Chapter six
A beach to remember.
To dream is to never see the sky
"I once believed that, long ago I would be just, a boy."
The skies churned by my very thoughts, as i contplated my life before now..
"Who grew up to be a man, one in which could enjoy the laziness that comes within being in a noble house."
My home was now within and between the earth. And the skies itself. The boundary of the very planes of existence between the higher. And the lower realms.
"Due to his older siblings work and being the youngest out of us all."
I looked down, at my daughter. My sweet little star in the night sky, who never once saw the sun. Tears brimmed under my eyes.
"I learned that I didn't have to work as hard."
Who never once saw a dragon transform or seen what the sky even looked like. Oh, how i yearned to see the blue sky once more.
"Not as much as the others to prove myself."
But I have a duty to protect those above. And below me.
"And that was the trap I fell into, the trap of complacency."
So now I sleep beneath the boundary of life, and above the boundary of death.
Waking up in a hospital can be disorienting for multiple reasons. But thats not what concenerns me. What does however was that. Dream and its relations to me?
Tears smiled from my eyes and i simply ignored them
Going back to my original subject.
One of them being that is gives you the feeling death was near. In my case however it was a little more literal. To put it simply i was, in the vip lounge of a hospital room. How could I tell? Why were there even "v.i.p" lounges of a hospital room..
I dont know dont look at me. What I do know is this. I. Hate. Hospitals. Most importantly I hate not moving, but that was besides the point. For I was now laying on a nice comfortable firm bed. That looked to be in the middle of the beaches of kaiya. What. The. Underworld. Is going on here!!
Upon seeing the nurse literally appear out of thin air from a folding sky to my left and a resounding white light behind her I knew I was in. The vip room. Though technically it was somewhat illegal to have vip rooms. Some cities skirted it for. . . "Safety of the rich." And that annoyed me more than the usual hospital would.
Now usually I would scream bite roar in furry in being kept captive in my bed. If I could that is. For I was thoroughly strapped down with magnetic archaic rings that floated around my. Pff already floating hospital bed. Like those rings out in space that serves as space colonies. This too was a floating ring of magnetic force. We'll they both on a conceptual level were—
Sir your guest have requested to meet you. Do you perhaps know Mizuki and kokoro?
No was all I said to that stupid question and she nodded an evil smile on her face.
She must've been one of the kitsune variant of the shifters. For she swished a fox like tail as she left and closed the door with the click of a button. Reality and space folding again.
Though of course not literally. It was just a simple hollow simulation. But still it wasn't that expensive money wise. But it was mana wise. So of course. It was a luxury experience. For the rich and highly flexed mana users of course.
Everyone else just got highly realistic vision goggles and hoped it didn't explode in their face. For being too. Realistic in feeling alone.
I grimaced at the reports we had to read through as children. Maimed faces death and gore galore. But overall "fixable" thus not catastrophic to the human experience.
My mind flared to life, as i began to control the very environment abadoning the beach. The beach of kaiya. a luxury spot for most. A horrid reminder of what I lost for me.
And changed it into a technological marvel for i was now. Traveling the solar system seeing the planets like mars Jupiter venus up close. and its inward planets the hidden planets revolving around the the divine realm. And the base realm. My realm the realm of man and beast a like.
and the space stations? They were a marvel of a space like inguinity.. to bad their no longer considered the megastructures of man.
The dwarves seemingly outdid us with just one metallic made planet. That revovuled around Jupiter. It was made to be a self sustainable environment were rocks and metals would naturally grow. Basically if you were important? You were there on holiday—
and yet the sound of crashing began to come through this digital.. environment disturbing me with its smooth crusendo.
I ignored it as I watched a camera drone go down. Down into the surface of Neptune until eventually we were on the ice cliffs of neptune. Sprawling homes of vast ice formation like buildings formed. Creating the image of a hundreds of thousands of glowing, blue. Jagged. Spears of ice amidst its very biome. A storm began to brew. Loud and roaring. And yet.. it was until the wall was broken mid flight across dodging spikes of man made. ice mega structures. Dragons had broken in, and chaos ensued. making me curse kaiya style as I tried and failed to get up.
Then the sight of the kitsune nurse being dangled by a particularly similar looking dragon as—
Deep voice rumbling he spoke in what seemed to be a question. "Long to no speak friend, tell me as to what exactly are your sisters to you"
That felt similarly to a statement compared to a question, and yet i answered. "None of your kaiyan business." I got a low growl at that along with a slight squeeze to the nurses neck.
