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Scenario Dreams
Part 2: The Calling I woke up. I had expected to wake in the tree in my
old grove, but my dreams really had come true. Sure enough I was in the little
spot that I used to practice flying in. I called out, “Camouflage Potion” and
one appeared in my hand. I wanted to go look around. Then I thought that I
might finally be able to resume my human form. I put the potion down and
concentrated. Still nothing happened. I was still a desert shoyru as I had been
now for who knows how long. I picked the potion back up and chugged it down. At
least I still could call up the items.
I gradually turned invisible and made my way to the house. The side door was open so I quietly walked in. The
news was on and I noticed something very odd. It was September 9, 2001. Then I
looked at the chair and I saw something even odder. There was ME sitting on the
chair watching the news. This was getting weirder by the second. The other me
turned the television off and walked to the living room. I followed closely.
Then the other me stopped in his tracks. Apparently he had sensed my presence.
Of course, I had forgotten about my high level of awareness of oddities back
then. I guess me following myself was a serious oddity. He turned around with a
certain grin on his face and started a complex series of martial arts
maneuvers. Then chuckled to himself and went upstairs. I thought back to that
light heartily. At that time I had always wanted to be in some kind of fighting
action, though I never showed it in public. That had always been my secret
wish. I guess fighting the yerks was just up my alley. I walked around that place a bit and decided to go
back to my grove. My thirty minutes of invisibility had almost expired. At my
grove I decided to fix the place up so that I could hide without calling an
item. There was no way to call one without saying it’s name out loud or yelling
its name with thought speech. I rested in a burrow that night and woke up the
next morning. I thought back on the
date and realized something. It was September 10th and tomorrow would be
September 11th! I had to do something about the 911 attacks! I sat down and
thought through my inventory. Then I figured out the perfect tool, the water
scarab. I tried it out and figured out how to use it. Then I jumped up and
soared off into the sky. I attained as high an altitude as possible and went
full speed in the direction of New York. As I passed through some country something told me
that I was being followed. I looked to my side, still going at a high speed and
saw an F-16 fighter jet right beside me. I heard a voice in my head, which I
eventually figured out was the radio signal that basically screamed a few words
that I’d rather not say and asked what I was. I realized that I had passed the
sound barrier and I knew he wouldn’t be able to hear me if I called at him so I
simply said with a light tone, <Hi there! I’m heading to New York to save a
bunch of lives, mind if I hitch a ride.> The pilot fainted and the aircraft dived. I realized
that I had to stop acting like all was normal and start thinking a bit more. I
dove down and matched speed with the plane. I then lifted it back to a level
angle and set it down. Then I headed back on my way, drinking a camouflage
potion before taking off. I went a steady mach 2.5 the entire way and got to
New York City in time to look around and see the sun set. I spent that night on
top of a nearby building close to the WTC towers. If I woke up in time I might
be able to stop the event altogether. I was feeling tired so I created a fish
negg for dinner and had a dessert of faerie sparkle cake. That would cost
almost a million points on neopets.com but I had it all for free. It was really
good too. I went to sleep that night full and happy about what I was going to
do in the morrow. As I slept my mind roamed. I dreamt a deep, vivid
dream. In my dream I was faced against a great evil, one with overwhelming
powers. I had to defeat this… thing. I was not alone. To my left there was a
creature of shadows. Despite his appearances he was pure of heart, and in his
hand was the crystal of goodness. Immediately to my right there was a desert
king, his armor shining, and a legendary sword in his hand. To the right of him
was a scribe of the old. He had no weapons, but he needed none. To the far
right was an ancient warrior, skin gleaming like the sun. On his back there was
a weapon of the future, which he could use with deadly accuracy. The evil
turned to me and many shapes began to emerge from in front of him. Suddenly
there was a huge explosion. I woke up to see smoke pouring out of one of the WTC
towers. I was late. I wanted to drink a camouflage potion, but I knew that it
wouldn’t work if I was using weapons. So I jumped up and called out, “Dual
Water Scarab” and on each of my arms a golden scarab appeared and was then
surrounded by a beautiful blue gem. I flew over to the tower and immediately
began blasting water at the flames. It was hot, unbelievably hot. I wanted so
bad to cancel one of the scarabs and create a mega fire shield, but I knew I
had to stick to my job at full capacity if I wanted to do anything. I stayed
there going around the building and through the building until the fire was
under control. All the computers were ruined and the building damaged, but
because of my work it was not destroyed. I created an exit for the people above
the point of impact when a heard a second explosion. The second plane had hit.
