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Kasawa Lanford:
Chapter 5Journeys Begun
Mado - Window
Kara - of
doji ni - time
shoyu suru - possess
kusari - tether (chain)
ori - cage


"So," Kastin spoke up. "How far is the castle?"

Rika stopped and looked around. "A good two days walking." she said. Kastin nodded and continued walking. He was still wearing his uniform, but it was slightly different in color, it was also a lot heavier now. He also had a belt on which his sword was attached her. "This earring seems to have a mind of it's own, seems to know when I'm not near the academy and when I'm out here"

She nodded."Your sister told me she was already starting up a new academy on another world. I sent the specs of that earring to her, she hopes to enhance it."

"What dimension is she building the new academy in?"

"Omega 9" Rika said and looked around

"Starocean? Interesting... I thought we locked that dimension after my two kids had a run of a mock in it?" Kastin said in a curious tone

Rika glanced over her shoulder. "You did, but apperently there's another one in the same node."

The group walked through a dense part of the forest, a waterfall could be heard in the distence and the smell told both of them that it was fresh water. "How about we camp near the waterfall?"

"Sounds fine to me." Kastin said as they both sat down. Rika took out a small capsule and was about to use it when Kastin spoke up. "INF Protocal forbids the use of that type of technology in this world." Rika smiled. "That may be true, but you yourself already violated that same protocal when you made contact with these people"

He snarled; she was right, but did he have a choice? "So, you here to lecture me?"

"Nope." Rika gathered some wood and set up a tent. After the first one she set up a second one for Kastin. "I'm going to bath, so watch the are for me ok?" Kastin said

Rika nodded and follow Kastin to the waterfall. He took off his cloths and went in, all the while Rika was observing the area; making sure no bandits where near by but as she expected there was some near by apperently from the same group. "Kal"

Kastin stopped and glanced at her. "What is it?"

"We got company...." Rika said as tightened her grip on her staff

He sighed. "Again?" Kastin got up out of the water. The earring pulsed and his clothing reappeared on him, along with his sword. He jumped out of the water and landed on a near by rock

Six men appeared from he forest, two of them carried swords while the rest had axes. "Worm...." one of them said. "You'll pay for killing our master!"

Kastin shook his head. "I guess it's only natural that killing is common place in this world." He said with folded arms. The wind blew through the forest, no one outside could hear what was happening, but both of them knew what had happened

Next Day

"Did you have to pin them under that water fall like that?" Kastin said while his hands where clasped behind his head

"They smelled. So I felt they needed a bath." Rika looked around while thinking about that fight. Her ears where listening to the birds chirping in the distance. "I also noticed you had some of your magic back"

He smiled. "Some of it... but not all of it." Kastin said with a sigh. "Simple defensive spells are all I can cast it seems still."

"Be thankful you can cast any." Rika said with a nod. "We'll be passing through an industrial town, they don't normally allow kid's because of all the heavy machinery there. So stay close to me and you should be fine."

"Hai....."

The group came across that very town. A guard at the gate stopped them, "No children are allowed in here unless there guardiens or parents reside here." the guard spoke in a harsh tone

Rika dug her hand into her side pocket and pulled out a seal, which caused the guard to take a 'gulp' and step aside. "Next time you speak to a Magi in such a harsh tone, I'll do to you what I did to some bandits not to long ago." Rika said, this time in a harsh tone.

The guard nodded and opened the gates. The two of them walked into the village and the smell almost caused Kastin to gag, Rika took a hankerchief and handed it to him. "The smell our probably not used to. Being here for a couple years kinda makes you get used to it."

He put the cloth over his mouth and nose. "I wouldn't have to worry about it if i had my blasted magic." Kastin retorted. The group walked through the middle part of town, but it was the silence that bothered Rika the most. "Whats wrong?" he asked

Her eye's where darting from left to right and that worried him. "There are no guards here, thats not normal. I usually see about six or seven guards walking around."

"Normal?" Kastin sounded confused. "The town doesn't allow children remember? However they do have kids sneak in from time to time." she said as they came across a wide open expanse, thats when they saw where those guards where, along with most of the townsfolk. There lined up against a wall where ten people, or rather, children. Blind folded and tied to stacks

"Whats the meaning of this?!" Rika spoke in a loud tone to the commanding guard. "Release them at once..."

