.....not the end.... as Opet had been removed from the laws of natural physics. It was the land of mystical forces that clashed and governed all laws, mystics that reigned supreme in the universe.
The apocalypse came in the form of a meteor that crashed lovingly into the rough seas and brought doom and catastrophe to the world's cities and populations. But People surivived, buildings survived, the will to live survived and braved into the post-apocalyptic era.
The entire world was benighted.
But Opet remained exactly as it was, rife with tensions and conspiracies, shadow lands, mystified moors, an entranced band whose music was somehow linked with the eschaton and fate of the cosmos. There in this land undisturbed but perhaps a bit darker, there is the castle enshrouded by massive clouds of lightning and thunder, the castle wherein King Olaf formerly known as Prince, stroked his Jenetalia that smelled like pussy, with an absent-minded look in his gaze, a puppet to the ways of Evil Cradlefelt, still plotting to kill Akerfeltd and perpetuate darkness and gloom over earth.
...And then there was the finnish Juunso and his romance with the guitar whose magic he was only beginning to discover....
Juunso continued his lonely stroll in the forests. The world shrieked of thunder and moans nobody could account for. But Juunso had felt a peace pierce his heart, the likes of which he thought was impossible.
He strummed his guitar and noticed vague caligraphy written between some frets. It read "music will save the world' and on another fret he read his own name. Juunso was astonished and at a loss. He did not know what to make of the eery coincidence.---he heard noises.
Someone was approaching. It growled and talked of death, its sillouette was a massive portentous figure.
It approached closer and closer as in a pscychodelic dream, its locations flurried everywhere. The growling grew louder and echoed in a million directions, the sillouette "enbiggened" Juunso nearly crapped his pants. All in a second, all in a moment when people are born and people die, all in this moment, Juunso recognized the caterpillar stache on the creature and knew it was akerfletd himself! and with a leap of faith, Juunso played the riffs in "In the mist she was standing" --- all within the span of second- sparks flew from the guitar and an ebony mist swirled around akerfeltd and he had collapsed and returend to his former self, weak and exhausted but thankful to be out of the spell.
Juunso checked his pants for streaks, then collapsed on the leave-stricken ground next to mikael and cried, sobbed and said "I never knew" Akerfeltd lasped into a deep depression for the murders he had committed. Unbeknownst to both of them at the time , the rest of the band had returned to their former selves too, and were in the same depression that immobilized the both of them. But Juunso took heart, some strenghtn and will propelled him. He knew that Akefeltd would be immobile and that he'd have to secure and ensconce him some place. He learned that moment, his underwear, streak-free, that he had a mission handed to him from the gods, and that only he could reverse the spell of Opet, and rejunvenate the planet, but how? With all these forces, Cradlefelt and the Poethians, lord Usic Elevision, a world that had been all but destroyed by a meteor. Juunso the finnish guitarist who had only been playing for two years, felt the weaight shatter down on him at once.
"How can I do this. I'm just an opethian, I can't do this, can i. Me? I'm supposed to save the world?" Juunso breathed and then breathed some more. The woods echoed, his hero Akerfeltd was still inconsolable and in penance. The guitar was singing to him and vibrated in his hands. Juunso got up and led Akefeltd out of the woods where he later met up with David and Christine, who recognized Akerfeltd in his arms. They mused over the day's events, recounted their strategies and sought to learn more about the magical guitar, juunso and his destiny. The air began to sob and one imagined the heavier riffs for "To bid you farewell" playing in the background.......
