A/N: Boy, it has been awhile, hasn't it? Hmmm well I finally came up with ideas for the chapter, so I decided to finally write it. Sorry bout the hiatus but…sequels SUCK. And I got like…no reviews. Thanks again, Emily. And this chapter is also dedicated to Emily, just cause she's cool like that, because we're taking over Canada together, and she is sick today while I am out of school cause of SNOW! Snow, white as snow……sorry…I need to stop the singing. Feel better, Em.
"The origin of the Travelers?" Bobby gasped.
"Yes, the origin of the Travelers," Emel's father said. "Do you think that they just appeared out of thin air or something?" Bobby blushed, and Emel's father began his story.
"One hundred years ago, there lived a man…boy at the time, named Steven. Steven and his two best friends, Dane and Samuel. Samuel is me. Anyways, the three boys were at the train station, waiting for Steven's father to return from a business trip. Mr. Williams train was due any minute, and the three of us were standing close to the tracks when we noticed something. A door. Just a plain, wooden door, in the wall across from the tracks. Looking both ways for trains, the three of us darted across the track and through the door. People thought we were crazy, but we didn't care. Something about this door was intoxicating.
The door, as you know, had no handle, and so we pushed it inwards. Inside we found a tunnel that appeared endless. Curious, Steven began to walk down this tunnel.
"What are you doing?" I called. He just smiled and motioned for us to follow him. Dane and I followed, and it seemed that we were walking for days until finally we found a turn in the seemingly straight tunnel. So we turned, and found the walls were made of crystal in this area of the tunnel. We continued to walk, until we came upon a massive room. In the center of the room was a gigantic platform. We stepped on that platform and it changed our lives.
Below the platform were ten different areas, each one different from the other. The first one we noticed was First Earth. We recognized it as our own time, and realized that we were in a different dimension. Then we saw Second Earth, your time. We saw that technology was advanced, and that the train station had changed, so we knew that we were seeing the same thing. Third Earth was amazing to see at our time. We then moved on to view the rest of the ten territories, and realized that the tunnel we had walked through lead to all these different places.
We visited each territory, and upon arrival the people spoke of a Prophecy set years ago, speaking of three saviors arriving at their gates. The people of the territories then brought forth someone they called a chosen. They were born with blue stars on their chests, or in the girls cases, back. There were ten of them, each of them ready to serve us in protecting the territories from danger that would come. These people had the ability to travel between these ten worlds. And we were their leaders.
Soon, we discovered that walking through these tunnels to meet would take too much time, especially in a time of crisis. So, we combined Veelox technology with Traveler powers, and created the flumes.
After a few months, Steven Dane and I had acquired a taste for one territory. Dane's was Ibara, mine was Cloral, and Steven spent a lot of time on Exem. Exem remained neutral, not quite a territory, but not a territory either. The Prophecy had stated that it would only become a territory if one territory fell at the hands of evil. But it said nothing about what the evil was, or if it would even come. So anyways, Dane was beginning to spend a lot more time on Ibara. He began to fall in love with a woman, named Leeana, and he wanted to become Ibara's Traveler, even though Ibara already had one. And even if he died, you must be of Ibaran blood to become the Traveler. So it would never work anyways. Since he couldn't become the Traveler, Dane became a Saint.
He soon became engaged to Leeana, and the closer he came to being half Ibaran, the more anxious he got to become a Traveler. But Ibara's Traveler at the time, Kra, said that even if Dane married Leeana he would never be Ibaran, and therefore never the Traveler. A rivalry formed between Kra and Dane, and to Dane's misery, Leeana became deadly sick. Luckily, her disease was able to be cured with Second Earth technology. Unfortunately, Kra and Dane were fighting more and more.
Then, the worst happened. Dane had been talking to me about how things were going so bad with Kra, he wanted to kill him. I personally didn't think that things were so horrible, but apparently he did, because he was serious. On the night before Leeana was to be given the surgery to be cured, Kra arrived on Second Earth. From what I've heard, Dane had nodded off to sleep, and when he awoke, Kra was there, with a knife to Leeana's throat. Both of them were aware that the other one wanted to kill the other, by the way.
"Go ahead, try to kill me right now, Dane," he said. "But if you do, I'll kill your little girlfriend."
"Don't you touch her!" Dane yelled. Dane then unsheathed a knife, gripping it until his knuckles turned white. A silence ensued for an unknown amount of time, until finally Kra removed the knife from Leeana's neck and attacked Dane. In response, Dane lifted up his blade and blocked the attack. He pushed Kra backwards, ignoring Leeana's screams for them to stop.
Nurses barged into the room upon the screams, and Dane quickly killed them with other knives stored in his belt.
"Dane! Stop it!" cried Leeana.
"I cannot, Leeana!" he grunted. "I must kill this man!" With that, he stabbed Kra in the heart, and a smile formed on Kra's face.
"Well then Dane, say goodbye to your little girlfriend as well." Kra spun around, blood spilling from his chest, and stabbed Leeana in the heart with Dane's knife. Leeana screamed, and closed her eyes forever.
"YOU BASTARD!" Dane roared. He pulled out another knife, and swiped it across Kra's chest multiple times.
"Just because you killed me doesn't mean that you'll be the Traveler, Dane." Kra said with a smile. "An Ibaran successor of the next generation will take my place." And with that, Kra died, and an idea formed in Dane's head. He had used his Traveler powers before to change the craggy rock tunnels into crystal, so why couldn't he transform? So then he transformed into Kra, and that's how he became a shape shifter. But soon, the Ibaran people discovered and Dane was placed in prison. Fed up with everything, Dane decided to turn against Halla. Halla had given him nothing but grief, so he decided to give it nothing but grief in return. It was a shame too…Dane could have been very helpful."
"So that's the origin of the Travelers then?" asked Bobby.
"Yes," Samuel replied. "Eventually, Dane killed Steven, and now he is after me. The ruler of Exem is the ruler of the Travelers."
"So making Exem a true territory without having to die was his true intention the entire time then…" Emel said.
"Yes," said a new voice, a very familiar voice. "That was my intention all along…"
A/N: Ahhhhh that was the worst chapter I've ever written. Absolutely horrid. Please, tell me everything that was wrong with it and yeah. If you ever want me to update again, REVIEW. Thanks to Lady Pendragon for always reviewing, cause she's that cool. -leaves brownies for her- See ya.