Rise of the Crescents [Accepting/Started]

[Barian Warlord]

When the people of the city saw Terra, who not only had a crescent mark completely visible but wolf parts. "Um, I'm normally up for making money but I don't think I'll go for the tests guys." One of the people ran up to Terra with a net and tried to capture him with it. "What are you doing" the man simply said "Oh my god the sample can talk that's amazing!!!" Terra looked pissed, "I've got god damn lycanthropy so tell me were the god damn library is okay." The man just looked fascinated by Terra, so eventually Terra kept walking trying to find the library.

[Mrs. SHINee <3]

Britney and Justin both walked closely behind Lucas. "Any of you try to do some experiment on me or my brother i will break both of your arms in half" . Britney said threateningly, She was kinda shorter than the others but she was not the girl you wanted to mess with. The scholars around Britney and Justin all left and ran away in a quick and un-orderly manner. Britney had just smiled at herself as some scholars tripped over themselves, and then they surrounded Trent. "Poor Poor Trent" . Justin had said to Britney when some Scholars began walking toward them cautiously.

 

"I beat you i can make them all runaway faster than you ever can" . Justin said as he closed his eyes and focused on an illusion. Suddenly the Scholars going towards them all stopped in their tracks, staring at Britney like she killed someone. Then they all ran away, tripping and falling over one another just to get away from them. WHen the scholars were gone Justin and Britney were on the ground howling with laughter.

[.:Blu:.]

Lucas looked at Britney and Justin with a comically "unbelievable" expression. "(I guess they really are siblings........)" Lucas thought to himself as he continued to watch them laughing wildly. It reminded him of the first time he met Britney and how she laughed widly at him when he starting to bleed. "(Err........ It's probably better not to remember that memory.........)" Lucas thought to himself as his face grew to an embarrassed expression. "Umm, well we should continue towards the library shouldn't we?" Lucas stated as he began to walk slowly towards the direction of the Southern District. Just then, Lucas' crescent mark began to shine lightly and then faded away without Lucas noticing.

[---------------]

Ceodore got off the boat, and was immediately ambushed by a bunch of scientists. "Don't even try to experiment on me or I swear I will hurt you." Though Ceodore is kindhearted, he hates crowds. The one back at Soladad was nothing compared to this. He felt like grabbing everyones faces and ripping them off. They were really pissing him off. When one scientistnerd ripped his glove off and started to cut off a peice of his skin where his mark is.

 

"YOU MOTHER F*****!!" he screamed, as he grabbed the mangeek's arm and started to drain his health, causing him to fall in pain. Some women in the crowd shrieked. "Uh... Trent. What the heck just happened?" Ceodore said, forgetting due to his power's drawback.

[Twig]

Galdavan City wasn't what Trent expected. He expected to see a city filled with amazing structures and devices. Instead, it looked rather plain. He wondered why a city of scholars looked old fashion, but he didn't mind. Everyone looked so happy. He then saw the train rush by, and Trent stared in awe. It was loud, very loud. The people in the city didn't seem to mind the loud train. They probably got used to it. As he walked by, he saw a flower shop. He decided to come in and take a look, maybe buy a seed or two.

 

"I'm going to go sightseeing for a while. I'll catch up with you guys at the library."

[.:Blu:.]

Lucas waved at Trent as he walked off into the flower shop. "Alright, see ya later!" Lucas said with overflowing excitement in his voice. Lucas had never seen such wonderful shops before, it was nothing like it. Usually the only type of shops Lucas visited was stands out in the open. It may not look like it, but Galdavan was the third most developed city in Cristal. The second being Shine City, 'The Shining Capital', and the first being Luminaria City, 'The City of Electricity & Technology'. "Hey you guys, I'll catch ya later, I also want to go sightseeing for awhile. I mean we might as well take a break right?" Lucas stated as he ran off and waved at the others. A particular shop caught Lucas' eyes, it was a fortune telling shop. "Huh? Well this should be interesting." Lucas stated as he walked in. Inside was a woman who was covered in a dazzling purple robe that sparkled like stars in the night sky. Her face was covered by a beautiful purple scarf. "Well young boy, are you interesting in me telling your fortune?" the fortune teller asked.

