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Post by InsaneAlphaBeta on Nov 8, 2017 22:27:28 GMT
Avalar, the earth of Universe 13 can be seen. "Well, since things have calmed down, i suppose its time for me to tell you all a little more about Universe 13, so lets start with where it all began." Kullos's voice could be heard saying. The Forgotten City. A city enclosed in a metal dome, cut off from the rest of the world could be seen. "Before we get to the dawn of Universe 13, lets recap. Highton View Terrace was shut down many years ago after the ISP took it upon themselves to deal with the city and its project. The C.F.P.W.P. Project. Which stands for City For People With Powers. It all began around five ish years after the city was shut down. The three Factions, Nightswatch, RedDawn, and The Order. were formed to create peace within the city, as its citizens couldn't decide on a proper government. Therefor, 3 people who had their own idea on how things should be, made their own respective groups. The three groups tried to keep the peace until the entire city began to shake, as a magical power filled the air, the metal sky turned into space itself from the eyes of those within the city. The forces guarding the city outside, didn't feel or notice anything. The people within the city looked up wondering what was going on. as the stars began to expand and more and more were created, everyone within the city began glowing, as they all were gaining their own powers. As the stars sky and space formed and expanded, the world that would be known as Avalar, began to take form. And once it was finished the world of Avalar began to close in and merged into the city, somehow not harming anyone. The World went down below the city, as the alleyway and doorway leading into the world itself formed. The people within the city were in shock as the faction leaders met at the doorway and entered in. It was the same pathway i shown Marick and the others. except for a few key differences. It was brand new. Some of the markings were not there ofcorse but otherwise it was band new. the Three leaders stepped into the new world. And Avalar was born as was Universe 13. To this day nobody knows what power had caused the universe to form, most believe it was the seclusion of the city from the outside world, completely cutting it off from any outside influence caused it to just be brought into existence. Others say a god of some sort decided to have mercy, and gave the city a gift, a new home, a new world. If you ask me, i think it was due to the circumstances, a town containing people from other universe and worlds, even reality's, all crunched together in such a small place, might've been enough to cause such an event to happen. In truth...we may never know." Kullos said, he could be heard taking another drink. "But dont worry, there is still much more to say about Universe 13." Kullos said. -TO BE CONTINUED-
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Post by InsaneAlphaBeta on Nov 9, 2017 7:54:27 GMT
"Now its time to talk about The Gates of Janus." Kullos's voice was heard again. A Janus gate is shown in the world of Avalar. "In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Janus is the god of beginnings and transitions, thence also of gates, doors, doorways, endings and time. He is usually a two-faced god since he looks to the future and the past. The Romans dedicated the month of January to Janus. Janus presided over the beginning and ending of conflict, and hence war and peace. The doors of his temple were open in time of war, and closed to mark the peace. As a god of transitions, he had functions pertaining to birth and to journeys and exchange, and in his association with Portunus, a similar harbor and gateway god, he was concerned with travelling, trading and shipping. Janus was frequently used to symbolize change and transitions such as the progression of past to future, of one condition to another, of one vision to another, and of one universe to another. Hence, Janus was worshipped at the beginnings of the harvest and planting times, as well as marriages, births and other beginnings. He was representative of the middle ground between barbarity and civilization, rural country and urban cities, and youth and adulthood. That is where the gates got their name, from the supposed god of doorways and gates himself. But even then people have many names for them. The Janusis Gates, and the Gates of Janus to name a few alterations. All refering to the god himself Janus. Some say Janusis as to hint at the god,, rather then use his name, they use a slight alternate version, as they likely dont believe in him. But accept the name itself. As for me? i just dont care and go back and forth. But how the Gates of Janus work is...another story. You see, every world in Universe 13 has 300 Gates total, the gates being determined by the planets surrounding the current planet your on, sorted by closest distence. Basicly say your on Avalar, the closest 300 planets around you is where all the gates lead to respectively. Ofcorse without the help of space ships its hard to figure out which planets are further away, but lets say you find the 300th planet, the one furthest away, and you go there, then around 150 of those gates will lead to 150 of the 300 you previously encountered, once again sorted by closest distence to the one you are on, with the other 150 ish gates being new planets in range based on cloest distence aswell.. In any case or situation your the 301th planet, with 300 planets around you no matter what part of the universe your on. based on cloest distance, it doesnt matter how far away they are, so long as they are simply there. and those planets dictate the gates that exist on the planet. The reason for you being the offset is your planet, the one your on is always the center, so the distribution of Gates is alwasy a nice solid 300, to keep it nice and simple. if every world is treated as the center, there will always be 300 gates across the world, and since space is infinite, there will always be planets for the gates to lead to. That is how the gates connect to one another, an endless chain throughout space, we will never reach the end of space, and thus never run out of worlds, and thus never run out of gates. Its a simple, yet complex system, but it works. The Gates themselves cannot be destroyed by any means, nor moved, each gate is permanant in its placement. If a world is destroyed, a new world is born as a replacement, so the amount of gates per world is not changed. Many citys and settlements...atleast on Avalar, tend to build around the gates, as they are often used by civilians, they are high traffic areas ofcorse. Each world treats The Janusis Gates differently, some worship the gates as a preasent from the god himself, others view them as nothing more then a resource to ease traval between worlds, others are afraid of them, but they dont fear the gates themselves. They fear...what may come out of them." Kullos said. -TO BE CONTINUED-
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Post by InsaneAlphaBeta on Nov 26, 2017 21:27:40 GMT
"So..before we can talk about The War and Omnipotents...we gotta talk about another significant event that happened.. We gotta talk..about The Fall." Kullos said. A world much different then Avalar is shown, if anything its more like earth, the sky is partly cloudy and the sun is seen...but there is another light in the sky, not as bright as the sun, but still fairly bright. "Welcome to the world of Black Ice...i know...seems oddly named for such a earth like world...Well there is a reason they called the event The Fall.." Kullos's voice could be heard narrating. The scene then cuts to what appears to be a fairly normal high school of sorts with many different teenagers roaming around. Inside this school there were monitors on some of the walls. On one of those TVs was the news. A short girl standing there watching the news, she was wearing a normal school uniform, she had short pink hair with matching eyes, the classmates wondering the halls had all sorts of different and unique hair and eye colors, so her having this pink hair, wasn't at all odd, it was normal. On the monitor a woman was talking. "Scientists still are unsure how the solar collision will effect the world, nor do they know when the starts will interact with each other, scientists still have hopes though the effects...such as the chief at the W.R.A.P.C. Warren Alice." The Woman said as it cut to the older looking man. "We haven't been able to determine the effects when the two starts will collide, we know both stars are large enough to suns, they are around the same size, but we dont know when they will collide, we fear the unknown...in this case." Warren said It cuts back to the woman. "In other news.. the climate has began getting a bit colder as of late. Scientists state.." the woman continues on. "You okay?" a familiar looking man asks the girl. She turns and looks at him. "Yeah Kullos..im fine." She said "Listen..Nakia...if you wanna talk about it.." Kullos started "I said I'm fine." Nakia said. "Hmm...very well.." Kullos said. The two then continued down the hall. "How bad do you think it will be?" Kullos asked her "..Not that bad, i dont think...it better not be atleast." Nakia said. "...Hopefully.." Kullos said The two continued walking down the hall "We had are hopes atleast...whatever that counts for...That girl ofcorse is Nakia, she was a good friend to me....She can be a bit mean at first but, there are reasons for this." Kullos said The scene shows the rest of the school. "Everyone was on edge that day...most of the scientists were guessing the solar collision would be today...but none of us knew when... Later on the school bell rang an those in school clubs remained for awhile. Including me..Nakia..and some of her friends...aswell as some of the other schools clubs." Kullos said The camera shows Kullos staring outside. As Nakia. "Arent you gonna come over and sit with us? its kinda weird you being all...gloomy. It isn't like you." Nakia said. "Yeah your right..." Kullos said as he got up and walked over to the others. There were two other people there. A girl with medium length brown hair, and a man with short yellow hair. The girl was reading a book about elements...the guy seemed to be asking her about it. Kullos and Nakia joined them. "You see? every element has a minor version, and Major version!...that's why fire cant melt ice.." Nakia said. "..Wait...what?" Another familiar voice says...and it cuts to a completely different scene.. It cuts to Modern day Kullos, looking out of a window of The Eternal Journey. Behind him was Slyfer and Kita. "You heard me...Fire cannot melt ice In Universe 13...Now Fire can boil and evaporate water...but it cannot melt ice at all." Kullos said. "So, it's like dry ice?" Kita asked. "Not exactly. You see...elements in Universe 13 work differently then the other universes. They work in tiers. Fire and Water are the minor tier...we will say. Tier one. Enough fire can boil water and evaporate it...But enough water and put out the fire... Ice is the second tier of water...The Major of the element. Water is the Minor, Ice is the Major. For fire, Fire is the minor. And Lava is the Major....Lava can melt Ice...but Ice can freeze Lava...Water can do nothing to Lava, just like fire can do nothing to ice." Kullos explained. "...That makes no sense."Kita said. "Think of it like evolution...Lava is the evolved form of Fire...and Ice is the evolved form of Water.....Every element in Universe 13 shares this balanced in some form...the most well known is Fire and Lava and Water and Ice. Water cant hurt Lava because it simply isn't strong enough....but if you have enough frost..or ice. Ice can freeze the Lava..just as Lava can melt the ice...but Fire cant...because it simply isn't strong enough." Kullos said "...And, why is it like this?"Kita asked. "Well. Probably the same reason for the other differences this universe has, everyone having atleast a single power, the gates of Janus. Most believe its just how the universe formed. Highton View Terrace, the forgotten city, was created in a universe full of evolution. Perhaps Universe 13 is just the quite literal natural evolution of the world... a more connected universe where evolution plays a key role in all its aspects, even down to the elements themselves." Kullos guessed. "..Okay."Kita said, accepting this explanation. "So what happened next?" Slyfer asked "Well.." Kullos started and the scene cuts back. It shows the four gathered around talking about the elements...the grown haired girl explaining how they worked to the blond hair boy. TIme passed and after awhile the girl and boy began to leave "Bye Ori! and bye Roka!" Apparently their names were..the girl being Ori and the boy being Roka. Kullos was staring out of the window again. "Come on Kullos we should start going too." Nakia said Kullos was still staring outside the window. "Kullos?" she asked as he walked up to the window. The other sun was getting a lot closer. "Umm...Kullos....is it..happening?" Nakia asked...sounding terrified. Kullos just watched.. the scene cuts to space. "Our sun, which we will call Delta, was about to get hit by Gamma, the new sun. The Solar Collision was about to happen." Kullos said The two suns collided, creating a massive burst of energy, both heat and cold colliding. "Delta is a super hot sun while Gamma is a super cold sun...the collision sent a wave of power that flew all over our planet. And as the two suns danced around each other...the world as we knew it..was about to change." Kullos said. the entire planet began to shake as Nakia held onto Kullos. the two got under a table, ducking for cover. A wave of Ice was forming over the entire planet...all the grass and trees below quickly dying and being covered. A few moments after the shaking...Kullos and Nakia get up and looked outside the window. The sky was darkened, covered in a thick layer of ice. The sky itself was ice. below the thick layer of ice that was the sky now was what was left of the world, mostly covered in a thick layer of Black ice. Kullos and Nakia were horrified at the sight. "And so the Fall began. The world then got its name...Black Ice...a higher evolution of ice..caused by the combination of the two stars colliding. Something nobody could have predicted. All the roads, grass trees you name it... all covered in this new type of ice..something beyond normal ice... it covered the landscape. We had no idea how much colder or just plain different it was compared to normal ice. But thankfully only the surface and sky was covered...for what its worth. Time passed as the ground became more and more black, the world adopted to this new harsh change, the school became a new home for many. Me Nakia and her friends remained at the school. As only 20 percent of the worlds population survived the initial blast...We didn't have time to mourn our family's appropriately...heck we didn't even know if they were still alive. All we knew was this was the world..and we had to accept it." Kullos said as the scene cuts a few years later, him and Nakia wandering the world. Nakia outfit was different, a white shirt and blue jeans with a light blue fur coat on. Kullos looked like his normal self. Nakia had a type of gun, it looked like a hand cannon but the top and bottom of the guns barrel had curved blades attached. They were in a Forest, but the trees were more like black crystals...the only light coming from the two suns shining through the thick layer of ice that was the sky. Nakia was looking up at it, the ice making it so the sun could be viewed clearly without straining their eyes. The Black ice that covered the ground had with it a little heat...while the ice sky above gave a bit of a chill...there were openings to the outside that allowed air to slip in so they could breath. But the world had a harshness to it. The animals and creatures all evolved and carried with them this same harshness. The two kept walking until they spotted a deer type creature, it was black like the ice with blue eyes only lightly and in some spots covered in the dark red crystals, it was a fairly good size aswell. Kullos then gave Nakia the signal to be quiet as he slowly walked to it...using his Luck to not be noticed. He took his sword and stabbed the deer in the heart. Quickly killing it. "Well..it seems we will be eating good today." Kullos said as he picked up the deer "Yeah i guess so." Nakia said. Kullos lifted the deer onto his shoulder as they walked "Lets hope we find more next time." Kullos said as Nakia was silent. "You okay?" Kullos asked "yeah I'm...fine...for what its worth." She said as she crossed her arms looking ast the sky "This isn't gonna be life forever....right?" She asked him "I'm sure it wont, one day we will get lucky and find a way out I'm sure." Kullos said "hmph...atleast your confident." Nakia said. "Hey, you gotta keep a level head in times like these." Kullos said "..I guess so." She said as they continued out of the forest to see a bunch of rolling hills and an open plains area, ofcorse it was all covered in the ice but it was still pretty, seeing a herd of strange elephant sized rhino creatures roaming plains. they looked like the dear...Black like the ice, covered in a few spots with the red crystals and they had blue eyes. "You think we can take one of them some day?" Nakia asked "maybe one day..I think right now we should get to the others...We dont wanna make a herd of Syoresis angry" Kullos said "True." Nakia said as they continued on. The scene cuts back to Kullos Slyfer and Kita. "Each trip took longer, each meal more spread out, it was only weeks after the event that we ran out of food at the school we had to craft our own weapons and fend for ourselves in this new...harsh world." Kullos said. "The entire planet was like this? and barely anyone survived?" Slyfer asked "Correct, barely anyone." Kullos said. Kita was silent, just looking at Kullos, as though trying to prompt him to continue. "Anyway..." Kullos started The scene cuts back to Kullos and Nakia as they reach the school, quite a few mor epeople were there so this deer creature would only get them so far. Ori, wearing a clack skirt and yellow shirt with black gloves and a septre liek weapon runs up to them "You found another one! hurray!...but..im not sure how long it will last though...people are getting more and more hungry." ori said "We did the best we could okay? jeez.." Nakia said as she stormed off. "What she was trying to say is, we are doing what we can." Kullus said. "I know..its just...we are getting more hungry...we cant keep going like this forever kullos!" Ori said. "I know Ori..i know." Kullos said as he put the deer down. "Im gonna go talk to Nakia." Kullos said. as he went after Nakia. The school itself was rearranged, it was now like a huge house with lots of space and such. Kullos was waqlking down the hall on his way to Nakia. he went to the classroom where he and Nakia were staying, she was sitting down on a type, looking out the window, stareing at the harsh world. Kullos walked up to her. "Hey." Kullos said as he sat beside her. "This whole thing is so stupid....how has nobody found us yet?" Nakia said Kullos just smiled "I suppose so." Kullos said "Nakia has always had a certain...attitude, its mainly an outer shell, seeing her being well...herslef admittedly made me happy" Kullos saidthey sat there looking outside. "...Do you think we will ever find a way out?" Nakia asked "....Yeah...one day..oneday we will..im sure of it." Kullos said "..Maybe we can get lucky enough." Nakia said and actually smiled. "Haha, maybe." Kullos laughed. The two sat there as time passed. "Days became weeks and weeks became months, food got low and eventually...we decided go and find a way out..surely whatever is beyond the ice is better then the life we were living, so we got food and decided..
