The Spectre

Chapter Five - The First Day Of The Future

Though it had been hundreds of years since Coral and Ivana left for the future, to them it was merely the blink of an eye. The blue circle that engulfed them began to disperse, they began to see bright sunlight which shines with immense intensity, they covered their eyes to block the sun and get a better view and saw that in front of them was Optis standing tall without ageing a day smiling at them. They walked towards him with warm greetings and words of consolation, while they were travelling through time Craven had passed away and the only one left to go through the loss was Optis and the citizens of Coralyta. As they were speaking of the subject of Craven, Optis led them to a memorial site for past leaders and Cravens statue was stood next to the late Queen, the mother of the three siblings and now only two remained, the fate of the future in their hands.

After they had finished paying their respects to Craven's memorial, Coral retired to her bedroom for the trip had taken up an immense amount of energy with an additional taxing on the seal's energy because she used it to send two people through time. And so to her room she went but Ivana requested to see the reason why she had to go into the future, and Optis simply replied with "follow me". And with that they headed back to the centre of the city where the core was, Optis stepped over it and asked Ivana to do so as well, then with a single snap of the fingers from Optis they shifted into a parallel dimension, they did not appear to have left the city because everything looked the same, except for one oddity, there were young people openly training in the middle of the city in what looked like a reconstructed training ground. Ivana was in awe, everywhere she looked she saw a different seal bearer, some possessing mastery over abilities she had never seen before. There was a sand seal bearer who could create sandstorms and create barriers out of it within an instant, a matter seal which could make objects shift their state from solid, liquid or gas, and even a transfiguration seal which allowed the bearer to alter the structure of whatever he touched. This all was very overwhelming for her to see at once, what little hope she had left seemed to have been reignited like a roaring flame, now a comeback did not seem impossible, fighting back against Void's army did not seem like a task that could not be completed.

Optis and Ivana stepped off the core and walked towards the training students and as they were heading over Optis explained the structure of the training students. Each seal bearer belonged to a unit, there were 6 units in total and in each one there were 6 seal bearers within it. The teams were code-named by Gale, Lotus, Valor, Arcane, Remedy and Primal. Depending on what seal a person possessed you could easily know which unit they were in. Ivana was fascinated by the diversity and structure, an army of this magnitude was never seen before as even back in the old days of Malevor seal bearers were never this refined, this truly was a sight to behold. As they approached the students they noticed them stop their training and gather in front of Optis to greet him as he was the one in charge of their training. "At ease," said Optis with a gentle voice, "this is the one I have told you about, the one who will lead forge the final unit and effective immediately she will be joining you in training". This came as no shock to them, they grew up hearing stories of one who will arrive from the past to help advance the future, and just as the stories told she was nowhere with them. Everyone seemed to be happy of her arrival except one man standing against a wall in the back, he didn't seem to be paying much attention to what was happening and did not really care about going over to greet her and Optis.
"Excuse me for a moment," said Ivana as she walked over to him, as she was going over she could hear whispers in the crowd "he just had to be disrespectful again", "when will he ever learn" and "why is she even bothering with the loser". She just ignored the whispers and went over to him, a man with dark hair and dressed fully in dark clothing, considering how everyone else was dressed this one person stood out from the crowd.

"Why are you stood all by yourself?" asked Ivana with a friendly smile, only to get a cold stare back from him, a familiar sensation at that, a cold chill down the spine and a paralysing fear struck her for an instant. The feeling went away as soon as he stopped looking at her but she immediately began fearing him for a reason she could not fully explain. "Now now don't be rude Strycore, this is your new unit member after all," said Optis as he walked over, "sorry I can't control that, didn't mean to scare you, hello my name is Strycore," said the man to Ivana who was still in shock, but after hearing him speak she got a bit more peace of mind and nodded at him as to say "nice to meet you too".

After that encounter Ivana needed time to rest and get her composure, so she requested a room to go get some rest, after getting the directions Ivana went over to her room and got some sleep knowing when she wakes up she will have to deal with a lot of changes, a lot of hard work and somehow gather up a team which includes a person who's presence gives her a staggering fear for a reason she has yet to find out. Things won't be easy, even for someone with her level of skill and experience. The road ahead will be full of adventure.