Kyra suddenly appeared out of her dorm room and finally started attending classes in StarRock. Her recovery surprised all her teachers, and she started fitting in and making friends in her classes.
Kyra topped all her classes easily as she understood the laws of water and air. This understanding of the law gave her a mastery of the elements even her teachers would envy if they knew. However, she kept the knowledge of the laws to herself to avoid revealing too much.
She was admired by all the female students, and lusted after by the male students, but although she was friendly, her body and soul were Cyril's and she didn't entertain any of them.
Cyril on the other hand took his time walking towards StarDock, keeping an eye out for the dragon. He made regular stops into the Nexus whenever he needed to rest. Within the Nexus, Cyril had several projects that he finally had the time to complete.
Cyril sorted out the dagger he acquired at Cemeteria. It was indeed a magic weapon imbued with death magic, but he now understood the law of death enough to remove the curse on it. He could now use the weapon without accidentally raising the dead or creating zombies.
As he had been raised juggling and throwing daggers, he naturally had a preference for daggers. This particular dagger proved to be exceptionally sharp and could cut virtually anything.
He named the dagger "Bloodfeast", as whenever it stabbed someone, it absorbs the lifeforce of its victim into the bloodstone and feeds the wielder of the dagger. This vampiric ability worked even if he threw the weapon, as it recognizes Cyril as its owner and would feed him the lifeforce when he reclaims it. It also returns to Cyril when called, like Mjolnir does to Thor.
Cyril also spent some time in the Nexus and made the remaining giant monsters outside his mansion into puppets. He now had his monster army.
Although the monster's near indestructible bodies could be cut up using Gungnir his staff or Bloodfeast, he still found the fastest way to access the internal organs to create puppets was to extract them from their orifices. This meant the best way was still up the back, as he did not want to damage the voices of the puppets in case he wanted them to talk.
Among the citizens of Asgard itself, he made puppets of the Valkyries first, because they had no injuries on their bodies nor missing body parts. Their souls were sucked directly out of their bodies when the wormhole killed them. He had made 40 Valkyrie puppets that were found complete.
He also turned his wife Sigyn and Sif's bodies into puppets. They were the guardians of his mansion and took care of everything when he wasn't around.
Most of the other Asgardian gods and goddesses were numerous. He did not want to sort them out and make them puppets yet, but he planned to eventually.
Perhaps in the future he would create his own Asgardian army.
After a while, the death and destruction of Asgard seemed a lifetime ago, and he now truly enjoyed the peace he was experiencing, enabling him to fulfill his tasks without worry.
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While Cyril enjoyed his time walking to the StarRock Academy, StarRock was starting to face a major crises, but the teachers at StarRock could not piece together the puzzle and realize it yet.
The eagles going between StarRock and other locations were being attacked by a large dragon. As fewer and fewer eagles were arriving, they couldn't tell for sure if this problem was one or many dragons.
Dragons are rare in Eurathia, and a dragon two times larger than the giant eagles was unheard off until the recent attacks on the eagles and its carriages. The eagle that brought Cyril and Kyra to StarRock was actually the first that was attacked.
Then there was less and less people coming to StarRock by ground transport too. Even the supplies of food and other materials have suddenly dried up. There seemed to be no news whatsoever on the disappearances, and even the scouts sent out have not returned.
StarRock is located in the center of Eurathia and is completely surrounded by thousands of miles of the Grimdeath Forest. It needed supplies otherwise it will run out of food and other necessities. Luckily it had its own spring within the city limits, otherwise the inhabitants would die of thirst.
Before long, the teachers decided to send a strong expedition to investigate. but none of them returned.
Thursday 18 February 2016
Chapter 18: The Nexus
Cyril walked into Asgard again, through his portal. Thor and Hela was standing there waiting for him patiently.
Cyril thought calling the dimension inside the bag of holding the "bag dimension" no longer seemed to fit as Cyril decided to make the dimension a transdimensional connection between all the portals and the repository of all the things he wanted to save from Asgard.
So he named it the Nexus
Cyril started filling up the Nexus with Asgard's treasures that remained. He found a pile of the Goddess of Youth Idunn's apples, the apples that gave the Asgardians immortality. They were filled with the law of life. He was unwilling to eat the apple yet as he did not want to be stuck in a 16 year old body.
While the belt made of Baldur's skin was a permanent standby, it would not be big enough to fit everything he wanted to take from Asgard. So he started enlarging his portal he used to get back. He got Thor to stand guard, then continued exploring with Hela.
He entered the portal and took one of his spare Nexus bags from the Nexus and placed them inside Lady Sif's armoire in Odin's castle as a regular portal to Asgard from his dimension. If Asgard is ransacked by bandits, no one would look into a wardrobe full of women's clothes.
He found the bodies of the Dwarven brothers Sindri and Brokkr, makers of Thor's hammer Mjolnir, and made them his puppets. Sindri was missing his legs, so he crafted wheels for himself. Brokkr had his right arm missing from the elbow downwards, so he made himself a fake arm, but instead of a hand, he had a hammer head.
With the two dwarf masterbuilders as puppets, he started building a mansion inside the Nexus, using materials and rubble from Asgard. Thor used his enormous strength to help with the heavy lifting.
The Nexus was filling up and getting more to his liking. He created several large rooms to store different things.
He had his magic room, where he filled with all the items and magical ingredients that he scrounged up from Loki's old spell room.
He had a treasure room which he filled with the treasures of Asgard, such as Idunn's apples.