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..Or we die trying.." Kullos saidKullos and Nakia were going as far as they could, searching for any possible way out. until they found a Gate of Janus, but it was inactive, thanks to the Three Way War currently going on. They quickly ran up to it Upon further inspection, the Gate led to Avalar, and us uneffected by the black ice. "A Gate of Janus..and it leads to Avalar." Kullos said. "Can we get it working?" Nakia asked "I..i dont know!" Kullos said "Try useing your luck!" Nakia said. "How would that even work?" Kullos asked "I DONT KNOW!..m-maybe you..y-yy-you are--m-maybe IT IS-L-LUCKY E-ENOUGH TO..to-to-to TO BE THE ONLY GATE W-W-WORKING!" Nakia suggested in a panic. "Alright alright hold on..." Kullos said as he put his hands on the gate. Some footsteps could be heard. Nakia brought her Gun out and looked around. A few Cat looking creatures are seen, they looked like a mix of a tiger and a raptor. "Tirapis...4 of them." Nakia said. Kullos looked and saw them and went into focus. Trying to use his luck to get the portal working... Lucky for him it turned on.\ but it was having trouble staying on. "I cant keep it on for long! only one of us can get through!" Kullos said "Then go!" Nakia said "But Nakia..i cant leave you here.." Kullos said "LISTEN YOU DUMMY! YOUR THE LUCKY ONE! GO AND FIND HELP!" Nakia yelled. "IM NOT LEA-" Kullos started before she shoved him into the portal he quickly got up and turned around and tried to run back into the portal. But it closed before he could get there. Kullos just dropped to his knees, "n-n-not again...n.not again.." he was crying as the portal turned off again. Rastalis was watching him from a distance. And it cuts to black. And the fades back to Kullos Slyfer and Kita. Kullos took a drink. "..To this day..i dont know if she lived..Or if anyones even still alive.." Kullos said. "You want us to help you find out what happened to Black ice, and more importantly...Her?" Slyfer asked "...y..yes." Kullos said. "How long has it been?"Kita asked, after a couple of seconds of thinking. "..In universe 13-time, I mean." "Well..thanks to us all living in the ice, and me being unaware of the time difference back then.. Probably about 300 years." Kullos said "three hundred??" Slyfer asked surprised "Yeah, remember a minute for this universe is a day there, or was...so that's plenty of time for things to happen." Kullos said "Could she even live that long?" Slyfer asked "Well...i....i think so. Despite the time difference we age the same, so we are still around the same age, thanks to the very slight connection to universe 3, we still age at their pace, despite the time difference." Kullos said "That's a little confusing but i think i follow." Slyfer said. "That's a long time to live."Kita commented. "I have my hopes alright? Look.." Kullos says as he turns and faces them. "A lot could have happened in my absence..i know...but I'm still going back. I dont know what i will find, but i would be very thankful if you both came with me." Kullos said Kita just put a finger to her cheek. "I'll need to ask Minami first,but.." "..Thank you." Kullos said. "We will do what we can." Slyfer said. Kullos turned back to the window. "I just hope its not too late." Kullos said to himself as he took another drink. Kita just looked at the door, and then at Kullos. "..Is that all?"She asked. "..Yeah, you both can go now." Kullos said. Kita left the room. Slyfer followed her. Kullos just looked out of the window......Kullos just sighed. ... ... - NAKIA - AFTER THE FALL-
The image fades in to the sounds of Tirapis screaming."IM NOT LEA-" Kullos is heard yelling as Nakia shoves him in the portal and it closes.Nakia then looks around at the Tirapis surrounding her, gun in hand she waits for them to attack."COME ON!" She said as one of the Tirapis charges her, she dodges it and shoots it in the head with her gun and slash at another chargeing one with her guns blades. she jumps over another ones attack as she shoots it aswell. Landing on her feet, two charge at her, she ducks under one attack and spins aroudn the second, shooting at both of them. The first shot lands and kills it, the second shot misses the other Tirapis, it charges at her, she jumps towards it and pin kicks it in its side mid air, knocking it to the ground. As it gets up she shoots it and kills it.Finally she reloads and looks around. She finally killed them all. She looked back at the portal which was now closed. She looked sad, and also annoyed."Dummy wasted valuble time, that could have went bad.Whatever." She says as she sheaths her gun and heads back towards the school.She reached the schools entrance to find Ori, she noticed Nakia and ran up to her."Nakia! Your back!...but..wheres Kullos?" Ori asked"We found a gate, and he was lucky enough to go through." Nakia said"Thats great! we may get out of here afteral!" Ori said, she was very optimistic."Yeah..i doubt it. That dummy probably has no idea what to do." Nakia said."Dont say that! he will come back! he always does!" Ori said"Yeah but this is different Ori. Alot different." Nakia scoffed and then she just walked past Ori and into the school."Why does she have to be like that.." Ori thought to herself as she also went back into the school.Nakia went to what was basicly her room, hers and Kullos's atleast stareing out the window.Ori walked into the room."Nakia." Ori said.Nakia was silent."Its okay if your not okay...you know that right?" Ori said"I know.I would rather be left alone right now." Nakia said, she clearly didnt wanna talk.Ori looked worried but nodded, even though Nakia could not see her and she left and walked down the hall.she just shaked her head, she looked at her septre as she continued walking.THE NEXT DAY...
Nakia woke up in her room. sitting up and putting he rnormal clothes on, grabbing her gun blade and putting it in its respective holster. She looked around the room, seeing a few books. She didnt seem to remember them being there before.She looked at them and their names.War For Survival. Valley of Fear. One Final Effort. The Floating Islands. The Golden City. The Fallen King. Unending Soul. Sleepless Eternity. Fade.Nakia raised an eyebrow."Have i really away so often that i dont remember these?" Nakia thought to herself. But she shrugged it off, grabbing a backpack and putting all the books inside it. She left her room and went into the hall, Ori was standing by two men, one was Roka, the other was new. Both wearing some blue medieval armor with hoods and bows and arrows. Ori was looking at a map they gave her.Nakia walked up to them."How much does the cover?" Ori asked"The whole area...or atleast the safe area me and Alen was able to traval." Roka said."We found many Syorises and Tirapis just outside the area, we dont know how much longer this school will be safe." Alen said."I see." Ori said"Tirapis are nothing, just worry about the herd of Syorises." Nakia said."Oh hey Nakia!" Ori said."Yeah...hi.Hey Ori..can we talk in private?" Nakia asked"Sure!" Ori said as Alen and Roka nodded and walked away. Nakia and Ori walked to the schools entrance, Nakia sat down on the steps as did Ori."So what is it?" Ori asked"Well..how long do you think it be until Kullos comes back?...well..if he comes back." Nakia said."I dont know, surely it wont be too long...right?" Ori said"Yeah...hopefully.I doubt it though." Nakia said"Nakia.." Ori sarted."What? you know aswell as i do the gates of Janus closed, his luck BARELY worked! and now we are stuck here in the nightmare of a world and our only hope is some stupid luck charm." Nakia saidOri just looked down."Im worried too...but we cant give up on him." Ori said"Its not that ive given up...its just..stupid. We cant even control our fate." Nakia said"Well we can still survive cant we?" Ori asked"Yeah...i guess so.Its still stupid." Nakia said crossing her arms.Ori just smiled as she looked out into the vast Black Ice wasteland-tundra before them."Do you think other parts of the world has survived?" Ori asked"Ofcorse....we cant be the only ones left can we?" Nakia askedOri just shrugged unsurely.Nakia just shaked her head and the both were silent.a few moments later both Ori and Nakia look at each other. They looked...concerned.The ground began to shake ever so slight every now and then...like footsteps. But these were far off, whatever was making these, was extremely large."..What...is that?" Ori asked"I..i dont know.And i dont want to know." Nakia said.A few more moments pass and more of these footsteps are felt. This time its closer. And in the distance they can see another creature. Its miles away but visible. Its a humanoid creature, it didnt look human, but it had the basic human shape, just different, no mouth or nose, a pitch black statue like humanoid creature with fur aswell. and two red eyes, black fog trailing behind it. its arms were axes. It was moving extremely slowly across the tundra, thankfully not heading to the school, but it was quite a sight to behold."What even is that thing?" Nakia asked"I dont know, but its not heading this way...thankfully." Ori said"It looks old, like older then the ice." Nakia said."Maybe it is?" Ori guessed.They watched the lumbering tower of a creature."Well we should go back inside before it notices us." Ori said"Okay, i'll catch up with you." Nakia said as Ori got up and walked back inside.Nakia stood up and stared at the tower of a creature as it continued to walk across the tundra.The creature turned its head slowly and practicly looked right at Nakia.She didnt seem afraid in the slightest and stared the titan down from countless miles away.The creature just turned its head back to where it was going and continued on its way.Nakia just continued stareing at it before she went back into the school.END OF PROLOUGE
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PART 1: Valley of Giants.
Nakia was in her room, looking at the nine books from before. As she continued to stare at them Ori walked in."Hey Nakia." Ori said."...Hey Ori." Nakia said with a delayed response, as she was focused on the books.Ori walked up to her and noticed the books."Hey Ori...do you remember what our teachers said about books?" Nakia asked as she looked at her."Ofcorse! Books are prophecys given form! they contain information about the past and future! Though they cant be opened until the vent itself has already happened, thats how you can tell which ones involve the past or future. Regardless they are extremely important! given their origin is uncertain, some speculate that when a guardian sees the future, that vision is turned into a book, and its then placed somewhere in the world.Some also speculate that only a guardian and can open future books at will! well atleast guardians with prophet powers.Why do you ask?" Ori asked her."I...i dont know, these books seem...different then the others.I just cant figure out why.." Nakia said."I see! interesting!Well, when your done come to the school entrance." Ori said as she left the room.Nakia remained for a bit, looking at the books. As much as she tried to figure them out, she was unable to.She packed the booksi back inside her backpack and put it on, grabbing her gun as useal and leaveing her room, and making her way to the schools entrance.Once she got there, Ori was talking to Roka and Alen again.Ori turned to see Nakia."Ah there you are!" Ori said"Are you always this cheerful." Nakia said as she crossed her arms."Someones gotta stay positive!" Ori said as she smiled.Nakia just rolled her eyes. "Anyway what do you want?" Nakia asked"Well Alen and Roka are gonna go hunt for more food and they want you to go with them." Ori said as Nakia just looked at them."Cant do it on your own huh?" Nakia said"No its not that..its jus-" Alen was cut off as Nakia walked past them"Whatever. it doesnt matter, lets go." Nakia said.Roka looked at Ori."We will be back soon!" Roka said as the two caught up to Nakia."I hope so Roka..i hope so.." Ori said.The three walked across the expansive Black Ice covered wasteland-tundra, it went on for miles, no trees or plant life anywhere nearby, besides a river cutting through part of it all."So, we looking for anything specific?" Nakia asked"No not really, just whatever is large enough to keep everyone fed for a while" Alen said."Yeah, we dont wanna get too crazy though." Roka said"I see." Nakia said as they continued walking. The Tundra was vast and empty of life, besides some smaller creatures but they were too small to kill. Even though there was a fair amount of them.The three walked for what seems like hours."If we walk any further we will have to go beyond the safe area." Alen said"Gee, what gave you that idea? the lack of anything worth killing or the lack of anything period? oh! maybe its the fact we cant see ANYTHING for miles!" Nakia said.Alen just sighed."My point was this, we may have to go into the valley just to find something." Alen saidNakia stopped."The...valley?" Nakia asked"Yeah the valley." Alen said"The Valley of what?" Nakia asked"Well me and Alen call it The Valley of Giants." Roka said"Giants?" Nakia asked"Yup, the entire valley is filled with giant creatures, the valley large enough for all of them, though the further you go down the more foggy it gets, with it being closer to the planets core, the black ice has a steam effect, it doesnt melt, but it certainly feels the heat from the core, since its not directly touch the ice it cant melt it, but what it does do is create steam from the ice, createing a thick layer of fog the closer you get to the core." Alen saidNakia thought back to the book called The Valley of Fear."Is that the valley of fear my book is talking about? is this the valley of fear we are going too?" Nakia thought to herself as the three walked.
"You okay Nakia?" ROka asked, Nakia snapped out of her train of thought."Oh..Yeah..im fine. Lets just get going." Nakia said, making sure he gun was loaded.EVentualy the three reached the entrance to the Valley of Giants, and already some large creatures could be seen at the entrance. these were a mix of a deer and a wolf, but larger then a elephant. And it was only two of these creatures."Seerfus..two of them." Roka said."If we do this right we can get them both.." Alen said as they started to move."Stop." Nakia said rather calmly.the two looked at her confused."Look again." She said pointing at the Seerfussis.Alen and Roka looked at the creatures and now noticed what Nakia did.Behind the two was a whole herd of Syorises, not far behind the Seerfus."If you two attack like normal you will get the attention of the entire herd..and we cant afford that." Nakia said with her arms crossed. "Here, go back a bit into the tundra, i will get their attention and lead them to you both.Now go." Nakia said, taking charge of the situation. The two men just nodded and did as she said. Nakia took out her gun and calmly walked to the two Seerfussis."Hey stupids, over here." Nakia said and the two creatures looked at her. Nakia then started backing away and turned around. the two creaturs quickly chased after her. and right as one of them reached her she jumped up and dodged its attack. she landed on her feet and then ran as the two creatures followed her.She quickly got back to Alen and Roka who were waiting, the two shot arrows into one of the Seerfus while Nakia attacked the second one. She dodged its next attack and used the Ice to slide udner it and shot several times into the creatures stomach, then after slideing out from under the creature she leaped back towards the creature and used her blades to cut its head off. She landed on her feet as the other two finished off their Seerfus around the same time.Roka reached into his pocket and brough out a tiny cart with wheels, he placed it down and made his hands face the cart, it then began to grow in size. His power wa clearly the ability to change the size of things. the three then got the two creatures onto the cart and began pulling it.Nakia looked back at the valley as she could see the tower crature again, it was deep within the valley, but it faded away in the fog.Nakia shrugged it off. And the three made their way back to the school.Later that night, after arriveing at the school with the creatures Nakia was laying in her bed, and she fell asleep.When she did she had a dream, the way she was tossing and turning it seemed like a nightmare.She was stareing down The Tower Creature as on of its Axe arms was inside Ori who was smashed against the school wall. The Tower obviously did this to Ori.Nakia was furious and let out a large scream as she was now caught on fire as her body began to change, she was chargeing at The Tower."AAAH!!!" she screamed, wakeing up, breathing heavily.She wasnt sure what to make of it.Ori rushed into the room."Nakia! you okay? i heard screaming!" Ori asked"Im...im okay.I was just having a bad dream." Nakia said."Oh..okay..well if you need me you know where to find me." ori said as she leftNakia was just sitting there thinking.She eventualy layed back down and fell back asleep.On her bookshelf there was a light. A book was fadeing into existence. After a few seconds the book completely formed.The camera zooms in on the book and the name is revealed.*The Rise of Amaranth*
END OF PART 1
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Post by InsaneAlphaBeta on Jan 26, 2018 8:01:01 GMT
PART 2: Last Good Days.
Nakia was in her room, stareing out of her rooms window, looking at the outside. She had an uncertain look in her eyes, she kept stareing.
A few moments later Ori walked into the room. She stood beside Nakia.
"You okay Nakia?" Ori asked.
Nakia just stood there, not looking at Ori yet.
" No, im not." Nakia said as she crossed her arms.
"Whats wrong?" Ori asked. She sounded concerned.
Nakia just stood there in silence
But eventually she spoke.
"Everything....everything is wrong Ori, all of it. Look at us, stuck here on this nightmare of a planet, barely getting by on what little food we are able to get, and for what? to extend our lives just a little longer while wait for an omnipotent to hopefully find someone to save us from all this!" Nakia said, she began to sound more fustraighted over the whole situation, her tone changeing slightly.
"Nakia....i know it seems bad, but im sure it wont be this way forever!" Ori started
"YOU DONT KNOW THAT!" Nakia shouted, finally turning to Ori. She now sounded angry, though it wasnt directed specificly at Ori.
"Day by day we are running out of food, running out of water, we have to go further and further out just to find creatures to kill just to survive, and we are having to kill larger and larger creatues because the smaller ones arent getting the job done!
And the worst part? WE HAVENT FOUND ANYONE! Not a single person! just these creatures! we could be all thats left here on this planet, we could be completely alone! Just you, me Alen and ROka and the other people here. And who knows how long we will even last!" Nakia said
"I mean thats true, but the gates of Janus may work again someday!" Ori said, trying to remain positive.
"Oh yeah sure, the devine gates of janus! those stupid gates quit on us when we needed them most, we cant depend on those stupid gates Ori, and as much as i hate to say it we cant depend on KUllos either." Nakia said.
"But Nakia..Kullos is trying the best he can!" Ori said
"Ori, Kullos could be dead for all we know. The fact is we cant rely on a maybe if we are gonna survive this." Nakia said, her expression looking more serious then angry, she seemed to calm down a bit.
Ori looked a little sad desbite trying to stay positive.
"Kullos would want us to survive as long as we can until hhe retunrs...if he returns.
So if we are gonna do that...we have to rely on ourselves." Nakia said. As she looked back towards the outside.
"No matter the cost." Nakia said as she nodded to herself, she sounded very confident in her words.
"Well...alright." Ori said, just accept the fact that she was right, she didnt really have any alternative.
"Well, speaking of food and supplys, ima go make sure we are all good for now." Ori said.
"...Okay." Nakia said.
Ori began leaveing the room before she stopped, she turned around and looked at Nakia.
"Hey Nakia." Ori said
Nakia turned and looked at Ori.
"Yes?" Nakia asked
\\"What are we gonna do if that Tower creature shows up?" Ori asked her.
Nakia took a moment to think.
"If The Tower shows up, i'll kill it." Nakia said. She once again sounded really confident, she then looked back at the window and stared outside.
Ori was about to speak, but realised it would do her no good. And she left the room.
"I dont care how we do it, or what we have to go through...
But i refuse to die on this nightmare of a planet." Nakia said.
Later on that night, while everyone was sleeping, Nakia was laying her in bed. She couldnt fall asleep as countless thoughts were all in her mind.
"I cant believe this...how did it gets this bad? we cant stay here forever..one day we are gonna have to leave and find a new home..maybe find more people..if there are any, but i doubt it, knowing our luck.
Why us? why our friends? why out familys? why our planet? just..why...why us....all of us." Nakia thought to herself.
She got up off the bed and took a look outside, it was nearly pitch black with the moon barely visible in the night sky.
