Sceldrant's Comet

by Michael Rogers

  Rachael: (The texture markings are drawn on the air itself? That's awesome!)

  Trevour: "What's this, little meister?"

  Karol: "I planned this for our sigil a while ago."

  Lezard: "Just how long were you planning this, secretive little sausage!"

  Karol: "Nee hee. A while now. And this sigil symbol.. Symbolsizes our Remenistal and a warrior's heart."

  Lezard, Luna and Rachael: "Naww."

  Nathan: *He placed his hands on his head and looked away with an approving smile.* "That's our sigil."

  Karol: "Yup!"

  Keeper: *She swayed her hand around the sigil and threw it behind her, causing the sigil to appear on another whiteboard with lines of small sigils.* "Done."

  Trevour: "Done?"

  Karol: "S-So.. We're-?"

  Keeper: "You're all officially a guild!"

  Lezard: "Yay, we're no longer a party, but a guild!"

  Karol: "H-Holy Neurons? We did it?"

  Luna: "Why is everyone so excited? This process seems too ridiculously easy-"

  Rachael: "It's not the process, but the result."

  Trevour: "We're a family."

  Luna: "If anyone calls me sister, I'll punch 'em in the face."

  Nathan: "Well-" *He smirked, as if he wanted to try.*

  Keeper: *He stepped to the side and pointed at a large bulletin board with different slips of paper next to the bar.* "It's a tradition for new guilds to choose a mission."

  Trevour: "May I, everyone?"

  Rachael: "Go for it." *She smiled and watched Trevour lean forward, glancing at each bulletin-like slips of paper.*

  Trevour: "A rescue mission, heh heh." *He turned around with a smile, as if he wanted to do that.*

  Luna: "Wat's it 'bout?"

  Trevour: "Well-" *He tilted his head, as he tried to read it.*

  Keeper: *She casually ripped the piece of paper off the whiteboard, as if she's done it many times.* "Retrieve a farmer's lost Scoldrant."

  Rachael: "Sounds easy enough for our first quest?"

  Luna: "Sounds lame a shit."

  Nathan: "What's the reward?"

  Trevour: "Let's see.. Two thousand."

  Nathan: "That's almost a month's worth of-" *He started to get excited and faced the door, as if he was ready to leave.*

  Luna: "You're easily sold."

  Destiny: "Yeup."

  Nathan: "Hmph."

  Karol: "Alright, let's go!"

  Rachael: "What's our guild, on three?"

  Lezard: "Ooo." *He waved his bottom in excitement.*

  Rachael: "One, two, three-"

  Luna: "The Guild of Fully Sick People-"

  Trevour and Rachael: "The Rostical Guild!-"

  Lezard: "The Flavoursome Heroes!"

  Nathan: "The Mighty Guild."

  Karol: "The Remenistal Guild."

  *The guild shouted their announcements at the same time, causing several different guild members to look at them strangely.*

  Lezard: "Let's leave, their eyes are condescending on me." *He squealed like a girl and ran out of the tavern.*

  Luna: "Aha, wat a dork."

  Rachael: "Hehe. Now we're stuck with him." *She listened to the guild's footsteps on the wooden floor, as they left the tavern.*

  Trevour: "Heh heh. We're lucky to have a healer-"

  Nathan: *He quickly nudged Trevour, stopping him in mid-sentence.* "It would be good to keep that on a down low."

  Trevour: "Sure thing, sir." *He smiled and stepped outside onto the wooden veranda.*

  Lezard: *He smiled, watching the guild gather around him.* "Naww, to our new home."

  Karol: "Nee hee." *He smiled and turned around, facing the two storey tavern in determination.*

  Rachael: (And with a seven-year-old boy.. We began a new chapter of our lives.)

  Nathan: "Let's start this mission already!" *He spoke with excitement and started to jog away, causing the guild to follow with their individual chuckles.*

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  *Twortz dressed in warrior's armour walked down a dirt path inside a forest, holding a large wooden cross in one hand.*

  Twortz: (Joining the warriors was much easier than I thought. I acted obedient, strong, professional and now, I'm number two hundred and forty-three.)

