Light vs. Dark Once More
Chapter 11: Meeting Witches
Jasmine's Point Of View:
Well, looks like we're taking a stop for items. We're low on food and we only have one planet that seem to be civilized enough for buying and selling, Azia. From top you couldn't say the planet has life, it looks like a desert, with the exception of the big jungles around those seas of water in some places, but if people live there, I'm not complaining.
Onto the planet for the food are going: me, Raphie, Sora and Mikey. I hope there won't be anything similar to what happened on Hexos, though. At first Don did suggest something about this group to be like it was on Hexos, maybe Sora could remember something more, but when I glared at him, he took that back and looked like he wished he could go into his shell.
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So, we got left out on the biggest city on the planet, Hozum. The entire planet is a practical desert and the buildings look like they are made from stones, and they are sandy yellow, from the old age they are. There are some Indian houses, I think they were called Teepees, but the most are made from rock. The city itself is on a cliff like rocks, with a moat around it, but there is no water, so it's a deep fell down onto sharp rocks. The bridges are even made from rock. The ones in the city, not the main entrance one. From what I understood, the rich live on the top, as in the higher grounds of the city, the middle ones in the middle and the poor somewhere down, maybe they even live in those portable Indian houses.
"Swords! Shields! Spears! Bows and arrows! I got what you need for the big hunt! Come and buy them!" A plump man, dressed in a long shirt like dress, with sandal like shoes with a turban on his head, but the clothes look a little too small on him, called out.
"Horses! Travel horses! War horses! I got a lot of them! Come and choose your horse!" A skinny black headed man dressed in a similar suit of clothes as the previous guy, but more for his size, called out.
We soon found a food stand and looked threw what is good and that can last long.
"Alchemy! That is what I do! You need to make a charm really magical!" A man dressed in an alchemist robes called out.
"He lies." A woman's voice said to me. I quickly turned to see this woman, but I couldn't see her face, since she was wearing a long white cloak to cover herself up.
"He lies about his charms and magic. He knows no magic at all." She looked at some grapes, before buying them.
"How do you know that?" I asked.
"Ask at the Witch's Magic." The woman said, before leaving.
"Hold on!" I tried to catch her, but when I got to the same corner she turned…she wasn't there and it was a dead end.
"Where the hell she disappeared to?" I asked quietly.
"Hey Jazz!" Raphie called out.
"Coming!" I left, but not before looking at the dead end again. People can't walk through walls, right?
Mystery Person Point of View:
I was walking around the house, when I heard someone walk in threw the door. I recognized the smell as hers.
"Got anything good?" I asked.
"Grapes for the future telling or a client? Which is better?" She asked.
"A nap." I stated.
"Maybe we should finally find that reverse spell. You have been a cat for 30 years and you're acting like one." She states.
"At least I hear all of the gossip going around. Interesting one about Karena I heard." I called to her, when she went to the Room.
"She found another guy to play with?" She guessed.
"No. She got married yesterday!" I called out.
"Seriously? How long do you think it will last?"
"They should break up about now." And screams and yells started to come from across the street.
"Karena should learn never to mistake lust for love." She states.
"So true." I agree.
Jasmine's Point Of View:
So, the Witch's Magic is really a shop? Why the hell would that lady suggest I come here? Looks like they are even desperate for clients, as this place looks like no one was here for a while. Just to give it a shot, I walked in and looked around. The inside was themed dark, with black and red rugs around the floors and walls, the tables looked old and were made from thick dark wood. Instead of doors, they had curtains, black and red ones.
"Come here." A quite voice whispered.
"Huh?" I searched for the owner.
"Don't be afraid. Come, follow the voice and you might find the answers to your questions." The voice continued. Yeah, following a weird voice with no owner shouldn't scare me at all. Still I did follow it and went threw the red curtain.
This room looked more used. There was a big round table with a white cloth on it; there were something that looked like Taro cards, some red candles and a small paper with some ash on it, with four chairs around it. The walls had lots of pictures and scrolls with writings; there was this big book case with scrolls and books in it, a big cauldron with an ingredient cup board next to it, a small one on one of the tables and candle holders across the walls.
"Welcome, youngling. We are glad you came." The voice said again and the cloaked woman from before walked in threw the other door.
"Who are you?" I asked her. Then woman made her cloak go off of her, it changed into a classic which hat, even changed to black color and she revealed herself. She had long dark brown wavy hair, with weird hazel-green eyes, which I swear I can see golden specks in them, and they look a bit elfishly like. She was tall, and very petite, her skin looked like the other people ones, tan. She is wearing a long white robe like dress, with big loose sleeves, sandals, she also had a black belt around her waist and golden jewelry on her like golden bracelets, a small golden diadem and a golden necklace, and it also has a big black crystal in it.
"My name is Halla O Ween, the witch of Hozum. It was me who talked to you, youngling. I saw that you have questions, that you need answers and the sooner the better." Halla said.
