I looked up and saw we were now standing in a normal house, there was a hat rack with a another fedora and I realize I lost mine sometime in the last day and I ask
"Could I grab one of those fedora, I lost mine"
"I would ask you sister" she said and I hear someone calling down the hall
"Darum Darum Darum DAARRRUUUMMM!" Areia stepped back and all of a sudden there was a girl right in front of me looking up at me with big eyes, she had straight hair that went down to the middle of her back that was as silver as mine and her eyes matched mine, she had on a pair of normal blue jeans and a black hoody that was way too big for her, you could not see any part of her hands because her sleeves were way to long, after a minute of just looking up at me she starts to walk around me trying to get every bit of detail,
"I'm guessing your Apalla" I say and she ran towards me again, but this time she had her hands out in front of her and she nearly tackles me to the ground in a huge hug and she said
" I can't believe it's you Darum, It's been so hard just sitting up here waiting for you to come up here" still hugging me she looks at Areia and says "Where's Quincy?" Areia's eyes start to water and I say
"He's gone a necromancer killed him down stairs" she hesitated for a second then buried her face in my shirt and starts to cry. I sit there thinking to myself I can't stand to see her cry and I realized she is my sister so I put my hand on her head and said "I'm sorry sis, but Quincy has been avenged"
"What happened" she said looking up at me her eyes red from crying
"The Necromancer tried to kill me and I killed him" I said looking right at her, she steps away from me wiping the tears from her face
"Good he got what he deserved" she said "I bet your hungry then" I realized I was hungry and I could go for a snack or something
"Yea I am but it's only been an hour since breakfast" I said looking at Areia
"You should eat Darum "Areia said now stepping out of the corner of the room where she had backed in to "you should be dead from using so much energy it would be a good idea to eat something"
"Ok I guess so" I say feeling guilty I'm talking Apalla's food. Apalla's food was not as good as Areia's but still I didn't complain and I ate
"Are you ok" Areia said with concern in her voice
"Yea" I said "why wouldn't I be ok"
"You have been through a lot in the last day or so" she said looking down at her half empty plate
"I'm fine" I said thinking if I was really ok, I have just got sucked into this crazy world but I think the saying "shit happens" is a good way to cope with this. After we ate Apalla came up to me and said
"We need to get started"
I nodded and said "yea" we started to walk down the one of the hallways and I saw some old katanas and some random stones that had markings on them I didn't bother asking what they were because I really did not want to know we came to this big door it looked like one of those huge bank doors were they keep all of the money
"Were here" she said startling me out of my thought
"Here would be were" I asked looking at her
"This is where I train, the way this room is built no one can tell you're in there no matter how large your aura is"
"People can track you with your aura!" I said quickly
She stood in fornt of me with a very decretive sword it was about as long as mine but it was a lot thinner
"Wow" I said "why is your sword so thin I thought we had the same amount of energy" she looked at me
"you will find out Darum" she said and sprinted at me she was so much faster than me I blinked and she was in my face, I jumped back tripping over myself to find Apalla almost dying of laughter
"Was that really that funny Apalla" I say as I get up
"Yea" she said wiping the tears off her face "yea it was"
"I think I figured why your sword is so thin it gives you extra speed" I say looking at her
"Not really I am just fast" she said "but good try"
"So is the purpose of this to make me faster" I ask then she sprints again this time even faster than she was before I manage to block her sword
"Good bro but look" she said and I looked down at were the blades connected and I saw her blade slowly sinking in to my sword. I jumped back from the shock
"What the hell did you do "I asked a little louder then I should have "how did you do this to my sword" she looked up and she did not look so happy that I yelled at her
"when I first summoned my weapon I was in control of my aura so my weapon is a lot denser than yours" she lifted her hand "so my weapon is a lot thinner but another thing I know you don't know is this she" rolled up her sleeve to reveal strange markings that looked like burn marks "these are rune markings that stand for something, these stand for fire"
"Fire, are you a fire mage or something" I ask
"yea" she said smiling "I am" as she finished she said her hand up the blade of her sword and a glowing silver light came out of her blade
