Breath of Fire: Of Dragons and Fairies.

Chapter 2: Part 1: The Newbie

“A ray of hope, the truth of power. It sees through the darkness, but shadows reign...”

Kaiser stood up as his mother walked towards him, he looked at her and noticed he now came to about her elbow, and if he stood up straight, which he didn’t like to do, he came about to her shoulder. He had been kneeling next to a group of eggs, each one a little smaller than he was. When she got next to him Kaiser leaned up and butted her on the shoulder with the top of his head. He wasn’t worried about hurting her because even though she looked smooth and breakable, she actually wasn’t.
Kaiser had once tried to sneak up on her, he wasn’t as strong as Eldritch was but he was far faster. Her back was to him and he had jumped at her with all his strength, but at the last moment his mother held up her hand behind her and Kaiser ran straight into it. For a moment he thought he had somehow missed and ran chest first into the side of a mountain, it was then that Kaiser realized why Ladon never seemed overly worried about protecting her. After stopping Kaiser mid-jump she pinned him to the ground and tickled him till he couldn’t breathe.
Kaiser now bumped her in question to the eggs, for they were not his mothers. Kaiser’s mother had given birth many times after Kaiser and Eldritch were born, though it was never the same, for with each birth the children gained less and less of mothers genetic structure. These eggs had come from another female dragon, and technically she and Kaiser were brother and sister, though since they had not come from the same litter they were closer in blood relation to cousins, (Though most dragons still refer to Kaiser as their big or older brother). The dragon and her mate were both mature and full grown; the male was only slightly smaller than Ladon. Kaiser was older than them and all his “siblings” save Eldritch, who like him was still a whelp. Kaiser and Eldritch’s growth was slower only because their bodies were more complex and took longer to develop. Kaiser’s mother took his head in her hands and kissed him on the nose, she then laid a hand on the nearest egg and closed her eyes and smiled at the warm touch. Kaiser was still confused about a mother besides his own but he knew from her reaction that it was okay and in fact something very good.
Eldritch came out from the woods then and approached the group of eggs cautiously, and after he was next to mother he nudged her on the shoulder much the way Kaiser himself had just done. Their mother just put her hand on Eldritch’s head and then looked back at the eggs, this encouraged Eldritch to walk up to an egg and place his forehead on it. After a few seconds he looked up, whelped, and walked away with a smile on his face to where he had last seen Ladon. Kaiser contented himself to curl up next to one of the eggs and stare at the faint glow of heat and listen to the chorus of tiny heartbeats coming from the eggs. After some time Kaiser started to doze off and once again his mother took him into her lap and hummed to him. Right before he drifted to sleep he heard his mother make a series of sounds, he was confused by them for he had never heard a spoken word before, so he repeated the strange sounds back as he fell asleep: “I love you.”
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Nina was lost and nervous, she didn’t exactly know where she was and noone around seemed to care enough to stop and ask if she needed help. She would like to have claimed that she was a typical runaway princess… however in her case it was a little different. You see most of the time princesses have the simple common sense to run away and get captured by something not far from their castle, that way whoever comes to save them doesn’t have to spend an entire lifetime trying to find them… Not Nina though, she decided she would run away, well actually fly away, to the nearest space station and then proceed to travel to another planet.
Nina is a Wyndian princess, from the planet Wyndia of course, she stands at about 6 feet tall, her hair is short and straight though a few strands on the front of her hair long so that they fall over the front of her face and end in a little curl. She wears a long and beautifully striking, yet inexpensive, dress that is a specially made to have the strength to deflect axe blows by itself, and the last most defining feature on Nina are the two large beautifully white and fluffy (yet strong) wings protruding from her back. These wings are not for decoration however and are fully functional, allowing her to fly and glide. When the wings are brought to a full extension to her sides Nina’s wing span is about 20 feet long, 10 for each wing, but usually they remain curled up behind her and are about as long as she is tall.
I would like to report that there is some unusual and strange circumstance that brought our stray princess here but alas it is not so. Nina, like most princesses of her culture, had arranged marriages, and that wouldn’t have been so bad if the person you are arranged to marry is cute, fit, intelligent and good person, but no, she was going to marry the cliché whinny brat of a prince who’s too fat to make his own stupid sandwiches and too stupid to do anything besides eat sandwiches. Nina is the exact opposite of that; she is intelligent and very perceptive, she is very healthy and physically fit for she was actually captain of one of the Wyndian special forces. Nina excels in combined swordplay and spell casting, though she is good at the two separate of course, Unlike Fenraes the fairy, Nina does not naturally control magic but most rely on the use of spells (in the form of words) and her own force of will to subjugate the elements to do what she wants, this makes it very difficult, and very effective, to fight and cast at the same time.
Nina had planet jumped till she had got here, for she had heard of this planet as being a central of diverse people and work, so she had aimed to come here to blend in and find a job since she had no money that was of any worth here. She had wandered for a couple of hours looking for anything she might be good at but as of yet had been unable to find anything, she wasn’t nervous (yet) about finding a place to sleep since it was very early morning in the city where she had arrived, but mostly she was nervous about the many people and… things… that were bustling about. There were things that were human, things that looked human, things that looked half human, things that didn’t look anything like human and things that didn’t want to look human. She had found herself on the side of the street away from the crowd to think up a game plan for what she might do and how she might survive. She wasn’t worried about surviving for she had been on many adventures to many lands and helped many strange people but she didn’t like being absolutely clueless about everything. She wanted first to find out what currency they used there because she was sure that what she had with her at the moment was useless, so she decided to follow the crowd and see if she could learn anything as she was walking. After about five minutes of following the endless throng she was startled as a man with large gorilla like forearms on a bicycle cut her off by swerving and stopping right in front of her, he wore a funny blue uniform the was too tight for his own good and a funny little blue hat on his head,

“Nina Wyndia?” he asked without looking up as he rummaged through a large brown sack.

