I woke up in my bedroom tucked under the sheets with nobody in my room.  This caused me confusion, well more than confused, it made me feel a sense of fear.  My room is clean and nobody is currently in here.  This means two things for sure, one was that someone found me after I did my "experiment", and two is that I have been out for a while.  I wonder what happened to the box, and how long I've been out for.

As I was thinking, Misty jumped up on the bed and licked my face.  She is the same as always, I wonder if she worried about me.  I guess over thinking this will only make me worry for no reason, so I petted Misty.  She is so fluffy right now since she isn't in her cub form; well she is fluffy in a different sense when she is small.

As I was petting Misty, I realized that my body was responding stiffly to what my mind wants.  Well, when you sleep you don't lose track of how much time has passed, but your body does.  I'm not sure how long I indulged in petting and hugging Misty's soft fur, but when I looked up, there was a very cross mother.  Subconsciously I gulped when I saw her only to realize that my throat was dry.  I'm parched.

So I did what any other respectable person would do when your mom is mad at you and you don't want her to be, change the topic.  So I said with a strained smile, "Mom, can I get a glass of water."

She pulled a glass out of her spatial storage and filled it with water magic.  I didn't realize it because I wasn't at looking her face, but she had cracked a smile when I asked.  It had returned to a cross expression when she gave me the water though, so I drank the water slowly in order to prolong this.  Ellie appeared behind me and whispered, "Hurry up mistress."

Ellie surprised me and I gulped down the remaining water, only then did mom speak up.  "Ally, do you know why I am annoyed at you?"

In a small voice I said, "Is it because I ran out of magic power?"

She calmly replied, "No, that is only a small part of it.  Do you know what you did was extremely dangerous?"

Her question confused me, so I asked, "What did I do, I only tried to figure lay an encryption on the box?"

She sighed and responded, "So you passed out before the aftermath... Do you understand that right after you combine two elements it will cause explosions, since they aren't compatible?  You combined water and space magic, and you are lucky that you have a protective charm on you at all times.  That explosion destroyed the entire magic room, with the area where you were, was the only slightly damaged place."

This information shocked me.  I learned that I was in another large situation and didn't know how to respond, mom continued talking though after seeming to confirm I couldn't answer.

"Ally, I worry about you like any mother would, but do you realize how much it pains me to see my daughter going through bad situation after bad situation.  You are just about 12, but you have had two life-threatening situations.  Three if I include the kidnapping attempt."

Ellie added on, "Mistress, you also have a tendency to get yourself in situations that are very complex.  I acknowledge you are not aware of it yet, but you have become a centerpiece in the continent and you are in middle school."

Truthfully, what Ellie said confused me until mom tried to clear it up by saying, "I guess now is as good of a time as ever.  You are causing chaos, which is probably the Chaos God's goal.  You are a deciding factor because you are my daughter and your every influence on me, your dad and your friends can cause a large change in the future."

She laughed to herself, and I think she finds it funny that her every reaction to me can change the world.  She defied her destiny already or so she says, so it seems that I inherited a bloodline of rebels.  Actually there was something that made me interested.

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"Mom, who is the Chaos God?"

Mom seemed to hesitate slightly before continuing on, "He was the one who how do I put it... blessed you? Cursed you?  He made you a chaos child, and you are his chosen.  Truthfully he doesn't really care much about the world other than to mess with the other gods.  I don't know… You could call him a prankster or a misfit of the family.  I won't say much since he hasn't appeared in a few hundred years, so when you meet him make sure to tell me what he is actually like."

Her malicious grin didn't match is the way she said though, I wonder if mom would actually try to battle a god?  I guess delving into it more won't help without the person himself here.  So I asked the question that was bugging me, "Mom, will there be a punishment for the explosion?"

She thought about it for a while and said, "Ally, I will get you a teacher for magic tools."

She paused and continued on, "I will leave the punishment up to him for now.... I wish you luck."

Mom gave me a quick hug, a kiss on the cheek and disappeared out the door.  An elderly man entered the room cackling. He had white hair extending down his back and wrinkles on his face.  As he was cackling he said, "She doesn't change now does she, always avoiding her old teacher."

Ellie chimed in, "Madam has left mistress's punishment to you."

He looked my way and seemed to scan over me.  After a while he said, "So you are the little twerp that broke my magical item.  Do you know how time consuming creating that thing was, using your mother's magic and making a new type of inscription for a new magic?"

After saying that, he sunk deep into thought and I waited for his judgment on my punishment.  He then said, "Depending on how you are as a student, I will use your progress in learning for how large your punishment will be."

I sighed in relief and failed to see Ellie staring daggers at my teacher.  "So what should I call Teacher?"

He looked startled and responded, "Just call me Mr. Weathers.  We will meet twice a week to allow for you to comprehend the information I'm teaching and during the school year I will be your private tutor."

He muttered, "Not that any of the teachers in that place can compare."

Afterwards, he left, leaving me with Ellie and the Misty.  I just realized I was still clutching Misty in a bear hug.

Ellie waited for a second before she said, "Mistress, it is time to take a bath.  You have been unconscious for three days."

I undressed as I headed to the bathroom; I guess my teacher will be eccentric.  Taking into account that he didn't stay around for long, I guess he either had little to say or he doesn't like talking much.  To just soak in the bath is a good way to clear the mind, and I truthfully wonder how he will be as a teacher.  I also wonder if I will meet my "patron" god.  I guess he only sees me as a distraction right now, so I will have to do something spectacular to get him to show his face.

Even though those things will come up in the future, what I want to see now is the now destroyed magic room.  Considering that mom made it sound like I completely destroyed it, I became intrigued about the damage I caused.  I looked at my necklace that has become the one thing that stays constant in my wardrobe and thought about how improved it has become since I first got it.

My bath ended after speculating idly about my past life and how I've changed.  I stopped thinking because it made me feel strange knowing I now remember two lives.  I guess this is a coping mechanism if I didn't accept myself as I am now I'm not sure how I would have dealt with everything.

After I finished getting dressed, I headed to the magic room, or more accurately what's left of the magic room.  It left me stunned to see the walls charred black.  The floor was dug out a few feet, and the ceiling had a hole in it above where I finished combining the two magic types.  As I was in a daze, Ellie put her hand on my shoulder and said, "I would like you to engrave this image into your mind.  Please remember to be cautious mistress."

Her words struck a chord with me, how would I feel if someone I cared about was in the middle of this wreckage.  How much worry would I have felt, but it hurts that I'm not sure if I can even curve part of my personality?  How does one even go about that?  Do you just kill it because it could cause something horrible or do you embrace it as yourself and deal with the consequences?

I'm not even sure how I should think about this, so I only took in the surroundings for a while.  Wondering what I should do, how I should feel, and why it even matters.