The Fate of the First Hero of Light
"What is your name?" "Normally you introduce yourself before asking for another one's." "OH! Very well excuse me. My name is Zeldalyn." "My name is Claurilles."
"Well excuse me then Claurilles, what brings you to our time line?"
My ice spear is in the wall where her head was. She is laying on the floor sweating her eyes are open. "I was going to kill your descendant in my world. If I kill you here, it would not make a difference. Either way she dies."
Earlier
Eva and Set are having a field day. The screams, I hear from the lower floors sounds intense. Special soldiers run past and through me downwards. They have weapons that shoot projectiles. These ones are so weak even my thinnest ice can stop them. The door is thrown open the Humes run outside. This is a dining area, they have tables. Their uneaten meals are still here.
A lone Hume is sitting there. I decide to sit at the table for a moment. I can see his eyes are the same as mine, when I was young. They are lifeless. He only moves and works. There are no emotions. He is not running from the children, his life has no meaning. If he is dead or alive it is the same. He can likely see me. But the hole he is in closes everything around him. I had my magical abilities that gave me strength. They cannot use magic here. There is no escape all alone, how can a person climb out of this misery?
The children enter, they will kill him. Somehow I feel his pain. I let out killing intent so strongly. They cower in the corners, they fear me and they cannot move.
"Dankie."
He stands up and puts his plate and utensils, at the front of the counter. He walks past the children and out of the door. The soldiers fill the room they restrain the brats.
I move up, the Humes return to their stations. The door is opened. The Hume walking through me I recognized her immediately. It is Zelda.
"Do not anger me Zelda. I have no time for games. What are the "runes" made for?" "Runes?" "What are you talking about! My name is not Zelda!"
"Very well Zeldalyn. What is your function here? What task do you fulfill?" "Why should I tell you?" "Your actions here destroyed this world. In the future there is nothing left here. Only grey rock, some grass and shrubs I found by accident." "Why would I believe?" "You asked me why I was in your time line, that would be a good reason." I get up. I do not have time to keep on playing with her. I freeze and expand the hinges, they are making creaking sounds.
"Does that really happen Claurilles?" "Yes." "Can we not stop it somehow?'" "Most likely yes." "Would you help us?" "Why should I help Zelda?" "MY NAME IS NOT ZELDA! I mean I am sorry please help us."
I sigh deeply. "Please recruit these Humes." The small office is full of Humes. "Doctor why are we here?" "This man wants to explain some things." "Doctor why are we needed?" "JUST BE QUIET AND LISTEN!""YES, DOCTOR!"
I point my arm towards a wall. I freeze it and shatter it. You can see other Humes with bright yellow dress working in the next room. They stare confused at us. I freeze the hole and change the translucency. You cannot see through it anymore. I produce ice shapes in the room. I carve patterns on them. Spin shapes within each other and shatter them. I ask each one to hold an ice sphere. I increase the weight till they are strained by it, then I disappear them into nothingness.
I reveal the minimum of what had led me to coming to this world. If travel between the worlds is so easy, then all our victories in my world would be for nothing. This information must not be spread.
I explain the circumstances this world will face in the future.
"It would seem this structure's function, is made for such an evil and wicked disregard of nature. That even my impossible tale could instantly be believed!"
"WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF EVIL AND GOOD?!""I live in the darkness. I can see actors and actions that wear the same colours as mine. You might fool other people but I can see through you. This place is evil manifested."
"Great Father Houzmas Grimmaker I recorded the message you showed me. I will pass this message on."
"Thank you son. Is that my name?" "Forgive me Great Father. I mean I apologize.." "Don't worry son call me what you want. The message I showed you can you read it?"
"No."
"You speak our language. Should you not be able to read it?" Your language came from this world and so too your script. I have studied for many suncycles, but the written shapes are so difficult for my mind to comprehend. I do not know if I could ever master it."
"Son what do you mean, because they came from our world? How would that affect their readability?"
"When written languages are formed. Peoples would use objects around them as reference. For an example take two rocks. They could represent a unit of measurement. Over time you would find these symbols, would no longer be able to be reasonable be usable. Numbers would become too numerous to still use them as a measurement unit. You would then develop other symbols, still based on the original. Slightly changing the shapes. Then over many suncycles, you could have developed a readable language."
"Your written text is based on this worlds objects or animals. They do not exist in mine."
"Amazing little man how did you know this?" "Uncle Tha...Excuse me Doctor Stand, I have had an interesting upbringing."
"Do you know me?" "Maybe not you, but someone very similar. Forgive me." "But son why am I here? They were going to kill me for trying to abort the project?"
