Tsubasa Chronicle ~ Another Journey ~

Kane couldn't believe what had just happened to him. It had been a few days since he'd fought a man for Kana's life, and ended up losing her to a suddenly explosive burst of energy. The man had to have committed suicide, and taken his beloved with him. Kane has since been unable to pull himself out of his sorrow, and because of this his powers were greatly diminished. The agency that employed him had taken him off their active duty list in the hopes that maybe some rest would help Kane finish mourning. It wouldn't. Kana had been his entire world, and with her gone it was as if the sun had been taken from the sky.

Their was a knock on his door, and with a reluctant sigh he went to open it. Outside was a very unwanted cheerful face. The guy on the door step was built lean, and he wore a white jacket, pants, and black boots. "Hello their," he said cheerfully. Kane slammed the door in his face. "Aw come on, I just wanted to talk."

"Screw you and your talk. I don't want any of it, and least of all from you Zack."

"Now thats just cold. Here I was to give you some good news, and you go off and try to take out my nose with a door."

Kane sighed. "I take it you aren't going to leave until you say what you want."

"Correct," came the cheery sound.

Kane sighed again, then opened the door. "What?"

"Aren't you gonna invite me in?"

"I'm contemplating taking your head off. Don't push your luck," he snarled back.

Zack shrugged, then turned Kane's world upside down. "Kana is alive."

Kane stood their for a few minutes, eyes wide in surprise. Finally he snapped out of it. "Bull. I felt her presence disappear in the explosion."

"She isn't here in this world, but she is alive."

"So what then? She went to heaven or something?"

"No. She is 'Alive' in a different world unlike this one. She has been taken across time and space to another dimension. That is what I meant."

"And how do you know?"

Zack smiled. "Because the interloper that took your dearly beloved isn't the only one with the ability. I to possess that power."

"Humoring you. Why tell me this now?"

"I had hoped you would snap out of your funk and go back to business as usual. I wanted to see how important that girl is to you. Obviously she matters a great deal to you."

"So you were testing me."

Zack ignore the statement and said, "You want to go after her?"

Kane smirked. "What do you think?"

"Then I have two gifts for you. The first is this," Zack held up a blue crystal. "This will allow you to keep in contact with me. The other is a first class trip to the one who holds more power than I."

"I thought you were sending me after this guy."

Zack shook his head sadly. "I don't know were he went, or if he moved on since. My power isn't that strong. There is one person though who can transcend dimensions. Her name is Yuko, and some call her the dimensional witch. Prepare yourself, the journey ahead will be harder than anything you've faced before."

Zack pulled a staff from behind his back, and used his other hand to drag Kane out of his house and into the lawn.

"Hey, what was that-" he broke off his sentence as seven large symbols appeared around him. The staff began to glow, and the symbols began melting together. A large magic circle appeared beneath him, and the inky white substance that was once the symbols began to surround him. His last view of Zack before he was completely obscured was of him smiling and waving good bye. After that, everything was white.



~World 1, Tokyo City, The Home of the Dimensional Witch



The sky was dark over the small shop run by the woman Yuko. She stood outside dressed in a black kimono, looking at it carefully. A young man walked up next to her and asked, "What are you looking for?"

"Not looking, Watanuki, waiting. Ah, there is one of them now."

The air began to feel charged, and a inky ball began to descend from the sky. It landed on the ground before the two, bulged, the burst apart to reveal Kane.

"Welcome. You are the first of my guests to arrive."

Two more balls appeared, and began to descend.

 

> =D GO MOKONA! I assume I know what your wishes are and I wanna get us on our way in one post so here goes. Tell me to edit if I'm wrong.<

"Greetings to all of you," Yuko said. "Welcome to my shop."

"What place is this?" Kane asked.

"This is Tokyo City Japan. You are all in a different dimension. I understand that this is a little difficult to grasp so I will try to keep it simple. You have been teleported across the dimensional plain to this place. Here I can grant any one wish though proper compensation must be made. Now tell me, what is your wish?"

"I want to see Kana and bring her home. She was taken to some other dimension and I aim to get her back," Kane replied.

