A Purple flame sparked out of nowhere, the green one next, orange, red, yellow, white, magenta, silver, and at last blue. 9 different kinds of fire are circling with me in the center. What in the world-?
Under me on the ground I saw a nonagon is formed with the flames at each corner, emitting a strange sort of light. Suddenly the ground shook, the light bursts out from the earth to the sky. Unable to bear the pressure, my body stuck to the ground.
And then I realized that I was in a different place. A place with purple sky filled with various auroras. This is... the place with the black dragon in my mind. But something is missing, the black dragon is gone. For once I looked around in awe. Now I understand why that dragon likes to look at the sky. It's beautiful!
Suddenly a huge shadow overlaps me, the dragon is back. I was about to ask a ton of questions, but as always my voice is gone. I could only stare at the dragon is it sit on the air and looked at the sky again. I sat beside it and looked at the sky as well. Suddenly a single aurora emitted a different kind of light. Somehow that light resonated with me. Effected, my mind is filled with a lot of different noises.
And then I was awake, in a different room with white walls and white ceiling. I was on a bed with a table next to me and some medicine on top of it.
'Is this the infirmary?'
Suddenly the door opened. A boy came in. He had dark brown hair with yellow-gold streaks and pitch black eyes. Judging by his attire, he is a student. He was bringing a bag of cloth and antidote bottles.
'Ah... you're finally awake.' He said. He put all the stuff into the cabinet near the table. He took a glass of water and walked towards me.
'Here, take a sip. Considering the way you passed out, you must be quite confused now so let me explain everything first.' I took the glass and took a sip. I shook my head in agreement.
'First let me introduce myself, my name is Zen. I'm the Head Nurse's Assistant for this year. This morning a 10th Rank student brought you in, she said that you passed out right after the headmistress spoke with you. And so, here you are.'
And then I remember everything. This school, my discussion with the headmistress, this weird world, everything. I looked around, it seems like I'm the only one here. I looked at Zen. He looked more human than the others.
'And you are a..?' I asked
'Oh, you're curious about that? I'm a half-Garuda. We have power over lightning and fire, but our feathers have healing properties and so here I am learning healing magic from the head nurse.'
'Half? Is that why you can look so human?'
'No, of course not. My real form is much bigger and wilder than this. Once you study at Arcadis, you can make yourself a human form to conserve your magic and energy. We divine one's race by their auras. Of course it might be hard to understand considering you are a new student here.'
'Oh. That... makes sense...'
I kept looking at Zen's face. His unwavering smile is somehow etched on to my mind.
The door opened again, this time Riuna came. Seeing me, she ran straight to me and hugged me.
'Thank goodness you're alright!'
At that time I didn't know, that this encounter would change the fate of the whole world.
.: Author's Notes :.
Hi guys! Thanks for reading part 13! Finally Erida and Zen meets up, what would their fateful encounter effect to the rest of the world? And what's the meaning behind the two dreams she had?
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