The Last Theiro

09

Tessa
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Tritan narrowed his hazel eyes and walked closer to me. He bent down so our noses were inches apart. "Oh, you don't want to know everything."

I mimicked his gaze and stared back at him with such intensity that my eyes began to water. "You wanted me to believe you. Now you must tell me everything." I muttered.

Tritan grinned at me. "I can't tell you everything, there's too much. Your human brain won't be able to comprehend everything."

I crossed my arms defensively. "What do you mean my human brain won't be able to comprehend it?"

Tritan scoffed and looked away from me, breaking the intensity if our glares as he walked to the water.
"Your brains are too small to comprehend what happens in the real world. The small incident that happened tonight sent you screaming and you tried to convince yourself it wasn't real. Imagine what you would do if you knew." He scoffed and bent down, drinking the water from the stream.

"If I knew what?" I asked as I joined Tritan at the water.

Tritan looked at me and I glimpsed a trace of fear that flashed in his hazel eyes. But it quickly disappeared as Tritan blinked it away.

"There's a whole new world you were kept from. Worlds, actually." He whispered. "It's not magic, I'll never describe it as magic. Magic is used for the good. It's more of a force, an evil force." Tritan shrugged. "I guess you could call it power, abilities and pure evil. You're part of that world. You were born an ischyros."

"An ischyros?" I questioned and furrowed my brows.

Tritan nodded slowly. "Yes, you are an ischyros. Every ischyros possesses the power of evil, but within that evil, the slightest portion of good can be found."

I leaned forward and maintained a steady gaze with Tritan. "If the portion of the good is so little compared to the evil, how do you access the good?"

There was a scream that pierced the silence of the night which was laced with pain.

My head snapped towards Eden and I ran over to his twitching body.

The veins in Eden's neck was throbbing and it was ebony black. His eyes were screwed tightly shut from the pain and his back arched off the forest floor as another scream fell from his lips. I gripped Eden's body desperately and tried to wake him up but his eyes remained shut and his body visibly stilled.

I turned desperately to Tritan. "Help him!" I yelled.

Tritan pursed his lips and approached me slowly. His muscular hand patted my shoulder lightly. "It's too late for your friend. The transformation has already begun."

I shook my head and gripped onto Eden's arm again. "What are you talking about?" I sobbed.

Was he dying?

"It's going to be okay, Tessa." He gently whispered.

I turned towards Tritan and arched my eyebrow. "How do you know my name?"

Tritan's chest rose slowly as he took a deep breath and avoided my gaze.
"The prophecy." He muttered.

And I snapped.