Panic without construction

The king seemed to be having a free day at the moment, no-one had come yet saying about a problem that he needed to solve, but it was still only morning and there was the rest of the day left for someone to come and ruin this free morning.

This was going to be a free morning until Orko and Man-at-Arms came into the throne room. "Hello Duncan, Orko. Orko how is you head?" Randor said this with a smile towards the pair.

"Good morning you Majesty. We need to ask you if you will allow for something to be built, ummm..." Duncan wasn't quite sure where this would be built.

"In the Sands of Time" Orko finished the sentence for him.

"I don't know what is it?" asked Randor

"We don't know you highness, we just know that it has to be built." as Duncan said this there was a sign of urgency on his face.

"Actually I think I do," interrupted Orko, Duncan looked quite surprised at this, a minute ago Orko hadn't even a clue of what it is, let all own what it did, "it's a Stargate. I think it can open up a worn hole to travel through." offered Orko.

"Why didn't you tell me when I asked you?" argued Man-a-Arms

"I didn't know, honestly I didn't know. It's sort of like things are coming to my head gradually and slowly, actually quite quickly I think." Orko was speaking the truth it was whether they would believe him.

"Why didn't you know yourself Duncan? I assume you designed it?" Randor was a bit surprised by the fact that Duncan didn't know. Orko folded his arms and didn't look to impressed because basically Randor was saying that Orko wasn't too bright.

"Believe it or not your highness, Orko designed it." At Duncan's words Orko revealed the design that was still in his hand to Randor. Randor had a look as Duncan had done only five minutes ago. He was even more surprised when he saw this as he was still trying to take in the fact that Orko ad designed this and not Duncan.

"I'm not sure, why do you need to build this…ummmm…stargate?" this time Randor addressed Orko and not Duncan.

"Because well…if we don't then I will…sort of," Orko still didn't feel comfortable saying this, "then I will die you majesty."

If either of the King or Queen had been Trollans then Orko was sure from the expression on their face, that their ears would have perked one way or another.

"Orko, did you say you would die?" asked Randor, still not believing his ears.

"Yes your majesty." replied Orko looking down at the ground.

"Why?" asked Maralena at last.

"Well when I…" Orko stopped in mid-sentence.

"Orko?" Duncan waved a hand in front of Orkos face, nothing happened.

Then Orko shook himself and started his sentence again. "When I looked into the thing yesterday it downloaded information in my ohnohndsi." Orko said casually.

"Your ohnohndsi?" enquired Man-at-Arms.

"Yes my ohnohndsi." replied Orko. There was no reaction from anyone in the room. Orko got a little frustrated and started pointing to his head. "Ohnohndsi."

"Oh right your…head, but why say ohnohndsi and not head?" asked Duncan

"But I did say…" Orko stopped suddenly realizing that he was in fact saying something other than what he wanted to say. "It must be kicking in already! We must start now!" Orko blurted out he was starting to panic.

"Alright Orko, we will allow you to build this…stargate." said Randor realizing what panic and fright Orko was in.

"Thank you your majesty," Orko said bowing, he continued turning to Duncan "We must start straight away!"

"But Orko we need to collect the materials specified on here." Duncan said before Orko could fly off.

"No problem. I know you won't believe me but because of the do hickey downloaded the info into my, ummmm, h…he…ha, ohnohndsi, my magic has improved a lot, and so my magic works better with this world. A.k.a I can make what ever you desire appear." Orko said more agitated than ever, he really wanted to get started.

Duncan wasn't quite sure if he should let Orko do what he proposed, but part of him said that maybe Orko could do this because he had already showed that he could do many things that he was not able to do before yesterday. "Ok Orko." Before Duncan could say any more could cast a spell that transported both him and Orko to the Sands of Time.

When they got there, they were in one piece, which was quite a good thing as Orko would have probably turned them inside out or something trying to teleport them somewhere. This thing that he looked into must have really, actually done something to Orko to enable him to do more than he normally was capable of. "Well then Orko, I guess your magic does work better than before," said Man-at-Arms, still checking that none of him had been left behind, "now then where do we start?"

"Here." Orko was pointing to the little stand with the exact same symbols on it as the big ring. Man-at-Arms looked at looked at the design, Orko had been quite precise and Duncan doubted that he could have come up with this. Beside the drawing were some brief instructions.

"Ok, so now all we need is the materials." As Duncan said this Orko made everything needed appear right in front of them both.

They started building this bit of the stargate. Duncan occasionally needed to ask Orko on what to do on certain bits. During the time they were making this Duncan would ask Orko a question or two about this, where it would lead to, how it worked, how downloading information into his brain could kill him and many more questions along those lines.

Sometimes Orko knew the answers and sometimes he didn't. One thing that Man-at-Arms soon found out was that they had only a maximum of four weeks to build this. For the first two days Orko hadn't slept or eaten anything. Man-at-Arms decided that Orko had to go back to the palace to rest for a little while. Orko knew that basically what Duncan meant by 'a little while' was at least a day. Orko was a bit reluctant at first but then realized that Duncan was right in the fact that by not sleeping or eating Orko could be killing himself anyway if he kept on like this. Orko eventually went back to the palace while Duncan carried on with the work as best he could.

When Orko got back to the palace the first thing he did was to go to bed. He slept for half and then a whole night. The next thing he did was to find something to eat, and now that he actually thought about it he was absolutely starving.

Back at the Sands of Time Duncan was getting on quite well. He had informed the King not to let Orko come back until the next day as he needed all the rest he could get.

Back at the palace Orko was about to leave to go back to the stargate when someone came running up to him. "Hey, Orko, wait a minute," it was Adam, "how are you?"

"I'm ok thank you." replied Orko, "How about you?"

"I'm ok," Adam said, still a bit out of breath, he had been trying to find Orko all over the place, "Orko you're not allowed to go down to the stargate today, Man-at-Arms said that you needed a lot of rest so you can go back tomorrow, ok?"

"Oh….wagianeyrey….but…" Adam gave him a questioning look before Orko could finish his sentence, which told Orko that there was no point in arguing about it. "Wagianeyrey." Adam shot Orko another questioning look and Orko realized that he had said something different again, so Orko said it again but while giving the thumbs up sign. Adam got the message, he was basically ok.

Adam went off to do what ever he was meant to be doing and left Orko thinking of he should do. He decided to go to the royal garden, which was kind of like his area. He had tended to every plant there, before the Evilseed incident happened Orko had just about destroyed the garden. He had gone to find Moss Man but found Evilseed instead. After that Moss Man had shown Orko how to tend to a garden without magic. When Orko looked at it he felt like he had achieved something, even though it was just a small thing, it was something that he had achieved and for once in his life on Eternia had something to be proud of. Right now he set about watering, weeding and everything else you do in a garden, there wasn't much to do anyway.

Orko would eventually not be able to speak their language and then afterwards would not be able to even write the words. He was already having trouble finding the right words to say, let alone in the right order.

Within two more weeks they had nearly finished the stargate, within those two weeks Orko could no longer communicate with anyone else, he could understand them fine, but it was that they could not understand him. He had to resort to hand movements and actions.