The Place Before the Core (Reprise)

Chapter 5: The Ballad of Justalyne

"Why are you pacing so much?" I asked as Galactus stridden with a heavenly look on.

"I can't believe your mom was the famous Esmeralda!" He gadded joyfully.

"What's so special about my mom?"

"She was the greatest and highest warrior in this land! She was wedded to our high emperor Aquanis before the event. She faced countless of beasts, including several giants and dragons. She even rid this land of the Imp King and his underlings. He was the vast threat that ruled for several decades. Your mom was this world's savior, until one day, a hooded figure approach Aquanis and your mom. After that we have never heard of or seen your mom again, until now. So somehow she ended up there on Earth."

"So my mom was that great. I can't believe I'm actually believing this. Anyways about the prophecy..."

"Actually the prophecy is in form of a ballad, and its title is actually The Ballad of Jessica." Jepidity interrupted.

"Then why did I have to go through that test?" I asked cynically.

"Well we have encountered other Jessica's who didn't live up to the ballad," Galactus answered "Wanna hear it?"

I nodded as Galactus cleared his voice and sang out the ballad:

The tale of the unseen
The one who'll rise to the evil queen
Slathucas
The tale of the unseen
The sail over seven kingdoms from the screen
Roshambo
The flute must be seen to the shelves
Must fights off, the shine of the evil wingshapes
The guild must be form
Segrifoth the Jerk, One is sworn for the
BEWARE OF THE FLASH
Reputations degraded, Segrifoth's beheaded
With a cross
The guild's in Troken, thanks to the drakon griffin
Everything is wrong
And the guilds coming with you.
The guild leads to Rodor
Mea magicae
All then begins to wage war
Clip and carry plug flees
Warriors around are to help
To form a guild
Ulric feeds on dead souls of warrior
Now the guild
Sees the three attacking the orbs
Mirrors have grown in the land
Now the battle moves somewhere else and
Then some fairies interfere
Help with perks and heal
One last battle
Must go against Alys
In the tale of the unseen.

"So I'm guessing the red head is Alice?" I said trying to make light after that weird ballad.

"Yeah but Alys with a -lys." Jepidity answered.

"And it says I need to be accompanied, how about you guys. How did you two meet, anyways?" I looked between the two.

"Short story, dragons, and evil elves." Galactus said winking.

"Okay, then. Do you guys have any leads on the ballad?"

"Well, we did a little searching on the names and places in the ballad. Slathucas is well known assassin who has killed countless of warriors, one whole guild, and attempted for the head of Aquanis himself. He failed but he was remarkably close. Let's see...also that the flute it's talking about is probably the one guarded by wingshapes. Wingshapes are sprite like creatures but very dark and gruesome. They are bush size flying creatures. Segrifoth the Jerk is a myth for the time your mom was on adventures. He was said to be one fierce ghost reeking havoc throughout the land. It is believed as a myth since no one has evidence of seeing him.

"Troken is the slum kingdom in this empire. It what you guys would call the ghetto. A lot of murders happen there and many of the residents are murderers or belong to a notorious guild. And that's all we got so far!" Galactus explained also commenced in striding.

"Am I the first person worthy of this job that you guys met?"

"No we had quite the few. But they all met a gruesome fate at the hands of Alys. But you are different, you are exponentially skill and it was a dead giveaway when you are part of a heroic bloodline." Jepidity stated.