Chapter 02: All Aboard Gwiseon
"Mmmmgh...Uuuugh! What happened." A stranded Ur-Ru Mystic thought to herself as she wakes from her many trine long sleep.
As the Ur-Ru fully regains consciousness, she finds herself on moist, swampy ground. The stench was fetid as usual, with uncomfortably humid weather to add to it all. The Ur-Ru also tried to swat away many insects that started to swarm around her. "Ohhhh...So unbearable...But what can I do?"
While the Ur-Ru wandered the swamp a little more, her bemusement turned to horror, as she sees a wrecked tree with The Darkening energy coming out of it. The Ur-Ru looks down at two of her three remaining hands, noticing dark pulses flowing through her ancient veins. "No...no...this...can't be happening... My dark half..."
It finally dawns on the Ur-Ru that her dark half has escaped confinement after many trine has passed. Since the Ur-Ru is now free, that means one thing to her: Her dark half has been freed as well!
"No...No...All that work...To protect the Gelflings I befriended..." The Ur-Ru stutters in horror. "It...It has been...all in vain! But how...? How can this possibly happen?"
To add to everything going awry, the Ur-Ru has to deal with the fact that The Darkening has latched onto her. But still, since she is an Ur-Ru Mystic, she still had the ability to keep her mind incorruptible, since she is the light half of the foreign beings that visit Thra many ages ago.
The Ur-Ru knew she had to warn the others of her dark half being freed, but how? How was going to do that? The Ur-Ru felt rather helpless at this moment of her revival.
For now, all the Ur-Ru can do, was rest up, as well as get used to her surroundings once more, after being sealed up for so long.
"Mmmgh (yawn)...Time to wake up and continue..." Freyja yawn as she has finally awakened, restored to her normal Valkyrie form. "Huh? What the...? What happened?"
Freyja notices that she is in a large room, located what appears to be a ship made of flesh and bones. In this same room, she noticed her other Valkyrie companions were fast asleep in their bed, not once did they snore nor drool. "Ah, thank goodness my friends are here with me. I wouldn't know what to do without them."
Freyja then looks at the outfit she is currently wearing. She was no longer wearing her Valkyrie armor. Freyja was now clad in a cream white babydoll gown, with beige lace and red rose decals. Her legs were also clad in thigh high white silk stocking with red bows on the beige lace. The silky smooth intimate apparel felt wonderful up against Freyja's soft, yet well toned flesh. "Well, at least I am wearing an outfit that is sexy and feels good at the same time. So at least there is that."
While she about to leave her room, Freyja notices that this room is separated off another room, with only a royal purple satin curtain to separate them from one another. When Freyja opened the curtain, she notices a large empty bed, all perfectly made, as if no one ever slept in it to begin with. Freyja assumes that this is SkekSa's bed chamber. As well as SkekSa being awake, doing whatever, inside this bizarre structure. Also, Freyja notices another room set off the main bedchamber, also separated by a purple satin curtain.
Just as Freyja was checking out her surroundings, three familiar female figures come out of the second bed chamber, eager to greet the Valkyrie.
The first female figure was a succubus demon of the Earth element. Her hair was jade green, styled up in what appears to be an Afro style, with a pink bow on one of her horns. Her eyes were a tangerine shade, her lips being green, her body petite, yet shapely. She wore an revealing outfit consisting of a top and skirt that delicately wrap around her nubile body, as well as being decked out in jewelry made from precious materials. Since she was a succubus of the Earth element, she has jade green, talon-like
hands, feet and tail with some gold feathers at the end, as well as a small set of gold feathered wings on her back. This figure was Namaah, one of the three female subjects of King Scratch and Queen Alk.
The second female figure was a succubus demon of the Fire element. Her hair was a dark blue-green shade, styled short in back, and long in front, with bangs covering her forehead. Her eyes were amber yellow, her skin was a cherry red, her wings having black dragon wings, her hands, feet and tail being a dark midnight blue. She wore an outfit consisting of a gold bejeweled bustier, a silver g-string laced with gold, a dark green shawl, and long silver toe-less stockings, showing off the succubus' talon feet. This figure was Agrat, the second female subject of King Scratch and Queen Alk.
The third female figure was a succubus demon of the Water and Ice element. Her hair was a pale silver color, her metallic hued locks being long enough to flow down to her wrists. Her pale silver hair gave off iridescent shines of lavender and sky blue when light touches it. Her eyes were ice blue, her skin a deep azure shade, her wings being more like translucent blue-green fish tail fins, with her webbed hands, tail with a fin at the end, and webbed feet being a darker blue green hue. Her outfit consists of a crimson sling shot style leotard with the top part being seashell like, a pink floral sarong wrapped around the waist, pink floral finger-less gloves with silver bracelets, and a pair of red ankle warmers laced with silver. This figure as Lilin, the third female subject of King Scratch and Queen Alk.
Freyja was relieved to seem some familiar faces from her past, that her darkened eyes widen with joy. "Ah...Lady Namaah, Lady Agrat, Lady Lilin...! It is a pleasure you came here. I thought I would never see you all again."
"It is a pleasure to accompany you our Princess." Lilin said in relief, as the group of divine women hugged each other, being overjoyed to be re-united.
"Oh Princess! I am happy to see you again!" Namaah cheered in delight.
"What brings you all here?" Freyja asked curiously, as the group ceased the hugging.
The three elemental succubi put out their talon hands, so they can hold onto each other. Agrat spoke first. "Here, we will show you while dream fasting. Hold on dear ladies."
The image before the ladies showed an image of SkekSa and the fallen Valkyries being transformed into crystal shards by no one other then Freyja's estranged lover, Prince Baal. The insect like fallen angel prince puts the crystal shards into his leather pouch attached to his belt, as he teleports himself back to his Helheim home world of Sheol Kingdom.
