Don't Blink

Chapter seven

'The unexpected is usually what brings the unbelievable'
-unknown

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As three figures appeared in front of a grey, tall stone tower, one groaned and fell onto the ground.
"I will never get used to that, can we not do that again?" Mayla groaned, feeling sick.
Alicia chuckled.
"You will get used to it my friend" Alicia replied as she started to walk to the door "Come"
Lucas offered his hand to Mayla, which she accepted, pulling her up.
"Thanks" Mayla said.
Lucas only nodded.
They both looked awkward as they walked to the door where Alicia told.
She sighed, annoyed.
"Oh by Priaxio's namesake" Alicia muttered "Never trust a man with darkness magic"
"Your patience is thin"
All of them turned around to see an old man with a black Finela
His long sleeved, orange-brown animal skin jacket covers him to just above his groin and is bound slightly off-center. The sleeves of his jacket are a comfortable fit and reach down to well below his hands, they're decorated with a black decorative band almost at the edges.
The jacket has a round neckline which reveals part of the relatively simple white shirt worn below it and is worn with a wide light blue cloth band, which is held together by a well tied knot. The cloth band is slightly decorative, but mostly there to hang things from, which at the moment held gardening tools.
His pants are simple and a little narrow and reach down to his hide boots.
His silver eyes, wrinkling with amusement as he watched the three.
"Oshan! Why weren't you in your tower?" Alicia asked.
He smiled, his wrinkles rising with it.
He stroked his small faded brown beard.
"I was gardening, it is one of my many passions outside of magic" He replied.
He looked at Mayla and frowned.
"I think I have found why you are here" Oshan said "Come, follow me"
The three of them followed the old man into the tower.
Mayla and Lucas gasped with amazement.

The tower looked small from the outside but it is massive on the inside, almost twice of its size.
On this level there is a small old bed, a cloth messily on it in the corner of the room.
At the other side of the room laid a small stone kitchen, with no modern technology.
A small wooden table with one tool stood near it,
In the middle of the room lies a massive fire pit, which is used for the warmth of the house.
The flames blasted furiously and bright in the dark tower.
Spiral stairs led up to another floor.
"Where are we?" Mayla asked.
"You are in my tower, which has been passed on by generations of the royal court masters, The Obelisk of Skeletal Spire" Oshan explained as he put his tools down on the table.
"Come, we must go upstairs" Oshan, going up the spiral stairs.
Alicia followed in command but Mayla and Lucas were hesitant.
"Come on, we have no time to waste, your life is at the essence Mayla" Alicia said as she disappeared upstairs.
Mayla sighed, going up the old, wooden stairs with Lucas following behind her nervously.
"You okay?" Mayla asked as they got to the top.
"I'm not the best with any heights" Lucas simply replied, standing next to her,
Mayla looked around.
The top part of the tower is much smaller; like it had some of the faded red roof space apart of the room.
Racks with potions surrounded the room with a massive table in the middle with various books and tubes on it.
Behind Mayla was a massive bookshelf.
"Can you treat this?" Alicia asked "Nothing like this has ever happened before"
"It has happened once before" Oshan said, walking to the book shelf "Unfortunately they were not so lucky"
Mayla looked down with sadness.
"However, after the time was up, I figured out a cure" Oshan said.
Alicia gasped.
"Really?" Alicia asked.
Oshan nodded, taking out a book.
He brought it to the table and brought it down with a bang, making Mayla jump.
He flicked opened to a page.
"You would need a 'ring of a loved one' and need a 'blessing from the betrayed'" Oshan said.
"That shouldn't be too hard, right?" Lucas asked.
Mayal started to messy around with the rings she had on her hand.
"Unfortunately not, useless Mayla has a ring in her possession that is from a loved one, who wore it...then it would be different" Oshan said.
Mayla was slightly concerned the man knew her name without telling him but she shook it off.
Alicia must have told him.
Mayla looked down at her rings.
Silver infinity ring
Nope: gifted by grandma
Silver ring with birthstone on it.
Nope: gifted by dad.
...A gold ring with a round brilliant diamond in the centre.
"Yes!" Mayla exclaimed loudly, pulling off the gold ring "This was my mother's wedding ring"
Oshan nodded.
"Good child now, keep it on your finger and safe" Oshan said, making Mayla nod "May I have a look?"
Mayla nodded and walked towards the man.
Oshan took one quick glance at it and then snapped his head back at it.
"My child" Oshan said.
"Yes?" Mayla asked nervously.
Oshan offered his hand, making Mayla nod.
Oshan held Mayla's hand, cold for Mayla to touch.
He took it up to his face and gasped.
"What type of jewel is this?" Oshan asked.
"Uhhh...a diamond I think?" Mayla asked "I never asked"
"This is no human diamond, look at the way it shimmers in the light" Oshan said, bringing the hand towards the candle on his table.
The stone lit up with magnificent colours, brightening up the whole room.
Everyone but Oshan gasped.
Oshan  brought the ring away from the light, the colours faded.
"No earth jewel would do that; what jewel is on your finger is an Illustrious Valor...a very rare Reflectron gem" Oshan said, making everyone gasp "I have no idea how you have possession of it, but this is very interesting indeed"

