When Jack came out of the portal, he was confused. The portal closed behind him. He was in a desert, holding Allen and a black.. orb? There was no one else. He tried yelling, but after five minutes, he decided he was alone. He was about to walk to the east when he heard a voice in his head.
Walk the other way.
Jack looked around panicked, but saw no living thing in his eyesight. He then had an idea. He concentrated his thoughts.
Who are you?
The voice didn't respond.
Hello?
Again, there was silence.
Mabye I have to think really loud.
There's no need for that.
Jack looked around confused again, looking for the source of the voice.
You know, if you don't tell me where you are, I am going to think as loud as I can.
Fine, I give up.
Where are you?
In the black orb.
What are you?
One of the "new students."
So you were one of those shadows?
No. I was one of those shades.
You don't look like one.
I panicked.
What do you mean?
I went into disgoraging
Explain
In a shade's body, there is a certin shade organ called the disgor-
Whatever
Now carry me to one of the nearst shade cities.
How can I even trust you?
Look, if you get to the main palace, you can get your revenge. Deal?
How do I trust you?
Just trust me.
Okay, then what is your name?
I'm not telling.
I could leave a certin shade organ in the desert stuck there for enternity until something eats that certin organ or that shade could tell me it's name.
Fine. It's destiny.
Your a shade. Aren't you supposed to be scary?
Yes, but my mother was a light spirit, so she gave me this name, and that means I'm trustful.
Nice try.
Just keep that dragon away from me if you want me alive. I am a organ. Dragons eat organs. Dragons eat me.
So we should head for the city now?
If you are insane.
Are you actually going to help me?
Look, I just don't want to get eaten on the way there. It's a long and hard way.
Where is it?
On another planet.
Jack froze for a while.
How do we get there?
Magic.
Impossible. But what should we get first to "aid" us?
First, the book of Kurlan.
What's that?
A book that has the extent of almost every spell on this world.
Wow. So I'm not guessing that it's easy to get.
Actually, it's not bad. You need to go to the Admin tower.
Where is that?
In the middle of the desert.
And how would we ge...
Genious.
Shut up.
So you have to go up the tower, and reach the top. That's all.
And so we go walking off into the distance hoping we don't go in the wrong direction.
Where's the we? You are going to do that carrrying me.
Wow.
And so that's how Jack set off walking to the west, hoping he would find the tower. The first couple hours were plain, walking across sand dunes with no trouble at all. It was just the occasional fly or desert fox taking a curious glace, then going away. Then animals started getting agrivated. At first Jack thouoght that was because he had went near their food or was at their doorstep at their den. But he started to feel an itching in his mind that made him want to punch every animal in plain sight. It was like an irritation, and he would never be satisfied until the world is dead. Each step was harder to take, and Jack started to feel mentally exhasted from resisting the irrratation. If only he could fall down and sleep...
Don't.
I can't help it, it's too hard to resist.
It's the spell on the admin tower. The creators of the tower figured every thief and apprentice would want that book, so they put this spell. I'll admit, it's a nice spell, but there is a way around it.
What?
Breaking the crystal.
What crystal?
Do I need to reteach you everything you ever learned on your island?
I was only there for three days.
There was a long silence, and the Destiny spoke again.
Okay. So every spell needs energy to feed off of, right?
Right
So this particular spell used a duanthheart crystal as it's storage.
What's that?
Do you know anything?
Yes, but I just lost my mermory when I came on the island, so..
Wow. Just Wow.
Is it my fault?
Yes. Anyways, a duanthheart crystal is a blue crystal, that has an intresting formation. They cut it in a shape of on of those sqaure crystals you humans like so much, with a sqaure on top and the sides are jutted out?
...
What ever. Duantheart crystals are found deep in the earth, from 100-
I don't need a geology lesson!
Calm down. Then spell is taking a toll on you. Now,you are right,but these crystals are some of the top stores of energy on this planet. You understand?
Yes
Duanthearts draw energy from dead things, so this provides a steady stream of energy.
But Destiny, if we were to release the energy, what would happen?
That is a small detail that I overlooked.
What? Tell me!
It explodes.
So that means if we can't break the crystal, we need to resist the spell?
Or we could use your dragon as a stress blankie.
Be serious
I am. Dragons have exellent magic resistance, so they are resistant to most spells.
And why didn't you think of this before?
I was using you dragon as a stress blankie.
Are you-
Look, if I got irritated, I would have killed both of you two. And you don't even know how to pass a spell to someone else yet.
Fine. Where is the tower?
Right there.
Jack could see the top of the tower. The spell was returning to Jack's mind as he lost his connection with Destiny. He found that if he stayed in mind contact with Destiny, the spell had a certin muffled affect, but he would keep on doing the last thing he did before going in contact. Right then, Allen began to woke. He wiggled around in Jack's arms until he set him down. When Allen was on the ground, he ended up waking and breathing a breath of fire, turning the top of the sand dune into a cone of glass. Allen started to growl at Destiny's organ, so for the whole time Jack walked to the tower, he had to put the orb in his hands from Allen eating it and Destiny's pleas for mercy. When he got to the door of the tower, he stopped walking and rested.