Fiction:The Psionic Lord Ascends/Fall

The Fall

You've now entered the first part of "The Psionic Lord Rises".

Memento

The Valader was stepping back, somewhat hypnotized by the blinding light in front of him. He looked around as the ground lifted in huge pieces of rock and moved fast towards the blue light. Right below him lying wounded was a black female Civatron with greenish scales on her forehead and back, Akadi. The Valader focused his mind, trying to see who was beneath the splendorous power of that gravitational core. Starting to be oblivious to his surroundings, the powerful warrior dug deeply into that psionic energy. Who are you? he thought, why are you doing this?

“Leave me alone!” said a female voice; the sentence was heard across the whole area.

Akadi paled after hearing that such familiar tone of voice, “Mantra…?” she whispered.

“What?” the Valader yelled, paling as well after hearing Akadi, he then immediately recognized the mind of a female Civatron, torn apart by malefic thoughts.

Suddenly, the ground beneath Akadi lifted up, taking the Civatron along side the huge piece of rock, the Valader rushed and took her hand, but it was already too late, Akadi was inside the gravitational pull of the light.

“Mantra STOP NOW!” yelled the Valader, desperately.

There was no time; Akadi’s arm was slipping away. He had to act. He focused his psionic energies and channeled a powerful mental attack. The offensive seemed to work, as Mantra’s defenses were quickly opened. The powerful light suddenly moved aside, leaving a female Civatron, floating on a fetal position, in sight. Mantra’s hands were grabbing her head tightly and her eyes were forcefully closed. Her mind was in utter chaos.

“STOP” ordered the Valader, as his feet were starting to loose against the gravity from that orb of light. He swore, his mind entered with more strength to Mantra’s. He didn’t cared about the maddened Civatron anymore; he only wanted to save Akadi.

Save me...

The Valader froze; a powerful thought invaded his own mind. It was Mantra’s.

Save me...

The Valader shocked, the mind of that female Civatron was fighting something else, and she was loosing badly.

“Valader…” said Akadi, barely able to speak due to her wounds, floating almost horizontally, her had grabbed by the Valader.

The Civatron looked at her.

“Let me go…”

The Valader panicked, his friend was giving up. “No, you are going to make it. I’m going to save you!”

“Save me” Mantra's voice echoed in his head.

“NO!” the Valader yelled. His mind was invaded by the thought of loosing Akadi, and by trying to decipher Mantra’s thought.

“Let me go…”, Akadi whispered, “I want this…”

The Valader’s eyes opened, desperate, “You want to die?”

Akadi smiled.

“No, I want you to live on…”

Awakening

The Civatron opened his eyes; he was laid down on soft grass, of blue colors. He rose up, confused. The Valader looked around, he wasn’t with his people anymore. He was on planet that looked really fertile on the surface, but the skies roared with lighting storms, which crashed against each other at incredible speed. He quickly inspected his own body, his armor was gone, only but an old Civatronish tunic from the tribal Era of his people covered his body.

Puzzled, he channeled his psionic energies and within few seconds his very essence invaded a radius of one mile. He could have expanded his senses a lot more if not by a sudden earthquake that broke his concentration. The Valader readied his fists, as he was the most powerful martial artist in the Universe. The ground shook and breached. This made the Valader remember his recent dream before his waking on the planet.

The tremble opened a grotto with a dark abyss inside. A small, yet horrible creature came out of it, at first the critter seemed bothered by the light the storming above caused, but as it sniffed on the ground it came across the Civatron. Without any hesitation, the creature attacked.

The Valader then felt numerous psionic minds, coming from below, all they were thinking was a simple directive: “’’Feast’’”.

More holes appeared. The Valader saw how he was suddenly surrounded at least by a thousand of them.

‘’Get out of there’’ said a voice in his head, not his own. The sudden command seemed to do some effect on the Civatron, as he channeled once again his energies and took off the ground. He watched as the critters beneath him were now leading back to their wholes, scared by something. He smiled.

‘’Watch out!’’

The Valader crashed with a very resilient shell. He gazed his new obstacle. It was Tetricus.

He looked at the psionic creature in astonishment. The psionic masters of the Cianju Alliance applied the Tetricus beings during the Tigris War, yet they were disbanded due to her feral and vicious personality. Whoever summoned this creature was a talented psionic master, since only the most powerful among the users could channel their energies to summon and sustain a Tetricus.

The enormous creature waved his fist and pushed away the flying Civatron. He lost control of the flight for an instance, but quickly stabilized. “Well, so much for running” The Valader said to himself. He focused more, and his eyes turned into glowing blue energy. A flue flame then ignited his body; a circular tattoo appeared on his back, glowing as bright as his eyes.

The Valader then flew towards the Tetricus, reaching the speed of a bullet, he trespassed the psionic being’s body like paper. The Tetricus roared in agony. The Valader smiled and prepared to deal the final blow to his opponent.

Another being of incredible psionic power appeared right in front of the Valader. The clash exploded with magnificent power. The Civatron bounced sideways. He searched his new opponent. Another Tetricus, and surrounding the Valader, another ten of them appeared.

‘’Bad idea…’’ the voice said.

The Valader was starting to be annoyed by another person’s mind invading his own. But he decided to just focus on the matter at hand. Summoning a Tetricus required a lot of concentration, summoning more than two was only reserved to users of incredible power. Users like him. Now twelve Tetricus were mustering before him.

“You’ve got some skill whoever you are” The Valader said, “But I’m well above you”.

He flashed against them once again, this time increasing his speed; his shape transformed into lighting and struck the second Tetricus without any difficulty. He then was pushed by a psionic wave caused by two of the other beings. As he regains his composure, he watched as the psionic wave had positioned him in the trajectory of a massive psionic bolt summoned by a fourth one. The resting Tetricus roared as they saw the bolt hitting the Valader.

“Now that is a little bit to much”

The flame surrounding the Civatron turned yellowish, and absorbed the attack with relative ease. The psionic beings were silenced as they watched the Valader’s defense. The warrior smiled.

“My turn…”

The Valader’s eyes exploded in yellow psionic energy, and three beings of titanic size appeared behind the floating warrior. These three roared and incinerated all the Tetricus floating with a yellow flame made of pure psionic energy. Atfer few seconds, there was nothing left in the air but the three titanic shapes and their master. The Valader gasped, as summoning his new invention had exhausted him greatly.

‘’Impressive’’ the voice said.

The Civatron slowly descended into the ground, having his three companions turn into shards that pasted on his back, giving it the form of an armor of some sort. As he was about to step on the soft grass, another grotto opened, and a powerful psionic pull caught him unexpectedly. The Valader then felt how his mind was diving again into a powerful vision.

Not a vision, a memory...

Second Memento

Save me...

The Valader was puzzled, as Akadi slipped her hand out of his. She immediately flew towards the light, entering it after several orbits as the Civatron watched in horror. Akadi started entering the orb, her eyes meeting the Valader and pronouncing with her mouth a sole word…

Love.

“NO!” the Valader yelled, searching for his lost companion amongst the shinning light. It was too late.

He kneeled, loosing all hope. Mantra’s eyes opened, glowing with powerful psionic energy, and started to look around, slowly, until her eyes met with the sorrowing ones of the Valader. For a brief moment, the two civatrons glared at each other. For a spectator would have been a few seconds. But for them, it was an eternity. Mantra suddenly seemed to feel the loss of his foe, and her eyes shed a glowing tear that slipped across her cheek. In the chaos ensuing, a moment of silence was made. The Orb started to shine more and more, the Valader watched oblivious to anything else, as the murderer of his most precious person on the face of Universe disappeared with a blast of powerful psionic energy.