Arrival
The air was cool; my suit was making me feel cold due to the weakening seams, which were already in bad enough condition already, and on top of that, my anger soared as we neared vale. "What's this, a party?" I inquired of my fellow traveler. He responded "Yes, it is a celebration of the return of alchemy. The people are overjoyed, although their town was completely wiped out, they are glad to be safe." "Well, its time to crash it and I know just the way to do it." I anticipatively said to James. "This gathering of adepts is sure to contain the eight we seek. Maybe I will start with a bang. Planet div-""wait!" James not-so-quietly advised; screwing up my concentration on the spell I was casting. "Not yet, wait until the others arrive or we find them. We may be powerful, but there are hundreds of adepts at this festival. A folly like what you were about to pull would have done us both in." Realizing my mistake, I said "well, I guess I got to keep my anger under control." "You had better, and there should be no trouble if you do." James yelled back at me. Putting my hand on the hilt of my mars blade's hilt, I couldn't hardly help myself from releasing my building rage on my ally, since he was the only person in range who was holding me back from attacking others. "The checkpoint is over beyond that mountain." James informed me. "But before that we need to find some place to stay, that is, if we don't destroy it in the attack. Now for some food..."
The plan was for us to get some food after such a long time asleep, and I for one couldn't agree more. (It has been 10,000 years, and G*D MY STOMACH WAS SORE!) So we split up to find some food. It wasn't hard for me to find something to eat, but I needed to find something relatively cheap and private, being that I was at the time unknown to the people surrounding me. All those smiling faces at this carnival were glad to see that the golden sun would soon rise. I wouldn't allow that, but I had to lay low for a while. As I continued to search, I found a quiet little hut which had a not-too- quiet group inside of it and I could easily smell smoke and see a cloud of steam coming from the inside..
I run inside to find my fellow fighting a young mars adept. This fight was bound to go no-where; due to the fact that every attack the teen made was blocked by the water adept's glacier spell. I quickly asked of James while he was relaxing in between casting and defending: "How did you manage to flood this room up to my knees?" I was simply looking for a bite to eat when I saw that these people had some food. I went and asked for some, and to nobody's amazement I'm sure; they declined." He quickly explained to me as I ducked under the fighting duo's latest barrage against each other. "They most likely were going to sit down to dinner, and not all of them are here." I was confused by this lack of detail, and now I was wondering why a bit of refused food was going to start a fight. "Umm. j-man, why are these people fighting you if all you needed was a bit of food?" I asked quite fast, considering it was another in-between moment when it was safe to raise my head above the tabletop to speak. The data compiled was a bit much for me to grasp, but I was a male mars adept, so I considered this perfectly normal. What I found odd was that James did exactly what he told me not to do. He had compromised our mission by revealing our presence too early. I watched this ongoing struggle of the two opposite adepts, water and fire, and munched on some crackers absentmindedly. The fight would last for a while yet, unless I decide to become the peacekeeper, which I found to be a comic idea. Another thought struck me. What if the fight was triggered by this youth, not the mercury war machine before me? He could allow me to join the fight and end the water-logging I was being forced to endure. but no matter, I didn't care if he allowed it or not. What was he, my mother? I can tell myself what to do. I got up and began casting searing beam on the angry youth, not unlike myself, except for what I believed verses what he did. The shot would have sent him sprawling over the carpeted ground, into the next hallway, and destroyed a few vases along the route too, but he was warned of my attack by a Venus adept with golden brown hair who was watching this fight with such dedication that it seemed he was taking notes inside his skull, like a play-by-play recording of the match. He was so focused on how the fight was progressing that he even looked shocked to see me stand up and begin casting my spell. "Garet, Everybody, DUCK!" he screamed out to his fellow adepts. They all dropped like stones at this, and my spell missed their heads by at least 3 feet each. James, noticing the lack of enemy attacks recently, turned and actually acknowledged my presence in the room. After realizing I was there he spoke to me "why, if it isn't dan, who was supposed to find us some food." And I responded, quite annoyed at the time "James, what in the name of the golden sun ARE you doing?" "I was asking if we could share the meal here with these powerful adepts, similar to us, and that jackal over there (he points to the youth, apparently named Garet, who was attacking him) denied me furiously and began yelling at me. His outburst was quenched by the young girl over there with blue hair, and the one with the gold hair. He soon however started yelling at them, something about curiously odd strangers, saying something about us being like a duo called Saturos and Menardi. I couldn't understand and went to leave when he