Thousand Year Sword: Part 7: Yam-Dora

     She nearly died, a revelation for Rhulan whose had not felt the close sting of potential death for some time, a lot longer if she let herself dwell on the whole dragon for thousands of years thing; thankfully most of that time was as something with little to no memory retention, and even beyond that it was mostly a blur as apparently dragons are poor judges of time. Any who, the reality was that these “Eldrith Abominations” these horrors from between time and space that invade material worlds for the express purpose of causing madness and destruction apparently, are a lot stronger than Rhulan gave them credit for. She would not make that mistake again, the mistake of taking one on, power to power in direct conflict without a plan other than *attack*.

 

   It is for this reason she has spent now many decades, thanks mainly to assistance from Misaline in regards to Intel and portals, infiltrating two powerful Empires; the Ju-el, and the Suihrai. These are listed among a short list of races that not only have empires that spread across various universes, but are also known to possess technology allowing them to battle gods and demons, even overpowering them in some realities. There is also the Kuhrai, but Rhulan would have a much easier time infiltrating the human like Ju-el and Suihrai. Another race mentioned in Misaline’s library and that of the Society of Sorcery would be the optimal choice, the Time Lords; unfortunately this race overstepped its self in its quest to become the masters of all time and were erased from all history by the very creator of time its self, a concept Rhulan has chosen not to try and wrap her mind around.

 

   Over the decades, possibly centuries, Rhulan has not only infiltrated, but also worked behind the scenes with Ju-el and Suihrai forces, adapting and learning their technology. Thanks to the two great libraries of arcane secrets she knows of ancient ruins belonging to long forgotten or otherwise moved on races and beings. In one such ruin while working alongside the Suihrai she found a second Supreme Soul Catcher Crystal. A lucky find as she had been eyeing a reality with a Lich King…then again she does still need three more. Keeping on track she put that aside and convinced secret military sources in the Ju-el and Suihrai she was developing a top secret weapon, playing both sides; an easy task when she isn’t working those in the same reality, but factions of these vast empires in two separate universes. The combined technology was used to produce a massive Mech-Suit, a black carapace armored thing with a feminine frame (the Ju-el would have it no other way), wielding a mighty bardiche. Appearance aside this weapon could cleave a planet in two, destroy moons with a single shot. The power of an Alpha class destroyer ship in the compact body of a two hundred foot tall mech suit; able to focus and utilize this power with great efficiency; even using the rare R-energy that both sides coveted.  She called it The Chaos Walker.

 

   She took the suit on a “test run”; both sides knew of this, just not of each other’s involvement. The “test run” was a small world (Midgarda). This world was in its late Industrial, early Consumer/Electric tech phase; yet contained some magic and a prophesy which Misaline’s spells tracked down for Rhulan. A prophesy of doom, of an ancient god awakening to destroy the world, when the second moon eclipsed the sun, Yam-Dora would awaken to destroy the world, and only the power of Hecate could stop him. The people of this world, the high priests used “Hex” magic born from the teachings of Hecate, passed down in preparation for this prophesized day.

 

   Rhulan took advantage of the breach that was meant to summon the power of their goddess to fool Yam-Dora, the being who planned the whole thing as a show, as it played the mortals for fools. Rhulan’s mech attack Yam-Dora. The battle was fierce in space, Yam-Dora was different from Og’Daga, this monster was not unlike a Nebula. It swallowed up Rhulan’s mech and attacked it with serpent like necks and heads within its self. The battle lasted many hours, but at last Rhulan had the killing blow, the mech was badly damaged, near ready to fail. As the beast was pinned with the bardiche, and the crystal orb ejected from the mech to collect its essence it unleashed one last assault. A red blast of energy that overwhelmed the mech forcing the cockpit to initiate a failsafe Rhulan had not installed, a Ju-el security pod with temporal stasis field. As the pod ejected, Yam-Dora unleashed one last attack before being fully sucked into the crystal, a necro-bolt; no doubt meant to kill Rhulan. Given the combination of Rhulan’s powers and Ju-el technology the Necro-bolt altered the pod causing the temporal field to reduce Rhulan to the form of a three year old, her own power rejected this body and her core essence unable to escape the temporal field collected into the form of a red crystal inside the pod’s crystal circuitry to await the time when the body would awaken and be ready for her to return to normal. Or at least this is what Rhulan would like to think is what happened, chances are Misaline may have screwed with the pod to make it turn her body into a kid and trap her mind and power inside an outside source encase something happened to her body and all that Necro-bolt did was damage the tracking and alert beacon.