Ellarya lay there ,broken and bruised. She had holes in her wings. They were seeping blood. Her silver and gold flecks of her StarPower was leaving her. The Dreken stood over her and reared up to show himself! She looked and knew what was coming next.
You remember that very special nectar that Alagron was going to give you ?Well, you will receive if from source. She whimpered as he ” sprayed ” her! She was soaked with the essence of this being. She smelt of him. She moved at all she would be tasting him. He hovered over her. He laughed aloud laugh , as he sprayed her again with his saliva, it hit her as small droplets of blue cold ice that pierced her skin and had her bleed out anymore. Her wings were threadbare but they had the coating from Dreken.
She felt her will and mind , being emptied of knowledge. He was sucking out her essence. He had started to lick her again. As his tongue went over her, it felt like raked needles pricking and piercing her. She was left with small little pustular bubbles that developed in tracks ,where ever he touched her. She looked like she had ‘bleeding poison ivy’.
Dreken said to her, “Ellarya, did you know that Drakes , like flairies and humans, humaoids and all beings,never really leave this world? They only change form and can come back. Alagron will come back for you. IF not you, he will go after your daughters. What he could not do to you, he will achieve with them. He will target your sons. Where are they ? They are not with you ? They should be”.
The Dreken, carried on, “you have been blocked. Shame, we were going to get the snakelets to impregnate you with a ” litter”! Wouldn’t that be fun? To watch them all come slithering out from within you” ?
Ellarya listened . The Dreken was trying to fill her with hate, to turn her . Completely destroy all she believed. She listened and and looked around and became accustom to the Dark Cave. The glitter of the cold ice. The surround of hematite stalactites that hung down from the ceiling. She looked for the entrance/ exit.
The Dreken , himself, itself ,was a truly “horrible” beast of an anamule. He had really nasty sharp scales , each with its own set of barbs. The barbs , were like pin point tiny microneedles that one would feel, not see. The Barbs themselves, leeched out his own particular brand of venom. He controlled the snakelets. He had venom. His tongue was thick and blood black. His eyes were a deep , deep aquamarine, sometimes: blue, sometimes: green, sometimes : yellow, sometimes a combination of all 3, with threads of blood. His claws were sharp and curved and short. They were retractable. He could toy with them and stab with them. He could walk on his paws , soundless. He had the ability to silently creep. He was stealthy , agile and wild. His scales reflected the dark shades of all the colours of the rainbow . He absorbed and reflected them all. He sucked up and kept the darker side of things. He was a creature with only a miniscule of light. It was hidden. NO one could find it anymore. He was the closest thing to pure black. He was filled with hate, loathing and pathological destructive paths. He enjoyed and loved chaos, torture and pain. He thrived on it. He wove “hell” around him and enjoyed its pleasures. He took them whenever he wanted , from whatever creature he wanted.He had no shame, no conscience , no guilt. Such is true evil. HE had his eyes and everything else set on Allura and her progeny and Giovanni. In his world, hate would always be the “Victor”. The depths of pain and anguish, thrived and spurred him on. This cruelty, his cruelty knew no bounds. The essence of the degenerate from the Diablo 7 was concentrated in its hearts and blood. Darkness prevailed.
Elle heard them coming, the Snakelets. They came and hummed. She was almost gone. They came and settled on her. They sung and spread their wings on hers and attached themselves to her. They sunk and blended into her , soaking up what remained of her.
Ellarya had the power of earth. She had a green side to her. She used that to concentrate and get the wings of the Snakelets to not just blend but heal her wings. With the Dreken’s sticky spray, the Snakelet wings were like another skin covering. She used the green seeds to quickly mesh , a fine green vine. She started to hum along with the Snakelets. She had done so before. The hypnotic sound of chanting. It is was soothing to the monster before her and pleased him, a slight change was in the air.
The Dreken looked at her and smiled. She was singing. HE was winning her over. He thought the green in her wings was part of the process , of her turning to him. He was going to bond with her. He was going to break and surpass Giovanni’s hold on her. He was determined to avenge Alagron aka Guilio. He was not sure , how, he would do it. He was hoping to steal Giovanni’s sons off them both. He was furious that Giovanni had prevented this. He wanted to watch their birth , so , he could usurp them and hold them hostage. He was going to promise them the world, and deliver NOTHING. He was going to hurt Ellarya and Giovanni , through their children. He was going to deprive them of all the basics and watch them squirm with hardship through life. He was going to thwart her every move or trial of happiness. He was going to sabotage , every relationship, love she ever had. He was going to tear the light from within her hearts and being. He was going to win her to him and it had begun.
Everything Dreken thought was WRONG!
He looked and watched her sing , as her wings turned a lovely shade of green and purple, a very dark purple , it looked like it could be blood. It had silver and gold flecks, which he thought was odd. The silver and gold were tarnished, dark and off. This is how he saw them, their true nature was not apparent to him. He could not see or sense the light that was there. The green threads shimmered and seemed to let the holes in her wings shine , bright. Ha , she would never fly again.
The mesh , was very thin fine, ivy vines. The snakelets started to hover again and a new set came upon her. Dreken thought the constant change over and new assault of snakelets would finish her off. The new lot of snakelets, continued to help heal. Ellarya’s humming went along and she triggered her inner chakra vibrations with the very deep humming. She started with the Earth Chakra and was able to harness it and gather its strength to heal her wings. The Dreken thought she was changing and turning to him. Her chanting started to penetrate to his core, just what he wanted.
Ellarya loathed what he had done to her. If he managed to bind with her, he would displace Giovanni. The wish to be rid of him from her , this was not what she had meant. IF , the Dreken , hit and found that thought , he could use it to take Giovanni’s place with their renewed bindings. The Drakes’ magic , could do that. Ellarya had Drakon blood in her. IT was passed to her from Myrethe and Shakron. She was lucky , this helped bond and protect her children, to the little Draklings. IT is how they each were chosen, as Ryders. You become one with them and you have their sight as well , as part of their blood. Giovanni had the bondings with Devia and also Rubyna. Stefano had Orion. Ellarya ,was after Ekuziel. She could hear him, she had the ability to hear and feel the Sangflow. The Dreken had blocked it. He was wanting her to feel his dSangflow , the dark essence of drake blood flow and heartbeat. IF he could get her to hear him and feel him, He would be 50% on his way to bonding with her and binding her to him. Giovanni would be displaced.
Elle had used the Snakelets , her Earth Chakra to heal her wings, with the fine green , poison ivy mesh. She could fly , now , if she needed too.
ELLARYA changed. She turned herself into a form, called ‘Poison Avy’. She had venom , a sting, a deep dark seated side of her that belonged only to Giovanni. To save him and keep him bound to her, she revealed this side of her to the Dreken. She let him feel that deep , dark, intense, desires , she had with Giovanni, him and him alone. The Dreken warmed to these feelings, these flirtatious overtures. He felt she would be more than worthwhile to plunder and take hold of her. He was going to enjoy that. Ellarya let his attractions and desire for her build. She let out the scent from her Poison Avy self and went silent. The silence was more than deafening. The Cave was hot and heated and steamy. The blue icicles from his sweat , were , now visibly dripping from him. His saliva was building and his being was growing. At this point, Elle, asked to be released so she could come and sit and ” nest” with him and get to know her new surroundings. IT looked like she was going to be there for awhile. Dreken was very pleased. He felt himself , growing with pleasure for her. He said he was not quite done , with her ” debasing” process. He said the caterpillars had to come. He really wanted to see and hear her scream. So far, his torture had not elicited one sound from her. He was quite disappointed with that. Nothing like a blood curdling, high pitched deathly painful scream. A scream that hit the heights, the depths , the soul. Few have the talent to do so. Hitting those notes that hit the inner depths. He summoned them , the caterpillars , the millipedes, from the depths of the soil in the base and surround and height of his Den .They came. They started to crawl and slime over Ellarya. She thought she was done with them. They came with slime, with stench and foul swamp water. Not one sound , came from her. She remained silent.
