SIR FIRST
I finish up the last set of Troll with a single slash of my HolyBlade (a sword forged from holy power and unknown ethereal elements, owned by angels). Rakiel is the reason I'm so respected in my family. Rakiel was once the sword of the Archangel Micheal and he left it behind for a worthy descendant of the blessed. No one has been able to pick it up until I was born. From birth I felt connected to the weapon, and at the age of 13 i picked it up and it became mine ever since then.
I look around me and the dessert floor was stained to with troll ashes and multiple monster Maagi core. I pick up all the maagi cores and dust my body of ashes.
"You can come out of hiding, boy" I yell into the air. The boy has never been a fighter. He was violent and angry, but he was always too clumsy and I coordinated for someone who wants to win a fight. I was too occupied by the Trolls to think about him. I hope he his himself somewhere safe as I taught him. I don't get a response but for the constant echo of my voice round the dessert.
"Don't play pranks on my boy!" I yell letting the frustration into my voice and still no repsonse. Where is he? Is he dead? No! That can't happen. I might have brought him here for selfish reason but I never wanted him to die.
"SAMAEL!!" I scream his name but still no response. I extend my senses in search of life but all I could hear was the roaring of the breeze, and the sand storm approaching. Every sign of movement have been covered up by he sands. I start to panic as worry set in, that's when I smelt it. It was faint here but it was non-negotiable. It was his scent.
Every creature has a distinct scent. It smelt more like their personality and sometimes may be colluded by their perfumes, but no two creatures smelt the same. Samael smelt like pine, jasmine, and sandalwood. A perfect blend of harsh and lovely. I will know that smell anywhere anytime ever since that fateful day.
The scent was faint but I followed it and the closer I got to it the thicker it got. I walk for miles and I saw no life from afar but the scent was getting stronger and more suffocating. After walking a few more steps I found the source and I choke back a puke.
Before me was a pile of blood. It was already soaking into the sand but even with that it was still a lot. The smell confirmed it. The blood is Samael's. If the thing that caused this didn't kill him, he will die from loosing this much blood. He is only just human, he can't survive it. I stagger a little as a memory flash in my mind.
It was the day I met him. I went shopping in he Capital market and a trader had just tried to swindle money out of me. In response I released my full aura and everyone around me stood about 15 feet away from me unable to bear the effect. At that moment comes the boy, he was being chased by a trader for only God knows what, but he just runs through my aura and knocks me down like it was nothing.
The whole market gasped, but I couldn't find a word. Only 10 people exist in this whole realm who can bear my aura or even ignore it and he wasnt one of them. I was interested. It didn't take me long to find out everything about him, and since that day I made it my life goal to find out the reason behind that.
In that process I have come to love the boy as a son. He is an amazing person, and I brought him to his death because of my insatiable need for answers.
A huge wind blows past me and the sands started to rise in a huge storm until a whirlpool of snad was formed before me. I was curious until I saw what was in the center. Impossible! A Portal? It will take 4 Noble Warrior Mages to create a single portal with many things in place. How is one just rising out of nothing before me, and why am I seeing Samael's body on the other side.
Portals are like gates, but they don't require maagi circles or spells. It requires proficiency in pure maagi manipulation and elemental maagi manipulation to a level where you can create a perfect blend that can send as many people from one place to another in just a second.
This portal can be a trap!
I know it, but if it is Samael is in danger. What kind of Warrior would I be if I could not protect my son? I pull my bag stronger on my back and walk into the portal.
I don't know whas ahead, but I am going to save my son!
SAMAEL
I am back at that abyss again. Sometimes I wonder if I'm floating in the galaxy because that's what this place feels like. I look at the Four stars and they looked bigger than the last time I was here just this morning. The Electric blue star is brighter and looks like to soi ready to burst. The element pillar thingy also looks the same. What is happening here. I try to float towards them, but I can't. I push harder and I feel myself get pulled farther and farther away. Now they look like tiny light from distance.
