Uy Scuti knew that she was still alive, but her body seemed to be weak that she could not even open her eyes wide.
The more she tried, the more something magical pulled her being in a black gravitational force that urged her to a Lucid dream, or her soul had been subjected to a journey.
She's been in that phase before, something her mentor in the past called "Astral travel." The state wherein the soul travels in a multidimensional facet of experiences and places. It felt like it happened not long ago, even though it has happened for years now.
The last time it did was the Forbidden Celestial Fate came chasing her. On the very last day, she set foot on her supposed to be training ground to be the best Axie warrior in the whole country of Mt. Kuila-ay-wey.
She found her soul lifted by her body, and she saw how helpless it looked from where she stood. In the past, she first found herself lying in the Celestial Library after being in a stealthy mode as she tried to pursue her other comrades that expressed their wants to obtain the forbidden book. As a stubborn one, she went alone following them, and the next event she knew, she fled the Lunacian Academy and never ever heard anything about the Axies in there or how they had begun.
More than else, Uy knew everyone who was supposed to train in there had grown more vital that they may be considered living heroes of their countries for now. A door of the facility she was in opened. It's the centaur's dwelling place. She's not sure if it's in another dimension or a remote region from the old Karai peak. Karai, based on what she knew, is a forbidden peak never been spoken by many.
She knew that before queen Axia of the Legendary Lunacia had taken place on the throne, there were the origin Axies, who were the first of all the Axies ever to exist in the metaverse. The first three Axies are known as the Legendary Amazons. No one in the current time knew what they looked like as they had been in another dimension after the sealed Karai as a forbidden peak as it houses the legionnaire monsters that brought havoc in the ancient Lunacia Kingdom.
Another ball of fire had shown in the room, but a moment after, the familiar face arose again and put off the ball of fire before it looked at where her soul was floating free simultaneously. She got total control of her Astral powers. She opened another dimension and brought herself to where it first started- The Lunacian Academy.
It's a very remote area between the plateaus of the First forgotten country Urk Fasoé and the fourth forgotten country of Tuvalé in the Ruins of Lunacia. Only those invited by the Geis, the known messenger of the celestial kingdom, are enrolled in the Lunacian Academy. The Hierarchy of the Lunacian Kingdom is antithetical, and only those who have undergone proper education in the Lunacian Academy are made aware of it. Although, after the second Lunacian wars, which is the fruit of the generation that Uy Scuti and the others lived today, it's been part of their curriculum. Uy stepped a foot entering the labyrinth of Pedagogy. She remembered as they adjudicated to whether where they will train under and which mentor they will spend the rest of their youth too. She passed through the labyrinth with ease, which took her almost 2 weeks of circling around the tall grassy maze when she was still in her prime youth.
After the maze, she reminisced, are the gates of Lunacian Academy. Even as an astral traveler, she cannot pass through there to her own liking. Even the celestial messengers undergo such a process when guiding them towards the gates of Lunacian Academy.
She gazed up.
As usual, it was still ground to ceiling. Neither Geis nor fully matured Axies with wings cannot pass through without the purification with the second in the rank governing body of the celestial body, the Chris.
Chris distributes roles and mentorship to students. When Uy neared, there was nothing in doubt that it was still not the time for enrollment. No Geis guiding students, no Chris waiting to mark each arm of their roles or anything they could be.
As an astral body, her soul is intangible, she tried passing through the celestial gate, but it opened the closer she got.
Uy closed her eyes as the fresh air embraced her Astral being.
This has been her home for years.
This is where she developed to become wise and someone with the principles she holds on to today.
She passed through the gates and found herself in the lobby. Pure, half-caste, elite, somewhat privileged, and all Axie races gathered. This may be the time she loved in the past- Leisure Time as to times that she could sneak inside the chambers of the Forbidden Library or the Forbidden Training Grounds. The truth is that she loved everything forbidden in the past. A stubborn kid Axie, as they always tell her.
The layers of the pavilion, which she is fond of playing with her long-called friends. Tears started pooling in her eyes as little Uy started to flashback in her sight, running like a spread of wildfire, chasing a certain boy. The boy is called Ceres, a Dusk royalty. Grayish in color, naughty, and her mortal enemy. Ceres is a pure royalty, both an offspring of the rulers of the first Celestial Kingdom; he is known as the genius kid of all. At a young age, he could cast spells that gave him the advantage of making fun of her or any other kids. Barely at minimum, she can't even remember seeing her life cards, her defense stats, her considered whimsical demeanor, or she wasn't even able to grow her wings which she could've as the other kids in the row.
Things that even she tried hard can't make her pass through Form 2, the 2nd level of the Lunacian Academy educational curriculum, or she just thought she never was. As she strolled down each academy room, she found nothing inside but her memories clouding her. As if she was in a kind of dream, but she knew it had happened.
A pink Axie passed her oblivion, Uy is still in her state of the hallucinations of the past, but she thought of seeing that kind of color that she always loved.
Being a rightful heir of a bug and Dusk Axie, her colors were never light and got darker as she got old, which sometimes, she never liked.
That's when she first loved the color of pastels mixing in the sky, of how she loved when it's almost Dusk.
She glided down the path and saw the potion room, which was basically her first dropped-out academy assignment. She was kicked out of the room and never set foot after 2 weeks of training after turning her associate into a filthy frog and almost turning the potion master into a donkey. She giggled, too much for memory.
For the following 3 years, she stayed in the Lunacian Academy, taking light steps taking her academy assignments, but they all failed. She was able to simultaneously sneak inside the Forbidden Library. She dropped 13 out of her 15 significant courses the next thing she knew.
Her specialty, Stealth mode, had been derived from her years of practice being the only scholar of the Phantom study- Phantasm.
The busy state of my friends disabled us from wwriting together since we are already graduating. This is a 17-episode/chapter and I did came back to post the remaining chapters. It's almost a year since I found this sweet haven, and I am looking forward to coming back to the community. Writing this down, I know I missed Axie Infinity so much. Love you all, Dani.