Chapter 8

We raced up to her room to where her pendant was. Once we entered her room, a familiar little sister greeted us.

"Hey you two, what's the rush?" She asked us.

"Nothing, now can you please get out of the way?" Natasha said with a bit of anger.

"Not until you tell what you're going to do. I might not be an adept, but I can tell that you're up to something." Now was my turn to but in, and I had the perfect plan.

"Of course we're up to something." I said as I made my way for Natasha's hand. When I held her hand, and I made it noticeable enough so Lauren could get the idea.

"Oooooooooooooooooo!" She said with excitement. The she ran off.

"Nice cover up." She said.

"Who said it was a cover up?" I said with a devilish smile. She tried to punch me, but I caught it. We then just stared at each other for a couple of seconds.

"C'mon, if we don't get to the pendant now, who knows when we will." I said. She agreed and went inside. Before I made it halfway through the door, Natasha turned around and kissed me on the cheek.

"That was for your little white lie." She said.

Once we finally entered her room, I sat down on her bed, and she went over to her desk to get her pendant. She showed it to me. The details of the pendant were phenomenal. The material was gold, and it showed the picture of the sun with amazing detail. There were symbols around the sun that looked just like the ones that are in my game. And in the center of the sun was a warrior. Everything about his person was crafted with such skill, the only thing that bothered me was his face, you couldn't see it. All you could see of his face was his glowing eyes, they were obviously some type of sapphires.

"This is a very nice pendant, and Xeal gave this to you?" I asked.

"Yes, but look upon the back of it." Natasha said.

I looked on the back, and was just as amazed as the front. On it was the symbol for the moon. And like the front it had symbols as the ones on my game. Though the only thing different was the person in the middle. It was a woman this time, and she looked like she was praying or something. Like the man, her hair covered her face, and it had amethyst eyes.

"Wow, Xeal had to go to some lengths to get this thing, huh?" I said.

"He never actually said, which is one reason I don' trust him."

"So, open that thing up, and hope for the best." I said.

So she grasped the pendant in both hands, flipped the tiny latch, and opened it up. A bright light filled the room. It was so bright that a familiar Lemurian could see the light, and was heading over to its direction.

When the light dimmed, we finally made out the image that appeared from the pendant. It was a ball. A silver ball. I went over to grasp it in my hands, but the Psynergy emanating from it was too extreme, so I retracted my hand.

"What is it?" Natasha asked with amazement.

"I…I think it's a star." I said.

"A what? How could the power of a star be in the confinement of a miniscule pendant?" She asked.

"No, have you heard of the tale of the Elemental Stars that light the Beacons?" I asked.

"Yes everyone has heard of it. There's a star for each element, and since the beacons are lit, there's no doubting the existence of the stars."

"Well what if this sliver ball is a star?" I suggested.

"That's impossible, that would have to mean that there is another lighthouse still to be lit."

"Exactly, maybe this pendant shows us the way to it?"

We looked at the inside of the pendant, and saw that there was a whole map of Weyard. Yet something was different. It was Lemuria, the fog encased island. It was glowing very brightly.

"What's that place over there, the one that's glowing?" She asked.

"That's Lemuria, an ancient city that's slowly decaying."

"I think we have to go there."

Before I was going to answer her back, we heard something call out from the town.

"A STRANGER IS COMING! A STRANGER IS COMING!" Said a villager.

"What's that all about?" I asked.

"We must prepare. Whenever someone comes that we aren't sure of we must protect the village, in case he his here to rob us of our fortunes." Natasha said.

So Natasha and I quickly grabbed our weapons and ran toward the door. We were stopped with a screeching halt.

"Where do you think your going?" Warren yelled out.

"We're going to see who the stranger is, and what he wants." Natasha said.

"No, I cannot let you go." Warren demanded

"Don't worry Warren, if she gets in any trouble, I'll be there to help her." I said.

"…" Warren was obviously thinking about what I proposed.

"Fine, but come back as soon as the matter is finished." Warren finally said, and we were off faster than you can say, "I love homework".

Once we arrived at the cities gates, there was a huge crowd of men there. Funny, there weren't any women here. I guess they were meant for house duties still, except Natasha, she was waiting along side us with her mysterious Katanna. I forgot to ask her what kind it was, hers isn't something I'm familiar with.

One way or another we shoved our way to the front, I'd rather not go through the details, because some of the stuff I went through, just to see a stupid stranger, I'd keep the details to myself.

When we reached the front, we saw the stranger approaching.

"Ready your weapons!" A villager yelled.

So Natasha and I readied ourselves. Yet something was bothering me. The stranger approaching the village seemed very familiar. I could definitely see that he had long bright hair. His eyes were glowing in the night, and there was a definite Psynergy feel about him. If I wasn't mistaken, he was a Mercury adept.

"Hello there villagers of Imil. It is I, Piers of Lemuria." The stranger spoke out. Was this true, was this really Piers, the coolest character in the game.

"Lower your weapons!" I yelled out. Quickly I grabbed a torch from one of the villagers and ran toward Piers, or at least, he claimed to be Piers.

"Xero! Come back!" Natasha yelled out. It was too late, I was already a couple of feet in front of him. By now I already wished I listened to Natasha. All I remember from that point on was Piers unsheathing his sword, a shimmer of light, and something hitting me really hard in the stomach. Piers obviously had a sword with him, I saw it around his waist, and if he hit me with it, he definitely used the hilt.

I awoken on something soft, the material felt familiar, it was Natasha's bed. I tried opening my eyes, but the sunlight appearing from the window was really bothersome. Once my view was less disoriented, I saw two big objects, and one stubby one. The one stubby object that was on my head was Clay. He was a very heavy Djinni. The other two objects were Natasha and Piers. Natasha was sitting right beside me, holding my hand. Piers was standing in the middle of the room, I think he was pacing earlier.

"Hey Xero, sorry for knocking you out last night." Piers said to me.

"P-Piers, is that you?" I asked.

"That's what my mother called me."

"Hey sleepy, don't get all worked up." I heard Natasha say. She was definitely worried when I was asleep, or should I say knocked out.

"Listen you two, I need to know something. Who produced the brilliant light last night?" Piers asked us.

"That was us, why do you ask?" Natasha asked him.

"I will tell you later, I must first talk to your parents." Piers said.

"My parents are downstairs, as you know." Natasha said.

"Where are your parents at?" Piers asked me.

"…They're not here." I answered dismally. I forgot all about my parents, I was even starting to miss that witch.

"I understand." And he left. Okay, nothing was really making sense now, why was Piers here, and why didn't her question more about my parents. Why did he care anyway? Of course, my questions didn't go unanswered, but I was as nervous as hell when he came back.