Dékadi, School for Warriors

Dialgia's Mistake

'Well, well, well, I'd go grill my organs if I'll see him again,' Dialgia complained non-stop about the attractive blonde-haired boy she bumped hard into. She, being a person who never really liked to apologize was of course, glared daggers at by girls and especially Miiave. Janna kept telling her youngest sister that Alard is just doing what a person would. But it went too far, that Dialgia eventually insulted Janna. 'You know what, you're just being a very idiotic prat, thinking that he's doing perfectly-' Dialgia stopped when she saw Janna's perfectly kind face turn into a sour scowl. Heavy rain started to pour and loud cracking thunder shocked the rest of the students. In Janna's eyes were pure angst and lots of terrifying stuff. Sombré pulled her younger sister away and scolded Dialgia for saying such an untrue thing. 'Just don't show up for a bit. She'll probably start climate change or something,' Sombré told Dialgia, whose angst was replaced with worry. She thought and thought and avoided Janna as posssible. The storm went on for at least a week.

Dialgia was about to head to the Firescape when she met two girls, who were twins, but completely opposite. Their names were Emi and Ara Darant. 'We heard lots of thunder at nightfall,' said Emi. 'Yeah! And the rain was so heavy it almost smashed the roof!' Ara added. 'Are you sure? She really is in a bad mood...' Dialgia was in a flurry of slight panic and worry. 'You better fix this!' The twins said at once. 'Well, I reckon she's fuming at Yaleglade forest.' The voice that said these words was the same fourteen year old girl with short silver hair and bangs wearing the same uniform, only covered by a flowing white cloak.

'Susie!' Emi and Ara exclaimed.

'Rather rare place to meet, you two are always poking your nose in trouble,' said the boy Dialgia recognized as Daril Earnest. He was taller than Susie, but younger. Daril had a sly look playing in his sunken orange eyes. It looked like he was Susie's personal servant, because he wasn't wearing a uniform and he looked so pale and white. Like ice. But Dialgia had the feeling Daril was the one breaking rules for Susie and the Mandvaril. And maybe Daril himself was Susie's conscience. 'Hurry along now, Emi, head to Ayame Mountain. Miiave's waiting. Ara, come with me,' Susie instructed. With Daril, Emi and Ara just behind Susie, Dialgia stalked off to the Firescape.

The Firescape was what resembled the top of the volcano. For red team members, the Firescape when activated, was only thirty degrees celsius. But it felt like eighty degrees hotter for other people. It felt like standing out below the scorching sun for  Dialgia because her other side was water. She meet up with the team leader Vernt and the rest of the team. A few hours later, they got a little off. The team members, with their determination, tried very hard to form a figure made out of fire. Dialgia's was a a real, living, and touchable pheonix. It had amazing gold and orange feathers and a pair of graceful wings. It was a very rare immortal bird. It burns and turns to ash when it dies, and leaves behind another pheonix to live another thousand years. And it burns again, so on. It was perched majestically on Dialgia's head, like it was pretending to be queen of the world. Yes, Dialgia's pheonix is female. It gave the team members determination to form a pheonix. They didn't form one, though they formed a blade or a weapon out of it. None of them acheived a redblade, but the young fourth-year girl Marana almost did. Dialgia felt a sharp feeling of guilt. How could she dare say a very untrue and abhorent thing about her sister? She wanted to make up for lots of things...but not for now. Susie said that she's still fuming. The storm didn't get any worse. It softened a little bit. But Dialgia was too guilty to notice. The next day, Emi and Ara recruited a new girl, Damae Arce into their team. Dialgia asked what they were up to. 'We found crushed pieces of shiny black surgestones at our dresser cabinet last night. We asked Damae here about what she knows about it, and she said that those things were remains of darkened surgestones! It's pretty scary...' the curly-haired Emi trailed off. Dialgia was rather curious and interested now. She was wondering what she could do about these things.

'You know what: this could only mean one thing...'

'...there are bits of dead people's surgestones hidden somewhere here.'