  *Twortz walked towards the light at the end of the dirt path and stepped into a clearing.*

  Twortz: (Dropping down the ranks is harder than I thought. Even though I haven't displayed any of my true power, dropping down a measly fourteen positions in over a month.. Not tolerable.)

  *Twortz walked towards a different coloured patch of soft appearing dirt and suddenly rammed the wooden cross into it.*

  Twortz: "This is to you-" *She dropped to her knees and cupped her hands, causing her armour to rattle.* "This is where I lost a good friend."

  *Twortz tilted her head down, placing her cupped hands against her forehead.*

  Twortz: "Rachael. This is where you rest.." *She suddenly opened her eyes, triggering images of PKMY's face.* "I promise you, I'll avenge you, and I will kill PKMY."

  *Twortz slowly stood up and glared into the distance, forming fists.*

  Twortz: "I need to get stronger without drawing suspicion to the other warriors." *She whispered to herself, triggering a flashback.*

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  Twortz: "..." *She silently followed Karol.*

  Rachael: "What does that mean?"

  Karol: "This city responds to dancing or singing."

  Twortz: "How utterly ridiculous! If I were to start singing-, lalalalala-"

  *The ground around Twortz responded to her voice, causing a large glyph to shake.*

  Karol: "S-Stahp! You'll activate the city's defences!"

  Twortz: "Ckee-" *She quickly covered her mouth in shock, watching the ground revert back to normal.*

  Rachael: "Lalalala." *She sung on a high note, noticing nothing happened.*

  Lezard: "Dun-, dun, duuuun. You failed."

  Karol: "W-Why did yooh do that?!"

  Rachael: "Sorry, Karol. I was curious."

  Twortz: "Although that was very irresponsible, why did nothing happen?"

  Karol: "She isn't a Score User like yourself."

  Millard: "Ooo, sing us a heart warming song."

  Twortz: "I don't know how to."

  Rachael: "You know how to sing, Twortz."

  Twortz: "Tsst-"

  Millard: "You seem confused, child?"

  Twortz: "I am far from a child, thank you."

  Lezard: "She's right. She's very boring."

  Millard: "Bahahah, okay." *He smiled and continued to follow Karol.*

  Rachael: "You learnt a few new techniques, Twortz."

  Twortz: "They are quite similar in my opinion."

  Karol: "Maybe, but each have their own harhmonick freakency."

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  Twortz: "Captain classed warriors, their power is unimaginable." *She recalled people flashstepping and using different types of Rostical.* "I've got a secluded place to train-"

  *Twortz started to walk across the clearing, recalling her entire adventure.*

  Twortz: "I already tried to get access regarding the captains, or Sorrowprax's database. Turns out you need to be a captain-"

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  Trevour: "Me? Oh no, heh heh. Captains usually wear platinum armour, not black or grey."

  Twortz: "How do you become a captain?"

  Trevour: "By rising up the ranks."

  Twortz: "What if someone was really powerful, would they take over another captain?"

  Trevour: "What do you mean?"

  Twortz: "Well, bumping them out of captain ranking."

  Trevour: "That's not possible."

  Twortz: "That's it? Not possible at all?"

  Trevour: "Well-" *He looked up in thought.* "Perhaps if the Consultant issued some sort of ranking change, it just doesn't happen."

  Twortz: "So, the person just sits at vice captain level?"

  Trevour: *He paused and t
ilted his head to the side.* "Well.."

  Twortz: "Well, what?"

  Trevour: "You could always challenge a captain."

  Twortz: "And take their ranking?"

  Trevour: "In a sense."

  Twortz: "I'm not a person that likes to talk around the bush. Tell me straight up please."

  Trevour: "Well, if you fight a captain to the death, you'll take their ranking that way."

  Twortz: "I see."

  Trevour: "Why? What is with these unusual questions? Are you planning to fight a captain?"

  Twortz: "Hahackee, no. I was curious."

  Trevour: "Heh heh, that's good. You'd need to be way stronger than you are now to even fight in a captain levelled battle."

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  *Twortz smiled to herself and listened to her armour rattle, as she listened to the faint sounds of waves crashing in the far distance.*

  Twortz: "Time to start honing my skills, at The Ruins of Estel, hahahackee!"

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  *Ridley walked down a long stone hallway, listening to another two sets of footsteps behind him.*

  Ridley: "What do you think of Sorrowprax, ladies?"

