The Gang of Five
Role Play => Random Role Play => Topic started by: Nick22 on February 08, 2007, 05:35:28 PM
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A cool fall breeze lifted through the air as stripetail stirred his head. "The school year approaches" He said to himself. It would be Eva's tenth, and last, year at the abbey, and once it was over. so would end his tutolage of her. She was no longer a minor, after all... and Stripetail sensed she was anxious to explore the wider magical world. In his opinion, he had taught her well, although there was also much he had kept from her, some things can only be learned through experience.
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And yet, part of him did not want her to leave. Having Eva around had been good for him,he had been starting to ossify, become stuck in his ways, before she had appeared. Snowpaw was an ancient memory, and while Tarrax was his best friend, even their games of magical sport had started to lose interest. Eva had changed all that, and as she had gone through her studies, he had tested her in the ancient ways. She had tested him as well, in other ways.
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In the corner of the universe on a planet near a blue star the planet mostly fiery part from waters and small piece of a green island on the fiery part of the world a large structure sat inside stood 12 redish like dragons standing before a larger one sitting at a large stone throne like chair with a red orb on one of the arms of the throne.
"The young Eva is at her 10th, she is almost ready." he put the claw hand over the orb then move it away showing a image of her "I have been waiting and watching her for all this time she been in that school" his eyes turn to the other dragons before him. "She is almost at time be ready to move in and bring her here before the Lord Stripetail knows what happens. clear your tracks as trained it will give the time that is needed when the time comes."
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Stripetail shook his hgead as he rose from the chair. Ince the year was over, she would be on her own, he would no longer be responsible for her protection. "Because of me, she will have many enemies once she leaves.. But that can't be helped.. she will have to handle them on her own, it will be her life after all." he finished his thoughts, and left the room.
_ Eva was getting all her school supplies together and scanning the room for anything she may have missed.
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Eva got what she needed for class, it been a good time at school having her ups and downs but all very well and good for her. Eva saw Stripetail as she came down stairs "Morning Stripetail"
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Good morning Eva. I see you are ready for school to begin again. " Stripetail replied. Eva now carried a staff with two red crystals in it, marking her as a Red level 2, the third highest level given at Sowarkard. that made her one of the strongest students in school. "You've made Red Level 2 now, i see. Well done, hopefully, before you graduate you'll be a Red Level 3."
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"Yes and i will train my hardest as always" Eva smiled then one of the staff came with letters one of them addressed to Eva.
She was given it and she opened it with a ruby falling out of it and a letter. "A ruby? and this letter. 'a shine and beauty let my sights see you some time' there is no name. wonder who set it?" Eva wondered.
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Stripetail picked up the ruby. "Interesting. cast some spells on the paper maybe there is more writing on it , hidden by spells or ink."
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Eva did but nothing appeared "Nothing, it seem to just have that little messenge on it nothing else" Eva said to Stripetail and taking the Ruby she looked at it "this look like a simple rock. I think I could place it in a little holder and be a necklace" Eva smiled
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Go ahead. But first. .." Stripetail gestured and a ball of flame appeared in his pay. he hed the paper above the flames and ran it across the paper. As he did new writing appeared. "What is this?' He said, surprised.
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"If your reading this, then Stripetail did a fiery spell. A friend we was a million years ago, a dragon you forgotten, till you remember my name will not be known but I have been watching Eva and soon we will met. I wish no harm or assualt, please do not speak this to Eva and soon the truth will be known to her alone. A dragon friend" the words only could be read by Stripetail
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Stripetail finished reading...and closed his fist extinguishing the flame. He said nothing, but put the letter into his robe pocket. "You'd better get going, your first class starts in an hour." He said finally.
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Eva nod "Alright" Eva put the ruby around her neck "bye" Eva got her things and left the castle.
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Stripetail watched Eva walk away then ewent into the study.
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45 minutes later, Eva walked through the gates of Sowarkard. It was an ancient abbey,and its history was long and storied. Stripetail had gone there as had other great wizards and witches in history. Now she was finishing up her time there as well. She walked past the familar statues of Dannus the Strong and Gesurus the Wise, the great wizards who had founded the abbey ages ago. Her class was on the first floor of the fifthg building and she made it there just in time. Her teacher was a doe named professor Trina.
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"hello 10th years" Trina said as Eva rushed in. "Welcome to your final year. This class is magical History level 4. Please take out your books."
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Eva sat down and take out her books ready for the lesson 'I am going to work my hardest this year' Eva thought to herself
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We all will have to' said a voice behind her. It was tristan, a friend of hers which she had met in her 7th year. Like her, he was a red Level 2. He had never meet Stripetail, although he had mentioned his desire to do so on more than one occasion. His face turned red. "Sorry, were you talking to yourself?" he asked quietly.
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"Yes I was but nothing serious" Eva smiled then the door opened a worker at the school came in with a Red dragon
"Sorry Trina for walking in on your very first lesson but we have a dragon exchange student and he is here to learn tenth year magic for this year." the tiger humaniod spoke out known as Tanga she handing the papers over to Trina. "His name is Nova and son of Redstar"
Eva gasped a little 'Redstar, I heard of him his the Red Dragon that known for his unqiue magical skills, but no one knows where Redstar lives or where he is at the moment, I never knew he had a son.' Eva thought to herself with a small smile it seem to be cool for her to meet a son of such a great Dragon even though she knew this because of the books in Stripetail's castle.
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This is highly irregular" Trina frowned. 'Has the headmaster approved the exchange? If he has, then I will permit it."
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"I wouldn't be here with this student Nova if I was't Trina." Tanga replied "If you like I can ask him to come down personally"
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Very well." Trina sighed " Nova please take a seat, there's one available in the 4th row , over ther by Restor the otter. Thank you Tanga, you may go now."
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"Yes miss" Nova nods then head over to the table and sits down but before that he took a glance at Eva. 'Is she the one my father spoke about?' he thought quietly then took a seat.
Tanga smiled "I will let the Headmaster know his in class" Tanga bow a little and leaves. Eva thought about it looking over at Nova then facing the front of the class 'I wonder if this ruby got something to do with red dragons, I got to check the books out later on at home'
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"Welcome to the class" came various welcomes as the dragon took his seat. "Now that this is settled, let me get back to my notes. " Trina saif pulling out a stack of paper.
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At Stripetail's castle he was sitting down to have something to drink when a voice spoke "Hello old friend" he turn around to see a red dragon standing before him and wondering how someone could sneak up like that without him noticing.
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Why are you here Redstar?" Stripetail's eyes narrowed "As I recall, we parted as 'friends" in the barest terms. You seemed to have learned how to sneak in here without me noticing... not something that a friend would do to another.. a friend would give forewarning.." By his tone it was clear that Stripetail was irritated by Redstar's arrival.
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"I did, it was in the letter, the way it was writen, a code in a code. I did it so if Eva got past the first layer she wouldn't on the second." Redstar points out to Stripetail. "parting a long time ago was for a simple reason, red dragon power was falling into the wrong hands and it was believed more then one wizzin was behind it since when we last talked I wasn't sure who did I had to end our friendship and the red dragons disappear" Redstar said sitting down on a chair calmly speaking to Stripetail
"But as you see Red Dragons are slowly appearing again and our magic is also returning after a million years. But most of it will be held back and the most wises and powerful of the red dragons and our books will still be lost to all part from us. I can't take the risk of it falling in the wrong hands again." Redstar spoke explaining this to Stripetail. "I am sorry it cost our own friendship but it was either that or watch our magic be misused on life that wasn't involved"
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Stripetail paused. "And what about the jewel? What is its significance? Or is it simply a gift/"
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"Eva be requested to come to our secret home alone and only red dragons may enter it, the jewel is a magical ruby that able to change the wearers form to that of a red dragon and return them back to normal. I do not know much what the Elder of the Red Dragons want but when the time is right Eva will be taken there straight away by one of 12 red dragons me being one of them." Redstar told Stripetail the snach about things
"Please don't ask me why and why you can't know. The oldest Red Dragon don't trust a Wizzin after what happened and he only one that really knows why he want to see Eva at his own throne room and Stripetail that is the very first time anyone other then a real red dragon walked in those halls" Redstar finished telling Stripetail.
"Knowing what I do about Eva she will try and study about the ruby itself and might even get it working without a problem. and one other thing my son learning in the year 10 classes his around the same age as Eva." Redstar finial told the last
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Is that so? The problem is Redstar, I can;t see what good could come out of this... Forgive me, but I don't trust you. You abandon our friendship abruptly and suddenly after a million years you come back? You were once one of my best friends Redstar..." Stripetail slowly rose to his feet. "I do not trust your Elder either, the feeling is mutual. As for Eva, since you know so much about her, you know what she will attempt later this year. Why the sudden urgency? Is it because... her tutoring with me will be finished? your magic is not the only magic that has declined., so has my people's. Mine hasn't, nor has yours. We are lucky in that respect. But it will take me awhile to trust you again, my friendship is not something you throw away lightly. "
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Redstar put a claw hand on the end of his snout rubbing it a little "Even I did disappear for a long time I still thought of you as a very good friend and a true one at that so I kept leaving rubys around for you to find. It was suppose to be a reminder of our friendship and that i was still around and cared about our friendship. I trust you with my life back then and still now" Redstar said to him. "You could either believe or not believe but I've told the truth."
Redstar then told about the interest in Eva "Eva is threatened... when you brought her to living from machine there was one tiny floor you missed... when she reach the age that you call master magic after the 10th year ends she will fall ill from a illness that you know as Minicer Virus. THe only chance she will survive it is be a Red Dragon and live in our home world. elder told us the reason but I was told not to tell you but elder spoke to me alone and said I could cause he knew I would and you care about Eva." Redstar stood up wings opened up a little.
"This is Eva's only chance of living when she passes the final lessons get the jewel working turn her into a Red Dragon and one of 12 of us or maybe all of us will come to take her to her new home. I know this might be hard for you but the parting of ways have to come some time Stripetail" Redclaw said to Stripetail.
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There is one other way Redclaw- immortality" stripetail replied. "As you know, the Wizzin are immortal.... and anyone who passes the tests and is admitted into the Wizzin is granted immortality... she will take the tests before her classes end." Stripetail said.
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Suddenly the red Dragon symbol on Redstar's ruby that he keeps hold of glows and send a beam of light creating a circle then the elder of the Red Dragons appear on the view. "Elder!?" Redstar knelt before the image even for his reseve angel legs and able to do it bowing down.
"Stand Redstar" the voice said gentle then turn his eyes to Stripetail as Redstar stands "Stripetail have you asked her if she wish to be a Wizzin?" Elder spoke to Stripetail.
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i have, indirectly. She will take the tests, but I have left it up to her whether or not she will join, if she passes and the others vote to admit her." Stripetail replied.
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"Stripetail. Are you sure she will?" Elder said in repeat to a question. "What if she choose to part ways from the wizzin? you have to ask her directly." Elder spoke to him then thought of a idea. "Redstar give him a ruby and the spell for Red Dragon transformation. I wish to speak to him directly but make sure he don't bring anything of wizzin and blind fold his eyes to not knowing of the very location of our world and this castle."
"Yes Elder, I will do so as you wish" Redstar nods a little
"Stripetail Lord of the Wizzins you will be the first wizzin in history to step in this castle but not as your own, you will be a red dragon and leave your staff and wizzin items behind. I am putting a lot of trust to you will follow these guidelines." Elder speak out to Stripetail as Redstar held out a Ruby "It is your choice."
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I have left her no choice in taking them, whether she joins the Wizzin or not, that is her decison. I will allow myself to be blindfolded, but knoww this, if you turn Eva against me, in any way, you will regret it. " Stripetail replied.
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"We do not turn anyone against anyone, we are not vilote Stripetail Lord of the Wizzins. All I can say now is that there is a possible chance she will refuse to even take the tests and if I know right you can't force it onto her, if she wish to die then she wish to, you can't force immortal strength on her. if you want to speak more to me about it come to my chambers under my guidelines." Elder said raising up from his throne speaking out loudly his eyes flashing red a little from how Stripetail dare to speak to him. "We are equal in power and a battle will be a big mistake we would rip this universe apart. the times have past and rules have changed we can talk this over as friends if you wish. as the humans say, I leave the ball in your court, the move is yours" the image disappeared and the ruby lands on the ground.
Redstar pick it up putting it away and place the transformation ruby on the table "Stripetail it your choice if you like to speak to the elder directly, I will stay till you make a choice" Redstar said to him.
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I will consider his offer, for now, I will put the ruby aside. 'stripetail said. "I need time to consider the offer. Now to other matters. Why did you decide to send your son to Sowarkard? He said.
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"My son wanted to go there and I am only there to help him learn and to be a father to him. Nova is his own life, so I asked the headmaster since my son wished to learn about Sowarkard magic ans he let my son in." Redstar replied to Stripetail. "I don't want to stop my son from what he wants to do specially when it comes to studying." Redstar said then asked a question "would you try and stop Eva if she wished to study Red Dragon magic and way of life or let her go ahead with it and stay out of her way of choice?"
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To be brutally honest, yes I would. I don't forgive or forget easily, and Eva has helped revitalize me. I would like to see her help our magic revive, I 've given her the tools, now she has to use them. It has already began, but it needs a strong proponent to ensure the revival lasts. I intend Eva to be that proponent. But once she leaves, her life will be her own. "
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Redstar nod a little bit "But the question is, what if she choose something else. I know you want her to do things that you've helped her to but I have seen this happen to mortals so many times and it... well... backfires on them and all that preparing explodes in their faces and it goes completely down hill." Redstar said knowing that would be a concern for Stripetail.
"You know that as well as I do Stripetail, your sure to see this happen more then once yourself." Redstar said to him "I know it somethign you would never like to happen but be perpared for it to happen if it does. I don't know what the furture holds but anything can happen." Redstar kept a calm style to what he was saying.
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I'm well aware that it may be too much for her, I hope that she can handle it, but if she can't I have to accept it. "Stripetail replied. "tHe future is dim and uncertain, I don't know what will happen exactly, but I am prepared for any eventuality."
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"Why don't you come and talk to the Elder? maybe he can shed some light your cloud" Redstar suggested
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I still don't trust him.. Redstar, It will be awhile before I make up my mind." Stripetail replied.
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"You can not trust him if you wish but he never lied in his life and never took in conflicts. the Elder of the Red Dragons is a very peaceful sort and he just don't trust Wizzins cause of what some did in his past, it not directed at you personally and he taken a good leap of faith to let you even step foot there." Redstar stands up as Stripetail turned away.
"Stripetail the Elder trust you enough to use the ruby and come before him. if you don't trust him what does that tell about you and your furture of trusting others?" Redstar caught him off when saying that and Stripetail turned around to see Redstar was gone.
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It tells me I've become cynical." Stripetail replied quietly and he walked away, ccrystal in hand.
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Lunch time came and the entire school assemblied in the Mess Hall to eat. Tristan sat at a table and opened his lunch. As he was about to estart eating he saw eva coming in. "hi Eva! Come over here and sit by me!" He called out.
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"Sorry but I like to sit alone and think about this by myself. Sorry but I have to decline Tristan" Eva said then sit down alone on a table.
Nova sat on the otherside of the table of Tristan sitting at "Is it me or does it sound like she got alot on her mind?" Nova questioned then said "I'm Nova." he put a claw hand out to Tristan "I hope we can be friends" he grin a little trying to not show any of his sharp fangs in the snout knowing that many don't like very sharp fangs showing.
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That's a possibility. why are you here? wE don't usually admit dragons, they usually are trained at Dragomalin University." Tristan said. "as For Eva, yeah, I think she does. After Lunch I'll go ask her. Direct, perhaps, but I'm her friend."
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"I wanted to learn your styles of magic and dad asked the Headmaster directly about it and I was allowed to join." Nova answered the question. "But I wonder if this taste good" Nova looked at the food and took a try of it. "Not bad"
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Well good luck, usually, you start at first year, white level. Why did you get to pass the first 9 years?" Tristan said, curious. "Did you test out of it or something?"
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"well if I was to talk to you it would take till this afternoon to tell you. in short I did the year 1 to 9 exams and passed them all with A grades so I was put in Year 10 to see how a Red Dragon like me fairs in the highest of teaching on magical skills" Nova replied to Tristan.
A group of students walk by and one turn his tray right on top of Nova "Opps sorry about that, I didn't watch where I Was going. reddy" He laughed and the others did as they walked by. Nova took the tray off his head putting it to the side and using a little skill he learned the scales glowed red and the left overs that was on top of him burned to ashes and then nothing.
"I guess I am the new pick toy for bullies" Nova shook his head a little "It just shows they are afraid to face the real music" Nova muttered a little.
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Challenge them to a duel, that's how we settle disputes here" Tristan whispered. "You do know how to duel, right?"
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"Yes I do. I think I could seriously overwhelm them with what skills I know and none of it is magic, it basic dragon skills and they help advoid getting even touched by a single magical attack of defence" Nova whispered back.
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You have to use our magic through, its the rules. so challenge them! I'll be your second. I won the school championship last year, so I'm pretty good' Truistan said proudly.
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Nova remembered something that his father said once. 'if you get bullied I put a little something in to make sure it don't happen again.' Nova turned around the bullies that just picked on him about to leave when they opened it and stood the headmaster. "My father must of told the Headmaster this might happen on the first day." Nova smirked. "look like the headmaster saw the whole thing."
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'So! Picking on the transfer eh, Dulles?' headmaster Donovan said sternly. "I was told this might happen. 'We were going to challenge them to a duel sir" Tristan spoke up quickly. The bullies looked at him. "to settle this...sir"
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'Sir... yes... we were just heading out to the dueling rounds to ger ready." Dulles, who had dumped his try onto nova, said nervously. 'Fine, I will let you settle this through the time-honored means of dueling. But If you lose Dulles, you will get detention for a week. Am I clear?' Donovan said.
_ "Yes sir.' Dulles nodded shaikily and he and the others raced out of the room, and headed for the Dueling fields.
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I'm sorry Nova for all this. your father feared something like this might happen" The Headmaster said sadly. "Unfortunately he was proven right. Good luck at the duel, I will oversee it. See you at the dueling grounds." The Headmaster turned and walked away.
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"A week's worth of detention? Whew! That's a stern punishment! detention means you have to write down old texts while shackled to the floor, for ten hours!" Tristan shivered. "I knew a guy that got two weeks of that, and he was awreck afterwords. Let's go kick some butt!" he got up from the table.
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Nova stood up calmly "I will end it without harm and in one move, no need for butt kicking." Nova walked out to the Dualing arena and Tristan wondered what he was talking about and followed him they soon arriving there.
Dulles already standing there waiting for him to come and Nova stood on his side "Dulles please take the punishment. you don't stand a chance against what I learned." Nova spoke out then look up at the Headmaster standing at the over view stand. "Sir this is a serious disadvantage. He not skilled enough to take a dual against me. I wish it was a joke but it not"
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Well Nova, to make it fair, you may only use magics that we use. As for Dulles, he's a very good duelist. last year he finished fourth in the male tournament. So on the contrary he is very skilled. You may indeed win, but it will not be nearly as one-sided as you think." Donovan replied.
_"i can handle whatever magics you throw at me "Dulles snarled. "how many points will be given headmaster? "
_ The Leadmaster looked at both of them. 'Each of your will recieve 9000." The dueling devices activated and 3 rings appeared on both sides of the field. 'Nova , you may go first. However, according to the nrules, you cannot wipe out dulles in a single turn, those rules were amended to prevent one-sided duels. Now go" Donovan gestured and the field glowed brightly.
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Nova took his stand and opened his claw hand "I warn you even without dragon magic this is still very one sided" he didn't say anything else but the spell formed a red orb the sat in the middle of the arena just sitting there a pool of lava forming. "This is learned in your school but a very hard skill, by the next turn this will be a field of of a volcano no matter what you do" he said not showing a smile just focused on it
"Ins't that Red Lava headmaster? that a hard skill to master isn't it?" One of Dulles friends spoke out.
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"Indeed. You were not exageerating your abilities Nova" The headmaster said calmly. As a Wizard of considerable power and experience, he was used to strange occurances. "The effect increases dragons powers equal to the number of dragons played. So let's say you have 4 dragons on the field. The dragons will quadruple in power."
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"A really powerful effect, But one that I can use as well.' Dulles said. "because I have 3 dragons in my hand. Minos Dragon Terros Dragon, and Dragon of light, Each has a strength of 1500, but thanks to your spell, they triple in power. Each is worth 4500 now. dulles played the three dragon in attack mode. "Since the rules prevenmt me from attacking in the first turn, I place 2 facedown and end my turn." Your move Reddy"
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Nova didn't flinch a little "YOu've bullied the wrong dragon and I don't even have to attack to win or do anything" Nova said "I don't even need a card since your two face downs are now burning" Dulles looked to see the cards burn up to nothing before his eyes. "Lava field has a extra ability it destorys all magic cards that to aid your monsters or defend your life points and only one card can withstand it" he showed the back side of it "but I won't use it" Nova put it back in the deck and put the cards away.
Redstar watched from a far 'Dragons won't attack him kid, Red Dragons are the ruby of peace and not even the darkest dragon would harm a red dragon it would bring them bad luck in magical beliefs' Redstar thought and wait for the next move to come.
"Dulles it your turn" Nova spoke
"Ha Dulles he crazy, he acting so mighty that he think he'd going to win with nothing. finish him with your dragons!" Dulles other friend yelled out the others cheering him on now
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'Dulles smiled. those cards you destroyed weren't magic. They were traps. But apparently it doesn't matter, they were destroyed all the same. Now, " He paused as he drew a hand. "I'm going to wipe you out. First I sacrifice two of my dragons. This will allow me to draw another card. "Now I play Power Transfer. This transfers the power of my remaining dragon to another monster in my hand. My dragon is destroyed, but my new monster gains its power. Meet Lava Fiend. It normally has 1200 points, but it now has 5700. And since its made of lava, the change of field will suit it quite nicely. lava Fiend Attack him now!" The Fiend struck Nova, hurling him backwards against the shield surrounding the field. Nova's total dropped to 3300. Next i'll use The Fiend special effect... By discarding the rest of my hand, I inflict 2500 more points of damage to you" Nova went down to 800. That will end my turn. Your move. I hope you actually draw some cards this time , the whole point of the duel is use cards and combine them with spells and strategy." Dulles said.
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Nova shook his head "I do have one it was the one that I put away, you thought I did it in the lava and awaits to awaken. the creature will win this that in this one turn but..." Dulles looked so shocked to hear this then to his surprise the next thing happened. "I won't. I will forfit this dual, there is no point winning a dual that you get punished for detension for one stupid act you pulled." Nova put the card away. "I don't see the point winning a pointless dual that you will be hit hard by" Nova said calmly.
"So do you agree to my forfit or do you wish to see my creature and your defeat?. I leave this in your hands" Nova said calmly. "just take into account that I want to forfit so you don't get a weeks worth of detension"
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Forfeiting is not allowed Nova. Once you begin a duel, you cannot stop until it is completed. Trust me, I've had detention before, I know what awaits me. dueling is how we settle things here. Yes, I could accept your forfeit, but it would come at a great price to you. News of your forfeit would spread across the school, and you would earn a reputation of someone who cannot finish what he starts, a coward, in other words. Do you want that reputation Nova?' Dulles asked "You may consider it mercy, but others will consider it cowardice. You don't show mercy to a good duelist, they will not show you any, you must use every advantage you have Nova. Play your card, and I'll go accept my punishment. Or you can choose not to, and I'll beat you in the next turn."
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Tristan spoke. "nova, you must use that card! No duel here is ever pointless! We take every duel seriously, to not duel seriously is considered cowardice. You 're newly transfered so I can't expect you to grasp all the nuances of life here yet. But you must use your card, otherwise not only will he get out of detention, but you will be shown as a weakling to boot. A double whammy."
_ Dulles smiled as Nova reached for the card. "I can handle losing Nova, if my opponent has played to his utmost.
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If you have a card in your hand that can win you the duel Nova, you must play it" The Headmaster said. "We do not allow forfeits here, otherwise the losers of one-sided duels would be forfeiting every year. It is your turn still."
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"Very well I will play it... this card is the only one and it been in my family for a long time, my father gave me it when I won the Grand Red Dragon Tournament." Nova said and raise his claw hand up the lava starts to whirl around on Nova's side and a dragon starts to appear from the lava the dragon had pure ruby scales all over it as it rose from the lava it was massive and the Dragon eyes sapphire in colour looking right at the Lava Fiend.
"This is my card. The Ruby Master Dragon. Since held it back from the start this what will happen." Nova said
"Dulles the lava it all going into that massive dragon!" Dulles friend yelled out and
Dulles saw it the lava all going into it and the Lava Fiend was also being pulled apart and then completely destoryed all it lava gone as well. the Dragon stood with no lava left on the field. "And cause I held it three turns there is now the energy stored to fire the ulimate powerful move and it a instant KO, no magic, no traps and no monster can stop this" Nova said then points with his eyes glowing a little.
"Ruby Master Dragon! Fire your ulimate attack! KO FIRE DRIVER RUBY BEAM!!!!" Nova roared out pointing at Dulles the mouth opened and a massive beam of flaming energy appeared and blasted right through the field striking Dulles with a massive flashing red ruby light that everyone shielded their eyes part from Nova the light died down and Dulles was against the floor about 20 feet from the arena zone it self. Headmaster couldn't believe what he just saw the size and the power that this Dragon had and able to do a solid KO. Nova return the dragon to it card and put it away in his pocket with the deck.
"Dulles lost..." Dulles friend said in disbelief.
Redstar smiled 'I knew he would the best choice for that card. it attached to him very well. may the dragon within the card protect you son' Redstar thought then leaves.
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Dulles chuckled wanly. "Good move Nova. You win. But knoiw this, we will meet again , in the school tournament. and next time, I'll win. " Dulles was bleeding from mulitple cuts in his body.
_ Tristan looked at Nova. "You weren't kidding when You said you could win in one move! That card is incredible!"
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A very powerful card inded' The Headmaster smiled. "One of the strongest I've ever seen. You will be one to watch in the tournament this year young Nova. "
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"Yes but it power is enough to injury someone, but there is one thing I will not do is enter your tournament" Nova turn to Tristan.
"I do not really want to enter it and if even I did wanted to. I promised my father I would never enter the tournament and one thing a Red Dragon can't do is break a promise... it against our nature to break promises or even lie... we are a peaceful sort of dragon, we never enter wars or even use our magic to interfer with other races. that the way things are." Nova sat down folding his wings up.
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Why? You'd be on the short list of people who have a chance of winning it. But That's your choice, I respect that." Tristan replied.
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"I am sure that the headmaster will understand why I can't enter. won't he?" Nova said to Tristran hoping that the headmaster would be understanding.
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'I'm sure he will be. After all, there is nothing that says you are bound to enter. but I think He'd be disappointed, at least a little, if you did not enter. And after seeing you play today, I'd be disappointed too, you've got talent Nova."
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"What I played today is only the surface of the ice... if I was to dual seriously it would of been over in the second move." Nova said to Tristan.
"But when it come to dualing in this school, one I made a promise not to enter and two is that I am in a lengue of my own and finally three I don't feel right dualing against others that i Know it will end with me winning before even starting it." Nova explained his reasons.
"So there is no fun in dualing for me... I don't want to dual to just win... I want to dual for a challenge that makes it interesting for me to compete in and your tournament sadly has no real challenge to me... it would be unfair for all thoses that enter." Nova said walking with him and then taking a seat on a bench. "Can you see why I won't enter and why I made that promise with my father?" Nova look to Tristan.
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You think too highly of yourself." Tristan replied. "There are duelists here who can beat you. Not many perhaps, but all it takes is one.Eva, for example, was trained by Lord Stripetail, the most powerful wizard in existence. She can play with anyone, even you. She can beat yoiu, trust me. I could beat you too' His eyes narrowed. "Your card is very powerful, but all cards have weaknesses. Even your Ruby Dragon. I noticed two openings that Dulles failed to exploit. That KO effect will wipe out life points, but only up to a certain amount. Say if I have 50000, I'd be safe from your cards attack. second, you could be attacked magically, and he didn't. "sendar' is a very powerful magical spell, it infllicts 5000 points of direct damage , rehardless if you have monsters on your side of the field. One of those would have wiped you out, before you could even make a move." He looked at Nova. "Everyone duels in the school tournaments Nova, its tradition. but you made a promise, and you can't break it, I accept that."
_ When you are at an elite level young Nova, you are faced with the challenge iof self-motivation. Boredom can easily set in, if you don't create goals for yourselves in duels.' The Headmaster said, walking past. "I would suggest you enter, this tournament is always interesting. You can be upset in any round, regardless of your skill. And we have duelists of your caliber here Nova. You are certainly not in a league of your own, at least not here. We have guest duelists enter the tournament every year, so you entering would not be a surprise at all. I understand you may think that you will have little challenge in the tournament, but you are wrong. The arrogance of brute talent, I had the same arrogance when I was here as a student . " He smiled. "Yet, a promise is a promise too. I will ask your father to let you play, but I leave the final decison to you.
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Nova stood there thinking then said "I can see your points, I guess how things happened on duals and I might change my cards around a little, I do have a folder of the cards I collected and gathered over the years" Nova seeming a bit more happier "Maybe that all I needed a little kick of reality" Nova stated.
"I would like a talk with father see if I could enter the tournament just to see what I am really up against. but I don't he will do it, I understand why if he don't cause of the style of cards and magic I have. As a saying goes a paw does not look like a claw and that would mean I am a Red Dragon and the style of magic and cards in a dual I use I can't change not even for a tournament such as this schools..." Nova said to them.
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Eva saw Redstar for a second when she was walking and then found herself standing behind a wall listening to the Headmaster, Tristan and Nova talking.
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We have had dragons duel in our tournaments in the past" The Headmaster replied. "We simply placed restrictions on their use of certain cards, to be fair to the other duelists, and we had not had any serious issues with dragons playing in our tournaments. I don't expect your participation to be a serious issue, as for your card causing injuries, you are not the first duelist to injure someone in a duel. nor will you be the last. Miss Eva also has very powerful cards, I think she will be your strongest competition, should you reach the school final. You will be in the male tournament, which will be challenging enough" The Headmaster smiled. "Anytime you wish to come out from behind that wall miss Eva, please feel free" He said sabruptly.
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"Yes sir" Eva came out then spoke again "Headmaster I think I saw Redstar for a moment leaving the arena"
"My father was there, he was watching the dual" Nova replied. "But when it comes to dualing... we have had restrictions on cards and no restrictions, the cards I collected over the years are for any type of restriction but always that escaped it was my three strongest cards. one you had seen, but when all three appear... well I leave that to imagation to think of what could happen" Nova said to them
"Sound like your a very skilled dualest, but this place has more surprises then you will think" Eva said to him
Nova smirked "I hear it already and let see what happens first, this is only the first day of the year. the tournament is months away." Nova took a look at Eva then at the headmaster. "it earily days and what said now can't really say what will happen in the furture."
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Well then perhaps you will have to duel without those cards if they keep activitating despite restrictions on them. I will let you duel with them, if you promise to keep them in check." the Headmaster frowned. "But for now I have business to attend too. Good day you three." He nodded and walked off.
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"I believe i can keep them in check, but I think lunch is almost over" Nova said looking at the time
Eva turn to them "We better get to close before we late"
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Tristan nodded He and Eva were in the same classes, so they would be going to the same place. Nova had other classes including "Dragons and Wizards: A History of friendship", which was in the third building. Eva's class was in the first building and they made it with 2 minutes to spare.
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Redstar walked up to the doors to Stripetail's castle "I guess the Elder has a reason to let Lord of the Wizzins now know about a set of cards that no wizzin even know about or any magically being outside Red Dragons. It time to let Stripetail know" Redstar knocks on the door.
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Stripetail turned from what he was doing. " Come in." He said. Redclaw entered. "Redclaw! What brings you here again? Is it about your son competing in the school tournament?"
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"No it what my son holds in his deck... it a secret that only known to red dragons, you will have no idea about what I have to say. so you better get backed and come with me." Redstar spoke to Stripetail as he walked in. "This can't be known to anyone else as well. so I would like you to come to the Chambers in our home world at once. This is a time you will have to use the Ruby to turn into a red dragon. the Elder has brought fourth a order to me to get you to his castle at once. this has no time for debates and that means we can't argure if you don't want to go." Redstar said in a very serious tone.
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Very well' Stripetail said, Producing the cryatal. he muttered a few words under his breath and he was transformed into a Red dragon. "lead the way." He said giving Redclaw a look.
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Stripetail leaves his gear and staff behind they walk out and Redstar created a teleport red dragon symbol that Stripetail never saw or even understand the words on it, Stripetail and Redstar stepped on it. they both vanished and the symbol did as well then they appear in a world with a redish sky the sun not giving much of a shine they walked up to the castle.
"This is the castle, it sits on a volcaneo that been pouring lava for unknown times" Redstar stats as they walked up to the castle on the only path to it and Stripetail saw Red Dragons almost everywhere he never saw so many before then they stepped before the entrance of the castle two guards standing there, both in red armour. "Elder wishes to see us at once"
"Enter and Peace to the Red Code" one guard said and they saluted with a arm across the chest
Redstar did the same and nudge Stripetail with his tail to tell him to do it as well "Peace to the Red Code" Redstar spoke.
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Stripetail did as he was instrucxted "Peace to the Red code." He said formally. the Dragons parted and the door opened. before them was a long dimly lit corridor. It was lit only by the light from the lava slowly erupting from the volcano below. Stripetail found that in this new form, the dim light was enough for him to see.
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"As you notice Stripetail, Red Dragons have very sharp eyesight and we are able to enter lava itself so we created underground towns that only way to get in is by lava itself." Redstar said and they came up to a bridge and walking over as they did Stripetail could see the large creator rim around the castle it was right above the middle of this volcano.
"We live in a remote area of space that only passable by our teleport spell, a world only populated by red dragons" Redstar stats then said "soon you will know why your here." Redstar stop seeing Stripetail looking out to the lava below.
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"Fascinating" Stripetail said softly. wizard though he was, he was always fascinated by new discoveries. "Why do you live in such a remote area?"He asked as they reached the end of the bridge.
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"Stripetail we live in such a remote place cause we don't want to interfer with other races. Even peace treaters, and alliances it class as interfering to us. Red Dragons choose a long time ago to live our own lives as we wish and keep out of everyones way so we live in the most remote place we can find. It might be only poplatued by red dragons. But we like our living style and the way we live on this world it a balance that sort us very well" Redstar said stopping over at a window looking out to it at a waterfall of lava flowing down from a hole in the ridges.
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That is your choice. But why then did you send your son to finish his schooling at Sowarkard? " Stripetail replied.
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"That is one of the reasons you are here Stripetail." Redstar replied then they walk on. "Soon as we go into the throne room it will be explained in full Stripetail. My son is just trying another opition to deal with the problem and magic skills from your school could very well help in the answer"
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" Alright, whatever help I can give your son, I will." Stripetail replied.
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"That is good to know and we here" Redstar said they come up to another bridge and up a set of steps was the two doors into the throne room. "Just over this bridge and up the steps" Redstar points then said to Stripetail "Wizzin magic won't work from this point forward, you will have to use Red Dragon strengths only. Just a fair warning about what to come" Redstar stats to Stripetail.
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Stripetail nodded and as he walked on he found it was more difficult for him to move. Only be straining was he able to climb up the stairs and into the throne room. In front of them stood a large throne but there was no one on it. "Are you here Eldar?' he called out
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Elder stepped into view "Yes I am in, Welcome to the throne room and to our world." Elder walked up to Stripetail and Redstar as they walked in the door closing behind them. "Before we talk, You must swear that you will never tell anyone of this world. Doing so could put it in risk and the one we do not want to know where it is, could be anywhere." Elder said in a seriours tone.
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I don't reveal secrets told to me, Its a matter of principle" Stripetail replied. "You have no worry on that Elder. I know many very serious secrets, and would not reveal them under any circumstances."
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"Very well." Elder turn to Redstar. "Redstar it time to talk about Blackstar"
"Blackstar... my twin brother a dark twisted red dragon the only one and it had to be him. you must of heard of a dark and twisted red dragon appearing at the dead of night destorying towns. He trapped three dragons that was peaceful inside three cards. they are the Master Dragons, Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald. My son holds the cards since the duty fallen to him to find a way to free them. I failed to free them so they move down to the next member of my family. my son" Redstar told about Blackstar and what he did to why his son Nova is at Sowarkard.
"Nova gone to Sowarkard to find out if any of your forms of magic that learned there could help free the three dragons from their prisions." Redstar finished.
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"So that's it. Well, you've comre to the right place. I lent the abbey a number of rare books, including two which told the reader how to free entrapped creatures. Card imprisonment is included in those books.
