Prologue of the Sky Particles

Section II

Ias got himself up, slung his tote bag across his back, and headed out down south of the desert. Its length was quite a ways before ending and becoming mountainous and rocky. He still found himself amazed at the time he made but questions nagged at him so he decided to stop and write about them in a free write, so he stopped at a cliff on a rocky mountain side and got out his writing tools to write from his tote bag. He wrote about his powers again and his wonder of them then switched to the lady he had just met, the monkey, and then the creature he was trying to get to meet. His writing almost overtook him and he felt one with his paper and in his dreamlike state and he put these details down and began wondering on paper what this meant and what he should and could do. He stopped as the sun touched the horizon and packed his belongings up before setting off again. He didn't get very far before several creatures blocked his path. They were too shadowy to be seen by him, even in the moonlight. He couldn't do much else except move closer toward them and he stopped when he got within a short distance of them.

"As you may have figured, we have been following you since you passed into our territory." The harsh voice of one of them told Ias.

"Who's territory? This territory belongs to the Yivel Nation." Ias replied.

"Not recently," The same voice said and one of them moved closer, "We have just taken back what was rightfully ours until you humans took it from us." The dark figure was no longer dark but was human looking of sorts but much fairer. Its eyes were silver lined on the edges and in the moonlight it's black hair showed and the moonlight also revealed its ears pulled back slightly to a point but not up or he would have mistaken them for elves that he had read about. Its skin was tinted reddish black and it wore black clothes.

"We must take you into custody till we can return you. Please, it would not be wise to resist."
Ias didn't feel he wanted trouble now so he let them cuff his hands and lead him down the path and off a side path. They walked on till early morning when the moon was close to being set. Ias noticed he didn't feel tired or fatigued but his captors showed slight signs of it.

They finally reached a tall building in the center of the forest. It was black but seems to be concealed in the moonlight although Ias could see this and he noted this again on his strange list. Two of the same creatures stood at the door clothed in what seemed to Ias as armor and holding two long barreled objects. They passed inside and into a lighted hallway. This hallway had two doors opposite each other and space evenly apart down the hallway with double doors at the other end. The hallway itself was clean and much odder than any hallways he had seen before. It seemed too modern. Its design was clean cut and metallic.

Ias's captors led him down the hallway three sets of door and before the double doors where they turned right and through a doorway into another hallway with no doors and odd high lighting. Then, they came to another hallway and turned into it. This one was lined with doors alternating on each side of the wall. The doors were metallic and had a small window on the top. 

The first one was opened by another one of his captors and he was walked inside where he was uncuffed and left standing there as they left and closed the door behind him and locked it with a click.
It was a jail cell and there was a toilet with a sink and bed all on opposite walls. The room was metallic with a light high over head but that was except for vents above the window on the door of the entry to his cell.

Ias wondered why they didn't take his tote bag and he got that off and set it on the bed. Taking a long look around, he sat down beside his tote bag and searched for pen and paper.

He wrote about these creatures that he was captive of and his wondering of what happened. Ias mostly marveled at his attitude toward them. He wrote how he was surprised that he could feel no fear toward them. They seemed so unthreatening.

Ias was interrupted by gray clothed ones of the creatures he had met. They cuffed him again and led him out of his cell and down the hallways around and around until they brought him through a set of double doors. This passed then into an office type room having cabinets on opposing sides of a large wooden desk. The room itself offered barred windows to either side set up high and was of the clean metallic state the other hallways were.

Across the desk sat an attentive young creature of which his captors approached in a stooped manner, heads low. They left him standing there and went back through the door locking it with a click. The man kept smiling at him and at length let out a laugh. He was very much like his captors but look more childish compared to them. He wore the full gray garb and was the same manner of race of creature his other captors were.

"Did we track your entrance into our land? Well, we have to make every precaution to guarantee our purity and affinity with the other races here. Why did you come down to our land?"

Ias smiled back as he could only do that as the creature kept a warm expression on him the whole time, "I was just wandering."

"That much is certain, sir. May I ask your name?" The Young creature asked.

"Ias I'ney," Ias responded not wholly sure how or what to address the creature as.

"Ah, of course," the young creature remarked and started laughing.

"What?" Ias asked at a loss.

"Oh, how I wish I could tell you but I cannot. My dear Ias, just be confident your path is going to become much more open to you even sooner than you will want a path to follow. Ha ha. I just cannot reveal to you anything I would like to tell you. The sanctity and security of us rely on it. I will just tell you that we are of a race of creatures called the Drakknights and are amply descended from the Magineans.
"You will forgive me for not telling you my own name. What I will tell you is simply that we have no reason to keep you here against your will. Doing so may endanger us far more than would be to let you go," The creature responded but broke off looking thoughtfully out the window. He frowned and instead clapped his hands.

His captors came back into the room and promptly removed his cuffs. Thereupon the young Drakknight creature across the desk stood up and spoke again, "Ias, could I ask you to at least leave us in peace and please not stay in here. In fact, could I have your promise to leave this building and not return to it? You can go anywhere else while you are in our land."

Ias could only nod as he was at a loss and the dreamlike state had waved in and out with him for a few moments and he felt at ease and with nothing to worry about. He regained his composure and walked outside down the hallway and out of the building, his tote bag with him. He peered back and only saw the two drakknights at the doors.

Looking away, the terrain was there before him stretched out. He was in a confused flutter after everything happened but oriented on his vision once more and decided to follow it and trek on. The midst of the forest wasn't far off and he came to it and sat down upon an embankment next to a creek and wrote about what had happened. He free wrote on the Drakknights and the young one he had been brought before and the building that he was in that was a general interest to him. He was not sure at all what this meant so he put it to rest making a note to write about the drakknights and buildings at a later date. What he noticed that his dreamy state was not far off from his writing again and was far more natural to him this time. He found his writing took on wondering about his dreamlike state and his obscure path and what abilities he had exhibited but he brought his writing back on task and back to the Drakknights and their building. He noted surprised to see that it was midday when his writing was finished.

The way was easy for him to move along toward the goal of the second part of his vision. He walked on moving over rivers and streams, mountains, and plains and stopped at the edge of a town in his direct path and descended down into it. The children of the town followed him at first and he could only smile as they followed him around with lighthearted ease. This was, until the parents and other older drakknights found out what their children were doing. The older Drakknights soon oriented on him and watched him. They soon brought their local police to bear and the police came to confront him. They were not dressed in dark clothes but grayer clothes and carrying small guns in their holsters.

"Where are you coming from?" One of the cops asked.

"North from the Yivel nation," Ias replied.

"We will have to verify what you say from our command posts northward. Please come with us to our station," The cop responded.

Ias followed them not cuffed to their station which was a regular building of stone, wood, and metal. They lead him down in behind a front desk there and down through a medley of desks and stairwells that lead down until they had him in a backroom with barred windows to the outside and shuttered windows toward the inside. Ias was left there at a small wooden table with them closing the door behind them, leaving him there. They had taken his tote bag on request and searched it and left him with it.