Chapters Every story has its beginning and its end.
Also our hero who wants to forget his beginning and can't remember his end. It was like a fast-running film at the end of which the frames of the past began to burn and at the same time left deep scars not on the body but on the soul itself (or what can be called the essence inside each of us)
After trying to somehow move, panic began to build up for a while, but not a drop of fear, as if he had never felt it.
Having changed the strategy, he began trying to open his eyes (or what was left of them) and examine the surrounding space. My eyes and head could not move and therefore I had to evaluate only the frame presented in front of me.
The picture, to put it mildly, carried me away, I felt like a soulless space where there was a white spot on the likeness of the sky, and the abyss was black and between the horizon itself, these two colors mixed a rather pleasant gray shade. It's like I'm in the Minecraft world, but all existing blocks have been deleted and only the sky and the abyss have been left
I didn't feel the time, it wasn't clear how long I was here, maybe not how many minutes, or maybe a couple of days. But I didn't feel the most uncomfortable: no hunger, no sleep, no fever, nothing
After lying down? Sagged? It doesn't matter! After a certain amount of time, I began to feel someone else's presence, someone's eyes boring into my body to an unpleasant degree, instinctively I didn't like it, as if unpleasant images of people whose eyes said they didn't like me began to float into my memory
"And how did you manage to get into such a ridiculous situation?"
A rather unusual middle-aged woman appeared in front of me, she was very tall for my feeling, her curves did not correspond to human ones, as if she wanted to hide something from prying eyes. Her hair was a very long gray shade and hovered around her body, ignoring all the laws of physics. Her face is very beautiful, but you could see her frown because of which I was responsible
I didn't have the strength to speak, and fortunately I didn't have to answer, because the fact that she spoke to me made it clear that she knew what I was thinking
"And what am I supposed to do with you?" there was only one dissatisfaction in her speech, but it didn't stop looking at me "What? Do you want to know what happened to you?" she raised her eyebrow and knowing that I wouldn't answer her, she exhaled deeply and rubbed her red eyes " Okay, fucking hero, listen …"
After a short pause, she took out a kind of folder and began to read
"30 years old, a man, not married, a virgin part-time magician, lived in isolation and went out only for work, no talent, but a dreamer of some kind. He had no bad habits, as well as friends. I quenched my loneliness with the help of anime, manga and watching other animated materials. A very big fan of music, but as I said earlier, you had no talent for it"
I listened to her not because I wanted to, but because I couldn't stop listening to her, and it lasted my whole life. LITERALLY
When she didn't hear my answer, she continued
"You were walking in the subway along your usual route, wearing headphones, with quite loud music, after a hard day dreaming about one thing and another. But out of the corner of your eye you saw how some person decided to jump onto the rails, you did not think to help that "suicidal person" to get out, you quickly ran down to him to get up, but at the last moment you noticed that he easily got out with a bill in his hands. At that moment, you strongly realized the stupidity of the situation and did not have time to get out, decided to play a LEGO man under the rails"
After the story, I wanted to make a facepalm, but for natural reasons I couldn't. Well at least I understood why I couldn't move and speak
"So what should I do with you? You haven't even lived half your life, and then what? Will you demand interest from me for not spending time in my life? So it's still okay not to send you to heaven or hell, because you're not worthy of one and you don't deserve for the other"
A long minute of silence passed from the hopelessness of the situation and without thinking much, I decided to submit my thoughts to this beautiful creature
"What?! Do you want to enter your favorite world? Hah, that's what a young dreamer wants, but don't you want a lot? Plus, you built such features for yourself. It's too easy and sweet for you…
"Okay, but you will go there for a reason, but with pitfalls, and believe me, you need to pay the appropriate price from your selfish desires, you can say "the law of equivalent exchange" you can't get something without giving something in return."
I blinked in confusion, but I understood that there was logic in this.
"I'll send you there absolutely mute. Not only will you not be able to give out at least some word, but you will not be able to give even the slightest sound. That place is very dependent on voices and sounds, so it will be very difficult for you. I will also delete your memories of your past life."
I panicked because it was not part of my plans.
"Oh, don't worry, your ideas and faded features of the past will come to your mind gradually, so relax. Plus, you can then get rid of the curse of muteness, and for this you will need" here she stopped abruptly, as if considering a cunning plan for her game "And you know, I won't tell you. It will even be much more interesting to watch you"
My eyes widened beyond recognition, which made her laugh not badly
After some time, my body (or what was left of it) began to glow and acquire a shapeless bundle of energy and it was moving in a direction that was incomprehensible to me
"Good luck to you "Hero"" she said to me last and marking the word "hero" with the letter H as if it had another designation "Because losers really need it" and again she laughed loudly. She made it clear to me that I had to suffer before, and now life will not seem sweet to me.
I was flying in a shapeless bundle of energy, it's not clear how much time it took in a direction that I didn't understand. But I felt that something was starting to happen to my memory, my thoughts, my ideas and my fantasies began
I woke up from screams and voices that I didn't understand, but I
I felt a lot of different emotions and not all of them were
"My Queen, sample 177013 began to show signs of life,
"Dr. Urx, it's good that our experiment is progressing
"But no, my queen" a trembling voice began to speak more and more quietly, as if he wanted to hide, but he continued "Your experiment has such disadvantages. Firstly, its chitin is not completely black, I would say it has white with black spots. Secondly, for some reason it is not connected to your hive network. Thirdly, he is not emotionally stable due to the power of the "nightmare" and he may be a potential threat to your hive" the voice finished, but abruptly began to groan from lack of oxygen
"What does "potential threat to the hive" mean? Do you want us to
By the sounds of the second voice only grunted and by his emotions, I
"Okay, Doctor, let it be your way. I want the hive only
These words began to disturb me in an un-childish way and then for a moment
When will it stop?
Somewhere in void
A woman in an empty space sighed very loudly and lay down on a sofa that had just appeared out of nowhere
"Well, it was quite fun, I haven't had such copies for a long time" a TV and a bucket of sweet popcorn appeared in front of her "Well, let's see what's going on there"
The next second, images of our The hero is in the capsule for experiments
"Ugh, damn, why are you so unlucky. Didn't have time
She snapped her fingers and at the moment when they wanted to dispose of the hero disappeared in a dull flash and no one noticed it
"Oh, yes, I almost forgot " a pendant appeared in the girl's hand in a flash and disappeared after another click "This is my gift for you, it will help you, not much"
The girl began to look at one point again, as if she was considering the next action. This went on for about five minutes and a sly smile appeared on her face
"Looks like I'm going to need help from outside"
A landline phone appeared out of nowhere and she started calling a familiar number
"Allo? D? Are you still in stone? Don't you want to dilute your time a little?"
To Be Continued ….
Author's Note
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Part 1 The beginning of an unsuccessful life
-POV is our Hero-
I woke up in some kind of orphan home at the age of 7, in an abandoned city unknown to me, the only thing I realized was that the city center called "Griffonstone" is not far away and it gives me nothing.
I don't remember anything that happened in the past (except for the nightmare that I had), the only thing I have is the name "Feel" and a strange crescent-shaped pendant around my neck, I don't understand from where and from whom, but I feel much calmer looking at it
I have already been living in the orphan home for 3 years and they are quite unsweetened
At the orphanage, everyone avoids me, either because of my appearance, or because I can't utter a word. But I look quite strange, white skin with black spots on my legs and arms (as if I am a Dalmatian), eyes have pupils like cats with a red tint and long hair like pitch black that close my eyes, the more I think about my appearance, the clearer the reasons for avoidance become me
I was dressed not for beauty, but for the need to cover my body. Long leaky black pants, black leaky socks (fortunately my spots cover them), a black hoodie fortunately or unfortunately it was too big for me and that's it
"HEY freak, wake up"
...wet. These freaks constantly bully me, as if I'm a toy to play with, and she won't do anything
"Hey, you three, stop it"
And then she came up, who was the only one who took care of me, Fizzlepop Berrytwist. A young girl at the age of 14, even for her age, she has a pretty athletic body and is tall (5,6), she has dark purple skin with red-pink hair in the form of a mohawk, eyes with blue irises. She was dressed better than me, she wore dark jeans and a tight white T-shirt (which hugged her shape and musculature quite well)
When she approached, three hooligans immediately ran away in the hope of not being caught
"Damn them, sooner or later they'll get what they deserve." Looking at me with her apologetic eyes full of regret, she began to apologize
"You forgive me, again, I again did not have time to stop them in time. I hid a bucket from them yesterday, but they got another one somewhere. Okay, go wash your face, and I'll go check that you eat a normal meal today"
I nodded gratefully, gathered up my clothes and toothbrush (yes, I need to hide it) and went to wash, despite the fact that I was already washed.
"Oh, who do we have here?" immediately on the machine, he pulls a smile on his face, but when he sees me, he immediately shows his real self "And this is you! If I knew, I wouldn't stand on ceremony" he steps aside and begins to radiate an evil aura "You know, something tells me that you don't have long left in this shelter" when he left, he looked at me again out of the corner of his eye "and believe me, we will remember this moment well" and leaves the opposite side
I got up shaking off the dust and go into the washroom
In the dining room, my only friend, a Fizzlepop, was already waiting for me, she was sitting at the table with two trays, one of which was already empty
"Oh, there you are! And I already thought that you were trapped somewhere by these hooligans again" I rolled my eyes that I amused her mood "Okay, sit down, come on, or else everything has already cooled down"
I sit down at the table and start eating not tasty porridge with lumps. She sees it and starts cheering
"You do understand that you have to eat it, right? I won't let you not eat. Do you remember that the last time you stopped eating, you lay in bed exhausted all week and you were an easy target for bullying"
I remember it perfectly and that's why I promised that I would have breakfast all the time, yes, breakfast because lunch and dinner are just slop
"Okay, while you're having breakfast, I have not pleasant news for you" she did not pause for a long time and continued "I'm leaving the orphan home"
After these words, the world seemed to stop around me, I didn't know what to think about. I felt panic and resentment from her. I understood that this was also a very difficult moment for her, I put my hand on hers and smiled as gently as I could, fortunately she took it in return and smiled
"I understand that this is a very difficult moment for you, but I'm glad that you took it so easily. You see, one family wants to take me away because they liked me, but I believe that someday you will also be lucky to find a good family
"Let's go to that lonely maple tree again after lunch and for the last time? I want to hear you play for the last time"
I knew that it was very necessary for her and so I nodded
"Agreed. And you know, I have prepared a small gift for you" smiling, he gets up from his seat, takes his tray with empty dishes and smiles at me for the last time
Soon, remembering False words, "You know, something tells me that you don't have long left in this shelter," does he really understand that he can't do anything to me with her, and therefore he wants to get rid of her faster in advance because I'm an easy target.
In this shelter, I learned to be inconspicuous, as if I never existed, but it doesn't work if I'm touched. And at this rate, a couple of hours passed before lunch
13:00
I'm already sitting at the table with a tray of food, or at least what it represents, it's not the first day I've been living here, and therefore I'm having lunch with bread dipping it in the muck, calling myself soup.
At the entrance to the dining room, I see my friend and try to wave my hand to make myself felt. She notices this and starts to quickly pick up her tray of food and walk in my direction
"How are you? Nothing again?" laughing at his answer, realizing that he won't hear an answer from me "Okay, are you ready to go to our place after lunch?" I nod in response "Good"
Eating quickly or pretending that I'm eating, we leave the dining room in a place and leave the shelter and go to the nearest forest and not even imagining what awaits us there
A mysterious figure watching this couple leave also quietly disappearing into the darkness "You will never forget it and I hope that I will not see you again"
Somewhere in the forest
A young boy and a young girl quietly and continuously reach their destination avoiding holes and dense bushes
"Here we have finally reached" said the Fizzle and sitting down next to the tree "Well, let's get out your instrument and play for me"
Without thinking for a long time, I sit down next to her and take out a homemade flute and start playing a melody that I do not know, but just do as I feel
So a couple of minutes pass until she interrupts my melody with her tears, and I stop playing and try to cheer her up with my touch
"Do you remember how we met?" I nod without thinking for a long time and begin to remember this moment as if it was yesterday
2 years ago (8 years)
Today I wake up from the cold water that poured so well on me during sleep
"Good morning to you freak hahaha" these freaks are laughing "I want to remind you we will stop when you say it to him, but yes they scored, you don't talk hahaha"
I'm used to such an alarm clock, I get up and go wash my face. When I'm done with this, I start hanging up my bed linen to dry.
Having finished doing this, I go to breakfast to be hungry again. Taking my tray and sitting down in my seat, I start picking and drawing faces on the porridge It didn't last for a long time until compote poured on my head
"Don't forget to drink hahaha" said one of the hooligans and put the glass next to me
"Come on, take revenge on them" a voice in my head spoke "You want to give and understand what fear means, what it means to be helpless, make them beg for mercy" this female voice did not subside, but only kindled a fire in me only more
"what? So brave? Okay, let's check it out" for fun, she swings to hit me, but before she gets hit, I catch her hand and squeeze it sharply. She starts to bend down from the pain "Hey, you freak, stop it, it hurts me, how can you
"Well, stop this farce or you will both be punished"
I abruptly release her hand and recall my actions. I started to panic, I was rolling my eyes between them, "No, I didn't want that. I accidentally" I thought. I started to cry and the only thing I could think of was to run away from this place and far away.
And I ran away from the place seeing how one rubs her hand in pain, and the other tries to stop me
But I didn't want to stop, I ran into the forest that was next to the shelter and stopped only next to a lonely maple tree.
I sat down gasping from the wild pain in my chest, tears were oozing from my eyes "I didn't mean it, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry," I said to myself. From the wild stress, the only thing I could do was play a reproachful song. I tore a leaf from the nearest branch and instinctively put it in my mouth, and with a feeling that was not clear to me, I began to play a sonorous, but repulsive song
This went on for several minutes and I didn't even notice someone else's presence next to me
"Do you play well on the sheet"
I accidentally ate a leaf of a tree from a sharp compliment and started coughing as if I was suffocating
The girl, looking at such a picture, abruptly ran up to me from behind, took hold of my stomach with her hands and began to press hard on them. Soon the unfortunate leaf came out of my mouth and I fell to the ground greedily gulping air
The girl who helped me, sat down by a tree and from the fulfilled duty, relaxed and closed her eyes
Two minutes later she asked me a question
"Well, you give, you almost moved your skates from some leaf" she opened her eyes and looked at me "Why did you run away? You didn't do anything wrong, you were just tired of being bullied" I kept silent "sorry, but I can't tell you anything" "Why are you silent, did you swallow your tongue huh" I nodded "Oh."
She paused, trying to find the right words, but I felt that she was uncomfortable.
Having decided to stop inconveniencing the girl, I decided to leave
"Hey wait, where are you going?" I didn't listen to her "I say stop" and again I started to move away "Well, you didn't leave me a choice"
She abruptly got up and ran to me without giving me a choice to leave. From a sharp impulse, we fall together into the grass, so I ended up at the bottom, and she was on top. And our eyes met for the first time
She froze at what she saw, she couldn't take her eyes off my cat-red eyes. This went on for a few moments and I heard the answer that struck me and forgot how to breathe "You have beautiful eyes" this phrase echoed in my head. When she said that, she blushed, as if she had unknowingly made her comment
"Somehow we didn't start right. Let's start from the beginning" she got up from her knees and continued "Nice to meet you, my name is Fizzlepop Berrytwist, my friends call me Fizzle. What about you?" not knowing how to answer, I took the nearest stick and wrote my name on the ground "Feel? So be it, nice to meet you Feel"
Our days
Remembering those years, tears came to my eyes. "Today is our last gathering at the tree," the cutter flashed through my head, and I won't see her again
She seemed to notice it and gently put her hand on mine
"I know how hard it is for you, I feel it too, sooner or later it would have happened" she sat closer to me and abruptly removes her hand from mine "Oh yes, I almost forgot, I have a gift for you"
From her pocket she takes out black glasses and a hair band "I know these are small things, but it will be a small reminder of me" puts these things in my hands and gently kisses me on the cheek "This is all I can give you and I hope that in the future we will see each other again" and she smiled at me tenderly
I didn't want this moment to stop. But suddenly a growl began to be heard from the bushes, we looked in that direction together with her to see a big bear walking in our direction there
I froze in fear, my legs didn't want to move, I didn't want our lives to just go in vain, but then I see her hand and hear "Run"
I didn't immediately understand what she was saying, but then she started shouting "RUN FASTER, I'll detain him"
I didn't want to leave her, but instinctively my body started to get up and run away in the other direction
"No," I thought, "I don't want to leave her."
"No, you can. She's just a pawn" said a voice in my head "Don't worry, you'll have dozens of them in the future. Your main task is to survive"
"Shut up. I can't leave her, she's like a sister to me, and they don't leave their family." The angry voice wouldn't shut up until I heard a loud scream from that tree
I started running back in a panic, overcoming my limits, I wanted to get there in time. Along the way, I stumbled and caught unpleasant branches with my face
When I got there, I saw a terrible picture. I saw blood, her blood. I see the bear coming up to her, and she closes her right eye, "She's bleeding, she's injured." At that moment, I was overcome with rage, my eyes began to glow with a dark blue light, I no longer understood what I was doing, I wanted only one thing, to protect her, to save her
I approached with superhuman speed between them and with a sharp movement I grab the bear by the mouth. This went on for some time, until black tentacles appeared from my body that captured the bear like a rag doll and threw it out of sight of the forest
When I did this, I immediately looked at her, at the Fizzlepop, but I did not see any emotions of happiness or anything like that in her, I felt only one thing Fear, she was afraid of me. And the last thing she could say before losing consciousness, she said in a whisper "a monster"
I was shocked, I was shocked by what she said, I didn't want to believe
"I told you, she didn't need you, she was playing with you, she didn't care about you"
"Shut up" was the last thing I wanted to hear
I walked up to her, picked her up in my arms and went back to the shelter
When I reached the building I decided to leave her at the door, ring the bell and run as far as possible. When the shelter disappeared from my view, I felt something wrong, I look at my pendant and see it has a crack "Not for good"
In the shelter
When the medical nurse was called to provide med. With the help of one of the girls, at this time the Head of the orphanage
"He's finally gone, I hope I won't see him, this little boy poses a real threat not only to the orphanage but also to the world. I hope he dies there somewhere"
To Be Continued………
Author's Note
Attention, thank you for your attention
Part 2 New challenges and escape
POV Phil
After my small escape, I decided to lay low in the nearest village, and there I will already think about my further actions.
While I was walking to the village, I didn't notice that I was still clutching my glasses and a hair band in my hand. These things annoyed me a lot, I wanted to get rid of them, because because of them I remember not a pleasant moment for me
Deciding not to stand on ceremony for a long time, I ran to the nearest pond to dispose of these things. As soon as I stood at the edge of the cliff and only I managed to throw my arm behind my back, I was stopped by a sudden voice in my head
"WAIT" I stopped "Think again, do you really not need them? You are in dire need of disguise right now and unfortunately you don't have any other things and even more so you don't have money"
"Why are you stopping me? And anyway, who are you and where are you from? Why are you in my head," I asked my neighbor in my head, "And why should I trust you, isn't it more profitable for you to get rid of me?" I frown at an empty point, as if it is exactly there
"Wait, calm down" I was more or less able to pull myself together, because I need answers "Do not demand much from me, I will answer as I see fit" she did not pause much, as if sorting out all the information she needed to answer "To begin with, I will say that I can't get out of your body without another carrier, and even more so, I don't want to, it's comfortable and spacious here."
"Further, I do not know how I ended up with you, but I will say that I have been here for quite a long time"
"And why can I hear you normally now? Why did you wolf before?"
"I was not silent, I talked to you in a dream. And now I can talk normally because of the seal that was cracked"
"So it's because of you that I have nightmares almost every night"
"And what can I do about it, I have such a specialty"
After a long conversation with myself (literally), I decided to sit down at the very cliff "Okay, this is not the most important topic right now. The main thing is what to call you and what purpose do you have?"
After a short pause, she replied "I won't tell you my real name, just call me Night. And the goal I have is simple, just simple about the usual revenge"
"REVENGE?" my phrase screamed in my head, "Who did you decide to take revenge on?"
"And that's not your problem anymore. You have your problems and you're safe, and I have mine. The main thing that is important now is to escape and survive"
I don't like her tone, but she was right, I need to act. I looked at my hand, which contained glasses and an elastic band, I didn't want to have them with me, but I couldn't get rid of useful things. I decided to take a closer look at these attributes
Large black sunglasses, slightly bent and cracked, but can still perform their function. Next on the list, a black elastic band for hair, on which there are still dark pink hairs reminding of the previous owner
I looked at my muddy reflection in the lake to remind me how I look. Without hesitation, I put on glasses to assess my appearance, "It's not bad enough, it's lucky that they hide my eyes. Because of them I have big problems"
"Here, one less problem, but what about the elastic band?"
"I won't tie my hair, my skin is very noticeable," I answer her and pull the elastic band on my arm
I look at my reflection for the last time and start to get up, at the same time looking at the sky to determine the position of the sun
"It's almost 18 o'clock now. Move faster before it gets dark"
"How do you know that? How did you figure out the time so quickly?"
"Don't think about it, I had a friend, she is very closely connected with this"
Satisfied with this answer, I continued on my way to the village
Orphan home 18:00
There was the rudest silence in the main office of the director of the False Feith orphanage, he was writing down some papers until there was a knock on his office
"Come in," he replied in his usual kind manner
One of the teachers, the head of group 3-A Pale Fate, enters the office,
"May I disturb you, Director?" the woman asked in an even and emotionless tone "I have come to give a report on a recent incident. The girl with the code name "Tempest" was not badly injured, was dressed with a slight scar near the eye and amnesia, she does not remember what happened the last 3 years spent in the orphan home. Physical indicators are above normal. It is ready for transportation to our client"
"Very well, fortunately she lost her memory and therefore we were promised to pay extra for it" and with his free hand he began to wipe his chin "And what about the defective material?"
"Fortunately, it was able to escape, but at least the object is located in a nearby village and until tomorrow we will be able to get rid of it"
"Don't let me down, he can pose a serious threat to us" he got up and went to the nearest window "I do not know where it came from, but it is very well mentally protected and we could not take his consciousness. And something tells me that it has more power than it shows"
"All right, sir, please decline" he waved his hand giving his consent and she left at the same moment.
The director stood at the window for a while and spoke in an angry tone "Why didn't you finish what you started?" something like a man appeared out of the shadows and immediately got down on one knee "I gave you an order to get rid of the boy and erase the girl's consciousness, but you only did half the work" he looked at him out of the corner of his eye "Take the trouble to explain, I'm losing patience"
"Forgive us, sir, but we did not fully appreciate our goal. Everything was going according to plan. When our friend successfully erased her consciousness, at that moment this boy returned and appeared between them with a quick movement. We did not have time to understand how tentacles black as the night sky appeared from this boy, lifted our comrade from the ground and threw him further into the forest. We wanted to grab him, but we couldn't move, it was as if we began to be afraid of him and so it went on until he left"
"Hmm" that was the only answer from him
"What do you order, sir?"
"Gather a squad of your people and destroy it, according to you, it also has an aspect in magic and this explains some aspects"
"Yes, sir" and the mysterious silhouette disappeared into the shadows
The director was still standing at the window and pondering future losses "Today the first blood will be shed"
POV Feel
Coming up to the village itself, which for almost 7 hours (Thanks to Night) is now crowded "Thanks to my luck, it won't be difficult for me to get lost in the crowd." I walked at a leisurely pace, considering the architecture of the buildings (or at least what they represented). Wooden one-storey buildings placed along the streets, in some buildings the lights were still on and the real food smelled delicious "Yes, this is a real gastronomic paradise, I have never felt this wonderful smell"
"Do you enjoy such an ordinary smell? It's the usual smell of freshly baked bread, believe me, in my world I've tried real masterpieces of art, and it's just their pathetic semblance"
"What did you forget? I ate only one slop and the only thing I was glad of was when I was secretly treated to cookies by a Fizzlepop." Remembering that moment, I didn't even notice my neighbor's comment "Wait, are you from another world?"
"Forget it. When the time comes, you'll know all about it"
I decided not to focus on it, since she doesn't want to talk about it, then I shouldn't know about it
Walking through the village, I really wanted to eat "Naturally, today I ate only a couple of slices of bread and rolls." Without realizing it, I stopped at the fruit counter and stood there for several minutes until the voice of the seller called me
"Aren't they delicious?" I threw "These fruits are supplied from all the countries of Equestria, and this" pointing to the box of apples "Are supplied from the best apple farm Sweet Apple Acres they supply the most delicious and most appetizing apples in all Equestria"
While he was telling me all about it, I seem to have forgotten how to breathe and blink, but only a long line of my saliva dripped from my face
"Usually I sell them 3 apples for $ 3, but especially for you, I will make a discount, I am ready to sell 3 apples for $ 1" the merchant finished his offer
I kept standing and didn't notice how much time had passed until the merchant called me
"Hey boy, are you going to buy or not? Or don't you have any money?" I shook my head "So get out of here, I don't need customers without money" and as if on his orders, the queue behind me started pushing me
"A pitiful sight" answered the voice in my head " I give you good advice, if you want to live, adapt and fight. Regardless of the world, there will be those who stand above all, and there are those who stand in their shadow and will be forgotten"
"What do you mean by that?"
"It's very simple, if fighting is not your option, then just take and run"
"You want me to become a thief"
"No, I don't want you to starve to death somewhere in the alley, face it, you're nobody here and obviously you won't become anyone and obviously you won't be able to earn money here"
She was right, I had no choice for survival. I decided to get lost in the crowd and slowly approached the counter, the closer I was, the more tense the situation was, I was shaking all over, I was going to steal food for the first time. I was getting closer and closer, and when the cherished apple was at hand, the seller noticed me
"Hey, stop, kid!"
At this moment I grab an apple and run away
"Stop kid, thief, catch him"
I ran away as best I could, thank God no one had time to stop me. Running past the doorways, I decide to hide past one of them, in a moment of adrenaline, I don't notice how I'm hiding in the trash. In complete darkness, I hear people running past, as soon as the extraneous noise subsides, I decide to look out of the bucket, making sure I'm safe, I get out of the bucket of slop (thank God it was half empty)
Having calmed down, I look at my find, it was in my hand, a big red apple. I had a mixed feeling, I was glad to find it, but I was tormented by the act itself
"Well done, my boy, you can whenever you want" I was pleased with my result "Believe me, this is just a trifle, if you want to live, be able to spin"
"Okay, that's enough, it's my dinner for today" As soon as I wanted to take a bite of this forbidden fruit, I was distracted by a sudden barking
"Woof" sounded next to the trash can
"What is it?"
When I looked there, I saw a little gray puppy, just as emaciated and dirty, but just as helpless as me
"Don't pay attention to him, he stopped fighting, if he could, then he would be able to get food for himself. Now turn around and eat that damn apple"
"I can't do this, he won't be able to survive"
" What do you care about such a helpless and pathetic puppy"
"YES, BECAUSE HE IS THE SAME AS Me," I replied to my interlocutor, "I was able to survive until today only thanks to Fizzlepop and a small part of your help," I looked at the puppy again, "No one can survive without the help of someone from outside," and with these words I begin to divide the apple into two parts. I take the apple with both hands and press the upper part with the thumbs of both hands and simultaneously move my palms in different directions. As soon as I managed to divide the big apple into two equal parts, I keep one for myself and give the other to the dog
"Sorry kid, but I don't have anything else, except for this" the puppy, seeing my actions, does not immediately approach, but from the beginning looks at me, at the apple and back at me. When he decides to stand on his weak paws and approach me, he decides to sniff it from the beginning and then digs into this apple with hungry passion
"Although you don't understand me, but I'm telling you bon appetit" after a silent answer, I decide to taste this God-like fruit too
I dig my teeth into the edge of the apple to feel all the juice pouring into my mouth, not immediately realizing tears of happiness are coming through my eyes, maybe it's the first time I cry from happiness and pleasure. I didn't notice how I ate the whole apple without leaving anything
"Wow, it's like I was born again"
After looking at my hand, I look at the puppy to understand that he also finished his part
"Isn't it delicious?" the puppy happily started barking "I know, I know, I really liked it too"
After a small dinner, I look at the top to determine the time and judging by the answer of my companion, I realized that it's half past eight
"Well, okay, it's time to go to bed" I take a leaky blanket from the bucket and cover my body "Tomorrow we have a very long day ahead of us" I lie down on the ground and a puppy lies down next to me and I go to bed
Not even a few hours later, Night voice wakes me up
"GET UP FASTER - she shouts - COME ON"
"What's going on?" I asked, "I'm a sli...."
Before I could answer, I got hit in the face and the glasses flew out and fell to the ground
"Finally we found him" said an unfamiliar voice "I told you that this freak would sleep in the trash"
When I open my eyes, I see in front of me 5 people dressed in light armor and armed with light armor, but I don't see a face
"You made us suffer, why couldn't we be obedient and not die in the forest?" and again I get hit
"We had a task to catch and eliminate the target" said the second and looked at me predatory "But that doesn't mean that we can't have fun"
The third one told them to calm down, we are on a mission
"Calm down boss" the man began to wave off "We won't be long. Moreover, I want to avenge the fact that he threw me into the forest"
BE CAREFUL, THERE WILL BE BLOOD AND CRUELTY NEXT
With these words, they bring me down on my stomach to the ground and hold my wrists quite hard and painfully
"You know, according to the report, they reported to us that you can't even make a sound" he began to laugh wildly "Let's check it out"
And with these words, a dagger is thrust into my palm, I did not utter a sound with tears on my face
"Oh, look, and really not a sound. And it's quite fun" he pulled out a dagger and wiped the blade of blood with a rag "I was thinking, since he doesn't talk, then why does he need a language at all? Let's cut him off!"
