Introduction

The towns of the hidden light nation are always bright and sunny, bringing paradise to any outsiders looking for a place to escape to during the weekend and being a huge island we have the most amazing beaches with crystal waters and sand as sooth as silk. The sea animals never mind the citizens in fact they love them, the flying water-rays will circle and purr as if a cat begging for food and the sharks are as harmless as a newborn pup. The most portion of the island is made up of the lush green plant life. There are trees that row higher than the clouds themselves. The islands flowers and fruits are all exotic and beautiful, one fruit can be turned into a medicine that can restore or help build bones. The Wizards flower can be used to heal any sickness that one may come across. To prevent the destructions of vegetation the inhabitants of the island have learned to build houses in trees, some underground, and even underwater. They have all learned to adept to their neighborhood some have gills, some have wings, and some have hands made specifically for digging. Everyone gets along and everyone lives a long and happy life. The animals on the island are all friendly to the citizens. They to have learned to adapt, from the winged red panda to the dune shark they all have a way of life like any other. The island was always in perfect harmony. At least it used to be. Now island is no longer a place of paradise but a place of death, sickness, and decay. The sky is black and destruction is everywhere. Half of the island has been burnt destroyed and ransacked. All the animals have fled. The earth water and air are all polluted. The island is no longer singing a song of harmony but a song of sadness and sorrow, and it is all my fault because I slipped up. I turned this place to hell.





Chapter 1

“It’s my fault, all my fault. If only I had remembered.” I thought.

This thought had been running through my head the whole time I've been on retrieval, and as arrived I to find another village burnt and pillaged it grew even stronger “It’s my fault, all my fault. If only I had remembered...” Repeatedly echoing through my conscience. I stopped and took of my helmet and felt my silver hair hit my back, which was covered in unnecessary protective covering. My face was smudged with dirt which stood out because I have skin as white as ghost. My dark red eyes darted side-to-side looking for survivors, if you were to look in my eyes, you would see loss, death, destruction, and confusion. These are my eyes, the eyes of someone who does not who he is or what he is. Its true I have no idea where I born or made, and my whole life as I grew up everyone has treated me as an outsider or some kind of freak. They never called me by a name its always been stuff like “come here, boy” or “get away from my children, you freak” so I just call my self X. it’s a vague name I know but its simple and I have grown fond of it. Just then, something whizzed by my head just in time for me to dodge and catch the mysterious object. A large dart drenched in poison I turned my head to see nothing but the rustle of bushes I jumped directly in to that clump of vegetation to find a small winged boy fending off a huge coiling pitch black snake, the boy was using a glowing blue sphere of light to fend of the serpent. I knew exactly what that was, I moved fast for the snake was backing up for another strike and I did not think the boy could take another hit. I moved in front of him and pushed him out of the way then conjured my own sphere and shot it hit the snake square in the chest (if snakes had a chests)

“Bind!” I yelled

The snakes outline turned purple and thick purple lines started crisscrossing in a diamond pattern all down the snake’s body. The serpent shook and sputtered and gave a one last loud hiss then fell to the ground with a loud thud.

“Whew, that was close huh” I said

Silence

“Hey kid you there?”

I turned this time to find the kid cowering on a pile of ash

I took a step toward him and faster than expected the kid was on his feet and his hand had another orb of light this time it was red.

“St-stay back I’m warning you” he yelled “ I-I can blow you to pieces”

Faster than he could blink I grabbed his wrist and poked him with two fingers right on his forehead

“ut that away before you hurt yourself,” I said

And I gently pushed a little harder and sent him back to the ground.

“You have essence, where’d you get it?” I asked

“What do you mean?” he whimpered

“The glowing orbs of light you used” I replied

Essence is a combination of body and soul attached ones emotions. Very few people have essence because it not genetic, some one has to force it in to you with his or her own essence. Essence allows you to do pretty much any thing binding, defending and blowing things to pieces. Essence comes in many forms but the most common is a glowing sphere of light projected from the hands.

“You have an amazing power and don’t even know what it is?” I asked in amazement “That power you have is called essence, see” I brought up my own essence, the kid just stared at me like a helpless puppy. After a few minutes the kid said softly.

