Coreoth VII:
Revival of What?
A/N: Thanks to the reviews people. I suppose I should explain somethings. Dante and Zhalia were together before the stroy takes place, and they sort of had a relationhip that involved them trying to beat each other at things. I'm sorry to say this but I'm just not a huge DxZ writer, it's just not as easy for me. Then there are the tribes. I suppose I should explain somethings about them too.
Selphie: A mostly Southern tribe characterized by their usually red hair and green eyes. They are rebellious against the Lilith and don't obey them. Most of thier tribe members are mecenaries or thieves and follow the orders of Valshe, thier leader. They have no cities but instead mostly live on the giant ship, the Queen Thieve which has been beached for almost a decade in the Scarlett Cove.
Lilith: A tribe that is mostly from the center of Coreoth they are a mostly a non-magical tribe so they want to make sure the other tribes don't have magic. They are a mostly military tribe. And have blond hair that comes up in a tuft, like a flower blossom. They also sometimes have green hair. They are usually very short.
Clavas: This tribe is from almost everywhere in Coreoth, but mostly the west and northern parts. They love the earth and nature and know more about it than any other tribe. They want to keep the peace so as to protect the world around them. They are also a somewhat nomadic tribe. They are usually blond haired and blue eyed.
Nordic: This tribe is found only in the northern most part of Coreoth, the Snowfields and Citra. They are characterized by their usually black hair and pale skin. They are also rebellious and don't like Liliths. They move around a lot, trying to follow their flocks. They are used to the cold and so don't need much protection.
Caster: This usually brown haired tribe is one of the most magical of all. They live mostly in the South, and pratice their magic there, staying out of the Liliths way. They used to be one of the most powerful tribes.
Yukerie: This tribe vanished from the world after the War, where their Crytal was destroyed. It is known that they developed the ablity to transport their minds and souls into a body of armor, making them almost invurnealble in battle.
Dante's POV...
We were hanging around in my house, bored. It had been a couple of days since our discovery about Lok and we were bored out of our minds, waiting for a mission.
Just as I thought I was about to destroy something just to have something exciting happen, Guggenheim decided to save us. (A/N: Dante's house looks like how it did in Huntik.) His face appeared on the screen.
"Hullo, hullo. How are you doing guys?" He asked.
"Let's just say, we've been better." I said.
"Bored huh? Well be bored no more. We've got a mission for you. We've discovered an entrance to some ruins. We want your team to investigate. You'll meet Peter there as he's been studying the ruins carefully. You should take the train there."
"Guggenheim we accept." I picked up the little mission card that appeared and slipped it into my pocket.
"Finally a mission!" Lok yelled.
On the Train...
We've been traveling for about an hour and would reach our destination shortly.
I was wondering where Cherit was. I hadn't seen him in a while.
That's about when he poped out of Lok's pack.
"Hm? Where are we?" Cherit asked, looking very sleepy.
"On a train to some ruins Cheirt." I explained.
"O.K. Looks like Zhalia's part of your team now huh Dante." He settled on Lok's shoulder.
"Where have you been Cherit?" Lok asked.
"Your pack. Very comfy."
"You've been sleeping for five days? Lazy Titan!" Lok began to tell him what had happened while he had been asleep.
The train lurched suddenly. "What the heck?" I said.
"Attention passengers, we have a problem. Our Crystal Reactor is rapidly losing it's shards." The conductor said.
"On to the roof. Now. I want to see what's going on." I ordered. We climbed up and saw green lights flying out of the reactor. And they were flying towards a cloaked figure also on the train. It was holding something in their hand and the lights were going into it.
"Who are you?" Zhalia asked.
"No time to ask, time to act!" Lok yelled. He leapt towards the figure. His fist glowed blue. The figure looked up.
"I have no time for games." All of a sudden Lok was thrown back, and off of the train.
"Lok!" Sophie yelled. I turned towards the figure to find it gone.
The train was coming to a stop but it was still going pretty fast, as we were on the top of a hill.
"A little help would be nice you know!"
All four us, including Cherit, turned around and yelled out, "Lok!" We ran over to the side and looked down. Lok was barely hanging on to edge. In fact he wasn't, a blue line of energy had connected him to the edge of the train and he was sort of flying, just barely dodging trees and rocks.
"Grab my hand Lok!" Zhalia said, reaching out. She couldn't reach him, as he was about six feet out from the train and his feet were almost touching the ground. "Grab my heels Dante!" I did and leaned out super far. She managed to grab Lok's hand and I pulled them in.
