World Collisions VI: The Crystal Power Chapter 3

World Collisions VI: The Crystal Power Chapter 3

Chapter 3 Glory is the shadow of virtue…

“it can be seen but cannot be felt
cannot be heard cannot be smelt
it lives behind stars and behind hills
and empty holes it fills
it comes first and follows after
ends life, kills laughter”

Zurg, a seventeen year old Faun, was trying to figure out the riddle his friend had given him. He could figure out that the first two lines meant that it was something that had no physical form. The rest just confused him. He was sitting on his desk chair typing on is laptop to a couple of his friends and was watching a DVD named ’Constantine’. He was in a high tech house in Fandarel the territory of Karin in Larina.

Zurg was eight feet when standing fully but was normally six feet. His skin was pale white and the fur for his lower half was chocolate brown. He was a slightly built faun for his age and had many mates and admirers. His eyes were a sea green with a blend of pineapple yellow and dark blue. His hair was chocolate brown like his fur and his ears stuck out and were pointed at the tips and curved back to the skull. They were sloping down at a 127 degree and had multiple light brown tiger stripes on each ear.

He preferred to keep to himself and solve things on his own. He was currently in High School and in the Seventh Grade. He was also learning English and write it which he found easy. He had learned most of the English language and was to do a test on it.

His friends were Lytòl, a male faun, around his height and age but less built, Harper, another male faun, but wore glasses and was extremely smart for a fourteen year old, and Kylara, a female elf. She mostly got picked on due to her being an elf and most of the other kids were fauns but ever since Zurg stood up for her, the two have become quite good friends. She was a sixteen year old and had crystal blue eyes with blond hair. Her skin was slightly brown and she was around Zurg’s height. They sometimes studied together, and helped each other through hard times and even lent each other special items of theirs, but that was in the past. A year in Romelgin time had passed ever since then and they were acting more intimate with each other.

Zurg was starting to get tired when his mobile phone rang making him jump. He answered it and it was Aldric. A panlong he met over the net that lived in Deran and was Zurg‘s age.

“Yo Zurg! How you doin’ mate?” Zurg rolled his eyes and looked at the time. It was half past eleven in the night.

“Do you know what time it is?”

“Sure, I was just wondering how you’re doing.”

“Why?”

“Just wondering.”

“Yeah, well, I’m tired. What are you doing up so late for?”

“I always stay up late. And you?”

“Just looking over a couple of my English Essays.”

“You still go to school?”

“Yes.” Zurg then rolled his eyes.

“How many more years you gotta stay there?”

“Well, to be quite frank, till next week.”

“Oh! Can’t wait then eh?”

“Yep. When it starts, I’m gonna have a long sleep.”

“Cool, cool, well see you soon then eh?” then Aldric hung up. Zurg closed his flip phone and laid it next to his laptop. A pop-up then appeared on the screen of Zurg’s laptop which he suddenly looked at. It was saying that a virus has just entered his computer. He then started to type multiple hotkeys to track the virus but it was eating away at his C Drive and deleting everything in it quickly. Just as it was about to delete the last thing in his C Drive the room went black and all that was visible was Zurg and the laptop. The C Drive started recovering and then Zurg was back to closing his flip phone and was about to lay it next to his laptop then felt like he was going through serious déjà vu so he placed the phone somewhere else and the rest of the night went on without any problems.



Reno woke up and left the tree he was having a nap on. He started to follow the down the stream to see where it went and after an hour of endless walking and staring, he saw that it ended in a waterfall. The dramon look over the edge and the plummet was quite a distance. He looked around and jumped off the edge and kept parallel with the waterfall and at about ten metres away from the base of the waterfall he expanded his wings and did five hard pushes making his go perfectly vertical and land softly on the river bed.

He then heard shuffling to his left which was downstream and he got his glaive at the ready. A hippogriff and started to drink from the river. Reno stared in awe since hippogriffs were extremely race creatures and were barely any alive in Larina. The only continent that had hippogriffs. He slowly walked over to the special creature which then shot up it’s head and started to slowly back away from him. He then stopped and tried to be respectful to it by slightly bowing to it. It bowed in return and Reno slowly walked over to the creature trying to keep his nerve. He was a foot away from the hippogriff but the creature then spoke saying stop to him and he complied and a bit shocked. Hippogriffs were not known to speak.

