Author - Ashley Crampton - Bathurst South Public School

As the wrecked ship drifted to the unknown territory of the island, a man with a brawny expression approached. The ship stopped completely, it was on the island, along with the other passengers aboard it. The man came closer and closer to the people on the ship. The passengers got off the ship not knowing how much danger they were in. As the man greeted them he also told them “to leave, for the risk maybe too much to handle”.

“Please let me explain the problem at hand, my name is Ikuchi from the Blacksphere clan, although I am the last of my kind, I thrive in keeping this sanctified place safe from its immoral truth”.

“I keep the secret of the seven caves, that’s why you must leave because all of you who are foolish enough to step into these caves will perish with everyone else in this world of ours”.

As humans are, they ignore signs of danger and instead take the temptation at any cost. The passengers searched for one of the seven caves, as Ikuchi watched elusively as the passengers moved on to their inducement. But with great stealth, Ikuchi followed them.

The passengers from the boat stumble along a colossal cave made entirely of rock and limestone. They knew the cautions about going in, but completely payed no attention to Ikuchi and his word of admonition.

They walked into the cave. As they walked deeper and deeper into the hollow cave, the passengers saw a vivid light excel into their eyes. They scurried along to find what was shining. It was an unblemished skull with a black gem at the tip of its cranium. The captain of the ship grabbed the skull from its stone ledge. As soon as they took that skull of its resting place they knew something was wrong, for an immense beam shone into the heavens.

A huge resonating roar came from beneath the cave. The passengers didn’t know what was coming, was it a rhino, elephant, mammoth, dinosaur? No, it was a creature of vast powers and evil, a dragon! It ruptured through the dynamic rock, level to the humans. The dragon was as pitch black in the cave, all you could see of it was the dark red eyes peering into your soul. Suddenly, Ikuchi stepped in and told the captain to give him the skull. Ikuchi took the skull with the gem and inserted into the sword which had seven slots. Ikuchi transformed into a dark being with a large amount of power at his disposal, he was a changed warrior.

Ikuchi collided with the dragon. While Ikuchi was fighting the merciless beast, the passengers from the boat, swiftly ran past the conflict that was going on. A huge flame from the dragon erupted out of its mouth and seriously wounded Ikuchi. He ran out of the fissure in the cave and took out the gem within the sword and gained a full recovery from the blow he took.

Ikuchi met up with the passengers, they asked a very fascinating inquiry, “What was that thing? And why is that skull with the gem so vital?” Exclaimed the captain of the ship.

“When you remove one of the seven skulls from the cave, a dragon of an individual element rises from beneath and demolishes anything in its way.” Alleged Ikuchi.

Every one of the passengers was astonished at the remark Ikuchi told them. They fled back to their ruptured ship and tried repairing it, but there was no use seeing that there was nothing that they could utilize to restore the once great ship it was.

“Now you know not to enter what must be kept isolated completely from the world today, and the future.”

As soon as Ikuchi stopped talking, the dragon of the black gem which represents darkness came over the horizon. It was letting out all of its force onto the island which now, is in flames. Ikuchi put the skull from the cave into the sword which transformed him into a fiend, of unknown darkness and hatred but in a way, still pure. Ikuchi fought the dragon once more, but with an edge.

The dragon is only ever strong in the dark; therefore its power is no longer absolute in the light, but as the day draws closer to the brink of obscurity, Ikuchi must vanquish the dragon before it reaches its full potential, at night. Ikuchi was still engaged with the battle with the dragon, but Ikuchi is at the verge of victory against the brute. Ikuchi only had a little more time to obliterate the dragon; he clenched his sword and gave one massive strike on top of the dragon’s head.

Fractured waves of flames came over and over again at Ikuchi. It had seemed that he had won the battle over the dragon of the dark gemmed skull. But when the flames hit everything in the forests, numerous passengers were injured. Ikuchi now realised the only way to revive the fallen humans was to gather the other remaining skulls of the blessed dragons. All though he knew the consequences, Ikuchi defied the demise of a near creeping death to the passengers.

Ikuchi set out to retrieve the last remaining gems to restore the damage done to the passengers. He had reached a cave of malted rock and ash. After going through a brutal scorching cave, Ikuchi had spotted out the skull. He dashed along to the skull and removed it from its quiescent place. Ikuchi enclosured both skulls into the sword. Ikuchi had changed into a mage of a variety of powers, an intense amount of power he had.

Now Ikuchi was ready to clash with the titan. The dragon had burst through the lava! And assailed Ikuchi with its mighty rage of fire. Ikuchi had unleashed a stream of combined fire and dark attacks. The dragon had dodged the tributary. Ikuchi clenched his sword, and drove it into the ground. An extreme energy came within Ikuchi, enough to slay any fiend. The dragon had fowl strength though, with its capacity to power up its potency is ghastly.

Ikuchi raised his vitality by a vast range and let it out onto the dragon with a great blast of orbs that were almost unseeable. The blasts hit the dragon and hurt the dragon effectively. The dragon hit Ikuchi with its sharp claws, and pierced his armour. Ikuchi was at hanging on at an inch of his life, for the blow nearly eradicated him. Ikuchi had to abstract one of the skulls so he could heal back to his full potential.

