Shitza: Hello, last chapter written at the summer cottage. I am going back HOME the 11th. Oh, can't wait! I really miss my old PC, no matter how weird it has been. Anyway, while I am still here, making the last details I promised to do while I am here, I can write one more chapter, don't you think!
Also, for anyone who thinks I spend hours making up this fic, I have spent hours during the time I wrote GoL and the time before that. I wasn't even sure I wanted to post the story, be happy I did. This fic was to be produced right after I watched the first ever episodes, or to say, dragged myself to do so. I was alike Hilary before, thought the show was stupid till I watched it. Then I got stuck and now would have some more problems to leave. So, lets just hope I don't grow tired of it, I can usually continue things unless I grow tired of the fic itself, or the ideas gets wrapped up. It rarely happens, but can happen. I think though this story is a bit more structured than my previous works. After all, it's been on the endless progress for, to say, three years. So when I said this fic was once supposed to start the series, I am not kidding. It used to be one fic, grew into two, then three… now five. Yes, five hopefully enjoyful fics.
Besides, I have enough information about this valley for a few covers. History, magic, elements, etc. just stop me if I get carried away, that can happen. Though, I do improvise a lot too, which is something of the fun as well.
This chapter is not as adventurous as the last, forgive me but every chapter can't contain a bloody battle like that. Instead I've added, what seems like pages of hopefully interesting and weird information and for the last parts of the chapter, some humour. Place it like this. Seven hungry teens, some unreachable fruit and some mad attempts to get it. It can turn out pretty funny, though I have saved Kai from most embarrassment. I don't think Kai-fans would like me making real fun of him.
Okay, enough rambling, I never seem to be able to shut up properly. Hope you enjoy and that I get out of here soon. (Groans)
Shitza
Ps: Another LOOOOOOOOONG chapter. Then you'll have to wait till I get home before I continue. Don't worry, won't be too long.
Pps: One word here is actually stolen from Tolkien. I don't own elvenish, but does anyone know which? I found it once when I was bored and read the elvenish dictionary in the back of Silmarillion.
Chapter 2 Magic, Training and Fruits
The sun was still down, not to awaken till the next day, which was almost 24h from the present time. People in the Valley didn't seem to bother though, everyone stayed inside. The fields were dead, water was dripping from somewhere. A lone rabbit jumped over a stone, only to be caught by a watchful fox. The birds would continue sleeping, not to know about the fears that haunted the night. A reason everyone stayed inside and never left the village-walls during any time when it was dark. Seven teens, a young priest and a young priestess sat in the till standing temple constructed for God knows what? Like most of the thing in the Valley, everything had a secret and everything had some sort of history.
Hilary yawned. "Why hasn't the sun showed up yet, it should have been up hours ago, shouldn't it?" she asked the other guys. The brown haired girl sighed and rested her head on Tyson's shoulder. The blue haired boy sighed as well, stroking her hair comfortingly.
"Yes, it is strange!" Zeo said looking out through the small windows in the huge room they sat in, the same the declaration about their stay had been set. The night was once more pitch-black. Or was it morning, they lost track of time as the darkness lay over them.
Kim and Daichi sat on cushions. Daichi grinned looking at his older sister, whose body had sunk into some sort of shame-like position. She had to know something about this, but didn't tell them.
"Come on sis, no one will behead you here." Daichi said rubbing her shoulder. The boy was still grinning.
Kim stared back. Here eyes were weary of exhaustion and her arms and back had been tended for wounds and bruises. Daichi himself had a bandage around his head. Once in a while he made a move to take it off, but something seemed to prevent him from doing it.
Kim sighed. "Okay, it was deliberate, happy now bro?" she said through gritted teeth. Daichi smiled victoriously.
"So, you and your beast have had a little talk then? Whose idea was it?" he asked.
Kim frowned. "If you think I did let out those bit-beasts you must be out of your head dear brother. That would have been over my dead body. And the dawn-Attack thing was Ruyaka's order. You know what she is like every time the sun is about to rise, she gets crazy and that with a huge C."
Daichi suddenly burst out laughing. Kim sighed once more. The two blades belonging to the pair lay beside each other. The crossed bit chips of Daichi's beasts glowed in turns and Ruyaka was shining teasingly, as if she was laughing.
