The next day came too quickly for Storm. The morning sun shone through his open curtains. His head pounded as he tried to sit up. He sat on his bed for a few minutes taking deep breaths before getting up and moving around the room. He moved towards his mirror and stared at himself. He looked haggard, the past week had taken a toll on him. His beards had started growing again, his eyes had dark circles around them. He couldn't go out looking like this, his friends would get worried and they would ask questions. He wasn't ready for any conversation and just wanted to go about his day without worrying about the orb and the Magebreaker. He walked slowly to the bathroom, preparing to meet his friends. Inside the bathroom, Storm thought about everything that happened the night before. How would he go through the day if his mind kept going back to that? Storm dressed and stared at his mirror again, practicing his fake smiles. He took a deep breath again, glancing at the mirror one last tim
When it was his turn, Storm stepped forward, feeling a familiar rush of adrenaline. He could feel the eyes of his friends on him, their expectations high. He took a deep breath, focusing on the task at hand. As he channeled his energy, he could feel the power coursing through him, more stronger than ever before. With a swift motion, he directed it towards the target, watching with satisfaction as it exploded.The field erupted in cheers and applause, and Storm couldn't help but grin. For a moment, the orb, Magebreaker and the creatures was forgotten, replaced by the excitement of his success. But as the excitement died down and they moved on to the next challenge, his thoughts returned to the events of the previous night. What was he going to do? How could he have forgotten that the orb was still out there in the hands of the Magebreaker?But just as they were in the midst of moving on to the next round, a strange phenomenon began to take shape in the sky above them. A dark, swirling
Storm was in a dilemma at the moment and didn't know what to do. He kept pacing back and forth in his room, his mind a whirlwind of thoughts and emotions. The walls seemed to close in on him, he couldn't breathe properly. His heart felt like it was going to burst out of his chest. He didn't expect Magebreaker to start using the orb now, it was too early. Now the chaos was just about to begin, and the only way to stop it was to retrieve the Orb and then close the gate of the other realms that had been opened. But was it easy to do? There was no way he would be able to do that, not when it was Magebreaker he was up against. He wasn't sure anyone would be able to fight Magebreaker even if he and his friends went to fight him, they wouldn't win, the Magebreaker was too strong for them and now he was probably the most powerful person in the world. Though the screams had stopped, he could smell blood in the air, a metallic smell that seemed to cling to everything.Everywhere was quiet as a
Lillian rushed to her room immediately after everything started, she locked her door behind her. She knew this had to do with the orb, but there was something else there; she could feel it, but she couldn't focus on where it was coming from. It had something to do with her father, she thought. She looked outside her window again, staring at the portal to a different realm in the sky. The whole school was deathly silent; she looked around but couldn't find anyone.Shutting her window, she moved to sit on her bed, ready to summon her father. She knew her father didn't like it when she summoned him, but she needed to know what was going to happen.“What do you want?” her father asked immediately when he was summoned. He looked at her like she was filth. Lillian didn't have time to care about how he felt about her; they'd never had a good father-daughter relationship; they were like strangers.“Are you the reason why this is happening?” she asked. Her father raised a brow at her before la
Lillian shook her head, her expression grim and resolute. “The solution, Storm, is none other than for you to clean up the mess you caused yourself,” she answered.Storm's heart sank at her words. He had hoped there might be another way, some easier path to fix this. But deep down, he knew she was right. He had created this chaos, and it was his responsibility to set things right. Shocked and overwhelmed, he asked, “But how am I going to do it?”Lillian's eyes met his, and he saw a mixture of concern and pity. “You will need to travel to the other realm to retrieve the Orb from the Magebreaker,” she explained. “It's the only way to close the gate and restore balance. Besides, now that the location of the Orb is known to all, everyone will want to obtain it. The truly strong ones don't really care about the chaos; they are only interested in the power the Orb holds.”The image of the Magebreaker loomed large in his mind. “How can I possibly defeat him?” he wondered, fear gnawing at the
Storm stood at the center of the office, his friends gathered around him in a tense semi-circle. The weight of the truth he had just revealed hung in the air like a storm cloud, dense and foreboding. His voice broke the silence after a while. He couldn't read any of the emotions on his friends' faces. Soon, he saw the shock written all over their faces as they understood everything he said.Chuckling softly , Storm broke the silence, “I can see the shock and bewilderment on your faces. I am sorry I didn't tell you all the truth. The guilt had killed me for a while but I had to keep it a secret. Revealing the truth to you all only meant your deaths. Now you know why I asked you not to seek the Orb and why I kept you in the dark. It was not out of mistrust, but because I didn't want to put your lives in danger because of me.I needed the Orb to save myself, to cling to the fragile thread that binds me to this world. And in doing so, I deceived you all.” Storm took a deep breath before sp
Storm didn't move and just let Lucy do what she wanted, but Lillian stopped her in time. Lucy raged, her eyes blazing with a fury that seemed to scorch the very air between them. "Storm, you're a murderer! Coming from the family with that cursed surname," she spat, each word dripping with venom. "It was your family who killed mine, and I've been looking for revenge ever since. I will definitely have it. I've waited too long for this moment! I'll kill you myself for what your family did to me. They ruined my life! They killed my parents and my siblings and left me to suffer. You are the reason I can't sleep at night, the reason why I still have nightmares from that night. Was that why you hid your surname? Did you think you could hide it forever? I knew it, you are just like them, Oaken's never change. You are all evil monsters who take joy in seeing people suffer. You are probably enjoying what is going on right now in the school but only pretending." She turned to the others, eyes te
Lillian then rebuked Lucy, her voice no longer compassionate "Lucy, Storm is just a descendant. He didn't know of his family's sins. Even if he knew, there is no need for revenge. And even if you still want to pursue it, you should wait until everything is settled. Like I said before, he is the only one who would be able to defeat my father and get the orb back." Storm glanced at Lillian, she had so much faith in him but he didn't.Lucy clenched her fists, her face a storm of conflicting emotions. "But you don't understand, Lillian. How can you stand there and defend him? His family... they took everything from me." Lucy's fingers trembled as she spoke remembering everything, "I was just a kid," she whispered to the quiet room, her voice barely louder than a breath. "Seven years old, we weren't rich but we were happy.We were playing hide and seek, me and my brothers. It was supposed to be fun." She paused, her eyes going far away as the past came into the present,tears fell from her e