Post by yoshi6852 on Aug 29, 2009 16:52:09 GMT -8
Well i've got a large chunk of this allready done so this is the eintire thing as of now
Crescent Moon Island
By Shawn Phillips
Chapter 1
A loud thud wakes a 13 year old boy the moon has just reached its peak and is beginning it’s decent down to the ground. He removes his earplugs and says
“That must have been loud I heard them through theses... I don’t even remember why I slept with theses in my ears...” Just then a loud snoring noise is heard
“Oh right Eclipse snores like a bullhorn.”
The boy gets out of bed and peers out the window. An eerie green glow is outside his window. Instantly he rushes outside. Across the river all the adults are gathered gazing mesmerized by the glowing object. The boy does a quick and quiet jog careful to avoid all things that could cause unwanted noise, across the bridge over the lake. There are huge gouges in the ground that all lead to a creator. He dashes over to the creator but stops after seeing the adults. He overhears snips of conversation.
“How... I... back” Said a worried voice
“Aura... we... go... tomar...” said another voice
“Lord Eclipse we have a situation” said a knight. “He shall be here soon.
“Alright everyone we must leave at sunup tomorrow!” Lord Eclipse Yelled. “But for now we should get some rest.” The boy quickly rushed back home and got into his bed.
The sun has just began its trip up the sky all of the few members that remained loyal to his family were assembled. The boy gazed out to the sea and the vessel that was to carry them over it. out he saw the boat that was to bring them away.
“Why do we have to leave again?” The boy’s sister said
“We shall talk about that on the boat Sola, now we need to go.” Lord Eclipse said
“What leaving so soon” A voice snickered. A man walked out of a portal of darkness
with silvery white hair and a suit of heavy black armor on him.
“I’m saddened that you would go so soon.” He said. “Now give me the boy. Give me Luna and the core,” demanded the man.
“I don’t care who you are you won’t take him or that Virus Core,” Lord Eclipse yelled
“That’s right, come on lets get him,” Aura yelled.
Lord Eclipse lunged at the man with his sword in the air. The man grabbed him and tossed him aside like a lion would with the remains of his prey. Aura quickly raised her hands and a white sphere appeared. She then launched the sphere at Lord Eclipse who was kneeling on the ground the white sphere hit him and he stood right back up. He lunged again.
“This has gone on long enough,” The man thundered. Two black orbs appeared in his hands he blasted them both at Aura and Lord Eclipse. The orbs flew so fast you couldn’t see them; all you could see was Aura and Lord Eclipse falling to the ground.
“How dare you!” Luna yelled as he charged toward the man. Sola and Eclipse grabbed Luna and attempted to pacify him.
“Luna if that didn’t work for Dad and Mom how would it work for us!” Eclipse yelled. Luna’s countenance was still that of anger. His teeth were clenched and his eyes were like fire.
“Fine but we can’t just let him get away with this can we;” Luna said through his teeth.
“Well I would love to let you think of a tactic but you won’t have time.” The man laughed. “Twister!” In seconds, a huge tornado engulfed the three. The man reached in and grabbed Luna by the collar of his shirt and yanked him out of the tornado. Luna could only watch and Eclipse and Sola were shot out of the tornado and were thrust out of the tornado and into the sky.
“Aw tis a pity,” The man said. “I guess it’s only fair you know the name of your killer. My name is Ombra.
“You... Im gonna kill you!” Luna Screamed.
“What makes you think you can do that?” Ombra asked.
“I only know on thing about that Virus core and that when some one absorbs its power they become much stronger...”
“You’re Crazy!” Luna kicked the man and he let go. Luna rushed to the Core and laid his hands on it.
Chapter 2
A slickly green spiral began to move up his arms like a snake. Luna shut his eyes tight from the pain of absorbing its power. A massive earthquake began, the sky turned dark and it started to thunder. Luna began to shake every muscle in his body tensed up but still he never removed his hands. His heartbeat became unpredictable. A fever came over him and he began to have trouble breathing. The green glow of the Core began to vanish as Luna absorbed its power. Green streaks began to form on his armor the streaks began to glow the neon green of the Core. Eventually the pain was too great and Luna let out a yell. A huge green tower of energy engulfed him and the Core. And when it cleared the Core faded into a dull gray. Finally it was as though Luna’s whole body just died he didn’t breath his heart didn’t beat. Then his body came back to life. Luna took two steps back his eyes still shut. Luna then bowed his head and began to sway back and forth his eyes still shut. The man stood there not knowing what to do.
Ombra decided to strike before Luna could...he created a scythe. It was a dark blue handled scythe. At its base was what looked like a pointed emerald attached to it, its point facing the ground. On its blade was second smaller blade, and spiraled up the Scythe was a snake like decal made purely of shadow energy. The scythe also had an evil black and blood red aura surrounding it.
Ombra leaped into the air and slashed his scythe at Luna. It looked like it went right through him. The man thought he hit but before he attacked Luna ran behind him. He was able to move so fast that the man didn’t realize that Luna got behind him until Luna was already there. And even though he knew Luna was behind him Luna was able to slash him six times before the man even felt any pain.
“That little brat is fast,” the man said
“...” The man went to strike Luna... Luna sneezed and the man was frozen in a block of Ice!? A loud glass braking sound pierced the ears of Luna
“What the heck just happened?” the man asked
“...”Ombra was thrown across the island.” Luna had his fist held out. Ombra was then beat back Luna had his fist out.
“I’ve had enough of this!” Ombra yelled
“...”Ombra charged as fast as he could at Luna. Luna just sat there. The scythe point was just an inch away from Luna’s head when Luna grabbed it.
“...Allow me to return the favor for my family in their stead...” Luna whispered despite that fact that even speaking put great strain on his body. Luna threw the man way off the coast line. Luna ran out to sea and began to run around where he landed. In seconds a huge whirlpool appeared and the man was sucked down into the dark abyss of the sea. Luna floated over the whirlpool and headed back to the island. He found a spot to rest and fell asleep.
Chapter 3
Luna awoke in a mountain range a fresh coat of snow on the ground, and a blue sky above. The sun reflected off the snow into his eyes like diamonds. As he stood up he began to shiver. He looked out to sea and saw nothing but icebergs. He was alone. He had no friends, no family, nothing but himself.
“Even the ice has friends, why don’t I?” Luna walked over to the beach and looked out.
“Nothing. No islands, no boats, no fish, no life. Luna began to walk closer to the water and reached his hand in It was cold, it was miserable. He took his hand out and shook the water off. Then he saw something
“What’s that? It looks like a path lined by icebergs.” Luna ran over to but then stopped. He looked down there was a sheet of ice in front of him. Cautiously he walked over it. But then (CRACK)
“Oh boy.” CRACK CRACK Luna moved faster all seamed ok. He heard behind him CRACK CRACK CRACK. He began to run he slipped and fell. The ice under him gave a loud CRACK. He tried to get up but he keeps falling down. The more he moved the more the ice cracked. Luna sat still. He was panicking he had no idea what to do.
“This is not good.” The ice keep cracking then Luna looked to his right!
“Icebergs!” He took out his sword and forced it into the closest iceberg like he was mountain climbing. He attempted to stand but fell. The ice under him shattered like a thin sheet of glass. Still clenching the hilt of his sword he fell waist deep into the water. The massive iceberg prevented Luna from falling all the way into the freezing water.
“Ok now what?” Luna looked to his left he was so close to the land. Quickly he dislodged his sword and stabbed it into the left side of the iceberg. With one hand clenched onto the sword he reached out to the land. He stretched out as far as his arms and legs could stretch but it was no good.
“I’m just a little too far away! Maybe” With the cold water numbing his entire body Luna struggled just to put his second hand on the sword. Then slowly and agonizingly he lifted his leg onto the iceberg. It began to slip quickly he moved his foot further up and rooted it better on the iceberg. Then he slowly moved his second foot up to the iceberg. He finally got his foot up to his other foot and held on to his sword tight. He looked out to the land and bent in a squatting motion as close to the iceberg as he could get. He took a deep breath and sprang off the iceberg.
