Undine's Story

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.

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.

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?"