Ba'ul let the group off at the Krytian city of Myorzo. Judith, of course, led the way through the city. They entered the large open area in the middle of the city.
A Krytian man walked over and Judith gasped. "Tivar?" She gasped again as the man in a red coat named Tivar nodded and smiled.
"Who's Tivar?" Estelle asked confused to who the person Judith knew was.
"He's someone I knew from a while ago." Judith stated.
"Well Judith, I haven't seen you- this much of you- in a long time." Tivar said rolling his eyes. "I see you've been busy with these friends of yours."
Judith nodded. "We've been busy lately, even though we've already defeated the Adephagos a while ago." Judith confessed.
"Nothing wrong about being active." Tivar stated casually.
"I can abject to that." Raven stated.
"Now Judith, I am curious to why you are here." Tivar said looking at Ba'ul. "Since that Entelexeia seems to hold your home."
"This is the reason why we are here." Judith stated, taking out the green gem from Raven's pocket. "We came here to see if the elder knew anything about it, and we really need to know about it." Judith explained.
"Then I will go tell him, nice to meet you all." Tivar said, gesturing at the rest of the group and walking away towards the elder's house.
"He seemed nice." Estelle commented.
"He was a former acquaintance of mine." Judith said.
"It sounded like you were more of friends if ya ask me." Raven stated.
Judith turned to face the group and gave Raven back the jewel. "Let's just go to the elder's house, shall we?"
As they walked to the elder's house Flynn asked, "He had a fancy staff slung onto the back of his coat, does he use magic or something of the sort"
"Yes, that is how he fights, sort of like Rita." Judith responded.
Flynn looked down and muttered, "Rita…"
Judith and the rest stopped in front of the elder's house and waited. After a while Tivar exited the house and said, "The elder has been a little…well let's just say off lately, so I don't know how much useful information you could get out of him. If he can't tell you anything, come get me and I might be able to help. Good day to you all." Tivar walked away quickly after saying telling the party that.
"There really only needs to be a couple of us in there, Flynn and I could go talk to the elder while you two could go enjoy yourselves." Judith suggested. Raven and Estelle nodded and walked away. "Alright Flynn, let's try to solve the mystery of this gem." Flynn nodded and the two walked into the elder's house.
The elder was fidgeting around with something as Flynn asked, "Excuse me elder, could we have a moment of your time?"
The elder looked up from what he was doing. "Yes, of course, anything for Judith and friends. I am pleased to meet you two, friends of Judith."
"Elder, Flynn's the only friend of mine in the house." Judith remarked.
The elder looked confused then laughed. "I see, Commandant Boy is here, I didn't know he was your friend. Anyway, what was it that you two so desperately want to know about?" He asked as he stood up.
Judith lifted up the gem for the elder to see it. The elder was clearly mystified by the gem as he took it into his hands. "My word, I've never seen anything like it."
Judith and Flynn looked sadly at the ground. "So you can't tell us anything about this gem?" Judith asked solemnly.
The elder looked at the sad Krytian girl and chuckled. "I said I've never seen anything like it, not that I've never heard anything about a rare gem stone not seen by man. Come and sit, I will tell you what I know." The elder said as he gestured for Flynn and Judith to sit next to him. The two agreed and sat down.
"So do you know what that gem may be used for?" Flynn asked out of curiosity.
"I don't know; I know not that much about the gem. All I know is that this gem stone is fabled to be from a different world, one where gems like these are abundant in many places. I would guess that since this gem radiates such a powerful aura, such a powerful energy that this stone must be used for some sort of power source, but that is just the thoughts of an old man becoming senile." The Elder explained.
Judith looked surprised. "Not from this world?"
"That is hard to comprehend, but then again so were the Adephagos and Zaude…" Flynn pondered.
"Tivar knows a lot about this kind of stuff, but he is currently busy. I heard more of your old companions are currently in the city traveling with you, maybe you should go tell them what I just told you about this gem." The elder suggested. Judith stood up and excited the house, followed by Flynn.
Meanwhile Raven and Estelle sat inside an inn. "So Raven, how come you haven't been being commander for a while, since you said you've been in Dahngrest not doing much lately." Estelle asked the purple coated man sitting next to her at a table.
