章 19: A Bad Dream
I woke up and flung myself into a sitting position, a rude awakening. Tears were flooding down my face, was it a sad dream? Maybe a nightmare, it didn't matter to me. I wiped off my face in the bathroom connected to my room, got dressed, and prepared for the task at hand today. Bill, Lilly, and Hera were heading on a mission to find, and kill if deadly, a monster in the forbidden forests. The forbidden forests were a forest with a type of gray tree that had black leaves. Overall a pretty dang creepy place.
I talked to Filford at his shop before I went to bed yesterday about going. He said I could since it was most likely just a small monster and if it wasn't he trusted my training. I was quite tired but my feet had just finished healing so it was time to work again. It's been about five days since I got back, and nothing has happened. Bill kinda just sprung this idea of me coming with them onto me and I thought it may be fun.
We stopped at Filford's as he wanted to meet my party. He liked them a lot from what I could tell but he's kinda hard to read at times. While he was talking to Bill my head suddenly started pounding, I remembered this, this exact situation happened in my dream. 'Could I be imagining it? No, this headache is definitely real, and so are the memories…' I thought to myself. I ignored it and continued.
"Karito, let's have one last duel before you leave," Filford said.
We prepared the arena and Lilly gave us the countdown. Filford charged and swung his hammer through the air sideways, I slid under his swing and grabbed his hammer's handle towards the top. I swung myself around the hammer and brought myself above it before using the air to propel a two-legged kick at Filfords face. He dodged and grabbed my legs before spinning around as if to throw me.
I was preparing to slow my momentum using air magic when the same feeling came back. My head pounded and suddenly a memory of this moment came to me, but he doesn't throw me, he acts as if he will but then slams me into a crystal wall he makes. I braced for impact with the wall when suddenly Filford stopped, set me down, and pulled me into the corner.
"Something's wrong…" he said.
"What is it?" I asked him.
"You saw my plan, I saw your flinch as you built up magic, and then suddenly braced, my crystals weren't even up. What happened?"
"It's kind of strange. This morning I had a dream, I woke up crying and couldn't remember it, but as I've gone through the day I keep remembering the dream and it's the exact same as today!"
"How unusual, and you woke up crying?"
"Yeah I did, but I don't know why…"
"All I can tell you kid is something happens today to make you cry, stay on the lookout throughout your mission. You must be repeating today, or the more likely option, someone has revealed the future to you."
"Oh crap!" I checked my pocket and found the summon circle Beelzebub gave me. It had text that faded after I read it, it read: "You can repay me by killing it, I'd like to tame it." That sinister woman just wanted another dangerous pet, and sadly, there was nothing I could do about it. Although, the question that was really on my mind was, what is this monster?
"What is that?" Filford asked me.
"It's the paper from Beelzebub, the demon I told you about. It looks like I'm reliving today thanks to her, I must've summoned her due to whatever happened."
"What did she require in return for sending you back?"
"She wants the monster, which means whatever we're fighting is strong."
"If anything, I no longer want you going on this mission, but you now have a deal with a demon you must fulfill, so I'm sending you off with something."
"What is it?"
He moved to an anvil in the corner of the room and swung his hammer into its base. The anvil broke open, clean into two pieces, and something glimmered inside. He picked up whatever was inside and brought it over to me, it was potions, three of them. The liquid color looked extravagant, it looked like a very colorful shrunk-down piece of space itself.
"What the… what is it?" I asked.
"I am going to give you one of these, drink it now."
"What does it do?"
"It only works once, it dissolves into your soul once you shrink it and lingers there throughout the next couple of days. If your emotions ever become too strong, it will activate, releasing all the magic you have in you over the course of just one fight. This rush of magic will be almost uncontrollable, whatever you are fighting, this will put you on at least equal grounds."
"Where did you get this?"
"It's my magic condensed over many many years, if you ever train under the elven woman that trained me, you will make a potion out o your magic as well, the effect unknown."
"Wait, what does this have to do with creation magic?"
"My magic nature is the embodiment of most magic, so it almost synchronizes with it."
"Oh, I see, so your magic merges with the other magic and sets it free!"
"Precisely."
I went back to my party, and it was almost time to set off. We left for the outskirts of town where we had a train of carts set up. I had only now realized how rare cars were, my family had one but we also had money since we rarely bought things. Maybe cars were only for higher financial class people.
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