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Nine Rings of Vos - Arc One: Oppression
A Transformers: G1 Fanfiction
Author: Sanjuno Shori Niko
Summary: So Cardinal is called a 'Voice of Primus' for a really real reason.
Timeline: More fic here.
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(In which Cardinal makes a pilgrimage.)
Cardinal had not looked back when he left behind the senior priest that had accompanied his thus far. The path he walked was difficult, and demanding, and few chose to risk it. The little used temple and its secret access to the tunnels that plumbed the very depths of Cybertron was a closely guarded mystery of the Vos clergy. Those few who were shown the way were given only one warning. Keep it secret, keep it safe. For all others, the way was shut.
Down and down he went, into the under-dark, away from the stars and the moons and the whole wide world. Cardinal travelled down, down alone, and never looked back.
That was important. You had to remember to always look forward when facing your destiny. Otherwise, you might stumble, fall, and meet your fate instead.
Cardinal’s pedefalls echoed hollowly, eerily, as he travelled down the empty tunnels. Though meticulously kept free of debris by the Order, the disused corridors were narrow and cramped and Cardinal wondered how his Skyborn brethren ever managed to make this journey without collapsing in claustrophobic hysteria. Primus only knew Cardinal was getting twitchy under the oppressive weight of silent, tight halls. The Skyborn must find this pilgrimage to be nothing short of torture. It was no wonder the priests of the higher echelons could remain serene no matter the situation. After completing this route alone, most anything else was nothing to panic over. Cardinal could feel the pressure bearing down on him, the burden of faith, carrying the weight of the world and all of its many sins and failings and virtues and triumphs.
Cardinal kept moving down, alone with his thoughts and fears and hesitations, without a single thing to distract him from his own shortcomings, but he kept his back straight and his pace smooth and walked on.
It seemed like an eternity later, though really it was only a megacycle, that Cardinal received the first sign of nearing his destination. Little by little, the temperature rose until Cardinal’s cooling fans were running full time, at full speed. It was only a cycle after that when Cardinal stepped out of the tunnels into a vast chamber.
The gravity was… strange here, had been acting strangely for some time, but it was only now that he was in a relatively open space that Cardinal truly noticed. The thin bridge he stood on was but one of many that arced from the smooth-polished gold walls to the massive glyph-covered sphere that hung suspended in the very center of the chamber. The slender cables of the bridge suspension were nowhere near enough to support the weight of the massive edifice. It defied gravity under its own power. This close to the planet’s core, anti-gravity devices were unreliable, there was no way for what Cardinal was seeing to be possible. Trying to locate the supports that had to be (should have been) there was a futile endeavour. His optics slid off the walls, off the other ramps, off the edges of the dome, as if the very air sought to keep Cardinal from focusing on anything but the path beneath his pedes and the door at the other end of it.
Shaking himself out of his contemplation, Cardinal squared his shoulders, settled his sensor panels, and walked forward; it was a dizzying, disconcerting trek. Cardinal had no true conception of his surroundings, and that disorientation was dangerous. Should he slip or stumble his anti-gravs would not save him, not here in the planet’s core, not when the haze on his sensors made locating even the wall a challenge. It got worse the further he moved, until - nearly blind - Cardinal took those last few shaking steps needed to fall heavily against the door. Cardinal clung to what seemed to be the only stable point in the world, fans screaming in the muffling stillness.
Cardinal rested for one sparkpulse, two, fighting to get his bearings, leaning hard on the solid presence of the door while the rest of the chamber seemed to spin around him.
The door folded open, dissolving under his touch, and Cardinal fell forward into an eternity of light and glory.
/…/
The guide-priest looked up as the door to the Inner Path scraped open. Standing, the Guide remained silent as Cardinal shut the door quietly behind him and walked out of the temple into the open air. Raising his face to the sky, Cardinal vented a shaky sigh, tipping his panel array back and relaxing stiff cables.
“How was your journey?” The Guide locked up the temple behind them with a small smile.
“… Enlightening.” Cardinal’s optic band flashed with star-fire and sparklight before fading back familiar gold. “Quite enlightening.”
The Guide just hummed knowingly and turned to lead them back home.
(Word Count: 800)
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And we have contact! Yeah, if you think you just saw Cardinal go on a vision quest that ended with him having a face-to-faceplate chat with Primus Below Himself... you think right. XD Seeker's aren't hooked into the Matrix in this 'verse, so they need some kind of direct line that let them know what their God-and-source-of-life wants to communicate. XP
So yeah... I have nothing to do but post fic. I'm so bored. DX
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... I got nothin'.
Oh! But I am doing Christmas Cards this year. Everyone who responds to the sign-up post by November 30th will get a card and a special print.
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HERE THERE BE DRAGONS!!
