Daughtris

~Twins: Mitei
Mitei's float spell finally wore off, and her and Reiko soon fell to the ground in a graceful manner, "It's nice to meet you." Mitei said bowing a bit before rising again, she didn't exactly know what to say, so she stood where she was silently waiting for someone to speak to her directly as she realized an air-bike was approaching on where she and Reiko were through her mana sense. She closed her eyes so she could picture it as Koro ran out towards the presence as she noticed the two on the bike through Koro's eyes. The demons from before, she though, kept her eyes closed, she was listening to the group, but also watching the airbike as it closed in on their position.

The shadow knights and shadow clones stood still, eyes looking down. They started to disintegrate and spiralled to black smoke then nothing, returning to the shadow which they came from. There were dead bodies of wryms everywhere. It was dead silent in Blackpyre. Kuro knew without looking that Thaqotul and Guy wasn’t among the dead in the cave. No matter, though the god of darkness. I’ll them live for a while longer. He raised his hand sideways and a scythe appeared on his hand. With a wide sideway swing, a few souls of the Blackpyre that hasn’t returned to the earth flew towards the blade and was collected. Kuro span around. Instantly, his body changed into black fire. He wasn’t going to let anyone return to the cave. The fire expanded and started to burn everything it touched. The walls of the cave became black, and then it touched the ceiling, it also turned black. It all crumbled down, crushing everything. Thaqotul’s mortars and pestles, his vials and potions, every material he gathered for his alchemical works, all destroyed by the rubble or burned down by the intense black fire which was Kuro’s.

Hikari raised an eyebrow, slightly dazzled by Kelovius's words. "You're wrong Kelovius" she stated "the Blackpyre could only see what could be, not what will be. They visions are neither true nor false. The future is still undermined. Our destiny is shaped by our own decisions and actions"

"You think you're the only one who could do something brash and stupid?!" Undine exclaimed and quickly raised her hand straight up, conjuring high velocity water sphere, preparing to unleash it at Kelovius. But Hikari grabbed the goddess of water's hand.

"No, Undine. Calm yourself" said the goddess of light.

Undine grunted and once again jerked her hand away. She stopped the sphere of water, releasing them as harmless rain on to the metropolis underneath.

Suddenly, the one who called himself the god of destruction flew up to them. "We need to band together to stop the Echanii." Guy stated flatly. Guy was being blunt. He eyed Kelovius but could see that he thought the same. "We need to locate a special artifact so I can reach my full power. Without all of us at full power the Echanii will succeed”

Hikari and Undine eyed Guy, flustered. The two wasn’t comfortable by him suddenly leaving in the mid of battle and suddenly appearing without any word of goodbyes and greetings.

“So you are the new M’tun?” Hikari asked. Without waiting for an answer, she continued “Well, Guy. We haven’t made our mind yet whether we should join you or not”.

Hikari turned to Undine for her oppinion. The god of water shook her head. Hikari turned back to Guy.

“Well, it seems that Undine and I will not be joining you. But be warned Guy” she turned to Kelovius “and you too Kelovius” she looked at the two “if any harm would to happen to any of Daughtris’s kind subjects caused by any of you and your subordinates, you will have to answer to my wrath”

“As well as mine” Undine said with a strict tone, a sharp frown was shaped with her brows.

"Oh, you're here too?" Elena looked at the Tutelians with eyes widened, surprised. They then turned to the princess and her protector, noticing they were in a discussion with a well-dressed flying boy. Just as Bella finished explaining, Elena interrupted. “Excuse me, princess”

Bella turned to the voice, wondering who did the unrecognizable voice came from.

“I’m sorry for the interruption, princess” Elena apologized, bowing slightly from the airbike “I, Elena Akiyoshi”

“And I Dante Abrax” said Dante

“We are representative from the lead Yakuza of Demotia and we want to volunteer with helping you with your quest”

Without hesitation, Bella answered “to whoever that wish to join, let us all go to the castle. We’ll talk there”

While Bella had her head turned, Gust whispered to Gabe with a friendly smile. “Tell her, I’ll meet your group later. For now, I’ll settle the problem with Shiva on my own”

When the princess turned back, god of wind was already gone, flustering the princess.

