Chapter One: Star of Light
#1 of Sage’s Rose Memory
This is a the start of a new long story written by Tigz Hunter and Alo Foxx. All characters are copyright Tigz Hunter, Alo copyright himself. Please vote and tell us what you think ^.^!
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Prologue...
One thousand years ago, there lived a great and powerful king of the land of Fursanctuary. He was an immortal sage that was known to all of the furs in the worlds that exist. His name was Kiba, a wolf fur, and he was married to a tiger, named Rose, who was also a great sage. Peace seemed internal... until the Great Symphonia hit the great fur kingdom. There were many casualties from which the numbers only grow by the day, caused by the king they have trusted all their life to. At the death of his wife he did this to seek vengeance on her murder. The few remaining sages gathered up a plan to help their sorrow king, and the sole way to stop him from his awful vengeance, was to seal his very soul away. The king's very own son stood up to try and seal his father away himself, and the two fought for what seemed an eternity. Five days they had fought and long awaited hopes had been answered, King Kiba was sealed away with the very power he had used to take the lives of so many. His soul was sealed away under the kingdom's holy ground. His young son died shortly after his father's sealing, but even after his death many had thanked him for the light he had given birth to by saving them for the horror of death. However, there was something that the king had left that the citizens fear to this day, the words of rising " You who think that I will forgive you for your dark thoughts and murders, I'll bring Hell and Darkness with my rebirth into this world of false hope." With those words, sages have ever since watched over the grounds in which his sleeping soul lies. And all knew that there was only one thing that could stop him from coming back, the Rose Memory.....
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Sage's Rose Memory
By Tigz Hunter and Alo Foxx
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Chapter One: Star of Light
A thousand years have passed since King Kiba's soul was sealed, and many furs have forgotten his warning, living a peaceful life with a new king.
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"What the hell? No one told me the exams are on past events of the world!" came loudly from a pup, known as Tigz, who was talking to a wolf.
"Well I thought that you of all people would have known since you're always ready for tests almost all the time." said the wolf grinning at the pup.
"Oh no, you're starting to grin at me, which means you're having one of those yiff thoughts again..." said the pup sighing.
While the two talked a young vixen sits next to them. "Hey Tigz, how are you with your soon to be mate?" asked the fox, leaning on the wolf as she giggled. "Oh and Dean, the reason you're skipping our geometry class again is just for your loved one, Tigz? How romantic of you." She put her arm around him.
"You do know me and Tigz are not mates, right Sakura?" remarked Dean with an annoyed look on his face.
"Oh, but love always pulls two lovers together. Just think of King Kiba and Queen Rose for example, they were like two total different worlds yet their love was too strong to keep them far apart. That's the kind of romance I want to see with my own eyes." Sakura closed her eyes dreaming of the romantic setting.
Later that day, the trio was at their lockers grabbing their things to head back home from a long day of school. None of the three wanted to hear anything more about the upcoming exams. "Damn, Tigz can I study at your house tonight for a while? I don't want to go home and deal with my ten little brothers and sisters while trying to study for the exams." asked Dean leaning on Tigz as they walked down the street together.
"Well, I can see your point in the matter of the studying, so sure you can come over Dean. Besides, I wouldn't mind having such a cutie like you over at my house." replied Tigz, wrapping his arm around Dean while kissing him softly.
Sakura came up between them and said, "Oh, I thought we were studying history tonight, not male anatomy." Dean playfully shoved her and giggled as Tigz turned red and looked away.
As they walked down the street, something didn't feel right to them. "Hey is it just me, or does it seem like a ghost town on this end of the city?" asked Sakura with a worried look on her face as she looked around.
"Hmmm well by the looks of things, it seems as if everyone left the surrounding area for good reason, but why..." said Tigz trying to come up with a cause that could have befallen the area. They continued on their way home down an abandoned stone paved road. Suddenly, and without warning, the earth shook violently and the ground below them collapsed; making all three scream as they fell into a hole. Tigz got up and arched in pain as he looked around the area that they fell into. "What the hell was that?" He took in the scene, and realized they must have fallen into one of the Kingdom's ancient underground cities, spoken of only as myth. "These are said to be beautifully preserved, but here it lies in ruins. Maybe it was that weird earthquake." Tigz thought to himself, "I... feel something powerful. Could it be? Is a sage behind all this? Why would it attack a place like this?" Tigz rubbed his head as he overwhelmed himself with questions, but soon remembered he was walking home with his friends. He looked for them and found them both unconscious lying under some of the ruble. Tigz quickly pulled them onto the ground and tried to wake them up, but with no success. Now filled with worry, the pup stood up and whimpered slightly, looking for a way back up to get help. Endless darkness surrounded the place where he stood, only lit by the dimming sun.
