Kovu aka Alec

Member posted December 28, 2000 10:03 PM





Hey! Like I promised, here's my new story,

and I'll need around six or so people.

It takes place in the same universe as all

of my old stories(i.e. same geography, same

history, and ofcourse, the fact that I recall

all of the carachters, see prolouge.) but beyond that is detatched. Here goes nothing...

Power of Katalym



Prolouge: Destiny Foretold

I hate the cold. Blashmeous cold. It chills me to the core and spreads through my annexes.

But hate is the strongest weapon in you're arsenal. As such, I must use the cold to

focous...I must find the Katalym.

Turning, I see a town baring the same name below me.

"How long has it been?" I thought...let's see, fourty years since the invasion of the Simptar, since the Kovu half of me arrived,

since the death of clan TLK.

Hhhm, Thirty six years since the Simptar struck, since my two halves united.

Thirty years since the war between the war between the Hisect and Grnome.

Twenty years since the second coming of Zygot. Twenty years since the massacre of

Thersay. Sixteen years since my last adventure.

Mmmh, Aldan is fourty, Kayle is thirty nine, Tyio and Ducky are...missing, have been for atleast fiveteen years.

As for me? I'm sixty nine, but ofcourse, that doesn't matter.

We where breathed life by magic, the magic of Sparif, as such I doubt we'll ever grow old, atleast not for a long while.

Hhm, in that time, the council was restablished, and now the myriad provinces

are ruled by Dukes, all falling under the

Senate.

Much has happened, but all thease adventures pale in comparision to what will

transpire now.

I'm looking down at the tiny village, overlooking the great plateau.

Nothing will be the same, once I find the Katalym. I'm setting out walking, through sheets

of snow and ice, torward the tiny town.

Remember, I musn't let them in on anything they needn't know...the prohecy will

come to pass.

I hate the cold. I hate everything about it.

But what I hate even more is about to come.

-Last Known Entry of Kovu Alec Easgi, 2817, Feburary 9th.

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And so it begins...



YaY! Replies, I'm happy! You'll all be in

it, and will each have one chapter for your

introduction. And don'na worry, Ducky, you'll

all be getting equal parts.

Yes, my muse speaks...on with the story!

Chapter 2: Kallis



"Watch the flame..." Kovu said, staring into a amorphus fire, the sky just on the

threshold of night.

"What?" Kazooie asked, who was munching on

some rations beside the tent.

"I said watch the flame." Kazooie, intriguied, came over and sat beside Kovu.

"Uh, Kove? What are we watching, exactly?" The former questioned.

"Everything can be seen in flame..." Kovu stared intently at the fire, then seemed to

pop as he jumped back, arms behind his head.

"Haha! Was that out of charachter or what?"

Kazooie fluttered up a bit, getting a look at Katalym.

"So? What exactly do you want in Katalym?"

Kazooie descended back down beside Kovu.

"Haha! You don't really want to know, do ya?" Kovu looked back into cold green, dead serious eyes.

"*sigh* Alright, about a thousand years ago, there was a Gerenpfpssh, you remember the Gerenpfpssh, right?" Kovu said, remembering just how long it had been since

Aldan in co. ventured to Skops.

"Uhm, no." D'oh. Kovu mentally slapped himself, Kazooie wasn't around during the

Human War.

"Okay, it's a long story, the Gerenpfpssh where an ancient race, from them spawned the

rabbits, as well as the myriad other mammal races. But the main stream, pure blood Gerenpfpssh where rare, so they banded together and moved to Carrotous,

to the city of Akael on the north side of the Bourn River, just apposing the channel and the Anguish Lagoon."

"What? You mean thease Gerenpfpssh are the demons?"

"Not entirely, you see the Akael, what the

Gerenpfpssh surviors called themselves, means 'Survior, or one who fights with great fierceness to survive.' It also means monster, in Gerenpfpssh.

Scholars branded them as monsters. Soon, they

took the name to heart, and began mutilating

thereselves in the grotesue images of Demons.

Only in the past twenty years have they learned the truth of the past."

"Uhm, what does this have to do with Katalym?"

"As I was saying, about a thousand years ago, several Gerenpfpssh left Akael and moved here, to focous there pyshic and

physical powers enough to be able to crush

the racist Rabbits. There might became so great that when they attempted to attack

the Castle, they turned themselves into stone. The council had them buried under this

small, out of the way town, there they could

never be revived. They called themselves the Katalym." Kovu explaiined.

"So?"

"I sense that someone is trying to find and harness there might, and we have to beat them

to it."