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"That the thing... we don't know what type of magic Blackstar used... using the wrong spell could destory the master dragons and with that... the Red Dragons will never excisted..." Elder sat down. "Even they can't be used other then Nova since they fixed to Nova. so by force or any other means to try and destory them they will be not be harmed but if Nova try a spell that could free intrapped creatures is the wrong one... we will just vanish"
"You see... Blackstar is the only one that knows and his powers... are greater then the elders and has the power to just blink and wipe out a world just like that of all life so we hide from him... he won't go near Nova cause of the cards he hold. soon as Blackstar nears Nova the cards will warn Nova and activate a defence shield that no magic or power can break of any level" Redstar explained about Blackstar a bit more and why Nova is very safe at the moment.
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Is it possible that he could have imprisoned more than the 3?" Stripetail replied. "It would stand to reason that he would, a evil being would not be satisfied with imprisoning just three dragons. he would try to capture as many as he could. Let me try and remember.." Stripetailsaid , His new powers allowed him to remember things much quicker than usual. "Ah.. the "last attempt" method. If all else fails, you must destroy the creature who imprisoned the dragons, then regardless of what spells he used they will be undone."
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"Blackstar only did it to those three master dragons." Redstar said with arms crossed. "Stripetail it might work it might not, all we know he could of used a spell that will last even after his death" Redstar points out
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Possible.. but in that situation all bets are off.. to destroy someone as powerful as Blackstar, he must be defeated in a life-Duel, in which the loser dies, and every point lost saps your life-essence. its very risky, I should know, I've been in life Duels before, it's not fun, Nova should challenge him only as a very last resort. that is why Nova should duel in the school tournament this year, to hone his skills should a duel with Blackstar become necessary. Right now, he's raw, I watched his duel from my balcony. "
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"Very well I will let him dual in the tournament." Redstar agreed "But going off topic do you have any idea what tempurture it is in this Castle?" Redstar grinned wanting Stripetail to take a guess.
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2500 degrees." Stripetail guessed.
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"Close but it close to 3000 degrees" Redstar answered "A standard temputure for this place. in your normal form before you step foot on the bridge to this castle you would of burned to death. No dragon other then red dragons can live here as well. So you see why you had to be a Red Dragon." Redstar said to Stripetail sitting down on a step.
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"Funny it doesn't feel that warm." Stripetail grinned. "If I may ask, do you have anything to eat here? Or will we have to go to the surface to eat?
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"We are on the surface... this castle sits on top of a volcano" Elder spoke blinking once. "This area of the planet is always hot cause volcano pumps up a lot of lava from the planet core so the heat is always just below 3000 degrees day or night. But if you was to leave the creator rim the temputure will drop to about 100 to 300 degrees" Elder explained to Stripetail about the differences to the inside to the outside.
"As for food, we grow fire fruit in the gardens on top of the castle. the top is about 500 degrees a bit difference to down in the throne room. And the trees can surfvive the heat to 900 degrees so they sit in the perfect place to grow. I will take you to the dinner room that sits on the same level as the garden." Redstar said getting up
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Interesting. I will likely have to eat and run though as Eva's classes will end in a couple hours. Or is time measured differently here?"
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"Time roughly the same to your time frame" Redstar said back
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"So I have a couple hours " Stripetail.said Lead the way into the dining room please Redstar" He said formally.
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"Alright this way will take you right there" Redstar opened up a door that look like part of the wall showing a staircase that went up in a spwial style.
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Stripetail began climbing and as he did he noticed a rapid drop in temeperature. The staircase woumd and wound until it finally ended in a platform. Stripetail stepped onto the platform and as he did a door opened in the wall. Inside was a beautiful room, fixed with rock chandeliers and a magnificent view of the lava below.
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"As you can see it a lot cooler here" Redstar smiled as they stepped out of the stair well.
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Yes, my True form would be able to tolerate it in here. So what's on the menu for today? Fire fruit, fire apple, fire pear.. even fire cocnut.. all look good. Stripetail's reached the table and went to work loading his tray. After he was done (He had 2-3 pieces of every fruit" he sat down at a table. "Tell me more about your brother" He said. "What turned him evil?'
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"No one really knows the truth why he turned evil, there is so many stories but no one knows the real answer not even me" Redstar said as he sat down with the fruit on his tray as well.
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"I asked because he was your brother. I thought that you would have intimate knowledge of him that others wouldn't have. Apparently you two weren't very close..." Stripetail replied.
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"We are, but whatever happened to him on the days before he imprisioned those master dragons are still unknown even to me... I was very shocked to see my own brother Blackstar doing such a thing" Redstar spoke taking a piece of fireapple and eating it.
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Stripetail paused. "whatever happened to him before that, it corrupted his soul. Once you do evil, it becomes easier and easier to do it later. He's no longer the brother you once knew, he's amassed immense powers, so immense that he could wipe you all out without much effort. A mere gesture would be enough..or so you tell. I believe though, that he has captured other drahons and is using thier powers, much like Nova uses the powers of the Master dragons. I have no proof of this of course, and you have told me that there were no other Master Dragons, at least that you know of.
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"If that the case of evilness... then it strange cause when he came right at me he was about to destory me but something stopped him then vanished leaving all three master dragon cards on the floor, something about them stopped him and something about me stopped him as well... maybe he still remember who I am somewhere in there" Redstar said with some thought to it
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there is still good in him, brought out perhaps by remembering his own brother. that and mercy stayed his claw, perhaps pity as well. Who can say?'
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"Yes, I hope that is true after all these years." Redclaw sat back and eat some more fruit.
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One can only hope... But youi also have to be prepared for the worst. Great evil cannot be completely undone, all you can do is heal as best you can. I've learned that the hard way Redstar..." Stripetail's voice became a whisper. "There are things that even I cannot undo." There was a look on Stripetail's face, a look of sadness, that REdstar had not seen before. "I hope that you are more sucessful with Blackstar...and that by confronting him , you do not have to sacrifice someone very dear to you..."
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"Indeed I hope there is a way to get through but if needed I guess I have to do what has to be done" Redstar said with a slient look taking a little bit more food eating it then taking a drink.
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Stripetail ate him food quietly, with little further comment. Much had been explained to him.. although much still remained to be uncovered... Was he to take on nova as a apprentice? Or simply train him up enough so that he'd be prepared for a confrontation with Blacktail?
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(Blackstar)
Elder sat in the throne room looking at a ruby covered picture "Stripetail won't be able to take Nova as a apprentice. If he even try... a curse would be put on him a curse to become a red dragon for life. I better warn him before he leaves. there only... 2 minutes!" Elder open the wall to the stair well headin up fast he can.
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Redstar shook Stripetail's claw. then created the teleport symbol "You better go now before Eva gets home. You got only 20 seconds before the window closes, I forgot to tell you there is only a 30 minute window twice a day and the second about to close till tomorrow noon and we won;t be able to make any contact as well" Redstar saw the window about to close "See you tomorrow" he cast the spell and Stripetail teleports away just as Elder came out and saw it happen then sighs knowing the window just closed.
"Damn it too late... just hope Stripetail don't do it..." Elder mutters. "the curse of being a apprentice to a red dragon is being a red dragon forever..." Elder spoke to himself and turn back to the stair well and hope by tomorrow to make contact.
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Stripetail reappeared in his castle. He had seen the Elder rush in just as he had vanished. "He must have read my thoughts and was coming to tell me that wasn't a good idea..." He thought to himself. He had returned to his normal form as well.
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Eva arrived home just as he return to normal "Hi Stripetail, just finished school for the day" Eva smiled
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Good, I had some important busniness to attend to. Tell me everything.." Stripetail said.
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Eva told him how the day went and at the end of the day "And I met Nova, his Redstar's son. I read about Redstar and the red dragons but never thought of meeting one" Eva said with a smile. "I really would love to study their magic. Since I been studying for the last 9 years I been reading up on much about red dragons and their magic as I can"
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Well, once my tutoring of you ends you'll be able to do as you please. But i have trained you so that strong magic can be brought back to my people. Your classmates are very weak in the magic department, as are many of my people. You will have to change that. Learn about the ways of the REd ddragons as you will, but you must also guide my people. You can connect with them in ways I no longer can. I'm a million years old , how could young mortals relate to that? They can't. You on the other hand, are much closer in age to them, and therefore can reach out to them."
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Eva almost chocked on what she heard. "I..." Eva turns dropping her bags and runs out of the room.
Blackstar stood in the darkness chuckling "Just as I saw in the visions I had. The push away has begun, your trying to push her into something that she don't want and doing so will push her away from you. Wizzin" Blackstar laughed walking up to Stripetail he tried to draw to Blackstar but the red dragon just held a claw hand out and Stripetail's arm was locked in place and so was his body.
"Don't bother trying to break free this is magic you never heard about and I only let your eyes and mouth move. I will free you after I finish talking to you" Blackstar chuckled.
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'at last we meet Blackstar." Stripetail's eyes narrowed. "What took you so long to appear out of the shadows?As for your magics" Stripetail's eyes flashed and the spell around him was broken, he could move his body and paws again. Stripetail moved away from Blackstar. "I know how to break binding spells, regardless of the spell. But I'm not going to fight. I'll let you say your piece." He crossed his arms. Blackstar looked at him, and began pacing back and forth. Stripetail had proven himself stronger than he had thought... no matter... things were still going as planned.
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"Very well Stripetail here it is... As you try to get her to guide the young you will push her away and then she will be gone from your life and all i have to do is watch on the side lines and you do the job that so many been trying to do. How amusing how the good forces the golden girl of his sights away forever." Blackstar laughed sitting down taking a book and start reading it. "I won't answer your riddle for you."
'What a book, reading it in thoughts is all I need for what I like' Blackstar thought with a secondary meaning in it.
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You don't need to" Stripetail frowned. "As long as she is my pupil, As Teacher, what I say goes, if she doesn't like it, too bad. Once she leaves however, then my opinions will carry much less weight. I see... you hope that my relations with Eva will be so bad by the time her apprenticeship ends, that she will never want anything to do with me again. Driving her away..." Blackstar put the book away, with a broad smile on his face.
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'Oh you don't know the half of it Stripetail' Blackstar thought with the smile on his snout still there. "Oh I don't have to do much Stripetail, it going to happen even I did show up and I don't need to even lift a claw, I know what going to happen and it in here" Blackstar tap his claw on his head a little then turn to look at more books not paying much attention to Stripetail now taking another book and reading it.
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Visions are notoriously inaccurate" Stripetail smirked. "Don't get your hopes up Blackstar. You don't scare me, I've dealt with creatures like you before. If you have anything more to say, say it! Otherwise, stop leafing through my books and get out of my house!"
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'Make me' Blackstar just thought as he read on a small grin showing out of sight of Stripetail's view
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"Grushloin Severes" Stripetail spoke in a cold voice. a circle appeared under Blacklclaw and glowed. In an instant Blackclaw was lifted off his feet and thrown through the library window. There was a look of shock on Blackstar's face, he hadn't thought Stripetail would be strong enough to actually do it. But then again, he had already gained from that visit all that he could, and a smile returned to his face. Blackstar landed hard on the ground, more than 50 feet away from the window. The window glass had cut him in several places, drops of blood dripped from him onto the ground. He picked himself up off the ground , grinned,and vanished in an instant.
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Stripetail came up to the broken window, breathing hard. "Doing that required a lot of energy. the Elder was right, He's incredibly powerful.' He thought to himself.
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Tristan was headed home when he was run over by Eva. "Eva!" He said, surprised. Eva looked like she had been crying.
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Blackstar stood his injuries healed looking at Stripetail from one of the tower roofs "Read my thoughts did you? what a fool. One thing that no one should ever do is read the thoughts of a Red Dragon and now your going to be sorry in more ways then one..." Blackstar thought in his mind "A little something that not even a wizzin escape, soon Stripetail... wizzin life will be over for you" Blackstar leaves in a barrier of light then it closes up.
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Eva explains to Tristan what happened still a bit tearful. "I don't want to be something like Stripetail was a million years ago. I just want to do what I wish to do with my life not be told what I have to do with my life no matter what..." Eva moaned
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"He sees great talent in you Eva" Tristan replied. "Maybe he was a bit too direct, perhaps, But I highy doubt he intended to hurt you in any way. Look, let me take you home, and we'll smooth things over. I've never meet him, and this would be my way of introducing myself."
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"Alright" Eva got up and went back with Tristan "I like to expand my talent to the stars where the Red Dragons live. I wish to be more then just some guide for younger students of magic. I wish to expand it to the very essences of life itself" Eva explain to Tristan.
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"Yes, and I think his lordship understands that. He knows that you are itching for more... but in that you are also being like him a million years ago. How do you think he became so powerful? He explored the cosmos, like you want to" Tristan smiled. "I've read up on him for years Eva, and you have been given the chance that any wizard or witch would kill for, to learn from him directly. I would LOVE to be in your shoes Eva, I mean that seriously."
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Eva understood what Tristan meant "I gather what you mean but there is a point that I would like to take my own route in life then be guided. I care that his trying to help me and I like what he done for me but there is a point that anyone can take to choose a new route if you understand what I mean" Eva said to Tristand
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Yes, I understand, you want go your own way. at the end of the yesar, You'll be free to do as you please. " Tristan replied as they approached the castle. the door was open and Stripetail stood there in the doorway. He looked exhausted, as if he had been casting some very powerful spells. "Eva.." He said.. "Please come in, and bring your friend with you"
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"Stripetail what happened to you?" Eva said seeing him really looking bad.
Blackstar grinned seeing the weakiness in Stripetail 'Yes just as I knew would happen, while I use little force of resistence he used a large amount of his energy to get me clear off his caslte. Now I know his weak and not a strong wizard after all so it will work more then wonders' Blackstar stood at the foot bridge with arms crossed as the doors closed Stripetail saw him and watched Blackstar grin with a claw finger raised then the door closed.
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Stripetail sat down in a chair and sighed. Let's just say that I had an unwelcome guest that I had to throw out." He said To Eva. 'Who is your friend?' He said looking at Tristan.
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Tristan, my LOrd' Tristan nodded. "Whoever the intruder was, he must have been really powerful. You look zapped."
_ Nice to meet you Tristan." Stripetail replied. How Long have you known Eva?'
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Eva answered it and tehy sat down. "I never seen you look like this Stripetail what happened to strain you?"
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As AStripetail spoke, a huge dragon landed behind BlackStar it was Tarrax. "So you're the one causing the trouble?" Tarrax towered over Blackstar. "You're a Red Dragon. Have you no honor?" Blackstar looked up and him and frowned. "Don't bother trying to cast a spell on me. It won't work...My master told me everything...Get out if you value your life... " Tarrax growled
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"Who needs magic when I have this" Blackstar seem to not even be phased then he stood back a little. "Have a nice trip" Tarrax looked confused then suddenly ruby like roots grab him by the leg and pulled him down on his side. "As you can see the power that i have is not the need of magic, this is pure ruby you can't break it and magic has zero affect as well. I learned to control and hariness the power of this." the root covered over his mouth keeping the large snout shut.
"Leave a message to Stripetail, The planet... Lemmotic is now a large ruby rock landscape... all life rubyfied, he will know that world personally" Blackstar stood back the roots vanished just like nothing happened and Blackstar step back into a energy whiral laughing and disappears with the opening that appeared as Tarrax got up.
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Get back here you scum" Tarrax roared, but it was too late. Blackstar had already gone. Tarrax picked up some of the remants of the rubies that had held him. He took them in his claw and entered the castle. Stripetail was resting in a chair, and Eva and Tristan were sitting nearby. Tarrax set down the fragments in front of Stripetail., "Master, he returned. He used some rubies to hold me down. He spoke of Lemmotic.." Stripetail's eyes flashed. "So be it. Thank you Tarrax for trying to protect me, but this creature is unlike anything I've ever faced. You must be careful.."
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"Lemmotic?" Eva took notice "I heard of that world... but only from you Stripetail, isn't that the world of forests?" Eva said recalling what she remembered
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Not anymore, everything has been turned into rubies. " Tarrax said. "Rubies?' Stripetail said.
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"The whole planet?" Eva looked startled.
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Yes, I imagine he is there waiting for you Master"Tarrax said
_ I will not go there, until the time is right..." Stripetail replied. "It is too soon..." He turned to Eva. "I wish to apologize Eva, for what I said earlier...'
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"I should of explained what I wish to do..." Eva replied "I wish to study more then what you've teached me or the school has, I wish to study Red Dragon Magic. Expand my understanding to the life of magic itself and what affects it could have" Eva explained to Stripetail
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" That would help you a lot..." Stripetail agreed. "You are free of course to study as you please, once you stop being my pupil. I will not stop your training in the Red Dragon magics.." there was relief in Eva's face as he said this.
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"Stripetail I think I might have a idea what whoever you had here might be up to... but I have to look it up in the books again" Eva thought about it getting a good idea what Blackstar up to.
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You do? Alright, the books are yours."Stripetail said to her quietly. "In the meantime, i'll show Tristan around."Tristan's eyes lit up. "Follow me Tristan' She said to the young squirrell.
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Eva went to work right away looking at the books then found it taking the book out "Here it is." Eva took it . "Ruby, Sappire and Emerald" Eva saw the page showing 3 orbs "these must be planets. but what these three rocks? they not magical but they have a energy that is unknown and a class of it own." Eva took a check. "My idea is that using energy from all that ruby formation would create a energy build up and it seem like I was right. But he need to convert worlds into Sappire and Emerald to do this but what..." Eva checked for more information on it.
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As Eva searched through the books, Stripetail led Tristan to the trophy room, which was filled with all soirts of awards. There were the ten Sowarkard trophies Stripetail had won during his time at Sowarkard, a large number of staffs of various sizes hanging on the wall, and numerous other mementos. Tristan was silent as he beheld all this. He had studied Stripetail for years, but the incredible number of trophies reduced him to subdued awe. It was one thing to read about an accomplishment, quite another to see the staff or trophy that he had earned in accomplishing it. ' What you see here Tristan, is my body of work in dueling. " Stripetail said. " I have never lost a duel in my life, although there have been numerous occasions where I have been pushed to the limit. My favorite award in here is not a trophy, but a staff" He walked over and stood before a huge black staff. The staff held 4 large red crystals, but the distinguishing feature of the staff was the web of black substance that ran throughout the staff. "This is Lord Marrin's staff, which I broke to win my first title. He was a Red Level 3, officially, but he was really a Red Level 4, a level that was discontinued soon after he left, because no one else was powerful enough to attain that status. After I beat him, he sent the pieces of the staff to me, and I had the staff patched together with magical tar. "
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"Does the staff work?' Tristan asked softly. "Yes, it still works" Stripetail nodded.
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"So this is your trophy room" Stripetail and Tristan to see Blackstar laying on top of a window seal "I been waiting for you to come. I was getting bored waitting" Blackstar sat up. "I guess your wondering why you can't sense me" Blackstar spoke seeing Tristan about to leave but Blackstar made it close and lock with a claw finger waving "Sit and stay kiddo"
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"You are losing my respect blackstar" Stripetail replied nonchalantly. "constantly hovering around makes you more of a pest than a threat. Or is this directed at Tristan, rather than me? "
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"I thought I let you know on something, your staff... well it gone and I know who took it. I watched them come in through a secret hatch right under that pillar and replact it with a fake." Blackstar point a claw at the pillar then drop down taking the staff and taking a gem crossing it "See glass" Blackstar cleared the glass away from his claw then throw the fake staff over to Stripetail. "Your welcome for my help" then he vanishes in a whirl of red light but half way he toss a ruby that land in front of Tristan. "Hey kiddo here something for you. a gift, no one else can touch it but you" then he was gone and Stripetail try taking the ruby but a barrier around it stopped him from touching it.
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Stripetail stopped...looked at the fake staff, gestured and created a fire. He threw it on the fire and as he it it split throwing out a piece of paper. It read "Lord stripetail, please overlook our borrowing of your staff. We noticed it was in a poor state of perservation, and will return it to you as soon as we fix it..." There was no indication of who had written the letter..
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Eva walked in "Stripetail I think I found out something but it not..." Eva paused looking around "what I've missed?"
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Not much" Tristan said quickly. "What have you found Eva? Anything woul;d be helpful..."
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"I did find out something about three worlds need to be turned into Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald but it will take till the end of our school year for the sapphire and emerald worlds to form on two planets full of life once it done the power will be enough to turn every humaniod living creature into Red Dragons and these three types of rock are totally immune to magic only red dragon power can destory them but it needs a legendary red dragon to shatter then formations" Eva explained in detail what she found out about it.
Stripetail heard this and also notice when ever Eva came about moments after Blackstar leaves almost like Blackstar was scared of her and felt threaten enough to quickly make a get away.
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interestinng..." Stripetail said thinking about it quietly. "Nova...he could be the one..." As He said this a red Drgon circle appeared around him and he vanished. The Ruby activated and Stripetail was transformed again into a rEd Dragon. he Appeared in the Elder's throne room.
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"What the.. Elder? You have something to tell me?"He said gathering his bearings again.
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"Eva" Elder just spoke with his back to Stripetail looking at a large ruby like crystal before him.
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Eva is not strong enough" Stripetail said., shaking his head. "Besides, she's not going to be able to learn everything needed to undo the transformation of the planets.. in 6 months..."
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"No your wrong. her perivous life was the legendary Red Dragon Evalicator. We discover she has the energy of that Legendary Red Dragon." Elder said then show a image of the red dragon in the viewing of the crystal. "She in her first life was the most powerful being alive she sealed away the red dragon magic 1 million years ago from all and destroying the wizzins that stole our magic. she let her life go for the Red Dragons and bring all of them to this world and to hide it from Blackstar her brother. Evalicator spoke she will return in a form other then a red dragon in 1 million years and it has happened..." Elder said showing Stripetail the image of the Red Dragon that scafficed even immortal life for the survival of the Red Dragons
"This is the truth" Elder stare at the viewing image on the massive ruby.
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An Image in the Crystal glowwed and a voice spoke 'let me talk to him Elder" a female voice said.
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"Very well" Elder step to the side
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The image walked out of the crystal and stood before him. "The last of the great Wizzin.. your fellow Wizzin have grown weak over the ages, as punishment for thier brethern's crimes. When I sacrificed myself , you were but a young squirrell, powerful but raw. That was a million years ago. My people have entustued you with thier greates powers and secrets, all hidden within the crystal you hold. YOU must train Eva in the ways of the Red Dragon, only you can...in the time left.
My brother, as you now know, is very powerful and wicked. As a Wizzin, there is only so much you can do against him.. but as a Red Dragon... you can do far more... I thank you, for reawakening me within her, I would have lain dormant within her, if not for your magic.." Evalicator said softly. "She is mortal, so I will be mortal... my immortality is gone forever, but If you are successful my former powers will return, and then I wil be able to deal with my brother.." Her voice became even softer..
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Elder stood listening to her "She and Eva are one of the same just Eva is a rebrith of her and once the powers fully awaken Eva will become immortal once more and able to stop Blackstar and restore all the Master Dragons to life" Elder said
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"Will you do this?" Evalicator asked.
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Will I be permanently transformed into a REd Dragon?' Stripetail asked. "No, nor will any of Blackstar's powers work on you. But you must stay a Red Dragon while you train her... Will you do it, Lord of the Wizzin?'
_ Stripetail nodded. "Yes"
_ I know how difficult this will be for you... you care for her deeply, and once the year is over... you will not see her again for a long time..' Evalicator said sadly.
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"THen it time for Eva to come?" Elder spoke out
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Not yet...." Evaliccator spoke. "Stripetail must tell her about this first, then the time will be right. Farewell, my Lord. Thank you for doing this..." She steeped back into the crystal and the crystal went dark.
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Elder stood there looking at Stripetail "You will return now." Elder spoke
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A Circle appeared again and Stripetail was teleported back. He appeared in the trophy room, Eva and Tristan wre still there. Stripetail stepped forward. "Sorry you two. I had suddenly remembered some urgent business I had to deal with elsewhere."
_ That's alright Sire" Tristan smiled. "Eva was just showing me the book she found. Fascinating stuff, truly inncredible..."
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"It has text from a old time of Red Dragons. I managed to translate it after working over it for the last two years on some free times" Eva said to Stripetail "it kind of like a history of the Red Dragons in the olden days." Eva spoke looking at the pages again "Like some of the drawings in it are forms of writing saying something that hidden from the eyes of new people viewing it"
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The book is called Annaren Desrui Nustraste" Stripetail said. "I can read what is says, luckily..."
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"I can read a large sum of it" Eva responded "So where did you go Stripetail?"
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I 'll tell you later, once Tristan goes home.." Stripetail replied. - Tristan nodded. "I have to go soon anyway, my folks are keen that I vget home atr a decent time. I mmnay have reached the age of maturity, but i still live with them, and thier rules still apply" He groaned.
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"Still they trying to look out for you as parents do" Eva said with a smile.
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Yes.. How about your parents Eva? Do they have similar rules for you?' Tristan grinned. The grin faded however as he looked at Eva's face.
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"I don't have any" Eva turn and leaves the room feeling she was hit by a brick.
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Tristan was stunned by the words Eva said. "She's an orphan? I never knew that..' He said finally. "Tact is something you need to work on."
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One of the people that work at the castle came up into the room "Lord Stripetail, the Dragon Lord has arrived and awaiting at the front gates" he said to Stripetail
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Let him in..' Stripetail said looking at Tristan. The visit will have to be quick though.. I've got a lot on my plate at the moment..." He then turned to the young squirrell" Eva's room is on the third floor. Go up and make amends..I know you didn't mean any harm... but she is very touchy on the subject..'
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Wayne stood waiting outside then was let in walking into the castle "I wonder what been going on here... it keeps making that strange feeling of something not magically being used around here" Wayne thought to himself as he walked into the castle.
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Hello Wayne " Stripetail said as Wayne entered the room. "How is Cesha?" Cesha was the young Dragon Lady, she was the daughter of a high ranking admiral in the Dinoton Fleet. Her relationship with Wayne was close but also professional, in accordance with her father's wishes. This was the first time in almost a year the two friends had seen each other, both being very important beings in their respective areas, both had many demands on their time...
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"Cesha is doing well, we've been doing our duties alot to keep a balance going but something odd been happening around here so I left her incharge for now and to contact me if anything is up." Wayne said to Stripetail "Something being used here and it not magic but a strange energy release and it coming from around this place in the last 3 days"
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I've had an unwelcome visitor" Stripetail said a nerve of coldness flowing into his voice. "Most likely it is he whose energy you have been detecting..
_ Tristamn reached Eva's room and knocked on the door "Eva, it's me Tristan. Look, I'm sorry about my comment, earlier, I didn't know you were an orphan, and I would never try to hurt you in any way, you're my friend. Please let me in.."
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"It's open" Eva spoke out
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"So my feeling was right" Wayne said with arms crossed
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Tristan opened the door and walked in the room.
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" he is one of the most powerful beings I have ever faced, and you would put yourself in great danger Wayne if you got involved in this..." Stripetail said. "Your life would be great peril, your powers are nothing compared to his, and it took me a very powerful spell to get rid of him.."
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"You didn't know Tristan lets just forget about it" Eva spoke turning around to him.
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"I understand, So what was he after then?" Wayne said then asked wondering about it and wondering what this unwelcome visitor wanted.
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I suspect he's after Eva, or more accurately, trying to drive a wedge between Eva and myself...Eva could help revive magic to levels not seen since I was young...but she doesn't want to spend her life that way..." Stripetail paused... "And her time of apprenticeship ends after this year...at that point, she will be free to disregard anything I suggest.."
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"You have feelings for her don't you Stripetail?" Wayne said quietly only Stripetail hearing it looking over at him with half open eyes then opened them with arms crossed. "It hard letting someone go when the time is up... I've been there with Dirah... she and I in the end parted ways but we kept in contact time and again but I haven't seen her after that day she left." Wayne said with closed eyes withs folded back and leaning on the wall. "She happy with the choice and that what counts in the end. what makes them happy to follow their choice in path even it bumpy." Wayne finished saying to Stripetail eyes reopen looking back at Stripetail
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You know me too well' Stripetail sighed. "Yes, she has revitalized me with being around me.. I Was starting to fall into a rut... in everything I did...she changed all that...and i've enjoyed the last 9 years immensely..." There was a slight catch in his voice, as he said this. "Who knows whgen I will find someone like her again...I took me a million years to find her..."
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"Maybe it time for a change." Wayne said to him putting a hand on his shoulder "If your given a chance to start a new form of life style that you never had take it and maybe that will make you just as alive as you been with Eva around and who knows she might go down that path as well." Wayne smiled
"A wizzin can expand and learn more then just being a form of being that been it for a million years" Wayne said to Stripetail.
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Change is not easy for me.. besides... would she even have me? She wants to explore the cosmos Wayne, and I represent to her old and well-wornn ways..." Stripetail said.
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So anyway, what are your plans after graduation?' Tristan said after a short pause.. "I've got nothing planned myself.. although my parents have been pushing me to find a girl and settle down.." He rolled his eyes. "they're so old-fashioned.."
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"I understand what you mean Stripetail" Wayne said back listened to what the wizzin said.
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Eva answered "Well if I can I like to go to the Red Dragon's own world and learn their form of magic and powers also life style. expand my understanding of life itself and try to be more then what I am being tault now" Eva said to Tristan
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I see. Forgive me for asking a personal question, but --How do you feel about his Lordship?' Tristan asked quietly. "I get the sense he is very fond of you, and well, I care for you myself.." He blushed slightly.
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"I do not know what to say at this time... things begin to conflict with stuff and I am not ready to answer that question" Eva said to Tristan
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"I understand... you're not ready to answer..." Tristan replied.
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Stripetail said nothing more about his feelings, then changed the subject..."How is trin, the minister? Is he well?"
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"Yes he is, Trin doing well and still working hard being the minister" Wayne said to Stripetail with a smile on his face.
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He still doesn't think much of me, I take it? He never has...." Stripetail replied with a wry smile..
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"Well I guess he still don't like you much but he'd put up with you being around" Wayne chuckled "Trin lately been on the soft side of things being nice for a chance and he told me that he'd had enough of being called Mr Grumpy all the time" Wayne told Stripetail
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I'll believe that when I see it... " Stripetail replied. How old is he now?'
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'102 years of age" said a female voice from the doorway. "Wayne, the Minister wishes to see you. A female Dinoton stepped into the the room. Stripetail had not seen her before, She was only slightly smaller than Wayne, and she carried herself in a military manner. "Forgive my intrusion. I overheard you as I came in..." Stripetail turned and looked at her. This must be Cesha.
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"Alright thanks Cesha. Well I better be going" Wayne shook Stripetail's hand and leaves.
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I'll be with you shortly wayne. I wish to talk with your friend here" Cesha said in a formal tone, looking at Stripetail.
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"A Dragon Lord... a Dragon of a world of humaniod dinosaurs, this will be interesting" Blackstar smirked from where he sat looking at a image seeing throw a very tiny ruby that was no bigger then a cell can't be seen by eyes and cause of being ruby magic unable to detect or sense something such as it. "Now lets hear what Cesha has to say"
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Cesha stood and looked at stripetail, Stripetail had the sense she was sizing him up. "At last, I finally meet the great Lord Stripetail" There was a slight sneer as she said it. "Wayne has said a lot about you, most of what he said about is embellishment, it's impossible to do a quarter of the things he's said you've done."
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"Wayne was not exagerating." Stripetail replied. "I'm immortal Cesha, I can't die, even if I wanted to. I can do things that others can't" Cesha's eyes glowed. "humility isn't one of your strong points. By the way,You do realize that we are being watched?" Stripetail's eyes flashed. "I am not Dirah, she was a weak-minded simpleton who rejected the opportunity of a lifetime. They had to bring me in at the last moment. " Cesha said. "Are you finished critiquing everything? You are very young and dare I say, arrogant. Have you no respect for your elders?'
_ why should I respect you? You're an ancient relic, clinging to an archacic and declining art, we don't need magic in Dinoton, we've outgrown that." Cesha snapped. Stripetail finally had enough. He gestured and cesha was lifted off her feet "Know your place in the cosmos young Dinoton!" His voice was steely and harsh. "Yes, Magic is weakening, but if I have my way, that will soon no longer be the case!. Dirah at least respected and trusted me, whatever her other faults were, and she was very flawed. I'll let you down, but only if you apologize". Cesha frowned, then relented. "I'm sorry' she said finally. "Please let me down."
_ Done Stripetail said, and he returned Cesha to the ground.
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"Being watched... so you know there is something there, oh I see" Blackstar saw it and it was some sort of magical crystal that was listening in. "No one listen in on him but me" Blackstar's eyes flashed "that should take reveal it for little Stripetail then tonight the real fun begins and he won't know what hit him untill morning and then it will be too late" Blackstar stood up from his chair closing the viewing window and walk into a green forest from within a cave. "Unknown to little Stripetail I didn't destory his favioute little world, I just moved it and put my litte dead planet with the same mass in its place that I converted into ruby."
Blackstar then stops turning to the cave "No one knows what I am really up to and not even sure if it really evil or good, but it will show in time and when it does... they really in for a big surprise" Blackstar grinned "It all part of the game and this game will have a really surprising end to it" Blackstar the red dragon walks into the forest of Stripetail's favoiute get away world even Stripetail unaware that it was perfectly fine and the people of the planet told by Blackstar his ture reasons and some reason that agree to not to call for help or revivle the planet is fine.
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"So Dragon, you have told us your reasons for being here and moving our planet.' A chieftain of the planet said to ghim as he made his way out of the cave. "But you will not harm anyone while on this planet. " He added coldly. "Whether or not you have been telling us the truth, will be revealed by the Eternal One. But if you harm anyone, or try, you will pay a heavy price. "
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"I might seem evil and dark but when it comes to telling the truth I never lie about anything. that is the curse of a red dragon, never able to lie how ever twisted you seem to be" Blackstar told the chieftain. "So when I say I won't harm you or anyone, that is the truth and a promise and the true reasons I explained to you is what is truth" Blackstar turned around at him.
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You will not harm anyone elsewhere while on here as well" The chieftain replied. "That includes our wizard friend, whatever quabbles you have with his Lordship, you should settle them elsewhere...He has been a generous patron of this planet for thousands of years, and we in turn are very fond of him... "
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"I know, but what to come has to remain hidden, the game I play a game with him and see if he passes my tests, I won't harm him but I will change his form as part of this test, I can't say what it is, it might be a game you see I am playing but my ways have their understanding and the test is to see what happens between him and all those around him... soon his dearest pupil will depart and then the test will be either complete or failed. this is a time taking process and since he a wizzin this test has to be done and I will keep my little shadow going to his point of view." Blackstar explained to him and was seriours in tone.
"the two other dead worlds will move in points that are favioute to Stripetail and move them to a safe location like this one out of his range of sensing. He needs to see beyond the power of magic to be trusted by all creations, this test will show the true meaning and it not as it seem at this time" Blackstar finished telling him.
"Red Dragons a long time ago trusted magic but when wizzins stole our magic before Stripetail became a young wizzin, this trust between the Red Dragons and Wizzins was broken and we turn to using a form of energy that not even magic." Blackstar paused then started again. "I sealed three dragons in cards that are part of our kinds history the powerful dragons of all red dragons know of, I sealed them cause they demanded that I do it and play this part, I might look evil to my brother but infact I would never truly harm anyone" Blackstar said to him finishing explaining the whole thing.
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So your test is to see if he has the capacity to move beyond magic and be open to other ways..' The Cheiftain replied..."From a personal standpint.. I would say he does... a hundred years ago I would not have foreseen his taking an apprentice, and yet he has... and trained her well... from the accounts I have heard... Very interesting.. You will find that there is far more to his lordship than you suspect....He is not like those foolish Wizzin who destroyed the cooperation between Wizzin and Red Dragon, rather He will try everything he can to repair that damage... and to bring the wizzin back into the good graces of your kind..." The Chieftain said...
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Blackstar look at him "then he has to see through what the true purpose of the crystal like worlds that I will form. If he don't then he fails right away if he does see the true purpose and move ahead to the next part of the test, it in 3 phases and the hardest is the first and last phase. second is made easy to see if he sees beyond why it was getting easy" Blackstar finished telling him.
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And what is the purpose of those worlds.. to free the imprisoned Master Dragons?' The Chieftain said. 'You can tell me... It's not like I 'm going to explian anything to him.. we are outside of his sensing.."
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cesha sat down on a nearby sofa. "Forgive my harsh demeanor" Stripetail said. "I;m just not in a good mood.' Cesha looked at him. "First impressions are important"
"Yes they are Stripetail. But Eva must go her own way... no matter how much you care for her" She said.
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"I can free the master Dragons at anytime I wish but only when he complete all three phases in the test. here are the phases... Phase one the three worlds will channel energy but they will create a wave that seem to turn the world before Stripetail's eyes the universe into red dragons but he just seeing a dimension that is only full of red dragon." Blackstar explained to him the first phase "But infact the middle point of all three worlds is a portal to the next phase, the magic and non magical test of completing a set of tasks that invovled saving lives in magical powers and non magical moves. which seem simple and easy, but the final phase is lose a dual to Eva, if he wins he fails, she will be aware of this final phase once Stripetail enters the portal and she'd had to be ready for this and learn the ways of the red dragons the cards the power simple stuff but before the final planet is formed. if she don't then he fails phase 3 if he makes it" Blackstar told him all what going to happen finishing telling the tests.
