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| "Take a rock and cast it into a still lake. The ripples will ride to the edges of the lake. Magic is kinda like that. Escpecially time magic." said the techie to Simon. Simon had recently gotten involved in the Sanctuary program. What is going on there? Why are all these people's names on this huge round chart. and why is the center area open. All questions that plaqued the young mage's mind. "Do you have those symbols I found. Lets try working on those again." The techie grumbled as he reached fo the encoded disk. Brush ing some cheeto dust off his desk he pushed the disk in and loaded the program. This project was simple, but he did not like working with Simon. Way to egotistical for his taste. "Ok, Simon, here we go again. Three symbols right." the techie said in a dry and very much bored tone, "a sideways cross with aircle on it, a box that had been "x"ed out, and a tree looking symbol., right? Here let me try something for yah." The techie prayed that he had an answer so Simon would leave soon. placing Symbol over symbol an image came into vision. "hmmmmmmmmm" , they both pondered in unison. ************************************************************** They were all there just as the sign had said they would be.`Oberon was pleased. His spell is working thought the old mage. It was a warm spring evening. He pondered ow and why it ha gotten started and just where was it going. *************************************************************** He opened the book one more time to read what his mother had written. Well not his mother, by right, but his mother nonetheless.Its pages were old past time and not even he could stop there aging anymore. Death always death why the forever spiral into entropy. ************************************************************** Her plan was failing. Why was it her brother always new what was going on? How was it he had the knowledge she was writing in on paper now. Her little brother insane she worried about him and the thought to recapture him plagued her. However, it was this night she grew weary for it all restarted and her preperations were incomplete. She hated. hated them all and could not wait to destroy them from the inside out. ************************************************************** My name is Sydney Ariena Oliver, I am originally from what your maps nowadays call Wales. i have been dead for a while. At least the first time i died was very long ago. I live a life of constant death. I die but only to be reborn years later. This life grows long. Allow me to explain. I was born in 329bc. I was married into a rich home in 333bc, the same year "he" came to me for the first time. He explained to em he was my son and he had come form a later time to escape a certain death. He told me that he desperately needed my aid. I recognized him easily as one of my own. In those days things just came to us. I trusted him. Iwas to be giving birth to three children. One within a year and two more, much later. Just as he said I gave birth 8 months later to tripletts. I name the young boy Jonahten Oberon, after his father and gandfather. As I held my husband's hand that night as i was pushng the second out, I died, for the first time. I awoke in the year 666 ad. I was being watched by Jonahten. He knew not of my watching him, but I knew he was there. Always watching, always hiding. I loved my son, but knew he feared what cold happen if he came to near. As my little girl came into this world I cried only for I knew what she was coming into this life for. No child should be born for those reasons. Jonaten was there for the birthing and he held my hand as his father before him. he Knew has i started to push I was headed for the nest life, so to speak. This time something went wrong and I could feel it. Mothers always do know these things, youd do best to remember that well. I believe that somone hurt me in the time jump. Anyway the year I awoke to be giving birth in was 1313 ad. My son nor daughter were no where near, but I could feel they were watching. As I gave birth to little Algernon, the room got dark and I could hear my sons and daughter screaming in the darkness. When I came to I had learned that a man that seemed to come from the shadows themselves appeared and snatched my youngest. Oh but to despare farther my eldest tried to confront him and had been currently lying upon the floor dying. If not for the nurses at the local monastary had not taken him in, do believe he would have breathed his last breathe in my arms. And yet not to cry for the darkest of sins upon my amily's name, I speak now of the cause and torment of my daughters soul. While Jonathen had ran for his brother's captur, Nym, poor, poor, sweet nym, to be cursed with lips red as the fire's glow and skin as fare as the clouds' whisps she was attacked by two men who grabbed her anddragged her into the streets. If not for a stranger