Staring at the blood-filled pool under him, the man who made the woman who took care of me for so many years feel in love. Even though I am still very young, I do understand what love means today. The man that we were ordered to kill, it took a complete turn when she became in love with him. His sister who meant everything for him and their baby brother who was dragged out from darkness as a baby mean all so much for her. Does this mean I don’t count into the family anymore?
I got down in a sitting position and grabbed with both my hands his hand that was soaked in blood. He looked at me with sorrow in his eyes, because he was on his way to die.
“Veronica, I am so sorry for asking this as I will probably die soon. C…Can you take care of Berk.” he told me.
Beside him laid Meldan who is the madam or the princess of the town that we both came from. She grabbed my other arm and took out a knife, I knew exactly what she was thinking. I gave her a stare and nodded my head declining the knife from her.
“If you force me to do this, it will definitely kill Berk.” I told her.
She looked deep in my eyes and nodded.
“Not if you bind the forbidden spell and travel back with him” Meldan told me with a serious tone in her voice.
“But…but…but then you and me will never meet in life, you took care of me since I was a baby. If I alter that, me and Berk will travel back 10 years without aging. That will mean that we never meet in real life.” I said with an angry voice.
Meldan gave me a smile.
“Yes, I know that we will probably never meet in life, but what I have taken care of and learned you for ten years of your life is love can break all barriers, now the next step in your life is to fight for your survival. My sister will probably not come after Zark personally, because the sacrifice of Berk never takes place and he doesn’t get kidnapped by Zark from her. This means that we alter the timeline to erase this moment as like it never happened.” She told me.
“But you will lose your love?” I asked her.
“Well, that is what you sacrifice for what has become your real family. Samantha only scolded me for all these years, for the first time in my life I saw love from a man and from a family. You saw everything and I want you to live your life to the fullest and take care of Berk.” She told me.
My hands started to shake and I looked around the pool and saw Zarks sister a couple of meters away. I walked up to her to check how she was because there wasn’t any movement from here.
“Wake up” I told her.
No response. I put my index fingers on her throat to check for a pulse and I couldn’t stop the shaking still in my hands. Couldn’t feel any pulse though even when I was shaking, she is dead. Grabbed her left hand and tried to drag her close to the pool. Everything was a mess and we were lured into a school in a trap, wished we could have left Berk somewhere before coming here. When I turned around Zarks face was completely pale, it was hard to know if it was from the blood loss or the shock that I just dragged his dead sister’s body closer to the edge of the pool. Suddenly he had tears in his eyes and I understood that it wasn’t the blood, he was in a shock.
“I…Is she dead” He asked me.
I could barely speak back to him, something inside me was hurting, but I didn’t know what this feeling was. Meldan crawled to me and touched my face with her bloody hands.
“You have to do it! You can save us all. Take the knife and do the spell and build a wall between the us and them before the manage to break the door to the pool.” Meldan told me.
I didn’t really know what to do, everything was destroyed in a moment and I could feel a creeping pain in my chest that becomes stronger and stronger for every moment. Why am I in pain?
Meldan crawled to the knife on the floor and handed it over to me. I just kept staring down on the knife.
“Do it now! That is an order.”
I kept nodding my head but she was resistant against my hesitation.
“Do it now or I will disown you as my pupil, my sister, my friend.”
I noticed the tears in my eyes and the pain that started to get worse. I rose up from the sitting position and put my hand on the bloody area on Meldan and painted a circle with my index finger and make all the signs necessary signs for the spell. Put my hand in the pool to clean away my bloody hand and grabbed Zarks injured stomach to get as much blood as I can to paint one more circle. I walked around the pool to the other side and did a circle there also with the spell.
Came back around again and dipped my hand in the pool again to clean it and opened up Zarks sisters’ jacket and touched the big wound with blood she had on her chest, I could feel that her lungs were crushed from probably a hard impact from a strong Krat. These creatures when awakened are so dangerous, but seems like Rivers plans didn’t go as well when her strongest Krat escaped from treason into a human and escaped from the prison.
I started to paint a circle with her blood on the wall and put the necessary signs there. I dipped my hand again in the pool and on the way back I stabbed Zarks sister in the stomach and pushed her using all my strength into the pool.
