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When The Present Was Past. by AmiableJay(m): 8:27pm On Jul 14, 2013
PROLOGUE
The deadliest error in the history of humankind was when the world through the machination of the near-extinction, powerful and evil magicians and unrepentant sorcerers collectively joined hands together to rewind the hands of time back into an era seemingly beyond man's power of adaptability. The modern man was thus confronted with the greatest challenge ever known. He was brought into the past which he shares no ties with and has to share habitation with savages and cannibals of this Black era. These powerful magicians forced the present man to enter into a calamituos past. How will man fare amidst this genocidal development?
Everyday ,people die of sibyline ailments defying our heroic modern medicine. Man is left with no option than to succumb to the superior forces that now govern the world at terrific proportions and an unstoppable level. Can anyone save mankind from perishing?
In the scrolls of prophecies uncovered by archeologists, it was gathered that mankind will face an armeggedeon that will threaten his existence. The hero and saviour of the world is a young boy, unknown, unborn and NAIVE. How will he take up the quest to save the world from total extermination?
Re: When The Present Was Past. by mysticgal(f): 9:59pm On Jul 14, 2013
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Re: When The Present Was Past. by AmiableJay(m): 12:37am On Jul 15, 2013
The updates on this story starts tomorrow!
Keep your fingers crossed and make sure you drop ya comments when I drop da bomb.
Re: When The Present Was Past. by AmiableJay(m): 3:20pm On Jul 18, 2013
***EPISODE 1***
Manolin crawled up inside the dark hut in the cover of the night trembling. He have seen the scarest events in the recent days. Since the entire globe plunged into calamity through the doings of some unkown magicians from the Mediterranean swamps. He had read this in news and still found it difficult and incredible to believe. How will a clique of diabolic souls singlehandedly bring this world into a sinister past? But the best thing for him to do right now is not to ask questions. The whole world has changed. The answers to its many questions no longer correspond.
He tenaciously studied the hut where he sought refuge inside and couldn't rationalise the puzzles all around him. The hut housed many nameless objects which he had always seen in London musuem when he travelled to the U.K two years ago. He wasn't a lover and fan of arts and antiques. The walls were made of crude woods.The ground was covered with hay and the door looked as rough as prison door.
He kept asking the same question,
'Where Am I?'
He remembered his two siblings and mum. They died to a strange inferno that rocked Arizona during the transition of the world from its perfect present. Although his life was never perfect as the world was perfect in technology and science. His dad drank alcohol with a recalcitrant ingenuity and vented his temper on the whole family. His mother was always on the receiving end of his fists. His mother later divorced him when she gave birth to Caroline, his youngest sister. Since that time, they lived below standard on the meagre wage his mother earned in a fabric firm.
Their life was a perfect opposite of the perfection of the outside world. His father, Ted never came back again and their grief never came back again. They became a good family and lived harmoniously untill a greater grief came with an unannounced alacrity and this time around the grief was a communal bane, not just for Arizona or the States. He had read a lot about magic. His tutor in the college, Doctor Saul drafted many theses on magic. He told him how to invoke dead spirits through the utterance of ancient accent which is the language of Spirits.

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Re: When The Present Was Past. by AmiableJay(m): 12:10am On Jul 19, 2013
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The doctor, who majored in theology believed that there is a superior realm that exists in man'r physical body and the entire universe. To him, Spirits are our neighbours and magic is what borders our line of existence from theirs. Fire, water and earth are the three principal elements in magic and before any spell can efficaciously effect its desired end, these three elements must be united with a liquid ease, by rendering chants. The effect of magic depends on how complicated you unite these elements. Black magic has a thick line of difference from 'white' magic as he puts it. That was the project the doctor was working on. He needed to know what the other element(s) are. Doctor Saul always sounded gibberish to him whenever he talked about magic. He never had the penchant for magic until that day when that same phenomenon changed his life.
This phenomen changed his fate from a brilliant college student to a vagabond roaming the desolate woods of Arizona. That was the fate that everyone suffered. It all happened destructively like an earthquake. There was a sound, a very deafening one. The noise was like every parts of the sky above gave a thundering noise. He wasn't able to see all these events for himself as he hid under his bed that night. The noise paralyzed everything, everybody and their perfect world. Although the noise was just a bye-product of the cataclysm. The globe went off its axis, out of its orbit into another age he read about in literature. His reaction to this turn of events wasn't a surprised one. At least, he wasn't as surprised as many people were. Doctor Saul had prophesied it.
'It will happen within tiny fragments of time.'
'Time will be reversed back thousands of years like the wheels of a car. Man will be forced to live with untamed evils that started at creation and his premordial enemies.'
He had revealed the doom that will welcome the world to him alone. But he didn't tell him about its timing. Bad things happen with bad timing. This wasn't the time the world was suppose to be singing its dirge. He was prepared for the transition but he thought it was a comedy. But was succintly wrong.
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He brought out the last packet of chocolate he had in his camp bag and removed the tissue that covered it.That was the only valuable thing he brought out of their burnt house.He couldn't bring out his mother and sisters from death.But he was also able to garner some magic books from the attic.Magic literature was the only thing that can save his world now from total extermination.He also saw his Apple phone and almost threw it away.All internet networks were crippled since the transition.Then he remembered he saved some webpages on the gadget.He looked at Doctor Saul's picture which was his wallpaper and browsed his phone till he opened a web-page.
'Archeologists discover a queer revelations'He puffed as he saw the news.

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Re: When The Present Was Past. by AmiableJay(m): 2:35pm On Jul 22, 2013
Ermmm guys I'm very sorry for not updating. I want to draft a very nice plot and it's gonna take time. I promise to update tonight or tomorrow morning. Thanks!
And thanks for liking the updates, but you can do better if you criticize this work. At least, I will know I have a loyal audience:-)

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