Thanks for the reviews! I can't believe I'm working on this already! lol I mean I just updated like a few days ago but my Kingdom Hearts story practically wrote itself. I can't believe my border lines keep disappearing first the asterix and now the dashes maybe I'll try O's next.
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A Tale of Two Worlds
Ch. 4 The First Seal
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The Desians were close to them and the boys ran the other way right into the hands of more Desians.
"Let us go!" Genis said squirming.
"Shut it you we have orders to capture you," one of the Desians said roughly kicking Genis.
"Don't touch him!" Seth snarled angrily. The Desians just ignored him. "He didn't do anything let him go now and we'll come quietly,"
"Seth, don't," Genis said worriedly.
"What are you doing?" Lloyd whispered angrily.
"Well he never said we needed him," one said thoughtfully.
"Fine he can stay but you better come quietly!" a second one said. The Desian that was holding Genis let him go. Genis scrambled to his feet and ran away saying in his head he would get help which Seth knew he would. The Desians lead the boys out of Triet and to their base which was located behind a single large mountain near Triet. The base was a large domed shaped building hidden in the shadow of the mountain.
"All right you gotta wear these or else," one of the Desians said while blindfolding both boys.
"Why?" Lloyd asked annoyed at being temporarily blinded.
"Because now be quiet," The Desians and there now blinded captives entered the building. The door, as Seth noted, opened with a swishing sound that was different from what he was used to. They walked for a few minutes before they were roughly thrown into two separate cells. Seth immediately pulled of his blindfold and looked around him in wonder. Everything was some kind of metal and looked really technologically advanced. The professor said something about this but Seth couldn't remember it. Magi-technology! That was the word.
The Desians had left and Seth looked around his cell. There were bars in the front and a small bed next to him that was really all there was. He did note that there was some kind of device near one end of the cell on the outside which looked like a little slot for something to be swiped through. He sat on the bed grumpily not being able to do anything to the guard, who was pacing in front of the cells, as his weapons had been taken.
"OWW what was that?" The Desian suddenly yelled in pain. Seth looked up and saw the Desians face was burned a bit. Then he remembered Lloyd still had the Sorcerer's Ring. "Damn kid," The Desian went off muttering to the medical center to fix up his wound. Little did he know he walked a bit too close to Seth who snatched a card from his pocket. As soon as the door closed behind the Desian he reached out and swiped the card through the slot near his cell. The bars rose up into the ceiling.
"Yes it worked!" Seth said triumphantly.
"Good now get me outta here!" Lloyd said angrily thinking Seth had forgotten about him.
"Calm down," Seth swiped the card through the slot by Lloyd's prison. The bars raised and Lloyd jumped out.
"Now we just need to find a way out of here," They were in a hallway with several doors there was also a small room with desks and chairs at the left end.
"There are our weapons!" Seth said excitedly and grabbed his bow and quiver.
"Yay my swords!" Lloyd grabbed his new blades and put them back onto his belt. Seth sighed. "Um, how do we get out of here?"
"We just try doors I guess…," Seth opened the door at the end of the hallway. There was a large structure in the center and a smaller one near the door. There were blue two blue columns one either side of the room. Lloyd walked over to the smaller mechanism and the Sorcerer's Ring started to glow and change from red to a light bluish color.
"Whoa what happened?" Seth just shrugged.
"Try shooting it," Lloyd did as he was told and a ball of electricity shot out and headed straight for a pillar.
"Cool!" Lloyd said. The ball struck and electricity shot up through the pillar and it started to glow. A light that was beside the other door in the room light up. While the other stayed dull.
"I bet that door is locked. Lloyd shoot the other pillar,"
"Why?" Lloyd asked densely.
"Just do it," Muttering darkly Lloyd shot the pillar. It lit up along with the second light lit. "The door is open come one Lloyd." The two youths ran out of the room into a T-shaped hallway. It was then that they saw resistance. Apparently when the guard had come back he let everyone know that the prisoners had escaped. There were several Desians standing in the hallway.
