Rinimaru is addicting. I made/am making picturings of all the characters, starting with Sky (file is called Sky Ambrose, which is his last name)

Sky's friend Zelda

Catsclaw's charrie Ian-

Aspen's charrie (and Sky's ship) Zara

*if you see the mouseover title, don't judge. She needed a last name, okay?*

Zelda-

Lexi’s falling, falling, falling. I can’t believe it. She’s hurt. Eva’s hurt. I thought this world would be beautiful. Well, now I’m not jealous of Sky for getting all those magic powers. Lexi has fallen again. Caracapezc (or whatever his name is, Tom or something) is leaning down to touch Lexi’s forehead- - and then I’m running, grabbing the black haired girl by the collar of her shirt, running like when Caracapezc rose, but this time is different- this time I’m saving a friend. Sky comes up besides me and helps me carry her. He takes my hand and we rise, higher than Sky ever has before. He’s never been able to carry people, either, even in the Mythical Realm. I remember once his power was driven by intent. He had to want with all his heart to do it.

Sky smiles, and reaches down. Zara comes up holding his other hand. “We don’t need to run,” he says. “Come on, Sorcerers- we can fly.”

Sky’s power seems to be surrounding him, making the air still loose, but more friendly. Everyone’s touching him, but I don’t think they have to. Mira’s talking to Stellax. Stellax concentrates and makes ribbons of light in the sky, shining down on us. Then she pushes her force together and makes a sphere of light around us, a shield darkness cannot get through. Caracapezc yells. It sounds horrible, ripping through the clouds. A part of me wonders if he had onions for breakfast or something.

“Stop!” Sky yells, and I jolt. 

“Wha-“ He’s talking to Caracapezc, using words the way he did with me sometimes, packing force into every word. Sky’s no Mira. He doesn’t use slippery, persuasive honeyed words. He just- I guess he just says what he believes in. That’s what makes him fly, rather literally.

“Caracapezc, you know well as anyone what will happen if the world is engulfed in darkness.” Stellax moves her hand around, and suddenly all around us are little pinpricks of light, like fireflies.Sky leans in and whispers, “Then there will be stars.”

, Will takes up the chain. “You cannot destroy one thing without destroying the other. As you grow stronger, light grows stronger too.”

Now Xena’s speaking.”That’s why we can never defeat each other.”

“And that-“ Mira says, “is why we should form an alliance.”

Caracapezc looks shocked. He stares at us. “After all this- after a-“

“I know you’ve done some terrible things,” Ian says, struggling to get the words out through clenched teeth- “but I forgive you.”

Caracapezc draws himself up to his full height(which was quite high). “I was going to say,” he thundered,”How can I go back, after all you’ve done to me?”

And then he blasts, and Sky’s falling, we’re all falling. I catch the long haired boy and try to shield him as we fall through the air, his skin tingling from the dark bolt that had engulfed him. “No!” I yell. Sky’s fine, he’s fine, he needs to be fine. Tears are falling from my eyes, making it hard to see. “You can try to destroy the world. You can kill countless people. But you do not hurt my best friend.” 

***

Words. They’re complicated, and they’re slippery. People can twist up what they mean, until they don’t know what they want anymore. You can never take back what you say. When they’re out in the air, you can never take them back. Sometimes you don’t know what to say. And sometimes they flow, one after another, like sunset-colored leaves blowing off a tree. I had words like that, then, but it was more like an avalanche.

“Nighttime has always been my favorite, but now I’ll see you in the shadows. You’ve made darkness something to be scared of, hated. But it’s not.” I looked him in the eyes. “I hate you. Not darkness. You could become something better.”

I yelled. The others joined me. “I will not repeat history! You had the chance to become someone new. Why didn’t you take it?”

“Look, Tom,” Alliya said. “You’re a thousand years old. Do you really want to fight, and kill, and be imprisioned, and rebel, all over again? It’s impossible for us to defeat each other. We are all parts of the same thing. We’re Sorcerers. Now, do you want to be reincarnated? Or live forever, drowning in your own hate?”

Caracapezc doesn’t answer. So we do it for him. I don’t know how, but there’s a flash of light, and suddenly a curly-haired, dark skinned young boy(eight or so) is standing in front of us, looking around with wonder in his eyes. “W-who are you?” he asks, holding a feather close to his chest.

“I’m Xena,” Xena tells him, kneeling so they’re at the same eye level. “Who are you?”

“I- I don’t remember. But I think I did bad things. Will you-will you kick me out?”

“No,” I say, and mean it. He was evil. But everyone deserves a second chance. “You’ll be safe here. You’re the Sorcerer of Darkness, Tom. That means you are too magical for the mortal world. Will you stay here with us, in the Mythical Realm?”

He stares at me. “But- I thought that was a myth!”

“Not always,” I say, and I wink.

SORRY GUYS! i was gone on a "school" trip for a while, but i'm back now... not that i have any inspiration right now because i'm tired, but LATER i will post... and no, i don't procrastinate.

What if there's a THIRD realm, the Future Realm, and since Lexi knows she can't win in the Mythical Realm she goes to that realm, and the Sorcerors go to that realm, but they arrive like ten years later than her, so she has already taken over the world OR they have to go there to retrieve some superweapon to defeat Lexi.