Author's Note: It's finally here! An update!! I can't believe it either! My excuses for why this has taken so long are at the bottom. For now, just enjoy another chapter and don't forget to review when you're all done.
Chapter 7 – Explanations (or Terra, Ra-Seru of Wind)
Stef and Hiro had just walked out of the overgrown forest surrounding the castle they had escaped from when they came to a tall mountain. On the very top they could just make out a plateau with a green glowing tree on it.
"Yes," said Meta, "I believe that Terra is up there. I remember this place."
After a tiring climb they finally reached the top of the mountain to bask in to the glow of another Genesis tree. The friends walked up to it and raised their right hands. The tree began to glow and a voice entered their heads.
"Welcome, I am Terra," said the voice, "I am the ra-seru of the wind. It is good to see you again Meta and Jedo. You two must be Hiro and Stef, it is good to finally meet you but I was expecting three of you."
"It is nice to meet you as well Terra, but yes, we are missing our friend Kumui. You see after we left our village we found this forest and …"
"Hush child," Terra said softly, "If you will allow me, I can read your mind and learn your story."
Stef felt a warm glow inside her and a few minutes later Terra interrupted the silence.
"Yes, I was hoping that you would be able to get to me before this happened but it seems that we are now going to have to deal with two problems."
"Is it what we fear?" asked Jedo.
"Yes," Terra replied, "I believe that Kamui has been assimilated by Rogue. Now we have him and Jakan to work against."
"Does this mean you know of what is going on?" asked Meta.
"A little," Terra answered, "After the Great Genesis Tree died off, all seru and ra-seru were supposed to die off. The weak seru did shortly after but the ra-seru had adapted and became strong enough to live without the power of the great tree. They used the power of Gaia and the spirit of life of all living things on its surface. They became assimilated into nature and became an import part of attributes of nature that they each contained. But unfortunately their survival had to be a secret for us ra-serus were afraid of being used for evil purposes again. To make sure that no one would be able to use the ra-serus for selfish desires, we sealed our powers away in the ra-seru temple. But the genesis trees have been re-energized and we have been awoken which means someone has broken the seal! I believe that it is Jakan. He has been studying the ra-serus and their powers but I do not know what he plans to accomplish. Even if he does collect all the ra-serus, I do not think what he is trying to do will succeed."
"Why not?" asked Hiro.
"Beside the fact that it would be very hard for him to find all the ra-serus and convert them to evil, the power of all the ra-serus would be too much for him to handle."
"We must find out what his plans are and stop him," said Stef, "and now you can join with one of us and fight along side us!"
"I'm sorry but I cannot."
"Why not?"
"Since you and Hiro both have a ra-seru I cannot join directly with you or it would upset the balance between the many forces of nature. Stef, you must find Jedo's counter part, Horn, the ra-seru of light. Hero, you must find Mule, the ra-seru of water to balance Meta's fire power.
"You are not powerful enough to take on Jakan but having the combined power of two balanced ra-serus will give you enough strength to win you battles. As for Kamui and Rogue, I have a plan but first we must find him. I may not be able to join with you but I can still help you."
A great flash came from the Genesis tree and when Stef and Hiro looked again there was some type of large green rock in front of the tree.
"Terra has transformed herself into a ra-sreu egg." Meta said.
"Yes," said Terra, "Now I may come with you until it is my time to be used. Now it is getting late, we should find a place to stay for the night. There's a small village a few miles from here."
"Okay!" exclaimed Hiro, "We'll rest up and be ready to go in the morning."
They all came down the mountain and followed Terra's directions until they came to what looked like it had once been a village. Buildings had been burned down, bodies lay dead in the road, and the whole place smelt of burnt flesh and death.
"What has happened?" asked Terra frantically.
"Looks like someone or something has destroyed this village" answered Hiro.
"But… how? Who? Why?" continued Terra.
"I don't know." Stef answered, "Let's look around and see if anyone is left."
They walked around the corner and came face to face with someone they hadn't seen for awhile.
"Razel!" exclaimed Stef, "Did you do this?"
Razel shook out her blue hair and replied, "What does it matter? I've found you and that's all that you should care about."
Next Chapter – Home Coming
So, that's how this story kind of ties in with the actual game. If we're really lucky, I'll even get another chapter up soon!!! Sorry this has taken incredibly so long to actually put up another chapter, almost a year. This year has been my first year at college and I got distracted easily.
Also, I've been working on 3 other stories. They are being posted up as well at the same time this one is. If you like my writing then I strongly advise you to check out my new stories I put up. Just click on my author name and I have the link to my Fiction Press account in the home page blank. There you can check out those other stories. Hope you enjoy them!! REVIEW PLEASE!!