"Its so dark...anything could be out there, and we cant see anything...but they can see us. Gee what a smart decision that is to make it so we can be seen but we cant see them...and the stupid moon doesnt make that any easier on us.
Still, it could be worse i guess." Nakia thinks to herself.
After a few moments, Nakia feels footsteps. Her heart sank as she was fairly certain what it was that was approaching, and with every few seconds, the footsteps slowly got louder and louder. Each step shaking the ground and floor more and more. She looked uncertain, but that uncertainty quickly changed to determination. As she loaded her gun and left her room.
In the halls were a approaching Ori Alen and Roka.
"You guys feel it too?" Nakia asked
"Yes, i think its the tower!" Ori said sounding quite concerned, rightfully so.
"Well lets not waste any time." Alen said as he hit the schools alarm system, wakeing the others up so they could leave as the four ran to the schools entrance and walked outside.
As the four got outside it was pitch black, but the footsteps could be heavily felt, until they stopped.
THe four of them looked up and the only part of the tower they could see, were its red eyes, stareing back at them.
Alen and Roka ran past Ori and Nakia with their bows towards the creature.
"NO WAIT!" Nakia shouted.
As the two ran towards the creature, Roka began trying to aim his hand at the creature, attempting to shrink it, but before he could they were hit with one of its giant axe arms, sending them flying back into the schools wall, the impact forced them through the wall and it crumbled onto them.
"NOOO!" Ori yelled.
"Ori! get back inside the school now!" Nakia said
ori just kept stareing at Roka and Alen who were burried under rubble.
"I SAID GO!" Nakia yelled and Ori snapped out of it, she began running inside the school. but befoe she could she felt a gust of wind behind her.
She turned around and saw the axe hit her. Crushing her against another of the schools walls, she fell helplessly onto the ground, now laying on her back, there was a large wound on her chest and stomach now, she was bleeding out of the wound and her mouth.
"ORI NOO!" Nakia said as she ran to ori, trying to get to her before the tower attacks again. As Nakia ran she felt the gust of wind that came before the tower attack, she ran as fast as she could and her was glowing gold, the power of evolution surrounded her.
"I dont care what it takes! im not letting anyone die tonight! PLEASE ORI YOU NEED TO MOVE!" Nakia yelled as a fire surrounded her aswell. trying to get Ori to move if she cant get to her in time.
Ori was basicly motionless but her eyes were open as she saw the towers axe heading down to her.
"ORI!!" Nakia yelled.
The towers axe crushed Ori again, just before Nakia could get there. THe impact knocking Nakia away and cause her to fall on her knees.
The evolution and fire around her fades from gold to red, as her eyes turn red with rampancy.
She begins crying at the sight of her nearly dead friend, Oris wound is much worse now and blood was pouring out.
Nakia was crying uncontrollably, stareing at Ori. As the power of the fire and evolution continue to grow, they both completely cover her, she screams with a voice so powerful it echos throughout the world, a scream of pain and sorrow.
As she reopens her eyes, shes in her realm of evolution, but this realm is covered in a solid red flame, the same color of red that becomes the eyes of a rampant guardian. Now Only has Nakia became a guardian, but she has also gone rampant, as her eyes share the same red color.
Before her is a bridge leading to a platform, all made of the red fire. Tears are flowing down her eyes as she continues to cry, but there is a rage and fury within those same eyes, she is sad and angry, she is struggleing to handle what she just witnessed. She continues to cry as she walks along the bridge to the platform. Once she reachs it she sees her gun on a pedistal, but it begins glowing with the same red, and changes its form. Its not a shotgun with three long spikes along the top and bottom of the barrel.
"I cant let this happen anymore, i cant let this be how they die." Nakia said as she continued to cry.
"I cant..i wont allow this....none of us are dieing tonight.." Nakia said as her tears began to go away and the rage began to consume her, but she somehow seemed to become more and more calm, as her rage and fury seemed to build more and more.
"I dont care what it takes, i just dont. Because this is not how it ends. We will survive tonight.
That giant tower is gonna fall, and ima be the one to burn it down." Nakia said with a serious intent in her voice, she began glowing red as she closed her eyes and picked up the gun and she, began to rise, as did the the fire to the top of the realm where everything went white.
back in reality. the power of evolution left her, but the fire continued to surround her, lighting up the entire area and revealing the giant tower creature.
Nakia opened her eyes, they were still red with rampancy, but she was calm, yet serious.
She had full control of her rampancy.
She held her new gun in her right hand and she looked to her left. Looking at Ori who was helpless but still barely alive for now. She aimed her left hand at her, first closed. Her arm began glowing and when she opened her hand, a red energy ball came out of the hand and flew right at Ori. It began healing her wounds.
She looked back at the tower.
"My name...is Nakia Amaranth...and tonight is the night you fall, as i burn you to the ground." Nakia said with the same ruthless intent. She then ran towards the tower.
the tower swung its Axe arms at Nakia but she dodged them , as she leaped onto one of the towers legs, the fire around her catching the tower on fire aswell, she then began stabbing it with the spikes on her gun. She then leaped off the leg and the tower swung tis axes again, this time she jumps and lands on the winging axe and runs up the axe, shooting her shotgun at the towers face, large shotgun shell sized rockets came out fo the gunw ith each pull of the trigger, as the shells hit the tower they exploded on impact. This caused the creature to stumble, as she ran up the arm and to the shoulder, stabbing it with her spikes, she leaped around the giant arm to the creatures back, stabbing it repeatedly again and again all over the creatures back, useing the spikes to swing around the creature as she stabs it. eventualy swinging to the other arm and stabbing it. catching each part she stabs and lands on on fire, at this point the entire creature was on fire. The creature roared in pain as she swung her way to the creatures head. and stood on the top.
Her eyes were still red as she noticed tons of people scattering out of the school.
She repeatedly stabbed the same spot on the creatures head, and once a bit of a hole was created she stuck the end of the shotguns barrle into the hole.
"Its time for you to burn." Nakia said as she pulled the trigger many times, cause tons of explosions to happen on the inside of the creature. causeing it to roar quite loudly in pain, as its entire outside body and inside were on fire. She then used her guns spikes to run down the creature to get down on the ground as it continued to stumble. She went to Ori, whose wounds were healing rather quickly and moved her away, the fire stll surrounding her not hurting Ori. She ran into the broken down wall and got Alen and Roka out of the rubble and healed them too. She got the three safely away as the Tower began to fall.
It fell right on the school, destroying nearly all of it.
Her gun devolved back to normal and her eyes did aswell, reverting back to being pink like her hair, the fire also faded away. She stumbled herself as she sat down beside Ori Roka and Alen.
She was still calm given what just happened.
She sat there with Ori Alen and Roka for the night.
Early in the morning, Ori finally woke up. Alen and Roka were noticeably gone, Nakia was still sitting beside her.
She rubbed her eyes, at first thinking it was a bad dream. but then she saw what remains of the tower and the school.
"Nakia..what..what happened?" Ori asked
"I...well...
I killed the tower, just like i said i would." Nakia said.
"But..how am i alive, i saw that axe hit me.." Ori said
"I...evolved, i decided if we all were gonna make it out alive...i had no choice but to keep you all safe.
So i became your guardian, for all of you...or atleast whoever is left." Nakia said.
"What do you mean who is left? did nobody else make it out? and where is Roka and Alen!" Ori asked, sounding concerned.
"The alarm caused a panic, everyone ran off in their own direction...Alen and Roka are okay, they are searching for a new place for us all to stay." Nakia said.
"Oh... i see." Ori said.
A few moments later, Alen and Roka arrived.
"We are back" Roka said
"Did you find anything?" Nakia asked
"Well..kinda, we found an abandoned house not far from here, it contains a large fence around it, and has 3 floors and a basement, but we havent gotten in yet...should be a good place to stay." Alen said.
"How do you know its abandoned?" Ori asked
"Because the entire house is empty of anything with any real value." Roka said.
"Well, thats good enough for me." Nakia said as she stood up. As did Ori, but she held her stomach, still hurting from the attacks
"We should be on our way then" Nakia said as the four began walking to the house.
Nakia took one more look back at the school and the fallen tower, before shakeing her head and continueing onward.
END OF PART 2
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PART 3: Last Good Days Part 2.
Nakia Ori Alen and Roka were walking through a forest, having left the school after The Tower fell. They were walking to the house both Alen and Roka mentioned
Nakia had her backpack with her containing the nine books from before, and ammo for her gun, which she was holding in her hand and looking at it.
Ori noticed but decided to stay silent sighing instead as the four continued onward.
After a few minutes they reach the end of the forest, at the end was a large house with around 2 floors, surrounded by a large fence, they were getting close to the gate itself that let them past the fence.
"Wow! you werent kidding! this place looks great!" Ori said.
"Its a start i suppose." Nakia said as she crossed her arms.
Alen opened the fence and gestured them to go in, which they did. Once everyone was in eh closed the gate behind them, and the four walking into the home.
It was actualy furnished and in very good condition, considering the circumstances, it had a kitchen and a living room on the first floor, aswell as a few bathrooms, on thesecond floor was 4 bedrooms, and another bathroom.
"Any idea who lived here?" Nakia asked
"Nope, when we found this place there was no evidence as to who lived here, as you can see." Alen said.
"I hope their okay wherever they are." Ori said
"Well if they arent here, then they probably arent okay." Nakia said.
The four sat down in the living room, Alen and Roka on their own chairs, Ori in the floor, and Nakia on a couch.
"So whats the plan?" Nakia asked
"What do you mean?" Roka asked
"Whats our plan? is it not obvious? if we want to make this a livable space we need easy acess to water and food, the fence seems like a good start for defences, but if we are gonna make this place right we need to get it together and get to work." Nakia said, and despite her sassy tone, she had a valid point.
"Well, the valley isnt far from here, so we got access to food, there is a river nearby so i can purify that water. As for defenses we will have to just make sure the fence is stable for now.
But luckily, we already got water and food in the kitchen if anyone is hungry, we went hunting while finding this place." Alen said.
Nakia nodded.
Ori decided to look out the window and was just thinking.
"Do you think there is more of those tower creatures out there?" Ori asked them.
"Well, probably, i dont see why not." Alen said.
"I wouldnt be surprised if we saw another one." Roka said.
"Though if we do, and it becomes a threat, it may be best for Nakia to take it down." Alen said
Nakia just crossed her arms.
"What? your the only one who could kill it last time, it only makes sense." Alen said
"I know that idiot, its just gonna get annoying if more show up and i gotta kill them all." Nakia said.
"Well if it makes you feel better your always annoyed." Ori said while smileing.
Nakia just glared at her, though this didnt stop Ori from smileing as she looked back outside.
"Anyway, it will be nice to settle down for awhile, the food should last us alot longer now." Alen said
"True, but i wonder what happened to all the people in that school." Roka said.
"They are probably all dead." Nakia said rather bluntly, the three giving her a surprised look.
"What? im being honest, look at our world, do you seriously think any of them could have survived out there on their own? there is a reason we were the ones who got food, because nobody else could.
So no, i dont think they made it, and if they did they are really lucky." Nakia said
Once again despite her attitude, she was right, or atleast had a very good point.
regarldess, there was a silence.
"So, what are we gonna do? long term i mean." Roka asked
"I think we covered that already." Alen said.
"No i mean what is our end goal? if Kullos comes back and helps us or if The Gates of Janus re-open are we gonna leave this planet? or are we gonna try and save it?" Roka asked
"I mean....i dont know." Alen said.
"I dont care what we do, im not dieing on this planet, i dont care if we leave it, or save it, i refuse to die here." Nakia said rather intently.
"Well, if there are any survivors we should try and save the planet!...right? i mean, we cant just abandon everyone....even if the more accurate term here is...whats left of them." Ori said.
"Yeah, we can try and save as many people as we can, but i dont think we can save them all." Alen said,
"We can try atleast." Roka said.
Nakia just nodded, not really having anything to say on the matter.
"Well in any case we better get to work.
Since we already have food we can do what we can to strenghen the walls, or fence rather around the house." Alen said as the four went outside.
"I will focus my eenergy to increase the size of the fence, you three keep an eye out." Roka said as he extended is hands out and an energy went to the entire fence surroudning the house. He was useing his power to change the size of objects to increase the size of the fence, obviously since it was a large fence this took alot of effort.
The Fences size was increaseing slowly.
Ori Nakia and Alen were standing around talking.
"So what was it like?" Alen asked
"What do you mean?" Nakia asked
"When you evolved....what was it like?" Alen asked
"Well i didnt evolve, my gun did..." Nakia said as she looked at her revolver hand canon.
"When Rampancy consumed me i evolved, or my gun did, it went from this revolver with curved blades along the top and bottom of the barrel, to a shotgun with long spikes along with top and bottom of the barrel, and ya know its shells exploded upon impact...otherwise there was a fire around me at all times, and i was calm, despite being filled with anger and rampancy." Nakia said
"If i recall from the history books on guardians, you are the first guardian ever to take full control of rampancy!" Ori said
"Which is no small feat, its never been done before, maybe never again, ive heard rampancy is overwhelming, yet you had full control." Alen said.
Nakia just shrugged The fence grew by about ten percent at this point, Roka was aiming for atleast fourty percent.
Eventualy the fence got to twenty percent when all four of them could feel large footsteps.
Alen and Roka looked surprised, Ori looked shocked and scared.
And Nakia just looked angry. There was a small fire swirling around her now. Her eyes were not red yet. But in the distance they could see a large reature over the trees. It looked like a tyrannosaurs rex body combined with a tigers mouth arms and general features, it was also black and covered in fur, with black ice , crystals on the elbows and knees and along its back, and it was just as tall as the tower creature from before, moved just as slow, and was just as large with red eyes.
"Another tower?" Alen asked
"No, this ones different, the tower isnt a specific creature, its a whole species!" Ori said As Nakia stared down this creature as more footsteps were felt, there was a second of these rex tiger creatures walking nearby.
"Two of them!?" Alen asked
Ori looked even more scared then before, while the fire around Nakia grew in size
The two towers didnt seem to notice the group and the house for now, but even so they looked more agreesive then the last tower.
As the two creatures walked they did eventualy turn their heads and noticed the fence house and group.
Ori's heart sank while Alen just looked on, the Fence was at around thirty percent.
The two towers looked at them and started walking towards the fence.
Nakia got her gun out while Ori and Alen backed towards Roka.
One of the towers roared as it charged at the fence. Roka braced himself as it easily broke through the fence, but once it did, ROka lost focus and the entire fence shattered into countless peices.
Ori and Alen were speechless as Roka fell down on his knees.
"Roka!" Ori said as her and Alen ran to Roka.
Nakia just turned her head and saw that, then looked around at the destroyed fence, and hen back at the two towers stareing her down.
She closed her eyes, a few seconds later she reopened them and the fire omce again surrounded her, and her eyes were red with rampancy, her revolver morphed into the shotgun. And she turned her rampant gaze to the towers who roared in response.
Nakia began caualy walking towards the tower creatures as they charged her.
The first tower quickly tried to bite Nakia with its large mouth but she dodged it and stabbed its jaw with the spikes, then used the spikes to swing up the creature and stab its body, she landed on its back and aimed her gun at the other tower which was charged and shot it with the explosive shotgun shells, they exploded on impact and forced the second tower to stop chargeing. She then ran along the back of the first tower, stabbing it and shooting it just like the original tower, until she got to the head, but before she could stab it she was knocked off. and the first tower sed its large black ice covered tail to hit Nakia right into the house.
Nakia got on her feet as both towers began chargeing, as they did they broke through the entire house and completely destroyed it as Nakia leaped away.
"NO NOT AGAIN!!" Ori cried out.
The power of the flame around Nakia increased, as did her anger.
"You just destroyed our home...again.
THis wont end well for you." Nakia said, surpriseingly calm as she charged at the towers, she dodged the first ones bit and stabbed the second one in its neck with the shotgun, and she fire many shots into the second towers face, causeing it to roar in pain, she swings her way to the creatues head and stabs it, then leaps uo t dodge the first ones bite. The second tower falls over dead as she stabsed the first towers legs, and then repeatedly stabs and swings her way to the creatures back where she stabs her way to the head where she stabs one final time before leaping off.
She landed by Ori and the others as the final tower falls to the ground, also dead.
The fire seemed to calm down around Nakia, but her eyes remained red as she looked at the fallen towers and destroyed house.
Ori quickly walked up to Nakia, standing in the fire she could feel Nakia's rage.
Alen helped Roka stand as they walked to Ori and Nakia.
Ori wanted to say something to Nakia, but she couldnt think of anything.
"So...what now?" Ori asked
"We do the only thing we can do." Nakia said as she started walked away and then stopped.
"Our last good days are behind us, any house we find, or school or whatever, it doesnt matter anymore.
All we can do is survive....even if that means we never have a home again." Nakia said as she walked off, the rampancy still active.
Ori looked sad.
"Shes wrong....right?" Ori asked Alen and Roka, looking for even the slightest bit of hope.
"Im Sorry Ori, but i think shes right on this one." Alen said as he and Roka followed Nakia.
Ori just looked up at the ice covered sky.
"Why us..." Ori said as she cried a little and caught up with Nakia Alen and Roka.
END OF PART 3
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Post by InsaneAlphaBeta on Jan 26, 2018 8:07:40 GMT
PART 4: What We Leave Behind.