Luna flew into the snow. Shaking the snow off Luna looked out and saw the path.
“What is with those icebergs? There formed like a path.” Luna walked over to them. He reached his hand in between the icebergs.
“Ah, why is that so hot!” Luna placed his hand into the water next to the icebergs.
“It’s cold. How is the other water so hot but this water is cold?” The snow began to come down harder as the sun began to set.
“I better find a safe place to rest.” Luna ran over saw another ice path. Hesitantly Luna commenced to cross the ice path. He moved slowly across the path.
“Things were going good up until this point last time.” Luna heard a crack.
“Oh no not again!” This time Luna shuffled his feat as though he was ice-skating. He reached the end. And let out a sigh of relief. As he looked ahead he saw a cave covered in ice almost like an igloo. Luna walked over and cautiously proceeded to enter the cave.
Chapter 4
Luna slowly walked through the cave. Not much to be see. Luna walked deeper into the cave and saw a stone tablet that was cursory written on. The stone tablet read:
We finally arrived at the point in which the light went off. It was a long trip. And it was all for naught. There was no signs of currently living life and we scanned the area from top to bottom.
December 14 2004
With his eyes wide Luna finished reading the log.
“I can’t believe that they didn’t find me. And wait I was out for three months!?” Luna sat down. He didn’t know what to do. Until his stomach let out a sound like a bear roar.
“Right I’ve been out for three months I need food.” Luna exited the cave and carefully crossed the next ice path. Then he stopped.
“I can’t squander my food! There was always a dearth of food around here, and after three months on no one taking care of the land I’ll be lucky if I find anything!” He approached the ice ridden marred bridge and crossed it cautiously.
He peered ahead to see a stone chimney above the water.
“My house used to be there!” He rushed up to it wide eyed. He pondered what to do for a moment. Until he noticed something strange about the icebergs.
“They, they, they say something!” He squinted to try to make out the first word’s in which the icebergs were arranged.
“Luna” squinting harder he made out the second word, “we are looking.” They’re looking for me, but there not here. Maybe I should go find them, but how?”
The sun descended and began to just go behind the mountains in an explosion of orange and yellow. Luna still just sat by his house. Just then he realized what he must do!
“The warm water, it forms a path... It forms a path with the icebergs surrounding it! If I build a raft I can get out of here!”
Chapter 5
The moon began to raise above the water the stars reflecting into the sea. Luna pondered for a moment about where to sleep tonight.
“The house is underwater, the ground is covered with snow, and I’m cold. Where to go?” Luna came to the conclusion that the best spot to sleep would be the igloo cave. He carefully crossed the icy bridges and headed for the cave.
Luna curled up into a ball behind the marred stone tablet. It wasn’t the warmest of places but it was better than the outside. Tossing and turning Luna attempted to sleep. Though he had so many things on his mind. Where will I find the materials for the raft, how long will it take to make the raft, I never ate today, where will I go after I make the raft, how long will it take before I get to an island, where is everyone else, how long will it take till I find everyone else. An endless stream or questions kept popping into his head; there was no end to them. Though somehow through it all Luna managed to fall into a sleep and began to dream.
Luna had visions of sailing for months on the sea nothing but waves surrounding him slowly they were withering away at his raft, soon there would be no more. Finally he reached an island. He walked slowly onshore. I green fertile land tall grass and trees, he looked in the distance and saw a town. He ran into town it was late and no one was around. Noting but the sound of crickets and frogs. He ran towards the western part of town and stumbled into a graveyard. He looked around for a while then he saw it, in its cold grey form. It stood grey and ominous the writing scratched into it that cut into his soul. The corners weather to pieces. Right now Luna could have felt more comfort in hell.
Chapter 6
Suddenly Luna jerked awake. Panting and hot with sweat dripping down his face drenching his clothing. Soon though the hot sensation was overtaken by a wave of cold causing the sweat to cease and the panting to turn into shivers. He tried to stand up but the cold had made his whole body stiff. Luna just laid on the ground of the igloo cave. Slowly Luna tried to stand up. He moved one joint at a time with a quiet CRICK, CRACK. Luna stood up and then stumbled back against the tablet. Using his hand for support he moved around to the front of the tablet. By the time he reached the front side his body had limbered. He walked out of the igloo cave and into the tundra that he once called home.
The newly fallen snow reflected the sun like mirrors. With his eyes squinting he looked around, but the sun was so bright he couldn’t see a thing He carefully moved forward making out as much of each object as he could. With every step his vision got better and better despite the sun. He walked to where the beach once stood.
“Once the beach flourished with all types of creatures big and small. Even that which didn’t belong there.” Once a whale washed up there. It took up most of the beach. It was so massive that everyone had to push it as hard as they could to try to put it back into the water. It was a useless attempt for by everyone it was only Luna and Sola. Eventually they could no longer move it but by that point the whale had long since suffocated. When everyone else awoke they noticed the massive chunk of blubber and fat lying on the beach. With nothing better to do with it they decided to eat it. No one was quite sure how to prepare it. Some said sauté it others said, broil it, and others said sushi! The whale was cut into three massive chunks of blubber. One that would be sautéed another that would be broiled and one chunk that would be turned into sushi. The whale wouldn’t sauté or broil well and everyone that ate the sushi got food poisoning but no one regretted it. Staring at the ocean Luna recalled this event and a smile came across his face but sadly now only ice and snow comes to this beach.
Chapter 7
Luna starred out at the sea cluttered with glaciers and chunks of ice. There was only one thing that he wanted to do right now.
“This place is no longer where I belong. No one is here it is just a frozen tundra this is not where I grew up. I don’t even know where I am anymore.” He turned his back to the sea and gazed upon the floating mass of ice he now lived on.
“I will get off the island and find my family.” He declared with his head held high. “And nothing will stop me… First things first, I don’t have a raft. Where could I get materials for a raft?” Luna pondered for a moment and remembered the wood quarry on the other side of the island.
“If I get the wood from the quarry then where will I get the sail? Maybe I can use something from the submerged house. I should probably get that first so that it can dry.
Luna rushed to the house carefully crossing the ice bridges. He starred at the small chimney sticking out of the ice. Luna could easily hold his breath long enough to get in and get out, but the cold might make it hard for him to maneuver, but he had no choice. Luna took a deep breath of air and dived in to the hole in the Ice.
The cold water being much denser than warm water pushed Luna continuously upward. Using all his might he pushed through the freezing water. He started to see the exit of the chimney and with one final push he reached the bottom of the chimney. He then swam out of the chimney. The whole place was destroyed, the table was rotten and there was mold covering the walls and doors. Luna swam to his room just off the kitchen hallway. The more he swam though the weaker he got the cold was slowly ravishing his body. Luna swung open the door and went into his room. The beads in his and Eclipse’s room were destroyed the windows have been cracked and shards of ice were floating around the room. “Where is it?” He thought. Then he saw his bead sheet floating around the room. “There it is!” Luna began to swim over to it. He grabbed the sheet and started out and then as if it were a trap the rough started to fall in Luna swam as fast as he could to get to the door. He swam out only to find that the hall way had already been destroyed. Before he could even think about a course of action a chunk of the rough fell and hit Luna square in the back. It forced him down onto the floor of the room. Luna tried to push the rock off of him but the cold water had weakened him. Luna laid on the ground and thought “What are the odds not only did this house hold up for months but it just so happens that when I enter the house it falls apart!? And even worse than that It just so happens that when I grab the sheet I rock falls on me. What the heck!” As if things couldn’t have gotten any worse Luna felt a crack in his chest. Luna’s lungs felt like they were going to burst from the lack of air! After a few more seconds of struggling Luna could no longer remain awake. But before he fell unconscious he remembered the one thing that could save him. Using all the strength he had left Luna focused his energy into the center of his chest. Not soon after a dull green aura appeared on his chest. Slowly the green aura got brighter and brighter until it glistened like a green star. Luna then focused on controlling this collection of energy. Luna closed his eyes for a second and everything went quiet. Quickly he opened them and a massive explosion of neon green burst out of his body in seconds everything in the house was being smashed like a glass window. Even the ice above was destroyed. When everything was over nothing was left in the house. Luna then had a surge of energy and with it he sprang up off the floor and swam up to the surface of the water. The surge of energy was not enough to allow Luna to make it to the surface. It just got him to the point in which he could see the light of day. He used all the energy he could in escaping the house but now it seemed that he had no more left. His head began to feel light not soon after his whole body went numb. He could no longer move his body. He drifted down and then lost consciousness.