“What is your business here?” asked the fierce creature.

“I’m just following this stream and see where it ends.” Reno spoke in a confident voice.

“Rather odd looking creature you are. What are you?” the hippogriff lifted it’s eyebrow and walked over to Reno and went nose to nose with him and it’s stare was spine shivering and cut right through Reno’s eyes.

“I’m a dramon.”

“A dramon? Aren’t they a mythical race?” The hippogriff then slightly pulled it’s head away but kept the same stare.

“No.”

“The hippogriff then tilted it’s head to the right and asked what continent Reno was from.

“I’m not from this planet. I’m from Earth.”

“What? That new planet?”

“Yes. But I wasn’t born there. I was injected with the Dramon DNA by some scientists and caused me to become a dramon. I was held captive in their laboratory for ten years until I found out the truth about me being injected with the Dramon DNA and I destroyed their laboratory. There was one scientist that took care of me as if I was his child and I had grown to liking him. I failed to save him from the laboratory collapsing with him in it…..” Reno then looked away to the ground and tear started to gather in his right eye. The hippogriff noticed this and asked what he plans to do.

“I don’t know. The government keeps trying to find me but I just want a place to have some peace for once. I’m als---” He was pushed into the water by the hippogriff and it went in with him and kept both of them submerged in the water for twenty seconds and they both surfaced again.

“What was that about!!?” screamed Reno in anger.

“A patrol space ship was overhead. I just saved you from being caught” Reno then looked at the sky and sure enough, there was a patrol space ship quite a distance away now.

“You know. That’s stupid. They can only see things on the ground but not in the water. How stupid is that?”

“Just be grateful dramon. You owe me. What’s your name?” Reno then suddenly looked at the creature and then suddenly thought “What if this hippogriff is working for the government.” He took a while then said that his name was Pern just to be on the safe side. He then asked what the hippogriff’s name was.

“It’s Declan. Nice to meet you Pern.” Declan then lied on the floor and rested his head on the back of his hands. Reno then started to walk past but then Declan raised his wing stopping Reno. He asked why he’s stopping him and Declan answered with saying that he needed to answer something.

“What is it then?” asked Reno crossing his arms. Declan then raised his head and answered with a riddle.

“A metal neither black nor red,
as heavy as man's golden greed,
what you do to stay ahead,
with friend, arrow, or steed.”

Reno thought about this riddle and took a while to figure out. He got the first two lines meaning that it’s a metal that’s pretty heavy. The thought that greed can poison others and you can poison your friend if they betray you or if you’re jealous of them. You also try to stay ahead of others if you have greed. It then suddenly struck him.

“It’s lead.” Declan then gave a smile and tucked his wings in. Reno walked by and asked Declan if he wanted to come with him. Declan turned down the offer and said that the government were after him too since he was one of the last of his kind.

“Well come with me then. I could at least protect you in case they find us.” Reno found Declan trustful. Declan once again refused the offer and Reno asked why.

“Well, Pern, to be quite frank, I find it safe here in the forest. Barely anyone comes here and this is a sanctuary this forest.” Reno then remembered the human with the bracelet. Reno turned around and walked towards to Declan and asked him if he could read Romelgin. He then pulled out the bracelet and showed it to the hippogriff.

“Ha! Silly dramon. This isn’t Romelgin. It’s elven. It says….” Declan took a while to read it but when he found out what it said he then glared at Reno and starting to get uncomfortable and making Reno uneasy.

“Where did you find this?” asked Declan in a forceful tone. Reno then started to walk back slowly and said that he found it on a human that was dead. Declan still kept the same glare and asked where this human was.

“Well, he’s an hours walk away in the direction of the waterfall.” He then pointed at the waterfall. Declan looked and asked why Reno had that bracelet.