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A Transformers: G1 Fanfiction
Author: Sanjuno Shori Niko
Summary: So Cardinal is called a 'Voice of Primus' for a really real reason.
Timeline: More fic here.
=/=
(In which Cardinal makes a pilgrimage.)
Cardinal had not looked back when he left behind the senior priest that had accompanied his thus far. The path he walked was difficult, and demanding, and few chose to risk it. The little used temple and its secret access to the tunnels that plumbed the very depths of Cybertron was a closely guarded mystery of the Vos clergy. Those few who were shown the way were given only one warning. Keep it secret, keep it safe. For all others, the way was shut.
Down and down he went, into the under-dark, away from the stars and the moons and the whole wide world. Cardinal travelled down, down alone, and never looked back.
That was important. You had to remember to always look forward when facing your destiny. Otherwise, you might stumble, fall, and meet your fate instead.
Cardinal’s pedefalls echoed hollowly, eerily, as he travelled down the empty tunnels. Though meticulously kept free of debris by the Order, the disused corridors were narrow and cramped and Cardinal wondered how his Skyborn brethren ever managed to make this journey without collapsing in claustrophobic hysteria. Primus only knew Cardinal was getting twitchy under the oppressive weight of silent, tight halls. The Skyborn must find this pilgrimage to be nothing short of torture. It was no wonder the priests of the higher echelons could remain serene no matter the situation. After completing this route alone, most anything else was nothing to panic over. Cardinal could feel the pressure bearing down on him, the burden of faith, carrying the weight of the world and all of its many sins and failings and virtues and triumphs.
Cardinal kept moving down, alone with his thoughts and fears and hesitations, without a single thing to distract him from his own shortcomings, but he kept his back straight and his pace smooth and walked on.
It seemed like an eternity later, though really it was only a megacycle, that Cardinal received the first sign of nearing his destination. Little by little, the temperature rose until Cardinal’s cooling fans were running full time, at full speed. It was only a cycle after that when Cardinal stepped out of the tunnels into a vast chamber.
The gravity was… strange here, had been acting strangely for some time, but it was only now that he was in a relatively open space that Cardinal truly noticed. The thin bridge he stood on was but one of many that arced from the smooth-polished gold walls to the massive glyph-covered sphere that hung suspended in the very center of the chamber. The slender cables of the bridge suspension were nowhere near enough to support the weight of the massive edifice. It defied gravity under its own power. This close to the planet’s core, anti-gravity devices were unreliable, there was no way for what Cardinal was seeing to be possible. Trying to locate the supports that had to be (should have been) there was a futile endeavour. His optics slid off the walls, off the other ramps, off the edges of the dome, as if the very air sought to keep Cardinal from focusing on anything but the path beneath his pedes and the door at the other end of it.
Shaking himself out of his contemplation, Cardinal squared his shoulders, settled his sensor panels, and walked forward; it was a dizzying, disconcerting trek. Cardinal had no true conception of his surroundings, and that disorientation was dangerous. Should he slip or stumble his anti-gravs would not save him, not here in the planet’s core, not when the haze on his sensors made locating even the wall a challenge. It got worse the further he moved, until - nearly blind - Cardinal took those last few shaking steps needed to fall heavily against the door. Cardinal clung to what seemed to be the only stable point in the world, fans screaming in the muffling stillness.
Cardinal rested for one sparkpulse, two, fighting to get his bearings, leaning hard on the solid presence of the door while the rest of the chamber seemed to spin around him.
The door folded open, dissolving under his touch, and Cardinal fell forward into an eternity of light and glory.
/…/
The guide-priest looked up as the door to the Inner Path scraped open. Standing, the Guide remained silent as Cardinal shut the door quietly behind him and walked out of the temple into the open air. Raising his face to the sky, Cardinal vented a shaky sigh, tipping his panel array back and relaxing stiff cables.
“How was your journey?” The Guide locked up the temple behind them with a small smile.
“… Enlightening.” Cardinal’s optic band flashed with star-fire and sparklight before fading back familiar gold. “Quite enlightening.”
The Guide just hummed knowingly and turned to lead them back home.
(Word Count: 800)
=/=
And we have contact! Yeah, if you think you just saw Cardinal go on a vision quest that ended with him having a face-to-faceplate chat with Primus Below Himself... you think right. XD Seeker's aren't hooked into the Matrix in this 'verse, so they need some kind of direct line that let them know what their God-and-source-of-life wants to communicate. XP
So yeah... I have nothing to do but post fic. I'm so bored. DX
=/=
... I got nothin'.
Oh! But I am doing Christmas Cards this year. Everyone who responds to the sign-up post by November 30th will get a card and a special print.
=/=
HERE THERE BE DRAGONS!!
♥
♠
♥
♠
♥
♠
♥