"Halla, I don't want to be rude…"
"Yes you want to be." She interrupted me.
"…But I really don't think I'm gonna tell all my problems to a stranger, so I'm just gonna go." I turn to leave.
"Your only family is the girl you call your sister, and her name means sky." Halla stated, making me stop.
"What?" I asked.
"But maybe she should've been Kei or Hikari. In her language they both mean light, which isn't what you see in her? As your light at times." She continued.
"Ho-ho-how do you know that?" I asked.
"The person your soul was meant to be from the start is the brother of her own soul mate. You two are sisters by aura, not by blood, which I think might be a tighter connection, then blood. It can be spilled, aura cannot." Halla added.
"How the hell you know this?" I asked.
"Your eyes, your soul. It speaks and I can see what it says." Halla explains, "Too bad she doesn't remember the good times she had when you lived with her. She misses them sometimes. You also almost died from the spear of your enemy, who tried to hit your soul mate, he went mad, attacked everything in sight, and it was your sister that brought him back, and he managed to save you. Is that right?" Halla asked someone on her right.
"Sure is. Bit lacking the usual detail, but it is right." A black short haired cat, with vivid grey-ish blue green eyes with also golden specks came in and jumped on the table. This cat had a golden leash/necklace on her neck and it has a white crystal in it.
"This is my witch companion that got stuck in cat form from a spell gone wrong for thirty years now, Unuge Greaka Fenasa." Halla introduced the cat, er, witch in cat form.
"Look, if you laugh about this, I'll curse you. I may be a cat, but I still got my powers. And call me Greaka." She stated. Okay, so I am standing in a room of a Witch's Magic store with two witches and one of them has turned herself in a cat by accident and has been like that for thirty years. What the hell?
"Are you going to stand here or wonder how we knew you needed a witch advice?" Greaka asked. So, she is easily annoyed. Maybe that's just a cat feature, though.
"Yeah, I do wonder that." I agreed.
"Auras are tricky. They sometimes appear and can be seen to people who are made to see them. In this case, I saw your aura, which fire red at the moment, I might add, and she looked stressed from thousand and one questions." Halla explained in a manner as if this was an everyday routine.
"Look you got at the least three questions that seem to be between your life, sanity and death. Ask them already!" Halla exclaimed.
"Yeah, um…will Sora, my sister, ever get her memory fully back?" I asked the question, I bet everyone wants to ask.
Halla and Greaka walked over to the cauldron. Halla poured some black liquid in it and smoke came out, black one. For a moment they looked at the liquid then looked at me, before stirring it and tossing in something powdery white.
"Memory of lost shall when everything is sealed away, but shock must happen, for it might stay hidden in the shadows." Greaka said.
"That's a yes?" I asked, hopefully.
"Decipher it and you will see." Greaka replies. Memory of lost – Sora's memories, but do they mean by shock? Someone near death again?
"Uh…how about the Gems of Darkness? Will they end up destroyed?" I asked.
"Do you even know how they appeared?" Halla asked.
"Not really." I confessed.
"Thought so." Halla sighed and went to get a scroll. When she opened it, in a throwing manner, it somehow became wide enough for us to stand on it, without doing any damage to it.
"More a millennia ago, a power darkness, that has had many names – Chaos, is the most used, existed and ruled everything, (Image: in the center, a black cloud appeared and spread through the entire map) but as time went by, another power appeared – Light. (Image: blinding white light appeared next to it and began to take its own territory) Light didn't like the way Chaos made and they battled for a long time, till they both used all of their strength and made the thing you call Big Bang. (Image: Both of those powers clashed and made a bang) Chaos's powers were horrible and it seemed to want to take over Light, but she stopped it, by locking the power in ten gems, which were originally body parts of Chaos (Me: Eww) and hid them far away. (Image: the ten gems went from light and the remains of Chaos and flew to different directions) But after few thousand years, the ones that somehow survived the Bang, brought the gems together and made the statue of Darkness to get the powers and bring everything to dark. (Image: Statue appeared and darkness started to flow from it) Light managed to defeat them, and she made some of the first people make special temples to keep the gems safe and away from the people and their greed for power. (Image: The gems flew once again away, after the fight and the statue ended up somewhere in the middle of the map)" Halla explained.
"Then how did some of the gems end up with guardians?" I asked.
"Those spirits of the people who made the temple, searched for something or someone that can do the job and so they have been guarding the gems their whole life. Until you came and got two groups of these guardians, giving them a chance to see a bit more then the temple." Greaka adds.
"And the temples that didn't have guardians?" I asked.
"The spirits guarded them, however, when you found the Sapphire Eye, they knew what was coming and didn't try to stop you, quit the opposite. They helped you by giving you the knowledge of the language that Chaos spoke himself." Halla answers.
"Well this is a new chapter in the history book." I comment.
