Chapter 3: The Ocean that Always was (part 2)
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Kaila was shocked to the point of passing out.
She, a regular Chaotic player was standing in the presence of the M'arrillian leader, and it was a female none the less.
Kaila regained her composure to make herself look at Aa'une without any hesitation. "I've got a lot to talk about with you, Aa'une." She said to the M'arrillian leader.
"You've got that right, come along now, let's discuss this in the throne room." Aa'une told her.
"Alright, good idea." Kaila said following her.
"Milla'iin, you were the one to bring her here, so you shall come along as well." Aa'une told Milla'iin. "You too, Kriz'ula."
"Yes, your majesty." They both said complying with the order.
All four of them began to make their way to the throne room.
(At the throne room...)
They were all in the throne room.
It was a really large room, bigger than a two story building with light-blue crystals hanging on pillars keeping the ceiling up, the throne Aa'une was sitting on was made of stone, but had a soft malleable substance to soften the sitting on the throne, all while having protrusions of coral springing out from the back, and two other M'arrillians were standing by her.
The one on the left looked like a creature with a really... peculiar build, almost looking like it was two beings merged into one. It had a body of a twenty-year old woman on top of the head of a ten-foot tall crustaceous arthropod body (think Golisopod from Pokémon) with red scales covered by thicker and sturdier black scales with six crab-like legs, and six giant arms with pincers at the end. The woman on, what may as well have been, the head of the body was three feet tall, adding on to her already baffling height, had four completely yellow eyes, two where eyes regularly are and two on her forehead, a bald scalp, four arms, and two large breasts covered by thick black scales, the crotch area covered by black scales as well, and had a black pearl necklace wrapped around her neck with a black mugic in the center.
The one the right looked A LOT more simpler. She looked a lot like a pink ghost, with two regular arms, three tentacles springing out of the back of her head, and two blue eyes, and no legs, but ghostly rags stemming from below her torso instead, and two purple spikes curving downward on her back.
"Okay, calm down, you're in a room with a tribe leader, a crazy step-sister, a disciplined young lady, and two M'arrillians that are total opposites of each other, one looking fairly normal and the other looking like a piece of overdone fanart." Kaila thought to herself.
"So, little one, tell me, what exactly is your story?' Aa'une asked resting her head on her hand.
"Well, I'm not sure where exactly I ought to start, but guess I ought to start with the fact that I'm a Chaotic player from another dimension." Kaila awkwardly said.
Aa'une raised an eyebrow the word "player". "What is it that you mean by 'player', you play a game that involves traveling through other dimensions?" Aa'une asked.
"HAH, sounds like nothing but a load of crap to me, I say we put this little devil out of her misery, she's from outside the dome after all." The colossal M'arrillian roared, making Kaila squeak in fear.
"Calm yourself, Taqu'saal." Aa'une ordered. "We've only just begun talking with her, don't be so hasty." She told her.
"She's right, you know, at the first thing you believe is garbage, you always call for death." The other M'arrillian told Taqu'saal, making her grumble.
"Oh, shut it, Mra'lue." The giant M'arrillian said crossing all of her arms.
"Moving on now, if I may." Kaila said, getting their attention. "Anyway, where I come from, us young humans play a game called Chaotic, to other human's like adults and world leaders, it's just a regular card game, but to us Chaotic players who've done things similar to me, it's so much more." Kaila explained.
"What exactly do you mean?" Aa'une asked.
"Well, you see, Chaotic isn't just a card game, it's an entire alternate reality that only Chaotic players can access."
"What?" Mra'lue asked shocked by what she heard.
"You heard that right, I'm saying that Chaotic is a place where Chaotic players can communicate with and battle against other players at any time, you can even eat food there too." Kaila said.
Aa'une would've said something along the lines of her being crazy if Taqu'saal hadn't beaten her to the saying of something at all. "Your saying that being able to play a card game grants you access to an entire alternate reality?" She asked rightfully skeptical on her story.
"Yes." Kaila answered inhesitantly.
"How does that factor in with your being here?" Mra'lue asked.
