Ok, here we go, a new chapter again, ha-ha, alright so then, here ya go,
PS. I gave the mayor a name if he doesn't already have one.
Chapter Three: When Mayor's attack, and Toan's First Atla
Toan moved and looked around the barren wasteland that used to be his home, just looking for any kind of life. He spotted the large doors on the far end of the valley, the doors that led to the dwelling of there guardian and God, Drawn. Toan moved a couple steps and continued to look around, wall...wall...Mayor's metallic home...another wall...wait, Mayor's home! Toan was ecstatic, someone else had survived the blast, and someone could help him! Toan ran as fast as he could to the house and what it held in it, the mayor! Toan opened that door and ran in to find...nothing.
"Mayor! Mayor Thomson!" Toan yelled looking around the room, a small sound of a pan falling to the ground was heard from a locked door in the middle of the wall in his house. The inside was round, like the outside, kind of looking like a fish. Its metallic walls surrounded him and the bolts held it in place. The inside was furnished very nicely, with a small dip in the middle of the room where all the furniture was. It consisted of a couch, with grey stripes going down vertically, spread evenly apart. There was also a coffee table and many assorted chairs and random parts of machines spread out across the floor. A door opened that was nothing but a closet, and a man walked out. His white hair was a bit thin, and his body was a tad plump. His skin was pale and in his hands he held a metal wrench, in order to protect himself. He wasn't looking at Toan; his face was looking away, with his eyes closed. His white shirt was grease stained, as well his blue pants and suspenders. He wore an old green tie, which was also stained.
"Get-Get away! I'm armed! I'm warning you! No one's gonna take me without a fight!" He said in his old, yet determined voice. He took a small swing at Toan, but Toan ducked and yelled at the man.
"Mayor! Mayor it's me! Toan!" The man took no notice.
"Oh no! Trying to take young Toan too! Don't worry boy, I'll save you!" He took another swing, still not looking at anything.
"Mayor! Open your eyes!" Toan yelled as he ducked from another swing. The Mayor did so and looked at the boy. He just stared for a bit, and then screamed.
"Oh No! They've taken over Toan's body! Don't worry boy, I'll get those demons out of there! Get back demons of hell!" The Mayor, now swinging at Toan purposely. Toan had had enough, he had to think fast. He jumped back from another of the Mayor's swings, and looked at his situation. The Mayor was coming at him again, and Toan did the only thing he could think of. Toan took out his small dagger and blocked the Mayor's wrench. Then using a technique the Mayor himself taught him, he jumped up and came crashing down, hitting the wrench out of his hands. The Mayor was shocked and looked to his wrench and then to Toan.
"How did you do that...?" The Mayor asked.
"I believe you taught me that sir" Toan said with a little smirk. The mayor was flustered and started sputtering out random words, curses and all, and eventually just sat down on the striped couch and took in three deep breaths. He then looked at Toan and said in bewilderment.
"Toan...there's a demon in my closet" He said in a small voice.
"What?" Toan asked in a strange tone. 'Gees not even a sorry, wait...more demons...dang this just gets better and better'.
"Yeah, in the one I just came from" He said pointing to the closet he spoke of. Toan just looked at it, then back to the Mayor. Toan sighed and, holding his dagger in his hand tightly, began to walk to the closet.
"Toan! No, don't do it boy! It's too dangerous!" The man tried to yell but Toan just continued to walk. 'If I have to do this every day from now on' he thought, 'then I might want to get used to it'. He continued to walk until he got to the door. Toan gulp and reached his hand out, he could feel the sweat begin to move down his brow. His hand shook a bit as he moved it closer to the doorknob. He then, taking a deep breath, and closing his eyes, he opened the door. He waited two seconds...three seconds...five seconds...ten seconds...still nothing came to him. He slowly opened his eyes, and looked into the closet. It was just a bunch of shelves, covered in random tools and machine parts. A small noise cam from below him, and Toan back up a bit and looked. A small blue, spiky bug came waddling out and stopped right in front of Toan. Toan just stared at it for a little, and then broke out in a fit of laughter.
"Toan! Toan my boy what's so funny!" The Mayor said a little annoyed that Toan found his predicament so funny.
"Ha ha ha ha ha!!!! Mayor, you-you have a bu-a bug in your closet!" Toan was hunched over from laughter, and his face had become red. The Mayor stood and walked over to Toan, a questioning look on his face. As he came over, he looked and saw the bug in question. The Mayor just began to snicker a bit, and then also broke out into a fit of laughter.
