monster and magic (end, for now)

ลำดับตอนที่ #9 : Chapter 9 I promise this will be the last info dumping

    That our epic fight for you!

   Wow, we been here for a while but we still at day 2, we have a long way to go.

   You know what? I will skip to the day that important to the plot. But don’t worry, I will first tell what I been up to the time I skip.

   Ava and I was learning magic from Beta, and it nothing like normal learning. Every class was exciting and filled with interesting subject, here the example.

   Day 2 of our class

   “Every magician got their specialty.” Said Beta.

   “Like summoner and divinder?” Ava asked.

“Yes, but there is also elementist, combat magician, animal charmer, amulet maker and many more. Oh, and don’t forget healer, I think it was the most important one, that what I good at after all. Anyway, good magician knows a bit of everything.”

    “elementist…” Ava said, which was not weird, after all, yesterday she used fire as her weapon. ”The wizard who specialize in element huh?”

   “Yes” Answered Beta “When we in the topic about it, let’s talk element. There was 4 main element, fire, earth, water and wind, and there 2 some sort of sub-element, light and darkness.”

   “So…” I asked “Light is for good guy and darkness is for the bad guy?”

   “Not exactly” Answered Beta “You see, light is not all good and darkness is not all bad. In fact, we split between us and the rebel magician by the force of order and chaos. Order is what keeps the world together, and chaos is what wanted to destroy it. Every trait has both side of magic.”

Day 5 of our class

   “God wasn’t the deities who create the world, but they born from our belief, they we are the source of our magic.”

   “We kinda know that already.” Ava said.

   “Oh, but do you know god can possess you and gave you power?”

   “Yes, we know that too.”

   “My brothers, always ruining my job, anyway, I think you don’t know the entire process yet. HEL!”

   I actually thought she said a swear word when the floor started cracking and a really scary figure came out.

   She was a beautiful woman at first glance, from the left side she wore a silk black dress, she has a black hair and a blood red eyes. But I needed to warn you, if you met Hel in real life and wanted to keep the beautiful image of her, don’t look to the right side, her dress started to frail and torn. Her leg was scale and dragon like. Her arm was torn revealing a muscle, even bones. Her hair turned white, and she has horn.

   “Hel has arrived.” She said, her sound was half harsh half harmony, she turned to Beta “You just can’t call me every time you teach someone about god.”

   “Yes I can, it your fault to choose me as your host.” Said Beta, she reached into her pocket and brought out a coin “Hosting god is like flipping a coin, there two way it can go.”

   She flipped the coin. “If you lucky like me and my brothers, they will just floating in your head and give you their power or sometime come out to help you with some magic. Or if you are unlucky…”

   “Or powerless for that matter.” Hel added.

   “The god will control your body and you will be the voice in their head instead.”

   “To be honest, that what most gods want” Hel added again.

   “Then why possess anybody at all?” I asked. “If they were powerful being, why bother using a mortal body.”

   “Because…” Hel was the one who answered this time. “We so call ‘God’ was just a bodyless spirit outside of the ‘mystic realm’, only way to show off our power is to use a body.”

   “And why is this important to us?” Ava sarcastically asked.

   “You two are the chosen two, and you are both gifted. Both of you will shape the magic world according to prophecy.  Of course there will be many god and goddess waiting in line you. Anyway, Hel show them what you got.”

   That the story, it times to continue the plot, and the best place to resume is the day after New Year, the day before we met our mentor.

   That night I have a dream, which happened every night by now, I not appeared as a ghost, but this time I had a full flesh body, I was in a somewhat elegant bathroom, I looked at my reflection, I was wearing a tuxedo, my hair was beautifully comb, I could even smell perfume coming from myself.

   I was about to went out when someone pulled me to the side, I turned to the person and I got to say, I was stunt by her beauty.

   She seemed to be 14 just like me, she has a lovely red hair and ember eyes. She wore a red empire waist dress, that what it call right? She wore a perfect amount of make-up. Her body odor a honey-like perfume.

