《New to Magic》Chapter Twenty-Three The Tranis Part Two
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Chapter Twenty-Three
The Tranis Part Two
As Sky was contemplating on how to help approach the subject of their food distribution. The little girl Nansius approached her. “Excuse me but what where those circles in the air for. They looked pretty, and I could feel trano coming from them. Is trano you use to make the circles with? It's very taste, I would like the learn how to make them.”
Sky looked surprised as the room filled people. No one else seemed to notice the spell circles she worked with. “Those were spells circle filled with sigils. They are used to work magic for a pacific purpose. There are many types of spells for different things. Most people only work with up to three of the five different elemental gifts. I have all five of the elemental girls and in great quantity. After the assembly, I could show you a few spells some you must use a tablet for. I am not sure how well you’ll be able to use the magic directly with physical contact. I should try it first if it’s possible to do.” Sky stopped conversing as she watched some of the better dressed high society clique trying to bar access to some of what looked like lower-tier people from entering.
In moments she appeared behind the ones barring others from entering with a sour look on her face. “Excuse me, but this assembly is for everyone, including the likes of yourselves. All of you come from the same planet and share the same genetic make-up. You should just take a seat so we can begin with the choosing of a new fair ruler.” The ones Sky spoke to shook in rage and their puffed of party leader spun around with his fist leading his oversized body.
“How dare an outsider as you speak to mm.” He stopped in midsentence as his fist went through her slender form. He was silent but for a second and continued in his rant. “You claim to know our laws and our way of life. You know nothing, you, ignorant little drags in our society. Our society has prospered since we started the written language. It will continue doing so long after, once you leave our midst. Now be gone you foul-smelling beast you’re not wanted here.” He said, trying again to move her now with an unsuccessful push.
Sky just shook her head and walked right through his large frame and those of the people with him. “I’m not ignorant of your laws and customs. Just look up the basic law of Trano rights which no one has the right to change. Every time one of your sycophant rulers stopped enforcing it, your technological advancements took a dramatic slide back. It repeatedly happened throughout your history” Sky looked over the fancy dressed people all were overweight but a few personal guards. It discussed her seeing how they could treat their own so poorly for no visible reason. She turned to look at the leader of the small group of high society bullies with anger in her eyes. “So, I ask you. If you don’t learn from your past, you’re doomed to repeat it. In the last ten thousand cycles, how many advancements have you’ve made? Let me answer that for you, one. That brilliant piece of work was taken from some of your so-called lower-tiered workers. The only thing your elitists have come up with was ways of elevating yourselves higher from your equals.” Sky turned from the now enraged people and addressed the one being barred.
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“I sorry for the delay to your seats. I will make sure you're seated shortly.” She said with a slight bow. She turned back to the who had tried to hit her and made a gesture for one of his personal guards to hit her with magic. The poorly constructed spell they fired was nullified by Sky’s own magic. If you don’t take your seats now, I’m within the rights to make you. We have a lot to accomplish in a short period of time.” Sky turned to the centre of the assembly hall.
Sky hide the anger she had for the social elites. “I see that many of you have a problem amongst yourselves. I as the arbiter for this proceeding, I won’t allow any discord between you. This more about getting along with each other and helping yourselves as a race. Anyone preventing others from entering the assembly hall will be placed in a stasis field and prevented from being part of the voting or and for some being voted for.” Her voice sounded as if coming from everywhere in the assembly hall. She looked to the large man as if they challenge him.
He looked surprised at her words and was going to relent and move on. As he turned around, he regarded the faces of his followers. They all gave him a gesture to challenge her. This boosted his resolve, and he turned to attack Sky. “You can’t rule or govern the proud race of Tranis you filthy outsider.” Before he could take another step forward, he and his followers froze in place and started to float upwards out of the way of incoming Tranis gently.
Sky voice filled the assembly hall once again as other such group raised into the air. She tried to hide the look of disgust look on her face at the blatant disrespect of the different classes of citizens “Many of you didn’t seem to take my word as arbiter and went against your own laws.” As Sky was speaking murmuring and shout of outrage arose from the gathering people. Yet she continued with her fist balled at her sides. “The very laws Your founder wrote after stopping what I am doing right now. Your founder Tranosius, himself wrote for you, his descendants.” The last words she said silenced everyone
It was the former ruler who broke the silence. He started with a sly smile. “Do you know what you have just done, your ignorant child. You’ve just invoked our creator’s name, Tranosius. If any words of yours henceforth are proven false, it is a death sentence for you and those who follow you.” You’ve just sentenced yourself to death. No one has ever evoked his name and remained true to his word.”