The commander there looked at her. "And who the heck are you?"

"2nd Class Magi from the Holy City of Cora," Rika spoke up. "Now, release them."

"Mado kara doji ni"

"Unless you bring with you a 1st class Magi, I'm not listening. For you have no jurisdiction in this area"

"shoyu suru"

"I ORDER you to release them NOW... by order from the holy city, if you disobey my order I am authorized to use force." Rika took a stance in front of the commander, neither of which noticed the glowing green light that encircled Kastin's body

"kusari"

"Remove yourself child! I don't take orders from children." The commander took out his sword

"ori...."

A green light blinded the inhabitants of the town, as the ligth died down. The commander, along with his subordinants, where frozen in time. Rika stared at him for a second, he may be frozen, but he could still look around. Kastin walked toward. "Idiot." he said to the commander and walked toward those who had been tied up, and freed them, the kids nodded in thanks and took off, most running toward the gate while the others ran to there parents. Upon seeing that it became pretty obvious what was really going on. "So, you tie them up, and accuse some of them of breaking the law, where in fact they hadn't" Rika said with folded arms

He could see the commander was trying his hardest to get out of that hold. "Dont' struggle, it just makes the cage hold you further." he said, even though he had some of his magic left it still wasn't going to be enough to hold him there and already he was getting tired

Rika must've noticed, cause she was already heading toward the exit. "We have nothing else to do here, I'll just report what this idiot did to the queen when we get to the holy city." Kastin nodded and snapped his fingers, the cage's shattered and the commander, along with his men, where able to move now

Death must've been on this commanders mind. Cause he instantly charged Kastin, probably thinking he would be easy pray. But a spin on the hell and a punch to the gut proved that he wasn't an easy target, the man fell to the ground cluthing his chest. "How.. can a child... have so much streangth...." the man said

Kastin just grinned and followed Rika out of town. "Where shall we stay?" he asked her. "How about we just keep walking, it was a mistake actually to enter that town. It may be industrial, but they don't take to kindly to children. Even there own"

"And it doesn't help that my clothing represents a grade schooler from Kibou city." Kastin sighed, wanting to take it off and put something else on. But he didn't really have that option.

"Actually, did you notice that no kids in that town had that earring?" Rika asked

Kastin blinked. "Your right, why is that?"

"Because the town is rebelious, the queen ordered that all children, from age seven and up, where to attend Kibou Academy. But that town spoke against her and said they weren't sending there children to that school." Rika rubbed her arm, it was sore due to that little skirmish

"Any idea's why?" Kastin asked

"Nope." Rika sighed. "Only that they don't like kids, espically grade schoolers for some reason. Grade Schoolers are children just like you and I"

"It MIGHT be that us 'grade schoolers' are smarter than those taught at home. We have better access to reading material, plus where taught how to weild a sword and magic" Kastin said.

"My.. you sound as if you've attended that Academy all your life." Her eye's where narrowed, as if in a sarcastic manner

"Rika, I've been living the life of a child for over 900 hundred years remember? When ever we enter a dimension, my sister tends to put us in a grade school because she believe's it's easier to hide out."

"What do you think?" Rika asked

"I still believe if we put our selves in a high school it'll be equally as easy, but I see her point. No one would suspect a child of having such abilitys as magic and swordsmenship skills." Kastin said with his hands clasped in front of him. "Where to next?" He asked

"We have four more towns to go through, the next one is more friendly toward us." Riak said. Kastin couldn't help but wonder. Was it the fact that she was a Magi to be the REAL reason that town was against them? Not because they where, basically, kids?

Kasawa Lanford:
Chapter 6Arrival

Kastin and Rika had gone through two towns already, one was the industrial city located not far from Kibou. Another was a small sea side town that handled imports and exports from this kingdom to the next

The two of them had been on the road for over two days now, stopping here and there for food and water, but the most painful of the adventure was the pain that Kastin was feeling. It had grown even worse now due to no treatment of the wound. Over those two days Kastin had managed to get back some of his magical abilitys, being able to cast mosto f the simple spells, as well as time stopping spells just to name a few

"How are you feeling?" Rika asked as she took a bit out of her food

His face was grim, and Rika could tell he was in immense pain. "I'm ok...." he said while taking in some water. "How much further?"

