The Portal Soldiers

Chapter IV

IV

The Search

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Once more, the light made Amy wake up happily as usual. Drawing her foot from the bed to her bedroom door, she wore a soft feathery flip flops. Out of the usual, she headed to the living room. She saw her mother, sipping a color-faded tea while sitting on their indoor bench.

"Good morning, dear," Ellen almost forcingly stopped drinking the tea.

"Good morning, too, Mom." Amy sat down beside her mom as she laid her back flat on something behind her.

"Won't you take a little bread?" Ellen finally ended up, saying this.

"No, Mom." Amy glanced at the well-polished flooring. She had a peculiar dream before she have waken up happily.

"Amy, is something bothering you?" Then, Amy shook her head after a few seconds as a false response to Ellen's question. "Well, Amy, I have to tell you something and I hope you already prepared yourself for something surprising."

"Mom, what do you mean?" Amy asked curiously.

"You remember your father, David?" Ellen said.

"Yes . . . " Amy asked. "Is that connected to what you're gonna say?"

"He's lost because of those Kininvas." The silence embraced them after a start of explanation of Ellen. "They are captured because they want to invade our Kingdom, The Portland Goldens. I moved here for they can't find me, the Queen of Portland Goldens. But what I thought was just a wrong decision. I brought a bigger trouble and involved many places including Garing-free. Now, we're not safe here. We'll go to our Kingdom secretly and we'll be safer through our Portal Soldiers."

Amy was just looking down. What Mom is saying is easy to understand for her but I can't understand, she thought. She remembered what she had dreamt of. That dream gave her a mild power shooting an arrow just like she was a professional archer.

"Why?" Ellen asked, just to make sure that her daughter was alright.

"Mom, I dreamt of something," Amy said as she grabbed her bow and arrows. "And I want you to see it."

Amy led Ellen outside their house.

"This . . . " Amy said.

Amy used a metal arrow to draw couple of circles to make a target on the tree trunk. She put that arrow back. She took a wooden arrow. It's the one she used to shoot and it hit the very center of the target.

"Wow . . . You're given a power by Wizard Sheloin!" Ellen said. "It's for us to be guided. He knows we are going to search for the portal plate and we need to guard ourselves."

"What is a . . . portal plate?" Amy asked. There are so many things Amy still can't understand but she just chose to ask one.

"It's a square-shape plate that was built when a portal maker will have to go to another world. All his or her power will be transformed into a portal plate," Ellen explained as if it was easy to be understood by an eleven-year-old girl.

"You mean I'm also capable of making a portal? And another portal plate was built when I was born?" Amy asked happily.

"Yes," Ellen replied.

"But I'll never have it anymore," Amy said sadly, looking at her snow-white palms.

"No, once your fingerprints touched the center of portal plate, it'll disappear and you'll have your powers again. Just make sure that you touched the right portal plate for you," Ellen, again, explained.