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"Well, the first thing that must be done is that I must go to the Temple of Fate and cleanse myself with a Fire Sigil Stone. I'll show you what those are when we get there. After that, I'll bring you to the town center and induct you into my Lineage. Many amazing powers will be yours to control if you are willing to learn them after you've been inducted as a Silverdust." Kestral said, the gates to the town were only a short distance away from them at this point.

Two guards with silver hair, silver eyes and rather outlandish clothing of silver were standing at the entrance. When the saw Kestral, they did a strange salute and allowed them to pass.

Once inside the gates of Kurai, Vince would see many buildings constructed of tents with ornate silver markings on the side of their entrance flaps. Many people of varying class wore similar strange clothing as the guards. They all looked at Kestral and did the same strange salute, but they were quite fixated on the newcomer, Vince. All of them seemed to have silver hair and silver eyes, even the children. In the center of the town was a large stone platform with many different silver markings on it. But the most prominent feature of the town was the enormous, foreboding but entrancing temple towards the end of the small town.

"The Temple of Fate would be the enormous building made of stone towards the back over there. We'll be there momentarily." Said Kestral, he was waiting for Vince to ask him why everyone was saluting him, but Vince seemed fixated on the fact that the villagers were staring at him.

"Well, we don't get many newcomers here since the only way on or off the island is by warping or jumping through the Demon Gate at the top of the mountain. You're definitely a newcomer since your hair and eyes are black and red, ours are all silver. The only other person anywhere on this island with any color hair or eyes besides silver is my best friend Zindell. He's got pure red hair and pure red eyes. But he was brought here as an orphan so that's a different situation. Don't worry about it, their just not accustomed to you."

The two warriors had entered the Temple of Fate and headed into the central room.

"Heh, thought you'd never ask. That strange thing formation they make with their hands is how we show respect here in Kurai. It's called a Ku-ne-kai, or a salute so to speak. I'm one of the three leaders of the Kurai Clan along with my sister: Alruna, and Zindell, my friend. We are the leaders here because we have achieved the ability to transform into beasts. Well, it's not fair to call Alruna's transformation a beast, she basically turns into a Shadow Entity. You two should talk sometime, I'm sure you'd like each other."

((you can enter a conversation here but I'll continue my actions))

As he said this, several of the priests in the Temple began to give him salutes and left the chamber. All that could be seen in the immense room was a large ring composed entirely of stones with assorted markings and colors (Not explaining what they mean again, hopefully you remember, they will dictate your fusion powers when you finish training.) The stones were pitch black but glowed with tribal markings of many different colors. Kestral picked up several red ones and set them on a small platform that appeared from seemingly nowhere in the center of the ring.

"Pyranus, instill me with your burning glory!" he said aloud, his voice echoed off of the high ceiling and the Sigil Stones began to glow an intense red color. They became completely bright red and then went inside of Kestral. As soon as this happened, more red Sigil Stones appeared where he had picked them up, all of them glowed red.

"Well, that's that."

"Yeah, it's pretty interesting. I suppose we should get you inducted eh?"
With that the two walked outside, Kestral was clearly in much better shape than he had been. He walked with his usual air of pride and magnificence. When they arrived at the town center, they climbed onto the platform with the strange silver markings and Kestral held his fingers to his adam's apple, amplifying his voice.

"ATTENTION MY FELLOW KURAIANS!!! IF YOU WILL ALL GATHER AT THE TOWN CENTER, I HAVE A IMPORTANT MATTER THAT MUST BE ADDRESSED!!!" Kestral said, his voice much louder than normal though he did not yell at all.

Once all the townsfolk had gathered around the platform, many of whom were whispering strange things about the newcomer, Kestral began the ceremony.

"Vincent, you have proven yourself a worthy warrior in the eyes of a Kurai Clan Leader. I offer a chance to be inducted into my Lineage, should you accept, you shall from this point be known as Vincent Silverdust."

As he said this, flames of pure silver erupted from the silver symbols that etched the edge of the platform. Many of the people groaned a bit in disappointment that Kestral was inducting a complete stranger to them.

"If you accept, the powers that only the Silverdust Lineage have claim to will be at your fingertips to study, learn, and eventually master. This requires you to swear your allegiance to me and become my student. So in knowing this, do you accept my proposal?"

Kestral drew his famed blade, Half Blood, in it's zero form, the short sword form. He held it directly in front of him, splitting his face into two perfectly symmetrical sections.
"Then by the power of the almighty Kurai Clan Elders, I dub thee... Vincent Silverdust. Rise, and let the power of our ancestors be yours as well."

As Kestral touched the blade to Vincent's head, the silver flames pulsed with life. When Vincent stood up completely, the flames engulfed Vincent and began to tinge a dark red.

"Hmm, he's even more powerful than I originally thought. His natural aura is fusing with the Silverflames. I've never seen anything like that." Kestral said to himself in quiet intrigue.

The Silverflame subsided and Vince's Crimson aura began to disappear.

"Nothing to worry about, the same thing happened when Zindell was inducted to the Kurai Clan. An enormous burst of flame shot out of him when the Silverflame latched onto him. It means that you are not one of us by birth, that you have developed a strong fighter's spirit and aura stronger what the Silver Warriors that normally enter this platform would be able to gain. While you may be a member of my Lineage, we are not exactly family, don't forget that." Kestral said, putting his arm around his new ally.

The next morning Lance was already away, however his mind was racing and unclear.. He heart began to beat, with out a dought Lance was walking towards a small stream and bending to his knees and making a cup with his hands and trying to drink the water.. No matter, the more he tried to drind the more the firey burn grew.. The pit of his stomach began top churn and burn.. After words has collaspe in the stream.. Slow but surely the stream washed some of his blood down to the rivers..

Sun woke up to Lance's dissappearance.. "Lance?!!? Lance!?!?!? " He called out until his paniced and went to look for him.. Sure enough he found Lance, but to a unsettling descovery.. Apon Lance right forehead Inferno's cursive mark had once again revealled it's self.. "s**t, I know that mark.." He said picking Lance back up relizing what was happening.. To any one within view of the Ice Realm as the swirling clouds began to spin faster as if it was going to erupt into a violent storm with the entire Realm... In hell the same disturbing feeling creeped on the minds of a the deepest place.. Sun was trying to get Lance way from the Tower of Salvation.. "Hold on Lance!?!?!? Stay with me!!!" He said worried that Inferno's curse was acting up again.. Only this time something was differend and voilent.. Lance's voive sound deep and chilling as the whispers became heard.. "Blood...I...want....Blood.." He whisber under his breath.. Sun knew this was bad.. and That Lance has no control once he's influensed by the curse, attacking his friends and even his two biggest Targets Kikyo and Roy... Sun got to a safe enough distance and could call his hawk friend to deliver a message to Kikyo warning them to be on guard for if they are to return....

The hawk took off and with in a few days reached hells realm.. Once ther if looked for Kikyo and or some once that was incharge..