Into the Chaos

Chapter one

I was falling. It could have been 5 minutes or 9 days. I didn't really care. The last thing I remember was people, scientists, saying that the sun was going to explode. Millions of years before it should. Now, I'm falling. I open my eyes and see the ground getting closer and closer. 200 yards away and counting. Of course, it has to be covered in snow.

When I got out of the snow I the temple was the only thing I could see. I look at myself as I walk into the temple and see that I am wearing different clothing than what I put on this morning.

Running. Why am I running you ask? Giant spiders that why. There was someone reaching for me at the top of the rocks. I grab their hand and, in a flash, I am in front of the temple I just walked into.

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When I wake up, I am in a stone room and surrounded by people with swords pointed at my neck and come to realization that I am currently going through the events of Dragon Age: Inquisition as my hand brightens the room in green light. Thedas is a mess at this point and my magic? I don't think the people here are going to like that I got my abilities from a powerful entity. They'd probably think that its possession and we all know how they feel about abominations.

The door slams open. Cassandra.

"Tell me why we shouldn't kill you now. The conclave is destroyed. Everyone who attended is dead. Except for you."

I stay silent.

"Explain this." Cassandra grabs at my left hand as is flairs green and shoves it back down.

"I can't."

"What do you mean you can't?"

"I don't know what it is or how it got there." I lie. I know exactly what it is and who it belongs to.

"You're lying!" Cassandra says, raising her voice and lunges at me. Leliana grabs her elbow and pulls her back.

"We need her Cassandra."

"All those people are dead." At the conclave and on Earth.

"Do you remember what happened? How this began?" Leliana asks me."

"I was running. Things were chasing me. And then... A woman?"

"A woman?"

"She reached out to me, but then..." I shrug and shake my head.

"Go to the forward camp Leliana. I will take her to the rift."

"What did happen?"

"It will be easier to show you."

Cassandra takes me outside, bound in rope, I look up to see the Breach swirling in the sky.

"We call it 'The Breach.' A giant rift into the world of demons that grows larger with each passing hour. It is not the only such rift. Just the largest. All were caused by the explosion at the conclave."

"An explosion can do that?"

'This one did. Unless we act, the breach may grow until it swallows the whole world."

I cry out in pain and fall to my knees as the Breach expands. I curl around my hand.

"Each time the Breach expands, your mark spreads... And it is killing you. It may be the key to stopping this but there isn't much time."

"Of course it is... I understand."

"Then..."

"I'll do what I can, whatever it takes."

Cassandra led me through Haven. "They have decided your guilt. They need it. The people of Haven mourn our most holy, Divine Justinia, head of the Chantry. The conclave was hers. It was a chance for peace between mages and templars. She brought their leaders together. Now they are dead. We lash out like the sky, but we must think beyond ourselves as she did until the Breach is sealed." By the time she stops talking we are outside the first set of gates. She stops, pulls out a dagger and cuts the rope binding my hands. "There will be a trial. I can promise no more. Come, it is not far."

I stay silent.

"Your mark must be tested on something smaller than the Breach." I walk across the bridge and the soldiers open the gates into the valley. I continue down the path until the Breach expands, causing me to stumble and fall.

"The pulses are getting faster now. The larger the Breach grows; the more rifts appear. The more demons we face. "

"How did I survive the blast?"

"They said you stepped out of a rift then fell unconscious. They said a woman was in the rift behind you. No one knows who she was. Everything further in the valley was laid waste. Including the Temple of Sacred Ashes. I suppose you'll see soon enough."

We continue on until something from the Breach destroyed the bridge we were walking on. There were two shades when I stood and two conveniently placed short swords. I wouldn't need them as soon as I found my stuff.

I grab the short swords to help Cassandra. We quickly took care of the shades.

"Drop your weapon. Now!"

"I was attacked what was I supposed to do."

"You don't need to fight."

I raised an eyebrow. "Are you saying it won't happen again?"

Cassandra sighs. "You are right. I cannot protect you. And I cannot expect you to be defenseless. Your life is threatened enough as it is."

We continue, fighting more shades and those green things. Specters?