"I'm not going to like this am I " I said worried about the next five minutes or so as the glowing light turned to what looked like silver fire,
She took a step forward and she was gone, were the hell did she go, I hear a shoe scuff behind me, I turn just in time to block the blade with the guard of my sword, but it sent me off balance and I wend skidding on my back till I hit the wall, OW I think, that hurt like a bitch,
"are you ok" I hear Apalla say "does brother need a nap" and like that she was gone again, I stay on the ground weighting for her to attack again and she did, I blocked her blade and threaded my legs though hers and twisted, she fell for it I can't believe she fell for it I thought as she hit the ground hard, I stand and distance myself from her knowing that she is so much more skilled than me
"Trying to get away from me won't help you any" she said standing up "you should know that small gap won't stop me"
"I know "I said with a smile "but I think I have an idea" she disappeared again and I just listened for any sound,
"that won't help" she started to say and I found her I followed the sound and swung I feel the clashing of the blades sting my hand, I followed through anyway and she went flying from her feet into the far wall, is she ok I thought I lowered my guard and took a step forward from the smoke I see something glowing, then it hit me she's a fire mage she can use fire as a weapon, I try to dodge but I couldn't move
"What is this" I yelled with fear in my voice "why can't I move?"
"Well strong fire spells are rather slow" she started to say as she was stepping out of the wall "so I bound our feet to the ground so the spell can get to you"
"Shit" I said under my breath what am I going to do I can't move I'm gonna die
"Don't give up Darum" someone with a soft voice said as everything starts to slow and go black "you will not die here just listen to what I have to say"
"Fine" I said "what do you have to say"
"Just think of what you have done in the past that shock wave was not the strongest one you can do you just need to quiet your mind and concentrate" then everything came back the fire ball everything. I closed my eyes and I could feel it that burst of energy, I lift my blade and swing straight down till the tip of my blade it the ground and I opened my eyes to see a huge golden shock wave flying towards Apalla and the fire ball. Apalla is just standing there with her sword in hand and she sprints toward the golden shock wave as it hits the fireball and sends small streaks of fire going in every direction, Apalla puts her sword to the shock wave and she starts to slide backward the shock wave keeps gaining speed
"Apalla" I yell and I start to sprint towards he I manage to catch up with her and I push her out of the way and my sword connects with the gold mass that I created and I fell my feet start to dig in to the ground I swing my hand and my blade cuts right through the gold and it dissipates into nothing.
"Darum are you ok" Apalla said running towards me
"Yea I'm fine" I say
"no you're not look at your arm" she grabbed my arm and a sharp pain made me drop my sword I look to see that my arm was burned from the elbow down and I had cuts up and down the burn marks
"If I looked injured then why did you grab it "I said holding my arm.
"Sorry" she said looking up at me with a smile "we should have Areia look at that for you"
"Yea we should" I said feeling the blood run down my fingers, as we walked out of the room we went back to the dull house
"You sure you're ok" Apalla said looking at the floor
"Yea" I replied grinding my teeth a little because of the pain" won't we be found if we go out of the room"
"Yea" she said quietly "but it will happen either way, they don't give up" I hear a knock on the ceiling
"Apalla" I say" did you hear that"
"Yea, I did" she said drawing her weapon, I started to do the same, "don't" appall said "your arm…"
"I don't care" I said and I started to draw my weapon "shit!" I said as a sharp pain pulsed from my arm, I put the sword in my left hand and I ran hoping that some adrenaline would dull the pain in my arm, it did but it still hurt, Apalla sprinted off down the long hallways leaving me to myself, as a am running down the hallways I hear the sound of a blade cutting through the air
"Shit" I said as I fell to the ground on my back, I could not even see the weapon, with a blade you can see the wielder but this weapon I did not see anything, what was it. I got to my feet with sword in hand
"Were you" I said looking for any sign that someone was there. I could not see anything even in the lighted hallway, were did the attack come from, I hear I hear the whizzing of a blade and I moved instinctively to block it, I see something bounce off the blade and go flying into a wall, I walk over to the wall and I pull out a disk.
