Truth

Chapter 4

Dare woke up in a dark room.  Where was he?  Where was Vi?  He slowly got up and groaned, the blast from that light energy pretty much burned his head to a crisp(metaphorically speaking).  His head hurt a lot but he stumbled out of the room and found Vi having breakfast. 

'Oh, so you're finally awake,' she said as she gestured him to come to the table, 'I've been up for hours and there's no sign of that woman.  Eat, I fried some eggs and I can't eat them all. I think I made 7 or something.'  She glanced up at Dare to see his eyebrow raised.  'What? I was hungry,' as if that explained everything.

Dare sat down and piled his plate, 'Where are we?'

'Dunno,' Vi mumbled with food in her mouth.

'Really, you wake up and all you think about is food,' he complained as spread butter on his toast.

The door slammed open making both of them jump.
 'Well, well, at least you've made yourself something to eat,' said the woman slowly walking into the room.

'What's going on? We need an explanation,' shot Vi.

'We will explain, so calm your pretty face hot head,' a voice echoed through the room.  From the shadow that the table created a man rose from the floor.  He had dark hair, dark eyes and you could sense a poweful aura eminating from his body. 

'Then talk, or you'll be sorry,' Vi snarled.

'Yeah kid? what are you gonna do?' smirked Rowan.  That made Vi shut up.

'I apologize for her stupidity, sir,' Dare said only to get a glasre from both Holly(Holly?) and Vi(no duh)

'We'll start from the beginning,' said the woman. 'My name is Holly and this is Rowan and we come from a long line of magic users.  A long time ago, sorcerers, mages and other magic users were well known and there were millions of them.  But then we had an argument, people were giving up a huge portion or all of their magic and giving it to one person, empowering the person by ten folds.  This damaged the person's mind and the magic made one of their ideals their only goal.  Some people made the world better because they could control this magic energy, but some were consumed by its darkness. This empowered magic was passed on by the generations and there are still very few people in this world that can use it, though they do not know that it is magic because the magic powers their minds.  They have to work hard as well for the magic to accept that they are worthy of using it.'  Holly looked at the teenagers' blank looks for a second and continued, 'Magic is a living thing, it not something we use but more of something that we work with to be accepted, that is how all magic users become, well, magic users.  Anyway, many people were concerned of these empowered magic users because they were to dangerous in the community but some wanted them to stay because they were able to lead and protect everyone.  People became angry.  People fought.  People died.  Until, when only a hundred magic users lived on both sides, they realized what they had done.  They stopped fighting and the civil war was over.  The magic user community decided to split apart to stop themselves from fighting one another.  Rowan and I are both magic users and our job was to search for the remaining, younger generations.'

Holly paused.

'Continue,' Vi and Dare said simultaneously.  They believed all of this, after seeing Holly's power and because they saw it in their hearts and minds.  But out of all the things they expected to hear, they definitely weren't ready for this.

Rowan spoke,'You are both magic users and even more...'

'You are the last of the five empowered beings in this universe,' finished Holly.