NORUNE VILLAGE
Toan went back to his village and brought up the Atla. He saw his house…He immediately put it on the ground and entered his house. It was just like the night…Except no mom to care for him. He walked to his room, there was his bed, his extra poncho and turban…everything was there, he had his livestock but still no mom. A lot of people were still missing from Norune Village; Toan had become more and more alarmed that he couldn't find certain people, like Paige and his mother, Renee. He lied on his bed and rested for tomorrow, he had to find them all, and he wouldn't forgive himself if he couldn't.
DIVINE BEAST CAVE
Toan made his way to the 8th floor, it was smaller than he expected, the atmosphere was…Toan then noticed a man; he had shoulder length silver hair, a small black outfit being held together with a red jewel in the middle. He turned around with a smirk on his face. This man gave the Divine Beast Cave a much more evil atmosphere. The darkness radiating from the man was spreading throughout the cave like the plague.
"Well done on making it here. I had a good look at your ability. Or maybe it was that stone of your left hand?" Toan gave the man a hostile look, how dare him, Toan thought. This blue stone was nothing more than a simple object it helped him in no way…Or so he would like to believe. "No doubt, that is the legendary Atlamillia a treasure from the Gods that only the worthy can possess. Hard to believe you're worthy of it. But that is not the issue" Wan this guy trying to imply he wasn't worthy? "Would you be so kind to hand it over to me?"Toan rose his arm and looked at the blue stone…It was now holding his mother…there was no way he could give it up now. Toan nodded his head sideways. The man laughed a little and said "I see...So you intend to use that stone to restore the world. A noble goal…" The man's face dropped and grew grim. "But even if you restore the world. The destruction could repeat itself. Unless of course you defeat the Dark Genie." First a Fairy King was lecturing him now this stuck up pretty boy was telling him he couldn't do this task. Toan was getting fed up. "But such a task is beyond your abilities. It being powerful enough to destroy the planet in an instant…And you nearly dying due to dehydration." How did he know? Thought Toan. "I have come to this place or rather this time for that stone. I need that stone more than you do actually…There is a great deal you don't know about that stone yet." Toan was about to call him out on his selfishness but suddenly the man started grunting and clenching his chest "Ugh!" He crouched to the floor, Toan was frightened by his grunts so he tried helping him up the man rose up from the ground, purple mist filled the air into the man's mouth. At first the man in black looked tired but he rose his head to reveal his that his personality had clearly changed.
"Heh, heh, heh…Pardon me I do ramble sometimes," his eyes went blood red, he looked maniacal. "If you won't hand it over willingly, then I have no choice," he drew his sword. "Let's see what you can do as the one supposedly entitled to the stone!" The man jumped in the air with his drawn sword Toan had barely enough time to draw his own sword. Toan dodged the attack. The mystery man swiped his sword several times until Toan preformed a somersault around him. The man kept his sword fixated on Toan, following every move. Toan lunged at the silver haired man with his sword, but he clashed swords with the man who defended himself from Toan's strike.
With this opportunity the man kicked Toan's knee and Toan fell back, losing his weapon. Toan wearily got up now drawing his fists. "Hmm…you did quite well...How about this?" He charged a purple bolt of energy in his hand. Toan looked at his side trying to find his weapon, all he saw was the cat…The cat from before, and it was trembling from the power radiating from the man's hand. Toan looked back at the energy and with the shear hope that it would work he used his Atlamillia to defend himself from the energy. It shockingly worked Toan once again flew on his back, he couldn't keep the Atlamillia up, the bolt seemed to over power even his Atlamillia. Toan looked back up to see him approaching him. The dirt on the floor rivaled with his black boots, just the sound of the boots clacking on the floor made Toan on edge; this wasn't going to end well. Toan wiped away blood that had been drawn from his mouth when the man put his sword on Toan's knee.
"You amuse me boy! You can't handle an attack as weak as that?" Toan looked straight into the man's eyes and thought what the hell are you even talking about? Why are you attacking me?