Nakia, Ori, Alen and Roka were walking beside a river in a Ice Forest at night, The Water was surpriseingly clean, given it was flowing on the warm Black ice.
Nakias eyes were red with rampancy and the flame surrounded her, giving them light.
"So...where are we going?" Ori asked
"Anywhere, but certainly no school, no house, nothing the towers can destroy." Nakia said.
"Like..what? a cave maybe?" Ori asked
"Assuming we can find one big enough, yes." Nakia said.
"Okay." Ori said, she looked at her refelection in the water, she looked uncertain, but just accepted it, as much as she wanted things to return to normal, they cant. Not while the towers roam the world atleast.
Alen and Roka were silent, carrying a deer type of black ice creature, they didnt really have anything to say.
The four of them continued down the river, not really finding any creatures, it was noticeably silent in forest.
At the end of the river they found themselves at a large lake, the forest going around most of the lake, and on the other end was a large Black Ice Canyon, it seemed to go on for miles, a few large tower creatures could be seen in the canyon, a tiger rex tower and a humanoid tower. A few smaller creatures by them, they are were walking further into the canyon.
Nakia looked around and didnt see any cave anywhere, but by them was another Janus Gate. this one had the name "Umbrial" on it. It was deactivated.
"We will camp here for the night." Nakia declared as she sat down.
Roka and Alen set the deer down, Ori just sat down beside Nakia, ignoreing the fire as it didnt hurt her.
Nakia was just stareing at the creatures in the distance.
There was just silence for the most part.
"We cant be the only people still alive...can we?" Ori asked.
Nakia turned her head to her.
"Well, the world is huge, im sure some people survived, if they are out there im sure they are having the same struggles we are." Nakia said.
"Yeah..." Ori said as she looked out into the lake.
"..I miss my family..and Kullos." Ori said.
"..I miss my family too, and i suppose i miss him too.
We never knew how important his luck was i guess." Nakia said.
"Yeah, i hope hes doing okay where ever he is." Ori said.
"Me too." Nakia said as she looked back towards the creatures.
Later that night, everyone was going to sleep.
Nakia was sleeping.
In this dream, time was fast forwarding. Showing events of the future, and showing how much time is passing.
The Academy could be see, The Demon Kids could be seen, The Legion of Crows could be seen, F could be seen, Slyfer and Kita could both be seen, The Neonyte Royal Guard could be seen. The Eternal Journey could be seen. The Gate of Janus that led to Avalar finally reopened could be seen. And finally, Kullos, along with Slyfer, Kita, and possibly a few others could be seen arriveing through the portal.
As Kullos said, for Nakia, all of these events and more would happen over the next 300 years for Universe 13, so Kullos would finaly return in 300 years.
As Nakia was seeing all of this she had no idea what to think.
"300 years?...will we even live that long?
..after so many years, he is still gonna come back and save us?
Will i even remember him?" Nakia asked herself all of these questions as she saw even more visions.
A City made out of the Black Ice could be seen, People in that city could be seen, Another world could be seen, Floating islands and a giant floating island with a golden city on its center could be seen, A final world could be seen, A world of darkness and no life could be seen, a kind of reaper could be seen stareing at Nakia as behind him, a vast expansive wasteland of souls and reapers could be seen.
Nakias Nine Books appeared before her, they seemed to relate to these events somehow.
"What is all this? why are the books here? what are they trying to tell me?" Nakia asked herself as the vision faded and she was in her realm of evolution, though it looked different then before.
Half of the world she was in after her world became Black ice, the other half was before it became Black Ice. Gates of Janus scattered around and all her freinds were there. The ground around her was on fire, her footsteps leaving behind a trail of fire.
She knew where she was and just sat down thinking about everything.
"I would give anything for things to go back to the way they were...
But i know they wont." Nakia said as she looked at her freinds and the world.
"So many things could happen in 300 years...we may find a way out before then, we may not.
If 300 years is how long i gotta live to escape this planet with my friends.
Then so be it." Nakia said as she stood up.
The fire began to build around her.
She vanished in the flame as it faded away, and she woke up and back into reality.
It was now day and everyone else was asleep.
She got up and looked at the frozen sky before turning to look at Ori, Alen and Roka.
"If i gotta live for over 300 years, then so will all of you." Nakia thought to herself as she extended her firey hand out, the flame going to Ori Alen and Roka and covering them, after a few seconds it faded away.
She just gave them the guardians blessing.
The three started to wake up and got on their feet.
"Come on, we need to get moving." Nakia said. There was more intent and focus in her voice rather then anger at this point.
"Oh..umm...okay." Ori said as she grabbed her septre.
Alen and ROka got their gear and followed.
As they walked around the lake, Ori got closer to Alen and Roka.
"Hey..do you guys..feel different?" Ori asked
"..Umm, yeah actually...i do feel a little different." Roka said
"Strange, me too." Alen said
"Any idea why?" Ori asked
"Nope, no idea...im sure its nothing." Alen said
"Maybe it was the deer, creatures evolved from the Black ice leave a werid feeling in my stomach." Roka said
"Yeah, its probably just that.." Ori said, though she didnt sound very sure of herself.
The four continued around the lake, its size making the trip take quite a while.
Eventualy they reached the canyon and began walking through it, its size made the towers seem like children, it was nearly halfway to the ice sky in height.
There were plenty of medium sized herbavoire creatures, but since they already ate late last night, there were not hungry.
They continued through the canyon, going where though was the question.
"We still searching for a cave?" Ori asked
"For now yes." Nakia said. Decideing to not tell them about the dreams yet.
Though there was no caves in sight. In the distance though, a few humanoid tower creatures could be seen heading in their direction far off into the distance.
"More towers!" Ori said.
Nakia looked angry..but got an idea.
There was a small cave inside one of the canyon walls.
"Over here!" Nakia said as the four ran to it.
The cave was only big enough for one of them
"Dang, it aint big enough." Alen said
"Yes it is...back up." Nakia said as the three backed up.
The fire surrounding Nakia began swirling around her hand canon revolver. it evolve into the shotgun, She aimed it into the cave and began fireing many shots into the cave, causeing tons of explosions.
Ori Alen and Roka looked surprised, though thankfully the towers didnt seem to notice, or care, it wasnt clear if they could even see, or hear what was going on at the distance they were.
After a few moments Nakia stops with the explosions and checks inside the cave.
It was nore alot larger thanks to the explosions, though she was careful to make sure it wasnt just empty, there were areas that acted as walls, or rather pillers to keep the ceiling up.
"Alright, come on in." Nakia said as they went inside and noticed how much larger it was.
"That didnt take long." Alen said.
"I know, now we are for the towers to pass so we can continue." Nakia said.
Ori looked uncertain, as was the case as of late, she looked at Alen and Roka, who just shrugged.
Minutes pass and the footsteps are heard, they are getting closer and its shakeing the entire cave. Though thankfully the pillers are holding up.
The towers get close and are walking by the small cave entrance, they dont seem to notice them and they continue
Once they all pass through, Nakia steps out and watchs as they leave.
"Alright, they are gone, we can go." Nakia said.
"But wouldnt this do?" Ori asked
Nakia turned around and looked at Ori.
"I mean, this is a cave, we could stay here...couldnt we?" ori asked
Nakia walked up to Ori and stood infront of her.
Ori looked noticeably nervious.
But then Nakia put her hand on Ori's shoulder. This surprised her.
"I know you want somewhere to call home, i know thats what you need.
But a makeshift cave that i turned into a larger one just so we could avoid the towers, is not a place to call home.
We will find the right one, im sure of it...okay?" Nakia said.
Ori nodded. "Okay." Ori said.
Nakia then led them outside the cave and they continued down the canyon.
Eventualy they could see Large mountain in the distance with a rather large hole inside of it. It looked like both a cave, and a good view point.
"There is one!" Ori said.
"Thats a cave alright, and might be the one we need.
Lets go." Nakia said as the four marched onward towards the mountain
One of the towers that passed them turned and saw the group walking away, the tower just watched them go for a bit and then continued on its own path.
END OF PART 4
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Part 5: What We Leave Behind Part 2
Nakia, Ori Alen and Roka were making there way towards the mountain, which was still fairly far away. They were well outside the canyon behind them.
They were walking along a street that led to a small town between them and the mountain, there was a small chance there may be people inside the town. That was the hope atleast. So they followed the road.
Nakias gun was still in its evolved form as they walked down the street and got closer to the town, it was fairly difficult to figure out the state the town was in from how far away they were.
As they got closer, the state of the town was not good.
As they entered, it was a horrific sight, the entire town was covered in Black Ice, tons of people could be seen on the streets and inside the buildings, frozen inside the Black Ice.
Nakia walked up to a family frozen in the ice, a man woman and their child.
Nakia put her hand on the ice, it was warm just like its always been.
"How can they be frozen if the ice is warm?" Nakia asked Ori who walked up to her.
"Black Ice has a few unique qualitys, while the outside is strangely warm, the inside is freezeing, like zero kelvin freezeing, the coldest known temperture period.
Nothing can survive inside the black ice...i think they..died..before they even knew it was over." Ori said, she sounded sad ofcorse given what was all around them.
People, familys, adults, children you name it, all frozen within the ice.
Nakia looked at her hand she used to heal, she clenched her first, she wished there was something she could do, but there wasnt anything she could do.
Ori was horrified at the sight, as was Alen and Roka, who were each stareing at some of the familys.
"Do you think...our familys had the same fate?" Alen asked
Nakia and Ori both froze when he said that, the possibilitys going through there mind.
"N..N No! ofcorse not!...this didnt happen to everyone! it couldnt have!...not like this.
Not like this....please not like this!" Ori said as she started crying, looking at all the people and familys around her, her tears escalateing.
Roka walked up to her and gave her a much needed hug, Alen just looked at the ground.
"Im...im sorry, i didnt mean to put those thoughts in your head." Alen said but Ori kept crying.
Nakia was just silent, thinking about her own family.
"Its been so long..." Nakia said as she fell on her knees.
Oris crying stopped a bit as she looked at Nakia, as did Roka.
"I..i forgot what they even looked like.." she said as she too started crying.
As she cried the fire around her began to grow in size.
Ori tried walking to her but now the heat from the flame was too hot for her to even get near Nakia. The power of the flame increaseing.
"N...N..Nakia?" Ori asked
"I cant see them..i..i i.. ii..i cant even..i cant remember them... i cant see their faces!...WHY CANT I SEE THEM?" Nakia screamed as she continued to cry, the fire around her growing larger and larger.
The Rampancy was building more and more, but she has not lost control yet.
"I dont get it...has it been so long i cant even remember my own family?" Nakia asked herself, her vision faded to black as all she could hear was herself as she was only focused on her thoughts. In reality she continued crying as the fire swirled around her.
In her mind however, it was pitch black darkness, a void with fire in the distance.
"Its like my family...what they look like...who they were...its all gone..i cant see them..not even faint images...
its just..nothing.Whats wrong with me? why cant i see? am i not meant too? do they want me to forget about them?...or am i just liseing my mind...I dont know what to do...what to think...I dont get it.. i..i dont understand...i..cant..i..i cant..." Nakia started as she was interupted.
"NAKIA MOVE!!" Ori could be heard shouting as Nakia snapped back to reality.
As she looked to her right there was a new tower creature, this one was a bull mixed with a rhino, its face was like a rhino except a bulls horns included, its body was like a bull, and it was as tall as the other towers, its head wa slooking all the way down so the horn was point right at Nakia. and its horn was within inches of hitting her.
She stared down the creature as a wall of fire appeared infront of her in an instant, stopping the giant tower dead in its tracks, nearly breaking its horn as it hit the ground.
Nakia got up with her shotgun and fired it at the tower, hurting it.
The tower got back on its feet and charged her, crushing countless dead people in the process.
She dodged the charge and struck it with her shotgun spikes right in one of its legs, it road in pain as it charged her again. which she dodged and hit another leg with the spikes, this time she used the same climbing trikc as before, as the fire around her set the tower a blaze.
she stood on its back as it tried to knock her off. as he bounced around trying to get her off in typical bull fashion, the tower was destroying everyone and everything around it, the frozen people, the buidlings, the entire town was turning to rubble.
Alen and Roka were shooting their arrows at it but the arrows were bounceing off.
As she runs to the creatures head it succeds in knocking her off.
Ori looked mad as she charged forward
"ORI WAIT!" Alen and roka both called out.
Ori leaped to Nakia and caught her.
Ori put her down.
"What are you doing? you could get hurt." Nakia said.
"Dont worry about me..
Lets kill this thing." Ori said.
Nakia was surprised, all the sudden Ori was confident, she wielded her septre in hand with purpose, Nakia nodded as they both charged the tower. they both dodged its attack as Nakia stabs the towers neck and Ori aims her staff at it and it begins to glow.
Strange symbols appear in the air as countles spiky shards of lava appear and rain down upon the tower, causeing it to roar in pain.
the lava shards kept raining on the tower as she aimed at it with her Septre.
Suddenly the Lava shards turned to Ice shards, which then turned to rock shards.
the symbols vanish as Nakia climbs up the tower and is back on its back.
Ori Gets infront of the tower and aims her Septre at the tower.
A large symbol appears above her as she begins to glow, as does her Septre.
Nakia begins running to the towers head as the shattered black ice cause dby the tower begins to be absorbed into the symbol and forms a large shard of Black Ice.
Nakia runs to the towers head and stabs it befor jumping off and landing on her feet by Ori.
"NOW!" Nakia shouted as Ori, using her septre threw the Black Ice Shard into the towers head.
It roared in pain as it fell into a few large buidlings. It was finally dead.
Ori took a depp breath while Nakia just looked back at it. then looked at Alen and Roka, who seem annoyend and fustraighted that they were helpless in that fight.
"Hey, dont worry about it, stuff happens. We need to stay focused." Nakia said as she looked at the mountain, followed by the others.
"Not much further now, lets get moving." Nakia said as the four began marching to the mountain, which was alot closer now.
END OF PART 5
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Post by InsaneAlphaBeta on Jan 26, 2018 8:12:32 GMT
PART 6: Cold As Ice.
Nakia, Ori Alen and Roka were making their way up the mountain, they had a good view of the area, the town and canyon clearly visible, aswell as more mountains and more forests and wasteland looking areas.
Ori walked up to Nakia.
"Hey nakia." Ori asked
"Yeah?" Nakia said.
"Are you.. okay?" Ori asked
"What do you mean?" Nakia asked
"I mean, about earlier. You kept saying you couldnt remember your parents." Ori said.
"Im fine, it doesnt matter.
Right now parents are the farthest thing from my mind, my focus right now is what it always should have been." Nakia said.
"Whats that?" Ori asked
"Surival." Nakia said as she marched forward.
Ori sighed and looked sad as the four got to the cave.
Upon reaching the cave it was a fairly decent sized cavern, an opening on both sides of the mountain, something they couldnt see before.
"Alright, we found our new home." Nakia said, as Roka brought out a bunch of beds and couchs and other furniture to make the cave feel more home like. He used his power to increase the size of the objects to make them normal size again.
A few hours and everything was set up. Alen had a few sticks in a pile and was not having any luck trying to start a fire.
Nakia walked over to him.
"Move." Nakia said.
"No, i got this...just give me a few moments." Alen said.
Nakia just crossed her arms and watched him.
A few minutes pass and he was unsuccessful.
Alen sighed and moved.
Nakia closed her eyes and the fire surrounded her as she opened her eyes, now red again.
She extends her hand out and fire came out of it and onto the sticks, setting them ablaze. The fire around Nakia then vanished but her eyes remained red.
"Thanks." Roka said.
"No problem. Just dont be so stubborn next time. Nakia said as she turned away and started to walk away.
"Your one to talk." Alen said.
Nakia stopped.
She turned around and faced Alen.
"..What?" Nakia asked
"I said your one to talk." Alen said.
The fire began to appear around Nakia again.
"Whats that supposed to mean?" Nakia asked
"I mean every time you have a problem now, you use your anger to make it go away, rather then look for an alternative solution." Alen said.
"Do you have a better idea? because guess what, we live in a cruel world, we use whatever we have to to survive.
So unless you got a better idea, i suggest you keep your thoughts to yourself." Nakia said.
Alen just sighed.
There was a silence, as everyone began to hear screaming far off in the distance. Ori was standing on the other cave entrance.
The others went to her and they saw a city, it was made of ice it seemed, specificly the Black Ice, it looked rather large, but there was also fire in the city. Several tower creatures could be seen inside the city, absolutely destroying it. The screams were coming from the city.
Alen and Roka looked mad while Nakia seemed unfazed.
Alen then looked sad. Nakia then looked at him.
"Its like i told you, we live in a cruel world." Nakia said as she walked back into the cave.
Alen and Roka just looked on. Ori seemed sad watching the city become destroyed. But she also went back into the cavern.
Later that night...
Ori was sitting at the cave entrance, looking at the now destroyed city. Which is only visible thanks to the fires within the city.
Roka walked up to her and sat beside her.
"You okay?" Roka asked
Ori was just silent, she looked depressed stareing at the destroyed city.
"Was there really nothing we could do?" Ori asked
"Sadly no, there was nothing.
nakia was right, we live ina. harsh world now, all we can do is focus on ourselves...even if that means we have to stand by and watch things like that happen." Roka said.
"I know....i just wish things could be different." Ori said.
