Chapter Five: Translation
Jace heard Alex scream as he was being pulled by what he assumed to be almost lethal speed. The vine wrapped around his ankle had a death grip on him. Jace was dragged through the hedges scraping the unexposed parts of his body against all the sticks and branches. He didn’t dare open his mouth because the fear that a stick would impale his throat. His arms flailed around wildly trying to grab onto anything. At one point Jace actually grabbed a hold of one of the killer plants head, but the force that the vine was using to pull him away ripped the head right off. Jace went through another hedge and felt the vine drag his foot over a concealed rock.
"MOTHER FU-" was all Jace could say before he hit his head against the rock and was out cold.
Jace was standing in the cave that he hated so much and called home. The man, Norik, if Jace recalled correctly was again next to him along with the one girl he saw in his first vision, she too was younger.
“They just don’t listen to me Chlöe,” Norik said pacing back and forth between the stone walls.
“Calm down, I’m sure they will listen to you sooner or later,” the girl named Chlöe said.
“No they won’t, my old man is too damn proud and ignorant to realize that we are dying down here. We need to move out of this old cave and live outside, Chlöe you have to believe me.”
“I do Norik; just sometimes I worry about you. Sometimes I think you may be taking this ‘going outside thing’ way too seriously,” Chlöe said a little bit worried.
“Chlöe, have you ever felt it? The wind in your hair, the warmth of the sunlight on your skin… just the feeling that the air has when it touches your body. It is truly amazing Chlöe,” he replied with a smile on his face.
“Listen to me Norik, if it really is that great then how are we going to go out there. The only way outside is right passed the Council and nobody can sneak past them, how do think you can manage to get out there without them noticing,” Chlöe said in a more serious tone. Norik just turned to her with an even bigger smile on his face.
“Simple,” he said, “We will dig our own way out of this damn cave.”
Jace heard a scream, very faint at first, but slowly growing to the point where it was it was deafening. Chlöe and Norik seemed to not notice the sound as Jace put his hands over his head, even though it didn’t quiet the noise. He felt like his ears were going to explode, or at least start to bleed. Then everything started to fade to white. He knew he was going to wake up soon because it was just like the previous two times when he had these “visions”. The only problem would be where he was this time and how to escape whatever waited for him.
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Alex was being dragged toward the castle much like Jace. The vines that were dragging them however, went in different directions, so if they did survive this predicament they would be lost and alone. Alex, taking the risk of getting a stick jabbed into her eyes, opened them. She reached for her sword but soon found out she dropped it when the vines yanked them off their feet. Alex tried to pry the vine off of her but it's grip was too strong. It simply tightened its grip around her ankle as she struggled to pull the thing off while being dragged across the ground. She hit a rotting stump of a tree and exploded into tiny pieces of wood. The impact of the wood knocked her into a daze, and as she continued to be pulled across the ground toward the castle she saw the dragon; who was circling the garden, turn toward the sudden explosion of wood. It saw Alex and flew toward the movement. Alex just gulped and prayed that the vine would take her wherever it was taking her, faster.
The dragon landed on the ground with such force that it cracked a bit under its claws. It landed on the vine that was carrying Alex and it was shredded into two. The vine wrapped around her ankle went limp as the other half flailed around like a chicken with its head cut of, green ooze coming from where it was amputated. The part around Alex's ankle vanished like the other plants into the air. After it was gone Alex started to see very dim colors of light around everything living, much like Jace described.
The dragon after catching it's pray, started burning all the other vines sprouting from the castle, which Alex realized how close it was. She stood up quickly while the dragon had its back turned and bolted toward the castle. The dragon however, saw the movement from the corner of its eye and moved to intercept her. With its sheer size and speed the dragon beat Alex to her destination and trapped her against a wall. It stood there staring at her making a low growing noise. Alex responded with a wimpier and shaking uncontrollably. It snorted its nose, black smoke coming from it and lingering in the air. Alex didn't even have the guts to cough as the black smoke filled her nostrils. She saw where the dragon burned all of the vines new ones sprouting up the holes and cracks in the wall. The dragon, if it did notice, didn't care; it's attention was focused on Alex.
What happened next shocked Alex so much she thought she would have literary jumped out of her skin. The dragon spoke. It was a booming voice but still a low grumble. It spoke in some unidentified langue.
