Breath of Fire: Of Time and Destiny
Chapter Four: Meeting new friends and trouble brewing
Time:Goddess Era 2520
Location:Hometown, Aspiara
Dr Joan, the chief doctor in charge of the Magic School's infirmary, sighed as she has just finish writing her medical report on the table. She turns to look at her patients now lying on their individual beds, yet to be conscious. Imagine her surprise when she saw Fiona and Nina, along with their friends, carrying these people in strange clothing for medical attention. From what she heard, these people seem to come from a portal which Ryu had opened and Fiona has a part on it, now everyone in the school has been talking about this particular incident ever since.
Dr Joan sighed, having been the school's doctor for ten years and seen her fair share of 'odd things', but never humans coming from another world or wherever they come from. Just as she was thinking, Ryu and the others (minus Fiona) just came in.
"So, Dr Joan. How are they now?" Nina asked.
"Don't worry about them. They just got a minor concussion and I already heal them. They should wake in a moment's time." Joan smiled to her, then she look at the clock on the wall.
"And what timing you guys come! I need to go make my rounds around the town now, so can you guys watch over them for a while?" Joan requested to which everyone nodded their heads. Just as Joan takes her bag and began to leave through the door, she turns around as if she forgot something.
"Oh yeah! Where is Fiona now? Isn't she with you guys?" She asked them.
"Well, you know the whole incident with the portal, right? She decided to go and report this to Headmaster Yoji……." Nina left the sentence unfinished, making Joan wondered if Fiona is going to be ok.
"I see……hopefully she comes out alright. Anyway I'll be off now. See ya!" With that, Joan left, leaving Ryu and the others to look after their 'guests'.
"Uhhh…..how long are we going to wait for them to wake up?" Katt is the first to spoke since Joan left.
"But Katt, Joan just left a few minutes ago and now you are complaining? I thought you are more patient than that." Bow looks bewildered at his impatient feline friend.
"I know, I know! But it's just that waiting for them to wake up seems boring….I've got to do something…." Katt began to look around until she laid her eyes on the packs and weapons that were put on the table. "I might as well take a look at their packs and see what they have inside." Katt snickered as she walks towards the table, only to have her way block by Ryu.
"Katt, you're not thinking of rummaging their stuff without permission." This is neither request nor demand and Katt knew this.
"Don't worry too much, Ryu. I just want to see what's inside their packs….." But Ryu shook his head and folded his arms. "No, Katt. Rummaging through people's packs without permission is not right, even if they are strangers." Just then they heard something from behind Ryu and they look. To Ryu's horror, it is Yua who begins to rummaging one of the bags, immediately Katt quickly walk past Ryu and join Yua.
"Yua! Katt!"
The two girls ignored Ryu and begin to take out a book from the bag. "Hmmm…..what is this? A diary by Jack Loussier…." Yua read out the name imprinted on the front cover of the book. "Must be a guy's name….but I wonder which guy this name belongs to?" Katt then glanced at the three boys lying on their respective beds, then she shakes her head and proceed to rummage the bag and finally take out a silver colored box-like thing.
"Hello….what is this?" Katt spoke with a look of awe at the thing. She then proceeds to touch some sort of switch on it, which have its 'eye' stick out, surprising Katt and Yua. Out of curiosity, she turns the 'box' around and sees the 'eye', while her thumb unwary push down a button, giving out a bright light and Katt a surprise cry, dropping the thing on the table.
Ryu (shaking his head the whole time) and the others, who have been amused by their actions, quickly rush to Katt's side. "Katt! You ok?" Yua ask with a look of concern, abandoning her quest to explore the bag.
"Arrrggghhh……where did that light come from? I can't see a thing…." Katt muttered while rubbing her eyes. Nina then expressed her worry to her feline friend.
"Katt? You're not blind, aren't you?"
Katt begin to blink her eyes for a while. "Wait, I think I can see now, though a little spots going on…..I think I'll go out for a while." Before anyone can say anything, she swiftly left the room.
"Ryu, why don't you all go check Katt out or do other stuff? I'll stay here and look out for our guests." Nina volunteered; to which Ryu immediately felt concern for her.
"Nina, you're not thinking of staying alone with them, are you?" Ryu did not hide his concern in his voice, which Nina smiled to him, secretly happy that he cares for her. "Ryu, don't worry. I can take care of myself." With that, she kissed him on the cheek, causing Ryu to blush and both Bow and Yua just shrugged at the scene.
