(12 years later after that day)
The world was in a state of total chaos. No longer did the sun shine in the sky every day, or even the moon at night. The sky was always blanketed with black clouds that crackled with lighting all the time, as if the world was trembling at the destruction. The ground was just as horrific as the sky above it. Much of the plant life had faded away due to the loss of sunlight, leaving nothing but dead trees and shrubs as far as one's eyes could see. The ground itself was corrupted, putrid, and stained with dried blood all around. The world was being drowned in evils venom and was on the verge of dying altogether.
However in the middle of a dead forest stood a ruined shrine, a shrine that was used to worship the divine dragon Naga in older times. By some miracle it hadn't been burned to the group, and remained mostly intact. Inside its walls stood a group of nine, one a young looking girl, the other eight a group of male and female teenagers. Each one was equipping themselves with whatever they had left on them, preparing for an important mission from the looks of it.
"What's taking them so long, they're going to be left behind?!" one of the group spoke. This one was a girl with long green hair which was tied to the sides of her head in the form of two ponytails. On her was a simple steel sword she kept attached to her belt, and a small shield attached to the armor on her arms.
"They can't be reckless, remember patience is a virtue here" a teenage male said to her. He was dressed in mage attire, with a wizard hat to match the look. He possessed orange-red like hair, and glasses to boot. He seemed incredible bright for his age as well as a calm and collected individual.
"Even so we know they will find us eventually… they always do" the same girl said to the mage her grumpy face replaced by a more concerned one.
"Fear not!" another boy spoke up, this one dressed in a yellow sword masters attire, his hair spiky like and black in color. "They have been chosen by fate to carry out this mission of champions, they will return alive and-
"Did I ask for your opinion?!" she spat jabbing her finger into him causing him to shut up quickly.
"Come on guys this is no time to be fighting" the one child of the group said separating them. She had dull blackish hair, and unlike the others was dressed in a simple dress having no armor on to speak of. In her hand was a green stone which gave off a soft green glow as she stared at them both. This caused both teens to sigh and the green haired girl to sit down.
"Everyone is all on edge…" another teen muttered to herself as she tightened the string on her bow. She was a thin girl indeed, with a well-developed chest despite her thin body. She had a gold band around her head with a feather slipped on to it. On her left arm was a shoulder guard, and she had bright short orange hair.
"Can ya blame them?" another teenage boy asked as he sat right next to her. He had reddish-brown hair and was dressed in a purple and black priest wardrobe and had nothing but a staff in his hand. The most important thing though was his face; he possessed a punk like face as well as a scar across his left eye. From his language he certain acted like a puke despite the priest attire.
"Well no… your right, there's not much of a reason to be relaxed is there" the slim orange haired girl said.
"Come now you two" a sliver haired boy said to her "We shouldn't be frowning like were just waiting for the end, we need to stay positive, smile a bit" he said smiling himself. He carried a sword on his belt just like the green haired girl, as well as a shield on his left arm. He was a dashing looking teen despite his cheer demeanor in this kind of predicament. No one however was willing to call him on it; no one except another teen girl in knight's armor from toe to neck who punched him in the head. She carried a lance and shield and had a mop of black hair on her head.
"Read the situation here moron, there's nothing to be really smiling about anymore" she said grunting as she walked past him a bit sitting down next to the others.
"Someone has to be positive" the silver-haired lad said leaning against the ruined shrines wall. "And since you're not one to smile I have to smile more to make up for it my sweet sweet-
"Don't say it" she grunted glaring at him clearly not in the mood for his antics.
"Fine, fine" he said smirking at her. This almost caused her to get back up to hit him again. However before she could a tap brought everyone's attention towards the back of the shrine. Standing there was a blue haired individual who slowly turned to face them. This person had a slim appearance, but carried a royal air around them. Carrying only a sword at their belt they approached the group a butterfly like mask covering their face.
"Is the mask really necessarily?" the green haired girl asked "We haven't left yet"
"It's best I get used to this now and not later" the blue haired figure said, their voice carrying a male tone but having a somewhat feminine grace.
"It suits you well!" the spiky haired boy said "You truly are a scion of legends, the garb of hero's covers your noble person, and the mask leaves you a mystery of highest standing. Seeing you makes my sword hand twitch at the sight of such majesty!" he said raising his hand into the air as he stood on top of a small stool.
"Would you please stop talking like that?" the female knight asked him groaning a bit at hearing him run his mouth.
"I… I'm just saying" the sword master spoke back
The blue haired masked male smiled a bit "Thank you, I'm glad to hear it"
A few seconds later however as the orange haired girl looked out the window she got up causing them all to face her. Going towards the window they saw what she had noticed first, outside were three individuals. One of them was coming off a Pegasus's back, she had two pony tails like the green haired girl, but they were shorter and her hair was blue. The second one also dismounted from a mount but his was a wyvern. He wore black armor and had yellow hair. Most important however was that he wore a black mask across his face, covering his eyes. The last one had no mount but he was unique none the less, as he was shape-shifting back from a huge rabbit like beast form into a human like form. Finishing his transformation he appeared as a fusion of man and rabbit, carrying fur and long ears, with blue vest like gear on his body. All three went towards the shrine quickly with their comrades opening the door for them.