"Aam, zu dahmaan jul ingrah vod," the dragon said.
"Wha- What?" Alex asked not sure if the dragon was a friend or foe and still afraid for her life. The dragon looked at her for a second before talking again.
"Krosis, I... did not expect there... to still be humans left… so it has been… a long tiid… since I have spoken… hin language," it said in a low and slow grumble.
Alex was confused and her head hurt. All the lights and colors that were being emitted by everything was almost unbearable. The auras around everything started to get brighter as more of the mutant plants were burned by the spreading fire and disappeared into a blue dust-like substance. Smoke started to fill the air and Alex had to close her eyes for the fear that she might go blind by the bright lights. Alex started to cough from the some that flooded the air. Although she didn’t see it, she felt the dragon begin to hover above the ground and clear out the smoke with gust of air from its wings. She would have to remind herself to thank it later.
Ales tried to open her eyes but when she did she was blinded with light. She could barely see her hands in front of here because of the burning white light that covered everything else. She started to feel it overcome her and she screamed, but Alex didn’t hear her voice even though she felt her lungs spewing the air out of them; instead all Alex heard was the sound one would hear if they were underwater with nothing to disturb the air. Alex tried to scream louder when she saw flames cover her body, how she had no idea because the fire was farther to the left of her and it couldn’t have spread quickly. The light around her quickly went vanished as the dragon covered her with its wing, it said something but like when one tries to talk underwater, it was drowned out and Alex couldn’t make out what it said. Then, although the lighting didn’t change, Alex felt that the world around her was going black.
I finally got off my lazy ass (even though I didnt move at all ) and finished writing this I was going to continue it when Jace woke up but I didnt have a long enough idea to go from there so I didn't want to make this have a weird finish and I thought this chapter was long enough for one of my short ass chapters.
ALSO, to whoever requested a sandwich, the next part, where Jace wakes up (again... ) was going to have that sandwich. So as you can see I had it originally planed to be in here but I'm moving it back to next chapter, sorry (or am I? ).
Yes, I majored in the study of dragon language at Harvard with the help of professor Skyrim... but seriously I got the language straight from the dragons mouth... no
joke. WELL SHIT BALLS ON A CHEESE COVERED CRACKER WHICH IS RESTING UPON JESUS'S NIPPLE. I FORGOT TO ADD THE PONY PART OF THIS CHAPTER. Well lets make it simple right now, right here. They don't go outside because of the plants and Flutershy is passed out, oh and that creature from chapter 3 comes and kills them all after a epic fight scene, well Pinkie survives because she's Pinkie...
The usual, any ideas about the story like what you want to be incorporated into it will be worked to the best of my ability (as long as I approve of the idea, which shouldn't be that hard because I'm weird. As long as it isn't cupcakes shit.) yada yada, Just for all the new people out there because I saw a couple who favorited this while I was taking a break... well sort of... not really... I have a job and DC universe is fun ok so shut up...
Forgotten updated yeah!
wow skyrim dragons im expecting something along the lines of dragon civilization alies to humans or maybe only a few do. So can we expect more oblivion things like idk deadra? oh and what tech are they based around I mean looks and functions. anyway great chapter small but good keep up the good work!