“Why did you help me?”

“Because that snake was technically my fault”

The kid was back on his feet again essence flaring, even stronger this time

“WHAT!!!?” he screamed “that thing just destroyed my whole village and it’s your fault?”

“Hey calm down I said it was technically my fault”

“What do you mean technically?” he said in a very nasty tone

“That serpent you fought was one of Plagues minions”

“lague?” he asked his essence finally dispersing

“Yep, Plague.” I answered “lague was once the leader of the hidden dark village across the sea” “but one day Plague made a huge mistake and came to steal the jewel of light from our island and he got close but it still wasn’t enough, the Five Great Ancients cornered him and sealed him to an ancient tablet but they didn’t have strong enough essence so every 6 months I have to reseal him cause the seal weakens over time”



“Then how was that snake your fault?” he asked



“Well a few days ago I was supposed to strengthen the seal, but I forgot and, well now Plague is released and is trying to find the jewel and is going to destroy everything until he finds it”



“Oh”



“Come on” I stood up from the I was sitting on and started toward the village.

“Huh?” he said in confusion

“Lets go, I have to look for survivors”

“but –but what about plague.. an-and…?

“Listen kid you and I both have amazing power and plagues of looking for his jewel which he’s never going to find” I interrupted “we’re the only ones who can protect the rest of the south villages”

“All right” he said “but you have to train me to use my essence better”

“Sure whatever…” I paused “…by the way… what’s your name?

“He doesn’t have a name” said someone but it wasn’t the voice of another male it was the voice a female

“Hey sis” the little boy said







Chapter 2

I turned around and didn’t see a tall slim female figure in stead I saw a small boy standing next to an even smaller animal that resembles a raccoon but has rust colored fur and with creamy white colored stripes on its long bushy tail and mask.

“Your sister’s a panda!?!?!?”

“A winged red panda” the creature corrected. And out popped 2 medium sized dove wings

“My bad, a talking winged quadruped is the sister of a small little boy, oh that totally makes sense” I said sarcastically



“If you just let me explain…” the panda started



But I interrupted “let me guess your dad is a elephant that walks on 2 feet…”



WHAM



Before I cloud finish I was flipping through the air

I landed on my feet and skidded to a stop a few feet away and brought up some essence



“damn panda…” I swore under my breath but when I looked up instead of a panda there was a young woman, right where the panda was just a few minutes ago.



“hey lady did you happen to see a flying red panda around here?”



“oh you mean this one” replied the mysterious woman and right before my eyes the woman started morphing in to that same red panda



“oh, you’re a morphodite” I was dumbstruck,” I didn’t think there were any left.” “ And…” While I was talking, I found it uncomfortable talking to a panda that was hovering 3 feet off the ground.



“and…” she said



uh could you change back into a human please?” “I’d fell much more talking to a human”





Eventually the panda changed back into the boy’s sister and started explaining that that snake destroyed the whole village while she was out, and her and her brother were the only ones who could survive because of their unique abilities. During my little lecture, I could not help but notice how good-looking she was for a morphodite. She had long black hair with a section pulled back in a braid. She has light blue eyes and an amazing face. Most morphodites have characteristics of the animal they just came out of but she didn’t have any at least that I could see.



When I had heard enough I glared at the kid and asked why he didn’t tell me that he had a sister



“You didn’t ask…” he replied innocently



“ My name is Deidra and my brother really doesn’t have a name but everyone calls him Light.” She reached out a hand and I shook it



I turned away and started walking “c’mon, lets go”



“Wait, now what’s your name, we gave you ours so don’t be rude c’mon” Deidra said



“I…I don’t have a name, just call me X” “ now let’s go I have to take you and Light back to base to be healed.”



“There will be no need for that” “light is the only one hurt so ill just do it myself” and from her hand came light green shade of essence projected from her hands

“you’re a healer?” “ well that does give us more time”

“all done” she said and stood up “ nothing that bad just a cut, luck that his essence stopped that snakes poison from getting in to his blood stream, who knows what It would of done.” “By the way how old are you?”

