[IC] Ancients of Elan ~ Rise of The Chosen

[Xeiyenreisha]

"Warp mode engaged." The computer said as the ship arose from the ruins it was buried in then shot upward into the atmosphere out of Gaea and into space. It then turned away from the planet as it electrified the space around it. It then opened a wormhole as it shot into the wormhole disappearing into the space. It traveled around the rainbow like space like area for awhile until it exited. "I have retracted time to exactly five hours prior to the events of today." The voice said as the ship entered Gaea's atmosphere and hovered up in the skies high above the capital. Far below was the large capital that had buildings towering over it. The Mithos and Ranathia from the time they were sent back to who were in a car with Ranathia driving had disappeared where they never met up with the man they ran into earlier. Only that one event had been changed where it never happened while Mithos and Ranathia were still up in the ship. The computer then opened up a window like area so they could see the sky and made the floor look like a window where they could see the capital below them.

[Card Captor]

"It...looks like it really worked. Fascinating" Mithos thought aloud. While this brought up a great deal of questions, Mithos found that he couldn't be bothered to care. "So I should have a good 20 minutes to get into position. I had best wait for my past self to be finished with the professor before approaching the man. Then again...what would happen if I were to meat with my past self? Nothing good I suppose. It does not matter. If I do this right, then I should be able to avoid causing any changes that my past self would recognize. In fact, I might be able to replace him when he goes back in time. Wouldn't that be convenient? I wonder if the professor from my time ran into a future me? I suppose I have no way of finding out. Oh well. Now all I need is to find a way to exit this place"

[Xeiyenreisha]

"You wish to exit?" The computer asked as it prepared a portal where a door opened that was hooked onto a generator. "I have set the coordinates for the teleporter to return you back to your residence. Would you like me to return Master as well? Also, since I am the only fully AI controlled warship in existence with a conscious of my own, would you like me to enter Cloaking Mode where I transform into a small communication device that you hold in your hand until you need me again?" The computer concluded as the lights inside the teleporter started flashing indicating it was ready.

[Card Captor]

This was all starting to get way to convenient. Still, Mithos was determined to milk it while it lasted "yes to both" he said in response to the AI's questions. 'I still remember where the meeting took place, so I should be able to fly there within the time limit without trouble' Mithos thought to himself. 'Although I wonder how I should explain this to her?" he pondered as he looked at Ranathia "oh well, I suppose I can cross that bridge when I reach it he shrugged as he left that particular line of thought "best to tackle my problems one at a time" he said out loud as he got on the teleporter "well then, I'm ready to be transported"

[Xeiyenreisha]

The computer transported both of them to the ground. When they reached the ground the appeared inside the quarters or Reiya. The room they were in was the study where the hand maidens looked at each other confused about what just happened. Ranathia still was on the floor unconscious, but her body was glowing as strange symbols appeared all over her skin igniting like a roman candle. A light shot down from the sky where the ship disappeared into the light then reappeared as a handheld communicator in Mithos hands. The Davustra had reduced its form to a very small communications device that could easily be held in someone's hand. It was hard to believe that little device was one of the most advanced warships in existence. "I will remain in Standby Mode. Call me when you need." The computer said as it went silent. That even confused the hand maiden's more where they looked at each then Mithos, "Master Mithos, what is going on here?" They questioned lost in all the confusion of what had just happened.

[Card Captor]

"Time travel apparently" was his answer "now if you'll excuse me, I have some business to attend to." Pocketing the now handheld device, Mithos left the building and took to the skies. Now airborne, he made his way to the rondaview point with the professor. As the meeting had only happened a few hours ago, he still remembered where it was. Thanks to his faster mode of transportation, he reached the spot a few minutes the 20 miniute marker. "Now all I have to do is wait"

[Xeiyenreisha]

When Mithos appeared at the rendezvous point, there was no one to be found. All there were was abandoned warehouses that looked empty and there was no sign of people in the area either. No matter how long he waited, no one appeared or showed up. Not even the Mithos and Ranathia from the time he had entered had shown and over an hour had passed. Though the man that was trapped inside the veil of light started laughing softly as he showed himself shaking his head. "Do you actually think time travel is that simple? Because you entered this time period, the present you was replaced by yourself. The events that were supposed to happen have been altered to never happen now. You must be curious to how the current present that was the past has changed. As far as waiting, you might as well stop wasting your time here since no one is going to come. First time in over one hundred billion years I've seen the light of day. A lot has changed since I was sleeping."

