Feb 23, 2012 19:57
T H I N G S F A L L A P A R T
T H E C E N T R E C A N N O T H O L D
amascut,
rory williams,
applegate,
rue (hunger games),
hellboy,
annabeth chase,
ann darrow,
logan,
buffy summers,
waco kid,
teja,
veronica mars,
sallie reynolds,
katniss everdeen,
olivia dunham,
doc scurlock,
aziraphael,
mary anne bell,
coyote,
burton guster,
artemis,
yrael,
sameth,
will scarlett,
crowley,
skellig,
mal reynolds,
nick sayre,
felix of vale,
val von doom,
river tam,
anthy himemiya,
liz sherman,
annabelle newfield,
atton rand,
leonard 'bones' mccoy,
puss in boots,
illyria,
enzo matrix,
ava wilson,
thalia grace,
raylan givens,
raven,
tyler marlocke,
destruction,
hermione granger,
jack bauer,
the doctor,
splinter,
sariel rager,
michaelangelo,
kate barlow,
dixie cousins,
ben wade,
claudia donovan,
galadan,
john mccabe,
cal chandler,
moiraine,
michael the archangel
For thousands upon uncounted thousands of years, it has been the single driving desire of the being known as the Orannis, the Destroyer, Ninth of the Bright Shiners: to witness the destruction of all things.
Some dreams do come true... even if not exactly as one might have wished. All things are indeed ending, but the final victory is not the Destroyer's.
The combined efforts of those standing so valiantly in place of the Seven have succeeded. Blown by waves of wind and lightning-flame, driven by a sword of power and shifted by rumbling earth and the glorious song of the Eighth, its sibling, the gleaming sphere that is Orannis is borne inexorably backward until at the last it slides through the portal of the Darkgate -- and vanishes, irretrievably lost into the dimension beyond.
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Feeling his home coming apart, the remaining Bright Shiner falls to the broken, scarred ground, his singing abruptly cut off.
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"AANnd all THAT is NOW, ANd all that is GONE, and all tHAAt's to COME, and EVeryTHing under the SUN is in TUNE, but the SUN IS ECLIPSED BY THE MOoooOOOOoooon."
There is no place left to run now, and even as lost as he is, Mother knows this, sagging with the thunder gun as the orb vanishes. Like everything's leaving him now, on that last note of the song.
"...I regret nothing on this day, save a place that will be lost."
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Yet as he goes, he feels all the rips and tears of Milliways around him and calls up the Charter once more. He fights by mending and creating and so he will for Milliways.
On another part of the battlefield, Nick shudders as Orannis falls away and cries out, "Close it!"
Sam turns to stare at the Gate, it's not of the Charter so that would help but not work. There's a pike lying on the ground that will smash better than his sword. He picks it up and runs to the DarkGate before slamming the pike until he feels the magic shudder and change.
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And then, the Pike in Sameth's hand wakes up.
It jit- jit- jitters jit- jit- jitterSPARKS, and suddenly, there's a shimmering field around the key in the centre of the Darkgate, spitting crackling arcs of electricity as the technology fuses with magic in a way that was never intended for either.
A n d j u s t l i k e t h a t t h e D a r k g a t e c l o s e s.
It's not over. The same hissing bolts of light are crackling up and down the Pike, the weapon itself humming and vibrating as it continues to absorb more - more magic, more energy.
More power.
> sufficient amppppperage det-detected +
> activate activate gibson coil
>
initiate paradigm shift;
> var n = come +
> foreach(life(death)) +
> var beat = beat+1 +
> (n.beat) + commala
> come come commala
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"Well, that was a great relationship."
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i bring life
And echoes, vibrating bright and gold and perfectly in tune with something else that was spewing that same energy across time and space just a moment ag-
wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey
right now.
(Jack shudders, barely conscious as the life-sustaining vortex works double-time.
He still manages, out of millenia-old reflex, to feel around his back for the status of his kidneys before even reaching coherency.
You get used to checking.)
