heaven's light

Chapter 25: Strange Reaction

2010-07-05T12:12:00.001-07:00

He woke up the next morning tired, but didn’t seem to remember anything from the previous night, but something even stranger he suddenly had these random flashes of light strike his mind over and over again, for no reason, each time his mind hurt. He was having trouble thinking that day but he was glad that soon after seeing his friends again that they’d managed to rescue so many more people. He felt a sort of good inner feeling of accomplishment all he hoped was that they wouldn’t be as hard to control, he wasn’t going to act like a tyrant, this group didn’t seem to really have a leader yet most of the time they were all gathering ideas and going forward. He was also hoping that he and Taj would get along as great as they used to and possibly catch back up onto their old memories. Rayhan left his room and stepped outside, there he saw everyone in their little groups talking about stuff, and Steven, Pierre and Paul were in their rooms. There outside was a nice day he saw Sarah, Noa and Amna all hanging out in one huddle then he saw Rielle, Antoinette, Abbey, and Jasmine in another huddled group and then he saw in another group of people, Emma, Marsal, Jeylan and Jessica. Then he saw Taj sitting under a tree staring aimlessly into the sky. Rayhan decided the safest place to be now was next to him. He sat down next to him.
“Hey”
“Hey”
“You look like you’re missing someone” said Rayhan
“Well before I came by, I was in my own resistance team, but it didn’t have as many people as you do now” said Rayhan.
“Were they also captured?” Rayhan asked.
“No, well I don’t know, they might be, I was captured, I didn’t see them but they might’ve have gotten captured I didn’t get a chance to properly maintain contact with them in that cell” said Taj.
“Well that could be my fault, after I managed to escape, he must’ve gotten the chance to tighten up security, but like, he got the entire world captive, everyone, your friends, your family…everyone, if only I could manage to work out what he’s after, all I got so far is that he wants to bring back someone named Lucifer, but there must be a reason he captured all those people, it happened so fast I didn’t even get a chance to see it coming” said Rayhan.
“That’s true, I heard about Lucifer too but I don’t have any better information than you do now” said Taj.
“Great minds think alike” said Rayhan.
“Ha, yeah right” said Taj.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” Rayhan laughed giving him a friendly punch to the shoulder.
“So you got your eye on someone back in your resistance?” Rayhan asked.
“Yeah” Taj said sounding a bit hesitant.
“Nice man nice” said Rayhan.
“Yeah well I bet you got your eye on some bitch” said Taj laughing.
“Ha yeah well I’ll tell you it’s Rielle” said Rayhan.
“Oh shit, never mind, she’s cool” said Taj.
“Damn man you gotta tell me this shit what else happened?” he asked.
“Ah man not much, not much” said Rayhan.
“Cool” said Taj. And continued staring into the sky.
“So how’ve you been? Where were you for this long?” Rayhan asked.
“After Hell capture me I was in a room for like ever, it wasn’t a cell though it was a white room, but then one day he, came in and I don’t really remember what happened after that man, I just remember a lot of flashes of blue light and suddenly every part of me burns like never before” he said.
“Do you remember anything at all after that?” Rayhan asked.
“No actually, a lot happened but when I try to remember all I see is blackness, like I remember the memory clearly, but after Hell opened the door it all goes black” said Taj.
“That sounds familiar it’s kinda like what happens when I try to remember anything from before I got adopted” Rayhan.
“I’m not sure, but maybe there’s a reason for that, maybe there’s something going on here” said Taj.
“Well we’ll figure that out later” said Rayhan.
“Yeah” Taj said. They just sat there, Rayhan on one side of the tree Taj on the other just staring at the empty sky. They sky hadn’t even a single cloud in it, it was clear blue now melting into a bright shade of orange, the sun was setting, against the castle’s window, the light shined so brightly against their faces they decided to leave.
Taj went into his room and sat down for a moment, it was like everyone else’s a window taking up the entire wall, an in-wall fridge over the bedside table. A closet full of HL clothing, a crest carved into the wall forming the letters “HL”. He sat on his bed as the sun set through the window. He looked around, this place was different, it was much less hard on him, and it was better he only wished his resistance was here. They’d like this place a lot. It’d been so long since he’d been here last so long since he’d seen Rayhan, so much had changed, and so much hadn’t about him. He seemed quieter since the last time they met. He felt freer here; he found it odd that that people were so much kinder but then again after six years of being a captive prisoner he had the right to assume so. He fell back onto the bed, it was so much softer compared to that he used to sleep on. This place was so much warmer and more of a home. He closed his eyes and took off his hat; he took his shirt off and wore an HL coat over his black undershirt. He lay back down onto his bed and closed his eyes it’d been a while since he’d earned a goodnight’s rest.
Rayhan was in his room sitting on his bed and playing around with his metal arm. He was unscrewing some screws trying to find his way around it, adding gadgets, removing useless parts. He managed to finish doing all of that after a while and just sat and pondered before falling back onto his bed and just thought about everything. They’d managed to get yet even more people into HL and would soon have yet even more once they’d tracked down Taj’s friends. He thought about Abbey, even though Taj was alright he can’t go assuming they’re all completely normal there’s no telling what Hell might or might not have done to them. He was quite worried about that, Abbey had always been the one person he could turn to about anything, he trusted her with his life, and if anything happened to her he’d really be unhappy. There was also Marsal, Jeylan, Emma, Jasmine, Amna and Noa. All of them he trusted, he really cared if anything would ever happen to any of them, he really hoped they were alright. He’d find out most information tomorrow, but getting the job done wouldn’t be a problem but getting through all of this right without messing everything up with that many people seemed a bit hard, but they were all trustworthy and would listen, but then if too many arguments and fighting went around in the group it would be hard to maintain balance and understanding, he might end up losing it and getting angry, his friends were important but this was a very hard time for him, there was only one time before he’d been considered a leader and that was ditching class that one time when it was only him and two other friends, he had done it the most and he was chosen to lead the group back without getting caught, he failed at that but he managed to come up with an excuse, it was sort of the same, except at a much higher magnitude. He was no longer fighting to stay out of trouble; he was fighting for his and his friends lives. He had others that could help him lead, he had Steven, Paul, and Pierre and most importantly he had Taj. He wasn’t going to blame catastrophe for all of this it was him who asked for it and he was glad he got it to be perfectly honest with himself, he wanted the adrenaline, the blood sweat and tears, one thing he hadn’t called for though was seeing his friends being tortured, and seeing his friends suffer and go through that much trouble, he felt almost guilty about it he felt like this was all initially his fault, but tried not to think about it, he’d try to protect them as much as he could, no one really relied on him, he was relying on himself, he was relying to try to keep everything in order, keeping them all as a group. He thought about Rielle, he hadn’t gotten a chance to talk to her in a while, he decided not to he didn’t want her to think he couldn’t survive without her even though he knew perfectly well that he couldn’t.
The sunlight shined through the windows and onto his face, his metal arm was almost burning with heat and he was sweating even though he was no longer wearing his shirt, he never did when he went to sleep. He got up tired and rubbed his eyes. His hair was messed up that morning after looking in the bathroom mirror. The marking on his forearm stopped burning unfortunately; he’d yet to ask Elnar about it, if he got the chance. He tried not to let his mind worry about small things like this but at the same time he hoped them not to escalate, things had a tendency to escalate in his life; from arguments, to schoolwork… but that was life, he never bothered to question that rule, probably because he was never offered the chance to. It’s not everyday you get a call from god asking what’s going on in life. He threw water onto his face and rubbed his face with soap before rinsing, shaving, brushing his teeth, fixing his hair, applying deodorant, applying cologne and whipping his face clean. He threw on the black shirt he’d been wearing the day he was captured. The cologne, toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant and comb were all created by Elnar. He lay on his bed without leaving his room. After a couple of hours, he got bored from lying down and sat back up, and then almost immediately lay back down. Suddenly a flash of light, and images flashing past his eyes like crazy, then he felt his amulet burn against his chest and he saw a white crest dangling off of a pole in a very red zone, it was dark and red, then he saw in space, right out of the reaches of the atmosphere, a black inverted version of the Hubble telescope, it was pointing a loft into the blackness of the starry emptiness of space. He was getting confused, over these thoughts getting headaches wondering to ask about this or not. He kept thinking that just because he was a major part of this didn’t mean every hunch he had was worth telling everyone and pointlessly worrying them, in case it was just an empty assumption. He went over to the balcony and felt the morning frozen air. It was so cold he couldn’t believe it. He could pretty much feel the sunlight’s warmth fading away. He looked into the sky there were clouds gathering covering the sunlight and the blue sky. He closed the door and went back in as the wind increased. He walked down the stairs slowly trying to take in the time and the weird thoughts that kept swarming his mind. He tried not to pay it too much mind but then again he didn’t want to risk them in keep coming so frequently he could barely see what’s in front of him. He tried to control it and luckily it didn’t seem to really bother him but it kept happening randomly as he was making his way down the stairs and through the kitchen. He looked around the bottom floor trying to see if anyone had made it down other than him, he checked his watch; it was 7:30 am. He sat down, and gazed around the room his eyes rolling from one end of the room to the other, trying to take in the entire room. He just sat there for a while. Soon more and more people started coming downstairs. Pierre sat in front of him.
“Morning” said Rayhan.
“Morning” said Rayhan.
“So see anyone you like yet? I mean we just managed to rescue so many people, anyone at all?” Rayhan asked.
“Well…” said Pierre.
“Haha I see” Rayhan said.
“I think I kind of like Sarah” said Pierre.
“Oh I see, well hmm I was thinking you were going to mention someone we worked so hard in breaking free” said Rayhan.
“Oh well no” said Pierre. He heard footsteps coming down the hall he quickly turned to Rayhan.
“I’ll talk to you more about it later” he said in a hushed voice. He left the room after that and Abbey arrived.
“Hey hanray” she said
“Hi Beyab” he replied. She walked up to the counter and pulled out a glass and poured water into it. She carried the glass and sat down onto a chair and placed the glass onto the table after taking a brief sip.
“Good morning” said Rayhan.
“Good morning” she replied.
“And in case I don’t seeya good afternoon good evening and goodnight” he smiled, taking that almost word for word but toppling over it by saying it too fast thus ruining the affect of the line from the movie he got it from Abbey wanted to see called The Truman Show. She laughed as a result.
“So, like do you still like Jessica?” she asked.
“Well actually no, see I got over her but now I like Rielle, it just happened a while ago” he said.
“Oh well does she know?” Abbey asked.
“Yeah I told her a while ago” said Rayhan.
“I see” she said turning her gaze to the glass of water and flicking her fingers around. Abbey was fairly tall, with long brown hair, brown eyes and light skin; she wore braces but was really pretty.
“So like are you gonna ask her out?” Abbey finally asked turning her eyes back at Rayhan while leaving her head slightly tilted towards the glass of water. Rayhan sat his legs open, wearing his jeans, leaving his hands resting on the table his back slouching against the back of the chair. He thought about that for a second. He wasn’t quite sure of how to answer it, he’d answered it many times before but for some reason it wasn’t as awkward right now, maybe because it was morning, and he had run over this so many times in his mind he had trouble speaking it. He quickly gathered the breath and the words.
“Well no not really” he said.
“Awh really why not?” she asked sounding curious.
“Well I thought about it, Rielle means more to me than the world itself, I’ve done stupid things for her, I’ve done things that could’ve gotten me killed for her, but like, I don’t want to end up going out with her and breaking up and ruining the great friendship we have, she means so much to me, I love her” Rayhan said stuttering a bit and rushing it too much. He had trouble believing that Abbey actually heard him.
“Awh, but yeah I get it” she said. The next few moments were filled with the silence of the clock ticking.
“So like tell me, what was it like being in Hell’s prison?” Rayhan asked gesturing his hands into his pockets before realizing how uncomfortable that would end up and taking them out and resting them down in his slouched position.
“Ahh it sucked, he’s such a taco I hated him, that vag, he friggen kept me locked up in this stupid cell for like ever” she said. Rayhan felt bad, he hated seeing Abbey go through trouble any at all she was one of his closest friends and one of the only friends he’d trust no matter what.
“But like, what’d he do, did he just leave you in there? Like what the Hell why would he do that? What the hell was going down with the other people who were there if you saw anything?” said Rayhan sounding a bit concerned.
“No actually he never showed us any of them, and I never got a chance finding out being too worried about myself” said Abbey.
“Oh I completely understand must’ve been horrible there, don’t worry though now you’re safe” said Rayhan.
“Thanks” she said sounding preoccupied
“Anytime” said Rayhan. The next few minutes was again filled with silence. Rayhan got up and left the room for his own room but was suddenly halted by Abbey’s voice that stopped him.
“Wait, there’s more, He…..he….kept us looked up, but he would occasionally…he’d grab someone who wasn’t cooperating or listening, he’d drag them away to a room, it was a room…..a dark room, that you could here screams of horror from, they were horrible, they would scream in the night, the voices would be….terrible…..no one came back….I would see them being dragged away by the arm, they would break their arm…so they couldn’t struggle as much and would drag them, and they’d…they’d fight but wouldn’t make it” she said about to continue but silenced by Rayhan who could clearly see she was having a lot of trouble telling him this, it must’ve been horrible.
“It’s alright, but just please, stay here, rest, eat, don’t strain yourself, you’re free here, relax, and don’t make it hard on yourself. Don’t go fighting for a while rest” said Rayhan.
“Thank you” she said sounding a bit more focused, Rayhan left upstairs, a bit more worried, he was especially worried about Abbey, he knew he would never be able to stand that kind of stuff, he’d suffer every night worse than ever just the thought of it, imagining it in his head was horrible but to see it happen in front of your own eyes would be even greater of a terror in itself, he tried to keep things under the weather, Abbey was a strong person, she needed a bit of support was all anyone would after dealing with this kind of torture, he would be crushed if anything should happen to her of all people, she was the closest and most trustworthy person he’d known he couldn’t stand it if anything should ever happen to her, he arrived to his room and closed the door, opened the window and threw himself onto his bed after throwing his sweater against a hook where he managed to get it to hang without getting up to place it back, he felt the softness of the bed beneath him, as he stared into the ceiling, thinking, pondering, wondering and worrying.

Chapter 24: Endurance

2010-07-05T12:11:00.000-07:00

After climbing for what seemed like hours it looked like he hadn’t gotten any distance, Hell was smart he had thought this through entirely and therefore made it so he could not make it through, but he had to find a way of testing Hell’s intelligence, he started climbing downward after a few minutes the rain and wind had gone. He was right, Hell was making all this happen in advance but he had to have made one flaw just like Elnar had told him, Elnar had been right so far about everything that happened, it all followed one real rule, Hell would make it look impossible, there had to be one way to get through, one almost unreachable way to get through, and he had to figure this one out alone. It was going to be hard, but he’d have to one way or another. Let’s see, the rain only appears as I escalade, therefore hell must’ve made the dangers increase as I get higher, but as I get lower, it gets safer. Hell had spent so much time thinking this through in advance, so I should take care of the obstacles in advance, if I fly away from it, I could probably see what’s going on above me. He thought. He flew back using his black wings, but could not see anything due to the winds. Then he thought again, Hell made it so it would be very risky and probably almost impossible, he thought for a moment. Lightning was a threat, he grabbed onto the metal fence again and pulled out his sword and held it into the air, maybe if the lightning struck it he could electrocute the fence, it was risky because he’d have to be very quick to be able to get the lightning from off his sword onto the fence, and he only had one shot because lightning only struck in the same spot once. He held his sword high and tried not to get blown down by the wind. He gripped tightly around the fence and held his sword as far from the fence and into the air as possible. He closed his eyes the bitter wind and water striking against his face and scar was burning but he had to keep going. He held it high in the air hoping to attract the lightning which sure enough finally struck his sword, without as a much as a second to waste he threw the sword against the fence and watched as the lightning climbed its way up the metal and burnt down anything that was potentially hanging against it, they fell down and into oblivion. The effect of the lightning also lit his way through, he kept climbing unstopped, finally he arrived to the top and he looked up and saw the towers above and nothing more, he looked down and saw nothing more, He ran up to the tower, the winds increased and so did the rain. He ran towards the tower and went through the tower doors. He closed it behind him silently. He started climbing the stairs. He wouldn’t stop until he reached the top. He was tired and weary but needed to keep going his endurance had always been weak but he had to fight it.
He kept running and arrived to a door; he kicked it open and found a hallway lit buy lanterns. He walked across it and saw in the distance nothing but darkness; he pulled off a lantern and moved faster, trying to get through. He held out his sword ready to face anything that might come out and attack him knowing Hell, it was quite likely. He ran through the hallway for some reason it looked like the hallway was shrinking slowly and slowly, like the walls were slowly closing in. He could hardly breathe anymore, he ran back but it was the same, he realized the walls were closing in even more by the second. He was being crushed within the room itself he had to escape and as soon as possible, the obstacles were becoming more and more difficult. He couldn’t take a breath. Slowly he felt his lungs contract slowly and slowly he felt his body crush within him he had to make time to think somehow, he pulled out his blade. And held it onto the ground standing up avoiding being crushed, the heat increased in the room ad he tried to fight his way into oxygen. He got a hold onto it. He was breathing slowly and taking in even breaths. He thought for a moment, he blew out cold air and allowed the contraction to expand and him to move around, and the door to be large enough to get through, at this point he was feeling utterly claustrophobic, but his plan was working, slowly but it was working as he got more and more space to move around and the blade fell over having nothing to support he was free again in the room to breathe freely without being crushed by a room. He stretched out and picked up his sword. He tried to turn the knob but it wouldn’t twist, he pulled out his sword and tried picking the lock, and slowly it opened up with a clicking noise and he went through. The next room was a stair case, he climbed it higher and higher and higher and higher her escaladed up the tower, until he finally reached the top. It was blocked by a plank of wood; he broke the plank and opened the door. There he was on the roof. He got up. It was windy and the sun was setting. He pulled out his gun. Hell stood there facing the opposite direction.
“Where the fuck is it?” Rayhan asked.
“Where’s what?” Hell asked.
“The ice amulet!” said Rayhan.
“Put the gun down” Hell said.
“First tell me or I’ll shoot” said Rayhan.
“What will that do?” asked Hell.
“Well if you’re so eager to know maybe we should find out” said Rayhan.
“A little metal piece can’t kill me, and even if you did kill me what good would that do you? I’ll only be replaced by someone much stronger” said Hell. Rayhan was intrigued by that.
“Shut up!” Rayhan shouted shooting simultaneously.
“As you can see, they did me no harm” said Hell.
“He hasn’t told you yet, has he?” said Hell. Rayhan pulled his sword out and gripped it tightly as Hell shifted from one position to the next in almost a blink of an eye. Rayhan could only see a grey blur moving off the corner of his eye and into focus.
Then it disappeared. Rayhan gripped his sword tightly and had his eye open wide. He looked around, he was sweating, as the wind blew against his face, Hell was near he could feel it. Then out of thin air he appeared right in front of Rayhan as he had anticipated and both their swords smashed against one another sending sparks flying everywhere. Rayhan didn’t have a chance to think as he slashed angrily through the air, the cold steel of his sword crashing against that of Hells. He turned around as Hell flew over him and slashed, Hell tried to evade him and hit him while he wasn’t looking but it was no use they were both mentally matched. They kept trying to outsmart one another not even wondering how it would be if they were too alike to compete against one another. They slashed and were throwing weight against each other they were matching forces this is where Rayhan would lose his even hand. He was on his knees.
“You asked what good it would be if I killed you, well what better would it be if you killed me?” Rayhan asked. Hell dropped his sword.
“Nothing, I never intend to kill you” said Hell. He flung his hand around blasting a black orb of energy knocking Rayhan to the ground.
“Than what is it that you intend?” Rayhan asked.
“Nothing you should be concerned about, just play along” said Hell.
“I deserve to know; after all you put us through!” Rayhan shouted.
“All I want is power, to bring back someone important” said Hell.
“You’re not going to bring Lucifer, I won’t let you, and you’re unleashing so much onto us for no reason! You don’t deserve to live, and then why did you come here?” Rayhan asked angrily.
“For power, I must sacrifice the people to create the philosopher stone, one of the ingredients I need, and the red water is a remnant which runs within all your bodies, your minds, I need the red water, I have to destroy all of you and take your red water, with it will bring enough, to bring him back, I need your resources, your planet will be destroyed” said Hell.
“What the hell do you want this for? Why are you bringing back so much suffering? Why do you hate?” Rayhan asked angrily.
“I have my reasons, but right now I need something from you, which is why I won’t kill you just yet, give the crystal to me and maybe I won’t kill you” said Hell. Rayhan thought for a moment he didn’t want to give the crystal up, after the effects it had on him and his friends, he wasn’t going to wait and find out what Hell might have to do with it. He didn’t even have it with him luckily, so it wasn’t like Hell could forcefully take it from him.
Rayhan gripped the handle of his sword, he felt his throat pulsing out with fear but he couldn’t let that control him, he grasped it tightly not knowing what he could do, he got up pushing against the sword, until he was standing up. He pulled the sword away, and then slashed with his most of his strength; he slashed again and again always to be hit by Hell’s sword. He didn’t want to give up; even if his strength would give in he knew he couldn’t give up. He kept throwing empty worthless shots. He didn’t know what he could do now though, it wasn’t like slashing would get him anywhere. He threw his sword at hell without thinking and pulled his hands up and started swinging them around throwing, quite strong, gusts of intense air at them, over and over and over again, Hell was losing his sense of power and superiority, Hell was undoubtedly a lot like him unfortunately, they both never relied on strength to get them anywhere, but instead determination. Maybe if Rayhan could somehow manage to crush that sense of power or render it weaker and weaker he had a chance of beating him. He kept throwing gusts of air, Hell fell back further and further, He was sort of dancing in this case just throwing air, he threw a punch in the air and the force of his arm was sort of thrown forward and magnified by the looks of it, he liked what he was seeing, maybe this whole war against him and Hell wasn’t as impossible as he thought it might’ve been, it didn’t look like Hell had the same power as he did, maybe that’s why he was so desperate to get the crystal, that only made things harder for him and the rest of HL now, not only were they supposed to stay out of Hells way and try to take him down, but they had to keep the crystal away as well which wasn’t going to be easy, they were part of a manhunt now, the entire population of the world multiplied by about a hundred was after him, and who knows maybe Hell had more soldiers hidden, and they didn’t have as much as a single army to fight all those people, but what they did have was the energy of earth, fire water and air, he’d have to make sure that in case would Hell get the stone, if he got it if would pretty much be the end of everything. They only had that one stone, without its energy they would have nothing.
He continued to fight despite how much his physical being stopped him. He closed his eyes. Consciousness was running low he was being thrown around so frequently he was starting to get a bit of a headache and was slowly losing consciousness. He closed his eyes and tried to think of something Elnar may have taught him that might aide him in this situation. He was on the ground and Hell was closing in, He got up though bruised and bleeding and as Hell reached him he pulled his hands out and pushed Hell across the room to hit a wall. This was unreal, he looked at his hands. He was amazed by his sudden strength, he remembered his ability, he closed his eyes stepped forward and suddenly became a blur of energy to anyone who saw him he sped through the air until he came to Hell who seemed to have just gotten up off the ground, he threw a punch which Hell grabbed and tried to throw and uppercut which Rayhan grabbed, he threw a roundhouse kick and nailed Hell in the ribs, who let go Rayhan didn’t waste time and quickly grabbed Hell’s neck and threw him back towards a wall, this wall burst into flames and smoke surrounded it, apparently he must’ve hit a gas pipe which burst through the smoke Hell emerged and used the same technique but grabbed Rayhan by the neck threw him into the air flew up grabbed his collar and threw him so hard towards a mirror he broke through and landed onto the hard concrete of the ground. Rayhan was bleeding now. Hell flew back down and grabbed him once again by the neck and lifted him off the ground and threw him back in the air only this time he held out his hand and threw a blast of water looked like waves of energy and hit Rayhan. For about half a second he was airborne, next thing he felt was a blast of combustion and he was flying through the air. He felt every bit of him burning with agony. He could briefly see, Hell appeared in mid air and blasted him back down now he fell with almost twice the impact of how he’d normally fall. He felt his back aching and burning from high combustion levels, but he loved it for some reason. His shirt was practically torn and ripped up, and the wind blowing against his wounds was stinging him so much but he loved this feeling, possibly because he knew that he wouldn’t witness this level of pain or this level of adrenaline at home under any circumstances. He just lay back on the ground, he was in no position to really fight but as a flame was headed his way he realized he could not move, He squinted his eyes and let it hit him but then reopened them, his eyes were now grey and his pupils black, something went wrong, his wings sprouted and his shirt burnt off. He got up, and it looked like he was on steroids because he was practically twice his regular size. He extinguished the fire within the palm of his hand, no ash marks or anything stained it. Hell arrived back down. Rayhan’s face wore no expression. Hell threw a punch Rayhan grabbed it reverted it and threw a punch so fast Hell could not avoid it and took it face first. He was bleeding. Hell got up Rayhan kicked him back down and tried throwing another punch at him this time with some strange energy circling around it, Hell’s eyes turned white and the same thing occurred they both fought for about an hour and got nowhere being too evenly matched. Soon they were both nearly dead and left. Rayhan created a portal and collapsed on his bed when he got home. He put on a new shirt and fell asleep.

Chapter 23: Hide and Seek

2010-07-05T12:10:00.000-07:00

Rayhan and Elnar left the room. They continued their way down the hallway, after rescuing more and more people; they now had Jeylan, Emma, Marsal, Noa, Amna, Jasmine and Antoinette. They continued their search after about an hour they came to the last room, room 103. They found that there were two guards guarding this one, and for good reason as well. Behind it was Taj, Rayhan’s long time best friend and one of the smartest strongest people were held in here. Elnar handed him the badge that would prove he’s a guard from behind. He approached them and held out the badge. They moved aside. They went through the door. The darkness nearly swallowed them whole. This wasn’t like the cells they’d already broken in and out of. It was larger and there were stairs going down. It looked unsafe. They took slow steps down and came into another room. It was exactly like the room in the forest temple, it had statues facing in all directions. They had to get through, they pushed the button and the door opened. Rayhan climbed onto one of the statues and tried jumping over each but that didn’t work, he used a gust of strong wind to redirect the direction the faces were facing. He then went through. They went through the door which closed. It looked like an arena Elnar was pushed back through a force field. Rayhan was on his own for this. A black figure in a cloak appeared. It was completely covered in the black cloak. Then it approached him, he or she held out a sword the size of Paul’s. He slashed Rayhan’s sword out of his hand which went flying off. Rayhan was left with his own two hands and of course the magic he had. They fought for a while all Rayhan did was avoid getting hit and block with his air and hands, but even so he was left cut, bruised and bleeding. He was now exhausted and the guy in the cloak was also weakened slightly breathing hard. Rayhan got up, his vision hazy and his cloak and shirt both ripped so deep that it was revealing his skin. He threw his air forward and the cloak blew off, to reveal a man with grew eyes and black pupils, his hair was black and shining, his skin was paler than most people, he had a scar across his face. He was larger than Rayhan and looked as though in his twenties. He had a blade broke off and fell onto the floor. Now they were both at the same stage. The man still seemed to have some energy in him though. He closed his eyes and two black, slightly ripped and broken wings grew out of his back. Rayhan now understood he was fighting his older self! The older Rayhan approached him and grabbed him by the neck and threw him against a wall. Rayhan managed to escape and rushed him. He threw a punch at him but hit his stomach nearly breaking his arm. Rayhan grabbed a metal bar and slashed it onto his shoulder which didn’t seem to really affect him at all.
He kept doing it and soon he managed to damage him a bit. Rayhan then was exhausted bleeding, cut, bruised and practically dead. He kept going though he knew he had to. He punched but missed, his vision was getting hazy. The older Rayhan held out his hand and a black orb seemed to form in from of his fist, he threw his hand forward and the orb hit him square in the chest throwing him back and making him feel like he was being electrocuted from the inside. He was dying, but even so he got up. He wasn’t going to give in. He kept fighting, He wasn’t planning on getting anywhere it was impossible, he used all his energy up already and he felt like his bones would soon give in and he’d collapse but until then he would keep fighting. He was on his knees but still got up the electrical feeling still stinging inside of him, his temples bleeding, and his left arm nearly broken but he kept going, slowly but was trying, it was like Hell said he could destroy his body but never his mind and heart, if his heart said fight he’d fight even if he were physically past the point of dying, his willpower was more enduring than the rest of his physical body, he believe that it didn’t matter how weak or pathetic ones body might look it was only the vessel he was put in to live. It meant nothing more. He kept fighting, until his spirit were fighting he would never give up, something was inhuman about him, he could fight forever until his mind would give up and that could go on forever no matter how many bullets went through his body it would never touch his spirit, his willpower was the strongest part of him, that’s why being strong didn’t matter to him, and if it ever did it would be for Rielle, but never for himself. He ran towards the second the older Rayhan and threw a punch which hit. He was head locked and punched in his stomach a few times and then thrown to the ground. He got up again. He held out his hand and took a deep breath, he was about to die even his air was failing him. Then the older him grabbed his neck and dropped the black liquid into his mouth and he suddenly had a flash back of memories and soon he collapsed onto the floor. He soon got up and pulled out his gun, he shot simultaneously. The other Rayhan fell back; since this was the other Rayhan had no soul and was another dummy or copy of the real original Rayhan he was easily taken down by the gun. Rayhan got up heavily breathing hardly able to see, the shield disappeared and right as he was about to collapse Elnar caught him on his back and disappeared behind a doorway. He made his way over a very thin and unstable bridge but it broke behind them. They came to the next room and sat down for a while, Elnar healed Rayhan and they took a break, after that they continued until they arrived to what looked like layers and layers and layers of tight security at the very bottom was Taj changed around so heavily it was impossible to see his face. Around every single floor there were guards heavily armed and at the very bottom floor there were about twice as many guards as there were in the entire cell.
“Only one way to get down” said Rayhan. He ripped his ripped up shirts remains off and spread his black wings and jumped into the air he flew down and landed to the bottom floor, all the guards swarmed around him, he fought them all off with gusts of air sending them flying from wall to wall. He kicked them punched them and knocked them out, he was also getting brutally injured but he disregarded that., once he’d taken care of all of all them. The gates around him flew open and about fifty more soldiers ran out of it. Rayhan thought quickly of what to do he hadn’t the energy to fight all of them so he broke open the chains, Taj came out and pulled out a machinegun he blasted every single soldier out of the way killing every single one simultaneously the bullets were barely seen as all was seen was the fall of billions of people, and the cries of billions of men in pain. He soon ran out of ammunition and they both pulled out their blades. About a thousand more people came running out with spears. They surrounded him and started slashing and thrusting, Rayhan and Taj started killing them, Grabbing them by the head and cut them open, Rayhan kneed one and kicked him across the face after thrusting through one like tissue. Taj had his silent pistol out and shot, cut and punched them. They started using magic and Rayhan and Taj started throwing gusts of air around. They both had touched the crystal once before, Taj had been Hell’s prisoner for three years, in that timeline Hell had gotten hold of the crystal and Taj managed to as well. They blasted shot of black energy, they didn’t know what it was so they redirected it and watched it take effect over another guard, the guy soon lost his skin, his muscles, his veins, and his bones, they all disintegrated. Rayhan shot blasts of air continuously, soldiers flying everywhere and blasts of air and black energy zoomed across the place. Rayhan and Taj pulled out their swords and started swinging it around creating stronger gusts of air, and cutting people in half, Rayhan and Taj were both skilled with the sword. They kept shooting around but as they killed more and more people more people came out.
“Shit” said Rayhan
“How the hell do we take them all there are just too many?” Taj asked.
“I think I got it” said Rayhan as he slashed a guy across the face.
“Really?” Taj asked kicking a guy in the stomach and head locking him.
“Yeah, grab the handle of my sword” said Rayhan, Taj did so and they both concentrated as a blast of air equivalent to both their strength shot out from the tip of the blade. It was so much concentrated air it turned into a white beam of energy destroying anything in its path, people all around screaming, gushes of blood flying everywhere. Soon they were all dead.
Both Taj and Rayhan were exhausted Elnar came by. They were lying on a ground of sand breathing deeply.
“Nice job you two” said Elnar.
“Thanks, who are you?” Taj asked, his voice deeper than Rayhan had assumed.
“I am Elnar the sage of freedom and Rayhan’s guardian angel” said Elnar.
“Do I have one?” Taj asked.
“I’ll explain later, right now we still need to find out the location of the amulets” said Elnar.
“We also need to free some more people, preferably people who have high power over others, that lead an army or something” said Rayhan.
“Really, why?” Taj asked.
“Because if we have that kind of power with us we can easily take hell down, you saw how exhausted we got fighting all those people, and imagine that wasn’t even a fraction of the amount of warriors Hell has, and all the warriors combined aren’t even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of how powerful Hell is” said Rayhan.
“True, but how do we get this high authority without summoning someone older? Didn’t you not want someone older, with that many people it’ll be hard to control and keep track” said Elnar.
“Yeah you’re right, so what do we do?” Rayhan asked.
“We’ll talk about this later, I have an idea but it doesn’t have anything to do with anyone here” said Elnar. Suddenly they heard guards coming down the hallway.
“We have to hurry” Elnar whispered. They split up in all directions. Rayhan ran down one hallway, Elnar down the stairs and Taj down the other hallway. Rayhan concentrated on the necklace and tried to reach Elnar telepathically.
“We need to find everyone else” he said. He repeated the message to Taj and then he tried to reach the others. They were all reached and he told them to meet him back, he then stopped running suddenly. He couldn’t leave, this would be his last chance, he couldn’t just leave without finding information, and he called Elnar again.
“Take them home, there’s something I got to take care of before I leave and I have to do it alone” he said.
“But how will you get back?” Elnar asked.
“I’ll call and then you open a gateway” said Rayhan.
“If you insist” said Elnar. Rayhan tucked the amulet back into his shirt and he got up, he was on the bottom floor and needed to get to the top where Hell was. He needed to find a map. He was right now in a hallway with people in cells. He kept running despite the cries of pain and horror around him. He arrived to the stairs and climbed them. It spiralled its way up, he kept climbing it, the entire staircase soon changed, he was now walking on red glass stairs that fell into blackness after he stepped onto them, and he kept moving all the same. He was running, his pulse was beating like a metronome. He kept running, his endurance was weak so he quickly ran out of breath, and soon his lungs felt like they were on fire, he was sweating his head hurt and felt heavy, he was feeling horrible after fighting all those people it was only inevitable that he’d eventually run out of breath easily, he couldn’t stop though, the scene soon changed back to before, he was now climbing higher and higher, he soon arrived to a door as he slowed down and slowly opened the door without making a noise. He went through and arrived to what looked like a roof, he looked down the ledge, he could only see clouds, and he was getting close. He looked around and saw that there was nothing he could do, there was another door but it was separated by a long gap he could not jump.
He shot a gust of powerful air towards the ground allowing him to fly and flew over the gap. Once he was through he was greeted only by more guards, he pulled out his sword and sliced through them like butter. The sky was getting darker as clouds began to gather slowly across the empty see of stars. He put his sword back and pulled out his silent pistol, he made his way to the wall, he loaded it and looked beyond the wall trying to stay hidden, he saw a group of guards there and took a shot, and he nailed one in the back of the head. He saw that most of the guards noticed. They were rushing towards him; these guards looked quite larger than most of the ones he took care of back at the cells. He needed to be careful. Since he was already out of breath he had only one option, to hide and stay out of their site, it was already foolish of him to have distracted them. He could only see one alternative, the wall he was hiding behind was heavily fenced he’d have to climb it. He grabbed it and started to climb as fast as he could, suddenly he felt a drop of rain hit his face, and the winds had increased, his hands were too occupied for him to be able to do anything about the wind. He climbed it continuously. The metal was beginning to rust from the rain and it made it harder because it became slippery his hands were wet with the rainwater he couldn’t do anything, the metal was already bent in the wrong directions, ripped and edged, the metal was peeling off cutting against his skin as he tried to climb it. The rain and the winds against his face were making this harder for him. His he had to keep climbing as the rain started pouring down harder, he looked up and could see that there was still too much for him to climb, but he had to keep going there was no turning back, he looked down the distance he covered was really high, he would either have to climb all the way and decided from there or let go and risk dying of high impact against the ground. The metal from the fencing was ripped up and silver, he kept climbing as the winds shook the fence, it made a cut across his face. He could barely see the top. He didn’t stop climbing for anything.

