Board Thread:Short Stories and Fanfictions/@comment-66.205.130.226-20191230231245/@comment-66.205.130.226-20200101015930

Chapter two

'''"Are you ready?" Oralie asked, her hand reached out.'''

Sophie nervously took it.

'''"Yes." Sophie responded,"So how do we open it?"'''

'''"Just hold my hand and close your eyes and I will do the rest." Oralie said.'''

'''Sophie hesitated, she still didn't trust Oralie, maybe she was going to do some Empath thing that would make Sophie not hate her. But Sophie needed answers and she needed them now, so she closed her eyes.'''

'''For a second all was silent, and then it happened. Sophie felt like she was suddenly being forced into a mind, and when she got into the mind, instead of a barrage of memories and thoughts to distract her, there was nothing. Sophie knew exactly where to go. When she reached her destination in this silent mind, a small memory, she new exactly how to open it, there were no defenses.'''

So this is what it's like inside a cache, Sophie thought.

Yes, Oralie said.

But I thought I would go into your mind, Sophie said.

It would be more efficient if we saw the memory at once, and I want my privacy.

Sophie felt disappointed, but she decided she should get into the memory.

'''As she zoomed into the memory, the world began to take shape. Sophie was in a room somewhere. Eternalia, she realized. The huge windows showed the massive city, but it looked.. younger. Despite that she could see that something was wrong with the city.'''

'''"What will we do about him?" Someone said behind her. Oralie turned around. In front of her were the councilors. Most of them were ones Sophie knew but a few of them were ones she had never seen before.'''

'''The man who asked the question was Kenric. Instead of the smiley and happy man Sophie used to know this Kenric was filled with worry.'''

'''"I don't know, Kenric." A councilor who Sophie didn't recognize said," I have no idea."'''

'''"Well what do we know about him?" Another councillor yelled.'''

'''"Yeah, I don't even know what is going on." Councillor Clarret yelled.'''

"How about Councillor Oralie explains," Councilor Bront drawled,"After all she is the most familiar with the concept of Stellar Line."

'''All the councillors turned to look at Oralie. Oralie looked at Bronte, he nodded. Awkwardly Oralie cleared her throat and began talking.'''

"Stellarlune," Oralie began," Is an old myth, not an important one but some people still remember it. Sometimes my mother would tell me the story. As the story goes, a long, long time ago, when elves had only just begun to build civilizations, there was once a small city called Stellarlune. It was named after the star that the inhabitants worshiped. They had a temple and every day they would offer sacrifices to the star, and they believed that if they did not sacrifice to the star then the star would curse them. Now it is said that eventually the inhabitants stopped giving sacrifices and so the star cursed them, taking away their special abilities. Other Elvin community shunned them considering them less than them. So the Stellarlune inhabitants left the Elvin lands and started their own civilization, and it is believed that the descendants of the Stellarlune inhabitants became humans."

"This is interesting," one councilor interrupted,"but how does this relate to our dilemma."

"I am getting there," Oralie said," As I was saying, although this was as simple myth, my mother was very interested in the concept of Stellarlune and she shared many of her theories with me. As you all know my mother was an accomplished Flasher who strived to be one of the few flashers to manipulated the prime sources. She was very interested in different types of starlight, particularly ones with exotic uses like Stellarlune. She believed that Elves actually got their special abilities from different types of stars and that Stellarlune rather than give, was actually able to take away, sort of a anti star. Of course if Stellarlune does exist, then it is to far to detect. But if it is real, and someone did discover it and they were a flasher, it is possible that they would be able to manipulate Stellarlunes light into stealing people's abilities.”

'''The room was silent, no one knew what to say about it. Finally someone spoke up.'''

“So you are saying,” A councillor began,”Is that in theory there is an insane person running around Eternalia who is able to suck out people’s abilities and is currently rampaging across the city.”

“Y-yes.” Oralie answered.

“So how do we fight him?”

“I don’t know.” Oralie said.

“Well, we are supposed to be the most powerful elves,” Councillor Emery said,”maybe we can fight him.”

“That does not seem smart at all.” Bronte countered.

“Well I see no other way to defeat him.” Councillor Emery said,” all in favor of fighting the flasher raise your hand.”

Quietly the entire council raised their hands, save Kenric, Bronte, Oralie, and a short black haired elf.

“it is official, we must fight.” Emery announced,” light leap now.”

“W-wait, now?”Oralie asked.

“Yes, now.”

Nervously Oralie pulled out her crystal.

“Now!”

'''When Oralie reappeared, she was in a warzone. The buildings were destroyed, and there were bodies everywhere. Sophie was amazed that this kind of destruction had ever happened at Eternalia. At the center of all the destruction, there was him. Although he looked normal, light brownish hair and a young face, surrounding him was pure, raw power and energy. Sophie could almost feel the heat, even though she wasn’t the one experiencing everything. The man was lifted off the ground and he seemed to be laughing.'''

“Stand back Oralie,” Bronte instructed,”you are the least equipped for fighting, this man is very unstable.”

Although Sophie couldn’t tell what Oralie was feeling she could tell Oralie was glad to stand back.

'''All the other councillors prepared themselves, and then they charged. '''

'''It only took the man a few seconds to defeat them. Some of them he just struck at and they were defeated, others he seemed to suck something from. Sophie realised he was sucking out their abilities. Soon the only councillor standing was Oralie. Of course the man didn’t notice she was standing, he was just laughing and giggling at the destruction. As Oralie worriedly looked at the destruction, Sophie knew Oralie knew exactly what she had to do. Oralie quietly picked up a broken piece of crystal. And then she broke into a run. Despite all the power that the man had, he still wasn’t quick enough to notice a blond haired elf running straight at him before it was too late. At the last minuet Oralie leapt at the man and sent the crystal shard right into his heart. Suddenly all the light, all the power, disappeared. Oralie sat there, next to the glassy eyed body as most of the councillors got up. Many of them tested to see if they had their abilities back. They did. '''

'''Finally someone walked over to Oralie. '''

“Are you alright?” Kenric asked her.

Oralie tearfully looked up at him.

“I-I killed him!” She sobbed.

“Oh dear.” Bronte said,”We need to get her wiped.”

Kenric picked up the sobbing Oralie, and light leaped away with Bronte.

When they got back, Oralie was injected with a sedative, and the last thing she heard before she drifted off to sleep was, Bronte saying,”We need to destroy all traces of Stellarlune.”



'''When Sophie came out of the memory she and Oralie gasped, they looked at each other, surprised and terrified. And then they both passed out.'''