Just a nobody playing something epic
Once we were
In our peace
With our lives assured.
Once we were
Not afraid of the dark.
Once we sat in our kingdom
With hope and pride.
Once we ran through
The fields with great strides.
We held the Fade
And the demon’s flight
So far from our children
And from our lives.
We held together
The fragile sky
To keep our way of life.
Once we raised
Up our chalice
In victory.
Once we sat
In the light of our dreams.
Once we were
In our homeland
With strength and might.
Once we were
Not afraid of the night.
We held the Fade
And the demon’s flight
So far from our children
And from our lives.
We held together
The fragile sky
To keep our way of life.
~ an old Children of the Sun song
In our peace
With our lives assured.
Once we were
Not afraid of the dark.
Once we sat in our kingdom
With hope and pride.
Once we ran through
The fields with great strides.
We held the Fade
And the demon’s flight
So far from our children
And from our lives.
We held together
The fragile sky
To keep our way of life.
Once we raised
Up our chalice
In victory.
Once we sat
In the light of our dreams.
Once we were
In our homeland
With strength and might.
Once we were
Not afraid of the night.
We held the Fade
And the demon’s flight
So far from our children
And from our lives.
We held together
The fragile sky
To keep our way of life.
~ an old Children of the Sun song
A Dream that became a Reality
In the darkness the crystal lifts her towards the light. Oh what a beautiful lie..........
Ayrlyn shakes the thought from her head trying to focus. Her head still filled with a thick fog. Something had gone wrong. Too much time had passed. As she trotted down the hallway the machines came alive. All around her blinking lights and panels with an unfamiliar language scrolling endlessly. She shook her head she didn't understand. Nicci would as she was a Child of the Sun. Find me ... The words echoed in her head.
Her head still pounding . She thought Where has she gone ? When they had entered the dream pods they were right next to each other. The pod wasn't there when she had awoken. Ayrlyn desperately followed what she had thought to be a track it may have traveled upon.
She entered a room full of pods lining the wall. Her eyes scanned them all quickly all empty save one at the end. Nicci..... Arylyn knew it was her. She could feel her dreaming. She surged foward. Then she saw it. A many bladed thing poised over her pod. A nightmare of machine and magic. Ayrlyn didn't stop to think . She swiftly let her axe fly with deadly accuracy. End over end it sailed through the air pinning the sentinel to the wall. Sparks and whirrs came from the machine until it stilled.
Something had changed. A chill flew through her like someone had stolen her breath away. Everything went dark moments after the lights came on with a red hue. Ayrlyn was terrified. The red light pulsing she fumbled over to Nicci her face so serene. A low shriek emitted from all angles. The tablets and pictures started displaying red lines of text. Ayrlyn pounded on the tube. Wake up She screamed. She looked for imperfections in the glass. A hairline crack right next to Nicci's arm. Ayrlyn made a fist with her adamantine gauntlet. The glass shattered from the blow. Nicci started slumped to the floor. Ayrlyn caught Nicci in her arms tears flowing from her eyes.
Wake up! You have to wake up I don't know what to do. I am lost without you....
Ayrlyn heard the clanking of the terrible things soon after. She cradled Nicci in her arms. Her eyes looked at the ruby necklace Nicci wore. She absent mindedly gazed at her own bright blue sapphire one. The necklaces are the key Nicci had always told her. Her eyes travelled to the floor . There ! A thin blue line with small arrows traveling along it drew a path out the door and beyond.
With a purpose she ran. Down the nightmare of machinery and tubes. The alarms shrieking and the light flashing. She gazed at one of the strange tablets trying to discern the meaning
Life and death...Love and hate...They are all the same.
Life and death...Love and hate...They are all the same.
Life and death...Love and hate...They are all the same.
Life and death...Love and hate...They are all the same.
Ayrlyn shook her head she couldn't read it. She rushed onwards. The ground shook violently and suddenly. She stumbled along a bridge over a seemingly endless chasm. Nicci rolled to the ground. Again the entire room shook and tilted. Ayrlyn hangs to a rail as Nicci rolled to an open doorway on the oppisite side. Nicci starts to cough. Ayrlyn can hear a soft sob. Nicci faintly hums the Sun language
He is waking
He is waking up...