"What's the word?" the silver haired boy asked.
"Their coming!" the rabbit human said "They will be here soon, no way I could miss that stench" he said
"And quite a bit of them… they must have caught on to the plan" The masked wyvern rider said.
"Is Naga here yet?" The blue haired girl asked
"No… but she should be here soon" The green haired girl replied.
Just as that was said a spirit of blue, green and purple light zipped into the room, making everyone turn to watch it as it headed towards the back near a set of giant doors. In a quick flash of light a figure took form. The figure was a women in appearance, with green hair flowing gently to an invisible wind. Her body clothed with a beautiful dress, and a celestial robe wrapped around her arms. Her body glowed with blue light that flickered off her and radiated in the air of the desolate shrine. Everyone knew immediately it was Naga.
"Greetings saviors" her voice sounded to them, carrying a beautiful tone and yet at the same time a serious one too. "It's good to see you all here"
"Naga, is everything ready?" The butterfly masked male asked.
"Indeed, the ritual can begin, but I must remind you of something" she said to them all "Should you all go through with this, you will most likely never be able to return to this time… will you still go knowing this?" she asked.
No one said anything for a minute as they listened to her words. However none of them showed any signs of doubt. They all knew this from the first time Naga told them about this ritual, in which they would travel through time, and prevent this from happening. However it was a one way trip most likely, and there was no telling where they would end up, or what time. Despite all the risks they knew this was the end of the world, if something wasn't done there was no future.
Seeing the determined looks on their faces Naga nodded gently. Facing the doors behind her she raised her hand. Muttering words, most likely an incantation, she pressed her hand against the door. Seconds after the doors started to part, behind them a glowing blue and white vortex. When the doors were fully opened Naga turned back to face them.
"It's done… good luck saviors, for the world's fate rests on your shoulders, and your shoulders alone" she said to them.
Suddenly as she finished her sentence the masked man's wyvern screamed out, causing its owner to turn around.
"What's wrong?" the female knight asked.
"… there here!" the masked wyvern rider shouted.
Just as he said that multiple blasts of fire shot towards the shrines left wall, blasting the entire section of the shrine down causing the area near their feet to surrounded by flames a bit. From there they could see they were surrounded, ghastly figures groaning and moaning, dark vapor pouring out of their mouths as they did. There red eyes glowed in the dark and they were ready to rip the group and there mounts apart.
"Go saviors their is no time left" Naga warned them as the first of the zombie like creatures roared out and charged followed by the rest. However the group was ready for this and readied there weapons.
The orange haired girl was the first to move as she was an archer, readying her bow she let loose an arrow hitting one of the things straight in the eye, causing it to stumble back a bit before hitting the ground disappearing into purple like vapor. However there were too many and the first of the creatures were right on them.
However the green haired girl, the silver-haired and spiky brownish black-haired boy and even the masked swordsmen were ready. Drawing their weapons they charged, blocking the first of the creatures which were carrying axe's. With swift decisive strokes they slashed the creatures down, with them pairing up into groups of two to protect each other.
The female knight however was doing something else as she used her shield and lance to clear the way for the blue haired Pegasus knight and masked wyvern warrior to get to their mounts. Backing her up was the glasses wearing mage, who was using his wind magic to blow the living dead away knocking down many others as well.
As this happened the punk priest turned to face the portal then looked at the young girl and the rabbit man "You two go on ahead of us!" he said to them.
"But we can't just leave you guys" the young girl said looking back at her friends who were fending off their pursuers.
"Yeah... and are we even sure it's safe?" the rabbit man asked "I mean I'm the last of my race and-
"Just go ya fools!" he barked causing the two to clamp and quickly race towards the portal as he turned to face the creatures going towards the female archer as she carefully sniped zombies that had bows and were taking aim at their friends.
A few steps from the portal the young girl and rabbit man stopped as they stared into its depths.
Both gulping the rabbit man spoke up first "Uhhh why don't you go first…?" he said ushering her a little closer.
"No no… your quicker you should go first" she said giving a scared smile.
"Yeah but your younger so…." He battered both of them too scared to enter first that they were coming up with excuses not to go first.
The green haired girl noticed and with a grunt to her partner in combat the yellow garbed Swordmaster "Think you can handle this yourself?"
"Of course, this is child's play for the child of a legendary- Hey!" he said as she ran off towards to two without letting him finish. With a swift shove she shoved the two of them in at the same time, both of them screaming a bit as they disappeared into it. With that done she turned to her friends "See you there… hopefully" she said as she jumped in disappearing as well.
By this point the blue haired Pegasus knight, and the masked wyvern rider were mounted and in the air taking the knight and mage outta the crowd of creatures that had started to surround them. A few armed with javelins started to throw their weapons, but a quick blast of wind magic from the mage blew them away as they flew towards the portal, the walls destruction making it easier to get there mounts in.
By this point the female archer was almost out of arrows, there were just to many, and the three remaining swordsmen were being pushed back. There was no more time.
