a search for my fathers sword part 1

Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:22:09 GMT

We first come across our hero not fighting monsters and being well a ‘hero’ but instead we find him laying on top of a floating piece of earth surrounded by blue mist and dark shadows. Of the three worlds: the Human World in which he came from, the Netherworld in which most humans believe hell is and Celestia in which a type of heaven may await departed souls, none now hold our hero in their embrace. The area that Robert now resides is a type of boundary between the three and could be called a Limbo of sorts.

On that fateful day when Robert, trying to find his father, found the family sword something happened that shouldn’t of. The powers that be saw the human world had just finished a battle of enormous size and scope. Souls needed to be collected on a scale not seen other then the black plague. Down the line from the powers that be must have been one slightly over worked Death and instead of working hard to collect lost souls and still be unseen by living humans such as all Deaths’ job it decided on opening a portal from the Human World to the Netherworld and just throw the souls through the hole and sort it out later.

This is where Robert comes in, for he was the living soul being in the wrong place at the wrong time that saw this happen and was sucked into the portal with the other more ‘dead’ souls. Death being busy didn’t notice he had just thrown a human body instead of just a soul through the portal and kept working. Normally when a person travels by portal they think of where they are going and go there but Robert was sucked in by accident and as such had no idea what was happening or where he was going. Being in mid transport but not having a final destination is not bad for dead souls because Death normally puts a type of tag on the soul which gives it a destination. Robert being alive and in human form had the slight problem of being alive… and being in human form because living thoughts override ‘tags’ and because Robert had no idea what was going on he didn’t know where to go or that he even had to think of where to go. So of course he ended up in limbo.

Over the years Death had forgotten the single human and as such Robert was lost for many years. Laying on the rock, eyes open but not seeing, alive but not living. Being in a portal his body never aged, his mind stopped working and just slept eternally.

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Blink ran through the castle her tiny frame weighed down by books. It was late at night and most demons were sleeping or at their homes. The castle was a public access area for all peoples to be transported from one area to another and also for most public works as the store and waste management.

Blink running to get to her post as one of the Dimensional Gate keepers and of course it being her first day she was late. Turning a corner she quickly ran head first into her superior, the head gate keeper.

“Oh I’m so sorry Please forgive me!” said Blink as she started to pick up her books on cold fission and its effects on gate portals.

Looking down at the girl the Head Gate Keeper closed her eyes, pinched her nose and took a deep breath. “Blink, how many times do I have to tell you, ‘don’t apologize you’re a demon.’” Shaking her head she walked by leaving with a final remark, “the gate is closed at the moment because it’s so late so please tell everyone to wait till morning or use there legs and walk from one area of the world to the next.

“Yes Sir,” Blink said standing up and saluting. Taking her time now because her duties were not needed for gating she grabbed her bags and headed for the gate room. Clicking could be heard as Blink ran up to the door to the gate room opened it then dropped her self on a chair meant for keepers while waiting for portals to be opened. Being a Demon had one nice perk as she wrapped her wings around herself and warmed up. Placing her books down beside her she looked around and saw the place was totally deserted.

Her job as an apprentice Gate Keeper was one of boredom for she had learned the basics of gate theory and was very gifted in her ability to shape tunnels from one area to another but she wasn’t allowed to use them. Only after years of study and watching more experienced keepers work could she master the art of portal making. Oh there were shortcuts of course such as stream lined gates from one area that was used more often to another and as such were hard wired and any body could use those gates of course but to make a new gate to an unknown area was off limits due to unknown elements and oddball world dynamics.

None of this mattered to Blink as she got bored… very easily. Two minutes after taking her post as gate keeper she stood up and decided to open a gate. “Dark and black with hints of grey, take my words and let space sway. Use my power to open a gate, from here to there and change fate. Make one stable and one without pain, make sure it allows people to use without need of a cane. Rip the boundary from one area to another, to see that each becomes like brothers. Hear my call oh space and time, open the portal for this young … AH-CHOO!”

A piece of dust had settled on her nose and as such had made her mss up the calling of the portal…. The portal started as a blue swirl slowly opening like most other portals done yet this one had other plans. A bright flash half blinded Blink as she was thrown by a force from the newly opened portal. Blinking away the white light She barely saw the tunnel stop at a blue like area without any real land mass only floating masses of rock. “Oh oh,” Blink grabbed part of her wing in worry as she saw what appeared to be a man laying on one of those islands of rock. Portals not called correctly or made by hard wired short cuts were by nature very finicky and also had a slight nature to pull people from one area and deposit them in another.

In another flash of light Blink cried out in distress as the portal closed and left her in the room with a man laying face down and barely moving. Nibbling on a tough area of skin on her wing Blink slowly stepped forward and then quickly backed up as she heard a grown from the man. And it wasn’t just a male demon this was a human man. He didn’t seem hurt so blink nibbled away at her wing and waited.

In the upper corner of the room two dark red eyes opened and watched the human slowly come around and wake from his multiple century long sleep. Know this master should. Yes master should know of this human. As quickly as they opened they closed and a darkness faded from the ceiling.

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a search for my fathers sword part 1