End of the Millennium
A Xian Shade Production

Author's Notes: Chapter four!  JOY!  ^_^

This chapter takes place quite some time before the existing story, as
Noah, master of the fate of the entire cosmos, finds disaster on the
horizon. These shorties won't be around much more. This is only to...
well you know by now. :D

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The Path of Finding Destiny, Chapter 4:

Two decades before:

Noah slept, as he had on and off for over nine centuries, in the
cryogenic chamber of Dezolis. His followers, the Espers, would wake
him when the time was right. He asked to be woken every ten years so
that his body would not suffer any permanent damage from the freezing,
and so he could correct any problems with the fabric of reality, but
now more than ever, he desired to wake. As the manager of the fate of
all in the universe, even his dreams kept him up to date; his power
awake even while his body slept. He felt it: the darkness had
multiplied since he did battle with it so long ago.

It was closing upon the one-thousand year mark when he felt the
darkness growing and multiplying. The spirit of Falz had restored its
physical body and had evolved and split repeatedly. Twice, in fact.
Now there were three of the monstrosities roaming the universe, and he
was stuck in the cryogenic chamber unable to do anything about it.
What was worse, was that one was hovering in the Algo solar system
once again, like he'd first met it, and his brain screamed for his
body to wake when he'd forseen several billion spirit threads ripping
from the fabric of order, as one of the planets would blow up.

'Kula, Jeras, hear me.' his thoughts reached out beyond the chamber to
his two top pupils. 'I have made a blind and foolish decision by
remaining in this chamber. I have trained little in the past thousand
years, and I fear the darkness I once defeated has restored itself,
made itself stronger, and multiplied. There is no way for me to defeat
it now, but there is something we can do while I prepare others'
destiny.'

'What is it you wish us to do, master Lutz?' Jeras asked, his thoughts
light and airy, but tinged with the heaviness of what their master
spoke.

'When the time comes, speak with the Lord of Palma. Tell him of the
arriving darkness, and make him understand the destructive power of
their 'mother brain'. The powerful darkness has corrupted its systems,
and it won't be long before the planets of this system will be
decimated. Have him evacuate as many people as possible from the
planet, for Palma will be the first to fall.'

'Sir! Can't we stop such awful destruction?' Kula asked, true worry
wrapping about her thoughts. Hearing of evil was one thing, but being
incapable of defeating your enemy was just terrible!

'No... already the threads have fallen into place. A band of warriors
shall search for the cause of Motavia's water problems, but once they
solve it, they will be branded for causing the destruction. Even if
your message reaches the governor, they will still be blamed. Once
caught, they will be put on the prison sattelite Gaira, and Mother
Brain will alter its orbit to crash into Palma, because the darkness
aboard the Mother Brain senses what I sense: The people aboard will be
able to defeat it. I can spare them, for they are descendants of the
line of protectors... but beyond that, we can do no more.'

'Can we not defeat the darkness if we work together? Certainly our
master Noah isn't that weak!'

'No... even if we do everything in our power, this galaxy will still
be nearly doomed. My power alone wasn't nearly enough to defeat the
larval form of this being. I brought you all to this place when I
foresaw the mother brain hunting our kind, because this planet will
remain essentially unscathed for the next thousand years. We have lost
too many, and the darkness knows we still have the capability to stop
it in this respect.  But many things trouble me, atop that.'

'Our entire galaxy will lie in ruin, and you're worried about MORE!?'

'This darkness, while it has grown strong, has also multiplied. There
are at least three of them now. Only one is set upon destroying us.
The other two are elsewhere in the universe. Emperor La Shiec was a
fool to crack the seal... and I was a fool for not asking the
assistance of my brothers to defeat him and the evil that corrupted
him. But I can do that now. I only pray they can stop the rest of the
horrors...'

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ONOEZ! T3h Darkness! He who perceives the future has seen the coming
of Metallia, and the destruction of their own solar system by the
hands of another dark force, but what is this third one? Remember,
Noah's perception of the future isn't definite, but it's fairly
accurate. What reason could the darkness have to spread so far?  Find
out next time!

Yeah, I know this one's short too.  There will be one more shorty,
then things will really get interesting.