Chapter 8
A muffled splash was heard as a figure jumped into the water. The figure was quickly gliding towards the bottom. The figure approached the lifeless body that was Luna. The person attempted to grab Luna the second the figure laid a hand on him his eyes sprung open and he immediately slammed the person in the face. Luna swam towards the surface chasing after the figure. The figure was moving much faster than Luna in only moments it was at the surface. It grabbed onto the ice at the top and pulled it self out. Luna still kept swimming up to the surface. He breached the surface and scanned around the water in his eyes made everything around him look like blobs of color.
“Where are you?” He demanded looking to the sky. Suddenly something caught his eye. He saw a figure running over the ice bridge. With a little smile he climbed out of the water waiting, until he heard a yell over by the ice bridge.
“You weren’t careful enough that bridge is extremely unstable,” He called out while running towards the sound. He rubbed at his eyes trying to get water out from them. He approached the bridge and stopped. Looking down he could see that the figure was female. She had blond hair and a light set of body armor on.
“It can’t be…” He whispered to himself. “S….” He yelled but was quickly interrupted by the new figure jumping at him from behind him. This person was male and wore a red helm and a red set of iron armor wielding a claymore. Luna drew his sword and tried to block the attack but the corroded old sword snapped against the must larger and heavier sword.
“A weapon is only as good as the fighter… and let’s face it with an attack like that you’ll never win. You fight like my brother and he…” Luna started
“Never beat you. Well guess what this time will be different!” Eclipse said.
“Hmmm I was about to look for you… but I see that is unnecessary. Oh well saves me the trouble. How much could you have improved in a few months…”
“Three to be exact…”
“I already knew that”
“Oh…”
“ Well lets see anyways if your any better, little brother.”
“BY TWO MINUTES.”
“Yha but I’m a dark mage and you’re not… That makes me older.”
“Shut up,” Eclipse yelled while jumping into the air. Eclipse swung at Luna he jumped onto the nearest ice chunk. Eclipse than jumped after him and slashed and destroyed the ice chunk. Unfazed by Eclipse’s shear power Luna had already jumped onto another mass of snow and ice. Still Eclipse charged after him as Luna jumped on to ice chunk after ice chunk.
“As slow as ever I can see,” Luna smirked.
“Yha well at least four months didn’t make me a coward!”
“What did you say?”
“You heard me and you also have girls name… oh boy why did I say that.” Luna’s eye began to twitch.
“You’re dead,” Luna said as he pointed at him. Luna sprung up into the air like a kangaroo.
“You broke the sword but you forgot that’s not my specialty!” Luna said. Luna spread his hands apart in the air. A gust of visible wind started spinning around his hands it got faster and faster until a figure of a double bladed Scythe the wind and the scythe slowed down when it had all but stopped Luna grabbed it and flipped in the air and spun down to the ground. He landed inches away from Eclipse and took the scythes spun them and cut a diagonal starting at Eclipse’s left side to his right shoulder. Eclipse was thrown back and crouched on the ground. Luna stood arms at his side with part of the scythe’s handle running up the back side of his arm. After he was done he lowered his arms down and the scythe began to vanish as though it was going through a slit in his pant leg.
“Well glad that’s over with”
Chapter 9
“Luna was that really necessary?” Sola asked.
“Yes it absolutely was,” Luna replied
“Ok I understand you being angry and all about what I said but did you really have to get that aggressive in a play fight… isn’t that a little overkill?” Eclipse asked
“Eh, my sword was corroded, you called me a girl so ummm I don’t think so,” Luna said. If I was out for three months why did the landscape change so much?
“What do you mean change in landscape?” Sola asked
“Gee I don’t know, how about the submerged houses and the newly included mountains,” Luna said sarcastically.
“That might have something to do with the virus core,” Sola replied
“Anyways we should get off this place; I don’t want to stay here any longer.” Eclipse holding his side slowly stood up and the three trekked their way over to the boat.
When they were all on the boat Luna asked:
“Hey how did you operate this boat by yourselves?”
“We’ve been here before so we knew a good path here it was on an auto-pilot mode all we had to do was steer it clear of icebergs.” Eclipse replied. “I made that part.”
“Alright then and also did you find Mom and Dad?” Luna asked.
“No,” Sola said depressingly.
“… Ok then,” Luna replied. They started their boat and went on their way.
They sailed for a few hours and now it was getting dark.
“Hey Sola how far is it to land?” Luna asked
“If we sail through the night we should reach it by noon tomorrow. “
“Wait so you mean that I was only a day away from civilization at any moment?”
“No remember we have slightly more advanced materials from the outside world so it would take them more like a week to reach it.” Sola replied. Luna looked off over the metal rail into the sea. In a slow rhythmic movement the water swayed pushing the boat slowly. It was like the waves were the conductor and the boat was the band. Their boat wasn’t very big it had no room for sleeping on it. It was designed to be as light as possible to provide the maximum mobility and speed. It was made from strong materials to help defend against impact. The outside was not an advanced design but the inside was where their skill was shone. Their ship had theoretical perpetual energy. The faster the waves the faster the boat moved, but that wasn’t its only way to move. It also was powered by the strongest energy source on planet. It was powered by a fire crystal.
The world naturally creates crystals and their all powerful. The people of this world just don’t know how to use them. There are eight types of crystals that have been used for purposes like this boat each with a different elemental alignment: fire, darkness, light, earth, wind, thunder/lightning, water, ice but there are still more that may be able to be used. There are different sizes of crystals the two most commonly used are the smallest and the largest sizes. There are also ways that the mages of this world can use there power for war. If a person absorbs a crystal energy they are given a huge burst of that power each small crystal will temporary increase a person’s natural power with that element 10 fold. If they absorb a big crystal its 100 fold more power added to their own. The power ends though when the person uses all the power they absorbed form the crystal or it’s automatically expelled from their body after 24 hours. But the penalty for using such power can come at a great coast.
Chapter 10
“What in the world is that?” Eclipse yelled. Luna woke up in to a very confused manor the boat was rocking and the waves were pounding against the boat with such force there was fear it would fall over, there was also an ominous and furious wind pounding down upon them.
“Where is that wind coming from?” Sola yelled over the howling wind.
“I don’t know!” Luna replied
“Luna Sola look up in the sky!” Overhead a massive dragon was flying overhead. It had silvery blue scales and two big icy eyes starring at them with a piecing gaze.
“What should we do?” Sola Asked
“We should leave it along unless it attacks us. There is no sense in aggravating a dragon unless needed,” Luna replied
“Alright then,” Sola said.
With the wind caused by the flaps of the dragons wings were still pounding on the bow of the ship and the waves hammering on the ship. Luna never turned his gaze off the dragon. It had no sign off attacking but it was extremely close. “Something isn’t right” he thought to himself.
“Everybody I see land!” Sola yelled
“There it is an island not made of floating ice!” Luna exclaimed.
“I hate to spoil this event but um the back of the ship is on fire,” Eclipsed said.
“What!?” Luna and Sola exclaimed. Luna looked up to see that the dragon had now moved towards the back of the ship.
