Happy Christmas and parties to all the readers and writers of the community! I brought a new story after writing the Messiah and the Gravemind since they liked that story. Now I bring you a new one; this will be a complete story set in Frank Herbert's Dune universe. Here we will see a conversation with our two protagonists who became saviors.
I hope you enjoy.
Paul Atreides had done everything possible to become the savior of Arrakis or Dune to refer to the vast planet of sand and mountainous regions that extended every kilometer of extension, not to mention the huge sandworms that were the native fauna and other insects In a world without water and without fertile land, everything was sand dunes. In that you can describe Arrakis, a huge desert in the sea of the Galaxy.
Then there were his other inhabitants, the people of the Fremen; a community of human nomads who lived in the hot desert planet in extreme risk conditions, but they had become accustomed to the extreme environment of the planet for several thousand years, when their ancestors had colonized Arrakis and adopted a way of life, making the planet your home. Then came the genetic changes during his stay in Arrakis, due to a substance that generates several changes in the structure of the human being known as Melange; a spice coveted by the Empire that helped to release youth and propose to the user mental powers and have future visions. All that since they have the most resplendent blue eyes that extended through the pupil, product of the spice.
Another that characterizes the Fremen people, is its belief system that covers several thousand years since its establishment on the planet. They considered the huge sandworms as sacred creatures to them that had spread from generation to generation. Then there was his other belief; the coming of their savior that would lead them to a new era of peace and prosperity. All Fremen had their hopes for Paul Atreides, since for them he is their savior.
There were some occasions when Paul reflected on his role as Mahdi and Emperor of the Known Universe. There were some who were the shepherd who would guide his flock down the path of salvation, while some considered him an impostor and usurper to the Golden Lion Throne, since it was possible that it would lead the Empire to its decline. Paul could accept that he was a thief who had sat on the Throne for power, but he did so to overthrow the Harkonnen and Emperor Shaddam IV by conspirators against his life and that of his family.
I accept being the Fremen Madhi why it was his destiny as the product of reproduction on the part of his mother to engender the perfect human being that the Bene Gesserit considered as an endless search. But now the Kwisatz Haderach and the Messiah of Dune, to then become the Emperor of the Known Universe; sitting on the Throne that once belonged to House Corrino, the conspirators of the attack on their family during their stay in Arrakis. Now ruled the Empire in Dune, the central planet of the coveted Melange spice.
There were several reasons he thought whether or not he was the Messiah of Dune that everyone thought. He had been trained by all his close relatives to become the man he was now. Thanks to the efforts of his mother and father to raise and prepare him in what he became, especially his deceased father; the Duke Leto Atreides.
Now a crisis was passing over his life as the new ruler of the Empire, and relations with other worlds were increasingly unstable. There were some resistances, but they were suppressed by the help of the Fremen, their faithful soldiers. Paul knew perfectly well that his reign will be plagued with conspiracies to overthrow him. He feared for the life of his beloved, Chani, the daughter of the planetologist Liet Kynes, who had become his ally when he saw the generosity of Duke Leto with his people. Then there was Irulan, the daughter of Shaddam IV, who had to form an alliance with the daughter of the former Emperor Padishah to make the Empire and the Lansaard stable. Although it was fixed, Paul could feel that sooner or later, his days as Emperor could fall in a second, including the Empire.
The Galaxy populated by the human being was always guarded by the Empire that had established order for several millennia in the past, but there were several possibilities that could fall. There were the plots of conspiracies to steal power, and the dependence on the Melange spice as a source of food and production in all the regions that the Empire covers.
The biggest problem facing Paul, was that humanity was stuck in a galactic empire to less possible the development of the human species, since there was a great possibility that the Empire would fall, and with it, humanity.
I try to find several solutions to prevent human society from falling into destruction. Until he found a chance to avoid it. According to the Bene Gesserit, there was a new path between the threads of destiny to change some coincidences or causalities, an invisible path that all the select ones with great capabilities can go into and get a lot in the future moments that only anyone can see. That was called the Golden Path; an invisible path that can be accessed with high-level mental means.
With the perfected ones after drinking the Water of Life. Paul decided to use his mental abilities to delve into the inner recesses of the human mind to search for various threads to save humanity in the Galaxy.
