“Get up!” Ayden’s frustrated despair echoes around the enclosed black room. His anger is so evident in his eyes as he stares at the man lying on the floor. One side of the man’s lips is already bleeding. His body is full of bruises, yet he stays still, lying on the cold cemented floor. “I said get up, Elio, what the hell? Fight, you asshole.” There was no response from him despite everything that he had said. He was still lying there, not doing anything. His eyes were closed, and his breathing pattern was out of normal, but he still looked so fine even with his bleeding lips, and wounded face. “It’s been two years, man. You need to move forward. We all lost someone important that day, but look at us, we’re coping up. We’re trying.” Elio Freyr let out a little laugh that caused him to cough blood from his mouth. He turned to his left side and pulled himself up with all the strength left within him. “Now you’re laughing. How could you?” He watched him with furrows in between his

The rumbling thunder started to roar in the sky. Dark clouds were slowly crawling over the town of Vizca, making the place darker and colder. People on land were mesmerized by the sudden phenomena, watching the clouds as it covered their place. Birds were flying to different places, searching for a place to stay to avoid being in darkness. It was when a very strong lightning struck the open space on land, when the people outside their houses started to panic. It has never occurred to them that it might happen in their own place, but it was happening in front of their eyes. The lightning left a mark on the ground - two triangles intersecting with each other, one was inverted, forming a star, and in the middle, there was a circle with a little skull inside. Once they saw it, people already had an idea what was happening. Elderlies went outside their homes with the adults, while children were forced to get back inside and hide from there. Another lightning struck the land, as power

"You can see me. I'm sure of that." Elio kept his head up high and fixed his sight straight at the hallway he was taking. Students were still scattered everywhere taking their lunch break productively by practicing their magics and abilities, and chatting with people they know around the Academy. There were students in the hallway that Elio was passing by who were showcasing their own abilities to their peers, and making sure that they would be the center of attention. But when they noticed him, they were all stopping, and making a way for him to walk past through the hallway. No one wanted to bump into him or even just make contact with him, and so they were all avoiding him. "Why are they looking at you like that? And why the heck are they avoiding you, El?" Elio turned to the nearest hallway from his right, and turned left to the next hallway after. There were no students in that hallway and he knew that because it was the way to the lecture rooms, and no one would want to b

One of them jumped down to the ground and stood on his feet behind Elio, positioning himself to attack him. "What's happening here?" Everyone stopped, even the one behind Elio as a voice of a woman echoed behind them. Elio turned his back and met the person who was ready to attack him. He gave him a blank stare, before giving his attention to the woman who arrived. "Nothing. This just slipped from my hand." He showed her the book he was holding to make his lie more believable, but the seriousness pasted on his face has never left him. "Oh. Okay." She nodded. "I thought something's happening here already. You know. Things had messed up here. And we need to check everything. If you need something just call any of us." "I will, Thea. Thanks. I'll let you know." From his peripheral vision, Elio saw the five trying to escape from him. The four of them were getting down from the shelf, and the one in front of him stepped to his side. Thea, one of his old friends, turned to her right

The almost everlasting hallway from the right side of the place has become so dark. No candles or torches were around to provide them light as they stroll towards the end of it. Elio Freyr has mastered the act of seeing in the dark for his life from two years back, but the darkness that was surrounding them was too different from that. The force surrounding the place has never been felt that strong, but as they walked towards the end of the hallway, the energy that filled up the place became stronger, but they kept moving forward abandoning that feeling inside them. A door at the end of the hallway was nearing, which meant that the force had even become stronger, but Elio Freyr held back and continued walking with the five spirits of the library towards it. "Cover your eyes when I open the door, if you still want to see clearly after." There was a button-like stone just on the left side of the door that was mounted on the wall. It was a size of a normal hand of a human, and it h