When Hezago told Eathan and Elenora about the existential decay, they reacted just as expected. “What?!” and “How did we not know about this earlier!?”and“How long do we have?!” What he did not expect was them to dutifully set to work on helping him find a solution, cutting time out of their schedules (and their dates) to help.
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Hezago sat there, as Escalene, watching the two do some more research on the decay. Eathan looked studiously through a hologram’s display, muttering something underneath his breath before speaking. “So our universes, how close are they to each other?” He asked, looking through the screen at Hezago. He thought for a moment, a hologram materialising before him. It displayed three circles, one of which, massive compared to the others, was in the centre.
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This was the ‘testing universe’, as Hezago called it, and he called it so because of how desolate it was. There was a single star, or Th-Pat Auoriana (pronounced Velnd-Lndneyi Auoroiana) and it was the only source of light in the entire thing, and there was a single planet, having life but in a painfully still manner, orbiting around it. This planet was Terra, yes, but older. It was as if it was stuck when the planet still had the pangea continent landmass, the life on it’s surface acted… still. Far too still. On that planet, there was no such thing as wind, no such thought as animals, and no such experience as movement.
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It was as if the planet was only meant to be a model of Terra, a source code of sorts to draw from. Hezago had left the system be, as upon observation of the two smaller universes surrounding this desolate one, it was as if they orbited it. Like the star was so important that it was the centre of (what remained) of the omiverse itself. The other universes, their own and the one Zack and Hezago made, Pmaojh. Pmaojh was the most colourful of the universes, as, for some odd reason, it decided to make itself stars, planets, and all you would need for a thrivingly beautiful universe.
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And then there was theirs. A little colour dappled in the middle, but there was this ring of grey, the outer decimation ring, as Eathan called it, and it was the cause of the ever-nearing end of their universe, and the cause of death for the universes- and even omiverses- it had already taken.
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You see, the outer decimation ring was like decay envisioned. Everything that entered it would start dying, the billion years lifespan of a planet shortened to that of a squirrel. The only things that, upon Hezago’s investigation, that could actually withstand this decay was a Borealis, or anything with the blessing of a Borealis.
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Eathan then spoke. “Are you sure you couldn’t like puppeteer everybody into Pmaojh’s universe?” Hezago responded, tired in manner. “Mind controlling that many people won’t be easy, and even then, how would they make it past the outer decimation ring?” Eathan nodded, understanding. “True, true, that does make sense, if only we could bypass the ring, or even get rid of it entirely…” “We could remove the ring-” Eathan and Elenora looked up at him hopefully- “But that would involve me messing with the code of our universe and things could get really messy.” They looked back to their work, slightly disappointed.
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Elenora spoke, running her hands through her hair. “What confuses me is that Pmaojh’s and Th-Pat Auororiana’s universes don’t have an outer decimation ring, even though, according to what you’ve told us, it’s enabled by default…” She then picked up a book, which was titled ‘Every single damn spell that has ever existed from oldest to youngest because I keep forgetting what they are as of 1742,; Vol 1’ By Arvagador Borealis, one of his predecessors. She flipped the volume over, muttering to herself the back of the book.
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“From Aurora Portalis to Gratelargo, this book lists and describes the castings of every spell one could ever need in every situation possible…” She paused, rereading. “From Aurora Portalis to Gratelargo… That’s it!” Eathan and Hezago turned to her, her voice shattering the relative silence. “What’s it?” Hezago asked. “Aurora Portalis! The portal spell!”
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. . .
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Hezago stood in the Borearcis’s cab, chugging through space. There was a hologram floating next to him as he frantically pulled levers and pressed buttons, a call between Elenora, and Eathan and him. The train had just exited the sound barrier, and was now heading towards the contracting end of the universe at an eighth the speed of sound.