"Just over that hill there." She pointed at mighty big hill, which should've really been a mountain considering it was more rocky than a hill. "Ok... make that a mountain." she corrected herself

Kastin smiled briefly and got up. "Come on, we need to get going." he said as he stepped a few feet, then collasped. Rika moved and caught him, noticing that he had passed out, mostly from the pain. She put him over her shoulder and began to walk, she felt something roll down her shoulder and checked, it was blood and more than likely from Kastins chest wound

She hiked up the trail for a few hour's before finally stopping. She was tired and carrying Kastin was even more tiring, it was also stressful to. She laid him up against a rock, and took out a pack of food from a pocket dimension; she then began to heat it up and once satisfied she started eating. She couldn't figure out what it was that was effecting Kastin so baddly. Even without their magic power's they're bodys where reinforced to withstand disease's and other foreign elements

That night went by with no problems. Although some moaning could be heard, she was able to sleep. The next morning it was raining, a thunderstorm had arrived in the mountain area. She was tired of dealing with the weather, but couldn't fight it. She looked at Kastin. "Are you awake?" she asked, but got no answer. She checked his pulse, it was very weak, in fact, if he was a normal human he'd probably be dead right now

She lifted him up and over her shoulder again, and started down the mountain. A smile came over her when she saw the enormous wall that streachs for miles on end. Within the wall was the Holy City of Cora. It was an enormous city, and technologically advanced. That was evident by the wall mounted weapon systems. "Strange how those outside this city use swords and shields, yet the wall had laser cannons and such." She shook her head and approuched the gates. A magi guard glanced at her and noticed she was carrying someone. "Get me a straight line to the castle," she ordered. The guard nodded and opened the doors

Rika ran down the streets of the Holy City, people glanced at her from time to time, she rounded one corner, then another and another and finally came upon the castle. The doors already open she rushed in. Two Magi Doctors where already there, apperently someone had already informed them. The two doctors took Kastin and brought him into some room, Rika couldn't go with them so she stayed behind

"Mistress Rika." Came a voice from behind her

"Ah! 1st Class Fikan," Rika bowed, "how are you?"

"I'm fine thank you, I see you found someone who needed some help." Fikan said

"Hai, I found him in the Kibou village. He was already in a lot of pain, apperently no one there could help him and he must not have known about our facilitys here. So I brought him here in hopes we could help him." Rika said was she rubbed her arm again. "Although, with the way he collasped back there in the mountain, I fear it might be to late"

Fikan shook his head. "he'll be fine. We have a more pressing matter, can you please come with me." he said and walked toward the stairs. "There's something we must disguss with the other Magi"

"Huh? Um... sure" Rika ran and caught up with the Magi Master. Something was telling her she wouldn't like what was about to happen

Kasawa Lanford:
Chapter 7Death Blossum

Rika was sitting naer the master, the table was big, and roughly thirty people sat there; wondering what the meeting was about

"We have to act." One of the magi's spoke, breaking the silence that had loomed for over three hours

"But how?" another magi said as she twirled a key around her finger. "We have very few Magi, not enough to stop a whole army"

Another magi stood up and began to address the other magi. "But we can't just sit here on our butts doing nothing. Already I've received a report that Kibou Town was attacked"

Some moans and shourts of surprise could be heard. Kibou town was considered a sacred place. It was the only town that held the Academy of Magi Arts, or, 'Kibou Academy'

"How many died?" another magi said with clasped hands, his head was leaning on his clasps hand

"over seven hundred, don't forget. That town had 340 children, we have no reports that any got out." A soldier reported. "The academy itself was left in ruins, the most unfortant part though was that we can't reroute the teleport rings which-"

"-Means any of the students unware of the attack will teleport right into the middle of that mess." Another soldier finished the report

The Magi's all sat there thinking. "There has to be something we can do."

"About the teleport? Or about the enemy?" Another Magi spoke up

"Both." A magi said

Rika sat there, she was feeling kinda small, considering the other Magi where a lot older than she was. "Um," she spoke, "Why not just send an exhibition to Kibou, and see if anyone survived?"

"Thats not a bad idea," One of the magi said, "We'll send one Master and a few apprentice's along with her."

