The Rostical Guild - Sceldrant's Comet

by Michael Rogers

  Victoria: *She looked shocked and stared Cortax with a hesitant frown.* "Healing Monarchs?!"

  Ridley: (I was completely ignored-)

  Cortax: "Yes."

  Victoria: "But, we can't perform such a dance!"

  Cortax: "My wife will die if we don't try."

  Victoria: "I'll need to use my Ougi just as a stepping stone for us to use such a powerful technique."

  Ridley: (Wait a minute. A technique that two master dancers can't perform properly? Either, this technique is rivalled to the legendary Seraphic Gate, or, they have yet to master that particular move-)

  Victoria: "Ougi." *She formed a powerful stance and spread her arms, watching black tattoo-like markings appear all over her body.* "Sacrificial dance, unlock my entire being, Astral overload, Spirit Up."

  *Swirls of six different coloured glyphs spiralled around Cortax and Victoria, causing multi-coloured tattoo-like glyphs to appear on their bodies.*

  Ridley: (Those glyphs on their bodies are in colour? I know I should attack, but my researcher mind is far too curious to let a new technique go unseen.)

  Cortax: (Excellent. Vic's Ougi allows a simultaneous boost of all status attributes. This will allow us to activate the strongest known technique we've successfully performed-)

  Ridley: "I'm slightly worried, haha. Ougi, Daathic Nightwing." *Shadows moved like flames around him, slowly clustering into a gooey-like blob of darkness.*

  *Bones suddenly spewed out of the blob, as it slowly started to form a skeletal-like creature.*

  Cortax: *He looked at his hands, taking a deep breath of amazement.* (This power-)

  Victoria: "Brother."

  Cortax: *He quickly looked at Victoria and nodded his head.* "Ready."

  Victoria: "It will hinder its power, but we won't have time to perform the full dance or incantation!-" *She spoke in an urgent-like manner, nudging her head towards Elizabeth's motionless body.*

  Cortax: (I-I understand..)

  Victoria and Cortax: "Hi-Ougi." *They shouted in synchronisation and white light shrouded their bodies, catching Ridley's attention.*

  Ridley: *He squinted his eyes, as the light produced by Cortax and Victoria became brighter than the moon.* (What is that light? It's up to the point.. I can only see their silhouettes-)

  Victoria and Cortax: "Healing Monarchs."

  Ridley: "Tssk, attack them now!" *He shouted to the skeletal creature in front of him.*

  Nightwing: "Skee!" *Its bones cracked and shaped its entire body into a spear, suddenly blasting itself towards the shadowing of Cortax's body.*

  Ridley: (Excellent-) *He watched Cortax's silhouette break and scatter in the light, causing the Nightwing to scrape along the ground.*

  Nightwing: "Skee!" *It screeched in pain, as its body started to eat itself from the light it jumped through.*

  Ridley: *He frowned, listening to the Nightwing's fading screeches.* (It was destroyed merely by jumping through this technique's light?!)

  Cortax: *He was blinded by the surrounding light, listening to holy flap-like noises.* (Vic, you go after Elizabeth, I'll stay on the offensive.)

  Victoria: (Okay..)

  Ridley: *The light slowly faded, revealing four lights shaped as flapping butterflies.* "What the-?"

  Victoria: *Two butterflies flapped towards Elizabeth, each leaving white sparkling glitter behind them.* (With Cortax's ability to Hi-Ougi with no restriction of participants, and Elizabeth's ability to access Radiaton based Remenistal, Healing Monarchs has the potential to become the strongest known attack in history.)