With tears in my eyes, I shake my head in the hope of a different outcome
"Look at him, and he likes it. Okay, let's vote, who's in favor?" four hands were raised "So, then most of them are for! Delta, give me the forceps"
I resisted as much as I could, but I didn't have enough strength, only tears
One of the people took me by the head, the second held my jaw, and the third my tongue. As soon as my tongue had the same dagger, at that moment the same puppy jumped out of nowhere, he was able to bite the hand of the man with the dagger and he surrendered his position. Though not for long
"Oh, you creature" he snatched the puppy from his hand and looked at him "What, do you want to be the first? Okay take it"
When he just managed to swing, I barely hit his leg with my free foot that he missed, but grazed his ear
"You creatures only do what you interfere with our work - and threw the still alive, but wounded puppy to the edge of the alley" I hope no one will wave to me anymore
No matter how hard I tried, they continued their work and again the dagger was at my tongue, so I felt the cold metal of the dagger
I closed my still wet eyes, hoping for a miracle, but a sharp swing of the dagger decided my fate and the next thing I felt was a hellish pain
I felt my mouth filling with my blood, my body went limp and these killers stopped holding me, realizing that there would be no resistance
"All comrades, I'm happy, let's finish what we started" says the man putting away his dagger
In my bleary gaze, I saw another man come up to me and pull out his sword with a clang
"I'm sorry, but this is our job" the killer apologized and pointed the sword at me
"I almost forgot. While you can hear us" he approached my ear "I want to tell you this thing, do you remember that cherry girl?"and without waiting for my answer, he finished "So, she's gone"
Tudum
"Okay, we're done, I'm tired and I want to sleep"
TUDUM
The moment the blade reached my body…
TUDUM
... I felt an unquenchable rage filling my body
A dark substance enveloped my body, I felt a new surge of strength, I felt no pain, no pity for anyone, only rage filling my body
CRACKLE
Fragments of that very sword rained down on me, everyone who was nearby stood rooted to the spot, not believing what they saw
I started to get up, the ground began to shake around me, my hair began to float over my head, taking on the color of the night sky, I opened my eyes, one did not change as it was red and remained, and the second changed to azure with the same iris in the style of a cat
"What the fuck are you" one of the people shouted "Let's attack"
The crowd attacked me again, but they moved very slowly. I raised two hands in front with my index fingers in front of the direction of two people and shot them with a ray from my fingers, hitting them right in the chest, they fell dead
There are three left
They began to exchange glances and assess this situation. The first one gave some kind of sign to the other two and they disappeared, only one remained.
The only person from their team was standing in front of me, but they didn't know that I felt their presence
"What are you?" the murderer began to stall for time "You killed two of my comrades without hesitation, now your hands are covered with someone else's blood, now you are a murderer"
At the moment when he finished his dialogue, I abruptly grab the throat of a man from the shadow, turn 180 degrees and put a man in front of him so that he catches a blow
"Agh" a man screams and dies on my hand
The limp body, I throw at the attacker and abruptly move to him behind his back, he catches him and does not notice how his blade is pierced into his body and they fall dead to the ground
I turn to the last one and the one who hurt me the most
"NO" he shouts to me "Don't come near me"
I am slowly approaching, I want him to suffer the most, all the pain that I felt both moral and physical
He slowly walks away from me, but the wall behind him stops him from leaving further
"Please stop, please forgive me, I was following orders, I'm just a pawn"
I stood in front of him at arm's length, he shrank from fear and thinking that it was over. But then he didn't expect to hear from me…
"GO TO SLEEP" a voice rang out in the whole alley. A distorted female voice echoed, after which a body fell in front of me. He fell into an eternal sleep and seeing only his nightmares
I was standing, there were 5 bodies lying in front of me and I felt nothing, neither joy nor rage, just nothing
"You did what you had to do" Night said
I was silent
"And you run away from here, people may come here. Also, you are about to fall from exhaustion, your body was not ready for such a release of magic"
I silently agree with her, I really began to feel tired in my body. I saw all these bodies for the last time, I pick up fortunately not broken glasses from the ground and take the puppy with me at the exit
"Thank you for wanting to help me, I won't leave you," Night silently watched what was happening, she still didn't like my taking care of the dog, but decided not to comment in any way
When I came out of the alley, I began to see how the lights began to light up in the windows and the voices of residents could be heard
I felt trouble and ran along the street (thank God it's night and no one sees me)
When I reached the end of the street, I saw a pier, next to which a ship was parked and a lot of cargo next to it
"Apparently it's a cargo ship"
I run up to the cargo for a suitable shelter, it becomes harder and harder for me to move, and so I don't think for a long time I go to one of the boxes, open it and see the contents, it was filled with soft toys of different sizes "Will do"
I lie down there and lock myself in there with the last remnants of my strength and lose consciousness
POV Night
I silently watched as this boy fainted, returning to his original form, lying in a box among soft toys with a puppy
He was not ready for all this, neither for such pain, nor for the first murder, nor for such a large release of magic, much less such information
"If my sister were as affectionate with me as his"
There are two advantages: first, my seal has weakened and now I can materialize my eyes and other people can hear me. Second, we escaped, and now we have to wait for where the ship will take us
Looking at how this boy hugs a puppy, I stopped hating this animal, I was afraid that the dog only used this boy for his needs, but it was ready despite everything to help the boy or even save him
I have to train his body and protect his mind, because when he wakes up, he will no longer be that harmless little boy
"Why do you and I have to go through this?" After this phrase, I began to wait for his awakening
To Be Continued………
POV Feel
I'm lying with my eyes closed on something soft, a cool breeze is blowing through my body and I hear birds singing
"Wait, what birds? What's the wind like here?"
I abruptly open my eyes and the harsh light blinds me, blink several times, try to assess the situation around me. I was in some forest familiar to me, there was grass at home, real green grass
"Why am I not in a drawer, I remember that I locked myself in a toy drawer"
Before I could recover from what was happening, a familiar voice called out to me
"Feeeel?"
I froze in place, eyes darting in all directions trying to find its source
"Feel, where are you?"
After another call, a familiar purple figure runs out into the clearing, from which I opened my mouth
"There you are! And I'm looking for you, and you're here, I would answer if I heard"
"Excuse me Fizzlepop, but I can't talk…"
I froze in place without finishing the sentence, I took my throat in disbelief at what was happening
"What's wrong with you?"
"I'm talking, I can talk, do you hear me? I CAN TALK!!!"
I smile like a moron and she sees it
"Okay, let's go already" she holds out her hand to me
I look at her palm in disbelief at her existence. I rub my eyes and look at her again. I make up my mind and reach out to her and grab her
The moment I get up from the ground, I notice changes around me. The sun replaced the moon, the forest became darker and more terrible, neither birds nor forests were heard, only a dull hum remained
Turning my attention back to my hand, I see that I am squeezing only the skeleton's hand, I try to pull it away, but it holds me in a death grip
"LET ME GO" I shout "Where is Fizzle?"
The skeleton still holding my hand answers in a cold and dead voice
"Why did you kill us?" goosebumps and a dead ass went through my body, 4 more skeletons appeared and continued to speak in turn
"You…"
"Now…"
"The killer…"
I scream out of fear, I can't tear my hand away from him, and the skeletons begin to surround me. I'm waving my other arm around in a panic, but it's also caught and knocked me to the ground
At the moment I thought it couldn't get any worse, but the unexpected happened.
The skeletons began to part, giving me a view of a familiar tree, but what I saw struck me to the core. Under this tree lay the body of my friend, self-named (in my opinion) sister Fizzle. Her bloody body was lying under our beloved tree, blood oozed from her head and flowed down her face, the scarlet liquid stained her body and in some places had already dried up
I am immobilized lying on the ground and looking at this picture, tears oozing from my eyes
"No" I say softly "It can't be, it's not true"
Suddenly my friend's hand rises, her index finger points at me, and one single word comes out of her mouth "Monster"
I got hysterical, I screamed, I wanted it all to stop and as if on my orders the world around me froze. The trees stopped swaying, the leaves froze in the air, the surrounding things and inhumans stopped moving
"what? What's happening?" I asked myself
"This is your nightmare" says a female voice "And in my whole life, this is the worst and most terrible of all" and after the end of his sentence, an entity that is not clear to me comes out from behind a tree. She walked on four paws resembling hooves, and they were wearing some kind of shoes. She had black or even dark blue fur on the chest of which was an armor with a crescent logo, she had wings, but they were folded. She had a human-like head from which a horn was visible, she had non-humanly large azure eyes with a cat-like pupil, she was wearing a helmet. But what attracted more attention was her hair, it was blowing in the wind and it was like the night sky
"Who are you?" I ask hoarsely .
"I am the one you know and the one who has always been with you" she comes closer and clicks softly
"Really" I freeze in disbelief that it's her "Is it really you, Night?"
"Yes" she says, already standing in front of me " I came here to stop this nightmare and believe me, I do it for the first time in my life"
A bright blue light begins to glow from the horn and with a bright flash all the dead disappear around me, leaving me alone with her
"Why did all this happen?" I ask her
"It happens because of today's events and they were quite rich" she says and sighs "To be honest, I forgot that you're still a child" she finishes and starts stroking my head
"So it's just a dream?"
" Yes, my boy, this is your dream and also your nightmare"
A new batch of tears went down my wet eyes, but this time happiness and instinctively began to embrace Night. I do not know how long I hugged her, but I wanted it to last forever
" Okay, that's enough already" Night abruptly pulled away "Stop whining already, you've already splattered my entire fur with your tears"
"Okay, I'm sorry."
I wiped the remaining tears and snot with my hand. Night looked at me strangely and a handkerchief materialized out of thin air, I gratefully accepted it and began to blow my nose
"As I said before, you are now in your dream, in the place where my kingdom is located"
"Tell me, why didn't you stop this nightmare right away?"
"For various reasons, but mainly due to the depletion of the magic core"
"What kind of core?" I ask her with incomprehension
"Magical" she repeated "this is a special kind of energy found in everyone in a living being, well, at least in my world so. Do you remember what you did?"
"Vaguely, but I remember the main points well" I said, lowering my head
"In general, you did not intentionally unblock the magic channels to your magic core, but since you have already spent your quota, you began to draw magic from another source, or rather, from mine"
"Wait, when did I manage to use my source?"
"Don't you remember?" she tapped me on the head "It was the moment of the bear attack"
I scratched the place she knocked me and I stop when I remembered that moment
"Your problem is that when emotions overcome you, mainly anger, you launch your or at least my magic reserve and you begin to deplete it left and right without training" she concluded the verdict
"So, to prevent this from happening, I will train you spiritually and morally. This will increase your stress-resistance and the volume of your own magic core"
"And what kind of training will there be?"
"Mostly meditation and reading, but as I think, in this world we will not be able to find at least any book about magic. Therefore, I will be your book and part-time your teacher"
I looked at her with eyes the size of saucers, "Did she want to become my teacher? I will be trained in magic," I thought, and with a sharp movement I get up to hug her, but a transparent wall appears in front of me
"There's enough calf tenderness for today, I'm too kind right now"
"Thank you, thank you so much Night, and damn right, thank you teacher"
She didn't smile much, turned around and sat down in front of me "Okay, let's start the lesson right now" and with the radiance of her horn called the desk next to me
"Really right now? " I look at the desk and at her
"Yes, right now, because in the outside world, you can only meditate, and I will not be able to openly be next to you, and therefore we will study only when you sleep"
"Okay" I replied, sitting down at my desk and taking the pen
"Okay lesson we'll start the basics of the magic core" I raise my hand "What's your question?"
"I can't write"
She stared at me and rubbed her eyes with her hoof with a long sigh " It looks like I'll have to teach you from scratch"
To Be Continued………
Author's Note
Here I am done. It was already ready-written material, and then you need to finish and continue
Part 4 Rough First Meeting
I sleep relaxed and cuddle a stuffed toy until my face gets wet. With my eyes closed, I feel a slobbery muzzle that started licking my hand
"I remembered, I'm not alone in the box"
I open my eyes to realize that it's dark everywhere, only dim rays of light penetrate inside the box. My vision quickly adapts to the dark and I quickly understood my surroundings
Two big azure eyes appeared in the dark "Finally woke up, and you slept for quite a long time" Night told me "you slept in this box for 12 hours"
I looked at these eyes for a long time, after a while I pinch my hand and even after such an awakening they did not disappear
"I don't think I'm sleeping," I conclude
"Of course you're not sleeping" the eyes moved over my shoulder "Thanks to your psychosis yesterday, the seal has become weaker and therefore I can not see directly through your eyes and also, now strangers can hear me. If I want it"
Listening to her, I began to examine the walls of my room in search of a way out
"That's all good, but how do we get out of here?"
"It's very simple, do you remember your lessons?" I nod "This is good, so concentrate on your emotions and try to embrace the surface of the box with your magic and try to open it"
At the direction of my neighbor, I closed my eyes and began to concentrate on the destruction of its surface, after a minute a black mist began to come out of my hand and surround the walls of my chamber. I started to act, but Night started to say something, but I couldn't stop, the box around me started shaking and soon all the wooden walls began to change their appearance to…
"…"
"…"
"Tell me why you changed the wooden box to a metal one" Night asked me with irritation "Damn you, you wanted to get out of here, and you were required to at least destroy it"
"Don't yell at me, I'm doing this for the first time in practice, "I panic "At some point I wanted to be safe, who knew that I would strengthen the box"
"I told you in our lesson that ..." she wanted to scream already, but stopped, sighed several times and continued "I repeat for the last time. Our magic works not only on emotions, but also on our desires, you have to pull yourself together, clearly imagine your desire and start acting"
After looking at my hand and clenching it into a fist, I still concentrated on escaping, but …
"God, what pathos" she interrupts me "Don't strain yourself too much, if you put too much force in, then even I can't imagine what the consequences will be"
"Yes, I understand, I understand. Understand me, it's very difficult to do"
I take more air into my chest and slowly exhale it "Okay, let's continue"
Again I put my hand now to the metal box, I repeat my previous actions. Black smoke started coming out of my hand again and enveloping my entire space. Everyone was silent and even the puppy next to me did not make a sound, as if he trusts me
After a minute, the box began to crack, the walls made unpleasant creaking sounds "If it was wooden, it would be quieter" and soon, the box could not stand it under my pressure and crumbled into small pieces, the soft toys of the house crumbled because of my weight around me and I lay down on them
Now I felt very tired and hungry
"I'm not surprised by your condition. You slept for 12 hours without eating anything and exhausted your magic limit to nowhere"
"I realize my mistake, but now it's important for me to find not much food," I tell her and look at the ceiling of the room "I somehow forgot that we are now in the ship"
After the sentence I said, voices began to be heard from behind the door and they began to come closer
"Did you hear the sounds from the cargo area?"
"Yes, I heard them, let's make this detour quickly, hand over the report and finish our game"
Two voices could be heard from behind the door, male and female, when the door began to open with a creak, I quickly take the dog in my hands, put on my glasses and start hiding behind one of the boxes
I couldn't see anything from my hiding place, but I could hear their footsteps approaching in my direction
"Hey Yut, do you see this?" a woman's voice asks
"I see Yon. It seems there should be a box here, but someone crushed it into small chips"
They fell silent for a while, only the rustle of their clothes could be heard
"Okay, let's go from here, it seems to us it seemed"
"You're right, let's go"
Further on, the sound of footsteps and the creak of a closing door could be heard
"It seems they are gone," I thought and started to come out of my hiding place. But he stopped abruptly with a long knife pressed to his throat
"So who do we have here" a woman tells me "it seems we have a rat on board"
"I agree, but what should we do with the extra cargo?" her friend asked the interlocutor "That's right, we have to get rid of him"
There were two people standing in front of me, one man and one woman. They were ironed out like two drops of water, but the only thing that gave them away was the color of their eyes, one had blue and green, and the other had the opposite. I couldn't see their hair because of the swamp-green bandages. Their skin was completely gray, and they were dressed in light military uniforms
Cold sweat started trickling down my face, her knife was so close to my throat that I felt how cold it was
"Well? Will we somehow justify ourselves or how? We will play in silence" I nod "Look at him, the joker has been found here" and with a sharp movement of the knife they leave a small cut on the ear "Well, how? Have you changed your mind and will you talk?"
I hold the wound with my hand and try to make at least some sound, my lips move, but the sound never came out
"Stop making faces" the man lost his patience "We don't believe you"
I didn't have an option and so I started showing them the language (or what was left of it)
"Look at him, he's so brave that he began to show us ..." before he could finish, he noticed that I had no tongue "Oh, my God, how did you manage to?"
The girl looks at me and also gasps "Oh, my God, who is this with you?"
These two noticeably moderated their ardor and began to exchange glances with each other and again at me. Then one of them came up to me and quietly calmly asked
"Okay, we didn't get too excited, and now try to explain to us how you got here?"
I'm waving my arms and finger movements trying to explain my situation
"Wait, wait. Don't you know a mute language?" I nod "That's how, and why didn't you master it?" I lower my head and shrug my shoulders "Apparently no one taught you this"
The interlocutor turned to his partner, both nodded and continued the dialogue with me
"Okay, apparently in this situation you have to come with us" he says and smiles slyly "But we need to search you" I don't like what he's driving at "And therefore you have to strip naked and we will understand that you are not dangerous"
I froze with my jaw open and start shaking my head in protest
"Sorry, but we have to. Either we check you on our own or you will sail in a package to the sea, choose"
I agree due to lack of choice and start taking off my clothes
In the beginning they had a funny look, but when I took off my jacket, they stopped smiling and started staring at me with eyes of complete surprise
When I took off the last part of my clothes and stood completely naked, they looked at me with complete shock and did not know how to start a conversation
"I don't know what they are more shocked about, the fact that I have black spots all over my body and a rather noticeable spot in the heart area or the fact that my body is also covered with numerous scars"
After a while, the girl blushed and turned away, and the man came up to me and covered me with my own jacket
"Excuse us, we didn't know that you would be like this" the man apologized to me
Then he approached his companion and they began to whisper, but i heard them well
"Have you seen him? His spots are the same as ..." Interrupted her interlocutor
"I know, I know. He can't be the same, plus his scars make you look at him differently"
They looked at me again and continued
"What do you think? Are we taking him with us?" says the guy
"There's nothing to say, we have to take it with us and show it to our main"
They both nodded and came up to me together
"You passed the test, you can get dressed. And since you're coming with us, let's get acquainted, my name is Yut, and she's my twin sister Yon, and what about you?"
I get dressed and take a note with my name out of my pocket and hand it to them. When she was taken, they changed their faces again and I could feel their panic growing
"No, it can't be, there can't be so many coincidences"
"I agree, we have to do something"
And abruptly these two turned in my direction and started talking in turn
"You…"
"Must…"
"Change…"
"Name!" They finished at the same time, and in turn I don't understand what's going on here
"Understand, if you want to survive on this ship, you have to come out with a different name" says Yut
"Due to some circumstances, this name is forbidden in our by ship and therefore for a while you will be called..." Yon pondered and pointed at me with her finger "Now you are Silent, I think it suits him" her brother nodded in agreement
"Okay, we've sorted it out, let's introduce you to our leader and his squad"
"Woof" suddenly sounded again under our feet
"Oh, and who is this with us" Yon got down on her knees and started stroking the little puppy "I didn't even notice her, is she yours?" I nod "She's cute, what's her name?"
I thought about it, in fact I forgot to give the puppy a name and I didn't have time for it, I just shrugged my shoulders at her answer
"Will you let me give her a name?" I nod "Okay, we'll call you Scales! Hello Scales"
"Woof" replied Scales
"It looks like she liked it," I thought, smiling
Yut comes up to us and reminds us "We have been gone for a long time, it seems that reinforcements will arrive soon if we stay any longer"
"You're right, brother, let's go" she gets up and goes to the door "I hope you have no more surprises?" I show that there is no "That's great"
They come to the door and wait for me to approach them, I approach without thinking for a long time, letting them know that I am ready
When we got out, I began to evaluate the interior of the corridor of this ship. So, he's not there, he was completely gray with green spots "is that mold?" I thought. All the walls were completely full of holes, so I could see what was and was happening inside each hold. The light in the corridor was dim and shone with a dark green light, it was not usual, but my eyes quickly got used to it
"I agree, buddy, there's a rather unusual design here" Yut noticed "But we don't live here because we're too lazy to clean up, but because we harden ourselves to harsh and cruel conditions when we're on missions" he paused and added a paragraph "But we're also too lazy to fix and clean it all up"
Yon laughed at his remarks and continued "He's right here, the only room that has at least some order is only our leader's"
While we were walking, they began to explain to me who they were and how everything worked for them
As I understand it, they call Changelings, their group was considered an independent military force that fights only for its ideas. They consider themselves masters of disguises, elite for the extraction of other people's information and just people hiding in the dark. They consider this matter a family duty that is passed down through generations, they are united as one big family.
The leader of their squad was a certain Chrysalis, she had a tough and rather selfish character, but in a good mood she allows herself to be called a mother. I was also jokingly told to keep my mouth shut if I didn't want to have problems, and it was because of her that I was forbidden to have the name Feel
After a long corridor, we come to a suitable door, we stopped in front of it for a while, as if we were gathering the spirit
"OK" said Yon "Are you ready?" I nod "Great, the main thing is just don't be nervous"
With a creak, she began to slowly open the door, and she, in turn, resisted any resistance. At the moment when the door opened, a view of the entire room appeared in front of me, this room looked like a huge snack hall, long tables with long wooden benches without backs were placed everywhere, but I didn't see food. But what was full was people, SEVERAL DOZEN OF THE SAME PEOPLE, of different shapes and sizes, and only their appearance was the same, black skin, blue eyes, and also I was able to see their green hair that shone at the right angle.
Here they did everything they could: they played sports, talked, argued, played, but as soon as I entered the threshold everything went quiet and all the people turned in my direction to drill me with their eyes
I, from the sudden accumulation of so much attention, wanted to fall into the ground or just evaporate. Then Yut and Yon's hand fell on each shoulder as if they wanted to cheer me up
"Let us introduce you to a new addition" Yut was the first to speak
"Let's all say hello to Silent together" Yon added
And then there was a deathly silence and only the twins smiled as if they were doing this all the time, but this did not improve the situation in any way. This went on for a couple of minutes until someone from the crowd shouted
"Catch traitors"
And as if on command, a whole crowd of people rushed in our direction
"Oops, it seems something went wrong" Yon said, and the next second I'm already lying on the floor and not alone
"As I see it, you really like being treated rudely" Night quipped
"I am innocent that failure always haunts me," he replied to his neighbor in his head
I am tired of violence, especially over myself, and therefore I am lying on the floor and do not resist, because in this situation it will be useless. I am being held by three people, one holds my legs, the other my arms and the third my head
"Call the mother" one of the people shouts and points at the twins "and you two will explain your betrayal and do not hope for a pardon"
These two are trying to explain something, but they don't listen to them and then close their mouths
We lay in this position for a couple of minutes until their mother entered the main room
"What's going on here?" a woman's voice shouted to the whole room "They told me that traitors and garbage had made their way to the ship here"
When I heard this voice, goosebumps went through my body, I don't remember from where I heard it, but I was afraid of it, as if death itself was approaching me. In front of me, the crowd began to disperse and only three was still holding me, as soon as one pair of legs stopped at my head, I was twitching and feeling sick
"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" Chrysalis began to speak and looked at the twins "Are these two really doing what they want again? Do you have no right to invite anyone to our family, or do you have a valid excuse?" and by her decree they are given a chance to justify themselves
"Excuse us, your Excellency" Yut began "In no way did we want to change or even ignore the rules"
"But this guy was an exception" Yon helps "he has the same signs as us"
Everyone started whispering, I didn't see Chrysalis' reaction, but I felt her indignation
"Well" she looked at me skeptically "And what do you tell us?"
All eyes shifted to me, and I, in turn, was silent and did not even try to publish anything
"What right do you have to be silent when I gave you the right to speak?" their leader began to lose patience
"Excuse us, Your Excellency," Yon interrupted her, "but he can't talk."
"I didn't give you my word, I'm not leading..." and then she stopped without finishing her dialogue
There was an awkward silence again, "I'm starting to get used to it" passes in my thoughts.
"Let me explain" Yut received an approving nod "Thank you, for some reason unknown to us, he has no tongue, and also during his search we noticed our characteristic features. You can check it yourself"
Chrysalis looked at me for a very long time, as if there were clues to all her questions on my body, soon she decides to believe their words and decides to check it herself
"Okey. You three come with me to my office and there you will explain all the information" she decides, but "Just don't forget to tie their hands, I don't need unexpected surprises"
And as if on her orders, three people get up from me and start tying me up. I was the first to see the appearance of their leader. She was surprisingly very tall (6.3), she had the same black skin, her hair was long and had a birch color, but what caught my attention was her eyes, they have an iris like a cat and have a bright emerald color. Her clothes were simple but very rough, green knee-length jeans with holes, a green tank top and ordinary shoes
When our eyes met, I saw her predatory and not satisfied look, she turns around and leaves, and we follow her, accompanied by several of her guards. We walked in complete silence, even the twins didn't say a word, but what I don't understand is…
"Why doesn't anyone pay attention to the dog? Am I the only one who sees her?" I look at her, and she sticks out her tongue and smiles at me, "Yon kind of saw her, but their leader didn't even pay attention to her, as if she didn't exist. She clearly has something strange"
We walked for a couple of minutes until we stopped at a large black door with a crown logo "Probably this is her office," I thought
When we went inside, I was surprised by the order and integrity of the whole room, there were no holes, no mold, only the most necessary furniture and accessories decorating the whole room. At the moment of being inside, we were untied and then the door closed behind us and we were left alone, me, the twins and Chrysalis herself
Chrysalis herself came to her desk filled with papers I didn't understand, one photo and sat down at a large chair resembling a throne, her gaze fell on me again, as if in such an environment I would be able to speak
"Well, when we were able to get away from prying eyes, I allow you to briefly and clearly explain his similarity to us" she gave the order firmly and clearly "And you" she tells me "Take off your glasses immediately, have respect to take them off when I'm talking to you"
I hesitated for a long time, but I understood if I didn't take them off, it would be worse for me. I slowly take them off, but before that I close my eyes tightly
"Are you kidding me at? Are you not only mute, but also blind or something?" I shake my head as a refusal "So what's your problem, fast open your eyes"
"Excuse me, your Excellency" Yon got into the conversation that she got an angry look at herself "When we met him, he was already wearing glasses and did not take them off, as if he did not want us to see his eyes"
Chrysalis gets up from his seat with impatience, comes close to me and forcibly opens them to me
"If you don't want to, then I'll have to force you" and with these words, rather sharp nails dig into my eyes, I don't resist for a long time and open them sharply in front of her "Don't force me again..." she stood rooted to the spot and looked into my eyes without interrupting
And again, the same reaction as everyone else, I started to get annoyed by this situation, in order to stop it, I turn my head to the side to stop the awkward situation, but then the unexpected happens for everyone. Chrysalis's hand reaches out to my head and she turns my head back so that I can see how she looks at me with slightly tearful eyes until she is distracted
"Excuse us, our lady, if he did something, then we are ready to accept the whole guilt" says Yut
Chrysalis quickly and imperceptibly wipes away tears and leaves to sit at his desk
"So what did you see from him" Chrysalis is trying to change the topic
"When his search took place, we noticed that he was covered with various spots" says Yon and blushes
"But on his chest in the heart area there is a characteristic sign of our kind, and this is a large depression that shows our similarity" says Yut and for demonstration takes off the upper part of his clothes, allowing you to see his lean body with the same spot on the heart, but smaller
Chrysalis listened to everything very clearly, and to confirm his words, I lift my jacket up to my neck "It seems to me or the spots have become much wider than usual" I notice my changes. She does not believe her eyes again comes up to me and starts touching every spot (or recess) and finishing at the biggest at the heart
It was getting awkward for me while she was touching me on the chest, soon she finished, went to the table and sat down at its edge
"Okay, I believe you" says Chrysalis "But we have to check his abilities and therefore you will check his skills. You have time until we reach Manehattana, which is about 2 weeks. You clearly understood" she commanded and we all nodded together
"Allow me to deviate" Yon asked, having received a positive answer, we began to leave the door
When we were almost at the exit, I put on my glasses and look at Chrysalis with the last glance, and she, in turn, took a photo frame from the table and mumbles something, but I can't hear it anymore
"Here you surprised me" Night is surprised "You can say you got away with it"
"I agree with this, not without conflicts, but in principle everything turned out fine," I tell her
"Do not lose this opportunity, perhaps now you have a chance to train your physical shell"
I nod to her and again notice my dog at my feet, but this time she has some kind of transparent and shiny green stone in her mouth, which she tries to gnaw through with her jaw
"More and more questions are going to be asked of you" and after that Scales swallows this stone "I hope it won't make you feel bad," I thought, looking at her
To Be Continued………
Author's Note
I've finally finished this chapter
If there are questions about names, then I picked them up randomly from the Dungeons & Dragons board game, as it happened that there are Changelings there too, and as we know, names are practically not mentioned in the series, and I can't leave everyone without a name
A moment with pictures. For Chrysalis, I chose a more human and adult one. It is simply impossible to find art for all other Changelings, because they are all painted with insects, and I wanted to add people. Also, I drew (colored) art for Scales, but I couldn't upload it directly through the computer
I will try to release one chapter at a time a week and therefore, see you again
3 hours before the Main Character wakes up
Pov Chrysalis
From 6 o'clock in the morning my people start working. Our ship was parked near a little-known city, but here we have our regular customers and the authorities here have the least power. At this time, I had to receive a report from my people about the task, and we also had to load the secret cargo onto the ship and bring it to the destination Manehattana, where other buyers would be waiting for us
"Where have they gone?" I am indignant "a whole hour has passed, and our people are still not there"
I need to send someone to investigate, I snap my fingers and one of my people appears in front of me
"Tiert, gather some people and scout this village, find our people and check what happened to them"
And then he evaporates leaving his image – "I have a bad feeling"
15 minutes pass
I sit in my office and draw up distressed contracts with future buyers. Going through the letters, I come across a black envelope with a familiar logo and a single word STORM in the lower left corner. I already understood what it was about, it wasn't the first time he sent envelopes with offers, but I constantly rejected them, because he was a bloodthirsty madman, greedy for power and who didn't care about anyone and everything except himself. It's not that I didn't want power, but the lives of my people are above my well-being
I tear up this letter and at the same time my human appears in the office with a frightened face
"What happened? Report" I order
"My Lady, we found shocking finds" he says with complete shock "In one of the alleys we found our murdered brothers"
"What?" I yelled "How could this happen? They are our best killers, who could have done this?" I growl at him
"We don't know anything, but the only thing we have is a piece of language found in an alley and a description of the purpose they were looking for" here he hands the paper into my hands "That's it, let me leave?"