He had an armory with attached workshop where he kept all the broken magical weapons, and where he stored the dwarf brothers.
He had his library filled with all the knowledge from all the libraries of Asgard.
He had his morgue where he kept Baldur's remains, as well as the body parts of hundreds of God's and Goddesses that he recovered. The morgue was where Hela preferred to stay as she helped sort out their remains.
The mansion was actually built around the area where Kyra and Cyril originally had their bag portals and where they stored their items, so they didn't have to move.
The larger portal to Asgard led to outside the mansion. Kyra never bothered to leave their shared portal room in the mansion as Cyril had too many weird, scary and disgusting dead things lying about.
Outside the mansion, there were the inanimate body parts of his sons Jormungandr and Fenrir, as well as the ice and fire giant Kings Ymir and Surtur. There was also the bodies of the giant eagle that lived at the top of the Yggdrasil the World Tree, and Nidhoggr the dragon that lived in its roots.
These would soon be part of his monster puppet army, Cyril thought to himself.
The project of building his mansion and searching for treasures took Loki approximately 6 months in total. Entering the Nexus and looking at Asgard for a last time, he closed his large portal to Asgard.
He then returned to the large room he shared with Kyra. He now called his portal room as there was where most of the connections to the Nexus would be.
Thor stood completely still nearby in readiness next to the portal on his side. There were Cyril's usual pile of stinkbombs, several whistles of mischief, and also a rack of weapons.
He had Gungnir, Odin's spear on the rack, as well as the mysterious bent spear he got at the Mercantile shop. Gungnir, was one of the two most powerful weapons in Asgard, the other being Mjolnir, Thor's hammer.
He then looked at the bent spear he acquired at the Mercantile shop. It was still bent, so he sent it down to the armory to get it repeared by the dwarf brothers.
After half a year in Asgard, it was time to return to StarRock. He met Kyra in the portal room and informed her that he would return back to StarRock Academy through Grimdeath forest. She nodded, gave him a hug and left using her Nexus bag.
Thor lifted up his mighty hammer Mjolnir. Upon touching the hammerhead, Cyril used the law of space-time on it. Immediately he is transported back to the top of the StarRock in the jungle.
He immediately started walking towards StarRock. Within a few days, he found a road that led towards StarRock. It was seldom used due to the danger from Grimdeath Forest.
Cyril stopped at the side of the road, and Hela stepped out of his Nexus bag. She was wearing a black dress, and looked mysterious and unbelievably alluring. He gave her a Nexus bracelet made from more of Baldur's skin, for her to stay in touch, and gave her a big goodbye hug.
For thousands of years, she was the Goddess of death. She now had a second chance at life and happiness. She wanted to explore Eurathia, have her own adventures, make friends, maybe even find romance.
"Have a good life. You deserve it" Cyril said, as they looked at each other. "I will father, see you around in the mansion" answered Hela as she departed to find her own adventure. She had her own nexus necklace.
Cyril didn't worry about Hela. After all, who would be able to cause trouble for a Goddess of Death?
Chapter 17: Asgard
Cyril rubbed his eyes. He was back in Asgard, but this is not the home he knew. Everything is in ruins and even the air is stale and it felt like nothing has lived here for a long time.
When he applied the law of space-time into the hole in the StarRock, he was immediately transported to the missing piece of StarRock, Mjolnir the hammer of Thor.
He looked at Mjolnir on the ground and tried to lift it. Although Thor was dead, the enchantment still remained. He still could not lift Mjolnir. Only Thor can.
He called out to Hela as he remembered his dream. Instantly Hela appeared. Her eyes lighted up. "Father!" she exclaimed as she hugged him tightly with tears in her eyes. Although he was in Cyril's body, Hela instantly recognized his spirit within him.
They sat and talked, and she confirmed that indeed his dream was true and she was reaching out to him although she did not know where he was.
She brought him around to witness the destruction all around the nine realms. There was body parts everywhere of Gods, Giants, Dwarves, Demons and all the other creatures, as the realms smashed into each other. Although body parts were everywhere, the bodies did not decay. They were not rotting corpses, rather they were like broken mannequins.
Finally they arrived at where Asgard landed. There were dead bodies everywhere. The huge body of his son Jormungandr, the World Serpent was entangled in the broken parts of Asgard, only his head could be seen.. His other son Fenrir's body was further in the distance, his body under a large building. There were dead Gods everywhere around him.
He decided to look for magical items or weapons, anything that might be useful. He stumbled across Gungnir, Odin's magical spear. As he picked it up, it was still full of magic and power. "This could be useful" he thought to himself.
As he walked further, he discovered the body of his half-brother Thor, the God of Thunder. Cyril pulled Thor's body out of the rubble, and discovered Thor's mighty body was intact. He looked at Thor and memories of his childhood flooded his mind.
He turned towards Hela and asked if he could be revived. Hela shook her head. She explained that as there were no longer any spirits in the realm, all the bodies are inanimate objects like rocks.
Cyril then thought of something and remembered the dagger he retrieved in Cemeteria and the zombies he encountered there.
He started asking questions to Hela about what he saw in Cemeteria. "Zombies? Thats very foul magic" replied Hela as she listened to Cyril explain.
As the whole dimension he was in was now the realm of Helheim, ie the realm of the dead, he extended his hand and demonstrated energy of the law of death that he learned in Cemeteria. Hela was shocked that Cyril could manipulate death energy. She extended her hand to his imbuing her own power of death into Cyril's demonstration of death energy.
