Drugan Star – Chapter three

   Chapter Three – Artifact

Veros feed off of the war, he became stronger every day and caused pain and torment wherever he goes. His touch decayed even the most indestructible object in the world. Even the beautiful fell to his touch.

Ceres, killed, and leaf was left. She eventually died herself. One wayward warrior that was human and God, made in the image of a race yet to be known to the world went out into the universe searching fro an answer. He goal ton resurrect the Drugan star. He had been dormant for millions of years.

This war destroyed several galaxies. Titans were dying left and right. It was odd ever to see a real human immersed into the world without the knowledge of the race.

His name, this human, was called Xerion the god virtue and justice. Not only was he righteous he was humble.

This wayward god and warrior went hunting lead to finding some artifact, to cause a rebirth. This object was called Xerrox Bane, or in the Titans language means an end to evil. Some even say its call rebirth of the universe. Xerrox is a powerful word in the Titans language. It meant a lot of things.

Xerion was not treading down an easy path. It was not smooth sailing. Xerion met many challenges. The one especially was taking on ten thousand Titans and four gods.

The world was a mess it had several gods and giants. Xerion grew sick of the world around him and was mourning the loss of drugan. Xerion was powerful and with his power, he tore a scar through the cosmos.

The origins of all gods and titans was a mystery. They could withstand the vacuum of space and the gravity of big planets.

Xerion found himself in one battle to teleported to the dead body of Ceres and Leaf. He brought them back to life, and they took to  a planet called Steren V. Where they would be safe. He vanished and found himself lost again. He found a ruins where he found writings depicting where the artifact. That was then when VEROS appeared. In this moment was the final battle for the domination of the universe.

“Die well… enemy,” Xerion said.

“fool!” veros said.

End of chapter three

 

Perseveration of Dragon – Chapter Four

 

The next years the worlds starting changing magic started spilling over due to the fact of the amounts of dragons being born. The magic became active, and soon Jay felt it flowing through him. His grandparents Buck and Jill, one day disappeared, and all that was left was their clothes. His mom and dad loved him and eventually left knowing he would be okay.

Jay grew humble with his dragons. He finally was visited by many people. They all wanted their dragons. He eventual caved and gave people their dragons. The Scarlet Arrow, defeated by his grandparents as their last action. There was sadness in his eyes at the thought of his grandparents being gone and never understood why they left or where they went. He had faith, though. He had faith they gone to a better place.

He fell in love with the tall, beautiful elf named Tersely. They got engaged and married when he was forty. He soon had children and to his luck, they became dragon farmers. It was soon after years of raising dragons fighting the odds and falling in love that he closed his final chapter. His bloodline became a legend in the world.  He was never forgotten. He never more honored for his saving of the dragon race. He saved all magic, and his parents were buried to next to him.

He was truly a king.

End of Story/book.

The Bane of Love – Chapter Two

     Chapter Two: Exiled Love

So many dates went by that I forgot about my pain. I became careless and carefree; I could feel like I could fly. I tried to stay grounded, but I found myself in heaven dreaming of her.

She had fallen madly in love with me. I felt free of the pain. The endless bounty of love filled my very essence.  I hated the world because for some strange reason they didn’t stop hating me. It was something I often used to, and it didn’t matter because I found love. I often dreamed of just sitting by the beach with her. I often thought about laying under the stars curled up with her. It was a dream, a dream in the high sky.

I had a few years with Mistia; we were about to elope. Everything and anything was going right. I felt so much better knowing that the curse would come to an end. That everyone would love me and accept me for who I was. We, Mistia and I, were engaged. I would be free from the wretched curse. I felt comfort in knowing that it will stop.

It was two days before our wedding date. My girl didn’t tell anyone about it but the person that was marrying us. So many years had passed since my mother died and since the strange day, everything was horrible.  Since I could remember the world was out to get me. There, on the last day, right before we got married.

She, Mistia, brutally murdered. Her throat cut. The crime happened on the streets of Germany. I was the first to find her. I cried. I wept as I held her green eyes in my hand. That was the real moment when I became a man. I felt like running as far away as possible. I even thought of tearing myself from limb to limb and having someone bury me across the world; scattered.

No! I sat there to hold her weak dead body. Then I hear a horrid voice as twisted as a knot in a tree. As old as the tallest oak. As Shrewd as a banshee and as sharply as a nail on a chalkboard.

“Did you think you could escape?! run away from this curse?! Be free from me??!”

“no, no, I thought to kill you! Witch!” I said.

She laughed and laughed in her sharp voice. It felt like the cat scratching all the way down to the bone. My tears seem to fuel her jealousy, and her jealousy appears to fuel my rage.

“I killed her myself, she begged and begged for mercy. I smiled as a slowly cut her jugular vein; she choked on her blood,”

She laughed again. I swung at her, in tears. It went right through. I collapsed on the street. My tears fell to the ground.

Her sharp shriek pierced my ears like a knife into bone.

“GIVE up! Deary, you’ve been defeated. You will never have true love as long as you live,” Arlianic Shern said.

RAGE, blind, pain fueled rage came into me. I Tried for another hit in this evil monster face, and nothing happened. I heard the echo of laughter around me. She had disappeared.

I looked down at my fiancee. She wasn’t even in her dress. I held her cold corpse next to mine. I had spent an hour before they found me holding her.

When the police found me, I became a  suspected number one. I knew that there was no way of proving my innocence. They wouldn’t believe anything I said; they would think I was nuts. In 1919 August first, I was tried for the murder of my fiance Mistia. I was found guilty and hanged that next day.

I pretend to be dead until they forgot about me. My neck was sore, but it healed instantly. My heart, though, had become twisted and torn. It felt like I had died inside. It felt like a piece of me was gone forever.

I took advantage of my death and ran away to America with my impenitent and bone heart. My stone heart, which I had closed lock and all. I became like a troll from a fairy tale. I hid under bridges and never ate. I never drank. I had several moments of death only to be awoken to her not there in this hell. No savior, no heroes, no damsel just me dying and undying. I still found the notes and would hear her voice scream for me.

For hours, I would cry and be hysterical. It felt like centuries of hell until I saw her face. She had to be twenty-one. She was carrying a Bible, and she had brown eyes. I felt instant attraction; my heart beat again. I felt the blood rushing through my body and into my heart. No longer did I feel like I was dead or to die by my hand but that someone had heard my soul weeping in the night. I was under a bridge in new york. It was summer time. I was a mess, but I hadn’t aged since I was twenty-five. It was 1933. I had learned English from the time I knew Mistia, and she taught me.

She knelt down before me. Laid the bible next to me, She was a brown-eyed woman with bright ocean colored eyes. She was wearing a long dress and was very pristine and clean. She was radiating with a beautiful, perfect smile. She was like an angel sent down from heaven. She was like a flower that had just blossom off of a flowering orchid.

“poor man, Have you heard of Jesus?” she said looking into my eyes.

I felt rage, but I didn’t say anything because I knew she was a gift. A gift to save myself from the horror of knowing I couldn’t die, that I couldn’t love that nothing or anything ever cared about me, not even the animals that roam about here.

“No, I don’t, please tell me,” I said.

“I will if you come, you look horrid, pork chop,” she said.

I felt like letting the pain get out. I had died so many times only to get back to the realizing that I was alone, all alone in this world. Now, This angel has come again just in the different form, and I call it mercy.

I knew and felt that primarily the universe has come again to create another window of opportunity. There was another chance to be redeemed, to-be-loved.

She helps me get up, and she said her name was Sarah, She was a Christian, and she was very much a kind gentle soul. A part of me felt anger against God and blamed him for all my misery, I lied to her and said I believed. She loved Jesus just as much as I felt strong feeling for her. Sometimes I felt angry about it.

We started dating. This women let me live with her and cleaned me up a bit. To my dismay, everyone didn’t like me. They still hated me. They are still angry at me. It boiled my blood. I felt like a rugged that get walked all over.

We moved from New York to Florida. Where we started to, actually date heavily. I didn’t care about marriage, but she insisted on it, saying that she needed a ring or she would leave. I had a job and changed my name to Jim Darnall. I enjoyed every moment with Sarah and every day I was with her. It came to one day that I knelt before her and proposed.

She said, “Yes!”

End of chapter two

 

The Bane of Love

Chapter one: Without?! Or with?!

Immortality. I never asked for it. I couldn’t fix it. I can’t die.

It started years ago when I was the just baby in Germany in 1886.  An old woman who was friends with my mother that died in soon after my birth. My father trusted her. She came to my crib one day. She sat down next to me.

“Dear, dear Verlin. I use to love your father; he fell in love with the wrong girl. I sacrifice my youth for your father; I did everything for him and what happened, Verlin, he married that whore!”

I started crying.

“Cry, Verlin, cry! Because I curse you; child to always be alone and to live immortal without love, without anyone by your side for I give my very life to make sure you live without anyone ever again,”

“By the power of the universe, by the power of darkness I curse you, child, to walk the earth alone, forever,” she said.

She laughed like a witch while slowly fading away. It was then that I never knew love ever.  My father became distant from me soon after I was able to walk. He threw toys and objects at me as I grew up.

By the time I hit adolescent, My father had hated me. The school kids despised me. They made fun of me and threw stones at me. No one would talk to me.

I found notes saying “What does rejection feels like?” They would disappear and reappear. They were all of the same origins,

“No one loves you! Verlin’,” the notes would say.

“No one likes you,” they would continue every day.

I even at age nineteen tried to kill myself. I woke up in a morgue and came back to life. From then on, I knew there was no escaping this hell.

Hope stayed with me though even when I felt like dying. I went researching all over. I even told the professor and research who probed and dissected. They even killed me a couple of times. They soon hate me also.

I joined the circus at age 25 and had several nasty things happen to me only for me to get up and walk away from it. The crowd hated me, but it paid the bills. That’s when a gypsy women came by my tent. She seemed immune to disliking me.

I am always wearing black. She, on the other hand, was wearing a red bandana. She had green eyes and dark black hair. She was holding a crystal ball. She wore earrings that looked like angels. She wore black leather pants. She wasn’t average.

My tent or I call my home was full of nick nacks and things that hurt me throughout my life. Looking at these things was difficult. I had a table in the middle of the room. My bed was a Hammock. It was a clutter of junk everywhere because I figured no one would show up.

I Was wearing a dark black suit. I was wearing dark black pants also. It was all black even my bruised and broken body which I didn’t care for, in retrospect. This woman seemed not to care too much. She sat down on the table and set up the crystal ball.

“Who are you?!” I asked,

“Not all that hurt show pain, If, you, must know, Verlin,’ I am wondering, a traveler,”

“Okay, What is your name, Traveler? How do you know my name?”  I asked.

“Mistia, The Great Gypsy! Oh, I’ve known of you the day I saw you, Verlin Kern,”

“Why don’t you hate me, Mistia?”

“Verlin, Verlin, There’s more on the heavens and the earth than in your understanding, Verlin!”

“Oh? Really?!”

Rage came up inside of me. I felt resentment against all these people who hated me, who, spit on me and abused me in every way. She had been excellent and that what hurt the worse.

“Tell me were you there when they booed me, were you there when they laughed at my misfortune?! Treated me like a clown??! Thrown stone at me??! Or Killed me to only for me to come back alive??! And lastly were you there when they shunned me for no reason??!”

“No, But I have an answer that nags you every time they abuse you!”

“And?! MISTA??! The Great and wonderful??! WHAT IS THE QUESTION I ASKS MYSELF??! BECAUSE I JUST DONT KNOW, TELL ME?!”

