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Heavy Cat Studios DeviantArt Site Update, New Dreamspeaker Chapter and the SupaGamepowa Arcade!

“Hi everybody! It’s me Jessie! Did you see the ship started moving all by itself? Lots of action pages coming up soon! Go see our DeviantArt page if you want a super-neat super-sneak preview of where we’re going after we sail away from the Lakeshore Promenade. It’s called Vuran’s Wharf. It’s a spooky place and there might be monsters there. I hope Cici-chan’s Lantern gots some powers so we can fight. Don’t forget to come see me and Teko on Twitter!”

“There’s a new chapter too for our book called The Dreamspeaker! It’s our free webnovel and it’s about when Jessie joins the band and then we had to fight a monster called a Cryptic!”

“Greetings, folks. Commander Acey from SupaGamepowa checking in to announce the opening of our all new SupaGamepowa Arcade where you can play free Flash games.”

“Yeah, Acey’s games are made out of chocolate just like my number button.”

“Digital Chocolate is the name of the company that makes the game, you doofus.”

“Oh yeah! They’re super-fun to play too. Don’t miss our next update, minna-san! Ja!”

Introducing The Dreamspeaker and Reina, Vicereine of Kulnas

“This is a super-important update because we added a character page for one of the most super-important people in the whole LadyStar story! Her name is Reina and she knows everything about magic and fighting. Sometimes people think she’s not very nice but it’s because she doesn’t want any of us to get hurt. Her character page is really interesting and tells a lot about all the history of what happened in LadyStar before we got our treasures.”

“You should see our new book! It’s called The Dreamspeaker! It’s the first book in the LadyStar story and it’s all about when I found a timepiece in Collins Park that had lots of jewels in it! It’s a webnovel and that means you can read all the chapters for free!”

“And don’t forget we have two webnovels. Descent into the Ivyreef Deeps is the first book in the Ajan Champions Series. In the story we’ve got all our powers and training, and so there’s a ton of battles and lots of action!”

“But that’s not the best part of this update. We’ve got a new page in our new Hall of Warriors, and it’s all about the genius on our team. She’s got an invincible shield and the power to make trees fight for her. She’s known as the Storyteller Warrior, and without her, it would be tougher for us to win when we have to fight. It’s the Ajan Warrior of the Forest.”

“There are many interesting lore updates on our comic site too. You can read about Jessica’s Sword Aria, or about Shannon’s Battle Raiments and Weapons, Chrysalis. the Vicereine Reina’s Elemental Dagger or my Magical Defenses called Shelter Blooms.”

“Or if you want to skip all the serious important stuff, you could just read about pizza or vampires in the Band Room.”

“See? We always gots the best updates because there’s always a zillion different things going on at our web sites. Don’t miss our next updates. The Ajan Champions Webnovels site updates every Wednesday and Saturday, ’cause now we got two books, and our webcomic which is called Jessica Hoshi and the Ajan Warriors updates on Monday and Thursday, and then on the other days we got Band Room updates and SupaGamepowa too. Ja minna!”

Band Room and SupaGamepowa Updates!

“Konnichi waaaa minna! There’s lots going on! We’ve got two different ways to contribute for a page that we can publish on Saturday! Ranko-chan says it’s just like Saturday Morning Cartoons.”

“Commander Acey and Z-bot have been super-busy at SupaGamepowa too. They have two new shops. One is for the Nintendo Wii and the other one is called Animepowa!”

“Acey gots the best games too! There’s this one called Mario Kart that’s a driving game and I always win because I play the Koopa Troopa driver.”

“Cici-chan got her new character page too. Come see us in the Band Room where we got all the latest stuff. Bye!”

Free Webnovel Update!

“What’s up LadyStar fans? Ranko here. Goofy and the rest of the crowd are over at the band room updating like crazy so it’s up to me and Miss Shannon to give the heads up to all our comic readers. Chapter Three of our webnovel Descent into the Ivyreef Deeps is up and ready for action.”

“Ranko and I have got quite a fight going with some nasty shrieks too. Descent into the Ivyreef Deeps is the first story in the Ajan Champions Series and it updates every Wednesday and Saturday. Our new story chapters are written for the web, so they’re quick reads, just like our comics. The Ajan Champions Series takes place after Jessica Hoshi and the Ajan Warriors. We’ve got all our powers and training, so you can expect a lot of action and battles!”

