He woke up. After years he finally woke up. He looked around and all he saw from one side of the land to the other was char and flame. His body a mess of scars. He realized that he did this he alone conquered the beast that killed everything he loved, but he destroyed everything else in the process. Nothing existed beside himself. He brought up his blade, swung back his sword and cut his neck. His head on the ground, blood splattered, his body slowly sunk to the ground.

Xion (a boy living in snake valley) was at the history museum studying an old ancient tablet like he did everyday. He spent many good summer days looking at it, examining it. This tablet shown a large man fighting off a much larger pair of eyes. The same eyes he saw when he was 7 years of age. The day he saw the eyes his parents disapered.7 years passed since. Suddenly he felt a tap on his shoulder. He looked behind him and saw his sister Amber. "The prince is waiting" said Amber. Xion looked down to the ground and replied "Good bye'. Hey um. brother he, the prince, said you could bring as many people as you want on this mission.

Before you read the next paragraph you must understand a couple things. Xion is the royal palace guardian and is occasionally assigned missions. His latest mission is to create a truce with an AKA endangered species. There are currently 10,000 of them left. Anise are what their called. They are magical beings with power depending on the color of there blood. The wiped out colors are green, yellow, and blue. Surviving are purple, gold, red, orange, silver.

Blood type magic

|Red |fire | |Blue |physic | |Green |resurrecter | |orange |random | |gold |entrapment | |yellow |summoner | |purple |electricity | |silver |N/A |

"Amber if you leave, who will take care of our phoenix?" Xion said. "I guess we'll have to take him with us. Now go. The prince wants you." It was a good day. The blue cloudy sky, the green grass, the dark green forests. But something was missing. The snakes aren't out. The snakes that make snake valley famous and drive enemies away from the palace. Something started to tremble in the bushes. Xion looked around and drew his old rusty sword. "Who's there?" he shouted. Suddenly a huge beast walked up to Xion and sniffed him. It was a mantacore. The huge beast Opened its mouth wide as he could and started licking Xion. It was the palaces Mantacore and its name was Orion. "Did they let you out today?" Xion said in a quiet friendly voice. "Or did you find a way to escape from your cage?" "Mew!" replied Orion. "Come on, time to go to the palace."

"Thank you for returning Orion for us. I wonder if he got all the trolls or gnomes or the aloeno that was eating the snakes. Hope he doesn't die while you're away. He likes you." Said the prince. "Since you're the guard you will escort me to Anise City. I don't think I'll need you though. Seeing how my body is has one of the 3 great demons inside and if anyone messes with me I'll just let him out to play for a bit." Xion just looked petrified. He opened his mouth and tried to say something but just decided to shut up. "You ARE planing to bring your sister for help aren't you? She said you were." Xion replied, "Yes, and my bird". "Now it will be a week and a half so. prepare."

Xion became tired from not sleeping for a 3 days, making sure nothing happened to the prince. Suddenly he sees a dark, large figure fighting a creature by the camp. Though the creature was twice the size of the man, the stranger fought tremendously against the beast. Suddenly the beast and the man died. The beast looked like a bloody mess of flesh of bones, as did the man. Suddenly a huge, blue flame swallowed the man, and a big beautiful bird flew out of the body. As it flew away it dropped a large blue feather. Xion ran towards the feather and grabbed it. Then he saw the bird again. It dive-bombed him.

When he awoke he realized that he fainted. He looked at his hand and saw the feather in his hand, but couldn't find his sword. He couldn't find the skin of the beast anywhere, let alone the man. He looked everywhere before waking up the prince.

"I do believe the treaty is in their favor." Said the prince "I hope it works and it's signed. You two can go site seeing, or. here's some money buy something" "thanks! Best of wishes your highness," said Amber. So, Xion and Amber went to the central square. Every kind of Anise in one place, mostly silver and red. It was like a huge super market. Silvers selling potions, reds selling pet phoenix (they got a mate for Frond, Xion's phoenix) purples selling wands, staffs and rare diamonds. And, suddenly Xion got an eye full. He saw a piece of a sword like the one the man was holding in the tablet on a junk shop table for 500$. He bought on impulse without asking the story of the sword. Altogether they spent 2500 on a female phoenix (1000$), an 8 ounce ruby and emerald (500$), wand (250$) 5 fire potions (250$) and the old sword fragment.

