Scott said, "The weather was clear…why is it suddenly overcast?
Is Irene doing something? Or.. It's the dark..?"
William opened the door and rushed to Irene's room whose door was wide open.
He found out sparks of blue lightning in her both hands and both eyes that are emerging suddenly for a second and vanishing again…
Irene spotted him..
Scott, Elaris, Larrith, Chlin, Tory reached her room..
Irene came back to normal state without lightning sparks in her hands..
William said, "Were you doing it?"
Irene replied, "Yes, I was just checking if I am losing my ability… And yes.. It took a lot of strength to just overcast the sky..
William said, "I thought… That cloud… the one you could not control.. I thought it was sent by the dark… but now that you .. Are really struggling to do this… It's very urgent that you talk to the great sorcerer.."
They looked at the clock of the hallway.. It was almost five..
Chlin remarked, "I think you all should leave by now.."
Everyone nodded..
Scott, Elaris, Larrith, Irene, William came out of Irene's room. .. William went back to his room to take his sword..
He picked up the purple sword from the sofa… and came back to the hallway where they waited..
Larrith found the sword shining even in dark.. The curve at the end of the sword was smooth..
Larrith said, "Your slayer sword is stunning.."
William smirked.
They all left the castle..
Chlin and Tory bid them goodbye..
The Royal guards had already started preparing for the selection ceremony..
Rafael meditated the entire night while levitating in the air..
The halo behind him shone with a green colour..
He saw the sight of Tirian before the devastating fall.. He heard the sound that distracted Larrith to cast a protective spell..
He clenched his eyes as he tried to concentrate on the sound…
The more he clenched, the louder he heard the sound..
It seemed to be a noise to Rafael..
He focused his energy and the halo shone brighter and began to rotate behind him..
The noise suddenly turned into a familiar sound..
He said in his meditation, "I know this sound.."
He put the maximum pressure on his eyes.. His lips trembled.. The nerve on his forehead became visible.
The sight of Tirian and Larrith vanished.. A dark light filled his eyes in his meditation..
He heard the word, "Brother, I will prove my worth.. No matter what!".
He found her young sister in the castle's down hallway..
She repeated that line four times..
He breathed unevenly.. He relaxed his eyes.. The nerve on his forehead disappeared..
The younger girl disappeared suddenly from the castle..
He heard a scream, "I didn't do it. .. I didn't.. Believe me, father..
It wasn't me.. Don't send me to exile.. It wasn't me.. Believe me.."
He heard a cry.
He heard a deep voice, "How dare you burn the village and saying you didn't do if.. If your mother had been alive, I would have broken her blind trust on you…
You might me powerful than Rafael but don't you dare burn the village.. I gave you one responsibility – to protect the village.. And you witch burnt the village.." He saw a young boy hiding behind the pillars and weeping..
He looked at a picture at the wall of the castle..
It was a picture of his mother and father together..
He stared at it in his meditation..
He heard a laugh of a girl..
The painting bled.. His father's picture got filled with blood and was torn.. His mother's picture remained as it is..
Rafael in his meditation decided to stop meditating..
He suddenly saw he was walking in the castle.. It wasn't his childhood him.. It was present him..
He was walking on the hallway of the fourth floor..
The sun's rays entered through the balcony..
He tightened his fist and created a green light sensing a danger
He walked back..
He heard a sudden sound.. He looked back again.
He found a lady standing near the golden pillar.
It was Elise.
She had violent wings. She never had them before.
Her eyes we're dark.
Her green eyes had turned black..
Her lips were bloody red.
She was smiling with her teeth out..
Her smile intensified. The curve of the lips increased..
She was a brown outfit. A violet locket could be seen at her neck..
She came from behind the pillars smiling at Rafael..
He relaxed his fist and the green light disappeared..
His eyes we're trembling in both reality and the meditation..
Rafael said, "Why are you back?"
She stopped smiling and replied, "Figure it out, my brother.. Or should I say my enemy?"
Rafael said, "Call me the worst brother.. It was my fault.. You have already avenged me and took everything from me.. Please.. Leave my kingdom.."