Sky just smiled back at him from across the hall. I know what I just did, and I’ve read the law he wrote for you to follows. By invoking his name, I’m now under your law, to tell the truth, and you must listen and heed my words and only judge what I say after I’ve spoken to the assembly, not during. I know what it means and did it not out of ignorance but out of necessity, as also stated in the law.” She said and brought up some of the law written in a now unused language and then translated it slowly till it was in the now used language where everyone could read from all angles. “I quote from your holy book “if the need to be heard is great invoke my name. Do don’t use my name lightly after invoking my name no lies should be said, any lies proven will forfeit your life.” End quote, so as you see, I’m not ignorant of your laws and what they mean. I was brought up with a strong sense of justice for all, and no one is above the law if it was written fairly. I see no flaws in the laws your creator wrote. They are fair and just; I would be proud to be one of his subjects of old.” The crowd started to murmur again most in admiration at her statement.
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The hall was filling much quicker after no one was barring the way from entering. Sky started to list the names and faces of the ones who called out their names in request to be the ruler. As the names and faces went up, she would do a background check on their status to be a ruler. Many had denied written beside and why. Extortion, assault and murder were the most prevalent on the list. The names denied were mostly the so-called elite.
“If you know that you committed a crime punished or not yet caught, I will know what you did. I will not have a person who was found not guilty by a corrupt system and doctored evidence. I’m not here to convict you of past crimes, but I will not let you be a ruler because you found a way to keep from punishment.” If you wish to dispute your denial, I’m willing to reopen your case, and the punishment will be swift and to the maximum extent of the law.” After she spoke, looking across the fancy-dressed elitist’s many of the names still with no words of acceptance or denial, the ones rejected quickly came down also. Still, there were many being rejected and stayed up. Sky took it that they were going to contest her resolve. Some of the sentences were death, and the least was ten years of hard labour on a kind of farm. They’re going see how far she’ll go and it’s going to take time for a trial. The hall was just about filled with the people who wanted to attend. One thing that made her happy was that everyone seemed to like the chairs. She would have smiled if the list with names rejected grew and some of the names that were taken off were being put back on.
Sky didn’t hide her feelings about what they were about to force her to do. She addressed the hall with tears running down her face. “I will start with the names on the list contesting their rejections. The one rejected for murder will be first, and I will select the names on the list randomly. You may withdraw your names once a trial starts. You can not withdraw your name once you have been selected for the trial. I will judge fairly, and the outcome will not change. I will just be proving that you were guilty to everyone else.” She wiped her tears away and seen that none of the names came off. “I will select the first name from the list. Rickus Were, you contest my judgement, and now I will show your crime.” A vid came up with Rickus in plain sight yell at a spindle of a man. He was shielding a boy behind him who was shaking. He punched the man, and he slumped to the ground. Once the man was out of the way he picks up the child, you couldn’t see what he did, but the end results were the child was dead and dropped with no regards to life he or his fathers. “This crime was covered up by two others on the list, and one other man is guilty of disposing of the bodies. The guilty party will be judged now in tying in the crimes together.”
Rickus stood up enraged “That was a doctored vid, I did no such thing.” Before he could say another word, he froze solid in a stasis field. A second video started as to more people were shown going into a data file watching the same vid, they all just had. The two made a copy and deleted it from the data banks. They had no idea they to were being recorded. A third vid showed a man driving a streetcleaner over the two bodies leaving nothing behind. He tilled his hat to Rickus as he drove off.
Sky’s face was now up on the vid tears in her eyes. “You all have seen the evidence against them; I gave them adequate chances of backing out of putting in their names as candidates for the ruler. Now I must follow through with my word, or I too will be guilty. The fullest extent of the law means death to all four. It will be carried out after the hall convenes.”
Some of the friends started to scream their outrage at Sky’s quick decision and judgement. A woman who was clearly exceeding her rations came forwards in her husband’s defence. “My husband was forced to conceal the murder and erase the data. He had no choice in the matter he would have been shunning and given half rations. Please go easy on him.” She was begging on her knees facing Sky’s vid image.
