"Hiya!" A young man with long raven black hair in a loose and blue gray eyes sliced a monster in half.

"Helia, behind you!" A ginger haired boy with amber eyes and glasses yelled. He pointed a laser gun at the creatures back and it exploded spraying a purple slime everywhere.

"Aw gross man!" another young man with fringed chocolate brown hair and eyes exclaimed looking disgusted. Suddenly all the creatures began to decinagrate. A tall man with large muscles leapt down a set of stars by the arena.

" Good practice boys" he boomed. The man was wearing a sleeveless blue shirt white ripped pants and blue sneakers.

"Thank you, Master Cordatorta." Helia said, he and the others stood at attention.

" Headmaster Saladin would like to see you in his office". The Master boomed. The boys nodded. Yet These boys weren't just boys. They were red fountain specialists heroes of the Magic Dimension.

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The three boys walked in the ancient hall ways of the famous school, at first saying nothing. Finally Helia turned to his mates with his blue eyes. Brandon, with his chocolate hair and similar colored eyes simply looked ahead, while Timmy blinked back at his friend quizzing through his glasses as Helia walked backwards to face them.

Helia simply shook his head and turned back around, with Brandon and Timmy fallowing at his heels.

Timmy was the one to break the silence.

"Why does your grandfather want to see us?" He asked the raven haired boy.

"Does he know about your..." Brandon began, but was cut off by the bronze entrance of the headmaster's door. The door was nothing like the rest of the ancient fortress, It looked more like a decorated throne then a fortress door. Images made of jewels and precious metals and stones made the figures of winged women and a ruby red fire breathing dragon. At the bottom where elves on with their arrows and swords and in the waters where creatures that looked like mermaids with butterfly wings, with various creatures and magical symbols artfully decorating what may have been otherwise blank on the door.

Helia breathed, then knocked politely at the elder master's door. There was a small bell that returned, and the rose gold handle glowed, allowing the students to enter.

"Excellent!" came the voice of a wise man, "My boys are all here." The three students entered, they took to one knee respectfully, as did the other three who had arrived earlier. The Oldman said nothing, but simply smiled and waved his hand. The six boys stood at ease.

"Come now, my bright ones. You are all over the age of twenty, you no longer have to kneel in front of me." He chuckled kindly, and waved his hand again. This time, six velveteen chairs appeared and tea and cakes appeared before the suddenly hungry specialists.

The old wizard chuckled again as the boys hungrily ate and drank. There is always something satisfying about feeding others.

"You wanted to see us, headmaster Saladin?" Timmy asked after swallowing his third (or was it his seventh?) cake.

"Yes," Saladin said standing from his chair that was similar to the grand door, " I'd like you to meet Minerva Faragonda." He gestured towords the large window, with the red twilight gleaming it's last rays of light. As this happened, the rays gathered together. They light grew lighter and purer, and soon came together, revealing a tall feminine figure cloaked in a night blue hood and robe and a silver sash. With mouthes full if tea and cakes, the boys exchanged nervous glances. The woman removed her hood, exposing the ox-blood gloves that covered her delicate hands. Her silver hair was like a majestic crown, and her face was gracefully lined with time and tribulations that her long life had brought. Her eyes where luminous due to the magic she had cast, they now glowed like light blue neon lights. Then they slowly retuned to a striking sapphire blue. She bowed gracefully to the men.

"Come now, my darling Saladin," she said, her voice was queen-like and gleeful, "Minerva is my holy name, it is my mortal name that I go by." she smiled enchantedly at the specialists.

The boys, unfortunately, returned the old woman clumsily, swallowing down what ever was in their mouths, stumbling over their feet or just looking plain stupid. Her laugh was pure and haunting, and her sapphire eyes again went to the old wizard's grey ones, speaking the unspoken conversation with only her eyes. Helia was the worst of all of the specialists, he was nearly chocking on what he had swallowed and stumbled to the ground. Then, when it seemed like his face would hit the forest green rug, a strong pair of hands had stopped his shoulders. Helia looked up to Faragonda, who had saved him from his fall. He sat back on one knee, then looked at his grandfather. When Saladin nodded, Helia threw himself forward and embraced the old woman.

