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Chapter 20
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We only have a few hours before the Alignment occurs, and Dawn and Dusk Reunite to form Twilight who will destroy the Universe if we don't stop him,
and we're here playing 20 questions with Gaia, the broad who gave us our powers, and also apparently started this whole mess with Twilight.
The Universe is buggered.
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"OK Gaia, you have some serious explaining to do." Jasmine said.
"We do not have time for this discussion. We must stop Twilight from being reformed." Gaia said beginning to fade from sight.
"Oh no you don't." Jaffa said, his eyes flashing yellow, and his mark glowing green.
Everyone elses marks began to glow as well, then a technicolour light appeared around Gaia, making her solid again.
"How did you do that?" Stuart asked.
"Not a clue. I've got a funny feeling that the closer to the Alignment we get, a whole more freaky shit's gonna happen as both our powers and Twilights increase."
"Hold on, Twilight isn't even here yet. So how can its power increase?" asked Ali.
"Simply put, Twilight has always been here. It's just been in two places at once is all. Dawn and Dusk are the two halfs of Twilight remember? So the closer to the Alignment they get, the less they are themselves, and the more Twilight they become."
"Hunh?" Ali replied.
"Think of your Frosties cereal. The longer the milk has been in the bowl, the more soggy the cereal gets and less crunchy. Dawn and Dusk is the crunchy cereal before the milks added, and Twilight is the soggy cereal after the milk has been added. Understand now?" asked Jaffa, slightly irritated, both at Ali, and the now pounding headache in his head.
"Yeah I get it now. Man you've become even more ill-tempered since the whole Sindor thing." Ali said in a huff.
"I'm sorry, you trying being tortured by dark magic over and over again, twisting your mind and body for a month! And then forced to watch as some other force controls your body, slaughtering its way through the heart of the Earthbound Worshippers, and it's enjoying itself as it slaughtered nearly every one of them!" Jaffa roared, before clutching his head in pain.
"Nearly?" asked Burdok.
"I managed to distract him long enough for one young girl to survive and escape." Jaffa said in that icy calm voice. "But I was powerless to actually do anything of value."
"Then explain how you chatted to us before the duel."
"It was the presence of nearly all the other marks that actually did that. And I'm sure Gaia here had something to do with that." he said staring at her.
Everyone realised that Gaia was still standing there surrounded by the multicoloured light.
"Right, start talking. Why did you not like how Dino-land was working is probably the first question." Ali asked.
"I do not have to explain my actions to you mortals. But if you intend to waste valuable time with this frivolous discussion then I shall indulge you."
Jaffa clenhed his hand into a fist and the light tightened around Gaia.
"Only the truth now Gaia. The proper truth. And save the whole "mortal" speeches for people who can actually stand that crap."
"All right then. I did indeed cause a meteor to crash onto this world. But it was as an agen of change. The world was stagnating, becoming infertile. I had to introduce something new in order to preserve the future of this world."
"So a meteor that nearly wiped out all forms of life, and would have put you out of a job if it had, was your idea of introducing change? Why not just wave your hand and speed up a species evolution?" Burdok asked.
"Because I could not. Evolution only occurs when a species needs to change and adapt to a new environment. The environment was never going to change from what it was, an ancient prehistoric land." Gaia said.
"OK, but I don't get how a meteor could make Twilight go all crazy." Burdok said.
"It didn't. Not at first. But it laid the seeds for his insanity to grow. As life on this world continued to become ever more chaotic, especially with the evolution of humanity, his mind became more unbalanced as his balance was distorted."
"You just said "his"! I thought you said Twilight didn't have a gender?" Ali said.
"Not anymore. Twilight was originally a male immortal. His task was to maintain a balance, whilst mine was to promote change, and growth. It worked, until humanity occured."
"Oy! I take offence to that. You make it sound like humanity is a disease." Burdok said.
"Your species evolution was an unforeseeable consequence of the meteor impact. It was not a bother until you started to develop tools. That then set of a chain reaction that led to the chaotic state of the world as it is today, with wars, disease, hunger, poverty, and a whole host of means of damaging the world. So in that context, humanity is a form of disease, in the eyes of immortals like myself."
"Oh thanks. Don't talk about humanity's good points." Stuart said.
"You're thinking in the terms of your human lifespan. I have seen your species evolve and how it evolved the weapons and tools you use today. Many of which were only originally designed for destruction." Gaia said.
"OK, so we've figured out how Twilight became crazy. So now you're trying to fix the mess you caused with the meteor.........by getting us humans to fight him for you?" asked Stuart.
"It is forbidden for Immortal beings such as I and Twilight to actually clash. If we were to do so.....the consequences don't bear thinking about."
"Okay okay. So we're fighting him for you cus you can't otherwise we all go boom or something...." Ali said, "So why didn't you try to help Jaffa when he was getting bloody well transmogrified?"
"Big word Ali. Know what it means?" Jaffa said with a chortle, then a a grunt of pain.
"And another thing....how came he keeps feeling pain now each time he even shows any emotion?" asked Jasmine with a worried look.