"Well-well I'll be! Ha-ha! I can take apart so many machines and put new ones together but I get all worked up over a small-a small bug!" Both the Mayor and Toan just stood there laughing for a while, the bug just standing there, and if a person with a half a brain were to see it, they would think the bug was laughing too. After the laughing died down, Toan bent over and picked up the bug and took it to one of the Mayor's windows. He opened it and set the bug on the outside, then closed it and walked over to the Mayor.
"Well that made my day for today" Toan said with a smile, still snickering every once in a while.
"Yeah, that was a bit of fun excitement, better...then before anyway" Toan suddenly got a sad feeling in his body, and just looked up at the mayor. "Oh, Toan, I, I didn't mean to, I'm sorry"
"No it's alright, but, how did u survive?"
"Well, it's a bit complicated. I was down with everyone else at the festival, and by the way I saw u dance with Paige there Romeo. Anyway, when everything began happening, I yelled to everyone to get to my house, because as you know it's the sturdiest, so I began running, thinking people were behind me, you know. Well I kept running and as I got to the door, I looked behind me and saw everyone still in the middle of the village, I yelled, but no one seemed to hear. Then I saw something real strange, bright yellow and green lights were covering the people, and they were put inside these balls, and were sent into Drawn's dwelling. To escape that, I ran into my house, and hid in my closet, then I began to feel things touching me, and I snapped, that's when I fell asleep and when I woke up, I heard the door open, and thought it was those things coming after me, and you know the rest"
"Yeah..." Toan just thought a bit 'Balls of light, Drawn's cave...?' Toan suddenly looked to his left hand and saw the Atlamillia begin to glow its green and yellow, that's when Toan's mind suddenly put two and two together.
"Mayor, I need to get to the cave! I think I know how to get everyone back!" Toan said with excitement. The Mayor looked at Toan as if he were crazy.
"Boy, I don't understand" Toan then, quickly, began to tell the Mayor about all that had been told to him, about the Fairy King, the Dark Genie, and the Atlamillia.
After he was finished, the Mayor was amazed and just stared at Toan.
"Toan, are you sure when you flew you didn't get hit in the head?"
"Yeah this is coming from a man who was attacking me thinking I was a demon. Come on Mayor why would I make this up!"
"Toan, I know you as a very truthful boy, but, that's a bit hard to believe"
"Dang it! Look Mayor, this is the Atlamillia, I'm telling you the truth!" Toan showed the Mayor and the Atlamillia suddenly began to glow a bright yellow, making the Mayor fall on the couch from the light. A small voice lit up in Toan's mind saying: "You've passed test one, the Atlamillia now fully recognizes you my boy" It was the voice of the Fairy King.
"My boy...I didn't know, gees, that thing's real huh?" the Mayor said in bewilderment.
"Yeah"
"Alright, you win Toan, I don't like it, but I'll give you the key" The Mayor reached into his pocket and pulled out a bright gold key. On it was a red jewel in the middle of the handle, and the key itself was beautifully crafted. There were two small horns coming out of the handle as well, Drawn's crest. Toan took the key and put it in his brown bag on his belt. Toan then looked at the Mayor.
"Well, I guess I'm leaving then, that's a lot Mayor, I'll come back, with everyone, I promise" Toan began to walk out but was stopped by the Mayor's voice calling his name. Toan turned to see the Mayor holding a small pack of items.
"Here, take it with you, I went into Drawn's Dwelling once, and it gets pretty dangerous, you may need this" Toan took it and looked inside to see many types of items. Two bottles of water, three pieces of bread, a red bag of powder, and two yellow bags of powder were what it held. Toan tied that bag to his belt and thanked the Mayor again. The Mayor took Toan into a big hug and after he broke it he said. "Remember what I taught you Toan, in there, you will be tested by monsters of all kinds, remember, give no mercy, for neither will they" The Mayor then turned around and began working on some random object. Toan stared at him for a bit, then sighed and walked out of the building. That Mayor had a tear on his cheek as he spoke to himself quietly, "Gods...protect him, and don't let him end up like his father..."