I re-equipped the scarabs and went to work extinguishing the fires. As I was
working a gray portal opened and something huge jumped out and ran off. I
wanted to chase it and find out what it was, but I had a job to do. After I put
out the fire and created an exit I got out of there at maximum speed. I kind of
felt sorry for the people directly below me, they must have been hearing some
huge sonic booms. I went back to our house, slowing down at the end so
they would have a harder time finding me. I saw no cars beside my house so I
went in through my secret entrance and turned on the news. There were reports
everywhere about a strange rescue by an unknown speeding thing. Then they
showed up close pictures of me flying around. There was a reward out for the
one who had saved the towers, but I didn’t want money. For one thing they would
probably take me to some almost completely inescapable military base, and for
another thing I could create almost anything I needed. Just then the door opened and I walked in. That was
a shocker. I, or to prevent confusion, he screamed and then stared. I was quiet
this entire time, knowing that me escaping would only scare him even more. He
got up the courage to say, “Y-you are a desert shoyru, the one that saved the
towers.” I was shocked, how was he so calm in this situation. The first time I
saw myself I fainted, of course he wasn’t the one with wings on his back
suddenly. I responded in a calm tone, “Yes, I am who I am, and
there is nothing I can do about it anymore.” He fell down, ”You sound exactly like I do, how is
that, who are you, and what are you doing here?” “That is a tough question, when you get right down
to it, I am you. At least I am you from a different time in the future where
something very strange happened. I came here to try to figure something out.” “You created an alternate timeline!” He yelled at
me, “That means that you are the real me and I am just a copy. That’s just
great. Hopefully the changes you made are for the better.” “Alternate timeline? What… Wait I remember… It’s my
old theory. Too bad someone already thought of the theory before I created it.
When an object travels four dimensionally, he creates an alternate timeline
that protects the flow of history; the alternate timeline is a changed version
of the past. That means that I have done nothing about the attacks.” I said. “You have done it for me and the others in this
timeline. I am exactly the same as you were when you were at this point in time
with all of you past to the point of your arrival, except I have come in
contact with you and I have come in contact with the changes you made. How did
you travel 4D anyway?” “I’m not sure of that myself” I replied. We sat down talking about the theories until a
special bulletin came up on the news. It said, “A werewolf like creature has
been seen roaming the countryside and destroying all in its wake. We have
exclusive footage of this creature in action.” A video came up on screen and it showed a huge blue
monster destroying a house. The camera zoomed in and the creature turned toward
it. Jay and I both yelled out at the same time, “Its Balthazar!!!” “Did this happen in you timeline?” Jay asked me, a
bit panicked. “No, in fact I have not seen another creature from
Neopia besides me, ever. It was true; Balthazar was on the loose and headed
this way, leaving behind him a path of destruction. Jay said to me, “We have
got to go stop him!” “What do you mean we?” I asked. “If I am correct, you will need a strategist that is
not getting knocked around by a seven foot tall mutated lupe, besides I don’t
want to be left out of any action if I can help it.” I had to agree with him there, I would probably be
quite panicked going against someone who was almost four times my size. I
looked at him and said, “In that case I will take you with me, but just in case
of an emergency, take these and eat a cool negg.” I created many regular jeweled
scarabs and about ten Thoras tears for him to carry for protection, I seriously
didn’t want to be responsible for a critical injury to myself. He ate the negg,
grabbed his backpack, now full of scarabs, and came for me to take him to the
battlefield. “Also take this cloud charm, it will protect you against the high
wind speeds as we are flying over there.” Jay got a slightly worried look on his face and
said, “Flying? You don’t really mean that you are going to fly there holding me
a mile into the air, do you?” I grinned at him a bit remembering my uneasiness of
heights that had been cured by flying without fear of falling for the first
time and said, “Of course, how do you think we will get there?” He uneasily agreed and I held him up easily with the
strength I had acquired from the neggs and we took off in the direction
Balthazar had been last sighted, leaving behind a very odd sounding note for
his/my parents. We ended up in Iowa where Balthazar was happily
destroying a bunch of crops. I gave Jay some sky boots and a transporter helmet
in case he needed to get away fast, and went to challenge my foe. I was scared,
seriously scared, I had never faced an enemy with this kind of power. He
stopped and stared at me. I knew I had to get ready, what could I use that
would do anything against this monster. I called up my Tazzalor’s cutlass and
my golden butter knife. I heard a voice from the side saying, “Good choice”. Balthazar said something that sounded like, ”So
you’re the chosen one, wimp.” and then he attacked. I almost had my head knocked off by the swinging of his paw, and
