“Mia! Please be serious! Are you sure you’re making the right decision???” Zalia urged to her sister’s side.
“Zalia, I’m serious now. Because…..I have no chance against Bill and how can he handle the truth that I’m a magical freak!? And besides… I am now willing to marry Rhesus.” Mia said in a tone.
They all gave Mia a serious look. “Are you sure of this decision sister?” Zalia asked her.
“I am sure and I will never regret it. I will make sure that it's my best decision.” Mia said stoically.
“We understand.” Alice said briefly.
“Guys, I’ll be fine.” Mia said.
“But, my princess! WHY!?? WHY!!?? Is my face and presence not worthy enough for you??” Emerald busted to Mia in practically tears.
“Sorry to break this to you. Frankly, you are kind of annoying.” And with those powerful words, it hit Emerald’s soft spot like a fast lightning.
She took a breath for saying this, and then finally said it with all her courage. “It’s time I fully introduce them, huh??”
Two young men stepped from a room, revealing themselves.
The first to introduce was a pale young man with blonde hair styled like a natural emo. He had gleaming red eyes, matching Mia. “I’m Rhesus Negative. Pleased too meet your acquaintance.” He said.
‘Wow, he’s vey polite!’ Fiena thought. She then remembered the photo she saw the previous time Alice had showed to her. ‘So that’s Rhesus.’
The second to introduce was Zalia’s fiancé. “Zane’s the name! Nice to meet you!” said the young man with wild long black hair and his noticeable and signature feature, his electric ultramarine left side bang clipped with a black hairpin.
Fiena also noted that he was using a friendly tone. Fiena remembered him too, except this time he looked lightly injured. A purplish blue bruise under his left eye and a tiny scar which looked fresh was seen on his face.
Suddenly, a soft woman like feature hand touched his bruise softly. A hand which rightfully belonged to Zalia.
“You…. Are you still into fighting?? I’m worried you know.” Zalia said with a shy like tone.
And with just that, cupid’s arrow pierced right through Zane’s bloody ripe wolf heart.
“No, it’s only a small fight between me and some troll. But its fine he was weak as hell. You should’ve seen me pound him till he cried like a little goblin!” Zane laughed.
“That’s nice. But I don’t like to see you get hurt. Enough talk, I’ll fix that bad cut.” Zalia replied, making a first-aid kit appear.
“Oh, anything for you, my dear Zalia.” Zane said in a lovesick voice.
‘I must have to be the luckiest man on Other Realm now to be with the cutest girl on the Other Realm.’ Zane thought to himself.
“What?” Zalia asked to confirm what he had just said. “Anyways, this might sting a little bit. So stay strong.”
Mia was sure he didn’t pay attention on the last part of what Zalia said, because the moment she put on the medicine, he started to screeched like a human at first, then it turned like a wolf’s howl of pain.
“Idiot Zane. Well, Zalia did give a fair warning.” Mia thought, sighing to see her future brother in law acting in such an embarrassing, on par with a little child.
Rhesus began to get closer to her. “Mia……” he called her name. “Yes, Rhes? Need anything?” she asked him.
“I…I just want to thank you for reconsidering our engagement and choosing me instead of a mortal human. I feel really, really grateful.” He said, giving Mia a soft cheek kiss.
Mia immediately reacted to it. She didn’t hit him, but turned red in embarrassment and muttered, “Wh-whatever!”
“I’m sorry. I did it without permission. But now I’m asking this with permission. Can I hold your hand?” Rhesus said politely.
“Idiot. We’re getting engaged. Do it.” Mia whispered softly so no one else except Rhesus will hear it.
“Thank you.” He said. They’re hands began with a soft touch, which led to an intimate fondle then ended with a perfect couple hold.
From afar, their friends were watching with glee seeing the Apozitive sisters being all sweet and hopeless romantic with their fiancés.
“It’s like the love story of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony…” Rita said, remarking about her current greatest Egyptian love story.
“I never knew Mia could be that feminine.” Fiena said.
“Well, now you know! Our Amylea is growing up!” Alice laughed then she pretended to shed a tear like a mother seeing her daughter growing up.
“Awww….. It’s like the greatest live Korean drama!” Fazzy said, giggling.
Emerald watched Mia with an extreme pint of jealousy.
“That should be me!!!!” he yelled in furious anger, lunging towards them. But alas, he was held back by his laid-back older brother, Alyss.
“Calm down, brother.” Alyss said.
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“Alright, proceeding to the lessons. It will be elements today. But first, I give a brief explanation before you conclude your own hypothesis.” Mai said to Fiena.