“Ohh, oh, I like feisty! Peachcake! Do you know that you’re cute when you’re mad?!” she stated.

“JUST GET ON WITH IT!” I yelled.

“You ask the same question in which the universe is trying desperately to answer, Verlin,'”

“Why me? and I will speak for the world and say;

A witch cursed you,” Mistia said.

I stood my ground. I kept my composer, though my voice cracked a bit.

“Witchcraft??! What??! Who would be so cruel??!”

I thought about it; it was odd that everyone hated me. That everyone wanted to abuse me in some way. That I couldn’t get any attention or if I did it was always abrasive.  I wanted to cry; she had shown me a lot of compassion and forgiveness. I hated the world, and I hated the people who were in it. She, shown, love towards me even though I yelled at her, also though I was rude and mean. I didn’t understand it? Why did she hate me?

“I can see through your soul, Verlin; Your soul is weeping. You have no sense of love or kindness. They didn’t forgive you peach cake?!” Mistia said.

“WHY DO YOU HAVE IT THEN?!” my voice cracked, I almost fell on my knees and started crying. I couldn’t stand it. I didn’t deserve excellent treatment, all my life I heard how horrible I was. I didn’t crack, though; I stood tall.

“Because peach cake, it is the moon that breaks and creates a window so that you can have a chance at me, peachy!”

I looked at her she was beautiful and mystical. Very much an entrancing hypnotic woman. She seemed to be drawing me closer to her like a snake charmer. In this window I felt attracted to her, I felt funny. I felt warm; I felt butterflies in my belly, and I felt my heart racing. She started to resonate an aura about her. Then I saw that only a few people dreamed of, her beauty.

“Peachcake, I know what to do! I know how to gain their approval, their love, and love from someone special,” Mistia said.

“How? Beautiful?!” I said leaning over the table.

“Well, well, someone’s getting brave?! It seems that Verlin’ you were not only hexed but hexed by a female trickster. Who is still manipulating your destiny? She gave her life to destroy yours. In so saying that you have to find and marry before your window of opportunity ends! To break the curse, you, Verlin’, must know what love is, must find true love!”

“Then, What was the hex? What did she say?”

She council the crystal ball. They both looked into the crystal ball. It correctly showed what she said. I felt my heart sink. I didn’t remember her nor did I know her. She loved my dad?! She hated my mom?!

“Who is she?!” I asked.

“She is an old evil! She called herself in our tongue jealousy.  The rest of the world called her, though, Arlianic Shern, she came from the very pits of darkness!” Mistia said.

“How could she love my dad?! Or even now him?!” I asked.

“Evil takes many forms, she was one of those forms, jealousy, and she always was jealous of every woman with a man. In, mythology she was the green women who stayed in the cave and had festered feelings of envy of everyone,” Mistia said.

“Still why would there be a window of opportunity?” I asked.

“Verlin, Fate plays its parts; Maybe there is a higher power that loves you?!”

I laughed, “No such thing! Why would a higher power love me? He would hate me! He would cruel and mean being!”

“Be warned, Verlin, because war is waging, and you are a part of it. Our fates are intertwined. Peachcake That is all I know,” I Mistia said.

“Women, The moment that everyone, even when the higher power approves and loves me, will be the day when my father rolls over in his grave,” I said jokingly

“Well, peach cake, How about a date with me??!”

I felt shocked a bit; I sat down.

“Are you sure? Mistia?” I asked.

She smiled at him, “well, handsome why wouldn’t I be?”

I felt the chemistry between the both of us. Mistia had the guts to show me a slight bit of kindness. I felt drawn towards her. I then spoke,

“Then I will do it!” I said.

“Great!” she said as she popped up.

She grabbed her stuff and kissed me on the cheek when she left. When it was silent again, I sat on my canvas hammock, hung my head and started crying. I felt joy and sadness. I felt the pain I had never acknowledge till now. It was terrifying.

End of chapter one

Awaken-Chapter Two

                  CHAPTER TWO – Protection yet destruction

I am Xelyue. In the past fifty years, humans and Lost Terrans have lived in peace. I ask a question for thought, If a made builds a dam but floods a city, does, that mean there is no right or wrong? That I can do no wrong nor no right?

It seems, Xel prince that the last fifty years have been in vain. It appears that humans have bred with my race. It seems that the right I did only brought upon an another war. This time, it’s from the hybrids. They have grown arrogant and think of themselves as elitist. I read about Hitler, and I have learned that they, the hybrids have developed a sense that they are the master race. Both Lost Terrans, humans, are now at war with their children.

They destroyed the relic. They have killed my human wife. I fear it is only time before they hunt me down and end my misery. It seems I have flooded the city even though I try to save the world. I tried to save humans, What did it bring us? Death. Destruction and misery.

My son, Euan, is searching for a solution. A way to end this bloody battle from all three sides. He said that there might be a planet for us to move to if we do not find a solution. I am afraid that another holocaust will happen, another world war.  I feel afraid for my life and many other Lost Terrans.

I have a choice for my people. I could leave this planet and let the hybrids destroy all of the humanity, or I could sacrifice my forces and my men to killing our children that are the hybrids.

I was in my headquarter when one of our brightest came in.

“Xelyue!”

“yes?” Xelyue said.

“I have found an answer!”

“go on!”Xelyue said

“Its a virus that can kill the hybrids,”

“Whats the catch? They are part of our genome,”

“well, King. We have a choice; since your son is out looking for our new home. In turn its very unlikely that he will find anything, so this virus to allow the humans to survive. If we are truly a benevolent race ourselves, then we must make the sacrifice,”

Xelyue felt worried and was thinking deeply. This burden was something he had to make a choice on it.

“What about the humans the hybrids are half human themselves?”

“I’m afraid, Xelyue, this was something found in our dormant caverns almost as though it was planted there years ago. IT seem that it won’t affect humans. It appears that normal humans have a natural immunity to this virus. The hybrids are dead within three hours then it affects us after a week,”

Xelyue got up and pick up a vase and threw it on the floor. He felt rage like he had never had before.

“Send for a scribe! We may not survive but our culture will,” said xelyue.

The scribe came and for a whole month after battle after battle, a book became the last remnants of the Lost Terrans. It told the story of them. IT told in many the culture rituals and the end of the race itself. He didn’t dare tell his son. But when it came a time, when they had to drop the virus. They stole a ship and sent both his son and a female Lost Terran. Son had not found a new planet. Xelyue knew that it was the world that was cloaked from the humans for years. It was habitable. He also knew that the hybrids needed to die for humans to go on. Xelyue said his goodbyes to his son. He also warned him to be careful about his future children,”

in the final battle between humans, Lost Terrans and hybrids the virus bomb were launched killing millions of Lost Terrans billions of hybrids.

Before he died, before Xelyue died. He handed a book to the leader of all humans. “Save us from ourselves,” Xelyue said as he draws his last breathe. “Die in honor my friend, Xelyue,” The man said as he started crying.

-End of Chapter two.

Drugan Star – Chapter two

Chapter Two:

In Comes The Darkness

 

 

Drugan was sleeping. Ceres looked at him then turn the other direction. He felt a sudden urge to take the core out of Drugan, and someone make it useful. He felt like he could wield Drugan as a tool ton end the suffering in the universe.

He staved off his hand. He resisted the urge but in his darker side, he knew there was power to stop it all.

 

“Ceres what are you thinking?”

Dragun is woken up.

Leaf was outside playing outside.

“Can’t you hear my thoughts, Lord Drugan?”

“If you ask me Ceres then I will answer, Ceres I wish no longer to hear your mind or anyone thoughts, I come to respect you as a guardian.  Put I must test you Ceres,”

“how so? My lord?” Ceres said.

“Do you want my powers? Do you expect me dead? Or let me fulfill what’s promised?Ceres you are on trial, and you have to make a choice.”

“One hand you can kill me, and I wouldn’t stop you.The other is that I become mortal, and you become a great god. Or you let me judge the universe,” Drugan said.

Drugan created a sword in front of Ceres. “Should I remind you of your scars ceres? You are in no way humble you fat ugly beast. MURDERER!” Drugan said.

Ceres pick up the sword with hatred, anger and sadness.

“Why are you waiting? It’s all your fault that those mortals died, and you Ceres are the one that killed them,”

Ceres grip was getting stronger, and the took all his effort to hold back from killing Drugan.

“daddy!noo!” Leaf said.

Ceres and a river of memories flooded over him of leaf, and again he felt sad and dropped the sword and started crying.

Drugan walked outside and sat down and looked at the two green moons. Leaf came out, and Drugan gestured to her to sit with him. She did.

Drugan then spoke.

“Leaf you dad is an a mighty hero with a gentle heart.”

leaf and quiet she lowered her head.

“He passed the test and so I will place this world.”

He took the pace of him which was his crystal center and planted it n the ground. Is Covered in dirt.  At that moment, life began again. The world came back to live. The crystal dissipated and it turned into Dust which went into the atmosphere, and it started to rain. Animals that were once extinct came out oft he dirt and even the whole planted moved to the star that gave life. It was a red star. It had two moons also. The planet became just like earth.Leaf came to Ceres.

“Daddy don’t cry!” Leaf said

Ceres didn’t stop.

“Please don’t cry, daddy…”

he cried even more.

Drugan came in and touched the black titan foot. Then Ceres felt a wave of relief. He stopped crying. He hugged his daughter leaf. And Drugan started weeping.

“come daddy! Come! I have a surprise for you!”

She grabbed his hand, and he got up and went outside. For the first time in a long time, Ceres felt joy, and he picked up his little leaf and carried around as he walked into the grass and sat in a field of flowers that had exotic smells and color. He picks one of these flowers up and put it on hid daughters ear.

Drugan fell to his knees and started weeping. He also began to bleed red blood. Eventually, the bleeding stop and Drugan return to normal.

The days went by and they turned into months then turned into years. All the while Drugan grew into a giant himself. His wounds healed. Then soon they came to kill and slew Drugan. These were mighty titans, and they blamed Drugan for every little thing that went wrong with their lives.

Ceres tried to fight them, but he was too old. He lost he fought. Leaf ran off into another part of the world. She hides in a cave, and Ceres was a curse by a Titan to turn into stone.Dragun tricked them into letting him, Drugan, live. They took him to reaver named Fourglowse. Drugan then drew his blade and stared right into glowse eyes.

“You’re measured, and I found you guilty of all charges,” Drugan said.

The Reaver began to dissipate and burned into ashes. Drugan took his blade and killed the Titans.

“By death I have brought justice,” Drugan said.

Then, in his voice that across vast universes and the echoes of light and darkness.

“Drugan, the star and the son of a fool,”

Drugan starts sweating and felt overwhelmed with fear and anger.

It spoke again echoing through the space around Drugan. He couldn’t tell where it was coming, so he was silent.

“The greater good always has the greater evil, Judge,” It said.

he then realizes that it was a real god name Veros.

“I-i thought we locked you up, VEROS!”

“I’m free now! And I have to protect the chaos and the Evil, vile titan’s and maybe even destroy all good in this world, Drugan,”

“OF course theft,  destroyer and law breaker,” Drugan said.

Drugan started sweating and became afraid he raises his blade up its was useless.

“VEROS! THE VILE SIDE of the dark side. I AM The ruler,”

“HAHAHA YOU? You’re a soft bleeding heart. In no way, you can beat me. I am the real God now, and I will make this world as I see fit,” Voros said.

Drugan through his sword at a random spot and cut Veros but it was futile. Veros Blasted to light years away from him and on a planet with no life. This plane had no name. The world deserted, and it’s full of sand, dust, and rock.