Nicci ! They are coming! You have to wake up!
Nicci opens her eyes and pushes herself to her feet. Ayrlyn is facing away. Why? she thought. Then Nicci's eyes catch a glint of steel. The walls seemed alive. Wait! They were alive. The bladed things slowly detached from the wall. Like spiders and leaped to the catwalk and shamble towards them. They advance slowly but they are many. Ayrlyn turns towards her hand outstretched. The necklace dangles from her hand she tosses it to Nicci.
She catches it instinctively. She is confused.
You have to go I will hold them here! I will buy you time you need to take the keys and wake him!
Nicci shakes her head violently Not like this Not like this
A scream erupts from one of the machines. A strange darkness leaks from it. It starts to move unnaturally faster the others follow its lead.
Nicci GO! I hate goodbyes as much as you but there isn't much choice. Go wake him stop this madness. You have to go.
Nicci's eye flood with tears. But it wasn't supposed to end this way we stood against the world and won
Ayrlyn smiles warmly. She unhooks her Ridill from her belt and her small buckler. Nicci you have to go
Because they need you
Because I love you
Ayrlyn smashes the door control. It slams shut. She slowly turns to face the metal daemons. Her love is a weapon against the darkness . Her faith a shield.
Let them come
Nicci stares at the closed door. She bangs her fist on it but it was futile. She turns to the schematic and the monitor above it. Something is wrong . The floor shakes again. Something is trying to stop him from waking.
If you try and go against reality... Reality will surely crush you.
Reality will kill you.
And reality will continue to go on as if nothing ever happened..
Reality will crush you...
Reality will crush you...
Reality will crush you...
Every display just scrolls the last phrase endlessly. Nicci runs to the door. She needs to get to the control room. She dons Arylyns necklace. She breathes deeply Be my light in the darkness. She runs through the maze with her destination so near. Minutes later she passes through a doorway. A massive bridge. A huge room . She gasps. The stars shine through massive rotating windows. I found them Ayrlyn no we found them
At the end of the bridge is the doorway to the control room. She starts to pick up her job but then she senses it. In front of the door is a massive machine seemingly defunct. A tank bristling with weaponry of a lost age. Magic and machine it sits upon two legs
A guardian she thinks it shouldn't be here but it is long dead. She slowly walks towards it with catlike reflexes. She stopped cold she could sense the hatred. No she shook we defeated you !!! She screamed with pain.
The red eye on the terrible machine pulsed faintly as the displays everywhere scrolled a new message.
The only thing pure in this world is enmity
The only thing pure in this world is enmity
The only thing pure in this world is enmity.....
Darkness leaked from every joint. Its weapons slowly trained on her. Nicci reached for her bow. It was gone. She sighed. At that moment Nicci knew what she must do. The weapons screamed. One thousand terrible things headed in her direction. The door starts to close slowly. She surges forward. She did what she did best.
She ran.
She ran like the wind
The red beams where everywhere. The metal tried to bite her as it passed by. She jumps and rolls over the rockets with grace Nothing touched her. She dodges it all perfectly. With a speed born of desperation she closes the distance. The machine seems to scream reality will crush you! She reaches to her belt her last weapon her trusty kukri. She flings it blade first towards the mad machine. She screams in defence. The blade smashes into the red eye with a sickening crunch. It rears back its weapons firing everywhere.
Nicci sees her opening she drops to her knees and slides between its legs. Almost flawlessly. She feels the white hot pain cut into her side. She screams as she rolls under the door as it rumbles shut.
The pain she screams in the silence
She stumbles to her feet holding her side
So much blood
The pounding on the door is deafening. It buckles under the weight. She doesn't have much time she looks around the room grasping her side. The chairs surround the table. A massive whale floats in the center of it. She runs to the central chair almost losing consciousness as the pain stabs her every step. She falls into the chair with relief. Her gaze travels to the panel
Designation : Bismark
World-Ship Class
Destination Unknown
Please enter command____
error
error
error
Try to remember
Niccis cries. The panel is smeared with blood. She fumbles with the necklaces prying the stones from them. She wants to sleep she is so tired. Not yet! NOT YET! She sets the ruby and the sapphires into the small inlays below. They click and light up.