[Card Captor]

Mithos sighed "of course. I was a fool to think that things were starting to go my way. Clearly getting picked up by a time machine was a fluke itself. Oh well, I suppose there is nothing to do but return to my book." Giving up, Mithos took back to the skies and flew to his room. Once there, he put the handheld device on his bedside table, while he picked his book back up and sat down. "Now let me see...where did I leave off? Ah! Here we go"

[Xeiyenreisha]

The man paid no heed to Mithos has he flew away though he pondered a thought that brought curiosity soaring into his mind. He had gone five hours back into the past, but the fact that this Professor wasn't there to meet with them did interest him. The man then surveyed his surroundings noticing there were several buildings, but then sensed an energy reading in one of them. The reading was pretty weak so it had to be a regular mortal with no special abilities to offer. "I sensed her presence on the Davustra while I was in slumber. Though why did she appear on the Davustra? And what was that Angelian trying to do? I know he was trying to alter the past, but it seems he caused a disturbance between their meeting with that Professor." He said as he walked over and took a seat on some of the old crates that lay on the floor inside one of the old warehouses. It was obvious it was an industrialized area since there several looking factory buildings with smoke stacks that peered into the sky. "Perhaps I should find this person. I might be able to find Xei and find exactly what is going on in our present time? If I have been awakened by her then it means something serious is about to go down." He said as he tried to pick up the fix on the Angelian's location then found as he enveloped himself in light and disappeared in a flash. An old man with glasses came out of hiding confused by what he had just saw. He had been waiting for someone to show, but they never came. He decided to leave exiting the warehouse realizing that they were never going to show.

Ranathia was lying in the bed stripped down to her undergarments and put in bed covered with blankets as a towel was put over her head. It seemed she had a fever and the hand maidens of the house were trying their best to comfort while they could. They didn't know exactly why her body was covered in strange markings that they did not understand or why it glowed like a Roman candle. Ranathia toss and turned in bed looking unwell as she muttered in her sleep a very strange chant which no one understood. From her look on her face and her cringing face it looked like she was having a nightmare. When Mithos returned one of the housemaids confronted Mithos informing him about Ranathia's current situation. "We don't understand at all what happened to her. Her condition has not changed and it looks like she is very sick, Mithos. Do you have any idea what could have happened to Lady Ranathia?" She said as you could see Ranathia was really pale and her head was so hot that it felt like there was an inferno raging inside her body.

[Card Captor]

Mithos shrugged "I'm not sure myself. She was just fine until she started screaming. By the sound of it, it seemed like she believed someone to be invading her mind...but I did not see anyone around when it happened. Not long after that, she fell unconscious. I wasn't even aware that she was so ill, I merely thought her out cold. If she is really as bad as you claim, then perhaps a doctor should be called" he answered the housemaid. 'How strange. I wonder what could have happened to her?' he thought to himself

[Xeiyenreisha]

She looked over toward one of the other hand maidens and told them to fetch a doctor immediately. The one she looked at nodded and immediately took off full stride out the door of the manor in search of a doctor. The other one do what she could to comfort her. She was about to change the towel on her forehead when a voice startled her out of nowhere and she turned to see a silver haired man dressed in black clothes appear right behind her.

"It seems the poison of her own power is having a negative effect on her body. Her body is not used to what she is experiencing so it is doing its best to guard against it." He apused momentarily as he walked over toward her other side examining her body including the strange marks on her body that glowed. "It is too early for her power to awaken and if we do not do something about it, her condition could become fatal." The man said as he walked over to examine her situation. It was the same man Mithos and Ranathia saw on the ship and the very same figure he saw at the abandoned warehouses. Though when you got a closer glimpse he resembled the man who appeared out of nowhere that Mithos ran into except this man was all alone and not accompanied by any female figures.

