Gathering of the Elementals

"I am Voltic." Voltic said, "I am the Lightning Elemental and a descendant of Zeus; pleased to meet you, Aster."

"My pleasure," The Aster said, "Now Ultima, I've heard each of you say that you were a descendant of a certain god." Ultima nodded, "Then who am I a descendant of?"

"Oh yes, we never explained what the Diamond Dragon really was." He walked to the wall, where there were several inscriptions in an ancient language, "These inscriptions basically say that the Dragon's lineage is a rare one. The Diamond Dragon is the only one in existence to have the blood of all the gods of ancient times. In other words," He turned to Aster, "you are a descendant of every god that we as individuals are descendants of."

Aster nodded and opened his mouth to speak again, but felt a dark and cold energy sweep the room. He began looking for its source until deep yet feminine a voice spoke, "Over here, boy."

Aster turned to see a slender woman in a long black dress, silver earrings and bracelets, silver shoes and long, jet-black hair. Her eyes were as dark as can be, but Aster noticed that they were of a purple shade. She was standing on the snout of the diamond statue looking at Aster intently, until she smirked and jumped off the statue.

Aster shuddered as she walked past him towards Ultima, who had an angered, yet not-surprised look on his face. "Trying to get in my way yet again, Ultima dear?" The woman said in an amused yet sinister tone. "I thought I taught you that you shouldn't do that with the death of your apprentice?"

"What the hell are you doing here, Rogue?!" Ultima snarled, "Come to retrieve what dignity you can from Fulgora's failure?"

The woman, apparently, Rogue, immediately scowled at him, "She was not supposed to encounter you. She was merely supposed to retrieve this boy here," She gestured to Aster, "So that I could plunge this world into eternal darkness. But, no matter, it is only a minor setback."

"I thought that you would appear, so I prepared the welcome for you." Ultima said with a sinister tone. "All I have to do is say two words; not only will you be gone from here, but it will alert all the elementals that are my allies and we will immediately be off to Dekrosna's Temple of Time, where you can't reach us." Ultima smirked triumphantly, and it only served to anger Rogue.

"You seriously think that you can escape my detection?" Rogue laughed bitterly, "I'd like to see you try your little trick."

"Very well, but remember, you asked." Ultima looked up, spread his golden wings, and began to glow a white light, to which Rogue recoiled with a hiss.

"I know that you are just a Shadow Illusion being used to spy on us, so I'll just use this to dispel you." His eyes started glowing, "ETERNAL LIGHT!" White light began to appear around Ultima and began to form a sphere, completely engulfing him in the radiant energy. Then, the light began to spread out, until it burst into a brilliant flash, destroying the illusion of Rogue and conveying a message to everyone with elemental powers that was on the side of the light.

My friends, the time has come. The Diamond Dragon has awoken and has been discovered by our enemy. We must gather in a safe place. Come to the temple of the Quartz Dragon, direct relative to the Diamond Dragon, and controller of Time, and all will be revealed. I wish you all the best of luck in getting there.

–Ultima, The Golden Phoenix

As the message died away from Aster's mind, Ultima slowly floated back to the ground and folded his wings, as the glow died down to nothing. He turned to Aster and the others, "We must make haste to Dekrosna's temple in the Bermuda Triangle."

"Wait!" Voltic interjected, "How will Aster get there? He doesn't know how to fly yet, let alone take on the form of a dragon."

"Follow me; there is a portal in here that leads directly to his temple." Ultima turned and led them to a study in the upper reaches of the fortress.

The door was rather large, but not as large as the door to the Chamber of the Diamond Dragon. The door had a compass in the center but instead of it have North, South, East, and West, it had a blank slot. "I had Artemis put in this door so that we could get to Dekrosna's temple and not have to fly there. The Bermuda triangle is a long way away from Japan." Ultima paused then began to chant a spell.

For a second, the door didn't react at all, until the compass on it began to turn and the blank slot began to glow purple. The glow disappeared and in the blank it said "Bermuda Triangle: Temple of Time." Ultima finished the spell and the hands on the compass suddenly stopped in a horizontal fashion. The doors opened and they walked through to see a huge temple with clocks in various places.

"I see you're making good use of my door." A panther/wolf hybrid creature said to them. She smiled, her teeth glinting in the sun, "Glad it became of some use."

Okay, now the story's beginning to roll. Next chapter, all of the Elementals of Light will be introduced, as well as the direct relative to Aster, the Quartz Dragon. Tell me what you think! I really wanna know!

-Ultima