///City of Gods Part III- Era 500 AC - The Fallen /// (Now Open!)

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"I see Ren has returned..." Grias stood up from his throne and walked to the center of his chambers.

"Yes my lord... The seed has been retrieved and is now in place. We have the Pyro Seed as well as the Anima Seed. as for the others we also now have with us the Water and Ice, Earth and Rock, and finaly we just got hold of Force and Air seeds. We have them all! Explained Hugaa.

"... We also need the keys.. It taken a long time to find them. We have the Sagerock, My Highgust, and the Animus Keys, the only ones left are Raisaqua and Castafire..." Grias explained but his attention was soon taken by a mysterious figure in a cloak, the very same that had revealed him self to Erised and Jerron and watched the battle at the city. "Who the Hell are you!?" He growled at the stranger just as his soldiers immediately took up arms.

The stanger who stoon in the door way now walked in, unconcerned about the weapons the soldiers held. "I believe you are wanting this." He held out a hand that was revealed to be that of a leopards, and handing down from his hand was a Blue crystal on a Necklace identical to the Castafire and the other keys. This was the Raisaqua key.

"Who are you?" Grias suddenly grew concerned and backed away. This was the first time he had ever shown fear.

"You know who I am Grias..." He pulled down his hood revealing the face of a Leopard. And soon after came out from the door way was Fral the Panther Daemarian and a Badger..... The Badger who's name is Kon. They all looked as young as ever, as if un-aged by time.

"..Mat... Matias!" Grias suddenly fell to his knees immediately. "..I told you I will return someday.. Here I am. You miss me."

"...I thought after all this time you would be dead and yet you are here.. Unaged I see..." Grias stood back up.

"I taken some time away.. But I have also been watching you rather closely... Have you forgotten your promise already Grias? I gave you tribe under the condition you were not to make Daemarians known to the humans. And here you are plotting to take over the world. You are a power hungry maniac and a Fool Grias... And I see you tried to do away my own Son... But even that you failed.."

"..Matias I can explain!" Grias shouted. "I am sure you can.. However I am not here about that.. I am here to make sure you accomplish your task.. Get the Seeds of creation merged.. Form the Crystal Dagger... I will make sure you can keep the world, but I want the City of Gods."

Grias growled and then Fire, Ice, Lighting, Vines, and varius other elemental objects came rushing form all directions aimed for Matias. Too Grias surprised, Matias continued to stand there, a barrier that was not from the Elemental powers surrounded him and shielded him from the elemental destruction Grias attemtped. "Foolish Grias." Matias grabbed Grias by the throat and held him up by it, Grias choking as his entire body was lefted into the air effortlessly by Matias Strength. "Form the Crystal Dagger Grias... No mess with me." Matias then dropped Grias to the ground. Grias was now rubbing his neck in pain and trying to regain his breath. "Another thing.. You attempt to kill my son again, and I will personally make sure you are infected by the Plague, and no way to cure you of it." Matias spoke as he now walked away. "Here... a little parting gift.. Don't fail me Grias." He said once more and dropped to the ground the Raisaqua key. And at that, he as well as Fral and Kon were gone.

"My lord are you alright!" Hugaa ran to Grias.

"I am fine! Now leave me be! GET OUT!!! Glats Glats Glats Glats!" Grias shouted and growled. Hugaa and many of the soldiers left the room.

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"...The question now you should be asking your self is about Matias... Even I do not know why he is still alive Silvian... But I do know one thing, he is no ally any more. He was betrayed by Daemaria and was meant to be executed by the High Elders orders. He some how escaped death and there for is alive..." Zean explained.

Sivlian sighed and finally had enough and left the room. He sat down at the bar in the tavern, and Rune sat down next to him. ".. Are you okay Sil?" Rune asked.

"I am fine Rune... It is just... if Zean is true to his word, then that means... All my beliefs and teachers are a lie... and my father is still alive... but why would we choose to execute my father? Why was he supposed to be dead? If he is a bad man meant to be executed, why was he depicted as a hero? I just... I just don't understand... and then there is the Goddess... She will lead us to our destruction... This is more then I can handle..." Silvian sighed and leaned down on the counter. Rune placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Sil.. it is not just you. Its all of us.. We are friends, allies, and warriors. Right now we can agree on one thing, if there is a greater power and Grias wants it.. We need to stop him." Rune said and at that Rune walked away and exited the Tavern.

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Rex smiled at zean and noteing gayle he smiled and gave her a subtle nodd. His mind however was pre occupied by the information he was given. His mind swimming with the knowledge. Zean said everything with such intense certanty yet....he was a liar as far as he was concerned. Yet the more he thought about it, the more it made sense to rex. "Thank you zean....The informaton was.....indeed hard to swallow." Hard indeed, but he had to give the benefit of the doubt. Had to allow Zean a chance for truth, even if he didnt like him. Had he been corrupted by the rumors that have spread over the years? He wasnt without falte and he knew that. "But thank you non the less."