Chapter 22: Search

2010-07-05T12:09:00.000-07:00

Rayhan sat on his bed in the dark, looking through the window on his roof that led directly over the pillow into the night sky, he just gazed silently at the stars, his mind swirling into thoughts and fears, he was never more afraid than he was at this moment. He tried to take his mind off of this for while but that just seemed impossible, the thought kept creeping into his mind one way or another. He could hardly bear imagining the sights he’d seen running through his mind, but what really irked him was that Elnar didn’t know what it was that Hell had used and Rayhan was afraid that Hell might use it again, it was his strongest weapon. Rayhan slowly drifted to sleep and woke up well rested the next morning.
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He sat up and stretched his arms out until he got the feeling back into him. He got off of his bed and went to the washroom to drench his face in cold water to wake himself up. He walked in and noticed something particularly strange, there was a marking on his arm, a pentagram marking like a tattoo on his left shoulder, he tried washing it off but it didn’t go away, he felt as if it were permanently there, but he decided to pay it no mind. He went through his daily hygienic morning routine and left the room. He was in his room with a couple of screwdrivers and nails; he began to tighten his right arm and the loosened nails at his wrists. He placed some in and added some more pieces to make his arm look like his other arm; he shined it and pulled a black undershirt over himself. He went downstairs and found that everyone was awake that morning. He spoke to some of them and went to Elnar to ask if they’d relocated the next amulet. Unfortunately there was no luck with that. He left and went back into his room and sat down on his bed. He tried to think where the next amulet might be. He sat there lying staring into the ceiling. Someone knocked on the door, it was Paul.
“Hey” said Paul.
“Hey” Rayhan replied.
“Hey, where do you think the next amulet might be?” Rayhan asked.
“Not sure, but we know so far that Hell could put it virtually anywhere on the earth and the universe” said Paul.
“That’s true but Elnar told me it’d be somewhere we can get it but it’ll be really hard” said Rayhan.
“Well yeah I guess we should trust Elnar’s judgement because it’s the best we have” Paul said.
“But where do you start looking for something we have no leads on?” Rayhan asked.
“Well I’d suggest we check earth first because we know Hell is there right now” said Rayhan.
“We can’t just let him hide it anywhere that would make it like fifty times harder to find it” said Rayhan.
“Dammit if only I’d gotten the little shit earlier we wouldn’t have to wonder” said Rayhan.
“Hey don’t blame yourself, it’s not your fault, it’s not anyone’s, I mean it’s not like any of us knew it would be there” said Paul. Pierre and Sarah walked in.
“Hey what’s up?” Pierre asked.
“Nothing just trying to find out where the other amulet is” said Rayhan they sat down; Pierre had a box of ice cream on his lap.
“Where do you think it might be?” asked Pierre.
“Not sure” said Rayhan and Paul almost exactly on the dot of unison.
“Okay then” said Sarah.
“So any ideas at all?” asked Sarah.
“Well we think it might be somewhere on earth” said Paul.
“I have a feeling it might be somewhere he’d think really mattered to me, Elnar said Hell was only doing this for his own amusement” said Rayhan.
“Did Elnar say anything else?” Paul asked.
“Not really” said Rayhan, he didn’t want them to know about the Trickmaster he didn’t want to worry them they already had enough to worry about.
“For some reason I keep feeling as though we’ll be at this for years” said Rayhan.
“Well there’s a good chance we will be I mean we’re only like thirteen” said Paul.
“I’m fourteen” said Rayhan.
“Oh big difference” said Pierre. Rielle walked in.
“Hey” she said.
“Hey” they all said except for Sarah. After that Steven walked in almost right after. They both sat down.
“What’s going on” Rielle asked.
“Trying to find the next amulet” said Rayhan.
“Well I don’t know” said Rielle.
“Hey guys” Steven said a bit late.
“Hi Sheven” they all said.
“Like when did we sign up for this?” asked Rayhan.
“We didn’t” said Paul.
“What we need are more people, I mean really like there’s us going against an army of people, none of us, except maybe Paul, can take this on with an even match” said Rielle.
“Yeah but how are we supposed to get more people?” asked Rayhan.
“We’ll have to break them free” said Paul.
“And how?” asked Pierre.
“Well we broke ourselves free didn’t we?” asked Rayhan.
“Yeah we can do this” said Pierre.
“I feel special” said Paul all smiley. They laughed.
“Hey if this world was real, do you guys think DL is real too?” asked Pierre.
“Don’t get excited Pierre” said Sarah. They continued to laugh.
“So when do you guys want to go?” asked Rayhan.
“I’m not sure I mean we’ll have to get ready and all so I’d say like tomorrow?” asked Paul.
“Okay” they agreed.
“But how do we get there?” asked Rielle.
“The fake Elnar showed me another gateway” said Rayhan.
“Oh god Rayhan is it far?” Sarah whined.
“No actually it’s the fountain” said Rayhan.
“Oh okay” she laughed” said Sarah, Rayhan felt them all release a relieving breath.
“So we better get our stuff ready, I mean we don’t know how much bigger Hell might’ve made his prison cell” said Paul.
“Yeah” said Rayhan. They all left the room one after the other. Soon the room was empty except for him. He lay there quietly. He gazed into the ceiling. He though for a moment tried to think of ways he could pull this off.
He felt strange he was never a leader for anything but if the world was depending on him he’d have to be there were too many people depending on him; if they died it would be his fault and his alone. He’d have to bear the consequence of grief and hate for the rest of his life which probably wouldn’t be long. He was more of a lone wolf than anything else, he was independent and worked alone, whenever they’d get an assignment for school that was done in groups he’d end up failing it, he didn’t work well with others probably because people rarely trusted him, and when they did he’d end up being the enemy for something that wasn’t in his control, he’d have to lead them himself because people were counting on him but the weight of all of this over his head felt heavy and as he got further it got heavier and heavier until he felt like his neck would break off, he was leaning in a direction he wasn’t supposed to and he was falling apart from the inside. This was his job and he couldn’t do it but he had to it was too late to turn back, he’d asked for this to begin with not thinking it would be this hard but to be perfectly honest with himself there was a part of him that was glad it happened because if it hadn’t he’d think life was boring, dull and pointless, where people never got what they wanted, where people were shunned for believing in their dreams, fuck the crap people go around saying thinking they were going to make a difference, they only say that, the horrible truth was that when you believed in your dreams you’d only get hit with a hard big dose of karma, bitter karma, it was just the corrupted way things in this world worked. He felt like he’d rather die then go on like this but he didn’t have practice, there was nothing that could have prepared him for this. He sat up on his bed and looked around, after gathering his stuff her walked outside, the weather was nice, it always was in Heaven’s Light, no matter how he’d felt, after he got ready he just sat on his bed quietly and tried to tighten his arm and ad weapons to it, it was his only real weapon that could compare to Hell’s, even his pistol wouldn’t work in this case, but there was his control over the wind but how would he beat Hell with a couple of gusts of air, he wanted to kill him not annoy him to death. He sat there quietly. Someone knocked on his door.
“Come in” he said. The door opened and Paul walked in.
“Hey” Rayhan said.
“Hey” he replied.
“Can I help you?” Rayhan asked.
“Well it’s just a friend of mine that I really care about is caught by Hell I really look forward to going to save her tomorrow but I want her to come back, because she means everything to me” said Paul.
“I get it alright” said Rayhan.
“Thanks man” Paul said.
“And Rayhan?” said Paul
“If you tell anyone about this I’ll beat the shit outta you” he said.
“Haha alright I know I won’t tell I swear” said Rayhan. Paul left, Rayhan was left alone and he just stayed there fixing his arm thinking about Rielle. He could only think about two things these days Rielle and the whole Hells controversy, nothing else could go through his mind, Rayhan understood people like Hell, they weren’t insane they were mislead and misinterpreted, but these kind of people would go beyond the boundary of even evil to reach their goal, if only Rayhan had known what Hell’s goal was, it would make everything much easier for him.
He went downstairs and left the castle to walk around, the world was vibrant here, the grass was green and amazing, it shined amazingly and the sky was blue without a single cloud visible. He sat onto a large boulder. He just sat and looked around; it was a nice day to be outside; the breeze blowing against his face, the trees around him grown, full of life and leaves. He was tired of all of this but he didn’t want to give up it was too but this timeline was so depressing lately. He rested his head on his hand. He looked into the ground. He moved away since the weather was getting a bit too hot, he sat under a tree; soon everyone came outside and started talking and stuff. He looked up into the leaves of the tree. He closed his eyes. He sat facing the tree and looked at the carvings on it, within a heart was written “Z + Z” in a heart. He felt over it. Under that was written “C + E” in hearts. Rayhan thought for a moment wondering who these initials might be of and in case they might belong to his parents. Then he picked up a sharp rock and started carving onto the tree HL in commemoration to someone who might read this and see that initial and remember what had happened if anything were to happen. After that he noticed something else that came a bit bizarre to him, another carving this time of something he could not make up it said something in another language again he decided to pay it no mind. He got up and walked back inside, it was a typical afternoon, he just ate and soon he went to bed knowing he’d have to wake up next morning, but despite that he had a lot of trouble sleeping but finally managed to. The next morning he woke up a bit tired having trouble falling asleep the previous night. He ignored that and continued his way downstairs and sat by the fountain waiting for his friends to join him, inevitably he had to wait a while. He sat there and waited, soon Paul, Pierre and Rielle joined him followed by Steven, Jessica and finally Sarah.
“You guys certainly took your time” said Rayhan.
“Shut up” Sarah laughed.
“Alright, what we do is sort of fall into the water face first, don’t’ worry you don’t get wet” Rayhan said.
“Haha that’s what she said” Pierre said.
“Shut up Pierre” Rayhan laughed.
“Alright let’s go” Rayhan said and they stood at edge. They seized each others wrists and closed their eyes.
“Ready? 1….2…..GO!” Paul shouted and they fell face first. They rose out into a white floor within a tornado of swirling colors some of which they’d never seen before. They were being lifted towards a light high above them that resembled the sun once they’d reached it they were standing beside a large rock and could see one of the largest monuments ever built. They stood at awe with no words left to say after standing in astonishment, last time they’d seen it, it was not even a fraction of this size, and it was so large it would probably be visible in space.
“How the hell are we supposed to find our way through there?” Pierre asked his mouth agape.
“We’ll have to though, it’s not like we can just make them appear like magic” said Rayhan.
“But still, It’s definitely going to be hard it could take ages to get through, we’ll like have to set up camp in it” said Rayhan.
“Okay and how are we supposed to survive that long without eating? You know not all of us are like you and just don’t have an appetite” said Paul.
“Shut up” Rayhan laughed.
“What we could do is steal from Hell but, it’ll be hard, where’ll we hide?” Paul said.
“We’ll have to find some place without getting caught” said Rielle.
“Well we’re going to have to start at some point, let’s go” said Rayhan.
“Alright” said Sarah. They left.
They walked from behind the castle and arrived at the large amethyst wall surrounding the entire place. There was no opening so they didn’t know how to get through.
“You guys still have those guns we stole earlier?” Rayhan asked.
“Yeah” they all agreed.
“Alright then let’s bust this wall down” said Rayhan. They pulled out their guns and shot with great dexterity at the seemingly impenetrable wall. They shot for a while until they were all out of bullets and gave up.
“I don’t get it what kind of wall is this it won’t break” said Rayhan.
“Remember we’re at Hell’s place he won’t let us in after we knock three times” said Sarah.
“Okay well then there’s only one thing to do” said Rayhan unsure if anyone had been listening to him at all at this point. He decided to just go for it then since no one was listening to him anyway. He decided to just go along with it anyway, and if they were alarmed that’d be their fault. H snatched all of their guns and detached and re attached them to create something very bizarre no one had ever seen.
“What the hell is that?” Paul asked.
“Well only one way to find out” Rayhan repeated He held it up with all his muscular strength making sure it would not fall, he pulled the trigger and a blast of who-knows-what shot out and created nothing more than a mere dent.
“Wow fail” Paul laughed. Rayhan grimaced.
“Okay well that didn’t work out quite as well as I thought it would” said Rayhan.
“Well now what?” Pierre asked.
“We have to find another way in” said Rayhan.
“Or we can try to penetrate this wall again” said Paul.
“I’d rather go find another way we could be wasting time with this” said Rayhan.
“Alright how do we get in?” Rielle asked.
“These walls are amethyst, I know from fighting Hell twice he’s no pushover he probably created like a force field around this thing, as much as it pisses me off I have to say that he did overlook one thing, these amethyst walls are only mere stone, and the shield can’t grow out of it, its probably taking a curved formation out of the centre of the entire thing. See that tower up there? That’s probably where Hell is and if I’m right about that then he’s probably keeping himself safe, or calling himself the defender but we can’t assume anything at this point because we don’t know what he’s after, but we can assume that he has the ice amulet so we need to get to that first and foremost so he’d be inclined to keep it in the safest place that being the centre, he’s probably hiding it there and to protect it he’s got this entire place under lockdown, I know Hell he wouldn’t be afraid to face us, that shows that the entire purpose of the shield was to defend something other than himself, so we know hw has the amulet or maybe he’s already hidden it and trying to distract us little does he know we’re stopping here for more than one reason, and we won’t leave empty handed” said Rayhan surprised he actually managed to get everyone’s attention, they’d usually break into conversation and ignore him.
“Well you managed to make your point, so what d’you do we do now?” Pierre asked.
“Oh yeah, well obviously what we have to do is get in through the most vulnerable part of this entire structure, which is the top centre, he made that part vulnerable not expecting us to make it, remember what Elnar said Hell won’t make the obstacles completely impossible, he’ll make it so we think it’s impossible and give up” said Rayhan.
“Okay, how do we get to the top?” asked Sarah.
“Well we have to try to get there by the cliff we started running off of when we had to sprint for shit that day we were getting out of his cells and one more thing, it’s obvious that Hell’s gotten a few renovations and probably improved his security around here, he wasn’t as developed when we escaped, it won’t be as easy anymore” said Rayhan.
They made their way around over to the hill and climbed it, it was very large, possibly bigger once Hell had tampered with this place. They made it to the top and saw over the wall, to their amazement there was a large castle coming out of the darkness beneath, the place was larger than they could have ever imagined. They threw a rock at it to assure there was a shield and they were right as the rock created a ripple after making it halfway through and the ripple illuminated its way around the shield making its shape which they were also right about.
“Sheven we need a bridge” said Pierre. Steven threw his hands forward and a long rock bridge made it’s was through the air and stopped halfway towards the shield. They walked over it and Steven created a stair case which they climbed and then descended at the vulnerable part of the shield.
They kept climbing downward until they found a rather strange device, it was very colourful and had billions of buttons but it was producing the shield. They crushed it with a rock and started to fall into the darkness. The pressure of the air was so strong it was becoming hard to catch a cool free grasp of air weak enough to actually breathe, and they could hear the pressure clogging their ears. They were falling through such an intensely deep pit that the air was clogged up around them and it became harder and harder to bear the powerful air pressure, it was like their lungs were imploding slowly and gradually to the point where they would crunch up and air could no longer cross, it was starting to occur as they noticed the hard pressure against their chest like as if their ribcages were being pushed back. They finally landed onto the ground with such forced it would be enough to kill them but they did not die because they landed into water. They came out, and were all drenched in water. They shake it off and swim up to a shore of dusty sand. Once they got there they came out of the water drenched and tried to dry off.
“Damn, FUCK, I fuckin’ think I pulled something!” said Pierre.
“Holy shit you alright?” Rayhan asked.
“I think so” said Pierre hanging onto his arm. People went around him.
“You didn’t pull something but like how’d you land?” asked Paul.
“I don’t know but I think I like landed on like a rock” said Pierre.
“Well how does it hurt, do you think you can make it through?” asked Paul.
“Yeah I think so” said Pierre.
“Looks to me like you broke a ligament in your arm” said Paul.
“Shit so I did break something” said Pierre.
“It’s nothing major I can probably fix it, but I’d need my stuff back home, for now just like wrap something around it tightly” said Paul.
“Well alright, but try to fix it as soon as you can” said Pierre.
“Alright, we need to get moving without stopping, the faster we move the faster we get out of this place” said Paul. Rayhan however had no intention of just freeing the people and leaving. He just nodded and followed Paul.
They made there way through the cavernous place they landed in now completely dry. They walked for a couple of hours as it became darker within the cave. They walked through tunnels and climbed walls. They arrived to what looked like a crystal fissure. It was bright in there. They walked around the place and found a crack in the wall. They looked through the crack and found the way out of the cavern was just beyond that wall, they also noticed it was getting dark and they had to pack up and sleep. They lay down around lit by the light magnified by the shining blue crystals; they were warm inside the cave because the cave had been underground. They sat around the place and unloaded their things; Pierre wrapped a cloth around his arm tightly like a tourniquet since it began to bleed. Most of them were hungry but had to hold it in since they were yet too far from Hell. Rayhan sat alone against a large crystal shard. He thought, he didn’t want to rescue too many people for several reasons, once there were too many people it would be hard to get order amongst them, people would constantly be fighting to lead and not know what to do when they got there, he didn’t want to endanger Rielle either, he could potentially end up doing that if he got too many people he didn’t know, plus they would all have to search for more food and more water, their shelters would have to be larger and it would be hard to tell where people went if they ended up disappearing, In cases where there are too many people they often have a tendency to split up into groups and that was in his opinion the worst thing to do. Not to mention if there were more people it would be harder to talk and give out points because people would constantly be fighting and breaking into large loud conversations in which no one could be heard. He wanted to only save some close friends. He fell asleep shortly after thinking about the drowned thoughts of what might happen the next day. He woke up and the crystals were shining so brightly onto his face it was hard to see. They got up. They grabbed their stuff and left. They tried to break down the wall but it didn’t work with gust of air and fire and it just so happened that the material was not earth at all so that didn’t work either.
“Screw this” said Rayhan pulling out his silent pistol. Loaded it and then shot it like there was no tomorrow, crystal pieces and titanium flew everywhere they had to close their eyes. The sound was so loud they could barely hear a single thing, after about a minute it ran out. It left a large hole which they went through. They looked around, there was crystal everywhere, and they were standing on crystal covered in about puddle level of water.
It looked like they were in some sort of cavern with water, there were stalagmite hanging from the ceiling and coming out of the ground almost everywhere, so much it became harder to get through.
“Where the hell are we?” Rielle asked as they all looked around.
“I’m not sure” said Rayhan.
“This place is in the castle?” Paul exclaimed.
“Sure looks like it” said Steven.
“But then why would he keep this place here?” Jessica asked.
“Well, he must have a good reason, maybe the cells are close bye” said Rayhan.
“Hey I got an idea” said Rielle.
“Really, what?” Rayhan asked.
“Well we know that hell probably has like soldiers and like people to fix this place up” said Rielle.
“Yeah” said Paul, everyone’s attention was now directed to Rielle.
“Well maybe we could like break something grab someone’s attention and the person who comes to repair it might have like a map or something of this place” said Rielle.
“And when they come to fix this place we knock them out and steal the map! Nice work Rielle” Rayhan said maybe sounding a bit too proud.
“Okay but we’d have to break something that important, like a gas tank” said Paul.
“Where do we find one?” said Pierre.
“I’m not sure, this place isn’t exactly you’re basement cellar, it could be anywhere” said Paul.
“True” said Sarah.
“Well, then looks like we’ll have to find out by looking” said Rayhan.
“Alright” they agreed. They looked around the cavern in hope of finding an escape or some opening but progress was taking a slow turn. This place was like a labyrinth, the turns would often lead to dead ends or forks. It was had for either of them to map it out in their heads. They often tripped over stalagmite. The cave became darker and darker. They decided to map out the place by leaving a crack in the rocks beneath them from behind them., but it was like their tracks were being filled in, and what was even more surprising to them was that several of the caves would often close when they tried to get through and neither Steven or Sarah could pull them apart. Fire seemed to have no affect since they were on water. It looked as though Pierre, Rielle and Paul were suddenly weaker here. Elnar appeared and decided to help but it wouldn’t make much of a difference even he could not bend reality. They pondered, conversed and walked around trying to map out the cave. They got to a fork and just before giving up Elnar insisted they try going through it, they tried one direction and came to what looked like a pit, they tried again another direction and came up with the same result, and they finally tried the last one and came to a dead end.
“FUCK!” Rayhan shouted. Most of them shook there heads in disapproval or disappointment.
“Why the hell can’t we find a simple enough route? How does Hell get through this labyrinth everyday?” he continued.
“He probably has an alternative route or a map” said Elnar.
“Even with that it’s still bleak” said Rielle.
“Well remember he can bend reality any way he wants, he’s got that much power and the more time we waste the stronger he gets” said Elnar.
“But what the fuck do we do, how the hell are we supposed to get through this damn place?” Rayhan shouted punching a wall. It echoed around the room, they broke into silence.
“It’s hollow” Paul noted. Rayhan knocked again and the same sound occurred.
“Well even if it is how do we get through?” said Rayhan.
“We have to blow it down” said Sarah.
“Haha that’s what she said” Steven laughed.
“Shut up” Sarah laughed.
“THAT’S IT I CAN’T TAKE THIS SHIT ANYMORE WE’VE BEEN AT THIS FOR HOURS AND HAVEN’T GOTTEN SHIT!” Paul shouted he went up to the wall in rage and threw both his hands at it and destroyed it revealing a stairway. Everyone just looked at him oddly.
“Ahem, alright then let’s go” said Rayhan finally after what seemed like ten minutes of awkward silence. They continued moving. They went up the stairs and arrived to what looked like a dungeon.
“Alright this is where we should split up” said Elnar.
“You think so?” asked Rayhan.
“Yeah, each sector here has a hallway we have to find people we know but we can’t look suspicious so here take these” said Elnar throwing seven black hooded cloaks onto the ground, they quickly wore them and pulled the hoods up.
“But how will we contact each other?” Rielle asked.
“You guys still have the chains I gave you that day?” asked Elnar. They all nodded and showed them.
“Okay so each of us is separate?” Rayhan asked.
“No, Rielle you go with Steven, Sarah go with Pierre, Paul you go with Jessica and Rayhan you come with me” said Elnar. They weren’t all okay with the groups but then again they hadn’t a choice so went ahead. They split up in all directions walking to avoid suspicions. The hallway looked like that of an insane asylum. Elnar disguised himself as a guard dog. They walked through the hallways, Rayhan had his sword out. The doors were numbered, with the name of the prisoner next to it in what looked like a tattered silver metal; under the name in golden lettering was the name of the guard of the prisoner who was either standing outside or inside torturing the prisoner. Rayhan took a glance at the corner of his eye, to see if he recognized any of them.
So far he didn’t see any name he could recognize, he just kept walking, the guards eyeing him cautiously. He found a room with a name he recognized. In the tattered dented metal was written; Savage, Abbey and underneath was written Larth in golden writing but without a last name. He heard cries of horror and insanity around him; he only hoped that he wasn’t too late. Abbey was one of Rayhan’s best friends who were on vacation somewhere far. He went up to the door and tried opening it but it was locked Elnar looked at it, without losing any eye contact and the door knob soon melted. Rayhan pushed it open and went through. The cell was large and dark with black chains hanging with skeletons. There was one window on the roof of the cell. There was what looked like a large moving eyeball looking at the prisoner chained against the wall. Rayhan approached her slowly, suddenly someone in the corner in the same black cloak jumped out and attacked him Rayhan pulled out his sword and blocked the other man’s blade; they slashed aimlessly hitting one another crazily. Rayhan pulled out a gun cocked it and pulled the trigger once releasing the bullet, then twice and a third time and then kept shooting with both hands. The guy kept falling back every time he got in contact with the bullet and came back to attack but it was no use the bullets had no affect on it. Elnar turned himself into something large and beast like, huge teeth hanging out of his mouth, with claws the size of cars, it was too dark to see what he was but Rayhan could see a horn and as he grabbed the guy from the neck and ripped his entire body off of his waist. It dropped the legs and returned to normal size. Rayhan went up to Abbey and ripped the chains open, Elnar transported her back to the castle after telling her everything that was going on, she was smart so she understood.

Chapter 21: Trick

2010-07-05T12:08:00.001-07:00

Rayhan had made his way to the fountain and sat by it, the water glowed in the moonlight. It was shining brightly. He looked down into the reflection of the water and sat his back against the supports. He sat there and closed his eyes. He had his mind fixed on how he would get through this battle. He opened them and gazed back into the water and saw his own reflection, He thought for a few moments of where the next amulet could be it was the amulet of ice so he assumed so knowing that the first one was of earth. He was stuck waiting for something to happen over the next few hours but he knew nothing important was just randomly going to happen, he gazed into the fountain water which seemed to be shining so smoothly without as much as a ripple to uneven the flat almost ice like water. He gazed through into the reflection into his very own eyes; they were light brown but not hazel some other color. His black hair hung over his face. He had to wait for Elnar to re appear which could take weeks, months even depending on where he was and what he was doing, but perhaps it was something important. He gazed into the water and put his finger in it and created a ripple which grew wider and wider as it soon vanished within the small pool of water. He could see something strange in it, he noticed the water color had completely changed to the scenery of a starry night sky he looked around for something that may be reflecting the night sky into the water but there wasn’t anything that could reflect that into the water. He peered deeper into the water. He could see Elnar in his reflection.
“Wha- how’d you get in there?” Rayhan asked astonished
“I’ll explain later, you need to find the next amulet the amulet of ice which you will find up North back on earth” said Elnar.
“Alright I’ll notify my friends right away” said Rayhan.
“No you have to go alone” said Elnar.
“What, why?” asked Rayhan.
“Just do as I say, you’ll know soon enough” said Elnar.
“Alright” said Rayhan.
“Leave right away” said Elnar.
“Okay, but how do I get there?” asked Rayhan.
“Use the fountain it’s a gateway” said Elnar as he disappeared in a ripple of water and Rayhan’s reflection had returned. He grabbed his stuff and came right back to the fountain. He closed his eyes and thought of the North Pole, he took a deep breath and stepped into the water he fell into snow. He look around, the amulet shouldn’t have been far he thought. He didn’t feel cold having worn the HL uniform which apparently had a heating system. When faced with cold. He got up covered in snow which melted off.
He could see snow everywhere; he’d walked into the middle of a blizzard. Luckily he could change the path of where the wind was blowing; he pushed it to go in the same direction he was walking. He noticed a tall black figure standing on a black rocky cliff. It must’ve been Elnar, in his human form or someone who he had sent to help him. Rayhan walked up barely able to see through the thick snow blowing and the darkness, there seemed to be a source of light behind the man. Rayhan could just barely see a shadow of what might’ve been a man he was still unsure whether it were a tree or a person or something in between to be honest. He kept walking with the wind which blew him closer, his hair blowing in all direction. He finally arrived to the base of the cliff. He started to climb it he grabbed the black rocks and pulled himself up he tried climbing as fast as he could pulling himself higher and higher but the rocks were slippery and wet with snow and ice. He found himself slipping several times, he continued to climb. He was sweating and the wind pushing him towards the cliff was no help for him, he’d already been climbing it was too late to revert the air in another direction, he had to keep moving, he was determined to make it to the top. His coat flew off he felt the sting of the bitter cold bite his skin causing excruciating frosted pain. He kept going, he had only been wearing a black undershirt underneath the cloak which had flown off, plus he was carrying his heavy metal weapons thus increasing the wait onto his body which made it even harder to climb. He was sweating and tired, his knees were bruised and cut, he was bleeding and on the verge of catching frostbite, he felt such an unbearable amount of pain it was almost impossible to make it but he had to try, the world was depending on him. He kept going, He felt cold and bitter but kept climbing he was more than halfway through, he kept going despite his pain he kept climbing and finally made it to the top he gripped the snow for his life he pulled himself up.
He stood only metres away from the man who had turned around, he didn’t believe his eyes this wasn’t anyone who was here to help him, and it was Hell. Rayhan pulled out his sword and gripped it tightly which was hard because his fingers were numb and painful all the nerves felt like they’d been frozen off.
“Hah, you idiot” said Hell.
“Where’s Elnar?!” Rayhan shouted.
“Hah you dumb bastard you actually fell for it” he laughed.
“But now that I’ve got you right where you I might as well remove you from the face of the earth” said Hell.
He ran at him with his sword high in the air it swung and smashed against Hells. They slashed at each other. Rayhan kicked, punched, slashed and struck his way through; Hells blade turned into a scythe as he slashed Rayhan jumped and dodged it. He slashed again and Rayhan dodged it, once again and landed a cut over Rayhan’s forearm. He was bleeding. Rayhan threw his sword at him and missed. He shot another slash and cut him over the shoulder again. He did it again and again and slashed Rayhan to the point where he was so brutally injured and frozen it would hurt to even move. Somehow he’d managed to stay on his feet and raise a shaky hand to throw a blast of air which missed and wasn’t even a scarcely strong enough it was only strong enough to just barely knock over a pile of snow. Rayhan fell to his knees, the snow stung his wounds crazily causing more pain than ever and the breeze felt terribly cold, the cuts left by the cold metal of the blade were burning him so hard he just wished he could die already. He was on his knees. Hell walked over picked him up by the back of the collar and kneed him in the stomach he threw him towards a cave and walked over he punched him in the stomach until he was coughing up blood. He used the back of the blade to bash him in the head and knock him to the ground. He was bloody, broken and bruised. He still got back up after all that he couldn’t fail no matter what and he knew that. Hell grabbed him by the hair, and pulled his mouth open.
“Maybe destroying your body isn’t enough” said Hell pulling out a small glass bottle full of some mysterious dark liquid. He uncorked it and flooded his mouth with it. He let go. Rayhan felt the rush of the cold black liquid run down his throat.
He felt nothing. Then once it was all down his throat, it happened. He crippled up his mind was being stung a billion times pain running through ever bit of him, like his nerves were replaced by beams of lightning that ran through his body causing him to move crazily on the ground as if he’d been having a seizure. He moved crazily and shook very fast. Then images ran through his head memories, harmful memories he’d never seen of his friends suffering of Rielle in pain and him chained against a wall. There was a man in a mask, running a whip, whipping his friends who were chained up against a dungeon wall. They were being constantly tortured without stop tears running down her face. A woman’s voice screaming, then an instant momentary flash of a man’s face; he only noticed his black hair and pale white skin with red eyes and long black hair. Then again with the torturing, suddenly he saw himself become a dark thing, he was in the body of the torturer now he was wearing a mask and was looking through the small slits for eyes and he was out and he was watching unable to do anything suffering pain. He shouted at the top of his voice. “Not them….Take me instead…leave them alone….let them go take me…..not them..ME… NO!” Tears’ running down his face he shouted but it was no use his voice was silent, they couldn’t hear him. He was suddenly back in his own body he saw Hell over him a smile stretched across his face, he felt a pain like none other and then he saw Elnar, Pierre and Rielle appear. They ran up to him as Hell vanished, followed by darkness. Through that whole time he couldn’t hear anything.
Hours, days, weeks, perhaps months had gone by and he had just opened his eyes and showed a sign of life. It was morning; he was starting to get tired of always ending up in the same room over and over again, but this time it wasn’t his choice. He looked around, he felt the terrible aftermath feeling you’d get after surgery. He took a few harsh breaths. His head was tightly bandaged. His eyesight was a bight hazy and blurry. He also had heavy bandaging over his cuts, his metal arm was broken in half its wires ripped and torn, the other piece resting on a table. He could taste nothing in his mouth. He tried sitting up but felt pain in his back, like he’d been at school sitting at a long boring assembly and had finally got up and felt his dead legs stretch back into life. He managed to sit up after a couple of minutes. He thought for a moment, the last thing he’d remembered was pain beyond measure seeing his friends, his only known family suffering and the one he loved being tortured by him unwillingly who could not control his very own movements. He felt like he shouldn’t have woken up in the hospital, he had hoped for it to all just be a dream. A terrible dream, but what was that liquid? What was hat strange substance that had run down his throat and caused him to think like that? Questions like this zoomed through his mind. He felt lazy, unwilling to get up, to stay lying on this soft bed, he felt that his dreams had always required less energy and effort than reality did. Even in his nightmares which he could not tell reality from fantasy seemed to have had prevented him from using up energy. He looked around, that was definitely no dream, he felt pain, up to the point of his physical and mental limit, he could not bear even the thought of it, he tried his best to fill his mind with the thought that that had only been a false memory Hell had displaced in his mind and nothing more than a false memory and that it could never happen. He got up off the bed and walked across the room. He pushed the door open expecting to see everyone minding their own business having had probably totally forgotten, but he could not entirely tell whether he’d merely expected that or hoped it or both. Unfortunately if he had hoped that his hopes had been false, everyone sat around the room on a sofa in deep thought looking like someone had just passed away.
He didn’t want to get noticed so he tried to make no notions as to display that he had just walked in, no one had seemed to notice. It was only after a few seconds Rayhan had considered leaving the room, that someone had noticed him. They didn’t seem surprised which really got Rayhan to think. If they hadn’t been surprised to see Rayhan well then obviously there was something else that worried everyone else, something perhaps even worse than his death. Elnar had crawled up to him like an obedient dog that had just been called. He sat in front of him. Rayhan gazed deeply into his mystic bright blue shining wolf eyes. Rielle had as usual and as a friend would, embraced him. Pierre patted him on the back lightly.
“What’s wrong?” He finally took an initiative to ask.
“Rayhan I’m not sure if you’ve realized, but Hell’s gotten stronger, and chances have become slim” said Elnar.
“Well, that doesn’t mean its impossible though does it?” Rayhan asked.
“Well no but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t concern us at all either, especially you Rayhan” said Elnar.
“Well I guess so” said Rayhan.
“Don’t take this lightly, you should know of all people this is the kind of situation that worries all of us, do you realize how many times you’ve ended up in the hospital infirmary? It’s obvious you need to be more careful” said Elnar.
“But this time it wasn’t my fault Hell tricked me into thinking you told me to go up North to find the amulet of ice” said Rayhan.
“Take these” said Elnar holding out a paw with seven differently coloured chains.
“What are they?” asked Rayhan grabbing the blue one.
“As long as you are wearing them, you can communicate with me telepathically” Elnar soon explained once everyone had one dangling around their neck.
“Sick” Paul said. They then continued doing what they were, Rayhan grabbed a can of Coke and went into his room and stayed there for a few hours. After that he decided to pay Elnar a visit.
***
“Hey, Elnar?” Rayhan asked pushing the door open scarcely.’
“Come in” said Elnar. Rayhan stepped in.
“Can I ask you something?” Rayhan asked.
“Go ahead” said a curled up wolf in the corner of the bed recognized to be Elnar.
“I was wondering about something, when I fought Hell that day, he beat me senseless without killing me and then he did something worse than anything I can imagine, he pulled out this bottle with this liquid in it and made me drink it, it didn’t seem to have any affect until it started showing me these horrifying images, these things were downright scary, I couldn’t stop seeing them, and what really troubled me was because he found a way not only to defeat me physically, but now he’s found a way to take me down on the inside, Elnar, what I mean to say is, is there any way someone can show you the future through a liquid and if so, how do you think Hell would’ve gotten it?” Rayhan asked.
“I have never heard of anything like that” said Elnar. Rayhan’s hope was crushed.
“Then what was that thing he made me drink?” Rayhan asked.
“I’m not sure, but Rayhan, I hope you realize that now that Hell can access you mind, you are now in more danger than ever” said Elnar.
“Just one more thing, I was wondering how we were going to get the next amulet?” asked Rayhan.
“Well this is a tough situation because you went to the correct location but since Hell was there, there is a likely chance that Hell had probably taken it, that’s the majority of the probability, and Hell will stop at nothing to avoid you getting it, he will stop at nothing to prevent you from getting it so be prepared for anything” said Elnar.
“But like, couldn’t Hell just destroy it?” asked Rayhan.
“No, the amulets are not destroyable” said Elnar.
“But then Hell would like take it somewhere impossible to get so that I don’t get it, somewhere where I can’t physically get it” said Rayhan.
“That’s where you’re wrong, if I know one thing about Hell it’s that he likes twisting things to breaking point, he’ll place it somewhere where you can potentially get it but the chances are slim, almost impossible, but Hell is like an insane person, the only reason he kills is for either supporting something or just for an excuse to cause commotion. He’s a sick twisted person, this is all a game to him” said Elnar.
“That’s terrible, to torture someone just for amusement? That’s just insane, corrupt, and I can’t stand the though of it how could someone be so cruel and sane?” asked Rayhan.
“Rayhan this should be the least of your worries, Hell is less than a fraction of the kind of evil these people are, they go beyond the limit of evil, they have no reason and there is one you should look out for out of all of them next to Lucifer himself, his right hand man, the trickmaster, he’s not a normal villain you’d expect he has ways of killing that are virtually impossible to decipher, it takes years for us to solve his riddles, he’s vicious and inhumane, he’ll stop at nothing to kill for laughs, he drinks the blood of the victim, if you care about anyone you’d hold them closer than you hold your very own life, truly he is insane” said Elnar.
“Where is he?” asked Rayhan.
“I’m not sure us sages are still tracking him down, but be aware he carries a white mask over his face, that’s all you need to know, and he’s very edgy and downright insane” said Elnar.
“Alright” said Rayhan, he felt even more scared of everything going on now that he knew about this trickmaster; he didn’t initially like the sound of this guy at all. He left the room and went back into his own.