I backed off and tried to hit him with my cutlass. I succeeded but he countered
with a wand of the air faerie. “Use the knife!” I heard from far off. I gripped my
butter knife and hit Balthazar solidly. The knife was very effective, and I
might have defeated him if it wasn’t for the fact that he pulled out a greater
orb of the fire faerie and a greater staff of the earth faerie and blasted me
back a long ways. I was paralyzed, as in I couldn’t feel my legs or my wings. I
was completely helpless. “At least I tried to help.” I thought to myself. I felt a gust of wind and was suddenly picked up and
found myself in another place. Jay had saved my life by using the sky boots to
run over to me and used the transporter helmet to transport us both to another
place. He took out a jeweled scarab and healed my wounds. I had failed my task;
I had been defeated in battle. “Are you okay? You took a bad hit back there.” Jay
asked me. “That stinks, sure I have defeated dozens upon
dozens of hork bajar, and I have liquefied Taxxons right and left. I even
defeated Visser Three and his blade ship, but I can’t even withstand more than
two hits from Balthazar.” I grumbled to myself. “What did you just say, where were you before you
came here?” Jay asked, shocked. “You see, back in my own timeline I could become
neopet or human after some strange thing hit me with a blue light, the only
thing was that I couldn’t call items or use thought speech like I can now. I was
training in my grove when a gray vortex consumed me and sent me to a place
where the Animorphs stories were real. When I was there I came in contact with
the morphing cube and I lost my ability to become human, but attained the
ability to call items. I spent weeks, months, perhaps as long as a year
fighting alongside the Animorphs and eating cool neggs until, well, something
odd happened and I was sent back here.” I explained. “That means that you must have stats around the same
as Balthazar because of all those cool neggs, you just don’t have the
confidence you need. At the least, we need to work out a new strategy.” I had to agree with him on the new strategy thing. “Maybe if you are bigger than Balthazar, he won’t
seem quite so scary to you. Then you might be able to attack full strength.
Also we probably need some more strategic weapons. Lets try using a Wand of
Supernova to try to get some fire damage on him and heal you in the process. I
just hope he is like the wargs; those are the evil wolves from The Hobbit in
case you forgot. Also for a secondary weapon with some better power behind it
lets try using, um, a hat of the muffin man, then you should be able to attack
from a distance with battle muffins.” I had to say that I was thoroughly impressed by this
strategy. I guess with all the split second decision fighting I had been doing
lately I had gotten out of practice. I agreed and started practicing my
techniques with these weapons. The rod of supernova was pretty good considering
the fact that it could heal me, but by far the hat worked best, and I didn’t
have to call out for a muffin each time I wanted one. Also I didn’t have to go
in close and risk being hit by a double blast again. We went off by ground in search of Balthazar again.
I could tell somehow the general direction he was, and I wanted to recover as
much as possible before facing him again. Besides, I think Jay didn’t really
like riding a mile or so in the air with nothing but air below his feet going
at incredibly high speeds. I guess I had just gotten used to flying by then,
but he was only the me in the past. Jay decided to go to town and check the news for
sightings while I stayed behind and rested. I sat down and went to sleep for a
bit. I was awaked suddenly by a rapid loud sound, and pinpricks on my back. I
got up and looked at the direction of the sound. There was a soldier shooting a
machine gun at me. I looked at him, he looked scared, and then he stuttered
out, “How are you still alive, I shot 50 rounds at you. Hey wait! Are you the
one that saved the twin towers?” I got up, looked at all the flattened bullets lying
around me and said to the soldier, “I am the one you speak of, however I don’t
like being shot at very much. I am currently recovering from a battle with
Balthazar.” The soldier fell down on the ground and said, “I
can’t believe I met the Golden Guardian, the one who saved my family. They were
stranded above the impact point of the second tower. I thought you were a
creature like that giant wolf that was heading toward the city. I can’t
apologize enough for shooting you.” “Wait! Did you say that there was a giant wolf
heading for the city? That’s where Jay went, I have to go save him.” “Before you go I would like to tell you that I saw
the creature heavily protecting his side right under his left foreleg. Perhaps
that is his weakness. I wish you luck Guardian.” At the time I had no idea how relevant it was that I
was being called Guardian. I headed to the city, still thinking of what the
soldier had said. I then remembered that was the place where I had hit it with
the knife. I must have actually damaged him. I started to feel better so I
jumped up into the air and started flying there, new energy glowing within me. I arrived in the city to see a panic. There were
cars speeding away from the city and people all running from the same
direction. Hardly anyone noticed me because of the overall panic. I ran toward
where they were running from. There were patrol cars all around the mall there.