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And what if they draw?' The chieftain asked sagely. "Eva cannot defeat Stripetail in a duel, she simply doesn't have the skills he has, that has been borne out at the abbey.the only way she could beat him is if he threw the duel, and that is not allowed, I'd imagine. That is why you choose that as the last requirement, a brilliant choice. Stripetail is proud of his record, the fact that he has never lost, as any creature would be. Drawing with Eva should be enough to pass your test, since it very rarely happens, and drawing is a legitimate outcome of any duel, even though more often you'll get victory or defeat. Because that is what you want right, Stripetail to show humility in a duel. Drawing shows humilty, because it says "These duelists were so evenly matched that no winner could be determined'. However, by permitting a draw as a pass of your test, it must be earned, it cannot be offered at any point, by either side. That is how I would do it..." He said.
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"Indeed but there is three paths, draw, win or lose and all have chances of happening and I would allow a draw if it worth it, that has to be equally fine and Stripetail must be unaware of losing or drawing the match to pass, he just be simply told that the dual is the last of his phases and have to face his greatest rival no other then Eva herself and there will be differences in the deal." Blackstar walked up to a clearing with the person and show a floating island in the sky made of the three elemently crystals ruby, emerald and sapphire.
"Magic on this field is limited to almost non exscited, this is where Stripetail has to overcome the use of magic and use something else then magic since it will be almost totally useless on this deal field and this took some creative thinking to create such a field as this" Blackstar formed a ruby like colour simple below and they both appear on the floating island the field looked really amazing. "Welcome to the dualing field that Stripetail will have to dual on for the final and last phase"
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The Chieftain , whose name was Tinnus., smiled as he beheld the field... "Magic will do him no good ,since the spells that usually give him a tremendous advantage will not work here, he will have to rely on the cards, his skill, and his growth as a creature to pass..." He said looking at the formations on the field. here ruby sapphire and emerald blended together in a sparkling combination and variety of forms... some were gossamer-thin, others were thick and broad.
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Stripetail looked at cesha as she said this. "I'm a woman, women can tell when men are in love.." She smiled. "It's written on your face Stripetail.. don't be angry with me...." Stripetail smiled, after a rough start he was starting to warm to Cesha. "No, I'm not angry, but you must understand my dilemma..." "You will see her again, after she begins her life's journey. Wayne and I will be here for you... I must go now, Stripetail. We will meet again shortly I expect... The Minister's health has begun to decline..' cesha's face became somber...
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Blackstar looked to Tinnus "you may want to know the point of this all." Blackstar turn to him. "It was all perpared before Stripetail knew this, my brother has been playing a role in this and he knows truly I am not evil and that his own son does as well. Eva I knew before she was even born a million years ago, this field will be the day when either a draw or lose will happen to Stripetail and Eva starting her journey to the Red Dragons way of life, she is the new and will bring the light to magic and red dragon power, the long awaiting light of life, she somewhere deep inside knows her role to play and that here where it will truly begin."
Blackstar turn to the field sitting down on a ruby coloured bench. "And when the Master Dragons will once more awaken, a new leash of life to all will begin for both non magical and magical begins then my fellow Red Dragons will lower the barrier around their world." Blackstar smiled
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"Stripetail will not let her go easily" Tinnus replied. "Without her, he would have begun to fade, like the other Wizzin... he recognizes this...and I think he secretly fears that if she were to leave, he will return to his old ways. She can't leave if he beats her, correct?"
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"No it will be her choice as well in the end that counts. there is more to the phase then winning or losing the dual, but that I will keep to myself" Blackstar said looking at the colours reflection around the arena. "In the end the real challenge is changing from the old ways... if that is managed then the life of this wizzin will be forfilled in more then you know... like the master wizzin I once knew" Blackstar whispers the last and Tinnus turn looking at him hearing the words of Master Wizzin.
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"So you were friends with a Master wizzin? Don't you mean head Wizzin?" tinnus was confused...
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"Declining? " Stripetail replied. Minister Trin and him had never been too fond of each other, but Stripetail , for his part, respected the Dinoton leader. "I'm guessing he will be telling Wayne about his condition, and that there will be..' :...An election to succeed him, correct. As the Dragon Lord, Wayne is ineligible for the position, besides he's got enough on his plate in that role anyway." Cesha replied. "What with training me, and all.." She smiled. "Goodbye Stripetail for now. " She pulled out a teleporting device, pressed it, and vanished.
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"I met the master Wizzin a few times but soon as the conflict begain with the taking of red dragon magic by some wizzins the master wizzin disappeared and no one really seen or heard of the master wizzin in over a million years" Blackstar said about it.
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He most likely disapproved of what the other Wizzin had done.. and he would have been called on the carpet for thier mistake. His disappearance weakened the Wizzin and further split the two races..' Tinnus said...
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"I gather that is the case" Blackstar nod "So after planning this is what I found that might change things. I hope it will be one step closer to closing the differences between red dragons and wizzins" Blackstar told him.
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"i get it... so If Stripetail passes your test, he could claim the mantle of Master Wizzin, and begin to repair the rift between the races..." Tinnus said..."he'd be perfect for it really... but the authority to be Master Wizzin is not for us to give.. the Eternal one, who made all things, he alone can grant that authority....He knows of your plan, and your true intentions...whether it pleases the eternal he alone knows..."
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"Sorry but with red dragons one thing that a red dragon never believe in is this Eternal one. Everyone has their beliefs and ours is that things was created by a natural way." Blackstar said to him.
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As is your right...' Tinnus replied..."Then FATE will decide the matter..' He smiled...
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"Indeed and only time will tell" Blackstar replied
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Meanwhile Wayne arrived to the Minister's residence. "The Minister is expecting you Para" The guard said upon admitting him.
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Wayne walked in the Minister's residence "Minister I'm here as requested"
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Hello Para" The minister said rising from a chair. It was clearly evident from his appearance that he was not well, and his appearance stunned Wayne . 'I have called you here, because I am going to retire as Dinoton Minister. My time is running short, soon I will no longer be strong enough to leave my bed. My doctors say i have 6 months to maybe a year to live." This pronouncement caused Wayne to recoil in shock.
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The Minister, continued, ignoring Wayne's reaction."My retirement will trigger an election to replace me. You as the dragon lord cannot run for minister, you have enough problems ..." A coughing fit seized the ailing minister, a wheezing , hacking, cough. After a few minutes the coughing stopped and he was able to resume speaking. 'You have enough problems in that position to deal with... now I will, in my stwlight , settle any outstanding issues I may have with anyone... that includes the old coot" That was his derisive name for Stripetail. "Bring him over at your pleasure...I'm finished tallking You may speak..," He said to Wayne, coughing again.
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"I am really surprised that you fallen this ill Minister, you've just last week was full of high health still and no signs of your age getting in the way. This is very sudden and surprising" Wayne said to him "I understand that I can not run in it, my own duties are tough enough with something like this on top it would leave no time even for sleep. Unlike Stripetail I am not totally immortal, i might have a longer life span but in the end I will grow old and pass on but I accept that as it is and sometimes a immortal life might look great but in the end immortal life leaves pain in your heart no matter what happens" Wayne spoke walking up to the MInister.
"I still keep my own dinoton form with this, in a way I share two forms that are both mine neither different in my own views." Wayne smiled a little. "Trin, minister you've run a great life style out here working at the minister of this world, I could give you a little longer to live for your retirment, it a little something I worked on, this little herby drink in this bottle" Wayne pulls it out of his pocket "Is from some rare plants that grow in two locations on this planet I only picked enough to keep the very plant going. If I am right this will allow your life to be increased by about 5 to 7 years depending on what you do, it will make you healthy enough to walk, run and enjoy being around your grand children since you've had no time at the moment" Wayne stood in front of him with a smile.
"I will give you this under one condision Trin, retire and let elections pick a new minister, I know a few out there that have a similar style to what you done, it time to enjoy the rest of your life" Wayne smiled warmly to the Minister Trin.
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The Minister coughed and waved the bottle away... "I appreciate the offer, but that time is simply not enough...That is why I want that wizard here, as soon as possible..I don't want immortality, but I'd like a couple decades more. If your friend is as good as you say he can do that. I know I've said a lot of nasty things about him, but he's really the only one who can extend my life for an appreciable time. On second thought I'll take the potion " He said changing his mind. his very movements were labored,as was his thought process. 'You've served me very well Para, my will will reward you for your efforts" He put his claw onto Wayne's shoulders and shook them earnestly. It was a very emotional moment and wayne found it very hard not to get choked up. Here was the dinoton who had done so much for him, and Dinoton...fading before his very eyes.
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"Sir... do you wish for me to call Stripetail still?" Wayne asked trying not to be too emitional about it.
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Yes... as soon as possible..' the minister said.. "I will.. be announcing my retirement in the next few days...I want him here before I make my announcement..."
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"I can contact him now if you like" Wayne said to him with a suggestion
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The minister nodded. "But Don't tell him why I am asking him to come, I want to tell him that myself... and make my plea. We're are finished here.. for now..." He turned away and moved slowly towards a cot set up in the corner.
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"Very well sir" Wayne leaves and then speaks mentally 'Stripetail the Minister Trin wish to see you soon as possible can, he wish to speak to you about a few things that is a matter between lord and minister' Wayne told Stripetail
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Understood" Stripetail replied. "I'm on my way." A servant came in with Eva close behind him. "Eva you have the run of the castle while I'm away.. invite some friends over have a big party, I don't care. I'll be back in a couple of hours, I'm going to Dinoton."
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"Thank you Stripetail" Eva nod a little "I will make sure no one goes in your studies if I ask any friends over. "I could ask some friends over, I wonder if Nova would like to..." Eva said in her mind the last words wondering about it.
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Stripetail teleported to Dinoton, reappearing near the minister's residence... Wayne had sent him the location of the residence mentally along with his message. He frowned as Wayne came up to him...
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"Minister in his room sitting by the window. He waiting to see you Stripetail" Wayne said to him. "He not well, age gotten to him" Wayne whispered softly.
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I know. Cesha said as much..."Stripetail replied. "It must be really bad for him to look to me for help... but no matter.." He strode to the door and opened it.
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The minister stirred as stripetail entered. "Close the door behind you..' He said hoarsely. stripetail did as he was asked. As he did the Minister slowly rose from his chair by the window. It was clear to Stripetail upon first glance that Trin was dying. "As you can plainly see wizard, my condition is very dire. I'm 102 years old, My father and mother both lived into thier 130s. Not that 130 years is impressive to an immortal like yourself." Trin said to him. "Now, i've treated you with very little respect over the years, and Dinoton treatment of your kind has not been great, to put it mildly. But I hope that now, in my declining state, that you will show me mercy."
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Stripetail looked at trin intently. "So You want me to heal you,and therefore extend your life? How long do you have to live currently?' "At most a year according to my doctors. my illness has forced me to retire, I will announce it in the next few days, and soon you will have another Minister to deal with. Wayne has offered me a rare liquid that could extend my life 5-7 years if I'm lucky.. but that's simply not enough...I'd like a few decades, and according to Wayne, you can extend the life of someone who asks you. The time you give me I will use to spend time with my family and enjoy the fruits of my labor."
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Stripetail said nothing... which made Trin very nervous "Look, I will compensate you very handsomely for this...whatever you want.. I will give you" trin said, desperation clearly in his voice. Stripetail wavd him away. "I personally have respected you Minister. You have not returned that respect..." "Wizard, I am begging you" Trin sank to his knees in front of him "Please, I'm sorry I did not give the respect you deserve,But I don't want to die..." "Death is reserved for all mortals Minister, you are asking for me to delay your day of reckoning..." Stripetail said. there was a coldness in his eyes that threw the enfeebled Minister into a panic. "Please.. don't refuse... please..."
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Stripetail gave Trin a silencing glare."I will extend your life, at a miumum of 30 years, 35-37 if you include wayne's potion. You could, if you are lucky , see your 150th. Now go lie down Minister, I don't think you'd like it if folks came in here and saw you on your knees to me.' A smile broke out over Trin's face. "Thank you wizard. Bring Wayne in here.. if you would.."Trin shuffled over to his bed, and climbed into it.
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Wayne stood calmly against the wall waiting for Stripetail to come out wondering how it going. "I wonder if Stripetail will help him out... I know how hard the minister been with him and the terms of magic over the years" Wayne said to himself
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Stripetail turned and opened the door. "wayne. come on in...We're finished in here..Once you come in, I'll tell you my decision.."
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"Alright" Wayne nod and walks in to talk to the minister again
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"Here's the deal" stripetail said, as Wayne entered the room. "I've agreed to extend his life by a minimum of 30 years. Including the potion that you gave him wayne, he can expect to live 35-37 years at the least. He's going to retire, and use the time I've given him with his family. If he stays healthy , he could see his 150th birthday."
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"I am glad to hear it and that he will take care of himself for the life that leads after this, I am happy he going to retrie and be with his family" Wayne said with a smile to Stripetail.
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'so are you going to heal me now.. or what" the Minister complained. "Once you announce your retirement" stripetail replied "if you were miraculously healed before announcing it, there'd be no reason for you to step down..."
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"That is ture, best to wait till that done then do it Trin" Wayne agreed to what Stripetail was saying.
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"So you'd rather let me suffer for the next few days.. eh?' Trin glared at them... "Alright, I'll bear it as best I can... My doctors will be coming in shortly...."
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"Minister it best this way cause as many see it you don't like magic much so if they see your healed with the power of magic and your the minister still they going to really make your life harsh in living for the next years and by doing it after you retired you can go into private life and outside the dinoton public eyes with your family and live a very happy life." Wayne gave a brief explaining why it best this way around.
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At this point, Para, I could care less what the public thinks of me... I'm going to retire.. after all... So if they don't like it that I used magic to heal myself.. too bad for them' trin replied. "Now get out of here, both of you... I'll summon you back wizard after I give my retirement speech..."
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"Very well sir" Wayne nod and leaves the room
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Stripetail left the room shortly afterward, and returned home. He found the castle no different than it had been, apparently, Eva had not invityed anyone over...
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Eva sat in one of the rooms looking at books about red dragons, some just theorys and others being very old books Stripetail kept.
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Stripetail called out as he entered the hallway "Eva! I'm home! Did you bring any friends over? " his voice echoed and carried throughout the house, causing Eva to stir from the book she was reading, which was an ancient book about Red Dragon ettiquette.
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Eva picks up the book and take it with her and soon find Stripetail "I wasn't really sure who to ask around, I was thinking about asking Nova around but i don't know where he lives" Eva said to him
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What about Tristan or Alicia? You know where they live..." Stripetail frowned.. "You know I wouldn't have cared if you brought friends over, i trust you, and know thgat you wouldn't have done anything stupid or dangerous.."
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"Well I did ask them and they had family matters to attend to and said sorry to me that they couldn't come around." Eva explained to Stripetail. "So the only other choice was Nova but I didn't know where he lived or know how to contact him so no one in the end came around" Eva finished saying to him
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No matter" Stripetail sighed. "What have you been doing then, since i've been away?"
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"I have been reading some more books on Red Dragons, some of the older ones" Eva replied to Stripetail "I like to know much more about them as I can and their form of energy as well" Eva explained but didn't say anything about having a bit of a feeling towards Nova.
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Stripetail paused and looked at her. . "I have untold thousands of books and other articles that i hae collected over the ages here, while the Red dragons kept much of their records hidden even before they concealed themselves, I have been fortunate enough to have garnered quite a bit of inbformation about them. They used magic before they disappeared, those were happier days, when they and the Wizzin were allies and trusted each other. The Master wizzin was among them then, the leader of the great Wizzin, who disappeared after a few foolish Wizzin broke the trust between the two races by stealing the ancient magical records of the Red Dragons. This resulted in thier destruction, and a curse being placed on any Wizzin who refused to allow his or herself to be questioned about this.'
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"Maybe there is a way to rebuild that trust" Eva said to him "I know there is always a way to do something" Eva spoke
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I will try to do that, for my part" Stripetail nodded. " It won't be easy, the Red draggons stopped using magic after that fiasco, and they still don't hold us Wizzin in very high regard. As for training you in the ways of the Red dragons, you will get your chance... at some point.."
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"Some point better be soon" Blackstar said to himself as he watched with arms crossed "Stripetail should tell her what the Red Dragons have oftened. She will have till the end of the year if nothing learned really learned by the power Red Dragons. We will have to wait another million years" Blackstar spoke sitting down on a flat block rock. "I will return everything back to normal if have to and reset this test for another time in the furture, it is not looking promising" he sighed.
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Have faith Blackstar." Said a voice behind him. in the clearing stepped a large dragon, whose eyes glimmered with light. at the sight of this dragon Blackstar recoiled in shock. "Surprised? You're not the only one keeping tabs on young Eva and Lord Stripetail. I have as well" This dragon was called Lord Stavanus, and he also happened to be the legendary and reclusive Master Wizzin.
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"Lord Stavanus" Blackstar stood and then knelt before him "I gather you know of the Red Dragon 3 stage test to come"
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Indeed I do.. and I have some questions to ask , particularly about the final stage"Stavanus replied.
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"Yes?" Blackstar now wondering.
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You want Stripetail to draw with or lose to Eva, correct? well, all things being equal,that wil not happen unless you force Stripetail to duel at a disadvantage. He's never lost in his life, as you well know, and you'd have to make it worth his while to draw or lose...REALLY worth his while. I'm the same way, I hate losing a duel.." Stavanus said. "You'd have to force him to duel in his Wizzin form here..." He said glancing at the dueling field above them. "Eva is not a prodigy, she's done well at school, to be sure, but she is not going to ratchet up her powers enough in 6 months to be at Stripetail's level. Stripetail believes very strongly in not falling into the Merlin trap, which is teaching your student everything you know about everything. "
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"Yet the field is a serious or should I say complete zero affect of magic, magic will just be transfered into the arena itself. that would put Stripetail at a major disadventure unable to do any magic attacks. that why the plain is to get Eva to learn much as possible about red dragon style dealing" Blackstar explained
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The problem with that Blackstar, is that Stripetail will learning about that style as well, at the same time she will be. While dueling in the Wizzin forms will eliminate his magic powers as an advatange, his skills are still better than Eva's, and that comes from lifetimes of experience, which Eva cannot match, and will never match unless she gains immortality herself." Stavanus replied. "Which at the moment, she seems to have no interest in attaining."
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"You have limit faith in the unexpected" Blackstar crossed his arms as he stood up "Nothing can be sure of." Blackstar spoke "I believe she can do it and she has a chance"
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Her chances realistically Blackstar, are remote..."Stavanus replied. "While there is always a chance of Stripetail losing a duel, it is far more likely to happen to someone he is unfamiliar with, he knows Eva inside and out. We both know that..."he sighed, "but we've leave that to the Eternal, or fate, or chance, or whatever mechanism you care to use, to decide. Once your test is done, i will have a test of own to administer to Stripetail.." Stavanus said, raising an eyebrow.
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"I see but that will not involved the Red Dragons, this test has been thought of over a long period of time. if he fails then the next test will come around in another. Red Dragons still have not much trust in wizzins no offience but this is what all Red Dragons want. this is the test they will only accept" Blackstar told him.
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No, it will not involve Red Dragons, it will be a test to see if he is ready to assume my position."Stavantus said. "I failed to lead and to be rfesponsible for the actions of my Wizzin a million years ago. Stripetail is trying to remedy my mistake now, after a million years of mistrust have soured a once-strong relationship. I doubt, though that all Red Dragons want these tests administered, I'm sure there are those who have completely rejected us and would rather not let this test be given."
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"Indeed that is true but that is understandable for them." Blackstar replied back. "I believe that my test will work, there something that even slipped past you"
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Would that be that his pupil is the re-incarnation of evalicator?" Stanaus replied. "Evalicator was one of the most powerful beings in existence, before she sacrificed her immortality and her life. Immortality, once given up, cannot be regained..."
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"No it not that" Blackstar said to him "I won't speak of it till it comes" Blackstar said to him
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Very well.. but know this.." Stavantus replied. 'Eva will have no shortage of difficulty trying to prove herself to your kind, regardless of what happens in this test. She is a young witch, who is just setting out on her own. The fact that she has trained under a wizzin will not help her cause either, you and i both know that the wizzin are not held in high regard by your kind, and that will not change overnight."
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"I am aware of it" Blackstar said with a calm tone. "you will be surprised what will lead on" Blackstar sat down keeping cool about it
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Few things suprise me at this point in my life. I have kept a low profile up to now, Blackstar, partly out of shame at my failure of leadership, and partly awaiting my replacement. When I assumed my position, I was told that one day I would hand it over to someone even stronger than me." Stavantus replied.
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"Understood, stay safe" Blackstar nods
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And Now I must leave. Farewell for Now' Stavantus said, disappearing in a white light, leaving Blackstar alone.
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"Back to watching how things go" Blackstar mutters looking into the ruby again looking apron the castle
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Stripetail and Eva, unaware of the discussion about them, soon after went to bed... the next morning was cool and overcast as Eva walked into the kitchen ffor breakfast.
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"Morning" Eva spoke out seeing some of the people that work for Stripetail working in the Kicthen. Eva picks up some food and leaves with a jug of juice then sitting at the table in the dinner room. Eva pulled a letter from her pocket one that she not shown or spoken to Stripetail about. She look at the writing from Nova then put away "I wonder if I should tell Stripetail about it..." Eva shook her head a little "I don;t think he'd need to know it not serious or anything." Eva thought to herself and then go to eat her breakfast just as Stripetail comes in. "Morning Stripetail" Eva smiled
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Good Morning" Stripetail replied and then noticed the letter. "hmm.. who sent you that letter?" his response startled Eva slightly."There is no such thing as an unimportant letter Eva, otherwise someone wouldn't have taken the time to write to you.."
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Eva sighed a little "It just from Nova" Eva put it away then goes back to eating her breakfast.
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What does it say?" Stripetail queried. Eva looked uncomfortable, as she tried to eat her breakfast.
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"It... kind of... personal." Eva said quietly and went on eating
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"he likes you, doesn't he?' stripetail said quietly. "I can tell... from the way you're hush-hush about it."
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Eva didn't asnwer and just went on eating her breakfast quietly.
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Stripetail sighed. "I have something important to tell you Eva, but it will have to wait until you are done eating. It involves the Red Dragons.."
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"Alright Stripetail" Eva continues and soon finishes to listen to what Stripetail got to say about it.
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"the Red dragons have made me an offer. They believe that you are the reincarnation of an ancient and very powerful red Dragoness called Evalicator. They want me to train you in the ways of the Red Dragons. In return, the relationship between the Wizzin and the Red Dragons will improve, if I am successful. " A look of shock appeared on eva's face, shock mixed with wonderment.
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"Could that explain in the interest of Red Dragons that I had since during first year?" Eva wondered. "For some reason Stripetail... not to be rude, I felt more connected to them when reading on their history and anything else about them" Eva said to him.
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You felt more connected to thier history than the history of magic? understandable. The Red Dragons are a fascinating topic. A little background, Courtesy of Nosovar: They are classed in the Order of Colored Dragons, and they are second only to Rose Dragons in rank and power. both the Red and Rose Dragons kept themselves very much away from the other Colored Dragons, only appearing when a meeting of Dragon leaders was held. This was even before the split between the Wizzin and Red Dragons. From what Nosovar has told me, The Rose Dragons were quite friendly to the wizzin, although the bond was not as close between us and them as the bond between us and the Red Dragons. After the split between the Red Dragons and the Wizzin, the Rose Dragons laid down an ultimatum. Resolve your differences, or we're leaving. Nothing was done so they left. Hence why today there are no Rose Dragons in this dimension.They are waiting for the Wizzin and red dragons to make up. so Nosovar has told me" Stripetail said . Nosovar was the eldest of the Wizzin, he was several billion years old, and had seen many many things over the ages. "I have told him about you and he will be coming over soon to talk with you. "
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"Wow... so when would he show up?" Eva looked stunned by hearing this
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Very soon. " Stripetail replied. " I forgot that you have never met Nosovar. He's quite reserved, but he would know more than any other Wizzin about the Red Dragons. The events that damaged our relations so badly, happened more than a million years ago, when I was very young. Nosovar was at the time the second -ranking Wizzin, like he is now, behind only the Master Wizzin Stavantus.Stavantus disappeared after some of the Wizzin tried to steal the powers of the Red Dragons. They failed, and were destroyed as a result. Stavantus's disappearance further weakened the Wizzin, in the eyes of the Red Dragons.." Stripetail continued.
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"I heard about something like that about the wizzins and red dragons being parted like that cause of a few wizzins going for power" Eva said to Stripetail then continues "Oh Stripetail I figured out how to us this ruby. Last time I used it to change forms then turn back to normal" Eva pulled out the ruby from her pocket. "Would you like me to show you?" Eva asked
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So that is what was in the letter, instructions on how to change form. The ruby came with it I presume." A smile broke out over Stripetail's face as he produced his own gem. "Then my form will not surprise you. Very well, It is time we were off...Get your things together Eva, we will not leave the place we are headed to for several weeks, until you have grasped at least some of the basics of being a Red Dragon."
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aS he was s[peaking, an elderly voice spoke out. "Good morning brother, Miss Eva" Stripetail turned and stopped. an elderly robed figure stood in the doorway. It was Nosovar.
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'the latter not telling me how to do change forms, it just a bit personally' Eva thought to herself. Then Eva look at Nosovar "Hello sir" Eva spoke not sure who he was cause of never seeing him.
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Nosovar smiled."I am Nosovar of the Wizzin. My brother Stripetail asked me to come talk with you about the Red Dragons. I'm the oldest of the Wizzin, so I can remember long stretches of our relationship with them. " Nosovr went into the room and sat down on a sofa. "Please sit where you like, and I'll begin."
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Eva nods and takes a seat but as she was about to she felt something about the letter taking it out quickly looking at the words change into a new sentence from Nova. She smiled a little then put it away not letting anyone else get a chance to see it then seats down ready to listen.
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It changed, didn't it?' Nosovar smiled faintly. "I can sense even very faint magical changes, it's a gift I have Miss Eva. Your friend is the son of a great Red Dragon,one of the few who has remained freindly to us over the years. If my Lord is successful with this test, that will change."
_ A TEST?' Stripetail said incredoulously. "I'm going through all this trouble for a darned TEST? does that mean that.." "Yes, Blackstar is not evil, far from it in fact. This is the first such test administered in several million years, I remember several such tests in the past. Most tested young Red Dragons,in thier strength compassion and valor. This I believe is the first test of Wizzin in hundreds of millions of years.There are several Red Dragons who do not want this test administered however, and the only way to change thier minds to is complete the test, and bring out Miss Eva's inner powers. Nosovar replied. "which are formidable." He smiled at eva.
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"Are you saying that I still got a great deal more power within me that not even been awaken?" Eva aske with wonder after hearing about this and this test that Stripetail has to do when the time comes.
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Yes." Nosovar replied. "It will only come out under dire stress however, if your life is in danger for example. And only someone with great power and skill can properly train you in how to control your untapped power. Of the Wizzin, only Stripetail is strong enough to do it now, he was fortunate( in a sense) not to be Wizzin when Evalicator punished us. The three Wizzin responsible for this mess. basilor, Terator, and Dwayne, were young, headstrong, and arrogant. They were among our weaker members though, and they attempted to steal the powers of the Red Dragons, in order to increase thier powers, and rise to the level of the older Wizzin. Which was exrtremely stupid, for severall reasons but I will only mention two, First, it destroyed a long-standing and important relationship, secondly, it was unnecessary;had they simply waited and gained experience, they would have reached our level eventually anyway. They were not destroyed as legend has said,however, they were imprisoned in Calicate Manor, an inscapable prison for the worst offenders against the Colored Dragons. There they most likely remain, older, weaker, and hopefully wiser for all the trouble they caused." Nosovar said.
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Somewhere in someplace unknown a figure watches in the darkness no one aware of this being not even the almighty powerful beings that watch over the universe. "From the darkness I shall come and death will become all motal and immotal, they are one and the same and shall die in pearily as I rise from the darkness. The first immortal to die will be Nosovar, alliances will not be rejoined by that of Red and Wizzin" the figure raise up a doll of some sort looking like Nosovar then using a claw finger touch the chest.
"Slowly you will die, your immortal will drain and all of your life energy will belong to me such as the first and many other wizzins and reds to fall under my power. Including one of your creators in one part of the universe." the figure spoke in the darkness calm and collected.
"Only one that seem to be untouch of my power, who is this girl... what power has she got that no other even the creators have. She is beyond the wizzins and red and Creators. Why is the question that I must find a answer to" the figure touch the doll again and see Nosovar flinch in pain something attacking him from the inside. "Nosovar life force is dying. no one will find out how my powers beyond wizzins and red... wait she senses..." the image fades to nothing as he stood there in the darkiness
"What is she, why is she able to sense the attack? Is she the light of hope? questions will be answered in time but Nosovar has none left by 2 circles he will be gone from life and spirit." the figure disappears into the darkiness.
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Eva was looking around as Stripetail got to Nosovar seeing him fall in pain. "What was that?" Eva was still looking around as Stripetail wasn't even aware of something was watching them and striked a blow at Nosovar, somehow a being that was able to be hidden from Stripetail's senses.
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(immortals cannot be killed Threehorn, hence why it is called immortality. this new figure is much too powerful, if you are going to use such a figure, then weaken it considerably. It can harm Nosovar, but it cannot kill him.)
Nosovar slowly climbed to his feet, the internal pain receding. "One who tries to prevent the alliance of Red Dragon and Wizzin from recovering has attacked me. As an immortal, I cannot be killed, but given my age such a blow as I have recieved will take some time to recover from. Miss Eva sensed this attack didn't you?" He looked at Eva, and Stripetail. "My Lord, you have not met this creature, his name is carron. He is a great evil that can destroy systems and corrupt the weak and foolish. His power is immense, and only by completing the test and bringing back the alliance can he be destroyed, again. Many ages ago, he tried to take over the cosmos, but thanks to the alliance between us and the Colored Dragons, we were able to defeat him and lock him away inside a wormhole. He apparenyly has come back.
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"So immortals had changed, they can not die from the blow that I once did in the time of olds, time to change my paths and bring fourth a new." Carron spoke to himself "You are lucky old wizzin. Changing the immortal prints saved your life but in time I will find a way to collaspe the immortal chain that on the wizzins. Starting with rumors of old potions in the farest of space. A world called Jicti." Carron disappears from the shadows.
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Eva thought she heard a world name "Stripetail what is Jicti?" Eva asked
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Jicti is a ancient world in the depths of space. Carron once lived there for a time, studying powerful and now-forgotten magics and potions. I be;lieve that he will try to find a potion that will drain us of our immortality. To my knowledge none exist, after he was defeated, we scoured the universe and destroyed all the potions we could find that took away immortality.' Nosovar said. "Jicti is in ruins now, forgotten and barren. It was once a thriving planet, inhabited by a race called the Chincots. They were great philosphers and spellcasters, and created vast stores of knowledge in thier great library. But Carron attacked Jinti and laid it to waste. Nearly all of the Chincots were destroyed, and much of thier knowledge and magic was lost. The few survivors fled here taking as much of thier ways and knowledge with them as they could. They gave what they had to the Wizzin for safekeeping, and the Chincots records now resides in our library."
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"I see" Eva replied and something didn't feel right about hearing that name, something dark was speaking and it seem to know something that the wizzins did not. "Is there a chance that somewhere on the planet there was some of this magic and potions hidden away in something that make wizzin senses inaffected to pick them up?" Eva suggested.
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Carron appears on the planet now covered in plant life in most parts, he stood on the outskirts of it looking into a desert land with a ruined city and he walked into the ruins finding a massive building walking inside he stopped at a part of flooring. "Open" he put a claw hand out from the cloak he worn over his whole body and the floor glow black and disappears. "I knew I might lose so I kept myself a little something back incase" he walks down the steps and the black glow appears and the floor appears back in normal place again.
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Very possible..' Nosovar said gravely.
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Carron entered into a small room.. and cursed. the hidden store he had put away as a safety net, was in ruins,covered by debris. Sometime after he had placed his supplies in here, the ceiling had collasped, and fallen into the shelves and table he hasd set up here. There was not enough extant to work with... he would have create the potions from memory, and time was short. The test of that blasted wizard had to be stopped, at any costs...
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"So it was destoryed... then I will just take this world to my dark relam and use all the planets resources to create my magic and potions. I have a idea to make a new set and even use powers that are not even magic. it time to show my full power" Carron raise his claw hands up and a black wormhole appears pulling in the whole world then it closes.
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The wormhole's creation was detectable by magical creatures, and Nosovar frowned. "Jicti is now under carron's control.." He said coldly. "Time is short, you must begin the training now."He gestured and transformed himself into a Red Dragon. "This spell is an old one, and is no longer permitted to be used by non-red Dragons, I learned it in happier times. Transform, both of you.."He commanded, his voice changed from that of an elderly wizard to a commanding presence. eva could sense that while Stripetail's powers were stronger, Nosovar had far more experience than him. "NOW!"
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Eva took out the ruby and about to say the words but she had to do something and something Nova taught her as well. CHanging into a red dragon she used the red dragon power and teleports away before either of them could react but before they was going to go after her Redstar spoke out from behind them. "Don't go after her. she will catch you up. I do not what Nova and Eva up to but I guess Eva not spoken to you both about Nova and the same to me." Redstar spoke to them both. "I have a feeling this will do us more good then bad to let them be."
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"So be it. We don't have time." Nosovar said." he and Stripetail teleported away, appearing in a fortress on a strange planet.
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"Yes mam" Eva nods "Nova said it was ok for me to come around. Is that alright with you mam?" Eva spoke not to be rude in showing up in the house being polite.
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I don't care. but you need to tell your master about your training with my son. It's only fair, young one. If you keep things from people, they start to lose trust in you... and you are at a crossroads in your life, you will need all the trust you can get. You certainly will have a hard time earning the respect of my kind, we don't care much for witches or wizards. Nova is in the study, if you want to know where he is..
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"I will let him know" Eva replied and sent a mental message "thank you mam" Eva bow a little in respect to Nova's mum. Eva goes towards the study but stop seeing some sort of flash of some sort of event that happened in the past. She saw a female red dragon standing there standing as a battle happened on the first Red Dragon homeworld that was destoryed a long time ago.
"Where am I?" Eva looked around see huge explosions in the distance but unaware that this was the red dragon that was suppose to be recranated from was the one standing there before her. "What is this place and where am I?" Eva questioned.
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This is Trisisus, my homeland" Evalicator said "This is part of my memory.. Eva." she said looking directly at her.
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"How come I am seeing this place then if this is your memory?" Eva said with some more wonder
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You and I have a connection" Evalicator replied. "We are Connected yet very different. You are a squirrell first, a Red Dragoness second. Much hope is being invested in you, By both my kind and Lord Stripetail. As for what yyou are seeing,This is what happened when Carron attacked this planet." She continued as more large explosions rocked the ground. He has returbed, no doubt..."
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"Well I was a AI before that but funny thing was when I began as one they used a dragon format and it was a red dragon as a image and known as EVA Red Zelta X AI system at first." Eva said recalling some of the AI history. "then they made it later look a bit more Dinoton then when the alliance used the program it was human form." Eva finished talking about it. "So in a way my life might of been in a AI program at first but the shape of my first apperance was a Red Dragon if I think about it now" Eva put a claw hand under her snout then look at Evalicator.
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A Coicidence, I suspect. Remember that I was dormant, until Stripetail changed into a squirell and started training you, that is when I began to revive, culminating now in my reawakening. However,You won't have enough of a lifespan to unlock your full potential, you must become immortal Eva in order to do so. You don't want to be immortal, though, do you?' evalicator gazed at her, and the image slowly began to fade."Answer, before the connection is broken!"
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"I do not now at this time, but if I would... I will know from in here" Eva put a claw hand on her chest but as she did a red ruby light shined and right where a mark that evalicator had also now was on Eva's Right Arm. Eva was surprised to see it and looked right at evalicator.
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You will become more like me in time...although he may havesomething to say about that... and you know who I mean... You mean more to him than anyone since ... how do you not see this? " Evalicator shook her head. "I guess what they say is true, Youth makes you blind..."
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"His married and to some sense of belief it wrong to have have a relationship to that who is married. It feels very wrong to do so... the closest is a father in a way cause he helped raise me for 10 years. I will always have respect to him." Eva said to her
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married only briefly, she died, as you well know.he's available, to put it bluntly.' Evlicator shook her head. "He doesn't want to lose you Eva, you've done a great deal for him, in more ways than you know. "
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"His my family... I know I mean a great deal to him, but I have to make my own choices in the end and I wish to part my path for a time. But I will always be incontact and visit him all the time when the time comes. I am sorry but in the end his means alot to me as a father." Eva finished telling her.
