• Shattered Crystal

    It is rumored…that this world was just a plain ordinary one…
    A place where there were human, and a species that are far greater than humans. These creatures were praised by the humans, but up to this day….their description remains unknown , but their magical power the far surpasses those of humans. For thousands of years, these two species lived in harmony. Until the world began to die…..
    Until one single maiden, human girl, who was born with remarkable strong magical powers, which had something to do with the crystals, saved the world from dying off. But also, created a realm, a realm of Great Deities, Known as Rems. It is said that their realm hover over our world, watching us. Rems are mystical deities that bear wings, like the angels in the sky. And like the mysteriously disappeared creatures, I had mentioned, they bear strong magical capabilities. But despite all this knowledge, no one has met one personally. But there are rumors, that some walk amongst us.

    What remains of the Powerful maiden? It is said that she is now in an endless black void, where only the spirits of the Dead can enter, another name for it would be… the Netherworld. All though she is there, she is still alive, watching over our world within Colossal crystal like object, where she is able o see the past, present, and future of our worlds. And it is said, that it is she, is the reason our world is alive up to this day, If there was something to happen to her, then our world would die. But it is unknown why this is to occur.
    Our world, because it is influence by this maiden, which we know call the Maiden of the Crystal, there are many areas in the world that is covered by vast amounts of crystal. But with these crystals, we are able to listen to the maiden herself. Because many people treated her like a god, and with the crystals she sent messages of the future. Our people, devised a system, a religion to be exact.

    This religion was made, so that people of our world would remain faithful to our maiden, and those who were the most faithful, the priest to be exact, can hear the messages the Maiden is giving us, the messages of about the worlds future.
    You would think our world is at peace, you are wrong. The two largest, and strongest countries, had entered the warring states. The Plata Kingdom is going against the Oro Empire.

    But before we go on with our story, there is one more thing to speak of. The Hero of Dimension. In order to keep the world alive, the Maiden, had chosen a hero, to protect her from any potential harm. There was A chosen hero a century ago, but was killed in battle by the one who had threatened to harm the maiden…..
    But now we focus on a youth, who is to take an unexpected Journey, to find the new chosen, Hero of Dimensions!
    ~*~*~
    Unknown Knight:
    “Are we near the target?” Our commander asked. “Yes” one of the infantry answered. As we scaled the rocky road, right next to a large cliff, heading a to a village nearby, I thought about the danger to come. “Commander?” I called out. “Yes what is it?” he asked. “Weren’t our past troops defeated by someone somewhere around this point?” I asked.

    “Yes” he said. Then why the hell are we coming here?! “But…” he said “We came with the doubled amounts of soldier, he can’t take all of us on!”. Of course! To think I was worried. But I didn’t know, that this area is so mountainous.

    Then out of nowhere, “Oi!”. The whole platoon just stopped and looked up, where the voice had come from. And there, on the edge of the cliff above us, about twenty meters above us, stood a young boy wearing white armor, and a pitch black caped flowing in the air behind him, and holding a sword with his left arm. But there was something that put me into a deep fear.

    It was that he had blonde hair, and bright crimson eyes. There were those descriptions, that the previous soldiers had describe. Left Armed Islander!

    “Oi!” he repeated “More soldiers from the Oro Empire?” he said, although it all came out in a different language, which put most of our soldiers in confusion. Well, this was now a land belonging to the Plata Kingdom, so the people in this island must be fluent with their language. “If you didn’t understand, then I’ll say it in your language. Get Out” he said, now speaking our language. All though I was struck with fear, our commander just laughed.

    I am not sure why he was laughing, but I’m sure it has something to do with the Lone Warrior atop of us. “Are you a fool?! In what way do you plan to defeat this entire platoon of Oro Warriors?!” he shouted. I looked at the blonde warrior once again, and noted, that he was smirking. What id with that smirk, is he really planning in fighting us?