Archmage recognized please enter the the sequence to reactivate
Where do angels go when they lose there way? He used to say to her
Nicci fading in and out of consciousness slowly types the strange language in
Heavensward
Accepted beginning sequence
Corruption detected.......
Initializing Archangel Protocol
The globe in the center of the whale pulses. People look to the sky. A wave of light emanates from the sun slowing washing over everything. Athera feels a kind warmth as it pass through her. Ayrlyn is slumped against a wall in the belly of the whale. Her blood streaking down it. The machines all around her stop moving as the darkness is cleaned from them with a gentle light. The guardian also slumps to the ground. The unnatural glow fades as it shuts down.
Activating systems ... sub systems coming online
The world-ship lights blink on the entire length hums. Its shape indeed a giant whale floating in the darkness of the void. Its engines flare to life. It's size titanic. It slumbers no longer.
Warning low energy please enter destination
Nicci sighs one last time
We did this I wish I wish you ......
and then
and then she was free......
Auto pilot engaged scanning scanning scanning
Low energy reserves
System found.. rerouting power..plotting coordinates..engaging engines
Destination : codename~Where Angels Lose their Way. actual name~ Primal System
Heroes may be remembered but legends never die.......
~The End?
Our desperate last stand
He grips the icy rail of the ship as it dips into the ocean. Shrike rumbles unhappily. Eurytos bellows in laughter.
"I haven't met a cat yet that didn't fuss over a little rain"
The ship crests another wave. One of many bearing desperate men and women seeking to bring back the sun.
One of the men shouts through the howling icy gale. His finger pointing at the small island with a mountain upon it.
"There it is Hunter of the Moon such a terrible place we have found" Eurytos shakes his head.
As the ships grow nearer the men notice the howling of the wind change to that of a low shriek of pain. Upon the mountain a red slit appears and near it another. "That is no mountain friends" Eurytos shouts as part of the mountain slides off and another like giant coils unwrapping from a perch."Get ready for what we trained for!!!" The men and women explode into action.
He marvels at the chaos around him as winches are pulled and machines start humming. He looks out upon the ocean. There! He sees a small wave travelling towards them.
"The ripple grows into a wave they said" Eurytos grumbles "Straight into it we go don't falter now"
The wave now a horrific reality travels at terrifying speed towards the ships. Ships groan as the angle they are travelling. The man hangs on for dear life. He watches as one of the ships loses control. Men screaming in terror as the ship leans to the side and is split in half with a sickening force. He winces at the pain of the dying men. The painful wind shrieks in delight.
"He grow stronger with it. You feel it to hunter don't you? " Eurytos screams as they ascend at the impossible angle.
"Now like I taught you hold the little sun above your head quickly" Eurytos yells
The man thrust the spear above his head the spear glowing with intensity of the sun. The shining beacon cuts through the mist and the wind. The singal is seen. The men pull the levers and pulleys like clockwork. The engines flare to life the machines groan at the intensity of pressure. The propellers hum to life. It looks like they might fall to their deaths when they crest the wave. Pain roars in glee.
But then he sees them. They cut through the mists like a knife in the dark .The last twenty airships of the great armada. Banners flowing with newfound strength. May the dreamers be with us scrawled on their flags. As the ships near the island they can see a cloud of white escaping Pains ghastly maw. The captain peers through the spyglass with a grimace
"Give the singal" he mutters to his crewmen "Hard to port. Hard to port" he yells
As one the armada heaves to port revealing rank after rank of cannon. The man sees the cloud close in. Masses of white serpents fly and weave towards the ships. "HOLD" "HOLD" the captain bellows.
Pains brood threatens to close the gap in mere seconds.
"FIRE" "FIRE" relays across the wall of ships. A thunderous roar of cannon fire deafens him. The serpents fall from the sky hundreds of them. Panic ensues as they crash into ships. Screams of agony wood ripping "Fire at will Fire at will " is heard among this terrible chaos. They knew their duty cut a path. If it was the last thing they did cut a path.