 

"Yeah sure." Lucas stated as he took a seat in front of her. "Well, that'll be ten gold please." "Umm, alright, kinda high price by what isn't these days I guess." Lucas stated as he placed ten gold pieces into the fortune teller's hand. "So are you gonna look into a crystal ball or something?" "No, no, I just need to look deep within your eyes." the fortune teller stated as she stared into Lucas' eyes. The moment was silent, Lucas didn't relly mind but he was still unsure if this would work. After a few more seconds, the fortune teller closed her eyes and started to speak. "The future holds a dark destiny for you and your friends. Bad luck will come soon." "Huh, then what can I do?" "Take this, this will help you to confront the struggles ahead." The fortune teller handed Lucas a small black sphere with a silver reversed crescent moon in the middle. "What am I suppose to do with this?" Lucas asked worryingly.

 

"When the time is right, everything will be clear." the fortune teller responded. After awhile, Lucas walked out and placed the sphere into his pockets. "Well, I guess I shouldn't worry too much. Let's see what shop to go to next?" Lucas asked himself as he walked away. Inside, the fortune teller gave an eerie smirk.......

[Twig]

Trent looked around in the large flower shop. There were many flowers. All of them were gorgeous, but he wasn't looking for beauty. "Can I help you with anything?" a lady asked.

 

"Uh yes. Do you have any...interesting flowers?"

 

"Interesting flowers? All of the flowers here are unique. Can you be more specific?"

 

"Do you have any flowers with special abilities?"

 

"Why would a boy like you need those kind of flowers? You know, there are flowers that are just too dangerous for kids like you." Trent got annoyed how the lady was treating him like a kid.

 

"Can I at least see them?"

 

"Fine. But no touching!"

 

The lady led him to a different room. Many of the flowers there wasn't beautiful. Also, some of them stunk. "Remember, I'll be watching you," the lady said. Trent nodded and moved on. He saw Skunk Flowers, Venus Fly Traps, and the good old Nightrose Flower. But he didn't want any of those.

 

"Eh...they're ok. I'll be going now." Trent said. He was disappointed.

[---------------]

Ceodore doesnt remember what happened after he got off the boat, but he noticed a lot of people were avoiding him. Oh well, the less attention the better. After walking for a while, he finally found what he had came for, the Library. It was huge! Inside, he couldn't even see a back wall. He went to a desk to look for help. "Umm..Hello? Can someone help me?" he said, as there was no one behind the desk. Seeing that he wasn't going to get help, he started walking around aimlessly, until something caught his eye. A large book, entitled 'The Book of Heart'. It was a large brown book with a strange design on it's spine. The design was a curved point; it looked incomplete, as it didnt continue over to the front or back. He picked it up and opened it.It didnt have an author, or a tag. On the inside cover, there was a drawing of a young girl holding a staff with a full moon on it. She looked familiar to Ceodore. Then he gasped, as he realized he was looking at a picture of Cuore. He looked around, and at the corner of his eye, saw a similar book. Upon closer inspection, he saw the title: 'The Book of Nature'. On the inside cover was a drawing of Trent holding a similar staff. Ceodore took the books and saw that the design on 'The Book of Nature's spine continued from 'The Book of Heart's. After running around for a few minutes, Ceodore found six more books (however, the design is still incomplete):

-The Book of Sky with Lucas

-The Book of Mind with Britney

-The Book of Sight with Justin

-The Book of Memory with Ceodore

-The Book of Darkness with the crazy girl (Jane)

-The Book of Lightning with Terra

 

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[//Zeromaru//]

Sideway felt the pull of the moon above him, and while he didn't want to stop moving h knew that he had to sleep to regain his full power.

"Okay its dark now," He said pulling out the blade at his side and taking off his coat, "I don't know about you, but I am going to have a nice sleep."

Sideway folded his coat into a makeshift pillow and laid it at the foot of a tree.

"Good Night, don't let the shadow wolves bite" He told Tinka with a grin before laying down and dropping off to sleep.

