Leika, (For full details see RPG submissions)

[DragonLady4]

Leika. A world of magic. A world of many worlds. A world of squabbling factions, watching, waiting for the pettiest excuse to leap at each other's throats. A world where anyone can get pulled into the plots. Where anything can happen...

We come across this enigma of a world when the three main factions are the GoldenDragons, SilverBlade and the CrimsonTides. These factions are ruthless in their plotting against one another....they would even pull an innocent in from another world to help implement their plans....or maybe a not so innocent assassin.

ooc:Is that okay? Do we need more or shall I start with my characters?

[Lugana]

Like I said, that’s your choice. If you think there should be more characters, wait for more. If not, you have to start us off with your characters doing something. Usually acting out a prologue or something. I am sure more characters will come soon.

I will join as soon as my character is approved. *Cough* DD Batch *Cough*

[The Thought Fox]

You've been approved. I can't wait for this to start!

[DragonLady4]

"Jeez, I can't believe you've got us lost again!" said Daia as she pushed herself through a particularly prickly bush. Taeron touched a branch and the plant parted to let her through.
"I told you, we're not lost!"
"Then why won't you tell me where we're going?" She glared at him. "I'm not moving until you tell me, you faction freak."
"Just trust me."
"Oh yeah, right, sure. Trust you. Remember last time I had to trust you?"
"Daia..."
"We ended up almost hurtling down a cliff face, you moron!"
"We're nearly there." He led her through some more forest, the plants parting in front of him, and now whipping back to poke her in the eyes. Grumbling, she pushed her way through the foliage and followed the GoldenDragon Si'nale into a clearing. There was a circle of stones there, worn from the weather. She could make out some bumps on their surfaces where words from the old language had been carved.
"Taeron...?"
"Yes?" she turned and say him placing a gemstone onto the plinth in the centre of the circle. It was a dark, blood red with golden lines playing through it like cracks in marble.
"You stole a spellstone from your parents???"
"Borrowed."
"Why do we need a spellstone, faction boy?"
"You'll see."
He stepped out of the circle, pulling her with him, and then reached out and touched a stone from the edge, letting a small amount of him magic trickle into it. It passed from stone to stone until the whole circle was joined by a thread of magic.
Then it reached the spellstone. Brilliant white light suddenly shone out from the centre of the stone circle, forming a portal. To another world. Daia tugged Taerons sleeve, now worried.

"Er...Taeron....someones coming out of there..."

[Lugana]

Ooc: the beginning of this will not make much sense to most of you, unless you read the RPG I posted in the Authors United section. Batch may understand a little, but from what I remember, he was not in the second RPG.

IC:

“I can’t believe this… he’s… he’s dead.” Lugana stood. Standing over the dead body, he glared at Rohan.

Lugana’s sword sang from his scabbard. “How? How did you manage to kill my father… how did you kill Zell McCloud?”

Lugana saw a smiled form on Rohan’s face. Rohan’s demonic began to grow before his very eyes.

“It was simple. I just lifted my hand and blasted him to hell. Zell’s time as a hero has past. He became soft after he married that damn woman. Speaking of the woman, where is she?”

“You think I’m going to tell you? You may have killed my father… but your not going to get passed me.” Lugana sank into his fighting stance. “I may not have killed a sage like my parents have, nor have I been blessed with a guardian, but I will defeat you. I swear it.”

Rohan’s smile seemed to double in size. “Let’s see what the son of Zell can do.” Extending his hand, Rohan began to create a ball of demonic energy.

Lugana, preparing to bat the ball away with the flat side of his sword, suddenly lost his ground. He began to fall. Everything around him vanished and was replaced with twilight colors. He began kicking his feet out, trying desperately to find a place stand, but his attempts were fruitless.

Confused and scared, he began talking to himself. “Did he kill me? I didn’t see him attack. What’s happening to me?”

Looking in the direction he traveling, he saw a bright white light. As the light neared, Lugana’s stomach began to turn. He was getting a strange feeling of falling horizontally.

Finally, he passed through the light, and found himself lying face down in grass. He was scared to move.

“Where did this grass come from? Wasn’t I in the desert? What just happened?” Lugana heard movement above him.

Holding he sword tight, he quickly pushed himself up on to his feet. A young man with a young woman at his side was standing a few feet away from Lugana.

Lugana, confused and frightened as ever, didn’t know what to say. After a long silence, he brought himself to say something. “Er, hello?”



Ooc: Oh, and if you guys are wondering, he looks like my avatar. Slap on a black sleeveless shirt and green combat pants and you have him.

[DragonLady4]

Daia froze. She didn't even hit Taeron around the back of his head like she normally did when he was abominably stupid. "What...have...you done now???"
She looked at Taeron. He was staring at the man who had come though the portal. He obviously hadn't expected it to work. Well, his magic hadn't even settled yet. She sighed. She would have to take charge of the situation. Again. Just like that time he was hanging out a tree kicking SilverBlade soldiers. Idiot.

She stepped forward, and willed her magic to translate her words so that the otherworldly man could understand her. "Er...hi. I'm Daia, and this is the moron who pulled you into our world, Taeron." She stuck out a hand. "So...um...how are you feeling?"

