"NEW ORDER"

"THE PATH"

(Witch and Wizard: After Chapter 45-46)

Byron

"Ungh…." The pain that ravages my body had cleared off. "What happened?"

I feel my hair and fur around my entire body. I sense a hanging rope stuck at the back of my pants. I keep balance as I stand up above the ground, but I feel that my hands are standing on the ground too.

As the smoke clears the air, I look my hands. To my surprise, my hands became paws! To be exact, lion's paws! I turn to my body and there I realize, I really become a lion! "Nnoooooo!" I cry.

If I were the point of view of Whit and Wisty, I would not hear the lion yell "No.", but just a loud roar.

I see them both arguing on something about me but I couldn't hear them; not because I'm human but because my head starts to get jelly. Migraine starts to shrink my brain in until I see a silhouette of a large man on front of me. It says

"Time has come, for you to unfold the black carpet that covers the truth."

Then, I feel the pain again. Whit and Wisty zap their magic at me again. I cry for pain and this time my body shrinks into a smaller one. Hair around my neck lessens but leaves fur behind. BOOOM! Smoke appears around me.

After the smoke gone, I see my big paws that become small and brown paws. I take a glimpse to my body. To my surprise, I become a weasel!

I look up on the both of them and yell "Curse you Allgoods!"

"I like being a lion better," Whit says.

The door swings open and the Matron, together with his armed guards, shouts aloud "What was that awful, terrible noise?"

Before I say (or squeak) something to the Matron, the voice comes to my ear again.

"Follow the path. Trust me."

"What path?" I ask raising my eyebrow. Suddenly, a light shining path appears before me and it is leading outside the door. I glimpse at the Allgoods, if they are surprised to see the path.

"Byron, only you can hear my voice and only you can see the path."

I shake my head off. I might be hallucinating again. Or was it my imagination

"You are not hallucinating. Follow the path."

The voice seems so very respectful and kind so I follow the path with cautiousness; I'm not gullible by kind faces and had bad intentions behind. I ask the voice. "Who are you?"

"A friend, not a foe"

After a minute of scurrying along the path, two guards walk along the path. I hide in the shadows in the corner. The soldier says "You know the Matron has a plan to eliminate Swain."

"Yeah?" replies the other

"It's really true! If you have him in your side, you will be humiliated!"

"But I wonder why."

"Why?!" reply the second. "Because first, since he was in school he was been called as one of the weirdest nerds and second, he had failed the important mission of the New Order, to retrieve the Omni-Orb."

"It's a good thing he's not on my side."

"Me too"

They pass by me as they talk another topic. They left a wound in my body. It really hurts than the magic that Wisty gave me. A tear drop from my eye and I almost cry for pain when

"Byron, it is not the time to cry yet! Do not cry over that! Follow the path."

I let out a sigh and hold back my tears. I continue to scurry until I stop on front of light portal. It's not any portal that I'd never seen before. "This isn't a trick?" I ask.

"Tricks are not made by friends. Jump in."

I'm not gullible! I don't trust people, especially to people I don't know. My mind decides if I have to jump in or stay out; to trust it or not.

"Trust me"

I trust my instincts and I put my faith on his so I jump in to the portal. Besides, no one wants me anymore; who would cry over my dead body when I'm dead. "There's no place for me anymore."