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Max chuckled and didnt bother explaining it again. It was dangerious too he noted, for he thought that for a second... in danger. Wierd, even as he fought grias there was no fear, no danger in his heart. Even as he lost his golemn it was agony....but danger had been near and had passed just as quickly."Its nothing, just choices one makes no?" He smiled and looked at the child.....and remembered what his original plan was. He frowned and shook his head."Well lets then"

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Avon grinned and walked next to his sister, jumping on the balls of his feet."Ohhhhhhh i miss moms pie, can you make some? pwease"

Silvian walked out of the tavern with Rune fallowing. Silvian felt he needed some fresh air and their was no way Rune was going to let Silvian out of his site. "Im going to head to the temple where we came from. I am hoping there could be some answers there. We did not really have a lot of time to check things out when we were there before." He explained as he hopped on a horse. Rune too fallowed. "Answers for what?" Rune asked. "What to do next. The new castafire goddess was slain there, Grias is seemingly after the Seeds of creation, and we have the plague. I have nothing better to do, might as well check out that temple see what else is there. It seemed important enough to the goddess here so perhaps there is more there we need to know about." and at that Silvian and Rune took off on horses.

Rex looked at his beloved gale, then at the cealing. He was contemplating his next course of action. ~ Max....can you watch my kids for me? Im heading to the temple with gale~ He called out with his mind, finding the man easily enough as his sking crawled. Max looked up and sighed, he could sense the faint glimmer of energy in his mind~already watching them firefox....now reside from my mind~

Rex smiled and did just that, looking at gayle again he chuckled."Well....now that we dont have a single clue....i have this to say..." He turned and looked at zean."You are free to go zean, i am sure that we will cross paths again in the future, now gayle, darling...let us head out...i beleave we have some time to visit the old temple...." He chuckled and headed out, reaching the mainland and watching as Venduman landed from the sky, rex hoping up into the seat and waiting for gayle to get on. He had a hunch that something was to happen.....soon.

The time warriors case he would call it with a chuckle. How peculiar that the they would appear, after so long of a time. He sighed sadly, missing the days where he could pick up a sword and fight without so much as a call. Now he had children, a wife, and his fire again."I will take grias's head for what he did" he growled to himself."I will not rest, not till that scum seases to exist"


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"We are going to see what we can find out at the temple. between the plague and learning what we know now of the goddess and my father... That temple must have some significant importance... I am hoping to find out if there is anything the temple has that may suggest what to do now. I am grasping at straws and fresh out of ideas..." Silvian explained and it was no lie, Silvan had no idea what to do at this point, the temple was the only thing he could think of that may have answers.

Silvian and the rest had finally arrived at the temple where there was much blood shed from the arrival of Silvian and the others who were once frozen in time. Silvian entered the temple fallowed by Rune, examining the first chamber they entered. Despite that the bodies were now moved and properly taken care of including Clairs. the chamber was still a mess from the fights and struggles. "Well here we are.. I am not sure what exactly to look for." Rune said and sighed. "None of us really do, we may not find anything." Silvian explained and began making his way to the chamber that currently housed the gates of destiny.

"There are many footprints here. People have been in and out of here quite a few times. Probably from trying to clean up the place.." Rune suggested. Silvian came to a small broken pedestal at the end of the main chamber in the temple. Looked like a square object had been there at some point. Rune continued on towards the chamber in which the gates of destiny appeared. He took notice that this room was hidden from the rest of the chambers, and a large cross and human statues were places at a good number of places. He figured this was perhaps a temple that served a purpose of worship of a god or gods Rune speculated, most likely for the humans. However the chamber that the gates of destiny appeared and brought himself, Silvian, and the others back into the world was hidden one that appeared to be by far different from the rest of the temple. Perhaps it was meant to be a great secret from the outside world, which then reminded him of the old Daemarian laws of secrecy, staying hidden from the outside world. Soon after Silvian fallowed behind Rune to examine the chamber. There was one thing that struck out as odd about this room that both Silvian and Rune noticed the moment they walked into the very chambers they first appeared in, and that was the gates were no longer there. The ground was still torn up from where the gates had appeared, but the gates them selves were gone. "Thats strange, where did they go?" Rune asked. Silvian said nothing and approached the spot where the gates once where. "..this is the same chamber that Kay... El... err.. Claire..." Silvian realized he was having trouble keeping track of the goddess names. "..This is the same chamber... And that is the spot she died at and where the gates had appeared..." Rune explained looking for the places closely. It was definitive the same room, because Claires blood stained the floor as well. "..Maybe Tribe had taken it?" He suggested to Silvian. "..But why.. They already been through them, Grias already claimed what he wanted from them.. So why would they have taken the gate?"

Gayle was right, there where many footprints in the place, but most of all, they where recent, he listened to the others and smiled."While you where gone, the human religion of christianty came about for some time....worshipping a man non the less....a peculer story but i do beleave he was turned into a martyr by his own people."

Rex examined the room, staying close yet also keeping his distance, incase he where to trigger some trap that grias's men would have layed for them, his attention however drew to the gate, or at least where the gate would have been."So the attack on the villadge was a distraction" He speculated, looking around the room and analaysing every detail.

