Bard's Tale
Chapter One: A drop of guidance.
Sometimes… a story can start over.
When all is naught for the ones telling it,
they had to start somewhere.
"Its time."
"Time to watch again."
"Time to sing again."
"Time to guide them."
"Frisk."
"Asriel."
"My friend. Let us see what you have started."
"Its time to see the fall of their enemy."
"Its beginning… With a drop of a tear. Interesting"
A young girl stands over a tombstone, she places down a set of flowers before it with a frown on her face. She was wearing a thin light brown jacket and pants. Her long brown hair going past her shoulders easily. Her brown eyes locked tightly to the stone with sadness deep in them.
'Frisk'
'A beloved Friend'
'199X-200X'
"I can't spend a day without visiting you… Frisk. No matter what, your smile that day drives me, your friend. Penny." The girl says with a gentle smile, a tear falling down her face. It falls and crashes to the grass below, as a gentle glow of light rises from it.
"Time. Time again. Sadness for something so meaningless."
The girl looks around, her, the light rises up past her without notice.
"Mountain. Go. Ebott calls you to the entrance once unreachable by mystery. Go and guide, little one. A surprise awaits..."
The girl looks away with confusion.
"W-Who is there?" she asks with worry. The light fades with no noise as silence rings out. "S-Should I? That mountain is cursed everyone said..." She glances to the tombstone. "Frisk.. what should I do?" She asks the stone with a thought of her friend.
'She would do it. She would take the adventure… that is what happen before she left us.' Penny nods as she turns back towards the path she took.
"I need supplies to get to Mount Ebott." She says returning towards the city.
A person stands behind the tree where the stone rested, give a sigh.
"I hope that is enough of a push to start this story… Frisk would be lost without guide." The voice says to themselves before they vanish in a puff of shadows.
"Though I have to say… its time to visit the past to see how thing went… I have wanted to see the truth of what happened during Egel's time."
Year XX Day X
"So here we are… Pretty tame… wait. Ah So that must be it."
Large open plains of grass and trees, A rift opens up with multiple colors swirling within, as two beings emerged, a man and womanly figure. The man smiles as he looks around then towards his companion, whom upon closer inspection was indeed female.
"Here we are my love. We are finally safe here from the cruel end of our world."
The man says, He stands with golden yellow hair and yellow eyes. He is wearing a very formal style set of white and golden robes. The woman with white and blue robes on, she seemed weaker than him as she leans over heavily onto him. Unlike him, she was covered head to toe in dark blue scales, and her body was akin to a dragon, she had purple eyes as she glances at him.
"As...expected. You have no trouble crossing into different worlds and timelines, You really are an Oracle of our kind Mazerin dear." She smiles as strongly as she can before 'Mazerin' sets her down onto the ground.
"You must take it easy Jana, you have not recovered fully from being sick with that wretched plague we just went through before...everything went to hell." He says with worry as he helps her lie down before raising a hand over to her chest and it emits an orange glow.
"Easy for you to say dear… Your not trying to acclimate to the leap we took, the land here is different. I can feel the heavier pull of the ground beneath me and the thinner air. It is not like our world… it is close but not by much." Jana says with a heavy breath. Mazerin smiles as he looks at her with hope in his eyes.
"You will adjust in time, for now, let me help you with this." He moves his hand over the center of her chest between her cleavage. Jana's breathing slowly calms as he coats her airways with his magic.
'She is right, this isn't like our world. But I can slowly change it; or atleast part of it to match our- her needs. I can stand this because… this is…. Nows not the time to think about that.' He smiles at her as he begins to pick her up as he stands before moving the two of them.
"So, where are we going to live here?" She asks as she looks around at the land around them.
"There should be a forest ahead. That means there will be creatures we can use as a food source and trees to use as a resource for building a shelter. Not to mention water, and cover from the natives of this land… You can smell it too the smell of fire in the distance right?" Mazerin asks as he glances down at her.
Jana nods before setting her glance towards the direction of the smell.
"The smell of death emanates from it… Dear is this the only place we could go? From one place of war to another?" Mazerin sighs before nodding.
"Yes, it seems our people were no different than these people at one point, we will have to guide them eventually." Jana smiles gently at Mazerin as the two enter the forest. Up above them the hooded figure watched over.
"So, You started here… The air is thinner than the current… You did this. You terraformed this world. You caused all these problems..." The man shakes his head as he watches from above. 'I mustn't lose control… despite hes the reason.' The man follows over the forest as time begins to move faster.
A log cabin grows in the middle of the forest, as soon it expands with room after room. Becoming a small log house. Time seems to slow to normal as a cry is heard. Years had gone by as the figure peers through a window.
"Come on Jana, just a bit more!" Mazerin calls out as he assists her. She had a blanket over her as her belly shown a swelling to it. She screams in pain with heavy panting between each yell. "There! Hes-" Mazerin goes silent as Jana pants.
"M-Mazerin… is everything okay with our child?" She asks, her eyes droopy with exhaustion. The only thing that could be heard after was a single word.
"Why." The child… was gone. The atmosphere was too weak for the child to be born and its lungs had collapsed trying to take its first breaths. The moments past as Jana realize what had happened.
Her heart couldn't take it and the exhaustion as she passes out. Mazerin could only scream as he holds the little one in his arms.
"WHY?! GODS DAMN IT WHY?!" He screams in fury as his tears slide down his face.
'Death of a child… then how did their sixteen children survive before? Unless they were not normal in their eyes.' The being watches as night and the next morn comes quickly.
"I am… so sorry dear." Mazerin was kneeling before Jana, his head held low. "I didn't… I didn't know this is the danger of this world's air, its thin air I didn't know!" He screams towards the floor. Jana stared at the wall.
"Mazerin… is it even… possible for us to ever have a child here." Mazerin's eyes narrow.
"I don't know. Maybe… but it would mean.. they would be lesser than us, it would be against our ways to do such!" Jana looks over to Mazerin. Her eyes were dead looking, hollow with no will.
"Dear… our kind is gone. The least we can do… is leave this world in capable hands of two races than one." Mazerin's eyes widen before closing.
"Then is that your wish? It could degrade your body and soul's strength." Jana only gives a nod as he stands up.
"I am ready."
Time speeds by once again. The being sighs as he looks onwards.
"So, a spell to split the soul of an unborn into two halves. Resulting in two things… a body with a soul, and a soul without a body. Disgustingly forbidden… to raise lives like that, but the desperation… I would have done the same if I had someone who I loved asked me. Monsters, they would be… a being without a true body. But Frisk changes that, being around a Sio'ta… Strengths the body. Materializing it, it is just one of the miraculous abilities." The being speaks to himself as he sighs.
"Ive seen enough. This world it disgusts me, I will return when I am ready to learn more of the past." He says as he walks away, a rift opens as he walks through taking himself back to the present.