Thursday, March 1, 2012

The Alpha Realm

Septimus opens the portal to the Alpha Realm. He turns to Sapphire, who is nearly hyperventilating from anticipation. "You can back out at any moment, you know that, right?" Sep points out. Sapphire lets out a huge breath.
"And miss this experience?" Sapphire rocks back and forth on her feet, ready to sprint through the portal. "Not a chance." Septimus smiles, then steps through the portal, and into a curtain. He stops abruptly, and Sapphire, not watching where she's going, crashes into him. It's all he can do to stay upright. Sapphire brushes herself off. "Sorry!" she whispers. Septimus waves her off. He whispers a quick Double UnSeen, a Charm that TrailBlaiser invented for covert missions, making both him and Sapphire invisible. He walks around the corner of the curtain, then jumps back when he sees the large number of people. He takes a deep breath, then risks another glance. "What's happening?" Sapphire whispers.
"It appears to be the school's dining hall. A think TrailBlaiser called it, a cafeteria. Only, none of the students seem to be sick, so I suppose she exaggerated a bit when describing the food."  Sapphire stands beside him. She gasps.
"Look!" she exclaims, "it's TrailBlaiser!" She points to a girl directly in front of them, who's talking to another girl. They're discussing the alto section of the school's intermediate choir.
"I just don't see how they can't stay on one note! Some of them can't even match pitch! How they got into intermediate is beyond me." The blond girl says before taking a sip of chocolate milk.
"I know, right? The spring concert's gonna tank because of them. Well, and a few of the sopranos. If only they'd stop gossiping long enough to learn their notes!" the other girl replies. She pushes her empty tray out into the middle of the table.
"Those girls are the cattiest human beings I have ever met." The blond one comments. 
"One time, I heard them talking about sex and drugs!", the other girl exclaims. 
Septimus exchanges a look with Sapphire.
"No wonder we're banned from coming here. The Alpha Realm is so vulgar!" Sapphire laments. "Are you sure that DragonFyre is here?" Septimus nods.
"Of course," he explains, "she's right in front of you." He points to the girl that Sapphire thought was TrailBlaiser. Sapphire gives him an incredulous look.
"But how are we going to contact her without causing an uproar?" Sapphire asks.
"Simple, we freeze time. It's an ability you don't get until much later in your training." he adds when Sapphire looks confused. He waves his hand, and the world stops. DragonFyre lets out a scream when she realizes that everything has stopped but her. Septimus and Sapphire shed the Charm and reveal themselves. DragonFyre screams again. Septimus holds up his hands.
"Calm down! It's me! RiverFlyte!" he pushes Sapphire in front of him. "And Sapphire. Remember?" DragonFyre stares at each of them in terror.
"No, no, you're not real! I, I wrote you! I dreamed you up, well, not you, Sep, just Sapphire, but, still! I must be dreaming. Yeah, that's it, I'm dreaming. And I'm going to wake up any second now and schedule an appointment with a psychiatric facility." she rambles. Septimus tries to speak but she covers her ears and walks away. Sapphire whispers something to him. He jumps back in recoil.
"You want me to do what?!" he exclaims. Sapphire glares at him. "Fine." he sighs. He walks over to DragonFyre and kisses her. She stares at him in shock for a moment, then faints. Septimus catches her. Sapphire comes up behind him.
"Well, that could have gone better." Sapphire observes. Septimus glares at her.
"You think?!" he growls. He picks her up while Sapphire opens a portal. "For the record that's three times in two days that girls have fallen into my arms." he comments as they exit the realm and enter RTHQ.

2 comments:

  1. This is getting weirder and weirder. So I'm guessing the Alpha Realm is Earth? And is TrailBlaiser and DragonFyre the same person? 'Cause right now it sorta seems that way... *grins madly*

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  2. Okay, TrailBlaiser and DragonFyre are NOT the same person. They were, at one point, but, argh! Now I'm confusing myself! When Realm Travelers really formed from an idea into a story, TrailBlaiser split from DragonFyre. They have the same memories up to the split, but after that, each girl only sees her other half in stories. It was forbidden to go to the Alpha Realm because it might upset the balance of TrailBlaiser and DragonFyre. TrailBlaiser knows that DragonFyre is real, but DragonFyre thinks that everything there is just a story, nothing more. DragonFyre invented several characters for the Realm Travelers, but TrailBlaiser is more like an alter ego. The reason that the girl's apearances are diffrent is because when they split, they were identical, but due to events that happened in each girl's life after that, they are no longer so. Well, that and the fact that DragonFyre wanted TrailBlaiser to be prettier than she was. And yes, Alpha Realm, is this realm, right, here, where you are reading this post.

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