Xos
07-12-08, 05:44 PM
It was a bright and cheery day, and Xos was sitting on the steps of the citadel in Corone. He had finished buying his wife a new dress, and then went on to smack a strange mutant man around a place he thought only existed in threory. He had even killed him and walked out of a citadel match alive and well for the first time. One might think that would put him in good spirits, but it didn't.
"What's wrong friend?" asked one monk, the first female monk he had ever seen. She was dressed in the same reddish yellow robes the others wore. Her head was covered by a hood.
"I've missed graduation. I worked so hard for so many years to earn my Doctorates in advanced Arcane and Scientific Theory. So many nights I gave up society in order to study, so many weekends I stayed in in order to keep up with the level of work honors gives you. I have the knowledge, certainly, but I didn't graduate. That is what's got me down. I was going to graduate Egregia Cum Laude, the class Valedictorian, and the only student ever to pass Professor Causa's class with a 4.0 grade average. But alas, here I set, in another reality, unable to graduate." Xos said.
"Our common master, The Glorious Light, he sent me to tell you, he wants you to return, to graduate. But you need to remain for yet awhile longer there. There's another lesson you need to learn. Look up a battle called "The Battle of Reason." The monk said.
"I can return! I'm ready, let us go!" Xos said.
"I thought you might say that, but are you sure you want to go alone?" she asked.
Xos stopped and thought.
"Your right. Let me hire two others to assist me." He said.
"We'll bring them here." The monk said.
Thunder echoed around them. There were words in that thunder, words only they could hear. Not one person besides the two of them heard the roll of thunder that was Omni's voice.
"An innocent sitting on a fountain? What did he mean by that?" The monk asked.
"Could be a powerful child. Typically, children are considered to be innocent, not yet knowing much. Said something about a midnight blue ribbon in his hair, or some such color." Xos said.
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A few days later, the call was answered. One a fellow member of The House of Sora, and one an innocent child. Xos was surprised that a child should be chosen to assist him. No he was gonna have to baby sit, and waste his time watching a child.
Xos and his two research assistants stood in a room at the top of the tower, and the lady monk took Xos's hands in hers and the both prayed to Omnisource to open an interdimensional gateway back to Kessingale. The book of the ancient masters rose out of Xos's pack of items, and vaporised into gold light. It surrounded the Quartet, and disappeared, taking them with it.
Xos looked around him in wonder, a tunnel made of light energy. Stars, Galaxies, entire universes were flashing by at speeds that, in theory, if not faster than light rivaled it. He looked around.
This must be the eleventh dimension where each universe is naught but a Membrane of it's own.
Universe Membranes floated by. Some were bright, some were dark. Xos realised quickly that the dark ones were "diseased" somehow, but he didn't quite understand how. He realised the bright ones were then, healthy. They headed into and through a Membrane, an interesting place devoid of life, carbon, and silicon.
Then they headed into another directly behind it. It was very dark, very diseased, and Xos still didn't understand how it was diseased.
Those studying M Theory could certianly learn alot by traveling like this.
The thoughts traveled through his mind, and then dread filled his heart, for they had entered his home reality, dark and diseased as it was. What was wrong? Was this why he was sent home? Was this why he was to look up The Battle of Reason?
Everything went dark, and light returned.
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Xos sat up, he felt like he had just woke up. He stared into the book he had been reading. It contained information on the powers of the great ancients. Magic had fascinated him, for he could accomplish a little magic.
"Was, was it a dream? he asked himself. Before anyone could answer, a Red-headed young woman burst into the room. She looked, dragonish.
"XOS, your almost late for graduation, hurry, their starting!" she said excitedly.
Then she stopped dead in her tracks.
"Who the hell are you three, and what happened to you Xos?" she asked.
Xos stood and looked behind him to see his two assistants and the very bewildered and confused Aibrone monk who had not actually intended to come with them.
"IT WASN'T A DREAM!" Xos shouted excitedly.
"Kalia, hurry, lets go get ready. You three, quick, go to the audience stands!" Xos shouted and dashed off.
The woman sighed and turned. She had been wearing robes indentical to Xos's, except they were grey, and covered with healing symbols, and necromancy symbols.
