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Pre-Content Introduction/A Letter From The Author
You've all been waiting for this. The day that we write up in complete detail the plot of Shattered Planes. We've been working on this for years, after all. The indepth plot here itself is something we've been working on in our spare time (mainly Hikaru and me with help from others such as Nisorin and Koty) for the last six months or so. The content, as I'm sure you'll find, is rather entertaining and the truth is that about 90% of it was actually roleplayed, the rest being backstory.
Since 2006, we've been RPing here. Well, not HERE. SP actually started in June 2006 (June 12 or so, I believe) on a now dead message board named CLTCG. It was under the name of "Opposing Kingdoms" back then. It's lived on since then in many different forms with many different administrators. Now, it's time you all know what that roleplaying has entailed. What it's been about.
I'm only releasing Part 1 right now. Part 2 needs some more editing and we haven't even started writing Part 3 yet. We'll be releasing those parts as soon as possible. However; I'm sure you'll find that Part 1 will be more than enough reading material for some time. Until then, bare with us.
Oh, and one more thing. This indepth plot may be indepth but it's not as indepth as we'd like it to be. Each section is only a brief summary of some of the more major plot events. Truth be told, each section could, with minor exaggeration, be the size of a novel. There's about 70 sections in Part 1 and 2 combined total. That's about 70 potential novels. So, you see, we couldn't possibly have written up really detailed events of the plot and have it released this year (I think it'd take us decades to write the OK in novel form).
Now, this is almost entirely written from memory of past events. There has been very minor editing when editing was needed (we removed rips and what not -- or at least tried) and this plot doesn't cover EVERYTHING. I don't remember half of the OK, really. What I did remember (and what others, like Hikaru, remembered) is included here or in the next few parts. Also, some events may be exaggerated or may have happened a bit differently, but you know, it's nothing too big. As far as you're concerned, this is the indepth plot.
Well, I hope you enjoy. Again, please give Hikaru, Nisorin, Gaserlake, Kai, Koty, Emily, and whoever else I may be forgetting a big hand. Also, you guys deserve a hand yourselves. After all, you helped RP it. Finally, I'd like to applaud all the roleplayers who helped RP it but can't be here for one reason or another to cherish our success. There's so many -- Logan (he still gets on occasionally), Derek, Virus.exe/Eric, Xanacore, Mia, The Purple Thumb, Winter/Brandie, Xana Kawaii Angel, and the list goes on longer than I can count.
Introducing...
Shattered Planes
A roleplay of life, curiosity, and magic.
Part One
Opposing Kingdoms Saga
I. Completion:
For more info, see the following topic: http://shatteredplanes.com/index.php?topic=2057.0 (http://shatteredplanes.com/index.php?topic=2057.0)
It started with a race unlike anything we know now or anything we will come to know. The ideas of dimensional planes -- the worlds we inhabit -- and such had no meaning to this race in this realm... It was a place merely known as the North full of superbeings and the like, capable of things far beyond the power of today's Sage or Relorian... These beings were known as Perfection. They lived in the Beautiful North in harmony.
These beings got bored with their perfect existence, so they went out into that which existed, leaving the north into the white emptiness which they called the Middle. They knew of three other realms where they'd come from, all in different directions, but recalled nothing of life there. Bored of their futile existence, they used their remarkable power of Creation to create life in the East and West and, abandoning their homes in the North, went to live with their creations.
The creations, the imperfect saw that these creators were so much more powerful and demanded that they themselves be granted power. And so, the Perfect granted the Imperfect the power of Destruction. Using this power, the Imperfect rose up and rebelled against the Perfect. So began the war between the east, where the perfect gathered, and the west, where the imperfect gathered. The war would have been the end of all, but the perfect, seeing their demise in sight, gave life to abstract ideals, giving up all the powers they had but two: Creation and destruction. These were the two embodiments not created, the powers the perfect retained.
Following the end of the war, only one survived, besides the embodiments who were awaiting a leader to rise up from the Perfect. A half-breed. Half-perfection, half-imperfection. This gave birth to a new concept... Completion. The embodiment of completion, his birth gave power to, and he rose up as leader of the embodiments, and new life was made by the embodiments over and over, eventually the east and west being destroyed. The embodiments ruled in the middle and, with completion, developed land there. Three realms were created for the embodiments to roam in.
On the negative side of the middle, there was the land of fire, hell as it would eventually be called. On the positive side, there was a realm of wonder and a realm of mystery and beauty. The embodiments roamed these three realm... Completion, on the other hand, ruled the north. But he never forgot about the Perfect and Imperfect, even going as far as to create spirit-less bodies in their image, the first generation of the Incomplete (angels). The incomplete served him well..
But then, they met other embodiments, and new ideals fueled their head. Even a few brave ones thought about trying to take the power of Complete. But none ever dared... Until Compete, wanting a brother -- someone to call kin -- ripped his very essence in two. One half Creation, the last of the Perfect, and the other Destruction, last of the Imperfect.
Destruction and Creation ruled as the leaders of the embodiments in harmony for years, but Destruction watched as Creation began to create races with the help of the embodiments to live side-by-side them all. Destruction did not understand the embodiments, created by the Perfect all those years ago. Why did they want to create? Destruction wanted to destroy. Which is why he volunteered when Creation approached him.
You see, the Incomplete's foolish ideals eventually spread to the living. In a great thunderstorm that spread to all living beings, cleansing their souls, evil was spread. The thoughts of the Incomplete were spread by the rain from the North. Perfection, sensing evil spreading to his people, went to Destruction and spoke of a way to rid the evil of existence. Condemn evil to the long-forgotten South. Destruction took on the mission of ridding evil of life, by leading the rebellion.
