“SAVE YOUR WORDS, VENTRIX… FOR I ALREADY KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO SAY,” Obrron hissed as he sat atop his ‘jagged stone throne’ on the planetoid of SEKTORA.
“I did what you told me to do, Obrron… AND IT THRACKING FAILED!!!” Lord-Emperor Vexas cried out at the bottom of the stony stairwell that led up to the self-exiled Vexan Sorcerer's stone throne.
“As I foresaw that it would… YOUNG LORD.”
“WHAT??? You knew? You… You KNEW that the Mawl would fail in its mission???”
“‘Twas not a surety. Nothing ever is, Ventrix… BUT YES. I knew that the Mawl would be slain by Six Humans of the planet Earth… But a ‘small part’ of myself hoped that it would have succeeded.”
“WHY?! If you knew that the Mawl would fail then why did you have me send it to Earth in the FIRST THRACKING PLACE?! Answer me, Obrron, you thracker! ANSWER ME!!!!!!!!!”
“Because… ‘TWAS HIS WILL.”
Scrunching his brow in confusion as to who (or what) the old crazed Mystic was referring to, but still rageful, Ventrix seared, “URGH… STARBLAZES, OBBRON!!! Do you have ANY IDEA of the RAXX that this KROONISH THRACKING ACT has caused me?! Aside from grand grief and immense anger, all who follow me shall now question my orders from this point onwards until thracking eternity! ALL BECAUSE OF YOU AND YOUR THRACKING LIES!!!!!”
“Oh, Ventrix. You mustn’t be so ‘dramatic’,” Obrron calmly stated from upon his throne. “‘Twas only a mere test.”
“A test??? A THRACKING TEST?! For what?!”
“A test for you to prove your worth, boy.”
“My worth? MY WORTH?! Just what in the thrack are you talking about, Sorcerer?! ART THOU TRULY MAD IN THY RAXX-FILLED SKULL?!”
SUDDENLY, from out of nowhere a massive wave of bright, venom green light energy surged from within Obbron’s old, frail body and exploded from himself, passing over Ventrix and ALL OF SEKTORA.
Knocked back a few steps, Lord-Emperor Vexas stood in total confusion (and slight fear) as a voice he hadn’t heard in quite a long time suddenly cried out towards him.
“YOU DARE RAISE YOUR VOICE TO ME, BOY?!?!” Obrron raged in a ‘terrifying voice’ that wasn’t his own as the venom green light energy continued to surge, pulsate from, and course all throughout his body.
Ventrix watched with widened eyes as the energy that projected from Obrron’s took the form and shape of…
“FATHER???” Ventrix breathlessly uttered as the long dead, former FIRST Vexan Lord-Emperor, VALIDAX VEXAS, ‘floated’ before him after forming himself from the venom green light energy (which was actually his life-force) that emitted from Obbron’s vessel.
“AND YOU DARE TO GO AGAINST MY WILL?!?!” Validax blared as the rocky grounds of SEKTORA began to shake violently.
Losing his balance, Ventrix crashed down to his knees before the enraged ‘life-force embodiment’ of his deceased father.
“FATHER! Tis… Tis has been so long since I last saw you,” Ventrix nervously fumbled as he now bowed to Validax on his hands and knees.
“STAND UP, BOY! VEXAN LORD-EMPERORS BEND THE KNEE TO NO ONE!!!”
Doing as his father ordered him to do, Ventrix shot back up to his feet.
“NOW HEAR MY WORDS, BOY, AND HEAR THEM THRACKING WELL,” Validax continued once his eldest son had risen before him and Obbron. “PITIFUL, VENTRIX! Truly pitiful, you have allowed yourself to become! Since my casting to the Outer-World I have watched you and your brothers grow… HOPING one day-cycle you four would become fierce rulers like I once was… BUT YOU LOT HAVE BECOME NOTHING BUT SOFTENED SKOGGERS!!!”
“You waste time with your needless invasions and decimations whilst the TRUE PRIZE evades your clutches every single thracking time you draw near it! THE PYRAMID OF POWER!!!!!!!!”
“NOW, while the Unlimited Power Source lies stranded on a weak, PITIFUL PLANET you and your thracking brothers waste MORE TIME torturing some meaningless Guardinian raxx-eater instead of retrieving it yourselves!!!”
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“Father, he was no ‘meaningless Guardinian’!” Ventrix returned as he looked back up at Validax’s fuming Life-Force Embodiment. “‘TWAS LUXOR PRO--”
“DO NOT SPEAK HIS CURSED NAME TO ME!!!” Lord Validax shouted, cutting off his eldest son before he could finish his sentence.
