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In Purgatory's Shadow
Copywrite©Melina Swiftwind
MeganBryar©MeganBryar
GraceTheGoldenFurred©GraceTheGoldenFurred
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USS Aurora NCC 1447
Deck Five
Grace shifted in her sleep next to her Megan yawned the brown rabbit doe stretched and looked at the small chronograph on the nearby bedside cabinate.
“Hmm time to get up..let’s see”
Megan left Grace to sleep the next thing to do was use the bathroom. Ensign Sanin had showed them how the showers worked, but doing and showing were two different things. All the same Megan tried and finally got a long stream of hot water. She slipped under the stream and softly sighed as she cleansed herself.
From the other room her sensitive ears picked up the sounds of Grace waking up. She had to smile as she thought of the night before. Finishing with the shower she had just stepped into the large air
convection dryer.
As she did so Grace entered the bathroom, she smiled and before she pulled Megan into a long and deep kiss. She murred softly as she released the bunny and grinned as she stepped into the shower.
“Oh...I guess you liked last night?”
“Of course I did, pity we could not get Melina to come to”
“Well she has a lot on her mind after all” replied Megan.
“Would have been fun all the same” replied Grace.
Megan smiled and shook her head slightly before she left the bathroom for the bedroom, she selected a dark blue dress and slipped into it. Her next thought was about breakfast and what to have. After a few seconds she went with cereal while she waited for Grace.
********
Vularn Three
R’Ran District
Ceruleansky looked up from hir work something shi wasn’t sure what had just happened. Something or someone had stepped on hir grave. Shi felt very very cold, shi looked up at the large chronometer hanging on the wall behind the hotel's front desk. A few more hours and shi would be done for the day, shi hoped shi would get a com from Dreamweaver.
Six solar months would be a long time but Dream promised shi would stay in contact. Shi wondered why her latest communication had been a while. With the trade conference in town most of the hotels in the area where fully booked.
At this very moment the trade delegates would be sitting down at their tables in preparation for another day of haggling. Over the next half hour or so the last few stragglers would be coming in. Then, at eleven-hundred, the presentation guard would be retired until the conference broke up for the day, sometime around seventeen hundred hours.
Cerulean sighed softly another three hours and shi could go and would have most of the afternoon to enjoy the sights and sounds of Star City. Slipping back behind the reception desk shi checked if shi needed to send any notes to any of the delegates thankfully it wasn’t needed.
A large white and black feline came into the foyer, he looked around and padded to the large desk. The feline was wearing a white and blue uniform of one of the lager messenger service.
“Letter for Ceruleansky” the feline commented.
“I’m Cerulean, how can I help you?”
“Do you have identification?”
Cerulean brought out a ID card and handed it over. The feline passed the card back, he also passed over a small padd.
“Thank you. Sign here”
Cerulean gave hir thumb print and handed over the manilla envelope, he turned around and left the hotel.
Cerulean raised an eyebrow and sighed, shi looked at the envelope and opened it carefully it read:
Starfleet Communications
Office Of Admiral Renee Lapas
Stardate 3829.2
It is with great regret we have to inform you that on Stardate 3629.8 Lt Commander Dreamweaver died of hir injuries on board the USS Triumph NCC 1740. Lt Commander Dreamweaver was the last survivor of the Dorsin Prime Two, Caran Region Archaeological Dig. The events that took place at the Temple of The Sisters is now restricted information. Starfleet is repatriating the Lt Commanders remains back to Vularn Three more information will follow.
“Rex...can you please take over...family emergency”
“Sure Cerulean...big issue?” called the tiger in the back room.
“Yes...you..might say that...my mate is dead”
The male white tiger came out of the back room and looked to Cerulean. He padded up and gently hugged the Foxtaur tightly.
“I grieve with thee, you should take the rest of the day off Cerulean I’ll square it for you”
********
Vularn Three
R’Ran District
Volen Park
The park was in the middle of Star City it was the largest green space that could be found. Trees, and several ponds and three lakes could be found within it. At the moment it was all quite it was what Cerulean needed at the moment. Tears where close to flowing as shi found a small glade where shi could be alone.
Laying hir long lower body down shi let a long sob racked hir body. The tears flowed easily frustration and anger edged them as Cerulean thought of the life that they would have had, offspring and a very very long life.
