The Sixth Kingdom Chapter 9(NEW):

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Chapter 1: The Beggining Of A New Era!

The year is 2108 in Saint Walker City. A young boy is running with all his strength out of the town’s hospital. He has curly blonde hair and deep blue eyes. He is not too tall. After about 10 minutes running he arrives at his house. He enters hasty and packs a few stuff nervously. He then shuts the door behind him and looks his house as if he is looking at it for the last time. After a long moment he resumed running. He knew where his destination was. He looked at the orb in his hand. He then placed it in his pocket and stopped outside a house. He rang the bell.
After a few seconds a young man opened the door. He had black hair and was a little chubby. He looked up at the boy

Boy: Pheristos, what are you doing here at this late hour?
Pheristos: Hey Mirage and sorry for the bother
Mirage: It’s fine. What’s going on?
Pheristos: I have to find a… before finish his phrase
Mirage: A glestei, no Pheristos! I don’t want to be a part of this world. You are on your own…

Pheristos looked Mirage in the eyes. He was his best friend. He hated to do this without him. Nevertheless he turned and left…

Not a while later he reached the port. He looked around. The docks of the city were huge. Many ships of many sizes entered and exited at this moment. From a ship nearby he heard voices…

Man: Come on you old chickens! My grandmother can carry these crates faster than you.

The man shouting was tall and muscular. This looks fine, Pheristos thought. He approached the man

Pheristos: Hello sir, sorry to bother you.
Man: Hmm… Who are you young lad?
Pheristos: Is this ship sailing today?
Man: Yes, she is indeed.
Pheristos: Could I join the crew please?

The man looked at him as he was a bug before saying: Yes you can.
Pheristos was happy to find his way out of this town.
As a sailor informed Pheristos the ship would sail to Tydon Village. It was a small port of fishermen. He took out his orb and gazes at it. Then he heard steps nearby. He quickly hid the glestei in his backpack. At that time and old man approached him and sat next to him. For a long while nobody spoke but then the man said

Old Man: You know son that’s not an easy path to follow if you are not strong enough

Pheristos looked at him puzzled and then understood what he was talking about
Pheristos: How do you…
Old Man: That is of no importance. What is important…do you know how to use them?
Pheristos: I am not really sure, to be honest. I think I just squeeze and BOOM they work. How do you know so much? Who are you? Can you tell me more about this world?
Old Man: My name is Monesias and I am from Crete’s Aphamai (Crete’s kingdom). There are 5 kingdoms in total. Egypt’s Akaiketsu, Japan’s Arana, Norway’s Vikings and Turkish Harukin. Every one of these creates their own unique glesteis and have a different ring of a specific color (blue, orange, white, brown and red). Also pirates have stolen a great number of orbs and managed to manipulate them in black. You see, mine are blue. Through the decades there have been great wars between the users. What’s your name son?

Pheristos: Pheristos
Monesias: Hmm, a Greek name huh? You should visit our kingdom when you learn more about this world. Take this with you. (He hands Pheristos a rare glestei). Squeeze it when you are in danger.
Pheristos: Thank you Monesias, be sure I will.

They carried on talking about this mysterious new world and the dangers it contained for a long time when a young sailor approached them!

Sailor: Sir Monesias, we scouted a pirate ship at 10 o clock.
Monesias: Those damn brats. Pheristos stay here it’s safe.
The two men exited the dock. In no more than two minutes Pheristos hear loud noises. He couldn’t hold so he exited to main part of the ship. Then he saw it. A pirate flag was raising for a ship no more than 100 meters away from theirs. The he heard Monesias talking!

Monesias: Be ready men! Prepare the glesteis!

Then all men at the same time dropped different colored glesteis towards the enemy ship. Monesias smiled wildly and released one of his orbs. An enormous dragon emerged from the orb and threw a fireball at the enemy ship

Pheristos: Wha…what? For real….?

Then a cloud of black orbs covered the air as the pirates threw back at the sailors. A rain of swords started falling on the ship and one almost stabbed Pheristos who dogged it at the last minute. He looked around and saw that two other men weren’t so lucky. Then the pirates started boarding at their ship one of them run straight at Pheristos. Before he could reach him though Monesia’s dragon caught him and threw him in the sea

Monesias: I told you to stay downstairs Pheristos
Pheristos: I am sorry I just wanted to help

Monesia’s turned around and left. The battle continued for a while and Pheristos was watching hidden behind a crate. Suddenly he heard a voise behind him

Pirate: Ha ha… you are mine!