"I want to get stronger and return home to free our world," Dune replied.

"Well," Gerik spoke, rubbing the back of his head, "I've been traveling for a while. I kinda wanna get home."

Yuko smiled, then said to the boy beside her, "Go fetch them. It is time they were used."

"Yes ma'am."

As he hurried off into the store, Yuko strode forward and said, "While all of your wishes are different the Principal is the same. You all wish to travel to other worlds. This I can grant. However, the price is great. Are you all sure that this is what you want?"

"Yes," they all answered.

"Very well. Then I shall collect your payment. From you," she points to Kane, "I will take your memories."

"MY WHAT?" Kane explained. "Specifically the recent ones of you and your beloved. You will only remember her from over a year ago, and not before then. Your feelings will remain or this would be a moot point, but you will lose all immediate reminders of her. You will have to take great pains to be sure and remember her."

"You mean I'll forget the whole reason I came here in the first place?"

"No. The feelings will remain and you will remember this meeting, but immediate memories of her will be gone."

Kane looked at the ground for a moment before looking up and saying, "I have to get her back, no matter the cost to me."

"Then let it be done." She held up her hand and the locket around Kanes neck floats to her. At the same time a silver thread shot from his temple and into the locket. Kane's eyes blanked for a moment, then he had to catch himself from falling.

"You have no clue how that feels woman," he snarls as he holds his head for a moment.

"Perhaps. And from you my friend," she points to Dune, "I will have that pendant of yours."

"But this is to important!"

"That's exactly why I'm taking that from you."

He resigned himself, and took it off. "Fine." The pendant to went to Yukos hand above the locket.

"FInally, your price is your necklace. It posses great meaning, and it is that which will be your price."

Gerik thought about it quietly for a moment. "This is important. After all LeAnn gave this to me. But then again, if I get home I can see her again." Gerik wordlessly tosses it to her without complaint. "Fine. If that's my ticket home."

The young man returned holding to creatures. Both were identical accept that one was white with a red gem set on its head, and the other was black with a blue gem. Both looked like rather fat rabbits.

"Good, you found them," Yuko said, holding out her free hand for the white one. Turning back to her guests she said, "These are known as the Mokona Moragi. This one here will be the one to take you across worlds. However it can not choose the destination and so only fate will be able to decide what world you end up in. It will be a very long journey. You will see people that you may know from your world living different lives in another. They will not know you. You will have to trust in each other in order to succeed in this journey."

"And what about that black one over there?" Kane asked.

"This one will allow me to communicate with you. Through him we can continue our transactions in case you come to a point were you need my help or vice versa. He will stay with me and be linked to the white Mokona. Are their any more questions?"

The three shake their heads.

"The go. Take care my friends, and you two little one."

Mokana jumped from Yukos hand, and began to glow. "Mokona Morogi ready to go," it said cheefuly. Two white wings extended from its back and a small magic circle suddenly appeared on the ground. It then opened it's mouth and rainbow colored tendrils shot from its mouth and surrounded the three. After that Mokona sucked them into its mouth, and with a last, "Good bye," jumped into the circle and vanished.


~ World 2, Reifon, The Land of Spite ~

This new world was black and ragged. The sky was over cast and the land was surrounded in dead life. Two encampments were established on either side of the large field. Suddenly, a ball appeared and drooped to the ground. It burst apart to reveal the three travelers. "Hooray, we've ended up in a new world!" Mokona exclaimed happily from atop Kane's shoulder.

Kane eyed both encampments. "Something tells me you could have picked a better landing spot. What do you guys think?"

 

"Got that ride. Looks like a war zone or something. Check out all the burned out patches on the ground, and the arrow pieces littering the place. This is not a good place for us to be. I vote we high tail it out of here," Kane watched Mokona hop onto Dune's shoulder. Apparently the thing was fond of him. "Well we can't go to the next world yet," Mokona said. "I need to rest between jumps. Besides maybe what you guys are looking for is in this world. It can't hurt to look."

