Chapter 17: The First Generation of the Elementalists.

"So you're the Grandmother of the present summoning elemental" As Alistor bends down to look at her closely.

"It's bad to stare at a woman's body Mr. Alistor." Skadi covers herself with just her hands.

"Despite the teasing, yes she is." As Blyze facepalm and sounded really disappointed.

"Anyways, I know you have a lot of questions right now, but hold it in for now, I will answer you one by one. Hmmmm....let's see" As Skadi then looks at them and saw Disoris, "I'll Pick you, young lady" and points to Disoris.

Disoris was a bit flustered look and points at herself, "Me?"

"Yes, you. Oh how I remember how handsome the shadow Elementalist was he was almost the man of my dreams." Skadi then tells her the past on how the shadow Elementalist after the war.

"You mean, My grandfather?" Disoris asked her.

"Yes, he was so quiet and so charming, that's why I came to like him. You really remind me of him, quiet, young, and fragile, and almost like a coward. As he was also fragile, like a glass who can't be touched, but touch that glass and it will surely cut your skin." As Skadi said and floats around the glass while her legs were crossed to the other and also her arms.

"What do you mean?" Disoris asked Skadi.

"You see my dear, your grandfather, Zarion, he was really quiet, and really cared for his people, after we defeated Belphegor he then almost crushed us, not like fighting okay? it's more of an...competition I would say, we had a competition on how fast we could establish a successful kingdom on our own, he crushed us with his strategy skills, until...the destruction Elementalist came havoc to our lands...." Skadi then tells her the past.

[In the great round table of the Elementals Chamber]

"We need to defeat him now before it's too late! His forces are already moving towards our very kingdom! We need to stop them!" As Dragnoss Van Skelvia slams the table. (The first Arcane Elementalist.)

"Can't you just shoot some magical arcane magic to him and remove his element?" Syrre Alva (the first Spirit Elemental).

"I can but I need time to prepare, so give me time to do it, I want you all to delay his forces and stop him for the meantime, we need to gather our forces and stop Rorik's selfishness!" As Dragnoss says to the other Elementals.

"I agree with him, if we don't stop Rorik now, he will reign realm and bring destruction to our planet, if we don't act now, we will regret this later" Shira Skadi then agrees with Dragnoss (The first Summoning Elementalist).

"Ok, I'll go with you." Syrre Agrees with them also.

"What about you Zarion? You with us?" Dragnoss asked Zarion to Ally with them but Zarion wanted to be a neutral away from the war.

"I'm sorry...but I want to remain neutral...." Zarion replied to Dragnoss.

"What!? You want to remain Neutral?! What about Rorik?! Your Kingdom?! The future of the people!? You can't possibly say that!" Dragnoss then holds Zarions Shoulders and said "Please help us my friend, we need you."

Zarion then looked away towards the floor and said "Can you give me more time to think...?"

"But we need your decision now!" Dragnoss insisted to give him an answer and continued "We need your decision now and fight with us, you are the shadow, I thought the shadows fearless?"

"I'm sorry..." Zarion then disappears from sight without any warning from the other Elementals. The other elementals didn't know where he went.

"So what are we going to do now?" Syrre asked Dragnoss.

"We fight! If we don't retaliate then the world will be doomed if we don't do this." Dragnoss then lifts both of his hands and opened the map by arcane magic.

("....He disappeared after that, I didn't know what to do, I thought he was just a coward, but he planned it all along..." Skadi says and continued.)

"It's no use. We can't defeat him with just us three. Rorik, Why are you doing this?" Dragnoss asked Rorik (The First destruction Elemental) as he and the other elementals were defeated by Rorik, and they were on the ground laying without any strength to move.

As Rorik pulls the hair of Dragnoss and he lifts him up then he said "Power, my dear Arcane Elemental, I want power! And I want Your territories to become mine"

"You are just a fool saying that! You are under the influence of Belphegor! Snap out of it!" Syrre Alva shouted to Rorik as she was down on the ground without strength to move but to talk.

Rorik then throws Dragnoss to the rocks in a distance as Dragnoss hits the rock and spits out blood then Rorik came close to Syrre, and got a dagger from behind his belt and Syrre saw the image of Belphegore in his eyes as he lifts up the dagger and starts to swing the dagger towards Syrre, but he was stopped, by an arrow that pierced his hand from a distance and the dagger was dropped, Rorik didn't know where it was shot and who shot it, and Zarion came to the scene with a massive shadow army behind him.

"Zarion!" Skadi shouted as she had hope for him.

"Zarion, you are a bit late for that you know..." Dragnoss then spits out blood and coughs and the wounds of Dragnoss were completely healed by Zarion.

"It took me a while to master this new Element, it is called regeneration," Zarion said as he lifts his hand up high.

("What?! Regeneration?!" Nao said as she was shocked after she heard the new element.

"Yes, Zarion invented a new regeneration element, it constantly heals anyone and it's caster...but he didn't know how much of his mana was slowly depleting.)

