Hope Within

Chapter 9 The Spirit World

The snow started to fall as the wolf and Ostrythe continued to walk up the mountain. Ostrythe, still in his half wolf form looking around and started to see different auras. As he looked at the sky the weather began to change. The cloud started to part and the clear beautiful night sky was clear. He sees the stars clear as day and begins to smile. Ostrythe heard a voice behind him and turned around to see. It’s a man wearing a black cloak but Ostrythe can see the aura of this man. This aura was a yellow and suddenly it turned to orange then gold. 

“One of the beautiful things in the world. You can find peace within nature. Although I may ask you this. What does fate have in store you? What will you reveal to the world as the Prophecy begins to unfold? ” The man said as he faded away. Ostrythe thought to himself and wonder who was that man. Then he continued to walk as he was falling behind the white wolf. The white wolf stops in front of a cave. “Thou must go inside to unlock, thou forbidden past.”

“Forbidden past? You mean burn memories…?” Ostrythe asked, and began to walk towards the cave. But he stopped and looked around and then looked back at the wolf. There was Raven sitting on the white wolf. The Raven jumps in the air and changes form to a woman with dark purple long flowing hair, hourglass like body, and a round face which has rosy cheeks and has purple eyes.

“Hello there I am Parthenos. But enough of the formalities this thing you call burn memories are actually called Seal Memories.” Parthenos stated as he gently sat on the white wolf’s head with her legs stretched out like her was resting them on something. Ostrythe shock but trying to understand the situation. 

“Parthenos...I could have sworn I heard that name before... But I don’t have any seal memories. I know what I saw.” Ostrythe stated bluntly, but that moment Parthenos vanishes from his sight. Then reappears behind him.

“Let’s take a look shall we?” Parthenos whispered to him and touched his left shoulder. This causes him to pass out and wake up ten minutes later in a burning town. Ostrythe gets up and runs to look for a way out but the buildings are collapsing everywhere. He looks around and holds his head like this is all a dream. Parthenos appeared again in front of him, calm and collective like she knew this was going to happen. 

“Why are you freaking out, this is your spirit world. You claim to say that you don’t have any Seal Memories here.” Parthenos said, smirking at Ostrythe as he looks at her with rage.

“You don’t know nothing about me. Who are... ” Ostrythe said try to finish but she interrupted.

“Before you in your mind and feelings. I am not important to you right now. You don’t know your father and your mother was murder in front of you. The thing about Seal Memories is that you lock them away. No one else can do that unless it’s a ritual. In Vonis' case that is.” Parthenos stated, so Ostrythe went to a burning building and stuck his hand out and immediately removed his hand.

“This fire is real…So this isn't some magic reality?”  Ostrythe question Parthenos. She walked up to him and she grabbed the fire and it was sitting on her hand. Unfazed by the fire she turned around and flickered the fire to the farthest building and blew it up. 

“This place is the Soul Plain aka Spirit world. The reason why you feel the pain is because your mind is more powerful than your soul. So the heat of the fire you know about in your reality you believe it to be the same here. A select few humans can enter here....But the place is for the souls that live on. Once you adjust to this work the fire and others won’t bother you.” Parthenos said, understanding the reasoning Ostrythe nodded his head. 

“Since you're starting to understand what I am saying. I can begin, This hellish place is created by you because of the tragic event in your life. You remember this town or should I say village.” Parthenos said, raising one eyebrow at Ostrythe. He looked around and the whole scenery changed to a village burning and he looked to see that there were half wolf people dead and laying all over the place. Taken away by this Ostrythe fall on his butt and his eyes began to water.