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 Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:28 am
Prequel:
Millions of years before the Earth was formed, an entity harnessing the power of the Saligia brought its essence into seven forms.The entity knew that each essence and molded it into rings. However the entity grew corrupt with power as the they grew too powerful for even him to hold onto and each ring was scattered.
Each ring found a bearer and its bearer decimated each planet it was on due to them not being able to handle it. Over the years the rings began to have a calling, a place that was full of the Saligia. They soon made their way to a fresh planet in the galaxy.. Earth
Two Thousand Twenty Five Years Later...
The earth was barren, the desert wind was blowing hard as a sandstorm kicked up. A cloaked figure could be seen walking down the desert banding a staff. The figure kept walking seeking shelter, but stopped as it was surrounded by a group of bandits brandishing swords, guns and other weapons.
"Oi, you! Drop yer valuables else you'll suffer the wrath of The Venial Gang!" One of the gang members said as he held his gun out at the figure.
The figure sighed, and removed its hood revealing a young woman with teal colored hair, ruby eyes. "This is ridiculous..." she said as she removed her cloak. She was brandishing a black worn jacket that had strange symbols on it. She fished out a bag out of her jacket and started to hand it to the hoodlum. Her hand was bandaged up.
"Wait!" one of the gang members said as he eyed the girl, he felt he knew this girl before and that jacket looked familiar to him.
He walked over to the girl and got a closer look at the jacket as he eyed it up and down. He then took her bandaged hand and unraveled it, revealing a black crow on her the back of her hand. His eyes widened like he saw a ghost and then ran to the leader of their gang, he whispered in the ear of the leader.
"That's impossible, she can't be.." The Leader said in a hushed voice. "Aye she be she.." The informant gang member said.
The girl was used to this, people were always afraid of her for some reason once they got a better look at her. "Umm so am I going to be robbed right now because I kinda want to get out of this storm.." the girl said impatiently as she held out the bag still.
Most of the gang members held up their swords, the others cocked their guns at her. "Let her pass.." the leader said. Some of the gang members lowered their weapons, there were a few defiant ones however.
"I said let her go, that girl is more trouble than she's worth, and we don't need the wrath of the gods on us.." The leader said as the rest lowered their weapons and moved out of her way.
"What do you mean wrath of the gods! Who am I!?" the girl screamed at the gang. "Put your bag away child, we have no business with you." the leader said as he motioned for the girl to pass.
"Every time, no one will tell me who I am.." she mumbled to herself as she put the bag back in her jacket and put the cloak back on. she walked past the gang members as they seemed to back out of the way as she walked near them, and up to a gate. The sign was faded and the town's name was illegible, she made her way up to a bar that read 'Laute'
She entered the bar and was pushed back into the wall via a wave of energy, standing next to her was a strawberry blonde headed boy wearing a black shirt and black pants that was also pushed back along side of her. "I told you boy, not to come in here anymore, there's nothing for you here! " someone yelled. "Hey shut up! He's got my mom and I'm not leaving without her! " yelled the boy. "And I told you she ain't here! Now if you don't leave I'm gonna kick your a** again!"
"Oh yeah? Things will be different this time around" as the boy pulled out a red ring and held up his left hand. The girl noticed there was a broken heart symbol on his hand along with two birds, one of the birds matched the one on her own hand. She prepared to say something but the boy placed the ring on his finger and he started to glow red.
"Ira is power that I desire.. Feel the wrath of my Phoenixfire!" The boy yelled as he suddenly began to be engulfed in flames as he was now donned in a red outfit with a symbol of a phoenix on his chest.
"What kinda sorcery is this?" The man said as he stared at the boy in awe.
"Experience the Red Death! Cross Fire" the boy said in a dark voice as the man was now engulfed in flames. There were cries of agony and then the flames disappeared leaving a pile of ashes.
"Your hand..." the girl said as she pointed to the boy's hand. The boy turned around there was a wrathful look on his face until he saw the girl. "What about..My hand?" the boy said in a mixed tone. He seemed to be struggling with his emotions. The girl unwrapped her left hand and pointed to the crow on her hand and then pointed to the boy's hand.
The boy looked at his hand and then to hers.
"Where'd you get that...?" the boy said calmly as he took off the ring, instantly his outfit disappeared and he was now in his street clothes.
"I don't know... I don't know who I am...." The girl said sadly. The boy walked up to her. 'Come we've got some things to discuss...My name is Matthias..."
To be continued
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Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:56 am
Chapter 2
Matthias and the girl sat at the bar counter, the place was still slightly smoking as well as empty from Matthias and his fire abilities.
"This ring...It amplifies a person's inner abilities." Matthias said to the girl as she showed her the ring. "You killed a man though, he can't even be buried.." she said looking at the ring and then at him.
