It took us days to come here, but we arrived safe and sound.
Later at noon we had dinner with the Queen mother.
She was thrilled to hear about the stories of our adventure.
Now it was necessary for Flyorian to have a new Aldaan which Fly was not really keen to have, so the discussion at the table wasn't what we all expected.
I had to break the tension between them, so I started to talk about the gift they gave us. she asked, now very intrigued, "Yes, they gave it to us as gratitude for bringing their daughter and helping them keep old traditions".
The queen mother stands up all of a sudden and rushes around the table , coming towards me while Fly stands before me with his arms spread wide " Mother !" he says ".. i am not going to harm her i am just enthusiastic, so overprotective you are !" she says, chuckling.
"Oh.. Fly don't worry your mother just tries to bond with me " i say interpreting the situation"
I pass my hand through his wide spreaded arms and she then say " pleas daughter of the sun, take me to that gift, it may be the next clue to your destiny before you two head towards Darkar" i show her the way , i had hidden it in my closet, i missed myself an Aldaan to , i miss Piapa so much.
But now I did my hair all by myself , simply and in a dot, just like I used to do it.
I wasn't for those brushing and complications.
Fly on the other hand would laugh so hard each time he saw me, because of the flaws i would imply into my dressing.
He would try to help me with some of my dressing tires, but I wouldn't want to have anything else other than the unique dressing of Piapa.
We entered the room that i used right at the beginning of the time i came here, the bed , the closet with its very unique design and high tech that will open just by my presence.
little has changed after a month, just that it always looks clean, it's hard to have dust in the air palace, sinds it is air.
I went under the bed I slept on, I tried to take out the present that was given to me and to my surprise it resisted.
The queen mother asked " what is it ? " I then respond that the object takes time for some reason to get out of the bed.
she ordered one of the servants to get a light, then hands it over to me " here , try it with this see if there is no creature under the bed" i look at her very unsure if i really wanted that, Fly then instead takes the light and then goes under the bed takes out with force he takes it out, "this object sure is flesh and blood as i must say " he chuckles " Let me go !" it says "..FIONNA??! " I yell, surprised.
An intruder that include herself into one of the bags as an object, but how she was standing next to Piapa when they left her.
"..how did you pass a bag into the dimension gate?" he asked, quite affected " she..must have hidden , or recognized with that outfit as a princess normally we get informed before your arrival..how did you come here?" ask the queen.
Fionna loses herself from Fly his tender grip and she went and sat on the bed, explaining us how she hid and ran away from home , after one hour of explanation she says"..and so that's how i did it " we understood her position immediately, she had lost the chance to become a queen of the moon, but since there is already one queen taking over and she is the red sun queen, who is hiding now and is still alive, she remains princess.
So when she saw us arrive with a lot of confidence she really had the drive to also venture into the unknown, she hid from her father because he would be against it.
"..so what now Fionna? We will have a problem if we don't bring you back.." says Fly.
Ocean holds her hand in front of her mouth pondering " ..so you're saying when you hid in that bag there was nothing else? " I asked to make sure, she then remembers "oh yes ! You mean this small artifact , it looked so cute just like the sun" i handed out my hand to her she looks at my hand as if she got offended.'' Excuse me ?" She says , i kept a straight face , dominant , just as my grand nanny showed me.
" Excuse us princess, this small gift you have in your hand was supposed to be handed over to us.
" But I like this small sun artifact … " she pouts while holding on to it , a side we rarely would see of her.
I still persistently asked her to hand it over to me, she then finally placed it in my hands and all of a sudden I felt a strange energy floating through my arm and going to my back. It's like energy circulating trying to find a connection.
"I feel so strange.." was the last words that came out of my mouth before I blacked out.
three hours passed and I slowly woke up. At my side I saw a worried mother, a more dressed Fionna and Fly at my legs planting his face while holding my hands.
Then I realized that I did not have the artifact in my hands any more, " ..w..what happened? How did I get here? " I am very disoriented," .. You don't remember?" ask Fionna, very stunned.
Nobody wanted to speak and say what really was ongoing, " ..i don't remember" i confessed after a long staring game.
The way they stared was as if they were afraid, Fionna was standing against the wall near the entrance of the room, she fidgelled with her manches and Fly decided to explain vividly what he had seen.
