Mage Power
By Saliaven Chronotis
Part 3
  Luto  
      Saliaven gathered a few of the students and masters (Duplica, Misty, Mewtwo, Ash, Mew, Marlene, Gary, Pikachu, Umbreon, Blaze and Vapor) together on the south coast of Cinnabar.  “I’ve gathered you here to solve the population problem until one of us can reinstate aging in this population, and to build my base city.  The mage city belongs to you, and I shall not take it for myself.  What we are going to do is to call down enough power to raise an entire continent, with cities and an infrastructure.  This will take a lot of focus, and I want you all to be ready for anything.  I have a feeling it will be an interesting day.  We will be taking a fleet of boats 120 miles off the coast of Cinnabar, so that the continent can rise without too much trouble.”  He showed them to their boats and they began to paddle out. After what seemed like an eternity, they saw an island, and Saliaven indicated that they moor there.  “This is where we shall set up.  Hopefully it will work.”
     Upon landing, Saliaven said for them to hike.  They went about a mile when they came upon a stone slab.  It had three circles with a pentagram, octogram and tridecagram inscribed.  There was also a triangle superimposed over all three, connecting the circles, and three more triangles in the circles, superimposed over the shapes.  “This is about right.  OK, in the pentagram, I want Mewtwo, Blaze and Vapor, with Duplica in the center.  In the octogram, Ash, Pikachu and Mew with Marlene in the center.  In the tridecagram, we will have Gary, Misty and Umbreon with me in the center.  If you will do the honors, Marlene.”  He gestured to her and she pulled a staff from her coat, rapping it against the stone.  “You could have done that yourself.”
“Yes, but it looks better if you do it.”
“I beg to differ.”  But the argument was cut short as the entire platform shot up into the air.  Those who weren’t yet accustomed to inanimate objects levitating almost lost their balance.
“I really should put a railing on this thing.”  Saliaven shouted over the wind.  The platform stopped with a jolt and all was silent.
    Saliaven passed out a paper to everyone, making sure they could all read the language it was in.  He then took out his wand and pressed a button, extending it to staff length and gave Duplica a staff with a gem inset on top.  “When we raise our staves, you raise yours.”  He said to her, and to everyone “Now, start saying the words, the centers are doing the lower case, fringe people chant the upper case: <Start Aten-Ra, Mystery, updated lyrics>
I’ll make this monument by your hand a drifting sun in a foreign land
AMON-RA, ATUM-RA IS-RA, IS-RA, ISRAEL
Image of the One, My face has been denied from all the inscriptions but not from the sky
ATEN-RA, ANKH-IS-RA IS-RA, IS-RA, ISRAEL
Who is God? Your name defies belief for no One less wrought in Heresy?
AMON-RA, ATUM-IS-RA IS-RA, IS-RA, ISRAEL AMON-RA, ATUM-IS-RA IS-RA, IS RA, ISRAEL? AMON-RA, ATUM-IS-RA IS-RA, IS RA, ISRAEL?
<End Aten-Ra>
     When the chant finished, nothing happened.  “Are you sure that was what we were supposed to do?” Ash asked skeptically.
“Oh ye of little patience.  Look now.”  A huge bubble emerged from the sea, followed by an evergreen tree.  More and more came up, as a mountain was outlined.  Then, foothills and flats emerged, with deserts and forests.  Land began to appear around the island, with buildings and cities of various types, always leaving a lot of water between it and the original island.  The slab was still what seemed like miles above the island.  “Behold” Saliaven shouted “the continent of Luto.”
End
Authors note: No one’s been asking, but I still think I ought to point out that you certainly don’t need to buy Cruxshadows stuff to figure out what’s going on, but it does flesh things out.  This ended up to be longer than I meant, but that’s fine, I don’t mind.  Pikachu has been spending more time in her bipedal form recently, as you can see.  This is mostly because the pokemon version is quite old, and it really feels cool when you shift from old to young like that.  Once again, I most certainly don’t own pokemon, although if things get bad for Nintendo, and we all pool our resources, maybe the tower could get ahold of rights to it.  Aye, aye?  I also do not own the Cruxshadows, I am not Rogue, I don’t like Aten, but I do like Onions.  And remember, that I am open to opinions.  And if you are wondering how their brains can still work if there is no time in them, I will get to that.  I can’t believe it!  I’ve just been looking around and it turns out that my name is actually spelled Salyavin.  I am going to continue to spell it the way I do, but I must apologize if you are used to that spelling and actually know who Chronotis is.  (For those of you who were stumped, I now reveal Salyavin Chronotis to be the time lord who, due to a genetic throwback, gained the ability to enter and change the minds of people.  He was considered a criminal and sent to Shada, the time prison.  He escaped and erased the knowledge of Shada from the minds of all Time Lords, but left memory of himself, since he was known for his style and style is useless if people don’t remember it.)