[center][h1][b][i][color=9e0b0f]Jabberwocky's Hideout[/color][/i][/b][/h1][/center] [center][@Shadow Dragon] -Also, you all should read this section because it pertains to the larger story.[/center] [center][hider=Jabber's Cavern] [img]https://i.imgur.com/q6v87rF.jpg?2[/img] [/hider][/center] >.......initiating system boot >.............. >.......Harbinger activated >.............. >....... Awaken the Oracles >.............. [img]https://i.imgur.com/B26lZYp.jpg?1[/img] "Little girl... little girl, wake up!" the little girl's eyes fluttered open and she smiled at the pretty, sweet voice of the fairy. "Well hello pretty girl," Asra's voice smiled as she talked, "My name is Asra, what's your name?" "[color=ed1c24]Wooby[/color]," said the little girl in the pod. "Oh dear girl, how old are you?" Asra asked, the little one looked maybe 3, maybe 4 years old. The little girl responded by giggling and reaching for the holographic fairy that wasn't there. "This is not good, this, this wasn't supposed to happen. Oh you dear, sweet little girl! You cannot wield the swords, you cannot call to Harbinger and save all the world. You poor little thing..." then Asra blinked out of existence and the little girl was left all alone, or so she thought... [hr] Ruby doesn't remember when she was born. She doesn't remember light or the sun, her first memory is the fire. It was a fire that burned her eyes and took her sight, and it was the fire that taught her pain. She had thought about it often, her first memory of when the beautiful man, her Dadda, pulled her out of the fire. As he picked her up she saw his icy white skin and that was the last thing her eyes registered before her optic nerve burnt away and she never was able to see again. Her Dadda held her and comforted her, and he was with her as she healed. Ruby didn't remember the fairy from when she awoke, but when she met her the second time the experience was strangely familiar. She was coming of age and her body was growing. A surge of power shivered through her and suddenly she heard the tiny fairy. She was not alone when the holographic entity spoke this time... [center][h2]*******[/h2][/center] "Ruby!!" Asra's voice sang, "My how you've grown!" [color=ed1c24]"Who... who are you?"[/color] Ruby asked out loud, her Dadda was sitting close by and turned to listen. "I am Asra, and I only have enough power to talk for a moment, there's not much time, we must hurry, the Harbinger has awakened," the fairy said. [color=ed1c24]"You are Asra, Harbinger has awakened,"[/color] Ruby repeated out loud. "Yes dear Ruby," Asra pleaded, "but you are still so young, no older than 12 or 13. It is your biogenic energy that gave me the power to speak to you again. I was there when you were born, do you remember?" [color=ed1c24]"You were there when I was born?"[/color] Ruby asked, [color=ed1c24]"in the fire?"[/color] "No...no.. I.. I don't know about the fire, is that what happened to your eyes?" Asra sounded sad. [color=ed1c24]"What do you want?"[/color] Ruby asked. "The Harbinger, it is a great weapon flying high, high in the sky, it is an island up in the stars. To communicate with Harbinger you must find the swords that are lost all over the world." Asra said. [color=ed1c24]"Harbinger is a weapon, and I can find swords to communicate with it."[/color] Ruby repeated for her Dadda's sake. "There are also others who are like you, those were are to be born from stasis. You all can feel the swords, and through your feelings you must find them. Then you must use them to contact Harbinger and bring it back into the atmosphere to deactivate it. There is an evil Artificial Intelligence that has re-activated Harbinger and will use it to destroy all the world for good, as it has done in the past...." Asra's voice blinked out with an electronic blip. [color=ed1c24]"Others like me?"[/color] Ruby asked, [color=ed1c24]"do you mean the ones that the Wizards call, the Oracles? ...Asra? ...Asra?"[/color] The musical fairy voice was gone. Ruby turned to her Dadda, [color=ed1c24]"She said that I can feel the swords, and that there are others like me, I think she is talking about the Oracles worshiped by the Wizards. She said that using the swords I can communicate with Harbinger, and Harbinger is a weapon."[/color] Her Dadda told her she was a good girl and Ruby's heart swelled with affection. [center][h2]*******[/h2][/center] That was 7 years ago, and now Ruby was grown. She lives in her cave where her Dadda had raised her. She had found mecha there, remnants from the old world. She was able to get the mecha to respond to verbal controls and was able to build a map of the world using something the computer called a "Satellite." She could not see it, but her Dadda could, and making her Dadda happy was the most important thing in the world to her. Her Dadda protected her, he had given her the fire. Ruby felt the warm slush build in her hands. Her Dadda had taught her to channel the fire like he did, but she couldn't do it quite like him because she couldn't see, so her fire was thick and tactile, but it didn't burn her, it burnt others, and that meant she could never by burnt by the fire again! It was her who was able to find the Crystallis sword for Draygon, Dadda's boss, and it was her who had begun to use the crystal her Dadda stole off the sword to talk to Harbinger. So far, she has not been able to decipher any of the strange words and language coming from the weapon in the sky, but she would. She would make her Dadda proud. [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/fZs7SC7.jpg?1[/img][/center]