章 16: Once Again

From between the clouds, a small silver spaceship slowly arises from it. Above it, a floating island, glowing with numerous colorful lights coming from the branches of a huge daunting tree. Surrounding the floating island like the rings of Saturn's, huge black clouds encircles the island making it look like an island surrounded by a sea. The rumbling of thunder fills the sky every few seconds as lightning flashes within the black clouds.

"What is that?" A girl with crimson hair looks up as she leans closer to the window of the silver spaceship.

"A floating island. Another of the great All Father's creation. Truly breathtaking," a robotic voice replies as the screen at the front of the spaceship lights up and the face of Vert with his glasses in display.

"Hurry up and go up there! I wanna see it up close," the crimson hair girl exclaim while she points her finger at the island.

"Hey! Rouge, I'm not your transport spaceship. Why are you in here in the first place? You can fly up there yourself."

"I just wanna know how good this form of yours work. Anyway, come on! Go up!" Vert grumbles slightly.

"I am going to go up there without you even telling me," with the sound of low rumbling coming from the spaceship, it slowly ascends. As the floating island gets closer, from within the black clouds, a rainbow sparkle of lights emits from within it. A huge dragon's head pops out of the black clouds as it looks below towards the spaceship.

"Halt! None shall approach the Tree of Life!" A thundering voice shakes the whole spaceship. A huge looming shadow covers the spaceship. Iridescent scales fills the two siblings vision. Both of them just stood still taking in the size of this dragon. A single scale of the dragon is already bigger than whole spaceship!

"Turn back! No entry shall be given, to those who has left the Garden!"

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My very footsteps shakes the whole forest. With my tiny kids in tow, they show me what they achieve. Showing how they train many kinds of beings. From normal animals to fantasy creatures. Ever one of them, I give proper praise.Suddenly, something more amazing is shown to me by one of my daughters, Kaya. In a humanoid form, she has green hair and pointed ears. She shows me her followers and all of them has the same characteristics as her. They are elves! She found a new race or created them?

"Did you created them or found them, Kaya?" I ask curiously. She smiles from ear to ear and nods.

"I created them. Well to be more precise, I altered them from one of the beings here in the forest. They're original looks are almost similar to those within your memories, All Father! So, I slowly change their looks to look more like those elves you called," she says proudly.

What did these beings look like before looking like elves I wonder? I crouch down, pat her small head with only my index finger and give her a full praise. After her, more of my kids shows up with new fantasy races in tow. Of course, almost almost all of them look like my kids and all of them are altered from other creatures to look like said race.

Suddenly, a whirring sound gets closer and closer. Like the sound of jet engines. I turn around and see a silver spaceship heading my way. Spaceship!? Upon coming closer, it slows down and stops right in front of me. Inside the spaceship I could see a crimson hair girl. It looks like Rouge. She created a spaceship?

"All Father! We bring news of a discovery," I guess the ship has built in speakers? And for some reason it sounds like Vert. Wait, the ship is Vert!

"All Father, we found a floating island with huge tree!" Now I could hear Rouge's voice. So, they finally make contact with the floating island.

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After hearing out Vert's and Rouge's explanation, it makes me wonder. I presume that this is Alta's doing. But, why did she forbid anyone or anything to even get close to the floating island? Did something happen? Also, the Tree of Life? I guess that is what the tree is. Making life from it seeds and pollen.

SIGH

Well, for now I'll tell my kids not to approach the floating island while exploring this world. There lots more to discover for them and for me. After seeing that huge gorge, I wonder what more marveling places are in this world. With that in mind, I move forward with no direction with my kids.

After a day of just walking through this huge forest, finally we find something new to gaze onto. Upon crossing a mountain range, a desert appear in front of us. It stretches all the way to the horizon. On Earth, we would usually find desert with golden caramel color. Here, the sands in this desert is turquoise color. So, the view in front of me is like looking at the sea in Hawaii. Also, the dunes here are always moving and changing with the strong winds, making it more look like the sea.

As we about to begin to traverse this unique desert, for some reason, all my kids who can't fly request that I carry them through the desert. Of course, I don't really mind. With some on my shoulders and arms, I walk begin to walk through this desert.

We've seen all what this desert could show us, so it get boring after a few hours of walking here. Suddenly, on the horizon I could see something floating above the desert. A humanoid figure, wearing a black toga. He slowly turns around, slowly revealing his face. Once again, I confront myself.