Chapter 9: Marching through the gate of stars
Once, on a planet far away, there was a young female who had a rare gift. She got small glimpses of the future, from time to time. She was very young when she first saw it, the crucial future of her fellow specimen. She was a clever female and had a good heart indeed, which made her go straight to the council. But they had heard it before, in another time, on another planet.
All of the council members were immortal, they could not die of age. Their specie had the ability to give special gifts when needed and one of these needs was knowledge. Therefore they were made immortal, and they had lost the feeling of power. They only ought to save their people in hard times and acquire knowledge that could be of help to their people. The last queen had given the council one more duty, to watch the throne until the heir appeared. That young female, who stood up in front of them and broke the news, was exactly what an heir to throne should be, able to save her people and a keeper of a pure heart.
Once again a rightful heir had the throne, and, once again, right before disaster would fall upon the planet. The council had her dressed in huge clothing, to make her look mightier. So when the hints of the planets intensions started to show themselves, they told their people that she was a mighty and strong queen. With her magical powers they had nothing to fear. For days the council and the queen discussed, and tried to form a plan. But everything seemed impossible, they were too far from another planet they were able to live on. The magical powers would not hold.
The Exceeds lived hidden from the dominating specie. That specie who thought they knew their planet better than their own pocket had never tricked the council or even thought that there may be other intelligent species on that planet. To avoid them the Exceeds had chosen to never interfere with anything that could come in contact with the dominating specie. They made their own food, and their own clothes. Everything they somehow made without the use of other creatures. After years with the dominating race hanging around the planet had gotten enough and started destroying itself. As the Exceeds was the only specie hosting magic, making them capable of living on another planet, they were forced to plan their own escape completely while some of them was perfectly aware of leaving other living creatures behind.
One day the council decided to tell the rest of the Exceeds what they had been hiding from them the last years. They told them about the planet, and how they had to escape, and also that they should not panic. The Exceeds was constructed to survive even when destruction was upon them. Only the council and some few protectors knew about other creatures except birds and insects living on the planet, and they chose to keep it secret. They found it hard to bear that burden, and didn't want to give it to any other people.
It all started one morning, the queen had seen something. She thought it was a gate opening in the middle of the courtyard. She went straight to council and explained what she had seen. They started planning the evacuation, since the elderly had evacuated the people before, it would not be their first time, but it was the first time they would have to deal with the dependency of aid from another creature. They did not know if they would come to the planet together or if they would split up over the whole new environment. Therefore they prepared for the worst, they prepared to be separated.
For six days the little city of the Exceeds was in chaos. To move away from the home they loved for so long was hard, but they ought to live on. On the seventh day, they all were ready, waiting for the gate to open. Then the queen held her speech. This queen was mighty. She told her people how they lived on a planet and had shared it with other species, how they were forced to go on without them. How she wanted them to remember that, and how she wanted the few of the Exceeds that knew about other species, to tell stories about them. She wanted them to remember that egoistic choice they had made and she wanted them to remember this planet as how it was. The Exceeds was crying over the shock of leaving without rescuing the rest. They cried because their hearts was pure, and their conscience would always tell them that they ran, when the rest chose to stay and fight.
They started evacuating as fast as the gate opened, the queen sent her people out in families, and making sure they wouldn't lose each other. The council also stood and made sure the evacuating went along just fine. They could see smoke far away, and they guessed it just was another Vulcan spitting out after many long years with holding back. The evacuation went without problems, the council had once again proven themselves worthy. Then the council gathered and made ready to leave, watching their beloved city in total silence. It was a sad sight, but they knew that it would stay a memory as long as they lived.
The council wasn't far from the gate when they realized that the queen didn't move with them. She stood there staring at them with tears in her eyes, and then she spoke: "I will stay, as mighty as a captain! Proving myself worthy of this planet, our egoism has caused pain in my heart. I cannot forgive myself if I go with you. I will stay and I will warn the other species, I will try to give them a chance! I will give them a chance to say goodbye, and as far as I can I will help them till the end!" She was crying, as mighty as a queen could be. The council had never seen such good queen, years ago she had even gotten the children evacuated. She had offered both her wings, but the council had only taken one. The magic from the wing combined with a lost magic from their last planet had made a gate, and also caused the lost magic to disappear. The children had been rescued.
The queens last request was: "Please tell my daughter that I'm proud of her, she made my visions come true. I hope she can be proud of me too, and tell her that I never stopped loving her!" Then the mighty queen turned around forced her one and only magic wing to appear. That was the last time the queen was seen of an Exceed, as the captain chose to stay with her sinking ship. She flew to give other species the chance to give their last goodbyes, she flew to her own future. The last exceed on planet earth, and the first to be seen by any other specie on the planet, the mighty queen, Shagotte.