"I don't know, I just felt bein' ol' commander Schwann was to borin' for me. I just decided to head to ol' Dahngrest and wait a while until the time came for me to head on out and do somethin'." Raven explained with a sigh. Estelle smiled and laughed.
"So you sort of played hooky?" Estelle asked.
"No, no, nothing of the sort! How can you think of such a misconception of mister good ol' Raven? My, my Estelle, Raven wouldn't do such a thing." Raven pleaded as Estelle seemed to be enjoying the conversation.
"I'm sorry; I don't think you would do such a thing, Mr. Schwann." Estelle said quickly. The two friends laughed until Judith and Flynn walked in. "Did you find anything out?"
Judith pondered the question for a bit then said, "Yes and no, we found out it is expected to be from another world, but he said to wait until tomorrow if we want to know more, he also suspected it was a power source for something, but that is a mere speculation."
"Alright everyone, we should get some rest and see if there will be any more news tomorrow." Flynn said, the rest nodded and went to their rooms at the inn.
Meanwhile, back on 'New Heracles'…
Rugulf gazed out at the night that was lit by the stars. He still couldn't see Myorzo from that distance, but he knew he would be there late the next morning. One of his soldiers ran up from lower in the Heracles model.
"Sir, we are ten miles from Myorzo now." The soldier said.
Rugulf smiled wickedly. "Finally, alright then, we are about to rain down upon our good Krytian friends. Make sure that the group that defeated the Adephagos don't get away on that Entelexeia they ride, if you do let them escape, you may be demoted…or worse." Rugulf sneered menacingly. "Do I make myself clear my little vermin soldier?"
The soldier gulped nervously. "Y-y-yes s-s-ir, I will do a-a-as you a-s-k-k." The soldier ran down the steps leading to the lower levels of New Heracles.
"Little whelp." Rugulf laughed to himself. Then a woman walked up next to him. She was wearing an outfit of purple and had blue hair, orange skin, and yellow irises with black surrounding them instead of white, Rugulf had the same orange skin and yellow eyes, but he had green hair. "Meavallia, nice for you to stop by, I thought the machine you were the captain of was still away from this area." Rugulf greeted the women.
Meavallia laughed as she said, "Rugulf, you let the lesser race escape, you've lost your touch. I came here because I had time on my hands to spare. I also came to scold you about how you lost the targets who found our gem."
Rugulf in turn laughed, "Wicked as always, but that's what I like about you."
Meavallia's face turned serious. "This isn't a funny matter. My Curithalion needs that jewel for its power source. Right now we are using water as a power source to move the massive machine. Soon thought I will need to ask for a temporary replacement gem, and those only last a week. Since you lost my gem, you need to reclaim it from that pesky group of arrogant idiots. Do I make myself clear?" Meavallia glared at Rugulf as she said so.
Rugulf nodded and smiled. "And bitchy as well, that I don't like as much. Fine, fine, I was planning on getting the gem with all the strength my ship has." Rugulf exasperatedly said.
"You better put a lot of effort in getting that gem back Rugulf, I'm your superior in ranks so you better do as I say." Meavallia stated coldly.
Rugulf stopped smiling when he was reminded he was her inferior in rank. "Alright, I'll make this the top of my priorities. Now if you don't mind getting back on your machine and going away I have work to do."
"I will come later for my gem, and if you fail, there will be consequences." Meavallia stated coldly as she stormed away.
"Even more reason to press on. Engineer, come here!" Rugulf ordered as an oil stained engineer ran up next to him. "Hurry the ship up; we need to get moving, and faster."
"Yes sir." The engineer said obediently as he ran down into the Curithalion.
"Alright heroes of this world, I'm coming." Rugulf muttered to himself.
The next morning Raven woke up with a rough shaking by Judith who was looming over him for him to wake up. When Raven finally sat up Judith said, "Hurry up, we need to go to the house that has the history of the world on it, Tivar and the elder think they've found out something."
"Alright, alright Judy baby. I'm goin', I'm goin'." Raven complained as he stood up out of bed and rushed outside where the rest of the group was waiting for him.
