21st of November 953 A.N.M.(After Nightmare Moon) Camelot capital of New Arcadia. Celestia's school for gifted Arcadians.
A young woman with red and yellow hair was sitting at a table in the library with an old looking scroll in front of her. Every so often she would mutter to herself and then write something down in the notebook she held in her hands. "Ok, let's see what it says in this passage of this old scroll from the old Aerian city of Thebes has to say."
When the dreamer is once again free from her nightmare by magic's chosen heir and their companions, and the King of madness is tamed. Then the frozen Rose in a crystal prison will awake. This will usher in a winter without end, unless a dragon hatched by a rainbow's boom is present when Winter brings it's wrath upon summer's Steward.
"Well that's rather vague." She said with disdain. She then took in a deep breath and sighed. "What else was I expecting from someone named Farseer? You know, for once I would like to translate one of the scrolls for Celestia and not have to deal with them being either vague or a riddle."
"Pardon me miss Sunset Shimmer but High Ascendant Celestia has sent a message for you." A man covered in gold armor and giant brown wings said as he approached the area Sunset was sitting. He handed her a roll scroll adorned with Celestia's personal seal.
"Thanks for delivering this." Sunset replied as she took the scroll. She the broke the seal and began reading.
To my darling student Sunset, I know that you are busy translating the old scrolls in the academy's library for me but I have another task for you. An expedition to the Frozen North has discovered what they believe to be old Arcadia. In the middle of the ruins, they found six crystal statues of what looks to be Arcadians circling a giant crystal rose. At the foot of the rose was a bunch of what looked to be memory crystals. Now, this isn't surprising in of itself as we have found memory crystals this old before. What is strange is that these particular ones are more advanced than the ones we currently use today. As such, the mages that went with the expedition have been unable to unlock the memories in the devices. If you could come to the palace at your convenience I would like you to take a look at them.
Sincerely, Celestia
"Well, it will be a welcome break from these dusty old scrolls. I guess I'll head over now. Lead the way." Sunset said to the guard after she put away the scroll she was looking at.
13th of January 954 A.N.M. Camelot Castle.
Sunset was in the magic laboratory of the Camelot Castle where she was examining six book shaped crystals. She was currently casting a high level altercation magic spell to try to get access to the memories held within. Once she cast the spell with no noticeable effect,she sighed in exasperation. "Seriously, I have tried everything I can think of to open these things. It's not like the inscriptions in dragovic on the front of them is helping. Speak Rose and remember. The person who made this really didn't want anyone getting into them. Ugh, two months and still no progress. This is much more frustrating than translating old scrolls." she then pick up the oldest looking one and stared at the inscriptions on it. 'Wouldn't it be funny if the inscriptions were meant to be taken literal?' She thought to herself. "Well it's not like I have any better ideas." She then held the crystal up at eye level and uttered, "Tilek!" To her surprise, the crystal started glowing and her consciousness got drawn into the crystal.
My25th of May 221 A.D. (After Displacement)
name is John Romero or as least it was about two hundred years ago. Now I know what you are thinking, 'a human can not live that long.' well you're right a 'human' can't. But then I haven't been human for a long time. I am now something called a manakete. Well back to the matter at hand. I have decided to record myself in this memory crystal because I have been losing my memory for centuries, because I am in the form of a dragon. You see, in the mythology of the game my form hails from, if a dragon stays in their elemental form, they start going through a process known as degradation. From what I can remember, the only way to stop it is to turn human, but I cannot do that, even with my dragonstone. It might have to do with when I fought that giant red dragon that tried to mate with me and tackled me into a field of blue flowers. I felt the sudden loss of the extra weight on me and looked around only to see that the other dragon was flying away like a bat out of hell. I still don't know why he left when he had me helpless, but I haven't been able to take on my human form since. I predict that in about another fifty years or so, I will lose the last memories of the time before I got sent to this world and soon after, I will lose all sanity. At which point I will try to kill all other living things in this world like the dragons from that game I mentioned. So I am now reciting the story of who I was and how I got here to try to keep myself sane as long as possible.
I was a seventeen year old male human who lived in Springfield, Oregon in the United States of America with his mom and two younger twin sisters. My mom's name was Sarah Romero and she worked at the local hospital as an E.R. nurse. My sisters were named Kaylin and Jennifer, and as they were both thirteen they went to middle school. I was really into video games and was always getting the newest games and systems, spending all my extra time and money on them. I mean gaming pretty much defined my life back then. Come to think of it, I guess you could blame that unhealthy obsession for my current predicament. Well let's begin with the day it all went wrong, November 15th 2025.
