Chapter 7
Age of the Dragon
Blackwall looked around him. All he could see was a perpetually rainy "beach" composed of nothing but rocks and sediment rather than sand; though there was greenery, it was scattered few and between throughout stone and sediment. Taking a moment to gather his thoughts, he then set off. He had no idea why the distortions throughout Cyber Space had forced him and Ethel to leave Cyslodia, but surely there was no reason for the two to abruptly up and abandon Ragna when they did. Regardless, Blackwall had been sent to the Storm Coast for a reason.
As Blackwall explored the Storm Coast looking for the other members of the Inquisition, he spied a young mage attempting to flee from a strange mechanical soldier like the ones that had attacked Colony 4. Blackwall rushed to save the mage, drawing his sword. Suddenly the mage vanished, only to be just as quickly replaced by a man with brown eyes and brown hair with a short flaming ponytail wearing a suit of white and red armour brandishing a flaming spear. Undeterred by this new arrival, Blackwall plunged his sword into the robotic soldier, making to thrust the sword in nice and deep. Taking this opportunity, the brown-haired man followed up with an orgasmic thrust with his spear, the combined force of the two causing the robotic soldier to explode from the sheer awesomeness. "OK, who are you?", Blackwall asked the man, not missing a single beat. "I am Cammuravi of Colony Delta, proud soldier of the Kingdom of Agnus.", the man replied.
As Blackwall and Cammuravi introduced themselves to each other, the two were spied from on a hill by a man with short blue hair and blue eyes wearing a white tunic with a blue and gold stripe, a white kerchief, a pair of black and golden boots and a blue cape. Alongside him was a young girl with violet eyes and very long pale violet hair with black streaks wearing a white dress and short white gloves; a man with short spiky red hair and red eyes wearing black and dark red armour; a man with short blonde hair and green eyes wearing a white tunic with a blue cape and a white ruff and a black girl with black hair tied into a ponytail and red eyes wearing a white and pink half shirt and a white skirt. "What do you think, King Sigurd?", the black girl said to the blue-haired man. "I don't know if a human and a Blade are capable alone of finding the seven Chaos Emeralds. I mean, we need all of them to stop YHVH and to claim the Holy Grail so we can ascend and make the world ours and we still haven't found the purple, white, blue and yellow emeralds yet.", Sigurd said. "Still though, to think that Brodia, Firene and Solm would easily pool their resources alongside Archanea, Valentia, Crimea, Daein, Gallia, Begnion, Hoshido, Nohr, Renais and Pherae to even find 7 powerful emeralds in the first place; it's making me positively throbbing with excitement!", the blonde-haired man said. "And of course you'd talk about throbbing with excitement, Alfred.", the red-haired man said to the blonde-haired man. "Still though, Diamant, we need to find a way to promote you, Alfred, Timerra and Lady Veyle to your Tier 2 classes.", Sigurd said to the red-haired man. Diamant then turned to the black girl, saying, "By the way, Timerra, how is Queen Seforia doing?". "Oh, Mom's doing quite OK.", Timerra replied. "Getting back on topic, where do you think the Chaos Emeralds are?", the pale violet-haired girl asked curiously. "Your guess is as good as ours, Lady Veyle.", Alfred replied to the pale violet-haired girl. Noticing the group up on the hill, Blackwall and Cammuravi raced up to meet them. "I'm sorry, where you talking about the Chaos Emeralds?", Blackwall asked. "We were, yes.", Veyle replied. "Because if it's Chaos Emeralds you're after, I know where you can find some.", Blackwall responded in turn.
While that was going on, a young swordsman with spiky brown hair and brown eyes wearing a long sleeved red shirt and black jeans with red boots and red gloves walked through a harsh desert accompanied by a man with long spiky red hair and green eyes wearing a white coat, a black undershirt exposing his belly, black trousers and red shoes and a man with a long black mullet and grey eyes wearing a black tunic showing off his chest, black trousers and grey boots alongside a golden bracelet on his left arm. Alongside them was a man with short grey hair and brown eyes wearing a black and dark purple hooded cloak and dark brown boots and a woman with tanned skin, short black hair in an equally short ponytail and brown eyes wearing black and dark purple armour. "So is this where the yellow Chaos Emerald is?", the red-haired man asked. "It's got to be. Otherwise, King Sorean and Prince Kallian seriously messed up in detecting it.", the black-haired man said. Suddenly a dark red appeared, with a man in menacing crimson and purple armour stepping through. "Who'd you think he is?", the brown-haired man asked the grey-haired man. "I don't know, Lloyd, but he seems to be trouble.", the grey-haired man said. "Regardless, I have the feeling he'll give us a veritably orgasmic fight.", the black-haired woman said. "Still though, Ashera, we'll need to be very careful as we don't know what he's got up his sleeve.", the grey-haired man said. "Come now, Robin, you know careful isn't how I roll.", Ashera replied to the grey-haired man. "Robin's right, we need to careful.", the red-haired man said. "I second that, Luke.", Lloyd responded. Turning to the black-haired man, Ashera asked, "What do you think, Yuri?". "Well, whatever you decide.", Yuri replied.
