When Typhus told us to stop, we were all out of breath. He had still not unsheathed his sword, even though Nera, Gely and I were all fighting at full force. Then again, all he did was dodge our attacks, so why would he need to take out his sword? Out of the three of us, it seemed as though Gelyan used his Chimera the best, but since Typhus took special care to dodge his bullets, I was the one who got the closest to actually hurting him. In fact, if he hadn?t blocked my hand, he would have had a major wound in his side, and we wouldn?t have been able to revert the timelines, and I wouldn?t be telling this story.?You?ve done well,? Typhus said, brushing the dust off of his robe. ?Now, before we start our journey through the dimensions, I would like to show you something.? He took a long thin rectangular sword out of the sheath on his back. The black bade contrasted well with the orange edge. ?Emi, if you will.?Emi cast a Lightning Aura spell on Typhus. Instantly, his sword shined white. He swung it, and a residual arc of electricity came out. ?Go on, touch it,? he urged. Gelyan reached out, touched it, and recoiled sharply.?Ow!? he yelled, clutching his hand.?This is the property of my blade. While note completely, it absorbs some of the elemental affinity of whatever magic it comes into contact with. If the right spell is used, it can heal whatever it touches.? He sheathed his sword. ?Now, summon the tarots you have.?We did as we were told, and the Sun, the Moon, and the Star appeared. After contemplating this, Typhus drew a star on the ground, drew a circle around it, and drew an arc inside the circle. ?The Sun, the Moon, and the Star. I think this would be an appropriate sign for our group.? He drew five coins of some odd metal from a concealed pocket and dropped them on the symbol. He used some kind of spell, a light came out of the symbol, and when it faded, there lay five medals with the symbol engraved on them. Typhus passed them around and said, ?Now then, shall we go??
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I sighed.“What’s wrong, Sisi? You’re usually so happy. Recently all you’ve been doing is sighing.”“I’m okay Mom, I just miss my friends.” I sighed again and went up to my room. I checked the clock. 7:15. Two hours and fifteen minutes. I started up my computer. “I wonder if Gely and Nera are on yet.” I checked the feed. No one yet. I started thinking about the adventures we had last year.Suddenly, a voice shocked me back to reality. “Sisi? Sisi! I know you’re there.”I turned on my webcam, put on a semi-fake smile and checked the time. 7:39. “Nera! Wow, you haven’t changed a bit!”“Same to you Sisi. Have you talked to Gelyan yet?”“Not since last time. Hey, turn your head. Oh, you cut your hair! It looks great!”“ Yeah, and you’re growing yours out, right?”“You noticed!”The conversation went on like that for a while. I checked the time again. 8:01.“He’s late,” Nera confirmed.“Yeah, well that’s Gelyan. What can you do?”“I guess you’re right.”8:15. “Nera!” I exclaimed joyfully, “He’s finally on!”“Hi girls!” the last member of our trio finally appeared on the screen, “Sorry I’m late.”“Welcome back,” Nera whispered.We talked about our lives for a long time, until suddenly Gelyan brought up a new topic.“Hey, girls. How would you like to go back through the timelines?”“Really? Yay!” I exclaimed at the thought of seeing the cute animals and Emi and all the people we met.“Ha ha ha… Sisi, I knew you’d say that. What about you, Nera? You up for it?”“ I guess I can’t really say no, especially if Sisi wants to.”“Yay! Nera is coming too!”“Okay you two. I’ll send you the link… now!”I checked the time. 8:59. It’s been almost a year since I first crossed timelines. In three seconds it would be nine o’clock. 3…2…1…Click! At exactly one year after I first left this timeline, I did it again. The world melted around me. It felt as though I had just gotten swallowed by a wormhole. Then it all went… white?White… Hey, wait. I know this place! I’d seen this scenery before!“Nera! Gely! Wake up! We’re here!” The bodies of my friends slowly woke up and looked around. Suddenly a figure with two orange wings appeared off in the distance, accompanied by a big pink thing. “Emi!” I yelled at the top of my lungs, “Emi! Over here!” The figure noticed us and flew over. Clad in a white and orange robe, Emi looked almost exactly like she did when I first met her one year ago.“Sisily! It’s so good to see you!” she exclaimed when she got closer, “Neraine and Gelyan too! Wow, how did you get back? I thought I’d never see you again! Whoa… Sisi, let go of me. I…can’t…breathe!” Nera and Gelyan laughed as Emi was strangled by my tight embrace. I was home (kind of) and my I could see my best friend (that isn’t in our timeline) again! As I finally let up, Emi gasped for air. I felt as if I would die. I didn’t realise that I was hopping and screaming until I almost fell off the tree.