Nova
Chapter 4
-"Dragon speech"- -------------------- = change of scene
Jason looked around, someone called his name and he turned to see D'neth, in sort of priest robes, at an altar with a dragon carved into the back. He walked down from the room and noticed the Dragon head insignia on every one's robes, and the lack of it from his robes, he approached the altar as D'neth spoke
"state your name, un sected stranger,"
"My name is Jason"
"state your wish"
"I wish to serve the Dragon of the four way chain"
Jason had been briefed beforehand about what he had to say
"do you pledge your soul to worshiping our God and not to another of the four way chain"
"I pledge my soul to the Almighty Dragon, and will never go the way of another of the Almighty's"
"do you pledge to accept his gifts, even if they are unwanted?"
"I will accept his gifts with the knowledge that he has deemed me worthy to be given them"
"then Jason, you must now complete the challenge to test your true faith ,behold..."
the floor opened and a tiled one emerged, stretching from the altar to the Dragon Gateway
"...the floor of faith. Blindfold him"
Two people moved towards Jason, one was Al'x but he didn't know the other one, they blind folded Jason and guided him to the tiled floor
"there are many paths across Jason, if you truly are willing to devote yourself to the Dragon then you will be guided along the path, stepping on only the dragon tiles. Now go"
Jason stepped forward and saw a blue light through the darkness of his eyelids and the blindfold, the blue light told him to step on it, he walked forward until he could see the blue all around his vision, then, the blue lay out in a path before him, he could see the path of dragon tiles through his closed eyes and so followed it. When he could see the path no longer he stopped and he felt the blindfold be removed, he blinked in the new bright light and stared ahead of himself, there were three glowing points of blue light in the gateway, they shot at him, one in each eye and one in his forehead, Jason saw only blue as he fell towards the floor.
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Jason stared around him, the view was quite different to what he saw only a few seconds ago, for example, there was no temple, only barren, destroyed plains of rock and an acrid smell, and ,he noticed, a glowing sky blue Dragon, it was his God, the almighty Dragon
-"Actually I prefer to be called Sethneth"-
Jason was amazed, his god the almighty dra... Sethneth, had spoken, to him!
-"I am here also Jason"- said a voice behind him
Jason whirled around to see Ruth standing there, with the draconic equivalent of a grin on his face
"Ruth I am, well I think I am now a dragon follower, I can be your rider"
-"Your 'God' the 'Almighty dragon' is standing right behind you Jason"- said a disgruntled voice
"oops, sorry Sethneth, but, why am I here? Wherever here might be"
"I have brought you here, along with your dragon Ruth, to show you what has happened and what will happen. Observe"
they all turned to see...Tanks? Jason was confused, weren't the people of this planet in a Medieval period? Why, or how did they have tanks?
-" they weren't always an Imperialistic people, they were as advanced as your people, if not more so, but things change, watch"- said Sethneth's regal voice beside him
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"Master Al'x! Master Al'x!, something is wrong with that white, dangerous dragon"
"what? Ruth? Oh he's not dangerous but what is wrong?" Al'x said to the man that had hurried in
"well that dragon, Ruth, his eyes have a blue glow around them as does his forehead"
"yes, that has happened before"
"when?"
"oh...I'd say...about a minute or so ago"
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Jason watched as two hi-tech armies faced each other, the battle was bloody, infantry was cut to pieces by mini-gun fire, Nukes flew and fell all around, then, suddenly, a shimmer of blue was seen on the ground as a massive blue tendril burst forth and destroyed the Tanks and guns and nukes and armour and side arms, it then covered the troops who fell to the ground as the tendril crept back to the depths of the planet.
"what was that?"
-"I don't know"- was Ruth's reply
-"it was the planet's spirit form, Gaia"- Sethneth informed them
"what did it do?"
-"it was about to be destroyed, well the physical part of it anyway, so it destroyed all offensive and defensive weaponry and all hi-tech transportation, though it left the rail launchers intact and working"- answered Sethneth, his regal tones reverberating round the empty space
suddenly they were in a more recognisable time and place
"the present?"
-"a future"-
they appeared next to Jar'eneth's chair with him in it, looking extremely old, they watched as he stiffened momentarily then slid down in his chair, then something happened , a timer blinked into life beside them, the countdown showed one week with a, and Jason had no trouble recognising that symbol, the radioactive symbol pulsating next to the countdown
-"before you ask, that timer is counting down to the end of the world. Jar'eneth was in orbit when Gaia wiped the planet so when he became planetary ruler he installed Thermo-Nuclear devices around the core of the planet, Gaia didn't fight back because it had used too much energy in it's incredible technology reducing feat so when Jar'eneth dies the timer begins"- explained Sethneth
they were back in the wasteland
-"Jason, I want you to kill Jar'eneth, there is an organisation called Gaia Escape who can tell you what happens when a planet dies, they have the ability to achieve what they intend to do help them, I will give you and Ruth a useful gift now, back to where you belong"- said Sethneth
"will we...?"