    “Well” he said “ I do plan in doing such thing” he said, then amazingly, jumped from the cliff….
    ~*~*~

    Amazing…Simply amazing. I never thought I see the day where a single man would defeat a whole group of Knights. All of my comrades had fallen, but yet, they were not dead. I was the only one standing, well, I was on my knees anyway. I had received cuts on all my limbs. They weren’t mortal wounds, but where deep enough to keep me down. But why would he refuse to finish us?
    The next thing I saw was the same boots of him who had just defeated us. I raised my head, and looked at the youth’s eyes, as he stared down at me. This kept going until I had finally asked “Are you planning in ending my life?”. but after I had asked him, he simply turned away and walked up the road we had struggled to got through. “I won’t say it gain, Leave” he said. Soon, he was gone. But…he didn’t finish us?
    ~*~*~

    ???:
    What is this…..Why do I feel so, relaxed and in peace, where am I? I see nothing around me but blackness, eternal blackness. But strangely, it didn’t bother me. I looked around me and found spheres of glowing white hovering around the area. Over here… someone called out. I turned around and spotted a extremely large tree, but one interesting about it, it was crystal. Awaken…. someone said Awaken the new Hero of Dimensions!

    I slowly opened my eyes, and instead of the blackness, I saw nothing but the ceiling over my room. I sighed and sat upright on my bed. I opened the curtain beside me and the bed, and bright sunlight came into my room. I squinted as it temporarily blinding me. It must be morning already, I thought. When my eyes had adjusted to the bright light, I fell back into my bed, and wondered why I keep having that dream. Awaken the new Hero of Dimensions.

    Hero of Dimensions? I know I had heard of that somewhere. Oh well. I walked over to my dresser, placed my hands around the corners of it and looked at myself from the mirror. My blonde hair was messy, but not too messy, so it was okay in my opinion. I looked at my red colored eyes and then rubbed them.

    I looked up at the lock hanging over my door. And it said it was barely seven o’clock . It’s still early, I should go back to bed. I quickly lied back into my bed, and wrapped myself with the blanket. I sighed with pleasure, as I was embraced with warmness. Now I was cozy.

    But that feeling soon ended. Someone suddenly burst through the door and shouted “Maxwell! Wake up!”. Yes, my name is Maxwell. The first son of my family. I looked up and saw one my closest friends before me, Edward. A friend since a few years ago, when he came to our home, alone though. And apparently the one I trust most.

    He had short black hair, always laid down. Always wears casual clothing. He always wears big round glasses. But despite his lack of vision, he is very perceptive. That is why he always watches out for the village. “Damnit” I groaned “what is it?” And did he just busted himself in like that? I sat up straight once again, and rubbed my eyes again as well.


    “Its an emergency!” he said “The Oro empire sent another platoon, and as we speak, they are headed to this village!”. This caught me attention. I stopped rubbing my eyes, and faced Edward with my full attention. “Please tell me more” I said, with a grin on my face.

    When he had explain every detail to me, I got up from my feet and walked to the corner of my room.

    So, the Oro Empire are sending more soldiers to us again? This is the third time this month they try to do this. Well, my home is actually an island. A really small one as in matter in fact. The area is a mountainous region, the only habitable area on this island is in the center of the island, where my village lies. There are many area here that we can plant our crops, there is ever a small creek beside the village. But around the village is a forest, where we hunt for our food. But since we live in an island, there is mostly fish here. And on the north of the island, is a mountain that no one climbs, believing that there is a monster living there, I don’t go because I am far to busy.

    But also, this island used to belong to the Oro Empire. But because of the past incidents, and the current war Oro is having with the Plata, we had seceded from the Empire, and joined the Plata Kingdom. But the Oro didn’t take this calmly. They sure made a huge deal about losing land to the Plata. For they keep sending soldiers from their government to force us to secede from the Plata .