“It’s attacked!” Luna yelled.
The trio all drew their weapons Eclipse with his claymore Luna with his scythe and Sola with her special staff. Sola’s staff had the unique power of extending out as far as she wanted it to and had a removable edge that concealed a razor sharp blade.
“Alright Luna you use a gravity spell on Eclipse to allow him to fly up to the dragon and allowing him to attack Eclipse you strike that he dragon with all you got and I’ll attack from down here” Sola commanded
“Rodger,” Luna and Eclipse responded. Luna put the palm of his left had and faced it towards Eclipse, a black and purple aura appeared around Luna’s hand and Eclipse’s body. Eclipses feat slowly lifted off the ground and was steadily rising up towards the dragon. Sola Moved to the front of the ship and using her staff pelted the dragon from afar. The dragon seamed not to care it continually spat fire at the ship.
“How much more can this thing take?” Luna asked
“I don’t know!” Sola yelled back.
“Luna drop me on the dragon,” Eclipse asked
“Alright,” Luna replied. Luna moved Eclipse over the back of the dragon and dropped him on it. Eclipse then took his massive sword and swung it with all his might into the dragon’s neck the scales on its neck were absorbing most of the blow but Eclipses sword was quickly reaching the soft flesh under the dragon’s neck. SNAP! The dragon’s neck came with a tethered edge around the neck and dropped to the sea. Luna moved Eclipse over to the boat and lowered him unto the deck.
Chapter 11
“Ok great the Dragon is dead, but we forgot about the fire that has now almost destroyed half of the ship!” Luna said
“Oh right the fire… THE FIRE!!!” Sola exclaimed. “Quick, quick get the fire extinguisher!!!”
“What fire extinguisher!” Eclipse yelled!
“You didn’t bring a fire extinguisher?” Sola yelled back
“Eclipse no I never thought we would get attacked by a dragon!”
“Both of you shut up and grab the crystal and bail!” Luna yelled over them.
“Who died and made you king?” Eclipse yelled
“My farther if he’s dead I am king!” Luna yelled
“Yeah of a nation with only 10 loyal subjects,” Eclipse yelled.
“Luna fallow your own advice the fire is here!” Sola screamed
“Ohhhhhh fire!” Luna said with admiration.
“Wow you really are a pyro,” Sola said
“Ummm guys if we don’t get the crystal soon it’s going to absorb the fire and become more of a threat than the fire!” Eclipse attempted to say to try and pacify the anger.
“Oh right!” Luna said. “How do we get to it?”
“At this point I think just jump off the boat and swim as fast as you can. The explosion the crystal makes should destroy the boat and all it’s mechanics after that the empty shell of the crystal should go to the bottom of the sea and either return to the Earth or become a water crystal.” Sola explained.
“Ok sound good to me,” Luna said while jumping off the side of the boat.
Luna approached the water and then started to float above the surface of the water. Sola and Eclipse on the other hand hit the water with a large splash and stared at Luna.
“What? Why should I swim I can control gravity,” Luna said. “We should run that boat will explode in a few seconds or in your cases swim.” Luna ran across the surface of the water fallowed shortly by the swimming Sola and Eclipse. Once they were about a mile away from the boat and about two five miles off shore Luna looked back.
“Luna why did you stop?” Sola asked
“The fireworks should be starting soon,” Luna replied
“Of course,” Sola sighed. Not long after the boat begin to explode with Luna going “Ohhhh ahhhh” much like a little kid would do when seeing fireworks for the first time. For Luna explosion equals fireworks. While Sola expected this from both Luna and Eclipse, it was to her surprise that she herself couldn’t help but stare with the utmost interest at the ball of black smoke and a mixture of all different shades red, greens blue, yellow and orange that she stood on only 20 minutes ago.
Chapter 12
After an hour of swimming a boat finally came along Luna had to immediately drop into the water for fear of them discovering the lunar blood that lay within him. The captain asked them if they needed a lift which the accepted in an instant. The boat was headed to Full Moon Island an island just west of New Moon Island where Luna and his family once lived.
“Thank you for you help Captain,” Sola said while kicking Luna in the shin and elbowing Eclipse in his right arm.
“Thank you,” Luna and Eclipse said.
“It’s not a problem at all. What were a bunch of kids doing in the ocean alone?” The captain asked
“Our family owns a small boat but it caught fire somehow we all jumped off the boat but the currents swept us away from our parents,” Sola partially lied. “May we see a map?”
“Of course,” The captain replied the captain removed a map from a shelf right next to the controls. “We’re here,” he said while pointing to the North West corner of the map about 20 miles off shore from Full Moon Island.” The trio looked at the map and all noticed one thing right off the bat, something was missing.
“Thank you captain,” the trio replied and left the hull.
“Did anyone else notice what was missing in the South East corner of the map?” Luna asked nervously.
“Yeah,” Sola said scanning the room.
“Probably means they either died trying to get there or got there on a New Moon when it no longer exists…” Eclipse said. While none of them were willing to admit it they were all choking back tears. Earth is a place where most of the Lunar Civilization would not dare to go after the incident 10-years-ago. Lord Eclipse hoped that maybe the Lunar Civilization could recolonize on Earth to try and prevent an overpopulation problem. After what happened on the first attempt though… most wanted nothing to do with Earth and the curse that lies upon it. Crescent Moon Island.
Chapter 13
They arrived at the dock the fallowing morning. The trio stepped out of the small and dark room the trio was placed in. A blast of sea spray hit them in the face and the sunlight reflecting off the white shiny cruse ship. The departed with the other passengers off the loading ramp. Sola and Eclipse were saying something to Luna but he was mesmerized by the feelings around him. The warm air against his skin, the people around him bumping into him, the metal against his bear feat… Luna looked down at his feat.
“While I was asleep I the snow must have worried away at my shoes and my feat must have put holes in them,” Luna said questioningly.
“Luna did you hear what I just said?” Sola asked breaking Luna’s daze
“Ha, what?” Luna asked.
“I said this was the island in which we were dropped off after the cyclone, and from here we made several trips to New Moon Island,” Sola said
“Oh right,” Luna said. The trio was at the end of the loading ramp Luna stepped upon the dock the wood was rough against his bear feat and he got think he got several splinters from the wood.
“Luna!” Eclipse exclaimed
“What?” Luna asked
“Your ear!” Luna took his hand and put it to his ear something was wet on it he took his hand away and was shocked to see his hand was red.
“Blood,” Luna half exclaimed and half questioned.
“What’s going on?” Sola asked
“How should we know you’re the smart one!” Eclipse exclaimed
“Um Um, maybe it’s because your ear isn’t used to this noise and it broke!” Sola panicky said. “What else happened on the island?”
“I absorbed the virus core…”
“You did what!” Sola screamed
Chapter 14
“You idiot!” Sola yelled while whacking Luna across the face. “That’s what killed every on Crescent Moon Island.”
“How was I supposed to know that?” Luna asked
“We were never really told much about the virus,” Eclipse said.
“You shut up!” Sola yelled
“Make me!” Eclipse yelled back
“Guys how about you both shut up because for all I know I might be dieing here!” Luna screamed in a nervous tone.
“Well from what I know everyone who has had the virus died within the first week, and you’ve had it for three months so you should be ok, in theory,” Sola said whispering the last part of the sentence.
“I guess that’s good news,” Luna said half heartedly with a look of despair on his face.
They all walked in silence as the moved towards the town. It was a short hike to the town from the coast. It was a fairly barren land with only a few trees. The grass was waist high off the path. The path was lined with angled stones cut and placed together with sand to fill in the cracks. At places grass was growing through the sand and in cracks in the stones. There were a few flowers growing in the fields off the path and birds flying over head. The town lay a mile down the path. It was there that they all stopped near a sign. The sign read
*Quarantined*
Do not pass beyond this point this area has been quarantined due to
classified reasons.