"Shut up!" Kim said towards her blade, the light stopped abruptly to switch into an angry glow. Kim sighed again…
"Don't be harsh, you should really be a bit nicer to her." Daichi said.
The room felt silent. Even if the Bladebreakers had a million questions in their heads they hardly knew what to ask. Everyone stared at their friends. Kai, who was leaning to the wall in his usual position with crossed arms, flickered his eyes between them. Ray, Max and Zeo, who had almost fallen asleep again, couldn't get themselves into saying anything. Chief was still down, Dizzi had disappeared with the laptop and loosing a bit-beast was terrible after all. Tyson tried to open his mouth but no word came.
Once more Hilary was the one to open her mouth, talking loud enough to awaken the dead.
"What is happening around here, why is the sun still down? What kind of hell is this? Why are we here? What is really going on…?" she started crying. Daichi and Kim looked shocked at the sudden outburst, but their expressions changed into sympathy.
"I am sorry to say we can't answer everything." Kim said, her voice close into breaking into sobs herself. "To be honest I don't have any more ideas then you. And to answer the question about the sun, that was my bit-beasts ultimate and rarest attack. The only reason I rarely have a chance to use it is because it can only be fired at dawn, when the light defeats the darkness. The bad thing is that it absorbs all light, so for the area in the valley we won't see another day until tomorrow."
"but to be honest with you guys, we haven't told you everything. We didn't really want to worry you. You see, the combat outside is one of many for the last weeks. When sis, I and the rest of the elites returned the Valley had been in shock. Ancient bit beasts our ancestors trapped years ago have escaped. The medusa and the centaur you saw this morning were two of them. Usually the bit beast that has escaped is a lot fouler and stronger. Not to mention, the demons have been sighted."
"But you said the demons hadn't been above the surface for 2000 years, or something." Max complained.
"Well, I was lying Max. I hoped we could keep them as a secret. It was said to be 2045 years since the last demon was seen, but only some weeks ago a herd had been spotted climbing through the shields that put them into that hell they live in. Ever since we are trying to force them back, but with little success. Only two days ago I was forced to kill an old childhood friend of mine, I really hated doing so." Kim said sounding depressed.
"That is why everyone is inside the village at the moment, or people rarely bothered about the protections. Every village has its own shield against demons, this is a shield of vines that I have planted outside every wall. Well, it should perhaps be best if we showed you" Daichi said getting up to his feet. Kim and the rest followed him to the western wall. The walls weren't the best protection seeing it was just wood. The protecting itself turned out to be…
Even if it was dark everyone could make out the images of what looked to be humans nearing the walls. But they weren't real, most of them had no pupils and their mouths hung open giving out load moans into the cold night. Their clothes hung in patches over their bodies. To their horror they saw it was a mixture of people, women, men, children, elders… Kai felt sick, even if he didn't show anything. He couldn't help to remind himself about the tortures in the Abbey.
The demons neared the walls, but they never got close enough. The ground exploded before them and green ranks shot up into the air, attacking them back like whips. The demons retreated into the dark again, but they didn't leave. They waited for the vines to return back into the earth before trying again.
"This is disgusting!" Kim said. She folded her sleeve up to the elbow an pointed her palm towards the group of demons who were once more approaching. "Eglecta!" she said as a huge fireball shot from her palm. The fire it the group of demons leaving some dead and the rest fleeing.
"Nice shot!" Daichi said admitting the good move before showing the remaining stunned teens back to the temple. How did she do that?
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The darkness didn't leave until the next day as promised and people cheered once the sun got back. When the Bladebreakers met Daichi that day Kim had returned to the fire village and things seemed quite normal. Still, no one could stop thinking about demons or that fire plunged from his sister's hand. They hadn't talked when they got back, simply returned to the room they were sharing and tried to come to conclusions. But no one knew more then the others and as there wasn't more to do they had turned into sleep. But they didn't sleep much. The load moaning and endless sounds of whips made sure of that.
When they met Daichi, who was sitting by a low tale drinking tea, they all couldn't stop staring. Daichi looked quite formal, sitting on the soft cushion, the mug I his hands, drinking slowly. A candle was lit on the table and the red haired teen had a bunch of papers spread all over.
"Didn't know there was paperwork to attend in a place like this?" Zeo said. Daichi smiled. "they are just nightly reports." He said.
Zeo smiled back. "That's what my dad uses to say, until he gives them to me."