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Hezago turned a lever to his right counter-clockwise, pulling it down likewise, which, upon doing so, more than quadrupled the train’s speed to half the speed of light, sending it flying across the universe. The sentient, when looking up at their sky as the Borearcis zoomed by, all they’d see was a streak of gold, followed by an implacable sound of a train chugging insanely fast.
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With a swerve of direction, Hezago had the train enter the place where the ring proved thinnest, and chugged through it likewise. Surrounding Hezago, the the reason for such a name stood. Planets torn apart, crumbling to dust before his eyes, lifeless in nature. Wind blew, source from who knows where, sending the dust of the decay of it all everywhere.
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The train chugged speedily through the decimation, a shining gold engine against a backdrop of grey, unaffected by it all. It reached the edge, a still pane of black, before going through with a ploop, not unlike that of a pebble falling through the water.
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Hezago, still on call with the others, found himself in the ‘space between universes’, a void of black that consumed all light, and the binding between existences themselves.
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But that was not what Hezago was here for, he had different things on his mind. The train zoomed forward, a trail of smoke left behind, and then arrived at what would soon be called Centralis. Hezago stood for a moment, staring at Th-Put Auororiana as the Borearcis came to a halt before speaking.
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“Okay, I’m here, and-” He peered into the darkness of space, “It seems like this place’ll be big enough for both our worlds and Pmojh’s as well. I see no lack of space for both.” Eathan spoke through the speaker, Hezago restarting the train as he did so. “Okay, that’s good, now all we have to test is whether Aurora Portalis can really save us all.”
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. . .
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Hezago stood on the surface of Pmaojh, his train in space, as he adored the cherry blossom trees that stood ahead. ‘The Forest of the Secular North’, he called it, as it was the only large group of trees in the western hemisphere this far north. He walked over to a nearby lake, rippling peacefully as ducks drank from its water and swans swam upon its surface.
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He stared at his reflection on the surface of the water, Escalene looking back. When Eathan and Elenora had called him saying they were on the verge of discovery, he quickly left one of the councils ‘diplomatic’ parties (meaning they tried to get the land of another kingdom by attempting to ‘entice’ their ruler’s heir), which left him doing this in a blue skirt dress, his sleeves being ballon ones and wearing ron ron heels, pink bows topping those and (attempting) to compliment the hem of his dress.
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Hezago snapped back to life when a baby duckling bumped into his leg, being last on a line of it’s siblings. It stumbled a little, but with Hezago picked it up and set it upright, letting it go home with the rest of its family.
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Ah, yes, family.
Something Hezago didn't have.
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Anyway, watching the animals head to wherever they slept, he returned to the lake, and held a hand over it. “Edinereo.” A chain shot out with the force to send someone flying from Alaska to Singapore, yet the only visible effect it had was a slight ripple on the surface of the water. The chain itself was humongous, each link large as a dressing cabinet, and heavier than the pentagon.
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Hezago caught it as it fell, and slung it over as he took off. He bounded into the sky, faster than an F-15, before coming to a halt at the rear end of his beloved Borearcis. He attached it to the train’s coupling, which held onto the thing like a mother to her child, before turning to the rest of Pmaojh’s universe. Hezago took a breath, raised his hand, and once again, facing Pmaojh’s star, said “Edinero.”
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A conglomerate of chains, not at all unlike a hydra, came flying at him, all of which came to a freezing halt next to him, except that of Pmaojh’s star, the other chain that he had to attach personally. He coupled it to the end of the Borearcis along with Pmaojh’s chain, but used magic for the quintillion or so others from celestial objects that the Pmaojh’s universe chose to auto generate.
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Hezago looked at the crazy coupling with concern, and gave the same look toward outer space, but decided the chaos that’d come of it he’d deal with later.
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Stepping into his cab, he gave Elenora and Eathan updates on the coupling. “Dang,” Elenora said, “Are you sure your train can pull all that?” “I think so? But, like, if anything goes wrong, I can just pull it all myself, so it shouldn't really matter much.” “If you insist. But let’s see if the portal will be able to actually take it all. “Mkay, then.”