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It hurts the eyes to look at, bright and beautiful and sad. It flares up, and out, and then dims, then it fl-
the TARDIS flick-
it flares up, and out, and then dims
(time might begin to get a little sticky here, stringing out like treacle and then snapping back together)
Slowly, things begin to tip towards it, the
Slowly things begin to tilt away from it, the
(space might start to get a little funny, too)
dark space behind the TARDIS, the shadow between the stars, so very far away. A little further away than it was a moment ago.
01100011 01101111 01101101 01100101 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101101 01100101 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101101 01101101 01100001 01101100 01100001
Slowly, things begin to tip towards it, the dark space behind the TARDIS, the shadow between the stars, so very far away. But not quite as far away as it was a moment ago.
EXECUTE(~ATH(
( ... )
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and the Stars are flaring! All of them at once, and oddly, but it's definitely them! He stands up, letting the pieces of sword fall to the grass, turning back and forth to try to locate them. All four are in different places, but their energy is headed... to where the Darkgate was. Along with some other energies Felix doesn't recognize. The combination is... strange. Dangerously strange, like... a little like the thing he used on the Vortex, come to think of it. Dangerous, and barely controlled if it is at all.
"That is... odd," he says generally, pointing. "I don't know what it is, but I don't like it."
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(it's time to start all over, make a new beginning)
"HEY GUYS," she calls on the way over, "we need to get that thing outta here, I can make wormholes, one sec--"
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(sing you a song of the long ago)
Nick Sayre pushes himself up to his knees and brushes his hand across his forehead, over the Charter Mark there, feeling it throb as with the beat of a drum--
(What did the Seven do way back when? Why, they wove the Charter then!)
-- feeling something else burning deep and bright within him, burning sweet fire through his blood, responding in dissonance to the ordered pattern of the Charter's pulse, the two forces reacting together to everything around them--
(the Ninth was strong and fought with might / But lone Orannis was put out of the light)
-- and despite the fact that none of it makes any sort of logical sense, Nick responds to the deep awareness that drives certainty through him deeper than instinct, all the way to the bone ( ... )
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There are
+ water ;
things
+ earth ;
the world is made of,
+ fire ;
things that are necessary
+ wind ;
to sustain life.
+ form ;
It seems impossible
+ fantasy ;
that they should be here, now,
+ power ;
each and every one;
+ life ;
impossibly, ineffably nice.
Unless, of course,
+ come come commala +
they have been here all along.
There are eight glowing jewels suspended around the pike; four spheres, four gems.
Each of them is vibrating hard enough to set the air buzzing, low and bone-jarring and - getting louder, fast.
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"Sameth!" he calls aloud, springing forward to quickly wrest the pike from the Wallmaker's hands. "We must get this out of Milliways, somehow! The Darkgate is closed - but it cannot be allowed to stay here!"
Even as he holds it, he can feel the influx of energy, like a great current drawing more and more power into itself.
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(let's do the time warp again)
she's already done this once tonight; it goes much faster the second time.
(everything's early or way too late)
(Or maybe it's just that time is wibbly-wobbly.)
In any case, it's not long at all before she gets the wormhole up and ready to go, so to speak. "Chuck it! Them! Whatever!"
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Ages ago, or so the stories tell, the power of Alchemy ruled over the world of Weyard.
All together, shining with the lights of Alchemy, of the four elements.
Alchemy wrought the base elements of humanity into thriving civilizations, like lead into gold.
Without realizing it, Felix has been walking toward the place where the Stars have been sending their energy.
But in time, man's dreams gave birth to untold strife.
Where they now are. Just waiting for him.
Dreams of endless riches, of eternal life, of dominion over all that lived...
Dreams of conquest and of war.
There are monsters, other people, around the Stars, but Felix ignores them all. Them and anything they may be saying or doing.
These dreams would have torn the world apart if not for a few brave and wise men,
Who sealed away the power of Alchemy.
But whether he ignores them or not, whether they ignore him or not, they do not ignore their duty. One of them sends the Pike, and the Gems and Stars it holds, through Claudia's wormhole.
Prologue from Book One ( ... )
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If a black hole had eyes, this ones eyes would be turned to the Darkgate below.
"Alas, poor Orannis, I barely am knowing you."
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