“Anyone else recognize this sign?” Luna said.
Crescent Moon Island
By Shawn Phillips
Chapter 1
A loud thud wakes a 13 year old boy the moon has just reached its peak and is beginning it’s decent down to the ground. He removes his earplugs and says
“That must have been loud I heard them through theses... I don’t even remember why I slept with theses in my ears...” Just then a loud snoring noise is heard
“Oh right Eclipse snores like a bullhorn.”
The boy gets out of bed and peers out the window. An eerie green glow is outside his window. Instantly he rushes outside. Across the river all the adults are gathered gazing mesmerized by the glowing object. The boy does a quick and quiet jog careful to avoid all things that could cause unwanted noise, across the bridge over the lake. There are huge gouges in the ground that all lead to a creator. He dashes over to the creator but stops after seeing the adults. He overhears snips of conversation.
“How... I... back” Said a worried voice
“Aura... we... go... tomar...” said another voice
“Lord Eclipse we have a situation” said a knight. “He shall be here soon.
“Alright everyone we must leave at sunup tomorrow!” Lord Eclipse Yelled. “But for now we should get some rest.” The boy quickly rushed back home and got into his bed.
The sun has just began its trip up the sky all of the few members that remained loyal to his family were assembled. The boy gazed out to the sea and the vessel that was to carry them over it. out he saw the boat that was to bring them away.
“Why do we have to leave again?” The boy’s sister said
“We shall talk about that on the boat Sola, now we need to go.” Lord Eclipse said
“What leaving so soon” A voice snickered. A man walked out of a portal of darkness
with silvery white hair and a suit of heavy black armor on him.
“I’m saddened that you would go so soon.” He said. “Now give me the boy. Give me Luna and the core,” demanded the man.
“I don’t care who you are you won’t take him or that Virus Core,” Lord Eclipse yelled
“That’s right, come on lets get him,” Aura yelled.
Lord Eclipse lunged at the man with his sword in the air. The man grabbed him and tossed him aside like a lion would with the remains of his prey. Aura quickly raised her hands and a white sphere appeared. She then launched the sphere at Lord Eclipse who was kneeling on the ground the white sphere hit him and he stood right back up. He lunged again.
“This has gone on long enough,” The man thundered. Two black orbs appeared in his hands he blasted them both at Aura and Lord Eclipse. The orbs flew so fast you couldn’t see them; all you could see was Aura and Lord Eclipse falling to the ground.
“How dare you!” Luna yelled as he charged toward the man. Sola and Eclipse grabbed Luna and attempted to pacify him.
“Luna if that didn’t work for Dad and Mom how would it work for us!” Eclipse yelled. Luna’s countenance was still that of anger. His teeth were clenched and his eyes were like fire.
“Fine but we can’t just let him get away with this can we;” Luna said through his teeth.
“Well I would love to let you think of a tactic but you won’t have time.” The man laughed. “Twister!” In seconds, a huge tornado engulfed the three. The man reached in and grabbed Luna by the collar of his shirt and yanked him out of the tornado. Luna could only watch and Eclipse and Sola were shot out of the tornado and were thrust out of the tornado and into the sky.
“Aw tis a pity,” The man said. “I guess it’s only fair you know the name of your killer. My name is Ombra.
“You... Im gonna kill you!” Luna Screamed.
“What makes you think you can do that?” Ombra asked.
“I only know on thing about that Virus core and that when some one absorbs its power they become much stronger...”
“You’re Crazy!” Luna kicked the man and he let go. Luna rushed to the Core and laid his hands on it.
Chapter 2
A slickly green spiral began to move up his arms like a snake. Luna shut his eyes tight from the pain of absorbing its power. A massive earthquake began, the sky turned dark and it started to thunder. Luna began to shake every muscle in his body tensed up but still he never removed his hands. His heartbeat became unpredictable. A fever came over him and he began to have trouble breathing. The green glow of the Core began to vanish as Luna absorbed its power. Green streaks began to form on his armor the streaks began to glow the neon green of the Core. Eventually the pain was too great and Luna let out a yell. A huge green tower of energy engulfed him and the Core. And when it cleared the Core faded into a dull gray. Finally it was as though Luna’s whole body just died he didn’t breath his heart didn’t beat. Then his body came back to life. Luna took two steps back his eyes still shut. Luna then bowed his head and began to sway back and forth his eyes still shut. The man stood there not knowing what to do.
Ombra decided to strike before Luna could...he created a scythe. It was a dark blue handled scythe. At its base was what looked like a pointed emerald attached to it, its point facing the ground. On its blade was second smaller blade, and spiraled up the Scythe was a snake like decal made purely of shadow energy. The scythe also had an evil black and blood red aura surrounding it.
Ombra leaped into the air and slashed his scythe at Luna. It looked like it went right through him. The man thought he hit but before he attacked Luna ran behind him. He was able to move so fast that the man didn’t realize that Luna got behind him until Luna was already there. And even though he knew Luna was behind him Luna was able to slash him six times before the man even felt any pain.
“That little brat is fast,” the man said
“...” The man went to strike Luna... Luna sneezed and the man was frozen in a block of Ice!? A loud glass braking sound pierced the ears of Luna
“What the heck just happened?” the man asked
“...”Ombra was thrown across the island.” Luna had his fist held out. Ombra was then beat back Luna had his fist out.
“I’ve had enough of this!” Ombra yelled
“...”Ombra charged as fast as he could at Luna. Luna just sat there. The scythe point was just an inch away from Luna’s head when Luna grabbed it.
“...Allow me to return the favor for my family in their stead...” Luna whispered despite that fact that even speaking put great strain on his body. Luna threw the man way off the coast line. Luna ran out to sea and began to run around where he landed. In seconds a huge whirlpool appeared and the man was sucked down into the dark abyss of the sea. Luna floated over the whirlpool and headed back to the island. He found a spot to rest and fell asleep.
Chapter 3
Luna awoke in a mountain range a fresh coat of snow on the ground, and a blue sky above. The sun reflected off the snow into his eyes like diamonds. As he stood up he began to shiver. He looked out to sea and saw nothing but icebergs. He was alone. He had no friends, no family, nothing but himself.
“Even the ice has friends, why don’t I?” Luna walked over to the beach and looked out.
“Nothing. No islands, no boats, no fish, no life. Luna began to walk closer to the water and reached his hand in It was cold, it was miserable. He took his hand out and shook the water off. Then he saw something
“What’s that? It looks like a path lined by icebergs.” Luna ran over to but then stopped. He looked down there was a sheet of ice in front of him. Cautiously he walked over it. But then (CRACK)
“Oh boy.” CRACK CRACK Luna moved faster all seamed ok. He heard behind him CRACK CRACK CRACK. He began to run he slipped and fell. The ice under him gave a loud CRACK. He tried to get up but he keeps falling down. The more he moved the more the ice cracked. Luna sat still. He was panicking he had no idea what to do.
“This is not good.” The ice keep cracking then Luna looked to his right!
“Icebergs!” He took out his sword and forced it into the closest iceberg like he was mountain climbing. He attempted to stand but fell. The ice under him shattered like a thin sheet of glass. Still clenching the hilt of his sword he fell waist deep into the water. The massive iceberg prevented Luna from falling all the way into the freezing water.
“Ok now what?” Luna looked to his left he was so close to the land. Quickly he dislodged his sword and stabbed it into the left side of the iceberg. With one hand clenched onto the sword he reached out to the land. He stretched out as far as his arms and legs could stretch but it was no good.
“I’m just a little too far away! Maybe” With the cold water numbing his entire body Luna struggled just to put his second hand on the sword. Then slowly and agonizingly he lifted his leg onto the iceberg. It began to slip quickly he moved his foot further up and rooted it better on the iceberg. Then he slowly moved his second foot up to the iceberg. He finally got his foot up to his other foot and held on to his sword tight. He looked out to the land and bent in a squatting motion as close to the iceberg as he could get. He took a deep breath and sprang off the iceberg.