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Kallis looked over the infinte waters. His eyelids were threatining to shut, but he had

a soft smile on his face. The otherwise serene scene of a golden, afternoon ocean with

soft water spray and the call of seagulls was dirsupted. A large throbbing noise, somewhere

above and behind the rocky platform where Kallis stood. He admired the beauty of

this world, the way the second moon seemed to come out of the first moon in the sky.

The way the sun seemed brightest before it set. The way the waves crashed, as they had form

billions of years, futiley aginst the hard rock. He savored this, knowning that too soon it

would end. Forever. This thought was futher provoked when he saw a soft grey cloud quickly

fly infront of the sun. At any other time and under any other circumstances, this would mean

nothing. But this was no ordinary cloud. He watched, as he knew it would, the cloud increased

in size. A familair beating of wings. In no time he could make out individual Clursers and

hovercraft, all radiating from a large object in the center. Teross.

To get a head start, he picked up is thin, cedar walking stick and slowly ascended the

natural stairway around the pillar. The throbbing intensified as he got closer.

As did the beating, the trashing, the cries for war and the lust for blood.

The cloud, a multitude of flying beasts and shiny, round hovercraft with cloaked figures

on them, arrived at the pillar in the middle of the ocean. The horrifying screams and the

throbbing noise drowned out the natural spledor of the place. Kallis looked up to a glowing,

blue energy core, the source of the throbbing.

"Kallis, you've gone to far, and I have been too forgiving. You have openly disobeyed the legion,

and commited blashempy." A voice came from the horde of -things-. It was booming, but itself

had no loud qualities. Obviously the affects of a loudspeaker.

"No, you Teross, have disobeyed our people, and commited blashemy against the true God."

Kallis replied, coldly, still looking into the nexus of energies.

"You will not surrender, even when you're closest bretheren have accepted the legion's rule?"

"It doesn't matter now what happens, I will never give up the fight." Kallis said, mimicing the word of his mentor, Tyio.

"Then let that be you're epetath." Teross said, and the swarm of strange, twisted monsters

and hovercraft descended apoun Kallis. He then jumped in the air, as a volley of laser

fire crashed into the high pillar, causing it to fracture. A few more evasions in the fashion

and the pillar was falling apart, crashing into the ocean.

"Die!" The voice of Teross could be heard. But Kallis was winning. Just as he expected, the

core fell from it's original location, down into the water. Kallis, from on a large boulder,

jumped at the object.

And blip. The nexus, and Kallis, where gone.

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Kovu and Kazooie walked down the streets of Katalym. The calm town was not so calm.

Last night a comet had been spotted crashing into the mountain.

Not a normal sight.

"Kovu, how do you propose we find where the Katalym are buried?" Kazooie asked.

"We ask around ofcourse, and theres best place to start, the local Tavern." Kovu sprinted

torward it, with Kazooie flying behind.

"It's never a good idea to enter a Tavern before Two o' clock, you know." Kazooie lectured.

"Yeah, sure."

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To be continued...



Thankie, Blacksheep.

And now...Part 2, in which we meet Calie and

Blacksheep, yay.

Chapter 2: Kallis, Part 2



The small Tavern was filled with charachters of the roughest sort.

Weasels, bears, lizards, Hisect, and Rabbits where crowded into the Tavern, drinking and

telling stories.

"Keep an eye out for anyone you know, if we don't get any info we may yet get some warriors." Kovu gave final instructions to

Kazooie and the two separated into the seething mass of bodies. At one table, a interesting story caught Kovu's intrest,

being told by a strange, gold colored rabbit.

"And then he absorbed the gem and became this wierd, bug like thing."

"Yeah?" Another, blue rabbit asked.

"Then he went up and killed Kayle!" Kovu nearly jumped out of his boots hearing that,

this rabbit was telling the story of Zygot's

first 'death.'

"Naw..."

"Yeah, but then I was surrounded by this wierd energy, in one final blast I destroyed

Zygot once and for all!"

"Wow! You're great, tell us again, Aldan." A green rabbit exclaimed.

"Excuse me, I couldn't help but overhear you're story." Kovu walked up to the table.

"Yeah? Well, that's great, everyone should know of the great Aldan's achivements." The gold rabbit said.

"Who are you, stranger?" The white rabbit asked.

"Me, I'm Kovu."

"Kovu? No way, you're faking." The red rabbit returned. Kovu chuckled, then outburst.

"You aren't Aldan!" The Tavern was silent.

The gold rabbit stood up.

"Excuse me?"

"You aren't Aldan, I know him, personally."

"I am Aldan! The greatest fighter in the universe! You wanna question ME!?"

"Yeah." Kovu unseathed his sword. In mere moments, the tavern erupted into a massive

brawl. When the front wall fell out, Kovu

was amonsgt those who went flying out.