When Judith walked out of the inn Flynn said, "Let's hurry up and go, we don't want to keep them waiting now do we?"
"I wouldn't mind sleepin' in if ya know what I mean." Raven complained again.
"Come on Raven, this is important; sleep comes later." Estelle stated.
"Anyway, let's get going." Flynn said as the group followed him to where the elder and Tivar were waiting for them.
When the group entered the room where Tivar and the elder were they were surprised to see the wall have new engravings of history.
"This history goes even further back than the history of the Adephagos." The elder explained.
"About two thousand years before that time in fact." Tivar added quickly. "These are pictures of the true ancients of this world. At the begging of the pictures is just unimportant to us right now, but later on they discover something, something like your gem. Though here it is depicted as red, it still is shown with a glow around it."
"The ancients soon found out this gem was dangerous. Invaders that they had never seen before came and forcefully tried to take the gem away." The elder explained.
"Did the ancients get to keep the gem at all, or did they lose it to the invaders?" Judith asked.
"They did eventually lose it when the invaders brought in technology far beyond the time period." The elder answered.
"Ahead of the time, how is that possible?" Estelle asked.
Tivar shook his head. "I don't know. They came on steam powered vessels and had guns to use. The ancients didn't even stand a chance, especially since the invaders were clearly able to create and fight well in war while the ancients were used to peace." He answered.
"Future gems will be found similar to this one, but none as memorable. They were spread throughout the continents, and no new invaders will come looking for them. What I want you guys to know is this picture here." The elder explained as he pointed to a picture of a gateway that showed outer space inside.
"A space rift, a gateway to space?" Judith asked.
"That we don't know." Tivar answered.
"What we do know is it has something to do with the gem, since it was found near the gem. I wonder if the gateway is involved in how it got here." The elder though out loud.
Estelle looked confused then asked, "Is there anything you know more about the actual gem besides the history of it?"
The elder nodded. "It is clear by the energy and power this gem radiates is to powerful for any stone we can find of the size. It would most likely be used as a power source. They might be gem-stones shot with powerful magic to radiate such a powerful energy, but we are unsure of to that. The gem might be something else, maybe man made like the blastia, though a blastia of this size wouldn't have been as powerful."
"Ioder mentioned the gem maybe being used as a power source." Flynn noted.
"So young emperor boy learned somethin' 'bout the gem." Rave said.
"Now if you want to know more about the gem itself, then you might want to go to a place with the proper sort of research material. Try Aspio, a mage there will surely know something about the structural make up of the gem." Tivar instructed.
"That will give us a chance to see Rita!" Estelle blurted out with joy.
Flynn smiled. "Yeah, we should hurry to Aspio! I mean…for the gem."
"Well, we should go get ready to leave; we'll need to leave soon if we're goin' to Aspio today." Raven said as the group followed him out the building.
"That gem…" The elder muttered to himself.
"Yeah, I know what you mean. I could tell Judith felt it in the presence of the gem as well." Tivar said, somehow knowing what the elder meant when he muttered.
"Only a Krytian can feel it, it seems." The elder noticed.
"Yes, we can't let that gem get into the wrong hands, I hope Judith and her unknowing friends can keep it from…them." Tivar hoped.
"What happened to the ancients in the past by the people who had the gem…cannot happen to the people of the world again." The elder stated.
"So how come you don't tell them the whole history of the gem?" Tivar asked. "That stuff in the beginning of the history that I told them was not needed was definitely important."
"They need to find that out themselves, or they would feel it was too much of a burden without the members needed for their party." The elder responded.
"You told me to send them to Aspio so they could find Rita, correct?" Tivar asked.
"Yes." The elder answered bluntly.
Suddenly a large shaking swept through the city. Tivar looked surprised then looked at the elder who nodded. Tivar ran into the room next to where they were.
Meanwhile Estelle, Judith, Raven, and Flynn saw mass amounts of men invading the city, shooting spells and swing weapons. They looked differed then the ones who had attacked the group before, they were wearing polished black armor of a metal never seen before. Their spears were a polished black special metal as well. They could also see Rugulf, with a blue overcoat, black pants, blue leather, shining, knee high boots, and a light blue undershirt. He swung a massive (as in long and wide,) red sword with a golden hilt detailed with blue and red jewels and dragon headed bottom and cross-piece. The blade glowed a reddish color and the edge of it was bright silver color. Each time he hit a Krytian soldier the Krytian was hit with a red, glowing explosion that sent them back and killed them.
