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Prologue

The scene opens on a man in a suit in front of a huge screen holding what looking like an advanced television remote. 'Greetings true believers and welcome to the telling of an extraordinary and quite honestly an almost unbelievable tale'. The man lifts up the advanced remote and presses down on one of the buttons of the remote activating the giant screen. 'Our story begins many years ago during the beginning of the…. WHAT THE F %K?'. The man is staring blank eyed at the giant screen which shows a scene of a man in a white cloak having a serious stare down against a creature of darkness while also holding an orb of light between his hands. The man yells at the creatures 'since you won't back down I guess I don't have any choice in the matter I INVOKE FAIRY…'. The screen pauses and the man rushes back towards centre stage yelling into a mobile phone 'HOW DO I USE THIS DEVICE… I'VE ALREADY DONE THAT, OK I'll try that now'. 'So sorry about that ladies and gentlemen just a few technical difficulties that are being resolved we should have this situation resolved with shortly, please stand by.

10 minutes later

'Ok now that these technical problems have been resolved we can finally get back to our story'. 'Ok our story begins a loooooong time ago as such we will have to cycle back through the ages to reach the beginning of our story'. The screen starts to blur through a variety of images of human history while the man stands there watching this blur of images while the man stands their muttering, 'okay the end of the cold war, World War Two, World War One, the British Empire, the renascence, the dark ages, the Roman Empire, the creation the earth, the creation of the galaxy ah here we are'. The now instead shows utter darkness until there was an explosion of light the man once again takes centre stage and announces 'what you have just seen is the creation of our universe which is actually where our story begins'. 'At the beginning of the universe there were many primal forces that were born from the ground zero of the creation point, I'm sure that you know more about what can probably be called "civilian forces" such as the forces of time, space, gravity amongst other cosmic forces that you were probably educated about as a child'. 'However what very few people throughout history have known is that after all other forces had been created one final force was created THAT DID….. Absolutely nothing at least not yet'. 'For you see this was something completely new and different, this was due to the fact that this force was a form of energy that can be influenced through sentient beings either consciously or subconsciously'. This force has had many names over the year's aura, chi, Ki, the power of creation, god's gift, the source of all but it is more commonly known by a single name, a name that has survived over the centuries into the modern day, this name is MAGIC'. 'Now I'm sure you've been in a history class as a child and heard about these rulers and there seers, shamans, high priests and other occupations that make it seem like these rulers were being duped by scam artists with a few parlour tricks'. 'However unlike their modern day counterparts these spiritual people were the real deal, they were beings that could tap into this force and twist it to their will performing astonishing feats. Due to this power some of these beings began to be worshipped as gods and goddesses which due to this worship caused their magic to be boosted to superhuman levels alongside these beings gaining the "gift" of immortality'. However while magic brought these benefits of magical and these benevolent "gods" this could be considered as the light side of magic and as it is to be expected magic brought darkness into the world as a result of the darkness of humanity. Wars and debauchery gave rise to darker beings and man's superstitions amongst other things gave rise to supernatural creatures such as vampires, werewolves and oni amongst other entities. These creatures terrorised various civilisations until one fateful day where several wielders of various forms of magic banded together to fight back for humanity's continued survival'. 'These six mystical warriors using a combination of all of their mystical crafts attempted to discover to creator of magic to plead with him gain the power to fight back'. 'While they weren't able to find the "creator of magic" (seeing as how magic was born soon after the universe was) they were able to gain access to the birthplace of all magic which through the millennia had separated itself from the rest of existence and formed a separate realm which developed land around itself which had formed into what seemed like a paradise'. 'These beings lived within that realm for decades mastering there crafts only journeying back to the mundane world to find other people skilled in the magical arts for them to further learn from'. 'As such these beings began to write written documents detailing all they know of magic which only grew further as the years passed'. 'However these sorcerers were still dedicated to ensuring humanities survival and used their acquired vast powers to summon the gods of various pantheons and each time they would ask the same question "will you help us in ensuring the survival of humanity against the darkness?" and each time the pantheons refused claiming they couldn't interfere with the natural order'. 'This continued for decades aided by the realm of magic's ability to extend humans lifespans but alas all things must come to an end however it wasn't the darkness that caused the end for these sorcerers, or the corruption of power or each other it was the passing of time'. 'These wizards then approached these pantheons again and loudly proclaimed "while you cannot directly interfere in the affairs of mortals we propose an alternative solution, let us create a champion that draws from your great power to protect the people"'. 'This was found acceptable and so the six master searched the earth for someone to become the champion and found one in a young boy named Perseus'. 'This boy was raised by the masters who taught him about the destiny that awaited him and the power he would receive one day, with time the boy grew to rival the masters in power until he was deemed ready'. 'On that day everything changed for the supernatural realm as this was when the humans truly gained there saviour'. 'Perseus was brought forth by his masters towards each pantheon of "gods" who told Perseus this "mortal we have decided that it is necessary to create a champion to protect our loyal followers, if you agree to become our champion you will be imbued with a fraction of the power of several gods"'. 'The gods asked him two questions "will you become our champion?" to which he agreed to which meant he was also asked "which gods do you want supporting you?"'. 'While we know of Perseus and how he agreed to become the first guardian of magic the gods who he received support from is something lost in time'. However while Perseus had previously been informed by the six masters of his intended role as the guardian of humanity he wasn't informed of the darker side of this plan'. 'As such when Perseus stood in the middle of an elaborate mystical circle containing the mystical symbols for summoning and a half a dozen other rituals he was surprised to see his masters standing around him chanting in an ancient and guttural language'. This confused the young man until the eldest of the masters Bartholomew loudly proclaimed "to complete this ritual and ensure a line of guardians to protect humankind from that most dark we offer up our lives and magic and leave control of the realm of eternity to this guardian and his successors". 'Then to the young man's shock and horror his masters, the men who had raised him into the man he was and taught him of the magical world began to drop dead one by one'. 'However through their deaths he became empowered as the first of his line, a being empowered by immortals claiming to be gods to serve as the natural protector of the natural order'. 'Thanks to Perseus humanity had a being who could fight back against the darkness bringing about humanities golden age, however all things have to come to an end even Perseus'.