At around 5:00 PM, they found the prince and a huge mob of anise were around them. Oddly all of them were red and purple. They drew their axes, swords, and other weapons. Suddenly, there was a huge BANG! There was fire everywhere and it wasn't coming from the reds. A huge 6-foot blue and green demon with one arm and a sword for the other came out of the fire. He raised one hand and 1 singular crystal appeared. Then in a flash and millions of crystal shards came out of his palm. Almost all who were hit by the crystals were turned blue and froze. After that they turned transparent and crystallized. The demon suddenly took his sword and swung it horizontally and in a blink of an eye, the crystal broke out in a brilliant black flame and when the fire simmered down all that was left was the prince, sprawled out on the ground clothes scattered around. Amber and Xion grabbed the prince and ran before soldiers came.

Soldiers close behind; they threw a fire potion to stop the chase. They found refuge from the soldiers and the night in a cave. But, before anyone knew what was going on there was a gigantic, black hydra. Amber and Xion stood in front of the prince. Its three heads started fighting with each other for food and after one head got bit off it just feasted on its own head and went back into the darkness of the cave. "That was a relief," said Amber. "I thought I might have to fight."

After they got to snake valley they found the familiar snakes. The prince was still unconscious after 9 days or so. "All we can do now is wait." Said Kong, the wizard of snake valley. "I've tried every rejuvenating spell, anti spell, and every other spell, including my frog-killing spell."

Xion spent most of his time looking at the tablet, playing with his phoenixes, and looking at the blue feather. He was looking at the feather one day and saw it emitting a strange aura. The tablet, while he was looking at it, suddenly, a large blue feather appeared on the ground, and a large emerald on the sword.

On the 15th day the royal family proclaimed the prince dead. They dressed him in royal armor and had a public ceremony. At the end of the service everyone said their thanks and gave gifts for the burial. The soldiers gave swords, the museum gave an old coin and key, and Amber gave a fire potion. But when it was Xion's turn to give a present, he gave the rarest thing he had, the blue feather. As he set the feather on his body, there was a flash of light; the prince opened his eyes. He then sat up and looked around. Everyone was looking above him. He looked up with them. A huge demon was hovering over him with his eyes locked shut. He then uttered something. He repeated it a little louder "I'm out." He repeated it over and over. "I'm here, out of the prince. I'm free." Then the demon slowly dissolved into the air. Everyone was silent, even when everybody left.

That night everything stopped. Nothing moved. The only thing Xion could think about was the demon. Its name was Polo, one of the three great demons. Two of the three were children of Satan, the third was a guard and spawn of the crystals of life. All Xion could think of is what will happen in the name of the fallen son.

Xion woke up to a loud voice. "XION WAKE UP!" said Amber "Guess what I did! I signed up for a magic apprenticeship with Kong! I've already learned three spells." Xion still in a daze replied "yea? Which ones?" "An entrapment spell called bubble, a healing spell called chakaru, and a frog killing spell. but . do you have your sword? " "No, why?" "So you can get out of the bubble around your bed."

So after a minute or two the bubble exploded. "Oh yea, the prince wants you."

As he got to the palace Xion was meet by a familiar face, Orion, the cute and fluffy manacore. "Mew!" said Orion before jumping on him, then proceeding licking him. "Your out of your cage? Did they trim your wings today?" Xion whispered "mew."

"Sorry for the inconvenience of consecutive missions" said the prince "but I now have a interest in a old legend. The tale is that there's a temple out in the jungle. A demon once had a treasure there.... I want it". "ok" said Xion. "Can I get some gold for the trip?" "Yes, fine go quickly though. And bring the treasure. Ohhh yea, can I keep the feather for a while? It may useful in the future."

As he was trying to find his way through the mazes of shrubs, weeds and trees, he had a slight tug on the sheath of his sword. He looked down. His sword was pulling him towards the temple wall. He went through the first set of doors only to see 44 jade skeletons against the walls and a large green door. Weapons were scattered all over the place. He went further in and saw that the devil himself created this place. The engravings told of the creation of the temple, was a ruler of men, was sealed . then the wall was damaged.