That was all gone and shi didn’t even know why, Starfleet had redacted a lot of what shi could find on the information web. At least the remains where coming home that was something. At least they could place some of hir ashes into the halls or remembrance.
Cerulean had a lot to do to make hir way to Dreamweaver’s home village.
Someone had just entered the small glade, Cerulean was about to ask them to leave as shi looked up.
“Hello Cerulean”
“I’m sorry but I don’t want any com.....DEITIES....Dreamweaver..your supposed to be dead...what are you doing here?”
“Yeah....about that...I needed...wanted to talk to you about that Cel...I’ve...really got myself in a bad situation”
“Why are you here arn’t you supposed to be on where was it...”
“Shush I know where I am supposed to be...but things didn’t turn out that way. I’ll explain, were to begin”
Dreamweaver sighed softly and licked hir lips, shi began where shi had joined the dig and all. Shi talked about Empress Sariah Darkstalker, everything she had done and what she wanted and her plans for if she got to the core worlds.
“I’m sorry the letter got here before I could, I didn’t want that I wanted to tell you myself”
“Can we stop her Dream?”
“I...I.. don’t know Cel...she’s very powerful”
“Look when I got the letter...I pulled some strings and a few personal favours. I know what happened at Dorsin Prime Two in the Caran Region. It was not a tragic accident as they are feeding the holo net, you where found wandering in the desert. After four days in the Triumph’s sick bay you died without regaining consciousness. Starfleet’s incompetence for letting you die is astronomical, how in the seven levels can you be here and your body be returning home?”
“I told you Cel, Sariah can re-arrange matter, dead bodies and such are easy for her. She just...well she just reshapes the matter she can create bodies from the remains of others and reanimate it if she wishes”
“You realize how crazy this sounds Dreamweaver?” Cerulean snorted.
"You think it's crazy? How do you think I feel? I was there Cel. She thought I was the reincarnation of her dead wife. She wanted me to rule the world with her!”
“So what did you do then?”
“The only thing I could think of to stop her I set the dig’s power plant on overload. I thought the explosion would kill her. But it didn't."
“Then how did you survive.....” ask Cerulean.
The other Foxtaur knew what the answer was shi was hoping shi was wrong. Dreamweaver licked hir lips and smiled It was an expression that spoke of things far distant from normal sanity.
“I didn't, Cel I was right at Ground Zero, and I got blown to kingdom come along with everything else. But it wasn't the end. I don’t know how she did it but some how she convinced some of the locals to kill themseleves. She can do that she clouds their minds and makes suggestions to them and they do things. Once she had enough body mass she made three bodies...I don’t want to remember how she does it. She took a body for herself, sent the one that’s returning here to Vularn on it’s way and transported me here”
“I don’t know what to believe!”
“Ask me something only Dreamweaver would know something only only you and hir would only know”
“Alright, I have something I and Dream have known each other from cubhood. What happened on hir thirteenth birthday?”
“I...there ...the party was outside we where all having a great time and the music was playing. It was time to cut the cake but there was a grass tuff sticking up near to the table. I was over excited tripped on the tuff and fell face first into the cake” blushed Dream.
“Yes yes...oh goddess it is you Dream”
The Foxtaurs lept into each others arms, many tears where shed and the two would not let the other go.
********
Dorsin Prime Two
Standard Orbit
The USS Triumph was back in orbit, Fleet Captain James Schaeffer sighed as he sat back in the command chair. The large canine rubbed the bridge of his nose, solving this mystery was going to take time.
“Commander Dase any word from Command about extra help?”
“Fleet command is rerouting a starship to us, USS Aurora NCC 1447, Captain Blackstreak commanding. They should be with us soon”
“Thank you Commander, as you where”
********
USS Aurora NCC 1447
Deck Five
Megan, Grace, Melina and Selena were all in the bar, the group had already sorted all the possible things anyone might want to purchase on the ship in Megan and Grace’s shop. Now they were helping Melina and Selena fit out the bar with bottles, glasses and other things. They had just finished when the ship jumped forwards a little as it went into warp.
“Wh...what was that?” asked Grace.
“Nothing to worry about, it’s just the ship going to warp speed, look see?” said Melina.
The purple haired rabbit pointed towards the large view ports. As Grace looked she could see all the colours of the rainbow as elongated start lines.
“I’m guessing Blackstreak got new orders, I wonder where we’re going?” Melina wondered out loud.
