Ch.18 Purification

Inside the forest, a large group of people can be seen walking in a line formation.

In the front; Zelon led the way forward, while being guarded by his Royal Guards. As they walked, Zelon continued to train his force powers.

He wanted to develop force abilities similar to Hashirama's Wood Style. Using trees and large wood creations to fight his enemies.

As he passed trees, he would try and pull the roots above ground.

For awhile nothing happened, the roots stood still ignoring his pull. Then after an hour of testing different ways of apply the force, he was able to get the roots to wiggle.

Zelon's brow was wet with sweat.

"Any progress is progress."

Zelon ordered his group to stop as he recovered his strength.

Miles away one of the dark elves, jumped through a strange area of trees.

The tree's were similar to Ossus's body, it's body decayed and slouched over.

"Something is wrong with this area."

The elf jumped down from the tree's and landed by a decayed tree. He placed his hand on the tree, trying to sense it's situation.

What the elf found was surprising, the tree's life force was still going strong, like nothing was wrong with it.

However, it seemed like the tree had begun to mutate, from some form of radiation. It's bark while decaying was very hard, similar to a metal.

Under the bark; the wood had a rubbery quality, it could bend pretty well, and still retain it's hard texture.

The elf followed the decayed area, trying to find a source for this change.

He walked and walked, not seeing an end to the decayed area. Eventually, light began to break through the trees ahead.

As he walked out of the tree's, his eyes locked on a giant rock formation.

"These rocks look weird, almost man made."

He ran up to the rocks, filling on them, trying to determine what they were.

As he walked around the rocks, his foot stepped on a patch of grass, that collapsed.

The ground around his foot collapsed; he quickly jumped away, making some distance with the expanding hole.

The hole grew and grew; the elf began to notice a building taking shape under the rocks.

"Wait, this is a buried ruin, I need to inform the lord quickly!"

Zelon's group continued their way through the forest after getting some rest.

There wasn't much more distance left to travel before, they reached the area Zelon sensed calling him.

As they made their way, Zelon received a call from his spirits.

"Put the connection through."

The call connected, then a urgent voice sounded in his head.

"My lord, I have found a buried ruin to the east of our landing zone. There seems to be some form of temple down below."

When Zelon heard about a ruin he got happy.

("There is no telling what we could find in that ruin, and if my memory serves me right it might be the forgotten Jedi Temple.")

"Good work, I will send Ventax to rendezvous on your location, hold your position until they arrive."

Zelon cut the connection the ordered his group to stop.

"Ventax."

The dark elf made his way over then saluted Zelon.

"One of our scouts found a buried ruin to the east. i need you to take half the group with you and begin searching the ruin."

"I will get it done."

Just as Ventax was about to gather his men, Zelon stopped him.

"Wait, if the ruin is a Jedi Temple, inform me immediately, there may be knowledge and artifacts inside that could greatly benefit us."

Ventax nodded then brought 250 of the 500 elves away.

Zelon and the rest of the group continued moving forward.

An hour later, they came upon a disfigured tree. Zelon's senses were screaming at him, this was the location calling him.

"Is this what I think it is?"

Zelon walked up to the tree and placed his hand on it.

What he felt inside the tree shocked him. This tree was alive and well, its conscious was huge but stuck in a passive sleep state.

"This is Jedi Master Ood Bnar; looks like I found my teacher, and this teacher is standing on top of a gold mine."

It was stated, that when he entered his slumber he planted himself above a stash of lightsabers.

Zelon sat on the ground and began thinking about how he could convince this Jedi Master to teach him and his people.

"I will have to wait a while, before we wake him up, don't want an angry Jedi Master smacking us after we loot the Jedi Temple on the planet."

With the Jedi master found, Zelon ordered his men to begin the return to base.

As his group left, no one noticed a small group of eyes hidden in the tree's, watching them leave.

The hidden group moved back and disappeared into the dark forest.

Back at base, the dwarves had begun cutting tree's and making some walls around the area.

Drogula and a small group of dwarves, went to Horus's tree to visit the castle world.

When they made it inside, they saw the same view Zelon saw.

"This is an incredible world, only the gods could make something like this!"

The dwarves all nodded in agreement as they explored the world.

After looking around, Drogula began taking mental notes.

"I can see countless things we can build to improve this area, I'll talk to the lord about constructing a massive city around this castle later."

Hours later Zelon and his group made it back to base.

Zelon had the elves rest, before they would help the dwarves with construction around the base.

He walked up to Horus's tree then placed his hand on the tree. He pictured the castle world in his head then disappeared.

Once inside the world, he made his way to the castle passing the dwarves walking around the place.

Zelon entered the throne room and sat on the throne. Once he sat down Horus appeared in front of him.

"What can I do for you my lord?"

"Begin the purification and terraforming process of Ossus."

"Very well."

Horus disappeared from the throne room.

Outside on Ossus, the markings on the tree began to beat like a heartbeat. Large amounts of life energy was sucked out of the planet, into the tree.

After an hour, the tree stopped pulling in energy and began to purify and compress the energy.

When the energy got to a acceptable state the energy was pushed back into the planet.

As the purified energy entered the planet, large amounts of corrupted areas began break down.

The corrupted areas would be removed, then the growth process would begin anew.

As changes began to take place on the planet, Ossus's spirit body began to make changes.

Some disfigured clumps of his body fell off like rotten meat, then began to regrow good as new.

The trees and plants, begin to grow, getting stronger and breathing in more toxic air.

These toxic fumes would then be filtered and released back into the air purified.

Large amounts of plants began growing underwater, cleansing the water sources around the world.

As the Marking on the Holy Tree; beat back and forth, the planet's core began to beat along with it.

On one beat the planet would compress, then the beat would cause the planet to expand, growing bigger than it once was.

Horus returned to the throne room.

"My lord, the process has begun, I estimate after a week the planet should be good as new, and it should have expanded 2 to 3 times its original size."

"Hmm."

Zelon nodded his head.

"Inform me immediately if anything happens, I'm going to begin training my control over trees."