Chapter XV: Change
PRINCESS ADORA'S DIARY
12th DAY IN THE TWLEFTH YEAR SINCE THE ESTABLISHEMNT OF ETHERTERNIA
I knew what I had to do; I had to convince Kaylia and Jason to go to Etherternia to fight Horde Prime. They had no knowledge of war, but neither did Adam when he first became He-Man, Oh Adam, I miss you so much you were my friend and I let my hatred for Hordak blind me from helping you, oh Adam.
Later that day while Kaylia and I were grooming the horses, I asked the question. "Kaylia, would you do a big favor for me?" I asked her nervously. What would she say to my question, would do it for me or would she refuse.
"Sure Adora, I'd do anything for you, you know that," she said as she stopped brushing her favorite horse and turn to face me.
"I need you and Jason to leave Equillia and go to my homeworld of Etherternia, once there you will go to royal palace and tell King Bow that Adora sent you, he will know to what to do then," I told her.
I could tell that she was taking this all in; it was hard decision for her but she Etherternia's only hope.
"I'll think about it, Adora," she said as we walked out of the stables to take a break.
KAYLIA'S DIARY
23rd DAY IN THE NINTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF KING SIRIS
I have always said that one day that I would leave Equillia and see what the universe has to offer but now I have been giving that chance, but I am not show if I want to or not.
Adora has asked me and Jason to go her homeworld of Etherternia to see its ruler, a man named Bow. This mission seemed important to her and I did say that I would do anything for her, but to leave my home was something I am not sure about.
I decided to talk it over with Jason; we talked about it for hours, until we decided at last to agree to go.
"So we're decided, we'll agree to go?" Jason asked me as we got up to tell Adora our decision.
"Yes, we'll go to Etherternia, Equillia doesn't have anything for us now since Grandpa died two years ago," I told him as I opened the door and left the house to find Adora.
We found her lying under her favorite fruit tree taking a nap.
"Adora?" I said as I gently tapped her shoulder to wake her.
She tossed around a bit and opened her eyes, "wha…Kaylia, what's wrong?" she asked as she stretched and rubbed the sleep dust out of her eyes.
"Adora, me and Jason talked it over and we agreed to go to Etherternia for you" I told her.
"Oh thank you Kaylia!" she said as she jumped up and hugged me and Jason tightly, "You'll need this, it's my diary it tells everything you need to know," she said as she handed me a medium sized pink book sealed with a golden lock. "Here is the key to it," she continued as she removed a gold chain with a key attached it from her neck.
"Thank you Adora," I said as she placed the key in my hands, "do you think you could watch the farm for me Adora while we're gone" I asked her as I smiled her.
"Sure thing Kaylia, I'll make sure that Peppermint will be well taken care of," she said, I was glad to hear that Peppermint, my favorite horse was in the very best of hands.
"We better get going Adora," I said as we hugged goodbye and me and Jason left for our ship, The Galactic Jewel, to begin our journey.
The ship was a large gold and red ship, it had belonged to my father, my grandfather once told me and was used on his first off-world trip. The ship had a mess hall, two personal quarters, a cockpit and any other amenity a person could need for an extended space trip.
"Well Jason, are you ready to leave Equillia?" I asked him, while he might not be nervous I sure was, what would Etherternia be like, would this Bow believe that we were really sent by Adora or would he think we were crazy and have us locked up.
"I'm as ready as I'll ever be," he said as we walked up the ramp and made our way to the cockpit.
Once there we fastened our safety harnesses and started the ship, "prepare to take off in five…four…three…two…one…NOW!" I yelled as the craft roared to life and we left Equillia.
PRINCESS ADORA'S DIARY
12th DAY IN THE TWELFTH YEAR SINCE THE ESTABLISHEMNT OF ETHERTERNIA
I watched as Kaylia and Jason took off to the stars, "Light Hope, please watch over them," I prayed silently as I waved at the ship.
A tear rolled down my cheek since I knew I would not see them again, I felt bad, I had led my friends to their deaths, I wish Iwouldn't have been so stubborn about not going, but it was too late now, all that was left to do was to hope they would be all right.
LORD BRAKK'S JOURNAL
154 YEARS AFTER THE START OF THE PRIMIAN DENEBRIAN WAR
After years of traversing the cosmos, I have arrived on Etherternia to begin my mission.
I crashed a good distance from the palace, meaning my arrival hopefully went undetected.
From what I could see from the cockpit, the planet was in shambles, it reminded of what I did to the towns on the eastern half of Primus all those years ago. "This will be a piece of cake," I said as unfasten the harness and made me way to the hatch.
After I exited the craft, I began to make my way to the palace, and get the Sword of Power for Horde Prime, or maybe I will use the sword's power to become all powerful and rule Etherternia and leave Horde Prime stranded fifty universes away, that would teach to make me a planetary commander and sending my to a backwater world.
When I reached the palace, I used the remote console on my wrist gauntlet to disable the locks and enter the building.
I carefully made my way to the royal vault, something that was where the sword was kept. I thought I would encounter resistance but the state of anarchy the planet is in means the troops normally guarding the palace are busy keeping the planet safe.
When I arrived at the vault, I disable the lock and entered it, the sword was kept safe in a glass case, I knew that it too dangerous to attempt to steal it now, so I decided to wait in a small storage room in the vault and wait for the right moment.
KAYLIA'S DIARY
23rd DAY IN THE NINTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF KING SIRIS
We flew in space for five years.
During the trip I read from Adora's diary as to learn as much I could about this Etherternia and what to expect when we got there. I never knew that her life was filled with such sadness, there times when I read it that I burst into tears, even now as I am writing the entry tears roll down my face.
Today as I was sitting in my seat looking at the stars, I noticed that the control console was blinking, I looked out the windshield and saw a medium sized planet dead ahead, we had reached Etherternia!
I rushed from the cockpit to go tell Jason, who was sleeping in his cabin to tell him the news, "Jason, wake up, we've reached Etherternia!" I told him as I gently shook him to get him up.
"Really, we're here?" he asked groggily as he got up stretched and rubbed the sleep dust out his eyes.
"Yes, we…," I began to say before the entire ship shook sending us flying to the ground.
"What the heck happened?" Jason asked me as we got up and headed towards the cockpit.
I looked out the windshield, from what I could tell we had crashed on the planet, "we're here," I told Jason jokingly as we carefully headed towards the hatch to explore the planet.
The planet looked like a tornado had hit it, nothing like Adora described it in her journal, whatever happened here must have been bad, like what Grandpa told us about the Equestrian War when he used to tell us tales of the distant past.
The Equestrian War occurred over 15, 000 years ago, an evil tyrant called Hippogryph had gained the throne of Equillia and plunged the planet into chaos, his rule went unchallenged for years until a wise sage named Equis declared war on Hippogryph in an attempt to dethrone him.
The war lasted for decades until Equis was able to dethrone him and send him away.
Once we left the ship we began to walk to the palace using a map we found in Adora's diary.
While we were walking, I saw the horror of war, it was the first time I saw such carnage. The last Equillia was attacked was as I mentioned was thousands of years ago and in my lifetime we had nothing but peace, so this was a pretty shocking sight to me.
Finally, after a few hours of walking, we reached the city of Eternos and the Royal palace, "Well, here's go nothing," I said as I approached the door and knocked.