********
USS Aurora NCC 1447
Dorsin Prime Two
Polar Orbit
“I’m going to regret this but lets do shore leave for those who want it, hardly many places to go after all” commented Blackstreak.
Once word had got out nearly everyone had signed up to head planet side, Grace, Megan, Melina and Selena had gone down to the city of Oasis. However once Grace had found out there where ruins in the desert it had been difficult to stop her.
********
Dorsin Prime Two
Kom Kala Temple
Archaeological Dig Site
Three Hours Later
Grace was slightly in awe of the so called Dragon chamber, the group hand looked around and they had found twenty four statues. It amazed the gold furred vixen that each looked different even if they carried the same weapons.
“They have been here ten thousand years?”
“That’s what the notes say, Grace” answered Megan
The others approached the other door something had pulled it off it’s hinges from the inside. Selena was not going to consider what had done it. In the next room was an empty sarcophagus, it’s lid was on the floor nearby.
“What happened in here?” questioned Melina.
“Your guess is as good as mine” replied Megan.
********
Back in the chamber with the Dragons, Grace was looking at the closest to the door of the sarcophagus room. There was the sound of something cracking, it was like a gunshot at first. The sound continued and pieces of something was hitting the floor.
Grace turned around at the other door two of the statues where breaking open. Liquid dripped a bit and fell. Pieces of stone where falling in a steady rain, bit by bit a clawed hand appeared it flexed and as it did so more and more of the stone was falling from it.
Slowly the other hand was released from it’s ten thousand year old prison. Stone fell from horns and from the dragon’s face golden hair blossomed into the open air, eyes blinked repeatedly and the dragon shook her head. As her arms where released from the stone she broke her way out with soft snarl. Most of her body was green and yellow she flexed her wings and freed her tail before she went over and began to free her sister.
She was completely naked the amour on the statue had been for show it would seem. She looked around as her sister began to free herself. With anger in her green eyes she spotted Grace.
“You fool do you know what you have done!” she shouted.
Weapons forgotten both lay on the floor near to the broken pedestal she had been standing on she opened her wings and few over and knocked Grace to the ground. She was obviously fast and skilled as a warrior. She rained blow after blow into Austin and the two rolled about in a fight.
Both were skilled but after a while the fight was stopped Megan held the dragon girl in her arms. Melina and Selena went to attend to the other dragon girl.
“She needs medical attention right away, I can’t say for sure but this one is suffering from what we would diagnose as hibernation sickness”
Selena picked up the other dragon girl with ease shr left the room to head up to the main hall where they could be beamed up to the Aurora. The others looked to the dragon held by Megan.
“Do you cretins even know what and who you have released?” shouted the dragon girl.
“Look we don’t even know who you are, let alone what you think we’ve done” replied Grace.
“You as good as let a demon of the pit lose again...The Empress was bad enough as she was...but she’ll be near unstoppable this time. You released Empress Sariah Darkstalker, you’ve damned us all”
“She’s a myth a story of long ago”
“Look around you, look and read what is within this temple...does it not tell you enough. It gives the warning where you all so dense not to take heed of the warnings...Deities it should have been enough” shouted by the dragon.
“We didn’t do this, we only found it like this a few hours ago. We came here from a ship in space”
“Then you really are fools, hurling your ships out in the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had know anything about the true nature of this world, anything at all, you would’ve hidden from it in terror!”
Grace blushed softly and licked her lips this dragon girl was pretty when she was angry. Her eyes blazed with a strange fire when she spoke.
“We explore it’s what we do. We learn”
“Well then you did not learn well enough then..is it true you have forgotten us already. We gave everything we had up, only three hundred of us where off world when that creature spoke the word that killed every living thing upon this world. When we returned and found the deserts, the oceans were gone …we gave up everything to stop her. Twenty four of us volunteered to guard her once we had defeated her and sealed her into her tomb...how long did we stay…”
“Ten thousand years” Grace automatically said.
“So long…..we gave up our lives for nothing...the others left the world and ...we cast the spell of living stone upon ourselves, we set up a spell that last for so long so that if anyone disturbed that creature in the other room we would be revived...my name is Ember Ambermane”
Ember moved out of Megan’s grasp, she walked over to the other statues and ran a hand over each. Tears slowly slipped down her muzzle, she sighed softly and closed her eyes.
