the Earth leaders.
Arctic stood and walked to the door and opened it. Snowstar entered first, leading the members to their respective seats. She had learned well from Foreststar.
Arctic greeted them each individually as they all stayed standing, and when he got to Vatican, he noticed something different.
“Has the old pope been replaced?” Arctic asked the new man respectfully.
“Yes, it was quite a sudden incident, but he died of a heart attack, regretfully. I am his successor, from Greece.”
“Pleasure to meet you.” We shook hands and the man sat down. He was the youngest person Arctic had ever seen at a leader meeting, being maybe in his twenties. His obsidian-like hair seemed to almost glow in the florescent lighting.
“Arctic, what is the meaning of this? I thought you said that you wouldn’t call us unless something upsetting happened; please tell me that this isn’t to bear some more ill news?” Washington interrupted Arctic’s thoughts as he took his seat.
Arctic waited until everyone was seated before he replied. “I’m afraid that it is upsetting news, though not definite in itself. Some old manuscripts from the native people of Calsh were finally translated recently, and they were of legends about the Underworld. Now, most of our facts have come from these since there is no way to find it anywhere else; there certainly isn’t a library that we can just go and check out a book about everything we need to know. A lot of it is guesswork and analyzing, trying to figure out what parts may be fact, and which are fiction.
“The writings, more or less, says that in a final battle between fire and fire, and the destruction that comes afterwards is most unfortunate. Unless the Lord of the Underworld has an heir, the demons will be able to roam freely on the world.” Arctic did not feel the need to mention about his theories on Firestar. “The battle of fire against fire is a battle that will likely happen soon between the members of Star Rebellion who are on their way, and the Lord of the Underworld, Lucifer.”
The world leaders started muttering to their neighbors, and even the new Vatican looked pale at the aspect of what that could mean. “Then why don’t you send some others to get them out of there!” Berlin finally asked in place of everyone else; at this point she was used to taking charge after all of the issues that had happened on Earth in her predecessor’s time.
“It isn’t that simple; as I mentioned in our first meeting a few years ago, it’s a very complex thing to reach the Underworld Gates. This team has been training for over two years, and we’ve discovered other things that might stop them in their tracks that we weren’t expecting. There’s a go between point between us and the Underworld called the Shadowlands. There are sentries all across this area that are deadly enough to fight just by themselves, but they also warn Lucifer that there are people in his realm. We had originally been hoping for them to sneak under his nose, get the Animals, and disappear, but that is no longer possible.
“We will send a retrieval team to try and get them, but if the members have already gotten to the Shadowlands, we will not be able to do so.”
“Wait a second, besides the fact that you may lose six members in this battle against Lucifer, can you remind me why it will be bad for us?” Beijing asked after having a whispered conversation with Tokyo, who was on his left.
Arctic stood up and walked over to a file cabinet in the back of the room. After rummaging around for a little bit, he found the papers that he had been looking
Arctic stood and walked to the door and opened it. Snowstar entered first, leading the members to their respective seats. She had learned well from Foreststar.
Arctic greeted them each individually as they all stayed standing, and when he got to Vatican, he noticed something different.
“Has the old pope been replaced?” Arctic asked the new man respectfully.
“Yes, it was quite a sudden incident, but he died of a heart attack, regretfully. I am his successor, from Greece.”
“Pleasure to meet you.” We shook hands and the man sat down. He was the youngest person Arctic had ever seen at a leader meeting, being maybe in his twenties. His obsidian-like hair seemed to almost glow in the florescent lighting.
“Arctic, what is the meaning of this? I thought you said that you wouldn’t call us unless something upsetting happened; please tell me that this isn’t to bear some more ill news?” Washington interrupted Arctic’s thoughts as he took his seat.
Arctic waited until everyone was seated before he replied. “I’m afraid that it is upsetting news, though not definite in itself. Some old manuscripts from the native people of Calsh were finally translated recently, and they were of legends about the Underworld. Now, most of our facts have come from these since there is no way to find it anywhere else; there certainly isn’t a library that we can just go and check out a book about everything we need to know. A lot of it is guesswork and analyzing, trying to figure out what parts may be fact, and which are fiction.
“The writings, more or less, says that in a final battle between fire and fire, and the destruction that comes afterwards is most unfortunate. Unless the Lord of the Underworld has an heir, the demons will be able to roam freely on the world.” Arctic did not feel the need to mention about his theories on Firestar. “The battle of fire against fire is a battle that will likely happen soon between the members of Star Rebellion who are on their way, and the Lord of the Underworld, Lucifer.”
The world leaders started muttering to their neighbors, and even the new Vatican looked pale at the aspect of what that could mean. “Then why don’t you send some others to get them out of there!” Berlin finally asked in place of everyone else; at this point she was used to taking charge after all of the issues that had happened on Earth in her predecessor’s time.
“It isn’t that simple; as I mentioned in our first meeting a few years ago, it’s a very complex thing to reach the Underworld Gates. This team has been training for over two years, and we’ve discovered other things that might stop them in their tracks that we weren’t expecting. There’s a go between point between us and the Underworld called the Shadowlands. There are sentries all across this area that are deadly enough to fight just by themselves, but they also warn Lucifer that there are people in his realm. We had originally been hoping for them to sneak under his nose, get the Animals, and disappear, but that is no longer possible.
“We will send a retrieval team to try and get them, but if the members have already gotten to the Shadowlands, we will not be able to do so.”
“Wait a second, besides the fact that you may lose six members in this battle against Lucifer, can you remind me why it will be bad for us?” Beijing asked after having a whispered conversation with Tokyo, who was on his left.
Arctic stood up and walked over to a file cabinet in the back of the room. After rummaging around for a little bit, he found the papers that he had been looking
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