We sat breathing for a couple of seconds. "Thanks guys. Looks like I still need some practice with bringing myself in." Lok said. The train then stopped completely.
We hopped off from the train and started walking in the direction that my Holotome said to go.
We soon reached a cliff, after a half-hour of walking. "Entrance is right up there." I said, pointing to the top of the cliff. Most of us climbed while Lok used his powers to scale up to the top, not having to do any work.
"Show off." I heard Sophie breath. When we reached the top we saw Tersly.
"Hey guys. What happened?" He asked.
"The Crystal Reactor's shards were stolen." I explained. Peter seemed a bit surprised by this but didn't say anything.
We followed him down a tunnel. There were weird circle designs in the ground, circles being connected to each other. As we walked they glowed blue, lighting up the tunnel. Then we emerged into the ruins.
They were amazing. It was a city and it looked like it was floating above the chasm. In reality the edges of the city were wedged between the two walls. It was made completely out of a dark stone. We were in some sort of courtyard, and there were six statues. The courtyard was more like a long bridge.
Zhalia, Sophie, and Peter were near some stairs at the end of the courtyard.
"Dante look at this." Lok was kneeling down, looking at something. It was a circle engraved onto the floor, with words in it. Lok touched it and it glowed with a blue light. The words became clear. It was ancient Coreth.
"A Creation Myth." I breathed.
Lok began to read it. "In the beginning there was only the Six Crystals. They created the world, and afterwards made the Principle, the guardian of the worlds. They then made humanity after themselves, and so the six tribes were born. Lilith, Clavas, Selphie, Nordic, Caster and we..." As Lok read off each tribe and light came from the circle and lit up a statue. For Lilith it showed a Lilith in ancient armor, Clavas was a farmer, Selphie was a person in a cloak with a dagger, Nordic was a man dressed in fur with an axe, Caster was a person in robes with a staff and several amulets around his neck. "Dante, what does this word say?" Lok said, pointing to the last word.
I inhaled sharply. "...and we Yukerie." I finished. The light lit up the Yukerie statue, showing a Yukerie in a cloak with the armor on. We walked over and examined the statues.
"Hey what's that?" Lok said, while reaching for something. It was a crystal embedded in the Lilith statue.
"Lok no!" My warning was too late as Lok's fingers brushed the crystal. The whole bridge started rumbling. "Back!" Me and Lok flipped back behind the myth.
The floor just started vanishing starting in the middle and spreading outwards. "Zhalia!" She was about to fall. "Hyperstride!" I leaped over. She plummetted and I managed to catch her hand. I grabbed onto a floating cube and pulled us up.
"You okay?" I asked.
"You know I didn't need your help right? I could've done it on my own. But thanks." She whispered the last part.
"Peter!" Lok shouted. Sophie had jumped onto a floating box as well but Peter wasn't so well off. The floor beneath his feet disappeared. All of a sudden he was covered in a blue light and was floating. A blue line connected him to Lok's hand, which was covered in a blue light. "Grab onto something, hurry!" Lok said through gritted teeth. Sophie reached down and pulled him up. Lok fell to his knees, breathing hard. "Note to self: Power affected by distance. Have to work on that."
"How are you going to get across Lok?" I asked. He smiled.
"Like this!" The statues were floating above and Lok leaped. He swung his way across with his power and landed easily with a flip on the other sside. "Tada!"
"Show off." Sophie grumbled again.
"Wait, what's that?" Cherit said. He flew over to a block and picked something up. It was a green crystal. "A Crystal Idol? But how?" Cherit exclaimed.
"What's a Cyrstal Idol?" Lok asked.
"I'm not exactly sure but it's something that Casterwill made. He made five of them." Cherit explained. I checked my Holotome but nothing about Crystal Idols appeared.
"Let me check." Sophie pulled out a blue Holotome, a Cypherdex. "Crystal Idols seem to have indeed been made by Casterwill. They're supposed to be royal treasures. They have the ability to absorb Crystal shards."
"So did whoever attack the train have one?" Lok asked.
"Sounds reasonable Lok." Zhalia said.
"I'll hold onto that Cherit." I said. Cherit gave me the Idol and I put it into my pocket.
"That was some trap." Zhalia said. "This place probably has some amazing treasure."
"Or the ruins are unstable." Sophie said.
