A large dining room was now the scene, one stretching multiple meters around with many sitting. To one end sat Holly and to the other was Elise. Dewy stood at the front of the room with several others, blocking the doorway. Elise glanced around, candles lit and set in candelabras among others. Flows decorated the sides of the room, the walls white with painted blue waves. A chandelier sat above them with candles also present inside and burning.
Many chairs sat empty, a studio camera parked in the corner. Holly looked ahead to Elise, her head slightly cocked, “Well we have a short bit of time before I’m supposed to do some of this and that, shall we get through this?”
“Huh? Oh, right,” Elise replied looking to Holly now rather than around the room.
“So what would you like to know?”
“Everything. I’ve been brought into this like you said be it that I want to or not, you even said as we entered I needed to make a choice. I want to know what I’m going to be deciding about.”
“Hmm, very well. I’ll summarize the basics of what happened and leave the full history lesson for another time. It all begins on another world you see, a world known as Sillith. Sillith was a planet divided in half from the beginning. Due to some disaster millions, if not billions of years old, our planet was divided in half along the equator by a ring of fire. In the North you had my people and in the South their people. We would be known as the Lightonians, Masters of Light, and they- the Dharkanians, who were Lords of Darkness. Our power is deriven from a sort of life force from the Cosmos.
Over the years it has had many names including The Celestial River, The Gateway, even The Great Mother. It is the flow of all energies in this universe and grants life from its vast system, something that in a way unites all things while at other times dividing them. It is from this life force we gain our power to do things, like Medontei’s fire or my Light Energy control, even the ability to prolong our lives for as long as we would desire. I won’t go into the finer points of that yet.
Light gives life, with it we enriched our lands and prospered once we were able to take the power into our being. Our Hemisphere united as one under my Great Great Great Grandfather, becoming The Tribe. Eventually came a time of curiosity and we destroyed the Equator’s Fire, when we discovered the Dharkanians who had unified as well as The Hive. With their Darkness they could enrich the lands with finer minerals.”
“So you could literally draw a power into you and provide anything you needed? Interesting,” Elise murmured, looking to Holly curiously.
“Quite. While we prospered off the land they had prospered off Industrial Revolutionizing, mining their lands to near death. It wasn’t sustainable. When we made contact we tried to help them by restoring their land and opening up trade. After a few centuries we had technology the kind your world has only dreamed of, some of which we still have here but with all good things comes the Yang or rather bad things. My Great Great Great Grandfather was assassinated by The Hive’s leader, William Axis. That in turn sparked a war that would lead to the deaths of billions over the course of several tens of thousands of years.
It wasn’t until this world’s 18,000 B.C. give or take that there was a change. My father and I fought the Hive in what could have been the decisive battle; though in doing so we upset the balance of the Celestial River and split Time-Space. We found many worlds that day, including Earth. Naturally the fighting spread to those worlds as The Hive’s greed got the better of them and so we opted to protect those worlds.
One by one we closed them, our mages using their magic to undo the damage to Space-Time. Sadly the damage to Earth’s Space-Time was too great and we failed to close it in time. The Hive immediately found allies with the ruling class of beasts like Vampires and Lycan, even Drachen. We in turn founded an alliance with the humans, one we keep to this very day. Time went on and many battles occurred. Eventually our best Mages were able to design a relic that could make and break the Space-Time Rift, a Mirror.”
“A Mirror?”
“One that could suck out the Light Energy keeping the rift open. When together it maintained the barrier. When broken into pieces it closed it. After a fierce campaign of forcing The Hive back we had our win and broke the Mirror. Many Dharkanians were trapped on Sillith, a win as far as we’re concerned. At the cost of our Home World we saved many others, including our own people.”
“So what are these guys after now after all this time?” Elise questioned with her hands pressed to the table.
“To reunify the Mirror. Over the years our numbers dwindled off through various means. We helped the humans take back their planet and spread our power to aid them agriculturally. Realistically we’re pretty much not even legend at this point and few in number. Many had also given up their eternal life to live among the humans. As time went on, as I said, our numbers dropped. After the capture of a few individual Dharkanians we let our guard drop, thinking the worst was over. We of course maintained our alliances with the humans in secret and kept the most troublesome locked up or executed, couple of us even kept watch but for the most part that was it.
For the last few thousand years though it would seem they’ve been in the shadows planning. Recently they attacked our compound and freed many prisoners, and as you no doubt are aware have been recruiting for an army.”
“Yeah, I’m aware of that. So essentially these guys want to take over this world and bring their armies back, right?”
“Mhmm. What I’m set to do is alert the Prime Minister shortly and other operatives of The Tribe of the situation. If this comes down to it, the humans will need their many armies to unite to stop this threat.”
“Why do you need them involved? Can’t you guys handle it?”
“Elise, remember what Medontei said about the thirteen?” Alto murmured.
“Yeah, you mean they’re-”
“The Hive has been recruiting non-Dharkanians into their arms and granting them power. We have no idea what to expect as a result, especially considering we’ve identified five individuals at this point who are on par with even the strongest of our kind, if not leagues above, five capable of perhaps destroying an entire country with their mass reserves of power.”
“What?!” Elise spat out with a choke.
Holly nodded, “There could be more.”
“Who are these five?”
Holly closed her eyes, head lowered, “Audrey of the Red Water, a warrior capable of splitting herself into many forms. She has her title because her blood is strong, mixed with water which this planet has an abundance of, she could cause ungodly tsunamis and submerge your coasts completely.”
“No way-”
“Chino Amagai of the Undead. She has the appearance of a child with an army of the Undead big enough to oppose any army. Leon Sycamore, known as the apprentice of another on my list of five. His power is enough to perhaps rival even a nuclear blast. He’s believed to be the leader of their current operation. Another goes by the name of Shadow, someone we have no knowledge of but it is believed he is the brains behind The Hive’s latest activities, perhaps even the one who made contact with Clan Vulfax and the Stark Pack.”
“What the hell, how can you even fight guys like that?”
“With extreme luck and skill. Last on our list is perhaps the deadliest of all, a General by the name of Cortez. He alone is strong enough to take down an army of human soldiers with plenty of power to spare, easily the strongest Sillithian known to have ever lived. Those five are the reason why we need the humans because we simply don’t have the arms and strength that we need, even with our technology. We need an army of our own, which on that note, is what I’d like to talk to you about next.”
“Me?”
“I’ll cut straight to the chase Elise. Obviously I know you are from Vulfax, I’ve known this for a long time. I knew from the moment you checked out that defense book you were practicing so you could fight for Vulfax, except at the time you didn’t know the truth. Azala has been trying to get you killed for one specific reason.”
“Yeah cuz he thinks I’m your kid or whatever.”
“Well there’s more to it than just me bonding with you.”
“And what’s that?”
“The reason they probably began to believe that, beyond you visiting me all the time… it’s because I’m the one who brought you to the Clan of Vulfax.”467Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV7HAhPX7OJ
