Chapter 1
"Ari come on!" yells Cass impatiently. Cass is a good friend of Ari, he has long twisted blond hair, barely any clothes on, and he runs in scratched up bare feet. "I'm coming" whines Ari. When the two arrive where they are there are two teams. Everyone is ready to play capture the flag. Capture the flag is one of the few games they can afford to play. "Ready, Set, GO!" yells the excited referee.. "AH" Ari gets pushed to the ground by one of the players. "HYAAH" Ari swings his leg tripping the player. Ari runs to a hole in the landfill to look for the flag. "Guys look at this!" demands Ari in awe. When they come they see a chest. "What's in it?" asks one kid in wonder. Ari opens the chest. As if it was an answer to their prayers, the chest was filled with golden coins and goblets with rubies and sapphires imbedded into them! " We've got to sell this" demands Cass in amazement. "What's this?" asks Ari as he picks up a dusty book. "Zaka Reazes" reads the title. "I don't know,"Replies Cass while admiring a goblet. When they get to the capital city with the rest of the slums Ari and Star stop at a bookstore to ask what it is. "Well this book is very old, you should get it translated with one of those ancient translation books." Says the old man in a croaky voice. "Thank you sir." says Ari. "Ancient Magic. That's what the book title says, mom." says Ari hopefully. "Sir can I borrow this translation book?" "Sorry boy, you have to buy it first." Replies the old man. "How much is it?" asks Ari disappointed. "Ten tran." Says the man. (tran is their country's currency.) "Ok" mumbles Ari. "Sorry honey." says Star trying to console Ari. Ari then steps on a piece of paper. The paper turns out to be a 20 tran note! Ari and Star run to the bookstore. Ari slams the note on the counter while Star grabs the book. "Here's your change kid." Croaks the old man. The slums meet back at the town where construction has begun to make houses for the citizens. One month later the citizens are enjoying their shares of the money. Ari has learned the ancient language in the book. He's been learning the magic in the book and can do simple spells. "BOOM!" echoed through the new town shaking the ground throwing flaming debris through the air. Outside is a line of cannons firing explosives with a whole army of soldiers armed with swords. "GIVE OUR TREASURE BACK." roars the man in the front with a deep demanding voice. All the soldiers sprint forward with their swords in the air."T-Tekken!" stutters Ari. A blast of weak flame shoots from his hands, wiping out a few. He knows no matter what spell he uses they simply aren't strong enough. "Careado" Ari blasts a spike of ice, which takes out one. "RUN ARI!" screams his mother. "BOOM!" a flying piece of debris strikes Star killing her. "MOM!" cries Ari. "Come on Ari." demands Cass, tears streaming down his face " we have to go!" then Cass stops in his tracks and coughs up blood. They look down, a blade is sticking out of his stomach. Cass then falls to the ground dead, a bandit behind him. "ZADA!" yells Ari in shock. Lightning shoots out of his hands launching the bandit backwards. Ari sprints towards the capital wiping out any bandits in the way. "WOOSH" something faster than the speed of light stops Ari in his tracks. "Boy you may have magic, but so do I!" the blur states triumphantly. When the blur focuses it turns out to be a woman with short brown hair, a full set of black and white trimmed robes and a giant scar on her right side of her face."I am Zera, head of the second regiment of the cult, The Shadow's Ally.." Zera states. "Battle me and i'll let you go to the capital, lose and i'll kill you!" "A-Alright." Ari stutters trying to keep a steady voice. "I'll be nice and let you hit first." calmly says Zera. "TEKKEN!" yells Ari. It hits Zera directly. "Is this all you got?" asks Zera disappointed" "Water Geyser" roars Zera obviously using a more recent spell. Water shoots up in all directions around Ari. "ADUCTA!" Ari sends out a more advanced spell than what he was comfortable with. It freezes the water around him. "Now THAT'S what I was hoping for from ancient magic." Said Zera with a grin on her face "FLAME SPIRAL!" yells Zera as flames spiraled around Ari. "HIDAFASAS" Ari used a more advanced type of water magic then what he wanted to. He douses the flames putting them out. "Well this isn't good." says Zera annoyed. "LIGHT FROM ABOVE!" Light shoots up around Zera and her eyes start glowing