Jocom

{Announcement} Got a notification about being put in some kinda promising books event or whatever which I guess could be considered feedback so I'ma get to work on this book again... Gotta finish that there last arc... My little Gieco Lizard deserves death!!!

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 Inside a garden full of towering trees untold years old that sadly have inferiority complexes caused by the never ending giant tower that supports the sky that the garden sits in front. Upon the branch of one of the smallest trees in the garden, the last of it's kind of the tallest it's breed of tree was ever been able to grow as well as the oldest, sits a beautiful fairy who seems but the size of a squirrel emotionless sipping tea watching the leaves fall off the leaves of the tree as if having already given up on life when suddenly a wind passes by the eternally still garden and everything gently quakes as the infinite number of lines along the towers base lights up gently with a blazing emerald flame that is bordering on black. 

 As if struck by a earth quake the woman falls out of her chair unbearably shaking as her eyes lock upon a thing far away in the infinitely large garden not a plant, not a tree, but the ground itself. 

 A crazy and hopeful fire begins to burn deep within the beautiful fairies eyes as reaches out her hand and with a determined look shatters the very core of her soul sending a piece of herself out into the earth and herself tumbling listlessly into a deep sleep alone on the branch. Hope still burning in her eyes even as they slowly close and a twisted smile upon her lips. 

 Like a bolt of lightning the core of her soul that was a part of her soul but not at the same time takes flight towards the sky circling around the crown of the small tree twice before gently bumping into the already sleeping woman as if in sorrow before flashing away faster then the eye could see reaching a distance so far you wouldn't be able to walk it in a million years even if you could travel at the speed of light and diving into the soil of a solitary mound of dirty diving deeper and deeper it eventually stops and flashes so bright it can even be suttly seen from the garden above as the deep blue light like the ocean fuses into the very core of an single solitary atom inside the soil as if slipping through a crack. 

 Across a vast and unending expanse of sky a brilliant flash of blue light up the very core of a universe before zooming away in the exact instant it appeared as if nothing their ever mattered not the massive throne, the unending number of people fighting for it, nor the ghastly little hut that's door has never opened in all of its existence and that space has warped the top of that no eyes made of flesh has ever seen and no man has ever hoped to enter. 

 One, Ten, A Hundred, A thousand, A Million, A Billion, an untold number more stars pass by as they begin to trail together before the light finally find a crack. Not in space, not in time, not in anything but itself simply existing like it's always existed. The space between filled with nothing. Diving into the crack without even slowly down the blue light seems to fade from existence as if it was never there. Slowly but surely as the blue light fades so does the crack before with it's last peek a suttle flash of Emerald escapes being vanishing from sight. The gentle beam of light flew out never stopping till it struck a nearby planet. 

 As the light was absorbed by that planets inhabitants something... Awoke.

Emerald Ocean

I look around at the ashes that remain. It's been decades since I last saw them. My family. They were so bright. So kind... Now a  days my home has devolved into the breeding grounds of these revolting lizards. All over the once beautiful fields of trees and critters now only grotesque massive bodies of these giant beasts. Some seem to be born with wings the others come down to take those away. However the gross wingless ones have no apparent brains in their heads.  They just lounge around hunt and burn all that used to be our beautiful fields of wheat away or just endlessly breeding as they are instructed the winged ones above like to throw carcasses of dead or injured animals down from above a lot. I guess they only want the wingless beasts to breed more.  My once beautiful home is nothing but a breeding ground or a pen for these vile scalie things. The fact I cannot leave is even worse. When the biggest of the winged ones came down he seemed to have forced me to stand here. Occasionally they come down and throw food into my body so that my fire doesn't go out. However I still just remain. Lost and alone in my own home.


  It would seem the winged creatures and the giantess really hate one another. I wonder why. Eh doesn't matter no point worrying myself about the lives of my wardens. I just wish I had some fellow prisoners. The winged one may have been the one who saved us from the giantess. They seem to be the same race but totally different the giantess is a faint shade of white and blue while the winged leader seems black and red. After the giantess came and killed all my people I cowered in fear in the corner as the youngest they tried to protect me but they were all extinguished in the end. At the last second the winged ones came and forced her back into her hole. The once peaceful pound now a huge lake. The winged ones seem to have set some kind of net of flames around the edges. I guess to keep the giantess out. I guess I kinda support the winged ones on that front. Much prefer the prison to the execution. Sadly it's been so long. Sitting at the center of this world of grotesque monstrosities that I've slowly grown some mixed feelings about that. I don't quite know which I'd prefer anymore. Granted... I have no choice.


  While I slept stuck in place watching the world of monsters day in and out one day I saw a speck of green sticking out of the wall in the distance. It surprised me at first but I didn't allow myself to react. I don't want the wingless ones to kill the only life to grow in here after so long. This world used to be filled with green and my people flourished along side it as it was our main source of food. Can't burn without fuel after all. However it all vanished with my people. All the trees were smashed by the giantess or burned by the winged ones. Only ash, bones, blood and beasts remain. Which could work as food but it would taste awful. The bit of green pokes it's self into the area and then pops back under the wall. It seems to be moving about more then growing. Is it a snake? I've seen those before. Usually they are larger also dead. The winged ones throw them down from time to time.


  After awhile the green bit got close to me and I managed to grab it quickly but the moment I did it seemed to get upset I tried to eat it and it burned but it seemed a large part of it escaped. It was definitely wood. Is it... a snake tree? Do... those exist?


  After I ate that bit nothing more seemed to come. I waited and watched carefully but nothing new happened after that just a bunch of wingless beasts living there lives around me. I guess I shouldn't have eaten it so quickly maybe more would have come...


  Days passed before another green thing came from the ground directly beneath me but it didn't stop at that. Countless green things shot up at once and took weird elongated tube like shapes before the whole world lit up.


Ch. 31 Draconic Prisoner