We must never question the passage of time, because it is well known that once it starts rolling, no one, absolutely no one can stop it, but the question is not how to stop it, nor how to reverse it, but rather, how do we make it valuable?
It is there, a world full of creatures, revealed before the omniscient sight of its creator, trees full of life, literally, some in groups walking in search of the nearest lake, the so-called "Old Men of the Forest", accompanied by their friends the fairies to talk in the meantime untilget to the next lake to be able to put down roots like some people might say
the mountains rising on the horizon with clouds that cover most of the mountain range, with a blanket effect while some dragons make shapes of these so that the small creatures that they value less but do not know their potential can appreciate in the great buildings that thesehave in those large groups
The rivers that flow from the basins there in the mountains are not alien to the hustle and bustle of everyday life, ponds full of secrets and stories to tell, some you could even say entrances to worlds that the eye of no creature except the bravest can see for themselves, once in thelife, of course, if they manage to survive the terrible dangers that these bonds await, then yes, this world is not just roses and rainbow colors.
Well, from beneath the entire continent of Pyrrha, lies what its creator has dared to go into the distance, well yes, the distance is its name, not many creatures remember that it lies on that forgotten continent abandoned by the hand of light so many years ago.
Of course, no one remembers the desert that it is made up of, some creatures survive in such a harsh environment, great sand storms that you could overcome the largest of the dragons, creatures of some value and knowledge that would easily be the little ones not only of thepeoples to which these belong, but of the world; lakes that few have been able to reach due to the scorching sun that hangs over these wastelands
some small lizards run in the dunes, trying to hide from the Sarah scorpions, the sand rock hunters, and of course, group 5 of survivors.
It is here, the old container, where everything began, even this could be described by the creator as a setback for his great plan, of course, he has a plan for everything.
Now, we use ruins of the previous society, one that, of course, like every civilization, its long-standing power and ability to counteract the consequences of its actions, of course, after conquering the world, what else can we do but transcend to the next level inthe big plan?
During the last period it is common to meet several "awakened ones" as the locals call them, entities from an old era that after the cataclysm that covered the world and brought with it the great creatures that today inhabit, walked and know everything about the "forgetful ones", well, that's how theThose who wake up closer to the ruins call, some recounting what was once the place where they were, others prefer to take the sanctions, take their own life in retaliation for whatever they have done, a trauma that has haunted them forever, so they preferforget before remembering what they did to finish the forgotten continent
well, a wind blows over one of the figures of the awakened, a being standing on its hind legs, its expression indifferent to the world that once surrounded it, horns blowing its head, a draconic form reveals years of hard work, but without many results such as being one of thegreat of their kind, however, that is when the awakened, awaken
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'The heat of the white night embraces me.... but what am I saying? It's freezing cold!' *sneeze* 'I wasn't supposed to... for this time of year...' -. I fall hard on sand and roll a couple of meters until I hit my head against the wall.
*bang*
I feel dry, dehydrated, and it goes without saying how disoriented everything is, for a moment I think I have been in some kind of center on the outskirts of whatever the device was hanging in a clear sky, in the now desert world with clouds that block my view to the distance and a coldto die
'this is a dream, this is a dream' -. It is the mantra that accompanies me as I get up to explore the environment, not that I have a better alternative to it; The wall I hit earlier extends very high, so high that I can't see the top from my position, hell, I can't even see more than a couple of steps with my head. storm that now hits like hell, even being protected between the wall and the dune from which I fell moments before.... of... waking up?
'I don't... remember anything'-. and well, it doesn't help at all, just a couple of visions of what the environment was, but now it doesn't help if I can't even get out of the dune,
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Sure!, get out, how do I get out of here? I turn to the wall again, well, it's not that there is a secret entrance or something like that, and the dune seems too long to go around it, the only thing left to do is climb.
once at the top, another vision of what was, a place full of green with touches of blue everywhere you looked, floating things with triangular and extravagant designs, figures everywhere wherever you looked, but in contrast to now, nothingness.
