CFs past: I was at a page called the Zelda Headquarters (www.zhq.com) and saw this beautiful picuture of a bunch of crystal's, at the same time I was thinking of Sailor Moon and the SM BB RP that I was in (which fell apart with P*) and I thought, "Wow, that'd be neat if I could do a story or something with those crystals.." I had also been thinking of this story to do with these people in the theme song/movie of Urusai Yatsura, hard to describe I dunno who they were, I don't watch that, I was researching different anime. But, they were all doing their poses and yet it was obvious they were a team. So I started thinking and thinking and I ended up with something like this... (also shown as the prologue of CF#1: "Beginings" A long time ago all the factions in all the countries in all the continents in all the worlds in all the galaxies in all the Universes, were at war with at least one other one. Everything was in chaos, it hadn't always been like that, but one thing led to another and well, there you have it. It got so bad that strange beings started to appear, it was rumored that they came from the chaos and hatred that was so stronge as to manifest physically and developed a consiousness. Whether that is the case, or that they had always been there lurking in the shadows, they were the Vile and vile they were. But, throughout this time no one was really *happy* with all the war, but they didn't know how to stop it. The mages were probably the most unhappy at all. On many planets certian reagents were hard to impossible to grow and with the wars there was no way to import them. The mages also could not trade spells to expand their knowladge of the archaine arts. So they met secretly, sure it was dangerous, but they had a need. The mages created a Crystal for each faction out of what goodness they could find, each Crystal had its own unique powers. The mages used these Crystals to help show people how stupid they were being, soon the wars stopped. This was a hard blow to the Vile who fed on the chaos that war created. Everyone knew all too well the horrors of war and the destruction it wrought and so would not easily return to war. The Vile weren't stupid, well, at least *some* of them weren't and they saw this, they decided not to waste their time and stole time-travel technology from one of the civilizations. The Vile used it to go forward in time. Meanwhile, the Crystals became a symbol of all they had gained through peace, but soon they Crystals were no longer needed and they 'disapeared'. In truth, the mages had found out about the Vile and hid the Crystals, each in a different way, so that whatever time the Vile came too the Crystals would 'select' someone from their faction and help them to keep the Vile from bringing chaos to the future. Now one from each of the old factions must find the Crystal of their faction and join with the other Crystal possesers to combat the Vile. The Crystal Fighters use their Crystals as mostly a focus for their own energy and an enhancement of it. But, the Crystals also contain more, powers and energy that the mages infused them with is locked away for a time when they might be discovered and put to use. So far the few Crystal Fighters that have surfaced do not yet know their own strength. They are learning as they go along, but they must learn and move quickly before the Vile take over the universes. I can't explain the driving forces of each character, but I can explain my own. I was either going to have a semi-dark presense black haired purple eyed mage--my idea of Rydia (I'd heard her name before and thought it was neat, though the pic of her that my friend showed me did NOT go with my mental pic at all, especially the green hair!), or a foresty red-haired telepath--my typical Zelda. Then I thought, hey in Sailor Moon they change clothes, why not have her change appearence instead of just get powers? So she's kinda got 2 divisions of herself. Plus, while she was training with the mysterious ArchMage Zaria (she's lived for millenia, was trained by the Goddess of Light (tho she didn't know it at the time) broke some of her vows but adhered like crazy to the rest mostly because she got burned after she broke her vows, they were there for a reason, and she cut herself off from all affection and lived only for her job and emptyness, though here's a spoiler, she ends up coming back to herself after falling for the demigod who tends to pop up and help the CFs or take various ones (Nity and Anakin) and train them, Sentinei (tho that was a surprise to me lol tho, you wouldn't BELIEVE how hard I was laughing when I read that note!! It was just TOO perfect!) and then Sentinei is killed in a battle for Immortal control of Crystalia and Zaria almost kills the Goddess of Light and herself in the process, but instead she opts for redemption) ) she kinda gets her personality split (no can can naturally be that innocent and niave!!) into Adlez/AIydr and Zelda/Rydia, Adlez is the evil form that was brought out by this evil syrm in one story, she's actually a whole other personality than Zelda-and completely opposite in every way. ANYway. So, this innocent elven girl Zelda finds a crystal in a forest and figures out it gives her weird superpowers (well..water..) but also, with the touch of the Crystal she becomes the CF informant, she knows just about everything about the Crystals, their purpose etc. Well, she's drawn to this dimension called Crystalia where she meets Queen Emerald Light-dale, who becomes UAs g/f and a CF sympathizer. Then Nity who at the time was a seperate personality from his Crystal self (he also transformed like Rydia, not all of the CFs do, most don't actually) which was Razis tho that line kinda got lost ::shrugs::Senti forgot I guess UA a comic-type superhero from NYC then gets accidentally teleported into Crystalia and has been stuck in this Reality every since. He and Eme don't hit it off too well, in fact, they're at each others throats constantly, but somehow the miniteam is able to function. Then the late and lamented Coda and Anakin comes along, Coda a just discovering his animorph powers techno guy--well, he had a sentient board named T.I.M.