Tigz decided he should find a way out and started walking in a direction. After a few feet, he saw a faint light up ahead and moved towards it. Near the source he had found an old lion that was carrying a sword in his paw and a dog next to him. Tigz inched closer and hid behind some ruins trying not to be seen by the two, and looked closely at them. The lion was covered in scars from battle and had a high rank look about him, dressed in some sort of uniform. The dog was in shorts and had highly developed muscles covered by black and brown fur. Tigz moved his ears, trying to hear what they were talking about.
"Is the holy ground close yet master Mew?" asked the dog sitting down on a rock. Tigz noticed a polished studded collar on his neck.
"It's not here, we came to the wrong area. But still this area had a similar feel to the holy ground's though..." said Mew, stabbing his sword into the ground. Tigz figured that they must have been the ones who destroyed this area of the underground city. He knew that there was nothing good about the reason they want to find the holy ground.
As Tigz looked closer his eyes met a symbol on the flat part of the blade. He recognized the symbol from one time when his father had showed him it. It was carried by members of the Demon Heart clan. Tigz backed away a little because this clan was known for killing many furs that got in their way.
Tigz, now in fear, started moving back to his friends, and as he retreated, he fell backwards over something. "Ouch, what the hell was that?" thought Tigz turning to face the object that made him fall, and once he saw what it was he covered his muzzle, trying not scream. Tigz shook as he saw a dead body of a fur that seemed to have been burned by something. He had a good guess that it may have been the two sages and wanted to get as far away as he could. When he started to get up one of the sages stopped talking and sniffed the air noticing that someone was here, and close.
"Master Mew I think we have another dumb soul who wants to fight us or tell their weak ass king that there is something going on down here." The dog sage sniffed around trying pinpoint his next pray to kill or eat.
"Damn it I have to get out of here before he finds me." said Tigz to himself. He got up slowly and walked out of the area as fast he could without making any sound towards the direction of his friends.
Tigz got to where he left his friends behind. "Hey, get up already you two before we're all in trouble!" said Tigz, shaking the two hard as he tried waking them. He sighed and figured that he may have to just carry them, but Dean started to wake up and look around.
He looked up to see Tigz in front of him and said "Wait a minute this is not all you can yiff kingdom... why does this always happen to me..." dreaming a little, but soon snapped back to reality and noticed that Tigz looked very concerned. "Hey Tigz don't worry about a little old me." Dean smiled once and sat up. After a few minutes, Sakura started to wake up and as soon as she opened her eyes she saw Tigz and Dean standing next to each other.
"Aw, what a lovely sight to see two lovers standing together like the King Kiba and Queen Rose once did." she said with a giggle as she got up and walked over to them.
"I wonder how much you want us to go together. With all the comments I can barely tell if you're joking or being for real." said Dean looking at her.
"Anyways you two, we're in trouble right now." said Tigz with a worried voice.
"To what pleasure do we have such an honor?" joked Sakura as she picked up her book bag from the ground.
"It's the Demon Hearts! They're here looking for the holy ground under the city, but I don't know why though..." said Tigz trying to make them hurry up so they could leave the underground ruins. Suddenly, they heard a roar that felt as if it could have reach the very heavens. As they turned to see its source, all they saw were two figures standing on a broken-down building.
"Master Mew, I think we found the little "pest" that's been crawling around here." growled the dog looking toward the figures.
The three started to run, hoping they could get away from the sages before they could attack. As they ran Tigz was only one to notice that two sages were not on the building anymore, leading to only one conclusion, that the two have already started to hunt them down. "Sakura. Dean. I want you to keep running and I'll hold off the sages before they catch up." said Tigz slowing down his pace.