" .. we...saw…" he takes a deep inhale before any word and then continues " ...we saw you glow.." and that was the end of the story, somehow seeing me glow was the end of everything and why they started to become so careful around me.
"..ok...and how? ``I then further asked because he started with a very interesting topic, me glowing means so many things, either i am gorgeous or I actually glowed.
" ..so it means that you found something that made you do that.." he says and all i did was nod in disbelief, how could i glow with something in my hands i had three hours ago.
I make an attempt to get out of bed and try to search for it by scanning the room. Fly notices it and immediately asks me to go back to bed . I am still weak.
" Daughter of the sun we do not want you to get sick, i can't speak for all shians but we Lyors don't often get sick and we don't have any remedies that suits your body yet, so please take as much rest as you can, we will make sure to tell you more about the artifact, after it.
For it concerns Princess Fionna, she will give us the information she holds , isn't it ? '' Fionna nods.
I go by what they say and let them believe I went back to sleep, a minute later after they exit my room, i start investigating my room searching for more information in my book about this planet.
I said the following words again " mot, nnem, nnem, mot ,une, bet", like i always do and it opened this time after a few attempts, only this time it was easier.
I felt engaged with the book like it was another person, a close relative of mine, we started to speak and I spoke about the object and described it.
It listened and then showed me an image of the same, the history behind the object had a story that was shared with only me that day.
I knew now what this staff was for and why that artifact was given to me, I finally could place my first log inside the Darkashia sacred book.
"Hear me ancestors of Zinga , i am asking you to now and then take me to the right path because i will follow your lead, i am now a child and one day when i grow to be an adult i wish to find him and become Mohangu again.." the book replies " and so you promised child" and closest.
Ocean turns around to tell the news about the artifact and what to do with them and wants to head out to her friends, but then sees Fiona at the entrance who had probably seen a little of what she was doing " Hey butterfly, i found out about the artifact..care to hear me out?" she said.
I don't act surprised because she is kind of known now to find out things no one knows about. " me too.." i said but it made her very intrigued " You mean thanks to that book? What's it called?" she asked out of a curious place.
"Shians have no right to know, just like you don't let me know what you saw when i was awakened, you guys treated that just like a cold or something." I said I was very disappointed, staring at my feets, not that she would know what a cold could be.
I realized that I still had some resentment towards the robbing of my life, but who can I blame? us ? the universe, the planet? maybe God or this Eüos they kept talking about it.
I pass by her not even wanting to exchange further conversations, being mad takes energy I have to spare, so she decides to follow me to where I go and I found the lab I always went to assuming Fly would be there.
After that long hall of silence where she just followed me and me just ignoring her all the way I decided to enter the long door that was at least taller than all of us.
Entering the science room, nobody other than Sycromono was there , " who is there" sounds his voice as an echo in the air , he recognizes me and greets me more properly , Fionna resembles Piapa in a certain way " oh ! I see you are back .. Piapa? You aren't-" I break his curiosity by asking about the artifact that was brought here for examination assuming that would be the place sycromono would be.
" .. aha you mean the sun staff? It is right here , I am collecting data at the moment to understand what it did to you, uh, daughter of the sun ? where are you?..Oh no...no, no don't touch it I did not have enough evidence for it to be under-" at the moment he finish his sentence I take the staff and the same feeling coming over and this time I say the words " mot.. nnem..nnem...mot…" growling of the pain my vision blurry until white " bet!!" I say and a flood of energy spreads over the entire palace, everyone could feel it , Fionna and Sycromono unconscious and I could hear the guards coming my way. I flew out the large window door , and got into the open air , luckily they had a big garden.
Fly found me with the clouds circling as a tornado around me, rushing towards me while the guards were trying to hold him, leaving his mother behind.
He saw me, his eyes also became white and he floated above the ground, not controlling his body any longer following the circle flow.
I was controlling him, for some reason I could feel him in my conscious , talking to me , now I understood Fionna regained her conscious , she stood up running towards the open window , she stands there and gets mesmerized, attracted by the circle, slowly she joins me, her wings spreading uncontrollably.
Now both of them are making a hoop around me.