The puck priest grabbed the archer's hand "Come on girl it's time to go" he said
"INSOLENCE, WHO GAVE YOU PERMISSION TO GRAB MY HAND!" she suddenly barked her whole face contorting into an evil glare compared to her pervious gloomy face.
"Now's not the time for this!" the priest buckled a bit at her sudden change in personality as he hurried her along to the portal.
As the mounts flew towards the portal to enter a zombie archer took aim and fired, it's arrow nailing the mage on the blue haired knights mount causing him to fall off, the arrow lodged in his shoulder. Seeing this the female knight on the masked man's mount jumped down off his mount racing over to shield him from more attacks. Meanwhile both mounted riders turned towards their comrades, but a quick nudge of the knight's head at them told them to go on without them. They about-faced and both entered the portal with their mounts disappearing as well, as the priest and archer came over.
"Hurry up and heal him, I'll be your shield" she said to the punk priest.
"Yeah I'm on it!" he said placing his staff on the mages leg as he pulled the arrow outta his shoulder causing him to grunt in pain blood dripping from the wound. Quickly he activated his staff which produced a healing blue wave of energy which slowly caused the wound to disappear. As this happened the knight blocked even more arrows which were aiming for the healer, true to her word she was able to block each one, her armor easily bouncing them off.
"To think these creatures had such ability to aim, it would be interesting to learn how they-
"Can it ya fool, not the time or place!" the punk priest snapped at the mage, amazed he would think about such things after taking an arrow to the shoulder.
Meanwhile the trio of swords were still being pushed back, each one having no time to think, the only thing keeping them alive was there instincts. As a knight like zombie charged the silver-haired boy, he jumped over its head bringing his sword down on another behind it. As for the knight in question the spiky haired boy stabbed it in the neck using his pals jump to sneak attack it, dropping it like a fly as its body disintegrated. As for the masked warrior two more with swords charged him. He blocked the first one with his blade then as the second one swung down he slammed into it knocking it to the ground as he kicked the first one away. Then with a swift backwards jump he jumped over another knight as he tried to impale him from behind, finishing him with a slash across the creatures' waist cutting him in half, his sword easily slicing through it's armor. Never the less they were still being pushed back.
Thankfully the priest was done stitching up the wound on the mage. With that down he, the mage, and the archer raced towards the portal followed by the knight who was keeping her back to the portal. One by one they went in with the last one being the knight. With all their friends passing through the three remaining backed up slowly towards the portal as they were staring down a small army.
"Well now it's just as three" The silver-haired lad spoke up smiling a bit.
"Whose's going first?" The spiky brownish-haired lad asked.
"You both… I'll follow soon after" the masked kid said.
With that said the two boys looked at each other and nodded. A spilt second later they made a run for it. The creatures roared out and charged but the masked kid was already on them. With a jump and swing he slammed the ground with his sword creating a shock wave that knocked them off their feet, as well as cause them to fall on top of each other. From there the masked warrior sheathed his sword and raced towards the portal seeing the other two jump in already. Just like that the last of them went into the portal leaving nothing but those creatures behind.
Seeing this Naga who had watched the skirmish this entire time started to close the portal with a flick of her hand. However as she did the creatures roared out and started to decompose into black spirits. From which they shot themselves into the portal following them in. at least twenty to thirty made it through before the portal fully closed cutting off the rest.
Naga then turned towards the mass of dead entities, all of them not attacking her or even making a move to capture her. It could only mean one thing to Naga, and that was he was here.
"So you decided to come here personally fell blood" she said looking towards the trees.
As soon as she said that the creatures moved out of the way. From the trees then came a single hooded person, his cowl covering his face as he walked closer towards the divine dragon. A few feet from her he stopped and let out a small chuckle.
"How could I miss the chance to see you Naga, it's been too long?" the hooded man spoke.
"If you're here to stop them your too late, the portals closed" Naga said to him her eyes glaring at him.
The hooded man laughed "Naga, you know as well as I do anything you can do I can do as well" he said "All you're doing is prolonging the evitable"
"As long as there is hope the saviors will not miss their chance" Naga countered "The chance to stop your madness"
"Wrong" He countered back "There is no hope… the only hope this world had died when I snuffed out the life of that exalted prince all those years ago" he chuckled remembering the pleasure of that moment. "There's no hope for your 'saviors', there's no hope for this world… and there's no hope for you to escape me now that I'm here" he added. With those words he raised his hand; from there the clouds slowly departed however no light came forth. Instead all Naga saw was a giant serpent like dragon appear in the sky its six giant red eyes staring down at her as it let loose a blood curdling roar.
"Performing the ritual has taken a lot of strength from you Naga… meaning you have no chance against me" The hooded man laughed evilly. Bringing his hand down the dragon up in the sky started to charge up a mighty blast of energy in its giant mouth, Naga knew instantly there was no escape.
"Saviors…. I leave the rest to you" she said softly closing her eyes as the dragon let loose its attack.
One more part to go for premonition hopefully this is a good read so far.
Hopefully I got the hair colors for the kids right, this may be corrected down the line as the pairings come out. When they do I hope you all will notify me so I can fix it quickly.