-" yes Jason, you will see me again, I will be with you all the way"-
then Jason saw only black until his eyes snapped open and he saw D'neth's, Al'x's and a girl's worried faces over him, they went from Anxious to startled to amazed in a matter of seconds
"what? What is it?" asked Jason
"I...I...it's" stammered the girl, Jason could see something familiar about her
"D'ren means that...that" D'neth tried, and failed, to explain, D'ren, a bit off but still close Jason thought
" Your eyes have changed Jason, and they look amazing" said Al'x, ahh good old Al'x, strait to the point thought Jason
"My eyes?"
they gave Jason a mirror and he could see that his pupil had turned a shimmering silver and his iris was a glittering, glimmering gold
-"Dragon speech"- -------------------- = change of scene
Jason looked around, someone called his name and he turned to see D'neth, in sort of priest robes, at an altar with a dragon carved into the back. He walked down from the room and noticed the Dragon head insignia on every one's robes, and the lack of it from his robes, he approached the altar as D'neth spoke
"state your name, un sected stranger,"
"My name is Jason"
"state your wish"
"I wish to serve the Dragon of the four way chain"
Jason had been briefed beforehand about what he had to say
"do you pledge your soul to worshiping our God and not to another of the four way chain"
"I pledge my soul to the Almighty Dragon, and will never go the way of another of the Almighty's"
"do you pledge to accept his gifts, even if they are unwanted?"
"I will accept his gifts with the knowledge that he has deemed me worthy to be given them"
"then Jason, you must now complete the challenge to test your true faith ,behold..."
the floor opened and a tiled one emerged, stretching from the altar to the Dragon Gateway
"...the floor of faith. Blindfold him"
Two people moved towards Jason, one was Al'x but he didn't know the other one, they blind folded Jason and guided him to the tiled floor
"there are many paths across Jason, if you truly are willing to devote yourself to the Dragon then you will be guided along the path, stepping on only the dragon tiles. Now go"
Jason stepped forward and saw a blue light through the darkness of his eyelids and the blindfold, the blue light told him to step on it, he walked forward until he could see the blue all around his vision, then, the blue lay out in a path before him, he could see the path of dragon tiles through his closed eyes and so followed it. When he could see the path no longer he stopped and he felt the blindfold be removed, he blinked in the new bright light and stared ahead of himself, there were three glowing points of blue light in the gateway, they shot at him, one in each eye and one in his forehead, Jason saw only blue as he fell towards the floor.
--------------------
Jason stared around him, the view was quite different to what he saw only a few seconds ago, for example, there was no temple, only barren, destroyed plains of rock and an acrid smell, and ,he noticed, a glowing sky blue Dragon, it was his God, the almighty Dragon
-"Actually I prefer to be called Sethneth"-
Jason was amazed, his god the almighty dra... Sethneth, had spoken, to him!
-"I am here also Jason"- said a voice behind him
Jason whirled around to see Ruth standing there, with the draconic equivalent of a grin on his face
"Ruth I am, well I think I am now a dragon follower, I can be your rider"
-"Your 'God' the 'Almighty dragon' is standing right behind you Jason"- said a disgruntled voice
"oops, sorry Sethneth, but, why am I here? Wherever here might be"
"I have brought you here, along with your dragon Ruth, to show you what has happened and what will happen. Observe"
they all turned to see...Tanks? Jason was confused, weren't the people of this planet in a Medieval period? Why, or how did they have tanks?
-" they weren't always an Imperialistic people, they were as advanced as your people, if not more so, but things change, watch"- said Sethneth's regal voice beside him
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"Master Al'x! Master Al'x!, something is wrong with that white, dangerous dragon"
"what? Ruth? Oh he's not dangerous but what is wrong?" Al'x said to the man that had hurried in
"well that dragon, Ruth, his eyes have a blue glow around them as does his forehead"
"yes, that has happened before"
"when?"
"oh...I'd say...about a minute or so ago"
--------------------
Jason watched as two hi-tech armies faced each other, the battle was bloody, infantry was cut to pieces by mini-gun fire, Nukes flew and fell all around, then, suddenly, a shimmer of blue was seen on the ground as a massive blue tendril burst forth and destroyed the Tanks and guns and nukes and armour and side arms, it then covered the troops who fell to the ground as the tendril crept back to the depths of the planet.
"what was that?"
-"I don't know"- was Ruth's reply
-"it was the planet's spirit form, Gaia"- Sethneth informed them
"what did it do?"
-"it was about to be destroyed, well the physical part of it anyway, so it destroyed all offensive and defensive weaponry and all hi-tech transportation, though it left the rail launchers intact and working"- answered Sethneth, his regal tones reverberating round the empty space
suddenly they were in a more recognisable time and place
"the present?"
-"a future"-
they appeared next to Jar'eneth's chair with him in it, looking extremely old, they watched as he stiffened momentarily then slid down in his chair, then something happened , a timer blinked into life beside them, the countdown showed one week with a, and Jason had no trouble recognising that symbol, the radioactive symbol pulsating next to the countdown
-"before you ask, that timer is counting down to the end of the world. Jar'eneth was in orbit when Gaia wiped the planet so when he became planetary ruler he installed Thermo-Nuclear devices around the core of the planet, Gaia didn't fight back because it had used too much energy in it's incredible technology reducing feat so when Jar'eneth dies the timer begins"- explained Sethneth
they were back in the wasteland
-"Jason, I want you to kill Jar'eneth, there is an organisation called Gaia Escape who can tell you what happens when a planet dies, they have the ability to achieve what they intend to do help them, I will give you and Ruth a useful gift now, back to where you belong"- said Sethneth
"will we...?"
-" yes Jason, you will see me again, I will be with you all the way"-
then Jason saw only black until his eyes snapped open and he saw D'neth's, Al'x's and a girl's worried faces over him, they went from Anxious to startled to amazed in a matter of seconds
"what? What is it?" asked Jason
"I...I...it's" stammered the girl, Jason could see something familiar about her
"D'ren means that...that" D'neth tried, and failed, to explain, D'ren, a bit off but still close Jason thought
" Your eyes have changed Jason, and they look amazing" said Al'x, ahh good old Al'x, strait to the point thought Jason
"My eyes?"
they gave Jason a mirror and he could see that his pupil had turned a shimmering silver and his iris was a glittering, glimmering gold