"Right, all Chaotic players also have the ability to travel to another place connected to Chaotic, Perim." Kaila explained.
"So what you're saying is that you've been to this 'Perim' place before." Kriz'ula asked with air quotes.
"Yes, the place has all kinds of creatures living in it, similar to you guys, in fact, there are actually M'arrillians in the Perim I know of." Kaila continued.
"The Perim 'you know of'?" Mra'lue quoted.
"Yeah, I think I've come to an alternate variant of Perim, if that's what you guys call this place, at least." Kaila told them.
Aa'une looked into Kaila's eyes and saw nothing but truth in her words and expressions, and then sighed. "We do not call this place 'Perim', in actuality, we call this world of ours 'The Ocean that Always was', for one good reason." Aa'une somberly said, making the other M'arrillians look down.
Kaila didn't want to ask the question, but she didn't have to as Aa'une faced her and told her. "It's because no one knows why or for how long this ocean has been here, whether it be ever since this worlds creation, or during a dawn of a new age that no one wanted but needed." Aa'une said.
"You guys say that as if it were bad for you guys, don't you thrive on water?" Kaila asked.
Aa'une's face lightened up as if she was blushing, she looked to the M'arrillians on her sides and sighed. "Yes, it is true that we thrive on water, we just... um." Aa'une struggled to find the right words to say.
"Are you alright?" Kaila asked.
"Yes, it's just that our ancestors wanted to make these domes that we M'arrillians live in on the rare occurrence that we find other surviving intelligent life out there, on the ocean surface, I mean." Aa'une told her.
Kaila was confused, but realized the position she was in as her eyes widened. "Like me?" Kaila asked bluntly.
"Yep, pretty much." Taqu'saal answered bluntly.
"It's beings like you that are the sole reason for these domes in the first place." Mra'lue said before holding her hand up to her chin. "That and what M'arrillians ruffians that live outside the domes." She brought up.
"Huh?" Kaila was shocked in hearing this. "Wait, is that why it's so dangerous to venture out in the ocean during nighttime, because of ruffian M'arrillians." Kaila asked. "Never thought I'd say those words before." She thought.
"Yeah, pretty much." Taqu'saal deadpanned.
"But I, for one, wish to know what the M'arrillians are like this other world." Aa'une said.
Kaila immediately cringed at the hearing of this. "Dammit, I was hoping that question would slip your mind." She said.
"Why?" Kriz'ula asked.
"Because the M'arrillians tried to conquer the Perim that I'm from by flooding the whole continent." Kaila answered.
That got all the M'arrillians present to go sheet white with shock and fear. "We... what?" Aa'une said, her voice full of fear.
"The M'arrillians in my Perim are a race of aquatic conquerors that tried to take of Perim for themselves, and the one spearheading their operation was none other than a male version of you, Aa'une." Kaila explained.
"You're... you're just busting our chops here, right?" Taqu'saal asked.
"She's... she's right, surely you jest about such a subject." Mra'lue said, her voice shaking.
"If I was really joking, I wouldn't have said anything about the subject." Kaila said crossing her arms.
"You said that they tried to conquer Perim, how did they get stopped?" Aa'une asked desperately tried to recollect herself.
"You really want to know?" Kaila asked looking into Aa'une's eyes.
Aa'une saw that look and immediately her eyes shrunk. "No..." She whispered, loud enough for everyone to hear.
"Yep, in order to stop the M'arrillians invasion, the beings of Perim had to destroy Aa'une."
This got everyone in the room to be dead silent, no one thinking of talking. "You're shitting me..." Taqu'saal grimaced.
"I... died... as a conqueror in that world." Aa'une said with tears running down her face.
Kaila saw this and regretted making the M'arrillian leader shed tears. "I shouldn't have been to blunt about the subject, sorry." Kaila apologized.
"You make our compassionate and caring leader cry, and all you've got a stupid apology, you'll pay for your insolence in blood." Taqu'saal roared raising her right pincers.
"No." Aa'une whispered wiping off her tears. "It's quite alright... what's done is done, and had to be done." She solemnly said.
