Foretold


Chapter 1 - The Beginning

This is a tale about a girl, well in the beginning any ways, or maybe it’s about two girls. Perhaps the girls’ father and mother… Or even the Legendary Gods and Goddesses themselves… Well it all depends the way you look at it, but besides that; let’s begin the girl’s journey…

“Shinto, I’m sorry…”
“What is it, is she okay?”
“She died while giving birth to the twin girls…”
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I awoke crying; this is the same nightmare I’ve had over and over again since I can remember, those voices still haunt my memories. The man named Shinto is my father who disappeared around our time of birth. The only object that my father left us was a locket for me, and my sister got a strange black crystal, we were also left at the door steps at a old woman’s Shrine of Kailua; her name was Rousai. My mother died while giving birth to us, her name was Shuuryou. My sister Ryuu has been missing for a Seedling now and a bit (the second month, which is 35 days).
As for me, well my name is Taziera Veata, but call me by my full name, and that’s the last thing you’ll do, instead you can call me Taz. Now to describe myself, I have elbow length brown hair, I usually wear a robe that’s black and blue, my eye color is a brown most times, but when I’m angry, they blaze a deep blood red, I have a slender figure, but I’m not anorexic. By the way, just for later notes, Ryuu and I look nothing alike… I’m prettier. But enough about me I will explain to you what has happened over the years to me, starting at the age of twelve…
I whined,
“But Rou-sssss-aaai, I want to learn!”
“You won’t do such evil in my house hold!”
Screamed Rousai.

Rousai is the old woman that raised my sister and I ever since we where little, she had brown hazy eyes, wore a red flora Kimono, long silvery hair and one more important detail she was very short. We were fighting on me studying the Art of Dinin; it’s a type of magic. I was twelve at the moment of our a little fight… that turned into something big… Well you see the only way for me too learn the ways of the Dininning, was to fight Rousai. Well I thought no problem, right? Wow was I wrong. Don’t let the old hag hear that, it would go to her head. I still won, but man never mess with Rousai; she’s tough as a Sadirit (an Earth humanoid, like a Nymph with rock hard skin).

“You challenge me old woman?” I asked in surprise.
“Yes, what are you afraid?”
“Me, ha don’t make me laugh… but I will make you regret what you said…“

I took my dagger out of my red jeweled sheath, and charged at Rousai. I aimed my blade at the hag’s head, but to my amazement she blocked it with her bloodstained Katana, but even what more that amazed me is that she blocked it, and I didn’t even see her move. I stumbled backwards, and said shaken,
“Ho-how the hell did you do that?”
“You see my child, I may be old, but I still can kick some ass; now it’s time to learn from your mistakes”
Rousai lunged at me with her sword at lighting speed to strike me, but something so peculiar happened; my locket started to glow. It shot a beam of light out on the ground beneath the feet of the old woman and paralyzed her in midst of her now futile attack. The locket then created a perfect circle with many lines through it, and with a strange symbol that I’ve never seen appeared in the middle of the circle. Rousai screamed in pain and fell straight to the ground. I ran quickly as I could to her, picked her up by the arms, and dragged her to our home, the Earth Shrine.

For three days I gave Rousai many herbs but most of all Kongia. Kongia is a greasy red like moss that has unparalleled healing properties. Also Kongia only grows underneath the bark of a gigantic Sacred Earth Tree called Jinru, how big you may ask… Well let’s just say that the three biggest mountains in our world do not even equals half of the tree. But back to topic… Later when Rousai was feeling talkative, she and I spoke about what happened. It was strange though she wasn’t mad at me, and she told me if I wished, that I could study Dinin…
“Why the change of heart Rousai?”
I asked sincerely,
“Because my child I thought you only wanted to study Dinin for just like as joke. Not to actually take it seriously, but you proved me wrong…”
As she coughed in a wince of pain.
“How did I prove you wrong ReKeira?”
(The meaning of a female person that you have respect for; a male figure though, you just say Keira).
“Taziera, do you know what happened, and why that symbol appeared?”
I shook my head, “No.”
“That’s what I thought… My child do not concern yourself with this; just know… you have my blessing in the craft of Dinin.”