"Great Father it is because just like in my world."
"Zelda has authority even though she is totally inept and incompetent." "MY NAME IS NOT ZELDA!" "Thank you regardless son. Still it feels as if I know you. How is this possible?" "We share a mutual bond." "Son?" "Great Father can we speak of this later?" "Yes, son."
"Why did you tell me to call "these" people." I have Zeldalyn's neck in hand, I am going to kill her. Using that same disdainful tone as my parents. She is starting to lose consciousness.
"Please son forgive her. Our ways will be different from yours." Great Father Houzmas touches my shoulder. She drops onto the floor. "Yes, you are right Zelda by grateful to "these" people. Make no mistake I would have killed you." Zeldalyn is coughing "My NaMe is not zelda!"
"Geir son let us introduce ourselves."
"Let me start, son my name is Homer Grim." says Great Father Houzmas Grimmaker.
Uncle Thandall speaks "Little man my name is Doctor Thandall Stand"
The female Hume that was dead in the archive room, when I first arrive in their world "I am Hungrid Deckerd."
The man who was sitting in the food court "I am Timothy Smith."
Zelda says "I AM DOCTOR ZELDALYN TRAVERS DON'T FORGET IT!" "Whatever you say Zelda." "MY NAME IS NOT ZELDA!"
"Geir if the story is true of your arrival, how can you still be in our world?" "We have the concept of magic. It is plentiful here, I use it to keep me in yours. Living between a sliver of yours and another one."
The other world is it your own? No, I was abducted by the being you manufactured here. Ezekiel the brother of Adam or I can only assume those abominations have gender.
"ABOMINATIONS! HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT!THEY ARE MADE TO BE PERFECT!" screams Zeldalyn. "So it was you." "Son what do you mean?" "The little girl Eva was made from a part of her. That is why her life forces are the same."
"Doctor Travers is that true?" "I am your superior I do not have to..."
"Son please be calm, I do not know your relationship with her. But we need her help. She is a high ranking official. Without her help even your greatest scheme will not succeed."
My knees feel weak. "Great Father "scheme"?"
"Sorry son I did not mean to say it that way." "Thank you Great Father I guess.." He lets out a mighty laugh. "Well I guess let us start from the top."
I am fully in their world now.
The soldiers move to attack me. I freeze their weapons, then I incapacitate them. Breaking jaws, snapping limbs and making teeth fly.
"Little man what kind of world makes someone like you?"
"Adam is inside here." Zeldalyn moves in front of me and extends her arms to stop me. "Geir son." Do not worry Great Father." I punch Zeldalyn lightly in the stomach. She is on the floor struggling for air. I kick the door free from its hinges.
Adam is in front of me. He is wearing clothes similar to that of a king and a crown atop his head. The cables of the "throne" of this room are still attached to him. "Last time you said you were "god" or something of the sort. Let me test that statement."
The room is destroyed, all the mechanisms are broken. Zeldalyn is crying at the corpse of her "god".
"You could have made him better. I did not even torture him for long, then he started crying like a baby." His body starts twitching, he is moving again. He stands up. Zeldalyn stops crying.
"You are so pathetic, choose which I should use one hand or one finger?" Adam moves to fight again. I kill him many times. He stands up, I humiliate him time after time.
He really thinks he is a god. The runes on my left arm are almost full. His absolute vanity compelling him to attack me, to confirm his godhood. His frustrations fueling the runes in my left arm. The runes are full they shine in red on my left forearm. I snap his neck and throw him onto his broken "throne".
Great Father come look here.""Geir son are you sure I made these?" "Absolutely without a doubt. When I saw you. I knew who you were Great Father. That you knew my real name is also proof."
"Yes, that seems plausible. I have started working on something similar to this only recently."
"I only received it thousands of suncycles later." "Do you know its function?" "Great Father I have seen what it can do, I do not understand the workings though. Let me show you what I have learned."
I hear bones snapping back into place. He is "alive" again. Zeldalyn moves to stop me. "I WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO HURT HIM ANYMORE!" I start laughing at the supposed "god" He is so weak, a woman needs to protect him. He rushes forward he moves to kill Zeldalyn, to try to get through to me. I turn her around. She sees, he does not care for her life. I touch her lightly, she flies into the heap of broken parts.
"Great Father is she unconscious?" "Yes, son what should we do?" "Wake her up she needs to see this." I have broken him in so many ways. Yet he always returns back together. He has his absolute pride believing he is a "god". I wonder what he thinks is happening to him. If I could only give him to my Grandmother as a present.
She might finally lose her vindictiveness. It will take many days before he becomes an invalid. Unfortunately that is not an option.
