Amber: generation next
Jessica's tale: The Age of Redemption and Rebirth 2420-2493 d'L
Chapter 35: Truth Be Told
While waiting in the second floor dining room, waiting for Michael, I met Sevyn. He claimed to be the son of Eric and Delia. The only thing that could be known for sure at this point was he was of both Amber and Chaos born. With our heightened senses Amberites and Chaosites can 'smell' each other. Sevyn had also mastered both the Logrus and Pattern.
Michael walked in and after a brief discussion affirmed Sevyn's heritage. Owen and Thangor arrived soon afterward. Owen in his usual manner said, "Ok, the staff's all here. Who called this meeting?"
"Our estranged 'sister' is still alive," I said in answer. "She sent me this message. From the sounds of it she's joined the Queens."
Sevyn studied the note for a Moment, then summoned his Logrus sight. Michael called Fiona, who Trumped in with Brand from the library. Brand called upon the power of the Abyss to see into Sevyn's vision. Their news was disturbing. Not only was my 'clone' leading an army of Stormtroopers with weapons powered by Trump, but she was the Queens' new leader for the Amazon horde and Michaela was with her. Jessiica had also mastered the powers of the Abyss, according to Brand.
Fiona, Michael and Brand began working on a spell to trap Jessiica in a web which would neutralize her control of the Abyss and the Force. A spell which Brand and I were both uncomfortable with in concept.
We all agreed the Queens would enter the Golden Circle through T'Amber, so it was there we headed, but first a detour home aboard the last of Prath's Super Star Destroyers, which had been left in high orbit of Amber. Brand opened an Abyss gate to take us to my Shadow. We arrived at the Kuat Drive Yards an had repairs made by its creators. I also put forth a call for any former Imperial Troops with Star Destroyer experience seeking legitimate employment. Of course it was highly probable that we'd have a full crew and all repairs completed within hours.
With all our preparations in order, we again used Brand's Abyss gate taking our fully armed and operational SSD to T'Amber. Brand gated Owen's army the Moment we arrived. We had fifteen minutes to warn Queen Jesyca before the hordes came through.
We dropped four of the garrison units on top of their forces. We killed thousands and still they came. Owen, Thangor, and the forces of T'Amber joined by Owen's army and the Imperial troops we brought with us engaged the Queen of Evil's armies head on. Michael, Fiona, and Brand engaged in sorcery from atop the castle. I commanded the SSD's orbital assault.
Michael's spell had kept Jessiica and her troops out of T'Amber, but the hordes that were already here were enough. Hundreds of thousands it seemed died. The war raged for what must have been days. Finally it was over. Jessiica had escaped our grasp. At least two of the Queens had escaped. We also learned that Jonathan and Mary were behind the assault.
Our theory on Mary, she is a Pattern Ghost made real by a transfusion from Jonathan. I believe she is just as real and dangerous as the original, possibly even infused with blood of the original.
Michael had set access restrictions to T'Amber, forcing all werewolves, vampires, and wraiths to enter through a gate which would destroy or at least severely damage them upon entry. I left the Super Star Destroyer and all its troops under the command of Queen Jesyca and Trumped back to Amber.
I went down to the garden, to Yggdrasil. Together we used the Force, the Crystal, and Ygg's own power to search Shadow for the surviving Queens of Evil. Acasha was dead. Anastasia and Styrba still lived, as did Jessiica, Jonathan, Mary, and Michaela. Michaela has made herself padawan to Jessiica of her own free will. Somehow Michaela relates to Jessiica more as a mother than I. Jessiica bore her cybernetic hand as a trophy, a reminder, or just to torment me without the synth-flesh covering that made it look normal.
"Yggdrasil, my old friend, help me build a Holocron for Amanda that will not only tell her, but show her why I left her behind." I pleaded. "Then help me send it to her, so that maybe she will turn out better than her sister, and hopefully understand and forgive me."
Three days in meditation and construction of the Holocron cube. My life was recorded in a way never done before in the history of the Jedi. Not only my interactive image, but a visual documentary of the events that led up to its creation. Ygg promised me to transport it to her. I thanked him and said I didn't even want to know how. I only hoped her adopted mother would understand. How many years had passed for them? Four years? Five? She was thirteen when I last saw her in that odd dream . . . would she be seventeen or eighteen now? I thanked Ygg again and walked back to the Castle.