Disclaimers: I do not own The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and "Star Wars". They belong to J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, George Lucas, and Disney. All other canon material belongs to their respected owners. All original material belongs to me, the authoress of this fanfiction story.
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Welcome to the conclusion of my fanfiction mini-series, The Moral Compass, part of my First Age Anthology, my Origin Series, and my Long Series. :)
With my First Age Anthology ending, we are now transitioning to my Second Age Series, which I'm currently deciding if it's going to be an Anthology. This is not the end of Parker Dooley's journey. My OC dragonoid's journey is only halfway through my Origin Series. So, we'll see more of him, as well as other OCs and canon characters. :)
That said, enjoy. :)
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Parker Dooley stood before a holoterminal, which sat in the heart of the Portal Realm.
The Portal Realm had a purplish-dark blue starry sky looming over the horizon. The colors yellow, brown, blue, green, and purple rippled across the grassy field and mountainside. Portals floated or stayed in one place, some changing shape, size, and rim color. It was a world where spirits were living, breathing beings, creatures, and animals, instead of ghosts.
So far, Parker found no other information to help him out with his next mission. It was just the way it was.
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Parker was a dragonoid 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, three-fingered frills, with black tips at the ends, resting on the sides of his head, and two short, curvy, wavy grey horns. His black claws, resting on his fingers and his toes, were retracted since he wasn't doing combat. His black spikes ran from his back all the way 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, as well as burns, bruises, and long jagged cuts all over his body, face, head, and tail. As he became good, more himself, those burns, bruises, and cuts went away. But this wasn't the only perk to him becoming good again: his eyes turned yellow, but had a swirling red mist in his yellow irises, proving he was part of the light and the darkness. The swirling red mist eventually went away when he became whole again, allowing his eyes to return to their natural color, same with the whites of his eyes.
In his human-hobbit form, Parker resembled the gentle-hobbit and his descendant Frodo Baggins, Parker's brother-in-law Tobias, and Parker's great-grandson Terrence Dooley. Parker, in this form, had bright blue eyes, pale skin, fair elvish features, short pointy ears, a cleft in the chin, and soft, thick, curly dark brown hair on his head and the tops of his feet.
Parker changed out of his dirty clothes the moment he returned to the Portal Realm. Now, he wore a blue shirt, red suspenders, and deep green breeches. It made him stand out, but it also impressed his human wife Eliza Bowler-Dooley, who had brunette hair, green eyes, and pale skin, who he was grateful to see after Vitiate killed her using his Force Powers in an attacking stance. Parker vowed the Sith Emperor would pay for what he did to his darling wife, even if someone else found a way to kill him. Still, he had to know whether or not Vitiate was still alive or if he died, and the only way he could figure that out was by using a holoterminal, which he was looking up information now on Vitiate as we speak.
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The Shadow Empire, the empire Parker created while he was still Maranguan, remained neutral. However, thanks to the female snow leopard Melisandre, who was recently killed by a nomadic tribe of people known as the Shadow People, or rather the Guardians of the Unknown Regions as they liked to be called, when the Shadow People attacked the Kingdom of Landseer, Melisandre's kingdom.
Thanks to Melisandre dismantling the Shadow Empire, the moment Parker stepped foot on the planet Zafna, where his best friend and apprentice, Qua'ra Holdo, also known as Scar-ra, ruled the empire as its Empress, the planet Zafna would transform from a lush, green planet to a broken, barren planet called Teremode, Melisandre's new name for the planet.
Parker couldn't bear going back to Zafna, unless he wanted to witness Zafna's final hours, but he had no choice, not since he got back from the Land of Talking Animals, bringing change there and letting the golden house cat Alindor, who was a Druid and a Shapeshifter, go to lead his life with his family. Alindor wasn't joining him during the Shapeshifter's Migration, which was said to take shapeshifters and anyone willing to come along for the trip, to another Age. At least, that was the gist behind the Shapeshifter's Migration.