Gulping fearfully, Ventrix explained, “Father, I… I only wanted to avenge your death… And bring PRIDE back to our royal house.”
“Pride??? YOU KNOW NOTHING OF ‘PRIDE’, VENTRIX! You think yourself to be a ‘Conqueror’... BUT YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A MERE CHILDLING!!!”
Upon receiving yet another verbal lashing from his passed on father, Ventrix lowered his head in defeat, making Validax’s Life-Force Embodiment cringe in disgust.
“You wish to ‘bring pride’ back to MY house, Ventrix??? DO SO BY RECLAIMING THE PYRAMID!” Validax slammed. “Not by killing an ‘old skogger’ such as Pronos! He was long past the Fierce Warrior I battled back on Guardinas when I still dwelled within the Inner-World. You did not defeat that warrior. You simply slew an old relic.”
“But how, Father? How am I to ‘reclaim’ the Pyramid?” Ventrix desperately asked. “Everything I do… Everything I have done to reclaim the Unlimited Power Source has only driven it further and further away from me. What am I to do, Father? Help me. PLEASE… For I am lost with your hallowed guidance.”
“You are not ‘lost’, Ventrix… YOU ARE WEAK!”
“I… AM NOT… WEAK.”
“BUT YOU ARE, BOY!!! You’re just too thracking self-righteous and BLIND to see it… But I know the truth. Heh, heh… Your ‘terrible truth’.”
“And what is this so-called ‘terrible truth’, father?”
“THAT YOU ARE AFRAID!!! You’ve always been afraid, Ventrix! You merely hide it from everyone! You put on a ‘false face’ and do rash things such as ‘executing old men’ or ‘decimating meaningless worlds’ and even sending in savage Mawl Beasts to do your ‘dirty work’ for you... ONLY TO HAVE THEM DEFEATED BY THRACKING AESHLARANS!!!!!!!!”
“‘Twas OBRRON’S IDEA to send the Mawl, father! NOT MINE,” Ventrix fiercely returned. “He said that it was YOUR WILL! I sent the Mawl to Aeshlara… EARTH so I could ‘prove my worth’… But in what way? WHAT WAY, I ASK?!?! Why must I still prove my worth to you after all the GRAND THINGS that I have accomplished and achieved in your absence?!”
“Grand things?” Validax scoffed. “As far as I am concerned… AND HAVE SEEN, you have ‘accomplished’ and ‘achieved’ NOTHING.”
“LIES! I have saved our race from going into poverty more times than one, destroyed ALL of our planet’s enemies, and established UNIVERSAL WIDE FEAR of our vast and eternally powerful Empire!!!”
“SAVE YOUR WORDS, BOY! FOR THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY MEANINGLESS TO ME!!!” Validax flared in reply. “All that matters to me is the Pyramid and nothing else!”
“STOP CALLING ME BOY!!!!” Ventrix’s echoed across SEKTORA as his father’s apparition now glared down at him even more intensely.
Rising back up to his feet with his fists clenched down at his sides, Ventrix looked up at his father’s life-force embodiment whilst stating sternly, “I am no longer a ‘boy’. I am a man now… A LORD-EMPEROR… And all shall respect me as such. INCLUDING YOU.”
“Respect??? RESPECT,” Validax repeated after scoffing. “If you truly want my respect, Ventrix, then fine. I shall give it to you… ONCE YOU HAVE RECLAIMED THE PYRAMID.”
Ventrix now glared again at his father’s apparition, who continued, “Reclaim the Pyramid of Power and use its INFINITE WONDERS to reunite my MIND, BODY, AND LIFE-FORCE so I can live again in the Inner-World once more!!!”
“Yes, father… YES. I shall reclaim the Pyramid and free your from your eternal imprisonment in the Outer-World so we can lead our people into a newer, grander future and utterly destroy ALL who oppose us… TOGETHER.”
Lord Validax sightly smirked.
“Yes, my son… Together. Do NOT disappoint me, Ventrix… For if you fail in your quest for the Pyramid then you shall suffer a fate far WORSE than you could possibly imagine.”
“I shall not fail, Father… I PROMISE.”
SUDDENLY, a gust of wind brushed all over SEKTORA.
Ventrix felt the wind pass through him as it carried on up to his father’s life-force embodiment… WHISKING IT AWAY like smoke.
Having regained control of his body, Obrron collapsed back down upon his stone throne, feeling incredibly drained.
“Huff… Huff... Do you understand what you must do now, Ventrix? Huff… Huff,” the old Vexan Sorcerer asked between panting breaths.
“Yes… I DO,” Lord-Emperor Vexas growled as he kept his dual-brown intensely lowered.
“Grand. Huff… Huff… THEN DO IT.”