Kaila wasn't assured, but rolled with it. "Okay, then." She said putting her hands in her pockets, and immediately felt that something was wrong, she examined her pockets and pulled the inside outward, only to find... nothing.
"OH NO, THE NECKLACE IS GONE!" She screamed in panic, jumping all over the room.
The M'arrillians watching this were wondering what she was talking about until Kriz'ula bit the bullet and asked. "Um... what necklace?" The M'arrillian asked.
"The necklace, the thing that led to a chain reaction that led to me being here in the first place." Kaila explained.
"What did it look like?" Milla'iin asked.
Kaila actually forgot what it looked like, but remembered something else. "Wait, I've got a scan of it." She told them bringing out her scanner, and going through her scan collection, looking for the scan of the necklace.
"A... scan of the necklace." Mra'lue asked.
"AHA! Here it is." Kaila said as she went up to Aa'une and showed her the scan. "This is the necklace that teleported me here." She explained.
The M'arrillians examined the scan and saw the necklace. "What's it called." Milla'iin asked.
Kaila asked. "Oh, it's called the... Necklace of G'gen." Kaila said, making Aa'une shoot up from her throne.
"G'GEN!" Aa'une shouted in surprise.
"Uh, is something wrong?" Kaila asked panicked.
"G'gen is the name of my ancestor, queen G'gen the first oligarch, but she was most commonly called the queen of dreams because she dreamed of traveling to other dimensions." Aa'une told her.
"Wait, did your ancestor make this necklace to travel other dimensions?" Kaila asked, somewhat confused.
"I... I don't know, she never told anyone of her time of this necklace." Aa'une answered truthfully.
"Oh man." Kaila groaned in slight agitation.
"Wait a moment, I'm confused about one thing." Kriz'ula said, getting their attention. "What's that doohickey in your hand?"
The M'arrillians sweatdropped at the hearing of this question but Kaila went with it. "Oh right, this is my scanner, something a Chaotic player always has got to have on their person." Kaila said holding up the device.
The M'arrillians moved towards the device to get a better look at it. "What does it do?" Taqu'saal asked.
"I'm glad you asked, this bad boy is what lets me travel from place to places I've been too in the blink of an eye, and it let's me scan different kinds of creatures, battlegear, mugic, and locations." Kaila explained.
"It can scan all of that?" Aa'une asked.
"How does it work?" Mra'lue asked.
"It works by scanning the code of something its locks onto, like, Taqu'saal, was it, step forward if you would please." Kaila said pointing at the M'arrillian herself.
Taqu'saal was skeptical about this, but decided to comply. "Alright." She said walking to one side of the room. "How do I know that this won't be painful?" Taqu'saal asked cocking an eyebrow.
"Just close your eyes if it makes you feel comfortable." Kaila said as she held up her scanner and locked onto Taqu'saal.
She pressed a button on the scanner and blue rays of light projected out from the back of the scanner, scanning Taqu'saal for a bit of time and the lights faded as the scan was finished. "There, all done." Kaila stated as Taqu'saal opened her eyes.
"That's all?" She asked.
"Yep, nothing bad for you guys at all." Kaila smirked, before remembering something.
She checked her scanners timer and saw that she had 19 hours left until her scheduled match with Klay.
"Dammit." Kaila cursed.
Aa'une raised an eyebrow at this. "What's wrong?" She asked.
"You wouldn't happen to have a battlegear and mugic stash here, would you?" Kaila sheepishly.
"Why's that?" Mra'lue asked.
"I'm gonna need them for my next Chaotic battle." Kaila answered.
Aa'une simply smiled as she floated over to Kaila. "You may scan us." Aa'une told her.
"WHAT?!" Everyone in the room asked.
"And after that, we'll head over to the domes arsenal, and then the domes highest ranking mugic academy among most of the other domes." Aa'une told her.
"You're just going to let her scan us, and our stuff?" Taqu'saal asked shocked by her queens actions.
"Don't worry, she's speaks of nothing but pure honestly in my eyes and ears." Aa'une told them as she held her arms out, gesturing to Kaila to scan her, which she did so inhesitantly.