"There they are!" one of them yelled. The five Desians turned around and ran at them. All five had whips in their hands.
"Time to break in your new swords," Seth said while raising an arrow to his bow. He wanted to finish this fight quickly and get to Genis. He let the arrow fly running straight into the head of the first Desian. He was dead before he hit the floor. Seth sliced through the whip of a second one. It was then Seth noticed something he knew he could concentrate his mana and use a new ability. It was odd for some reason an ex-gem could let you harness your mana and use special attacks. They would also let you know by a feeling. Seth had had his since as long as he could remember.
"Fire arrow!" As Seth let his arrow fly the tip burst into flames. The flaming arrow flew into the chest of one of the Desians. He fell in agony to the floor as flames consumed him.
"Nice!" Lloyd said. Seth just smirked. Lloyd sliced the Desian he was fighting in half and blood spilled onto the floor. There were two left standing side by side running at Seth. He turned his bow on its side and knocked two arrows into it. The arrows flew out into their heads. They fell to the ground.
The flames which were still burning blocked the path that lead to a staircase. Instead they headed straight, stepping over the bloody corpses, to the door at the end of the hallway. After going through several room and some dead ends they found a staircase that lead to a beautiful room. There was a bed and a desk and the floor was beautifully decorated with ravishing purples. Behind the desk was a man with blue hair. He was dressed in some kind of fancy armor.
"Ah Lloyd we have been looking for you," the mysterious man said.
"H-how do you know my name?" Lloyd asked freaked out.
"I know a lot about you-," he was cut off as the door slammed open.
"Seth! You're ok!" Seth spun around in time to be almost tackled by Genis. Genis looked up at Seth worry clear in his eyes.
"I'm fine don't worry," Seth said warmly.
"Colette, Professor, Kratos, what are you doing here?" Lloyd asked? It was then Seth noticed that those three people were standing in the doorway.
"Are you really that dense?" Kratos said annoyed.
"We're here to save you!" Colette said.
"Lord Yuan!" the same man from the temple burst into the door with several guards flanking him. This time however he had a large red blade.
"Botta what are you doing here?" Yuan asked sternly.
"These people are dangerous they have killed countless soldiers," the man looked at the guards flanking him, "Go kill them!" The five guards ran at them. Kratos drew his sword and sliced the head off of the first one blood spraying like a fountain. Colette threw her chakram into the chest of one of the Desians. A third soldier ran at Genis. Quickly he started to cast a spell.
"Stone Blast!" Rocks, of a decent size, shot up from the ground slamming into the Desian. Unfortunately the rocks only bruised him a bit. As he ran forward he slashed at Genis. "Aaah!" Genis screamed in pain as the blade cut across his chest.
"Genis!" Raine, who had healed a wound Lloyd had gotten, and Seth, who had just shot a Desian, both shouted. Raine ran over to check on her brother and heal his wound with her magic.
"You Bastard!" Seth yelled angrily and shot the arrow straight through the Desians body. "Genis are you ok?" Seth asked as he kneeled by him.
"Yeah I'm fine," Raine had expertly healed his wound. His shirt however was torn and bloody.
"I think it best if we leave," Raine said. However it was rather impossible as Botta stood blocking the doorway.
"You will not leave here alive," Botta raised his sword above his head ready to strike.
"Enough!" Yuan said loudly. "Botta let them leave. You may leave for now but be sure we will eventually get you."
Taking the chance the group quickly ran through the door retracing their steps to get out of the base.
"That was close," Lloyd said as they entered Triet. It was late now and they were all headed towards the inn.
"And I still managed to keep this," Raine held out her hand and in it was what looked like some kind of damaged key crest and an ex-gem.
"Oh that reminds me!" Lloyd searched through his pocket he finally held out his hand to Genis. In his hand was an ex-gem complete with a key crest. "This was Marble's you should have it." Genis took the items into his hands.
"Lloyd how do I put it on?"
"Just place it on you hand it will go in by itself," Genis placed the key crest on his hand and it sank into the skin so that just the top of the gem could be seen. Meanwhile Lloyd had told he would fix the key crest of the Professor.