Chapter 20: The Amulet

2010-07-05T12:07:00.000-07:00

They had already left when the roaring had reawakened. They assumed the bear had started to become hungry they ran back and arrived and not too soon either for the bear had just caught a glimpse of the amulet. Rayhan and Rielle both hurried and pulled out their weapons. They shot and slashed their way through fallen trees and dodged bolts of fire, but they needed to lure it somehow. Rielle then thought of an idea she grabbed the amulet (which surprisingly had not fallen apart yet) and wore it.
“What are you doing?” asked Rayhan.
“I’m going to make him chase me down to the roots, and make him trip, go compress them!” she shouted.
“NO WAY, I CAN’T LET YOU DO THAT IF ANYONE I SHOULD!” shouted Rayhan as the bear had begun to chase her he seized the amulet and wrapped it around his neck.
“GO!-BUT-GO WE HAVEN’T GOT THAT MUCH TIME!” said Rayhan. She understood and left. Rayhan was being chased and Rielle ran towards the rooted area and tried to compress it by dropping rocks onto them to block out the fluency, which was clever to Rayhan. He tried his best to hold it off but was failing due to the constant weariness. He fought his way through but it wasn’t making any progress, Rielle realized that as she was trying to hold it and compress it, it came to the point where the boulder was no longer enough of a hold she pushed it onto the compression in the roots but it kept pushing out she kept her arms there and tried to hold it in place but as it grew it became harder and harder of a task to fulfill. She kept pushing it. Holding something in place was harder and Rayhan was having trouble as well he was brought to the point where he could no longer move he felt every nerve in his body shatter as he fell over and collapsed he tried his best to hold the log in place over which stood the giant bear. He then decided that this was going no where he rolled it over his shoulder and the bear rolled over the log and fell back onto the compression and nearly crushed Rayhan. It fell onto the gasses and the gas exploded they suddenly felt extremely tired as the gasses filled their lungs and the bear too soon fell at rest. Suddenly the bears eyes sprang open and it woke up.
“You’ve got to be KIDDING ME!” Rayhan shouted. It got up, Rayhan and Rielle both pulled out their weapons Rayhan tried to work out what went wrong in his mind. Then he thought for a while and realized it was probably that they hadn’t gotten it into enough gas, he thought as they dodged the logs it threw. Rayhan threw his sword at it hoping it’d go through, it didn’t and he felt like a total failure.
He quickly fetched his sword; he realized they were both way too tired to do anything about it he picked up the amulet and suddenly everything went green, he felt a power run through his body a sort of electrical wave that ran through his veins and into his mind and he felt like he was part of the earth, he lost all control of his body, a green ball of light surrounded him and he felt pain in every muscle in his body, he felt lightening struck, it was like no pain he ever felt before. Suddenly he rose into the air, wanting nothing more than to get out of this green ball of pain. He shot bolts of green light everywhere and the beast was tormented, it was cut, and sliced as blood flew out of it. , everything went intensely green as streaks of white lightning struck the bear from all angles it roared, Rayhan could not control his body and the pain had increased tenfold, this was torture Rielle far below unable to act except by watching in horror. It was like he felt nothing could ever be felt with more intense pain than this, the green glowing ball around him shattered into a billion pieces that went into the bear as it broke into thousands of small molecular particles and disappeared. Rayhan could not see anything, his eyes were bright green. He fell to the ground as everything came back he, felt a surge of energy, he could not move, every breath became a struggle he closed his eyes falling through the night and landed onto the ground. Rielle couldn’t do anything but call for help, she ran to the gate called everyone who arrived moments later and carried Rayhan back to the castle. They threw him onto the bed and shocked him consistently to wake him but it was no use, Rayhan felt nothing but that pain that had scarred his mind, he was shocked a billion times but no affect or sign was made. Once they’d given up and left. Elnar walked in with what looked like a green crystal, he pointed it at Rayhan and suddenly Rayhan felt a sudden shock and woke up. He started breathing as though he had been holding his breath for so long, he opened his eyes wide and the bright green light had slowly faded back to his original eye colour. Elnar left. Rayhan looked around; he saw the amulet on the side table next to him. He realized why it had been so important, it held such power, just by touching it Rayhan had been brought to the brink of total infinite power, but the pain was beyond anything he’d felt before. He closed his eyes and fell asleep.
The next morning he opened his eyes to the sunlit morning. He sat up. His eyes had a lot of trouble focusing into sight, he felt dizzy as though on a very fast twirling rollercoaster at a spinning theme park, he got the feeling of suddenly being momentarily airborne and thrown back down by the force of gravity. It was starting to give him a headache; he lay back down onto the bed and closed his eyes trying to refocus. After about an hour he suddenly got his focus back, but his mind was still spinning wildly. He tried to disregard that and got up. He walked to the window and looked outside. It was a nice sunny day, not single cloud in the sky, a bit of wind but still a mild day even though the weather was leaning towards a bit of heat. He had been lying in the infirmary in the 8th tower, the 2nd highest. There’d been a glass of water on the side table which he drained. He put the glass back down and stared into the sky, he didn’t spend too much time thinking about the amulet’s affects because he had been foolish not to have expected anything to happen but he was under pressure and he was had to retrieve it, it’d been only natural for him to have forgotten especially him of all people because he never had a good memory. That caused him unbearable pain but he was just glad that it was over. He went back into bed, at this point he decided he needed a bit more rest and so he sat down trying not to make that much physical action. Suddenly there was a knock on the door. They walked in after Rayhan didn’t answer. It turned out to be Elnar.
“How are you doing?” he asked.
“Better and glad to be” said Rayhan.
“It’ll take time to repair the damage but you should be better sooner or later” he said.
“Yeah” Rayhan replied.
“What was it like?” he asked.
“What?” he asked.
“Holding the amulet and drawn into the air and to be suppressed with so much power unable to control?” asked Elnar.
“It was a strange feeling, but it was very painful, I don’t know exactly how to describe the feeling, I mean it felt like every nerve in my body was constantly being twisted, pulled or electrified” said Rayhan.
“I could imagine, so much power stuck in your hands, you realize any normal human would’ve become a god with so much light energy” said Elnar.
“But then why didn’t I? Why is it that I just became that empty cell? Why is it that I keep surviving or have different treatment?” asked Rayhan sounding a bit stressed out.
“Calm down, it’s alright, the thing is, you aren’t exactly what any of us expected” said Elnar taking a dramatic pause.
“What d’you mean, I mean like what were you expecting?” asked Rayhan.
“Well I’m not exactly sure how to explain this to you, but let’s take a look at the situations you’ve been faced with, when you touched the amulet you didn’t become a god, you became something more, for an instance, it wasn’t safe, it was unnatural, you see, there was a reason you became a god, the blood you have had a negative affect over your power thus increasing your ability, we still have to find out what that boost in your blood was, but for now Rayhan, I’d be concerned, when I saw you from the sage raelm you reminded me a lot of him” he said.
“Of who?” asked Rayhan.
“Lucifer” said Elnar.
“Who’s that?” asked Rayhan curiously.
“He was a devastating being; he was a sage, the greatest of all power, he was a prodigy when it came to being a sage, it seemed he was a lot more gifted than most of us, when we found him he seemed as though he’d already been a sage, but he was corrupted by power, and so we sealed him in an hourglass, the hourglass of time, he became more power hungry, and as he progressed in his attempts to which we still don’t know as of yet, he was caught trying to bind two worlds together for some reason, he was feared by all, he created an army a long time ago perhaps before you were born but, this army was of chosen people who he corrupted to think like he did, he crossed the boundaries of your classic evil villain and up to date almost every other sage we’ve met, no one sage was ever as close as you are to him” said Elnar.
“Are you implying that I may be a sage?” asked Rayhan.
“You seem to have a lot of characteristics of which Lucifer possessed but I don’t know about a sage” said Elnar.
“Oh” said Rayhan a bit disappointed, he had been very keen in figuring out that he’d been much more powerful and different form those around him than most people. The next few moments were silent, Elnar who had been perched at the window in his usual wolf for staring out the window at the rising sun, and Rayhan sitting on what looked like a hospital bed staring at his hands.
“Elnar?” asked Rayhan.
“Yes?” asked Elnar a bit curious.
“I know it may seem a bit strange of me to ask this, but something happened which I didn’t entirely understand and I was wondering whether you might be able to enlighten me” said Rayhan.
“I can try” said Elnar.
“While I was in the forest I think I was knocked out, and, while I was lying there I’m not sure but I woke up somewhere else, I met with Azraeth, he told me something but disappeared, and after he’d left, something happened I landed on the ground and met with this guy who I fought and who reduced me to the point of being killed, and my spirit left my body and I shot a golden light from my hand and something happened to him……something scary” said Rayhan.
“What was it?” asked Elnar.
“The golden light hit him in the chest and his eyes went black, he rose into the air and laughed in a strange way, he seemed inhuman, like possessed, he laughed louder and he said something even stranger, he said something very unclear and not in a full sentence, it was like he was having a seizure in mid air as he said like suffer, cower, die, risen, fear, kill, blood, hate, rise, fear and he said something like prepare to suffer eternal pain after and he trailed off and fell to the ground but in a strange position his facial expression in fear and his eyes were still pitch black, I needed to prove to myself if this was a dream or not and it wasn’t because I have his weapon” said Rayhan pulling out a rusted broken blood covered blade that had lost it’s shine.
He held it out, for a moment Elnar looked at the blade and then directly at Rayhan. Did this man say anything involving chains of any sort?” asked Elnar.
“I think so, like chains of light being broken” said Rayhan.
“I see” said Elnar.
“What do you think it means?” asked Rayhan.
“What I think it means is obvious, it means we are all in more danger than ever before, and I suggest I better prepare you for what lies ahead, even beyond Hell, this won’t all be over after Hell is dead, this is going to go on Rayhan, and when it does we’d best be prepared for it” said Rayhan.
“And one more thing” said Rayhan.
“Go” said Elnar.
“Before Azraeth had left he explained to me something, he said that I wasn’t a human he was about to tell me what I was but left” said Rayhan.
“I see, that’s what happens when we say more than we should, we fade into oblivion but I can promise you that when the time is right you will know, maybe I won’t be the one to tell you but you will know” said Elnar. He left the room leaving Rayhan to lie down and stare at the ceiling. Thought soon carried him to rest.
He woke up and went downstairs to see his friends and explained everything that had happened to him since he had fallen unconscious specifically leaving out the detail of what had happened to the man he’d fought. They all were sitting in Rayhan’s room all but Paul. Rayhan lay on his bed staring at the ceiling, Steven sat against the bed, Rielle sat by the window, Pierre sat on the table, Jessica sat her back against a wall and Sarah sat next to the drawers.
“Oh well I thought it would, by the way just thought you’d know Paul’s pretty pissed off at you for going after the amulet” said Steven.
“I don’t care, I had to and it’s because I did that we’re a step ahead and can move one” said Rayhan.
“Well where do we move onto?” asked Pierre.
“I don’t know yet but when it’s time to move on we’ll know right? I mean it’s not like we’re going to stay frozen forever right?” said Rayhan.
“I guess” said Sarah. Rayhan noticed some drama had been going on around his friends, Sarah and Rielle would never talk, Sarah and Steven would never talk and Pierre and Rielle would never talk. It was like Sarah and Steven broke up Rielle and Sarah got into an argument and Pierre was siding with Sarah. He had once again been faced with a problem and he just knew he’d be sucked into it one way or another.

***
A couple of months had gone by without a word from Elnar or anybody, things had gotten a lot quieter lately, Sarah and Pierre still refused to talk to Rielle. Steven and Rayhan had managed to declare themselves in the middle of the entire argument and refused to take sides but Rayhan felt as though he wanted to take Rielle’s side because she’d had no one to accompany her he was in the middle and he was afraid that whenever he’d try to defend one side or call the argument off one of the sides would be inclined to think that he was siding even though he wasn’t that’s all that he really was afraid about. He wouldn’t mind talking to Elnar though about this entire thing maybe he’d be able to sort it out but by the looks of this argument Sarah and Rielle would definitely not get along they were two polar ends of a magnet, the closer you bring them the more pressure would try to push them apart. It was impossible to join those two back he’d have to bear them disliking one another but that’s not what bugged him, what bugged him was the feelings he’d get if they wouldn’t leave each other alone, they’d hate each other but he just wished that they left each other alone. He didn’t want to take sides but it was like a side was grabbing hold of him and pulling him close. He tried his best to stand his ground in the middle but that became harder and harder if the ground shook him to one side. He tried not to think about it too much even though the thought of it still bugged him he decided to put it off. He woke up one morning a bit less tired than usual, but still not looking forward to the rest of the day. He sat up onto his bed. He looked around the room and rubbed his eyes, the sunlight was brightly illuminating the room, and it was a bit hard to see frankly. He got off of his bed and headed to the washroom. He turned on the cold water and filled his hands with it and then threw it towards his face he woke up suddenly cold, all his facial nerves felt like they weren’t working for an instant, just another typical morning. His friends were downstairs he soon found out after throwing his sweater over his shoulders and going downstairs. He wasn’t surprised; Sarah and Pierre had been at one side of the room Rielle was at another, Paul was making coffee at a table. Jessica wasn’t awake yet. Steven was in his room according to Pierre. Rayhan could notice clearly it was sort of a cold war between the two. He could sense the bitter silence was so unnerving. It was bitter and violent, unwelcome and painful. Just the air in the room was so deadly. He walked around and went to Rielle.
“Hey” he said.
“Hey” she said a bit bitterly. Already Sarah had been throwing him dirty looks. Rayhan found this very unpleasant.
“How’s it going?” he asked.
“Has Sarah said anything about me to you?” she asked.
“Not really” he replied.
“Alright” she said. Rayhan felt like he’d slowly become a weapon. He went back up stairs trying to stay away from them as much as possible. He went back into his room and closed the door. He went onto the balcony, He climbed onto the roof.
He sat down and just wished Elnar would show. He felt strange; he sat for several hours and didn’t move, the sun was beginning to set. He watched until it completely had sunken into the darkness and the stars illuminated the black inky darkness of the sky. He closed his eyes as it became colder and colder. He felt his heart beat faster and faster, as though he were right next to her even though he wasn’t. He stood up and looked around, no sign of Elnar, he’d begun to miss the white and black, light blue eyed wolf. He peered into the distance he could’ve sworn he’d seen the silhouette of the wolf walking in midair towards him about three times but each time it’d seemed to have been either a leaf floating in the distance or his imagination. He felt a bit cold but ignored it. He got the same waiting impatient feeling, he wanted to get a move on finding the amulets as soon as possible and he wanted to talk to him about the situation between Sarah and Rielle. He got down and leaned against the railing of the balcony, he gazed into space emptily and hopelessly without a single lead, without a single joy. He tried to make out constellations again but that didn’t take his mind off of her, he kept making out her face among the stars, he felt strange, he knew he was different but he thought that maybe certain characteristics were the same between him and everyone else, he felt sadness and love right now like anyone would, maybe he had the best judgement between right and wrong but he felt pointless and like a total loser, he had brought all his friends into this, it was his fault all of their lives were now in jeopardy. He had brought up danger and violence upon around everyone else around him he was a disease. He felt desperate. He threw his head over and closed his eyes in shame, why had he brought danger upon all of these people? He was afraid. If anything were to happen to anyone he’d hold himself responsible and would never be able to ever forgive himself, and he knew that they were so happy to have gotten away from home they wouldn’t want to go back no matter the danger, it would fill their lives with excitement. He thought, what if anything happened to Pierre, or Steven, or Jessica, Paul would probably be able to fend for himself fine knowing him he wasn’t as worried but what about Jessica? Sarah? What about Rielle?! He thought at the thought of Rielle in harm physical or anything made him slightly more than flinch, it was like a wave of electricity had ran through his nerves down his entire body.

Chapter 19: Chains Of Light

2010-07-05T12:06:00.000-07:00

Rayhan landed on the solid ground, which now seemed to have no longer been the shore but a flat smooth ground that only stretched out about the length of a driveway. He heard a voice and scrambled to his feet.
“So you’re the chosen member to take down Hell, are you? I almost feel bad for you, why would he choose a puny kid like you?” asked the voice from behind him. He turned around to see a man in black clothing. He had red hair which reached his shoulders. He had red eyes and a strange evil glare.
“What the hell is that supposed to mean?” asked Rayhan pulling out his sword.
“Pass it here” he said.
“Hell no” said Rayhan gripping his sword.
“Won’t hand it over will you, then I guess I’ll have to pull it from your dead hands” said the man. Rayhan knew that there was no negotiation to be made in this position. The man pulled out a dagger and threw it at him he deflected it with the sword. Next thing he new the man had gone he quickly turned around and saw something shine at the corner of his eye and suddenly he felt excruciating pain as he was on the floor, the side of his face slightly cut and bleeding.
Rayhan got up and slashed it clashed against the other one and sparks flew out everywhere. He slashed again and again and again. It seemed impossible to land a hit a so he slashed again and this time threw a punch across the man’s face he walked back a bit his left eye closed a bit.
“That the best you could do?” he asked. Then he threw his blade aside and threw his hands forward and a shock of white lightning emitted from his fingertips and nearly hit Rayhan in the face had he not dodged it.
Rayhan threw his blade aside and shot a blast of air at him. He was pushed back a few inches. Then a blast of fire shot from the man’s hands and Rayhan deflected it once again with a gust of air. The man threw a bolt of water at him which he shot wind at and blew back. He shot wind from his fists and appeared behind him and slashed his hand so fast the air became so fine that it had landed a cut on his face. Then he shot more air and the man flew back and landed on his back Rayhan moved fast jumped high and shot more air at him he then failed several times to get up due to the constant blast of air pushing him to the ground. Rayhan landed flat on his feet. He took a breath. Suddenly the man rose up to his feet and shot fire at him which Rayhan was not prepared for and could not deflect, he felt a rush of blood and suddenly he felt his mind go blank and he could only watch himself outside his own body! He saw that his eyes were blank and that his black wings had once again grown, he had been given great power and he rose into the air and shot bolts of golden light from his hands landing square in the man’s face. The he noticed something a bit strange suddenly a red jet of light shot from his hands and hit the man in the chest as he fell onto his back. But something else happened to the man. The man’s eyes turned pitch black. And a look of terror fell on his face as he fell to the floor and looked as though was experiencing a seizure but this was different. He heard a strange noise coming from his mouth some noise he’d never heard before it was as though a billion whispers were being sped up and played at the same time. Then he rose to his knees and suddenly some black smoke resonated from his mouth followed by a white light and he fell to the floor unconscious. Rayhan was struck blank, he’d only wanted the man to back off but now it’d looked as though he’d not only killed him but entirely destroyed him. Everything went white and he felt the ground beneath his legs. He rushed to the man. Suddenly the man’s body rose into the air and grinned will with black lifeless eyes. He started to move around as though he were possessed by something. He laughed in a double voice and crazily and pointed at Rayhan.
“...YOU….YOU…Suffer….blood…risen….broken…chains…..of…..light….star.of….hate..RRAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….rising pain coming closer hide run cower… die prepare to die and suffer eternal pain……after after…….after…aft-” the voice trailed off at that word and then it died away completely as he fell back into the floor. Rayhan caught it and looked into its lifeless eyes. It made no sense of life and no sense of energy. What he said made absolutely no sense. He thought…chains…something…chains of light….now he’d have to have had heard that somewhere before…he thought harder….chains of light…chains of light…light…light…light he didn’t get anything, he’d never heard of these chains of light or anything. He felt guilty, something had happened to this man and he had no control he felt rotten, like a murderer, but it wasn’t his fault, he didn’t want this to happen it did, out of his control.
He looked around. He needed to find his friends as soon as he could, he had to tell someone but he didn’t know who to tell, how would they react? Would they too think he was a murderer? No he could not tell them, but he knew he would not feel better until someone knew how he felt, but who to tell? Elner! He could tell him, he could trust him, he and only he could be trusted, but first thing was first he should not forget his duties, but before that he needed to take something to prove that this had happened. He looked around; he picked up the man’s sword. Now he should leave to find the amulet. He got up, but how’d he gotten here? He had to find a way to get back somehow. He hadn’t the slightest clue where he was. Suddenly he felt pushed and fell into the water and was back out in the forest, right where he’d fallen asleep that night. He got up and felt the wind rise around him, but then was all that just a dream, he reached for his back hoping not to grab hold of anything, his anticipation was suddenly crushed as he pulled out a blood covered, rusted blade, what happened had been very real. He put it back. He had to find the amulet. He’d only wished that this task was easier, how was he supposed to find an amulet in all of this? He started to walk around. For hours he hadn’t seen anything strange he suddenly was losing his vision as the gas had filled the air. He could see very hazily. He suddenly noticed something, white and viney in the distant darkness. He peered through the air and found out what it was. He had found a temple of some sort. He ran towards it tired and at his destination he sat down on one of the white stairs which were practically green and worn out by the vines. He soon felt so tired he could no longer move the gasses had filled his lungs again. Dammit he said as he collapsed there into a rest. He opened his eyes he sound of the forest heard everywhere. Suddenly he found something biting his shoe; He opened his eyes and saw a raccoon chewing on his shoe.
“Hey!” he shouted kicking it.
“Yeah, yeah I’ll leave but you won’t be so lucky later, better keep your garbage hidden, I see you at night” it said as it scurried off. No matter how many times he’d hear animals talking he’ll never get used to it, he still found it odd seeing little animals talking like full grown men and women. He decided to diminish the thought he had bigger concerns. He turned around. He climbed the stairs clutching his sword.
He took slow, steady paced steps climbing up the stairs. He was at the top and he pulled out his sword. He kicked the door open looking around everywhere. There was light coming into the temple through the cracked walls. It looked very green in here; the vines gave it a very bizarre scary alive feeling in the air which felt very uncomfortable to Rayhan. He walked across the small room when suddenly something jumped out; it was a seven headed monkey. He held his sword high as it threw coconuts at him. What the fuck? This is the most random shit I’ve ever seen oh well stupid coconut monkey! He threw a coconut back and the monkey fell back. He felt a slight feeling of remorse, but it was probably only temporarily knocked out so he felt better. He opened the next door and found a vast room. It was worn out; the only light came from once again the cracks in the walls and the windows. And it was carpeted, the carpets were worn out and ripped and torn from everywhere, and the carpets that hung from the windows were frayed from the edges. He looked around. There was one doorway at the end of the room. And he noticed about a trillion statues all of eyes facing in different directions. He tried getting through and finally made it after an hour. He got to the next room and noticed it was the room in the worst condition, the walls were torn down. He looked around and found the amulet floating on what used to be a pedestal in a green orb; the sunlight was shining over it. He had to make sure to be careful with it he climbed the stairs or what was left of them anyway and looked at its shining glow. He slowly brought his hands forward. He seized it and nothing happened.
Suddenly, the trees in front of him were crushed by a bear paw the size of a football field, he looked up and saw a bear so big it was scary, and after seeing a dragon, that was saying something. He found his friends around him; He put the orb in the bag and zipped it up.
“How the Hell are we gonna kill that thing?” asked Pierre.
“I have no fuckin’ clue dude” said Pierre.
“Let’s just get it over with” said Rayhan. Everyone seized their guns and bows and arrows. They pointed it up there and fire the beast roared so loud it shattered the sound barrier. They kept shooting. Rayhan jumped onto a fallen temple support and onto a cracked wall. Rielle jumped onto the pedestal, Pierre went onto the tree, Sarah onto the entrance, Steven onto the fallen pile of trees. They all shot Rayhan didn’t stop shooting from his silent pistol which hardly seemed even scarcely enough. He kept shooting nevertheless, they all did the beast roared and waved a claw at them crushing the temple whole along with Rayhan. He was still pushing upward with his metal arm, though bruised and cut and bleeding. He pushed with all his force. He managed to push it out of the way.
Rayhan managed to render it onto its back not even knowing how. He ran back to the pedestal now crushed. He stood onto it. They fought for hours; they were feeling weak and tired. Rayhan cut the bear as much as he could they shot it and tried using diversions and everything but it was no use. Then they had totally forgotten they could use their magic and shot bolts of fire and earth and air.
“SHEVEN GIVE ME A LIFT HERE” shouted Rayhan as the earth under him began to tremble and rise. He shot air at it so condensed and strong it rendered the beast onto its back. Rielle came from behind got a lift and shot a blast of fire so extravagant the beast itself was almost burnt completely had it not been put out by a boulder Sarah had thrown. Pierre and Paul shot flames at it but it seemed no matter what they did it would only come back up. They were beginning to lose hope that it was even possible to beat this thing after all they were only 13-14 how could they expect to do any damage onto something this big. It got up and suddenly shot a blast of fire out its mouth.
“WHAT THE FUCK? IT SHOULDN’T BE ABLE TO DO THAT, IT’S A BEAR, BEARS DON’T BREATHE FIRE!” Rayhan shouted, they all seemed perplexed by it. They went on for another few hours until they gave up and fled, they were too tired to fight back, they ran in the other direction, few of them didn’t want to but had to out of weariness. They kept tripping over roots while running.
“Dammit this friggen roots shit I can’t run! Wait, that’s it the ROOTS!” shouted Rayhan.
“Okay Rayhan has taken a permanent visit to loopy Ville, now what do we do” said Pierre.
“No, guys look what are these roots do to us before, what kept getting in our way?” asked Rayhan.
“The gasses” said Steven.
“Yes and where do you think it’s able to travel through the forest?” asked Rayhan.
“Fuck you, I don’t need to friggen biological tutorial get on with it boy!” shouted Paul.
“If we could store enough of this gas we’ll be able to put it to sleep and then kill it as it sleeps!” said Rayhan.
“All in favour of following into the beast to kill it when we could run away?” asked Pierre. No one said anything.
“All in favour of getting to the gate and back to the castle?” asked Pierre.
“I” said everyone raising their hands.
“Dammit guy’s okay fine I’ll go do it myself if you don’t bother following me, this monster will keep hunting us down if I don’t do something about it now!” he said fuming with rage.
“Dude we don’t have time I just say we get back to the gate and back home before it’s too late” said Paul.
“Well you think I’ll turn my back on the life of this place just for my own friggen life? HELL NO” Rayhan said. He pulled out the orb and realized that the amulet was gone.
“I have to get the amulet back, it must’ve fallen out once I fell” said Rayhan.
“Damn you Rayhan, I’m going home” said Paul. Almost everyone gave him a dirty look.
“Guys even if I were wrong before we have to get the amulet! GUY’S!” He shouted but they just turned their backs on him.
“C’mon we have to go home” said Pierre.
“I DON’T CARE OKAY GO AHEAD WALK AWAY BUT I KNOW I’VE BEEN GIVEN A JOB TO DO AND I WOULD RISK MY LIFE FOR EVERYONE BACK HOME WHETHER OR NOT YOU MIGHT I’M GOING BACK THERE IF I DON’T MAKE IT TAKE CARE OF HELL WITHOUT ME AND HOPEFULLY YOU’D HAVE REALIZED HOW IMPORTANT IT IS WE GET THAT AMULET!” he shouted. They had almost left. Rielle turned around.
“We have to stay” she said.
“What? Not you too please” Paul said.
“We have to it’s a job we have to finish for everyone back home” said Rielle. Rayhan felt better and couldn’t help feeling very grateful about taking this on together instead of alone.
“Besides, isn’t that why we were here?” she said.
“Thank you” said Rayhan.
“Well whatever you guys could go die out there, we’re going to be more productive and go home to stay alive, call me when you guys are dead!” Paul shouted infuriated. Rayhan however felt it quite ironic that of all the people he could have wanted to stay with him it was Rielle. He was glad.

Chapter 18: Seven Sages

2010-07-05T12:05:00.000-07:00

Rayhan woke up in an entirely different location. There were stars above him and sand under him. He was at what looked like an alien beach. The stars shined brightly and there was a sun only just about to set, up among the stars he could see a large planet surrounded by asteroids far in the distance, close to him were large black rocks. Surrounding the area of the shore in which he was placed. There was sky around him and stars above high in the centre of the sky. He lay on the rocks for a while watching the stars. Silently as he saw the asteroids twirl so very slowly around the planet. It was warm and exotic. It was strange yet beautiful. He looked around the sky at its orange-yellow-blue. The water that crashed against the black rocks was clear crystal blue. He lay there on the smooth surface of the black rocks that shined clear and bright. He could make out strange constellations through the stars of her face which was all that ran through his mind aside from the constant stress of his friends and the whole mortal peril of Hell and his armies. He felt calm and didn’t want to disrupt his calmness with a ripple of agony. He closed his eyes and listened to the waves crashing against the black rocks. He felt nice. He lay there for hours and re opened his eyes and looked into the sky he could see nothing contrasting the black starry sight except for the beautiful, fire-like white birds which he assumed to be phoenixes. He found this world strange because it relied on the mind of people, for instance there’d been a dragon and a phoenix which he knew were figments of the human imagination. He just rested the pleasant thoughts of Rielle carrying him to rest.
***
He woke up refreshed and energized his mind awake and ready to go. He got up off the sand and started to walk at the shore. The scene had not changed at all it seemed day and night in this place meant nothing. Rayhan walked towards the water kicked his shoes off and stepped in. He kept walking not the slightest clue where he was going until he soon realized after hours of travel he had not touched the bottom of the water; he had been suspended over the water as though he’d been walking above it. He stepped onto it like it were solid ground but it was indeed a liquid! He kept walking above; it felt cold and refreshing under him. He bent down and touched it; it was like he was walking on ice the top of it was melted but only about a puddles height and under it was solid but still water as he looked back and watched it crash against the rocks. He kept walking as the shore slowly drifted away and was out of sight. A couple of hours later he found himself still stationed above the water but it the middle of the sea. He looked at what looked like to be a statue of a giant chimera; it was a bit frightening at first. It was carved out of some sort of crystal. He suddenly felt the earth shake as he was lifted out of the water by some giant stoned that ascended out of the water; it kept ascending slowly out until he was about 16 ft above the water. He looked around and saw that he was face to face with what looked like a stone face of a lion. It was about the size of an island. He was struck blank couldn’t think for a moment.
“I am the sage of earth and all earthly bound, I have seen all whom who’ve walked over these sands, and I have felt the wait of all who walk over the ground I know all that there is to know about the world. Even that Hell now has taken it over, my name is Azraeth” it said. Rayhan felt a wave of thought infiltrate his mind and zoom past him within a second. He thought about what to do or say but then decided just to stare into its deep glowing bright green eyes.
“I can tell you anything you may ask me” it continued.
“I was wondering whether you know anything about this stone” said Rayhan pulling the blue stone out from his pocket, it’d been the first thing to pop up into his mind and to his relief it was relevant seeing as this so called Azraeth was very smart when it came to earth and this rock was only one piece of earth which seemed to have some strange characteristics.
“That is the ethereal stone, whoever of the nine primary members of the Heaven’s Light touches the stone will be granted energy based off of their personality” it said.
“But that’s just it, how does everyone already know about us?” asked Rayhan feeling like he’d just said something strange.
“You were always destined to be part of a descended salvation called the Heaven’s Light, not only were you the ones who were strictly destined to gain abilities off that stone but you off all creatures that lingered the infinite reaches of this universe, it was always inscribed in your path of destiny you are also destined to slay Hell, and you will uncover much more to come, Hell isn’t your biggest fear, you will realize more and understand that Hell is only a small part of something much more terrible but you nine were gifted with infinite abilities by the energy of the ethereal stone which initially belongs to the ethereal cave hidden and now destroyed people will chase you down until they have it, they want to find a way to gain the infinite power of the crystal” said Azraeth.
“But why us? I mean of all people it could’ve been why were we chosen for this we never asked for it so why were we chosen for this I possess no more power than any other human if anything I’m less of the most powerful and smartest of my kind and neither of us possess anything that could make us different from the rest, so why us?” asked Rayhan who seemed desperate for the answer.
“Rayhan, you may not be very powerful as a human you may think that you are less, but you’re not human at all” said Azraeth. Rayhan was perplexed at this.
“You aren’t human, never have you been you always were-” said Azraeth before being suddenly cut off and disappeared.
“It isn’t the time for that when you are meant to know you will my time here has ended” said Azraeth as he faded into oblivion.
“WAIT NO TELL ME WHAT I AM IF NOT A, HUMAN DON’T LEAVE I MUST KNOW TELL ME NO-” said Rayhan but it was too late for Azraeth had already disappeared entirely Rayhan fell with a thud onto solid ground which was strange since he had just been standing on water.

