The forgotten World

20. When Things Go Wrong

The days up till Wednesday night went basically the same, wake up, tell some more people in a game I hadn’t played in half a year that I was not dead. Find myself worn out before even getting to lunch. I was finally glad everything was back to normal and I had asked dad if I could take the lap top with me. And so that night I found myself packing the lap top into my TARDIS bag, in my bag also was a new phone that dad had purchased for me via barter card and a motel kit he put together for me. So the next morning being Thursday morning we both woke up not wanting to do what we were about to do. We both climbed into the truck and set off for Brisbane my bag was behind my seat again and we talked the better part of the trip. We made our First stop the Roma Street Railway Station, thanked god that dad only needed the Hino for this trip because we would not have found anywhere to park the Semi as it was we had a long enough walk. After arriving inside the station I finally pulled out my note book to look for the platform I needed, found it faster than expected and made my way to the right track. I stood there with dad for all of fifteen minutes explaining to him where I was going and why I was going, I had just finished when the train arrived, it was the same number train I had come in on, number 87. I boarded the train after giving dad a hug and soon after that the train left the station returning to sky Hope City.

Once again I closed my eyes on the train only this time when it stopped I was not the last one off. I exited the station at Sky hope City and made my way up the Road to Izzet. I had not looked around too much the first time I was here but I soon found myself standing outside Izzet guild doors. But there was something in the alley next to Izzet that kept drawing my attention. I was like looking at heat haze in the shadows, there and not there at the same time. I pulled my staff out of my bag, if this was a Dimir scout I was going to hand it over to Izzet and ask for Ral Zarek as a false name. I entered the ally way and I heard a trash can tip over further down the alley, but I felt something behind me and I spun bring my staff around to hit who ever had snuck up on me, but as my head turned I saw nothing, but the staff had been stopped mid swing, something had caught it. I could see the haze around the staff where it was being held, I tried to pull my staff free but it would not move this creature had a vice like grip on it. “Let go” I growled “why would I do that?” the haze said casually “because that way I can walk out of here and no-one needs to get hurt” I growled. “You stupid boy” the haze ripped the staff from my grip and swung it at me, I blocked grabbing the staff with both hands. The haze spoke again “I did not give you this power for you to kill us with” and with that comment one end of the staff caught on fire and the other froze over like Ice. The haze let go of the staff and as the fire and ice connected with my hands I dropped the staff. “What do you mean you gave me my power?” the haze lifted the staff “don’t ask questions, just take your staff” I reached out a unsteady hand and grabbed it around the frozen end with my right hand knowing that the left side would inflect mire pain, but what happened next was most painful. The fire end of the staff was suddenly pushed in close and I found myself raising my left hand to stop it from hitting me in the head. Then the pain of fire in my left and ice in my right hand kicked in and I fell to my knees dropping the staff again. I looked at my hands the left hand was on fire and my right hand was covered in blue ice so cold it burnt. It took me a few seconds to realise I was screaming then my screams got higher as the ice started working its way up my right arm and the fire up my left, they meet in the middle of my body and the pain was so much I had stopped screaming my entire right side was covered in think blue ice so cold it burnt, my entire left side covered in fire so hot I felt like I was going my skin was going to melt off my bones. The best way I could describe it is being in space without a space suit. The pain got to a point so intense that my vision went black and I passed out. When I woke up I was still in the alley, the fire and ice was gone, and so was the haze.