It was one of those malls that aren’t necessarily that big but had many floors
to it. I tried to get past the patrol cars without being
seen. I was almost to the entrance when the one of the policemen spotted me. I
had no time to explain myself so I ran out of sight into the mall. When I got
there I saw me, or at least the me from this timeline, dodging blasts from a
greater orb of the fire faerie and throwing anything he could find at the beast
attacking him. I saw that he had
already used up three of his thyoras tears and one of his jeweled scarabs. I silently called up my Rod of Supernova and hat of
the muffin man. I took the rod and concentrated, slowly waving it in a large
circle. I needed all the power behind this blast that I could get as long as I
wasn’t seen. Three supernovas emerged from the wand and hovered beside me. I
took a deep breath, took aim, and thrust my rod through the circle, aimed
directly at Balthazar. An amazing blast of fire and searing light emerged and
struck Balthazar. He gave out a petrifying howl and turned straight at me. “So you have come here so that I can finish you off.
I’ll deal with your little friend later.” He came charging at me and tried to use his fangs on
me, but I jumped up to the third story of the mall, supernovas still following
me, pulled a water muffin from my hat, and hit him with it. This made him
really mad. He pulled out his greater orb and blasted me while I pulled out
three more battle muffins from the hat. That REALLY hurt. I threw them at him
and he hit me again with the greater staff, knocking me down to the ground
floor. Now I was hurt bad. I knew that the combo would have
worked fine if I had better defense and wasn’t quite so scared at this
creature. I almost gave up hope as he raised the rod that his greater orb was
on and prepared to finish me off. He aimed it at me, and suddenly a hawk dove
down and stole it from him. The hawk carried it over to me and gave it to me.
Then he said, <Hey Jay, Just thought I would drop by in your world to help
out a bit. Looks like you needed a hand.> It was Tobias, but how did he get here? It didn’t
matter, all I cared about was getting back to the fight. I restored my health
with the Rod of Supernova and got back into battle. I was a bit relieved that
his main weapon was now in my control. Balthazar looked at me and snickered. He
then started growing huge. He had grown to be at least ten times his natural
size, which alone was gigantic. “Don’t be fooled, He used Supersize! He is just as
vulnerable to elemental attacks as ever, he is just an easier target now.” I
heard from a few stories up. Jay was
right, Balthazar was trying to scare me, though he was doing a pretty good job.
I had to create a good barrage of attacks as long as I had an easy target. I
took out many muffins and threw them at them. That caused some MASSIVE damage
to him. He turned to me and swatted me with his paw. Now that hurt. I still had
will to fight though. I created a quick blast with my rod of supernova and in
the process gained three more supernovas, which joined the rest, hovering
around me. I was healed but Balthazar hit me with one of his most dangerous
weapons, his claw. I was down and almost out, but with one last ounce of
strength I raised my rod of supernova and sent all of the hovering novas around
me shooting toward him like ninja stars. He shrank back down to size and I got up as a result
the strength the novas gave me. Balthazar was hurt badly but not defeated yet.
He looked straight at me and said, “It’s not over, chosen one” and then he ran
away to another place. I looked around
as Jay teleported to beside me with his helmet and Tobias flew over. <That was cool! I really wish I could stay around
but it seems that our friend, The Ellimist, is calling me back. Look us up if
you ever return to our plane of reality.> and with that Tobias flew up to
the ceiling of the mall where a blue vortex was waiting for him. “That was a bit more than odd. What did he mean by
plane of reality?” I wondered to myself. “Hey! We need to follow Balthazar and finish him
while he is weak, come on!” Jay almost yelled at me. We went after him. Jay had on his sky boots going at
top speed, and I ran beside him, making sure that he stayed on the right track.
We ran and ran for many hours. We finally rested in a cave that was close to a
mountain range. I could sense that Balthazar was hiding in those mountains,
resting before his next attack. That night as I slept I heard a voice in my
head that told me not to give up, to trust my instincts and to keep up hope. That morning we headed off to the mountain range and
met Balthazar on a cliff. He grimaced at us. Jay was wearing the tears, helmet,
and he was clutching Balthazar’s greater orb. I had in my hand nothing but a
rod of supernova. Balthazar took out an attack trident and blasted a beam of
energy at us, I dodged and Jay used a tear and countered with a blast from the
greater orb. Balthazar was knocked back and was teetering on the edge of the
cliff. I called out in a loud voice, “Space Basher” and in my hand appeared a
huge padded bat. I hit Balthazar and he fell. I heard him call out, “I will
return!” to us. I looked over the cliff to see a just a glimpse of something
gray disappear, and then nothing. Jay and I returned home and we had to do a lot of
explaining to his/my parents. After a while everything became almost normal. I
stayed in my grove and occasionally visited my other self, and he lived happily
with his/my family. He still had the items that I had given him, and he still
had the greater orb just in case something else came and threatened him. One night Jay and I were sitting in the backfields
together, commenting on how strange that I looked as a shoyru and talking about
how it all started. The stars were bright on that night. Then without warning
the stars became hidden. A huge object appeared in the sky. We both immediately
jumped up; both knowing that it was the same thing that had changed me. There
was no blue light this time, only the mirror. I told Jay to stay back while I
investigated. I looked into the mirror and saw myself, still a desert shoyru.
