Zavier and Olivia emerged from the fountain, Zavier helping her up as they made their way to the horses. The book was clutched in Olivia's hand as they untied the lassos secured to the rocks. She threw an uncertain side-eye at Zavier, as if half-expecting him to attack also.
He simply helped her climb onto her horse, then went to his own and mounted. They rode off quietly, neither saying much, the silence heavy but not hostile.
A few moments later, after they have have past the town their horses trotted toward home —but what Olivia and Zavier saw left them completely flabbergasted.
Their house was already torn apart and there were traces of blood everywhere. Grandma Choo lay outside the house, she was barely breathing. Olivia clambered down from her horse and made to run towards her when Zavier pulled her back.
"shhhhhhhh" he shushed as they squatted alerted, they calmly edged towards the house ready for any impending danger and-
"YAAA!" came a loud scream as a huge Bart came pelting toward Zavier. Without hesitation, he grabbed it, yanked out the person who had thrown it at him, and pinned her to the floor.
"Chloe" Zavier called surprised, but Chloe kept on fighting him.
"Let go off me" she yelled fighting to free herself.
"Hey hey hey is me Zavier, am here now" Zavier assured pulling her up and holding her together "What happened here" he asked.
"What happened here? -begin by telling us who you really are" Chloe bellowed pulling herself from his grasp "you show up here and now people strange people are coming after us huh, just leave and let us be".
"no-no – no- no- no-no-no" Olivia cried she was kneeling beside Grandma Choo tears on her face and a deep anger in her heart.
Chloe on noticing what had happened collapsed to the floor immediately and started crying badly. Zavier felt for them, he turned and made to walk away when he heard it.
"Where do you think you are going" It was Olivia her eyes turned red already by tears "you have to clear this mess you made, and you are not leaving here without doing that you hear me YOU – ARE – NOT".
"Am sorry Zavier said but I must end this the more I stay here the more I endanger you and this realm and your people, so I have to leave at once. I must find my revenge at least" Zavier replied calmly with a note of regret written all over his words. He walked past them and made to go.
"And what of ours?" Chloe said, stopping him in his tracks "you think we are not worth to be revenged for?"
"Am coming with you and am going to kill whoever in your world that did this".
Few moments later after they had buried Grandma Choo, they were settled in what remained of the house.
"What do we do now?" Chloe asked.
"We find a way to get to my world" Zavier said, adjusting himself and taking a more comfortable sitting. "Olivia the book it might hold some information".
Olivia brought out the book and open it on top her lap it had drawings of worlds in a circular orbital, some in straight lines and then at times they would be scattered and would seem to have been drawn farther from each other.
"The four but one" she read aloud, clearing her voice as she read on.
"Long ago the world our world lived in unity and was blessed in a way one could ever imagined. We had it all. Love, peace, harmony, family, government, and a way of living. Some had extraordinary gifts, some powerful, some had what many would call miracles, and these gifts was passed down from father to child. The strong fought for the weak the sharp minds ruled and maintained order and entirely they were divided into four clans.
The elves: they had magic and made living easier, the Demours they had amazing gifts and defended the weak which mostly are called humans and then finally the beauty well as their name implies, but their full potentials were never understood completely.
Amidst all this, as there is good their will always be evil, and as there are people there will be beast and there was one which lived and troubled them, they called it Rhedrakharis.
It lives at the far end of the one of their great cities deep in volcanoes but when it awakens, CHAOS. They made sacrifices to keep it abbey by feeding grave offenders to it but then on a glorious day during one of the festivals, they were happy an unarmed and the beast attacked. Some say it was the last of its kind to exist and legend says it is a dragon cursed for causing almost the extinction of its own kind and was bind into the volcano for a thousand years and that its sentence was now complete and his finally free. He rained fire on mankind and caused chaos.
The four elders came together and sorted to know how to resolve this. But after series of plan and techniques they could not win. Until at last they learnt of the will of the fallen, which says that in case the beast was to survive its sentence that they leave the power of the chakra to the next civilization to roam the world".
"Hold on, I know about the will of the fallen" Zavier said, my dad told me about it".
"Well, go on" Chloe urged curiously, staring deeply at his lips as if the words that are soon to come might disappear.
"Well, it is said to be the last order of power left by the ancient Dragon lords" Zavier said, "they called it the chakra".
