Chapter 8
///Dream Continued\\\
Vita's master then stood in front of the rest of the waiting army. "Pugna puteus. Intereo per veneratio."
The army was standing in formation, holding their weapons at the ready. Archers stood behind the front line waiting for the enemy to come into range. The group Vita was with stood off to the side of the rest of the army and had a group of very heavily armored men with weapons surrounding them. Harry stood as close to Vita as he could and had his wand drawn.
The first wave came out from the forest, being quickly taken down by the archers. The second made it half way to the front line before the archers picked them off as well. The third wave came pouring out from the forest. There were more in this wave than the first two combined.
"Bellicum!" Vita's master commanded from the back of the army.
Watching the two armies collide was more amazing than anything Harry had seen in a muggle movie. Many people from both sides, young and old decapitated their opponents. Every time someone went down, they had their heads cut off. Both sides seemed well matched.
Then more people came out from the forest. This group was smaller than any of the rest, but they were much more immaculate looking. They, just like Vita's still waiting group, had weapons but did not draw them.
"Luguolo lemma!" The master commanded Vita's group as he and the remaining fighters charged into the battle.
Harry could feel the air shifting around him. All of it was being drawn to the small group next to him. It continued to build until, with a push from everyone within the protection circle, it all went flying at the immaculate looking attackers.
Anyone caught in the air ball's path was thrown down to the ground. It continued to pick up speed until it dissipated just in front of its real target.
The leader of the opposing group just smiled at them and she and her small group started to chant something. Vita's group quickly spread out. The men surrounding them spread out as well to keep the magic users within their protection.
Harry ran to beside Vita, knowing now that he couldn't help. She hadn't taken her masters advice and now looked constipated. "Mos." She whispered while staring at the only person that hadn't left the protection of the dark forest.
As if hearing her calling his name, the young adult named Mos walked out into the sunlight. When the light hit him, he changed. He was no longer pale like his comrades. He was the same tanned skin tone as Vita. His features became more round and he looked very much like Vita.
Vita started waving her arms about and for each wave of her hand, the ground moved towards Mos, only to be stopped by his shields.
They both moved slowly closer to each other, Vita trying hard to get the earth to break through his shields. Neither of them showed any of the signs of tiring like the others around them did. Giving up on her previous idea, Vita started to lift the river up into a wall behind Mos. Before he had a chance to retreat, it hit him, knocking him down to the ground.
Vita was so shocked at her temporary victory that she stopped attacking. Mos though, quickly got up and waved his arms around. A giant tree from the forest came flying though the air towards Vita.
She moved quickly but the tree caught up to her and slammed her to the ground, pinning her under it. Mos quickly flitted over to where Vita lay, stuck under the tree.
"Vos adultus parum sanctimonialis." He said as he rolled the tree around on top of her.
"Quod vos proditor mihi magnus frater." Vita spit back at him. Suddenly the tree lifted off of Vita and hit Mos, pinning him to the ground.
"Ego quis eram vox." He said back to her.
"Vos occisor nostrum parentes!" She yelled at him. Her hands were starting to shake uncontrollably and the air around her began to heat up.
"Nostrum parentes infractus lex!" He yelled back at her.
"VOS DESOLO MIHI!" Vita yelled at the top of her lungs. The air around her was now so hot that the leaves on the trees started to wither.
"Vos erant pallens." Mos spat her as he tried to lift the tree from himself.
Vita was now so angry that she couldn't respond anymore. The air became even hotter and the tree suddenly caught flames.
Vita stood in the middle of the incredible heat with her hands by her side shaking uncontrollably. Her hair moved in the current the fire was making but did not catch on fire, nor did her clothes. Vita just stood there and watched Mos burn.
His agonizing screams did nothing to wake her from her daze. The old man walked into the flames that surrounded Vita and the tree. He placed his hand on her shoulder in a comforting manner. "Perago. Nos es laurifer." He said gently.
Vita just stood there until her master walked out of the growing flames. She drew her sword and pulled it back. "Ultionis." Her sword went flying down and cleanly cut his head off.
Vita then tried to bring the heat back into herself. She couldn't. It kept burning. The magic users that had survived were trying to quench the flames with water from the river. Blood that lay on the ground was being washed into the river.
Vita tried again to calm the hungry flames. The tree was gone as was the body under it; all that was left was ash that was being quickly burned. Vita tried to focus on the cold, she even tried to force ice out.
Nothing.
She then became very angry.
Angry with herself for not being able to control her own power, angry because she had no family left, angry because she knew that she was destroying the homes of those that she loved. Vita was angry because she was weak and no longer had anyone to be with her, to protect her.
The flames became even hotter and began to spread out in a circle. The villagers that had survived the battle now had to run away from the all-consuming flames. Only her master stayed behind. He stood just in front of the forest edge.
When the flames reached him, they pulled back quickly. He started to slowly (even for a human) advance on them. Each time that he got too close to the flames they would shrink back in.
He kept this up until just Vita was burning. All he did then was stand in front of her with a forgiving smile. Vita nodded to him, acknowledging him.
The old man then swiftly pulled his hands in an upward motion and towards the river. Vita went flying into the cool water. It steamed around her from the heat.
The old man then flitted to the bank and reached his hand out. As he ran down the riverbank, Vita flew through the water. When he reached the cliff, he threw Vita over it and forced her to the bottom of the waterfall.