"There" Eurytos gestures as his arrow sang into another serpent. "An opening bring us closer"
"Climb upon Shrike and get ready" Eurytos runs to Shrike and touches his forehead to the shaggy beasts head. "Do this for me" He grabs Shrikes shaggy fur "Bear him to that cliff above the great serpent, it is the only way"
Shrike growls in agreement. A ship smashes into a nearby rock shrapnel and rock flying everywhere. A piece of the mountain breaks off hurtling towards the ship. "BRACE FOR IMPACT" the captain shouts as the helmsman pulls with all his might to change course.
Shrike eyes the horizon. Madness is everywhere. He sees his chance. His muscles bulge ready to spring. As the rock grazes the ship he leaps impossibly far to an ice shelf. He runs with purpose along the collapsing shelf. He runs like the sky is falling behind him. As the ship careens out of view, he hears his master last plea. Do this for me. Shrike doesn't look back.
The man grips Shrike and together they run through the storm . Deftly he dodges the the falling debris and the shifting coils of the great serpent up the mountain. The man hears the whistle, then another as serpents narrowly miss the tiger.
Then he feels it. A sharp pain as Shrike collides with a falling tree. He rolls to to the ground with his mind pounding blackness surrounding his vision. He sees Shrike is desperately clawing the edge of the freshly opened chasm the roiling ocean below. The man dives towards his companion but is knocked to his feet by a grinning snake. He jabs at it with the spear and drives it down in a flash but he is too late. He peers over the cliff. Shrike is nowhere to be seen.
He presses on. Sounds of battle all around him screams of pain from man and monster alike. Smoke , snow and ash choke him. The brood closes in around him. Too many! Too many! Run! His mind screams at him. Surrounded he fumbles for the small horn hoping to singil some aid among the dark. The horn peals into the night.
Dream.......
He looks up into the night sky confused. He looks at the blue and red stars gleaming brilliantly
Dream....
He closes his eyes as the serpents rush at him from every angle. he clutches the little sun to his chest.
Dream......
Nothing.....
................
Nothing happens?
He opens his eyes astonished as the serpents fall from the sky above him. He hears arrow after arrow singing. His head swivels to the source. He sees her red and gold her bow singing destruction on enemy after enemy. A faint red hue aligns her form. Behind him there is blue glow. The ground shakes as massive great axe heaves and cuts dozen of serpents in two. The dreamers are here he cries. With words unspoken and great need they cut a path. Nicci's daggers tear through snake after snake with the speed of wind. He could barely follow her path . Ayrlyn's mighty axe spins and cuts through the dark and foe alike. He rushes to the cliff's edge with newfound hope.
He looks down and sees Pain opening his maw and a terrible blue light fire forth drawing a line towards the nearest ship cutting through it effortlessly. Not much time the he thought as he looked down at the destruction below him. How can we win against such reckless hate?
Ayrlyn at his right looked at him Sometimes dreams aren't such great things after all
Nicci at his left Remember we all die, but our dreams never will
He nods For my daughter and her dreams For my friends and their's
As one they leapt. Falling through the mist towards the great terror. The ice whistling in their faces.
Pain swivels and opens his terrible maw. The blue line draws nearly missing them. Again he opens it the rows of teeth and teeth. Ayrlyn flips her hair towards him and takes the lead.
Patience........
Strength....
Hope...
The blue line slams into her with terrifying force. Her form absorbs the blast and slowly dissipates.
Pain again opens his maw again and prepares for another blast. Nicci smiles sadly at him rushing through the air. She winks and crosses her arms before her and takes the lead falling swiftly.
Dream......
Listen....
Love...
Her body slowly dissipating until nothing remains. Pain shrieks.
Almost there. He thinks as his spear gleams with the brightness of a thousand suns. As Pain opens his maw to prepare the final blast the spear meets it head on. His last thoughts course through his head
I love you Athera....
I am sorry...
Dream for me...
then there was
Silence...........
Nothing.......