He turned and saw a pirate facing him. The pirate squeezed an orb and a topaz tiger emerged from it facing Pheristos.
Now it’s my chance, Pheristos thought.
He took his glestei from his pocket and threw it out. He didn’t know what it would bring out. A small puppet emerged and barked scared. The pirate burst out laughing. A nearby sailor saw the situation and planted a bullet on the pirate’s heart instantly killing the tiger as well. Pheristos knew that if the controller dies, so does the creature.
Although it seemed sailors would win, the pirate’s captain emerged and slayed Monesia’s dragon.

Monesias: You son of…. TARGET THE PIRATES NOT THE MONSTERS

Then as the battle went on and on Monesias battled sword to sword with the captain of the pirates. The captain summoned a gigantic octopus only to be slayed by another of Monesia’s dragon. All of a sudden a lone gunshot was heard and silent fell in the ship. The pirate’s captain had a bullet in his chest. He made a few final steps and dropped dead on the deck

Pirate: RETREAT RETREAT THE CAPTAIN IS DEAD

The pirates started feeing back to their ship while being chased by both creatures and men…

When they were well gone Pheristos thought to himself

Is this the world I am entering? Will I take part in battles like this? What adventures lie ahead?

CHAPTER 8: CONFRONTATION

"Is...is this an angel?" asked Al terrified

Pheristos nodded and pushed the two kids behind positioning himself between them and the angel.

The angel attempted to speak, but when he opened his mouth only, blood and not words came out. Pheristos lighened his grip on his varistei and rushed at the angel's side.

"Are you ok? What happened to you?" he asked.

The angel just said three words: "Where....is....girl?"

At that momment the rest of the company rushed out of the tent. Pheristos saw Winry's eyes widen when he noticed the injured angel. "RAQUEL" she shouted when she saw him. "What happened to you?"

Again the answer barely came out of the angel's mouth: "N...a...ki...r"

"THAT BASTARD" shouted Pheristos. "I knew he looked fishy from the beggining"

Raquel caught Winry's arm and whispered at her in low voice: "Kill...Nakir....or..he will ....d...". At that point more blood came out of his mouth and he fainted.

Sig: "WALTER GO FIND MS TONIA RIGHT NOW. TELL HER AND HER MEDIC TEAM TO ATTEND TO HIS WOUNDS"

Walter nodded and left running towards the camp.

Sig turned to Ed and Al: " You two go back to the camp and alert everyone about the situation."

Ed: "But Mister Sig we want to fight as well"

Sig looked furius: "Are you insane? The enemy we are about to fight almost killed another angel. What makes you think you can even lift your fingers against him?"

The two boys seemed sad and Al started crying. Pheristos approached Al and caught him by the shoulder. "Do not worry, Al. We will defeat that Angel so that your camp can live happily once again."

Al stopped crying and with his eyes still blurry he nodded. Ed caught him by the hand and they both started running towards the camp.

Pheristos: "So what's the plan Sig?"

"You two stay out of this. The route to Golfex City is on the opposite direction of Nakir's location so please take your leave. You don't have to get involved with this mess anymore"

When Pheristos couldn't answer to this Wes spoke:

"Mr Sig. Asuming we leave this place and head for Golfex City, you go and get killed by Nakir, then the next one to be targeted by him will be the two of us. He has seen our faces and knows we are together with you so either we stay here and fight him with you or we have him following us for the rest of our journey."

Sometimes Pheristos loved how simple, Wes told the facts.

Sig: "Ok whatever just don't die."

A few minutes later Ms Tonia and her medical squad took Raquel to the infirmary. Wes,Pheristos,Winry,Walter and Sig had gone to Sig's tent to speak about strategy.
Sig began talking.

"First of all, is any of you still injured from the previous conflicts" After everyone nodded negatively Sig resumed. "This will not be an easy fight and I do not force anyone to come with me. You are here of your free will. So anyone that wants to leave please do so now"

He paused for about 30 seconds and since noone made any movements he resumed speaking: "The plan is as follows....."