I feel them in my mind and their hearts vibrate at the same time I let a heartbeat.
The experience we were having, i don't think a human being could ever master this in decades, I am one with them , in their presence I feel that we aren't what we suppose to be at our higher potential, words came to my ears " I am la arh guardian of this body the son of air " and the other also coming saying " I am the daughter of nature , guardian of her body" it said and I then ask what the guardians name was, it did not respond, " we can link for now , i must observe you, though one day thy know my name" and just like that we became a union, a community of our own. linked with one another , another flood of energy baptizing throughout the ground and air swirling in circles around us.
It felt amazing , that powerful thing living inside of me, the light was growing and this was just the beginning.
When it was completed the energy took away slowly and we also came down , slowly and carefully until we felt the ground on our skin as if someone put us down with care and love.
We are now one embodiment and my pain is theirs , my sorrows are theirs and all of what I am, we became a union of the sun.
We all came out of our consciousness and again all now this time in pods at sycromono's laboratory.
He was running tests on all of us. Of course the first that woke up was me , I already went through this , so I was at least one hour up before them.
I got out of the pod immediately after sycromono saw me , the room was very bright and white.
So bright that it was shining through me.
I was waiting for the others to wake up , but their recovery was not for today, so it seems, sycromono told me about what happened and it felt a reasonable memory , I could remember it this time but it didn't meant I was allowed to tell the secrets of what was in them until they themselves are awake and so that we could discuss this at court.
I think I found my magical wand and that was the most important thing to have at this moment.
Next step was to find all the other elements, but first the two that are already one of them need to wake up.
I have spent my days learning how to use my staff in a monitored environment, where nothing could break.
Over and over again, but the energy was different it was more one sided.
But it helped me fight in dangerous environment, the things I could do with them where amazing, I could fly and step on clouds, I could transform my staff into what I imagine , I could mold , create objects , I could make shians hallucinate and go blind for at least a few minutes for now and each day the hour increased.
I learned how to be in control of my element and not be controlled by it.
Eventually one month later Fly joined combat with his heirloom.
Our lives totally changed , we were glad to reunite and we decided to even go to the next limit as going to open air where we could spar.
I would spar everyday with him.
We became the closest ever and I noticed how he has looked at me from time to time.
Eventually two months passed and Fionna was still in the pod. I started to worry , I hoped she didn't give up on life.
We went to visit her everyday talking to her because it could help her regain conscious , " getting her out of the loop I have been in seems not to be the same for everyone " says Fly , he knew it very well because he had told me about the conversation he had with a young spirit that lives inside of him, of course they played together for a month until Fly remembered he had been to long in the loop.
" … she needs to realize that this is the world she lives in to get out.." I say as if it was easy for myself sind's I'm the only one that doesn't like talking about my loop. I just considered it to be a dream but shians , don't dream , no they call it a parallel world where they go to solve problems within themselves.
Another day passes after that small visit we had yesterday I started to worry about Fionna's recovery, maybe she got harmed in the process.
The Queen mother came to my room that very morning after and talked about a possibility for her.
I sat straight instantly and she sat on my bed.
" ..Daughter of the sun, it could have been that my son woke up earlier because he is in this environment." She said I asked her to develop and so she said "..which means you have to go back with the pod to the environment of the princess and let her wake up between her environment.." she realized that it was the only way for Fionna to wake up, then I brought up a point " but I woke up here I am totally not from all of this at all..." then Queen mother shows me a clip she made during my recovery.
" The sun heals me?" It was indeed a surprise for me , the way I was healed.
" Yes , your dark complexion has what we call sunlight sensors , or mahalin " I wonder if that meant melanin skin? "we made you go outside because we figured it out by test we run on you, but sind's we don't know much of how leavers function with their body, nobody actually can know , they are a specie that has not a shian DNA , even tho we call them shians and sinds they also live in the mid-air , I was wondering where she should be and the answer was between her environment of course, what do you think we take that trip together? I need to see my old friend anyway and return his daughter home , another one.." she rolled eyes and chuckled.
During the experience in those months a lot happened, when I woke up first , there was each individualistic issue in us we had to solve , but we realized during those moments we weren't any different.