Ellarya felt them crawling up and down her. The feel of thousands of little stickling acupunctures. She focused on the heart meridian. AS ,they reached and walked up and down this line, Elle activated her heart chakras. Within her heart , Elle had a piece of Stefano’s heart, with that , she connected to him. She had him feel what was happening to her. Stepfano and Giovanni were family , so , Gio through his family connections would feel the Dreken trying to displace his bindings to her. HE had just renewed them. He was not about to let her go.
Giovanni was up in the starlight with his sons: Deva Giovanni and Tristan Stefano. He had named one , Elle ,the other. He called on Yra and said to her, “keep them safe. The Celestial Trio will help you. YOU will be transported directly to Ezuziel with the drakes and drakelings. The great drakes will bring them through the connecting Flutter Lanes. Go , go now and take the babies. They will all be fine. NO one will harm my sons or daughters! I have to go and get my wife, which she was in this time and space and planet”.
Ellarya had successfully , contacted Giovanni and Stefano through her heart chakra. Her love and care and regard for them, never dissuaded , never given up, not ever turned. She believed in them, in spite of the cruelty dumped upon her. She kept faith with them and the belief , they would come and find her and make everything , alright. Keep the children safe. Was this , just false hope? Blind stupidity? It was ! Pure love does that, and this was the light that remained in her. Ellarya would not allow anyone to hurt Giovanni. She would not allow that, ever. Not any place. Not any lifetime.
Ellarya then took , the stenchy , horrible , swamp water . It penetrated into her, where it would change. She used her mother’s and grandmother’s teaching and opened up the Water Chakra . Hidden and located in her lower regions, what we would call the sacral region. She shimmered and shook and the heat of the purity of her thoughts , for light and love and faith, turned and purified that stank water into crystal clear water with silver and gold flakes. Her StarPower was being rejuvenated. The slime of those caterpillars was restoring what , Dreken thought he had drained from her. His hurtful actions, backfired. ( as most things of that nature, eventually do)
Ellarya was still bound on the cross rake. The Dreken took her metamorphosing, in front of his eyes with the creatures of darkness , blending with her , as her turning and changing and taking over her bondings. He heightened himself and started to strut and pump himself up. This was going much better than he had expected. He needed to add another level of cruelty upon her. He said he was going after YRA and ARY. Elle laughed at that , and said, well, its about time, someone did something about those two. They were both weights and chains around her and she would like to see that. ( the words themselves , being the farthest from the truth, she had spoken , in along time. Ellarya outright lied to the Dreken, completely and convincingly. IT was an ” easy” deception, Araswati ‘Kurghan’ was nothing more than a liar and a cheat. She deceived and hurt anyone whoever tried to care for her in anyway. She was selfish to the core. Yra on the other hand, Elle would make sure NOTHING would happen to her beloved ” friend” ! This she knew! Let Araswati pass under the wheel into the VOID. Let her be shaken and broken and fractured and splintered for every harmful lie she ever told Elle and all Elle’s loved ones ,especially Ellarya’s beloved children. Elle passed on these options, within herself , not wishing anyone harm in anyway. She would cherish and protect those she loved only that was her way around the cruelty that had been dealt her.) Dreken was dumbstruck , dumbfounded at the revelation and his heart soared. She had hate and vengeance within her: wonderful. Just intoxicatingly exciting. He was going to use the opportunity , to ask, she would like to see that and join their minds to see what he had in mind.
Elle asked , if she could be released first, stretch her Wings and have a dip in his pond. As you must be , realize, all the Drakes ‘ Caves had bodies of water with special properties , as well , as irrigate the surround and water the elements and beings around it. The Drakes ‘ Caves and dwellings , each , had magickal properties.
The Dreken looked at her , how she had changed with the joining of the snakelets and the caterpillars. She still had the horrible poison ivy blisters over her, swimming in the pond , would heal them. HE told her to remember the blisters, they were to keep her in pain and discomfort . She was to remember Alagron’s scream before she beheaded him. Giovanni heard that comment. Alagron was his drake and he had heard that cry. Elle heard it because they were connected. With that , Giovanni was able to locate Ellarya.
The Vegetation around the Drakes pond , was of course pitcher and snap drakon plants. The Carnivorous plants that eat. They can send of vibrations with chomping. Ellarya was released. She spread her wings , healed and she fluttered them and shook them. Small little flakes of her dead skin , her congealed blood and drippings of the delicate poison ivy mesh, hailed down on the plants. They tasted her and began to chew and vibrate with her essence. The blisters popped and burst and dripped down. She quickly plummeted into the water and out again. She came out as herself, healed. Poison Avy was sent into hibernation, within her depths. She was not eradicated, in case , her skills , as Poison Avy was needed again. The Drakon’s waters helped to transform her back to , herself.
They came! They all came: Giovanni, Stefanu. Tristan with Parian. Tristan reached her first. Giovanni whipped out his sword , his tail and before The Dreken realized what had happened, he had lost his head.
Tristan with Parian, kissed and held her and said , he wasn’t leaving her again. He asked her how she knew what to do ? They had nearly lost her. She looked at them all , as Giovanni, kicked and stomped on The Dreken’s head, more than livid at what had happened to Ellarya. He was dark , but , nothing like that. He walked over to Ellarya and Tristan and asked , if he could ” hold ” his wife !. He did so with courtesy and politeness , because he knew it was Tristan’s vibration sense that helped to get them all there and follow his locator binding , within Ellayra ( he had that there, for himself – thank the Creators, just in case ).
Giovanni said to her , Ellarya , you have passed Stages 5 and 6 to Ekuziel. You must now go through the last stage , to him, without us. We will have to leave you here and go back to our own quest to him. We have to restore the time line completely, or our sons, will be in jeopardy. She nodded , and asked them all to stay with her , a little while longer.
Stefano, whose, piece of his heart within her , held the key to her freedom and all of them finding her, looked at them all . He looked at them all, smiled , his beautiful smile at her.
Elle ,my” Muffin”, don’t you think , it is about time , I gave you that “HUG”!
Ellarya shook her head to him , looked at him ” squarely” and said, ” NO”! You are just ” TOO LATE”!
As she said , it, the ” Unknown” was stirring within her. Behind her eyes she felt those ” Green Eyes” looking directly through her. She thought, I am in very big trouble here, her heart strings fluttered and vibrated.
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Ellarya lay hidden in the stems of the Daffodils and Hibiscus flowers. She made camp and was quite comfortable. Tristan with Parian has been gone for sometime. She decided it was time to rest and meditate.
She cocooned herself within the stems and closed herself off. She hung upside down , as per custom and saw him, Stefano was crying. The Pahn was refusing to release him. To release the Pahn, Stefano needed to blend with someone to help extract him. He asked her would she ? She didn’t know , how to say “NO”! to him. She knew she really could not refuse , such a request. She went to him and stayed with him.
For the extraction to take place, Ellarya and to pull and tease Stefano , while she was with him. She could not believe it when Giovanni , piped up telling her what to do , otherwise , it wouldn’t work ! She looked at him and said, this is as close to that threesome , you keep asking me about , that you will ever get. He grinned at her, stop teasing me! You see, he said to her, I always get my way with you Ellarya. She bit her tongue and stifled , her , non- existent response. She could never win , with him!
Finally, Stefano was free of the Pahn. He looked at Ellarya and said , guess we are sort , saved each other , didn’t we. Elle , how did all of this start? Do you remember? She looked at him and cuddled close to him and said , she did ! As she cuddled him, she felt herself becoming transparent. Ellarya , Giovanni , said to her, your cocoon is being tampered with, it is about to be in transit. You are not where you left yourself. You need to go , go now. Ellarya , he Giovanni , said to her, we both “thank you”! Family First. How are my sons? They are fine! They are safe, hidden , growing and will remain camouflaged, until we bring them into this world. Ellarya, you will always be mine , through dark into the light. Remember that, he looked at her with a deep gaze with those deep blue eyes.
Ellarya replied to him, I will have your sons, our sons, Giovanni, then , life will move along. MY BOYS will remain with me, you remember that. Stefano , stepped , in and said to her, they are going to move you. Who ever , “they ” are! Giovanni said to her, you are being brought from the haven of your light sanctuary to dark empowered caves. You are being brought to darkness Ellarya .