"Down the hall to our left, take a right at the end, follow the stands, can't miss it." she said offhandedly, and walked away to the right.
"I, I hadn't really intended to come along." the monk said.
She sighed.
"Well, guess I'm along for the adventure." she said, and lead the trio to the stands.
The Kessingalians in the stands looked at the three in the front row like they were weird and exotic creatures, on display for public amusement.
"Wonder where they got them." whispered one.
"That little boy sure is cute." said another.
"That man is hot, I'd like to do things to him that would make him squeal." said another.
"Quiet please." A voice said from below. They were seated in KU stadium, home of the Unidentified Flying Objects. The man speaking was the only human being on staff, Professor Causa. He wore black slacks, shoes, and socks. A blue dress shirt with a red bow tie, and over all, a white lab coat. He was in his seventies, and had a great white flowing beard. He was the strictest meanest teacher on staff, and would expell students from the entire college for not paying attention, failing to accomplish homework and research assignments, getting any thing lower than a C, including a C-, and once expelled a student for falling asleep in class. In addition his assignments were so incrediably complex and far reaching, that only the criminally insane would actually consider taking them. This was why he was reserved for the bad students that the university wanted to get rid of but couldn't actually get rid of for one reason or another. The fact that Xos voluntarily chose him for his honors courses was something that made everyone wonder what was wrong with him. The further fact that he passed all classes with flying colors made everyone wonder what his secret was.
Xos stood on the stage in full graduation regalia, which was the robes he was already wearing, multiple small golden ropes, and because he was class valedictorian, a free conical hat designed to match his robes.
KU had the Valedictorian give the opening speech and the class speech.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, brothers and sisters, my dear friends. It is not often we gather in such great numbers for so joyous an occasion. Though it has been naught but hours for you, for me, many days have passed since this morning, and I have learned many things." Xos's speech began, and from there he spoke for an hour straight speaking on the nature of reality, and telling them of Althanas.
At the end of his speech, The President of Kessingale University, a weird amorphous blob creature with fifteen eyes and four times as many tenticles handed Xos his Diploma. Xos bowed before everyone, even as the crowd cheered.
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Xos had them take the teleporter to his house straight from the university.
"May I present to the world, Dr. Xos Xilanthese." Kalia said as they materialised in the house. She smiled, but a look in her eye spoke of a secret feeling that would not be reciprocated.
Xos's house was made of the same material as the rest of Kessingale, the mysterious and green colored Substance Z. It acted like metal but felt like an organic substance. The windows were made of a crystal with the strength of Plynt. He had a couch in his front room and couple of chairs against the walls. Automated servants kept things in order. He had a couple of spare guest beds in rooms upstairs. The whole house was computerised and one had only to speak to relay a wish or command. The Crystal windows were shuttered closed by Xos's wish.
"So, this is my house, payed for with my inheritance. I have over 900 trillion Galactic Standard credits in the bank, so anything you need, totally on me.
Relax, make yourselves comfortable. Al, Kially, your rooms are upstairs, the first and second doors respectivly. Shial, my apologies for accidentally bringing you along. Your room is the third. If you need anything, ask the house, it will fetch it for you. I have to log into the internetwork and research The Battle of Reason." Xos said.
Shial, the Aibrone monk who was accidentally brought along looked at a computer interface screen on the wall with fascination.
"Is it intelligent?" she asked.
"I am a class seven Artificial Intelligence programmed in household management. I am equipped with a translator that allows me to understand over three hundred thousand different languages. I can perform complex calculations and play multiple games. Does that saitsify your question?" the computer responded.
"Yes, but it only raises more." Shial complained.
A robot servant, built to look human but not quite human walked over to Xos.
"Welcome home master, you have a parcel waiting for you in your library study." the robot said in a clearly artifical voice.
"Like I said, make yourselves at home, Tomorrow we go to the Galactic Mall as I show you the city. Really there's a historical volume there I wish to purchase." Xos said.
He went upstairs and was not seen for the rest of the night.
"So, are you skilled in combat then?" Shial asked the computer. In response a door opened accross the room.
