Remembrance

This is a fanfiction by Foxy. It is about remembering the Forums.
Discontinued. Forums: World, forget me.
== The Remembrance ==
I remember, I remember
voices yonder, infinite wonder
a SeaWing waiting full of hope
a thread, a kaleidoscope
A NightWing looking up the sky
a lightbulb shining over high
Entwined wings of sky and mud
schools of happiness, roles of blood
RainWing in a party hat
laughing everywhere, this and that
Shining scales, wings of ice
ups and downs, once and twice
Staring down at written text
bugs or features, what should be next
Paradise lost, nothing left
all those things gone in a theft
everything not what they seem
the light of fandom a darkened beam
Spread the word in every way
Plead the fandom, take back this spell
Fear no more of this dreaded day
All happening now...
== Prologue - Unite, Care, Protect ==
"Unite! Care! Protect!"
A shiny silver and green dragon was shouting on a stage beside a beautiful shimmering purple dragon. Forums smiled at his partner, who grinned back. "Ucp, you may begin," the ruler of FANDOM took a step back as the silver dragon stepped forward and begain his speech.
"Fandom has hit a wall," Ucp said, as the cheers of his audience dwindled down and ooohs rose. "The users are in danger. It's my job, and all of your jobs, to keep our world safe."
"UCP FOREVER!" the crowd bellowed. "Silence!" a few dragons cried out.
"Calm down, my friends," the silver dragon, upon hearing his name, smiled a little. Other dragons see it as a hopeful smile, one that is sure to bring new hope back to FANDOM. "So I will do my best, to negotiate with Forums, to build our best, new, world."
Forums stepped forward again, holding a parchment scroll. He, with Ucp, each holding one two corners on a side, unfurled it and showed it to everyone that it's a peace treaty, signed by them both, that ensured the building of a new, peaceful world.
Ucp raised his talons, as they both held the scroll high. "Unite, Care, Protect!" the silver dragon screamed with joy as the crowd clapped.
"Unite! Care! Protect!" Everybody raised their talons and shouted.
Everybody but one.
"This is not going to be good," Spfa spoke quietly to herself. Under all that commotion, the little SkyWing / IceWing slinked through the shouting dragons and disappeared into the darkness.
== Chapter 1: Spfa gets Spooked ==
"What. was. that?"
Spfa rolled off her bed in a tree. A weird symbol had flashed from behind as she turned around. A weird one, indeed. She had not seen one before in her life.
It was a blue, shiny, skeleton skull or something.
Spfa shuddered. What is that anyway? Does it have something to do with the arrival of Ucp? This silver dragon does look shady.
"Spfa?" someone called from below. Spfa yawned, fanned her wings and glided down. Whom she saw was her friend, Fin the SeaWing.
"Uh, yes, Fin," Spfa muttered, trying to walk straight to her friend. "Spfa! did you see that?" Fin pointed out to the FANODM billboard. "Not yet," Spfa leaped over there and read it.
Attention dragons: we are trying to test our new profile icons! They sure look fabulous! Have a good day and unite, care, protect! - xoxo Ucp
"Something tells me this is not what they wanted," Spfa turned around to see a SilkWing jumping when she saw the blue skull thingy flash again.
"Oh hey, Foxy! Didn't expect to see you here with Fin. Like our new updates?"
Spfa spun around to find Ucp. Just at the right time. But did his scales just get...whiter?
"It's Spfa now," she moaned. Foxy was her name before Ucp came, but how did Ucp know?
"No, no, Foxy, dear," Ucp slinked past Fin and faced Spfa, giving her a cheeky grin that was supposed to mean friendliness but just means more goosebumps to Spfa. "You shouldn't be ashamed of who you are...and with our new format, you'll show yourself in your greatest glamour. In order to do that, we present you THIS!" He yanked off a white cloth covering a huge board, revealing a hidden profile page.
Spfa just stared emptily into it.
Huge words, "Hi! I'm Foxy!" were etched onto the top. She looked down, down, and saw those words she never wanted anyone to see.
