A Mysterious New World
Episode 8: Discussions of Worlds
By Chessrook44
Chesrook: Back! Did that take long?
Lister: Yes.
Chesrook: That's because I just started putting these on another website
(www.fanfiction.net) and I needed to let them catch up. (Ruka, Michael,
Don't worry. It's a site that is nothing BUT fanfics!)
Lister: Oh, sorry. I didn't know.
Chesrook: Shall I get on with the fanfic?
Lister/Sakura: Sure.
Chesrook: O-kay! On with the fanfic!
Sakura and the others followed Sokkru back inside. They walked down a long spiral staircase until they reached the bottom. All that was there were four stone walls and a torch on one of the walls. "Sokkru, there's nothing here!" Sakura said.
Sokkru simply smiled and put her hand to a wall. Sakura and the others gasped. Her hand moved right through! Sokkru turned back to them. "It's a spell I put on the doorway to discourage thieves. My Lab is through here." And with that, she disappeared into the wall.
Everyone else just stood there. "Well, come on!" they heard Sokkru's voice say. Sakura took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and walked through. When she opened her eyes, Sokkru was standing in front of her. Sakura turned around and saw the doorway she had come through. A moment later, Madison emerged from the wall.
Sakura turned away and looked at the room. It was a very large stone block-walled room. Besides the door they had all entered through, there was a door on the left wall and a door on the far wall. A cauldron was standing in the middle, steam slowly escaping, hinting at some mysterious potion inside. Wooden tables were all around, each with a different assortment of objects on them. This one held vials of potions and other strange chemicals. That one held a variety of strange devices. Sakura noticed a strange creature chained to the wall in one corner of the lab. It seemed to be sleeping. Sakura walked over to it. It had a large lizard- like head and two long legs ending in large 3-toed feet. Sakura reached out her hand to see what it would feel like. Almost instantly, the creature's eyes flew open, revealing two large slit-pupil eyes. Sakura let out a scream and jumped back as the beast jumped at her, straining at its chain, snarling and snapping its teeth. "Whoa, stop, Marlon! Hold!" Sokkru shouted. Sakura watched as Sokkru walked forward, a piece of meat in her hand, and tossed the meat to the creature. At once, the creature started tearing at the flesh, eating it ravenously. Sokkru wiped a bit of sweat from her forehead with her sleeve and turned to Sakura. "Don't. Touch. Anything," she said firmly, then walked away. Sakura took another glance at the creature, and then looked at Sokkru. "What was that thing?" Sakura asked. "A frogzard," Sokkru replied. "A creature I've been trying to create. I made this one myself," {OOC NOTE: This is not true. Credit to creating the frogzard goes to Artix Krieger, creator of a very good online game.}
Sokkru turned stopped by the cauldron and turned around to face them. "Would you like to have something to eat?" she asked. "It's almost 6:00!"
The others nodded and Sokkru led them through the far door into a smaller room. There were 4 doors in this room, one on each wall. In the middle was a large rectangle table with 6 chairs at it. It was set for 6 people. Sokkru sat at the head of the table, with Li, Meilin, Sakura, Madison, and Kero taking up the rest of the seats clockwise around the table. Sokkru clapped her hands twice. One of the doors opened and in came.
Sakura screamed. Loudly. The platters of salad were floating in the air, seemingly being carried. "A g- a gh- a gh-" Sakura stuttered.
Sokkru spoke up. "No, Sakura, they aren't ghosts." Sakura whimpered. "They're invisible servant spells. Don't you know about it?" Sakura remembered the spell. It created a servant for you, however one you couldn't see.
Sokkru leaned over too Sakura. "Don't worry," Sokkru whispered. "I still get the chills every time they come in."
"Th-then why do you use them?" Sakura asked.
Sokkru shrugged. "Well, I don't have to pay or feed them!"
The salads were set down and shortly after the door closed. Everyone began to eat. "Too bad there aren't any hamburgers," Kero muttered.
"Hamburgers?" Sokkru said, confused.
"Oh, um, it's nothing. Don't worry."
"Oh, no, please tell me! Is it something from your world? What is it?" Sokkru leaned forward expectantly, wanting to know what it was.
"Well, um,"
"Oh, please! I am so eager to hear everything I can about your world!" Sokkru was smiling with overwhelming joy.
"OK, fine," Kero said. Then he described a hamburger to Sokkru. When Kero got to the part about burgers being made from "ground up and mashed cow meat," her smile faded and she developed a slightly greenish tinge.
"That's very, um, interesting." Sokkru said when Kero finished. She then decided to change the subject. "Tell me, how much magic is there in your world?"
"Actually, as far as we know, Sakura, Li, and Kero are the only ones who can do magic there. Nobody really knows that magic exists!" Madison said.