After explaining the plan Walter and Winry took their leave. Wes also waved goodnight and took his leave. When Pheristos was alone with Sig he asked. "Is there anything I can do to become stronger? All I ve done so far is get in the way. I want to fight, I want to be helpful"

Sig remained silent for a momment and then said in deep low voice. "You know Nakir said you would turn out to be a fine man. I may hate the bastard but I will agree with him on this one. If you want to become stronger it can't be done in one night. But if you want to gain a little something I suggest you go attend to a Varistei-related class that starts in ten minutes in the north side of the camp. Ed attends that class if I am not mistaken he will be able to help you a bit"

Pheristos smiled and thanked Sig. He exited the tent and after a while searching for the class he finally found it. They had already started so he silently entered and located the place were Ed was sitting. Luckily the sit next to him was empty. He went and sat there. Ed was surprised to see him there, something logical since the students in the class were at most 10 years old, but after hearing Pheristo's story Ed got serious and sterted helping him as much as he could...


The following morning, Pheristos woke up feeling well rested. After taking a short breakfast he said goodbye to Ed and Al and reached for the camp entrance were Winry,Wes,Walter and Sig were waiting for him.

"Ok now that everyone is here let us go" said Sig.

They were traveling at a standard pace, and a while after they saw the cave that Nakir inhabited. They looked at each other, activated their varistei's and entered. Upon entering they heard a noise behind them and the entrance was shut by some rocks.

"Great, we are trapped now" said Wes

"It's not like we would retreat anyways" replied Walter

"Let's just move, and remain cautius...especially you Pheristos"

Pheristos didn't like the lecture from Sig but he nodded and continued his way. They finally reached the place where they had previously encountered Nakir. Sig took a step forward and shouted: "NAKIR YOU DICKLESS BASTARD HURRY UP AND COME OUT"

There was no response, but suddenly hundreds of arrows appeared on the top of the cave and launched themselves towards the group. With a hasty move Winry caught a glestei and to Pheristos' surprise she launched it with her bow. She then wishpered something and a huge barrier appeared above them deflecting the arrows. Pheristos turned to ask Wes about it but he noticed that he was taking notes, meaning he didn't know what had happened.

As if the voice was heard through speakers Nakir spoke: "You insolent humen why are you here again? Didn't I tell you to never come back here?"

Sig took a step forward and spoke: "We learned what you did to Raquel and so we came to avenge him. Now show yourself coward"

Before finishing his sentence the angel was standing firm in front of them. "CHARGE" shouted Sig.

Sig, Walter and Pheristos charged at the angel with their varisteis in hand. "Come to my aid VICTORY" shouted Pheristos and his little dog appeared by his side.

"YAGAN, COME FORTH". On Sig's command the giant appeared in front of them bashing his club wildly in the air.

"SHOW YOURSELF, MADOSTA". It was the first time Pheristos' saw Walter's starstei. It was a black Scorpion, almost as big as him.

Sig: "Madosta,Winry and Wes cover us from behind. Yagan and Walter charge in front, me in the left and Pheristos with Victory in the right. NOW GO"

Τhey all took their positions. Pheristos was running with his dagger in his left hand. He had made some changes to his dagger. He had put a little poison to it's edge so that whatever he hit would instantly be poisoned. It was Ms Tonia's idea and Pheristos was grateful to her about that. Now he felt he could actually do something useful. He saw Walter reaching Nakir and trying to stab him with his silver spear but the angel was, despite his size, able to dodge easily. He heard him saying "Pathetic" before launching an attack against Walter.

Walter dodged but stumbled and Nakir found the chance and with a single tap he activate d his hammer. Just before he hit Walter, Yagan delivered a punch at the center of Nakir's stomach. Nakir didn't seem to notice and continued attacking Walter. Just before the hammer touched Walter, Sig rushed between them and blocked Nakir's hammer with his katana. With a thrust he pushed Nakir behind. Nakir reached for his belt and threw two starsteis at them. Τwo identical green looking creatures appeared. They charged at Pheristos. Pheristos heard Wes shouting. "They are gremlins Pheristos. Aim their necks".
Pheristos charged at them. He tried stabbing the first one but he missed and the creature caught his hand. Victory jumped and bite his hand forcing him to loosen his grip. Meanwhile the second Gremlin murmured something and a rock behind Pheristos moved out of the wall and straight at him. Victory charged at the rock taking the hit. "VICTORYYYYYY" shouted Pheristos. "Ya aint gotta time to look away pal" The first Gremlin caught him by the neck and tried to struggle him. We was almost out of air when he saw an arrow piercing the Gremlin's throat and killing it. He turned and saw Winry smiling at him. He didn't wast time and searched for the second gremlin. It was charging at Winry. He took a deep breath, ran a few steps and launched his dagger at it. When the dagger found the gremlin in the neck he sighed and went to see if Victory was ok. He recalled his creature and turned to see what had happened with Nakir.

