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What=spells, incantations summoning etc.
What= Supernatural creatures
What=Divine/full power form/ Mr White
''=The guy at centre stage/ protagonist
""=Other characters
What= distorted voice
WHAT=Yelling
() = Telepathic dialogue
[] = Authors Note
"What"= Ancient/ powerful/ supernatural entities
Chapter 7: The Quest for Nabu
Our scene opens on Merlin and Sparky in a courtyard looking up as above them were a series of what appeared to be holographic rings. And there was a black blur moving through them which caused them to disappear and more to appear in other areas. The blur kept moving at phenomenal speeds constantly moving through the rings very rarely missing one and upon missing one often able to rectify it with the use of a loop de loop to pass through the missed ring. This continued until these holographic rings were no longer being projected at which point merlin yelled at the blur "OK WE'RE DONE NOW YOU CAN STOP NOW". With that the blur began to slow until it finally stopped in mid-air to reveal Mr White floating in mid-air with a smirk 'I'm guessing that I passed the test?' Merlin smirked "congratulations out of all of the great power of supermen and you got flight and strength down so congrats". 'HEY FLYINGS HARDER THAN IT LOOKS YOU KNOW AND…. Wait why did you say supermen it's superman' "not in you case, you see I set it so you gained the power of all supermen past and present so technically it's supermen". White contemplated this using all his superhero knowledge. 'Let's see what other powers have supermen had over the years… there's super ventriloquism, the ability to create mini duplicates of myself'. 'Plus thanks to the legion of superheroes cartoon I should be immune to kryptonite' he smirked this will be more fun than I thought it would be'.
Merlin rolled his eyes clearly not amused "moving on lets have another look at what you've at least gained decent control enough to be useful this past month". "Let's see with superman you've got flight and some of the strength under control though when you're not focusing you can lose control so we'll have to work on that". "With harry potter powers you can use some year one spells despite having to spend two weeks figuring out how to use your index finger to channel magic due to lacking a wand". "With Alcor I guess his and supermen's flight would probably be the same thing and you've figured out how to generate what we have decided to call Alcorian fire at will". "And with avatar and Mavis powers we have made basically zero progress except gaining access to your unique magic storing organ". "But I have a more relaxing activity planned next" 'What?' "Meditation it's a wonderful way of relaxing oneself mind body and soul and help us to have a greater understanding of our role in the cosmos" White didn't look impressed but didn't raise any objections 'fine whatever let's try meditation" .
And with that Merlin lead him to another part of the large fortress into a courtyard that resembled a Zen garden. 'I didn't know we had a Zen garden' White asked to which Merlin smirked who do you think invented them"? After which Merlin sat down in the traditional meditation pose while lighting incense and motioned for White to sit with him. "Ok I want you to calm yourself, cut off all outside influence imagine a calm stream and try and reach into yourself to reach your innermost self". Merlin's words alongside the incense were having a unique effect on White as he found himself feeling drowsier with his eyes getting heavier to and more difficult to stay awake and he felt more and more sleepy and then….
Mr White awoke with a start in a bed and after a close inspection found himself still full dressed excluding his shoes which were nearby. After putting the footwear back on he exited the room and began to call out 'SPARKY COME ONE BOY WHERE ARE YOU'? Soon after with a cry of PIKA sparky was reunited with White 'ok boy lead me to Merlin' and with that they were off moving throughout the ancient abode. Soon after Sparky came to a stop outside the library door which White. Upon entering the library we find several tables that previously held books have been broken into pieces. And sitting in his chair reading was Merlin who finally noticed our hero "look who finally woke up". 'Yeah what happened last thing I remember was feeling sleepy the next I'm waking up in a bed, what happened to me'? "Well you your skin turned pitch-black with yellow brickwork similar to the character Alcor when he goes full demon except your arm tattoos were still there and the yellow brickwork turned into a superman symbol on your chest". 'Huh and what happened then' well you started destroying and dismantling stuff and you made three random things".