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So be it...it is your choice...But tell him that you love him, before you leave him.." the inage disappeared and Eva was back in this time, in Nova's house
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'Don't worry, I will always love him as a father. No matter how far apart we could be' Eva thought to herself and letting Stripetail pick up on it to show she does love him as a father figure and respect him always. 'If we do part ways, I will always be in contact and visit you. that if we do part ways, I hope this is enough for you Stripetail... seeing you as my father, the one that raised me into the real world' Eva thought.
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Stripetail smiled slightly as he got the mental message. "Just finish up and get your tail over here" he said mentally.
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'I will' Eva replied back and then heads to the study to train a little with Nova
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After a half hour of training, Eva appeared at the fortress. "you sure took your time young Eva' Nosovar said, slightly irritated. "Next time, come here as soon as possible...no matter what."
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"Somethings go on that sometimes you can't come right away. I was doing some special training with Nova. something that is important. I am sorry for not coming soon as possible as you'd like sir but I had to do it" Eva said to him calmly. "Each and everyones lives are important and what they do is up to them but what i do is to work on ways to help many in different apporaches and one is getting a little help from my friend Nova."
(have you notice my new rpg I put up?)
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(yes I Have. I have seen a bit of Dr. Who, but not recently. it's a bit like Quantum Leap right?)
"Miss Eva, while the saying is true "every little bit helps", I would prefer that if you continue your side-training with Nova, that it be done here. We don't have any time to delay, you have six months to begin to grasp the immense power within you. The red Dragons are powerful creatures, and they laid down rules for conduct ettiquette, honor, you name it , they have rules for it.. LOTS of rules for it. The rules we will be mostly concerned about for now are the rules regarding powers and thier use."
As Nosovar said this, Nova and Redstar appeared at the fortress.
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(Dr. Who is a sci-fi series in the UK which a traveller called the Doctor the last of the Time Lords travel in his Tardis which looks like a blue 1960s police box that was once around in London and some other cities for calling the police. the Tardis inside is far bigger then the outside. in a way it miles in size while is only a few meters wide and about 3 meters high and makes a strange nosie as it appears and also when it disappears, this can travel through time and space.)
"I understand and I Will give it my all to unearth these powers within me" Eva replied back as the two red dragons walked up to them.
"So this is the forgotton Fortress, I heard of it but never seen it" Redstar looked around. "Quite impressive"
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This was once the testing grounds for similar test in the ancient past, which is why I have chosen it. The areas is protected by sacred and ancient magic, no one but testers ot students may enter here, everyone else must have special permission from the Elder" Nosovar said. "Carron cannot enter here, in any way shape or form. "
_ The fortess was immemse in scope and scale. there was a very air of past students and trainers testing and being tested, and one could almost hear thier echos thoughout the large and ancient castle. It was eerie, to put it mildly.
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"There is always a chance that all changed and always a small chance Carron had found a way around all your defences since he haven't been standing still and moving forwards" someone spoke everyone turned around to see something standing right in front of a light it hidding her apperance to them all.
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"Bewared, in once worlds this may have happened and this could be the end before it begins. Just be sure it the right thing to do before it too late, I know..." the figure steps backwards a ripple appearing as she step into it. "It has happened and the immortal died under the Black Sun of Death, the old ways of training will fail and your universe will fall into the Darkness like mine has... I will fight but in the end my universe has fallen already and the old immortals have died, immortal can't escape the black sun, mortal or Immortal niether are the different to the Black Sun they are the same and the raises can kill both." the figure almost completly gone into the ripple before the last words are spoken. "See the furture and leave the past in the past before it too late, change your ways change your plans before the Black Sun destorys this land, it has happened and will happen here too" then she was gone.
Eva blinked turning to Stripetail and Nosovar "Who was that person?" Eva asked
"It was you Eva..." Redstar spoke out and this took Stripetail and Nosovar by surprise.
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"Nothng Evil can enter here" Nosovar snapped. "If that was you from the future or aanother dimension, miss Eva, It matters not."His eyes became alight with flame. "The Black sun is nothing more than Evil's Holy Grial,many have tried to create it , all those that tried have died in doing so. The powers left in Jicti are not nearly enough to cReate the Sun, it requires powers equal to several thousand planets, Carron does not have that in him..." Nosovar finished and turned away walking further on into the fortress. "come along"
As Stripetail got up to follow, the figure appeared again.. "he does not listen.." Stripetail heard her say mentally.
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"Nosovar... his head stuck in the past..." Redstar shook his head.
Nova looked at Stripetail "I don't think the fortess is safe... my gut instincts saying this is the unsafest place of all to be at this time" Nova told him
Eva was still surprised to seeing a counterpart of herself.
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Then where should we move " Stripetail replied. "I'm open to any ideas.."
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"There is a place that not long created it won't be knew by Carron. It called Recoflic Alpha." Redstar said to Stripetail "We protected it with a layer of energy that newly made that stronger then anyone can even guess" Redstar told Stripetail.
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Very well, we will go there" Nosovar said reluctantly. "However, don't EVER infer that I am stuck in my ways again! There is somrething to be said for progress but also for respecting and honoring the past. What is the saying? "If you fail to learn from history,m you are doomed to repeat it?"
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"Nosovar, we don't have the time to squabble over things like this" Stripetail cut in. "Redstar, teleport us to Reconflic alpha Now!"
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Redstar didn't waste any time and as they teleported away a massive dark shadow appear over the fortess and in the sky was a whirling dark void sucking the world into it.
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They appear at Reconflic alpha outside a building that seem to not long been built and stood in front of the gates was a red dragon with a necklace around her neck and wearing a robe, the sky was a red haze with clouds going by the sun redish yellow in the sky. "You've just made it in time my guests, the world you was on just been swallowed by a dark wormhole, I never seen such energy but that is that." she turn around walking into the grounds.
"Now come in my guests, I have a welcome meal all prepared for you" she spoke as she walked feather into the building's ground.
Redstar smiled to the others "She has a nak of knowing when guests are coming to train here. But don't underestimate that cutiness, she stronger then you think and don't take kind to insults" Redstar whispers to them and Nova only knew too well after what he saw this Red Dragon did when a kid miss behaved and even a adult order then her. "Call her by the name Red Havon, not Red Heavy or your really asking for trouble" Redstar warns them
(have you thought about my story by any chance?)
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(I haven't watched Dr Who in sometime...But if you are so desperate :P: I'll play. On one condition. You play my RPG game as well.. :) )
"Red Havon, eh?" Nosovar said.. "I'll try not to tick her off.."
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Did you say the fortress was destroyed? Carron.. his power is growing..' Stripetail tensed.
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(Alright I will give it a try and got a deal)
"Yes" Stripetail was surprised she heard him "I have good hearing and I watched it happen, I knew you'd get out so I didn't have to worry" Red Havon smiled turning around "Now come on in before your dinner gets cold."
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Very well" Stripetail replied, and follwwed her into the main building. the dinner hall wasimmense, with all sorts of different foods and drinks. the smells were extraordinary, and Stripetail looked forward to his mean. Nova and Eva, were already piling food on thier plates as rapidly as they could, Redstar was akready seated at looking his food hungrily. Then he saw Nosovar, sitting as far away from everyone else as he could. his plate was empty and his face was filled with sorrow. "2 billion years of history at the castle, gone in a few moments. The place was empty, the last records were taken out millenia ago, but I thought.. it would be safe" Nosovar said.
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"it not gone it just trapped in that other relam at the moment, if you defeat that big mean Carron I am sure your world will be spit out again all normal like nothing happened" Red Havon said with a sweet voice
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" i really am getting old' Nosovar said, a catch appaering in his voice. Red Havcen sat down by him. "in ymy youngercdays I could have prevented this..'
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"brother, this wormhole is incredibly strong, Even in your younger days.."Stripetail began,
"Brother, my powers once rivaled those of Stavantus ! Before those young fools destroyed everything...I took the blame, for them, and for Stavantus, who diusappeared,m rather than be held responsible" anger flowed through the Wizzin's voice. "His disappearance only angered the Red Dragons further, they showed me and the Wizzin absolutely no mercy when they cursed us. Had he been there, they would have shown us a little at least, out of respect for him..."Nosovar put his head in his paws.
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Carron grins as he watches "yes feed with grith and sadiness a little more and you will be my new puppet" Carron watches in the darkiness.
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'brother.. I will do my best, to rectify his mistake. a good leader takes bllame for mistakes made by his underlings."Stripetail said.
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Nosovar looked at him, and the bout of sadness slowly dissapated. "you are nearly ready for another test, brother" He said, getting up.
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"Sit and eat your dinner, a good guest always eat his or her meal or it considered rude" the look Red Havon gave Stripetail and Nosovar gave them chills down their spines.
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"Forgive me, I've not been myself.."Nosovar said, getting up and heading to the main table, where he grabbed some of a blue food and some of a gray food.. "looks delicious, not sure what it is, but it sure smells good."
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"No trouble at all, now enjoy" she said with a cheerful smile sitting down and eating hers and everyone else does as well.
Carron couldn't sense where they was but he knew that Nosovar was close to falling into his claws and he just had to wait and see but for now he would work on his master plan. "Soon you will see my true power" he grins within the darkiness
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"Carron is feeding on your sadness and despair" a voice echoed in Nosovar's mind. "If you fall into his hands, this dimension is doomed. You must fight your anger and despair, or all will be lost.."
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Nosovar nodded silently and the voice left him. he returned to the table and started attacking his food, throwing himself into his meal like a starving person does when given food.
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Red Havon smiled as she watched everyone, very happy to see them all eating well but her favoute part was to come the training she has installed for them and this was something she'd know will make the immortal ones sweat a lot.
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Stripetail ate his food at a modest pace, he was more interested in his surroundings than anything.. "This place is beatiful" he said to Red Haven..."thank you for allowing us to come here..'
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Red Havon smiled "Your welcome"
Redstar looked over at Stripetail "Like my homeworld this planet, some places get really hot and cause of that the sky amost look red all the time" Redstar spoke (with the LBT rpg I hope we can work it out very well :) and your rpg as well )
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( I hope we can finish this one as well. The last couple have fallen apart. I had thoughts of Eva battling Carron for years, while Stripetail went off on his own. but I think we can probably stop this story arc after this one, unless you want to do a spin-off about Cesha or something..)
From the trapped heat in the atmosphere, and particles that get trapped up there, making the sky look red.' Nosovar replied.
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"Yes you got it in one" Redstar smiled and went on eating
(I will give it some thought. about it ok?)
Eva finished eating and wonder for a moment what happening with her counterpart if the Eva from the other universe was the only real defence left but barely holding against the power of Carron. She knew there isn't much of a chance of that happening here now cause of the change in events with the planet leaving it being it was swallowed by the black wormhole.
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Stripetail finished eating, and sat back in his chair. "Why do I get the sense that I will be very sore in the morning?' He wondered to himself...
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"I wonder why" Redstar joked then turn to Red Havon "I gather you got the training arenas and everything else ready?"
"Of course" Red Havon smiled getting up "I'll get this cleaned up, why don't you all go to your rooms, your names will be on the doors" Red Havon spoke to them
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Stripetail got up and a younger dragon lead him, Eva, redstar and Nova to their rooms. Stipetail's was in the middle of the hallay. Eva's was down toawards the left end, nosovar's was down towards the right end, and Nova's was halway in between nosovar and Stripetail , but on the other side of the hallway.
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Eva entered her room seeing it was a nice little room for resting in she went to the window to see outside the place they was at seeing a massive city not to far away by a massive volcano with a castle like structure inside it. "That must be the Captial City of the Red Dragons, that means we on the Red Dragons home world." Eva said to herself staring out of the window.
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Stripetail was also loking at the view, and a feeling of sorrow scame over him, like forboding..
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Eva walked up to the bed and sat down on it "It looks very hot out there but it don't feel it, I guess the body of my red dragon body can endure this heat like it a cold winters day. Amazing forest near by, look like that able to endure high temptures, It just a amazing world" Eva said to herself with a smile. "Just as I dreamed it would be like"
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"The tests is about tio begin " Said a fimiliar voice behind Stripetail. He turned. 'it was the spirit of Evalicator.. 'why are you here?' He asked..
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(ok sorry I will re-edit the post... Eva did learn how to change into a red dragon from Nova I thought i'd put that in a post :S)
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(Hold on.. you can't do that Threehorn. carron shouldn't be that strong. besides, since the place Stripetail and Eva are in, is beyond his detection, anything they say or think is beyond detection as well.. Also, You never explained how eva learned how to transform herself into a rEd Dragon. I assume Nova told her and taught her how, but you have to make that clear.Just another point that's been eating at me..)
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Eva sat on the bed looking at a book she brought with her. Nova gave it to help her learn more on Red Dragon power and so far she'd be taught a few things about the powers. "I wonder what will happen when this all comes to a end" Eva whispers looking at the book.
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"She will be strong, Stripetail. Her innate gifts are slowly being unlocked, but only one like yourself can truly teach her how to use them. Young Nova is already showing the marks of his father..."
"So Nova taught her how to become Red Dragon.. So That is wht was in the.."
"No, the letter simply was a personal one from Nova to her. Nova really likes her..but his fate is not to be her consort..."Evalicator said. "She will battle with Carron for years, you will not be able to help her Stripetail, because you will be occupied with matters of equal and even greater importance. Eva is still mortal, even though she will be very powerful indeed, and take my seat and status among the Red Dragons. She has touched you greatly, as only one other has. But the time is very near where you must break with her."
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Nova stood at the window looking out at the city wonder if there could be more for Eva and him, he did care for her like he never felt before. But he knew there was a chance that it couldn't work so he kept that in mind as he watch one of the large ships of the Red Dragons fly over the city heading for the high sky port directly above the city. "On time but still amazing to see every time it flies over the city"
(In 8 days I am flying out to the states so my posts will come a bit rarer so'd I was wondering if we could try to work on time and before, before I go to the states just to see how well it goes from where we are if that ok)
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(that's fine... :D )
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"So what exactly will my business be that will prevent me from helping Eva? he is mortal after all..."Sptripetail said.
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You'll find out after the final test..." Evalicator replied simply. "The Colored Dragons had a rule: If you learn the future, keep it quiet. Too many wish to bend the future to thier own ends... we both know that to be true Stripetail... you hsave lived long enough to learn that.."
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Redstar stood outside of the building looking out to the city walking a little to a stop next to a massive opening with lava far below flowing through "Lava Isles this must by, the land that cut off from the rest of the land by lava flowing around it. So this was the place I saw being built a few years back. It just shows that improvement is always something that we go for and getting up on the times" Redstar sat down watching the red haze in the sky.
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"I know that...I also know that Eva will die someday and I'll be alone again..and I don't want that.."Stripetail said somberly. Evalicator shook her head. "She does not want immortality Stripetail, that is her choice, while many of her classmates would take it given the opprtunity, she will not.. Immortality has its drawbacks, as you know.. you can never really get close to others, unless they are immortal like yourself, and you are.. isolated.. from those around you. Yes, if you have power, it is magnified exoponentially by your immortality, but it is not for everyone" Evalicator said.
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Blackstar watched this sitting in his chair shaking his head "Yes Eva has shown that sign of not wanting it and so has my neaphew Nova. You've not the only one in pain over this Stripetail" Blackstar spoke soundly looking at the image.
(I am at Sunnyside in the USA now, hope that time and begining still can go on please)
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(Just posted in it :D )
"Would you mind?" evalicator's spirit appeared in front of Blackstar. "What I have to say is for him only, no one else Blackstar." She was clearly not happy, and her eyes glowed with a terriible light. Blackstar looked apologetic. "the first task has already been set, tommorow, he will begin it..." She said.
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"Very well mistress" Blackstar bowed a little
(good good, I re-edited a post cause it went a bit wrong)
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Good day to you" She said simply , and vanished. after she did the viewer went dark..
Stripetail turned away from the window and got into bad. "Your tasks begin tommorow" a voice in his head said. "Heal the Dinoton Minister, then wait for further instruction.."
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Blackstar looked at his arena and wondered about it "I wonder if there is some clue to helping them out with my floating arena" Blackstar said to himself staring at it
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"Are you ready for this, young Eva?' a voice said behind her. It was Evalicator, who had come to give her a few words of advice..
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"I guess I am" Eva turn around at her.
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"These tests are less about him then about you Eva, it will test whether or not you are ready to go out on your own. You are close, but not quite there yet. He will have to sever, or at least weaken his feelings for you...not an easy task.That will be his test, moreso than whether he has the ability to go beyond his great magical powers, or whether he has the strength to empthasize with mortals..Your true test, or tests will come later... one is something that only you have to deal with, the other.. well.. the other is one females have had to deal with from the beginning.."
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"I see. who is this other female?" Eva asked looking at her with a wonder knowing the greatest test of them all was to come.
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Do I really need to explain what that second test is. Eva? The test that women have been taking from the begginning? It's MOTHERHOOD, Eva, " Evalicator sighed. "Motherhood forces you to change everything, the way you think, the way you act, everything. It's no longer about you, but rather about your child. The seed has already been planted within you, but you will not become pregnant for some time. Years in fact. The child will be stripetail's, but you may not tell him that until Carron is defeated, if you tell him before then, Carron will try to destroy the child" evalicator said. "This child will be male, and he will be half-mortal, with the ability to change from a REd Dragon to a squirrell at will, without any devices needed.' Eva turned pale. "he will further bridge the gap between Wizzin and the Red Dragons, and be respected by both sides. i tell you this now, Eva, because you need to know."
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"How did it happen?" Eva asked her wishing to know.
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I had a hand in it" Evalicator admitted. "Stripetail and you have never slept together, of course, but there is a way to have children without physical contact. It's called mental mating, when the more powerful of the partners, which is usually the male, thinks about children, then it is possible for him to mentally create a child within the female. It is usually done unwittingly,and the male may not be aware of what he has done until after it is evident that the female is pregnant.
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Stripetail, being immortal, has shown little need for or desire to have children, but he has thought about it, and it was during one of these brief thoughts that the child was concieved, unbeknowst to the both of you. I have put a spell around the child, so that no one may detect it, not even Carron or Stripetail. Only you and I will know about it Eva.'Evalicator said. "in my opinion, it is long past time for Stripetail to be a father, and I know you'll make a great mother Eva. " She said this with clear fondness in her voice, she really meant what she was saying..
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"Thank you... I understand what you mean" Eva replied and spoke "I will not tell anyone not even Stripetail"
(Littlefoot is up on Time and Before)
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(Just posted in it, Remember a time of tragedy Rp, the tradegy will be happening soon after the game is completed)
"Good.. this will include Nova by the way.. you may not tell him either. He has chosen mortality as well, out of friendship for you. He will, in a sense, be your next mentor.."
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"I understand" Eva nods to what she said
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"You will name him, what name you decide Will be accepted..by both me and Stripetail.." Evalicator replied.. "Start thinking of names... a name for your son.."
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"I will start and thank you" Eva nods to her. I will keep quiet and speak not of any of this to anyone" Eva spoke with a smile
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Evaicator nodded, smiled and disappeared. as she did, there was a slight chill in the air, which Eva felt. Having been with Stripetail for nearly ten years now, she knew him quite well, she knew that it would be very difficult keeping this secret from him; he seemed to be able to sense her innermost thoughts and feelings with little visible effort. Perhaps this was a result of his lengthy study of the magical arts, perhaps it was an ability granted to all mentors who train an apprentice, they come to know thier pupils thoughts very well, it becomes well nigh impossible for the pupil to hide anything from the master.Perhapds it was some combination of the two, whatever the cause, Eva knew that keeping her pregnancy a secret from him would be easier said than done..
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(question... if Stripetail raise her like one of his own... I see some sort of wrong in it Eva having a child of someone she thinks of him mostly as a father... it kind left me now stuck cause it kind of contrick what happened earily with what Eva said about Stripetail and now the scene we did and what I remembered back a bit left me in a jam...)
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(It really falls on Evalicator for the creation of the cjild. She used Stripetail's thoughts when he was briefly thinking about children, and created the child.As for thier relationship, I've never really spelled out the nature of thier relationship...on Stripetail's part at least. If You recall, in a previous story, we had Eva give birth to Stripetail's children previously,but I later scrapped it, because Eva was only a youth at the time. Now she is older and more prepared for child-bearing..At any rate, Stripetail is unaware that this has happened, and the child will not be born for some time yet... only when the child's birth is revealed to him will we get his reaction..)
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(it just sounds like it being pulled into a fixed relationship this time around after the scaping of what happened in the very first one we did. And sound like Evalicator as well controling who Eva has to be with... something like that left me now in a mix up cause of what I stated for Eva... if this leads down that path... Eva might end up giving up the child to not had Evalicator have her way, that leading me into a stand still cause I am now not sure what to do...)
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(Its not fixed though.. Its not as if Eva must Marry Stripetail... indeed events are such that after this story, they will be going thier seperate ways... it will be several years before they will see each other again... As for what to do, just keep plugging along... use what you are given and run with it.. Evalicator is not controlling who Eva has to be with, she made no mention of marrying Stripetail.. rather she is further strengthening the bond between Stripetail and Eva.. although I doubt that Stripetail will approve of what she did..)
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(Alright understood, the lets continue and also we got time and before that had nothing new posted for a few days)
Nova stood outside in the warmth of the Red Dragon world from just outside looking to the sky "Something in the air... something that I feel, he won't win. He underestimating something... something bigger then this universe can throw at him... something nor immortal or mortal... something that has balance..." Nova whisper to himself as the warm air blows up some dust
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"Enjoying the night sky?" said an elderly dragoness, who was stabding nearby... "Forgive me, I overheard.."
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"Yes... but I sense something..." They then saw in the sky for a moment a build up lightning in the sky only and bends down in a dome like shape then goes back up and disappears and when this happened the sky turn blue for a moment blue as seen on Earth's surface "wow that is beautiful..." Nova whispers seeing the blue sky and it seem to stay like a hole in the sky but it wasn't even a hole but a clear crystal blue sky now surrdened by the normal reddish sky of the planet has.
(Nick sorry to be a pain but is there going to be any progress on Time and Before?)
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(Just added a short post... Stories like that often lead my into philosophy, which I really enjoy.. btw)
"Nature has its own magic... that lightning is several times hotter than the surface of the nearest star, yet it provides quite a show.." the dragoness replied.. "Magic.. it is fading in the hearts and minds of the young.. I'm revealing my age, bUt I remember a time, when magic was strong, and distrust and fear was not yet sown between our races..these are dfficult times.."
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"But it feels different to nature... it feels like something else... but I just can't place it" Nova replied back "I know what I am feeling miss... something is different about this... look another" Nova points and it lowers again but fades into the sky leaving blue sky in it place. "It don't feel like magic..." Nova lowered his claw hand "It feels... I am not sure what I am feeling from this" Nova watched as it seem to travel "alsmost like something traveling in the sky... but it not in the sky..."
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(forgot the beings name the dark one in the darkiness)
Standing the darkness a sense of something that he couldn't place but he knew it was there something beyond what he could imagion. "What is it that I sense... whatever it is I will not let it slow me down. I will be waiting for you Stripetail and then I will crush you and your friends" he grins
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That would be Carron)
"a halfling and a mortal will strike him down>' The Eldery dragoness spoke sudsenly in a mystical voice.."This test will not be completed anytime soon.. for she must gain experience...the mentor wll soon leave...to assume a mantle abandoned ages ago, in a moment of cowardice and ignorance..."
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Nova looked at her "But what if something else does? something beyond the limits of prodiction something outside magic, time, power, energy. Something that goes by it own rules?" Nova wondered then look back to see there was nothing more appearing in the sky. "I guess someone of which might bring Carron down but there are so many possiblites that not even been checked" Nova said and had a point.
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"All things are bound by rules, even those that reject and despise those rules, are bounds by them just the same..."' the prophetess replied.. There is balance in this cosmos, young dragon, when evil arises, good comes and overcomes it.. but as for carron, in history there were but few who were strong enough to defeat him, in these weakened times, the number of those alive today who could defeat him can be counted on a few fingers. As for your third statement, you are showing your youth there.. There is nothing that cannot be predicted, but there are some predictions that should not be made... and rather than there being many possibilities, quite the contrary,there are but a few possible outcomes.. remember, this dimension, and only this one, may deal with him, it is forbidden for other dimensions to intervene in our affairs..
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"I understand" Nova said to her "But I still think there something out there that no one seen or even got to know. there too much out there for someone to know everything. not even Lord Stripetail know every inch of this universe there could be some at the farest points that not even known by anyone" Nova turn to head it "thank you for this talk, goodnight"
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"Let me give you a piece of advice before you turn in.." The prophetess replied.. "Hold tightly to your friend, she will need you in the trials to come, there will be joym and sorrow, ending and beginning, and your friendship will be tested time and again..both of you have chosen mortality, you will have to live with that decision, and the weaknesses it brings...but it also provides strengths as well..."
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Nova nods and then walks in and into his room "I wonder how much anyone don't know" Nova said to himself sitting down on the bed in wonder.
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The morning came, and stripetail returned to Dinoton, It had been 3 days, since he had promised to heal tRin, and Trin was to give his retirement speech that night..
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A dinoton walked up to Stripetail as he head to the Trin "Hello dear sir who might you be" the dinoton that asked was looking much like a longneck type humaniod dinosaur.
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Stripetail, at your service' And you are?' Stripetail replied looking at the Dinoton, he looked quite familiar although Stripetail couldn't at the moment place him..
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"The name is Longspark, traveller returnee late afternoon yesturday from the deepest parts of space in my expermental ship" Longspark replied to Stripetail.
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*As he introduced himself to Stripetail two dinotons asked by Trin come up towards them about a 5 minute walk away but heading their way.*
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"Pleased to meet you.." Stripetail replied.. "I'm here to see the Minister.. he's not well.." Stripetail turned as the two dinotons came up to him.. "Andd what I can I do for you gentlemen?"He asked politely..
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"Trin is waiting for you, please come with us" one spoke and they turned around. Stripetail look back and saw Longspark heading to the Space Dock.
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"Farewell"Longspark" Stripetail called out quickly.. as he turned and headed towards TRin's residence..
_ Stripetail entered the residence, and stopped at Trin's appearance. He was,ashen-faced, pale, and his body tremembled "It's gotten worse since i've last seen you...' trin whispered. "Its only a matter of time now.."
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" I promised to extend your life by 30 years, and I will.." "The diasease is now rampaging through my body, I won't live 30 more years, wizard, not even if you cure me.. the disaese is too advanced.. they ran a simulation on how long I could live with Level 1 magic, I lasted 12 years then the disease came back...17-19 if you include Wayne's little potion..." trin said. "By the way.. I've decided to name my sucessor instead of holding an election...My Sucessor will Be Admiral Nantok, Cesha's father."
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one of the dinotons look out of the window hearing some speak loudly then saw it in the sky "my word what is that..." the dinoton assigned to Trin said looking at the sky a dome of lightning formed then faded and where there was clouds now was a blue sky. "Lord Stripetail something strange is happening outside" As he said it the dome formed again in another place with lightning sparking around then a bolt goes through everything in the way but passing through like a ghost not harming anything.
Then it lands in the room where they was and formed into a shape of a dragon the lightning dimming to nothing showing a bluish, yellow and blackish dragon look like lightning pattered. "Who are you and what do you want!?" the dinoton raise his weapon then the lightning pattern dragon raise his claw hand at him and the gun was gone in a flash of lightning.
"I will only speak to the one named Trin. All leave" the voice sounded female then look to Stripetail "Including you being of magic. Do not try to figure out what or who or even answer the unknown in your mind you will not figure it out. Now leave the room with all part from the one named Trin" the eyes was blue with black slits staring at Stripetail and the others.
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(Stripetail is alone with the minister)
"I will not leave' Stripetail said sternly. "I have business with the minister as well. I don't know who you are, nor do I care..." He looked at the dragon intently..
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"The wizard stays" trin said, mustering what energy he could.. "I don't know who you are dragon.. but state your business.. and quickly.. my illness limits my strength.." he said looking at the dragon... the dragon looked at the two of them, but made no movement.
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"I am here to speak to only the one named Trin. You are required to leave being of magic" the dragon repeated to them not moving a muscle staring at them "this is a matter for the hearing to the one named Trin. No other living being may hear these words" The dragon spoke once more "your business will wait being of magic."
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"My business... dragon ...is healing him of his injuries. " stripetail replied tensely..."But as a show of good faith I will leave, I will return in 10 minutes. Stripetail said heading for the door... 'But know this dragon, if you harm him in the slightest you will regret it" Stripetail's staff glowed brightly for a moment.."And i don't make idle threats.."The dragon caught his eyes for a brief moment...then Stripetail turned and left the room. The door shut behind him and Trin was alone with the dragon.
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"He will do it too dragon, i have seen him in action a few times" Trin replied. "But i believe that you have not come to harm me...but to give me advice.. give it then, dragon."
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"My place to the one named Trin is not to harm but to offen. the offen is been concerned by many of the highest. The offen will now be spoken but you will have to be heathy to listen" the dragon move it hand over him and the illiness was now in a ball before Trin will listen." the dragon turn to the window a bolt formed out of no where and a image of another dragon but moving through a lot of lightning.
"I am not by name but heard as the dragons of Lightning. We live in myths of many races but many do not know what we really look like. I am the king. Thecklo and we come from outside your hearing of this part of the universe. I come to you today on this day of all to offen you something that once only so listen and think it over..." Thecklo spoken to Trin.
"This is Leck my last child she come in good faith and I apoglize for sending a being of magic out at this point of healing but this must be heard the dinoton called Trin. We might sound odd but this is how we address beings outside our domain" Thecklo said with a sound voice.
"Here is my offer... listen and think before you act. We have concealed in a meeting over you Trin of the Dinotons, your time of leadership has ended but you done so much for the ones out side the minster building of your world. The offer is to join us, become one of us and be that of a guardian of domains... this has been thought long and hard and now our offer is the time that right to ask. Your illness either way will be removed and you will either..." Thecklo stopped then looked to Leck.
"Be one of the guardian dragons of the domain and protect your friends and this part of the universe for timeless time until you see fit to end it at your free will or live the 30 to 50 more years to the end of your lifespan." Leck said to Trin.
"That is our offer. We believe you will make a well promising dragon of lightning the legendary guardian of balance. the power we hold are untold and unknown to all beings of this galaxy as you call it as we call domain" Thecklo finished speaking wth "We have offered and now your choice is yours, Leck destory the virus" Leck does as she was asked to and destory it with a flash of lightning "your health is high and you may choice freely"
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The illness is for the wizard to remove" Trin replied.."That was our agreement, that I made with him.. 3 days prior.. and it is my wish that he be the one to cure it.. and if you had been watching me for all this time you would know that.. I have also overseen much that I regret, it was under my rule that magic was very nearly extinguished in this dimension.. so as a balance.." there was irony in his voice, that both of them caught.."I'm not nearly as pure as you have made me out to be...far from it in fact.. The wizard is a guardian of this cosmos, he is the Lord of all Wizzin.." Both of them nodded their heads they were clearly already aware of what Stripetail was.. "He has done far more for this cosmos than I have.."
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"He is immortal, you are not.. that is a big difference"the dragon king replied.."we have made this offer because you have done so much in a short lifespan for countless others, don't argue..' He raised a claw.. "please give us your answer...'
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I would not know what to do with immortality, to be honest.. my kind doesn't live forever, and being immortal is looked at askance by my people, they care for immortals to be honest.."
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"We've carefully sort it through and even the one being of magic might be a guardian of this galaxy it doesn't change what you had done, with us if you choose to end your role then we will no questions asked and you may return the world you came or live out a life span anywhere you wished. We see you as a promising being to come if you will take our offer, it is sololy up to you the one named Trin" Thecklo spoken to Trin
"Your answer do not need to be right away, if you may we will leave till you choosen what we have to offer. As for your virus once was. It no more and sorry for any inconvinces with what you already aggraned with the being of magic spoken Stripetail. Do we return at a later time or do you wish to choose." Thecklo spoke to Trin.
"this is one that should be taken highest of thoughts this is a once and only time we can offer something like this and only 1 in a trillion may be asked this..." Thecklo told Trin. "But so far you are the only one and only being of every life in this galaxy we have gave to offer. " Thecklo finished speaking to Trin with the seriousiness of the offer now placed up. No one in the whole galxey had been picked part from him, they must see thing in him that more accepting then anyone else.
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Befoire Trin could answer the spirit of Evlicator appearee in the room, and she was furious. "Thecklo!' She steamed.. "You have interfered with the examination of the Wizard!" She said angrily. "This one was suppoosed to be healed by the wizard, as part of the examination by my kind.." She said pointing to Trin.. "Now I'm going to finf something else for him to accomplish it. Thanks a lot!"
Trin was surprised, but both Leck and Thecklo were surprised, and looked apologigetic..
'Forgive us Lady Evalicator, but we did not know that this creature was part of your examination...we simply made him an offer.. and offer that we have not made to any one else...and he needed to be healthy" Leck said
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An offer you should have made AFTER Stripetail had healed him!' Evalicator said tensely.. "You come out of the blue, and heal him right away.. without warning, and thus wrecking my carefully laid plan...Well, you lightning Dragons haven't changed much since I last saw you, still impertinent and impulsive.."
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Who are you?' Trin asked in a small voice.. he felt like a bag of goods that they were haggling over..
"Who i am does not matter Minister.. as for the choice you have been given... I'd opt for mortality" She said, giving both Leck and Thecklo icy cold glances..
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"We are not impulsive as you think red dragon of power magic. We do not spy on others with every waking eyes as you, we did not know of this plan of yours or about what is going on in this galaxy we choosen this day for a long time and we only waited till the time that was agreed apron." Thecklo replied in a calm manner to her walking up to her "As you forgot it was who that we are that appeared to you when you was living, a request and plee for help do not forget who helped you when you was part of the living the red dragon of power and magic." Thecklo turn around to the window looking to the sky.
"Each star tells a story in which tells another and another. And one of those stories was us you heard and didn't we say we only appear when the time is right not for plans or tests but for the chooses we made leading to that which is now. Evalicator" He turned around facing her with a calminess to his eyes and face.
"I am sorry for what your plan was to do, you may proceed but we will just place a weaker illiness on him that will work the same manner to the healing of him from Stripetail in which he never knows of us since the time isn't right and Trin choose for himself and not inflenced by the Red Dragon of magic and power. Evalicator." Thecklo turn to Trin
"You will pick when the time is right for you, but as for now it isn't the time, you should think it over and over you should think it. In this choose it doesn't matter what others say to you and try to sway to you that answer, it up to you in here and here" Thecklo points to his heart then points to his mind. "Think and feel and your answer will come to truth by weighing it all without the source of inflence as she as spoken." Thecklo turn to Evalicator once more.
Thecklo then spoke once again "To limit the inference place a weaker illiness we will and healing will proceed as you wanted to be planed. But be warned Evalicator that you once asked for our help in the past and when we offer the choice you choosen the path in which is now, not us but you. We only offer when the heart and mind choice it which a long time ago you did, do not forget that our place is where we choice and what we pick has be placed for the reasons that still beyond your reasons of understanding Red Dragon of power and magic. Evalicator. impertinent and impulsive was you not us, you laid that on us to blame for the choice you made. Do not agure before you do. When we leave you remember not to speak of us in nature as you know that was agreements made." Thecklo looked to Trin now after finishing with Evalicator.
"Trin I am sorry to do this but what was right was wrong and make your choice when you choose is right and remember my words... Speak not of us to anyone and that your choice with come from you alone, the heart and mind that you will find it. Dreams or not that the one named Trin is what will come. Till you choice, farewell for now" Thecklo turn to the window walking to it.
"Leck we will take our leave" she nods and they walk and lightning appear all over them and then a bolt of lightning they was gone and Trin felt the weaken illiness come over him that the two cures will work for him "Do not worry you will live as I said 30 to 50 years as one of two offers. choice wisly and think and feel your answer." the voice echoed in the thunder then fades to nothingness and the Stripetail walked back in as 10 minutes just pass.
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Evalicator said "Arroigant fools, thy have not changed much..Beyond my comphersion? Hardly...but I cannot say more.. as they told you Minister choose wisely..Maybe immortality is your destiny after all.." She shook her head and vanished.
_ Stripetail entered the room shortly afterward. "What you saw , and what was said to you, was for you alone... I don't know who they were, nor do I care what was said to you.." Stripetail looked at Trin intently, the disease was still there, though somehow weaker... Traces of what had traspired over the last few minutes still lingered here, and Stripetail noticed them..but kept them to himself...
_ Now let me heal you..." stripetail said shortly.. he gestured and Trin was struck to the ground in pain. the process took a long while...but slowly the disease was removed from his body. As the the last of disease was removed, Stripetail sensed a new presence outside the room... the door opened and a large multicolored dragon entered the room.. "Well done wizard, you have completed the first task...Minister" The dragopn who was male , nodded to Trin.. "Now onto the second test, this will be harder.. Follow me wizard..' He told Stripetail..