I spent most of the day in my room playing my favorite online game Fire Emblem Online on my Nervegear. Now I probably should explain what nervegear is because we don't have anything like it in this world. Nervegear is a virtual game headset that catches the mental signals in your brain and transmits them to a virtual body instead of your real body. While you couldn't move or feel anything in real life, you could feel and experience everything in the game.
I had just defeated the Fel Dragon Grima, gaining the felblood crest for my female manakete character named Xarzith Tilek or Ice Rose in English. As I had already got the Crest of Naga the week before, that meant that I could get into the secret outrealm that required both marks to open. It was a feat no one had managed to do. Getting one crest required you to solo a 100 floor dungeon, with each floor increasing in difficulty as you descended further. It was no wonder why nobody had accomplished it in the first month of the game's release. It took me two and a half weeks but I finally did it and I didn't want to wait to find out what was so special about the outrealm.
As I was about to open the gate I heard a ping. I opened my main menu and saw that I had a message from my mom. I sighed and opened the message. 'It is dinner time come down and eat.' I wasn't about to let anything stop me from opening that gate as soon as possible. I quickly sent a message to my mom that I wasn't hungry. After that, I put both my hands on the gate. The Crest of Naga in my right hand and the Felblood Crest in my left hand started to glow. A message box popped up in front of me. 'You will not be able to return if you open this gate are you sure you wish to continue? Yes or No.'
As this message appeared at both Naga and Grima's dungeons I rolled my eyes and and pressed yes. As the gate opened I was surrounded by a bright light that made me close my eyes. When I opened them again I noticed that I was in a large white circular room with no exit. In the center of the room, there was a counter with lots of different goods on it. The items present varied from class changing items like friendship seals to near legendary weapons like Sol. Behind the counter sat a woman with a red ponytail wearing a red and yellow trickster outfit from Fire Emblem: Awakening. She was in her iconic pose with the index finger of her right hand on chin with a sly smile on her face.
"Oh wow someone actually got here in less than two months, guess I owe Adam twenty bucks now." She said while looking me over. Then she brought up her right hand to chin level and swiped down bringing up her menu. "Let's see, Who are we dealing with? Humm, I see, would you say that all this information is correct?" She asked as she flicked her wrist and the info window moved to in front of me.
Player information,
User name: John Romero
Age: 17
Gender: male
Character Name: Xarzith Tilek
Character Gender: Female
Race: Manakete, Ice dragon variety Class: Magic Fighter level 30
Weapon Ranks: Sword A Magic B Dragon Stone S Staves S
Abilities: Dragon form, Paragon, Dragon's Bane, Renewal, Miracle, and Vengeance.
Hair Color: Sky blue
Eye Color: Silver
Member of the Eyes of Dawn guild.
"Yes this is all right." I answered after looking over the window very thoroughly. "So, now that I made it here, is this all there is to that gate? Just this room, because if it is I am quite disappointed. I was hoping something interesting was going to happen, after all the time I put into getting here."
"Oh, don't worry about that Hon. Something interesting will definitely be happening to you in a little bit. Just as soon as the director and her associate get here in about…" A loud popping sound and a bright light interrupt her mid-sentence. "Well I guess right now."
I heard a snapping sound and then I was lifted up off the ground. "What's going on? Why am I floating and why can't I move?" I asked frantically, suddenly very concerned.
"What's going on is that you have volunteered to be the first of the control group for interdimensional travel and body argumentation. The data we will get from you will enable us to get government sanction and founding." A very feminine voice said from behind me. "And before you say that we can not do this to you, remember the warning that appeared before you entered the gate to this area? Well, by pressing yes and entering here, you legally signed your life to us." As she said this she walked in front of me and I saw that she looked like an older version the woman behind the counter that was full of goods. "Hello, I am Doctor Anna Sharp. Director of the Nerotech company, nice to meet you. I would also like to thank you for your help in saving our race before we send you off to your new life." She told me then she then looked behind her and asked, " Is everything ready Sara? All energy sensors up and running and ready to record all data from this event?"