(Three hours later...)
"This is the best day of my entire life!" Kaila shrieked as she was done scanning everything she needed.
Aa'une explained everything to those who were passing by and they wholeheartedly accepted her word on the matter, and as such Kaila was able to get some ultra rare Chaotic scans, and explain how the game is played.
Suffice to say, they were surprised to hear that Kaila became them in a chaotic battle, but went with it nonetheless.
"I can't believe it, I've actually got an ultra rare Tsunami Symphony mugic, no one even know that this mugic exists, heck this doesn't even exist in the Perim that I know of." Kaila said excitedly.
"That's what you're so excited about, you've been scanning things left and right, from stuff among our shard collections, and our creations in mugic power." Mra'lue asked.
"Maybe, but for a complete M'arrillian team, I still need one good creature scan." Kaila told them as she locked in the scans she got.
"Well, there are tons of-" Mra'lue cut herself of at the sight of someone she saw.
The rest of them turned to she another female M'arrillian; she was covered from head to tail in purple scales, with four blood-red eyes. She had four arms, a snake tail, and a lavender cape on her back attached to a golden band that was adorned with jewels and went over her shoulders.
She was carrying a bunch of books when she noticed Mra'lue. "Mary?" She wondered.
"Nua'noka." Mra'lue floated over to her excited to see her.
"MARY!" She yelled putting the books down and hugging Mra'lue. "I was wondering when you'd be here."
Mra'lue called Kaila over. "Kaila, this is a good friend of mine and fellow fluidmorpher, Nua'noka." She said introducing her friend.
"Pleasure to meet you, human." Nua'noka said innocently.
Kaila was shocked to hear her address her as such. "Huh, news travels fast, huh?" Kaila asked sarcastically.
"Yep, especially in a place this small, you know what I mean?" Aa'une asked jokingly.
Nua'noka looked at Kaila with an expression that showed her wanting to ask a question, but Kaila beat her to it. "Um, you want to ask a question?" Kaila asked.
"Oh, um sorry, I just kinda wanted to say that... it's alright if you want to scan me." She muttered shrilly.
"You heard about how I scan things too?"
"No actually, I been training my ability to try and read minds." Nua'noka clarified.
Kaila's jaw hit the ground as she held up her scanner and scanned Nua'noka. "Whoa, you'll get me some matches and more, Nua'noka." Kaila said analyzing her card statistics.
"I'm not too sure, I do need some mugician power in order to do so." Nua'noka bashfully said.
"Oh, speaking of mugicians, how come Aa'une, Milla'iin, and Kriz'ula have mugicians?" Kaila asked, noting that the scans she had of them actually had mugicians.
"I guess it'd have to be because we've spent more time on the surface of the land, instead of locked behind a door like the other M'arrillians in the other dimension." Aa'une theorized.
While Aa'une was helping Kaila get her scans, Kaila told her about the things the M'arrillians did after they got out from behind the doors of the deepmines.
"Welp, I've got a Chaotic battle to get ready for, see you guys later." Kaila said before remembering something. "Oh, but first." She pointed her scanner up to the ceiling of the dome and began scanning it, getting a location scan of Dome Primusalis. "So that I can comeback here at anytime, later." She said porting out.
The M'arrillians stared at where she once stood and looked up to the dome ceiling wondering how she was going to fare in her battle.
"She'd better win, with the strongest commander of the M'arrillians on her side, she can't lose." Taqu'saal boasted.
"Don't forget the imperial advisor to Aa'une herself." Mra'lue boasted as well.
Aa'une looked the two and then to Nua'noka. "Life never changes, huh." Aa'une sarcastically asked.
"Sometimes, but this is a rare occurrence." Nua'noka told her.
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Okay, guys, I've got a plan.
I'm going to make the next chapter for this fanfiction, then I'm going to get to work on the next chapter for the RWBY reaction fanfic after that, promise you that, alright, good. I really want this fanfic to do good, just as much as my other fanfics, but either way, see ya later.
P.S. When you think about how bad this fanfic may be compared to most other, at least I'm trying my best to keep it going.