"Actually it started before six hundred and fifty years ago when the four
realms were formed by the Great Creator. The realms were earth, water,
fire, and shadow and to each one the Creator entrusted two higher beings,
or a gods as you would know them. In the shadow realm the gods were Derkor
and Ramnur.
"Derkor was ruthless as well as lazy. He never wanted to actually do any of the harder and dirtier work himself so he gave to his trusted follower, Garmon, a pinch of his own power. And so Derkor sat back and gave orders to his Shadow Sorcerer who followed his orders and then some. Derkor allowed Garmon the freedom to do whatever he wished as long as the Sorcerer did what the great god wanted. And so most of the realm fell under Derkor's control.
"This greatly displeased the jealous Ramnur who in a fit of rage created light from shadow. And so the Shadow Realm became the Shadow and Light Realm with Derkor the God of Shadow and Ramnur the God of Light. Ramnur followed Derkor's example and gave power to one of his faithful followers, Brakus. The two gods used their Sorcerers to fight one another for billions and billions of years, each Sorcerers' power transferring his powers to his first born son. There were a few Sorceresses, but most were male.
"Then 650 years ago the gods of the four realms were set into a deep sleep that they may not wake up from. Without the gods to control them the two Sorcerers at the time, Narkon and Sorvu, empowered three warriors each to do their bidding and fought amongst themselves for control of the realm. This went on for hundreds of years until one day the Light Warriors and Shadow Warriors fought the worst and bloodiest battle until then and the Light Warriors were killed. Unfortunately, the Light Warriors' children were all still babies and could not take up the fight nor protect themselves. So Valla, the Light Sorceress at the time, had no choice but to send the babies through the gate to the earth realm, your realm Kurt."
As Akela says my name it snaps me out of the trance I had fallen into while listening to her. She has such a beautiful voice and one can't help but listen to her when she speaks. I even ate the whole sweetcake without realizing it. However, she doesn't give me a chance to say anything before she continues on.
"This was a calculated risk for Valla as she knew that without her warriors to defend her she would be an easy target for Kokur and his Shadow Warriors. She also knew Kokur would send his Shadow Warriors to try and kill the babies and she was right. He sent his warriors with the hopes that they could kill the babies and get back before the gate was sealed. Unfortunately for them Valla sabotaged their return and they too were stuck in the earth realm until the gate opened in 230 years.
Because of this the Light Warriors never became aware of their powers and neither did any that came after them. The same could not be said for the Shadow Warriors, who were adults when they arrived in the earth realm. They passed down the knowledge from generation to generation.
With their warriors gone until the gate reopened the war between the two sides was halted. It became clear to both sides that a considerable amount of power had been given to the warriors and without them the fight simply could not go on. And so for 230 years life in this realm progressed much as life in your realm did. Then ten years ago the gate reopened and the three Shadow warriors returned. The Shadow Sorcerer Ryzard then began the war for the realm only I had no warriors to fight back with. The Light Warriors were still children and could not be summoned here.
You are one of those children Kurt. I reached out to you in your dreams as soon as you were old enough. I pulled your consciousness here. So to answer your question, this is not really a dream. If you are killed here you will die in the other realm as well," She pauses for a moment to catch her breath. "I had to make you aware of your powers as well as where the portal is before you could even think of coming here for real. Plus, it would be easier for you to find the other two Light Warriors and bring them with you through the gate."
At this I can't stay silent anymore. "What do you mean come here? I have responsibilities in my own realm."
"Kurt, like it or not this is your realm as well. I cannot force you to fight. I can only ask." Akela replies sadly.
"I can't do this Akela! I have enough trouble in the earth realm without-- ."
"Foolish boy," The Sorceress hisses at me. "You really think Ryzard will be happy with one realm!? Once he has conquered this realm he will turn his sights on others and the Earth Realm will be his first target. The first thing he will do is kill you AND the other two, who will be completely defenseless as they have NO idea what's going on without YOU!"
"Then why don't YOU reach out to one of THEM! I have my own battles to fight. You have no idea what it's like there for me! I'm a mutant, I mean, look at me!" I yell angrily. "I'm a freak among freaks Akela! You have no idea what I have to go through!"
"I have no idea?! I'm a sorceress! I'm born with natural abilities! You can't even imagine what it was like for me as a kid as my magical ability manifested itself! No kid wanted to be friends with me!"
Her eyes flare angrily. I swear for a moment she thinks about using her magic on me, but manages to calm herself down. She gives me a fierce look, but I can see there's disappointment and fear deep down inside.
"I see I have wasted my one chance on the wrong warrior. It is obvious to me I should have made a connection to one of the others,"
"Why don't you then?"