“That’s what we do best! If you need a break from all this adventure, come on over to the Band Room and see what the Goofball Express is cooking up. There’s always something going on around here, folks. See you on Saturday for the next update! We out!”

“Bye everyone!”

“Alanna’s gonna fight on Thursday in our web comic called Fury of the Venom Legion!”

“Ooh! This one’s got the whole cast from the live action show!”

“What live action show?”

“Sailor Moon!”

“Yeah, you savvy?”

“Music-uuuuu Start-O!”

*giggle*

“You people need help.”

“Well, at least now we know who she is.”

“She was in the story part that we had on Tuesday too.”

“Z-bot to Hana. This is a Gamepowa Video Alert. Stand by for transmission.”

“Confirmed, Z-bot. Excellent game. Hana out.”

“The boys at my school say that girls shouldn’t play racing games and stuff because girls shouldn’t like race cars.”

“Any of them ever heard of Danica Patrick?”

“Thank you.”

“Wow she races real race cars!”

“You keep right on playing your racing games, Little Bit. Who knows? Maybe you’ll be a Gran Prix driver someday!”

“We start every Ten Update Friday off with a LOLcat.”

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“I’m donating.”

“Me too after we beat this Super Mario Galaxy level!”

he Vicereine picked her way down the gentle slope of the gully step by step. She stopped near where Cici had fallen and very slowly began to crouch down. Using her staff for support, she allowed her hands to slide down the smooth twisted wood bit by bit. She winced and groaned in pain several times before coming to rest on her knees. She sat hunched over for a moment as if exhausted, clutching her staff to the side of her head. Her cowl hung down, covering her face. A few locks of white hair were visible along her back and along the edge of the cowl. Cici tried again to stop crying, but her ankle was very swollen by now, and her shoe was beginning to hurt her foot.

After a few moments, Reina finally placed the staff flat on the ground next to her. Cici felt a hand under her own and turned her head. She gasped as she saw a grayish slender hand with jewel-encrusted rings on all four fingers reach down and take her by the wrist. Cici sniffled and looked up. The woman seemed to be busy concentrating on something.

“Do not pull against the tree trunk.” Reina said.

Cici sniffled again. She didn’t know what to think. She was sure the robed woman was really mean, but now she sounded different. Reina looked at Cici’s dirt-streaked and astonished face. The woman’s gold-colored eyes made Cici feel better.

“I am not your enemy,” Reina said. “Sit up.”

Cici realized she wasn’t really stuck. She was just snagged on the tree and had been pulling in the wrong direction. She stopped pushing against the ground and gradually crawled sideways far enough that she could push herself up. The moment she tried to move her foot, however, she was rewarded with a stab of pain from her ankle. Cici cried out and pulled her foot up to her hands.

“Will you help me cast a healing spell?” Reina asked. Cici looked down through the blur of tears at her right foot. Her ankle was swollen and the skin around it was darker. She sniffled and looked up at Reina, then nodded.

“Sit up slowly this time,” Reina said. “Place your foot flat against the Earth. Gently.” Cici gingerly pushed herself up with one hand as Reina reached over and retrieved the Chronicler’s Lantern lying sideways on the ground. The robed woman placed the shining gold lantern upright next to her staff. The light from the lantern illuminated the side of the gully nicely. By now Cici was sitting up and rubbing her face with her hand, only succeeding in adding another layer of dirt.

“I am called Reina. What is your name?”

“I’m Cici. How come you wear so many rings?” Cici asked quietly, pointing at Reina’s hand while still rubbing her nose. Then she sniffled again.

“Because I like to collect beautiful things,” Reina replied, impressed by Cici’s inquisitiveness. “Do you like this ring, Cecilia?” she asked. Cici nodded, eyes wide. Reina indicated a heavy gold ring on her right hand set with a nearly transparent delicately faceted blue stone and decorated with a dozen smaller white gems.

“This ring is called the Soaring Chime. It was given to me long ago by a scribe named Giho skilled in the arts of gemcutting. He lives on an island in a place called the Princesses Crowns far away in the eastern sea. There are men there who dig deep into the mountains to find raw stones such as this one. The scribe spends years cutting and shaping them into Chimes. Chime stones can make sounds with magical properties.”

“What’s magical properties?” Cici asked, enthralled.

“It means this stone can ring, and the sound from it can heal your ankle,” Reina replied. “Will you help me make the Soaring Chime ring?”

“Can I?” Cici asked.

“Look carefully at the stone,” Reina said, offering her hand so Cici could see. “Do you see the upper edge? Where the tiny symbol is carved into the gold?”