683038 Dragons talk in FIM... Dragons talk in Skyrim... I wanted dragons to have their own language... they dont have cities or technology they just talk and live their lives in caves (this one lives on the mountain... slightly convenient ) it makes more sense that different beings that can talk dont all speek the same language. I dont want to incorporate any other elder scrolls things. honestly I've only played skyrim but I digress. The tech (for humans) is much like the elder scrolls tech (although I never intended it to be that way) sorta like advanced mid-evil or early Renasconces (<- Lol wut is that word) BUT WITH METAL COMES GEARS... Jace ether makes his own gears or does things for the blacksmith so he can get things for his failures- er- I mean brilliant ideas Magic is the power of the machines although they are very simple machines like opening doors... no super robots (at least not yet ) Anyways for clothes or like apearances thats up to you. If you noticed I never described Jace or Alex, it lets you imagine who you want to be in the story, I imagine Jace to have a sandy blond hair that has that messy spike kinda style and for some reason i cannot see him without jeans... jeans look good on anything... so much for consistency, honestly if you want jace to run around looking like batman in my story then by all means imagine it that way... oh god... all seriousness i had is now gone.... but back to tech... its VERY LIGHT steam punk if you didnt get that yet, I havent explored that part because they havent gone deeper into the castle, mostly wooden doors but when they find the use of dramatic convenience that lets them do what ever the fuck they want you know how that goes... as for dragons to humans relationship... how do you think spike walks on two legs most dragons have 4 feet.... nah im kidding... think who made all this so simple shit that they have been going through, honestly you dont think the ponies did, did you? no the castle was built by one human who discovered magic... when he did he became a mixture of chuck noris, bruse lee, and twilight... super bad ass who loves to learn well that dragon lives on the mountain that happens to be not far from where the castle is... dragons live a long time according to the unwritten laws of dragon knowlage so he must been around for some of that shit... now what have we learned super badass who wants to know everything.... dragon.... think you can figure that out... NOW WOULD YOU LOOK AT ALL THIS TEXT. I would review this to make sure there are not too many mistakes and I got across what im thinking (which is hard for me) but TL;DR TROLOLOLOLOLOLOL... wait... am I trolling myself
682593 Just for you ....... Not really It's actually mainly for Black wing and myself (but its true)
683407guh thats a lot of text. I was actually imagining steam punk and magic based power glad they arent like the dwarves in skyrim they are hardcore steampunk. But humans controling golems and atronachs would be awesome!
683514 meh pure uncontrolled magic can do that to any substance form with enough of that raw powerful juicy throbing... wut but besides that last part...*HINT HINT... KEY WORD = HINT*
683535 er i ruv you to?
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683553 read into it be very very very careful if you do you wont find ayting special at all.
683564 Oh you silly filly that last part was nothing sexual it was a joke i meant the pure magic can make huge... robot things... regardless of what its made of... that was the hint.
683583so is it just a mass of energy or objects connected with energy forming a body? P.S. could've fooled my dirty mind im worse than ruby pinch (I forgot if thats her name or not but shes a filly obsessed with porn).
683598 Never heard of her what im saying is that you get pure mother fuckin' magic and it has to go somewhere right, it cant just stay in the air so magic is absorbed by any and all molecules well with enough magic or the right reaction or change in the molecular structure with magic assisting of course you could possibly get anything. the magic could rearrange the atoms take away or add new ones. bend and twist them. In short pure raw magic in large doses if left unchecked can cause spontaneous combustion on anything from metal to books or it could turn dirt into gold or lava. Its really nasty stuff if a lot is just set lose and has no where to go or any other place to be contained... kinda like what Jace did... What? did I sat that, no I didnt you're just imagining things
683598 Oh and the object needs to be able to move and stuff for it to actually be life like. say a rock for example we fill it with magic anf it becomes "alive" the rock wont do anything it will just sit there and be a rock, it has no way to move, talk, fight, or even eat. in the end it is literary a pet rock... just sits there not aware of anything but still "alive"
but if we had something that CAN do things like that... like idontknow clay soldiers
683632 wait im hearing things!? er i need to go <.< (when I said the object thing i was actually thinking of how rock golems move and stand which could be multiple rocks joined together by magic energy its kinda like this boulder = torso smaller rocks are the arms/legs also a pumpkin for a head thats the body but the skeleton what keeps it all together is the energy. or ya know it could be built A.K.A a robot but powered by magic thats kinda how I see golems working.)
683648 oh i know what your talking about, ive played metroid prime and play MTG so yea i understood what you meant, in theory it could work, hell anything is possible with pop sickles-er-magic but it is more likely for the megic to animate an object than the magic itself pull shit together to form its self a body... could happen though, if you want i will put it in, like i said all idea will be put in wpnt be that hard... just need to copy and paste my magic theory comment with some adjustments to explain everything and boom you have a magical stone thing (i think they are called archtechs or something like that, and no not the builders)
684476 a talking rock!? hellz yeah! No that would be pretty stupid maybe an elemental spirit though.
682487 where is sandwich?
685746 im so sorry but didnt you see, it just didnt workout and if i was to add it to this chapter then we wouldnt be talking because the chapter porbally wouldnt be out until i dont know, i longer time
skyrim dragon langauge
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