“I guess the others are dead, complete petrification..I hope they didn’t suffer much. We knew it could happen… hell there was a very strong change of it happening. The spell of living stone was very dangerous all the same but...just two of us...Requiesce in pace Knights Of Stone”
Ember closed her eyes and sighed softly before she opened them and looked to the others.
“Please...lets get away from here, there is nothing left for me here”
********
USS Aurora NCC 1447
Captain’s Ready Room
“Goddess you managed to find trouble on shore leave….” commented Blackstreak.
The jet black foxtaur sat down and sighed, Melina, Selena, Megan and Grace sat on a couch nearby. Their guest was with them while the other was in sickbay.
“Shake down cruise they said...alright go over it all again”
Megan explained everything once more and Blackstreak fought back another sigh.
“Look we didn’t know, even now we’re unsure what this Empress is. Or the full range of her powers”
“Well if your people had managed to read the murals we might not be in this situtation”
“This is getting us nowhere, we do not even know if this..person is still on the planet”
“Correct for the moment we do not know this. If Empress Darkstalker returns to her old ways she will go to ground for a bit while she recovers her full powers. Thankfully she can not use the deplorable word again. She would never share such power either anyway...plus its a one shot deal” Ember commented.
“Thank goodness for small mercies” said Megan.
“I’m afraid your going to have to explain this to sector commnd” answered Blackstreak.
********
Ember was trying to explain some of the Empress’s powers to a Starfleet admiral, she was getting more and more angry that he was not understanding.
“Look admiral I’m going to put it simply so you can understand, Empress Sariah Darkstalker is your worst nightmare come true she is not a myth. She has a lot of power but she’s not a god, she’s incredibly dangerous. She possess the ability to recreate an exact likeness of an object or person, so far no one has ever found a way of detecting such things”
“But Magic your saying we should believe in magic. We live in a time of technology and science not myth and magic!”
“Then how do you explain myself and the other dragons that are out there. Your science can only tell you so much. When Sariah comes for your Federated Worlds and she will, your technology and science might not be enough to save you sir”
Ember turned around and put her arms into the air she let out a shout of frustration and looked around.
“Let me try” commented Melina
Ember stormed off she made her way to sickbay at least Eashar would understand. The other dragon was getting much better, it seemed these people knew this malady as ‘Hibernation sickness’ but it was a bit more than that. Eashar needed a Pagh infusion but they could hardly ask for that from these people.
Their technology cut them off from magic and it’s powers. The realm of the spirit and pagh was like an alien world to them. She had noticed that Megan did seem to have a strong aura around her she felt was possible to use if she agreed.
********
An Hour Later
Just Outside Sickbay
“Excuse me Megan?”
“Oh hello Ember what can I do for you?”
“I was wondering, I know it’s a great deal to ask but would you be able to spare some off your..magical power to help Eashar?”
“Me...magical power...your sister?”
“Yes..although she is not family like you would think, she is what you would call a sister in arms. Will..I beg of you will are you willing to help her?”
“Yes I’ll help if I can Ember we owe you that much”
“Thank you...my first impressions were wrong about you all. I don’t know who released Sariah but it was not you or your friends” Ember said lightly.
The Aurora’s sickbay was much larger than the one on the Starchild. Megan had wondered why there was always that odd strange smell on new ships.
Eashar was reading catching up with the changes of ten thousand years was not going to be easy. She looked up and put the padd aside.
“Hello Ember they finally come around?”
“Not exactly seems their leadership has doubts about magic. Anyway Megan agreed to help us”
“Is there anything I need to do?” questioned Megan.
“Not exactly just sit on the bed here and give me your hand” replied Eashar.
Megan sat on the bed and gave Ember her right hand as he did so he and the dragon suddenly glowed with a soft yellow light. The was a slight buzz of energy and light crackling sound could be heard. Megan felt a little light headed and Eashar let Megan’s hand go.
“Thank you Megan that should to kickstart things, you will need to rest for an hour or so” Eashar adviced.
********
This Story Will Continue In:
Something Wicked
Copywrite©Melina Swiftwind
MeganBryar©MeganBryar
GraceTheGoldenFurred©GraceTheGoldenFurred
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USS Aurora NCC 1447
Deck Five
Grace shifted in her sleep next to her Megan yawned the brown rabbit doe stretched and looked at the small chronograph on the nearby bedside cabinate.