Ellarya , we need to suspend your pregnancy and pass those children to a surrogate now, Before , she could muster up, the babies were passed to the Celestial trio, who appeared and with star power and higher permission, pulled the babies into” safe haven” up into the stars to continue their development , out of danger. Giovanni and the Celestial Trio, took them up into the stars , where he took Ellarya , dancing all , those years ago. Where light and love began and music played. There his sons would be safe.
Elle went back into her cocoon , leaving her men , her friends, her loves , behind her. She would not lay eyes on Stefano again , for many, many years. Her boys would be full grown. Jade would be a woman. Sapphy would be a fully grown little half- pint cutie- pie. Ellarya would continue to possess Stefano’s ring. This was to remind her of the love of friendship and that , if she had to do , it all over again , to see him, alive and well , as he was :she would. IT helped her to forget the hardships. To forget and get over the horrible things that were going to happen to her. It didn’t have to happen. Why ? Did they let that happen? There were no tears anymore. Just a simple ring, from a long lost , and cherished friend. Tristan couldn’t get it off of her either. He offered and offered . She always said , she didn’t need anything like that from him, just ” him”!
As Ellarya awoke. Her cocoon had been stripped. She was in a deep and dark cave. There was a fire, it burned in blue, cold ice. 3 small ravens , were within the flames. They grew and burned and became outlines of dark elves. The dark elves were the 3 of the men from the Diablo 7. They had come down to try to eradicate , the light force that came from Ary, by hurting , and tormenting her friend. This was an attack on the source of light itself. They wanted to break her. They were hoping to capture , her children, but that didn’t happen.
She was planted and bound on a cross rake! Her wings had been pinned. Her tail had been bound. Her mouth had been gagged. She knew before they came at her. They stripped her down and took everything. They threatened her life, her being, her friends, her children. They laughed and toyed and used obscene implements to invade her. She didn’t make a sound. They were an odd 3. They stepped back and watched as, she started to bleed and drain from within. No one was around her. NO one had come to save her. No one kept their promise. They just stood back , toyed and played and continued to bleed her dry. The silent , hot tears fell. Where were they ? The promises to be there , to help her , weren’t kept. She was stifled and suffered. IT seemed , like the whole world was laughing at her and pushing her down. IT was . She could do nothing. She had to accept what was being done to her.
The 3 odd men stepped back and put down their invading devices. They went back into the fire and spread out. Two became wings and the smallest became the body. They joined and the great Fire Black Drake of ICE stood before her. He came over and stuck out his tongue, just like Alagron and licked her. He flicked her . He took that tongue of his and pulled it back and laughed. HE revealed himself as Alagron’s creator. HE was avenging his off- spring. IS it slow and painful ,what has been done to you Ellarya ?
Ellarya was in the Dark Caves of Stage 5. She was still on her quest. Parian would arrive soon. She would call him to her. The Snakelets began to hum and fly in unison. The dull , hisps and whisps of the darkness of the night. They Snakelets blocked , Elle’s callout to Parian. She knew , she just knew , he would find her. Surely , they would not allow her to loose her head, her heart, her home, her being. IS that what good friends do ?
The Dreken Drake , as he was called, Came and sat by her. HE looked at her and kept up the flow , with his tongue. He never allowed her rest, or have a break. He never let up. HE kept her swimming in her own juices. He plundered and pilfered her. She was cut up and dying. Her blood , her power, her position was being suctioned.
Ellarya , so it seemed, lost the war, as well as the battle. She was not going to get to Ekuziel. The Dreken had blocked her way. Ellarya had lost. She lost everything.
The Pitcher Plant and the Snap Drakon Plant were plants, as we know, that eat. They crave meat, flies , insects of any kind. Once again ,Ellarya was in danger of being eaten.
Parian stayed with her. He joined her as a light force, so that her strength and abilities would grow. No one would see him. As far as Parian was concerned this was his wife and no other. Giovanni did not count. ( Ellarya’s father , always said that) They were of light and love and that should always count more. Life as we know doesn’t always work that way. True darkness can sometimes have the edge , including the winning edge. Parian believed his wife truly loved,maybe ” him “most of all. The truth is, he was right, but only from “his” perspective.There were no exceptions , none.
Tristan with his lifeforce Parian, was the KING OF HER HEART.
Stefano had a piece of her heart.
Giovanni was usually in the ” dog house” for one reason or another.
King of her Heart, she loved him. She loved him, as Tristan when she first met him. She loved him as her guard. She loved him without. She just simply loved the man he was. Her heart with him should always win. She didn’t need anything from him…. just ” himself”! Would that be enough? Time would tell!
She went with her friend, Kyra to one of his big shows. She was still in training to be a herbalist. She was concentrating on Jerrick. She barely , looked at me, Tristan , thought as he recalled the evening. He was dancing and singing and standing in front of a few thousand people. He had them all in the palm of his hand. All but Elle, she just stared and stared at Jerrick. He was very skilled. Finally, she turned and glanced at me. Ahhh, I caught her eye and smiled at her. She just looked at me up on that stage , looking back at her. I wasn’t quite sure, I had caught her correctly. I had. She looked back at Jerrick, but , I could now see she was more than just glancing over at me. The show went on and ended. I saw that she was left standing by herself . I sent one of my guards to give her a note, to ask her to join me, for the evening.
Pretty Lady, come and keep my company? Would you? And I signed my name ! I sign it very specifically. ( “Hearts” & “Crosses “, just like “x”s & “o”s). All by the powers that be , the Celestial Creators. She was the little girl , I once knew ,all grown up. She had sent me back an answer, saying , who she was and to call her mother and get hold of her that way. She said she would love to see me but the circumstances had to be right. Her friend had returned and off they went. Kyra , as it happened , had a very big crush on me and well, Elle didn’t want to hurt her friend. She was a good soul like that.
So , I did it! I called her Mom and we made plans that were sent to Elle. She came out from ,The Templar Boulevard GHS , one day and, I was standing there waiting for her. Her Mom had told me where to wait for her. We spent a blissful evening together , just talking , over at a cafe her parents knew and well, we became good friends. I asked her to join me on my road trips. She said , she had to stay and finish her studies and qualify. She couldn’t do that to her parents. All these years later, we ended up together again. Parian has helped to join us. We keep our secret life.
Ellarya was hidden in the Sunflower stem and she looked and saw and felt what the next battle would be. If they weren’t careful, they could all end of a sticky digestive mess at the bottom of a plant stomach. YUK.
She decided to mediate and feel Parian’s inner self and his power. Wow , he was a strong , beautiful man. He sent her his thoughts and she knew what to do. She came back within the Sunflower stem and pulled strands. She pulled out a the small black dagger from Alagron and pierced the underneath of the ceiling the base of the Sunflower Head. Golden liquid poured out. She caught it in a flask , which she quickly conjured out of her bag. She pulled out , an array of herbs and started mixing and testing.
She got it just right. She changed and adjusted herself into a Butterflairy version of Diana the Huntress. Ellarya pulled on her moon essence and harnessed her skills. She had her bow and quiver full of quills. This is where she relied on Parian to keep it filled. She went out into The Venomous Jungle of Carnivore plants.
Ellarya came out and they started to spray. She had to pull in her wings and walk. She ducked and dived and hid within roots and weeds and grubs. She hid in the slime and rolled into the dew ponds. As she went , she planted her poisonous seeds. As the venomous sprays hit her seeds, they opened and spread. The tricklings were coloured gold and they sucked up into the Pitchers . They formulated and found their way into the sticky dew drops on the Snap Drakon plants. As she went, the dull slimey red and orange gross green plants turned bright yellow and gold. They transformed . the Pitchers turned into Daffodils and the Snap Drakon with their traps turned into lovely Hibiscus Flowers. The aura of stage 4 had changed from Carnivore and dark to Vegetacious and Light.