"Subsisto hic quod frigus meus parvulus. Nos es decessio vos. Operor non fatigo, nos mos opportunus en meus tunc vita." He said to her gently. "Diligo mos semper increbresco."
///End Dream\\\
Translation of Nara's forest battle
"Pugna puteus. Intereo per veneratio."
"Fight well. Die with honor."
"Bellicum!"
"Charge!"
"Luguolo lemma!"
"Kill Them!"
"Vos adultus parum sanctimonialis."
"You have grown little sister."
"Quod vos proditor mihi magnus frater."
"And you have betrayed me big brother."
"Vos occisor nostrum parentes!"
"You murdered our parents!"
"Nostrum parentes infractus lex!"
"Our parents broke the law!"
"VOS DESOLO MIHI!"
"YOU ABANDONED ME!"
"Vos erant pallens."
"You were weak."
"Perago. Nos es laurifer."
"Finish. We are victorious."
"Ultionis."
"Revenge."
"Subsisto hic quod frigus meus parvulus. Nos es decessio vos. Operor non fatigo, nos mos opportunus en meus tunc vita."
"Stay here and cool my child. We are leaving you. Do not worry; we will meet in my next life.
"Diligo mos semper increbresco."
"Love will always prevail.
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When Harry woke up, the sun was high in the sky. The bed had expanded and looked as if someone else had slept in it.
Harry got up and quickly relieved himself over the side of the cliff. "I wonder if this counts towards the furthest piss?" He thought about the clothes that he wanted to wear but they didn't show up. "I guess the truce is over now."
He quickly put on the clothes he had worn the night before and went in search of Nara. "Well since it is light outside she would probably be Vita, unless she's in the forest."
Harry walked to the riverbank but didn't see her anywhere. He even crawled to the very edge of the cliff to see if she was under the waterfall just like in the dream.
She wasn't.
"Where could she be? Maybe she went to where the village was." Harry thought as he got up and walked along the bank.
"If what I saw was real, and it felt real, then that wasn't a real dream. Vita was showing me the battle. Or maybe she was remembering it in her sleep and somehow I saw it too." Harry kept thinking about how he had seen what he did until he came to the charred clearing.
Vita had done this. The light side of Nara had completely destroyed this land. Harry had a bad ominous feeling about his combat training. He stopped at the edge of the burn, cautious of Nara's warning.
In the very center of the charred land, where Mos had been killed, sat Vita. She had her legs crossed under her and her hands were laid flat on the ground. Her eyes were closed and her head was lifted up towards the sun. She just sat there taking calming, soothing deep breaths.
Bored of watching Vita meditate, Harry decided to walk around the perimeter of the burn. It took him almost an hour to just leisurely walk around half of it. He could not believe that Vita had done this, not only did she not seem capable of such anger, the sheer power it took to do something like this seemed beyond her gentle facade.
Harry guessed that it had happened 10 years ago at the most. "This would have healed if it had been any longer and Vita hasn't aged enough for it to be longer than that."
Thinking about Vita made Harry look back up at her. She was in the exact same position she had been in before. He couldn't see her face, but it was probably the exact same one. The air around her though seemed different.
Instead of the still slightly ash polluted air, there was a clear breeze that blew her hair. Suddenly the breeze picked up and encompassed the entire clearing. Harry had to back into the forest to keep the ash it was picking up from suffocating him.
The wind continued to increase in speed and become darker until it was a wall. Then the wall started to shrink. In the wake of it, where ash had once been was dirt. It moved as fast as the fire had when the old man had pushed it.
Pulled by something that Harry couldn't understand, he got up and walked into the dirt. He did the same thing as the old man had. He just walked very slowly (only for him it wasn't as slow) towards Vita.
When it finally compacted in around Vita, Harry just stood there smiling at the look on her face.
She was completely gob smacked. Her eyes were closed in concentration but her mouth had fallen open in complete shock. Her arms were held out slightly. Suddenly she opened her eyes. "Vir" She said and smiled when she looked at Harry.
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Back at White Castle, it was lunchtime. Vir sat in his usual spot at the head of the table.
One of the trainees had accidentally destroyed their dinning room, so they were eating in the main one with everyone else. Vir had yelled at the trainee so much that he turned purple.
It was soup day. Vir liked soup day. Soup day made even the foulest mood Vir happy. Ginny made excellent soup, and she always felt randy afterwards. "I love soup day." He thought to himself as he looked at his beautiful wife.
Sensing she was being looked at, Ginny looked away from Hermione at Vir. She gave him a big smile and a wink.
He smiled back and returned to his soup. "Vir." He had his spoon halfway to his mouth when it clashed down back into the bowl causing much of Vir's favorite soup to ruin his favorite 'Ginny's going to rip the off buttons' shirt.
The look on Vir's face was completely one of a kind. It was a mix between horror, shock, happiness, confusion, sadness, and all the while was aloof.
"Diligo mos semper increbresco." He whispered. As if on command, Ginny forced everyone but Vir's closest friends out of the dinning hall. She moved her chair to right next to her husband's and waited.
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"Vir" Vita said again and smiled brightly.
Harry just stood there in shock. Was she delusional? Could she not see through the ash? Not knowing, but sensing she needed an answer, Harry said, "Yes."