“So, he confided in you about his part in the murder”? Sky asked her tears still in her eyes. The woman nodded, yes, frantically. “You just admitted to knowing of a murder and not bringing it forward. For your part in concealing the crime. For you ten years’ hard labour on whatever farm I find fit for your part in this crime of murder.” She still had tears running down her face. “I don’t take any pleasure in what you are putting upon my shoulders. It is clear that your rulers have gone slack on many of the upper-class people. I see some have been unjustly convicted as many not prosecuted. I will not back down from my action of invoking Tranosius name. I will follow his law as I told you I would. These tears I shed are for the ones who I know will not live another day. Before I carry out the punishment, I will give family members a chance of speaking and settling matters before there are no more. Some courtesy murders never give their victims. I am just following the law set out by Tranosius with a heavy heart. I still implore to withdraw your names. I hope four deaths will be enough to see I will not be goaded into backing down. If I back down now, it will be a grave injustice to your people. Many of the people here are being coerced into silence.”
The former ruler never added his name in again, but never held his tongue long. “Why are you going after just the upper class and not the lower class? I think your being bias to the lower class is that because you’re of, the lower class yourself”?
Sky wiped some of the tears away. “I’m actually a princess in exile, of no fault of my own. My parents were royalty. They were exiled for being fair to all races, not only their own. I was raised to have a very strong sense of justice. I was brought up knowing that all life is precious. To me, a third of your people were treated differently because their dominate traits held no physical or magical power over others. The things they could do is by no means a small feat. Along the way from Tranosius time people started to downplay what they could do and over glorify the magic and strength traits.” Her face could be seen by everyone on the ship who cared to look up.
“On the ship, I serve as an ensign I rank just above the cooks and cleaners who are my parents. They are second and third strongest on the ship and were royalty at one time. They rank the lowest and follow orders of people tens of centuries younger than themselves. I hold magic surpassing most people can’t imagine, the strength to crush worlds and the knowledge of two civilizations. I’m told my way of magic is unsurpassed by anyone. I still content being an ensign on my ship.” She looked over the people of Tranis and seen the possibilities they could do if they worked together.
“Why are you gloating about yourself we all know your superpowers, and we can’t stop you from doing what you want. I know you just want to put a puppet in rule, so we’ll be your slaves. I and many others see through your devious ways, and we’ll find a way to stop you.” He said, raising his hands, and a chorus of the elite joined him.
Sky looked about her, and only a few of the upper society seemed on her side. That was enough for her right then. “What would I get from making your race my slaves. Where would it benefit me in having tiny beings under my control as I said before when I leave here to join a mission that I put on hold to help you. I’m leaving friends and family to be here to make your lives better and self-sustaining. I would be more than pleased to leave here and know I made a difference in your lives for the better. I hope to call some of your friends and think of some as family.” She looked to Lexius and Nansius Henna with a fond smile, which the two returned.
She turned back to the list of candidate’s names was much smaller a few of the lower tier people were on the list one had a punishable crime and was rejected as a participant. Sky knew she was going to have to judge the man. “Sneefus Wallen you remained on the list, so you wish to contest your ruling of rejection.”
He stood up, tall and proud. “Yes, I do. I admit to my crime of theft and cause of bodily harm to innocent bystanders.” He stated as if proud of what he did.
“Stealing and harming others is nothing to be proud of.” Sky scowled at him, “the sentence for your crime is ten years hard labour at a farm that I see fit for your punishment.” She considered his face and seen a look of questions. It was then she realized why he left his name up. He wanted her not only to judge him, but the people involved. This case was deep and had more than one murder involved. “I’m not finished with your case, but I don’t have the time right now to bring them all to justice. I assure you if you would have refused you would have died that day. The fact that two others died instead is why you are being punished. Six others will be paying for their actions with their lives, twenty will be doing hard labour along with you, not all at the same place. Is that what you were after, justice for the injustice done to you”? The man didn’t speak, just nodded his head.
Sky noticed many were leaving the hall and sighed to herself. They will have no place to hide from the justice Tranosius wrote. The list no longer had any rejected names on it. She was thankful for that. Many were most likely asked to remove their names by associates to their crimes. Knowing all that took part in the crimes would be brought to justice along with them made reconsideration very favourable to all parties involved.
The list still had over one hundred names on it many were just young enough not to have gotten into the politics their parents are into. That was a good thing, but they need a better environment in which to learn. Many wee sets in their ways and would just go back to the way things were. The lower tier people would try to do the right thing, but the pressure of the upper class would just force them to give in too many of their demands. Sky wanted more than anything to help these people. She found that she couldn’t fix everything wrong she comes across. These people needed a ruler who could once again show them how-to live-in peace once more. They needed another Tranosius or even Tranosius himself.