Cyril smiled as he watched the laws of death combine and form a new understanding in his mind. He had an initial idea, and now he had the knowledge on how to achieve it. He sighed as he decided it was necessary to desecrate Thor's body.
With Gungnir, Odin's spear in his hand he approached Thor's body. As he was about to cut Thor's skin he hesitated. Since Thor was dead, he wanted make Thor's body into his puppet. In order to do that, he had to remove the internal organs.However, he did not want to cut up Thor's skin unnecessarily. Using Gungnir, cutting into a God's body would not be difficult, but sewing it back up would be a challenge.
He thought for a while. He could access the organs through Thor's mouth. But he did not want to damage Thor's throat as he wanted his puppet to talk. He sighed and then turned Thor's body over and removed his pants. Cyril turned to Thor's body quietly "I'm sorry, my brother". He slowly dug deep into Thor's ass using his arm, reaching all the way into his body.
As he didn't want to damage Thor's body too much, he took all night to ensure Thor's body was intact and undamaged while removing his organs.
Upon removing all the organs from within Thor's abdomen, he put the viscera into a circle and imbued necromatic energy into the circle. The viscera turned into a glowing red ball that started to float. Cyril picked it up and without hesitation swallowed it.
He turned to Thor and commanded "Sit up". Instantly the body sat up silently. "Do you know who I am?" asked Cyril. "You are my master" replied Thor. "Do you know who you are?" asked Cyril further. "I was Thor, God of Thunder in my previous existence" answered the puppet. "Your name will remain Thor" remarked Cyril.
The puppet is beyond any mere zombie or undead. It obeyed Cyril's thoughts telepathically, not needing any verbal commands.
The puppet retained Thor's full memories and power. He looked exactly like a living being.
However, if one was to observe closely, one would realize that Thor was not breathing, and did not need to eat or drink. This puppet did not have any needs to fulfill.
"Can you retrieve Mjolnir?" Cyril asked curiously. Thor lifted his right hand and his magic hammer instantly returned to him. "Excellent" mumbled Cyril.
Although Thor had no need for modesty, Cyril thought that a naked muscular 6 feet 5 inches hunk with a impressive manhood might be distracting. So he scrounged around for clothes that fit and found clothes for himself and Thor.
He sadly found Lady Sif's body. Sif was Thor's wife, and someone Loki once had a crush on. He also found the body of his wife Sigyn. They were both inanimate and dead, like Thor was.
With sadness he gathered all the Gods he could recognise with Thor's help and placed them in a row in the broken hall of Asgard's main throne room.
What was he to do with all of them? Should he burn them to give them a proper viking burial? Should he make them all his puppets? But that would take a very long time. He simply took large tapestries off the walls and covered the bodies with them for the time being.
He looked at Thor and decided to shave off all his facial hair. He did not want anyone to recognize Thor and what he did to his body.
Thor looked much younger after shaving and reminded Cyril of their younger days. After a short while, he shook his head and left the hall with Hela and Thor following closely behind.
He thought again of his bags of holding. He should have used them to hide in and escape. But now his bag was gone, it was too fragile. Even his Merchantile ring was damaged and not usable as a storage ring now.
Perhaps he needed to make indestructible items of holding. With that thought in mind, he rushed off with Hela following curiously and Thor obediently. They stopped at Baldur's grave and he used his telekinesis to raise Baldur's body from the ground. His body was still well preserved, and except for the small hole in his chest, his body was flawless.
He did not want to make Baldur into a puppet. While Thor was useful as in life he was the mightiest of Norse Gods. On the other hand, Baldur was an oaf. Although he was indestructible, he was known for simply being the most well liked God.
So Cyril brought out a small knife he made out of mistletoe wood and started removing all of Baldur's skin. Rather than a bag, he used a strip of the skin to make himself a belt.
He then experimented with the belt using his knowledge of space-time and after several attempts, he imbued it with the same attributes as his bags of holding. However, this belt was indestructible.
He decided he wanted to plunder all the treasures of the nine realms and keep them in his dimensional storage area. So he started making a large portal, sufficient to walk into and place larger objects through.
He looked at the rest of the skin and body and dumped it into his new portal. Indestructible skin, muscle, bone and sinew would probably be useful in the future.
Inside the bag dimension, Kyra screamed. As a portal suddenly opened near where Cyril stored his stuff, a body with its skin peeled off flew in and landed in front of her, face down ass up in an awkward position.
The rest of the skin fell unceremoniously on the floor next to the body.
Suddenly, Cyril entered the portal to Kyra's surprise and joy. They looked at each other and started embracing with tears of joy flowing from their cheeks.
Kyra kissed him passionately, as Cyril automatically pushed her towards her bed. Their bodies moved on their own and without any hesitation, they were each other's first.
When they were done, they sat up and looked at each other. Kyra asked what happened to him, and he told her his tale. They enjoyed each other's company while talking and eventually Kyra asked what was he going to do now.
"I still have things to do in the other place I'm at. Rest assured, when I am done, I will join you at StarRock." he answered.
"Can I join you where you are at?" Kyra asked further.
He nodded and held her hand as they both walked towards his portal. Suddenly, her Pendant of Protection formed a force field around her pushing her away from the portal.
"Its a realm of death, I think you are not allowed to enter." Cyril stated frankly.
"How about you? Why must you go back?" she asked in frustration.
"There is something I must finish" he answered with finality.
