Aneon [Incomplete]

Chapter 18

We appeared in a place I did not know. It looked like a forest. Where ever we were, it was beautiful. There was a gorgeous waterfall cascading down into a babbling brook. Ché put me down and I walked up to the little stream. I peered into the stream and saw schools of different types of fish swimming all about. Why does it look like night time? I shook my head and focused on where we were. The water of both the river and waterfall appeared to be glowing. It was almost as if it were a pool where when it becomes night, lights in the pool turn on so people could see where they swim. I drew my attention away from the water to look all around. As I guessed it was a forest. There were a lot of animals about. Something caught my sight at the corner of my eye. I turned around and saw it was a monument of some sort. It was a huge crystalized rock with a glass casing on top of it. Of course, it tickled my curiosity and I ran up to it. There were two names written on the crystal rock, inside the glass casing, in a red ink, liquid or substance.

“This is my secret get away. I am the only person, alive, that knows about this place - well I was. I want you to have this place. But promise me one thing. Promise me you won’t show anyone else this place other than Prince Alexander.” Ché walked up next to me.

I looked at him and nodded.

“Good. Now for you to own this place, I need you to just slightly cut your finger or any part of your body and write your name on this crystal in your blood. Your blood ties you to this place. So you may find yourself being drawn to this place. Literally. The first few times I was randomly walking and I ended up here.” He explained.

“Oh, okay. So I just slash my hand, right?” I confirmed.

“Yes, but don’t hurt yourself. Please.” He begged.

I looked around for something sharp and found a huge boulder doing nothing.

“Is that boulder anything special? Can I break it?” I asked Ché.

“Uh, no. Go ahead.” He raised a curious eyebrow at me.

I walked up to it, cracked my neck and knuckles and loosened up my shoulders.

“Okay. Let’s see how strong I really am.” I smirked.

“Alexis. What are you up to?” I heard Ché ask from somewhere behind me.

I centered myself, but I put all my aura into my feet. I held my foot in my hand and stretched it over my head.

Nice. I’m still flexible.

I put my foot back down and got even closer to the boulder. With one swift movement, I kicked the boulder and it completely broke into a million tiny rocks with jagged edges. I held one of the rocks in my right hand and turned to face Ché. His mouth was agape.

“What?” I shrugged one shoulder.

“You just obliterated a boulder, and all you say is “What?”. I know full fledged Guardian angels that can’t even do that, yet.” Ché smiled at me.

I smirked at him. I took the rock and slashed the fleshy part by my thumb. Ché lifted the glass casing off the crystal and backed away. My blood slowly dripped down my arm. I used my right index finger, dipped it in my blood and started to right my name on the crystal. I only reached ‘l’ in Alexis when my ‘A’ I wrote disappeared.

“Huh?” I furrowed my eyebrows and re-wrote the ‘A’.

Both the ‘A’ and ‘l’ disappeared.

“What the hell?” I gave up.

“Huh? That only happens if your name is already here…wait. Have you ever been here?” Ché asked me.