One chapter till fireworks! (Okay not really but it's going to be crazy!)
Note this song is most likly gonna change alot because i don't really like it:(
Anyways Enjoy Part 1 of Opal's inner war
Chapter 52 A Song That Changed The World
“Ready whenever you are, Leeli,” Janner said to her. She looked nervous.
He picked up on this and said “You'll be fine. You're the best singer I know.”
“Thanks, but it's not really singing that I'm worried about though…”
He knew what she meant. He was worried too; he wasn't particularly excited or happy about the fact that he was going to have to hear his father's darkest moments blasted into his mind. He felt pity on Kalmar for the fact that he would have to see everything. He thought that was much worse than hearing it, but he didn't know what was ahead of him.
“Okay, it's time.” Leeli said.
“You're going to do great Lee”, Kalmar said to her reassuringly
“Thanks”. She put on a strong face, took a deep breath and started to sing the song that The Maker told her to sing.
“O, Holor`e lay thee low
Holoel dark in the deep
Down beneath the earth you go
Go Holor`e fast to sleep…”
Janner was confused as to why his sister was singing Yurgens' tune. But then he saw it. Every single dragon including the metal dragon that Opal had made stopped moving and turned their heads toward Leeli.
None of them knew it, but near the Cliffs of Glipwood and the edge of the Green Hollows, even in Anniera, every sea dragon, including Yurgen, himself, lifted their heads towards the music. Even though some of them were miles and miles away they could hear the song. Yurgen was at the deep bottom of the sea, he was incredibly weak from Gnag the Nameless using him, but he seemed to regain a little bit of strength as he lifted his head towards the sweet, soft music.
“The Jewels of Anniera.” Yurgen, thought in his mind, as two of the other sea dragons, helped him cross the ocean heading straight towards Leeli.
“Dragons hear this song I sing,
And come near to me,
as I sing louder,
listen to the words I say,
And show her what she knows,
Dragons hear this song I sing,
swirl around me like magic,
show this queen the real truth,
That happened so long ago”
Leeli sang, even though Leeli was all the way down on the ground and Queen Opal was all the way up on the highest hill, over the screams of the Fangs and the roar of the crowd, Opal heard the faint, soft song. The second that she heard the first word, her face went pale. She shook it off and went back to blasting everyone in their sight. What happened next actually frightened Opal, which was something Janner had never seen come across her.
For when Leeli repeated this last verse, every single dragon turned to her. About a thousand, maybe even 10,000 sea dragons came rushing through the waters as she sang:
“Circle around me now and listen,
for the days are dark and stormy,
One among us has been hurt
oh dragons, show us who she really is.
Dragons here this song I sing
and come here to me as I sing louder,
listen to the words I sing.
Show Queen Opal what she knows!
Oh, dragons hear me sing!”
“Stop singing!!” Opal yelled and she grabbed her hair in her face and shouted over the clamor of the war. For the first time, Janner actually saw fear spread across Opal's face. But the next verse of the song really made her tremble. For now the dragons weren't just circling around Leeli, she had directed them to circle around Opal.
“Oh, dragons show her what she knows”,
As Leeli began to sing again, she actually was singing to the dragons. They stopped staring at her and every single one of them, hundreds and thousands of them, turned to Opal.
“Stop singing!” she yelled again, for fear was running through her
veins when she saw the dragons’ eyes. Now it seemed as though the song wasn't directed towards the dragons anymore, but to Opal, herself. and this was when the Jewels saw it.
“Queen Opal listen to these words,
and show us who you once were,
you weren't always this way,
you were once just a young girl,
all you wanted was family and friends,
but instead you got war in revenge.
Show us who you once were before this war between our worlds,”
“I said, stop singing!!” Opal yelled. At this point she was crouched on
her knees, blasting every single one of the dragons with her firepower yet none of the dragons seemed affected.
“We have to get to her!” Janner yelled, over the cry of the war.
“But we can't leave Leeli!” Kalmar said, whacking a Fang in the
head with his sword. Janner, until now, hadn't looked at Leeli but when he did his jaw dropped. Leeli was not on the ground anymore but suspended in air with golden streaks of magic swirling around her furiously.
“Leeli!!” he gasped, it was truly a remarkable but frightening sight, seeing his little sister suspended in air with golden magic swirling around her. Her eyes were closed and she was singing like she had never sung before. Then words and voices, so painful to hear, popped into his mind, as Leeli sang the next verse.
“Show us now what happened that day,
when your world collided with ours.
Show us what happened to you
when you were once just a young girl.
Show us what happened all those years ago,
Show us what happened that day
when the war between us began.”
Janner grabbed his head, as his sword went crashing to the
ground. The sounds and words that he heard were too hard for him to hear. He heard the sound of fire crackling, he heard noises of a family who were trying to stay together, and he heard one particular girl who he assumed was Princess Skye, saying to who he knew was Ruby: “Never leave the castle door.”
He knew what was coming after this and he couldn't bear to hear it
but he had no choice. He knew his brother and sister were seeing and hearing and feeling the same thing as him, for he looked over at his brother to see that Kalmar had a look of disappointment on his face. It was one of the hardest things to keep going after this, to keep fighting for his sister and to keep protecting them when something so tragic was going on inside of his mind. Leeli kept singing.
“I said stop singing!” Opal demanded, now on her knees, bursting
into tears as she looked into the big dragons’ eyes. She looked at them with horror, seeing her past reflecting in their eyes, seeing the day that she so wished to forget, yet nothing would allow her to forget it. It was painted across the dragons’ faces. She kept yelling over and over for Leeli to stop singing. Yet even though Opal was yelling and Leeli could feel the memory, Leeli kept focusing on the words that The Maker put into her mind and kept singing with all of her might.
“Show us what happened that day,
when you were once just a young girl.
Show us what happened that made
you what you are today.
Show us what happened back then,
show us what happened to you.
Show us what happened back then,
let us see who you once were.”
“I said stop singing!” Opal yelled over and over and she continued to blast the dragons with her power. Leeli did not stop; she kept singing these verses over and over again until Opal was all the way to the ground, weeping and screaming for Leeli to stop.
(Janner and Kal have a vision for the past, of Esben hurting Opal)
Leeli kept repeating the last verse over and over again until Opal screamed as loud as she could, “Stop singing!” Right then, Opal collapsed to the ground. The moment that she did, the amulet that she was wearing snapped off her neck and hit the ground shattering into a million pieces of dark magic.The greenish glow of the magic escaped the amulet in a burst of a green glowing cloud.
Janner saw that all of the dragons’ eyes went back to their normal shape and the green glowing magic in them disappeared. They all shook their heads and flew back to their owners, the Ember Islanders.
“Show us who you once were!” Leeli finished. When she stopped
singing, she landed back on the ground, opened her eyes and the gold magic disappeared. Her cheeks were wet from crying and her eyes were red. The three children looked at each other longingly, wanting to talk about what they saw, but also not wanting to talk about it at all. They decided that the best thing to do was embrace in a hug. They melted to the ground in this hug. It was exactly what each had been wanting for the last 2 years. Their family joined them, but it didn't last long because they knew what they had to do.
This was SUCH A GOOD CHAPTER!!! I wonder what'll happen next.