" That pain is only temporary, Just calm your mind."
"Huh what?"
" Not what? But Who!"
"GOD?"
" Pfft hahaha No, but Boy, do I wish!"
"Then if This isn't Heaven... Damn, So it's hell?"
" What Nah' dude you are still alive."
" It is important that you understand That When Someone Gets a fatal wound and Loses Life. THEY DIE!!"
I looked at the Soft Faced Man Locked eyes and His expression told me nothing!
I looked down and Noticed I actually had a body.
Although I can't sense My cores, Nor Can My soul Feel the connections to my companions.
"I will be Kind and over look the Way you act, So Let me Explain Before you act Impetuous and Say things You may come to regret."
I took a long breath And calmed Down as The Rush in my head that was roaring just seconds ago was now Gone!
I looked at him And Finally saw Him In his true Figure.
A tall Man standing at An even seven Foot with pure Black hair and Eyes, His Skin Pale smooth, And his hair a Mystic Grey.
" Good, It was no accident you appeared here."
" Where is here sir,?"
I asked as I looked all over With Pure suprise.
The View was a white room But Aloofly Covered The White Rooms transparency was fading as the void behind it was visible.
" This is my ships Core Realm."
I Looked harder at Him than that void.
" As you can see this ship Is fading... as am I!"
he Shook his hand.
" This is all crumbling, And As a fail safe I asked This Living Being Called a Void Raven, to choose its Own peace."
" Okay?"
He Opened His Hand and a small black Screen floated in his palm.
Then the Explanation is as follows.
" My Name Is Cromwell Creator, Head of The Grand Gem Council.
Emporer of The Seven Mountains And Traverser of the null Field.
Found a new Species Called Void Ravens, They are a Species Of Ship That can be very Mysterious.
The Ending of their Life comes With a ritual Meant to Open the Door of Someone Who meets its requirements.
that Person is you although this was true, The ritual was unable to Summon the Companions making you feel disconnected.
This May Seem As a life after death and Will also fool your Enemies, But This is not the Case As you have not died.
The Ship Summoned you here before the brink of death and Blocked off all Links to the Surroundings.
The Companions as you call them are in limbo unable to return to the Soul space But Are not Dead.
The reason for this is Because The Solidified Soul Realm or... The Last Ritual caused by the Destruction of my Soul.
This Beast Has a gift for you, While I have a request of you?"
I mulled over His Words as I Felt a bit of relief to his words.
My companions are safe and I am alive!
I looked at him With serious eyes as I could Only imagine what was the situation. it pushed me to say something that even made me Shocked!
" and If I refuse?"
he Looked at the Sky and Sighed.
" That was also a small Fear of Mine. how ever I should have told you this from the beginning... You can Not deny the Ships Gift, While you can deny me the Favor."
he Looked me in the Eyes and Smiled.
" Should you overlook me I will not be Angered for this life of mine is over. Although I do ask that you atleast hear me Out. Especially since When you leave I will disappear, Aloofly I say this because Even when I am gone you will Remember me as ascendancy is given by this race."
I had a long thought before I said my peace.
" I will try my best to Fufill it but, If the intention is revenge It will be a long wait.
Now that doesn't mean I am Saying no, I just mean It has To be Within the Bounds Of A child. I am Only Five Technically speaking... "
His eyes Sparkled as He Spoke.
" No revenge, No editorial needs, And Definitely an Easy Task For A youngling of any species... Except Volga Minxes, they are not to be Mistaken for Gilmer thine's although they are Useless In comparison for You.
That Well of Knowledge is Going to be Lost, Unless You Want It.
In which Case My Request And Favor Is Accept My Core as A Spare."
"what?"
I was So Baffled About this But since it Sounds Easy Enough Why should I refuse.
Although I say that only one word came out and I was truly grateful, Yet Extremely Curious!
He gave me No chance as His Next Words Were Filled With Golden Stars.
My Body Pulsed as I though about the Facts.