An explosion of light. A massive shockwave rolls over the island . Knocking the ships out of the sky into the ocean below. Everything is knocked flat. Then a crack in the island splits open and then another. The light bleeds through as Pain's coils fade. A large blinding globe starts to emerge from the depths. It slowly rises towards the sky. Beams of light shoot from it traveling far and near. A joyful chorus sings from within.
Hours later as the globe slowly ascends.............
Eurytos squints and points "There There " He roars joyfully . Eurytos reaches over the longboat's side and pulls a disgruntled(and very wet) Shrike aboard with a laugh
"My boy you made it! What have you got there in your teeth?" he asks laughing and crying at the same time "Oh"
He turns the spear over in his hands. Its light had been spent. It was dim and cold...
"You know you are probably wondering why we aren't all burnt crispy taters being so close to the sun and all" Eurytos replies. Shrike's ears perk up at the word tater's. Eurytos rolls his eyes. The sailors laugh.
"You of course haven't studied the ancient texts you mongrel. Right now the furnaces in the Great Nothing are rumbling to life. Eventually the heat will reach every corner of the world.
The sun you see is just light. If you look closely you can even see the last sun engineer Eshae work her magic. She may be long gone but her dream goes on. She is working hard to keep the light from fading."
The men squint and shake their heads. Did engineer mean goddess? Who knows? Most thought the giant was speaking nonsense.
"You see this is no normal world. We are in the belly of a giant whale travelling the ocean of stars. We are on the inside of the sphere. Soon he will stop dreaming and wake" Eurytos motions with his hand "Soon the citadels will come to the earth . Not the three great ones because they are lost but the lesser ones" He rambles on entranced by his own lecture. Shrike's snoring almost louder then him.
This time the sailors roll their eyes. They slowly row the longboat back to the few remaining ships. The weather calm and sunny. For the first time in years people feel the warmth and they feel hope....
Don't give up on hope because it never will give up on you.
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The world shakes ....
HE is waking.....
Deep within the mechanical maze of tubes, crystals and walkways. She lies on a cold metal slab.
She wakes...
The lights start to blink everywhere.
The faint taste of blood lingers on her tongue
She sits up her head pounding. Where is this? Why was she here?
Try to remember....
Find me..
Who? She shakes her head as she finds her weapon and silently walks to the nearest doorway.
Pain floods through her head.
She stops to steady herself.
Then she recognizes the voice
Nicci...
Please hurry.......
There isn't much time.....
He is waking up.....
"There it is Hunter of the Moon such a terrible place we have found" Eurytos shakes his head.
As the ships grow nearer the men notice the howling of the wind change to that of a low shriek of pain. Upon the mountain a red slit appears and near it another. "That is no mountain friends" Eurytos shouts as part of the mountain slides off and another like giant coils unwrapping from a perch."Get ready for what we trained for!!!" The men and women explode into action.
He marvels at the chaos around him as winches are pulled and machines start humming. He looks out upon the ocean. There! He sees a small wave travelling towards them.
"The ripple grows into a wave they said" Eurytos grumbles "Straight into it we go don't falter now"
The wave now a horrific reality travels at terrifying speed towards the ships. Ships groan as the angle they are travelling. The man hangs on for dear life. He watches as one of the ships loses control. Men screaming in terror as the ship leans to the side and is split in half with a sickening force. He winces at the pain of the dying men. The painful wind shrieks in delight.
"He grow stronger with it. You feel it to hunter don't you? " Eurytos screams as they ascend at the impossible angle.
"Now like I taught you hold the little sun above your head quickly" Eurytos yells
The man thrust the spear above his head the spear glowing with intensity of the sun. The shining beacon cuts through the mist and the wind. The singal is seen. The men pull the levers and pulleys like clockwork. The engines flare to life the machines groan at the intensity of pressure. The propellers hum to life. It looks like they might fall to their deaths when they crest the wave. Pain roars in glee.