The embodiments knew what this war entailed... But the living knew none the wiser. As religion after religion developed, the embodiments were dubbed by the living as gods. The embodiments did not try to correct them. They played the part of gods.
II. Dimensions And Sin Of Mortals:
(For more info on the concept of dimensions, see the wiki article. (http://galactic.wikia.com/wiki/Dimension))
There were two dimensions which contained life. One was the dimension of the humans. Mortals, those who lived on Earth. They would grow for years, oblivious to anyone besides themselves. This was a race of mortals who could not hope to understand the wonders of the universe, but which would grow strong with intellect. Those on the planet Earth would thrive and grow old, and watch as their children follow in their footsteps.
And then, there was other life.. Another dimension. A dimension of landscape similar to Earth, but with no stars, no space, and no science. While everything in the dimension of humanity was built on logic, everything in this other dimension was built on magic. The life here practiced the manipulation of this magic.. This was a dimension of wizards, witches, and mages -- almost all of which could be summed up into one name: Sage.
Neither of the two dimensions knew of each other.. But they both existed. As mortals would grow, so would sages. Neither would be aware of each other for quite some time. And even knowing that someone else is in a room with you doesn't mean you can interact with them. Even if they had known of each other, there would be no hope of traveling the borders between dimensions for many, many years.
Time passed differently between the two dimensions, because time was different. There were times when a second would go by in the mortal dimension and in the same amount of time, two hundred years would have been lived in the sage dimension. There were other times when one second would pass the same for both dimensions. Nature was quite a funny thing in this regard.
But things were not funny for all people everywhere.. The fallen of Erebus, those who had been trapped in the South realm by Creation, now were in agony, as was "Him". As beings now of corruption, they needed malicious chaos and sin, wrong-doing, to be satisfied. It was because of this need for sin to exist that "Him" sent 'Lucifer' to the dimensional plane to introduce sin to the dimensions.. They would strive off of darkness, and man would fall to it.
He started on Earth. There, he let the darkness envelop the hearts of man.
III. Sin Of Sages / Scientific Understanding:
Lucifer arrived in the Sage Dimension to find that time passed differently there. He had a vague amusement by sages and how they lived.. And so, he introduced war to the people and watched as societies began to fall. Sin entered the dimension.. And sages became sinners, just as humanity had become. There, sages existed, not knowing of the concept of dimensions at all.
Fascinated with the way things worked, sages now began to explore the fabrics of life more, even going as far as to cross moral boundaries. Many societies began to devote themselves to the understanding of things around them. Others devoted themselves further to magic. It was in these days that witchcraft and such things became somewhat dark as many witches went as far as to try to raise the dead, becoming necromancers.
Scientific communities rarely went into much depth of science itself. Seeing the lack of observation in existence as a bad thing, some sages came together to form a group to try and protect everyone. While the group's primary goal was to act as a sort of moderation of evil in life, group members often devoted themselves to furthering scientific understanding. Because of this, the guardians acquired many of the greatest scientists in the dimension.
A theory eventually came about of dimensions and a proposal that there WAS another dimension somewhere, perhaps with life. The theory was very limited at the time. It was often dismissed as a silly thought by some scientists, though others relished the idea and devoted themselves to a way of breaking the borders of dimensions and traveling across dimensions. Many of the scientists who tried the latter were Guardians.. and eventually, a young sage who tried combining the scientific knowledge of the theory of dimensions with magic succeeded in traveling to the mortal dimension, where a very young humanity was discovered.
After the guardians successfully traveled to the mortal dimension, they made sure to keep dimensional travel a well-guarded secret. They were the only ones who knew dimensional travel was real, and they intended to keep it that way. However; as the work of the Guardians got to be more and more about dimensions, protecting the dimension became an almost impossible goal. Finally, a decision was made.
The Guardians were split into three divisions. One division would remain positioned as the protectors of sage-kind. A second group, made up primarily of a group which had disabled their ability to use magic and devoted themselves entirely to science, would travel to the mortal dimension where they would make a permanent outpost and introduce certain scientific (and religious) ideals to humanity (this group would later be known as the Aralangs). The third group would experiment with creating other dimensions and exploring the dimensional plane, and would eventually succeed in creating a new dimension made entirely for the HQ of the Guardians.
However; the Guardians would remain the only ones aware of the dimensions for a long, long time..
IV. The Two Tribes / Eter Empire
The Glacian Valley was an area in the Sage Dimension which was mostly uninhabited. There were two tribes in the area -- the Suvian and the Egallan. The two shared customs and trade, and basically were the only government partners of the other. The two tribes both followed some kind of ancient moral code of sorts which dictated behavior of empires. The code was almost sacred to each tribe.
The Suvian eventually published a document of content that violated the moral code. This cease of relationship would result in a war between the two tribes, also known as the Eter War. After several years of war, the Suvian Tribe decided to cut their losses and flee the Glacian Valley, leaving its entirety to the Egallan Tribe, which would result in the formation of the Eter Empire.
The Eter Empire would proceed to expand its territory far past the valley. They grew in numbers and strength as they expanded. Eventually, the Eter Empire grew from a small tribe to a full-fledged empire with several cities. Soon, much of the dimension would fall under the rule of the Eter Empire.. And so, an emperor was declared leader of the Eter Empire.
