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"In this dimension magic has faded to almost nothing only trails of it last through time and space. but not enough to restore it to the stat it was once. We might be the last of the dragons but I live long." Bahumut then put his claw hand over Stripetail's head "see the time of Ice and see why magic would never reach it highest" Stripetail suddenly found himself in snow and with Bahumut standing next to him.

"We are viewing the last days of the magic once was. I and my scroll and books are all that left with my child" Bahumut then points at a Wizzin it was Stripetail's counter part

Humans with spears moving in from all directions as he was pin against the ice the primaly humans throw spears at him he use the magic he got left to push them back and run for it right through them both as the humans gave chase. then Bahumut points to a castle the Stripetail in this dimension was running to blazing out of control "the burning of all those books cause this to happen" Bahumut points to himself who was flying after Stripetail

"Forget the castle Wizzin Stripetail the books are lost and all inside are dead, those books are going to create a magical feed back that will wipe out all magical beings around or in it." Bahumut lands in the way "I being non-elemental as well as magical will survive it but you will not" Bahumut spoke to him "Please get into the teleportation circle and come with me to my temple my dragons are going to send me to the releam of light and dark to sleep, I can take you along this is foolish magic is losing all power here, it already gone from all the other planets the..." a spear hits him but breaks on impact his scales too tough to break through then he open his mouth with energy appearing then a massive blast of redish orange beam shots out vaporizing the humans and the beam hitting rocks blowing them up in a huge exploision. "magic left them this is the last strong hold of magic we have to sleep till the time is right when we can awake and have the strength to find a new home a releam that still hold magic"

"That was the term dimensions in this time and yes I did do that to those humans it was my mega flare. you see we was facing the point of magic being wiped clean off this dimension all it spells are gone part from mine. now watch and listen" Bahumut look down at Stripetail (these two who watching it unfold as it did)


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I cannot, I must try to save what I Can" Stripetail's counterpart said, his eyes flashing" Stripetail, watching this shook his head. "Are you mad?' he called out' before realizing that this was an echo of the past Bahumut and him were mere shadows, unable to intervene. He Watched as his counterpart reached the burning castle with the Neaderthals(if that is what they were) in hot pursuit. Stripetail sensed the buildup of magical power, it would blowup in only a few minutes...
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"Stripetail!! you fool it too late!" Bahumut roared "fine I have to save drag him then" taking off he flew to the castle but then there was a massive blast the castle instantly blow up into pieces with a magical shockwave reaching out. Bahumut lands and wrap his wings over himself and face his back to it with Stripetail running at it he gasp then the blue wave hits.

Stripetail and Bahumut watched the counter part cry in pain as his body was striped to nothing but vapors the body instantly destoryed in a painful manner as magic inside him ripped out Bahumut shielded himself as the wave past over he sprend out his wings and look out at the land, the castle no signs of it or the foundations it was totally destoryed and the Neaderthals laying there burned and cooked.

Bahumut picks up a staff that was burning he put the fire out and looked at it "Wizzin Stripetail you stupid fool... why didn't you listen to me... keeping alive would of been better at least the wizzin would still be alive..." Bahumut spoke looking at the burning grounds around him quickly dying out from the cold he made a teleportation symbol and step on it then vanishes.

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Stripetail walks towards the castle what was left the all the view changed in a flash Bahumut lets go and then turn his head to the sky "now you know the reasons why magic can never turly return, there will always believers but magic here is no longer able to be a echo... I and my child are the last of the strongest of magic. Earth and this dimension would damage that would cause this relam to fold in on itself, magic can never be a part of life." Bahumut spoke looking at Stripetail


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'on the contrary' Stripetail replied. His counterpart has cast afew spells before the catle had blown up, and he had seen a few white orbs float into the air before it had blown. "magic cannot return to its former state, but it can return in a weaker state. Weak magic is better than no magic at all." Stripetail paused. "My counterpart's staff, the one picked up, do you still have it? He asked.
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"yes... sealed in a unbreakable glass case, that Stripetail was a friend so I wanted to keep it in there as a memior of him. I only have the key to open it. Why do you ask?" Bahumut asked looknig at the wizzin.


