In a vast cavern, where crystal formations rose high with canopies of solid rock; and where the green vines weaved throughout the glowing  violet environment, stood a being on a ridge. His yellow eyes in contrast to his green and red body surveyed the land on his high perch. His tail curled into itself as he took a few steps away from the ridge and further into the cave behind him. His eyes narrowed as his mechanical hands curled in anticipation. His mechanical body tenses. With sheer will and determination, he dashed forward and leaped off the edge. Falling fast he extended one of his hands forward, clutching a vine from one of the suspended rocks as he entered into a swing. Swaying from one to the next, he weaved between the crystalline structures and magnetically suspended rocks surrounding them. Banking around one of the crystalline structures, he lande…

Chapter 01:

Divide’s Dark Requiem

It was dark, cold. All that she had dreamed of was a sea of stars above a vast city. A place where she could fly forever, as the landscape stretched for millenia. Dark blue and violet hues upon a starry night sky. She knew nothing but the gut feeling she had lived there, and longed to drift through its skyline. The dream soon fades as the sound of an alarm blares, red light bleeding through her eyelids. As she opened her eyes she emerged from a chamber of some kind as the cold mist rolled between her talons. Yet reality was not as forgiving. Upon exiting the seed which held her, she fell upon her face. She groaned as she rubbed her beak “Ow...you know whoever put me to sleep here could have lent me the decency to give me a set of stairs to…

Prologue:

In the far vast reaches of space, where things implode and explode with gracious beauty yet terror of what is yet to be, there is one general truth. That existence flows in either cycles of what is meant to be or of what can be. Both possibilities can weigh the soul from its own potential. It is at the end of the cycle of cycles which came before where our tale begins, at the ending of stories long forgotten. This is the tale of Ascending Depths. Far beyond in the beautiful spectacle within the galaxy of Exobia Vizar lies a blue world. Its oceans shimmered with allure yet mystery. The island which nestled above its waters grew with lush green vegetation, vast deserts, snowy summits, and caves that seemed to stretch for miles. Looming in its horizon up in the sky of the island was a shimmering city.…

A story series that explores the world of Ascending Depths one chapter at a time. Dive deep into the legend in the Time After Time...