The "Odyssey into 2012"! What better way to celebrate all the creativity energy and "community unity" that transpired on dA in 2011 than with this one last great wave of deviations cresting with the stroke of midnight, January 1st, 2012!
I just want to be sure that all my watchers here on the techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic) page are aware of the "Odyssey" project that's going on right now and urge them to jump in and participate if they haven't already! There are still four more chapters of Kaylin's story her battle against Darus for the salvation of humanity! that need literature deviations and accompanying illustrations from dA w
Odyssey Into 2012: In Retrospect by techgnotic, journal
Odyssey Into 2012: In Retrospect
For marioluevanos (https://www.deviantart.com/marioluevanos) and I It was one of those interesting ideas that once let loose to run free in our heads was impossible to force back into the “notions for another time” box. Deadlined chapters and artworks to open mystic gates to safeguard the coming of the New Year 2012!
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Wed Jan 11, 2012, 9:30 PM
For marioluevanos (https://www.deviantart.com/marioluevanos) and I It was one of those interesting ideas that once let loose to run free
in our heads was impossible to force back into the “notions for another time” box. Deadlined chapters
and artworks to open mystic gates
The End and The Beginning by BookWormMK, literature
Literature
The End and The Beginning
Now is now.
Kaylin is stepping off the Light Train. It's dark and the dry wind scratches at her face. It's the one place that doesn't come to mind when you think of New Year's Eve.
In front of her blooms a different kind of darkness. It's wet and humid. She turns around and Darus is there.
"This is it," he says. "The final gate. The last trial." He spreads his arms, and the wet warm dark spreads out and presses against her dark. He pulls his sword out of the scabbard. Kaylin stands in front of him, tensed to run.
"Running again?" He flourishes his sword. It's giving him an unfair advantage. The sword disappears.
"You should sacrifice yoursel
The Zephyr Key's Host by BlindedByMemories, literature
Literature
The Zephyr Key's Host
Kaylin struggled with all her might to keep the light train under her power as she willed it to continue on with the correct gates. The use of her power was draining most of her energy and now she stood at the front of the train, beads of sweat rolling down her neck and back. She gasped out once, forgetting to breathe because she was concentrating so much. She balled her fists tightly and then she saw a light ahead, relieved to find the next gate.
Kaylin collapsed, exhausted, and knelt down as the light train turned brighter and brighter . . .
She found herself in a dark forest. Coldness wrapped around her swiftly, making her shiver. The
Odyssey into 2012 chapter six: The Zephyr Key by akatony1, literature
Literature
Odyssey into 2012 chapter six: The Zephyr Key
Kaylin struggled with doubt. The fear of what she had done set into her thoughts, piercing her with worry. She knew Darus would fight her at every turn, but she had fought off herself from different dimensions. She had absorbed their knowledge, turning it into her own strength.
Powers stronger than any she'd ever known now coursed through her. She knew that this was not Zephyr. She'd absorbed the powers of alternate dimensions. Notus, Boreas, and Eurus. These three powers had been added to hers, and it frightened her.
The light train struggled against her. Darus was trying to fight back. She concentrated her powers, all four, into the nex
Odyssey 2012 Chapter 5: The Rainbow Connection by AlexanderTheSoSo, literature
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Odyssey 2012 Chapter 5: The Rainbow Connection
The Light Train took on a new timbre around her. Her knowledge unlocked, she did not ride, but drive. The Train bent around to her command. She yelled in triumph! Backwards, to before it began. She could stop him at the start. Kaylin steered the Train, her body, soul, one with the Light. Then it fought her, bucking and twisting.
Her eyes opened. Kaylin wasn't alone. She was there. Kaylin, in purple. Kaylin, in green. Kaylin, in blue, yellow, orange, and violet. Each one steering, fighting. Yellow died first, a possible future snuffed out, and it's Light joined the Train. The others, alerted to the danger, fought back, but her Zephyr sang as
chapter 4: Where the end begins by myomi-chan, literature
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chapter 4: Where the end begins
The breeze brought the scent of pine needles to her before she got off the train. She touched the bark of a tree.
The breeze suddenly picked up. Her eyes did not widen in surprise this time-- they stayed solidly open as she saw a shadow form in front of her. She had time only to jump to the side before the tree whose bark she had touched was impaled by a sword-- his sword. The tree quivered, sighed, and then there was nothing where it once stood.
His eyes met hers.
She ran.
She knew how he fought. Everything about Darus-- the timbre of his voice, his unforgiving eyes, his majestic fighting style, his laugh-- everything came fl