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"i ask because I believe he managed to save a few of his books before the castle blew. The staff will reveal the last spell he cast with it .  "the spell is called"Finus Incantum" or Final spell." Stripetail explained. "i think he wanted to try and save what he could, believing that saving the history he had, even at the cost of his own existence, would be better than him surviving and losing everything. Irrational, but there msay be a meaning to his madness" Stripetail said.
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"Very well come with me" he walks up the steps with Stripetail they walk in and see Louise or now named Lurna by Bahumut standing at a libary of books where a stone wall had shifted to show the room. she looked simliar to Bahumut with the massive wings and body structure but had straighten horns not curved like Bahumut's and she was ruby colour then her fathers colour scales

"Lurna you can stop studying for now, like to join me and Lord Stripetail of another dimension into the Chamber of memiors?" Bahumut asked

She turned around walking up to them after putting the books away, Stripetail notice the book and it pages made of some stone he never seen before "Hello, I heard about you from a ex-wizzin friend of mine, I did hope to stay there but he told me to join my dad here. I am Louis... I mean Lurna, it kind of hard getting use to calling myself that now" Lurna smiled a little.


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"Incanur, yes he was the third-ranking member of the wizzin , Until I kicked him out for the crimes that got him sent to the colony.;" stripetail replied. taking her claw in his paw and shaking it. "You will not be the last of your kind Lurna" stripetail said. He smiled slightly as Lurna blushed. "Or did Incanur tell you that already?"
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"Yes he did" she spoke to Stripetail

Bahumut tap his claw fingers on the wall "well should we go? in only a short time he and Snowpaw will be here. about 15 minutes and I want to be in and out of the chamber before they get here, that place is for only my, my child and your eyes only." Bahumut spoke strickly seriously to them

"Yes dad" Lurna replied and they went up to a wall Bahumut then push two bricks in the wall moves in and to the side inside they walked to a glass box was seen in the middle with the staff in it and Stripetail saw images and voices all over the chamber. Bahumut took the key unlock it and took the staff out then took them out sealing the wall again.

"Do not speak of what you saw and heard in there. that chamber has very powerful magic. beyond any of you two can cope with and my child I don't want anything to happen to you" Bahumut spoke putting a claw hand under her snout.

"Yes father i understand" Lurna put her claw hand on his and then look at Stripetail "since I been here there been magic and understandings for my increase boast of energy it was my own ture dragon form trying to get to the surface it was some sort of mentalmphois that took place. but that chamber sees things that been to present to future it magical bounds are increaiblly powerful the sounds also cover the room that why we can't speak of it speaking would danger our own futrues"

"Indeed it would" Bahumut throw the staff to Stripetail and he catches it


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I see. I 'm very good at keeping secrets, so yiou need not fear on that account." Stripetail said, looking at the staff. "I have three questions involving this staff and three objectives. First, did he manage to save any books? the Final spell will reveal this. Second, did he tranfer any of his powers to this staff? And third, is it possinblre to revive him? While his body is gone, all I need to revive him is a posession of his, like the staff. It's more difficult than ewhen you have a body but it can be done.If it possible, then I will revive him in my own dimension, because reviving him here would cause incredible destruction. And we don;t want that. But for now, I will focus on the first two."
 Stripetail finished. "He intoned Finus Incantus" His paw glowed and sent magic into the staff. The staff glowed and sent out a beam of light which formed an image. They saw a figure of Stripetail's counterpart pointing the staff upward "Summan er Expellus" and saw a white light go into the burning castle and quickly shoot up white orbs of light which disappeared in the sky. then he gestured and the staff glowed. "my powers are nearly gone" The figure said, in a tired voice. "most of my remaining powers have either gone into that spell or into this staff. My time is over." his voice became weaker.. "may magic survive me..' the voice faded as the image was vaporized by the shockwave. the light faded, and the staff returned to normal."
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"Be careful wizzin' the voices in the chamber echoed. "Do not jeporadize your future, and those you love. Can you revive him? Yes, we sense great power in you. But do not let pride corrupt you as it did your counterpart. Magic may be revived here, but only as a pale echo of the past, even if you sucessfully revive your counterpart. He will never regain his powers, He will only be a shadow of his former self... Now go..." the voices faded
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"That stubborn fool... he should of never tried to save those books... if he came with me he could of easily wrote out what he knew of the history when awaken, might not be perfect but not a total lose! Life isn't worth losing for books! life is the grandest of all things such as my child... a section of humans in the tribe of Bahumut believed in my power and a wish was greated to have my child... I found out they all but gone but what they did for me will never be forgotten we will rebuild the tribe of Bahumut maybe not in this relam but in another. the chamber will remember them always." Bahumut spoke then look at Stripetail

