Chapter 10: Transmutation

The turning of the tide had come.

It was at that moment that Santos was certain that his yoga instructor wasn’t only just that, she was something else entirely. It was not only her eyes, which were burning bright, but sooner than later, it was also the rest of her body. She was covered in a blinding light, which was coating her gorgeous body. Her body was covered in a light and green, pulsating, glowing light. The monster was sent back, away from her. Almost as if the light was pushing him away from her. Meanwhile, Santos, who was still struggling to come out of the river, caught a glimpse of what was going on with Hesper. She was glowing so much that even he was blinded by the overwhelming light. And he was much further away from her than the creature was. The both of them were blinding and Santos could barely see her. But he saw her. He saw what was happening to her. Due to his shock, his teacher wasn’t yelling or screaming for help. No. Instead, she was moaning. Was she enjoying herself? Dozens of different thoughts erupted into the mind of the young boy. He didn’t know what to think. Was she in trouble? Could he do something to help her? Should he do something? He could barely move. His body wasn’t moving forward. He tried. And he tried. But he wasn’t able to come out of the river. Half of his body was underwater. At some point, he thought he was going to be submerged into what felt like it was some kind of rising water. It was impossible. It was a river. It wasn’t the ocean. They weren’t at the beach. Yet, he truly thought that he was going to drown. Which could be the case, since the light that was coming out of Hesper’s body was moving the surrounding air. It was shaping it.

Transforming it. And the air wasn’t the only thing that was being pushed away from her. The dirt. The ground beneath her feet was as well. The monster‒The Mohan was as well. He was being pushed toward the river, where the young man was. The water of the river was being pushed away as well, which could possibly explain why Santos felt like he was about to drown. The water was rising. The water was indeed rising, and it wasn’t his imagination. The water was rising to the point that it was now floating in the air. It was spinning around the young man’s body in slow-motion. To him, it felt like everything was in slow-motion at this moment in time. Everything was frozen in time. He saw images, but they weren’t moving that much. They were ultra slow, and it felt like time had stopped. The only thing that remained constant all the way through was the sound of her voice. The sound of Hesper’s moaning. It was pretty clear to him that she and the necklace were both the cause of what was happening here at the river. Santos closed his eyes, only for a short second as strong wind was being pushed in his face, hurting his eyes a bit. When he reopened them, he realized that Hesper was wearing something entirely different from before. She was now wearing a skin-tight outfit. It was of a bright, golden, yellow colour. There were two stars on the front side of the outfit. What she wore was incredibly flashy to say the least. Santos had never seen anything like this before.

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What is she wearing? It is so… Gorgeous, the boy thought. The Mohan tried gaining ground on her again. He attempted to go against her will and against her powers that were pushing him back into the river. He made one step. Then, another. And then a third. He was gaining so much ground on her that it was no longer impossible that he may be reaching her again. Which was definitely his intention. The young man didn’t want him to touch her again. He found her once, he didn’t want to lose her again. The vile monster was soon about to reach her position again and to touch her with his dirty and sharp fingers, when‒all of a sudden‒Hesper slowly re-opened her eyes. They had been shut for the past few minutes. When she opened her eyes, they were burning bright with so much light that it was more than enough to blind the monster again. It stopped him. He couldn’t move any closer to her. But it wasn’t over. Hesper swiftly moved both of her arms in front of her and pointed at the dark and dangerous creature with her fingertips. A beam of light suddenly came out of her palms and was shot in his direction. It quickly hit him. Right in the chest. He was soon pushed back into the river, and he exploded in a burst of beautiful, rainbow colours of destruction. It was over for the monster. He was gone. He vanished.

Hesper? How did she do that? Santos asked himself. Then, slowly, the aura around Hesper disappeared as well. She dropped to her knees as the flashy outfit she wore left into flames. It was over. The wind that was pushing against Santos and the river, making it float all around him, stopped. With suddenly nothing that was pushing against him, the boy accidentally fell into the water. He managed to get himself back up. It was back to silence. Pure silence. Until‒

“‒Hesper? Hesper! Are you alright?” he broke that silence and shouted as he ran toward her. Hesper was still down on her knees.

“Hesper! What happened?” he continued shouting.

“That’s not my name…” she surprisingly mentioned to him.

“Um… What?” he was caught off guard by this revelation.

“That is not my name…” she repeated to him again.

“I don’t understand. Are you alright? Were you hurt?”

“No. I’m alright,” she nodded, looking up at him with the most gorgeous eyes in the entire world. Her eyes were glistening with light, but not in the way that it used to before. This time, it was real, it was human. She was nearly crying. She was clearly glad that Santos had come all this way for her. The young boy was towering over her as she was sensually sitting on top of her knees. Visibly exhausted.

“I was scared for you…” he admitted to her.

“Let’s go back…” she told him.