" This may stress you out a bit But Think about this, You will have Five True Cores At Only The First Stage In Soul Cultivation.
The First Four may Have Ruined your Soul, But mine Shall Heal You some and Give you An Open Core. The Advantage to this is Once Your Meridians Gates Fully open. You Will be able to advance Five Cores At Once."
I Sunk in the Idea Of His And Felt So Many alarms Go Off in my Head...
Even Though I said That I Only had One Reply.
" Okay I Accept, On one Condition."
He Looked at me And Stroked his beard Slowly As I mulled over how to phrase My Condition.
"If You Intend Betrayal, Just remember that I have No secrets with Every intention of Helping you. So If you are lying Then You are only hurting yourself because I Don't mention Debts Before I claim My Dues. You are old Enough to Know a man Only Has his Word And Mine Is Worth its Truth. So I expect You To have No secrets Either."
He Looked at me And Nodded.
" Then I will Be Clear, My Intent Is to Kill You and Take That Body Of Yours."
I looked at him With serious problems showing on my Face Before my heart That Felt Grey Made the Taste in my mouth Fade Away.
" Then That Is The Only Way?"
He Stood By his Chair As He Sighed Long enough To make Me Feel sick.
" No, I'm not going to Do That, But I have Secrets That cannot Be Revealed Child. Where can We Compromise in our journey?"
I Looked at him As Emotions and Expressions Kept changing On Him and Me.
" You Want To Live Right?"
He Looked at me in shock As Even I felt the Shock From The Words!?
" Yeah, Hahaha. That Is the Issue."
That Made me Feel Displeasure but Not in part For Me...
" Do It."
I smiled at him As I Could Only Give Up The Argument.
" Okay, Kid No regrets!"
Light Flashed Over Both Of Us As My Consciousness Waned I heard His Laugh Before The Weightless feeling Snapped.
I landed On the Ground All Three of my Pets Snapped Into My Cores As I felt Two New Cores Crystalize at such a high Speed My Organs Had No Time To React.
Everything From the Smallest of my Muscle In the Smallest Part of My Body Leaving No spot Free of The Energies.
The New Core Black In Color Was In my Forehead As The Pulse Connected to My soul The Original Pink Core Made an unreal Sound.
The Second New One Was Silver Mixed With My purple Soul Stream.
I felt My Meridians were Burning As They Tried to Cope With the Flush Of Every variation of energy.
The Impurities in my Body Began To force its way Out.
Blood And Gore shot Everywhere.
the Core Pushed In and Out, As The Energies Rippled over me. The Core pushed into my right Arm forcing my Flow to react It followed as my Energies Became slightly tame.
The Core Apeared Through my Skin On my Wrist, It was Just Above Where Mist Would sit.
I looked at it only Feeling Confidence as I Passed The Hell out!
I was On my Knees, Hopefully The Slight Fall Wouldn't Cause Any pain.
I don't Know how long It was that I was completely knocked Out , but I do know one thing.
I Awoke To being pecked By a Beautiful little purple and silver Puff ball With a Beek!
I snatched orbit Up Holding Him tight Noticing An odd feeling as My Vision was a bit split!?
I looked at my Wrist and Mist Was Wrapped around my wrist Resting Silently.
I Looked all around Me Searching For Terra But was unable To find Him?
I Spun around on my butt cheeks Hoping he was Near Me.
Nothing I stood or so I thought.
From the Weakness in my legs I was Not Standing Up More like Laying Straight Up.
I had Landed on my face Once again As I felt a bit out of Body I was looking at my self From above!?
I rolled over and looked up Only to see a small Black Sleek Capsule.
It had Two Eyes in Pure Grey my Vision flicked as It Warbled and It's Eyes Changed Into a Dull White.
I was Now looking through Terra Spinning Like a Top As he bored through the ground.
A few meters from me Beside a tree He Pushed through the Ground Ejecting himself Up He Landed With The perfect Grace of a Bull!
Smashing back down to The Soil With a mouth full of Shimmers It had Roots still attached to the Small Dull Green Crystal's.
