Chapter 29: A Strange Man
Another month had passed and during that month, strange things had occurred to each and every girl. Kaira was practicing her writing one day and the paper caught on fire, Rnama another day was chopping wood when the wood she had chopped suddenly turned into trees; and Lin, on the hottest day of the month, was fanning herself and she fanned herself so hard she accidently made herself fly and hit the wall.
All the girls were sitting down in the dining table when Xichel suddenly asked:
"You all have been strange this month, what's wrong with all of you?"
Lin, Rnama, Antionetta, and Kaira glanced at each other in silence. There was an air of awkwardness in the air. Antionetta continued eating while still keeping her eyes glued on to every girl in the room.
"What are you talking about?" Kaira dared to answer Xichel. She looked a little nervous.
"Hmm, what am I talking about?" Xichel pretended to ponder "What I mean is that Antionetta spends most of her time at the beach, Rnama chopping wood, which by the way I think we have enough for the next year Rnama. Lin is always stuck in her room and you near the fireplace. What's going on? "
"Nothing is going on." Lin glanced down.
"To be honest, I just want to be alone." Rnama said in a low voice.
"You all have been leaving me alone for a month. I've been alone for a month!" Xichel then shouted.
"You don't have to scream Xichel." Antionetta lifted her voice at her friend.
"I feel as if you don't want to be my friend anymore. Is that the case? IS IT?!" Xichel shouted again and pounded the table with a harsh and violent pound.
The four girls suddenly gasped in horror. Xichel felt a force behind her touch the back of her body. She then turned to face what her friends were so in aw. There was a silver vortex that buzzed and shined a bright electric blue light. Rnama, Kaira, Antionetta and Lin ran away from the bizarre object. Xichel was flabbergasted and stayed looking at the thing with widen eyes and her mouth dropped open. Terror filled her body but she couldn't move. A shadow began forming from the vortex which turned into a man. The man emerged from the light slowly. Xichel trembled in fear as she managed to scream to her limbs to move away from the object; She began to walk backwards. The man was bold with strangely familiar brown angelic eyes. He had a small brown goatee and wore a magnificent white robe.
"I believe I am in the right place." He smiled at Xichel. Xichel tried to speak but couldn't.
"You're…you're…the man. The pendant…" Xichel then managed to blurt out as she looked into his brown eyes.
"Yes I am that man, and we have met before." He chuckled. "My name is Cero."
Out of nowhere, Lin appeared with her daggers and headed towards Cero in attack mode. Cero then lifted his hands which caused Lin's daggers to fly off her hands and to land on his own. Lin was in shock from what she had seen, and apparently all five girls who had been observing were too.
"H…"
"It doesn't matter how I just did that. I need your undivided attention from all of you." Cero said.
"You're a WITCH! A WITCH I SAY!" Shouted Antionetta exclaimed in horror. She pointed at him.
"I am no witch." Cero explained.
"Then how do you explain what you just did now?" Lin shouted.
"Everything will be explained when we cross the Vial." Cero said as he looked back at the silver vortex.
"I am not crossing that thing." Antionetta whispered.
"Why are you here?" Xichel asked.
"I am here to escort you to Candracar. " Cero said. "Its very important that you all five go with me."
"Where?" Xichel asked.
"Candracar."
"This is going too fast. I don't understand, I don't want to go anywhere." Rnama suddenly yelled.
"We don't even know who you are and your asking us to go somewhere where we don't even know ." Antionetta also shouted out. Each girl began to shout different things at the foreign man, yet he just remained calm.
"I understand that you all are confused on what's going on, and I promise that everything will be explained only if you come with me." Cero calmly responded to all the comments.
"I don't want to go anywhere." Rnama pouted and crossed her arms.
"Girls, I understand that you are all very skeptical about me coming randomly into your lives, but there is a reason why I and you are all here together. I know strange things have been occurring to you all lately with water, fire, earth and air, am I correct? " Cero asked. The girls remained silent and looked at each other.
"Am I correct?"
"Yes, you are correct." Kaira sighed and dared to look up and look at each girl. "weird things have been happening to me with fire . I feel like I can control it."
"Do you want to know why you have the ability to control fire?" Cero asked Kaira.
"Yes, I do. I suppose its not common for people to have the ability to control this element." Kaira shrugged.
"You can control fire?" Antionetta questioned. Kaira nodded her head with a bit of fear. "I can control water!"
"If you all come with me, I can explain why." Cero repeated. Each girl looked at each other.
"I think we should have a little conference amounts ourselves." Xichel then spoke out. The girls nodded in agreement. Cero nodded in return. He then crossed the vial to give the girls privacy.
"Are we going to actually go, this seems insane!" Antionetta blurted out.
"If it's coming from the one that is actually ill from her mind then it must be true; this is surreal." Rnama said.
"I have a feeling we should go. Something in my gut is telling me we should go with him." Lin finally spoke.
"Well if your gut is telling you we should defiantly go." Rnama rolled her eyes.
Lin then walked up close to Rnama and looked at her straight at her eyes.
"That man knows what's happening to all of us. If he knows and he says he can help us we should go with him. Notice we were not proclaimed as sorceresses and that he knew that we have had weird encounters with the elements. I admit it. I can do little things with air just like Antionetta can with water and Kaira with fire. We are not normal." Lin told all the girls.
"What are we?" Xichel whispered. "Are we Gods?"
"I am not sure, but what I am sure of is that we should go and find out what's happening to all of us." Lin said.
"Nothing strange has been happening to me." Xichel the shouted.
"What's happening to most of us."Lin corrected herself.
"Then should Xichel come with us?" Antionetta wondered.
"The man did say that the FIVE of us had to go, so Xichel has to go too." Rnama reminded them.
"So it's settled, we shall go with the man." Xichel sighed.
"So does it also mean we get to go through that thing?" Antionetta pointed at the portal.
"I'm guessing we do." Kaira looked at the floating object.
"Well then let's go, our answers wait."