A Shaden later (a week in your world, we also have different times but I’ll get into that later), I had started my first lessons, but I was distracted by the thought about the fact that Rousai would let me learn the craft of Dinin. So it was pretty tough to focus especially since I had to learn from a dusty old book; its name: “Beginning of Time”. In a Kin’Va (the first month of the year, 42 days), I started to learn how to slow down time for a short period. To create an augmentation circle you must simply draw it. But if you were more advanced you could create the seal while merely picturing the symbol in your mind. I’ve gotten much more control and power after an incident of drawing the symbol wrong… I blew apart the shrine’s Eastern Gate. I still have a long way to go before I become even a bit of a moderate sorceress.

Three Years Later…

When I was the age of 16, my sister and I were sitting at Versal Lake North of the Earth Shrine arguing about who was stronger in gifts of magick. Well you can guess where that led too.
“You think that you are better than me!?” As I shouted at Ryuu.
“Of course I was naturally gifted; but you on the other hand, had to learn from an old dusty book.”
“How dare you mock me, if your soooooo good why don’t you fight me?”
Ryuu put her red headband down on the ground, which had her carved dragon symbol crested into it, “Fine…”
“…Your death wish.”
I activated my glove by snapping my fingers, which had my symbol stitched upon it.
Ryuu’s headband projected a dragon’s fireball at me. I raised my hand to counter the fireball with a magic reflecting mirror, but something went gravely wrong. My hand shook violently with power, and then the symbol that was once stitched into my glove started to glow, blood red. Then that’s when it happened, my symbol that was once an hourglass shape, started to change into an angel’s wing that was entwined with bones. I screamed in horror as things that looked like black ribbons drenched in blood covered my sister.
“Aaaarrgghhhaaaa!” As Ryuu screamed in horror and in torture…








Chapter 2 – The Lost: Part 1

Ryuu’s body was frozen solid, her short brown hair looked as if it were crystal, and her skin was if it was porcelain glass how the three moon’s shone their moonlight upon her. And on the other hand, the clothes she wore were a grayish color. Her cuirass, leggings, and boots all look as if turned into stone.
I reached my hand slowly to her still body, “Sister…”
As my hand reached to her, black/reddish vortex suddenly ripped opened beneath Ryuu’s feet. I tried to grab for her glass hand, but it was too late; the vortex then closed…
I gripped the clumps of grass, which my sister once stood upon and began to cry.
“Ryuu… I’m so sorry… so very sorry.” as I whimpered
“Muhahaha…” Evil laughter came out of the darkness.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk. You girls and your wild parties, and you didn’t even invite me? How devilish of you.”
The man of the voice came out of the shadows; he had long, wavy, fiery, orange/red hair, and he was wearing a strange black mask that covered his face. He also wore magnificent black cloak that covered up to his nose, sleeves that was ridiculously long and the bottom of the cloak reached to the ground.
I shouted in flustered, “How dare you make mockery out of what has just occurred! And who in the Hell are you!?”
“I’m going to need that glove of yours Taziera.”
I walked aback shaken,
“How in the Hell did you know my name? And I asked you a question, and no one cal…”
“Calls you Taziera, yes I know that, now I’ll ask one last time girl, give me your glove, I’m losing my patience.” He held out his hand.
“No, you hav…”
“Fine, have it your way.”
When he was saying the ‘w’ out of ‘way’ he was in front of me but when he just finished the word, he was behind me… Then he hissed something in very strange tongue, and in a flash; I fell unconscious.

I awoke to the morning sun and the music of the waking animals from my exhausted slumber.
“Uhhh… My head hurts, what happened last night?”
I got off my back and stood up as I rubbed my head with my right glove-less hand…
~ Please give Taziera a moment to make the obvious connection ~
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I was staring at my bare hand… then my other gloved hand…
“Oh my Divine! Ryuu!” I picked up Ryuu’s headband and ran south to the Earth Shrine.
~ Thank you for your patience ~

“Rousai…Rousai…Rousai!”
I burst through the shrine’s Southern Gate and screamed, “ROUSIA!”
…
-Ting-

