The Damned Kingdom (Rewritten)

-Chapter 7-

The smoke dissipates from Jay’s eyes and he sees that he is in an old laboratory. “The hell?” Jay asks walking and looking around.

“Welcome to my lab. This is a place I go to when I'm a little overwhelmed and I just want to focus on my research. And you are a perfect help for me.” Jax says looking for something.

“Well that seems alright I guess. But how can I help. And is this why you wanted to keep me?” Jay asks while following Jax.

“Yes, can you try to power up your Aura?” Jax says having Jay stand in the middle of the Laboratory.

“I mean I could try.” Jay stands where Jax guided him and started powering up. Jay powered up so fast Jax didn’t realize that he was doing it at first.

Jax turned around, “Woah!” Jax saw Jay with a glowing green eye and a green dragon wing and was engulfed with a green flame. “Does the flame hurt?” Jax asked about to touch it.

“No not really. I feel I can go farther than this though.” Jay said about to try.

“I mean I don’t know if that is a good idea your just now realizing what Aura is. I don’t want you to become corrupt. “

“Corrupt?”

“Yeah someone who overuses Aura or does crimes or drugs too much.”

“So what you’re saying is that a murder could have corrupt Aura right?”

“Yeah. I’ve seen it once but it’s not fun to be around because then the person who is corrupt has a chance to change from who they were before.”

“Huh… Interesting.” Jay says scratching his chin.

“Yeah but I’m looking at yours and you literally just got Aura but It’s on a higher level than what mine is and I’ve been training with it for years. Maybe it has something to do with Dragon-Vire.” Jax walked over to Jay and looked at the sword on his back. “Nah that can’t be it. Dragon-Vire probably helped you realize that Aura exists.  But it can’t help you raise your Aura.” Jax went on rambling.

“Hey Jax....” Jay called for him but Jax didn’t listen and kept rambling. “JAX!” Jax stopped and looked at Jay. “Is there a such thing as Dark Aura?”

Jax had a sad look in his eyes when Jay asked this question, “Yes… that’s one thing Corrupt Aura can lead to, Dark Aura. You can’t be taken back. So your Queen of darkness, be careful with her don’t let her corrupt you or your friends. Teach your friends how to use Aura with this.”  Jax hands Jay a small book on how to use Aura. “And make sure you three are fine. The Four Kingdoms are going to need you three. We can’t let any of you be corrupt.” Jax says. Jay looks in it and sees how to teleport. He does just as the page tells him. ‘Imagine the place you want to go and pretend you are physically there’ Jay imagined he was back at Xuxorid’s front castle gates and low and behold he was right there.

“Woah…” Jay said amazed.

“Neat huh.” a Voice that wasn’t Jax’s said.

“Yeah-- Wait.” Jay turns around to face the voice. Jay saw a man that looked just like him but whatever was green on Jay was black on the man. “Who are you?”

“Name’s Zero. Nice to finally meet a new Aura User.” Zero said. Jay felt his Aura it was dark like Vex’s but it seemed he didn’t have much control over his dark Aura like Vex did.

“Y-yeah…”

“What don’t trust me? I’m telling you Im unarmed.” Zero put his hands up. Zero knew Jay was no fool. “Hmm… You sense My Dark Aura don’t you?” Zero started walking menecling toward Jay. Jay backed away from Zero. With every step forward Zero took Jay took a step back. “Why are you so scared?” Zero asked acting confused. “I just want to talk.”

“Yes well talking involves words and not you coming near me.” Jay starts. “You know you could just talk to yourself you don’t even need me to talk to so I think I’m just gonna go this way.” Jay points behind him then turns to start running. But Zero cuts him off his path.

“Yeah your not going anywhere, Slick.”

“You know if you wanted me to stay all you had to do was say ‘oh please stay Jay’ but just know I don’t swing that way.” Jay said jokingly trying to lighten up the mood but Zero wasn’t laughing he instead used his hand and shoved it through Jay thinking it would kill Jay. Zero took his hand out of Jay and Jay fell face first into the ground. Zero left Jay in front of the castle to die alone.

“Enjoy dirt.” Zero said before Jay blacked out. When Jay awoke he looked as though he was in a hospital area.

The doctor noticed Jay was awake, “Oh good you’re awake.” The doc said focusing his attention on Jay.

“Ye-yeah… What happened and where am I?” Jay felt as though he lost a lot of blood and had a huge headache.

“For what happened to you all I know is that you got stabbed and what kind of wound you had it should have been fatal. Lucky for you your Aura kept you alive long enough for me to operate on you. As for where you are you are in Xuxorid’s Castle infirmary. The king is going to want to talk to you so i suggest you get some rest.” The doc says. Jay nods and lays back down. ‘This is all too weird to be a dream.’ Jay thinks to himself.