The team of four, and their dragons, flew across the sky in the hopes of providing the team with what they desired. They desired to get out of the nano-universe of Mare Draconum, but by all odds, their dragons didn't want to leave this place, no matter how sensitive they were to the team's commands, so this was a topic that everyone was avoiding.
They flew for about ten minutes, and then had to dive off of a huge cliff in order to get to the destination that the dragons had in mind. This cliff featured a one kilometer drop of elevation, which was very unexpected from this world who mostly gave them lush flatlands, and normal hills to look at so far. The team was stunned when the ground below them was lower than it was supposed to be, so they held on a bit tighter.
Ortana held on the tightest in comparison to her friends, she was afraid of heights. Sure she had been a messenger bird through a portion of her long life, throughout her shapeshifting journey, but she had always avoided flying too high because of the same reason. A bird with the fear of height was unheard of, but she experienced it.
“Do you want to grab on to my armored pillows again?” Arvena joked, after she noticed the other whimper nervously behind her. “You can squeeze your hands below my armor this time if you want a better grip, I mean, it's better than holding on to cold metal.”
“Don't be gross, I’m old enough to be your mother! Don't let my young goblin body fool you, I've lived tens of lives before this...” Ortana spat in the other's ear, as she noticed that she was flirting lightly.
“Well, I like them ancient.” Arvena joked.
Afterwards, they plummeted towards the bottom of the hill at greater speeds. Ortana was close to defecating herself, so once more, she held on to what she knew to be more dependable.
They landed at the bottom of the cliff eventually, and had the pleasure to witness these three, huge pillars afterwards! The pillars were forty meters tall, ten meters wide, were fifteen meters away from each other, and were made entirely out of stone. The stonework looked like it was as old as time, and the carvings on them that were from various languages, made the pillars look all the more ancient.
“Are you sure this place is exclusive to dragons?” Skendus asked, and then he pointed at some characters that were chipped into the pillars. “That's written in the rat language, my language to be exact. So if rats were here, then the whole world was here.”
The writings they witnessed seemed as old as the pillars themselves, so they were baffled. This universe was apparently visited more often than they realized, and this was weird, because according to some written records, the last time goblins visited the nano-universe of Mare Draconum was well over two hundred years ago! If this place was visited as often as these pillars hinted, there would be more recorded cases, but yet there weren’t.
Arvena was stunned, but she protected her own perspective nonetheless. “The universe is exclusive to dragons, but that doesn't stop people from sneaking in. Maybe some other poor morons tried to fight Iron Claw in the past as well?”
“Humans were here too, from the looks of it.” Ortana pointed at another carving. “I recognize this language, it's what some weird cavemen used. It says to… summon the lights?”
“Hmm…” Skendus then mumbled, “The carvings I've read said something similar. It said to summon the light beacons.”
The team didn't have the slightest clue of how to summon anything like that over here, so they looked at the dragons for help. The dragons brought them here, so the team figured that they were more informed, as this was their own, home world after all.
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“Can you get us back to Valporovus, dragons?” Skendus asked them, he was formal with his request.
In response, six out of the seven dragonflies just took off, and flew at the top of the stone pillars. Their quick response to his request was accelerating, it was a good sign, so everyone held their breath in and hoped for the best. Billy watched his friends work.
The dragonflies then collectively blew fire, and they struck the top of the pillars all at the same time. Two dragons were blowing fire on each pillar, for almost a whole minute, and then, something interesting happened!
Once the dragons stopped blowing fire on them, the three pillars suddenly lit up, with a fiery glow shining from deep within their stone bodies! The glow was blinding, even in the middle of the day, and if the large pillars had lit up just a little bit more, then the team wouldn't be surprised if the pillars caught on fire!
“Jesus!” Tim backed away, “Look at that! All the writings are blue now!”
They were fascinated by this display of power, but as amazing as it looked, they still didn't see a portal in front of them. This made everyone anxious the more they became aware of it, but then, Billy saved the day!
Billy the dragonfly shot a single fireball through his jaws, towards the pillars, and the fireball disappeared as soon as it entered the very center point that was between the pillars. Once the fireball disappeared, a large, twenty meter tall, and ten meter wide portal popped up!
It was dark blue, which was the same shade that the carvings currently had. It was beautiful, and it almost looked like the dark night sky, as it was only missing a couple of star-like bits shining within it to complete such a canvas! The team was mesmerized!
“I guess any dragon can get out of this universe whenever they please,” Tim pointed out, and as he walked a bit closer to the portal, he said. “Let’s hope that we won't get visited by another Iron Claw sized bastard anytime soon. I'm praying to whatever god is the closest, to keep us safe… oh, who am I kidding? The odds of us fighting a gigantic dragon again, willingly, are next to zero.”
While he mumbled on, Arvena had already pushed him through the portal, and she was making sure that the rest of the team were passing through as well. She wasn't in a rush, because she wanted to say goodbye to Georgie, so she was to be the last to go through the portal.
“I don't know why you were in Valporovus, Georgie, and I'm glad I saved you from that ice prison, but it's time for us to part ways. This is your home, I can't ask you to leave this universe, it has one of the most beautiful mountains I've ever seen, I’m sure you’d miss them…” She tried to express herself, and then a hot tear ran down her eye.
Georgie, seeing this, took a few gentle steps at first, and then he started rushing forward much like a happy, excited dog would! He bumped Arvena on the chest, and so, the two of them ended up going through the portal.
The dragonflies followed suit, they were equally as happy to bounce through. Their enthusiasm gestured that the dragons had it much easier to go in and out of this universe, purely as they pleased, and with that considered, Arvena had gone through the portal without the slightest bit of guilt in her conscience. She never asked Georgie to leave the nano-universe of Mare Draconum, it was his choice, his leap was purely voluntary!
Anyway, the portal closed two minutes later, and the unique glow of the pillars disappeared along with the portal. The carvings on the pillars looked a lot less interesting now.
If the team had taken some time to read more of the carvings, they would've figured another portion of this universe's history. There was a specific carving, written in the goblin tongue, that may be the most interesting one from the bunch!
“Iron Claw the Wicked eludes us, he keeps jumping between universes! If we don't stop him soon, he will grow up to be well over fifty meters long, and I'm afraid that we won't be able to kill him then!” The carving said.
What was written here was expectable, but it was likely written a long time ago, because the Iron Claw that the team just fought, was well over one-hundred meters long, not fifty! Whatever had encouraged his growth, had worked really well!
Iron Claw was either a few hundred years old, or had grown very fast throughout a couple of decades. Either way, he had always been a menace from the looks of it, but thankfully, he may no longer plague the micro-universe of Valporovus any longer! He had been slayed for good!