had caught my ninja suit with a weak flame attack. From here it got to fighting, and then to this." He truthfully explained; I could see it on his face, it's hard for me to falsely detect truthfulness, being that I am a mars adept and not a Jupiter adept. "Garet, have you been trying to burn down the house?" A curious female mars adept asked of Garet. The teen got to his feet, blushing scarlet, and left the room silently. The girl who asked the unanswered question approached us, seemingly wondering if we were of the same race. She looked at us from the left, right, front, and, to our personal discomfort, the back. She seemed questionable as to her mood, but had a kind look about her that was shared among her and the girl with the blue hair. She spoke to us and caught us off guard; she had been silent for most of the time before. "Who are you? I have never seen anyone like you before.are you from different parts of the world than the other?" "Yes we are and there is no use hiding it." "Well that's interesting and all to tell stories about where we are all from, but we need to find a place to get some food WITHOUT a fight! Umm.bye?" I added quickly to end the conversation. The fires of the festival began to gain in size and spring to life where there were none before as dusk approached the rather large tent town of vale. "So it would seem that you are already in trouble, wouldn't it?" I casually asked, knowing full well what it deserved. "You better keep that mouth shut, ill freeze it there if you don't!" he angrily said back. "Well I had found a place, and it would be obvious during this excursion that we have already switched roles. I used to be the violent one, AND I LIKED IT!" I said to James like it was some kind of joke. "Alright, let's go to your discovery then, and we shall see what kind of food that this town has in comparison to what it had 10,000 years ago. The special at this place is a soup made with momonga meat and local vegetables. (Soup is a meal now???) "Hmm. I'm not sure we want to have something like soup, considering that we should be eating solid food, as was the norm back in our time. It was always an appetizer or side dish.how sad that the pitiful amount of food in soup has become a full meal. So Strange." James opinionated of the restaurant's dish of the day. "Well then try and find something that's cheaper, mind you we haven't much money right now." I almost spat at him saying. "We should find something quiet, I believe, with some steak perhaps?" I calmly added. "Alright then. We shall go to that grill in the corner of this town. It is over there, down those cliffs." He described. "WHAT??? ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT WE COULD HAVE GONE DOWNHILL ALL THIS TIME, NOT UP?" I practically yelled at him. "Apparently so." He evenly threw in after my short tirade.
We walked down the stairs built into the cliffs, and as we walked we saw the house which was the source of the conflict earlier. Walking from back- to-front of the residence I noticed a tall rock standing on a bed of flowers. I ignored it as a simple thing that really isn't usual but typical enough that I wouldn't criticize the residents for it. I chuckled silently and moved on. At last we reached the bottom of the cliffs and arrived at the eating place James had described. "Why didn't we go here in the first place?" I asked as we entered. I received no response, mostly due to the timing of my inquiry which was at the time he found a menu. He went perusing through it looking for something cheap and delicious. I was not disturbed by this, for I too had found searching the menu rather fascinating. I finally decided on a medium-well steak, which was mildly priced and was similar to what was around when I was sealed away. "Why are u getting a steak?" James jokingly asked. "I happen to know that this will be what I expect it to be. I personally do not like surprises." The meal passed quickly and as we left the night had fallen dark; the sun's rays were all but gone." "G*D Dang it where the H**L are John and Sean?" James quite angrily inquired of me as we arrived at the meeting place behind mount aleph. "They should have arrived hors ago!" "I believe that they have a longer trip than you did, considering that those lighthouses are farther off than yours, and they met up at Jupiter before coming to vale. It was the original plan, was it not?" I unworriedly replied to him. I then proceeded to scan the field of rocks that lay before me. It was a strange site indeed, to see the heart of power's roots as such feeble materials in great disarray. Either the mountain had crumbled slightly and worn down, or the village had used its outer crust for construction purposes. I supposed the latter was true, considering that 10,000 was quite a short time for a mountain to crumble. "Bloody, the light is gone. Dan, make a fire! We need light!" as I scrambled for firewood, James continued to issue such commands. "Alright, now light it!" "I know how to make a fire, James. I am a Mars Adept. "Sshh. I hear voices." James quietly explained. "That's never a good sign, james. You sure you don't need help?" "Ha-ha. these are real voices. Listen!" and so I did, and it happened to be that they were, in fact, real. There were two voices of two males wandering in the dark. I wondered what business they could have back here at night, but they were not trying to conceal themselves in any way. Their voices were carrying throughout the forest beyond the mountain, and that gave me a direction in which to look for intruders onto our campground.
