"Where am I?" I looked around the room and it definitely wasn't mine. ๐๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฑ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฅ? ๐๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต? ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ข๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด! ๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด? The bed was comfortable, but they couldn't bribe me so easily.
I stood up and looked around the room. The closet was my first target. I opened the closet. It was filled with a lot of clothes and there was a human sized mirror on the the door's back. "They could at least give me the right size." I said out loud while looking at myself in the mirror. "My purple hair looks just as good as always." I gave myself a compliment to forget the ugly pyjamas. ๐๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐บ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ง๐ข๐ค๐ฆ. I looked through the clothes. "No, no, definitely not, eww no. Nothing good." I sighed and picked the less no. It was a simple purple t-shirt, but It's texture was of fine quality. I picked the darker purple short as well and checked myself in the mirror. "Better than nothing..." I sight. ๐๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ. I laughed pridefull at my thoughts.
After brushing my hair. I closed the closet and looked at the timeteller. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ. ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด ๐ช๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ.
I walked to the door and tried to open it. ๐๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ? "Hey let me out of here! Do you know who I am! You better let me out right now!" There was a reaction to my shouting: someone leaped to this room.
"Reuben? Are you okay?" The man sounded nice, but it could be a act. ๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ?!
"No I'm not, the door is locked!" I replied sarcastic.
"I... I will get the reserve key. Hang in there." The man walked away from the door. Was this guy really scared of me? ๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ.
The man got back and unlocked the door in front of me. It opened and I saw him. He was taller than me. A lot taller. He had brown hair and was mixed with gray hair. He looked like he was between 40 and 50 years old. His chin was red probably just shaved. He smelled fine to me. His clothes looked expensive. ๐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ. He did not look to strong, so I would be able to escape.
"Did you slee... why is your hair purple?" The man looked at my perfect hair.
"It looks good right? Are you jealous my hair isn't gray?" ๐'๐ฎ ๐ด๐ช๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ญ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ, ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ข ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ.
"What? Thats kinda mean, I gave you a house and clothes you should be thankful." He seemed angry, but I should be angry. this guy was not father.
"You cannot bribe me with that ugly clothing and a comfortable bed." ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐จ๐ถ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด?
"Bribe...? This is you're home now. You don't have anywhere else to go right? The guy was obviously confused and it was not acted.
"My house is not as big as yours, but it is still my house." He took me away from my home, so how did he not know about it's existence?
"You told me you are parentless." Again he looled like he was speaking the truth. He seems more honest the father. Even though father was a big liar.
"I never said such a thing. I have never seen you in my life before." I speaked the truth as well, so what is wrong?
"It's me Martin. And you are Reuben. Can't you remember?" ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ... ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ?!
"If cours I know my own name, but how do you know?"
"You told me yesterday night." He seemed stressed.
"Enough! This doesn't make sense!" I was irritated. ๐๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต!
"This is what I know," he said before he told his story about how we met.
"I crushed into you... how do I know it is true?"
"You have to believe me or do you want to seek your hidden house?" ๐๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฑ๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ฆ?
"What do want from me?"
"I want you to be safe," he said even after my rudeness.
"Fine I'll stay for the night. I want you to bring me to the hospital, buy me a sword, some food and good clothes. Tommorow I will leave well protected and I'll find my house." ๐๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐น๐ค๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด. ๐๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐บ ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฅ.
"If that's what you want..." he said while looking at the ground. ๐ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐จ๐ถ๐บ. "Lets go to the hospital then..."
"Good, show me the way." And that is how I got a free ticket for a full survival kit.
On our way Martin asked, "why did your hair colour change from blue to purple?"
"I think you mistook it, cause I am born with my purple hair." ๐๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ?
"Maybe I was just tired." The silence broke in after that and it lasted until we reached the hospital.
"Here is the hospital, should I wait outside?" ๐๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐จ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ?
"That is fine by me," I said and I walked inside on my own.
"Welcome to Lori's hospital, where can I help you with?" A pink haired girl asked standing behind a stone table. She looked like she was in the early twenties. She smiled bright and wore a white dress with a short skirt. The dress had the water element printed on her belly. I read the label on her chest. It said, "Katelyn."
I looked at the timeteller and talked to Katelyn. "Hello there lady, can I take a magic test please." She looked suprised, because of my age. Normal people took the test when they were just born.
"Can I have your name please?" Katelyn said while picking a pen, then resting it on her paper book.
"My name is Reuben Miller," I answered to the young lady. "R-E-U-B-E-N M-I-L-L-E-R."
"Noted! I'll send this to the doctor, please wait until he arrives." She pointed the letter and trew it through a brief case at her right.
I walked to the waiting room. The chairs didn't look very comfortable so I just stood. There wasn't many decoration, just some plants and the beautiful lady named Katelyn. I looked at the timeteller. The arrow just hitted the afternoon face and thats was when the doctor arrived.
"Are you mr. Reuben? Come on, follow the big guy" The docter was big guy indeed with a huge blue beard, with a mustache attached to it. He had a bold head and blue glasses. His doctor outfit was blue as well. The label on his chest said, "Dr. Moisturizer."