He opened the door to a gruesome scene, it almost made him throw up. Bodies scattered through out the room. Some were complete, some not. Some had legs, arm and even heads missing. And in the center of the room stood a menacing, large emerald armor, with a huge double hand sword. The armor had spikes jutting off the shoulders, elbows and back. Xion stepped into the chamber and suddenly the emerald armors eyeholes turned yellow.

The armor raised its sword and quickly slashed horizontally, just missing Xion. Xion drew his sword. The armor slashed at him again, hitting one of the bloody bodies. Xion got up behind the armor and slashed the back of the armor. The shock of metal to metal was too great. He dropped to the floor breathing heavily. He raised up his arms and a huge blue flame came out the mid section of the armor. Its eyes turned a brownish black and all of a sudden every piece dropped to the floor. And Xion saw what created the blue flame. A man with similar turquoise armor tore a large hole in the green's. In the eye holes of this suit of armor were a pair of large blue eyes. Then a large blue flame rose up and disappeared with both armors. Xion quickly got to his feet ran and opened the last door. He looked around and found books of ancient spells and a king's ransom in gold and jewels. One jewel particular drew his attention.

This jewel was a blue-gray color in light and in the dark it glows dark green. As he went through the chamber with the bodies and it turned a pale red, it shook out of his hands, onto the ground and still shook violently. As Xion left the temple he felt an odd sense of despair, like he missed something important.

When he got back Xion was sought out by the prince for another mission. This time to smooth things over with the Anise. This time go to the Shrine of Anise. "They won't kill you, on sight anyway." "The prince said. But before you go sleep a couple days. Take a load off."

When Xion was ready to go his sister asked if she could join him. Then she showed him her array of spells. "On my original 3 spells. there's 5 more now. Frog killing, chakaru and bubble are the ones you know. Now there's redwort, a spell that sends a red ball the size of a walnut at the enemy. The enemy will go through some pain as a big red bulb appears on the skin. The second is a sleeping spell and the next is an awakening. Shield and then fire are self-explanatory." Fine! Come, but we must be silent. You don't know what could pop out of the jungle."

As they walked to the shrine they started hear all kinds of noises. Xion and Amber stopped. Suddenly hundreds of anise surrounded them. All in battle armor, one opened his helmet. His facial veins pulsed with scarlet blood. "Good day to you. We lost our. uh way. We're going to snake valley. Please tell us the way face the consequences."

Amber reached in her pocket and took out her wand. She waved it and large ball of energy flew up and expanded from one side of the army to the other. The bubble shrank to the ground. All the men trapped inside, amber shut herself and Xion in a shield of energy and slowly walked through an opening Amber made and quickly closing it. A couple minutes went by and a huge rumble rang out. The bubble popped. But by this time Xion and amber were far enough not to be seen by the army. Or any other creature.

"We're at the shrine, finally." Said Xion under his breathe. As they walked in they were greeted by over 5 double-handed swords with the intent to kill. All the entities holding the swords had masks and body armor, which was undoubtedly cursed with a spell, held their position. The 2nd one from the center asked "what is the business of your with the emperor" Xion replied scared have to death "w-we came here on official business from our king. Please let us th-th-through.". They all looked at each other. "We must. He's been expecting them for a while." They pulled up there swords and suddenly disappeared without a trace.

As they cautiously walked down the hall there were pictures, tablets and statues of former residences and relatives. They got to a massive set of doors. They slowly opened and revealed a huge gold room with millions of rubies, diamonds, emeralds, and all other crystals. "Why are you here?" said the emperor. They looked behind themselves and saw two staircases. The staircases arced into one, where the emperor sat. He looked like he was decaying. But for what he was he looked good. He was almost three hundred years old and the last green anise left. "Well? What do you want? I need my rest." Said the last green blood. "Well say it. Tell me." " Well, sir we'd like to reiterate the truce with snake valley. The king doesn't understand why you aren't going for it." Xion told the ruler. "Have you read the truce, young one. It states that reds, purples, and oranges may not cross through the valley without permission of the snake valley king for they may harm the people. Only gold and silver bloods may pass. That means that if all gold and silver bloods went there'd be roughly about 2,600 anise able to go through your palace. That's one fourth of the population. Is that fair to us? No! We are not animals who attack without reason! Now leave me. Leave before my guards come."

