Zodiac

Chapter 5: Facing Normal

Well Merlin, has taught me how to make portals that has a limit of the borders of the dimension I am in while making the portal. In other words, I can only make a portal that's transports me from one place to another as long as it is in the same dimension.

The thing is that I have to carry around a magic stick thingy called a wand to make one.

It is almost time to go, then Merlin makes me, Kate, and Venice gather in a circle with him. He begins,"So so far, I have taught you the basics. John, as you know, you can only make portals with your wand. There is a pill where if you take it, anything a wand can do, you can do. Kate has taken it recently and Venice was forced to take it when she was a toddler. It has harsh side effects."

Whoa, now I have to take a pill that will hurt me in some way. "Side effects? What kind of side effects and how long will it last?"

"They will let you do things without a wand immediately, but afterwards, it will have some effects afterwards. They start to happen two hours after you take the pill. That is why I didn't give it to you before. I didn't want you to be hurt during training. They will stop in 15 hours."

"What does it do? You will start to have the feeling when someone blood bends you. It will be difficult to sleep. If you somehow fall asleep, then your dreams will be filled with nightmares of your worse fears. The blood bending will last about eight hours. After that, you will start to feel really dizzy. A mortal would die taking this pill. Kate even fainted."

Kate turns red. I reply, "That doesn't seem to bad. Where is the pill?"

Merlin waves his left hand over his right covering his right palm. When he lifts it, a small blue pill appears, which I assume is the pill I have to take.

Without hesitation, I took the pill and took a bottle of water that Merlin made appear out of thin air.

I threw the pill into my mouth and swallowed some water to help flush the pill through my throat.

I just took a pill that would kill most of the people that is in my life.

Merlin waves his hand and the portal that bought us here appeared. "Now that John has took the pill, all of you can fly up. Venice, you might have figured it out, but Kate, the reason you couldn't fly down is because I put a magic barrier that prevents anyone from flying down, only up."

Kate and Venice flies into the portal and first their heads, then their bodies, then their legs, and my last glimpse of them is their feet. They disappear completely on the other side of the portal.

Merlin waits for me and I hold in everything and imagine myself flying, but nothing supernatural happens. I just look like any mortal jumping.

Merlin then tells me, "Kate has invisible wings so that is how she flew. Venice controls herself telepathically and that is what you are trying to do. You have to jump and be calm and relax and focus on what you are doing. You will stay in the air levitating and then you just imagine yourself going up and put your hands in the opposite direction like they are the boosters of a rocket."

I follow his instructions and before I know it, my feet are not on the ground. I then imagine myself going up and control myself while putting my hands down. I fly up and land in the bottom of the pit.

I then force myself to fly up to the top. Venice and Kate are waiting at the top talking about something.

Merlin comes up almost immediately after me. We then go to the secret passageway into the room where I first came.

Mitchell, Mark and Sani are already there. Mitchell has a bruised forehead and Mark seems almost bored. I guess they were in a hand to hand combat and Mark won.

The door then opens and William comes in. Mark gets tense. I wonder what is his deal with his creator. Madison seems ten times more happy than she was before as she appears out of thin air. Her eyes are bright with enthusiasm. Obviously, William showed her some really cool gadgets.

"William is awesome! He showed me more weapons than I thought possible!", Madison exclaims excitedly.

Marks rolls his eyes and I am the only one who seems to notice.

Mitchell speaks up still in a confident tone even as bruised as he is, "Could I get William next time. Madison has to be a better opponent for Mark than me. I can't turn invisible, but I want to.

Sani will have more fun with her since she is experienced and I am just a noob." Sani smiles. "I will actually enjoy training with Mark and Madison. Merlin, could you make that happen?"

"I see why not! Okay. Time to go home."

Mark is the first to leave and he seems in a hurry. William sighs and walks out after.

It is then silence for a while then Sani shakes Merlin's hand, says bye to us and leaves. Kate then say bye to us and vanishes, probably teleported herself.

Venice says bye to us and walks out the door. It leaves me, Madison, and Merlin.

"Ok. John and Madison. I will make a portal and on the other side will be Madison's room. Madison, you need to do a check and make sure no one was there to see it and if somebody was there, then erase their memory. Make sure they leave. John, you will have to make a portal from her room to your house. Got it."

"Yes."

He waves his hand and a portal appears. We say bye to Merlin and walk through the portal together.

As soon as we get on the other side, Madison grabs a scanner like device from her computer desk and starts scanning in a circle.

"What is that?" I ask curiously.

"It is a thermal detector. It can read body temperatures and determine how far away it is."

She finishes scanning and puts the device in a metal safe. "So, are you going to make your little portal to your home. My parents is arriving here in about five minutes."

"Yeah, bye." "Bye and good luck with the side effects with the pill. Kate told me."

I make the portal and walk through it finding my mom and dad waiting on the other side.