    “Come on” She said “The song about to start.”

   She grabbed my hand and led me to the ballroom, it was 3 story high, the chandelier shining on the roof, about 100 people was talking and holding their partner hand.

   Walt music started to play, the girl turned to me and said “Let have a dance or two, shall we?”

   My body seemed to move on its own, My partner and I danced though the ballroom, I wanted to ask her who was she and where was I, but it seemed that my lip didn’t want to.

   The song started to change and suddenly many people started to surround us made me and the girl get even nearer. I could feel her heartbeats; she started to frown, probably because she was hearing mine too.

   She started to raise her face toward me. Is this what it called a gold chance?

   But I pushed her away. “Sorry, but I don’t believe in love in first sight.”

   “Nor do I, let just be friend for the moment.”

   3 minutes later I was sitting on one of the guest table.

   The girl walked back to me with two glass of wine. “Want one?”

   “Sorry, I still too young for those.”

   When she sat down I asked “First of all, who are you?”

   She thought for a moment “You can call me Kate.”

   “Secondly, is this the realistic dream, or just a regular dream and you didn’t really exist?”

   Kate laughed, which was really cute “Not quite, I followed the path of Hipnos, the god of dreaming, my magic can manipulate other people dream, it is still your dream, but I’m in charge.”

   “And this is what you look like?” I turned to the wine “You wasn’t an old hag hitting on me right?”

   She seemed to be offend but still smiling “This is exactly what I’m look like, but let get to business, your dad is fine.”

   “What?”

   “I can travel though dream, and I can feel what that dream was like. Your dream’s bad because you have fear in your heart, it not good for your health, so I’m here to tell you to stop your worry.”

   “I don’t want to be rude, but why did you help me?”

   Her face turned red “So nowadays people can’t be nice to each other for no reason isn’t it!”

   “Ah, sorry” I said.

   We have some chat for a while, she asked me a lot of question, like where I’m from, what I hate the most, what type of girl I like, what I eat a drumstick with etc. When suddenly she stood up and said “By the way, you didn’t know your prophecy yet, did you?”

   “No, but Beta said I’m not ready yet.”

  But too late, she started to tell the prophecy, her voice turned ancient as the word flow though.

In the brightest night, and the darkest day

From the blood of the divinder and summoner

The sibling of the prophecy shall be born

They shall face the chaos, as they were part of them

Guide by the corrupted one, the two shall face their worst fear

One shall fall to the dark, as to seek the other life

Because by the hands of them, the world will rise, or fallen

   “You like it?” Kate asked me, as if she just read the menu of the restaurant, her voice changed back to normal.

   “What that supposed to mean?” I asked back.

   “Well, this prophecy will dictate your life, I just ask what do you think about it and what you gonna do now.”

   “I think I just do what I normally do, I heard a story about people who tried to prevent the prophecy before, but they end up made it happen themselves.”

   “That more like it.” Said Kate “It nearly day now, let’s say goodbye.”

   “Wait, will I able to see you again.”

   She thought for a moment “I will think about it.”

   Kate raised her head up to mine and kiss my forehead “Wake up now; you got a long day ahead of you.”

I wanted to say goodbye, or even kissed her back, but I suddenly wake up on my bed at the first fort.

   I laid there for a while, thinking what happen, when I decided to rise up and go on with my life.

   When I finish bathing and dressing, I went to the fountain where we always met Beta. When I arrived, Ava was already there, in her usual outfit, and I thought what if what Kate said was right with her too, did

 she has fear in her heart? And how I supposed to tell her I met a girl in my dream [literally] who told me my dad was fine.

   “Dad was fine” I said.

   [Ava said I need to practice on how to open a conversation, maybe she's right.]

   She probably fell out of her chair if she was sitting on one “What?”

   “I dream about him last night, I think you might want to know it.”

   “Ooooooooooookay, thank I guess.”

   I leave out the prophecy part; she was too young to hear her prediction of her doom.