Paul was swimming through a sea of several invisible threads and large amounts of shining lights, there were several bright spheres of light, then there were more threads. Until, wandering the sea of invisible consciousness, he could feel a kind of great amount of psychic energy. Paul tried to find the unknown source. He wandered through the shining blue the strange signal. Then he could feel it. Beyond the threads, there was a kind of unknown energy that was further away.
With a great impulse for curiosity. Paul decided to look for the strange source, entering through the astral sea.
After several minutes. Paul felt a great impulse of invisible energy grab him like a kind of imaginary tentacle. He tried to use all his effort to escape, but the resistance of the mass psychic energy was powerful, if he used all his strength, it was possible that he died, but it was not so.
After being devastated by that mass. Paul was in a dark area, with large amounts of masses of dark blue colors that glowed an evil essence. The whole area where it was completely full of pure negative energy. Paul tried to find a way out, but there was nothing. He decided to use his mental ability to get out, but he got a headache.
I could see how the masses began to take shape and began to move, but the strangest thing, is that he could hear the whispers:
"Death. Death. Death. Death. Death." The words were hollow and deep like the echo in a cave. They were insane and unnatural.
Paul tried not to listen, but the words grew louder and more insane. I was going to die
Then there was a loud sound that made the insane voices stop talking:
"Enough!"
All the dark shadows disappeared and Paul was free. Then came a glowing yellow light that illuminated the area. He was a harvester. Trying not to be blind, he covered his eyes. After a few minutes he removed them, and was surprised that he was standing in front of huge, giant gold doors. Paul had seen doors of different constructions when he was a boy in his days of youth in some noble family homes belonging to the Lansaard. But something that caught his attention, was the sculpture in the form of a teenager with long hair that covered the left side of the face.
The sculpture shone with a white light with bright blue tones. The entire rocky surface of the sculpture was replaced by a human appearance, something Paul had never seen in his life. The young man's outfit consisted of black pants and a black shirt, revealing a white T-shirt with a black tie on the neck. Around his neck he had a kind of round silver headphones, something that was used to communicate on radios and other communication devices. On his right arm of the black shirt was a red label with black letters spelling S.E.E.S on it. Then there was his long blue hair and gray eyes, whose features were the strangest. The whole appearance of the young man was strange to him.
In addition to its appearance. Paul could feel a kind of powerful energy shining through the blue-haired teenager, a power he had never seen, something that was superior to that of the Kwisatz Haderach. It was better not to bother him.
"Why did you come to this place?" The young man with blue hair asked in a calm voice, receiving from him a calm and stoic look in his gray eyes.
Paul did not know what to answer. He was present before someone with an unknown power before him. Trying to maintain a stable environment, Paul spoke to the blue haired teenager.
"I did not want to disturb your dream, I only came because I felt an unknown force was devastating me, and I ended up in your domain without realizing it"
The young man nodded, and said:
"That's because you radiated an energy while traveling through space outside the physical world You were taken and you came here"
"Thanks, but I would like to ask, what is this place?"
"You are in an area created through the desires and emotions of the human mind, a place that stores all creatures created by the distortions of human minds." This has existed since the beginning of human life.
Paul was speechless, now he had heard everything. To reason you; I was in a place created by human thoughts from the beginning, in addition to storing those monstrous masses. Paul felt a fear reaching throughout his body. He could not imagine if they escaped from this plane and entered his.
"This place has been around for millennia, so it means that you keep them from leaving, right?"
"So to speak, but it is something much more powerful than them, it is behind the doors"
Paul swallowed. He looked at the huge gold doors.
"So, you're like a kind of seal that prevents something from coming out of those doors." The blue haired boy nodded affirmatively. "What is it?"
"A goddess who will bring about the Fall"
Paul stood still like a statue. Goddess? provoke the Fall? Everything was crazy.
"What a goddess?" He asked stammering.
