The Golden Sun Chronicles:
Chapter II:
The Beginning of the IRC
After the duel between Royal Swordsman and Ice Angel, much of the community continued on as they usually did. After the duel, the two of them made up, and a good friendship abounded from the fight. The duel was a new thing for the community, dueling had never taken place between authors before. The outcome of each duel was a procedure that had never really happened in the past, so it was up to Royal Swordsman and Ice Angel to find a truthful way to do it. The answer was a committee. A committee of several authors, who after reading the story of the battle, which would end with a cliffhanger; the committee would determine which author would claim victory over the other. This committee was founded by two authors, one being Royal Swordsman, and the other being Imperial Swordsman. Imperial Swordsman was one of Royal Swordsman's good friends from the school he attended. The name arose from this, becoming the Imperial Royal Committee. People said it was redundant, since how could one be both imperial and royal. But it did not matter to them, and the committee began to muster people to its cause. Before the mustering was complete, another duel opened up between two authors. One person was Royal Swordsman, and the other was an older author, Piro Flare.
They had both been reviewing to a certain story known as "A Girl for Ivan" by Neo Ringo (the author goes by another name now). Royal Swordsman had commented that it was odd that Ivan could talk to cats. Somehow this argument led to him being racist against Japanese girls. However, Royal Swordsman had not the slightest idea that Neo Ringo was Japanese, so how could he be racist against a person he didn't know? Royal Swordsman was also a Renaissance man, so he was not racist against anyone? Piro Flare later intervened on the argument, saying that she could "beat him to a bloody pulp", which would be quite disgusting. Royal Swordsman, a quite athletic person himself, replied, "I doubt it, since you're a girl right?" This seemed to light the inferno that engulfed the two of them in a duel. However, before both sides could throw any punches, the tensions were lightened, and as before they became good friends. Piro Flare became another member of the committee that was to be judging these duels. It is believed, that if they did fight it would have been a very close fight indeed, since both of them seemed skilled in battle. However, it was also known that Royal Swordsman was quite the sniper when it came to archery, so if starting from a longer distance apart, Royal could probably land a few arrows. But it would be dishonorable to fight a girl, so the fight never happened, perhaps to the relief of many an author.
The committee was completed after the second duel, and it was never really used again for dueling purposes. With the committee completed it was no longer known as the committee, but the IRC, a group of authors whose all had good common goals, writing good Golden Sun stories. In the height of the IRC's power, half the Golden Sun land was with them. Under the leadership of Royal Swordsman, and his chancellor, Mr. Bigg, they won the appreciation of much of the community. They had the goals of writing good stories, but they also looked out for their fellow members, if one got into a fight, the others would come to their help. It was a very powerful organization which had many followers in the height of its power. When all was established in the Golden Sun community, tempers seemed to be rising in two of the three sides. The first side was Azusasan and Co, who started the site, and were some of the most respected members. Next came the IRC, led by Royal Swordsman and his network of members. The third was a neutral branch made of any authors not in the two groups, many of these were people who had just arrived. The Azusasan population seemed to be conflicting with the IRC, and it was causing problems. If one were to look at a map of Golden Sun to know the three sides, it was easy. Azusasan and Co had settled in the west, in Tolbi, while the IRC headquarters were in Xian. The neutral forces were spread around the map, many of them from the Vale and Vault regions.
Tolbi under Azusasan was a very prosperous city, with many inhabitants and sights. Xian under Royal Swordsman was completely different than what it normally was. Normally with all the martial arts peoples and things was changed to skyscrapers and strong walls. The martial arts people resisted at first, but were finished by the IRC's growing army. Xian was later nicknamed Coruscant, because it resembled the planetary city. Not really, but Xian had become something of a technological marvel, and its eyes were looking in the direction of Tolbi. If conflicts persisted, they would go to war. More on that in the next chapter of the Golden Sun Chronicles.