Moonside

In the lands of Amoon, the empress of its world and work ruled with the law, the one of freedom and the projects of those things that could come about from that freedom. Including the great faith and many other spirits that taught through its lands.

But one day, she heard from one of her fortune tellers of a coming danger and doom to her world, and with fear she feared the worse would come if she did not set out to find a hero, from which to free the world of that crisis she had learned of.

So she took her chariot and road with her companion, who drove the chariot, in search of that answer to their trouble, a hero to spare the world of the coming danger, so they searched high and low in search of this hero, but could not find one.

The empress grew fearful that her kingdom was doomed, because no one was brave enough to face this unknown danger and she wondered what would come about, in fear she returned to the castle where she resided, hoping to find that answer she needed from the wizard in her courts.

She met with him in the late evening, asking two more questions, the first:

"What will come of this world?"

The second:

"What can we do without a hero?"

The wizard referred to the crystal ball to see what kinds of answers would form in its glass, hoping to foresee the events that would take place, they struck him with such shock that he passed out. The empress grew quite concerned!

He awoke a few hours later in the morning, with a message for the empress and he wrote it down on paper as a prophecy, which would surely aid her on the coming day of reckoning, in which these things would come to pass.

Fountains of clear water is the first sight, the world follows suit

Then their is judgement in the lands of the dead and the people,

They are to meet an emperor, who will rule under the moon.

The sun will fade away and the thing will be finished there forever.

The empress was horrified! She said:

"Is their anything we can do?"

The Wizard said:

"My son, he lives in the lands to the east, I will send a message there through the magics and he will save us from this horrible fate!"

So he did and the empress and wizard fell silent in the story for now, as Pharath heard the news and set out to conquer this evil and coming emperor.

All he knew was to get to those fountains in the west, because it was written in the prophecy, these fountains contained the whole keys to the planets above, they are guarded and protect the people from the dangers of too much magic in the land.

It is said anyone who drinks of the water, will gain the powers of complete control, which is against the freedom of this place called Amoon.

Pharath took a plane there. It was a tourist attraction in these places after all.

The place was heavily guarded and just outside the town or Reverie, Pharath walked through the town to make it to where he would ensure even more security between the fountain and the people, because of the risks in these times.

On his way he saw a guy, who he approached because he thought it suspicious that he was up at night, he asked:

"What's your name? and what are you up to?"

Mazer replied:

"Mazer and I'm out on a walk, for fun and cause I'm free!"

Pharath guessed he was being honest from the causual way he put it, then he continued his own walk to the fountain, which costed much money to gain access to just a sight of it. Pharath had right to entry though so he went in freely. ( The empress provided the fee )

Pharath saw the fountain, it was surrounded by glass to protect it from others who hoped to gain access to the power of control, but no one had ever drank from it, except for a man who instantly became a monster called the Mantstrue.

Mantstrue had been granted his wish by the power of this fountain and revealed its power, he did not abuse it and did this to protect others from its power, because they thought it could be abused, so they sealed the fountain with magic. Mantstrue said nothing, because he had become a beast.

Above it was the eye of freedom.

Mazer had little money, he didn't care for money, he just wanted control because of money and the general right to that freedom, he wanted it bad and so he set out to find a way to attain that power, he had tried making money before. By selling things he found at the garbage dump, but that didn't work out because he always spent the money too quickly.

He wasn't able to get that power made by money, which was why he didn't feel free, he felt controlled and wanted his own share of that control.

He wasn't the only one, so he decided it was best to try to attain power for the sake of others, but he could not attain that power because it costed too much and it would bring only more pain, more suffering and more destruction in time.

He liked that idea too, but he still didn't have the money. So he went on sad walks and wondered what he could do.

But one day, he was so bored, he looked up to the top of the hill where the fountain was, where it kept at bay the greatest of all powers, the power of control in a land of only freedom, which permitted anything but was organised in accordance with that freedom.

So Mazer thought that he just needed the power he could not grasp, but he knew he was free so surely their was a way. So he tried to get a sip of that fountain and a very peculiar way, one no one expected.

Mazer waited for the night to come and walked on into the streets and up to the hill and around the building that held the fountain, down into the forest he went and deeper he went still.

There he found a lake, where he threw a stone in and made a ripple, then drank some of the water. Pretending it was the fountain and said:

"I can now do anything!"

For Mazer had drank from the fountain and had control, while others lived in freedom, freedom that didn't offer anything of luxury because it provided everything and failed to allow control, but Mazer could now control.

So he set out to go to the other planets, as snow began to fall and he exited into the plains, but they were the moon as they covered themselves in snow. Where he found a strange thing, a stick put into the ground, this stick was put there for no reason.

He saw it as a tombstone, a grave from which he could enter that other world of the dead, only because it stated in their legends of Amoon, that the moon was where the sinful dead went and did not have right to exit.

He followed the direction the stick pointed in to enter the land of the dead, where he saw specters in the tree's barely visible between the shadows. He knew these were the lights of the city of Reverie. He pursued one spirit for some time.

His dead girlfriend Scarlet...

She said hello, he imagined and they talked about what they had been up to these past few days. Then they had sex but that's outside the point.

Mazer returned home after some passionate time with his girlfriend who wasn't there.

Then he went to bed.

Pharath waited for a while for something to happen, but nothing did.

The moon receded back below the horizon, Pharath called his father asking if he could return, his father responded yes after checking the future again.

He headed for the airport, Pharath saw Mazer on the way and said:

"What a lovely day, the sun is beautiful."

Mazer agreed, Pharath departed, Mazer thought to himself:

"I don't think that's the sun, it's the moon."

Then Mantstrue howled at the moon.

The end