“W…Wh…What are you doing? Zark uttered with a weak voice that I could feel his death was close with his eye pupils completely turned red.
He was obviously angry that I stabbed his dead sister and how he responded that way directly even when she is dead, doesn’t he know that I just trying to help. Meldan crawled up to him and put her hand on his cheek.
“Look at me Zark, she didn’t stab her to neglect the body, its for saving us.” Meldan told him.
His red eyes suddenly disappeared from the angry moment he just had. He started to cry openly and little Berk on his side started to grab him harder and the child of course had no clue what was happening right now.
“Listen to me carefully Zark, she has to stab you and you will die. I promise you though that you will survive and your sister and Berk also.” Meldan explained to him.
“N... No! How a…are we going to survive by dying?” He asked her.
“Do you trust me?” she asked him.
He nodded and agreed with her question of course. Enemies becoming lovers, how cliché.
She gave him a kiss and reached out her arm, I put the knife in her hands quickly and she stabbed him in the neck while crying and the blood splattered everywhere and little Berk was crying out loud of shock. Seeing his big brother become lifeless and Meldan trying to hold him up while crying like I have never seen before. I never understood what she saw and felt that I never had a chance to live with. I only trained for several years beside Meldan and suddenly when we came here, she feel in what she told me was love. She never explained to me what love really was, only putting her hand on my chest over my heart and told me that there is a feeling inside the body. Nothing that I could think of made this feeling she spoke about come out.
I went up to them and put my index fingers on Zarks throat, he wasn’t dead yet. What a strong will he has even of all the blood loss. She made sure he became lifeless, but not dead for me to finish the job. Grabbed and slowly distanced her from Zark while she was crying out loud. Zark was laying on the floor on his stomach so I had to turn him over and he was quickly losing more blood. I put the knife quickly through his heart and felt his pulse again, it faded away and he was dead. Noticed Meldan had a hard time grasping what she did request off me because she would never meet Zark at all. Meldan slowly came towards me and grabbed one of his hand and started to drag him towards the pool. I grabbed his other hand and helped out with the grabbing and he was really heavy considering the size of both me and Meldan.
Suddenly the doors to the pool exploded with a big bang and of course it was the grey haired queen stamping in with a angry look on her face.
“SHAN TURA KAM TU RI” Meldan yelled out loud and a blue fire was lit up a couple of meters away from us on both sides,
Berk went suddenly quiet from the blue fire and just starred into it. Samantha who was Meldans sister came closer to the fire and looked at us with a raging expression. The creatures that followed suite after her couldn’t pass the fire, must be a strong wall Meldan made around us without me noticing it with a forbidden spell. The fire was a couple of meters on both of my sides, around ten meters total in both directions, she must have already made up her mind to protect us.
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“I send you to earth to find my strongest Krat that has been taken over by a human being and what I get from my sister is her falling in love and deceive her own sister with the Krat inside the human body.” Samantha told Meldan with disappointed eyes.
“W…What do you know about love sister, from being neglected my whole life by my sister, I was shown what a family was. You don’t deserve to have any sister; you deserve to be alone forever.” Meldan said to her.
I knew we had to hurry now that her sister who is much stronger than Meldan will figure out which spell that she used to protect us, luckily, she is vary of the blue fire and doesn’t try to go through it.
“Are you ready Meldan?” I asked Meldan.
She nodded her head while we kept dragging Zark to the edge of the pool and pushed him in. Samantha went to the edge on the pool and it grabbed her attention what we were doing. Her face expression changed and she got now worried and she came really close to the fire.
“Listen Meldan! You cant do this, sending them ten years back in time wont help it from me looking for Zark, he still escapes and comes and steals the baby from me. I will still hunt him down to kill him and the baby.” Samantha told her.
Meldan came up close to the fire and looked at her sister and said:
“I am not the one who will do the spell, Veronica is doing the spell and the little child will go with her, meaning that backwards ten years both Veronica and Berk wont exist. There is no baby or someone that I am training, they are going back in time alive.”
“NO….NO….NO…YOU CAN’T DO THIS TO YOUR OWN SISTER” Samantha yelled at Meldan.