"Who are you?" The housemaids said as they went on the defensive from the sudden emergence of an intruding figure that did not enter the manor like normal people would. They thought he might be some kind of thief, but the man shook his head informing them that he had no interest in what they call money.

One of the hand maidens was about to touch Ranathia's body where the marks appeared, but the man grabbed her hand and shook his head. He informed her that touching the marks would poison her and since she wasn't as strong as Ranathia it would prove fatal to her. "Those are runes on her body that no normal mortal can touch. If you touched one the effect might prove catastrophic for you or even fatal."

[Card Captor]

"In that case, what can be done?" Mithos asked "I do not think you would have bothered coming here if you did not know of a way to fix her." While Mithos should have wonder what he was doing here when before he had been unconscious in the time machine, what he really wanted was for this day to be over, so he didn't ask any questions he did't need the answer to. 'I suppose it is fortunate that there was not a rune on her wrist before, or else I might not still be alive'

[Xeiyenreisha]

"I know how to cure her though I doubt you would want to know how. The way I am talking about is way too cruel for her and would cause her tremendous pain and suffering." The man said as he made his way toward the exit. He knew that she would have to learn the same technique that Sentius and him had learned. Though since her body was infected with the energy and with it poisoning her meant that her vital organs were probably becoming weaker. If he nothing was done in her current state she could die from her organs decomposing after a certain stage.

One of the housemaids stood in the path of the man and begged him to help their Lady Ranathia. She owed a great bit of gratitude to her since if it weren't for her she would still be a poor young woman on the street scrounging for food in a dangerous environment. "Please, sir! We beg of you! Save Lady Ranathia. We owe her so much and if we could help persuade you to at least try to save her life would be a payment toward the debt we already owe her."

"You don't understand." The man said as he moved her out of his way. He then turned around with a very serious fierce look on his face. The straight face ferocious look was an indication he was not kidding about anything he said. "The way to save her could kill her as well. She would suffer for nothing? Do you honestly think I would want to put her through that! Now get out of my way."

[Card Captor]

"Then why did you come here?" Mithos asked "if you are not here to cure her, what else could you be doing here? None of us have the means to cure her, only you by the sound of things. All you have done is told us that you have the means to cure her, and try to leave without doing anything. Granted, you claim that it might not work, and would only subject her to immense pain...but still, I have to wonder why?" During all of this, Mithos had been looking in Ranathia's direction, and away from the strange man. "If I may be completely honest; it feels like were are being taunted"

[Xeiyenreisha]

"I came here to see if she was doing well, but I saw she wasn't." He paused for a moment as he turned away from the door and closed it instead of leaving like he was about to. "Do not get the wrong idea. My care for her is strong, but I wouldn't ever want to put her through suffering for no reason. It would make me no different than someone who was torturing her." He paused once again as you could sense the sincerity inside his serious voice. It was obvious that this man cared deeply for her. Enough to not want to put her through torture even if she was near death. Everyone's eyes gazed upon him as they stared in suspicion that he did not care about her at all even though his words said otherwise.

"Fine." He said raising his voice in frustration. He walked over toward her beside then turned toward Mithos and the housemaids. "I will perform a very dangerous Ancient Magic on her. Whether she learns it is up to her, but it will put her through enormous pain and suffering. Is that what you really want for her, Mithos? I know you are foolishly allowing your mortal thoughts to tell you she doesn't care about you, but she very much does. She saved you from being crushed by the rocks inside the ruin. If you really care about, would you subject her to such torment?"

"You all look at me like I'm some sort of villain anyway." He added as he gazed at her body taking a close look at the runes that glowed and her condition which was starting to slowly get worse since she started to show symptoms of coughing.