In the moment we felt it and next thing we knew we were in for another long sleep because of the shock we've experienced, although we do not know yet what causes this relapse.
I slept for one month in that pod outside whenever it's sunny and other times whenever a robot imitated the sun. I got monitored by scientists and taken care of.
My body got its nutrients by an IV that they inserted inside my veins, i just guessed that they started to figure my human body out, that way I could not starve from hunger and dehydration.
The moment I opened my eyes, the reflex that came with the shock of waking up in the pod, I touched everything I could, my eyes struggling to see and watching from left to right.
All were wavy ,blurry images and too many painful lights.
Eventually I came back to my senses and scanned the room. I slowly got out with one foot of the pod and followed with the other.
Sycromono waited for me till I woke up, he said that no matter what it was important for him to let me be awake first because I was another species.
He must have been very worried to say that.
Eventually another month has passed.
In that white room full of test subjects and transparent bottles with liquids that looked so thick as blood.
They were all sorts of colors that I could not register in my mind, the way this world is and the shians that live in it, are extraordinary.
They feel deeper , their meanings are deeper and there every move is the depth inside of them.
I found myself contemplating and looking at them each time I had the chance, observing them to understand them even more.
During that month Fionna and Flyorian didn't wake up and the clock was ticking, it was a matter of now , they took a lot longer than they should.
I had the luxury to get tested a lot and also learn the language, I didn't want to just understand it by my own powers.
I wanted to be able to speak the language with ease, without complicating it, figuring it will benefit me somehow.
The history of the Lyor language is that it is like the air, when people talk it's with a lot of poetic words and the feeling that is put in it.
it is soft spoken and gentle, it is a language of non-violence politics.
Through the language I learned surten history about Flyor and detected surten mysteries i wish to explore one day.
At least what I learned now was that ever since my coma my body is developing a sense of evolution to fit into this atmosphere, apparently I grow at a slower pace , they gave me the secret behind their long existence.
For a while I'll look like a child, but can you imagine as time will pass I'll be fifty years old or something?
Since then me and Sycromono started to go and figure out which age I would be amongst the shians.
I would be at least ninety years old. Time is a different story here on this planet and adapting first to the atmosphere could be a problem, but in science there is always a solution, as Sycromono would say.
My dream of becoming a mother is slowly fading.
As a child I always pictured myself as a successful person, who has her own family after her success. I would be a businesswoman in the south of Africa and trade the best fashion there was in the entire south african country. Maybe even further than that.
But when you are following in the footsteps, that it has not been for you but more with an prophetic universal rule, that has been chosen for you all along.
You have no choice but to go with those rules.
Somehow I believed that one day I'll be able to be free, just like my grandfather Offu did.
Anyway eventually I made peace with everything that surrounded me, the books that were made out of sheets , because trees over here didn't exist.
So you had to read on sheets made out of napkin texture.
I loved the scriptures and the stories that were written on it.
The way they explain about the beauty of their country and the serenity of the space they created for themselves, you also could see how proud they were about their continent.
Then one of those mornings at the lab, when the sun had not risen yet, I found a book on one of the bookshelves of the lab that felt so dark, it was made out of tabloids , with scripture carved inside.
It was a forgotten story and had an old language that I couldn't understand , but of course if I gave it time, I could read it within my abilities.
When I asked Sycromono about it he could not really answer , because he said he could not understand and that the only shians that could speak the oldest Lyor language which was back then known as the Liror language.
The difference was because it came out of a royal family clan decades ago they transformed the kingdom as Liror and it was then so spoken. Later on civilization changed and so did the Lyor royal family and brought the soft spoken language , after the split with their cousin, country Darkar.
In fact Darkar is a new country of the continent that split with their cousins, because of war between the Lyor and Liror family.
Out of evolution and their weather circumstances, the children became darker blue purple skinned and with black hair and their eyes as black or yellow coloured that they split because they could neither understand each other nor recognize each other.
But in this book it was written that they were in fact one and the only way to lift the curse from the angry weather and savage behavior of the Darkarian shians, as they are portrayed like that.
It was a very intriguing and compelling book, made me wonder if this was a hint to my next mission.
Eventually in between my excitement , I got interrupted by the sound of a pod getting open.