Rex looked back at the rest, an idea popping into his head as he cleared his throat."Remember how time stopped while you where in the gates? I wager it felt like a second to you all, but time moved on out here....." Rex smiled and shook his head."If someone where to harness that power, they could use it to cause great good or great evil, and if a man such as grias where to get ahold of it....well need i say more?"

"...Rex is right.. Silvian, you should listen to him. You too Rune... Gayle.." Said a mans voice from behind them. Quickly turning Silvian and Rune both stared at a hooded figure. The very same hooded figure that was there when tribe caused the fire in the city. The same that visited Aturok and Erised earlier that day. There was no making out the mans face accept a hint of feline under the hood. He was defiantly a Daemarian like them. "Do I know you? You know us apparently." Silvian asked. "..Maybe and maybe not.. however.." He walked foward and Silvian instantly pulled out his sword not trusting the hooded figure. Rune made habit to pull out his bow. This man was none other then Matias, however there was no way for them to know who he was or what he was up to.

Rex turned slowly to face this man, his ears twitching. His staff apearing in his hand as he grimaced. "Sorry for the hostility.....but men in hoods tend to hide secreats" he growled softly and made his staff disappeared again"but i trust that you wouldn't try anything"

"Oh but you have every right to be hostile. However I am only here for a message. I have already giving my message to Aturok and Erised.. but now I have a message for you all. More accurately I have a message and a gift to prove my honesty and sincerity. Starting with you Rune... Your way to heal internally lies within your forgotten past... You should seek out the Elder of Lightning from that many thousand years ago... Gayle... for you there is someone waiting for you in the ruins where five families once rested. Rex... Something that was taken from you will soon be returned.... and lastly Silvian... The only way to defeat one so powerful as Grias you will need a equal force to extinguish that power... you all must think what was the one thing that drained you of your power... and now... for my gift..." Mysterious man explained who was none other then Matias however there was no way for anyone to know as long as he chose to conseal him self. However what ever he had planned it was a gray area of whether his intentions were good or for evil. The man pulled out a small well crafted wooden box and placed it carefully on the ground before all of them.

"What is this? Why the riddles?" Silvian asked.

"Because that is all you need to know, it is important for you all to figure things out on your own. For now.. I bring you this simple gift.... The water of the celestial city... Will cure anything. However it is only a bottle, use very wisely. Drink and it shall heal, but one must drink all of it completely. It will cure any disease. Including the Daemarian Plague.. At that I have one more message to give to you all... Grias has waited a few thousand years to grow his empire but also to seek out all of the seeds of creations. He now has pyro and areo, but also the earth and rock, water and ice, light and shadow... He has all of them now and only thing left is... the key... the castafire key. And now that you Silvian and Rune and the rest of you have returned haha... well... lets just say you will all find out soon enough.. Now I must go...." The man began to walk away.

"Stop how do you know so much, who the glats are you!?" Silvian asked but the man kept going. Rune aimed his arrow ready to shoot it. Silvian quickly conjured some water from the ground and shot a blast of forcefull water at the man that instantly froze in mid air and dropped. Rune sent a arrow flying at the man who was still walking away unfazed and let the arrow on fire with a kick of lightning that bounced away from the man in midair as if a mysterous wall was there. Silvian then charged at him, he was not going to let this man simply leave but before he knew it, the man was just gone. Simply gone.

Rex looked long and hard at the man, cloaked figures always....have secreats to hide.Yet still the man knew knowledge, held it withen grasp long enough to tantilise any who would dare to listen. And he spoke in riddles, of secreats that always irrateted him to know end. He was just about to direct his attention elsewhere but however, the last bit of information....the one that stroke him to no end.

He couldnt possible know about....Gayle never talked about it and neither did i but...." What do you mean boshtit!!" He called out, tail standing on end, his ears flicking in agitation. The fire that burned in his eyes brought back to him the life he had.....and the loss that his family withstood. He watched him about to leave and cried out, pointing his hands towards the man, fire swirling around his right arm, lightning crackling around his left. He sent them flying towards the man but soon they touched nothing but sacred stone. Rex glared at the spot, hands cleched, eyes a froth of rage so uncountrolled, yet barely contained. He slowly regained his compuser but this man.....this unknown unsettled him....brought up thought of the third.

"This water..he said it can cure anything, could it cure Shara then? and if so what about Zeans son? or all the others infected by the plague? With that in mind how do we not know this water isn't a trick? We can only use it once... Celestial city water he said... What is the celestial city?" Silvian asked, he had many questions and he too felt frustrated.

After awhile, rex would straightn his composer. Looking about the room, so many thoughts filled his head. Gayle said he saw here there"the water isnt tainted...why go out of your way to harm one....when you can harm all....this celestial city....there are many books in the library....ill go and read up"

"Then let us go to the library, you lead the way Rex." Silvian agreed. Rune however had alot on his mind. he was told to seek out the elder, so.... who could this elder be?

Rex laughed softly and scratched his chin softly." Haha, i remember the time when i followed you around silvian, the library is back at the town." He mussed, chuckling as venduman perched on his shoulder." Veni, go scout out the forest." His golemn nodded and flew off out of the temple." So tell me silvian. . . what happened in there?"