But then he sees them. They cut through the mists like a knife in the dark .The last twenty airships of the great armada. Banners flowing with newfound strength. May the dreamers be with us scrawled on their flags. As the ships near the island they can see a cloud of white escaping Pains ghastly maw. The captain peers through the spyglass with a grimace
"Give the singal" he mutters to his crewmen "Hard to port. Hard to port" he yells
As one the armada heaves to port revealing rank after rank of cannon. The man sees the cloud close in. Masses of white serpents fly and weave towards the ships. "HOLD" "HOLD" the captain bellows.
Pains brood threatens to close the gap in mere seconds.
"FIRE" "FIRE" relays across the wall of ships. A thunderous roar of cannon fire deafens him. The serpents fall from the sky hundreds of them. Panic ensues as they crash into ships. Screams of agony wood ripping "Fire at will Fire at will " is heard among this terrible chaos. They knew their duty cut a path. If it was the last thing they did cut a path.
"There" Eurytos gestures as his arrow sang into another serpent. "An opening bring us closer"
"Climb upon Shrike and get ready" Eurytos runs to Shrike and touches his forehead to the shaggy beasts head. "Do this for me" He grabs Shrikes shaggy fur "Bear him to that cliff above the great serpent, it is the only way"
Shrike growls in agreement. A ship smashes into a nearby rock shrapnel and rock flying everywhere. A piece of the mountain breaks off hurtling towards the ship. "BRACE FOR IMPACT" the captain shouts as the helmsman pulls with all his might to change course.
Shrike eyes the horizon. Madness is everywhere. He sees his chance. His muscles bulge ready to spring. As the rock grazes the ship he leaps impossibly far to an ice shelf. He runs with purpose along the collapsing shelf. He runs like the sky is falling behind him. As the ship careens out of view, he hears his master last plea. Do this for me. Shrike doesn't look back.
The man grips Shrike and together they run through the storm . Deftly he dodges the the falling debris and the shifting coils of the great serpent up the mountain. The man hears the whistle, then another as serpents narrowly miss the tiger.
Then he feels it. A sharp pain as Shrike collides with a falling tree. He rolls to to the ground with his mind pounding blackness surrounding his vision. He sees Shrike is desperately clawing the edge of the freshly opened chasm the roiling ocean below. The man dives towards his companion but is knocked to his feet by a grinning snake. He jabs at it with the spear and drives it down in a flash but he is too late. He peers over the cliff. Shrike is nowhere to be seen.
He presses on. Sounds of battle all around him screams of pain from man and monster alike. Smoke , snow and ash choke him. The brood closes in around him. Too many! Too many! Run! His mind screams at him. Surrounded he fumbles for the small horn hoping to singil some aid among the dark. The horn peals into the night.
Dream.......
He looks up into the night sky confused. He looks at the blue and red stars gleaming brilliantly
Dream....
He closes his eyes as the serpents rush at him from every angle. he clutches the little sun to his chest.
Dream......
Nothing.....
................
Nothing happens?
He opens his eyes astonished as the serpents fall from the sky above him. He hears arrow after arrow singing. His head swivels to the source. He sees her red and gold her bow singing destruction on enemy after enemy. A faint red hue aligns her form. Behind him there is blue glow. The ground shakes as massive great axe heaves and cuts dozen of serpents in two. The dreamers are here he cries. With words unspoken and great need they cut a path. Nicci's daggers tear through snake after snake with the speed of wind. He could barely follow her path . Ayrlyn's mighty axe spins and cuts through the dark and foe alike. He rushes to the cliff's edge with newfound hope.
He looks down and sees Pain opening his maw and a terrible blue light fire forth drawing a line towards the nearest ship cutting through it effortlessly. Not much time the he thought as he looked down at the destruction below him. How can we win against such reckless hate?
Ayrlyn at his right looked at him Sometimes dreams aren't such great things after all
Nicci at his left Remember we all die, but our dreams never will
He nods For my daughter and her dreams For my friends and their's
As one they leapt. Falling through the mist towards the great terror. The ice whistling in their faces.
Pain swivels and opens his terrible maw. The blue line draws nearly missing them. Again he opens it the rows of teeth and teeth. Ayrlyn flips her hair towards him and takes the lead.
Patience........
Strength....
Hope...
The blue line slams into her with terrifying force. Her form absorbs the blast and slowly dissipates.
