Am I allowed to post on something 3 months ago...? I did not see any rules on not being able to do this, so here goes...
I am not really a good writer, but writing is my hobby, so...
Please review my story plan...
[Original Story, with a few touches of Touhou, Fate/Stay Night and Card Games]
I used the SpellCard system as the main method of battle here.
魔法の聖戦 - Holy War of Magic
Get ready...
This story takes place in a place called Yakusoku, and it is connected with the real world. Many things that Humans refused to believe in ends up there, like Magic. As many of the denizens/citizens there have Magic, they use it in their daily lives, for convenience, fun, pleasure [for the heck of using it] or to settle anything hostile. Due to many of the
Denizens getting Magic, they devised a SpellCard system for SpellCard duels to constrain power and to settle all hostilities. All SpellCard duels will lock two parties in a bounded field, where a battle takes place with each party trying to kill each other in the bounded field. After which one party is killed, the bounded field closes and everything returns status-quo, with hostilities terminated and conflicts forcefully resolved by the outcome of the battle, with the winner deciding on what is to happen. To avoid barbaric combat, the SpellCard system is also used when fighting, where the two parties cast spells at each other.
The denizens/citizens of Yakusoku mostly age so slowly that nothing really much happens to their age, and Humans, with magic, can render themselves the same state as the denizens of Yakusoku, the Yousei, like how they can avoid eating and drinking and can even keep their aging under control and age at the same rate as the Yousei. Other abilities include being able to fly, etc, etc...
However, in every few decades, a Holy War (Seisen) breaks out to decide the next keeper of the Shrine of the G-o-ds. This is when SpellCard duels become vital to survival, as the losers of one will be killed off for real and the spirits be sent to the Land of the Dead, where they are left to wander forever. The winner, who will have killed off directly or indirectly 999 other competitors of the competition will have to gather the souls of the dead and offer them to the G-o-ds, henceforth becoming the Shrine Keeper and bestowed the power of the G-o-ds, at least until the next Holy War. All Yousei that are above 700 years old MUST take part in this war. They may also find partners from another world, and sign a contract with them, getting an advantage in terms of Magic and also, to incite Humans into participating, be granted 1 wish. Of course, at the end, if one is unable to defeat the previous Shrine Keeper... she shall die, and the souls offered to the g-o-ds to bestow power and recognition once more to the previous Shrine Keeper.
Our hero, a mundane boy by the name of Luluche Grants, age 16, gets a mysterious letter from a supposed boarding University in Japan, supposedly inviting him to the school to study due to his outstanding results and proficiency in Math and Science. He accepts, and on the plane flight there, he finds a elaborately designed card with a blank white space at the front of it when he received his lunch on the plane. Thinking that it was some sort of souvenir, he kept it.
When he reached the school, he was assigned to the dormitories. Feeling the school to be "odd" for being such an elegant structure that seems otherworldly, he attempts to adventure around the school. For some reason, the amount of people in school he saw kept decreasing... and decreasing... day by day... until day 4, where he suspected something was seriously wrong. All the students or teacher's that disappeared were all excused with similar excuses like "He is on Sick-Leave" or that "She has some family matters to attend to".
That night, coincidentally, he remembered his keepsake he got on the plane, and mysteriously enough, words in elegant cursive font appeared on the card: "If you are one who believes in Magic, and are the chosen for the Holy War... Hold onto this card and call your prayers. Henceforth, you shall be bound to the contract that will seal your life and death."
In curiousity, he did as he was told, and the scenery started to change... from gradually fading to black and then static... then to an old-fashioned brown and grey... and the walls started to break apart... and he arrived in a hall, with a circle-like Arena of sorts and the disintegrating walls culminating at the apparent ceiling of the hall in a spiral. Four elegant large windows were fixed into the disintegrating walls, and the grandeur was amazing. It was then he realised the bodies of countless students lying on the floor of the hall, collapsed, weak, and some ceased to be alive...
Well, I wanted it to start this way...
And then, they will find that actually, the "g-o-ds" were actually Humans who found their way into this world via a dimensional rift, and found the potency of the Magic here, and wanted to collect the souls of the living things here to fuel their research on the magic that lies within this souls, and extract it. They also found that Magic in Humans exist as well, thus they set up a so-called campus to select the most intellectually smart to collect their Magic, as Magic can only exist in this world, and they found that only Magic that has matured enough can be concentrated and extracted, and maintain its form, or it will just dissipate when extracted, which is non-recoverable. Also, they found that Magic Powers reached their height during Fights and War, thus they instigated the war.
