Manuel stood behind Thaler and he put his hand on his shoulder. Thaler wakes up..
Thaler! You are sweating! Whats happen with you? [color=#FFFFCC][font=Arial Narrow]Manuel smiles. Come on, we will go in a other room.
[font=Arial Narrow]Manuel and Thaler are going to a other room. It is a very luxury room. With a lot of plants, a glass table, television, beatiful white sofas and Bookcases.
Sit down Thaler. One of my followers will bring us both a drink. Now tell me, why are you sweating? It is something to do with the dream?
[font=Arial Narrow]Manuel still is very likable, but suddenly it changes...
Thaler nods and says: 'Yes its the dream' whereupon Manuel smiles dirty. Now he changes his kind...
[font=Book Antiqua]Thaler, you should think about yourself. It is not to late. You can still change your life. You should do it. You want to know what I can bet you? I can bet you a lot. I can bet you honorfull dark knights on your side. I can bet you even dark ships, guns and a dark church! But thats not the best what I can offer you. I can offer you insanity and a true faith. The one and only true faith in sirius! The darkness want you. In my eyes, you are ready to join our dark religion. You can then be a part of our our dark mightfull fleet. I will show you what happens with a ship like mine if you believe strong enough in your faith!
[font=Arial Narrow]Manuel stand up and activate the television. Thaler begins to watch a video...
Manuel was away for some hours and he comes back to the church now. Time to speaks to his followers and knights...
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[size=small]MY FOLLOWERS!
MY KNIGHTS OF THE DARKNESS!
THE BATTLESHIP OF THE DARKNESS SHAULANCA IS LANDED ON GRAN CANARIA!
Repeat after me!
My life for the Shaulanca,
[color=#FFCC66]My life for the dark faith, My life for the Eldeson Watson, My life for the Fleet of the Darkness, My life for the church, My life for the powerful guns of the Darkness! My life for the ships of the darkness!
We will get everyone who don't want believe in our dark faith, We will torture everyone who then still don't want believe in our dark faith, We will hunt everyone who means to smile about our faith!
PEOPLE OUT THERE! WE WILL GET YOU ALL! PEOPLE OUT THERE! EARLIER OR LATER YOU WILL ALL BELIEVE IN OUR FAITH!
The faith of the dark powerful Shaulanca Fleet is the one and only true faith in the space, The faith of the dark powerful Shaulanca Fleet is the most powerful thing, The faith of the dark powerful Shaulanca Fleet gives every knight of this fleet the power to survive in every fight!
Nothing can stop us, Nothing can kill us, Nothing is darker than we are!
[font=Book Antiqua]Tall man came to the Church. He had a long black coat and his face was covered by a hood.
The strange man was Derutius. Nobody knows his real name'¦ he calls himself 'Derutius''¦ a new member of Shaulanca's knights, and tonight was his first visit of the church. Derutius was impressed by the altar in center of the dark hall. He took off his hood, and slowly passed over the hall, right into the next room. It was cold and dark'¦
[font=Book Antiqua] [color=#999999]'Is anybody in there? Master, you wanted to see me as soon as possible'
[color=#000000]The room was quiet. Derutius stepped back, and carefuly looked inside.
'Master? Are you there?' The room was empty.
'Damn'¦ perfect, just perfect. Well, never mind. I think I'll stay here for a while'
In a corner of the room was placed an old chair. Derutius sat there and rested.
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Bryan wipes the sweat from his face. Strangely, he returns to his normal demeanor surprisingly quickly, dreams and realities interchanging have left a mark - Bryan's mind just refuses to keep analyzing the unbelievability of the situation.
Thaler listens to Manuel and watch the video footage. Being Libertonian, he doesn't recognize the make of ships, but yet he knows enough to be impressed. Bryan takes the drink that is kindly offered, takes a sip, looks down in the glass where amber liquid is rippling smoothly and his thoughts start to flow effortlessly again first time in weeks.
His life as he knew it. Days in office, occasional flight duty, patrolling the lanes and border. Being shot at and shooting at others for reasons unknown, just by relayed orders. Weekly salary, enough to make you content but not enough to make you feel live for once. Everyday routine. Manhattan traffic. Manhattan. Bright sunshine by day. Bright traffic lights by night. Light.
That's on the one hand.
On the other...
Something, darker... A feeling of power, of feeling alive not just for once, but for a lifetime. A soothing, yet mighty darkness. Something far greater than the sum total of everything he had seen or heard in his life so far.
Some change in life is always welcome, right?
Bryan slowly takes the gaze away from the glass and looks Manuel in the eyes. A thin, wry smirk is on his face, eyes vivid, yet with a sort of cold gleam. An expression not seen even once by any of Bryan's friends and acquaintances.