She nodded quietly. She kissed him and smiled. "I will be waiting for you. Please don't take too long".
He nodded and reentered Asgard using his new portal, leaving a much happier Kyra.
When he applied the law of space-time into the hole in the StarRock, he was immediately transported to the missing piece of StarRock, Mjolnir the hammer of Thor.
He looked at Mjolnir on the ground and tried to lift it. Although Thor was dead, the enchantment still remained. He still could not lift Mjolnir. Only Thor can.
He called out to Hela as he remembered his dream. Instantly Hela appeared. Her eyes lighted up. "Father!" she exclaimed as she hugged him tightly with tears in her eyes. Although he was in Cyril's body, Hela instantly recognized his spirit within him.
They sat and talked, and she confirmed that indeed his dream was true and she was reaching out to him although she did not know where he was.
She brought him around to witness the destruction all around the nine realms. There was body parts everywhere of Gods, Giants, Dwarves, Demons and all the other creatures, as the realms smashed into each other. Although body parts were everywhere, the bodies did not decay. They were not rotting corpses, rather they were like broken mannequins.
Finally they arrived at where Asgard landed. There were dead bodies everywhere. The huge body of his son Jormungandr, the World Serpent was entangled in the broken parts of Asgard, only his head could be seen.. His other son Fenrir's body was further in the distance, his body under a large building. There were dead Gods everywhere around him.
He decided to look for magical items or weapons, anything that might be useful. He stumbled across Gungnir, Odin's magical spear. As he picked it up, it was still full of magic and power. "This could be useful" he thought to himself.
As he walked further, he discovered the body of his half-brother Thor, the God of Thunder. Cyril pulled Thor's body out of the rubble, and discovered Thor's mighty body was intact. He looked at Thor and memories of his childhood flooded his mind.
He turned towards Hela and asked if he could be revived. Hela shook her head. She explained that as there were no longer any spirits in the realm, all the bodies are inanimate objects like rocks.
Cyril then thought of something and remembered the dagger he retrieved in Cemeteria and the zombies he encountered there.
He started asking questions to Hela about what he saw in Cemeteria. "Zombies? Thats very foul magic" replied Hela as she listened to Cyril explain.
As the whole dimension he was in was now the realm of Helheim, ie the realm of the dead, he extended his hand and demonstrated energy of the law of death that he learned in Cemeteria. Hela was shocked that Cyril could manipulate death energy. She extended her hand to his imbuing her own power of death into Cyril's demonstration of death energy.
Cyril smiled as he watched the laws of death combine and form a new understanding in his mind. He had an initial idea, and now he had the knowledge on how to achieve it. He sighed as he decided it was necessary to desecrate Thor's body.
With Gungnir, Odin's spear in his hand he approached Thor's body. As he was about to cut Thor's skin he hesitated. Since Thor was dead, he wanted make Thor's body into his puppet. In order to do that, he had to remove the internal organs.However, he did not want to cut up Thor's skin unnecessarily. Using Gungnir, cutting into a God's body would not be difficult, but sewing it back up would be a challenge.
He thought for a while. He could access the organs through Thor's mouth. But he did not want to damage Thor's throat as he wanted his puppet to talk. He sighed and then turned Thor's body over and removed his pants. Cyril turned to Thor's body quietly "I'm sorry, my brother". He slowly dug deep into Thor's ass using his arm, reaching all the way into his body.
As he didn't want to damage Thor's body too much, he took all night to ensure Thor's body was intact and undamaged while removing his organs.
Upon removing all the organs from within Thor's abdomen, he put the viscera into a circle and imbued necromatic energy into the circle. The viscera turned into a glowing red ball that started to float. Cyril picked it up and without hesitation swallowed it.
He turned to Thor and commanded "Sit up". Instantly the body sat up silently. "Do you know who I am?" asked Cyril. "You are my master" replied Thor. "Do you know who you are?" asked Cyril further. "I was Thor, God of Thunder in my previous existence" answered the puppet. "Your name will remain Thor" remarked Cyril.
The puppet is beyond any mere zombie or undead. It obeyed Cyril's thoughts telepathically, not needing any verbal commands.
The puppet retained Thor's full memories and power. He looked exactly like a living being.
However, if one was to observe closely, one would realize that Thor was not breathing, and did not need to eat or drink. This puppet did not have any needs to fulfill.
"Can you retrieve Mjolnir?" Cyril asked curiously. Thor lifted his right hand and his magic hammer instantly returned to him. "Excellent" mumbled Cyril.
Although Thor had no need for modesty, Cyril thought that a naked muscular 6 feet 5 inches hunk with a impressive manhood might be distracting. So he scrounged around for clothes that fit and found clothes for himself and Thor.
He sadly found Lady Sif's body. Sif was Thor's wife, and someone Loki once had a crush on. He also found the body of his wife Sigyn. They were both inanimate and dead, like Thor was.
With sadness he gathered all the Gods he could recognise with Thor's help and placed them in a row in the broken hall of Asgard's main throne room.
What was he to do with all of them? Should he burn them to give them a proper viking burial? Should he make them all his puppets? But that would take a very long time. He simply took large tapestries off the walls and covered the bodies with them for the time being.
He looked at Thor and decided to shave off all his facial hair. He did not want anyone to recognize Thor and what he did to his body.
Thor looked much younger after shaving and reminded Cyril of their younger days. After a short while, he shook his head and left the hall with Hela and Thor following closely behind.