As she dithered and dived in the muck and slime and dewy smelly ponds. She left behind her sweet smelling and fresh flowers with clear streams and beauty. She had used her herebral alchemy to defeat before she set out. Parian was delighted and he came from out from within her and congratulated her. Elle said thanks as he had kept her quiver full as her little arrows , shot out and planted the poisonous golden seeds.
As they looked upon the foothills of the surrounding base rocks that lead to Ekuziel’s Cave, they were aware they were not alone. The heavy breathing and snoring and scent of Trolls was in the air.
Parian said ,”we need to find a foothill cave that isn’t occupied. Stay within the Daffodils and Hibiscus , so , I can , go and scout. You ,my dear, proved your worth and that you were right to complete your studies”. She looked up at his face and Tristan was there. “I always wonder what might have been, if you had come with me , way back when. My heart felt for you and missed you when you turned me down all those years ago. It takes a brave soul to say ‘ NO’ to me. I think , I just loved you even more from then. I am very proud of you, Ellarya”.
Ellarya was left in his wake, as Tristan and his lifeforce went to scout for a cave. They were among trolls, dark elves and bandits.
Ellarya Prime, chosen and cherished child with Moon essence with Starpower and Celestial Blessings was terrified. The 3rd stage to the Draconus Angeles looked like it had something that was going to eat her. The green blades of grass were Praying Mantis, type stick insects. They had big yellow eyes with black hole pupils with a fluorescent green surround. The eyes of the insect bore into her. Ellarya did not move from under the Sunflower. She remained hidden in the shadow of looking out at the blue and purple blades of grass that she had to get through. The ground was fresher than the previous stage. It had a salty taste to the surrounding air. The sea breeze floated and kept the air damp and humid. The sea water of some sort had to be near by. They didn’t seem to have eyes , or hidden wings which she felt they had. Her senses were ” tingling”. These insects could fly and capture her. She cried. She thought also, please “don’t eat me”. “Don’t Eat ME”, the VIBES went out.He arrived. Out of thin air: Tristan arrived. He arrived with tKOSS. He lifted her to him and said, you do understand , who, I am to you. She said , “yes” , you are head of my guard ,my beloved and cherished friend , who has been with me all my life. He curled around her and slipped a single finger around that curl in the middle of her forehead and kissed her cheek, gently, you will remember, soon enough. His motorwings zoomed into action and the Praying Mantis took flight and fight. They as they flew up their jaws looked enormous as they opened out and long sticky forked frog like tongues tried to capture them.
Tristan flew with Ellarya to the next grove of Sunflowers and hide with her in the stems. She was trembling and racking her brain, trying to remember what it was about that curl. Yes as the nursery rhyme went, ” when she was good, she was very , very good. When she was bad she was horrid. How many times had she heard her mother say that particular rhyme to her. Pick her up, give her a cuddle and a kiss and say, ” if , only , I could tell you! She was only beginning to understand what all that was!
Don’t be afraid , my Lady. We are here with you. I am here. Do you really think, I will let anything happen to you ? He held her close and whispered into her pointy ears. He whispered and nibbled and kissed around her ears. He tickled her chin and dried the tears that were falling fast. Where is Parian , Tristan ? He glowed with his lifeforce and surrounded her, so , she could feel them , as they were one. Parian , she felt his warmth, his glow, his strength and she remembered everything. She looked up and him and said we aren’t in your barracks right now, there isn’t time. He looked at her smiled at her , kissed her deeply and said , we can make time! They heard the chopping of the stickle , stick insects, trying to sniff them out.
We are well hidden, Parian said. We are going to split right now- Tristan is going to go out with the Motorwings and tKOSS and tease them all away. Ellarya, you and I will have plenty of time to get reacquainted . Before she could object to him and his intimate thoughts of their coming together, Tristan decided he was not going to part this time. He was going to stay with her. He sent up with Motorwings with Jerrick, who had come along as his 2nd and Jerrick went off to distract and attack and fight off the flying , chomping, scary stick insects. Horrible forked tongues that kept darting out. tKOSS kept buzzing and sticking them with their stinging swords and they fell between the purple and blue blades of grass, turning a dull grey,as they were being absorbed into the ground of Planet Orchaidia.
Mr. Tristan Brandyn , looked down at her with that knowing smile and Ellarya looked at him and remembered. She remembered her thoughts of him,her wish ,her promise. She said to him, you always know , how to smile at me! I remember Tristan . He looked at her and said, the last set of babies you will have will be mine. You will be my wife , in light, not dark. and those bindings will be eternal. You are right, there is “NO” , time right now. I must go join Jerrick and the Fight ,with my Motorwings, for you. I will leave Parian with you. He knows how to “take care ” of things for both of us. He winked and smiled and was off.
The battle was fierce. The praying manti were like flights of arrows coming at them. Everytime they thought , they had got through them all, another volley was launched. There were flying bits of mantis with horrible , icky yellow , goey blood that dribbled and dropped and smelt bad that was slightly acidic and left a slight burning sensation if it touched any part of viable wing, flesh, or appendage of any of the Butterflairies,tKOSS or AnamuleFlairies.
Parian grabbed Ellarya , told her how much he had missed her. He asked her how the boys were doing. I know they are camouflaged here but I can still feel and hear them. They are very strong. Our babies will be next Ellarya. Giovanni is only bound to you in the dark. Don’t disappear about him. It is a shame that you were not able to chase him out of your heart and memories completely. She looked at him and said , you saw ? He nodded, of course. He held her , until she stopped trembling. He found a private shaded place within the grove and said rest here with me. She did , and within their 7th eyes, they were back in his barracks and together. Parian looked at her and said, excuse the pun, but , I am going to take a bite out of you, this night.
The marching and stomping brought them into the 3rd stage on Planet Orchaida. The marching sounds were little miniature squirrels, some grey and some browny red. The Browny – Red were part of creatures of light, the grey ones were of darkness. They came marching through the blades and were sitting back on their tails and fighting with one another , much like fighting Kangaroos. The Kangaroos very similar to the ones that guarded Stefano’s place at Mt. Lilley Hill. Ellarya and Parian whisked back in time to the present Sunflower Grove , which was now fully alight and vibrant which reflected their inner activity. They looked at each other and laughed.
tKOSS were holding their own against the Praying Manti but they were sustaining burns and bites that Ellarya with her herebral alchemy was going to have to attend. Her and Parian turned their Grove into a quick make shift ,mobile GHS. Elle reached into her small little leather pouch, ( her kids always referred to it as her “Mary Poppins : Carpet Bag” , as she always contained something ” Magical”)and pulled out a small little pill size box. She needed to open it. She had no time to make a cut , to use a drop of her blood, so, she as lady-like as she could drippled some of her sweat onto it , mixed with some saliva ( she spat basically and dripped sweat ) on it and it opened up and revealed all her needed supplies for a small mobile GHS. The reigning supervising idiots could not take away her skill or her dedication.
Bites and Burns were attended too. Parian had seen her work so many times, he knew exactly how to assist her. They were well and happy together and spread that into tKOSS team . IT gave them all assurance to carry on. The squirrels battled on….NUTS…. they seemed to be also searching for NUTS. They were searching for the Sunflower heads, the seeds would do. Ellarya realized this was why they came marching through the Bladelands, through the purple and blue blades, to find the Sunflower Grove Clusters with its seeds. The seeds held genesis of life and gave lifeforce sustenance.
Elle started to realize that the seeds with their different colours had different properties that she needed to learn and master to improve her herebral alchemy skills. She was so excited to have new skills to master. She took and rounded up as many seeds as she could reducing them to microscopic sizes for storage and down into her small leather pouch with its hidden secrets. It was in fact like a “Mary Poppins”, carpet bag. ( as her children, repeatedly , reminded her ).
Hours went by and the battles wore on. As dark descended the creatures retracted to the shadows. None shone out to fight in the dark. They rested.
Elle and Parian went back to the Barracks, through their 7th eyes. Giovanni felt their vibrations and was livid. He retaliated, by going off on one of his own little adventures. The ones that drove both his wives crazy with jealousy. Elle was furious with him. She had hoped to be free of him but realized now ,that they were eternally bound in darkness. She also recognized the extreme darkness and voracious side to them both that kept them bound to each other.