Gust jetted towards Shiva’s known altar, breaking the sound barrier, reaching his destination within minutes. He glided down to the altar and landed on the sigil. There he stood, looking around at the snowy scenery. His eyes saw the piles of rocks which were once Mitei’s meteor, now covered by thick snow. It was almost a miracle that the meteor shower left the altar unscratched. The sigil on the floor of the altar glowed, transporting Gust to Shiva’s temple.

At the temple, everyone has gathered and eyeing Gust. Byrce, the high priest walked forth. “Is this true? Are you the goddess Sylph?”

Gust smiled, ruffling the hair behind his head and blushing “I guess you can say that. But it’s Gust now”

Gust waved his hand up in an arc and the hall blew with strong wind which gave everyone a hard time to stand still. When Gust placed his hand down, the wind subsided.

Everyone kneeled down and bowed, acknowledging the god of wind for who he is.

“Please, get up” Gust said, panicking slightly.

Everyone stood up. “Please, follow me. I will escort you to Shiva” said Bryce

Gust followed Bryce and within a moment, they reached the statue which brought them to Shiva herself, still in the form of a small girl encased in ice.

Gust eyed Shiva. He had an awed expression with sparkling eyes. To Bryce, it looked like the first time that Gust seen the goddess of ice.

“Are you alright, God Gust?”

“Oh yes” Gust answered, looking flustered “I’m alright”

He turned back to ice encasing Shiva and walked up to it. He unsheathed his mace and put up his battle stance, his footing on the ground. It startled Bryce.

“No, what are you doing?!” exclaimed the high priest, running towards Gust.

Gust swung his mace. When it touches the ice, time seemed to slow down. Then the ice turned to diamond like dusts. Shiva fell but Gust conjured wind, gliding her down slowly. He leaped up just before Bryce could catch him. The two guardians of Daughtris hovered in mid-air, Shiva still unconscious.

Gust gulped. His face flustered. “Here is goes” he placed one hand behind Shiva’s head and the other on her back. His head leaned on to Shiva’s. A second later, their lips touched. The wind brought them down to the floor, landing feet first. Just as her feet touch the ground, her eyes opened. Shiva has awakened. Her expression quickly turned into anger and she pushed Gust away, covering her lips with her hand, turning away from Sylph's Kiss.

Bryce was watching them from a few feet away, overwhelmed with disbelief.

Kelovius stammered "But.....but....you can't expect us to fight the Echanii by ourselves! He or she will kill us, or turn us into his or her slave, and then he or she will do the same for the rest of Daughtris! We can't stop him or her without the combined power of the Gods! The world will burn because of your.........your ignorance."

Thaqotul seemed to detach himself from the shadows behind Guy. "Hikari, is......is this what Palovala would have wanted?" He implored in a soft, caring voice, like a father to a daughter who has grazed her knee. "Your lover......he died for you so that you could defeat the Echanii, didn't he? He constructed a prism that could pierce through the Echanii's power. I know this because I foresaw it. I foresaw lots of things. The coming of Venash. Palovala's death. Bahamuts imprisonment. All of these came true. Now, you are right in saying that the end of the world by the Echanii's hand will not definately happen, however, what I am trying to say to you is that it will only definately happen if you do not act on it. The Echanii IS returning, that much is true.....I have felt it. However, that is not to say that he or she will win. To stop him or her, we need the prism again. We need the combined power of all the gods if we are to even have a chance. So, ask yourself again, as you deny these two creatures the chance of an alliance because of your prejudices against one of them, is this what Palovala would have wanted? Because if you do not act, Palovala's death, and the death of everyone who died in your name during the war with the original Echanii, will surely be in vain."

Thaqotul appearing from Guy's shadow surprising the goddesses as they did not expected him. But they listened until the shaman wrym was done speaking.

"Enough!" Hikari exclaimed, clenching her fist, now gritting her teeth from suppressing her rising emotions, trembling slightly "don't you dare speak of his name" she looked away, her brows knitted together and tear pooled under her eyes "we have made up our mind."

She could have gave a wide and broad speech on how Thaqotul was wrong and imprecise, but to her; none of it didn't matter any longer. Hikari turned around and jetted away in a flash. Undine glared at Kelovius and his companions. She then turned and chased after the goddess of light.

