My Journey

The School Part 3

This is the last part for the school. A few days have passed and it's the night before my test to become a sensei. And the last night of me being there. Let's begin shall we.
I was laying in my bed it was about midnight. And for some odd reason I couldn't sleep. I had this weird creepy feeling in the back of my skull and it just would not go away. I laid in bed for hours unable to sleep. Finally, mercifully I fell asleep. Though my sleep was anything but peaceful. I had this disturbing dream that night.
I was standing my back to a cliff overlooking a good two hundred foot drop straight down into the merciless, and hungry ocean. My sword was in my hands and when I looked st it it was covered in blood. It was mere moments before sunrise and you know what they say "It's always darkest before dawn" I looked back down at the sea crashing against the stone face foaming ravenously as it mercilessly beat against the stone. When I looked back in front of me I saw a dozen fully armed warriors coming for me. I had two options: face them and die at their hands... Or take my own life. I stood there calculating the risks as the warriors drew nearer. They encircled me. "SURRENDER ISAAC! So that we may give you trial" I sneered at the man I once called master, "You will never take me" I say as I step back into the emptiness of the fall behind me. I close my eyes as I fall and mere seconds before I crash into the unforgiving ocean I see an unfamiliar face and a voice telling me to wake up.
I startle awake and look around in a panic thinking that I'm gonna drown. As I look around I notice that I am in my room and the sun is just barely rising. Breathing a heavy sigh of relief, I wipe the cold sweet off my forehead with a clammy and shaky hand. Closing my eyes I slow down my breathing and enter a deep meditative trance. As I calm down I hear a knock on my door. "Come in!" Sam walks up and immediately notices something's wrong. That's what friends are for ya knows.
"Hey Isaac you okay? You're as pale as a sheet"
"I'm fine. Just had a weird ass dream. Sorta freaked me out but I'm getting over it"
"Good cause today's the day you become a sensei. The youngest in history! Hell yeah that's awesome!" I'm only seventeen at this time. Wow... There I was thinking that that was a long time... Seventeen years. A mere blink for me now.
"Yeah. It's gonna be epic" I stand up and start stretching, "And cause we're both up so early we can actually get a decent breakfast"
"Hell yeah!"
I finish my stretching and we walk to the dining hall. As we walk we pass by a lot of students who all give me encouraging words and praise. Me and Sam smile as we pass and the chef knowing about the battle gives me an extra serving to "keep my strength up" as he put it. Sam keeps making stupid jokes and slowly I forgot all about the dream.
Eventually the time came for my test. In order to become a sensei I had to pass three tests. The trial of strength, the trial of wisdom, and the trial of virtue. These take place just before dusk. Confidently I walk into the center courtyard. My sensei stands at the center with a bo-staff held ready. I walk up to him and bow. "Shall we my former master?"
"You are no sensei yet boy. But yes. We shall" He bows and I step back drawing my sword. He charges at me staff held high. When he strikes down at my head I duck down to the side and tag him with my sword dead center of his chest faster than I have ever moved before. For a few seconds the watchers were silent.... Then they erupted into cheer. I had passed my first trial. Sensei bows as well as I and he indicates a massive puzzle to his left. Time for the trial of wisdom. Basically a giant puzzle in which I have to solve a series of ever complicating puzzle cubes.
I get to this first one a simple 3x3x3 cube with a design on it. In a flash I see its entire solution and my hands on their own accord they solve it. In a daze I move on to the next a 4x4x4. And the same thing happens. The same thing happens to each of them as they get to the maximum size of 15x15x15. I solve them all in just as few minutes. The crowd was silent the entire time when all of a sudden a young boy of about ten yell, "He is using witchcraft!There's a green glow all about him!" I look at him in disbelief as the rest of the crowd starts to notice it too. They start jeering and suddenly I get hit in the back of my head. As I black out I see that same face once more. Ouch that hit hurt like a bitch!
As I come to I see a strange figure undoing my chains. I look around to find myself in the cell block. The figure undoes my shackles and I fall to my knees. "Who... Are you?"
"A person who is very interested in your future" his voice is the same I heard in my dream and he slowly vanishes. I stand up and go to the door to find it unlocked and the guard unconscious. I run to the table and I find my blade laying across it. Picking it up I run out of the cells. I run until I get to the gate and the gaurds try to stop me. But I'm desperate and fueled with an unknown strength. They fall before my blade like wheat to the farmers scythe. Kicking the gate door open a guard on patrol yells out, "ISAAC IS ESCAPING! SOUND THE ALARM"
He runs after me and his yell alerted the rest of the guards who give chase. I run to the cliff and look around. "This feels... Familiar" I whisper to myself. I look back and see my master leading a score of men to the cliffs cutting off my escape save for one option. Stepping to the ledge I watch them come till the stop. "SURRENDER ISAAC! So that we may give you a fair trial" my former master says as he holds a sword pointed at me along with the dozen men.
"You won't... Take me" I step off the cliff and plummet to the cold cold ocean below.
End of The School. Ah how I wish I could go back to those days.