"Im sure things will get better someday..that day just isnt today." Roka said.
He then put his hand on her shoulder and she looked at him.
"You should get some rest, we got a busy day tomorrow." Roka said as he got off to go to bed.
Ori just took one final look at the city before getting up and going to bed.
END OF PART 6
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PART 7: The Long Road Ahead.
The next day, Nakia Ori Alen and Roka were sitting by a fire in the cave.
"So whats our plans for today?" Ori asked
"Well, if we are gonna make this work, we need to scout there area, find an easy place to gather food, and water. Also search for other towers so we know where nto to go." Roka said.
"Yeah. we need o have a better handleing of the area." Alen said.
"So me and Roka can search for water and you two search for food?" Ori suggested.
"Thats fine." Nakia said. Alen also nodded.
"Very well, me and Ori will search back near the town, you two can search near the other entrance." Roka said.
Every nodded and gathered their things and headed out.
Nakia and Alen were walking through a small forest just outside the cave, the burning city still visible.
"Hey Nakia...im sorry about eariler." Alen said.
"Its fine." Nakia said.
"I know, i just wanted to let you know." Alen said.
The two remained silent as they continued onward.
This forest, like other forests within Black Ice, has all its trees frozen inside the Black ice itself, though cracks in the ice lets the oxygen slip out so they along with other plants may continue to survive. The combination of heat on the outside of the ice keeping the trees from dieing.
"I still wonder how it works." Nakia asked looking at the trees.
"What? the trees?" Alen asked
"Yeah. it can kill people but it doesnt kill the plant life?" Nakia said
"Well, the plants and trees are much more durable then we are, they can take the cold, if anythignt hey evolved to survive the cold, plus the heat on the outside of the Black Ice helps." Alen explained.
"I see." Nakia said as they continued wandering.
Ori and Roka were just outside the city.
The body of the tower Nakia faught remained
Both Ori and Roka noticed this.
"The body..its still there?" Roka asked
"Appearntly." Ori said
"But how?" Roka asked
"I dont know, maybe their bodies dont decay like normal human bodies?" Ori suggested.
"Maybe, either that or it just takes them alot longer." Roka suspected.
Ori shrugged as the two continued.
Nakia and Alen were outside the forest, there was another valley infront of them, which went down, really far, it goes from being a valley to a ravine that goes far below ground.
A few normal sized creatures could be seen, a herd of a bull mixed with a hippo type creature.
"Okay then, i think we found our food source...whatever its called." Nakia said.
"What if we name it" Alen suggested.
Nakia stood there and thought about it.
"Hmmm... how about.... a Geodon?" Nakia said.
"Eh, that works." Alen said.
The two got closer and the herd looked at them and had a chargeing motion.
"Well they arent friendly, thats for certain." Alen said as he got his bow ready.
Nakias eyes turned red and fire swirled around her her hand cannon turning into a shotgun.
"You get one half and i get the other?" Nakia asked
"Yup." Alen said.
The Geodons began chargeing them, there was atleast 8 of them total.
4 of them charge Alen and 4 of them charge Nakia.
Alen dodges one Geodons as he shoots the second one with an arrow, he leaps over the third one and smacks it several times with his bow, he dodges the first ones next charge and kicks it in the face, before kicking the fourth one behind him, he then shoots the first and fourth one with another arrow as the third one charges again, he shoots that one a second time. He then puts his bow away and brigns out two daggers as he begins slashing at all four of them, he then kicks the fourth and third away as he charges at the first two, he kicks them both and leaps to them, he stabs them both. The third one coems back to charge him and he trows his dagger at it, hitting it in the throat. The final one charges him and he kicks it in its face then stabs it in the head. killing it.
The four Geodons charge nakia at once, she dodges an attack from the first and second geodon leaps over the third and fourth one, she stabs the third one and then stabs the fourth one, as the first two run to her she aims her shotgun at them while its still stabbed in the fourth, she fires several shots, the explosions hitting the first two geodons and hitting around them, they were clearly dead. She takes shotgun out of the fourth geodon and stabs it again, this time in its head, as the third one charges she quickly dodges and stabs its other side, she swings around and stabs it in the neck, killing it aswell.
Both Nakia and Alens fights finish at around the same time.
"Well, that takes care of that." Alen said
"Should we take them back?" Nakia asked
"we coudl take atleast one back." Alen said as he began to carry one of the Geodons.
They both began walking back to the cave which was a bit away.
With Ori and Roka, as they searched in the forest near the city they could see a river.
"Lets see where it leads" Roka said and Ori nodded.
They followed the river deep into the forest but before they could see where it ended up...they heard something.
It sounded like a rumbleing.
All four of them could hear it.
"What is that?" Ori asked sounding concerned.
"I dont know..i think we should get home before we find out." Roka said as they began running back to the cave.
Nakia and Alen looked confused.
"Whats making that sound?" Nakia said
"No idea." Alen said.
"Drop the Geodon and lets get home." Nakia ordered, Alen did so and they also ran back home.
Eventualy all fo them returned to the cavern.
"Did you two hear that aswell?" Nakia asked
"Yeah we did, we got back as soon as possibe." Ori said
"What could that have been?" Alen asked
Nakia and Ori just shrugged as it was heard again as the sky darkened.
All four of them went to the cave entrance and all of their eyes widened.
A actual storm was forming in the sky.
"A...a storm?" Ori asked
"I guess so.. but how is that possible? the sky is ice!" Roka said
"Only the very top part is ice." Alen said
"True but shouldnt it be difficult for this to happen?" Roka asked
"Well difficult or not...its happening." Nakia said. Ori looked worried
The clouds began to cover the entire ice sky, covering the entire area in darkness, more dark then night.
Tons of lightning began strikeing all around, the wind gusts were extremely powerful, causeing them to stumble.
"HOLD ON! This is gonna get bad!" Nakia yelled.
Then rain was Black like the ice and also kinda rough, it was pouring heavily. and the rain was only increaseing in scale, as was the lightning. and the wind.
Actualy tornados could be seen with the lightning strikes.
The four retreated back as deep as they could into the cavern, but the wind still reached them. It was trying to pull them out, all the beds and couchs were flying out.
Ori was literately crying, Alen and Roka looked scared. Nakia was angry.
The wind reached it speak and the four began slipping. the wind was winning as it pulled them out of the cave.
The four were now being tossed around by the tornados, their screams couldnt even be heard because of all the thunder and wind. they all were being split up. Nakia was barely able to reach Ori, she wasnt able to reach for Roka or Alen, she grabbed her hand as the two were thrown extremely far way. as were Alen and Roka in another direction.
The wind carried them extremely far, Ori was terrifyed while Nakia was still mad.
"AGAIN? HOW? after EVERYTHING we have gone through! and once again we are still having to go through this? what did we do so wrong to deserve this?" Nakia asked herself as all four fo them were knocked out.
Eventualy, Nakia woke up, the storm had passed.
She opened her eyes and realised she was in a house, in a bed actualy, sitting by a fireplace.
Ori was standing over her, she was smileing.
"Your awake!" Ori said.
Nakia sat up. looking around, this was a living room in a multiple story house, the room had couchs and other furniture aswell, open doorways leading to other rooms.
"Umm...Ori.. where are we?" Nakia asked
Before Ori could answer footsteps were heard.
A very old man who was black walked into the room, had a short grey beard and short grey hair, he had a brown hat along with a grey trench coat, a white shirt underneath and black pants. he was useing a strange cane to walk.
"I see.. your friend has finaly woken up from her slumber." the man said as he sat in a chair near the bed. his voice had a certain, wise-ness to it he seems like hes seen quite alot in his time.
"Who are you? where are we?" Nakia asked
"My name is Elias. And your in my home." Elias said.
Nakia looked surprised.
"You've been here for this long?" Nakia asked
"Indeed i have." Elias said
"Well then, you seem like you got a good thing going if you made it this long." Nakia said.
"Well i suppose that is true." Elias said as he looked at her.
"Its been too long since i felt such a familer aura i must admit." Elias said.
Nakia looked at him for a bit.
"What do you mean?" Nakia asked
"Well back in my day i too was a guardian." Elias said.
"Were? what happened?" Nakia asked.
"Friend thats another story for another time. Besides its the past, it doesnt matter now, not at this very moment. RIght now you need to rest, you took quite a hit from the storm." Elias said
"Storm....thats right..What was with that storm?" Nakia asked
"It was one of the harsher storms ive witnessed, it happens every now and then at different part sof our world, this time you just so happened to be the ones swept away by the harsh winds.
ive only encountered the storm once in my life, and that was not long after this all began...thankfuly this house as a certain..aura about it that keeps those within it safe." Elias said.
"What about Alen and Roka?" Nakia asked
"Im afraid your friends were thrown far away, to an area of this world even i have not ventured too." Elias said.
Nakia actually looked sad. She laid back in bed.
"Well, if you two need me i will be in the other room." Elias said as he used his cane to get up and walked out of the room and into another room.
"Im sure they are fine Nakia, they can handle themselves!" Ori said, somehow finding a way to be positive in a situation like this.
Nakia just closed her eyes and tried to go to sleep.
"Its always something that has to go wrong for us...i guess our price for a safe haven, is being apart from our friends... one day things will get better..
we just gotta keep fighting...no matter what." Nakia said in her mind.
END OF FINAL CHAPTER.
CREDITS: UnOfficial Theme: The Dark Element - Last Good Day
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Post by InsaneAlphaBeta on Apr 16, 2018 21:16:21 GMT
BORN TO RISE
Chapter 1: Without A Soul
On a bridge high above the ground, a floating island is in the distance, a golden city sitting on top of the floating island, the bridge leading up to this island itself, it was unclear what was supporting the island, perhaps some kind of magical force, this entire world looked like it was filled with magic.
Across the bridge a city seemingly made of gold, filled with many people and multiple districts. The first district right outside the front gate is the City District, multiple houses, taverns, and stores all around the district.
Two people in particuler were heading towards the second district, which is the construction district. One looked to be in his late twentys despite the fact he had a long full grey beard and long grey hair, wearing a brown pelt hat, a dark brown leather jacket with a colorful shirt underneath, grey pants with the words -BELIEVE- eched onto the right leg and -LEAD AND FIGHT- on the left leg, he had black shoes aswell. He seemed to be a slightly larger individual, not overweight, just a little bit bigger then most people.
The man beside him also was young, he had short brown hair with a scruffy full beard, wearing a orange cloak that only covered part of his back and a small part of his neck and chest, he was wearing a orange shirt with a rose design on it, and blue jeans with brown shoes.
The people around these two were all heading in the same direction, towards the construction district, which is where things like weapons and armor and other items are made. Forges and Smithys scattered throughout the district.
"Seems like quite a crowd." The brown haired man said.
"And your surprised? there is change in the air Verrader, nobody is sure what the future holds, and now more then ever everyone is looking for answers." The grey haired man said.
"I know Leider, i know, i dont blame them for their desire for change, but this soon? our king died only a few days ago, and already people desire change..why this soon? not everyone has gotten to mourn his passing." Verrader said.
"It is because they are afraid, afraid of what tomorrow brings, they dont know what the future holds and so they want someone to lead them. That is why a new king will be crowned." Leider said
"I suppose so." Verrader said.
Leider and Verrader continued with the crowd past the Construction District and into the final district, the castle district. With the large gold castle in the back, in a kind of park, there was a large crowd gathered around, all standing infront of a large building beside the castle. The doors to which opened. A man with a outfit that looked like a suit mixed with a robe in terms of its style, stepped out and walked towards the people.
"Greetings everyone, as you all know, a few days ago our former King. Aleno Partitan, sadly passed away. With him dead and no heir to the throne, the people of Umbrial will vote on who will be king. THe vote will begin in a few days from now. The council believes the best way for the future to be bright is for our people to vote for our new ruler, as for who you can vote for, in truth the choice is yours.
Thank you, and good day to you all." The man said as the crowd clapped and then continued on with their day.
"So, only a few days to gather a following." Verrader said
"Shouldnt be too difficult." Leider said.
"Do you think one of us will become king?" Verrdaer said.
"Look around you man, all these people seek direction, they want a leader, a king, and we already have people who follow us, its not a question of if one of us will become king, its a question of who." Leider said.
"You do know im gonna try and become king too right?" Verrader said.
"Hahaha!" Leider laughed, a large smile on his face. "Ofcourse! but understand i am the savior of this world, nobody will have anything to fear as i will lead this world into a new future, a bright one. And i will do everything i can to become king. I understand we are friends, but that doesnt mean im gonna treat you like one dureing this, this is a race to the finish, and only one will win, and i intend it to be me." Leider said.
"Well, may the best man win then, because i also have a vision for this world, i wanna see it prosper and thrive aswell, im tired of seeing these people scared and afraid, i wanna lead them and protect them, and by the sound of it, im sure whichever one of us wins it will be great for these people." Verrader said.
"That much i can agree with friend." Leider said.
The two then walked out of the castle district.
Later that day in the city district, its now night time, the golden roads and buildings lit up by torchs attached to the walls, both Verrader and Leider were in the City District, sitting in a tavern. Both were sitting at the counter.
"I will just take some water, thank you." Leider said.
"I'll take the same." Verrader said.
There was a large group of people in the tavern, sitting around and talking about all sorts of things.
"So savior, whats your first objective as king?" Verrader asked.
"My first objective is to add a few more districts, we certainly have plenty of room left on this island for more." Leider said.
"What would they be?" Verrader asked
"An Army District for our army to rest and train, and a Settlement District, for the poor so even those without a home can have a roof over their heads. What about you?" Leider asked.
"Well... i would-"
"And after they went in..nobody came back!"
"Really? how long has it been?"
"Its been months! and nobody has ever came back!"
Verrader was intterupted by two women talking that were sitting at a nearby table, one wearing a black t-shirt and jeans with medium length blonde hair. the other wearing a white tank top and black pants, she had long brown hair.
Verrader was listening to their conversation.
"Your full of it! how is that even possible?" the brown haired girl said.
"Because it just is! that Janus gate had some weird graveyard on the other side and it had no name! none!" the blonde girl said.
"Oh please.. that world is just myth and legend...your making this up to impress me arent you?" the brown haired girl asked
'No im not i swear its real!" the blonde girl said
"Well im afraid i dont believe you seetheart, better luck next time." The brown haired girl said as she got up and left.
"Why doesnt anyone believe me?" the blonde girl asked herself.
"Dang, tough break." Leider said.
"I think we should go talk to her." Verrader said
"Hahaha! i dont think your her type man." Leider said.
"No thats not why! the thing she was telling the brown haired girl about." Verrader said as he got up and walked over to her.
"Oh boy... i got a bad feelin about this." Leider said as he looked at the bartender and his water.
"Yeah forgot the water, ima need something stronger for this." Leider said.
Verrader sat down infront of her.
"Hey." Verrader said
"Hey, what do you want? you here to reject me aswell and call me a liar?" the brown haired girl asked.
"No actually, i wanna know the full story." Verrader said.
"Wait...really?" she asked
"Yeah." Verrader said.
"Well...it all started a few months ago. Me, Aly, and two other people, Venessa and Berns, were on a mission to map out all three hundred of the Janus Gates on Eilamel for a school project, and even create a map of wear we sit in the universe. It took us most of the trip to go all over the world and account for each and every single gate, there were so many of them, it was incredible to see how many worlds were and are around us!
Anyway, after we accounted for all three hundred gates we were walking down a road on our way back here to Umbrial when we noticed an opening in the forest beside the road, we decided to see where it led to, after a few hours of walking we came across another gate, this one was...different." Aly said
"How different?" Verrader asked
"Well, for startes, the color of the gate was black and a blue-ish purple color, and the world itself visible through the portal looked like a graveyard, and then we noticed this specific gate had no name! it was a world without a name! and by the looks of it without a soul living on it aswell, thats why people have named it The Soulless World." Aly said.
"The Soulless World? so what happened next?" Verrader asked.
Well, Venessa and Berns decided to enter the gate and see what was on the other side, they told me to wait for about thirty minutes, and if they arent back by then, to assume the worst and leave. So they went through, and i waited....and waited. i waited long after thirty minutes, i must have waited for hours, i didnt wanna give up on them, they seemed like great people but i never fully knew them." Aly said.
"So what did you do?" Verrader asked
"Well, i left a note saying i will check back every few days, and if they do return to take the note so i know they came back." Aly said
"Arent you worried someone else might take the note?" Verrader asked
"Nope, the rumors about that gate spreaded everywhere even before we found it, people are afraid of it and wanna stay far away from it, so even if someone did find it, they wouldnt go anywhere near it." Aly said
"So why did you and those two other people go near that gate in the first place?" Verrader asked
"Well we were accounting for all the gates, we thought we would go down the path just for fun to see where it led to, and when we seen the gate we had to go to it. So they decided to enter to make sure it was a real hate and not just a fake, and they never came back." Aly said.
"Any idea why?" Verrader asked
"I can only assume they died, but i dont know how." Aly said
"Arent you sad they died?"
"I mean yeah ofcourse i am, but they werent really my friends, just people from school that i knew slightly....anyway, thank you for listening, it means alot for somebody to believe me." Aly said.
"No problem, have a great day Aly." verrader said
"You too." Aly said as she smiled.
verrader got up and walked back over to Leider. who just finished his drink.
"You drunk?" Verrader asked him, noticeing his drink.