passing by I believe her life would have been taken along with her purity. My dear child I am so sorry for you. I had not but a week's time left to hold and cherish my beloved children. As I departed for the next life they had sworn to me they would retrieve my youngest. I died for the last time among my children's arms. This time I awoke to a new place. A place where torment souls reside. I escaped to my home agian but only to find it years later. I could not speak with my darlings, nor could they speak to me nor see me nor hear me. I longed to hold them against me, but to no avail. So Ii followed my eldest and leaarned some interesting things, the year was 2003 and my eldest was expecting guests. Allow me now to fill in some detail I have learned by reading what my son had been writing and listening to him speak: 1 He knows of what the spell is going to do, but knows not if his sister and brother knows. 2 There efforts to find and save Algernon were futile. The formed a group known as APDUST. Application of Processed Discovery of Unknown Siblings' Tracks No one helped them and the frustration grew. One day recorded on August 16, 1786 , Jonahten suggested the split their search efforts to locate their brother. Jonahten headed to the Americas with a clue. Abut the same time the incarcerated indiviuals who had assaulted nym were being released and they sought revenge. 3 months later Jonahten recieved a letter telling imof his sister's rape and murder at the hands of the same people, who still to this day were never caught. he layed in bed and cried for weeks, before restarting his journey. 3 In the year of 1888 Jonaten had finally found someone to accompany him on his journey. Her name was Elise Townsen. Lovely girl. I couldn't have been happier for them. He settled down for a year in 1890 to take care of his wife and there soon to be baby girl. (again a mother's intuition here). However about a month into the pregnancy they had recieved a letter from no other then Algernon himself. They agreed on it and decided it was time for My son to return to London to reunite himself with his longlost brother. I decided to stay for the baby and my feet were tired formt he years of travelling before. Also, someone needed to watch over Elise. I am eternally gratefull to my father for teaching about inner strength, for not but a week later Aura was born. Thats when Al hell's fury broke loose. During the birth no one was there to help her and three men bust through the door they were screaming about the devil's work and some dark mumbo jumbo. As they went for the mother who was pushing with all her might, I fell. Fel through the coldest ice and all of the spirit's within the realm. I was going to see THIS CHILD AND MOTHER LIVE!!!! I had never been so forthcoming in all my years. As I stood inbetween the three men and the mother, I screamed a milenium's days worth of woe, i sreamed for every hurt that had been was or has yet to come, and that fat little toad of a man did nothing, he stood there like sad stubby statueand he began to slowly crumble into ash. I looked toward the second, he was brawny and carrying an old rusted pitchfork. I looked at him, stared deep into his eyes, letting him see all the tears I had shed and all that I had gven up, all I had and that my life was filled with loss, my dead eyes had seen. He fell to the ground gibbering and gnawing at his arms. And toward the third, the leader I named him, for he was the one shouting. He carried a sword, long sharp and the metal silouted all my strife and all my heart had lost, it seemed fitting that he did thrust it into my chest. I felt the metal nip into me and if I was made of flesh it would have killed me yet another time. Howeve, feeling that blade in me, feeling, just feeling , thinking of the pain, the torture, the misery I had suffered over the last many years, I laughed and as I did so he dared to call me a phantom, I lifted him with my hand, his sword dropping to the ground in such a way to wagon wheels never again creak. I openned my mouth and drank him. I felt his spirit pull fromthe last of his corpse and dropped the dried up husk to the floor. Kneeling toward Elise she touched my face and then kissed my cheek. I helped Aura come into the world that day. I held her close and wiped her clean. Elise looked at me cleaning her new child, she cried in tears of joy, words that have never left me o this day, " I love you mother. Thank You." As I cried I felt my self fading away and handed the child to her mother. As the story goes the next thing I remember is standing infront of this court beign told I could never speak with the living ones and that the only thing that saved me from being destroyed is my naivity. 