Toan was walking across his barren village, thinking about what was to come before him, and all that he was used to. His mom...Macho...and even Paige were counting on him...Paige. Toan stopped at the thought of her. Something was different now, he couldn't put his finger on it, but, before, when he though of her, she gave him a funny feeling, which he had never felt before, like...like you felt when u knew you were loved. Now though...She didn't, and Toan couldn't figure out why, was he...did he not care about her anymore? I mean, he loved her, like a sister, but...could...did he not love her in that way anymore? Toan suddenly came to a conclusion, one that scared him, he...he didn't love Paige anymore, and that meant, he might never love another girl ever again. Of course he was probably just over-reacting; he shook it all out of his head and continued his walk to the giant doors of the dwelling.
When he reached the doors, he looked up to how big they were and it amazed him how his ancestors could have carved such beautiful pictures in solid stone doors. He looked in the middle of the doors, where they parted, and found the key hole. He placed the key in and turned hard. There was a loud clang, and another sound of wheels beginning to move. He stepped back and watched as the doors began to open slowly. As they moved Toan's mussels tightened, and he looked into the cave with a small feeling of dread, and also, a bit of excitement, which he tried to tell himself shouldn't be there. After all the noise had ceased, and the dust from the moving had cleared, Toan took one small step, then another, then another, and soon, he had walked inside the cave.
The inside of the cave was dimly lit, and the walls had water trickling down them. Torched were lined up evenly apart from each other on each side of the long hallway. He looked around and saw a large open passage way that led to another room to his right, and another hallway to his left. He heard a small sound in front of him and looked, he saw a small cat, not very big more like a kitten, and its tan coat seemed to glow in the dim light of the dark cavern. That cat looked up at him with big yellow eyes.
"Here kitty kitty..." Toan said softly as he bent over and tried to walk toward it, but it quickly backed up, then turned, looked at Toan, and ran away. Toan was a bit shocked, but let it pass him.
"Heh-heh..." a voice laughed behind him, Toan turned quickly, and saw the Fairy King standing there.
"What are you doing here?" Toan asked bewildered.
"I'm just here to see how you're doing, that's all" the King replied with a smile.
"Yeah ok...hey I got a question for you, what did you mean when you said I passed the first test?"
"Oh, well, you see, me and the rest of my counsel um...weren't sure it really was you, I mean, we didn't really know if you were the true one to hold the Atlamillia...heh heh heh"
"What?! To you were sending me in blind?!"
"No, not blind, just...uncertain..."
"Wow, boy that's a boost to the self esteem"
"Oh come now Toan, calm yourself, I know it's a bit of a shock but, well, we, have a hard time trusting humans so, well, yeah I suppose you can understand"
"Yeah I guess, anyway, if I'm right, the people are here, in this cave huh?"
"Yes, as well as everything else in your town"
"You mean, the whole village is, in...here?" Toan said in astonishment.
"Yes, you just have to know were to look, listen, that jewel is far more then just a small fashion statement, it can actually hold the things that have been lost, and stored into balls of energy call Atla. You see if the hand that holds the Atlamillia touches the Atla, the Atla will brake and become infused inside the Atlamillia. Then using the Atlamillia, you will be able to rearrange the things that are held inside; hence, you will be able to rebuild your village."
"You serious! Alright I can't believe it, I was right! I can bring everyone back!"
"Yes, yes, now calm down, it's not easy mind you; there are still monsters in these caverns, if you have already forgotten"
"Oh yeah..."
"But, I have good news for you, you see your dagger, I used a bit of my magic, pulled a few strings and made it unbreakable"
"Unbreakable? You mean it could brake?"
"Yes, but you have repair powder, do you not?"
"I don't know...do I?"
"*sigh* Do you have any yellow bags of powder?"
"Oh, yeah I have that!" Toan said realization striking him.
"Good, now, whenever you feel your weapon about to break, all you need to do is cover it in that powder and it will be as good as new, and also, I don't even know the whole power of the Atlamillia, but I think it has the ability to evolve weapons, but, eh I'm not sure anymore ha-ha!" Toan looked at the man, but just said nothing; he really had nothing to say.
"Well, anyway, I have to move on; I hope you have fun Toan!" And with that he was gone.