  *The butterflies flapped over Elizabeth and gently touched her, causing sparkling rings of white light to visibly heal her wounds.*

  Ridley: (Radiatons?!) *He suddenly frowned in a jealous-like manner, focusing his attention to the butterflies above Elizabeth.*

  Cortax: (No you don't!) *Two butterflies of light flapped around Ridley.*

  Ridley: *He swayed his hand, hitting one of the butterflies away.* (That felt strange-)

  Cortax: (CRIMSON BEAM) *A fluoro red beam suddenly blasted out from one of the butterflies, burning into Ridley's flesh.*

  Ridley: "Ah! DEMONIC SIOVANCE" *He shouted with an echoing voice.*

  *A black spear shot up from a black glyph on the ground, violently piercing into Cortax's butterfly.*

  Cortax: (Argh!-) *The butterfly lost its light, revealing an orange and black butterfly, before disintegrating into nothing.*

  Victoria: *She continued to swarm around Elizabeth, slowly healing her wounds with each gentle touch.* (Cortax!)

  Cortax: (I'm fine!) *He flapped behind Ridley, readying to attack.* (It was smart splitting our power in two!)

  Karol: *He ran outside with half of the city and leant over a stone balcony, looking down to the courtyard in the distance.* (E-Everyone is fighting?!)

  *Trinity and Infinity held onto the balcony and looked into the distance, noticing Elizabeth on the ground.*

  Trinity: "Aunty is down."

  Infinity: "And down she is.." *She spoke in shock.*

  Karol: "Our parents are fighting.."

  Young Adult: "Why did they ask for our help?!" *He grunted to three other young men with a frown.*

  Woman: "To leave the younger generation protected."

  Young Adult: "Tssk." *He gritted his teeth, hesitantly nodding his head in understanding.*

  Lehi: *He slid towards Kath and swayed his arm, flicking a stream of high pressured water into the ground.* "Hah!"

  Kath: *She watched the water burst into the ground, listening to the ground crack in response.* "I believe it's time we finish this little ordeal, Ridley."

  Ridley: "This appalling behaviour on our part must stop."

  Kath: *She smirked and flashstepped next to Ridley, watching water shoot out of the ground where she stood.* "Time to terminate these dancers."

  Lehi: (Missed!-)

  Kath and Ridley: "Hi-Ougi."

  Victoria: (A Consultant levelled Hi-Ougi?!) *She suddenly hovered in the air, as if she was shocked by their announcement.*

  Woman: *She watched black flames take shape in front of Ridley and Kath, causing her to gasp with a dropping jaw.* "Everyone, back into the room now!" *She screamed in an urgent-like manner, catching everyone's attention.*

  Young Adult: "Why?"

  Woman: "My ability is able to sense people's Neurons! Get back in the room now!"

  Young Adult: *He nodded his head, quickly pushing the children back into the room they came from.* "Go, everyone!"

  Trinity: "But our parents!-"

  Karol: (Those Neurons... I-It's hard to breathe-) *He took short quick breaths before suddenly passing out.*

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  Kylie: "Who'd be dumb enough to leave the store open during the night of Sceldrant's Comet?" *She walked through the kitchen, noticing a ladder leading to the roof.*

  Luna: "Yea." *She reached into a large box of nuggets, chewing with her mouth closed.*

  Kerry-Anne: "They must be up there?" *She slurred her words, stumbling towards the ladder.*

  Luna: *She consumed another nugget and noticed the box was empty, causing her to angrily throw it on the floor.* (Why did I eat that?! I was hungry.. But, now I feel fat-)

  Kylie: "C'mon, Loonz." *She smirked and stopped at the ladder, implying Luna to go first.*

  Luna: "Why me?!"

  Kylie: "Your brother."

  Kerry-Anne: "Ya." *She smirked and hiccuped, quickly grabbing onto the ladder before she lost balance.*

  Luna: "Wateva." *She grunted and started to climb up the ladder, noticing her black hair sway in the outside breeze.*

  Kylie: "Wat's up there?" *She started to climb up the ladder, closely followed by Kerry-Anne.*

  Luna: *She discreetly poked her head outside, noticing everyone intensely staring at the sky.* (Everyone is here-)

  Rachael: "The sky is like a rainbow."

  Melinda: "It has something to do with the atmosphere, like in the poles."

  Ashton:
"Like in the poles?"

