turned to the door and gasped, bowing simultaneously and leaving only Seem at the very back standing, frowning as she made her way to them.
"Pardon for interrupting your Mass, but," Gol said gesturing to Mar holding Verde. Seem winced as she nodded, understanding the situation. She turned around and spoke the ancient precursor language, causing the monks to rise. She gestured them to follow them as she walked through the aisle in between the monks, all the monks watching the deity's walk between them as they reached the front.
"Sueno, please resume Mass as I attend to our guests here," she said turning around and referring to the nearest Monk. He was dressed in a similar fashion as the rest of the monks, precursor armor and brown pants and shirt, with the exception of his Sapphire eyes and black short dreadlocks blocking part of his face. He nodded and bowed as Seem opened the door leading down into the temple. He straightened up in time to catch Gol's eyes as he walked behind the group. Gol stared back and smirked, letting some dark eco spark about his face as the doors closed in front of him. Sueno frowned as the door closed on his eyes, sending a shiver up his spine as he shook it off, and turning around to address the rest of the monks.
Gol laughed to himself as he followed the rest of the group. He was behind Azul, who followed a worried Roja looking over Mars shoulder at Verde as he followed Seem through the different corridors of the temple. They reached the center of the temple where the Giant oracle was. Mar walked forward and laid Verde on the platform in front of it, causing it to awaken.
"Alas, I sense the faint signs of the Green Eco deity we precursors created in the beginning of time! Verde, to meet you in such predicaments is a lament to be sung for generations to come, let me change that so the song to have a happy ending." It boomed out as Green eco came from underneath Verde, lifting her up in the process of filing her up with green eco.
"I have to ask, if you are the beings of your eco, why can you run out of your eco?" Seem asked Mar who watched on.
"The precursors created us, so they set a limit to our eco. If we run out, we will simply faint where we are, until we either absorb enough eco from the surrounding environment to move and make it to an eco outlet and recharge. If we use our eco on living things than ourselves, we shall never run out for we are not selfishly using it on us, but rather on something else." He explained as Verde was done. She sighed and opened her eyes, glowed a healthy green glow. She smiled and bowed at the oracle, thanking it and walking off the platform. As soon as she did, Roja ran up and bear hugged her.
"Verde, I am terribly sorry, I won't let this happen again!" she lamented as she squeezed poor Verde who struggle for air.
"OK, fine, I forgive you!" she managed to breathe out as Roja let go and inspected her. Seem walked forward and gestured to the platform.
"Anyone else wishes to purify themselves?" she asked. Azul stepped forward, walking up the steps to the platform. The Oracle activated again.
"Ah, the energy of motion; the great Azul if I am not mistaken. Close to that of Dark eco you are, it is no wonder you have depleted your eco down this low, and yet still be able to walk. I shall rejuvenate you now, in hopes you learn to control yourself for the future," blue eco rising from beneath her as he spoke, rising her up in the air as it filled her with blue eco. The blue eco stopped, landing Azul gracefully on the ground. She glared up at the oracle but bowed nonetheless. She stepped off as Roja walked up, looking up at the oracle as Azul made her way to Gol's side. Meanwhile, Seem walked to a precursor door, doing a simple hand sign opening it and walking in.
"The great Roja, Red eco giving the ultimate and wondrous power to defeat your enemies, and protect those you love. In those battles, you have depleted your eco, even though you did it unselfishly. I shall restore your eco, in hopes that you will continue fighting for what you love." Red eco arose from the ground as it said that, refilling her up with said eco. She finished early, having not wasted a lot of eco on Azul's fight. As she finished, Mar stepped forward, waiting for the Red eco to stop flowing as she landed gracefully on the platform, opening her eyes and letting red eco surround her. She bowed as well, muttering thanks as she jumped off the platform, landing next to Verde. As Mar walked up, Seem walked back to the group, holding a black coat and fedora, handing it to Gol. He looked at her for a second, but smirked nonetheless, taking the coat and fedora and bowing at her before putting them on.
Mar walked up, staring up at the precursor as it awakens one last time. "Mar, once again fate has brought you back to me to rejuvenate yourself in the light of the precursors, for you unselfish acts of heroism have left you empty. Once again I shall rejuvenate your eco, in hopes that you will continue doing good in the world," it spoke, releasing light eco under him and lifting him up. Once he was full, the light eco stopped flowing, landing him gracefully on the platform. He bowed and walked off, going to Seems side as Seem looked at Gol.
"Do you wish to rejuvenate?" she asked, getting a smirk from him.
"No thanks, unlike my siblings here I haven't fought against them," he stopped as he gasped for air, "So I have no reason to rejuvenate,"
Seem nodded and gestured them back the way they came. They reached the main hall where the mass was taken place, to find it done with and all the monks preparing a dune hopper with crates. Sueno, who was overlooking the operation, turned around and bowed to them.