Parian could care less, because everything was different in the light of day. The day came and it was silent. Tristan and Jerrick and tKOSS had gone and completely eradicated the stick insects including their eggs. While Elle and Parian, rested and played in the Barracks back in Rosedrop World, tKOSS and Tristan with Jerrick, went and killed them all while they slept. As Elle and Parian, came back into their Butteflairy forms, Tristan bound with him , so Elle woke up in Tristan’s arms and Dragonflairy wings around her. He looked at her and told her the way was now clear. He walked with her under the Sunflowers , through the blue and purple blades of grass and said to her, I will be your husband soon, count on it.
She looked at him and smiled. He was so tall and handsome in his features. She was mesmerized by him as they walked. She seemed to be floating along and she came back and noticed the blades of grass now had what seemed to be now and again a new type of plant. They hummed. There was a sort of pitcher type plant and one that was like a half moon with spikes that folded together. It opened and closed with a snap.
As they continued down the path to Ezukiel , the plants became , bigger and larger and the humming turned slightly treacherous and dark vibes came out with venom beads.
Tristan , looked at Ellarya and held her close, wife, I will leave you now. I must return to my work with Jerrick Our Motorwings must fly on. He looked at her and said, Parian will remain for the remaining stages, until you get to the Draconus Angeles dwelling. At that time, he will leave you to get Yra. She will need to be with you to help gain favour with the Great Angel Drake, She is fine by the way and both of you will birth your babies together. It has been predicted.
There was a glow and a flash and they were off. Parian, her Guard, her friend, remained with her. Allura , do you recognize these plants. She nodded she did.
Stage 3 had ended in success and re- kindled Ellarya’s romantic appetite. Giovanni had to save Stefano, from the Pahn and start on his road to Ekuziel , as well. Giovanni had his other wife and life and was stuck , on another planet , twittering back and forth when he could, so that Dyandra would not feel abandoned. He felt stressed and angry that Parian was back around. He could just fire him except , he was too good as his job and she really did need someone when he wasn’t around. Yes, he would have to relent on that front, for now.
Back to Stefano , the Diablo 3. Yra was not forgotten and would also have to come through to the twinned planet. How were they going to explain all of this. Later, he thought, back to saving Stefano, from that idiot- Pahn.
Stage 4 to Ekuziel , had begun, Ellarya had Parian , the head of her Guard , rank of Lord General and tKOSS with her. The air had shifted once again.
Araswati looked and looked into her looking glass bowl. She sent Jankus ,on a wild goose chase. The new incumbents of Elle’s GHS did not have her expertise, the place was reassigned. Elle hinged on the brink of disaster the next few years… all because someone was JEALOUS and someone decided that one of her kind, could not have what you have. You fell into this and we will find a way to make sure you don’t keep it.
This was bigotry and anamulization the term for racism in this world. All because someone was lazy. Someone could not do the work. Someone just decided they were going to mess up her life. The question remains who was the actual culprit ? Was it Ellarya ,herself ? for the choices she made ?The blade moved and sniffed and chewed. Elle and Parian remained hidden in a Sunflower alcove, they were nestled and secure. tKOSS stood guard.
It was just one of the caterpillars that had mosied on down from stage 2. Well, well, there are some tasty tid bits in this part of the world it wondered and vibed out. They would come and spread out. Elle was going to have to go through stages 2 and 3 , with the same old slimey , icky disgusting legged worms. YUK Funny how someone just moves in at another’s great loss. They stand in triumph over them.
Ellarya decided to take her mother’s advise: stoop to conquer my daughter. Wait and your rewards will come to you. Karma is a wonderful thing Wait for it. Be humble and kind. Wait. Watch and See.
The lines, the vibes , the “flutter lanes” : bent and crook.
Remain bent and crook, until FAITH , BELIEF and FRIENDSHIP is restored,repaid, renewed.
Love keeps faith.Or does it?
Time continues to slip away.
The Compass shows your way home!
Feel its heartbeat!
Find your way home!
Where ever that is ,safe and “home”.
Time , eternal will stand still,
Faith , love and belief can be re-stared.
Broken hearts can heal and mend.
Bring two , who are worlds apart , together again.
Love lives with hope in flames, both hot and cold, faithfully, so , it seemed.
Repay,
Replenish,
Restore.
Time continues to slipped away.
She stood up and carried on.
Listen and hear her cries in the wind.
Tears fall as raindrops, whistles in the wind.
Time stopped to listen, stuck a match , re- kindled that flame
Time will NOT blow it out.
Despicable.
Sabotage.
Barbaric.
She stood alone and tolerated it all.
She waited.
She anticipated.
She was disappointed. Every time! How was she going to take care of her children? She is not sure how she managed ?
She did and she took care of YRA too and all the their children.
No one ever said , even a simple , ” Thank you “!
No one , even took her for a ” coffee” , or that tea she liked !
Time slipped away and life passed, only Surrender remained.
It was just a ‘CHEAP TRICK ‘, in another Song.
Dedication: to Mr. Robin Zander, one of life’s true and gifted frontmen and all of Cheap Trick, Rock Band. Thank you for all the music and the long tours and spectacular showmanship ,from all the Performers and behind the Scene , support teams and Management. that helps to make it all happen.
Ellarya fell asleep in the tall grasses of the 3rd phase, stage to Ekuziel.She gathered her energy.
She saw her the great ” Arteest”. She was in fact the great ” Con ” !
She lied and cheated the world and her closest and dearest friends. She had at first , felt trusted and ” special” with this news. In Fact, that wasn’t the case. She don’t know why she believed in them all ! Why ? She tried not to think about it too much. Just concentrated on the task at hand. Mum ,I MISS YOU! Big Mahaji , I miss your hugs and all the wisdom , you passed down to me!
Yes, the worst is she lied and cheated me,that Kurghan. She hurt children. It was a being, hurt and broken within itself. IT figured the whole world owed it something. IT took out her whip and hit hard- in words and deeds !IT broke them all one by one , hurting them. Staying away. Running Away. Made her GIOVANNI Cry! Never to be forgiven! Those sweet and kind ‘Blue Eyes’ ( She still managed , to see him that way from time to time; She knew he never really loved her. It was just the power and the type of warped bindings and bondings that they had with each other. Elle was no longer convinced fully it was love. )
The Kurghan, gave a pretense and charade of being an ordinary person. It was a person of great wealth and means. IT lied to all ,who loved her. Stole from the neighourhood shops and trades Anamules. Annacondra, she was a Snakelet Butterflairy. She had Butterflairy wings and snake like characteristics. She hissed and slithered and flitted and floated.
Annacondra was the Great Arteestic Condra otherwise known as the Great Con. She lived with Stefano at his place. She was his hidden secret. She appeared in piecemeal , one way or another in his work in the world. Didn’t matter. She was the stow away , hidden “muse” of sorts, in him with him, in his music studio. hide away, the one that Giovanni busted up! He would do that a few times! Giovanni was the great lock picker, safe cracker and as we suspect , a whole other life of subterfuge.
In her Dreamscape, Elle travelled to be with Giovanni. He had asked for her support at a party, one of his great ‘wind- dig’ parties , that he just threw for the ‘hell ‘ of it. He had actually thrown the party , so, he could bring Ellarya into his other world. He figured if Yra and Ellarya could be friends, that they should include Dyandra. He wanted everyone in his life to get along and for all his children to know one another! he had 3 families and he was very , very happy with them all. He didn’t really like the idea of ” sister wives”. He liked having things he way he had them: one in real life, one in his ” other world ” and his mistress. He didn’t have a mistress, in the real world, he attended his own private shows. He really enjoyed beautiful women performing for him. He had secluded rendez-vous and clandestine meetings. Were they affairs , or just satisfying that other need? When that need hit him and hit him hard, he would fly ” home ” to Ellarya. He would go to the dTHRC , now! There he would call her to him. Call for her , sending out that “Beacon Call”, he was in need of her. He would then have to stay and go visit Yra as well. Elle would insist , she was not to be abandon , or forgotten. He did know , that if he did , she would “kill ” him. Elle would not stand by to see her “Friend” hurt! Giovanni floated through life , he actually was a very hard worker. He cared about his craft and delivering it to a high standard. Dyandra stood in that lime light with him . As far as Ellarya was concerned , rightfully so, accept for this one time, when, he brought her into the limelight with him. It was a hell of a fight!