Drugan tried to port back, but he felt his powers diminished. Then he roars like a lion throughout the universe.

“WAR HAS come!” Then Drugan collapsed on the ground. Every single soul in the whole cosmos felt the rupture, and it put fear in all their hearts.

End of Chapter two

 

 

Reality Rift – Part one

              Rift Through Me

The spire of fate was of evil descent. The black sword was born from the spire of fate. The reign of the spire and the ruler Xon the Sorcerer Governed over the earth and several realms for a millennium. The spire had rifted the realms and made them into one even the dead were roaming among the living and the strange. All bowed before the empire of blood. They were a million strong in their forces. The black sword was recruiting anything they could find human or not and in turn, they forced them into the militia.

It came down to an army of men and women with incredible power and skill to defeat the blood empire. They were called the Feathers of might. For ten days the battles went on until the strongest of these mighty heroes stormed the Spire and made their way to the top. There they faced Xon and Xon had a medallion called the reality breaker.

Xon was unstoppable.No one of the heroes could touch him. He came down to the wire and then the one thing Xon didn’t count on in a twist of fate His loyal student stabbed him in his back. The medallion fell into his student’s hands, and he broke it then said.

“I wish their peace for all the world’s not asunder nor more!” Then he disappeared, and the spire fell into the hole and crumbled in its wake. The heroes that fought for the Feathers of might found themselves home to the world without a spire, Xon, and the black sword.

The medallion, however, founds its place on earth buried under thousands and thousands of feet of dirt far away from anyone.

It was peace for year and years until…

 

august 19, 2015,

A team of archaeologist showed up in Arizona, Sonora Desert. It was a hot day and full of

snakes and lizards. These were the typical day in the wilderness. Dr. Philip Marck and his team of

archaeologist and Dr. John  Brie and his son Morrow. He had brought his son thinking it was safe to dig with him. Morrow Brie was very smart and always loved adventuring with his father. Morrow was about fifteen. Dr Brie, who was an archaeologist.

They were at a dig site where Dr. Marck the head of the expedition lead them to the dig site. He was always carrying a suspicious book. The book read on the cover;

“blitz stunt Tenebrae” it was a quite thick book. No one dared to go near it because Dr Marck was over protective of it and the book never left his side.

 The dig site, packed. Every day  Dr. Marck questioned about what he was digging for, but somehow he kept it going saying,

“The artifacts are deeper in the earth, Trust me!” He’d always convince them otherwise. For the most part, he funded the Expedition. He promised the workers gold and vast riches.

It took him weeks and months to dig deep enough until somehow they found the medallion. They had dug deep sufficient to bury a hundred men. One of the workers who never got paid picked up. Marck snatches it out of his hand and with a twisted evil smile on his face, and he rubbed the half broken medallion. He then spoke Latin for Forgive the darkness expel the light.

And then Morrow and his father witness reality breaking and Xon born again from the darkness. The breaking of reality took both Morrow and his father to a dark place where no one can find them.

 

Reality Rift – Part two

                    The Mine

When Morrow woke up, it was pitch black. He felt like he was winded. He seemed shaken.

As he got up, he said,
“Oh, my ribs!”

He looked around.

“Dad! Where are you?!”

He couldn’t see anything in the darkness.

“DAD?!” He screamed.

He heard groaning.

“WHAT?!” his dad said.

“Where are you??! I can’t see a thing!”

“Here I have a lighter,” he said

He pulled out his lighter. He lit it.

It felt damp and cold. He looked over at his son. He was okay. He got up, and they hugged each other.

“I’m glad your okay, son,” Dr. Brie said.

The both wore glasses prescription glasses. You couldn’t see much in the dark.

“Its cold and dark in here dad,” Morrow was shaking. Dr. Brie was a handsome and brilliant man. He wore clothes that made him a rugged outdoorsman, but he was a sophisticated older gentleman. He was in his fifties. He had lost his wife a long time ago, but that’s another story. He wondered off toward something he saw on the wall given that he was using his lighter.

He got to the cave wall and noticed old burning oil running down the wall connected to the torches. He l the oil and a chain reaction took place. Light entered the room, and it was a mine. They were at the very top of a stone staircase with the wooden high rise on the walls. There were chiseled faces that look like dwarves and statues that seem like mighty dwarves. Dr. Brie grabbed the torch and went to the edge of the staircase. He looked down.

“is that what I think it is?! Come morrow! You’ve got to see this!”

Morrow Brie looked down and saw a pile twenty feet tall of gold, rubies and diamonds, and the rares collection of priceless objects that would fetch a pretty penny. They were in shock. They started running down the stairs. That’s when Morrow stepped on a release door trap. At that moment, four or five doors were opened, and this wrenched half dead, or ghostly creatures came out. They looked like something had drained them of all colors. At the very top, a release came out, and a huge winged serpent reared his head at them.

“Is that a dragon?!!” Morrow said.

“SON ITS TIME TO GO! RUN!” Dr. Brie said.

Hey ran as fast as they could down the staircase while the dragon wrecks the states and the stairs. He breathes fire on the ghostly ghouls who were chasing them as quickly as they could.When t hey made it to the bottom they found a dead end.

They were about to get eaten by a dragon and wicked foul Ghouls who were drooling down their lips. They were ravenous and probably hadn’t eaten for centuries.

“What do we do now?” Morrow asked.

Dr. Brie looked around at the treasure he had a split second before they were on him. They got closer to the treasure, and the ghost started backing away and hissing. The dragon got loose and devoured these ghouls. They went running back and to everyone surprise there on top of the dragon was a dwarf! A real Dwarf!

As he used the dragon to fight off the horde of ghoul, he screamed out.

“I’ll save you, lass!”

When the ghouls were all gone, and he was satisfied with his heroic deed. HE slew the dragon with his giant sword stabbing his neck. They crashed down the stairs and into the pile of priceless items that were worth millions of gold. The crafty dwarf jumped out and cried.

“my TREASURE MY BEAUTIFUL RUBIES AND EMERALDS! MY GOLD!” the dwarf turn to them.

“WHY are you here in my mine? huh?! you lucky I was in a happy mood just had some rum and I’m feeling frisky,”

“MY name is Morrow, and this is my dad Dr. Brie.”

“Bah, all I care about is if you’re here to take my precious treasure? Are you? Lass?”

“If so I’m obligated to kill ya!”

“Wait! Wait! We are innocence; I swear,” Morrow said.

“We are not here to your treasure, we woke up here against our will,” Dr. Brie said.

Dwarf gave them the crazy eye.

“I can usually tell when a man is lying. But you Lass are not lying.”

“Welcome to the mine of Edgar Nightbane ruler of the Ancient dwarves,”

“Well Edgar, what should we do? since your not going to kill us?”

“I know this place inside and out, and since you woke me up from my  slumber I guess ill help…”

This dwarf was very much a warrior with Sliver armor packed to his rim and white cloth which made him distinguished. He wore no helm, and he was bald. He had shiny red rosy cheeks and braided facial hair. He smile would brighten the room, but his eyes gave you a the stink eye or look at you very suspiciously as though he could read your mind. He had a few grey hairs.

“First and foremost though see hat rounded stone sticking of the wall behind you?”

They turn around and saw the stone They had to look down it was short enough for a dwarf and it the dwarf told them to press it.

Morrow pushed it, and a section of the wall slide up, and there was a hallway. The hall was vast and narrow, and there seems no end to it. The torches lit up down the hallway. Marrow and his father just stared down the hallway in awe.

“Well, just stare at it why don’t you ladies?”

Edgar made his way down the hall grumbling and mumbling about the two dumb humans who ruins his sleep.

He looked back and looked at them.

“Aren’t you freggin’ coming? You two?! don’t tell me you both daft! Come one now! I don’t bite!”

They had to duck to get into the hallway. Then they walked down the hall.

“So you two how did you two get here?” Edgar asked.

“Well…. Edgar, we were looking for artifacts and our expedition came across a medallion. Our lead archaeologist snatched it, and we found ourselves here,” Dr. Brie said.

“Medallion? You say? Let me ponder this! No speaking until we find a way out,” The dwarf said.

The dwarf looked like a mumbling buffoon as he went on down the hallway. They walked down this hallway for good twenty minutes. That was when we came to another dead end.

Edgar was bit perplexed.
“This is not supposed to be here. I never saw this wall before,”

“Great! What do we do now?!” Said Dr. Brie.

“You two wouldn’t have caught a glimpse of the medallion?”

“I did!” Morrow said.

“What did it look like, lass?” Edgar asked.

“there was a black orb in the middle of the frame, and the frame was half broken,”

“Indeed. I’m not sure but I think that medallion is a key to this whole thing, me waking up, this wall being here, and You guys stuck here,” Edgar said.

“But how does that solve our dilemma we don’t wanna be here anymore!”

“Let me think, Lass,” Edgar said.

Edgar sat on the floor.. thinking. That was when a portal appeared that was the color of a black hole, and a white feather came out of it. Then a note. Edgar picked up the bill and feather.

“King Edgar of the red stone dwarves,

go through the portal and follow the feathers.

For the might of the wings!”

Edgar dropped the note.

“SO how do we enter this portal?! Blasted freggin thing,” Edgar said

The portal started changing, and it starts pulling all three of them into the portal. All three of them tried to resist, but the force was too powerful and got swept into the portal.

When they came to again, the torch was out, and it was dark and, even more, damp.

Morrow Brie groaned, “not again!”

His dad lit the torch again, and Edgar was out cold.

“EDGAR!” they both said.

“No mother I don’t want to drink ale right now it’s beddy by time,” Edgar said as he rolled over on the ground.
Morrow shook Edgar, and he woke up. He was bit grumpy, but nevertheless, he got up.

“Blasted to hell, Where are we now?”

Dr. Brie and Edgar walked to the closest wall.

Again they lit the room with the oil.

Edgar took a good look at his architecture.

“YEP! Laddies! We are still in the mine, and it seem that both my mine and someone else tomb is here too!”

“That’s just great!” Dr. Brie said.

“Awe, don’t worry laddie. I did put any trap’s here…. I don’t think,” Edgar said.

Edgar walked down the cave and found statues of white feather birds. After walking a while, he came across a feather, a white feather.

“Blast, That note said to follow the feathers, perhaps we should?” Edgar said.

“I’d do anything to get out of this dreadful place, Edgar,” Morrow said.

his father seems excited about the culture.

“perhaps. Edgar, you could tell me about the dwarven culture? When we get out of here?”

“Of course, umm?-
“I’m Dr. Brie, and this is my son Morrow,” The doctor said.

“Well, in any case, I will, but we have to get out of here first,” Edgar said.

“We are no longer in my Grand mine, but in some tomb.”

When Edgar took another step. He stepped on a boobie trap. Walls in the back and front of them came down, and portals opened that were blue and black came out of nowhere with dark reavers that were spiritual being with the ability to kill. All three of them were surrounded by at least forty of them. Edgar drew his sword.

“We Fight, or we die!”

End of part two

 

 

 

 

 

 

Awaken

   Chapter One: Still alive

We have spent millions of years in slumber. Our race was longing to breathe again. We long for domination once more. It is time for our return. We are the actual owners of Terra. It is our time.

It was the year 2030, and there was an earthquake. The earthquake exposed several meteorite-sized holes most of the world. In America, Asia and all of the continents. Strange alien beings came out of the holes. They made from moss and dirt. They had eyes that had pupils which were small and glowed like a distant star. They had claws that were at least 4 inches long. Their middle claw was the longest. They were skinny, and they had dirt and plants covering their bodies. These beings called themselves Lost Terran’s.