He thought again of his bags of holding. He should have used them to hide in and escape. But now his bag was gone, it was too fragile. Even his Merchantile ring was damaged and not usable as a storage ring now.
Perhaps he needed to make indestructible items of holding. With that thought in mind, he rushed off with Hela following curiously and Thor obediently. They stopped at Baldur's grave and he used his telekinesis to raise Baldur's body from the ground. His body was still well preserved, and except for the small hole in his chest, his body was flawless.
He did not want to make Baldur into a puppet. While Thor was useful as in life he was the mightiest of Norse Gods. On the other hand, Baldur was an oaf. Although he was indestructible, he was known for simply being the most well liked God.
So Cyril brought out a small knife he made out of mistletoe wood and started removing all of Baldur's skin. Rather than a bag, he used a strip of the skin to make himself a belt.
He then experimented with the belt using his knowledge of space-time and after several attempts, he imbued it with the same attributes as his bags of holding. However, this belt was indestructible.
He decided he wanted to plunder all the treasures of the nine realms and keep them in his dimensional storage area. So he started making a large portal, sufficient to walk into and place larger objects through.
He looked at the rest of the skin and body and dumped it into his new portal. Indestructible skin, muscle, bone and sinew would probably be useful in the future.
Inside the bag dimension, Kyra screamed. As a portal suddenly opened near where Cyril stored his stuff, a body with its skin peeled off flew in and landed in front of her, face down ass up in an awkward position.
The rest of the skin fell unceremoniously on the floor next to the body.
Suddenly, Cyril entered the portal to Kyra's surprise and joy. They looked at each other and started embracing with tears of joy flowing from their cheeks.
Kyra kissed him passionately, as Cyril automatically pushed her towards her bed. Their bodies moved on their own and without any hesitation, they were each other's first.
When they were done, they sat up and looked at each other. Kyra asked what happened to him, and he told her his tale. They enjoyed each other's company while talking and eventually Kyra asked what was he going to do now.
"I still have things to do in the other place I'm at. Rest assured, when I am done, I will join you at StarRock." he answered.
"Can I join you where you are at?" Kyra asked further.
He nodded and held her hand as they both walked towards his portal. Suddenly, her Pendant of Protection formed a force field around her pushing her away from the portal.
"Its a realm of death, I think you are not allowed to enter." Cyril stated frankly.
"How about you? Why must you go back?" she asked in frustration.
"There is something I must finish" he answered with finality.
She nodded quietly. She kissed him and smiled. "I will be waiting for you. Please don't take too long".
He nodded and reentered Asgard using his new portal, leaving a much happier Kyra.
Chapter 16: StarRock
On the eagle, Kyra slowly stirred. Suddenly her eyes opened as she looked around. A teacher was next to her and gave her a sad look.
She shook her head with disbelief, how could Cyril have died so early in their lives? They were supposed to go to StarRock and grow up together.
Kyra fell onto the floor crying profusely as the teachers tried to comfort her. Be she was completely inconsolable.
The remaining journey took a few days. As the eagles approached, it looked like the expanse of forest suddenly opened up to a city with large walls to keep the creatures of the forest out.
StarRock city was nearly the size of Elendil, but instead of bustling streets and buildings packed close together and claustrophobic, StarRock was spread out with plenty of space. It had many parks and fountains and was definitely more scenic.
As they landed, they noticed many other eagles landing from all the other kingdoms in Eurathia. All the students were directed to a large assembly in the middle of the Academy.
The headmaster was Glorian, a famous fire weaver who has been in charge of StarRock Academy for over 70 years. As headmaster, he is automatically also the governor of StarRock city.
In the middle of StarRock Academy, there was a large black stone with patterns that look like stars covering the whole rock. It was the size of a house and it was surrounded by the main office buildings of the principal and other important teachers and officials of the city.
This was where StarRock Academy got its name from. The StarRock came from part of a large meteorite that crashed into Erandelusia millions of years ago.
The largest rock was the centrepiece of the city, and it built itself around the StarRock, but many other smaller pieces were scattered around the Grimdeath forrest.
Cyril woke up, under several layers of ash. He was completely naked as all his clothes were cinders, but his body wasn't burned.
However, he felt his whole body was in pain due to the impact of the dragon's flame, he had cuts and bruises everywhere on his body.
His bag of holding was burned, so he couldn't get any of his resources. His Merchantile ring was still mostly intact, but damaged, and he couldn't access the items he stored inside it.
He noticed his his bracelet was damaged, it had a crack on it. Panicking, he looked inside and was relieved to find Violet unharmed as he extracted her body. He tried again to revive her, even giving her CPR, but she was completely unresponsive.
Being injured himself, he couldn't carry her around, he replaced her body back into his bracelet. He hoped she could be revived in the future.
He started walking towards the direction of where he remembered the eagles were heading, and keeping a wary eye out for the dragon.
He didn't fly because he didn't want to encounter the dragon again, and stayed hidden in the dense forest.
He walked for days, managing to kill several wild beasts that attacked him and fed on them for days, and skinned them for clothes, as he was still naked.
He found a beautiful lake, and took time washing himself. He also washed Violet's beautiful body and made clothes for himself and Violet, whom he clothed as well.
After trying again and finding he could not do anything for her, he stored her in his bracelet again.
On the 6th day, he arrived at a large rock in the middle of the forest. It looked exactly like the rock in StarRock Academy, only it was only the size of a man.
Cyril looked at the rock in amazement. It looked like a meteorite that came from the stars.
