The Afterlife

XI-Chouka

Oz wakes me up and after a few minutes of complaining I finally get up and start dressing.

I am dressing a long sleeve white shirt, a brown short with a black belt and dark brown hiking boots. After some thinking I decide to put my hair on a small ponytail and put some fingerless gloves on.

Oz was already downstairs on the bookstore talking to Flynn about the best route to meet Chouka, the soul keeper. I grab a bag that was lying on the floor and make my way downstairs. " Hello sleepy head, hope you are doing fine Alexis." " I am doing great Flynn, how about you?" "I'm good" I turn myself to the window seeing the still dark sky "May I ask what's the time?" "It's 3:45 am" answers Ozirafel " 3 and 45 in the morning?! Why wake up so early!?" I ask a little louder than I should "Shhh, we are the only people here sleeping so keep it down. And we needed to wake up early so that 1. I can use my powers better and 2. The place Chouka works/lives, takes around 2-6 hours to get there, which is a lot, and we need to get to Timeus before the sun is down so we arrive there by night. Now go eat and then meet me on the front of the bookstore. Thank you again Mr.Flynn" "Just Flynn is good" they both shake hands and Ozirafel goes to the front of the bookstore looking like he was seeing some books.

I sit on a chair that was on the back of the store and I eat a muffin while drinking a cup of cappuccino that Flynn made. ' He works really well with drinks' I think while drinking it and just relaxing. "Hey Al, do you have a minute?" Flynn says while entering the small yet cozy room " Sure thing , Flynn! What's up?" I ask while I see him approaching me with his hands behind him "Well, because I know that you will see Chouka and it will be very hard to talk to her about helping you ,plus you know nothing about creatures from this world, so I wanted to give you this!" He takes his hands behind him while holding a thick book that looks like is very old.

I carefully hold it and open it , ending up sneezing right after from all the dust. "Yeah it's a little dusty" Flynn says while nervously giggling. I take a good look at it and it has a lot of information about each creature from here, even the one's that live around people! "Wow.. I don't even know what to say! Thank you so much Flynn!" I say while closing it, he quietly says no problem and then makes a face of someone that just remembered something "Oh! There's also this" he says while handing me a brown cloak that is "cut" in the end of it making it look like 2 insect wings. "I uhm..thank you? I don't really need it, Flynn" I say while putting it on "I know, but it helps with storage and with magic. You will discover it later, now go before Ozirafel gets angry" He says while leaving the room.

I grab the book and follow right behind him arriving on the outside of the store where we see Ozirafel standing there waiting "You finally are here, good. Now we can go." Right after he says that a purple circle starts to form around him, it starts making a round wall around him and it wraps him like a wrapping paper. After a few second the purple thing starts to break and it emites a strong purple light right before it disappearing and being replaced by a black and purple horse. "Put the bags on my back and then mount me" "Uhhhhh, pardon? Who are you? And how are you talking?" I say while having a surprise and scared expression on my face "You are kidding right?" "Alexis, Ozirafel is a Morphious so obviously he can transform into animals. The horse that you are seeing in front of you is Ozirafel." "Whaaaaaaa"

After sometime of talking about it I try to mount Ozirafel's horse back ,which is still very weird for me, and then I realize I never mounted a horse ,at least that I am aware of, but in a fast speed I mount him like it was nothing. I hold the reins that Flynn put on him while I was having my confusing episode and Ozirafel starts slowly moving. "Have a safe trip!" I hear Flynn saying while he waves at us "Thank you, you too!"I say while waving and giving a mental facepalm because of the ""you too"" thing. Ozirafel starts galloping after the bookstore is no longer in sight making me holding the reins harder.