Lost in the Sands: A Dragon's Legend
By: Anime Redneck
3-15-03
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Warnings: Slight AU... silliness in later chapters... maybe a little magic too...
Hmm for now that's all I can think of there might be...
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~oOo~ ^v^ ~oOo~ Prologue ~oOo~ ^v^ ~oOo~
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Once long ago when sands rode the winds and the land was greener, there once stood a massive culture based on Beliefs, Honor and Duty. A people whose lives revolved around whispering myths and legends of things no one could identify yet were weary to go against the words scribbled on stone tablets and walls of things long forgotten by whom they were built.
This long ago culture, a kingdom or sorts, had withstood all time. Lived long and proud, striving to keep it's way of life going... and yet they were a sad sort of people, watching as those around them fell to the hands of Time and Nature. The others had never been able to reach that stable ground that this kingdom had, and that knowledge pulled, tugging at the people's hearts. For nothing they could do was ever enough to help their friendly neighboring countrymen.
It seemed, like only they were meant to survive.
This culture whose people were seemingly deemed destined to live alone while their surrounding friends cultures died away, were known as the Ryu Kokumin*, or Dragon Nation to those not of their tongue.
The people were kind and generous, strong and proud. All were well versed in the written words, even those of lowest standing managed to get a well taught schooling then those of their neighboring people of same standings. The Kings only son, Shi Wofa, made this accomplishment possible.
His father, King Shi Shinhui, took great pride in his only son, so much so that he gave part of the nations running to the boy for handling. Of what was offered Shi Wofa only asked for the peoples education and defense; he wanted to make sure that all of his charges knew how to read and write their language, along with protecting themselves and the Kokumin should the time ever arise.
Shi Wofa was seen by his people as a loving and caring leader, one all would be more the pleased to live under and watch out for. His concern was only for his Kokumin, his people. If they were safe and sound then he would worry of his own being and the rest of the world around him. He was a young leader, sharing his father's burdens but he was strong and wise; a true Godsend for those that knew him.
Sadly, as good things must go, the opposite must come...
It was soon after Shi Wofa's sixteenth year that Hell broke out for his peaceful Ryu Kokumin. War. For nearly two hundred years his kingdom had lived in peace and prosperity, had helped and housed those from the neighboring kingdoms fallen... Now that remaining kingdoms that held on with only hops glittering light, had cracked. Declared War on the Ryu Kokumin.
King Shi Shinhui's talks of peace between the warring lands were for not. They would not listen, could not understand why his lands prospered and theirs fallen to Times degenerate hands.
For all that was in times long gone where war was a current, common thing among most contents and where kind and caring people were few in-between trying to survive it all. The Ryu Kokumin was a haven for war-strung survivors to live. The kind caring rulers of the people gave way to ones false belief, that should a war break out that kingdom would fall as swift as wheat stalks to the farmers sickle.
However like the lioness sleek graceful strides that hide the animal's deadly razor teeth and claws... Those that dared to think that Ryu Kokumin was a peaceful place easily to take down would soon find their own forces cut to half in under a moon's half night. Thanks to Prince Shi Wofa's advanced thinking of schooling ever charge in his lands, with teaching them fighting skills along with their army, their kingdom was well protected for any attacks.
It was during one of these fights that tragedy struck close to home. Prince Shi Wofa himself led front line of the Ryu Kokumin army into battle (much to his fathers disapproval, yet even he could not stand against his son's honor of not letting his people fight alone, he would fight with them), his personal bodyguards stationed close to him. As the fights heated up, people swarmed screaming their charge, sometime during the long hours fighting a single person slipped through the lines.
That single person would be the downfall of reigning peace.
The fleeting eye of dark cloth among white and blue were only what some saw before it was gone again. That last time that near black form was spotted and not lost, was after he plunged a foot long dagger into the Ryu peoples beloved Prince... killing him almost instantly. Shi Wofa's twelve guards were on that sorry mans bloody body in less then a second, the last three hovering over the Prince's body checking him over, but... as his blood spilled from his body over those of his closest guard, so did his spirit leave the cooling shell it housed for the last sixteen summers.