"You don't understand, it feeds off of rage, and compels me to put it on when I'm in danger or in a combat situation and when I do, I lose all control over what I'm doing, and the more I put it on... The harder it is to take it off."
Matthias said to her.
"You know all of this, but you're still holding on to it. Where did you even get it?" she said with a worried look on her face, she stared at the ring for a moment and her eyes glistened the same color as the ring for a split second before Matthias put the ring away.
"I...have my reasons.." he said. "So what's your story, you never introduced yourself."
The girl shook her head for a split second. "Wrath" she said in a soft whisper. "Excuse me?" Matthias said with a questioning look on his face. The girl perked up for a moment "Oh nothing, I don't know who I am, or rather I remember so many things that my brain doesn't have the capacity to remember basic things." she said
"You remember many things but you don't know who you are? How does that make sense?" Matthias said not entirely sure what she meant. "I have kinda like a photographic memory but for styles, moves. I guess the brain's capacity to hold information isn't infinite so when you remember one thing, and keep remembering and remembering your brain will start to delete itself. In my case I only remember survival essential things. Chances are I won't even remember you next week, only what you've done."
Matthias scratched his chin for a second, trying to take in all that she said. He was just in his early teens and already he dealt with so much, but her she was going through a lot, and her story was sad to him. However there was some lingering doubt in his mind. He stood up for a moment. "You don't mind if I test this out do you?" he asked as he backed away a few steps.
"Huh? What do you mea....?" she asked as the Matthias lunged at her his right hand on fire as he attempted to hit her with it. The girl instantly sprang up, grabbed Matthias' fist pulled it to the ground, stepped on his shoulder and leaped doing a flip that rivals acrobats and kicked Matthias in the back on her landing.
Matthias didn't know what hit him, as laid down on the ground for a moment holding his back. He then got up and twisted his hand a little as the fire extinguished.
"Believe me now?" she said smiling playfully. Matthias wasn't entirely sure, but he shrugged his shoulders anyways deciding to believe her was in his best interest for now. "So you wanted to know about this.." he said holding out his left hand revealing three symbols: A broken heart, a fire bird and a crow.
"That's right.. I think it might have something to do with my past, and maybe I'll remember it.." she said.
"This one represents my dad, he had his fair share of problems but I learned quite a lot reading about him.." he said as he pointed to the broken heart. "This one represents my mom, a Phoenix.. I'm looking for her, I know someone has her and that lead me here to this dump.." he said as his hand ignited, and his eyes began to glow the same color as the ring he put away.
"And this one" he said pointing at the crow, "Represents..." he began to say as the bar began to shake violently, as both Matthias and the girl were flung off the stools they were sitting on and fell to the floor.
"You know when writers do some sort of plot device right when there's a big reveal or something so they can hold on to the big secret for another time so they can keep their audience hooked?" the girl said casually as she gets up. "......No?" Matthias said with a puzzled look on his face.
"Me either.." she said as they both walked out of the bar to look outside.
"You know what they say about curiosity? It killed the cat!" a voice yelled out as both Matthias and the girl were hit with a violent yellow force and flew back into the bar. Matthias was unconscious, and the girl whispered 'Gula' she said softly as she lost consciousness as well..
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 1:00 am
Chapter 3
A pink haired youth was sitting in a campfire surrounded by sleeping wolves. "Everything's so boring as of late. Sooooooo boring..." she said yawning as she reached over and petted one of the wolves. She was wearing a black wolf pelt with a violet revealing outfit. She held her hand out in front of her and looked at her hand it had a violet ring on it.
"You know when this ring came to me, I thought I'd have some fun with it but so far everyone is so damn... boring, and unsatisfying..Ugh" she said as the earth shook violently, as a yellow flash shined in the distance.
"Oh baby, you know how to rock my world!" she said as she stamped out the fire. "Come on lovelies time to paint the town violet!" she said as the wolves got up, as she straddled one and they all headed to direction of the light.
Meanwhile a few miles away, an orange light glistened in a cave. "Mine....All mine.." a males voice said in a whispered tone. "You see dad, you never embraced your potential. You did your little behind the scenes bullshit, and you played the politic game more than than Tiger cheated on his wife.. But you were always about giving back, well I'm taking your legacy, your everything and I will surpass you just wait and see..." he said as he can be seen with an orange light, his hair appeared to be blonde but had a few hints of green in it. "All will be MINE" as he smirked and laughed to himself and then the earth shook and and a yellow light flashed from outside of his dwelling.
"Shiny...I want it..." he said still whispered, his eyes widened as he crawled slowly out of the cave, there was an FG armband on his left arm as he slowly walked to the yellow light.
