Trials Of Fire and water 2: the travels of the outcast

day 8 the failed test and the omen

I opened my eyes and once again I was in the forest, many times over I'd been here before I watched as the place I discovered not too long ago appeared before me a large stone temple I walked forward to the door and opened the door and peered around did someone live here? Did I live here? I walked into the large temple there were several rooms and a spiral staircase that went up into the clouds and down, into the blackness. I walked around the pace wondering where I was, wait did I come here before? Then I heard the voice. "Caleb...do you hear me?" it asked and I blinked and looked around. "I hear a voice on the wind" and that's when I had a thought to go down..did I think it's a good idea? It must be this was my dream that's right this is my dream. So I walked forward and climbed down the staircase, down into its basement where it led into a cave of some sort with large boulders, and a waterfall as I stepped into the bottom I walked around and as the light strike into the place, there was something that spoke. "You finally come...Ciaran..it took so long... Enough.." the voice was hard to pick up but I could hear it as I stopped at the fountain I stopped at the waterfall and blinked. "hello..I hear you..." I said and picked up a rock and tossed it into the massive lake that had the waterfall fall into it...... that's when it happened. The waterfall stopped..like went dry, bone dry and only the lake was rippling, I stopped "...Is this your place SP...." I stopped and listened to the wind before calling. "Is this where you have been staying...NOX" In that moment something BIG came up out of the lake unwet, and covered in shackles one on each leg and one on its neck. It blinked it was as big as Cerberus himself 15, 20 feet tall it just looked at me and spoke."SO you finally come Caleb..Ciaran you have seen me in the mirrors, and found me coming to you... Now you come to me...." and I nodded. "Judas isn't with me, I'm captured, desperation called...what do I do?" and it sighed and looked down at me. "Think Caleb....think well....you are the master...you have been through worst..." I could tell it was speaking and I sighed. "Like I said before I..came here I need more info on this priestess Faraon, I need to find Judas, I need to find the reason I am here..I have done the scrying and I found myself with Judas coming with a letter of execution we came here to study something we came here to meet someone and in the vision we met this lady and ate with her me and Judas, then I woke up here with no vision, no memory but I dont know what that means they appear to be drugging me...and if they do it first whose to say they won't do it again" and Nox suddenly disappeared and appeared as a regular sized wolf it just growled at me and in my head I heard "Caleb..I sense there's magic afoot, be careful who you talk to..someone is making moves against you guys.............." I woke up on the bed with a massive headache, drink and food on the floor, but I didn't know why I tried to take myself back but I couldn't remember anything I was just sleeping on the bed but there were remnants on a mess on the floor and desk but I couldn't tell why I let my feet swing over the mattress and I touched the floor and I looked at the mirror and it showed me but I feel it should have shown something else my light shined and it was the sightly morning I could tell that the sun was shining through my window. I climbed up on my feet and the vision came before me but not yesterday? Why not? I think back and remember I was visited by someone who was I visited by? The image came back to me all of it the temple, the cave the wolf...NOX that's right Nox was there he said...."Caleb..I sense there's magic afoot, be careful who you talk to... Someone is making moves against you guys.............." how can magic be done against me? Against us? Where was Judas? I can't remember yesterday no that's not true I remember Fighting fragments of Alexis. Alexis, what was she doing here? I remember fighting her in a cage that mean Alexis was here? Right, I opened the window and looked out at the location it was in a forest, not a meadow wait why did it change? Was the magic keeping me from knowing my location? I reared back my fist and struck the window lightly and the window rippled. I scowled that's when I heard a knock on the door suddenly I heard the door unlock and it opened but no one was there I blinked of course. I walked over to the door and looked out unsure what I was seeing I walked out and started to walk down the stairs following a group of people my age, maybe younger they were in their teens and some were my age, I was about 27 now I sighed and started toward the hallway following the others to an outside area outside of the house but not the area. I blinked unsure what we were doing. When I got outside it was a gym center there was a lot of equipment that people were on getting tested I sighed and walked into a large sphere with a cage inside it I was alone with something..I just looked at the cage and when it opened I heard something growling that's when I heard "Agent 927 nickname "prodigy " against.." that's when I called "Caleb..." and the announcer looked down at me "What?" and I said. "My name is Caleb" and they nodded. "Caleb test 2" and I blinked "What happened to test 1?" that's when Alexis came into view in my mind it was in a cage like this but why do I only have small visions of it that's when out came.....nothing....I blinked and lowered the knives I was able to bring. I looked up and the others looked amused at me, talking and laughing what did they see that I didn't? I stepped forward towards the cage and suddenly something struck me, I blinked and wiped my mouth from getting socked in the face..but what hit me? I looked around and didn't see anything. I walked around the place and suddenly once again I was struck in the stomach causing me to double over and back up again I didn't see anything, looked over at the crate, and didn't see anything that's when I did something strange....I closed my eyes and listened and I heard..breathing....breathing? No whining but it was so short that it couldnt be whining quite heard over the people I opened my eyes and I was looking into the eyes of a banshee, a woman in black, with long white hair dep red eyes, of this I was shocked what were they doing with a banshee? I opened my hands and pointed them at the beast and yet it was Errie it just stood there looking at me, floating it wasn't demonic nor angelic, it wasn't anything menacing...just "a messenger of death....the reaper?" I whispered and it nodded solemnly before pointing to me and my eyes widened. "Me? You're here for me?" and it nodded. Before in a raspy voice, it said...."when the death tolls...it tolls for thee..soon..your time is near..Beware of the mirror...beware of the statues...beware of her.." and my world cracked and when I opened my eyes I was laying on the floor a couple of people over me while they kept the real beast that was in the crate A massive two torsoed Naga, a snake shifter that had struck me with its tail in the face and in the stomach. However my mind goes back to what I saw, a banshee warning me that my time was near I dare not speak of what I saw why was I being crowded? What is happening? I climbed to my feet and picked up my knives "Let me back at it I can still fight.." and one of the guys spoke. "It's too late we already got it in the box, give yourself time then come back and we'll try again, for now, get some rest you can try again after" ad I nodded and limped out, I could feel I got slashed up pretty good when I got back to my room I looked at myself in the mirror my face had a good three bloodlines down it on the side of my eye, the arm was taking hits, I winced."the only reason you won was that I had a warning given me" I grumbled into the mirror that's when I jumped on my bed and began to cleaning my wounds from a large bowl of water hospitality isn't bad even though IM still captured. I reached under the pillow and pulled out another magazine pamphlet it said "In 1507 a humble baker Piero Tasca (also known as Piero Faccioli or Piero Fasiol) was beheaded in Venice. Under torture, he had confessed to the murder of a noble Venetian. The poor baker had come across the nobleman lying dead on the corner between Calle della Mandola (where the brothels used to be) and the Bridge of Assassins (Ponte degli Assassini).