"Aha! you have arenas like we have back home. Very well then, I accept your challenge!" Shial said. She entered, and spent the next have hour putting up a good fight against an exact holographic replica of herself. To her, it was simply a new magic, not understanding that this was instead highly advanced science.
"What's wrong friend?" asked one monk, the first female monk he had ever seen. She was dressed in the same reddish yellow robes the others wore. Her head was covered by a hood.
"I've missed graduation. I worked so hard for so many years to earn my Doctorates in advanced Arcane and Scientific Theory. So many nights I gave up society in order to study, so many weekends I stayed in in order to keep up with the level of work honors gives you. I have the knowledge, certainly, but I didn't graduate. That is what's got me down. I was going to graduate Egregia Cum Laude, the class Valedictorian, and the only student ever to pass Professor Causa's class with a 4.0 grade average. But alas, here I set, in another reality, unable to graduate." Xos said.
"Our common master, The Glorious Light, he sent me to tell you, he wants you to return, to graduate. But you need to remain for yet awhile longer there. There's another lesson you need to learn. Look up a battle called "The Battle of Reason." The monk said.
"I can return! I'm ready, let us go!" Xos said.
"I thought you might say that, but are you sure you want to go alone?" she asked.
Xos stopped and thought.
"Your right. Let me hire two others to assist me." He said.
"We'll bring them here." The monk said.
Thunder echoed around them. There were words in that thunder, words only they could hear. Not one person besides the two of them heard the roll of thunder that was Omni's voice.
"An innocent sitting on a fountain? What did he mean by that?" The monk asked.
"Could be a powerful child. Typically, children are considered to be innocent, not yet knowing much. Said something about a midnight blue ribbon in his hair, or some such color." Xos said.
__________________________________________________ ____________
A few days later, the call was answered. One a fellow member of The House of Sora, and one an innocent child. Xos was surprised that a child should be chosen to assist him. No he was gonna have to baby sit, and waste his time watching a child.
Xos and his two research assistants stood in a room at the top of the tower, and the lady monk took Xos's hands in hers and the both prayed to Omnisource to open an interdimensional gateway back to Kessingale. The book of the ancient masters rose out of Xos's pack of items, and vaporised into gold light. It surrounded the Quartet, and disappeared, taking them with it.
Xos looked around him in wonder, a tunnel made of light energy. Stars, Galaxies, entire universes were flashing by at speeds that, in theory, if not faster than light rivaled it. He looked around.
This must be the eleventh dimension where each universe is naught but a Membrane of it's own.
Universe Membranes floated by. Some were bright, some were dark. Xos realised quickly that the dark ones were "diseased" somehow, but he didn't quite understand how. He realised the bright ones were then, healthy. They headed into and through a Membrane, an interesting place devoid of life, carbon, and silicon.
Then they headed into another directly behind it. It was very dark, very diseased, and Xos still didn't understand how it was diseased.
Those studying M Theory could certianly learn alot by traveling like this.
The thoughts traveled through his mind, and then dread filled his heart, for they had entered his home reality, dark and diseased as it was. What was wrong? Was this why he was sent home? Was this why he was to look up The Battle of Reason?
Everything went dark, and light returned.
_____________________________________________
Xos sat up, he felt like he had just woke up. He stared into the book he had been reading. It contained information on the powers of the great ancients. Magic had fascinated him, for he could accomplish a little magic.
"Was, was it a dream? he asked himself. Before anyone could answer, a Red-headed young woman burst into the room. She looked, dragonish.
"XOS, your almost late for graduation, hurry, their starting!" she said excitedly.
Then she stopped dead in her tracks.
"Who the hell are you three, and what happened to you Xos?" she asked.
Xos stood and looked behind him to see his two assistants and the very bewildered and confused Aibrone monk who had not actually intended to come with them.
"IT WASN'T A DREAM!" Xos shouted excitedly.
"Kalia, hurry, lets go get ready. You three, quick, go to the audience stands!" Xos shouted and dashed off.
The woman sighed and turned. She had been wearing robes indentical to Xos's, except they were grey, and covered with healing symbols, and necromancy symbols.
"Down the hall to our left, take a right at the end, follow the stands, can't miss it." she said offhandedly, and walked away to the right.
"I, I hadn't really intended to come along." the monk said.
