After a few more days of walking and camping we have arrived in the Town of Xera where we will start our training, Needless to say after the jungle experience, Ronan, Raphael, Jenny and I have all be come closer. Ronan's wants to join the church because his parents where poor and kicked him out so he thought the church could offer him a better life. Raphael's parents were killed my vampires and he wants revenge. Jenny story is like mine where she has heard about the church and priests being closer to god and wanted to become a priest. Honestly after the ordeal in the forest we are not trusting the pope or his men much.
I look around the town of Xera, It has big walls around the whole town, There are a bunch of people going in and out of the city, There are guards placed at the entrance inspecting everything. The Pope gives the guards a wave while we keep walking into the town. There are merchants lined up in stores and outside, About ten minutes of walking we get to a big white castle, It has knights with white armour guarding it. We walk through the courtyard into the castle. The castle has so many people in it but I notice that not one looks over 25.
We follow the pope until he stops at a huge door and he turns around to look at us.
"This is the church training Castle. You will spend 5 years learning how to be closer to god". "You will take classes and learn how to fight". While the pope was talking a guard came out and started speaking.
"We are ready for those four" the guard pointed at us then walked back through the huge door.
"Hey what is in there" Raphael asks with a hint of worried in his eyes as he steps back.
"No need to worry, It is a aptitude test, There is a little ball in the middle of the room, When you touch it, Then it will make a gold ball appear in the air, The more gold lights the air, The more gods power runs through you and the stronger you can become.
We all walk into the room, It is a white painted room with old pictures of people, In the room there are a couple step where a ball of little is hovering in the middle of the room, Honestly we are all excited to see how much potential we all have, The first one who stepped up was jenny. She walks up the ball slowly and keeps looking back at us. We reassure her with a smile and she puts her hand on the ball, 7 Gold light appear in our surrounding and the pope looks excited at this.
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"wow 7 Lights at such a young age is excellent you are going to become a truly remarkable person in the future". The pope looks quite excited for the new talent he has acquired.
Ronan runs up to have his shot and he grabs it while jumping up, We look around to see 6 gold lights up. Jenny looks at Ronan with a smug smile and he looks embarrassed that he has less of the light then her.
"You are all quite talented. Having more then 3 light is rare so you can all be hailed as geniuses at such a young age. The pope just wants people to raise his own power, But at this time we do not know how greedy he was and we thought he just wanted what was best for us.
"Guess it is my turn" Raphael walk up to the light at takes a deep breath, He puts his hand on the ball of light, There are 30 lights in the air, and the priest nearly falls over himself trying to see all the lights.
"YOU ARE A 1000 Year prodigy, You are amazing Raphael, You could become a priest If you put in a lot of hard work. The pope looks like he is about to wet himself. He has already got some guards to go and alert the top church leaders about Raphael. I watch Raphael walk down and I just think to myself, Is Raphael destined to become a priest and do great things?. Has his path in life already be laid out and he just has to walk it?
"You're up Lucas" "Cmon Go Lucas" "You will not beat my score", Them three idiots try and give me support, I walk up to the light and put my hand on it. As soon as my hand touches it the whole room goes up in gold and I cannot see. I try and look around but it is just blinding, When I finally get my bearings back, I see I am not in the same room, I am in a really weird room where half of it is pure white and the other is black, There is a seat with a girl sitting on it staring at me with a smile, She looks about 17, white hair and big black eyes and is one of the beautiful girls I have ever seen.
"Hello who are you?" I am not even tiptoeing around.
"hehehehhe, Hello Lucas, Take a guess who I am?" The young girl giggled and stares at me with her big black eye
"Are you god?" I look at the young girl with intense eyes.
'hehehehheheheh no " "I am your power, I am light and darkness, I am forever and I am an instant, I am something older then a mere god".
"What should I call you?" My hands started trembling when she first started speaking. It is like when a man
'Hehehhehe" She looks deep into my eyes and I feel my heart beating a mile a minute and I can feel my face getting red.
"You can just call me Michelle" She says in the soft voice of an angel.
"Why am I here, Is there something you need from me?"
"There are not many chances for us to meet, So I thought I would pull you here while they where testing the gods power within you." She keeps giggling, Ah Michelle is so cute.
"Michelle why would you come out if they are testing my powers?" It is quite strange she would come out, I am happy I met her but for what reason does come greet me?
"I have been watching you since you where little, I am your power silly" She starts giggling
" I am your power, I am your everything. I was their when you where born, I will be their when you die". "And I am here to begin your story"