Legends of the Terralands

Episode 9

Dear mercy, I need therapy. For the past three weeks, my dreams have been haunting me about those that live in Evilania and Hevara. From Vortex contacting me again, to a guy I know called Fortwo Threeo being bored of Hevara and their strict culture, it's been making my mind terrified of the day I get sent to one of them, having to be a slave of the culture around me would leave me to be dead eventually. All in all, this mindset is unhealthy, especially for this long.

I had to visit Cyan, I thought he could have a helpful opinion, but it wasn't helpful. "I think that you could try visiting the place, see how they are, and go back home." He said with a very confident and unknowing tone. I haven't told anyone this before, but I tried to do that a long time ago.

Evilania was too dangerous to travel around. I mean, there were bombs flying in all directions near the border, as well as decapitated heads, and undead demons nonchalantly roaming around the premises. Hevara on the other hand looks like a beautiful utopia, but the place is swarming with angelic guards holding bows and arrows, as well as some strange faint character in the distance that roams around the area, I couldn't tell from far away, but it ran really fast, and kicked a bunch of things. Easy to say, the regions are impossible to cross without getting through the plethora of guards and monsters roaming around it.

My next choice was Tempest, who was weirdly enough having his own trauma episode. Ketsu had to go to an event that his father, who apparently was a police officer and a homophobic, demanded him to attend. Tempest was depressed about not seeing his boyfriend, and was really angry at the same time. Approaching was clearly the best idea, but once I asked for some help, he scolded me harshly out of anger. I had to let him be and talk to him after Ketsu returns, which will definitely be a while.

My last choice was Frosty, who was like a mentor to me. I told her about the two regions, but she stayed silent, it was like she never knew about them. Suddenly she started to shed a tear, as if something had caused her grief in the past. "Saph, follow me…", she said in a very shaky tone. She walked us over to her main house and directed me to the basement.

In the basement, there were two rooms, a room with a portal to Hevara, and a room with a portal to Evilania. Hevara's portal looked divine, like a gateway into heaven, it gleamed a white hue and had pure, white clouds leaking out from it. Evilania's portal looked like a gateway to instant death, leaving a lava orange hue and having tons of burned, chipped rocks flying out from the vortex. Frosty turned to me and told me I wasn't ready. I was silly enough to ask why, but she took a deep breath and told me to get a chair, she had a story to tell.

Frosty was a part of a legion of friends that were just like mine, ones that survived, ones that looted, ones that provided, and ones in between. Frosty had four friends: Simba, a legendary know-it-all of the Terralands; Lumber, an average adventurer; Chaotical Seagull, a heroic helper to mankind; and Kimchi, a crazy despairer, and a cruel fighter. One day, the group split up to explore the depths and other locations of Earth. Kimchi went to Evilania, Chaotical went to Hevara, Lumber dug down to the deep depths of the planet, Simba went to a nearby planet known as Mars, and Frosty traveled through all of the biomes of the Terralands.

Kimchi didn't make it out of Evilania, she lost the location of the portal and became one with her kind. Chaotical was trapped by really strong guards in Hevara after trying to discover the secrets of the central temple of the region, which were apparently highly off-limits. Lumber, well, he died after discovering rare stones in the rocks, and fell into some lava two minutes after. Simba, strangely enough, survived! His journey was a success as he learned that there were healthily consumable chemicals that can induce two minutes of oxygen relief, but the amount found is very miniscule, making his visit quite short.

Frosty never heard from the others again, except for Simba. She absolutely loved being around Lumber, something about him kind of resembled me in a few cases. The poor bird was in tears thinking about the friends she missed, she wouldn't even dare enter Evilania or Hevara because she was afraid of the same fate. If she couldn't have the gall to enter there, I definitely couldn't.

I consoled Frosty and told her I want to train for this. I wanted to be prepared for the dangers of Evilania and Hevara, and conquer not only my wish, but Frosty's as well. Frosty still said I'm not ready, I couldn't do it alone, it's way too dangerous to travel without help or assistance on these places. That's how her friends ended up, trapped, doomed to the society of the "other world". She requested that if we all were going to survive, we'd need a team of 5 to enter one of the two worlds and rescue Frosty's friends. This seemed kinda hard for me because I didn't have a group of 5 to work with correctly. The only people that could join my side would be Frosty, Cyan, and Tempest. Even I knew that none of them would be willing to help me with this. Frosty had to tell me to leave, and squawked at me if I said anything else.

That night, I kept thinking to myself: "How am I going to get Cyan and Tempest by my side?" Cyan is way too absent-minded to travel with, and he's probably very unprepared for the region's habitat in the first place. Tempest would be WAY too worried about his boyfriend that he couldn't risk his life unless his Ketsu was in trouble. There was no one else I can possibly think of besides Frosty, and I don't think that needs explaining. If I wanted to form the right team, I had to prepare them all mentally. This was going to be a very slow process, but knowing that I have no idea how I'm going to do it, this would all go terribly great.

Tomorrow… will be different...