The Treasure Hunter and The Mirror
Chapter 13

“Lord Leonard house of Myers, one guest has come with the Lady Ronja On Heim,” a guard said as Walter and this girl, who just now knew was named Ronja, entered a camp not far away from the entrance of the temple. The camp consisted of several armored men they all had space fairing weapons and attire. They had made this camp outside of a great silver ship. On the ship was a number 8 tilted on its side, Walter wondered what that was about before.

Walter looked over at an older man wearing what looked like an admiral uniform. Or at least something that Walter recognized as a universal admiral uniform Complete with epaulets, lanyards and 5 bars and an admiral star above it on his sleeve. The man had flame-red hair and he looked over happily at Walter.

“Ah Walter, you’ve made it.” The man said.

“Lord Leonard, I presume,” Walter said looking at the man.

“You would presume correctly,” the man said he poured a glass of water and handed it to Walter. Walter had not realized how thirsty he was until he downed the whole glass. “So, I suppose you may be wondering what the heck is going on.”

“Your supposition is correct,” Walter said as he handed the glass back to the man. The man laughed, and he pointed at seats in front of a makeshift desk that was sitting in front of the ship. Walter walked over and sat down he had not realized how tired he was.

“First of all, your galactic credits,” the man pulled out a pad and he tapped it a few times before he handed it to Walter. Walter looked at the pad and his eyes bulged.

Pay to the order of Walter Xavier Yanez Zuniga One Billion Galactic Credits. Walter looked back up the man and then down at the pad.

“It’s all there,” the man said.

“So, you were the one who commissioned me to replace this thing?” Walter said after coming out of his reverie due to never seeing that much money before in his life.

“Indeed, I am,” the man said. “And I suppose you have a lot of questions.”

“Like hell I do!” Walter said. “Why didn’t you tell me that that thing would have transported me to different dimensions?”

“Oh, but I did,” the man said.

“Like hell you did!” Walter said.

“I did Walter you just didn’t read the entire legend of the mirror.” The man said, and Walter looked confused. “Yes, that’s right Walter, had you read the entirety of the legend you would have deciphered exactly how to use the mirror safely, and not have jumped around as much as you did.”

“Fine, so I suppose it’s my fault,” Walter said sighing.

“I am glad that you made it here after all that,” the man said. “Now comes an interesting question, did you tell anything to anyone about how you activated the mirror.”

“No,” Walter said he suddenly remembered about the Snake-man and what it had asked him. “Not everyone can come through?”

“No, they can,” the man said, “but they have to activate it.”

“How the hell did I activate it?” Walter asked.

“Because you read enough of the legend, the legend is the key, to the Zerkalo Aaenna.” The man said. “Without that, the Zerkalo Aaenna does not work no matter whom or what tries using it.”

“But that Snake-man, he knew the legend,” Walter said.

“Snake-man?” the man asked. “Please elaborate.”

“In dimension 919, there was a Snake-man he had found the Zerkalo Aaenna by deciphering the legend. He told me this myself, but he didn’t know how to activate it.” Walter said.

“Please go on…” the man said.

“Well he seemed to have had some sort of ties to the Trimurti, I recognized a symbol he had on his right shoulder, it belonged to the Trimurti.” Walter said.

“The Trimurti, but no one has seen them since the war,” the man said.

“That’s what I thought but I figured that since it was a different dimension then that meant that the Trimurti must not have been defeated there or something.” Walter said.

“This is quite concerning,” the man said. “If this snake-man as you called him knew enough about the mirror to have figured out where it was then that means that he knows enough about the legend that he would be able to activate it.”

The thought that the Snake-man could have followed him at any point terrified Walter.

“The fact that this man had a Trimurti symbol attached to himself is a matter of concern as well.” The man said as he got up from his desk.

“Wait I just realized something,” Walter said. “If you knew where the Mirror was why have me look for it?”

“It was not that I wanted you to replace it, more like I wanted you to make sure it was still here.” The man said, and Walter looked at him confused. “For a long while I feared that someone would figure out where it was hidden countless of eons ago and use it to reign terror on more than one dimension. The Zhiran, were always something I feared would replace this and simply use it to enter other dimensions.”

“Though I knew that the Zhiran were multi-universal, I still feared that they would team up with the Zhiran of other dimensions and destroy countless more civilizations.” The man said. “Now tell me more about the snake-man?”

“Well what is there to tell?” Walter said. “He had a ship that had some sort of cloaking device, its either that or it was completely dark, and it masked with the dark sky.”

“He himself, wore a space suit of some sort, it reminded me of the suits people would use in extremely hot environments, the guy himself reminded me of a giant snake or something not just the way he looked but the way he acted also.” Walter said. “He also knew about the Trimurti.”

“He knew about them?” The man said.

“Yeah he went on an on about his race knowing about them.” Walter explained. “The thing that worried me about him was the fact that he said he wanted to use the mirror to be able to cleanse everything like he was destined to do.”

“Well…that does not sound good,” the man said. “We must keep our eyes alert the last thing we need is someone like that, which could have followed you.”

“What happened to Tonya?” Walter asked.

“I am not sure what happened to Ms. Lorillard,” the man said. “She could have been transported to a different dimension like you were.”

“We need to replace her,” Walter said.

“That is highly unlikely,” the man said.

“Unlikely?” Walter said.

“Walter, this thing is highly dangerous only two out of three people who have ever attempted to go into the mirror have ever made it. The fact that she was there at the time you touched it either sent her into another dimension or it killed her. Either way there is no way to tell.”

“Two out of three?” Walter said he shuddered to think what if the snake-man came with him? Walter looked out and prayed that this was not the case the snake-man couldn’t have made it through.

“Yes, it’s unfortunate.” The man said. “By the way you might have not noticed, but you are not back in your universe.”

“Wait what?” Walter said.

“I am sad to say that,” the man said. “I mean leaving it up to chance to get to your original universe?”

“But how…how did you…I don’t get it.” Walter said.

“I’m going to explain this as best as I can,” the man said. “I am a Star Builder.”

“That’s not possible.” Walter said.

“Oh, it is very possible,” the man said. “That is how I am the one who sent you to replace this mirror. I am also the one who moved the mirror.”

“What?!” Walter said. “But that means you are….”

“Trillions of years old?” The man laughed. “I am getting up there in age.”

“But if you were the one who moved it why send me to replace it?” Walter asked. The man looked like he was thinking about what to say for a while.”

“Well,” the man said after a long pause. “I need you to complete another task for me.”

“What kind of task?” Walter asked.

“There is a very irritating and stubborn Beg…err…wolf, yeah I guess you can call him that.” The man said. “He needs a friend.”

“So, you want me to be a friend of a wolf?” Walter said.

“Yeah a few months ago he got transported across to different universe.” The man explained. Walter was about to ask how he had been transported. “That mirror is not the only way to transport to a different universe. Be that as it may. I need you to go to universe 616.”

“Is that where he is?” Walter asked.

“Yes,” The man said.

“Fine…” Walter shrugged.

“At a boy.” He said.

“Hey wait didn’t I make it to 616?” Walter said.

“Nope,” the man said.

“Can you at least tell me how to get there?” Walter said.

“Of course,” the man said.