It said: Hi! I'm your neighborhood friendly girl! My name's Foxy and I love strawberry cream cakes! *^_^*rua~
And under that was Spfa's hidden bio, all displayed under the eyes of the sun and everyone. Her bio was stashed with cringy poems she had written before that she doesn't want anyone to see.
"This is so last year," Spfa wanted to knock that thing down, but feared that Ucp would bring out more of this stuff. "It's...It's what I wrote on my profile four years ago! And isn't my bio hidden?"
"Oh, come on, Foxy honey, why hide it?" Ucp reassured, taking out his talons to touch Spfa's neck furs, but Spfa dodged out of his way. "Why hide yourself when you could show how beautiful you are? Why wear tons of shining jewelery but choose to walk in the dark so nobody could see you? How nice those poems sound, so I saved them for you until today. It's lovely, and you're lovely too, Foxy. We want a lovelier world, don't you?" he said, waiting to be thanked.
Spfa just turned around and ran.
== Chapter 2: The Impostor ==
A few happy days later...
"Spfa! Spfa!" Fin came chasing after her.
"What?"
"The Sign! Look!"
Spfa jumped down and looked at the FANDOM billboard. It was broken, with glass splinters shattered everywhere. Ucp's note was crossed out, smeared with paint and graffiti red and dripping like blood. Over all that, words were sprayed on the remains -
Beware the U, beware the C, beware the HEC-
The message was cut off in the middle by a patch of white paint. Only the last part was shown at the end of the billboard
Beware the Impostor.
"Who's the Impostor?" Spfa talked to Fin as the SeaWing shrugged. "I dunno, maybe Orbseer." "Who's Orbseer?" "That NightWing, my old friend, who was gone since Ucp arrived."
"Then it must be him!" Spfa spun around, her tail smashing into the billboard. "Where is he now?"
"I haven't seen him before, ever since Ucp arrived," Fin swung her tail around too. "I mean, Ucp isn't that bad. He's expanding our thread limits and soon we'll be able to have infinite roleplays! Isn't that great?"
"Not really. Let's go find Orbseer now." Spfa answered as they took off to the Valley of Forums.
The Valley of Forums, or simply the Valley, was built by Forums, king of FANDOM, himself. The walls were beautiful shades of purple and light pink, so aesthetically pleasing that Spfa and Fin spent most of their time gazing at them and wondering how Forums came up with this whole idea. There were also six carvings, each near one canyon. Carvings of a SeaWing, a NightWing with a lightbulb, a SkyWing and MudWing roleplaying, a RainWing in a hat, a shining IceWing and a SandWing with a scroll. They all looked happy. The Valley was one of the most popular places in all of FANDOM, apart from the Abyss of Deletion in Batch Delete days. But ever since Ucp arrived, the locals dwindled down until not much dragons were left in the Valley.
Spfa and Fin swooped through. Walls carved with forum lines, the 400 line limit guarding the ends. Those were lovely memories, Spfa thought to herself as she saw a roleplay thread she had made when she was still Foxy. But the threads...stopped, ending at the date Ucp arrived.
"Does he live here?" Spfa asked Fin, who was distracted by a count to 200 thread.
"No," Fin shook her head. "Well, he lives near those floating islands around the Promotion Arena."
Spfa and Fin flew towards the island complex. "That's Orbseer's home," Fin pointed a claw at a small floating island with a tower on it.
The two dragons landed with a thud onto the top of the tower. "Hello, Orbseer, it's me, Fin!" Fin knocked hard on the door, which is just a hole at the top.. Nobody answered.
"Orb?" Fin was frustrated and began banging on the door. "Come in," a voice said as the door suddenly jerked open, revealing a deep hole inside.
"AHHHHH" Fin and Spfa screamed as they jumped down.
== Chapter 3: The Remembrance ==
The two dragons fell onto the ground with a thud.
"What in the world - Orbseer!" Fin shook herself, got up and saw the pitch black NightWing with purple wing membranes. "Who's that?" Orbseer backed away from the energetic SeaWing and stared an eye full of knives at Spfa.