V. Suvian Nomads
Following the Eter War, the Suvian people fled south of the valley to a nearby mountain range where they eventually settled. It was upon being visited by a Christian missionary that most of the population converted. Upon conversion, the Suvian people eventually came to the realization of the concept of dimensions. They began a quest to gain more information on this concept, and sent out people to research the concept. Eventually, they discovered evidence of the Guardians.
Upon discovering the Guardians existence, they began a series of experiments to reach another dimension.. Eventually, they succeeded and arrived in the Mortal Dimension.
VI. First Genesis-Phoenix War
North of the borders of the Eter Empire, there existed two rival parties. Dragons and Phoenix both took humanoid shapes but could change to their true forms at will. The two 'sub-races' were frequently at war. One group of dragons who had discovered a powerful magic called Genesis existed as a military society, separated into Twelve Tribes, each with leaders called 'Genesis Generals.' The Phoenix, meanwhile, mostly belonged to a society known as the Phoenix Kingdom.
After much rivalry between the two parties, war eventually broke out. It consisted of many long and bloody battles. Eventually, in an effort to end the war, the Genesis Generals declared a meeting to be held at a secret location that only they should know. Each General was instructed to bring only one lieutenant along with them to the meeting.
Far onto a mountain long away from the main sight of the war, the Generals convened. Somehow, the Phoenix discovered the location of the meeting and took this as an opportunity to kill all the Generals at once. A battle broke out, but the Genesis Generals were out-numbered. After a bloody massacre, only one General survived.
This General would be imprisoned inside a Phoenix Kingdom jailcell. The Genesis society crumbled.. And so began many hard years for the Genesis society, and a time of success for the Phoenix Kingdom.
VII. Sealing Of "Him"
Durring the First Genesis-Phoenix War, Lucifer was very interested in the battles. For years now, he had been in the Sage Dimension, watching as wars broke out. This was one of the most interesting of wars to him. He even met one of the Genesis Generals (the one who would survive in the later massacre of generals) and spent time at his base. To Lucifer, it was like personal entertainment.
Sometime during the war, "Him" created a rift in the dimension and was able to rise temporarily from Erebus. He was angered that Lucifer had been gone for many years and had come to see to it that Lucifer was brought back to Erebus. When sages saw how terrifying "Him" was, they knew he had to be stopped. Lucifer took the worrying of sages and used it to his advantage, gathering the strongest of sages to help attempt to kill "Him".
There were four who united in battle against "Him", those being the Genesis General (the one who would survive the First Genesis-Phoenix War), Lucifer, a man named Chaos, and a young man named Zeridan (or as he would later be called, "Zere"). The combined force of their unique powers created a new kind of magic called Revelation Magic. With the power of Revelation Magic, these four -- who would call themselves among names such as guardians (not the same guardians as those who had broken the dimensional borders) or Keepers -- sealed "Him" into what they thought would be an eternal slumber in the depths of the plasma ocean of Erebus.
VIII. The Great War
Many races existed in the Mortal dimension, but they all mostly kept to themselves, secluded on their own planets. However; after the arrival of the Guardians and later arrival of the Suvian, many races began to explore the stars with inner-stellar technology. Tension in the universe began to build as empires began to ally with other empires. Alliances were made. In the same manner, enemies were made.
After much tension in the universe, war finally broke out, with empires taking one of two sides. The Guardians/Aralangs tried to stop the fighting, but it only got worse. Many lives were lost. The war was one of the bloodiest ones that the dimension ever saw. It would also set the stage for territorial borders throughout the universe. After this war, empires made sure not to cross paths with other empires in the galaxy, lest another war break out.
IX. Second Genesis Phoenix War
Following the release of the surviving Genesis General from the prisons of the Phoenix Kingdom, hope spread amongst the scattered and neglected dragons of Genesis. Many begin to gather and travel with the Genesis General. Eventually, it was decided that a new Kingdom should be created by the Genesis dragons, and the Genesis General was elected king. This was the birth of the Genesis Kingdom, a Kingdom which eventually would be declared an city-state with independence within the Eter Empire.
"Him" reawakened sometime in the year before the Second Genesis Phoenix War (http://galactic.wikia.com/wiki/Second_Genesis_Phoenix_War). However; he had no memory of his former life. Upon awakening, he was not in Erebus, but in the Genesis Kingdom. He made his life there as an alchemist, starting his own potion shop. Not worrying about his past, he grew acustom to his life there.
He was friendly with the locals, and they befriended him. He took on the name of Ararus. He began receiving regular customers. He was almost a doctor of sorts, fixing medical potions. He had a real unique ability for mixing potions not seen by other alchemists in the Kingdom.
He was also a great sage. His powers were amazing, and he practiced every day. Life was great, and he lived to help others; Such a different life than his former one. All, perhaps, because his memory was gone.. But things would soon change. . He would receive a visit from a cute, young girl.. One who would change his life..
The young girl was out of breath when she arrived at Ararus's shop. She was tired, but she managed the words she needed to pronounce.. Her fiance had been kidnapped by rebels who had taken him into the Genesis Forest surrounding the Genesis Kingdom. With his destination known, Ararus grabbed his coat and set off on a saga to find this young girl's fiance..
Actually, it wasn't much of a saga at all. In the Genesis Forest, Ararus found the man who had been kidnapped tied to a tree. Near the tree sat masked 'rebels' around a camp fire. With all probability, these rebels were planning to extract the man's Genesis Magic to sell. Genesis Magic was very powerful, and many people probably wanted it.
