Chapter 4 - The Truth that lies in a Dream...

Death and life. Two parts to a puzzle. Each fulfilling the other. Each judging equally on all. Is it truth that lies in life. Is it lie that is in death. Is a dream that lies in the truth. A bend in the rules. The curse to go beyond the lie and the truth. The haven from life and death. To be trapped as stone in the sand of time. To go on without death but without a life. Is it better to die and live then to never live at all? The forces in our mind fighting for control. Is it in our dream to die? Is it in death to dream? Whatever lies in our path we can deal with and grow as life through death, but as trapped in a dream, trapped as a rock, forced to live out the rest of eternity, is there hope in meaning at all.....Chapter Four: The Truth that lies in a dream.....The dark room, surrounded in the spinning lights. The sword in the center, an echo in the silence. Charlie only watches as the darkness engulfs the room. The sword begins to break, and blood shatters from it. The room soon leaks blood, Charles's blood, and Charlie feels a pulse runs down him. The chain begins to drain his power, his life, his essence, his youth. His mind, split in three. All sense leaving his body. Thunder comes crashing down, and he wakes up."Janie: Mom, he's waking up!" "Unia: Well, 11 days asleep is quite a long time, maybe its this Mississippian air.""Charlie: Eleven days! I was asleep for eleven days?!""Unia: Well young Charlie, you do seem stressed. I don't know who those people were and why they were after the key, unless they want to reach the core. The thing is that this was never suppose to happen.""Charlie: So where are we right now?""Unia: Mississippi, I came here because we need to get to something before that evil does.""Charlie: Why didn't you get it when we got here?""Janie: Charlie, we need the key to get this."We had walked outside to what appeared to be a bog. Snakes slivered in the water and alligators swam in the water beneath our feet. All this was quite different for someone who was raised in the future where most forest were gone. We had gotten a ride from the local natives, and they offered us a long boat. We had to cross a long and shallow river infested with snakes and other vermin, but the presence of the natives seemed to freeze them. We had eventually reached our destination, a temple floating on water. There, we were greeted by five old natives in golden robes. They were pleased to see us. They lead us to the door. There was a key hole the size of the key trapped in the chain. Immediately the chain became loose enough to take out the key head, and the door was opened. The chain then ate the key again. In the room, there was part of a crystal key hole."Unia: Charlie, the key isn't all that is needed to reach the core. You need the seven parts of the key hole to open the door. Each seventh is kept in a hidden location on each of the seven continents. Once all of the pieces are put together and the key is put through, the door way to the Universal Core will be opened, and that evil might do as pleases with it.""Charlie: But how did it get there?""Jaine: At the beginning of the first eternity, a mighty power created the universe and the Universal core to control it and the other universes dreams create. The door to the core was locked, the key hole pieces were scattered on earth, and the key was left in our possession.""Golden Cloth Native #01: Quick, I sense evil approaching, take it and run!"It was already to late. Prime Jagvu and his third in command, Lord Kanihuy, were on their way with the muck monsters wearing the collars to control them. The muck monsters were faster than they appeared. The golden shroud natives attempted to fight them off for as long as they could. Without Charlie took the first part of the key hole. It glowed as he grabbed it, but they were too busy trying to run for their lives to realizes this had importance. The remaining natives took them to the underground tunnels. The muck monsters were soon on their tail, with the rest of Jagvu's darkness being carried on the monster's backs. As a desperate attempt the natives used the last of their energy to create a wall of energy to keep the darkness separated from our three heros. Once this was done, the remaining of the natives became life less and were slowly turning to ash. The muck monsters who attempted to go through were destroyed by the energy barrier. Jagvu was not pleased with this."Jagvu: Well Kanihuy, are you going to go after them, or are we just going to sit here and take a nap!""Kanihuy: Yes sir!"Kanihuy pulled out the flute, and played a different tune. The muck returned home and the shadows began to gather against the wall of energy. Soon the shadows were breaking through, and finally shattering the walls. Unia, Janie, and Charlie were far ahead of them. Kanihuy decided to chase them alone. He may have been small, but he had speed, and most surprisingly of all, arms of metal. He soon caught up to them, and turned his arms into swords. He charged at them. Unia was knocked out. Charlie and Janie carried her, and they ran to the exit, but only the ocean was at their feet. They ran and eventually were moving to fast to fall into the water. Kanihuy was on their tail, with his sword hands attempting to slice them. His arms had a thin layer of a black ooze on it, but they had no time to worry about this. Charlie had to push