Fight for the Shaman King (Shaman King RP) V.2

[Bahamut's Regent]

(I hope they'll come back along with Eternal)

[Leviathan~]

((hmph, me too. Until then when do you wanna start it up?))

[Bahamut's Regent]

(Sure I'll let you go first, I'm drawing blanks)

[Leviathan~]

((Alrighty, might as well start where we finished hehe))

Ryoshi...

The rain fell hard against the stone steps Ryo climbed. The wind whispered stories, stories he already knew, stories he'd witnessed. He snapped his fingers and sparks bounced lightly against the earth, just reminding himself that that time had come and gone. A woman's hand rested on his shoulder. He didn't turn to look, but he gave a bit of the smirk. The hand left, and he looked up. In front of him was an old building. Torn to the ground, the ceiling gone. It had once been a beautiful masterpiece of architectural splendor, but that all changed before anyone had time to truly appreciate it. His eyes flashed over the memories again. The caress of someone he cared for, the fear of losing a comrade, the rage, the agony. This place held enough memories to truly destroy a person. Luckily Ryo had rebuilt himself before he came. He finally finished his journey up the stairs and made his way through the ruins of the building. While most furniture or any other decoratives in the building had been long since destroyed, there was one thing Ryo was interested in the center of the building. The floorboards had been pulled out, and there sat a small cactus. There, Ryoshi bothered to truly smile.

[Bahamut's Regent]

(Hmm what to do, what to do? Oh. . .)

Roaring the dragon spirit slammed his claws into the dry river bed. It threw its head back unleashing another painfully loud roar. He swung his head to look at the person that sat on the opposite bank. Growling he padded over to her and flopped defeatedly at her side, head in her lap. The two sharing a common hurt.

[RedLionPaladin]

(Um, what's going on here? Where are we starting?)

[Bahamut's Regent]

(I'm not sure. I know Cel is at Kohaku's dried river bed)

[Leviathan~]

Ryoshi...

Ryoshi removed his eyes from the cactus and saw the river dragon roaring in the distance through the eyes of a veteran in battle. The frame of the creature was unmistakable. He left his old friend for a moment with a word of apology and went to the spirit and human. "The Spirit of Rain rests here where I left it. Though the river may be dry, it will flow again someday." he reassured, not even sure if his old companions would remember him. Nevertheless, it was always nice to tell people things were going to get better.

[Bahamut's Regent]

The shaman's eyes lifted from the dragon's head in her lap, the deep golden gaze somber. "As though the River's source had not been choked, by the scars of human development?" She spoke softly yet her voice carried far "I think not, but we thank you for your sympathies, Ryoshi." The river dragon stood up and shook out his mane, his colors looking rather dull, but all of his ferocity was still there. The shaman stood slowly "It seems the star has returned, as have we, to fight again in the torment that threatens to tear us limp from limp, soul from soul."

[Chadanaiy]

(( Hi guys! Im so sorry for bailing so unceremoniously a while back... I figured you'd moved on to other things and had no interest in starting over the old RPs so I was hesitant to come back to you after that too.
I'd love to start the Shaman King RP again though! I think I can find the time to write on the weekends or something, which might mean I won't respond all that quickly unfortunately, but otherwise I'd love to start doing this stuff again!

I'm hoping I'll be able to post my post-time-skip new-and-improved Arisu sometime on Friday or on the weekend. I just need to first understand a bit of what's happening in the story here. So I assume from Ry's first post that this new timeline happens a considerable amount of time after the events of the original SK RP: I'd say somwhere between 2 and 10 years? Ten might be a strech... But not 500 years for sure, despite the fact that that is the interval at which the star appears and that the star has in fact appeared in the sky again (I'm just guessing there are no known exceptions to this, my SK lore is very rusty and I'm too lazy to open the wiki on my phone) So what caused the interval to change in this new case scenario? Was the last Shaman Fight (the one we were fighting in the original RP) someone cancelled, had no winner and needed a retrial? Or maybe none of us won the last shaman fight and Hao won once again but something cut his reign short, calling for a retrial? Or is this some kind of completely different story to the last RP, where our characters know each other but not from the events of the last story? Or maybe it has been 500 years and all of our characters are somehow immortal/have very long life spans? That would still entail a lot of changes is the surrounding though: technology, culture etc... As well as a victor for the last shaman fight, which could actually be one of our characters (!) (unless that winner was once again Hao)

I'm sorry for the plot nitpicking... I'm hoping making suggestions explaining the time skip will help? I'm hoping having common backgrounds and stories to our characters can enrich them and make their relationships more interesting but to do that it would be preferable the we the writers agreed on what this background is.
However if you don't want to tackle boring plotline stuff and just go with it I'm fine with that too, just tell me.))