Hey, I'm back with an update. A bit later than I originally planned but I was delayed. Thanks to those who read and reviewed, your reviews were indeed of encouragement, I still smile when I read them :)

I would also like to dedicate this chapter to cyclone5000, who inspired me to write this story. To those who've read my other stories, you'd know my confidence had been at an all time low to the point of depression, and cyclone helped me to regain my confidence by supporting my stories and just being my best friend, someone who really cared. So do check out the awesome Taito story, 'Language of Flowers' too. This is kind of embarrassing, but: I know we both know how tough life can be and how at times we just feel like giving up. I suck at comforting people 'cause I can't even comfort myself. But I'm genuinely grateful to have met you over the internet (digital world, haha); I know you're going through a tough time and I'm glad this story makes you feel more light hearted. I want you to know I'll always be here for you just like how you've been there for me. So smile, Great One; Taichi. :)

What else to say...oh yeah to Bibi, my faithful supporter; I just want to say I really appreciate your reviews but can you create an account? :) I don't know if I've asked this before, but yeah, if you have an account I can reply your review like I do for others. I'm glad you enjoy my stories, and thanks so much for reviewing every time :) Oh Taichi mistook Sora for a guy 'cause she's supposed to be a guy - she's dressed as a guy 'cause of being an Elemental Warrior and all. So he's not that dense, haha. Hmmm, we'll see :) Yamato and Taichi here are like a mix of Season 1 and 02, or Yamato at least.

Yeah, that's all. That should be all. Alright, so I'm imagining this story like an anime in my mind, but it's also like a manga to me. So since we have an MMORPG feel here with all the magic and jobs and mythical creatures, I thought I'd neaten things a bit. So this is like the end of 'Volume 1' and I put all the terms and descriptions at the end to make for easier understanding. Never done it before, so why not?

So that's all, yeah I'm lengthy as usual...can't change that. Thanks to all who take the time to read this story, and enjoy :) Now is supposed to be my study break so the next chapter will take a while. Maybe 1 and a half weeks to two weeks, depends on how bored I get.

Oh and the picture of Yuujou is courtesy of cyclone! Here's the link to the bigger picture; : / / cyclone5000 . deviantart. com / art / Yuujou-319118525 Awesome, right? ;) Damn I better get to drawing him too. Add the http, somehow it's cut off, and leave out spaces. If it's still not working for some reason, feel free to PM me.

Right, enough from me, on with the story.

Yamato's lips were soft, and as the frozen blonde held him up by the collar, Taichi smiled and slipped his tongue into Yamato's warm mouth-tasting the golden haired Ice Mage he could swear he had fallen in love with at first sight, for one second, before he found himself yelping as he landed on his ass on the forest floor.

"Owwww…" Taichi grimaced as he laid on the floor, not happy at all that he had been deprived of the addictive taste, and so fast too- "What was that for?!"

"What was that FOR?!"Taichi winced at Yamato's shrill voice which had gone up by about an octave or maybe more, "What the hell did you think you were doing?!"

Taichi looked up. Yamato's blue eyes were wide in incredulity, his pale cheeks dusted with a red that was very appealing on him- Taichi thought dazedly. Yeah, the Ice Mage was blushing and it made Taichi want to kiss him again.

The brown haired boy blinked. He blinked again as Yamato glared at him, wiping the back of his hand across his lips.

"What, can't I kiss someone I like?" He wanted to say, but decided it wouldn't be a good option lest he wanted his ass frozen to the ground by ice. And he could use fire to melt the ice, but well, Yamato would always be looking at him with that icy glare. And Taichi didn't want that- nope, he much preferred that warm look and gorgeous smile he had given Sora. The brunet grumbled inwardly, feeling a dose of envy for the orange haired warrior, and wracked his brain for an explanation.

He found it, "T-That's how we apologize in my village!"

Yamato stared. "Really?"

Taichi blinked, before smiling, "R-Really!" He said quickly, "Good one, Yagami!"

"As if!" Sora shouted and stepped forward, giving Taichi a rough shove, "You're lying! Ya-chan don't believe him!"

"I-I'm not!" Taichi yelled back, narrowing his eyes, "It isn't your business anyway!"

"Not my business?! You kissed Ya-chan! And you don't even have the guts to admit it!" Sora glared incredulously, "And you're a guy!"

Taichi felt affronted, "Oh, and you aren't?"

Sora flushed, "I didn't kiss him!"

