After saving Gylea kingdom, Alice returns to her village and take a rest as soon as she arrived at her tent. She has a dream standing in front of a haunted circus and she sees a ghost walking into the circus tent. "Who are you?" Alice asked the ghost. The ghost vanishes as it turn around. "Wait, don't go!" Alice called. Alice wakes up from her strange dream with a scream, her face covered in sweat. Alice looks around and sighs in relief. "What a nightmare...," Alice said. Alice gets up from her bed when a black portal appears behind her and pulls her in. In a minute, the portal dropped her to the unknown world. "Ouch...What just happened? Wha...?" Alice gaped. She notices that she has appeared in the cemetery. "A cemetery? Where the hell am I?" Alice perplexed. A winged figure's shadow flies pass her from above. "Who's there?" Alice said, readying her wand. The figure silently land behind her. Alice slowly looks at the figure behind her. A boy suddenly hugs her. "Finally, someone just like me came," the boy said. "Hold it, who are you? And what do you mean by someone like you?" Alice asked. "Oh sorry, I got excited," the boy said. "My name is Blue Vine and I'm a Valkyrie. You're a witch, right? Tell me your name," Vine said. "I'm Alice Maro and I'm not a witch, silly. I'm a time wizard, I'm still learning but I'm planning to be the greatest time wizard," Alice said. "You said you're a Valkyrie, right? But...," Alice said, as she examined Vine. Vine has blue hair, pale skin, blue eyes, harpy wings, dragon tail, sharp claws and teeth. "You don't look like a Valkyrie to me," Alice said. "To be honest, I don't even know what I am," Vine said with down tone. "Oh well, ignore what I said. So, could you tell me where I am?" Alice asked. "You're here in the alley of the Night realm. Humans live in chaos here just like the Dark Age. I think something brought you here," Vine explained. "Who would bring me here?" Alice asked. Vine spins his head. "I don't know but right now is a bad time because something has caused this phenomenon. Look!" Vine told her to look at the sky. Alice sees an unusual moon. "You're right, it's not a real moon. That is one strange moon," Alice said. Just as she said that, hands of shadow slip from the darkness and grab Vine. "Agh, let me go!" Vine said. "Vine, hold on! Chrono Freeze!" Alice stopped time temporarily. While time stops, Alice freed Vine and escape with him through time warp. Once Alice fled, time returns back to normal and the hands look around confused. Meanwhile, Alice and Vine warped to an abandoned tall building. "Great, we're near the ruined mall building. What a phenomenon," Alice sat with tired face. Alice sees a purplish black wolf with yellow eyes and purple pupil. The wolf runs away when Alice looked at it. "What was that?" Alice thought. Alice sigh and turn at her side. She sees a ghost boy suddenly sits by her side. She was shocked by it cause there was no one by her side earlier. "Ahh! A ghost!" Alice screamed. Vine looks at Alice with perplexed face cause she screams by herself and he couldn't see the ghost. The ghost walks closer to her, he seems to like her. The ghost has the appearance of a boy with blue eyes wearing indigo T-shirt with a flame design on the front, blue pants and as a ghost, he doesn't wear any shoes. The ghost likes her because her face reminds him of someone he knows but he couldn't speak as a ghost. While the ghost hugs her, Alice hears a voice of many people coming. "What's that?" Alice looks at the crowd. "It's those humans, I mustn't be seen by them!" Vine hides somewhere from the humans. "It's here! The evil ghost is over here!" A man said. "Send him back to his place!" A young lady said. The ghost stands and put on brave expression. Arriving at the abandoned building, a man wearing exorcist equipment step forward. "Hand over that evil ghost to us!" the man said. "He's not evil! What did he do to you any---Huh?" Alice sees the ghost stepped forward before she finished. "We will send you back to where you live, demon! Right here, right now!" The Exorcist said. "Hold him!" Another man commanded. Everyone holds the ghost boy and the exorcist perform the ritual. "No!" Alice said. The ghost boy struggles from the exorcising spell when it suddenly goes berserk and attacks everyone near it with his true form revealed as non-fanged vampire with bat wings on his back. Everyone trembles in fear after he killed some of them in one powerful strike. "(Scream) Run!!!" the exorcist and the others ran in fear. "Whoa...," Alice awed. The ghost turns at her to smile before it vanished and it drags Alice and Blue Vine in front of the circus in her strange dream. Alice gapes in disbelieve when she sees the circus. "Where is this?" Vine asked. "The circus from my nightmare---Ah!!" she screamed when an invisible force pull her by the leg into the circus. The invisible force also grabs and pulls Vine into the circus. Inside, she