"Just be careful, Nina." Ryu, Bow and Yua then left the infirmary. Nina then picks a chair to sit, watching at the mysterious guests sleeping soundly.
A few minutes later, a groan from one of the group caught Nina's attention as she saw the boy with blond hair begin to sit up, rubbing his forehead. "Owwww….I felt like a stampede have just run over me……"
"Are you okay?" Nina ask him timidly, to which the boy stop rubbing his forehead and look up to her. He looks surprised to see her but he later smiled sheepishly. "Yeah….I'm think I'm ok except for a headache. So, where am I?"
"You're in the infirmary of the Magic School in Hometown. You and your friends have been unconscious for some time now." The boy, upon hearing her explanation, immediately looks around and saw his friends yet to regain consciousness. "Whoa! The others are here too….." Then he saw the mess on the table. "Hey! Who's been touching my bag?"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Loussier. But one of my friends is so curious that she rummaged your bag. Don't worry though, she didn't take anything." Nina look apologetically to him while vividly remember Yua speaking out the name from his diary.
"Just call me Jack. No harm done though consider we are in an unfamiliar territory." He gave her a thumbs up, then he ask her. "Just one thing though, why do you have black wings?"
This question seems to pained her and she looks away from Jack with a hurt expression. Jack, seeing this, quickly recognized he may have offended her.
"Ooops! Sorry! I didn't mean to ask anything strange! I just ask because from where we come from, we do not have people with wings. A-and personally I think that black wings you have is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen." He quickly apologized and blushes at the same time.
"Jack, thank you." Nina smiled in appreciation of his concern. Then she stands up and begins to leave the room. "I'll go get my friends and maybe we could answer the questions you have in your mind, just stay here." Jack nodded to her as she closed the door behind her.
After she left, more groans can be heard and Jack saw his other friends began to stir, with Xing Long getting out of the bed first. "Great, this is the worst headache I ever had. I even begin to see that girl just left have wings on her back."
"It's not a hallucination, pal. It's real because I saw it too." Xing Long looks at Jack who is coming to him. "Jack, I thought I have seen everything from all the crazy stuff we gone through in one short year. But I see this is by far the craziest thing in my life." Xing Long chuckled which Jack raised his hands in defense. "What? Is today is Blame-Jack day? But seriously, I think we need to piece together what has happened so far and how we got here." As he was saying that, Diana, Selphie and Zack also came towards them.
"I agreed with Jack. It is wise that we keep calm and assess the situation thoroughly. First, does anybody remember what happen when we jump into that portal?" Diana ask around, which everybody shakes their head.
"Nope. Not a thing. I only remember after we jump in, next time I know is when I wake up and now talking with you." Selphie added.
"Speaking of which…..you two were talking about a girl with wings…..can you clarify what you guys just said?" Zack look at his fellow males with suspicion.
Before anyone could answer that, the door opens and a group of people just came in to the room. Jack and his friends look at their newcomers wide-eyed in surprise. The group consists of a blue-haired human with a sword strapped to his back and a short dagger strapped at his left leg, a girl with black wings with dark blue clothing, a short, plump dog man with a crossbow on his back, a blue-haired girl with bat-like wings and a cat girl carrying a bo staff.
"I see all of you have awake, I'm glad. I'm Ryu Bateson, a member of Ranger's Guild." The blue-haired teen spoke first with a smile.
"I'm Nina Windia, nice to meet you." The black-wing girl spoke shyly.
"Yua Bateson, at your service!" The bat wing girl cried with her fist in the air.
"I'm Bow Doggy, a fellow ranger as well." The dog man uses his trademark smile at them.
"My name is Katt Chuan, great to see you guys! So what's your name?" the cat girl asks enthusiastically. At first, Jack and the others just stay quiet; their surprised look still plastered on their face. Katt scratched her head, annoyed that they haven't said anything. "HEY! Say something, will ya?" She shouted in anger, which has everyone in the room startled.
"Oh, I'm sorry. But it is just that we never have dog man, cat girl and girls with wings from where we come from, so we are quite surprised. Please forgive us." Jack, the first in the group to recover, apologized to the fuming Katt and offers his hand as friendship.
Katt immediately smiled, her anger forgotten and began shaking his hand (to the surprise of Jack and his friends about her change in attitude). "Well, apologies accepted. But you really don't have our kind from where you come from? I can't imagine that."