“Well, well , well.,Aren’t you a little late with those Roses ” Giovanni,” has he held them up to Ellarya , she said to him.
“I LOVE YOU “,came the reply. “I am so, SORRY”! Giovanni whispered to her in a deep and dark husky voice. He sounded so inviting and exquisite. She looked at him came very close and said, ” you are very late, a lifetime late.”
Giovanni, said to Ellarya , “You are here, because of me”.
She replied , ” DITTO”, In similar words to ” Hans Solo” to Luke Skywalker in their assumed “roles”, our Elle retorted: ” That’s two you owe me junior”. “I SAVED YOU LIFE”! “In this battle, I WIN”! She stepped back, took the flowers , smelt them, smiled and held on to them.” Why now ? we are in front of people ? Everyone gets it. They aren’t stupid. You left me remember? NOT the other way around. You left me in a heap! Here because of you? Here , in spite of you”! She was so close to his face, as she leaned into him. Their wings mirrored the other’s movements. They flitted up and down and around. They put on quite a spectacular distraction with what turned out to be a battle of retorts. Ellarya looked at Gio, and said to him , ” Tell me Honey, who do you think got out of our bed earlier ? You or me”? He looked at her with a smirk and replied , ” you ask such a thing ? Obvious , isn’t it ? He looked out at their audience, surrounded by friends and family. The gathering was one of Giovanni’s grand parties that he threw with his other wife.
Elle looked at Giovanni and smile a big smile, and knowing look at the surround, well darling dearest, ” OR, I just let you , think , YOU DID ! Because THAT IS WHAT LOVE DOES”! She almost kissed him , but didn’t! ‘Struck’ her to bite him back, the way he did to her when he wanted to make a point. Ellarya looked at him and said, ” I DON’T LOVE YOU ANYMORE!! And there is ” Nothing” Nothing”, “NOTHING”!!
Giovanni cried out and felt as their bonds , disintegrated, It was all unravelling, His grip on her, Their binds and threads between them, kept disintegrating and dark threads and feathers fell to the ground, underneath the Sycamore Tree. The crowd of friends , started to gasp and stare. They surrounded one another weaved in and out and fluttered up and down. Their wings coming close to each other , their appendages surrounding the other and caressing the space just before touching . Giovanni was the one chasing and not allowing Ellarya , to leave. She countered his moves and parried and stared him down. She held that thought until there was just one grain left. Giovanni bit down on Elle’s lip in front of everyone. In a flash, like a Tornado the fallen threads and feathers rebound and bound them back together. He pulled her close and circled around and fluttered around her. His Scorpio tail , touched and explored her there in front of everyone. IT was as if they were dancing the Tango in the air. A lover’s dance and fight at the same time. It was much , much more. The threads rejoined and as their wings stretched out and changed all the different colours of every time of their joining , the threads bound them tight. The threads renewed their weave into Ellaraya and Giovanni. It surrounded their wings and connected them with darkened powerful threads. The threads were re- enforced with bronzed steel. The bindings also joined their wrists and ankles. There appendages braided together and became one. They were re-fashioned and burned into each other. It was all happening at a ferocious speed. Gio let go of Elle’s lips . The bite was hard and fractious of a second, but kept his lips pressed to hers. Once their wrists, legs and wings were rebound. He looked at her kissed her softly and gently and said to her, ” YES, YOU DO”!
He released her, now fully re-bound to this wiccan wife of his. He turned around and went to find his more ” traditional” wife and family. Ellarya was left standing , still bound and pregnant with his boys. Under the Sycamore Tree, in front of all their friends and family.
Lord Admiral Beaumont snapped his eyes open. He emerged from within the Sycamore Tree and took Ellarya , under his wings and surrounded her. I am here , my Muffin. She leaned and turned into him. She rested her head on his shoulder and nuzzled into him and started to cry. He wrapped his wings around her,lifted her up and carried her away.
He had arrived just in time, as the Annacondra slithered out ,from its own root cave from Under the Sycamore Tree.
Under the Sycamore Tree
Love did not die , it came back to life. It was reunited and joined. It was betrayed. Love was bound and time stood still for Giovanni & Ellarya once again. Their life, a darkened wiccan shadow, hidden behind his ” traditional” life.
Under the Sycamore Tree
Stefano showed his kindness, his care, his friendship, his love for Ellarya . As he carried her away, he felt her wings. They were on fire , a cool icey blue fire which was very different from the hot red- yellow fire that bound them before. This cool darkened ice blued bronzed steel threads were eternal. Ellarya had tried to break free of Giovanni’s grip and failed. He was never sure with the pair of them. He didn’t interfere , he just came to her because , the call came out , she needed him.
The Annacondra was going to get in the way, the great Condra Arteest,flexed and slithered and hissed. She had not meant to send them away together.
The ” Sangflow” beat and pumped and harkened and called Ellarya She woke up in the purple grass of stage 3 to see the long green stemmed blade just opposite wear she laid , had eyes, deep , deep yellow with green surround and black pitted centres.
Under the Sycamore Tree was a vision of the future, a possibility. A future that would join Ellarya with Giovanni into eternity and have Lord Admiral Beaumont, enter Ellarya’s life , once again.
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She was WRONG!
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The sun was shining as Ellarya , spread her Butterflairy Wings and stretched out her leg. She had Giovanni’s Scorpio tail that she had tucked away curled up, while she had slept, she stretched it out and opened the end tail. Within the tail, she looked and saw his image. She blinked again and he was gone. She closed her eyes and simply sent out the vibes , please don’t show up. Giovanni was proving to be very bad luck in Ellarya’s life. He was a walking disaster zone. Out in his other life, you wouldn’t know the absolute “rubbish” everyone had to put up from him, to keep him going. Thankfully, his other wife ,in that life had to deal with him. They would make their public appearances as the “shining ” couple! What she had to put up with , behind the scenes, was something else entirely!
He was going to show up, one way or another, he always did. She always forgave him. He just knew , how to get around her, everytime. Truth is, she often saw his “crap” coming a mile away,she put up with it ,because part of her always just , just did. She loved him, the idiot, stupid, being that he was. They just knew how to push each other’s buttons. Giovanni whispered and muttered in his sleep. Ellarya would sometimes , just sit and listen, in fact: she could take notes. She didn’t. She didn’t record him. She just let him be and rest.
He was such “fun” ! The times she had with him, despite it all, she wouldn’t want to see anything “horrible” happen to him. She was never sure, he felt the same, ever. Just a “power” grab. never meant a word of anything! It came a point, she no longer cared. The fallouts he left her with. The clean up. She had her memories when things came to an abrupt end for her, he shot his arrow through her heart and darkness. Ellarya remembers the fall and the darkness to this day. She was at a loss , why she ever trusted him , again.
She had fluttered down from the Sunflower that had been bright and yellow more than black with its shade that had allowed her to feel like she had a roof over her head to rest. She started on the next phase of her 7 steps to Ekuziel. She felt it again, the “Sangflow” call. It flooded and pumped through her and for her. She listened to its beat and heard him in her head. He was wooing her and enticing her. He could see and feel all around her. Ekuziel had seen what Alagron had done to Ellarya . He saw how she cut off his head and how Giovanni rushed to her ,to be by her side. Ekuziel recognized there was NO coming between those two. Not at the moment .He had to get around Giovanni to claim Ellarya as his Ryder. There was no way around Giovanni. None. He was true and absolute in his binding to Ellarya Ekuziel searched and went to both the Celestial and Diablo 7s to find away to break Ellarya from Giovanni. The only way ,was for Ellarya , to very simply: NOT LOVE GIOVANNI anymore. IF Giovanni could be removed from Elle’s heart , the bindings would dissolve. To dissolve there could be no love , nor hate.Elle’s feelings for Giovanni would have to go into the “void” zone.She would have to have no feelings at all for him: neither in day or night, nor through dusk or dawn ;her feelings would have to be completely extinguished ,in both dark and light entities. She would have to hold those thoughts and no man’s feelings for Giovanni until all the threads were dissolved, then , their bond would be broken. Ekuziel had seen , there was a possible way ,to make that happen.
