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Chapter 2 – Spirit Training
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Theodsian and Marcus spent the rest of the day quarreling about random things; this came to an abrupt end when Marcus had to go nurse his wounds because his chair mysteriously caught fire.
While Marcus was off taking care of his burnt bottom, Theodsian decided he needed to collect more mana and of different "colors". He had a feeling he also needed to learn to use his new found power, because whether he wanted to admit it or not if he couldn't planeswalk he was only an above average swordsman. So when Marcus was finally done dunking his bottom in the cow trough he asked him if he would like to travel Vega. Marcus agreed and the next day they set off.
"So you're telling me he taught you to use magic?"
"Not really taught more like showed, but yes he did."
" So now we are traveling Vega so you can tap into all the mana sources?"
"Yes, I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner."
Marcus struck him over the head hard "That's for setting my chair on fire!"
They spent the next few weeks journeying across Vega. It was a small planet and over time had been reduced to two major social groups, the Europeans and the Orientals, while they had their differences they related to each other more as Vegans than as different nationalities. Vega was the first and is one of the only planets to achieve global peace, and even more odd than that is that it is the only planet to have achieved global peace and still have two countries on it.
Most Vegans contributed this fact to the great Alexandrian wars, which are widely regarded as the wrong thing to do for the right reasons. The great European leader Alexander raised an army beyond the dreams of any Vegan and marched on countries one at a time proclaiming "submit or refuse, should you refuse your country will be burnt to the ground, women and children enslaved and men whipped out, salt will be laid on the ground that your country may never prosper again, and this land will become a place of blight. Furthermore as a warning to others your leaders entrails will be strung all about the wasteland and their heads carried as trophies into our future battles. Now what say you?" Coincidently only one country actually fought this army, Azamite.
The Azamites believe that if you died fighting the infidel (AKA everyone else) that you went straight to heaven surrounded by virgins. Thus the Azamites fought to the very last one, blinded to reason by their own fanatical faith. Now it is curious to that due to a misunderstanding of what Bill, their great prophet meant it was not virgins you received in heaven but raisin. Bill was very fond of raisins and so everyone in Azamite died for a load of dried grapes.
The other major contributing factor to world peace was the general Vegan attitude. Vegan's view things as "what is going to happen is going to happen no sense getting worked up over it all just do what you can and accept things for the way they are." The Vegans are quite content just to be left alone. This is not to say that they don't enjoy company because they do, but they don't let things bother them, as long as their neighbor isn't hurting them in some way they do not concern themselves with what, who, why their neighbor does anything. This isn't to say they aren't neighborly either; they are very neighborly in fact. Actually to such a great extent that borrowing anything or making any contact with your neighbor in Vega will probably get you invited to dinner, as to how good the dinner is though varies from neighbor to neighbor. The Vegan attitude is very easy to understand as it is simply this "Relax, no matter how important the issue may seem there is no sense in getting all worked up over it, as you think even less clearly when angered." It is because of these reasons that; that Vega is a t peace, and that Vegans are generally nice people that Theodsian and Marcus where able to travel the whole of Vega in 3 months. They zigg zagged all over Vega and visited all the major towns and villages as unknown to humans they like to live near mana sources as they provide life. Most of Vega was dominated by "White" or life bearing mana, and since Marcus generally lead the way they went from town with the best women, to town with the best whisky, to town with best fighters… etc. Until at last Theo was forced to speak up.
"There is only one mana source left that I need."
"Alright! Lets go, more fun so far this has been smashing!"
"Yeah…"
"What…Theo…where is the next mana source?"
"The Swamp"
"I Knew you'd say that, ruddy place, we should burn it after you've tapped the mana."
When it is said that there are only two nations left on Vega, outsiders usually assume all the land is owned by one or the other, this is mostly true, since no one lives in the swamp, but they are the neutral territory in all of Vega. It was agreed upon by both countries to leave it this way for two reasons.
Neither country wanted the swamp
It gave a place for Orientals and Englishman to fight without causing a war.
The second reason is actually more useful than one might think as it commonly settles differences, just for example.
An Englishman and an Oriental get into an argument at a bar, lets watch…
"Your mother is a hoar!" says the Englishman
"Go fuck your dog you smelly oaf!" says the Oriental
"You wanna take this to the swamps Asshole!"
"It would be my pleasure to end your uselessness"
"Go stick your head in a pig!"
The two journey across Vega together for a month to reach the swamp, and which after the first three days of silent hostility begin to speak just to pass the time. By the time they reach the swamp the Englishman realizes that the Oriental's mother wasn't a hoar, and the Oriental had realized that the Englishman just loved his dog very much. Finally arriving at the swamp they draw their weapons, realize the pointlessness of it all and become the best of friends. Not because they really like one another to terribly much, more because if one slayed the other he'd be alone in the swamp and neither really wanted that, especially since the whole argument started over a rash statement that a Hershey's candy bar was better than pockey. Along the road they had both discovered that the Hershey's Skore bar was better than both and thus chocolate saved another life or at least that that's the morale of this popular Vegan legend.
"Theodsian?"
Theodsian had just finished tapping the swamp for the only "Black" mana in all of Vega.
"Yeah I'm done let's go"
"Can we go home now?"
"Yeah I just said let's go."
"No I mean right now"
"You want me to planeswalk us?"
"Can you take two?"
"Don't know never tried"
"Well will you, I've run out of whiskey and I just don't think I could bear the trip without it."
"Ugh…okay, I don't see the harm in doing it just this once."
Away on a distant planet a mind saw a flash, it thought briefly and awakened another mind.
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Chapter 3 – Of Demons
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