As they walk home, fear pierced their hearts. All they can think of is what happens next.

The blue jewel turned red. Not light red but a deep, dark ruby. The stone sunk into his hand, almost as if it had been there all his life. In place of his nails grew long metal spikes. On the back of his hand he grew spikes all in rows up and down the back of his hand and fingers. His hand turned the blue misty color the stone was. The jewel was still partially exposed. Xion in shock slowly grabbed the stone and pulled. It released itself when Xion's hand touched it. Then on second thought he let it sink in once again.

His hand now pulsing with energy, Xion rammed his hand into the tree. The metal flew through the wood like it was butter. Amber turned around and saw Xion's hand and quickly tried to grab the stone from his hand. It wouldn't move. Amber looked at it once more and its demonic features disappeared. Amber decided that she was hallucinating and considered it nothing but an illusion. The last leg of this journey was almost over.

As they got to snake valley billowing smoke clouds appeared. As Amber and Xion saw them they rapidly ran to the village. They were greeted by the large force of anise they met earlier in the forest fighting the great demon, Polo. Purple bloods electrified their swords and tried to pound them into polo's skin. A huge thundering laugh came from Polo as he snapped his finger and lighting flew down from the heavens, striking down anise everywhere. The red blood Xion talked with rose up over the army and descended over the demon's head. A huge ball of fire hastily floating down and smacking polo's head which quickly exploded into flame. Polo became infuriated and a crystal formed in his hand. He forced it up into the sky and the red bloods carcass slowly fell to the ground and shattered.

Nothing worked against the great demon. Slowly but surly the demon killed all of the attacking army. Xion walked down to the demon, hand glowing, drew his sword. "Do you, a pitiful lone human, think you can destroy me. I, before your eyes destroyed an army of being more powerful than you'd hope to be. Yet you still think you can defeat me." Said the demon in a low, powerful voice. Xion stood sword in hand looking at the ground. "Fine, die with them." Polo created a crystal and quickly flung it at Xion. Xion dug in the ground and dropped the sword, and opened his hand. The demonic features rushed back onto it. Xion brought up his hand and snared it then destroyed it. Xion ran swiftly at Polo, brought up his hand and slammed it into his shoulder. Polo screamed with pain. Xion almost instantly was on the ground bleeding. Polo took his sword arm and was about to slam it into Xion's head when a voice from the silence like light comes through darkness. "Why are you here?" said the blue phoenix. "Who released you?" The blue phoenix asked. "Your f-f-feather." Said polo in a fearful quivering voice. Polo backed away from Xion then started trip over himself. The blue phoenix quickly turned into his armor form and grabbed the demon by his head. The demon cried in pain. A brightly colored crystal flew out of his head leaving puddles of brown blood everywhere. The crystal, glowing, started to turn green. The armor grabbed it and soon after sunk into his skin. The armor walked to Xion. "You stand in my way and I'll steal your soul too. Haahahahahahaha" the phoenix said that then vanished in blue flame. The fire was so bright and hot it knocked Xion out.

Xion woke up in the familiar castle hospital. Amber and Orion were hovering over him, healing wounds. "How are you?" asked Amber. "I saw the whole thing. What happened? What did he say?" "Nothing. I don't want to talk about it. How's the prince? What's going to happen?" replied Xion. The prince walked in and said "Well we would send you on one but you know. Shit happens. But, If you want to go though you can. But please take some guards, or better yet, Kong. We don't want our hero to die, do we? Or are you going to get yourself killed by another vicious bloodsucking demon like germane or tryst? Or maybe go after Satan himself?" Xion replied " no. I have to track one down first."

Days went by before he realized something. The temple in the forest could, must have at least one clue to where the demons are. After reporting to the prince that he'd be away for a few days, he took off. He realizing what he missed. The tablet in the museum. The tablet came from the temple. The tablet showed who destroyed Satan.

He opened the pair of double doors. Xion looked at the long forgotten language. He waved his hand and it turned into English. He read the tablets the first read:
Our master and savoir, destroyer of worlds has been destroyed himself. Almost all who tried have failed to obliterate our god. Few have killed him, but they become him in the end. This temple is for all who want to know about are god.