It was no problem for Ararus to defeat these rebels. A very short battle later, Ararus and the man who had been kidnapped were on the way back to the Genesis Kingdom. However; before they even left the forest, they were stopped by a man sitting in a tree. The man seemed to have an interesting power known as Flash Magic, which Ararus knew to be common to District 23, a group of rebels in the Genesis Kingdom with no Genesis Magic.
This man, Zeridan, introduced himself.. He commented that Ararus's magic was not ordinary. Finally, he invited Ararus to join District 23.. And off he went. And so did Ararus, back to the Genesis Kingdom, almost forgetting the encounted with Zerdian.. Almost, that is, until he received another visit. An even greater one.
He was back at his potion shop, mixing a potion, only minutes after returning from his adventure in the Genesis Forest. He heard the door to his shop open. He turned to learn the identity of his new visitor.. The Genesis King.. How remarkable. What a visitor this was! What did the King want with Ararus?
The King merely commented that he had gained intel that Ararus had met the one called Zerdian. The King informed Ararus that Zerdian was, indeed, a member of District 23. He also warned Ararus. Warned him how dangerous District 23 was. Ararus took this to heart, but when asked if Zerdian had mentioned anything regarding it, Ararus denied everything.. The King left, with nothing more to say..
A peaceful, sunny day. A guest arrived, the first of the day. He had traveled a great distance to get to the Genesis Kingdom and demanded the Kingdom Guard to allow him to give the King an invitation.. He was granted permission and taken to the Genesis Palace. Once there, he gave the Genesis King an invitation of sorts.
The invitation was from the Eter Empire regarding a conference of peace. Upon receiving the invitation, the Genesis King ordered a drafting of the Genesis Royal Guard. Men began to be selected by the Genesis Military Drafting Command.. And one of the men selected was Ararus. Ararus was commanded to come to the Palace, along with the others drafted, and stay in the Royal Guard Wing of the Palace for a week before the Guards departed; They would undergo training every day to prepare for the mission of escorting the King to the Eter Nation capital.
However; during the week before the departure, men who had been drafted began to die in their sleep. After a series of odd dreams, it began to dawn on Ararus that he may be the cause of these deaths. After a long week of conflict, the Genesis King confronted Ararus, revealing indeed that Ararus had caused the deaths.. And the Genesis King helped Ararus control what he called his "Demon Spirit" which caused the deaths.
Finally, as the week ended, it was time. The group would soon depart to the forest and begin teleporting (or instantly traveling with magic over great distances). However; as they reached the treeline of the Genesis Forest, they heard a great explosion from behind them. They turned to see smoke coming.. From the Genesis Kingdom. So marked the start of the first battle in the Second Genesis Phoenix War (http://galactic.wikia.com/wiki/Second_Genesis_Phoenix_War).
After the first battle in the Second Genesis Phoenix War, Ararus was selected as a soldier to fight in the Phoenix Kingdom. He was put in a battalion instructed not to teleport to the Phoenix Kingdom, but instead to cross the Genesis Forest to reach the Phoenix Kingdom. The soldiers depart.
As they travel, Ararus learns the story of the Dark Forest, a part of the Genesis Forest.. He dismisses the myth of the one-way forest, but when he hears screams coming from the Dark Forest, he runs off to find out the cause of the screams.. Runs off, into the Dark Forest..
Upon entering the Dark Forest, Ararus met a man named Mokai. Mokai expressed mass-confusion about his location. In fact, Mokai was in a great panic.. But as Ararus tried to calm him, they ran into further problems.. Problems regarding leaving the Dark Forest. Were the legends true?
As the two tried to return to the normal section of the forest, they were stopped by a great force.. And then, a man, claiming to be from District 23, showed himself to the two. He informed Mokai and Ararus that they were prisoners in the Dark Forest now. Prisoners of District 23.. Mokai, who turned out to be a non-Genesis sage, and Ararus would have to battle the District 23 man..
Upon eventually defeating the man and escaping the Dark Forest, the two returned to the Genesis Kingdom. Ararus reported to the Genesis Palace, where Mokai was questioned. The Genesis King was summoned and Mokai told that he had come on a great journey from a world called Xanacoria. Meanwhile, the question of getting Ararus to the Phoenix Kingdom to join the battle was examined.
Following a short rest in the Genesis Kingdom after discovering Mokai, Ararus and Mokai travel to the Phoenix Kingdom to assist the Genesis Kingdom. Ararus is assigned to a squad in a mission to stop the Phoenix King from escaping the Phoenix Kingdom. The team locates the Phoenix King and his guard trying to escape the Kingdom and Ararus battles guards of the King in an attempt to get to the King himself..
Following the defeat of the guards, the Phoenix Kingdom continues to flee from the squad of Genesis soldiers, and Ararus leads the squad after the King.. The squad begins to travel, tracking him in the Genesis Forest. The chase ends in the conclusion of the war and the Phoenix King revealing that the Second Genesis Phoenix War was a result of actions taken by District 23.
Upon the resolution of the war, Mokai and Ararus both go to investigate the District 23 HQ after the guards sent to arrest the members are not heard from. Upon arriving at the District 23 base, the two are immediately captured and locked in an Anti-Magic prison.. They are set free by Empathy, who has come looking for them. However; Empathy has set them free to battle them - or at least to battle Mokai. The two are forced to dodge his attacks as they investigate the now abandoned District 23 base.
As they read documents in the base, they discover District 23's plans to kill the Genesis King.. And they realize they only minutes to stop District 23. They must warn the King.. But they must avoid Empathy in doing so.. Alas, they finally escape Empathy.. But it's too late. They arrive to save the King too late.