"OK. We are behind schedule and therefore get ready to sail, there is nothing holding us here anymore"
He evaporates in the dark and I begin to carefully examine the evidence. There was a small bag on the table with a pale tongue neatly cut in it. "It's strange, judging by the report, only 5 of our bodies were found in the alley. So he somehow survived and was able to escape," putting the bag aside and taking the contract, it was spoiled by blood and most of the text could not be made out, the only thing that was written there "... says white skin, mediocre clothes. Please finish the promised work or the contract will be terminated"
"The only note is the color of his skin. It will be necessary to announce a search for him after lunch, it will be difficult, but we must find and avenge our “brothers” " I say and put the evidence in a drawer
Leaning on my chair and looking at the ceiling, I felt how the ship moved from the shore and began its journey to a new destination "From all this I got a migraine", as soon as my head started to hurt, I lowered my head to the table and looked at the photo on which a small child was depicted, in the corner of which it was written “Feel” "I miss you" and a sad smile appears on his face
At the moment of the hero's appearance in the dining room
I sat in my seat and stared at the ceiling, on which two unpleasant flies were circling, but they somehow entertained me from time to time. So it went on until there was a knock on the metal door, and as quickly as possible I took a smart pose and picked up a stack of papers
"Come in" I shout
One of my people comes in the door panicked and a little out of breath
"Let me distract you" he 's sorry
"Speak faster, otherwise you distract me from useful things" I hurry him
"Excuse me and don't be angry, we have two traitors and garbage on board"
"Just don't tell me that these two have done something again?" he nods, and I rub my eyes with fatigue "They cause so many problems, and what about the garbage?"
"We do not know who he is, these two brought him, and we immediately tied them up. Now we are waiting for your arrival
I sigh from all this commotion, get up from my seat and go to the exit. While we were walking, I begin to stretch my legs and back, otherwise everything went numb in a couple of hours
Upon arrival at the common dining room, I shout at the whole room "What is going on here?" at my cry, all my people immediately turn around "They told me that traitors and garbage have made their way to the ship here"
People began to make way for me in front of me, giving me passage and such a picture was drawn to my eyes. There are three people here, two of whom give me a lot of problems, and I see the third for the first time.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" I approach the two twins "Are these two really doing what they want again? Do you have no right to invite anyone to our family, or do you have a valid excuse?" they nod in response
"Excuse us, your Excellency" Yut began "In no way did we want to change or even ignore the rules"
"But this guy was an exception" Yon helps "he has the same signs as us"
At that moment, the dining room became noisy, and only one word "What?" was spinning in my head.
"Okay" I look skeptically at the newcomer "And what do you tell us?"
The guy was lying on the ground, didn't move and just kept silent, it was so quiet that I could hear his breathing, my nerves began to knock down "What right do you have to be silent when I gave you the right to speak?" I shout at him
"Excuse us, Your Excellency" Yon interrupted me "But he can't talk"
"I didn't give you my word, don't you see I..." I interrupted my accusation and looked at him in general surprise
"Let me explain" I allowed him "Thank you, for a reason unknown to us, he has no tongue, and also during his search we noticed our characteristic features. You can check it yourself"
After that, when I was told that he has no tongue, I abruptly turn to our guest and start looking at him for a long time, "Did we really catch the one who killed our brothers," I thought
I need to make sure of this personally, if my people find out that he killed our people, then he will be torn to pieces here "Good. The three of you come with me to my office and there you will explain all the information" knowing what he can do, we need to be safe "Just don't forget to tie their hands, I don't need unexpected surprises"
When he stood up, it gave me a better appreciation of his appearance. In front of me was a young boy about 10 years old, his height was 65 inches, then his skin color caught my eye, he was white "What I needed", I thought. I couldn't see his eyes because of the glasses, his clothes were very dirty and full of holes, and he also didn't have shoes
I turn around to the exit, order them to follow me, and we all go to my office together, in complete silence. While we were walking, I did not leave the feeling that we were not alone, as if someone else was following us, I begin to look around in search of a stranger, but I don't see anyone "Does someone have disguise skills superior to ours?" I wonder
Upon arrival in my office, I order them to untie them and leave us alone, and I sit down at my desk and start sorting through the little emerald with my fingers out of boredom
"Well, when we were able to get away from prying eyes, I allow you to briefly and clearly explain his similarity to us" I order the twins to explain the situation "And you" look at the stranger "Take off your glasses immediately, have respect to take them off when I'm talking to you"
The guy doesn't hesitate much, but still takes them off with his trembling hands and closes his eyes at the last moment, which really gets on my nerves
"Are you kidding me at home? Are you not only mute but also blind or something?" he shakes his head as a refusal "So what's your problem, quickly open your eyes" I order him
Here Yon gets into the conversation "Excuse me, your excellency" I look at him with an evil look "When we met him, he was already wearing glasses and did not take them off, as if he did not want us to see his eyes"
When she said that, I was completely covered with anger "What does he allow himself?". I abruptly get up from my seat and approach him point-blank "If you don't want to, then I'll have to force you" I grab his face and open his eyelids with my nails, there was no resistance "Don't force me again..." I don't finish my sentence when I saw his eyes, I couldn't believe it seen
Those eyes looked at me as if two red rubies looked straight into my soul and found in it those echoes of old memories that I had long buried in myself
The boy started to turn away from awkwardness, and I didn't want to lose those eyes, and so I turn back to see them again, I couldn't control myself anymore and tears began to flow little by little on my face
"Excuse us, our lady, if he did something, then we are ready to accept all the blame" I remember where I am and wipe my tears, at the same time going to the table
"So what did you see from him" I calm down and my curiosity takes over
"When his search took place, we noticed that he was covered with various spots" says Yon and blushes
"But on his chest in the heart area there is a characteristic sign of our kind, and this is a large depression that shows our similarity" says Yut and for demonstration takes off the upper part of his clothes, allowing you to see his lean body with a spot on the heart
I listened attentively to them, when my gaze fell on the boy, he began to take off his jacket as if on command, I became very curious and I decided to confirm everything from a close distance. When I approached him, I started tracing every dent confirming their existence and yes, they were real, they just stand out very much on white skin, we would look exactly like us. I circled every recess that I saw and stopped at the largest one in the heart area
Funny fact, every person of our race has dents of different shapes and therefore, it is impossible to find a similar pattern no matter how much you look for "Twins are a separate case", but what surprised me was that this boy had a dent on his chest in the shape of a crooked heart and the strangest thing, I remember that I saw the same pattern on someone, but I don't remember who
I stopped torturing the boy and went to my desk. He really is a representative of our species, but also, perhaps it was he who killed our brothers and therefore we need to check his skills and abilities, perhaps he will be useful to us
"Okay, I believe you" I say "But we have to test his abilities and therefore you will test his skills. You have time until we reach Manehattana, which is about 2 weeks. You clearly understood" I commanded and they all nodded together
"Allow us to deviate" Yon asked, having received a positive answer, they began to leave the door
Looking at my desk, I reflexively take a photo frame and look at the portrait, but then one thought comes to me "Wait, does this boy have the same spot as my son? No, no, it's not possible, I personally buried him, he can't be my son" from such information, I fall into my chair and fall into deep thought, my hand was already reaching for the emerald that calmed me, but I couldn't find it "Stop, where did he go?" I am perplexed by my loss
POV Feel present
We walked in a small group through the corridors and returned to the common dining room. I walked in silence (not surprisingly) and listened to my fellow travelers whispering, which was funny
"Sister, we were very lucky, I was so worried that I thought that today we would feed the fish"
"I agree, we are already on the verge of the last time, I think today is our day" and then they happily hugged
I stood next to them and waited for them to finish, but they hugged for so long that I got tired of standing and sat on the floor with my back against the wall
After a while they remembered me, laughed and together synchronously said "Sorry" and we continued on our way. While we were walking, Yon was looking at me out of the corner of her eye, but when she noticed that I could see her, she turned away sharply, it was strange for me, but I decided not to pay attention to it
"Psst, brother" Yon is whispering for his brother "Do you hear me?" he nods "Do you think I can he like me?"
Yut opened his eyes wide and looked at his sister with incomprehension "What are you doing? And the day hasn't passed, and you already have a crush on him?"
Yon blushed and still answered him in a whisper "You don't understand, there is something in him and also, according to our rules, we can only fall in love with our own kind, and as you remember, he is not considered a stranger to us" and looks slyly at his brother
"Do what you think is necessary, but don't put too much pressure on him" he reproached her "Something tells me that it will be very difficult with him"
I'm still walking next to them and wondering if they really think I can't hear them?
"Look at him" Night spoke "It seems our Colt has fans" she spoke maliciously"
"What does that mean?" I ask her
"What are you talking about?" she asks me
"What does a fan mean?" I repeat the question to her
My interlocutor was silent for a while and asked me in a surprised voice "Do you seriously not know what I meant?" I agree and she sighs languidly "I meant that someone has fallen in love with you"
"What does this mean?" I ask another question
"Are you kidding me?" she shouts at me "You know what? I won't explain it to you, it will even be more interesting for me to watch"
I had to measure myself with this information and by this time, we had already reached the right room
"Okay" Yon stopped at the door "The first acquaintance was unsuccessful, but now everything will be different" and at this time Yut began to open the door
I again had a view of the entire dining room, only this time there was a smell of food, my stomach began to make loud noises, but the strange thing is that I had no appetite to eat and my companions noticed it
"Who has a rumbling stomach here" Yut notices "We'll prepare everything for you now, Yon go and get him a portion" he tells her and winks with one eye. She took the hint and quickly disappeared into the queue for food "And while she brings us portions, let's sit down at the table" I agree and follow him
He found a secluded place in the corner of the dining room where there was no one and we sat there trying not to attract anyone's attention (Well, at least we tried)
While we were sitting, someone was constantly looking at me, but I already didn't give a shit about them and I was already used to such attention. So it went on until the familiar cry was heard throughout the hall, Yut abruptly gets up and runs away in the direction of the scream, and I follow him
When we arrived at the place, a crowd of people gathered there, in the center of which I saw not the most pleasant picture. Some unknown thug was holding Yun by the throat, she was hanging like a doll, with tears in her eyes, and there were several trays of our food on the floor.
"Look at her" the bully began "Since when can traitors have lunch in our dining room? Perhaps our mother gave us the opportunity to get rid of them," he said and began to push his throat more
"Barx stop" Yut intervened "No one punished us and we were just let go, and now put down my sister"
Barx looked at Yut with a murderous look, but did not stop in any way "Oh, and here's the second one who came" he looked behind his back and met me "As I understand it, is this our guest? He's kind of frail" and he takes Yut by the throat with his other hand "But never mind, I'll get rid of you quickly"
The situation started to heat up and I had to do something, and then a risky idea came to me, but it was supposed to help them. I do not noticeably approach the bully from behind and with a sharp movement of my hands I pull down his pants and everything that was under them, he did not immediately notice the changes until the wild laughter of the people who were watching us rose up in our circle
When the bully saw what everyone was laughing about, he lets go of the twins that fall to the floor and puts on his pants with a quick movement. I don't have time to run away from him, but unfortunately he managed to catch me by my clothes and now I'm hanging in front of him
"What the fuck are you doing? That you want to be the first? If you want it, I'll give it to you" having said that, he began to take a swing for a blow. As soon as his fist was almost at my face, I abruptly fall through the jacket and lie on the floor without outerwear "Where are you an insect, I don't..." then he drew attention to me, holding my jacket in his hand
There was a sudden deathly silence in the dining room, and I, in turn, get up from the ground and take my jacket from the frozen bully and put it back on.
Then a gramophone sounded throughout the room, from which the voice of Chrysalis was heard "Attention to all my children and soldiers. I am passing on important information to you, at the moment, there has been a temporary addition to our family in the person of Silent. Starting today, he will conduct a two-week test of his skills, in charge of which will be two Yut and Yon. The end of the information and remember, We are a family, and we are united" after the end of their information, everyone in chorus repeated the last phrase of Chrysalis “We are a family, and we are united ”
Everyone present looked at me and started whispering to each other, and the bully just stood there. At this time, I approach the twins, give them a helping hand helping them get up
"Thank you for helping us" says Yut "If you hadn't had time, then we were already unconscious" he says and looks at the floor where the trays were "Excuse us, maybe we won't have food today" he says with sadness in his eyes
I look at what's left and see a couple of fruits lying on the floor, without thinking twice, I pick them up, rub an apple on my jacket and start eating it
"I see you are not discouraged" Yon smiles "If you want, you can eat what has survived" I hold out my hand to them with an apple and a banana "It's not worth it, we are not hungry" I insist on my own and they meekly accept the food "Okay, thank you"
Together we start to leave the dining room and out of the corner of my eye I see how the bully looks at me and runs his thumb across his throat
"Okay" Yut starts "Now we will start checking your abilities and skills" I nod "We will have everything in order" and he begins to bend his fingers on his hand "From the beginning of running, for a time and for how long, then push-ups, stretching, we will check your strength on a strength meter, and the final will be a test of your abilities In battle, in disguise and hide-and-seek"
"Don't worry, we'll be there" Yon calms me down
I looked dumbfounded at them and a drop of sweat rolled down my face
"This will be the most difficult two weeks," I think
"And what" Night did she talk "Don't you dare be lazy, if you mess around, then I will torment your dreams with nightmares"
"Please have mercy," I beg her
"Let me think" she quieted down for a couple of seconds and gave her answer "NO" and began to laugh hysterically
"NO," I silently shout to myself
To be continued....
Author's Note
Here's a new chapter. Write how do you like it?
Part 6 What is happening to me?
POV Feel
I followed the twins down the corridor without any mood at all, I understood that I could not relax, because my head tyrant would not let me down
"Why are you so gloomy" Yon asked me "Are you worried about all this?" I nod "Don't worry so much, you're lucky that we're with you. If someone else was with you, you would have remained disabled" she hugged me and started giggling
"If you don't take into account that I'm already disabled," commented in my head
By this time we had already reached the right door and behind it I saw a very large gym, in which there was a lot of sports equipment, ranging from exercise machines and ending with balls
"I am surprised by the size of all the rooms, I wonder what size the ship itself is?" I asked myself a silent question
When we first entered, everyone who was inside stopped minding their own business and started looking in our direction
"Hey, look" one of the guys shouted "It's the new guy, it looks like we're going to see a performance now" after his words, a hum and a noise of applause rose throughout the hall
"I feel like a clown in a circus," I comment on this situation
"And what did you want?" says Night "I agree with them, you are now a weak and defenseless foal, but for you it will be motivation to become stronger and put them all in their place" she encouraged me "Oh, I'm pity I don't have popcorn" and immediately destroyed her speech
I roll my eyes at my interlocutor's comment, by this time we had reached the center of the hall, where Yon was already standing with a piece of paper
"Now we will start checking your skills" she says checking the list "First on the list we will start with 100 meters" and shows the place from which we start
I approach the specified point and Yut comes up against me after 100 meters, letting me know where to run to
"Are you ready?" Yon asks me, to which I nod "Great, then to the start, attention and ..." here she looks at me with a puzzled face "Why don't you get up a running pose?" to her question, I shrug my shoulders "Don't tell me you don't know how to get up?" I nod and then the whole hall was infected with wild laughter of everyone who looked at me
"Look at him, this garbage doesn't even know how to start running from a low start" says one of the observers and tries to catch his breath after laughing
Yon takes a deep breath from the situation and after not much noise, begins to explain to me how to start running "Listen to how to do. Running from a low start is divided into three phases, at the command "Get" you rest your hands on the starting line, legs bent at the knees. At the same time, one leg is placed slightly in front, the other – behind, and it is she who rests her knee on the track. The head is lowered, the gaze is directed down. At the command "set", the knee lifts off the ground, the pelvis rises, the shoulders move slightly forward, and the weight of the body is transferred to the front leg. At the command "Go" you have to lift both hands off the floor, the hind leg makes a powerful push and the first running step, and the whole body strives forward to the finish line."
As a result, after the end of her dialogue, I just stood like a statue and didn't understand anything, and it looks like she noticed it
"God, there are so many problems with you," she says
"Let me show our newcomer how to do it" a person I don't know got into our conversation
"Ron, what do you need" says Yon "Did you also decide to make fun of him?"
"No, how could you think that" he reproached her with his affected tone "I want to help our “brother” to show how and what to do" he says with a cunning eye divination
I stood next to him and looked at this character “Ron”, he looked like everyone else, but his musculature was different from the others, he was thin, tall and fit, a scar that passed through his lips stood out very much on his face. Despite his friendly appearance, I only felt hostility from him
Yon sighs tiresomely, but still agrees to his request "Okay Ron, show our beginner the basics"
"Yes, of course, I will do it in as much detail as possible" he says, standing next to us "Let's diversify the test of your skills and add a small dispute to them" he suggests
"Absolutely not" Yon abruptly inserts his word
"I didn't ask you" he answers her and turns to me "Let's make a bet, if you can repeat or even surpass me, then I can guarantee your safety, and if not, will you become my slave until the end of the journey?" he offered a deal and holds out his hand to me
"Don't agree to this" Yon gets in "You can't beat him in running, he's the best runner in our team, let's just finish the test?" she suggested
I looked at her pleading eyes for a long time, she was right, but if I refuse, I will not be able to imagine the consequences and what they can do to me
"Think about it well" said Night "Now" your magic reserve is at zero, and even more so, doing magic in front of them is not the best idea"
After thinking about my actions and looking at Rona's hand again, I still decide to try my luck and shake it. Nearby, Yon looks at me and at this situation with resignation
"Great" Ron shouts out and looks at me complacently "Once you've decided, I'll start first, and you watch my movements carefully"
He stands at the starting point and bends down to stand up, and I watch his movements very carefully, analyze and memorize his every action. After the command “Go” sounded, he ran like lightning to the finish line, less than 10 seconds had passed, and he was already standing there and resting
"Ron broke his record, 9 seconds and 60 milliseconds" everyone started applauding him
Ron comes up to me, pats me on the shoulder and says softly in my ear "Don't worry, I have a collar for you" and leaves to wait for my failure
I stood like a pillar from the result I saw, I do not know what is happening to me. My legs couldn't hold me, my eyes hurt, my head started to get hot from memorizing such information, as if I “literally” copied the information, I fall to my knees and Yon runs up to me
"What happened to you happened" she worries "I told you it was a bad idea"
Ron comes up to us, sits on his knees and tells me at face level "I'm glad you accepted your defeat, but you know what?" puts his hand on my shoulder "You'll have to run, because we have to test your skills" and with a smug smile goes to the audience
I kept kneeling and looking at the floor, analyzing the changes
"What is happening to me?" I ask myself
"If you're interested" Night got in "I didn't feel any changes in your circle"
"What does all this mean?" I start to panic, "Okay, calm down, let's analyze what is happening" I take a couple of breaths and exhalations, calming my mind "I stood and watched as my opponent showed his skills. When he finished, strange things started happening to me," I kept looking at the floor, as if there was at least some answer in him, "Damn, how is all this connected?"
At this moment, a familiar hand falls on my shoulder and spoke to me "Okay, we can't change anything anymore, are you feeling better?" I nod "Okay, then let's finish this" we get up and she suddenly hugs me "Don't worry, I'll try to think of something"
I stood like a pillar from the unexpected action from her and for not much my pain began to evaporate around me
"Stop basking here" someone from the crowd shouted "And run on, we want to see how you screw up" all the observers agreed with him
"Stop mocking him, he didn't do anything" Yon stood in my direction
"He's a stranger here, and we don't know how to do anything else with strangers, do you agree, brothers?" everyone started supporting their fellow tribesman
"Don't listen to their Silent, if they don't believe in you, then at least we believe in you, me and my brother" she smiled and from another hall Yut gave me a thumbs up
I stood and looked at these two who sincerely supported me, I was filled with a mysterious saturation, from which I felt much better. The last time I felt so good was only with the support of my friend from the shelter
Having gained courage and filled with energy, I approach the starting point and gradually repeat all the movements that the person before me did. I was so immersed in this case that I did not hear the comments of everyone watching me and waited for the impending command “Go”.
I began to calm my mind and concentrate on my emotions, there were a lot of them inside me, ranging from panic to joy, but what pressed me more was envy? Yes, envy! I envied his skills, I envied how he was praised and encouraged by everyone around him and the strangest thing is, this feeling is very familiar to me, something inside me hated its mediocrity, I was getting hot, I was ready to give everything 100
When the command march sounded, some strange force pressed on my legs and I ran. I do not know how much time has passed, but for me it all happened in just a second
"Um, Silent ran for 9 seconds and 30 milliseconds" he says in a surprised tone "And it turns out that Silent is considered the winner"
POV Yon
In a hurry I run up to Silent to check what happened to him
"Silent!" I shout, in a hurry I run up to him "God, what happened to you?"
My brother runs up to us, alarmed "What happened?" he asks me
"I do not know" I tell him "He just finished running and immediately fell"
Yut leans her head against his body and starts listening to his breathing "Bless our mother, he's breathing" he says and sighs with relief
I take off his glasses to check the condition of his pupil. Pushing his eyelids apart, I briefly freeze in place, surprised by the sight of his eyes, they looked like our mother's, but red and for a while I noticed how for a second his eye became brighter and went out again "What was that?" I thought
"What's wrong with him?" My brother asks me
"I guess he fainted from hunger," I tell him, "but still, I didn't think he could do that."
I look around and see that everyone is starting to disperse quickly, "This won't do," I think
"Hey, where are we going?" dozens of people stopped in the hall, and others who managed to get out disappeared outside "Now I need several assistants"
Many people started to deny it and came up with reasons to leave, it started to anger me and I can see out of the corner of my eye who arranged this duel
"RON!" I shout at him "Come here quickly"
He stops, looks around and cleans his ears of dirt "Decided to turn on the fool"
"Yes Ron, I'm calling you and let's be nice, bring your ass here and help the one you lost to"
He slowly turns around and walks towards us with a dissatisfied look
"What do you want?" he asks in a lazy tone
"Don't be clownish and help us bring it to Dr. Jekyll"
"Why should I help? Yes, and it seems that the two of you will be able to bring him to the doctor" he is indignant
"Firstly, I have to report to our mother about what happened" I say, and slowly approach him "Secondly, you lost to him and now you have to help and protect him" I stand close to him and poke him in the chest with my index finger "Thirdly, if you didn't If I started this performance, then maybe it wouldn't have happened"
He stood shocked, and did not know how to answer me, his eyes were rolling in all directions just not to look at me, not finding an answer at the walls and ceiling, he sighs languidly, slowly approaches the lying man and begins to take him by the legs
"Yut, take him by the shoulders, and I take his legs" he offers an idea "Let's quickly carry him and finish this business"
I roll my eyes at his childish whims and leave to report today's report to our mother "I hope everything will be all right with you" I say to the sleeping Silent
POV Feel
I wake up in a forest familiar to me and looked at the night sky, I do not know how long I lay there, but I did not want to move
"God, what a beautiful night sky" I say to the void
"I agree with you" my teacher appears out of the void "Let's just not get distracted from the important" she changes the subject "Explain to me what you did just now?"
"To be honest, I don't know what happened myself" I tell her the truth "The only thing I felt then was envy"
"Envy?" she asks me with interest
"Yes, envy, I felt injustice before, but this time it was special. I felt that I wanted to be able to do the same as him, I wanted to have the same influence and prestige as others" I looked at her "Tell me, have you ever felt this?"
She looked at me for a long time, and I looked at her and waited for an answer, soon she lies down next to me and looks at the night sky directly at the moon
"I'll be honest with you, I've felt that way too, for as long as I can remember" she closes her eyes, as if remembering old times "I'll tell you this, I was jealous of the one who was loved the most, the one who took all her attention, and I just wanted to be loved" here she couldn't keep I started shouting my emotions into the night sky "I couldn't keep myself in the shade all the time and I decided to talk to her about it, BUT she never had time to talk to me, SHE couldn't even spare a couple of minutes for a simple heart-to-heart conversation, because of HER they began to forget me, to leave to the background" I noticed that tears began to stand out in her eyes "I couldn't stand it anymore and decided for myself that if you can't be heard anymore, then I will act as I deem necessary, I…"
I watched her and felt incredible longing and sadness from her, I felt sorry for her and decided to take a risky step, I slowly approach her and gently hug her neck, she stops from her monologue and slowly begins to look at me
"You and I are very unlucky with fate" I tell her and gently stroke her mane "Although we are very little acquainted, but I feel that you and I are very similar and therefore let's stick together?" I ask her, smiling
She looked into my eyes for a long time looking for the truth in them, soon she wanted to tell me something, but did not have time, because a strange door appeared in front of us. The door was metal, gray in color, it was very old, there were a lot of papers pasted on it, but they were all unreadable and there was a strange dial next to it
Night and I exchanged glances and looked at the door again, after a while, the door began to open with a wild creak, and behind it we saw only darkness
"Is this how it should be?" I ask her
"Usually not" she answers "Initially, such doors appear only in the land of dreams, in which you can enter any dream, but in your dream I can't go out and enter someone else's"
We do not dare to enter this door for a long time, cold breathed from it and an oppressive atmosphere oozed out, but our curiosity gets the better of us and standing in front of it we look at each other for the last time in order to enter this black something
When we were inside, I didn't see any light source (except for the entrance itself), only the hard surface touched our feet and hooves, it lasted a couple of minutes until my patience broke
"How the hell long can this go on?" I shout into the void
"Have patience" calms the Night "We are now with you, as I assume, in someone else's dream and as I feel, I have no power here"
"Okay, I hope the one who we are now has no cockroaches in his head" and as if at my command, some voice echoes through
"Mediocrity…
- Useless…
- Nobody needs you…"
We froze in place and started looking for the source of these voices
"Why aren't you like sisters…"
Goosebumps went through my body, I don't know why, but it was as if they were directed at me
"I wish you hadn't been born…"
I fell to my knees and held my head with my hands, I didn't want to listen to it, looking at the Night she looked more scared and defenseless than she was before. From these voices, without thinking, I grab Night and hug her as much as possible, and she started hugging me back, we both were not comfortable being here
"They're better than you…"
This was the last drop of our patience, we decided to somehow stop it
"SHUT UP" we shouted together, and at that moment everything in the neighborhood quieted down
I open my eyes to look around, but it was also dark until my ears detected a strange noise, looking in the direction of the noise, I noticed a strange rectangle with interference. After exchanging glances with my teacher, we slowly approach a strange object, and a very strange noise was coming out of it louder and louder
"What is it" Night asks me
"I don't know for sure, but something inside me says that this thing is called a TV" I answer her
When we approached him in the butt, a strange distorted female voice began to come out of him
"Have you done your homework?" a woman's voice asks
"Yes, I made them" a voice answers, my voice?
"You have swimming lessons scheduled today," she reminds him
"Yes, I know" why do I hear my voice?
"Please, can you at least stay in this sport longer than usual" she chastises him
"Excuse me, I can't do anything, I have no talent for this" I have a very strange feeling of deja vu
"Why do your sisters get everything, but you have nothing, do you want to always be in their shadow?" a woman 's voice is pumping up
"Please stop, I'm trying as hard as I can" both of us are already shouting, me and the mysterious voice
At that moment I was already lying on the ground with tears and wanted it to stop
"Please stop, I'm putting all my strength into this" I shout into the void
"Wake up" Night wakes me up
"No, I don't want to" I can't hear her
"It's all over," she tells me
"Next time I will definitely succeed" I tell her
"Feel, calm down, we're already outside" and gently strokes my back with his hoof
I open my eyes and see the night sky familiar to me, looking around, I see the forest familiar to me and my teacher sitting next to me
"Where are we" I ask her
"We're still in your dream, we've been out of there for a couple of minutes"
"Do you know what it was?"
"Definitely not, but I have a little theory" she says with a thoughtful look "As it seems to me, perhaps this is the embodiment of your past life"
I look at her in surprise "How can this be?"
"As I said, I'm just guessing, in my long life I've never encountered such a thing, but all the facts are on the face"
"You know what?" I ask her "It turns out I live my second life as a loser" I say and sigh
Night looked at me with sadness in her eyes "Do you remember you asked me about us staying together?" I nod "So, I didn't finish then, having thought it over well, I accept your offer to support each other"
From happiness, I started hugging her tightly and she didn't even resist, it lasted a couple of minutes until she offered me
"Since we're here, let's continue your magic lessons?" I agree with her and a desk appears in front of me at which I sit down, and a board and a long pointer appear behind it "Today's topic will be devoted to illusions, as well as their types and their likenesses in Equus"
To Be Continued ….
Author's Note
How do you like this chapter?BUT nothing will stop me “Hysterical laughter."
Author's Note
I'm back! Sorry I've been away for so long, I've prepared 3 chapters for you (including this one) and will show them soon (in the coming days). Wait and enjoy reading
P.S. I'm tired and sick, I need support
Part 7 Wake up history
In the dream of the main character
"And in this way you can dispel powerful illusions" ends his lesson Night
Having finished writing my synopsis, I begin to stretch my body. After a short warm-up, I look at my notebook and a question appears in my head
"Can I ask you something?" I ask her, and after an approving nod, I ask my question "Why am I writing all this down?"
Night looked at me, then at my synopsis and with a sharp movement of her hoof hits herself on the head, so hard that there is a loud clang of her helmet
"Faust me, why didn't I get it right away? I usually saw how any students in the classroom always write everything down, but I forgot that you can't transfer all this to the outside world" she says, still holding her hooves to her face
I couldn't help but smile when I heard her jamb and it seems she noticed it
"What's so funny?"
"Yes, it's just very funny" I answer her
"There is nothing funny here, now all the notes you have written will have to be rewritten in the real world" she says not cheerfully
The smile immediately disappears on my face, I didn't like the idea of rewriting everything all over again. And then an idea pops up in my head
"I have an idea, but I do not know if it will work"
"Well, what did you come up with" she asks me with interest
"Is it possible, with the help of a small illusion, to reproduce my abstract in the real world?"
Night suddenly freezes in place and looks blankly at the night sky, as if there is an answer to my question in it
After a while, her gaze shifts to me and a faint smile appears on her face
"And this can work" she says "As a rule, illusions themselves are created and presented in our head, now we are in your dream where everything happens from the power of imagination, and if in the real world you imagine an object created in your dream, then you can transform it into a non—physical copy in front of you" finishes his monologue and he looks at me "And you think well, but there is only one thing! You understand that every time you transform it in the real world, your magic reserve will be depleted every second, and with your volume, it will last a maximum of a couple of minutes"
"Damn, and I didn't foresee that" this time, now I'm hitting my face with my palm
"But!" she draws my attention "It will be a good practice, and why?" she asks the question, expecting me to continue
"Because with regular use of magic, the maximum core volume increases" I finish her sentence
"Well done, you can immediately see that you are not sleeping in class" she praises me
"Actually, logically, I'm sleeping now" I tell her
"You sleep with your body, but not with your mind" she notices "While you are here, we can regularly study ..." she does not have time to finish her dialogue, as something began to creak behind her back
When we turned in the direction of the sound, we found a familiar door that began to slowly open. Night and I look at each other and look again at the door from which a cold wind blew and black smoke began to ooze reaching us. I felt uncomfortable from the oppressive atmosphere, I snuggled closer to Night, and she didn't seem to mind.