'What do you mean things" to which Merlin pulled out what resembled a futuristic IPhone "I still don't know everything that it can do but I do know it can do this" to this he points it at a pile of books "cut" and a beam of light shoots from the device and hits the pile seemingly disintegrating them "and paste" the beam shoots out recreating the pile of books. "Copy" the beam shoots out hitting the books but this time not harming them "and paste" the beam shot out to a point near the books creating exact duplicates of the other pile. Merlin looked back at White "and that all I've figured out so far" 'huh cool wait you said that there were three objects that's only one what where the others'. In response Merlin motioned for White to follow him while he lead him to a small room which above it had LAB written in what appeared to be blue paint. Entering the room it is found that this room is filled with technology that looks like a mix or steampunk, cyberpunk and a few other things as well as what appeared to be a window and a doorframe covered by sheets. 'What is all this stuff' " this is your greatest achievement so far in your short time as Guardian a fusion of technology and various forms of magic you called it Magitek". "But that's not why we're here" with that he motioned to a box which White opened to find a golden helmet that would cover a person's whole head, except for the eye holes and a part where the bottom of the helmet arched upwards to ensure the ears weren't pinned under the helmet. However its most defining features were the designs engraved on the helmet that resembled a winged eye of Horus surrounding the eye holes and a large fin on the going from the top of the helmet down to the back of the helmet. [For those who can't imagine this the helmet matches these images post/111324624899/dr-fate-helmet-inspired-by-the-new-52-earth-2]
Upon looking at the helmet however all White had to say about this artefact however was 'hey that looks like Doctor Fate's helmet' "who" a DC superhero who had a helmet with a connection to a lord of order' "a what?" 'you know what let's just watch the episodes of young justice where there's plot directly associated with Nabu' . Sometime later after watching young Justice Merlin had this to say "there version of Nabu is a disgrace to the name of my teacher. 'Yeah from what I've read our Nabu had a mind-set close to a modern day scientist'. 'He was a scholar and was curious of the nature of magic but always desired to do the right thing even at the cost of his life', 'So anyway what's up with the helmet?' at this Merlin smirked "it's an artefact that can be used to anchor a soul to it". "I'm impressed with the workmanship even with the knowledge base we have it can take years to properly create soul anchor and you did it in a fraction of the time". 'Ok so in my drug induced state I somehow made some weird real life version of the cut, copy and paste tool, and a soul anchor that looks like doctor Fates helmet what's my final invention and what's with the sheets'. "In response Merlin went to the sheet covering the door frame and pulled it off revealing a door similar to those from Star Trek and Merlin pressed the green button to the left of the door". Then and computer generated voice exclaimed "MYSTICAL ENERGY MATCH FOUND MERLIN ACCESS GRANTED" and with that the door slide open. What was inside made White stop in shock as what was inside this room was a large upside down triangle with an empty circle in the centre surrounded by various runes and stairs leading to the circle. Above the portal was two circles embedded in the circle one on the left of the portal and one to the right. This pattern was repeated below the triangle with two circles embedded on the floor with one to the left and one to the right.
However this wasn't what surprised him what surprised him was the fact that this device matched the portal build by the author in Gravity Falls. However this device differed from the original however due to two devices at the side of the portal. Upon approaching them the first device he could only describe it a pure silver rectangular podium with a hand shape of the top of the podium. The second device was what appeared to be a large screen mounted on the wall with a key pad and a laptop mouse sticking out of the wall. Turning back to Merlin 'this was the last thing I build' to which Merlin nodded and replied "I not sure what it is though I haven't been able to get it to function" 'it's a portal build to resemble a portal from the show Gravity Falls'. White turns back to the second device and presses a button and the screen flashes into activity with only two words on it USERNAME and PASSWORD. Merlin looks at White "I was never able to get past this" White looks at Merlin before stating 'go over there for a second will you' to which merlin obeys walking up to the portal looking up at it for a few seconds before a mechanical voice declared "USERNAME AND PASSWORD ACCEPTED WELCOME MR WHITE". To which Merlin rushes over to a smirking White 'I just put in my usual password and username and it worked guess even drugged out I was smart enough to do that'.