X. Resealing Of "Him"
One month after the death of the Genesis King, Ararus is having dark visions. Visions of a dark, evil figure. Meanwhile, what the King told him weighs heavily on his mind. The King revealed to him that Ararus had an inner-demon of great power.. Finally, Ararus decides there's one thing he must do. Make a memory potion to restore his memory beyond the time of his arrival in the Genesis Kingdom.
However; Ararus soon discovers that he needs a bit of magic from a man named Chaos in order to complete his potion. He begins to track down Chaos. Luckily, he discovers, Chaos lives nearby. The Dark Forest.. Ararus goes out to the Dark Forest to find Chaos, supposedly a hermit of sorts.
Ararus finds Chaos, who lives in a hut in the Dark Forest. Chaos reveals that Ararus needs no potion. Chaos knows of his past. Ararus demands how Chaos knows of his past. Chaos tells Ararus that he will reveal everything if Ararus can reveal that he is ready to gain the information - by defeating Chaos in battle.
Ararus battles Chaos and after a long battle, wins. Chaos begins a process of restoring Ararus's memories.. But when the event is done, Ararus starts to regret having his memories restored.. As he learns who, or rather what, he really is, his mind enters an unstable psyche. He returns to the Genesis Kingdom, feeling his powers are slipping.
As Ararus's psyche slips, he begins to contemplate suicide. Finally, in search of a resolution, Ararus goes back to Chaos, who reveals to Ararus what he must do. Let his identity engulf him. Ararus must accept who he is, and become one with it. He must not fight it, or he will fail.
Chaos traps Ararus in Erebus, where he begins to transform into a beast. The beast that he really is. It is here that he will again be placed in a prison. However; things have changed. One of the original four guardians has died.. A new guardian will be chosen and a saga will now begin. One that will not unfold for many, many centuries.
XI. Era Village
A century after the Second Genesis Phoenix War, a great burst of energy was released somewhere near the Era Village, a village built by Chaos and his wife, Gloria, on the remains of the Genesis Kingdom. Chaos suspected it might be the orb that the Genesis King trapped District 23 in, due to the feeling of the power released. He contacted the Guardians who come to investigate, but nothing was found.
Chaos's wife, meanwhile, was in labor. That day, she gave birth to two twins -- there second and third children, with an older, five-year-old daughter already having been born. The twins were very special.. They were the grandsons of Mokai, who took the soul of the Genesis King, and had inherited the power of the Genesis King split into two halves - White and Black. A celebration occurred in the village.
Zere, meanwhile, had escaped his orb due to a small crack which allowed only he passage from the orb. He stumbled upon the Era Village and discovered the twins who were the heirs to the Genesis King's power. This prompted him with a desire to kill the twins, but he knew that Chaos was too strong to battle. In order to get access to the twins, he'd have to use cunning.
Zere took advantage of Hikaru, Chaos's five-year-old-daughter who had the powers of a Phoenix. He convinced her that her family and friends were all corrupt. After much persuading, he convinced her to unlock ancient spells.. And kill everyone inside the Era Village. This would not go over entirely as planned, though, when the powers of Genesis protected the twins from Hikaru's attack.
In a last effort to stop her brothers, Hikaru sealed the ability to use Genesis Magic away from the twins. It was out of their reach. The five-year-old-prodigy then proceeded to follow Zere out of the village where she would be trained for the next decade or so in advanced magics. Zere would train Hikaru to use her Phoenix powers.
However; Hikaru had not succeeded in destroying the Era Village, as she thought. Gloria, wife of Chaos, led the people of the village to take the village and dislodge it from time during Hikaru's attack, leaving behind a fake village for Hikaru to destroy. What Hikaru thought she had destroyed was actually well alive, dislodged from time itself.. But Hikaru, the Genesis twins (who were named K2323 and Kai), and Chaos were not taken with the village when it was dislodged, and were left behind in the fake, destroyed village.
Chaos, thinking the village really had been destroyed, set off in agony to start anew. Hikaru went off to train with Zere and grow stronger. That left K2323 and Kai, infants, alone. And then, Konjan, a guardian, arrived and took K2323 and Kai under his wing. He would take them to the Guardian Dimension and raise them as sons for the next decade or so.
XII. Hikaru's Search For K2323 and Kai
A little over ten years after the destruction of the Era Village, Hikaru began to search for K2323 and Kai, with a desire to finish off the Genesis Dragons once and for all. When she finally found them, she was faced with an entirely new challenge. Dimension travel. It wasn't exactly something she could look up in a spellbook. Most people still didn't even know that dimensions existed.
When Hikaru finally learned and perfected dimension teleportation, she arrived inside the Guardian Dimension. Konjan, K2323, and Kai had just got back from training within the Era Valley. Hikaru easily destroyed most of the Guardians. She and Konjan broke out in battle, one-on-one, when Konjan pushed Kai and K2323 through portals to take them back to the Sage Dimension in order to avoid their capture by Hikaru. Hikaru would proceed to turn Konjan into a mere, small boy with no memories of his past.
Kai and K2323 were seperated in the Sage Dimension. Kai found himself in a desert of some kind where he encountered a desert merchant. The merchant ended up trapping him inside a crystal in which everything that ever occurred which related to him, and all of his past, flashed before his eyes. He learned of Hikaru, who she was, and what she had done many years before.
K2323 was lost and alone in the Era Valley. He knew that Hikaru was bad, and that he needed to get back to the Guardian Dimension, but he had not yet perfected Dimension Teleportation. Still, he attempted to teleport himself to the Guardian Dimension.. And he ended up creating a permanent doorway to the mortal dimension and breaking through a defense barrier the Aralangs had put around the dimension to prevent anyone from teleporting to it -- a spell way above the boy's skill-level, and a factor in his eventually becoming one of the strongest of sages.
