Author's Note: I haven't been writing in a while and well I'm very sorry for the IMMENSE time of absence for this story. Hope you all will forgive me and in the mean time, here's the continuation.
Prince of Persia
Chapter 19
The End is Back
Silence filled the dinner hall as the prince stared at Elena disbelievingly before her words.
"What did you say?" he asked, his eyes running wild. He was standing now but the very thought of it left him as he waited for an explanation from Elena's lips. She simply shook her head in dismay.
"I cannot explain the very cause of this matter," she said. "But I can conclude that time itself is dissolving into absolute destruction with the Vizier's hand groping inside it. All the aspects of time, since the very early days of the years and to your days and the future will all collide together in one massive space and maybe Kaileena has a role in this as well." She stood up and with a few magic words, the cutlery on the table vanished. "I will show you how it is to be."
An image formed between them now and the swirls of life reflected off the coloured windows in the hall. Wind blew out suddenly and the air around them was filled with a cold presence. The prince gazed into the twisting tornado in front of him as Elena finished the final words of her incantation. It came to a halt and the lights faded leaving them with the ball of an image as a dim source of light. An orb of light it was.
The images slowly turned to a halt as it show three different worlds, each one of them a vibrant and lively colour. The prince saw people in them with their joy and happiness as they carried out there lives. If only they had known the end was soon to be wrought upon them. He turned his sight back to Elena.
"What is it then are you going to show me?" he said grasping the dagger cautiously. A grim smile was on her face.
"The orb here shows the three worlds of which time is on the verge of breaking down," she explained. "One of them is your world and time." The image in the center glowed brightly indicating Babylon. The prince stared at it sacredly with his mind raging with thoughts. Looking at his expression, Elena continued, "The one on the left is where you are at now and is safest from harm for the time being."
She touched the orb again and the image of where the prince and Jamal had met the Vizier in his Dahaka formed upon it. She had a disgusted look on her face as the image disappeared. The prince knew why. "Stained now is this world with that monstrosity's hand. And finally, the future."
This world was the strangest of all to the prince for it held wonders he could never have had imagine in his haggard lifestyle. Buildings of many shapes and colours which touched the sky filled the world and strange wagons carried people at an abnormal rate.
"This is the future?" the prince asked in wonder. Elena nodded silently as the prince looked at her. "I never knew how amazing this could be."
"Well you do now," she said. She touched the orb again and the images turned into a blurred haze of dust. "But all will come to an end if no action is taken. Watch as the worlds of time are crushed." The prince stiffened in his place and his hands gripped the edges of the table till it was white to the bone. Elena took no time in delaying the moment and with one touch on the swirling orb, the image started to redefine itself once more.
"And now, oblivion," she replied, watching the orb. The prince sat silently as the worlds started to change from their peaceful demeanor into a situation of chaos and catastrophe.
First was Babylon. The walls of the great city shook with such a force that it fell crumbling towards the ground and the cries of his people could be heard echoing inside the prince's ears. Buildings collapsed as though they were old and dry as the pieces of wood found in gravel and the ground cracked and writhed beneath the frightened feet of elders and children like a snake.
And suddenly, everything that the prince had seen throughout dinner had started to make absolute nonsense as buildings of old and new emerged through the grounds and skies like wildfire. The world was colliding together and the skies were red with the savage fires of death. Wails and cries of children filled the entire hall and it made the prince wince. Elena remained still and silent as she watched the orb. The prince was now shaking at the sight and the grip on the table hardened as the wails started to grow steadily stronger.
And in the center of the destruction there stood the image of the prince, kneeling in defeat whilst the Vizier was above him with a sword of gold on the pedestal of a great building. Kaileena was there but she was dead and defeated. The Sands of Time swirled around them both and with one swing of the great blade from the vizier, the prince was brought down. The Sands erupted and all was sucked into a hole of blackness.
Then all was silent as the orb vanished into a sparkle of light. The hall soon turned back to its usual state but the prince felt a sudden terror slowly creeping upon him. He let go of the table and slumped back into the chair with his head bowed.
Elena folded her arms and walked to the prince.
"Is this the fate I am thrown into?" he said getting up. He looked at her with the eyes of a king on the verge of defeat. "Tell me now Elena."
She gave him a hard look.
"I cannot tell what might happen in time but all what you have seen is what might happen if you fail," she said. "And as for Kaileena, I know naught for now."
The prince clenched his fist into balls of anger. He was shaking.
"How long do I have until this destruction comes?"
"I cannot say. It all depends on you and your dagger there."
"So it seems." The prince proceeded towards the door. Elena looked at him worriedly.
"What are you going to do now?" she asked.
The prince stopped just as his right hand opened the door. The dagger gleamed under his belt as the sunlight entered through the windows.
"To do what is right, and to find Kaileena," he said and with that, he left Elena in the dining hall alone with the shards of lights as her only company.
To be continued….