4 It had been a year since Jonahten had left. Elise was barely making by, and Aura was growing beautifully. I tried to help out as best I could nudging money in there way and trying to keep food in the mothr's belly. It wasn't till 1 year and 2 montsh that Jonathen had left that Elise recieved a letter. It stated that Jonahten had been killed by a madman in the streets of London. I knew better. However I could no longer afect what was going on around me, so I devised a plan, using what I had knwon about time travel from my son, I stepped forward and retireved a young girl about 13, The court not realizing I had was affecting the future did not bother me. I snuck the girl back to the year Elise had recieved the letter. I instructed her what to do. First she went to Elise and hugged her mother for the first time in 6 years. She told her that she would find her father. and she left. I travelled with the Lady Aura 2 months later when we arrived at the location of the address upon the latter there was no grave, nor casket, but a prison. We spent a couple of months devising a plan. Simple really. She ran in on her father's execution and pushed herself backwards even farther in time. The magic changed Aura though. She started aging rapidly. Jonahten spent most of his time trying to fond a way to calm her dying soul. I was yet again reprimanded for my aiding the living. I was given one more chance. 5 Elise Died. Aura tok care of herself until she put herself into an orphanage, where within two days time the old me retrieved her. Confused yah yet? I know I have confused me time and time over. Jonahten created a space where Aura did not age. Most of his magics were spent creatig the little space he could for her. While so he did research and found his sister was still alive. He left one day to meet with her, he came back and spoke not for a week. It was in his diary I found that the men did not murder Nym, but did indead rape her. She took a hatred to men and has used the organization APDUST as ascientific research group to do experiments on men. I found later that she hated her brother for leaving her there. 6 1923 Jonahten has built a building underground for his daughter and him. He has plans for more, but they take time. 7 In 1933 Jonahten continued to dig and he found a root, a mile wide golden colored root. He cut into the root and took a piece. He then p[anted the bit of root and overnight. it grew. and there was this apple tree in the middle of the room for a while, until Jonahten got extremely discreet from Aura. He moved the tree and it's fruit away. to this day I am not sure where. However, a single apple fel off and Aura being the oung child she perpetualy always will be snatched the fruit and tasted it. She began too glow a goldish hue. and with in moments she was radiating Ligt. My son being as intelligent as he his realized if he did not act quick, the poor girl would be doomed to eplode. He also reaized the potential of the energy radiating fromher, that he could use it and build a powerful structure to defend his home, from his evil sister. 8 Then it was in 1949 Algernon made his first apearance. He travelled ontop of thsi machine athat was large as four elephants and as dark as night. It attacked Jonahten's building. However Algernon underestimated his elder brother's magics and defenses. The Machine was stop and Algernon was captured. Again my poor children. Are they constantly to face a doomed existence? Algernon was mad. No seriously. He is insane and nothing can cure him of his illness. His elder brother spent years helping him, until he realized it was of no use and just confined him, awaiting the day he could also retrieve his site s the spel could finally be completed. However, it was Aura who found the other partof the spell. It was not only necessay for all three siblings to come together, but also a certain set of people that each contained a bit of the man who cast the spell needed to return the energy lent to borrow. Aside a few attacks from Nym's robots, and machines, this bring us to the recent past. The one some of you know and some of you do not. So I shall recall the rest here for you. OKAY... Before I go any farther, I should probaby explain what the "spell" is. This is the reason behind sanctuary and the gathering of people here in general. My son, no not Jonahten, nor Algernon;. You see this story is not about this family. This story is about those people assigned/.asked/commadeered to aid our family, the time of joing has come and gone so for those few who know not what this "spell" I speak of is, it has already happened. I am going to to try to explain this as easy as possible, but bare with me, please. Okay if you take a rock and through it into a still pond the ripples from that rock travel allthe way to every shore. Depending pon the size of the rock, how hard it throw and how close to the center of the pond it is thrown determine which shore is touched first, and how large a ripple is when it hit the shore. What does that have to do with anything? Well I'm glad you asked. Magiic works like that rock and those ripples. If your not careful when casting magic (or throwing rocks) you