He had so many questions for this guy, but he knew he would never get answers. There were never any more answers. "You cannot be worthy of the stone." Out of the corner of his eye the man noticed the cat behind Toan, shivering. He paused and let out a stereotypical evil laugh, who actually does that? "Its not that you couldn't dodge…you simply didn't dodge…deliberately. Fine then…That's it for today. I think I now see why the fairies chose you." There are more of them? "It will be amusing to see how well you do." This was crazy, for a second it looked like he was going to kill him, but he didn't…Toan was so confused. The man walked back where he started and told Toan "If you are even thinking of defeating the Dark Genie, you won't be able to do it now…You need to get stronger." Why was this guy giving Toan advice? He didn't know Toan stopped thinking logically two days ago. "Oh I almost forgot, here's a little gift for you, see you soon." He tossed Toan a bottle. He walked away and disappeared in a blinding purple mist… Toan turned around to the cat nearby making sure it was okay, it looked up to Toan with its big yellow eyes and meowed as if it was pleased and ran off, Toan was about to yell for it to come back, he held out his hand but the cat while running suddenly turned into a sphere of Atla. Toan just stared in awe. What the hell were those fairies doing in their world?
NORUNE VILLAGE
Toan's last journey in the cave wore him out, he had acquired quite a bit of Atla, including that mysterious cat. He sat down in nothingness looking at the Atla, he thought to himself how crazy the world was getting, and he never knew such things existed until a few hours ago, was this all a dream? But that thought would contradict with the fact that he had been harmed, he felt everything. He sighed and finished constructing Macho's house. So Toan decided why not pay them a visit? Toan walked meekly into Macho's house and suddenly the boisterous sound of Komacho's voice echoed in Toan's ears
"Wow! Toan you've done it!" Komacho raised his arms in glee and ran to Toan. "Because of you our house is back to normal! Here have this." Macho handed Toan a stone breaker, this would help Toan's swords quite nicely against those golems. Before Toan could thank Komacho, the clacking of Macho's footsteps sounded on the bare wooden floor, he raised his voice and yelled
"Hey that's mine!" Macho crouched into a fighting stance and his tone changed drastically "Hey bro! What do ya think you're doin'?" Komacho shrugged and said
"Like I always tell you…What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine. That's how things between little brothers and big brothers should be." Macho growled and said
"I can't take this anymore bro! We're going to settle this with a battle!"
"Oh really?" Komacho said with a smirk "Ready when you are!" Macho and Komacho walked calmly to the other room. The door slammed shut and all you could hear were the sounds of punches. Toan just stood there unsure if he should leave or stay. So going with his gut he ran out so as not to anger anybody. Toan went straight back to the Atla, he saw what appeared to be Paige's house, but there was no Paige Atla, only her father, Pike. He placed Paige's house near Macho's as well as Pike. Toan went back to ground level and greeted Pike. Pike, still getting use to his surroundings was surprised to see Toan.
"Toan? Where the hell am I?" Toan couldn't really answer since Pike answered it himself. "This is Norune Village? Looks a little different…Where's Paige?" Toan looked down and sighed. "Not here? But If I'm still alive she must be too right?" Toan looked back up and nodded "Find her for me Toan; I guess you're the only one who can." Toan also placed Claude's house. But it was during the PM so he assumed Claude would be fast asleep, even in this time of crisis. Toan had other things to worry about, like his mother…Toan eagerly placed his mother near his house and quickly met her once again. Toan saw his mother from afar, she was delirious with happiness. Toan ran to her, she gasped. Toan couldn't help but acting like the child he was, he bear hugged her, she fell over and said "Toan what do you think you're doing, you'll hurt your mother!" Toan just kept on hugging never letting go.
Finally there was the stray cat… What to do with it? Toan placed the stray cat in his room, he would think what to do with it later, and he had to get back to work on the Atla!