Zarions hands were lifted up high and teleported his comrades by a safe distance using the shadow element, then he healed his injured comrades back to good condition.

"From now on, this is my fight and mine alone," Zarion said as he commanded his massive shadow army to attack Rorik.

Rorik was still unfazed and didn't send a hint of a reaction on his face and said "You have to do better than that shadow." then he places his hand to the ground and a large explosion occurred behind Zarion in a distance, and the shadows were hit and vanished, as it appeared again.

"You know you can't do this forever." Rorik said to Zarion.

"That's why I am going to end this once and for all" Zarion says while he commanded his army to attack Rorik with all their might.

("The battle went for days, I didn't know he had a large amount of mana in store, maybe his quietness was equal to his mana." Skadi says and looks down while floating in the middle of the crystal ball.

"What happened then?" Disoris asked.

"Well, days after days, Rorik was finally defeated and Zarion healed us with his last breath...." Skadi replied as she continues to tell Disoris the story.)

"Zarion!" The Elementalist shouted together and went closer to him.

As Zarion coughed blood with his trembling voice, he went and say his final words, "My friends, I did it...I finally ended the war..."

"Yes, you did Zarion...you really did." Skadi holds the left hand of Zarion as did Syrre to his right, while Dragnoss was standing right next to him, then suddenly they teared up.

"Don't cry, I will always be watching you in the shadows, as for my final wish, I wish that your children will have a happy life and the shadows will protect you all, I will be watching you in the shadows and I will be handing you the future of the world." Zarion said as the others cried so much as they hear the last breath of their dying friend, and particles of black and green suddenly lifts up Zarion and covered him with the elements he possessed, The shadow, and the regeneration, the colors mixed around his body and he suddenly disappears as flowers were placed on the spot where he had died, the Elementals cried their hearts out.

"Everyone, let's not make Zarions death in vain, he entrusted the future to us, and we will make his wish come true" Dragnoss tries to cheer them up and Syrre tries to help Skadi to stand up as they wipe their faces from tears and stands together, side by side.

"First, we need to seal the destruction element, I have prepared a Spell on how to get the element and seal it forever. Give me the box!" Dragnoss said to a soldier and then looks behind and went to the dead body of Rorik and stabs him with an Arcane dagger on which the element came out of him, it was filled with rage, greed, destruction, and loneliness.

"I sense the loneliness in him." As Syrre said while they get the destruction element, and puts it in a secure box with highly sealed magic in it and will be put on the most secure facility in the world, the Arcane prison.

"From now on, towards the future, we will make the world remember that this day is the end of the war, and the death of a good friend will be remembered always." Dragnoss then lifts his right hand up as Syrre and Skadi follows, as the Sun shines on them and it was marked as the day of 'Freedom'.

"So Disoris you have a very rare element in you, maybe even rarer than our elements, you just need to find it"Skadi said to Disoris as she went closer to her, then Disortis looked at her hands and nods. She continued "that's how the war ended, and I remembered Syrre saying this: 'Belphegor will be awakened in the next two generations after us, so that's why you are here Mr. Alistor" Skadi then looks at Alistor with great relief

"Please, call me Al, and didn't you summon me from the other world?" Alistor said as he thought Skadi was the one who summoned him

"No, We didn' Al, you were summoned by someone else." Skadi replies to Alistor as she was still floating.

"Someone else?" Alistor asks Skadi but she didn't respond to him.

"well, that's enough storytime. Blyze, why don't you show everyone around town? It will be nice if you'll let them see what we have in store." Skadi says to Blyze and Blyze nodded and continued "Great! thanks for coming here you all, I'm glad I met the younglings of the third generation of the original four"

"Original four?" Nao asks.

"Yes, that's what we call ourselves, well not in the books we were called legends but to ourselves, we call us that." Skadi replies to Nao as she had her pointing finger upwards and continued "Well, I am tired, I will see you all later then."

"I thought souls get tired?" Micreal wonders.

"Well, I get tired when I appeared to you all in this soul encaser. Anyways have fun you all" As Skadi waves goodbye to them, and Blyze guided them to the way out, as Alistor was about to go with them Skadi called Alistor with a serious face and Alistor turned his head to her, she said "Belphegor will be awaken soon, be ready, the day of reckoning is coming"

"Hmph, No obstacle will get in the way of my exploration nor my friends, I will keep that in mind" Alistor then wears the tophat and points to himself with his thumb and smiles "I am the Shadow demon after all." then he heads out.

"The shadow demon...huh. I the future ahead of you is long and you must be ready, Mr. Alistor." as Skadi whispers to herself looking at a picture that was taken a long time ago, it was a picture all the Elementalist before the war of Belphegor. Zarion on the middle and quiet face, Syrre was on the right smiling and Skadi was on the left as she had a peace sign and was smiling while Dragnoss was pointing at himself with his thumb and Rorik was in the corner of the picture and his arms were in his pockets.

[Chapter 17 End]