Third Chapter...

Bad Pear

- Normal POV -

"Focus Nova" Offay said to Nova who was meditating.

"I'm trying"

"You have to focus more"

Nova closed her eyes and think in the last 4 months of training.

"You're getting distracted" Offay said to Nova hitting her with his staff.

"Ouch! How do you know?" Nova asks rubbing her head.

"I don't have to read your mind to know, you're aura show me every single though you have"

Nova closed her eyes again.

"You anger make you blind and weak"

Nova focused, she finally gets the approbation of Offay.

"You have to know when to show your feelings Nova, your temper make you forget you're training, with that you can't work in team and without working in team that means dead… because your body isn't that strong Nova"

"You're saying that I don't have to fight alone?" Nova asks with her eyes closed.

"You have to evade that fight most you can, but… If you have to fight alone, you have to do it"

"Why?" Nov asks opening one of her eyes.

"I have train lots of warrior Nova, some of them, perfect warriors, no problem beating the biggest monsters, but they have a problem, they leave the planet thinking they can save planet alone. Most of them, died at their first fight…"

Nova closed her eye.

"I don't have to tell you, you must know. You're a warrior, that means fight body-body, the warrior is the most vulnerable part of a team, you have to sacrifice…"

Nova started to feel fear after those words.

"You must know that you can die at any moment, and maybe you won't know how you died"

"I know…" Nova stands up and leaves.

Offay don't say anything, he knew how it feel.

Nova walked for more than an hour, she arrives to a lake in the middle of the jungle. Nova sat in the corner of the lake, she cross her legs and tried to meditate again.

"Why me?" Nova though "I'm just a monkey…"

Nova stretch where she was and tried to sleep, she looked the sky, there was no clouds, and a giant moon in the middle. She stands up and climbs to the top of a tree and sleep there.

- Nova POV -

My eyes open suddenly; I was in the same place I fell asleep. I was the dawn, I jump from tree and walk to the lake, I took some water and splash it in my face. When I open my eyes I saw my reflex, the waves of the water still there, but a blurry image of something I never saw before, a skeleton.

"Gah!" I gasp and give a few steps backwards. I crawl to check again, my reflex was back to normal. I sigh and stand up I give a few steps to go back to the jungle.

"Where are you going my dearest Nova?"

I remember that words, but I couldn't remember where, I turn around to see a giant skeleton coming from the water.

"Wh... Who are you?" I ask with fear.

"I'm… a friend"

"What do you want?" I ask trying not to shake.

"Me? … Oh nothing, I just come to talk with you"

"I really don't know" I tried to cut out the conversation to go back with my master "Sorry, I have to go" I turn around but the skeleton was there again. I fell on my back shaking like a baby monkey "What you want from me?"

"You're so pure, so ingenuous, so…" the skeleton put his fist in front of my face. I close my eyes expecting a hit. I open my eyes to find that there was a pear in the hand of the skeleton.

"N.. No Thank you" I said trying to walk around him.

"Eat it you stup…" the skeleton yelled ad changing his visage. I was shaking like mad again "Take it please" said the skeleton with his normal look.

I took the pear, I give it a bite.

"Yuk! This taste like ashes!"

"It's because it isn't a pear!" The skeleton said as laughing like mad. I look the pear again, from the inside, worms come out of it. I drop it and start to feel ill. The complete world became black and I fainted.