His people wept for him. His men screamed with tearful eyes as they blindly charged back into battle hacking down those in their way. His father, King Shi Shinhui silently cried out in his chambers as a piercing pain stabbed at his chest forcing his knees to buckle sending him to the ground. "Wofa..." he had moaned, taking a short time to grieve for his lost son, their connection now severed. Rising to his feet with drying eyes King Shi Shinhui grabbed his sword fastening it to his waist before exiting his room to command the armies way.
For a time the war reigned on, never ending. Then when things looked badly, like they would loose the fight, or even better that they were win it. The opposing side would withdraw, ceasing the battle. Time would pass; days, weeks, months... and the war would strike up once more. The land forever was in battle...
It was within these times that a rumor started churning in the mills. A whisper that the wars could be stopped forever... a rumor that none knew the price for... But a bright spot shone within these whispering words. A bright beacon for the faint of heart after their beloved Prince was killed in the line of duty... that shinning light for those who believed the myths of a persons soul returning to finish deeds undone... was none other then Prince Shi Wofa himself.
And the rumor, which was whispered all those years ago kept whispering among the surviving Ryu people for generations to come, many decades later they were still whispered...
The words of this rumor turned legend, read from the crumpled age old text scroll were translated some years later saying...
_~_~_~_
When Dragon's call rhymes,
In Death's own time,
When the Stars Light shown so bright,
In darkness torn from Wars only light,
When two more come assuring the sum,
Is when Wars only light will start to fight,
There is but one who is the Key,
Who must stop what once was,
Or forever shall it be...
~_~_~_~
The short passage has become known only today as "The Dragon Legend". A legend that's true meaning has been lost for centuries in the sands of Lower Egypt, whose ties (strangely enough) link back to lands in Northern China.
Though none still live that clearly remember what this "Dragon Legend" truly means, there are those that know its words well having been passed down through the generations.
And there are those still... that know, It's Time, is nearing completion...
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* Ryu Kokumin - translates into 'Dragon Nation/People'
Prince Shi Wofa - water, irrigate; fertile, rich - issue, dispatch; get rich
King Shi Shinhui - deep-favor/benefit/confer kindness
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Okies, that's it for the Prologue of "Lost in the Sands: A Dragons Legend". I hope you all liked it! Please review and let me know whatcha think on it! I'm gonna try to make this one as good as if not better then the others. should be quite a challenge!
::chuckles:: I know it will 'cause originally this story idea was thought up as a SM/GW cross over story... but... ::tips 'er head back and forth:: as I got to thinkin' 'bout it and readin'/writin' more of my GW stories, I kinda figured a way I could fit it to a straight GW one... heh not to mention I'm tryin' to finish up the few SM/GW stories I have going so I can put more thought into the GW ones... which I have a nice massive stack of! lol ^_^
OKies, I do appologize now... ::chuckles smilin' at the confused looks:: I appologize now for any long gaps between updating ANY of my stories. ::bows:: I'm truely sorry if there's an extreamly long wait between chapters. I wish I was better at turning chapters out faster, but I have a nasty tendency to get a chapter out, work on another (for same or different story) and then get stuck on where to take it. And having twenty current stories to work on... Well you get what I'm sayin'... So while some stories may come eaiser then others... I'm still sorry if there's some long gaps between... I don't like gettin' into a really good story then waiting on them for a few months before updating, so I try not to do that to my readers... but ah ::slight shrug:: Sometimes it happens _
So that out of the way! ::chuckles grinnin':: Did the prologue catch y'alls attention any? ^_^ I really hope this comes out close to how I originally planned it with a few twists. Still have some of the original plans to iron out, but I'll get on it! heh Y'all take care and have a great weekend!!
Keep it kickin' guys!