"Don't hurt him anymore!" "Why?" "It is wrong! He is our savior!"
"WHAT?! Is that what this is about! You tried to make your own god!" I am laughing so hard tears are flowing. Adam hits me I fly into the wall. He hits me again and again. "GEIR SON!" "Do not worry Great Father he cannot hurt me." I stand up. He does not, know what to do. His strongest punches do not even leave a mark on me. I hit him in the stomach. He falls down, gasping for air.
"I have played with you enough for today."
I grab him with my left hand on his face. Squeezing him till his face fits into my hand. I lift him up. "Look here Zeldalyn." Great Father Houzmas Grimmaker's curse is transferred into him. The dark runes move through his skin.
He has lost his "godliness". "Look here, he is now less than a man." I throw him against a wall. Both his legs are broken, they are pointing in the wrong directions. He is coughing up blood. "NOOOOOOO!" Zeldalyn runs to the severely injured Adam. "Zeldalyn he will require medical aid, otherwise he will expire soon."
"Geir son can I see your arm?" "Yes, Great Father." "Little man are you sure I taught you how to fight?" "Yes, Uncle... I mean Doctor Stand."
"Why do you need us? You can solve everything by yourself?" The little Hume woman speaks.
"When I first met you. All the other floors were destroyed and you had barricaded yourself into a room. With many "computers" you had a black "computer "book with you.
That brat Eva showed it to me. It contained knowledge she believed of great importance. Can you maybe think of something that it could be?" "You said you found me on the floor where Eva and Set are kept. It had been turned into an archive. How many years would that have taken?"
"Years?" "It would be equivalent to your term suncycle."
"I see, thank you."
"THANK YOU?! WHY WOULD YOU SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT" screams the annoying Zeldalyn. "When someone helps you, do you not thank them? Unlike myself and most others. Hungrid is pure of heart." The Hume girl instantly turns red faced. "Hungrid even if it is the most trivial of thing try to think what it could possibly be. I know it might seem impossible, still anything you can think of that might help our quest." "Yes, I understand Claurilles."
"And me?" "Timothy we are the same. You have the same eyes I had when young. If I die you will have to keep on fighting." "WHAT CAN HE EVEN DO? SOMEONE WHO CLEANS THE FLOORS." I look at Zeldalyn I have never looked at something with so much contempt in my whole life. "You are so pathetic. I can only pity you. The only why you could get someone to love was to make...""Son that is enough." "Great Father..."
"Timothy will you do this?" "Yes, I will."
"When we stopped the machines in our time a giant cerebrum had been built. It controlled all the functions of the "factories" that produced the Golems."
"Golems?" "He means the synthetic humonoids."
"We destroyed it and then it stopped. This time it will not be so easy, there is no central hub. Do you know of anyway to stop it?"
"Son the problem is that there are many companies, working together to reach this goal." "Are they private businesses." "Yes." "That would make it difficult. If I kill everyone would it dissuade them?" "I do not think so son and even if you torture them it would not change it."
I feel a bond forming between Great Father Houzmas Grimmaker and myself.
"Little man do you not want to know, what we are aiming for?" "Your plans are so incompetent. They destroyed the Dwarven World in my "reality"."
"Little man what do you mean "your" reality?" "This Dwarven World's past is not mine. If we stop the catastrophe's in your time."
"My reality's Dwarven World will not change."
"How is that possible. So are you saying there is nothing that can be done."
"You misunderstand your world can be saved. My Soap Bubble's world cannot be saved."
"SOAP BUBBLE! WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT NOW?!" shouts the annoying woman Zeldalyn.
"Your experiments on the shielded floor lead to this catastrophe. You made spaces were there should be none. If reality could be compared as Soap Bubbles floating freely in the air. Your incompetence led to a rapid expansion of yours. When it touched mine. The expansion of this one, formed massive pressure between the two. Gradually pulling it closer, till our worlds almost merged. Luckily we could stop the disaster from breaking completely into our world. This world was probably formed when the Soap Bubble could no longer bleed into ours. The very large Soap Bubble split into smaller Soap Bubbles."
"Son are you implying. That there are two different realities?"
"Yes, Great Father."
"Our world is like a twin of your Dwarven World?"
"Yes."
"Little man if this is to believed, then our world could possibly follow the same timeline then?" "That is what I am assuming." "Claurilles what should we do?""Hungrid these following few suncycles. Will decide the future of your Soap Bubble's Dwarven World."
"Geir son do you have a plan?"
"Yes."
"What is it?"
"Money."
Everyone "MONEY!?"
Finish.