“Elements, every witch is born with them and not just witches, Other Realm creatures too. They come naturally, just like puberty. I got mine when I was eleven and Zalia got hers during 12. My element, as you can see is Thunder and Lightning whereas Zalia’s element is Hurricane and Tornado. And the others will explain their elements.” Mia said.
“Mine’s Fire and Speed.” Alice said.
Alice produced balls of fire from both of her hands and in a precaution manner threw them onto a damp torch. “I can produce fire without having to rub two sticks together. Also, I can run faster than any racing cars. I’m the fastest in my family, got it from my great grandmother’s genes.” And with that, she ran next to Fiena in a flat second without having to break a sweat,
“Impressive.” Fiena said, getting a glorious grin from Alice.
“Snow and Invisibility.” Enyz said.
She waved her hands in the air, tinkling her delicate fingers, in a form similar to a cultural dance. Snow fell softly in the room making it covered in white stuff. In an instant clap of two hands, all of it was gone. “Now watch this.” She said.
She waved her hands again, but in a different form of pattern and instantly disappeared. Fiena figured where she would go and she reappeared behind of Fiena, poking her neck with a cold finger.
“GYYAHHHH!” Fiena screamed in shocked. “Enyz, you scared me!”
“Sorry.” Enyz laughed.
“Okay, mine is Heat and Light” Fazzy said.
She held Fiena’s hand, giving a slight squeeze. At first it felt warm, Fiena noted and then it turned to be really, really HOT.
“Yeooww!” Fiena wailed in pain.
“Sorry, Gwen will fix that for you.” Fazzy said with a concerned expression.
Next, she proceeded to light the room up extra BRIGHT.
“Okay, that’s enough blinding for one day.” Mia grumbled.
“Sorry.” She grinned cheekily then made everything back to its pace.
“As Fazzy had said, mine is Water and Ice” Gwen said.
She held Fiena’s burning right hand, coolly cured it with her icy powers. “There you go.” She smiled sweetly.
“I think it's time for a brief demonstration.” Gwen said.
She held out both of her hands, making a ball of water appear on the right palm. Then she did the same on the left one. Then, she fondled both of her hands together, as if crushing clay. In a brief minute, it turned into a ball of ice.
“Oh my god, that’s cool!!!” Fiena said in amazement.
“My turn next!” Syaira gleamed happily. “It’s Lava and Wind” Syaira said.
She demanded for a glass of water, which the maid hurriedly went to get. She then spilled the contents of the glass, giving a nudge and it turned it into lava.
But after seeing Mia’s face, she immediately cleaned it. She then made the room cool by simply blowing wind.
“Rita, I believe it’s your turn.
“My first element is Flora.” Rita said making vines of flower grew.
“My Second element is Fauna.” Simply clapping her fingers, a flood of butterflies appeared around her, making her look enchanted and beautiful.
“And you already know mine.” Mia said.
“And mine is Love and Flora.” Emerald said, staring towards Mia, then proceeded to give her a bright red rose and tried an attempt to give her a kiss.
Like always, Mia held him back, shoving his mouth away. Grumbling, “Oh God.” She then shoved his entire body away from her not meaning to offend Rhesus.
She turned to ask the other guys their elements next.
“Boku?” Rhesus asked.
“Hai, anata. Care to demonstrate?” Mia said back.
“I’ll go first.” Alyss said.
“I have the elements of such; Dreams and Darkness.” He said, Holding his palm out, making flashes of black crystallized shapes of a crescent moon and swirls appearing, Making Alice blush and feel proud for having him as a boyfriend and a fiancé.
“Dreams and darkness……Meaning???” Fiena said, thinking hard.
“It means that I can control certain dreams. Whether I make them a nightmare or a sweet one, it is up to my decision I can also put one person to sleep with this utile element. I can also control dark realms and turn light into darkness. It’s a vice versa to Fazzy’s element.” Alyss explained, his features darkening and flashed a grim parody of a smile.
“Alice, HELP!!!!!!! Your boyfriend is scary!!” Fiena cried, running away.
“Hey! He is adorable! And I love him!” Alice said.
“Okay, okay. Yes, so very damn lucky for the both of you.” Mia said in return. “Okay, moving on.”
Rhesus was next. He held both his arms out and in an instant, a purple line of music notes. “My element is Melody and Electricity.” Rhesus said.
“I control melody; having to change the tempo and such. Electricity is just like Mia, lightning. Except that I can wear out my electricity element, but no panic. I can fully recharge. With Mia’s help of course.” He said playfully, winking at an embarrassed Mia.