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Blackstar sat waiting then got up "So it time for the illusion dimension to be used." Blackstar stood up walking up to a gate and three spheres showing a scaled size of the three planets of Sapphire, Emarald and Ruby. "Illiusion Red Dragon Dimension cristed create. Draw Stripetail within this relam without notice let the second trail begin!" Blackstar held his claw hands high as in space all three worlds glow and form a perfect triangle around the section of space Stripetail was in unaware this was only going to target him and draw him into the next trail.
"He will see from false senses Trin change into a Red Dragon but not relising he left his own dimension in this not to be real dimension this is only a creation a trail that he will have to pass and figure out the puzzels that set within." Blackstar said and walks into the gate and enters himself to begin the very test for Stripetail
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But he stops seeing something odd then look at the shperes they glow and show a image of a dragon "Dragon Lord of Dinoton wonder why it showing me of him. Wait... that not possible, he going to be drawn into this trail dimensional zone as well. How is that possible. I got to find this out" Blackstar enters the gate and mutters "Evalicator isn't going to be happy with this competcation...." he muttered as he enters.
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Stripetail walked out of the Minister office and suddenly everything around become bright and fuzzy images passed around him. After a few seconds he came top dark red-colored world...
"Welcome to the second test" He jheard a voice say merrily behind him.. "The first test had some interference.. but We are flexible" Stripetail turned and saw what appeared to be a dragon sitting a sofa.. in the middle of a sparse desert. "You will find that your magical powers, however strong they are, will not work here..This will test your non-magical abilities, as well as your ability to reason and your ability to solve tasks given to you..
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At this time in the same place some part away Wayne stood in the sand wondering how he ended up there from the Dragon Temple. "Where the heck am I?" he spoke with wonder then took off into the sky to see what he can see flapping high keeping a eye out for anyone or any thing then sight a town of some sort and what he saw was red dragons and he'd land on the ground not to far.
"It seem to be some sort of Red Dragon settlement in this Desert which means there is a underground lake of sort under the settlement" Wayne laid down on the sand keeping out of sight not knowing how Red Dragons would react to a blue dragon of Dinoton even he was a Dragon Lord he had no idea how they would react to him.
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Blackstar had already arrived he was preparing for the main part of the task but he couldn't stop thinking about how the Dragon Lord got to the place "If it goes right it seems that I am going to take care of Stripetail but what if the Dragon Lord appears the trail might go out of control and this reality might of been created for the soul reason for Stripetail's trail but it has its own set of laws of phisyics, time and space..." Blackstar sat down with a sigh now caught in a net of problems.
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(OOc: i think Some editing of the past few posts particularly the ones with the lighning dragons is in order. Strictly speaking , their appearance, and actions were god-modding. There was no real background, they simply appeared out of the blue, with god-like powers. They healed Trin, although Trin did not ask for them to heal them, and healed him easily. I too have god-modded in the past, but i have learned from those mistakes..)
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(They exsict in a relam in a relam in a inner layer where time is slowly and they've learned how to control partcles to a point, healing is one of their greater strengths but unlike Stripetail they don't live forever they seem to live it cause where they live most of the time it has almost no time in it.
Magic they don't have but the energy of a lightning within that seem to give them elements that can grant changes in other beings to join them and help keep a eye on the other relam the one that all sorts where Stripetail and the others from.
The energy as their relam rubs with the one Stripetail and the others from creates a discharge that has a side affect that recharges the planet's atomsphere. So they seem god like and beings of a lightning type relam makes it near impossible for magical or beings with powers to read their minds. They are just longer lasting mortals that look god like and seem immortal
I hope that solves your problems and we could continue)
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(thank you. That explains a great deal)
'who are you?' Stripetail asked, out of curiousity. '"I am Naricus" The dragon replied..'Suddenly , he sensed Wayne appearance. "Oh dear, it appears that this stage of your exam has been tainted well.. Someone wis here who was not meant to be here.."
_ Who?' Stripetail asked. With his magical powers useless, he could not sense things here as he normally could..
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Wayne luckly had his bag with him still so he took out his viewing visors and looked at the settlement closer up with them "From the look of it this place must be at least 2000 odd living and from those uniforms they are police of some sort or even a army ground unit" Wayne whispered to himself using his wings to keep himself mostly covered using a stealth ability to keep out of sight. "I shoud advoid this place and head somewhere else can't risk walking up to it" he moves back a bit then starts heading away putting the visor away. "Now for a long walk, good thing I like walking in deserts and can stand them without water for months on end" Wayne mutters and he walks into the desert.
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"Your friend Wayne... hmm perhaps he is to be tested here in some form as well?'Naricus said, the latter more to himself...
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"Great..Why don't you just send him back?" Stripetail said. "I'm guessing the next one will have "complications as well?
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Blackstar watched from a computer screen doing the test pretending to be the dark ruler of a section of red dragons "Dragon Lord how did he get here, what reasons brought here, was is a accient... or somethign else" Blackstar watched the screen as one of the craft carrying his pretend forces enter the settlement range not sure of Wayne's location
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"Wonder what that is?" Wayne wondered seeing it fly over him
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Unfortunately I can't"Naricus replied.. "Once the dimension is created, the only way to leave here is to complete the tests.. that was the sole reason for its existence.. I'll try but I'll make no guarantees.."
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Wayne went back to the settlement then saw the ship being fired at but the ship fires back at homes "I got to do something" At the same time as this happen Stripetail also hears the attack and sees a ship in the distance firing on something, colour dark red with a black solar like mark with a red dragon logo on the side. "But what... if I use my powers I could be easilly spotted by beings with stronger power or detection systems for that. I have to think on my feet and use what natural Dragon strengths I got" Wayne takes off into the sky and quickly lands on top of the craft he rips open a panel and jumps inside it.
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"What the.." the crew member turned around and saw Wayne.. 'Wait a minute! You're not supposed to be here!" He said, surprise on his face... "Someone must have screwed up...' he muttered to himself "Well my dragon friend, it appears that you will have to ne tested as well.. On the other side of this desert is a large city. Go there, and see the old crone who operates a teller's booth on the left side of town.. She will give you your first task..now will you please repair my ship?' He said grouchily..
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"Not till I know this settlement isn't going to be fired apron... there are civilians down there women and children, I don't stand either for Red Dragons being harmed that are those I spoke. I don't know what test your talking about and all I know was I am doing my normal daily retiune at the Dragon Temple on Dinoton and the next thing I knew I was in this stupid desert." Wayne looked really annoyed "Now I give you two things and they better be followed or..." Wayne paused then look to his right seeing a weakiness in the ship hull there and turn back to the crew member
"Do I have to start ripping this place up one piece at a time to stop your attack and get a straight answer around here?" Wayne opened his mouth showing flames building up with seriousiness in his eyes and aiming at part of the ship.
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"I have orders to follow" the crew member said coldly.. "Your powers will not work nearly as well here Dinoton as they would normally, magic and other forms of power are greatly weakened here. You can hit me with your fire breath, I doubt I'll feel anything more than some slightly warmer air.. But I wil make you a deal... Wayne Para" He said a glint in his eye.. "If you promise to leave my ship right now... I won't attack that town. You will have 1 hour to find the crone I spoke of, otherwise our deal is off, and I'll resume attacking. Understand?"
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'Weakened... if he knew half of what I been doing for the last 10 years other then doing my duties then he be scared... might as well play along and find out what going on here' Wayne thought then grins "Alright I'll your stupid gang but before I go... I'd make sure this ship don't do anything" Wayne said then pull out a computer panel typing on it then smashing it with his fist. "There we go, a perfect 45 degree land in the sands and a big blow of all your weapons, happy landings" Wayne then paused "Oh yes... I am not weakened" He let out a powerful flame through the ceiling blasting it to pieces then grinned. "Land safely" Wayne chuckled and flew out of the ship to the city watching it crash then the primary weapons exploding to pieces.
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Blackstar saw the ship vanish from the system then gets a call "What is it..." he knew it was going to be bad news from one of the Crew member
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"Sir, that dragon is going to be a big problem..." the voice of the crew member said, he sounded winded.. "What should we do about him..?"
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The blow of the machine sent shockwave far and wide..Naricus smiled slightly "Your friend is quite strong.. but he should not waste his energy... He will only be able to use his powers for a few days, then they will start to fade... its only a matter of time :he said simply..
"Where do I go to start the test?' Stripetail asked. "There is a small city called Angled Wing.. Population 3500 give or take a few.. In the older part of the city, yoiu will find a teller of fortunes, she will give you your first task.."Naricus smiled, gestured, and Stripetail vanished..
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"I don't know... Dragon Lord from what I know of shouldn't be like this. unless..." Blackstar got up walking over to a book shelf he had in the main room just incase then take one about Dragon Lords. "We in trouble..." he gulped "he not using magic or powers... it all natural abilties of a Dragon... he must of trainned with someone that has very strong dragon abitlies... now I got a bigger headache... even he don't have red dragon energy he going to be tougher then a Red Dragon... It don't matter how many days go by he'd still be this tough and with a mind that knows computers so well... " Blackstar said with a sickened tone.
"Till I say otherwise any ships or units that come close to him advoid at all cost... till I figure this out. Or this whole trail is going to be underminded by one dragon" Blackstar groaned feeling that this was one of his worst days ever. then he change channels to contact Naricus.
"Naricus this is Blackstar... we got a problem with the trail, I just found out something... something that will undermind this trail completely..." Blackstar said then take something for his headache. "The Book I found... Dragon Lord Wayne Para has control of full dragon natural abitiles... this means even a week pass he will still be this strong and tough as a Red Dragon... I am now stuck what to do, I want to know how he got here and why... this is not part of the trail and it underminding it all. I managed to track him and in 2 minutes be at the city, he flying so fast that... well look" Blackstar turn a window in the screen and it show something from a view from directly above the lands showing a trail of sand bursting up from something moving very fast. "To the estimatations I made... it not looking good, we need to get him out of this trail now and find a way other then the trail ending..."
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"well sir, i don't know how he gort here.. he simply happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.. There is one way.. the teller.. she can strip him off his powers and send him back.. he'll recover them eventually..
_ Wayne was flying over the city when a small figgre came out of a dipldated building. The figure looked up at him and gestured. In a instant, incredible pain raced through Wayne's body, he felt his power leach from him, and he fell towards the ground, crashing with a loud thud.
"Mr Para" The figure croaked in a wheezy voice.. "You have trained with a great dragon, unfortunately for you I can strip dragons of thier power. You are threatening to undermine this test, and corrupt it beyonf repair. We can only test a creature once every million years,Para. Now drag yourself inside... I will tell you how to leave this place.. the test cannot happen while you are here.. and time grows short.."The figure lifted her hood revealing a elderly dragoness..
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Wayne wasn't pleased by this but before anything happened a energy field appeared not to far from him and the affects of the portal restored his strengh and power in a instant reverseing the effect she did to him. In side the other side of the portal it was Trin and a group of Dinoton Scientists. One of them was Wayne's friend Steg "Wayne we finally tracked you down, I was talking to you on the comm when you vanished and manage to track you with your comm device to this location, we manage to open a rift into this dimension long enough to get you out." Steg told him
Wayne got up "Looks like I am leaving sooner then you thought." Wayne grinned feeling fully back to normal before what she did. "Never underestimate me and my friends. The Dinotons might be almost nothing compared to Red Dragons but already the dinoton world is learning how to do things that can even throw your damping fields into whack." Wayne turn to the portal walking through and turn around looking at her with narrowed eyes. "This are changing and soon the changes will catch up to you. Nothing stay the same not even your million year old test" Wayne spoke and the portal closed and as it closes it let out a ripple of energy a new form never felt before.
Steg looked at the chats "We got you back and found something new... look at this energy read out" Wayne looked at the read out was new to him then notice something "Wait isn't that a oppisite to what we saw with the black vortex wormholes? Wayne looked at Steg and he looked "Yes... maybe we found something out. Maybe it was a good idea you got dragged there" Wayne frowns "well not really but whatever did must of been a strong magicized power." Stegs said and wayne look again "Maybe your on to something" they both look to Trin
"Trin thank you for your last duties as minsiter, and one more thing to request before you end your retirment. Can we have promising to work on this" Steg requested
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Blackstar saw no signs of the Dragon Lord "his gone... but how?" Blackstar then contacts the eldly dragon "Where is he?"
(We got the LBT Time and before one to do)
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"Be warned Dragon Lord.. You have found a way out of this.. this time, but next time, you will not be as lucky... you are but mortal, and your powers pale in comparison to those of many i have dealt with inthe past..." The Elderly preistess said icily.. as she finished Stripetail came up to her. Her eyes flashed, then changed as she saw him.."Please .. come in..." She said, in a somewhat kinder voice..
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(I'm on it)
Trin shook his head.. "You will have to ask the new minister for that permission Steg... He may have a different opinion on this research..I have to go now.. to prepare my speech..." He said...motioning towards the door..
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Stripetail followed her into the dilapadated building.. She gestured and a pair of laterns lit themselvesabove a table as both of them seated themselves in rickety old chairs...she gestured again and a medium-sized hourglass appeared out of nowhere on the table. inside were the bluest sands Stripetail had ever seen, they looked more like snow than sand... the preistess noticed him looking at it, and smiled a little. "This , my wizard friend" She said clearly, " is my Snowglass.when the snowglass runs out, anyone who has interfered with the examinatoion in any way, shape or form, is punished by being sent directly to Plana Icia. The planet is solid ice, and it is so cold there that no technology or magic will work there.. temperatres range from near 400 below zero to near absolute zero at the poles. The only inhabitable area is a small castle near the equator. Your friend should consider himself lucky, a billion years ago we would have executed him on the spot, but we decided to abandon that method.." she was obvioiusly still angry and it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who she meant by her words..
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You will not harm my friend Wayne" Stripetail said sternly. The priestess gave him an acidic look as she arose from her chair "He has interfered in your examination, and must be punished for it.. ignorance is no excuse...Everything has been warped now... thanks to him..." She paced to and fro, muttering to herself. "The utter arrogance of that Dinoton! Not even the slightest hint of an apology for what he has done! He will be shown humility...the hard way... Too much in love with technology...technology in and of itself cannot solve every problem...Catching up to us? The fool! They have a LONG way to go before they can even start comparing themselves to us. We have had technology for millions of years, that they are only discovering now, and think they re-invented the wheel by finding it.." She gestured a third time and the hourglass turned over and the snow inside began to fall towards the empty end. "Here is where you come in..' She said looking at Stripetail meaningfully. "In 3 days this hourglass will run out.. as soon as it does, Para and anyone with him at the time will be sent to Plana Icia. They will not be able to leave until the 3 tests are completed. You will have to complete the tests sucessfully, and ask for thier release,otherwise the Dragon lord and anyone else with him.. will spend the rest of thier lives there, in that frozen purgatory..." There was a look in her eyes that troubled Stripetail deeply, she seemed to be enjoying that vision. "I am well aware of the scope of your magical powers, you are the very last of the great wizards, those whose powers could match my kind's. Unfortunately for the Dinoton, your powers don't work here, so you can't stop me from punishing him." She smiled with satifaction.
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"Do as you please.." Stripetail said off-handly. She was right, of course, his powers did not work here, otherwise, he would indeed have tried to stop her.."then let the test begin"She said handing him a small key. "Hidden inside the outer walls surrounding this city are 4 hidden caches... You must find them ,translate them, and bring them back to me..This key will open the first cache, only by translating it can you find the location of the second cache..."
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Blackstar heard and then fear race through him then he remembered what happened last time a Red Dragon did that to a Dragon Lord "CALL IT OFF!!!" He bellowed at the screen. "You stupid Elder dragon call off your punishment at once! Do it now! Before it too late!" Blackstar race to get out of the building to get to her asap.
"Sir where are you going the trail about to begin" one red dragon said to him
"The Trail isn't as important as this..." he said running by him and he runs with Blackstar
"What do you mean?" he'd asked
"Threatening a punishment on a Dragon Lord by a Red Dragon even by a civilian one will be a declaring of war on all dragons in the universe that not a Red Dragon. It happened before and we lost heavily" Blackstar then flew into the sky flying faster then he has before racing through the desert like a bullet the speed causing the sand to travel behind him.
"Oh no" the red dragon slid to a stop hearing those worlds.
"I hope I am not too late..." Blackstar spoke as he race to the city seeing it in range already he had to get her to call off the punishment before it too late even it cost the trail it was more important then a trail. "It all happening again... it repeating itself..."
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Blackstar arrived bursting through the door both looking at him with sand pouring in and he yelled out with all his might "STOP THE PUNISHMENT BEFORE IT TOO LATE!" he yelled at the Elder dragon
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(Wait, Wayne is the second Dragon Lord, so something like this has not happened before...)It is too late" The Elderly dragoness said softly gesturing at the Snowglass. "Once the Snowglass has been turned over, it must run its course. In 3 days, wayne Para will disappear from his world, as punishment for his interference...his fate will then depend on the sucessful completion of the trail...The posituon makes no difference to me, he broke our rules ...our rules apply to him as well" She said abruptly.. "this is a seperate dimension, that was designed only for the administration of the test, and only the one to be tested was permitted enterance here. Last time it was held within the regular dimension. Somehow, he was brought here as well, and proceeded to disrupt the test. In the past we simply executed anyone who did that. THAT would have been a declaration of war, Blackstar, but this decison lies within our authority.. as recognized by the colored Dragon Council..There will be no war..' the priestess continued...
_Can I started thgis blasted test now?' Stripetail said irritably.."Punish him as you will, I'll free him in the end.."
_ meanwhile on the surface, TRin pressed a secret switch that only he as Minister was permitted to touch. It turned off the shield and turned off everything. he had recognized what was going on, and had intervened He then pressed his intercom. "Para! get in here now!" He boomed.. His speech lay on the table forgotten. There would be no war on his watch, and the Dragon Lord served him.. whatever he had done wrong, he would to have answer for it..fairly or no...
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Carron found it amusing seeing what happening on Dinoton "Yes my friends, just my dear friendly Red Dragon do your punishment cause the war, let yourself become weakened and I will destory you all. A Trail to undermind itself, a punishment that you think is right will be wrong and lead to your doom. It happening as I hope it will. Stripetail will die and the Red Dragons will be weak and the union divided as I wanted it to happen. Good thing they kept the punishment that will end all life. stupid dragon I should give it a medal for making things easy for me" Carron chuckled in the darkiness as he watched it start to unfold.
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The Temple suddenly came back to life suprising Trin "CODE GOLD ACTIVATION. PROTECT THE DRAGON LORD AT ALL COST..." A voice boomed shaking his table and the planet a little spooking everyone. Then the terms of Code Gold appears on the screens all over the screens everywhere Trin looked the screens showed it.
'The Act of Code Gold...
In the act of the threating of the Dragon Lord of any planet or a higher form of Dragon this will activate a process that will call all dragons of all ranks to the safest place there is and that will be the place of activation of the Dragon Temple it will protect the Dragon Lord from all affects of the universe can throw at it and then a battle plan will be laid out by the highest of Dragons in the Universe. As result this is now war between the Dragons of the universe and the Red Dragons, the race that control the planet will be protected by Mahsal Law of the Code Gold Dragon Council that will be set up in a emergency. in affect as this second a pusle has been released and all dragons are called for from the universe. Unless the Red Dragon that set the punishment ends it, war will be declared and the Red Dragon Primary source of energy of this power will be destroyed at all costs, till the Dragon Lords or dragons of highest vaule are safe from harm of the Red Dragons threat to harm our balance.
Sub section... If the Dragon Lord is under orders of goverment of a planet of which a Dragon Lord excised that goverment as fourth will not have authority over the Dragon Lord and to take a step back from dragon affairs, the planet and it people will be protected at all cost till the danger of the Dragon Lord has passed and they will be not involded in Dragon affairs and what might happen during the conflict.
Dragon Code of Honor and the power to Unity together to fight and protect our highest of dragons at all costs must be met.'
It was signed by 20 dragons all from a council when it was writen and showed it was valid to the ends of time.
Wayne arrived not having a clue what was going on "What is all this writing about? I seen it all over the place. What is this Code Gold about? is this something to do with what happened on that strange world I was on?" Wayne questioned looking at Trin wondering if he could give Wayne a answer.
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"Stop with what you have to do in this trail" Blackstar grab Stripetail by the robes but in a way that he was in fear something bad really bad was going to happen. "Last time the last Dragon Lord appeared in such a trail was a million years ago and somehow when punishment of her death was to come she vanished in a flash and back on Earth at the Dragon Temple then a shield appeared a powerful one nothing we ever seen then... came the dragons Code Gold they called it, in just 2 days trillions of dragons all over the universe had arrived and the council that don't go by the coloured dragon council unityed and declared war unless we undo our punishment of harm to the Dragon Lord" Blackstar had tears falling at this point as he spoke in words that was making Stripetail sadden.
"We didn't listen and we should of... we should of let go of the punishment but we didn't and went on with the trail on the magical being. Then they came... and found our homeworld in minutes, they used their powers together to find our home and destory the dimension which the trail was created. all the Red Dragons and that magical being destoryed in a single attack then they moved on to our world in 1 hour we was fighting for our life but we was overwhelmed by the might of all the dragons in the universe fighting... I watched our world burn then the final attack the planet was blown to pieces and I escaped the Red Dragon council destoryed and millions dead..." he told the truth of the lose of thier world. "It wasn't a civil war... it was our mistake... the Dragons will protect one of their highest value members will all their lives not letting the value of everyone elses get in their way of protecting the dragon lord from the Red Dragons. We have to call off the punishment now... I can't see it happen again, not our new home for a million years not again. Elder Dragonness call it off before we are all doomed. they will find a way into this dimension and attack with power that untiyed and once more destory a trail dimension and our home. It repeating the war is repeating itself..."
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'I'm immortal" Stripetail said at last. "Even If all the Dragons in the cosmos attacked me.. They could not harm me.. but as you will.. I wil try my best to avert diasaster for your kind" He said, turning toward the dragoness " I will not participate in any further stages of this test dragoness until you call off the threat.." He said to her. As he said this, Stripetail felt his power return.. no, they were stronger than before.. whatever had blocked him from using his powers it had been removed. "Wizzin....change her mind, before the dark era returns' He heard a powerful voice echo in his mind... "Before the red Dragons are no more...and Darkness creeps throughout the cosmos..."
_ The Elderly dragoness was stunned and frankly terrified as Stripetail's staff appeared, glowing brilliantly, in his paws. "Stop The Snowglass... or I will destroy it" He said in a very cold voice.."You are playing into the hands of evil dragoness... andthey need little aid to do foul things... Wayne may be young and headstrong, but a finer friend the cosmos does not hold...and that is saying much..." The Dragoness, shook her head "I can't! Once Cast i can;t uncast it!' She said pleadingly..looking at him as if begging for his aid. "Very well.Snows of the winter, return to the mountain" He commanded, at that, the Snowglass stopped, and then shattered into pieces... The Eldery dragoness fell to her knees, crushed in spirit by his display of power..
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Trin was as surprised as Wayne at the unfolding events.."I could not begin to tell you..." He began but stopped as Evalicator entered the room. "You again! What do you want this time...?' He said grouchily..
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To explain...a few thinmgs.. "The spirit said looking at Wayne. "Firstly, Para, you caused a gfgreat deal of disruption in the exam...which we could not afford and still hope to complete the trial on schedule.. In the past, we have imposed very harsh penalties on people who did that.. regardless of who they were in rank or in status..." she said, her eyes glowed. "I have suspended the trial.. Stripetail should have regained his powers by now..." Both of them started at this.." yes We were testing Stripetail, in an attempt to restore the former friendship between the rEd Dragons and the Wizzin...that chance is all but lost now though.. who knows what state the cosmos wil be in a million years time?Be that it is may, the Dragoness threatened to send you Para to Plana Icia not just because of your interference, but because of your attitude as well. You could do well with a dose of humility,you said a number of things to her that she took as being very disrepectful, and she is a proud dragoness..."
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She looked at the Golden writing on the screen.. "So its beginning again.. go ahead, attack my kind.. and see what it gains you...How many lives will be sacrificed because you didn't show us anything approaching respect Para, and one of us decided to punish you for it? " Anger exploded into her voice as she looked at Wayne.. who shrank from her look. "Apologize to her Para, and she will lift the punishment...Or choose not too, and in a few days you will find yourself enduring cold that would freeze any living creature..regardless of what you do to my kind. the shield will not prevent you from being sucked into that dimension.. Wayne's face was now filled with horror and unmitigated dread.."you will not be alone on there.. we have sent dozens there over the ages...time moves extremely slowly there.. a day there takes 100 years elsewhere..."
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"Madam" Trin began.."we can still resolve this without bloodshed.."Evalicator looked at him.."Only if he is willing to apologize and show us more respect, Minister..Time is of the essence, you have less than 2 days to return to the dimension and apologize to her.. do that.. and she will lift the threatened punishment.. if not, well I hope you like the taste of lichens and moss.." She said..
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With that Evslicator vanished.. Trin looked at Wayne "Forget martial law, you listen tio me Wayne.. Find that dimension, and that creature you offended.. and apologize. You can't just offend people Wayne, and think nothing of it..I have no doubt if you don't do it.. you will soon be stuck in that frozen hell, that Icia Plana, whatever that place is called.. If you don't, that will only prove them correct, that you made a poor choice and are a poor leader. Everything there was set up to play a part in that test or trial..and you messed everything up.. I'd be pissed too if I was in their shoes...You set things right Para, you Make it up to them.. " Trin sighed.. "They don't want war with us... they simply want respect...you didn;t show it to them, so why should they show you any? You have not earned the status and deference of your predecessor, they at least respected him.. and he in turn respected them.
_ Stripetail seized the Dragoness by the arm. "Come with me we are going to settle this. If Wayne Apologizes to you will you lift the punishment? " the Dragoness replied.. "only if he is sincere in his apology. A Dimension rift opened before them and they were cast forward reappearing in Dinton.
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Wayne saw them come through and the dragon council was just arriving as well from all corners of the universe then Wayne realised something from all this it just exploded in his mind something about it made him smile in a way Stripetail has not seen in ages. "I see it now. It wasn't by accient the punishment everything it wasn't!!!!" Wayne yelled out then ran to a computer accessing Code Gold then quickly checking through any thing that he could use then it appeared to him he found something and opened it up a old writing that he only could see the words it was a bomb fire in his head he now saw it all.
"The Trail was another trail in a trail it was more then your trail it was a larger one a far biggering one!" Wayne yelled out with arms raised then went to the elder dragoniness shaking her claw hand "thank you for doing it you have no idea what a great thing you did" Wayne went back to the computer and then reads out the writing to everyone in the room.
"In the signs of darkiness a trail will come and then as before Code Gold will come from a punishment that isn't a punishment. the icy plains that will be spoken of in time this is read a trail you say but a greater trail has been tasked over the three one that you have completed the union of all dragons ALL dragons and wizards will come to a world of dinosaurs of technology all three forms working as one will bring a end to the darkiness that hunts us all the power that can turn immortal mortal will be destoryed and the peace of Union will begin. Councils of all will come Code Gold has now upgraded in behind the sights of the evil as Code Union. As the sign to come the Dragon Lord will call fourth all three together at the Greatest of places the Union Table in the belly of the Dragon Temple. 2 days the evil believe war will come to Red and all forms of dragons but the trap will snap and he will be overwhelmed fighting into his own domain the Union will win and peace will come.
Councils will have 10 dragons, 10 red dragons and 10 wizards of all sorts including the ones named Wayne, Blackstar, Redstar, Eva, Stripetail, Tarrax and my dear friend the old and wise red dragoniness Levivill" Wayne finished he turn around in the chair looking at everyone.
"It was Signed by Rexliex the Dragon King of Uniform." Wayne told them and a gasp came from the elder dragon she'd heard of his name and the words spoke her name. A Immortal that gave up his immortal energy to seal Carron away in the void alone but his had left a message a new Code the Code Union the greatest Union in history now could begin.
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"Rexliex" She whispered in a hushed servile tone, her knees bent as she kneeled at the sound of his name..
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So all this was planned out in advance, and each of us had roles to play" stripetail replied.. "I don't really like being used as a chess piece in some larger game... But then again i suppose old RExliex had his reasons, he said sitting in s chair.. It was only then he noticed a subtle change as he was reflected in the tabletop, his robes were now a brilliant white. "You have passed your trial.. and have been rewarded for doing so. Now great Wizzin, you must lead the magical race into the Union. Those who have been imprisoned have been pardoned eveb Plana Icia has been emptied .. Go to the Temple.."A voice said in his head.
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Wayne stood up "Trin I gather that means Dinoton will be asked for help, the union can't work without the help of dinoton technology, something about our technolgy makes us unqiue in a special way" Wayne said to Trin. "Carron is a threat greater then anything we faced if we all work together then a chance we can defeat him once and for all"
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Clearly there is somethoing about Dinoton that will help the Union. Stripetail sad. We can Disciss at the Temple..
Stripetail gestured and the 4 of them were whisked away, reappearing inside the Temple. There stood hundreds of upon hundreds of extremely powerful dragons, all Dragon Lords , God-Dragons or leaders of the various dragon planets. Tarrax was there, as was the Head Dragon of Dragomalin. Nova and Eva were also there and she transformed back into a squirell lady when she saw Stripetail.
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Eva then asked "What going on? where are we?"
"Below the Dragon Temple on Dinoton, this chamber is the Union Chamber. It was built for such as this and at the moment Dinoton is the safest location in the universe with that energy field over it." Wayne stated to Eva.
"Wow I thought it was just a legend" Nova stats with amazment
"Indeed but it real" Redstar stats to his son then Blackstar walked up "good to see you brother"
"Same Redstar I didn't expect this to happen. I wasn't even aware there was a trail overlaying the trails we set. a bigger and far more important one" Blackstar said looking around "all forms of leaders of dragons, wizards and dragon lords, including Dinoton leaders have gathered here for this Union Meeting that to deal with Carron" Blackstar looked at Redstar.
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Carron at this time was seeing Dragons arriving and disappearing from his view in protection of the Dinoton planet "Yes that it. Get ready for war on Red Dragons weaken yourself" he laughed not aware of what really going on.
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"We are in an ancient chamber created ages ago by the most powerful of dragons for the protection of the elite" Nosovar said, coming up to them... The Other Wizzin were all there, including Incanur and Destrix. The most notable among the mass of cresatures were a group of ancient looking creatures dressed in rags..They looked stunnned and exhausted at the same time.. they appeared out of place in this sea of power and nobility..
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then three dragons stepped out of the shadows behind Stripetail he not even sensing them walk in and Nova gasped in shock with a shaking voice he said "The Element Dragons of Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald... the mightest of Red Dragon Legends" the Stripetail turned around they stood there together.
"The Union has released us from the cards which we was placed in sleep it time for us to awaken from it and aid in the Union" the Sapphire Dragon spoke in a female voice.
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Stripetail for the moment paid no atention to the great element Dragons, he was more focused on the ragged creatures. Stripetail guessed they were from Plana Icia. 'prithee master, enlighten us, whilst the creator lives, we have not expected this .. Why are we here?" one off them asked...His tongue suggeated an ancient form of langiage, one long since overtaken by the modern variant..he must have been there a very long time to still speak this way..."You have been granted clemency" stripetail replied "your name , good sir?' "Bristor, Milord" the person replied. "Lord Stripetail at your service.." Stripetail replied..
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Wayne walked up to Stripetail "Stripetail sorry to cut this short but council is now requried to sit a once" Wayne points to a massive crystal that lit the room now shining blue "when it shines blue it means all must be seated right away. For the Union Meeting to begin. As from what we still getting Carron still believe only the Dragons all over the universe is here and preparing for war with the Red Dragons that mean we have two days before he notice anything is wrong" Wayne stats to Stripetail "His most likely watching the world like a hawk even he can't see into it with the barrier up."
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Then we must use the time we have.. Carron's power are great.. ecven thogh we are numerous, we can't simply have the masses fling themselves at him, he can kill countless creatures with little effort, and We don't have billions of creatures to spare...This is not like last time" Stripetail said.. "The number amiung us who could withstand Carron's wrath are much fewer than in the past, unity will not be enough Wayne. We need a plan...an a good one. It will not take Carron long to realize his error, and he will adjust.. we must stay one step ahead, otherwise the balanxce wil tilt in his favor.."
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"I do have one idea. He thinks that there is going to be a massive battle with the red dragons and dragons of the universe right? so why don't we just give him what he wants and give him a show to watch while he focused on that a group could enter his domain without him even noticing and attack the heart of his strength" Wayne suggested and the three element dragons nod to each other
"We know the source of his power. this will destory it" the three put together a three pieced amurlet "But to destory his power and him... someone must stay contacted with this and likely to be destoryed with Carron and his domain with all his powers. Even a immortal will be killed in such a reaction." the Ruby one spoke
"Yes this would even kill the mightest of creatures even god like beings but it would be worth saving trillions of worlds from Carron." Sapphire one said
"We would do it ourselves but if we leave this world he would sense us in a second he knows of us and our powers and he'd see us a threat then need to take care of first" Emerald one stated and they place the amulet on a pillar top on a red pillow.
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"I'll do it" Stripetail spoke up but Nosovar interjected. "No Stripetail! Without you, magic will quickly become obsoloete and those who practice it after you will be scorned as backwards fools! We cannot afford to lose you brother! It is as simple as that!" Everypne's eyes were on Nosovar...his voice was strong and clear."As your second in command brother, I cannot permit it..."
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"he does not percieve me as much of a threat brother..' Stripetail replied..."Besides, he will think that having me witness the utter destruction of the forces of good, will be worth having to wait a little while before dealing with me...I know his type.."
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The wizard is willing to risk it, " A nearby dragon said..."I say let him try... It will be your grestest test, Wizard, trying to get out of there alive...after he is destroyed..
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"A group should go" they turn around looking at Redstar "Not only one go into that place to do it. if there is a group of us and one gets there the rest could retreat or even distract him if he figures it out" Redstar stats to everyone.
Eva thought of something but kept it to herself then suggested "If I am right Dinoton technology has the power to open up rifts large enough to take in a group of 10 at most to Carron's own domain." Eva took a look at Wayne.
"Yes if me and Steg get to work on it right away. I am sure we would have the cooridinates that be close enough to the source of his power. If we are right, this only from what we picked up on scans that is. the source of his power is a form of single thread energy that connected by three large spikes that made of Dark Matter. but that only from what we could base of scans not by visial" Wayne stated to them and spoke of getting the Rift Gate online and set for that location.
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Those that go cannot be so powerful as to be percieced as threats" Tarrax reminded them.."ten is too many in my view...But let my master decide..."
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"That the number that can enter the Rift Gate at a time. and the same number returning. otherwise it won't let you through if it go beyond that number or it could come unstable and shift the location of the very rift itself." Wayne stated "But it up to council in the end how many is set and who, I and you Tarrax can't since we have to play our part in the pretend attack of the Red Dragon Home World"
"That would mean giving you the location or the area which our world inhabits. I guess we can do that just to fool that Carron long enough for the trap to work" Redstar said and Blackstar noding his head a little agreeing to it.
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"No, he would likely suspect something is up" Evalicator said, appearing in thier midst. "Besides if our homeworld's location is revealed,, he will surely attack it. I did not give up my powers or my life to shield our new homeworld...to have my sacrifice rendered meaningless.. there has to be another way" She looked at the brothers sternly. "Stripetail, having volunteered for this position, you will be placed in charge of the group. But be careful...that goes for all in the group.."
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"True" Redstar muttered "How would we do this..."
Blackstar smirked "I know how. my three ruby, sapphire and Emarlad words are creating a lot of unstable energy at the moment and there is a planet right in that system cause they creating so much unable energy waves it makes it near impossible for anyone to know there is any planets there. I could create a Red Dragon Mining station on that planet and power grid with a big outpost. Almost like a trail set up planet but this one will be full of powerful defences that make it so real that Carron will not be able to tell the differences and make out as well this is where we keep the location of the Red Dragon Home World in a underground base that has so much Red Dragon defence that it be a challenge to reach it but the location will just show where a blue m-class planet with no real life on it in a nebla full of unstable energy which will also give some extra time for Stripetail and his group. only about 15 minutes more to the hour." Blackstar finished explaining about his little idea which was big and sneeky.
"Nice one Blackstar, that would give us 1 hour and 15 minutes at most to get in and take down his source of power and destory him and his whole domain" Redstar said to his twin brother
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75 minutes... is not enough time... we'd need days to adquately do the job" Stripetail objected. "Besides, as long as he is destroyed, it doesn't matter how long we take...Besides we don't even know what or who is in his dimension..
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"only the worlds he once sucked in" they looked at Eva "I sense his domain some how and in the darkiness there is no air since he requirers none. He live alone in the darkiness and only wanting power, no allies only those he see is those to die" Eva spoke to them.