When the door swung open, we stood in silence and waited for an unexpected guest to enter my dream. After a couple of minutes, footsteps began to be heard coming from the door in our direction, with each step they became louder and louder, until bright red eyes appeared in the doorway.
Night suddenly says softly "Wake up" I slowly turn around in her direction and see a frightened look on her face, she looks at me and starts talking louder "Wake up faster!" after her words, her horn begins to glow with a bright blue light that blinds me
The real world
I wake up abruptly in a cold sweat from my dream and begin to analyze my room. The room looked no better than those I had been in before, but the only thing that it was somehow different, there were posters with human anatomy, a hanging skeleton and cabinets with ampoules and pills "It looks like I'm in a medical office," I thought, looking around and seeing only quietly sleeping and the door Scales "And one"
"Night, can you hear me?" I call my neighbor, but I didn't hear the answer "I hope everything is fine with you there"
Having assessed my situation, I wanted to get up from my recumbent place, as soon as my feet touched the cold floor and the blanket fell from my body, I realized that I was completely naked and only a pendant weighing on my neck on which there was already a clearly visible crack "Why am I naked?"
"Woof" sounded at my feet, I looked towards the sound and saw Scales smiling there, I was pleased and I decided to take her in my arms. As soon as she was at the level of my head, she began to lick my face very aggressively without leaving a single dry spot on it
This continued until the door to my room began to open and three people entered the room, two of whom I knew, and the third did not. As soon as they entered and noticed me, they stood at the entrance as if rooted to the spot and the only thing they did was blink in my direction often
"Bless our mother, you woke up" Yon shouted joyfully and started hugging me fast "Do you understand how long you slept?" she asks me "You slept for TWO DAYS" she shouted
I sat naked in complete shock "For two days? That long?"
Two other people approach us, one of them was Yut, and I didn't know the other's name. He looked like all his colleagues, but the only difference from the others was the presence of a hospital gown and transparent glasses
"Sister, I didn't want to interrupt this moment" Yut gives his attention "But do you realize that you are hugging an absolute naked man?"
Yon abruptly freezes in place, but everything continues to hug me, and I, in turn, just sat and did not move
"Brother, help me" she asks
"And how can I help?"
"Close my eyes"
"Why? What didn't we see there?"
"Just close them"
Yut sighs heavily, but still decides to help his sister. He approaches her back and covers her eyes with his hands, only after that, she lets me go and I could see her dark pink cheeks "What's wrong with her, why don't I feel anything?" I was sitting there and didn't understand the whole situation
"Please, can you get dressed?" her brother addresses me "I don 't want to spend the whole conversation in this position" and points to his hands
I nod at his request and try to find my clothes with my eyes. Finding my clothes neatly stacked on a chair, I begin to get dressed. While I was getting dressed, I noticed that the man in the bathrobe was staring at me intently, but he never said a word
When I got dressed, Yut opens her sister's eyes and they all come up to me together (but Yon still had a faint blush) and they had a frown
The dialogue was started by that man in a bathrobe "Let me get to know you" he gets up from his chair and makes a small bow "My name is Dr. Jekyll here and I am responsible for the health of our whole family here. You were brought here a couple of days ago due to a sharp loss of consciousness, as a result of which we could carry out all medical checks and tests" he says and takes a stack of papers from his desk "I must say that all your indicators are below normal, but not critical, but you need to gain enough weight because you clearly have signs of exhaustion, but..." he puts his papers on the table and stares at me intently, which sent goosebumps down my spine "Do you understand what you are?"
I was caught off guard by such a question, but the only way I could answer was by shaking my head as a denial.
The doctor exchanged glances with the twins, after receiving a nod from them, he continued "I'll start with your physiology, after examining your tests, we came to the conclusion that you literally belong to our genus, besides, your DNA is identical with…"
"THIS IS LATER" Yon suddenly interrupts the dialogue "You are an ordinary Changeling like us" and with a piercing look drills into the doctor, who in turn took the hint and decided to change the subject
"Okay, we'll talk about this another time, and now we'll raise such a topic as ..." here he decided to make a dramatic pause and continue "Magic"
I was sitting with my jaw open from such a topic "Did they really notice something?"
"So that there are no questions, let's demonstrate it better. Miss Yon, can you please show that we can"
Yon, nodding, goes to the center of the room and suddenly, in the green glow of the flame, changes his image of a person unknown to me, and not into a simple one, but into a man
"As you can see from this demonstration, our genus specializes in disguise and metamorphosis into another living species, starting from animals and ending with other human personalities"
I was sitting in amazement at what was happening, I didn't stop looking at Yon in a man's body, my gaze fell to her groin (I wonder if she changed in all places), when she noticed where I was looking, she abruptly returns to her appearance in the same flame "I answer your question, yes, and there" she answers my silent question
"Let's give you a small tour of our history. It started a few decades ago, our family wandered from place to place, because none of the countries wanted to deal with us, but one of the quiet nights a rainbow wave passed through the sky from one equator and leaving the opposite side of its beginning. You would know how much noise this strange phenomenon raised, but after a couple of months the press forgot about it, or maybe someone deliberately shut everyone's mouths about what was happening" he stopped, took a pack of cigarettes out of his pocket, took out one to light up, after a short puff he continued
"Funny fact, although almost everyone living on this planet forgot about this phenomenon, but we remembered it. It's as if we were forgotten or specially separated from the general part of society. But most importantly, after that wave, our people had chaos, everyone began to ignite with a green flame and change their appearance. Having heard it then, I would have said that it was madness" he took a puff and let out a ball of smoke
"Fortunately, our leaders of that era were able to take this chaos under control and remake this nightmare into our gift, which to this day we use for our purposes" stopped for another puff and continued "By the way, one of the leaders was the mother of our mother Chrysalis herself" finished her story, made the last ball of smoke and threw the cigarette butt in the trash
I sat and tried to digest this information, but my head was empty and I couldn't at least catch on to something. "Night are you here? I need your help" I tried to call her again but she still couldn't be heard "Something I don't like"
"Okay, stop sitting" Yon distracts from my thoughts "we still have a lot of work to do. By then, our mother will be personally overseeing your checks."
I was surprised by such attention to myself and it looks like she understood me and decided to answer me
"If you're wondering why, it's because of a recent incident that happened to you. She was interested to see your magical potential IN PERSON" she exclaimed joyfully "Every child dreams about this with us, because if you show an excellent result, then you can be taken into our mother's personal team" she jumped up and down with me
I looked at her with an indifferent face and it seems to me that this show-off will end badly
"Since you're being discharged" with these words, she looked at the doctor and he nodded in response "We'll go eat a little now and immediately proceed to demonstrations of your abilities" she abruptly takes my hands and continues without any embarrassment "I'm so interested to see what you're capable of" and quickly pulls me to the exit without seeing obstacles in the image of his brother and pulls in an unknown direction
To Be Continued………
Part 8 New spain for a young body
Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter. POV of the main character
Before I noticed, we had already reached the large double doors, under which you could see the glow, showing that someone was there
Coming closer to the door, they seemed to see us and began to open in a mysterious way, blinding me from the too bright light, from which I tried to recover for another minute (even the glasses did not help me from this light). While I was trying to restore my eyesight, with my hearing I heard a loud rumble coming around me, my vision began to return to me and I was able to see a large arena, on the podium of which was full of people rejoicing a new victim in the person of me, and on the podium opposite me, the well-known mother Chrysalis was sitting right on the throne, as if she towered in front of me all of us
When I just stepped outside the entrance of the arena, the doors closed behind me with a loud noise, leaving me alone in the center of the arena. I began to droop from such oppressive attention in my direction and before I could come to my senses, the voice of Chrysalis herself screamed into the whole arena, which scared me
"My sons and daughters, behold, a potential contender for the role of our brother" she began to speak loudly and clearly "After some medical tests, I was informed that he was considered our blood brother" after this statement, there was general surprise and a lot of talk all over the podium, but after a not loud click, everyone fell silent and Chrysalis continued "And on this occasion it was decided to include him in our family" she did not make a big gap and continued "But as you know, everything is not so simple. At the age of 6, our native drone has its own minimum amount of magic, through it it will be possible to find out the future potential and role in our family. Just for this we came here to witness his failure or his breakthrough" after this statement, she looked at me with a gaze that made my skin tremble "I order you to start and only dare to disappoint me "son"
She put a lot of emphasis on the last word, as if it meant something to her, but I didn't have time to focus on that, at the moment I need to do something
Panic seized me, I didn't know what I had to do. I tried to find support in the person of Yon and Yut and I was able to find them on the podium in the first places, when our eyes met, they synchronously showed me a fist with a finger on top, showing that they support me, but it did not save me in any way
After realizing that they wouldn't help me, I started trying to call my neighbor out of my head
"Night, please respond" the answer to me was silence
"Please, I need help," I tried my luck again, but again the answer was silence and I was left alone again
I stood still and stared into an empty space struggling with my helplessness, but it looks like the audience watching me was getting bored and it started shouting at me either for support or because of hatred
"Hurry up, come on" one shouts
"Why is the white man frozen, scared?" shouted the second
A stone flew into my head and because of fear I could not somehow dodge or react in any way and as a result I felt my blood flowing down my face
"You are a disgrace to our kind" followed by a stone
This went on for a couple of minutes and I could not show myself in any way, and the reason for that…
"...I don't feel magic in me" I made the verdict "I can't show something because of the lack of magic in me, as if someone is pulling it out of me"
Because of fear, I could hardly move, with great effort I was able to raise my eyes to the stands and I was able to see the "Magic", each person had a green light inside, someone had a lot of it, someone had little, but one thing was for sure it was full and the biggest source Chrysalis had magic, it shone the brightest of all
As I looked at these bright lights, I gradually began to understand their emotions. Everyone had the same emotions, ranging from boredom to anger, when my gaze shifted to Chrysalis I could feel her, was there anger, sadness and disappointment in her? Is she disappointed in me or that I couldn't meet her expectations
After a short stupor, I remember my teacher's lesson on magic and how she said that in order to see it in yourself, you should not pay attention to external interference with your eyes closed and focus on your core (or as she said, go to the front where it's warm). After a while, a small and weak light lights up in the dark, from which a red-blue flame comes. As Night explained to me, in every living being there is such an essence and my most unusual
After watching my fascinating light for a while, I noticed small fluctuations in the light and with each splash small grains of magic come out and go somewhere to the side, "Someone or something is sucking magic out of me," I conclude. Having memorized the direction where my magic goes, I open my eyes and see that she goes towards Chrysalis, looking more closely, I noticed that her inner light does not change in any way, but there is a black spot around her and it looks like she is sitting on it. The black spot does not react to Chrysalis in any way, but the tentacles of the spot stretches in my direction and it looks like this thing is my pest
Not knowing what to do in such a situation, I again plunge into my inner world and find my spark, but the most unpleasant thing is that since the last meeting he has decreased in two and now he was the size of a fist. I stand in front of him in a panic not knowing what to do, my light starts to waver with me, which in turn began to fade
"Damn, I need to calm down and pull myself together" I calm myself down, I began to slowly inhale and exhale, which leads to the calming of my light "Barely had time. We have to do something, I don't even know what will happen if it goes out." Looking at my light, I noticed out of the corner of my eye that black tentacles were approaching me, I was ambushed, I had no way out to retreat and even the idea of doing it. I had no other option and I curled up into a ball to protect my light from these tentacles, I only looked at it and did not know what was happening around me
I was lying and protecting my flame and after a while goosebumps went through my body, showing that they surrounded me and there was no way back. I had already accepted defeat, but suddenly one of my teacher's Night dialogues echoed in my memory during the lesson
Once upon a time in the main character's dream
"And thus, it is necessary to fight anti-magic" finished Night
"And what if there's no magic left in me anymore and I can't find a way to retreat, what should I do?" I asked a curious question and the answer was immediate
"Absorb it! Here is my answer. To be more precise, the magic of the night and anti-magic are not so different, in their essence they symbolize silence, just in different interpretations, and for their synchronization you will need to adjust your magic channel to a certain purity, so you can absorb anti-magic matter and restore your personal source" by finishing the dialogue She turned to the blackboard and began to draw the absorption method
"Look here, the anti-magical matter is attracted to a weak magical core and we will deceive her on this, you will need to relax the core as much as possible, like a small defenseless rabbit in front of a hungry wolf" for this she depicted a sinister grin and continued "When you feel that it is already near, you will have to form a magical impulse as much as possible in in the form of something sharp and throw it right into the weak spot, into its core"
"And if I don't see where I need to go?" I ask a question
"If you don't see it, then just trust your sixth sense and your luck," she replied, rolling her eyes and continued "After your attack, you will have to concentrate your last strength on absorbing it while it is stunned, but you also have to understand, it just won't let you take it and that's why it outgrows In a tug of war, you literally have to fight for your survival. If you can overcome it, and you should, then when you take it, you try to form a single channel for its absorption at a fast pace, if you fail to synchronize with it, then it will try to get out or even worse kill you from the inside" after finishing on this phrase, her chalk crumbles into pieces and languidly exhales air, gathering her thoughts, she continued "I also want to remind you that you do not have a standard magic core, it seems to be made from different sources of matter and therefore, when absorbed, it will either help you or destroy all your meridians" she finished and turned to the blackboard to start a new topic
Present time
Remembering this dialogue, a second wind and a chance for survival suddenly appear in me
After looking at my light, as it slowly and surely decreases, I decide on this risky act. I hold the air in myself and try to seem like a "small and defenseless rabbit" and I don't know how, but the chill in my body has intensified
I do not know how quickly and not noticeably to form a magic arrow and at the same time does not burn at the same time, but after looking at the glow of the light, it dawned on me, "My light is the formed magic source, and if you try to borrow a drop and form it on the tip of your finger, then I will get a sharp-cone-shaped bullet. Okay, the attempt is not torture"
I don't noticeably touch the light with my index finger and try to form a cone on the tip of my finger and fortunately I succeed
Now we need to figure out where to throw it. I concentrate on all my feelings, but the only thing I have is the cold, since there are no other landmarks, I'm getting ready to fire where it's coldest
After waiting a minute, I realize that I have to shoot in the direction of my head, it's not convenient, but I don't see any other way out and I'm wasting time. Without thinking for a long time, I turn out in an arc with a sharp movement and shoot an improvised bullet in the direction of my intuition in utter darkness. After about five seconds, I grab the void and pull it towards me, at the same time randomly adjusting the magic frequency. But what was strange, it does not resist in any way, but on the contrary reaches out to me and did not notice how it completely began to envelop my light, in connection with which I noticed the reflections of the green flame. I stood and watched this charming flame dance of three colors (red, blue and green) and expected the consequences of their interactions with each other, soon this dance turned into a duel between red and green flames, but in the process of the duel I noticed that the green flame was losing its position and only getting dimmer, and the red in the his turn gets the better of him and completely swallows him
I stood in front of my still red-blue flame and was stunned by its size, it became twice its first size, and that overwhelming ailment completely evaporated and I could feel my magic flow through my body again and now there was no point in being here, I open my eyes
Opening them, the first thing I saw was Chrysalis' mother, still looking at me with sadness and disappointment, looking around, I saw a lot of red-painted stones, but I didn't feel pain, only fatigue. I also realized that I didn't hear anything, just a dull squeak. Looking up at the stands, I saw the crowd shouting something at me, and the emotions were mixed to everyone, except Yon and Yut, they were not funny, but only regret
After this picture, I turned my gaze back to Chrysalis and noticed that she was getting up from her seat and was about to say something, but stopped when she saw my movements, my fear evaporated, but it was very difficult to move. I slowly but surely reach for my glasses to take them off, everyone froze in place and waited for my further actions. When my hand touches my eyes, I take them off with the remaining strength and look at her with my bright ruby eyes. But it didn't last long, because I fall exhausted to the ground still holding my glasses in my hands
The last thing I saw was a Chrysalis smile and then the abyss again
"I lose consciousness too often" I make a verdict before going to bed
To Be Continued ….
Author's Note
At the moment this is all, when the next chapter will be released, I do not know, but it will be)
Sorry for taking so long to publish chapters, I have a little trouble writing them (in my head it looks better than when writing)
If you have questions about the plots, then wait for the next chapters. As for me, it's not interesting to read further, if everything is clear anyway
Besides, I don't like to write large chapters of 10,000 words, they look too loaded for me
See you soon)
Chapter 10 What happens to others?
Pov Chrysalis
Two days ago at the moment of leaving Feel (Silent) from the cabinet
"Where did I put him? He was just on the table" disassembling own desk, I could not find my little emerald "oh my mother, he could not evaporate on the spot" swearing to myself, I fall heavily into my chair and exhale air, with closed eyes from fatigue "Now there are one less thing left of memories of the past"
Sitting from fatigue and sadness, the image of the boy who appeared out of nowhere appeared in front of me again
"Why does he look so much like my son?" this question does not go out of my head, "almost 8 years have passed since his death, or more precisely, since his murder. I have been rolling around the continents for 3 long years in search of the culprit of what happened, but I could not find this creature" after this phrase, tears began to accumulate in my eyes, but not a single tear could roll down my face
"Over time, my heart became colder and more callous, that soon I lost the meaning of my existence, the only thing that keeps me is my "family" and the warriors who believe in me" having calmed down, I open my eyes and a framed portrait immediately catches my eye "But no one and nothing, can replace you for me" I was sad again
My head falls on the table and I look towards the door with half-open eyes, "But then this albino boy appears, who has the same external signs as my own son. Maybe it's just a coincidence, or was he somehow able to return from the other world?" I grab my tired head and almost scream in my office, "Well, why is this happening to me?"
Calming down a little, I was able to take control of myself and restore my composure "Maybe I'm just driving myself with these conclusions and all this is a simple coincidence that plays on my mind and does not calm my broken heart"
Deciding not to dwell on it for a long time and decided to resume my search for the lost pebble
Getting up from my seat, I went to my shelves to check for the presence of a lost thing, walking past the shelves and turning everything upside down, but I could not find the emerald, but I was able to find a foreign object on the floor in the form of a homemade pipe
"It seems that the boy dropped it when he took off his jacket and why didn't I notice it right away?" and again asking unanswered questions, I take this pipe in my hands and move to my desk "Let it stay with me for a while" and put it away in one of the lockers of the table
Tired of this fuss about losing things, I went back to where I was, I'm sitting in my seat again and thinking about this boy, "We need to stop thinking about it, well, at least until the first test results of this personality come, and then it will be clear." I don't know why, but I think I still have a grain of hope for his return
It's been 2 hours since Feel left
I sat in silence and out of boredom tried to assemble a tower of stationery
"Quiet, quiet, I'm going to new record, the main thing is not to breathe" I'm now laying the sixth floor of my homemade tower
"I shouldn't have started my tower with a damaged rubber band, now everything is swinging," I cursed myself, but I couldn't stop and redo it, and I had to finish it. I concentrated on the balance of my tower to the maximum that I didn't notice how strangely I was standing over my desk with my back to the door and I didn't care in any way
"Quiet, quiet, I'm almost done" with such thoughts, I put the sharpener as the cone of my tower, I felt like the world around me froze and only he and I remained in it
And so, the sharpener stands and mentally I ticking the time "10 ...9 ... 8 ...", I have already forgotten how to think and only the numbers go on as usual "7 ... 6 ... 5 ..." and now it's almost the final and I broke my record "4...3...2..."
*BANG* there was the sound of a door slamming and my tower was falling, soon a hateful voice followed me at the entrance "I have an urgent report!"
I froze in place and looked at where my former tower already stood. My anger boils inside me and I slowly turn towards the voice of my enemy, showing that I am not happy to see her
"I'm sorry to disturb you, but I have urgent news..." Yon was saying until I interrupted her
"HOW DARE YOU BREAK INTO MY OFFICE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION" I shout at her "I WAS FOCUSED ON MY PROJECT, BUT AT THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENT, YOU BREAK IN AND RUIN EVERYTHING" I approach her point-blank, grab her by the throat and slam her against the wall "YOU HAVE 5 SECONDS IN MY OWN DEFENSE" I tell her, still holding my head
"*sigh* there, this *sigh* happened *sigh* with Silent" she says barely breathing "*sigh* he *sigh* magic" losing her strength she finished
When I hear the message, I immediately release her from my grip, she falls to the floor and greedily swallows her air
"What did you say again?" I demand "What happened to him?"
"*glot* please forgive me *glot* I didn't want to interrupt your business *glot* I would knock *glot* but it was very important
"GET TO THE POINT" I shout at her
"I'm sorry, and uh, oh, yes, Silent used our magic" finally delivered the message
There was no limit to my surprise and immediately I rushed to the exit to see him "Let's go, we need to discuss this with him"
"Um, I'm sorry" she stops me "But at the moment, he won't be able to answer"
Staying at the doorway, I look at her and still don't think "Why?" I ask her
"Um, how should I say" she mumbles, as if looking for an excuse "He lost consciousness and is now lying with our doctor"
I didn't expect such an outcome of the event, but it was still interesting for me to look at it "Okay, let's go there, and you reveal what happened along the way"
We walked briskly to the medical room, and Yon tried to briefly describe the events
"Here, he unexpectedly fell on the spot for us and we ran up to him as fast as we could. I immediately started checking his pulse and so on, but when checking his eyes, I noticed a red glow from magic, I do not know how and how, but at that moment I almost felt a kinship"
When I reached the right office, I stopped and looked at her "What does "almost" mean, I felt a kinship?"
"It's like an apple that you constantly eat, but at one point it becomes not the way it was"
I looked at her strangely and her comparison "is a very stupid comparison" with these words I open the door in front of me
There were three people in the office, Yut, Dr. Jekyll and Ron, and Silent was lying on the bed with an IV in his hand. When I walked in, they synchronously turned in my direction and bowed as a sign of respect, "It's strange, I felt five objectives and there are only four"
"What progress is the doctor?" I'm in command
He looks up and answers "Stable, but not the best" he says briefly "According to my minimal analysis, this person is severely exhausted, at least by hunger, but judging by the report, magical exhaustion is still possible"
I nod in acceptance of this answer and go to the edge of the bed. A half-naked boy lay in front of me, covered in black spots and small abrasions, snoring softly. For a moment, I fancied a picture of 9 years ago, how my boy sleeps. I didn't notice, but my hand was already reaching out to touch him, but…
"Um, sorry to distract" I stop "But now the patient needs complete rest" says the doctor
"Yes, you're right" I take my hand away and turn to the doctor "Doctor, do all the necessary tests and maintain his condition" I pay attention to Ron "As the rules require, you must protect him from strangers until he wakes up and report when he wakes up" he nods at attention and now I turn to the twins "You two are now responsible for him and must periodically deliver 'love stones' from our farm here" they nodded synchronously "Everyone, everyone is free"
I turn around and head for the exit "Now it remains to wait for the results"
The next day
I was sitting in my office and doing my "business"
"*snuffling*" I peacefully leaned on my chair and slept with a book on my face. Until a knock at the door interrupts my sleep "*the book is falling* and, yes, yes, come in" and I quickly make an important face
Our attending doctor comes into the office with a stack of papers and comes up to the table with a smart look "Let me disturb you, I brought the test results"
"Very well, then tell me everything you've learned."
Putting a stack of papers on my desk and taking one of them, adjusting his glasses, he began "As I predicted, he has severe physical and mental exhaustion, all his indicators are below normal, but we maintain his condition" takes another paper "But we were lucky, we found out from DNA that he is our relative, fortunately, we found an ES (Emotional storage) in it, and therefore, at the moment we "feed it with love'. He takes another paper and looked at me with a serious face "Also, for reasons not clear, he has similar DNA samples with you, do you know something about it?" he asks me
When he said that, it was a complete shock to me "Is this really all real" was in my head "I don't know anything about it, but I order you to keep your mouth shut" he nods in response "When he wakes up, tell him everything you need to know us and that's it"
He bowed, took his papers and went to the exit, when he opened the door, we noticed that two outrages, Yut and Yon, were eavesdropping on us
They didn't notice when the door opened and stood in a silly pose with their ears in front of door "You two, come quickly to me" I order them
The doctor walked past them, and they went in and closed the door behind them
"I won't pay attention to the fact that you were eavesdropping, but you are *BANG*" I hit the table with my hand "But why can't you two learn even such rules in any way" I cover my face from fatigue "I already have enough soft-bodied Drones, like the same Thorax, but you are like a separate kind of hemorrhoids, because of you two, I have added a new rule to the niche family. Do you two remember which one?"
They nod and say synchronously together "In no case is it allowed to let prisoners from our 'love farm' out of sleep"
"And what is the penalty for this?" checking them out
Swallowing synchronously, they continued "Punishable by death"
"That's right, you two can whenever you want" I encourage them "You yourself must understand that we live only thanks to someone else's happiness. I don't see any other outcome, thanks to these rules we live to this day"
"And Thorax says that we can share emotions with each other" says Yon
"You youngsters do not understand anything" I spoke wearily "My mother has already tried to fix this problem, but it did not help in any way. We live only thanks to our instincts and there is no other way. We closed the topic on this" after that they looked guiltily at the floor
"Now let's move on to the important thing, what have you heard here?" by asking them
"Not much of one, not much of the other" Yon began
"We won't tell anyone" finished Yut
"Of the two, it's clear who got the brains, as Yut correctly understood, no one should know this information, even Silent himself" they quickly began to nod "Also, when he wakes up, we will conduct an unscheduled check of his abilities for him, depending on his potential, you two can be promoted in rank" from such information, they began to jump together, hugging and yelling with joy
"We are very happy about, but why such generosity?" asks Yut
"Because you brought him here, but this does not mean that you need to bring anyone here, you are just very lucky. I hope with the promotion you will become more serious"
"Okay" they synchronously stood up and saluted
"Before you left, I have one last question" they nodded "Yon, what do you feel about our guest?"
Yon blushed deeply and stammered and began to answer "I don't know what to say, he just smells very delicious and for some reason, next to him, I don't feel hungry"
I did not expect such an answer "Well, you are free" and they obediently leave
As soon as the door closed behind them, I leaned on my chair and started thinking, "Does her not feel hungry next to him? Very interesting, did I feel it? I don't remember, the only thing I wanted was to touch him" with these thoughts, I fell asleep
At the moment of awakening Feel
I was sitting in my office and rereading a book out of boredom until there was a knock on my office
"I allow" I answer
Ron comes into my office and brings, a message to attention "Let me report, the object has woken up and is now heading to the dining room"
"Quietly," I answer "Free and send a message to everyone that the unscheduled arena of the test will begin soon"
He nods and quickly leaves to deliver a message to everyone
Putting my things aside, I headed towards our arena "Now, we'll check everything out"
In half an hour at the arena
I sat on my 'dark throne' and waited for this boy to arrive. My people were making noise around me and waiting for the show, and I was eavesdropping on their conversations
"Have you heard what's going to happen today" says one
"Yes, I heard, they say, a man will arrive now, supposedly our relative, and his skills will be tested" the second one answers
"There will be no one better than Pharynx and I'm hoping the recruit will show better performance than his brother, like him, and Thorax" adds a third
"I took the stones with me here" says the fourth "who needs them?" and began to distribute who wants
"Risk, I'll remember you" I'll stop listening to the conversations around me
And at that moment, the gates of the arena began to open and a boy of about ten years old passes through them, reaching the middle, the gates closed right behind him and I started
"My sons and daughters, behold, a potential contender for the role of our brother" I began to speak loudly and clearly "After some medical tests, I was informed that he was considered our blood brother" after this statement, there was general surprise and a lot of talk all over the podium, but after my not loud click, everyone fell silent and I continued "And on this occasion it was decided to include him in our family" I did small make a big gap and continued "But as you know, everything is not so simple. At the age of 6, our native drone forms its own minimum amount of magic, through it it will be possible to learn the future potential and role in our family. Just for this we came here to witness his failure or his breakthrough" after this statement, I looked at him with a gaze "I order you to start and only dare to disappoint me "son""
After these words, he froze in place and no longer moved "The Dark Throne began to act"
It took 10 minutes, but he didn't move a meter and people started shouting at him. I didn't notice, but the first stone was already flying at him and right into his head, unfortunately this did not move him to action in any way
I sat and watched him bleed, but there was nothing I could do "If I finish the test now, it will automatically be considered a failure for him and so please start moving" I beg him
20 minutes have passed since the start of the test, he continued to stand rooted to the spot, covered in blood from the stones, but there was no progress, so I will come to announce the end of the test
I get up from my throne with heavy sadness and wanted to announce the failure, but it happened, he moved, his hand slowly and confidently reaches for his face and takes off his glasses with a quick movement. I saw the very shine that Yon was talking about, his ruby-like eyes lit up with a scarlet glow, indicating that our magic took it
I unconsciously have a smile on my face "I officially announce that Silent passes this test" I announce to everyone and after that, he falls face down in front "And now take him quickly to the medical ward, again. Also, everyone who threw stones at him quickly into my office, especially since you are at Risk"
I stand over them and see everyone's misunderstanding "Damn, now everyone needs to explain" and out of the corner of my eyes I see our doctor slapping himself in the face and shouting something about "Why again"
"Now listen to me carefully" I shout at them "If someone did not understand why he passed the test, then I will repeat it once. As you saw, he did not move at all, because of the anti-magic throne, we as changeling do not feel it, but other people will not be able not to conjure not to move, and therefore, when at the end he was able to move, it showed that he is a true changeling. And now quickly take him to the medical unit, or will it recline here forever?" and on command, they quickly took him and carried him
"Everything, from now on nothing can separate us," I think with a smile on my face
There are 10 days left before the crossing to Manhattan
POV Nightmare Moon at the Moment of Leaving Feel
With my magic, I forcibly wake up Feel and evaporating, he disappears, showing that he has woken up and I sigh with relief realizing that he is safe
I immediately fix my gaze on the dark silhouette standing at the door, and it only looks at me in response. The landscape around us began to transform into a darker one and the trace of that atmosphere completely disappeared
"WELL FREAK" I shout in my Canterlot voice "IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A BATTLE, THEN YOU WILL GET IT" I immediately transform my scythe into the shape of a crescent moon and teleport myself to him, delivering a cutting blow to the throat
"SUCK IT OUT" I shout to him, but there was silence in response and only the blow of the falling head destroys it
The black silhouette slowly turns in my direction and unexpectedly for me, black tentacles appear from its back, which disarm me. I hung over him and watched as he lowered himself, raised his head and put it in its place, but now a white line appeared in his head replacing his mouth and now this freak is looking at me smiling
"UNDERESTIMATE ME" I shout, and shoot at him with a dark beam, simultaneously freeing myself from the fetters "I'M NOT SO EASY TO TAKE"
I take off and quickly fly away from him for a couple of meters "IF YOU ARE NOT TAKEN IN CLOSE COMBAT, THEN NOW WE WILL TRY A LONG—RANGE ONE" with quick cutting blows I cut the air from which sharp lines fly out cutting everything in their path
The silhouette still stood in its place and took all the blows that I sent at him, after all this, only his smile became wider and more predatory. I was standing at a far distance from him, but I already began to feel tired "Damn, I haven't fully recovered yet"
Deciding to go all-in, I concentrate the remaining magic in the horn and shoot this bastard "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" I shout and he began to go to my side "I AM THE NIGHT!" I don't stop my magic, but he never stopped his pace "I AM THE VERY EMBODIMENT OF A NIGHTMARE!" he was getting closer and closer "I, I..." before I could finish my sentence, he grabbed me by the throat and I stopped shooting magic at him
He brought me closer to his face, so that I could feel all the anger that burned in his eyes. I tried to beat him with my hooves, but he didn't care. He threw his other hand to the side and clenched it into a fist, I was waiting for the decisive blow, but it did not come, soon he made a threatening noise and threw me in the opposite direction of the door
Unexpectedly for me, he turned around and headed back to the door. Deciding that this is the round for me, I shout back to him "And DON'T COME BACK, OR ELSE YOU're ..." before I could finish, an arrow flies in my direction that touches my cheek, touching it with a hoof and looking at it, I noticed traces of my blood, paying attention to him again, I see him standing facing me with his arm outstretched, showing that he could have easily killed me, but for some reason I didn't understand, he didn't do it.
