Griffon of Canterlot
Chapter 44.5 – Shen's Fate in Question
Lord Shen moves towards the wall slowly stepping sidewards before twisting his bladed spear around and launching it outwards into thin air. “Greeting Panda, last we meet...” He shift from the battle stance to a natural one. “No no no no no...”
He toss the spear up, does a splits on the ground rolling to the right doing a spin on one talon in a circle before catching the spear with his winged hand, he followed by pressing the blade tip on the ground and flipping over it landing on his talons followed by trashing the spear through the air.
“We meet at last.” He grins. “Yes, that's it.” He turns and speaks out. “Greetings panda, we meet at la-gah.” Shen freaks out slightly as the spear tip stop inches from the goat Soothsayer.
“Your afraid for a reason.” Soothsayer said calmly to him.
Shen lower the spear. “I am not afraid., his coming to me in chains, anyone should be afraid is-”
“You.” Soothsayer calmly finished. “Yet...” She walk outside looking down, Shen curiously and with caution follow her seeing what she looked at. “Those two are a new factor in events to come.”
Shen pull out from his robe sleeve the golden orb. “The child's puzzle sphere, the bird-cat with the blue white glowing fist Alpha spoke of.” Shen turn to Soothsayer. “What do you see in his future?”
Soothsayer walked inside to a bowl putting pieces of cloth and leaves into it. “Place the sphere on top.” Shen does so. “Now let's see what we get.” She throw the blue crystals over it, a burst of bluish white smoke raised up. “Curious, I see a tree with endless divides, his path is unclear because we nothing but a... Dream.”
“We nothing but a dream? What does that even mean you old goat!” Shen point his spear at her.
“He sees us as a dream, the path laid before him has too many routes to even conclude, his past how ever is one of pain, one that no child should see.”
“Go on.”
Soothsayer wave her hoofed hands around as the tree shifts into a open gate over a massive landscape. “A gate opened and a storm wiped out everything in it path, till the moment a single act on the land closed the gate and brought the child through with a mountain that fell.”
“Gate? Storm? Closed and mountain that fell?”
“It as it shows, the seed that allow the child to live has been growing, the tree of Elysium as it grows creates many paths he can travel and as a tree he could jump from branch from branch, pure to a fault there could be wrong or right.”
Shen noticed it shift. “What going on now?”
Soothsayer took a good look moving her hoof hands around once again. “The other is of chaos that is grey as it can get, neither good or bad just there for chaos, his path is set as yours.”
“Oh?”
“Freed from stone but by power of six elements of loyalty, generosity, laughter, kindness, honesty and magic will fall upon him once more, as the path is set in stone as yours is, yet a new factor now in play could change that very moment at the last moment.” Soothsayer showed the statue and spinning ying-yang symbol cracks, soon a glow come from them and shatter to show a griffon with talons in the air with wings out.
Shen stared at it as the cloud fades. “What are you saying?”
Soothsayer pick up the undamaged puzzle sphere looking at it many rings and circles on it. “If you stay your course you will be still defeated by a warrior of black and white, but-” She raise one hoof finger up. “There a chance your fate that sealed may shift by a very small factor because of the child.”
Shen took the puzzle sphere from her putting it back in his robe. “Please! I heard enough of this absurd rubbish.”
Soothsayer sighs turning away as he walk up to the cannon to wait for their arrival from below. “I knew he wouldn't listen, yet I had to try and sway him... Maybe the child of the Tree of Elysium can get through to him while I can not.” She glance to the stairs.
“Only one can hope to reshape the stone path that lay ahead...”