Luna flew into the snow. Shaking the snow off Luna looked out and saw the path.
“What is with those icebergs? There formed like a path.” Luna walked over to them. He reached his hand in between the icebergs.
“Ah, why is that so hot!” Luna placed his hand into the water next to the icebergs.
“It’s cold. How is the other water so hot but this water is cold?” The snow began to come down harder as the sun began to set.
“I better find a safe place to rest.” Luna ran over saw another ice path. Hesitantly Luna commenced to cross the ice path. He moved slowly across the path.
“Things were going good up until this point last time.” Luna heard a crack.
“Oh no not again!” This time Luna shuffled his feat as though he was ice-skating. He reached the end. And let out a sigh of relief. As he looked ahead he saw a cave covered in ice almost like an igloo. Luna walked over and cautiously proceeded to enter the cave.
Chapter 4
Luna slowly walked through the cave. Not much to be see. Luna walked deeper into the cave and saw a stone tablet that was cursory written on. The stone tablet read:
We finally arrived at the point in which the light went off. It was a long trip. And it was all for naught. There was no signs of currently living life and we scanned the area from top to bottom.
December 14 2004
With his eyes wide Luna finished reading the log.
“I can’t believe that they didn’t find me. And wait I was out for three months!?” Luna sat down. He didn’t know what to do. Until his stomach let out a sound like a bear roar.
“Right I’ve been out for three months I need food.” Luna exited the cave and carefully crossed the next ice path. Then he stopped.
“I can’t squander my food! There was always a dearth of food around here, and after three months on no one taking care of the land I’ll be lucky if I find anything!” He approached the ice ridden marred bridge and crossed it cautiously.
He peered ahead to see a stone chimney above the water.
“My house used to be there!” He rushed up to it wide eyed. He pondered what to do for a moment. Until he noticed something strange about the icebergs.
“They, they, they say something!” He squinted to try to make out the first word’s in which the icebergs were arranged.
“Luna” squinting harder he made out the second word, “we are looking.” They’re looking for me, but there not here. Maybe I should go find them, but how?”
The sun descended and began to just go behind the mountains in an explosion of orange and yellow. Luna still just sat by his house. Just then he realized what he must do!
“The warm water, it forms a path... It forms a path with the icebergs surrounding it! If I build a raft I can get out of here!”
Chapter 5
The moon began to raise above the water the stars reflecting into the sea. Luna pondered for a moment about where to sleep tonight.
“The house is underwater, the ground is covered with snow, and I’m cold. Where to go?” Luna came to the conclusion that the best spot to sleep would be the igloo cave. He carefully crossed the icy bridges and headed for the cave.
Luna curled up into a ball behind the marred stone tablet. It wasn’t the warmest of places but it was better than the outside. Tossing and turning Luna attempted to sleep. Though he had so many things on his mind. Where will I find the materials for the raft, how long will it take to make the raft, I never ate today, where will I go after I make the raft, how long will it take before I get to an island, where is everyone else, how long will it take till I find everyone else. An endless stream or questions kept popping into his head; there was no end to them. Though somehow through it all Luna managed to fall into a sleep and began to dream.
Luna had visions of sailing for months on the sea nothing but waves surrounding him slowly they were withering away at his raft, soon there would be no more. Finally he reached an island. He walked slowly onshore. I green fertile land tall grass and trees, he looked in the distance and saw a town. He ran into town it was late and no one was around. Noting but the sound of crickets and frogs. He ran towards the western part of town and stumbled into a graveyard. He looked around for a while then he saw it, in its cold grey form. It stood grey and ominous the writing scratched into it that cut into his soul. The corners weather to pieces. Right now Luna could have felt more comfort in hell.
Chapter 6
Suddenly Luna jerked awake. Panting and hot with sweat dripping down his face drenching his clothing. Soon though the hot sensation was overtaken by a wave of cold causing the sweat to cease and the panting to turn into shivers. He tried to stand up but the cold had made his whole body stiff. Luna just laid on the ground of the igloo cave. Slowly Luna tried to stand up. He moved one joint at a time with a quiet CRICK, CRACK. Luna stood up and then stumbled back against the tablet. Using his hand for support he moved around to the front of the tablet. By the time he reached the front side his body had limbered. He walked out of the igloo cave and into the tundra that he once called home.
The newly fallen snow reflected the sun like mirrors. With his eyes squinting he looked around, but the sun was so bright he couldn’t see a thing He carefully moved forward making out as much of each object as he could. With every step his vision got better and better despite the sun. He walked to where the beach once stood.
“Once the beach flourished with all types of creatures big and small. Even that which didn’t belong there.” Once a whale washed up there. It took up most of the beach. It was so massive that everyone had to push it as hard as they could to try to put it back into the water. It was a useless attempt for by everyone it was only Luna and Sola. Eventually they could no longer move it but by that point the whale had long since suffocated. When everyone else awoke they noticed the massive chunk of blubber and fat lying on the beach. With nothing better to do with it they decided to eat it. No one was quite sure how to prepare it. Some said sauté it others said, broil it, and others said sushi! The whale was cut into three massive chunks of blubber. One that would be sautéed another that would be broiled and one chunk that would be turned into sushi. The whale wouldn’t sauté or broil well and everyone that ate the sushi got food poisoning but no one regretted it. Staring at the ocean Luna recalled this event and a smile came across his face but sadly now only ice and snow comes to this beach.
Chapter 7
Luna starred out at the sea cluttered with glaciers and chunks of ice. There was only one thing that he wanted to do right now.
“This place is no longer where I belong. No one is here it is just a frozen tundra this is not where I grew up. I don’t even know where I am anymore.” He turned his back to the sea and gazed upon the floating mass of ice he now lived on.
“I will get off the island and find my family.” He declared with his head held high. “And nothing will stop me… First things first, I don’t have a raft. Where could I get materials for a raft?” Luna pondered for a moment and remembered the wood quarry on the other side of the island.
“If I get the wood from the quarry then where will I get the sail? Maybe I can use something from the submerged house. I should probably get that first so that it can dry.
Luna rushed to the house carefully crossing the ice bridges. He starred at the small chimney sticking out of the ice. Luna could easily hold his breath long enough to get in and get out, but the cold might make it hard for him to maneuver, but he had no choice. Luna took a deep breath of air and dived in to the hole in the Ice.
The cold water being much denser than warm water pushed Luna continuously upward. Using all his might he pushed through the freezing water. He started to see the exit of the chimney and with one final push he reached the bottom of the chimney. He then swam out of the chimney. The whole place was destroyed, the table was rotten and there was mold covering the walls and doors. Luna swam to his room just off the kitchen hallway. The more he swam though the weaker he got the cold was slowly ravishing his body. Luna swung open the door and went into his room. The beads in his and Eclipse’s room were destroyed the windows have been cracked and shards of ice were floating around the room. “Where is it?” He thought. Then he saw his bead sheet floating around the room. “There it is!” Luna began to swim over to it. He grabbed the sheet and started out and then as if it were a trap the rough started to fall in Luna swam as fast as he could to get to the door. He swam out only to find that the hall way had already been destroyed. Before he could even think about a course of action a chunk of the rough fell and hit Luna square in the back. It forced him down onto the floor of the room. Luna tried to push the rock off of him but the cold water had weakened him. Luna laid on the ground and thought “What are the odds not only did this house hold up for months but it just so happens that when I enter the house it falls apart!? And even worse than that It just so happens that when I grab the sheet I rock falls on me. What the heck!” As if things couldn’t have gotten any worse Luna felt a crack in his chest. Luna’s lungs felt like they were going to burst from the lack of air! After a few more seconds of struggling Luna could no longer remain awake. But before he fell unconscious he remembered the one thing that could save him. Using all the strength he had left Luna focused his energy into the center of his chest. Not soon after a dull green aura appeared on his chest. Slowly the green aura got brighter and brighter until it glistened like a green star. Luna then focused on controlling this collection of energy. Luna closed his eyes for a second and everything went quiet. Quickly he opened them and a massive explosion of neon green burst out of his body in seconds everything in the house was being smashed like a glass window. Even the ice above was destroyed. When everything was over nothing was left in the house. Luna then had a surge of energy and with it he sprang up off the floor and swam up to the surface of the water. The surge of energy was not enough to allow Luna to make it to the surface. It just got him to the point in which he could see the light of day. He used all the energy he could in escaping the house but now it seemed that he had no more left. His head began to feel light not soon after his whole body went numb. He could no longer move his body. He drifted down and then lost consciousness.