“Hmm time to get up..let’s see”
Megan left Grace to sleep the next thing to do was use the bathroom. Ensign Sanin had showed them how the showers worked, but doing and showing were two different things. All the same Megan tried and finally got a long stream of hot water. She slipped under the stream and softly sighed as she cleansed herself.
From the other room her sensitive ears picked up the sounds of Grace waking up. She had to smile as she thought of the night before. Finishing with the shower she had just stepped into the large air
convection dryer.
As she did so Grace entered the bathroom, she smiled and before she pulled Megan into a long and deep kiss. She murred softly as she released the bunny and grinned as she stepped into the shower.
“Oh...I guess you liked last night?”
“Of course I did, pity we could not get Melina to come to”
“Well she has a lot on her mind after all” replied Megan.
“Would have been fun all the same” replied Grace.
Megan smiled and shook her head slightly before she left the bathroom for the bedroom, she selected a dark blue dress and slipped into it. Her next thought was about breakfast and what to have. After a few seconds she went with cereal while she waited for Grace.
********
Vularn Three
R’Ran District
Ceruleansky looked up from hir work something shi wasn’t sure what had just happened. Something or someone had stepped on hir grave. Shi felt very very cold, shi looked up at the large chronometer hanging on the wall behind the hotel's front desk. A few more hours and shi would be done for the day, shi hoped shi would get a com from Dreamweaver.
Six solar months would be a long time but Dream promised shi would stay in contact. Shi wondered why her latest communication had been a while. With the trade conference in town most of the hotels in the area where fully booked.
At this very moment the trade delegates would be sitting down at their tables in preparation for another day of haggling. Over the next half hour or so the last few stragglers would be coming in. Then, at eleven-hundred, the presentation guard would be retired until the conference broke up for the day, sometime around seventeen hundred hours.
Cerulean sighed softly another three hours and shi could go and would have most of the afternoon to enjoy the sights and sounds of Star City. Slipping back behind the reception desk shi checked if shi needed to send any notes to any of the delegates thankfully it wasn’t needed.
A large white and black feline came into the foyer, he looked around and padded to the large desk. The feline was wearing a white and blue uniform of one of the lager messenger service.
“Letter for Ceruleansky” the feline commented.
“I’m Cerulean, how can I help you?”
“Do you have identification?”
Cerulean brought out a ID card and handed it over. The feline passed the card back, he also passed over a small padd.
“Thank you. Sign here”
Cerulean gave hir thumb print and handed over the manilla envelope, he turned around and left the hotel.
Cerulean raised an eyebrow and sighed, shi looked at the envelope and opened it carefully it read:
Starfleet Communications
Office Of Admiral Renee Lapas
Stardate 3829.2
It is with great regret we have to inform you that on Stardate 3629.8 Lt Commander Dreamweaver died of hir injuries on board the USS Triumph NCC 1740. Lt Commander Dreamweaver was the last survivor of the Dorsin Prime Two, Caran Region Archaeological Dig. The events that took place at the Temple of The Sisters is now restricted information. Starfleet is repatriating the Lt Commanders remains back to Vularn Three more information will follow.
“Rex...can you please take over...family emergency”
“Sure Cerulean...big issue?” called the tiger in the back room.
“Yes...you..might say that...my mate is dead”
The male white tiger came out of the back room and looked to Cerulean. He padded up and gently hugged the Foxtaur tightly.
“I grieve with thee, you should take the rest of the day off Cerulean I’ll square it for you”
********
Vularn Three
R’Ran District
Volen Park
The park was in the middle of Star City it was the largest green space that could be found. Trees, and several ponds and three lakes could be found within it. At the moment it was all quite it was what Cerulean needed at the moment. Tears where close to flowing as shi found a small glade where shi could be alone.
Laying hir long lower body down shi let a long sob racked hir body. The tears flowed easily frustration and anger edged them as Cerulean thought of the life that they would have had, offspring and a very very long life.
That was all gone and shi didn’t even know why, Starfleet had redacted a lot of what shi could find on the information web. At least the remains where coming home that was something. At least they could place some of hir ashes into the halls or remembrance.
Cerulean had a lot to do to make hir way to Dreamweaver’s home village.
Someone had just entered the small glade, Cerulean was about to ask them to leave as shi looked up.
“Hello Cerulean”
“I’m sorry but I don’t want any com.....DEITIES....Dreamweaver..your supposed to be dead...what are you doing here?”
