Till the End of Time.

The stage is set as the moon slowly rises over the horizon. The moon here is much bigger and always full unlike the moon that we see on earth. Here in a garden filled with Moon-pyre flowers a purple flower with white as it goes inwards that sucks up moon-light and reflects it back making a mellow green yellow glow that is somewhat warm when someone is near it. And a sky filled with stars like no other sky, sit a young man by the name of Ryza the god of song. Ryza was responsible for writing the songs of passage for the dead, in this garden like area in one of the nine layers of heaven he plays his grand piano. Ryza had black hair with blond at the tips and after the blond it faded into a light blue matching the sky in daylight. His eyes were a deep purple and he always wore a formal 1930's coat and top-hat. Beside his piano was a pond, with candles floating on it. Whenever one of the candles lit Ryza would write them a song of passage and the song would last untill the candle was no longer there witch meant that the person's life had ended and the deed they were set to do was done. Rarely did Ryza ever have to write cause he was not responsible for ever human life. Only the ones who would achomplish great things for others. So Ryza spent allot of his eternity walking out onto the pond and sitting on the water beside these two unique candles. These two candles have always been side by side they're whole existance. Ryza loved these candles cause he knew the two people tied to them were very special people. Tonight while Ryza was visiting them they lit up thus begining the events that would change both the nine layers to heaven and the universe. He knew they would tonight. He'd known forever, as a single tear fell from his left cheek he whispered "I will write the best song of passage a god could write." This is the song of passage for a boy and a girl, the verses mark the story these two bound eternaly by fate from dawn till death.

"You see those to flowers there Hope? Those are called Moon-pyres they say if two people find two moon-pyres growing close together that they're soul-mates who's light shines bright and true. But those are all fairy tales I think." Ryza says chuckling. "That's not true Ryza! The stories are real, something that romantic can't be a fairy tale. C'mon lets go over to them the moon will be up soon, I wanna see if they really glow!" Hope begins to run over twords the flowers only to be held back by Ryza "No hope! you know what happends when you get close to them!" Since Hope was a little girl when ever she'd come in contact with a moon-pyre it would open up and she'd fall dizzy and sometimes unconcious. Every healer in the village said that she was cursed with dark magic and thus she's been shuned by the village all her life.

Really the healers didn't know what was wrong or who Hope was. Not even Hope knew, Ryza was the first to find her eleven years ago when he was eight. He was chasing a star that had fallen from the sky to the very spot he was in now, where he found a girl in a cucoon like rock. The rock was glowing the same glow as the moon-pyres around it and was warm to the touch. Inside there was a girl with blonde hair down to her chin about the same age as Ryza. When Ryza had aproached what he'd believed was the fallen star it started to glow brighter and he could hear what sounded like a heart beat he got right up next to it, closed his eyes and pressed he hands and ears against it. As soon as he did there was a loud bang inside his head and he woke up the next morning the rock was nowhere insight instead there were two baby moon-pyres growing inter-twined with eachother. He'd never seen moon-pyres grow that way once more these moon-pyres always stayed open, never closing, they were a pale blue and white, more like the moon. He scrambled to his feat and looked around but the girl was no where in sight. He waited a few moments and sure enough he heard a girls voice humming. A few seconds later the girl from the star had come skipping out of the woods witch the most beautiful blue eyes. Ryza had ever seen.

Eleven years later that same girl standing beside him with those same eyes had always loved this spot. She always said she loved it cause it was were her and Ryza first met but Ryza always thought there was another reason. As Ryza starts coming out of his dream like stare Hope turns to him with a smile on her face "What are you thinking about?" She asks. "What are you talking about?" Ryza says shaking himself back to reality. "You always stare at me like that when you're thinking about us. Are you remembering the first time we met too? That's why I love this spot" She says with a more loving grin than a cheerfull one. "What are you joking? corse not. I was thinking about how I'm gonna kick your butt on our race back to the village. On your mark, get set, go!" And Ryza takes off running leaving Hope behind. "Hey! No fair!" Hope screams as she struggles to catch up. After a while she finally catches Ryza "Hey why'd you stop?" Only after she finished talking does she realize that on the cliff below where they always stopped to see the moon and the village lights below that those lights were bigger and brighter. The village was up in flames and over it was an Airship like nothing they'd ever seen. "That's deffinatly not a Gallios war ship, and it's not one of ours..." Ryza looked terrified. His sword was drawn from it's sheith that he carried on his lower back and Hope quickly pulled out her bow. "Who do you think it is then? We're not at war with anyone else and Ribbon doesn't have the power to attack they're too small. I'm scared Ryza." Ryza turns to her "I'm going down there, stay here Hope." Ryza takes off twords the village. "Ryza! I'm not staying here I'm coming with you!" And Hope runs again after him.

While the two run twords the village the Ship begins moving away the earth begins to shake as a portal opens up into the sky engulfing the ship in a un-earthly light. As the light covers the whole ship a loud crack sounds threw-out the valley and the ship is gone leaving behind a blast wave that knock Ryza and Hope down. The next morning Ryza wakes up to a Pika vulture staring him in the face "Wahh! Get off you me you dumb bird!" The Vulture scared beyond it's mind stumbles off Ryza forgeting it could fly for a second then quickly taking off. Ryza looks around and see's Hope still unconcious. "Hope! Hope, wake up!" Ryza whispers in her ear as he begins to shake her. Hope moaning a bit slowly opens her eyes "What happend?" "I'm not sure but we're not far from the village." Ryza says helping her up and dusting her off a bit. "C'mon lets hurry!" They begin running to the village only to find that once they got there there was no signs of a struggle or anything infact there wasn't even a village there. It's like the village never existed. As they wander the still much used paths that used to lead to the different stores they found a single shard of some cystaline substance. "What do you think it is Ryza?" Hope says picking it up. "I'm not sure but be carefull!" Hope holds it up to the sun "Check it out it's see-thre..." Hope's eyes dialate to mact the same deep pin the shard is as her feet lift oss the ground a bit Ryza in tottal shock gravs the shard from her hands and wraps it up and stashes it in his pocket. "Hope are you alright?!" Hope wipes her eyes abit "Yeah, that was weird I could hear singing... unlike different but I don't know what it was, it was in a languege I somehow recognize but have never heard of be for." "Next time be more carefull ok?" Ryza says worried clentching the shard with his fist still in his pocket.