But the more he looked at the rock, the more he had a strange sense of familiarity with that rock.
Cyril frowned and touched the rock. Something was tickling the back of his mind, but he cannot seem to get what he is supposed to remember. He flew around the rock, looking at it from every angle.
Then suddenly, he looked at it from the top and saw it! There was a hole at the top of the rock, carved out to the shape of a hammer head! Mjolnir, Thor's hammer was carved out of this rock! Mjolnir was carved out of the heart of a star, and that heart is this exact rock!
As Cyril touched the hole, he traced his fingers around the groves and edges. He recognised traces of the law of spacetime. Curious, he controlled the remnant space-time energy with his hands as he touched the hole, suddenly he was sucked into the hole and disappeared!
She shook her head with disbelief, how could Cyril have died so early in their lives? They were supposed to go to StarRock and grow up together.
Kyra fell onto the floor crying profusely as the teachers tried to comfort her. Be she was completely inconsolable.
The remaining journey took a few days. As the eagles approached, it looked like the expanse of forest suddenly opened up to a city with large walls to keep the creatures of the forest out.
StarRock city was nearly the size of Elendil, but instead of bustling streets and buildings packed close together and claustrophobic, StarRock was spread out with plenty of space. It had many parks and fountains and was definitely more scenic.
As they landed, they noticed many other eagles landing from all the other kingdoms in Eurathia. All the students were directed to a large assembly in the middle of the Academy.
The headmaster was Glorian, a famous fire weaver who has been in charge of StarRock Academy for over 70 years. As headmaster, he is automatically also the governor of StarRock city.
He got the other teachers and staff to help the students who suffered the ordeal, and got them counselling help, and help to settle in.
Kyra received help and counselling, but she was completely shattered by the loss of Cyril.
She led to her dorm room. However, she never slept in her bed. She spent most of her time inside the bag of holding, where she used her bed in there and hugged one of Cyril's shirts to bed.
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In the middle of StarRock Academy, there was a large black stone with patterns that look like stars covering the whole rock. It was the size of a house and it was surrounded by the main office buildings of the principal and other important teachers and officials of the city.
This was where StarRock Academy got its name from. The StarRock came from part of a large meteorite that crashed into Erandelusia millions of years ago.
The largest rock was the centrepiece of the city, and it built itself around the StarRock, but many other smaller pieces were scattered around the Grimdeath forrest.
Cyril woke up, under several layers of ash. He was completely naked as all his clothes were cinders, but his body wasn't burned.
However, he felt his whole body was in pain due to the impact of the dragon's flame, he had cuts and bruises everywhere on his body.
His bag of holding was burned, so he couldn't get any of his resources. His Merchantile ring was still mostly intact, but damaged, and he couldn't access the items he stored inside it.
He noticed his his bracelet was damaged, it had a crack on it. Panicking, he looked inside and was relieved to find Violet unharmed as he extracted her body. He tried again to revive her, even giving her CPR, but she was completely unresponsive.
Being injured himself, he couldn't carry her around, he replaced her body back into his bracelet. He hoped she could be revived in the future.
He started walking towards the direction of where he remembered the eagles were heading, and keeping a wary eye out for the dragon.
He didn't fly because he didn't want to encounter the dragon again, and stayed hidden in the dense forest.
He walked for days, managing to kill several wild beasts that attacked him and fed on them for days, and skinned them for clothes, as he was still naked.
He found a beautiful lake, and took time washing himself. He also washed Violet's beautiful body and made clothes for himself and Violet, whom he clothed as well.
After trying again and finding he could not do anything for her, he stored her in his bracelet again.
On the 6th day, he arrived at a large rock in the middle of the forest. It looked exactly like the rock in StarRock Academy, only it was only the size of a man.
Cyril looked at the rock in amazement. It looked like a meteorite that came from the stars.
But the more he looked at the rock, the more he had a strange sense of familiarity with that rock.
Cyril frowned and touched the rock. Something was tickling the back of his mind, but he cannot seem to get what he is supposed to remember. He flew around the rock, looking at it from every angle.
Then suddenly, he looked at it from the top and saw it! There was a hole at the top of the rock, carved out to the shape of a hammer head! Mjolnir, Thor's hammer was carved out of this rock! Mjolnir was carved out of the heart of a star, and that heart is this exact rock!
As Cyril touched the hole, he traced his fingers around the groves and edges. He recognised traces of the law of spacetime. Curious, he controlled the remnant space-time energy with his hands as he touched the hole, suddenly he was sucked into the hole and disappeared!
Chapter 15: Flight to StarRock
The next morning, several more students joined them as they assembled to head to StarRock Academy. There were several elves and half elves in this new group, and two humans. They waited throughout the morning as several other carriages appeared from other regions of Eurathia.
They moved to a large area where there was two gigantic eagles waiting. Each eagle was easily as large as a house. On each eagle's back, there was a large carriage like contraption with seats that can seat 80 people each.
The eagle reminded Cyril of the eagle that sat on top Yggdrasil the world tree, who was at least twice the size of these eagles. "Its doubtful that eagle would allow a carriage on its back" thought Cyril to himself.
They all boarded according to the carriages they came in and loaded their luggage.The group from Westhaven had no luggage, as they were lost in Cemeteria and was yet to be recovered.
This didn't bother Cyril and Kyra of course were unaffected as their possessions were really in their bag of holding. Violet was unaffected too, as apparently she did not have any possessions except for the red dress she was wearing.