Piero picked the bloody knife off the ground seduced by the silver blade and the gems adorning the handle. He was then found with this incriminating evidence in his possession. The real murderer confessed to his crime on his deathbed only a few weeks after Piero's beheading.

This grave miscarriage of justice led to the birth of the phrase Recordeve del poaro fornareto (Remember the poor baker) which the Secretary of the Council of the Ten – the most important judiciary body of Venice – allegedly, would utter to the councillors before the passing of a sentence. This fed into the myth of the Republic of Venice so that its grandeur was such that it was not afraid to admit to a mistake. In remembrance of the poor baker, two red candles used to be lit every night between two arches of the south side of the St. Mark's Basilica." I blinked what was this about and who left it? I opened it and there was a note. "Give this to Caleb Night, it's important" Someone had given me this but who judas? I dont even know if he's even here still so what did it matter? It was about lunchtime when the sun was falling fast that's when I finished wiping my wounds when I got up I tried to figure out everything that happened in 24 hours and I I could only get bits and pieces I had an Idea and picked up my water in the bowl I used to clean myself and dumped just enough on the floor and closed my eyes. "Ready.. let's try this. EMIT WEAV" I whispered and the water glowed and the water in floor glowed and started to show me visions that I didn't have I had fought Alexis but it didn't appear to be here, and I was visited by a woman Cleo but what happened that caused me to lose my memory? I could t figure that out it had to be a spell nothing else would have me acting this way. I sighed and suddenly the sound of my door unlocking awoke me from the spell and this time it was steak and eggs and I was hungry I ate on my bed while I looked at my book of shadows thinking, reading, when I was done eating my dinner, I got up from the bed and started to feel a little funny in front of the mirror, my visions started to get funny blurry that's when the door opened and I heard a knock on the door and that same woman came in, what was her name Cleo...or was it Cloe?" she walked over to me and held me "Just checking on..oh you were hungry...you ate it all....naturally it was about to affect you about now....how much can you remember?" It felt like I was in a dream. I said "I remember.." and the vision opened to me the banshee it told me to beware...statues....mirrors" and she blinked at me I must have been cast on by her or someone in here "Mirrors? But our mirrors are used for surveillance you shouldn't worry about these mirrors they just keep an eye on you..how are you feeling" and My world started to spin I collapsed on my bed....asleep.