[Trade] drak from the stars part 3

       Xena stands. “Ok meissa, Skye, and Ginger, you guys can help with the drakelings food. Make sure they have their herbals too, each has a specific diet you must tend to,” she says as she works with the kids. “Hello, little one” she sees a small drakling with red scales. “Your Wataru” she pets him. 

          Someone knocks at the door. “Is Xena home?” a British voice asks. The 4 turn to see a man in a tee shirt and pants. His wild rocker-streaked hair and eye make up mismatched with his black outfit. “I was told I could find her here” 

         She stands as her ears swivel. “I am Xena,” she says. “Who are you?” she's holding a drakling. 

         “I am valraven,” he says bowing. “I am a newcomer here, mind if brynny rests here?” he asks. 

          “Yes, you can,” Xena says. 

         “Im Sky, that's Meissa and ginger,” the blue one says. “You're really cool” 

        Miessa and ginger wave. “Hai” 

          “Thank you, im not from this world actually.” he pulls out a strange amulet. “This is a travelers amulet. Allowing me to travel between dimensions and worlds. This one is quite strange and beautiful” he turns to Xena. “did you create this place?”

         She smiles “yea I did,” she says. “Im building a new place and home for myself and my new friends. “Until all have found a place I will keep watch,” she says. “Back home a wise man told me that,” she says chuckling. 

        “He is very wise for that” valraven smiles. “What are your hopes and dreams for this place?” 

        Sky smiles as the pair talk. 

       “You shouldn't have judged Xena so harshly, she's doing her best in this world,” Sky says. 

       “Yea, she's just doing her best in what I can only imagine is a jarring situation, being thrown headlong into a new world?” 

       Meissa smiles. “I understand” she reaches out to touch another drakeling. “These are cute. I might ask Xena if I can start work here” she muses. 

        “I do believe the winds of change are picking up and the world will be very interesting,'' Valraven says as he pets Bryn. he looks around to see luminous stone pillars shimmering and glowing in the dying light giving the city almost a glowing appearance. Pools of shimmering water lit up by the rocks sit still. “What is the rock”

        “It's a kind of energetic rock that glows in the darkness, the energy it puts out helps with bad vibes and negativity. Only good vibes here” she says as oak walks over and nuzzles her. “Yes and helping the bonds between drak and friend grow deeper” 

        Meissa looks at her. “How” 

        Xena smiles. “It's simple. The crystal energy and design pull the negative energies away and turn them into good energy. Once your mind is free of the bad energy and negative emotions it allows you to…” 

         “Communicate with your drak or partner on a deeper level!!” Ginger says happily. “That's amazing Xena” 

        “Yes, it is, having negative feelings cloud your mind can impede the bond between draks or even companion and drak. It's important that you always must have a calm mind” she says as oak walks off to take care of a small winged drakling. “I must make sure to take care of this one” 

        Valraven looks at the draks. “How about we dream fast together? Open our minds and see what lurks in them?” 

       “Dream fasting?” Ginger asks. “What that” the other two get curious. 

       Xena smiles. “Usually bridging or dream fasting is done between two individuals who trust eachother on a DEEP level.” oak stands and walks over smoothly transforming into his human form. 

      “I can show you guys how it's done. I've done it a few times with Xena to better understand her world.” 

     Xena stands infront of Oak. “ready?” she says. “Dreamfasting always makes me a bit jittery” he holds her arms as her eyes go almost oak’s scale color. 

      “So you just stand there?” Miessa asks. 

     “It's more than that, dream fasting is something very few can do. And only with consent can you do it,” he says. “In her world, dream fasting is a way of showing things and emotions. It's having your 

“cores” as she calls it, your magical centers harmonize. Its a wonderful experience for those who do it” 

          “Ok ill play along,” Meissa says. 

