(A Story And Addendum For Memoirs Of An Adventure's Child.)
(All Characters Are Ficticious And bare no resemblence to living people. Any resemblence to fictional characters is only by chance.)
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It has been almost eleven years since the rebirth of the world. When
I finished writing
down my adventures, I started wondering about something. I looked
over at the sword I had
received in my battle with the odd creatures that seemed to dwell in
the center of the world. At
the time, all Isis said was that they were called Hanawa, or was it
Haniwa, and the sword was
called the Seven Sword. I decided that I would ask Isis about
these items. She said that it would
take a while to return everything to normal, and repair the Arsenal
Units. In the year that had
pasted since I wrote down my adventures, I moved from my home town
to the town near the final
dungeon. The lady at the Inn there had told me, after my friends
and I had saved the world, that I
would always be welcome at her Inn. This morning, I went off
to the Celestrial Temple. When I
arrived, Isis was just leaving the elevator area. The legend
said that she built the Arsenal Units,
but she looked frustrated. I walked over to her. She had
always welcomed my friends and I to
the temple. She even preformed the wedding ceremony for Skiz
and Vet. I asked, "Isis, is
something wrong? You look frustrated."
The goddess that was trying to repair the damage to our
world said, "Something that
will take a long time to correct, and it is not getting easier.
The Haniwa are growing in number. I
realize that I made a mistake long ago."
The Haniwa. That was what I was going to ask her about.
I then said, "Isis, I came
here to ask you about the Haniwa, and the Seven Sword?"
She seemed to hear me, but she also appeared to be listening
to something else. At the
mention of the Seven Sword, she asked, "Did you bring it with you?"
When I shook my head, she
took my arm and said, "Then follow me, and be quiet. The one
who commands the Hawinas
returns, and neither of us are safe. Once he goes to the Center
Of The World, we will be safe."
She took me to the door which lead to the steps down. Isis left
the door open a crack, to watch.
I watched as two figures entered the temple. I almost
wish I hadn't. The first figure
was a female human, in her early teens. I had seen her in the
rebuilt Guardian Base a few times,
but the man following her I recognized right away. In a whisper,
I said, "St. Marius."
I noticed that Isis eyed me with shock. When the two
figures disappeared, she took me
out to the main temple and said, "You have encountered Marius before,
and lived. How?"
I told her of how St. Marius came to my town, of how Vet
hadn't trusted him, and how
she and I revealed his true intentions to the town. I then told
her how he vowwed vengence, and
how he almost killed us eleven years ago. I then asked, "What
does he have to do with the
Haniwas?" for she implied he was the one that commanded them.
She lead me out to the Celestrial World, and off to a part
of the temple which could
only be accessed by herself. Once inside, she said, "Rich, this
is my home. It is the only spot safe
from Marius. You want to know about the Haniwas, the Seven Sword,
and Marius. Sit down,
for I will tell you the tale, and of how it began over 2000 years ago."
I then felt as if I was
viewing it as a spirit watching the world. I appeared to be outside
the temple when I heard her
say, "I....
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I had been protecting the world and keeping it peaceful.
I knew that there was evil in
the world, but I had seen the gods from the other worlds. Each
was an evil and ugly looking
being. My own beleifs had proved to be my undoing. It began
with a priest, actually two priests.
They were Ki and Marius. Each appeared to prove that they deserved
to be the Temple Priest,
but my belief made me choose the wrong person. At that time,
Ki looked like a commoner, where
Marius had his dignified look. I choose Marius. He would
be in charge of holding the world in
check as I built a device to stop the evil gods and goddesses.
That was the Arsenal Unit's.
During that time, when I was isolated in the center of the world, my
world started to suffer. I felt
the evil effecting parts of the celestrial world. Before I had
the chance to activate the units, the
evil had corrupted two worlds, and many evil gods were already residing
there. They were also
taking root in some of the worlds that were intact.
I had returned to the Temple to see Marius changing one
of the evil ones into a
Dragon-like creature. The creature faded from sight. I
was floating above the floor and yelled at
Marius, "You traitor! You have been helping those who you have
sworn to fight."
He only smiled and said, "I said I would fight for the right.
You only thought I meant
you. My whole goal was to hand this world over to the gods that
attacked. To unite them. To
gain your power." It was then I learned the truth of Marius.
I looked at this vile being and said, "If you want power
in that way, I shall make you
into what you crave. You are the Hani." I let loose with
a blast of magic and Marius flew off his
feet. When he stood again, I said, "You wanted to control people,
now you will, but there is a
price. A hunger. You will be worse than a vampire.