"Because I only had the strength enough to bring one here and I reached out to the strongest of you," She explains. "I see now I made a terrible mistake."
"I'm sorry..."
I trail off as I feel a strange pulling sensation behind my eyes. The pulling slowly becomes stronger and the world around me starts to blur. I have time to look one last time into her eyes and find tears welling up in them. And then everything fades away...
I slowly opened my eyes and grimaced as I found a bright light above my head. I tried to raise my hand to cover my face, but found my arms strapped down. Suddenly very fearful I snapped my eyes open despite the bright light and struggled against my bonds.
"Calm down Kurt." A familiar voice said calmly.
I shifted my eyes to the voice and sighed in relief to realize I was just in the infirmary and Mr. McCoy was taking care of me. That was a lot better than what I thought might have happened considering the last thing I remembered was trying to fight the Brotherhood with no success at all. The last thing I remembered was the tree falling on my legs and breaking them both.
"What happened? How did I get here?" I asked.
"Rahne and Jamie found you dumped outside with both your legs broken." Hank explained. "Do you remember how it happened?"
"The Brotherhood ambushed me. Avalanche caused a tree to fall on me and I passed out from the pain." I told him.
I decided I wasn't going to tell him about the dream I had. It wasn't really a dream and that made me all the more determined not to tell anyone about it. They would probably think I was losing my mind. I wasn't so sure that I wasn't losing my mind to begin with. I couldn't decide if it had been a dream or what.
"That's odd..." Dr. McCoy said. "You legs have healed. I haven't even got a chance to put them in a cast yet..."
"What? How long have I been asleep?"
"Only three hours."
I blinked at him a few times. "How could they be healed by now?"
"I have no clue. Unless you've somehow developed another ability I don't have any explanation for this."
At that he left the room, probably to go discuss the newest twist with Professor Xavier. That left me alone to think about the dream. Did the dream have something to do with my healing all of a sudden? Maybe the sweetcake or that juice healed me. And what was I supposed to do about Akela and the Shadow and Light realm? If my ancestors really were from there then that meant that I had some kind of tie to that realm. That would make it almost an obligation for me to help Akela.
"Like having enemies here isn't bad enough." I grumbled as I slid off the medical bed.
Akela told me that Ryzard would come after earth when he had conquered their realm. I couldn't let him and his little warriors conquer the earth realm. That meant my best bet was to stop him from ever conquering their realm in the first place.
"What a mess I have gotten myself into this time."
"Derkor was ruthless as well as lazy. He never wanted to actually do any of the harder and dirtier work himself so he gave to his trusted follower, Garmon, a pinch of his own power. And so Derkor sat back and gave orders to his Shadow Sorcerer who followed his orders and then some. Derkor allowed Garmon the freedom to do whatever he wished as long as the Sorcerer did what the great god wanted. And so most of the realm fell under Derkor's control.
"This greatly displeased the jealous Ramnur who in a fit of rage created light from shadow. And so the Shadow Realm became the Shadow and Light Realm with Derkor the God of Shadow and Ramnur the God of Light. Ramnur followed Derkor's example and gave power to one of his faithful followers, Brakus. The two gods used their Sorcerers to fight one another for billions and billions of years, each Sorcerers' power transferring his powers to his first born son. There were a few Sorceresses, but most were male.
"Then 650 years ago the gods of the four realms were set into a deep sleep that they may not wake up from. Without the gods to control them the two Sorcerers at the time, Narkon and Sorvu, empowered three warriors each to do their bidding and fought amongst themselves for control of the realm. This went on for hundreds of years until one day the Light Warriors and Shadow Warriors fought the worst and bloodiest battle until then and the Light Warriors were killed. Unfortunately, the Light Warriors' children were all still babies and could not take up the fight nor protect themselves. So Valla, the Light Sorceress at the time, had no choice but to send the babies through the gate to the earth realm, your realm Kurt."
As Akela says my name it snaps me out of the trance I had fallen into while listening to her. She has such a beautiful voice and one can't help but listen to her when she speaks. I even ate the whole sweetcake without realizing it. However, she doesn't give me a chance to say anything before she continues on.
"This was a calculated risk for Valla as she knew that without her warriors to defend her she would be an easy target for Kokur and his Shadow Warriors. She also knew Kokur would send his Shadow Warriors to try and kill the babies and she was right. He sent his warriors with the hopes that they could kill the babies and get back before the gate was sealed. Unfortunately for them Valla sabotaged their return and they too were stuck in the earth realm until the gate opened in 230 years.
Because of this the Light Warriors never became aware of their powers and neither did any that came after them. The same could not be said for the Shadow Warriors, who were adults when they arrived in the earth realm. They passed down the knowledge from generation to generation.
