a/n: we just started this one again... remember 2 people are writing this now. The other two retired. Disclaimer
Nathan stood stock still as clerics and priests tried to unweave, with great difficulties, the spells that had been cast on the mages, frozen in the past. Grendel ran forward, the calm composure he had shown to Katsuzie replaced by a flustered panic. "Nathan! What happened? Where is Laeigh?". Nathan gave Grendel one long look, then hid his face beneath his hat and turned away. "Silent! What are you doing?", Grendel called. Nathan looked back at Grendel, and then sighed regretfully. Raising his arms, two walls of stone encased him within, and then shrank back into the ground. Nothing was left but a badger-sized burrow and a stone, no bigger than a pebble, with something inscribed upon it. Grendel summoned it to him, and took a good long look.
"A spiral? That's it? Nothing more? Not even a magic spiral, or anything?", Spike exclaimed. The small group passed around the one clue Nathan had given them, and once Ba Gua saw it, he looked especially worried. "What? Does it mean something to…to the spirits?", Grendel inquired. "Well…it should mean something to all of you, and I'm starting to worry about that. It is the universal symbol of the Origin, the theoretical beginning and ending of existence.". "Go on…". "I'm guessing, and I really wish I'm wrong, that The Silent is trying to tell us something about the Origin Crystals, the fabled essences that, when combined, could grant dominion over everything is now, will be, and once was. It was with these powers that Laeigh became the monster he is now; it was with these powers that he was sealed away by Dalris and four other Aeons members.". "So you're saying," Hitori concluded, "That The Silent wants us to find and use these…Origin Crystals?". Ba Gua laughed, a defeated sort of half chuckle. "That's easier than it sounds. No single person knows the location of all five Origin Crystals, and the only people who knew the location of at least one were the ones who sealed Laeigh away. And they all died a long time ago.". The group stood in somber silence, and then Hitori hesitantly spoke up. "Well, consider this- Kastallia came down from heaven to…uh, instruct me to get Laeigh back. And if she came down one way, she can go up the same way, and I think you know where I'm getting with this…"
Kevin wrote this chapter.... Hitorihyuuga...