"This means we all will have one!" Colette said happily clapping her hands together. Seth sighed. Colette was her friend but she really was childish. He didn't know what Lloyd saw in her.
"It feels weird… Is it supposed to?" Genis asked Seth. He laughed lightly.
"Yup but you'll get used to it don't worry,"
"Perhaps we should get to the inn now it is rather late," Kratos said who was already walking away. They all headed towards the Inn and Seth brought the bags from Noishe into the inn.
"Ok we have three rooms. Genis and I will share one," Raine stated commandingly. She noticed Seth looked a little disappointed at this but she thought nothing of it. "Colette will have a room to herself. And you three will get the last one. They climbed the staircase and Seth searched through the bag with clothes and got out the stuff Genis had brought.
"Here Genis," Genis took the clothes and followed his sister their room. Seth walked into his room behind Kratos and Lloyd and flopped onto his bed promptly falling asleep.
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Morning came and the six travelers were eating breakfast.
"I believe the seal is somewhere around the Triet Ruins," Raine said while looking over a map. "This will be wonderful! I bet there is so much to be uncovered there!"
"Calm down Raine," Genis said. In his eyes she was making a scene.
"Then let us leave after breakfast," Kratos said. He had finished his breakfast already.
"But I'm still tired," Lloyd said through a mouthful of pancakes.
"I guess we could wait a little bit after breakfast. Oh I know let's go shopping by the stalls!" Colette said liking her idea very much.
"Colette we really should save our money," Raine told her sternly.
"OK," she said disappointedly. Breakfast was over quickly and the group was on their way to the Ruins. The trip would only take two hours by foot and they reached it by about 11:00.
Before them lay the ruins of what seemed to be a large temple. Broken pillars and pieced of walls and ceilings littered the sand.
"How do we get in?" Lloyd said looking stumped.
"Oh! Over here! This way I think the entrance is here!" Raine called over from near a large slab of stone with some kind of stand next to it. She looked extremely excited and almost couldn't contain her glee.
They made their way over to her.
"See this stand? It had a recess in it in the shape of a hand. I bet that it has magi-technology! If Colette puts her hand here the door should open." Colette placed her hand in the recess and the slab of stone near them opened up revealing a staircase leading down. Just then Raine squealed extremely loudly like a giddy school girl. "Oh I wish I could study this."
"Geez she's like you when you find a good book Seth," Lloyd said smirking.
"It is not!" Seth said his lower lip jutting out past his top lip.
"Oh she can be so embarrassing!" Genis sighed in defeat after failing at trying to calm his sister down.
"Be thankful you have family to be embarrassed by," Seth said as they descended the staircase into the temple. Genis stopped complaining after that. As they gradually got lower it got steadily hotter until it was almost unbearable. They finally reached the stone hallway. It led to a large doorway which had a large room past it. There were many walkways and unlit torches in the room. At the very bottom of the room magma was flowing which explained the heat.
"I can't believe there is so much magma here," Colette said in amazement.
"Well it is the fire seal," Seth said sarcastically. Genis walked over to the edge of the platform they were on. "Genis be careful!"
"I'm fine. I bet if we could move this platform then we could get across here-aaah!" A large bird made of flames swooped down at Genis knocking off of the platform.
"Genis!" Raine and Seth cried.
"Oh no!" Colette and Lloyd screamed in dismay. Kratos said nothing but ran over to the place he had fallen along with the others. Seth had gotten to him just in time. He dived and managed to grab hold of Genis's hand.
"Just hold on ok? I won't let you fall," Seth said and started to pull Genis up. Kratos grabbed Genis's other hand and helped pull him up. They finally pulled him up onto the platform.
"Oh are you ok? I was so worried," Raine asked him anxiously.
"Y-yeah I-I'm fine," Genis stuttered, quite shaken up. Everyone, except Seth, was crowding around Genis asking him if he was alright. He had let him self be pushed out of the way and was just standing there. He had been so scared. He didn't even think when he dived for Genis. The crowd around Genis broke up and they all kind of stared at Seth surprised he hadn't said anything.