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"Being a nice guy only takes you so far. A Faith, you say? Oh, I can believe now, trust me, that I can. I've seen enough."
Manuel and Javier are sitting at the table, discussing Javier's vision. ''Manuel, I don't know if I have the power to describe a future. I don't know if I will ever get the knowledge about things that are going to happen. I can't promise anything. You know, this was a vision, a dream, a revelation. Revelation don't have to represent the future. It might be, it might be not. Maybe it has a meaning. But I need people that have knowledge about dreams. People that know what goes on in the mind. These people know what I have been through, these people know the truth behind this. I don't know if any of us here knows about someone who can identify the meaning of this.
And yeah, thanks for the credits, but I am a modest man Manuel. I don't need all this attention. I insist on telling what I saw. But it doesn't go any further if it is on me.
The day comes that Gavier will have his talk. Manuel spreaded the word through the entire group of members. Many have come. The crowd was noisy, like a group of bees going after their honey, but at the same time they were perfect, the ultimate form of cooperation, leadership and commitment.
[color=#FFFFFF]*Javier Raises his hand, the crowd notices and slowly the noise starts fading away*
Welcome, brave warrior of our fleet. I am Javier, as you may or may not know. I have collected information. I have collected knowledge. I have collected wisdom. The things that come into my mind are beyond the things that happen everyday. It is beyond what you ever thought of. It is beyond everything you have ever imagined. It's beyond what we now know as reality.
Now I might sound repetitive, I might sound like I want to repeat the same sentence over and over again. But I want you to know that this is important. That it is vital.
Javier raised his voice, and started with his vision. ''And in front of me there was Planet Vilutra... As dark as it was. In all of the sudden the stars from space started to charge the planet with an enormous speed. The stars hit Vilutra and the surface of Vilutra split open. I was able to hear a deep roar and out of the black and dark deepness appeared a black dragon.. It was an amazing as well as a very terrifying sight. Fire came out of the dragon, but not just regular fire. It was a dark and vaporizing black fire. And the stars re-appeared and started to form a shape around the dragon. The dragon made an intense roar and the light of the stars became brighter and brighter. After a while I was not able to see a thing. It was dazzling. The stars were shot back into space, the dragon disappeared in a black fog and the planet constricted itself to its original shape and it looked like nothing happened to it.''
Now as you may or may not know, there are people that can identify the true meaning of a dream like this. I need a person who can do that. Or a person that knows a human being that is able to show the truth behind this.
The doors of the church opens slow, the fog from outside enters first like a smoke. Footsteps are heard on the marble floors, a big human figure shows up. It was Martelus but he was not in his armor like he used to be, he was changed, he was wearing a hood and a robe. He enters the church and take a good look at the big hall.
"Home sweet home"He said with a low voice. Then he stood still and looked at his brothers meeting in the main room. He start looking around the church, a greate feeling overwhelmed him, memories coming back to him. "I need to find my master. He need to know that I had returned to him, this time for real" Martelus went to his old room, to start his prayer to the dark faith, waiting for his master to come back and to tell him where he was all this time, and what he saw there. Martelus was changed.
The entrance doors opened slowly, a woman dressed in black from head to toes walked in with a quick and quiet pace. She walked to the main room and smiled ans smiled at the rest of her brothers.
I was beginning to think this was over...
She stood there looking down, waiting for anyone else to talk.
Martelus walk to the woman in black as he see her from his room. He walk to her in silent and with his head down, looking at the floor and his footsteps. When he reach her he ask her: " Good day sister, I am Kodian Martelus knight of the dark faith, bringer of death and suffering to those who are heretics and bringer of peace and solul clease to those who are true belivers. What is your name?" Martelus then stood still in front of her and waiting for a answer
"Oh my bad, guess I have been away longer than I thought... I am Enriqueta" She said with a low voice...
"I was skeptical about coming back... Had a stable life torturing kids at Crete... Got some nice stories if you ever want to hear them... But for now I just want to rest, it was a long journey back here..." Leaned her body against the wall and looked down with her eyes closed.
Martelus keeps his head looking down, to keep his face hiden under the black hood.
"I was long gone too sister, I was in a place that changed me, I saw what those peoples from Sirius can do. That's why I need to talk to our master, I am glad you come back sister. A life without faith is not a real life you know. What you did was not so noble, you don't have to torture kids, because they might be the future of our faith as we all grow older. A young mind is like a fortress with his gates opened and unguarded, they can be easily manipulated and even easy to show them the true path of the dark faith. You have done well returning to your brothers and sisters, so tell me about those storyes you saied about."