Daichi chuckled. "Well, since you are all up I think we should start with today's business. First of all, you need some less attention attracting clothes. Secondly me and some volunteers have decided to teach you some of the biggest and most forbidden secrets we have here. Not to mention you will have to learn to fight, even without blades, if you want to survive here.
"You mean like the fireball we saw last night?" Tyson and max asked, thinking in the same lines.
"Yeah, but that will be weeks of practise I can bet. And that's probably what it will take before we can escort you out of here. No one knowing the right roads is available. They are all too busy helping out."
There was a knock behind them. There weren't any doors to the room, but someone wanted their attention obviously. Ray, who was closest to the door stepped aside as a small orange haired woman, servant probably, appeared.
"You highness, the clothes you asked for!" she said putting down a large casket. Daichi smiled. He stretched his hands under the table to retrieve a small wooden box. He opened and to everyone's amazement there had to be a hundred small gold pebbles in there. Daichi politely gave the girl some gold an then returned to shift the box back.
"Daichi, isn't that the box your sister was carrying?" Ray asked, recognising the brown thing.
"It is" Daichi said scratching his head. "And don't tell sis I gave her all that gold. It is actually both mine and sis' except that she doesn't trust her kinsmen at the moment so she entrusted it on me. She returns now and then whenever she needs money."
"So, gold is the same as money here?" Chief asked.
"Gold is money everywhere. Sis and I aren't rich really; we have enough to live on. Sis should have inherited her fathers gold mines if it didn't happen to be so that an old friend of his was given them before."
"And who is that?" Tyson asked.
"Lee-Eck." Everyone stared at him. "I know, he isn't the sort of type you would think to be so, but the fat priest gave Veymo a lot of gold and votes. When Lee-Eck refused to marry my sister Veymo gave him the mines. How else do you think he is able to stuff his face?" Daichi asked.
"He could have married your sister?" Hilary asked astonished.
"It isn't unusual, I mean parents often promises their daughters hands in business. Poor sis, she fainted when she heard about it. She was only four after all and Lee-Eck was fat already back then. No, that priest has no interest in marriage and he is really like an uncle to the two of us. Now that Veymo can't control anything he provides us with tons of gold and jewellery.
Daichi returned his attention to the clothes. He picked them up, looked closely at them and then tossed them to the most suitable person. Everyone also received some kind of weapon, taken from a private cupboard. They all went into different rooms to get changed and then returned, their own clothes folded neatly. Tyson was wearing a light blue tunic, marine blue pants and sandals, which seemed to be the fashion around. His cap was off and his hair had been braided instead. He also had a belt and on it hung a short sword heavy enough to let him wield it.
Hilary was wearing orange in the same fashion as most girls had been from the old Elementals village. She had a silver belt with two knives, sleeveless top. She wore boots instead of sandals. She also had been give a bow and arrows.
Chief wore a white shirt and white pants. Around his neck hung a scarf and on his head was a hat, like the one Oliver was wearing. He had a small pouch dangling by his side, which Daichi explained contained small balls containing a various amount of chemicals.
Zeo had also changed, and he looked dark and mysterious in the new outfit. He wore black pants, a black jumper with some sort of inscription by the right shoulder. A purple band was tied around his left arm. He also wore purple boots and had a black cape over his shoulder making him look very majestic. He had also a sword, hanging by his belt, which shone of dark magic making even his fiends shiver.
Max wore an emerald shirt and ocean blue pants. A long staff in his hand, pointy in one end and thicker in the other. Daichi explained it as a simple but effective move. Hit the victim with the thick end and stab it with the other. Max paled slightly until he reminded himself he wasn't supposed to kill living creatures with this. Just send back the dead.
Ray's outfit looked like the same style. It was still a strong remind of Chinese in the sleeveless top he had been given and the trousers were black as well. He had been allowed to keep his usual shoes on if he wanted, which he did. The difference however was the knives, crossed on his back, the tiger fur, which hung as a small cape around his neck, and the necklace, which contained teeth from some sort of cat-animal.
When Kai walked up he was hard to recognise. (Shitza: No worries, this is nothing bad all Kai-fans) he was wearing a black sleeveless top, with flames embroided across his chest. He was also the on one wearing some sort of armour, as the village of fire had probably the hardest task of everyone, which meant guard demons and that involved no running. He had burning red metal protecting his shoulders, parts of his chest, and his knees. The style was most gold, black and red. The pants were black as well, with imprints of gold found in patterns. The boots were red. He was carrying some sort of staff, except that it had a long blade on the end. (LotR, prologue of the movie. Remember the blades the elves were using.) he reminded them of Death, except for the fact he was wearing armour.