Pain again opens his maw again and prepares for another blast. Nicci smiles sadly at him rushing through the air. She winks and crosses her arms before her and takes the lead falling swiftly.
Dream......
Listen....
Love...
Her body slowly dissipating until nothing remains. Pain shrieks.
Almost there. He thinks as his spear gleams with the brightness of a thousand suns. As Pain opens his maw to prepare the final blast the spear meets it head on. His last thoughts course through his head
I love you Athera....
I am sorry...
Dream for me...
then there was
Silence...........
Nothing.......
An explosion of light. A massive shockwave rolls over the island . Knocking the ships out of the sky into the ocean below. Everything is knocked flat. Then a crack in the island splits open and then another. The light bleeds through as Pain's coils fade. A large blinding globe starts to emerge from the depths. It slowly rises towards the sky. Beams of light shoot from it traveling far and near. A joyful chorus sings from within.
Hours later as the globe slowly ascends.............
Eurytos squints and points "There There " He roars joyfully . Eurytos reaches over the longboat's side and pulls a disgruntled(and very wet) Shrike aboard with a laugh
"My boy you made it! What have you got there in your teeth?" he asks laughing and crying at the same time "Oh"
He turns the spear over in his hands. Its light had been spent. It was dim and cold...
"You know you are probably wondering why we aren't all burnt crispy taters being so close to the sun and all" Eurytos replies. Shrike's ears perk up at the word tater's. Eurytos rolls his eyes. The sailors laugh.
"You of course haven't studied the ancient texts you mongrel. Right now the furnaces in the Great Nothing are rumbling to life. Eventually the heat will reach every corner of the world.
The sun you see is just light. If you look closely you can even see the last sun engineer Eshae work her magic. She may be long gone but her dream goes on. She is working hard to keep the light from fading."
The men squint and shake their heads. Did engineer mean goddess? Who knows? Most thought the giant was speaking nonsense.
"You see this is no normal world. We are in the belly of a giant whale travelling the ocean of stars. We are on the inside of the sphere. Soon he will stop dreaming and wake" Eurytos motions with his hand "Soon the citadels will come to the earth . Not the three great ones because they are lost but the lesser ones" He rambles on entranced by his own lecture. Shrike's snoring almost louder then him.
This time the sailors roll their eyes. They slowly row the longboat back to the few remaining ships. The weather calm and sunny. For the first time in years people feel the warmth and they feel hope....
Don't give up on hope because it never will give up on you.
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The world shakes ....
HE is waking.....
Deep within the mechanical maze of tubes, crystals and walkways. She lies on a cold metal slab.
She wakes...
The lights start to blink everywhere.
The faint taste of blood lingers on her tongue
She sits up her head pounding. Where is this? Why was she here?
Try to remember....
Find me..
Who? She shakes her head as she finds her weapon and silently walks to the nearest doorway.
Pain floods through her head.
She stops to steady herself.
Then she recognizes the voice
Nicci...
Please hurry.......
There isn't much time.....
He is waking up.....
A preview of my new story . Where Angels lost their way
Young Athera is lost in a brave new world. Along with her mysterious bow she searches for clues about what happened to her father. What lurks in the shadows that has followed her people for generations? What where the children of sun? What was their purpose? Why did they want to come here? Are we fated to repeat the same mistakes as we did in the past? Her only two companions. A small black furred feline named Rook and the last known member of an ancient race long since gone. Can they unravel the meaning of this strange place? Where did it all start?
Radical Dreamers
Here is a collection of short stories I have written about the Radical Dreamers.
Part 1 Fates Entwined
A girl remembers the legends.
Part 2 Destinies Unraveled
The beginnings of the dreamers.
Part 3 Crossing the distant night
A father starts a journey. Leaving his daughter behind.
Part 4 A dying world
The father finds a purpose.
Part 5 Our desperate last stand
The final stand against Pain.
Part 6 A dream that became a reality....
Epilogue Heavensward
By Nicci
Where did the angels .... lose their way?
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Sometimes you find something that you want to hold on to and never let go.
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Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness But it's better then drinking alone