"So you're really going to go through fighting them then?"asked Dean stopping and looking toward Tigz.
"Well, someones got to make sure they don't get us all, right?" said Tigz smiling at them.
"You're one crazy pup Tigz, but you're right. We don't want them to get all of us at the same time. Promise me that you'll be careful ok pup?" said Sakura hugging Tigz tightly.
"Hey! You're going to kill me if you keep hugging me like this." Said Tigz giggling "Don't worry though I'll be careful and see you both soon enough" Tigz grinned.
"Well with this we better move, good luck Tigz" said Dean kissing him lovingly. He turned and started to run off with Sakura right behind him.
Tigz turned around and yelled, "Hey you big ugly sages! Come on out or I'll make you!" He started to look around fast, making sure that he didn't get ambushed by them. Without warning, a fire ball the size of a bed almost hit Tigz.
"So it would seem I need to practice on my aiming." Said the dog giggling at him
"You... You're the son of Leo, no?" asked Mew looking at Tigz oddly.
"And what if I am? Do you know him or something?" asked Tigz, making something in his paw.
"I see... You are lucky that I can't kill you then. For if your parents found out of your death they would know who killed you since we have met before." said Mew as he put his sword away, "But this doesn't stop me from killing the other two." He started to walk past Tigz with the dog at his side.
"No, I won't let you hurt them!" yelled Tigz as he stood in the way of the lion.
"Hmmm? What a fool to think you can tell me what to do." said Mew as he made a ball of light appear from his paw and shot it into Tigz's chest.
"What the-ugh..." Tigz tried to talk, but his body gave up on him as he fell to his knees.
Tigz felt as if his whole body was shutting itself down, being drained of all its energy, making it hard for him to keep himself awake. The dog picked him up and threw him against one of the buildings. Mew just looked toward where Tigz was thrown and sighed, "I thought he would be more like his parents, but it seems like he's nothing like them." He turned and started walking toward the exit out of the underground city. After he walked a few feet he noticed that something didn't feel right. Then he heard lightening coming toward him at a fast pace, but before could move out of the way, Tigz hit him with the attack. Mew seemed to be unharmed by it. The pup started to make an orb of water in his paw, but before he could do anything the dog grabbed his arm from behind and slowly twisted it while Mew appeared in front of Tigz, slowly putting his sword to the kid's neck.
"I wonder what happens to a pup when they lose something?" asked the dog sarcastically to his master.
"I'm unsure, but we can't find out just yet though. Once his parents are not around maybe we will know then." laughed Mew at the thought of hurting Tigz and his family. Without any warning the dog was thrown toward the building behind Mew.
"Don't you dare do anything to them!" growled Tigz trying to stand.
"I see that's how you threw him, but judging by me you're about to pass out any minute now." said Mew lifting Tigz by his neck.
Tigz tried to kick him, but no matter how much he tried he couldn't hurt him. He felt like he was growing weaker as his eyes closed. Mew dropped him on the ground, as now he was knocked out from the ball of light inside his body. Mew and the dog walked out of the ruined city and begin to return to the surface. Tigz body was left lying there, hurt and unable to move while the ball of light slowly moved towards his heart.
As soon as everyone was gone, a stranger appeared near the unmoving pup and stared at him for second. He bent down and picked him up gently. The stranger looked at the kid one more time before carrying him out of the ruins to the surface, but not the way back to the city. The stranger grinned at him and said, "You're going to be the next one on the list kid. Once that's over you're going to wish you never came here." The stranger put Tigz in a car and got into the driver's seat. As he drove off something hit the car hard and fast. The car went out of control heading toward a cliff with no hope of stopping. The stranger jumped out of the car, but he notices that he left the pup inside the car, though now it was too late. He saw the car falling off the cliff with Tigz still inside.
The stranger groaned as he got up and limped over towards the edge of the cliff. He looked down at the thousand foot drop below to the sharp, jagged rocks. He tried to look closely at the crashed vehicle and noticed that Tigz's paw was hanging out of the car, blood covering it. "Man, the rocks got into the poor kid." said the stranger with a sigh, moving back as he saw that the rocks were stabbing into the car where Tigz laid. Blood was everywhere and he felt there was no hope for Tigz's surviving.