Cici looked carefully and saw that the edge of the setting just above the oval-shaped sky-blue stone had a tiny symbol carved into the polished gold. If Reina hadn’t mentioned it, Cici would never have noticed it.

“All you must do is tap that symbol with your finger as if you are trying to make a bell ring,” Reina said. “Then, listen for the sound.”

Cici peered at the stone and the tiny symbol, then slowly reached up with her hand and held her finger over the ring for a moment. Then she flicked her hand, tapping the edge of the ring with her finger as if testing something she had been told was very hot.

A very soft and faint glow appeared in the center of the stone and Cici began to hear the sounds of chimes and bells all around her. First one, then a second. They began to play cascades of three tones, then five. Then ten. It sounded like someone drawing a stick along a series of bells, each one larger than the one before it, making a luxurious sound like the playing of all the strings of a harp from smallest to largest.

Cici looked at her foot and was startled by the greenish swirl of energy around her ankle. She saw a pale blue glow along the outer edge of her hand where she had been cut, and a silver shower of sparkling energy around the bruise on her knee. Her ankle felt much better. The music was so beautiful that Cici didn’t want it to end. All of her wounds and bruises were healed, and the music faded peacefully along with the glow of the Soaring Chime.

“It’s magic just like my lantern! Are you a warrior like me?” Cici asked. Reina’s expression changed.

“I am all that remains,” Reina replied.

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“Konnichi-waaaa minna-san! It’s me Jessie! We got something super neat today because of the new comics group we’re in! It’s called Palace in the Sky Publishing!”

“There’s thousands of pages of comics on that site now. There’s 18 different comics!”

“That’s right. No comics are as cool as our pals.”

“Looky what we got!”

“It’s a color comic just like ours!”

“Yeah! Except it’s got zombies and stuff. It’s about a boy named ‘Cat Legend’ and he fights monsters and villains just like us!”

“Palaceinthesky.com Says it’s the Site of the Week.”

“All this week Cat Legend is the most important comic out of aaaaaaaaaall the comics on the whole site!”

“Hey, somebody should go find Antenna-hat girl and see if her comic’s going to be up there soon. That site is on Palace in the Sky Publishing too.”

“I hope we get to be the site of the week someday.”

“I’m going to need to clear a couple days to check all those comics out. Wow!”

“Go see our new Palace every day ’cause it’s going to be as much fun as our site!”

“Stand by for our comic update, folks! We’re back in a minute!”

“Ja!”

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“Report.”

“Satellite communications probe launched, Commander. Operation complete. Gamepowa Store Upgrade now broadcasting on all LadyStar pages.”

“Hi Acey-san! That’s a neat new banner we got! Do you really have all those games in your store?”

“Z-bot! What’s up? Let’s break it down for the people.”

“Standing by.”

“See, Z-bot and me got an understanding.”

*giggle*

“Hi!”

“You push that button and then Z-bot talks to you and then Acey talks to you. It’s just like your phone except it calls Acey’s spaceship!”

“Okay, I press this one?”

“Yeah! It’s the little blue button with the white ring on it.”

“Hellooo.. is uhhh… is Acey listening?”

Priority com signal detected. Voice print negative. Activating identification protocol.“

“Hmmm… nobody home?”

“Acknowledging priority communications. Please identify yourself.”

“Hi Z-bot!”

“It’s Shannon Ka Yoru. Can I talk to Acey?”

Positive voice print identified as Cecilia Daichi, fourth grade student. Second voice print positive match for Shannon Ka Yoru, tenth grade student. Priority transmission source identified. Activating secondary com channel“

“Now Z-bot says ’stand by landing party’ so he can call Acey’s spaceship.”

“Stand by landing party. Relaying transmission.”

“See?”

“What’s a landing party?”

“Z-bot to Hana.”

“Hana, Acey here.”

“I have a priority transmission on voice comm channel Gamma Four from Cecilia Daichi and Shannon Ka Yoru, switching Hana to voice net.”

“Hey Shannon and Cici, what’s up?”

“Hi Acey. We’ve both got big Gift Shop and Gamepowa Store updates today so I thought we could do them together.”

“That sounds like a great idea. I’m just passing Saturn at the moment. I should be in Earth orbit in about an hour. See you then! Hana out.”

“Okay Cici, be ready for the big update. We’ll be back soon, folks.”

“I’ll bet Acey’s got lots of new video games. I can’t wait.”