Giovanni in his room snapped awake. He saw the thought and flew into a rage. He was going to have to find Stefano and the pair of them were going to have to follow Ellarya and see that Ekuziel’s plans were thwarted. He looked and decided the best thing was to back to Rosedrop World and find Araswati. He was worried, she had decided to be a hedge witch.
Ellarya should have let her be;but, they had all begged her not too! Yes, Ellarya was developing a lot of animosity for the way she has been treated by them all.!
Araswati , in fact , would be in THRC, where Elle had kept her safe!, despite her transgressions. Gio decided would use her Celestial Bowl to see the future. He was going to find away around Ekuziel. Giovanni was going to take on The Great Angeles Draconus. It was easy actually, Giovanni was bound to Devia , the Drakes other half. Ekuziel had missed that trick. They were all connected already. Gio could see and feel his thoughts through Devia. Gio went deep into trance before he left Orchaidia. He looked into Ekuziel had simply told him: ” NEVER” ! You will watch and see how and why.
Elle had been zipping up the path towards Ekuziel’s Cave. She noticed that the array of Sunflowers were changing from predominantly from yellow more than black to black more than yellow. The aura of the path was growing dark and black. Ellarya heard a drumming . It was creeping and marching and stomping towards her. Thump, thump, thump. Thousands upon Thousands of marching feet. The path had grown slimey , and sludgy. She found that her feet would sink if she stood for too long. She saw them , they were on the Sunflower stems, and under the flower heads: the Spikey Caterpillars with a multitude of feet and appendages. The Caterpillars were dark and grey will luminous siding around their thick ring worm like long bodies. The spike stuck up out of the back like a long spine. They produced the slime that oozed down the Blacked Sunflowers. The slime gave out a variety of ode ours and changed the air. It smelt off and like disintegration of flesh . There was a foul stench in this part of the Ekuziel Trek. They hid camouflaged on the stems and underside of the flowerheads with the Sunflower Seeds. The seeds held both sunflower and Caterpillar Eggs. The eggs were green and red seeds darted throughout the blackened sunflower seeded flower heads. The Yellow Sunflower Seeds held Sunlight Butterflairies . The balance of dark and light creatures once again. Ellarya shivered and flew and couldn’t rest for too long , otherwise she would sink. She felt Giovanni’s rage and knew something was up. She loved it , when he felt all ” hot and bothered” ! She went on her way and was really annoyed with herself , at how , much , he was on her mind. Giovanni felt those thoughts and said to himself, she will NEVER be able to forget me! This he knew 99.999% , in himself. The 0.1 % part was negligible and would never happen. Ellarya not feeling anything for him. He went through back to Rosedrop World. He went to find the Kurghan, in her Hovel, as one now referred to her THRC.
Ellarya was fluttering around and through the Sunflower Forest that now dark and moldy and mildewy. It reeked of old eggs and swampy with slime and critters that had started to dart mucous balls at her. Splat. Splat. Splat. The heavens opened up and she looked for cover. She could not take any , the underneath had the Spikey Caterpillars. The spikes were venomous and like snails when alarmed or angry darted out their poison. Their poison was a stunner, not a killer. It caused wing paralysis which meant, if you could not fly, you would get stuck in the sludge. You would become one with the sludge and turn into mulch food for the Dark Flowers. Gifts would be divvied up by those who could absorb them. Unabsorbed gifts would pass into the ground to wait until the turn of the great wheel brought them a deserving soul.
Ellarya was drenched and smelt. She flew on. She was now darting around the Dark Sunflower Stems. She would weave between the big raindrops , avoid the underneath of the Venom of the Spikey Caterpillars and not rest more than 30 milliseconds to avoid being stuck and sucked and sunk down into dark icky mouldy slime and swampy surround.
She hesitated and felt a drip of venom hit her lower left wing. IT slumped and she had to use her Scorpio tail to hold it to be balanced to fly. She kept going. She was drained and sore and her Wings the ones that worked ached. She sent out a call to him. Gio had gone through to Arythenia. He missed her call. Stupid , moron of a man , where was he. She needed him and he had disappeared. Truth is she missed him at this precise moment. He was a strong fighter as well as lover and she could use his cunning and deciphering intellect. Giovanni had a very clever mindset.
She had a 1/2 paralysed wing. Fatigued and drenched. The Spikey Caterpillars kept dribbling their poison drops. Raindrops which would cause her wings to stop beating from wet and poison drops that paralyse. The mucous splats that would pin her against the stems of the Darkened Sunflowers. The debilitating stench of the swamp and grime.
3 sets of watery , deadly droplets. She looked up and saw the blackened Sunflowers were thinning. She was nearly through and splat. She got hit and pinned to a stem. The Spikey Catepillars swarmed her. She cocooned herself and pulled it out of her small leather bag. She pulled out a bomb bead. She embedded it into the stem at its base with her Scorpio tail . It darted out from her cocoon and darted back in. She waited until it blew and went off. The stems went in all directions. Slime plattered and there was an in pouring of fresh air that entered the vicinity of the bead bomb site. The fresh air reached Elle’s shell . It cracked open . She flew up and up and carried her damaged wing. She flew up and above and into and through the clouds. She could not sustain such height , the air was too thin. She looked down and saw that the Blackened Sunflowers were now behind her and the Grass was now shone off red, yellow and black with purple and green threads. The Green Strands Grassses were speckled throughout the next phase of the landscape on the Road to Ekuziel. She was going to take join with this Great Emperor Drake, unique in his kind. She was going to feel the power and strength of his ” Sangflow” within her. The “Sangflow” to mix with her star powered blood that flitted and sparkled silver and gold throughout her wings.
Ellarya had made it through the 2nd test. She was hurt and damaged but whole and quiet alone. NO Giovanni ! No Stefano to surround her aura and help her. She flew down and found a small pond with a friendly looking Mushroom Dwelling and rested.
Ekuziel sighed with relief. He was not sure if she would make it. He could only entice her with his “Sangflow” call. He could not help or assist her. Elle rested , fell asleep.
The Empress Prime,cherished child, beamed and felt the essence of the moon and its strength find her and with its healing forces combat and heal her poorly wing. Ellarta had used her lifeforce blessings to ask for healing and strength. The Celestial 7 heard and granted. The Celestial bell rang and the Jai ladder spilled out and the fall out was crystalized healing water droplets. They ran into the small pond that Elle was by and when she awoke and drank and ate some of the surrounding fruit. She was healed. She rested one day. The 3rd test awaited amongst the red, gold , black grass with its threads of purple and throughout each Green Grass that was NOT home.
You left You ran You left me Obsessed Crushed Dying Lying Faith Cried Life of Mine Blood tears wept I stood up I Croaked The Joker did his dance Life Cried You ran You left Running Away It Never Ends
Ellarta had just left Giovanni’s quarters, dressed and camouflaged in her own clothes and skin. She flitted out the escape door and started down the long ancient path to Ekuziel’s habitat. She had to remain low and out of site. The Pahn had spies and she had escaped him. The pathway was fixed with small little stones, rocks, pebbles, crystals and wood chips. They intermingled. The Rocks roared as she floated, flitted, walked , ran, skipped past. She gazed among the tall grasses : some green , some blue, some purple. The flowers leered at her , some inviting , some hostile, more amused and intrigued at the new adventures of this enchantress , Empress that she was .
This being the first step of the 7 tests, she would have to endure to reach Ekuziel and become joined to him. She didn’t know what they were or what it was , that imminently ,she had to face. She heard that same old humming. She froze with terror of remembrance of this particular sound: the humming and chanting of the snakelets. She had almost lost her way that day with Alagron and Guilio. She tried to fly and felt the same heaviness once again.This time she didn’t fight it. She joined and hummed and chanted with them as they arrived. They searched and searched for her the Snakelets but could not find her. Ellarya had blended in with the sound cloaking her own being. She chanted and hummed and saw them arrive.