“Yeah....about that...I needed...wanted to talk to you about that Cel...I’ve...really got myself in a bad situation”
“Why are you here arn’t you supposed to be on where was it...”
“Shush I know where I am supposed to be...but things didn’t turn out that way. I’ll explain, were to begin”
Dreamweaver sighed softly and licked hir lips, shi began where shi had joined the dig and all. Shi talked about Empress Sariah Darkstalker, everything she had done and what she wanted and her plans for if she got to the core worlds.
“I’m sorry the letter got here before I could, I didn’t want that I wanted to tell you myself”
“Can we stop her Dream?”
“I...I.. don’t know Cel...she’s very powerful”
“Look when I got the letter...I pulled some strings and a few personal favours. I know what happened at Dorsin Prime Two in the Caran Region. It was not a tragic accident as they are feeding the holo net, you where found wandering in the desert. After four days in the Triumph’s sick bay you died without regaining consciousness. Starfleet’s incompetence for letting you die is astronomical, how in the seven levels can you be here and your body be returning home?”
“I told you Cel, Sariah can re-arrange matter, dead bodies and such are easy for her. She just...well she just reshapes the matter she can create bodies from the remains of others and reanimate it if she wishes”
“You realize how crazy this sounds Dreamweaver?” Cerulean snorted.
"You think it's crazy? How do you think I feel? I was there Cel. She thought I was the reincarnation of her dead wife. She wanted me to rule the world with her!”
“So what did you do then?”
“The only thing I could think of to stop her I set the dig’s power plant on overload. I thought the explosion would kill her. But it didn't."
“Then how did you survive.....” ask Cerulean.
The other Foxtaur knew what the answer was shi was hoping shi was wrong. Dreamweaver licked hir lips and smiled It was an expression that spoke of things far distant from normal sanity.
“I didn't, Cel I was right at Ground Zero, and I got blown to kingdom come along with everything else. But it wasn't the end. I don’t know how she did it but some how she convinced some of the locals to kill themseleves. She can do that she clouds their minds and makes suggestions to them and they do things. Once she had enough body mass she made three bodies...I don’t want to remember how she does it. She took a body for herself, sent the one that’s returning here to Vularn on it’s way and transported me here”
“I don’t know what to believe!”
“Ask me something only Dreamweaver would know something only only you and hir would only know”
“Alright, I have something I and Dream have known each other from cubhood. What happened on hir thirteenth birthday?”
“I...there ...the party was outside we where all having a great time and the music was playing. It was time to cut the cake but there was a grass tuff sticking up near to the table. I was over excited tripped on the tuff and fell face first into the cake” blushed Dream.
“Yes yes...oh goddess it is you Dream”
The Foxtaurs lept into each others arms, many tears where shed and the two would not let the other go.
********
Dorsin Prime Two
Standard Orbit
The USS Triumph was back in orbit, Fleet Captain James Schaeffer sighed as he sat back in the command chair. The large canine rubbed the bridge of his nose, solving this mystery was going to take time.
“Commander Dase any word from Command about extra help?”
“Fleet command is rerouting a starship to us, USS Aurora NCC 1447, Captain Blackstreak commanding. They should be with us soon”
“Thank you Commander, as you where”
********
USS Aurora NCC 1447
Deck Five
Megan, Grace, Melina and Selena were all in the bar, the group had already sorted all the possible things anyone might want to purchase on the ship in Megan and Grace’s shop. Now they were helping Melina and Selena fit out the bar with bottles, glasses and other things. They had just finished when the ship jumped forwards a little as it went into warp.
“Wh...what was that?” asked Grace.
“Nothing to worry about, it’s just the ship going to warp speed, look see?” said Melina.
The purple haired rabbit pointed towards the large view ports. As Grace looked she could see all the colours of the rainbow as elongated start lines.
“I’m guessing Blackstreak got new orders, I wonder where we’re going?” Melina wondered out loud.
********
USS Aurora NCC 1447
Dorsin Prime Two
Polar Orbit
“I’m going to regret this but lets do shore leave for those who want it, hardly many places to go after all” commented Blackstreak.
Once word had got out nearly everyone had signed up to head planet side, Grace, Megan, Melina and Selena had gone down to the city of Oasis. However once Grace had found out there where ruins in the desert it had been difficult to stop her.