Olivia continued "They forged four great weapons from the chakra and called onto the four great men from each clan to wield it. The first was the Excalibur a great sword wielded by Thezealeus Gondor, the weapon was capable to slay anything that lives or breath. The Xhovegx, wielded by Thesaurus earth. It was nicknamed the chain of the underworld. The Deathgrin, wielded by a great elf Ragnuthesa Agoragth, A bow known for its imperceptible power and lastly, the diamond of wish wielded by Mileena Belmund.
Together this four defeated the beast and chained its soul in the worst place ever the underground. But they did not foresee the real threat for Thezealeus was making his own plans while they were fighting the beast. And when the war was finally won he carried out his plans, he betrayed the other and took their weapons which he used to kill the elders and ruled over in an iron hand showing no pardon anyone who dared defy him. He became very powerful, and no one dared compared himself to him but rather everyone feared him.
This forced the people to create a hidden society that rebelled against him and together he was defeated by deception. Though the plan nearly failed but became victorious at last.
Due to this, the new elder decided
Due to this the new elders decided to put the weapons away. First, they tried to destroy it, but it didn't work and they couldn't hide it in the same place since the powers of the weapon has a stronger hold when kept together, therefore the only solution was to keep them far apart.
With the power of the weapons, they split the world into four realms naming each Realm after the strong, brave and the mighty four that defeated Rhedrakharis.
Naming the realm of elves Agoragth, ruled this day by Zelihuth Comahn.
And the realm of Demours, they named Gondor- ruled this day by Zolomon Kingstone.
Then the realm of humans they called Earth, ruled this day by Caesar shizjar.
And the beautiful, their realm they named Belmund ruled this day by Arnya Lannister.
"It all makes sense now doesn't it" Olivia said, looking at Chloe "My powers-"
"mom's powers too" Chloe added at once, all of them trying to read meaning into it at a time.
"I always thought we were cursed, you know? we leaving out here- away from the village so that they will not see us using our powers and then ….. Maybe this is not our realm too" Olivia said, staring at Chloe expecting her to look puzzled as she is.
"Shut it down sis- you seem to forget that I am mom's daughter as well, and I have got no powers" Chloe replied, kind of ashamed of herself.
"Yeah, that makes sense" Olivia said, there was a brief silence before Zavier spoke up.
"In other to defeat my brother, we are going to need one of this weapons" Zavier said, "he is very strong and I think that might be the only way to get our revenge.
"Yes, that is a great Idea but, do you know were they are kept" Chloe asked, this time getting up and pacing around.
"Well, since one weapon is kept in each realm, that means..."
"That means one is here, -on earth" Chloe finished up, cutting Olivia out as she smiled proudly.
"Yeah, but that was what I was going to say" Olivia said, shooting a sharp gaze at Chloe.
"yeah- yeah, who knows" Chloe replied, tediously.
"Stop it you two" Zavier chirped in, "Olivia check the book, let us know if their is any mention of where the weapon here is"
"That is going to take long- very long this book is huge" Olivia replied
Just then Chloe spotted something in at the edge of the book she purses- moves towards Olivia and pulls out a piece of parchment from the book.
"Addressed to Olivia- great" Chloe said, "It is always her, our mom's favourite- here she says is for you" she handed her the book resentfully.
"Chloe, that's not true and you know it -mom loved us both equally" Olivia defended .
"Did she?" Chloe replied, moving back to where she sat and slumping unto the chair.
"Just read it Olivia" Chloe said, to her avoiding eye contact.
Olivia opened the parchment, and after a little hesitation she read out.
"Oly, if you are reading this it means you have already found out about yourself and the realms and that am probably dead, and you had to find out in a bad way. I believe it is in you to find the weapons and secure them, especially your younger sister she is my priority. The weapons are in a serious danger and should not fall into the wrong hands I know is too much to ask of you and so selfish of me to tell you to finish the work I started instead of letting you to lead your own life, but their will be no life to lead if the weapon are not secure.
I will always watch over you and your sister Chloe and remember this I will always love you, …. Love mom. P.s The map to the weapons are in your hands guard it as well" tears was already running down their cheeks after Olivia read the letter and Zavier didn't know what to do. She flipped the parchment and the map drew themselves on it.