'Yeah, fun...right...' Toan thought as he turned to face the passage again. He took in a long breath, then let it out in a sigh, and began to move. His footsteps echoed off the damp walls and his eyes moving around constantly. He turned to the right and came to a large room; a small waterfall was of on the far side of the room, and torches were aligned all around the room. He took three steps in the room and was halted by a loud screech. He turned quickly and saw a large bat, far larger then he had ever seen, with its red wings and blue body, flying strait at him. As it came to him, he quickly moved out of the way and watched it fly past; as it did it flew low to the ground. It turned and just hovered above the spot where it turned, still close to the ground. Toan drew his dagger and stared at the bat, waiting for it to make its move, it never did. A large club suddenly flew downwards, crushing the bat against the floor.
Toan was shocked and looked over to where the club had come from; there stood one of the most disgusting creatures Toan had ever seen. Its brown body was large, and slimy, with many assorted spikes poking from its back and going all the way down to his lizard-like tail. Its squinted eyes looked a Toan with hate, and it picked up its club and laid it on its shoulder and turned to him. Toan got into a small, sloppy fighting stance, and awaited the thing to move. It took one step, and then bent its legs a small bit, then in one instant it ran faster then anything, strait toward Toan. Toan rolled to the side, but was surprised when he felt a great pain in his left side; the creature had stopped just next to Toan and slammed him with its club. Toan was sent flying and landed a few feet away on his back. Toan did a quick spring to bring himself to his feet, but fell back again onto his knees. Toan looked up quickly to see it running to him again. Toan didn't have time to act as he was hit hard and flew backwards again, this time reaching all the way to the wall.
"Damn...it..." Toan swore softly and painfully as he tried to reach his feet, but fell down again clutching his arm, he looked at it and saw he had a large gash in it. The creature was now just walking slowly towards Toan. Toan looked left, then right, and saw the waterfall was not too far to his right. Toan didn't know if that would actually help him any, cause the creature was almost upon him, and Toan was already too injured to actually move. The creature now stood two feet away from Toan, and Toan stood a very sloppy stance, still clutching his arm with his unarmed one, and was in danger of falling again. The creature raised its club, ready to strike, and it was done, Toan felt another pain in his left side and was sent flying off to the right, strait into the water. Toan just laid there motionless, his dagger had fallen out of his hand and was laying a couple inches away from him.
'Is this...the end...Am I already...dead...' Toan thought to himself. Something that surprised Toan was that his pain in his side was gone; actually, now that he thought again, all of his pain was gone. Toan sat up and looked down at his earlier wound and saw no more blood coming out, actually, he didn't even see a cut anymore. Toan quickly found his dagger and stood up, this time without difficulty. Toan turned towards the creature and held his dagger ready. Toan jumped out of the small pool of water and began running at the creature. The creature was caught off guard and Toan saw a chance. He readied his dagger, and made an upward slash at the creature's face, the dagger hit its mark. The Creature roared in pain as it held the cut on its face with both hands, causing it to drop its club onto the floor. Toan ran again and slashed, this time its chest. It roared in pain again, and Toan ran forward one more time and stuck the entire dagger into its chest, the monster roared again in pain, but soon stopped moving all together. Toan pulled out his dagger and moved away from the creature, it was then Toan realized what he had done...he, had...killed! Toan suddenly fell to the ground, just staring at the body of the creature, a shocked and depressed look on his face. His left hand began to glow and he looked to it, it was a blue light, then, it suddenly shot from the Atlamillia strait into his dagger. Toan looked at it and could feel that it had become a little, if even a little, stronger. Toan stood very quietly and watched as the body of the creature disappeared into purple vapor. Toan stared at the spot were it had been, until his mind told him he had to move.
He turned towards the door, and began to walk when he noticed something in the corner of his eye. He turned his head and saw a rather large green and orange ball hovering above the ground. He walked over to it and studied it for a minute. He put his left hand to his chin as he thought, and then he felt it begin to be pulled. His hand moved from his chin, all on its own, and was moved strait towards the ball. As the hand touched the ball, there was a blinding flash, and a crack. The ball broke open suddenly and out of it came a bright yellow light that went strait into the Atlamillia. Toan looked at his left hand and saw a word beginning to form on his hand, and a voice in his head, sounding like a whisper, say the word that was on the Atlamillia's surface...Macho...
"Wow...Wow alright! I found someone!" Toan yelled excitedly, forgetting quickly his depression of earlier, and was jumping up and down. Softly, somewhere else, an old man was smiling...
