Dimension Traveling: Belgariad
Chapter 2
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Deep in the caves of Ulgo, with chanting echoing around him, a youth with jet black hair, that was hardly visible in the darkness of the caves, opened his silvery-white eyes. Andrew took a deep breath as he came back into consciousness. He had just seen Zedar steal the orb from Riva through his mind.
Standing up he changed into a bat and flew through the cave system stopping only briefly to inform the Gorim of what had happened before flying towards the entrance into Sendaria. Once he escaped the caves he changed into his human form mid-flight shooting up high into the sky.
After doing a few loops to work the exhaustion out of his body he connected his mind to Polgara's current location so that he could tell when they left for their orb chasing. He was also keeping an eye on Zedar's current location through the orb.
He decided to do some exercise around Sendaria, which was mainly jogging along the many tracks they had around the place. As night fell he apparated to the caves that he and Peter had used to sleep for the night.
The next day he apparated back to Sendaria near Darine before jogging towards the city where three wagons were just pulling out towards Lake Erat. He smiled as he used his mind to see that it was Silk and Barak heading out to pick up Belgarath, Polgara, Garion and Durnik.
Deciding to keep an eye on Zedar he used the Golden Leg Guards power to run off towards Camaar where Zedar was currently crossing into Arendia. He got to Sulturn by dusk where he saw Belgarath come in from the south-westerly entrance.
The two met at the inn in town where Andrew nodded to him before paying for a meal and room for the night. The next morning Andrew left at the same time as Belgarath which was early as Belgarath had more distance to travel than Andrew did. Andrew took off running and got to Camaar by mid-morning. Andrew had a drink at the local tavern when he remembered that he should fill Javelin, the current leader of the Drasnian spy network, in on what had happened so he finished his drink before finding a quiet spot outside of town to apparated to the place that he used for training when he was in Drasnia.
Walking out of the shrubbery he crossed the small distance to the city and headed straight to the spy network headquarters. Along the way he sensed several younger spies following him and decided to give them a bit of a challenge.
He suddenly side-stepped into an alley startling two men. He dodged them and came out on the other side of the alley near the headquarters. The young spies that were tailing him were looking out on to the street below so he sank into the shadows and slunk along until he out of their range where he walked normally until he reached the headquarters where he walked straight in and up to the front desk.
He whispered to the lady there, "Slitherio needs to talk to Javelin."
She looked a little alarmed at first that their most pronounced spy was here before going to get Javelin for him.
While he waited for Javelin Andrew checked on Polgara and Garion and found that they had started traveling early that morning. They were headed towards Darine. Andrew would have liked to interfere but he knew that things should go at their own pace.
"Sir, Javelin will see you now," the lady at the front desk told him.
"Thank you."
He walked down the hall to a door marked 'Javelin'. He knocked and heard a muffled, "Come in."
Opening the door Javelin immediately asked, "What's wrong, you wouldn't come in for nothing."
After putting up some silencing charms that would stop Zedar from following him when he said his name, Andrew began, "Zedar stole the orb from Riva and I am currently following him. He is in Arendia at the moment and I will be going back there as soon as were done here."
"Ok I can see that you have the situation handled and I will make you Hunter for this mission. Your mission is to retrieve the Orb and return it to Riva. Do you understand?"
"Yes I do."
"Very well you may leave now."
"Of course."
Andrew took down the silencing charm and left. He was very excited as Hunter was always a renowned spy sent on a mission of great importance. He apparated to Darine and had lunch at one of the sea side restaurants before he jogged out of the city when evening came he kept going and came to a camp just as the sun went down. He walked over to where he could see the fire crackling.
He called out as he neared them, "May I join you for dinner and rest?"
He stepped into the light of the fire and saw everyone looking Belgarath. He shrugged and said, "Sure, if you have some food you'd like to contribute."
Polgara looked at her father and stated, "Don't be so pessimistic Old Wolf," she turned to Andrew and said, "Of course you can join us. What's your name?"
"Andrew, madam and of course I'll contribute rather than just take your food without paying." He put down his pack and took out some carrots and potatoes.
He placed them near the fire before looking around and saying, "It's not everyday someone sees a Drasnian, Cherek, Rivan, Sendar and two I can't place, which is interesting as I can place most people, together. Must be something big."
There were alarmed faces all around at Andrew's comment. "How do you know this?" Belgarath asked
"You can learn many things when you study in the world's largest library and have mastery's of any topic you can think of at the university in Mallorea."