"Why so few?" Rika asked

"We need to keep the majority of apprentices who do have experience here to help protect the other towns. I want you, Rika, to go with Master Sharia." The Magi Master said

"Ok" Rika said

"You brought a kid in right?" The same Magi asked

"Uh huh, his name is Kastin. He's an eleveen year old from Kibou town. Apperently he was found some miles from the town a couple days ago, the doctor nursed him back to health and he was taken in by a family there. He has an.... unuasl about of magical powers, which makes me believe he may be able to be a Magi." Rika said

"But he's just a child.... a grade schooler for christ sake" A snooty Magi said

Rika glared at him. "I'm only ten... your point?"

"Well.... uhh...."

She grinned. "The only reason he's was a grade schooler was because the town didn't KNOW of his unique magical properitys, if we had scouted him out sooner; he'd have been brought here to the castle and raised here"

The snooty magi was annoyed; apperently he didn't like being bested by a kid. "You have a point. Where is this 'kid' anyway?"

"Being treated by some of our doctors." A soldier said

"Why?"

"Because he was infected with a disease, rather rare to be honest but life threatening none the less." The doctor who was treating Kastin said as he walked in. "He'll be fine, although it's best if he doesn't use his magic for awhile."

Kastin was behind him, he poked his head out. "Good Evening." he said and stepped out from the doctor

"This is akward, but I felt I should introduce him." The doctor said. "His name's Kastin Dragon, He's 11 year's old and has a lot of magical powers. In fact, we almost blew up the medical ward." the doctor looked a little sheepish when he said that

One of the Magi grinned. "That must've been the small tremor we felt an hour ago"

The doctor had his finger near his chin then nodded. "Yep, that would be correct."

The other Magi's shook here head. "Please take a seat then Kastin." the head Magi said

Kastin nodded and took his seat near Rika. "So, what are we to do about the invading army?" one of the magi continue the discussion

"Kibou's gone. The industrial town near there might be gone in a matter of hours, I say after we send in the exhibition, we should also send in an assault team." Another Magi said

The meeting continued uninterrupted for the next five hours. Most of them agree'd to assault the Empire of Khlania, the ones responsible for the assault on there sacred realm

Kastin was walking through the castle's many hallways. Inside he was thinking about what to do, outside though he was acting more his age; again, he didn't want to set off any warning bells. "This is a nicely built place," he said to himself, "I wonder how long it took them." he stopped in front a window and hoped up onto it's sill, looking out over the sacred city and it's majestic beauty. "Kawaii...." he said as he looked out. It seemed this Kingdom always had rain, cause it was raining again and the ran smelled very good

He jumped down from the sill. He landed on the ground and looked around, someone was watching him and he could feel it, no doubt one of the Magi's where following him. He grinned and walked around one of the corners, vanishing a second later; like he had suspected a Magi rounded that corner and looked around. "I just SAW him.. where'd he disappear to?!"

Kastin reappeared behind the Magi. "Looking for someone?" he said

The Magi jumped, literally, five feet high. "H-how'd you do that?"

He smiled. "One of my abilitys."

"Didn't the doctor tell you not to use our magic?" The Magi asked with both arms folded

Kastin turned around, his arms clasped behind his back, he skipped down the hallway then stopped. "That ability doesn't require magic," he said and then smiled and ran down the hallway

The Magi shook his head. "He seems strong and intelligent, but acts childish... how could HE ever be a Magi..."

Kastin rounded the corner and went up the stairs, having ran up several flights he soon found himself on the roof. The rain pelted his face and washed away the blood that was still on it, apperently from his ordeal the day before. He walked over to the edge of the roof. "This city if very majestic, makes me wonder how we haven't made an agreement with them." he said

"Perhaps because they don't possess warp technology?" Rika said from behind him

He closed his eyes and smiled. "Good point, that WOULD be a problem" he turned on his heels and stared at her crimson eyes. "Still though," he glanced over his shoulder, "we can't let this kingdom fall, nor can we let the Holy Cora be destroyed."

"You think if this kingdom falls, it'll mean the destruction of this dimension?" She asked him. "I thought that wasn't possible? That only KEY people had to be killed, and those key people could very well be year's, hunreds, maybe thousands, from appearing."

"Your forgetting." Kastin said

"Huh?"