“Whoa, there, Miss Ecstatic. You just got here, I don’t think you want to die,” Gelyan laughed as he pulled me back up.“I would have been fine if I had used my warp blade,” I retorted, “Hey, where are our weapons anyway?”“Oh! That’s right. Gemini’s not here.”“Neither is Hydra.” I checked to see if my tarots were still there. I saw the magician and the lovers, but I couldn’t find the others.“Looks like half our tarots our gone. We only have the ones from when we were here last time, not afterwards.”“Sisi, you seem so serious for once. Hey! And what’s more, you’re right,” Nera said, surprised, “Why don’t we have a little chat with our tarots, shall we?” We summoned all our tarots and asked them about what happened. Of all of them, High Priestess knew the most about this, which wasn’t much. We gathered that since we brought our weapons back with us to our timeline (and then discarded them), they would stay in our world instead of following us to the next. However, the magic seal on the Warp Blade and me probably still worked. I tried summoning it, but the magic fizzled out. Then I remembered: we were across timelines. My warp blade could only warp through space, not time. However, I could make a new weapon(s) with the same seal. “Sisily, Neraine, and Gelyan,” High Priestess began, “It is imperative that you have weapons during your mission here. Though you may not know it, you are here for a reason. As such, the weapons you had would not have been strong enough anyways. We have banded our powers together to form you new weapons. To Neraine, we give you Concerto and Sonata. As the embodiments of Ice and Light, the end spheres on these batons are alike. Concerto’s is at absolute zero, and Sonata’s blinds and burns. As well these batons have ribbons on the other ends, which are as soft as the petals of a flower, but as strong and sharp as a blade. To Sisily, we give you the Warp Seal. It is a pair of gloves with two seals each that are much stronger than the one on your Warp Blade, while still retaining synchronization with the seal on you. And as you would have no means of attacking without the seals, we have created a light force field, which will slice most objects that you can find. And to Gelyan, we give you a choice. We have two weapons here for you, so you may choose whichever you like.”They presented the two weapons. One was a triple-barrelled gun, which had one of the barrels higher than the others; and the other was a gun that had a bayonet on top and two side blades. Gelyan chose the former and brandished the weapon in his hand.“A fine choice,” High Priestess observed, “This weapon is the Chimera. The first barrel, the ‘lion’, shoots large explosive shells, which can rip through most armours. The second barrel, the ‘ram’, shoots a small pellet that sends a great shockwave into whatever it touches. The final barrel, the ‘snake’, sends forth a small amount of a highly corrosive acid, which will melt through anything it touches. Use this weapon wisely. Now I am afraid that it is time for us to go, our tarots are fading away. Goodbye, my friends. You have a long journey ahead of you.”And with that, they faded away into nothing. We all stood there, freezing in the snow.Then I realized, “Hey, Emi. Isn’t it a lot more snowy than when we were here last?”“It is. Come on group, I’ll tell you all about it, but first let’s go to Shackpot’s house.”When we arrived at Shackpot’s, he greeted us warmly, “Sisily! Neraine! Gelyan! How are you?”“We’re fine, thank you,” Gelyan replied calmly.“Shackpots! Hi! I haven’t seen you in a year! How are you?” I exclaimed, almost as happy to see them as I was Emi.“We are fine as well.”“Hey Shackpot! Did you successfully breed the phantasia to grow in your village?”“Indeed we did, Neraine. Unfortunately, there are currently other problems.”“Other problems? You mean like the snow?” I asked, louder than I had intended.“Yes, but that is not the only problem. I recently discovered that lucid dreamers and those that cross timelines are creating a distortion, which is causing timelines to change places. When this happens, the timelines briefly touch, and begin to blend, but the process cannot be completed. While this does not speed up the apocalypse, because the timelines are not fused or in any way the same, this wreaks havoc on the balance and ecosystems of the timelines, hence the snow.”I almost cried. “You mean we’re the bad guys? Nooo! We tried to save the world! What are we going to do?! Waaaaaaaaaaah…”“It’s okay, Sisily, It is not your fault. You were oblivious to what was going on. Since the Gates of Time were destroyed, lucid dreaming and other such methods of crossing time have appeared in greater numbers. This is causing much more distortion than when the Gates were connected.”Shackpot’s findings shocked us a little, but I can’t say I was too surprised compared to when he had told us about the time blend earlier.Gelyan was the first to speak, “Okay, I know this doesn’t sound as bad as it really is, so what can we do to stop it?”