"Not so bad, huh guys?" Daichi asked. Hilary giggled and the others had to agree, except for Tyson who wished he had some sort of cooler outfit like Kai. Kai rolled his eyes at this, he didn't care, all though the armour prevented him from leaning on the wall like he usually did, he sat down with the others.
"Before we go you have to sign this parchment though. It's nothing dangerous, just an insurance to make sure you don't use your powers once you get back into the outside world again. You see, magic is kept here, forbidden outside unless you seriously want the evil guys to start World War III."
"What's the big deal?" Tyson asked. "I mean, if you are going to teach us…"
"We are not teaching you!" Daichi said. "This has nothing to do with gaining, the powers are already in your veins. All me and the others will do is to give that power a little push out through your hands. Though, be careful with your aims. I hate to get burned or crisped again."
They all got signed the contract with a pen that looked like a dried lizards tail. It was Zeo, who was last up for the task, who did really notice it was a dried lizard's tail. The prospect shocked them, but perhaps that was the best way to do so here they had written their names red ink. Where the ink had come from they had no idea and Hilary gently asked Daichi as he rolled up the parchment.
"Ink, there is no ink around here. That was blood, blood from some pestering rats on the streets." He answered.
Hilary fainted at this. Like many other girls she was afraid of rodents, they were so creepy, and the prospects of having written anything with blood of such a thing was… she had no time to describe it before she had fainted.
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Daichi took them for a long walk almost across the valley, until they almost reached the wind village. But before they came to the high mountain pillars that eroded into strong winds, they came to another crater. Like most craters, except for the volcano in the south, this had died years ago, yet the earth was still warm meaning the lava flowed not to deep underneath.
The volunteers turned out to be Raya, a short white bearded man from the village of wisdom, the giggling priestess from the water village, Sakhmekh who for once wasn't wearing tiger skin over his body, a smiling boy from the village of darkness and a awfully robust guy from the wind village, who to the water village's joy, wasn't wearing any top. Raya rolled her eyes as the other woman giggled herself mad.
They all split walking over to different corners of the old volcano. Tyson went with the robust guy towards a heap of stones which they guy insisted he would be able to smash. Indeed calling upon the powers didn't seem hard after a while, but making it do what you wanted it too was something worse. Raya and Kai sat in a corners concentrating on eight small flames dangling in the air. Max and the giggling priestess practising on commanding water to flow in different directions. Zeo and the boy from the village of darkness practised on shadows, which was the easy steps as it was still penetrated by light. Kenny and the short man from the village of wisdom sat together holding hands, listening to an Egyptian conversation 3000 years ago.
Daichi was helping Hilary on finding her Element when there was a swooping noise. People ducked as a majestic silver dragon swooped down over them. "What is that?" Max asked.
"Celeb Dragoon, what is she doing here?" the boy from the dark village said as the wind ruffed his hair.
"Celeb Dragoon?" Tyson said stunned. The silver dragon shot down once more before flying away again.
But no one answered his question. Indeed the group of volunteers looked worried as the lessons approached. Maybe no one learnt how to shot fireballs from their palms, but they learnt a lot about control and focus. When the volunteers decided they had had enough Daichi and the guy from the Wind Village had an agreement to let them stay there over the night. Daichi declared he had some nasty amount of work to finish and the guy simply shrugged before showing the teens towards his village, which only Tyson and Hilary had seen and knew more about.
They all thought about their lessons. So far the things could do was to lift pebbles of rocks into hurricanes (Tyson). Toss small-lit flames upon a variation of targets (Kai). Make water change direction (Max). Send unharming sparks of electricity that tingled at the touch (Ray). Hear conversations from Egypt but have no clue about what they said (Kenny) and penetrate shadows so that they grew slightly (Zeo). Hilary hadn't been doing much magic. Once Daichi had his suspicions about wind in her he helped her to learn how to become a great archer. Seeing his sister, it wasn't too surprising.