"I've missed you, Nonna." He said.

"I've missed you, too, Bello." She replied.

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The squad looked at their headmaster and to Faragonda. Now suddenly realizing the resemblance between their school mate and the two elders.

The prince of the Planet Euracklyon, who had blond, shoulder length hair, lightly tanned skin and strong blue eyes was the first to speak. "Forgive me, my lady." he said, "But are you a-"

"A fairy," Faragonda finished, the woman sighed and smiled, though sadly. "I was, Prince Sky. A very long time ago."

"But how did you-"

"Survive?" Faragonda finished the prince's sentence again. Helia returned to his squad, who where now standing. "By the fate of the gods, they had spared me. Unlike so many of my sisters upon the cursed day." A shadow from the past had crossed the fairy's eyes, and for a moment the woman was lost in her memories. They allowed mer be lost for what had seemed like a long while, then the fairy had returned to the present, blinking rapidly. "Oooh..." For a moment she stood there, then in a moment, Helia jumped to his feet.

"Nanno!" He cried to his grandfather, reaching out to Farogonda, who was swaying as though she would faint. A chair, now made in a deep blue suede, materialized underneath the old fairy. Helia breathed when his grandmother had collapsed into the soft chair.

"Thank you, Nabu." Saladin sighed and complemented his student wizard. Nabu, with dark caramel skin and long, brown hair in braids, nodded. His indigo eyes sparkled with the after affect of the spell.

"As Honored, Headmaster." Nabu spoke and made his way to the fairy, who was arousing from her sudden fainting spell. "But I am concerned..." the young wizard knelt next to the fairy and held her wrist as though he was taking her pulse. A purple aura had formed around the wizard's hand and the fairy. Faragona blinked and tuned to watch the wizard.

"A wizard from Andros," she whispered, "I had thought that they had all disappeared during the reaping." the room was silent, and the once warm had turned to spine chilling cold.

"No my lady," Nabu said calmingly, "There are exactly four elders left, and they had sent the children away on islands to protect them."

"It was only in the recently when we found the children." Saladin said calmly.

"Ah, yes. Now I remember you telling me of the day. a young wizard had sent you a series of waves to see if..." Faragonda's eyes slowly began to close.

"Nonna?" Helia asked, his voice sounding child-like and concerned.

Nabu sighed. "She's exhausted, Helia. But she'll be ok."

Helia blinked, "But, but I haven't seen her in..."

"It'll be alright." Saladin soothed. The other specialists where also concerned for the old fairy, who looked as though she was sleeping. Saladin walked to his wife and placed his middle and forth finger on her forehead, and just as she entered the room in the final rays of the sun, the first rays of the moon had wrapped them selfs around her, and she was gone, only the imprint on the suede chair was left.

Saladin sighed, then turned back to the window, the full moon shining through the great balcony windows.

Brandon cleared his throat, and Saladin sighed again. "I suppose you are all wondering why I had summoned you here," The old man said, not breaking from the window.

"Yes Headmaster." The boys spoke in unison, returning to the persona of soldiers and students of red Fountain.

"In eighteen hours, Red Fountain Academy for Heroics and Bravery will be empty."
The boys exchanged glances.

"Over the past few days, I have met with all two-hundred squads. Each of them have been given a similar, yet, largely different and important task..."

"A Mission?" Said a magenta haired boy, with frightening sapphire purple eyes and a tan build.

"Yes Master Riven, a very important, very difficult mission. That will change our Universe forever."

the boys turned their heads at one another with wide eyes and shocked faces.

"Do you boys remember the Reaping?" Saladin asked his prized students.

"Forgive us, Headmaster." Prince Sky spoke, "but we where not alive-"

"No, no, no. I mean do you remember what history has taught you?"

"The Reaping happened 200 years ago. It was called that because Magical beings where being..." Timmy swallowed, "H-harvested."

Brandon spoke up. "The dark power searched for the Imperial Flame, which every magical being hosts to have their powers. But the dark powers wanted complete control of it."

"They took power from the MB community," Sky said. "leaving them for dead, often torturing them to get the powers. Elvs, mermaids, enchantresses, witches, and wizards where having their magic stripped from their souls. But the fairies where not so easy to capture, but they where the most powerful."