"Yes director, I've double checked everything and we are ready to proceed as soon as your associate is ready." The young woman replied, after which they both looked behind me. I then felt a cold feeling that started at me feet and then made its way upward. I shivered at the feeling and tried to say something to get them to stop but when I opened my mouth no sound came out. As soon as the feeling reached my head I passed out.
I came to suspended in darkness with a figure in a cloak in front of me. I tried to say something only for no sound to come out of my mouth. "Funny they think that they know what they are getting you into." She laughed for a moment at this, "Well at least you won't be here when they get raided, before I forget." She pulled out a small envelope with only two words written on it, "From Eris." "A word of warning keep your eyes closed, and your mind sound, this is going to hurt… well it doesn't have to hurt but it's a bit more fun this way."
She snapped her fingers and things started to shift. A tear opened in the air, with this multi-colored thing looking right back at me before it swallowed me up. It felt like my very atoms were being ripped apart and put back together. I don't know how long that lasted as I had blacked out almost immediately.
That is how I got here wherever here is. Wait, I remember that in the game a manakete named Tiki hibernated for a thousand years and didn't lose her mind. I should try that.
As Sunset came back to reality She was ecstatic about finally getting into a memory crystal. She hurried to grab a blank scroll, a quill, and some ink and wrote down all the information she got from the crystal before she forgot it. "Celestia will definitely want to know that there was a interdimensional traveler back in ancient times. Well let's see what's in the other crystals." She told herself as she readied another crystal.
7th of July 556 A.D.
I can no longer remember the time before I came to this world. I use my memory crystals but I still can't recall any of it. The hibernation didn't help me keep my memories, and I find myself with the uncontrollable urge to destroy things. I will please my destructive urges by protecting the weaker races from the native dragons. Hopefully, that will keep me from going full blown Grima on this world.
"Nothing much in this crystal besides stating that hibernation didn't work on her problem." Sunset said as she wrote down the information anyways. She then repeated the process.
23rd of August 617 A.D.
I have been keeping dragons away from the city of Arcadia for the last two hundred years. Not that the Arcadians know anything about it. In that time I have killed more dragons then I can count, and still I have this need to destroy that won't go away. I am now having nightmares of slaughtering people by the hundreds and razing entire cities. I feel as if I am at the edge of a cliff and just a little push is all it would take to push me over the edge. I don't know how much longer I can last.
Sunset felt an urge that to use the next crystal right away. She didn't know were this feeling was coming from but she complied with it and activated the next crystal.
15th of May 637 A.D.
I had a meeting with a dragon yesterday, he had purple scales and green spikes running down his back. He was different from all the other dragons that I have met. His name is Mitneir Kepesk and he is trying to gather strong and rational dragons for his friend Infernal, who is trying to unite all the dragons into a nation. He said that having me on their side would cow some of the die hard traditionalists into seeing their side of things, because the fear and respect for my killing power has spread from the few dragons that got away from me alive. I told him that I would think about it and he said that he would be back in a week for my answer. The best part is that for the first time in two hundred plus years I did not dream of destruction but only of Storm. I think I will join in this endeavor to unify the dragons.
"Wait, so this Mitneir was one of the founders of the Dragon Empire? Hmm, must remember to ask if they have any information on this Xarzith Tilek." Sunset mused to herself as she readied the next crystal.
17th of November 645 A.D.
It took him eight years, but Mitneir has finally asked me to be his life mate and I said yes. Now that Infernal has sovereignty over the majority of dragon kind and has declared young Torch as heir, Mitneir and I are free to live our lives together away from the other dragons. Who are uncomfortable with me being nearby. I found a nice cave in the Crystal Mountains bordering Acadia that would make a good home.
22nd of February 651 A.D.
They killed him. The Arcadians killed my life mate and stole our clutch of eggs. Why? Why would they do this? After years of protecting them from dragons and other monsters and this is how they repay me. I will destroy their civilization and kill all their loved ones. They have taken my happiness so I will take everything from them. Let them feel my pain. They will know the frozen touch of winter.
Sunset was sweating after the memories in the last crystal were done playing. "I actually felt her rage and suffering. How strong must they have been to in plant themselves into a memory crystal. One things for sure I've got to let Celestia know that we might have found the reason that old Arcadia fell." She said as she gathered up her scrolls to deliver them to Celestia. She took one last look at the crystals before she left the room. After she left the crystals flashed a light blue before turning completely black.