My eyes flashed, and he.. hesitated. Then simply let go of her. His tan skin jet black and orange hair shown with the local sun besides me.
A sun lamp to be precisely, an artificial mini sun. I shrugged nonchalantly. At both the dead glare i was receiving amber eyes dripping with anger.
And now, a familiar pink dragon, the female entered the fray. I sighed, thinking well what a day this is eh father.
And as if by response I thought I heard his voice coughing in embarrassment. I frowned at that, but before I could think long on it. I was rudely interupted, as they both began to, flame up. Like little candles ready to burn the house down if their mistakenly. Knocked. over.
They both frowned at me as if they could hear me. Then simply shook their heads at the same time. Orange and pink flames roiling around them. The grid tried and failed to contain the fire flowing like waves on the floor. But as they walked towards me. Scorching heat rising the temperature in the room. From cold i saw little sparks of icecicles. And... to a raging inferno of old. God given. Divine. Power.
I snorted. They scowled. And began our same song of dance of before but this time. I. Didn't. Hold. Back.
I simply stared at them as the slowly walked to me. Step by, Step. Rolling waves of flames by rolling waves of smog. For the floor was beginning to burn.
I simply restrained them and their flames with pure. Shadow. The sound of a whip snapping at the air broke the flames.
And their dragons wrath cooled to a crawl.
As they were restrained by ice. My shadows coiling back towards my bed. The mini sun turning off. As deep veins of shadow began to literally rumble.
A could barely force a smile with my magneticly enforced stasis
As they. We're now stuck eyes cool as they stared into my eyes. Then flicked to my shadow. Then towards the ice below and casually broke out of the ice formation. Blocky as it was I expected it to hold them a little longer than that.
I made it structured like rectangular geode formations. Expecting at least that to block their mana pathways. After all, ice does freeze ALL it touches. And yet..
As if in answer a deep voice rumbled in mock contempt. "And yet the ice didn't affect us"
"When are you going to learn boy. We. Aren't. Humans. You cant just punch and kick us away. Nor slash at us for that matter." As he simply pointed at Mizuki now arm covered chest. Her eyes glowing with pink hatred at the mention.
But even with that. From the flicker of moment she gave. There was no sign of injury. Then I said the quiet part outloud.
Didn't i.. defeat you guys?
The room felt like the sun just re-entered the room. Calling it a heat wave would be and understatement. Both soft and deep and rumbling voice spoke each mixing together.
I flicked my eyes to the both of them, as if that could help me catch their words more easily.
"You got lucky" his eyes amber eyes tödlich a different story. seemingly boiling with furry, he snorted orange flames. His mouth peaking open once more to show me. Pure lava bubbling withing his maw of a strong jawline.
"You were lucky" she pushed out her forked tongue. Pink flames flowing around it. Only for it to mold back into a human like tongue. Flames dying as she shrugged away her burning shoulders a now more open look to her was made. Giving her a pink Gothic feel to her.
I snorted in response.
They. Snarled.
And hell broke lose right when world peace was retrieved.
The nurse who was knocked unconscious by the big tan one. Now got up and sounded the alarm.
Blue. Lights. Spun round and round like a merry go round of old. They were discontinued eons ago, something about mana sickness.
And she whisped away like a spirit made human. She might as well be considering what her people can do
I broke out of my restraints ice formations cracking with the pressure of mana i accidentally exuded. Cursing i got up pain racking my body as the two of them escaped to my room. Going to the left of the hall.
I sighed a pained breath and got up, hoping beyond hope that father wouldn't hear about this incident. And I began to run—
My body collapsed in on itself muscles spasmeming, heart wrenching. I fell over my legs cramping my pulse roaring in my ears. I. Cursed, blast the divine winds! I cant believe it have— my body spiked with pain as my mana roiled starting a chain reaction to cause some veins to burst. internal bleeding starting. I lost. My. mind.
Pain soaring way above my limit. My soul began to quiver as the bodily.. no divine reaction entered the fray of it all.
Then I heard the very god I all but cursed. Soo you curse the divine winds eh? Son of sora. Find then my blessing i was going to give shall now. Be restated pulled back from arriving. And. Ill. Curse. You.
My eyes bulged the feeling of my eyes being plucked from my skull. As the god of this world. Appeared in a mirage floating above me. His profanly régal form stowing away any doubt he wasn't who he said he was.
It was the god of storms. Nightstar.