"ARGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !"

Ghaslia let out a chilling shriek as she lost the duel.
After being blasted with pure light, The ghoul's skin began to melt Like chocolate left out in the sun, it began to turn into a gooey-substance. Her eyes began to slump out of her sockets, Her hands melded into each other, and her feet were no more as they were now just a gooey liquid on the ground.

"Hahaha…. You've think you've won haven't skye TenOusHi!"
"But tHiS iS ONly the begiNNing." Her words began to slur and mix together as her mouth was starting to melt away too…..
"Lord DROthE wiLL Be RESurreCTed soon and whEN ThaT hApPens. YOU and youR LiTTle friEnDS will DIE !"

"Drothe…." That name again…. It haunts me...

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh." Ghaslia began to melt away further.

I wish I could've said some more to ghaslia, But as soon as she uttered her last words, Her body began to completely liquify. Leaving only a pool of goo.
In a strange way, I felt bad for her. She just seemed like a poor lost soul who was only consumed by her anger and lust for souls. Truly tragic.

"Skye!" A heard a voice come from behind me. It was old and raspy just like an old man. I immediately recognized it.

"Chancellor Bullard?" I was shocked to see the creaky old man walking towards me. He had a worried and concerned look on his face.
"Skye! Oh thank goodness! You're okay." He said to me.
"Chancellor, What are you doing here?" I asked.
"I'm sorry.. it never should have come to this. You should have never fought this monster ….." bullard hung his head low.
" , What are you talking about? How did you know I was here?" I asked
"Heh. Sorry. You must have so many questions right now. Especially after facing that ghoul." He exclaimed.

"-Buts lets get you somewhere safer." Gerard nodded and took my hand. We walked out of the gloomy forest as fast as we could. This place was the sight of a showdown that decided the fate of my friends and myself. I didn't know it, but this place would become way more important in the future.

...

Somehow after walking through a couple of bushes and winding houses. We made it to the town right outside of the academy. The town was sparkling with light in the night with several lamposts and buildings sparkling like diamonds, if I wasn't so traumatized by what had just happened, I would be amazed.

"*Sigh*"

Bullard sat down on a bench. He looked tired a weary, Just like a war veteran would at the end of a napalm bombing.
"Skye, What i'm about to tell you might sound fantastical and borderline insane but you must believe me." Gerard bullard said, looking in my eyes.
"I'd believe anything you say chancellor bullard. I don't believe you'd lie to me." I responded back. "Thank you, skye." He said with a smile.

"Well, I suppose there is no other way to say this…."
The chancellor looked up at the sky. His eyes twinkled in the bright shine of the moonlight. I could see the sincerity on his face and the complexities going through his mind as he prepared to relay this story to me.
"Well, This is a story that all started 40000 years ago…."

[Forty Thousand years ago….. The earth was an evil dark place. It was divided into 8 realms and they were at constant war with each other. One day peasant named Amoria raised an army and fought the evil lords who controlled the realms and unified the earth under one rule.] Gerard looked up in anguish.
[Her Reign lasted 238 years…. And she was loved by all.]

[Everything was peaceful back then. Markets Flourish,Children Played in the open streets, Everyone was equal and prosperous…. -But then one day an evil witch named Drothe tried to overthrow the queen. She created an army of monsters and ravaged the kingdom, Starting a war that would last twenty-three hundred years.]

[In the final battle at Milask Field, she finally defeated drothe and her evil army]

[She had won the war…. But at the cost of her kingdom. The land had been scorched, The air was polluted, and Millions had died.]

[The witch queen - Drothe lay defeated and had to pay for her cruel actions. Thusly, she was banished to the shadow realm where she sat for over 30000 years.]

[The world was rebuilt and reformed into the one we know now.]

[Until a couple of years ago, when drothe started to plan her escape from the shadow realm. She sent assassins from the underworld to kill the descendants of the royalty of the realms.][ She's been trying to infiltrate this academy because for some reason, all of her enemies have coalesced here, Including you. Skye tenoushi.}

Things got tenser as the starry sky around us turned into a dark sheath of light. The relativity of the story was the thing that stood out to me. For some reason, the story seemed familiar to me. Like I had heard somewhere before. -But that was impossible….Right?

"That's….. Some story, Chancellor bullard." I said.
"..." He was silent.
"Witches….Realms….. And a queen? That almost seems unbelievable!"
"-But then again….. I just fought a soul-eating ghoul, So not too unbelievable." I exclaimed.
"Skye… This story…. It isn't just a story…. This is a true historical fact." gerard bullard responded.
"I understand, chancellor. I believe what you said. All of it" I replied looking into his eyes.
" I know. But you have to understand that this encounter is only the beginning. Drothe's evil will haunt this academy for however long she needs to before she exacts her revenge."
"It is very dangerous for you to be on this island right now. I believe that you'd be safe at home."
" I know and yet….. I still want to stay here.I want to get my education, and live the best life possible here with my friends." I held bullard's hand.
"So, Even with all the danger here and a crazy half-dead witch trying to kill you, You are still going to stay here? That is quite the hubris young lady."

"Haha, I know right? -But like I said i've come here for a reason and staying here would be a real testament to my Faith ."

"Faith…."

Gerard's eyes narrowed as he looked up at the In every direction there is a star, should I fly into the universe any way would be the right way. I tilt my head, gazing upward, eyes more open than they can be in the fullness of day, not looking at one star, yet somehow seeing them all at once. The universe is truly beautiful and that is something that can be indefinitely proven.

To be continued…