The second read:
Our god was either born from a god unknown, or was crystal born, like germane ancient protector of the crystal and its children. Death quickly comes to people trying to go into the mountain of the decease so we haven't been able ask.

The third read:
He instantly became the creating force of the world he created his race of demons by sacrificing half his crystal. Hundred were created. Three stood above the rest. Torrent, Polo, and Tryst. Polo and Tryst were brothers, so they slaughtered Torrent for absolute power. Torrent's crystal shard was never found. Polo and Trysts decided that all demons were threats and must be destroyed. Now after all the demons died Satan was both happy and disappointed. He created humans and ruled them for a while until the destruction of his first body. Now one thing stood in their way of power. Destroying everything else. I am the last one of a forgotten race long slaughtered. I am cursed to be half demon half race a dare not speak for they might her me. And nothing will stand in my way of killing polo, tryst, and eventually Satan h-

DAMN! Said Xion screaming into air. "I must find a way." Xion banged on the broken piece of the wall. The wall fell to reveal another pair of doors. Inside he found the most beautiful stone he ever saw. A trianglar fire red ruby taller than he was. The stone was mounted on the ground. Inside was a creature. It was pure green with butterfly like features. the creature had eyes on his wings, abdomen, and legs. "You like what you see?" asked a dark figure in the dark. "My father killed one crystal born so far. He looking to kill the first now." revealing himself to be tryst. "He's come here many times to destroy me and take his shard back." Tryst had four arms and had a blue-white hue. His face had ears, nose, mouth, no eyes, and had two horns on top of his head. "Have you come to destroy me?" before Xion could answer tryst said, " Yes, you have, but why? For glory? Power maybe? Well, better power with you than with father. give my shard to germane. He lives in the far above the Anise City in the mountain. I found my why in the dark. hahaha. Hold up my stone and germane won't kill you." And faster than Xion could see he grabbed his head with all four arms and lifted it of, leaving nothing but a stump of a body and a diamond like jewel at his feet.

As Xion walked to the mountain he watched as wildlife slowly disappeared. The wild finches and their sounds slowly faded away in the distance. His body aching, he finally got to the mountain. Xion looked around the barren land and saw nothing but ash and rock. Around the mountain were large boulders, each the same distance apart from the next. On top of the mountain a large cavern. A feeling of doom loomed over it.

As he stood at the entrance he heeded tryst words. He took the
stone out of his pocket and raised it over his head. The cave lit up. 6
large crystal similar to the one he saw in the temple. Then a huge
centaurian like beast with huge lobster claws, scorpion tale, and a
huge glaring red eye on its back came rushing At Xion. "Why are you
here?" the monstrous creature said.

"Ar-are you germane?" said Xion. "Yes," said germane in a powerful voice. "Why have you come? You came to give me tryst stone? Ahh. Then give it to me." Xion dropped the stone into germane's claw. "How do I do that? Do what? Oh, read your mind? Not sure. Humans are just easy I guess. But the other question I can answer. These crystals are my brethren. When they hatch from there crystal shell the have the power to create living beings. See that one? Germane points to a large shaking purple gem. "That's the one that's going to hatch the soonest. Maybe day's. Or years. Now speak. And stop thinking about that." "Um. can you guys die? I mean crystal borns." "Yes, but only at the hand of each other. But we could be captured for all eternity with this cool stone. Look, it's shiny. Here take it. And just for bringing the other shiny gem, here's one of my shards." "What are shards? And what do the have to do with that crystal from trysts head?" "Us crystal borns create using our shells. I created the anise kind with mine. That crystal came from my first creation. Thought he was an equal. Showed him. Moron. But the less crystal you have, the less power. And why are you here? I mean, why are you still here? Go! Go go! Wait. here." Germane grabbed the sword and stones and quickly fused them together. "Now go!"

While he was walking towards snake valley he unsheathed his sword
And gazed at its beauty. Thousands of beautiful sparkles glittered around the diamond. His stomach started to flutter. He's demon hand grew red and suddenly grabbed the sword. He surprised by the reaction. He was even more surprised by the result. His flesh melded into a cone around the metal handle. The flutter in his stomach exploded all through his body. He started screaming until he realized it felt good. Better than he ever felt before.