I followed Dr. Moisturizer to his desk. It was the room at Katelyn's right and it connected with the brief caged door.
When we arrived Dr. Moisturizer emidiatly went for his chair. "Sit down my friend." He pointed at the chair in front of his desk.
While he studied the paper with my request on it I looked around the room. In the middle of the room laid a blue colored patient bed. In the closet next to Dr. Moisturizer stood a skeleton from a weird creature. It looked look a dog fromed Rabbit. At the wall on my right there hung a list with names from people who work here. Katelyn's last name was Melody, according to the list. Dr. Moisturizer's front name was nowhere to be seen on the list.
"A magic test huh?" Dr. Moisturizer scratches his blue beard. It moved more like water then hair. "If you give me your arm I can use a bit of your blood for the test."
I gave my arm to him and with one blink of the eye my thumb was bleeding. Dr. Moisturizer put the weird tool he just used on his desk. He grabbed a machine on a shelve in the closet with the weird looking skeleton and placed it on his desk. "All you have to do is press all the six red squares with your thumb."
And I pressed my bleeding thumb on each square. Dr. Moisturizer look closely at his side of the machine. He looked like he was waiting for something to happen. After a few seconds he moved his head slowely from right to left to watch all six results. "..."
"What is it doctor, do I have a good power."
"How is this possible?" His eyes were as big as his glasses at this moment. "Reuben... you are the first person ever, to have all the six magic sorts in your blood." He stood up and spread both arms widely. "Hahahahahaha! I Dr Moisturizer found the first person to have it all!" He laughed a loudly, pridefull laugh.
"You are kidding me right?" I knew I would have good results, but this seemed impossible.
He rotated the machine and all spaces were green. "A green stripe means you own the element." ๐๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ฆ! I could use fire, water, earth, air, light and dark magic. ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ด๐ช๐น ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด. "Hey kid, be safe outside, someday the world may need you."
"Ye ye I'll be fine. I can control them all."
"Technically you could control them, but you cannot yet. You'll have to learn very hard."
"Ye ye, I will be fine. I have other plans to do, so I am heading out doc." I stood up and walked to the door.
"Reuben, I hope we cross our paths again."
I walked out of the hospital. ๐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ!
Martin was waiting for me outside. ๐๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ข๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฆ. ๐๐ข๐บ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด.
"Hey kid!" he said while pulling one hand out of his pocket to give me a short wave. "And... what are the results?" He looked really curious about it.
๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ค ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต? ๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต. ๐๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ญ... ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ, ๐ช๐ง ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ข ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ. "I..." I hesitated for a bit. "I can controle all the six magic sorts and with enough of practice I can be the greatest of all time!" I stoot proudly pointing my thumb to myself, while saying these words.
Martin blinked twice out of suprise. "Are you trying to trick me or something?" Martin would not believe such a thing.
"I mean it! Every stripe was green! I have seen it with me own...!"
Before I finished that sentence, Martin pressed his hand against my mouth and said, "Shhhh... People will pay hundreds of gold to get someone like you." He looked very strict by saying that and released his hand.
"As if I will sell myself." I said proudly.
"As if they'll give you any choice," countered Martin.
"Fine!" I sighed. "Shall we go get a sword?" I hesitated.
"Yeah... about that... Swords are illegal to carry in Lori village." ๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ช๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ณ.
"Nonsense, I saw two men wearing swords just this morning." One wore a green suit and the other a red one.
"Those men are knights. They protect the city. It's part of their job to carry swords at all time." That sounded possible.
"Well... I still need new clothes, so we can get these instead." ๐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ตe ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ค๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด.
"Of course, follow me kid." And we both walked to the clothing shop.
We arrived at the clothing shop. This time Martin joined me and went inside as well. "Pick anything you like," he said.
I looked around. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ท๐ฆ, ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ข๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด? There were formal, comfy and cool clothes, however all were men clothing.
I looked in one of the mirrors and brushed my hair to the back, with my hand. ๐๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ!
I looked around. I had to pick the best set. ๐ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ช๐ต! I picked a purple blouse, a darker purple jacket, of course purple pants and purple shoes. ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ. I walked to the changing room and changed myself.
๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ต! I walked outside of the changing room and showed it to Martin. "So what do you think?" I wore a formal purple blouse, with a purple jacket over it. The blouse had black vertical stripes and purple buttons. The jacket was made of good quality, same goes for the pants I wore. My shoes were made of purple leather. I looked richer than Martin.
"Wow... that's really... formal." Martin was shocked by my clothes. Martin paid the shopkeeper 500 silver pieces and we both left the clothing shop.
"Let's go home," Martin said. He look depressed about something, but I didn't bother to ask.
The same two knighs I saw earlier today, were walking towards us. The green suited knight asked to us, "Excuse me, I like to ask a question to the both of you."
"Sure," Martin replied. "Did we do anything wrong sir?" he added in concern.
"No it is nothing to worry about," the green suited knight replied. "We only want to ask if one of you could recognize this sword."
The red suited knight showed a sword with blood on it. ๐๐ข๐ช๐ต... ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด... ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐บ ๐ด๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ?!
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