Song of the Heavens
"Song of the Heavens? What's that?" asked Kurapika.
"That song you sang that day…it's one of the divine songs that should never be heard by mortal ears."
"Why not?"
"Because those that can stay awake longer than halfway through it are driven to point of insanity and die…" said Kaita.
"Why?"
"We don't know… But it seems your clan found the way to prevent any more deaths! I wonder how they discovered the secret…"
"Well maybe…nah couldn't be!" said Kurapika."What?!"
"It may have something to do with the legend that has been passed down since before my clan even began."
"Well? What's the legend?!"
"An old sage who was guarding an infant with blue eyes was walking across the coast, unaware of the songs of doom, when the child stopped moving. The old sage, being deaf, couldn't hear the song, and was unaffected by it. When he got home, he realized that the child was too cooperative and became worried.
He tended the boy for a week straight before he started to notice that something was very wrong. The boy's eyes had changed from blue to crimson. When the sage woke up the next morning, he saw the boy sitting on a rock and appeared to be singing.
A stranger who harbored evil thoughts about the sage walked by and heard him. It was over an hour before the cold-hearted man started to slowly go insane and killed himself. The sage was horrified by what the boy had done, so he fled leaving the child behind.
A wandering woman passed by and rescued the child from certain death. She raised him as her own, since her own child had died recently. He grew up and started a family; every night he sang a strange and soothing song to put them to sleep.
The children were running across the same coastline when they heard the voice. Soon they were confronted by a beautiful and gentle woman who appeared before them. It tried to lure the children into her arms by singing the same song their father sang every night as a lullaby. The woman quickly became frustrated at the fact her song had no affect. She summoned a sea monster to kill the children when they snapped out of her gaze. They took one look at the creature and were afraid. That is, until the remembered the song that their father sang. It was soothing to them, so they attempted to soothe the beast with it.
They started singing, the creature stopped by the words. It became confused and was unable to tell friend from dinner. They children kept on singing and it was soothed by the harmonious melody. The woman hit the creature out of rage and anger. Her attack only served to enrage it and it ate her. The creature stayed until the children finished and left them alone.
When they got back and told them what had happened, no one believed them at first. No one, except their father. When the people they thought were their friends turned on them, calling them monsters and freaks they fled. The mother was among the few throwing rocks. The father died and when the children grew up, they started their own village. It quickly grew and everyone who lived there possessed the crimson eyes when they became enraged or passionate. They became what was once known as the Kuruta Clan. In order to protect the children of the village from the evil melodies that captured unwary travelers, they all sang the same song to them as a lullaby. And so on and so on."
"So basically, the child with the blue eyes was the original creator of your clan, am I right?"
"That's what we were led to believe."
"Why didn't the child go insane though? It makes NO sense!" said Kite frustrated.
"I think I may know why…" said Kurapika.
"Care to fill us in?"
"The sage was deaf and couldn't be lured into his death. The child was too young to understand the enchanting melody and was too young to be truly affected by it. If I remember correctly, the sage's house was close to the coast where the song originated. So to the child it was nothing more than a lullaby. He grew so used to it that it could no longer affect him in any way!"
"That clears up a LOT of confusion. Thanks!" said Kite happily.
"So, Kurapika, do you want to be a Guardian or not?" asked Kaita."I'll accept it…" said Kurapika hesitantly.
Kurapika Kuruta became the newest Guardian in over three thousand years. When he and Kaita went to return to the place they were at, Kurapika was pulled by an unseen force and thrown into a different dimension far away from Kaita!
When he came to, he realized that he was alone. He saw a man with purple hair fly by him. A second man with blond hair was chasing him while launching magical attacks! Kurapika's eyes started to change without his consent; he ran after the blond man and attacked from behind, catching him off guard!
As the two fell, Kurapika watched in amazement as the blond man went from angel to blue-haired teen! He didn't know how to save them both; and as it turned out, he didn't have to.
"You are one crazy kid, ya know that? I've never seen anyone attack Krad like that!" it was the thief.
Where the hell did I land in? thought Kurapika as he passed out.