"To answer Chosen of Fire's question first, I could not aid Chosen of Wind because he was in a realm outside of my influence. Now as for your question Chosen of Darkness, he is feeling pain because Dusk in a final pique of rage, sealed away a portion of Sindor within Chosen of Wind's mind. He has also tied Chosen of Wind's emotions to Sindor. Now they cannot ever be rid of each other. And as to the pain, that is because Dusk has sealed them in such a way that they will cause him pain each time those emotions are expressed. Effectively sealing a considerable portion of his power away."
"Hold up. What has Jaffa's emotions got to do with his power?" Burdok asked.
"The elements powers are derived from human emotion. Ever hear of the expression, fiery anger, or dark mood, or a whole host of others?"
"OK, so can you fix him then?" Ali asked.
"Oy. Watch how you use the phrase "fix him" with this woman Ali. She may just decide to 'fix' me." Jaffa said, holding his head.
"He cannot be helped. Not until Dawn and Dusk are stopped." Gaia said, before Jaffa clenched his fist again.
"Aah! It is the truth. Whatever they did to you, can only be either reversed by them willingly, or by defeating and destroying them." Gaia said.
Jaffa opened his hand, and the light stopped crushing in on Gaia.
"Why not just try and cure Twilight of his insanity?" asked Burdok.
"He cannot be cured. It has afflicted him for countless millenia. By the time I realised what had occured.....it was too late to aid him."
"Alright then. So how do we defeat Twilight then?" asked Jaffa.
"You mortals cannot. You can only try and stop the Reunion from occuring. If you fail then all hope for life is lost."
"You know something Gaia," Ali said, "you really suck at moral speeches."
"Ok, now what about these Hell Demons? We gonna see any more of those things?" Stuart asked.
"No. Dawn and Dusk were playing with unparralled power and could only coax one into existence. The one who controls them does not take too kindly to giving anyone his creatures."
"Don't think we want to know who controls them thank you very much." Jaffa said.
"OK, so we're gonna have to take on Dawn and Dusk and try to beat them.....no biggy. Except one of us isn't exactly up to full strength and we only have about two hours before the Alignment." Stuart said looking at his watch.
They all then saw a green puddle of water form next to Jaffa.
"Dude!" they all said jumping back.
"Not mine I swear!" Jaffa said jumping back as well, before holding his head in pain.
The water then rose and formed a robed woman.
"Trishula, you have something to say here?" asked Gaia.
"Indeed I do." the robed woman said. She pointed what looked like a blue clawed hand at Jaffa.
Jaffa's arm glowed a brief blue light this time, as his wing mark changed. It was still a pair of bird wings, but they now looked like they were made of ice.
"I give to you what power I have left on this world mortal. Use the Water's power wisely."
"I thought you said he was not ready?" Gaia asked.
"He wasn't but Dusk actually helped us in that respect. As he now has to maintain a chilly presence as it were, and he is filled with a cold fury at what the two of them did to him, he is now prepared for my power." Trishula said.
"Ok, so now we have a little more power to deal with those two. Well, we have less thatn two hours to get to them and beat them before the Alignment......we better get on it then." Stuart said.
Just then the earth opened up and another robed person appeared.
"Wait. You will need my power as well." he said in a gravelly voice.
"Let me guess. Gatmuz of the X-Sabers." Burdok said.
"Indeed Chosen of Power. I know you do not use the X-Sabers, but I will grant your Dragons the strength of the earth, whatever strength I have to give." he said as he pointed an armoured glove at Burdok.
The dragons' head now changed to a more rocky looking dragon.
Then a light appeared from the sky and another being appeared. This one didn't even bother with a robe. It was a woman with long hair, wearing a suit of white paladin armour.
"With the appearence of the Hell Demons, my master wishes to convey a portion of his power to one of the Chosen. Chosen of Magic, he has chosen you."
Stuarts mark chaed entirely, from the scarab beetle to a half moon with a sword running through it.
"OK, that's weird. And who is your master?"
"You aren't ready for that just yet. But maybe after this battle if you're still alive I'll tell you.....cutie." she said with a slight grin, before soaring back into the clouds.
"Dude....I think that was an angel and she has a crush on you." Burdok said.
"Heh, won't your girlfriend be pissed when she hears this.....not too mention seriously confused! Isn't she outta town right now?" asked Ali.
Stuart smacked him across the head.
"We aren't telling anyone anything about this, got it?"
Everyone nodded, whilst trying to keep a straight face.
"Now then, we mustn't keep Dawn and Dusk waiting. Let's ride!" Stuart said.
Everyone revved their engines and headed for the Ruins.
"Well, this should be fun to watch." Trishula said.
"Indeed." Gaia said waving her hand and dispersing the light that was around her.
"You could have done that at any time?" asked Gatmuz.
"Only when Jaffa had gotten far enough. We must keep our eyes on him and Burdok, Ali and Stuart. Remember that prophecy of Revelation."
They all nodded and vanished.
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This chapter is a filler chapter because the duels coming up are going to be quite big......they may even need to be done in several chapters....plz read and review.
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