Twilight Lotus

Epitaph 2 Those Sent by Aura

Andrius stood amazed and at the same time scared. He knew not what they wanted with him. Were they hackers out to mess with his account? Were they system admins here to delete them? One of the men spoke up. "I am known as Balmung of the azure sky I was once a system administrator for The World. I am now a Hacker on the run I see aura has given you the rite of passage." Andrius then looks at them funny. The other man then holds up Andrius bracelet and looks at him. "Few are given Auras blessing you having been endowed with the power of the bracelet. Do not abuse it; this power can bring forth order or chaos. Welcome to the twilight knights Andrius." Andrius looked at them both shocked "Who are you guys and how come I can't use my ocarina and Why Me!" The second man looked at him and smiled. "My name Is Kite I was once like you I felt a burden because of the bracelet but with the help of my friends I helped save the world from Morghanna. You have a gift Andrius Aura has chosen you to help save the world. You may be a new to this place but you can still help us. Me and Balmung will teach all there is to know about hacking the gates and defeating protected creatures with the bracelet." Balmung sheathed his blade and spoke up. "There is one thing though The system admins will try to hunt you and delete you, your now considered a hacker but worry not you cannot be deleted. You must help us find the twilight lotus I will flash mail you the details about our quest but be careful. Trust few and form a party and together we will eliminate the threat of Morghanna with the power of the Lotus and the strength of the bracelet. Then before Andrius could say anything else they gated out and Andrius vanished back into Mac Anu.

Mac Anu remained the same as it was and Andrius was tired from his adventure. He decided to log out. Before he decided to leave he decided to check his flash mail. He received about three messages. One caught his eye though the user name was in garbage text and it contained a poem within it.

Sender 2

Unknown where the Cursed Wave was born...
After the stars doth cross the heavens...
The sky in the East doth darken.
And air doth fills with mourning.
From the chosen land beyond the forest,
A sign of the Wave comes.
Riding the Wave is: Skeith, the Shadow of Death,
to drown all that stands.
Mirage of Deceit, Innis,
Betray all with the flawed image,
and did aid the Wave.
And by the Power of Magus,
a drop from the Wave doth reach the heavens,
and creates a new Wave.

With the Wave, Fidchell,
the power to tell the dark future,
hope darkens, sadness and despair rule.
Gorre schemes when swallowed by the Cursed Wave.
Macha seduces with the sweet trap.
Wave reaches the Pinnacle, and escape none can.
Tarvos still remains with more cruelty to punish and destroy.
And with the turbulent destruction after the Wave.
Only a void remains.
From deep within the void arrives Corbenik.

Yet to return, the shadowed one.
Who quests for the Twilight Dragon
Rumbles the Dark Hearth,
And Helba, Queen of the Dark, has raised finally her army.
Apeiron, King of Light, beckons...
At the base of the rainbow they meet.
Against the abominable "Wave," together they fight.
Alba's lake boils.
Light's great tree doth fall.
Power - all now to droplets turned in the temple of Arche Koeln.
Returns to nothing, this world of shadowless ones.
Never to return, the shadowless one.
Who quests for the Twilight Dragon.

The wife buffeted by "waves" turns her back on the field.
The daughter that waited for the shadows repeated,
"For sure... For sure I can go home."
But the girl did not know...
The truth that waited at the end of the journey
The eternal mourning of her land.

In the place of the calamitous, only life was known.
After the circling stars
When the eastern dark void, the air full of despair
In the depths of the divided forest, in the land of Karma,

Riding fast on the path is Skeith
Bearing death's shadow, it eliminates all that seek to thwart it.
The Confusing Mirage, Innis
Deceives those that see it with illusions, rescues the waves

The wave soaring high, when its head is smashed,
A new wave will emerge
To become Magus's power.
When questioning the wave,
Hope's light will be lost when he speaks of the dark future of where
sorrow and resignation reign.
Using Fiddlehiem's Technique

When engulfed by the Waves of Calamity, Gorre will plan
The sweet snare of conciliation is Macha
The Waves, an exceeding maelstrom
Nothing can escape

When you think you have escaped, Talvos exists
To destroy those with his exceeding cruelty
Upon violent requital, only to remain is the void, the vacant darkness
is the harbinger that Copernic is to appear.

----Emma Wielant

He looked at the letter still wondering what this poem meant. He then put it in his saved box just for future reference and sent a response to aura. He put in this letter.

To: 2

From: Andrius Oconner

Subject: RE

I know not what this poem means but I know who you are, why me though. I am just an ordinary player. Why do you throw this burden upon me I have heard from the bbs who Kite and Balmung are and there history. They are great and mighty high level players. I am just a new player, with average abilities but if this is my destiny I will join this organization. Thank you Aura I will help defeat Morghanna.

Andrius

The letter was sent and then a couple seconds later a letter appears. A letter than appears from the system admin saying "The username 2 does not exist we will try to find this path and username. Sorry for the inconvenience." Andrius then pondered on this and erased the message. He then looked at the other two e-mails they were from Ice and Axeo. The message from Ice read this.

To: Andrius Oconner

From: FrigidIceQueen

Subject: I had fun

Hey Andrius you're not too bad for a newbie you gave me a scare though. Why did you not leave the dungeon what the hell is going on? Are you ok also I don't worry often for people like you but I guess you seems like you have a lot of potential I sent you a friends list request so anytime you wanna talk or party just call me alright. Talk to ya later Cutie.

Ice

PS: You proved yourself quite well on the battlefield meet me at the chaos gate alone maybe we can level up together some more.

Andrius pondered this, a smile came across his features she seemed pretty cool but he wanted to learn more about her. He was always a loser in high school, and never had many friends. He felt the world was a place where he could make some friends and never truly be alone. He then checked the message from Axeo it talked about pretty much the same thing save the meeting he was going to have tomorrow. He then sent a response and added both of them to his friends list. He took off the visor and moved his brown hair from his face.

His apartment was average and was a studio. He petted his cat. He raised this cat from a kitten he named his kitten storm and he kissed her on the forehead and went to bed. He took off his glasses and pondered his first day in the world trying to take it all on in wondering what tomorrow will bring.

((Hey all this is chapter two I hope you will enjoy it I will put forth more details of each characters off screen in the chapters to come so enjoy R&R no flaming))