A scream broke the deafening silence. Xion looked up from the
gleaming sword and saw thousands of the slaughtered of his villagers.
He stood in awe as he saw friends, family, blood, death and torture.
He searched thoroughly through the mounds bodies. Under a large man he
found her. He found Amber, drenched in her and many others. A nasty
wound to her throat suffocated her.

He held back tears as he ran to the castle. He's duties were to
the prince not to amber. He ran as fast as his legs would take him. But
at the when he got their he had more of the same. He ran to the
prince's chambers. There in the chambers were the prince holding a huge
metal sword, yet he swung the sword with great ease. The blue armor
grabbed the prince by the head and slammed it into the ground. The
prince got up, without a scratch. "Satan.." "Humph. Must you always
take the hard way? Fine! Be killed by your creator!" the prince stopped
in his tracks. His eyes and mouth glowed red. Blue fire burst from
within. His body fell to the ground and soon burnt to ash.

As Xion looked up to see the killer, the familiar blue
flame soon arisen from the ground. As of this moment he knew there was
only one thing he could to do. Kill Satan was the only thing on his
mind, and that's what he must do. It's important to the sequel.

After months of tracking Xion found Satan in a cave similar to
germane's. "Satan. Why do you torment your creatures? Is it fun to you?
Is that a game to you? Create and destroy? You killed-" Xion was cut
off in mid sentence. "Kill? What have I done? I've been in this cave
for years. I've been in here as punishment for killing Satan himself.
Nobody has ever come to see me. Ever." Said a kind friendly voice that
reminded him of his sister. " He turned me into this. He gave me power
to equal his. He tried to destroy me. And in the end I won. then I was
forgotten

A glazed over gold mask appeared. Eyes burned from the inside.
Out of the darkness came its face. " The light burns. The sun likes to
torment me. My eyes can't take it. Why have you come?" Xion looked
around. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the blue armor. "Is that
yours? I'm searching for someone who has armor just like that on-" Why
do you torment me? Why can't I live in peace? I'm so sorry."

" Mwaahahahahaha!" said the beast in a sinister voice. Three colored
lights glowed through the darkness. The creature came out of the
blackness of the cave. Three great eyes appeared each on long, thick,
20 feet appendages shinning brightly in a hypnotic sort of way. The
appendages were attached to a large semi circular body with five spider
like legs. "I torment you because I can. Because you are weak and you
need to be strong. You all need to suffer to become strong. And as long
as I'm here I will see to it. As for you." Satan looked around and
couldn't see anyone. "Talking to yourself again? Pathetic" Satan then
had a small twinge in the back of his neck. Then the beast collapsed.
Xion stabbed the beast through the back of its head and exit through
its mouth

Clouds of blue smoke filled the cavern. A shadowy figure
appeared and quickly rushed into his mouth. He couldn't breath. He
fainted.

He woke up. After years he finally woke up. He looked around and
all he saw from one side of the land to the other was char and flame.
His body a mess of scars. He realized that he did this he alone
conquered the beast that killed everything he loved, but he destroyed
everything else in the process. He remembered thousands of faces,
bodies, and battles. He thought nothing existed beside himself. He
dropped to his knees and wept. He brought up his blade, swung back his
sword and cut his neck. His head on the ground, blood splattered, his
body slowly sunk to the ground. If only he saw the hatched born far
above.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------
Lets recap. Satan was trapped in a jewel on a sword for all
eternity, Xion dyed by suicide (not to mention thousands of murders in
his name), so he's a demented spirit ghost thing, and a new crystal
born has hatched to create more. I smell a sequel. Here's the new story
line for the sequel. You can review if you want. If not that's ok. I
can never think of anything to say on reviews either.

Prologue

"Ow!" replied a young boy, tripping over a tree into mud. He rolled over in a pathetic attempt to get up. He pulled on something to getup. The thing fell loose next to her. The boy got smarter and grabbed a branch from a growing tree. He brought the thing and himself onto dry ground. He looked at the thing and scrubbed some dirt off. It was a blade. With stones that glitter like the night sky.

After years of peace, a boy finds a sword.