"Well I didn't mean go to the next world. I just meant go someplace other than here before-" Kane was cut off by a horn sounding from the northern encampment. A second horn sounded from the other and both camps opened their gates disgorging soldiers and horsemen onto the plains. "That happens," Kane finished with a sigh.

 

"I for one do not want to end up drawing a weapon. If we do both sides will think we fight for the other. It would be a rought battle, and not a very survivable one. I vote we get out of here while this storm is still here."

It was, Kane thought, a good thing I learned how to block projectiles. Sand included.

"Also, making a sand storm from know where when I don't see a grain of sand in sight is probably a bad idea. They no doubt think we are wizards or the equivalent now. Each side probably wants us on their side, and fighting battles like this are such a pain." Still, just in case. Kane held out his right hand careful to keep it palm out and not palm up. "Shimmer, Rai," a silver katana appeared in his hand. "Just in case a freak tornado comes along and takes out your sandstorm," he said to Gerik. "Also I don't mind getting help from you if you don't mind giving it."

 

>So like Fay. You scare me.<

Kane thought about it more a moment, then said, "Lets go that way. If I recall correctly that way leads away from both armies. We find a look out to observe the battle from while we plan our next move," and with that, like it or not, Kane started off in the direction he'd indicated, praying his sense of direction didn't get him into trouble.

It was about then that several arrows came flying down through the storm. He could sense their passing through the wind, and reacted without thinking. The sand warped around him as he gather the wind into a bubble, then blasted it outward. The arrows were sent soaring away, his traveling friends were rocked on their feet, and, more importantly, the sand storm was blown away. He found himself having gone in the opposite direction he'd thought he was going in. Instead of heading away, he'd gone right smack dab in the middle of the two armies. Every man in both armies was staring at him. "Oh shit."

 

>Plot twist!<

"I doubt they'd be all that interested in just one of us," Kane replied to Gerik. "I think we're going to just have to fight it out. To bad, I was thinking this journey would be fun." He settled himself into a defensive stance with his blade angled across his chest. Inside he prepared himself for death as he knew that he could never stop them all.

"AT LAST! THE PROPHECY!" both sides shouted. They swarmed around everyone, and lifted them up on their shoulders. It was then that Kane realize that they had the same uniform on, and their weapons were quiet similar to each other, as if made at the same place as opposed to being made by a separate military. "Wait, what prophecy?"

 

"A prophecy? What the hell kinda prophecy would involve us?"

One of the soldiers over heard him. "Its the prophecy of the three strangers. It is said that three strangers able to wield powerful magic will come and save us from a terrible creature, the black dragon."

A hell no. I am NOT fighting a great big dragon. That's just to much work. First chance I get I'm out of here.

Kane let his sword fade away while he began making plans to escape. While was thinking the party was taken into the large encampment. Inside was a village complete with women and children. Something wasn't right though. While the children played, the women would keep looking to the sky, and would stay close to their kids, as if something might carry the kids away. Something tells me my concionce will get mad at me for leaving this unsettled. Ugh. Resigned, he began making plans to help these people instead. "How do you guys think we will go and kill this dragon thing?"

 

>Its a european type. I think they are similar.<

One of the soldiers looked at the miniature. "It is much like that one, but broader in the chest. Also it's scales seem to shine as if metalic flecks were stored in them. None of our weapons could harm it, and all of our wizards have failed to defeat it. To be honest I don't think anyone can kill it. If you could simply lock it away for a long time that might suffice."

Kane shook his head at this idea. "It would escape eventually. Then your future descendants would have to deal with it. After such a long period of time they wouldn't even believe in its existence. We either kill it, or die in the attempt. Also dragons get some of their power through flight. If a dragon tries to take off when I'm around," Kane picked up a feather from a some crow, and held it above his hand. A minature whirlwind formed above his palm, and he dropped the feather into it. The feather disintegrated when it touched the whirlwind. "He'll find that he's missing a pair of wings." he completed.

Kane looked at his two companions. "We've already established that you are a master of sand manipulation," Kane nodded towards Gerik, "and I am quite good with bending the air. That coupled with my other abilities is a good combination. However, I have to wonder what you can do." Kane pointed towards Dune. "I haven't seen a display of your power yet."