*Ok there ya go I hope u enjoy! Later my friends, oh by the way, I kind of got an idea for an original character, he won't be a Mary sue, but tell me it I should add him, or just keep him absent and go with the original story, PS. don't worry, he won't take the place of any other characters, ok then, now I say it for real, later!*
Chapter Three: When Mayor's attack, and Toan's First Atla
Toan moved and looked around the barren wasteland that used to be his home, just looking for any kind of life. He spotted the large doors on the far end of the valley, the doors that led to the dwelling of there guardian and God, Drawn. Toan moved a couple steps and continued to look around, wall...wall...Mayor's metallic home...another wall...wait, Mayor's home! Toan was ecstatic, someone else had survived the blast, and someone could help him! Toan ran as fast as he could to the house and what it held in it, the mayor! Toan opened that door and ran in to find...nothing.
"Mayor! Mayor Thomson!" Toan yelled looking around the room, a small sound of a pan falling to the ground was heard from a locked door in the middle of the wall in his house. The inside was round, like the outside, kind of looking like a fish. Its metallic walls surrounded him and the bolts held it in place. The inside was furnished very nicely, with a small dip in the middle of the room where all the furniture was. It consisted of a couch, with grey stripes going down vertically, spread evenly apart. There was also a coffee table and many assorted chairs and random parts of machines spread out across the floor. A door opened that was nothing but a closet, and a man walked out. His white hair was a bit thin, and his body was a tad plump. His skin was pale and in his hands he held a metal wrench, in order to protect himself. He wasn't looking at Toan; his face was looking away, with his eyes closed. His white shirt was grease stained, as well his blue pants and suspenders. He wore an old green tie, which was also stained.
"Get-Get away! I'm armed! I'm warning you! No one's gonna take me without a fight!" He said in his old, yet determined voice. He took a small swing at Toan, but Toan ducked and yelled at the man.
"Mayor! Mayor it's me! Toan!" The man took no notice.
"Oh no! Trying to take young Toan too! Don't worry boy, I'll save you!" He took another swing, still not looking at anything.
"Mayor! Open your eyes!" Toan yelled as he ducked from another swing. The Mayor did so and looked at the boy. He just stared for a bit, and then screamed.
"Oh No! They've taken over Toan's body! Don't worry boy, I'll get those demons out of there! Get back demons of hell!" The Mayor, now swinging at Toan purposely. Toan had had enough, he had to think fast. He jumped back from another of the Mayor's swings, and looked at his situation. The Mayor was coming at him again, and Toan did the only thing he could think of. Toan took out his small dagger and blocked the Mayor's wrench. Then using a technique the Mayor himself taught him, he jumped up and came crashing down, hitting the wrench out of his hands. The Mayor was shocked and looked to his wrench and then to Toan.
"How did you do that...?" The Mayor asked.
"I believe you taught me that sir" Toan said with a little smirk. The mayor was flustered and started sputtering out random words, curses and all, and eventually just sat down on the striped couch and took in three deep breaths. He then looked at Toan and said in bewilderment.
"Toan...there's a demon in my closet" He said in a small voice.
"What?" Toan asked in a strange tone. 'Gees not even a sorry, wait...more demons...dang this just gets better and better'.
"Yeah, in the one I just came from" He said pointing to the closet he spoke of. Toan just looked at it, then back to the Mayor. Toan sighed and, holding his dagger in his hand tightly, began to walk to the closet.
"Toan! No, don't do it boy! It's too dangerous!" The man tried to yell but Toan just continued to walk. 'If I have to do this every day from now on' he thought, 'then I might want to get used to it'. He continued to walk until he got to the door. Toan gulp and reached his hand out, he could feel the sweat begin to move down his brow. His hand shook a bit as he moved it closer to the doorknob. He then, taking a deep breath, and closing his eyes, he opened the door. He waited two seconds...three seconds...five seconds...ten seconds...still nothing came to him. He slowly opened his eyes, and looked into the closet. It was just a bunch of shelves, covered in random tools and machine parts. A small noise cam from below him, and Toan back up a bit and looked. A small blue, spiky bug came waddling out and stopped right in front of Toan. Toan just stared at it for a little, and then broke out in a fit of laughter.
"Toan! Toan my boy what's so funny!" The Mayor said a little annoyed that Toan found his predicament so funny.
"Ha ha ha ha ha!!!! Mayor, you-you have a bu-a bug in your closet!" Toan was hunched over from laughter, and his face had become red. The Mayor stood and walked over to Toan, a questioning look on his face. As he came over, he looked and saw the bug in question. The Mayor just began to snicker a bit, and then also broke out into a fit of laughter.
