The Three

The Three Part 5

Entry 15 by Araina Livefoeye

June 5th 1999

I am here once again to see you, my beautiful book. The girl of the couple is doing well, she's been quite healthy, aside from a rash she had for a week or so.. it was quite the challenge for everyone in the mansion to get her feeling better again, any magic the family used on her was nearly useless..  didn't think our healing wouldn't be helpful. Anyhow, as for myself, I've gotten a bit better ties with everyone, although the eldest of the clan are still , quite cold, something odd is the fact they almost never come out , and when they do, it's usually someone representing them.. it's probably cause they are about to collapse or something, I guess haha. Anyway, now that I'm established here, I'm thinking of diving deeper into magic, I'm already at a decent level of it but the family does have a library around somewhere, I haven't inquired about it yet, but I'll do so soon. So, till next time

Araina

Ps: After writing this, I thought about that rash, it was something that happened to me when I was younger myself.. I wonder why, could it be we have something in common? Ah, probably me just thinking crazy, anyway, see you soon !

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After a little , the characters would learn the basics of the defensive  magics, sheilding, healing , and a bit of reflecting. 3 months exactly, Hugo woke the kids up extremely early:

''Rise and shine little flowers, todays a big day!'' Hugo said with a booming voice, the kids squirming trying to stay asleep on the cold stone ground. ''I said... GET UP!'' his shook the cave, making the kids get up gently, very lazily, at closer look , the three all have very pale skin, and look a bit sick, which made Hugo chuckle somehow.  ''W-we don't feel too good..'' Mio said in a raspy voice. ''All intentionally young ones'' Hugo said enthusiastically ''this will put you to the test!'' He then drew a circle with a few cloud shapes in them, and pulled the kids inside the circle ''Here we go!'' As he said that, the circle lit  up in a neon green, and the kids shot out the cave and outside, onto a small island, further away..

The island was small, but beautiful , a bit of grass and a single tree on it,Hugo resting against the branch of it, the others though looking like they wanted to throw up. making Hugo raise his eyebrow ''Well come on, do something about it, didn't I teach you guys anything in the past few months?'' Eio and Sio groaning a bit from their sickness,Mio then spat on Hugo and said angrily: ''ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY ?? WE ARE DYING, HOW ABOUT YOU HELP US OR SOMETHING??'' Hugo's head had a few veins of anger, but he quickly calmed down and laughed it off, before cracking his fingers and then pointing one at the group, making a natural dark green orb fall on them and splash like a balloon, soon the trio felt better, the colour coming back to their faces.

''Okay,now that training is out of the way, things get a bit more.. serious from now on'' Hugo stated coldly, he then grabbed a stick and drew a huge rectangular triangle  between him and the children, Eio watching closely to it, fixing her buttons and hat, Hugo then drew a rectangle,  a trapezoid, and a parallelogram in each of the angles. ''Now, watch closely everyone'' Mio was busy kicking his feet in the water, Hugo noticing started to get upset and shouted loudly ''EVERYONE!'' This made Mio fall in the water, drowning a bit before all three of them come over to save him ''Silly lad''.

After getting them gathered again,  Hugo breathed in and started once more: ''Now, watch closely everyone'' He pointed at all of the figures ''The big triangle is our world, and each of the other shapes are regions of the world, do you guys know any of the shapes and which places they refer to?'' The trio looked a bit confused. ''Ugh, fine'' So, the first region is one called Narfthazerima, or as you commonly know it, North America., next, is - ''   ''Okay, Antartic, then Asia, bla bla bla, don't have to tell us the whole rundown gramps'' Mio said , gesturing the other two to come along with him'' Hugo scoffed ''And just where do you think you're going?''  ""Isn't it obvious?'' He said before jumping into the water'' ''I want to take a dip, so I can listen to your beautifull words, grandpa'' Hugo growled, knowing it was sarcastic, ''Fine, I'll tell you two then.'' Sio and Mio both came a bit closer to Hugo

''Now, as you can all see, this giant triangle is a representation of our world, and each of the other shapes are different regions of the world" He took his stick and pointed at the rectangle ''This is Narfthazerima, or North America'' He then pointed at the trapezoid'' This is south america'' then the parallelogram ''and this is Europe. Now, all of these places are where you must venture, all three of you,to find pages of the book I  read to you guys a few days ago, that book contains details about your family, and maybe, just maybe.. other things, now what things exactly, I'm note sure, not even your auntie was sure, no one has read the whole book in a about 100 years or so..''  '' okay okay, one question before we keep going gramps'' Mio said, getting out of the water all wet''

''hmm? what is it twerp?'' Hugo said ''Well, don't you think it's unfair to send us, poor, defenseless kids out into the wild like this? Why can't you do it?'' ''Well, that's because"" Hugo hid his face before showing a big smile: ''I'm a coward!'' Mio clenched his fist and went back to swimming with his head down out of anger , Eio now looking at hugo with a confused look ''Why is it you're not doing it instead of us anyway?'' This baffled hugo,knowing those two never really agreed on anything''Um, welll. I've heard stories from auntie and the family of yours that anyone that tries to uncover secrets  of a magician clan gets some.. unfortunate consequences.. '' he said the last part in a quiet tone, making him sound actually afraid, this made Eio gulp, Sio all the while playing with Eio's hair, EIo then noticed her and said: ''Well what about Sio? ''  ''What about her?'' Hugo asked back sternly ''Well, she's only 8 years old , do you think she could come with us?'' Hugo chuckled , and smiled ''Oh yes, she can, I see great potential in her, trust me'' Eio softly nodded. ''but umm, how do we get there?'' Hugo scratched his beard and said: ''I have luckily just the thing for you!'' He hands her 7 ruby like crystal, all pretty light in her grasp'' These are Sanguin Stones, they are used to travel in the magical world" ''Ohh thesee, aha I haven't seen them since I was 5 or so!'' Eio said with with a bit of surprise, she had heard rumours of these stones, rumours that they were only obtained when killing a mage,so she  backed up a little bit away from him, Hugo scoffing quietly.

<<Anyway, kids, you'll all need to  eat  them, soo, get going..<< Eio gulped, looking at them with a little disgust in her mind, the others looking at them like they were tasty treats.. they did look appealing, with a very luscious red to them, Eio now lost a bit of trust in the man, even though he had a big smile on.. she looked back at the two, giving a Mio a bit of a frightened look, Mio looked at her with confusion, Eio mouthed the words:  << Trust me, get Sio and you close to me, now<<  At that, Mio  acted playful and got near Eio while tugging Sio to him, Mio slowly sneaking one stone into Sio's and his hands, Eio still looking at Hugo with a fake happy face<<  <<Soo, we eat these?<< Hugo chuckled << Wait, let me get my own stone!<<

As he said so, Eio pulled one stone to her mouth, sliding an extra one towards Sio and Mio's bags they had with them <<Go, eat them now!<< Eio swallowed it, gulping it down quickly, Hugo roaring in anger as he jolted to her << NOOOO! << but before he could catch her,she disappeared in a red cloud of smoke, soon after, Sio followed to, disppearing as well, Mio however, didn't, he paused a bit, and before eating it Hugo said in a desperate tone, pointing to the stone <<G-give it back to me!<< Silence from Mio,he dropped the stone, his hand trembling, he struggled to get it up to his eye view, it had dark veins all over it, Mio's eye bloodshot and quivering, before he lost it.

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To be continued