 

Sideway woke up in a forest, but it wasn't the forest that he had fallen asleep in. Despite this it felt very familiar. He stood and took a step forwards. His feet didn't feel like they were moving, in fact he could barely feel them at all. It was as if someone had sedated him, but they hadn't done a very good job. He looked at the sky, it was around noon. He couldn't have slept for that long surely? A crash echoed in the distance and Sideway turned for the blade that he had laid down nex to him before he fell asleep. It wasn't there and neither was his coat.

He began running towards the sounds of the crash, he saw his arms out of the corner of his eye. He was no longer wearing his battered, but loved, shirt. In fact it looked like he was wearing a suit jacket. He heard voices in the distance. And gun shots. And screams. The trees began to fall away and soon he was by the side of a road. A caravan of trailers were running off in the distance being pulled by a massive number of horses. One of the trailers though was tipped over on its side, its horses dead, shot through too many times to count.

Sideway looked around, there was carnage everywhere. Bandits and Shine guards were fighting all over the place and numerous dead bodies littered the area. He heard a shout coming from the upturned trailer, but a number of the Bandits did too. They turned on the trailer and made their way towards it. Feeling the power in his hands Sideway opened the ground beneath them and sent them into shadow.

He carefully made his way to the door and tried it, it was locked so Sideway pulled it from its hinges and looked inside. He couldn't believe his eyes, there was a shadow elemental inside. Despite the legend saying that all shadow elementals were born with world and would die with the world, this one looked like a child. It stared at him and Sideway stared back, neither could look away. It was then that Sideway saw movement in the periphary of his vision. He quickly turned his head and saw a small wyvern, no longer than his arm. Its scales shimered a glorious purple and it chirped cheerfully. It looked all to familiar and as Sideway shook his head in diesbelief the collar the wyvern wore moved revealing the words written on it. Malevor. Cast. Wisk Sideway fell back from the door and onto the floor. Those words meant only one thing. The wyverns name was Wisk and the elemental was him.

[.:Blu:.]

OOC: Atman, can you change that to The Book of Sky for Lucas, I like the sound of that better.

 

IC: Lucas continued his way and finally made it to the Grand Library of the Ancient. "Welcome to the Grand Library of the Ancient." a young woman stated as she saw Lucas. "Huh? Oh thanks." Lucas responded with a smile as he started to make his way to the never ending shelves of books. It was like a maze in this library and it was only the first floor. Ceodore was at the opposite side of where Lucas was located. Lucas, after awhile of nonstop searching, found a couple of books about the crescent marks, crescent crystals, and the Crescent Warriors. Lucas opened up the book entitled 'The Legend of the Crescent Warriors' and read a few lines from it.

 

The Crescent Warriors, saviors of Cristal. Those who bare the marks of hope from the Moon Goddess. White dawn and black dusk bridged by both destiny and coincidence...........

 

The other words from the paragraph were to faded to read. There were some lines about the Crescent Warriors that made Lucas thought about his friends.

 

...... The warrior who bares the fruit of new tranquility...... the seed that ponders on, everlasting renewal of wisdom and courage...... the old falls and dies, the new reborned and rises up, standing absolute...... -The Book of Nature

 

...... The warrior who soars in the winds of hope...... the sky whistles the name, adamantly yet subtly it speeds past darkness...... the bird soars through the sky, the air current guides it, righteous balance...... -The Book of Sky

 

...... The warrior who befriends those of innocence...... the creatures beckoned for salvation, salvation answers with a calming melody...... the scene is silent, the scene is boisterous, the calm before the storm...... -The Book of Mind

 

...... The warrior who brings false paradise to those who seek darkness...... sins all shatter when disrupted, the fantasy disperses to bitter reality...... the moon in the water, the flower in the mirror, a meaningless reflection...... -The Book of Sight

 

...... The warrior who seeks nothing and everything...... a radiant shine to lend strength within bonds, the radiant shine to fade to nothingness...... a savior is remembered, memories yet lost again, nothing last forever...... -The Book of Memory

 