"I guess as much. Oh, my name is Jack Loussier. Nice to meet you." He smiled at Katt, who gawked at him. "Jack…so you're the owner of the bag…." Katt let it slip out of her mouth. "So you're the one who rummage my bag that Nina's talking about." Jack still has that smile on his face, which Katt felt her cheeks redden.
'He is so cute…I wonder if he is taken or not…..' Katt thought as she stared at his emerald eyes. 'Now that I look at her closely, she is quite cute….' Jack observed her carefully.
"Ahem."
That brought both of them out of their thoughts and look at Xing Long who make the coughing sound. "I hate to spoil your mood but can you guys do that later, preferably privately? It's getting a lot 'hotter' lately…" Xing Long spoke with a smirk on his face.
"Arrrrghhhhh!" Both Katt and Jack quickly turn their backs from everybody to shield their redden faces. Ryu and Bow laughed boisterously at the cute scene while Yua sighed and shrugged at the same time. Nina meanwhile smile softly, knowing what is to come for her feline friend. On the other hand, Selphie is scolding Xing Long for spoiling the mood while Diana is making a knowing look at both blushing teenagers.
"Now that is taking care off, it's time to resume our introduction. My name is Diana Gaimen, I am pleased to meet you." She spoke after the laughter subsided.
"Toohoo! I'm Selphie Tilmitt. Nice to meet you guys!" Selphie waved her hands.
"The name's Chen Xing Long. Just call me Xing Long." Xing Long spoke with more subtle voice, to which Ryu and his friends seem surprised to hear.
"Xing Long? That is quite an unusual name." Ryu admitted. "For all the years I have been wandering the world, this is the first time I heard such name too." Yua added as well.
"I've got a feeling you might say that…." Xing Long just breathes out at that remark and turn to his male friend. "Hey Zack, introduce yourself, will…" Xing Long stopped when he sees him.
Zack seem to be in a trance, staring at the general direction of Ryu and his group, but unbeknown to anyone, he was staring at Nina alone.
'This is the most beautiful girl I ever see…….Nina Windia, huh…..a beautiful name too….'
Xing Long looks at Selphie and Diana, who shrugged at him as well. Then Selphie walk towards Zack and kick him on the leg, making him yelp in pain and broke out of his trance.
"Hey Zack! Stop staring like an idiot; it's rude to do that! Now go and introduce yourself." Selphie scolded. Zack quickly regain his posture and scratch his head sheepishly.
"S-sorry, ummmm…….I-I am Zack Trifield…p-pleased to meet you!" The stammering reply is a shock to Jack (who managed to recover from his embarrassment) and the others since this is the first time they see him act like that. "Hey pal, you okay?" Jack asked his friend who wave him off. "I'm fine. I'm fine…." Jack gave him a skeptical look, not convince of his answer. Ryu and his friends were quite amused of the whole situation.
"Now that is over, will you mind if I ask you guys where you come from?" Ryu decide to ask them for the sake of getting out of this awkward mood that has been developing.
"We came from Neo New York of the Alliance of Free Nations." Jack reply immediately to Ryu's question. That earns him a blank look from Ryu and the others.
"Ehhhh…….never mind….We'll explain in due time…and speaking of which, why are you guys here? Don't tell me you guys followed us through the portal!" Jack immediately asked the other four.
"Well, somebody have to take care of you, rushing off like that." Selphie said with a mock anger expression, then she laughed at his sour expression.
"You siblings tend to give us nothing but headaches and trouble. Hopefully you understand we come with you through the portal because we want to be there to make sure we pull your ass out of your troubles." Xing Long tried to speak with a displeasure tone, but his grin on his face betrayed his true intention.
"Besides, we can't let you guys get all the fun and glory by yourself. We all stick together through all the crazy stuff we've been through, and no way are we going to back out of this." Zack added with a grin of his own as well.
"In other words, we choose this path even the other path look safer. Remember what we promised before in the past? We all stick together, no matter what happens." Diana smiled at her friends.
"Man….this is embarrassing! But thanks anyway guys…I owe you one." Jack then hi-five with everyone.
Having seen this, Ryu and the others smiled with each other, knowing full well the meaning of bond and friendship, now they seeing the same thing on these five friends. Jack then walks towards Ryu with an apologetic manner while the other four began picking up their gears and packs from the table.
"Sorry for you guys to see such an embarrassing display and sorry again for making you guys wait."
