Dragon-Fire
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 21004
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Dragon-Fire
taps into an energy older than the hills...though the
Great Wyrms of old may be long extinct, their ancestors still survive,
though their race is endangered...the Lingwyrms (the Leviathans) of the
present day have apparently evolved to survive the conditions in which
they have been forced to endure, even though the fire within them has been
extinguished to an extent, no longer burning with ferocity that they once
possessed even 700 years ago( but half a blink of an eye in terms of the
evolutionary timetable)...Mankind now posses a greater threat to this
ancient reptilian species than any other threat they have ever faced
during their eons old existence. The Great Evil that was released upon the
world during the Great Fall of Mankind still thrives and grows, feeding
off of the Lost Souls that continuously feed the Hellfire of the Great
Abyss. The Lingwyrms, too, feed off of this Evil and Greed and they still
thrive in the twilight centuries of their existence. And yet, this Evil
will be their downfall. Every living creature is made up of the same
cosmic building blocks; stardust...order out of chaos, life is a miracle
of the universe (and multiverse)...and yet this miracle of life has been
corrupted, the gods (in their miserable loneliness and boredom), attempted
to make this life sentient...in their hastiness the gods allowed a means
for Mankind to discern Evil from Good, giving humans the freedom of
choice...it was a test of our obedience. We were commanded by the gods not
to eat of the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Original Paradise!! But
we could not obey this simple commandment... like naughty children we
disobeyed and thumbed our noses at them in our Pride!...the First
Temptation was the last. Mankind will ultimately bring about the
destruction of our entire universe, do not doubt me! I have seen it! I
have seen many things, and it tortures my soul! God save my wretched soul!
God save humanity!Do you doubt me!? We are now all gods in our own
right! Nothing can stop us now, we will multiply like a virus and become
the Masters of all that is 'real'. The Pride of Man is the greatest Evil
that has ever been unleashed!! Even the Great Serpent, that great Fallen
Angel and Lord of Lies, could not predict the outcome of it's actions; the
First Temptation of Mankind. The First Temptation opened our eyes to our
nakedness, Heaven on Earth was lost. The Elves died, Fairie-Land(Original
Paradise) was reduced to a figment of our imagination. Only in our dreams
and nightmares do we journey there...Fey Wood is an example of this; a
pocket of the old magic that refuses to die and still survives in our
world. The trees there are ancient and bitter - and irreversibly Evil. It
is now a place of nightmares, terror, and horror; reminding us of what
awaits us in the nethervoid of death....In it's attempt to seek revenge
on God, the Serpent unknowingly sent the universe on an irreversible
course of DESTRUCITON! It's subtle and clever Evil fooled Mankind into
believing that we were entitled to the same Knowledge that the gods
possessed! WE BECAME AS GODS! Ignorance, as they say, is BLISS. We
were cursed with Knowledge and we used it as means to accomplish
unspeakable evil and immorality! We are CURSED to eons of toiling under
the sun with little fruit to show for our efforts. The Serpent suffered a
similar fate for it's actions, but that it is little comfort. Existence is
a tragedy! We will forever suffer the eternal misery that is the common
experience of every human, rich or poor...we have abused the power we have
been given. God help us all!!! Wisdom, Cosmic Truth, and Goodness is
within our power, but we will refuse it in our utter selfishness...we are,
forgive me for my bluntness, monsters...the bitter-sweet miracle of life
is a waste! I am but the simple lord of this wonderful tower secreted away
in the terrible wastes of the Calamari Desert... and I will be here in my
lonely, black spire until the end of my days, pondering why things are the
way they are, until my entire being wastes away and all that will be left
will be my accursed Pride. God, please help us - You have been silent for
too long... From the diaries of Vincent Priceless "...I, too, became a famous adventurer, and was hired by the court of Aqualaria to kill the Dragon. I found my way into the Dragon's caves and reached this chest. But it was enchanted so that the Dragon would be alerted if it was opened, and he chained me here as an example..." A great earthquake shook the Caves even as Irena said this. Unfortunately, the chains had also been enchanted to alert the Dragon if they were cut. Oops. Fred struggled to maintain his footing and drew his sword...none too soon. Another great figure rose out of the pit, none other than the Dragon of the Southern Caves!!! This was it! This was the confrontation that Fred had spent so many years training for!The Dragon scanned it's surroundings, searching for the source of the disturbance it had been magically alerted to. Within moments it spotted it's prey, a satisfied expression etched into it's evil face (you'd just have to be there to know what a dragon's 'satisfied expression' is). "FOOLISH MORTALS! " It's serpentine voice echoed throughout the subterranean caverns. "YOU DARE DISTURB MY SLUMBER!?"In an instant the Lingwyrm opened it's tremendous jaws and unleashed it's inner Hellfire upon Fred and Irena. They were both incinerated within a matter of seconds, a pile of ash being the only proof left that they had ever existed at all. Time, space, matter, antimatter... protons, ions, neutrons... earth, metal, flesh, fire... not a good combination, at least not from Fred and Irena's point of view. They were sent, hurdling back in time (though they did not this)...and into Caemlyn, of all places! They landed in a narrow alleyway in the heart of the crime-infested ghetto...
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Ib (excerpts from 18998 (Y)) this is a long one - sorry.
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