Chapter 17: Red Raven

2010-07-05T12:04:00.000-07:00

“I am a mere shell” said the man.
“A mere shell of what?” asked Rayhan.
“Riehsreficul” he said. Rayhan didn’t understand what he’d said.
“What d’you want?” asked Rayhan panicking but trying to hide it miserably.
“I’m here only to reflect the pain and agony you suffered which was bottled up and then recreated into me, I am a figment of your creation” said the man.
“Who are you exactly?” asked Rayhan.
“You can call me, Red Raven” said Red Raven.
“Okay, Red Raven, what do you want out of me?” asked Rayhan.
“Out of you, interesting you’d say something along those lines” said Red Raven.
“Really why?” asked Rayhan trying not to sound intimidating.
“Find out” said Red Raven as he burst into flames and was gone. Then he realized there was a white like escaping from what looked like an exit. He ran through the light and found himself back in the forest. He looked around and it and the temple thing was completely gone. He decided to ignore it. He decided to continue walking. He continued on despite his curiosity of what might’ve happened. He got to what looked like a dark and unusual place.
He was still in some part of the forest but this place was strange, it was dark, the trees were a bit tall and very thick, there was a river of water and other than a thick black darkness except the light coming from a crack between one of the trees, it was a mysterious and eerie white light. He looked around trying to pick the slightest briefest sense of sound but this part of the forest was absolutely dead silent, completely lifeless except for the sound of the rushing water from the river. He looked around turning in different speedily trying to examine the entire area he was in to properly understand his surroundings. He walked back and tripped over a tree root. He hit his head against a tree.
“Welcome” said a crooked crumbling and very unnatural whispery voice from behind him which made him jump. He turned around and found himself facing a tree but this tree had a mask on, the mask was unpainted but it seemed like it was carved into the wood of the tree. Its eyes opened as if it were sleeping for weeks as it watched him eerily.
“Wh-what are you?” he asked panicking.
“We are the Everest trees” it said in a clearer but still eerie voice.
“Okay, how can you talk?” Rayhan asked.
“Same way as you can” said the tree. Rayhan was still uncomfortable in this world.
“Okay well in that case can you help me?” asked Rayhan.
“Unfortunately I cannot you have to find the rhythmic trees who will tell you where to find the amulet” said the tree.
“Wait how’d you know I was looking for the amulet?” asked Rayhan.
“I sensed it through the roots you tripped over earlier I can hack into your thoughts” said the tree.
“Okay, well where can I find the rhythmic trees?” asked Rayhan.
“That depends only on your insight, you will have to search for the trees and when your ambition to find them is strong enough you will find them” said the tree. Rayhan blinked and suddenly the faced trees were gone. They were all normal trees surrounding him. His blade was tattered and dented on the floor but then again it was like that before he picked it up.
He started moving over fallen branches and broken and jumping over fallen trees and dodged branches from trees. He was running so fast he could hardly see what was around him he was too concentrated at his front the rest seemed like a blur to him. He couldn’t stop moving he kept his mind concentrated and his Black Panther mentality was constantly being challenged in this world he was focused and his razor sharp instinct was all he could trust other than his friends but at the moment having no contact he had only himself he really was alone, the forest consisted specifically of damage that didn’t physically harm you but would drive you insane with every second you spent here, he could see his friends without even knowing whether it was them or just a figment of desire and the forest’s illusive energy. He felt odd like his consciousness was slowly fading away into the oblivion but he could hardly concentrate at all but he hadn’t the smallest will to collapse and fall asleep despite the fact that he hadn’t slept in such a long time. He could hardly keep his eyes open as the sunlight gleamed into them and the aroma of the forest slowly drifted his mind into heavy thoughts of simplicity he could hardly take a breath as he slowed down and the sun reach its zenith. The sky became a strict reddish orange. He moved slower and slower until the bright sky slowly melted into a dark blue and the stars began to lighten up. There was a misty blue smoke coming from the roots as he was reduced to the pint of walking and he slowly walked across the roots hardly able to keep his eyes open and then he collapsed onto the floor and fell asleep. He woke up; it’d seemed that the noxious gasses have gotten to him. He shook off that last tiring bit of feeling left in his joints and although they still ached moderately he tried to ignore it once he was airborne he climbed the tree with incredible speed, once at the top he watched the skies and the direction of the shadows. He realized that the sun was setting, his eyes felt blurred out and his vocal chords were all messed up but he was lucky he was alone. He rested down a bit and got back up not feeling hungry he had way too much on his mind to worry about his hunger. He started running passed the trees. He wasn’t as tired after a while as the sky began to sink into darkness. It was starting to rain. He decided to stop for a moment as the weather started to grow more dangerous. The thunder roared and flashes of blue lightning pricked the sky. He felt the air tension increase. He felt the sound of the roars of lightning break through the sound barrier as if his mind was a puddle of water being constantly tormented by the rain. He was tired. He looked up. The sky was dark. To his surprise he found that the rain was falling from the black inky sky since there were no grey clouds seen in sight. The stars were the only visible source of light, shining with an everlasting light that blew his mind of its brink. He ripped off his HL uniform; under it he wore black jeans and a black sleeveless undershirt. He was cut and bruised. He lay there over his ripped uniform his armoured arm wet and drenched. He lay there staring straight into the sky. The stars above him looked magnificent but were hard to stare at through the drops of water falling constantly onto his face. He only sat there and thought. Thought for hours, he couldn’t sleep the pain searing into his tired limbs but the water cooled his mind and in a way replenished his stream of thought. He tried as hard to keep his eyes open but it became harder to do because the rain water would fall into his eyes. His eyes were closed as he decided to just feel the rain water drop onto his skin. By the time morning would come h would be drenched if the rain continued to fall at this rate, but for that matter he didn’t seem to care. He was wet with rain. He thought of the rain to be a sort of replenishment of the soul, it was sort of an analogy of his in comparison of the rain to a gateway to purity.
“I see you’re lying here without a care right now but in no intend to fall asleep, what do you plan on accomplishing by doing this?” said a voice from behind him. He’d heard this voice, but only once before, and frankly he thought it was a dream.
“Why do you wonder about me? Who are you? How do you know me and what purpose do you serve in all of this?” asked Rayhan.
“What do I serve in all of this, it’s a clever question, and you’re nobody’s fools I respect that in you, but my reasons are something you really should stay out of” said the Red Raven.
“Okay if it is that serious I’ll just narrow it down to this, why won’t you leave me alone?” asked Rayhan.
“There’s a lot you need to know and if I leave you alone you’ll think that everything’ll be done okay, you probably think that this universe is gonna shine for you now, you’re wrong” said Red Raven. Just then the Red Raven burst into flames.
Rayhan got up and picked up his things and left into the darkness of the forest. He looked around he couldn’t see anything through the thickness of the darkness and the rain. He continued to walk and didn’t stop to think. He heard voices after a while, whispers, small but very noticeable he couldn’t see where they were coming from though. He looked everywhere the voices sped up and were even more difficult to understand and they were everywhere. He spun around and kept looking. He fell over a tree root. He got up to his feet and rubbed the dust off of his cloths. What was going on was he hallucinating? He wasn’t schizophrenic. He looked around but just trees surround him and throughout the distance h could only see trees and nothing more. Just the bark of trees and the brown wood and green leaves everywhere. He felt confused and his head hurt he needed to take some time off he was getting over worked. He closed his eyes for a moment and held his fingers to his temples. He concentrated with all of his mind’s energy and reopened his eyes, the whispering continued. He decided to just keep going. He thought he saw something move from the corner of his eye. Then suddenly a large blast of air and something very hard hit the back of his head. He closed his eyes tightly and reopened them to see something very strange he’d never thought to have ever existed before standing tall above him trees being crushed beneath it’s large black scaly arms and scratched against it’s red shining claws, he’d never had imagined it to be real, it was magnificent, black with red eyes closing in on him. Large black bat-like wings and large black shining horns curled up, it’s huge tail flailing out. It took him a while to find the slightest bits of actual skin on it; it was completely covered in horns, large thick black horns. Rayhan seized the handle of his sword, he’d only read about these creatures, there standing looking down at him was a dragon! It let out a blood curdling loud roar that ripped through the sound barrier. Rayhan wanted to get up and run but it was like he was frozen every nerve in his body was completely off. His eyes were focused onto it. Then as Rayhan finally made up enough strength to get up the dragon flailed it’s tail and whipped it across sending Rayhan flying only to be stopped (and quite violently) by a tree. Blood swam down his forehead. He could hardly breathe. He got up dizzily. He looked around until his vision was completely refocused. Then when he was back in full vision, he seized the blade with two hands. He looked at it as it grabbed trees and ripped them out of the ground with ease. Rayhan just stared at the beast as it threw a blast of fire and burnt the tree. Rayhan gripped the one weapon he had as tight as he possible could without crushing the handle. He held onto it for his life. He couldn’t let go of it for a second, if he did there’d be no hope. He gripped it so hard it felt like it was really the extension of his own arm. The beast threw the tree at him and he slashed it cutting it into two diagonally cut pieces. It threw a jet of luminous, dazzling flames like a flame thrower altered to jet out flame unstopped. He held his blade out as the flame hit against it and split into two directions burning the trees. It seemed like the fire would never stop as the heat radiations created waves of heat rippling the empty surroundings, and the fire, though not touching him, burnt into his skin and started to give him a slight warm headache. The fire finally had ceased, and Rayhan was glad it did. He had to do something he couldn’t risk getting singed. He tightened his grip and ran towards the dragon with his sword flailing upward he slashed it as it acted quickly and swung it’s large heavy tail at him knocking him to the ground his vision hazed out. He could see the scenery of trees slowly disperse and feel his pulse slow down as he closed his eyes he could see a large black blurry figure and a jet of yellow coming from its mouth as he fell completely unconscious his head started to bleed. He awoke again with a sudden rush of energy which seemed to have flowed into him out of absolutely nowhere. He got to his feet seized the blade and shot it at the dragon and the dragon turned around seized it within it’s claws and threw it back Rayhan managed to catch it. He felt a sudden rush of hyper energy flood into him. He caught the blade as within a split second the dragon flew by him and seized the metal of the blade and pushed over him. Rayhan felt so much weight over him he could barely control it. He pushed back with all his strength but it was a bit too much. He pushed but he was being thrown down. He was on his knees. He pushed and pushed but it seemed impossible. He was overpowered. He suddenly felt strange his eyes turned grey and black. He suddenly felt inhuman and he pushed with very little strength he pushed the dragon and overpowered it with ease and the dragon roared, it shot an arm and cut him across the face, he felt no pain. He lifted his arms and shot a bolt of energy of air so strong it blew him back a few inches. He then felt strange a sort of pain was felt in his throat that seemed to try to pulse out, the kind you’d feel when you are certain of an upcoming but very hard to avoid event. Then a golden light shot out from his fingers and the beast was burnt away in a white flame.
He fell back against a tree which was now barely a tree, having been ripped entirely from the top. He sunk lower and felt so weak he had hard time breathing. He managed to absorb enough carbon to empower his lungs. Air circulated through him. He felt like he’d been sprinting for miles none stop, he’s lungs felt a burning sensation and it seemed like every breath he took froze his lungs, he could even sense a small vibration within his lungs. He managed to soak up the air as he sat back against a tree his chest expanding only to be deflated and expanded again. He closed his eyes, the metal attached to his arm stung unbearably but he remembered why it had hurt it was simply the thought that he saved Rielle out of anyone risking his own arm that cheered him up. It was odd he’d always wanted to have saved Rielle’s life hoping it might trigger something in her, but he only though that that would be impossible because well it was only a harmonic display of his affection and a fantasy that could never come true that had been brought to him by affection and the media or so he had thought it to be so until it actually happened. He did love her she’d been in fights before and all but no matter how close of his friends she’d gotten into no matter what she’d put him through he’d never hated her not even for an instant. He got up and put his sword back into its holder and tried to subdue the mystery of how he’d shot that golden light from his fingers. He felt a sudden shutter of cold wind.
***
Nightfall had brought rain and strong winds for him which really had not helped him at all. He tried to imagine where his friends may have been at this point. His black hair was drenched as it gleamed in the reflection of light brought by the scarce traces of the moon hidden behind a thick layer of grey black clouds. Rayhan had hated nights without stars to him he found these nights lacking all hope for anything. He tried to stay awake in the rain it was hard with the hard rain drops pounding against his face he could barely see. He found it hard to walk in such strong cold brittle winds and drops of cold icy rain. He took shelter at a crossing of nearby trees which intersected; they must’ve grown all twisted he thought. That made him wonders about himself which got him to laugh. He sat under the trees upon dry ground; he’d pushed a tree down to stop the water from flowing under him. He lay there it was slightly warmer than he thought. He lay there still cold and alone with the thought of Rielle who may or may not have been in danger right now but he felt as though he’d worried too much, after all she was a very strong girl despite his constant worrying about her and his ultimate compassion towards her he knew nothing would be able to tear his affection for her even as a friend and although he didn’t need her to be his girlfriend he knew that saying they were together would only be an insult to their friendship and he had more fun than he could ever hope to being together with her and it could actually last forever.

The astronaut

2010-03-06T12:08:00.000-08:00

I'm tired,stressed inevitably depressed
I haven't slept in months
I'm in desperate need of rest
I just lie up top my roof watching constellations
Trying to find relation
Between you and I
But not matter how i try
The further i will fly
The thought of you still haunts me
Forever till i die
It makes me wanna cry
Whenever you walk by
Every time i look
Into your crystal blue eyes
Injured you remain
Pain's what i regain
Standing in the rain
The stars gave you a kiss
Freezing me like this
I hope you understand how beautiful you are
You're the brightness of the night held into a star
What you've done for me is Astronomical
I stare at the eclipse
And still I lie waiting for your call
So many trips
Staying up all night and even through the day
But when i talk to you i don't have much to say
I fell to my knees and begin to prey
But what heavens will i answer to if got isn't there?
Your gorgeous eyes and your beautiful hair
You're the alchemist that's what you are
I'm the scientist depending on the stars
You're the architect of the universe
I am the stars even those that burst
Sometimes i cry at a silent shore
As my mind continues, in it's violent war
You mean the world to me maybe even beyond
I try not to cry when you're gone
I try to be around
And i try to hold you tight
I try to close my eyes to infinite twilight
Opening them now will show only the night
I seriously miss you
As angels lean and kiss you
Planets that i've seen
IN silence of my dreams
I appreciate your essence
And can't live without your presence
The stars give me the answer
Like a midnight twilight dancer
So faintly i remember
In the middle of a snowless November
My heart gave me a thud
And a sudden rush of blood
And so i thought forever
That we should be together
Philosophy, Ideology,Numerology, Astronomy
All told me
Taught me to see
That everything i want
Everything i got
Everything i stood for
Was always meant to be
For the answer i have searched for endlessly
Was standing right there in front of me

Chapter 16; Apology

2010-01-24T12:55:00.000-08:00

Rayhan woke up in bed again, in his own bed. He sat up; his stomach was heavily bandaged as well as his forehead. He was surprised, despite the fact he was brutally stabbed and bleeding, he should have died anyone else would’ve and yet he was breathing and alive. He looked around, the sun was up, the rain had stopped and the storm had cleared. He felt like he’d just woken up from surgery. He felt a cold icy shiver run down his spine and make him shiver for a second and then the open feeling of waking up to what looked like you were in a hospital knocked out and brought back only and inch away from death. HE was heavily bandaged but under that heavy bandaging he could still feel the cold metal slashed against his flesh and the emptiness of the lack of blood he’d drained. This feeling was terrible and it stung his memory with such pain it was like a zinging fire burning across his mind like a blade. He would never forget the feeling of that pain it was etched into his memory forever. He felt much better now though he sat up and then got out of bed. He left the room and went downstairs. There he found all his friends. He went up to Pierre.
“You’re awake about time man” said Pierre.
“About time? How long was I out for?” asked Rayhan.
“A week, we got worried, seriously man you’re so stupid, you gotta be more careful you almost died” said Pierre.
“Hey he attacked me first it’s not like I really had a choice” said Rayhan.
“Excuses, excuses” said Pierre.
“Alright” Rayhan laughed he walked away.
“Oh yea I almost forgot, Elnar’s looking for you I think he’s on the roof” said Pierre.
“Okay thanks” said Rayhan. Rayhan ran outside and there he found Elnar on the roof sitting absolutely still.
“You were looking for me?” Rayhan asked.
“Indeed I was” said Elnar.
“What for?” asked Rayhan.
“To only ask one important question” said Elnar.
“Which was?” asked Rayhan.
“What do you plan on doing after the end of all of this if you succeed?” asked Elnar.
“What do you mean?” asked Rayhan.
“There are threats in this world, after this I sense a bigger threat coming this time it won’t be easy you’ll have to face yourself with something way bigger than you are and things are only going to get worse as you continue, I may no longer be here soon, I’m still a sage, there are things going on that we cannot stop, can I trust you to make the right decisions, and as for her, things will come in time if they do at all, you’d have to fix something up yourself, but I know you can do it?” said Elnar.
“I think I can handle it, but will I ever see you again?” asked Rayhan.
“Maybe but no time soon” said Elnar.
“Alright” said Rayhan. Elnar jumped off the edge of the building he jumped so far he was about a mile away then he disappeared into the distance. Rayhan went back inside, it was getting colder outside. He found his friends inside. They were getting ready to leave, he decided to leave tomorrow. He left the castle and was back on the sandy shores, he walked into the water, and the sun was setting after a few hours. He hadn’t moved. His friends were inside. Soon the sun was completely sunken into the distance and the moon was replacing it. He was still standing there, it was getting colder, he felt frozen, and he took a deep breath and could see a small vapour trailing out his mouth like smoke. He couldn’t feel the frost anymore. He could only feel a fire inside himself; it was keeping his body at a certain temperature. He stayed in the water; the water was shining in the moonlight.
He was alone. It was dark and he did nothing but thought and stared into the moonlight. He was silent. Thoughts swirling up into his mind crazily he never could organize his ideas properly, it was the most trouble he’d ever had. The water was freezing cold but he tried to ignore the frost again it was the strife he could handle which made him who he was, and through that strife would he become the salvation that the world and his friends depended on to undo the wrongs of those who challenged his existence. He’d taken pain before, he’d fallen and gotten back up, he took the pain and endured the bloodshed as he grew up with only the aid of his fathers butler who he’d been left with, that butler was like the father he never had, like a teacher and he knew everything about him, for he’d known him all his life. It was a pity that he was no longer with him when he needed him most. Rayhan just stayed there his eyes closed. Rayhan thought of only her and how it’d be if he’d never met her before, he didn’t want to be wrong while thinking this she’d graced him with her company, but his life would have been much more happier but it’d be blind happiness because he’d never known perfection, until he met her, he was grateful to know her, and he would protect her from anything, she was his energy, his spirit and without her he’d be an empty shell, she was his heart and he was her armour and he would stand against anyone who’d think of provoking her. He stood there quietly listening to the waves of the water stared into the stars reflecting against the water. All he’d ever wanted was a single reason worth fighting for and now he’d gotten it and it was her, she was his reason worth fighting for and he’d never lose her no matter what. It was so silent he could hear the very sound of his heart pounding against his chest.
“What’re you doing out here alone, its freezing” Rielle said.
“It doesn’t bug me” he said.
“Why are you alone all of a sudden?” she asked.
“We all know the answer to that, it’s my answer to everything, and you know I really don’t need to be risking my entire existence for things to be back to normal, I don’t personally think things’d be better that way?” he said.
“Then why are you doing this?” she asked. Rayhan gave his head a little nudge to indicate her.
“Awh” she said. Rayhan walked back inside. She was left alone outside. Rayhan sat there on a chair and watched her outside through the window, she was alone it was cold and she wore nothing but a sweater. Everyone else was asleep. He grabbed a black sweater and went back out. He pulled the sweater over her shoulders.
“It’s cold out” said Rayhan. They both went back in.
“Can you tell me what happened after I blanked out?” asked Rayhan.
“Well we went back in and hell started talking to some black a guy outside” said Rielle.
“Then they started to fight, that black guy almost beat him when Hell did this thing with the sand and turned it black and the black guy sort of just sunk into it and disappeared, then Hell left” she said.
“Okay, thanks” he said. Rayhan was quiet for a few hours after that and Rielle just sat there looking into the fire. Rayhan could not take his eyes off of her for more than a second, he stared deeply into her eyes, and they were beautiful like two shining blue crystals incrusted in onto a beautiful face. She looked beautiful, right down to the last freckle. He got up and went into his room; he lay flat onto his bed. Tomorrow they’d leave for the forest. He lay quietly and motionless soon to find himself asleep. He didn’t dream as he rested and woke up at about seven in the morning. He got up off his bed, his hair was messed up but he managed to fix it. He went downstairs ready to leave and found all his friends standing all ready to leave in advance. He smiled at them and they all got to the door.
“Dammit the forest is pretty far, it’ll take weeks for us to get there” said Pierre.
“Shit, well what do we do, we don’t have that kind of time, every second we’re walking People are dying” said Rayhan.
“There is on thing you can do” said Elnar.
“Really what?” asked Rayhan.
“You need to use the gateway” said Elnar.
“Yeah but how do we summon it?” asked Rayhan.
“No need to summon it, the gateway appears in many different forms, such as it may appear as a mirror, or a doorway, or a stairway” he said.
“Okay well are there any here in the castle?” asked Rayhan.
“Yes there fountain, you need to fall into the fountain and you will rise out in the forest” he said.
“Alright, so is that how you got here?” asked Pierre.
“Yes it is now hurry there isn’t a moment to lose” said Elnar. They hurried to the bridge and found a fountain.
“Alright this must be it” said Rayhan. He stood at the edge, he realized that thinking of the place where you wanted to go with the doorway gateway would bring you there so it must’ve been the same case, he closed his eyes and thought of the forest of memories, or what h thought it might look like, he fell into the water and then rose out of a lake in a forest. He looked at a rundown sign. It read: “Forest of tears”. Shit he thought, he’d been taken to another forest, and who knows how far away this might be. He didn’t have the map but even if he did it probably might not be any help anymore, Heaven’s Light was always growing in length, who knows where this place might’ve been. He looked around. It was dark and wet here. The trees were a deep dark blue and had a glow to them while surrounded by darkness and shadows. He looked up and could see nothing but darkness. He grabbed his sword hearing a strange noise. He felt tensed. This place was strangely familiar. He was breathing hard. He could hear his breath echoing throughout the forest, the trees were at least fifty metres high, but the worst part was that they’d have all been separated to different locations depending on their image of the forest and on their idea of what it might look like; they could be anywhere at all. He had no communication at all; he was completely lost in another forest and couldn’t find his friends. They were all alone. He had to find all of them before Hell would find them, it was possible and likely they were both chasing the same thing. Then an eerie white mist spread out across the forest, making the entire place foggy. He could not see a single thing he started to walk slowly. The air was thick and it penetrated through his mind. He could barely see and now he could hardly keep his balance, his mind felt dazed, he was starting to feel dizzy. This was no fog that was clouding up his vision it was some sort of noxious gas, but where was it coming from. Suddenly he felt afraid and he could see a black swirl of energy floating before him, he felt confused, was he hallucinating or was there a black figure there, he didn’t know what it was but he felt more afraid of this thing more than anything else. Then suddenly he saw the black figure turn white and took the figure of a girl a silhouette of a girl about his age with long shining blonde hair, soon he saw it become more and more real, he felt like he was in the presence of a girl soon the girl turned her head he could see directly into her eyes, she looked beautiful she had shining blue eyes, then he realized this girl was Rielle. Suddenly Hell appeared next to her and put his hand on her shoulder then crack his wrist back and her beautiful blue eyes closed and she fell to the ground Hell standing laughing maniacally. He felt his body fill up with fear and then he felt a pain seer in his skull it burnt like nothing else ever and he felt his stomach contract so much it made him feel like throwing up. He could feel the gasses penetrate through his body as he lost focus, became dizzy, the pain still seering in his skull harder than ever as if a razor blade was cutting its way out of his head, he lost consciousness. The fog around him thickened his eyes not even half open he was in the clutch of unconsciousness, he was still breathing, he was still there, he could feel the presence of Rielle fill his thoughts and the pain burnt harder than ever the razor blade feeling was now even more painful as though the razor was emitting a fire, he felt emotions of the utmost terrible, he could feel fear of dying, he felt a fire burn against his chest, he felt like he was witnessing the fear of losing her, and the fear of fear itself. He felt even worse the more he thought about it, the more he did the heavier the pain on his body became, it felt like his veins were replaced with lightning he felt like a constant shock of lightning was running through his veins and his entire body. He could hear a menial laughter as the pain increased tenfold. This pain was soon too much to bear.
“St-top, aahhh!” he cried as he started to bleed. The laughter grew louder and the pain grew tenser until it was so painful he just wished he’d just die, death to him was better, anything was better than this pain. He could barely breathe and eh started coughing up blood. He was almost dead when suddenly he felt something rise within him, it was like warmth that spread across his body and penetrate the pain, and he got up although his body still having the seizure like spasm, he rose off the ground. He was on his feet now. Rayhan still felt pain but despite the pain he felt powerful and enduring it was only proving it. He was completely standing. He had his sword at hand he clutched it tightly so tightly his hand bled. He turned to face the figure which gave him this pain, it turned out to be a man in a mask, the mask was half black and half white, it had slits in it curve to make a smiling laughing face, and the man wore a black cloak over the rest of his body so Rayhan couldn’t see who he was. The mask was metal he could tell by the shine of the mask glistening into his eyes and the texture of the mask. He punched in the face just to be sure but he missed. His hand was cut and bleeding, the masked man laughed harder. He threw a punch into Rayhan’s stomach concealing a dagger in his clutch. He was brutally cut in the stomach but still tried to stay strong, he got back up and the masked man was gone, but he’d worry about that later. He got off of his knees and was off barely alive though. He arrived at what looked like a temple in the middle of the forest; the entrance was covered in vines, trees and moss. He climbed upward to the door; he pushed it open and went in. He arrived to a rather strange room, statues about as tall as him of heads looking in every direction. He came to a strange rock, inscribed onto the stone were words it read: “Pull the switch and get to the other door without being seen” he looked around for a switch and a door, he found a switch and a blocked off door he pushed the switch and the door was unblocked. There was a ticking noise, he started to walk across the room but then he was caught by a statue, it was facing him, its eyes glowed and the door closed. He pushed the switch and thought of a plan but after a minute the door closed again but this time the room went dark. He now could not see a thing, it was pitch black, and he managed to get himself back to the door. Then found the switch again. He pushed it and the door reopened. He had to get there without being seen in the dark within a minute, this was going to be hard. He tried flying but the roof wasn’t high enough to let him hide from the statues gazes. He then noticed another note scribbled onto the rock in some glowing ink that wasn’t visible by the light it read; “Ill-mannered” he didn’t quite get the hint until he realized something, what do people do when someone is ill-mannered they look away, so the idea was to make the statue look the other way but how then he remembered he could control the wind and so shot a blast at one of the statues and it was blown to face the other direction and its eyes started to glow. He did that to all the statues until they were all looking the opposite direction from him, and the room was bright enough to see again due to the glowing eyes. He stepped onto the switch and strolled across. He went through the doorway and arrived back in another part of the forest, it was dark like before, there were glowing blue trees but it seemed darker, there were less trees and more black emptiness. It was very dark and the only source of light came from a crack in the black sky that let out a shining sunlight. The rest was black; the ground was covered in frozen white grass.
He could see nothing else. He decided to go fly up to the crack of light, once he arrived to it, he looked through, and he could see the stars and blackness, billions of stars everywhere and a bridge of stars leading to a gate. He squeezed his way through and made it successfully but he was now cut across the chest. He was standing on the bridge. He ran towards the gateway and went through it. He came to a strange place, it was as though the world was turned upside down, and he was standing in the middle of stars and above him was a sandy desert. He came to the mirror. It was just sitting there; he could see his reflection in it. He looked deeply into his eyes and soon his reflection changed and became Hell, he threw a punch and the glass cracked. His fist was bleeding. He could still see Hell’s reflection in the shattered remains of the mirror. Hell laughed. Then he disappeared and Rayhan was left with no reflection. Suddenly he felt cold, a frost like wind started to hit him harder than anything before. He felt cold as the temperature dropped tenfold. He could now see his own breath. The glass started to fog up and the cracks in the glass were frozen in ice as the mirror was rejoined. He fell to his knees as it became so cold that he found it hard to breathe. He could barely move as s stinging frost crept through his skin and chilled his nerves. He could feel his throat freeze and he could no longer speak, it was so cold his vocal chords had frozen, it was below zero and he was still alive. He tried to stand up but failed to then he realized that there was a door that opened on the other side. He could see the light escaping from it. If only he could manage to get across the room despite the freezing temperature. His limbs were frozen. He got to the point of taking one breath per minute; he was reduced to a frozen piece of nothing. He had to try; he couldn’t fail despite this pain and burning. He pulled his body up as best he could. Failure was not an option, if he’d failed now no one would be able to find him. He had to make it through. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes as hard as he could, trying to get some response from any of his muscles. He managed to heat up enough energy to manage to get back up and he walked to the other room with some difficulty, once he’d arrived to the next room. The door behind him closed and was hidden in darkness, he looked around, it was all black nothing could be seen except the floor which was visible through the light resonating from the large stained glass windows the seemed to be in the not-so-far distance. The floor was black as well. He looked around for a door but couldn’t see anything but blackness, it looked like a hallway, he’d just gotten through the left door and he had to get to the right door. Unfortunately there was no door to be seen but then again the door he’d just gotten to had disappeared the moment he’d closed it so maybe there was a door on the other side but it was hidden, he ran to the other side and tried to tackle through it hoping to fall onto the floor of the next room but was sadly mistaken and had just hit the wall. He walked up to the windows and tried punching through and he got through but the glass suddenly and simultaneously reconnected to form a window pushing his hand back, he tried tackling it but it wouldn’t break anymore. He decided to tackle through another window but it didn’t break either. He’d given up, his arm was bleeding and he was tired. He collapsed onto the floor to try and get some rest, he’d think about it when he’d wake up. He fell asleep almost immediately except for the pain of his bleeding arm. He woke up after a few hours of rest, his arm had stopped bleeding and he was rested. He got up and looked around just to suck the memory of this room back into his mind after rubbing his eyes to clear away the blur at the edges of his sight. He was finally back and he looked around, he could see a black figure standing against one of the windows, he got a closer look, it was the shape of a human, he wore all black, he wore a completely black suit that had lines going around throughout the entire thing in one direction, around the waist he had a black cloth wrapped, Rayhan would not see his face it was covered in what looked like a helmet, this helmet was strange, it was made entirely of glass by the looks of it. The helmet was all black and faceless except for the bottom which was rimmed white. The suit he wore was covering his entire body; he could not see the slightest bit of skin. The man also had a symbol on his chest, he looked closer and he saw the symbol read “HL”. Rayhan could not recognize this person at all.
“I’ve watched over you, Rayhan” said the man in a double voice.
“Who are you?” asked Rayhan perplexed.

Chapter 15; Confrontation

2010-01-24T12:54:00.000-08:00

“It’s terrible out here can we by any chance stay here for the night?” asked Rayhan.
“Of course, come in, come in” said the man.
“Please make yourselves at home” said the man.
“Thank you for your kindness” said Pierre.
“It’s no trouble at all I have spare rooms here, and please the name is Lleh” said Lleh.
“Thank you, we’re extremely tired can you please show us the rooms in which we’re staying in?” asked Rayhan.
“Of course follow me” said Lleh.
“Thank you and if there’s anything we can do in return we’d be glad to help” said Jessica. They followed Lleh to the rooms he’d lent them. The rooms were quite large and had a master bed in each. After they were given their rooms they dried off and went straight to bed. Rayhan lay in the bed quietly the moonlight was the only thing lighting the room.
Rayhan was so tired he couldn’t stay up any longer. He fell right to sleep. The next day looked no different then last night which worried them and confused them, the moon was still up and it looked like it did when they arrived, literally exactly like it even though it was 3:27 pm. The sky as well was pitch black. Rayhan got downstairs and everyone was awake. He looked around he could not see Lleh anywhere.
“Well I think it isn’t safe to leave yet, we need to stay here at least until the storms cleared out” said Rayhan.
“Okay” said Pierre.
“I sure hope Lleh doesn’t mind” said Rayhan.
“Nah he told me that he doesn’t want us to leave just yet, he said it wasn’t safe” said Pierre.
“Oh, well okay” said Rayhan.
“Yeah” said Pierre. Rayhan went back into his room it was warm in there, he put his hands against the windows cold glass. Outside there was so much rain he could not see through it at all. Damn it sure is pouring hard out there He thought. He looked around in the room. There was nothing he could make any use of. Frankly this room looked like it used to belong to some sort of nomad, it was absolutely empty. The only thing in the room was a lamp, a bed, an old closet, a mirror and a statue of an eye.
Then he noticed something pasted onto the mirror, a small piece of paper with what looked like the gate scribbled onto it. He opened the closet and found that black sand Hell had used to summon the gate and what looked like a magnified glass. It looked ancient and cryptic. It had a design of an eye on it. He looked through it. He examined the room around him. The room looked about 100% different through this magnified glass than it did without. For instance, there was no statue on the desk, there was no paper on the mirror and there was a chest in the middle of the room, the walls were red with strange designs on them the bed was a fireplace and the walls had holes in them. He approached the chest keeping the magnified glass to his eye. He opened it and found black key with a the same blue diamond in it as the one which gave them powers, the key itself also had a small stone Zinth carved onto it. He put the key into his pocket. He put the magnified glass into his pocket as well; it would seem that the magnified glass showed what could not be seen by the naked eyes. He took the magnified glass to the mirror and looked through it into the mirror and he could see himself with red hair, white misty blue eyes and a black scar on his shoulder shaped like a pentagram. He put the magnified glass back into his pocket with the key. Rayhan went downstairs and walked around the castle bored to death. He re-entered his room and sat on his bed. He was bored. He closed his eyes and just lay there for a few hours and eventually fell into a sleep. Then he noticed a black shadow moving across the room, it grew larger and larger, he could just barely see it through the corner of his eye already being half asleep. Then he saw the shadow pull out a dagger into the air then he saw the blade for real glistening in the moonlight. He quickly moved off the bed onto the floor. He saw who it had been it was Lleh. He laughed hysterically.
“What the hell?!” he shouted. Rayhan looked into the mirror to see Lleh’s reflection his name said Hell. Then he understood. Hell grabbed him by the neck and threw him across the room breaking through the window. He landed on the sand, it was raining hard. Hell flew in front of him and his dagger grew into a sword, he lifted his black hood and revealed his long white hair. He laughed over him. Rayhan got up and grabbed his sword. Hell slashed across his body ripping his HL uniform revealing his bare flesh now cut and bleeding. He slashed at the same time as hell and their blades locked. He and Hell were now fighting with pressure. He slashed again and sparks flew out of the blades. He was bleeding as hell stabbed him. Then he used the back of the handle and bashed into his head his head was bleeding. He could barely see. He slashed with one hand holding the other arm to prevent further bleeding. Hell slashed and knocked the blade about seven metres away. Rayhan was about to run for it when Hell bashed his sword into the ground stopping him. Rayhan let go of his arm and raised his fists, he threw a punch and Hell went flying back and hit the wall he got back up and laughed insanely. Rayhan ran towards him and seized his neck with his one arm rain hitting against his blood giving him excruciating pain. It stung with a zinging pain that shredded into his nerves. Hell then grabbed Rayhan’s arm with one hand and struck into his vein with a finger and it paralyzed his arm temporarily. He fell to the floor in agony and he could barely move. People started to gather around of them. Pierre pulled his sword out. Paul held him back.
“This is his battle, if you go in now maybe he’ll win but he’d have lost all that he stands for” said Paul.
Rayhan was lying on the sand, he got up and then he kicked him back down, he pulled out a dagger and tried to stab but he failed Hell grabbed him by the neck and threw him he went flying and landed on the floor. He got up he used his wings and was in the air he threw a blast of air and Hell went flying back and hit against a wall. He pulled a sword and ran to him and slashed him crazily, he dropped the sword and threw a punch, then a kick then he flipped him over his back, he elbowed him in the face, Hell was now bleeding and got up in a fraction of a second and threw a blast of dark energy at him. Rayhan fell into the sand bleeding like crazy. He could barely get up on his knees. Hell was in front of him in a fraction of a second once again and grabbed him by the neck. Rayhan was bleeding with difficulty, Hell pulled a sword out and the tip of the blade was less than an inch from his neck. Rayhan was motionless. He looked around he could see his friends look away looking away. Then the blade was thrusted through his stomach. He closed his eyes, he saw a blank white light and fell to the ground, and Hell disappeared. Rayhan was unconscious.