Taichi smirked at her, "But you'd like to, right?"

Sora's face turned even more red and she moved to draw her sword, "Provoking me on purpose – you want to fight?!"

"Sure," Taichi hissed, moving to draw his own sword, "Bring it on!"

"H-Hey!" Yamato said, staring as Taichi and Sora pointed their swords threateningly at each other, "What are you two fighting for?! Didn't you want us to stop fighting just now, Sora?! What are you two- eleven?!"

"Hey! I just turned seventeen yesterday-"

"But Ya-chan, he kissed you-"

"I don't care!" Taichi and Sora stared at Yamato. Yamato blinked, feeling his face warm. He drew the back of his hand across his lips, "I mean, I care but there's no need to fight over it!"

Taichi smirked smugly, "See?" He said, raising an eyebrow at Sora mockingly, "Ya-chan doesn't like it!" He shrugged, moving to sheath his scimitar, "So, there's no point to this- woah!"

"Sora!" Yamato yelled incredulously.

"Sorry Ya-chan, but he's pissing me off!" Sora yelled angrily as she swiped at Taichi with the sharp edge of her sword, orange eyes blazing, "I'm gonna teach him a lesson!"

"I'm gonna teach you a lesson!" Taichi countered, and Sora barely dodged his scimitar, and he smirked as a piece of cloth from her sleeve was sliced off, "To not attack someone out of the blue!"

Sora smirked. "Oh yeah?"

Without looking, the orange haired warrior formed a fire in her hand and slapped it to her sword, causing it to blaze into flames. Taichi's eyes widened, "W-What the hell?"

"Sora!" Yamato shouted, blue eyes staring in disbelief, "That's enough! You'll kill him!"

"I won't! He's a Fire Mage, isn't he?!" Sora shouted back, charging towards Taichi. She smirked, "Let's see how much fire he can withstand!"

"That's fine with me!" Taichi smirked back. He clapped his hands, and Sora's eyes widened as a row of fireballs formed in the air, "Don't worry, Yamato!" He yelled over, "Let's see who has more firepower, Sora!"

"Sora!" Yamato was about to use his ice magic when Taichi's fireballs headed towards Sora, but stopped as one huge fireball headed towards them, exploding them into flames which Sora leapt back from.

"Sora! Are you alright?!"

"Yeah, I'm fine, Aijou!" Sora called over to her phoenix, smiling, "Thanks!"

"T-That's unfair!" Taichi stared, pointing his scimitar accusingly at her, "I didn't know we were allowed to have our partners' help!"

"Want me to help, Taichi!?" Yuuki asked, as if getting ready to breathe flames. He turned his sharp gaze to the bird of fire, "We can see whose firepower is stronger too!"

Aijou blinked, but then her blue eyes gained a determined look and she spread her burning wings, "If it's for Sora's sake…!"

"No!" Aijou and Yuuki blinked as Yamato glared at them, "Don't you two start too!"

"Yeah, you'll hurt Yamato!" Taichi said.

Sora shook her head, "I won't risk Ya-chan being hurt, Aijou!"

"O-Okay…" Aijou and Yuuki said almost dejectedly. They looked at Yamato, and sweatdropped from the glare of his icy blue eyes, "Alright, we won't!"

Yamato muttered something and plopped himself down on the ground, "Stupid Fire warriors and Fire creatures…" he grumbled as Yuujou blinked, "Have they forgotten they have an Ice Mage here?"

"And an Ice Dragon!" Yuujou sympathized.

Taichi and Sora seemed to have noticed Yamato's disgruntled expression, "Uh, I guess we shouldn't use fire." Taichi said quickly.

"Yeah." Sora agreed. She placed her hand close to her blade and Taichi watched in awe as the flames dissipated into thin air, leaving a normal blade. Sora smiled and thrust her blade towards Taichi, "Ready?"

Taichi grinned, raising his scimitar, "You bet!"

Yamato shifted his gaze in an almost lazy fashion, to the clash of swords between Taichi and Sora, smiling wryly, "What are they even fighting for?" He shook his head, "I'll never understand warriors."

"And I still don't understand Fire creatures!" Yuujou declared as he looked at Yuuki and Aijou who seemed to be in conversation as their partners were fighting their duel.

"Hey, you- uh-"

"I'm Aijou!" Aijou said cheerfully, spreading her flaming wings as if in pride, "I'm Sora's partner!"