In the Tranis’ history, important meetings were proceeded by a prayer for Tranosius to guild them. Sky searched for any information to what happened to him or where he could have gone. She found nothing to indicate him leaving or dying. He was not called to for tens of centuries.
She was going to let everything ride on a wish and a prayer.
Sky’s face appeared before everyone this time more determination and confidence on her face.
“People of Tranis, you have long strayed from the path set out to you by your creator, Tranosius. I believe we should pray for guidance before we start choosing your ruler. I know with proper guidance, the people of Tranis will be great once more. But you need a ruler who is non-partial to all traits. One you can trust explicitly with his or her judgements unquestioned. I can’t be that person, nor would I want to. I’m too young for the role and have too much to learn of life. From the data and different recordings, I believe I can lead you in prayer to your creator if you have no priests to perform the prayer.
Sky waited, and the former ruler approached her. “We have no holy people anymore when we had to leave the planet; we left them behind. Tranosius didn’t come to save us, I did.”
“You just prolonged your lives shortly. I could have destroyed this ship in your last attack. The killing goes against my code of ethics. But what you were stealing from me and the way you did it caused me incredible pain. Just imagine being set on fire without your skin burning Going from your feet to your head. Sounds painful, doesn’t it? Now picture at the same time the insides of your body starting to burn along with your skin. That’s the pain you caused me. Just because you didn’t ask you stole my magic. Your life and everyone’s could have been gone because of your thought of superiority. So, we pray for guidance and help in choosing a new ruler.
Sky again addressed everyone. “I’m now going to lead you all in prayer. Repeat what I said when I hum. Listen carefully and try to project love and need in your thoughts. Now let us bow our heads in respect for our creator.” She bowed her head down, and many followed suit, some just put their heads up in defiance. Sky didn’t need to use her eyes to see the upper elite thinking they were above gods. She had no choice but continue with the prayer.”
“We bow before you are a great and loving creator. It has been a long time approaching you in prayer. Our ways have strayed from the way you set before us. Please help us find our way once more.” Sky hummed, and everyone with bowed heads repeated the last sentence. Her voice had power behind it, and you could feel her resolve. Many more bowed their heads feeling the power in this prayer. “We seek your guidance in choosing a new ruler, one who will be fair and just. We would like the new ruler to punish the ones who made their choices freely to break your laws and be lenient on the ones who could not find another choice but to break your law you have set before us. Please help us and come to our aid in our decision in our hour of need. Please help us your creations, to be true to you envision of our future.” Sky hummed, and all most everyone was repeating her words. Sky was pushing out her awareness to what she knew was to all dimensions she knew the Tranis could occupy. She repeated the prayer hoping the creator of the Tranis was close or at least listening.
The ship shuttered, and the four people who received the death sentence disappeared. A loud, deep, and musical voice boomed into the hall. “I come to you in your time of need. I stood by watching Tranis slowly get destroyed with not one heartfelt plea for help; No one came to me in prayer, no one reached to me with all their heart, not one. Even now, a stranger to my people reached to me with all her heart. Just to help my people to be great once more. I was going to let her destroy this ship if she wished. No one cared about stealing her trano from her. I know many were starving to death, yet no one asked for help.”
Sky listened to their creator and was surprised that he didn’t help without being asked. She couldn’t hold her tongue. “How could you let your people suffer and not help them. I was attacked four times and would still help them and ask nothing in return. How could you not help them in their times of need? So many of your people, your children died because you never helped them.”
