Yet another new series from moi, I -really- hope this one will get finished. -.-; I've drawn ALL SORTS of things from ALL SORTS of books and such that I've read and general information I've gleaned out of RPGs, so this story should be interesting, if nothing else. *blinks* This assumes that Fuuma won, and the world -was- destroyed.. and this story starts about 2000 years later, when humans are once again born onto the Earth. Of course all the characters are going to be here, but things will be.. a little different. ^.~

Notes: None for the prologue, maybe a bit of violence...

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Children of the Earth - Book I - Prologue
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Two thousand years ago, the world ended in a vicious struggle between the forces of good and evil. Evil prevailed, and humanity was killed in a flash of light, ending everything. Great buildings crumbled to the ground, cities were destroyed, and humanity slowly dwindled and died. For another five hundred years, Mother Earth slowly healed. The grass and trees reclaimed what had been lost, and the cities were overrun with nature. Animals flourished, birds were everywhere, and flowers bloomed in houses that were deserted. The oceans were slowly purified, the atmosphere cleared, and the ground cleaned of all the filth that had been on it.

The Earth was happy.

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Humanity began its slow revival approximately fifteen hundred years after the apocolypse. The people slowly returned to some of the cities, trying to make them inhabitable, forcing the Earth to return what it had stolen from them. They had no memory of what had happened, and had no way of knowing what technology had existed. It was as if everything had come full circle, and was starting once more. People lived in harmony with nature as well as they could, knowing that nature could swat them down at any moment. As they grew in knowledge, they grew to respect and revere nature as they never had before.

It was almost as if an uneasy truce had been reached.

The people began to flourish as well as the Earth accepted them, and societies once again began to form. The powers of magic, healing, and various forms of 'jitsu were rediscovered in the recent generations, and they learned to use their powers to further their cause. However, the spirits of those who had been killed in the violent battle were vengeful. Onmiyouji, spiritualists, and various other wizards died every day trying to send them onward, and finally, it was decided that something must be done. At birth, each onmiyouji would have a mage pledged to him or her, dedicated to keeping him or her safe from the wrath of the spirits. The spirits, it was decided, must be placated, and in order to do that, the onmiyouji must be able to live.

With this tradition, magic began to grow stronger. Those who were born with the gift were charged with protecting those who did not have it, and those who were strong enough were charged with protecting onmiyouji.

Before long, this became an accepted and practiced way of living, and thus begins the story of the Second Chance..

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To Be Continued
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Well, what do you think? ^^; This idea has been in my head forever, and I think the prologue kinda sucks, but I needed to try to explain what exactly it is I'm doing before I dive in and leave you thinking, "wtf is going on?".

-- Cheyne
cheyne@everlastingstory.net
1:42 PM 7/5/2002