"But how do you live without magic?"
"We have technology. While this world is mainly magic and potions, our world is mainly science and technology."
"Amazing! You must need a lot of things to perform what we can do!"
"Actually, some of the things that you can do, we can not do. We can't change our size, create magical barriers, bring objects to life."
"What? That's crazy! Any wizard or sorcerer I know can do at least one of those things!"
"I'm afraid it is true. Of course, none of this comes without a price."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, we have seriously polluted our world! The way I see it, if things continue the way they are, we may just destroy our world! People have even made a saying: Mankind will be his own destruction."
"Your gods must be very angry. Why haven't they stopped this?"
"We don't even know if there are any gods. Half of the people in the world say there is one, and the other half say there isn't!"
"That's crazy!"
"It's true! Honest!"
"Not even the elves in your world believe in a god?"
"Actually, Sokkru, humans are the only truly intelligent live that we know of on our planet. There are no elves."
"WHAT?!?! You can't be serious! There must be-"
"Sokkru, please understand, many of the beings here do not exist in our world. There are no elves, no goblins, no orcs, no dragons."
"No dragons? How can that be?"
"Actually, dragons are the most famous mythical creature in our world."
"Mythical?"
"Yes. Dragons aren't real in our world, yet nearly everyone in our world knows of them. And everyone has their own views of what they look like."
"Amazing. A world without dragons or goblins or. but how can you not have elves?"
"Sokkru, listen! There are virtually no magic or magical creatures in our world."
"Well, don't you even have giants?"
"Sokkru, the largest creatures we know of live in the sea. The largest land animal is only about twice as tall as a man!"
"But what of these sea creatures?"
"We know less of them than we do the sea itself. Our world has very many creatures. We discover a new species almost every day, and most of the time it's in the sea. Our world has more creatures than this one!"
"Amazing! What are your smallest creatures?"
"They would be bacteria and viruses and other simple creatures."
"Simple?"
"Yes. They are so small they don't even have much of a brain!"
"Incredible!"
Chesrook: OK, done. So what did you think? Lister: Well, it was very talkative. Sakura: Yes. And now Sokkru knows a little more about our world. Chesrook: Indeed. And what did you, the reader, think about it? Lister: Uh, Chesrook, we can't see them. Chesrook: So? We can hear them. All they have to do is send an e-mail to me and tell me what they think. Let me know! Please! (To those of you at Fanfiction.net, just write a review.) Sakura: Chesrook, you sound desperate! Chesrook: Oh, sorry. Anyway, the next episode will be very important so be sure to read it! Seeya!
Sakura and the others followed Sokkru back inside. They walked down a long spiral staircase until they reached the bottom. All that was there were four stone walls and a torch on one of the walls. "Sokkru, there's nothing here!" Sakura said.
Sokkru simply smiled and put her hand to a wall. Sakura and the others gasped. Her hand moved right through! Sokkru turned back to them. "It's a spell I put on the doorway to discourage thieves. My Lab is through here." And with that, she disappeared into the wall.
Everyone else just stood there. "Well, come on!" they heard Sokkru's voice say. Sakura took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and walked through. When she opened her eyes, Sokkru was standing in front of her. Sakura turned around and saw the doorway she had come through. A moment later, Madison emerged from the wall.
Sakura turned away and looked at the room. It was a very large stone block-walled room. Besides the door they had all entered through, there was a door on the left wall and a door on the far wall. A cauldron was standing in the middle, steam slowly escaping, hinting at some mysterious potion inside. Wooden tables were all around, each with a different assortment of objects on them. This one held vials of potions and other strange chemicals. That one held a variety of strange devices. Sakura noticed a strange creature chained to the wall in one corner of the lab. It seemed to be sleeping. Sakura walked over to it. It had a large lizard- like head and two long legs ending in large 3-toed feet. Sakura reached out her hand to see what it would feel like. Almost instantly, the creature's eyes flew open, revealing two large slit-pupil eyes. Sakura let out a scream and jumped back as the beast jumped at her, straining at its chain, snarling and snapping its teeth. "Whoa, stop, Marlon! Hold!" Sokkru shouted. Sakura watched as Sokkru walked forward, a piece of meat in her hand, and tossed the meat to the creature. At once, the creature started tearing at the flesh, eating it ravenously. Sokkru wiped a bit of sweat from her forehead with her sleeve and turned to Sakura. "Don't. Touch. Anything," she said firmly, then walked away. Sakura took another glance at the creature, and then looked at Sokkru. "What was that thing?" Sakura asked. "A frogzard," Sokkru replied. "A creature I've been trying to create. I made this one myself," {OOC NOTE: This is not true. Credit to creating the frogzard goes to Artix Krieger, creator of a very good online game.}
Sokkru turned stopped by the cauldron and turned around to face them. "Would you like to have something to eat?" she asked. "It's almost 6:00!"