Absolutely everything has disappeared, the sky is covered, the floating structures are nowhere to be seen, the figures have disappeared and the streets full of colors, of course, covered by the large dunes, only some remains manage to peek out among the largest ruins, even the wall behind them. I am part of one of them, a pyramid with some stepped areas, luckily I didn't hit myself with one of them or it would be a different story.
carefully, well, is rolling the new thing now? one false step and the next thing I feel is the cold floor against my face, a couple of sparks fly to the touch and a *sheeee* sounds while I am dragged like a rag doll on the floor by the strong storm, according to the vision, I should be a couple of steps away some kind of place where somefigures were sitting
Taking the strength with which I climbed the dune, it is now that I go through the strong storm, to my bad luck, some extra sounds mix with the typical sound of the wind and the constant movement of the sand around me, is that my instinct that tells me to continue straight?
A couple of steps and... totally lost, but that feeling of moving forward and not looking back makes me continue, at the same time that sound slows down until I only hear my footsteps, already visualizing the place where the figures were, only it was clearly destroyed.
'How long has it been? Was this always like this? Who or what were those figures?' were the questions that accompanied me to the place to sit, once there, I hid under one of the seats to escape the wind that was getting stronger.
As time passed, the storm went down little by little, well, at least enough for once the pyramid, whose middle was cut to reveal another even smaller pyramid but continuing with the previous objective, grow until finally I could see the highest peak of this one,It is normal to see a spike at the end, but instead it was a square that gave a direct view of the entire place.
'Maybe I can find something there.' It is the first thing I thought when contemplating such an imposing structure before me, but my body asks for several things; sleep, food, water, warmth, requests that I cannot now complete due to my decadent situation, at least I can wrap myself in my... tail? Did you have a queue before?
It doesn't matter, the smaller I can be, the better... I guess, I feel warmer when everything is together.
And with that, I fell unconscious
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another vision looms before me, the same square in the center of the city, the peak of our empire, ready to accept the new graduates, perhaps our experiments bore their first fruits, the emotion of the moment, I could not contain myself, to be part of the first adapted exploration corpsto the new dimension was everything that good soldier wanted since the news covered the empire, today was the day where we would begin the conquest, but a light covered everything from one moment to the next, to now see the desert that would appear before me once I opened my eyes, this should be the hell of thethat the old people before unification talked so much
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I'm not cold anymore, it's a great relief to be able to feel like myself after a good nap, believe it or not, my tail moves vigorously, does it only happen when I'm happy?
Another look at the surroundings after the storm, reveals a statue behind the place that I fell unconsciously knowing how many hours ago, the sky has not changed at all after all, to my right a deep void whose limit I do not see, to the left, more pyramids, some smaller than others,some without heads and even the previous floating figures that I had seen before were all over the floor, there were few pyramids that revealed a solid glow from the middle, and the squares on them also had said glow that I could see, my pyramid lacked said feature, and afterthe height, the same, another pyramid just as big as the one behind it as well, but this one did have the red glow both in the center and in the square at its tip.
It's not that he has something better to do, so I approach the great pyramid behind the statue, something strange is that he didn't have a tail like me, he was similar to me, but without some of my features, such as the weights that I have on my head, my scaly skin, rather, this one brings with him something much rarer,a scepter
'That pyramid should have something' -. I turned curiously towards the pyramid
*hiss*
something strange sounded near me
*hiss*
then another
*hiss*
and another, but this time it crashed into the ground, generating some sparks on the ground; trying to trace the source of the sound, but another sound grazed one of my horns, giving a better view of who it could have been.
In the distance, a figure near something with wheels, stands pointing some kind of long stick with a red light pointed at me, looking where the light was pointing and it crashed into
'MY!'
Another shot rings out and it manages to hit me in the arm. The sensation of heat and discomfort passes through my body and when I see my arm there is no doubt.
'I'm bleeding to death!'
I quickly run to take cover behind a nearby bench and the shooting continues continuously until the figure disappears from where I was and now I was on the thing with a wheel heading towards my position at a fast speed.
In the attempt to escape, I run towards the pyramid near one of the steps and more shots fall on me, most of them do not hit me in any vital area, but the sensation of being hit by bullets is quite familiar.
I go up a couple of stairs to some kind of box with red glows nearby, the gunshots sound once again, and the sound of the sand being trampled is quite similar to a few moments ago, like when the storm was, has this figure been following me for a while?
Once inside, I take a short break, the adrenaline is pumping and I have no idea why my tail is between my legs. When I see a little more box in which I am hiding, I notice a panel that may be my salvation.
