Ashwood University

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Chapter Fourteen – The Circle is Complete

I woke up in a dark room, lying on the floor. I could see Syrena beside me, she was still unconscious. I kept my eyes closed because I wanted to know what Marebo and Fregar were up to.

"Do you think Ferim is going to know?" asked Fregar.

"I am sure the boy is going to tell him they're very close, but don't worry I will assume all the responsibility. Ferim will not harm me," answered Marebo. "That is unless he gets hurt," he added.

"He's not going to get hurt. It's only ten minutes," said Fregar. "It's almost time for him to be here. I'll wake them."

"They're already awake," said Marebo. "Well at least Nick is." I opened my eyes and sat up. I looked at Marebo as he added, "I put you to sleep, so I know for how long my magic works." Saying that Syrena sat beside me.

"What do you want with us?" I asked

Fregar said, "Oh, there is no us! He only wants you."

"Who is he?" I asked

"You'll find out shortly, but don't worry. He only wants to talk," answered Marebo. As he finished speaking we were encompassed in an all-encompassing light.

When the light died there was someone else in the room. A tall figure stood on the other side of the room. It was a man and he looked a lot like me. We were not identical as he had blonde hair down to his shoulders, but other than that we shared many similar characteristics. He had sky blue eyes, and two full lips. He didn't look a day over 30 years old, but you could see by his expression that he had lived a lot longer than that.

He was very tall, stood over 7 foot high. Well maybe he wasn't that tall, but I was sat on the floor so it seemed that way. He had a square jaw, and beard that looked like he hadn't shaved for maybe three days. He had broad shoulders and muscles worthy of adoration. He was shirtless, wearing only some kind of white skirt with golden belt. Very Greek warrior looking. He had a cape made of golden feathers than shone like a thousand suns. I stood and he looked at me. I noticed Syrena looking at him in awe, he wasn't only handsome, he was drop dead gorgeous.

I stared at his eyes as he said, "Hello, brother."

"Hello, Asdimir." I answered.

MJ POV

The moment we crossed the door we appeared in the center of the labyrinth, it was a very big plain terrain, covered in grass and in the middle of it was Ferim's castle. An ostentatious display of vanity, it was too much even for Ferim. It was a castle made of pure gold and its towers couldn't be straight as any other tower, they had to be curved, tangled, one of them even disappeared into the sky.

"The castle has its own personality and Nick, unintentionally took it over. So the castle created a barrier around it to protect its new lord. Nick thinks people are against him so his projection is what causes the castle to lift its defenses," said Ferim

"So what are we going to do?" asked the Queen Adeline.

"I created the castle. I created its defenses. I know its weak spots," answered Ferim "...but we will need help from my children." Suddenly we saw a very large group of beings walking toward us. Many of them looked human, many did not. "These are my sons and daughters, the Melessir and the Minor Gods." He seemed quite proud of them.

"Melessir?" asked Sarah. "I have never heard that word."

"It is the real name of the genies," declared Kibo. She was the only one of us who knew about this Celestial world and as she said that the group arrived.

"Hello Father," said what looked like a woman. A very beautiful woman with golden hair that was just like Ferims. Her eyes were like two gold coins. She had her hair in a braid that fell down to her knees and she was dressed in a semitransparent tunic. I could see her breasts, they were very big and round. Her skin was like dark chocolate.

"Hello Eneride."

"So what is happening?" she asked.

"A friend of mine is projecting his fear and the castle had locked us out." Explained Ferim.

"So what do you need father?" asked Eneride.

"I need all of you to send your energy towards the castle."

"You want us to attack your castle?" asked a surprised small boy who looked no older than fifteen. He was pale, very pale as his skin was the color of a sheet of paper. He was completely bald, including eyebrows. His eyes were black as ebony, and he was completely naked showing not only one cock, but three. All three cocks were as fat as a beer can and almost a foot long.

I was used to nudity, because back in Avalon, the fairy kingdom, Faes are always in an orgy or something of the like. I couldn't say that the humans were feeling the same. Nicky's sister Claire had even closed her eyes and John was avoiding looking to the Melessir. The rest of the humans looked awkward, very awkward.

"That is exactly what I want. BUT be careful for once you see the barrier brake you have to stop. If any of you damage my castle you will regret it. .." said Ferim. "Is that understood?"

"Yes father," said the small boy. I looked to the rest of the celestial group and they looked Uncomfortable. They were family, but I could see most of them hated each other. I guess that's what happens when you have a very big family You live forever and have forever to realize the flaws in your family.

Orders were given and shouted to the hordes that had gathered and the whole army of celestials and Gods surrounded the castle and began to attack with all they had. Everyone in perfect sync. Each time they attacked, the barrier trembled and a boom could be heard. It may look as if the barrier was resisting, but you could feel it becoming weaker and weaker with every blow. Hours passed. The sun had come out. We were standing near Ferim, Eneride and the small boy was with us too.