  Melinda: "Well, what we're looking at right now-"

  Lance: "Are colours in the sky-"

  Melinda: *She ignored Lance.* "Is the end result of the sunlight that has penetrated the Earth's gravitational barrier-"

  Lance: "Err, it ain't day? No sunlight."

  Melinda: "Well, I'm just letting you all know what I'm seeing with my own eyes right now-"

  Rachael: "Sorry to interrupt, Mel but what is this called? I remember your mum showing me pictures at your place."

  Melinda: "She dubs it The Aurora Skies. To sum things up, we should not be able to witness this from where we are."

  Tyler: "W-We shouldn't?" *He looked slightly nervous.*

  Twortz: "I underestimated this occurrence, it's very beautiful."

  *The comet glowed brighter and reacted with the air, causing rays of warped rainbows to scatter the air.*

  Ashton: "Looking at this, kind of makes you feel insignificant. Doesn't it?"

  *The party unintentionally ignored Ashton, as they continued to stare at the sky in awe.*

  Lance: (What is this feeling?)

  Luna: (I feel somethin'? It's coming from inside-?) *She looked down to her chest, frowning at herself with uncertainty.*

  *The stone started to glow the same colours as the sky, causing it to hum.*

  Rachael: "Does anyone else hear that?"

  *The stone suddenly shined as bright as the comet, instantly drawing the party's attention to the backpack.*

  Twortz: "What's in your bag-?"

  Luna: (No! My arms, they're getting weak-) *She sighed in thought and let go of the ladder, falling on top of Kylie and Kerry-Anne.*

  Kylie: "Argh-"

  Kerry-Anne: "Bwarh-?!"

  Rachael: "Ash..."

  Ashton: "R-Rach..."

  *The stone released a blinding light and a powerful shock wave, rendering Ashton, Tyler, Melinda, Rachael, Twortz, Luna, Kylie and Kerry-Anne unconscious.*

  Lance: (H-Huh, feeling sleepy-) *He watched the stone shatter into tiny white orbs, before falling unconscious.*

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  Young Adult: *He stood with five other adults, all staring at the courtyard with dropping jaws.* "W-What was.. Phoenix Blaster?"

  Ridley: *He took a deep breath, watching Elizabeth, Cortax, Victoria and Lehi lay on the ground unconscious.* "I didn't think we'd have to resort to such extremities."

  Kath: "Termination can be hard on others.." *She watched smoke sizzle off melted stone.*

  Ridley: "Healing Monarchs.. Have you ever heard of such a technique?"

  Kath: "No." *She wiped sweat off her forehead and turned around, slowly looking up with an evil-like smirk.* "What to do with the other dancers?"

  Ridley: *He looked over his shoulder and stared at an enormous stone wall, harvesting many openings, balconies and stairs.* "It's a shame I won't be able to explore this amazing city."

  Kath: "Number three, nine, take these prisoners to Sorrowprax and await further instructions." *She spoke in a stern voice and flashstepped without waiting for the captain's response.*

  Ridley: *He watched Nancy and Cassandra slowly stand back up on their feet, causing him to disappear in a puff of smoke.*

  Young Adult: "This is bad-"

  Kath: "Indeed it is." *She suddenly appeared behind the young adult, causing them to gasp in shock.*

  Young Man: *He started to dance, causing an orange glyph to form underneath him.* "You will pay!"

  Woman: "For our masters!" *She swayed her arms and frowned, watching a square brown glyph spiral in front of her.*

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  *Distressed whines of the younger children flooded the confined room.*

  Karol: *He slowly regained consciousness, finding himself inside the stone room with the other children.* (Why am I in here? My daddy and mummy are out there!-)

  *Five young adults flew into the room and rolled across the ground, causing the entire room to become silent.*

  Woman: (W-What happened-?!) *She spoke in disbelief, watching Kath and Ridley slowly walk inside the room, giving a sense of intimidation.* "W-Who are you?!"

  Ridley: "Hmm?" *He stood in a professional-like manner, glancing at the woman.*

  Kath: "You will speak when spoken to!" *She formed a fist, causing Ridley to lower her arm.* "Ridley?" *She sounded unimpressed.*

  Ridley: "I have no intentions of undermining you, but, look at what we just stumbled upon."