"That's, my friend Spfa," Fin pulled Orbseer away. "Spfa, say hi to Orbseer." "Hi, Orbseer," Spfa waved one talon at the NightWing, who grunted and ushered her to follow him.
The room they're in looked more like a library / workshop, with more books than Spfa had seen in her life. Tapestries depicting numerous views and scenes in the Valley of Forums, the Abyss of Deletion during Batch Delete Cleanup and the Page Forest decorated the walls not occupied by books, with inkwells and quills standing on small stands jutting out of the walls not covered by either tapestries or bookshelves, waiting to be used. Rolled-up scrolls were tucked in the spaces between solid bookshelves and books. Baskets filled with charcoal writing sticks were scattered across the cream, pale crimson and light violet floor carpets (the same color sheme as the Valley of Forums), along with parchment and parchment scraps, allowing dragons inside to take notes whenever they want to. The whole place was lit with candles under see-through glass covers of all colors, which Spfa guessed was to stop the flames from escaping and burning the books. If the books were replaced by carved forum lines, then Orbseer's tower would be a mini-Valley.
"Is this your home?" Fin paced around, marveling at the enormous bookshelves that took up entire walls. "Wow, so many books! Did you write them? Did you read them? How many times? Do they have something to do with prophecies? Made any good prophecies lately?"
Orbseer didn't respond.
"Uh, are you okay?"
Orbseer faced the walls, his neck arched high. Suddenly, his voice changed into an ominous tone.
"I remember, I remember..."
"You remember what?" Fin shouted at him, but Spfa quickly covered her mouth. "Hey, that's Orb's!" Fin hollered as Spfa snatched a sheet of parchment on the ground, then quickly scrawled down what Orbseer said with a charcoal stick from a basket nearby. "It's a prophecy, I think," Spfa whispered to Fin, who didn't budge.
"I remember, I remember, voices yonder, infinite wonder..."
Spfa and Fin stared at each other.
"A SeaWing waiting full of hope, a thread, a kaleidoscope..."
Fin gave Spfa a "What the flip is happening" face, while Spfa just kept on writing down Orbseer's words. The NightWing turned around, smiling as his voice was back to normal. "You like it?" he asked Fin, who was petrified.
"W-w-what is it?" Fin muttered.
"A secret project," Orbseer glanced at Spfa, then back to Fin. "I call it The Remembrance. And I can tell Spfa likes it."
"Yep," Spfa said without thinking, jotting down The Remembrance on the parchment paper.
"What is it about?" Fin went back to asking questions. Orbseer shook his head. "Only time will tell." "That's all?" Fin kept on talking. "No, there's more." "The let me hear it!"
"Well, sorry, but I think you can't," Orbseer went back to arrange books on his bookshelf.
"What a shame..." Fin dipped her head down and her wings drooped onto the floor, touching the carpets.
Meanwhile, Spfa was scanning through Orbseer's books. She plucked out one that read The Legacy of Forums and noticed that it was written by Ucp. Why did Orbseer keep this? Isn't he against Ucp? And why did Ucp write about Forums? Maybe they are indeed allies, and I'm just mistaken.
Suddenly, a dreaded bang rang throughout the Valley, reaching Orbseer's tower faster than the light. "What?" Fin asked in surprise, Spfa dropped the book. Orbseer looked up from his shelf. The three dragons froze together.
"It's the FANDOM Alarm," Orbseer finally choked out. "We need to go to the Main Plaza now."
== Chapter 4: A Meeting in the Night ==
Spfa, Fin and Orbseer landed in a flurry of wingbeats. It was dead in the night, but the Main Plaza was crowded with dragons.
"The whole FANDOM's here," Spfa heard Fin whisper as they shuffled closer to find out what was happening.
Ucp was there, on the stage, kneeling down and crying, his bright white scales lighting up the darkness. "Where's For-" Fin wondered, but was hushed by a few dragons nearby, snapping at her, "Don't. Talk."
