Ethereal Rebirth

Evening puts on its gown as though its shimmering stars and fallen moans grace the universal poles.

Condescending glances and rapture creates many in fracture, thus leaping and for-longing its only desire.

Finally reminiscing winds touch silently as the shy lust of fruitful waters end a sinking smile which readies to lift into its own sunrise.

Forshadowing

Agnostic bleeding, rather than field lightning turning events into such perspicuity.

Contemplation is an ever founding noun. How man breathed that unforgiving hexagon.

Instant blue skies malnourished in a flash.

Misting its unnatural waters, and feasting with its own tinted flask.

Lightly wavering in the eternally bliss breeze.

Save you, Corruption

I take a seat and pledge my oath to incomprehensible deceit.

The world in question languishes, and the unbiased civilization disperses.

My philosophasterings are lost in aforementioned disarray.

CUT

Sometimes a world fades 
and then it gains
a current consultation 
instructed to procreate 
a fetal disaster

Wrong Words

White noise floats 
reflecting a mountain image
allowance deliberating further away
letting rightfulness intertwine and blasphemy mingle.

Gathering its rise,
it evaporates unconditionally.

HAFD

Heightless air and fallen delirium.

Lift Me

Lift me away from the darkness that enraptures me.

Feel the cascading crystals befall me,

and let them break free,

serving its unending plea.

Dragon Effect 2 - Racing Time

I am racing the turquoise sky, my body penetrating the soft clouds that brush my scales. Below me was insignificant at this height. I was exploring a new world that only manifested itself in my dreams. I have finally mastered flight. It has taken an abundance of effort. For the first ninety-nine years of my existence, my wings were incapable and too small to lift my bulk. 

Watching Ketsuen take to the air, and myself remaining on the ground, made me impatient, I attempted. But as Ketsuen Izumi Yue, my life giver had stated several times, I would not be able to do so until the one hundredth year. I was furious. I rampaged the terrain and paced my wings, over and over. I could still not take lift.

Ketsuen, had told me, in the confines of our flat terrestrial home located on the highest peak of the mountains, named the Eastern lands. That, when I take my first lengthy flight, on my one hundredth year of life, I must leave to the pedagogy quarter. This is where numerous Xinyon such as myself will seek wisdom from an older, ancient Dragon. His name is Aoi Bo Longwie.

This situation concerns me. My life giver has provided for me, and has carried me for ten-thousand years, and on the following day of my hatching, I learned much. We are too live a long existence, something that may be unwanted, and lengthy. I enjoy living at the moment, so I do not reprehend myself. 

Also on this day, color came to my eyes. I was able to see the Immense One for what she truly was. The color of liquid from the prey that Ketsuen herself has caught for me. Compared to my moonlit color, which is the color belonging to my bloodline, hers is different. This difference makes me wonder if she has truly brought me to existence. But I cannot say she has not. I could feel she has been with me. I will one day learn this tale, of how her color came to be, and why the translation of her name is Blood fountain of the Moon.

During the years that followed after my birth, Ketsuen has slowly told me of many things I will be capable of. The Sight of the Coming, and The Sight of the finished, are examples of what I shall be able to experience. These two gifts are family treasures. Passed on from generation to generation. But I have also accumulated gifts from my other life giver, Ketsuen’s mate; Gui Jinging Guang

This Dragon is very revered throughout the land. He holds wisdom surpassing Aoi Bo Longwie. He does not share lore, preferring to keep those discoveries to himself. Somehow this feature is one to be found in the world of ‘humans’ who are about to evolve from cave and tree dwellers. We will soon need to keep our existence hidden from these weary eyes. Or so Ketsuen has told. They will find ways to interchange our minds, and carry us to dwell with a new way of thought. It is said that once a dragon has experienced this, the whole inner embodiment of that being will change. She has not conveyed to me if this is a favourable situation. She had told me that I will find that out for myself in the coming millennia’s.

---*---

The familiar presence of Ketsuen rushes into my mind as she sends me her thoughts;
Akira Yue

Ketsuen, I have taken flight. Can you see? Everything is so inferior. It is truly as I am experiencing one of my manifestations. The trees are almost non-existent. The water, is a mirror, showing the full length of my body. I am beautiful with the sun reflecting on my scales.

....Yes. Return. You will soon be breaking my boundaries.

There is a limit to what I am able to fly? 


...Akira Yue, the boundaries are not just for you, but for I as well. Any dragon that comes into this barrier is to be killed by me. If you exit this territory, you will perish. Return.


The thought of losing my ability to fly battled the thought of not flying for the moment. I shifted my wings, and turned my body in the direction to where Ketsuen awaited. She most likely has a feeding prepared. She will also teach me to hunt, before I set off to Aoi Bo Longwie.

--*--

I am nearing the plateau where Ketsuen is awaiting me. I glide down for my first landing. I am confident I will be successful, but the wind shifts suddenly, and turned my destination into something unthinkable - Into the path of an ancient tree, many times wider then myself. I commanded my wings and weight to the right, to attempt a circle to avoid the many sprawling branches of the tree. But the turbulence of my uncontrolled flight detains me to attempt anything such. I am not nearly far enough to avoid the mass of wood. I panic, and a branch of the ancient tree grazed my foot causing my frontal body to jerk into a downwards motion. I spiral, the world spinning in front of my view. There is Ketsuen somewhere in my whirlpool of images, watching me, amused.