Turning around again and walking through the threshold of the door , he said "ToO SoOn" I heard a hoarse voice
Less than a second later, the door closed behind him and began to shrink into a small point, it evaporates. Mistakenly thinking that this is all, a small pedestal with a huge ball in the center appears for the place of the door
There was a deathly silence and only my breath spoiled it "I thought I was finished. Again." After lying down so little, I decided to get up and see what it left. Barely reaching it, I saw a rather large ball, inside of which there was a black fog with a white dot inside, but still I could see the reflection in it "I don't know what it does, but definitely something is not good"
Having concluded such a conclusion, the world around me again began to beckon to the forest I know, and a boy I know appears in the center of it
"Feel!" I shout to him, but he was still lying in that clearing. Realizing that something was wrong here, I ran to him as quickly as I could to examine his body
Approaching him, I noticed that his whole head was bleeding heavily and I started to panic a lot "My Faust, what happened to you" I put my head on his chest to check his heartbeat, lying down and did not notice how he started stroking my head
"You won't believe what happened to me," he says
"Oh, you idiot" I shout, getting up "I already thought that he got to you too"
Not much giggling, he continued "So we both have an interesting story, but let's not talk about it much later, I'm tired and have a very bad headache"
I nod at his suggestion "I agree with that, let's take a little break from what is happening"
Postponing our dialogue for later, we decided to restore our strength for a future story
From the third person ???
Somewhere to the south beyond the horizon, an inextinguishable storm raged, the strongest wind drove a flock of clouds, not seeing the beginning and end of this black spot, only lightning sparks give at least some light. The water was no better, the waves were the size of whole houses, not a single ship, neither sailing nor steamer, was allowed to pass. As if nature itself was telling all living things "You don't belong here" and the brave souls who dared to go through this storm are now only feeding the fish and equipping the local bottom with their ships
But there were those madmen who dare to go through this tartarus. A real airship was floating in the sky, but not a simple one, but specially modified for this bad weather. The exterior was blackened and terrifyingly frightening, black metal armor covered almost the entire outer hull and only two blue lines on the bow of the ship illuminate and guide it on its way. Under this black armor, you can see a purple frame resembling a balloon. All this holds a huge sealed platform with the size of a football field and only on the bow of the deck you can see something like a rudder
Not a single living soul is visible on the deck and only a quiet conversation was heard inside the ship
"Check the pressure indicators" a certain nebulous entity commands "Look there so that the indicators do not exceed the norm. In case of any malfunction, tell me right away"
"Yes sir Strife" everyone who listened to him saluted and steamed off to do their job
"We have to bring this 'Valuable cargo' to our Lord"
No one knows who or what Strife is, it looked like some kind of sulfur substance that had only a head and hands. It is not clear to everyone around him that he could levitate above the ground, but only for a couple of meters, as if he had metaphorical legs and when moving behind him there was not a big footprint. The head looked like a skull without a lower jaw, and the place of the eyes were two small blue dots
Of all those present here, he had the highest position and the right hand of the local Lord. The character was balanced and calm, at some moments he could say wise things, thanks to his actions and decisions, no one had doubts about his position
At the moment, he was sorting out some papers until he was distracted by the local team
"Allow me to report" says one soldier of the team and after receiving permission, he continued "Our "cargo" has woken up"
The soldiers looked menacing, fully clad in metal armor on the chest of which the logo of the entire army was visible. Only with their size they could intimidate anyone who saw them, and for good reason, they knew their business. The only thing that spoiled them was excessive obedience, they did everything they were told, from killing to sacrificing their lives for their commander, like soulless pawns who knew nothing but their duty
"Well" Strife says "You need to meet her properly 'appropriately'" levitating headed towards the warehouse "Is there anyone else left with her?" he asks
"There is no way" says the soldier "I immediately rushed as soon as she woke up"
Strife hits himself on the head with the palm of his hand and begins to scold "These are slow-witted, when ordered to guard the object and report when it wakes up, why couldn't he have guessed to ask someone to replace himself?"
"Ask?" — the attendant asks
"When will you learn to think with your own head? At the moment, our 'cargo' can be unstable and at the moment, anything can happen"
And at the moment a young girl runs past them, almost knocking them down
"Like this one" the guard asks, pointing his finger in the direction of the fleeing 'cargo'
"Yes, it is this one" shouts Strife "What are you standing for? Run and catch her, but do not harm her in any way, we will still need her" she starts running towards the "cargo", along the way, takes a walkie—talkie from nowhere and starts giving orders "*Click* Everyone's attention, this cargo has escaped and is not stable at the moment. All who are free, run to the second floor in the southern part of the ship. Be careful, don't hurt her, we still need her. End of communication *Click*" he finished
After 30 minutes of the chase
After a long and dreary half hour, this girl was able to drive into a corner, if you do not take into account that this is the third attempt to drive her into a corner
At the moment, everyone was in the engine compartment and thanks to the hot pipes that were everywhere, she could not escape in any way
There was a young girl standing in the corner, blocked by three goons, but she did not want to show her weakness in any way and stood in a defensive stance
"Who are you?" She shouts "Where am I?"
"We won't do anything to you" says one of the goons
"Calm down, we won't touch you" says the second
"Call the commander" says the third "Tell him that we took it"
But the girl didn't want to believe them, she was afraid of them, but you can't scold her for that. Waking up not knowing herself where and how, an armada of armed and terrible soldiers attacked her, their appearance and voice did not inspire confidence
Slowly and surely these thugs approached her in a tight, but the girl would not give herself up so easily and she was ready to fight back
As soon as one of the thugs was at arm's length, she immediately takes his hand and twisting it, without applying much force, puts one of the thugs on the floor
The other two were shocked, but they didn't stand like that for a long time and attacked her in a crowd, hoping to grab her. Thanks to her reaction, she rolls back, saves herself from being caught, but not unlucky for her, this friendly kneading did not last long and they resumed their attack on her
Waiting for the next wave of attack, she got up and was ready to continue
The tracking wave came quickly, the second bully, knowing what she was capable of, attacked her immediately. The girl suspected of such an attack, quickly dodging to the side and taking the bully by the scruff redirects him to the side of the hot pipe, he could not slow down by inertia and meets the unfortunate pipe right in the face
"MY NOSE" shouts the second bully "HOW PAINFUL" he screams lying down
The third bully was looking at this and was already afraid to approach her, fortunately for him, a familiar voice was heard
"What's going on here" Strife shouts through the crowd "What was not clear in the 'do no harm' command?"
A flying fog is making its way through the crowd with its head and when he saw what happened here, he immediately changed his tone
"Young lady, please calm down, we won't hurt you," the fog spoke
The girl calmed down a bit, but still decided to go into negotiations "What are you?" she asks
"Forgive me for such a first impression, my name is Strife" he bowed "I am the commander-in-chief of this ship, and what is your name, young lady?"
"Me?" the girl asked a question "My name is... um... I don't remember my name" the girl exclaims in confusion
"The main thing is not to worry, let's talk about it quietly and calmly" having received an uncertain nod, Strife smiled and snapped his fingers, the crowd quickly parted behind him "Then let's go to the local canteen and discuss everything on a full stomach"
Looking at each other, the girl reached Strife with slow steps and did not confidently go to the front along the straight corridor
Strife walked up to the nearest soldier and whispered softly in his ear "Quickly remove those soldiers and show them first aid" after receiving a nod, he went after the girl
Heading down the corridor towards the kitchen, they did not say a word, as if they thought that by talking they would lose each other's trust
When she reached the dining room, the girl sniffed the smell of food so much that she did not notice that her stomach rumbled a lot
"There is no better moment for negotiations" looking at the clock, he continued "Than a delicious lunch, isn't it?"
With these words, he approaches the local "cook", says something in his ear and with a nod goes to the kitchen
"Let's sit down at the table, there is no truth in the legs," he says and flies away towards an empty table
"I'm sorry for the indiscreet question" she stops him "But you don't even have legs" she notices
With a slight laugh, he agrees "You're right here, but it doesn't change the essence"
When they sat down at an empty table, a 'soldier' was already approaching them with local food
"Do not hesitate to eat" says Strife "We have specially prepared for your arrival, but I say right away we don't have this anymore"
The girl looked at her dish and could not utter a word. A large portion of spaghetti and a good piece of minced meat with sauce were laid on the plate. She did not notice how she attacked the dish with her bare hands and began to devour it by both cheeks
"That's an animal appetite" Strife remarks "Well, what can I say, to sleep for two days and not eat that"
Strife calmly waited until the young lady finished her lunch
When the girl finished everything to the last piece, she leaned on her chair and wiped her stomach with a happy face, noticing that a napkin was being handed to her, she thanked her briefly and began to wipe her face and hands
"Thank you very much for such a lunch, I don't remember eating something so delicious"
"I'm glad you liked it, but let's discuss some things, what is the last thing you remember?"
The girl immediately had a sad face "I don't remember much, the only thing I remember is that I was in the forest and a bear attacked me, I tried to cope with it, but he hit me hard that I..." after that she took her head and tried to remember something, but nothing No more came "And then I don't remember anything"
"Hmm, I see" after that he puts his hand behind his 'back' and takes out a small cube and puts it on the table "You can put your hand on this cube"
Looking at the Strife, then at the cube, she still listens to him and puts her hand on it, after a minute the cube begins to glow with a purple light and abruptly ends with a ringing crunch. Strife looks at the cube in surprise and his face turns frowning
"It's clear, I'll be brief, our Lord saved you from a wild bear and unfortunately, he arrived too late and you lost your memory" Strife started changing one cube to another "At the moment, we are now flying to our kingdom and if you want to talk to your savior, then just click here" shows to the cube
The girl felt very sad, but she decided to press the button to thank the savior
""click" Strife, what news" a hologram of an angry man appeared from the stone, his facial features were rough, his skin was pale, short hair and blue eyes
"I'm sorry to distract you, my lord, but one of the rescued victims wanted to talk to you and she sees you"
"Very good" says the voice "My name is the great and mighty Lord Storm and the future king of the southern lands and the whole world" he said the last part quietly "say what you wanted"
"Um, I wanted to sincerely thank you for my rescue, even though I don't remember anything, but I couldn't help but thank you," said the girl
"You don't remember anything, but you don't want to regain your memory?" talking Storm
The girl has a fire in her eyes and is sharply approaching the hologram "Can you?"
"And who can if not me?" he boasts "I'm preparing a very important project, but some people stole my precious things and one of them could just restore your memory. In the future, when I get her back, I will be able to return the memory to you if you swear loyalty to me"
"Do you promise?" she says hopefully
"Yes, I promise," he says, chuckling softly
Without thinking for a long time, she swears to him and says "I swear loyalty and devotion to Lord Storm and nothing will crush her"
"I hope so, *click*" the hologram is gone
"That's all" Strife says "It takes us a long time to get to our lands and therefore one of the soldiers will take you to your room" and a big soldier appears out of nowhere and heads for the exit
"Thank you very much" the girl thanks and leaves for the soldier "I will be glad to work with you"
When the girl has disappeared behind the door, Strife sighs heavily, looking around, making sure that he is alone again clicking on the cube
"*click* WHAT?" a voice shouts
"The object is gone, let me report" asks Strife
"Come on quickly, I'm busy" Storm hurries
"After conducting a magical analysis, it was shown that she has unicorn magic, but there is one thing"
"How good, but what BUT?"
"The owner already has broken meridians and therefore she will not be able to conjure, BUT!"
The voice starts to whine "Why do I need such garbage? But what can you say in defense"
"She has monstrous physical skills, our soldiers could not catch her for half an hour, and even when she was cornered, she was able to fight back against two thugs, and the third was afraid to approach her"
"At least some good news" the voice begins to laugh "Then you will take over the entire training process, make a killing machine out of her. That's it, the end of the connection *click*" he finished the connection
Then a second later, another click sounded and the hologram appeared again "I almost forgot, come up with some pretentious name for it so that it corresponds to our army" the hologram stopped broadcasting
Strife was sitting alone at the table and looked at the point where the hologram was and sadly concludes "He didn't even say thank you"
To be continued…….
Author's Note
How do you like the chapter? It was quite difficult for me
Naturally, how can history go on without King Storm? And I'll say more, I couldn't help but add Strife, and after all, he appeared in comics (I was shocked about his existence myself)
I agree, I have to redo the background of Tempest Shadow a lot, because I can't imagine in a world “without magic” where there are only people around, and here is a broken horn, but it seems to me that in the end it may not be a bad plot for this story
I couldn't find normal art of King Storm and his army, in the form of Equestria Girls, and therefore, we turn on imagination
Feel free to comment and see you in the following chapters
Part 12 New acquaintances
POV Feel
After finishing playing music on the guitar, she in turn, disappears in a red flame, leaving only a feeling of emptiness inside
Night, she kept sitting next to me, waiting for me to talk to her first, but judging by the nervous tick of her hoof, she was losing patience
Gathering his thoughts, Night decides to ask a question "Boy, what is bothering you now?"
Coming out of my trance, I switch to her and then to my hands
"I have a mess in my head right now" I tell her "So many questions come, and I can't find the answers in any way"
"So speak out" she touching me "Ask me what you want to know, if possible, I will answer you"
Gathering my thoughts, I ask her questions "How is all this happening to me? Why do they hate me so much? What did I do wrong? I don't even understand the meaning of my existence if everyone who sees me wants me dead" in the end I start screaming at her with tears in my eyes
Night looked at me with a serious look in her eyes, after all these questions. But then, her expression softened and the only thing I felt was understanding
"Boy, come closer" she invites me with her wing so that I sit next to her "I'll tell you this, I used to ask myself the same questions, but unfortunately, I won't be able to answer all your questions, because I don't know how to answer my own"
"And how did you try to cope with it?" I ask her
She thought for a while, but then answered "I found my goal and went to it, removing all obstacles along the way" looked at the moon with a serious look
"Are you still going to her?"
"Yes, despite all the circumstances, I will go with her to the end and you will help me with this, and don't even argue" she said
I'm not even arguing — I raise my hands, showing that I won't argue — But, will you help me with my goal?
"It depends on what you want" she looked at me suspiciously
After thinking a little, I answer her "I want two things, to learn to talk normally and find happiness in life"
"Is that all?" she was disappointed "I thought you would dream of more"
"It's easy for you to say" I turn away from her resentfully "I haven't talked to people all my life, and I haven't tasted anything tastier than a stolen apple" I point at her with my finger "And judging by your stories, you lived happily ever after, not knowing problems. So tell me, what else can I dream about, if not about this?"
Night rolls his eyes and says softly "You'll grow up, we'll see"
After sitting in silence for a while, I have a question "How long will I sleep?"
Night closed her eyes and didn't answer me for a long time. I sat in silence and waited for her to answer me, but after five minutes, I ask her a question again
"How long will I sleep?" I say it again, but there was no answer either
Thinking that she ignores me, I start poking her a little with my finger in the neck area
*poke*
There was no response
*poke-poke*
I continued to poke her
*poke-poke-poke*
After the third "poke", her right eye twitched. I was about to poke her again, when suddenly, with a loud clatter of her hooves, she interrupted me and looked at me with wild anger
"What kind of discord are you doing?" she growls at me
I was afraid of such a reaction, lowered my head and quietly answered her "I thought you were ignoring me"
"Can't you see that?" she hisses at me "I checked the time of day outside and your physical condition"
"Please forgive me" I started apologizing "I just got bored"
"Since you got bored, then I know what you're going to do now and believe me, you'll be sitting here for a long time" he finishes with a predatory smile
"Okay, okay, I understand, but please answer my question"
She languidly exhales air and answers "Because of the severe injuries that you have recently received, you will sleep for at least two more days"
"Just fine," I say sarcastically, "it's going to be my never to be forgotten voyage on this damn ship." The most unpleasant thing, I'm not even safe in my sleep
"Therefore, you will have to go into someone else's dream again. Although the last nightmare was perfect" remembering this, it makes me shudder "But one will not be enough, and therefore, while the sun has not yet risen, you must still work"
Not even getting up from my seat, I remember one moment "And when will we have more classes?" I ask her
"Classes will be in the morning when everyone wakes up, and now, go and work" she takes me with her magic and throws me out the nearest door
***
Finding myself in someone else's dream, I almost vomited again from the rapid change of scenery "It looks like I won't get used to this," I thought
Looking around, I realized that I was in a ship familiar to me, "Even if this is the only ship I've been in." Walking through the dark corridors, I heard a woman's voice carrying not far from me, not knowing the best direction, I went towards the voice
With each step, walking towards the voice, it seemed to me that the voice was quite familiar to me, but whose I do not remember. When I reached the large doors with the inscription "Dining Room", I realized my location, entering through them, a strange picture appeared to me. The entire dining room was empty except for two people, one of whom was Me and Yon?
Creeping slowly so as not to attract too much attention, I was able to make sure that Yon was sitting at the table and feeding my double with a spoon
"Eat, eat, you'll be healthy and strong" brings a new spoonful of food "Poor, no one understands you, only I understand your peculiarity" and wipes my double with a napkin
Seeing such a picture, I felt uneasy and therefore, I slowly headed for the exit. But unexpectedly for me, a blue fog passes in front of me, from which a cart with unstable kitchen utensils appeared. Not having time to stop in time, I crash into her and a large mountain of dishes began to fall in my direction
I closed my eyes and stretched my arms out in front to protect myself from the blow, but to my surprise, there was no blow
Slowly opening my eyes, I noticed that my hands were glowing with a blue glow, and the dishes were frozen in the same color. Moving my hands side to side, the dishes began to move in the direction of my hands
"Wow," I thought, examining my hands
"And let's try it like this" and I do, a click of the fingers of my right hand, after my click, the cart with dishes evaporates in a blue-red fog
I was about to rejoice at my victory, when suddenly Yon asks from afar "Is there someone here?"
I was lucky that I was standing next to the door and with a quick movement I find myself behind them
Thinking about what had happened, I heard a quiet step coming in my direction. Without thinking for a long time, I clap my hands three times so that Night will pull me out of here, but the answer to me was silence
"Come on," I think and clap again, but again nothing happened
I'm in a wild panic trying to get through to Night, so she pulled me out, but she didn't hear me, and the footsteps were getting louder and louder
Thinking that this is the end, I decide to get out of this dream on my own
"So Feel, calm down and concentrate on the exit," I think to myself
Calming down a bit, I stretch my right hand out in front, waiting for a click, and hold my right hand, with my left. Thinking only about the exit, I close my eyes and make a click, frozen in this position, I slowly open my eyes and see a black hole with a blue outline
"I did it, I did it," I rejoice, but at the same moment, the door behind me began to open and without thinking for a long time, I jump into it
"Hey, who's there?" the last thing I heard
***
Next I see is the cosmic sky that my face is falling against
"Damn, it hurts" I get up and swear "I didn't think the sky was so hard" I rub my nose
Then Night comes up to me and looks at with his cunning smile
"Tell me, what were you trying to achieve?" I ask her with resentment
"Well, I don't know" fake she wonders "I just wanted to have fun, wasn't it funny?" then her mane approaches me and grabs my cheek "Who is offended here?"
"Tell me, did you know?" my eyebrow rises
"Maybe," she replies, "But wasn't it an good practice, wasn't it? Only in a critical situation, a mortal can show his potential"
"Why didn't you pull me out when I called you?"
Then her gaze becomes stricter "Do you want me to help you all the time? Be more independent and learn to choose what you want!"
I didn't find the words to somehow object to her, if you think about it, her methods are not perfect, but very effective
"Listen to Night" I call her "Did you say that I should be independent?" she nods "That I have to make my own decisions" she nods "Then I decide who to do nightmares in a dream and who not!"
She wanted to nod, but immediately stopped
"Don't bend the stick, kid" her face becomes gloomy "You allow yourself too much"
I plug my ears with my fingers and tell her "I can't hear anything, I made a decision here myself, and you have to accept it"
Having a little quarrel with herself, she languidly exhales air and wearily says "Okay, yours has taken" I take my fingers out of my ears and listen to her attentively "But on one condition, you have to wake people up with your nightmares. Do you understand me?"
I reluctantly agree with her
The following days, during the day Night taught me magic, and at night I woke people up with my nightmares and did not notice, how four whole days had passed since I fell asleep
***
So the day has come when I will be able to wake up completely healthy
"Are you sure you want to wake up?" she asks me
Over the past few days, Night has looked much better than usual, her fur has become darker, her look is more expressive, and her mood has rarely fallen lately. It seemed that the "Magic of Nightmares" was doing her good
"Yes, I'm sure" I answer seriously "While we were sitting here, I had a few questions for the locals"
"Okay, you know it" she waves it off "But just in case, I say, you can expect an unusual reaction from people"
Not really understanding her warnings, I activate my magic to wake up. Recently, Night began to save her magic and therefore, all the responsibility fell on me "but I think she just got lazy"
The next second I wake up, already in the familiar medical chamber and fortunately fully clothed
Looking around, I realized that I was absolutely alone in this room…
"Woof" sounded under me
...except her. Scales was patiently waiting for me when I woke up
With a smile on my face, I take her in my arms and she began to lick my face wildly, but at some point something closed my eyes, with my hand I reach out to my face to understand that it was an ordinary gauze bandage
"It looks like I've been lying with this all this time," I think and remove it from my head
Removing the blanket from me, I was about to get to my feet, but when I was able to stand on the floor, my legs could not stand me and with a loud thud, I fall to the floor
Lying on the cold floor, I examine my feet and realize "Looks like i been lying still for too long"
At the same moment, Yon bursts into the rooms with her brother and looks around shouting "Who is there?" when she sees me, she immediately pounces on me and shouts loudly "What luck, you woke up, and we were worried"
Yut comes up behind her and looks around nervously "Um, hello"
I look at him with a misunderstanding, and then I turn to Yon and try to ask with my look "What's going on here?"
Yon looks at me with a question and doesn't understand what I'm trying to ask. After a while, she hits herself on the forehead and runs away, promising to come back
Only Yut, Scales and I were left in the room, an awkward silence hung between us and between all of us, only Yut could talk, but he was scared of something and constantly looked around
After some time, Yon returns and she brought something with her
"Here you go" she holds out a black diary "This is so that you can write to us about what you are thinking"
Nodding for this fit, I take it and immediately write my question on it "What is he scared of?"
After reading the question, she shrugs it off "Don't worry, just lately, many of our people have been sleeping badly and having nightmares" she approaches me and says quietly "Someone started a rumor that you are a ghost" after that she quietly began to laugh "I don't believe in ghosts, but all this seems funny"
"It's not funny" Yut shouts "How can you know that they don't exist?"
"I just know it" she replies sarcastically and switches to me "Because of all this turmoil, our mother can not calm all people in any way and constantly receives written complaints about it"
Listening to this conversation, I think I began to understand what Night wanted to warn me about
"Come on, now we'll give you a tour of our ship" Yon takes me by the hand "You've overslept too much, and there's a lot to see here"
And the whole company of us (Me, Yon, Yut and Scales) left the office and headed in an unknown direction to me
Passing through the dark corridors of the ship, we not infrequently encountered other people, passing by them, and they, in turn, cast at me uneven glances, ranging from fear to anger
"Don't pay attention to them" says Yon "Consider them all just didn't get enough sleep"
Hearing her words, I felt guilty for their lack of sleep
"I warned you" Night started talking in my head "Especially since you chose your own goals for nightmares and what a coincidence, you did it with those who thought badly of you, and they turned out to be most of the crew"
"I didn't think it would affect them that much," I say to Night, "I just wanted them to feel what I felt."
"Not my problem," she says, "deal with it yourself."
While I was talking to Night, I didn't notice how we reached a certain door
"Now, we are back at the training ground" says Yon "At the moment, we have to introduce you to Pharynx, he is responsible for the protection and training of our people"
"Last time, he was not at the training ground" adds Yut "As far as I know, then he was dealing with his brother, I do not know the details, but be careful with him"
I look at them with a misunderstanding and Yon decides to explain, simultaneously opening the door
"The fact is that he is very strict and demanding of results" here she turns to a whisper "He does not like weaklings and therefore hold on"
And at that moment, I heard a loud male voice
"WHY ARE WE RELAXING" he shouts "YOU ARE NOT IN KINDERGARTEN, NO ONE WILL WIPE YOUR TEARS HERE, YOU ARE THE SUPPORT OF OUR FAMILY, SO SHOW WHAT YOU ARE WORTH"
We approach him quietly, Yon and Yut synchronously stand up and synchronously say "Let me disturb you"
"WHAT DO YOU WANT" he shouts, turning to us "I HEARD THE VOICE OF LAZINESS HERE?"
Noticing us, his gaze became stricter, and even more so, noticing me, it seemed to me that he had something crunched. His appearance showed all his rigor, but he was dressed in some form unfamiliar to me, decorated with ribbons and medals shone brightly on his chest. It was not difficult to distinguish him from the others, his hair was of minimal size and had a dark scarlet color, as if they were made of his blood, and his eyes were gloomy and their color was pale purple. Also, if you look closely, you will see large black dents on your hands
"Who do I see" he spoke more quietly "Yes, this is our 'mute ghost', I was waiting for you and thought when he deigned to come to me" here he takes me by the jacket and lifting it up, brings it to his face " I don't like you, you are the very personification of the shame of our kind, but nothing, I 'll knock out all the nonsense that you have and start right now" and he throws me aside
Then Yon immediately caught herself "Well, stop it" Pharynx turns to her "Don't overdo it, he just woke up recently and is just recovering"
Pharynx comes up to her tight and drills her with a look
"Look at her" he says "As soon as she was promoted, she immediately found courage, but do not forget" here he also picks her up by her clothes "I am above you in office and only our mother can stop me"
Yon, weighing on his arm, began to smile "Even though you have more strength and a higher position, but" her smile turns into a more predatory one "I can already see how you will report to our mother for beating our recruit"
Pharynx dissatisfied tsked and began to let her go to the ground
"And how long will his 'superiority' be restored?" he asks hissing
Looking at me, Yon answers "1 day, give us a day to recover and you can safely take him to training" Her voice becomes stricter "But do not forget, if he falls unconscious again, you will not be able to get rid of your loyalty"
She comes up to me, helps me up and we walk away together
"STAND STILL" he stops us "Why do you need so many people, let only one accompany the beginner" he points his finger at Yut "You stay and you will train"
I don't know why, but he didn't resist much and goes to training
Yon didn't pay much attention to this and together we headed for the exit
When we were outside the door, I take the diary and write in it the question "Why did he stay there so easily?"
After reading it, she replies "You can't argue with him, but he will remember it to you. And now, come on, I'll show you our 'farm'"
Nodding in response, we headed in an unknown direction for me
But Yon decided not to go in silence and asks me a question "Tell me, or rather write, what is wrong with your dog?"
Not understanding the question, I ask her, "But more precisely?"
"Well, look" she points with her finger "Do you see her now?" I nod "And I see her, but for reasons unknown to me, no one notices her anymore. So that's what's wrong with her?"
I write to her, "I don't know myself, consider it her breed feature"
After reading it, she looks at Scales with bewilderment "She is some kind of very strange dog. Also, it seems to me or she understands what we're talking about" after that, Scales ear twitched "When you were unconscious, I sat with her periodically, I don't know how, but I say anything, she understood me half a word"
At that moment we reached a dead end and just when I thought we were lost, Yon boldly headed on
"Why froze, we have already arrived" and at this moment, she enters the wall and disappears from my sight
I was shocked by what I saw and then Night spoke up
"It's very strange" she says "Why did they decide to disguise the passage, be on the alert"
I snap out of my stupor and nod at her advice. The next moment, I do not confidently approach the wall with my arm outstretched forward, but before I could touch it, a hand grabs me and pulls me to myself, the next moment, I found myself behind the wall, in a new room
"And now, let me introduce you, our farm is solemnly" presented by Yon
Looking around, I was completely shocked by what I saw. There were dozens of large incubators everywhere, pipes were connected to them, in each incubator there was green slime, and sleeping people were swimming in it
I slowly approach one of the nearest ones and was about to touch them, but someone else's hand stopped me
"Don't touch it" a quiet and frightened male voice spoke "Be careful, or else you may be punished"
"And - this is Yon coming up to us" A local watchman, his name is Thorax
Looking at this guy, I felt sorry for him, he looked smaller and weaker compared to his brothers, I didn't see his hair, they were covered with a blue scarf, and his eyes were bright blue
"You are this, I'm sorry for stopping you so abruptly" he stammers apologizes "It's just that I was assigned a task so that no one would touch this, even me"
After accepting his apology, I switched back to these capsules, I don't know why, but they do bring not pleasant memories, from which it becomes very painful for me all over my body
***
*noise* Sample 177013 began to show signs of life *noise*
*noise* it's good that our experiment is progressing, but what does "defects" mean *noise*
*noise* be a potential threat to your hive *noise*
*noise* Destroy my experiment *noise*
***
I'm holding my head and didn't notice I was on my knees
"Silent, what's wrong with you" Yon is worried "Have you become ill? Can I get you some water?" and quickly she disappears without having time to stop her
Left alone with Thorax, I write him the question "What is it?"