With their warriors gone until the gate reopened the war between the two sides was halted. It became clear to both sides that a considerable amount of power had been given to the warriors and without them the fight simply could not go on. And so for 230 years life in this realm progressed much as life in your realm did. Then ten years ago the gate reopened and the three Shadow warriors returned. The Shadow Sorcerer Ryzard then began the war for the realm only I had no warriors to fight back with. The Light Warriors were still children and could not be summoned here.
You are one of those children Kurt. I reached out to you in your dreams as soon as you were old enough. I pulled your consciousness here. So to answer your question, this is not really a dream. If you are killed here you will die in the other realm as well," She pauses for a moment to catch her breath. "I had to make you aware of your powers as well as where the portal is before you could even think of coming here for real. Plus, it would be easier for you to find the other two Light Warriors and bring them with you through the gate."
At this I can't stay silent anymore. "What do you mean come here? I have responsibilities in my own realm."
"Kurt, like it or not this is your realm as well. I cannot force you to fight. I can only ask." Akela replies sadly.
"I can't do this Akela! I have enough trouble in the earth realm without-- ."
"Foolish boy," The Sorceress hisses at me. "You really think Ryzard will be happy with one realm!? Once he has conquered this realm he will turn his sights on others and the Earth Realm will be his first target. The first thing he will do is kill you AND the other two, who will be completely defenseless as they have NO idea what's going on without YOU!"
"Then why don't YOU reach out to one of THEM! I have my own battles to fight. You have no idea what it's like there for me! I'm a mutant, I mean, look at me!" I yell angrily. "I'm a freak among freaks Akela! You have no idea what I have to go through!"
"I have no idea?! I'm a sorceress! I'm born with natural abilities! You can't even imagine what it was like for me as a kid as my magical ability manifested itself! No kid wanted to be friends with me!"
Her eyes flare angrily. I swear for a moment she thinks about using her magic on me, but manages to calm herself down. She gives me a fierce look, but I can see there's disappointment and fear deep down inside.
"I see I have wasted my one chance on the wrong warrior. It is obvious to me I should have made a connection to one of the others,"
"Why don't you then?"
"Because I only had the strength enough to bring one here and I reached out to the strongest of you," She explains. "I see now I made a terrible mistake."
"I'm sorry..."
I trail off as I feel a strange pulling sensation behind my eyes. The pulling slowly becomes stronger and the world around me starts to blur. I have time to look one last time into her eyes and find tears welling up in them. And then everything fades away...
I slowly opened my eyes and grimaced as I found a bright light above my head. I tried to raise my hand to cover my face, but found my arms strapped down. Suddenly very fearful I snapped my eyes open despite the bright light and struggled against my bonds.
"Calm down Kurt." A familiar voice said calmly.
I shifted my eyes to the voice and sighed in relief to realize I was just in the infirmary and Mr. McCoy was taking care of me. That was a lot better than what I thought might have happened considering the last thing I remembered was trying to fight the Brotherhood with no success at all. The last thing I remembered was the tree falling on my legs and breaking them both.
"What happened? How did I get here?" I asked.
"Rahne and Jamie found you dumped outside with both your legs broken." Hank explained. "Do you remember how it happened?"
"The Brotherhood ambushed me. Avalanche caused a tree to fall on me and I passed out from the pain." I told him.
I decided I wasn't going to tell him about the dream I had. It wasn't really a dream and that made me all the more determined not to tell anyone about it. They would probably think I was losing my mind. I wasn't so sure that I wasn't losing my mind to begin with. I couldn't decide if it had been a dream or what.
"That's odd..." Dr. McCoy said. "You legs have healed. I haven't even got a chance to put them in a cast yet..."
"What? How long have I been asleep?"
"Only three hours."
I blinked at him a few times. "How could they be healed by now?"
"I have no clue. Unless you've somehow developed another ability I don't have any explanation for this."
At that he left the room, probably to go discuss the newest twist with Professor Xavier. That left me alone to think about the dream. Did the dream have something to do with my healing all of a sudden? Maybe the sweetcake or that juice healed me. And what was I supposed to do about Akela and the Shadow and Light realm? If my ancestors really were from there then that meant that I had some kind of tie to that realm. That would make it almost an obligation for me to help Akela.
"Like having enemies here isn't bad enough." I grumbled as I slid off the medical bed.
Akela told me that Ryzard would come after earth when he had conquered their realm. I couldn't let him and his little warriors conquer the earth realm. That meant my best bet was to stop him from ever conquering their realm in the first place.
"What a mess I have gotten myself into this time."