Rousai was standing right in the front of the doors with a now dented iron-cast pan, and I my jaw was at the feet of the hag’s dirty bare feet, and not to mention a huge lump on my head.
“Where the Hell have you and your sister been? Where the Hell is your sister? I might as well hit her with this dented pan instead of ruining another one…”
I stood up and bowed my head and lifted up my hand that held Ryuu’s headband, “Rousai, Ryuu disappeared…”

I explained what happened and told her about the man in black with red hair.
“…So he knocked me unconscious, and stole the cursed glove.”
“Odd, and you this symbol almost looked like an angel’s wing with bones wrapping around it?”
“Yes, have you ever seen anything like it before?”
Rousai looked down, and then awkwardly answered, “Yes, but I only know the name of the symbol its called ‘Karodoas’…”
“Where did you see it Rousai? It may be the only chance to find Ryuu.”
“Inacult…” as Rousai mumbled
“What Rousai I didn’t catch that?”
Rousai sighed,
“I didn’t want you girls too know this, but see when I was younger. I was part of a cult called the ‘Twi’Dark’.”
I stared in disbelief at Rousai,
“Rousai, you, being a cult heretic…?”
“Yes I was a cult associate. I really did it just for the kicks, but until…”
“Until what?”
“…Until I saw what we worshipped; a disfigured beast, it looked humanoid but it had five huge irregular arms, eyes all over its body; and had that exact same mark on its chest that you drew for me… They called it ‘Karodoas’; any way the point of my story is that where to find the cult is in the Lost Forest of the Despair. Well at least that’s where I would begin searching.”
I got up and turned towards the door, but Rousai grabbed my arm, “Child you’re not going to head out there without any equipment, are you?”
“Well Rousai who knows what is happening to Ryuu as we speak; I don’t have time for this.”
Rousai turned around and went to the living room; I heard a creak as if something heavy was lifted and put gently to the floor. I raced in the living room, “What are you doing Rousai?”
“I’m giving you something that you may need.”
Rousai was lifting something heavy out of the hole where our beloved squeaky board once laid (which I named it squekers).
-!Bang!-
Dust flew as the huge chest hit the wooden floor; Rousai then opened it, gabbed out a ring with my symbol carved upon it, and the held out her hand,
“Take it my child it will surely help on your deathly quest.”
“Rousai thank you but where did you get this ring? Its carvings are so precise, it must have belonged to a powerful user.”
“Never mind that; let’s go pack you some food before you head out.”
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A few hours later I left the shrine with a huge bag full of food.
“Ugh… Has that old hag ever heard of packing light…”
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“I HEARD THAT TAZIERA VEATA!!!!”…
I looked back and started to run as fast as my little legs could go and reached toward the exit of trees into the plain fields; hence the word plain.

Later Upon Sunset

Nothing really happens between the shrine to the Village of Ent which is west from the shrine; it takes about a half day too reach there… and another day if you like to rest a lot… cough, cough …Hey the bag was actually heavy okay! Well any way what should we do while I’m walking? We could talk about how to get any guy or girl in your arms in a snap no matter how you look… and believe me you need my advice… though I think we’ll save that for another story…
I know let me tell about the Village of Ent, the entrance to the Forest of the Despair; A ‘eaceful’ village, it is prosperous for its music. But don’t think its just because of the dancing music, they have instruments that can create such a high pitch noise that it can crumble stone which are used by augmentation seals; though I do have to admit they have rocking parties. What else can I say about the great Village Blessed in Music… hmm… the two main leaders of the village also are having a ‘eaceful’ cold war going on at the moment… It started about three years ago because the leaders decided to test their strength against each other, and who ever would of won, would become the only leader of the village. Well what I’ve heard, whatever the challenge was, it turned out to be a tie and it apparently didn’t sit well with either of the leaders so they went into a ‘eaceful’ war, though a lot of ‘accidents’ have occurred over these past years… though nothings been proven.
You may wonder what the citizens look like, well they’re tall, slender, fair in skin, with dark brown to jet-black hair, and gorgeous faces, especially the men; just thinking about them makes me just want to… Oops talking out loud again; forget what I just said, pretend like that whole conversation never happened okay! If you do I will give you a cookie… but it’ll be an invisible cookie muhahahahahahahaha… hahaha… ha… okay I’m done now, sorry about that.
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Two Days Later