Rafael knelt down in guilt..
She replied, "It took you so many years to realise your fault…"she laughed and continued "After all this harshness.. I will give you a gift.. It's up to you if you will take it as a gift or a curse.."
Rafael raised his eyebrows and said in a broken voice, "What gift are you talking about?"
She replied, "Time reveals everything.."
Rafael asked, "Are you talking about Tirian? Did you.. Did you also manipulate him?"
She replied, "Who's Tirian? That king? No.. I don't need him in my army.. I am talking about someone you would never expect.."
Rafael asked, "Is Tirian alive..?"
She replied, "No, most probably.."
Rafael asked with a broken voice again, "Please.. I know it's my fault.. Leave them.. You killed my own son with my own hands and I still forgave you.. You are my sister.. Come. Back.. Please.."
Elise replied, "You really think we can come back after this? How silly.. It started as a revenge and I avenged you but it will end as a fury…"
Rafael said, "we?"
Elise laughed.
Rafael's voice deepened, "You showed my past to weaken me and to reach me, right?"
Elise raised her right hand and a violet colour sphere appeared in her hand.. and said, "Definitely.. You will have to face us.."
Rafael said, "I will rather die than hurting you.. It's my fault and I paid and I will pay for my cowardice.."
Elise said, "You will have to die.."
A red beam appeared from the violet sphere of her hand which pierced Rafael's heart as he remained knelt down..
Rafael woke up in his won castle and paused his meditation.. The halo disappeared from his back..
His hands trembled.. He could not stand properly.. He collapsed on the sofa..
The sun came out a bit in the sky..
The sun's first ray stroke the slayer sword shining it even more..
Irene looked stressed.. Her hands trembled. Her eyes were drooping..
William asked, "It's close to the castle right?"
Larrith replied, "Indeed!"
Irene got a chance to mock William..
"We have to go there on foot because someone here among five of us can't fly.."
Scott and Larrith laughed..
Elaris's eyes were watery.. Her lips trembled as she thought about Tirian..
William looked at Irene and said, "At least, I ain't losing my powers.."
Irene tightened her lips and didn't say anything..
On the way, a subject spotted Larrith and bowed before him.."
Larrith was embarrassed and his ears became red..
They finally reached the new school that was two hundred metres away from the castle..
The new school was forty feet away from the path..
The new school was made of white bricks..
A white large building about sixty feet long and twenty feet wide stood open in a huge ground.. Only one tower stood at the middle of the school with only two rooms where the great sorcerer lives along with his assistant..
An old man dressed in a white cloth was standing on the huge ground before the school.
He raised his hands and cast a spell that created a purple energy sphere that burst after he closed his fist..
They stepped on the ground.
The old man turned back..
Larrith saw it while others looked down.
As they were about to take their second step on the ground, they looked down at the ground..
They found a white cloth blowing on the ground.. Larrith apprehended a danger..
They looked up. Larrith raised his hand..
The old man was there standing..
Larrith withdrew his hand..
Within a moment, he waved his hand and a purple barrier enclosed the school with him being within the barrier and them being outside it..
Their mouths remained open in surprise..
The old man tightened his eyes..
"You all.."
The purple barrier vanished..
Elaris, William and Irene looked at the purple barrier that disappeared without any hand movement.
The old man said, "isn't today the selection ceremony? Why are you all out today?"
Larrith replied, "Rafael is there to manage it..
He sent us for gathering information about the stolen books and manuscripts of the old school during the attack of the dark the previous year.."
The old man replied, "After a year, he's sending you all… The dark is returning right?"
Larrith said, "We apprehended yes.."
The old man shook his head..
Irene said to William, "Isn't the new school a bit confined? Even though there's such a big ground… but still the houses are just in front of the school's ground.."
William whispered back, "Yes, you are correct.."
The old man said, "I.. Can't tell you about the stolen books.. I am sorry.. We never thought that it could be a plan of the dark.. So I never examined.. Since, Rafael sent you all.. I can understand.. It's a plan of the dark queen.."
William asked, "But why? Why can't you tell us.."