Interlude of a life gone by...

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A soft breeze blew over the calm sea, gentle waves crashing into the coast line, washing the massive stone cliffs with splashes, leaving behind wet stains in the rock

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A soft breeze blew over the calm sea, gentle waves crashing into the coast line, washing the massive stone cliffs with splashes, leaving behind wet stains in the rock. The ocean had remained mostly still, no raging storms, no violent waves…not even a single whirl pool had formed for several centuries…even the lands were peaceful…but also silent…no songs on the winds, no laughter or rejoicing, just an eerie stillness, as if the life was slowly fading from this once colourful and luscious world…

 

The monsters and creatures were fewer and isolated themselves with their own kind just as they had many years ago before the goddesses had come into existence, too afraid to interact with each other as there was no longer anyone to keep the peace should a aggression and disputes break out…It was if hope was slowly dying and there was none strong enough to restore what was once a great power…

 

Far from the main island stood a small island with 3 large white stones…the ground covered in dead flowers, large blue gems scattered, covered in dust and sand as no one had been there to clean and tend to them for hundreds of years…candles lay amongst them, their flames long since extinguished…remaining like this, a forgotten memorial for those that left this world millennia ago…

 

However today something strange occurred…the 3 stones started to glow, blue symbols forming along the rock as beams of energy shot into the sky, a swirling vortex of white and blue forming in the sky…and from it came the 3 dragons that had disappeared…gliding through the sky as they searched for the one that had remained behind…a hope and joy to see her again…her mother, father and her beloved…

 

But they didn’t not recognise this world, so much had changed…the landscapes had altered…the once great mountain peaks that pierced the skies that had been their temporary homes were flattered with new ones having grown from the lush valleys that were once covered in tall trees and thick forests…the rivers and lakes were gone, replaced with villages and farms…new sources of water flowing along the new landscapes…the valley of shadows and darkness had gone well dark…no signs of life as the flames that had been alight had gone out…nothing more than a barren waist land…

 

The kingdoms in the sky were quiet too…its inhabitants long since gone…having found greener pastures as some might say and new homes…even the ocean was still…its once lush and colourful reefs were cold and decaying…the creatures that lived with in the waters hiding away in caves and deep canyons and trenches that lay hidden beneath the blue waves…their once prosperous and lively kingdoms of the sea now nothing more that rubble…

 

What had happened here? This wasn’t the home they were expecting to return to…sure there was the peace that was promised and the fiends that had hunted them seemed to be gone but…it was as if the life was being drained from this place…like something was missing…like a garden that had been left abandoned by its keeper, left to become overgrown with weeds and insects to devour the flowers that had once brought beauty and life to the grounds…

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