The power which went into creating the doorway could be felt all over. Hikaru, who had come to the Era Valley after finishing in the Guardian Dimension, was among the first to feel the power released by K2323's spell. She quickly teleported to the doorway, but K2323 had already gone through. She followed him into the doorway, not sure what was on the otherside. This would be the beginning of a legacy unlike any other.
XIII. Humanity Meets Sages
K2323, upon going through the doorway he created, found himself in the Realm Of Existence, a beautiful garden of some sorts surrounding a palace. He was scared and confused. An Aralang came to him, investigating the breech in the defense field, and found him. He helped K2323 piece together what had happened, and took K2323 to Earth to show him it and help explain to him about just who humans were.
Gaserlake and K2323 got separated at Earth where he would eventually meet Logan, a man who had achieved a limited sense of immortality. Logan and Gaserlake would eventually branch off of Earth in their own empire. Gaserlake, upon meeting Logan, suffered a fall in which he developed a case of amnesia, forgetting his past and who the Aralangs were. Because of such, he was separated from his people for centuries.
K2323 took the land masses of the planet Earth and made copies of them and all of their people, before scattering them throughout the galaxy and putting the land-masses and the people on different planets. He declared himself the leader of these people and made his base in Japan.. But not just any Japan. He put the land-mass of Japan in a "pocket-dimension" - an area of space only assessable by going through a black hole.
The people of these planets were amazed by K2323's power, having never before seen magic. K2323 used this to his advantage, and he was treated well as an emperor. However; things would not last in harmony for all time. Eventually, sages began to find K2323's doorway and come through it themselves. Including Hikaru.
XIV. Bloodlines
While many sages came to the dimension, not all joined the forming kingdom K2323 was building. Hikaru herself started a kingdom which roped in many sages who opposed K2323's way of doing things. Many sages simply felt that K2323, who was only a young teenager at the time, was too young to run a society. Hikaru quickly managed to grow an army of great, formidable power. K2323's kingdom was threatened.
Both begin building armies, though the style in which the armies were built differentiated greatly. Hikaru took in students who she trained in her ways of magic. Many of these students would become close associates and apprentices to Hikaru, living under her watch in her castle. Others would join the ranks of Hikaru's general, The Purple Thumb, who was much more of a military man. This caused somewhat of a bi-partisanship within Hikaru's military which made for much stronger base in attack.
K2323, on the other hand, had been less focused on training in his initial time of leadership, whereas he was more focused on construction and development. Communication was quickly developed through use of K-Transmitters, television and radio-like devices of all kinds of design. Among the greatest buildings first constructed in the K Empire was the K Dome. It was a great tournament designed for magic sparring. This is where K2323 trained his army in the arts of magic in mass-number, and where he chose two of his students, Xanacore and Mia, as his generals.
One day, Kai showed up in the K Dome during a training session with soldiers. K2323 welcomed the arrival of his brother, and the two engaged in a friendly sparring match. After trapping Kai underground and nearly crushing him with the pressure of the dirt, K2323 was victorious in the match. In a more serious request, Kai asked for land from K2323. He knew by now of K2323's spell in which he copied land from the planet Earth and asked for some himself. As Hikaru now owned the planet Earth, and as she and K2323 had tried to reach a sort of peace, it was decided that Kai was to be brought to a strip of land which had been named Boarder Line, designated as a place for K2323 and Hikaru to meet on neutral grounds; Collectively, Hikaru and K2323 decided to put Kai through a test before he gained land.
Kai ended up gaining land taken from Australia, and his planet was named such. Now, each of the three were the major leaders of the dimension. Each of the three had kingdoms.. And each of the three, potentially, were in war; Political tensions were high. The countries were young. Nobody knew who would attack.. Or when. And that was reason enough for each three to build military power, Kai himself training stealthy warriors who were named, "ninja".
Eventually, after much fighting, Kai kidnapped Hikaru and took her to a warehouse of sorts. It was here that the two battled. K2323, Xanacore, The Purple Thumb, and anyone else who tried to interfere were powerless. They watched as Kai killed Hikaru.. But then, she came back to life, thanks to her phoenix abilities.. As a little girl! Luckily, she soon found a note written by her adult self which told her how to restore her age and memories to her old form before she had been re-incarnated.
K2323 was eventually made aware of the secrets Kai (who had learned much from the desert merchant he had met) and Hikaru held. He was made aware of the fact that Hikaru was her sister, and what she had done. He even went with Kai to meet their father in the Spirit Realm for the first time. It is there that they decided to go on a quest to unlock the Genesis Powers Hikaru had sealed within them as infants. They took off to unlock ancient powers so great that they would have to quite possibly kill..
Little did they know, they were about to begin a journey greater than anything they had ever done.
XV. K2323 And Kai Unlock Genesis Magic
K2323 and Kai's quest to unlock their Genesis Magic started in a mysterious, ancient room of white. Complete white. White walls, white floors, and a white table in the middle of the room with a crystal ball upon it. It was here that Kai and K2323 saw the illusions of their pasts. They saw the Second Genesis Phoenix War. Their ancestors. It was here that they came to understand how dangerous of a foe their sister really was. How damaging of a foe the Phoenix had been.