“huh me?” I had just snapped out of staring at her whose essence just dispersed” “why?”

“I just wanted to know” she said in a weird flirty tone

“you first” I said quickly

“I asked you”

“fine we’ll say it at the same time, ready 1…2…3”

“25!” we said at the same time

“10!” light chimed in happily

but I hadn’t paid any attention to him I was to busy staring in to Deidra’s huge ocean blue eye’s. then I noticed…

“hey… weren’t your eyes light blue earlier”

“were they.. I didn’t notice” she said surprised “but m surprised that you did”

“uh well…”

“BROTHER!” Light screamed and before I could think he launched him self at me and it looked like he was going to jump right at me ,but before he made contact he did this weird mid-air jump, did a flip and landed on my shoulders.



“ Light he’s not our brother… but I guess we can tag along, 3 is better than 1”



“Alright then lets get going” I said



“Yay Piggy back ride” Light said as we started toward the south part of the island.



Chapter 3

Somewhere deep in the jungle in an old pyramid temple …



A weird little black creature hoped up to the temple and looked around nervously then when he saw the coast was clear he pressed on of the stone in and out popped a small keyboard e typed in a code with his long black fingers. The funny thing was that he had to jump cause he was only to feet tall by standing at full height, but when he walked he stays crouched over. When the code was in, a hologram disappeared and the shiny gold door behind it slid up, when the creature walked in it shut all by it’s self. The creature started down the pitch-black hallway, but its tiny white eyes allowed him to see in these hallways finally he came to an opening. He walked into a huge room about 50 feet tall and 60 feet across, and even under ground there was fluorescent light coming from the crystals on the walls. At the very end of the room was a tall chair and sitting in it was a man with deep ominous purple eyes. He had long white hair with thin eye brows and a square chin, and his face was very pale, as white as a ghost some may say, this was probably due to never seeing the sun for hundreds of years.



When he saw the little black creature, he smiled and beckoned him over

“come my friend bring me the good news” he said in a cheery.voice

The little creature started his journey across the 60 foot long room, and even though the creature was sprinting it was taking a long time to cross the room tall man sighed and stood up.

“Who in the hell made this room so darn long, jeez”

He lifted this hand and a black orb of light enveloped his hand, and right where the creature was running standing a orb of the same color surrounded it, closed, and disappeared. Almost instantaneously, the orb reappeared a few feet away from where the man was standing

“Now then” he said “lets hear it” and he sat back down to listen to the creature speak.

the small creature squeaked and started in a tiny voice

“your serpent destroyed the village just as you asked, sir” at this he got and one knee and bowed his head.

“That’s good, but not the news I wanted to hear.” Said the man politely “What about X is he dead?“

The creature was silent

The man stood back up and frowned
“he’s not dead is he.”

“No” the creature squeaked “no, no he’s not”

“Darn” said the man “That sucks”

and before either of them could blink the little creature exploded with a loud bang

“DAMN IT” the guy yelled, his cape rose with the essence that just projected from his hand “can’t get a darn thing done around here, can I”

“Sir, pardon me but it isn’t wise to go around wasting thing that you make out of your own essence” said a very quiet dark voice.

“Oh hey Death” the man said “eavesdropping again?”

“Sorry, sir but the way you were shouting the whole base is probably eavesdropping, sir” said Death

Death has no skin showing what so ever he covers himself with his hooded cloak wears light metal boots and a mask made out of a very peculiar material and with all of this on he is still capable of moving with out the slightest bit of noise

“You’re probably right, and you don’t have to call me sir.” The albino said “just call me by real name, cause we’re friends, are we not” he said in a very friendly tone

“B-but, master.” Death whimpered

“All right that’s and order,” the man said in a now more powerful voice “you will refer to me by my real name…lague.”


Chapter 4

We arrived at a southern village to find that not a grain of sand was out of place; even small section water was still as blue as a robins egg.

“Oh what a relief…” I sighed
“I know…” said deidra
“ Hey, the whole town is deserted” yelled light who was zipping house to house only to find that not a living soul was home.