"Seem, I have good news and bad news," he said in a gruffly voice straightening up. "The good news is we are ready to go out and deliver the shipment of green eco to Spargus, the bad news is that we have a sudden sandstorm out now, followed by a thunderstorm, and the sandstorm is just getting worse," he explained as he handed Seem a precursor screen showing a map of the wasteland. Seem inspected the map and frowned, handing the map back to him.
"This could be a problem, now that Spargus expanded farther into the wasteland; they are going to need more green and blue eco for their citizens, especially green eco since they had that small war with the marauders." Seem stated resting her hand on her chin as she contemplated.
"We can help deliver those crates," Gol said walking forward and smirking at Seem, who frowned and looked up at Gol, "isn't that right dear siblings?"
Azul frowned and turned away, nodding in agreement nonetheless. Verde jumped on Roja's back, "Of course we'll help, right Roja?"
"Of course, that is what we were sent here to do, help those in need." She said smiling and looking at Mar, who nodded as well.
"We shall use our powers anyway we can to help you deliver to Spargus," Mar said stepping forward. Seem thought for a bit and nodded, turning around to her monks and spoke in the ancient precursor language.
They were on their way, Roja Verde and Mar on the lead Dune hopper full of eco with Gol and Azul running ahead to destroy any Metal heads that attempted to attack. Mar had his light shield surrounding the hopper to protect against the sandstorm. Roja was helping Mar by providing extra strength to the shield. As they made it pass the ruins, several Metal heads popped out of the metal head nest and raced after them.
"Azul, Gol, we got some problems back here!" Roja yelled out, her voice booming over the sound of the sandstorm. Gol and Azul turned around and went for the attack, Gol leaping onto the face of one and pulling out the skull gem. Azul dug her claws into the metal head and ripped its head off. More metal heads popped out, some flying while others rampaging.
"Crap, we need backup here, we can take care of the land ones but we need someone else to take care of the flying!" Azul said, rushing toward one of the Metal head beasts. Mar turned to Roja and nodded, letting go of his shield and spreading his wings, taking off into the sandstorm. He focused light eco into his hands and shot it off to one of the flying metal heads, sending it crashing to the desert ground.
He felt two others follow close behind, sending dark eco missiles that followed him even though he tried to dodge them. He frowned as he barrel rolled, making the missiles crash into each other and then suddenly stopped. He turned around and focused more light eco into his hands, firing them at the metal heads, sending them crashing down. He turned to see the convoy already at the river, with the Spargus walls overlooking it. The convoy already made it over the river as he approached it. He landed next to Roja, fortifying the shield as the sandstorm got worse.
Since the war with the dark makers, Spargus had a recent economic boom by trading with both Haven and Kras, especially during the grand prix. With such money, they were able to expand their borders farther into the wasteland, taking over the small corridor they had in front of the garage, the new walls overlooking the river and built into the surrounding mountains. As they reached the new garage, the doors opened automatically, letting in the convoy and then closing shut once more once they were safely inside the gates.
Inside the garage a group of wastelanders were waiting for them, with Sig and Kliever in the front waiting as Seem drove to a stop in front of them. Kliever smirked as Sig frowned as the winds took away the sand that rose into the air.
"Seem, I see that you brought along some guests," Sig said stepping forward and glaring at Gol as he cracked his neck, getting a look of disgust from Azul next to him.
"Yes, they are the great eco deity's that the precursors created for us in the beginning of time. They have helped us by protecting our convoy as we made our way here, I believe you are already acquainted with Gol here," Seem said jumping down from the Dune hopper as Gol smirked over at Sig, walking over to them.
"Ah Sig, cruel fate as it would seem no?" he asked walking around them, chuckling at his pun only to get more glares from Seem and Sig. "And Kliever, where is your precursor with no powers of his own?"
"Damn git thought he could escape again, bit me finger he did!" Kliever said as he unpacked a crate of green eco. "Locked 'im up in the closet till I get 'ome."
"Ah Veger was never one for being ones, sidekick, wouldn't you agree, dear brother?" He asked looking over at Mar who had been helping take down the crates. He got a frown from him as he handed a crate to Roja, who was already holding three crates.
"Ah Jak, how are you here when he's here?" Sig asked, raising his peacemaker to his shoulder. Gol snickered.
"He is Jaks Light side, I am pretty sure you've seen him transform to him before," Gol explained appearing at Mars side, "Mar, this is Sig, the new king of the Spargus replacing the late king Damas."
"Sig, this is Mar, the being of light eco," Gol said standing next to them as they shook hands.
"Light eco, yeah I've seen you, number of times Jak transformed into you to save my sorry ass," he said turning to his warriors, "take the green eco down to the new hospital, have them treat those in dire need immediately!"
"I can help there, I can heal most of those in dire need quickly so you can save more green eco for future needs," Verde explained as she jumped down from the dune hopper besides Mar.