"That's ok. We all understand how you guys feel. So what are you guys going to do?" Ryu asked. Jack then scratched his head for a while.
"First, we get our other friends from the other room who followed us here. Second, we find our way home by finding the reason of the portal existence. Simple as that for now." He grinned back to them, then frowned when he see Ryu and the others look pale. "Hey! Why the long face all of a sudden?"
"Buddy….about your first plan, there are no other people except you and the other four. And about your second plan, Ryu's the one who open that vortex…." Bow replied for his friend sadly.
"WHAT! No others? And it's that true?" Jack look at Ryu with an astonished look while Selphie and the others rendezvous with them.
Then it was Nina who explained the whole situation to them, starting from the finding of the ancient book, Ryu chanted the spell, vortex open and lastly Jack and his friends' entrance.
"…..that is all that happen." Nina finished explaining. "Sorry about that…." Ryu apologized to Jack, who put his hand on his shoulder. "Hey, it's not your fault. Nobody could see it coming." Then Jack sighed. "Can't believe Stella and the others are not here…." That last sentence has Katt dropping her cat ears. 'So he was taken….'
Nina, noticing Katt's mood, decided to ask Jack. "So Jack, who is Stella?"
"Hmm? Oh, she's my older sister." That seems to perked Katt's ears up. 'So he wasn't taken!'
"Great….if Stella's not here with us, I can bet she's probably worried sick about us and you know what happen next…." Zack say with a grim expression, to which both Selphie and Xing Long grimaced as well.
"Uh….what is going to happen if she do that?" Yua ask, to which Diana turn around to her and reply. "You probably don't want to know."
"So much for our simple plan…..could things get any worse?" Jack look up to the heavens as if asking for His advice.
"I'm afraid it is getting worse than that." Everyone turn to the door to see Fiona standing at the door. "You are?" Diana asked first.
"Fiona Alyssa Lennete, one of the students of the Magic School and I'm the one who found that book. About you guys going home, I'm afraid it is not possible at this time."
"Why is that, Fiona?" Nina asked her friend who wears a sober look.
"Well….the section where the original spell used to open the portal…..is gone." She look at the shocked faces and further explain before they could ask. "Don't ask me why! Apparently that spell is set for one use only and I searched the book over three times with no luck. Headmaster Yoji say he will examine the book to see if there is other counter spell though."
"Great……Me and my big mouth……" Jack muttered while slapping his hand on his forehead.
"Then again, going home is not our first priority now." Everyone turn to Diana who has a calm face. "Our first priority is to find our friends then we can figure out how to get home, after all Fiona says the spell is missing but not the book, so that should be no problem." She made out her point.
"Agreed. I believe this our best course of action for now." Xing Long added. Jack, Zack and Selphie all nodded their head in agreement.
"Then it is settled. If you give me the description of your friends, I can ask the guild master of the Rangers Guild to keep an eye out for them. If they are found, I'll let you know." Bow offered his assistance.
"I'll stay here and research the book with Master Yoji, we found anything, you'll be the first to know." Fiona chirped in.
"Wow….you guys are wonderful! We just got here but you guys will do everything for us! You guys are the nicest bunch I ever see!" Selphie happily spoke her thoughts out, which have Ryu and his friends smiled in return.
"Just glad to be help." Ryu smiled with a wink.
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Somewhere in the northern sea, there is an uncharted island in the middle of the sea. This island is not in the direct path of any major sea route, so it is largely unknown to the outside world. On the island, a big mansion can be seen on the top of the hill, surrounded by dead trees and the island itself is constantly bombarded by lightning storm, which constantly have dark clouds surrounding the island. The island's habitants are roaming the island wandering aimlessly, but if you look closely, they are no ordinary habitants for they have pale skins with no signs of life. More accurately, these habitants are actually an undead known as zombies and they are not alone. Skeleton swordsmen, knights, floating ghosts and all kinds of undead can be found here as well, this island is truly for the undead.
Inside the mansion, the habitants inside the mansion are living ones, who all gathered in the deep basement, performing some sort of experiments. All of the habitants all have black hoods covering them from head to toe with one exception. This particular one is an old human with long beard and white hair and wore a black hood with a symbol on the back that resemble a red cross with a bone in the middle of it and his eyes can only be describe as insane.
