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Well, lookee here folks! A new story! Sorry it doesn't make much sense now, but don't worry, it will.
Nova
Prologue:
Stranger
The city of January
2:34 am.
Ethan Dosty got insomnia all the time. But this time... it was different. The whole city seemed subdued, even the four Plants in the center of town were less bright.
He was standing on the balcony of his second story apartment, at the top part of town. The balcony was situated at such an angle that he could look to the right and see the never-ending desert, and when looking left, the vast city of January.
Ethan stared out into the cold desert that was bathed in the light of all five moons. Ethan never really was a poetic person but to him the desert seemed to become a sign of things to come. The bleak vastness of the desert spoke of beauty, to him. Deadly beauty.
He narrowed his eyes, as he saw a solitary figure enter the town from the desert. From the north.
Ethan was confused, nothing was up that way, nothing but sand. January was the northern-most city of Gunsmoke. To even think of going out that way, without a caravan, was courting certain death.
It was possible that the figure was merely out for a nighttime stroll, he thought to himself.
But as the lone traveler passed below his balcony, he quickly discarded his previous assumption.
The traveler was dressed for travel, as looked as if he or she had been walking for many days. But fromwhere?
Ethan continued to follow the stranger with his eyes until it had turned a corner. Ethan shook his head.
Strange.
Ethan was about to turn and go back to bed when he saw a strange glow in the sky. He leaned out of his balcony for a better look.
The glow grew brighter till Ethan could see what it was.
The fireball roared downwards and hit the very spot where the stranger had disappeared from sight.
Ethan was thrown to the floor of the balcony as the shock-wave reached him.
He had barely managed to right himself again when he heard a roar. This was unlike the roar the fireball had made, this roar was created by some sort of animal.
Suddenly a pillar of purple light shot up from center of town, and reached high into the sky, it began to expand wider and wider. Bolts of electricity began shooting from the Plant. He heard the roar again, and Ethan, paralyzed, watched as another pillar of light, this time yellow, joined the first. The two pillars rushed towards each other and clashed.
Ethan gasped, as two more yellow pillars shot up into the sky, than a third, and a fourth. Suddenly there were six of them and they surrounded the purple pillar. The yellows closed in, and when they all the pillars of light met---
January was gone.
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