"Well-well I'll be! Ha-ha! I can take apart so many machines and put new ones together but I get all worked up over a small-a small bug!" Both the Mayor and Toan just stood there laughing for a while, the bug just standing there, and if a person with a half a brain were to see it, they would think the bug was laughing too. After the laughing died down, Toan bent over and picked up the bug and took it to one of the Mayor's windows. He opened it and set the bug on the outside, then closed it and walked over to the Mayor.
"Well that made my day for today" Toan said with a smile, still snickering every once in a while.
"Yeah, that was a bit of fun excitement, better...then before anyway" Toan suddenly got a sad feeling in his body, and just looked up at the mayor. "Oh, Toan, I, I didn't mean to, I'm sorry"
"No it's alright, but, how did u survive?"
"Well, it's a bit complicated. I was down with everyone else at the festival, and by the way I saw u dance with Paige there Romeo. Anyway, when everything began happening, I yelled to everyone to get to my house, because as you know it's the sturdiest, so I began running, thinking people were behind me, you know. Well I kept running and as I got to the door, I looked behind me and saw everyone still in the middle of the village, I yelled, but no one seemed to hear. Then I saw something real strange, bright yellow and green lights were covering the people, and they were put inside these balls, and were sent into Drawn's dwelling. To escape that, I ran into my house, and hid in my closet, then I began to feel things touching me, and I snapped, that's when I fell asleep and when I woke up, I heard the door open, and thought it was those things coming after me, and you know the rest"
"Yeah..." Toan just thought a bit 'Balls of light, Drawn's cave...?' Toan suddenly looked to his left hand and saw the Atlamillia begin to glow its green and yellow, that's when Toan's mind suddenly put two and two together.
"Mayor, I need to get to the cave! I think I know how to get everyone back!" Toan said with excitement. The Mayor looked at Toan as if he were crazy.
"Boy, I don't understand" Toan then, quickly, began to tell the Mayor about all that had been told to him, about the Fairy King, the Dark Genie, and the Atlamillia.
After he was finished, the Mayor was amazed and just stared at Toan.
"Toan, are you sure when you flew you didn't get hit in the head?"
"Yeah this is coming from a man who was attacking me thinking I was a demon. Come on Mayor why would I make this up!"
"Toan, I know you as a very truthful boy, but, that's a bit hard to believe"
"Dang it! Look Mayor, this is the Atlamillia, I'm telling you the truth!" Toan showed the Mayor and the Atlamillia suddenly began to glow a bright yellow, making the Mayor fall on the couch from the light. A small voice lit up in Toan's mind saying: "You've passed test one, the Atlamillia now fully recognizes you my boy" It was the voice of the Fairy King.
"My boy...I didn't know, gees, that thing's real huh?" the Mayor said in bewilderment.
"Yeah"
"Alright, you win Toan, I don't like it, but I'll give you the key" The Mayor reached into his pocket and pulled out a bright gold key. On it was a red jewel in the middle of the handle, and the key itself was beautifully crafted. There were two small horns coming out of the handle as well, Drawn's crest. Toan took the key and put it in his brown bag on his belt. Toan then looked at the Mayor.
"Well, I guess I'm leaving then, that's a lot Mayor, I'll come back, with everyone, I promise" Toan began to walk out but was stopped by the Mayor's voice calling his name. Toan turned to see the Mayor holding a small pack of items.
"Here, take it with you, I went into Drawn's Dwelling once, and it gets pretty dangerous, you may need this" Toan took it and looked inside to see many types of items. Two bottles of water, three pieces of bread, a red bag of powder, and two yellow bags of powder were what it held. Toan tied that bag to his belt and thanked the Mayor again. The Mayor took Toan into a big hug and after he broke it he said. "Remember what I taught you Toan, in there, you will be tested by monsters of all kinds, remember, give no mercy, for neither will they" The Mayor then turned around and began working on some random object. Toan stared at him for a bit, then sighed and walked out of the building. That Mayor had a tear on his cheek as he spoke to himself quietly, "Gods...protect him, and don't let him end up like his father..."