As they knew that this world ran parallel with the "Real" World, they went to build a Shrine of sorts, then started playing g-o-d and incited them into a war using their newfound power and intellect, promising boundless power to the Shrine Keeper. Of course, this links back into the "real" world as well, when they attempt to merge both in order to be able to use Magic to take over the central government of the world in order to reign absolute, e.g. Dictatorship [The Humans that played god were people that were exiled by the country for committing a serious crime: They commenced the meltdown of a Nuclear Power Plant in order to cover their evidences of embezzlement and other humanitarian crimes, causing a huge part of Singapore to become unlivable for decades. They were ministers of the UN.].
Perhaps it might make a lot more sense if I wrote in the first chapter to both sides.
Spoiler:
Chapter 0 [Alternate Reality]: The Prolouge to the Beginning - Ash Like Snow
Winter in Yakusoku was unbearable. The freezing wind bit into the lone girl walking along the now-deserted town square, devoid of the bustling life there once was. As she walked pass the Shrine of the Gods, she snarled. That Shrine is nothing but a figure of authority the gods have put here to control the Yousei, she thought. It was the case. The Shrine was built by a clan of chosen people called the "Shrine Keepers" who were nothing more than people after the power of the gods. When they were chosen, the gods bestowed them immense power and gave them free reign over the Yousei of Yakusoku. Just as she approached the end of the ancient stone-paved road she was walking on, she lifted her head, no more than a gesture of curiosity, to the luminous Moon, that radiant light, hung above in the heavens.
At that moment, the grand bell in the Shrine gave off a hollow, empty ringing sound that resonated through the whole of Yakusoku, from the mighty mountian ranges to the deepest of the Forests of Spirits. She merely so much as twitched as she turned around and saw a Yousei charge at her from behind. With a short chant, the card she held in her hand glimmered in the moonlight.
The radiance of the moon was the last sight the attacker saw.
"It's time. The Seisen has begun again."
The intricate dagger in her hand begun to fade away into nothing more than a glimmer of Stardust as she witnessed her defeated opponent fall limpedly to the hard, solid floor, the thud echoing through the air. The crimson-coloured ground soon faded back to the unforgiving shade of grey as the body of the life the girl had taken started to fade into the darkness. Looking back with so much a shred of remorse, she picked up the card beside the fading body.
"Count it on the misfortune of your birth."
The white snow was the last of the innocence that still existed of the girl, as she walked into the horizon, fading into the white darkness the snow created.
The ash that is snow.
Now, for the {Real World} side of the story:
Chapter 0: [REALITY] The opposite of a Lack Of Common Sense
The bedsheets were carelessly flung to the ground as a person awoke lazily. Reaching for his phone by instinct, the figer slid across the screen, silencing the alarm. Long, silky black hair flowed down said person's back, even lower than his shoulders were. As the hands rubbed the eyes, the vision of the room became clearer. The eyelids fluttered open as said person walked down the stairs. The stone-cold ground stung his feet, however he was used to the stinging sensation. Stumbling around the house, the hands finally found the knob of the washroom. Ambling in, the hands soon turned on the tap. The cool water rushed through his hands and he ran his wet hands over his face and hair.
The cold water is stinging, but at least it keeps me awake...
He did a quick wash-up, and primped himself in the mirror, slowly collecting his hair in his hands and tying them up with a ribbon. Reaching for the closet outside the washrooom, he changed into his perfectly creaseless uniform and affixed the school tie to complete the deed. Finding his student pass, he reached for the keys put conveniently at the side of the basin and walked out of the room. He was used to skipping breakfast and living on his own since his parents were dead in an accident 10 years ago. Glacing briefly at the photograph that was already yellow on the edges, he allowed himself as to so much smirk a little as he eyed his parents in the photograph. With a click, the door opened and he began his long journey to school.
Lefford Institution was the words that appeared on the collar-pin of Issu Ryuusei, as he stood outside the gates of the school. With his trademark smirk, Luluche was more than ready to hit him across the face, though he'd rather not, as it would only dirty his hands.
My my... isn't it my best friend Luluche-hime! Now, come here, my princess...
Shut up.
Why should I? Now, let me check your attire.
You being the student council leader does not make you not have to listen to me.
Luluche swallowed his rage as he bore with his friend fingering with his attire. He knew he was going to mess up his attire to get him in trouble again.
Well, well... no contraband items, no uniform mistakes... Just like a model student!
Allowing himself to twitch so much as in suprise, he replied in a manner with more annoyance than anger.
Now, will you let me pass?
Well, I would have... Issei counted under his breath... 1, 2, 3...Ding! You are late! Sorry, no can do.
Issei shrugged nonchalently, in such a way that Luluche almost wanted to unleash all his bottled-up rage on him right now.
At least three hours of talk was all was required of with the principal before he could regain freedom.
Now, I intend to tie in the two sides somehow, but yeah.
Can someone just give me an idea about how he got sent on a plane to that academy in the first place... I cannot figure...
Also, please help me... I am not sure where, but some parts of my plot does not make sense somehow... I just cannot pinpoint it...
And if you need the character list just gimme a shout. Thanks!
