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"I created them, trained them, set them upon the Universe and then abandoned them.
Some would call me cruel or short sighted. But remember, there are things in the universe that Humans are not ready to confront. To that end, I am glad that I reintroduced the Slayers back into the Universe."
Leto II
Comments at the Slayer Graduation
Anubis flailed it's tentacles at the thing that assaulted it. Four times the intruder had hurled magics at it that were as terrible as his own. His green blood speckled the graven landscape. Anubis could feel his life force draining from him. But it was too late. He would succeed. The Old One's would rise.
Reverend Mother Motorria Swati viewed the landscape before her in horror as she floated in the center of Tailos Three. Things, horrible unnatural, huge things, walked, swayed and floated between the cracked and ancient grave markers. Something, the size of six city blocks, which looked like a giant jellyfish ringed with florescent green and red colors, was materializing out of an open grave. Motorria could sense its aching desire to feed on Human flesh.
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." Motorria repeated the litany against fear. She could feel the presence of the mind and arcane magics that were releasing such creatures into the world. She refused to be distracted. She had a task to perform.
"…incinerate!" Motorria completed the spell as an intense white light the size of a pencil found her shoulder and burned right through it. The pain overwhelmed her as she fell out of the sky.
Five hundred million kilometers away the pulsar Tailos flared as its magnetic fields realigned and compressed along the axis that contained the moon Tailos Three. The energy of seventy thousand suns leapt across the void.
She heard it's thoughts as she fell to her death.
"No magics can harm this place!" Anubis thought triumphantly. "This holy place is a fortress. Nothing else would do as the Citadel of the Gods!"
Motorria Swati, eyes black as night, smiled when she heard that statement. She stopped her fall and righted herself. Without even a gesture she wished the wound away and focused her mind on the entity that was about to get a very rude surprise.
"You know the problem with most bad guys?" Motorria asked rhetorically. "They're soooo stupid. Anubis, do you understand that everything runs on energy, even magic?"
Motorria snapped her fingers and disappeared. Anubis made a murderous leap for her as a shaft of energy punched into the moon like the fist of an angry God. The surface of Tailos Three burned hotter than Earth's sun.
Microseconds before the blast wave hit the moon Motorria reached out with her senses and located the nearest ship. She teleported into what she hoped was the bridge of the ship and not a bulk head.
Motorria looked into the wide eyes of Capitan Wilma Plankton as she materialized aboard the Xander Harris.
"So," Motorria said in her typical smart ass way. "What have you been up to?"
"Conn, light speed now!" Wilma barked to the young girl at the control station. Wilma turned her attention back to Motorria. "Whatever miracles you've got left we need them now." She said.
The Xander Harris shuttered violently, knocking them off of their feet, as it jumped into hyperspace.
Anubis started the magics that would open the portals that would allow the Old Ones to escape to the Universe outside. Space before him shimmered as a black maw began to form. The dark portal wavered then faded into nothing. Anubis tried again and the same thing happened. Slowly he began to realize what the witch had done. His masters, the Old Ones, hungry and angry from their long sleep began to gather around him demanding their freedom. For the first time in his existence Anubis knew fear.
"How long will it burn?" Surayya asked Motorria as they reclined in the whirlpool bath. A few of the other Slayers had joined them in the Jacuzzi. The steam and warm bubbles relaxed them far better than hours of Bene Gesserit meditation.
"The surface of the moon will radiate hard x-rays for a few hundred years but that's beside the point." Motorria said as she leaned back into the bubbles. "What most people don't get is that everything and I mean everything, including magic, runs on energy. Most people don't notice that fact because magic requires almost no energy from this universe to produce its effects. Magic requires so little energy from this universe that it can be powered by something as weak as a talisman or a Human. Magic is a fractal intercept between two universes."
Many of the Slayers began to roll their eyes. They all recognized Motorria new found tendency to lecture.
"To make a long story short, I placed a second lock on the prison. I took a generic binding spell and gave it nuclear power. The entire output of the Tailos pulsar is now fueling that one spell. That's why the star went dark. The Old One's have awakened but they'll never escape their jail. Motorria smiled. She was happy.