Luminous Blue

Sheera Eladove turns to Ruairi and asks him,
"Will you guide me and my army to the Realm of Dragons?"
"I would be honoured" replies Ruairi. Then he turns to Xanala. He parts a strand of hair from her face and tucks it behind her ear.
"I'll be back before you know it" he says calmly and reassuringly. Xanala holds back tears and nods.
"Try not to recruit Bayard before I get back" jokes Ruairi. Xanala smiles and says,
"I'm afraid, by the time you get back, we'll have a dwarf army on our side already"
"We'll see about that" laughs Ruairi in kind way.
"Queen Eladove, if you'd please follow me" says Ruairi like a butler. To help pass the time he asks her,
"How well trained are your troops?"

Meanwhile, the rest of us leave the palace and continue on our journey to find the sacred library. Lachlan makes sure that the Pegasus' and the SuperCars have full tanks of water and then we're off. We leave the city of elves and venture deep into the land of ice and snow. The drive begins to turn bitterly cold.
"Lachlan, is there anything that you could do about the cold?" I ask. Lachlan pushes a button next to the steering wheel and suddenly a hatch above it opens and inside is a toasty wood fire.
"Thanks Lachlan, you never fail to surprise us!" I say. I put my hands near the warm wood fire. Then I put some music on to help pass the time.

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As I listen to more songs, the trip seems to go faster and faster. It isn't long before we arrive at the Forrest of Clovelia. Tia slows down Cogsworth to a stop. The rest of us stop as well. Xander dismounts Rob, Daniel floats down, Xanala turns back to human form and the rest of us get out of the SuperCars.
"Why have we stopped?" I ask Tia.
"We'll have to walk the rest of the way" says Tia.
"Is it far?" Asks Daniel.
"No, not too far" Tia replies.
"Can Rob and Cogsworth come with us?" Asks Xander.
"Sure! I don't see why not. It's not like anyone else knows about this place any way" says Tia reassuringly.
"Well lead the way" says Xanala. Tia gets the daggers out that she stole from Lachlan earlier and cuts vines and big ferns clearing a path for us to walk. There are tall jungly trees, a sparkling waterfall and glimmering rainbow.

We've finally gotten to the sacred library. It looks ancient and abandoned like a forgotten temple. There are vines and thick textured moss growing on the cold cobblestones. We all stare at it in awe.

"Well what are you lot all waiting for?" Asks Tia. We slowly walk in. I turn my head rapidly trying to take in every sight down to the most minute detail. I look at the decaying debris of called tiles and broken bricks. Every stone is engraved with ancient sacred patterns. I look especially at a carving in the wall of people who look exactly like us. I can't help but think to myself whether when that was carved, the people who carved that, predicted that we would arrive some day. The patterns engraved in the cobblestone are beautiful. No pattern is exactly the same and has it's own uniqueness and significance. However, the inside of the library is much different to the outside. While the outside looks like an ancient temple, the inside looks like it belongs in a palace. It has quartz pillars, marble flooring and the thousands of bookshelves are embedded with gold, silver and other valuable jewels such as emeralds and rubies as well as diamonds and sapphires.

There are millions of books, but none of us can read any of them because it's too dark. The sides of the library have a thin layer of oil. Tia uses her fire powers to light the oil on fire. All the fire sets ablaze lighting up the entire library. We can all see better now.
"So, Tia. How do you know about this place?" Asks Xanala.
"Well after I ditched the fire kingdom, I found this place and I've spent more or less most of my life here reading the books and gaining more knowledge of the world" explains Tia.
"So, you're sure that one of the books here will give us the answers on how to get to the spirit realm?" Asks Xanala.
"I'm certain!" Replies Tia in a strong confident voice.
"Do you know where in this library we'll find the book we're looking?" Asks Xanala.
"Not a clue" replies Tia.
"Well, I guess we've got plenty of reading to do!" Says Xanala happily.

Meanwhile, a few a days later, Ruairi has finally gotten Sheera Eladove and her army to the realm of dragons. However there is something different. Something very different. Ruairi tells Sheera and her army to wait behind an enormous sand dune while he goes to search the scene.
"I'll give you a signal if the coast is clear" says Ruairi. Sheera nods and gestures for her army to wait. Ruairi walks ahead despite the sand being spat at him through the desert winds. He walks through the palace gates. The dragons and draconians are nowhere to be seen. In fact, he can't see anyone. The whole kingdom looks abandoned. It's dead silent. But then suddenly, a figure appears directly in front of him in less than a second out of thin air. He wears maroon coloured cloaks with seems broiled in golden silky thread. He holds a staff with four golden prongs, a skull shining with hot pink light. He has purple skin and blue hypnotic eyes. His face lacks emotion and doesn't move. He doesn't breath, he doesn't talk. In self defence, Ruairi blasts him with a giant ball of orange fire, but the figure simply absorbs all the fire into his hand and propels out, purple tongues of fire back at Ruairi who is tortured from the purple infected fire. Then the figure makes a gesture with his hand as if he was strangling a person and suddenly Ruairi is held high up, choking to death. The figure walks to Ruairi's choking body and he releases him. Ruairi falls to his knees gasping for air and spluttering uncontrollably.

Then the figure kneels down directly in front of Ruairi and looks him directly in the eyes. The figure's luminous blue eyes sparkle. Ruairi looks deep into his eyes, he looks so deep that he can see his own soul reflecting back at him. Then his eyes turn blue. The exact same blue as the figure. Ruairi is now in a trance. He is hypnotised and completely under the purple man's control. Then Ruairi makes an evil smile and his eyes turn back to normal yet he is still hypnotised. He goes behind the sand dune and tells Sheera and her army;
"The coast is clear" Sheera nods. She and her army march into the palace and the gates close behind them. Violent luminous blue light shines from within the palace walls and terrified screams fill the early silence. A command forms in Ruairi's head,

'FIND THEM!'
TO BE CONTINUED...

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