They were all too tired, to notice the tins and towers of the wind village or to notice that the temple of the Wind Village turned out to be a high tower. Wind whistled around them but they all fell asleep. They were too exhausted they also didn't notice wide metallic wings outside their window, and some teenage boy showing off his courage diving down towards the ground and up again.
(Shitza. I know that is technically impossible, but this is fiction after all. Do you want me to go on, or should I stop here? (Readers: Continue!) Shitza. Okay then… sigh)
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Their night was very much uneventful, even if they did await some kind of attack or anything alike. Ever since that night in the temple of Earth they could expect anything from this place. But to their surprise they noticed they had slept through the whole night and the village looked unharmed once they stepped out to a moist morning. It must have rained during the night, and the faint smell of the rain still lingered in the air. It would soon disappear. It the far distance, probably over the huge lake, a rainbow had appeared making this a very wonderful morning. They even did ask one of the servants if anything had happened during the night, but he answered "nothing good lords". Lords! This place was getting more and more mysterious.
That day no one came to fetch them, and to do something useful Tyson, who had been there before, showed them to some of the high pillars, were the ground had been shattered into what looked like a breaking hill. The ground was made of volcanic material and in a few places here and there the ground had crumbled. It looked like a real adventure getting a blade across this kind of land unharmed.
"The priest showed me." Tyson said happily taking out an old standard launcher (like the ones you see in season one, the beginning.) All we do is to get across this patch of broken hill without doing any damage, Should be easy, we are champions after all."
Zeo snorted. "Let me remind you some here still has a cocky blader pushing him down whenever he gets near any title as Champion." He said brushing his hair from his face.
"Yeah, right, sorry Zeo… I er… forgot."
Zeo faked a sad look, but Tyson didn't notice. The blue haired teen continued.
"Well, you, er… did get to third place in the Elite tournament you know. I mean, you are really good taking two battles alone."
"Oh, that's right" Max said. "How come you guys battled four instead of five?" the blonde boy asked.
Zeo chuckled. "Well, when dad received the news about five bladers he signed a fake name to our papers and sent it. Then he told us to say that that fifth blader couldn't come and since the tour had officially started they couldn't simply throw us out. I took the two battles since I was android after all, I wouldn't feel all of the damage upon me, and dad had scientists to help me if anything happened. But with Daichi's sister and all, things changed. Dad changed too. He is a lot nicer now, though he tends to pretend I am made of glass some times and he is very overprotective these days."
Tyson sighed. Oh he new how it was to have people protecting him.
"Dad's got big plans now, though he said I shouldn't tell anyone. He must be worried now, he probably has asked the military to look for me."
Chief shook his head. The brown haired little computer nerd sat leaning towards one of many pillars.
"I don't think anyone will be able to find us." He said. "This place has survived thousands of years without knowledge. I'd be surprised the military would be able to spot anything."
Hilary sighed. "I really miss home!" she said, tears trickling down from her eyes. Tyson wrapped his arm around her waist and kissed her on the jaw. "We will think of something. Nothing will happen to any of us as long as we stay together, right guys?"
Everyone nodded, but something nagged them all. They had a feeling that the people living in this valley were deliberately splitting them up. Having been sorted after your bit beast's element had shown them differences. This valley was really odd. Everything was so sorted, so structured.
Finally, after all talking five bladers fired their blades. But what Tyson had described as an easy task turned out to be something far worse. The blades landed and started moving, but it was like starting from scratch again. With this rocky terrain and devastating rocks and pebbles nothing behaved like they were used to. The blades flew, they crashed, the followed rocks down the sloops not moving, but the rocks moved and to say that out of control. After what seemed like hours, but to both Hilary and Kenny's counting, felt like hours, the two other told them that the five blades had stopped spinning after a minute. Tyson nearly fainted and Max couldn't believe his eyes. Zeo and ray went for a closer look at the terrain. Kai looked at Dranzer not understanding the problems.
"I really wish Dizzi was with us!" Kenny said in the confusion. She would have known, she would…"
He stopped. The pain and emptiness after his bit-beast hurt so much. Ray and Max gave him their sympathy knowing exactly how it felt. Their Russian captain ignored them and continued with the training. But round two turned out exactly as round one. A catastrophe.
They did four more rounds, but soon completely gave up. They were also starting to feel hungry, in Tyson's case complaining because of his empty stomach. The problem was, where would they get food? As far as they could see people here provided themselves and they had no gold.
