Chapter 4

Hurryon's troubles

so after that happened a few more minutes pass and the teacher returns. With a surprised look on their face "Hurryon was it." I nod. "it seems you passed with an 85% on your test. Come back in 2 days we will have you introduce yourself to your class then."

"Ok, I'll get ready for that then." I say as I get up to leave.

"Oh by the way your school uniform should arrive at your house tomorrow afternoon." I nod my head to confirm I heard what was said.

4-5 hours later

about 5 minutes away from my house, I feel a presence, I ignore it and keep moving messing with a fidget spinner I bought to cover up the fact that I know where they are. "they seem to be keeping their distance." I think. 2 minutes pass and I start to think "are they trying to keep tabs on me?" 3 more minutes pass and I reach my house. I reach into my pants pocket and take out the key card, as I reach out to swipe it across the terminal I say in a slightly loud voice "I know your fallowing me, you can come out and talk if that's what it takes." I hear a sharp breath.

A short girl with white hair steps out of the shadows. "How'd you know?" She asks looking slightly skeptical.

"Well when you've nearly been killed, and been knocked out. You tend to pick up on things." I say with little to no hesitation.

"Oh, well if you wouldn't mind, would you mind coming back to the school tomorrow, someone would like to talk to you." She says, looking a little on edge.

Sigh "Great another person that probably wants me dead." I say under my breath, "Sure, I'll be there later in the afternoon." I answer. Swiping the card. Walking to the front door of my house I hear her walk away then sense her presence disappear. "Well that was uneventful." I say to myself. Then I see a small package leaning against my door. I pick it up.

addressed to: Hurryon Dragon

sender: Azazel

"Ok guess I ought to go inside and open this." I say, a little confused. Soon as I get in my bedroom I go to my desk and sit in my chair I open the package and empty the contents, "Are those chess pieces?!" I say, as my head starts to ache a little, then an envelope falls out of it. I wonder if this will explain things.

I open it, and it reads;

Hey Hurryon, thought I'd send this over along with an explanation, I did some investigating, since you seemed to come out of nowhere, and I ran across a few things, there was a disappearance a few months ago, along with some rumors of some things disappearing from a warehouse of sorts, and I found these laying a few meters away from where you and Crowgar were fighting, figured they must be yours, bein's as you seemed pretty strong. And I was wondering if you wanted to investigate the rumors since it looks like you have amnesia.

"Well he does have a point." I say as I look at the chess set "Hmm, looks like I have half a chess set minus the king." grumble. "okay looks like I need to eat something." I look up at the clock on my desk. It reads 6:08, "Well I could cook up some of the ham that I bought earlier."

I cook up the ham and after I'm done I start feeling a slight pang in the back of my mind, Its not real bad so I ignore it. As I went to bed I felt the pain again, though this time I felt something else with It, a sensation I couldn't truly explain. I must of past out at that point, because the next scene that lay before my eyes was both gruesome and terrifying. Crimson blood covering somewhat familiar walls of brick, and a fowl stench like rotting meat. I scrunched my nose in disgust, something moved in the corner of my vision; a limping form, abnormally tall, with long and lanky limbs, with one arm holding the other. I paced my steps with the sound of dripping, all the while a single statement echoed in the recesses of my mind, "You decided this, this is your fate." I walked on for a while longer, and the smell increased in intensity. As I approached the source of the scent, I heard sounds like those of tearing flesh, and crunching bones. I suddenly awake in a cold sweat, breathing heavily.

"God dam it... what the hell... was that." I say taking a couple of breaths.

"Calm down Hurryon, we saw it to." Arlina says, A little disturbed.

"Well I'd say that deserves some research." Vargel says, stating the next possible step. I get out of bed and look at my clock. "Its a couple hours before daylight." I calm down a little.

"Hmm, guess I could go to the study for a bit." I say as I get ready for the day. I look in my dresser, a few things pop out at me; a purple T shirt, with varying shades of red, that create flames along the bottom edge of the sleeves. And a black over shirt that has an embroidered green snake on the pocket of it. After I put those on and some pants, I get out of my room and hear a buzzing noise. "Okay, that's a little odd, I thought I told them I would be over sometime in the afternoon." I say as I go into the living room to check the camera system.

"Kalawarner, gimme a sec, gotta adjust some wards.!" I say, surprised that she of all beings would visit.

"Ok." She says, looking a little peeved, and maybe a little shocked.

A few minutes, and a bowl of serial later.

I press a button and a slightly different buzz sounds. "Okay Kalawarner, you may enter now." I say, a little curious as to why she visited.

As she steps in to the house, she seems to examine the room. "Hmm, looks like you keep this place well cleaned." She says, looking a little pleased.

"Are you looking for something?" I ask, thinking there's some other motive by the way she is looking around the room, She ignores me, "KALAWARNER!" I bark.

She practically yelps, and cowers for a minute, before recollecting herself.

I grab my head in pain, as I half remember something; Kalawarner standing, looking displeased, and... yelling at someone?. "KALAWARNER, what did I say about yelling at the newbies." And I snap back to reality.

"Whats wrong Hurryon?" She says, in a questioning tone. "It looked like you remembered something."

"Oh it was nothing." I say, trying to cover up what just happened. "I think we should go sit and talk for a bit though." I say as I try and fail to walk over to the couch, As I practically fall over almost hitting my head on the arm of it. "Okay, maybe I should lay back as well."

After that Kalawarner goes over to the fridge and asks, "where do you keep the ice packs."

"In the freezer bottom shelf in the back." I say, and bite my lip for not thinking about that my self. "Oh, and think you could grab one of the peeled oranges from the fridge."

"Sure thing Hurryon." She says, sounding like she wanted to say something else.

'What do I do, I think I remembered something, but looks like it was from the future.' I sighed.

"Looks like your thinking about something." She says, as she walks into the living room practically, scaring me out of my skin.

A couple hours of just resting on the couch later.

"So what did you to talk to me about?" She asks.

"Well, I'm just wondering why your here and why you brought a bunch of bags with you." I answer trying to inquire about the current situation.

"Oh, well I'm here to train and teach you to control that power of yours." She says, Answering. She sits down and hands me the ice pack. "I hope you will accept my help."

I take the ice pack. "Sure."

"As for the bags, I Got kicked out of my previous house. Can I live here with you?" She asks.

I think for a minute, and sigh heavily. "So that's why the other one was here so late." I mumble in realization.

"Hmm."

"Nothing, sure second door on the right." I say after sighing. She smiles and starts taking her bags to the specified room. "I'm gonna head outside." I say, as she passes by the living room one last time.

"Ok." She says.

I walk out the front door and sit at the foot of the tree in my yard, and start to play a little bit with my magic. Small balls of earth fly around in the palm of my hand with lightning trailing off of them.