They found their world covered by humans so in a peaceful way they sent a representative to each of the rulers of the earth. They were brilliant. The lost Terran’s know the language of the humans. They could adapt very quickly. The communication from Man and lost Terran’s was very mutual. The humans were fearful of these aliens to them they were aliens. The lost Terran’s conflicted about the human but never the less they tried to communicate with the humans. They agreed to bring them to the camps across the world. Little did the humans know that they were taking their time to fight eventually for the earth.

At first, everything was like a clam as bright day in the country. The Lost Terran’s became tired of being in a concentration camp. They started a rebellion against the humans. They had a leader named Xelrue, and he lead the war against the human race. The lost Terran’s somehow had to develop technology that so far advanced that the weapons could blast a tank into smatterings.

This war was called “The War of Humans.”

One of the rulers of the lost Terran’s had a compassionate heart. His name was Xelyue brother of the leader Xelrue, and he disagreed with the treatment of humans. He had fallen for the human race perhaps because he read the history and knew their poetry and art which he feel in love. Even when he read the story of salvation his heart turned for the humans. He realized they were all just child that need love and guidance. He knew that humanity was benevolent. He watches every movie. He had listened to many people that he called as friends.

This disagreement between both brothers created two factions one to preserve the culture and the race of humans by catching them. They proceed to hide humans and go to destroy the ignorance of both races swearing never to harm humans. They would protect humanity because they saw Human as themselves struggling when they held the world to themselves.

In Xelrue eyes they were pollution, they were destroying once a healthy planet. He hated the humans for they killed his only mate. She ran in front of a bullet trying to protect Xelrue. Xelrue swore to enslave all humans for death wasn’t enough justice. They had to live with themselves for the death of many lost Terran’s. And so the world collided with two planets crashing right into each other.

Xelyue weeps for every dead on both sides. He journey through the earth trying to find himself. He was losing the fight against his brother Rue. So his journey began. He was all packed up and went to many places around the world where he was booed and shooed and almost killed. It didn’t stop there he found himself with scars and bruises. He chooses to be at peace. He decides not to act on them. He travels to Asia, and He came across a Shaolin temple. They welcomed him in. He picked up the language in no time. They strict him meditation and spiritual enlightenment. Yue found himself become a part of the universe, and he could see a thing that no one can and something inside told him that there was only one shot to bring peace among both races.

He pulled a trick out of his flesh it was an item that is called the peaceful coin. As long they had hope and the coin they will always have peace in their hearts. The Shaolin monks accept this gift and even hugged him. He thanked them for his spiritual journey

into the mist of the universe. He knows what-to-do, so he left the temple and found himself imbued with power, and he took his ability which he just discovered he had at the temple, and he travel through space and time and came to a planet that looks just like Earth. Where he found an artifact.

He spoke,

“What brings light when there is only darkness?”

“The stars…” he heard the strange women voice behind him.

“Its been forever since I last saw you, Yuelin,” he said then turned around.

“its odd isn’t it, Xel or should I say the Xel prince, that you would awake to a world full of monkeys. Primitive animal.”

“I could say the same to you taken the body of a young female blonde human.”

“well, aren’t you feisty. Yes, indeed I have taken this form to remind you of how weak you ARE!”

Yuelin was fully clothed.

“What did the humans ever do to us? Yuelin? Or is your ignorance of their compassion, love and forgiveness that is making you talk harsh words.”

My brother XelRue is killing them and even babies because he cannot in his heart live peacefully with them. Do you take his side yuelin?!

“no, I merely imply that the world belongs to your race,”

“IS there no other alternative to this dilemma yuelin?

“The great relic is right there, and I am guarding it.”

“Yuelin, you are the spirit of our people and have shown many things to use. I care for the human race.”

“Fight me then, Xelyue!

“No, I know your trick.”

“If you attack me with this weapon and kill me maybe you’ll get want. In turn Prince Xelyue you have to choose one over the other.”

She conjured a dagger and put it in his hand and said to do it. He said no.

“You passed, Prince!”

“The relic is yours remember to use it you would need drop of your blood and read the inscription on the crystal,”

“Oh and just a request Xel prince, kiss me.”

She walked right up to him, and he kissed her. He embraced her arms and felt overwhelmed with emotion. She stopped,

“I take it back humans are worth saving,” Yuen said.

She steps back.

“GO now! Prince save all of the humans and open the eyes of your race to reveal the truth.”

A voice that Yue was dreading came out of nowhere.

“brother!” He greeted with anger in Rue’s voice. The Xel prince met each other eye to eye.

“I found you, brother. I have been watching you even kills all those that helped you and this is what you plan to do?”

“HA!” Xelrue said.

“you have to get through me, brother. THEY DON’T DESERVE LIFE!”

“Your ignorance brother is astounding…”

Rue made a face that was murderous in nature and anger that was boiling up.

“give me the relic, or I will kill you.”

“Then so be it, brother!”

They fought, and Rue lost. Yue took advance of this and flew to earth. Something unbelievable happened. The planets align out of nowhere, and he realized the power of the relic.When he got back to the land, he saw was what he always dreamt. Peace on earth Goodwill toward all.

But it seemed to go to be true?

The End?…

 

Drugan Star – Chapter one

The world was scared by the war of the titans. For thousands of years, the universe was in chaos. There was millions of Titans. These titans were in Millions. Each and every one of them was tearing up the world. They were destroying planets killing stars and leaving a destructive path in their wake. The world was crying in pain.

There was a star that was called The Drugan Star. This star was dying, and so the]is star became a stone. Legend and prophecy foretold of stone that would either kill all creation or united the universe and no long be titans but mortal beings. It was the only answer to this titan war and the warlords.

The Star died and was born again as a child that was like us(human). His name was Flux. He found by the Drugan earth titan name Ceres who was the guardian of the planet Drugan v. This was a planet that was nothing but trees and hills and wildlife. Ceres slept under trees and sat in a giant rocking chair he built himself, and he smokes an ancient pipe. He presented himself as down to earth, kind, and gentle creature. Al he wanted to do was sat and smoke his pipe. He never fought in the war nor did he want to. He loves to play with the wildlife, and he ate the plants around him. In irony though his area of the world was the only perfect spot on the whole planet. It was hard for Ceres to accept so he ignored the war and somehow he manage to cast a spell to protect his home, well at least that area.

The child Sought him out. He was sitting smoking his pipe. Flux went up to him.

“Excuse me, cares..”

The young mortal startled Ceres.

“Huh? Who’s there? Who disturbed the humble Ceres?!”

He looks down and to the left. They were both by a tree, in the shade. The child was exposed. He had black hair and teal eyes. On his heart was a crystal that was round and covered a small portion of the heart. You couldn’t see through it, but it was reflective. The Titan made of grass, stone and moss. He had living animals that existed inside him. His beard made from bark and branches.  His body were built into squares and rectangles. He looked like someone freshly cut him into stone that connected to each other.

“I am the star’s that comes in night to steal the day,” The child said.

He looked down at the child.

“Drugan??! The famous star! By the stars,” He took a hard swallow. The got out of his chair. He knelt down before this child and proclaimed him Lord.

“Rise, Titan, No need for that,” The child said.

“Child of the forgotten age, son of the universe yet father too, is it time?” Ceres asked.

“Titan, the trial has begun,” Child said.

“Drugan, Have you chosen me?”

“Yes, Ceres! You have done well with guarding the planet.I need a disguise and place to grow like your plants. I need fertilization,”

“Ceres you are wise and humble beyond your years. You will keep me safe until they come for me. Like the crops that you grow and the land that you protect, i will prosper here,”

“Very well, Lord Drugan!” Ceres was sweating.and nervous then it hit him.

“I got to make room for you! Excuse me!” He bowed his head.

He got up and ran to the hut which was huge and started cleaning.

“CERES! You are a TITAN! USE Your MAGIC!” Drugan yelled at Ceres.

“Very well…. ” Ceres said.

“I summon the power of the earth and the moon bring me a house and a broom!” Ceres said.

The hut turned into a house, and soon it cleaned itself. It was now a two-story building. It was a very neat and humble place. It had a red roof and a window at the top for Drugan. It was enormous and big enough for both him and Ceres. It would last them for very long time.

Good ole’ Ceres was being a hard worker, and he had a brook in his hand sweeping the ground. He was whistling, and he had his pipe put away.

Drugan walked into the house and sat on the small bed that came with the expansion of the house. Ceres sat with him. It w2as like a human with a mouse. He sat there with his pipe after he got done cleaning. He hummed a song about the battle of the eclipse. He seems quite content.

“Ceres when I was the star I saw many greatny battles. I saw you through time and space as a warrior for the weaker more defenseless beings. I remember how it scared your Ceres… I could feel your pain after you failed to protect the ones you those poor creatures, Those poor defenseless sentient beings. I felt their deaths, and I knew their pain.”

“Why, do you this up? Lord Drugan?!”

“I see that it stirs your heart, good. I wanted to show you Ceres the reason I chose you,” Drugan said.

Drugan got to thinking about it. His heart ached but nevertheless he spoke.

“If indeed, you chose me because of my past then please let us not talk about that time in particular. They were my children,” Ceres said.

“Then Titan! hear my story,”

“When I was born, three hundred million years ago. There was a true god who was dying as he gripped on his last day. He created this universe out of his corpse. That is how the Titans came to be. It was how I was born. The enigma is that somehow prophet foretold my arrival. Along with many other things indicated that this world had a plan. Somehow, this being is dead. This God is gone! How is this possible?” Drugan said.

“Lord Drugan, Why do you toy with me?”

“To make idle conversation, Ceres. So, Protector what happened to the rest of the planet?”

“Don’t you know?! Didn’t you feel it, Drugan?! The power of the titans trying to destroy my legacy?!”

“This is what make you strong Ceres! You single handily took on twenty Titans in the battle of the Guardian,”

“I have scars Lord Drugan, let me heal!”

“BUT indeed, you defeated them only for your only child to die protecting the land that was rightfully yours.”

“My Daughter of my flesh… ”

“How did she die, Ceres?”

“Many, many more titans came and overwhelmed us, they took my little girl “Leaf” and torn her to pieces while I stayed and watched. I then was helpless to do anything about the planet…”

“This is why I have chosen you Ceres, You know pain and so you know the world which is in agony,”

“They scared my land, and I had to save it from nothing and grow it into something. I have sworn off fighting forever.”

Ceres looked to the corner of the ceiling choking. She was my only flesh. A tear came down his face.

“Many wars, many sacrifices and they all end in a hell that no one can escape. It is my prison.”

Drugan seemed cruel to him, but there was a reason for it. He walked up to Ceres and touched his giant foot. Ceres saw his daughter once more in his mind. He almost feels her presence. He could almost wrap his arm around her and hold her tightly. He started crying.

“Ceres, I can do one more thing for you! I know I seem cruel, but you are one of the strongest Titans out theirs. I will bring Leaf back from the dead.”

Drugan closed his eyes and started whispering. A portal came through to that world.11

“Come Leaf it is your time to return to this world, your father needs you,”

A child of Titans came out of the portal. She was as big as half of what Ceres was, and she was like Ceres but smaller.

“it is done!” Drugan said.

“PAPA!” Leaf said, and she ran to him.

He was overwhelmed with grief, anger and emotion. He was so busy crying that it almost flooded the whole house.

She hugged him and said “Don’t cry, daddy! I’m home!” He grabbed her and hold her tight as a lake of tears came out of his eyes.

“So it is, Ceres the little protector. You are now my protector, don’t forget that!”