Tranosius was silent for a time, and everyone thought he had left again. “I tried to help, but I was bound not to help because of a petty squabble with their forefathers. I once used to walk among them as their ruler. There was a very famous person who killed a child in an easily avoided an accident, yet it looked like a tragedy. I was enraged and sentenced him to death with no hesitation. He was treated like a god himself. Everyone mourned his death and resented what I did. They took the child’s death as an unintentional accident and my killing him as jealousy. I went into a rage at the fact they thought I was jealous of a single dilutional man. I told them, my people, if they think they could do better without me, I will leave. The priest sided with the masses that I no longer needs to be in control of everything and that I should take a rest. They pleaded with me to go out and find another diversion, that they could handle things on their own. Being angry leads to bad decisions. Feeling unwanted, I left promising only to return if I felt a true heartfelt plea for my help. No half-hearted cry for help would bring me to the ungrateful beings I created. All it took was a man over glorified to think he could get away with killing an innocent child to turn them against me. I ruled with compassion and an iron fist. If you broke my laws with malicious intents, you must pay. You’ll pay the price and was punished the fullest extent of the law. If you broke the law in a fit of uncontrol grief anger, I was lenient if you showed remorse over the fact you committed the crime. More so came your own accord forwards and turned yourself in. Many of my people committed no crimes because of the law not out of common decency. Once I left the crime of murder increased slowly, and corruption started to prevail. I could not watch and left for a time and lived among some Titans who shared my sense of ethics and code of honour. For royalty, they were very educated and humble. They liked to joke, and I found myself opening to them, and I tell them my story of why I’m there. They aren’t as sympathetic as I thought they would be.” Tranosius shimmered into sight before Sky, yet no one else noticed him there. When he continued his story, his voice still came from all around them. He took in Sky face as he spoke.
“The young couple told me it was tragic and thought I did the right to the killer. They didn’t think I handled the backlash of angry fans right and they suggested I go back. I told them that they knew nothing of my life and my people. The two Titans just smiled. The young man Billy told me being a prince, he had to learn how to deal with various people. He said he just started to work in the criminal courts and hand out judgements. ‘It was the most difficult thing I had ever done when I had to sentence e a man to death. The ruling was just, but he still had loved ones, people who cared for him. He had viciously killed a man with his bare hands and threatened to kill others of his family’. Billy looked saddened. ‘The wife of the man I sentenced said I was just as bad as him. I killed her husband and the children’s father. She continued her rant for almost a year protesting my judgement. It wasn’t till a similar tragedy befell her that she understood what I did. An aunt of hers was attacked by an unknown assailant and she and her family cried for justice. Anna and I hired some people to find out who did it and soon had another of her estranged relative, responsible for the attack. He too had family, a wife child and loved ones of his own. I found him guilty and sentenced him to hard labour for five years. The money he would have earned was to pay restitution to his second cousin and his family to live while incarcerated. The woman thought he should have been sentenced to death for his actions’. Billy just shook his head. “Being a judge is never easy, and you can’t please everyone. You just must be fair to yourself and the law. In the end, She asked why I spared his life. I told her, ‘your aunt lived and healed with no scaring. She will remember what happened to her for the rest of her life. She will be able to find ways of preventing it from happening again. Your husband never gave the man a chance to live and even threatened to kill others of his family. He took a life and paid for it with his own. It was thought out and done with brutality. His sentence was just,’ and I only regret that the crime was committed.’ She still didn’t quite like my sentence of her husband at least she knew that I was at least trying to be fair. So even though most of the time, someone doesn’t like what you do and complain about your judgement. Just go back and watch over them and wait to see when they call for you again for the help. They will it’ll just take time to see the error of their ways.” Tranosius told Sky of his time with Billy and Anna.
So, I came back and watched for hundreds of years as the things got worse and I tried to guide things along occasionally. I couldn’t help with anything big, and they subjugated my sons and daughters who had no super physical strength or magic. It didn’t seem to matter what I did. They couldn’t rule themselves. Some rulers were better than others, and I help things flourish to show my blessing. I still loved my people, my sons and daughters. I could only hope for them to see the error of the ways and each other as equals.” Tranosius said, and his body started to shimmer into view. He was tall, really tall; he had long black hair framing his face. Sky looked up into black eyes and seen the sadness in them. He was dressed in a pure white flowing rob with no seams as if made in one piece. He had gold hanging down his jawline and around his neck. It was a plain band necklace and spike ear jewelry. He looked over his children, his creations and sighed.
He looked down to me, “you remind me of my two friendly Titans. They loved life just as much as you do. You’re just a little short to be related to them, and you have a tremendous amount of magic. Did you know Titans can hold no magic but create quite a bit, but their bodies use it right away in their bodies.”
Sky looked up to the creator and smiled. “Yes, I found that out shortly after I found out that magic was real. I don’t know who your friends are, but I’m a tiny Titan. I don’t think they were your friends. They were in a war, really good people who love others don’t fight in a war. They did free the galaxy of many horrible Titans who thought they were gods to the little people.”