"Nyx is a very powerful being that will bring a phenomenon known as the Fall, a holocaust that will end all human life, the only option to prevent the Fall from happening is to keep it away from a being known as Erebus, a being created to base of the suffering of death, if Nyx touched him, everything would be finished, that's why I'm here, I'm a seal that prevents the Goddess of the Night from being liberated. "
Paul did not know what to say. During his establishment as Emperor of the Empire, he had thought of several ways to prevent the fall of human society and guide it to a better future by the route that he thought was right. Now he was learning that there was a goddess who would bring destruction to the human race, being held by a teenager as a safety seal so that it would not happen. How ironic was life.
A part of Paul felt sad for the boy, he sacrificed himself to prevent all humanity from being annihilated. A very noble act.
"It must have been a very risky decision"
"Yes, it was, but it was the only way that happened, I did it so my friends could live their own ways ahead"
'A noble act to give your life for others' Paul thought before those words said the boy with blue hair.
"Now, tell me, what were you doing wandering through the sea of astral consciousness?"
Paul decided to tell him the truth.
"I see". The blue-haired young man answered about the reason Paul was doing. "You were looking for a way to prevent the entire human society in the Galaxy from falling into a catastrophe"
"Yes"
"Then you decided to use your powers to enter the Golden Path, and find a solution to the problem. Interesting", said the young sealed calmly.
There was a silence in which neither of them said anything. The young man decided to speak:
"You have questions, you can ask them"
Paul ordered his questions neatly. He looked at the letters on the red tape, and said:
"Those letters: S.E.E.S. It's a kind of organization that you worked"
"It was ultra-secret, created by fighting the Shadows during the Dark Hour, I worked there, because of my abilities, I joined the group: We fought, we won, we lost, we cried, but we did what we had to do: Fall would occur "
Paul remembered the trainings of his tutors to form him into a true man who would make his father proud and the House Atreides of Castel Caladan. It was those men who thanked them for doing it for what it was.
"It must have been some wonderful moments of your life when you were alive"
"If they were"
Paul smiled.
"It reminds me of the moments that I shared in Castel Caladan, I made several friendships with my instructors, I even had to do everything possible to gain the favor of the Fremen people and defeat my enemies. The Fremen people call me Mahdi, or to shorten it, Messiah of Dune "
The sealed young man nodded. It seems that the two have done everything possible to secure their close ones.
"Being a savior takes too much effort to become one, it's not very easy," the young man said quietly.
"I know". Paul answered solemnly. "It was not an easy way to become the savior they thought, my mere presence on Arrakis had raised hope in them, a hope that only they have waited many years ago, the appearance of the Mahdi to lead them to a better path. From the moment that the Harkonnen and Sardaukar of Shaddam IV began to invade, my mother and I had to escape and flee to a mountainous was at that moment that we met with a Fremen tribe, I did everything necessary to introduce myself into their I chose the name of Muad'Dib for the second moon of Arrakis, which also had a meaning in my visions, I found the woman of my visions that I fell in love with. against the nephew of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in a battle to the death, which turned out to be an experiment in the development of the Kwisatz Haderach, I succeeded in killing him and made myself proclaimed Emperor Padishah of the Empire. I'm doubting myself if I'm capable enough to take humanity down a safe path"
"I also asked myself the same questions when I decided to be part of the Great Seal, when my parents died in a car accident, I was in the care of several people, I did not have relatives and neither did any close relatives. It did not matter, everything around me was indifferent, it was cold and unfriendly, but when I met my friends, everything had changed, I was beginning to make friends, and I could value the camaraderie, and when the time came to make the seal, I thought about everything. I had done thanks to them, then I decided to accept my destiny as Messiah of the Great Seal and I sacrificed myself for their good "
"It seems that we have loaded the weight of the world into our hands to be messiahs without being prepared, do not you think?" Paul replied with a funny smile.
"Yes". The young man with blue hair affirmed. "We are"
"All of your colleagues were the most important people in your life, just like mine, do you miss being with them?" He said.
"Sometimes, but I know that they have already lived their lives in the past"
"Are you that old?"
"I am," said the young man with indifference in his voice.
Paul's mind took several turns. The blue-haired teenager was several thousand years old, a few times before the creation of the Empire and the Crusade against the Thinking Machines. That would explain his attire, which must have belonged to a high school, while his hair was a mystery to him; I did not know if it was natural or dyed.