You will steal their life, their will, their
souls, their essence. All that will be left is an empty shell.
That is what you will have as a
follower, a lifeless shell, for all eternity. You are the Hani.
You are the Curse One."
Marius looked at me and yelled, "I will get you for this,
Isis. I shall destroy you." He
knew the legend of the cursed ones. The Hani was a being that
needed to feed on the living, but
also had to destroy the shells, in fear that they would kill his feast
before he could feed. If the
Hani could not feed, he would fade into the void, never to be seen
again. He ran out of the
temple, and I thought I had seen the last of him.
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I was shocked at what I had just heard. Isis, the protecter
of our world, had created the
monster that I had known as St. Marius. It was even worse to
know that this, this thing had been
alive for 2000 years. I then started to wonder. All priests
of Isis were able to cast spells. I
looked at Isis and asked, "If St. Marius had been a priest, what happened
to his magic?"
Isis looked at me. She saw the confusion in my eyes,
and sensed it in my mind. "I have
told you that the Hani are cursed. They are reduced to the lowest
fighting skills, they are stripped
of Mana, but they retain the knowledge of their life. A Hani
is cursed for life, until they have been
killed by the traditional way. If a Hani is pulled into the void,
the shells go on a murderous
rampage, killing all in their way."
I saw hope in the fact that there was a way to destroy St.
Marius. I looked at Isis and
asked, "How do I defeat him?"
She then said, "Normally," I didn't like the sound
of that, "a Hani could only be killed
by the Seven Sword. But Marius is not the normal Hani?"
"Why?" I asked, not really wanting to know.
"Because, I made my mistake even worse. I.."
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I knew that I had to stop the gods that had started to invade.
But parts of the world
had started to become corrupt. The world know as Pureland had
become so violent with warring
gods, that I split it from the celestrial world. The only way
to it was the long drop from the world
of Valhalla. As I had severed the connection from my world, another
entity incased Pureland in a
shield. He was a kind god from another plane that was close to
Pureland. I then severed off the
land of the tower. It two had been corrupted by four evil fiends,
under the control of an invading
god. But then, the others that had invaded started to attack
me as I searched for them. They had
wanted my power. I teleported to the Arsenal unit. I needed
to activate it, for it would save me
and my world. It was then I got a nasty surprised.
I activated the Arsenal and nothing happened. I was
in shock until I heard him.
"Surprised, Isis. I told you I would get even. I put a
timer on the Arsenal unit. It won't activate
for 2000 years, and by then, you will be dead." Marius had shown
that he had the upper hand at
the time, as seven shells appeared around him. The seventh carried
the Seven Sword. He did
something that was thought impossible. The Hani controlled the
shells. They were his followers.
Time was running short, and I needed to save myself and
protect the world. I looked at
the shells, and at Marius as they slowly advanced. He was confident
of victory, but I thought I
would have the last laugh. I doubled the curse on him.
"Marius, this shall stop your evil ways.
Your followers, the Wa of the Hani, are forced to exist only in the
center of the world. They can
never leave this area. They cannot leave the mana net that is
the center of the world. The Haniwa
are doomed to stay here." The curse also altered the Hani, changing
the way to kill him. "And as
a reminder of the shells, they will lose form, lose their eyes, and
there mouths will be forced into
an eternal shout of pain. They will only have arms and can only
travel on the mana net ot the
center of the world. They will only rest if killed, or you are
killed." I started the chant to
save myself.
As I changed into the Magi statue, Marius said, "I could
only be killed by the Seven
Sword, by the chosen ones. Now, you have made it so that I must
be hit seven times by the
sword." He was taunting me. He had something up his sleeve
and he then said, "In 2000 years,
the Arsenal will start expanding the mana net, breaking into the realms
of this world. Only then
will the Haniwa attack the world, and I will have won." His laugh
cut through me like a knife.
The only hope I had was in the four chosen ones of the prophesy.
I thought that for the 2000
years that I was in pieces.
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"So that is the story of the Haniwa. But what about
the Seven Sword?" I was
wondering more and more about how this was all tying together.
Isis looked at me and said, "Rest for now. I will
tell you more later. I must try and
repair the damage to the Arsenal. Every minute I am away, the
Haniwa are busy redoing the
damage that Marius wants."
I was too nervous, and too anxious to rest, but just as
I tried to protest, I felt tired. Isis
must have put a sleep spell on me. Maybe I shouldn't try and
question her.