Flyorian has awakened and the worries started, in what state he would be? Will he be healthy or in a critical state?
I went slowly towards the hidden pod room, since mine and Fionna were next to each other I had seen the naked body of hers, but for some reason my curiosity got the best out of me and made me go look.
I've hidden behind the wall with my head sticking out behind the back of the scientist. The pod got open after he inserted his digit symbols and then flew bare handed. I've never seen it come out first.
He had beautiful hands for a child. He was slender but muscular. It looked like he did sports.
His body was beautiful and voluptuous and it made me blush by the amount of beautiful blue skin I saw, till a moment the parts I was most curious about.
His male parts, I did not know why but for me it was important at the time for some reason to know if they produce as human beings and I saw it , it was a bit different, but cute? I wonder if that's what you're supposed to think.
I took my head out and ran away giggling. What I did in their law was an assault while I was just a curious child and running away was the best option.
Because there was no way they would force me to become his princess, besides in my eyes there was no soul I was interested in back then, because I saw him naked and because the opportunity presented it to caress my curiosity, i hid and peeked and giggled , i felt at that moment like a child without responsibilities.
Growing up as a human being is not easy, you shift into all those hormones and all your body is asking is to know how to control them.
I ran towards the study room and waited there with one of their books in my hands.
It was about ten minutes later that Flyorian came fully dressed, in his red and velvet blue attire with golden handkerchief and his golden neck filled.
He always looked so royal. More than humans have ever looked.
I admired how beautiful he was and wondered why the skin of this continent was blue.
Why the male Lyors should be overly dressed and the females almost undressed.
It was very cold too but somehow for them there are such things as warmer days.
Although I never understood this , it really made me happy to see how things are so different from me.
Everyday seems like I never lost anyone , everyday was easy and slowly the memories of my grandmother faded and new memories emerged in my brain, thanks to those creatures.
I could understand how it is to be a part of them and they of me, I felt at home somehow in this world full of unknown.
He comes closer to greet me and I stand up blushing out of my seat. Yes I am very shy to do things he dramatically expresses sometimes , although his sky-blue eyes stare at me, I could freeze and be warmed up at the one glance he gives.
He sits on his knees while there is a chair.
" I never would've know I was part of you, moons has passed and I don't know what the day is of today, it's like a loop we were in and yet we cannot share this to another, I am glad I woke up now, I remarkably see how more beautiful you've become daughter of the sun, you look illuminated…" he says bowing his head.
Sycromono slowly stepped back with his hands in front of his mouth.
" Your highness!" He says in shock and I am lost of words not knowing what to answer.
" There is a wish I have ..and...and... although we are still young… the past few months we have bonded...connected…" he gets interrupted by a clicking sound and a word of the AI , the sound of a critical issue that has taken place , we forgot our mission.
" Oh dear beloved sky , can we never have a moment ?" Says sycromono with his hands upon his packed head.
" It seems not the case I see.." signs the Queen mother who enters the room.
It was Fionna , she was failing and we had to make sure she should wake up in her environment.
" I think that trip has to happen now, if we don't want to kill the daughter of Dièhos, his daughters are precious, everyone across the sky knows it, especially her" says the Queen mother.
" .. Sycromono, prepare everything and bring us all to the vessel, the orb .." , says Flyorian, if I had known back then, that there are options then I would never go on a trip inside a large dragon.
We all rushed to get her out of the environment, we ran across the halls and packed the small minimums we could get.
Fionna was in a state to go to dust, or so I was told , and if we don't act fast it will be the last we see of her , brain dead.
" ..she is about to fail us if we don't get an orb faster over here" says Fly , his mother the queen just snaps her fingers and mountains moves.
" You said?" She asks , showing off her quality , we now understand where it comes from.
The orb arrives and lands between us all, they let Fionna carefully inside, first before we all entered.
The sound of the orb was strangely expected , it had a very calm sound but slightly futuristic style.
At those moments I don't know how to be and how to react between this big field of clouds and a critical death.
All I could think about was how it was possible to be fooled all this time because we could've traveled this way all this time, of course empathy was a lack not that i did not have any, but when questions were in my mind i needed to solve it..
We finally entered , made me think of a combi that comes and picks up the sick that needs blood right away.