Walter was covered in blood unconicious while Sig and Nakir were exchanging ferocius blows. Sig jumped and attempted to stab Nakir's right shoulder but Nakir was fast and with a dancing move he placed himself behind Sig. He tried to smash him with his hammer, but in the nick of time, Yagan placed himself between them blocking the axe his it's bare hands. He pushed behind the hammer, and Sig once again tried to stab Nakir's shoulder, this time suceeding. Nakir roared and touched his injured arm with his free one. "You' ll pay human".
He charged at Yagan first knocking him out with a single blow and then he headed for Sig. They clashed for several minutes when finally Nakir managed to hit Sig in the right leg almost breaking it. Sig fell down from the impact screaming from the pain. Nakir moved his arm in a weird way and suddenly chains appeared around every one of them. Nakir laughed maniacly

"WHAT NOW HUMEN??? NOW THAT YOU ARE ALL TIED UP. WHO WILL STOP ME NOW???"

For a moment there was silence and then from the way they had come they heard steps.

*Tsk*, *Tsk*,*Tsk*

And there from the dark corridor of the cave they could make up the figure of a man. The man looked Nakir straight in the eyes and said: "I will stop you...Angel"

To be continued...

CHAPTER 9: MAN VS ANGEL

Pheristos could barely see in front of him. He tried to focus on the figure of the man. He was wearing a black cape with a hood.

The man turned at Pheristos. "You cause trouble no matter where you go" he said.

Pheristos knew that voice. But he couldn't figure out from where.

Nakir: "So another human wants to be killed? Very well then"

Nakir leapt forward his hammer high in his arms. He swinged at the man but right before he stroke the man vanished.

Nakir: "I see. Using an Estei against me? Not a wise choice"

The angel reached for his belt and threw a trapei up high. THe glestei exploded and a purple rain started falling.

"Over there" he cried.

The rain made the man visible again and Nakir charged at him full strength. He once again slashed at him but the man activated his glestei at the last momment. A giant sword appeared in his hand covered in blue jewels.

"A blue sword huh? You must be from the kingdom of Greece"

The man said nothing but he started slashing the angel with his sword. The two of them were battling for quite some time but none of them seemed to have an edge. Meanwhile Pheristos was battling to set free of his chain. He saw that Winry and Walter were unconcious and that Sig and Wes were struggling to escape just like he was. If only I could reach my dagger he thought. Meanwhile the strange man and the angel kept battling at the same level. Woah who is that man? He can fight in pair with an angel. At that momment Pheristos hear a weak bark from below. He lowered his head and saw Victory barking at him with his dagger in it's claws.

"Good boy"

He took the dagger and slowly started cutting the chains around him. When he finished he carefully and silently went and released Walter, Wes and Winry from their chains. The battle was still raging in the middle of the cave.

Wes: "Pheristos I ll take Winry and Walter outside. The entrance should be open since the stranger entered. You release Sig"

Pheristos nodded and Wes departed. Nakir didn't notice them because he was too busy fighting the man in front of him. When Pheristos managed to release Sig, he saw that Sig was bleeding badly. Come I ll carry you out of the cave. Sig nodded to show that he understood. Once they reached the entrance of the cave they laid down to rest.

Pheristos: "Who is that man?"

Wes: "I don't know but he seems familiar. Sig do you know who that man is?"

Sig: "I am afraid I couldn't see him."

Wes: "I will send Sol to ask for help from the camp."

Sig: "Thank you Wes."

Pheristos: "Ok you wait here, I am heading back inside"

Wes: "ARE YOU NUTS? Those guys are completely out of your league, hey Pher are you listening?

Before Wes could finish his sentence Pheristos was already gone.

Wes: "That guy..."

