Hey guys! So I'm back with chapter 2. Things are finally going to start to happen this chapter.
Without further ado, let's get on with the chapter!
Corvan
"Dodge left!" Lucas shouts to me over the mechanical noises of the training equipment. I do as he says and I narrowly manage to avoid the metal pole that comes flying at me from the front of the room. I roll to the left again to avoid being sprayed by paintball bullets but two of them still find their mark, sending pain shooting through my right shoulder.
Ignoring the pain, I find my footing towards the center of the room as two more metal poles come flying in my direction. Gripping my dagger tighter, I prepare to deflect them, they're coming in extremely fast, so I need all the concentration that I can muster. Just before the first pole hits me, I swing my dagger, successfully parrying it.
Recovering from the first parry, I hold my dagger out in front of me and with a quick flick of my wrist, deflect the second pole and it flies a little bit further before clattering uselessly against the ground. With that, the machines are shut off by Lucas. I'm slightly shaking, sweating and heavily out of breath but I'm proud of myself, I've never pulled that off successfully before, and today I did it twice in a row.
"Very good. If I'm not mistaken, that's the first time you've done that without getting hit" Lucas smirks, giving me a clap from the front of the room. I play along with him and give a deep bow, like a magician after performing a trick.
I jog to the side of the room and grab my water, chugging the entire bottle in a matter of seconds. With a proud grin, Lucas walks over to where I'm standing at the side of the room.
"I think you're ready to open your Chest" he says somewhat mysteriously and a mixture of nerves and excitement starts to build up in my stomach. We've had the Chest for so long, but I've never been allowed to even touch it, and now we're going to open it.
We walk up the stairs to Lucas' bedroom, where he's hidden the chest under some of the marble tiles in his wardrobe. Lucas pulls out my Chest and my excitement levels rise through the roof. He places it on a thick wooden table beside his bed and we gather around it.
Lucas puts his hand onto the lock of the Chest and after a few seconds of him waiting for me, I realize I'm meant to do the same. As soon as I touch the lock, it seemingly melts off of the chest and makes a metallic thud as it falls onto the table. Lucas takes his hand off of the chest and I quickly swing it open, wanting to see as much stuff as I can.
The space in the chest is quite big and it houses an array of crystals and various items. I grab a handful of the stuff and spread it out onto the table. The first thing that I look at is a spikey red and orange crystal. The crystal feels warm to touch and the more that I focus on it, the hotter it gets. I quickly drop the crystal after a few seconds when it becomes unbearably hot and I move onto the next item.
The next item I grab is a silver pole. It has intricate carvings on it and has three blue stripes running parallel to each other, just like the dagger that Lucas made for me. Before I have time to ask him about the lines, the pole transforms into a massive greatsword.
The greatsword is truly incredible, thin enough to piece through body armor but still being thick enough to deliver crushing blows. I swing the greatsword around with my right hand and it feels incredible. Heavy, but incredible none the less. Carefully laying the greatsword down on the table, I reach for the next item, but before I can, Lucas stops me and carefully puts the rest of the items back in the Chest.
"Oh come on, I was having fun!" I moan to him, but he just chuckles and shakes his head.
"Don't you want to leave something to the imagination" he says, trying to act wise. I just roll my eyes slightly and give him a small grin.
"Not really, no" I reply cheekily and Lucas laughs.
"Well that's too bad now isn't it" he laughs and I hang my head in mock sadness.
The next year passed by without incident. Life became a blur, it was train, study and search for the other Loric. Not that I really mind. At this point, my strength is absolutely insane and I've developed two extra legacies. Super strength and pyrokinesis. The super strength is fairly straight forwards, but the pyrokinesis allows me to summon and control fire and it gives me immunity to fire.
There haven't been any major signs of the Loric recently, only a few minor articles and news stories, all of which are most likely fabricated. If they're not, it's a wonder the other Garde have managed to survive for this long. One of the articles describes a girl who lifted a one ton concrete slab off of some old guy. I don't think the others are that stupid.
"Corvan, I need you!" Lucas shouts from the study, breaking my train of thought and slightly startling me. He must've found something, what else would he be calling me for at midnight?
"Coming!" I reply and I teleport into the study, this time I'm the one startling him. I see him jump out of his chair slightly before he rolls his eyes.
"I don't think I'm ever going to get used to that" he utters under his breath and I simply shrug and stick out my tongue. I swear I'm still a child some times.
"Anyway, I think you should look at this" he continues, pointing to the screen of the laptop sitting in front of him.
He's pulled up an article titled False Idol? from an Indian news site. The article is about a Hindu god who is supposedly living high up in the Himalayan Mountains. Not just that, but he's been attracting a lot of attention, from both followers and enemies.
"Are you sure that this is real?" I question and Lucas nods without showing any signs of doubt.
"This isn't the only article about him" he starts "Not only that, but some people have started a call to action against him" he finishes and any previous doubt I had disappears.
"So, what's our next move?" I ask, the answer being fairly obvious.
"I think we should go and meet this guy" he replies and I nod, teleporting to my room to go and get some sleep. Knowing Lucas, we'll on the first flight out in the morning.
I somehow manage to sleep well despite all of the thoughts about the Loric in the Himalayas running through my head. Apparently some of the Loric really aren't that good at hiding themselves. To be honest, I'm a bit surprised that he's managed to live this long. However, he seems strong enough to not really need to hide himself.
I roll out of my bed and walk into my bathroom to freshen up. I wash my tan face and fix up my long hair, simply by pushing my fringe to the side. I scratch lies just under my green eyes, a reminder of just how brutal training can be at times. The blade had just managed to nick my skin as I teleported out of the way, any slower and the injury would've been much worse.
"You ready?" I hear Lucas ask from my room. I knew he would buy tickets out to India for the following morning.
"Almost, I've gotta pack though" I reply, drying my face off with a towel. I'm gonna miss this place, I suspect that we might be back here sometime though.
I manage to pack my bags fairly fast and we're out of the house within fifteen minutes. Luckily we left a few hours before the flight left, because the traffic is absolutely horrendous. It takes us at least an hour to drive only thirty miles to the airport.
The airport is huge, with people all around us hustling to unknown destination, it makes me feel slightly nervous. Even though we haven't done anything to get onto the Mog's radar, they still could be lurking any corner. Just the thought of this makes me shift uncomfortably and I start to look around nervously, looking for any signs of Mogs.
"Chill out, today we're just a father and son going to India for a holiday, nothing more" Lucas whispers to me, as if sensing my nervousness and it puts me at ease. Slightly.
We check in without a hitch, despite my previous nervousness. The fake IDs that Lucas made for us went through easily and we walk through the massive waiting section of the airport looking for something, anything to do.
"How, about we get some coffee?" Lucas says and I nod, just wanting to kill the time until we board in thirty minutes.
"Coffee it is" I announce and we walk off to the relatively small café just in front of the boarding area.
After we finish our coffee, I hear the airport loud speaker calling for passengers of our flight to come to the boarding gate. We go to the boarding gate and we board the plane to India. To one of the last Garde on Earth.
So that was chapter 2, things are starting to heat up, this is just the start of some big stuff that'll come later on.
Hope you enjoyed! Until next time, bye!