The Tanian Legends

CHAPTER 4 - IM GETTING SUSPICIOUS

After that nightmare, I promised myself never to sleep unless completely necessary. These nightmares are really pissing me off. Then theres Benedict and Mikey looking at me like I was dead. I wanted to tell them everything but I couldn't get myself to. It was pretty stupid, I know, but try to talk when you saw someone's eventual fate. It was still dead silence, no one had responded to me.

"What happened?!" I demanded

It was still a deafening silence. I was now scared, was I now deaf? Was I now mute? So many questions reeling in my mind and I couldn't answer any of them. I just sat down in the chair next to me, hoping for the best.

Luckily, Benedict finally spoke up.
"My...Venice placed a spell on you, which put you into a coma"

Then I suddenly remembered about that red haired girl, I had trouble remembering her name... Andrea..
"How.. How about Andrea.." I asked
"Venice had fled with Andrea" Mikey said
"And no one tried to chase her" I said grumpily
"Uh... Ean did" Benedict corrected
"You should have just let me rot"

"I wasn't going to leave you in eternity bro" Mikey said "You're the best family I have ever had"
"What?" Benedict asked
"Yeah, its true" Mikey responded
"Look, if I told you my secrets, You'll never look at me the same"

"Secrets.." He muttered to himself, like he was hiding something I never knew.
"Your clothes are all dirty now, lets get you some clothes"

Then he left the room, leaving only me and Benedict...
Then I remembered we were at Venice's house... now I have no clue where I am.

"Where are we?" I asked
"At my house" Benedict said "We found you and we pulled you here so no one could find you"

I lost my energy to stand up, I fell into the floor, not unconscious, but I was going to crack up. Luckily, Mikey entered before I could do that.

"Here, just get changed" Mikey told me
"How?" I asked "Im dead weak"

Benedict slipped into his desk and took a pill of some sort.
"Here" he suggested

Look, I didn't trust Benedict that much. Though he has been one of my old few friends, I took the pill.

My body stiffened, which made my anxious. Then my body felt a burning sensation, and in the blink of an eye. I had energy, I could throw Andrea a hundred yards, if only she was here.

"I.. I feel better.." I said
"Its like a loan" Benedict explained "You feel better, but when you have excess energy, it lessens it."
"That seems like a double-edged sword" Mikey told us
"You have any other plan?" Benedict asked
"Uh... at least it works" Mikey said "Here, take the clothes, use the attic upstairs"

I went up the flight of stairs, I took a glance at the clothes. Astonishingly, it seemed like it was measured exactly to fit me. The front of the shirt had white text that said "Protectors" highlighted with blue. At the back had an art of a portal with violet mist and the phrase "Dimensions" at the back.

I was reeling so many questions about this simple shirt. Then again, I was going to a place filled with darkness, or partial darkness. Not enough for me to go crazy, I thought, but I didn't want to see how much it affected me. Which reminded me of Mikey's fear of the night, or the moon..? I had no real clue why I only thought of this now, but I just ignored myself.

So I changed clothes, I was about to go down but I saw a glitter in the corner of the room. A book, a handbook for that matter. In the center was a emerald gem, seemingly engraved in the jacket of the book. With the name "Benedict's Diary".

I took a peek in the pages, most has been written in Benedict's handwriting, with adventures from my namesake, Leo, and a girl just referred as "Bea"

"Cool story" I told myself.

I wrote what happened that day and placed the diary in my pocket, I didn't want Benedict or really anybody to see I was stealing a diary. Cold wind pressed my chest, I instinctively hide behind some cardboard boxes.

"Leo?" A familiar voice said "It's Ean"
"Ean?" I asked
"Leo! I missed you!" He said while hugging me so bad that I almost fainted.

"Ow" I managed
"Oh sorry" Ean said, it made me guilty to an extent. That was until I looked at his hand.. A scar around 2 meters long scarred his hand.
"What happened?" I asked
"The scar? It was when I found Venice and Andrea"
"What?!" I asked
"Venice killed her, I found her corpse, no signs of life"
"She deserved that"
"I tried protecting her..." His voice faded "I got this and..."
"and...?"

He opened his pockets, revealing two scarves, with a diamond gem in the center. He proceeded to to wear one in the hand. Where the scar was, and in a few seconds the scar turned into a white line of sorts. "Here" he offered
"Uh..." I said, amazed "Is that..."
"Its the scarf Benedict wears. You need to bind it to someone else that trusts you and vice versa. Ive been trying to wear this for months but only now it made sense"
"You mean..."
"You are the chosen one" Ean said, though the white line shined red, but then turned back to white. I didn't think much of that. "We are now partners. In this case, partners in dimensions"
"What?" I asked "Why me?"
"Because we trust each other, remember?"

He took the scarf and tied it to my wrist like a watch. My senses were becoming stronger. It was interrupted when Benedict yelled "LEE-OOOOO! CAANN YOOUUU HEEAARRR MEEE?!"
"Coming" I managed "Lets go"

After that experience that almost killed me even with a immortal scarf I will never understand, I went down the stairs with Ean, I forgot that I still had Benedict's Diary in my pocket, but I tried keeping myself shut as I didn't want him knowing I stole something from him.

"Whats up?" I asked
"That scarf.." Benedict gnawed. "That isn't..."
"It is" Ean said "It worked on Leo"
"You have one of those right?" Mikey asked Benedict
"Yeah"
"So who was it bound to?" I asked
"Remember the girl that you saw? Twice?" Benedict asked
"Her?" Ean asked
"Yeah. I remember" I answered, ignoring my partner in dimensions or whatever the heck that means
"Can we like.. Listen to some music?" Mikey asked "We really need to chill"
"Literally chill" I told him "The world is turning into ice!"
"Fine" Benedict told us "But I'll choose the song"

We all nodded in agreement. Then he touched some buttons in his speaker and played a song I barely recognized.
It was Uncover - Zara Larsson. I remember one of my friends singing that for some competition in 5th Grade. It filled me with nostalgia. I wanted to get this over immediately, because I knew I was going to tear up sooner or later.

"Hey" I said

Everybody turned, looking at me like I just said a wrong answer at my school recitation. I was too used to it, but in a small group? Forget it. Surprisingly, it was Benedict that spoke up "What? You dont like Uncover?"

"I like it" I said "A little too much that I could cry"
"I guess some tears would help because the news is going to make you cry anyways" Ean told us
"What?" Mikey asked
"I'll go" Benedict said "Let me explain to you what we need to do"