Déjà Vu
'Relax, Master,' the voice told me. 'Let me guide you.' I realized the voice was of the magical essence within DragonFury. Issur wasn't joking when he said that DragonFury has a mind of its own. I took a deep breath, and tried to let everything around me disappear. I didn't know how DragonFury worked just yet, so I was still a little nervous. I started thinking in my head 'don't cut anything DragonFury, oh please, don't hurt anyone.' I kept repeating this in my head, hoping DragonFury could read my mind. I jumped when I heard the voice again. 'If you wish, Master. I will not harm a flea if you do not wish me to.' I then heard what seemed to be the distant voice of Alexandria. "Erik! Are you ok? Answer me!" I opened my eyes and realized I was laying on my back.
"Are you ok?" Alex asked me again.
"What happened?" I asked, not knowing why I was on the floor.
"You passed out, I think. I caught you before you hit the floor," Alex explained as I stood up.
I looked over at Issur, who was talking with Sherem. "She talked to me!" I told him.
"Who?" he asked, sounding confused.
"DragonFury!" I saw his eyes light up. The room fell quiet when I said that. I saw Miroshi walk up into the doorway.
"Wait a minute!" Alex said, breaking the silence. "You're telling me you can talk to your sword!"
"She was created with the help of a Wizard and his familiar. DragonFury is to act as a second Familiar to your brother." Issur told Alex. "Erasmus and Fenrus will be thrilled to hear their idea has worked!"
"ERASMUS AND FENRUS!" I exclaimed before I passed out. It was déjà vu all over again. More and more stuff from my dream kept popping up. First, it was Alexandria buying me the Speed spell, and then me finding out DragonFury was co-created by Erasmus and Fenrus. What's next? Would I find out that Orion's dead? I hope not!
I awoke back in my room. Sherem was standing beside me. I felt a bit uncomfortable with his greenish-yellow eyes staring down at me. Still, I knew I was safe.
"Erik, my Prince! Are you ok?" Sherem said in his deep, yet comforting voice.
"Yeah, I think so." I said. I sat up in my bed.
"That's good to hear. Why did you pass out, Erik?" he asked me.
"Sherem, did you ever have déjà vu?" I saw his cat mouth pull back into a smile as I said that. He let out a little laugh.
"Not that I can recall. Why?" he asked
I had this dream last night and things from it are happening to me, so to speak." I started. "I dreamt about Orion."
"You mean THE ORION!" He said, sounding surprised. "I had a dream I met him once, but..." he stopped himself before he could continue. "Tell me about this dream."
I explained my dream to him, and how Alex bought me the Speed spell, and then finding out about Erasmus and Fenrus
"Hmm... that is interesting," he said. "Just do me a favor, if something else pops from your dream, promise me you won't pass out!" We started to laugh, and we just sat there laughing for a while.
"I must get going," Sherem told me. "The sun is high in the sky, and I must get back to the guild to eat."
"Okay, I have to eat too, I guess. See you tomorrow." I told Sherem.
"Yeah, if you don't pass out again," he laughed as he walked out. I got off my bed and went downstairs to the kitchen. My mother doesn't like to have other people cook for us unless she's sick. She always tells us that being a wife and mom comes before being Queen. I entered the kitchen and saw Alex cutting some vegetables with her dagger, while mom boiled some water in the corner of our large, yet homely, kitchen. Dad was probably off doing his business as Sultan.
"Well, if it isn't the sleeping beauty!" Alex said it loud enough for Mom to hear it. I gave Alex a sarcastic laugh.
"Oh my god! Are you ok? I heard you passed out. Are you hurt? Let me see!" Mom panicked a she ran over to me.
"Mom, I'm ok, really. I just have a bad case of déjà vu. Trust me, I'm ok." Both mom and Alex had puzzled looks on their faces. "It's a long story, I'll explain later. Alex just shook her head in disbelief. She always disliked me because of how mature I acted. She said I acted to mature for my own good. Yeah, I'm two years younger than her, and I guess I act more mature than her. Maybe so, but I don't think I act mature at all, then again, I've been a prince since I was seven, so I have to be nice to people. I don't have to worry about that, since I'm naturally nice to people, I'm told I'm a very likeable guy.
"Yeah, whatever," Alex said. "Déjà vu, HA!"
"Hey!" I snapped at Alex. She reached back for DeathBringer, I reached back for DragonFury, but stopped. "At least I'm all right." I said. She let go of DeathBringer, letting it fall back into its sheath.
"Physically, but not mentally," she remarked.
"That's enough, don't make me get your father," Mom threatened us. We both stopped. Last time we didn't, and dad made us change all the candles in the chandelier, which is fifty feet up. They didn't need changed, but Dad made us anyways. I sat down at the table, which seats about twenty people. Dad walked in and sat beside me.
"So," he started, I knew what the question was going to be. "How was your first lesson?"
"The little wimp passed out." Alex told dad.
"You passed out!" Dad said, sounding disgusted. "My son passed out!"
"Dad, I can explain."
"You better have a good excuse, boy!"
I explained my dream to dad, and how the events of the day tied in with it. My déjà vu.
"I knew I shouldn't have bought you that spell!" Alex joked. "So that's the déjà vu you told us about."
"Erik, maybe Aziza can help you." Mom suggested.
"Yeah, I hope so. I'll go after lunch." I said. Mom placed a plate of boiled lizard meat in front of me, Dad, and where she and Alex usually sit. Alex gave us each a small bowl of salad. I think it's disgusting to kill lizards, but they do taste good. We ate our meal, I said goodbye to my family, and went out into the plaza. I opened my map and studied it. I noticed Keapon's and Styll's Magic Shoppe, the Apothecary, the Katta's Tail Inn, and the Money Changers. I saw the gate to W.I.T., the Adventurers Guild, and most of all, Home and Aziza's. I concentrated again, this time of going to Aziza. The footsteps of the guards disappeared. I was surrounded in silence. I opened my eyes and saw Aziza's purple door, with the universal magic sign, the eye, on it. I knocked on the door.
"You may enter my home, oh son of the Sultan," Aziza greeted me as she let me in.
