WELCOME TO THE APOKALLYIPSIS EXTRAVAGANZA!
From now until monday, you'll get one chapter a night? Is that great or what?
Well, here's the first installment:
Part Three: The End
Prolouge
Again, Teross laughed.
"Well! You've found me out then. I am indeed as you say, Teross, one of the seven rebellors from the Darkness. I've lived through all that was the original universe, and all that is this, and I am above all of it! I am the true master of fate!" Teross spread his arms far, to prove he encompassed all. Asari smiled, but it was masked by her cowl.
"Indeed...but, if thy wishes it, how did you survive the apocalypse of the original universe??"
"Evil endures all, once cast into hell, I hid as a lowly peon, until I could slip back into a new dimension, since the etheral is unnafected by actions in the physical." Asari nodded, understanding now.
"Now, you tell me, how did you find this out? I am the only one that still exists from the original universe."
"Nay...there exists another."
"Too true...so, they've finally returned, have they?"
Chapter Twenty One: Fortelling of the Legend
Music resounded through the lightly rooted trees. Beings of all manner swung through the trees torward a mass of glowing orbs, as night had alread fell.
"Indeed? You came from a place ten trillion island tortise shells away? Such a sojurn I could not bear." A alligator like creature commented in a booming voice across the hard wood table, covered in alien delectables of all sorts.
"In a manner of speaking, yes." Seraph commented, then stuffed her face with a lettuce like plant, covered in a red sauce.
"Were you taken by the back of a Jemendad?" With eyes swiviling, something rather like a crab asked.
"Come, come now! Let us not bear our guests of honor with tedious questions!" A turtle like being, the same one that had greeted them, with cords of vegetable hanging from his mouth as he spoke in another, throaty voice.
"So! What brings you to our humble island?" The turtle turned, patting Tymen on the back with one massive claw and shoving food into his mouth with the other.
"Well..." Tymen mumbled, straining to eat without utensils, a bit of noble blood shining through.
"We come looking for an artifact, a piece of a map."
"Then it is the oracle you should see!" A frog from a distant part of the massive table piped in.
"The oracle!"
"The oracle! Yes!"
"Go see the O' mighty oracle!" Voices sprung forth from all around the table, amid the constant humm of talking.
"Where does the oracle live?" Tyio asked, taking a chunk out of some meat.
"Atop the highest tree." The turtle commented.
"Great! Let's go!" BlackSheep stood up, but the alligator quickly snapped out,
"No, eat, drink first, then the oracle you shall see." The feast, in honor of the guests from afar, continued late into the night, the merryment sent to a rythm by the song of thousands of crickets. It was well past midnight, when a good percentage of the feasters were drunken or asleep, that Ducky asked about the oracle,
"The festivites seem to have died down...can we see the oracle now?" The turtle gave a deep laugh.
"I dunna know, can you? Haha! Come, come, let us see the oracle!" As the turtle fell into his slow, steady trot the rabbits fell behind him. Eventually, they came to a massive tree, which roots spread though the entirety of the soft soil, very wide around, with soft, moist bark.
"This, my companions, is the tallest tree on all of our island." Without another word, the turtle turned and stuck his claws into the bark and began ascending it. The others found protruding pieces of bark and climbed. All except Seraph.
"Seraph? You comming?" Juiso looked down, inquisitivley.
"Ah..yea...you see, I've a bit of a fear of heights..." She nervously stated, obviously not wanting to loose face amid her crew.
"Don't worry, I'll climb below you so if you fall I can catch you, hows that." With great caution, Seraph sunk her fingers into the soft wood.
"Very well." Then, thought of a way to maintain pride, "I mean, if I had lived someplace other than the desert, where it's very flat, I'm sure I would've." Realizing her words fell on deaf ears, she angrily became silent. They procedded up the massive tree, unevenfully, until they were about three fourths up.
"We're almost there!" The turtle bellowed down, at the top of the group. No sooner than this had been said, then a squish SPPLURT could be heard as a piece of bark gave way and Seraph went plummeting. She clawed futily at the bark as she descended, just sending more wet wood flying.
Just a soon as it seemed death was inevitable, she rammed into the Juiso that was quite a few feet below her, as he'd promised. But Juiso had not expected this turn of events, and began falling, until with lightning speed, he retreived his staff and shot it into the bark, some of the water beetles crawling out of the puncture.
"That was too close." Shortly thereafter they arrived at the tip of the massive tree, upon which was set a small hut, completly dark on the inside.
"You've come, as I predicted, Anatius." The turtle, Anatius, as apparently his name was, gave a nod and replied,
"Indeed I have, father Genyisix, I have brought seven travellers from afar, they wish to speak to you."
"Yes..." Genyisix replied, still entombed in shadow. Then, that changed, he stuck his head out. It was similiar to Anatius' in shape, turtle like, but his eye's glowed red and he was covered in long, strips of material.
"What is it you wish to know?" He asked, his voice hallow and airy.
"We seek a piece of a map..." Seraph said, hoping that would be a sufficient explanation.
"Yes...you will have it." He extended a massive claw like Anatius', only much older and very wrinkled. In it there was a glint of stone.
"Under...a condition."
"What is it?" Tyio asked rather abruptly.
"When you reach you're destination, tell the one you meet there this; Anmad namelad Teradoss aresux Apokallyipsis." He opened his claw, and Seraph quickly snatched it, fearing he might change his mind, then fused it with the other two pieces of the map.
"As soon as the sun flys above the horizon in the marrow, you must leave, for every day spent here equals one month in time away from here." They were shocked to hear this, and, in response, they hustled down the tree quickly. Night was restless for them, and tiredly they left at sun up, and departed the watery world.
"Okay *yawn* what's our next destination?" Juiso asked, his eyes abit saggy.
"It's..." Seraph's voice froze.
"What?" Tyio asked, shoving up to see the map."
"According to this, the planet we go to next is...
Knnryshaa."
Up Next: Chapter Twenty Two: Sky Over Enemy Homeworld. The next planet on the map is the homeworld of those dastardly Knn?
And Asari is back in town and prepping for some revenge!
Looks like our heros are in for some trouble.
You better get ready, for next time on Sureal!
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"And so it begins."
"If you go to Za'Ha'Dum, you will die."
"We are all Kosh."
-Kosh, Babylon 5
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