"Not yet, but i have a feeling i will soon based on whatever your gonna say or suggest." Leider said.
"That girl, she talked about a world without a soul, two people she known went in and never came back." Verrader said
"And let me guess, you wanna go to this supposed soulless world and save the two random people from their demise?" Leider asked
"...Yeah." Verrader said.
"Ofcourse.." Leider said.
"You wanna come with me?" Verrader asked
Leider just shook his head and laughed.
"Hahaha! your serious arent you? thats amazing." Leider said.
"Yes i am serious! Leider what if shes telling the truth?" Verrader said.
"What if? have you heard the other rumors surrounding that place?..they say its a world, despite being named The Soulless Worfd, is where people go when they die! and better yet there is some all powerful god that exists in that world who consumes the lvies of the dead..let me guess, you believe that too?" Leider asked
"Wait, you heard of that world before?" Verrader asked
"I hear everything, all the whispers and secrets, i have eyes and ears everywhere man, i hear everything, even absurd rumors like that. But you didnt answer my question, do you seriously believe any of it?" Leider said
"Well...i dont know, but i do know there is only one way to find out." Verrader said.
"HA! Hahahaha! Hahaha!" Leider laughed "You seriously believe this? and you want me to come along?" Leider said.
"Yes actually i do...rather i want you to come along atleast." Verrader said.
Leider just stared at him.
"..Fine, as you wish, we leave tomorrow." leider said as he walked out of the tavern.
-END OF CHAPTER 1-
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Post by InsaneAlphaBeta on Apr 17, 2018 18:36:09 GMT
Chapter 2: Forever Changed.
The Next Day, Leider and Verrader were just past the bridge leading to Umbrial, they were on a road heading towards the rumored Janus Gate which leads to The Soulless World.
The world around them was vast and expansive, tons of different unique envoirments all around them in the distance, this landmass they are on just beside the long bridge to the Floating Island with Umbrial overlooks a large chunk of the world, and given worlds in this Universe are much larger then the other Universes, from high up its easy to see larger portions of it. A desert aswell as a large jungle and various valleys mountains lakes and rivers can be seen aswell as multiple floating islands as they walked on the road by the cliffs edge, it was a breath taking sight, and thats without looking at the beautiful sky with the sun shineing through the beautiful clouds above.
"Its incredible, isnt it?" Leider asked Verrader as they looked at the view.
"Yeah, it never gets old." Verrader said.
"This world might be a good canidit for most beautiful world in all of Universe thirteen." Leider said.
"Maybe, but we havent seen many worlds besides it, there may be worlds even more beautiful then this, we just havent seen them yet." Verrader said.
"True, but a view like this? thats difficult to beat." Leider said as the two continued down the road. They could see creatures that were native to the planet, a type of elk creature, pure white with green glowing eyes and large antlers, a entire herd of these majestic creatures, a type of green aura surrounding each of them respectively.
"Remember back in the simpler days when we were in school?" Leider asked
"Yeah, i remember our teacher Letra telling us about how all these creatures have Auras, each species have their own Aura which is basicly their power, its passive and is different per animal, these Alics have a Calming Aura which calms any lving thing around them, it keeps preditors from wanting to hunt and eat them, though it doesnt always work. " Verrader said.
"Speaking of powers, you never did tell me what your power was, what is it?" Leider asked
"I'm not certain honestly, though sometimes when im focused on something, i can get extremely focused on it, like allmost in a out of control kind of way, i think my power is the ability to focus really well." Verrader said
"Either that or consumption, as it sounds like it can consume you if it goes too far." Leider said.
"Yeah, i think so. So whats your power?" Verrader asked
"Im a charmer, i have the ability to speak in such a way that everyone listens, a certain charisma type power, the ability to talk and convince others to follow me." Leider said.
"Thats gonna be useful for becoming king, but i think i can use my focus to even the odds." Verrader said.
"Yeah, you could, just dont let it consume you." Leider said.
The two kept walking down the road past the herd of Alics as they found themselves in a kind of village, it was small, a few taverns farms and houses, it was the home of a small community. The two went into the villiage and noticed a little girl being bullied by two slightly older kids.
"Maybe you should use that charm of yours on those kids." Verrader suggested
Leider just sighed and walked to the three kids, the two bullys and little girl who was holding a stuffed Alic.
"Give us the toy little girl before we beat it out of you!" one kid said
"Please just leave me alone!" the little girl said, she was sad and crying.
"Oh look the baby is gonna cry!" the second kid said as Leider walked up behind them.
"What exactly is going on here?" Leider asked as the two kids turned around.
"None of your buisness old man! get lost!" the first kid said.
Leider just crouched down to their level and looked at them.
"Why are you being mean to this girl?" Leider asked
"Are you deaf? we said get lost! you dont belong in this town anyway!" the second kid said, clearly they were not gonna listen to Leider, who just chuckled a little in response, he then activated his charm ability.
"Listen kids, i get it, you probably do this on a day to day basis, but i think you should consider something...ya see, that girl has a daddy, and hes probably about as big as i am, maybe bigger, and if ya continue to bully this girl, your gonna make that daddy angry, and i dont think your daddy would be happy with that." Leider said.
The kids though about what he said. "So? thats only if he finds out! and her daddy wont find out because she knows what we will do to her if she tells on us!" the first kid said, but was now a bit worried
"True, but now im here, and i live close by, so it wouldnt be any problem for me to keep an eye on you if i told her father about what you two have been doing, and even if you did beat her up, her father would still find out eventually, then you would be in even more trouble because you hurt a little girl. And lied about it to both parents.
Thats one possibility, Or, you can stop being mean to her, and save yourselves the heartache" Leider said. The kids actually looked sad at themselves. They gave the girl a hug and apoligized to her accordingly. Leider smiled and got up and went back to Verrader.
"That was...impressive...You werent kidding about your power." Verrader said
"Ofcourse i wasnt, why would i?" Leider said
"is it limited? like only for kids?" Verrader said
"It used to be, but over the years ive gotten better and better with it, it works with just about anyone." Leider said.
"I see...would it work on me?" Verrader said
"Ive tried, your too stubborn of a individual it seems...haha!" Leider luaghed and Verrader chuckled as the two left the villiage
They continued down the road, by the look from the view it seems they havent traveled very far, but that was due to the gigantic size of the world and area they were in, they had been walking a fair amount, for a few hours at least. They came across an opening in the forest beside them, they took a moment to look at this opening.
"That girl, Aly, mentioned an opening like this in the forest, this might be where that gate is." Verrader said
"You really are sure of this arent you?" Leider asked
Verrader didnt even respond, instead he walked right through the opened path infront of them. Leider just shaked his head and followed. The area itself was a very clear pathway, footsteps could be seen on the ground following the path, this was likely the group that came here last time, the forest along this path began to look more and more overgrown, becoming more of a jungle the deeper down the path they went.
Until they finally came across a Janus Gate just as Aly described. The structure of the gate was black and a blue-ish purple color, and the world visible on the other side looked like a graveyard, and there was no name hovering above the Janus Gate
"We found it! it is real afteral!" Verrader said in excitement, but his face went from excitement to complete terror, realizeing what it meant for this gate was real. But he wasnt certain.
"Leider...what should we do?
...
Leider?" Verrader asked as he turned around, Leider was gone, the path was gone, infact the only thing Verrader could see was this Janus Gate, its as if everything else was blured out. Verrader then decided to walk into the gate.
On the other side, there is a massive Black Hole in the sky, which was allmost nonexistent besides the dark blue and purple horizon all around the edges of the world. the ground itself was dark, dead, lifeless, small hills and mountains in the distance aswell as countless graves. there was a strange feeling throughout the entire world.
Verrader looked horrified by the sight, seeing what appeared to be a mystical figure in the distance, it turned to him but he couldnt make out his or her appearnce.
and just as the figure walked towards Verrader everything faded to white as Verrader heard a voice.
"verrader!...verrader wake up!" Leiders voice could be heard as Verrader opened his eyes, he sat up to look around, they were right beside where the Janus gate was, it wasnt there anymore.
"Where is it? where did it go?" Verrader asked
"Where is what?" Leider asked
"The gate! the Janus Gate! i saw it! i entered it! where did it go?" Verrader asked as he stood up looking around.
"There is no Janus Gate here Verrader, it was all fake, like i suspected." Leider said
"No! NO! it was HERE! i saw it with my own eyes!" Verrader insisted.
"There is NOTHING HERE VERRADER! nothing! no gate or anything! what you saw was just a dream! get over it already!" Leider said.
Verrader looked uncertain, he knew what he seen and was now certain what he seen was real.
"I know what i seen Leider, it was real." Verrader said as he walked away.
Leider just shaked his head.
"Hes already let this thing consume him, i have a bad feeling about all of this, no matter, i need to refocus on becoming king tomorrow, this world needs me now more then ever to become king instead of Verrader." Leider thought to himself.
"I know what i seen was real, it simply has to be, there is no way it isnt! i have to figure something out, i gotta save everyone, i dont care what it takes, tomorrow i will become king, and when i do im gonna put everything i have into saving everyone from this Soulless World.
I have too." Verrader said.
-END OF CHAPTER 2-
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Post by InsaneAlphaBeta on Apr 18, 2018 20:01:30 GMT
Chapter 3: Broken
The next day, Leider was in his house and just woke up, he just got his clothes on and was in his house in the City District. The house, like everything else in this city, was made of gold, atleast the walls floor and ceiling was gold, it looked both modern and medieval at the same time. His bedroom, which is where he was, was fairly nice, he had many books, he spent a decent amount of time reading books, which in this universe are events that happened in the past and future. However only the readable books were past events. though there were story based books aswell. His bed was also normal and he had a nice view of the city from his window. He walked to that window which overlooked the city, his house having two floors it seems.
"Today is the day a new era falls upon these people, a new king will be crowned, and that king will be me, it has to be me." Leider said he went downstairs, which ofcourse were also golden.
As he got downstairs into his living room and kitchen, he made his way to his front door he tried to open the door, but couldnt.
"Ofcourse i forgot my keys." Leider thought to himself as he went to the kitchen to get himself a cup and got himself some water, after drinking it he went to the living room and searched around the few tables and cabnets to find his keys, after a few minutes of searching he found them and went back to the door to unlock it.
However, it still wouldnt open.
"Why wont it open?...whats going on here." Leider said to himself, continueing to try and unlock the door with no success, he looked concerned now, he then put his keys in his pocket and tried to bash his door open, still no success, it was clear something was blocking it.
"What is going on here? i swear if this is Verraders doing." leider said as he went to a window and tried to open it, he failed again. he backed up ran to his window and tried to jump through it, but once again he failed, its as if every possible exit of this house has been closed off and reinforced.
"I cant get out! he...he locked me in here!? but how?" leider said as he tried to bash through every window and nothing worked, he scrabled trying to figure out how to escape.
Meanwhile, in the Castle District, the crowd was gathering around infront of a small golden stage, getting ready for the vote to begin, Verrader was sitting on a chair waiting for it to begin.
He noticed there was no sign of Leider yet and breathed a sigh of relief. As the man in the robe suit came out from the same building as before and stood infront of the people on the stage.
"Good morning everyone, its time for the vote to begin, both of the two main canidates will come up here to give you their case for why they should be crowned King of Umbrial.
So, to start this off, please welcome the first canidate. Verrader Leven." the man said as the crowed cheered and clapped.
Verrader got up and went to the stage.
"Thank you Ronius" Verrader said as he shook Ronius's hand as Verrader took center stage and looked at everyone.
"People of Umbrial, im here today to convince you all why i should become King of Umbrial.
Ever since the death of our previous ruler, its been a scary time, i understand that all of you are afraid of what tomorrow will bring, and i know that you all desire someone who can keep you safe, someone who can make sure the future will be bright, and thats what im here to do, to keep all of you safe, to make sure everyone is given a chance to live their lives and live them fully, to live a life they an be proud of. And most of all, a life without fear. And that ladies and gentlemen is what i promise you today." Verrader continued
Leider was struggleing to try and find a way out of his house as he saw some people in the district not far outside his house, it was a man and a woman, he banged on the window and yelled as loudly as he could. thankfully. the two thought they heard something and looked at Leiders house and saw him, they rushed over to his front door and noticed it had several things blocking it. and one by one they tried to get everything out of the way.
Meanwile in the Castle District.
"The world today is a dark and dangerous place, everywhere you turned dnager lurks everywhere, even stepping outside your front door is a dangerous act, something that you must do with caution. How can we live when stepping out of your front door is something you have to be afraid to do? how can we live in a world filled with so much danger that something as simple as enjoying the beauty of our planet, is a task filled with dangers? well, i say those days must end." Verrader said
meanwhile in the City District, the couple got everything out of the way and opened the door.
"Sir! are you okay?" the man asked
"Yes i am! i am now atleast, thank you so much! do you have any idea who did this?" leider asked them
"No not really, but last night we thought we saw some people outside your house, thought they were guests, maybe they locked you inside?" the woman guessed.
"Ofcourse...Hey..did the election start by any chance?" leider asked
"No idea sir." the man said.
"Well alright, thanks for the help..by the way, whats your names?" Leider asked
"My name is Fayan" The man said.
"And im Syrus" the woman said.
"Ah, well my name is Leider, its nice to meet you.. unfortunately, i need to hurry, thanks for the help!" leider said as he sprinted off towards the Castle District
"Your welcome!" Syrus yelled back as Leider left.
Back at the Castle District
"And in closeing, i wanna assure you all, that no matter what happens, you can count on one thing, you will never have to fear tomorrow ever again. Thank you." Verrader said as he stepped aside as Ronius went back to the center stage.
"And lkast but not least, would Leider Croi please come to the stage." Ronius said. nothing happened.
"I said Leider Croi, please come to the stage." Ronius said again and still nothing.
"It would seem Leider Croi is not here, if he doesnt arrive within the next few moments, he will be disqualified." Ronius said.
They waited and waited and still Leider didnt show up.
"Very well...Verrader step forward" Ronius said as he brought a crown out.
"Since Leider didnt show up, i here by crown you the winner...ladies and gentleman\, i present to you now the new king of Umbrial...Verrader Leven!" Ronisu said as he put the crown on Verraders head and everyone clapped and cheered.
Leider just got past the front gate to see the newly crowned Verrader Leven become king, he was stunned.
"VERRADER!" Leider yelled which got everyones attention as everyone turned to Leider. Verrader looked surprised
"You...you locked me in my own home! you hired people to keep me in my home and locked me away so i couldnt even have a chance! why? why do this? i know you wanted to become king really badly.,.but you seriously went as far as to do this to me?" leider asked him
"I did no such thing! i won this fairly, you were late and now your making excuses! shouldnt you be supporting me? we are still friends arent we! we agreed that whoever wins, so long as it wa sone of us that this world would be in good hands, so why are you angry?" Verrader said.
"Because i expected better from my friend! i expected my friend to give me a fighting chance! not lock me in my own home!" Leider said
"leider i dont know what you are talking about, i didnt do anything like that, but if someone did i will find out who they are and bring them to justice...okay?" Verrader said.
Leider just stood there in silence, he didnt believe Verrader, he just put his head down and walked away, he knew regardless if Verrader was telling the truth or not, there was nothing he could do.
Verrader turned and looked at the castle and then began walking towards it.
"Now it can begin." Verrader said to himself.
Leider began walking back to the city district.
"I dont get it, why? why would he do this? why go this far? was he that obsessed with becoming king that he went as far as to hire people to lock me in my own home? is he that afraid of that rumored world he thought he saw? i thought we were great friends, does all of that mean nothing to him anymore?
Maybe..maybe im just looking too much into it, maybe some of his followers just really didnt want me to win and locked me in my home, maybe he had no idea...but the way he answered me, he didnt sound confused he just thought i was createing excuses, either that or maybe he just wanted everyone to think i was.
Well, theres nothing i can do now." Leider said to himself as he went into the city districts tavern and sat down at a table just thinking to himself.
"Maybe i was supposed to lose in the end." Leider thought to himself, stareing blankly into the distance.
"Hey, are you okay?" a familer voice asked him. Leide rlooked up and it was Aly.
"I guess so, you must be Aly, Verrader talked to you a few days ago." Leider said as Aly sat infront of Leider on the other side of the table.
"Yeah, i told him about that world." Aly said.
leider just laughed and smiled.
"Let me guess, you dont believe it either do you?" Aly asked
"Hahaha, if im being honest i dont. We went to that opening you said, and even followed your footsteps, literately, when we got to where the gate supposedly was, Verrader fainted, knocked out from nothing, when he woke up he said he saw the gate and went in, but there was never any gate anywhere.
So im sorry if im skeptical." leider said.
"Its okay, atleast your not insulting me and calling me a liar." Aly said
"Well i cant truely call you a liar just because i dont believe you. That wouldnt be fair." Leider said.
Aly smiled. "Thank you...even if you dont believe it, you wanna know a secret about it that i forgot to mention to Verrader?" Aly asked
"Haha, sure." Leider said.
"The gate doesnt stay in one place, it moves! it can move from place to place! thats how the rumors spread so far! and its on every single planet in the universe!" Aly said
"I thought the Janus gates couldnt be moved by any force?" leider asked
"Yeah, any force besides their own atleast. I think wenever a gate is discovered, after those who see it leave for a long enough time it vanishs! it dissappears somewhere else on the planet!" Aly said
"Well...that might explain why we never found it, but it doesnt explain how or why verrader supposedly seen it in a vision or dream." Leider said.