[Lugana]

“Other world? What are you babbling on about? Where is Rohan?” Lugana panicked. Realizing she didn’t have an answer from the expression on her face, Lugana sat in the grass to calm himself down.

Holding his face in his hands, he thought deeply, “Another world…? I must be dreaming. Ouch!” Lugana pinch himself. “Nope, plenty awake. What am I going to do? What can I do but go along with it for now?”

Lugana looked up at the young woman and made eye contact for the first time. “So, this is another world? Where is this exactly? What is it like here?”

[DragonLady4]

Daia poked Taeron, who winced. It was more like she was trying to push her finger through his spine. He supposed that it mean that it was his job to explain.
"This is Leika, a world where...um...people have magic. Do they have magic in your world?" Not waiting for an answer, he carried on. "We have factions here, there's GoldenDragon, which is the best..." another poke..."I mean...my faction, and there's the evil..." poke, "I mean, the SilverBlades, and the Crimsontides. They're the main three factions. Any questions so far?"

[Lugana]

Lugana scratched his head taking in the information. “Er, what are the importance of the factions? If it makes it easier to explain, there is magic in my world.”

[The Thought Fox]

He sensed it immediately. The coming together of two worlds, but only for a second, like a momentary shudder in your spine and then you don't know what caused it. This sensation was both familiar and foreign to him. Familiar in that he knew what it was; foreign in that it rarely happened. If it occurred twice in a milennia, it was too often.

So naturally, he'd gone to investigate. It had taken him quite a while to establish which worlds had come together; after all, there were so many of them. When he'd found out which ones had merged, he investigated each one. In the first one, nothing had happened, but there was one individual he couldn't find. It was therefore safe to conclude that this individual had passed into the other world.

Why had they done that? Had it been an accident? A dimensional collision between realities that had hurled this man into another world? Had it been intentional? Had this man created a way of passing through worlds, with the intent of conquering those he came across? He thought that unlikely - one man could not conquer a world, and the only way to another reality was his own method.

And so it was with curiosity that Gatekeeper emerged in Leika, seeking out this missing individual.

He found him talking to two inhabitants of Leika. From the what he picked up from the conversation, this had been an accident and 'Lugana', the name of the individual, seemed fairly confused about where he was.

Gatekeeper smiled. That was his job over and done with; he knew what and how had occurred. Now he decided to remain nearby, invisible, to see what would happen. Perhaps fate had drawn this man to Leika...

[DragonLady4]

Daia rolled her eyes. If Taeron said that the factions were great and very important, she would hit him. Hard.
"Well," he said to Lugana, "The factions play an important part in Leika. It would be a weak world without them."

She hit him.

Hard.

While Taeron was nursing his head, Daia took over the explanation. "The factions are power hungry families with lots of lackeys who fight each other continuously. Taeron is a Si'nale of a faction - a faction leaders son. And he's also very stupid as he used this portal that you came through with only me here to supervise." She rounded on the Si'nale. "You are SO stupid sometimes! You're lucky that what came through the portal was human and confused! What if he was in the middle of something important? How are you going to explain this to your parents?"

She turned back to Lugana. "Sorry about that. Any other questions?"

[Lugana]

“Awww…” Lugana coughed, “are there monsters here? What type of magic is used here? And is there a way for me to get the hell out of here?”

[DragonLady4]

"Monsters? Um...I suppose to other worlds that the dragons are monsters. But they're alright really. As long as you're not in a faction and they're on the other side." She shot a look at Taeron.
"When we first met we got chased by a dragon," he explained to Lugana. "But it was okay, my brother was there to help us."

Daia leant back on a tree. "Oh yeah, and the way to get you back? Idiot-boy here got you through by luck and stupidity. We'd have to get some more explerienced people in to get you back."

"Unless he's here for a reason," said a voice in the trees. A young man of about 19 years stepped through the foliage. Taeron's brother, Rhaedor. Same bright blue eyes. Same black hair, only with blue instead of gold streaked through it. He sighed. "What have you done now, little brother?"

ooc: Rhaedor always says this, btw.

[Lugana]

Lugana stood as he heard the man’s voice, and went for his sword when he appeared. Realizing that they seem to know each other, he relaxed.

“I’m getting kind of edgy. I need to clam down. I don’t to make a foolish move.” Then Lugana finally absorbed want had been said.

“Brought her for a reason? I know why I was brought here. She says it’s because of her stupid friend here!” Lugana placed his hand to his forehead, trying to clam himself down. “What am I suppose to do? I need to get home.”

[The Thought Fox]

Gatekeeper could contain his curiosity no longer. He changed, slowly, into a 18-year-old boy, dressed in exactly the same clothes as Rhaedor. He descended into the trees behind Rhaedor and walked calmly out.

They stared at him in surprise, mainly because they didn't recognise him, but he didn't wait for them to begin asking him questions.

"Rhaedor may well be right," he said, "You may have been brought to this world for a reason, and if that is the case, then I cannot let you leave here until destiny has been fulfilled. The crossing of a normal indvidual into another world is a rare occurrence but it has happened before, and back then, the very stability of existence was in danger. The individual helped overcome it."

He looked around for a moment, letting his words sink in. This world, he admitted, was one of the most beautiful.