“AND you have seventeen years, and then I will reward you once more to live with me in the Halls of Gods!”

End of chapter one

 

 

The Clever Hand

                                     The clever world, I’m in, is of my creation. Wise man once said life is what you make it. I fully believe in that and in turn have my world however see fit. My world was beautiful with nothing but my artworks. I escape through my memories, stories and my mind. In my beautiful mind was art, literature science and math along with music. It was in sync with the universe and it was the conductor. I was orchestrating the events of the world in a dance. The sky, the darkness and the light danced on top of the sky. All the creatures made sounds that were jamboree of tunes. Everything in the world sang to me and in the moments I felt peace
I am a wizard but human one. I have flaws but they are many but I still live. I live in an old wizard tower in Edinburgh which is invisible to the naked eye. This was the year of the dark ages. I found it hard to exist with the world around me So I stay hidden in the tower. Inside my home was a huge world of my own art all focused around my late wife and my dreams and aspirations poems and math that no one understood but a tough strong will person could.
My name is Loris Grill the great and powerful and in the last hundreds of years I have found myself doing nothing but the finer things. I drink wine and write stories. I drink wine and eat food that was made for a hearty warrior. I would eat full pigs and steak with mash potatoes and special spices only I could have. There was an emptiness inside of me. A sadness to my weak heart which had been broken for centuries. My late wife had die due to poisoning by The Clever Hand.
Weeks went by after my wife died during these weeks I hunted down all of them and killed the sacred order. I did not cure my sadness and depression and in doing so I caused more pain They hunted me down and beat me up and banished me from being in this land. So now I hide because the wizard that once knew me now claim to be my enemy. They all banished me from their kingdom. Murder was never meant to be weild for my personal gain, revenge was the problem and my fellow wizards did not want to be ascoisatd with me.
It was an average day when I heard a knock at the tower door. I didn’t answer it but when I later inspected the door which no one was able to see. I found a letter. It Read
“Dear Mighty Wizard,
I can see your tower and I want to talk.
Would you like to meet later? At noon? Have lunch?”
Loris was taken back by this, he took the letter in and read the rest it was morning when this happened. Some dust came out of the envelope. He coughed. It was sparkling dust. Given he’s a wizard but has been out of the loop for centuries. While some say that he didn’t care while other say he was dumb. Sometimes in pain, you do things you regret.
His tower was called mages port. It was a blue tower and white tower. It was more of a watch tower than anything. It was masterfully built and had a couple windows. It had oak wooden doors. The tower had incantations and spells written all over it but not on the door The door was pure oak that was perfectly stained. it had door handle that was elegant. It had two dragons one blue one red and if you touched them they would light up. The red dragon was on one side of the door handle and it came to life when you touche3d it becoming a red dragon with glowing eyes. The same for the blue dragon it would light up blue and glow white light through its eyes also.
He shut the door and walked up the stairs. Music was playing, stained glass portraits where floating around him. He smile and clapped in the aww and prettiness of these works he created. Dust from the sparkles that he kept in his pocket made a map of the sky. It glowed light and bright it was. It was magnificent!! Loris felt joy over his math that he was thinking over. Spells that were being created in his head and above the completeness of knowing that he was great. That he was something more than himself and he had his works to prove it. The great and powerful Loris. There was no end to the symphony of art and science going on in his head and maybe just a tab of magic.
Loris was a wizard that wore blue robes one day then changed to Red the next day. On occasion he would wear white but only because of his wife was a white mage. She devoted her life to healing others. He tried to not think about her but he would have random spouts of crying then he would turn to tiny star trapped under special made vase that lay upside down and keeps the star within it.
Whenever loris felt the mourning of his wife he would look directly into the star and instantly remember dancing with his beautiful wife. Even having a pinic together. Sharing knowledge together. Enjoying books to read to each other. And at last comforting each other with a warm touch and stroke of the hand or leg. He’d lose himself in all of this and have no care in the world. No nightmares, no headaches just him and his art. He indulged himself in everything.
He didn’t meet up with this lady that left the note on his door so again around noon he heard a knocking. Knock, knock. About this time Loris realized she had the upper hand and she knew where his tower was. He walked downstairs. He slowly opened the door.
“What do you want?!” Loris asked
“I want inn…” She said.
This lady had blue eyes and tan skin. She was a jewel. A quick wit and charming tounge She was wearing a beige dress and had matching slippers. She carried a brown knapsack and she was short while loris wa stall.
When he gazed into her eyes he felt like he was in love. He felt the nervousness of love and the urgency of it all. In turn he did not know that the dust he inhaled was magic dust that bewitched him to fall in love.
He got caught in a pause while looking into her eyes…
“Can I come in?”
It was like he was hypnotize into letting her in. She tell him her name and it was Allison Cetus Rae. They got to know each other. And of course Loris showed Allison around and she loved the tower.
They soon started dating and became an item. She wqas sweet and charming. She was also a little devilish. The dust had infected loris mind. He was hooked.
He values his talents and his mind because it gave him peace through the chaos of music and noise in his head. It was like constant sunshine for him, an escape that let him forgot all his issues. His mind was more valuable than his body.
After three weeks he start to come to but by then she had his grips on his tower. She had control of his mind. The first move was made by her. Little did he know-that she was working for the clever hand. She was a beast, a fallen human which had turned into a horned monster. He sat at his whitening table next to the star he trapped. She took away his magic abilities then kissed him on his forehead which woke him up immediately In absolute horror he watched the wicked beast destroy all of his creations one by one.
Loris panic’d. He yelled bloody murder but she didn’t stop there she destroy the music and released the star. It went back to where it belong. All his paintings. All his writing. Every ounce of his life that he had in this tower was burned with prejudice. Loris started crying. No don’t, he said. He couldn’t even cast a spell.
When she was done destroying everything he indulged in she took his memories away from him and all his talents. Along with every single voice in his head. She then started pull his hair out and mark his skin when there was no hair left with the brander that was read hot. This mark was the mark of the clever hand. She also walked out and left a card next to him and she walked out saying “That’s karma for ya!” she winked at him once.
He felt as though his brain was crushed like a bug. The room was quiet and he felt like he just got lobotomized by a foul cruel monster that was of the wickedest nature. He sat there in the dark for three more weeks.
One more day and he was found by his fellow wizard. He has no memory of them but they took him in. Took him far away from the tower into a land of paradise. Loris spend his days recovering. The council of wizards took their forces and hunted down every remnants of the clever hand… But like terrorist they couldn’t never be completely eradicated.
Eventually they forgave Loris and Loris soon regained most of his abilities. They still love loris as a fellow wizard but they tried to avoid war. Loris get better slowly and soon he remember all his spell and regain his powers back. He sat down with his fellow wizards and told him that he was retiring from magic. He had fallen in love with another girl and spent the rest of his years in paradise, like the ocean and the beach. He completely forgot about his late wife and in turn, He became the happiest man ever. As for Allison she was kill and buried. The clever hand went into hiding and were never seen again. Everything turned out good and this was the end of a legend, Loris the great and powerful.
The end

Echo – Chapter one

Chapter One: The Crystal Ball

Peer into the void as the Crystallic(Crystal-lick) wanders in space for no one to see but the crew. It was the year 2200, and man had run out of energy sources. The power needs to fuel machinery and ships. The earth united, and there was a Federation of Earth. Jason, captain of the Cyrstallic was a Physicist with many Degrees.

His crew and he was working on a project involving a new power source. A potential energy source found on a distant planet. It was a huge Crystal that welded with dark matter. It was the color purple, and it didn’t seem to act like normal dark matter. Nevertheless, It seems to have the potential for a significant source of power. It contained within the containment field.

This vessel was a research ship. It had a main room for examining called the hour-glass. It had quarters for patients who were close to the crystal but in safe distances. There was an observing area in the hour-glass. This area was overlooking the floor of the hour-glass. It had stairs that lead to the floor on both sides of the observing area. A sliding door leading into the watching area and the same across the room. In the middle was the crystal to the right side, there were the patient quarters. The stairs were on both sides of the observing area. The hour-glass was around a room.

Jason was watching and staring into the crystal. He fixated on it. It memorized him. Jason was darkly dressed. He had glasses on, and he walked tall.  He stood there in his beautiful leather clothing watching as they took note and went around like busy ants. He smiled at them.

A little girl’s voice came out of nowhere. “Mr. Jason, can we play a game?”

“Not now crystal… I have significant things-to-do.”

Crystal was the ship’s avatar. She was a hologram, and she aged like humans but when she turned twenty-one years, she would stop aging. She was, at least, seven years old.  She had glasses and long brown hair with her teddy bear. She spoke again,

“Marvin wants to see you, in his quarter.”

“Very well, tell him I will see him,” He said

“Yes Mr. Jason,” She said and disappeared.

After few more minutes of staring into the crystal, he made his way to the stairs into the hour-glass floor. He nodded at a few people and even waved at the couple of them. He came to the Radiation Protection Door which keeps the patients safe at the crystal just in case it losing its containment. He swiped his ID card which he had in his pocket. The doors opened. He walked in. The quarters were like prison cells. They were small and not well kept. He walked two doors down a narrow hallway then turn left. He again pulled out his id and swiped the door and inside, there was Marvin.

Marvin was a heavy-set man with a full beard and wisdom of the wisest. He was wearing a white tee-shirt and white trousers. He had black hair and blue eyes. Unlike Jason, who had brown hair and brown eyes.

“Why cousin! You are finally decided to see me!” Marvin said.

“Yes, I figured it was time to see you,” Jason said.

“Yes, yes. I got some things to tell you… cousin” Marvin said.

“And what is it?” Jason asked.

“I got to say I do not like these living arrangements, can’t you do something about them cousin?” Marvin asked.

“Afraid not Marvin. We do not have enough room,” Jason said.

“To hell with the others!”  Marvin said.

“I hate this place,”  Marvin said.

“You have to stay, Marvin,  That crystal is hurting you,” Jason said.

“I know,” Marvin said.

“That’s why we are studying the effects that this crystal has on humans,” Jason said.

“But what if it does something terrible to them? What if it twisted their minds and shaped their concepts into the twisted vision? What if it Breaks the whole fabric of time and space? What if we all die?” Marvin asked critically.

“A gambling man never wins without taking a risk,” Jason said.

“And besides Marvin, nothing bad is going to happen,” Jason said with reassurance.

“Famous last words…” Marvin said.

“Humans are experimenting on to see if they can become superhuman, well that’s playing with fire and not to mention that Crystal is the abomination. And if you continue down this road, down this dark path, it won’t end well,” Marvin said.

“And cousin I see a great darkness coming, and it shrouds the ship, and it scares me,” Marvin said.

“Whatever, Everything’s going to be okay Marvin,” Jason said

“Don’t say I didn’t warn you,” Marvin said.

“So besides that what did you want?” Jason asked.

“A way out of here…” Marvin said.

“I’ll see what I can do, Marvin,” Jason said.

“In the meantime I need to do some things,” Jason said.

“Very well…” Marvin said.

They said good-bye and Jason headed for the stairs that lead to the balcony in the hour glass. He went through the door. He walked to the elevator and headed to his quarters. He came to the top floor. He walked out, and there was only one door. He had a hallway to himself and a room of his own. He swiped his card and walked in. He jumped on his bed and relaxed.

The room was small close quarters. He had at bed, which was right in front of his door. He had at dressers built against the wall. He had a T.V. on the at the foot of his bed but mounted on the wall. He had pictures of himself and pets. He had many awards and trophies.

After a few minutes, he started dozing off when he heard crystal voice,

“Mr. Jason we have a called from the Federation of Earth.”

