The Rise of The Powers vol. 1

Chapter 11: Life with a Soul

Chapter 11:Life with a Soul

We walked in silence the rest of that day. I think Lilith got the idea that I really didn't want to know anymore things about this world at this moment. Everything that had happened over the past few days whirled through my mind on an endless cycle.

Isn't that Ahilian Partial's son, Duke, who got adopted by the Whiting's.

What if that black shadow I saw enter my body from the dark cloud, was a soul, my soul?

You're kicking me out?

I had just killed Kralchon, somehow, someway.

Though are you sure you're 17 you only look like 10 or 11.

Just know, Lilith, that I'm always here for you no matter how bad you mess up.

You be the forever King I'll be the forever Queen. All you need to say is 'Yes I love you, too.'

You, you're not a Power are you? You, you're a Partial, aren't you?

I'm not a freaking Partial! Okay? I'm just a normal guy!

He unsheathed his sword, that I hadn't even noticed was there and he stuck it right into my gut.

It's a curse Duke. You have it. I have it.

The third is the Partial, most important of all, for he will be responsible of evil's fall.

That pretty much sum's up my journey with a soul. Great right? Although as we continued walking something occurred to me. We weren't walking in the direction of The Forest.

"Um, Lilith," I asked, doubt showing in my voice. "Where are we going?"

"To The Mountains, there's somewhere there that I'd like to visit."

"Who?" If I looked far enough I could almost see looming mountains in the distance. They were taller than I thought anything could possibly be. The misty mountain tops were undecipherable, I could only see the bottom of the mountains, but that was more than enough.

"An old friend of mind, literally. He's a necromancer, the only necromancer left actually. The necromancer of The Mountains, Racayanne."

"Why do you want to go there?" The mountains were getting closer by the minute. Was it just me or had we covered hundreds of miles really quick?

"Oh, I don't know." We walked in silence after that, but there was something so uncomfortable about it, I had to break it.

"Saphara is a girl I met at Paevanshire." I blurted out. I don't know where it came from, but it felt like a guilty secret I had been keeping.

Lilith laughed. "What?"

"You asked back at the Water Shae camp who Saphara was, now I finally have the chance to tell you."

"Duke, I have to tell you something, something that you have to promise to never tell anyone, ever. Okay?"

That I laughed at. "Who on Alembria would I tell?"

Lilith sighed. "I don't know. When my family had just rose to power, my mother, Essence got pregnant. Soren and I were already hundreds of years old. A family in power can only have two kids, a boy and a girl. It infuriated Essence beyond imagination, so when the baby was born, Essence immediately went to kill it. It was a bump in her plan, something that could damn the Powers from ever being in power again, but when she went down to kill the baby, I don't know what happened she couldn't do it. It was so unlike her, it was shocking, she could take a whole Empire's souls away, but she couldn't kill her own daughter. She tried to pretend like it didn't happen, but it did. It haunted her. That baby was a living nightmare for her, she couldn't stand it. So one day she went into the forest and left the baby under the tallest pine in The Forest, I don't know what she expected of it, but it somehow was better to abandon it, than have to kill it herself."

My eyes widened. "The second a Power, abandoned in the pines."

Lilith stopped cold. "No, Duke. Prophecies aren't real. It's just an absurd coincidence."

"I don't think so."

Lilith laughed. "At least you have your own opinion now."

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"Well, in the beginning you agreed with everything I said to you, now you're starting to think for yourself, but I can't blame you. It takes some getting used to, never being able to think and then bam! You suddenly have the ability to think for yourself."

The mountains were in front of us now. They were to big for words. No word was big enough. They were so big that one mountains base took up probably half the desert. They stretched so far into the sky that only 1/9 of the mountain was visible to the human eye.

Lilith pointed to a mountain far in the distance and then pointed up. "That's were we're going."

"That's going to take us weeks, Lilith."

"Duke, don't you remember how we traveled from the Water Shae camp to the Ruins of Aeden in less than a blink of an eye? Well, that's what we're going to do right now."

Suddenly we were on top of one of the mountains. I looked down below, I couldn't even see the bottom. There was just a misty haze, or clouds, thousands of miles below. Up above there were eagle type creatures flying above, but they weren't eagles.

"Lilith, are those Mountain Shae?"

Lilith looked up. "I believe so."

"Is this Racayanne's place?" I asked looking around. There didn't seem to be anything special about this place. It look like all the other misty mountain tops.

 Lilith opened her mouth to answer, but before she could a guy at least I thought he was a guy, stepped out of an unnoticed cave. He smiled. "Welcome, Duke, Lilith," He said looking at each of us in the eye. "I've been expecting you."