He answers with sadness in his eyes "This is our farm for the extraction of the essence of love" he says "Here we keep people and with the help of our magic, we impose illusions on them in which they are happy"
I was completely shocked when I heard "Are they really doing this?"
"Everyone gets their own magic in their own way" Night spoke "I feed on nightmares, they are love. We didn't choose this"
After hearing what Night said, Thorax continued
"Because of my weakness and softness, I was put here to guard this place from outsiders, thinking that I would get stronger but in fact" he begins to cry "I am very sorry for everyone who is here, I feel everyday how they live in their illusions"
I stroke his back to calm him down and it seems to be getting easier for him
"Although, thanks to them, we can turn into other people, but this source has a drawback" it becomes more serious "You noticed that many of my brothers are quite rude and short tempered" I nod "It's because of someone else's love" he declares "I do not know why, but with a great absorption of this essences, compassion seems to die in us, we stop feeling something good and there is a very strong thirst for the same essence, it turns into a very weak drug, but it is difficult to get rid of. Also, according to my observations, people who often take it, you will notice characteristic black dents on the body, like yours" he points to my spot on my arm "Only they are even deeper"
I stared at him with my mouth agape and couldn't believe his story
"You know my brother Pharynx" I nod "Earlier in childhood, he took care of me very much, but over time, when they started giving him this essence, he changed a lot, although he became stronger, but" he had tears again "He became very angry, as if my brother had been changed and now" he takes a handkerchief out of his pocket and blows his nose "Now, he demands too much from me, he periodically comes to me and tries to make me like himself, but I don't want to be like him, I want to return the good old brother"
I began to calm him down and along the way, I write him the question "Did you tell your mother about this?"
After reading it, he replied "Yes, i did, but she said that everything suits her and she is not going to take any measures. Therefore, I have a tip for you" he says in a whisper "In no case, do not absorb this essence into yourself, but rather, run away from the ship" he declares "This place will only bring you pain and therefore, if the opportunity arises, then run away from here" here he does not quiet down much and adds with a little embarrassment "Um, also, I think I'll try to help you with this" he abruptly starts waving his arms "I'm not forcing you, but if you decide, then I'll be here"
With these words, Yon returns to us with a glass of water
"Here" Yon gives me a glass "Are you feeling better?"
I nod at her answer. Holding a glass of cool water in my hands, I abruptly drain it to the bottom, looking into the empty bottom, a question arises in my mind, I pick up a diary and write in it "Does she know?" and show it to Thorax
After reading it, he answers me with a smile "Yes, he knows and the glory of our mother, she and her brother sat down to my advice, look" Yon shows me "She is a pretty cheerful girl and this, almost without the essence of love"
"Yes, it's true" confirms Yon "Thanks to him, I feel more alive" and quietly says so that I don't hear "and it's better with you"
After not sitting like that for a long time, Yon decides to talk "Okay, we're off, we need to look somewhere else"
"OK, go" Thorax says goodbye "If anything, come in, I don't mind your company"
"Absolutely" says Yon, takes my hand and together we leave
After passing through the wall of illusion, we walked in silence and only Night decided to speak
"Listen, if think about it like that, then that kid says the thing" says Night "We don't have any future here and therefore, I recommend going to escape"
"Even if I agree, where will I go? There is only water around us!"
"They said something about Manehatten!" recalls Night "I think this will be our destination"
"We'll wait and see," I tell her
***
There are 6 days left to Manhattan
***
To be continued…….
Author's Note
Unfortunately, there are no drawings today, because I could not find any suitable for this chapter, so here is a gif file with Pinky (she got tired of waiting for her appearance in the plot, but I was able to negotiate with her and now she is waiting here)
In this chapter, the main character learned about the new problem of the "essence of love", as well as the recommendation to run away from here, what he will do next, we will find out in the future
(I can't wait to get to the moment of escape and arrival in a new city, because there are our favorite characters and even more)
Pov Feel
When we left the local farm, Yon looked around a bit and began to speak in a whisper
"You know what I'll tell you?" attracts attention to yourself "When you were unconscious, well, that time, before the arena, we were ordered to bring you this essence so that you recover faster" looking around again, she continued "I'll tell you a secret, we didn't give it to you. Knowing about its consequences, we decided to take a chance and disobey our mother's order, but as I see it" a smile appeared on her face "And for good reason"
After hearing such a secret, I had nothing to say (even if I could) and as a thank you, I just smiled at her
When she saw my smile, she immediately turned away from me, but I could see her blush "We just did what we thought was necessary and..." she began to stumble a little, but still continued "You do it, smile more often, almost everyone here with sour faces walks"
"Naturally, knowing that you drink, I'm not surprised," I thought, rolling my eyes
"Also, I've heard that a good day starts with a smile" by putting on a strange pose "This will be your motivation to smile"
Nodding at her in response, we stood in silence for a short time, until we heard a loud running from the far corridor that was moving in our direction
"SILENT!" a woman's voice shouted into the entire corridor "I'M COMING TO YOU"
The smile immediately disappeared from our faces, looking into the dark corridor, we saw two green eyes that were moving at high speed in our direction
"Damn it" says Yon and by her look, she even turned pale "This is our mother, watch out" she says to me and falling to the floor"
Because of the panic, I did not hear what she said to me and already saw a large predatory body flying towards me. I was ready to run into her and get unpredictable injuries, but then I heard a voice in my head
"HURRY UP, DODGE" Night shouts at me
After her scream, my body unknowingly began to move and I felt my magic begin to work. My body quickly began to bend backwards so that I could reach the floor with my hands while standing, and at that moment, a body flies over me and crashes into the wall with a loud crash, raising a cloud of dust
Frozen in a strange pose, in the form of a semicircle, I was looking upside down at the landing site of our mother, and suddenly slow clapping begins to be heard for me
"Excellent reaction, son" Chrysalis fits me "And also, the perfect shape of the bridge"
After her remark, my body begins to shake violently, my hands stop holding me and from weakness, I fall to the floor
"Hmm," she frowns, "But there's more to work on."
Next, she went to Yon, lying on the floor and stood right in front of her with her arms crossed
Yon from the silence, slowly raises her head and notices Chrysalis standing in front of her, the only thing that comes to her is an innocent smile
Chrysalis has one eye twitching nervously and she tells her to quickly stand up
After that, Yon stands up as fast as he can and starts apologizing "I'm sorry, it was unexpected for me"
"That's how, you wasn't ready" Chrysalis growls "What kind of example do you give our newcomer? WE are changelings, we must be prepared for the unexpected" at this moment, she hits the wall with her hand so that a deep mark from her fist remains "I promoted you and now you have to match her" she points her finger at me "Look at him, with his position, he took better measures are you"
"Forgive me" Yon bows his head "But what could I do?"
"Are you asking me?" Chrysalis is indignant "Something better than just falling on the floor. At this rate, in a couple of months, this boy" pointing at me with his finger "Will become stronger than you"
I felt uncomfortable with such a remark, because I was planning to leave here
"And now, we will start training" our mother announces "After the test, you did not show yourself at your best, and therefore, I'm going to show everyone how your flame burns"
Yon comes in here "Forgive me, but he won't be able to go to training right now"
Chrysalis glared at her "Try to explain to me why we can't"
Yon lost his confidence for a second, but suddenly became bolder and clearly expressed his opinion "He only recently woke up and did not regain his strength, so that there would be no problems with his health again, he needs to recover normally and recover from a long sleep" she said in one breath
Her mother glared at her and waited for a trick, but after a few seconds, her gaze softened and she looked at me
"Okay," she says, sighing, "I'll give you one day to rest, but tomorrow, you have to be like a cucumber. And now, go to your deck and don't come out, it's not a quiet time" she puts her hand on my shoulder
But when she touched me, she stopped and froze in place, as if she saw something in me
After standing there for a short time, she says softly "Something inside you has changed"
With these words, a pen with a piece of paper appears in her hand from nowhere and begins to write something there. After finishing her message, she gives it to me and says "Read it when you come to your cabin" and with these words quickly leaves
I stood in complete shock with a piece of paper in my hand and did not understand what to do next
But then, Yon calls me sharply "Okay, let's go, I'll take you to your cabin" and we went
"Boy" calling me Night "I think she could feel me in you"
"Are you serious," I say to Night, "What do you think she wrote?"
"I don't know, only in the room and we'll find out" the Night ends
Walking in silence, Yon decides not to talk much "You're lucky"
I look at her questioning.
"Well, how can I tell you, you have your deck cabin and no neighbors, as I think this is due to the hype about you and most of the people want to punish you somehow"
When I heard that, I felt uneasy
"I can also say that our mother takes care of you and so that you know, she has never shown such attention to anyone except you" and with these words she stops at the door "Here you will live"
Opening this creaking door and going inside, I began to assess the situation. The cabin was almost empty and without a porthole, there was only a bed and a small box
"How should I tell you, there used to be a solitary cell here, for particularly disobedient people, but because of the large number of complaints, your mother decided to put you here, for safety" she says awkwardly "Also, for your safety, food will be brought to you here, and you will go out when your mother allows"
I was shocked by their idea of "Just fine, I've been put under house arrest now"
"As I think" Night tells me "It will only help us"
"And how is that?" I ask her
"No one will bother us here for training" she concludes
I just nod at her answer and then Yon calls me
"Are you offended?" she asks me "I can understand you, but you understand, you are safer here than anywhere else" she starts reaching out to me and unexpectedly for me, starts hugging "I will visit you often and therefore, until tomorrow"
With these words, she releases me from her embrace, turns around and leaves, and as soon as she left, the door slams shut with a loud noise and leaves me alone
Left alone, I walk over to my recumbent place and sit down at the very edge
Then blue cosmic smoke comes out of me, which stretches towards me in a plume and two blue turquoise eyes appear at the very tip of this clot, looking at me
"Little one" Night distracts me and I look at her in surprise "What do you feel now?"
"Me?" I ask her again, coming out of complete shock, "At the moment, I feel empty calm"
"I see," she says and mumbles something about eunuth, if I heard correctly "Okay, now look what they wrote to us there?"
"Wait, how did you manage to do that?" I ask in complete shock, "When did you learn this?"
"What a slow–witted person you are" she scolds and rolls her eyes "I told you that, and I didn't have a chance to show you, and now, open this damn note"
Remembering the note that I was clutching so tightly in my hand that I forgot about it, I open it and a couple of photos of people I don't know fall out of it, without paying attention, I begin to read what is written in it
"-Son, since our last meeting, you have changed a lot, I feel like your manna has become bigger and stronger, but I am haunted by the fact that it smells strange and therefore, I am giving you the first task. Tomorrow, at morning training, you have to demonstrate our main skill changelings, and this is reincarnation. I left a couple of photos of the people you have to turn into (if you want, you can become someone to your taste), for this you have to imagine a person in your head and want to become them from the outside, it doesn't hurt, it won't even tickle a lot. But if you fail to complete the task, then your personal trainer Pharynx will knock out all the nonsense that is in you. Good luck and remember, We are a family and we are united-"
After reading the note, I didn't know what to say, so Night decided to start for me
"Well, at least she didn't notice me" she went through the lists again and continued "But she was able to catch something in you"
"I realized it myself when she touched me, I felt her gaze on me, as if she was scanning me." After looking at the photos that were left for me, I continued, "I'm not even asking how to complete this task and remembering who Pharynx is, tomorrow is my last day to live"
Night is approaching my head and hitting me with its smoke "Don't whine, your whining won't help us, so get yourself in the hooves and do what you have to"
"I don't have hooves," I correct her.
The blow of this smoke flies into me again "You still fix me here, it doesn't change the thought" she reproaches me "Therefore, put your tail in your teeth and do what you're told"
After hearing her peculiar phrase again, I decided to keep silent about my remark and with a full (but uncertain) attitude I begin to analyze photos of people
In one of the photos, a man with a strong build, with large and inflated muscles was depicted and he stood in a strange pose, as if he was posing for someone and all his physical indicators were visible in this pose
"A very strange guy," I think, "And why do they keep such photos?"
"Some things, it's better for us not to know" Night tells me "But what can I say, this male is very similar to the minotaur"
After looking at her in surprise and deciding not to dwell on it for a long time, I look at the photo three times. In the second photo, it was not a young woman, with sad but confident eyes, and she was holding something like a small guitar in her hands, with some kind of strange little stick in her hands
"Night, what kind of instrument is this?" I ask my neighbor
"This?" she asks me again, seeing my nod, she continued "This is an ordinary violin, it's like a guitar, but it's played with this little bow" she points to a stick
"I see, and she wants me to turn into one of them? Well, let's try" I think and take a photo with a man "Let's try with him"
Sitting on my bed, I began to analyze in detail the person who was in the photo. After a while, with the certainty that I remembered his appearance, I close my eyes and try to visualize him on myself, after sitting there for a while I began to understand…
"It doesn't work" I wearily open my eyes and lean on my hands "I don't feel anything"
"It's because you're not doing everything right," Night tells me, "You're not trying right."
"And then what should I do, Teacher?" I ask her
"And I'll ask you, tell me" her eyes are tightly approaching mine "Are there any differences from when you tried to conjure and now?"
"Well," I turn my eyes away and try to remember, "Well, maybe I'm not trying hard enough?"
Then a blow hits me in the head "It's not right, think further"
"Maybe we need to find another approach?" I'm trying to guess again
And again she hits me "It's not right, there's another pattern here"
I get mad at her punches and try to figure out what she wants to say.
"I guess," I say, a little angry, "I didn't remember the person well?"
And again, I get hit in the head, which makes me lose my patience.
"Stop it already," I yell at her in my head, "Stop hitting me, it hurts me," and wipe the place of impact
Night flying around me and asking "What do you feel now?"
"What do I feel?" I yell at her, "I feel like I'm in pain."
I get hit again, but this time it's weaker, as if I got a click "I asked you about the emotion, she tells me"
Wiping my bruise spot, I answer her, "Can't you see? I'm angry."
"Look around, do you see any changes?"
"What could change around from your blows" I answer her boldly and look around "Nothing has changed here, everything is as it was, and... um..." then I look at my hands and notice how they begin to glow with a red-blue light, but then the light goes out and my hands become like they were there before. Looking at your hands, only one question comes to mind: "And how did it happen?"
Night appears at my side and asks a question "Do you understand what happened?"
Continuing to look at my hands, I answer her "No"
And again I get a blow to the head "Idiot" she says "For reasons I don't understand, your magic strongly depends on your emotions and according to my observations, the stronger your negative emotions, the more powerful your magic. And therefore, try to set yourself up negatively and act"
After hearing her observations, I began to recall old fragments in my life that happened to me. To recall an unpleasant period in the orphanage, something strange was constantly happening to me when I was angry, or the same moments happening on the ship. Here I remember the moment with the argument with Ron and an interesting question comes to me: "Are there any differences between negative emotions?"
Here I call my neighbor in my head "Night, is it possible that there are differences between negative emotions?"
Night turned away from me for a second, but through the smoke I could see her eyes darting in different directions, as if she was analyzing my question. After a minute, she turns back to me with a puzzled look "Can you explain your guess?"
"Well, how to say it," I began to speak uncertainly, as if I was choosing the right words, "I was thinking, at different moments different situations were happening around me. Well, for example, the case when I unexpectedly ran fast for myself, if I remember correctly, then I felt envy strongly, and at another moment, when I was in someone else's first dream, I felt rage. If you compare those moments, you can see that my magic worked differently, but what if, in order to turn into someone, you have to feel something different?"
My teacher patiently listened to me when I finished and with each passing moment, her expression was constantly changing and when I finished, only a thoughtful look remained on her face
We sat in silence for a while and after the last time, I decided not to bother her in any way and waited patiently for her to answer me herself
"Perhaps there is some truth in your judgments" she suddenly says "But we will need to arrange small experiments" and a notebook appears out of nowhere
I nodded for her idea, but if I had known what it would lead to, I would not have agreed to it.
It's been 3 hours
I was lying on my bed, all tired and completely exhausted. Because Night was testing me with all the emotions she knew
"Please, I'm begging you to stop this" I'm begging her "What did I do to you?"
"Okay, okay, stop whining," she says, looking at her imaginary notebook, "I'm done, let's take stock, you're not a restrained and envious whiner, without a drop of lust"
"And if you are more specific?" I ask
"And to be more precise, after testing a few dozen emotions, your magic only works on a couple" she says "At the moment, the key ones are: anger, envy and fear. Perhaps in the future something may be added" the notebook dissolves in her flame "Also, I began to understand that you are innocence itself"
"I'm glad it's over," I lie smiling, "I'm tired after checking disgust and confusion, and the boredom check finished me off, did you need to completely immobilize me and not talk to me for an hour?"
"It's all for the sake of science," she says, and chuckles softly as she finishes, "And it was funny."
Night was laughing softly, but I wasn't in the mood for it, because I was exhausted. But unexpectedly for me, she abruptly stops laughing and looks at me with a serious expression on her face, and I realized that now is not the time for jokes
"Listen, kid, jokes are jokes, but at the moment you are seriously unstable" she says, poured from one place to another "Your main weapon is your emotions and only thanks to them, your magic begins to shine, but ..." with these words, she abruptly approaches my face "You don't you control everything that happens, it's completely random. And therefore, your main task is to take control of your own emotions and turn them into a controlled weapon."
I nod at her every suggestion, "Yes, I agree with that and I think I have to show my best tomorrow."
Night slowly turns his head, showing that I'm wrong "Here I have to disagree with you. I think we should hide our potential."
I looked at her with a puzzled look, "Why is that?" I ask her
And at that moment, a small window in the door opens (it was in the floor) and a tray of food is pushed through it "Dinner" says a voice outside the door
Looking towards the door, I noticed a tray of food, or what I think is left of it. Coming closer, I was able to better appreciate this dish, it consisted of some gray objects and an unpleasant smell came from it, from which tears came from my eyes by themselves
"Damn it, better give me back the garlic soup," I thought with grief
But unexpectedly for me, a quiet screeching began to be heard from the door, coming closer to them, I could see through a small window, a familiar muzzle and it was Scales, in whose mouth a note was visible
"I've already forgotten about her," I thought, "At least she's free and can go anywhere," I reach out and take the note from her
"Woof" she barks happily and as a thank you, I pat her on the head
After not paying much attention, she pulls away from me and disappears into oblivion again. Left alone again (almost) I examine the note addressed to me, unfolding it, I begin to read
"Hello Silent, it's me Yut. I know what situation you are in, but we can't help in any way, because they may consider it help from the outside, I'm sorry (for the same reason, Yon can't come to visit you). Also, Thorax gave me the news that you plan to escape from here and I don't mind helping you, no matter how rude it sounds, you don't belong here and therefore, together with Thorax, I will help you escape from our “family”, but I ask you, don't tell my sister and this for two reasons, she does not know how to keep secrets and I'm afraid, for some reason, she will even resist it, I warned you. P.S. I'm shocked by your dog, is she even from our planet?"
After finishing reading the letter, Night flies past me and yawns tiredly "Today, you read quite a lot, don't you?" I nod to her question "I'm lucky that the language of this world is similar to mine, it would be hard for you to read all this"
"I understand what you want to say, "I roll my eyes," I'm telling you again, thank you for teaching me to read and write, but please stop reminding me every time. I'm not saying you're a bad teacher, but your teaching methods are pretty strict."
"And you will say it, I like to listen to your words of gratitude" with a slight smile she tells me, but then she turns away and sadly whispers so that I don't hear "I like to be needed by someone"
I didn't hear what she said there, but I decided to keep silent, because I know that at such moments, it's better not to distract her
But she quickly returns her emotions to their former ones and changes the subject of the conversation
"Back to your question “Why”, we shouldn't stay here, and if you show everyone how strong you are, on the contrary, you will attract attention to yourself that we don't need" her gaze becomes stricter, and her voice is more serious "Strong ponies, ahem, more precisely people, stand out more brightly and attract attention, everyone wants to be equal to them level, and the weak are not needed by anyone, the weak become the shadow of the strong, but..." here she has a predatory smile, in which her fangs were visible "But we, on our weakness, at the right time, turn this game upside down" Night inexorably begins to laugh ominously
I watched and waited for her to stop laughing, even though her laughter gives me goosebumps, but I'm glad she's in a good mood
Calming down a little, she continued "We have pawns on this ship, they will help us at the right moment, and until that hour comes, we will save up our strength and create more nightmares on this ship, so they will become even weaker"
After listening to her plan, I didn't like one thing and I decide to ask, "What are we going to do tomorrow? That's not how I learned to transform."
Her expression immediately changes to a rougher and more thoughtful one, but soon, she snatches the last paper from me with her magic and burns it in a blue flame, after which, her gaze becomes softer "Let's see" she answers me smiling
I watched the last grains of the letter burn up in blue flames and scatter all over the room, then I turned my gaze to her and wanted to say something, but I didn't have the strength to argue with her, I didn't want to anymore and just nodded wearily at her. Lately, I've noticed that I stop seeing something strange in this, I stop understanding the differences between bad and good, if earlier something inside told me about such differences, now Night's ambitions overshadow everything that I thought was right. Night changes me, but I can't figure out for good or for bad, now I can't give myself an answer
Night looked at me as I was thinking about something, then at the food that was in my cabin and back at me "As I understand it, you won't eat?" she asks me, having received my negative answer, she continues "Well, if you're not going to eat, then it's time for you to sleep, I can see that you're tired"
I looked at her incredulously, "You're not going to let me sleep in peace, are you?"
After receiving a nod to my answer, I exhale wearily and lie down on my bed and, surprisingly for myself, quickly fall asleep
In a dream
I open my eyes expecting to see the forest I know, but what I saw made me go into shock. The landscape around me was not recognizable, the forest ceased to be friendly to me, the wind blew strongly in my face, which made it difficult for me to breathe, all the night colors of nature were transformed into more gloomy and sinister. Looking around, I tried to find Night, but I only saw her frozen silhouette
"Night" I shouted out of concern and ran to her as quickly as possible
When I reached it, I saw only a gray statue in its full height, looking around it, I did not see anything that said that it was alive
I was about to panic, but then that very altar came into my field of vision. The altar, which had been standing motionless all this time, suddenly began to sparkle with black lightning, and those in turn destroyed the earth around it. The ball that stood on the altar soared into the air and whirled feverishly along a trajectory I did not understand. But when he noticed me, he immediately stopped and only the white dot that was inside the ball did not stop calming down
My body was completely numb from such moments and only I was able to take control of my body, the ball moved towards me at an indescribable speed. As soon as a part of my body touched him, I was electrocuted again in indescribable agony and strange fragments of someone else's memory flew into my head again, as last time
***
Opening my eyes, I notice that I am standing in some park unfamiliar to me, there were very large and diverse trees around, ranging from black and white with leaves and ending with long trunks on which only green needles were visible at the top
"Where am I?" I wonder how I got here.
But I don't get an answer to my question, and only an unexpected conversation of people I don't know attracts my attention.
Not knowing where to go, I decide to go in the direction of the sound. Passing by trees and tall bushes, I notice people in the middle of this forest
Hiding behind bushes so as not to attract other people's attention, I see strange people, or rather tall and black silhouettes that surrounded a little boy. The boy was not tall, his body color was corporeal, and his hair was the color of dark hay, which I saw, not looking closely, I noticed that this boy had tears coming from his eyes
Out of curiosity, I sharpen my ears and try to hear what they are saying
"Tell me, where did you put the money?" The first rude voice shouts at the boy
"I saw him take them," says the second, but lower "I didn't like him right away"
"I didn't take anything" the boy shouts in tears "I myself heard how you conspired and came up with a reason to get me"
"Look at him" says the third, "It seems that someone's ears are growing from the wrong place"
"If he has heard, then we will not play this performance" says the first one "But I know that you have something, give everything you have, or you will regret it" he rubs his hands
"I don't have anything" the boy also answers "What have I done to you?"
"Close your metal mouth" the second one shuts up "We see that if there is money for briquettes, then there is something else"
"This has nothing to do with it" the boy screams, but immediately gets hit in the stomach, from which he falls to the ground and drops something
"Look guys" says the striker and picks up something from the ground "And this kid is a collector, look, he has collectible cards of that cartoon" and shows the others
"Why do we need such garbage?" Says the first one "We only need money"
The boy, who was lying on the ground all this time, starts to get up, holding his stomach and with tears, quietly says "Please give it back, I need it"
"If you need it, then take it away" and tears the cards into two parts "Oh!" he is surprised "I think I misunderstood you" and the whole group starts laughing
While the black silhouettes were laughing, the boy watched the torn cards fall to the ground and unexpectedly for me and everyone, he throws himself at these hooligans
The black silhouettes did not expect such a response from such a boy, but not fortunately for the boy, he was weaker and in the minority. The fight ended quickly for him, because it turned into a pure beating, all three silhouettes attacked one boy and beat him with their feet and beat him wherever they could
The beating did not last long and soon, the silhouettes disappeared into the void and only the sobbing boy remained lying on the ground
I felt uneasy at such an injustice, I slowly get out of the ambush and approach the boy to help him, but only I wanted to touch him, he evaporates in black smoke like the rest
"What's going on?" I ask into the void.
But the answer was a strange whisper that swirled around me.:
"It hurts, it's scary, it's insulting, it's not fair, if I could, why me, WHY me" the whisper turned to a scream and then I couldn't make out
Everything was going very strangely and from the wild scream, I close my eyes
***
Unexpectedly for me, the screaming around me subsides, opening my eyes, I notice myself in an old place, but it still remained in a terrible state
When I look up, I notice the same black sphere with a white dot inside, and she patiently looked at me until I noticed her
I was terrified of her, I was afraid to get terrible pain from her again, but unexpectedly for me, it spoke in a low and hoarse voice
"AlOnE. PuRpOsE. DrEaM." it says in a strange voice "HeLp. SuRvIvE. AdApT."
When it finished, strange fragments of someone else's memory began to seep into my head, and my body began to vibrate, but this time it didn't hurt so much. When it was over, the black sphere soared into the air and headed back to the altar
Landing on the altar, it began to hiss and before going back to sleep, it whispered "DrEaM. MaGiC. EvIl. ReCeIvE."
I was sitting on the ground and I was completely shaking from what was happening, looking at my hand and the only thing I understood was "It pumped something into me" and looking again at the already quiet altar, I wonder "What is it?"
Unexpectedly for me, something touches me in the shoulder area and with wild fear and fright, I fly out of my seat and respond with a swing of my leg in the direction of my illness
My foot quickly attacked in that direction with a red train, but I noticed late that a familiar Night was standing there and looking at me in surprise. I thought I was going to hit her hard, but fortunately she quickly turned into a blue blob of smoke and my foot flies past her
I was completely shocked by what I did, and even more so by how I did it.
"FEEL!" Night shouts at me and his former appearance is being formed again "What do you allow yourself?"
Noticing that everything is back as it was and that Night was standing in front of me as if nothing had happened, I immediately rush to hug her
"What luck that everything is fine with you" I tell her and try to hug her, she pulls away from me "I was so scared that something had happened to you"
"Stop it quickly" she orders me "What could have happened to me?"
Stopping trying to hug her, I sit down on the ground and tell her "I'll tell you everything now" and explain the whole story that I saw
At the time of my story, Night periodically looked towards the altar and did not show her disinterest at all and listened attentively to me
After listening to my story, she did not answer anything, just nodded and began to think about what was happening
"What do you think about it?" I ask her a question.
"I can't answer anything clear, but I can say for sure, it has its own plans for you," she answers me, "But I wonder how you managed to hit me like that from a U-turn?"
Not knowing how to explain, I just answer how I felt "I do not know how I did it, but my body, it seemed to know what needed to be done, I just felt the danger and my body reacted to it on its own"
"I see," she answers me, but then she looked at me predatorily, which sent goosebumps down my back "Then I know what we're going to do now" horn lights up and all sorts of objects appear out of the air, starting from stones and ending with sharp knives "Well, we'll start Experimenting"
Looking at this picture, something inside me shrinks and as quickly as possible into a flock from the ground "Are you serious?" I'm yelling at her "I'm tired right now"
Night continued to smile and said "As I said, in desperate moments, the full potential of a person is shown" and a stone flies in my direction
I barely manage to dodge him and fall to the ground face down from inexperience
"Stop it," I shout, "You're not going to overdo it, are you?"
She gets a predatory grin and this time, a knife flies at me. I realized that she wasn't joking or playing games with me, but I was afraid, afraid of getting terrible pain again, and so I remember experimenting with my emotions, trying to concentrate on what I feel most right now, and that's fear. Now fear drives me more than ever, and now I see a sharp knife flying up to me, which is inexorably flying in my direction
As I concentrate on my fear, I feel like I'm releasing my magic, my eyes start to flicker red, and my body starts to move on its own. And so the knife took a couple of centimeters to pierce me, but my body, at a speed indescribable to me and flexibility unexpected to me, rolls to the side and with a slight push I push myself off the ground and land right on my feet
Night watches my actions in surprise, but does not lose any excitement and I would have known what it would lead to
"Well done, boy," she says happily, "Now let's raise the difficulty level" and several objects are already flying at me
I'm not losing my attitude and the spark in my eyes, my body dodges all her attacks, that at some point Night loses all the excitement and stops throwing dozens of objects at me
"That's it, stop," she says, "You're doing great, at the moment you were able to take control of your fear and I'll tell you more, you used your source, not mine. But the only thing that gives you away is your eyes, when you started using your magic, there was a red glow in your eyes. I recommend that you wear glasses."
I was lying on the ground all tired, even though my body was moving on its own, but the fatigue was mine, but for some reason I did not understand, the smile did not leave my face
Night comes up to me and bends down so that our eyes cross on the same line and to my surprise, she smiled slyly at me
"You did a good job," she says, and for some reason I didn't like it "Now you've mastered one emotion well, but we still have at least two left, and therefore" she pulls her predatory smile again "Your dream is not over yet"
I nervously swallowed my saliva and already imagined how my dream was turning into a nightmare
To be continued…….