The old man watch on to see his servants, chanting in a magic circle around a woman, caught from a village in the mainland, lying in the middle of the circle. With the continuing chant, the magic circle glowed in intensity with the woman, but then something goes wrong. The magic circle flashed in a bright light that the old man and his servants have to shield themselves from the flash of light. Once the light subsided, the woman in the magic circle is gone, leaving only a speck of dust in her place.
"Damn it! Another failure!" The old man smashes his fist on a nearby table, causing some bottles to fall from the table and crash on the floor, while his servants cower in fear from him. "I need to find new specimens to complete this experiment or all my life's work will be for naught! If it weren't for those damn Highlanders, I wouldn't be doing this secretly!"
"Perhaps I can help you with your experiment if you hear my side of proposition."
The old man turn immediately to see the intruder, who was standing at the door. This intruder is wearing a black armor and a black face helmet that looks like a skeleton with horns on the helmet, keeping his face hidden. Anyone would have thought this man could be a warrior if not for him carrying a long magician staff which is black as well.
"You! How do you get here? There is no way you can past through my undead warriors and my detection spell!" The old man shouted angrily at the black armored man, who chuckled at him.
"Do not be so impulsive….I have come to offer you my assistance. It is also quite easy to get past your warriors and spell if I do not have my own tricks such as yours, Sorcerer Zalion of the Xeno Cult."
"So you know me….and you are a sorcerer as well….interesting. What kind of proposition you wish to offer? And what is your name?" Zalion begin to take interest and sat down on a nearby chair.
"My name is not important in this matter, but if you insist, my name is Sindri (1), a fellow sorcerer like you. This proposition is kind of a win-win situation for both of us. Let me explain in detail for you….."
And so, the dark meeting continues……..
Time:Goddess Era 2020
Location:Windlan, Aspiara
Stella was walking along the corridor, seemingly looking bored. She has just left the library and the impromptu lecture lesson from Professor Gaist, who talks about the various magic in the world of Aspiara, confirming at least to her suspicion that they are not in Terra. Though she is quite interested in Aspiara history, particular the Goddess War 2000 years ago and the recent War of the Dragons 6 months ago, but she easily get tired listening if the subject is not of her concern. But her friends, Raquel, Miyako and surprisingly Robert, were paying attention to Gaist's lecture. Stella sighed, knowing full well that those three are dedicating students ever since she knows them in ACADEMIA, at least she won't worry too much about Robert's flirting now. Speaking of which, Bob is not in the library either, presumably went to chat with Raifel, who they became close friends.
She stops near the window which overlooked the city down below and looks out, breathing in the fresh and pure air and watching the windmills on the towers spinning. It has been two weeks since their arrival here and thanks to Nina's hospitality; they now live in the guest rooms in her castle, still waiting for news of their missing comrades. Ryu, on the other hand, has left Windlan about 10 days ago to the Imperial Capital of the Dark Dragons, citing some sort of trouble and needs his help to check it out. She sighed again and begin thinking how the others are doing, especially her younger brother Jack and hope they are all okay and such…..
"Stella? Stella!" Stella jumped in surprise and whirled around, then relaxed when she see it is Nina who call her. "Nina! You scared me! You almost gave me the heart attack!" Stella tried to calm herself by repeatly patting her chest.
"Sorry for that. But when I saw you standing there, I decided to talk to you. So what were you thinking?" Nina stands beside Stella and look out the window as well.
"Oh…a lot of things…" Stella explained vainly.
"Still worried about your brother and your friends?"
Stella nodded to her, inwardly marveling at Nina's insight. "Well, I couldn't help it. We've been here for two weeks now and there's still no news of them. The others may look calm but they are worried as well and they find other ways to keep them occupied. Besides staying here for so long, I'm getting worried we might cause inconvenience to you…." Stella trailed off and Nina just shakes her head.
"No way. You guys did not cause any inconvenience at all. Besides, didn't I say before that I will help whenever I can?" She smiled to Stella. "And speaking of getting your mind off of this, I thought you were at the library, listening to Gaist's lecture?"
"Uh uh, I am sick of listening to lecture at this very moment. Thank you very much. Though I can't believe the others can stand this…." Stella makes a mock grumble while Nina giggled at her expression.
"You're just like me, Stella." Nina spoke after she stops giggling. "Huh?" Stella looks at her with a confused expression. "About skipping the lecture thing. When I was young, I have to listen to all the boring lecturing about many things, training in sword fighting, do my royal duty and such….that I sometimes have to skip the lessons all together. I always get away with it, for my father will place the blame on people teaching me. But, as a princess I can't do that all the time because it is my responsibility to my people, and it kinds of making me feel envious for the ordinary girls who lead their freedom….." Nina spoke with a sad expression.
