I found myself standing... again. I was outside. It was cold and dark. I felt tired. I wiped the sweat from my forehead. It felt so warm. ๐๐ฐ๐ธ...? I hid the keys under my bed, so why was I outside? ๐๐ข๐ด ๐ ๐ด๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ธ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ? Suddenly I felt that same feeling as the day before. That same kind of fear. ๐๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต. I trembled. ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฆ... My trembling head moved to the body laying on the floor. A man with a knife in his chest.
"Martin?!" I ran to the body. "No, no, no! Martin?" My legs stopped supporting my body. I felt on my knees and tears rolled over my cheeks. "Not you to. You... you were like the father I always wished for."
Dad always got angry. He was disappointed in me. "When are you finally starting to do something in your life?! Look at this book it is not so hard to read this. It says, 'I love rice'. It really is that simple!" I was to stupid for even simple things like that. "You do nothing, but sleeping the whole day! Why?! So that you can escape from reality?! I tell you the reality! You ruined my life! You took everything from me! My job, my wife, my face, everything!! The only thing I have left, is my sword." He started to cry that time he said that. I cried as well. Because of my uselessness, he lost everything. Even mom left us, because of me.
"This is all my fault. I killed Martin." I started to cry. "Why am I so useless?"
I felt like collapsing, but something moved. Martin moved. He did not talk. He only trembled.
I touched the earth around his hands and tried to focus. ๐๐ต ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ด! I was absorbing the earth to free Martin.
Martin coughed some blood over my black pants. It was extually very gross. His right hand was trembling and moved very slowly to his chest pocket. He made some choking sounds.
I moved my hand to his chest pocket carefully. I grabbed something out of it It was a key. ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ?
Martin's stopped trembling. He looked silent and peaceful.
"Martin...?" I looked at his face. "I'll go find a doctor, he will fix you."
The body did nothing in response. It was empty. It was dead.
"I-I-I k-killed... him..." I felt something weird. Something new. Like an unknown sense. I couldn't help, but to focus on that feeling. I closed my eyes and I felt something floating through my hand that rested on Martin's body. It felt good. It felt really good. It felt like I was getting stronger. When I opened my eyes, I saw my hand making red light. I couldn't stop with doing it. I continued until there was nothing left to float trough me. After that everything went blury and I passed out.
FIRE 1.5 PERCENTAGE
I woke up laying in a bed. ๐๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ต ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ? It wasn't Martin's house, but an unfamiliar place.
"You are awake Reuben. Most of my patients, don't come here four times a week," a male voice joked.
I looked around and saw a large man with a blue thick beard. I asked him, "who are you?" He seemed like a nice man, but also a very strong one. He probably wouldn't kill me.
"I'm doctor Moisturizer. The place you are were you're laying is the Lori Village hospital." So this is what a hospital looks like and that is how a doctor looks like. Did they found Martin as well?
"I'm so glad you found me. Do you know where Martin is? He is a tall man and is really nice." He had to be here right? They probably placed him in another room with another doctor. He will be treated nicely and soon we will go home. I have to bondage myself next time I'll try to sleep though.
The doctor sighed and looked depressed. "I'm sorry for your loss Reuben, but your dad did not make it."
๐๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต? ๐๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต? "Where is he than mister?" ๐๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต? ๐๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ข๐ง๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต? ๐๐ฆ... ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ด๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ... ๐ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ, ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฅ.
"Martin is dead Reuben. He will be burried in a few days." The doctor felt bad for me.
"Oh..." ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ? ๐'๐ฎ ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ด๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ? ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฏ ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ?
"Reuben..." The doctor's face told me he had more bad news. "I will prepare you fore the next conversation."
"Huh?" ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ? ๐๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ?
"I am not the one who brought you here. It was a gaurdsman. He will ask you questions about what happened soon. I don't believe that you killed Martin, but maybe one of your brothers did."
"Brothers...?"
"You have a personality disorder. You are another person everyday. The same body, but a different personality, hair color and eye color."
๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต. ๐๐บ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ช๐จ ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ด๐ช๐น ๐ต๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด. ๐๐ข๐ช๐ต...! ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ช๐จ ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ข๐ฃ๐ด๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฃ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ, ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต? ๐๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ. ๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฉ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ด๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ ๐ธ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ? ๐๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ง๐ฐ.
I heard a knocking sound on the door.
"Come in doctor Moisturizer said."
A beautiful pink haired girl walked inside, she wore a pink soft pyjam๐ข. ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฑ๐บ๐ซ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข.
"Kaitlyn? Why are you so early?" So Katelyn was her name.
"I heared something happened and..." Katelyn stopped at the moment she saw me. "Reuben? You have blue eyes now."
"Reuben this is Katelyn, she is my assistant. She met some of your brothers." Doctor Moisturizer introduced me to the girl. ๐๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ณ.
"What happened?!" Katelyn asked running to me. "Are you okay Reuben?" She looked concerned about me.
"He is fine. He just fainted from high stress, I think." It was doctor Moisturizer who explained it to Katelyn.
"Stress from what?!" Katelyn asked.
"Okay listen both of you. There is a knight out there and we have to prepare Reuben before he is gonna ask questions to him." Doctor Moisturizer made himself very clear.
However Katelyn wanted to ask thousand more questions, she kept her mouth shut.
"Someone found Reuben and Martin laying in an alleyway. Reuben was out of consciousness and Martin was dead. That person called a knight and he brought Reuben to the hospital. Reuben will be suspected from murdering Martin. So if we want him to be safe, we have to convince the knight his innocence."
"Okay, okay. First of all. Reuben, did you kill him?" Katelyn asked.
"Eh... ehm... I don't know?"
"What do you mean...? Nevermind I forgot one of your brothers could have been the witness."
"What is one of my brothers did this? What will happen to me?" ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ณ?
"They probably burn you to ashes in the old fashioned fire style. Believe me you don't want that." Doctor Moisturizer was serious about what he said.
"Why are the both of you helping me anyway? I could be the murderer." ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ด๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ?
"Duh, I love you," Katelyn said.
"Wait you...?" My sentence got interrupted by doctor Moisturizer.
"You are not the murderer. Even if one of your brothers did this, you are not in charge of that. You are innocent and that is where I stand for. However... there are no rules for this sickness in Vloricus. If they found out they will kill you even if it was your brother or they would kill you for being a freak with multiple personalisaties." Doctor Moisturizer spoke out of his heart. He believed proving my innocence was the right thing to do.
That ment both of them were on my team, but we still had to find a way to convince the guard.
"I say lie about it," Katelyn said.
"Isn't lying... bad?" I asked.
"Lying is a crime that can be used for a good purpose. At least, that's how I see it."
"What is your idea?" doctor Moisturizer asked.
"I say, you tell him you were attacked by a thug who killed Martin and knocked you out."
"It could work, unfortunately I don't have any details of the scene. Maybe the other Reuben used some magic and left prove. If it was fire it could've been Martin, but if it is another element you have to tell him it was a thug. What if Reuben used more different elements?" Doctor Moisturizer asked.
"I was conscious when Martin was about to die," I said randomly.
"You were?" Katelyn and doctor Moisturizer said at the same time.
"Yes he was stuck in earth magic with a kitchen knife in his chest." ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ด๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐บ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ. ๐๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด.
"That is exactly where I was afraid of."
Katelyn and I looked questioning at doctor Moisturizer's sentence.
"The only earth magician in Lori Village... is you Reuben."
TO BE CONTINUED...