********
Dorsin Prime Two
Kom Kala Temple
Archaeological Dig Site
Three Hours Later
Grace was slightly in awe of the so called Dragon chamber, the group hand looked around and they had found twenty four statues. It amazed the gold furred vixen that each looked different even if they carried the same weapons.
“They have been here ten thousand years?”
“That’s what the notes say, Grace” answered Megan
The others approached the other door something had pulled it off it’s hinges from the inside. Selena was not going to consider what had done it. In the next room was an empty sarcophagus, it’s lid was on the floor nearby.
“What happened in here?” questioned Melina.
“Your guess is as good as mine” replied Megan.
********
Back in the chamber with the Dragons, Grace was looking at the closest to the door of the sarcophagus room. There was the sound of something cracking, it was like a gunshot at first. The sound continued and pieces of something was hitting the floor.
Grace turned around at the other door two of the statues where breaking open. Liquid dripped a bit and fell. Pieces of stone where falling in a steady rain, bit by bit a clawed hand appeared it flexed and as it did so more and more of the stone was falling from it.
Slowly the other hand was released from it’s ten thousand year old prison. Stone fell from horns and from the dragon’s face golden hair blossomed into the open air, eyes blinked repeatedly and the dragon shook her head. As her arms where released from the stone she broke her way out with soft snarl. Most of her body was green and yellow she flexed her wings and freed her tail before she went over and began to free her sister.
She was completely naked the amour on the statue had been for show it would seem. She looked around as her sister began to free herself. With anger in her green eyes she spotted Grace.
“You fool do you know what you have done!” she shouted.
Weapons forgotten both lay on the floor near to the broken pedestal she had been standing on she opened her wings and few over and knocked Grace to the ground. She was obviously fast and skilled as a warrior. She rained blow after blow into Austin and the two rolled about in a fight.
Both were skilled but after a while the fight was stopped Megan held the dragon girl in her arms. Melina and Selena went to attend to the other dragon girl.
“She needs medical attention right away, I can’t say for sure but this one is suffering from what we would diagnose as hibernation sickness”
Selena picked up the other dragon girl with ease shr left the room to head up to the main hall where they could be beamed up to the Aurora. The others looked to the dragon held by Megan.
“Do you cretins even know what and who you have released?” shouted the dragon girl.
“Look we don’t even know who you are, let alone what you think we’ve done” replied Grace.
“You as good as let a demon of the pit lose again...The Empress was bad enough as she was...but she’ll be near unstoppable this time. You released Empress Sariah Darkstalker, you’ve damned us all”
“She’s a myth a story of long ago”
“Look around you, look and read what is within this temple...does it not tell you enough. It gives the warning where you all so dense not to take heed of the warnings...Deities it should have been enough” shouted by the dragon.
“We didn’t do this, we only found it like this a few hours ago. We came here from a ship in space”
“Then you really are fools, hurling your ships out in the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had know anything about the true nature of this world, anything at all, you would’ve hidden from it in terror!”
Grace blushed softly and licked her lips this dragon girl was pretty when she was angry. Her eyes blazed with a strange fire when she spoke.
“We explore it’s what we do. We learn”
“Well then you did not learn well enough then..is it true you have forgotten us already. We gave everything we had up, only three hundred of us where off world when that creature spoke the word that killed every living thing upon this world. When we returned and found the deserts, the oceans were gone …we gave up everything to stop her. Twenty four of us volunteered to guard her once we had defeated her and sealed her into her tomb...how long did we stay…”
“Ten thousand years” Grace automatically said.
“So long…..we gave up our lives for nothing...the others left the world and ...we cast the spell of living stone upon ourselves, we set up a spell that last for so long so that if anyone disturbed that creature in the other room we would be revived...my name is Ember Ambermane”
Ember moved out of Megan’s grasp, she walked over to the other statues and ran a hand over each. Tears slowly slipped down her muzzle, she sighed softly and closed her eyes.
“I guess the others are dead, complete petrification..I hope they didn’t suffer much. We knew it could happen… hell there was a very strong change of it happening. The spell of living stone was very dangerous all the same but...just two of us...Requiesce in pace Knights Of Stone”
Ember closed her eyes and sighed softly before she opened them and looked to the others.
“Please...lets get away from here, there is nothing left for me here”
********
USS Aurora NCC 1447
Captain’s Ready Room
“Goddess you managed to find trouble on shore leave….” commented Blackstreak.
