A Story And Addendum For Memoirs Of The Heroes. (Previously "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. Special Thanks to Howard Phillips Lovecraft)
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It had not been long after we had left the Guardian Base that we ran into
trouble. My husband held up his hand as we looked out over the Celestrial
World. It was a band of the 'Route'. They were on patrol.
My husband just said, "This is not good."
Isis looked out and said, "I agree, considering that they
are heading right in front of the path we have to take."
My son looked out and said, "Do we attack them, or should
we wait and see what happens?"
JaNa looked at him and said, "If we attack them, they will
call for reinforcements, and who knows how close they are?"
Lena looked at her and said, "I might be able to cast a
Blind spell on them." I then noticed something. My husband
looked straight at the lead man. First I saw a look of disgust and
then I saw a smile.
I then heard the lead man of the 'Route' patrol say.
"It's all clear here. We should check the way to Pureland again."
The man motioned them all away, but turned and faced us again. He
must have been a spy with the Guardians. He nodded and left.
Rich, my husband for many years just said, "Remind me to
ask Radr how many of our school friends are in the Guardiands?"
I looked at him and said, "You knew who that was?"
"Yes. His name is Joel, and he's a good man."
My husband then led us to the path to the Earth World.
Isis then and said, "Joel, I remember hearing about him."
Rich turned and said, "What?"
"For years before your victory over St. Marius, he was having
visions. He wrote them into songs. Strangely enough, one of
his first songs was about the death of St. Marius."
Rich just looked shocked. He then said, "Do you think
he might have many other songs?"
Lena, just looked at my father and said, "You don't think
he's a prophet!" Ever since our visit to Rotat, and the recent events
with the 'Eye', my daughter started to loose faith in prophecys.
My husband turned to her and said, "I don't know, but I
hope that some prophecies never come true." We then continued on.
Eventually, we reached the Mana Path to the Earth World.
As before when we headed to the World of Air, the stars of the celestrial
world shot by until we arrived at the entrance to the world. Isis
looked at us and said, "Be careful, we will have to becareful of a few
things. First, quakes may cause the ground below us to brake.
If we fall into that, we fall to the demon world. Second, since we encountered
Byak-Ko in the Air World, we will most likely encounter Gen-Bu. Third,
we might have to deal with the Crystoids."
My son, Max, said, "Who is Gen-Bu?" I had to agree,
what was the role of these creatures in the scheme of things.
Isis sighed. This was something that worried her alot.
"The Fiends each are equal in power. Each controls an element of
our world. When they hunted my people, each would claim a victim.
When the Ancient's left, the Fiend's started fighting on who would kill
me. They have a prophecy which states that whoever of them kills
me will rule my realm, but they fear a second part of the prophecy."
Lena looked at Isis and said, "What part is that?"
"That someone else will kill me, for if that happens, they
are sent off. If someone else kills me, they join together, and then
split apart, becoming four worse problems than they already are.
The only thing about that is they return from the split at a time of great
problems." I couldn't help but swallow. It sounded as if their
return was the begining of the end.
I turned to Isis and said, "But who is Gen-Bu?"
"Gen-Bu is the Black Turtle. He is the fiend of Earth.
It is said that the force of his footfalls in this world is what causes
the ground shattering quakes." I started to think of what that meant.
We then entered the Earth World. It appeared to be an endless expanse
of ground. There were small cracks running along the course of the world.
In the distance, there was a group of mountains. We headed for the
mountains.
Halfway to the mountains, a man-like form started to approach
us. Max looked at it and said, "It must be an Earth creature."
We all started to attack, but with every one of our attacks, it struck
us with a painful blow.
One blow sent Lena flying. I turned to the creature
and struck at it with a vengence. No mother wants harm to befall her children,
and I was no different. As I struck it, it knocked me down to the
ground. I then heard Lena yell, "That's my mother." All of
a sudden, a fireball the size of the creature shot from her arms and destroied
the creature. I was stunned by the force of the fireball.
My husband walked over to her and looked at her. "How
did you do that?"
There was a look on my daughter's face, one that I could
identify. "I don't know. I just could. I wonder if it
has anything to do with that cursed gem. I wish we never found the
thing." The 'Eye' scared her.
Rich just said, "But if we didn't find it, we would have
a problem that we can't handle right now. Now, we need to get to
those mountains. I have a feeling that.." His sentance was
cut short by a quake. Isis started to float. Lena cast a float
spell and elevated herself and my husband.
JaNa grabbed Max and then said, "I'm coming to get you,
Li." I started to stand up, but that was when the ground went out
from under me. I started to fall, but I grabbed the edge of the ground.
"Li!!!!" my husband shouted. I understood his fear.