“A good question,” Shackpot replied, “I have two theories. One is that you must summon all of the magic tarots at once, and their combined powers can fix the problem; and the other is that you must revive the All Mother, who will create an artificial Genesis and restore power and stability to the timelines, as well as creating new life.” “Thank you Shackpot,” Nera said, “I believe that even if they cannot help, the tarots will be a great boon.”“In that case, I might be able to provide some assistance. I have three tarots here, and I know someone who can help you find the others. Emi, I believe you know him very well. Typhus! In here!” Shackpot said as he handed out the tarots of the Sun, Moon, and Star to me, Nera, and Gely respectively.“Here comes backup,” Emi sighed, as a tall man entered the room.He was wearing a long black robe with a white shirt and black pants underneath. He was wearing a large belt and a long thin sheath on his back.“Hello sister,” the man said, in a surprisingly higher voice than I expected.“Ladies and gentleman, this is my time-hopping brother, the only other person in this realm to cross timelines, Typhus! I believe he will be accompanying us on our journey.”“I shall. But first, I should like to show you something. Follow me.”As we followed Typhus into a dark stairwell, I realised that he didn’t have the hair-wings that most other people in this timeline did. I heard Nera and Gely discussing something, but I focused my attention on Emi and her brother in front of me. They really didn’t look anything alike, but they did share some personality traits.“Maybe Typhus isn’t from this timeline at all, maybe he’s from a timeline much closer to ours,” I thought aloud, and everyone stopped and stared.Typhus turned to Emi and said, “Sister, your other-world friends have a greater intuition than I would have guessed,” He then turned to us and said, “Come, we are nearing the top. I will explain everything when we get there.”And where is that exactly? I wondered.As we reached the top of the stairwell, I saw a door with light shining through it, which reflected off the floor and lit up the whole doorway. Just then I realized how odd it was that such a tall stairwell had been inside a seemingly regular sized house such as Shackpot’s. As we entered the room, I realised that it was not part of the ice world below.“This, my friends, is the top of Tierra,” Emi explained.“Tierra?” The three of us asked in unison.“As my sister said, this is the top of our world, Tierra. As you may know, Tierra is made up of layers, two of which you have been to. There are four layers in total. The only one you have now not been to is the bottom layer. On that bottom layer is nothing but a large pit leading to the core. As of now, only five people have ever seen this place, as Shackpot wont climb up here.”Emi continued where Typhus left off, “This layer is inhabited only by small animals and flowers, unlike the yetis, bears, and beans on the layers below. Now I be-”“Emi, please. They have no need to know at this point. We can tell them when the worlds are fixed.”“Indeed we can brother,” she said, and then more loudly, “All right, for now, this can be our training area. This place has a different sense of time, so if you leave here your wounds will be healed. Just remember, you never know what will happen.”Typhus beckoned us over towards him, as he had moved to a more open space away from the doorway. “Come!” he said, “Let us see how proficient you are with your weapons!”When Typhus told us to stop, we were all out of breath. He had still not unsheathed his sword, even though Nera, Gely and I were all fighting at full force. Then again, all he did was dodge our attacks, so why would he need to take out his sword? Out of the three of us, it seemed as though Gelyan used his Chimera the best, but since Typhus took special care to dodge his bullets, I was the one who got the closest to actually hurting him. In fact, if he hadn’t blocked my hand, he would have had a major wound in his side, and we wouldn’t have been able to revert the timelines, and I wouldn’t be telling this story.“You’ve done well,” Typhus said, brushing the dust off of his robe. “Now, before we start our journey through the dimensions, I would like to show you something.” He took a long thin rectangular three-edged sword out of the sheath on his back. The black bade contrasted well with the orange edge. “Emi, if you will.”Emi cast a Lightning Aura spell on Typhus. Instantly, his sword shined white. He swung it, and a residual arc of electricity came out. “Go on, touch it,” he urged. Gelyan reached out, touched it, and recoiled sharply.“Ow!” he yelled, clutching his hand.