Such a long time since I've updated. Ehhh, sorry. I've been in some trouble with grades and stuff, and writers block contributed a little, but I think I've got a few good ideas for this chapter. Let me know in a REVIEW! review review review, an authors best friend.
By the way, the first part of the fic was inspired by the underworld movie, and Golden Sun the Lost Age. (Note I know that Saturos is out of character, but he's going to be all better?)
The villagers raised their torches, a cry of anger escaping their lips, at first as one, but soon a discordant jumble of noise. Their footsteps pounded into the valley floor, as they chased the young boy infront of them. "HURRY!" cried the mob's leader, "THE SUN IS SINKING, SOON THEY WILL BE ALL OVER AND AFTER US." The boy looked over his shoulder, continuing his mad dash towards safety. Safety was in the night. The night was his best friend and worst enemy. As the sun's last rays began to disappear and give way to the moon, psyenergetic bolts of electricity began to strike at the boy. The boy suddenly began clambering up a cliff wall to his side with unnatural speed, catching his breath in a small alcove.
As the villagers began to follow, there was a sudden quiet. The boy watched the moon as it finally peaked over it's prison. His eyes began to glow and snout elongate, when a wall of earth sealed him in the cave. The man who had sealed the young one instopped glowing yellow, and turned to his followers. "WE ARE SAF-" when he was cut off by a tremendous crash, to reveal the wolf like creature behind him standing erect and the same height of the young man they were chasing. In a strange and guttural voice, the creature uttered one request. "Leave….me… beeeeeeeeeee." The leader threw his hand up, spires of sharpened rock hurtling towards the creature. His claws glowing intensenly, the young lycan sliced savagely at the spires, space and time seeming to bend, before the earth was changed to it's natural form.
Mia jolted up from her sleep, sweat glistening from her forehead. The vivid image still burned in her mind of the strange being able to stop psyenergy and change form. The dream…it was so real. Was that... just a dream? Shaking her head as the dream faded, she realized she had no idea where she was. As she stood, she found that she was clad in an earthy green robe instead of her normal attire. As she stepped lightly to the door, a form rose up in front of her.
Garet and Isaac were still in the inn discussing their plans of action, when screams reverberated throughout the inn. Turning the table over in their haste, the pair dashed towards Mia's room, an earthen sword already forming in Isaac's hand. Garet burst into the room, flames surrounding him, before freezing at the sight infront of him. Mia was in the center of the room, a jet of water blasting from her outstretched fingertips drenching Jenna, who was trying to avoid the liquid force blasting her.
Later, after apologies and introductions, and Felix was awoken disdainfully, the plan was outlined. The blond haired venus master explained to them of what they would do.
"As far as we can tell, water representatives will be hot on our spiky haired friend's trail, so we must leave immediately. We'll have to live off the land and the only thing we'll take are weapons. That means get weapons, meet at the gate, and leave."
Garet waited with Mia at the village gate, since he already had his broadsword, and she her staff, which they had the good sense to grab. Isaac burst into his house, and grabbed the long sword which he had always used to fence with Felix and Garet. Dashing through the village, with his mother's shouts in his ear, Isaac felt a pang of guilt as he rolled around the corner and dived into the river and was swept into the waterfalls intake.
Wading from the central pool towards the gate after going down three waterfalls and riding a swift river would have been exhausting, had he not used his restorative earth power, which he called cure, on himself. As he went to meet with Garet, he found only Mia standing there. "Where's Garet?" he asked. Mia looked fretfully over Isaac's shoulder. "He said he was going towards Jenna's, that there was a commotion going on, and-" before Mia could finish her sentence, an eruption of flames towered over the village. As Isaac rushed off towards the source of the flames, Garet emerged from the pool, slightly scorched. "Go Isaac! Jenna and Felix can catch up!"
"No, you take Mia, I'll stay behind, we'll all meet up at the usual spot. Send your signal up if anything wrong is there!"
As Garet grabbed Mia's hand and rushed her into the woods, Isaac drew his sword, while holding a glowing hand upward. Suddenly a pillar of stone rocketed him forth like a cannonball, right onto the top of Jenna's flaming house. Without warning the straw roof gave way, causing the earth adept to plummet to the floor, or, to be more precise, on top of Jenna, laying on top of her. Suddenly an icicle was tickling the nape of Isaac's neck, and a cold sounding voice shouted over the roar of the flames. "Tell this little bitch to kill the flames, now!"
Looking over Isaac's shoulder, she growled at the man, whose eyes were shaded like the rest of his compatriots with an ornamental head band. Quenching the flames with an unclenching orange fist, Jenna lay sighed as she said one word, "Lemurians."
Meanwhile, in the citadel of Prox, which had once been a frozen wasteland in the age before alchemy, the King Saturos was seated upon his throne, manipulating the Mars Beacon. Unlike the rest of the nations, the Mars nation had built their kingdom right against the Lighthouse, and using it's power, restored the kingdom to a firey place filled with volcanoes, and paradises. Saturos suddenly arose, and gently carresed the beacon, sending it stirring, and dismissed his subjects, all except for the queen Mendari. "Show me….. Agatio." said the king.