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That power comes from me" Evalicator replied. 'When I was younger I was able to similarly sense the going-on in other dimensions...You cannot go in this group Eva, Carron would love nothing more than to destroy you and see the effect it would have on Stripetail.."
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"I know" Eva replied and still she had a plan of her owns but kept it to herself. "I do know what affects that could happen so I thought of that I could help Wayne and Steg out on thier part of the plan at least I can do is help them find his domain and a location nearest to the source of all his power." Eva stated to her.
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I will help you three in that regard as well' Tarrax said, and Incanur and Destrix voiced theit interest as well. The Number of creatures working on that project was then capped at 6...
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"Now.. nosovar said, let us pick the 9 who will accompany Stripetail on this most dangerous of tasks..Any volunteers?"
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a young orange dragon stepped up "I am Swift and I'll help, I might not have much in the way of magical powers but I am very fast in the skies and the fastest on my world" Swift said "I could most likely be ignored cause I don't have much energy levels to read"
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"Maybe I should start calling you the Flash" stripetail cracked, and a number of those in attendance burst into laughter. Swift looked very nervous. "Nothing personal young dragon, I'll be glad to have you aboard. That leaves 8 to go" stripetail said smiling..
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A Transyoton step up of the Dinotons "I am a expect in shielding energy levels with my little toys and I have a few suprises that will get the fireworks going" he was from the line of the t-rexs but evloved to have bigger and longer arms with two fingers and a thumb white claws at the end and even lost the size the head could be told he was from the T-Rex line. He also wearing the typcial jackets that Dinotons wear and stood on the balls of his three toed feet like most dinos with a powerful tail and the jacket holding some unusally equitment that not many seen before, scale colour brownish. "And I have the most common name going Rex... tenth one to be named down the family line"
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Alright rEx the Tenth, You're the third one to join..." Striptail said as the Dinoton came over him and Swift. "7 more to go.. Nova?"he called out to the young dragon..
"I'm coming too" Said Cesha.. Wayne looked at her stunned... If anything happened to her.. her father.. the minister would never forgive him.."And Nothing you or My father say will convince me otherwise.,.."
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Nova shook his head "I can't, that Carron most likely watching his back for Red Dragons, he does hate our kind more then any other being" Nova said to Stripetail "It be a very costly mistake to take me on your team. I can't risk that kind of chance" Nova said making his mind up
Wayne then had to say to Cesha "Just watch your back, here take this. it might help if problems come" Wayne hands Cesha a small rock and glowed for a second then disappear she look to him and he smirked then let go. "My team better get going. take care" wayne and the others with Eva walks off to get out of the champer.
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So Be it" Stripetail replied, As Nova took his seat. There was a pause as Tarrax Incanur and destrix left with Wayne and Eva.
'We need 6 more to go...It will be very risky" He said, not mincing words,as Cesha put the rock away in her blouse
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"If I could make a suggestion" A elderly dragon stood up he look like he was reaching the end of his life "How about if I come"
one draogn stood up and said "Sir I don't think that wise... your not strong...." before he knew it the old dragon stood tall and do a slamming kick in his chest then flip and put a knee to his neck.
"As you was saying kid?" the old dragon smirked
"Epp... nothing..." the young dragon was let go and the old one walked over to them picking up his stick.
"Might be old but I still got alot of strength in me and a hell alot of will power" the old green dragon stood staring at Stripetail "I am Lance, I'll join your team. I got alot of fight and some magical tricks up my scales that will even catch you Lord Wizzin" he smirked and one blink Stripetail didn't see him standing there then turn to see him behind Stripetail many suprised how he moved for someone his age. "I only could do that for about a half a second but it still good to get out of tight spots."
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"WElcome to the group Cesha said, Taking a seat. "That's 5 now, right? 5 more to go.. Come on people... where's your bravery.. "Plus if this crazy idea actually works, everyone involved becomes a legend.." She was appealing not only to thier bravery but the chance for noterity..."except for Stripetail.. He already is." She added smirking. Stripetail showed no reaction to the attempted flattery.
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Elemental dragons took note that not many seem to be liking the idea of it "This seem to be a problem" the Ruby one spoke
"indeed" the Sapphire one nods
"Being what we are we couldn't help even we wished" Emerald one said they each just sat at one side of the tables watching what going on. "One step into his domain or off this planet his attenation will be fully on us only and he'd try everything in his might to take us dow....n" all three looked at each other with a smirk then turn to Stripetail and all three said
"Stripetail come over here for a second" they said together the look they gave made even Stripetail crigde a little.
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"No" Struipetail said guessing thier game.. "You are NOT going to sacrifice yourselves.. Besides in order for this to work, we'll need as much suprise as possible..Having the 3 of you along would make secrecy impossible.."
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"you've not heard us out" the Ruby one sneered "you've jump to conclusions yet again..." Ruby one was quite annoyed then turn with a snort. The other two turn away as well all rather feeling very insulted by Stripetail jumping the gun like that.
Redstar shook his head "Now you've done it. that all we needed... you've jump the gun Stripetail, one thing that no one can do is get inside their way of thinking, they will say something and you think that but it isn't. They not going to speak of it now until your really sorry to them in a way well they only know." Redstar said to Stripetail.
"only when that is done they will tell what they was going to say. they can be stubborn but they are more then very powerful dragons of the Red Dragon Legend they are very intelligete and what you've did was a insult to that" Redstar finished explaining then walk away to a table to sit down but "your problem now Stripetail. I can't help you in it."
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Stripetail sighed as went up to the nearest Dragon "Look, Maybe I did jump to a comclusion, but In my view it was.."Logical?" The Sapphire one said, looking at him coldly. "Wizzin, you will find that reading our minds is far more difficult than you 've come to expect... Now, I'm going to ignore your inopportune remark... Provided you apologize. "Forgive my hastiness.. I'm trying to organize this group on the fly... I was too dismissive of your idea" stripetail said simply, aplogizing quickly..
"Fine...huddle' She said abruptly.. taking her wing and wrapping it around Stripetail Drawing him close to her. "Emerald, you will give the Wizzin our plan. She said formally to the Ruby and emerald Dragons, then turned to Stripetail. "You may not speak until he has finished outlining the plan." She said clearly as the other two came up to them, and gtthe four of them formed aclose huddle.
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"Very well." Emerald said then start to explain it "Our plan is a joint one that quite the clever plan to get our little friend Carron chasing ghosts all over his void if time runs out. I believe we could throw in three objects with our power levels matching and speed around the void keeping distance from Carron when your time runs out. He be so mad sensing our power levels that he will try and take them done at all cost not realising that the element dragons he chasing are simply ghost images of ourselves but they will keep him busy by being chased." Emerald explained to Stripetail with a smirk on his face looking at the wizzin and the Ruby one lower her head to Stripetail
"So our little furry friend what do you think of that? we have smarts as well as power on our side and this little plan is what we was suggesting before you hastly jumped at us like that. next time you do that to us we'll have no choice but to put a curse on you that will last 5 years and one your magic can't undo. so try not to do something like this again alright" Ruby said with a low tone of voice and raise her head up the other two nod once confirming what she said and quite serious they would do it.
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'Fine.. Stripetail said. 5 years was nothing to an immortal, yet Stripetail didn't like the thought of having a curse on him that he couldn't remove, for even a small length of time. "Actually, that's a very good idea, Have him chase phantoms for awhile which will give us more time to complete the task..He said thoughtfully."Is there anyway you can disguise the extent of your powers? Or is that possible for you.
_ Cesgha called out again.. "Come onwe only need 5 more... and we'll get out of this' She said, with a show of confidence. Privately, though, she feared that most of them were not going to make it..
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"We can but it something else to it more then you can see, we are what we are, unlike you we can't change appearances or make ourselves look something else. Soon as our scales touch that rift he will sense us in seconds." Emerald stated to Stripetail. "That why we made the suggestion of launching ghost versions of ourselves into the domain without costing you three places through the Rift Gate. That all we can do for you, even leaving the planet will get him drawn on us, as he believes we still encased in the cards of Nova has. We left forms of oursevles almost like a shadow in the cards so he can still use." He finished explaining to Stripetail.
"We can't do anything else but what we planned. it might buy you some short time but that is all" Sapphire said to Stripetail. "And if she don't stop yelling like that to get others to join we going to curse her and we don't care who her father is, she showing false confidence and it will pay heavy when things get tough, we don't like seeing those that be false to themselves making others believe she something that she not." Sapphire hiss lowly out of hearing of Cesgha.
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Cesha! Enough" came a commanding voice. It was her father, Admiral Taskor, who was the ministrer-designate. He looked at his daughter. "I don't approve of this, you are my only daughter.. and if anything happens to you I will have Para Skinned and mounted on my wall" He grumbled, and Cesha became very quiet.
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"I beg your pardon" Emerald stared right at Taskor. "What did you say about the Dragon Lord?" he stood before Taskor his head lowered with the eyes staring right at Taskor's "care to repeat that to me?"
Nova hoping he wouldn't cause that one thing he knows never speak of harming dragons before the three element dragons.
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"You don't frighten me; Taskor said, his eyes glaring. "The Dragon Lord Of Dinoton answers to ME, you can take your dragon martial Law and stick where the sun don't shine. I'm holding him resposible for the welfare of my daughter, and if anything serious happens to her, he'll regret it. As for the Gold Code, if only one Dragon Lord being threatened is enough to activate then , tell me, then why has it not been in constant activation over the past 10 years? Wayne's life has been threatened numerous times, and yet the Gold Code was never activated until yesterday. Nor was it activated for tHe Dragon Lords of other planets.. who likely have threats against or thier lives put in danger..yet it was never activated.."This retort took emerald and the other Element Dragon by surprise
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"Because it only if a Red Dragon threatens a Dragon Lord's life. In the past there was a massive dispute with dragons of all kinds and the Red Dragons. it got to the point that it was very unstable and the dragons created the Code Gold to protect all high forms of Dragons including Dragon Lords from us Red Dragons, last time that was triggered was from a Red Dragon threatening to harm and even kill a Dragon Lord on Earth for interfering with a test. that brought a war that lasted only 1 hour and destoryed our home world. I was there" Blackstar spoke up and stared at Taskor.
"And if you speak to me like your doing to our legendary guardians then your going to forget this ever happened and put to sleep to this is all over. all we don't need is a hot headed made tempered old dino yelling about one life. this is all lives we talking about here. the universe which I mean. One life don't count for all those others. If your child dies for the course of trillions then so be it, it her choice not Para's and if you think you can boss around a Dragon Lord like your chess piece then your going to regret it" Blackstar said not in the mood for this hot tempered Dinoton.
"Wayne is only responsable for so much. your her father and that makes you fully responsable for her safety not Wayne Para. You doing this cause you need someone to blame if something happen to her and your easiest target is the Dragon Lord." Blackstar walk up to him and everyone step out of the way. "Now I will give you a simple choice..." Blackstar grab him by the jacket with both hands pulling him right to his snout. "Behave and stop using Wayne as your tool and be a father you should be to your child or... I could make you very sorry for crossing the line with me" Blackstar stared at him coldly. "Now are you going to speak like that about the Dragon Lord?" 'I bet he will try to stand up to me, big mistake if he does'
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Suddenly a huge blsast passed through Blackstar;s body and he fell backwards, When he came to, Taskor was standing over him, a strange blastor in his hand, and a look of cold fury on his face. "Look in the mirror, hypocrite, before you go criticizing others..I" He said fiercely "I will not be spoken to like that, I don't care what or who you are! While I was in the military, I gave orders and I expected them to be followed. .If they weren't I disciplined those responsible. Sometimes I demoted them, othertimes I simply gave them extra chores as punishment.I expect the same deference as Minister, although I am well aware of public opinion." Blackstar put his claw to his stomach and found to his horror that Taskor had blasted a huge hole though his body, and blood was spilling from the hole. Taskor sighed "I respect Wayne, But he is NOT above me in rank, so he listens to me, if he doesn't I may discipline him, I reserve that right" Taskor said "Wayne is not a sacred cow, to be protected from discpline in every circumstance..sometimes harsh disipline is deserved. Furthermore, How dare you make any comment about my abilities as a parent! You have NO RIGHT! I will hold myself responsible for what happens, but I also must hold Wayne responsible as well, because I entrusted him with her safety."
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"Enough!Sapphitre said. looking at Taskor. "Put your weapons away.. we need no more bloodshed here. Let us resume the council, each of us has a part to play. You three, take Blackstar to the hodspital wing for treatment" she said to threee nearby dragons, who quickly obliged picking up Blackstar tenderly, and carrying him from the room.
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Redstar saw what happened and fury was really raging inside him no one does that to his brother and gets away with it. "Curse on you will come... moonlight you will not see yourself a dragon of that you harm you will become a reddragon on the moon of full till see fit your punishment will end..." Redstar whispers out of hearing of everyone and his curse was done and walks away then stopped by Emerald "I am going to use my powers to hear my brother now get out of the way" Emerald let him by and he heads off after his brother no one aware of the curse that was placed on Taskor.
Enerald raise his hand the weapon vanishes from Taskor's hands and into a three glowed crystal orb that sits on the table "I am sorry but I won't allow you to harm anyone else with that weapon with your anger. You should never use it with someone that don't harm you in physical form and to resure your stupid pitfully argurments. So till I see fit you will not have it back." Emerald said look to the orb "We also drained all of it energy so it unless as well." Emerald then look to Stripetail
"This is serious, if he ruler of this world now I want you to have a quiet time with him get him to understand things and how the Dragon Lord works. I won't allow harm to come to that Dragon and to others. if he harm another we will have to punish him and we will. And we will have to relocate the temple and the dragon lord so try to resolve it please." Emerald said to Stripetail only him hearing his voice at the moment when speaking to him.
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'i will try but remember that he is of the miltary, thier roles are clearly defined, the superior officers give orders to thier subordinates, and exopect them to be followed without question. he considers wayne a subordinate, and expects Wayne to follow his orders without question. He places no importence in him being the Dragon lord, and he doesn't care for the overprotection you are giving him. His threat was metaphorical rather than literal, he was not really going to skin Wayne alive, he simply was going to read him the riot act if something bad happened, and thier professional and personal relationships would be greatly impacted negatively.'
-As Stripetail finished the orb shattered and the blaster floated out. It had reacted of its own accord. it flew to Taskor's hand. "Sorry, but only I can shut off this blaster, and was specially designed to be immune to magic or powers of any kind. But as a goodwill gesture I will shut it off " He pressed a button on the blaster and the glow around it vanished. He put it inside a holster in his jacket, and ziupped it up.
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Stripetail then came up to him/ "Minister we need to talk in private" Very well" Taskor replied and the two of them walked away
:You are the Wizard correct/" Taskor asked. "Trin's told me a few things about you... although I haven't really believed anything of what he said. " Stripetail said nothing, then he sensed the curse Redstar had placed on him. "It would be wise Minister if you kept your anger in check in the future,. As it is, a curse has been placed on you>' Taskor burst ouit into a derisive laughter. 'Cursed?! I don't believe in curses wizard and that is half the battle right there, the other half is adressing the issue that resulted in the reputed curse..
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Such as you blasting a huge hole in Blackstar's gut?' stripetail replied tersely. Taskor's eyes flashed dangeriously. "Self-defense wizard, I will not be threatened like that, not by anyone. If you had done it, you would have suffered the same fate>.'
_ In which case, I would have responded in kind" Stripetail replied in a harsh, cold voice. "And of the two of us, you'd be the worse of minister. ""I'd suppose you's curse me" Taskor said. "Minister I know literally thousands of curses, all of them powerful, and each of which I could place on you and it would stay firmly on you for as long as I wished." Stripetail said firmly "I could easily put a curse on you for the rest of your life, with no way to remove it, other than asking me."
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Are you really that powerful?' Taskor asked very quietly. Was this wizard delusional or telling the truth? "YES" Stripetail replied simply. Now Taskor was not a creature who was easily awed, but this was one of those rare brief times, that he was.
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'now about Wayne" Stripetail begam. The Awe Taskor had felt quickly dissipated "Oh him... Remember wizard, I am Minister now, Wayne is my suboridinate. From the way those dragons act, he should be protected from even the slightest punishment!. Esgads, He is not a babe! I will treat him no different from any other Dinoton. What is so special about him being Dragon lord? He is young brash, and foolish, If he were Experienced, reasoned and wise, I'd see thier point, and treat him differently.." Taskor said. "It does not matter how young or old or weak or powerful he is, to them it makes noi difference, they respect and revere him all the same..You do not understand this...Minister, and unless you change.. you never will" Stripetail said sagely.
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Redstar arrived to his brothers side and then using a symbol spell and the injuries soon fully healed Blackstar's injuries in seconds "As long as we live brother we will protect each other and the family" Redstar said and Blackstar put his hand into Redstars with a smile.
"Thank you for the healing brother just to be safe I am staying right here. His dangours and we need to talk of relocation of the Dragon Lord and his temple if Taskor don't change is attuide to him. I will not have one of our Lords treated like some chess piece by someone that been in the army, I did that once and I hated what I did afterwards, I won't let it happen again" Blackstar said to Redstar.
"I agree and Stripetail we let you hear this so you know what Taskor is facing." Redstar said in a unpleased tone of voice then look to Blackstar "I am going to sit right here brother till we go and prepare our little fake base." Blackstar chuckled a little and Redstar sat by his side in silence.
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Other dragons was allow to listen as well part from Taskor, they all looked right at Stripetail and nod once showing that the action that Redstar spoke of will be taken if Taskor don't buck up his ideas and they all showed three fingers raised telling how many years Taskor have to change or they would do it.
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Stripetail understood it.. But from his first impression of Taskor, he was a creature, who, once his mind was made up, almost never changed it, until he was proven completely wrong.. "Have you no respect for thier traditions?'
'Wizard-- Stripetail, right?-- I have no use for any government that allows a subordinate member to declare martial law and seperate himself from the government, with no controls or limits on his actions.We will resolve this matter forthwith. I must be permitted a say in matters like that, if they don't permit it, then our relationship wil not be good..
Stripetail repled"It's not good already, you have not gotten off to an amicable start Minister with them..You're very set in your ways.. "
"i have become used.. to certain priviledges, yes, But I'm not an authoritarian Stripetail." Then he noticed the number of dragons holding up the three fingers. "3? 3 what? What does that meam?"
"YEARS. you have 3 years to change your ways, or Wayne will leave and the Dinoton temple will be moved as well.." Taskor scoffed. "They can go ahead and do it now, for all I care. They will have to earn my respect before they get any from me. I'm a 'what-have-you done-for me-lately?' type of guy, and as I said before I will treat him no differently than anyone else, no worse, no better.That's how I work.."
Stripetail sighed, his hunch was correct.
"Let me take you to Blackstar, so you can patch things up with him. bring him some flowers or food or something to show you meant no hard feelings. Or are you one who holds grudges?" "I'm not someone you want as an enemy, let's put it that way..But your rquest sounds reasonable..' the Minisater said
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Blackstar was listening in and almost chocked and his eyes narrowed "Only if he destory that cursing weapon he can go near me, till then keep that mad dinoton away from me" Blackstar sneered "that is my condistion to having a patch up on what he did to me. If it wasn't for my brother I would be dead. I have little trust in that Dinoton as long as he holds that weapon. He is a danger to all that near him" Blackstar said. "And maybe Redstar will also remove the curse"
"I am fine with that if that dinoton destory that toy of his and promise to never build such a dangoues toy again, then I will remove the curse and Blackstar be happy having him patch things up... that our condision and we not going to change it" Redstar confirmed it they both very controled in their words and very clear with them.
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He has it turned off" Stripetail replied mentally "And right now, it is time to patch things up between the two of you...as best you can.. He is not someone who changes his mind easily. Nor is he someone who takes threats against him lightly.. as you have found out the hard way.. As for his weapon, its a token from the Dinoton Army for 30 years of service, or so he tells me. Not many have reached 30 years in service, so they give anyone who reaches that number a specially made blaster...He obviously knows how to use it... I can understand your reluctance to have him anywhere near you right now, but if you are ever going to put this behind you, you will have to let him visit you. Redstar of course can stay there, so no further issues arise between the two of you..."
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"Fine, but I am not going to remove the curse though, Not till the gun gone of course, don't matter how long it takes that the condision of my curse on him Stripetail. Gun destoryed curse removed so simple." Redstar said back in mental messenge.
"Bring that crack pot in here..." Blackstar said with a grumble in the words "don't think I am going to be nice with him, he almost killed me for a stupid augerment... It seems he don't like being underminded so he blasts those that do so he can't again... well that way I see that hot head" Blackstar still annoyed. "If I had my way he'd be locked up in a maze that has no end forever... but I once was encharge of a whole army of red dragons for 100 years so I know where his coming from. that why I am being soft, He better be really sorry for hurting me like that..." Blackstar then thinks
"Tell him to take his jacket off before entering this room, that way he won't he that thing with him and I'll allow him to patch things up. That simple enough for him to do" Blackstar stats and that what he wish for this to happen.
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Stripetail recieved the message and gestured. The wizard and minister appeared in a twinkling by Blackstar's hospital, Redstar was seated in a chair next to his brother. Both nodded at Stripetail but glared fiercely at his companion.
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"I take it You want me to put my blaster away, so I can't use it? Fine, as a goodwill gesture I shall do that" Taskor said unzipping the jacket and setting it on a nearby chair, then pushed the chair away. It banged against the far wall, where it wobbled slightly and then stopped.. He then turned to the two dragons "That blaster was given to me as a appreciatition for 30 years of service, I'm only the seventh Dinoton in the past 400 years to reach 30 years of active services, and of the other 6, they either retired shortly afterwards, or died in battle, none of them reached 35 years at any rate. I intend to be the first..."
Stripetail brought over two chairs from the doorway, Both he and taskor sat down, and moved closer to the bed."I'm not someone who likes backtalk,or being threatened.Over my 30 years I have fought in several wars, and in war, the commanders gives orders, the officers excute them. it is as simple as that. Disobeying an order or refusing to execute it, can lead to death or injury very easily. That is why such misconduct is punished so severely.When I give orders i expect them to be followed. No exceptions, unless the order I give is illegal. "
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Blackstar just stared at him and said "I been there and done that... I was in your type of postion with the Red Dragon Defence force for 100 years till the destrucion of our home world I felt so ashamed unable to defend it and see it burn and then the final beam of energy causing a chain explosion taking millions of lives I escaped and hid in shame for a long time but my brother found me and told why it happened... because of one mistake... that all it takes" Blackstar said to Taskor.
He raise his claw finger "one mistake from one being caused everything to unfold... it could of easily been me in that form... and I wished for years it was before Redstar told me that change is one of the best things. I can never forget what had happened but I did change and I remember those that lost. I might seen dark and twisted but that was just a act for Stripetail and for that I hated doing even second of it. I remember being tough and not wanting to change and from learning of that mistake I grow from that into something strong someone that had the eyes opened to all the possible things in the universe. I learned that others have their own ways of life, even on a govermental controled world like this one. Each respect the things that are around not only their own forms of rules, expland from that and you will make something more then you ever thought possible, you'll grow and bring something you never thought possible" Blackstar spoke to Taskor explaining changes and things to come that he should do that Blackstar managed to do.
Redstar just sat there and wait for Taskor reply and he only could think that he going to say something about being touched and won't change from a story.
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That is often the cause of the destruction of worlds.. a simple mistake" Tasor replied. "Tell me them, why are you so overprotective of Wayne? he is old enough to care for himself, and if he breaks your own rules.. I'm refering to the trial that he interfered with.. then he should be punished according to your rules. If it means sending him to Plana Icia for however tit takes for him to realize the error of his ways than so be it ..The whole Gold Code nonsense started because someone threatened to punish him.. on principle and merit she should have just sent him there...and explained herself afterward. Wayne was meddling in things that did not concern him, and his position should mean nothing in cases like that.' Taskoe said firmly. both brothers looked nervous. 'Look, in terms of Dragon Lords, he's near the bottom of the totem pole! He's nowhere near the elite Dragon Lords, in terms of power, experiemce or wisdom. Yeah, you consider him, a minor Dragon Lord, worthy of coddling! I will never understand you creatures.."Taskor said.
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"He might be new to being a Dragon Lord but to way things worked older then your very goverment Tasor, It that what most dragons still follow till to this day" Redstar said with arms crossed "Each Dragon Lord has their own special ablities and Wayne para not knowing it yet has the power to repair that was once lost such as planets and has the power that has a care for others seeing everyone with equal chance, he might not be much now but he needs the space to learn and grow and the temple is his place for the most." Redstar started to explain.
"One thing that not even Stripetail knew is that Wayne's life span is unknown, no dragon lord has reach a old age, they ended up dying after 100 to 6000 years depending on what happened, the one on Earth and the one on this world died to protect the planet they care so much for. THe Dragon Lord of this world the first was a million years old he died stopping Stripetail's brother from crushing this world locking him up till 10 years ago when Stripetail managed to end it once and for all still we do not know how it ended." Blackstar said and look to Stripetail "Only Wayne Para and Stripetail knows the truth and if it wasn't for them this world would of been dust 10 years back"
Redstar then starts again "so you see we protect the dragon kind of Dragon Lords or higher or lower depending on which at up most importance cause they are seen as the seeds of peace the key of Dragon strength itself, it brings balance in ways no one can trurly understand. We are over protective cause they are one of the most important living creatures compared to millions... one being can change the tide that moves, in the end we do this since Dragons appeared." Redstar said looking at Tasor
"as for the Code Gold, it was place to stop us Red Dragons from harming those Dragons that seen at highest of importance for the stable balance. And from what I know of Dragons only punish their Dragon Lords by having a personally tutor in learning from their mistakes. it might be soft but that the way they work, with us it serious enough to out rage the dragons and they place Code Gold to protect their lords from stupid mistakes that we caused in the first place like my three element planets, that what caused Wayne to be pulled in and I should of been the one to be punished not him... so I was anger that she saw him as fault when it was a accient, so what about the trail it still had no rights to punish someone for a stupid accient they happen all the time. So when that happened Code Gold happened but this time we was lucky that something bigger was trailing us from a Dragon that knew Carron was around now and this is why Code Union came up out of the blue." Blackstar explained his wrong doing and what the code was about and now what is planed out.
"So you see from what we been telling you this has to work, we need to work together on this dragons, Red Dragons, Wizards and Dinotons to take care of Carron once and for all" Redstar said standing up with a claw hand out with his brothers on top of it "Do we agree to work as one union to fight to save trillions and work out a new peace for dragons, magical beings and dinotons" Redstar look to Stripetail and Tasor
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"Accident or no, " Stripetail replied. "his intereference caused the abandonment of the trial I was taking! One that can only take place once every million years! It was a once in an era oppourtunity, I was the first Wizzin in hundreds of millions of years to be permitted to take it!" His eyes narrowed. "A chance to repair what 3 foolish Wizzins destroyed in the past, and it was ruined. Wayne will not be alive the next time the test will come around Blackstar,so he will never truly understand the magnitude of his mistake... unless I make him realize it.." his voice was hard, and neither dragon liked the tone of his voice. "I will agree to form the Union but only after Wayne has learned not to meddle in affairs that don't concern him. I will be his tutor.." He said.. and fear sprang to both Redstar's and Blackstar's face. "I will do this, and I suggest that you do not try to stop me. After all, his actions afected me the most, since I was the test-taker.
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"Test was only the underline to my test" a voice rang out of no where so deep and so strong that the room shook
"Who said that!?" Redstar looked around seeing no one "could it be him..." the Redstar thought.
"It was I who set your test up not any of them. Blame not what you think, you have done what has done again, jump to the point and stab into the heart young wizzin" the rang again. "I set this up because of life itself is at stack, forget the trails forget your million year repair!" everyone fell over and a light shines in the room and then Blackstar looked ou the window
"We not on Dinoton any... wait I think we are but it looks like a jungle out there" Blackstar blinked
"Time this begain, the seed to Carron defeat begins on Dinoton" the voice rang and they saw a large dragon put his claw hands into the ground energy pusling right through the world "Soon the dinosaurs of Dinoton will arrive and life will come and soon Dinotons will come in millons of years to come." then the large dragon vanish but then appear before Stripetail smaller but he stood with eyes fixed "Mistake might see but not a mistake a reason it happened and your test was all but a false to bring fourth the union to defeat of the defeating of Carron. Dragon Lord was only doing the part he was unaware as everyone else" the dragon step towards Stripetail and feeling energy from this dragon was pushing Stripetail back against the wall.
"Repair of mistake past will begin in this room. they had put the first step and you blinded once more" he look to the two red dragons then at Stripetail "Remember that your not a dragon or a dinoton, your place is with the union but not to tutor a dragon or dinoton that will never be your affair. friends you will be and he will out live you. Dragons and Dinotons are my children they are one and closely related then they thought possible listen to my words and listen closely this repair begin not of a trail or test but of changing your ways both races change and work it out magic and red dragon will find a way in time." he turns away and Stripetail fall on his feet as the dragon walks and start to fade then look to Tasor
"young my child, you are promising of a great future, friends in time you will become of Dragon Lord and dragons a great new beginning awaits let your heart guide you in its whispers. I besove this to you and unlock you will in time, the puzzel you will answer just be patient" the dragon hands Tasor a metal box with a dragon and dinoton natural symbols on it with the red dragon symbol as well, on three sides hold a patten of sort locks on each that had a puzzel of sort on each. "It can not be destoryed or forced open doing so will destory my gift to you my dinoton child." then turn around to everyone
"Return to what just happen and normal time will be, start your repair and help each other, rewards will follow and scuess will come or if you hold the pain of trails that not important you surely will lose your way and doom will become, listen and learn... listen and learn my children and young wizzin" the dragon the fades and the white light apears and outside was the normal view of the city.
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Even that will not stop me!' Stripetail pulled out his staff which now glowed blindly bright. "Wayne! he called out. "You and I have Business to attend to!At his wordss, shackled appeared on Wayne's wrists and rift appeared behind him, and a similar one appeared before stripetail. "We will return once the issues between us are settled" He said to the stunned dragons and minister" he stepped into the viod and as he did Wayne was pulled in as well.
The Rifts opened onto white plain, of ice. the area around was tremendously cold in the distance stood a small castle, Wayne fell out of the void nearby."Let us enter the castle my friend, before you freeze. "Stripetail called out to him. "As per tradition, when a Dragon Lord, a tutor must be come and remedy the error. In this case, that tutor will be me.."
(Before you respond, let us first discuss the past two posts via pms. Mine and yours. Once we reach an understanding, then we will continue)
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Blackstar then notice something that now adds up "Wait a minute the trail... it wasn't a trail it was a Lure... a Lure to set off a punishment so the barrier will come up all over Dinoton protecting it from the eyes of Cannon, that is it!" Blackstar got up looking to Redstar "Brother it wasn't a real trail in fact it was not a trail, wayne's little punisment was a whole act, not real at all. We must let Stripetail know at once before it too late."
Redstar felt the whole place shake then look to where the Temple is "I think we are, the temple losing power and very fast. I say in 1 minute the barrier will be down. We've been uptight about it that we didn't realise a million year point for the trail isn't really ready for another 2 years..." Redstar said looking through the window.
The temple energy start collapsing and the planet shakes again from the rapid collapse of energy. Blackstar then yells out "STRIPETAIL RETURN WAYNE HERE AT ONCE! BEFORE WE LOSE THE BARRIER!!! IT WASN'T A REAL TRAIL I FIGURED IT ALL OUT!!! I NOTICED A FLASH POINT IN THE THREE ELEMENT WORLDS IT WAS DESIGNED TO BE A MASSIVE LURE THE REAL TRAIL ISN'T FOR ANOTHER 2 YEARS!!!!" Blackstar bellowed out loudly and also mentally right to Stripetail.
"Better act fast 10 seconds..." Redstar notice the energy lose was so great that the barrier had holes in it already and growing rapidly.
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Carron saw it and grinned "my time to take that world" Carron created a black wormhole it start to move closer to Dinoton.
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Redstar look to the sky "Hurry... we almost completely out of time..." Redstar stared at the black wormhole that darken the skies as it moved closer to the world.
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9Er.. Threehorn, weren't we supposed to agree on the next move? Besides this dimension is protected from Carron due to its extreme cold, and the fact that it is another dimension entirely...While we are on the topic.. the great vilians of lierature, such as Sauron, or Voldemort, or Modred in the Arthur legends, took months or years to defeat, and those allied against them were usually outnumbered by thier enemy, and won only due to great sacrifice and a little bit , no, a lot of luck. My original intent was to have Eva battle carron for years before prevailing.. only by facinf such a powrful enemy, could she prove she had absorbed the lessons that Stripetail has taught her, and taken her place as an elite witch..)
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(Either way taking the Dragon Lord out of Dinoton has caused the barrier to weaken and the temple lose power since the Dinoton is no longer present in that dimension so Carron is going to strike soon as it collapses completely which is happening faster then this punishment thing. Sorry but my defence is still high on all that punishment stuff since the trail wasn't really a real trail, thought that be clear by now. It almost like Stripetail not even seeing the bigger picture why Wayne was put there, the trail wasn't even the real it was a lure to make a punishment, that all not the real trail at all. I thought I put down enough text to show you that what it was all about, Blackstar realised it moments after Stripetail takes Wayne and vanishes. I re-edited the post that before your bracket words to me... I thuoght you'd figured it out already what the trail was really is, and that not being a real trail but a trap that was set by the dragon that Evaliator knows...)
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( I took it literally,that the trial was to be of importance, and not just a front...Anyway...I think that whatever Stripetail intended to do or the rEd Dragons threatened to do, pales in comparison to what Carron will put Wayne through...Just a forewarning :) Oh I see.. He has not taken him.. Very well.. But Aren' t there hundrreds of DRagons Lords there now..)
Stripetail sensed a great weakening of power from where he and Wayne were.. "It appears it was all a trick..." He frowned.. "Time to get you back Wayne" He said gesturing...
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Carron suddenly sense Stripetail's energy and the vortex wormhole vanishes and reappear right in front of Stripetail and Wayne knocking them both off their feet Carron stepping out of the black wormhole standing in front of it "So that why it weakened so fast. I knew I sense a sudden weakiness and now I have both of you in my hands" the figure couldn't be made out but he stood there in the shadows of the wormhole but they could sense something there but not sure what.
"Now I won't let you get away this easily from me. Now I have you two alone" Carron chuckled as a force field appears right around them "Now it time for me to step into the light and play a little game with my favioute toys" he steps into the light letting them see him (if you like you can discribe what he looks like)
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Carron was a immense figure, his face was terrible to look at,with large black horns sprouting out of his head, and neck. His eyes were large, yellow and a sinister gleam was in them. His mouth was curled in a wicked smile, as if he was enjoying himself.His hands were curved and had sharp nails on them.. he furthermore radiated a great evil, a one that caused anyone who felt it to shudder. "Well, well, I have the cosmos' greatest wizard ' He said , mockingly.. " and a young dRagon whelp.. pardon me.. dragon lOrd" he said..'right where i Want them..I have something special planned for you.. Wizard.. but I think that will wait for now..Once the end comes.. those fools should know it and be resigned to it...you will tell them.. it will all be in vain.. of course...and once everything is gone save you and me..then you will finally die...Now I will take your friend here' He said, pulling his claws towards his body, and WAyne was pulled from the field.. "He will be a fine weapon in my hand, that I can use to my own benefit..."
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NO!' Stripetail roared and let forth a huge blast of power from his staff. The Shield bent and reflected his blast back at him, Stripetail dove to the ground as ice flew up from where he Had stood.
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"Nice try wizard" Carron said as he bound Wayne head and claw with black rope. Wayne was powerless to do anything about it.."Unfortunately, it wasn't enough... Soon, Dinoton will be drawn into the void...and the millions there will become my slave force.. spending the rest of thier lives, serving me..." He laughed wickedly, and disappeared back into the darkness.. the captive Wayne in tow.. "Well I'm done with your friend here, you won't recognize him" He laughed coldly as the vortex closed. As it did the forcefield vanished.
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The sudden drop as counted happened and the temple start to lose strength and the main Dinoton computers show 5 hours till barrier complete collapse on the display. Steg saw it and so did Eva with the others working with them. "Damn it what happened!? where is Wayne?" Steg said slaming his spiked tail on the floor making everyone jump a little from his anger. "sorry, just fustrated"
"Erm it ok, just don't use your tail on one of us" Eva said with a nervous look.
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A dinoton comes up to Nastor and tells him something "Earth minister is on route to Dinoton but the ship is unknown, we can't tell what it does but all I know is that they been attacked by a black wormhole and the cannons and weapons on the defence ring had enough power to shut the wormhole down and create some shield against it" The Dinoton informed him.
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Minister sat in her chair as the strange ship she was in head to it "If this creature what a war then it got one and now made a big mistake, Earth don't take kindly to attackers" Minister said with hands closed together.
