Priestess of Xiania

The Priestess of Xiania (Part 1)

It was cold, dark and still that afternoon when I was walking down on an alleyway in a sedate pace. A cat caught up my attention. It's not just a cat—there was something on it that glimmers, it's like the moon, white with something blue in color. Its hair was long and shiny and even its eyes were unique.

The cat ran towards the forest and I chased after it. It was mesmerising. I could have it as a pet. No, was my eyes defying my judgements? It was 10 meters away from me and I kept trudging on this freshly washed up soil. It rained on this part of Grisia; the weather was very strange. The sun had already finished its tenure and was fading on the red-lit skyline, away from this melancholic phenomena aloof. I couldn't stop, my curiosity had gotten ahold of me.

What would happen after I get that cat? Would my friends, classmates and family be proud of me? I might be named in my hometown 'Xian the Intelligent'. No, no, why would I be named like that by capturing such a cat? I think 'Xian the Capturer' ? Yuck! Gross!

I ran as fast as I could into the heart of the forest because it was the only route that the cat possibly was heading into. When I reach my destination, I saw a light out of nowhere, it was a dim cool blue. It was my favorite color, cerulean. I approached the light to know what it really was.

Oh! It's only that cat.

'But, no!' I muttered to myself.

There were nine of them, the eight gathered circling and the one, I think, who lured me was in the middle. A flash of light covered the darkness and it is because of those cats. The cat shone very brightly that if anyone dares to fight watching it with their bare eyeballs, they could be blinded.

The light slowly easing back to normal, yet there was only one cat left. What happened? I roamed my eyes around the forest just visible to my eyes and saw eight people standing from different direction, probably where they'd came. I think they were lured like me.

"My apologies, my apologies colleagues. I am 'Xenix the Guardian of the Priestess.' For what you had just saw lately, it's just a mirror image. An illusion or let's just say a duplicate of me. If you're wondering why I lured you in here was that because I need all your help." Woah! A talking cat? I think it's the Talking Angela, an app that my sister used to play in her android phone.

Everybody got out an exasperated expression full of confusion.

"Help?" asked the boy wearing a blue polo with two of its buttons opened, tousled blonde hair. I thought he's a type of guy who likes to bully.

"Yeah, help. Your help to kill the priestess."

"You said that you're a guardian! And now, you are telling us to kill the thing that you have been protecting?" Yelped the girl emphasizing the word thing. She wore a red night dress, blonde hair, blue eyes and she's goddamn beautiful.

"Yeah, you're right." Agreed the boy who wore black muscle shirt, black pants and his skin was a chestnut brown. He's so mysterious.

"The priestess who, I should protect, was being possessed by the Evil. She is not herself now. We need to stop this in order to save the world. She is the priestess of the Xiania. Xiania is the place where all the gods came, served and protected for eons. She is so important that--" the cat's speech were cut by a girl.

"Is that the gods of egypt?" asked the girl excitedly. She had a thick middle eastern accent. I thought she's a black american, or somewhere from there.

"The gods of Greece or the gods of Rome, the gods of.... uhmmm...Norse mythology!? If you haven't known what is Norse mythology, well, Thor and---" a boy with a reddish blonde hair said with an utmost feeling of excitement but he was cut off.