My bulk clouts the ground severely, pain pelts through my torso. I plunged across the plateau, skimming over rocks and other debris, leaving behind a trail of pulpous dust. At the end of my trek, I am sprawled over the ground. Slowly I lift myself and pain pumps through my left side. This is a situation I did not expect. This is not how a landing is to take place. A landing is graceful; maybe a small thump, but nothing such as this.

Ketsuen presence comes through me, along with a reassuring calmness.
 
Much Practice is required. You cannot expect to have everything accomplished on your first attempt. 

What Ketsuen has said is true. Possibly, her first landing could have been worse then mine.

In truth, Not so...

Or I could have been mistaken.
 
I take a few unsteady steps toward Ketsuen. My stomach gnarls with hunger. The long flight diminished most of my energy. My life giver, sits facing me, with the sun touching her brilliant red scales. I instinctively look for food, but I do not see it, I smell the mountain air. There is still no such thing. I look up at Ketsuen questionably.

Her deep voice rumbled the ground, causing small rocks and dust to race down the mountain hills beside us. “It is time for you to hunt for yourself, Akira Yue.” Her massive head looked over the plateau, where herds of large heavy bodied grey creatures that arrived every Skywater season till the end of Leaf Change season. The herd is pacing in a circle and trumpeting their long dextrous trunks, while two males within the circle seem to be having a dispute over the surrounding females. 

“I am to hunt?” I squawked in disbelief as I viewed the large creatures tackle each other with a force to shock my meagre bones. 

“If you do not hunt, you shall not eat. Once you have become a hunter you will fly to Aoi Bo Longwie.” She turned to face me and looked me in the eyes. “Farewell, my Bright Moon. May you get to your destination safely.” With those last words, the presence of Ketsuen left my mind. I watch as she heaved her behemoth bulk to spread her wings; that were twice the length of her, and stretch to the sky. Then she hoisted off.

For a moment I sat there, watching her fly, then slowly I raised my body and started running after her. I was still smarting and feeble from my previous flight, but I still attempted to flap my wings to race after her. I did not want her to leave, not just yet. She is my life giver; she can not leave when I am living! But my strength had departed, and my talons betrayed me, as I trip over a piece of debris, landing on my stomach. I lay on the solid land, looking up as my life giver; no my maker of existence now, departed into the turquoise sky.
      

Dragon Effect (1)

 Bah-dump, bah-dump, bah-dump.

I could hear a beat, a steady beat.

 Bah-dump, bah-dump, bah-dump.

Amidst all the blackness that surrounded me.

 Bah-dump, bah-dump, bah-dump.

It is warm here, safe. But I want out. How do I leave
the blackness that is everywhere, that has no start or end?
I can feel several prickling and slight movements in the blackness,
or maybe it is in myself. It is soft and gentle, it wants to be heard.

 'There is a way'

What is the way? I ask the gentle sound

 'Move, panic, burst, and reach for outside the darkness.'

How do you reach for outside of something that has no ending?

 'MOVE!'

The sound is startling, I move, squirm. I hear crackling, creaking
and something crumbling, flashes of brightness crack into the darkness.
The darkness has an ending. I reach for it. More brightness crackles into
the black, the blackness is disappearing. Then suddenly, the blackness is
gone. Brightness of many things I cannot explain comes rushing in.

 'That’s it.'

 The voice is gentle again, safe.

My eyes take in many things. I am small, she is big. I am in a warm place,
which is not darkness but not brightness either. This is Dimness. Below me
there are several cracked pieces of shells. They crumple under my weight.
I look up as she moves her vast head down towards me and speaks softly.

 'Welcome to this world. A long life awaits you.'

I look at the immense creature before me. I know she is not different from me.
She feels similar to me. She is not a predator. She has always been here, beside me.
She has various different brightness’ and darkness’ to her. She has four limbs that
support her, and two long appendages protruding from her shoulders, that comport
a thin membrane between four fingers. Her head is large, but not small. Many
interesting shapes jut from her. They look sharp. Something you do not touch.
The covering of her body is sleek, and impenetrable. Her eyes are the most beautiful.
They are intelligent, and they have seen several occurrences that have come before me.

I try to see myself; I can only get as far as the talons of my four limbs, and the other
appendages that lay across my back. They are several times smaller than the Immense
One’s. They are as luminous as the brightness I first experienced coming into this world.
I pace in a circle, unsteady, but capable. I see a moving scaled being that is the same
effulgent as myself. I grab for it, and maul it. I feel something terrible in the back
of me. I let go of the object I mauled. The terrible is gone, but a small feeling of the
terrible still remains. I am perplexed. I maul the object again, and I feel the terrible
once more at full force. I come to the conclusion that this is a part of me, and I should
not maul it.

 What am I?

The soft whisper, from the Immense One, returns.

 ‘You are a Xinyon, a newly born creature of seeming immortality. You will learn of
several things in the day following this. I suggest you rest. I will prepare the feeding you
require. For I am Ketsuen Yue Izumi, the existence who has given you life.’

I let myself sit on the ground, and lay my meager bulk in the scuffs of dirt and pieces of
pulpous bedding. The bedding makes me sway. I am exhausted; my eyes are intent on converging
slowly, and my mind starts to drift off into a deep slumber.