Capítulo 6: The Chosen One
When I turned around I held my breath, I felt like a child who had been caught doing something wrong. The person who had sneaked me in a forbidden area of that strange fortress, to my happiness, was just Angel, Ryan's twin sister. She widened her violet eyes when she saw that box in my hand, took a chair and sat next to me and said nothing more just watched me try to open it, it was a fact that there was something inside the box and I really wanted to know what was.
Took out a hairpin that was holding my inlaid braid, thus letting a few strands of my red hair cascade over my shoulders. When I wanted something I always found some way to go, until I recovered an ability I had forgotten in the past.
I was happy that the last few days I managed to rescue my old "I" and that was priceless, a big change in my life. More with the resumption of my soul some things also returned as my curiosity that always overcame my sense of direction giving way to unconscious actions. I couldn't help it, it was already part of my character.
Deep breath, pulling as much air as possible, concentrated on putting the clip that held my braid in the lock of the box, tried to turn the gears that locked it. After several failed and frustrated attempts, the small and peculiar box opened and I and Angel jumped in surprise, I thought it would be impossible to achieve, I was more surprised at every moment in that world called "Venus".
An energy came out of it and when I was able to see what was inside I was very confused, it was a necklace that had as pendant a crystal small enough to fit in the palm of my hand.
The crystal shone brightly, it was a stone made entirely of a red crystal type.
It even seemed to be alive.
"It's called the heart of crystal" explains Angel "Its name is because it was extracted right from the inside of the tree of love, they say it is the heart of the tree."
"It's beautiful!" I spoke impressed.
"It is Extremely powerful but also dangerous" he talk "If heart falls into the wrong hands, love could cease to exist forever."
Somehow that danger drew me like a magnet, I reached out to touch it and Angel tried to stop me from resisting and I touched it.
The crystal seemed to light up when I touched it.
"Who are you?" frightened angel asks.
"That's a great question" I say confused "I don't know either."
"It is certainly not a simple human, no one has ever managed to touch the heart is to remain conscious without being taken by power" points to an open box on the now empty table "The only one who could touch it is ..."
"Oh My God! This can't be possible?"
"What?" I ask trying to look calm.
"I think you're the chosen one or something, at least," he replied, going over to a bookshelf and looking for a book about it. "You're holding the crystal heart and he chooses who holds it."
"Does that explain anything?"
"If you are not human and you are the chosen one that the prophecy describes" she stops and thinks "Well ... that explains a lot" says walking around.
"Explain how I got stuck here?"
"Perhaps. More First, it explains why you are immune to the aging of Venus's atmosphere and also many other things."
My mind started to think.
How could I be such a person of prophecy?
So many questions were going through my mind and Angel continued to bombard me with questions until she stopped abruptly when we heard footsteps approaching the library. Not knowing what to do, she immediately pulls me behind a bookcase and covers my mouth with her hands. While I keep my heart in the pocket of my pants where I thought it was the safest place at the moment.
She asks me for silence with her finger, and we stay until we hear the library door being closed. The two shadows enter and search the entire library. I realized that they were looking for something important, I can't identify who two people were, no matter how hard I try and a discussion starts between the shadows and we both try to make as much silence as possible for that we don't notice our presence.
" You said you saw him here, aren't you tyle?" asks the impatient female voice.
"But I'm sure it was right here!" says the male voice, throwing several books on the floor.
"My mother will not be happy with this and it will be all your fault and not mine!" says the brunette.
"Sure! Everything is my fault, isn't it?"
"Yes it is. You should have taken the swing box when you can!"
"I already said I couldn't, eros and Alex were present and they could be suspicious if they just caught her."
"More than lame excuses" says the girl crossing her arms "Admit it! You didn't have the courage for such an act and now I'm sure we lost you."
"Calm down Bella, all is not lost" defends the head of the new guard "We have reinforcements and help this is enough to win."
"I think you have no idea what the power of the crystal can do, do you?"
"No! And I don't even want to doubt that the idiot Alex can use it" says bragging with his narcissism "Let's go because the invasion is about to start" ends the boy.
The two people disappear just as they appeared. Angel, who was paying attention to the conversation with his ears on the shelf, relaxed his shoulders, his forehead formed a serious expression. I felt something on my feet, but I didn't really care at first. More when I was lifted in the air, I saw that a current of white energy was pulling me into a secret passage under the floor and was being carried against my will.
This day couldn't get any weirder!
The current that floated me in the air, took me straight to an open passage located in the middle of the library in a kind of underground. Angel stayed in the same place, she was too distracted to understand what was happening to me, I tried to hold the curtains so I wouldn't be taken anymore, but it didn't help, I managed to grunt and knock the trophies on the floor making a loud noise that caught the girl's attention, I couldn't see it anymore when the energy pulled me into the low hole in the floor.
My arms hit the walls and while I decided on that subsoil I realized that that place was at least more than a thousand years old, the dust made my throat itch and I sniffed with nervousness because there were many cobwebs there that gave me chills, let alone going down , we realized how deep the place was.
Down in the basement, the energy suddenly released me, making me fall on a pile of books, I got up on shaky legs because of the adrenaline I had felt. I looked around and I could see that it was an old and extensive exhibition hall that had everything from armor and swords to magic objects everywhere, everyone was covered in white sheets.