[Card Captor]

"Considering I was only there because of her, I consider her teleporting us away from the rocks her evening the score." Mithos replied 'Also, it was because of her that rocks were even falling in the first place. Not only that, but the only reason why it almost crushed us in the first place was because I had to pull her out in the first place.' went unsaid in his head. "Also, some well meaning advice; when you put words like 'foolish' and 'mortal' in the same sentence in an attempt to 'enlighten' someone, it tends to undermine your point by making you sound haughty. In fact, it sounds strikingly like how some of the more pigheaded nobles speak, which is something you should strive to avoid." He finished, not even touching the topic of his and her feeling for each other.

[Xeiyenreisha]

The man ignored the part where Mithos complained about him saying a few words that looked condescending to him. Regardless of how he felt, he didn't really care one way or another. They were just words and those affected by mere words he found were weak-minded. He woke Ranathia up who was very weak and had to be carried by the two hand maidens toward the outside where he was going to perform his technique. She didn't look to be herself and her eyes looked very dead when as they just gazed where she did not say a word.

"Ranathia, I need you to listen to me very closely. Nod yes if you understand what I'm saying." She nodded slowly with her head yes as he took his duster off and put it around her so no one could see her undergarments she was wearing. He then closed his eyes and calmed his power then opened them as it looked like a bolt of lightning struck him from above and is energy just ignited almost knocking everyone off their feet causing several people to be blinded by the blast of the aura he let loose. He slowly calmed it to a more gentle phase then looked at Ranathia and told her to do the samething.

Ranathia took up a position mimicking exactly what he said to do, but stopped when she felt a sharp pain in her body. It felt like her body was about to explode, but he told her to continue or else it would just get worse. She needed to expel that energy that was poisoning her body outward so that it wasn't bottled up in her body. If she didn't, he informed everyone that her organs would slowly decompose which was not a good sign. Ranathia tried to attempt what he said, but she was too scared to do it. She knew the Ancient Magic he taught her known as the Lightning Rod Effect was extremely dangerous and one wrong move and she could blow up the entire area and not mean to. She was too frightened to attempt it, but her condition got worse where she coughed and this time spit up blood which fell to the ground. "I Can't do it, I'm too scared. If I fail I'll kill myself and everyone around me. There is no way I can bring myself to do that!" She stubbornly protested as he attempted to convince her in any way possible that it was the only way she was going to get better.

He looked over toward Mithos closing his eyes then sighed as he started to speak, "It's up to you, Mithos. If you really do not care about her life then you can just do nothing and let her die. But if you have even an ounce of dignity left you'll try to find some way to get her over her fear. If she continues like this, she will surely die within hours. There is not much time, she has to stay focused and keep calm."

[Card Captor]

'Like I have any sort of choice.' Mithos snorted mentally. "Listen Ranathia; you have to do this. If you do not, then you will surly die. And if you die, then what will happen to your niece? The girl is already lazy enough when it comes to her duties, what do you think will happen if her only remaining family dies?" It was pretty surreal to see here like this, she was normally much more strong willed "if you think it might help you focus, we could leave the room."

[Alphakoka]

Alice thoughtfully frowned at the teacher's words. She can't really refute it, especially not when she was being taught on how to use magic herself. She could consider this as one of the Elective Classes she'd took then. But then the question remain, why did the School even assign her this class in the first place? She probably should ask again later, Mr. Squall is not so kind-hearted that he'd tolerate another question that's unrelated to his own lesson. At least he's not petty enough to consider it as implying that she didn't want to be taught by him. The girl then decided to focus on taking notes from the lecture.

[Leotamer]

Squall went on, "Now, as I said, these magic archetypes reflect magic theory very closely, and in order to understand a theory of any kind, you must understand its core principles and the rules it follows. You will be expected to learn all the core principles and the rules of these types of magic before the test however, lets start with the very core principles of each type of glitch magic, besides total chaotic glitch magic which will talk about in more detail by itself since it is certainly a special case and is very interesting. So, can anyone in here relay the fundamental principles of Trojan, spy, overload, and balance magic?"