Meldan turned around and stood close to the pool. I watched out for Berk who was still hugging the wall watching the creature with red eyes behind the fire. We have scarred the child, but he won’t remember anything when we go back. Turning back to Meldan she had her arms out crying. I closed in on her and she hugged me hard and Samanthas screaming went completely quiet and she leaned her head on the left side of my head so Samantha couldn’t see her face anymore and she whispered in my eyes:
“L…Listen to me carefully now my love! I took this decision because if I was the one traveling back in time with Berk, I would have been traveled back to Valiant right to Samanthas arms with Berk. Remember to take a deep cut in your arm and then on Berks arm and mix it together before joining dead ones in the pool. You both will be traveling to the Paladin Woods, that is where both you and Berk came from. Berk while human without any powers, you born to a witch mother and her friend who lives there. A…A old solder from Samanthas army cast out named Trinx. You will find her home after Trudd village. Go to her directly after you arrive in Paladin woods. Zark will not be hunted until after ten years when Samantha finds out who he is, but because Berk is never there it wont be as such big alarms around it as it was now. Hopefully he can live a peaceful life on earth and never ever send him to Valiant, I don’t want him coming and looking for me and it will be too dangerous. Also, as a big sister I want to take care of Berk as your little brother and love him no matter how things turn out for him, but train him to be able to protect himself…Now wash your bloody hands together with the knife and do the spell.” She whispered.
I bent down and washed my hands in the already bloody pool and swiped my hands on my shirt and the knife to clean it while watching when suddenly water dropped down from my eyes, was I crying as Meldan?
I went up and went around so I faced Meldans face and saw her crying.
“See, I told you would learn how to know love” Meldan said to me.
I tried to wipe off the water from my eyes, but it didn’t stop.
“What you mean?” I asked her.
“You are crying, that means love.” Meldan said.
I walked up to her and hugged her hard. She leaned her head down and whispered:
“Stab me in the neck or throat, do not stab me in the stomach, you can kill the little one in my stomach that is coming with me.”
I backed two steps back, because this is to much. I am a mature ten year old and know what pregnant means and she just told me that she is pregnant. So, she is 28 now, traveling back in time and the body becomes ten years younger, but what travels with you travels with you, so all scars follow suit together back in time, meaning the alive baby in her stomach will also follow with her.
The water was now literally flowing from my eyes, I walked up to her and stabbed her right in the throat and took out the knife and she fell backwards right into the pool. Suddenly everything that was quiet around me came to life and I could hear Samanthas scream behind the blue fire of a wall.
“Don’t you dare do it Veronica! I will hunt you down and I will cut you in pieces and give it to the hound dogs from hell.” I heard her, but choose to not respond back.
I lifted up Berk from the floor, who by the way was very heavy for a really mature ten year old to lift up the child. Walked to the edge of the pool and sat down. I made a cut above my arm so the blood was dropping and then I grabbed Barks arm while he made an attempt to crawl against the blue fire.
“This will hurt Berk, but its to save us.” I told him.
I made a cut on his right arm and he was screaming out loud and I put my bloody arm on his cut so our bloods would mix together. He was trying to escape from my clutch, but at least I had some muscle to resist a little child. I hugged him and said:
“Muntara kush ta pi tara. Kumban un si pi karamban sundin ti ru fah.”
The circles i made before got lit in green fire and I continued with the last words of the spell.
“Sin tu raku pa WAN!”
The pool water turned into black water and in the middle a whirl with a hole was created. The water started to circle around and I saw the three bodies in the water disappear quickly. I looked at Samantha a last time and said:
“If I don’t find you first and kill you.” I in the end gave a response back to Samatha who was now trying to bring the blue fire wall without any success.
Grabbed Berk hard and hugged in to not risk of letting him go whatever happens and jumped in the black water. Was circling around in the pool very fast and suddenly it became dark, pitch black.
Heard a bird chippering in the air and I opened my eyes. Berk was laying on me and I had to shove him on the side to be able to go up. I noticed his cut on the arm had healed up now and was a scar instead. I took my little jacket on me and covered up his upper body. From what I could see we were in the woods.
Suddenly a sound came behind us and I turned quickly around and saw a woman and a child that looked like it was in the same age as Berk. She had a spear in her hand so I had to be careful.