Each time the steps of the figure get closer and closer, until by touching random buttons I manage to make a strange light shine and show several options, I take the highest of these and hope that everything turns out
I look out a little to see where the figure is, the bad thing is, he is halfway to my shelter, he has a helmet with only one eye and some devices with him, the rifle he carries has the sight and the infrared laser to aim, of course, he is going up the stairs, so he doesn't have much time tolook where I am currently, so I assume he knows where I am.
A couple of creaks from the pyramids echoed and some kind of tremor caused the other figure to also take cover.
With so much lack of control, the cube sways and begins to move, then the round of shots begins once again, but not like before when they were crazy, but controlled and counted, however, the box is confined and it would be very rare for anyone to even get through it.
Soon the sound of the bullets hitting metal fades and the frequency with which they graze begins to be quieter the further away I am from the ground.
Soon it stops and the sky takes on a little color, I stick my head out one more time and see nothingness, or well, it's seriously bad, since below are the steps and a shadow that I think is my pursuer running, the red lights from before are now brighter than before, no kind of cable meHe maintains, that is a fact, along with the general appearance of the pyramid that has now changed slightly, I couldn't say if for better or worse, but something strange happened when I activated the control panel
The sky now looks even blacker than from the ground, but I can see from here the infinity of desert that lies before me, only more of those things that were flying in my vision lie on the ground, the almost infinite expanse of terrain that I saw before in front of the pyramids to a certain extent. There seems to be some kind of hole in the center, I can even see more pyramids, but unlike before, which did not have a point, these had some of the floating or starry figures on top.
*tin*
The next moment the elevator finished ascending and stopped after the sound.
I am now level with the largest box I saw during my stay in the banks while escaping the sand storm.
It's not much either, and the pain of the first bullet that manages to hit the target begins to take its toll as the adrenaline begins to subside.
It's not like I have much time before I fall unconscious, if I can't find something to close the wound, I'll be an easy prey for the figure... Wherever I am, I begin to consider that letting myself be caught is better than stopping breathing, although for someone who shot me as soon as he saw me unfocused and surely followed me after I woke up, I don't know what to say.
Apparently a part of the structure also has a panel similar to the one in the elevator, only it is on and flashing.
I approach it and with a *click* the light turns green and opens the door giving way to a central table and a dark environment
A table in the center and the red light on the wall that is still on, the same panel I have seen, but larger and closer to the window
Out of pain, I settle on the table in the darkness and forcefully try to get closer to the panel near the window.
Now the square that was previously there is full of black figures, in several vehicles they surround the square.
One touch to the panel and it shows several squares except one in which it is red, when you touch this...
Mechanical voice: starting control sequence, code K006, control granted, emergency personnel in room
After that, the room turns off completely after closing the window, and then the table lights up along with the rest of the room, now being white, except of course where it passes, which is red.
Some types of figures appear in blue forming a ring and several pyramids in some parts, a total of 10, of which 3 do not have heads or are incomplete and are in red, 5 in green, one blue and one red but it does not seem to be as damaged as the others
"Eh... doctor?" Hopeless
Mechanical voice: medical personnel does not respond to the call, activating code K066
Some strange arms come out of the ceiling and with them a green checkered light turns on in the room, after turning off, the arms head straight towards me.
I try to hide behind the table, other arms hold me in place, making it impossible for me to escape, the largest arms begin to scan me with another square green glow and then close my wound quite easily.
Mechanical voice: scan, complete, first generation subject, cauterized, poor condition detected, it is recommended to rest as soon as possible... entities detected, please delete
Now everything is turned off and some weapons come out of the table, big, small, of all tastes.
Take a gun, something futuristic for my taste
Mechanical voice: access key violation detected, forced door opening
When the door opens, everything goes black again, but I'm still conscious, that's good, I guess
Figure 1: Awakened, give up your weapons or we will leave you...
Figure 2: Take off every bra you have!
Figure 1: and bras, but it is optional
Other shots echo
Figure 2: that was a warning
I return the fire a little to contain them while I look at the room again to be able to escape, but I don't think it exists as I am guarding the only entrance and exit to the room... unless I illuminate the room so much that they can't see!
These figures also take cover and return fire, then I shoot some bullets and they change direction of fire.
I jump to the side and being close to the panel to execute the plan, everything is dark
Figure 3: Fire change, idiots!
It's the last thing I hear