white. An extremely bright beam of light shoots at Ari, instantly defeating him. He lays on the ground in pain. He feels if he's been on the surface of the sun."You know the spell." whispers a cold high pitched voice in Ari's head. "Wha-What spell is it?" asks Ari in fear. "That's not for me to tell you." replies the voice. "Al-Alright. SASA KEEDO LASTA VITA WUFU!" yells Ari. Then from the sky rains meteors striking Zera in every part of her body. They kept coming, flaming balls of rock and ice. Soon Zera drops to the ground, dead. "Yay I did it." says Ari weakly and softly. Then he faints from the strain on him. Hovering above him is a man with a black staff with a blood-red crystal on top. The man has his face covered in shadow with a jet-black robe on him. "You failed me Zera." Says the same voice that spoke to Ari. "You were supposed to kill him before he discovers his destiny of being Ari The Legendary Mage." He then dissipates into shadow and is gone. "AH" Ari shoots up from a bed. "Your finally awake." Says a lady in a warm and gentle voice while folding clothes. This lady had long blonde hair, a purple trimmed black dress, and some black sandals on. "Hi i'm Lily, what's your name?" she asks while preparing an outfit. "I'm Ari, nice to meet you." Ari replies calmly. "Nice to meet you too, here put these on." She says handing Ari an outfit consisting of a red t-shirt, black shorts, and some black tennis shoes. "Thank you." Says Ari taking the clothes. "I'll go make dinner, you go get these clothes on." Replying Lily, her voice fading as she walks into the kitchen. "They're so warm and soft." Whispers Ari in delight. An hour later he hears Lily's voice, "dinner is ready!" she yells like she did something she's proud of. When Ari walks into the kitchen he is hit with a wonderful smell. "I made chicken soup, steak, turkey, potatoes, and fried broccoli!" Lily claps while grinning. "Thank you." Replies Ari, his mind clouded with pictures of the food. "Eat up." Lily says. "Mmmmmm!" mumbles Ari while shoving the food in his mouth. "Eat as much as you want, I've got more on the fire." Tells Lily, while flipping a steak. A few hours later Lily disappears into another room. "Lily where are you going?" asks Ari in a wondering voice. "Alright come in!" replies Lily. When Ari walks in he gasps, a fully furnished bedroom is in front of him. "I had an extra bedroom." Lily said while smoothing out the bed spread. "Y-You've been to nice to me." Ari stutters. "No i've had this room empty ever since the news." Her voice starts shaking. She then shakes her head, "nonsense I want to be this nice to you." Her voice back to normal. "Anyway get some rest." She says, while pulling down the covers. Later that night he has a nightmare. "It's your fault." Says the voice from earlier. "If you hadn't touched that treasure they would still be alive." Then pictures of everyone dying flashed before his eyes. "Zera was close to killing you like I wanted, but I realized that that wouldn't be any fun. So I hinted at a spell to help you. You see I want to be the one to kill you." Continues the voice. "D-Did you plant the treasure?" asks Ari clenching his fists. "No, actually that was luck. You finding that treasure gave me an opportunity for you to die." Replies the voice. The man appeared in front of Ari. "Now before I send you back my name is Blooden. Sky's Vengence!" Blooden shoots a powerful black stream of lightning from his staff into Ari's chest. Ari then shoots bolt upright in the bed. It is morning and a clean set of clothes, just like the ones he has now, were setting on the end table After Ari gets dressed he walks into the living room. "Lily I need to go to the ruins of the slums." Demands Ari. " I searched after I found you, there is nothing left." Lily apologized, while dusting the table. "B-But my spell book, I need that!" yells Ari. "Listen if you want to learn more magic, I recommend the ruins over that hill. They're said to hold magic unknown to man. That is only a rumor though, many people have traveled in but never came out." Explains Lily. "Well i'm going." States Ari. "Well first take supplies with you." Replies Lily. She prepares a backpack with a sleeping bag, kerosine lantern, kerosine, food, and water. "Thanks! Bye!" Ari says, while marching out the door. "Bye!" replies Lily. He travels over the hill and sees tons of rubble. "Where is the ruin's entrance?" wonders Ari. "AAH!" screams Ari getting thrown back by tons of