Chapter 8
A muffled splash was heard as a figure jumped into the water. The figure was quickly gliding towards the bottom. The figure approached the lifeless body that was Luna. The person attempted to grab Luna the second the figure laid a hand on him his eyes sprung open and he immediately slammed the person in the face. Luna swam towards the surface chasing after the figure. The figure was moving much faster than Luna in only moments it was at the surface. It grabbed onto the ice at the top and pulled it self out. Luna still kept swimming up to the surface. He breached the surface and scanned around the water in his eyes made everything around him look like blobs of color.
“Where are you?” He demanded looking to the sky. Suddenly something caught his eye. He saw a figure running over the ice bridge. With a little smile he climbed out of the water waiting, until he heard a yell over by the ice bridge.
“You weren’t careful enough that bridge is extremely unstable,” He called out while running towards the sound. He rubbed at his eyes trying to get water out from them. He approached the bridge and stopped. Looking down he could see that the figure was female. She had blond hair and a light set of body armor on.
“It can’t be…” He whispered to himself. “S….” He yelled but was quickly interrupted by the new figure jumping at him from behind him. This person was male and wore a red helm and a red set of iron armor wielding a claymore. Luna drew his sword and tried to block the attack but the corroded old sword snapped against the must larger and heavier sword.
“A weapon is only as good as the fighter… and let’s face it with an attack like that you’ll never win. You fight like my brother and he…” Luna started
“Never beat you. Well guess what this time will be different!” Eclipse said.
“Hmmm I was about to look for you… but I see that is unnecessary. Oh well saves me the trouble. How much could you have improved in a few months…”
“Three to be exact…”
“I already knew that”
“Oh…”
“ Well lets see anyways if your any better, little brother.”
“BY TWO MINUTES.”
“Yha but I’m a dark mage and you’re not… That makes me older.”
“Shut up,” Eclipse yelled while jumping into the air. Eclipse swung at Luna he jumped onto the nearest ice chunk. Eclipse than jumped after him and slashed and destroyed the ice chunk. Unfazed by Eclipse’s shear power Luna had already jumped onto another mass of snow and ice. Still Eclipse charged after him as Luna jumped on to ice chunk after ice chunk.
“As slow as ever I can see,” Luna smirked.
“Yha well at least four months didn’t make me a coward!”
“What did you say?”
“You heard me and you also have girls name… oh boy why did I say that.” Luna’s eye began to twitch.
“You’re dead,” Luna said as he pointed at him. Luna sprung up into the air like a kangaroo.
“You broke the sword but you forgot that’s not my specialty!” Luna said. Luna spread his hands apart in the air. A gust of visible wind started spinning around his hands it got faster and faster until a figure of a double bladed Scythe the wind and the scythe slowed down when it had all but stopped Luna grabbed it and flipped in the air and spun down to the ground. He landed inches away from Eclipse and took the scythes spun them and cut a diagonal starting at Eclipse’s left side to his right shoulder. Eclipse was thrown back and crouched on the ground. Luna stood arms at his side with part of the scythe’s handle running up the back side of his arm. After he was done he lowered his arms down and the scythe began to vanish as though it was going through a slit in his pant leg.
“Well glad that’s over with”
Chapter 9
“Luna was that really necessary?” Sola asked.
“Yes it absolutely was,” Luna replied
“Ok I understand you being angry and all about what I said but did you really have to get that aggressive in a play fight… isn’t that a little overkill?” Eclipse asked
“Eh, my sword was corroded, you called me a girl so ummm I don’t think so,” Luna said. If I was out for three months why did the landscape change so much?
“What do you mean change in landscape?” Sola asked
“Gee I don’t know, how about the submerged houses and the newly included mountains,” Luna said sarcastically.
“That might have something to do with the virus core,” Sola replied
“Anyways we should get off this place; I don’t want to stay here any longer.” Eclipse holding his side slowly stood up and the three trekked their way over to the boat.
When they were all on the boat Luna asked:
“Hey how did you operate this boat by yourselves?”
“We’ve been here before so we knew a good path here it was on an auto-pilot mode all we had to do was steer it clear of icebergs.” Eclipse replied. “I made that part.”
“Alright then and also did you find Mom and Dad?” Luna asked.
“No,” Sola said depressingly.
“… Ok then,” Luna replied. They started their boat and went on their way.
They sailed for a few hours and now it was getting dark.
“Hey Sola how far is it to land?” Luna asked
“If we sail through the night we should reach it by noon tomorrow. “
“Wait so you mean that I was only a day away from civilization at any moment?”
“No remember we have slightly more advanced materials from the outside world so it would take them more like a week to reach it.” Sola replied. Luna looked off over the metal rail into the sea. In a slow rhythmic movement the water swayed pushing the boat slowly. It was like the waves were the conductor and the boat was the band. Their boat wasn’t very big it had no room for sleeping on it. It was designed to be as light as possible to provide the maximum mobility and speed. It was made from strong materials to help defend against impact. The outside was not an advanced design but the inside was where their skill was shone. Their ship had theoretical perpetual energy. The faster the waves the faster the boat moved, but that wasn’t its only way to move. It also was powered by the strongest energy source on planet. It was powered by a fire crystal.
The world naturally creates crystals and their all powerful. The people of this world just don’t know how to use them. There are eight types of crystals that have been used for purposes like this boat each with a different elemental alignment: fire, darkness, light, earth, wind, thunder/lightning, water, ice but there are still more that may be able to be used. There are different sizes of crystals the two most commonly used are the smallest and the largest sizes. There are also ways that the mages of this world can use there power for war. If a person absorbs a crystal energy they are given a huge burst of that power each small crystal will temporary increase a person’s natural power with that element 10 fold. If they absorb a big crystal its 100 fold more power added to their own. The power ends though when the person uses all the power they absorbed form the crystal or it’s automatically expelled from their body after 24 hours. But the penalty for using such power can come at a great coast.
Chapter 10
“What in the world is that?” Eclipse yelled. Luna woke up in to a very confused manor the boat was rocking and the waves were pounding against the boat with such force there was fear it would fall over, there was also an ominous and furious wind pounding down upon them.
“Where is that wind coming from?” Sola yelled over the howling wind.
“I don’t know!” Luna replied
“Luna Sola look up in the sky!” Overhead a massive dragon was flying overhead. It had silvery blue scales and two big icy eyes starring at them with a piecing gaze.
“What should we do?” Sola Asked
“We should leave it along unless it attacks us. There is no sense in aggravating a dragon unless needed,” Luna replied
“Alright then,” Sola said.
With the wind caused by the flaps of the dragons wings were still pounding on the bow of the ship and the waves hammering on the ship. Luna never turned his gaze off the dragon. It had no sign off attacking but it was extremely close. “Something isn’t right” he thought to himself.
“Everybody I see land!” Sola yelled
“There it is an island not made of floating ice!” Luna exclaimed.
“I hate to spoil this event but um the back of the ship is on fire,” Eclipsed said.
“What!?” Luna and Sola exclaimed. Luna looked up to see that the dragon had now moved towards the back of the ship.
“It’s attacked!” Luna yelled.