Suddenly Seth walked over to where Genis was sitting. The younger elf looked up and saw tears welling up in Seth's eyes. Just then Seth dropped to his knees and pulled Genis into a tight embrace. "Oh thank Martel that you're safe! I was so worried," the tears finally falling free from the prison that was his eyes.
"It's alright I'm fine you saved me," Genis said trying to get the older boy to stop crying. Genis hated it when Seth cried or was hurt.
"I promise I'll always protect you, no matter what," Seth whispered. He finally let go of the other boy and when they both realized the others were staring at them started blushing furiously. No one seemed to want to say anything until Kratos spoke up.
"Perhaps we should take care of those birds," he suggested.
"Um yeah I-I'll get them," Seth said and took an arrow from its quiver. Luckily there weren't that many birds as he had started to run out of arrows. The first one he targeted was the one that had attacked Genis. The bird was circling above them waiting for the perfect chance to strike. Seth aimed carefully waiting for the time to shoot his arrow. The bird noticed Seth and dived bombed him. Seth shot the arrow and it flew through the bird killing it.
"Great shot Seth!" Genis shouted. Seth blushed.
"Good now could you shoot those other four birds? They look as if they will shoot us if we get near the edge." Raine asked.
"Yup they don't look too hard," Seth took aim and shot all four birds not missing once. "I've only got two arrows left…," he said checking his quiver.
"You should save them," Kratos said simply.
"Will you guys be ok without me?"
"Yeah we'll be fine don't worry," Colette said reassuringly.
"We never needed you anyway," Lloyd said smirking. Seth pouted and laughed when Genis hit Lloyd over the head.
"Alright I'll save my arrows," Seth said reluctantly. However he would use them without hesitation if Genis was in danger. However they couldn't move off of the platform they were on to the walkway near them because there was a large gap.
"How are we supposed to get across that?" Lloyd asked.
"That unlit torch looks odd. Try shooting it with the Sorcerer's Ring Lloyd," Genis suggested.
"Ok I guess…," Lloyd shot the Sorcerer's Ring at the torch, the ring had somehow turned back to normal after they left the Desian Base. Raine had suggested that there were many different machines used to change the Sorcerer's Ring but they only lasted a little while. The flames from the ring shot into the torch lighting it. A deep rumbling like an earthquake started.
Lloyd and Colette stumbled and fell to the ground. The others managed to stay up. As the shaking died down they saw that a platform was leading to the walkway. And so they made their way to the center of the room where the portal to the seal awaited, raising platforms as they went. There were many monsters but Seth managed not to use his arrows. The group finally made it to the portal and one by one they entered it into a large room with a shrine in it not unlike the one within the Church of Martel.
"Ok I guess I should pray here then," Colette said as she walked to the shrine.
"Wait Colette," Seth said suddenly.
"What is it?"
"We mustn't wait. The Chosen needs to pray," Kratos said angrily at Seth. Seth glared at him.
"There is a lot of mana here. An incredible amount,"
"Yes, I can sense it too," Raine said and Genis nodded as he could to.
"I don't sense anything," Colette said confused.
"You don't sense it 'cause your not an elf," Seth said warily.
"Yeah elves are more in-tune to nature then humans, much more actually," Genis said smartly.
"Yes we can sense changes in mana," Raine told them.
"And there is an enormous amount here," Seth said as Raine finished. At that moment a red light appeared above the shrine. It started to take form and changed into a giant red saber-toothed lion with flames going down its back.
"I told you there was a lot of mana and its coming from this monster!" Seth said knocking an arrow into this bow.
"Save the arrows unless we need them!" Kratos yelled as he blocked a swipe from the monster with his sword, as it had lunged at him. Seth put the arrow back into his quiver.
"Aqua Edge!" Small spinning blades of water shot out from around Genis and sliced the monster's front claws leaving several gashes. The monster turned onto Genis angrily. Snarling the monster opened its mouth its sharp teeth showing and billowing out from its mouth came red hot flames.