Chapter 14; Journey

2010-01-24T12:53:00.000-08:00

He got out of bed and the sun was brighter orange than any shade he’d ever seen wit his eyes. He walked towards the window. He put his hands on the glass and felt the frost penetrate through his fingers. He removed his hands and grabbed his sweater and threw it over his shoulders and put it on. He got to the door and seized the knob and twisted. He pushed it open; he had an innerving feeling within himself, like as if he’d had to do something but couldn’t remember what it was exactly he hated that feeling. He decided to ignore the feeling it was probably nothing after all. He made his way down the stairs and sat down on the chair. The room was full of everyone walking around but Rielle wasn’t there, it wasn’t odd to him that he’d looked out for her the most in a crowd. Sarah, Pierre and Steven sat beside him.
“Hey” said Steven.
“Hey” said Rayhan.
“What’s wrong?” asked Sarah.
“Nothing I’m just sitting, waiting and watching” said Rayhan.
“What are out waiting for looking at and doing exactly?” asked Pierre.
“Does it really matter” he said
“Most of you already know what I’m thinking about looking for and waiting for, except Steven but he’d probably guessed” said Rayhan.
“We’re wasting time it’s time we head out” said Rayhan.
“Alright” said Sarah.
“Okay then we should gather our stuff” said Rayhan.
“Okay” they agreed and left, they gathered their things. A few hours later they were ready and they all met up at the fountain in the centre of the castle. Everyone was there, Rielle, Pierre, Sarah, Steven, Jessica, Paul and of course Rayhan.
“Alright so we need to get to the forest of memories” said Rayhan.
“Yeah, it looks pretty far away from here to me” said Pierre
“So what do we do?” asked Steven.
“I’m not sure, we’ve pretty much walked this distance, show me the map let’s see just how far it is” said Rayhan. Pierre handed him the map.
“Holy shit Pierre, we’re even further away from the forest than before!” said Rayhan.
“Yeah, either way we won’t make it for at least a month by foot” said Pierre.
“Dude learn to read a map” said Paul.
“Shut up Paul” said Pierre.
“What the hell guys quit arguing and let’s find a way to get to the fucking forest” said Rayhan.
“Guys, let’s just get this through okay?” said Steven.
“Yeah no need to waste time” said Sarah.
“But Fuck what the hell can we do?” asked Pierre.
“There’s just no other way we need to walk” said Rayhan.
“Well I guess if we have no other way then let’s just go” said Jessica.
“Alright” said Steven. They all left the castle a few hours after the conversation. They were on their way on a bridge as they walked across it over a waterfall. They kept walking and arrived to the badlands. The ground seemed flat and warm. Nothing grew on it. They kept walking across the flat floor. The castle shrunk behind them in their view until it was practically gone. They couldn’t see it at all.
They kept walking and talking throughout the journey. They didn’t stop; Pierre led the way with a map in his hand. He pointed the direction out. Rayhan was quiet. He didn’t say a single word since they left, he’d never been the type to talk he was quiet always something running in his mind. The sun above them was sinking. Until it was only half of a sun buried out of the reach of sight, their legs became weary and they could barely walk and they barely made It past the badlands. They were tired, but again Rayhan seemed wide awake. His eyes wide open his mind still constantly awake and he didn’t stop thinking yet, they were soon hungry, tired, thirsty and practically to the point of collapsing. Some of them did as the sun was replaced by a shining whit luminous moon and a billions white stars. Rielle and Pierre were the only people there who’d actually seen Rayhan collapse before he’d be the last to stand up and keep walking, it was odd because during gym class, when they would do the beep test or any running exercise he’d be one of the first to collapse. Now he was the last to fall. It was like he was stronger here, he was smarter and different. Pierre then realized the only reason he wasn’t tired was because he wasn’t talking he didn’t use his energy talking and now had more. Out of them all Rayhan seemed to the least human but he was different here, it was like he was suddenly sober, he’d used to talk none stop the most talkative student kid in the class, but now he was quiet and different. Rayhan then stopped.
“You know if you guys are tired we can stop” said Rayhan.
“Please” said Steven.
Then Pierre noticed Paul too was not tired. Rielle shot a bolt of fire and they burnt some wood they brought from the castle. They sat around the fire and talked keeping warm. They talked and sat around the fire. Everyone was shivering practically frozen in the frosty night air. They could se their own breath as clouds of white smoke out of their mouth and nostrils. Rayhan Took off his black HL uniform and gave it t Rielle. He walked out of the circle and started his own fire. He sat alone. They found his behaviour quite peculiar but decided to leave him alone. Paul too had left to start his own fire. Rayhan sat away from them and cross legged next to the fire keeping his eyes on it. Under his black HL uniform he wore a black hooded sweater with the word “Canada” stretched out across the top in whit outlined in red with a red maple leaf under the last “a”. He pulled his sleeves up and just stared into the fired as it danced. He closed his eyes and tried to imagine something. After a few hours he lay down on the hard flat ground and tried to fall asleep. He dreamt about sinking into blackness. He woke up. The sun was up and so was up and he opened his eyes wide as the sunlight fell upon his face. He got up; it was 7:18 am. He got up and put on his HL uniform and stretched his arms out. He got ready packing his stuff again. The sun glistened off of his metal armlets and shined on his face. He looked into his mirror shield he could see himself as though he were clearly staring into the metal of an actual authentic mirror. His hair was fine. He checked his pocket and pulled out the stone which gave him and his friends the powers. He examined it thoroughly, it didn’t seem to have any odd characteristics, it looked to him like a normal blue stone. It shined in the sunlight; he tossed it into the air and caught it again.
“Morning” said Pierre stretching and noticing that Rayhan was up.
“Morning he retorted” said Rayhan.
“What are you doing?” asked Pierre.
“I’m waiting for everyone to wake up, and until then I’m trying to see what’s so special about this rock, like how we got powers from it” said Rayhan.
“Okay” said Pierre getting up. Rayhan was sitting on a rock the size of a recycling bin. There was a tree that grew on that but not on the badlands he was leaning against the tree.
He wasn’t the slightest bit tired. It was actually decently warm out. He wasn’t surprised at all; it was cold last night like practically freezing. He wasn’t tired or hungry just desperate to get out and start it was for him the biggest journey of a lifetime, something no one on earth had ever done before he was nervous and practically dead with his nerves almost electrifying him throughout his mind, he got several unbearable headaches but he managed to get through. The sun was at the edge of coming out and slowly getting higher and higher throughout the sky until; it was in the centre of the entire sky, by then he assumed they’d all be awake, and he was correct, they were up.
“Okay so now we need to get going guys no more stalling” said Rayhan.
“This’ll be fun” said Pierre.
“Yeah” said Rayhan. They set out and started walking full of energy Pierre holding the map once again; they just sort of gave it to him. They walked and walked and walked. They arrived off the badlands once it hit midday.
“Finally I never want to see a piece of treeless ground again” said Pierre.
“AHA nice” said Rayhan.
“Seriously that was so damn tiring” said Pierre.
“Excuses excuses” said Rayhan.
“Hey that’s my word boy” said Pierre.
“Okay” said Rayhan. They kept walking and talking. The arrived to a steep fall and a very thin bridge, they were on a mountain and needed to get to the other one. Under them was about 300 metres of water in the middle of a terrible storm at midnight. The bridge was constantly moving back and forth and back and forth.
“Dammit, guys I think we need to go one at a time” said Rayhan.
“WHAT?” Pierre cried.
“ONE AT A TIME, ONE BY ONE YOU KNOW WE CAN’T GO ALL AT ONCE” said Rayhan shouting at the top of the bellowing winds swirling and twisting.
“OKAY YOU GO FIRST” said Paul.
“WAY TO BE KIND AND SUPPORTIVE” said Rayhan. HE seized both ropes connecting. HE stepped onto one of the planks and then the next. He made his way halfway through the bridge but the weather was no help to him either. He tried walking slowly and balancing his weight on each side of the bridge. It was hard he had to go very slowly, some planks were missing and some were falling off. The rain made the rope and the planks slippery and he’d often find himself slipping but still holding on. He couldn’t just fly over, he lack the energy to use his wings, and using the invisible step would make him go too fast and knock down some of the pieces.
“Screw this” he said as he got back.
“What the Hell why’d you do that?” asked Pierre.
“There’s another way through” he thought. He pulled Rielle off her legs, and used the invisible step to fly through in less than a second he was at the other side. Rielle looked petrified.
“You alright?” he asked.
“Fine just need a few seconds” she said.
“Alright” said Rayhan. Steven and Sarah could simply use the earth to levitate the ground to their point so they could walk through. They needed to create some sort of fire on the other side to hold the ground up. That was why Rielle was on the other side with Rayhan; they understood after long about his plan and went through with it. So they decided to carry it out. Once they did and made it through they continued to walk. The storm seemed to get worse and worse by the second it was beginning to hail; Rayhan protected himself with his shield. They were back on the other side of the island and found themselves at a beach like area.
There was like some sort of mansion like place there where they decided to stay. They didn’t have much of a choice to chose from it was either stay here and get rest or keep walking despite the horrible storm, with barely any risk of survival. They arrived at the mansion which stood on a cliff, he knocked on the door. The condition was turning from unbearable to deadly. The door opened and there stood a man in a cloak with his hood up.

Chapter 13; Early encounter

2010-01-24T12:52:00.000-08:00

Rayhan walked across the hallway and arrived to the stairway and walked down the stairs and came to the main hall and found a few people awake. He went back upstairs and higher and higher and higher until he’d reached the roof and then he sat on the roof. He closed his eyes and just imagined what he’d do and then he heard a voice behind him.
“Hello” the voice said and immediately he recognized that voice to be of Elnars.
“Oh hey” he said.
“Did you sleep well?” he asked.
“Yeah I guess” said Rayhan.
“Did you?” asked Rayhan.
“I don’t sleep I’m a sage I don’t need rest at all” said Elnar.
“Oh I see” he said.
“So what are you doing here anyway?” asked Rayhan.
“Well I had to ask you whether or not you were ready for your first lesson” said Elnar.
“Yeah definitely” said Rayhan.
“Okay well the first thing I will get you to know is how to travel with more speed than you could have ever imagined” he said.
“What do you mean?” he asked.
“Well try to keep your eyes on me” he said. He locked his eyes onto Elnar. Elnar closed his eyes and then within a fraction of a second he had lost him Elnar could only be identified as a blur, he was moving so fast he could barely be seen next thing Rayhan knew he was standing on a far branch seen as a speck of shadow. Rayhan was impressed he wanted to learn how to do that. Then another blur and Elnar was standing right next to Rayhan.
“Wow, how’d you do that?” Rayhan asked out of breath.
“Close your eyes” said Elnar.
“Okay” Rayhan replied. He closed his eyes.
“Now imagine yourself being captivated being completely motionless in a tiny space, the lesser the movement the better, keep your thoughts like that, now how do you feel?” asked Elnar.
“Claustrophobic” said Rayhan.
“Good now open your eyes and run and jump into the air” said Elnar. Rayhan jumped and next thing he knew he was airborne for about a second and he was running through the air so fast he could feel as if he were in the eye of a tornado and he kept moving dodging branches and landed above a branch then moved again and then five branches away he stopped. He looked back and Elnar was about a mile away. He went back and landed.
“That was amazing, can you teach me how to summon my wings?” asked Rayhan.
“Alright” he said a bit hesitant at first.
“Close your eyes and imagine the most powerful and painful feeling ever, than imagine the most powerful physical pain ever” said Elnar. Rayhan tried to relive the feeling of failure then he thought of being stabbed constantly without stop. He felt a great pain that was even worse over his back and then two jet black wings grew out. The pain stopped, he had summoned his wings.
“The more often you do that the easier it will get to summon your wings you just need to get used to it” said Elnar.
“Alright” said Rayhan.
“I have some important work to get to right now so I’ll be busy for the next couple of days, try to keep yourself close to her because you never know what you have until you lose it forever” said Elnar.
“Alright” said Rayhan. Elnar left. Rayhan went back inside. He walked across hallways and explored the castle. It wasn’t as the one back where they stayed before but it was very nicely built. He was done after a while and didn’t know what to do. He sat alone in his room. He was bored, with noting to do but stay quiet in his room without moving, he knew he had to end up doing something. He lay there and slept. He woke up, it was seven o’clock. He got up and decided to go out for a bit.
He left downstairs and left the castle. It was moderately dark outside and quite cold. He could not avoid the cold so he decided to strive it. He wandered around the pathway leading down the cliff and then arrived to a pathway, to his left and right was grass, he could see an island in the distance and a strange canyon like place, there were canyon rocks sticking out of the ground, about twenty of them sticking out like buildings, under it was water, it was quite in the distance of him about a few dozen kilometres. He felt alone and bitter. He could hear the whistling wind as he watched the stars above him light with more magnitude than the daylight sky. He walked the pathway until he reached the edge of it, it happened to be that he was on a cliff. It didn’t look too deep but it looked quite steep not easy to slide down. He jumped and landed not far below unscathed. He continued to walk knowing he had a map in his pocket but he was just wandering the maps purpose was only to lead him back to the castle; he’d marked it before he left. He walked none stop until he arrived to a perplexing place. It was on an island he stood on the rock red water surrounding him in every direction he stood on a black rock. In front of him a few miles away was another island with a black rock on it. The sky was black and the red resonated into the black and the stars shined above. He took a deep breath. He checked the map. He was on the Zenith’s island. He sat down and looked ahead. Then the water seemed to get unsettles and then the wind blew harder. He got off the top of the rock, it was getting cold, he looked around and found out he had actually been on a cave. He went in. It was a tight squeeze but he managed to get in comfortably. He came out as soon as he felt the wind stop. It was warm all of a sudden. He looked at the rock and noticed something very peculiar, a creature about the size of a mountain with arms and legs of a human and had black horns and a lion’s tail, the creature’s arms and legs were positioned like a humans but seemed different. They were only shaped like that of a human. He looked at it. It had two glowing eyes that pierced through his mind through his eyes. It had three glowing orbs over its forehead and it was balancing on the rock. Rayhan pulled out his sword, but then felt his arms put it back.
“I am the Zinth the sage of balance” it said without moving its lips.
“How’d you make me put my sword away?” he asked.
“I can read, unravel, turn off and control your mind” it said.
“Elnar told me about you” said Rayhan.
“Yes indeed he has, I am the most powerful and the most dominant sage of all, but I am not their leader and I apply to no one in specific” said the Zinth.
“Are you god” asked Rayhan.
“I am not god but I am the creator of the universe and the architect of creation” said the Zinth.
“You wandered into the raelm of the black flower, this place is the darkest place of eternal night” it said.
“I see can you help me, with everything?” asked Rayhan.
“I know all, I see all and I can create as well as destroy the universe, I sensed your presence and your pain, you have come here to seek help in life and I can help you but I cannot give you the answers” said the Zinth.
“You don’t quite understand why you were chosen for all of this, the only reason I chose you for everything is because I know the kind of person you were, the kind of power you possess and the man you can become and I know you are the one who will prevent the darkest hour and you will create like me once fate unfolds” said the Zinth.
“Can you help me understand who I really am?” asked Rayhan.
“No, but I can show you, gaze into my eyes you will awaken from within” he said. Rayhan looked into his eyes and felt the universe turn in a thousand different directions. Then he found himself standing among the stars. He turned around and found something freaky it was him about a billion times larger and jet black with glowing eyes and every crease on his upper body glowed. He was in a blue bubble of energy his larger scale self was standing over him with its hands as if he were holding a ball in which he was. Rayhan saw a shining bridge unravel all the way to the earth. He had no shirt on but he had a black hole on his chest with a black chain dangling Rayhan stepped out of the orb of energy and onto the bridge. The answer lies in the earth take the bridge of stars to access pure energy and awaken within your self. He heard in the Zinth’s voice echoing throughout the universe. He wanted to gain eternal power. But by doing this you will lose all that you have and gain all you have you will become a sage, stepping into the earth, you will have to leave behind that of which you hold dear, you will have to let go of Rielle if you want it. After hearing this Rayhan backed away back into the circle. But I can’t let go of Rielle I love her he thought but it echoed into the universe. If you don’t the world would have died and the universe would lose balance, the universe would cease to exist and you’d be floating throughout the emptiness of the nothingness he heard the Zinth say I don’t care, I’d rather have Rielle alive than anyone in the entire universe, the universe had shown me the wrongs of life he thought. Your love is strong and very powerful but you lack sanity and grip of your own reality said the Zinth. I’m not crazy I have sanity within me said Rayhan. You have sanity but you are on the brink of death said the Zinth. Keep her close; she doesn’t know how lucky she is to have someone who cares about her so much said the Zinth. Everything went white and then he woke up in bed, the sun was setting. He was awake, but he knew that was not just a dream.

Chapter 12; Awaken within

2010-01-24T12:51:00.000-08:00

Rayhan woke up. He felt warm. He sat up. He was lying on a bed in a castle infirmary or that’s what it looked like. His left arm which was disintegrated was now a shining silver metal arm that glistened in the sunlight from the church windows above his head. He looked around. The bed eh was lying on was white, his head was heavily bandaged in white bandaging. He looked around. The entire room walls and floor were made of the same beige stone. There was a picture that hung over on the opposite wall as the windows, it was about the size of a car and a picture of a man with white hair and jet black skin, this man’s hair hung over his eyes and was a bit spiky, he wore what looked like a doctor’s lab coat. His picture was surrounded by billions of smaller pictures that he could not make out what they were of. He looked over at the table at his right next to his bed with a cup of water, he drank it and made sure to drink it all he was very thirsty. He got out of his bed and headed for the door which happened to be on the same wall as the pictures. He walked to it. He noticed he was in his HL uniform and the black jeans he wore when left. He did not know where he was. He got to the door and grabbed the ruby knob and twisted it and pushed the door open. He came to a stairway, he walked down the stairs and came to a large room, and it had a square table that was the length of a master bed. It was brown. All his friends were in this room. This room was white and brown it was room and he could see a whit support and in the distance at the opposite wall was a fireplace, but before Rayhan even had a chance to think about that all of his friends came running to him as well as Elnar and an old man who he assumed was the owner of this castle, but before he could even notice that Rielle had wrapped her arms tightly around him she was very excited to see him.
“Rayhan!” shouted Pierre.
“Yes Rayhan!” shouted Paul.
“How’re you feeling?” asked Jessica.
“You did awesome!” shouted Sarah.
“Nice man” said Steven.
“Oh my god Rayhan thank you thank you thank you!” shouted Rielle. They all said all that at the same time and some stuff he could not make out due to their constant congratulating and thanking.
“What’s going on?” asked Rayhan.
“Don’t you remember what happened on the boat?” asked Rielle finally letting go of him.
“I do but how’d I end up here?” asked Rayhan.
“Well you were out for about a month and we arrived at the place where the forest was and we needed a place for you to gain consciousness we didn’t want to leave without you, then this nice man here insisted we stayed at his castle, he’s a doctor” said Paul.
“And then I was notified what happened and came as soon as possible” said Elnar.
“You did awesome back on the boat! You fucking saved my life!” shouted Rielle.
“Well I’m just glad you’re alright, really I don’t know what I’d do or how I’d forgive myself if something ever happened to you” said Rayhan. Rielle looked at him in the eyes it was once again the time where their eyes would lock.
“Awww” she said. Everyone burst into conversation. Rayhan realized he’d just blown the most important thing in his life but he didn’t care he was among the people he could trust, his friends, Elnar who already knew that and Rielle herself. The old man had left the room a while ago to go downstairs to prepare the room. Rayhan couldn’t keep his eyes of her. She looked beautiful today. He managed to pull himself away not wanting to but having to for someone had just said something to him.
“I’m sorry what?’ he asked.
“You’re the chosen one, you’re supposed to kill Hell and save the earth” said Jessica.
“WHAT!?” he cried.
“What about all I said that day about having our pressure divided among us what happened to that would suck? I can’t kill Hell he’s like a billion times stronger than I am” said Rayhan.
“Rayhan we know that you can do it though” said Pierre.
“But that’s just it I can’t do it” said Rayhan.
“You need to though” said Rielle.
“What why?” Rayhan asked worriedly.
“Well you have to because well if you don’t then we’ll all die” she said.
“But what if I can’t? After all I’m only one person and I’m standing up against some freaky dude who can practically kill me without breaking a sweat!” said Rayhan. He stormed out of the room into the room he was in before. Elnar walked in.
“You’re worried after all you did everything you’re living for is turning around to face you, things’ll never be the same between you and your friends, all you ever wanted to do was have a little fun and a live a full life but now you’re trapped, you’ve reached the point of no return, if you try to go back you would have turned your back on the world” said Elnar.
“Yeah I know I’m glad I have at least one person that understands me” said Rayhan.
“Rayhan, she’s counting on you, the one thing that makes your life still worth living is counting on you to be her armour, if you turn your back on her you wouldn’t have just broken your promise but your death would have been in vain, you’d never understand to trust yourself again, your love would just be empty love. You need her and she might not need you in the same sense as you needing her but she needs a someone to protect her, you should be proud, not only to know her but to be given the task of protecting her, you’d have failed her and be left with nothing, after all, you were caught a few times causing trouble back home at school but you never snitched on your friends, you can do this and if you fall you’d have fallen with your friends” said Elnar.
“You want to know what happened to your parents now don’t you?” asked Elnar.
“Yes, then maybe I’d have someone to talk to about this beside the exact reflection of myself with the knowledge of everything” said Rayhan.
“Rayhan, there is a reason you don’t have parents and even if you did, trust me you wouldn’t be happier, in fact you’d probably be more miserable than you are now” said Elnar.
“Why though?” asked Rayhan.
“Because right now you picture yourself as a rich orphan you picture yourself with parents and see a rich kid with parents, but you need to count the details if you had parents you’d be standing here with the same feeling of regret, no matter how much a family means to you, you know that you have one, and even with parents they’d still be your family because they understand you and no parent given to you is a match to the power of friendship” said Elnar.
“Tell me, what you are fighting for?” asked Elnar.
“I fight so that things’ll get back to the way they were before” said Rayhan.
“Is that really your reason of fighting?” asked Elnar.
“If things went back to the way they did before you’d just be yearning for more adventure, admit it you enjoy this it’s okay, that’s a good thing life isn’t worth living if its completely empty, but I know that you aren’t fighting for the world you aren’t proud of the world you live in no matter how much you deny it” said Elnar.
“I, yeah” said Rayhan realizing he questioning Elnar was useless.
“So tell me what you are fighting for Rayhan?” asked Elnar.
“I’m fighting, for Rielle” said Rayhan.
“I see, I understand what you mean, you needn’t lose hope on her, how do you feel about her?” asked Elnar.
“I don’t want anything to happen to her, if Hell had not come to earth, I think she’d be the only strand keeping me alive, I’m standing on the edge and I’m leaning off the edge with only her hand in mine, if she let go I’d die” said Rayhan.
“I understand Rayhan, believe me I understand, I would too, but now I know I’m sure that the love you hold for her isn’t just sheer love it’s the strongest and most powerful love existence, and I will not ask you to get over her” said Elnar.
“So what do I do now?” asked Rayhan.
“Talk to her, tell her how you feel, that’s the best thing you can do right now” said Elnar.
“Where is she right now?” asked Rayhan,
“She’s on the second floor third door, her name is written on the door you’ll know when you see it and yours is right next to hers” said Elnar.
“Alright” said Rayhan leaving to her room. He’d arrived and opened the door; he found her sitting by the windowsill with her cell phone at hand.
“Hey” he said. She turned then back.
“Hey” she retorted.
“What’re you doing?” he asked, trying not to sound like his life depended on this moment even though it did. He sat by her and looked her in the eyes, the door was closed he’d go in for it soon.
“Nothing just checking if anyone’ll pick up” she said.
“Are you feeling better?” she asked. Rayhan was practically hypnotized by her shining blue beautiful eyes. It was like chains of love had seized his neck and it became a bit harder to breath for him.
“Yeah, thanks” he said.
“Can we talk?” he asked.
“Yeah sure” she said looking into his eyes, they were locked and couldn’t get back it was one of those moments again. He’d never actually noticed how her eyes resonated a light that lit up the night with more magnitude than all of the stars.
“I just wanted to let you know something” said Rayhan.
“Okay” she said.
“I wanted you to know that back home if all of this hadn’t happened, you’d be the only thing holding me from the void, and that the only one I’m fighting for is you” said Rayhan.
“Aww” she said. Rayhan felt a tears developing in his eyes, he had to show her that he was strong but she was so beautiful, too beautiful it made him cry, she wrapped her arms around him.
“Don’t cry” she said.
“I’m sorry I’m not stronger, but I can’t help it I’ve dealt with this kind of problem too many times and you just mean so much to me I feel like I can’t do anything, that I’m not enough for you” he said.
“Don’t think that it’s just that I’ve come to think of you as a friend and I don’t want to lose that” said Rielle.
“But I will protect you until the end I won’t let anyone hurt you I promise now and forever there’s nothing that can stop me” said Rayhan. For a moment their hands touched which electrified him. Her hands were warm as she let go of him, he hadn’t cried, his eyes had just teared up and he’d just lost grip of himself into her arms, he felt that it was right that moment in which he held her in his arms. He’d fallen even deeper in love with her, but he regretted having let her see that side of him.
“I’m sorry that it had to be this way but Rielle I really wish that I could show you just how much I feel for you, ever night I lay awake without sleep just thinking of how you might be feeling, and it just hurts me more than any slings and arrows and bullets and swords and fire, you keep me alive and I don’t ever wan to lose you” he said.
“Aww” she said.
“I’m bound to a destiny I can’t control it’s like I can’t control the revolution of what might happen and than I saw how I really portrayed myself and now I’m trapped thinking I can’t chose another path anymore” said Rayhan.
“What do you mean?” she asked.
“Not now” said Rayhan.
“Okay” she said. Rayhan left. He went into his room and lay on his bed. He was alone in the room, it was dark, the sun was setting, and the room was lit by the midday sun. The room was red, he looked around, and there was a bed in the centre of the right wall with a picture above it of a night sky lit by a billion stars with two people in the dark distance as a black silhouette if a man and a women hands together. Rayhan lay quietly without moving. He looked up staring at the roof. To his right was a window filling the entire wall, to his left was the wall with the exit of this room.
In front of him was a wall with a closet. He closed his eyes and her face and the feeling of her presence filled his mind and that’s all he could see, he could barely understand why he felt so strongly about her. He fell asleep. He woke up and the sun was up and it was 7:00 am. He got up off his bed. He looked around. He left his room and walked down the sunlit hall which made him squint.

Chapter 11; Fallen guardien angel

2010-01-24T12:50:00.000-08:00

Rayhan got up out of bed feeling regret. He was awake after Steven, Rielle and Pierre. They were just walking around looking at things. Rayhan looked around. He rubbed his eyes. He walked up to Rielle.
“Hey, I’m sorry about last night, I just felt bad with all of this” he said.
“No it’s alright, I told you something you didn’t want t here and you took it a bit badly I can’t say I blame you” she said. Rayhan walked up to Pierre.
“What were you talking about?” he asked.
“I told her I liked her” he said.
“And she said?” he asked.
“She told me she doesn’t like me back” he said.
“Oh well its okay, it’s not your fault” he said.
“I know it isn’t, I’m fine” he said.
“Okay well Sheven says we should leave as soon as everyone’s awake” he said.
“Okay” said Rayhan.
“Just chill man” he said.
“Okay” he laughed.
It hadn’t been long before there were more people that woke up and once they were all awake they were all set to leave at once. They all hopped into the boat. They started to sail across the water fine; the boat had been a success. They sailed across the waters calmly and rested, they were gaining more and more rest because neither of them had to do anything Rayhan was in charge of controlling the wind pressure, but he’d launched a gust and they were off it would be a while until he’d have to blow another. They sailed quietly. Rayhan sat down quietly while the rest of them laughed, talked and enjoyed themselves, he wasn’t usually involved in the conversation, it was just like school he was considered to the kid who wouldn’t be noticed and didn’t show off his talents, never involved in any of the class drama. He looked across the boat where Rielle sat he watched her laugh and talk and looked into her eyes. He just looked at her, the rest of them talked. Sarah looked at him while the others. She gave him a look that said what’s bothering you? Rielle used to give him that look all the time when he liked Jessica, but everything was going to change now. He was confused. Rayhan responded to the look she gave him by just giving her a look, sending her a message that said it’s her that’s bothering he gave her that look by pointing his eyes and nodding over to Rielle without losing eye contact, whenever he gave her that look he never felt like that was the only thing that bugged him.
He really liked Rielle and whenever he wanted to give someone a message without getting others to notice he used a sort of sign language with his facial expressions. Rayhan was a secretive person anyone who’d want to be a help to him they’d have to get used to his ways of operation which were much different from that of a normal person. Sarah nodded. She looked back at the others and was once again abducted into the conversation. Rayhan turned back to Rielle not losing that loving gaze her eyes were beautiful almost hypnotic or even luring. Once he looked into them he could never stop gazing at them, they had a captivating nature to them, even to those who didn’t love her like he did had their attentions sucked into her eyes, but if you could figure them out you could read her like an open book, whenever he looked into her eyes he could tell how she was feeling and why. Rayhan always thought that someone’s were like an alter to their mind and heart, it was like a gate that opened to different people, and then there were those who had stronger eyes that remained blocked, their gates were shut. Rayhan felt as if whenever he’d see her smiling face he’d be alright, he could see hope in her eyes, a strong and powerful guidance, she could stand with him through the night through the day and through the deepest sorrow. He knew she was a strong person but even the strongest had to fall eventually. This love was different, it wasn’t blind love and it wasn’t just an empty sorrowful love, it seemed more like the kind of thing you’d get if you threw an inexorable force to an immovable object, they had the equal reaction offering the same force both had for Rayhan he and Rielle were the two forces. She turned and looked into his light brown eyes, his brown eyes were focused on her blue eyes and they were connected they could see into each other, he always thought that whenever he had to lie he’d lose eye contact his eyes always gave him away, she was reading him like an open book just as he was reading her like an open book. Their eyes were locked. She was curious for his thought or was it simply that she had the same affect he had with her eyes the hypnotic affect? She always did say he had beautiful eyes. They were locked as they could see each others hearts and minds, she could tell how he felt and he could feel how she felt. Her eyes seemed to be brightening as the sun rose they were turning into a denser more radiant and beautiful shade of blue. They couldn’t pull themselves away from one another. He was trapped in her gaze as she was in his. She smiled at him and he returned that smile he then shot his face away as soon as eh could, he was out of breath for some reason unexplainable. The sun was out through the dark clouds. It was quiet after a few hours they’d gotten far, Rayhan hadn’t noticed how long he had spent looking into her eyes, the sun was in the centre of the sky it had been over five hours! Every moment he was locked with Rielle like that time sped through them without anyone even noticing.
“So how long till we get there?” asked Steven.
“A few weeks” said Paul.
“Oh shit” Steven laughed.
“You know something I’ve noticed about this place?” asked Pierre.
“What?” asked Paul.
“It’s a lot like dildo land” he said. Five of them burst into laughter.
“What’s dildo land?” asked Sarah.
“It’s…..it’s a place…. Ahahahah… it’s a place in our old teacher’s cupboard” Rayhan laughed. Steven now joined in the laughter.
“What’s so funny what’s a dildo?” asked Sarah. They laughed harder and some of them stopped breathing.
“What?” asked Sarah.
“Trust me Sarah I don’t know how you don’t know what a dildo is but its’ a good thing consider yourself lucky” Paul laughed.
“No really what’s a dildo?” asked Sarah.
“Fine you know what fine I’ll tell you if you’re so eager to find out” Pierre laughed.
“Hahahah DL” said Paul who actually went to middle school with them but they didn’t recognize that until last night.
“A dildo is a plastic, sex toy” said Pierre cut off like five times from bursting out laughing.
“Ewe really?” said Sarah joining the laughter.
“Oh my god you guys are so dirty” she laughed.
“It’s not our fault it was Tyler who came up with it” Pierre laughed.
“Tyler’s your friend from back then?” asked Sarah.
“Yeah one of the best people” said Pierre.
“I sure hope I get to meet him” said Sarah.
“Me too” said Steven.
“We will when this is all over” said Rayhan feeling confident, he wasn’t at all confident though at this point there was no telling what would happen back home, they didn’t even know where he kept the citizens of the world. He was worried but he felt glad that he wasn’t alone responsible for all of this, he was glad he had his friends evenly depending on each other and him no pressure over anyone and if they’d fall they’d all fall together. They were all there for each other and they’d always be.
“You guys know that I’m happy none of us have to do this alone and no pressure is on only one of us, I can depend on you just as much you guys can depend on me and each other, wouldn’t it suck if only one of us had to do it?” asked Rayhan.
“What are you talking about Rayhan that wouldn’t suck it would suck balls!” said Pierre.
“It would suck dildo” said Sarah. They all started to laugh again. Once they were done it was replaced by silence, they just ran out of things to say.
After a few hours they were bored and some of them even fell asleep although some of them were wide awake no one actually got any sleep. The water rocking them was pleasant and they would sleep if they could, the sun was setting, the water was calm and soothing, it was quite and the sky was black from the dark clouds that covered it, there were a few cracks here and there that revealed the true color of the sky which was now a reddish orange. The water was practically black except for the shine of the sky reflecting against it, it was too dark out to see deep and the sky itself was red so the red water didn’t seem red but instead it seemed black. Rayhan was wide awake. He looked around, Steven was asleep Paul was sitting there asleep, Pierre sat wide eyed, Jessica was asleep, Steven was practically asleep his head on Sarah’s lap and Rielle was completely asleep lying down on the flat surface of the cold metal her eyes closed as she was lying curled up like a cat, her blonde hair just let loose on the metal her skin against the cold metal. Sarah looked at her then at Rayhan.
“Pat her on the head” she whispered sure that herself, Pierre and Rayhan were the only ones still awake.
“Alright” Rayhan smiled. He sat down next to her and stroked her hair as she slept, first hesitant. She looked cold to him so he pulled off his sweater and dropped it over her back, she seemed more comfortable. Sarah smiled at him.
“That was sweet” she whispered. Rayhan smiled back. After a few more hours the sun was at the edge of sight and sinking. Rielle, Steven, Paul and Jessica were still asleep. Even Sarah was starting to lose her awareness and began to sink into sleep a few more hours and she was asleep and so was Pierre, Pierre slept like a penguin, or as Rayhan thought a penguin would, flat on the ground. He was now the only one awake he stared into the horizon and watched the sun on the edge it would take a while for it to sink but the waves had gotten then to fall asleep, he was still wide awake, he barely slept and when he did he’d either be really tired, have a lot on his mind or really sad, or mad never happy happiness would be excitement and usually when he was excited for the next day he couldn’t sleep from too much anticipation. Rayhan just stood there his eyes closed. He felt the cold air blow against his face his hair covered his eyes. Rielle opened her eyes, and noticed Rayhan’s sweater on her and she remembered feeling his fingers run softly through her hair.
“Hey Rayhan?” she said.
“Hmm?” he said.
“Thanks” she said. Rayhan smiled at her.
“I’m always there for you don’t expect me to be gone” he said. She smiled. Suddenly the water began to roughen up and the tides became tensed. The boat started to rock unnaturally it was practically the eye of a hurricane. The water roughened and the people woke up as the waves started to roll around the water. Rayhan assumed what was heading his way. He pulled his sword out and moved closer to Rielle. Everyone else woke up and then a wave of water hit against the boat, as a serpent about 170 feet long shot from the water and yelled out a loud, blood curdling roar that pierces through the sound barrier. Everyone pulled out a gun and started shooting at it the beast shouted louder as the bullets struck him with the arrows that Pierre shot.
“No don’t shoot at it it’ll only make it angrier!” Rayhan shouted, unfortunately no one heard him over the roars of the serpent. It took a deep breath and then shot a blast of water that shot from its mouth over two hundred mph. Rayhan used the air to push the boat a few metres back. The blast splashed into the water. The beast roared even louder Rayhan could barely see its face through the sunlight of the setting sun. It took out a long scaly tentacle as it glared at him with it’s red eyes and it seized Rielle, Rayhan ran to her and grabbed her arms and pulled her back as much he could but it was no use the muscle it had in that long body was surpassing Rayhan’s by over a hundred. Rayhan fell back angry he’d promised her he’d never let anything ever happen to her and now he’d just let her out of his grip. He got up. He jumped onto the edge of the boat and then onto its tentacle and pulled his sword out and jumped he managed to make a large cut across the scaly green body and landed he wanted to go for its arm and free Rielle, he jumped not losing focus or determination but then the massive tail of the large serpent smashed against his face and threw him into the water all he could here was Rielle’s last cry Rayhan! He fell into the red water it was over, he was going to die. It was only a matter of time before the water had consumed him and decomposed his body, he had failed he was disgraced in himself, not only had he failed, but he had also failed his friends, the world and he’d broken the biggest promise he’d made to the most important person of all Rielle. No he thought, he wasn’t going to fail he couldn’t fail Rielle, she had meant too much to him, he opened his eyes and looked at his arm which was gone his blood spread into the water as thick black liquid, he wouldn’t fail Rielle not now not ever. He squinted and he heard Elnar’s voice speak to him it said Not yet then he heard his own voice well I guess what I’m trying to say is that I never want anything bad to ever happen to you and then Rielle’s voice aww well I hope nothing bad ever happens to me and than his again and if anything ever does happen I’ll be there and then finally hers again louder and clearer than ever aww thanks she said in her beautiful voice, he then saw all white and then her bright blue eyes and then he lost control of all his body.
He burst out of the water and flew into the air with two jet black feathery angel wings flying him. His eyes were a misty blue with a hint of white. He could not control himself, his blade turned white and grew a few inches and looked like it was energy was overflowing it. He slashed it around cutting the beast in ways not possible, under him his friends watching him in awe. He cut and slashed through it blood flew out of it. Then his blade disappeared and he seized the arm of the beast which held Rielle and the beast lit up white and then shattered into a billion black feathers Rielle fell into his arms he held her close to him, her hair against his face he soon gained consciousness’ and then dropped Rielle off and lost consciousness again and fell down into the boat his wings still there. His eyes were just barely open, he could see his friend’s faces over him as he soon lost consciousness the last thing he saw was Rielle’s gorgeous blue eyes looking at him and than the words fell out of her mouth in her sweet voice saying thanks

