Cathedral

== Disclaimer! ==
Some of this is written in a conspiracy theorists’s POV, some in the POV of a scientist, and some in the POV of a storyteller. Any direct information is just a presumption or theory of what happened to Cathedral. 
== Author’s Note ==
I thought of this as I was getting creeped out after listening to some Van Halen and stumbled upon the song Cathedral by Van Halen. Just to warn you, this is creepy as hell. For the BEST experience, read this under the covers in your bed, in the dark, and alone. Listen to the themesong with earbuds.
== Basic Information ==
Cathedral is considered an anomaly. It is known to appear in horror stories for dragonets, as it is a legend. No one knows exactly what it is, but some seem to have figured it out for the most part. Cathedral is believed to be a decaying corpse with a heartbeat stuck in a time trap. Some think it is a ghost, but it still appears to have bodily functions, although it does look like its body is decaying beyond repair, as if it was a body decomposing over time. Cathedral is seen doing chores and walking around the ruins of the Old Night Kingdom, talking but with no sound, and doing jobs and tasks with no item, as if replaying the days in the time of Darkstalker. Cathedral is doing the same things, over and over, replaying every day. Any dragon to encounter and approach it, seizing Cathedral’s attention, the dragon will look up as Cathedral is looking up at them and stare into it’s empty eyesockets. The dragon then begins to feel colors and emotions they have never felt, undiscovered almost. It can be described as being sucked into the time trap. After the dragon has made the encounter, the next time it is seen, it is seen with the dragon sucked into the time trap, doing the same as Cathedral and appearing to be slowly decaying over time. The dragons sucked into the time trap each play the role of each ancient civilian that ever existed from the Old Night Kingdom, repeating their exact animations as if they were that dragon long ago. Over a period of time, the sightings of Cathedral include the others sucked into the time trap, in various states of decay, yet animated just like Cathedral. Some believe the point of dragons to be drawn into the time trap is to rebuild the old Night Kingdom day by day up until it was abandoned. Legend has it that once Cathedral finishes looping day by day, it will be free of the time trap curse and finally die completely and decompose completely, along with the others who exceeded their lifespan while they were in the time trap. It’s only a theory developed by dragons who study him though. It could just be an animated corpse, but nevertheless it is still just as fascinatingly morbid as any other theory about it. This information is all the collective information that scientists have gathered about it.
== History ==
Cathedral was once a healthy young dragon, bright future, intelligent, you get it. Disaster struck and he was suspended in Heaven’s high, but he hit an all time low. At the time, uranium had been discovered, which was a dangerous discovery. Dragons didn’t think much of it other than that it was an extremely dangerous substance that had to be rid of after studying it. NightWings, being a considerably intelligent tribe and were smart enough to never speak or mess with uranium again. Cathedral was among the scientists and inventors at the time who would study radiation. He didn’t know better because the newly discovered radioactive substance was very unknown to him, and he needed to study it to know more about it. After years of studying it, Cathedral noticed he grew very weak and he felt and looked like he was over 200 years old, despite being a young adult. It was unbeknownst to most that he lived during the peak of Darkstalker’s existence. Queen Vigilance ordered Darkstalker to enchant the head scientists to be protected against death so that the decay of the scientists wouldn’t kill them all eventually and so uranium could be further studied. Vigilance’s mistake was not ordering Darkstalker to enchant the scientists so that they would be safe from the physical harm of radiation poisoning, instead of eternally trapped to whatever husk was left of their body, what an ignorant queen Vigilance was. Cathedral’s body started into an almost eternal state of decay, agonizing in every way. He begged Darkstalker to help him, to reverse the curse on him and his fellow scientists. Darkstalker simply signed and gave him a scrap of his scroll and told him to write down his wishes upon the scrap. Cathedral was elated and had to get to the other head scientists to compromise a spell to help reverse their horrible curse. Unfortunately, they chose the same day that NightWings fled their home peninsula because of the downfall of Darkstalker. Luckily, Cathedral gathered his fellow scientists and enchanted a small portion of land to be a safe spot and be unaffected when they would stop time to think of a great spell to improve the world and to reverse their curse. Cathedral’s greed got ahead of him and he turned on the few other scientists with him, killing them so he could take the scroll for his own. He waited awhile, perhaps a few too many weeks to think of a perfect spell that would finally make everything perfect for him. But, he waited too long, so long that he was so weak from radiation poisoning he physically might as well be a rotting corpse. He cast a last curse before he created a spell upon himself to bring the sweet rest of death to him so that he could finally rest in peace. The last curse he cast before undoing the immortality spell upon himself was to make a repeat of the life he lived through, making his corpse animate and protecting it from fast decay. The repeat included his dead corpse redoing his every action down to the point where he killed himself, as if everything was still there. He had removed the closed barrier where it stopped time everywhere around it and finally added the finishing touch to his final curse. To drag others down with him. If one is to disturb his corpse in his eternal loop, then the corpse shall look up and into the eyes of the disturbance and drag them down into the same eternal loop with his very own corpse. This information is the truth about Cathedral, the fascinating history about him. Still, no dragon knows what really happened as they have no proper evidence to prove that this is accurate. 
 
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