[b][I]Palace of the Blachrenae, Renovation[/i][/b]

Damianos was not uncompassionate - He knew that Auxientia needed help, but was unsure if she'd take well to the usual ways of tending to traumatized children. So, before the Emperor and Empress continued, he stepped forward to say, "Before we begin the exposition, let's take care of one of our visitors first."

Pointing his wand at Auxentia, Damianos muttered a spell, which instantly caused all the dirt and grime on her to magically vanish, and her crude dress to become a gown of silk and brocade. A small table with several fine honeycakes and some cups of pasteurized milk then appeared in front of her - Strangely, there was enough for Dan and the others as well. "We can delay the speech for a few seconds while you two and anyone else who wants to eat, well, eats."

A few minutes' pause ensued as the Emperor and Empress nodded and agreed, and at the end of the few minutes' pause, Damianos then went to the Emperor's side and said, "[i]Now[/i] we can begin the exposition, which, when finished, will also explain to Sunja [i]how[/i] we can defeat Leo and his... Wizardry." 

He then cleared his throat and altered the mystic hologram he was projecting to show a single Earth, a blue-green globe spinning silently in the cosmos, while the Empress began to narrate, "In the Original Earth, in the years 2019 to 2020 Christian Era, there was once a boy named Ascot, who believed that the world was heading headlong into destruction."

The hologram then zoomed into the North American Continent, where a young man with black hair and eyes - Just like Tocsax, who should have made his apperance by now - was reading a book on a desk already stacked with them.

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Empress Maria then continued, "Ascot was a genius, smart and inquisitive beyond his years. But due to his belief that the people of the world were destroying themselves, he searched and searched for a way to prevent such a calamity. And he found it in old texts and new physics, ones that spoke of a mysterious force that we know today as The Light, or [i]Lux[/i]. All Light flowed from a mysterious place called Kingdom Hearts, the Heart of existence."

The hologram shifted to a giant 'heart', one that looked like a stereotypical Valentines' Day Heart, only it glowed blue-and-white, while its left side was marked with darker spots that made it look like the Moon's surface. Maria continued, "Kingdom Hearts was protected by its counterpart, the X-blade; pronounced 'Key-blade'. And Ascot managed to summon said X-blade to himself, becoming its legitimate owner and giving him the power to save his world... Just as the nations of the world were launching weapons of great power - Nuclear Missiles."

Damianos added, "Nuclear Missiles, to those who do not know, are instruments of war that can cause conflagrations which could destroy entire cities."

((To be continued in Part 2.))

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