Chapter 10; Confession

2010-01-24T12:49:00.000-08:00

They’d finally finished and with some time to spare, but not enough to already start sailing, they decided because it was too dark to navigate they’d camp out and wait till dawn. They set up two tents, guys and girls, sided by side with a fire in the middle. They had sat around the fire. They talked, laughed and had fun; they also realized that the more time this journey had taken the closer they got as friends. Rayhan’s thoughts were similar but a bit different; he’d thought that because he’d had these guys for so long as friends that they would be considered his only family, he’d always thought that. Maybe because he never actually had a family and never knew what it was like to have a family, but he knew one thing for certain, that the only thing that separated him from them was that he’d had fallen in love with her. He’d known she was more to him than just a friend or family for that matter. She’d become his everything, or maybe even beyond, he just sometimes wished he’d never met her, that way he wouldn’t feel so empty, but then again he thought that his life would be much emptier if he’d never known her, but he’d also become accustom to her ways of life and he’d begin to fall in love with her more and not just based on her looks he’d seen deeper and he knew he would have suffered life if he’d never met her before.
He tried to enjoy himself the best he could, this might have been the last piece of enjoyment he and his friends might ever have had. With the whole Hell thing going around he didn’t know what could happen they were calculating forces they could not understand to the slightest. He knew that he had to try because he knew HL was the only people who could. He and the others were starting to get hungry but had nothing to eat they had to strive for the night. They went to bed. It was a cold hard night but Rayhan tried to ignore the frost of the night and thought of the enchanting thought of Rielle. Darkness was surrounding them. After a few hours Rayhan got tired of trying to fall asleep. He got out of the tent and looked up into the black inky stars. They were beautiful. The moon wasn’t visible. Only a dark faint sight of a white orb scarcely seen, it was almost completely gone. He walked around in the darkness only visible by the shine of white lightning stars that shined above him. He was cold. He was cut bruised and hurt. He looked around in the darkness of the night and could only see a few mountains so far in the distance they looked like they were roughly the size of a staple, and they were as faint as the moon, but they had a face shining. The ground was hard empty and cold, completely flat and nothing grew above these badlands. The fire was out and he didn’t bother warming himself up. There was no wind pressure he could control. It was just brutally cold. He could se his own breath so clearly it looked like smoke was emitting from his mouth. His skin was exposed to the cold, there was barely anything left of the shirt he had worn he’d ripped so much of it for tourniquets he had nothing to cover himself with. He tried to create friction with his hands but it didn’t work, if he lit a fire he’d be using up the flame for other nights. The light of the stars reflected on the shining sand, and water creating an amazing red affect. He didn’t want to go back into the tent and bother waking everyone up over his small cold problem. He didn’t feel hungry at all. He was now starting to yearn the old days back at school in the scorching heat sitting on a burning tarmac at school, against a wall of fire, sweating like they had been on fire for days that now seemed like pleasure, probably because he’d never suffered strife back then. He remembered the good times they’d made Ecyd-Lebmac suffer, and then from one large rock with an inscription on it had changed everything for them forever.
He yearned for this day to come, he wanted to strive. Money didn’t mean anything to him; it only showed him how blind a man could get. Maybe he’d have been better off not surviving, and just dying like most of the people and being captured, he wasn’t ready for this, but he’d made it too far now to turn back his chance was over, for why then did he try to escape the cell? It was probably because it was in his nature to be rebellious, to take chances, gain hope and run whenever he didn’t have the chance, the more someone closed him in the larger he’d get. He was frozen but he didn’t want to go get his HL cloak he wanted to suffer to strive to know what it was like to feel pain. Suddenly someone came from the second tent. It was Rielle. Rayhan was surprised, things never went the way he’d want them to and Rielle was the one person he yearned being alone with for so long. She looked at him. Their eyes locked, this was going way too differently than it should’ve it was like he was in a romance movie all of a sudden or a dream but it was all way too real and he wouldn’t be given the chance to wonder if it was a dream or not if it was a dream. He looked into her beautiful blue eyes as they shined in the light of the stars. It was magnificent, his heart skipped. His stomach was squirming like as if he was lying and suspected of it. He knew the last thing he’d want to do was look someone straight in the eyes, his eyes were like the one open book, once someone looked him in the eyes he’d be given away, looking them in the eye was his way of surrendering he was a terrible liar.
“Hey” she said.
“Hey” he replied.
“Couldn’t sleep?” she asked.
“Yeah” said Rayhan. He was thinking of something to say but nothing came into his mind so he just as quickly as he could he thought of something random to not attract attention.
“Guess what” he said very fast.
“What?” she asked.
“Chicken butt” he said. They laughed.
“You got me” she laughed. Rayhan thought of something else to say something to start a conversation. He was terrible at that. He waited for something to come up then he almost laughed at the thought, he was so stupid, this should’ve been the first thing that popped into his mind.
“So what do you think of all of this?” asked Rayhan.
“I don’t know, well I don’t know, because I miss everyone back home and this was all kinda random I mean what the hell, this makes no sense, but I’m having a good time” she said.
“Yeah I sort of think that too but if anything it’s only brought all of us closer as friends and that’s good, hah to be honest I’m kind of happy all of this happened, I mean I couldn’t go another day back home with nothing happening and now here we are the biggest thing to ever happen to any human being is now happening to us” said Rayhan.
“You took that knockout pretty hard that day, are you alright?” asked Rayhan just saying the first thing that came to mind.
“Yeah, I’m fine now, and thanks a lot for carrying me” she said. It was bitter silent. Then Rayhan noticed he didn’t feel cold at all anymore with Rielle with him, he didn’t bother thinking why.
“So we’re going tomorrow?” she asked.
“Yup” said Rayhan.
“Okay” she said. Rayhan noticed that the redness of the water had melted into the sky. The sky was now a reddish black. He looked at her she was staring at the water. Her long loose blonde hair was waving slightly and her shining blue eyes were focused on the water. She was wearing black. It was all she had left after the Hell thing started. She still looked really pretty to him.
“You look beautiful tonight” he said. He noticed he’d just blurted out something he shouldn’t have.
“Thanks” she said calmly. He felt relaxed, but now he knew he had to tell her.
“Hey, can I tell you something?” he asked.
“What?” she said.
“I hope you don’t hate me after this but I really like you” he said. She started to laugh a bit.
“No, I don’t hate you why would you think I hate you?” she asked.
“I don’t know some people are just like that” he said. He really wished he worded that differently.
“No I don’t hate you I’m used my friends liking me” she said looking at him. He knew he liked her more than they did, they’d associated her looks too much, and he liked her for more than that.
“Well it’s just, cause, I…. I like you a lot, I… well I guess what I’m trying to say is, I don’t want anything bad to ever happen to you” he said.
“Awww well I hope nothing bad happens to me” she said.
“And if anything does I’m there for you” he said.
“Aww thanks” she said. Rayhan had nothing more to say but now he still felt empty.
“Though if I asked you what would you say?” he asked her.
“Well, I’d say no cause I don’t like you” she said. That hit him hard.
“Sorry” she said. Rayhan knew though that he could never be angry at her though. He had to get her something.
“I… it’s alright” he said frowning and returning to his tent. He fell asleep directly afterwards. He didn’t think about it, but in the morning he felt bad for what he did last night.

Chapter 9; Elnar

2010-01-24T12:48:00.000-08:00

Everyone but Rayhan was taken aback by the appearance of a grey wolf out of no where. They all stood in awe.
“Hello” said the wolf.
“Okay I’ve got to admit that, that is pretty cool, but anyway can he help us?” asked Steven.
“I think so” said Rayhan.
“Do you know what we can do to destroy Hell and reclaim earth?” asked Sarah.
“Well there is one thing you can do to prevent the world from perishing. You need to travel to the forest of memories and collect the amulet of Ethena” he said.
“Amulet of Ethena?” asked Rayhan perplexed.
“Yes the amulet of Ethena is the ultimate source of the energy that rests within the earth it’s one of the nine elemental relics. You see long before any of us were around there was nothing but space, then came the 7 sages that created the nine different amulets to protect the universe and an ultimate hourglass which sealed in the darkness but the darkness escaped while we created earth that is why the human is made up of two major sides light and darkness, the strongest sage the sage of balance declared that neither darkness can survive without light and no light can thrive without darkness. The universal hourglass not only counts time but ever grain of sand is made up of either light or darkness and there are as many light grains as dark the amulets serve as a barrier around the hourglass to protect the sand but the sand found a way out and destroyed the barrier and so there is darkness spread throughout the universe and the relics were sent and separated throughout the never ending reaches of heaven’s light” he explained.
“Okay then” said Steven.
“But how do we get to this forest?” asked Rayhan.
“How do you get around back home, what leads you there?” asked Elnar.
“We use a map” said Jessica.
“Well then do the same here” said Elnar.
“But we don’t have one” said Rayhan.
“Check your pockets” said Elnar. Rayhan checked his pocket and found a map.
“Wow, how’d you do that?” asked Rayhan.
“I didn’t someone else did” said Elnar disappearing.
“Okay well let’s see if we’re here and the forest of memories is there, but wait what’s going on, this map is like growing?” said Rayhan.
“I guess he wasn’t kidding when he said “never ending reaches of heaven’s light” now it looks pretty far but we have to try, imagine, as of now the rest of the planets fate is in our hands, all our friends all our families, well except Rayhan’s no offence, but the life of all those people is in our hands we can’t let them down” said Paul.
“Yeah, and we’re only 13-14 and already we have to take all this, we have to fucking try this at least now we’ve had something to fight for” said Rielle.
“We all have our own reasons of fighting” said Rayhan looking at Rielle. No one noticed. He looked away.
“Let’s remember we’re all in this together” said Rayhan.
“No matter what happens, we will make it through this together” said Steven.
“It’s just like old times, running away from supervisors and rebelling against older people” said Pierre.
“Just like old times” said Rielle.
“Yeah” said Jessica.
“Alright, let’s pack up and get started” said Rayhan.
They all left the room and gathered their weapons and armour. They were ready and were about to leave.
“Hey” said Sarah.
“Hey” said Rayhan returning the greeting.
“When we’re done with all this we can all go back to living but this time Steven and I are gonna come live with you guys” said Sarah.
“Alright, fine with me, we can all hang out, if we make it” said Rayhan trying to feel confident about this situation but was failing miserably at it, it was just too confusing, and nothing like this had ever happened to anyone, he’d be the first.
“Oh, and by the way, I know your secret” said Sarah.
“What do you mean?” asked Rayhan.
“You like her don’t you, Rielle?” asked Sarah. Rayhan was confused. He knew that he’d barely known her and already she made this connection perfectly fine.
“You know what you’re wrong” said Rayhan with a smirk.
“Really?” asked Sarah. Rayhan decided to let her know it wasn’t safe to keep everything inside him but so far he’d told her the truth.
“Yeah, you’re wrong, I don’t like her I love her” said Rayhan.
“Well don’t feel bad about it I’ve seen you guys together, you guys are good friends, if you like her a lot more who knows you two might end up together, I can definitely imagine that” she said.
“Really, thanks” said Rayhan.
“No problem it’s what friends are for, if you need anyone to talk to don’t be afraid to talk to us the seven of us are best friends and make sure you remember that” said Sarah.
“Thank you, it means a lot and feels good to know you have people you can count on and people counting on you” said Rayhan.
“No problem” said Sarah leaving the room. Sarah was a four teen year old girl with thick but straightened black hair and brown eyes. Steven was a tall four teen year old guy with brown curly hair, he had brown eyes and hair at the top of his head that curled, it was short but he was tall and he was quite strong too.
They were ready to leave so they gathered their things and left for the forest, they also acquired some other armour, and Rayhan found some black glove armlets. It was like a glove with huge silver shining metal armours that stretched across the forearm of the glove that covered up to his elbows and surprisingly fit perfectly. He also found a shield with a shining silver mirror at the front of it to protect the entire shield; the silver metal had a carving on the front that spelled out “HL” in kingthings spike font. They all also found a black cloak with a white rim and hood with the corner spelling “HL” they assumed that HL meant Heaven’s Light. Even if it didn’t they would use it as that. They were walking across a bridge halfway down the mountain the map in Pierre’s hand he navigated them. They talked on the way to their destination which was pretty far; they’d stop by some places and camp out. They were soon at a strange place; it looked like they were at the edge of the island. There was a sea of water that was red. And the sand wasn’t normal white or beige it was black, jet black like ashes. The sky was still bright blue. There was some sort of raft there with them it was at the edge of the water on the sand just sitting there. Pierre started to walk up to it and was about to touch it when Paul stepped in.
“NO!” he yelled. He pulled Pierre back before he could touch the substance.
“Dude it isn’t smart to touch stuff that we know nothing about” said Paul. He seized a nearby rock and whipped it into the water and the object began to slowly disappear in a fraction of the second the water consumed it.
“See that rock that could’ve been you” said Paul. Pierre fell silent; Paul had just saved his life from a near death experience.
“Then how’s the boat still floating unharmed?” asked Rayhan.
“I don’t know, but wait look under it, it looks like it has some sort of thing protecting it” noted Paul.
“Maybe that black thing is the only thing that can stand with the water” said Paul who seemed to have become the brains of the group.
“But if we all need to get through how are we all supposed to fit in that boat it’ll sink?” said Sarah.
“True and there’s no way around it either” said Pierre examining the map.
“We’ll have to split up” said Paul.
“No way, who knows what might happen, besides it’s not like we can communicate with one another? And even if we do split up how do all of us get through?” asked Rayhan.
“Rayhan’s got a point” said Rielle.
“If we split up we won’t all get through and it’s more of a risk to even try to get through separately” said Rielle.
“Rayhan what do you think we should do?” asked Steven.
“Well let’s see, we have to get through and we can’t separate and we only have one boat and there’s no way around” he said scratching his chin.
“I got an idea” he said.
They all looked at him suspiciously he was smart but it was just Rayhan was the type of Think-outside-of-the-box kind of guy, if he had a plan it would probably be something they’d never thought of.
“Okay, so you see the metal-like thing under the boat? Well what’s special about metal is that it’s more tangible than other objects if we can stretch the metal enough to make a raft for all of us so that we can all fit in it we can all sail through” said Rayhan.
“It’s a bit outburst but it’s all we’ve got unless you want to end up like the rock” he said.
“Where do you come up with this stuff?” asked Pierre.
“Physics and engineering” said Rayhan.
“Nice idea” said Rielle. Rayhan smiled at her.
“But wait, what if we break it?” asked Sarah.
“What makes metal? Fire and earth which we can control” said Rayhan.
“Nice so let’s get to it” said Paul.
They all seized the boat and started to pull off the nails and pull the metal to stretch it into a raft like shape.

Chapter 8; Understanding

2010-01-24T12:47:00.000-08:00

He lay there and eventually fell asleep. He rested the rest of the day and woke at night. The sun had sunken the fog outside was white and the sky black illuminated by about a billion stars, he’d never seen so many stars in his entire life before, because the lights were always on in the city but now in utter darkness he could clearly see the greatness and amazing stars light up the night. He was rested and decided to explore the castle for a while. He noticed everyone was asleep. He left his room and walked along the hallway, this hallway had a wall to his left and to his right were windows extending the wall’s height, they were church windows, they were very thin and had curtains. There were about twelve of them filling the entire hallway wall. They were thin like church windows with two blood red curtains hanging at each side. He came out of his room and sat by the windows his back against the glass. He felt the icy cold glass touch his skin. He was cut and bleeding but he didn’t feel any pain at least not compared to the pain he felt inside himself. He couldn’t stop thinking of her.
He didn’t feel scared or in any negativity towards this whole Hell thing because he knew it was him who yearned for all this to happen but he didn’t expect himself to have so many strong feelings towards one of his best friends. He closed his eyes and tried to imagine her face but whenever he did he just felt the darkest feelings come over him. The blood that was running through his veins and the scars left for battle all he ever wanted was a single reason to fight for and now he’d gotten it, Rielle she was his reason he remembered what had happened back in the tunnels where he completely lost control of his powers and that he’d become a monster with the most violent and painful power, to dehydrate. How he ripped the plant into the weakest thing ever something barely alive with nothing running within it. He didn’t just kill the plant he destroyed its entire being for her and she was unconscious the entire time, he knew he wouldn’t hide this from her. He knew it was wrong, he’d have to tell her soon, but maybe when things cleared off he didn’t want too much going on when he’d tell her something so big. He would tell her after she’d feel better about things.
For a couple of hours he just sat there quietly. His eyes closed, feeling the cold window burn against his cuts. He was quiet and all was silent. The wind started to blow and then the silence was broken. The wind was quietly whispering around against the window. He opened his eyes and got up. He looked around. He needed to get stronger if he ever had to fight hell and even have a chance to win. He climbed the stairs to the roof. He had to climb the staircase. He finally made it to the top. It was cold. The wind was strong and there was fog everywhere and he could barely see the moon clearly but lucky for him up here he had a lot of room to practice air and it being a windy night it might even be easier for him. He tried to properly control his power. He tried random swings and stopping the swings without having his arm blow off. He tried throwing gusts at himself and light blasts. He even tried floating by using the air but he didn’t get any higher than a few inches off the ground. He decided to use his sword to control the wind instead of just his hands. He slashed and tried to refine his slashes so that the wind became like the extension of the blade. He couldn’t think of anything else to do so he just sat down and decided to watch the stars. He was disappointed, he had to get stronger more relaxed with controlling the wind and ease but he didn’t know how if only he had a teacher someone who might’ve been familiar with this kind of stuff but there was no one he knew that could control wind or know that much about it to begin with, and even if there was they’d probably be gone by now or in hell’s clutches, and he’d gotten enough of that place after visiting and revisiting it.
“You want to become stronger” said a male’s voice from behind him. Rayhan got to his feet at once and pulled out a blade ready to attack.
“I can help you” said the voice. He turned around and found a wolf. He ceased guard. He was confused.
“I am Elnar” the sage of leadership. Rayhan fell back in surprise he’d been face to face with a talking wolf.
“How are you doing that?” asked Rayhan.
“Doing what?”
“Talking!” said Rayhan afraid.
“Why does it bother you that I can talk? After all you can too?” said Elnar.
“Well yeah! You’re a wolf you aren’t supposed to talk!” said Rayhan getting back up.
“Rayhan you need to understand you aren’t home anymore, in order to survive this place you’ll have to live by your imagination” said Elnar.
“What do you mean? Where am I? What is this Place? How do you know my name?” asked Rayhan.
“I know all that there is to know, I am Elnar the sage of leadership and you are in heaven’s light” said Elnar.
“Okay well what do you want?” asked Rayhan.
“It’s not what I want that really concerns you” said Elnar.
“So you’re here to help me?” asked Rayhan.
“You could say that, but the better thing to say would be that I’m a sage I’m your sage sent to protect you and help you, I know all that you know and I know more, I’m here to help you with anything you need. I’ve been watching over you and I know everything about you and some things about you that you yourself may not even know” said Elnar.
“Do you know what happened to my parents?” asked Rayhan.
“Yes I do” said Elnar.
“Can you tell me?” asked Rayhan.
“No I cannot” said Elnar.
“Why not?” asked Rayhan.
“I’m your protector everyone has one but I wasn’t here to help you understand if I told you all the secrets of the universe there would be no point for you to be living” said Elnar.
“Oh okay well can you tell me how I can find out?” asked Rayhan.
“Time will bring that” said Elnar.
“I know all because I am not only one” said Elnar separating into five differently coloured wolves. One was blue and made of water, one was white and made of ice, one was green and made of earth, one was silver and made of metal, one was brown and made of wood, one was red and made of fire, one was grey and apparently controller of the winds, one was a lighter blue and controller of clouds, one was yellow and controller of lightning and there were two others one golden and one black with white marks over it. Rayhan thought that maybe the black and white one was the one of space and the golden one was the one of time.
“So everyone has a wolf watching over them?” asked Rayhan.
“Not necessarily a wolf and not necessarily everyone” said Elnar.
“What do you mean?” asked Rayhan.
“Only people with a strong heart have a guardian sage and the sage is in the form of the animal that corresponds best with the person they are given to if given at all” said Elnar.
“Well then I’m glad that I have one” said Rayhan.
“Thank yourself for it, because you loved her enough you saved her life that requires a lot of caring and a great heart” said Elnar.
“But Steven saved Sarah didn’t he?” said Rayhan.
“Yeah I know and yes he also has one” said Elnar.
“Well I know I saved Rielle and all but I couldn’t have just let her die like that I mean despite the fact that I love her but it’s not in my nature to let her die” said Rayhan.
“You are correct, but you saved her and you took the time to ask he if she was doing well, you carried her when no one else did, you stood by her side, you killed the tree dragon for her and you’ve always told yourself that you wouldn’t let anything bad ever to happen to her and that shows just how strong your heart is” said Elnar.
“I guess you’re right” said Rayhan.
“But that isn’t what’s really bothering you right now is it?” asked Elnar.
“Yeah I know I want to get stronger” said Rayhan.
“And that’s precisely why I’m here right now” said Elnar.
“Thank you” said Rayhan.
“It’s what I’m created for” said Elnar. The rest of the night Rayhan spent training with Elnar, he got stronger and faster and managed to get through the training he’d wanted to and more.
“Now before I leave you I have to give you something, take this golden harp and play it when you need me to appear for any reason” said Elnar dropping a small golden harp with silver strings. The gold was carved to make an angel design on it.
“Alright” said Rayhan taking the harp.
“I have to go now” said Elnar. He walked off the edge of the roof and continued to float in mid air as if there were some sort of invisible floor that he was walking on, the air on which he stood there was a white misty circle outlining his paw wherever he stepped and then suddenly he disappeared in the wind.
Rayhan went back down and into his room. It was dark in the hallway. He crossed the moonlit carpet and leaned back against the window, he was exhausted but he knew he couldn’t sleep even if he wanted to. He walked to his room and just as he was about to open the door to the room he noticed something he hadn’t noticed before, on the door was carved: “Heaven’s Light” and under it was written his name in golden and elegant script. He then realized what Elnar meant by being prepared for anything. He had nothing much to do. He just sat there quietly. His shirt was off to prevent him from sweating. His back was against the cold window as he sat on the extended windowsill. He closed his eyes and let the cuts on his back sting, it didn’t bather him all it did was keep him from sleeping. The very next day he was still sitting completely wide awake. He just waited for everyone else to wake up. Once they woke up at different times they had breakfast and all sat down at the table.
“Alright well now all we need is a map” said Steven.
“We have one” said Pierre.
“No we don’t we have one of earth which really doesn’t help us anymore” said Steven.
“Could you steal us another one Pierre?” asked Rielle.
“Hey it isn’t as easy as you think guys I have to take time out of battle and risk my own life for a map” said Pierre.
“I have a map of Heaven’s Light” said Rayhan.
“You have a map of us?” said Steven perplexed. Sarah burst out laughing.
“Pfft no I have a map of this place a wolf told me that this place was called heaven’s light” said Rayhan.
“Yeah that makes a lot of sense, looks like we’ve lost Rayhan to loopy Ville” said Paul. Pierre chuckled and Sarah burst out laughing again. Everyone turned to her.
“Sorry she’s easily amused” said Steven.
“I’m done” she laughed. Everyone laughed.
“If you guys don’t believe me see him for yourself” said Rayhan pulling out a harp.
“Wow sick where’d you get that?” asked Pierre surprised.
“Elnar” said Rayhan they all watched him as he strum a string that made the most amazing sound. Then out of the sound of the harp came a light and stepped out the grey wolf Elnar.

Chapter 7; Broken Pipes

2010-01-24T12:46:00.000-08:00

They were all back to the muddy mountain. They looked around; the water had filled up the entire area. The castle was resting on top of the water.
“Looks like we should head back” said Pierre discouraged.
“Wait! There are other ways of getting in” said Rayhan.
“How about the sewage?” asked Rielle.
“Great idea” Rayhan smiled subtly.
They all went down into the sewage. It was dark and wet. They needed to make sure they didn’t touch any of the water that was leaking. They had to be careful not to apply too much wait or too much sound, because of the boiling intensity of the water it had weakened the structure of the pipes, so they became sensitive and if they made movement it might just split open and burn them all to death. They were walking silently bent down and on their toes very slowly and silently.
“Guys stay quiet we might end up splitting the pipes and dying if we make too much noise” whispered Paul. They suddenly heard a loud clunk. They all fell silent and stopped moving.
Once again they heard it louder than before this time and then again CLUNK! As if something had broken. They all turned around. There was nothing there but darkness and the cold eerie rusting pipes. They all pulled out a weapon. They continued to move forward despite the loud clangs of metal. They arrived to the heart of the plumbing. They started to run as the clunking got closer and louder. They came into a large spherical room with different holes around leading to different pipes, but they were too busy awing at something else to notice which way to go. A giant tree was in the centre of the room and was taking up the entire place, but this was no ordinary tree it had black burnt faces around the centre of it. It had billions of sharp branches and venomous swellings. It was horrible, the faces made a loud roar.
Rayhan, Pierre, Rielle, Steven, Sarah, Paul and Jessica pulled their weapons out. They had to use long ranged weapons to get a distant shot so Pierre and Rielle pulled out their bow and arrows, and everyone else pulled out their silent pistols. They all shot from different angles but the tree only got angrier. It waved branches at them trying to slash them.
“The entrance to the main hall I believe is under the tree!” said Paul.
The tree shot poisonous spikes at them which they managed to dodge but few were left infected. Those infected were Rielle, Sarah and Pierre but Pierre was only partially infected he could still fight but his arm hurt. Rielle and Sarah fell to the ground unconscious. Pierre, Steven, Rayhan and Paul continued to fight.
“Guys I think I got an idea of how to bring this thing down, its faces must be the weak point they keep shooting the spikes, then after that maybe it gets unconscious or something. Aim for the faces!” Rayhan shouted.
They started shooting at the faces. They were burning and the entire plant fell motionless. They took out their swords and daggers. They started hitting the swollen parts and the beast started weakening and then got back up after a few minutes. They took out their guns out and started shooting again. Rayhan hurried to Rielle and Steven to Sarah to see their condition.
“Hey, are you alright?” asked Rayhan.
“I think so” said Rielle. She tried to stand. She managed to with some difficulty.
“Do you think you can make it?” asked Rayhan.
“I don’t know I think I can” she said
“You sure you don’t want to sit out for a while you don’t need to fight I’ll make sure you stay safe” he said.
“No I can make it don’t worry, we have to take care of this bitchy tree!” she said.
“Alright take it easy and if you need any help I’ll be next to you so you just say so” said Rayhan.
“Alright thanks” said Rielle pulling out her pistol.
They started shooting none stop the tree was starting to use some new techniques. It started to use its branches to chase after them and its faces started to blow fire. Rielle had an idea she decided to go straight up to the faces and beat them down face to faces. She jumped on a branch that was chasing her and climbed wit her daggers Rayhan tried not to let her get too far from him he didn’t want anything to go wrong. She made it to the faces; they were bony and ugly with black teeth. She was out of usable daggers and arrows she had nothing but her bare hands. She threw a punch and a kick the faces screamed in pain. But then on bit her firmly she fell completely motionless. Rayhan hurried to her as the tree threw her off of the branch and she landed on the ground. He cut the branches open and shot about a thousand bullets at it completely killing the faces and knocking it yet again unconscious. He put her head on his lap.
“Open your eyes” he said. She slowly opened her eyes. Her arm was bleeding and seriously infected. She then fell unconscious. He was now angry. He got up and dropped his gun and sword. His eyes turned white and glowed unnaturally. He started to float into the air. He had lost control of all power. He used the energy of wind to extract every ounce of water inside of it and dehydrating the plant leaving it less than alive, it fell to the ground and disappeared into dust. Rayhan tied a piece of cloth around her arm and carried her down through the tunnel. Pierre and Sarah were starting to slow down, Pierre still managing to move. Sarah fell over Steven picked her up. Pierre was still running. He could still make it. They arrived into the main hall. It was dark and quiet. They climbed the stairs. No soldiers and no Hell to be seen anywhere around the sector.
“How is she” asked Steven.
“Not too good but I think she’ll make it” said Rayhan.
“How’s Sarah?” asked Rayhan.
“I’m not sure but she might also make it” said Steven.
They hurried up the stairs and through the doors and were climbing a spiralling stair case. They made it to the top after a few minutes of walking and were tired. They were at the roof. They decided to rest for a while and catch their breath.
“This is harder than I thought” said Rayhan.
“Alright you guys ready to leave yet?” asked Rayhan.
“Yeah let’s go” said Steven as they all rose form the ground and left. They headed down the stairs again and arrived at the main engine room. It was extremely hot in there they had a hard time breathing in there. They clogged the engine and headed to what looked like a temple at the very highest roof which was at least two hundred and fifty thousand ft above ground which was very, very high. They all sat in a corner behind something and found hell in a black cloak.
He looked around making sure not to be followed.
“What’s he up to?” whispered Paul.
They watched attentively. He grabbed a handful of some sort of black ash –like powder and threw it onto the floor. He pulled out a piece of paper with the same design as the one they found in the cells, he closed his eyes and clapped both his hands together and placed them onto the design and it began to glow then a black gate about three hundred and fifty feet tall grew out of the ground. The large black doors swung open and a swirl of light swirled within the gate as he went through, Pierre, Rayhan, Paul and Steven went through. They were suddenly on a white glowing floor with a tornado of swirling light spun around them with colors they never even imagined real. They were being lifted into what looked like the sun. They felt the world revolve around them it was amazing. They felt airborne there was no feeling to properly describe it. They soon where in the sun and found themselves in an entirely different place. Around themselves they could see things never imagined it look like they were in another world of some sort and the sky was bright blue, there were mountains in the distance and forests the sight was phenomenal, they could have never imagined such a place in their wildest dreams it was captivating.
This world was amazing, it was perfect. It was beautiful from every inch. They didn’t want to leave this place. They’d never seen anything like this ever before in their lives. Hell couldn’t be seen anywhere though they’d lost him but found what they were looking for. They needed to find a place to stay and keep safe from hell, but why then aside from all this did hell turn such an amazing place down for that puny earth? There must’ve been a reason for that, but they were tired and needed to sleep. They decided to walk and whatever they would come across they would use for a shelter. They started to walk Rayhan and Steven still carrying Sarah and Rielle. They were somewhere they’d finally found. They walked for miles and miles and miles but didn’t find the slightest trace of shelter they could use. They climbed mountains sailed across lakes and finally arrived to what looked like a decent castle thingy. It was at the top of a mountain. They climbed it and went in. It looked abandoned.
“Hello!” cried Paul but only to be shadowed by his own echo. The castle was large and amazing. It was at the top of a mountain. The sun was setting the mountain was surrounded by fog and bellow they could sonly see the tips of rocks.
They each searched for a room to lie down. Luckily there were just enough rooms for each of them. Rayhan set Rielle down in a room and Steven set Sarah down in a room. They were asleep. Rayhan went into the room he found and lay down onto the soft bed, for so long he longed for a soft decent bed to rest on. He found the room to his liking. It was large, a red carpet a window the size of an entire wall that showed the sunset, a desk, a bookshelf a closet, a bed and two side tables. He finally had reached relaxation.