The screen began to play a video and what was on this video surprised White as it showed him except his skin was pitch black with yellow brickwork and a superman crest on his chest and the outline of an eye on his forehead. 'You were right I did look similar to Alcor'. The Mr White on the video began to speak 'greetings my sober future self, you're probably wondering how I did all these crazy things and the answer had probably already occurred to you'. At this the present day White gained an unnerved expression as if something he had been dreading had been confirmed. 'That's right' future White confirmed 'we have all of Alcor's powers including his immortality and his kind of omniscience'. 'It's also connected to why you blacked out when you first transformed and why you're not constantly being bombarded by sounds due to super hearing or you other super senses'. 'You see when you first transformed you tapped fully into your kind of omniscience and you saw your full potential and you saw the truth of the universe and you turned away'. 'You placed mental blocks to block of most of your phenomenal power' this confused both Merlin and White further as to why White acted the way he did.
However this was soon explained 'as such the only reason we're having this conversation is due to that incense Merlin burned opened our mind temporarily breaking the mental blocks we have'. 'As such I saw something that I found interesting, by using our kind of omniscience we peered into the multitude of potential futures' "potential futures" Merlin asked. To which video White responded 'while looking at the potential timelines 70% of Merlin's were confused so I'll explain'. 'You see there is no set destiny there are trillions of trillions of potential timelines that can happen and at my full potential I can see into most of them'. 'Anyway using our kind of omniscience we saw something interesting relating to Nabu's fate and as such we build the portal, the portable storage device and the helmet as in most timelines they were necessary'. This shocked both Merlin and White as they both assumed Nabu was dead however the video hadn't ended and past White had one last thing to say 'I've included the coordinated for where you need to go, take my creations with you when you go through now go quickly time is of the essence' and with that he collapses on the floor and the video ends. The computer then states in its synthesised voice "COORDINATES FOUND AND LOCKED PLEASE CONFIRM TO START PORTAL".
And with that White turned and headed back into the room with the helmet and picks it up and turns to Merlin 'do you have a bag I can borrow'? This stunned Merlin "you're going WHAT ARE YOU THINKING" 'it was me who found this and despite me being drugged to the point I could see potential timelines I trust myself'. 'So find me a bag to hold this helmet or I will shove you In this helmet and take you with me' Merlin stared for a second before walking off and coming back a few minutes later with a satchel "fine here". And with that White took the satchel and put both the helmet and the 1st device Merlin showed him inside before walking back to the device that had previously played the video message which now had co-ordinates listed and clicked the confirm option on the screen. Instantly the portal began to activate in a style almost identical to the portal in Gravity Falls except the opened portal was multi-coloured with a golden edge. White turned towards his new familiar and crouched down 'come on Sparky lets go into the new final frontier' and Sparky climbed up onto his shoulder with a smile. And with a smile they walked up the stairs and into the portal.
On the other side of the portal our duo walked out in front of what looked vaguely reminiscent of the fortress in the realm of eternity. 'Hmm I wonder if this is the place has anything to do with Nabu and his fate come on sparky lets investigate'. With that they entered the fortress they found a large mosaic in the entry hall of beings wielding light fighting against beings wielding darkness. After choosing a door to travel down using the time honoured method of using eeny meenie miney mo our heroes found an elaborate garden which held another door they went through. Several hours of searching later our heroes found what appeared to be a library filled with what appeared at first glance to be the same book due to their extremely similar appearance. However upon closer inspection there were different roman numerals on them 'XXXXXXXIII, XXXXXXVI these are all numerical so where's I where is it'. However his search was interrupted by a cry of "PIKA" and upon turning found Sparky holding a book with I on the cover. 'Good boy Sparky now let's have a read of this one' and opening book he began to read from the main page. 'Ok let's begin huh there's an author's note first, "It has been a month since my soul has been brought here so I have used my magic to create a book so I have something to do so I won't go insane'. 'However if anyone finds this without me anywhere near me I can only assume that that I have finally entered the reincarnation cycle and if that's the case take my research to my student Merlin and tell him it's a final gift from his teacher Nabu'. After this White stopped reading shocked about the implications of Nabu his master's master being here, however he was interrupted from these thoughts by a blast to the back from a being hidden in the shadows.