The jet black foxtaur sat down and sighed, Melina, Selena, Megan and Grace sat on a couch nearby. Their guest was with them while the other was in sickbay.
“Shake down cruise they said...alright go over it all again”
Megan explained everything once more and Blackstreak fought back another sigh.
“Look we didn’t know, even now we’re unsure what this Empress is. Or the full range of her powers”
“Well if your people had managed to read the murals we might not be in this situtation”
“This is getting us nowhere, we do not even know if this..person is still on the planet”
“Correct for the moment we do not know this. If Empress Darkstalker returns to her old ways she will go to ground for a bit while she recovers her full powers. Thankfully she can not use the deplorable word again. She would never share such power either anyway...plus its a one shot deal” Ember commented.
“Thank goodness for small mercies” said Megan.
“I’m afraid your going to have to explain this to sector commnd” answered Blackstreak.
********
Ember was trying to explain some of the Empress’s powers to a Starfleet admiral, she was getting more and more angry that he was not understanding.
“Look admiral I’m going to put it simply so you can understand, Empress Sariah Darkstalker is your worst nightmare come true she is not a myth. She has a lot of power but she’s not a god, she’s incredibly dangerous. She possess the ability to recreate an exact likeness of an object or person, so far no one has ever found a way of detecting such things”
“But Magic your saying we should believe in magic. We live in a time of technology and science not myth and magic!”
“Then how do you explain myself and the other dragons that are out there. Your science can only tell you so much. When Sariah comes for your Federated Worlds and she will, your technology and science might not be enough to save you sir”
Ember turned around and put her arms into the air she let out a shout of frustration and looked around.
“Let me try” commented Melina
Ember stormed off she made her way to sickbay at least Eashar would understand. The other dragon was getting much better, it seemed these people knew this malady as ‘Hibernation sickness’ but it was a bit more than that. Eashar needed a Pagh infusion but they could hardly ask for that from these people.
Their technology cut them off from magic and it’s powers. The realm of the spirit and pagh was like an alien world to them. She had noticed that Megan did seem to have a strong aura around her she felt was possible to use if she agreed.
********
An Hour Later
Just Outside Sickbay
“Excuse me Megan?”
“Oh hello Ember what can I do for you?”
“I was wondering, I know it’s a great deal to ask but would you be able to spare some off your..magical power to help Eashar?”
“Me...magical power...your sister?”
“Yes..although she is not family like you would think, she is what you would call a sister in arms. Will..I beg of you will are you willing to help her?”
“Yes I’ll help if I can Ember we owe you that much”
“Thank you...my first impressions were wrong about you all. I don’t know who released Sariah but it was not you or your friends” Ember said lightly.
The Aurora’s sickbay was much larger than the one on the Starchild. Megan had wondered why there was always that odd strange smell on new ships.
Eashar was reading catching up with the changes of ten thousand years was not going to be easy. She looked up and put the padd aside.
“Hello Ember they finally come around?”
“Not exactly seems their leadership has doubts about magic. Anyway Megan agreed to help us”
“Is there anything I need to do?” questioned Megan.
“Not exactly just sit on the bed here and give me your hand” replied Eashar.
Megan sat on the bed and gave Ember her right hand as he did so he and the dragon suddenly glowed with a soft yellow light. The was a slight buzz of energy and light crackling sound could be heard. Megan felt a little light headed and Eashar let Megan’s hand go.
“Thank you Megan that should to kickstart things, you will need to rest for an hour or so” Eashar adviced.
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Oh my. Threesome with Melina. Now that is a lovely thought...
What were we talking about...?
It would seem the mystery is thickening. Not only do we have this powerful entity running around, who can apparently cheat death and reform/resurrect herself, and others, now we have to wonder if this Dreamweaver is really who she claims to be. Not to mention a mysterious warrior from thousands of years ago, who's going to need a bit of a crash course in modern society. Though I do like that Megan was willing and able to help her, which maybe goes some way toward earning her trust. A very interesting chapter, indeed!
What were we talking about...?
It would seem the mystery is thickening. Not only do we have this powerful entity running around, who can apparently cheat death and reform/resurrect herself, and others, now we have to wonder if this Dreamweaver is really who she claims to be. Not to mention a mysterious warrior from thousands of years ago, who's going to need a bit of a crash course in modern society. Though I do like that Megan was willing and able to help her, which maybe goes some way toward earning her trust. A very interesting chapter, indeed!
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