"Yeah i got nothing on that.
So why do you seem depressed?" Aly asked
"I think we know why." Another familer voice said, it was Fayan and Syrus, who sat beside Aly.
"These your friends?" Aly asked
"Nah, we met a few hours ago, Leider was trapped inside his house, someone blocked him in." Syrus said
"And as a result i was too late and Verrader has been crowned as the king of Umbrial" leider said
"Oh no! im sorry!" Syrus said
"Dont worry about it, it was your fault, i let my guard down and Verrader took advantedge of it, i underestimated how obsessed he was with becoming king and now he succeded." leider said.
"Why would he be so obessed with becoming king?" Aly asked
"Well it all started when he freaked out after supposedly seeing the soulless world, his power is unique in that when eh is focused on a goal, he gets so focused it consumes him and he becomes obsessed." leider said.
"The Soulless World? whats that?" Fayan asked
"Its a myth, a legend, Verrader believes it and now hes king." Leider said.
"Well..maybe it wont be that bad him as king." Syrus said.
"Yeah! you two were friends afteral right? you two seemed to hang out alot. He may have pulled a jerk move to become king but surely your friendship will last beyond this and his reign as king will be good...right?" Aly said
"i suppose, we will have to wait and see.
In the end, all we can do, is hope." Leider said.
-END OF BORN TO RISE-
CREDITS: UnOfficial theme: Through The Valley
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Post by InsaneAlphaBeta on May 17, 2018 21:24:05 GMT
FLIGHT INTO INFINITY
CHAPTER 1: HANUS
In what appears to be an endless void, a single galaxy can be seen in its center, a gigantic galaxy filled with billions of beautiful stars and worlds, but beyond it, is nothing but a black void of emptyness, all surrounding this galaxy. Deeper into the Galaxy there is a very earth like planet, orbiting a fairly normal sun. On the planets surface, it is distinctly more green then earth is, its trees are larger, the water more blue, the clouds closer to the surface createing a gorgeous sky, the world was vibrant, peaceful, and quite beautiful.
There is a large city, a city filled with tall skyscrapers and busy streets filled with both humans and neonytes, living together. And in the cities park, there is a stage with a huge crowd of humans and neonytes all gathered before a man, who was wearing a strange suit, it was white and blue, he was standing on a stage infront of a podium with a microphone, there was cameras around to film this event.
Behind this man was five individuals, with one of the five standing infront of the other four, he seemed like the leader. He had shoulder length black hair and a stubble type of beard, brown eyes, wears a full suit of armor without a helmet, White with basic orange designs on it, a orange scarf which is part of the armor just below his neck, two white and orange swords on the back of his armor, both were very futuristic in how they looked, very sharp metal blades reinforced in various white and orange metal parts, a slight amount of orange lightning flowing through the two swords.
To the right of the man in the center of the group was a woman, she has long dark brown hair with red highlights, she has light purple eyes and a red hood which covers her back and goes over her head, she has a armored metal dress and skirt with black with red designs on it, aswell as matching boots and gloves, she has no visible weapon. To her right was a neonyte man. he had short black hair with purple skin and green eyes, he has a white sleeveless shirt on with some black designs on it and jeans, he was carrying a backpack.
To the left of the man standing in the center was a neonyte woman, she had medium length dark red hair and bright orange skin. she has orange eyes and she wears a light blue shirt with a light blue coat over it, and matching armored pants and shoes. on her hips are two pistols, both with spikes in their respective barrels, aswell as a chain attached to those spikes. And to the left of her was a man, he has short yellow hair, a long beard with yellow eyes, wears a grey coat over a black shirt and pants. hes carrying a notebook and a pen.
The man at the podium looked behind him at the five individuals and behind them at a large Y shaped ship which was white with blue and black stripe designs on it. He then looked at the crowd.
"Humans and Neonytes, we were all born here on this planet we call home, ever since the early days we had to get along with each other through some... difficult times, but despite the odds we have existed side by side for many years.
In the early days, we tolerated each other and our species mainly stayed separated, but after time passed we began to become friends, we grew a bond and now look around, neonyte with human familys populate the entire planet, peace achieved for both of our species, we are truely one now. And after we became one, we finally given ourselves, and this planet a name. We called ourselves the Humans And Neonytes United Society, H.A.N.U.S, and so we named our planet Hanus.
United, we created peace for all of our people. And now our journey continues, the one thing even together we have yet to do, is answer one single question. What is above us?... for years after achieveing peace we have looked to the stars and wondered if we were alone in this galaxy, we wonder if there is even anything beyond this galaxy, for decades we have wondered but today begins the journey to answer that question, where are we, who truely are we, and what awaits us in the years ahead?
And now allow me to introduce to you all here today, the man who will lead a team of individuals into the stars, please welcome, Carter." The man in the suit said, the large crowd cheered and stood up in appluase for Carter, who stepped forward to the podium as the man in the suit moved out of the way. Carter looked out to the crowd of people as his team stood behind him.
"Hello, my name is Carter, Ever since i was young i wanted to explore, weither it be the world around me, or even space itself, i love going into the unknown not knowing whats on the other side, not knowing what mysterys i'll discover, and with my team behind me thats exactly what we will do." Carter said as he looked at his team one by one.
"Rose," he said looking at the woman with the long brown hair with red highlights. "Gama" he said looking at the male neonyte. "Sif" He said looking at the female neonyte, "and Baler." looking at the man with short yellow hair and beard.
"This is my team, people i know i can count on, and ultimately my best friends, and behind us, is our ship, The S.O.R. Appropriately named the Summit of Revelation. With it, we will reach the peak of discovery, ventureing out into our galaxy to see if we are alone, and to go beyond it, see what is beyond, and face it head on.
We were born on this world, a world filled with dormint structures, gates that no longer have any power, we studied them and realized they have a name, we found they were called The Janus Gates, we dont know what they led to, but we know that at one point in time, they were active, doorways perhaps into new worlds, but now they all are just...turned off. Like something shut them off. Maybe in our journey we can find out what happened to those gates.
Even so, i dont know whats out there, i dont know what we will find, but i do know this. Whatever we find, whoever we find, we will be ready.
Thank you." Carter said as the crowd cheered. Carter backed up to his team as the man in the suit stepped forward again.
"Tomorrow, This team will go out into the galaxy to discover if we truely are alone, they will go on a long journey to find the answers we so desperately desire closure for, and they will lead us into the future." the man said as the crowd cheered and clapped.
The crowd then resumed their day as the man at the podium turned to Carter and his team.
"Make us proud." the man said as he left.
Carter turned around and looked at his team.
"So, what now?" Rose asked
"Now, we get ready, we've said goodbye to our loved ones, and now its time to say goodbye to this planet. We wont be back here for a long, long time." Carter said.
Gama and Baler went to the S.O.R. While Rose and Sif walked off out of the park.
Carter just sat down at a nearby bench in the park and looked at the sky.
"After all of these years, we are finally doing it....finally.
Im gonna miss this place." Carter thought to himself.
Gama and Baler were inside the ship, it seemed the too were in the upper half of the bay area of the ship, which was opened, acting also as a ramp.
"What do you think we will find?" Gama asked
"Honestly i dont know, we could find an entire fleet of things that wanna kill us, or nothing at all." Baler said with tools in his hand, it seemed like he was either repairing the ship, or just making sure it was good to go.
"We might find peaceful life, or better yet intellegent life!" Gama said
"THose are all possibilitys..now if you'll excuse me, ive got some things to do." Baler said
"Alright then." Gama said with a frown as he left and went into his own room.
Baler just sighed.
"I dont care what we find, so long as this trip isnt a waste of my time." Baler said.
Gama was in his room looking at all his notes, all blank pages waiting for information to be put on them.
"Ive always wanted to find something new, maybe we will, maybe we wont...i just hope we find something....anything." Gama said.
Meanwhile, Sif and Rose were sitting on a cliff, overlooking the city.
"You gonna be okay leaveing mom and dad behind?" Rose asked Sif.
"Yeah, i think mom and dad will be fine without us. Did you read moms note?" Sif asked her
"Nah, i havent gotten the chance, what did she say?" Rose asked
"She wanted us to know that shes gonna miss us, you know, the useal." Sif said.
"Cant blame her, but she will be fine." Rose said.
"What about you? will you be okay?" Sif said
"Ofcourse i'll be okay, ive been away from them alot more then you have, a better question is will i be okay leaving all of this." Rose said, the cliff they were on overlooked the entire town, aswell as the park which was visible, beyond the city was a beautiful lake with green forests beyond it, the sun reflecting off the water was a beautiful sight, as was the mountains all around them, this world had a certain sense of peace around it, like all of its troubles are a thing of the past, and it now looks onward to a bright future.
"Yeah, im gonna miss this view." Sif said
"Well, atleast we both can miss it together." Rose said
"Yeah." Sif said as she smiled.
Carter was still in the park and was walking to the ship, the ramp, leading into the bay area was still open. So carter walked in.
Inside he could see the engine room, which was at the back end of the ship, he could see several individuals working on the ship to make sure its ready for tomorrow. and he ofcourse was in the bay area. He walked torwards the front of the ship, arrived at a sort of hallway with three rooms on each side, at the end a door with two staircases on the left and right side leading up, he walked forward, it was his room. which had a view of the outside, a bed, fridge and counter area, aswell as a closet filled with clothes, another one for armor, and a few lockers which contained his weapons.
He left this room and went up one of the staircases, he was now in a planning and meeting room, and infront of it was the bridge, where the pilots of the ship are, or where they will be atleast, aswell as a console interface which was likely used to send out orders, talkto the entire ship, communicate to other comm systems, and navigate and actively map out their journey through the galaxy.
Carter stood at the console and looked ahead at the large window around the bridge which let him see outside.
"Tomorrow is the day we begin our journey, we set the records straight, find out where we are and whats out there. We find out our place in the galaxy. And most of all find out whats in store for us in the future.
I dont know what we will find, but i know above all else, im ready. We, are ready." Carter said.
The next day, the team is inside the S.O.R. The Summit of Revelation. Everyone is in the meeting and bridge area and two new people are sitting at the ships controls, One was a woman who looked to be in her late twentys, she had long blonde hair, and auniform with the same color scheme as the ship, there was a man beside her who was bald, also in his late twentys wearing the same type of uniform. They were the pilots of the ship, besides Carter atleast.
The main team is gathered around the meeting area, a medium sized table with 2 chairs on its sides, Rose and Sif on one side and Gama and Baler on the other, with a chair at the end of the table which carter was sitting in.
"So, where exactly will we be going once we leave this planet?" Rose asked
"We dont really have a specific destination, we are just gonna explore the galaxy until we find something." Carter said
"What if we dont find anything in the Galaxy?" Gama asked
"Well, if we dont find anything and realize we are alone in this galaxy, then we will fly outside it, and see what we find beyond our galaxy." carter said
"How is the ship gonna get that far? how does this thing even work?" Baler asked
"Thats where we come in! my blood is pink, which means i have power over light! More specificly, i can absorb light and use that light and turn it into energy, i can give it to myself, or others, and in this case, the ship, and seeing as ive been tanning lately, ive absorbed a ton of light!" Sif said.
"Neonytes can tan?" Baler asked
"Ofcourse we can! some neonytes tan for several hours every day so their skin looks darker and they look younger, and others like my self due it for other reasons, i can absorb light from the sun, so tanning allows me to absorb tons of light!" Sif said
"Is there a limit to how much light you can absorb?" Carter asked
"If there is, i certainly havent found it yet." Sif said.
"And what about you Gama? whats your blood type?" Carter asked
"Its Teal, which is for Air. I can breath anywhere i want simply by createing air, i can also give others Air aswell so they can breath for a long time aswell." Gama said.
"So in a way, you could breath underwater?" Baler asked
"Yeah, i could, but i have to be careful, Air underwater can cause all sorts of issues." Gama said
"And what about you Carter? any special qualitys you wanna tell us about?" Rose asked
"Well,.." Carter started as a horn could be heard in the distance.
Outside the ship, tons of people were gathering around the ship as it was allmost time for liftoff.
"I guess you will have to wait and see." Carter said as he smiled and got up as everyone got into position, the ships bay ramp closed as the ships engines began to fire up.
"So Carter, anything you wanna say?" Sif asked as Carter looked at everyone inside the ship.
"For many years, we have looked to the stars and asked if we were alone, we wonder if there is other life out there, we wonder what lies beyond our galaxy, and that sense of wonder is what will guide us onward as we answer those questions, and guide Hanus into the future.
So, what are we waiting for?" Carter said.
The team smiled as the crowd outside cheered, the ship slowly began to rise, the man who was at the podium watched on as the ships thrusters came on, the ship continued upward until it then flew off into the sky.
It didnt take long for the ship to get past the clouds and out of the atmosphere and into outer space. They could see the galaxy alot more clearly now, as they got out of the solar system. They had a breathtaking view of the galaxy just outside the solar system. Carter remained with the two pilots as the others remained at the meeting table.
"And here we are, what a view!" Sif said.
"Its pretty, we cant be alone out here...can we?" Gama asked
"I doubt it, billions of stars and only one with life? that sounds impossible." Rose said
"I wonder if they will be friendly." Sif said
"Im leaning more towards them having a shoot on sight mentality." Baler said
"We shouldnt just assume we know what they will be like, their mental state of mine is likely completely different from our own, its silly to think they would be like us in any way." Gama said
"So what? we find them and say Hey! teach us your ways!? Yeah, i dont see that working, they wont even speak our language, they will likely have their own language." Rose said
"Thats assumeing we find anything." Baler said.
"We will, there is no way we wont." Rose said.
"If you say so, ima go check the ship." Baler said as he left the meeting room and went towards his own room.
"Hey! wait up! where are you going!" Sif said as she went after Baler.
"I think ima go too, there is no telling how long it will be until we find something, i need to rest and make sure im ready." Gama said as he left, leaving only Rose.
She just sighed and put her hands behind her head and closed her eyes.
"Everyone leave you?" Carter asked her as he walked over to her.
"Yup." Rose said as she opened her eyes and looked at Carter, who sat down in a chair beside her.
"Well, on the plus side your getting some alone time." Carter said
"Yup, which you are currently interrupting....captian." Rose said
Carter just smiled "Alright, ya got me on that one." Carter said
"Do you think we will find anything?" Rose said.
"I dont see how we wouldnt, or couldnt, there are so many planets and stars out there, there is no way we are alone, the real question on everyoens mind, is what happens when we find someone, or something? Do we try to be friendly, do we hide and stalk them? how will they react to us? wat if they capture us? what if we capture them? What if we find an entire army whose only mission is to destroy all life? or what if we find nothing at all, just dust and echoes?
These are the questions keeping everyone up at night, and this is why we are here. Even if we find nothing, nothing is still an answer. And it might be the safest." Carter said.
"True, but what if we find something we cant even comprehend?" Rose asked
"Then we deal with it when the time comes, or rather we cross that bridge when we get there, until then we focus on whats ahead of us." Carter said
"And whats that?" Rose asked
"A entire galaxy waiting to be explored, and the answers to all of our questions." Carter said.
"Well, i suppose we better get to work then." Rose said
"I suppose we should." Carter said.
-END OF CHAPTER 1-
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Post by InsaneAlphaBeta on May 19, 2018 16:55:44 GMT
CHAPTER 2: INTO THE UNKNOWN
The Summit of Revelation has been flying through space for a few days now, its been passing by multiple star systems and clusters, beautiful nebulas and more, but so far, Carters team have gotten no signs of life on any of the planets orbiting around these stars, so far its been one dead planet after another.
Carter was standing at the console, Rose and Sif beside him. Infront of them they could see outside the front of the ship, and they could see the millions of stars before them, aswell as the outer void beyond the galaxy that seemingly was space.
"How many planets have we found?" Rose asked
"Roughly around a hundred and twenty." Carter said
"Thats not alot." Sif said
"No, its not, but its a start, we can only fly so fast without the risk of missing habitable planets, let alone planets that contain life of some kind. Its gonna take a long time before we find any signs of life." Carter said
"At what point do we say there is no life?" Rose asked
"Well, in general a safe bet would be atleast ninety percent of the stars and planets, but for certainty, we would have to atleast go past them all." Carter said
"How long would that take?" Rose asked
"At this rate? several years, maybe upwards of twenty if i had to guess." Carter said
"What fi they are all just hideing? or what if we do find life?" Sif asked
"If we find life then that means we wont have to search the rest of the galaxy, we can make a safe assumption of there being more life out there, and i doubt they are hideing." Carter said
"Not everyone wants to be found." Rose said
"True, but we also cant assume they think like us, you said that yourself." Carter said
"True." Rose said.
The S.O.R. continued on its path through the Galaxy, scanning nearby planets for habitable conditions for life or just life forms in general, but thus far no luck, at the very least they had a beautiful view. That was until they came across a unique solar system in the distance, its sun was brighter then alot of others nearby.
Carter stared intently at that sun.
"There, thats where we will find life." Carter said pointing to the sun.
"Over there? are you sure captain? why do you think that that star will have life?" the blonde pilot asked
"Call it a gut feeling Venna" Carter said
"Arnold, you ready?" Venna asked the other pilot.