When Pheristos reached the end of the cave things were just as he left them. The two of them, man and angel were fighting on even grounds. Suddenly Nakir jumped forward and slashed at the man with all his strength. The man barely dodged but in his effort to escape his hood fell of revealing his face to the angel. Pheristos still couldn't see his face since he was stadning behind him.

Nakir: "Speak your name human"

Man: "I am a member of Amaphai's Royal Guard, Royal Servant of King Keleos. Monesias.

Pheristos jaw dropped. The man that was standing in front of him was the first man he met on his journey to save his brother. The man that saved him from the thief in Tydon Village.

"MONESIAS!!!"

Monesias didn't turn to look at Pheristos but Pheristos could see that he was smiling. "Stand back Pheristos I ll finish this in an instant."

"You...You can't be...."

The angel looked panicked. But what was strange was that Monesias was even more panicked. His eyes widened and he activated another estei. Before Pheristos could realise what happened saw a sword piercing Nakir's body. The angel fell on his knees blood coming out of his mouth. "D....e....m....o...n"

He said just that and then he vanished by turning into ash. Monesias hurried to Pheristos' side. "Are you ok Pheristos?"

Pheristos nodded. He wanted to ask him so many questions. Just as if he was reading his mind Monesias said "Save your questions for later. Let's head back to that camp now. This angel will bother you no longer"

Pheristos smiled and close his eyes...

A couple of days later...

"Come on"

"He's waking up"

"Move Al"

"Oh shut up Ed"

Pheristos felt dizzy. He slowly opened his eyes. He saw Ed and Al standing above him, smiled etched on their little faces.

"Good Morning Pheristos! You had a long sleep"

"Hey Ed! What happened? Where am I?"

Al: "You are back at the camp. A big guy brought all of you here"

"Is everyone ok?"

Ed: "Yes they are all ok. All of them are awake as well."

"You said a guy brought us here?"

The door of the room suddenly opened and Pheristos saw Wes coming in.

Wes: "Yes indeed. That someone was Monesias. He said to meet him in the Golfex City library in 4 days. He will answer our questions there."

Pheristos: "Perfect! Then let's go"

Wes: "That's the spirit"

Pheristos slowly stood up. He wore his clothes and along with the little twins and Wes they exited the infirmary and headed for the entrance of the camp. Pheristos checkd and saw all tree of his glesteis were in his backpack.

"Yosh! Everything is ready then! To Golfex city.

Wes: "Ed, Al give everyone our thanks."

"You are leaving already?" asked Al almost crying.

"Sorry Al but our friend is waiting for us" said Wes in a low tone.

"Wait"

The voice was heard from somewhere close to them. They saw Sig,Walter and Winry coming towards their place.

Sig: "So you decided to leave?"

Pheristos: "Yes sir. Our journey must continued."

Sig: "Thank you for your help Pheristos and Wes. This camp will never forget you. Good luck on the rest of your journey."

Walter: "Tss guess we owe you a thanks for saving my life."

Pheristos: "Don't mention it. You would have done the same thing"

Pheristos extended his hand towards Walter. Walter seemed puzzled, but he smiled and shook it.

Winry was silent while all this was taking place. Pheristos noticed that she was wearing a backpack and travellin boots.

Pheristos: "Are you going somewhere Winry?"

Winry: "My dream is to learn everything there is to know about herbs. This camp has given me enough knowledge but it cannot help me any more. So I decided to come with you"

Sig: "WHAT?"

Walter: "WHAT???"

Ed/Al: "WHAT?????"

Pheristos started laughing his heart out "Perfect! Another companion in our long journey! They say the magic number is 7 so I think we could use four more people! Winry welcome to our group"

After that they were forced to return to the camp so Winry could say goodbye to everyone. After they finished they ate a majestic meal and finally the company set of for even more adventures.

Meanwhile somewhere far away...

A man was walking alone in a long, endless looking corridor. It was filled with portaits on the walls and countless doors to his left and his right. He stopped in one of the doors and opened it. Upon entering he saw a single man standing by a fireplace. The man in the fireplace spoke:

"You failed didn't you?"

"I am sorry master. I swear I could do it but then that kid.."

"SILENCE"

"Please master give me one more chance"

"Fine. I will give you one final chance to kill that man. But if you fail you would wish you had never been born"

"Yes, master"

To be continued...