Toan was walking across his barren village, thinking about what was to come before him, and all that he was used to. His mom...Macho...and even Paige were counting on him...Paige. Toan stopped at the thought of her. Something was different now, he couldn't put his finger on it, but, before, when he though of her, she gave him a funny feeling, which he had never felt before, like...like you felt when u knew you were loved. Now though...She didn't, and Toan couldn't figure out why, was he...did he not care about her anymore? I mean, he loved her, like a sister, but...could...did he not love her in that way anymore? Toan suddenly came to a conclusion, one that scared him, he...he didn't love Paige anymore, and that meant, he might never love another girl ever again. Of course he was probably just over-reacting; he shook it all out of his head and continued his walk to the giant doors of the dwelling.
When he reached the doors, he looked up to how big they were and it amazed him how his ancestors could have carved such beautiful pictures in solid stone doors. He looked in the middle of the doors, where they parted, and found the key hole. He placed the key in and turned hard. There was a loud clang, and another sound of wheels beginning to move. He stepped back and watched as the doors began to open slowly. As they moved Toan's mussels tightened, and he looked into the cave with a small feeling of dread, and also, a bit of excitement, which he tried to tell himself shouldn't be there. After all the noise had ceased, and the dust from the moving had cleared, Toan took one small step, then another, then another, and soon, he had walked inside the cave.
The inside of the cave was dimly lit, and the walls had water trickling down them. Torched were lined up evenly apart from each other on each side of the long hallway. He looked around and saw a large open passage way that led to another room to his right, and another hallway to his left. He heard a small sound in front of him and looked, he saw a small cat, not very big more like a kitten, and its tan coat seemed to glow in the dim light of the dark cavern. That cat looked up at him with big yellow eyes.
"Here kitty kitty..." Toan said softly as he bent over and tried to walk toward it, but it quickly backed up, then turned, looked at Toan, and ran away. Toan was a bit shocked, but let it pass him.
"Heh-heh..." a voice laughed behind him, Toan turned quickly, and saw the Fairy King standing there.
"What are you doing here?" Toan asked bewildered.
"I'm just here to see how you're doing, that's all" the King replied with a smile.
"Yeah ok...hey I got a question for you, what did you mean when you said I passed the first test?"
"Oh, well, you see, me and the rest of my counsel um...weren't sure it really was you, I mean, we didn't really know if you were the true one to hold the Atlamillia...heh heh heh"
"What?! To you were sending me in blind?!"
"No, not blind, just...uncertain..."
"Wow, boy that's a boost to the self esteem"
"Oh come now Toan, calm yourself, I know it's a bit of a shock but, well, we, have a hard time trusting humans so, well, yeah I suppose you can understand"
"Yeah I guess, anyway, if I'm right, the people are here, in this cave huh?"
"Yes, as well as everything else in your town"
"You mean, the whole village is, in...here?" Toan said in astonishment.
"Yes, you just have to know were to look, listen, that jewel is far more then just a small fashion statement, it can actually hold the things that have been lost, and stored into balls of energy call Atla. You see if the hand that holds the Atlamillia touches the Atla, the Atla will brake and become infused inside the Atlamillia. Then using the Atlamillia, you will be able to rearrange the things that are held inside; hence, you will be able to rebuild your village."
"You serious! Alright I can't believe it, I was right! I can bring everyone back!"
"Yes, yes, now calm down, it's not easy mind you; there are still monsters in these caverns, if you have already forgotten"
"Oh yeah..."
"But, I have good news for you, you see your dagger, I used a bit of my magic, pulled a few strings and made it unbreakable"
"Unbreakable? You mean it could brake?"
"Yes, but you have repair powder, do you not?"
"I don't know...do I?"
"*sigh* Do you have any yellow bags of powder?"
"Oh, yeah I have that!" Toan said realization striking him.
"Good, now, whenever you feel your weapon about to break, all you need to do is cover it in that powder and it will be as good as new, and also, I don't even know the whole power of the Atlamillia, but I think it has the ability to evolve weapons, but, eh I'm not sure anymore ha-ha!" Toan looked at the man, but just said nothing; he really had nothing to say.
"Well, anyway, I have to move on; I hope you have fun Toan!" And with that he was gone.
'Yeah, fun...right...' Toan thought as he turned to face the passage again. He took in a long breath, then let it out in a sigh, and began to move. His footsteps echoed off the damp walls and his eyes moving around constantly. He turned to the right and came to a large room; a small waterfall was of on the far side of the room, and torches were aligned all around the room. He took three steps in the room and was halted by a loud screech. He turned quickly and saw a large bat, far larger then he had ever seen, with its red wings and blue body, flying strait at him. As it came to him, he quickly moved out of the way and watched it fly past; as it did it flew low to the ground. It turned and just hovered above the spot where it turned, still close to the ground. Toan drew his dagger and stared at the bat, waiting for it to make its move, it never did. A large club suddenly flew downwards, crushing the bat against the floor.