'While Perseus was empowered by the "gods" there was one gift they all refused to give him, the gift of immortality which with its absence meant that even Perseus was still ravaged by the passing of time'. As such Perseus began to travel the lands like his masters before him searching for someone who possessed the necessary mystical power and moral code to take up the role as guardian after his passing'. 'While this search lasted centuries Perseus eventually discovered who it was he was looking for a priestess by the name of Ayame whose village was under siege by an army led by a monstrous creature by the name of Sobek'. 'Perseus intervened and annihilated the majority of Sobek's army forcing the creature to retreat, Perseus was welcomed into the village a hero where in the village square he made this speech "greetings people of this village my role is to protect this world from the evil of this world, but my age is beginning to catch up on me, as such I have been looking for my replacement and I believe that this young priestess is my ideal replacement"'. 'This priestess wanting to ensure the safety of her people agreed to become Perseus' replacement'. 'And so began a line of guardians empowered by various beings to ensure the protection of humanity which continued over the centuries until before the beginning of the renaissance when the guardian of these times Nabu and his apprentice merlin decided that things needed to change'.' Nabu realised that all they were doing was fighting an ongoing hoard of the supernatural without end, as such he decided to take another path by travelling all over the planet to certain points of power all over the world more commonly known as leylines and performed the same rituals over and over at these areas'. 'This cumulated at the end of his life when he was preparing to pass the role of guardian to merlin when he activated his final ritual, using the power of the leylines and his own life force he created a pocket realm and began to seal all the magic of the universe within this realm'. However he also created a seal to prevent magic from returning that was linked to the title of guardian and as he died the title of guardian was passed onto merlin'. 'Unfortunately the seal being bonded to merlin meant that the magic of the realm of eternity was amplified meaning that while guardians could normally live up to over a hundred but merlin lived for millennia after retreating from our world'. The screen then stops and fades to black and the man in the suit walks back into the centre stage once and looks at the audience. 'Now I'm sure you're all feeling safe now after all you just found out that beings like the bogeyman and other monsters can no longer exist in our world' the man says while smiling 'if you believe that then you're a fool as I said all things end even seal as powerful as Nabu's eventually fades and unfortunately for you lot it failed in the modern day'. The man then gains a faraway look on his faces before he continues 'and this ladies and gentlemen is when my tale begins'.

And that ladies and gentlemen marks the beginning of this story. The updates of this story will probably be a bit irregular depending on the amount of time that can be put into this. Also I am open to CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM as in story idea suggestions, grammatical errors (within reason don't go all grammar police on me) etc. But if you send stuff just moaning at me ill just ignore it as I'll be too busy enjoying the brief gift that is life which you should all do