The air was cool; my suit was making me feel cold due to the weakening seams, which were already in bad enough condition already, and on top of that, my anger soared as we neared vale. "What's this, a party?" I inquired of my fellow traveler. He responded "Yes, it is a celebration of the return of alchemy. The people are overjoyed, although their town was completely wiped out, they are glad to be safe." "Well, its time to crash it and I know just the way to do it." I anticipatively said to James. "This gathering of adepts is sure to contain the eight we seek. Maybe I will start with a bang. Planet div-""wait!" James not-so-quietly advised; screwing up my concentration on the spell I was casting. "Not yet, wait until the others arrive or we find them. We may be powerful, but there are hundreds of adepts at this festival. A folly like what you were about to pull would have done us both in." Realizing my mistake, I said "well, I guess I got to keep my anger under control." "You had better, and there should be no trouble if you do." James yelled back at me. Putting my hand on the hilt of my mars blade's hilt, I couldn't hardly help myself from releasing my building rage on my ally, since he was the only person in range who was holding me back from attacking others. "The checkpoint is over beyond that mountain." James informed me. "But before that we need to find some place to stay, that is, if we don't destroy it in the attack. Now for some food..."
The plan was for us to get some food after such a long time asleep, and I for one couldn't agree more. (It has been 10,000 years, and G*D MY STOMACH WAS SORE!) So we split up to find some food. It wasn't hard for me to find something to eat, but I needed to find something relatively cheap and private, being that I was at the time unknown to the people surrounding me. All those smiling faces at this carnival were glad to see that the golden sun would soon rise. I wouldn't allow that, but I had to lay low for a while. As I continued to search, I found a quiet little hut which had a not-too- quiet group inside of it and I could easily smell smoke and see a cloud of steam coming from the inside..
I run inside to find my fellow fighting a young mars adept. This fight was bound to go no-where; due to the fact that every attack the teen made was blocked by the water adept's glacier spell. I quickly asked of James while he was relaxing in between casting and defending: "How did you manage to flood this room up to my knees?" I was simply looking for a bite to eat when I saw that these people had some food. I went and asked for some, and to nobody's amazement I'm sure; they declined." He quickly explained to me as I ducked under the fighting duo's latest barrage against each other. "They most likely were going to sit down to dinner, and not all of them are here." I was confused by this lack of detail, and now I was wondering why a bit of refused food was going to start a fight. "Umm. j-man, why are these people fighting you if all you needed was a bit of food?" I asked quite fast, considering it was another in-between moment when it was safe to raise my head above the tabletop to speak. The data compiled was a bit much for me to grasp, but I was a male mars adept, so I considered this perfectly normal. What I found odd was that James did exactly what he told me not to do. He had compromised our mission by revealing our presence too early. I watched this ongoing struggle of the two opposite adepts, water and fire, and munched on some crackers absentmindedly. The fight would last for a while yet, unless I decide to become the peacekeeper, which I found to be a comic idea. Another thought struck me. What if the fight was triggered by this youth, not the mercury war machine before me? He could allow me to join the fight and end the water-logging I was being forced to endure. but no matter, I didn't care if he allowed it or not. What was he, my mother? I can tell myself what to do. I got up and began casting searing beam on the angry youth, not unlike myself, except for what I believed verses what he did. The shot would have sent him sprawling over the carpeted ground, into the next hallway, and destroyed a few vases along the route too, but he was warned of my attack by a Venus adept with golden brown hair who was watching this fight with such dedication that it seemed he was taking notes inside his skull, like a play-by-play recording of the match. He was so focused on how the fight was progressing that he even looked shocked to see me stand up and begin casting my spell. "Garet, Everybody, DUCK!" he screamed out to his fellow adepts. They all dropped like stones at this, and my spell missed their heads by at least 3 feet each. James, noticing the lack of enemy attacks recently, turned and actually acknowledged my presence in the room. After realizing I was there he spoke to me "why, if it isn't dan, who was supposed to find us some food." And I responded, quite annoyed at the time "James, what in the name of the golden sun ARE you doing?" "I was asking if we could share the meal here with these powerful adepts, similar to us, and that jackal over there (he points to the youth, apparently named Garet, who was attacking him) denied me furiously and began yelling at me. His outburst was quenched by the young girl over there with blue hair, and the one with the gold hair. He soon however started yelling at them, something about curiously odd strangers, saying something about us being like a duo called Saturos and Menardi. I couldn't understand and went to leave when he had