Chapter 6; Escape

2010-01-24T12:45:00.000-08:00

Steven was on the other side. He started to dig, Rayhan, Rielle, Pierre and Sarah started to lock the doors. After making sure the doors where locked they gave the signal and Steven gave the thumbs up to show he was done digging. They hurried to the rope and climbed across once they made it to the other side with Steven they began to climb into the hole and arrived to the coils they then clogged it and swam across the water to the other side and started to climb the extremely steep mountain to get to the top and escape. They were at the edge the boiling water was somehow growing and they were running out of time.
“Guys we have to hurry up” said Steven.
They agreed and wasted no time in climbing the steep mountain, it wasn’t easy because it began to rain and they were really tired and the wall became slippery. They had trouble climbing it. They were constantly falling over and tripping. Steven was the highest followed by Rayhan, Pierre, Rielle, Jessica and Sarah. They didn’t stop the guards must’ve found a way to get past the doors by now. Steven was at the top and then was Rayhan, Pierre and Rielle. Jessica and Sarah were left. Jessica had now made it but Sarah was having a hard time climbing. They were all cover in mud. Sarah was about halfway through. When she slipped the water was drawing closer to the mountain now.
“Sarah!” cried Steven as he jumped back and slid down to her. He held her and began to climb and got higher, it just so happened, that Sarah was injured and Steven had to carry her up the mountain. He climbed higher and higher with much difficulty and he finally made it to the top.
“Thanks I think I can make it now” she said. He set her down and the six of them began to run across the badlands, over the completely flat surface with no vegetation of any sort growing. They ran without stopping, in the middle of the night, being chased by billions of soldiers and warriors.
They’d made it to a small landslide. The ground was lifted just about half of a metre. They crawled in. Raining outside, they were tired, hungry and cold. Under the landslide over the flat badlands they were running above. It was small, dark they had enough room to move around no way of anyone finding them. They started a fire to keep warm and to supply light to the small area. Rayhan sat in a corner by the fire. Steven sat by the crack they’d gotten in through, Jessica, Sarah and Rielle sat together at a wall close to the fire and Pierre sat by Steven.
“Okay, I think we’re safe here” said Steven.
“Great, this place is like that of where we were hiding before we got captured, but now we have weapons, a chart and some sort of design that we need to decipher” said Rayhan. Throughout the cave it was silent except for the heavy breathing coming from all of them.
“Thanks Steven you really saved my life” Sarah said giving him a kiss.
“I have to protect you no matter what happens” he said.
“I have to say that was very reckless of you, but I gotta admit that was very courageous of you to risk your life for hers, Sarah you’re in good hands and I think we can all say that” said Pierre. They all agreed.
“No matter what happens no one rats anyone out, and no matter what happens we stay together, this is the hardest thing we’ve ever done together, no secrecy, no arguments and we all keep everything between this circle and maybe a few more people we all invite if any of you guys ever feel suspicious about anyone we invite let us now we all have to trust one another, now we need a name, something that’ll render the merciful fearful, let’s see how about we call ourselves the Heaven’s Light?” asked Rayhan.
“Makes sense since that tyrants name was Hell” said Steven. The six of them decided to call themselves now and throughout this whole journey the heaven’s light.
“Okay well it looks like its getting late we should get our rest for now and try to get up early tomorrow” said Rayhan.
They all agreed and fell asleep. Steven fell asleep within seconds; this had been a tiring night for him, Rayhan didn’t, he had too much running in his mind, Rielle, who this hell person was and how he associated Rielle, Pierre and Jessica were all travelling with him. This Hell person seemed familiar to him in some way but he knew so far in his life he’d never seen him or that’s what he thought at least. As the night passed he was falling more and more in love with Rielle. Even with all this Hell jazz Rielle was still his main priority. He couldn’t think of any way he’d been able to have known hell without meeting him. All he could really do is associate that with having something to do with his parents because both of these were becoming a mystery to him. He was satisfied but didn’t want this adventure to end at all it was way too fun and he finally got what he’d been waiting for, for so long. He knew though no matter what he’d protect Rielle for all he knew Rielle had become his top priority. After these pleasant thoughts filled his head he fell asleep yearning for the night to end and the day to dawn. The morning did come as they all woke up simultaneously.
“So how are we going to hide you saw how many there were over there and I just know that they’d probably swarmed the entire planet in search for us or maybe not even just us it might just so happen that they’ve swarmed the entire planet to destroy it!” said Rayhan panicking.
“I’m not sure I thought you might’ve had something in mind” said Steven.
“I do” said Pierre. They all looked at him wondering what his twisted mind had come up with. He pulled out a map.
“I stole this” he said.
“I don’t get it when do you get the time to steal these things from people you’re practically invisible” said Sarah.
“Trust me I know Pierre better than anyone, and he has time to do that, he just makes it through he’s well you can call him a penguin” said Rayhan. Everything went silent. Then they burst out laughing.
“I mean like a penguin, fast and dodgy” said Rayhan.
“Well anyway we know that we can’t just hide in the crevasses of earth for too long we need to find somewhere else” said Rayhan.
“Where do you suggest?” asked Sarah.
“That’s exactly what we need to find out” said Rayhan.
“Let’s think for a moment, where can we go that we can’t be caught and still survive decently” said Rayhan.
The room burst into the silence of thought. Suddenly a loud thud had just hit the rock above them and they all fell silent and afraid. Then they heard a loud cry of pain and a splatter of blood. They now fell silent and ceased any movement. It was silent after a while. Rayhan decided to check it out. He climbed out. He was out and saw a guy just about 14 extremely strong holding a sword that weighed at least two-hundred pounds. It gleamed in the sunlight and the rim was covered in blood and behind him laid a dead soldier.
“Who are you?” exclaimed Rayhan holding his blade ready to use the only weapon he possessed. The guy just stared into his eyes.
“You can call me Paul” he said.
“And why’ve you come here?” asked Rayhan.
“I’m a rebel” he said. Rayhan noticed this guy was heavily armoured and his left eye was bandaged heavily. He wore black metal armour and not even just black his armour was jet black.
“What d’you want?” asked Rayhan.
“I want to be part of heaven’s light” he said.
Rayhan was confused the six of them had just called themselves the heaven’s light last night and throughout the whole night no one had any contact with anyone for them to know who they were and what they were addressed as so how did this guy know? Rayhan examined this guy he was dressed as if he’d been preparing for today for a while now. He wore the armour over his whole body and he held a huge thick blade. He also had his left eye covered and his hair was jet black and spiked, his skin was slightly dark put looked tan. He wore jeans covered in yet again black armour and he had two white black laced shoes. Frankly he looked quite casual except for the armour, sword and bandaging. He looked vicious and angry. Like a stray lion from his expression. Rayhan knew that he’d have to be on his guard for him anything could be crucial. Paul held his sword high. He was ready for battle. Rayhan knew what he was going on about He wanted a fight and Rayhan was going to give him exactly that. He pulled his sword up. Rayhan looked carefully into his eyes and he looked carefully into Rayhan’s. He struck Paul dodged and hit Rayhan with the back of his weapon. Rayhan almost fell back but got right back up and held his weapon high ready to strike. He slashed and cut Paul’s arm, which countered and cut across Rayhan’s chest. Rayhan fell back but managed to get back up. Rayhan thought of an idea, he grabbed the edge of his handle and threw the blade forward and cut him and then pulled it back by controlling the air around it. It flew right back into his clutch. He started whipping it like a chain and managed to render Paul to the ground but Paul got back up and threw a blast of fire at him making him fall face first into the ground and then pulled the blade out and held it to his neck. He had fallen.
“You still reconsidering me joining?” asked Paul. Rayhan didn’t like this guy at all but alas had no choice if he acted up now he could end up paying with his life he’d need to get strong and if this guy started acting funny he’d be ready.
“You’re welcome to join in” said Rayhan. Rayhan got up and rubbed the dust off him. Pierre, Sarah, Steven, Rielle and Jessica came back out. They met Paul as he introduced himself.
“Sorry about the fight and all you sort of caught me off guard” said Paul.
“It’s alright” said Rayhan. They all went back under the rock.
“Nice place you got here where’d you get the design, Ikea?” asked Paul.
“Well there isn’t much where we can go now thanks to hell he’s got his armies swarming the entire planet this is one of the only places they haven’t searched” said Sarah.
“Well then what you guys have to do is to find somewhere other than earth to plan out what you guys are going to do” said Paul.
“What do you mean other than earth, are suggesting we go to another planet because let’s not forget we’re only six fourteen year old teenagers who have no clue how to work a rocket or in any case where to find one at all” said Jessica.
“Ah but hey I didn’t say we were going to another planet now did I?” asked Paul.
“All we need to know is where this Hell person came from and we can easily find out where we can go because hey they really just sort of fell out of the sky they might’ve used like a portal or something, who here is probably the smartest about physics and astronomy?” asked Paul.
“That’d be me” said Rayhan.
“Remember it was my idea to take physics and I’ve been studying astronomy ever since I could read” said Rayhan.
“That’s true” said Pierre and soon all of them agreed.
“Okay well do you know where we can find a rocket in case we need one?” asked Paul.
“We won’t need to find one if we can build one” said Rayhan.
“Okay well if you can give us the proper materials for that we can easily pull this off” said Paul.
“Great now what we have left to do is to stalk hell and find out some more information, do some recon” said Steven.
“Right” said Rayhan.
“So let’s go” said Paul.
“Wow now you guys just can’t go back in there without proper weaponry. Here I know a place where we can stalk up on weaponry” said Paul.
They followed Paul to what looked like a left over weapon’s bunker. They went in and fount to their amazement billions of weapons. They all only needed a hand gun and possibly a few grenades. After getting packed they left. They all left for the prison. They were careful not to disturb any of the sensors.

Chapter 5; Tactic

2010-01-24T12:44:00.000-08:00

Rayhan woke up the next day; the sun had stopped shining completely. He looked into the crack and was disappointed to see that there was no note. He got up. A guard arrived at the jail bars. The guard gave Rayhan a look of disgust. Rayhan just glared back into the guy’s eyes. He looked disgustingly at him as if he were some dead animal on the street. Rayhan tried to keep his anger low.
“Hey kid, you hungry?” he asked with a pleasant look on his face, Rayhan could tell that he was enjoying every minute of watching him suffer in hunger.
“Why?” asked Rayhan.
“You can go down assisted by me to the eating room with the other prisoners” he said.
“Alright, take me down” he said.
Rayhan had no intentions of eating but instead he wanted to go see his friends and this was just an asking opportunity. He remained in chains but the guards followed him down to make sure he didn’t escape, Rayhan had no intentions to escape either though causing trouble would only get them to expect him to do something bad. He arrived into the room. It was huge full of people that were rebelling. The rest of the people that were captured during the takeover Rayhan assumed were taken to a separate place. Rayhan didn’t quite understand why they were keeping the humans alive anyway. Rayhan looked around for his friends but found no face that even resembled theirs. He was disappointed. He looked around and found that they were under no roof. And that the food they were serving was absolutely disgusting. He felt lucky he wasn’t hungry.
Rayhan walked around and looked in case he’d see any of his friends. Then he heard someone scream. He turned around and he saw his friends and Rielle being thrown off her seat. Rayhan ran towards them he saw the man who’d thrown her. This made Rayhan angry especially because after he’d thrown her, he stood laughing at her expense.
“Hey little girl, you’ll have to learn this place isn’t for kids so you little children should hide in a corner! Piss of Bitch!” he laughed. Rayhan hurried in front of her and pushed the man onto the table.
“Oh look here, the bitch’s got a bulldog. Rayhan grabbed the man by the neck and threw him over the table and saw him land in the disgusting rotten food. The guy stood up tall and the people’s attention was directed to that area now. The man looked furious. He launched a fist and punched Rayhan across the face. Then the man grabbed him by the neck and threw him across the room and Rayhan fell onto the floor. Rayhan got up. He looked forward and walked back he grabbed the guy by the neck and punched him in the stomach and then kicked him across the face he held up two fists and as the guy got up and tried to kick Rayhan dodged it and performed a roundhouse kick knocking to the floor. Rayhan continued to walk forward and grabbed the guy by the shoulder and paralyzed him. It didn’t work the man kicked him in the face. It started to rain; the people went back into their cells Rayhan and the other man were left outside.
Rayhan threw a punch and nailed him in the face and the next second he smashed the man’s head onto his knee. The man looked dazed. He punched Rayhan in the face Rayhan was starting to bleed more and more. Then Rayhan smashed his elbow into his face that started to bleed. Rayhan was then thrown to a wall and rushed at head first but he managed to dodge it and the man hit a brick wall. The man fell unconscious. Rayhan went back in, bleeding. He went back into his cell once again confused. He’d just saved Rielle and raked in vengeance and he still felt miserable. He checked the crack and found a note. He read it to himself.
Thank you for responding to our first note and now we’ve come up with something, We found a piece of paper with a strange design on the wall completely stuck and immovable, rub off the dust on the wall closest to the bed and you might see the design, try to help us figure it out it looks like a kind of riddle try it out, and the man you saw that calls himself Hell write back as soon as you see the design and tell us your ideas and nice job with the fight.
Sarah and Steven
Rayhan rubbed the dust off the wall and found the design; it looked like a circle cult symbol or something of that nature. He looked carefully at it, it looked like it was written in blood or something, it wasn’t fresh it looked ancient. Covered in dust and worn out. He decided to give it a rest. He knew that he’d have to escape soon at any cost he needed to get stronger. He fell to the ground and starting doing push ups he did about a hundred and was worn out. After a few more weeks he’d be strong enough to rip through these metal bars. The guard walked in and he decided to just lay there helplessly pretending to have suffered enough.
“Look at you a few days ago you were acting all tough in front of the master and now look what you’re reduced to. You worthless little kid” the man laughed as he left the room.
Rayhan got up and started doing sit ups. He did about a hundred and then the guard walked in again and he lay there once more pretending to be crawling on the floor for mercy. After a few days he’d definitely gotten stronger. He wrote a note.
Thank you for your last note and sorry I haven’t written in a while I’ve been busy, but I definitely can’t understand the design I’m going to draw it out and maybe once we’re out of this deathtrap we can figure it out together, do you know why they’re keeping us alive? And where are the other people? And I’ve got a plan to escape but it’s not ready yet, you’ll have to wait a couple of more weeks and do you know if they’re going to kill us at all, if so tell me the dates if there’s a calendar anywhere. Write back soon okay?
Rayhan
Rayhan rolled it back up and placed it into the hole. He awaited an answer as he decided to work out more to get ready for the big escape. He did a hundred more push ups and sit ups. He then lay back in bed. He fell asleep after a couple of hours and he found another note in the hole. He read:
Thank you for the note and here’s some paper to draw the design. Another thing, we aren’t sure about the two questions you gave us but we do have a calendar posted in our cell they didn’t put one in yours for reasons unknown, they do intend to kill us all one by one in a few weeks your friends will be dead so we’re running out of time, then they’re going to kill me on the third and Sarah on the sixth so we really are almost out of time today is the 27th of August. We need to know your plan. Tell us and please write back as soon as you can time is of the essence.
Steven and Sarah
Rayhan realized that they were running out of time he started doing 200 a day and the next few weeks he was writing notes constantly he drew the symbol on the wall onto the paper and he was just about ready. The guards were on higher surveillance so this was going to be hard it had been the 2nd now and Rayhan knew in less then 1 day one of them might be dead. He decided it was time to do it now. He took a breath and ripped through the metal bars like butter and broke the door down. Guards surrounded him he took out his sword and cut through each of them he was running short on time. IT was midnight he kicked the door down and ripped the bars open with his strength, surprisingly he looked no different but felt about a billion times stronger. He freed them and headed down to the other cells and freed his friends, he had no time to free them all he didn’t even know where the others were.
“Guys we need to get your weapons but we need to find out how to get there without being caught by their master because if we do there’s no hope” he whispered.
Then about a thousand guards popped out of the corners they started to fight threw them. Once most of the guards were down they just knocked out the rest of them. They each grabbed one of their spears and armour and put them on to blend in. They started running across hallways and the entire building getting as many people free as possible. They managed to find the masters throne room, they grabbed their weapons and tried to get to the roof where they decided to wait and plan. They climbed stairs beat up more guards and hid from bigger guards. After a few hours they’d made it to the roof and they blocked the entrance.
“Well at least now we’re safe” said Rayhan.
“It’s nice to finally meet you guys in person I’m Rayhan” said Rayhan
“It’s nice to meet you too, I’m Steven and this is my girlfriend Sarah” said Steven
“I’m Pierre”
“I’m Jessica”
“And I’m Rielle”
“Who are theses people?” asked Jessica.
“These two were the guys that were planning the escape with me” said Rayhan.
“Anyway we need to get out of here, but how?” asked Rielle.
“I got an idea, but it’s a little rough” said Steven.
“What is it?” asked Rayhan.
“This entire place is surrounded by water, boiling, heated water, but they’re getting the water from a certain source, if we figure out where they’re getting the water from we might be able to top the continuation of the heat, and stop the heat from continuing because water has to be heated to be warm” he said.
“Then it’s a good thing I stole this diagram of this castle from one of the guards” said Pierre.
“Nice” said Steven. Pierre gave him the diagram. He lay it down flat and began to explain as everyone gathered around him and tried to see what he was explaining. See these coils over there that means it’s under water; we’re here on the lower tower. We need to get to the coil that is where the water is being distributed and heated we need to clog it any ideas?” asked Steven.
“We can easily clog it by putting something hard in it or……a rock” said Rayhan.
“Yeah that’ll work now the way to the coils is by getting under ground the only way we can get there is by climbing across the rope over there supporting the building, we need someone to take care of it somehow while the others need to lock the other doors so that the guards stay inside and if there are some guards outside we need to take care of them we need like boomerang to knock some of them out from up here” said Steven.
“We’ll make one but who’s going to go over and underground?” asked Rayhan.
“It’s extremely risky and very dangerous” said Pierre.
“But whose brave enough to go through with that?” asked Sarah.
“I have the stone we had that day we need to find out who can control earth” said Rayhan.
Rayhan passed the stone to Steven he touched it and immediately, as he felt the cold icy rock and looked into its blue aroma it was like strike of lightning had hit him in the heart and he knew he felt a strong essence of earth.
“How do you feel” asked Rayhan.
“Not that different” he said.
“Close your eyes and concentrate” said Rielle. He closed his eyes. Then in a few minutes a spike drew from the ground made entirely of stone.
“Earth nice” said Rayhan. Steven passed the stone to Sarah. She had her explosion of feeling and then concentrated yet another spike of earth rose from the ground.
“Another earth, alright so which one is going?” asked Rayhan.
“I’ll go” said Sarah.
“No way, its way too dangerous, I’ll go” said Steven. Sarah blushed.
“Alright so take the stone and flash it in the moonlight when you guys are ready, okay?” said Steven.
“Okay” said Steven.
“Okay now let’s ditch this popsicle stand” said Rayhan.
“Be careful” said Sarah giving him a kiss on the cheek.
“I will be” he said.

Chapter 4; Hell hath risen

2010-01-24T12:41:00.000-08:00

As of taken only about three seconds about a hundred dark figures began to march along the streets carrying weapons that Rayhan could not identify. They marched behind what looked like a man in a black clock that covered his face as if he were their leader or something. They hid quietly behind the building trying to find the right thing to do but time was running out. Odd to have been noticed that the heat had vanished as it had arrived in a flash. The sky became full of red dark clouds and the sun was interestingly a block of frozen ice and the weather dropped dramatically down the scale but it wasn’t deadly frozen which was yet another strange remark but as the moonlight had hit the ground the dark shadows of the beings rose off the ground to heights unnatural. They blurrily walked across the ground and stopped they seemed to have looked like some sort of army but the lot of them were hidden behind buildings. The leader rose onto a ruined building piece and looked down at them. He spoke loudly as if giving a speech to the armies.
“Welcome back from a long rest of over two thousand years, I feel so alive now after suffering the darkness of the hourglass’s sand and now we have returned to our normal bodies it is time now to takeover and overrun all the universes and to bring back our master now I must ask you not to spare anyone unless they seem to have good knowledge this will be the dawning of a dark era!” he shouted and the warriors raised their arms and shouted with him.
Only a few minute later the whole world seemed to have been under the red darkness of this man. Rayhan, Jessica, Rielle and Pierre managed to survive in the smallest darkest corners of the world undetected and had to dodge a billions guards. In order to remain uncaught which seemed impossible to them it was dark inside this newfound cavern deep inside of a forest under a rock. It was almost too dark to see Rayhan managed to light a lighter. It was colder than the frozen northern mountaintops for some strange reason. Out side of this forest were guards swarming in every direction like wasps with sharp black spears and heavy metal armour. The small cavern seemed to have been quite large and seemed to be an abandoned home for vampire bats. It was now quiet except for the rustling of falling leaves. They sat down around a fire which was made by the gathering of dead wood and was burnt by the lighter but even with the fire going it was dead cold.
“So what the hell are we supposed to do about this now?” asked Pierre still shivering with the cold.
“I’m not sure but we definitely aren’t going to sit around frozen in this cave forever” said Rayhan trying to catch his breath from the frozen cavern.
“But I know we’re the only people who can and will do this and these swords have something to do with it” he said.
“And how do you two thing that’s possible?” asked Pierre sounding a bit irritated.
“I’m not sure but why then would swords and arrows appear out of nowhere right before an army of eternal warriors rise?” said Rayhan sounding just as irritated as him.
“Well I’m not exactly sure about all this but I know that if I even have a chance of this I should get my rest” said Rayhan as he got up
The fire vanished and he lay down about a metre away on his sweater. It was dark and the rest of them decided that right about now rest was a good idea they all scattered throughout the cave in different areas and lay down with their eyes shut and soon after fell asleep. The morning dawned but everyone was woken up by Rayhan’s watch instead of the sunlight. Rayhan got up.
“I know it doesn’t seem like we should but I don’t think we should just sit around waiting for something to happen, I know we’re young and all and this is happening way to fast but its not like sitting here will get us any further I don’t know about you but I’m going to find out what exactly is going on” said Rayhan and with that, not even remotely interested in the risks he was about to take and by far risking his life, he was off.
He climbed out of the cave and stood at the rock. It was overwhelmingly cold and the air seemed to grow cooler by the second it was unbearable, looking up Rayhan could see a luminous blue frozen rock floating where the sun usually would be place, it looked quite interesting with a blue era of small twinkling frozen light, the sun was completely frozen into a ball of ice. Rayhan made his way dodging the sight of the heavily black-armoured people with spears he was unarmed and he clenched his sword tightly. He dodged tree branches trying to avoid having his black shadow caught in the mysterious forest-green light that shined in an unnatural but vivid tint of green. When he finally made it to the edge of the forest which took quite longer than he remembered it should’ve taken the length was quite dramatic to his knowledge it was like the forest had been extended about a billion more kilometres or so but right now was not the time to think about that eve if it involved the fact that the forest did indeed extend and the old ruined church was completely hidden under a a see of large trees that stretched at least to the height of the empire state building.
He noticed a lot of changes to be honest, for instance every second it grew colder making it so cold that he was shivering and could see his own breath, the world around him was completely plunged into an everlasting night, and he couldn’t understand why. His understanding was very short and his knowledge of this situation was very scarce having never been put into this situation before in his life and thinking that he never would be but to everyone’s amazement he couldn’t find any other thing he’d rather do, and his sprit was certainly higher than anyone had assumed but inside of him he had the doubt that this wasn’t going to be as fun and good as he imagined. He looked around scanning the broken buildings dust covered houses and empty and windy open rooms his house had like most of the others become half collapsed and the buildings around him seemed empty and lifeless. It was odd having lived in such a full live world and in less then three seconds having lost every single bit of it, the skies were grey when they would usually be bright sky blue full of a shining happiness and a luminous sun without a cloud in sight across the streets there were cars askew flipped over as if there’d been a nuclear war but the normal things around them were also solid stone like carpets windows and other stuff that normally would be different and an the even stranger thing was that the people that weren’t there before were back but as statues in the streets with horrified looks on their faces and positioned as if running away from Godzilla or something. Rayhan turned his head to the next most amazing thing the very large, black skull with two hands sticking out of where the four black houses used to be. It had a frightened look on its face that also frightened him sending shivers down his back, it was a face now that he saw it from a specific view it was horrific as if a man was screaming of pain opened mouth yelling to the sky but only the hands were visible. He walked up to it, it was about the height of the CN tower and it had an eerie feeling that yelled in his ear to stay back but Rayhan did the exact opposite knowing that the only way to solve this was to get through it as quickly and as quietly as possible. Rayhan couldn’t trust a single thing that crossed his mind but he tried to keep an open one. He looked around. He had no other option. Suddenly, a billion guards shot out of the head and surrounded him. He put his arms up and surrendered he was outnumbered and outmatched. They seized his wrists and chained his neck and held spears to his face but Rayhan knew he could not be held in he did his best to fight them off and eventually failed at it.
They dragged his legs across the ground and into the shining glossy, checker floor. He was dragged through several rooms. He could barely breathe through the thick black chains dangling from his neck. He was thrown into a room blindfolded and his hands broken. The blindfolds were thin and he could see the silhouette of a black and faded white chair and above the chairs were windows four of them tall windows you’d see in a church. A black figure walked in front of him. He was surprised how much was accomplished within the range of a few people obviously this was no normal situation and thus he was confused the whole concept seemed the content of a fantasy novel to him. He managed to life his neck, despite the chains his head felt heavy from the attack and the blade strapped around his neck. Which was odd, why hadn’t they stripped him of his weapon before letting him face this place and why was he blindfolded? Questions like this kept buzzing through his mind. He heard a voice speak, this voice it was inhuman and barely alive. It was doubled as if two people were talking and very weak, like a whisper.
“I want the chains released!” it spoke, and immediately Rayhan felt his neck free.
“How valiant but this is no joke kid you’d better listen before the consequences take over you’d better be afraid because I won’t take any survivors, watch as your world falls apart, this is the end” it spoke.
“If you talk so tough, why did you blindfold me?” said Rayhan. The voice broke into laughter.
“You think that I’ll let you see your death? You think that you can face me with such ease as to see the face of your murderer? Do you think that I would let you see my face and risk you having escape and know who you’re facing?” spoke the voice.
“Pfft how cowardly, if you think that you’re so tough why would you need to be so vulnerable at mind, why are you only acting confident? You act tough so why bother even having a risk doesn’t this mean that you’re afraid I might escape? If you’re so tough you can’t even show me your face you hide behind the guards because you have no power, and I just met you and yet I already know how cowardly you are so why bother seeing your face so go ahead hide behind the guards I don’t need your face I already know everything about you” he said feeling confident but inside he was afraid. He thought that if he showed the reputation and image of a tough person maybe they’d back off but didn’t have any intentions of that working at all.
“Remove the blindfolds” he said. At once Rayhan could see. He saw the checker floor and the moonlight hitting against the glossy floor. He looked up he could se a man standing there, tall pale, inhuman skin, blue-white eyes and long white hair going down to his shoulders. He wore a black cloak and stood in front of a black throne. The man held a blade.
Next thing Rayhan knew he was flying and his head hit something hard. He got up and there was a giant scar going down his neck. The man arrived to him only about a metre away. He stared down at him.
“I like your attitude kid. You could go far, tell you what I’ll leave if you can bring me to my knees” he said his voice completely changed.

Rayhan quickly stood up and pulled out the blade he’d just acquired. He held it out with the little bit of energy he’d had left.
“I’ve captured your friends all three of them” he said.
“I’ll let them go if you beat me” he said. Rayhan slashed across but the man dodged it.
“The girl took a while, what a fighter she was” he said.
“The tall blonde one” he continued to taunt him. Rayhan slashed harder fury running through his veins.
“Blonde hair blue eyes” he said.
Rayhan knew that must’ve been Rielle. He suddenly grew about ten times angrier and slashed harder than ever and actually landed a cut on him just the voice of her name in vain got him about a hundred times stronger. He slashed threw his arms around slashing, using the air to pull him forward and slash him. He threw his blade aside and threw strikes of wind at him and pushed him to a wall and carried him through the room. Once the man hit the ground and Rayhan was about to lift him again and throw him he lost power. All of it he landed hard on the ground. A blade at his neck, the man flew back and Rayhan felt the air behind him lift him to his feet. Rayhan felt the blade fly back into his hands. Rayhan slashed the blade in the air and a strong blast of wind equivalent to that of a thousand tornados was thrown. The man spun as it reached him and threw his hands forward and the air was bounced back and shot back at him. The air was so strong Rayhan dropped the blade and his shirt ripped off and he flew back and hit hard against the back wall. Once it was done a flame was thrown towards him. Rayhan quickly blew it out with the wind.
He got up. Weak bleeding and bruised. He could barely move or anything. He could barely manage to lift his blade. He was almost dead the only thing keeping him from death was surprisingly Rielle not Jessica, now wasn’t the time to think about that. He got to his legs and could barely make out the man in front of him. He couldn’t fall though despite how tired he was. He was on his last leg. He helplessly waved his arm with no strength saw the roof and then black. He woke up. The ground was cold. He looked around. He was in a cell. There were large black bars of metal holding him in. With such a strong leader he wondered why the security was so limited. He walked to the bars and tried to reach his arm through the creases but couldn’t an electrifying shock climbed through his arm. He pulled his arm back at once. He wondered where his friends were. If they were okay, if she was okay, he sat down. He thought for a moment. Why Rielle had gotten him that strong and why her thought of vain was the most unpleasant. Once he thought about it and he realized that he was starting to like her more than he liked Jessica he was starting to fall in love with her. He didn’t find that odd though he remembered as far as they were friends with her he never wanted anything bad to ever happen to her and whenever they’d get caught while being mischievous he’d always stand his and her ground. He did love her but never did he think he’d love her more than family, that’s what he’d always thought of his friends, the only real family he’d come to know they were all he’d ever had and all he’d ever come to love like a brother or sister, but all that had changed when he’d suddenly fallen in love with Rielle more than a sister. He felt rotten inside, how could he fall in love with one of his best friends? Nothing seemed to make any sense anymore. He lay down on the hard cold bed he’s been given in the cell. He noticed a crack in the wall that led to the other cell. Then he noticed a small piece of paper rolled up. He pulled it out and found something scribbled onto it. It read:
Hey, I’m one of the prisoners here my name is Sarah, me and my friend Steven are planning to escape this place before they end up executing us please write back as soon as you can, we saw you face off with him, we think you’re exactly what we need to form a resistance team, if there are more of you please give us all your names,
Sarah and Steven
Rayhan read it over once more. He noticed that there’s been another paper for him to write on in the hole and a pen. He grabbed them and started to write a note to them.
Hey, I got your note, My name is Rayhan I am also one of his prisoners and I think what you guys are planning is great I’d be glad to join your resistance team, me and all my friends but unfortunately we were separated, I was separated from my friends Pierre, Rielle and Jessica, they’re all captured somewhere here, and I’m not leaving without them, and I have a few questions for instance how old are you two, who is this man and how do you guys plan on getting out of this place? Once again my name is Rayhan and I am 14 like some of my friends. Please write back as soon as you can thank you.
Rayhan
After writing that rolling it up and the pen he stuck the note back into the hole and left it there. He ripped off a piece of what was left of his shirt and tied it over his cut like a tourniquet to stop the bleeding and he shut his eyes, he was tired and needed rest now more than ever it’d been a long night.

