Next chapter… a flashback, and so will be the next. This is kind of Quatre's dream sequence of how he knew he was a Chosen One, but it's a flashback too. -_-; SPECIAL THANKS TO Xamick FOR BETA READING!!!
Chapter 2: Oracle of Destiny~~~~~+++++Flashback 2 days earlier+++++~~~~~
Quatre was walking through the town Carnt that he resided in with Trowa and Catherine. He was away from the plague that took his family, and the plague was now completely gone. He came to Carnt one year ago when his father and last living sister Lila died. His whole family died save for his mother who had died in childbirth when he was born; all killed by a plague, a mysterious one at that. Today was the day Carnt got word it was over. Done. Carnt hadn't been touched by it, yet the 7 (in the first chapter I said 4, but it's 7) towns it had touched had a total of 2,729. Thirty of which was once his rich, lavishing family. It was all a horrible lost. It was over now, and today he would be going to the Oracle of Destiny to pray. Why would he go to the Oracle of Destiny? The answer was clear, apart from being the *only* Oracle in Carnt, it was also the host to Janier, the queen of the Goddesses. She controlled Destiny, but that was only her main power. Being the queen, she could use any power. The Goddess Janier worked in mysterious ways. That day, the blonde did not know how mysterious…
~~~+++A few minutes later, outside the Oracle+++~~~
Quatre now stood outside the Oracle of Destiny. It was in the dead middle of Carnt. It had roses bushes, palm trees, carnations, lilies, and assortments of other beautiful plants around it. The Oracle was white marble, twisted with purple. It had breath taking carved decorated columns supporting it, like twisted ivy. The top the columns supported was swirled high to form an up raised circle, and the top was dipped downwards. Much like people now would think of ice cream in a cone. The flowers and plants reached to the beginning of the top. In short, it was like a mystical gazebo. Quatre walked into the dark entrance, yet inside it was the only thing that was dark…
~~~~++++Inside the Oracle of Destiny++++~~~~
It was beautiful inside. Plain, yet beautiful. You couldn't see outside, but you could see up the steps of the Oracle, which without the plants sure did look like a gazebo. In the platform, there was a small pool. Oh, and the plants from the outside curved near the front so when you walked in you wouldn't be at the steps. It was this open space that you were supposed to pray at. He walked up a little more, yet not up to the steps; he was still about 1 foot away from them. He sat on his knees on the praying tile; lowered his head, closed his eyes, and put his hands in prayer position. The prayer position was same as it is used now normally; hands pressed flat together pointing straight up. The shallow pool up the Oracle steps was a mixed color of silver, purple and blue, in such a way that you could see the individual colors, and it made the Fazoren's platinum hair shine an illusion of the platinum being silver.
The Oracle of Destiny was like other Oracles. It had no priests, and no sacrifices were needed. Janier and the other Goddesses fed on the prayers, hopes, dreams, and wishes their children had when they were at the Oracle of a Goddess. Quatre sat on his knees on the praying tile, which was a marble circular slab still level to everything else, but it was quite large and it had the Symbol of Destiny in it. The Symbol of Destiny was a circle (of course -.-;) with an angel with flowing hair and wings stretched out and arms out stretched with two dolphins around it; one on both sides. The one on the right side nose was pointed up, the other on the left pointed down. They were both half curved, as if they were leaping out of the water but on the side. The purple swirls in the marble were slightly richer on the angel's wings and the dolphins. The Oracles were capable of this beauty from being created by the Goddesses. Inscribed above the top of the angel stretching to one wing from another in Tanz was 'Tine sha, que no shan lin Fazorens,' 'Follow your Destiny, all of the pure hearts.'. Quatre continued his silent prayer in the Language of the Goddesses, which was known as Jentic (Jen-tick) in fact. "Detino la shi fig sant, Destiny already has in store, shan le so ta, All it gives us." A prayer of his own followed the traditional Destiny Љ prayer in Jentic. It was stopped short by a flash of gold light mixed with purple coming from up the steps of the Oracle and in the middle of the pool where a larger Symbol of Destiny was; brightening the Oracle up. Quatre looked up and stood on one knee, then stood up fully. When the golden light subsided, in the pool in the middle of the Symbol of Destiny was a girl with the appearance of 17 years with long flowing hair was there. She had on a long robe like dress that touched the ground and was made of a substance that appeared as if the liquid in the pool turned solid. It was mostly purple tough, in fact it was a light silverish-purple. She smiled at Quatre's awestruck face and said, "Hello Quatre Winner of the Fazoren. I am the queen of the Goddesses, Goddess of Destiny, Janier."
~~~~~END CHAPTER TWO~~~~~~
Cliff hanger! Hehehe… Now to work on my dead Star Trek: TNG Gundam Wing crossover. -_-;;;