He got up and sighed. He then spoke;

“I’ll take the call here, on the monitor.”

The TV acted as a screen and had built-in cameras.

The screen came on. It was General Savar(Sa-var). This man stout and the muscular gray-haired man with many medals and badges on his uniform. He was in a red army uniform. His hair was soft and brittle. He looked disturbed, something bothering him.

“Ah, General Savar. Why have you called?” Jason asked.

“Jason, we have a major problem,” Savar said.

“What’s wrong?” Jason asked.

“There’s  a massive army of creatures that I’ve never seen before. They are attacking Earth!  People are dying left and right. All the Federation is dying.”

“We don’t have much time; I’ve learned there heading in your direction…” Savar said.

Before he could say anything else, his face turned pale.

“AHHHH!” There was a sheer terror in his eyes when he screamed. The screen turned to static.

“General Savar! General Savar are you there?” Jason asked.

The screen came back on. On the screen was a hideous beast who was built like a spider and had a misshapen human-like face showed up on the screen. It had been glowing a dark mist around it, and it was the worse thing anyone could ever see. Every second it cocked its head and twitched like an owl or a bird.

The voice was very much high-pitched but creepy. It would make you ill.

“I’ve come for you, Jason…” It said hissing.

“What-What are you?”

Jason’s face was pale, and he backed away from the TV scared.

A loud wail that mixed with a roar was shouted out, and the TV cracked. The lights even flickered. Jason scared for his life ran towards the door and tried to swipe his card, but it wouldn’t work. After a few moments of doing this he kicks the door(still nothing happened).

The lights went out. It was dark, but Crystal spoke:

“Turning on auxiliary power.”

A dim light came on. Then Jason heard crystal say.

“Intruder alert!! Incoming foreign organism.”

He hears a high pitch haunting voice. It was a sickening, disturbing sound.

“Fear, fear, fear me yet… I’ve come to bring you death in red,

Fear, fear, fear me yet! I’ve come to slice your head in bed.”  The voice whispered into the soft years of Jason.

“Crystal! What’s going on?” Jason asked.

No answer.

“Crystal!! Crystal!!” Jason yelled, but nothing happened.

The voice spoke again;

“Can you hear the dead? Listen to me being fed.”

Suddenly, Jason heard screaming and crying and horror of the utmost worse kind. He heard them screaming his name. He grabbed his ears and shook his head as though he was trying to block out the horrific sounds.

“Make it stopped!!” he said.

“Fear, fear, fear me yet! I’ve come to break your mind instead,

Fear, fear, fear me yet! I’ll leave you dead in dread,

fear, fear, fear me yet!”

He kicks the door, and it opened. He went running to the elevator, and it took him down to another floor which then he headed to the escape pod. When he got there, he saw a dead body; brutally mutilated. He hears screams everywhere, but he didn’t see a thing. He swiped for the pod, but nothing happened. He made his way to the bridge and saw more mutilated bodies and body parts.

He heard that disturbing voice again.

“Fear me now, For I bring you down. Murder makes a sound,” it said.

He ran faster and faster down a hallway and to an elevator, he thought he could get away. Somehow access the escape pods from the bridge. He thought he could unlock them.

This voice spoke again;

“No fun, Don’t run…” It said

He punches the Digital lock and the door opened he got in and went to the bridge. The screaming didn’t decrease, in fact, it got worse and worse.

He got to the bridge and the auxiliary power went out. Everything was dead silent. After a time has passed, Jason felt like a beast was breathing down his next getting ready to devour him. He heard something breathing down his neck. The hairs on his neck were standing up. His adrenalin was pumping, sweat came down his forehead. Before he could move, the beast grabbed him by his neck and ripped his right arm off and beat him up then threw him aside like he was nothing. He knocked unconscious while bleeding out.

A maniacal laugh came out of this beast. It had changed from and killed all of the crew. It left Jason there like it was nothing.

There was the force of a high magnitude that somehow kept Jason alive. A shield of some weird foreign origin kept him alive for the next one hundred years.

All that time, not sound nor an echo.

Echo….

End of Chapter One.

Written By: Devon Parsons

 

Echo – Chapter Two

Chapter Two: Silence

Jason awoke to a new world of anguish, surrounded by skeletons. He looks to his right arm, and there was a mechanized arm in place instead of his real one. This arm was emitting an energy field which looked like light blue fire. He laid there in the hospital bed looking at this mechanical arm. Crystal had built him a new arm. He looked at his left hand and then spoke;

“Crystal! What the hell is going on??!”

He was in shock of what happened.

A minute later to his surprise a full figure curvy women appeared she had glasses and black hair which was straight and had been neatly comb. She was the Avatar, after all. She was medium height which was five feet and twelve inches. She had a beautiful smile and face.

“I had to save you from bleeding, Your whole arm was ripped off, and after that thing had come, my systems went haywire, I couldn’t keep your arm for attachment. Instead, we got you a robot arm.”

“Who are you? You can’t be crystal!” Jason said.

“But I am, She said.”

“if your crystal tell me what my favorite game to play with you is?”

“That’s easy, Mr. J its Chess,” Crystal Said.

“It is you! Do you know how long has it been? How long was I out for?”

They were in the small sick bay. Little robots and cleaner droid were cleaning everything up by themselves, and they were doing a good job of it.

“A hundred years…”

“What????! how can this be???!”

“You were in stasis for that long; some crystal formed around you and since I had no captain, I couldn’t do anything.”

“How did I get out?” Jason asked.

“Just recently it faded and released you,” She said.

“You manage to get me to sick bay?” Jason asked.

“Yep, a few of the robots carried you here,” She said

“They fixed you right up,” She said.

“good, I’m glad I recovered, but I’m afraid I can’t stay here.”

Jason got up. Then he warned Crystal.

“My head hurts…” Jason said, and he sat down.

“I think I’m going to vomit….” not too long later he puke all over the floor.

She made him stay for another hour.

He got up after an hour in the sick bay and an hour after puking and sat on the edge of the bed.

“Status on casualties,” Jason said.

She started calculating.

“99%-Dead,” She said

“But Why? didn’t anyone get away?”

“No.”

“What about Marvin and my friends?!”

“They died without mercy.”

“No way…” Jason said

“There dead, everyone innocence soul here was torn ripped and almost eaten alive,” Crystal said.

“What kind of monster would do this to us?”

” I wouldn’t call it a monster,” Crystal said.

“….more like…. a demon” Crystal said

“It felt like a beast and I never want to see it again.”

“head to the hourglass,” Crystal said, “Theirs a surprise in the hourglass for you.”

So He got up and made it out of the room and heading to the elevator and through the door. What he saw shocked him.

The Crystal had broken free, somehow. They were all exposed to dark matter, and the dark matter wasn’t normal because he was still breathing and alive.

When he looked around, he saw skeletons everywhere. It was overwhelming to see all the corpses and knowing they all died.

Crystal appeared and spoke,

“This is all that left of the Crystallic…”

“What the hell happened? Shouldn’t I be having a nasty effect from the crystal?” Jason asked.

“Readings indicate that the crystal is inhibiting lethal radiation.” She said.

“What the hell, I should be dead or something?” Jason asked.

“Mr. J do you want me to scan your body?” Crystal asked.

“Yes, Do something about the crystal,” Jason answered.

“Strange, readings showed that you’re in perfect health…” Crystal said

“Activate the alpha one measure, Quick!” He said

“Activating Alpha one now.”

Right, then a metal containment wall came down on the crystal.

“Crystal why didn’t you do that when you had the chance?” Jason asked with anger.

“Mr. J. I wasn’t working efficiently,” She said

“There was a flaw in my logic that needs a look at,” She said.

“All those people dead,” He whispered under his breath.

“Mr. J, I can hear you, and it could be a lot worse,” she said.

“Famous last words, crystal,” he said.

“So crystal where are we space wise?” he asked.

“My sensor aren’t working at all, Mr. J.”

“Great, so were stuck in space wandering aimlessly without a soul anywhere,” he said.

“You got that right Mr. J. Well done, I must applaud you now,” She said meanly.

“Well get some robots to work on the sensor array!” he said.

“Will do, Mr. J,”  She said.

It was silent, a code dead silent that could never be friendly. Jason went up to the bridge and sat on the captain chair and sigh.

There was no sound, no music, no one just the ship and his mind.

You could hear the ships mechanics working; you could listen to the dread in his heart where he knew he couldn’t have saved his crew. The sadness that was oozing out of him. He sat thinking and reliving every moment of the ordeal.

It grew silent so quiet he couldn’t stand it. It became cold too so cold that he was shivering.

Just when he was alone, he heard a voice.

“Cold are we?”

The hair on the back of Jason Neck stood up. The voice sounded just like Marvin.

“Marvin?” He asked fearfully. He was in shock.

That’s when Marvin appeared right in front of him. He jumped like he saw a ghost, which he did.

“Wha-what are you?” He asked.

“Why would you ask such a thing?” Marvin responded.

“No way you,” Jason was interrupted by Marvin.

“Could be Marvin?”

“Why I am…” Marvin said.

“b-b-but your dead,” he said in fear.

“So it seems…”

Marvin tried touching Jason, but his hand went right through Jason. Jason felt a cold draft when he did this.

He ran away from Marvin.

“Stay back!” Jason said.

“Cousin, would I hurt you?” Marvin asked.

“What are you doing here, Marvin? wouldn’t you be going into the light?” Jason asked.

“I’m just as clueless as you, Jason,” Marvin said.

Jason closed his eyes and told himself he was hallucinating. When he opened his eyes, Marvin was gone.

He took in a deep breath and felt relief.  He was back against a wall, and so he slide down the wall into the floor.

“It was just a hallucination…” He said to himself.

Crystal spoke:

“Incoming hail…”

“What the? Put it on-screen!” He said.

A man with a patch over his eyes and darkly dress leather wear shown up on screen. He was wearing a black cap. He had no hair.

This man spoke,

“I presume you’re the captain of this vessel?” the man asked.

Jason got up and said, “Yes… I am.” he was looking intently at this bald fellow. He had never met him, and this balding man was in full black attire and wearing black leather gloves.

“Prepare to be boarded!”

The screen went off. Soon after there was a loud crash and crystal spoke.

“A ship has docked at docking bay five.”

Jason sat there thinking of his next move, and there was no next move he couldn’t take them all out on his own. He was a scientist, not a soldier. Nevertheless, Jason headed down to the dock to face this pirate.

When he got there, he was face to face with the bald man who insisted on shaking his hand.

“I am captain Rigel of the vessel formally known as the U.S.S. Hyperion. I found it empty and took it.”

“And this vessel is mine now.”

Jason swallowed, and it felt like his throat was in a knot.

“My name is Jason, and since I have no choice, I surrender.

“Oh and there only one other you should know about, and he’s right behind me.”

Jason saw a tall, tanned man, standing behind Rigel. He was built like a tank and had curly black hair. He had mustache and beard, Along with brown eyes.

This man shoved Rigel out-of-the-way and introduced himself as Argonaut.

Rigel spoke, “He’s my first mate and like a son to me.”

He smiled and patted Argonaut on his back.

It got quiet, and Jason was sweating not knowing what they plan to do with him. Rigel stopped smiling and composed himself. He spoke again,

“Since your surrendering we won’t need for bloodshed, But just in case we will handcuff you.”

His lackeys cuff Jason.

Rigel ordered his men to check out the ship.

Rigel kept Jason near him for questioning.

“Argo, go with the others and see if you can find treasure. I’ll take Jason with me to the bridge.”

