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Welcome to the fourth part of my fanfiction mini-series, The Moral Compass. :) Things are about to get spooky! So, watch out! Enjoy. :)

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Parker Dooley looked around the library in shock. Bookcases were torn, books and scrolls were scattered about the room, the stone walls were shattered in places, as were the windows and ceiling.

It was a horrific scene to witness, if Parker said so himself.

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Parker was a dragonoid in his fifties with a thin, muscular, humanoid, lizard-like body and a dragon-like head. His scales were smooth and a light reddish color. He had a short snout with a tipped end pointed up towards the sky, yellow cat-like eyes, long, furry red ears, and short, curvy, wavy, grey horns. He had a pair of three-fingered frills on the sides of his head, with black tips at the ends. His black claws were extended a little on his fingers and his toes, while his black spikes ran from his back down to his medium-sized tail, which curled around his feet.

As Maranguan, Parker had red eyes with pinkish hues in the whites of his eyes. Burns, bruises, and long jagged cuts resided on his body; at least, while he was Maranguan. As he became good, more himself, the burns, bruises, and cuts faded, while his eyes became yellow and the whites of his eyes became normal again, he had a swirling red mist in his yellow irises.

Parker was now whole again, his irises back to their usual shade of yellow, thanks to the icicle his daughter-in-law Anabeth, along with her mother Janet and Parker's sister-in-law, managed to find on their journey throughout the Four Seasons. The Ice Queen was responsible for keeping the icicle locked safe and sound. After Anabeth and Janet's harrowing journey, they finally got what they needed to cure Parker Dooley, to make him whole and good again.

However, when Parker became whole again while facing the Sith Emperor Vitiate, who betrayed him not too long ago, Parker attempted to save his human wife, Eliza Bowler-Dooley, if not a moment too soon, for Vitiate's Force Powers were unchecked. As a result, it was Vitiate's Force Powers that made Parker whole again but killed his wife and his sister-in-law.

Parker hadn't forgotten Vitiate nor what the Sith Emperor did to him to make him fall into this disheveled state. But Parker knew this one thing: someone else was going to kill Vitiate, but who or what remained to be seen. If Vitiate had indeed been killed, Parker wanted information, but he would have to wait until after his current missions were over. For now, Vitiate's final fate remained a mystery.

In Parker's human-hobbit form, Parker Dooley resembled the gentle-hobbit and his descendant Frodo Baggins, Parker's brother-in-law Tobias, and Parker's great-grandson Terrence Dooley. In his human-hobbit form, Parker had bright blue eyes, pale skin, fair elvish features, short pointy ears, and soft, thick, curly dark brown hair on his head and the tops of his feet.

Today, Parker was donned in a white shirt, brown breeches, tan suspenders, and a blue cloak. His white shirt had a hole torn in the left long sleeve, with a bloody red stain circled around it from being shot at by a blaster bolt. The burn wound from the blaster bolt had since healed and closed completely, but the pain still resided, left behind from the burn mark he received. He earned this wound, shortly before fleeing the planet Zafna, upon which his best friend, apprentice, and Empress of the Shadow Empire, Qua'ra Holdo, also known as Scar-ra, explained the situation to him about Zafna's fate, as well as the fate of the Shadow Empire, the empire Parker Dooley started during his time as Maranguan.

It was the female snow leopard Melisandre, High Queen of the Land of Talking Animals, who raiding the various kingdoms of the Land of Talking Animals to get what she wanted, but she was also responsible for dismantling the Shadow Empire. Now, the Shadow Empire was about to fall to ruin, with the planet Zafna becoming a barren, broken landscape called Teremode. It was Melisandre's new name for the lush green planet.

Parker would make sure Melisandre paid for her crimes, even when she defeated him, upon his arrival on the Land of Talking Animals. Of this, he was sure would happen, if not by his hand than someone else's.

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Parker looked around the library again, moving bits of wood planks out of the way. It was too quiet in this dimly-lit library, with mid-morning creeping over the horizon. No way! It was already mid-morning? By his senses, it was nearly time for lunch… or was this another day? It certainly felt like another day, but anyway… his attention was brought back to reality by the golden spotted leopard known as the Queen's Guard. He was laying underneath the rubble and the wooden planks.

"Nooo!" Parker cried in terror, charging towards the Queen's Guard and moving the wood planks out of the way. He stood on his knees, observing the golden spotted leopard. He was moving, but only so little. There was a blood stain on golden spotted leopard's stomach, as if someone had just recently stabbed the Queen's Guard.

Parker gulped, trying to regain his composure. This was not good. Not good at all.

"Parker…" the Queen's Guard's voice was faint, but loud enough for the light red dragonoid to hear, "…get Aslan… tell him… I'm sorry."

"Who did this to you?" Parker asked, concerned.

"Don't worry… the Shadow People will come… again…" the Queen's Guard said, faintly. He opened his eyes, licking Parker's hand. "Save yourself… Melisandre… knew this was coming… she knew…" the Queen's Guard's eyes widened in terror, admitting freely in spurts, "…she knew this was happening… she knew… this would happen to us… find her… tell her…" he spoke weakly, "…tell her I'm sorry… Aslan… sends his… regards." He drew one last breath, sighing as the light went out in his eyes.

He was gone. The Queen's Guard was dead.

Parker nodded, not knowing what else to do. "Don't worry. I will find out whose responsible for this. I will make them pay!"

Good Parker Dooley. You're learning. Now, find Melisandre. Make her pay for her crimes! Maranguan said with a smile.

Parker looked over his shoulder. For a moment, he felt his twisted counterpart stand behind him, looming over him. No. How could he do that? Unless he could actually see versions of himself, it was hard to say. He sighed, leaving the conversation where it stood.

He turned to the dead golden spotted leopard, unsure what else to do. He needed to find Melisandre and fast. Whoever these Shadow People were, they did not sound friendly.

He stood up, making his way out of the library and down the corridor, also in ruins, like the rest of the Kingdom of Landseer's mighty castle.

"Oh Melisandre," Parker said, taking a look at the damage done to the stone walls, "what happened here?"

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Thanks for reading. :)