Kai leaned back towards one of the pillars, the armour metal shaved awfully on his back. He closed his eyes and didn't have time to sigh before something hit his head. Opening his eyes, blinking several times, he looked down to see some kind of fruit. It looked like a cross between Chinese apple (aka orange), pineapple and ginseng. (If anyone doesn't know what ginseng is then it's a root, quite popular in the eastern Asia.) Kai picked it up and looked at it. It didn't look poisonous so he tasted taking a bite at the leathery, root-like, material. To his surprise it tasted sweet, like a mixture of tropical fruits.
"What do you have there Kai?" Ray asked seeing their captain chewing on something. The ice-captain didn't respond. Just showed them the fruit and continued eating.
"Where did you get it?" Hilary asked. "Are you sure it's not poisonous?"
Kai shrugged and to answer her first question he pointed up. The Bladebreakers looked up. Even if it was some distance they could see yellow fruits dangling in the branches of the trees. Tyson looked hungrily at them.
"So, how do we get them?" he asked the others.
"Well, Mystel had a neat trick getting hold of my village's treasures up a cliff. Perhaps we could try that" he said taking out his launcher making and effort to jump up. But he never did before Hilary grabbed him.
"Ray, there is no way in the world I'll have you jump up those walls" she said. "Just look at them!"
They looked and through loser inspection they aw that the pillars of stone held the same kind of material as the ground which they were standing on. Everyone, except Kai that is, gulped at the sight of it. Then how?
"Well, how about a ladder then?" Tyson suggested. "Kai can be the bottom, he has hard shoulders now, he wouldn't get hurt. And we can climb up on him, the lightest person at the top."
"Out of question" Kai said giving Tyson a death-glare. Tyson sighed.
"Well, why not try climbing. It could never hurt to try, would it?" Max said putting his feet on a rock heaving his body up. Ray followed him, he was more used to mountain climbing than Max was.
"Don't expect me to catch you!" Kai said throwing the remains of the fruit, some nasty itching seeds, away. The others were looking for the two boys, who were half way up. That until Max lost his balance and fell, luckily into his friends arms who stood prepared.
"Come on Ray!" Hilary cheered on seeing as the tiger was about to beat the mountain. Ray was sweating but he wouldn't give up, carefully climbing, careful not to walk on loose stones. He was almost at the top when he could swear he heard voices.
"No, not that one stupid! It's all mouldy!"
"Okay, what about this one?"
"That will do, we better hurry before the whole valley notices they are fresh. Hurry Etsamu, we've already taken a lot more then any share."
"You are always picking on me you know." The other voice complained.
"Maybe because you are easy to pick on!" the other female voice said.
Ray had just reached the top when something walked on his hand and he lost concentration. The shocked teen fell, luckily landing right on his friends.
"What happened Ray?" Hilary asked as everyone got up.
"Voices" he said. "Someone is already up there having a feast. They said something about taking more then their share.
"Stealing our lunch!" Tyson said angrily.
The seven teens looked up. They saw nothing, but straining their ears they also could hear them. Now the pair, whoever they were; were talking about gossip, which could be heard upon the giggles. Tyson groaned.
"D'you think we have everything?" the first voice asked.
"Sure" the second responded and not too long after they saw two girls, probably around fourteen, fifteen, jump down the cliffs. It looked like they were about to break their necks, that until they both landed without a scratch.
"Looks like we have company" the second voice, a girl with green hair said.
"Sure does" the first replied, belonging to a girl with shocking pink hair. Both girls wore masks, like the ones Daichi and Kim had worn that day they ad been saved from the storms.
Both girls removed their masks. The green haired girl had bright violet eyes while the pink haired girl had grey ones.
"Hello!" the pinks haired girl said. "Who are you? Oh, wait, never mind answering, I forget names even if I hear them."
The Bladebreakers stared at the odd couple. Kenny cleared his throat and introduced them. The two girls giggled.
"Lucky aren't we. Six handsome ones out here in nowhere. No one to witness!" the green haired one said.
"We are Etsamu and Neffia, loyal soldiers from the love village!" the pink haired said.
Both girls started to giggle again. Huge bags containing fruit opened and the root-like things rolled out.
The girls squealed. "Now, look what you did!" Etsamu, the green haired girl said in shock.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!" the pink haired Neffia sniffed. Both girls made an attempt to pick up the fruit. Suddenly Neffia looked up, and fear was written upon her face. She nudged at Etsamu who also looked up. The two girls turned and ran for their lives, leaving both bags behind.