"Nina…." Stella realized that Nina is telling her about her personal life and how she felt all this year and judging from what she heard of the story about her role in the War of the Dragons, she knew that Nina never have a female friend at her age group to talk to.
Resolving to help her, Stella put her hand on Nina's shoulder, surprising her. "Nina, I know I can't help solve all your problems, but you can count on me, Miyako and Raquel to help you, especially on 'girls' only problem. Just tell us and we will help you." She gave Nina with a wink, which Nina smiled back in appreciation.
"Thank you, Stella. I'll take your offer."
"That's the spirit, girl! Oh, by the way, can you tell me your adventures during the War of the Dragons?" Stella then claps her hand together and look at Nina earnestly.
"I thought Gaist already told you about that." Nina smiled again to which Stella rolled her eyes.
"From a third person perspective, that is. What I want is to hear directly from you who is involved in all of this with no exaggeration."
"This could be a long story…."
"I got plenty of time and don't forget to tell me in details on how you and Ryu meet each other and how your relationship with him goes from there….."
"S-Stella!"
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In the southern sea, a merchant ship has just left the port from the East Continent and is schedule to head to another port in West Continent. It was a daily routine to the captain and crew of the ship ever since the war is over six months ago. The captain was just relaxing in his room, writing down his log as usual, when someone knocks his door repeatly. Before the captain answer, the door opens in hurry and his first mate just rush in.
"What is it that you have to charge in my room like that?" The captain looks at his first mate with an astonished expression. His first mate looks up panting and he looks like he have just seen a ghost. "Captain! Please come with me to the deck! You have got to see this! Hurry!" With that, he immediately ran out of the room. The captain then followed him a few minutes later after recovering himself from the shock at his first mate's attitude.
"What in Ladon's name…." The captain finally knows the reason of his first mate frantic attitude. On the port side of his ship, he saw icebergs in the sea, which can only be found in the Artic Region and there is no way iceberg can be found floating in the warmer southern sea. Before he can bark any orders, some of the crew suddenly scream in terror and pointed towards something on the iceberg. The captain immediately look to the direction his crew pointed and saw ice creatures, resembled like stone golem only in ice, are on top of the iceberg. Before anyone can even react, these ice creatures began blowing ice breath on the ship, instantaneously freezing everyone and the ship up. Now the ship is now part of an iceberg field on the southern seas as the sea around them began to freeze up as well…….
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At the continent where once the mighty Dark Dragon Empire located, the now pacifist country has rebuilt the Imperial Capital to its former glory, though it has not been completely rebuild yet. But now, instead of bustling sounds that normally accompanied the city each day, there is now silence. What now replace are ice blocks with people froze inside, each made a gesture of escaping from something horrible but never could. And inside the castle itself……
"RYU!" Someone cried out to him when Ryu crashed to the ground heavily, part of him freezes up when the opponent use ice magic on him. Ryu, though shivering, put up a defiant look at his opponent, who is now floating in the air above him.
This opponent wears what magicians always wear but in an ice-blue colored and has a face mask on his face. He looked down at the Light Dragon, clapping his hands. "Very impressive. I have heard that Light Dragon Clan are weak against ice. Even it is not true, I am still impressed you managed withstand my attacks so far."
"Heh! You think that kind of magic can stop me?" Ryu smiled defiantly, though he was still shivering from the earlier blast.
"Then how about this? This is more powerful than the ones I use before!" The sorcerer then immediately blast Ryu with a powerful wave of ice magic, causing Ryu to scream in pain as his body began to freeze up.
Within minutes, Ryu is now encased in the pillar of ice and the sorcerer laughed in triumph. "HAHAHA! First you, then the other eight heroes and next the world will freeze and we, the Ice Dragon Clan, will rule it for eternity!"
At the nearest hill overlooking the Imperial City, the purple hooded man is standing there. Looking through the events inside the castle from a crystal ball, he smiled evilly. "Ah yes. They have done well. Hopefully they can keep this up for much longer…." With that said, he teleports and disappeared from the hill.
Sindri – He is an evil Chaos character from a PC game call Warhammer 40000, I like his evil and calculating planning, so I put him here in my fic. And don't worry, he is NOT wielding any guns in this fic in case anybody ask…..