"Shit" I say under my breath as the dish fly out of my hand cutting my palm, "Show you! I said loudly thinking it sounded kinda corny
"Why should I" I hear a feminine voice say "I can kill you without you even seeing my face" still in the feminine voice but it sounded a little darker
"why is it always the crazy ones that try to kill me" I say mocking what I assume to be a hero, I stepped forward trying to listen to hear any sound that would give her away, but all I could hear is the small spat from the blood dripping from my hand, I wiped my head to the sound of a scuffing shoe to see someone phasing out of my sight, shit what am I going to do, she's too fast for me to find her, again I hear the scuff of her feet tucking the ground this time I through my sword a head of the sound and sprinted torts the sound, I hear a thump, not the sound I expected to hear but I was still happy I hit something. I go up to my sword, I just hit the wall what was the thump then
"That was close" the voice said, she sounded out of breath "I can't go easy on you; I have not had a good fight in a long time"
"Then I am not the person for you to fight I am still really new to this whole magic thing" I said putting the sword on my shoulder" but you could tell that by the way I looked couldn't you"
"Really with that massive sword and aura you have your still learning" she said stunned "with your arm all messed up like that you should be easy to kill"
"yea "I said trying to act tough again thinking it might work " you would think that" I lifted the massive blade off my shoulder and swing down a bust of light came from my blade sending a bunch of dust around me flying away from me, I heard the scuff of her feet again, but then nothing
"Hello" I say confused "are you there" she was gone shit that tough guy act worked again I thought smiling, I
"Darum!" I hear down the hall "Darum are you ok" I see Apalla running down the hall towards me
"Yo" I say waving my sword in the air, I forgot about my arm and hand being messed up and dropped my sword grabbing my arm "I'm fine"
"You sure" she said her urn coming to a fast walk about five feet in fromt of me "I felt this huge aura from over here"
"Sorry I kinda got in a fight" I said "but let's get to Areia I can't fight like this my hands are all messed up"
"Ok she was right behind me" she said as Areia came into sight
"Darum" Areia said cumin up to my hand already starting to heal it "Apalla told me about your training are you ok"
"Will you top asking if I am ok, I am fine I will always be fine, if I am on the ground not moving then ask me ok?" I said almost yelling
"Sorry" I heard both Areia and Apalla say looking down. Areia finessed healing my arm and hand the burn marks were still there but she told me they would fade in a few hours. We walked in science down the halls until we got to the front door.
"We are leaving to train you" Apalla said "we are going to some woods in mane there is a part of the forest that the dark lord and the minions would not dare try to find us in"
"Can we make a stop first" I said looking at Apalla" I need to see my, I mean our mom, and ask her something" Apalla looked at me with tears coming to her eyes. "Why are you crying" I asked thinking I did something wrong
"Nothing you said our mom" She said rapping her arms around me, but she quickly jumped back
"Wait were not using the portal thing again are we" I said remembering how sick I felt afterwards
"No dumbass" Areia said "we're going to drive"
"Can I ask a question" I paused; there were no objections so I continued "how do you move so fast when we fight? Do you teleport or something?"
"No" Apalla said rubbing the back of her head "It's like um…." she paused "you push off with your foot and put a lot of your aura and use that to push even faster"
"Really that easy" I said starting to jog in place, Apalla looked at me
" don't even think about it Darum" Areia said giggling " I can't even do that yet " I stopped lessening to what she said and pushed off with one foot strait up,
"Shit, shit shit, bad idea, this was a bad idea" I soar past a 20 foot tree, wow I think to myself this is amassing I can see everything from up here even. My house, I whip my body in the air thrill I faced my house and pulsed off again, holy shit I thought as I started to move even faster then I did when I went up I could see a shimmer of gold behind me, it looked like I just kicked up some soft dirt.