~ Anime Redneck
By: Anime Redneck
3-15-03
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Warnings: Slight AU... silliness in later chapters... maybe a little magic too...
Hmm for now that's all I can think of there might be...
.
~oOo~ ^v^ ~oOo~ Prologue ~oOo~ ^v^ ~oOo~
.
Once long ago when sands rode the winds and the land was greener, there once stood a massive culture based on Beliefs, Honor and Duty. A people whose lives revolved around whispering myths and legends of things no one could identify yet were weary to go against the words scribbled on stone tablets and walls of things long forgotten by whom they were built.
This long ago culture, a kingdom or sorts, had withstood all time. Lived long and proud, striving to keep it's way of life going... and yet they were a sad sort of people, watching as those around them fell to the hands of Time and Nature. The others had never been able to reach that stable ground that this kingdom had, and that knowledge pulled, tugging at the people's hearts. For nothing they could do was ever enough to help their friendly neighboring countrymen.
It seemed, like only they were meant to survive.
This culture whose people were seemingly deemed destined to live alone while their surrounding friends cultures died away, were known as the Ryu Kokumin*, or Dragon Nation to those not of their tongue.
The people were kind and generous, strong and proud. All were well versed in the written words, even those of lowest standing managed to get a well taught schooling then those of their neighboring people of same standings. The Kings only son, Shi Wofa, made this accomplishment possible.
His father, King Shi Shinhui, took great pride in his only son, so much so that he gave part of the nations running to the boy for handling. Of what was offered Shi Wofa only asked for the peoples education and defense; he wanted to make sure that all of his charges knew how to read and write their language, along with protecting themselves and the Kokumin should the time ever arise.
Shi Wofa was seen by his people as a loving and caring leader, one all would be more the pleased to live under and watch out for. His concern was only for his Kokumin, his people. If they were safe and sound then he would worry of his own being and the rest of the world around him. He was a young leader, sharing his father's burdens but he was strong and wise; a true Godsend for those that knew him.
Sadly, as good things must go, the opposite must come...
It was soon after Shi Wofa's sixteenth year that Hell broke out for his peaceful Ryu Kokumin. War. For nearly two hundred years his kingdom had lived in peace and prosperity, had helped and housed those from the neighboring kingdoms fallen... Now that remaining kingdoms that held on with only hops glittering light, had cracked. Declared War on the Ryu Kokumin.
King Shi Shinhui's talks of peace between the warring lands were for not. They would not listen, could not understand why his lands prospered and theirs fallen to Times degenerate hands.
For all that was in times long gone where war was a current, common thing among most contents and where kind and caring people were few in-between trying to survive it all. The Ryu Kokumin was a haven for war-strung survivors to live. The kind caring rulers of the people gave way to ones false belief, that should a war break out that kingdom would fall as swift as wheat stalks to the farmers sickle.
However like the lioness sleek graceful strides that hide the animal's deadly razor teeth and claws... Those that dared to think that Ryu Kokumin was a peaceful place easily to take down would soon find their own forces cut to half in under a moon's half night. Thanks to Prince Shi Wofa's advanced thinking of schooling ever charge in his lands, with teaching them fighting skills along with their army, their kingdom was well protected for any attacks.
It was during one of these fights that tragedy struck close to home. Prince Shi Wofa himself led front line of the Ryu Kokumin army into battle (much to his fathers disapproval, yet even he could not stand against his son's honor of not letting his people fight alone, he would fight with them), his personal bodyguards stationed close to him. As the fights heated up, people swarmed screaming their charge, sometime during the long hours fighting a single person slipped through the lines.
That single person would be the downfall of reigning peace.
The fleeting eye of dark cloth among white and blue were only what some saw before it was gone again. That last time that near black form was spotted and not lost, was after he plunged a foot long dagger into the Ryu peoples beloved Prince... killing him almost instantly. Shi Wofa's twelve guards were on that sorry mans bloody body in less then a second, the last three hovering over the Prince's body checking him over, but... as his blood spilled from his body over those of his closest guard, so did his spirit leave the cooling shell it housed for the last sixteen summers.