sees a monstrous clown with a strange machine beside him that keeps pulling spirits into the machine. Alice feels strange and fear at the same time which makes her realize that the dimension anomaly around her has gone dangerous. "The dimension has already falling apart! If he keeps this up, the anomaly will have great impact on the time universe. As a time magician's apprentice, I can't just ignore this! I have to prevent the impact on the timeline of the universe," Alice swore. Alice throws a fireball to the clown and he sends freezing breath on Alice and Vine. Vine sends wind cutting wave from his wings on the clown. The clown dodge the wind cutter swiftly and pushes back Alice and Vine far from him. "Vine! I'm going to test my new magic!" Alice shouted. "What? Oh not again!" Vine turn his head at her and the clown capture him in his hand shaped shadows. "I better hurry. Hah....Slow Burst!!" Alice throws a glowing light on their feet and time slowed down. Alice saves Vine from the clown's grip and Vine stabs him with the sharp tail's tip. Time returns to normal and several ghosts burst from inside the clown with a poltergeist left. "What the hell?" Alice surprised. "Hihihihi...Not bad, little human. You beat us all...," The Poltergeist said. "A poltergeist?!" Vine shocked. "I thought they're not real," Alice said. "Hihihi.....Don't think that just because you beat me, everything is over....I will return to beat you but this time...I will be more powerful than you, human and Valkyrie...Ihihi....Mirage!!" The poltergeist vanished with a shout. Alice and Vine looks at each other. "Did that ghost mention Mirage?" Alice asked. "I think so...," Vine answered. "Do you know him?" Alice asked. "No...I don't know who Mirage is," Vine shrugged. "Then it means we have to get ready if this Mirage come to our world," Alice said. A blue portal appears in front of the two. "Hey, it's our exit. Whaa!" Alice got pulled inside. "Me too? Aghh!!" Vine absorbed into the portal. The portal closed and appears in Alice's village from above. Everyone looks at the portal. "What is that? A dimension portal?" Someone said. The portal dropped Alice and Vine straight to the ground with Vine falling atop of her. "Ouch! My back!" Alice exclaimed. "It's the little Alice Maro," An elderly woman said. Everyone approaches them. "Are you alright, dear?" A woman asked. "She's alright," A man answered for Alice. "What's that thing on top of her?" A young lady whispered. "Don't ask me," A young man whispered. "Ugh...We are alright...Vine, will you get up from my back already?" Alice asked. Vine gets up from her and sits near her. Alice gets up into sitting position while rubbing her back. "Ow...I think I got a back ache...," Alice pointed. "Wait...I'm back home again!!" Alice raised both fists happily. "Home? Wah," Vine gulped nervous. "It's okay. Everyone, I just got back from the Night dimension and I have a new friend now. Blue Vine, welcome to the Magi village where we magicians live in isolation from the world," Alice said. "Well, we sometimes went out from our isolated village to town or city so...we are not fully isolating ourselves in fact," A young woman said. "In here, we are family together. Everyone in this village is our family," Alice said. "Really?" Vine said. "Yup, come with me on my journey," Alice said, giving her hand. Vine nodded while Alice pulls him up and they laugh together. "We prepared a place for you to live, dear," the elder woman showed Vine an empty tent build by everyone. "Oh....Thank you, you people are the best!" Vine flew happily. And so, Vine is now part of Alice's family and he join Alice on her journey to be the best magician. Meanwhile, on the other side of dimension...A pair of pale eyes stare from the darkness. "Master...," the Poltergeist knelt. "You called my name... You have lost to a mere Human apprentice!" a deep growling voice heard from the darkness. "Forgive me for this but...," The Poltergeist looks at his master. "When...will you show your presence to the one who beat me, Master?" The Poltergeist asked. "Hrm...Soon enough...My time to descend to the world will be soon enough...Poltergeist!" The pale eyes from the darkness look down on the kneeling Poltergeist. "Yes, Master?" Poltergeist looked up to his master. "Tell the others that this Human apprentice will come to take back everything we had under our control. She will be the main threat to us...," The Voice growled. "But...," Poltergeist questioned his master. "I will descend to destroy her myself when the time has come. Now go and warn the others!!" The Voice roared. "Yes, master!" Poltergeist flew to warn the others. After he left, the pale eyes in the darkness squinted. "Hmph... A mere Human apprentice defeated my minions?! I am Mirage the Mirage Manipulator! Your world will be mine when the time has come!" The Voice roared.

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To Be Continued