"The dimension is currently in sync, the only way our teleport could've missed our intended destinaton, was if this dimension was to become synced with the teleport route." Kastin said in a rather technological matter, making it a little confusing for Rika to understand

He shook his head. "I don't expect you to understand"

"I guess in this case the Magi are right. You and your sister recruited me from my world ten years ago, yet in another year I'll have to return to Dyhokan Academy to continue my education." she said

He smiled. "Once the new Academy is built, it'll be better than the old." he said and turned right back to her. "Where's our master?"

"Sharia?" she said. "She said to get a nights rest and we'll start our journey BACK to Kibou tomorrow."

He nodded. "Do I have to keep wearing this thing?" he gestured to his academy uniform

"The Magi's think it's best to keep that on."

"Why? It's makes people think I'm a -" Kastin complained

"I know, but we can actually use it to our advantage." Rika said with a grin. "You see... our enemy doesn't kill women or children, well, they take children who aren't apart of that acadamy."

"Why?" Kastin asked

"Because, those who aren't apart of that Academy are beleaved to be outcasts, at least in there opinion. More than likely all the students there where taken to a labor camp and are working. I think we can use your uniform and your looks to find them." She grinned at him

He waved his hands at her. "Oh no! You are NOT going to use me as bait!" he said

She giggled. "I'm not, but the master magi might. Just don't worry about it for now ok?"

"Fine." Kastin said and walked over to the stairs. "Shall we get going? It is night."

"Yep." the two of them made there way down a few levels of the castle, and found there rooms. Kastin's room was just like Rika's, it was made for studying. "Remind me when I get back to my sister, to have us redecorate the house..." he said

Rika nodded. "Lets just get some rest, talk to you tomorrow." She said and closed her door. He nodded and closed his door

Kasawa Lanford:
Chapter 8Kidnapped

Kastin awoke to a storm outside, it was rather windy, he could tell more so because of the window blinds that kept blowing away from the window itself. "Another ugly day." He said as he streached his arms and let them pay by his side, his night clothing changed back to his uniform and he walked out of the room. He made his way down the stairs and to the front of the building, there he found Rika who was sitting on the steps, watching the rain and lightning

"Enjoying yourself?" Kastin said with both hands clasped behind his back, a smile on his face

"I am," Rika said without looking at him, "it's because of the other Magi is why we have this weather, it helps keep the enemy at bay."

"You mean they can force the weather to strike anywhere?" Kastin asked

"Yep." Rika responded and got up. "Master Sharia is waiting for us at the gate, lets get going." she said and took off in a sprint through the rain

He smiled and ran after her, the rain felt nice to his skin, and it made him wake up. As they approuched the gate he saw there Master standing there impatiantly

"Took you two long enough, just because your kids doesn't mean you should sleep late." She said while tapping her foot

"Sorry." The two said in unison

She gestured for them to follow her and they left the city on horse back. They went through the two towns that lead the path to Kibou, both towns where deserted, made sense considering the enemy was near by. As they approuched Kibou they could see the flames still rising from destroyed buildings and tree's set to flame, Kastin's stomach turned; he had seen this type of act before and he wasn't liking it. The type of flame being used wasn't native to this world, and he worried about what there enemy might be.

"Spread out, see if you can find any survivors." Master Sharia said as she headed toward the destroyed Academy building.

The two of them nodded and split up. Kastin headed toward the building where Dr. Akita had been in. As he walked through he found a few bodys, nine children, and the Dr. himself, he turned away, the smell was unbearable and he quickly left the building. Rika was just walking up to it when he came out. "Bodys?"

"Yea..." he said as he cleared his lungs and nose. "Nine children, the Dr. is also dead."

Rika slammed her balled up fist into her palm. "Freaks... they kill innocents for no reason, but why those kids?"

"Before I left my earring glows red, which if I recall, mean't there was something in the air there. It's possible our enemy didn't kill them at all." Kastin glanced about before moving in the direction of the Academy. "Lets go see what Master Sharia found"

The two of them searched the Academy, it took them about thirty minutes to find there Master, who was on the roof, or what remained of it. She was looking out over the dead plains. "There." she said and pointed to a clearing to the north. "A labor camp, looks like there building siege equipment."

Kastin took out his binocs and peered through them. "There also using children and other adults from this town" he said. "It's to heavily defended, no way we can get in through the front."

There master nodded. "Which is why YOU will get in." she smiled at him

He glared at her. "How?"