After regaining his bearings after that sucker punch he then heard "chains of hades" and dark chains began to cover White. After this the culprit of these attacks finally stepped from the shadows revealing a blonde haired tanned skinned spectre. He began to walk up to White "for entering this sanctuary of knowledge without allowance you will suffer" but upon looking at Whites face he was surprised a find a smirk. 'Chains? You're funny' and he began to strain against the chains "you're wasting your time only Hercules has been able to escape that way". However much to his surprise after only a few seconds the cracks began to appear on the chains and with an almighty SNAP he was free. Ignoring this stranger's cry of "IMPOSSIBLE" he responded to the prior attacks by covering his fists in fire and upper cutting the spectre, the supernatural flame enabling him to harm him. Flying through the roof after the individual he grabbed him by the throat 'TELL ME WHERE NABU IS' to which the stranger blasted him off "foolish child I AM NABU". This gave pause to White who held his hands in the shape of a T in front ofthis being 'time out you say you're Nabu' "yes" 'one of the guardians of humanity' "yes" 'well this is awkward' "why" 'because I just attacked the man I was supposed to help'.
This shocked Nabu who said nothing as they returned to the library "what do you mean here to help me" 'Merlin sent me due various reasons to weird to explain right now'. However Nabu looked unconvinced "why would he send you" 'I'm his protégé and his successor' "oh really how are you tested in order to be judged worthy as guardian"? 'You're taken to a large chamber where you're given a random test mine was facing a giant monster'. This seemed to calm the man briefly before without warning he rushed forward clapping his hands together as he went before slamming both palms into White's chest which caused him to glow golden for half a minute before it faded. Nabu smiled "so what does a Guardian want with a past his prime spectre who hasn't entered the reincarnation cycle" 'The what'? "The reincarnation cycle is where all souls enter to be born anew" 'huh, anyway I had let's call it a vision of your fate so a created a portal here speaking of which where are we'.
At this Nabu smiled "my dear boy we are in the realm where all magic has been diverted to do as a result of my enchantment". "When I first created this realm and was dragged inside upon my dead I assumed that it would be an empty void for ever but due to the high concentration of magic with enough concentration I was able to create a space to inhabit". "However that wasn't the end of the story for you see while magic mightn't be on earth it was somehow still being influenced by the human subconscious". "At first it was simply beings or two being created then stopping existing however over time something amazing happened human belief created a new earth" 'what'? "You see this earth was created by a popular fictional story but unlike creations before it remained and over time countless more earths were created and galaxies and even more were created by pure human belief alone". "These realms are in constant time lops through the events that inspired there creation and if anything new is added the loop simply expands. 'What about if something is taken from what I've just now decided to call reality bubbles' "if it's nothing important then it's simply recreated but if it's something important the loop resets and recreates the artefact". 'And you know that how exactly' "I've been alone for centuries with nothing but research, that's one of the first things I looked into".
So what's exactly in these books anyway' "well books I-XXX is just research then from there on it's mostly just documenting various reality bubbles as you call them and of course my greatest master piece". Nabu begins leading White into a side room which was empty except a pedestal holding a cube covered in what resembles circuitry but with what appear to be runes surrounding it. Nabu touches it and it reveals what appears to be a giant bubble with thousands of bubbles in varying shapes and sizes. "This is a partially completed map of this realm and the reality bubbles I've documented" he points to a certain bubble "for instance that's a particular favourite of mine it has a hero who can duplicate". 'Is he called Naruto' "how did you know" 'I've watched some of the series anyway'. 'So your saying that in this realm all fiction is real somewhere in this realm' "eh most of it" 'and we have a partial map' "yep" 'this will be something interesting to investigate'.However his train of though was interrupted by Nabu flickering in and out of existence 'Nabu are you ok'? White asked running to him. To this Nabu gave a sad smile "I've been a spirit for centuries" 'SO' "all spirits are gradually being pulled back into the reincarnation cycle if they're not properly anchored". "I've been surviving on my willpower and my magic for centuries but for the past few years the pull on me has strengthened and my sanctuary has been shrinking due to this". "Take my research give it to Merlin tell him I'm sorry for everything" to which White responded with one word 'no!' which shocked Nabu.