could affect things outside what you want to affect ( such as causing to large of ripples) That said The spell was simplistic as much as it was complicated. My son Thomas Kent was in grave danger. To escape this danger he was going to split into three bodies and set a time when they would come together again. But to ensure this union would occur he selected a group of individuals who all were some how already connected by their pasts. The incentive? Each person would also recieve a tiny portion of his power, but only enough to defend themselves with Also only the first born of my three triplets was to know the cause and effect of what was to occur, so he would build Sanctuary. A place where this gathering was tot ake place. he hopes that those people he gathered would also aid him defeating the encroaching evil. Whats this evil you ask? Simple it is the darkness. It starts as something simple and grows in the hearts of men and women alike. Then the evil is released and it is the darkest of the darkest shadows that reside upon this world. That which ould consume our world for her own benefit. The god-killer, the shadrow bringer, the deepest hatred, the dark mother, Goddess of hate and shadows alike. To speak her name draws her attention so I dare not do so. However beware her son the thrice destroyed, Naicul. His nemesis is Lucian. He withholds from thier power and attempts to slay them at all costs. She has some connection to another world where from she daws her dark evil powers.. Within the last year before members came to sanctuary, Jonahten made sure Aura was going to be ok and checked to make sure Algernon's containment unti was working properly. he hid his wand in a local forest and steped into the spirit-world to see if he could find the answers he was looking for. Unbeknownst to Jonahten, Algernon had devised a plan to get out and he quickly took over the minds of the Sanctuary Servants. Within the first Month of Sanctuary members arriving, they had found the wand. Little did they know it was an enemy that was pulling there strings. The wand was the key to everything. By giving the wand to a sanctuary sevant Algernon was able to escape. he returned but the same night. Only to attack the new members. Not being fully charged up he was quickly defeate even with the wand of elder brother. The wand was retrieved and all was good. The members started searching for objects of interest here in sanctuary. they found Blue Portals which took themto the lower parts of Sanctuary. They however made a mistake and placed a disc that was trapped by APDUST into a computer and loaded the file. I caused the system aligned with Sanctuary to malfunction and th blue portal locate din the game room acted as a focal point for he eradication of the spirit realm known as the Umbra. This did not go over well. Also, if that was not bad enough APDUST had manufactured two new weapons; The Remote Controlled Weapons or RCW, which flew around and struck at most any target they could, and the new model 37 hundred series unmanned droids, which carried an arsenal of laser cannons, rocket launchers, speed boosts, and strengthened melee weapons. They decided to test their new toys by attempting to infiltrate the main frame.Their planned worked, we failed torealized that they had soem kind of cloaking devise as well. Not ony did the sanctaury members save the core, but the managed to open up the Library as well. They were very nice to me the firs time I met them. Then they took me out, but one of them got stuck inside and they couldn't get me back in either, so I went dwn to play with Aura. And I've been here ever since. the one that got stuck in the Library, got integrated by the Computer as well. Man im glad I wasn't there for thsat.But they got thei friend out and the fixed the core. So everything was fine.Right? Wrong; the Umbra was still broken and Apdust still was attacking. The past Sanctuary Master came back and was none to happy about what was oing on. he came with information about an apdust headquate, so we ttacked it, but the attackfell through. The main casuality was te disappearance of Rune former Sanctuary Master. Apdust retaliated in full force and almost entirely wiped out Sanctuary So the council that helped with Sancuary needs sent an upgraded weapons system and the Apdust problem was running smoother. Then the council was attacked, only one of them survived; Ark Along the way Zaii is delivered this sword, because it was his sire's weapon. Also, it had recently struck Algernon, who had killed the Assamite's Antedelluvian and raided their homeland, claiming it for his own. Then through some transfer magic the Umbra that was "destroyed" was actually being contained inside the sword. William Han was the one to figure out that to unlock the umbra, The wand needed to touch the crystal on the back of Zaii's sword. The umbra came back and with it so did my son Jonahten. more too come............... |