“Did Oscurilina create herself an army when she destroyed those planets?
“No,” replied Nayara, as if his question was unintelligent. “If those planets were carrying a fairy, they were killed with the planet. A planet must come to maturity for the fairy to be born.”
The Queen searched along the shelves.
“I can’t believe there is a library deep within the palace,” Ariah said quietly.
Nayara did not reply but continued her search. Eventually, she pulled out a viridian colored volume and held it in her hand. It was in immaculate condition without even a speck of dust. There were three stars etched into its cover.
“When a fairy-bearing planet dies, it will explode, creating a supernova in which a fairy will be born. If that planet were to implode instead, it would create a black hole, and the fairy will die. It was eons ago when a vast planet with a harsh atmosphere exploded. Despite its atmosphere, it was one of the richest planets and housed more species than any other during its life cycle. With its death, a pure-minded fairy was born. Her name was Bellina, and she is the god of all that is good.”
Nayara placed the book on the altar and opened it. She flipped through its pages. It was written in dark ink and scribbles of an unknown language made up its pages. The Queen stopped when she found an entirely blank chapter.
“The energy that was released was of such great a magnitude that its particles sunk back together, creating a black hole. Only the purest of evil can escape a black hole, and this is how Oscurilina was born,” Nayara concluded.
She placed her hand on the blank page of the book. Her long black nails lightly scraped the pages.
“Though sisters, Oscurilina and Bellina were unaware of each other’s existence. Bellina was occupied with creating peace everywhere she went. Oscurilina was wreaking havoc where she went. In time she was called to this planet by its own people. She claimed this temple we stand in as her own.”
“Then how did she get trapped?”
“I will show you,” replied the Queen. She forcefully pressed her fingers into the book’s pages. Ink revealed itself in a series of intricate illustrations that quickly changed form. When it was done, the light in the room disappeared and was replaced by lifelike images that swirled around, unclear, until Ariah found himself in the middle of nowhere, in outer space. Specks of stars were scattered all around.
Ariah gasped and jerked his head to look at Nayara. She was untroubled by the experience and gave no attention to Ariah.
The book was showing them the story it contained.
A large planet came into view. Its lush was easily seen and was vibrant with color, despite its hazy atmosphere that ominously flashed around it. Without warning, the planet turned dark and exploded, sending out waves of light and fire so bright that all Ariah could see, even with his eyes closed, was pure white.
Then all the light receded and was pulled back into the planet. It appeared whole for a moment, before turning into an invisible swirling mess.
Off in the distance, a faint spiral, disk shape of the Milky Way could be seen.
Ariah watched as a ghostly, dark fairy with translucent, lavender wings shot out from within the black hole.
Then the scenery changed.
Oscurilina’s back was to them. She was staring down at a galaxy. It was round-shaped, with swirling clouds of dust flying out from it before dissolving. Its planets, stars and faint clouds formed a crude hook shape. It then created a slight triangle, with uneven sides but then became a round shape once more.
She placed her hands on her hips and formed a small black ball of energy with blue specks in it. It hovered in front of her threateningly.
“Annihilare.” The word issued from her mouth slowly. The ball of energy rapidly shot towards the heart of the galaxy. It hit its center just as the galaxy was forming into a hook shape again. The flash of light lasted for only moments before the entire galaxy was no more.
“That galaxy was called Purus.” At the sound of Nayara’s voice, the lifelike experience dissipated, and they stood once more in the small library. Nayara was already roughly shoving the book back on the shelf and removing another.
“It wasn’t long after that that Oscurilina was called to this planet, and where Bellina found her.”
This book was black and had no engravings or inscription. Nayara opened it to its first page and scratched at it with her long nail.
The same lifelike simulation happened again. This time Ariah didn’t flinch. They were outside of the city of Oasi, though it was noticeably less populated. There were few houses and smaller structures but mainly was home to the palace in the mountain.
Oscurilina flew out of the palace doors. Bellina was waiting for her.
“You have destroyed too much,” said Bellina in a deadly voice. “You have wiped out most of my family and the goodness that exist in our universe.”
Her mouth did not match the words she spoke, as if she were speaking another language.
“You’ll be next,” said Oscurilina, her voice deep and hoarse.
Oscurilina made a dark ball of energy, similar to the one she used to wipe out the galaxy and threw it at Bellina.
Bellina snapped her fingers, and the ball disappeared. She rocketed straight towards Oscurilina. Oscurilina flew out of the way and headed into the palace. Bellina was right on her tail.
She chased Oscurilina through the palace and into a room similar to where Nayara and Ariah stood