Ikuchi took out the dark skull from the sword and reinstated his former strength. It would take at least an hour to situate the dark skull back into the sword. Ikuchi has to withstand the fire dragon for at least an hour; it was like fighting fire with fire. Ikuchi was dodging all the attacks done to him though less powerful than usual. Ikuchi damaged the dragon by putting it into a tornado of fire and lava. The dragon had burst out of the flames and gave out a screech of horror. Ikuchi was condemned to death just about, for he had made the dragon irritated. It was fuming over the pain of defeat. The skull had been recovered and ready to reuse again.

For an hour now, Ikuchi was waiting for the chance to recover the skull and beat the fowl beast of the river sticks. Ikuchi positioned the skull into the sword and reached his maximum power within himself. The dragon was at the mercy of Ikuchi and his might. Ikuchi had to liberate the dragon from it’s pursue. Ikuchi gave the dragon an enormous blast in the face. Another eruption of flames occurred, which meant Ikuchi won the battle. It was a close encounter between both of them; it was conflict of strength and wit, nothing else. Ikuchi walked out of the fiery cave having become stronger. Ikuchi searched through the merciless island, finding nothing but the seashore.

Ikuchi finally realised that a cave was in the ocean. He dived into the water. Ikuchi swam into the cave to come across the skull with a blue gem in it. He took it, and imbued it into his sword. Ikuchi was able to breathe under water like it was air. Abruptly, a shadow covered Ikuchi. It was like a leviathan. Ikuchi launched an attack on the creature. The dragon had let out a massive beam of destruction. Ikuchi swung back at the beam, and reflected it back at it. The beast dodged it and plunged upon Ikuchi. Ikuchi grabbed the dragons head and started stabbing. It swiped Ikuchi with its tail and hit him in the gut. Ikuchi plummeted to the deadly bottoms of the bloody barren sea where he was unconscious for the time being, while he was down Ikuchi had a vision of the past.

* * *

“Ikuchi, Ikuchi!” Shouted a loud voice.

“What, who’s that?” Said Ikuchi anxiously.

“It’s your sister, Ryu.” Said the voice.

“Today’s your big day.” Said Ryu in a happy mood.

“What day is that exactly?” Said Ikuchi.

“It’s the day you learn the power of the Blacksphere clan, our clan.” Said Ryu.

“That’s right!” Shouted Ikuchi in a stupid manner.

“You know you don’t have to shout.” Said Ryu

“Let’s go see dad, so you can learn that special power.” Said Ryu.

“Do you know where we are actually going Ryu?” Said Ikuchi.

“Yes, the burial grounds of our past warriors and close relatives.” Said Ryu.

“Hello, Ikuchi and Ryu.” Said a distant voice.

“Its time to learn the ultimate power of our kind.” Said the voice again.

“Who is that anyway?” Said Ikuchi curiously.

“Its dad Ikuchi.” Said Ryu.

“Ok, its time to learn the newly required power. Said their father.

“Now watch this closely.” Said their father.

Ikuchi’s father brought about tremendous power from within himself. You could even feel it as the wind goes by. It was if the world was trembling almost like an earthquake. For split second everything was silent, and then Ikuchi’s father said ORION! A burst of energy poured out of him which shook the ground he stood on. He walked to Ikuchi, with each step he made the earth seemed to shake.

“This is the power you must learn to create an unstoppable force; it is for you see your destiny.” Said Ikuchi’s father.

“So this is the power I must learn, Orion. Said Ikuchi elusively.

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Ikuchi woke up with rage and anger. He raised his strength by a vast range by saying the word Orion. A red glow shone around him. Ikuchi shot up out of the water and in an instant, Ikuchi let loose wave after wave of electric attacks into the sea which killed everything beneath its beauty, including the dragon. Ikuchi left the sight, and moved on to the next dragon cave.

The night turned into day, getting closer and closer to victory. Ikuchi was close to another cave. He entered it in the same mood that he was in before the other dragon’s demise began. Ikuchi ran into the cave and took the skull gem from its resting ledge. It was green which meant that it was going to be an earth dragon. Ikuchi quickly inserted the skull into his sword and became even stronger. The dragon came out with a blast underneath the ground; as soon as it did Ikuchi crushed its skull with his sword and saved it the trouble of dyeing a slow one. Rocks came out of no where, and shattered all over the place, a huge part came flying at Ikuchi with a sharp edge. Ikuchi turned his hand behind him and blew it away with ease and moved on to the next victim.

Ikuchi ran swiftly to the next destination. He saw it in the void distance where Ikuchi could only see marble rock. It was a giant sized cave. Ikuchi still went forward though without hesitation. Ikuchi entered the gigantic cave and walked along the frozen tundra made of marble. Ikuchi found the skull and took it. It was crystal which meant the dragon of luminosity is going to show up. Ikuchi input the crystal skull into his sword then suddenly, the dragon appeared but in an unusual manner, it was invisible!

Ikuchi could not figure it out, he knows that the dragon is in the cave but he can not see it. But then out of no where, a light had come from all directions. They all surged at Ikuchi like arrows. Ikuchi jumped up, and avoided the collision of the outburst. The dragon lashed at Ikuchi on the back with its tail. Ikuchi hid behind a small hill suddenly, the dragon burst out an eruption of flames. Then finally Ikuchi noticed that this is no cave, it was in fact the dragon itself. Ikuchi ran out of the so called cave and turned around. He finally saw the true size of the dragon; it was the size of a mountain.

Ikuchi watched the dragon stand up to its pinnacle height. As the dragon was rising, Ikuchi was powering up to his maximum strength.