K2323 and Kai went upon many great tests. They had to kill. They had to battle dragons and prove that they were worthy of obtaining Genesis Magic. If they could do this, they would be granted their powers. They successfully completed their trials and found themselves back in the Kingdoms with their own staffs, a white staff for K2323 and a black staff for Kai. They had no idea what had just happened, but in all actuality, the powers of the Genesis King had been split into two: The White Genesis Dragon and Black Genesis Dragon, each's power sealed inside the twins.
One of the first acts upon unlocking Genesis which was preformed by the twins was a spell to prevent the threats of time travel. It had come to their attention that anyone could time travel into the past and change the reality of things. This was too dangerous of a problem. They would create a spell only possible with their Genesis Magic. It was a spell which locked time itself, preventing travel through it by any means. Even freezing time became extremely difficult, if not impossible, and if managed, only for a few seconds.
They would continue to use their powers in great magnitude. This would eventually come back to haunt them..
XVI. Capture Of Hikaru
K2323 and Kai were generally allied now. They agreed that Hikaru was the one person they had to stop. After much collective effort and several battles, Hikaru was, indeed, captured. She was handcuffed with Anti-Magic handcuffs. It was in this time that she was brought to a colony of K2323's kingdom which was ran by Logan (and Gaserlake).. The city under the sea; Atlantis. Inside top-security prisons, many evils had already been locked up. Hikaru, so far, was the most dangerous of all.
Upon staying in Atlantis, something happened. The darkness inside K2323 and Kai began to boil.. And it would quite possibly be the end of them all.
XVII. Genesis Demons
K2323 and Kai were almost possessed. They quickly came to find out that each of them were sharing their bodies with other entities. Darker versions of them.. Almost as if they were demons. These 'demons' quickly left the twins' bodies when they were able to become tangible. As it turned out, extensive use of Genesis Magic had resulted in the formation of dark creatures which spawned from the consciousness of both K2323 and Kai.
These 'demons' caused much destruction in the kingdoms. K2323 and Kai personally battled them. Sometime in the battle, Hikaru managed to escape, in which time she became stranded in Australia, still handcuffed and on the run (though she eventually got the handcuffs off by breaking them on a rock). K2323 and Kai had bigger things to worry about. How would they defeat these darker versions of themselves!? What were they to do!?
Eventually, the battle ended. K2323 and Kai managed to trap the demons inside a void of some sorts which only the twins could enter or leave at will. The demons, as such, could not leave. They eventually diminished inside the vortex due to not being able to handle the energies it was made of, resulting in their deaths and probable admittance to hell. K2323 and Kai decided that they would minimize the use of Genesis Magic.. Even so, Kai knew what the brothers had to do -- They had to go and train in their Genesis Magic and get control over their powers so that this would not happen again.
And so, they prepared for departure.
XVIII. Marriage Of Emily and Demonkiller
While little is known about this event in history, it is known that it did occur. Emily, a follower and close friend of Hikaru, was to be married to a demon killer in a nice little chapel. K2323 and Kai were known to attend, though Hikaru was still somewhere in Australia at the time, in handcuffs. After Hikaru freed herself, she came to the wedding, where it was interrupted.
The event was one of the last times that the major powers of the universe were together that Millennium. After many displays of magic (such as animal-transformation) at the wedding, and much fun (and a few fights, of course), K2323 and Kai took off. Emily's marriage would eventually end and she would follow Hikaru in taking advantage of the absense of the twins and training.. As well as destroying much land of her brothers.
XIX. Thousand Year Break
K2323 and Kai trained for the better part of a thousand years in their magic. They spent their time mostly in the Sage Dimension, learning the secrets of their ancestors. And learning to control their powers. After centuries of mastering their Genesis magic, they came to ask themselves if they were quite ready to return home. They decided that they were not ready, but they did need time alone to train apart from each other.
In this time, most sages had learned about the guardians. K2323 himself had gone around informing some people of the Opposing Kingdoms, of the guardians, and of many other things he had known for much time, in an attempt to gain followers. Many people begin to experiment in actually creating dimensions. Soon, Chaos, who had escaped the Spirit Realm and in fact changed his appearance a great bit through use of magic in order to avoid being found by former foes, created a spell which used the properties of the 'dimensional sea', a sea of information and magic he had learned about in his time in the spirit realm which actually bordered the dimensional plane (or collective of dimensions) to create a dimension. Many people soon found out about this spell and followed his example.
K2323 ended up visiting the domain of Chaos, not realizing that the man was his father because of his change in appearance. K2323 stayed inside the palace of Chaos within his dimension as a personal guest for much time. He eventually found out, though, about a power Chaos had called Mayhem which allowed him to cause utter chaos in the hearts of men. While Chaos had limited control over the power, K2323 felt it was of too much power for Chaos, and that it would make Chaos corrupt. And so, K2323 stole it and took off to the Kingdoms.
Kai, meanwhile, had decided that he had not yet mastered his powers. He was not ready to return home. He decided that he would make a clone of himself to go home and rule his kingdoms for him. He gave the clone strict instructions to tell those who it met that it was a clone; A mere representation of Kai. Unfortunately, as it would turn out, the clone had its own agenda.
Over the thousand years, Hikaru came to rule most of the Kingdoms. War basically crushed her brothers' domains. Her army came to be the major force of power throughout the universe. Basically, she was in control. Times were truly dark for all who had opposed her administration before.
She obtained, during this time, some sort of book which had been in possession of K2323 and Kai. It was described as a book which could control an evil force of some sorts which could go as far as to "suck" magic from those it encountered. This likely describes how Hikaru came to obtain a book called the "Book Of Revelations" which was a spellbook for Revelation Magic, a magic made by the Keepers in order to seal "Him". Hikaru, luckily, did not awaken "Him"; She didn't even know much of the book at the time. She would, for the next several years, study the book.