"Rgg!" Kovu growled and wiped a river of blood from his mouth when he felt the hum of

a energy barrier around his hands, drawing them behind his back.

"You are under arrest."

"What?" Kovu protested to the rabbit behind him.

"For enticting a fight and distrubing the peace." Kovu turned around to see Blacksheep?

"Black?" Kovu asked. Blacksheep felt as though there was a shockwave and jumped back.

"Kovu?! It's you! Sorry." She unlocked the

energy cuffs.

"What are you doing?"

"There was a punk in there who claimed himself to be Aldan."

"How do you know it wasn't him."

"Uh, he didn't know me, and he was gold colored.

"Oh, okay...so what are you doing here? I haven't seen you since we where captured by

those turtles."

"I'm here on a mission, what about you?"

"The same, I'm under-cover, y'know all double-O three type." Blacksheep crouched around like a spy.

"Oh that's--eeek!" Kazooie swooped in, grabbing Kovu and Blacksheep in one foot and

another, pink rabbit in the other.

"Kazooie, what do you think you're doing?!!"

Kovu protested.

"No time, we gotta get out of here!"

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"Kovu...uhm, is it just me or does STARTING A BAR FIGHT KINDA BLOW OUR COVER!?" Kazooie wasn't happy. It was dark by the time the

got back to the mountain, a safe distance from that mob.

"It's all right, when I told them I was Kovu they didn't belive me, so we have nothing to worry about."

Kazooie sighed.

"Alright. Anyway, who's our new company?"

"This is my friend, Blacksheep, Blacksheep, this is Kazooie."

"Hi." Blacksheep said

"Now, I could ask you the same question."

"Oh, this is Calie." Calie got up from her

position setting up camp.

"Hello." She said rather quickly, then turned to Blacksheep.

"Shouldn't we be getting back to Katalym now?"

"Don't worry, we don't need a ship to get to the War Tavern.

"What's at the Tavern?" Kovu asked.

"Two old friends of yours, Grath and Ducky."

"Ducky? But she dissapeared a long time ago."

"Don't worry, we'll explain it once we get there."

"Okay...so why don't we need a ship?"

"We've got a bird." Blacksheep looked evilly at Kazooie.

"What? Me? No, uh uh!"

"C'mon, if you can carry a fourhundred pound bear, you can certaintly carry us!"

"No, no, no, no way, uh uh."

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"I can't belive you guys talked me into this!" Kazooie said, in the wake of the just

risen sun, high above the Great Forest

"Don't worry, we'll be there in thirty minutes!" Kovu shouted up.

"I swear, I'll get you guys for this!"

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Mwahaha!



YaY! YaY! YaY! I'm so happy everyone says

YaY! Oh, and a apologie, sorry for whats

about to happen to you Kaz, Ducky, Blacksheep, Calie, Grath...everyone.

Chapter 3: Duty and Friendship



"I always loved the Emerald Coast! YaY!" Calie said while examining a strange, reclusive crab that had washed ashore.

"Just remember were not here for R&R, we got to get to the Tavern." Blacksheep told

her.

"Yeah, sure, but the War Tavern isn't even a kilo from here, don't worry about it."

"Hey Kovu, c'mon!" Kazooie shouted down, he was already halfway through the city.

"Alright, hold you're feathers!" Kovu started the walk up, then turned to face

Blacksheep and Calie.

"You guys coming?" He asked.

"Time to go Calie!" Blacksheep dragged Calie away from the multitude of marine life

she had ammased.

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They where about half-way through the town, Kovu noticed Dazz's old apple stand, which

still had the quaint little 'Closed' sign on it.

But that wasn't all, jutting up slightly above it, through a crack in the wood, was

a piece of paper. Kovu went off after it.

"Hey Kovu! Where you going?" Blacksheep asked.

"Don't worry, I'll be right back!" Kovu shouted back. Once he arrived, he found that

the paper read: "Zufur, Mal zun Koa'vu Tek."

Or,"Kovu, turn over the page." Compliying, he found a letter from Dazz.

"Kovu, I believe I have tracked him down to Katalym, a number of people saw him there yesterday.

Kallis is still on the run, and Teross escaped to the other world. Aldan doesn't

think you should extend the full scope of our mission to anyone you have accompanying you. Remember if you find Tyio, Ducky, Kazooie, Blacksheep or Calie, capture them.

I will be at the War Tavern on the 12th, have

them there." Kovu, apoun finishing the note, incinerated it with his blaster.

"Will do Dazz...will do."

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The foursome sat down at the counter of the War Tavern.

"What can I do ya' for?" One of the newly inagurated bartenders, Night Fire, asked.

