Our stories say that when the universe was created, not all of it fit. Pieces fell off the whole, like water overfilling a glass, and those bits dropped into cracks and were forgotten.
Our stories, the oldest ones; the ones most people no longer remember, say that my world is one of those forgotten places, hidden away in a pocket of existence and for the most part separated from the human world or as they call it, Earth.
But not entirely.
An indestructible bridge kept both worlds alive and in order. For although each world was a mirror image of the other. Each held something the other didn 't.
A truth.
Earth was known for its evolution, it 's science and its notorious human beings.
Ariyan was made of magic and mystery It thrived on it.
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Weaving its spell almost seductively over me. Ever heard that phrase ‘curiosity killed the cat’. Well that phrase was based on me. Earth was forbidden to all Ariyanians. It was a secret everyone knew even though it was never whispered into another 's ear.
I had spent countless summers seeking knowledge of earth and all its mysteries.
Searching the great halls of knowledge, following every track and lead but as my progress grew so did the danger. My age was not as excuse anymore. What I was doing could get me killed. But there was more to my obsession the most knew. I was searching for them. The portals. The most vulnerable spot in Ariyan. The place that would send me to earth and now I finally held the key to it in my grasp.
I unscrolled the piece of parchment, unveiling its intricate work. It was heavily inlaid with magic. I could feel the magic of the symbols recoiling against my own and then suffocating my own pure magic. Blood magic. The darkest art, it was unnatural, not meant to be known. Used in the time of the mages when they massacred millions of my people. Its purpose had been to open the portals to export all sorts of monstrous machinery and weapons that laid waste to our land and people. It had taken extreme magic to win the war. Every favor was called in. Every ally was begged for help and in the end the only thing that stopped us from losing the war was closing off the portals. Our only tie with
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I felt her courage and warmth, her love. His love. They had been there! Guarding the borders. My mother and her sentuary who was known as my father. They had single handedly stopped the mages from receiving more weaponry.
Without that turning point, the war would have never been won. Yet my parents were still sacrificed in the end. The elders sealed the borders of the portals while they were still in. Trapping then forever in earth. I was only eight summers and I had lost my entire world. Forever.
That 's when I vowed to myself that I would find out what had happened to them and I have never stopped.
Pushing away from the dark memories, I focused I the task at hands. I only had a short period of time to complete the chant.
Each symbol leapt effortlessly off my tongue, sounding dark and ancient.
A magic that was meant to be forgotten now flowed through my veins. Infusing it 's dark power with my spirit. I let the magic take over me.
When I opened my eyes, only darkness surrounded me. It took awhile for my eyes to adjust but as my vision cleared , I could see white pinpricks of light dotting the never ending black canvas . Some of them forming patterns. Constellations, except not the ordinary ones. I was here. The bridge to
They also gave back to the soldiers who needed all this to protect
And as it does, tremors begin to become apparent, shaking the entire chamber that we are in now. From that small crevice that opened up from the golden gate a strong beam of light appears from inside. The strength is massive and the heat, scorching. It burns me as if your body is being set aflame. " Ahhrgh, such power from just the light it emits."
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He said, “I’ll rest a little while.” Just a child in his faith, he fell and slept in the earth. The earth that was not his. When he awoke, it was a new mural in his mind that jumped out. Similar, yet so different.
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I watched as the big fiery ball climbed above everything else. It shot out orangish-red rays from all direction and made the town brighter. As lovely as the morning was I knew that today wouldn't be horrible. I could only watch from down here, the beautiful shining star.
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Still admiring the constellation, I took a deep breath of cool mountain air and started walking. Under the dim light, I could see the faint features of my cabin mates and my counselors. Even though it was only 3am, I wasn’t tired at all. I was ready to make the two and a half mile walk to my favorite place in the whole world. As we entered the forest, the ground turned from grass to gravel, and the moonlight barely leaked through the dense trees.
The world is full of mystery and has things that we would never believe that it will be true. In addition, there are many places that most people believe it has been lost in time or forgotten in history. There are some lost places in the world from books that we read, but some people believe that it was just a legend or cannot be found, like Atlantis or Camelot. On the other hand, some places in this world can rediscover by people who traveled so far to seek the lost places of the world and what happened to them, like Great Zimbabwe, Xanadu, Mycenae. Some people who are also willing to take a chance to find any lost places throughout their lifetime, even if they can’t; additionally, it shows the ideas of having the perseverance and the faith for people to do the impossible even if they don’t succeed.
If you do, then you will notice that the end of my story is a little bit different, but allow me to do so just to make my point clear: As you remember, a man manages to go out of the cave where he and his fellows have been confined since birth. The outside world is so rich in light and color, once he gets used to the powerful light of the sun, that he decides to return to the cave where his friends are still living in order to share this new marvelous space with them. Nevertheless, his friends don’t believe him. They can’t understand a world like that. The cave is all they know.