He began to demonstrate by picking the most suitable target in the room, Fazzy. She was happily listening to K-pop songs, when Rhesus managed to change it into a kiddy’s song.
Her happy expression changed, and she quickly lunged towards Rhesus, playfully strangling him. “Rhesus! Change it back!!!!!” she yelled angrily to him. “Rhesus, I will kill you if you don’t change it now.”
“Okay, okay! Mia, help me!!” Rhesus said, laughing. “Change it back, Rhesus” Mia said, just smiled.
“Oi, your turn is next, Zane.” Rhesus said to Zane, who was currently standing next to him.
“Alright then, my element is Sounds and Shadows.” Zane said.
“Pretty cool, right?” Zane asked.
“Shadows and sounds? Boring much, compared to my element….” Zalia said cynically, even as far as making a fake yawn.
Bt, we all pretty know that it was Zane’s expectation of Zalia’s reaction, because all she did was stare at him in amazement, thinking to herself, ‘Shadows and sounds? Pretty cool.’
“I’m lame….” Zane said, feeling sad.
“Zanie, are you okay???” Zalia asked sincerely.
“I’m fin- Wait what did you call me??” Zane asked her backed.
“ I c-c-c-c-called you ‘Z- Zanie.’” Zalia said, beginning to blush. The nickname given to him by her must have made Zane very happy but then Fiena interrupted them by blurting out random words.
“Oh My Gosh!! That is soooo freaking cool! Does this mean you control shadows and stuff and….” Fiena immediately rambled on about Zane’s shadow element.
All of Fiena’s excitement must be originated from her recently watching a horror movie about a voodoo master who possessed the powers to control shadows, and then he decided to control the shadows of young maidens to simply sacrifice their virginity to the devil, just to make a sweet deal for himself.
Alas, with a snap of a finger by Zane, Fiena’s loud exciting voice disappeared and she opened her mouth to speak, but to her horror, no voice or a tiny sound came out.
Fiena began to cry, and repeatedly mouthing the words, ‘Give my voice back!!!’
But Zane won’t as he would only return it after his element introduction.
“Fix that, ‘Zanie.’ .” Mia said to him. “I will. I will, after a brief explanation.” Zane laughed but then realized what Mia had just called him. “Wait what?” he asked to confirm what he had just heard.
“I called you 'Zanie’, anything wrong????” Mia asked him back, sarcastically sounding like always.
“Hey!! Only Zalia-chan can call me by that name!” Zane shouted, getting angry.
“I’m sorry, what??? Care to repeat what you had just said??” Mia said, just to let a certain someone to heard what Zane had just say.
But then, Zane had just realized what he just had said. ‘Oh man, I accidentally shouted that out loud, Zalia must hate me after this!!!’ all of the rambled up thoughts in Zane’s head was enough to make him explode from embarrassment.
And then he stared back to Mia, who had an evil grin on her face. And no one knew that they were communicating by using telepathy, a communication which is between thoughts.
‘Bring it on.’ Mia thought, sending the thought while the evil grin still not leaving her face.
‘Evil witch, good thing your Zalia’s sister.’ Zane send the thought back to her.
“Zane, if you don’t like me calling you ‘Zanie’, I can stop calling you that you know…” Zalia said.
“No, NO! It’s not like that! I love it most when you call me ‘Zanie’!” Zane shouted in reply, making himself and Zalia blushing quietly.
But then regretted it in embarrassment and anger as Mia telepathically sent him a message in his thought, saying, ‘I won!’
‘Crap, I did it again.’ Zane thought.
“Anyways, your friend is right. I can control shadows. I manipulate them as like souls, except it’s only a shadow. And sounds, I can steal it and I can even imitate your voice if needed.” Zane explained in the briefest way.
He then gave Fiena what was rightfully hers; her voice.
“Impressive, Zane, quite fascinating.” A familiar female voice said, coming from the door Mia was standing in front of.
A beautiful girl came out, all elegant dashing and sparkly. Must be from the large numbers of diamond accessories she was wearing. She was as tall as Mia, a bit curvier and she had black hair which was in a short bob cut.
Her hair was what Fiena admired the most, the bangs brushed aside and a swirled pattern headband with lined diamonds holding it back and a fuchsia colored stripe was styled with black pins.
Her eyes; were what amazed Fiena. Her left eye was a simple brown colour, quite beautiful. But her right eye was strikingly unique.