She sighed.
"Well, guess I'm along for the adventure." she said, and lead the trio to the stands.
The Kessingalians in the stands looked at the three in the front row like they were weird and exotic creatures, on display for public amusement.
"Wonder where they got them." whispered one.
"That little boy sure is cute." said another.
"That man is hot, I'd like to do things to him that would make him squeal." said another.
"Quiet please." A voice said from below. They were seated in KU stadium, home of the Unidentified Flying Objects. The man speaking was the only human being on staff, Professor Causa. He wore black slacks, shoes, and socks. A blue dress shirt with a red bow tie, and over all, a white lab coat. He was in his seventies, and had a great white flowing beard. He was the strictest meanest teacher on staff, and would expell students from the entire college for not paying attention, failing to accomplish homework and research assignments, getting any thing lower than a C, including a C-, and once expelled a student for falling asleep in class. In addition his assignments were so incrediably complex and far reaching, that only the criminally insane would actually consider taking them. This was why he was reserved for the bad students that the university wanted to get rid of but couldn't actually get rid of for one reason or another. The fact that Xos voluntarily chose him for his honors courses was something that made everyone wonder what was wrong with him. The further fact that he passed all classes with flying colors made everyone wonder what his secret was.
Xos stood on the stage in full graduation regalia, which was the robes he was already wearing, multiple small golden ropes, and because he was class valedictorian, a free conical hat designed to match his robes.
KU had the Valedictorian give the opening speech and the class speech.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, brothers and sisters, my dear friends. It is not often we gather in such great numbers for so joyous an occasion. Though it has been naught but hours for you, for me, many days have passed since this morning, and I have learned many things." Xos's speech began, and from there he spoke for an hour straight speaking on the nature of reality, and telling them of Althanas.
At the end of his speech, The President of Kessingale University, a weird amorphous blob creature with fifteen eyes and four times as many tenticles handed Xos his Diploma. Xos bowed before everyone, even as the crowd cheered.
__________________________________________________ _________
Xos had them take the teleporter to his house straight from the university.
"May I present to the world, Dr. Xos Xilanthese." Kalia said as they materialised in the house. She smiled, but a look in her eye spoke of a secret feeling that would not be reciprocated.
Xos's house was made of the same material as the rest of Kessingale, the mysterious and green colored Substance Z. It acted like metal but felt like an organic substance. The windows were made of a crystal with the strength of Plynt. He had a couch in his front room and couple of chairs against the walls. Automated servants kept things in order. He had a couple of spare guest beds in rooms upstairs. The whole house was computerised and one had only to speak to relay a wish or command. The Crystal windows were shuttered closed by Xos's wish.
"So, this is my house, payed for with my inheritance. I have over 900 trillion Galactic Standard credits in the bank, so anything you need, totally on me.
Relax, make yourselves comfortable. Al, Kially, your rooms are upstairs, the first and second doors respectivly. Shial, my apologies for accidentally bringing you along. Your room is the third. If you need anything, ask the house, it will fetch it for you. I have to log into the internetwork and research The Battle of Reason." Xos said.
Shial, the Aibrone monk who was accidentally brought along looked at a computer interface screen on the wall with fascination.
"Is it intelligent?" she asked.
"I am a class seven Artificial Intelligence programmed in household management. I am equipped with a translator that allows me to understand over three hundred thousand different languages. I can perform complex calculations and play multiple games. Does that saitsify your question?" the computer responded.
"Yes, but it only raises more." Shial complained.
A robot servant, built to look human but not quite human walked over to Xos.
"Welcome home master, you have a parcel waiting for you in your library study." the robot said in a clearly artifical voice.
"Like I said, make yourselves at home, Tomorrow we go to the Galactic Mall as I show you the city. Really there's a historical volume there I wish to purchase." Xos said.
He went upstairs and was not seen for the rest of the night.
"So, are you skilled in combat then?" Shial asked the computer. In response a door opened accross the room.
"Aha! you have arenas like we have back home. Very well then, I accept your challenge!" Shial said. She entered, and spent the next have hour putting up a good fight against an exact holographic replica of herself. To her, it was simply a new magic, not understanding that this was instead highly advanced science.