That place had certainly been forgotten years ago, or rather, thousands of years ago. Angel managed to reach the basement seconds later, and was sweating a little from the effort he made. She pulled the air so hard that she sat on the floor of the stairs to regain her strength, she had decided on many steps to reach me, I looked up and saw how far we were from the Entrance.
One thing that caught my attention was that the same green energy that carried me there, was the same that flowed from the book. It was a really old book, placed on a small pillar that was right in the middle of the corridor. It had a brown cover and many roots came out of it and extended to the floor.
I touched my fingertips on the book and wiped the dust over it with the palm of my hand, I felt what I should do, but I didn't when I heard a voice in my head.
"How come I never saw this place?"
It was angel, being able to hear his thoughts now. I looked at the girl with the cotton candy hair practically frozen, I realized that she was looking at me scared, realizing what was happening.
I was in her head and she was mine, it was so disconcerting that it was scary.
"How did you do it?"
"I have no idea" I reply incredulously, now I had powers.
Something in my chest burned, a pain hammered in my head that book seemed to belong to me. The book was right in front of me, lifeless, I just needed something to revive it. I felt sparks coming out of my fingertips and a very crazy idea crossed my mind. Why not revive the book with electric shock and I knew exactly what source of energy I would use for such a gift.
I took a step forward, I wanted to know my limits and how to find out if I don't try all of them, I had no notion of activating my powers more wrong than learning. I managed to imagine a very huge storm, a Cumulonimbus to be exact. I formed a shell with my hands and I felt energy forming in it, I directed it towards the brown cover and sighing deeply before the rays hit it, looping me away.
Falling on the floor, I couldn't hear anything around me, just being able to see angel move with his mouth, it seemed like he was talking to someone, I tried to get up but I didn't have the strength.
I can't move, it was like I was losing contact between my body and my mind, I was starting to get tired and my eyes were getting heavier and heavier, a huge pain in my shoulder reminded me that I was thrown on the floor half a minute ago, I couldn't resist much and the last thing I could feel was Ryan coming quickly to me, his beautiful blue eyes were the last thing I saw.
(...)
"Love day is back and we have to prepare" "We don't know how strong she is this time I ask you to gather everything you trust and let them know" "Take good care of the human I don't know anymore I feel an energy in her that I didn't see much time."
Those were the last words I heard from my father's mouth before I was kidnapped right in front of me. Hooded black angels arrived and caught eros in front of my eyes and I couldn't do anything because they threw me a kind of fool in time paralyzing me.
Venus was my home all my life, when I knew I was in danger of ceasing to exist completely, it made me feel a courage that I never felt. When I thawed I tried to call the new guard, but I didn't find anyone, I decided to look for my brothers and my friends, by telepathy I tried to contact my sister but I couldn't, something was preventing.
I ran down the corridors, my steps echoing through the fortress. I had to brake, almost falling when I started walking up the stairs towards Jay's room, I found him sleeping peacefully in his bed, at least he was fine. I picked him up and he mumbled "Let me sleep", but he didn't wake up. I looked through the large glass windows of the runner and realized that an invasion was taking place, a portal with a purple energy was open and black creatures and soldiers entered. Guards of the new guard fought with the creatures, a feminine laugh echoed and gave me chills.
I took a deep breath and started to run again that hideous laugh was surely from love day the same woman my father feared had returned, but I would not let her destroy my world, I would fight with all my strength.
I didn't know who to turn to at that time, there was no one who knew what to do. Even though the guards were trained, they were not able to fight such a powerful enemy.
Kian! He would know what to do, he was the smartest among us, besides being my best friend he was a single person from the new guard that I really trusted. Most of the time I stayed in his secret place, which was in the basement where he trained his powers, I hurried and went down to the basement of the fortress and went to kian's secret room. Open the doors with everything and I found him trying to make what I think is a potion.
"Kian!" I shouted when I saw him from afar "We are being attacked!" was what I could say.
"What?" disoriented question.
"Take everything that can be useful in your trinkets and let's go!" I say desperately "We still have to find Angel and Alice"
"Hey! They are not trinkets, they are treasures of the old generation!" defends Kian, who a moment ago was concentrating on his potion.
"Ok ... ok, I'm sorry for offending your" precious toys "I said ironically a little" But let's go now or you didn't realize that we're being attacked! "
Kian opened his brown eyes wide and put several things and devices quickly in his bag, everything he deemed necessary, took the potion he was making and put it in the front pocket of his shirt. I needed to find them all quickly, the guards would not be able to handle the creatures for a long time and within minutes the fortress would be invaded.
I had to find everyone before the invasion took over the castle, I felt the responsibility to take care of everyone, especially the enticement. I felt guilty because it was my first mission, the first human I tried I shot the arrow but I made a mistake.
The moment I went to shoot the flexion and saw his smile my heart beat faster, I had never felt anything like anyone else. Distracted I missed the direction and since the day she fell in love with the wrong person I have accompanied her from afar. She had never noticed me until she literally hit me spilling her hot coffee on my suit.
"Alex, we need your help!"
I heard my sister's voice calling me mentally, the voice was close, very close. It seemed to come from the basement wall that Kian used to do his experiments. I gave Jay to kian and when I started looking for a button on the wall, that fortress had many secret passages and always had an access point, I just needed to pay attention.
I saw a very small design of two hearts intertwined, walking my hands I realized it was a button, I pressed it and at the same moment the stone wall started to move, giving a view of the Anna being thrown away by an energy, I ran closer to her but she passed out.
"She's the one" said my sister.
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