“Well, I was hoping to see if anyone could translate it for me pretty much.” But Declan think that Reno was telling him everything. He started to walk behind Reno and said that it was a forbidden item. I was one of the items that was meant to be destroyed by the elves.

“What do you mean?” asked Reno turning around to keep an eye on Declan.

“Well, it is a forbiddingly forged item that has very dark powers. No one should ever use it until a last resort in a fight for their life.

“You still haven’t answered my first question. What does it say?”

“It says ‘Com lem, nela lor hel lem.”

“Meaning?” asked Reno crossing his arms again.

“Meaning ‘When on, the timer is on.”

“And what does that mean” the hippogriff then looked at Reno and said that it doesn’t need much thinking to understand.

“Why do you think it’s still being forged then Declan?” asked Reno mockingly. Declan then glared at Reno once more and drooped his head.

“To be honest. I think it’s happening again.”

“What is?”

“The event that all living creatures on Romelgin fear.”

“What is it!!?” screamed Reno impatiently. His voice echoed trough the forest then all was silent. Declan looked up at Reno and said in a scared voice,

“World War IV…” Declan then looked at the sky once again told Reno to go. He complied and left following the stream in a spring not daring to look back.

He was running for about five minutes when he heard a whistle in the air and he ducked within a moment and a tranquillised dart when flying past his right ear and scraping a bit of his hair. The projectile struck the ground and there was a tiny red feather on the end of it. Reno looked around to see where the enemy was and he got his glaive at the ready. He heard another whistle and he did a hands free back flip and when he landed another dart which looked the same struck the ground but next to Reno’s left foot. He thought of a plan within a second and heard another whistling sound and he did a side roll to the left and found that the dart struck the ground somewhere behind him meaning the enemy was in front of him. He closed his eyes and went into concentration mode. He heard twigs breaking under a heavy foot and the sound of a rifle being loaded. Reno then held his left hand out with fingers loose. His arms then struck with fingers pointing with the arm where the noise as coming from. Reno then darted forward and heard another whistle and did a one hand front flip and land on a branch.

He jumped off the branch and did a powerful fly kick in the person’s face knocking him into another tree at full force knocking him out cold. Reno didn’t relax and looked around to see if there were others around. He picked the rifle that the guy dropped and it was a JR-86 along with a S.U.S.A.T. Reno knew how to operate one of these. He heard a rustle to his right and he quickly aimed the gun in the direction of the noise. He pulled the cocking handle and had the trigger ready for being pulled. He slowly walked over to the noise. He then heard a trigger being pulled so he dropped backwards onto the floor and a net went flying over his head. He then pulled the trigger and a loud bang emitted and the next noise that was heard was a scream then a thump. Obviously, these were fast effecting tranquillisers. He did a flip getting back up and found that an end corner of his brown trench coat was ripped off by the net. He pulled the cocking handle again and looked around and listened intently.

It was unusual. There were normally many more than two when he was being pursued. He searched both the bodies for anything useful and found several maps and blueprints. He quickly pocketed them when he heard the knocked out man rousing. He walked over to the human and kicked him in the face with a bona smashing crack. Blood then started to come out of the man’s mask. Reno then continued on with his path and remembered about the hippogriff. He then suddenly remembered about Declan mentioning World War IV. Reno had heard of the World Wars on Romelgin and that the third was said to be the final. And missiles had been the most destructive force in those times. But the weapons at this period of time were powerful enough to destroy half the planet. So no wonder why many feared the fourth World War. Even Reno felt slight fear at the thought of it.

He pulled out a map in his pocket and looked at it. The strange thing was, that there was a black border with a map of what appeared to be a green coloured forest with a red dot that kept blinking. There was also around eighteen blue dots blinking on the map as well. Reno then notice that there were two blue dots close to each other that were a bit down the red. Reno then realized that this map showed where Reno was and where the soldiers were. And the entire forest as well. He found out that there were a number of exits out of the forest and Reno was apparently a mile away from one to the North East with only one soldier. Reno then folded the map up to the way it was and went off in a sprint with the map still in his hand.