...... The warrior who longs to forget a sorrowful past...... a wandering stranger fades into darkness, you've closed your eyes...... emotions closed up within a fragile heart, fear, sorrow, rage, tears, hope...... -The Book of Darkness

 

...... The warrior who wanders alone...... the mighty one who has yet to find a destiny, is your heart still searching?...... the thunder roars loudly, the lightning strikes, hidden within the uproar, search again...... -The Book of Lightning

 

...... The warrior who shares strength with kindness and generosity...... peace reigns over the warrior, a helping hand reaches out to those in need...... curiosity strikes the mind to wander and discover, kindness and generosity in one form, the heart...... -The Book of Heart

 

Lucas then closed the book and stretched his arms. "Man, was that only a load of poems? Where's the important information?" Lucas asked as he looked at the book.

[Twig]

((<@yugiohblaze: Great stuff you got there. ^^>))

 

As Trent walked out of the flower shop, he saw a rather interesting flower. It was, he thought, fake. Plastic-looking white petals surrounded center. The center looked like a half-pearl. Before stepping out, Trent walked back.

 

"Hey miss, I thought all the flowers here are real."

 

"I can assure you that every flower here is real."

 

"What about this one?"

 

Trent walked towards the odd looking flower.

 

"Oh, that's the Wish Flower. They are 100% real. People don't buy them because they think it's fake. People used to think that if you wished with the flower in your hand and release it after finishing your wish, your wish will come true. But that's just an myth."

 

"I'll take one," Trent immediately said.

[Blake]

Jesse had noted the small commotion that somebody, Darren to be exact, was making. He did not know who it was, but he would not want the people he had distracted to be killed. They were not high up, but were, in fact, meer peons. He wondered why someone would come in and kil lthem for some random reason. Well, besides Gawain's reason, of course. Then again, it was not exactly likely that they shared their motivation. He followed Gauge as he ran ahead, eventually arriving at the scene.

[---------------]

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Ceodore struggled to carry the heavy books. On the way to the entrance, he found another book: 'The Book of Strength'. The drawing inside was of a man that he didnt recognize <>. He tried to pick it up, but lost balance and fell over. "Oh gawd" he said.

 

"Do you need any help?" a familiar female voice said.

 

"Yea tha-- you?!" Ceodore said in surprise, as before him was the woman from Soladad.<> "What are you doing here???"

 

"Well, one of my kids wanted me to come help them run the Library." she said as she picked up the fallen books.

 

"Okay.....thanks" he said as he got up and picked up the remaining books.

 

"Reading about the Warriors of the Moon?"

 

"Yea. Not to be narciscistic (spelling?), but my friends and I might think we're the warriors."

 

"Well, good for you." She gives the books to Ceodore. "By the way, there are more books on the other side of the Library."

 

"Well, thanks!" Ceodore said as he began to walk, until he realized something. "Um...my name's Ceodore, what's yours?"

 

"You can call me Luna..."

 

"Well, thanks Luna! Bye!"

 

As Ceodore walked to the other side of the library, he saw Lucas reading. "Hey Lucas! Come check out these books!"

[.:Blu:.]

OOC: Thnx Twig ^_^ and thnx Atman for changing to Sky

 

IC: Lucas bought all of the books plus a newer encyclopedia from the library for a pretty cheap price. "Well that was easy!!! Maybe because these books are so old the library doesn't need them anymore, hehe!" Lucas stated. Back at the library, the woman who sold Lucas the books and encyclopedia opened up a shelf containing the books Lucas had just bought. "Sorry, but these books are too rare to actually sell. Those were just copies, I hat to decieve people but this library needs more books." the woman stated to herself as she sat back onto her chair after closing the shelf.

 

Lucas was too happy to notice his crescent mark was shining. During the same time, his pocket was shining as well with an ominous aura. Both of them then stopped shining, with Lucas still not noticing. Lucas then heard Ceodore calling him. "Huh, hey Ceodore!!!" Lucas exclaimed as he ran over to him. "Hey, these books are really interesting, I also bought some books see." Lucas said as he held up the books. He then noticed the titles of Ceodore's books. "What the?! This book I just bought has excerpts from your books." Lucas stated.

