Legends Awaken

You close your eyes and fall quickly into a deep and restful slumber. Waking in the morning comes slowly, as if you were back in the home of your childhood. You rise from your old bed - some part of your consciousness whispering to you - this is a dream. Walking into the living space, you discover memories of your childhood long lost and buried: dust motes dancing in morning sunbeams, the rising and falling sounds of insect life just outdoors, and the yeasty smell of baking bread.

Footsteps make no sound as you walk to the door. Stepping outside to a hillside garden, you see a hooded figure in the distance, tending the rows with care. The figure raises up, waves to you. You begin to notice the immense sky above you just as a low rumbling fills the air. It comes from deep in the earth. Your feet tingle with the tremor before it subsides. The hooded figure, confused, looks around before heading in your direction. Back home. 

The second tremor comes on suddenly, as if something under your feet had buckled. The rumbling returns but sounds more like a cracking - the air itself splintering. You cover your ears and see the hooded figure begin to run toward you. Another cracking sound, impossibly louder, as you see the landscape around you begin to pit and sunder. Hills in the distance seemingly deflate. The pond nearby rushes into itself and disappears. The hooded figure - now sprinting - reaches earshot, you hear her calling out but the words don’t make sense. Another crack like a lightning bolt throws you to the ground, ears throbbing and ringing as the house crumbles. A great fissure opens under the figure and swallows them. You scream as the earth shatters beneath your feet. 

You tumble through rock and debris in a sudden freefall. You hear muted screams of terror in all directions as your vision clouds in the dust. A few seconds pass before the dust lightens up and you see below. 

You are in free fall. The ground below speeding upward as your eyes strain to stay open in the rushing air. All around, the land you know has crumbled and fallen. 

Your final thoughts are strangely calm as the ground rises to meet you. You hear grotesque sounds of life, structure and rubble crashing into the valley.

However, the earth does not welcome you like the others. You fall past the earth. Into darkness. Into Void. The air ceases to scream and you feel almost like you're floating - levitating in the darkness. 

Your eyes begin to adjust, and you see a long horizontal seam in the black - mottled and pitted and….scaled.

The crease opens into an impossibly large eye. The reptilian orb focuses on you as heat emanates from it. So much heat that even your skin begins to sear. Floating in the dark, you can neither flee nor fight. The eye seems to know you, and seems to control your movement. 

ONE YET LIVES. AFTER ALL THESE EONS, ONE REMAINS. I KNOW YOU. YOUR BLOOD SPEAKS TO ME. IT SINGS. 

The giant eye pulls back and another joins it. They both focus on you. The air becomes too hot all around you. Your skin begins to crack and char. 

YOUR BLOOD KNOWS YOUR PAST. IT KNOWS YOUR PATH. 

IT KNOWS YOUR PROMISE. 

The air crackles in flame. Ash fills your mouth. Fiery pain begins at your extremities and moves inward to your core. 

FULFILL YOUR OATH. THE BOND WILL SLEEP NO LONGER. 

You are aflame, burning into nothingness, your body is no more. 

Only your soul remains. 

Your soul catches fire.

YOU HAVE AWAKENED IN ME, AND I IN YOU.  

You wake to the sound of your own voice screaming. Your bed is on fire, as is your room. The door bursts open - falling off the hinges. Thar and Ferric enter, white robes tattered and burned. He makes a gesture and the contents of a rainstorm fall into your room all at once. The flames draw down but do not go away. 

 The camera pans away as you see Wildevine Court, your home, in full flame.