Brines (#Wattys2015)

Chapter 21: Hybrids and Warnings

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Seto's POV
(This is set when Steve took Seto away to talk to him...)

Notch turned to Steve "Steve can to tell Seto what he will need to do?"

Steve nodded and walked over to a pillar gesturing to me to follow.

I blinked and shrugged, following him.

We walked behind the pillar and when Steve was sure that the others couldn't hear us, he turned to me and said "Ok Seto, to sum it all up, Herobrine took all of Adam's good feelings and emotions and stored them in the amulet. That's why Adam doesn't have his amulet and is the way he is. Got it?"

I nodded "And let me guess, we need to get the amulet around Adam and I need to recite a spell of some sort to reverse the effects..."

Steve nodded and pulled out a scroll, handing it to me. I opened it to see the parchment was covered with lines of beautifully drawn runes.

I frowned as I read it, "This spell's really complicated..."

Steve shrugged "It's the spell, and I'm sure you can do it.... But that's not all I wanted to talk about..."

I looked at him, rolling up the scroll and sticking it in my bag. "Is this why you wanted to talk to me privately?"

He nodded "I don't think you would have wanted your friends to hear..."

"So what's wrong?" I asked

He sighed "Seto... Your fear.... It was tampered with."

I froze "What?!"

"Your dream didn't go the way it was supposed to..."

"How was it different?!" I demanded.

He sighed and guested to the pillar we were behind. I turned and watched as a mirror appeared on the pillar, only the reflection wasn't there.

Instead it replayed my fear scenario, it had my grandfather, the evil reflection of me I saw in the mirror, me shattering it, it was all there.

Steve pointed to my grandfather, "He was never meant to be there... You were supposed to fight the reflection of yourself that was in that mirror, not talk to your grandfather..."

I paused "So what you're saying is-"

"What I'm saying is that you need to be careful Seto, someone is clearly after you and this is a sign of that." He said, cutting me off and grabbing my hand, making the strange rune on my hand glow bright red before vanishing again.

I blinked "You know?"

"Yeah, your fear kind of made it obvious..." He said.

I looked at him "Do you know what this symbol means??" I asked him pleadingly.

"I do... but I can't tell you. It will only make things worse..." He said sadly.

I sighed "I figured you'd say something like that..."

Steve sighed as well, "Seto, I won't pretend to not know about this magic, you just need to know that you have to be careful around this kind of magic, hopefully never have anything to do with it ever again..."

I looked down at my hands "I know that... And I being careful..." I mumbled

"Then you shouldn't have anything to worry about." Steve said "Now let's go back to your friends. You'll want to know what's about to happen..." At that, he turned and walked back to the others.