[Crystal Remnants]

Darren noticed the oncoming group. He knocked out the last of the guards attacking him, and encased him in bone. He then proceeded towards the group with caution. He make a spike grow out of the ground behind his back so the enemies could not see it, and put his hand on it. "...Who are you? And why are you here? Are YOU the ones holding these people captive?" Darren stared at the people, looking back and forth between the different faces. He then noticed the crescent marks on them. He put the spike back in the ground. "I can see that you are crescents, so you must not be the ones holding these people captive. My name is Darren, and I am here to free these people. As you can see, I've knocked out most of the guards and encased them in small cages of bone." Darren pointed at where the guards lied on the ground. "Just because they are fighting for the wrong side doesn't mean they deserve to die though. They are only following orders. That's why I only knocked them out."

[.:Blu:.]

Gauge stopped and got angry when he was accused of being a capturer. "WHAT???!!! I'M NOT ONE OF THOSE LOW LIFE PEOPLE!!!!! HOW ABOUT YOU???!!!" Gauge asked in anger. "You better not be or else I'LL KILL YOU!!!!" Gauge yelled as his crescent mark started to shine. Gauge then calmed down again as he heard Darren finished his words. "Oh, well good. So why did you come here? I mean I was about to be the hero that saves everybody ya jerk!!!" Gauge yelled at Darren as he held his fist up and fire can be seen in his eyes.

[Crystal Remnants]

"Yeah well sorry but too late to change the past. So... where did you guys come from? And are there more of you? Sorry if I'm asking a lot of questions, but I'm not used to meeting others like me. And what are your powers?" Darren had many questions. He was curious about these new people he had met. "Well I guess we could wait to answer the questions until we get these people to safety first though. Which way to get back to wherever you were planning to take them?"

[---------------]

"And look at the pictures on the inside!" Ceodore said. As Lucas looked at the books he brought, Ceodore saw the books Lucas bought. "Wow, these words are faded. Hmm, lets see."

 

The Le..nd of the Cr...ents, passe.....n th.......ristalian ge..ratio.s:

 

From t....arth be...

To ....oo..bove

....eroes chosen

Bound....her lo..

Ca.......break the paths sh.......

And l......eir lives.........want

....ill Des.......ke over

And th..........augh an.......

Twelve days before the end

One em...........fall

And at lea.. two li.......t end

So they can .....s all

 

"Ugh! I can't tell what this says! What do you think Lucas?"

 

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[.:Blu:.]

"You sure do have a lot of questions. About where I come from, I can't really tell you. More of us, well there's a guy name Gawain near here. And my power, hehe, well you'll find out soon enough I guess." Gauge stated as he walked back towards the direction of Gawain and the captives. Gauge was still irritated by the fact that he didn't get his big hero moment, but at the same time he was glad that he found another person with a crescent mark. "Well, I really don't know where we're going to take the captives. You can ask Gawain yourself." Gauge stated calmly.

 

-Meanwhile-

 

Lucas looked at the words again but still couldn't make out much. "Sorry, but it looks like we just have to figure out these mysteries in another way. Oh well, we should probably go find the others or something." Lucas stated. "Maybe we should try to find a way to get to our next destination which is Arcemeis. Supposedly it's in the sky, so we need to find someone who builds airships are borrow one from them. So what do you think Ceodore? I mean afterall there's nothing to do right now, and I heard that there is a small town nearby that specializes in airships. It's only about a ten minute walk from here. The town is named Gald Town. Appearently, it's a branch town of Galdavan." Lucas stated.

 

OOC: Atman, I was actually going to suggest the same thing too.

[Kaisu]

Ray and Art had split up when they had arrived, and while Art was making more coins, Ray had wandered off. Ray took the book from Ceodore, looking over it carefully.

 

"The Legnd of the Crescents, passed down the cristalian generations:

 

From the earth be...

To ....oo..bove

...Heroes chosen

Bound....her lo..

Ca.......break the paths sh.......

And l......eir lives.........want

....ill Des.......ke over

And th..........augh an.......