Judith drew her spear as everyone else drew their weapons and yelled, "Come on, we have to help the soldiers!" Judith ran and swung at one of the oncoming attackers, he blocked it with more skill then the leather armored ones that attacked them earlier on Ba'ul.
Raven shot multiple arrows until one of the enemy fighters fell down; dead. He continued firing, averaging five to seven arrows for one soldier to bring them down. Estelle was melee fighting with one of the soldiers, blocking with her shield and hitting the soldier in random places. The soldier knocked Estelle over with the butt of his spear and prepared to stab her with the tip of his spear. Estelle shrieked, but Flynn cut the soldiers spear away, butted him with his shield, and cut down the soldier with three sword swings. Estelle stood up and cut down a soldier that was about to hit Flynn.
"Thanks." Flynn said as he ran off towards more attackers, Estelle doing the same.
Judith back flipped, landed on a soldier, stabbed him with her spear, and front flipped onto another soldier and stabbed him as well. Both soldiers fell down dead. She ran up and went spear to spear with another soldier, eventually swing down words and causing the man to trip, then stabbing him in the stomach.
Flynn cut down two more soldiers and Estelle cut down another, then all four of the group met in the middle of the battle. They were all panting, but still fought on. To their dismay they heard someone yell "fireball!" and sure enough they turned to see Rugulf shooting the spell at them, causing all four of them to get blasted in different directions. Flynn ran to swing at Rugulf but Rugulf ducked, came up and spun Flynn over his back and threw him hard against the nearby wall. Estelle ran forward but was blasted back again when Rugulf's sword hit her shield. Now it was just Judith and Raven. Rugulf ran and swung his sword downward at Judith, and before Judith could act, Raven jumped in the way of the blow and was hit down to the ground and blasted away; he had saved her from the blow.
Judith tried to kick Rugulf with both of her feet, but he just tripped her. When she was about to get slaughtered she heard someone yell, "Explosion!" From the entrance to the Elder's house she saw Tivar holding his staff forward, a staff of gold and with a fancy top with a massive ruby in it, and Judith say it glowing orange. Judith leaped to the side in time as Rugulf got hit with the explosion spell. This gave time for the four group members to run to Tivar.
"I've got him down and I can try to keep him down with my magic, so go." Tivar ordered.
"How 'bout ya come with us to Aspio?" Raven asked.
"Yeah." Estelle added.
"You can hold him off as you come with us to Ba'ul." Flynn stated.
Tivar nodded as the five of them got onto the ship that Ba'ul was carrying and flew away. Rugulf looked up with disgust.
"Sir, should we give chase?" A soldier asked.
Rugulf shook his head. "Let them go, Meavallia will only make me go and chase after them in a couple of days, give them this escape. We have no need to attack this city anymore, since I killed their elder, I see no need to destroy this city that is in disarray."
Meanwhile on Ba'ul Estelle muttered, "I don't like the idea of leaving the city, especially with the elder dead, and I only healed three people."
"Don't worry, they'll follow us wherever we go, and they have no need to further hurt the city, this is the best thing to do." Flynn said.
"Yeah, so lighten up Miss Estellese." Raven added in.
"I feel sorry for leaving my people as well, but with the elder dead, they know they don't need to hurt the city anymore." Judith stated.
"Yeah, I guess you are right." Estelle agreed.
Tivar looked down at the floor. "What I'm worried about is what will happen to Aspio if we go there? Will a similar thing happen there as well?" Tivar asked the sad question, but no one felt the need to answer.
Alright, sorry for the late update, I just couldn't get on the computer since evryone else in my family was always using it!
OK, here's the places I originally made up the new characters in this fan fic:
Rugulf: A companion I created on the RPG Balder's Gate II
Meavallia: Another companion I made on the video game Balder's Gate II
Tivar: Protagonist I created in the RPG Oblivion