They started walking, and cargo agreed and left. They head from the docks to the bridge.

Rigel asked a question,

“What the hell is this ship carrying?”

Jason sighed. “It took a crystal that infused with dark matter,”

“WHAT??” Rigel seems shocked.

“You heard me, Rigel.”

“why hasn’t anything bad happened?”

“we contained the best we could but for some reason it seems like a blur to me, but I’m the only one left from an attack that was-I don’t even want to believe that it happened…”

“Well, Jason, dark matter is not funny business.”

“It’s not what you think .”

They were still walking down the hall.

Rigel had an intercom on his attire.

A minute later it blew up with noise. “Captain Rigel, There’s Skeletons on this vessel, There everywhere.”

Rigel pressed on the intercom and spoke: “Is there any survivors?”

Jason spoke, “Just me, Rigel.”

The intercom blasted out again, “NOT even a soul…. my god what has happened to this ship.”

“Your worse nightmare, ” Jason said.

“Jason, What happened, what happened here.”

“Hell happened here, and I was witness to the madness.”

Again Rigel tapped his intercom and spoke,

“Clear out the skeletons and do the best your can cleaning up.”

They continued to walk in what seem like mutual silence.

“Why are you the only survivor? Jason?” Rigel asked.

“I have no idea, Rigel. It happened so fast it was like crashing into a brick wall.”

“I have noticed that this ship is old, how come you’re not affected by this?” Rigel asked

“something kept me alive for one hundred years.”

“Where is the science, the facts, the realism?”

“Rigel, I wondered that myself. it is all madness.”

They continued to talk as they walked to the bridge. Every now and again Rigel would look at the blood stains.

This whole place stained, with blood and horror.

Rigel was brave and he carried on any other pirate would have run away. But he knew the value of this ship and that

he need this ship for his fleet. He felt confident.

“I have a question for you Rigel.”

“yes?” Rigel responded.

“Why haven’t you run screaming bloody murder.”

“Jason, I need this ship.”

“What for Rigel?”

“We could use that crystal.”

“Don’t say I didn’t warn you, Rigel.”

When they finally came, the bridge they found that crystal was waiting for them with a smile on her face.

“Welcome, Captain Rigel,” Crystal said.

“Who is this?” Rigel asked while checking her out.

“This is my ship’s avatar, Crystal.”

“Shes beautiful for a hologram.”

“Yeah, but she’s just a hologram, nothing more.”

crystal smiled turn into a frown.

“Jason! my sensor is picking up an unknown ship coming out of warp.”

“On screen,” Jason said.

IT was a half torn up, the ship, and it was easing blackness like blood. Half of the ship was missing, and The Darkness was coming out of the ship and heading right towards the Crystallic. It was visible to everyone the bridge and essential it got silent again. Then the lights went out, and the power disappeared.

“OH dear god, We have to get out of here, Rigel. It BACK!” Jason said.

The intercom came on, and Rigel heard his fellow pirate screaming for mercy. Rigel’s heart sunk and he almost stopped breathing when he heard argonauts voice screaming out for him.

He started to run to save someone, anyone, and he didn’t want this to happen.

The screen came on, and this hideous half is oozing black skull appeared on the screen, made of human bone and what seem like black oil covered all around it. It had eyes there were plucked from a man and placed in the holes of the skull. Its body was deformed bones but covered in oily black flesh.

The door shut before Rigel could get into the next room. In frustration, he fell to his knees and slammed the door with his fist.

“NO, no, We play.” The monster said.

There was thunderous laughter and cracking of flesh and bone. Rigel sudden saw all of the horror transferred into his mind.

He screamed “TAKE ME; YOU WICKED FOUL BEAST! NOT MY SON. WHY GOD?”

“…Not my crew.”

Rigel Started crying. He kept pounding his fist on the door.

“Why God? WHY?”

“Fun…” The creature said

“No hope,” it said.

Rigel continued to cry and curse the universe. It grows silent, and the screaming eventually stopped, and all the world was silent once again and there was only the sound of the ship and an echo in space.

 

Echo….

 

Preservation of Dragons – Chapter two

              Chapter Two: Buck Wild

 

 

“So jay What are you going to name those two dragons?” Jill asked

It had been a week since buck risen from the grave. Jay’s parents didn’t even bother to bury him; Nevertheless, Jay was happy to see him. Buck now looked young, and he felt great. He was able to adapt his grandson. Jay’s parent somehow was jailed in a trolls dungeon forced to live there and trap by some spell.

They were sitting in the kitchen watching the Gnumes create food and clean and even dance. They were known to be very talented singers and musician. Since buck looked young and healthy again, he was eating all the bacon and fried food he could put his hands on, it was morning and the day had just begun. Jay was eating homefries and bacon and gravy with an ice cream sundae.

Jill asked again, “kiddo, What are you going to name those dragons?”

“The blue one name Comet and the red one…” he thought about it for a minute or two and came up with;

“Voe!

Jill said “these names are great for those rascals you have now,”

Buck spoke, “I want you to have them, boy, because in our family we are the guardians of dragons, those two are the first in hundreds of future ones, boy. You are now a Dragon farmer, Son.”

Buck was eating and filling his face full of meats and carbs. In this kitchen, there were substantial stone windows with no stained glass. There was a morning breeze, and jay started shivering.

“use to heating? aren’t you boy?!” his grandpa said to him.

“Buck….” Jill looked at the buck and kicked him.

Buck spoke, “boy, you know I love you right?”:

“I love you too Paw-Paw,” Jay said.

Both Jill and buck held hands. “I have something to tell you, boy; Jill is your grandma,”

“How so?” Jay asked.

“Well son, I’ve known each either for years, the whole death thing was a rouse. The coin I gave you came from our family, and it protects us as long as we kept it. When I married Jill, she gained the protection of the coin. For hundreds of year we were happily married,” Buck said while smiling at Jill. She snorted.

“So why didn’t you use the coin to bring all this?”

“we couldn’t before the coin creator died he left a mark on the coin showing every generation after Azger apprentice. There were at least five marks and the coin extend each generation lives. There is a long history behind that coin, son.”

Jill looked at jay, “Your the last generation and that means only you could bring back the magic and not only that Azger also saved the dragons this dragon exhale magic and increase the potency of magic in the air.”

“Boy, we have Azure book, and he said that you are in charge of dragons. Azger legacy was in this book. I have it under my bed. Boy, we now have a working dragon pen and tons of land. Boy, you will be the one taking care of those dragons their yours and yours only.”

They carried on talking for another ten minutes and then they got done eating. They gave Jay a mission. This mission was to gather up the dragons and put them in their pens. Jay thought it was easy. It wasn’t. These rascals were full of energy and weighed a ton. It took him a while before they would cooperate by then the whole room was a mess, and the dragons had torn it to shreds. When he finally got into the pens. Jay was exhausted.

It was nightfall it had taken him all day to get the dragons in the pens. As he turned away, he heard a voice sounded like it was right behind him.

“Da-Da, me hungry,” comet said telepathically

Veo also said, “me too, me too,”

Jay walked back, and comet had an eager look on her face. For a dragon, she was very much full of personality. Veo was keen too.

“What the hell do dragons eat?”

A strange voice came out of nowhere

“Meat.”

Jay turns around toward the voice. He saw a man dressed in blue robes and black hair. Jay had a handbag, and Jay looked a lot like a sage. He had a wooden staff which had cravings of the white dragon on the top of it. The dragon on top of his team had red rubies on it. He was a staff that was full of Celtic and Mayan designs and even Norse myth.

Jay was scared he jumped back.

“Jays, don’t be afraid. It’s me Azger,”

“Where have you been? and why can’t you bring magic back?”

“I had to save it which took my life, and I have come back because of you, Apprentice,” Azger said.

“How can you come back from the dead?”

“Come here boy, and I’ll show you,”

Jay didn’t move.

Anger walked closer and closer.

“I won’t bite lad,”

He started walking faster. When he felt like he was close enough, he pulled out a knife and tried to stab jay. Jay was quick and agile and dodge it. He ran to the other part of the barn.

“You’re not Azger!!!”

“awe poor child Azger is never coming back,”

He went running toward Jay, and Jay stopped this stranger from stabbing him. Jay kicked this stranger off him.

There was a sudden but familiar voice, “Who do you think you are?!” Jay looked in the direction of the familiar sound.

It was Jill. The stranger looked at jill.

His eyes turned into bloodlust. “Why isn’t it, Jill Nebula? My, my, you have gotten old,”

“That’s enough of you, impostor! EAT THIS!!!” she cast the spell through the air and into the stranger’s heart.

“I will be with her….” the stranger said with his last breath.

This stranger turns into a blonde man with leather wear. The robes decayed, and he left with just his padded leather armor and a bow in his hand. Jill walked up to this corpse. She closes his eyes in respect. She looked on his neck there was the symbol of a red bow an arrow which was no bigger than her pinky.

“The scarlet arrow!!!” Jill said, taken back.’

“BUCK!!! GET over here now!!!”

“Why?!!” buck asked.

“BECAUSE WE HAVE AN ARROW THROUGH OUR DEFENSES!!”

Buck came running out. He looked at the corpse.

“oh for crying out loud! A Godless scarlet arrow!” buck said

he got all flustered and said “How the hell did they know about this? Even then, I thought they were wiped out?”

“I guess not,” Jill said.

“he was doing magic too, buck…”

“WHAT??!!!”

“Yes, he came as Azure!”

“This is bad… boy they want you dead and to kill your dragon. Their using magic….”

“Why should it matter paw?” Jay asked.

“The scarlet arrow nearly wipe out all dragons and elves and magical being out there. When it came down to it, the scarlet arrow eventually wiped out themselves.” Buck said.

Jill interrupted, “Little is to know about the disappearance of magic. It seems to have faded but thanks to anger he saved what was left; However, this whole scarlet arrow is strange and very unusual. We will have to call on the goblins, err. I mean the night agents for intelligence on the scarlet arrow.”

“Buck!” Jill said.

“What?”

“Go get the summon card…”

Buck ran in and grabbed the card and came back out. She threw the card on threw ground. She threw some magic powder on it, and it started smoking soon an image of a goblin that dressed as spy came into focus. Jill crossed her arms.

“Ah, I see its Zad,” Jill said

“Oh and isn’t Lady nebula?” Zad said.

“how was your slumber? ZAD?!” jill asked.

“very wondrous. What did you want my Lady?”

“I would like some Intel on the scarlet arrow! im willing to pay for your services three gold bags!” Jill said.

“WELL! I’d take it. Since we just woke up and all it might take a while,” Zad said.

“Its a deal there Zad,” Jill said as she waved her hand and made the image disappear in the wind. The card burst into flames and turn into ash.

“That takes care of that!” Jill said.

Jay was still in shock, but he got the courage to ask his grandma. “Why are you called Lady Nebula? grandma?”

“Jay I was a queen who was once called lady Nebula before I meet buck. I lived during the age of magic, and in time I found myself without it. I was human, but I found that Azger had saved the magic, so I followed and stalked every descent of his apprentice until I fell in love with the buck. I am alive because of an old potion I stashed when I was young it kept me alive than when I married buck I gained the benefit of the coin. The potion was almost out by the time to buck come’s around,” Jill said.

“All the creatures of the past knew me as Lady Nebula,”

“There no more time to talk, Jay we need you to understand that all is going to make sense in good time,” Jill said.

Jay’s hand was shaking. Jill hugged him, “its okay, honey. We all have to face something like that someday,” Jill said.

“Now Jay go get some meat and feed those poor baby dragons, ask your friend Lonny about the meat,” Jill said.

