Titans of Ages Current

Part 4: Nelly's Triumph: The First Destiny

"Wake up child! Destiny is calling out to your very being! Can you not feel it young one?"

.... Everything is blurry... And bright!
"Good god! What is this place?!"
I look around in Amazement: I am in the spirit world. I just know it... But I don't know how I know it...
Oww! I head feels like it is going to burst!
Silence.... I look up to find a man, no a machine? He looks to be both. I can't honestly define where our not it is even male. It's body consist of solid iron and copper, with intricate sets of gears interlocked in his chest.
The most unique part of his feature: his arm. It's bulky at the shoulder as wiring is partially exposed under leather skin that ends just above his elbow. His elbow itself appears to be a spinning device with gauges at the joint.. The words and symbols on it are cryptic.. But familiar.
Wait, those are Roman Numerals. His hand to his wrist is all machine, and his four fingers each end in different a different colored light.
"Who are you? What is the meaning of this? What is this?" My head starts burning again.
It's like thoughts are being branded into my mind.... Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgggggghhhhh!
The pain subsides, but it left it's roll on me. I vomit from the sensation, and lean back while I cough out, "where is everyone?" I could still feel tears.
The machine itself is faceless, but words could be heard from it somehow. "Tell me who you are."
"Who I am? Who are you?"
"Girl you must answer my question or we will never make progress."
This seems odd.. "I am Nelly Lancor, I am twenty five, blood type a+..."
How do I know this? I've never even been presented this information! Now, it seems I know more about myself than ever!
"What had happened to me? How do I know all this?"
"I am The Revered Automatious Sage of Time Space Perspective and the Maelstrom. But you may call me... John."
"Dafuck? What kind abbreviation is John? "
"It's not, child. It's a simpler name to remember my being by."
"Wait wait wait! You can't say all that shit, and then tell me your name is John!"
"But, my calculations assumed that a girl of Caucasian ethnicity and of relevantly standard intelligence would have no trouble remembering such a common name."
Wow, he's a Sage and he stereotypes.. Great... "Why don't you let me name you? That way I can remember it easier?"
"Very well, in our current situation, I am no position to argue."
"Alright!" What we do we know Nelly? He's big, needs a strong name! And he has a lot of gears.... But those gauges.. I got it!
"From henceforth, you shall be forever known as.... Dial..."
I can't tell of he went for it. The lack of capability to express it's emotion, of any, didn't help me much.
He finally turns his head towards me "I like it. It is clever and powerful. Spoken well child!"
"Now, what did you mean by 'our current situation'?"
"Nelly, you must realize your destiny to stop the end of the world."
My destiny? End of the world?
"You must go forth and learn your destiny by resolving the destiny of the sages. Once you have, you will find your own destiny."
I'm feeling a little sick... I don't know what is going on. "Alright, I don't know if you noticed, but I'm a little girl!"
He steps closer to me, "on the contrary. I am nine feet tall."
What? Impossible? "You don't look over 7 feet.. I mean I come up to your.."
Shit.. I must be almost six feet tall... But how.. Wait did I say I was 25 but that's impossible.
"My child, nothing is impossible to a Sage."
"What happened to me"
"The question is, what happened to everyone else. The answer is this.. Time stopped when you slept Nelly... For ten years. Everything has aged ten years since then. "
"Wait! doesn't that mean people have died of age or disease or something instantly? Doesn't that seem strange how small children may or may not be grown up?"
"All children were taken in the squall, ask babies and many teens as well.. The gods saw then as opportunity and claimed them as top priority. If you remember, the IAC released the chemicals to prevent aging and disease. Those chemicals still operate today."
"So I'm grown up, and the rest of the world is normal?"
"Exactly, my child."
This is insane. What does all this have to do with me?
"In due time, all will be revealed. But it is imperative you learn your destiny! Take this, this is a seer's rune. It will tell you what your destiny entails as you need to know. Whenever a part of your destiny has been uncovered, you must be sure to refer to it for your next task."
Blinding white light encases me as I scream over its sound, "how can someone like me aspire to what you are saying?!"
I could vaguely hear him over the wall of light as it takes me away from this realm.