Chapter 21

Yay! Here is Chapter 21 guys! ^^

Sorry guys, this chapter's mostly a filler on some things... :/ But it will get better I promise! Just hold on a bit longer... :3

Anyways, enjoy! :D

Chapter 21

Lefty yawned as she sat back into her chair…. She was tired and worn out from all the energy she had spent, and was surprised she hadn't cloasped into sleep just yet…  She settled back deeper into the chair to be more comfortable, as she let her eyes gaze over to the group… 

Apparently Raven was giving the gang a crash course training exercise on what was what, and why this happened or why it didn't happen… Lefty was really too tired to care at the moment, so instead she let her eyes shut and tuned in to what they were saying with her ears through her hood… 

“…Shadow…” “Army… Attacked…” “Dark….” Lefty was only hearing bits and pieces as she fought to stay awake and listen… Whatever the gang was talking about sounded important, as Lefty could make out her friends voices talking fast… She continued to listen… “777…. Golden….” “Sacrifice…” At that word Lefty nearly sprang up, but she was too tired to really do that… (What on earth are they talking about? I don’t comprehend this…”) Lefty pondered… “Young Prophet…. It is time to rest and have peace…” The stone cross whispered to her…. Lefty wanted to argue; to stay up just a little longer and listen, but the stone cross had other ideas as it’s warm glow surrounded her and made her start loosing consciousness as she drifted off to sleep land….

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Stripes sighed as he wearily looked over to the sleeping Prophet once more before returning his focus to the papers in front of the group… “Okay, I understand the brief origin of why this happened, but you still haven’t explained why we are here or more importantly how we’re supposed to get back home…” Stripes frowned as he sat back further into his chair while looking at Raven…

Raven seemed hurt by Stripes’ remark, but spoke without change in his voice… As if nothing happened… “I’ll be as clear as I can on the subject; but I can only tell you what I’m allowed to say… Each Prophet before you had a purpose on Estyren before they *ahem* left, just as you have a purpose here… Nothing happens without reason…” Raven relpyed… 

Stripes didn't like riddles, but let Raven continue… “Think about it this way… It’s like um, popcorn yes? I’m not too familiar with that subject, but I know one group who had some of the magical substance with them when they came…” Raven smiled, “One of the strange seeds er… Pops first before the rest do… and then once the final one pops you have the whole sack of magical white things!” Raven exclaimed… 

Stripes cocked his head in confusion… “I don’t get what popcorn has to do with our situation…” Stripes frowned…

Raven grinned, “Perhaps I’m not too familiar with your dimension… Let me re-frase it. One seed is like a single group… They come and do their purpose before they er… Pop, and then the next group comes in and does the same thing… Well once that final seed, you all, comes in and finishes the task then we have the whole bag completed, or should I say purpose of saving the world right?” Raven frowned a bit, obviously trying very hard to explain to the group the reason… He then shook his head, “Look, I’m not sure how to put it for you travelers… Regardless, you will come and do what you need to do, and then you will go home. I’m not sure how you will do it, but going home you will… The books do not lie, you will save Estyren…” Raven sighed wearily…

Stripes rolled his eyes, “Whatever… I don’t quite get all of that, but if you say we will go home eventually then I guess we’ll compromise… I don’t think we have much of an option not to…” Stripes frowned as he once again looked at his bud Lefty…

It was then that Space scooted his chair and stood up… “Well all that’s fine and dandy cause we’re already doing it anyways, but why in the world are we saving your planet? Couldn't you just rally up your people and get them to fight? I mean, why drag other people to do your dirty work?” Space frowned, as if he was missing something…

Raven sighed and muttered something like, ‘you young kids shouldn't even be on this kind of a journey…’, before he grabbed the books off the table and put them back up on the bookshelf… “Many have… Many died…” Raven rambled to the group, making Stripes’ spine tingle… “As much as you think war is that simple, it’s not… There are only a few people left on this planet that are ‘pure’ anymore… There’s not enough to make an army even if we wanted too…” Raven frowned darkly…

Stripes could hear Space gulp a little, “Then… Why on earth do you think a couple of teenagers and kids can do it any better?” Space asked nervously… 

Raven grinned real big, “Because if I know one thing it’s that our loving creator that exists in every dimension, including yours, has left us a precious tool to help us… His love…” Raven whispered… 

Stripes thought this was some kind of joke! “What kind of dumb ruler leaves only his love to protect a whole planet?! Surely there is something more to it than that!” Stripes snorted… 

The gang glared daggers at Stripes, telling him to be quiet… “Stripes, this is serious… We’re not home anymore… Things work differently here…” Cat frowned as she returned her gaze to Raven… “Do you perhaps mean that energy that exits inside Lefty’s cross necklace? I’m not sure I understand…” Cat questioned…

Raven pushed his glasses up further onto his face… “Well, yes and no… Only a small portion of it exists inside your prophet’s stone, while the rest is dormant inside stone hill where your mission ends…” Raven replied as he sat back down… “You see our planet is ending its chapter… There used to be an abundance of light energy everywhere when the world was at peace…” Raven chuckled, “However, the ‘Dark shadow’ arrived soon afterwards to stop our joyful celebrating and began to destroy any unprotected ‘light source’ leaking around until there was only what was left inside that stone your bud has…” Raven pointed once more to Lefty who was still dozing away… “But fear not! The rest is not gone, but rather was placed into stone hill after the shadows chased it there… Because the light could not ever be destroyed, but rather only moved… The ‘Dark shadow didn’t like not being able to destroy it, but since he could not, he figured it would be easier to hide it so Estyren would turn to their most evil of desires…” Raven grimaced… “Only the most purest beings have survived temptation and death…” Raven whispered, as if it was hard to speak about… “Anyways, once you all reach stone hill and figure out how to release it, then the light will spread again and Estyren will begin its new chapter…” Raven smiled dreamily…

“*Ahem* Sadly, you’d be surprised that things do not work much differently here than in your world…” Raven smiled…

Shila blinked, “Huh? I don’t seem to understand that at all! I thought other dimensions were like supposed to be different!” Shila scratched her head…

Raven simply shook his head, “Well, yes they are in looks, and maybe in a few things we do and such… But the key aspect behind each one of them is the same… Each dimension goes through a life cycle. There’s creation, then maturity, old age, and finally the death of it… This particular dimension just happens to be on the verge of death because it is very old… But once a dimension dies, I believe in my studies that it doesn't really die, but rather transforms into something new along with other dimensions…” Raven chuckled…

Stripes was now really confused… “Uh… I’m not getting any of this…” Stripes mumbled.

“I think my brain’s going to explode…” Princess groaned as she fiercely tried to scrub her head like it would help stop it from spinning or something… 

Raven then laughed, “Haha! Perhaps I’m forgetting how young you all are! Come, let us rest and prepare for tomorrow.. I have some special training not only for the Prophet’s problems, but for your own problems as well…” Raven smiled warmly, as he helped guide the kids in the right direction to the bed rooms, while helping the gang guide the tired Prophet into the room as well….

0_0 So what will happen next? Gosh, Raven sure is one confusing guys huh? What does he mean by dimensions having life cycles? And lol, obviously he's not very good at explaining what popcorn is to children XD