    Well, this would have worked, if it wasn’t for one fact. I looked down at a stand before me. And on it clung the equipment of my armor. And I looked proudly at the white breastplate , with its wing-like shoulder guard. “Alright then” I said smiling. I equipped every piece every of the armor on my self. My arm guards, shin guards and the rest for my legs. And lastly, I put on my breast plate, and attached a black cape on it. “Alright, Lets go” I said. I grabbed my sword and exited through my bedroom window. The fact was, I was there to stop them.
    I ran through the town, noticing how quiet my surroundings were. And other from that, I saw no one from the village at all. I guess Ed, short for Edward, had warn everybody before alerting me. I wonder how close the Oro are from here? Well, I couldn’t afford to waste time. I ran out of the village and through the forest, but there were a few interruptions. “Monsters?!”.

    The three of them were the same type of monsters. Ghosts. The were small creatures, white, with black round eyes, and pure white arms. Damn, these things are annoying, they difficult to kill with a sword, they barely do anything to harm you, and plus, they look like some kid dressed in a white sheet with holes where the eyes are suppose to be! I stopped and withdrew my sword from the sheath, shouting, “Damnit, move!”.

    I leapt forward, Swinging my sword. But like always, it simply went through, and so did my body. I spun around, spotted two of the ghost about to swing his arm down. Perfect. I swung my sword up, in a vertical arc, but this time, it actually cut the ghost. I had managed to cut the ghost in half, and it immediately disappeared. The ghost can take both physical and non physical forms, in its non-physical form, it can only be harmed by spells, I learned that from school. But the ghost need to take their physical form to harm us, that when I strike.

    But I had forgotten about the other one nearby. And that one had struck right on the shoulder with heel of its hand. But like I said, they barely cause any harm. I smiled in triumph, then I swung my sword again, finishing the second one. I then looked at the last one of the group, and stretched my arm out, with my palm wide open. And began to concentrate. A red magic circle appeared around me below my feet. And finally, “Fireball!”. Then, red ball of flame shot out of my hand, and zoomed forward. And because it was magic, it struck the ghost. And then the final finally disappeared.

    And with that finally over, I turned around and began running from the forest, into the rocky surroundings. And right on the edge of a cliff, I spotted the outpost that we had built for Ed. From there he has a clear view of the Ocean. I watched it, as the cold winter breeze brushed against my face.
    And for a brief moment, I thought I had heard something. I stopped and listened carefully, and heard numerous footsteps far off, or far below me. I walked toward the cliff, and looked down. And down there were the platoon that Edward spoke of. Perfect. I withdrew my sword from its scabbard, held it with my left arm, then shouting “Oi!”.
    ~*~*~

    “Well, that takes care of that” I said. I was already next to the outpost, in a crouching position, at the top of the cliff, watching the soldiers I had just defeated. All of them had gathered and retreated to the ships they had come from. Again, I had saved the village from peril.

    I got up to leave, but I felt a sudden pain coming from my leg. “What the hell?” I groaned. I looked at my leg, and noticed a large bloody spot on my right thigh. When did that happen? It must have been in the battle earlier, but why do I just feel the pain right now? Oh well. I walked over to the outpost and looked around. And there I found, in a small cache within one of legs supporting the outpost, was a first aid kit.

    I grabbed the box, and sat down. I opened the box and took out the roll of bandages in it. I rolled up my pant’s leg, and wrapped my wound with the bandage. And it was good thing we had placed it in there, the wound was pretty deep. One of my other friends suggested it, saying that I might get wounded in battle. It was a good thing too, I would have been in a near death condition if I had walked all the way to the village with my wound untreated.

    After using the bandage, I had put everything away back where I had gotten it. I retrieved my sword, and began my return trip to the village. “So, another victory?” someone asked behind me. I turned and looked over my shoulder, and spotted my friend, Edward, behind me.

    I turned around, and said “Yes”. Edward smiled, “You should enjoy it” he said. I smiled back, turned around, and began walking away. “Because it may be you last….”.
    What? I turned and looked over my shoulder, but Ed wasn’t facing me, but the ocean. Because it may be your last… What did he mean by that?

    I sighed, and gave my self a shrug. I bet he only said that to mess with me. I turned around and walked away.