I am not being pulled, I'm falling fast. There is no breeze or wind hiting me but he speed and force was non-negotiable. Is the Afterlife also messing with me? Can't I just have a little peace in my life. Like it heard my thoughts I am slammed forcefully into the ground and I gasp heavily.
"You are alive? Thank the stars" a familiar voice from beside me mutters. I turn to check he person but my vision was blurry. I rub my eyes and the silhouette from before becomes clearer.
"Sir First? Are you dead also?" I ask worry filling my heart. Whatever killed him must be powerful!
"Are you okay? I'm not dead" he replies and I shake my head.
"Then how are you in the Afterlife?" I ask and he chuckles.
"I wish I was but this isn't the Afterlife boy" he replies a smirk on his lips and I stare confused.
"What do you mean? I died from Troll poisoning" I reply and he smiles.
"You were definitely poisoned, but I got here just in time to save you. Though you will be sore for a few hours, you will be back to shape in no time." He replies and my yes widen. Sir First saved me! I didnt die! Thank the stars.
"Ohh, that's a relief" I say and I remember he never told me where we are and brought me to my death sentence and all the gratitude I felt for him faded into pure rage. "Where are we, Sir?" I ask and the rage in my tone shocks him.
"Like I told you before, you need not know, just do your job and keep quiet" he snaps at me but I am too angry to care.
"Bull, I have had enough of this. I nearly died there! I almost lost my life for a mission I know nothing about. So you will tell me where the hell I am now or you can kiss my support bye bye!" I yell at him and I expect him to repsond with a yell or a punch but he takes deep breaths, sighs heavily and face me
"We are at the Ultimate Trials" he says and my heart skips like 50 beats. The what? What in the world? The Ultimate Trials, is a test the most powerful of Supernatural take in our realm. Only one person has ever made it back, but even he came back with no memory of what happened to him there. Why is Sir First here, and why did he bring me here?
"You are joking right?" I ask trying to see him scream it's a prank or something, but he just stare at me, his cold, serious golden eyes boring into mine. He is serious. "Are you insane?" I yell at him and he smirks
"Maybe I am" he replies and I scoffs
"You might have a death wish but why bring me where without my consent? Why do you eant me dead so bad? I'm just an unrecognized lowler with no power at all! I am in no place to take the trials" I scream into his face
"Yet you passed the first trial before me." He replies and I release a humorless chuckle.
"I think you skipped the part where I almost died!" I reply in the most sardonic tone I could muster.
"Yeah, and you didn't. The amount of blood you lost would have killed any supernatural without regeneration, but you survived for long before I found you." He replies and I shake my head
"So you think I'm hiding what I am?" I ask and he shakes his head
"I think even you don't know what you are and only something like this will awaken the part of you that is dormant" he replies and he made sense. Since I stepped here a lot of things happening around me have beor made sense.
"If I had a dormant ability why haven't my test showed it? And why in the world do I have a 13.5% maagi pool, think about it. I'm fucking powerless, and useless." I scream and punch the wall beside me.
"You don't understand do you?" He says and I shake my head
"I don't, make it make sense!" I say waiting for his explanation.
"Your maagi pool grew to 23%, and you can bear my aura which is supposed to be impossible." He replies and the retort I as preparing dies in my mouth.
"That's impossible? I have never felt your aura. You don't use it around me, and there is no way my maagi pool grew. I thought that was nearly impossible?" I stutter and he smiles
"I use my aura around you always, even now but you just can't feel the effect. It's either because you have the ability to not be affected by auras or you just have a more powerful aura." He says and I take my time letting that sink in "Maagi pool growth has only been done by one person ever until you, so that tells so much about you. That is why I brought you here to push your body till those powers are released." He finishes and I scoffs
"What if there is no power? You will have at least been able to kill me?" I reply and he frowns.
"I am here to not only take the trial, but to protect you too. You won't die on my watch." He says with so much conviction and determination I couldn't help believing him.
"Well if I die, just know my ghost would hunt you for the rest of eternity." I joke and he laughs. We were still laughing when we heard the sound of a door opening.
"Time to face the Trials" he says and we turn to face the open door.
I hope I don't die until I can find answers as to what I am