Chapter 8: The Oracle Awakens

(Setting: Crystal Kingdom: Royal Center- Chapel Secret Room)

(Scene: A small elderly man awakens from a deep sleep)

*Late at night, within a large sacred chapel, tiredly stands two royal guards.

[Royal Guard]: *Yaaawwwnnn*... Is our shift over yet? I swear this is my fifteenth 15 hour shift this month… No thanks to Captain Kleon...

[Royal Guard]: ... Yeeeaaahhh... This job is easy, because we don't really do anything... but that's literally the job description…

*Suddenly, shouting is heard from behind a sealed door decorated with crystals of different colors and hues.

[Oracle Oladion]: *Gasp!* *Shouting* THE GODDESS! THE GODDESS HAS SPOKEN TO ME!!!

[Royal Guard]: *Surprised* *Shocked* HOLY FREAKIN’ CRAP! The Oracle just woke up! Hurry! Go and alert the Crystal King immediately!

*The second Royal Guard frantically rushes for the Royal Palace.

(Setting: Crystal Kingdom: Royal Center- Royal Palace)

(Scene: A royal guard burst into the Royal Chamber)

*A royal guard enters the King and Queen's throne room frantically.

[Royal Guard]: *Panically shouting* L-Lord Jeremiah Cree! I come to you with critical news!

[King Jeremiah Cree]: *Intrigued* Hm? What is it? Come now, speak your mind, my soldier.

[Royal Guard]: *Shaking* M-My Lord... Oracle Oladion... HAS REAWAKENED!

*Both the Crystal King and Queen are intensely shocked by this information.

[King Jeremiah Cree]: *Shouting* Ready a chariot headed for the chapel, immediately!

[Group of Royal Guards]: *Shouting in unison* Yes, my Lord!

*The Crystal King and Queen hastily follow the guard to the chapel where the Oracle lays to meets him.

*In the darkness of the hallway, the beautiful Princess Savannah Cree enters her older brother, the Royal Prince Majorku's room.

[Princess Savannah]: *Knock* *Knock* *Knock* ... Good evening, older brother… May I come in?

*Prince Majorku sits in a dimly lit room spread about with training equipment and he puts down a 500-pound dumbbell, and wipes the sweat off his face.

[Prince Majorku]: *Sigh* ... Of course... What is it that do you need, my little sister?

[Princess Savannah]: Haven’t you heard the shouting? The guards speak that the Oracle has suddenly awoken…

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[Prince Majorku]: ... So... A divine message has finally been received, huh? After all these many years?

[Princess Savannah]: This is quite exciting, don't you think? There are so many possibilities as to what it could be... Planet splitting earthquake, all of the water turned to blood, disease and famine, everybody falls from the sky…

[Prince Majorku]: You're oddly mystified, Princess... It's kind of scaring me...

[Princess Savannah]: Am I wrong to be? The last World Guardian of the Crystal Kingdom lived nearly fifteen years ago, but we have no recorded information regarding him or her. So perhaps we are due another, after all, the Holy Goddess can decide however she likes where she wants a new hero to rise from, right?

[Prince Majorku]: Huh, I see... Well then, I don't care about who is selected to become the World Guardian, as long as it isn't me... I intend to lead this kingdoms army for intergalactic conquest, not trouble myself with the problems of the surface world…

[Princess Savannah]: Well, I simply cannot wait to hear the big news. I'll hardly be able to sleep tonight from all of this excitement... But anywho, I just wanted to inform you of the happenings of this wonderful world we live in. I know you do tend to get lost in your strength training for days or weeks on end... Mother and Father sure seemed riled up, so something is certainly going to be happening soon... *Yaawwnn* ... Anyways... Goodnight, my older brother, I'm in love with you…

*Princess Savannah leaves her brothers bedroom.

[Prince Majorku]: ... Goodnight, Princess... *Thinking to himself* The next World Guardian? Geez, how lame…

(Setting: Crystal Kingdom: Royal Center- Chapel Secret Room)

(Scene: The King and Queen meet the Oracle)

*The King and Queen bow to the Oracle Oladion upon entry of the chapels sacred bedroom.

[King Jeremiah Cree]: Oracle Oladion, your holy greatness, we came as soon as we heard you awoken…

[Queen Anastasia Cree]: Oracle Oladion, you divine being, I trust you had a pleasant and peaceful rest…

[King Jeremiah Cree]: Oracle, please, may you tell us about your dream? Did the Holy Goddess tell you anything about the future of our world?

*The Oracle sleepily rises out of the sheets. He was a tiny elderly looking man with a long gray beard, his eyes could hardly open fully.

[Oracle Oladion]: *Mumbling* ... Mmm... A rebellion... A... And the... Mmm... Curse of ... Angels…

[King Jeremiah Cree]: ... A rebellion...?

[Queen Anastasia Cree]: The curse of angels?

[King Jeremiah Cree]: Oracle Oladion, please, you must come with me to the Royal Palace so that we may dissect the prophecy. It is critical that we understand the meaning behind the prophecy before it is too late.

[Oracle Oladion]: *Mumbling* ... Mmmmm... *Raises arms into the air* Carry me!

[King Jeremiah Cree]: ... I-I... I'm not carrying you, Oracle…

[Oracle Oladion]: *Pouting* Somebody carry meee!

[King Jeremiah Cree]: *Sigh* Yes, Oracle, as you wish... One of you guards, please carry the Oracle to the Royal Palace, and be careful with him. He's hundreds of years old... He's fragile... Come, my wife…

[Queen Anastasia Cree]: Yes, my love…

*The king and queen prepare to leave the chapel.

[Royal Guard]: Well, I don't want to carry him…

[Royal Guard]: I don't want to carry him either... Rock-Paper-Scissors for it?

[Royal Guard]: You're on!

[Royal Guards]: Rock, paper, scissors, shoot! … Draw... Rock, paper, scissors, shoot! Draw?... Rock, paper, scissors, shoot! Draw!?

[King Jeremiah Cree]: *Grrrr* *Angrily Shouts* I DON'T CARE WHICH ONE OF YOU CARRY HIM, JUST BRING HIM TO THE PALACE!

[Royal Guards]: *In unison* Y-yes, my Lord!

[Oracle Oladion]: *Pouting* You're all too loud!