"Radish Beer." Kazooie and Kovu said at the same time.

"Hhhm, strong stuff, and how about for the ladies?"

"I'll have a Carrot Sundae." Blacksheep said.

"A Carrot Latte please, shaken, not stirred." Calie responded.

"Radish Beer, if done right, has the ability to give one a temporary burst of energy, I know what I need it for, but what

about him?" Kovu thought, looking over at

Kazooie.

"Kovu?! Out there!?" There was a resonating explosion as Ducky whooshed into the Tavern

from the back area and glomped onto Kovu.

"Kove! I'm so happy to see you, it's been so long!" Kovu's eyes welled up and there was a fwoosh of energy.

"Huh?" Ducky found herself coiled in energy cuffs.

"You..." Kovu threw energy discs at Blacksheep, Calie, and Kazooie,"are under arrest."

"Kovu? You're working for Ag'agro too?" Kazooie looked over at Ducky.

"You'd be surprised how many people want to see you dead." Kazooie told Ducky.

"Just as I though Kazooie, you're all working for Ag'agro and Teross."

"So? He's trying to save Carrotous." Ducky asked.

"You're wrong, Teross ordered me to kill you!" Kazooie shouted.

"I work for Teross!"

"You've all been blinded from the truth, Aldan discovered his plan first." Kovu interjected.

"Aldan? But...but..."Ducky was throughouly confused.

"Yes." Kovu said with a smirk.

"Who else is in this manhunt?" Blacksheep asked, squirming in her shackles.

"Only one other person, Kallis." Kovu said.

"Kallis...but..." Blacksheep was about to awnser when Grath jumped out of the crowd to capture Kovu. The latter fired a energy disc at Grath and captured him.

"Tell me where Tyio is! He is the key to this madness!" Kovu ordered Ducky, he was

getting impatient.

"He's dead."

"You're lying, you've been in the other world with him, training, preparing for this!"

"You know me too well, Kovu."

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Oh no! This can't be true...Everything is

falling apart...

Maybe, just maybe, everything will turn

out alright...

(Update: Yes, the dialouge was pretty sketchy, it should be a bit better, now)



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Thank you, thank you, mwaha.

No, you're not to late Empress, I was still

waiting for one more person to join.

Mwahaaha! The madness unfolds!

Chapter 4: Betrayal and Betrayed



Kovu blindly fired several bullets behind his back. Grath was the first do discover how to deactivate the energy coils, and the others where in hot pursuit. However, when

you have three sides working against each other, nothing will be easy. Grath made a sliding kick at Kovu, the latter spinning above him, unseathing his sword.

Kovu stood in a ready pose but was jostled when Ducky ran in and smacked him. Just as Kovu turned around to face Ducky, Kazooie swept in an knocked her away.

About this time Grath jumped back into the fray and double kicked Kovu into the dirt.

Calie rammed herself into Kazooie and Blacksheep quickly kneed Grath in the face, but Ducky was quick to jump in and split kicked both of them.

Lying on the ground, Kovu noticed a strange, gold colored ship approaching fast...Dazz's ship! He stood up, but was uppercutted about five feet back by Calie. By this time, however, the ship was apoun them.

"Kovu, get in!" It was Dazz's voice. Kovu, using his Mystic powers, jumped high for the

ship, barely snatching the right wing.

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"Woo, Dazz! You couldn't have come at a more opprotune time." Kovu, having gotten in the shuttle, turned to see Dazz. What he

saw was a robot.

"What?!" He fired at it with his blast, the shockwave bouncing of a orange shield. Kovu backed away, but was clamped by two large

robotic arms. The Dazz robot's hand fell off,

revieling a hyopdermic needle.

"Whoa! What's going on here, STOOOOPPPP!"

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Okay, so it's short, sue me.

More on this chapter later.

(On second thought...better not sue me, kay?)



Thankies Ducky,

Well, the plot is thickening, yes...YESSS.

Chapter 4: Betrayal and Betrayed, Part 2



Kazooie sliced at the metal door with his sword.

"Gah! Who did this? Who would capture us!?" Kazooie shouted angrily, stepping away from the door.

"Teross, probably, he confused all of us so we'd attack each other, saving him the trouble." Grath said.

"Rr, I can't believe I fell for this..." Kazooie sat back down on the floor.

"Don't beat youreself up over this, Kovu was the only one who knew what really was

going on...I hope he's okay." Ducky said.

Kazooie turned to Ducky.

"Fine, we've all been tricked by Teross, but one thing still bugs me."

"What?"

"Where have you been all this time?"

"That's another story." Kazooie looked at the door, then back at Ducky.

"We've got time."

"Alright then."