Trying to get information about the boy, he decided to continue the conversation:
"Do you have to when you think about your home?"
"Sometimes I think about it, if the Great Seal and the Nyx threat did not exist, I would be enjoying a good future on Earth with my friends, I would finish my studies and find a job to support myself and be resting in a house or apartment. "
"It seems like a daily life free from being locked in that seal, but I've never heard of a planet called Earth"
"It's the name of the planet where humanity originated"
Now Paul was surprised by what the blue-haired boy said. He mentioned a single world where the human species has just been born, something that had never been mentioned in his life as a student in his home. He remembered some history lessons about the Butlerian Jihad or Crusade against the Thinking Machines and the creation of the Empire of the Known Universe, but never ever heard about a planet where mankind was born. I only knew that it was an ancient question that only imperial scholars wondered about the first primordial site of mankind.
But this boy was the proof of the existence of the primordial planet of the human being. It was in front of his eyes. A teenager of several millennia belonging to the home planet of humanity. A discovery that could revolutionize the history of the Empire.
"It seems that you still have doubts about your destiny as a messiah, right?" The calm voice of the boy made Paul return to his old conversation.
"Yes, I still think if I have to continue with the Golden Path to find a solution to try to guide humanity to a possible future in the case of the government of the Empire"
"Then let me tell you a piece of advice, it is not necessary to go deeper into the astral world to find a solution to the problem of centralized government in an empire, it does not matter if you try to alter order for a solution to humanity. causality that will interfere in your way to work a future, since that happens every day when a government is developed to maintain a universal only thing you will do is become paranoid in finding the answers to your an alternative, but there will always be The only option to form a promising future is that each one choose his own, that is how the new paths are formed, Paul Atreides It is not necessary to enter the Golden Path, but it is necessary to train it for your I chose to be what I am doing because it was my own decision that impelled me to be the Messiah of the Great Seal, now it is your duty, like the Kwisatz Haderach or Messiah of Dune, seek a solution through your own means without resorting to an invisible path"
Those words of speech touched bottom inside Paul. He had done everything possible to find a solution to the problem of the human crisis in the Galaxy. He thought that if he used the Golden Path, there would perhaps be a possibility of finding the solution. But the words of the blue-haired boy had only one reason; it was not necessary to depend on an invisible way to find a method of salvation, but to train it by his own hands.
When he became Dune's Messiah, he did so with the intention of seeking his existence in a sea of minds. Being the product of created by the love of his mother and father, Paul had chosen to follow the path of his destiny to become the Kwisatz Haderach that Bene Gesseirt sought for many years. He did it because it was his choice as a person in a time of need.
Now he was the leader of the Empire. With his faithful subjects and companions who had helped him in his promotion as the expected savior. He even had Chani as the mother of his children. Maybe it was better to leave the position to the next generation.
"Thanks, with those words you said, I think I finally found the questions I was looking for"
The blue haired boy nodded silently.
"I'm going to send you to your body"
"Before you send me, could you tell me your name before I leave?"
"Minato Arisato"
"Thank you, Minato Arisato, Messiah of the Great Seal, for giving me several explanations about our work as saviors, and also the words of encouragement"
"Not that, Paul Atreides, Messiah of Dune"
With those, the two messiahs said goodbye cordially.
So far I come with this chapter. It took me several minutes to finish it, but I did it.
For me it was wonderful to make this story where two of the messiahs of two different series met, it was amazing.
I know that everyone will be wondering, where the story is located: well, this takes place around several thousand years ago in the future, where humanity colonized all the space of the Galaxy and formed a galactic empire, based only on the use of the human mind as a computer and the help of drugs that they use as means to expand their mind and lengthen their age. There is no robot intelligence, you need to read the book of The Crusade against Machines to understand history.
The reason that the parallel of the Earth in the universe of Dune is never explained, only explains that there was an event that caused the Earth to cease to exist. You can only search for information on the Dune wiki.
I can only say that, the series Persona and the books of Dune of Frank Herbert are the best, that is why I made this chapter where the two messiahs of their respective works exchange words about their lives and the moment of need to become saviors .
Comment as you thought.
A greeting.
