chapter 4:

(Wow, I managed to get this updated pretty quick. It probably won't always be like this, though. Be warned.)

Kaeri/Jeena's POV:

I remember an unusual flash of murky blue light appearing before us, and my surroundings suddenly changing. The lighting grew more intense- and it took a while for my sensitive eyes to adjust. The terrain consisted of plateus topped with grass. The area seemed so strangely fammilliar...

"I am Maja, and I am your supirior who will be training you." The woman said, fixing her sharp violet eyes upon me. I simply nodded in response.

"We are to find the Spectrobe Master. You will not kill him yet. The sacrifice must be made in one week from now." She continued, squinting against the harsh light.

Spectrobe Master... why did those words sound so familliar? They echoed in the back of my mind. I wanted to ask Maja why, but some part of me refused to mention it. My thoughts were interrupted by a loud noise.

We clamped our hands over our ears as a steak of white and blue passed over our heads. Maja cursed silently. "He knows we are here. Come." After having said this, she took off in the direction of the flash with amazing speed.

Her speed and agility was amazing, but I didn't have too much difficulty keeping up, only lingering a small distance behind. As the landscape flew past me, I couldn't fight the feeling of nostalgia. Something about this place was so familliar I could practically taste it in the air around me. I had been here once with someone. But who? And for what reason?

She finally stopped, putting an arm in front of me, and pointed off the edge of the cliff to an unusually shaped object. She began moving again, quickly taking my arm as she leapt from the cliff. Fortunately both of us managed to land on our feet.

Thats when I saw him.

He was human, that was for sure, and fairly young too, like he had only recently reached adulthood. His hair was nearly the same color as Master's, and fairly long, just a little more than touching his shoulders, with messy bangs that fell into his eyes. His eyes were an unusual shade of red-orange, which glared at Maja with a look of hatered.

When they shifted to me however, that changed. I found a mixture of emotions: pain, sadness, and of all things: love. I felt almost as something were pulling at me. I knew this man once, but what connection did he and I have? Why am I remembering things that I have no memory of?

"It's been a while, hasn't it? Seven years." Maja grinned "you've grown into a handsome man, such a shame you didn't take me up on my offer." Her grin became devilish "and its such a shame you lost your wife after being married for only a year."

His fists clenched, and a white and blue sword suddenly appeared on his arm. He rushed toward Maja in blind rage. She dodged this attack, but I, who had been standing behind her the entire time wasn't as lucky.

I was pinned against the ground, the sword imbedding itself in the ground only three inches from my side. He was on top of me, his other hand on my shoulder, his eyes gazing right into mine, and our faces less than an inch apart. Every muscle in my body tensed as I felt his free hand touch the side of my face. Suddenly I wanted to pull him closer- to close the distance between us, but why the sudden urge?

"You'll be back soon Jeena, I promise." he wispered. Jeena. The name was insanely fammiliar. And he said the name as if he were refering to me. I saw one of Maja's tentacles, hit the side of his neck, hitting a pressure point and making him go unconcious. She then pulled him off of me.

"You should've reacted sooner" She critisized. Opening a portal. "Don't allow yourself to become careless"

"I understand." I said, nodding. And with that, both of us entered the portal.

When I looked at the Spectrobe Master, a single word- a name, came to my mind.

Rallen.

But why?