“This is the property of my blade. While note completely, it absorbs some of the elemental affinity of whatever magic it comes into contact with. If the right spell is used, it can heal whatever it touches.” He sheathed his sword. “Now, summon the tarots you have.”We did as we were told, and the Sun, the Moon, and the Star appeared. After contemplating this, Typhus drew a star on the ground, drew a circle around it, and drew an arc inside the circle. “The Sun, the Moon, and the Star. I think this would be an appropriate sign for our group.” He drew five coins of some odd metal from a concealed pocket and dropped them on the symbol. He used some kind of spell, a light came out of the symbol, and when it faded, there lay five medals with the symbol engraved on them. Typhus passed them around and said, “Now then, shall we go?”As we walked backed down the steps, I wondered about the medals that Typhus had given us. Mine seemed to glow in the dark of the passageway. “It sends mental messages between those who were given it, and glows with a shared magical energy,” said Typhus’ voice in my head. I wheeled around and dropped my medal, which made a soft sound as if it had landed on something. Everybody stared at me with a look of surprise. Typhus nonchalantly said, “Now you try.”Embarrassed, I turned around, picked my medal, and continued walking. While doing so I projected the words, “Like this?” into the minds of everyone else in the room. Everybody stared at me again, and I blushed.“Exactly,” Typhus said, utterly bewildering everyone else. I think Emi was the first one who understood.She quickly thought a message to Typhus, which I picked up on: “Should we tell them?” Almost as confused as Gely and Nera, I walked through Gely and Emi to the front.“Okay guys, think at someone!” drifted through the air into the minds of both Gely and Nera, and probably Emi and Typhus too.No sooner had I sent the message than a synchronized thought by Gely and Nera replied, “Hello Sisily Miharu Takimoto.” Disturbed, I thought about the implications of this and kept walking.Once we got back to Shackpot’s house, Emi and Typhus said two words, “Follow us.” Immediately they started running, leaving us to sprint after them. Not even thinking about it, we jumped on Tinkfi and told her to follow them. We jumped off and headed into the Crystal Cave and then into the Hall of Mirrors. Only when we had gone through a mirror and were standing in what seemed to be a comfortable living room did I notice that Typhus had been running on the slippery ice. I also noticed that we were outside. And there was no floor.I screamed. I stopped and looked around, wondering if what I had seen was real and, on confirming that it was, started screaming again. “Hush, Sisily,” came Emi’s voice from beside me, then a sigh and, “I wish she’d stop pulling stunts like this.”“Kyra!” it was Typhus now, on my other side. Suddenly I stopped falling and was actually sitting down on a very soft couch in the living room that I had seen earlier. Dazed and confused, I decided to let the others do the talking.“We are in need of your services,” I heard Typhus say, to whom I assumed to be Kyra, whoever that was. I looked up. Typhus and Emi were talking to a young woman wearing a large black trench coat; a blood-red shirt; tight black pants; about twenty belts, none of which were actually holding up her pants; and a pair of black gloves. There was another man sitting at a table on the far side of the room, but I was too dizzy to see any details, so I closed my eyes before I vomited.“You are in luck. This man has offered to pay the price for you, if you will bring him along.” That seemed to be Kyra’s voice. It was soft, but also strict, and I could hear years beyond measure in it.“Oh,” sounded the charge in Emi’s voice. When she was like this, it was usually a good thing, but scary if you got her mad. She continued, “And who is he?”“His name is Reaver,” boomed Typhus’ voice, oddly loud. “And we accept.”“Good, it’s all settled then. I will also accompany you, as I have heard of your plans, and to make sure that you are safe and that the price is paid. Now, stand up young ones,” Kyra said, and I found myself already on my feet. She swung the Yan Yue Dao that I noticed was on her back, and a portal appeared in the arc of her swing. We stepped through, and were engulfed in black.The End! Kongrats to Si.Ner.Ge and Feix Blaze: your characters are in my hands.Oh, and sorry for using Japanese for Sisily's name, it mans something along the lines of Sisily, Clear Sky, Waterfall. (I put commas to show that Clear Sky was one name.)Oh, and everyone just died.Kidding!
chamomileess
Sorry, it just bothered me.As well, your Japanese names seem a bit off to me... Miharu sounds more like "to Watch or guard" than Clear Sky... Clear sky is Haretasora, is it
mokona96
know, but I can't just find a Chinese Name Generator. (Or can
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And I did get it to Japanese already. I'm trying to find one for chinese that isn't a pict
si.ner.ge
I'll confess to ignorance at precisely what my character's weapon is. I'm assuming "Dao" is "sword," but what's "Yan Yue&qu
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