If I lost my grip, I would fall to the demon world. I glanced downward,
in hopes that I would see a ledge, but to my horror, I saw an Elemental.
It looked straight up at me, and I saw a grin on it's face. My abilities
froze in fear. I felt something at my hand and looked up. It
was JaNa.
She grabbed my hand and said, "I'll get you out of there."
She glanced down at the creature and said, "Not today, ugly." With
all her strength, she pulled me out of the hole and we flew over to the
mountains. We landed on the foot of the mountains and were joined
by Isis and the others.
My husband just held me and said, "I was afraid I lost you."
I went to respond, but I saw something. I looked up
to see a giant turtles head. It looked at us and said, "Well, maybe
I will get to kill Isis today." It was Gen-Bu, and he appeared to
be as big as one of the mountains. I then saw our objective.
The Elbiot was riding Gen-Bu. It appeared to connected to the fiend.
The Elbiot just looked at us. "Destory them."
Just as the command had been issued, Gen-Bu lunged at us.
We all jumped to opposite sides, but my husband then saw
something. He shouted out, "Crystoid." I turned to see it was
right near Lena. The thing started to approach her, but stopped.
It looked in my husband's direction.
It then turned and ran off. I had seen a look on it's
face. It was that of recognition, but how? I then noticed that
everyone had their hands full with Gen-bu. I jumped up to the shell
of the giant turtle and stood face to face with the Elbiot. Suddenly,
I saw it's face change. It was Vet's Earth Component. "Knock
me down." The face changed back and said, "Prepare to die."
I looked at the Elbiot and said, "Not today." We started
into a Jyudo fight. It was a one-sided battle, because the Elbiot
could not keep up with my moves. Soon, I knocked the Elbiot from
the shell. I heard a crack and I gasped in horror. Did I kill
Vet? I looked down to see the body of the Elbiot, impaled on a stalagmite.
I jumped down, just in time to see Gen-Bu collapse, but I was checking
to see if Vet was alright.
I heard Vet's voice speak again, "Thank you, Li."
She was alright. I was relieved to see that I hadn't destoried her
Earth Component.
JaNa came over and attached the Elbiot head that held the
Air/Spirit component and said, "Time to rest, mother." In a short
amount of time, all three were in the Elbiot head.
We all gathered around Isis and she said, "We should leave.
The Elbiot had gotten control of Gen-Bu, and soon the effects will wear
off. We must be near the exit before that happens."
My husband then said, "We must rest before we attempt to
head to the Mana Net. We should use the Zonehome right near the exit
of the Earth World." Everyone nodded and we headed back to the entrance
of this world. Once there, my husband set up the Zonehome and we
entered. There were four rooms in the Zonehome, and Isis took one.
Lena took another, and I noticed that Max and JaNa were entering a third.
My husband and I then entered the last. It was odd seeing the interior
of these devices again. It was like being home instead of on an adventure.
After a short bit, I looked out the window onto this world.
I never knew how much strife occured to keep our world at peace.
I felt my husband come up behind me and hold me. I asked, "What are
you thinking about?"
He kissed me and said, "How nice it would be to return to
a normal life again?" He had grown used to the life of a family man.
He loved it, but that was soon to be gone.
"Rich, do you think that Lena might be the one to be taken
from us?" I couldn't help but think of the gem she was condemded
to hold.
"I wouldn't doubt it. Skiz said that we would lose
one of our children, but they would not die."
"Do you think it would be Max?"
"I think they are both afraid of that, but more so JaNa?"
I turned to face my husband and said, "You don't think that,
our son has..?"
He put his finger to my lip and said, "It is possible.
They are in love, and they are afraid one will die. It is fear kicking
in, and it is natural. Times are changing." He was right.
After all of this was done, the world would be different.
"What do you think will happen to Vet? I mean, if
she is tried for Marius' crimes, how will JaNa take that?"
"Not, well, I'm afraid. She was in the infirmary when
we talked with Meg and Radr. That might not set well with her. If
that is the case, we will take her in." I nodded in agreement with
my husband and we then turned in for the night.
In the morning, I heard my husband talking to Radr.
I walked over to his side and saw the communictions unit. I heard
Radr say, "HE INFILTRATED THE ROUTE AFTER HE JOINED. HE HAS BEEN
A BIG HELP. HE WILL GET YOU IN TO THE TEMPLE AND TO THE MANA NET."
He deactived it and said, "Well, I found out why Joel was
in the Route?"
"Why is that?" I asked.
"He is a guardian spy, and he is going to sneak us into
the Celestrial Temple so we can enter the Mana Net." Now I knew that
one of the most dificult parts of our quest would be easier.
To Be Continued...