"What just happened?" Tyson wondered looking at the same direction as the girls had. Leaning to one of the pillars stood Daichi and Kim, looking quite disgusted.
"Second attempt in a week, something we better report before this village is wineless for weeks." She said.
"Indeed sis, but do tell me, it would be a waste to spoil this delicious fruit, wouldn't it?" Daichi commented, grinning. Kim smiled. "Indeed it would!" she said.
Daichi waved his hand and the earth rumbled beneath them. A wave of sand gathered the fruits into a neat pile, which the two of them quickly picked back into the bags. Daichi took one of them and hurried out of sight. Kim stayed, waiting for them?
"Well, coming or not?" she asked them. The seven teens shrugged. What else could they do? They still had a lot to learn after all.
The sun shone brightly above them, they had never been there, except for Kai that is, and the sight of the might volcano before them made them breath taken. A pillar of smoke rose from the carter indicating the life within. There was a small road up towards a cliff where the Village of fire had been built. The village looked oddly enough smaller, that until they heard Kim telling them most of the village could be found inside the volcano. Like the underground system this place had a lot of caves, yet not as many traps or unknown entrances. The walls were high, made of polished black stone making it look more like a fortress then a village.
Kim sighed. "Here we are! Welcome to the nightmare of all places. I really hope Daichi and the others managed to taught you something, you will need it."
Clueless about what would await them they followed her up towards the gates. Whatever happens now, well, you'll have to wait and see.
TBC
To Reviewers: Ending was a disaster, but I had no idea how to end this chapter at all and I am too tired to write more. Going home tomorrow, HURRAY! Till then, review and have patience. Once I get back to my old computer there will be so much to catch up on I'll have no time for writing in a while.
Storms-winter: Oh, like I said above this fic was mostly finished in my head when I started GoL and to say I am more working on the details of the other fics then thinking so much about this. It's only when I type it out new things develops and for the history and background, events and monsters etc. All that can be played like a film inside of my head, which is odd once you turn into sleep seeing details from an anime film in your mind. I am weird, I know.
storm-of-insanity: Oh, I do hope nothing happens. I remember when mum's computer crashed, or to say my account crashed on it. It was so horrible, but I survived and I had no writing at the moment so nothing really happened except that it took me a while to trace back files and such from my own (Stupid, evil, irritating… thing). Oh well, I am more afraid something would happen to fanfiction then my computers. I live with a computer-freaked family. Everyone has gotten their own, and dad whose got probably four-five of his own. I'm the only one though who has never gotten a new one. (I got my brothers old one.) Confusing, confuses me too sometimes. Thank for reviewing!
PhoenixDemonElite: You didn't insult me, it was quite predictable after all, wasn't it? Anyway, I am happy to write a fic you like, sorry for the loss of action in this, but I am not going to hurry this fic too much. There is VERY much action planned later, along with much else. I am not basing anything on something else here, so hope you don't count on much more Greek-mythology but they did have a very interesting culture. Not to mention they do have a lot of useful creatures, take Cerberus for an example. (Giggles) there is still more to come like I said
Ps: You seriously don't have to nag about the movie thing! I am not writing for money, not yet! I am only writing for fun, and I really should remember to put a disclaimer soon!
End Notes
Shitza: well, apart from demons, magic and fruits, (Which by the way can receive a further inscription as looking like a root with tentacle, big, yellow and snake-skin like) I think things are tuning out quite well. Here are some teasers for the next chapter, I don't know why I wanted to put them in, but this can turn out to be quite interesting.
"I cannot understand how you blind you have become!" Kim said staring back at the Chinese priestess. "After all the signs are quite easily spotted.
"What do you mean!" the priestess of the tigers said, moving her hand towards the knife in her belt.
"What I meant to mean is, I cannot understand why you haven't recognised your own brother!" he said pointing her finger towards the Bladebreakers.
"Lin" a shocked voice said…
(Giggles) If people carefully read GoL they would probably know what is going on. If not you will find out, next chapter will hold more action and the characters will start to visit more of the villages. We will find out more about some of the characters, more about the village and much more about rivalry. Oh, that grudge between … and …! I can't wait to type it down!
Till then, Sayonara!
Shitza