"When the Fairies started to be harvested, the entire universe and the planets came into alliance. It was the largest in the history since the creation of the Magical Universe." Nabu said, "Every living thing in the Dimension came together to fight the dark side, while the magical being that where left where hidden. Particularly the young ones."

"And how young where they?" Saladin quizzed.

"From newborns to young adults." Timmy answered. "Including pregnant mother."

"But when the light forces believed that they had won the war, the immediately went to their families," Riven now spoke. " the dark forces had followed them to the Sanctuary where all of the mothers and children where kept, then began killing everyone. Many had lost their lives, but something happened."

"No one knows for sure what had happened, some say that goddesses had come down to fight among them." Timmy said and adjusted his glasses, "there are others that say that there where powerful mother fairies that suddenly had a godsreighn, a godly like burst of power. But what ever happened, it defeated the dark power and simultaneously transported the children to...well...nobody knows."

But we do!" Saladin exclaimed. "A decade ago, we found Androsian Wizards and six fairies. And last year, we found the witches, enchantresses, and fairies. And even more importantly, we found them."

"who did find?" Riven asked

"The Six gifts of the Universe."

"Sir?"

"Fire, Water, Light, Nature, Technology, and Music." Saladin said firmly. "The six sacred gifts of the magical dimension, master riven. Life would not exist with out them." Riven stared down at his boots, feeling foolish for asking his question.

"What is our Mission, sir." Brandon asked, hoping to direct attention away from Riven.

"It was why I had asked for Faragonda, There is a school on the Planet that she was on, where she found several fairies, a few witches and I believe an enchantress among these girls are the six gifts, but I am not sure who. She was going to take you there and have them return home with the others so that the Tri-verisites could reopen and teach them again. but..."

"You don't know where they are or who they are." Prince Sky Finished.

"Do they know who they are?" Riven asked

"Obviously not." The headmaster scoffed. Riven hung his head again. "But. I do have their names, and possibly their mothers and their planets."

"That's how you knew they where the gifts." Timmy inquired, his mind had been racing with who knows what since he had stopped talking. Saladin nodded.

"If you give me the names, sir." Nabu spoke up for after what seemed like a long time, "There is a Melodian wizard who might be able to trace their hearts. We may then know where to find them."

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It was near 2'o-clock in the morning when the specialists had returned to their apartment. Nabu was right, the wizard from the Planet Melody was able to use his magic and find the girl's heart beats, but just barely. They where on a distant planet.

"And one that doesn't have magic, at that!" Brandon cried, waving his arms for the dramatic affect. He, like most of the other boys in the squad, did not wish to go to such a planet.

"Their technology there is ancient, they still use electricity as a source of power!" Timmy wined, "They're just starting to use to power their cars!"

"And they still use wheels! Wheels! How primitive is that?" Sky grumbled, he threw his pack onto the couch (much to Brandon's dismay). "I mean, they don't even know about life on other planets!"

"Their technology is so old, they can only see what's in their solar system! They actually belive that they are the only inteligant life form! BAH!" Timmy scoffed again.

"No Portals, no hover crafts, the planet is just so..."

"Primitive!" Sky, Brandon, and Timmy chorused.

As for Riven, Nabu, and Helia, they've had quite enough of their since they learned of the planet of the first fairy, they where complaining.

"And can you imagine how-"

"Shut up! Shut up!" Riven Yelled, silencing prince Sky and the others.

"Look, guys." Helia said, separating the two squad members, "I'm not exactly thrilled about this, either. None of us are. But Riven is right..."

"Ha!"

"In his own special little way."

"Hey!"

"Riven, chill." Nabu said. "These fairies are very important to us, and the fact that they found so many and so powerful we return..."

The boys understood. Nabu was one of those children who had survived the Reaping, but he doesn't remember much. And often they other boys forget where Nabu was supposed to be from.

"I don't remember much of that day," he said, "but it's important that we do this."

"For the magical dimension?" the squire asked.

"For the magical dimension." The boys chorused, putting their fists into the air in agreement.

"Now, lets go packing!"