“So, you think you’re a tiny Titan; I don’t see anything here in your body just magic, and a lot of it. I thank you for healing and feeding my sons and daughters. But I don’t know what you are. But you’re not a tiny Titan.” Tranosius said, looking down on Sky’s tiny face. “I also thank you for helping my children to know I’m needed again and call me.”
“I’m not here just my presence and a conduit to my magic. Follow the magic, and you find my tiny Titan body. As for who I am, I’m Sky Knight and recently found out that I’m a princess in exile. Your welcome for what I did for your people. In truth, my mommy and daddy brought me up to help those in need. They raised me with a strong sense of justice and not to kill without absolute cause. Once I found out that this ship had innocent people on it, I couldn’t hurt them. I found a ship full of mostly staving people and had to help. I had to come here because the help I was sending was not reaching all of your children, and I thought I was forcing a diet on pregnant women.”
“Yes, I can see where one would think some of the larger men and women were pregnant because of the warped definition of beauty and status went askew.” He paused for a second and Sky could feel him follow her magic to her real body. He, like Sky, could search about the scout ship and see everyone in it. Jane could sense someone else in the ship and tried to block whoever was there with Swan. The large Sky clone told them not to worry it was a creator that was checking what Sky was with her blessing. They both relaxed, and soon, the presence pulled away.
Tranosius looked once again into Sky’s smiling face. “So, my tiny Titan so it seems I should apologize to you princess. I doubted who and what you were, I am sorry. May I ask who your parents are”? he asked with a smile.
Sky answered with a smile and a curtsy, “No need to apologize. I would have doubted a body shell with magic myself. As for who my mommy and daddy are, I can tell. My mommy is Rocssanna, and Daddy is William Knight. As for me, you know I am their cute angel daughter princess, Sky knight.” She said with a curtsy. As she went down, her image shimmered into her in the formal uniform, her hair immaculately styled for the high court.
“I see Anna And Billy raised you well. You seem just like your mother, a little conceited about your looks.” He said with a light chuckle.
Sky’s cheeks puffed up, holding back some choice words. “I’m just repeating what I was told repeatedly. Cute and angel might as well have been my middle names. I see nothing wrong with repeating what I’ve been called as much as my own name.” She said, emphasizing her words with a foot stomp shaking the entire ship yet doing no damage. She glared up at to most beings an intimidating sight of a god.
“Your words ring true for someone your age. I think as you get older, you’ll see what I said to hold true too. I see an even higher deity has blessed you for some higher purpose. I see you were sent out to do many things with your life and I wish you well.” Tranosius said as he squatted down to look Sky closer eye to eye> he still towered over her. Still he was closer to her level. “Yes, I can see Anna’s features in your face and Billy’s athletic structure. I can see great things in your future if you hold your anger in check. Remember my cute tiny Titan the dead can only be brought back by the true God. Death for most is permanent, treat life as precious things and don’t take them lightly.” He ruffled Sky’s head, and it just didn’t seem the same as it would if she was there.
“Well kind Creator, Tranosius, I don’t know what you mean by a higher purpose, but I do need to get back to my friends and family to finish a mission. Some of your people can see my magic runes and sigils. When I have time, I would like to come back and see what they are capable of. I know a little of how your people use magic but wonder if they can be taught our way of castings and incantations.” She smiled at her two friends and gave the little girl, Nansius a wink. “I’ll be back if Tranosius lets me come again. Now that you have a true ruler, I can leave knowing your all safe.”
Sky looked back to Tranosius. “Before I go, let me know if I can help you anymore. I’ll be sending more of my spent magic over. There are ten clones of me using magic that’s is inverted and keeps the spent magic in a type of pocket space. I should be able to channel it into a conduit and send it all here. You can store it once you find out who’s been taking all of the magic I sent before. Someone is hording it for themselves. If you can’t find them, I’ll come here and help you root them out.”
“I know all those who have been keeping it for themselves but thank you. You just go and help your friends and parents. Let Anna and Billy know I’ll be coming around to say hi and catch up on old times.” Tranosius looked around at all his people in the huge room. “If you come across a planet with some magic user and lots of vegetation.”
Sky nodded her head and smiled. “You take care of my friends and see that they keep the gift I gave them.” Sky said and held up a hand and particles of dust formed in her hand a small cup. She handed it to Tranosius. He took the offered gift, and it filled with a cool blue sparkling liquid, and he took a sip. When he lowered the cup, a smile, and a look of contentment was on his face.