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Hezago quickly cast Aurora Portalis, the portal swirling to massive proportions to receive what stood before it. Hezago climbed into his cab, started the train, and received screeching, like no other. It was the sort of thing you heard when a child throws a temper tantrum, but worse, to the power of sixty four squared, adding on top a mother screaming at their child to shut up.
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So basically, it did notsound good.
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“For Melbourne’s sake, Hezago, what is that sound!?“ Ethan said, and rightfully so. “The train- it’s not used to pulling this much weight-” “Well make it stop!” “I’m trying, give me a moment!” And to be honest, he was. He was pulling levers frantically left and right, all in the name of getting the locomotive moving, but the engine would always respond with its screechy “I’m trying.”
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“Ohh, what is the problem with you!?” Hezago said, slamming his hands on the control panel. Steam was now gushing like mad out of the train’s funnel, and that was not helping anybody. He pressed a button of indigo, which displayed the engine levels, all of which were high, except for energy, which was, according to the display, as high as magically possible. Hezago read this, now sweating profusely, even though he was in space. “As high as magically possible, huh? Well then be higher!” He said, slamming his fists against the control panel again, hair now in a frenzy. He brushed said hair out of the way, thinking. “Wait a minute- my hair!”
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His hair, as he came to realise, was the most magically useful thing there was. Though the magical passing of his mother’s lengths to him meant he couldn’t cut it the standard way, there was nothing stopping him from plucking it out, one by one, painfully so, if the necessity was there.
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And, well, the necessity was presenting itself like a person in a time magazine. Scrunching up his eyes, Hezago grabbed a single strand of the hair on his head, and yanked it out. Gasping from how much effort he had to put into that, and how much it hurt, he exited the train’s cabin, the locomotive still screeching like nails on a chalkboard. The funnel was spewing charcoal black smoke, but that was not anything that could stop Hezago from floating up to the place and forcing in the strand of hair.
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Once the engine processed the magic the hair possessed, the screeching stopped immediately. In fact, the train started chugging on its own accord! That may have been because Hezago had the thing set at forward, but we’ll ignore that. Teleporting himself into the moving locomotive’s cabin, he magicked up a chair an sat himself down, breathing heavily.
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“Oh thank Melbourne you were able to fix that, It was driving me mad!” Eathan said, through the hologram. “You’re… phew, Welcome.” Hezago replied, for the first time, very much exhausted.
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While all that was happening, the train was chugging closer and closer to the portal, and instead of the normal water-like plop that would occur, it chose right then and there to make the sound of a gong, which mightily pissed off Hezago. He stood up, heels and all, and stuck his head out of the cab, and screamed; “Do me a favor andshut the FUCK UP!” The portal widened, almost as if offended, letting its passerby’s through in its offence, the Pmaojh universe, stars, planets, moons, and all, made entrance to Centralis.
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Hezago realised this when the Pmaojh universe’s contents forced themselves off the Borearcis, and settled themselves in their own erratically nonsensical orbits. Hezago, still breathing heavily, spoke through the holographic call. “It works, Aurora Portalis works.” Cheering erupted from Eathan and Elenora’s side of the call, joyous in tone. Hezago once again sat himself down, letting his tiredness consume him. He still had to reveal the magic society, rework the orbits Pmaojh’s former inhabitants just chose, and attend Zack’s soccer game, along with a bunch of government work he had to do.
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But now was not the time to think about that. Aurora portalis worked; and that discovery alone was worth celebration.
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Hi! Welcome to the Borealis's list of fun facts!
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Did you know?
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The presence of the outer decimation ring was the reason the Solar Universe collapsed! It was only applicable to alternate universes, primary ones remaining without such, with the only primary universes at that point being Centralis and Pmaojh. This was such for all existence until Sol found a way to control and remove it without causing mass destruction.
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Death, so geniusly avoided!