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Carron was anger now even he had the Dragon Lord he couldn't even stop that strange ship, the humans are more unpredictable then he thought they was, they stopped his attack to suck in their world and they was able to shield and push him back without even trying, the technology was very advance compared to Dinotons and what he seen of Red Dragons. "Humans.... what make them so annoying that it almost impossible to crush the weak mortal beings... and it seem the saying I heard once... it not all it seems to be... more like this damn humans!"
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Stripetail thren reappeared at the templem he was fustered and angry. "Wayne is now a prisoner" He said solemnly. "Carron is going to try and use him to his own benefit, and he will likelky go to great lengths to do it,
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"Foolish mortals, they will be an tiny island in a sea of darkness, they will be safe there for a time, but once I'm done with this Dragon lord here, even they will not be safe.." Carron said moving into the Darkness. A number of minions he had created out of the darkness attended to Wayne who was chained tighthlt to a rack. 'Stretch him" Carron commanded, and with a hideous viigor the minions began pulling at the rack. Wayne's body began to stretch, and he was obviously in discomfort. Carron produced a black whipo-tails, which was several cords tied together with barbs at the the end. the minions stretched Wayne out to his furthest extentt, which was putting his arms and legs under tremendous strain. "alright, Dragon Lord, I'm going to make you an offer that you cannot refuse. become my servant, and I will make you more powerful than you could ever imagine. Refuse, and you will be punished.. severely.. What is your answer?" Carron hissed at Wayne holding the whip in a threating manner.
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Wayne was in pain then he wasn't it wasn't. He would think it wasn't making sense then he knew what he saw in the snow before Carron appeared "Not a chance Carron. It not as it all seems and I figured out this is just one big puzzle" Wayne started laughing "I will leave one parting gift" Wayne said leaving Carron confused what he was talking about.
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Stripetail was feeling bad what happened then he saw the inside of the temple light up like a big christmas tree and all the lights fires beams right into the middle and form a portal and Stripetail saw a energy stream only string size attached to three spiked pillars. Then Eva and Steg arrived back with the team and she saw the portal it was the source of Carron's power looking to Stripetail "That must be it, the source of Carron's power, Wayne must of got in contact with the Temple and directed us right to it" Steg said looking at the portal.
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"Your imprudience will prove your undoing" Carron snapped, striking Wayne hard with the whip. the barbs tore into Wayne's skin, and cut deep. Carron then turned to his minion. "Rotate the rack so his back is in clear view. " The minions quickly obeyed. Carron them lashed out ferociously, striking him repeatedly. Incredible pain raced through Wayne's body, "I can literally beat you to death, Dragon Lord, if I so choose, but then again.. what FUN..' he struck him again on an open wound" would that be?" Carron said. The pain Wayne was feeling now was nearly indescribable, he felt as if he was being turned inside out. "Now Pull out each of his clawnails' Carron directed. The minion then produced a cklamp, and one by one, each tug causing great new anguish, every single nail in wayne's claws and feet were forcibly removed.The floor was now stained with Wayne's blood, and every fiber of his being was awash in agony.."I gave you a chance, you have rejected it. so now I will compel you to serve me" Carron said. Placing his sharp claws on Wayne's face, and focused. Wayne's stare grew blank as he removed his claws. The Pain was.. gone.. but so were all his memories.He was now a blank slate..."Do you know who you are?" Carron asked "Wayne slowly shook his head."You are my servant...and I have work for you to do.."
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A Huge vortex opened above the Earth, and through it came a planet, roughly half the size of Jupiter. It moved rapidly towards the Earth, and its defenses..This planet, like the larger planets of the solar syatem, was a gas giant..so there was nothing solid in it that could be used to deflect it, and its massive size, meant that the earth, and all its defenses would be displaced, or even torn apart by the rogue planet's gravity, which was far far stronger than the earth's.
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The Portal suddenly closed, almost as quickly as it had appeared.."We've lost contact sir" a scientist said to Steg. "We had just started trying to place coordinates on it too..
_ Stripetail noticed it and finaly said. "If you thought that defeating him was going to be simple, welcome to reality. carron must be abusing Wayne terribly..." he frowned and sighed.. "Steg! What else can you tell me?'
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Eva notice the temple energy did foucs then look to the three element rocks then back at Stripetail then back at the point 'It not closed... it just holding barly, that means Wayne must be using the last of his strength to keep in contact with the temple, enough for one being to go through' Eva then walk up to Stripetail.
"Stripetail, thank you for everything" Eva kiss him with suprises him and then everyone saw her as she move a way a little "sorry Stripetail" Suddenly she change into a red dragon and punch him hard in the stomach and then move so fast that she grab the three element stones off the table and fly right into the middle and the portal rips open showing the location again but then closes forgood Steg running up to it looking around
"It gone..." Steg just stared at Stripetail as he was on his knees on the floor holding his stomach, Eva had really gave him a sharp blow one he didn't expect.
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Eva appears in Carron's Domain and right in front of her was the three pillars with the energy going through each tip point. "I knew someone would come but you, now that is a suprise" Carron grinned. and move to the side "My dragon kill her" Wayne step out into view
"THank you Wayne, but I can't spare your life... this ends now!!!!" Eva raise her hands in the air and open them the three element stones glow brightly.
"Oh what are you going to do, blast me?" Carron laughed.
"Elemental Trimaz!" Eva bellowed and a huge blast of energy shines and then she aims her claws right towards Carron and Wayne "BLAST!!!!" three beams shot right towards them.
Carron put his hands up ready to reflect them but they all shot by him and Wayne the blast force knocks Carron off his feet then turn his head to where they was heading "What!?" before he could react the three beams hit at the same time on each pillar causing a huge mighty explosion. "What have you done!?" he got up and glared at her
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THe Gas giant about to hit Earth suddenly fades and disappear like it wasn't even there and planets start to reappear where they was before Carron took them and the Temple starts glowing with energy flowing around it and Wayne fades from Carron's view and appears in the champers before everyone as the beams form and he lands on the ground with most injurys healed but still battered up from the whips.
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"you said he couldn't be spared..." Carron narrowed his eyes on Eva
"I lied. and Your end is now" Eva stared at him as the explosion clears to show the string pulling in on itself then explodes with the domain being pulled into it "We are trapped no where to go, soon we both will be destoryed by your own power, your vortexs are now locked and all that left is us. Now lets fight" Eva open her wings up with a snarl "A fight that has no winner or loser. a fight to the complete end. I challenge you to the ulimate battle... the battle of Resser"
Carron smirks as the wind blows into the darkest emptiness that nothing can even live in. "You are every remarkable, you are more then I even thought possible. And now we fight in a collapsing domain of mine. We fight to the end and that is something I am going to give you. Battle of Resser it is." Carron stood ready and they both charge at each other.
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"You truly are a tremendous fool, young Eva' Carron sneered. 'You cannot hope to defeat me, and furthermore, I still have control over Wayne...who is now loose in Dinoton.." He moved away and ther was a orb there , dark and sinister..."My Servant, attack your former friends!"
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Wayne suddenly stiffed, and the blank stare returned. he gestured and a number of nearby scientists crumpled to the ground.. "Wayne!' Stripetail shouted rising to his feet.."Let them be.. they are no match for you... I am, however.. if you are to fight anyone here, let it be me. "In Time.." came the cold, inhuman reply... "But not before I destroy Dinoton!" The possesed Dragon Lord Gestured and the shield protecting the planet vanisherd. suddenly debris from the collasping dimension in which eva and Carron were began raining down pell mell on the planet. Larger pieces created large craters.. cities were heavily damaged...and fires broke out across the planet..Dinoton had become an inferno. "I will recover from this... you little fools..." The voice spoke again...
Carron let the horrified Eva view all of this on the orb. "all this is thanks to my puppet, he let down the barrier, now this crumbling dimension will rain destruction throughout the cosmos! As for you.." he gestured and a huge burst of energy tore through Eva's body, causing her to fall to her knees. "you are nothing compared to me...you are mortal and so easily disposed of. ' He gestured again and Eva was thrown against the wall. She was bleeding heavily, but a small band of yellow light appeared around her midsection.. A cold smile appeared on Carron's face.."So... you are with child.. that band of light is a magical coccoon for protecting unbornn children" he said derisively. " I wonder who the father is.. perhaps that young whelp nova? You were more than just "friends' Then, weren't you?" He laughed vicously, a terrifying laugh that caused chills to run up and down eva's spine.. She was beginning to feel the effects of the loss of blood.. Carron's figure began to swim before her.."regardless of who the father is... that child will NEVER draw its first breath...and you are close to breathing your last..."
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The Three element Dragons look to each other not noticed then they nod to each other "Now it begins" they said together holding their claw hands together in a triangle and summoning a large sum of energy then Stripetail join them with the other dragons all gathering with the dinotons Wayne seeing this try to move in but then a huge blast wave knocks everyone off their feet and the fires soon vanish with the falling domain of Carron's almost like they wasn't there.
Wayne suddenly felt burning in his mind as Carron's control start to fade and fast the three dragons using their power together created a energy pulse that was healing the damage on the world and the affects made Carron cry in pain.
Eva stood with the three stones now coming back to her and span around her injuries disappearing "What is this... what going on!!!!" Carron cried out in pain.
"Defeat" Eva walked up to him and grab him by his thoat lifting him up "It..." then Eva notice something a cut on the neck but it was something else "Is this some kind of trick" Eva put her other claw hand in the cut and pulled off a mask to show a Black Dragon head. "What the?"
Carron laughed "Well done you all passed the trail"
"Trail?" Eva looked to see all the darkiness sucks into the hole and then there nothing but white she look around to see Stripetail and the group that gather to join their power to stop Carron they all looking confused.
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Steg looked around "Where did Wayne go?"
Eva let go of Carron who took off the rest of the custume showing a large Black Dragon about 7ft tall "Where is he?" Eva looked sharp at him
"Oh the Dragon Lord Wayne Para figured it was a trail back in the snow land so he took him out of the trail and replaced him with a trail double that he controled of course. You see you all was put under a test that takes place everyone 100 million years. Evalicator was the one that took you all from your places and into here" Carron Explained. "Yes before you ask my name is Carron and once ago was that twisted and evil."
A door opens from the white and Wayne steps in with a lightning dragon and a selection of people from each race that was in the trail. "I kind of figured it was a test and my side of the trail was being sharp and noticing the little details and I did so I was pulled out and a double which I controled from behind these doors and kept up the act."
"Act? you did a good job of it Wayne" Steg chuckled "but you was always a good actor if you needed to be"
"And Stripetail I would need to have a word with you alone, there some points we need to address about your events in the trail some that the others talked about and believe you should be aware of the down sides to you in this trail even you have passed with flying colours" Carron walks feather into the white then put his hand on something and a door opens and awaits Stripetail "If everyone like, follow your fellow kind that been obversering this trail and have some refreashments and ask as many questions you can." Carron then look to Evalcator that entered everyone suprise to see a solid body not a spirt. "Oh another thing she not dead just been keeping quiet and wish to speak to Eva alone" Carron finished now awaits Stripetail standing by the door.
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(Well, i didn''t expect this.. but I'll play along..)
Stripetail followed the unmasked Carron into the opening. "So, Carron, tell me..." He began as the large black dragon looked at him..
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Have you told anyone?' evalicator asked Eva...
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Eva looked at her "I wasn't really sure if that was even real what you told me, I thought for a moment it was part of the whole trail thing back there. I am not sure what really going at the moment, first you appear like a ghost and now you stand beside me flesh and blood... but I like to ask this... are you in some way my mother?" Eva stopped turning to her. "Cause from just looking at you... I look so simlar in my red dragon appearance in many ways and I know enough to say that ususally tied with the bases of DNA itself" Eva said with a slight questioning look.
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Carron walked with Stripetail alone down another to a obversation deck showing lightning rods in view creating a energy field and the place they was in travelling in some sort of lightning stream. "Well Stripetail when I said you passed with flying colours I was stating you had some rough edges still but overall the red dragons are very happy with what they saw, you see they are the wise ones that always listened to that watched the trail. But they wanted me to tell you a few things you need to improve on." Carron turn to face Stripetail
"You see Stripetail your stubborn, quickly reacting before examianing the problem. Also you took the punishment part so serious that almost cost you the failing of the trail altogether since the two red dragons was about to leave the viewing room but when Wayne noticed it didn't seem right we had to change things quickly that gave them interset to see what you do and they aproved your passing of the trail after it when you improved suddenly." Carron laughed a little turning to the window.
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(ok...that officially crosses the line into implusibility. carron is not his father...Stripetail's parents died more than a milion years ago..futhermore Wayne.. if there is no real antagonist to the story, than there is no point to the story. The hero must vanquish the villian in order to reach the "happy ending", There must be something gained from the process, a finding of inner strength for example.. Your last couple posts, well they tie things up.. much too neatly..I could understand the ruse of a trial, but a ruse of a ruse of a trail? That's going too far and contradicts the whole original storyline. I had envisioned carron leaving Eva for dead after an an inconclusive battle, also him controlling Wayne would also provide at least two plot lines for another story.. Carron was supposed to be Eva's true test, much like Mertavius was for Stripetail. defeating Mertavius proved that Stripetail was of the Wizzin, defeating Carron would prove that Eva was an adult and capable of feats comparable in scope to what Stripetail could do. The battle between Eva and Carron was supposed to take years to finish, with Carron , through the controlled Wayne, inflictiong great damage both to Dinoton, but also to the relationships that Wayne values most, and even though he was defeated, his damage would linger long past him... in the unease Dinotons would view him, and the mistrust of the other Dragon Lords and high-ranking Dragons.. those would take years if not decades to undo.. )
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"No Eva, I'm not your mother" Evalicator said, shaking her head.."you are my reincarnation, so naturaly you would appear to be very similar to me. But we are two distinct creatures..and you still have much to learn, before you are ready to assume your place as a bulwark between the magical and red Dragon races...your time as Stripetail's pupil is over, not because you can learn nothing more from him, on the contrary, he has not taught you even half of what he knows..but because you are ready to move on..And he accepts ithat. I daresay.. I don't think he'll like it very much when you finally reveal your little secret, because then He'll figure out who is partly responsible..and when that happens, I'll be sure to make myself scarce. But know this Eva, I would not have been able to create the child inside of you.. if you had not wanted it.." Eva's eyes flew open wide. "Part of you wanted to have this child, to create an extremely personal connection to Stripetail..Part of you leapt with joy once the babe was created, I sensed great happiness in you once my spell was finished. "
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"I am rather stuck in my ways I'll grant you that Carron.. But It would have been better if this had not been all an act.. I don't like being used.. examined under a microscope.. for the interest of the viewer. Passing the test? I had no idea this even WAS a test, so I cannot feel any accomplishment, at moment, for passng it. Had i known, I would have done things a bit differently, and right now I'd feel a sense of pride in completing it..." Stripetail replied.
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(I removed that section and continued on this post the rest of the talk)
"as for Eva well she did very well and past her trail, she'd did something i was suprised... she hit you to protect the foundation of magic and non magic. She did everything to protect that by even going in taking her own life to save everything. She'd needs to learn a bit more but she come to the term that she needs to grown and learn with her own support" Carron turn to Stripetail and then sits down with a sigh.
"I can see so much good coming out of this but it don't count on what i did to your parents though..." Carron looked at Stripetail "I was the one that destoryed them... but as I turn to destory you... I couldn't something inside me just didn't feel right so before I was over come by my darkiness I hid you from me and then I was found by Evalicator in my dark releam hidding in the darkiness in the farrest corner confused and lost. She took time to help me through it... I wish I could undo what i did but I can't" Carron sighed again.
"Eva grown to be great, she is one and only amazing creature we have ever seen. It soon time for you two to part ways... but in time you two will reunite" Carron smiled then turn slowly to Stripetail "If you wish to hurt me in any way for what i done... you can I am not hiding or fighting... I am too old to do this anymore... immortal life has been on a harsh side for me. I lived so long that I remember all the pain from those... that I caused... I wish I could forgive my actions but it just too much... not even this trail can make up for anything" Carron said in a sad tone staring at the lightning stream through the window again.
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Thank you :) We can now continue)
"It was Mertavius, my former brother, who destroyed my parents, you had nothing whatsoever to do with that.. I"m immortal as well.. so I know that pain you feel.. Eva.. well.. she has been a very good pupil.. she has learned a lot, and going to be one of the truly elite witches, not just of this age, but any age.. Her actions prooved that she is willing to do whatever it takes.. and that is something the greast beings have to accept as a part of thier status, at any time they may be called upon to sacrifice for the greater good.."
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"Stripetail... she will be one of the best I can see it not even looking in the future." Carron said and pulling out from his putch bag he carrying was a black gem. "This is strange... maybe the darkiness at the time of the relam once lived was connected to another dimension other then this one and the world I did attack was a counter part planet of your homeworld Stripetail." Carron turn around to him "Still a million years ago I did attack and a blackstorm ripped through the world was burning and all was left was two adults and two babies. I destoryed the parents and one child then I look to the one that was alive the one that I took from the burning world had a tag" Carron took out a tag on a chain out of his pocket and showed it to Stripetail
On it was his name "I took the child and using my black gem turn him into a black dragon and hid him from me. I do not know where he is now, but this is a Stripetail from another dimension, he most likely your age and living on a world that I do not know. At the time it was for his own protection I didn't want to destory anymore I was in pain inside and that when Evalicator came and helped me through it... I own her alot" Carron remembered and guess what must of really happened in his past.
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That was a Stripetail from Another dimension. I do not approve of interdimensional meddling" Stripetail said looking at him. "For each dimension that existsthere is likely one of each of us.. each slightly different in some way..unless they are killed. I am concerned strictly with thisa dimension Carron, it is the one I exist in..If other Stripetails from other dimensions come here that is one thing..but if you want me to go after this Stripetail simply to try to compensate for a mistake done a million years ago..well, you've pulled enough tricks on me today.." Stripetail's eyes flashed. "Are you telling me the truth when you do not know where he is? I have been lied to enough today Carron... I will not help you, If I find out you are lying.."
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"Seriously I don't know. I thought I let you know since it was a mess I did when I was out of control all that time ago. I hate for what I did. I had no idea at that time it crossed into another dimension and the Stripetail I spared when a baby was infact from another to this very one." Carron stared at the window then look Stripetail right in the eyes. "I placed in a world that I wiped my own memior of to protect him from my own madness at that very time"
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Stripetail sighed.. "I suppose I'll help you Carron..but i'm not sure if my counterpart will be very forgiving.. you ruined his life when he was a babe...deeds like that are not easily forgotten..even by mortals.." Stripetail looked at him. "You realize of course that you can never attone completely for all you did back then, it would be best to accept that as a matter of course.."
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Carron turn to Stripetail once more. "There is one suggestion that I do have Stripetail, I think it might be a good idea that Eva finishes at school, I think she haven't missed too much to continue. The last touches of magic she'd learn will come in handy." Carron then stands up turning to head away. "Stripetail there is real evil still about, this might of only been a trail but there more to the universe then any of us really know." Carron slowly walks down the steps then stop. "Stripetail one thing between us. Don't let them mold you, be who you are don't let them take your spirit. Just be welll..."
"Flexable" Carron smiled and slowly walks away.
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(Before I respond, A few points...Where are we going with this? A story needs, at its conclusion, a defeat of the villian, and wrapping up of loose ends. The problem is, this story has had no real vilians, only creatures masquradeing as evil. It is a necessity to have someone be evil and remain so throughout. Otherwise, all we are doing is going wherever our mind takes us without any plot to tie us down to. Frankly, that is good is small doses, but not in large ones. Unfortunately, whatever plots we have had for this, have been thrown out the window. I initially had Eva began her final year at Soewarkard, and preparing for the future, she has not beenb at Sowarkard since the beginning of the story. We bring in the idea of the trials as a way for Stripetail to rectify the wrongs of the past, Wayne gets dragged into it, and destroys everything, then you reveal it "as a Ruse". I accept that then, We bring Carron as someone ho could concievable be a villian, I dress him up in dark tones and have him capture Wayne and subject him, to incredible mistreatment, and while facing Eva, overpowering her. Then you reveal that to be a ruse as well, and no insult intended here, but reveal the limits of your role-playing ability.For example, your insustence that all your characters stay alive..rather, you should spare thise you consider essential to story, and sacrifice those that are not. Characters die in stories Wayne, often main characters, and their deaths show us that death is part of their world as much as it is part of ours. Indeed, thier deaths teach us a lesson. I am comfortable with having some of my characters die, Wayne, as the other roleplay we are doing has shown. If no one dies then there is no maturing, the characters will not have learned important lessons and will not gain the reader's interest and sympathy. Your revealing of Carron as an impostor and your tying up of the loose details, basically ended the story right there, or, more accurately, rendered it pointless. Carron must remain evil, or we must bring in someone that remains evil, and could provide a suitable opponent for Eva in future stories. Otherwise we are just drifting aimlessly...)
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(I edited the post above what you said.... I hope that helps you in any way. )
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Stripetail said nothing, but nodded, and turned away. "2 years from now it will begin in earnest" he said to himself "Eva will be very hard-pressed"
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Evalicator waited for Eva to reply, she was still absorbing the shocking infomation that she had had a choice in this..
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Eva turn to her "It quite something to really think over. I don't want to hold a secret back from him for so long. I believe when the time is right I should tell him about it, not sure how he'd take it." Eva said with a sigh she wasn't sure what to do. "I know I still got lessons to finish and other things as well."
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Nova stood on a platform looking at the lightning field "There is more to Eva and the Lord then meets the eyes I could sense it and I know that I'd be always a good friend to Eva. I won't get in her way of choice." Nova smiled looking at the three cards then turn to walk down the steps and see Stripetail walking up his way. "Hello Lord Stripetail. It been quite the few weeks or what time been gone since we was in that trail. But after all I think I'd like to continue my studys on the forms of magic getting a little more understanding on the world that works"
Nova said looking to the lightning field "the energy from this place making must be beyond our sight of understanding. It such amazing thing to know there somethings out there we do not know yet. It makes the fun of exploring and understanding the better for us to make us see things in so many new ways"
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"There is far more out there young dragon, that you in your lifetime will ever know.. even an immortal like myself does not know all there is out there.. That is left to the Eternal" stripetail said simply..."Eva has a great gift, and I have helped that along, but she is mortal nonetheless...and even though I have great affinity for her, I was foredestined never to know the joys of fatherhood...So I must part ways with her both physically and emotionally...lest that destiny strike again..."He looked at the young dragon closely. "Take her, Nova, as your own.. don't try to protest, it would be better for her in the long run, emotinally"
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Eva then had to ask something to her "Is there a chance that Stripetail might part ways more then one way?" Eva looked at Evalicator having to ask the question that was on her mind.
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Nova looked startled "Lord Stripetail... I-I don't know if I could." since he never been in a relationship before.
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""Evalicator paused.. "I don't know.. Stripetail has always kept his feelings very close to the vest. As an immortal... having children is not a very high priority for him, Eva. I don't know how he'll react when you tell him, if I had to guess, he will not take itt very well"'
As she said this the yellow magical ring around Eva's body, which protected the child within began to dissipate. Stripetail had spoken correctly when he said he was never to know the joys of childhood, it was part of the price of immortality, a previous attempt to have children had ended disasterously, and it had taken Stripetail decades to fully emotionally recover from it.. and history was beginning to repeat itself
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"so you have never had a dating relationship before?' Stripetail said, his eyebrows raising. "You'll have to learn on the fly then..."He chuckled slightly as Nova blushed..
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"Ok... I guess..." Nova wasn't sure about it since he'd always just studied and never thought about relationships before.
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"Then who would I go on with it then? if he won't take it kindly... if he found out if you had something to do with it... he could be very anger with you" Eva said to Evalicator
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He will be no question, Stripetail is not someone who likes to be taken advantage of in this manner, and in order for something like this to work, you have to have tremendous power, otherwise he'll detect what is going on and he'll figure out everything. Only a very small number of creatures can do this, and you have to be immortal,no mortal being could do this, Eva. Fortunately, I am one of those creatures, although he will likely make me regret it. I Don't think he'll blame you Eva, I can guarantee he knows how you feel for him..He'll be angry at me, and me alone.." Evalicator replied. "Perhaps you should reveal our secret to him before the child is born..so he can be ready when it is born.."
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Eva gave a nod "I think that be a good idea"
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'Good, do it as soon as possible,at a time where you feel comfortable.." Evalicator said.' the ring around the child was now almost completely gone, and Evlicator had noticed it, and was secretly growing worried. 'this shouldn't be happening" She thought to herself. "Why is it disappearing?"
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overtly, she continued. "I will appear to him afterwards and confess my part in it, if he does not summon me at once. Go find him, if you think he should know now."
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"I will try to figure out when it should be best to tell him" Eva said to her. "Just hope I can find a good way of doing it" Eva wondered a little.
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'jUst be truthful, remember, yiu have been keeping thiss from him, and he will want answers on why you kept this from him" Evalicator reminded her, and then vanished, leaving eva alone.
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Stripetail took Nova to a nearby cafe for dinner, inviting the young dragon to est to his heart's desire.
"Eat as you plaease Nova, and try and collect yourself for this" He said , as Nova looked at the menu, which was large and full of interesting entrees that looked tempting, he hadn't eaten for several hours now..
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"I will thank you" Eva then turn to head off to have a look around
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"Wow there is really alot to choose from here" Nova looked at the menu. "It take time to choice."
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Take your time Nova, and remember I'm footing the bill here, so feel free to eat your fill' Stripetail said looking at the menu. He glanced at nova, who was still very young, and who had never dated before.. neither had Eva, to his knowledge...at thier age his relationship with Snowpaw had been very serious.. but that was a different era, where girls married extremely young, and often had multiple children by the time they reached 20.
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Nova picked out a starter and main course "I think I will have these two and this for a drink." Nova said to the waiter that came up.
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I'll have the same" stripetail sais as the waiter turned to him.."It will be ready in ten minutes" the waiter said, as he took thier menus..and walked off..
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Nova looked at Stripetail "You don't even know what I ordered Lord Stripetail" Nova said being a bit suprised.
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I can read minds" stripetail replied...causing Nova to go red with embarassment, he had forgotten about Stripetail's mind-reading abilities.. "You made some good choices as far as selection goes, remember, you ca re-order anything off the menu, and if you want desert, well you can order whatever desert you want.." stripetail said..
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(Erm if I remember right, Red Dragons minds no matter the age can't be read by magical or non magical beings even the expericsed like Stripetail because of their natural formations of the minds making it like hitting a blank wall to those that read minds.)
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(well in that case, let's just say, Stripetail read his menu.. BTW, I'm leaving on vacxation today, so i won't be able to respond for more than a week.. Once I get back on the 13th then we'll be able to resume)
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Nova saw the window behind him reflection what was in front of him "Oh I see how you did it Lord Stripetail you just watched what I picked out. Trying to keep me on my toes?" Nova looked back at Stripetail.
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"I am someone who hates complacency...I've never been complacemt, and I don't like it when people take it too easy, it shows a lack of resolve.."Stripetail replied..
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"But it don't hurt to be a little complacemt Lord Stripetail, sometimes that bugs others and all you do is get them really annoyed when your not trying to" Nova pointed out.
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True... but if you have beebnn around me for an extended p[eriod of time, you 'll know that you should always be on your guard. The universe is a very dangerous place, it always has been, and I am one of those whose job it is to keep things under control, so that the inhabitants can leave freely and confortably.." stripetail replied
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"I guess but then where do you find the time to relax? there isn't danger always around the bend" Nova said to him.
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I rarely relax.. in the normal sense. " Stripetail replied. "I know only too well, that the peace that exists in normal circumstances can be broken by war..and that I have to be ready for it. Constantly on guard.. Well, it beats wasting thousands of years just sitting around my home..Which i have done by the way..' stripetail added. "
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well no one said you don't have to keep watch all the time, just let yourself go Lord Stripetail relax for a short time. keeping watch over things is good only to a point that it not going to be good for your health even for a immortal" Nova said to him "your not the only one that keep guard up on things there must be hundards out there that do as well"
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'Stripetail nodded" "There are a good number that is true.. they form the Council of Immortals, which is the supreme governing body for the guardians of this cosmos... they ensure that each person does their job, they also enforce the rules on immortality. Immortality is not granted as often as in the past, and even then it was granted to but a few..."
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"I see" Nova replied then the waiter comes up with the drinks and main meal placing them on the table in front of Stripetail and Nova.
"Enjoy" he said to them both
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Little more was said during the meal, which was enjoyed by the both of them.. the portions of both food and drink were large, and Nova, being a young dragon, packed away his food with ease... Stripetail was a more moderate eater, being a squirrell, and his position as a lord also imposed restrictions on how fast he could eat... him being from the distant ages where lords had to be mannered in dress and eating(Stripetail had a full set of forks and spoons for 'proper' eating, in total there were 19 utensils used in a formal setting, but he rarely used them).
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Meanwhile, the child within Eva continued to grow, absorbing (in reality, draining) her powers. Since the child was half-mortal it would require power from the non-mortal parent, in order for the child to be born safely and the mother to be safe.
In this case, however, Evalicator, by creating the child in eva magically, had bypassed this requirement. She had also not contacted Stripetail before doing it, which was another strike against her conduct. Without Stripetail's intervention, the child would drain eva of all her powers, leaving her vulnerable to illness, and she would be powerless to prevent the child from releasing its energy. The child would release its energy periodically, and it would serve as a marker on its development. the more it grew and matured, the more power it would require, and the stronger the surges would become.
Since it was half-mortal, a mortal mother, even one as magically gifted as Eva, could not handle its needs on her own. As the child grew in size and power , her powers would diminish. only after giving birth, would her powers return to her; and only if the child survived, if it did not, that power would be forever lost, and eva's life would also be in jeporady.
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(does it have to go back into this baby draining thing again... life risk and so on for birth? I know your trying to make something out of it but it kind of getting to a point of repetitive motions in the RPG)
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(Having a baby is difficult, its a painful process , even for healthy mothers. I can understand if it sounds repetitive, because we've gone through this before on a previously diacarded rp. But the situation was different then in several ways, firstly Eva was much younger, secondly Stripetauil was much more direcxtly involved. Here she is older (in her final year of school) and Stripetail is unaware of the situation, although both Evalicator and Eva are afraid of his reaction when he does find out..)
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(I see, well at the moment i seem to not have any ideas to move on from that point. But the risk of death and draining of all power seem a bit too exstream)
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(try Threehorn, I don't want this Rp to die off.. Too many of ours have done that.. Eva will survive this, if you want to know. She is mortal so there is always the risk of death, that is nature of mortality. I wouldn't build her up, as we have, to a be a great witch, and then kill her off at the age of about 20-21, in childbirth. That would be a huge letdoiwn.. and frankly render the storyline moot.)
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Eva felt a bit on the tired side but fine to what she felt like sitting by a window looking to the lightning field ahead. "I will find a way to tell Stripetail this, I have to tell him. It can't be kept back any longer" Eva whispers to herself.
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Wayne found the cafe walking in and look around "Nice little place on a station within a wall of reality just outside normal reality if there such a thing" Wayne said to himself stepping into the cafe.
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Stripetail finished his meal as Wayne entered. "How dijid Wayne get here?" He thought to himself...
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Nova recalled something the lightning Dragons had said 'Wayne figured it out so he came out of the trail and he helped in the trail' then Nova look to Stripetail. "Didn't one of the Lightning Dragons mention about Wayne figuring out the trail and then helped it along from the control station?" Nova told him
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"Quite omniscient of him."Stripetail replied. "Still, you don't disturb a student taking an examination, even if you are a prefect."Stripetail still had lingering resentments about Wayne interupting the trail while he was in the middle of it. Once he commited to something he expected it to play to its conclusion.. and he did not like being interrupted in the middle of something. He motioned to Wayne.
"wayne, over here" He called out.
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Lightnight Dragon overheard and lean over a little "No he was part of the same trail you all was in. He just passed his sooner then you all" then the dragon got up and left the cafe muttering to himself how Stripetail didn't listen to all what Nova said and only parts of it.
Wayne watched the Lightning Dragon go by wondering what made that dragon really annoyed then saw Stripetail and walked over to them. "Sorry I wasn't there when you all passed the trail, I had to stay in the control room and wait"
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SStripetail looked at him as Wayne took a seat. "Still,I don;t like people meddling in things I'm involved in Wayne. Even if the trial was a ruse, you didn't have to reveal it immediately, it would have been shown at the end, after i had gone though the entire process. What you did caused my test to be abandoned, in the middle of it . So you completed it before me? So be it, but then let me complete it as well before bursting in! If we had been in reverse roles, I most certainly would not have interrupted your trial, even though I knew it was an illusion. I would have let it play out, and have you figure that out on your own.
You acted arrogantly and used saberrattling to stop the trail. I know this because the Dragoness who you confronted confided in me after the trail was over. You did not act as an experienced and wise Dragon Lord would.And that is a shame, Wayne, I expected better of you. " this prounouncement caused Wayne to look at the floor in embarassment and shame . "You will not become a high-ranking Dragon Lord if you continue to have similar behavior in the future. next time , I don't care what the circumstances are, you let events play out, WITHOUT getting involved. This matter is now closed Wayne, and I will not speak of it again. But you must show better judgement in the future.."
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"That will be enough Lord Stripetail of the Wizzins, because he completed his part of the trail it doesn't mean you can yell him down like a child that outsmarted a adult." they both turn to see a few different type of beings standing there some look like Stripetail's kind the others of different races.
"I am Lemex of Alpha Thator and these are the council of Minsters, we all from different parts of the universe and choose to break from our ways and all found our way to our own new home, that was the families before us. The Thunder Dragons came to us see we was different and more open minded then most. So they asked us to obverse the trail that they comenced." Lemex said to Stripetail, Nova and Wayne.
"Each had their own to pass and Wayne was just lucky to pass his goals which we will not disclose and nor will he." Lemex stared right at Stripetail. "As old as you are... your just a child to this universe. do not let your pain of being not the first to complete your trail ruin the friendship you have with the Dragon Lord"
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"He disrupted my test, and prevented me from completimg it!. I don't care that he completed it first, he should have had the decorum to stay out of my test sand let me finish it! He acted, as you said, like a child..." Stripetail said his eyes flashing. 'i have every right to dress him down, because he showed a profound disrepect to those dragons testing me , and also, in his own way to me. He did not let me finish it on my own, but revealed everything, like a student that just completed a test with flying colors going back into the classrtoom and boasting about it while others are still taking the test. the penalty for that will be automatic failure of that test he just completed, and likely a trip to the headmaster's office.' Stripetail continued. Will the students still taking the test appreciate the disruption? NO! they will not, likewise I have every right to be angry with my friend here."
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"Then be anger with Nova, Eva and all those others that was in the trail they are all part of the trail and had their own goals and each as you past" Lemex told Stripetail calmly everyone in the cafe turn and quietly listened to this unfolding before them.
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They did not disrupt my trial though' Stripetail replied "So I have no reason to be angry with them. Wayne is the only one with whom I am displeased. I am right on this, Lemex, and you cannot convice me otherwise.
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the Wizzin is correct" came a voice behind him. A Large dragon stood there and Wayne felt a rush of fear. This was Ourste, the Dragon Lord of Punishment. His job was to disclipine those Dragon Lords who had broken the rules. The more severe the rulebreaking, the harsher the punishment. "Wayne Para, come with Me! Our superiors have a few things to say to you" He commanded.
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(Ok I guess I have to work at another angle if I can think of one...)
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(I cannot accept that Wayne. )."You will not interfere with the judgement of the Head Dragon Lord" Ourstre said coldly. "We have adjudged that Wayne was in error, you do not interfere with the examination. The Wizzin had nothing to do with our decision."Chains appeared around Wayne's wrist, and Oustre looked at Stripetail."If you wish you can come..."
Stripetail looked at Wayne, and though he was upset with Wayne, he was still one of his cloest friends. "I will come, and go easy with him, he has a clean record."
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(Wayne will be given a slap on the wrist since it is the first time he has done anything wrong, as a compromise...and Stripetail will come to his defense... :) )
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(at the mo I am not sure where to go with it.)
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(Just follow my lead)
Oustre led Wayne and Stripetail through dimensions, finally stopping in front of an enormous palace. the palace was made up of several colors of brick and stone. It was an imposing place , and it held a hint of terror. "Behold the Palace of the council. Here you will learn your fate. Wizzin you must enter through the door over there, We have seperate enterances for witnesses and the accused." Oustre said Formally. In the distance there was a large door, which Stripetail made his way to.
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"Since this is your first offense, you'll probably get a light sentence, such as a slight demotion in rank and power" Oustre said to Wayne as he hustled him down towards another doorway "It won't make much difference really , you;re already a low-ranking Dragon Lord, but if you continue to break the rules the punishments will get progressively harsher. We do take your personal situation into account, but once the Head Dragon Lord rules, his judgement is final and cannot be overturned." They walked through a dark corridor which held the smell of dust and of the ages, the ground was slippery, and well trodden, many past Dragon Lords had come this way, some for minor offenses, others for serious crimes. The chains on Wayne's claws were tight and felt very cold to the touch. Oustre noticed sweat starting to break out in beads on Wayne's forehead.
