Chapter 2
Elsewhere at the same moment.
“Sound the trumpets and the horns for Lord Zarara! His magnificent majesty is coming to the throne room to honor us with his supremely majestic presence,” said one of advisor in the room.
A row of a hundred men on each side of a large room started playing trumpets. Then huge doors were opened and a figure began to walk on a red carpet that was several hundreds of feet long.
The tall figure was cloaked in a blue cape. He was wearing a combination of leather and armor plates all over his body. He was imposing to look at and pretty young, pretty close to his early twenties most would say. The figure had red hair that was semi long and flowing around as he was walking. Hundreds of onlookers dressed in all manners of strange attire were looking at this impressive and imposing figure go by.
After a long period of time, the figure finally reached an imposing throne. It was all of golden color and had a lion’s head sigil on top of it.
He looked at the crowd and clapped his hands and made a dismissive gesture. The crowd scrambled out thru the door. Only one person remained in the room. After everyone was completely gone, the figure spoke.
“Is she making progress?” asked Lord Zarara who was speaking to one of his advisors named Timrin.
Timrin was a giant chimpanzee dressed in a green robe that has intricate designs woven into the fabric.
“Yes, my lord,” said Timrin.
“Bring up the screen!” said Lord Zarara.
Timrin went in front of a crystal and iron console and waved his hand in front of a particular part of the contraption. A huge screen descended from the ceiling and stopped in front of Lord Zarara.
Lord Zarara looked at the screen.
“Good, she is doing well so far,” said the Lord.
“What powers did we give her for this adventure?” Lord Zarara continued.
“We give her the power to conjure up things out of nothingness, my Lord,” replied Timrin.
“Do you think it will be sufficient?” replied Lord Zarara.
“We forecasted that it would be for this adventure, so it should be enough. She is very intelligent and will be able to get thru this peril relatively easy,” said Timrin.
“I hope so,” said Lord Zarara.
“We shall monitor the situation very closely my Lord and intervene in absolute necessity if it comes down to that,” replied Timrin.
“Yes, of course,” replied Lord Zarara.
“See to it that she is justly rewarded at the end of her mission,” the Lord continued.
“Yes, my lord,” said Timrin as he looked at his console, watching the progress of Nomi as she was going on to her adventure.
Lord Zarara sitting in his throne looked at the screen, lost in thoughts.
“I hope she succeeds…” he thought to himself.
Elsewhere…
And there went Nomi. She walked again for several minutes in complete darkness. Again she saw a bright spot of light ahead of her. She followed the source and started to hear water dripping. The more she got closer the louder the noise came to be.
She walked out of the tunnel and suddenly found herself in front of a waterfall. She stepped further into the waterfall scenery.
“This is amazing,” she said.
“Yes, magnificent isn’t it?” said Mister Chiffon.
She looked around and there they were, in the middle of a small jungle scene. She looked up at the waterfall that reached far higher than she could see.
She looked at the bottom of the waterfall and there was a pool of very blue and clean water. This pool was surrounded by different jungle foliage of different greenery and brownish colors. Birds and butterflies went about, flying all around Nomi.
This is amazing as she bent to touch the crystalline waters. She ran her hand in the pond and it felt amazing and refreshing.
“We better carry on with her mission Miss Nomi,” said Mister Chiffon.
“Yes, of course,” said Nomi to the little turtle.
“But I don’t know what to do,” she continued.
“Let me help you,” Mister Chiffon raised his paw over his eyes and scouted around.
“I think I have found the doorway to the Kingdom,” he said after a few moments.
“Really?” asked Nomi.
“Yes young misses, look over there, just besides the waterfall, a sign, that says, here is one of the paths to Poopoola,” said the little turtle.
Nomi went towards the direction that Mister Chiffon indicated and there it was, the sign.
Behind the sign was another tunnel opening. It was somewhat buried in foliage.
“I guess this is the way in,” said Nomi.
“Well, there is only one way to find out,” said Mister Chiffon.
Nomi removed some of the foliage and then proceeded to enter the tunnel.