“Oh thank Divinity, I made it to the village.”
The sun was just setting and could see the giant wooden wall bracing the outer part of the forest infested with great magnificent oaks.
In a few more feet and I would be there…
-Whack-
A little boy about twelve, with short raggedy blonde hair, and tan skin ran into me and knocked me hard to the ground, I stood up rubbing my butt, “Oww, that hurt, why are you in such a rush little boy?”
He turned around but he kept running towards the gate and yelled,
“Sorry Miss!”
And went disappeared into the fortress.
“What a brat.”
As I collected myself and I started rubbing my head, something was missing, that’s when I notice…
“AHHHHHHHHHH!!! THAT LITTLE BRAT STOLE MY RING!!! AHHHHHHHH!!! COME BACK HERE YOU LITTLE DWEEB!!!”
I ran to the gates, but two guards stopped me instantly. One was wearing a whole suit of chainmail amour with the noise augmentation seal on his helmet and had a huge steel warhammer with many holes on it. For the other one though, he was wear a leather cuirass, greaves, and boots, he also wore a headband with the noise augmentation seal carved into it as well. His weapon, I think, was a silver tiny ball with many holes in it like the warhammer had, maybe to blow high tenses of vibration out of?

The guard in the chainmail amour held up his hand and said “Sorry miss no one may enter in the village at this time, by order of the two leaders; Damon Rian of the Light, and Syr Rian of the Dark.”

“But a kid ran through the gate and he stole my ring!”
This time the guy in the leather suit spoke,
“Miss, no one has gone through this gate since my morning shift.”
“But I saw him Run through the gate!”
“Miss please step away from the gate before we have to apply extreme but pleasurable force.”
“FINE!”
…I walked away from the gate; if they won’t let me in then I will find a different way in…
I held out my hand snapped my fingers at the wooden wall…
-Flick-
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“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I FORGOT I DON”T HAVE MY RING AGHHHHHHHH… Ugh time for plan B.”…

I walked up to the gate wearing the tightest shirt and the tinniest mini skirt I could find… It wasn’t that hard though; my bag was full of that kind of stuff just in case I met a cute boy along the way; and don’t judge me I’m only human.
…I went up to the guards and pushed up my breast, a giggle here and a giggle there, and then held my hands like if was just another innocent girl who needed to be showed the way around the block and maybe leading to the bedroom if you were lucky. ‘Blink blink’… “Excuse me Misters, I’m lost and need to get back home, but I need to get through this huge village to get to my house”…
-Blink, Blink-
…Oh please let one of them be straight…
The guards both turned around and yelled,
“Open the gates Ontitsu.”
…His name is On…tits…u…?
-twitch-
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“Oh thank you kind sirs… maybe if any of you aren’t busy maybe you can show me around this sensual village?”
-Giggle-
-Blink, Blink-
“Oh yes miss, if ever need help I can show you around… the block.”
Then the other guard pushed aside the other guard and said in loved dazed,
“I can you show you around much better than this guy.”
Then the guard that just got shoved aside turned to the other guard and shouted, “You’re the one with the tiny…”
I stepped in.
“I really need to get home boys.”
They both stood too their full posture and moved out the way.
“Yes understood, sorry miss for the inconvenience… Don’t forget my offer though.”
“My offers better!”
“Ya, too a chimp.”
“Well your butt ugly!”
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I’m just going too leave these guys alone to their pointless argument… Ugh was this worth it just to get in…?