The beacon pulsed, before becoming seemingly transparent, showing a seemingly empty building. Then… a large Mars warrior leapt into view, clanging swords with a hooded stranger, a flash of red following the clang, as flames raced throughout the building, signifying the extreme psy power of the two masters. With each blow, the room of the building began to crumble. Suddenly the hooded strangers sword broke, and it sent a sudden wave of flame, which wasn't too strange until it was followed by a torrential blast of water, then one of earth, until it was finished up by a gust of wind sending the soldier of Mars blasted out of a window.
"That will be enough." Saturos said, waving his hand, as the red globe began pulsating and racing around itself once more. Sitting beside his queen, the king held his head in his hands. She grabbed one of his hands, looking at him with a calm curiosity. "Well?"
"Agatio was defeated, which isn't too upsetting, but he was defeated by all four elements. You know what that means I presume?" Mendari suddenly stood up, and walked to the 'new aerie' as the historians were calling it, out from the shelter of the beacon. Looking over the vast city of Prox, she replied to Saturos's question, "It's not by the way of the artifacts, but the forbidden art, isn't it?"
"Sorry Jenna, Garet said you needed help." muttered Isaac from Jennas room whe the two were tied back to back. "Well when we see him again, remind me to smack him. I wonder whats taking Felix so long, he's usually here by now…"
"Yeah, how did he hide this time?"
"Earth melting trick into that cave he dug, I dunno how you people do it."
As she was speaking, Felix rose from under the rug, and cut the two free. "We've got to hurry, even if you DON'T know how venus and earth powers work, the water troops were going and try to sneak you out of town in the middle of the day, and instead of fighting, we better take off." said Felix as he began melding back into the earth. "C'mon Isaac, grab Jenna and lets go, just take her to the river bed, we'll go the usual way."
The wind rushed through the youth's bright blonde hair, his feet dragging behind him as he plummeted to earth, the object on his back producing minimum drag, yet stayed with him, with no visible means of attachment. Ripping it away with a hand, he righted himself in the air, and closed his eyes as his feet ,and the object which was unveiled to be a board, began to glow purple. The board was shoulder high and as wide as the boy himself. Suddenly the boys descent rapidly increased, leaving a purple psyenergetic streak behind him, carving his way through the air. As he blew towards Weyard, he continued to listen to the telepathic message he was receiving.
Hopping off the board, the psyenergetic link held, as it snapped back onto his back. Dashing to the center of the villiage he had landed in, the boy dashed into the chieftains tent. "Whats wrong?"
"Nothing Ivan, everything is fine now. The thought you read was probably a delay from this young one here." Ivan stopped to take a look around, and saw the village chieftan in his Lycan form, which he was stuck in permanently. "While you're here though, I know you must soon return to the merchant Hammet in Tolbi, please talk to the Earth Lord there. Babi must know of the persecution that besieges the people of Garoh at every turn, since this is still technically Venusian Territory. One day though, the Jupiter Queen will come and remember us from their floating Fortress."
Ivan snorted as he walked from Master Maha. "Yeah, like the Jupiter Queen would want to consider the lowly town of the wind transformats of Garoh."
Moving his hand in a circular motion, the board whipped under his feet, as he flashed back to what Master Hammet, his merchant foster father, had told him of the transformats.
Ivan sat next to Hammet in the market place of Champa, the worlds largest seaport. Legends said that it had it's beginnings from pirates, and that the captains descendent still ruled as a terror of the seas. Business was slow that day, and Ivan tugged on the merchants sleeve, pointing towards a group of people walking down the street. "Those people are different!"
"Why yes they are young one, those are the transformats of Venus."
"Transformats?"
"Why yes, one for each element.Earth is the tortoise, Fire is the salamander, Water is the shark , and Air is the wolf. Instead of true elemental powers, they transform into beasts, which have the power to nullify the power of the elements."
"Why are people avoiding them?"
"Back in the old days, they were feared and hunted, until the monarchies were established, and laws were made to protect them. Some old prejudices still abound I would say…"
Ripping his way through a cloud, Ivan shook his head, hurtling towards the overland route of Tolbi. Glancing down fondly at his board, Ivan thanked the elements for Hammet introducing him to the Wind masters common form of transportation. This was the only way to travel.
Isaac, Jenna, and Felix caught up with Garet and Mia in the usual meeting spot, a clearing outside the city walls. "We've got to take off, those weren't exactly the strongest water masters, but there were a lot of them." said Felix,who suddenly froze. "Jenna, Garet… maybe a little light would shake off this feeling I've got…" Jenna held up her staff, which produced a flame with a small puff, and felt her blood turn to ice. The flame caused the cloak psyenergies to disappear from the gang of thieves which were surrounding them, and for each of the six, a dagger point a fraction from the knapes of their neck. Their leader loomed from the shadows, dispelling the cloak around him. "So the Mercurians are looking for you eh? Looks like you'll be welcome in Lunpa… as long as you fetch the right price."
GASP GASP GASP
end of this slightly long chapter… looks like I didn't get to far from this extremely delayed chapter. . Sorry, but I've been in a lil bit of trouble guys. Hope you enjoyed the chapter.
Also, the correct spelling of Lycanthrope would be appreciated.
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