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The finally reached thier destination, which was a large high room filled with huge benches, which were filled about halfway with large Dragons each was larger than Wayne and they stared at him coldly. there was aa pair of smaller benches standing before the assembled body. This was where Wayne would be seated. The room was only liit by a number of torches , which cast strange shadows on the ceiling.
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"Please be seated" Said a dragon on the high bench. Some of them had taken out what looked to be notepads of some kind, some were paging though them, others were engaged in whispered conversation. This all stopped when the largest dragomn of all stood up. He was a terror to behold, a huge brown dragon with huge fangs, his head nearly brushed the ceiling, and his face was fierce, and steam constantly poured out of his mouth from the furnace within this was the Head Dragon Lord, the greatest of all the Dragon Lords, whose powers dwarfed the rest of them. He had been in that position fior ages, and showed no signs of slowing down. His word was law, and his very presence here meant that he considered the issue serious enough to attend, as he rarely attended these gatherings. A side corridor opened and Stripetail walked in slowly, accompanied by the guard. he took a seat a good distance from Wayne, and looked forward at the gathered dragons.
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Meanwhile, Wayne wasn't the only person about to get read the riot act. the Elders of the REd Dragons had summoned Blackstar concerning the bpotched test of Stripetail. The Red Dragons only held an examination once every millon years, and while this was not the first time a exam jhad to be abandoned, Wayne's appearance in the dimension hads great;y angered them, as did Blackstar's failure to stop the test upon discovering Wayne';s presence, and postponing the examination, until after kicking Wayne out.
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(then I am still at a lose... I am not sure what to say and what to put up... look like it going to a dead stop again... sorry)
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(i was hoping for something from Wayne in the chgamber. Look, no mortals can harm the elder Dragon Lords, and the elder Red Dragons are hidden away, their location known only to a very small few, as it is, the cannot be harmed by ordinary crestures either)
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"Wayne Para" one of the Dragons gathered said, standing up as he spoke to him. "You have been brought here to answer for your actions concerning the Red Dragon's test of Lord Stripetail."he gestured and an orb appeared nothing more was said as the orb proceeded to show Wayne during his time in the illusionary dimension. Not one word that he said was omitted, and after the orb had gone dark with the last image, there was a noted increase in the cold stares Wayne was recieving.
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"You don't understand how big a deal this is Para. If your name is even distantly remembered when the next trail comes along, you will have truly distinguished yourself. You distinguished yourself here alright, in the negative sense. Threatening war with the Red Dragons if you were punished? You have no such authority to do that, only the Dragon Lord elders do,and the Red Dragons had every right to be angry with you. Everything there was set up so that the Wizzin would be challenged in the second test, you disrupted all of that, with your interference. You have brought shame upon the name of Dragon Lord, Para! If you can't exrecise restraint and tolerance, then perhaps your powers should be taken away until you learn how to exercise restraint and tolerance." The Dragon said, there was numerous muttering in ancient tongues,which Wayne could not hear, but it was clear that his words had a good deal of support.
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"What does it take for it to be a accient which I had no contorl or understanding of this events taking place, I had no idea at the time it was a trail I believed it was some sort of event that happened some time ago, a new threat to everyone that live in our universe. I had no knownledge before I was told that this was such a trail" Wayne then continues
"It was a mistake... maybe a big one at that but we all make mistakes and we learn from that mistakes and not to make it again, everyone at my age would do such a fleet of mistakes that some with highest of experise would shame or even seriously punish thoses... but then how would those learn well from that mistake if you harshly attack them like this." Wayne continued.
"I know now it was all wrong of me and what I did back there, it might be too late but I would learn from it and try to make a mends to it, Stripetail is my best friend and the last thing I would do is to anger him in such a way. If I had a hint of this trail I would have never did what I did. But at the end it me on trail for this stupid mistake in the end... if you wish to stripe me of all my powers as a example of punishment in the harshed of ways then do it... but what if someone else here made this mistake in another trail that they do not know about? you going to do that to them as you did to me? I know your age and wisdom is high but see it in our eyes... how can the young grow without a mistake, no one is perfect not even you sir..." Wayne look down and close his eyes then look back at the Dragon.
"That is all I would like to say... might not mean much to many but this is what I had to say. might not be enough but I spoke my truth and whatever happen I will always be best friends with my trusting and truest friend Stripetail" Wayne finished what he was saying and gave a smile to Stripetail that even what happened before and now he never end a friendship with such a great person such as Stripetail
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(Very well said Wayne :) )
"No one here is perfect, of course. We've all made mistakes" The head Dragon lord said quietly. "We Dragon lords have to look at things through a non-mortal perspective, since many of us are not mortal and have seen a great deal. You are not the first to disrupt a Red Dragon trial, there have been a handful of people in the past who have done it. The puniushment for that was , until around 10 million years ago, execution, the Red Dragons took it that seriously. they still take it very seriously, of course. " He sighed.
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Stripetail spoke up. " You are a good friend Para, that has never been in dispute. However, this was a doozy of a mistake, because these trials happen so infrequently, and the red Dragons are so strict on who gets to attempt it. I was very young when the last trail happened, less than 100 years old in fact. I was the first Wizzin to even get the chance to attempt the trial in half a billion years, yes it has been that long. Even when the relations between the wizzin and Red Dragons were good, the Wizzin were not tested. I Know that you will not make this mistake again, and this has been a learning experience, although you will have had to learn things the hard way, your actions have warranted censure."
" Dragons of the Carrod Dunek, he said now speaking to the assembled body. "I ask you to show mercy to this young dragon lord, do not put down his mistake as a permanent marker against him. He has learned from this experience, and will not make the same mistake twice. "
The Assembled dragons looked at Stripetail, they all knew who he was, as many of them were also fellow members of the Council of immortals. There was a pause of several minutes, where several of the dRagon Lords went up thier cheif and whispered to him softly.
Finally the Head Dragon Lord stood up. "Wayne Para, I have made up my decision. You wil not have all of your powers taken away, this time. This was a grave mistake, but it did not cost anyone their lives, it only caused tremendous inconvience. There are less than 4000 Dragon Lords in the cosmos, to be precise 3930. Everyone of us is given a ranking, based on sheer power, stature and experience. You were ranked at 3210, entering today, a low ranking, overall, but a high one compared to other mortal Dragon Lords, I now demote you 100 ranks, and you will lose powers in accordance with your diminished stature and rank. I will also warn you, if you do anything close to this ever again, you will no longer be a Dragon Lord. We cannot have Dragon Lords consistently making large mistakes like this, sooner or later, such mistakes will begin to cost creatures thier lives. And we can't have that." the Head Dragon Lord finished. His real name was Dissinos, but that was known only to a few Dragon Lords and immortals with whom he was close.
he motioned to Oustre. "Unchain the Dragon Lord, and let him be on his way. The Council is over. Good day Stripetail..' he nooded to to the Wizard and vanished in a twinkling.
Oustre produced a key and unlocked the chains on Wayne's wrists, they fell off with a clang, and there was blood on the insides of them, they had cut into his wrists, the cold air in the room, whipped through the cuts, stinging, and causing water to come to Wayne's eyes. "only 100 ranks? you really got off easy for this one Wayne, I was expecting something like 300... You should be grateful that your friend spoke up on your behalf. Now get out..." He frowned and turned and walked away. The Chamber was now nearly empty as the last of the Dragon Lords vanished.
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A dragon that didn't leave wasn't in the ranks of the Dragon Lords hardly known she watched and lived in a secert order of the dragons and saw this friendship with wizzin and dragon lord. "As what was writen that is true, the trail was the friendship of dragon and wizzin. This was put to the test and now the task is done. It time to let the Red Dragons know the interferce plan had worked out more then expected and the process of Red Dragons and Wizzin talks may finally begin after so long" the female dragon start to walk away to one of the exits but stop looking back at Wayne.
"Someone called Eva is going to have a lucky escape of death, this Dragon Lord some how is going to save her. He some dragon..." she smiled "I think I like this dragon alot" she then left to give her full report to the Red Dragons that hired her to help in the Interferce Plan and to witiness the final stage of it.
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Wayne slowly got his strength and got up walking over to Stripetail almost falling but kept his balance "Thank you my friend... I will make this a personally strong note in my life that one mistake I will never let happen again." Wayne felt something that he only felt before when on the Dragon homeworld and look to the empty exit
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Stripetail too looked back, he caight a glipse of the female dragon as she was departing. There was a faint smile on her face, as if she was pleased with herself.. Then she was gone.
"I too have had mistakes that I truly regret, the worst cost the lives of my mate and unborn son. It took me decades to recover emotionally from my loss." Stripetail replied somberly. "If you ever make a mistake that costs lives, then this mistake will pale into insignificance Wayne. I do hope you never hsave to endure the loss of a loved one, as I did."
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"I believe I understand what your saying, should we head back?" Wayne asked as they start to leave the hall.
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the Female Dragon arrived in a meeting area when to meet a red dragon messenger. "Here is what your head dragon wanted and tell him it went all to plan and talks finally can begin with the wizzins" she handed the disk to the Red Dragon.
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"We are taking a great risk with this, If they ever find out we did this, there will be hell to pay. The Dragon Lords are very secretitive, and our relations with them are not the best. " The Messenger replied. "And they are about to get worse," said a voice behind them. In A twinkling they were surrounded by members of the Dragon lords, there were at least ten of them and all looked furious. "Dulcia, you will have a lot of explaining to do. " One of them said to the female dragon. You know recordings of our meetings are forbidden! Yet you recorded anyway." The two of them were stunned, they had not expected to be found out. "And you.. " he said turning to the Red Dragon. "Return to your master, our leader will be in touch with him shortly.
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"Sir, this was a risk. I know what could happen if found out. But this was all part of the real trail to the relations with the Wizzin and Red Dragons, they asked for my surfaces to see if the Lord Wizzin would aid and be by the side of his friend the Dragon Lord of Dinoton, they requrie the proof and this is the only way I can do it. I know it wrong in many ways but the relations with Wizzin and Red Dragons now have a very high chance of improving that they can no longer have distrust between them" Dulcia explained to the Dragon Lord that showed up.
"The trail that everyone thought was the real thing was all part of the main trail that just ended, they changed the trail to see if they can get the Wizzins to scceed and they have, the wizzins has past the trail. This evidence if stopped can put all this hard work to waste and wait another million years..." Dulcia continued till she was cut short by someone none of the three thought would come.
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"There is no need to bring it now, I seen and heard enough" the red dragon leader came out of the shadows. "I thank you Dulcia for taking this risk. Do not pain her for what I required from her services to do this trail. the Wizzin I am happy to say is past the real thing. We choice to change it cause every time we did the trail some how a Dragon Lord would be pulled in, this happened 10 times before and all lost their life. So this new phase of the trail was added when we heard that the wizzin and Dragon Lord this time around was great friends and see the test on how it hold and with the new rules sparing the dragon lord from death it aided it even more. Might cause some problems but manageable." Red Dragon Leader spoke to the Dragon Lord.
"In the end the trail I am happy to say... the Wizzin has passed with flying colours and talks we now begin with the Wizzins and our people" He finished and nod to the Red Dragon to leave and he does.
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"So be it" the Dragon Lords said. "You have your reasons.. that is enough for us.." They loked at Dulcia, and then vanished, leaving her the the dred Dragon cheiftain.
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Meanwhile Stripetail and Wayne returned from the cmeeting. Stripetail was secxretly hoping for a few days piece before the next issue requiring his involvement came up. As they reached Stripetail castle Stripetail saw Eva stabding in the doorway, looking unsure of herself. Her midsection had expanded slightly and Stripetail could think of only two possible reasons for it, she had either gained weight, or...
"I will talk to you later Wayne. I think you need to get back to Dinoton. The Minister and Cesha are probably waiting and wondering where you are.." stripetail said to him.
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Strripetail looked at his friend. "Go Wayne. I needto talk to Eva in private" He said clearlyHis voice appeared calm but beneath the exterior he was fuming. He certainly wasn't responsible for what Eva was going through someone else clearly was. There were only a tiny number og beings who could have pulled this off, without him knowing. He entered the castle and looked at his young protege. "Go in the study Eva, we need to talk.."He said.
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"Alright Stripetail" Eva replied going into the study to see why Stripetail wants her to go in there to talk with him.
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"Stripetail closed the door. "You've been keeping a secret from me, haven't you?" He motioned at eva's belly, which was expanding to accomdate the growing child within. "It is impressive, really, that you have been able to keep this secret from me for this long. You're pregnant Eva... aren't you?" his voice was sharp. "This could only have done by a strong immortal, otherwise I would have sensed it. Eva, I am too old, physically, to have children, nor do I have any desire for them. They would be an easy target for my enemies, and I have many of them. In my youth, I lost my mate and unborn son, we had already given him a name: Stripetail Treeflyer Jr, stripetus as a nickmane" He voice was harsh no more it was very soft and filled with emotion. "It took me decades Eva to recover from thier loss, and I am in no mood for history to repeat itself. Explain youself.. now "he said and looked at Eva.
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"Yes it ture..." Eva explains the turth to him and what she been holding back. (I hope this is ok)
"Thats all of it" Eva said to Stripetail.
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(More detail. Include Evalicators part, and the fact that the child was created through magical means)
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(that what the explained the turth part means. I just shorted it down.)
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Stripetail's eyes narrowed to slits. "After 10 years of training you Eva.. I thought I knew you..." He shook his head. "EVALICATOR!" He roared. In a twinkling the Dragoness was there , looking perplexed. "Stripetail what is the matter?'
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Save me the courtesy..." Stripetail snapped "Eva just told me something very interesting..' The color drained from Evalicator's face. "She told you then?"
"Yes and that you were the one who created the child. Oh,yes, You have a lot of explaining to do.." "Stripetail, I did it with pure intentions.."
"You and I both know what happens with "good intentions" horrible things happen as a result. I am forbidden by immortal law from having children now , as I am classed a 'pure' immortal. Pure immortals are only permitted to have children within thier first hundred years of life. I'm over a millon years old now Evalicator.'
"technically though, it isn't yours since I created it, You had no part in it." Evalicator replied. "I believe that you would make a great father Stripetail, and Eva here accepted the child. If the woman does not want the child in any way shape or form, the spell will not work. And yet it did. I cast a protective spell over the child, and the child has asborbed it. Its powers , even at an unborn state are incredible.
"Yet it will look like me and have my powers..." Stripetail said...grimacing..
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Stripetail you have nothing to worry about. You are one of the most powerful and respected immortals on the Council, accidents sometimes happen like this, the last time a halfing was created it was a mistake as well. "
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Do you really think the Council will buy that? you did this intentionally, you just admited it.. " Stripetauil replied, running his paws through his head fur.
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Stripetail sighed and turned to eva. "have you named it yet?' He asked getting hismind as much off of this uncomfortable fact as possible. "it deserves a name at least. "
"HE deserves a name. Its a boy" Evalicator corrected him. "He will be half mortal and half immortal, while he will live a very long time, he will not be immortal like you. He will have some of your powers, but without supervision he will be unable to control them. Halfings cannot control thier immortal powers on thier own, that is why the immortal parent must play a big role in thier training. That would be you.." Evalicator said. "The child will be born in a few months, a good deal after Eva leaves Sowarkard."
" I wil go tell the Council what I have done. i'm going to to get reamed for doing it, but it must be done..' Evalicator said.
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Eva looked to Stripetail "I haven't really came up with any names Stripetail. Maybe you could help me come up with a name for him" Eva said to him in a gentle tone as much as she could to Stripetail.
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Stripetail looked at his pupil then at her abdomen, where the bulge from the child within was visible. He sighed, and went over to a nearby bookshelf. He started comving through the sections...'Names.. baby names.. Magical protection for offspring. Training magical children.." he rattled off different titles, then finally took out a large book. "Magical Names, their history and significance"was its title."he sat down with the book in his lap. "Let's start finding a namr shall we?' He opened to the letter A.
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(Sorry for the long not reply I totally forgot about this one :blink: not sure how i forgot but I just saw you online and remembered this was here :lol )
Eva sat down beside him "Yes lets begin Stripetail. Maybe we will find one that will fit for him"
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(its alright) Lets resume it shall we?'
Stripetail turnede the pages Astor, Astril, azkadalus.. None of those caught his eye. None of the Bs, C's or Ds stood out either. The book was a huge tome, with more than 75000 names. He fliped his his name then flipped back. "Stripetail Jr is off the table.' He said.. "Unless you insist.."
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"I would think we should come up with a name that not used that much or never used before. A name that unqiue like him" Eva said to Stripetail thinking about what Stripetail been saying and the names he spoke out.
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"That is going to be difficult then. most of these names are well known.." Stripetail replied.The E's came and went. Ethanmi, Evan( a male version of eva) and Elliot, were considered and rejected. The F's passed in Similar fashion. "What about Galastor?' Came a voice from the doorway It was Tarrax, peering in.. "It is a dragon name, it means 'one who shines". I do not approve of what Lady Evalicator has done, yet since she has done it, it cannot be undone..You are too far along Miss Eva.." Tarrax had a gift for sensing things like this..
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"Yes it ture." Eva nods to him "I do like the name. It sounds very fitting, what do you think Stripetail?"
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'galastor is a rare name among dragons" Stripetail replied. "To name thier son that represets a belief that he will a dragon of note. " He turned to Eva. "Created by a dragoness, named by a dragon, son of a squirell. There is rich irony here... but Galastor will be his name" He said looking doan at the page in the book. the first name on the page. was Galastor... Its description read "one who shines" only given to dragons of noble blood, or who have great power and ability. Last dragion named Galastor was Galastor blueFlame, a nobleman on the dragon council DE 1245-1456." Irony indeed...
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That name has not been used for hundreds of years" Tarrax said. "I remember BlueFlame, he was a good decent dragon. he voted with me to agree to the armistance to end the Sixth Dragon War.
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"Sounds like he was a great Dragon Tarrax" Eva spoke hearing about what he did for Tarrax and for the Dragons in the Sixth Dragon War.
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Indeed he was" Tarrax replied. "He was a good dragon, as I said. The armistance was one of his last votes before the great Schism.. which I was framed for causing, and lead to my exile." Tarrax had been considered an outcast for a long time, it had only been a shiort time since he had been exonerated, and he did not talk about his exile very often. "The last Time I saw him was shortly before his death, He was very sick, but still had his trademark wit and sharp tongue. If you displeased him, he was not afraid to let you know it." tarrax replied. Now to the present.. your son is not to know of his true origins, nor is he to know of my master's existence. He is to be raised as a mortal child, if he knows of his true power before he is ready, the temptation for him to use it will be too much, and both he and anyone near him will suffer severely" Tarrax's voice made Eva shiver, and Stripetail raised his eyebrows.
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"I will do as you suggest and not tell of his ture power untill his ready" Eva said to Tarrax but she then said "What if when he about that age and I tell him and he takes it the wrong way?" Eva had brought up a very good point.
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'he very well may take it the wrong way, but there is nothing you can do about that. Needless worrying isn't good for your health" tarrax replied. "Just care for him and raise him as best you can.." He was fond of Eva, it had taken him awhile to get use to her company when she had first come in as Stripetail's pupil..but he had grown to enjoy her company..
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"Thank you for those kind words Tarrax I will do my best and raise him as best I possible can" Eva said witha smile feeling supported by Stripetail and Tarrax.
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Now, you need to get back to school" Stripetail said. You've missed almost half of your school year. You're way behind, and will have a lot of catching up to do. "
( Just an aside, but I've noticed that the story so far is one big contradiction .first Blackstar is evil, then he's not. There is a set of three tests for Stripetail to pass, the first two are intefered with and the 3rd is never started. Carron is suposed to be this great terrifying evil, I play into that by him capturing Wayne and tormenting him, and enslaving him, only to later find it was a big ruse. 33 pages in and we really haven't progressed the story much. If we do have a crossover story then carron will be the main villian as originally intended, fully evil, causing great damage wherever he goes.)
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(let's keep this thing going, shall we? It's been awhile since you replied threehorn..)
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"Yes that ture, I will work double time to catch up and I will make it" Eva said to Stripetail.
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You'd better" Stripetail warned. An uneasineass settled over him. Once this year was over, it would be likely a few years before he saw her again.. Years of course were a short time for an immortal like himself, but still it was difficut. He got up and turned away from Eva who was getting ready for the morning..
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"I better get ready" Eva nods to both and leave the study.
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( I had hoped for a longer reply :( )
Stripetail nodded and walked toward the bookshelf and started turning a book "Your test wil begin shortly, and it will take a long time. you will need all the strength you have, for it wil seperate you from theses world you have loved for so long. Many friends will perish, and this dimension will be forever altered. Great evil will be wrought by good hands, and only a doctor and a halfling will spare this cosmos from utter destruction..." A voice echoed in his head. At this his face grew somber..
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"It be strange returning back to the school after being gone for so long, but maybe what I expecrised will help me in great detail. But i will have to speed my learning up and study hard to catch up with all that I missed. I know and will do it and won't let Stripetail done" Eva said to herself as she gets her things together for school.
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Stripetail continued looking at the books forawhile but the voice did not return. He sensed that things are going to be very difficult in the near future. "I think I know who the halfling is, but who's the doctor? Not any doctor any i know, Or is it.. someonde calling himself the doctor.." He wondered softly. as he stared into the flames.. Tarrax sitting by his side.
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The Morning came and Stripetail entered the kitchen to find Eva making herself some toast and eggs. To be honest Stripetail had not slept well, as he had pondered the message he had been given... yet try as he could he could not crack the second part of the riddle..
"Good morning eva. I trust you are ready for your classes?' he said, trying to shake free of his morning stupor..
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"Yes I am Stripetail, I was up a little late catching up on what I missed. They quite alot of stuff but I think I can do it putting in more free time into it." Eva said finishing her breakfast then look to Stripetail pausing then saying "Last time I heard some song echoing through the hullway, it was peaceful and relaxing. It was strange but it helped me relax enough to constract on the work I had to catch up on." Eva said to him with a smile.
"I could make something for you since I am right here, if you like" Eva asked if Stripetail was hunger
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Well, you've made a good start then, but you've missed more than 80% of the school year, so youi still have a lot of ground to cover" stripetail replied. as for breakfast, sure I'll take some eggs and toast" He patted his student on the head, ruffling her fur slighty. "You'll have to go to the headmaster to get the ok to graduate unfortunately since you missed so mch time."
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"I understand Stripetail, I will do my very best to catch up with what I missed, I believe I could do it" Eva said to him finishing his breakfast and place it down on the table with hers sitting down. "I will talk to him before starting leasons again" Eva starts eating her dinner.
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A Earth ship orbits Earth 51 ready to transport supplys to Detla Ap Space Station suddenly a vortex bursts open and for a second something was detected by scans but then vanishes as the Vortex closed. "What the hell was that?" the captain asked
"No idea, whatever it is, it gone but scans said it was a wooden box" the officer said and showed the image they got.
"Weird... send this to command and set us back on course to the station, supplies are overdue as it is" the Captain said and the officer nods and the ship carries on course.
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The Vortex impression wave was felt by most creatues was magic experence. Eva felt it and stopped eating for a moment so did Stripetail "Did you?" she asked looking at him knowing she felt something odd.
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A rip in the Vortex? Yes I did." Stripetail said. " I don't know who or what Caused it yet, But I will, soon enough. " This was .. peculiar, was this connected with the vision he had had lastr night? If it was.. then the tenets of the prophecy were starting to come true...He frowned. "there is battle coming Eva, a battle where you must ppit yiourself against great evil. I have trained you in the ancient magics, and this will serve you well in the coming times. I however cannot get involved in this battle, for my presence has been requested elsewhere. Before I leave however, I will seal this world under a protective shield. Likewise Dragomalin will also seal itself away" he gave a look to Eva who looked very scared. "you will have to meet this challenge Eva, for alone among all non-immortal beings, you are strong enough to do it>'
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"I think I understand, but I would still have to attend to the school, I will be weary" Eva said to Stripetail seeing what he was saying and hope she had enough of the training to help through this battle yet to come.
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The school can only help you so much" Stripetail replied. "The school year ends in 6 weeks, of the 10 months of the school year, you've missed 8. not that it really matters, you've learned more in those 8 months than you would have, had you gone through the whole school year. that time will become invaluable.Let me show you what you will face. " Stripetail gestured in front of the fire and terrible visions appeared in the flames. "The tri-Foundation will be reduced to ruins, and its peoples will suffer the loss of more than 95% of its populations. The three planets will suffer for years under the merciless rule of a dark tyrant, whose powers are almost beyond description. those that do not flee before his invasion, will be faced with utter terror and mistreatment. Many of our friends there will be destroyed, or forced under his control, to be used as pawns for his delight and enjoyment. Yet there is one small hope against this coming terror. "He will fall before a doctor and a halfling." Stripetail gave her a sweeping glance. " I don't know who the "Doctor" is, but Galastor will be that halfling Eva, I am certain of it. you must protect him, and keep him safe until the time comes for me to meet and train him. I will be away for at least ten years, maybe eleven.If the enemy finds out who he is and what he is, before then,both you and he, will be in tremendous peril. and I will be unable to protect you then." Stripetail's eyes were narrowed."Go and study, with an eye on the future. the fate of many worlds will lie with you, and Galastor. It is an awesome burden, but one which I have trained you to carry.. I was shown these visions last night in my dreams, and told to show them to you. I don';t know who showed them to me, all I can tell is that it was a benevolent figure, an evil figure would not have done this...it would not be to their benefit.." Stripetail paused.
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Eva was about to say something when a odd sound starts to echo near them and wind starting to blow within the room and then Eva saw a Blue Box suddenly start to appear "Stripetail!" Eva points to the sudden appearing box which was fading and reappearing till it was solid and the light on top stopped flashing. "What... is it?"
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Stripetail paused as the box became clear. "It looks like one of those teleportation booths. You go in, state where you want to go and are teleported there. The Mythricans have something very similar to this.." As he said this the door open, and a tall, paleskinned man stepped out of the box. He was dressed in a a blue jacket, with red pants. But it was his eyes that caught Stripetail's attention. he could sense that this human had seen a great deal of things, such as no mortal could see.. "who are you?' He asked.
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(This should really wait until the crossover story imo. we're getting close to the end of ths story and I'd like to save the Doctor's enterance for the fresh story..)
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(sorry. I wasn't clear on when the Doctor should turn up, there wasn't really much said when and where he should appear.)
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It's alright. He will appear to Eva ten years from now. when Galastor is 10 years of age. the Doctor odf course is 'the doctor' of the prophecy)
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(Alright, so what do we do now? I am confused at this point :S)
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Just pretend the last few post about the Taurus never happened, and Eva is leaving fior school..)
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Eva finish up eating and leaves for school looking back at the castle wondering what might happen in 5 or 10 years from now then carries on walking heading to the school to catch up with so much back log of work but that something she'd always been able to do is someway catch up quickly enough to get through and she planned to do this working in little free time.
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'welcome back Miss Eva' the Headmaster said coming into view. "Follow me please' he lead her to his office, and bade her sit down.n "You've missed most of the school year. You will not be allowed to graduate if you are not caught up in 6 weeks, which is when the school year ends. " Donovan gestured anmnd a huge stack of papers scrolls and books appeared on the floor. and rose to over his head. "THIS is all that you have missed over the last few months. my dear, you are not going to be able to finish all this in 6 weeks. not even if you went without sleep. it is simply impossible without some sort of time altering, which is strictly forbidden." He sighed.
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Eva was about to speak when a knock on the door and it opening "Oh hello, sorry i over heard you speaking about this young student sir and thought I might help you" the man stepped in with hands in his pocket.
"Who?"
"Jon, Jon Smith, I am a sub working here for a short time and thought I might be able to help since I do have something" Jon Smith said straight to the point.
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I've never heard of you before" Donovan said skeptically. "How long, exactly, have you been here? Because I don't remember ever seeing you before just now.. and whom are you subing for and in what subject?" This caught Smith off guard. "If this is your first day, then that's different.."
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"Yes that right, first day. Sorry I just arrived from Earth, here is my ID Card" Smith raise a wallet up and opened it showing his ID to the Headmaster. "I have advance machices in Time Dimensional effect also a few different degrees on summing of Energy" Smith pulls out a little ball and it opens up with a dazing of light mutliply shiny speeks fly around then go back to the ball as it closed up. "Neat isn't it? I made this little Star Light dust to help does in Woods if lost, no power nothing, just float around making light in the darkest of the dark" Smith smirked with a grin.
"Oh and I have specialities in handling students that are way behind getting them back on track in about... hmm... 5 weeks" Jon Smith said as he put the ball and ID wallet away in his pocket.
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"the rules of time manipluation are very strict. time is something that is not supposede to be meddled with, because it affects everything." donovan said, giving Smith a look. "even if yiou are doing it for a positive purpose..'He sighed. as he loked at the huge pile of assorted books and papers. You're telling me that youi can get all this done in 5 weeks..If you do puull this off you'll be in high demand with the other students.." he said.
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"Really, I do like a challenge. the harder the challenge the better it is and the more scessful it will be" Smith said seeming very sure that this task was too easy. "I know... how about a bet? I give you my little one of a kind ball Star light dust if I lose and if I win, this program will run for ten years as a 8 week remainer course for those that very far behind." Smith oftered the deal.
"In a way you win both ways since one way or the other would be helping the students in different points, one keeping areas lit up after dark so students can get home safely and two if I win you get 10 years of my services in helping students very very far behind on their work and catch up in time." Smith said with hands behind his head as he sat down. "So would you like to take me up on that offer?"
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Very well them. although students here usually don't miss most of the school year. Eva , however has priivate studies with her mentor.. which could account for why she has missed so much time.." Donovan said. 'i will lay down a few rules. You may not overly extend time for them. A day is a day, 24 hours. they must do their own work. that goes without saying. "
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"Well that goes without saying, however a day will go by and the bubble that my little device I got back in my workshop can make it seem alot longer going by infact only a day went by" Smith said knowing alot about time and space. "Alternating the dimensions of space and time only by the slightest." Smith said with a warm smile
Smith gets up and then puts the ball on the table "Here keep it, I think you'll be needing this more then I do tonight, and trust me use it tonight and you will be glad" Smith then turn to Eva.
"Alright young miss come with me, we got work to do" before the headmaster could say anything he left then pops his head back through the door "Oh right I forgot to tell where it is, Block C, Mr Smith's workshop" Smith then goes.
Eva get up and look to the Headmaster "How am I suppose to keep up with him? he just full of energy, May I leave?"
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Donovan shrugged. "Go ahead..you've got studying to do.." he said, gesturing and creating a bag out of air and putting all the books papers and scrolls into it..' here you go" He said, thrusting the lot at Eva's feet. "Good luck studying.."
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Smith came back and looked "Oh that alot of stuff, well throw it all in this bag" Smith throws it to her and she looks at it as she caught it. "Trust me it will fit"
Eva started putting it all in the bag and to her surprise it didn't look poufed out or even heavy lifting it "How?"
"Oh a little science of my own, bigger on the inside" Smith grinned and then wave to himself "Well come on, lets get going"
"Alright" Eva nods and leave with Mr Smith. The Headmaster saw the bag it was alot smaller then all that he gave Eva but somehow it all fitted with no differculty.
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Donovan shook his head, as he returned to his work, and eva left the office.. "most likely some sort of technology.." Magicians like himself were wary when it came to technology..
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"Now Eva, I read up about you in the student records, you have a personally teacher named Stripetail right? Lord of this land, immortal?" Smith said as they walked down the corridor.
"Yes that corret Mr Smith" Eva replied "How come your helping me out?"
"Oh that" Jon turn to her "Well. I like helping those that in trouble, I can't help but accept such a unlikely sccessful challenge" Jon said with a grin on his face "And never say Impossible as well, nothing impossible just unlikely"
Eva smiled "If I didn't know any better you've does this before"
"Once... well that took about 8 weeks but I can narrow that by 3 without any trouble, once a go to improve and now we here" Jon stood in front of a door and opens it "Come in"
Eva walks in and sees scrolls, computers and all sorts of stuff that seem to be technology mixed with stuff from the school "Wow"
"Yep, and this is Donna my lovely co teacher" Jon said and a lady comes with a trolley of stuff and stops.
"Where have you been!? I had to stuff some kids from using firecraker magic on your workshop! Mr Smith!" she said with a untight tone then turn to Eva "You must be Eva, Do... Mr Smith been talking about the challenge of getting you finished in time for the end of the school year, just don't let him get carried away" Donna goes back to what she was doing.
"thanks for that..." Mr Smith rubbing the back of his neck a little then turn to Eva "Ah yes, this way" Smith leads Eva to another room with a device hanging from the ceiling and in the middle was a chair, table and text books with a electical touch pad board and laptop connected to it.
"Is this the place I be working in?" Eva looked around
"Yep for the next 5 weeks. Also with the feild, there is a kicthen over in that room and that the bathroom. or is restroom, not sure what you guys call it" Smith said to her still cheerful as ever
"Bathroom" Smith nods "I better get started" Eva goes up to the table and Smith goes to a leaver on the wall.
"Remember this will make you feel like it been 3 days within 14 hours since that the school study time you have here." Eva nods to what Smith said then he pulls the leaver done "Then lets get busy!" the door closes and Donna standing on the other side arms crossed
"I hope you know what your doing... I didn't come all this way to be stuck here for no reason for 10 stupid years. Even you slowed my aging done it not the point" Donna turns and go to a table and sits down taking a cup and drinking the contents "Lovely cup of tea" she sighed.
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"Mortality does have its drawbacks" said a statue "Yes I'm a talking statue. remember you're in a magical school, and a great and ancient one at that. I've seen countless students walk past me, intent on their daily routine. You two are different, as if you don't belong here. whatever your reasons for being here, they will be revealed soon enough I wager>" there was a crash as Donna dropped the cup of tea she was holding.
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"Well I heard of Statues having personallity in style but a talking rock? Now that something, but being with him doesn't suprise me to find stuff like this" Donna looked at the statue closely "So do you get cranks in your back being stone? Or your just stand there and talk about wagers? like a better?" Donna spoke with her arms crossed.
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"you're feisty" The Statue replied sagely. " I've seen much, and I know much. as for betting, I'm not a betting statue. there are those that like to gamble, but I'm not one of them."
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"Then way say Wager? hmm?" Donna said "Or are you just trying to be funny? cause it not working" Donna then spoke "My name Donna, and would you have a name or shoud I just call you Mr Talktive?"
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Its a figure of speech."The statue said, rolling his stone eyes I'm arnaven the Tall or at least a statue of him. Arnaven was the Head wizard here, many ages ago, and was one of the greatest wizards the school ever produced. which is saying something.. I was created in his honor.. "
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"So your saying your some sort of living echo of a legend?" Donna said to the Arnaven Statue
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If you wish to put it that way... I wouldn't expect someone of 'modern' persuasion to understand. magic today is considered passe.." Arnaven replied. "Humans are the worst in this regard. many of the ancient ..." he was cut off by another statue. 'Will you shut your yap Arnaven? Magic is never going to be again what it was when we were created.. accept it!" this statue was of a witch , Mirnae the Wise. She turned to Donna. 'He's blathered on like that for centuries. He's always held a high opinion of himself.. just because the wizard he emulates was one of the very best, dosen't give him grounds to be an insufferable oaf. We are sentinels, we watch over this place and the students and staff in it. Miss eva over there is someone we';ve watched very closely.. she's made me prioud on many an occasion."
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"I seen impossible things, if this magic goes back a fair bit, I am sure it will live in some way or form, things can't stand still, changes always happen" Donna said then look back at the door "One thing Mr Smith can do is help Eva through, he said 5 weeks and that all it will take. he never say it if it couldn't be done"
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'Change is the only constant.. yet it is also relative.We are unchanged, for the most part. We were created to last thousands upon thousands of years, with good upkeep.Mirnae replied. "So you you have seen impossible things, and lived? Interesting..." She gave donna a look then turned to Arnaven. "If he doesn't deliver, than you're stuuck here, and you don't want that.. do you.." Mirnae was very perceptive. Her namesame was considered to be a very wise and noble witch, who could read people and their feelings with a high degree of precision. those abilities had been placed in the statue as well..
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Donna smiled with arms crossed again "Oh he'll finish and do circles around the both of you. His done so many things that shouldn't be possible yet he makes them possible. So I believe he will do it" Donna said and turns away walking back to get another cup of tea "Talk to you later"
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This reply revealed a lot to mirnae. "Quietly confident. I respect that..' was all she said.
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"So Mr. Smith. how long exactly Have you been teaching? "Mirnae continued. She statue looked at him with a firm gaze...
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Alicia stuck her head inside the room. "Hi. I'm sorry for interrupting anything, but I have to ask Eva Something. Come on over here Eva!" Alicia waved her over, in her paw she held two envelopes.. both on which had the word "ball" written on them. there were ticket to twenth Year Ball, and Eva had never gone to one before, due to her adventures with Stripetail..