I walked through the opened gate; the place was so beautiful, huts were made out of bamboo, grass such a green lush and kids were running around playing tag…
Then out of the shadows came a booming voice, “What are you kids think you doing!”
The man came out of the shadowed alley; he was big, I mean huge and fat, he had to be at least 7’6.
“Well know the rules kids, if anyone comes out during the Squad Test, must be severely punished at once.”
He grabbed a tiny silver ball out of his pocket; it started to vibrate at such a fast pace I couldn’t even see it any more.
“This should learn you!”
The three children were crying and holding each other for their lives, as the giant menace just stood there and laughed with such a smug look of satisfaction.
He raised his arms ready to fire his … ‘tiny ball’ ah, I’m such a bitch…
-Sveng-
I unsheathed my blade and threw at the colossus’ giant head…
“Muhahaha, girl you really think that you can even scratch me with that puny dagger?”
My dagger fell to the ground shattered.
I stuttered in anger,
“You br-broke my blade… YOU BASTARD!”
I lunged at that huge blob and with all my strength I kicked him in his obese stomach…
…My foot is stuck; my foot is stuck in his fat rolls… Great.
“So girl you really want to fight?”
I sarcastically answered, “No of course not; what was your first clue?”
His thick, brown, bushy eyebrows turned from glee to anger.
“Fine girl prepare to come home with me!”
He twisted his body in such a way that it made my free foot lose balance, and my face smashed into the ground.
“Oww, it’s not polite to hit a lady, especially in a MINI SKIRT!”
I pushed my self off the ground and forced my hand into a fist and hit the giant right in the grind.
“…Owww…”
The pig like soldier fell to ground with a big ‘boof’.
“Hey little ones are you all right?”
One little boy wiped his tears up with his sleeves and said, “I-I think so…”
Hey stepped up and went towards me.
“Why did you help us miss?”
“Well, because you needed help didn’t you?”
“Ya, but you might get in trouble by the big scary men in the metal clothes.”
“That was a risk I was willing to take.”
The boy reached into his torn pant’s pocket and held his hand out to me.
“I think this might be yours…”
He opened up his hand; I screamed, “My ring! But how did you get?”
“Well miss my brother and me have to steal sometimes to make it by, you see my mother has a horrible illness, and her medication is very…”
“Haven!”
The boy who stole my ring was yelling at the younger boy.
“But brother, she saved me from the scary giant!”
“Ya but how are we going to pay for our mother’s medicine?”
…
“HEY YOU’RE THAT LITTLE BR…”
The ground that I stood upon started to rumble and the ‘brat’ who stole my ring placed his hands on the ground; then a hole appeared beneath my feet.
“Aaagh!”
I feel into the deep hole; then the opening started to get smaller until it fully closed. In the background all I could hear was Haven pleading to his older brother and then nothing.
…How am I going to get out of this; its getting harder to breath, I need a plan quickly!
Wait! I have my time augmentation ring now, but how is that going to help me now?
I know!
I tried to rummage through my bag in the tight cramped pit; so I was basically trusting my sense of feel… There! I felt three oval seeds that Rousai gave to me before I left. I stuck the three seeds in the upper ceiling of the rocky pit. Now all I had to do was to concentrate upon the future, life and growth of the seeds, and to fuse my soul with the seal itself as if it was a part of me…
…The ring started to glow
Yes I was making them grow through the dirt and breaking it apart. Just a little more and I would be free…
The dirt finally gave away and burst of light burst through.

I cleaned myself off and was ready to find that little brat, though I had much more important matters I needed to attend to, like finding Ryuu before, He got to her…
I walked forward to a giant threshold.
“Well there it is, the gate to the Forest of Despair.”
It was rusty old black ivory gate that looked almost sinister…


Chapter 2 ~ The Lost: Part 2
“Well it seems like the girl is awakening.”
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A woman stepped out of the shadows, “What’s is your name dear?”
I stood up, and answered, “My name is Ryuu”…

Yes it’s me! You probably wondering what happened to me after Taz sent me here… wherever here is, but beyond the point what basically happened to me is that I was sent to a different realm; at least that’s what the older lady told me. She said we are on an island called “Alantis” I believe, and we are in the dungeons of this place. No one knew why our how we got here but apparently we were all considered as prisoners since there seemed at least five hundred other prisons who are actually criminals.

“So has any one ever escaped from this place?” I asked
The old lady sat down on the stone stool, “No never…”
“Well good thing you have me along, because we are finding away out! But just to ask how did you guys get here?”
“This time a handsome, muscular, tanned man stood up and answered,
“Most of got here by worshipping a forgotten God named Karodoas. He promised he would reign an era of peace if we came to this world and recruited more people, but instead we awake into a cell