Author's Note
In this chapter, the main character is faced with new problems, but at least he begins to understand the essence of his power, but mysterious visions and a strange ball haunt our hero
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Yeah, I totally screwed up the schedule. It was planned to release the chapter once a week, but due to the onset of winter, the plans turned upside down. And therefore, I plan and will try to release a chapter once a month next year, I have reasons for this
Also, I decided to open an album of my drawings for this FF, I will post there some characters and moments that will happen in these chapters (both in the past and in the future). Actually, the drawings, it's too loud to say, for the most part there will be sketches of how I see it. Here is the link: Album
I'll start with a sketch of the Main character
In addition, I plan to update or supplement the pictures in the old chapters on my own (I'm pretty embarrassed to do all this, but I like the idea itself). But that's next year.
Wait, further – more
POV Feel
The next day. Morning (5 days left before arrival)
I wake up exhausted and tired from my dream, who would have known that you could get tired of being asleep
"I don't know about you, but I feel great" Night spoke next to me
Slowly turning in her direction, I slowly blink my eyes alternately and then wipe them because of my drowsiness
"Who would say," I reply to her, "I don't like your training methods," having said that, I start yawning, "Do you know what mental fatigue is?"
"Don't mumble to me here, the main thing is not the method, but the result, and as you can see, the result of our training cannot but please" she rolls his eyes at my whining
I wanted to say something, but the door to my cabin starts to open and the Night evaporates from prying eyes
I am greeted by a bully I know, who made a commotion in the dining room a few days ago, remembering the moment when I pulled down his pants, I did not consciously smile, but due to fatigue, the smile immediately disappears from my face
"Follow me," he said, and started waiting for me to come out.
Without thinking for a long time, I leave my room and follow my escort
We walked in complete silence, but I felt that he didn't like me. Thanks to our training, we were able to reveal that when I sharpen my fear (only fear), I can feel the emotions of others, and walking next to him, I couldn't help but be afraid of him
He walked ahead of me and occasionally looked at me, checking if I had gone somewhere. Walking behind his back, I noticed that his body also has black bald spots, showing that he does not disdain to absorb the essence of love
After walking in silence for a couple of minutes, we finally reach the door of the gym that I know. The bully walked forward, kindly opened the door for me and patiently waited for me to pass through them, but feeling his emotions, I understood that he was up to something, but I decided to play along with him
I obediently walk through the door and nod to him as a sign of courtesy, but as soon as he remained behind my back, I felt him jerk towards me
Feeling this attack, I feigned dodging to the side, as if something had pulled me there. Because of his size or because of his slow reaction, he flies in front face, I decided to teach him a lesson, imperceptibly with my blue magic I relax his belt, so that in flight his pants fall off again
He falls face down on the floor and does not notice that his pants have fallen off him, getting up from the floor and rubbing his nose, he looks at me angrily, but because of my fatigue, I had nothing on my face
"I'm going to strangle you," he growls at me.
But before he could move on me, he falls face down on the floor again, but this time because of his lowered pants
Unexpectedly for me, the crowd started laughing wildly around us, looking at them, I think "Damn, because of fatigue, I didn't notice them"
Quiet whispers began to be heard from the crowd, but someone brave, laughing, screams "Barx was left without pants again and again because of the new one" and loud laughter began again
Looking at the whole crowd, you would think that everyone was having fun, but I realized that behind all this laughter there was anger at me
Suddenly there was a loud bang and the laughter around us quickly subsided, the atmosphere quickly changed to a more tense one and everyone, including me, stopped breathing. My body is very tense, as if Night is testing me again and unknowingly, my body is screaming about danger
A second click came and the crowd that surrounded us quickly parted, forming a passage through which the local tyrant Pharynx could be seen, when two rows of people formed in front of him, he slowly but firmly walked towards me
Passing by Barx, who was standing in one of the rows, he stopped and sternly looked at him and it was not for nothing that this idiot did not have time to put on his pants and realizing his mistake, he was pouring a stream of sweat
"Explain yourself, soldier," he orders, "For what reason are you like this?"
In response, he twitched nervously and tried not to look into Tom's eyes
"Allow me to fix this problem" Barx shouts obediently in response
"I allow it" Pharynx says calmly
Barx obediently reaches down to pull his pants back up, but as soon as his head was at waist level, Pharynx suddenly hits Barxa in the face with a powerful kick, so hard that he flies off in an arc to the side and falls unconscious
Looking at the whole picture, I understood that everyone expected such an outcome, because when the blow occurred, no one even flinched and looked at what happened to the unlucky one
"SOLDIERS!" Pharynx shouts at everyone "YOU DON'T HAVE GAMES HERE, AS SOON AS YOU ENTERED THIS ZONE, YOU IMMEDIATELY SIGNED UP FOR IT AND THEREFORE" he looked sternly at everyone "IF YOU ARE READY TO STAY, THEN BE PREPARED FOR THE CONSEQUENCES"
Less than a minute later, only he and I were left in the training room, even taking Barxa's unconscious body with us
Pharynx clicked his tongue in displeasure and briefly commented on all this in one word "Suckers"
Then his gaze clung to me as if he could immobilize me and slowly he approached me
"What do you say, “White Ghost”, it looks like we won't have an audience today, but I don't mind" he was getting closer and closer "Are you ready for today's exam?" Having said that, he immediately approached me and with a wave of his hand, suddenly stopped in front of me
Suddenly Night says, "What are we going to do?" She tells me
I didn't move and watched as the body in front of me stopped. "How did you do that?" I ask her.
"It's simple" she tells me "Now we have switched to a mental connection" seeing my uncomprehending look, she rolls her eyes and continues "So let's say you started thinking so hard and fast out of fear that at the moment you slowed down the world around you and therefore, while there is time to think, I ask again The question is, what are we going to do?"
After listening to her answer, and looking at the body in front of me, I realized that everything had slowed down, not frozen, and therefore I had to come up with something
"Um, do you have any ideas?" I ask her, "This is the first time I've come across this and nothing comes to mind."
"That's how you started talking! But someone said that he would make his own decisions and blah blah blah" she chastises me "Where is all this confidence?"
"Please help me. The only thing that comes to my mind is just to dodge, but I can't use my magic, he'll notice," I tell her and continue to look at how the body is moving towards me, "And therefore, I need your help."
After not saying much, she still decides to help me
"Okay, you've convinced me, but you'll owe me" I nod at her condition and she continues "I think the only thing we can do is put an illusion on him"
"Didn't you say that we shouldn't show our magic?"
"This is not a simple illusion, in theory we will let him into a trance of how he will “play” with you, but in order to do this, you will need to grab his head, because magic that works on the mind works better with close contact, in our case, the head" she finishes
"Okay, I get it, and how do I do it?"
"Think for yourself, my task is only to put him into a trance, and as soon as the heads reach him, think for yourself"
Realizing that I will have to do everything myself next, I see that he is very close to me now and I do not see any other option how to dodge. I close my eyes and try to calm my fear and take it under control, taking a deep breath and exhaling, I don't get much to calm down and opening my eyes, the world around me begins to take its course
Without being distracted much, I forget that I am being attacked now, but fortunately for me, my body dodges itself by rolling backwards
Rolling over to the wall, I heard a loud sound of metal and looking in the direction of the sound, I see how Pharynx hit the metal floor with all his strength so hard that there was a wide dent
Pharynx was surprised at my disappearance at one point, but when he noticed me, he smiled wildly and said "Oh! Now it won't be boring anymore" and rushed into me with a smile on his face
Realizing that now he will hit more seriously, I am preparing for a counter-measure. I pretend to be scared and press myself against the wall, but I concentrate with my whole body for the next blow, my whole body was trembling with fear, realizing that there would be no second attempt
Now he's getting to the right distance from me and everything around me has slowed down again. Pressing myself against the wall, I jump as high as I can and push off from the wall, thereby dodging the blow again, I jump over him, and he in turn hits the wall where I was before, leaving a deep dent
Being behind his back, I grab his head and give the command for the Night to act
She catches the moment, passes through me like a blue mist and enters his head through his hands. After a little resistance, his body relaxes and he falls asleep standing in front of me
"Phew, it was difficult, but I'm done," she tells me, returning to my body, "I recommend that you move a decent distance away."
Without asking unnecessary questions, I run away behind some simulators, waiting for further
Not even a couple of minutes pass, Pharynx suddenly wakes up for me and starts laughing wildly, beating the air
"Um, what did you just do?" I ask her
"As you can see, he is now under the illusion of how he is “playing” with you" she answers "At the moment, it is better not to bother him, not that he will wake up, but that he can hit you"
"Okay, I get you," I nod to her.
10 minutes pass
I sat and watched as “my” coach entertained with an imaginary me, rarely shouting out some phrases
"How boring is this," I thought, "Maybe we should do something too?" I ask my neighbor in my head
But instead of her expected answer, I got a severe headache, after which a familiar male voice spoke "EnVy. CoPyInG. UsE" The voice trailed off and the headache disappeared with it.
"FEEL CAN YOU HEAR ME?" Night screams at me in her phantom form, noticing that I reacted to her call, she anxiously asks "Are you normal? You ask the question yourself and then ignores me, what can you come up with in response?"
"Did you hear him?" I ask her worriedly
"Who can I hear here? It's just us here," she answers confidently, but noticing my worried look, her gaze became softer and asked uncertainly "Who could you hear?"
"After I asked you a question, I had a headache and then I heard the voice of that dark silhouette and it told me three things: envy, copying and using. After that, the pain went away and I heard your voice" told her what happened
"I see" she answers me quietly and began to think again. For a while, she stared at one point, then her gaze shifted to me and after a moment, her gaze fell on my “coach” and back at me, suddenly it dawned on her wildly "Maybe I know what to do, the question is, can I trust that creature?" she asks me a question skeptically
I did not look confidently into her eyes, realizing that there was no strong trust from that creature, but something inside me seemed to say that I needed to believe him and I hope that he was not telling me this
"I think we need to trust him at least once, at least try to do it," I answer her, "Plus, I think if he wanted to hurt us somehow, he would have already hurt us."
"Okay, but I wouldn't trust him completely" she shrugs it off "After one personal meeting, my trust in him was enough, but if you're thinking of trying to trust him, then I'll try" when she finished, she took a couple of breaths, making it clear that she wasn't pleased to remember that moment. Then she looks at the person in the room and continues to say, "I assume that your head friend gives you the opportunity to copy something from people and use it to your advantage. I do not know what exactly, but you should definitely be jealous of it."
"Damn," I scold to myself, "I don't want you messing with my brain anymore, the time you experimented with my emotions was enough for me."
Night smiled easily and rolled her eyes "It's your own fault that you couldn't prove yourself properly, also, you didn't get a lot of experience"
"Okay, okay, but still, how is it better to express envy on your own?" I ask my teacher
Night rolls her eyes wearily, without thinking much, she begins to speak "As I think it is much easier to cause envy than any other emotion and I am sure that you once, unknowingly, but also envied something" looked at me slyly and continued to speak
"There are no such creatures who could do everything in the world, but there are those who want more than they really can, and at such moments this trait of “envy" wakes up in us. There are such moments in all spheres of society, the poor envy the rich, the weak envy the strong, the younger envy the older..." at this point, she stopped for a moment, but after a while she continued "Okay, I'm going to take a nap for a while, because of all these thoughts and magic, I didn't get tired much" the blue mist began to return to my body and she finally told me "Envy, makes me want something to change yourself, then everything depends only on your desire to repeat or surpass it" and her voice fell silent in my head
When she fell silent, only one indignation remained in my head: "And when will I be able to mentally rest?" I asked myself a rhetorical question
Left alone and without support, I began to dig into my emotions
"Envy, you need to arouse envy in yourself" I start looking at my test subject "So, from the beginning you need to understand what I should be jealous of" without thinking much aside, only one thing comes to mind "I have to copy the combat experience"
Having made a choice, I stand a few meters away from him and stretch out my arms in his direction. "Well, let's try it"
A couple of minutes pass, but the effect has not happened
"Damn, what am I doing wrong?" I ask myself and lower my numb hands, "Why is nothing happening?" I grab my head and start freaking out to myself, "Damn, damn, DAMN" and from an outburst of anger, my hands begin to glow with a red-blue light, making it clear that now Magic works
* sigh* "Maybe this is it?" I ask myself and look at the object of copying "We won't know until we try" I stretch out my hands in front of Pharynx and concentrate on the emotion that is driving me now
But the effect was not necessary, a blue sphere formed in front of my hands that resembled the magic of my teacher and from my shock, I let go of the projectile and it flies straight at Pharynx, which is calmly in a trance
"Damn, that's not what I wanted," I tell myself in horror, I don't close my eyes much, I quietly say to myself "I'm sorry" looking at him
But I was surprised by further events, my projectile was rapidly approaching Pharynx, who had his back to me in a trance, as soon as my clot was already at arm's length from him, he did not do his best, he quickly turned to me with his eyes closed, stretched out his hand in the direction of my sphere and redirected with soft but fast movements She was on the other side of herself and continued to wave her arms in the air as if nothing had happened.
I was standing not far from him with my mouth agape and could not believe, he was under hypnosis, was able to feel the attack from outside and was also able to easily repel it
After watching his actions, I felt my weakness in front of him, the difference that was in front of us, he was much more useful in his condition than I was in the present
Here he abruptly stops in place and stands at attention, facing me and without realizing it, I walked slowly towards him
When I reached him in the dense, I looked at his appearance entirely, a tall man with a very rude expression, I would not envy his appearance, but what he can do greatly infringes on my inner self
"Am I envy now?" I ask myself, "Maybe this is it" is not realized, my hand slowly reaches out to him, "Not a pleasant feeling of envy, for something better and not possible that I want to be able to do as well" and I touched his clothes
Unexpectedly for me, my hand began to glow red and an unpleasant tremor passed through it, I abruptly took my hand away from him, not knowing what was happening, but it didn't stop there. From the point of contact there is a green plume of magic that goes in my direction, changing its shade to red and ending on my hand
When the process of magic stopped, my eyes blurred and my body began to hurt a lot, but fortunately, it passed after a couple of seconds and everything returned to its original state
"What the hell was that," I stood in shock and suddenly, I felt an inexorable tremor at my side and involuntary I jump aside
When I jumped back, I noticed that Pharynx suddenly attacked me and tried to hit me
I ask myself, but something inside me tells me that the attacks haven't stopped there.
And as it turned out, I was right, Pharynx quickly approached me and delivered another punch, which I also successfully evaded
This was followed by a couple more punches and a few unsuccessful grapples, which I successfully dodged. "Wow," I'm happy, "I was able to copy it and it all seems too predictable for me," I brag
But after a few more dodges, my body makes itself felt, my muscles start to hurt a lot and a strong cramp appeared on my legs, which makes it impossible for me to dodge the next attack
*Bam* I caught a blow and flew hard into the wall, but fortunately I was still conscious
"Damn, it hurts," I swear at myself and grab my hand, "It's not surprising, I was able to copy the skill, but my body remained weak, that's what lack of training leads to"
Looking up, I noticed that Pharynx was walking towards me, still with his eyes closed "Wow, he's still under hypnosis, but I can't do anything further, only a miracle can save me" and at that moment the doors to the training room open, from which Pharynx comes out of hypnosis, opens his eyes and yawns "Looks like luck is still on my side" I smile
* yawns* "Where am I?" Pharynx asks a question and looks around, but before he has time to look in the right direction, he receives a strong blow to the head, from which he falls to the floor and continues to lie there
"What the fuck are you doing here?" Chrysalis swears and she looked very angry "When I appointed you to be his coach, it doesn't mean that you had to bring him to such a state"
He did not answer her in any way and continued to lie on the ground like a corpse, as if the rule “do not beat lying people” was in effect here
I lay there and watched the familiar faces of Yon and Yut come up to me with sorrows on their faces
"Hey, bro, are you okay?" asks Yut a question
"My God, you're in a terrible state" Yon worries "Just don't move, tell me where it hurts… Oh, that's right" she was embarrassed "You don't have to say, just nod, are you in pain?" I nod "Does something hurt?" she asks and sees my displeased grimace, hits herself on the head and continues "Oh, I'm sorry, something brought me"
Then a worried Chrysalis comes up to us and looms over us "Is everything all right?"
"Well, how can I say it" says Yut "He hears and sees us, it's already good"
Chrysalis smiles slightly and says "This is good" and takes out of his pocket a small bottle with something pink in it "Here you go, this is the essence of love, but not simple, but very concentrated, few people can get it without my permission, but for you I made an exception" and winked at me "It will help you need to heal your wounds, but be careful, my child, it is very strong and you need to take it in drops every couple of hours," and now she turns around, takes Pharynx, who was still lying on the ground, by the scruff of the neck and heads for the exit "Go back to your cabin and get well, tomorrow there will be another training session" and he leaves
When she left, we all breathed a sigh of relief and looked at each other.
"Well, what can I say" Yut begins "You're alive, and that's the main thing"
"I agree with him" Yon nods "I was very worried about you"
I wanted to ask them where they were, but unfortunately, I forgot my daily planner
"Woof" then I heard a familiar barking
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound together and we saw the dog Scales, familiar to me, who had my diary with the pen "About time" in her mouth
"I said it last time, but this dog scares me" says Yut and his sister nods "I'll tell you so, it seemed to me or likes to eat stones"
I calmly take my diary from Scales, stroked it along the way as a thank you and am going to write a message, but one thing puzzles me: "Didn't it hurt me a couple of minutes ago?"
Wondering this question, I put aside my diary and slowly get up, which in turn surprises everyone sitting next to me
"Um, doesn't it hurt?" asks Yon a question
I take my diary and write there "Believe it or not, but it really hurt me a couple of minutes ago, but now my muscles hurt a little", I show them my entry and actively move my body, showing that it doesn't hurt me
After reading my message, Yut says "Well, if you feel good, then that's good, otherwise I didn't want to carry you in my arms to your room"
I am writing a new message "Where have you been?"
After reading the note, they simultaneously looked away and nervously exchanged glances
"You, uh, don't need to worry about it" says Yon and judging by her voice, she stuttered "It's not like it has nothing to do with you and will not produce anything in the future with you" she smiled innocently
Yut rolls his eyes and slaps himself in the face, saying softly "Fool"
Realizing that it is not worth continuing this topic any further, I write a new question "What are we going to do with this bottle?"
After reading it, Yon confidently says "And don't worry about it" she grabs a bottle with love "I have a special place where I drain it"
Yut looked at her skeptically "Are you sure about this?"
She nods confidently "Absolutely, how many days have passed and nothing strange has happened to us, so I'm sure that the place is reliable"
"Okay," he answers wearily, "You know, I'll take him to the cabin for now, and you go to the dining room and bring normal food to his cabin, and we'll meet there"
She hesitated for a long time, but still agreed and ran to the dining room so as not to waste time
After watching her go, Yut sighs heavily and turns to me with a serious expression on his face
"As you can see, she doesn't know how to keep secrets or even lie. But in fact, we were called to discuss an event in your honor," he says, getting up and heading out of the hall, and I followed him "Our mother wants to organize a demonstration in your honor again" as soon as we left the hall, he began to speak in a whisper "There you can show everyone what kind of changeling do you really imagine, it will take place in five days, namely on the day of arrival at Manehatten and I think this will be the best moment to escape, but the plan is still being finalized, but for now, try to survive until that moment" he smiles awkwardly
He finished speaking and we walked on in silence
At this time, the Chrysalis office
"Are you seriously saying you don't remember anything?" she asks
"Yes, Mother, I don't remember anything at all," he says seriously, "But I definitely remember that I was surprised and had fun
Chrysalis nervously rubbed her temples and looked seriously at Pharynx
"I understand you, but please be a little more gentle with him" she asked him and from such a request, he was very surprised "In five days, the Silenta demonstration match will take place again and in it he must show his full potential and I would not want him to fall into a coma again"
Pharynx sighed heavily, but nodded quietly to her "I'll try everything I can, but don't expect more from me"
"Yes, yes, and now go already" she throws him out "I still have a lot of paperwork"
"I'm listening to you" he turns around and leaves the office, speaking softly aloud "Surprisingly, she said please"
Chrysalis was left alone in the office again and couldn't keep the smile off her face
"Son, I can't resist seeing what you've learned," she says happily in a low voice.
Looking at her desk, her expression changed greatly to sad when she saw a large stack of papers, remembering where they were going
"I hate this continent," Chrysalis thought of Manehattene, "It brings back unpleasant memories of the past and the people living there," she does not realize that a pencil breaks in her hands out of anger, "I do not know how, but they did something to this place and now we can not set foot on this continent in any way"
But from such thoughts, she is distracted by the sound of water coming through the pipes above her head
"What the hell is going on there" she swears "Lately, I've started to hear this noise a lot, I'll have to deal with it" after looking at the pipe, she yawns "But not now"
Currently Feel (Silent)
We had already reached my room and were waiting for Yon to come to us, and fortunately we didn't have to wait long for her
"I'm sorry it took so long," she says "I was still draining this essence on the way" and shows us an empty bottle
"Are you sure it needed to be done urgently?" he objects
"What's the big deal?" she is perplexed "What is now, what is later, one rubbish difference" she waves it off, then she switches to me and takes something out of her pockets "Here you go, this is the only normal thing that I could take"
I take it and realize that it's just plain black bread.
"I do not know who decided this, but no one wants to feed you and they say that “The White ghost feeds on nightmares, not food” and I thought it was funny"
I felt uneasy about such rumors, because part of it is true.
Yut did not flinch much at the mention of the “White Ghost” and began to look around "You are it, come on, go to your room and wait for further news" he winks at me "And we will go about our business" and he grabs Yon by the hand
"Yes, he's right, we still have a lot of plans" she says playfully "And probably we'll see each other only tomorrow and that's why" she quickly hugs me and says "See you tomorrow"
I go into my room and am completely alone again…
"Well, my dear student, what progress have you made?" suddenly Night appears next to me and, as always, in a good mood, talks a little too much
"How can I say, I can say that I am making progress" I am not surprised at her appearance
"Then tell me what you understand?" She asks me
"As I understood it, with a feeling of strong envy, I was able to copy some skills from Pharynx, but it only worked when I touched it." Then one thought came to my mind, "And if you think about it, didn't you help me in any way?"
"Why such suspicions?" she looks at me in surprise
"I just remembered that at some point, he suddenly froze in place "looking at her suspiciously " Also, due to mysterious circumstances, he woke up exactly at the moment when other people entered the hall, so tell me, are you really not involved in this?"
"Okay, okay, you caught me" she gave up "I really didn't do much help, because if it wasn't for me, then you would have continued to be stupid and therefore don't thank me, but just worship" she smiled at me
"I'm doing it anyway," he looked at her slyly, and she was embarrassed by this answer
"Okay, we still have a lot of work to do" I stretch my body
"And what have you decided to do now?" She asks me briskly
"It's simple, I'm going to train my body now," I confidently answer her, "The fact is that although I was able to copy the skill from him, but my body couldn't fully show it and therefore, I plan to seriously do it."
"And you're doing great" she praises me "I like that you're trying to think ahead, but don't forget, you need to do nightmares too"
I stop to stretch my body and look at her with a little resentment, "But maybe without it?"
"Don't whine here, have you forgotten what will happen in five days? At that moment, you need to wake up any power that you accumulate" she looked at me seriously "And now collect your snot and study"
I spent the rest of the day and into the night training my body. According to mysterious situations, after long and hard training, I did not feel very tired and, as Night noticed, my endurance is recovering faster than usual
According to her theory, I may have unknowingly copied someone's endurance skill, but what could that mean to me? Which means I didn't have a reason to take a break from training due to fatigue.
The night passed for me as usual, without incident, and surprisingly the dark entity was silent or unable to speak at the moment, or it was waiting for a certain occasion
To be continued…….
Author's Note
Another day has ended for our hero and, as always, he still has a lot to learn and learn something new about himself
Uh, hello? Yes, I know myself, I haven't posted chapters for a long time again. There are a couple of reasons why there were no chapters, the main one is laziness! I'm very lazy, here's a meme showing you how I'm trying to deal with it (Yes, it's like my character)
I'll tell you this, everything that happened is happening and will happen for a reason, every action has its own reason. Nothing happens “just like that". No wonder the fanfiction is called “Silent question”Album as I see them, and now the mysterious dog Scales has appeared there.
Now I'm trying to draw Yut and You the way I see it
The next day. Morning (4 days left before arrival)
The next day started quite unexpectedly for me and at the same time recognizable
*Fshh* "WAKE UP SOLDIER" Pharynx shouts at me, pouring cold water on me "GET UP QUICKLY AND GO TO THE TRAINING"
I get up sleepily and sit down at the edge of my sleeping place, rubbing my eyes stuck together from "sleep" and look at the wet spot and understand "Places change, but the alarm clock remains the same"
But my consciousness returns the same scream
"WHY DID MAGGOT SIT DOWN, I DID NOT HEAR THE ORDER TO SIT STILL, I QUICKLY GOT UP AND LEFT" Pharynx shouts at me
I obediently obey him, out of habit I put on my glasses and quietly leave my room, heading for the hall to which I knew the way, but his scream stops me
"WHERE DID THE SNOWBALL GO" I stop in place, turn around in the direction of the voice and see how Pharynx comes up to me in a tight and looks down at me "AND NOW LISTEN TO ME CAREFULLY DOLMATIAN, FROM THIS MOMENT ON, YOU STOP THINKING AND START DOING EVERYTHING I TELL YOU" he starts poking me with his finger in chest area "I'LL TELL YOU TO RUN ALL DAY, YOU'LL RUN ALL DAY, I'LL TELL YOU TO PATCH ALL THE HOLES ON THE SHIP, YOU'LL PATCH THE HOLES ON THE SHIP, I'LL TELL YOU TO DIE, YOU'LL DIE, BUT" he took me by the clothes, raised me to the level of his height, takes my glasses and speaks more quietly "Unfortunately, I will not let you die, but I will not stop training you"
Looking into his eyes, I knew without my abilities that he hated me. Listening to his scream, I wanted to show him more and more that I was not a fake and could also fight back, but Night decided to remind me
"Stay small, I understand that it is very difficult" she encourages me in my head "But remember, you will show strength and they will not leave you alone, but we do not need this"
"I know this without your reminder, but his scream annoys me," I think and clench my fist, that there was not a big spark in my hand, but realizing that I feel angry, I take a few deep breaths and exhales, calming myself and stopping the flow of my mana, "It looks like I will have to endure another four days"
Left with such a sad thought, he finally put me back on the ground
"Since we understand each other perfectly, then we start a little run and it starts..." after making a short pause, looking at his wrist where his watch was, he shouts "...NOW"
And as if on a bugle, I run down a straight corridor wherever my eyes look, and as I realized, I am forbidden to stop without a command
Running through the corridors for several minutes, I realized that my endurance had become greater than it was before and unfortunately for me, this fact would greatly attract attention to myself and therefore, I had to simulate shortness of breath and even pretend that I was falling
"Kid, I like your idea of imitating this," Night tells me, "But be a little more restrained, you're being too dramatic."
"It's easy to say, but I've never pretended to get tired," I tell her and don't notice how I'm bumping into some person.
We fall to the floor together so that I was lying on top, but surprisingly, I fell on something soft
Looking ahead, I notice a Yon familiar to me, moaning in pain with her eyes closed
Finally, she opens her eyes and begins to apologize "Oh, forgive me, I didn't notice you and I was heading to my..." here her gaze meets mine and quietly finishes "... to a friend"
She was very stunned looking at me and by her looks she seems to have forgotten how to blink and breathe. I was about to get up from her, but she stops me and innocently asks "What are the fates?"
But before I could explain something to her, I suddenly got a strong kick on my ass, so hard that I flew into the air and was already lying face down on the cold floor
"I DIDN'T ALLOW YOU TO REST" Pharynx shouts at me standing next to me "AND NOW GET UP AND KEEP RUNNING"
From screaming, Yon realizes where she is now and getting up begins to command "I say STAND,- she screams and I stay in place, wiping the sore spot"
From such an outburst, Pharynx's eye twitched and slowly approached Yon
"What. Did you say that?" Almost growling , he tells her
But Yon did not lose her self–confidence and firmly repeated what she said "I said, stand still"
Pharynx was burning with rage, so give him the go-ahead and he'll smear her down the hallway. It even seemed to me that something cracked here.
"Don't get into other people's duties li'l maggot" he says and tried to keep himself under control "I'm doing a direct order from our mother and be kind, GET OUT OF HERE" he finished the phrase with a shout
But Yon did not even flinch in front of him and as soon as she opened her mouth, there was a loud bang against the wall that made Pharynx angry, from which Yon did not utter a word
Pharynx slowly brought his face to her ear and quietly tells her "How many times do I tell you not to get involved in adult affairs. Don't get me wrong, you're NOTHING to me, and he" he points at me "is a thing that needs to be thoroughly sanded and polished. I do not know why, but our mother takes great care of him, although I do not like it, but I am obliged to train him" he pulls away from her ear and speaks in a normal voice "But as they say, a happy parent is a happy whole family and therefore DISAPPEAR" he shouts the last phrase
After listening to the last phrase, I was surprised for a second, "But he can be calm"
Again at his command, I continued running down the corridor at my own pace
My further running could not be calm, running past other people, as if by collusion they always tripped me up or prevented me from running in front, of other methods
At some point, everything changed a lot. Continuing to run in front of the monotonous corridors, I felt that a door should open in front of me now and, as my instincts say, it opens deliberately to stop me, but remembering that I should not stand out in any way, I have to play along with this situation and I crash into it with my head
Falling to the floor from the pain in my head, not a large number of people began to gather around me and mocked me in every possible way, but I ignored them
As soon as the headache started to go away, I decide to get on my feet, but my instincts make themselves felt and a kick flies in my direction to the abdominal area, realizing this, I accept that it will hurt further
There is a blow and I was seized with severe pain again, tears began to appear on my face, no matter how hard I tried to hold them back, I could no longer, unfortunately they did not stop there and new portions of kicks fell on me
Through pain and tears, I looked at my abusers, which for a second made me see dark silhouettes from that very vision in the forest, only in the first person, and together with these visions a deaf voice spoke again "EnDuRe. PaIn."
Following this voice, Night "Feel, be patient, become stronger than this pain, I know that you are above it" she encouraged me
"I'm in pain," I tell her/them, "It's getting really hard."