“it’s all right, that’s normal, come back” I beckoned

“what do you mean that’s normal” light asked curiously

“this isn’t the real village, its never been occupied, it’s a decoy. “

“oh, then where is the real village ?”

“there” I said and pointed to the patch of light water a few feet out from the beach

“wha… I don’t see anything is it invisible” light said as he squinted

“no you idi…oww” I started to say but deidra elbowed me in the side… hard “ sorry”

“Light, the people of the south villages are mostly people of the aquios tribe which means they live underwater” she explained

“yeah so now we have to go down there and investigate and see if we can get any help”

“ but deidra is the only one who can breath under water”

“wrong” I said “ first, bring up some essence” I instructed second, capture some air in a bubble of essence” “and third, place it on your mouth and start breathing.”

He did impressively well and it seemed that everyone was happy with what light had accomplished. Deidra was smiling happily because of her brothers happiness, II was grinning and trying to look impressive for I had taught someone other than my self how to breath underwater using essence, and light was diving in and out of the water trying to be a dolphin, but kept laughing ruining his attempts to make dolphin noises.

Suddenly my ears caught the faint sound of something moving in the water. I kept it to myself because I did not what to worry Deidra. She did not notice my concerned eyes scanning the water around Light, but light did. And to Light, to my relief, came to shore

“ ’ay, X, you o.k.?”

“yeah” I replied and for the first time in a while I smiled softly. “ready?”

“yeah” he said eagerly


“hey deidra you…” I turned to find that deidra was not there. Then I heard very fast clicking and light squealed

Hey X look deidra is dolphin and he was right there was a smooth blue dolphin doing flips and waving its tail right of the shore

I wadded out a little up to the dolphin with light ridding on my back

“Deidra?” I asked

the dolphin gave a happy click and spayed us with a little water

“yep that’s her” I said wipeing a lock of wet hair out of my eyes.

“pfftthh…X you look hilarious when your soaked” said Light who had kept try by protecting him self with his essence.

“yeah… hilarious.” I said sarcastically and we started our decent after Deidra



Chapter 5

I’ve always been an awesome swimmer in fact I’ve always been good at everything. I’m a good swimmer because I have hidden gill, when I touch water three slits form on either side my neck. Around here a bunch of people have gills but I’m special because I keep my lungs as well allowing me to walk on land. Unlike Aquios I don’t need little devices that provide water for my gills when needed. What is even cooler is that the gills disappear when I come out of the water, so no one can see them. I also grow webbing between my fingers and toes fins project from the top of my head and on my elbows. My eyes get covered in a yellow membrane, my hair and skin turn shade of blue and I grow really sharp fangs. The yellow membrane allows me to see perfectly under water, even n the murkiest of waters. We swam down a few minutes and we finally caught up with Deidra. The whole time we were swimming Light hadn’t said a word, which was unusual for him. I guess I forgot to tell him that he could talk under water with even though his mouth was covered in essence.

“Hey Light I forgot to tell you that you can talk under water” I said

I turned around to find that Light was way far behind, so I told Deidra to stop for a while so that I could help Light

I swam over to him

“It’s O.K Light, you can talk” I said

“oh… oh this is so cool, but I can’t see a darn thing I’ve been following your jet steam this whole time.”

“Oh, that’s easy just focus your essence to your eyes

“O.K. hold on…. Aghh” he screamed “ what are you”

“I’ll explain later , lets keep going.”

I swam up to Deidra I needed her to help with something

“ Hey Dei I know you can talk, and I need you to swim with Light help him swim a little faster”

“sure thing” she said and she swam up to Light

“we’re still on a time schedule”

“okay”

“ And keep your eyes open”

“right”

We set off again this time a little more organize, and because of what I heard earlier, I think we’ll need as little amount of confusion as we get. We kept on swimming that seemed to take forever and I was getting bored.

“Where is the damn village, it should be right around here…”

then the last things I heard was the fwish of water moving, thunk of something hard against the back of my neck, and me telling Dei and Light to run, and while I was going unconscious I saw through squinted eyes that they weren’t there.

Chapter 6
“Ughh… where am I.. what happened”
I woke up to find my self chained to a wall with essence my