The trio all drew their weapons Eclipse with his claymore Luna with his scythe and Sola with her special staff. Sola’s staff had the unique power of extending out as far as she wanted it to and had a removable edge that concealed a razor sharp blade.
“Alright Luna you use a gravity spell on Eclipse to allow him to fly up to the dragon and allowing him to attack Eclipse you strike that he dragon with all you got and I’ll attack from down here” Sola commanded
“Rodger,” Luna and Eclipse responded. Luna put the palm of his left had and faced it towards Eclipse, a black and purple aura appeared around Luna’s hand and Eclipse’s body. Eclipses feat slowly lifted off the ground and was steadily rising up towards the dragon. Sola Moved to the front of the ship and using her staff pelted the dragon from afar. The dragon seamed not to care it continually spat fire at the ship.
“How much more can this thing take?” Luna asked
“I don’t know!” Sola yelled back.
“Luna drop me on the dragon,” Eclipse asked
“Alright,” Luna replied. Luna moved Eclipse over the back of the dragon and dropped him on it. Eclipse then took his massive sword and swung it with all his might into the dragon’s neck the scales on its neck were absorbing most of the blow but Eclipses sword was quickly reaching the soft flesh under the dragon’s neck. SNAP! The dragon’s neck came with a tethered edge around the neck and dropped to the sea. Luna moved Eclipse over to the boat and lowered him unto the deck.
Chapter 11
“Ok great the Dragon is dead, but we forgot about the fire that has now almost destroyed half of the ship!” Luna said
“Oh right the fire… THE FIRE!!!” Sola exclaimed. “Quick, quick get the fire extinguisher!!!”
“What fire extinguisher!” Eclipse yelled!
“You didn’t bring a fire extinguisher?” Sola yelled back
“Eclipse no I never thought we would get attacked by a dragon!”
“Both of you shut up and grab the crystal and bail!” Luna yelled over them.
“Who died and made you king?” Eclipse yelled
“My farther if he’s dead I am king!” Luna yelled
“Yeah of a nation with only 10 loyal subjects,” Eclipse yelled.
“Luna fallow your own advice the fire is here!” Sola screamed
“Ohhhhhh fire!” Luna said with admiration.
“Wow you really are a pyro,” Sola said
“Ummm guys if we don’t get the crystal soon it’s going to absorb the fire and become more of a threat than the fire!” Eclipse attempted to say to try and pacify the anger.
“Oh right!” Luna said. “How do we get to it?”
“At this point I think just jump off the boat and swim as fast as you can. The explosion the crystal makes should destroy the boat and all it’s mechanics after that the empty shell of the crystal should go to the bottom of the sea and either return to the Earth or become a water crystal.” Sola explained.
“Ok sound good to me,” Luna said while jumping off the side of the boat.
Luna approached the water and then started to float above the surface of the water. Sola and Eclipse on the other hand hit the water with a large splash and stared at Luna.
“What? Why should I swim I can control gravity,” Luna said. “We should run that boat will explode in a few seconds or in your cases swim.” Luna ran across the surface of the water fallowed shortly by the swimming Sola and Eclipse. Once they were about a mile away from the boat and about two five miles off shore Luna looked back.
“Luna why did you stop?” Sola asked
“The fireworks should be starting soon,” Luna replied
“Of course,” Sola sighed. Not long after the boat begin to explode with Luna going “Ohhhh ahhhh” much like a little kid would do when seeing fireworks for the first time. For Luna explosion equals fireworks. While Sola expected this from both Luna and Eclipse, it was to her surprise that she herself couldn’t help but stare with the utmost interest at the ball of black smoke and a mixture of all different shades red, greens blue, yellow and orange that she stood on only 20 minutes ago.
Chapter 12
After an hour of swimming a boat finally came along Luna had to immediately drop into the water for fear of them discovering the lunar blood that lay within him. The captain asked them if they needed a lift which the accepted in an instant. The boat was headed to Full Moon Island an island just west of New Moon Island where Luna and his family once lived.
“Thank you for you help Captain,” Sola said while kicking Luna in the shin and elbowing Eclipse in his right arm.
“Thank you,” Luna and Eclipse said.
“It’s not a problem at all. What were a bunch of kids doing in the ocean alone?” The captain asked
“Our family owns a small boat but it caught fire somehow we all jumped off the boat but the currents swept us away from our parents,” Sola partially lied. “May we see a map?”
“Of course,” The captain replied the captain removed a map from a shelf right next to the controls. “We’re here,” he said while pointing to the North West corner of the map about 20 miles off shore from Full Moon Island.” The trio looked at the map and all noticed one thing right off the bat, something was missing.
“Thank you captain,” the trio replied and left the hull.
“Did anyone else notice what was missing in the South East corner of the map?” Luna asked nervously.
“Yeah,” Sola said scanning the room.
“Probably means they either died trying to get there or got there on a New Moon when it no longer exists…” Eclipse said. While none of them were willing to admit it they were all choking back tears. Earth is a place where most of the Lunar Civilization would not dare to go after the incident 10-years-ago. Lord Eclipse hoped that maybe the Lunar Civilization could recolonize on Earth to try and prevent an overpopulation problem. After what happened on the first attempt though… most wanted nothing to do with Earth and the curse that lies upon it. Crescent Moon Island.
Chapter 13
They arrived at the dock the fallowing morning. The trio stepped out of the small and dark room the trio was placed in. A blast of sea spray hit them in the face and the sunlight reflecting off the white shiny cruse ship. The departed with the other passengers off the loading ramp. Sola and Eclipse were saying something to Luna but he was mesmerized by the feelings around him. The warm air against his skin, the people around him bumping into him, the metal against his bear feat… Luna looked down at his feat.
“While I was asleep I the snow must have worried away at my shoes and my feat must have put holes in them,” Luna said questioningly.
“Luna did you hear what I just said?” Sola asked breaking Luna’s daze
“Ha, what?” Luna asked.
“I said this was the island in which we were dropped off after the cyclone, and from here we made several trips to New Moon Island,” Sola said
“Oh right,” Luna said. The trio was at the end of the loading ramp Luna stepped upon the dock the wood was rough against his bear feat and he got think he got several splinters from the wood.
“Luna!” Eclipse exclaimed
“What?” Luna asked
“Your ear!” Luna took his hand and put it to his ear something was wet on it he took his hand away and was shocked to see his hand was red.
“Blood,” Luna half exclaimed and half questioned.
“What’s going on?” Sola asked
“How should we know you’re the smart one!” Eclipse exclaimed
“Um Um, maybe it’s because your ear isn’t used to this noise and it broke!” Sola panicky said. “What else happened on the island?”
“I absorbed the virus core…”
“You did what!” Sola screamed
Chapter 14
“You idiot!” Sola yelled while whacking Luna across the face. “That’s what killed every on Crescent Moon Island.”
“How was I supposed to know that?” Luna asked
“We were never really told much about the virus,” Eclipse said.
“You shut up!” Sola yelled
“Make me!” Eclipse yelled back
“Guys how about you both shut up because for all I know I might be dieing here!” Luna screamed in a nervous tone.
“Well from what I know everyone who has had the virus died within the first week, and you’ve had it for three months so you should be ok, in theory,” Sola said whispering the last part of the sentence.
“I guess that’s good news,” Luna said half heartedly with a look of despair on his face.
They all walked in silence as the moved towards the town. It was a short hike to the town from the coast. It was a fairly barren land with only a few trees. The grass was waist high off the path. The path was lined with angled stones cut and placed together with sand to fill in the cracks. At places grass was growing through the sand and in cracks in the stones. There were a few flowers growing in the fields off the path and birds flying over head. The town lay a mile down the path. It was there that they all stopped near a sign. The sign read
*Quarantined*
Do not pass beyond this point this area has been quarantined due to
classified reasons.
“Anyone else recognize this sign?” Luna said.