As the two eagles departed the city became smaller and smaller. Cyril remembered the feeling of flying, as flying was second nature to him as a God in Asgard. He could easily transform to a flying creature or even grow wings and fly any time he wanted to, but didn't as he was keeping his other powers a secret.
Eagles were used as transportation because StarRock Academy was located near the center of Eurathia, in an independent small city state also called StarRock, of which StarRock Academy encompasses the whole city. In between Erandelucia and StarRock is the vast Grimdeath Forest, teeming with monsters and dangerous creatures stretching for thousands of miles.
Of course humans, elves and other creatures can traverse the forest. But due to the dangers of being attacked by monsters and bandits, and the many months required to cross the forest by land, only the very powerful or foolhardy will attempt it. Most that can afford the journey will take some manner of flying transport over the forest.
For the first several hours, the trip was uneventful. Kyra made friends with the other students while Cyril stared out the window deep in his thoughts. He looked at the forest below and wondered what creatures existed here. If his brother Thor was here with him in their youth, surely they would be out hunting here.
As he continued to watch the forest below, he noticed a shadow looming over them, getting larger and closer. Suddenly the eagles who were flying side by side broke formation and the eagle they were riding made a sudden dive.
As it did, the roof of the carriage suddenly ripped open, and everyone saw a huge dragon narrowly miss grabbing the entire carriage with its claws.
The dragon was easily the size of both eagles put together. Its size reminded Cyril of Nidhoggr, the giant dragon that lived and gnawed at Yggdrasil's roots.
The dragon blasted fire in the direction of their eagle as the eagle took evasive action narrowly avoiding the dragon fire. The forest below was set ablaze and the dragon took a second shot at the eagle. This time it was not going to miss.
As the flames came close to their eagle, Violet stood up and extended her hands. All the flames were absorbed by her hand, however her dress was catching fire.
Suddenly, the eagle banked sharply to the left throwing Violet out of the carriage. Just as Cyril was about to catch her with wind, she suddenly burst into flames and flew towards the dragon attacking it with fire.
As a fire breathing dragon, the dragon was used to fire, and is generally resistant to fire. However Violet's flame actually caused it pain. It turned with an unnatural swiftness and swiped it's tail at Violet hitting her into the distance.
By now, several elves and half elves were shooting fire and ice arrows at the dragon, while the teachers were also using their elemental powers to attack. However, normal elemental attacks have no effect on the dragon.
The dragon blasted fire again at the eagle. This time, Kyra raised her right hand and willed the power of the amulet she was wearing to create a shield blocking the attack.
Kyra screamed as the fire attack put tremendous pressure on her willpower. Kyra fainted as the attack stopped and fell into Cyril's arms due to the onslaught.
Without a second thought, Cyril tied Kyra into her chair and jumped off the eagle and flew using his wind shooting huge wind blades at the dragon. However, the dragon shrugged them off as it did the attacks by the teachers and the students.
Cyril agilely avoided the dragon's attacks and flew closer took out his stink bombs and peppered about a hundred bombs into the dragon's eyes and nostrils.
The bombs were made to get stuck and indeed they formed a black tar-like glue covering the surface of the dragon's eyes and irritated the nostrils of the dragon, making it hard for it to breathe.
The dragon roared madly, now blind and suffering from the horrid stench and blinding sensation in its eyes. It shot fire blindly as it struggled to stay in the air, incinerating the forest around it.
Cyril look in the air and saw that the eagles had disappeared into the distance. So he left the dragon where it was, blind and screaming and flew to the direction Violet was hit.
It took him several minutes flying in the same direction before locating Violet. She was unconscious in a crater on the ground, but surprisingly was still alive and unharmed. There was a pack of giant wolves approaching her, each standing 9 feet high on all four legs.
As they approached her, Cyril suddenly landed right next to her. He looked at the wolves and gave them a glare that forced them to back down.
One of Loki's many names in Asgard is "Father of the wolf". Fenrir the monstrous wolf was one of his sons, so he knew how to handle wolves. They immediately retreated leaving him to tend to Violet.
Violet was completely naked as her clothes had been burned to ashes. Although she was short at exactly 5 feet, she had the curves one would expect on a fully developed beautiful woman. Her body was completely without blemish and completely hairless.
He scanned her body looking for signs of injury, but could not find any. He tried shaking her, but she was completely unconscious and not breathing.
From a distance, he heard roaring and rumbling approaching them. The dragon had already burned off the stink bomb concoction in its nostrils, but was still blind. However, its sense of smell was strong enough to track Cyril and it was heading towards them fast.
He carried her and ran used the wind to fly with all his might. But the dragon was catching up on him, and he couldn't fly as agilely as before while carrying Violet.
Not knowing if Violet was alive or dead, he quickly stored her body into his bracelet, preserving her inside.
Then he flew with all his might trying to get away from the dragon who was still chasing him.
The dragon was still catching up with him, even when was unencumbered with carrying Violet. Having no choice, he dove into the dense jungle and tried to hide from the dragon.
The dragon approached blindly and incinerated everything surrounding it, burning the entire section of the forest into ashes.
They moved to a large area where there was two gigantic eagles waiting. Each eagle was easily as large as a house. On each eagle's back, there was a large carriage like contraption with seats that can seat 80 people each.
The eagle reminded Cyril of the eagle that sat on top Yggdrasil the world tree, who was at least twice the size of these eagles. "Its doubtful that eagle would allow a carriage on its back" thought Cyril to himself.