Most people in this time had focused on dimensions. Nobody even suspected that, within the sage dimension, there was a society living in an entirely different universe. The society was an advanced magic society, but something went wrong. They were forced to abandon their universe and come to ours where they learned of the hype about dimensions. This group, the Relorians, made a trek to the Kingdoms where they began to study universes and see if they could return to their own.
After much studies, they departed from our universe, but not before leaving some Relorian couples behind if seen possible; This would contribute greatly to history in a few decades.
XX. Jikore Arrives
Following the end of the thousand years in which K2323 and Kai had gone to train, Kai (or rather, his clone, who was acting secretively as if he were Kai) had started a resistance against Hikaru's army. He and K2323 used their great increase in power from training to regain control of their kingdoms. War loomed in the balance with the powers of Hikaru's kingdom. However; the war never got underway, as a great foe of sorts came about.
Jikore was a messenger and high ranking subordinate of Chaos. He traced K2323 to the Kingdoms after K2323 stole the power of Mayhem from Chaos. He warned all in the Kingdom that K2323 was angry and that he was coming. Soon. After many battles with the one named Jikore, everyone prepared themselves. Whoever Chaos was, he was coming..
XXI. Chaos Arrives
Chaos arrived in Atlantis, looking for K2323. Logan told Chaos that he should leave Atlantis. Chaos caused a bit of destruction before taking off to find K2323. He didn't find K2323 immediately, and generally caused a lot of destruction. Nobody seemed to notice the true identity of Chaos. All in all, he was a foe to the Kingdoms.
Many people tried to stop Chaos. He was battled in great frequency. He eventually even managed to possess Chaos and seemingly surpass any method in which K2323 might regain control of his body. However; K2323 did manage to regain control of his body by placing his consciousness inside an android until he could later gain control of his own body again.
Chaos used the power of a white cross of some sorts to attempt taking away K2323's Genesis powers in revenge for the steeling of mayhem. He also managed to retrieve the power. However; before Chaos could get the powers of Genesis, he was defeated by the three sibling sages (K2323, Kai, and Hikaru; The nickname 'Sage 3' had been used often lately to represent the three as a whole).
Even after Chaos was defeated, though, nobody knew that he had been the father of the Sage 3; The Sage 3 presumed their father to still be in the Spirit Realm.
XXII. Halloween
In Halloween of the year after the return of routine events throughout the kingdoms, Hikaru invited her siblings to a party of sorts at her palace to celebrate an event talked about all over by many cultures in many lands called "Halloween". Kai and K2323 were skeptic about the party. There was a good chance that it was a trap. It would not be the first time which Hikaru had tricked the two in such a manner. Still, the brothers came.
Sometime during the party, a treaty was made between the three which called for peace between the three. Many days later, the treaty would be destroyed and war would return to the Kingdoms. Still, for a short time, there was peace between the siblings. Even so, that did not mean absolute peace existed. There was still another foe which the siblings would have to battle together.. Eventually.
XXIII. Treaty Nulled
In a fit of some sorts, Kai destroyed the treaty from Halloween. War returned to the Kingdoms.
XXIV. Assassin
A man named Assassin (named such because he was born to be a great assassin) who was part of a council of killers was hired by Jikore, who suspected Chaos had been killed, to destroy those within the kingdoms. Assassin showed up and made great trouble throughout each and every kingdom in the land. He generally could not be defeated as he was quick and powerful. It took much fighting to kill him.
XXV. War Of Atlantis
Hikaru used K2323's spell to copy land from the Earth and place it on planets, creating a whole new series of planets which were up for grabs. This prompted a considerable flux in political tension as a new goal for conquest of the galaxy began. However; the Sage 3 was not the only party involved in the attempt to gain new land and expand their domain. The lost city of Atlantis's inhabitants, though under colonization of K2323, also attempted to gain land from the oppurtunity, with consent from K2323 as Emperor and ultimately the overseer of all events that go on in the colonies. While K2323 obviously had no problem with the establishing of these colonies, Hikaru and Kai, who each shared a personal dislike for Logan, were determined to crush the efforts of colonization.
The war over these new planets consisted of several small skirmishes, mainly between Kai and Logan, with various outcomes. Hikaru, meanwhile, was also plotting against K2323, who was backing up Logan. The war reached a high-point on territory identical to Earth's country of France. After continuous fighting on the planet, K2323 wiped out Kai's new settlements there with a super bomb of magic. There were no survivors.
Following the tragedy, Kai and Hikaru approached K2323 in an attempt to end the war. If necessary, they would use force. However; they did not suceed in their attempts at first. They were left with one option; Careful strategy and recruitment began to begin the full invasion of Atlantis.. and elimination of K2323. The project was named Project: Mexico.
K2323 was, at the time, in his bedroom in Japan, working at his desk, when Project: Mexico took action. Emily, a part of the project, arrived in the bedroom and attempted to seduce K2323. She kissed him with a poison lipstick upon her mouth. K2323 died of poison at the lips of someone he genuinly cared for. Upon death, his Genesis powers were automatically transfered to his twelve-year-old son (who had never met the man) in the Era Valley who lived with his mother, having been born in the thousand years in which K2323 was away from the Kingdoms. A spell also activated which sent a message to the son, informing him of everything K2323 had been through, and telling Kaleb that he now had inherited the throne of K2323's domain.
Project: Mexico in this time also attempted an invasion of Atla