Felarya's Nightmare

Chapter 10 - Magic VS Science

The next day, they were all up at 8 am and Vigara came:

- "Hey... I'm sorry about that attack of mine yesterday, I had certain problems in my past..."

Richard: - "Don't worry, you just wanted to release the stress that was affecting you and I'll always be here to help you ok? I may have met you guys yesterday, but because you didn't kill me, I think we can be friends."

Vigara (gives a silly smile): - "Ah... An extra friend is always good; and hey! I was forgetting... Are you the boy who survived a Naga attack at the south gate?"

Richard: - "Ahh..... yeah... you can say it like that."

The others hear his half uncertain confirmation and are curious approaching him, asking him to tell them what happened and when he finished with the story, Richard asks:

Richard: - "And do you know of anything that happened after that?"

Nixa: - "Well, a lot of information went around, but what is repeated is that you were saved by one of the weapons on the wall, which they shot towards the naga's body, not at the head because it could kill you and also they say the naga was split in two by the shots and it was 2 shots from the gun (That would explain the two explosions that were heard but they sounded like explosions, not gunshots) and when they took you to be taken away they said that even with your legs completely bloody for the effort he made, he still managed to lift the naga's jaw to come out of her mouth, and it's quite heavy and then they took you to the highest part of Negav, taking you to a house of a very powerful sorceress, they say she is so powerful that she can fight toe-to-toe with a guardian"

Richard: - "Highest part? Guardian?"

Nixa: - "Yeah, it would be the richest part of Negav and Guardian would be the strongest creatures we know, they normally control the balance of our world, maybe our universe"

Richard: - "Balance? Pff, being teleported from your universe to another universe without the slightest awareness is really a great balance right?"

Nixa: - "What happened?"

Richard was already impatient: - "WHAT WAS IT?? I know how access to this planet works, I know that there is a kind of space "HQ" that has Felarya's planet as an extremely restricted access, and that the only way to there are two ways to come here, either it's through this HQ or it's finding some kind of artifact, doing some magic or just going around somewhere IN THIS UNIVERSE, that wouldn't work in my universe, because there's no magic there, like, zero magic, just science"

Nixa: - "Ahm... Maybe there is, but you didn't find out-"

Richard: - "Nixa... No, it doesn't exist, what is magic? It's some kind of energy that allows you to do things that science limits you, such as releasing fire through your hands without burning them, healing people without having to depend of her organism. Do you want a more practical example? Simple, Pita! Please come here!"

Pita: - "Ah, alright..." She gets close to him and carefully analyzes his wings and looking again at Nixa, says:

Richard: - "How much do you think Pita weighs? Maybe because of the biology of the fairies, her bones can be more hollow than a normal human, decreasing the weight, but with that she probably weighs 110, 88 pounds at the very least. , and do you think her wings, thin and kind of transparent like that, will lift her up so easily? Taking away and excluding the biological part, physically it wouldn't make sense, why? Well, first she would have to have more solid wings like a bird, that is, as you know as a Harpy (a really ugly beast) and even with solid wings like a bird, a human would need wings that would have a size of about 16 to 22 ft. Now if this is a wing normal, strong wing, imagine how big a fairy's wing should be? If it were to glide, it would still have to be a little bigger and a little closer to the body, but ok, but they use them to fly. So Pita, can you fly a little there?"

Pita: - "Okay" she takes off and climbs about 30 centimeters off the ground, managing to stay in place.

Richard: - "See? She took off and didn't even make a noise, do you really think this is physics? Is this natural? No, this is magic, because fairies have a body that is practically an efficient pot to store magic, that's why some grow too much. And what about my universe? NO, it's all physics, biology and a lot of other things there. Not that my universe is boring, but there's no magic"

Nixa: - "ah... But if any of those guardians managed to get you here with magic, and if it's the way you said it, they could even go to a certain part, but they would never be able to reach you, right? here, that is, they managed to reach you, how do you explain that?"

Richard went from "out of patience" to "I got screwed", but said: - "Well... This is really very complicated, because I think it makes more sense, for this being, to be something very powerful that managed to overcome the barriers of multiverse, but it would have to be something so unimaginably powerful to do such an act..."

Idril: - "Man, I don't know if the guardians have that power, but there's a being that might be able to answer you"

Richard: - "Which one?"

Idril: - "The Oracle"

Richard: - "Oracle?"

Idril: - "Yes, she is one of the strongest and smartest guardians we know, she is practically a goddess in terms of power, maybe if she is not the one who guarantees the balance, she will be the one who will be able to give you the answer, pity that almost no one has ever seen her..."

Richard: - "Almost no one? So was there anyone?"

Idril: - "Yes... She's in this district but she has too much protection, because people know what she's already seen and they kind of chase after her for information, so..."

Richard: - "Um... But you must have a plan because you mentioned something that was supposed to be impenetrable, right?"

Idril: - "Well, true, but it's not quite a plan because I'm not sure if it will work, but it goes like this: We have to go fir-" Vigara interrupts Idril suddenly and with a certain anger.

Vigara: - "IDRIL!!! We already talked about it and every time we tried, we couldn't talk to her. You know that every time we try, our chances of getting it decrease even more!!"

Idril: - "I know that, but now we are with the boy, she will probably let us talk to her"

Richard: - "Whoa, wait a minute, what do I have to do with this?"

Idril: - "It's just that the person we want to see is a naga too, the same species as Vigara, only with a much more refined nose for magic than Vigara, and if even Vigara felt a strange energy in you, maybe you can have the answer for that person"

Richard: - "Wow, impressive but what's her name?

Idril: - "Everyone knows her as The Oracle, but actually she named herself that way, hahaha!! How self-centered she is... But her real name is Vitera, she has a certain kinship with Vigara"

Richard: - "Damn... So can we go there now?"

All: "YES!! LET'S GO!!"

Richard found everyone's excitement strange as if it were a life goal for them and now he's there to make it come true or at least try. Then finishing up and putting on his coat in a badass way, he said: "LET'S GO GUYS!!!!"