"No way. Unstable ruins don't do stuff like that." Lok said.
Meanwhile Peter was looking around. "These ruins are amazing. But what tribe are they? Not Lilith, Lilith would be mostly steel and brick, and would be military minded." He said.
"It's not Clavas. Too far south. Besides, we're a nomadic tribe, don't really have cities. Our main settlements, cities and villages that stay in one place, are AutumnLeaf and Emerldas and it's cities and towns. And besides this place is underground, the Clavas want to be near water and plants and such. It's our way of life. Also this place is too ornate." Lok said, looking around.
"For sure not Selphie. Sephie's don't really have cities, we live mostly on the Queen Thieve which has our city, Thievas. We're shipbuilders, and also train engineers. We can make cities on ships, but mostly live in other tribes' cities." Dante said.
"Not Caster, the city isn't ornate enough and isn't made out of marble as most Caster cities of the time were. I'm guessing this city is at least older than the War, so about a couple of hundred years old." Sophie said.
"Most definetly not Nordic. Too far south, and we don't make ornate cities like this." Zhalia said.
"So if it's not any of the five tribes could it be Yukerie?" Cherit asked.
"I think it is. From reading that myth, I know for sure now. It said, 'and we Yukerie'. This is definetly Yukerie." I said.
We continued on. It was only a little bit later when a new trap happened. A giant snake monster made out of stone burst out of the ground. It had two arms and legs.
"Wow." Lok said.
It opened it's mouth really wide and green energy gathered in it. It then released it all in a turquoise colored beam of energy. We dodged it but the shockwave threw us back.
"Time to get serious Seekers! Lend us your might, Metagolem!" I yelled.
"Unleash your astral might, Jirwolf!" Lok summoned out his Titan.
"Fight for your lady, Kilthane!" Zhalia called.
"Air support, Icarus!" Sophie yelled.
We began to fight but the serphent was pretty powerful. It flicked out it's long stone tongue and smashed the ground next to Peter.
"We need to defend Peter." I called out.
"I've got it covered! Defend, Freelancer!" Lok replied. His Titan appeared. "Defend Peter!"
We continued our fight. We ordered our Titans to attack him.
Metagolem grabbed the serphent and held him still.
"Jirwolf, Astral Blast!" Lok ordered.
"Icarus, Blinding Bolt!" Sophie commanded her Titan.
"Kilthane, attack!" Zhalia told her Titan.
"Storm Ray!" I yelled, sending a bolt of purple lightning towards it.
"Touchram!" Lok yelled.
"Doublespell, Augerfrost!" Zhalia exclaimed.
"Breakspell!" Sophie yelled.
The blasts hit the serphent and it exploded sending us flying back. After that we continued. Lok kept Freelancer out, just in case we ran into some more trouble.
"Hey look at that!" Lok said, pointing to a cube in a small room. He ran to get it.
"Lok don't!" I yelled. As soon as Lok touched it bars sealed off the only exit and spikes sprang up from the walls, which began to close in. Lok panicked and began to solve the puzzle, for he probably thought that if he did he wouldn't be killed.
I couldn't see Lok, as the spikes were too close. Then they went back as Lok stood there with the cube and an amulet.
"His name's Springer." Lok said, smiling from relief. We continued and caught up to the girls and Peter who hadn't stopped. Lok was walking ahead when I noticed something.
"Lok stop." I ordered. He did. I picked up a small stone and threw it in front of him. Jets of fire sprang up from the floors and walls, from one wall to the other and all the way to the ceiling. The stone was vaporized.
"Thanks." Lok said, his eyebrows singed. "Though I wish my eyebrows were still here."
"How do we get past?" Peter asked.
"I've got it! Take out the trap, Springer!" Lok called out his little two tailed squirrel Titan. Springer started to disable the flame jets. He still had one to go when it began to activate.
"SnowFreeze!" Zhalia called, sending a blast of blue snowflakes made out of energy towards the jet. It froze over.
"Sweet. I think I'll leave you out Springer, in case we meet some new traps." Lok said. We went on our way. We took out some new traps and then we reached a new chamber.
"Another Creation Myth." Lok said. Peter and the girls were looking around the chamber, staying close to us. We were on a little bridge, and at the end was a large circlular platform.
"The Cyrstals made more than just this world. they made six others, and then the Principle. the Principle was made to protect this world and to keep the worlds anchored in exsitence and to stop them from destroying each other. The Principle over time became known as Yggdrasil." Lok read off. "What does Yggdrasil mean Dante?"