The Fire Ants.
They flew and spat flames, little droplets of fire that burned and pebbled dashed the ground. They spat and planted themselves and started the search for Elle. Ellarya hummed. She chanted and she swarmed ,with the snakelets.
The rocks were quiet as she passed. Silenced by her sting. She had adopted Giovanni’s scorpio appendageal tail ,so she could release venom if needed. The crystals felt her and shone, so ,only she could see their light and light the way for her .The Fire Ants tried to throw her off the trail ,into the multitude of traps.
She had to pass the snakelet pit without being attracted to join them. She looked in and saw Giovanni, he was writhing and riding the snakelets, whispering to her to come down and join him. She watched as the rocks dribbled into the pit. Trickling down into the moving bottom . It slithered and swirmed hissed. The were an orgy of activity amongst themselves. Some were engaging in the act , some were being eaten , some were squeezing , some were biting , hissing and some were just humming along.
A snakepit of images . They writhed and rolled. The moved in waves, some fst , some slow. Some allowed themselves to be devoured , only to be reborn and come out with multiple heads, like a hydra
. The stream of rocks was slow then it became heavier and thicker and faster and Giovanni rose to the heights with them and soared . He laughed and showed himself , his strengths , his weaknesses and revealed all to her., he was being crushed , alive. He had lost his voice and his ability to sing had been stifled.
SNAP, the mirage of Giovanni vanished. The pit had not been able to entice her down and trap her. Giovanni was in his quarters at The Pahn’s Palace and he was on his bed, missing his wife. He had laid his head on her pillow and fell asleep. He went to her in his dreams and watched her pass the test by leaving him destitute and a prisoner within a snakelet pit. He whimpered in his sleep for her. She cried out for him to hush and rest. She soothed adn comforted him in his sleep. She assured him , his voice was fine. He was secure. She would never let anyone hurt him. She gave him that much ! She would always stand up for him. She would say, YOU GO THROUGH ME FIRST! I will be his shield. She was , until , the day came that her shield would passed through him , destined for another. For now , she let him know , she would be home to him soon.
Ellarya ignored the snakelet pit and she clug to her small little leather bag with its endless hidden delights. She felt Giovanni turn in his sleep. She reached out to him and touched his cheek. He felt the shimmer of a feather-lite touch of her . He tried to wake up to grab her and could not. He was held in trance. She would never know , if he missed her. She assumed , he just didn’t care once , he lost her control and all that came with it. He had wanted her power. He wanted to usurp her position, he almost succeeded. She had loved him beyond time. Time hesitated and he lost her!
Ellarya passed the snakelet pit and kept on chanting and humming. She was eased up the path , passing the stones, the rocks, the pebbles, the crystals , the wood chips. Between the stones , the rocks , the pebbles , the crystals and the wood chips , the roots of the very deep and surrounding woods started to come up the ground and twist and turn. The deep roots travelled and snaked up and along the path. Ellarya decided it was time to flutter. She hovered above and watched as they started to grow upwards to try to reach out and handcuff her. As she dodged and turned, she remembered Alagron and Guilio and how he had wanted to handcuff her. The only one to handcuff her was Giovanni. He jolted with sensation of the memory ,in trance and sent waves of not devotion or love but of possession to devour and conquer and keep always what he simply thought was just “his”! Elle decided he was right and let loose the the venom from the scorpio tail she had adopted and adjusted for this flight this night. She was enraptured and captured in the dark waves of the Green vines and wood root that tried to grab her. The roots sprouted green little delicacies to try and entice her to turn and join them. They wanted to bring out the Poisonous Avy side of her. They didn’t realize she was already there ,as she sprayed them and made sure she ventured forward to the next stage of the first path.
They came fast and quick the FIRE ANTS and they flew through the winding vines that shot out and tried to hold and bind her. The Fire Ants came in swarms of a bands that kicked off , as they ran over only the rocks. Over and over the Fire Ants and the rocks combined. They spat out and hissed and broke the chanting. They were blocking the sound waves. They were testing the wave barriers to see if there was anything hiding behind. Ellarya sank and went back . She went to the snakelet pit and hovered until she pulled in Giovanni’s mirage and there in the snakelet pit, she let the Fire Ants discover them. They found her with him being entangled and swarmed by the snakelets.The humming and chanting heightened and beat as Elle exposed the mirage of Giovanni and watched as the Fire Ants tried to sting him with the touch of their Fire Wings and feet. She let them see her protect him. She placed him in a protective seal made from the snakelet shed skin droppings.
She refashioned him in the case and left the mirage of him there, under what seemed to be clear stone. The mirage was just that. Giovanni was safe and sound and oblivious to the mirage’s activities. Ellarya , then ,went after Giovanni’s shadow next.
Two adversities had not been avoided by Ellarya . The snakelet pit, she escaped twice. Giovanni was safe. He was Happy in his dreamscape world with her. They were happy together and chased one another. They played in the Butterflairy tree and were more than best friends and lovers. Ellarya went on.
The last part of this first test was filled with thickening of the wood vines into filtered levels of up and down around the stones that become quite large boulders , the rocks that remained dark and sinister with undertones of darkness. Waves of bad feelings and sometimes darted to hex and jinx any passer-by ,if they got caught. The vines of different levels created veiled curtains and shadows. They were the balance of passing under and through the Veil. Ellarya could hear the sounds of those ,on the other side. She could not touch them. She could not see them. She could hear them calling her. She heard Alagron’s scream. She felt Giovanni rush to her side. They both watched the Drake plunge into the darkened waters. The Veil was playing tricks on Elle’s mind. Trying to draw her in. It played so many of Giovanni’s tricks on her . With Giovanni ‘s shadow , it was making Elle re-live some her most painful memories with him . Her deep seeded love for him, stood the test. The power of love and obsession, that seemingly gives someone that type of control over another soul. Some would say it is loyalty. Others would say , it is abusive control.
Giovanni didn’t realize. He didn’t have any power at all. Love and hate were the tools of power. Ellarya could be ” controlled ” by Giovanni because of ” love” . For Giovanni, Elle was never quite sure if he just hated her for ARYN, the he / she that was his most beloved secret ,”Crush”. She remembered, how hurt she was for him when she heart Araswati say, how much she actually hated him. He was the Dark Lord and he would attempt to take her life for power. Elle looked back many years later and would laugh at the thought, what would he say, if he knew that this “CRUSH” , he had , well and truly : hated him. Yes, they would have battles , they would hate. Elle would always want Giovanni to win. He afterall was a Dark Lord and she was part of its shadow too.
Ellarya went on and the Darkness of the Wooded Vines continued to call her. She had Giovanni ‘s aura, his “mirage” ,encapsulated. He was protected. He was safe. Elle came out of the Veiled Wooded Vines and found some sunlight and sunflowers. She stopped and rested under them. She had made it through to the next phase of tests. She had outsmarted the Snaklets and the Fire Ants..
Ellarya was one step closer to Ekuziel; one down, 6 to go!
Ellarya, let Giovanni wake up and eat, drink, engage, bath. He then had a day of frivolity, in one of his ” secret ” hidden chambers of the Pahn’s lower levels ,within the palace. Giovanni returned his quarters and once again ,missed his wife. He put his head on her pillow . Ellarya came to him in their combined 7th eye and sited to him, on this day so many moons ago, in a different time, in a different place, a leader took from Giovanni, his heart’s desire Elle stood back and watched as he stood up in the spot light , sang his songs and tears streamed down his face. She reached out to him and dried them .She stood behind him and hugged his heart. She held him and kept him from passing through and under the veil. The Vines had tried to take him. Ellarya would not let that happen. She stood by him and watched as he re-joined and settled in their room , in his quarters. She joined him there for a brief minute , then left him again.
She woke up and was in sunlight and sitting curled up on the head of a sunflower bed being shaded by another. Mother Sunshine and smiled down on her. The first stage to Ekuziel had been conquered.
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