NBB: Reboot

Chapter VII- A world of fire

After discovering bonfire's alternate temperatures, Deki and Asrion went to the bonfire. It is said a bonfire's most important role is to take a lost soul before it wakes up to it's destiny, and so to solve this myth, Deki took Asrion and made him sit down same as before but this time before sunrise. She clearly had no idea of where Asrion would end up, so she decided give him a communication ear plug. He had no idea of what he was doing but he still did it. With his two arm plates and his silver chest-plate, he sat down and felt the same warmth, and so he close his eyes, and before he knew it, he had vanished from body to ash. Deki was confused and frustrated, seeing someone turn into ash is not a usually common thing. But in Asrion's perspective, he simply was in a calm state, then he opened his eyes, and saw plains, filled with flowers and springs of clear water. He felt no heat or cold, no pain or fault. Just wind. He looked up into the sky, and saw a world of fire, nothing like earth. Just a sky of burning flame, then he saw that in between that world and those plains, was an immersive amount of spheres, different sizes and colors, all with weird properties. He soon then saw that right were he was standing, he was inside a sphere, in a representation of the universe, he didn't feel like he could be in heaven, or hell, or midgard, just nothing. He was standing in air. A weird black shade covered the edges of the immersive place. Those spheres he saw in the air, they were representations of the known planets of midgard. He then felt a commotion and saw a shape of a dragon. He felt ground and stood, in plain air. "Tha thu air na chaidh a bhuileachadh an teanga ar guth , a ruighinn agad fèin -staigh agus taobh a-staigh a dhùsgadh an dràgon dhuibh, agus bithidh tu a 'coileanadh do na h-amasan co-dhùnadh," a voice exclamed in roars and shouts. A massive sound reached Asrion, from that world of fire and said, "I hope you understand what your purpose in this world is, son." A soothing heat reached him and covered him in fire. A nice and warm fire, nothing harmful. He soon realized this was the same feeling of the bonfire. he felt it inside his hands, a pleasant warmth, this would mean something, but all he knew that it came from a world of fire.

After a while, he saw the figure of a man, his face was scarred, his legs were on fire, and all you could hear was fire pouring of out his shouts. Asrion felt weird, a little stronger and more energized. He then saw there was no more flame and then heard a voice say, "This is all I can do for you to forgive me because of abandoning you. I'm sorry my son, there's nothing I can give you other than my last words and my life essence...... Good....bye.....my...son...... A....r....a....s...." The voice disappeared and Asrion was in shock, he had not heard that peculiar voice in ages, he felt empty and sad, but mostly sad that he recognized it. He soon remembered it was from his father. It brought him a tear to the eye, and he wiped it off. He soon opened his eyes and saw the world of fire and the plains with water, and all the planets right there. He couldn't do anything to move or do anything, then he closed his eyes and remembered the bonfire and opened his hand in the air. A temperature change hit him and he opened his eyes. He saw himself in a room of mirrors, with nothing more than mirrors reflecting a flower. Asrion soon thought, -This is the flower, this will save my mother.- And suddenly the flower had dropped a tear of water. It felt into the ground and the ground became purely green. Asrion then realized he could almost reached the flower and he reached a mirror. Almost touched it, but soon felt a hard slap.

All thoughts vanished and he woke up. He saw the mirrors empty and saw a guy with white hair and a metal eye-patch right in front of him. "Hey kid, can you help me out?" asked the Man. Asrion confused replied, "Yes, I think so." The man had a sword on his back, a scar on his left eye, which was also covered with a metal plate and some bandages.  Asrion looked at him and the man said, "Well, I need you to concentrate, I'm gonna put this metal stick on the floor, and I need you to light it. I know what you are and what you are capable of, so please, let's get out of here." Asrion confused asserted and the man took the sword out of his back. He stab it on the floor and kneel on leg and place his hand on the hilt. Asrion did the same and right after placed his hand the hilt, he felt a rushing heat on his body, and a voice from the inside made him say, "FLAMES!!!" and his whole body busted on fire and the sword with it, the man wasn't affected and then they both were inside a mystic smoke, then they both appeared on the museum, unscathed and the flames disappeared.

Deki saw them and felt speechless of whatever she thought she saw. Asrion looked more fit for battle, for some reason. The man stood up and felt something weird. He then said, "Huh? Cycle 16? I guess I overslept." Deki then said worried and frustrated, "WHERE, HOW, AND WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON????" Asrion told her what he saw and told her about the message in another language, and all he saw. The man then said, "What's with the delay?" Deki stood up and said, "Who are you?" "I'm just a man." "Why are you here?" "To save the world from Keyhorror." "Keywho?!?" "Oh, he must've changed his name, or maybe he did got sealed...." Deki picks up her gun and puts up gunpoint on his forehead and says, "I'm about to pull the trigger 2 times on you, unless you tell me your name. What is your name?" A silence between her and the man was truthful, and then he said, "Look, My name doesn't exactly matter, I'm here to warn you, there's someone trying to break reality, but real bad." "Can you tell me your name?" The man with his arms up touched his face, he pulled out the metal plate and his left eye revealed a glamourous blue, releasing many a particles of blue. "Ok, the name is Jer Nayryu." "Jer Nayru?" "Oh, you don't know me, even bett..." Deki lowered her gun and realized by his eye his name and identity. "You are the legend who destroyed the Titan lord." He smacks his lips and nods, "Nope, that was my friend Zorah." She turns her head aside and thinks, "Zorah?" "Oh, he's the one pretty much responsible for your existence if the timestreams aren't lying." "He's my father?" He nods and says, "No, he's the one who made this cycle, I'm getting the vibes of time already, your name is....Deki Rose Nukia?" "Yes, how did you....never mind." He chuckles and starts to walk to thw window. "Wow, no one loses the touch." The man looks at a watch and says, "Duty calls." He then proceeds to jump out the window and fly with some sort of thing allowing him to glide. Asrion then says, "I think I can use the bonfires..." Deki says, "The bonfires? How?" He then puts his hand on it and closes his eyes. His hand turned on fire and he said, "Memories..." The bonfire let out a burning smoke and showed images of a kid in armor fighting a horned god inside a fiery sphere with two more knights with just swords, while the horned god had a giant ball and chain and a sword on his back. Then it changed to a hooded figure with a scythe on their hand. That hooded figure had a symbol and it was a Skull with a Flame on its eyes. Asrion then took his hand out and said, "I think I know what happened to the bonfire. The Skullfire Necromancers have emerged from their caves." Deki asked him, "Who are they?" He heard whispers telling him, the bonfire was speaking, then he replied back to her, "A group of necrotic mages who roam kingdom to kingdom, in search of power." Deki then said, "They are the ones who are experimenting with darkness and bonfire, right?" Asrion nodded and said, "Yeah, they are fueling bonfires with darkness, which emits some sort of necrotic magic that reanimates the dead and uses living as source to revive the dead, turning them into undead suceptible for control." Deki then replied saying, "If these beacons are spread among the kingdom, there is no escape. Isernia might become a gate from hell with all the dead rising, and even worse, it could open Doom Bridge." Asrion then asked, "What's Doom Bridge?" She then looked down and said, "You don't want to find out." They kept reaserching about the suspisions around Deltora. While they read files at the hotel, they were being watched by the same figure who stood over Deki's window but for sound there's silence, as to each shadowed figure knows, only ninjas will know.