“I have never tasted something as pure as this. Your soul must have no hate in it to taint the essence of your magic. Just by the way, this makes me feel I would say you’re a very special person. I hope you can remain the kind and loving person you are now throughout what even the higher being has in store for you.” He took Sky’s hand and brought it to his forehead. Sky returned the gesture. Even though the size difference was almost comical, Sky had the same aura of presence.
Sky’s body faded from sight, and Tranosius gave a quick prayer for the tiny Titan.
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On the Road to Elspar (Book 1)
The year is 1329. The Huntress' War has entered its tenth year, inflaming competing nationalisms and pitting the Confederacy of Caldrein against one of the continent's superpowers, the Tenereian Union. Desperately outnumbered, the Confederacy has relied on the prowess of its famed Caldran mercenaries, with highly-trained and experienced warbands returning from foreign conflicts to the defense of their homeland, and it is on their backs that Caldrein has successfully mounted a valiant defense for a decade. But they are losing, and day by day, with all the grace of a sledgehammer, the vast Tenereian armies take one more bit of Caldran territory, one footstep at a time. Sixteen-year-old Neianne from the village of Caelon has submitted herself to Faulkren Academy, one of the centuries-old institutions established to train the next generation of Caldrein's elite soldiers of fortune, to learn the ways of wars for three years before embarking upon the defense of her country. Her dryad family once hailed from reclusive woodland communes isolated from Caldrein's complicated mainstream society, and her upbringing leaves the shy village girl unprepared to suddenly train alongside other apprentices from backgrounds as low as the dirty slums of Caldrein's cities and as high as the halls of aristocratic power. Yet the war is eroding the norms and traditions that the Caldran people have long considered part of their national mythos, and the tensions within the confederacy that have long simmered under the surface - race, class, community, identity - are slowly but surely dividing its people, and Neianne must grow and discover who she really is, even as the war that she is steadfastly training for comes to its inexorable end... On the Road to Elspar is a fantasy quest - a work of interactive fiction wherein readers get to vote on what happens next at critical junctures - that is the first entry in a story that follows Neianne of Caelon, which first began on July 20, 2016. Originally a three-part in medias res prologue to a larger story titled On the Elsparian Road, it was eventually decided that this section - which covers Neianne's three years at Faulkren Academy - become its own independent story due to length, structural, and accessibility reasons. Despite this being a reader interactive work of fiction, due to logistical and verification concerns, voting will only be counted on its thread on the forum Sufficient Velocity, where this story originally began. As such, the content here on Royal Road serves as a story-only archive. You are, of course, entirely welcome to enjoy On the Road to Elspar as a conventional work of fiction, just as you are welcome to comment, discuss, and provide critique. But if you would like to participate in the voting, then I would be honored to welcome you on Sufficient Velocity. To facilitate accessibility and to ensure the best reading experience, this story-only version of On the Road to Elspar will be updated at a periodic pace, even though further content exists, so as to not overwhelm new readers on Royal Road. If you enjoy this story, wish to binge it, and/or want to participate in voting immediately, you may of course read all additional content via the link provided above. This paragraph will be removed once the content on Royal Road catches up with what has already been posted in its original thread. Cover artwork by DreamSyndd.
8 334Caveship
18-year-old Nicholas Mason is a fairly average teenager from the small town of Aberdeen, Washington, in his final year of high school. When an earthquake awakens him after a senior party he attends with his two closest friends, they find themselves face-to-face with a powerful starship created by an ancient civilization - a Caveship. Taken aboard against their will, Nicholas and his friends find themselves traveling farther and farther away from Earth, while the starship automatically pilots itself toward some unknown destination. Now, they must work together to find a way back home, facing incredible dangers on strange alien worlds, all while at the mercy of a starship hellbent on reaching its target.
8 124The Charm Fable: Mousey and the Golden Book
Mousefred Souris lives in a world without humanity, and animals have risen to become like people. Mice like him live as slaves under the rule of a cruel cat, who lords over them with her armies of weasels and bats. For the crime of helping an injured stranger, Mousey is imprisoned and told he must either join the evil queen's army or die. But a chance encounter with a golden book sets Mousey on the path to freedom. The book teaches Mousey the secrets of magic, and with these newfound secrets he sets out on a journey to become the hero he was born to be.Note: This story is available in its absolute, complete form on Amazon.com, but most of the chapters can be read for free here.
8 207The Moon Lord's Ruin
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8 150The Bookstore
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