"Oh. I'm Yuuki!" Yuuki grinned in return, "I'm Taichi's partner!"

"Nice to meet you!" Aijou said and held out a flaming wing. Yuuki blinked and she blinked. "Oh, sorry…" the phoenix said sadly, withdrawing her wing, "I always forget I'm practically made of fire!"

"It's alright!" Yuuki reassured her. "You don't burn your partner?"

"Nope! Sora's special!" Aijou said happily, smiling, "She's the only one who can touch me without being burnt!" She giggled, "I'm sure that's because Sora loveeess me!"

"That's cool," Yuuki nodded his head, grinning, "Taichi treats me well too! He even cleans me!"

"Clean you? Maybe I should ask Sora to do that too!" Aijou said. But then she blinked her blue eyes, and pouted, "Oh wait, I can't…I'm weak to water…"

"Yeah, the cleaning is nice, I just don't like keeping still!" Yuuki frowned, nodding his head, "Oh and I don't like being splashed with water! Neither does Taichi though!"

"Sora doesn't like it either!" Aijou smiled, "That's why she hates going to the waterfall! It's good training though!"

"Waterfall?"

"Uhuh! It's part of her training as an Elemental warrior, it especially builds up her endurance since she controls Fire!"

"Oh I see!" Yuuki said, as if enlightened, "Maybe I should try that too with Taichi!"

Yuujou stared, and shook his head, "Yup, I really don't get Fire creatures!"

"I feel your pain." Yamato said dryly as he looked at Sora and Taichi who were still fighting. He sighed, raising a hand to his forehead, "It's so hot…"

Yuujou perked up, spreading his wide wings, red eyes shining with excitement, "Want me to make snow, Yamato?!"

"…No thanks." Yamato said, staring. "Don't waste your energy."

"Oh." Yuujou blinked. "How about rain then? I think I could try, but I'm not a water dragon so if I manage, it'll just be a drizzle-"

"Nah, you'll weaken Aijou and Yuuki and Taichi and Sora." Yamato blinked, then smirked, "Practically everyone except me."

"But then they'll stop fighting, right?"

"…Let them fight," Yamato said. He yawned and grabbed his staff, teleporting himself away to a tree. The blond put his staff down and leaned his back against the tree, smiling in contentment as Yuujou questioned in his mind, "Yamato?"

"It's much shadier here," Yamato replied almost lazily. He smiled and closed his blue eyes, "Wake me up when those two hot headed idiots are done, okay?"

"Alright. You sure we shouldn't stop them, though?"

"There's no stopping a warrior's fight," Yamato shrugged. He opened his eyes, looking towards the direction of the fight, "Besides, Sora looks happy. I guess she's glad to meet another warrior." He smiled, as he looked at the smile on Sora's face as she blocked the grinning Taichi's attack. "And Taichi…"

"Taichi?"

"I haven't known that hot headed idiot for even a day, and he made me mad, but," the blond shrugged, placing two fingers on his lips before slipping them away, "That guy's interesting. I like him."

"Yamato, you like Taichi?!"

"Not that way!" Yamato laughed, "I mean as a friend, he'll be a good friend to Sora too."

"Are you sure?" Yuujou sounded almost sly.

Yamato blinked. "I'm sure." He said quickly, "Don't go getting the wrong idea! There's no way I'll like a guy who mistook me for a girl and kissed me out of the blue!" He scowled.

"Yamato's being shy!" Yuujou teased, and Yamato glared at the blue dragon who was grinning over at him.

"I'm not shy! I'm being honest- that was my first kiss you know," the blond muttered, "Thank god Sora didn't blurt it out to him!"

Yuujou smirked, "Yamato, you're blushing."

"…Shut up," Yamato said, willing the heat on his cheeks to fade, closing his eyes. "It's just embarrassing, okay? Why did he do that anyway?!"

"Ask him?"

"No. No way-"

A sudden, vicious cry pierced through the air and Yamato started, eyes snapping open and sitting up abruptly, "What was that?!"

He took hold of his staff and teleported himself into the forest clearing. Taichi and Sora seemed to have stopped fighting, and Sora shouted, "L-Look up!"

Yamato raised his gaze, and felt his body still in shock. "W-What the hell?"

Above them was a swirling black vortex. But that wasn't what had made that horrible sound – no, it was the creature making its way out of the vortex, the enormous creature with dark, metallic wings and lifeless eyes.