As the red armoured man prepared to fight the group of five, Blackwall explained to Sigurd, Veyle, Diamant, Alfred and Timerra about where they were. "So this is the Kingdom of Ferelden in this year of 9.42 Dragon, right?", Veyle asked. "Correct. This is the world of Thedas specifically, in the Age of the Dragon, or, as we like to call it, the Dragon Age.", Blackwall explained. "And what gives the name for these Ages?", Alfred asked. "Well, that is defined by the major cultural accomplishments in the current Age, like the Steel Age named for the four steel swords embedded in Queen Madrigal of Antiva, for example.", Blackwall replied. "Wow, so much lore already and it's just chapter 7!", Diamant exclaimed.
Meanwhile at Garreg Mach, Kasane entered a dark and lonely room where she saw the unmistakable sight of her beloved older sister Naomi. "Naomi?", Kasane asked, . Naomi turned round, her face lighting up when she saw her sister, rushing to her like a woman possessed and tenderly embracing her. "It's nice to see you again, Sister.", Naomi said. "B-But how? I saw you turn into an Other and then you sacrificed yourself! How are you back to normal?!", Kasane asked. "Well, it's a long story as they say. But I'll give you the abridged version so we can save on chapter length and time for this story's writer. Anyway, it all started when YHVH came into possession of these strange six crystals called the Infinity Gems and started to abuse their power; that thing's use of the Time Gem, the orange one, caused several time anomalies that ended up bringing me, Major General Karen, Nagi and Captain Seto back from beyond the realms of death and turned me back into a human to boot.", Naomi explained. "And why were you separated from me, dear sister?", Kasane asked, now crying. "Well, that was because Her Majesty Queen Rhea and her beloved husband His Majesty King Byleth decided to make sure I was safe before Alphen and Rinwell found you, sis.", Naomi replied. Kasane was now hysterically crying (though to be fair she had been reunited with her sister who she hadn't seen for quite a good while now). Uncaring of the tears soaking her purple dress, Naomi hugged Kasane tight, soothing her with a "There, there.".
Back to the desert, Lloyd, Luke, Yuri, Robin and Ashera entered the Temple of the Golden Sands, obviously expecting to find the yellow Chaos Emerald…only to be met with a nasty surprise- the emerald was gone! Absolutely shocked by this twist, Ashera then spied another man in red armour, asking him, "Where is it? Where is the Chaos Emerald?". "Oh, that yellow thing? It's at Garreg Mach Monastery now.", the man in the red armour replied. "And why is it there?", Robin asked. "Oh, the people there are trying to use the Emeralds in an attempt to perform a large scale Chaos Control to warp all of us out of Cyber Space and hopefully kill YHVH.", the man in red armour said. Summoning a blue double-bladed sword out of nowhere, Ashera smiled and declared, "Enough talking. Let's fight!". "Something we can both agree on.", the man in red armour said, summoning a dark and spiky version of Lanz's oversized greatsword. Ashera's grin grew wider as she rushed forward ready to attack.
Meanwhile at Garreg Mach, Lapis and Rinwell met with Tsugumi in the monastery's greenhouse. "OK, Tsugumi, what do you wanna talk about?", Lapis asked with bated breath. "It's about Blanc, Ragna and Ouroboros. I suspect that they're no longer on our side.", Tsugumi said. "What do you mean?", Rinwell asked. "Well, I don't know if it's true or not, but I have reason to believe that Moebius is among our ranks.", Tsugumi said. "Well, they do seem pretty sus.", Lapis said. "What are you getting at?", Tsugumi asked. "I heard Hanabi and Lanz talking about something about the Chaos Emeralds, that they needed to find someone named Jack Sebastian Arnold and use him as the key to acquire infinite power and knowledge.", Lapis said. "I also saw a crimson darkness within Blanc, Ragna, Hanabi and Ouroboros too. Like they used to be alive…but now they aren't, like they made a deal with something to bring them back from death so could live in something called the Endless Now and acquire immortality forevermore.", Tsugumi said. "Now I think about it, I also heard Alphen and Dohalim arguing with Eunie about this Endless Now before Lanz departed to Mahag Saar.", Rinwell said. "Like the Fornis Region?", Tsugumi asked, also . "Actually, it's Mahag Saar. The Fornis Region and Colony 4, Colony 30 and Colony Iota were absorbed into the Mahag Saar region when the Convergence began, like how Colony 9, the Bionis' Leg, Gormott and the Storm Coast were absorbed into Elde Menancia, the Hebra Region, Valak Mountain, Hieno Mountain and the Gerudo Highlands were absorbed into Cyslodia and how the Eldin Region was absorbed into Orbus Calaglia.", Rinwell explained. "And you think that the Convergence and us being uploaded into Cyber Space is connected to YHVH and Moebius fighting over the Chaos Emeralds?", Lapis asked. "Well, it's possible anyway.", Rinwell replied.
Hearing this absolutely heated conversation outside the greenhouse, a smiling Eunie started to giggle.
The story continues in the next chapter.