It was different from the other one, it had a striking purple color, making the girl standing in front of her very special looking. Just like herself, who also happens to posses different colored pair of eyes.
“Eh, you!!??” Mia said, seeing the girls face carefully.
“I’m back, amigos!!” the girl said, cheerfully.
“So you’re Fiena Taylor Mc’Karen….. You’re cute, like a child, in a good way of course.” The girl said, after she eyed on Fiena carefully, then she laughed slightly.
‘Who is she??? She’s so beautiful!!’ Fiena thought to herself.
“Why thank you. I take your thoughts as a compliment.” The girl laughed.
“I’m Blaire by the way. Blaire Apozitive. But I prefer it much better if you just call me Era. It’s more suitable. Blaire is too formal. Makes me sound, uptight and boring” The girl said, introducing herself.
“Also, my elements are … Diamonds! Splendid fine things. I just love and adore them!” Era said, looking at her fine white hands, while she made fine pure diamonds appear in every shape, size and color on her hands, making them as accessories.
Diamond rings, decorated her fingers, bracelets and bangle made of fine tiny colored beads and diamonds embellished on her wrists, and she even made a wristwatch from those beautiful rare stones!
If it wasn’t enough, necklaces and diamond pendants appeared more, and her ears were pierced with diamonds and a pair of large diamond hoop earrings.
She even made diamonds decorated in a swirl pattern on her manicured fingernails!
“I can control them and produce them from thin air.” She said. “Y-you mean like that alien character Diamond head from Ben Ten??” Fiena asked eagerly.
“That’s the first time anyone has said it, but yes. My, what a curiously cute one, are you??” Era laughed.
“I also can tell the different between real and fake diamonds. In addition, I also consume energy from diamonds.”
Era brought both her palms together, and then smashed it, as if she was squishing a bug. She opened her hands and produced a shining stone; a turquoise.
She gave it to Fiena, rather, sticking the stone to Fiena’s blue colored headband. “An introducing present for you.” Era smiled to her.
“Wh- what!!?? I can accept this! It’s too expensive!” Fiena exclaimed, trying to get the turquoise stone off.
“No, no. I simply produced it, so its fine.” Era protested back.
“Bu-but…..” Fiena said. “No, no. No buts please. Accept my gift for you. And now, for the second matter of things, my second element is mind power. I am a psychic.”
“I possess such powers like telekinesis, telepathy, psychometric, transvection and even scrying and retro cognition”
“Cool….” Fiena said, amazed.
“Indeed. And, by further studying about you, your past….. You are very recognizable.” Era said, sounding serious.
“What do you mean?” Fiena asked, confused and curious.
“What I mean is, I can study about your past life if you wish. Just let me gain access through it. The choice is up to you.” Era explained, in a serious tone.
“I….I give you permission.”Fiena’s lips were trembling, nervous, she felt.
“Very well.” Era said, then she began to proceed.
Era took a deep breath, she gave a slight glance at Fiena, eyes downcast then thought very hard.
Her eyes were shut tight; lips closed not saying a single word and Fiena could even see her concentration and focus on her thoughts, for she mumbled some strange peculiar words that Fiena never even heard off.
After for a few seconds, Fiena can see that Era was shaking, trembling, quivering, palpitating in the emotion of fear.
“I… I would not see anymore, for I am too tired. Let me rest for a while. But first, I ought to greet dear Grandfather.”
“Oh, that’s right! I totally forgot!!” Mia cried. “Forgot what?” Zalia asked. “We have to meet Dear Grandfather!” Mai replied.
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They were walking in small groups quietly, not meaning to interrupt into other people’s personal business.
“Mia? It’s been a week since I last saw you!” a female voice said. It belonged to an elderly looking woman, Mia’s aunt, perhaps.
“Aunt Farra! I missed you!” Mia said, hugging her aunt. After minutes of family reunion, they reached a large door; it was beautifully carved and painted white. The knob was pure gold.
Mia knocked on the door, softly. After hearing a hasty reply, she opened it.
“W-we… we’re here, Dear Grandfather.” Mia said. He was no where to be seen. “Excuse me, but where is Grandfather Ismail?” Mia asked a passing chamber maid.
“Oh, my miss, I’m afraid you catched him too late. He…. He’s on a trip. I’m sure he’ll he back by Sunday, at the day of your engagement party.” The maid said, excused herself, and then hurried off.
“Well… We’ve got nothing to do now, except to learn of The Undead with Rita. C’mon, the study’s this way.” Mia said, leading the way so the others won’t get lost in the gigantic house.