Jay went inside and sat at the kitchen table breathing heavy and shaking, hardly knowing what to say.

Gnume walked right up to him.

“You okay jay?” The Gnume asked

He didn’t respond.

“Jay, I have some magic that will help the shock,” This Gnume said.

he pulled out a piece of candy. “Here jay eats this,” Gnume said.

Jay had trouble coordinating a chew. He never had an experience as he had. Soon after the Gnume made him chew and swallow. He felt normal again. He took a breath of relief. After a few moments, Jay found Lonny and asked if there was any meat.

“Jay, of course, there is… ill get it for you!” he said smiling. He ran to the cellar and brought up the Giant human size steaks. Jay took the steaks and carried them lovely to the dragons.

“Here ill help you jay… ” Jill said.

She helps lift the steak over the rail and into the pen. Comet started wagging her tail and jumped on top of the steak like a lion. Voe was more of a petite eater he nips and chews and played with the steak.

“They sure are a handful aren’t they?” Jill said laughing a bit.

“You can say that twice!” Jay said.

“Jay, they are your babies. They will always love you as long as you give them unconditioned love. They bond with you, and they will love you back. They will always have your back and watch over you,”

“Yea, grandma but these steaks are a pain to carry!” Jay said.

“The whole meat thing changes as they grow up.  The Dragons need it now for protein. These two dragons had teeth when they came out of the coin. They will grow out of it though; it depends on what you feed them. If you want we could at one point feed them hay or grass.”

“Something, grandma Jill,” Jay said.

She smiled at Jay. She knew Jay was Young and this was a lot to process.

“Jay you will never regret this day,”

“Well,  this is unreal, Pet dragons?”

They were watching the dragon eat. Comet ate like a pig and fell asleep. Voe walked around and around until he got comfortable and curled up and fell asleep.

Jill smiled again, “a fed dragon is a happy dragon,”

“What now grandma Jill?”

“Well, since their asleep… you can come with me,” Jill said.

They both walked up to buck and buck was taking care of the body.

“Buck!”

Buck got up and looked at jill.

“What now??!” Buck asked.

“We need a guardian, have the games take care of the body get the incense and frankincense and some magic dust we need to summon a real guardian aspect,”

“Now why I didn’t think of that, Jill?!!” Buck said.

“Do it! hun!” Jill said.

“Okay! Okay! I’m on it!” Buck said running to Lonny who was in charge of the Gnumes. He told Lonny to get the body. Buck ran around the one level castle and found all the items and came back out. Jay, buck, and Jill walked into the courtyard. They made the spot for the frankincense and magic dust and funny smelling incense.

Jill spoke, “Almost forgot, buck get the blood of that scarlet arrow.”

Buck was too tired to do it himself, so he told Lonny what-to-do. Lonny went to the vial. He picked it up and cut the skin of the scarlet arrow. He took at least the whole bottle with blood. Lonny handed the bottle to Jill. Jill made it and poured in over the dust in a circle. Then she spoke.

“There will be a light among the darken death,” Jill said.

She waved her arms, and the blood started to reproduce and expand into flesh. The magic dust began flowing through the air after a shape took form. It started turning into a human being, and the magic dust went into his body. It was a man full frontal and stronger than Hercules.

“From the darkness, I am the light,” The Guardian said with a charismatic male voice. His eyes looked at Jill. He knelt before Jill

“My Lady Nebula,” He said.

Jill stood up and then said, “What is your name, Guardian?”

“Voter,” Voter said.

“How about we called you James Ryder,” Jill said.

“I’m sorry to question you Lady Nebula, but why the name?”

“Vos, it’s so no one can find out about you so your name will be James and you will be protecting this estate,” Jill said.

“Yes, my lady,” James said.

“And since you can take any form… Go and turn into then biggest dragon ever and keep patrol on top. if there is anyone who looks like there from a scarlet arrow, kill him,” Jill said.

“yes my lady,” He changed into a giant dragon and perched on top the entrance to this now big one level castle. He was huge and blended into the night he looked like a giant fire breathing lizard.

“Now can I go to sleep?” Buck asked.

“Of course, hun! and you too jay!” Jill said.

They all went to bed and rested.

The guardian aspect kept the estate safe and the next few years went smoothly. The dragon started growing. Jay was taught about the magic while Grandma Jill learns more and more about the scarlet arrow cult. She even bought a few mercenaries to counter-attack. It worked. It kept the scarlet arrow at bay.

For years they prosper until,

One day there would be a knock at the front door, little did they know who it was.

End of chapter two

 

 

Children of Thorn- Chapter Two

 Chapter Two: What Dreams May Be?!

What Philip and his friends saw was an incredible world where there were creatures like unicorns and Pegasus along with giants that were five hundred feet tall. These giants were friendly and talked.

They were there, but the portal had disappeared. The thing is, their attention was not on a way back but on a way to stay. It wasn’t long when a wizard in blue robes with a typical long white beard showed up and spoke.

“THE CHILDREN OF THORN!” He seems a little shaken up by the whole idea that they were here.His long beard and wizard that was apparent to the children that he was a wizard.

They all looked at him in amazement.

One of them responded,

“What is this place?”

The wizard took back by the fact that they were listening.

“If you must know little ones, the land, this world is called Severn.”

“You four families has been missing for over 50 years and I know each one of your names. its taken that long to get you back!”

He bowed.

“What do you mean good sir?” Philip asked.

“All promptly! Little ones!”

Philip wore glasses and had short blonde hair. He was short, but that was because he was a kid. Joe was taller and had

brown hair. He was unyielding and had silky smooth hair that parted in the front.

“If it helps then I shall tell you who I am. I am Norn, the storm master,” He said

Joe spoke up, “Hey, Mr. how are we going home?”

“The portal brought you here, and that means you guys are the chosen ones we have been expecting your arrival for years now., and, I’m afraid you’re stuck here, and this is your new home!” He cleared his throat and then said,

Cindy spoke up “I don’t wanna go back this place is magical.”

They all four knew each other from an orphanage. They were playing in someone backyard when the portal opened. They had nothing in the last world.

“very well, Little Cindy, just come this way.”

“Speak for yourself,” Kathrine said.

“Feisty aren’t you Kathrine!”

They started walking even thought they didn’t want to be there, but curiosity overpowered them; they complained a little, but wise storm master knew what-to-do.

He summoned a storm cloud. He walked on top of it.

“Come, little ones. It is safe to walk among  the clouds.”

Philip was a little scared, but Joe jumped right to it.

The other ones took some convincing to get them on this cloud. But they all gather on the cloud.

They flew through the air like eagles. They looked down and saw Forest and wild monster. They saw fairies and elves and gnomes along with a village that was in the trees. in the sky where dragons and fireworks.They saw land and jungle with a village of tree houses. They came close to the destination and started seeing a machine that made from magic. The glow of the city and the diversity of its people.

There was a huge castle that was painted white and had blue shingles. It was like a mountain. Nothing could move it or phase it. It didn’t even sway in the wind. It was beautiful, and both girls were memories by it. They all were awe-stricken.

“Come, Children, to my tower we go!”

They walked into the castle. It was everything they could imagine. It had several tapestries and had been clean and well kept. Suits of armor were everywhere along with weapons that were hung neatly on the walls. Painting of portraits of people who were once great warrior and wizard. Where they walked once were great heroes and in turn,  they left their4 mark.

They walked into the main tower that’s attached to the castle. It was a room that had a throne for a mighty king There was mounted on the wall a massive head of a dragon. It had riches and chest full of gold and artwork. Norn sat on this might throne which made for a king. He then pointed to a tapestry where all four of them were.

“What the?” Philip was in awe at the tapestry.

“No way!”

“Whoa!” The Adam and Eve! We’ve been watching you four ever since you were born.

“We brought you here to serve the King Venal Thorn.”

“Why?” Both boys asked.

Both girls Then Said, “Yeah why?”

he chuckled, “Kids for yeah!”

“You four are sons and daughter four family. Each and every four families was sons and daughter of Four powerful Guardian that created this world. They were benevolent and kind. Each one owned a piece of this world. Every four corners. For Four thousand years they prospered. Soon, they found that the life that came into this world soon became the sentient being and soon the magic that was like thick mist in the air created man…”

He showed them in a spell a vision of the past right before them.

“These family ruled over man, and they prospered. Humankind learned and became blessed with mighty Powers themselves, but that did not cause our epidemic!”

“What did?” Philip asked.

“A darkness came through the portal stealing life and color from the world. It is a dark time. Many fell before the darkness. There was a word that a Powerful half-blooded Guardian and human was the cause of it all. He summons the opposite of life and magic. He summons a dark magic that was a full of death and a dragon that steals the souls of the living.His name was Gossom the death lord and his dragon Razen, The soul stealer.”

“What did the families do?!” Philip asked

“Yeah what did they do?!” Joe asked.

“Yeah!” Kathy said.

Cindy nodded.

“They search far and wide each family sending a representative to hunt for a solution. What they found was a scroll with the highest concentration of life and magic. They couldn’t move the scroll, but they could write on the scroll their families name and their name. So then Turn them into powerful mages, warriors, healers.Joe’s family became knights of Caliber. Which was their last name? Kathrine family earn the power to heal grave wounds. Their last name was called Young. Their order which called The Light walkers. Philips family gained the power to cast mighty spells and they last name was Helot. They formed the Order of the Storm. Last and finally Cindy, her family last name was Burns. Her family gained the power to sneak and skills that no man could ever imagine. Cindy family was very much into spy aspect of this world. They were skillful in everything. In turn, they were Dawn of the Bane. They handle all that was political and secret,”

“What did they do next?” Joe asked.

“Well, kids. They were able to trap the Wicked foul guardian name, Gossom. Then send the dragon back to its hell. It was a joint effort, but essentially it was only temporary.Soon they found out that they could only trap once every three hundred years. So they trained heroes who are your ancestors to stop the guardian.”

Philip seemed perplexed, “How did they stop the Guardian?”

“Yes, good question!” Narn said.

“They searched for answer across and closed up for defeating this evil man and came across a scroll that was in Enoch. It read a spell that could stop Gossom. When they froze him in his cage. They came far and wide search for decades and years to kill him. They came up empty.”

“Aren’t you a wizard?” Joe asked.

They rallied behind Joe.

“I came from another realm, one of your famous ancestors saved me, and I swore a life oath to serve them,” Narn said.

“Lastly, before you guys were born and it was exactly fifty years ago. The Famil abruptly cast into your world. They were a strip of magic and stuck them for fifty years. When you four were born they were killed, The people of your world saved you guys somehow. I saw that it w2s shift shaping vile-tongue druid named Kern Vale or widely known as Snake-tongue. He served under Gossom.”

“What about King Thorn?” Philip asked.

“He was the youngest of all four family, and he was appointed ruler of the four kingdoms when your family went missing. And so he had to rally the humans, and I had to find a way to get the descendant of Guardians back into this world. And save all of the Se.vern,” Narn said.

“So, do we have a choice?” Joe asked.

“Sigh, Joe, You do! But would you rather be in the other world than in Severn? We can train you in many ways, heck it is in your4 blood to be a knight of the caliber. You are Joe Caliber son of the Great West Guardian,”

“But!”

Narn picked up a sword and Threw it to Joe. He then animated a suit of armor.

“Fight Joe!”

Joe took to the weapon as it was his left hand. He fought fierce and vigorous and was able to defend himself. The problem was that he was overcome back the lack of knowledge.

He showed each one they had natural talent and did extraordinary things.

“Now, will you stay?

-End of chapter two