Again they traveled for a bit in a damp tunnel. It had some moss on the wall that emitted a faint glow that helped Nomi navigate the treacherous grounds.
She finally found an opening and went thru it. She was welcomed to a strange sight.
She was in a big huge cavern. It was at least a kilometer-wide and high. On the walls of the cavern was a painting of the sky and clouds that moved around as if there were alive. There was a huge big sun painted on one part of the ceiling of the cavern and it shined like the real sun.
“This is odd. It’s like a micro world within this cavern,” said Nomi to Mister Chiffon.
“Yes, such are the worlds of Zarara. Every kingdom is different and unique in its own way,” replied the little turtle.
Nomi looked all around the cavern. She walked around and then she saw something totally unexpected. In front of her was a mass of rock that was suspended in the air. It was several hundreds of feet wide and as much as long. She went under the suspended massive boulder. Just above her some strange things were happening. There were some dirigibles going around but they seemed to be traveling upside down. All of them were very small, no bigger than a small bird and there was a good bunch of them going around which amazed the young woman.
She looked at the rock more closely and in awe. She could see the form of a city, but it was stuck under the rock upside down instead of being on the rock like normal things would be.
Then suddenly horns started to resound. The strange noise was coming from this city on the rock.
Nomi could see people no higher than a few millimeters going about in panic on the ground of the upside-down city.
She looked at Mister Chiffon, very puzzled.
“This is just so strange,” she said.
All of a sudden a small vehicle started to approach her. It was really strange looking. It resembled more like a big mechanical insect. It floated in the air with ease and emitting a small hum. It stopped in front of the young girl, upside down.
It started to emit some weird sounds.
Nomi made a gesture, putting her hand to her ear, signaling that she was not able to hear the communication properly.
“Sorry I don’t understand you. What do you want from me?” she finally said.
For a moment there was nothing happening, but Nomi could vaguely make out that there was something moving in the tiny vehicle. The vehicle moved again. Then a sound was heard.
“You are in the kingdom of Poopoola, state your business or be evicted!” said someone in the small vehicle.
“I don’t even know what I am doing here,” replied Nomi.
“Apparently some Lord named Zarara wants me to help you guys out,” she continued.
“Lord Zarara you say?” replied someone in the vehicle.
There was a pause for a few moments as Nomi tried to look more closely at the vehicle. Then a sound came out of it again.
“Well, I guess help has arrived then,” continued the small form.
“The King has been waiting for you for a long time, but you have not shown up until now,” continued the character in the small insect like vehicle.
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“I was expected?” asked Nomi baffled.
“Yes, you were,” replied the small being.
“Wait here. I need to go see our king, so we can arrange an audience and resolve our crisis at hand,” said the little person as it piloted the vehicle and left.
“Crisis, what crisis?” said Nomi, who looked at Mister Chiffon all puzzled while the vehicle slowly drifted away and disappeared in the city under the rock.
While she was waiting, Nomi continued walking around the rock and tried to peer into the city.
There were all kinds of weird buildings barely a few centimeters high. She saw many strangely shaped things that looked like houses. Many of them looked like seashells placed on their side and in rows like city blocks. There was also what seemed to be larger routes and expanses of greenery here and there and small patches of what seemed to be forests. She could see a multitude of little beings walk around, almost like ants going in and out of their nests. Going here and there. Traveling in weird little vehicles.
She was amazed at what she was looking at but still had no clue as to what was really going on.
A few minutes later, another vehicle arrived in front of her followed by several other ones of roughly the same size. They were humming, going up and down like bees.
Then, once they were in some weird formation, the front vehicle emitted a sound.
“I am the king of Poopoola,” said a being inside the front vehicle.
“I welcome you in the name of the Kingdom of Poopoola and all of its inhabitants,” the voice continued.
“I am Nomi Nivag and this is Mister Chiffon, my advisor,” Nomi replied.
“Good,” replied the king.
“I am informed that you have come to us upon the request of Lord Zarara, supreme being of this universe in order to help us fight the Dragon Crows who