“Um… yes?” Nina answered hesitantly while she moved her hand to her Rose Rapier strapped to the side of her waist. The strange gorilla armed man handed her an envelope then tipped his hat and pedaled on down the street, as he was riding away Nina noticed “mailman” printed on the back of his uniform, she also noticed every once in a while he would stop in front of random people and hand them packages of different sizes.

Nina looked at the letter and saw her named elegantly written on the front with no other markings on the letter whatsoever, strange as it was she was curious as to who would know she is here and how they knew where to find her. She opened the letter to the same beautiful handwriting that was on the envelope, and the letter said this:

Dearest Nina,
You do not know me but that is not important, my name is Pandora. I own a mansion/ apartment complex on the large hill north of town… Which I am sure you can see from where you are standing.

Nina looked up from the letter and sure enough on the large hill away from the busy streets of the city was a mansion or house, though she couldn’t judge the size because of the distance. She continued reading:

I invite you to stay at my mansion for as long as you like, since you have no home here on this planet and are of royalty I could do no less than offer to share my home with you. There is no cost and no obligation and of course you may turn this offer down if you like however I would be honored to have you there. My only request is that you treat the grounds and property with respect.
Yours truly,
V.R. Pandora.

Nina was very confused at a great many things, most of all how Pandora knew she would be able to see the mansion from where she was standing… However not letting it worry her anymore Nina decided to check it out, she needed a place to stay and at the very least she could refuse later if she didn’t like it. Stepping away from the crowd Nina spread her powerful wings and with one swooping down-stroke heaved herself into the air and away from the city, amongst the clouds she soared at an easy pace towards the mansion.

The wind rushed past Kaiser’s face for a brief moment before he landed on the ground with a light thud, he looked up to the top floor from where he had jumped and chuckled to himself a little. He headed to the couch where he had seen Enof and now noticed that Thetz was there too talking to her twin brother. Both Thetz and Enof were human though they were from a different planet than earth, Thetz had a very kind and motherly disposition on life but she was not weak in any way, when Kaiser had arrived on their planet Thetz had been acting Commander of the planets military force, plus Thetz and Enof are both renowned warriors. Kaiser walked over and sat next to Enof.

“Kaiser” Enof greeted without looking from his book,

“Hey” Kaiser answered with a smile, for he had been expecting no grandiose greeting from Enof, Thetz on the other hand had no fear of light conversation.

“Kaiser don’t we have a new person coming to the mansion today?” she asked as she peeled an apple.

“Yeah, and I got a letter from Pandora that says I’m the one who’s supposed to show her around…” He held up the letter to Thetz to show the fancy writing the belonged to Pandora, Thetz reached over and Kaiser handed it to her.

“Hmm… it’s says you can refuse if you want…” stated Thetz,

“Yeah… But, I don’t exactly have any other pressing matters to attend to so I figured I might as well meet the newbie.”

“Hmm… mind if I join you?” asked Thetz as she gave the letter back.

“Not at all,” Kaiser replied. “It’ll be nice to have some familiar company,” Kaiser looked at the clock and then got up and headed toward the door, for from the time written on the letter, the new guest would be arriving any minute.

Concerning the Chambius

This is the beginning of my epic... my masterpiece, if you want to call it that. I have been thinking about this for a while. It's conception happened in high school while in English Lit. I wrote a story about a cyborg that had been programmed to be a soldier in an army and had set himself free. At the time I didn't realize it, but this was the beginning of the Chambius Saga. So anyway, enough of the explanations, let's get to the nitty gritty.

What is the Chambius?

First and foremost, the Chambius is a Dyson Sphere. For those of you who don't know what a Dyson Sphere is... go to wikipedia! :) In a nut shell a Dyson Sphere is a collection of satellites in orbit around a star that collect that star's energy for use on a planet nearby. Dr. Dyson believed that the best way to look for extraterrestrial lifeforms (I can't believe I spelled that right on the first attempt!) was to look for stars that had been dimmed due to these collections of satellites. His thought was that a vastly advanced race would need all the energy it could muster and that collecting solar energy from a nearby star would be the easiest way to do that. ANYWAY!!! On with the next part.

The Altakans

The Altakans are the ones that made the Chambius Array. They did so to prevent their home world from dying. Unfortunately it was too late and they had to think of something else to do before their planets ecosystem collapsed. So they decided to take ten of the thousands of solar arrays of the Chambius and make them into "bio-arrays" capable of sustaining life indefinitely. They did that, moved a vast majority of their people to the Chambius and waited for the planet to heal itself. After thousands of years of waiting they finally had the opportunity to move back and a lot of them did. Some did stay and grouped on one bio-array they had dubbed Alt-Polen (or Our Second Home.) Both societies kept in constant communications with one another for another thousand years until one day the Chambius lost contact with the home planet. They sent several unmanned probes to the planet, but never could figure out what happened before they lost contact with the probes. So the Alt-Polen Altakans went on with their lives for many generations after.

This is all I am going to divulge at this time.

Until next time.
Bot out.