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Chapter 1: New Beginnings

In the beginning, there were ten islands. The Island of Spirits, Fire, Water, Ice, Wind, Lightening, Earth, Gravity, Darkness, and Light. Each of which needed a god and a goddess to rule over it.

There is a general sense of peace between the islands, though a few have tensions built up between the divine beings who rule them. Of these tensions, the most infamous was the tensions between Alyss, goddess of darkness, and Beryll, god of earth. Even these two were able to set aside their differences to conquer a common enemy.

The existing god of darkness was a pain and unworthy to have such power over the Island of Darkness, and so a plan was formulated between Alyss, Beryl, and Rin to rid the islands of the god. Without a common enemy to unite them, Alyss and Beryll went back to their quarreling.

The newest reason for their tensions is Beryl's research. Alyss, taking Beryll's most trusted priestess, and forcing her to leak information about Beryll's research. She discovered that Beryll's wish was to fuse elemental forces together, creating new elemental forces that could be controlled and possibly disrupt the balance of all the islands. Alyss, despite her enjoyment of chaos, knew that this would disrupt the balance so much, that even she didn't like the idea.

Meanwhile, Beryll plans to introduce the beginnings of this research at a tournament he plans to set up on a new island near the Island of Spirits, and all he waits for is the response from the other islands to send their representatives.

Chapter 3: The Fall of a God

Beryll, God of Earth, sought an alliance out with one of the formerly uninvolved Goddesses, Tatiana of the Winds. After some convincing, Beryll was able to talk Tatiana into aiding him in his direct assault against Alyss.

Upon arriving at the Island of Darkness, Tatiana's eyes were opened to many truths. Beryll's plans to fuse the elements disturbed her, but Alyss's theft of the Priestess Alec also proved awful. Upon a confession of affection from the God of Earth for his Priestess, Tatiana decided to abduct Alec and leave Beryll to fight his own battle.

Beryll attempted to lure Alyss to his own side, but the Goddess of Darkness refused his sweet temptations. Beryll's battle, seemed not to be aimed at beating Alyss in a direct conflict, but in some other way unseen by anyone. When he conceded the fight, he seemed satisfied with what he had done.

Now Beryll lives as an Exile, with naught but his own mortal life to comfort him. And the fates of all others involved is still undecided. Will peace remain on the islands, or will something spark conflicts anew?