Everyone looked at the shocked Mayla.
"I have no idea...My mum said that it was given to her mother, and then her grandmother...it's been in the family for generations" Mayla exclaimed, looking at the ring with so much care.
"I guess we will never know, one of the mysteries that is meant to be unsolved" Oshan exclaimed.
"Now the blessing" Alicia said "So just find someone that betrayed Mayla and we're good?"
Oshan chuckled.
"Unfortunately not" Oshan said "The blessing as to be said with a rare flower, the Pririn's petal in their hand and given to Mayla, and then and only then, will it take young Mayla back to her world"
Alicia nodded.
"I have those flowers at home" Alicia said "So we'll be fine with that"
"Sir" Lucas asked "What about her time? Is it until the three gongs?"
Oshan sighed.
*gong*
"Correct, young Lucas" Oshan replied.
Alicia gasped.
"We only have 6 speed times left!" Alicia exclaimed "We need to do this quick"
"But who's blessing and how are we going to it?" Mayla asked, who snapped out of her deep thought "I only know you guys in this realm and you haven't done anything to me so it has to be in the other realm but how do I get there and give them the flower and to get it back?"
"Remember how you saw me through you mirrors?" Alicia asked, making Mayla nod "I can teach both you and Lucas how to go to the Realm of a Million Colours and travel around using your reflecti abilities from this realm"
Oshan nodded as Lucas looked excitingly at Mayla, who looked just as excited.
"It would take extra effort to communicate and transport items but I have a feeling Mayla will do it just fine" Oshan said.
Alicia looked at him.
"What do you know?" She asked.
"In time my dear, in time" Oshan said and then looked at Mayla "We must work quickly, the transformation is going at a fast pace"

Mayla looked into a mirror Oshan summoned and gasped.
Her colour overall is differently paler than before, her eyes losing it's brown colour and the black around her eye has completely covered them now, however they're not a shimmery and moving around like the others.
"Who can I talk to?" Mayla asked.
"Didn't you say before about your father and your best friend betraying you?" Lucas asked.
Mayla gasped with that idea.
"You're brilliant Lucas, I could kiss you right now!" Mayla said, making Lucas blush.
Mayla blushed soon after, realising what she said.
"So which one will you go for?" Alicia asked, saving the young ones from even more embarrassment.
"My dad would think he's crazy, especially with mum...he would be really upset and I don't want to effect him more...Aphria...she woul freak out but she would help me" Mayla said "So Aphria"
"Let's go and find her!" Lucas exclaimed.
Alicia nodded and turned to Oshan, slightly bowing.
"Thank you for your help,I am forever grateful" Alicia said.
Oshan bowed back.
"If you are in more need then call and I will be there" Oshan said and the turned to Mayla "Safe flights or what you would say good luck"
Mayla nodded.
"We need to stop home before going to find Aphria" Alicia said, "And we need to travel"
Mayal groaned.
"Again?" She asked.
"Yes, now huddle in close" Alicia said.
Both of them did as they ask and Alicia threw the glistening white jewels from the bag and they disappeared in a bright light,blinding Oshan.
"Lightness users and their dramatic leaving" Oshan said, his smile not coming off of his face.
It is time.
He thought this day would never come but it's here.
It's finally here.
It is time.