Freyja was feeling intense joy with the vision she saw, with liquid Darkening tears pouring down her face. "Ah...Awww...It's my love! My Lord Baal hasn't forgotten about me after all!"
"Our Prince of Sheol still thinks of you, even when you were forced to go back to Godheim." Lilin said to Freyja as the image of Prince Baal making his way back to Sheol was fresh in their minds.
"That is very sweet of him." Freyja said in relief. "I'm very happy. (sniff) (sob)"
Now the image switched to Prince Baal greeting his royal family and the three Succubus subjects. The first to greet Prince Baal, is his father, King Scratch. King Scratch was a unique looking fallen angel, with a completely noseless visage with no visible holes, which resembles that of a dark fanged, crimson eyed toad with whiskers. Strangely enough, King Scratch uses his whisker for picking up scents, kind of like how insect like creatures use antennae to smell. He had crimson hued clawed hands, clawed talon like feet, and a long red tail that hung from his dark robes and overcoat. Upon his head, King Scratch wore a dark bejeweled turban with his horns nestled withing the dark cloth.
The next figure to greet Prince Baal, was his mother, Queen Alk, a succubus of the Wind element. Queen Alk has very long, golden blonde hair, that was decorated with a bunch of small braids here and there. Her eyes were garnet red, her clawed hands, talon feet, and tail being a light mint green color. Her wings and the feathers on her tail, were pure white like snow. Her outfit was similar to that of a belly dancer, with a royal purple brassiere laced in gold, a low cut skirt with the colors of pink and lavender, limbs dripping with jewelry made from the most precious of materials, and a red ribbon tied around her lower right leg.
The last figure to join the Sheol royal family, was Prince Baal's sworn sister, a little doll demon named Princess Halja. Princess Halja was an albino with pale white hair, milky white skin with pink eyes, the typical trait of most type of albino creatures. She wore a cute outfit of a ruby red dress with puffy sleeves, a black and white apron draped over the dress, yellow stockings, and little red, flat heeled slippers. She wore a red bow headband on top her pale head. Freyja was feeling quite relieved with seeing the Sheol royal family doing so well in her absence.
"I'm glad the Sheol royal family is doing well." Freyja said calmly.
"Baal brought you all in crystal shard form, to keep you all safe." Agrat explains.
"While in good hands, the Sheol family has worked on a big project to help you all get back on your feet." Namaah added to the conversation, now, with a new vision appearing before them.
The vision presented, showed the maidens a group of souls the Sheol royal family gathered, putting together something rather bizarre, yet very useful. The group of souls gathered a bunch of giant, monstrous bones, invertebrate, a giant, super strong, spiky, metallic tortoise shell, some hides from various giant hell beasts, a huge hide sail, and a group of cannons used to protection.
While putting this odd object together, the hard working souls built what appeared to be bone chambers, rooms and corridors in what appears to be a hybrid of sailing ship and a living, organic being. If this was made by mere mortal beings, the labor would take days, weeks, or perhaps even years. But in the divine light and dark realms, time runs differently from mortal realms. Just as the ship was prepared, put together, it then suddenly became complete, only for two things to complete it. That is, giving the creature ship a drink of revival wine to bring it to life, as well as a whistle created from precious opal stones.
"Behold! The servants of Sheol have created you all a new sailing home: A Leviathan ship, known as Gwiseon." Lilin exclaimed in an energetic tone.
"Gwiseon is far more superior to the old vessel once known as Vassa." Namaah added. "Unlike Vassa, Gwiseon will only obey you all, and no one else. Not to mention that she has some devastating attack abilities Vassa never had. "
"How intriguing..." Freyja replied, wanting to know more from this dreamfast session.
"Also, we gave you all an enchanted opal whistle for you to summon her whenever you reach dry land." Agrat explains. "Right now, the opal whistle is in SkekSa's hands. She is busy with getting a hang of this biological vessel as we are speaking."
The final image shows Prince Baal entering Gwiseon with not only the crystal shards, but with Namaah, Agrat and Lilin by his side. The female figures being transformed back into their default forms by Prince Baal, but before he did that, he gave everyone new outfits. SkekSa was given a new pirate outfit consisting of some sort of dark trench coat, a brand new feathered headdress, new trousers and new boots, free of holes. The four Valkryies were given bed time negligees to wear, as they were still super sleepy from trailing along The Great Sog.
While the Valkyries were sleeping in their own beds in one of the two bed chambers situated off the main bedchamber, Prince Baal and the three royal subjects were having a conversation with SkekSa, giving her an idea of how Gwiseon works, as well as other information that shall come in handy.
"Agrat, Namaah, and I were sent here by Prince Baal to keep you all company on your sea faring journeys." Lilin explains to Freyja about the vision before them.
"When you contact my Prince Baal, I want you all to thank him for his hospitality in much needed times." Freyja replied back.
"We will our dear Princess." Namaah said back to Freyja. "We will do whatever you all can to help settle into things."
Right there, the dreamfasting session ended, as the divine ladies let got of each others hands, returning back to current times.
"So, we are inside a living Leviathan vessel, known as Gwiseon, correct?" Freyja asked the succubus trio.
"Indeed we are." Agrat replied with a soft smile on her crimson face. "Isn't she amazing."
"Yes she is indeed." Freyja said back to Agrat. "It is like nothing I have ever experienced in my long lasting life."
Freyja, Namaah, Agrat, and Lilin all killed time by spending it with each, until the other Valkyries have awakened, and SkekSa was done getting a hold of how Gwiseon works. It was going to be a long sea faring journey, but a very intriguing journey as well. Starting today, the journey of a life time is going to begin: The journey of SkekSa and her rebel angels.