"But you're so young it would take centuries to read every book in that library. I've barely read an eighth and look at my age."
"To the well organised mind anything is possible."
Yes seven hundred years is a big age Andrew thought but responded with, "I am willing to help you organise your mind if you wish but first I must address the royalty here." He then turned to Silk, bowed and said, "Greetings Prince Kheldar, Javelin sends his greetings and wishes you a safe trip."
"How do you know Javelin?"
"The same way you do my friend."
"So what's your code name?"
"That's for me to know and you to find out." Andrew answered with a sly grin.
After a delicious meal cooked by Polgara. Everyone went to their thing and Andrew stayed up with Belgarath and taught him how to sort everything in his mind. They stopped at midnight and Andrew said, "Keep practising what I showed and next we meet I'll see how you've gone."
Andrew and Belgarath went sleep for the night. The next morning Andrew got a fire going and cooked up some bacon and eggs for each of them. Soon it was time for them to move on so Andrew waited until there was no one about before apparating to Camaar catching the next ferry across into Arendia. Sending his mind out Andrew found Zedar at Rindig just down the road.
Setting off at a light pace Andrew got to Rindig at about noon and checked to find that Zedar had gotten to the edge of the forest that morning. He got a sandwich out of his bag and started eating it as he jogged out of town following the road towards the forest.
By night he had caught up with Zedar and asked for a meal and bed for the night. Zedar agreed but watched him with suspicion. Andrew set up some defences for the night before slipping into his sleeping bag.
Once everyone was asleep he sent his mind towards the orb and started processing how it worked and then thinking of ways make another orb.
After two hours of thinking he had a plan to make a philosopher's stone which Peter had inadvertently put in with the chemistry set before making a couple of rounded stones. Andrew was going to make the elixir of life and try to infuse it into the stones in different ways using alchemy.
The next morning Andrew left Zedar's company and apparated to the cave outside Riva before setting up the chemistry and alchemy sets.
A week later Ander had a glowing red philosopher's stone in his hand. Using his will he made eleven circular stones and placed one in each of the trays he had prepared. Going to his alchemy water reserve he placed the philosopher's stone (AN-Just gonna call it PS for now on) in it and the water took on a bright gold sheen. He then connected it to a pump for those that required a constant flow.
The ten experiments were marked one to eleven and these are what they were
Partly submerged in the elixir
Sitting in a constant flow of the elixir being recycled when it reached the end of the tray
Sitting with the elixir dripping slowly onto the stone
Completely submerged in the elixir
Held above in the elixir while it is being heated from below which was releasing steam
Partly submerged in ice cold elixir
Completely submerged in ice cold elixir
In a frozen elixir
Sitting in a constant flow of ice cold elixir
Sitting in a boiling elixir
Sitting in a constant flow of boiling hot water
These were the ways he was testing the elixir to make a living stone. He left them for a month and travelled to Mallorea to read up on this sort of thing.
A month later Andrew appeared in his potions lab and cancelled everything that was happening before sending his mind out each of the stones to see what was happening with each of them.
In the end it was only workbench ten's stone that had a blue tinge and was glowing with life.
Andrew quickly removed the stone from the tray, feeling rush of power as he touched it, and performed scans on it. He was pleased to note that the power levels were the same as the one Zedar had.
Thinking about how to use this power Andrew took off his helmet and stared at it. He looked at the black holes where there were supposed to be the eyes of the snake. Noting that the stone was the right size for one eye hole he placed it in and stuck it there with a permanent sticking charm.
He then placed the helmet back on his head and pushed the visor down so that it covered everything but his mouth. He opened his eyes and was amazed at what he saw. Through his right eye that didn't have the glowing stone in the way he saw a normal cave whereas in his left eye he was able to scan the whole cave for anything at all.
Andrew quickly calculated that he would need 13 more to get the armour completed, so he set up another two tables and had them all boiling the elixir of life with spherical stones of different sizes for the different parts of the armour.
Andrew left to do some more exploring while keeping an eye on the two parties. One at Vo Wacune waiting for the Archer and Horse Lord. The other in Tolnedra.
AN-Finished. Just thought I should do a recap of the skills Andrew has so far. He can call any pokemon he wishes to him, Magic Harry Potter Style, all the powers Tom gets from the first two series of Beast Quest and the Will and the Word (a much more OP and powerful form of Magic). See ya.