They all boarded according to the carriages they came in and loaded their luggage.The group from Westhaven had no luggage, as they were lost in Cemeteria and was yet to be recovered.
This didn't bother Cyril and Kyra of course were unaffected as their possessions were really in their bag of holding. Violet was unaffected too, as apparently she did not have any possessions except for the red dress she was wearing.
As the two eagles departed the city became smaller and smaller. Cyril remembered the feeling of flying, as flying was second nature to him as a God in Asgard. He could easily transform to a flying creature or even grow wings and fly any time he wanted to, but didn't as he was keeping his other powers a secret.
Eagles were used as transportation because StarRock Academy was located near the center of Eurathia, in an independent small city state also called StarRock, of which StarRock Academy encompasses the whole city. In between Erandelucia and StarRock is the vast Grimdeath Forest, teeming with monsters and dangerous creatures stretching for thousands of miles.
Of course humans, elves and other creatures can traverse the forest. But due to the dangers of being attacked by monsters and bandits, and the many months required to cross the forest by land, only the very powerful or foolhardy will attempt it. Most that can afford the journey will take some manner of flying transport over the forest.
For the first several hours, the trip was uneventful. Kyra made friends with the other students while Cyril stared out the window deep in his thoughts. He looked at the forest below and wondered what creatures existed here. If his brother Thor was here with him in their youth, surely they would be out hunting here.
As he continued to watch the forest below, he noticed a shadow looming over them, getting larger and closer. Suddenly the eagles who were flying side by side broke formation and the eagle they were riding made a sudden dive.
As it did, the roof of the carriage suddenly ripped open, and everyone saw a huge dragon narrowly miss grabbing the entire carriage with its claws.
The dragon was easily the size of both eagles put together. Its size reminded Cyril of Nidhoggr, the giant dragon that lived and gnawed at Yggdrasil's roots.
The dragon blasted fire in the direction of their eagle as the eagle took evasive action narrowly avoiding the dragon fire. The forest below was set ablaze and the dragon took a second shot at the eagle. This time it was not going to miss.
As the flames came close to their eagle, Violet stood up and extended her hands. All the flames were absorbed by her hand, however her dress was catching fire.
Suddenly, the eagle banked sharply to the left throwing Violet out of the carriage. Just as Cyril was about to catch her with wind, she suddenly burst into flames and flew towards the dragon attacking it with fire.
As a fire breathing dragon, the dragon was used to fire, and is generally resistant to fire. However Violet's flame actually caused it pain. It turned with an unnatural swiftness and swiped it's tail at Violet hitting her into the distance.
By now, several elves and half elves were shooting fire and ice arrows at the dragon, while the teachers were also using their elemental powers to attack. However, normal elemental attacks have no effect on the dragon.
The dragon blasted fire again at the eagle. This time, Kyra raised her right hand and willed the power of the amulet she was wearing to create a shield blocking the attack.
Kyra screamed as the fire attack put tremendous pressure on her willpower. Kyra fainted as the attack stopped and fell into Cyril's arms due to the onslaught.
Without a second thought, Cyril tied Kyra into her chair and jumped off the eagle and flew using his wind shooting huge wind blades at the dragon. However, the dragon shrugged them off as it did the attacks by the teachers and the students.
Cyril agilely avoided the dragon's attacks and flew closer took out his stink bombs and peppered about a hundred bombs into the dragon's eyes and nostrils.
The bombs were made to get stuck and indeed they formed a black tar-like glue covering the surface of the dragon's eyes and irritated the nostrils of the dragon, making it hard for it to breathe.
The dragon roared madly, now blind and suffering from the horrid stench and blinding sensation in its eyes. It shot fire blindly as it struggled to stay in the air, incinerating the forest around it.
Cyril look in the air and saw that the eagles had disappeared into the distance. So he left the dragon where it was, blind and screaming and flew to the direction Violet was hit.
It took him several minutes flying in the same direction before locating Violet. She was unconscious in a crater on the ground, but surprisingly was still alive and unharmed. There was a pack of giant wolves approaching her, each standing 9 feet high on all four legs.
As they approached her, Cyril suddenly landed right next to her. He looked at the wolves and gave them a glare that forced them to back down.
One of Loki's many names in Asgard is "Father of the wolf". Fenrir the monstrous wolf was one of his sons, so he knew how to handle wolves. They immediately retreated leaving him to tend to Violet.
Violet was completely naked as her clothes had been burned to ashes. Although she was short at exactly 5 feet, she had the curves one would expect on a fully developed beautiful woman. Her body was completely without blemish and completely hairless.
He scanned her body looking for signs of injury, but could not find any. He tried shaking her, but she was completely unconscious and not breathing.
From a distance, he heard roaring and rumbling approaching them. The dragon had already burned off the stink bomb concoction in its nostrils, but was still blind. However, its sense of smell was strong enough to track Cyril and it was heading towards them fast.
He carried her and ran used the wind to fly with all his might. But the dragon was catching up on him, and he couldn't fly as agilely as before while carrying Violet.
Not knowing if Violet was alive or dead, he quickly stored her body into his bracelet, preserving her inside.
Then he flew with all his might trying to get away from the dragon who was still chasing him.
The dragon was still catching up with him, even when was unencumbered with carrying Violet. Having no choice, he dove into the dense jungle and tried to hide from the dragon.
The dragon approached blindly and incinerated everything surrounding it, burning the entire section of the forest into ashes.
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