"Why not this realm will fade with my research if you don't" White looked at Nabu 'answer me this question and I'll consider it' "Ok ask away". 'Do you want to enter the reincarnation cycle?' Nabu seemed shocked by this question "no I don't but I never learned how to create a soul anchor and even if I did when I anchored myself due my soul being anchored could cause my whole realm to collapse in on itself so I couldn't risk it". At this to Nabu's surprise White smiled 'stoned me you are a genius' he claims while picking up the map and putting it in his satchel before turning to his familiar come on Sparky lets save Nabu's research'. Nabu follows White and Sparky back into the library before he walks into the centre of the library and takes out a strange device. 'Store all of Nabu's research' and a bright light fills the library and when it fades the library and all the research is empty and a voice emanates from the device "STORAGE CAPACITY REACHED". White then turned to Nabu reached into his satchel and pulled out a golden helmet 'this is a soul anchor, if you don't want to use it I will go with your research, I'm just offering you another path'.
Nabu thought about it briefly before taking the helmet and placing it on his head, as soon as he did this the eye holes began to glow and Nabu's body was pulled into the helmet until there was nothing left. After this White picked the helmet up 'I guess this is the helmet of Nabu for real now', however his thoughts were interrupted by tremors shaking the building. Quickly putting the helmet back into the satchel alongside the map and the storage device and grabbing Sparky with both arms White shot up through the library roof hole he had previously created. He looked up at this realm's sky and he could only see dark cloud and the occasional bolt of lightning so he quickly flew towards the portal dodging several bolts of lightning before reaching the portal and flying straight through. White shot out through the portal but unfortunately couldn't stop in time and crashed into the wall which caused Merlin to burst out laughing at his misfortune.
After removing himself from the wall and Merlin had stopped laughing he asked White "so did you find anything of interest while you were gone"? To this White smirked and held up the storage device 'centuries of research done be the spirit of Nabu in the Realm where Magic was diverted to' he pulls out the helmet of Nabu 'and the spirit of Nabu himself'. At this the eyes of the helmet glowed again and Nabu was there again 'wait how can he do that if his soul is in the helmet'? Merlin looked at White "the best description is it's essentially like a solid hologram" 'oh like Arnold Rimmer in Red Dwarf'. However Merlin wasn't listening as he approached his master "it's been a while Nabu", "that it has Merlin". Nabu looked at Merlin "so you died" to which Merlin responds "your one to take", however this serious attitude soon broke down as they both broke down into laughing. After which Merlin turned to White you've done a good job today take tomorrow off but the day after its back to training ok"? To this White responds 'ok course you're the teacher after all just try not expose me to anymore of those meditation stuff until I think I'm ready again ok' to which Merlin simply responds with agreed we don't want another one of these incidents for a while.
NEXT TIME
Well now that the Quest for Nabu is over that can only mean one thing it's back to the training halls for Mr White but when a few more powers are unlocked by accident and get out of control it's up to Merlin and Nabu to help our hero control them before he destroys the entire Realm of Eternity. Find out if they succeed next time in Training Time 2 Magic Boogaloo
CHARACTERS
Mr White (Jonathan Black)-Newest Guardian of Humanity believes himself to be over his head, discovered to have blocked off most of his power due to reasons vaguely known
Merlin- Previous Guardian currently dead spirit and acting essentially like a Jedi Ghost
Sparky – Mr White's familiar, new born, believed to have electric powers
Nabu-The 3rd latest Guardian of Humanity, currently dead and anchored to the Helmet of Nabu eager to catch up on history he missed