!This chapter can be disturbing for some people. It may trigger traumas to some people. Please skip this chapter, if you can't handle this kinds of things. It is about Katelyn preparing for the plan and can be skipped. Anyway that's it. There might be more disturbing chapters, so keep that in mind!
"I can't screw this up. I have to be perfect for Reuben." I gave myself a pep talk while practicing my magic. "Remember, it will help Reuben." I tried to put more power and mana in my magic. I build the light sphere slowly stronger and eventually, "light!" A great amount of bright light flashed in the entrance. "I did it!" I made a proud face, but...
"Aaaah, my eyes! My eyes!! Am I blind?! I think I am!" A man was screaming,
he must have seen my flash.
"Oops..." I started to back off and ran away. ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต?
I was immune for my own magic, but Reuben was not. So I walked my way to the clothing shop to buy him some sunglasses. ๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ. I also bought a large back. Swords were illegal, so we had to hide it when we sneaked out.
๐๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ข๐ธ๐ข๐บ, ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต? ๐๐ข๐ช๐ต... ๐ฏ๐ฐ. ๐ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ. We needed a horse to get away. ๐๐ช๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ? ๐๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ? I could ride a horse. I was not an expert, but I learned a few. The question was how could we get one.
If there was someone I could trust and would always be there for me, it was doctor Moisturizer. I was not sure, if he knew how to get a horse, but I could always try. So I made my way to the hospital to talk with Moisturizer. Like him he was not busy at all. He was just chilling in his office as always.
"Katelyn? I thought you were sick?" Doctor Moisturizer looked at me with a look of doubt.
"Well... you know... I..." ๐๐ธ๐ฌ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ...
"You lied, didn't you?" doctor Moisturizer sighed.
"Sorry..." I said making a shy sign with both of my index fingers.
"๐ด๐ช๐จ๐ฉ... What do you want?" He made an annoyed 'that's what I thought face.'
"Teehee! Well... I need a horse," I said directly with still holding on to the shy sign.
"A horse...? What for?" The doctor made a questioning look.
"I... I will leave tomorrow," I said with a sorry face.
"Leave...? Why? where?" Doctor Moisturizer made a sad face.
"I want to go out and explore the world. I want to learn how to control my light magic. But I can't do that alone. I appreciated your help really. But a butcher can never learn you how to bake bread."
"I see..." The doctor looked down at the floor.
"I know this village needs me, but in this village I would never be able to chase what I want too be in live. I want to help people and make them stronger. I want to explore all the places in Polyhymnia. I've been locked up in this tiny village with my dad for so long. I want to move on and be myself. And..." I looked at doctor Moisturizer, "I met someone I like. Reuben has so much secrets and personalities. I want to explore him too. He makes me so curious and I love him. I want to help him on his adventure." I wanted my future to be with him. I will stay by his side for as long as he needs me and hopefully he will need me forever.
"Reuben huh...? But way so abruptly?" The doctor said.
"Because we're gonna steel a sword. Reuben needs it for his adventure and I will help him."
"Steal? From who?"
"From the prince himself. It will be his birthday present, so tomorrow will be our only change."
"The prince are you crazy?!" He made an 'are you serious?' face.
"I know... He is crazy, but I like it. I wanna know everything about him and we planned the whole idea out. The only problem is getting away... So I want to ask you for your assistance once more." It was awful to ask him thinks like this. The doctor always was an unmarried man. He probably saw me as his daughter.
"I see..." He took a deep breath, "well I want the best for you. I want you to live your dreams and be happy. I'm... kind of attached to you... I will help you." ๐๐ต ๐ง๐ฆ๐ญ๐ต ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ข๐ด๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ. ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ข๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด...
"Th-thank you doctor..."
"A horse you said... I think I can get one for you. There is a stable near Lori Village I can buy a horse there for you."
"You... You don't need to buy one really..."
"You need to be over twenty to buy one and I don't think you earn enough to buy your own horse." ๐๐ข๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ง๐ข๐ณ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ถ๐ด?
"I... I'm sorry doctor." Tears started to roll over my face. ๐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ...
Doctor Moisturizer walked close to me and gave me a big hug. "Please... call me Boris."
"..." I could not believe he told his first name too me. I looked up at him and saw tears on his face as well. "You're better not faking your tears with water magic," I joked.
"Hahaha! You little..." Boris scratched my head with his fist and smiled. I smiled with him. ๐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ...
After a while we told our goodbye's and I left. He told me his horse would be waiting at the entrance. He would leave a note attached on it's saddle, so we could find it.
I was almost ready. The last thing I had to do was packing my stuff. I went home and saw my father standing in front of my. He looked angry and closed the door behind me.
"I was about to sell ten bottles of dark potion to a traveller, ten!" ๐๐ฉ ๐ฏ๐ฐ... "You know what I found?"
I shook my head, however my entire body was shaking.
"I found nine bottles! That woman would pay me extra than the original price, if I had ten. But she paid the original price for those nine instead. Any idea why there was one missing?"
"N-no..."
"N n n n no?" he imitated me. I was going to have a bad time. "One potion costs an entire day and you snooped around to steal one. Why...?"
"I-I don't know."
"So you admit you stole it huh..." He looked up and made an irritated sigh.
I gulped. ๐๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต? ๐๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด...
He grabbed my arm.
"No...!"
"No what? You think I will use my dark magic again huh? It will be far worse than that. This won't hurt you more physically than magic, but it will break you mentally."
"No... please..."
"Go to your room!"
"Yes father..." I walked upstairs and went to my room. I opened My drawer and took my knife out of it. There was still some dry blood on it from the previous time I...
The sounds of my father walking on the stairs was hearable in the whole house. I quickly hid my knife under my pillow and the door was slammed open. He pushed me on the bed and said, "I'm going to teach you a lesson, you screw up!"
I was too scared too move.
My father ripped my bunny shirt off. "It was an ugly shirt anyway." Then he placed his hands on my bra." ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ข๐ง๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ๐ฏ... ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ!
I moved my hand under my pillow and grabbed the knife. My father was about to rip off my bra while I quickly shifted my knife under my pillow and slashed my fathers neck open. There were no words coming out of his mouth. He could not say anything, but gagging in blood sounds. The blood shot in my face. At that moment my father died and dropped on me. There I was completely in shock laying on my bed with my father on me.
After a few minutes I slowly moved my fathers body and went to the kitchen too watch my face. I put on some new clothes and packed some more in. I also packed in my knife after I finally cleaned it. I grabbed both backpacks and went outside.
I walked and walked. Everything around me was dark. I could not see a thing. I did not knew, if people were looking at me or if was walking in the middle of the streets. But somehow I knew were I was going, to the entrance.
When I finally arrived at the entrance I dropped myself on my knees. The darkness left and I could see where I was. For some reason I wanted the darkness to come back, because now it left I remembered everything and felt everything again. I was scared and then... I screamed. I cried and screamed as loud as I could. "Aaaaaaah!!! Aaaahaaahaaa!!! Whyyyy!!!"
I grabbed my knife out of my backpack and looked at my scars. I held my knife firmly and moved it to my arm, but then... I felt something touching my shoulders. It was a comforting hand continued with a comforting voice, "are you okay?" It was my hero. I looked behind me and saw the purple haired Reuben standing behind me, 'Lucian.' He pointed his hand out and asked, "do you want to come inside?" I grabbed his hand and followed him inside. Here I knew I was safe, safe with him. Safe with them. Safe with Reuben.
TO BE CONTINUED...