"Your Uniform will tell them that you came from this academy, they always do raids against this school for children, they kidnap them and then try and brainwash them, often times doesn't work, but the students at this academy are very strong physically, but again, there just kids, they can't stand that much punishment." Sharia said and turned to Kastin.

He looked at her. "And how am I suppose to get there attention?" he asked, that proved to be a mistake, because Sharia grinned and slashed the ground with a power blade made out of magical energy, the ground broke apart and he fell to the 1st floor, instantly being covered in debris. "BLAST HER!" he yelled

Sharia nodded and both her and Rika vanished, reappearing not from the academy, but not close enough to be sighted by there enemy

Kastin struggled to get himself out from under the debris. As he began to succeed he hard voices, they where muffled, he also heard footsteps; it didnt' take long for him to know where both came from. There in the doorway where four men, clad in armor. One of the men walked over to him, "Yea.. he's one of them." the man said

"Get him out of there and lets take him back to the camp." another said

The other two men nodded and dog him out, then tied his wrists. "Your coming with us." one of the men said in a harsh voice, then hit him with some sort of baton, a shock surged through his body and instantly made him collasps, he got up and snarled at his captors, who just grinned back at him. "Boss will be pleased with this one, he seems to have some fight in him."

"Good, he may be of better use at base camp." The man said and took out a teleport ring. The group, along with Kastin, entered the teleport ring and they vanished. Before they did Kastin shook his head. This isn't going as planned and I have a bad feeling about this....

Kasawa Lanford:
Chapter 9Final Fight
Kuitomero - Stave
Kare - of
Sono - the (often not translated, this is a very ROUGH translation)
Ryu - Dragon
Watashi - I
Koko de - here
Ni yotte - by
Shokan Suru - Summon
No translation  - Thy
Kuru - Come
ni - to
Watashi No - My
Engo - Aid

Seki - Barrier
Kara - of
Hogo - Protection


Kastin sat there on the bed, they had beat him up rather well when he tried to escape the next before. He already had a broken arm, but his body was already healing itself. He didn't like the notion of killing for no reason, but already he was told he would either have to kill his opponant, or BE killed

His opponant yesterday was a kid from this empire's home city. The kid was bulky and had obviously been traning for years, "they use there own children for there entertainment pleasure." Kastin snarled at the thought. "Pathetic... Barberic." he said and watched as another contender was brought out from the put, blooded and broken, he could tell this person wasn't going to last much longer

He had another fight today, he was going up against another kid, wasn't as bulky but he could tell this kid would most likely put up a challenge. The other one didn't last long, although he didn't kill him like the rules implied, he only stunned the kid, but they killed him anyway. He walked out of the room, he was armed with a sword and shield. His magic was slightly dampened thanks to some crystals that where cuffed to him. These things are doing a fine job of perventing my use of fly and jump magic, but everything else works. Kastin said to himself. He wore the same thing he always did, apperently the one's responsible for this event wanted them to see just how 'tough' an academy student was, and he was proving to them that he was quite strong. As he entered the pit he could hear the crowd, it was an uproar of both 'boos' 'yays' and 'kill' which all three made him feel slightly annoyed. His opponant entered the pit a minute later, the crowd looked at him as if they didn't even care he was a child, which worried Kastin. The fight started and his opponant rushed him, he spun on his heels and slammed the back of his palm against the neck fo his opponant

His opponant hit the dirt, hard, and slid a few. "If you want to get out of his alive, don't fight me." Kastin said to his opponant, the kid just snarled at him and attacked, Kastin became careless and suffered a chest wound from the attack. He double backed, dropping his shield but still gripping the blade. A grin could be seen on his opponants face. As the kid rushed him, he got back up and swung, the kid stopped just inchs away from almost being decapitated. He fell backwards and Kastin put one knee on his chest, the blade up against his throat. Again he didn't kill the kid, he just got up off him and walked away; but apperently this time they weren't letting him leave without killing his opponant, this he was tired of. For three weeks he had to do this crud, and for three weeks he was getting quite tired of it. He had fought and not killed a single opponant, yet now it seemed he would have to break the barrier, but he had also been working on another means