“Berk! Little brother, get up!” I said and poked on Berk and saw him slowly waking up.
“What are two kids doing in these woods?” The Woman asked me.
The women was really beautiful from the looks with a large chest and seems like she had lighter clothes to be able to move more easier.
“Just passing by!” I replied back with a hesitant voice.
Her face expression changed and I could see she got suspicious.
“Two kids just passing by in the woods in private ground that belongs to me, why do I start to believe that there is something you are not telling me!” She told me.
The spear suddenly showed up on my neck and her face expression changed.
“Okay…Okay! I just need to ask you two questions first!” I told her.
“Yeah…and that is?”
I still tried to move a little bit to the left, but spear followed after me.
“What year is it?” I asked.
She got stumbled by the dumb question, but she took a breath and answered:
“”2012”.
“Okay, are we right now in a place called Paladin?” I asked still aware of the spear being to close to my neck.
“You mean Paladin woods! Yes, you are and now answer why you are here?”
I took a deep breath, because I wanted to prepare myself mentally to use my powers after my answer.
“I am looking for a lady of the name Trinx, was send here by Meldan!”.
“WHAT!” She responded.
It went completely silent after her comment and we both starred at each other, I think she tried to read me to see if I was telling the truth.
“Do you know Trinx?” I asked.
She just nodded up and down with her head and for a moment I didn’t know if she was friend or foe.
“How do you know Meldan?” She asked.
Maybe I should tell her, well the spear is pointing to my neck so I should be honest, I can try to make a move if the tip comes any closer.
“I am the apprentice of Meldan Whane” I said.
She bent her head slightly with a expression as if she was confused.
“That is impossible, Meldan never had any apprentice.” She told me.
That just reminded me in this reality because I am here with Berk means I don’t exist in Meldans reality. That wasn’t well thought out from me, well who can blame me, I am still young kid.
“Okay! I have used a spell called Tornare in Tempo and if you have any knowledge regarding Streghe Village. She was the only one who knew it from the black book in the forest that disappeared in a big fire.” I told her.
“That is impossible, it’s a myth she knew the forbidden spell of Tornare in Tempo. That would mean that you traveled ten years back in time.” She spoke.
I gave her a smirk and her face expression changed completely to shock now. She lowered the spear and walked towards me and put her hand on the ground to feel it.
“I can feel it in the ground, you are not from here and neither is the child with you.”
Berk who had slowly got up on his feet with a confused expression had absolutely no clue what was going on. I put my hand on his chest and slowly backed away from the lady on the ground, because she put the spear down doesn’t mean she still isn’t hostile against us. She just kept her hand in the ground and kept staring at the dirt.
“So, why did you come here and where is Meldan?” she asked.
I looked down and could feel from her voice when asking the question that she seems sad.
“Meldan died!” I responded and she put her head up and looked at me with sad eyes.
“What do you mean by that?” she asked.
Well, I have told her the first part, no reason to hold it in.
“She sacrificed herself and died to return to Valiant. The man she loved died also and return outside Paladin Woods, his sister died also and hopefully she also returned close to him. She sacrificed everything for the man she loved and me and the boy returned back ten years, but alive. This way we disrupted the timeline and the man wouldn’t get hunted down so easily.” I told her.
“Interesting, I never thought she would ever feel in love with a man. She was always angry and had so much rage inside her, but she faked my death and helped me escape here to live a peaceful life two years ago. I am Trinx Fintil and the little boy with me is Mejni! Fintil” she told me and rose up from the ground with from what I thought looked like a angry woman.
Oh my gosh! We had landed really close to Trinx, this was good news for both me and Berk meeting her directly when we came here.
“What is both your names?” She asked.
I looked down at Berk and remembered their last name they had as a big family.
“I am Veronica and this little one is Berk; we both go by the last name Van Polan.”
She reached her hand out to shake my hand and said:
“Well…welcome back ten years in time Veronica Van Polan and Berk Van Polan.”
This was the beginning for me and Berk and from now on we were both Van Polans like the family name that Zark took after their mother unknowingly the strongest witch ever that escaped during the big war called Trissa Van Polan.