“AHHHH!”
“AHHHH!”
Both Karan and I scream at each other not knowing what the hell is happening, Uncle Neo also comes in the room and he sees me “AHHHH!” Three of us scream on the top of our lungs but after a while we stopped to breathe.
We suddenly realized that I was naked so they gave me a towel to cover myself up. I was soaked from all the water inside the giant tube, if remember the shattered glass also made me bleed but my wounds are gone. Uncle Neo asks “How the hell are you alive?” He points a flashlight in my pupils trying to see if I’m ok or not, Karan on the other hand looks at me with visible confusion on his face. Uncle stands up saying “Yep he’s alright but something’s different” He takes a sample of my blood and proceeds to put it in his machine.
Karan analyzes my body with a perplexed face, he asks “Bro is that really you? You’ve been dead for two months and we even tried to us-“
“Wait hold on a minute, I was dead for two months?” I sat on the floor and massage my temples, being revived and all this thinking is starting to hurt my head. I thought I was laying on the sands of time for just a day but you’re telling me its two months? I could’ve read a lot with that time.
“Look I can explain everything but I just need a moment to breath, and to change clothes, and maybe to eat too.” Karan assists me while going upstairs and Uncle Neo calls for a food delivery, maybe the reason why my body is so weak is because my muscles weren’t used and were just floating in a tube for the two months. He hands me my clothes and as I change I saw Death’s Memoir on my study table. I took it with me and I was greeted downstairs by Chicken buckets and Pizzas.
I sit on the table and immediately after I start eating, I gain my energy back. I fill my mouth with the pizzas, fried chickens, and rice, while both of them are silently waiting for an explanation. I said as I bite the chicken “Uncle Neo, I know you’re a person of science but please take what I’m about to say seriously.” They both get closer and I whispered “The truth is there’s such a thing as a Mystical world, a whole different world where there’s magic and monsters that appear just like in the movies. Lately I-”
Before I could finish y sentence both of them sight and Karan pinches the bridge of his nose, honestly I thought there would be a bigger reaction especially from my Uncle. Karan deeply inhales and exhales saying “Bro, your Uncle is already a mystic so let’s skip the introduction to Mystic world, also you came back from the dead after dying for two whole months. Even in the slightest chance that your Uncle isn’t a mystic, I doubt he wouldn’t believe that magic do exist.”
I look at my Uncle surprised of this revelation but then again it does make sense if I think about it now. He works at the laboratory or his workshop all day long not even going outside to eat or sleep, also he’s a tech genius but he hasn’t made any inventions that can be seen being used in Arcanegrove. “If you’re a Mystic then am I like some powerful prophesized chosen one being raised by a traitor who was told to kill the child to stop the prophecy but he couldn’t do it?”
“Yeah no.” He takes some slices of pineapple pizza and says “I hate to break it to you but I have no dark backstory or any cliché stuff that you read in the library. I’m just an intelligent human whose genius goes toe to toe with different races. Now with that out of the way, why don’t you please give us an explanation? Is this a prank? A test to experiment with our feelings?” He holds the sharp knife menacingly slicing the pizza while looking at me.
Oh yeah my Uncle might just send me back to the sands of time again, “Look, I didn’t play any games or experiments, I just died for real by the fangs of my crush.” Karan’s expression darkens as he realizes that it was Cassidy who killed me, I look at him and he was different from the Karan I knew. Karan peaceful even when someone abuses his kindness, but I never saw him with bloodlust in his eyes.
I slid Death’s Memoir on the table to them and as they open it, all they could see is blank “I don’t know why Cassidy killed me but she seems forced to do it. Also, that book is the reason why I’m alive. I don’t know the full story but I was chosen to be a servant of death, I met her in purgatory and she granted me immortality in exchange for following her.”
Karan and Uncle Neo both fell silent with what I just said, even if they knew the magic world I guess it’s their first time hearing that death is a living being huh. Uncle Neo stands up and suddenly hugs me tightly, I was taken aback by the hug but then he says “I’m happy your alive, I’m sorry I wasn’t there when you needed me and I’m sorry I didn’t show you this side of the world even when I knew.” Although there we’re no tears, I can feel the regret, sadness and relief in his voice.
“Well what now? You’re alive and I doubt you want to go after Cassidy, and I’m already deep in our plans of revenge which is now unnecessary. So what should we do?” Karan asks as he chows down on his zinger steak. I took the black kit at the top of the cabinet and said. “My friend, we’ll do the same thing as we always did. Plan, create weapons, and explore. Only this time were not going to go after monsters, we’re going after the self-righteous gods.”
Authors POV:
After Crème goes upstairs to sleep, Karan and Neo talk in the workshop in complete secrecy. “Why did you call me down here, Crème is okay and we don’t need to continue the plan.” Karan says as he modifies his shockwave gloves with the screwdriver. Neo shows the monitor with the results of Crème’s blood to Karan “It felt and sounded like him but I’m not sure. Although he acts like Crème, little bits of his appearance changed like his height, irises, and even his skin complexion. What’s worse of all is his blood, I never seen this type of blood in both the human and the mystic world.”
Karan looks at him and says “Uncle Neo, while I do understand where you’re coming from, Crème has been dead for two months and we used every resurrection item we can get but it was to no avail. Every item can revived the dead even if it has specific conditions but why not Crème, the answer is simple really, he was a piece that was already chosen by death from the very start.”
“So if you’re asking me if that really is Crème, then no doubt my answer is yes. I won’t be able to convince you but give it time and you’ll see that he’s Crème but now he’s also a pawn chosen play a part in the game of the gods.