Chapter 4: Twelve years later

Twelve years later

Once he got to his home. He knocked and shouted "Selene, open the door for me!" Once she heard his voice, her eyes shone with joy and happiness. She was extremely worried before but now she was extremely happy. Her husband had come out victorious in the battle and from the way he sounded, he probably wasn't injured. She opened the door for him and he entered.

"We have to get out of here. It's not safe here anymore." he said hurriedly. He looked at his children and arcane symbols abruptly appeared in his eyes.

Once his children looked into his eyes, they unexpectedly fell asleep. He performed some gestures, then the house began to glow as countless number of mystifying patterns appeared all around the house.

These symbols that surfaced and glowed were projected into the air, then they merged and everything froze. This includes time and space. Then the house, which was a miniaturized defensive flight-treasure; a treasure forged by his race rapidly faded away, vanishing from that spot to a new location.

.....

"Helena. Please come assist me". A woman shouted. "Okay. I am coming" a young girl shouted from far. Then she appeared before her mom. "what's it you want me to assist you with?" she asked. "Help me put water into the kettle and place it on the stove" the woman said. "Alright. Mom". Then she did as she was told.

This was Helena, the one-year old child that was taken away from the from the wilderness. She was now twelve and had grown into a very beautiful young girl. She had dark-black hairs and intense hazel eyes. She was white-complexioned and slender.

Twelve years ago, when the Black Scorpion men were sent out to gather news about people who just adopted children. They couldn't discover this couple that took Helena as they left the kingdom to another kingdom.

Although this couple lived in the Ironstone kingdom, their permanent residence wasn't based there but in another kingdom, Blue Coal kingdom. They had a temporary residence in the Ironstone kingdom they would stay in to trade, to sell their agricultural harvests and livestock produces.

After she finished what she was doing, she left there to go back to her room. She resumed what she was doing, drawing. And if one looked into what she drew, one wouldn't be able to make out anything comprehensible from it as the papers lying around had mysterious patterns in them. She piled them up and stored them in a wooden box she kept in her wardrobe.

It was weekend and there was no school. So she went out of the house to go play with her friends. "Helena, come over. We are going to the river to try our hands on fishing!" a thirteen-year old blonde-haired girl, Katherine by name, shouted from afar. She was with a couple of other beautiful girls. "Alright!" Helena replied with a shout. Then she ran towards these people who were her childhood friends.

She got to their side and saw them all holding fishing rods. "When would your mom get a fishing rod for you?" one of the girls in the group called Alice asked. "I don't know. She doesn't want me going near the river" Helena replied. "why?" Kate asked. "I don't know. Perhaps she is just worried about my safety" Helena replied. Then they began to converse about other things as they walked towards the river.

- River -

The girls stood atop the river banks and threw their hooks into the river. They continued for hours but they didn't catch anything. Feeling frustrated, they turned to leave.

After walking for thirty minutes...

"Helena"

A female voice called out in a whispering tone. Helena's eyes shone with fear and surprise when she heard her name that seemed to come from all directions. She stopped and liked around but she saw no one.

"Helena"

She heard her name again and fear set into her heart. It began to beat wildly. She began to think that it was a demon calling her.

She had heard of stories from her mother who would tell her that demons would call upon children's name so they could possess them and use them to do bad things like kill people and set fire to places.

As for her friends, they had long left her behind. They didn't know something strange was going on. They talked happily with each other and laughed.

"Helena. Come back to the riverbank. I would not hurt you. I promise. I just want to discuss with you." the voice sounded in her head this time which caused her to shake and her eyes to widen in terror.

Without thinking too much, she tried to run back to her friends to tell them to leave this place and that there was a monster in here.

But just before she could run, her body got stuck where she was. She couldn't move. It was like she was bound up in an invisible shackle. She was completely restrained.

Her breathing became irregular and her eyes red from absolute fear. She couldn't even open her mouth to scream. This filled her heart with terror.

A blinding flash of light appeared, then a phenomenally beautiful young woman could be seen. She had purple hairs and was quite tall. She wore a hooded purple cloak and held a golden staff in her hand. Affixed into the staff was a crystal that scintillated.

She looked at Helena and smiled. Helena was shocked and what came to her mind was magic. She opened her mouth to speak and to her surprise she could. "Great Sorceress. Please let me go. I beg you. Please!" she said in a fearful and pleading tone.

The lady smiled as she came over and pinched Helena's nose. "Look at you, so adorable. I would let you go, I don't hurt good children but I hurt the bad ones and bad people. But I would only let you go after am done with what I want to tell you." she said.

"My name's Alyssa and you are my sister" The young lady dressed in purple said. Helena's heart trembled. "No. That's a lie. I am the only one born into my family." she said quickly and respectfully. She would never believe this young woman in front of her was her sister.

"I know you wouldn't believe me. Anyways, whether you choose to believe me or not. It's your choice. What I want you to know is you are a really special girl. You are the one the entire world would go to war with for you are the herald of order. You would bring an end to the chaos in the world." Alyssa said and began to rub Helena's hair.

Helena's soul shook when she heard that. She looked at the young woman with an indescribable gaze. "How am I special?" she asked. "You would have to discover that yourself. I am not supposed to do this, to tell you all these but I can't sit back and watch my dear sister live her life like every other normal child. You aren't normal, you are supernormal. I have only come to deliver these news. Try to discover yourself very quickly. There are many invincible powers out there that want to stop your growth. So grow up speedily sister so you wouldn't be swept away in the tide that would result in the extinction of races. Farewell" she said in an emotional tone, kissed Helena's forehead and vanished.

As soon as she disappeared, the unseen restraining force acting on Helena disappeared.

Helena's gaze was now absent, she wasn't aware of her surroundings as she remembered all that the lady said and found it hard to believe all that she said.

But she was right about the part she doesn't hurt kids as she didn't hurt her.

Huuuu!

She took a deep breath and ran back to her friends who didn't know she had been absent from their midst all these while. They had been placed in an illusion where Helena was with them.

She got to her friends who spoke not even realizing the real Helena just joined them. They continued to talk about a lot of things but she was quiet all through. She was constantly remembering all that she was told as she replayed everything over and over again in her head.