  Trinity: "It's built very well."

  Infinity: "And very well build it is."

  Ridley: "How is it, people as young as you wield such power?"

  Trinity: "By our parent's blood and the power of twins."

  Infinity: "Twins indeed."

  Ridley: "Intriguing." *He suddenly stopped with a gasp, causing Trinity and Infinity to shuffle behind him in confusion.*

  Trinity: "What is the matter, master?"

  Infinity: "A matter it must be?"

  Ridley: "Gabby.." *He spoke on his breath and quickly turned around, facing the twin sisters.* "We are to go."

  Trinity: "..."

  Infinity: "Sister?"

  Ridley: "Remember, if you want to save your beloved parents and friends, do what I say."

  Trinity: (For everyone..) *She nodded her head and pretended to smile which looked real.*

  Infinity: "We are ready, for our friends and family." *She reached out, allowing Ridley to grab her hand.*

  Trinity: (Friends and family-) *She thought in agreement and hesitantly reached her arm out, opening her hand.*

  Ridley: *He smiled at the twins.* (It's a shame I couldn't have any of the master dancers, but these powerful children could be useful.. I'll mould them to my will and in time, perhaps even forget why they're doing this? Hahaha, the folly!)

  *Ridley grabbed the twin's hands and suddenly puffed into black smoke, leaving behind fading shadow-like strings of smoke.*

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  *A young Asian man dressed in royal-like garbs walked inside a gigantic well, which was lit by a natural eerie green colour.*

  ?????: *He looked up, staring at a gigantic glyph which covered the ceiling above him.* "This is The Elemental Tower's hidden chamber-"

  *A woman with long black hair ran into the well, watching the man look down into another well.*

  Woman: "Klaus, stop! Please respond!"

  Klaus: "... Ginger, you should not have come."

  Ginger: "Please!" *She screamed with emotion.*

  Klaus: "Forgive me-" *He stopped and stepped on his side, straightening his arm at Ginger.* "ICE STREAM DIVIDER"

  *A blue glyph spiralled in front of Klaus' hand and a sudden shot of ice blasted towards Ginger, leaving a spiralling trail of mist behind it.*

  Ginger: *She watched streams of sand swirl up from the ground and form into a boulder, suddenly blasting towards the cannon shaped ice.* "COMET'S VEIL" *She watched fire spurt on the sides of the boulder, giving it the illusion it was a comet.*

  *The comet-like boulder collided into the ice cannon shot, both smashing into pebbles and water.*

  Klaus: *He focused his attention to the well, as if Ginger wasn't a problem.* "With this.. I'll be able to tap into the strongest power to have ever of existed!"

  Ginger: "That power, it's the planet's!"

  Klaus: "Negative! I deserve to use this power to finish off my last task!"

  Ginger: "Stop talking like that-"

  Klaus: "I won't ever see his little face again, do you know how much it hurts?! Please respond!"

  Ginger: "..."

  Klaus: "If I do this, then nobody else will have to suffer."

  Ginger: "Despite your reasoning, you can't use the planet's power-"

  Klaus: "I can!" *He shouted and leant over the well, watching aurora coloured liquids swirl on the bottom.*

  Ginger: "Please..." *She pulled her robes up, revealing different coloured tattoo-like glyphs all over her arm.*

  Klaus: "These are the ultimate power.. Aurorions-"

  Ginger: "Niklauseh-"

  Klaus: "You are very power.. The wielder of all elemental affinities, except-" *He turned around and straightened his arm, causing swirls of darkness to envelop his hand.*

  Ginger: "I don't need Shadiatons or Radiatons!"

  Klaus: "And that is why I'm the strongest Susanoo!"

  Ginger: *She shook her head.* "Niklauseh.. I just desire my older brother back."

  Klaus: "Allow me to harness its power and I will be back soon!"

  Ginger: "I can't allow you to do that."

  Klaus: "I figured out the origin of the yellow-eyed symptom."

  Ginger: *She gasped in shock.* "That's not possible!"

  Klaus: "It was an entity. It's not a disease or a contaminant."

  Ginger: "But it is a contagion?"

  Klaus: "I've only seen this type of corruption from two things."