Chapter 3; Solitairy Company

2010-01-24T12:38:00.000-08:00

It was rough, Rayhan could relate to it. He put it into his other pocket. Then he decided to search for more if there were any more for that matter. He looked and looked searching to the last brim but no luck was made. He just sat back down. He imagined what it’d be like to live like a god always having the privilege of rolling the dice to the ends of the universe. To know all that there is to know. Rayhan closed his eyes and listened to the sounds of the forest he could almost hear the sound of the life growing deep within the bark, the animals and the forest itself. Rayhan realized that if he had infinite life what he’d do. He’d probably try to support other life and avoid pain he’d probably find a way to get the rest of the world to find infinite life and witness the joy because without his friends infinite life would only be a waste of time, completely useless to him. His friends walked behind him.
“What are you doing here?” asked Rielle.
“Oh, well just felt like coming here” replied Rayhan.
“I don’t see what the big deal is it’s just an old run down church” said Pierre.
“Well yeah I guess but I just thought that I’d you know just try to find out what the whole meteor thing was about and examine the crater” he said.
“Okay why are you really here?” asked Pierre.
“Well, I don’t know, you guys won’t believe me but I feel so attached to this place I just wanted to come here” said Rayhan.
“You could’ve said that in the first place” said Rielle. They sat down around the place. Rayhan stretched high in the air then suddenly from the tips of his fingers a large gust of wind blew and nearly ripped the branches off the trees above him. He quickly pulled his hands back and looked at them with confusion.
“What the hell was that?” said Rielle in surprise.
“Try it again!” said Pierre. Then Rayhan moved his arms forward obliviously and concentrated. Suddenly a stronger gust of wind shot out from his fingertips again and pushed him back to the wall and he bashed his head on a rock.
“Ouch” he said but really feeling almost nothing.
“Holy shit! What the hell just happened?” exclaimed Rielle rushing to help him up. Then the red rock fell out of his pocket.
“Hey what’s this?” said Jessica noticing the rock and picking it up.
“Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you guys I found this red rock on the ground here” explained Rayhan.
“It looks so shiny” said Jessica.
“Let me see that” said Pierre. Jessica handed him the stone. She picked up a rock and tossed it into the air a few times then she lightly threw it at the wall and it broke right through the wall.
“Wow I can do it to!” she said.
“No kiddin’ sweet!” exclaimed Rayhan. Pierre handed the stone to Rielle. Let’s see if I have it hi said. He held his arms forward into the sky and a blast of bright fire launched into the air.
“Shit!” he exclaimed.
“Wow! Me and Jess got air and you got fire!” said Rayhan. Rielle gave the stone back to Rayhan.
“I think it’s whoever touches the stone gets a power based on their horoscope or something” she said.
“Well since you’re Leo that means that you should be fire like Pierre” said Rayhan. Rielle concentrated her energy and a bright yellow flame launched into the air creating a trail of smoke.
“Nice!” said Rayhan. Rayhan put the stone into his pocket.
“Hey guys, let’s not tell everyone about this” said Rayhan.
“Hell yeah! There’s no friggen’ way I’m telling anyone about this!” said Pierre.
They all left the place and went back down to Rayhan’s house to watch a late night movie. They watched Batman 5. It was Rayhan’s favourite movie next to the dark knight. They watched and then left. The next morning they got up all at the same time caught the bus and left for high school. They got in and according to Rayhan’s schedule he had physics first period. He got into class and sat down. Today they were learning astrophysics and the magnetic and gravitational fields of the earth. Class was interesting because Rayhan really had an interest for astronomy and physics. After time had passed by they arrived to meet up again for language arts class and their least favourite class above all. But at least it’d be a different teacher right? They got at and sat down in their desks. Then walked in, the wretched Ecyd-Lebmac?
“Yes, yes students I was fired for 2 seconds of what not after I told your principle that I would be better at teaching! Now then let’s get on with our history projects I’ve got some correcting to do get into your groups” she said. Rayhan, Jessica, Rielle and Pierre got together.
“Yeah, better at teaching, I bet she held a pistol to his head and asked for her job back” said Pierre.
“Hey guys you want to risk getting in trouble for some fun?” asked Rielle.
“No I don’t it’s too bad to get into trouble it ruins our reputation and we will commit suicide when we’re older” said Pierre sarcastically.
“What did you have in mind?” asked Rayhan.
“Well, you know how she hates people going through the cupboard? Well I was thinking that we should go and like hide in there for the period” insisted Rielle.
“That sounds good but the cupboard can only hold about half of a person” said Pierre.
“Well since me and Rayhan are the ones that’d better fit we’ll go in, I’ll go in one and you go in the other” insisted Rielle.
“Nice, cover us” said Rayhan.
Then they went in. Pierre picked up a mechanical pencil and locked Rielle in. Then he did the same to Rayhan. He did that kind of stuff to anyone but Rayhan and friends never got angry so it was fine, Tyler was another one of their friends but he wasn’t in the same class 24/7 so it was kind of hard to keep in touch but they found ways to eventually. Ecyd didn’t notice a thing for about half the period then when she left Rayhan got out. To him it was quite fun. After that period it was recess and they all went outside. Another hot day only this time they didn’t have much to do because of the heat. Soon the day was over and Rayhan walked home. The day was warm and Rayhan walked along the burning sidewalk as cars drove past him on and on. Rayhan couldn’t think of what to do now. He walked along aimlessly. The sun burning above him, the blue sky reflecting the sounds of people that walked along, some people still have hope. He walked and walked passed the buildings, houses and cars. He came back to the old run down church. He watched it with a silent glare and kept walking on his path to finding out what might happen to him next. He went back down to the church for old time’s sake and climbed above and sat on the highest point he could reach. Then he watched as the sun slid across the sky and began to sink. Rayhan thought a lot as he watched the clouds slowly develop then disappear into vapour that would endlessly float around in the universe never to be noticed until it eventually wore out into the universe and then be remembered through the stars in the night sky where they’d have really floated around for a reason and soon they’d continue to live and watch through life continuing as it as and then eventually be mist in the air letting out those natural galactic gases they did. Once again Rayhan could relate.
It was silent but Rayhan felt the company of what he still had. Everything was going to change now it’d all started changing when that meteorite had landed with that message that was forever buzzing in his mind continuously. Whatever was responsible probably didn’t realize the changes it’d brought upon al of them by just launching a random message to signify nothing that might be possible or even the slightest in probably. Rayhan heard footsteps again. Then gone and then again he tried to ignore and pretend he’d had never heard them. The day began to drown and the dusk began to brighten as the lights slowly turned off one by one. It was all gone now sign of any sort technology, whenever Rayhan was alone time flied faster than ever. The only form of light was now the moonlight and the stars. Rayhan closed his eyes and felt the breeze blow on his face. Suddenly he felt some sort of light in his pocket. He reached and grabbed and pulled out his red crystal which was now glowing brighter than ever. He held it up it the moon and it began to feel cold. He was alone and got time to think about everything there was to think about. He began to once again hear footsteps coming closer and becoming louder by the second. He jumped off and looked around but no one was to be seen. He sat back down onto the little ruined rock tablet. It was quiet. Rayhan suddenly had a random flashback of when he was a baby he was not even old enough to walk in his mother’s arms and suddenly an explosion, they were in some sort of very big castle in a room full of beds and windows the size of cars. It was bright and he could feel his mother’s pulse increasing. Then as they were at a gate in the middle of a forest and then the sound of a girl screaming then it went black. Rayhan couldn’t see anything further but had the feeling like he remembered it he’d been in that situation before but it was hazy, at least now he knew that he did have a mother but he was still alone now. Rayhan jumped off of the rim and left the church. He came back home and went to bed. It was silent but he couldn’t sleep, but then again how would he expect to with this silence filled with laughter thundering through his head. He woke up by the midmorning sun. He nearly fell off his bed trying to push off the empty packs of chocolate bars and cans of sprite off his bed. He changed into his usual dress code of black jeans, red shirt black hood sweater and black hat. He put on his golden chain and left. He opened the door wide as the wind nearly blew him off his feet he forced his arms forward and varied the wind pressure with his power. The sun shined brightly and Rayhan had the feeling something was wrong. Lately the blue sky didn’t seem to reach out to him as they used to he felt as if the world was slowly changing but then again wouldn’t someone other then him notice it? He decided to worry about this later. He left his house and just walked around the block a couple of times, he was striving for something to happen, he was starting to think he didn’t belong here or that he just wasn’t meant to survive and live in this world. He could feel the strong wind blowing across his face so he found that irritating after a while he lifted his arms and blasted the wind back the other direction. Rayhan was up early this morning so he decided to go to school after a while. Once it was 7; 00 Rayhan got his bag and left for school. He arrived at approximately 7:14 about 30 minutes before school had started he was alone in school he sat down at his desk before the bell sounded and he realized that nothing was really going to happen soon enough. He just waited for a while school was awfully quiet before the bell had rung he liked this better. Suddenly his luck had ran out the bell rang and the school was storming with people pushing and shoving. Soon everyone got to their places and was ready and it hadn’t occurred to anyone that Rayhan was here early as usual he did this a lot for someone who didn’t like noise that much if of course he came to school on that day. Class began and it was noisier than ever because it was the worst class in the history of French history classes. The teacher didn’t bother trying to take care of them because when she did it only made things louder they really didn’t give a scrap for this clown. Rayhan sat quietly reading a book but was easily distracted by someone who was eating paper continuously as they gathered around him then he thought “hey I can do that way better than him” so he got up off his chair and began to eat paper like there was no tomorrow and soon people began to move towards him the other guy began to eat three sheets at once and Rayhan topped it off with four, and just like that it became a contest. But in the end the other boy fainted with a large pile of paper inside his mouth overflowing, Rayhan had once again won.
The other kid was taken to the nurse’s office. Rayhan sat down and continued to read. The teacher didn’t even grab the slightest attention it was almost as if she wasn’t even there. There was only one thing in the world that bugged her the most and that was people touching stuff in her cupboard even if someone got within a metre radius of that thing she’d hound them. So Rayhan, Pierre, Rielle, Taj and Jessica decided to pull a trick on her to see how long it’d take for her to not notice. They guarded the thing and made it seem coincidental while one of them hid inside of it. It lasted for more than a few hours until she got bored and so did they then at recess they decided to pull something with their powers. They would knock on the windows and one of 2 of them would sneak into her office and set fire to her papers. They did and they found her fainted as the fire grew and she came out the fire was soon extinguished and after that they resumed class the fire hadn’t been too big so it wasn’t much of a worry to them. School was soon over so they left for home. They didn’t do much as they were tired and wanted to go home. Rayhan sat back down on the roof top of his house and began to gaze into the stars as they slowly grew brighter and the sky grew darker. As night fell he felt a cool refreshing breeze colleen the rims of his hair as he opened his eyes and looked deep into the midst of nothingness. Rayhan got up to his feet and went downstairs to his bed on the second of 5 floors (including the roof he was just on). The air became dense inside his house as if heat waves had slowly risen from the ground, he soon found himself sleeping without the need of a blanket it was hot and getting hotter by the minute Rayhan found that night impossible to sleep and he was right. He woke up the next morning completely restlessly in fact the only reason he got out of bed was because he fell off he decided to try and sleep but even now he couldn’t sleep due to the scorching heat it was like summer was going to the mid forties and Rayhan got up. This heat was unnatural so he decided to check it out on the weather channel he got downstairs nearly tripping over several stairs and arrived. He flicked on the television and found that the weatherman too was sweating as if just came from a sauna that was on fire he noticed as everything he said was followed by a large breath of air he looked like he was sprinting. Then he changed to the news channel to find out that almost all the lakes and rivers were completely dried up. Suddenly with a zap of energy the television suddenly switched off. Rayhan rose to his feet and made his way to the kitchen and was so tired he fell to the floor and couldn’t even go as much as to his room, this was very strange. This heat was unbearable to anyone Rayhan hardly understood why it was happening, well for the common point he hardly could think about anything right now, it was so hot he was getting tired by only thinking. He made his way half on the floor to back to his room in about an hour and he lay flat on the bad with an empty glass next to him which was filled with water but now drier than sand. He sat up and wiped the sweat of his head drenching his hands. He collected some air and forced himself to get up and go to the ruined church and try to find some answers it was noon when he arrived and he was exhausted as he made his way through the ruined doorway he felt a cool sensation of frozen air run past him. He felt all his energy lift up and to his amazement it didn’t stop the air in the church was cold and refreshing. He sat down on the ruined rock once more and looked around trying to look around but then he found that soon all his friends arrived right there one by one by the hour. They too witnessed the cool refreshing breeze Rayhan watched as they got up and took in all the magnificent airwaves.
“So what the hell’s going here I men I understand that its summer but this is retarded!” exclaimed Rielle.
“Yeah it’s clear that this isn’t normal but I think it might have something to do with the meteor, I’m not exactly sure but something like this obviously has a connection to the incident.
“Well it would make sense now wouldn’t it?” asked Pierre already knowing the answer.
They were silent for a while looking down into the ground thinking what might’ve happened. While they remained inside they didn’t even realize that outside the heat was steadily increasing by percentage. They just sat there oblivious to the fact that the longer they took thinking the more lives would be at stake. It became heavier and heavier by the second and the air grew denser and denser and denser until it was almost covered with smog and dust and they could only see the tint of yellow everywhere. It was blinding, trees began to become burnt into rubble forest fires were growing faster and larger consuming the area this was unbelievable. Everywhere across the city people were suffering. Rayhan had to think of something quick but it wouldn’t come to him. He then realized what was at stake. Time was running out faster and faster speeding up as the he gradually began to speed up rising and more and more people began to die faster and faster and the amount of pressure was rising on them. Heat strokes spread continuously along the world ridding thousands of their lives. People were dying at an exceedingly fast pace. Suddenly an explosion so loud and large that it practically destroyed everything standing it caused a vile grey smoke to rise and consume everything in sight Rayhan and his friends were pushed back at least 20 metres before being blinded by the smoke. Once the smoke had cleared off they found that the sky looked as if it were midnight. Rayhan’s eyes were (as everyone’s) closed and squinting hard. He couldn’t understand what had just happened his mind was producing billions of questions. The buzzing continued none stop his head was starting to ach in pain but this was nothing considering the rest of the world’s pain in heat intensity. He could hardly see the cause of all this as he lay flat on the solid ground trying to wash the dirt from out of his eyes. He got up and opened his eyes accepting the reality in front of him and then he noticed a slight heavy feeling in his arm. He turned to it to find a long shining silver blade about the length of a window. He lifted it higher his face horror struck and slightly dazed. He was confused and struck blank of any scientific or logical explanation but was confused especially at the silence of his friends. He turned to them realizing they too had been carrying a large metal blade in each of their hands except for Pierre and Rielle who both carried a shining bow and a quiver full of at least twenty arrows. Rayhan turned back to look towards what used to be a city of people and houses was now a burnt rubble of ashes and flames. They too had noticed it and they dashed to it to find out and examine more closely what was happening. They arrived and not a moment too soon for what had struck them advised them to hide behind a building for protection.

This is it -Rayhan Haqqee

2010-01-03T13:38:00.000-08:00

This is it and that’s the way it’s supposed to be
Without a doubt or a hate or a controversy
I don’t care if this poem doesn’t make any sense
Because ever since I loved you, thing’s have always been tense
Living fantasies that we could be together
But I guess I’m a failure now and forever
I guess I’d never thought that I would sit and cry alone
Every time that we’d talk and you would hang up on the phone
I can tell I can take you to the reaches of the universe
And show you all the stars even as they burst
To me I was always second you were always first
This is it and that’s the way it’s supposed to be
But for you I would rewrite even history
And if you’re ever captured I would break you free
This love is simply too much just to endure
I’m going insane and there isn’t a cure
You played my heart like a harp golden melody
And when you did I felt like I had apoplexy
You can shoot me in the heart using archery
And anyone questioning your viability
Will be shown no mercy
And pass away like history
I’ll shine away all your fears
I’ll wipe away all of your tears
I’ll reverse the gears
And for you I will endure all of the spears
I would stand here in the rain
Enduring all the drops of pain
Even if I have to drain
All of my blood
I’d erase all of your phobias
And create a brilliant utopia
For both of us to thrive
Forever live alive
The possibilities are endless
Even when I’m defenceless
Without a power
Despite protection
I’d love you like none other
You’d be my flower
My tower, of hope
I’d pass you the rope
A serenade of broken dreams
A bolero of devotion beams
Because this is it, and that’s the way it’s supposed to be
Heaven’s armies of devotion marching endlessly
I’m your solider, your salvation, and ender of tragedies
All I want is the answer that will empower me
Say yes and I’ll become whatever you want me to be
Looking deep into your shining blue eyes
Brightening my day and wiping all my lies
Take my hand and this rose and as the devil may cry
Light my fire of desire
Come with me, in my arms and let me hold you tight
Let’s be together
Here forever
Starting tonight
Because that’s the way it should and was meant to be
With both of us together
Me and you forever
You got me to the brink of insanity
And your beauty’s so extensive it reaches out to infinity
I wouldn’t let the greatest man question your divinity
Your voice speaks to me
Like that of a Valkyrie
You’re my descended angel
You’ve opened my eyes with the chime of a bell
And your mind’s complexity
Breaks the barrier called infinity
Your conception
Has ripped the last relation
Between life and death itself
Your love to me is poisonous
It’s horrendous to my soul
Falling in love with you, has left me out of control
But yet I grow from it
And that’s why you’re my perfect fit
You’ve destroyed me like an iconoclast
Who’s destroyed religion and left me for last
Ideology is your philosophy
While people back on earth are enjoying there cars
We’ll be together among the stars
I love you for every reason there ever was
But it burns my heart to see what love really does
All the same I’m in love with you
I’ve said what I had to
Now what’s there left to do?
Like the viper strikes a fatal kill
I’ll just keep standing my hand out still
This is it and that’s the way it’s supposed to be
You exceed all the angels with your cordiality
Because of you I’ve increased in corruptibility
To me you exceed beauty of humanity
Now I want your answer for I have waited endlessly
So tell me, what’ll it be?

Winter

2009-12-22T17:42:00.000-08:00

If words were only spoken
Not left behind as tokens
Maybe silence would be broken
It starts to snow again
As the lion sleeps inside his den
The bitterness is dealt
But the silence here cannot be felt
Right now i feel not angry
But i feel rather depressed
Especially cause every word can slowly be oppressed
I feel this sting inside my chest
I feel this pain within my heart
Cause every single word you said has stung me like a dart
I'll never really be angry
But i can no longer hide
Cause never now can i not say that i have never tried
I fall upon my knees
As we watch the frozen seas
But as the grey trees turn to dust
I wait only till dusk
My love burns away the frost i bear in frozen broken trust
And to all of those who lied
Your every word has fallen down and died
Winter shows no love
Unless you come from above

Chapter 2; everything fell apart

2009-11-03T15:38:00.000-08:00

It was morning and everyone felt rested, they all got up except for Rayhan who woke up late. They all decided to go out and find something to do. They went outside and realized that there was a storm coming in and then left to go back inside once they got back in they looked for something to do and decided to prank call some people in their class. Rayhan didn’t really want to so he went outside in the rain. He walked alone. He walked along the sidewalk while the rain drops hit his head like the sand in his dream did. Rayhan was a bit tired but he wouldn’t stop walking. He walked and walked until he arrived to a nearby sort of run down church. He walked inside through the doors, this church was big and he could see far along the front wall a big church window that had something on it. He couldn’t make out what was drawn on the stained glass that shone in different colours. After long it stopped Rayhan and was quite sunny as the clouds had moved away showing the marvellous sunlight that went through the glass and shone onto Rayhan nearly blinding him. Then he heard bells ringing. Large loud bells, the kind of bells you’d here at a marriage or a funeral. The bells rang loud into his ears deafening him. The bells chimes were loud, they were close. Rayhan looked up at the stained glass and could see the sun shining through them. The bells continued but Rayhan ignored them. Rayhan sat down on a throne like stone chair on the ground or to be more specific it was part of the grounds material. It had a torn cloth which Rayhan guessed to be some sort of decorative designed cloth which people sat on. Rayhan looked around and found a small tile, it had an opening just large enough to put your fingers through. Rayhan put his fingers into the opening and slowly tried to lift it. It was very heavy so heavy Rayhan had to use both hands after failing with one. It finally began to make a scratchy noise identical to the noise you’d hear by rubbing 2 rocks together slowly and carefully. After a while the rock was completely gone revealing a strange staircase going down. He walked in over each step into the dark opening not knowing what would happen full of excitement and happiness to see what was inside this place, maybe it was some sort of murder mystery or a secret gateway to another world that he could go to and never need to come back. He always was one to enjoy any form of adventure but he didn’t know what was ahead of him it might be an adventure he hungered for but it could also bring a bad side ahead of him he was still young and didn’t know how it would end up maybe it might not turn out to be a good experience. Then he arrived to what seemed to be a brick wall which wasn’t interesting at all. He was disappointed, he got back out of the cellar. He was back in the broken church. He decided to go back to his house. He arrived and sat on the roof and watched the sun go down. Out in the distance were storm clouds slowly moving out off the horizon. He closed his eyes and felt the breeze blowing past his face. Soon the sun was completely sunken and the moon was high in the air. He re opened his eyes and watched as the moonlight illuminated the darkness in the sky and how the lights of the houses around him slowly went off one by one. He stayed there and thought of how the days passed by and if he stood here and no one but his friends would actually notice his absence. Rayhan was tired and got down by jumping as usual and he went to bed and slept comfortably. He woke up the next morning which was completely sunny. He woke up at about 6:00 pm even though his alarm clock struck at 7:00 am. He got up changed and went outside. Nearly half asleep he couldn’t even imagine what he would do next. It was just a regular Monday morning. He sat down and watched television and decided to close it after a while, he grabbed a sprite can and took a sip. It was bright out. He went to his room. He sat down and looked outside. He watched as the clouds slowly shuffled across the bright light blue sky. The sun basically illuminated it all. He picked up his mp3 player, he didn’t have an ipod he could obviously afford it but he didn’t bother, it’d just annoyed him altogether new technology always bugged him because every time something came out everyone would go crazy over and soon lose interest, found something better or found something that showed them all that it was useless and just a piece of junk. He went to take a shower then leave the house as usual. He walked on the sidewalk and watched the clouds pass by in the sky slowly so slow that one could barely notice they even moved at all. Cars zoomed by and bikes and all that kind of stuff. He went to the old rundown church on the outskirts of town. He arrived and realized that no one even crossed it at all. This truly was the only place he could find where he’d be completely in solitude. He came out and was on a far hill. He looked down into town it was at least a couple of miles away. The hill was in the middle of the forest or at least the starting of the forest. Surprisingly no one had ever come here nowadays. He looked around at the ruins now covered in moss. Broken windows and towers and the painted glass, pieces of the old church lay there, Rayhan couldn’t think of a reason they’d tear this spot down it wasn’t like they were even using it at all. This was an ancient place obviously run down somehow but it always seemed to be here, even since he was only one years old he remembered this place as if he were raised here, unfortunately Rayhan didn’t know much about his childhood at all it was just always a mystery to him. Rayhan didn’t even know where he was from or even his own parents. He wanted to meet them and find out the kind of person he really was and he’d love to but right now he only wished that they were still around or if they even loved him or not, Rayhan was mature and he was growing, but so far in the life he’d known he had to live up to the himself and he took care of himself that meant a lot, he had been able to tackled all the hardships in his life so far, maybe he was really meant to be alone and of course he did hope that if he ever found his parents he wouldn’t want to come back to the life he’d already started. He sat down on one of the ruined rocks and looked up at the large blue yellow, red and green window at the top of the front of the church it had grown weary and dusty and full of cobwebs but it wasn’t dented, scratched or broken the light shined through there and onto him straight from the sun. He closed his eyes and felt the breeze blowing gently and the wind whistling in his ear. He heard footsteps. He opened his eyes he ignored the sound of the footsteps it was probably just a squirrel running around it was so faint that he could barely hear it but was intrigued when someone came behind him. “Thought I’d find you here” said Jessica. “Why would you think that, I barely come here as it is?” asked Rayhan. “Dunno must’ve had a feeling” answered Jessica. “Though shouldn’t you be at school?” asked Rayhan. “I don’t know, shouldn’t you?” asked Jessica rhetorically. Rayhan looked away. “Where are the guys?” asked Rayhan. “Home probably” said Jessica. She was right, if one person didn’t go to school none of them would. They had ways of figuring if one didn’t go to school, they always knew where they were all the time, it wasn’t freaky it was friendship. They were best friends ever since they met which was when they all got into the same school in grade 3. They never had a fight, never split up and by far neither of them felt a reason to ditch the others they were such good friends they never found a reason to fight. If they ever do get into a fight it’d probably be because someone tried to split them up and it wouldn’t last too long. If a fight lasted for more than 2 days everyone would assume it was a sign of the apocalypse. Rayhan got up. “Why do you think they tore this place down?” asked Rayhan. “I’m not sure, I didn’t even know this place existed till I found you here” said Jessica. Rayhan turned back at the window and gazed at it. Suddenly and earth shattering, ear splitting sound struck the outside of the broken church. They hurried outside and found that a meteorite had landed right there about the size of a garbage can. It was steaming hot and created a crater the size of a mini van. They were struck blank. It was then that Rayhan noticed the cryptic phrase carved on it. He felt over the carving and it was colder then nitrogen. It said Hell is rising but for some reason it was understood by Rayhan and Jessica. They gathered everyone to the sight of the upcoming and found that all of them could understand the cryptic language and they were all dazed at the fact. At the same time they were all afraid of what was going on. Confused, scared and nearly struck out of their comfort zone they risked falling into a coma and began rolling it to Rayhan’s house. They sat around and did what their regular pursuits were and eventually left after becoming so bored that they just couldn’t bear another moment of standing there for no apparent reason. Rayhan stayed there in his room conducting different astronomical and mathematical experiments on the meteorite. Then after hours of long complicated equations he finally reached the point of understanding very limited detail. The meteorite just wouldn’t speak but Rayhan was confident that there was indeed something about this thing that wasn’t natural. Rayhan then went back to the crater and performed the triangle method. He needed to know the speed of the meteorite based on only the time and distance. This was the reason Rayhan didn’t go to school on a regular basis, he just didn’t understand why he should he didn’t pain so he continued on his research. From astronomy to mythology to numerology to graphology all of them pointed to one index, Hell really was rising, but Rayhan was surprised that objects of this same astronomical status were floating around like dark matter, undetected. Though it was quite confusing to Rayhan none of this made any sense to him at all it just didn’t seem real at all. Rayhan closed his lab and left his house with a black hood. He went over to the church ruins again he felt at home over there. He took his mp3 player in his pocket and listened his way there. He crossed the hillside and the roads and sidewalks until he finally arrived there and sat on one of the ruined temple supports. The light shined so bright it nearly blinded out the darkness that surrounded the corners of shadows that would cast upon the stony surface. He closed his mp3 player and shoved it in his pocket as he took off his hood. He walked around the place and tried to vision what it originally looked like. Suddenly he came upon a stone that was completely red and shiny like a ruby or something. He picked it up, it was kind of heavy about the weight of a tuba mouthpiece. He held it up to the light and it let out a beautiful red glow. He felt over it with one hand.

Chapter 1; beginning

2009-08-09T11:52:00.000-07:00

Friday, June 5^th 2010, Rayhan Haqqee, Pierre Haroun, Rielle Bradley and Jessica Lee, 4 14 and 13 year old teenagers bored out of their wits sitting on the side of the wall in the intense heat of 35℃ in Ontario Canada at school. “Oh my fucking god it’s so hot and boring out today!” said Rielle angrily to the group. These guys had awesome lives or rather any normal person would want to be in their shoes at any time possible. They were normal except they pulled pranks on teachers and got amazing grades on their report cards. They were normal guys except Rayhan was an orphan at the age of 3 and had been extremely wealthy and was also good at art, literature and had extremely amazing sword fighting skills, Rielle and Pierre had such good archery skills that they could hit an ants eye while standing a kilometre away and Jessica was a brilliant and also very rich girl who lived with her whole family. They were all rich basically and were very artistic in their own way. “I don’t know but I was thinking maybe we could pull a prank on a teacher or possibly run off school grounds to the coffee store to get like a few mochas, on me” said Rayhan. “Okay!” they agreed. “Iced?” asked Pierre. “Well obviously what are we going to friggin’ die out here in this weather because we got a couple of hot mochas?” said Rayhan pointing out the obvious fact to Pierre. “Kay, then let’s go!” said Rielle as they walked off without a teacher noticing the slightest. The line was longer then usual. Probably because it was a hot day. After long they arrived to the front of the line at Starbucks. They each got mocha and left and arrived without any of the oblivious teachers knowing. “Okay now let’s go bug Beluga Whale!” insisted Rayhan. “Yeah” agreed Rielle happily. Beluga whale was one of the really fat teachers at their school which they bugged often or rather on a regular basis. They arrived to her skipping like little girls at a playground then they began to ask her a bunch of odd questions while Rayhan and Pierre went behind her and picked up some of the composted paper and carefully sprinkled it down her back. Then they all left. They then thought for a while of what to do next. They decided to prank call the school through their cell phone. They called while the teachers weren’t looking even though it would have done no difference if the teachers had been watching since they were so completely oblivious that they could brag about it. “Hello, this is the pentagon calling on behalf of this school having been purchasing illegal drugs which is strictly against the federal law” said Rielle in a deep voice trying to sound like a male and was pretty good at it. The school secretary fainted and they all heard the thud as she fell onto the floor, they laughed loudly. Then Rielle hung up. The bell rang as they were about to run around the school crazily. “Fuck, the stupid bell had to ring now” said Jessica angrily. They headed in for their classes. Rayhan had physics, Rielle had science, Pierre had English and Jessica had math class. They got their things and left. Rayhan sat at his usual spot next to the window as he watched the sun set. Around him he could see that as usual no one paid any attention as a small group was talking while some people played on their I-pod touches. The teacher Mr. Nexton stood at the front of the room and explained the theory of relativity and how particles may have a connection, this was all review for Rayhan who practically aced the class. He looked out the window at the sunset hitting against the trees and the field. The sky had no clouds it had only a sun and the rest was light orange. For some reason he felt as if he saw this exact thing years ago which was impossible since this was his 2^nd year in high school. Then he had an intense head ach and a sort of daydream but it felt a bit more real than a dream. He could see himself inside an hourglass and outside of this hourglass he could see stars and universes but the stars were very faint and he could see more blackness or as some refer to it as dark matter or dark energy. He was in this hourglass with his arms chained by some sort of bright golden chain with a powerful glow around it like the sun. He could barely move and he felt pain in his arms. Then he suddenly saw Jessica’s face in his mind. Then he felt more pain but this time inside of him. He wasn’t himself, he didn’t feel like himself nor did he look like himself. He judged that by looking into the reflection of the glass of the hourglass, he had red hallow eyes with a small black up side down triangle for his pupil. He had paler skin then usual and longer black thinner hair that went down to the end of his spinal cord or roughly there. His lips were dark blood red in the exact colour of blood. He looked down and moved around to escape the light chains that held him. All of a sudden black sand began to fall from the top of the hourglass onto his head. He pulled the chains back and forth but no difference was made, these chains were much too strong for him to break through. Then he was back in his seat and class was over. Rayhan collected his things, his friends waiting for him outside the door to get to their class which they all had, French. Rayhan soon got his things and got up and left the room. They walked to their French class which they all hated, not because of the subject but mostly and entirely because of their teacher, Miss Ecyd Lebmac. Rayhan took the time to think about his dream. “Rayhan……Rayhan……..RAYHAN!” shouted Miss Ecyd at Rayhan. “Wh-what?” he said tuning himself into class again. “You have detention for not listening!” she said angrily. She resumed class as everyone was now talking. Rayhan sighed. Then Miss Ecyd had put up her hand with out a word. Slowly they all did the same and the class began to slowly turn from loud to quiet. “Guys I’m really serious about this, we’re in 3^rd term and you still continue to talk a lot” she said as she did everyday. She took a long pause and then resumed class. “Okay today we’ll be studying verbs” she said as she wrote the word Verbs on the chalkboard and underlined it with the blue chalk. No one watched they all had better things to concentrate on like Rayhan’s doodles which he made while the teacher wrote on the board. Rayhan was a master at art in his class he was entitled the shade master because of his fantastic details in shaded pictures. He showed his picture once again it was amazing to see. The picture was of a castle that was slightly torn apart with pipes coming out of it from each side the pipes were thoroughly shaded along with the sunset in the background and the rocks which it was placed on and waves of water at the bottom of the picture crashing against the rocks, but as good as Rayhan was at art Jessica was even better she composed a picture of a girl’s face it was so detailed and realistic that they could have confused it with Jessica herself. Both of them were so talented they required no colour in their drawings they could easily make the picture without colour and with only the lead pencils which they held in their firm grip. Rayhan and Jessica were friends but Rayhan had liked her more than a friend he had feelings for her, after long as she figured that out she wasn’t happy but she was satisfied to see that she was appreciated but since she didn’t have the same thoughts she preferred to think of both of them to be just friends and Rayhan found that okay since being at least the friend of who you like would be more than enough. Paul used to be one of Rayhan’s best friends but for some reason they never seemed to fit to be friends properly they always argued over little things and that was soon decided that they just shouldn’t bother because Paul was more of a rough person at heart unlike Rayhan who was the opposite. Paul liked Jessica but not as much as Rayhan’s they had their feuds but Rayhan eventually won so Paul just let go and stopped talking to him. Rayhan stopped daydreaming during class after a while. Finally Ecyd’s class had finally finished dragging the day along and the day was now over. They all went over to Rayhan’s because he lived in the biggest house there was in between all of them. They sat down and settled to watch a movie after school had finished. They then did their homework which wasn’t much and then managed to have another movie from Blockbusters. They watched the dark knight and then all had a sleep over. They slept in different rooms. Rayhan couldn’t sleep and decided stay up. He went to the roof alone and sat down. He watched the full moon in full bloom. He closed his eyes and imagined his dream trying to figure out what to do now. Jessica came up and sat down next to him. “What’s wrong? You’ve been acting kind of different strange lately is there something you want to talk about?” she asked in a sort of broad tone that was sort of pleasing in a way. Rayhan told her about his dream and how he saw her in his dream and it was so clear that he felt as if he couldn’t think straight and he was in an hourglass trapped by light and he then told her about something out of the aspect that also had been annoying him for quite some time now which was that he felt as if he wasn’t doing enough for her and that even just being friends seemed like they weren’t really the best friends they were classified as from the other students. She closed her eyes and told him that she felt the same way. They spoke to each other for a while and soon when the problem was resolved Rayhan noticed a shooting star going across the moonlight.

heaven's light I (Introduction)

2009-08-04T12:40:00.000-07:00

Once long ago the world ceased to exist until one time, if time had been yet, in the empty midst of nothingness in space that floated among the stars that had nothing but silent gas and light made to be set upon the infinite darkness of space and time, something happened that hadn’t before for a long time a powerful explosion of stardust happened that slowed down the production of time which had continued with only stars, this explosion of stardust created by the infinite floating stars with endless force. Now the stars had only one option to follow in midst of not letting the explosion occur again, it began to compact slowly and soon the stars had hit again this time stronger then before causing a larger explosion which after time sent 7 beams of light differently coloured. The lights flew until they reached a place called the point of no return which no man up to this time has ever set foot upon. From there on they took a form of a human with different facial expressions and different in every way possible except in race. They looked around until another light the same corresponding colours slowly followed them and enchanted them with eternal wisdom and power. They looked at each other with great happiness. They were the 7 sages. The sages used their power to create different parts of space such as the parallel universe and the planets. Once all had been finished they decided to create life in this empty place of stars. They decided to start with earth, for it had been the lone planet and the only one with water. They created man with great power and capability and as such for man to live they created women, nature and animals along with vegetation to fill the land with. After long man had overwhelmed it and exceeded its expectations by becoming the most intelligent creature on earth. Once their work was done they began to set a new limit to man’s capability to be resting only upon willpower. Although, the sage of darkness decided to go his own way and wanted the universe for himself to prove himself worthy for his eternal undying love for the sage of light. He devised a plan to take over the most powerful object which contained the universes life and so he began the search for the universal hourglass. The evil sage had grown envious for that in his search. He looked secretly for ages and soon his love for the sage had been exposed he became a true human in its nature. Then he found it after a while and soon tried to wield it and in that process lost control and nearly destroyed everything. He didn’t but in the process he created 2 new places, one was oblivion which contained nothing at all and one place called heaven’s light which was like space never ending. It was a brilliant place to live but had only one inhumane entrance known as the dark gateway which appeared only when someone was in vein or sorrow or any form of strong negative feeling. Once he found the location he knew that it would eventually be found by the other sages so he quickly mapped the location and headed back to his resting spot and on which he created a dark temple and soon he felt once again insecure so he devised another plot to create several temples of darkness, until he was sure that no one could decipher him. He had managed to make a labyrinth in each and several very confusing rooms in order to follow the trail to the end he separated all the universes and sent them to different parts of the universe. Then he woke up and found himself in chains lost in every way inside the universal hourglass which had control all time itself. He was locked with no escape in chains of light which he could not ever avoid even with his unlimited power for his opposite chains that the darkness within his body could not penetrate. Around him he found the other 6 sages angry at him even his love standing amongst them. He opened his eyes after blinking nervously. “What is this you’re doing to me?” he asked innocently they then proceeded to re explain his intention of destroying the universes and everything. He was angrier than ever as he pulled the chains with all his might and still couldn’t escape. White sand began to drop on his head with such strength and weight that he fell to his knees and began to bleed from the tip of his head. The sages then walked away and disappeared in the darkness of the universal dark matter. He fell to the floor and had lost everything. Then after the 10^th day of his imprisonment a portal opened and out came the light sage in all her radiance as a sage. She approached the seal and looked at him in they eye, in his hollow red eyes. “Why did you choose this path out of all you could have done? After everything that happened, and right before I was going to confess my eternal love to you, you betray us like this” she asked in a bit of depression. “I did it for your love I loved you all my life and I wanted to prove it to you by giving you the universe” he said. Her eyes began to water as she fell to her knees. She wiped her eyes. She walked into the seal and wrapped her arms around him and let go after a few hours and left. The dark sage had won only once in this game of life. Lucifer had won.