"Sig, this is Verde, the green eco being, she can be much help," Mar said as Verde and Sig shook hands.
"Help that we need, expanding the city's borders has really pissed off the marauders, and we are still in the war going on with them," he stated, gesturing the group to follow his men through the second doors.
"Tell me about it," Azul muttered as they stepped through. Spargus still had the typical house designs as it previously had, with the exception of having more streets and higher buildings dug into the mountain sides. They stopped at a leaper lizard pen where the wastelanders were loading up the crates onto some lizards. Mar inspected the surrounding city, noticing a new beach area to the east near the small racetrack. Also it appeared they were building a new turret to protect that section.
"Please, this way," Sig said, walking behind the lizards being lead by his men. "As you can see, we have done many renovations in hopes of making the city a more peaceful and bigger place. If we can get a peace treaty with the marauders, we have high hopes of making the whole island a city in at least twenty years."
"Like that will ever happen," Azul muttered to herself, only heard by Mar and Gol. They turned west, walking toward a building with a green cross flag slightly ripped waving in the breeze. Mar looked up at the green star, noticing it was now near the west of the sky.
"What are you doing to prepare for the sudden storm that is approaching?" Mar asked changing the subject. Sig stopped and looked at him quizzically.
"We know that the sandstorm is at full force as of now, but for the thunderstorm we have no clue, we have many pockets that will collect rainwater, causing flashfloods," he stated as they reached the building.
"Matter of time ey, look at them clouds to the north," Kliever said pointing towards an ominous grey gathering of clouds slowly making their way from the north. The flag in front of the building stopped flapping, gaining all their attention.
"Calm before the storm," muttered Gol with a smirk, "we best hurry then."
Verde rushed in, pushing Gol and Roja out of the way as she made her way to the patients who were near the door, the worst in the building. She immediately began to work, concentrating green eco and letting it flow out of her hands and into the patients on either side of her. The patients let out a sigh of relief, becoming more comfortable as the green eco made their way through their system and healed them.
"If I help things will go much quicker," Mar said walking forward and bumping into Azul. With the small bump he gained a small view into her mind, where he clearly heard her think, things would go much faster if I combine my powers with Verdes.
Mar stared at her, tilting his head and searching her mind on why she wouldn't say this earlier.
Ah, that's it, he thought. He muttered sorry and began to work, quickly healing patients as fast as Verde.
"Unload the green eco over there for now," Sig ordered as his men did his bidding. He turned to Seem and bowed, "Thank you Seem, without your eco…"
"It is no trouble," she said, bowing as well. They both straightened up, Sig glaring at Gol and his sisters.
"I guess I you helped, I can let you into my city, seeing as you are who you say you are," he turned to Seem who nodded, "I was afraid of that. Please, enjoy your stay, and no funny business."
He glared at Gol who smirked back, bowing, "No need to look to concerned with me, I know how to behave."
Reluctant, Sig left, Kliever and his men in tow outside. Seem sat down on one of the leaper lizards that were still inside.
"Well, I thank you graciously for the help you have performed tonight, even if it was uncharacteristic of you," she looked at Gol, "but I am grateful either way,"
"I was no problem," Roja quipped up, smiling a bit. Seem smiled.
"But I do have one question, where is the yellow eco being?" she asked. Roja and Azul both looked at each other and shrugged.
"She has yet to appear, for it was an unlikely coincidence that 5 eco beings were to meet in this desert in the first place. She could be anywhere in the world," Gol lamented, making Seem frown.
"I think I have a clue as to where she is; my monks during the grand prix overheard a group from Kras city talk about leaping levels of yellow eco activity in their city. I suggest you try there." she explained controlling the leaper lizard that saw a kangarat run by.
"And what, pray tell, would happen once we are all together?" asked Gol, gaining a frown from Seem.
"Have you forgotten already, the prophecy foretold upon your creation by the original creator precursor?" she asked, getting blank looks from the group. She sighed, "Once all of you have come together, I shall tell you the prophecy, until then, I bid you a good morning."
She rode off, stopping in front of the building to put her hood up as the winds picked up again. The morning sky was beginning to glow with the suns morning rays, only to be blocked off by the clouds that rolled over. Gol and Roja walked to the door, looking up at the sky as the clouds covered it.
"What do you think she meant by the prophecy?" Roja asked walking up to them. Before Gol would answer, she disappeared with a flash of red light. Gol looked over at Verde, finishing up with her patient and looking over at Gol as well, staring into his eyes before disappearing with a green flash. He then turned to Azul, who was looking up at the sky before disappearing herself with a blue flash.
"A prophecy, why do I not remember?" Mar said walking to his side as he walked outside. Before Gol could reply, Mar felt a raindrop fall on his cheek. He looked up and noticed a flash of white light followed by a loud crack of sound.