Then for just a second I flashed silver and a face appeared in the mirror. I
went back to desert but the face stayed. I recognized it, a deep wise face. It
was The Ellimist. Suddenly the face disappeared and in it’s place there was a
blue vortex. I said goodbye to my other self and jumped in. I found myself in a strange place. I knew that The
Ellimist was close by because I had taken that form where I was completely
human except for having orange and red shoyru wings. I looked around, the area
around me resembled the night sky, except I was floating in the space and there
were more stars than I had ever seen at one time in my life around me and there
was a slight blue mist in the place. Then he appeared. He took the form that
looked like an old, wise elf, but I knew the extent of his power. He is only
known as The Ellimist. He came over and started talking and me. “Welcome Jay, it seems that you have become quite
accustomed to this form of travel” He said to me in that unexplainable voice. “You mean the vortexes? Yes that has been quite
handy, but what about the gray one that took me to the Animorphs’ world or the
one that brought Balthazar into my world? Secondly, why am I a shoyru and how
does the Animorphs world exist?” “To answer your first question, I am not the only
one who can create these vortexes, there is another. For the second question, I
gave you the power to change to see if you were worthy to help me. I must
explain this in detail, so don’t interrupt until I am done.” “You know me as The Ellimist, but that is not my
true identity. I am the Master of the reality planes. I watch over them and
make sure that no one throws them into chaos. You are probably wondering what
the reality planes, or RPs, are. You see, the flow of time is the fourth
dimension, just like your theory goes, and off that timeline is the potential
of fifth dimensional creation, or creating alternate timelines. This creates a
web if it is used enough and the entire thing is called a reality plane. Your
RP is not the only one. There are many other Reality Planes which branch off of
yours. There is an RP where Hobbits roam and one where Link fights evils in
Hyrule. There is one where Mario fights Bowser, and some RPs where magicians
and adepts control the elements. You see, every book, series, game, or idea of
another world that is in your RP is a reality somewhere else sixth
dimensionally. I chose you to travel these planes because there is a chaos that
is about to try to conquer all of the RPs. You have been chosen for your
longing for action, for your knowledge of stories and games, for your
comprehension of the space time continuum, and last but most certainly not
least, your goodness of heart.” “I would like to know though, why couldn’t I call
items before I touched the blue cube and why could I not become human after I
touched it?” “That was a bit of a mistake, you see before I had a
chance to brief you on your quest and finish giving you the powers, you
fainted. I decided that you still needed a bit of time before you were ready to
take the journey. The blue cube switched out the abilities that were active.” “Okay, I think I get what you are asking. What do I
need to do to get started?” “I will appoint you as the Guardian of the
RPs. It will be your duty to vanquish anything that threatens the balance of
the reality planes. When you are appointed you will only have three forms. One
of them will be human, which will serve you well in most reality planes. The
second will be as a silver shoyru, which should be useful in the one you will
be going to next. And the last for will be Guardian form. That is basically
what you look like right now, except your wings will be silver and you will
have the ability to move freely around the RPs, there will also be a few other
minor things. You will also be able to use items from most any RP with a few
exceptions. There is one Item that you will need to become a true, fully
equipped guardian. Do not abuse this power, I don’t want to have to appoint
another guardian to hunt you down and destroy you.” “Will I have any help?” “When I send you to the RP where the enemy is
closest to you will find four great warriors. They may not seem to be great at
first, but when the hour of destiny comes, they will unfold to their full
potential. It is now time for you to be appointed.” There was a great blue light that consumed me. I
started to feel… different somehow. My wings went from orange and red to shades
of silver. I felt a strange power bubble up within me. Then it stopped. “I will let you create the portal this time, hold
out your hand and concentrate. This will only work when you are in guardian
form. If you are not in Guardian form you will make yourself look a fool. I
will give direction to the vortex this time but in the future you will have to
concentrate on a specific location or place where someone is. Good Luck” I held out my hand, my index finger touching my
middle finger and my ring finger touching my small finger and my thumb held out
to the side, pretty much exactly the way that it was done by Spock on the old
Star Trek show. In front of me there appeared a green vortex. I became a
shoyru, took a deep breath and jumped in. |