"Genis!" they all yelled. But Genis couldn't move he just stood there his eyes round reflected the flames as they came hurtling closer. It was all he could see until suddenly they were gone replaced by dark green and a warmth that would normally be pleasant if he weren't in this kind of situation. "Seth?" Genis whispered. Then the flames hit Seth's back. He bit back the scream that was yearning to be let out and instead held Genis tighter.
"Seth! Genis!" Colette yelled. Everyone stood dumbfounded and worried. All except Kratos, of course, he sliced the head off of the monster and stopped the flames. As the flames stopped the two boys came into view. Seth had his arms wrapped around Genis, who was miraculously unharmed. The back of Seth's shirt had been burnt off and his back was badly burned. All that was left of his bow, arrows, and quiver were the ashes on the ground. Seth slumped onto his knees as he let go of Genis.
"Seth! Are you ok?" Genis asked kneeling down worriedly.
"Yeah yeah I-I'm fine just a little burn," he smiled up reassuringly.
"A little burn! You're back is scorched!" Lloyd shouted amazed that he was able to still talk calmly after that.
"Yeah but my hair is fine," Seth grimaced as he stood up. And indeed his hair was fine. Not a single scorched piece of hair. His hair had fallen in-between himself and Genis so it didn't get burned.
"Are you sure you're ok?" Colette asked.
"For the last time yes,"
"Thank you so much for saving Genis Seth! But that monster was a Ktugach-," Raine was suddenly cut off by Lloyd.
"A what?"
"A Ktugach their flames can't be healed by magic it will have to heal on its own," Raine finished.
"Well that sucks," Seth said a little annoyed at finding this out.
"You should cover that wound or the sand will get in and it will get infected," Kratos suggested. Seth nodded and took of what was left of his shirt revealing his chest. His body really wasn't anything special but his chest had the lines of muscles being formed. Genis blushed a deep red and looked back to the ground until Seth put another shirt on. Unfortunately they had all left the rest of there clothes at the inn. However the sleeves were still attached to the front of his shirt so he put it one backwards to cover the wound.
Genis looked up and blushed again as he saw Seth's naked chest.
"That'll have to do for now," he looked up and blushed as he saw Genis staring at him.
"Well I guess I should pray now," Colette said as she walked towards the shrine. She knelt at the shrine and began to pray. As she prayed Remiel appeared.
"You have done well Colette. This seal is now unsealed. The angels shall now bestow upon you a gift," He raised his arms out to Colette and she began to float. The others stood in silence amazed at what they were seeing. And then Colette had suddenly grown wings.
"Oh wow!" they all breathed in amazement except for Kratos. Her wings were golden and translucent. Remiel set her down.
"I will see you at the water seal Colette my beloved daughter," And with that Remiel left.
"Wow those are so cool!" Genis said excitedly to Colette.
"Thanks!" she said happily, "And look I can put them away!" she concentrated a bit and the wings disappeared.
"That's awesome!" Seth said.
"I wish I had wings…," Lloyd said jealously.
"Yes yes well we had better be going now. We need to get Seth's wound attended to," Raine said reminding them. They left through the teleportation pad and got to the stairs which they immediately began to climb it. Seth was lagging behind a bit because of his wound Genis had slowed down to walk with him as he refused any help. They had almost reached the top of the staircase when Genis stopped.
"Seth?"
"Yeah?"
"You didn't have to protect me! You got hurt and it was all my fault!" Genis said angrily.
"It wasn't your fault!" Seth said his expression stern. It softened as he continued to talk, "I promised you I would protect you and I never break my promises."
"But-," Genis started.
"Colette are you ok!" they heard Lloyd shout and the two ran up the rest of the steps.
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Lets hope the O's work… I'm sorry it took so long to post this! But I had work, well technically its not work cause it's volunteer work but…, well anyway it took a lot of time away from me. I probably won't be able to update this story until August at the latest cause I am going on vacation. But hopefully I'll have my Kingdom Hearts story updated by then!