"Yup, lets go." Arnold said
"Alright, setting new course, activateing thrusters, we are off." Venna said as the ship then went straight for that star.
"Captain, we should arrive there within a few days." Venna said
"Can you get us there faster?" Carter asked
"I mean...yeah...we could, but we risk missing other planets that could contain life, and that scanner takes awhile to turn back on, switching the energy from that to the thrusters would disable it for several hours, if there is life, we would be completely in the dark for hours captain....are you sure this is what you wanna do?" Cenna asked
Carter looked at the distance star for a few more moments before he looked back at the pilots.
"Yes, im sure, do it." Carter said
"Alright captain, we should arrive within a few hours." Venna said "Disableing life scanner, switching energy to thrusters, activateing FTL shield and boosters." Venna said as the ship began to accelerate towards that star.
"You sure this is a good idea Carter?" Rose asked
Carter just kept stareing at the star system "Yeah, im sure." Carter said as he left the bridge and went down to his room.
Sif and Rose just looked at each other.
"You think he knows something we dont?" Rose asked
"I dont think so, i think he just has a feeling about that star, i would too if i seen a distant star notably brighter then all the others." Sif said, Rose shrugged.
Carter was in his room, he was sitting down on a couch and writeing in what appeared to be his Journal.
"Its been a few days since we left Planet Hanus and after passing over 120 planets i noticed a distant star which looks brighter then the other stars for some reason, i had this strange gut feeling that that is where we will find life...but i have no idea why, this feeling was...strange, never felt anything like it before, like something deep inside of me calling out and telling me that si the destination we must go to.
Im not sure what caused my hunch or gut feeling, but for some reason, i trust it, its allmost like an extension of myself, telling me where to go. Its kinda creepy if im being honest, but something tells me i can trust it.
Atleast for now i can." Carter wroteing into jis journal, as he looked at the star from his window.
A few hours later and Carter, aswell as Sif, Rose, and Gama were on the bridge behind Carter who was on the console, they were allmost there in the solar system and they could see multiple planets orbiting the bright large orange sun.
"Captain, there actually seem to be a few planets in the habitable zone." Venna said
"The life scanner is off, how can you tell?" Gama asked
"Ive studied our own solar system for years before becoming a pilot, every star system has a habitable zone, or so we suspect, if a planet is too close to the sun, water boils and doesnt stay, but if the planet is too far away, water just becomes ice. However there is a golden zone where its not too cold or hot and the water can exist normally, and there are a few planets here that might be habitable." Venna said
"Could it contain life?" Carter asked
"It certainly could, but the only way to know for certain is either the life scanner comes back on, or you and a few others go onto the planet." Venna said
"Can we get a closer look?" Carter asked
"Indeed we can sir." Venna said as they flew the ship closer to the habitable planet, this planet seems to have a atmosphere like Hanus, aswell as clouds, it seemed to have air aswell as all the basic chemicals needed for a world to sustain life.
"Well Carter, what do you wanna do?" Rose asked
"Baler stays on the ship to make sure its ready incase we need to leave, we fly the ship down onto a safe place, then me and you three head down and see what we can find on the planets surface." Carter said
The two pilots nodded as the ship then flew closer to the planet, it got itno the atmosphere and through the clouds, it was very foggy so they couldnt see much, they did however find a clearing in what appeared to be a kind of crystal forest.
The ships landing gear came out includeing the bays ramp, the four walked down the ramp and onto the planets surface as the bay closed.
"Carter, can you hear me?" Venna could be heard from an earpiece.
"Yes i can." Carter said
"Good, that means comms are working, we will keep this comm open for you incase you need to tell us anything." Venna said
"Sounds good, Carter out." Carter said as the four looked around.
The world they were on was nothing like Hanus, the ground itself was made of crystal, even objects that lightly resembled trees were all crystal, these crystals were clear and allmost like a mirror and window combined, reflecting all of the light around it, the fog in the are made it difficult to see what was around them, but they could see enough for now.
"Wow, this place is beautiful!" Sif said
"I can only imagine what the rest of the world looks like, you getting all of this Gama?" Carter asked
"Yup, writeing down all of it." Gama said as he kneeled down at one of the crystal trees, putting his hand on it and the ground crystal respectively.
"These crystals seem somwhat different, the ground is solid and firm but the tree like crystals are more rough, yet delicate, not as solid as the ground and seemingly more reflective." Gama said
"Any signs of life so far?" Rose asked
"Depends on your definition really, if by life you mean anything that has a heart or can act on its own will, then these crystal trees might be a kind of life, but im not sure, they dont seem to contain any food or substances a living thing would gather or eat or really anything." Gama said
"More accurately, nothing you know of." Carter said
"Well, yeah." Gama said
"Well, lets keep moving for now." Carter said as him Sif Rose and Gama continued on their way through the beautiful crystal forest, and they reached what seemed to be a clearing as the fog began to fade away, and what they seen was breath-taking.
just beyond the forest a cliff, and beyond that cliff was a beautiful valley, a few rivers and lakes with water, and spiral crystals mountains all infront of them in this distance. And the sky above was surprsingly vibrant, three mons, two large moons and one medium sized moon was in the sky, one red, one blue, and one green, all three moons were reflecting light from the sun into the night sky which was filled with a ever changeing rainbow of colors mixed throughout it, though they were darker colors, all these colors shined down on the crystals, which reflected the lights on every other crystal reflection, createing a incredible view, its as if they were now standing in the middle of a shining crystal rainbow.
None of them had any words to describe what they were looking at.
Carter just took some steps forward and sat down at the edge of the cliff.
"So, you all glad you came along?" Carter asked
"With a sight like this, i know im glad." Sif said with a smile on her face just taking the sight in.
"How can a world like this even exist? is the entire world like this?" Rose asked
"Well Hanus has quite a few different looking locations, one would assume this planet might be the same, but i honestly wouldnt even be mad if this was the entire planet." Gama said.
"The way the light reflects off these crystals, you would think it was day time with how bright everything is." Carter said.
"Well we would think atleast, i just find it hard to believe a planet like this can exist." Sif said.
"Well i suggest you start believeing, because here we are." Carter said.
"So, where do we go now?" Rose asked
"Well, we have a few options, up the spiral mountain to get a better view, to the lake to see if there is any signs of life, or we go forward, down this cliff into the valley and beyond it and the mountains to see whats beyond this area we are in." Carter said.
"The lake would be faster, and give us a good indication of light on this planet." Gama said
"But the mountain would give us a better view of the area so we could make a better judgement on what to do." Rose said
"Or we could just sit here and enjoy the view." Sif said
"We will go to the lake first, see what we can find if anything, then depending on what we find there, then we decide what to do from there.
But for now, we wait a little bit more, and enjoy this view while it lasts." Carter said.
After a few minutes the gro\up got up on their feet and walked down the cliff and towards the lake.
As they continued through the valley towards the lake, the crystals remained as bright and as beautiful as before, and it remained night time, the three moons still high in the night sky above. And as they reached the lake, all the beautiful reflections of light were reflecting onto the water aswell.
"So, how exactly are we gonna see if there is anything living inside the lake?" Gama asked
"Thats the easy part, we lure them out." Carter said
"And how do we do that?" Rose asked
"Watch." Carter said, he took out one of his swords and stabbed the ground beside them, breaking the crystal and createing soem smaller peices, Gama took one peice to study later on while carter put his sword back and picked up a few newly created crystal rocks.
He took them and threw them far into the lake to see any moments.
So far, nothing.
"Well that did work, any other bright ideas?" Rose asked as Carter pulled out his swords.
"Wait, wont those kill anything in the water?" Sif asked
"Well back on our world they could every now and then, this world is likely different." Carter said
Sif just shaked her head and watched.
Carter took both swords and stabbed them into the water, the lightning serged across the water and all throughout the water.
It was complete silence for a few moments.
Then, a large ground shaking incredibly deep growl was heard, and felt from the lake as the water moved, there was definitely something huge under the water.
"Oh my.." Carter said
"Yeah i vote we dont anger the friendly sea creature anymore. We learned what we learned." Sif said.
"So...we arent alone afteral.." Carter said as he looked at the lake.
"Umm...." Rose started
"Its a shame that creature didnt show itself." Gama said
"Hey..umm." Rose started
"I know! i wonder if it was as pretty as the crystals! or if it all rainbow colored!..or if it was-"
"HEY! WOULD YOU ALL LISTEN TO ME? LOOK!" Rose said as she pointed to beyond the lake.
There was sounds coming from the distance beyond the mountain, flashs of light not like the sky above, it sounded like a humming noise, a very low pitched hum, like a large machine activateing. there was flashing lights coming where the noise was heard, just beyond the lake over a hill.
"Oh dear..is, is that what i think it is?" Sif asked
"I think it is, you know what this means, right carter?" Rose asked
"It means we need to head over there immediately and find out what is going on over there." Carter said, the group went running by the lake, as they began the sprint to find out what all these sounds and flashing lights truely were.
-END OF CHAPTER 2-
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Post by InsaneAlphaBeta on Jun 30, 2018 0:57:13 GMT
CHAPTER 3: FIRST CONTACT
As the team continued their sprint past the lake, they finally reached the hill and were moments from reaching it. As they continued, the sounds only got louder, the light brighter.
As the four of them got over the hill, they were all surprised by what they saw.
Infront of them was a vast and long valley, and in its center was a huge structure, it was made of a strange material, part metal and part crystal, it has the look of metal but it shined like crystal, but without the reflections. It was huge and had an entrance which was in the process of opening up, but there wasn't anything around it.
"What is that thing?" Sif asked
"Some kind of..i dont know temple? home? i have no idea what it is. But whatever it is, it's opening." Rose said
"Well, it doesn't seem like anyone's around, perhaps we should go in and find out what's inside." Carter said.
"Are we just going to assume nothing is in there?" Gama said
"No, we stay on guard just incase we find someone, or something." Carter said as he got his swords out Sif pulled out her pistol spikes. Rose extended her hands out and a Lance formed in her hand, it was made of roses and it shined like metal. Gama didnt have a weapon.
The group proceeded down the hill and towards the gigantic structure, the closer they got the larger they realised it actually was, as they reached the now opened entrance, the inside was dark. And after taking a final look around they walked inside.
As they entered the structure, the lights in the walls began to turn on, a rainbow of color flooded the halls, lighting the entire structure up, the atmosphere within this ancient place made it feel like the essence of life itself was in this place, it was a sight to behold. And while they stared in amazement, they continued on, walking deeper into this mysterious place.
They found themselves in a room, a large wall in the back with images eched into it. It shown a woman. She was wearing a long crystal dress, it seemed to be made of the same material the structure they were in was made of. The dress was red blue and gold, the woman herself had long white hair and seemed to be fairly young, but definitely an adult.
Beside her was another person, he was wearing a set of armor, it was certainly a different material then the womans dress, it was black and blue, it looked like it was armor from the future, and the past, all at the same time.
The two individuals were walking in a world that was clearly different then the world they were currently on, infact it wasn't like Hanus either.
The image beside this was the woman and who seemed to be with a man, both backing away from a giant entity, its appearnce was blurred, though it clearly towered over the two individuals. Beside this image was blank, not revealing the next event. But further down the wall the woman can be seen falling into a empty void, the man in armor reaching out for her.
The final image was the woman glowing with a beautiful light, shineing in the gold blue and red colors of her dress as she turned into three separate beings, shaped like Hexagrams, one gold, one red, one blue. each one had a eye in their center and wings resembleing an angel.
Gama was writing all of this down in his notebook, while Sif, Rose, and Carter looked on.
"Carter.... what is all this?" Sif asked
"Honestly, it's hard to put together, the woman and man, whatever it is they saw, her falling into a empty nothingness, and her literately falling apart. It's gonna take some time before we solve this one." Carter said.
Rose shrugged as she looked at Carter. "Well, atleast we aren't alone."
"There is that atleast. Still, it would be nice if we had more to go on." Carter said, staring at the images, focusing on them to see if he can figure anything else out, but he was not able to, atleast for now.
"We have plenty of time, i wrote down every detail i could." Gama said.
The comm system by carters ear turned on. "Carter, can you hear us?" Venna asked
"Yeah, i can, what is it?" Carter asked
"You guys might wanna get out of there and get back here as soon as possible, there is a strange fog thats spearding across the planet, and it's headed our way." Venna said.
"Alright, we are on our way." Carter said
"Something wrong?" Rose asked
"Some kind of fog is spearding across the planet and is heading our way. So lets go." Carter said as him and his team quickly began running as the entire structure began to shake, all the color faded to a brown and grey haze, the fog quickly englufing the structure, the walls cracking and crumbleing around them. Strange vines began rising through the cracks as the group ran through and to the outside.
The color was even gone outside, the fog made it difficult to see, but they had to keep running as the structure behind them now began to fall. As they ran, even larger vines burst out of the ground, each vine looked dead, yet alive, a red energy flowing through them as the vines try to grab each member of the team.
Rose used her lance to stab the vines as they tried to grab her, despite stabbing them, multiple vines grabbed her. Sif used her pistols to shoot her spikes into the vines and swung around them to her sister, Rose cut the vines with her lance and Sif grabbed her as they swung through the air.
Carter used his fire swords to burn as many vines as he could. Protecting Gama as they ran through a forest of vines. But more and more appearded around them. The team got together in a small clearing and they took a moment to figure out a plan as the vines formed around them.
The fog and sky darkened as the fog thickened, the air sent a chill down their spines as they whitnesed this strange phenomenon, their hands were shaking, uncertain of what exactly they were dealing with. There was a presence here that they couldn't comprehend, but they could certainly feel it.
"We need to get to the ship as fast as possible, does anyone see a clear path?" Carter asked
"No..i..i don't see...i don't see anything.." Sif said, as her hands were shaking far more then the others were.
Even carter was looking uncertain.
Deep beyond the fog, lights began to take shape, they were birght, and getting closer. As the vines lunged to the group, there were bright flashs of light, explosions all around them, flashs of gold red and blue circleing all around the vines, the explosions hurting the vines, ripping them apart. A voice called out to them.
"All of you! run! get out of here!" the voice spoke, it sounded like a woman.
"Quickly! go!" Another voice spoke to them, another woman.
Carter and his team didnt question this as an opening formed from all the explosions, they ran as fast as they could through the vines and world, retraceing their steps to make their way back to The Summit Of Revelation.
"Carter! whats going on out there?" Venna asked
"No time! get the ship ready! now!" Carter ordered as the group kept running to the ship.
Venna and Arnold were watching everything through the ships front windows, all they could see was the dense fog, flashs of gold red and blue, and the many vines growing around them.
"They need to hurry, i think we are next!" Arnold said.
The vines began sprouting up from the ground and going towards the ship.
"Yup! definitely next!" Venna said as they closed the hanger bay and began flying away from the vines, heading towards Carter and the team. The ships defenses began shooting the vines but the ammunition wasn't getting through, if anything they just made these vines even more angry.
As they tried to fly through the vines, they found Carter, Sif Rose and Gama running towards them. They spun the ship around and opened the hanger, Carter Sif and Gama got on. But as Rose ran in, vines hit the ship, forceing them to take off. Rose slipped as she fell out of the hanger, the vines grabbing her and bringing her back down.
Carter immediately without a second thought, leaped out of the ship and dived towards rose, using his swords to burn the vines that tried to grab him. Rose struggled to break free from the vines, they tightened their grip on her, making it hard to breath. She could see carter falling down into the forest of vines, cutting through them as the vines continued pulling her away.
The S.O.R. turned around and started flying back to carter as he used the fire from his swords to push him forward, he leeaped from vine to vine in a sprint after the vines that had Rose. He used the flames to burn them as he finally reached Rose and sliced the vines off of her. He grabbed her and ran up the vines while they tried to grab him. There were even more flashs of gold red and blue light around them. The ship flew by them and got into position as Carter leaped with Rose into the ship, as they landed inside the hanger does closed.
Venna and Arnold then began trying to fly off the planet but the vines kept getting in the way, minute by minute more and more formed. They found an opening in them and flew up and out of the planets atmosphere where they saw the rest of the world. There wasnt as many vines around the world as they first expected. And the gold blue and red lights seemed to fly out of the planet aswell in a flash of light.
After getting far enough away from the planet, it was tiem for the team to gather and relax. They all gathered in the meeting area just behind the bridge where the front of the ship is. The world in view in the ships front window.
"So, what just happened? what were those vines, and what did we see?" Rose asked
"Well, those vines were, quite scary, something about them just seemed...off puting to say the least. And then that voice, or voices we heard, what were they? who were they?" Sif said.
"Well that woman was those same colors when she was separated, maybe it was her?" Gama guessed.
"Maybe, and in those images, who was with her?" Sif asked
"Alright alright, we all have questions, and we have plenty of time to figure it all out, for now, i think we should take our leave completely, head back home to Hanus, and figure this all out. Sound good?" Carter asked as everyone nodded.
"Venna, Arnold, take us home." Carter said.
The Summit of Revelation activated its thrusters and began flying away from the crystal planet. As they flew away, the vines all seemed to lose the energy inside them that kept them alive, the fog vanished and the vines then fell down onto the planets surface in the few areas it was, reverting to how a normal vine would interact with the envoirment. Everything was silent. Just as something seemed to form into existence, everything faded to black. A deep, powerful growl was heard, echoing throughout the planet.
-END OF FLIGHT INTO INFINITY-
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