Chapter 7 - Interruptions

Another week later and everything was essentially perfect, it turns out that all the portal needed was a crystal in the circuit to drain any excess electricity or mana. It’s not exactly clear why crystals were able to do this, but something about the crystals was necessary to ensure that the flow of electricity was perfect. Adding a second crystal caused the mana on the electricity to turn to light, and the crystal held the electricity as well although it’s not clear how much electricity it could hold or how to use this to any advantage. One way or another, the multiverse transporter was locked onto the human world and to a human’s house. A gay furry, but not much more about him was known. The portal was not active, and it wasn’t going to be for a little while, not till everything was certain. Everything was essentially certain, but then the order of human habitation (Jack, Jacob and Zack) were visited by another member of the great scholars with a surprising message.

The message was delivered by another lizard who this time was a depressing but beautiful, deep black. He never wore clothes and although he was 50 years old he was an immortal, which meant that he was ready and willing to live all of life without holding back or wasting his time on values like shyness. He was a bold lizard by all meaning of the word, and he was someone to be respected and feared. He came straight to the door of the mansion where the portal was now also housed and he knocked to get the attention of any one of them. Zack came to the door, clotheless as he was now accustomed to, although now it was a matter of embarassment and he felt like anyone from your world would if you were naked in front of a superior

“Zack, I’ve heard about your project. As impressive as it is, I have an important warning to offer”
Taken aback by this, he forgot his nudity and welcomed him in. “Oh, okay... Micheal, am I right?”
The two of them walked to the front room where the portal was stationed
“Jack, Jacob, this is Micheal. He’s come to deliver a warning”
“A warning? I didn’t know that any one else understood any of this” Jack said
“Nonetheless, these events have taken place before”
Everyone suddenly jerked in surprise to hear what this new lizard had to say, considering that they had researched thoroughly and never heard anything about the existence of any previous portal.
“We’ve never heard anything about another portal. I mean, never!” Jacob said, “we’ve researched this and we’ve even had your files, but we’ve never heard even a whisper about there being another multiverse transporter”
“Of course not, it was a secret and it still is to this day, a secret kept in my bloodline since the second era without the assistance of technology”
“That means that it can be done!”
“Of course, and although what you have done with only three members of your team is dramatically more impressive, this may not be the start to a new era as you wish it to be”
“Thank you, but why not?”
“I’m sorry, but I must ask you not to chance the reocurrence of millenia past”
“What reoccurence?”
“Back in the past, when the human race was not quite in existance, one of my ancestors took part in the creation of a similar device which also transported through time. A device which could travel through dimensions, through time and place, and be as stable as necessary was the product of not three, not a thousand, but uncounted millions of workers dedicated in their entirity to unravelling the mysteries that lead to the creation of the machine. Even when they had created the machine, they didn’t understand what they had created. They had set the time without any time co-ordinates and this resulted in reaching the humans in what is still their recent past.

Only one human was taken into our world, but this one human was enough to eradicate dozens of species that we have still been unable to recover. The world is not the same, and never will be again. We don’t even remember the name that the world once had, and so we can’t refer to this world any differently to theirs. You see, once he had learned of the power of mana, mana being the word that he gave to it thus staining our world with it already, he used ‘magic’ to live on this world but eventually to eradicate those he loved most. He was here for a year and a season, but when Love came, when foreign hormones lead him to love and loss, he lost control of his sanity and used his powers to seek vengence on our world. He fell in love and his love knew nothing of monogamy, so when she took part in a snuff party as a willing victim, he lost all control. He wrought havoc on avenging his loss, stopping not when he killed the ‘murderers’, not when he destroyed the village, or the continent, but when he died from overuse of the mana as it starved him for energy and he could not find alchemists to help him regain himself.

If you do not heed my warning, at least ensure that he does not fall in love with someone that can break his heart. Love is a season named by him, which originally was known as Lust, a reminder that we should be careful to at least respect the concept. If you do heed this warning, I can leave my state of immortality and I can entrust the secret to you, whether you want to keep it or let it die. If you do, however, heed my warning then I would request that you abandon your lives to ensure that the secret does die with you”

A while after and the shock was obviously a lot for the three to take, but he considered himself a busy lizard and he disregarded patience.

“Any questions?”
“Was...” Jack sighed, and the lizard took this as a sign of his inability to ask a question
“Anything else?”
“Can we rely on you for help, if he shows signs of power lust and destructive personality I mean?” Zack said
“For a decade, but after holding this secret for twice the average lifespan I would prefer to die at that point as opposed to keeping it and prolonguing my life. It’s... unnatural”
“Remember how it’s unnatural for them to ‘commit suicide’ though, and how they live for up to over a hundred years without any immortality”
“Yes, but they have an entirely different way of life, where you could live to be a thousand years old and still be unforfilled. In our world, fulfillment is in our nature and being fulfilled I feel fit to die happy. 60 Years for an ‘animal’ is simply not appropriate”

“I’ll take my lead then, you can reach me by the web” His feet glowed a light blue for a moment and then he left the room and the house

“Are we going to listen to them?” Said Jacob
“No!” Laughed Jack
Zack nodded, slowly. “It’s a little too late now, we’ll just have to be careful”