Toan was shocked and looked over to where the club had come from; there stood one of the most disgusting creatures Toan had ever seen. Its brown body was large, and slimy, with many assorted spikes poking from its back and going all the way down to his lizard-like tail. Its squinted eyes looked a Toan with hate, and it picked up its club and laid it on its shoulder and turned to him. Toan got into a small, sloppy fighting stance, and awaited the thing to move. It took one step, and then bent its legs a small bit, then in one instant it ran faster then anything, strait toward Toan. Toan rolled to the side, but was surprised when he felt a great pain in his left side; the creature had stopped just next to Toan and slammed him with its club. Toan was sent flying and landed a few feet away on his back. Toan did a quick spring to bring himself to his feet, but fell back again onto his knees. Toan looked up quickly to see it running to him again. Toan didn't have time to act as he was hit hard and flew backwards again, this time reaching all the way to the wall.
"Damn...it..." Toan swore softly and painfully as he tried to reach his feet, but fell down again clutching his arm, he looked at it and saw he had a large gash in it. The creature was now just walking slowly towards Toan. Toan looked left, then right, and saw the waterfall was not too far to his right. Toan didn't know if that would actually help him any, cause the creature was almost upon him, and Toan was already too injured to actually move. The creature now stood two feet away from Toan, and Toan stood a very sloppy stance, still clutching his arm with his unarmed one, and was in danger of falling again. The creature raised its club, ready to strike, and it was done, Toan felt another pain in his left side and was sent flying off to the right, strait into the water. Toan just laid there motionless, his dagger had fallen out of his hand and was laying a couple inches away from him.
'Is this...the end...Am I already...dead...' Toan thought to himself. Something that surprised Toan was that his pain in his side was gone; actually, now that he thought again, all of his pain was gone. Toan sat up and looked down at his earlier wound and saw no more blood coming out, actually, he didn't even see a cut anymore. Toan quickly found his dagger and stood up, this time without difficulty. Toan turned towards the creature and held his dagger ready. Toan jumped out of the small pool of water and began running at the creature. The creature was caught off guard and Toan saw a chance. He readied his dagger, and made an upward slash at the creature's face, the dagger hit its mark. The Creature roared in pain as it held the cut on its face with both hands, causing it to drop its club onto the floor. Toan ran again and slashed, this time its chest. It roared in pain again, and Toan ran forward one more time and stuck the entire dagger into its chest, the monster roared again in pain, but soon stopped moving all together. Toan pulled out his dagger and moved away from the creature, it was then Toan realized what he had done...he, had...killed! Toan suddenly fell to the ground, just staring at the body of the creature, a shocked and depressed look on his face. His left hand began to glow and he looked to it, it was a blue light, then, it suddenly shot from the Atlamillia strait into his dagger. Toan looked at it and could feel that it had become a little, if even a little, stronger. Toan stood very quietly and watched as the body of the creature disappeared into purple vapor. Toan stared at the spot were it had been, until his mind told him he had to move.
He turned towards the door, and began to walk when he noticed something in the corner of his eye. He turned his head and saw a rather large green and orange ball hovering above the ground. He walked over to it and studied it for a minute. He put his left hand to his chin as he thought, and then he felt it begin to be pulled. His hand moved from his chin, all on its own, and was moved strait towards the ball. As the hand touched the ball, there was a blinding flash, and a crack. The ball broke open suddenly and out of it came a bright yellow light that went strait into the Atlamillia. Toan looked at his left hand and saw a word beginning to form on his hand, and a voice in his head, sounding like a whisper, say the word that was on the Atlamillia's surface...Macho...
"Wow...Wow alright! I found someone!" Toan yelled excitedly, forgetting quickly his depression of earlier, and was jumping up and down. Softly, somewhere else, an old man was smiling...
*Ok there ya go I hope u enjoy! Later my friends, oh by the way, I kind of got an idea for an original character, he won't be a Mary sue, but tell me it I should add him, or just keep him absent and go with the original story, PS. don't worry, he won't take the place of any other characters, ok then, now I say it for real, later!*