Janie out of range from the blow. It was just him, and Kanihuy. Janie ran as fast as she could. Any faster and she would have gone faster than light. Kanihuy darted forward, nearly cutting Charlie in two. Charlie made a quick dodge. From there it was a race. They hopped from island to island each attacking the other. Kanihuy was quite confident of himself. In fact, a bit too confident of himself. Charlie was reading his moves, learning his weaknesses as they moved along. He had so far found no error in his technique. Kanihuy had strength, defense, attack, and strategy down. Kanihuy managed to tear a ligament Charlie's right arm. This fight seemed over. He was too fast to hit by Charlie's time waves and too strong to be out witted. He may not die, but who knows what dire consequences there are when this dark catches him. The final blow was going to be taken until a glow in Charlie's chain pulled him together. His mind was blanking out. The chain was taking over. His mind could faintly understand what he was doing."Kanihuy: What is this, it appears you have a hidden power, well, BRING IT ON!""Charlie (In an erie and dark voice): Foolish mortal, your existence is a pawn in the darkness. Your life has no meaning, pathetic, trying to survive, DIE mortal, DIE!"Charlie moved faster then he ever had. He out ran Kanihuy in a short time, creating a whirlpool of time stream. Charlie's eyes filled with emptiness and rage. He shot Kanihuy with a powerful blast of time stream, aging him, leaving a pile of ash and two rusted arms of metal. Soon even the arms rusted away into nothing."Charlie (Still in dark voice): Mortal, it is futile to escape me!""Charlie (Now half normal): Who, who are you!""Charlie (Dark): I am the darkness in the chain, the power that keeps you alive, and once part of you.""Charlie (In a new voice): Stop that darkness, we mustn't interfere.""Charlie (Dark Voice): Listen light, if I didn't then WE might have been captured and WE might have been killed through the only way we can, separation from the three of us!""Charlie (Normal Voice): Stop it! I don't understand, just SHUT UP!"Charlie fought now amongst himself to regain control. He eventually returned to normal, or at least as normal as he already was. He gathered his thoughts, now filled with so many questions. Then he realized he was separated from the others. He ran as fast as he could with a unusable arm, trying to sense and locate Unia and Janie. He sat down on the beach, allowing his legs to be soaked by the waves. He meditated and focused, like Unia taught him to. He concentrated in their power. He blocked out all other thoughts. He emptied his mind, only he and the others energy were present. He saw them, in South America, in Southern Peru, in Cusco, in the Incas empire. He saw it, focused all his energy on the position, and teleported to where they where. Although he wasn't welcomed as he hoped he would have. When he got there, he was hit on the head with a stick."Janie: Hey you jerk, were have you been for these past hours. I was worried sick about you. I was afraid they caught you, or were torturing you, or, or, or even worse...""Charlie: Gee, Janie, since when have YOU cared so much about me!?""Janie: (Blushes) Hey you jerk, (She mallets him on the head again. This time knocking him into a wall.) I was trying to be nice, you little brat!""Unia: Janie, can you ever learn to control your emotions. Have you even realized that he has torn a ligament, or that he seems a bit more worried than usual.""Janie: Well, its his fault for hurting himself so much, (Tears were coming out of her eyes until Charlie looked her way) I was trying to show compassion for the little weirdo!""Charlie: Who are you calling a weirdo Janie, Insainy, Trainee, painy, mainy...." He continued to taunt. Janie was going to hurt him, but she remembered he was already hurt."Unia: Well, we better begin to heal you, we need to talk to the emperor quite soon."Charlie was relived to be back with them, but the thoughts he had when the chain controlled him still haunted his mind. He healed with in two weeks, and soon, from the little hut they built they headed to a palace that seemed to conquer the sky. It was very far away."Charlie: Unia, may I ask why we are going to see the emperor of this empire?""Unia: It's quite a long story, let me tell you it along the way.""Janie: Hopefully you brain can process the complexity of the story." she continued to tease.They walked onward to the palace, but meanwhile, back in North America, Jagvu and the rest of the darkness found the remains of Kanihuy and pulled out the flute."Jagvu: Grumeg, you, the one with shadow power, are now second in command. Summon the sky dragon.""Grumeg: Its my pleasure to serve you sir!""Jagvu: Thats what I thought you would say."Grumeg played the flute and summoned a black dragon from the rain clouds. It swept down, empty and pitch black. It also had a collar. They all rode on it and headed south to Peru, almost as if they knew where they went, as if they know what will happen three steps ahead of them. They arrived their in a few hours and the dragon was to follow them. Grumeg then played the flute in another tune and the statues around them came to life. They also had collars. They then headed off into the dawn, beginning their new hunt for the emperor and the next piece of the key hole..........

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