Felarya's Nightmare

Chapter 12 - Destiny?

Vitara: - "Okay, so... it was many years ago when i met The Sphinx. I had run away from a massacre that happened in my tribe by the older cousins"

At that moment, Richard noticed that she stopped for a moment, angry and she went with her hand to her eyes as if to wipe a future tear and continued: "and i was the only one to get out of that alive, i just ran away anywhere,  i had no more hope, so i entered a cave that wasn't that big and wouldn't fit one of those monstrosities and i stayed there for a while, sitting in a corner crying, then i heard some noises coming from the back of the cave, it was totally dark and i was about to run away when i heard such a cozy sound of music, my scales just relaxed, my body still wanted to run away, but i kept thinking: I don't want to die now, but i don't have anywhere to go either.... I think it's better to go and hope for the best - and then i went towards the sound, it got sweeter, more comfortable and when i arrived, it was a big cavernous room well lit with big candles that was up to 16 or 19 foot high and then i heard a voice: Come here Vitara, i have a mission for you, don't be afraid, i won't hurt you and those naga will pay for what they did - after that a huge sphinx appears in front of me, her face being lit by candles, which didn't even reach the ends of her hair, she was so big, but so big, that one of the naga would just be her hand, so she bent down and said: There is no need to cry anymore little creature, your mission is not over yet - While caressing my hair with her fingernail - In a few decades, a being will come not from another world, but from another place that is totally different from ours because of someone powerful here, i don't know who will do that, but their intentions are the worst, if we let it hurt or something worse with this being, our world will be devoured by its power and everything that exists, some guardians don't keep in line and are corrupted by the power given to them and sorry little one, i can't solve it myself because i can't physically neither spiritually move in this world, i only warn who i know is certain that it will fulfill the mission, if you want to deny it, do it now, i want you to warn this being of his potential, he can change the course of everything even though he seems so weak and fragile - I nodded my head still terrified of what had happened and just accepted the mission, after that, she gave me a bracelet that told me it would warn me when this being was here and even told me to be careful that the more powerful it was this chosen being, the hotter it would be and so, i woke up in a house with a sorceress who took care of me"

Richard: - "Wait... Enchantress? One with curly hair and red hair who looked kind of old?"

Vitara: - "No, she had long white hair"

Richard: - "ah... ok, so... and you found this powerful being?"

Vitara: - "Why don't you answer that?" Then she points to a door that was behind the bookshelf she had come out of the first time.

Richard: - "Maybe it's pretty obvious what I'm going to say, but I have to go into that room, right?"

Vitara: - "hahaha yes, you have to enter yes, don't worry, there will be nothing to devour you there"

Richard: - "Your humor helps me a lot, thank you"

He gets up, still thinking about all the information he had received and what she went through but heading towards the door, he feels a heat on the handle, not very big, it was just hotter than usual, so he opens the door and feels a heat stronger, seeing that it is a very small and simple room and there is a table with a shiny liquid and he notices that the heat comes from there, trying to get closer, the heat makes him take off his overcoat and he continues forward and seeing that it is not just a shiny liquid, it's something melted and the closer he got, the more it became liquid, until when he tried to touch the pot (a great idea by the way) the liquid simply went through the pot melting it and the table went with it, a little puddle of something melted on the stone floor and he just walked away.

Returning to the room sweating worse than pork on a hot day at a barbecue, Vitara looks at him and says: - "So, did you see it?"

Richard: - "Well, I didn't see any bracelets there, just a super hot liquid in a pot that is now on the floor, because it went through the pot and the table"

Vitara gets up faster from the table and says to me holding my arms: - "WAIT, did that go through and melt the pot?"

Richard: - "ahm...yes, that was it"

Vitara: - "I think there is no more doubt... You are the Chosen One"

Richard: - "HA HA HA HA! The chosen one..... a kinda fat, asthmatic kid who is just a nerd and was saved by luck, is the chosen one? Pff you have to smoke less stone, lady"

Vitara slapped him so hard that it made both ears ring and said: - "More respect you little shit, I'm old but I don't take offenses to my house, and yes, you are the chosen one, it's YOUR DESTINY so take care you incompetent boy"

Richard: - "Destiny? Is this serious? It's even looking like an anime plot or whatever, it's very hard to believe this story, it's very impossible, I'm probably in a coma in some hospital there or so.... Jeez.. Did I die and now I'm here? DID I DIE WHILE SLEEPING? Well, it doesn't matter, what matters is that there's no way to really believe it, if I had incredible powers or powerful powers, I would even think about it , but no, I don't have"

Vitara: - "Sorry nothing, you will learn to respect your elders and another thing, this bracelet started to get hot when you arrived in this world, when you were at the gate, I had to put it in the pot with the most heat resistant material that I could find so as not to burn the table and now it melts the pot, I don't know how it didn't melt the floor, so look here, you punk" she brings her finger to his face and continues: - "Do you know why that bracelet gets hot? because of your Aura, something in you caused it to melt, and usually that sums up Power, all the humans we told epic stories in Negav's taverns, passed by and always had a bracelet or some object enchanted by the Sphinx that never was melted, only 2 people did it, and only 1 melted the pot together, all the people who saw this happen were oracles like me, for each one there was an oracle, and that person who melted the object..... Never we hear more about this person.... She just disappeared when she left the south gate and no one ever saw her again, I hope you don't do the same as her, it's YOUR DESTINY BOY"

And after that sentence she fixed her eyes on him and he said with his hands raised: - "ok, of course, I won't do it, now please, can you let go of my neck? I need to breathe"

She then lets go and Richard goes back to the floor, she had lifted him without him noticing and then she just sits in the chair again and supports her head with her arms, as if she was too tired and said: - "Look... just get out from here and give my thanks to everyone who has followed you this far, sorry for what I did to you....but you deserved some so please...leave"

He was very confused and kind of scared by how much information he received, but first he had to get out of the room. When he left, everyone got up in fright with Nixa tripping on her 8 legs and falling to the ground, but she got up quickly and everyone came after him and asked him: - "HEY, WHAT HAPPENED? why are you sweating so much? Is she okay?"

Richard: - "Ahm.... later I'll explain and yes, she's fine, what I have to say I can't say here, because she's not in a very good moment, because I kind of... disrespected her...." Lowering his head a little out of guilt and raising it again he says: - "Idril, can we go back to our hiding place? I'm afraid we don't have much time and what do I have to say, not be so believable. Shall we?"

Idril: - "I don't know why we're standing here so, come on, when we get there, tell us everything that happened"

And then they leave the place and Richard looks back before closing the door and sees that the Oracle was watching him from a crack in her room door and then she closes the door, leaving Richard a little uncomfortable, but he continued and closed it. the door and the group headed towards the hideout.