When I awoke, Isis had returned. She was more frustrated
then before. "All this
sabitoge must be undone. It is starting to appear that all my
work is being undone, just as I have
finished it." The Haniwa must have been working on the Arsenal
as well. Maybe they were
trying to activate the Arsenal to complete the plan.
Before I fell asleep, I had asked Isis about the Seven Sword.
I decided to ask again
about. "Isis, you were going to tell me about the Seven Sword."
She nodded and said, "The Seven Sword is a Magical weapon
older than Marius, older
than me, older than everything that existed in this world." She
then said, as I felt I was drifting
back in time, "It...
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It all began when the many universes were forming.
At the time of the formation, two
entites constantly fought. One was Deror, who stood for all that
is good, and the other was
Shoac, who stood for all that is evil. Each had a magical sword.
Deror's sword was called
Turvie, which could destroy evil, while Shoac's sword was called Nis,
which could destroy good.
These two were fighting for all these universes. It was believed
that the balance would preserve
the universes in peace. Deror always countered every attack made
by Shoac, but at one instant,
Shoac thrusted Nis into Redor center of existance. At the instant,
Redor had countered with the
same move, and the two exploded. The two swords merged and shattered.
They could only be
called forth by the servents of the Hani, for the Hani were beings
of evil, but could not handle the
sword unless it was taken from a fallen hero. Legend stated that
the first cursed one summoned a
fragment of the shattered sword when he drained his seventh victim,
the sword then earned the
name the Seven Sword. The Seven Sword, when in the hands of the
shells, retained the powers
of evil, but could be used countless times. Once the shell was
killed by a hero, the sword was
claimed by the Hero and had the power of good, but that came at a price.
The sword could only
be used seven times. If the hero was slain by the Hani, the Hani
claimed the darkened sword and
it could only be used once.
The Seven Sword was the sword of ultimate good, or evil.
It's alignment was set with
it's holder. In the hands of the shells, or the Hani, the sword
strike would intensify all the evils in
the being's soul. If one was not a chosen one, or hero, the overwhelming
evil killed instantly. The
chosen ones were only drained when struck. In the hands of the
Hero, or chosen ones, the Seven
sword could destroy the shells, and Hani, who were pure evil.
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The Seven Sword which I had, was the weapon I need to defeat
the Hani, and to stop
the Haniwa. But one thing was bothering about the story.
I turned to Isis and asked, "Isis, you
said that Marius had said you had alter how to defeat him by cursing
the shells. How?"
She then explained what she had said. "When I cursed
Marius the first time, I turned
him into a Hani. The second curse had stregthened him, by confining
his followers, the Haniwa.
He knew that a threat of good could only appear once every two thousand
years. About 6000
years ago, I was brought into this world, and stopped the evil in the
celestrial world. About 4000
years ago, after my people, the ancients, died, the priests of Isis
appeared and unified the worlds
that were corrupting this world from the smaller worlds. About
2000 years ago, Ki appeared and
rescue the few pieces of Magi that I was in from being destoried by
the Hani, for she hid them
with in her. He couldn't drain her, for the Magi protected her
from that horrid fate. Rich, you
and Vet are the only ones who can successfully defeat the Hani, for
with how quickly they work,
our world will never last until another force of good is born.
The prophecy said that only the
chosen ones could stop the curse. Skiz and Radr are out since
Skiz is a monster, and Radr is a
robot. When Radr takes a weapon, half of it usage is transfered
into life."
"And since Skiz can't hold a weapon, Vet and I are the only
ones who can do defeat the
Hani."
Isis nodded and said, "Yes, for only you can carry a Seven
Sword with a full seven uses.
For that is the only way to end the threat of the Hani, to successfully
strike him seven times with a
Seven Sword." I now knew that eventually I had to tell Vet about
this and I would have to get
another Seven Sword before I could attack the Hani.
I thanked Isis for the information, and Isis transported
me back to the Inn in the town
near the final dungeon. As I walked in, the Innkeeper looked
at me and asked, "Is something
wrong? You look like you were told you were going to die."
I looked at the her. She had save me and Vet from
St. Marius eleven years ago. I
finally said, "I found out the truth about the man you save me and
my friend from eleven years
agos."
"Yes"
"He is a Hani, and a very dangerous one." She gasped
and she shut down the Inn for
the day. Now the only question on my mind was, "How do you tell
your best friend that they are
one of the only two people that can defeat the most dangerous evil
know in the world?" I decided
to go back to my room and think about it. When the time was right,
I would tell Vet.