wind. Then the ground cracks in half pulling in the air. He is the sucked into the crack. Behind him it gets sealed. "Where am I?" whispers Ari. "Whoosh!" he lights the lamp. He is in a damp, moist, spider filled cave. "Welcome traveler, I am sssesssa." Hisses something. Below him, circling his ankles is a brown, black spotted cobra. "Time to become my lunch." Hisses Sesa. "Hmph, Zada." Moans Ari annoyed. It hits the snake directly in the side burning it to ashes. Ari travels deeper into the ruin, not seeing anything too dangerous. Then he hears "crunch." He had stepped on an old rotted human skull, cracking it. Lining the floor was skeletons of humans piled up in the center. Then braziers light across the circular room. He was in the center of a giant coliseum with white marble pillars, stone seats, and a domed roof. Then he heard "CLANK!" The door he came through had a steel gate blocking his exit. Across he room he sees another opening, above a decrepit sign reads, "Treasure Room." "YES" he exclaims after reading the sign and dashes toward it. A loud roar echoes through the room. Then crashing onto the ground, sending rock and bones into the air, is a giant, red, scaly, scarred, beady blacked eyed dragon! "AAH!" screams Ari as he falls to the ground in shock. His heart is racing inside his chest, his breathing is tremendously fast, and he's sweating bullets. Above the dragon a weird shadow like mist appears, and it soon forms the man from Ari's Dream. "Remember me? I doubt it so I shall repeat my name. I am Blooden!" he roars. "This dragon's name is Fang. She is the one I charged with protecting the legendary spell book. Fang will make quick work of you boy. Hehehe." He then snaps his fingers and disappears once more. "GGGRRRRRRR!" rumbles through the coliseum so loud rubble falls from the stone roof. "Psssh" sprays Fang as flame spurt directly at Ari. He ducks just in time. "Haha! You couldn't hit me!" Taunts Ari while sticking his tongue out at Fang. He spoke too soon though as the dragon's spiked tail swings Ari and pummels him in the chest. The impact was strong enough to knock the wind out of Ari, send blood flying out of his mouth, and throw him into the wall causing cracks and a giant hole. It felt as if a thousand nails were thrown at his chest at a million miles an hour. "Aah." Sputters Ari coughing up more blood. He tries to get up but his ribs must have been broken. Fang then crawls over to Ari and puts his bloody teeth up against Ari's face and growls. "I must know a healing spell." Thinks Ari while grimacing. "I know xedas." Ari mutters. Yellow wind curls around Ari mending a few bones allowing him to get up. When he looks up he is face to face with the dragon. Her teeth were sharper than knifes and they were bared right at Ari. The dragon then brings its claw up to Ari's throat. The long black claw slowly dug into Ari's neck. He felt as if he was having his skin torn open by knives. The warm feeling of blood trickling down his neck brought him to his senses. He grabs the claw and mutters to himself "Strato Armus." His muscles grow to superhuman strength allowing him to rip the claw off the dragon's arm. Instead of blood though there was a green acid spraying everywhere melting hole in anything it touched. "Healos Maxuz!" he yells with a smirk on his face. Tons of yellow wind and light tower around him healing most of the damage. While still very weak Ari thinks he might be able to take the dragon on. "PSSSSSSSSSH!" Fang sprays more fire at Ari. "HYDRUS BLOCO!" Ari yells flinging his arms to the side. He creates a shield of water, which he hopes will douse the flames. The shield blocks most of it, but before Fang is done the heat weakens the shield evaporating it. The remaining flames hit Ari sending him spiraling into the air feeling as if he is being cooked alive. Fang then grabs Ari And flies into the air. "Nnng." Squirms Ari desperate to survive. "Phantoz Sworsas!" gasps Ari scared out of his mind. A giant sword that looks like it is a ghost sword pierces Fangs soft underbelly, sending more acid splashing every where narrowly missing Ari. The dragon falls from the sky and Ari just manages to kick himself away before that happens. Fang barely manages to struggle, but it was too late. The acid had destroyed so much stuff that the roof started to collapse. Fang looks up as a giant sharp boulder starts falling, before she has time to react though the boulder crushes her head in a gore-filled ending.