"Think of life then spells if the worst happens. my fellow dragons did that they saw me as a life worth saving they lost all their magical books and spells in the blazes of choas in the time of ice. but they worked together knowing their hope of living on is near a end they saved me by causing the spell that sealed me in sleep in the relem of drak and light." Bahumut spoke to him

"Promise me this Wizzin never put your books higher value to your friends and family it will lead to one out come the out come that came to this dimension" Bahumut picks him up looking right into his eyes the serious look in Bahumut's brought a slight chill into Stripetail as he looked at Bahumut's eyes


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I understand... I tried something similar to my counterpart when I was younger, furtunately I used a different spell, the summoning spell, which allowed me to do two things: save the books and my hide. He should have used that spell. But when you are being chased by hordes of spear- wielding Neanderthals, you doon't have much time to consider what spells you cast." stripetail said in reply. "i will not place my books over my family, you have my word on that. Now I believe you are meeting Incanur and snowpaw in a few minutes? Then we'd best leave here."
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Bahumut lets him go and they leave the room the chamber closes up and a few minutes later they arrive "good to see you two used the correct spell, if you change the symbol by the slightest it could of ended you up in anywhere on the planet" Bahumut spoke to them

Lurna walked up beside him "Hi Incanur, what do you think of my nature form?" Incanur's mouth hung open a little and for a while there was sience Stripetail never saw this look on Incanur before and try not to laugh. Snowpaw then nudge him


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'"Urr...'Incanur said. trying to think of something to say A smirk crept onto Stripetail's face. "Tongue-tied, eh, brother? "
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snowpaw gave him a shove with her elbow.. "Oh.. you look nice.." He said finally. "So... this is South America isn't it? Brazil, or someplace like that?"
_ "It's hot and muggy that's for sure" Snowpaw said wiping sweat off her brow. 'I see you made it my lord.  How long have you been here?" "just arrived her a short while ago." stripetail said, keeping what he had seen secret.
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"Incanur what do you think of Lurna? that my new name, dad gave me it" she smiled

Bahumut looked at Snowpaw "it is always hot around here and rains alot as well... Snowpaw unless you have super strength don't try to pick that book off it shelf it heavyer then it looks and made of a rock that can not be destoryed part from my mega flare of course" Bahumut warns her as she was about to take one off the shelf "my child can just take them off the shelf and she is only turn adult in dragon age to my type of dragon"


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Snowpaw pulled away from the shelf "fascinating. Are these books from your dragon bretheren or from your human followers?' she asked.
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 "It's a nice name... what does it mean?' He asked, stratching his head.
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"The newer ones are over there the human followers kept history going when a statment of word that they was told life before history which is my saying. I tresure life greatly to history. I know that some feel history can't be lost but life is far important then it. But the other books are from before and slightly after the time of ice on this planet. from my dragon follower. I am the king of dragons but that statment seems to be a pastly efffert now since they all gone now, we the last dragons on this Earth" Bahumut spoke to Snowpaw then he look at Stripetail then at Snowpaw "what is this tourument in your dimension next year? I keep hearing in creatures open thoughts?"

"I think in a translation it mean Awaken to the moon and sun. or as dad world put it Dark and light since we seem to have a equal balance between it." Lurna said to Incanur


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'The Tri_Foundation tournament. It is the premire tournament in our dimension."Snowpaw said. 'Stripetail will be entering it , as well as Eva. Would Lurna like too enter?' she looked at Lurna.
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"If she likes, I would attend it as well, see who can deal with the strength and might of Bahumut the Dragon King." Bahumut said to them with a grin

"I should by then learn enough about it, I would like to enter and I am sure dad won't take it easy on me even I am his child" Lurna spoke

"Of course not, the only way you learn to strengthing yourself is to fight with the fight in touruments even your facing a relation you don't slip back cause you think they'll take it easy, plus I am sure this has rules in place that stop a blow from killing anyone." Bahumut said back then look at Stripetail "you've seen how desturtive my Mega flare is and it not even magical." Stripetail thought to the images that Bahumut showed of his past self the amount of power in that beam could cut through any magical defence.

"Mega flare. I almost forgot you was going to teach me today how to do one" Lurna spoke to Bahumut

"Yes I know I haven't forgot my child." Bahumut said back