"Don't you two look cute all chained up.. Gotta tell you when I saw what you did in that bar I was all like impressive, then it got me hungry.." a voice said as he looked on at the girl and Matthias. "You know what I am? What I represent? I'm Gluttony incarnate, this yellow ring always always makes me hungry. Ever since it found me. But thaaaaaat is a story for another time..." the voice said as he walked closer to the girl and Matthias who were still chained up. The girl was awake, but Matthias was still unconscious. "So whats your story girlie, what brings you into this city?" the voice said as the person behind the voice eyed her up and down.
"You know, even if I knew what brought me here I wouldn't tell you.. b***h" the girl said as she spat at the yellow ring bearer.
'So cute just like your mother.." the ring bearer said as they wiped off the spit. The girl's eyes sparked up "What do you know about my mom, who am I?" she said in an angered tone.
"Oh you're so cute when you're angry.. I can just eat you up.." the yellow bearer said as they got closer to the girl. "You think just because I'm chained up, that I'm useless.. Far from it in fact.. You see if you were listening earlier, you'd know that I have a special set of skills. Skills that I memorize throughout the years that make it so I can't remember anything but said skills.. They're called survival skills." she said smiling
"So what? Doesn't mean I won't eat you up..." the bearer said as they then breathed heavily.
"I picked these chains ten mins ago, I've just been humoring you..." she said smiling. "Wha?" the bearer said as he was instantly hit with the girl's knee right in the chin. she then slipped through chains and slid under the bearer's legs and grabbed them both on her slid, she then flipped up wrapping her legs around the bearer as they grasped of air.
"You feel that? Your life being sucked out of you, that sensation of the air leaving you? Your life ending? Know this, I can easily, easily snap your neck without any regret. I don't need any magic tricks like you or him remember that.." She said as she let go of his neck with her legs and rolled forward landing on her feet.
"Now then you'll tell me everything you know, else I'll show you what I can do when I REALLY get mad.." she said as her eyes glistened red.
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 5:00 am
Chapter 4
"For every action there's an reaction, for every power there's something to counteract that power. The Saligia rings that I've created are no different, the Saligia are incomplete however as two more have been crafted to match the seven.. Those I hold are them..They bring a power greater than them combined.." a voice said as a glimmer of black and white glistened in the darkness. A male's voice said coldy. It was said that anyone who heard the voice would instantly have a chill down their spine.
"But why rings? Why have these... Powers trapped in rings?" A woman's voice rang out, as she stepped from the shadows. She was very attractive with blonde hair, wearing a professional lab assistant get up.
"The rings are merely tools used to aid someone with what they had. Whatever they project comes from the energies locked in their hands, from whatever they touch, whatever they feel.. Everyone has muscle memory, memory that's accessed through their brain and without the knowledge of what something feels like, what one has experienced one can't create..There is no knowledge without power.." the male said.
"And what of the girl, will she get a ring?" the woman asked.
"The rings choose their wielder based on what the person has inside of them, their inner most desires what they hold inside their hearts, and they amplify it to an energy based form.
Luxuria, Gula, Ira and Avaritia have been shown, its up to its bearer to control them or be lost to the power they wield, it will consume them and ultimately destroy them.." the male said a hand came out from the shadows. White and black lights began emanating from rings on the hand.
"And the fact that they're Vices has nothing to do with it?" she asked looking at the lights, she seemed to be allured by them like one of them was calling her, however she kept focused as she seemed to be writing things down on a clipboard.
"Every human has these vices in them, lets see just what they can do with them.." the male laughed evilly.
"Yes and they also have virtues too, or did you forget?" the woman said interrupting his laugh as she continued jotting down notes.
"Not at all, like I said for every power there's a power to counteract it..." the male said as there was an distinct sound of a drawer opening and then the room lit up with all the colors of the rainbow.
"What...What are those?" the girl said as she fell to her knees. She never experienced such a warm feeling, it was intense feeling of pure happiness. The drawer was shut and the room once again grew dark aside from the previous black and white lights.
"Those my dear will keep the Saligia in check if need be, humanity is full of evil my dear assistant. I'm the one to utilize that evil but need be I'll play god once again and destroy all that I've created...."
"And what of her?" the assistant said interrupting again.
"If the need comes to it.. Yes.." he said coldly. "Absolute power absolutely corrupts, and I won't make that same mistake I did millions of years ago..."
the male said as the girl had a look of fear on her face.
"You're...a monster...." she said horrified as she slowly began to back away.
"No my dear, I am beyond all human comprehension.. What I am is something your worst nightmares dream they could be." the male said as there were foot steps getting closer to the girl, the white light seemed to disappear and the room was darkened. She began to feel cold like all the warmth was instantly taken out of the room, despite wearing a coat she was shivering, she could see her breath even in the dark room.
Suddenly she was blanketed by a black light right in her face as she saw the face of the male for the first time, and it was face to face with hers.
She saw the look in his eyes. "What is it you fear!?" he said coldly as the girl shrieked and the room became instantly dark once again.
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