The crystals that where around his arms where a dark red, which showed that they worked. But it seemed when he was calm and collected, the crystals whiched to a green glow, which he later found out ment they where not suppressing his power.  After a week he found out how to control the crystals behavior, even down to the point where he was able to make it 'seem' like they where working. And in this instance, they weren't working to surpress his power. He sighed and walke toward the kid, he placed his hand on his shoulder, and the kid vanished, all that remained where piles of ashes in this place. In reality, Kastin had sent the kid to another location, somewhere farway from here. In fact, he sent the kid to the Holy City of Cora, they would mostly know what to do with him

That night he slept, or rather tried, the other gladiators where drunk and singing, or rather, what could be 'considered' as singing. It was then that he heard it, a thump --- no --- more like a bang, a second later the whole room shook so violantly that he was thrown from his bed and onto the ground. He heard something going on outside the doors and walked over to it, he heard someone on the other end yell. "Get Back!" he did so and the door's exploded. There standing in the door way was Master Sharia, by her side was Rika, the girl wasn't wearing what she had wore those three weeks ago. "How'd you?"

"When you sent that kid to us, he told us where you where. You did him a good deed, considering he was one of our children stolen from one of the citys a couple years ago." Sharia helped him up off the ground. "Lets get going" she said. Kastin just nodded and followed. A large battle was raging outside the colloseum, mage's from the Holy City and soldiers clashed against each other, fighting one another and trying to kill the other, it was plainly obviously to him which side was winning. "We need to get going, there is something else here you don't know about." Kastin said as he ran through the streets. Sharia and Rika followed him, when they approuched the gate is when he felt.

He wanted to curse, but knew better than to in the presence of a kid, he snarled and burst the crystals, allowing his magic to run free. "Hi Tame!" he yelled and the gate exploded, they ran through the ashes, outside where hundreds, perhaps thousands, of soldiers from the Holy City, Mages that had started the fight inside summoned flight magic and flew away. It seemed very apperent to Kastin that they TO felt it. As he ran toward the soldiers he yelled - "EVERYONE! GET BACK!! RUN!!! " - the soldiers looked at each other, before Sharia had the same things at them, the whole trio of soldiers made an about face and ran away from the city. He could feel the heat rising from the ground and stopped. "Kastin!" Rika yelled

He looked at her. "Just go!"

"But!"

"GO!"

She had a tear in her eye, but closed them and continued to run. He smiled and turned arond. "Kuitomero kare sono Ryu-" he started off, his eye's closed, a pentogram appeared on the ground, glowing blue. "-watashi koko de ni yotte shokan suru thy-" the pentogram changed red and particles began to appear from the ground. "-kuru ni watashi engo!" he shouted. The sky split open as lightning shot out from the middle. A light spear headed it's way and into the ground. Kastin grabbed what was in the center and pulled it out. "Nice to see you again my friend." he said as he held his stave up high. The top part had the symbol of a dragon, the bottom was sharp, he slammed the bottom of the stave into the ground and went down on one knee

The sky erupted as something occured back at the town he had just been running away from. He could see the red hew that spread across the town and fastly approuched him

"Seki kara hogo" he said softly to himself. A barrier of pure energy appeared acround the entire city, and also around the mist that had already made it outside the city. A static electrical shock could be felt anywhere near the city; he felt it even more since he was the one keeping it in. He took a stance and raised his stave, it was held high. He swung forward and a massive amount of energy was released, the ground turned to liquad as his own power spread across the plains and toward the now contained town. He nodded to himself, the energy sepped into the containment area and began to defeat the mist. He knew it would take sometime for the mist to vanish, so he turned around, but before he could leave he felt another presence. He turned around and saw a man standing before him. "Children shouldnt' play with fire." the man said and fired a pulse of energy at him

He jumped back, avoiding the pulse, and landed on all fours. He reconized this person, "Chico.... and here I thought you where dead..."

Chico laughed. "It's taken me nine hundred years to finally find you." the man smiled at this. "I thought you'd be much older now, but apperently you still but a child."

Kastin just smiled back. He threw his hand aside and changed his apperence back to what it was originally suppose to be. "Luckily for you," he smiled," I have no changed a bit"

"Ahhhh... so there you are, Kalshion, and here I thought you had regressed."

"Nope," he said with both arms folded.

"Cocky fool you are." Chico said as he took a stance. "Now, you going to fight. Or shall I kill you now and get it over with"

Kalshion shook his head. "You just don't get it-" he took a stance "-do you?"

Chico just smiled, then lept forward

To be continued at a later time

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