Moments later, Hikari and Undine left after arguing with a party of strangers. Gabe, Bella, Dante, Elena, all wondered who were the ones with the dragon rides, the winged man, and the shadow wryms behind him. It would be improper to intrude on the goddesses business by asking.

"let us go to Ostwyn's castle, Gabe. We have nothing more to do here" said Bella to her personal protector. Gabe nodded and steered the airbike down, followed by the two Demotians.

"are you three coming?" Gabe asked the Tutelians while he passed them, frowning displeased.

Guy watched as the Godesses took off. Guy looked back at Thaqotul, Kelvious and Janice. "Maybe they'll listen to me." Guy said. He flew after them once again producing flame from his feet to propel him at amazing breakneck speed. Guy flew along side them for a while. "Listen. I know you don't like Kelvious for some reason. Fine, I don't really love him either. But we need to band together. Remember the war of the first age? The gods split and their worshipers began a war among themselves. We have to ban together. Then not just us are more powerful. All of Daughtris is more powerful." Guy said. He began flying backwards so he could see their faces more clearly. "We need to, for Daughtris. For my creations, for your creations, for yourselves, for your world! You cannot be rash about this. You should think on it for a while. Ill leave you with this." Guy tapped their minds, but didn't pry at them, only stood in front of their huge mental barriers, and he revealed his memories of the battle of Blackpyre with Kuro.

"He killed my children. He destroyed my home. But if I have to ban with him to stop the Echanii, so be it. Set aside your squable with Kelvious. For the good of our world." Guy said. He left them with that. He could kill Kuro after the Echanii was defeated. Guy lightly glided back to Kelvious and the others. "I showed them what happened at Blakcpyre. Maybe if they see me putting my anger aside for a while, they will too." Guy said.

Hikari's and Undine's face was nonchalant. Even when he showed them his memories, their expression remained the same. Not even once their eyes was on him. Then he left.

"that new M'tun would not be a good influence to anyone" Hikari commented "I saw how his expression lighted up when parts of the metropolis was destroyed. He seems to enjoy destruction and even claims himself a god of it"

"I noticed" responded Undine

They continued heading south.

END of Sylph's Kiss

Kelovius watched the gods storm off. Guy took off after them. He turned to Thaqotul. "Oh, bravo, old fool. You had to mention Palovala, didn't you? Now Hikari will never ally with us."

Thaqotul snarled "You think this is MY fault? You, with your arrogant swagger and your fascination with the God of Water......i'd go as far as saying this is your fault, actually."

"How dare you! I approached them with utmost respect and didn't pry into their affairs one bit, unlike you. But you know what women can be like...." Kelovius whined in protest.

"Oh?" Thaqotul chuckled "Arrogant AND sexist I see. I wonder what Undine would say about that."

Kelovius looked hurt "You have no right to talk about my......i mean....." he stammered, trying to correct himself.

" 'My......' what?" Thaqotul smiled cruelly "You were going to say 'My Undine' just then, weren't you? I see it isn't just the gods who are misguided. What is the world coming to, eh?"

"No....I was just.......I........JUST SHUT UP, OK?" Kelovius fumed "Stupid Blackpyre."

"Foolish Goldcrest." Thaqotul chided in response

They both turned their back on eachother with a childish 'Hrmmph!' Janice rolled her eyes "Men...." she despaired.

It was at that moment that Guy returned. He told them about what he had done to convince the gods, and Kelovius smiled in approval.

"Good thinking, Kiddo, at least someone here, apart from me, of course, has sense. Umm.....if you don't mind me asking, what happened at Blackpyre, exactly?"

"Kuro killed the majority of my people." Thaqotul said gruffly, his back still turned "Not that you care....."

Kelovius seemed to disregard the Wrym completely "Actually, I was just going to offer my apologies to Guy, both for his loss, and for the fact that you survived the incident." He snarled, and turned his back again.

Janice looked at Guy with a look of despair. "They had a bit of a temper tantrum whilst you were gone." she explained. She looked at the two wyrms and sighed. "You wouldn't think that they've lived for thousands of years, would you?"

(Ignore/ me failing miserably, per usual. Wish you could delete posts. Then again you can't delete shame, can you?)