"Well, it's Orth. Ygg means 'crystal' while drasil means 'tree'. It means Cyrstal Tree. But ygg has two meanings, the other is world." I explained.
"The World Tree? Isnt that in mythology and stuff?"
"Yep."
"Guys, look at this." Zhalia called. We turned and walked onto the platform. There we could see the single largest crystal shrad ever. It had five lines coming out of it, looking like a star.
"Whoa." Lok breathed.
"Indeed. This is part of the revival Lok." We whirled around to see a person in a cloak. The voice was feminine and so the person was female.
"You're the one who attacked the train aren't you? And Revival of what exactly?" I asked.
"Indeed Dante. And you do not need to know of what. It is none of your concern."
"How do you know my name?"
"I know all your names, Peter, Lok, Zhalia, and Sophie. How is not important."
"Who are you?"
The cloak fell to the ground and revealed a Yukerie. (A/N: To be more specific google Amidatelion, Crystal Bearers. The round head one is how she looks.) Her torso was a crystal and her head was round-ish with a sort of right-side up halo. She had tights that were purple and black striped. Her armor parts were bronze and her arms were chain mail. "My name isn't important." She pulled out a Crystal Idol from a pocket in her cape.
"A Crystal Idol." I said.
"Indeed. This is how I took your train's shards."
"You're going to pay for what you did to me!" Lok yelled, sending a rock flying towards her. A small portal opened and the rock flew into it then flew behind her.
"Storm Ray!" I yelled. Same thing happened. I sent another and she jumped up. Lok then sent two blasts of blue energy at her, except this time two portals opened up under her palms and she shot the energy downwards. A huge cloud of dust rose up.
"Lightbolt!" Sophie yelled, sending a blast of white power towards the Yukerie. This time the power was sent pack at Sophie. She flew back and was knocked unconcious.
"Doublespell, Iceshards, Augerfrost!" Zhalia yelled. Again, like Sophie, the powers were sent back and hit her, but unlike Sophie she got hit in the chest, and she flew back and hit her head.
Me and Lok were really angry now. We sent blasts of energy at her and the dodged them as they came back.
"You can't beat me." The Yukerie said.
"I beg to differ!" Lok yelled. He pulled his hands down sharply and a giant rock column smashed into her.
"How did you do that?" I asked. He shrugged.
"Nice try Lok." We looked up and saw her standing on top of the column. She held up the Crystal Idol and green lights flew out of it. They swirled around one of the lines and a huge column of shards appeared, looking like a funnel.
"Good bye." She disappeared and the floor started moving. I ran over and slipped Zhalia onto my back. Lok woke up Sophie and she joined me and so did Cherit. Before Lok and Tersly joined us we rose up on a block.
"Lend Tersly your wings, Kipperin!" Lok called as he and Tersly rose up on different blocks. Tersly joined us at the top. Lok jumped off and his feet were covered in blue light. He landed on the side of a wall and ran sideways. He jumped off and used his powers to swing towards us.
We examined the door. It was locked.
"No problem, I can open it." Lok said as he connected a blue line of power to the door. He pulled, but instead of the door opening Lok was sent flying into the door. He hit with his head and it opened. Lok rubbed his head and said something about concussions.
We continued till we reached another large stone door. Lok hit his head on this one too. But it didn't open. Instead Cherit touched a circle in the middle and it opened up. We were outside in the Left Aqueduct.
"Lok, call Guggenheim, tell him we need a ride." I tossed him my Holotome and he explained what happened. I listened in and Guggenheim said something about two planes having their shards being stolen and how that would explain the extra shards. Peter hooked up a mini camera that he had with him, and that had apparently been flying around taking video, to the Holotome. He sent the video to Guggenheim.
A Couple of Hours Later, Dante's house...
Lok and Sophie were downstairs, talking with Cheirt. Sophie had broken her ankle, which explained why she had to lean against either me or Peter to walk.
Meanwhile I was laying Zhalia down onto her bed. She woke up while I was sitting there.
"Hey Dante. Why are you here?" She asked.
"I'm here to make sure you don't do anything you shouldn't. People shouldn't do crazy things after they take hits like that." I said, looking at her.
"Fine my knight in-not-so-shining trenchcoat." She said, smiling.
"Gald you agree my very beautiful but no really in distress damsel." I said back smiling.