There had been two migrations so far: the first when the First World was destroyed. The second occurred at the time Before the First Age when all the shapeshifters and other characters migrated by means of portals to the First Age. Now, it was happening again, and this time, Parker wasn't losing track of Qua'ra again! Not this time. Not after he received a burn mark from a blaster shot, just by attempting to escape the planet Zafna. Qua'ra forgave him and let him go, but the pain was still there on his left arm, even after the wound healed and closed.
Still, Parker wouldn't lose sight of his mission. He and Qua'ra, and all the other shapeshifters and anyone else coming with them, would be in the Portal Realm for the next Shapeshifter's Migration. Of this, he felt sure would happen.
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Parker continued his search on the holoterminal. There was so much information. So much was changing. And yet, he finally found the information he sought on Vitiate.
"The Hero of Tython defeats him. How?" Parker kept looking up the information, discovering more about this Hero of Tython. So, Vitiate was destroyed, thanks to this Hero. Parker would have to meet with the Jedi Knight personally, once this mission was over.
Maybe he could convince Aslan to bring this man into the Portal Realm. Then they could talk… no, the Hero of Tython would die in the next Age. There wasn't much time! Parker would have to see him now before it was too late!
"What are you doing?" the golden-brown Great Lion of Narnia called Aslan interrupted him. Parker looked at the Great Lion with concern.
"I have to find the Hero of Tython and thank him for stopping Vitiate. I have to have closure, after what Vitiate did to me," Parker said, a tear streaming down his smooth, scaly, light red face.
"Ask him yourself," Aslan said, moving out of the way for a Jedi Knight wearing brown and white robes pulled down his hood, revealing short dark brown hair, pale skin, and rugged features.
"I am the Hero of Tython," the Jedi Knight said in introduction. "I hear you've been looking for me, Parker Dooley. I'm impressed. I thought I was the only one willing to stop Vitiate, bring him down, and give him the right path. I defeated him, but I didn't want to. It's not a Jedi's place to seek revenge, as I well know."
Parker smiled. This was the closure he'd been looking for.
"If there's anything I can do to assist you, I'll do it," the Jedi Knight said, curiously.
"No," Parker shook his head. Although, he really needed the Jedi Knight's help. "Wait. There is someone who needs our help. Qua'ra. Qua'ra Holdo. She lives on the planet Zafna, and this planet is about to turn into a barren, broken landscape called Teremode unless we get her out of there. My coming to the planet Zafna changed everything. Now, I'm about to lose my empire for good, the one Qua'ra's ruling now. It's a neutral empire. It's called the Shadow Empire. Can you help me?"
"I'll do what I can, but I cannot promise that everyone makes it out alive," the Jedi Knight said, concerned. "Still, we have to help. All of them. If there are survivors, I'll see to it they are unharmed and taken to the med centers."
"Thank you," Parker said, shaking the Jedi Knight's hand. "Thank you for doing this. It gives me comfort and closure knowing you are here and Vitiate's not."
"Don't underestimate him. Even as powerful as he was, he was no match for me," the Jedi Knight said, bluntly. "I had help defeating Vitiate, and now I will help you out with the migration. After that, I must go back to the Jedi Council on Tython and see what needs to be done there."
"As you should," Aslan said, bluntly. He turned to a larger gold-rimmed portal, opening to up to reveal pearly-white temples on the planet Zafna. The centermost temple that had a crack in its stone walls. "But now, we cannot wait for much longer. The planet Zafna's about to change. Hurry back, both of you. Get Qua'ra and her family out of Zafna, before it becomes Teremode. I'll see to it the scarred lions and lionesses, along with anyone else, leaves the planet safely and reaches this realm, too."
"Come on, Parker Dooley. Let's go!" The Jedi Knight said, darting towards the portal and disappearing through it.
Parker huffed. He didn't like wasting time, but now it was imperative that he find Qua'ra and her family, get them off the planet Zafna, before its change. He ran forward, smacking into the portal, and landing on the other side.
He was back on Zafna, right as the ground shook and shifted. That was not good. Not good at all. Oh, where were Qua'ra and her family? He needed to find them. NOW!
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Thanks for reading. :)