"A dragon?!"

"It's a Metal Dragon!" Taichi yelled, his brown eyes wide as the creature spread its wings and gave another tortured cry, "T-They're supposed to be extinct!"

"Taichi, that vortex!" Yuuki cried out in realization, "I think it came from our world!"

"What?!"

"Now's not the time for that!" Sora shouted out, staring up at the massive dragon who was dragging its tail out of the vortex. She held up her sword as Aijou landed by her side, "Is it going to attack us?!"

"I-It doesn't usually attack humans-" Taichi shook his head, "But it doesn't look friendly, so I don't know-"

"What are its attacks?!"

"It depends, but the worst case scenario-if it's of the element of Fire-" Taichi paled, "Would be a fire cyclone."

"A fire what?!"

The Metal Dragon roared, and Taichi and Sora gasped as the vortex withdrew into nothingness, leaving the beast in the sky. It flung out huge, imposing metal wings, and glared down at them.

"It doesn't look friendly, Taichi!" Yuuki said from beside his partner.

"I know that!" Taichi said, staring up with wide eyes, "That stance…" he said as the dragon opened its metal mouth, "I think it's going to attack!"

"Everyone, run!"

Not daring to question the leader's decision, the Chosen Ones and their partners turned and fled from the Metal Dragon. Its roar resounded throughout the forest air and Taichi turned as Sora ran past him with Aijou, "Yamato!"

Sora stopped, then turned and ran back, "Ya-chan!"

Yamato had snapped out of his daze and was running towards them. But he was too far away, even as Yuujou flew towards him, and suddenly there was a furious cry and as Yamato looked up with wide blue eyes, a literal cyclone of fire came descending from the sky.

"YAMATO!" Taichi bellowed, sprinting forward, as Sora stood, frozen in shock.

"T-Taichi…" her voice was unusually weak, and her sword slipped from her grasp onto the ground as Aijou gave a distressed cry, "This is impossible…right?"

Taichi wished it was impossible too. He wished that what he was seeing was some mirage. He wished it was all some horrible trick of the eye.

Yamato was nowhere in sight. In his place was a raging cyclone of fire. And he realized it must exist because Yuujou had stopped just before it, staring at it with wide red eyes.

The Ice Mage was trapped inside the raging cyclone of Fire.

-Tsudzuku

Glossary

Elements

The basic elements and the main forces of magic governing the world, existing before humans were born. Only Mages have the potential to harness their power. There are six elements, excluding the ancient elements of Darkness and Light, which no Mage has been known to control. Every element has a weakness, is strong against another element, and is resistant against their own.

Fire

Ice

Water

Wind (Air)

Lightning

Earth

Mages

A Magician who can control at least one of the Elements. As Mages have to be highly attuned to their element, they are often like the element they control.

Natural Mage

A mage who can control their element without a staff or wand, and is highly compatible with it.

Fire Mage

Fire Mages are mages which hold control over the element of Fire. They are often passionate and impulsive and are almost always the first ones to attack in a battle. A Natural Fire Mage can control fire with his own will, he has no need for a staff to regulate the magic. He can conjure fire in various forms such as forming fireballs or bringing up a fire wall as a form of defense, and is highly resistant or more rarely, immune against it. His body temperature would be higher than others due to being highly attuned to the element of Fire. They are weak to Water.

Ice Mage

Ice Mages control the element of Ice. The complete opposite of Fire Mages, they usually have a cold personality and are more calculated in their attacks. Appearance wise, they often have pale skin and light hair, and are often considered beautiful (there are more female Ice Mages than males). Being the complete opposite of Fire Mages, they usually do not get along well with them, though there are exceptions. Ice Mages are a 'rare' species, as most mages attuned to water connect with the element of Water, rather than Ice. Those who connect with Ice would be more attuned to nature. They are weak to Fire.

Warrior

A person who uses a weapon that's not a staff/wand or dagger (often a sword) to fight. Warrior is a broad category as there are many different types of warriors, including spearmen and paladins. Though there are Warriors who prefer defense, Warriors often go on the offensive with their enemies, though two handed warriors would adopt a shield.

Elemental Warrior

A legendary clan of Warriors who have gained control over the Elements- (though not to the extent that mages have) to aid them in battle. As their control over the element is limited, Elemental Warriors would choose to integrate their element with their weapon rather than use it on its own as Mages do. Due to tradition, only males can be Elemental Warriors.