He proudly walked over to me as My Dizziness was barely Fading.
That was a Sick Way to dig.
He Sat Down and Began Crunching On the Crystal's as I could Only Feel Pure relief.
My Body On the Other hand Felt Pure Fire!
I Stood And Recalled My Companions.
They all Seemed reluctant to return to their Soul Realms But That recovered quickly as They Immediately exclaimed over the Changes and Connections they now felt.
I looked at the Sleek Black Pod Above me With Large pure Black Eyes. They Seemed to contain a true Void. I Put my hand Up to It and Got a Nice little Boop From its Nose.
I felt it's Intangible force Solidify in my head as It chose to store its Own Body The core in my Head Ringing as the Scenery shifted and My sight became Whole.
My Dizziness and Fatigue Hit me hard.
I looked at the Pods I Saw at one point.
Out of the Eight only Five of them had a Glow two Were Dull Filled with blood. I can guarantee that they are Gone.
I checked twice and Both Times they were indeed Not able to have Lived.
It was Rather sad Even If they were The Ones who betrayed me...
I Steeled my resolve as I Pushed open the Pods Door, I looked at the Boy Who had the Wolves. I grimaced as I had a dark theory I pushed my hand Into his Chest...
It took me a Bit, after a few Pukes later, I had found what I was looking For. Yep, that was Two Small grey Gems.
I walked to the Next one and Found A shock This Person, It was the Girl With The Freaky Monkeys.
I gore around inside her Also, They Both had Large wounds Although I had to Push through sharp Broken Bones and Organs I found A red Crystal By her heart.
My gut Sank when I thought about My Gem locations...
This was maybe a bit to Dark, I Grunted as I used a Rock Hitting her over and over. It Made me cry Not Because of my actions.
But because Of how Close I was To being one of them, A cold Lifeless Body!
My frustration Staggered Me as The Contents of her head Slowly Registered in my Head.
I Puked Once More Before Calling myself a Wimp.
I gripped Her Brain matter And Shifted around Finding the Second Gem.
I Am now officially Holding Four Gems... I dont Know their use Nor do I wish my theory Correct
I put the Gems In My pocket Noticing my hands.
Again My heart Sank!
I had been using the Damn Hands On my body But had Not realized All of the RINGS GONE!
I Gripped My Body And My pockets were empty also.
I Flicked My Shoes Off Grabbing my leg as I fall the Roll was Graceful as my hand was On my sock!
it was Still Folded Into my sock.
The clothes were a Set So Underpants and Socks Were included and I Put one of the Spares In my sock the One ring With that Weird Cage. I guess my suspicion was correct as I put Two weapons a months worth of food for The Companions, For me and The Thing I Thought I would Need like a Tent.
It was still in my sock But Everything else was Gone.
I looked over at the Lack Lust Looking Silver Pod.
I walked over to it as air forced it Opened For me I felt the breeze as I Climbed In.
What Ever this Thing is I Hope That It can help me Fully Heal Because I am Not making it out of Here otherwise.
The Brink Of Death problem is No joke, Just because I have the adrenaline to force myself To do what needs to be Done. Even I have a limite And I have Vastly Pushed It As Climbing In was Hell For me.
The Pod Closed Completely, I felt my Cores Hum as The Pulse Connected To My soul.
When they Said It was a paradise That was Not Standing Up to the name. My Body Felt The Hum As My Mind And Cores Synced To that Hum.
I Lost All Cognitive abilities but was awfully aware.
The Gem In my forehead Connected last as It Enveloped The Entire Experience in a New Feeling.
My Mind Slowly Linked To a Database that forced Me to Learn Even Though I Didn't want the information The Ship That Was nameless Was Very Happy To Take Anything given.
I Lost Consciousness as The Little Voice in my Head Was Screaming at me.
I felt Like passing out was all I could manage To Do At this Point.
I am In severe pain and Am Suprised I have lasted this Long.
Although When can I Expect peace!?