The others nodded and Sokkru led them through the far door into a smaller room. There were 4 doors in this room, one on each wall. In the middle was a large rectangle table with 6 chairs at it. It was set for 6 people. Sokkru sat at the head of the table, with Li, Meilin, Sakura, Madison, and Kero taking up the rest of the seats clockwise around the table. Sokkru clapped her hands twice. One of the doors opened and in came.
Sakura screamed. Loudly. The platters of salad were floating in the air, seemingly being carried. "A g- a gh- a gh-" Sakura stuttered.
Sokkru spoke up. "No, Sakura, they aren't ghosts." Sakura whimpered. "They're invisible servant spells. Don't you know about it?" Sakura remembered the spell. It created a servant for you, however one you couldn't see.
Sokkru leaned over too Sakura. "Don't worry," Sokkru whispered. "I still get the chills every time they come in."
"Th-then why do you use them?" Sakura asked.
Sokkru shrugged. "Well, I don't have to pay or feed them!"
The salads were set down and shortly after the door closed. Everyone began to eat. "Too bad there aren't any hamburgers," Kero muttered.
"Hamburgers?" Sokkru said, confused.
"Oh, um, it's nothing. Don't worry."
"Oh, no, please tell me! Is it something from your world? What is it?" Sokkru leaned forward expectantly, wanting to know what it was.
"Well, um,"
"Oh, please! I am so eager to hear everything I can about your world!" Sokkru was smiling with overwhelming joy.
"OK, fine," Kero said. Then he described a hamburger to Sokkru. When Kero got to the part about burgers being made from "ground up and mashed cow meat," her smile faded and she developed a slightly greenish tinge.
"That's very, um, interesting." Sokkru said when Kero finished. She then decided to change the subject. "Tell me, how much magic is there in your world?"
"Actually, as far as we know, Sakura, Li, and Kero are the only ones who can do magic there. Nobody really knows that magic exists!" Madison said.
"But how do you live without magic?"
"We have technology. While this world is mainly magic and potions, our world is mainly science and technology."
"Amazing! You must need a lot of things to perform what we can do!"
"Actually, some of the things that you can do, we can not do. We can't change our size, create magical barriers, bring objects to life."
"What? That's crazy! Any wizard or sorcerer I know can do at least one of those things!"
"I'm afraid it is true. Of course, none of this comes without a price."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, we have seriously polluted our world! The way I see it, if things continue the way they are, we may just destroy our world! People have even made a saying: Mankind will be his own destruction."
"Your gods must be very angry. Why haven't they stopped this?"
"We don't even know if there are any gods. Half of the people in the world say there is one, and the other half say there isn't!"
"That's crazy!"
"It's true! Honest!"
"Not even the elves in your world believe in a god?"
"Actually, Sokkru, humans are the only truly intelligent live that we know of on our planet. There are no elves."
"WHAT?!?! You can't be serious! There must be-"
"Sokkru, please understand, many of the beings here do not exist in our world. There are no elves, no goblins, no orcs, no dragons."
"No dragons? How can that be?"
"Actually, dragons are the most famous mythical creature in our world."
"Mythical?"
"Yes. Dragons aren't real in our world, yet nearly everyone in our world knows of them. And everyone has their own views of what they look like."
"Amazing. A world without dragons or goblins or. but how can you not have elves?"
"Sokkru, listen! There are virtually no magic or magical creatures in our world."
"Well, don't you even have giants?"
"Sokkru, the largest creatures we know of live in the sea. The largest land animal is only about twice as tall as a man!"
"But what of these sea creatures?"
"We know less of them than we do the sea itself. Our world has very many creatures. We discover a new species almost every day, and most of the time it's in the sea. Our world has more creatures than this one!"
"Amazing! What are your smallest creatures?"
"They would be bacteria and viruses and other simple creatures."
"Simple?"
"Yes. They are so small they don't even have much of a brain!"
"Incredible!"
Chesrook: OK, done. So what did you think? Lister: Well, it was very talkative. Sakura: Yes. And now Sokkru knows a little more about our world. Chesrook: Indeed. And what did you, the reader, think about it? Lister: Uh, Chesrook, we can't see them. Chesrook: So? We can hear them. All they have to do is send an e-mail to me and tell me what they think. Let me know! Please! (To those of you at Fanfiction.net, just write a review.) Sakura: Chesrook, you sound desperate! Chesrook: Oh, sorry. Anyway, the next episode will be very important so be sure to read it! Seeya!