Twelve days before the end

One em...........fall

And at lea.. two li.......t end

So they can .....s all"

 

"The title makes sense, just the other parts..." He commented as Art walked in with a bruised eye.

 

"I could have sworn I made them right..." He muttered.

 

[i think it was Cristilian... Or something]

[Twig]

Trent walked towards the library with the Wish Flower in his pocket. He didn't really thing it would grant any wishes, but if the moon goddess is real, then this has a good chance of being real, too. He walked in the enormous library. He saw Lucas carrying a tall stack of books.

 

"What's all this?"

 

Trent randomly picked up one of the books. He got the book titled The Book of Nature. He opened to a random page and started reading.

 

In Crescentology, the warrior of nature is said to have defeated the underwater sea monster of Aquatis City. The monster was called Loch Ness Dragon because of it's Loch Ness body and dragon part wings. The warrior of nature only used seaweeds to defeat this terrifying beast.

 

Trent stopped reading. He thought it was wasting his time. He should be trying to learn more about Arcemeis, their next destination.

[.:Blu:.]

Lucas saw Ray reading the book. "Hey Ray, can you make out any of the words?" Lucas asked curiously. He then saw Art walking towards with a bruised eye. Lucas quickly covered his mouth in an attempt not to laugh, but then suddenly burst out laughing. "HAHAHA!!!! What happened to you???!!! HAHAHA!!!!!" Lucas, after awhile of laughing, finally calmed himself down. "Hehe, sorry 'bout that Art. It's just that you look really funny with a black eye." Lucas stated. "Anyways, me and Ceodore are going to Gald Town, a town nearby to get an airship. Wanna come with?" Lucas asked the two. Lucas then noticed Trent. "Hey there Trent! We're going to Gald Town near here, you wanna come? We'll be back soon so don't need to worry 'bout the others." Lucas stated.

[Kaisu]

Art groaned. "These coins are hard as hell to copy. I tried to feed some coins to this guy for some milk, it turns out I got the language wrong..." He sighed, clutching his wounded eye.

 

Ray gave the book back.

 

"It all seems like a load of gibberish... But what scares me is that...

 

We're not the first ones to be marked. There have been people, warriors, who have shared our names, our powers, our marks... It's all just... Strange." Ray stopped.

 

"Well, it's best we all stick together... Our powers may be the only things protecting us. And I'd make sure your marks are covered... Anyways, I could get more wings, or we could find an airship... Either way, I'm coming with you guys, you might need to take some... Drastic measures." Ray replied grimly.

[.:Blu:.]

Lucas stared at Ray with an "Again......" expression. "Umm Ray, I don't think we need to use those kinds of tactics unless it's against Shine Soldiers or bandits or something......." Lucas stated as he placed the stack of books into his bag. "Anyways, without an airship we won't be able to reach Arcemeis. All flying cities are suppose to be high enough so animals like flying whales can't reach. So that's why we need an airship. Hehe, don't worry you guys, I heard people here are more interested in testing their creations then money or greedy things like that. So we can probably get an airship just for testing, hehe." Lucas stated. "Anyways, ya coming Trent?" Lucas asked.

[-Genesis-]

At the mention of his name Gawain actually started paying attention, but instead of speaking he simply gestured to the man who had taken the lead of the former prisoners and then walked out right past Gauge, Jesse, and Darren without even acknowleding them and the former prisoners followed him out without any hesitation. As he walked through the main road of the town, some of the residents watched them from second story windows, Gawain was watching them carefully in order to try and prevent exactly what happened next. One of the residents pulled out a shock rifle and fired, killing one of the former prisoners.

 

Gawain whirled around and before the dead prisoner's body hit the ground the Whip of Light went flying up and slashed across the second floor with enough force that the room of the building blew up killing the attacker and the other three who didn't get a chance to attack. Gawain turned to Gauge, Jesse, and Darren, Gawain had a dark look on his face, his face seemed to elongate (stretch forwards), and his teether were becoming razor sharp, "Take them and get out of the town, don't wait for me, just go, NOW!"