          “Come,” she says walking deeper into the stone carved palace like structure. The place is built from shimmering rock within a cliff over the ocean…the cove below the city makes for some beautiful sites in the caves she has yet to fully explore, which makes for a nice little cave system under the city for hunts and herb gathering. She smiles closing the doors to the inner city. “Come this way. 

         She guides the draks and her companion deeper into the glowing city. The small lanterns have a remarkable ability to light up dark places. The bridges and walks ways connected to each side crisscross above. “How far up does this place go?” 

          It's pretty deep within the mountain, i made it so that the patios and walkways had natural lighting.” she says. “It took a lot of work but with oak and the other help I managed to design this place,” she says as the silver-blue walkways glow “the glow is natural to the stone. I don't know why it has that ability tho” 

           “I would LOVE to live here,” Sky says. “How much for the property here?” she asks. 

           “I wouldn't know, I let oak handle the residence and stuff on that side. Im a caretaker of my little home away from home.” she sees a river that cuts thru the upper side of the cliff city. “That's the glowing river. The head spring is where i originally came here and I made my home here” she says as the walks ways light up as she walks. “The rocks touch sensitive so you can walk across them and it will light up your path,” she says. 

           “That's so cool you managed to find a place here,” Ginger says. “So the village above??” 

           “It's a village but more for a show, the real city is underneath” 

           Meissa looks at her. “Where did you get the idea?” 

           “An old book that I read as a child,” she says 

               “A king he was on the carven throne, in many pillared halls of stone, 

                With a golden roof and silver floor

                  And runes of power upon the door” her voice rises as she sings, 

               “The light of sun and star and moon, in shiny lamps of crystal hewn

                Undimmed by cloud or shade of night there shown forever fare and bright” 

                 Meissa looks at her. “That's stunning, what is that song” 

                As they walk Oak smiles at her as she goes to speak. “It's a song about a dwarven king in a book I read a long time ago. In fact, oak is named for the one who the song is about, his name is Thorin Oakenshield. King under the mountain. I based this place on some minor adjustments on before the kingdom in the lonely mountain. And the upper part is reminiscent of Dale where the trading and commerce took place” 

                  Sky looks at Xena. “and this is all from memory?” she asks. Xena nods. “We have arrived at the inner chamber” she opens the door to see a huge room with comfy pillows and what looks like a massive crystal in the center. “The moonlight sapphire” she walks up to it and touches the crystal, it reacts to her touch as the facets sparkle. “I found this rock a few days after I came here. It reminded me of the massive crystal in another book so I took it as a sign I am to be here for something. Valraven” she stands in front of the crystal. “Take your places in a circle” 

               They all do as she sets her hand on ginger and oak’s hand. “Ok…now close your eyes and listen, each of us has a song to sing in our hearts. Connect with that” she says. “Yes I hear yours valraven, oaks too” she chuckles. “Breath deeply and seek peace” 

                Sky closes their eyes and breaths. “My heart song?” she asks as she sets her hands on meissa and ginger’s hands. “What is my heart song” 

              Meissa looks at everyone as she follows along. “One heart” 

              “One voice,” Sky says

             “One world,” Xena says as the 5 are transported into a fantasy realm… not a dream realm in the crystal. Facets shatter and reform everywhere” 

             Xena looks around. “Not what I was expecting but…ok,” she says. “Oak, meissa are you guys ok” 

             “Yea,” meissa says. “Wow this place is weird” a memory fragment shows Xena and lycon in a city together. “Wow” another memory with sky and her so. “Wow” 

              She chuckles. “This place is the heart of the crystal. It's a nexus of feelings and if needed memories you can use to heal” fragments shatter and form lycon as she touches the crystal form. “Feel free to explore.” 

             “Is this dream fasting?” Ginger asks. 

             “Bridging in my world but yes, where memories, feelings, and your heart song collide,” she says. 

             “Ok that's cool and all but no. I want out” Xena ends the dream fast as the three gasp. “You ok?” 

             “Wow, that…wow… that's something else,” Sky says as Ginger laughs. 

            “I found it cool”