  Kath: "Hrmm?" *She scanned across the room, staring at the crying faces of the younger children.* "I see useless children?"

  Ridley: "You do? I see the next generation of warriors at our command-"

  Trinity and Infinity: "Duel finger snap, flying palm strike." *They spoke at the same time and pushed forward, forcing Ridley back.*

  Ridley: *His feet slid back.* "Such power for little girls-"

  Kath: "Impudent children-" *She swayed her hand to the side, blasting the girls off their feet.*

  *Kath's power caused all the dancers to stop what they were doing, as if they understood the threat in front of them.*

  Karol: (Sh-She didn't even touch them and they fwell on the gwound!) *He stuttered in thought.*

  Trinity: *She leant up and sat on her knees with her head lowered.* "Please, we will do anything."

  Infinity: "Anything we will." *She lowered her head, mimicking Trinity's posture.*

  Ridley: "The folly." *He spoke in disgust, glancing across the room.* "Two young girls appear to have a louder voice than the adults in this room?"

  Karol: *He shivered in fear, intensely staring at Kath's eerie yellow eyes.* (H-H-Her eyes are glowing.. They're so sckary looking.)

  Kath: *She spread her arms and focused on the ground, watching an enormous dark purple glyph draw itself on the floor.* (I will teleport everyone to the detention centre in Sorrowprax..)

  Ridley: *He stared at the twin sisters with a smile, as if he was planning something.* "You'll do anything-?"

  Karol: "W-Wha-?!" *He squealed and suddenly ran past Kath out of the room.*

  Trinity: *She listened to Karol's fading footsteps, causing her to frown with mixed emotions.* (He ran away?!)

  Kath: *She watched the glyph begin to glow a light purple colour, causing her to lower her hands.* "I shall exterminate the child."

  Ridley: "No need. He looked no older than five or six, it doesn't matter."

  Kath: "Your point being?"

  Ridley: "Without anyone else in the city, he won't survive long."

  Kath: "Perhaps."

  Ridley: *He stepped forward, smirking at Trinity and Infinity.* "I was impressed with your dual technique from before."

  Trinity: "..."

  Infinity: "Yes-?" *She watched all the people in the room beside Ridley, Kath and her sister disappear in a flash of purple light.*

  Trinity: *She turned around, gasping at the empty room.* "Where-?!"

  Ridley: "If you wish to see your friends and family again, I highly suggest you do what we say."

  Kath: "Or, you will be terminated." *She smirked, glaring at the sisters with her eerie yellow eyes.*

  Trinity: "We will do what you say."

  Infinity: "And say what we shall do."

  Kath: "Excellent."

  Ridley: "Marvellous. Shall we retire to Sorrowprax?"

  Kath: "Yes." *She smirked and clicked her fingers, causing the party to suddenly disappear in a flash of purple light.*

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  *Karol ran with tears running down his cheeks, making his way towards a dead end.*

  Karol: (I-I'm far away from those people-) *He sniffed and slowed down, staring at a stone door.*

  *Karol started to dance, causing painted glyphs on the stone door to light up.*

  Karol: *He watched the stone door open, allowing him to squeal in terror towards it.* (Everwyone.. Everwyone is gone! I can feel it!)

  *Karol ran into the corner of a room and curled up into a ball, hysterically crying into his own lap.*

  Chapter 2
: Rostical

  *Twortz moaned and groaned, slowly waking up in an unfamiliar setting.*

  Twortz: *She looked to the side and noticed Rachael, lying beside her unconscious.* "Rachael-"

  Rachael: "Hmm?"

  Twortz: (It's day-?) *She looked up through the swaying tree branches, staring at the sky with double vision.*

  Rachael: "Where-?" *She frowned and closed her eyes, holding the side of her head.*

  Twortz: "Oh dear.." *She slowly stood up, noticing kitchen utensils lying around her.* "What on Earth happened?"

  Rachael: "Twortz?"