His people wept for him. His men screamed with tearful eyes as they blindly charged back into battle hacking down those in their way. His father, King Shi Shinhui silently cried out in his chambers as a piercing pain stabbed at his chest forcing his knees to buckle sending him to the ground. "Wofa..." he had moaned, taking a short time to grieve for his lost son, their connection now severed. Rising to his feet with drying eyes King Shi Shinhui grabbed his sword fastening it to his waist before exiting his room to command the armies way.
For a time the war reigned on, never ending. Then when things looked badly, like they would loose the fight, or even better that they were win it. The opposing side would withdraw, ceasing the battle. Time would pass; days, weeks, months... and the war would strike up once more. The land forever was in battle...
It was within these times that a rumor started churning in the mills. A whisper that the wars could be stopped forever... a rumor that none knew the price for... But a bright spot shone within these whispering words. A bright beacon for the faint of heart after their beloved Prince was killed in the line of duty... that shinning light for those who believed the myths of a persons soul returning to finish deeds undone... was none other then Prince Shi Wofa himself.
And the rumor, which was whispered all those years ago kept whispering among the surviving Ryu people for generations to come, many decades later they were still whispered...
The words of this rumor turned legend, read from the crumpled age old text scroll were translated some years later saying...
_~_~_~_
When Dragon's call rhymes,
In Death's own time,
When the Stars Light shown so bright,
In darkness torn from Wars only light,
When two more come assuring the sum,
Is when Wars only light will start to fight,
There is but one who is the Key,
Who must stop what once was,
Or forever shall it be...
~_~_~_~
The short passage has become known only today as "The Dragon Legend". A legend that's true meaning has been lost for centuries in the sands of Lower Egypt, whose ties (strangely enough) link back to lands in Northern China.
Though none still live that clearly remember what this "Dragon Legend" truly means, there are those that know its words well having been passed down through the generations.
And there are those still... that know, It's Time, is nearing completion...
.
_/*\_/*\_/*\_/*\_/*\_/*\_/*\_/*\_/*\_/*\_/*\_/*\_
.
* Ryu Kokumin - translates into 'Dragon Nation/People'
Prince Shi Wofa - water, irrigate; fertile, rich - issue, dispatch; get rich
King Shi Shinhui - deep-favor/benefit/confer kindness
.
Okies, that's it for the Prologue of "Lost in the Sands: A Dragons Legend". I hope you all liked it! Please review and let me know whatcha think on it! I'm gonna try to make this one as good as if not better then the others. should be quite a challenge!
::chuckles:: I know it will 'cause originally this story idea was thought up as a SM/GW cross over story... but... ::tips 'er head back and forth:: as I got to thinkin' 'bout it and readin'/writin' more of my GW stories, I kinda figured a way I could fit it to a straight GW one... heh not to mention I'm tryin' to finish up the few SM/GW stories I have going so I can put more thought into the GW ones... which I have a nice massive stack of! lol ^_^
OKies, I do appologize now... ::chuckles smilin' at the confused looks:: I appologize now for any long gaps between updating ANY of my stories. ::bows:: I'm truely sorry if there's an extreamly long wait between chapters. I wish I was better at turning chapters out faster, but I have a nasty tendency to get a chapter out, work on another (for same or different story) and then get stuck on where to take it. And having twenty current stories to work on... Well you get what I'm sayin'... So while some stories may come eaiser then others... I'm still sorry if there's some long gaps between... I don't like gettin' into a really good story then waiting on them for a few months before updating, so I try not to do that to my readers... but ah ::slight shrug:: Sometimes it happens _
So that out of the way! ::chuckles grinnin':: Did the prologue catch y'alls attention any? ^_^ I really hope this comes out close to how I originally planned it with a few twists. Still have some of the original plans to iron out, but I'll get on it! heh Y'all take care and have a great weekend!!
Keep it kickin' guys!
~ Anime Redneck