The Mascot Card

Corruption and greed swept over the land. From that sprung fear, and from fear came hatred. Villages scattered, families shattered, friendships splintered. Decades passed and life got harder for each generation. The peoples continued to break apart until even children were forced out into the world alone as soon as they were old enough to feed themselves. This cycle, too, came to an end. The births of two children, cousin turtillians, heralded this metamorphosis.

These children were special. Through their early childhood, they were loving and sensitive, yet strongly resilient. Pushed by the pressures of tradition, their parents left them when they reached twelve years of age to fend for themselves, though it crushed the parents to do so.

The boy and the girl set out upon their journeys. After a few weeks of wandering, they found each other, and discovered their surprising similarities. From that point on, they traveled together. As they meandered through the land, they brought people back together, sometimes without any effort on their parts whatsoever.

One day, they traveled into the great-unnamed mountains everyone feared to go into. These two knew, however, that if the world was to become a better place, someone would need to face whatever's up there. So they climbed. They helped each other along the way and gave each other strength when each one needed it.

At long last, they reached the dark summit. They huddled close together, at first terrified of the darkness and the beasts they could hear moving through it. Soon, however, they noticed the center of the darkness and the creatures stayed away from them, afraid of their purity and love. This is the center, because each person in the world had, and still has, a hint of this darkness in them, as part of them.

They pulled apart, their innate wisdom telling them what they must do. With one last hug, they faced each other, holding their joined hands high in the air, their traveling staffs held in their free hands. They face the darkness while keeping eye contact with each other as an aura of pure white light surrounds them. As they concentrate, the aura continues to grow, capturing the darkness and holding it within its glory.

Their strength ebbed away into their efforts and, slowly, the realization that they will not survive this dawned on them. This did not stop them, however, the continued on with their mission until the darkness was contained in the mountaintop. The two children clung to each other with the last of their strength. An instant later, their bodies were shattered into stardust, imbedded into three stones, one in the flat-lands just before the foothills, one in the foothills and one at the top of the mountain where the darkness is contained. Their destiny to guard against the darkness freeing itself again, and, should it be freed again, to aid those brave and powerful enough to contain it once more.

~Fine~

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