caught my ninja suit with a weak flame attack. From here it got to fighting, and then to this." He truthfully explained; I could see it on his face, it's hard for me to falsely detect truthfulness, being that I am a mars adept and not a Jupiter adept. "Garet, have you been trying to burn down the house?" A curious female mars adept asked of Garet. The teen got to his feet, blushing scarlet, and left the room silently. The girl who asked the unanswered question approached us, seemingly wondering if we were of the same race. She looked at us from the left, right, front, and, to our personal discomfort, the back. She seemed questionable as to her mood, but had a kind look about her that was shared among her and the girl with the blue hair. She spoke to us and caught us off guard; she had been silent for most of the time before. "Who are you? I have never seen anyone like you before.are you from different parts of the world than the other?" "Yes we are and there is no use hiding it." "Well that's interesting and all to tell stories about where we are all from, but we need to find a place to get some food WITHOUT a fight! Umm.bye?" I added quickly to end the conversation. The fires of the festival began to gain in size and spring to life where there were none before as dusk approached the rather large tent town of vale. "So it would seem that you are already in trouble, wouldn't it?" I casually asked, knowing full well what it deserved. "You better keep that mouth shut, ill freeze it there if you don't!" he angrily said back. "Well I had found a place, and it would be obvious during this excursion that we have already switched roles. I used to be the violent one, AND I LIKED IT!" I said to James like it was some kind of joke. "Alright, let's go to your discovery then, and we shall see what kind of food that this town has in comparison to what it had 10,000 years ago. The special at this place is a soup made with momonga meat and local vegetables. (Soup is a meal now???) "Hmm. I'm not sure we want to have something like soup, considering that we should be eating solid food, as was the norm back in our time. It was always an appetizer or side dish.how sad that the pitiful amount of food in soup has become a full meal. So Strange." James opinionated of the restaurant's dish of the day. "Well then try and find something that's cheaper, mind you we haven't much money right now." I almost spat at him saying. "We should find something quiet, I believe, with some steak perhaps?" I calmly added. "Alright then. We shall go to that grill in the corner of this town. It is over there, down those cliffs." He described. "WHAT??? ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT WE COULD HAVE GONE DOWNHILL ALL THIS TIME, NOT UP?" I practically yelled at him. "Apparently so." He evenly threw in after my short tirade.
We walked down the stairs built into the cliffs, and as we walked we saw the house which was the source of the conflict earlier. Walking from back- to-front of the residence I noticed a tall rock standing on a bed of flowers. I ignored it as a simple thing that really isn't usual but typical enough that I wouldn't criticize the residents for it. I chuckled silently and moved on. At last we reached the bottom of the cliffs and arrived at the eating place James had described. "Why didn't we go here in the first place?" I asked as we entered. I received no response, mostly due to the timing of my inquiry which was at the time he found a menu. He went perusing through it looking for something cheap and delicious. I was not disturbed by this, for I too had found searching the menu rather fascinating. I finally decided on a medium-well steak, which was mildly priced and was similar to what was around when I was sealed away. "Why are u getting a steak?" James jokingly asked. "I happen to know that this will be what I expect it to be. I personally do not like surprises." The meal passed quickly and as we left the night had fallen dark; the sun's rays were all but gone." "G*D Dang it where the H**L are John and Sean?" James quite angrily inquired of me as we arrived at the meeting place behind mount aleph. "They should have arrived hors ago!" "I believe that they have a longer trip than you did, considering that those lighthouses are farther off than yours, and they met up at Jupiter before coming to vale. It was the original plan, was it not?" I unworriedly replied to him. I then proceeded to scan the field of rocks that lay before me. It was a strange site indeed, to see the heart of power's roots as such feeble materials in great disarray. Either the mountain had crumbled slightly and worn down, or the village had used its outer crust for construction purposes. I supposed the latter was true, considering that 10,000 was quite a short time for a mountain to crumble. "Bloody, the light is gone. Dan, make a fire! We need light!" as I scrambled for firewood, James continued to issue such commands. "Alright, now light it!" "I know how to make a fire, James. I am a Mars Adept. "Sshh. I hear voices." James quietly explained. "That's never a good sign, james. You sure you don't need help?" "Ha-ha. these are real voices. Listen!" and so I did, and it happened to be that they were, in fact, real. There were two voices of two males wandering in the dark. I wondered what business they could have back here at night, but they were not trying to conceal themselves in any way. Their voices were carrying throughout the forest beyond the mountain, and that gave me a direction in which to look for intruders onto our campground.