Chapter I: Beginning

Meredy walked through the wide streets of the Crocus market district, with her Crime Sorciere cloak over her head. She turned off the main road and into a dark and dingy alleyway, taking a short cut. As she walked down the pathway, a hunched figure appeared from behind a stack of crates. Meredy was frightened, and stumbled back, and became ready to fight. The sun peeked in through the rooftops, and a beam of light glinted on the hunched figure, and it turned out to be a kind-looking old woman with a smile on her face. Meredy sighed and stepped forward again. What harm could come from an old woman? The woman slowly and silently approached Meredy, before coming face to face with her. The old woman grabbed a hold of Meredy's hand, and placed a small scroll in it. Puzzled, Meredy opened the scroll warily. "A sacred gem is what you seek""With its power, all are weak""Retrieve the gem, 'fore it is for nought""For many evils need it sought""In the land, of six's end""Travel the road, and take the bend"Meredy became even more confused as she finished reading the scroll, and looked up to the woman for an explanation. Looking up, Meredy met eyes with the alleyway, and the old woman was nowhere to be found. Meredy dismissed her as some madwoman, and continued on her way. Walking along the port of Crocus, she analyzed the poem in her mind. The more she thought about it, the bigger of a feeling of sickness grew in her stomach. ''It is blatant that there is something I need to retrieve, and I think it means I need to get it before some evil gets in. In the land of six's end? Does that refer to a country? Hmm... Minstrel, Iceberg, Sin, Seven, Caelum... Hey! Seven! Seven comes after the end of six! That means that I will need to poke around for information in Seven, to find the gems whereabouts... ''Meredy felt a feeling of doubt in the back of her head, but regardless, she would find the gem. Meredy ran up to the rivershore, and caught a fisherman about to leave the harbor. Meredy paid him to drive her along the river, towards the lakeshore city of Vendetta, in Seven.