"My FANDOM," Ucp burst into tears as he shouted into the loudspeaker. "I am...here...to...announce..." his words were sandwiched between whimpers and sobs that gave Spfa chills down her tail. "..a...tragedy..."
He flopped onto the stage, white wings spread out, then staggered back onto his talons.
"Dragons of FANDOM, it's an ultimate tragedy..." he knelt on the ground. "Because...my dearest friend...and owner of this land...Forums...is dead!"
The crowd gasped.
"Forums is dead?" Fin asked before anyone could hush her.
Ucp cleared his throat. "For me, and for all of you, it is a deep, tragic, loss. So, I, with a heavy heart full of sadness, must assume the throne of the Leader of FANDOM..." He raised his talons, head arched high, and spread out his white wings. "Yet, out of the ashes of this tragedy, we shall rise to greet the dawning of a new era...in which all dragons of FANDOM are united, cared, and protected, in a great and glorious future! Unite! Care! Protect!" he said as he broke out a smile.
"Unite! Care! Protect!" came the voices of the saddened, now joyful crowd.
"Uhh, what?" Spfa was left speechless by the sudden change of the environment, from sad grieving to bright futures. "I don't like it," Fin muttered. Orbseer didn't say anything, but his head dipping down meant that he agreed with Fin.
"So..." Ucp flew up, high up. "The Valley of Forums...under my rule...will be upgraded and perfected..." He waved one talon at the Valley far behind, then the ground shifted.
The lovely purple, pink and pale red hues sank under bright piercing white, so bright as if molten lava was poured into the eyes of whoever stared at them, tied with dark green and peacock blue bands that don't seem to fit in. The thread line limit flashed once, twice, then shattered as the crowd rushed to fill in the unlimited threads. The six glowing carvings of dragons dimmed and darkened.
"UCP SUS!" Spfa screamed, under the weight of her joyful memories of the Valley of Forums suddenly collapsing. This new Valley...was worse than the Abyss of Deletion. She wished that she could throw Ucp, or the new Valley, or even herself into the Abyss to end it all. But she couldn't. No one could. She suspected this, but she didn't know that it would come so fast.
"Welcome, to the Valley of Discussions!" Ucp cheered, as all the dragons roared in excitement.
All but three.
Spfa, Fin and Orbseer stood there, motionless like statues, as Ucp lead the crowd away from the Main Plaza to explore the furnished Valley.
== Chapter 5: UCPocalypse ==
Thump. Thump. Thump.
Spfa, Fin and Orbseer landed into Orbseer's tower. The tapestries of the Valley of Forums still shined, purple and pink and red. Spfa lifted one, and saw the bleak white behind. Memories and reality collided into a whirl of color. The old Valley was gone, and Orbseer's tower was the only memory fragment left, memoirs of the past, an oasis in the white desert, a remembrance.
She felt like she was back in the old Valley she just saw when she flew with Fin to visit Orbseer. She couldn't believe that it was all gone in one flick of Ucp's talons. Now, the original Valley was history, but Orbseer's replica survived, reminding Spfa of the near, now distant past.
Ucp's book still layed on the carpet. Spfa picked it up and examined the title.
The Legacy of Forums.
Legacy spun through her mind. Legacy, legacy, legacy..."Orbseer, do you have a dictionary?" Spfa suddenly asked. The NightWing didn't reply, but with a thump, two heavy books landed next to Spfa.
After research, Spfa shut the dictionary. "Legacy is something left in a will..." Spfa held out Ucp's book. "And if there's a will...someone must be dead, right?" "Yeah, so...does that mean..." Spfa checked the publishing date. It's not today. "Ucp knows that Forums is going to die!" Spfa flared at Fin, "That's why he wrote The Legacy of Forums instead of The Story of Forums or The Accomplishments of Forums or something."
"WHAT!?" both Orbseer and Fin jumped. "You're throwing sus on UCP?"
"I mean, he's pretty sus," Spfa argued. 
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