For a second, the blows on me stopped and I sat down, they started chatting about something, and I continued to look at them. Through the pain, I heard something about a ghost and one of them started to accelerate for a strong blow
I closed my eyes and was ready for it, but the blow did not follow, opening my eyes I noticed a man standing in front of me with his arms outstretched. My hearing began to return and I was able to identify Thoraxa in his voice.
"Stop it quickly" he stops to them "Isn't he one of our brothers" says Thorax
"We didn't ask you," says one
"This “White Ghost” shouldn't be here," says the second
"Don't you understand anything? While he was gone, we lived normally, but when he appeared" the third one points at me with his finger "We stopped sleeping at night, we have nightmares"
"Who allowed you to decide who can be here and who can't?" Thorax was indignant
"We decided that" the first one spoke "We have already filed a complaint against him, and the issue of his death is a matter of time" and all three of them laughed wildly
"No, I won't let you do that" Thorax continued to stand his ground, but I felt that he was afraid
"Then you'll get it too," and the second one swung to strike
Thorax cowered and closed his eyes for the blow, but the only thing he heard was a light slap and screams of pain
When he opened his eyes, he noticed his brother Pharynx in front of him, who protected him from the blow
"I didn't understand, is this a riot" said Pharynx gritting his teeth "Who allowed you to hit your own people?"
All three of them froze in place and did not know what to do and as my emotions told me, they were afraid
"N-n-no, w-we wouldn't dare" they stuttered "We just uh-uh"
Pharynx clamped the hand of the attacking man, from which he fell to his knees and began to whine in pain "As I understand it, you have no special reasons and therefore, I will personally arrange punishment for you, the three of you Heesk, Sik and Deats"
We watched Pharynx chastise these three until Thorax decided to speak up "Brother, I..." but before he could finish, Pharynx shuts him up
"And you" turns to Thorax "Quickly take him to our farm and treat him"
"But I..." Thorax stuttered in front of his brother
"I said, TAKE HIM" Pharynx shouted at his brother
Thorax didn't want to anger him any more and just nodded slightly in response, took me by one hand and carried me in the direction of the farm
We walked quietly and silently to the appointed point, but suddenly the silence was interrupted by a voice I knew "Oh, by what fates, oh, our most holy mother, what happened?" Yut spoke up
"How can I say" Thorax began to speak "Our friend got into a little skirmish"
"I'm not in a hurry, so tell me what happened," Yut says and helps Thorax carry me by taking my other hand
While we were walking to the local farm, Thorax told us in detail what he had seen, and Yut obediently listened to everything
After listening to the whole story, Yut was seriously disappointed for his brothers and it was evident in his eyes "When we get to the farm, we have something to talk about"
Thorax nodded confidently and we continued walking in silence.
It took a couple of minutes to get there
Over time, while we were walking, the pain in my body began to pass a little, so that soon I was able to walk to my destination on my own
Thorax was surprised by my speedy recovery and was very worried about me, but Yut was able to calm him down a little, saying like "He has his own surprises" but Thorax did not stop looking at me
When we finally reached the place, I fell tired on the floor, leaning on something hard and looking at an empty point, as if trying to find meaning there
Yut looked around and carefully checked the room for other living persons. After making sure that only we were there, he came up to us, sat down on a small box and looked at us seriously
"I don't think I need to remind you why we're here?" having drawn attention to ourselves, we nodded synchronously as confirmation "Then let's summarize what will happen in the future. Exactly 4 days later at night, a second test of strength should take place and the main star of this event is our client" he points at me and I nod in response "Our whole family should come to this event and therefore, I believe that there is no best moment to escape and so, what are the next steps?"
We looked at each other in silence, from which Yut sighs heavily and continues to say "Okay, then let's define the main issues of escape" he raises his hand and consistently arches his finger with each question "The first thing that holds our friend back from “freedom”. Second, a distraction, although everyone should be in the arena, but I do not exclude the patrolmen. Thirdly, transportation, we must arrange at least some kind of escape vessel. As you can see, you need to plan three points, what are your ideas?"
I have a couple of questions in my head, but again I face the problem of passing them on to others. And again, as if by magic, barking is voiced next to us
"Woof" Scales barked next to Yut, causing him to jump sharply from his place and fall to the floor
"Our Most Holy mother, what are you?" he shouts at her in panic, but she does not notice him "Stop appearing wherever and whenever you want, we are talking about serous topics here"
Scales ignores Yut, comes up to me, gives me my diary for questions and sits on my lap
Thorax was surprised by such a person as Scales and looked at me puzzled
I am writing him a note "Meet Scales, my friend and assistant" after giving him the note, he read it and the only thing he asked was to stroke it, and I did not refuse him
Yut clapped his hands to get our attention and said, "I'm sorry to distract you, but we're having a serious conversation here."
Thorax hesitantly steps back to his seat and raises his hand, from which he receives all our attention and lowers it, realizing that it was not necessary to do this
"Well, I have suggestions, but it's very risky, but it can help us a lot" Thorax lowers his eyes
"We are fully listening to you" says Yut "Any idea will be useful to us"
Thorax slowly gets up from his seat and walks over to one of the incubators, leans his hand and looks at us very sadly
Yut's eyes widen and abruptly begins to speak "No, no, not that, anything but that. You remember what happened last time, so it's a very risky and stupid thing to do."
"I understand you, but as for me, I don't see any other way out" reminds Thorax
Yut abruptly approaches Thorax dense and speaks directly into his eyes "DO YOU remember what happened last time? We were lucky that we didn't get killed later!"
I was wondering what really happened and that's why I'm writing them a question "Can you tell me exactly what happened?" and I'm giving this note to Scales so she can give it to him.
After receiving my note, he looked seriously in my direction, but after hearing an innocent whine from below and looking at Scales, he does not soften much. Falling to the floor from fatigue, Scales jumps up to him and he gently began to stroke her, pulling on a slight smile
"Actually, not much happened, but if you're really interested, then listen" gathering his thoughts, he continued "It happened about six years ago, we were the same age as you, my sister and I were very bored on this ship and we wanted adventures"
Looking at his hand, he smiled and continued "In those days, we did have a large library with long and fascinating stories, and imagine, then Thorax led it" Thorax was much embarrassed and sad for a second "I do not know why, but our people did not like to read and spent more time for training, but my sister and I liked to read and listen to the stories of Thoraxa that he heard somewhere, later on, he began to tell us theories and his guesses"
After looking at Thoraxa, who was trying to hold back his tears, he continued "Then, he told us his theory that it is possible to extract “love” in other ways, without using these capsules" by pointing at them "We were intoxicated by this idea and wanted to help our fellow humans with the extraction of this essence. Then it didn't occur to us how to release all these poor devils from the capsules in order to get “love” in another way, and then complete chaos occurred"
Thorax could not stand it and began to roar, but Yut did not stop it and he continued "All these test subjects woke up from their sleep and began to arrange a pogrom, they broke and beat everything they saw. My sister and I were shocked by such a sight and immediately ran to help, but one of them caught me and holding me tightly, I stayed in place like a brother and instructed my sister to run for help, while i tried to restrain all this rabble that began to rebel"
After catching his breath a little, he continued "Fortunately, help came very quickly and all the reinforcements that came, it..." Yut began to breathe intermittently, but thanks to Scales, he quickly calmed down and continued "All the reinforcements that came, they killed everyone who came out of the capsules and fortunately, we did not release everyone, but look at This picture was terrible"
After talking about the murders, I got goosebumps and images of the murders that I had committed immediately surfaced in my memories, which made me start to shake. But then the Night came in my head and she began to calm my nerves with her charms, which made me feel better, which I was glad for and said "Thank you very much" to her. I continued to listen.
"When the question arose who did it, we wanted to get out in the act, but unexpectedly for us, Thorax came out for us and admitted that he did it, we were shocked that he took the blame and we did a stupid thing, we also admitted that we did it. Subsequently, an investigation began to follow, the question of which was “What told us to do this?”. As a result, they began to accuse not us, but the books in the library, and as you can already understand, after all this, they decided to destroy the library, and all some historical books were burned without question. In addition, a new rule has been added, a person who dares to let people out of the farm again will be sentenced to death immediately"
He stopped his story so as not to catch his breath a lot, after which he continued "You might think that after the destruction of the library everything would return to its usual course, but no, all our brothers began to look at us as traitors and no longer wanted to deal with us" he finished
Silence hung between us, but suddenly, Thorax decides to break the silence "This essence of love is a very terrible thing, as I have already told you before, that it dulls our feelings and is addictive, but it also strongly affects people on the farm, after a long time pumping out love from them, as a result of which, they stop that then feel good, only aggression remains. All these people in the incubator will never be able to be the same again, and it's terrible for me to look at them every day and realize that I can't help them in any way"
"It's not your fault" Yut encourages him "We were just unlucky"
"But this time I have a plan to let people out with impunity. Do you know that our mother rarely and slowly checks the papers?" he asks
"Who doesn't know? All our brothers know that she is very lazy in terms of documents" Yut perked up
"This is exactly where we will play" says Thorax "On the morning of the fourth day, I will write a statement that some incubators have started to fail and they need repair. If we're lucky, she won't check it out, then we can sabotage and distract ourselves."
Yut looked at him seriously and considered the moment, but after a while, he sighs heavily and agrees "Okay, maybe your idea can work. Then we have two more points left."
Looking at how they want to help me, that they are willing to take risks and go to extremes, I wanted to tell them the secret about myself and magic. But from the beginning, I consult with Night
"Night, do you think I can tell them that I can do magic too? It can help a lot for the plan."
"Do you really want to trust them?" She asks me
"Can't you see how much they're risking for me? Have you heard their story? Even after all this, they decide to go through it again and you seriously think that they will betray me."
After some of my questions, Night is not silent much, but still agrees with me "Little one, if you seriously understand that you can trust them, then take responsibility and tell them. Just let them know that you're only going to do magic on the big day, okay?"
"I get you," I reply to her and write a new note "In fact, I have a big secret" and I give it to them
After reading my message, they look at me questioning and Yut asks a question "And what can you tell us?"
The next second, I take the note from them and burn it with blue flames right in front of their eyes.
They look at me in surprise and Yut was already taking in air to scream, but I quickly close his mouth and point with my index finger that he needs to be quieter
Calming down a little, he removes his hand from himself and asks "Why didn't you tell us earlier?"
I look at him sadly and write to him "I had reasons not to tell anyone, but looking at you, I decided to tell you. But please don't tell anyone, it's a secret" I give them the note and write the second one "I can open the door myself and get out, so concentrate on other issues" and give the second note
After reading it, Yut nods approvingly and says "This will make the task much easier. Then Silent takes over the first task, Thorax takes over the second, and I'll take the third and try to find you a transport"
Having established themselves, each with his own task, but a question appears in my head and I write it "Why don't you want to escape?"
After reading it, Yut puts his hand on my shoulder and gently says "We would love to do this, but we can't, there is a reason for this, but don't worry, in the future we will meet again and we will remember this moment with a smile" and he smiled at me
After talking about the future, we were about to leave this farm and the first one who went was Yut
"Okay, since we've already settled the issues, then let's get out of here, because there's such an atmosphere here" he's already headed for the wall, but suddenly he hits something hard and he falls to the floor "Damn, what was that?" he wonders, rubbing his forehead
Following this question, his answer comes out of the wall and it was Yon, who was also rubbing her forehead
"What the hell was that?" She asks and notices her brother on the ground, with a smile she asks him a question "Oh? Why are you lying down? Come on, get up" and she holds out her hand to him
Yut sighs languidly, but smiling accepts her hand and quickly stands up. But before he can fully stand up, something quickly knocks these two out of the way and they fall to the floor
"WHERE IS HE" bursts into the Chrysalis room and quickly looks around in search of something, but when her gaze stops on me, she smiles broadly and quickly hugs me "My Blessed Mother, you're okay, they told me that you were beaten, and I was so worried about you, but don't worry, those abusers got what they deserved and no one bothers you anymore," she says, stroking my head.
Such care made me feel awkward and at some point I wanted to collapse on the spot from such attention "It looks like I'm not a fan of being the center of attention" I think
"Since we have already dealt with this problem, then let's go from here" Chrysalis says smiling "And for you Silent" attracts my attention "We will now return to my office and I will arrange a personal lesson for you"
And with that, she started guiding me out of this room so that I wouldn't stay here any longer. As I left, I nodded goodbye to Yut, Yon who were still sitting on the ground and Thorax
Then we walked to her office in silence, but along the way she was singing some song that I didn't know and smiling
After a couple of minutes, we finally reached her office, and when I entered it, I saw such a picture. Her entire office was in disarray, as if it had been turned upside down "Even in the orphanage there was at least some order," I notice, her entire floor and table were filled with papers, and books lay on the shelves at random, but what surprised me greatly was the strong aroma of something that I didn't understand, the last time I was here, he wasn't there and now it was very difficult to be here
"Little one, I can smell rotten magic here" Night spoke up "You don't have to worry too much, but try to breathe less restrained"
"And I thought magic didn't have expiration dates," I ask her.
"Daydreaming, nothing is immortal, but except for me" she brags "Any magic should be stored at least in some kind of vessel, starting from us and ending with amulets, but if there is no carrier around magic, it will begin to lose its freshness and will decompose, if such magic absorbs a living carrier, then this magic it will poison the carrier from inside" it stops for a couple of seconds and continues "And yet, this method is not a bad way to torture the weak"
"The last part, I didn't have to say," I reproach her
"If you're such a sissy, then try to stay away from that pipe on the ceiling" I look up and notice her "If I'm not mistaken, then this is the epicenter of rot"
When she finished speaking, Chrysalis caught her attention.
"Don't be shy and sit down at an empty seat," she says, but noticing that she can't find an empty chair, she leaves for a while and returns with a chair "Here sit down here"
Chrysalis sat down on an empty chair and sat opposite me and smiled at me
"You're probably wondering what we're going to do, the answer is simple" she takes a book out of her desk and puts it on the table with a loud clap "We're going to learn sign language"
I was surprised by such a lesson and was even glad about it, because it will help a lot in the future. Even Night couldn't help with that, as it turns out hooves and hands are two different things
"As I can see from your expression, you're happy about it, and that's good. Today we will start with the basics, namely the alphabet"
We spent the next hours learning the dumb alphabet and fortunately it wasn't difficult
When we finished, it was already a couple for me to go back to my room, but they didn't want to let me go alone, so they assigned me a personal guard and a guide, it was Ron
When I reached my room, I continued my training to improve my body and it seemed to me that muscle reliefs began to appear on my body, not much, but they were
The night was the same as the previous one. I offered Night to stop making nightmares, but she was in no way and didn't even see anything wrong with me being beaten, saying things like "What doesn't kill us makes us stronger." That's how my day ended.
To be continued…….
Author's Note
So, our hero found out the reason for his friends' detachment from their fellows and seeing how they were trying to help him, he decided to show them his magic and in the end, the plan should work, right?
The next chapter will be devoted to the remaining days, until day X. Honestly, I'm running out of fantasy about what might be happening to our hero these days (All the juices will be squeezed out)
Also, I plan to add my FF to the right groups for promotion, but at the moment, I think that it may not be up to understanding the quality of the plot and in general what is happening. Therefore, I think I will add at the time of arrival Manhattan
What else can I say? Wait, further – more
Part 11 The first nightmarish experience
Pov Feel
Present time in a dream
After taking a short break with Night, I started telling her what had happened to me
"When I woke up, they told me a little story about their kind, then they fed me not delicious food, and then me to the arena, where I absorbed anti-magical matter" I told briefly "What happened to you? I ask her, but she doesn't seem to have noticed this question"
"Are you seriously saying that you were able to absorb anti-magic matter?" Night asks again "Well, quickly show your magic core" she orders me
Obeying her command, I close my eyes and try to concentrate on my core. Night waited patiently while I tried to project her into the outside
After a couple of minutes, I manage to reproduce my light outside of myself (fortunately, being in a dream, it is not difficult), we no longer saw a small light, but a whole flame that shimmers with red-blue colors
Night was clearly looking at my flame, walking around her and peering, she tried to find a gap in it, but soon she heard a grunt from her, showing that she had finished
"It's just amazing" she says "You have increased your magic reserve at times and look" she shows with her hoof "These blue outlines of the flame indicate the presence of my magic and there is little of it here, and these red ones, in comparison with the last time, have increased their size by 3 times and now at the moment, your the stock dominates mine"
I nod "There was still a moment that when I absorbed it" I point with my finger "The green color of fire appeared here, but then the red absorbed it"
"I see, you know what it means" I shake my head, indicating that I don't know "This is the red flame, this is the magic of changeling, but because of a strange mutation it is red"
"Wow, now I began to understand what was going on there at all," I said, rubbing my chin
"At the moment, I don't like one situation" she frowns
"And what is it?" I ask her
"Here it is" pointing with a hoof at the blue flame "My source is almost empty! For unknown reasons, we have one blue mana tank and unfortunately, your red one, I can't use it in any way, but you can mine"
"Really, your source is empty because of this?" I point to the pedestal with my hand
Looking where I'm pointing, she nods "Yes, you're right. When you woke up, I was fighting that thing to the fullest, and in the end, after he left, he left us this"
I became very curious and I got up to look at it up close
"Stop" she stops me "What do you want to do"
I wave my hand "Nothing, just looking"
Coming closer, I saw a big black ball with a white dot inside, walking around it, I noticed that the white dot is constantly looking in my direction "Hey Night, this white dot seems to be looking at me" I call her and point my finger at the dot
Suddenly, the black ball starts to sparkle and my hand falls under its pressure on it. At that moment, I was seized by a terrifying pain, starting from my hand and passing right into my head
"Feel!" Night shouts and quickly comes to my aid "Quickly let go of this thing" she tells me
I answer her through pain "I can't, it keeps me"
Night takes hold of my clothes and pulls me in the opposite direction
While she was trying to peel me off from this sphere, strange scenes of people I don't know begin to appear in my head and it seems they are fighting
***
"* noise* when you take hold of your head" a woman shouts
"Then when, you stop demanding the impossible from me" the boy shouts
"Children of your age already know what they want to achieve, and you continue to sit at this damn monitor" she shouts
"You don't understand anything, if I could, I have achieved the same and even more"
"If you wanted to, you would start acting, and stay in one place too long"
"When, you leave me alone" crying is heard "I already get it at school, I didn't have enough to hear complaints at home"
"That's it, young man, you are punished for today and you lose your computer" there is a rumble and the sound of the door closing
"Well, that's great!" a sarcastic answer is heard "I don't need anything from you" then a quiet crying followed "Nothing is needed" the boy said in a low voice
***
At this point, an excerpt of this scene breaks off, music and scenes of drawn nightmares begin to seep into my head, which is not clear to me
Soon, the balloon releases me and I fall sweating on my back, the Night and looks worriedly into my eyes
"Are you all right?" she asks
"I don't know," I answer, putting my hand to my forehead "I saw a strange scene of a quarrel, and then strange things began to penetrate into my head," I start looking at my hands "And now, my hands are itching a lot"
Unknowingly, my hands light up with a red flame, a strange thing appears in my hands, and there were string steel on it
"How did you do that? And why would you do that?" she asks me
"I don't understand what the hell is happening to me," I tell her in a panic "I don't even know what it is" and throw this thing aside
This object disappears in the same fire as it appeared and then it reappears from the flame in my hands
"A-A-A-A-A" I shout "what is it"
"Calm down," she says "It's just a guitar"
"Guitar? And why is it needed me? And why are you calm?"
"CALM DOWN!" she shouts at me and I calm down "It's just a musical instrument and honestly, I expected more terrible things from this balls"
"A musical instrument?" she nods "And how to play it?"
"I won't help you here, if you haven't noticed" he points to his hoof "I don't have hands and therefore, I don't know how people play. Try it simply, swipe the strings with your fingers"
Not knowing how to do it, I started running my fingers over the strings with my eyes closed and didn't notice how my hands started doing everything on their own
After finishing the melody, the guitar evaporates in a red flame and the two of us sat in shock from what was happening
"How did you do that?" she asks with her jaw hanging open
"I-I-I don't know how I did it myself" I stuttered "But somehow I felt calmer in my soul"
"I don't know how you did it, but it's very relaxing"
After sitting in silence for a while, Night decided to change the subject
"I don't understand how the guitar and what you saw in the ball are connected, but let's deal with my problem now"
"I'm all for it!" I exclaim "So, what are your suggestions?"
She stands on all four hooves and says in a serious voice "We are going into someone else's dreams"
I looked at her with my jaw open, trying to figure out if she was joking or not, but she didn't even raise an eyebrow, she was serious
"Are you serious now?" I ask her
"I'm absolutely serious" she answers me "The workouts that I told you last time, at the moment, are very slow and we don't know when that guy from the door will return, and therefore, I decided to go in a more humane, but effective way"
"Y-yes," I scratch my head "And how are other people's dreams connected with another method?"
"Let me explain everything to you in more detail" she sits down in front of me, clears her throat and continues "As you know, I can control your sleep. But, I am subject not only to yours, but to all living beings in Equestria, unfortunately, due to some circumstances, I cannot leave your dream. And I thought, if you and I are so tightly connected, then why don't we try to go to the land of dreams together. I will be" pointing at myself with a hoof "an adapter between dreams, and you" pointing at me "the instigator of all dreams"
"I understand your idea, but what will I do there?"
"There's nothing complicated here" she begins to smile "you just go into someone else's dream and make a nightmare out of it"
"Wait, wait, do you want Me to create nightmares? Why would I make other people have nightmares?" I ask her
"How should I tell you, my main source of magic is nightmares. The stronger the pony, or rather the person is afraid of a nightmare, the stronger I become"
I shrank into myself and I felt awkward "And how is it, uh, to do a nightmare?"
"It's simple" she has a predatory smile that her fangs have become visible "You look at what the victim dreams about and do everything the other way around and worse"
"Just the opposite?"
"Yes, on the contrary. For example, if the victim dreams of money, then change the money for insects. If she craves attention, then make him a freak and so on" she licks her lips "I also recommend adding scary objects or monsters, complete success is considered if the victim wakes up from fear" she finishes talking, and the smile does not disappear from her face
I watched her and realized that she was enjoying this moment and was created for this
I didn't like the idea of spoiling someone's sleep, and therefore, I decided to change the subject
"Let's still try to figure out my magic, huh?" I suggest to her
Her expression immediately changes from a happy one to a more gloomy and serious one "Do you even understand what situation we are in?" she begins to speak in raised tones "I'm here, I fought for life and death, do you understand that?" She goes on shouting "IT COULD HAVE KILLED ME! YOU UNDERSTAND ME!" after shouting a little, she continued to speak softly "Oh, I'm very weak now, my magic is almost at zero and only you can help me"
She looked at me, and I looked at her, trying to convince each other of something, but soon, her azure-blue eyes defeated me and I nod in defeat
She smiled joyfully and said to me "It's necessary right away, now let's hurry up, the night is not eternal" on this word she sighs
I exhale wearily and approach her, waiting for further action
At Night, the horn lights up and in front of us, a white door with black dots appears "This is your dream door, when you enter it, a number of doors will appear in front of you, these will be doors to other people's dreams, choose the one that you like and boldly enter it. Do what you want in it, but you have to make it a nightmare. Do you understand?"
Nodding in agreement, I reach for the door handle to open it, but stop and turn to Night to ask a question
"And how will I get out of someone else's dream" I asked, waiting for an answer
"Yes, about this, I usually worked alone, but you need to come up with a team" she sat down and started thinking
After waiting for a couple of minutes, I decided to offer my own version "Tell me, you will hear me" after a sign of agreement, I continued "Come on, I'll clap my hands three times" show you how "And this will be a sign to get me out of someone else's dream"
"As you want" she waves it off "Go already, time is not rubber"
I nod and reach for the door again to open it. When I opened it, I was blinded by a bright light and only, after a while, my vision returned
When my vision returned, the first thing I saw was the night sky sprinkled with stars and it was everywhere, floor and sky, it was like I was flying through the sky, but I was standing still "A strange feeling" I thought
Next, what caught my eye was a long two rows of doors that go to the very edge of the horizon and in the horizon itself, a large and blue moon was visible, with a strange pattern in the form of a unicorn
"Yes, it's quite a beautiful sight" I make a verdict
After standing and watching this picture, I immediately hear the voice of Night
"What has become a woodpecker, act faster, I won't be able to hold you for a long time" she chastises me
"Okay, okay" I say into the void "I'm here for the first time, let me enjoy this beautiful picture"
The answer came not immediately and with notes of joy "Okay, look, but not for long"
I stood with my head thrown back and looked at the sky "Yeah, I look strange from the side," I thought and went to look at the doors
Without thinking for a long time, I approach the first door that was on my way, because they were all one black color and no different. Stretching out my hand to the handle and about to open it, the door immediately sucks in to me as soon as I touched it
♦Be careful, then there are scenes of blood and violence♦
From the rapid change of scenery, I began to feel sick. After holding out so that I didn't throw up, I began to look around at what was around me
I was standing in the same arena where my trial took place, only now, I was standing in the spectator's place and watching me? I looked at myself and saw a different scenario of what was happening
There was a real massacre or a real beating in the arena, where I was in the main roles and some changeling that I didn't know was beating me
Words of support were heard from the stands, but not in my address
"BEAT, BEAT, BEAT" the synchronous hum of the stands sounded
And together with him, they shouted the name of the man who beat me, his name was Risk
He mocked me in every possible way, beat me, broke my bones, and even at such a moment, I did not hear myself
At the moment when he broke my legs, he stopped and stood over my body, which was still breathing
"Because of you, I have problems" he says and turns towards the stands "Well, brothers and sisters" he shouts "What do you want?"
"FINISH HIM, FINISH HIM, FINISH HIM" the tribune shouts
I stood in complete shock and could not believe my ears, I wanted to stop it, but my body was completely numb, looking at my hands and feet, I noticed blue smoke that enveloped me and I heard a familiar voice Night
"Wait and see" she says to me "You have to feel it"
I struggled with her fetters, but I could not move, having measured my defeat, I just had to watch
Suddenly, a long kitchen knife enters the arena and Risk, seeing such a weapon, smiles in all his teeth and goes to pick it up
"I heard the desire of the audience" he says "But what does our dear mother want" he turns to her
Looking to the side where Chrysalis was, I saw her showing her fist with her thumb down
Risk saw the answer and started laughing wildly "Your desire is the law for me"
He began to approach my body, which was still breathing, but could not move. Standing at me, he takes my head by the hair and raises it to the level of his head, he turned his face to the viewing stands so that we would be the first to see the murder scene
He slowly brings the knife to his throat, showing that he is fully ready for action
I stood and trembled, my muscles no longer listened to me and only thanks to Night I was still standing
Risk, enjoyed the moment and did not want to interrupt it, so he began to do everything slowly, the knife enters my throat at a slow pace, blood streamed down the knife and through my body, I saw my double's eyes roll to his forehead from pain and only a quiet gurgle from his mouth reaches the stands
There was complete silence and it lasted until my head was cut off. When he completely cut off the head, the body fell loudly to the ground and only a happy Risk raises my head as a trophy
The tribunes began to rejoice and praise his victory
Night has stopped holding my body and I fall to my knees, holding my vomit from this sight
She sighs and speaks softly in my ear "I rarely apologize to anyone, but you forgive me" stroking my head "What you saw shows what is hidden inside everyone, you can't trust everything and everyone" slowly, a blue fog begins to envelop me, as if she is hugging me "Fortunately for you, you have me, who will always be there" the blue fog begins to dissolve "And therefore, show what a Nightmare is, show that in a quiet pool, there are hydra" she finished
When she finished speaking, that fire wakes up in me that I don't like, but the one I needed right now "Rage"
I get up and watch how Risk rejoices in his victory and kicks my head like a ball, I wanted to take revenge on him and snap my fingers that were shrouded in blue and red fire
The light around us completely disappears and one spotlight is lit, which illuminates only one Risk
"What's going on?" he wonders
Then, a loud crunch of bones is heard behind his back, he turns around at the sound and at this moment, the second spotlight turns on, which began to illuminate the place of my double
The double, in turn, stood all broken on his crooked legs, in places, open bones were visible, arms bent in abnormal directions, stood without a head
Risk, stood still and did not understand what was happening here, not knowing fear, he boldly approaches my standing corpse at point-blank range, with a grin on his face
"It looks like someone wanted more," he says, flexing his hands to continue "And I don't mind repeating it" and swings for a blow
Unexpectedly for him, the corpse with a characteristic crunch catches his blow and stops his pressure
"It wasn't in the plans" says Risk and begins to worry a little
The corpse held him with one hand and did not want to let him go, so Risk decides to hit his stomach with the other hand. The blow was successful, as he thought, a new row of crunching ribs was heard
"Well, I got it" shouts Risk "And now let me go"
But unexpectedly for him, the chest of my corpse began to slowly suck it into itself
"Hey, stop," he shouts in a panic and tries to kick the corpse "Who am I telling, stop"
The corpse had already swallowed half of his arm and was not going to stop there, and Risk was screaming in panic and calling for help. Looking at this picture, I understood one thing "I like it" and I did not notice that my eyes were burning with a bright red light and the smile was getting wider
Suddenly, the corpse stopped sucking Risk into itself and they froze in the same position. As soon as he thought that he had been carried away, quietly under his feet, the sound of something crawling was heard. When he looked in the direction of the sound, he was completely stunned, the head of the corpse approached with quiet steps, which had spider legs
"AAAAA" he shouted in hysterics "Don't come, get out" he shouted
But no one listened to him, the head began to climb on his body and stopped at the level of his eyes
Risk started to shake a little from this sight and he was ready to wake up at any moment
The corpse's head with white pupils approached his head and slowly began to expand its mouth, showing dozens of rows of razor-sharp teeth. He was crying and screaming in fear, begging for it all to stop
Deciding to end the performance on this, I abruptly appear behind his back and with a sharp movement, turn him towards me and hit him in the face
After that, I am immediately thrown out of his dream and I see his door evaporating
I was sitting in space, surrounded by a bunch of doors, but I didn't want to do anything anymore
Suddenly, Night comes up to me, sits down next to me, in a quiet and calm voice tells me "I'm proud of you"
I didn't answer anything, only in my hand from the red fire, a guitar already familiar to me appears and I don't consciously start playing a song to calm down
To be continued…….
Author's Note
Hey, it's been less than a week, and I'm already here with a new chapter
A heavy burden fell on the shoulders of our main character, especially at his age. Write if you want me to skip such "nightmares", or write what you want to read, what he will have to work with
🎼🎼🎼Disturbed - The Night . Listening to this, I am filled with the whole essence of the night. What do you think?