--friend of BOTC (Bird of the Crystal, Senti picked the name I believe, no one knows how to pronounce it ), and Anakin a swordweilding person (it was a long time ago, okay? I can't remember ) I'm just touching down on the major things, not going into detail about every story so let's see... Coda's Crystal was the balance Crystal (kinda like the gigantic powerful M'krann that showed up for us in one story). UA has a symbiote, as does his interdimensional other EUA, and it kinda gives him powers, his Crystal is only good as a battery or a paperweight, no power ranger junk for him! Also, a baddie shows up called Lady Darkness who turns out to be the mother of Striker a CF who ends up turning evil and being the cause of Nity's death in "Darkest Hour" We also have a villian called Dolomite who led the Vile through time, and his underling Phyllite who double crossed everyone she met. Though that got mixed up and we ended up with a whole slew of Phyllite clones. There was also an instance of Dark Crystals which of course the villians scrambled after. This is when they met up with a two sets of vampires, the Light vampires and the Dark vampires, the Light ones protected the Dark Crystals from evil of course. With the appearence of the M'krann Crystal in "Crystal in the Sky" UA starts to develope this sickness which ends up stemming from the loss of his symbiote who's spirit or something comes back to help the CFs get EUA into making his own symbiote help UA. Zarina appeared for a little bit, but she was killed or disapeared. The Crystalline warrior covert prince Ganthet came to the CFs with a Crystal that he bonded to himself, I'm not quite sure what his Crystal does though. But with his body he can do neat harmonic vibrations, the power of which were increased a LOT in one story. In a later story his spirit switched bodies a couple times and now he's taken up that of a female human who had to die for him to be able to do that. He has her diary too. Then from the planet of psi came the mysterious protoss Zealen who normally uses his psi blades to attack, I can't remember anything about his Crystal. Zarina's btw, had powers like Zelda's, but it didn't change her. Kisutsu was a bit like Zarina, and he had weather powers, but he was killed in "Darkest Hour". They were both a bit... scatterbrained to say the least Though Zarina came back once with a tutor named Ryliann and they were both lost. Then Phyllite had a plot to take over the Dreamworld in "Dreamworld" but the Cfs of course prevailed, and they even picked up a new CF--Rupay/Deena who is indeginous to the Dreamworld. Also the technological explosion obssesed PyroMaster joined the team, he hasn't changed a of his ships--all named "DragonStar" Entropy also came up our resisdent dark presense who at one time betrayed the CFs and is always disputing leadership with UA, he used to turn into Ankhell but something happened and he stopped, he's a fluidic being as well as in love with Tala who has shadow powers, 3 Crystals and an annoying evil twin named Nokomis who now kind of lives inside her head. Oh, and she's part demon. Entropy's Crystal had powers and he tends to use a medallion and tends to use latin while using his powers. Maia/Makara was very quiet and a princess I believe with some royal problems at home, but she was killed. And of course there is Krakken, even more of a dark persona than Entropy, he has wind powers and also a little black box called soulkeeper, BEWARE THE BOX! We also had a volcano-based kid trapped as a fire elemental who was around for a bit. So, through the stories the group gathers and of course, meets the enemy but soon it becomes evident that the place that became their home base, was not going to surive with them. In the Immortal realm, the Ealians were gaining control of Crystalia despite Sentinei's efforts and their goal was ownership and then destruction of Crystalia. As the planet/dimension begins to collapse around them, the CFs strive to move all the inhabitants to safety, loosing some of their own in the process until finally the planet begins to implode and the CFs that are left try to escape in a small ship. They were just about to make it past the strong pull of gravity, when Striker somehow grabbed the ship, Nity sacrificed himself to stop Striker and let the rest of the CFs get away in a desperate 'port. They were thrown into a few alternate realities and tried to make the best of it while they searched for the Staff of Jerium Prime, the one thing that can actually bring Crystalia back. While they searched, they found Rupay, who had been reborn in the Dreamworld and Dakey, the little brother Nity never knew he had. Through many trials they made their way back into their own dimension (I *think*) though they lost their ship and gained a new one named "Avenger" for their lost (only for a time) comrade UA-Ultra Avenger. Now they are on Entropy's large ship, the Omricon, still just coasting through space trying to survive and searching for any hint as to the whereabouts of Jerium Prime. The CFs that are left are: Ganthet in a new body, Pyro, Zelda with a new level of transformation, Dakey (a kid) with his guide and guard Lil Flame the fire lizard, a new CF of ice and snow--Clopheara, Lark who came to them in "Darkest Hour", UA, Eme who's a bit psycotic, a very annoyed Entropy who's VERY close to mutiny, little Rupay, and Krakken who keeps disapearing. UPDATE 4/13/00 Entropy has taken over with UAs resignation. He, along with a few others, is down on the planet Faia where we picked up Deyja another younger CF. On Faia because of the violent racial wars, the Vile have been thriving. Through a strange series of events involving one *good* Vile, Ganthet has been ressurected, but with his life we lost Eme in an explosion, though she might no really be gone. Also, Grey, Kaliana, and Tachyon have joined the team and after both the destruction of "Omnicron" and "Avenger" the CFs found a gigantic ship called Destiney's Child and are on it at present. This amazing ship is large enough to house an entire planet...one of our own choosing...so, of course, Crystalia has been reborn...