"Ya think? They should rewrite history at all. There was something before the bang, otherwise there wouldn't have been one, but they wrote it off as a molecular thing and they live happy." Greaka complains.
"Oh don't complain. At least people don't go looking for them. And besides, who would actually look for gems on dead planets? There are ton of them." Halla says.
"I know, I know." Greaka murmurs.
"Also, if everyone knew, we wouldn't have the thing about telling the truth of the beginning." Halla points out, in a bit childish matter.
"Yes, but sometimes it gets annoying by over telling the same tale, over and over." Greaka added.
"You quarrel a lot?" I asked.
"At times." They both answer at the same time.
"What about the map?" I asked.
"A universal map. Shows everything: planets, people, and races, what are they doing, where are they going, even the past. From the future it can only show eclipses, but if you can master the power it has, you can even see what will happen to planets or do things with it, but no one can tame its powers. It has a mind of its own." Greaka explains and the map closes up. Halla takes it and puts it away.
"If it's so powerful why keep it in such a plain spot?" I asked.
"Simple, they don't know how to make the map work. Only a fully trained master can work it, youngling, and we are the only ones that can." Halla explains.
"I got another question from the 'bugging me' list. Who wins?" I asked. Halla and Greka looked at each other before they nodded. Halla came closer to me, "Put your hands on mine." Even though I got no idea what she will do, I put my hands on her hands, and they glow white and I see visions.
Raphael's Point Of View:
What is taking Jazz so long? She went in this Witch's Magic store and hasn't come out yet. She was taking long, long enough for Mikey and Sora to goof off with those hats that are on sale. Just my luck, I found a window in which I see Jazz and, I guess the witch of the shop, wearing white. She had Jazz's hands in her own and they glowed in a white light. Something of it was making Jazz happy, cuz I can see her smile in happiness.
"Raph what are you doing?" Mikey asked.
"Nothing." I state.
"Oh, so you're not looking in someone's home, possibly a naked lady?" Mikey asked.
"Mikey!" I yell at him.
Third Person's Point Of View:
When the warm light ended, so did the vision, Jasmine was seeing.
"You see? That should happen one day. It will be real, but until then it will be a hard path to go." Halla states.
"If that's what I get, I'll try to battle everything in my way." Jazz firmly stated.
"Courageous of you, youngling. You are a warrior worth our help." Greaka nodded.
"What help?" Jazz looked at the catitch (cat-witch).
"You will see. But not now. In the future." Halla replies.
"You better go. Your soul mate is getting anxious and that is getting on my nerves." Greaka states.
"Cats are more sensitive then us. They feel everything." Halla explains.
"Oh and I feel a sandstorm later. Unless you guys want to get stuck for a while, I suggest you leave soon." Greaka advises.
"Kay. Thanks for the help." Jazz quickly leaves to meet up with the rest.
Suddenly the cauldron started to sizzle and make smoke. Both witch's run to it and see something that made them scared.
"Darkness shall rise in fire and sun auras." Halla says.
"End of everything we know might and shall come." Greaka continues.
"Unless blood and joy auras stop them." Halla adds. Then the cauldron stops and the water again become black. Both of them stayed quit for a while.
"We better start looking for a place we won't end up being killed." Greaka says and gets a look from Halla.
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On the planet Glacia, Mandarin and Hun were going through the snow storm to find the Sapphire Eye, another Gem of Darkness. When they got through those dozen of traps, they saw the Sapphire Eye in all its beauty.
"Another one." Mandarin reaches out… only for the gem to let his hand phase through it.
"What?" He tried to grab it, but he failed, then the gem disappeared.
"A primitive hologram. Those ancients were good with traps." Hun grumbles. Then he notices something through one of the cracks and walks over there.
"I don't understand this! How is it possible? Who could've gotten it?" Mandarin ranted angrily.
"You said this planet is known for the thing called Snow Crystal?" Hun asked.
"Yes, but what does that have to do with this?" Mandarin asked.
"Maybe the one who's got it is a traveler. See for yourself." Hun pointed out the crack and Mandarin looked through it.
"That must be the temple for the Snow Crystal!" Mandarin exclaimed.
"The temples got mixed up and the wrong gem was taken." Hun stated.
"Great. What now?" Mandarin asked.
"Go and get the Snow Crystal and hope to get out of this, by saying possibly wrong temple?" Hun suggested.
"Worth a shot." Mandarin agreed and they both went to the Snow Crystal temple for that one.
This is not their week. You know, I feel a bit sorry for these two, but only a microscopically.
Maybe they can lie this out, let's see next time what happens.
Ja Ne!
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Quick Witch's Note:
For those of you who read this and were a fan of Black/White Saga I: The White Ninja, the first chapter for Black/White Saga II: The Black Ninja is coming out this Sunday! Everyone mark your calendars and be ready for the new contests!
Enjoy!
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