Only now it's a female Leaver that is about today because of me.
And with that said , the story escalated quickly into her having shocks on her body.
We drove in that weather that was so uncomfortable that it was embarrassing.
We were all afraid that this was the last hope we had. Slowly after an hour or so we slowly started to go down, it only took us two hours to arrive with an orb, an orb that imitates the fall of the rain, but all you felt was like a second of nothing.
slowly landing i see from outside the orb there where her people are awaiting her up and we see the chief is with them.
When the orb finally found positioning to land we placed Fionna's pod on the beautiful wet grass and the slightly muddy ground, it was a soft rainy day.
Her father worried, holding back his emotions, because as we know how royals and heads of their state are in control of the weather with them.
He places his hand on Fionna's pod and the pod opens it for her father, the chief.
He then gently caresses his daughter's flesh and kisses her on the forehead.
a sound of the monitor was heard " Stable" says the AI and we were all so happy to hear it, but she still did not open her eyes.
"What is happening, why is she still not awake?" Ask the queen mother and the chief dièhos looks at him too.
He explains that it could take another day or two for her to wake up and that we need to set out a camp to analyze her and to let her heal in her own environment.
so we set out camp and we had a big campfire where we held a victory party and a reunion between old friends.
I sat in a tree to see the view from upstairs. I wouldn't want to bother anyone with any of my questions , but they were only growing more and more by the day.
All of a sudden I heard a conversation that was meant to be private, I wasn't seen so i tried to stay still or maybe hide behind it and still here it out.
"..so you do remember the days that we were young of how smitten I was by your strong appearance ? " he asked , it was the kind and next to him a blushing queen mother.
" Oh diéhos, it was just a childish dream of the past and do you not already have so many female leavers to satisfy your needs? from all across the entire continent and beyond? aren't they enough ? " she says with such a bravoure posture a woman i envy , elegant , peaceful and intelligent responses.
"...you know we as Chief do not get to choose, it is the woman that accepts, it is an equal union between female and male…" he says smiling.
she then grins and rolls her eyes " Yet i am not meant to partake in a role where man is satisfied not by own power but by his organ, that's why i chose the father of the prince to be mine, we simply can't change the world just like that, it takes prophecies and time to bind minds with our perspective and to make it see the same.." he nodded and then reply " ..and we did not ? before former lunar queen, i only had her, even if other cousin tribes wanted to bind with me i refused, it is known to us that a Lunar queen has one chief and a red sun queen has sisters that is the chiefs wives, i do not chose this way , you could have been my lunar queen, you do know that right?" he said, placing his hand on her face.
she takes it politely away and walks with elegance away while staring back at him to ask him to follow.
I just witnessed old lovers from the past and my grandmother did not even exist.
It made me aware that there are no mixed shians on this planet, at least this is not what i saw daily ever since I appeared here.
I decided to get out of the tree and land safely on the ground, with the help of the sun staff.
Immediately on my return to the campfire I got disrupted by Sycromono, he nodded his head with a worried face , at least he always did look that way.
I followed him when he asked me to , to Fionna's pod and met the Lunar queen staring at the pod of her sister, she was glooming at the body and had short hair.
She changed a lot and her eyes gave light in the night.
"Piapa?" i said as a reflex and hold my mouth as she steps closer to me and takes it away, it was as if she was very swifting when walking as if she walked on clouds.
" My sister does seem ok from what i heard, i believe she will be awakened soon" she said and I then asked "how would you know we did not run a test yet for that " she smiles at me and steps backwards " what are you the only one with super powers? ". I laugh and ask again " but how do you know? " she told me about her and the moon, how it talks to her and how it tells her things.
In this state no one seems crazy, it seems all normal on this planet.
and eventually during our small exchange the pod opens and out of it comes a awakened Fionna Dièhos.
"Sister!" yells Piapa and holds her in her arms.
Assistants came from out of the corner and to me everything started to be so fast , it felt like an ER where the doctors always tell everyone to get out of the way, made me remember the day i went to the hospital and my grandmother crying , running when i went to an operation table.
Sad stories are always at critical times, but this time it wasn't about me but about my ellement, the one that is linked to me.
She had finally awakened.