"I feel it's weak enough for me to pass through," said Ferim.

Eneride asked, "What's the plan once we get in?"

"We need someone on the inside," added Sarah. Everybody looked at us. It wasn't until now that they realized we were here. They looked at us as if we were insects, annoying them with our buzzing. Except the small boy. He looked at Sarah as if she was a bottle of water in the middle of the desert.

"This beautiful creature is right," he said.

"The beautiful creature has a name!" protested an offended Sarah. "It's Sarah."

"Sarah." Repeated the boy in such a tone that made Sarah back off. I thought he sounded like a rapist licking his lips after his last conquest.

"I have someone on the inside," confirmed Ferim. He turned and a man appeared out of thin air. The man was big and bulky. He looked like an African warrior. His skin was the color of mahogany. His eyes were pure gold like Ferim's. He was dressed in a sleeveless tunic, so he was showing a pair of strong arms. He was hot, very hot!

"Hello Father," he said as he looked at Ferim. Then he looked at Eneride. "Hello Mother," he said. Suddenly I realized that it wasn't as disgusting for me, after all fairies don't have family. I could see though that the rest of the group were very disgusted. The Queen looked sick. We all knew that for the Gods blood ties mean nothing, but one thing is knowing and another is see it with your own eyes.

"Marebo," said Ferim acknowledging the man's presence.

Eneride on the other hand looked at her son with a hint of disgust. "What is the problem Mother? Still pissed off that I took away from you your two lovers?" said Marebo with a very malicious grin. "Firts father and then Fregar." As he finished Eneride jumped towards him, maybe with the intention to kill him, but the little boy stopped her.

"I cursed the day I give birth to you!" she yelled.

"Too late, it doesn't count three thousand years after the event," Marebo added smiling. "Besides, I am not the one who stole Fregar's heart. Of course he and I had shared our bed millions of times, but the one who owns Fregar heart is Zarael."-

"That's not important at the moment." shouted Ferim obviously irritated because of his son's behavior. "Where is he right now?" asked Ferim referring to Nicky.

"Everybody is in one of the largest rooms," answered Marebo. "He thinks I'm meditating."

"Great, he can't know you are on our side. Tell him you'll take him to a safe place," said Ferim.

"Good, so where do I take him?"

"To his garden," said Ferim, "now go back. I will destroy the barrier." Marebo disappeared. "Close your eyes for you cannot see my holy form," he commanded. Every one of the mortals closed their eyes, but even with my eyes closed the glow of his presence make my eyes hurt so much that I turned my head in another direction. I just felt a boom, and heard a crack and I knew the barrier was gone.

We opened our eyes and Ferim was in his normal form, but the glow in his skin was brighter than it was before. Though it was fast becoming normal.

"So what do we do now?" I asked.

"There's a passage that will lead us right to the garden, but it may take us a while," answered the boy.

"Yur, where do you think you are going?" asked Ferim.

"With you of course." answered Yur. Ferim protested, but he knew the kid wasn't going to give up so he began to walk and we followed him. We entered the castle and immediately Yur opened a door in the wall.

We followed him into the passage. We followed him when the door closed behind us and the only light in the room was the glow that Ferim, Eneride and Yur exuded. Eneride was talking to the queen, I think because she was the only one of us high enough to deserve her time. Ferim was walking in front of us, and Yur was trying to seduce Sarah.

NICK POV "What are you doing here?" I asked to Asdimir, once Marebo and Fregar had left with a protesting Syre.

"I came here to visit you dear brother," he responded.

"Why? You hate me," I said.

"I most certainly do not hate you."

"Really? The last time you started a war just because you were homophobic." I said as he just smirked.

"I see you don't have your full memory yet. That's good, there are certain things that are better to remain hidden until it is absolutely necessary that they are revealed."

"So you are saying that you are going to keep playing with my life," I said angrily.

"Don't judge me. It is entertaining. I mean after billions of years we become bored, so a human's dramatic life is somehow entertaining, but do not judge me!" he said.

"That is disgusting," I said.

"Humans do the same. It is like a reality TV show. You enjoy other people problems and fears, so it's not that disgusting." He smiled. Putting it that way he was right, but I couldn't let him know it.

"Whatever!" I said pacing around the room and he began to laugh.

"You are so terribly human brother."

"That's a bad thing because?" I asked.

"It's not a bad thing. Not at all. Your humanity will help you." He walked towards me.

"How so?"

"One day, thanks to your humanity you will achieve something none of us ever have."

"What's that?"

"Happiness!" I could swear I heard a hint of sadness in his voice. "Well, I think it is time I said goodbye," he said putting his hand on my cheek. I wanted to walk away, but a part of me wanted to stay so I did.

I put my hand over his and he said. "Don't you ever forget that I love you, more than anything in the world. One day you will understand why I did what I did." He kissed my forehead and I felt warm. I felt at home. "Farewell my dear." He said as light filled every inch of the room again.

When it disappeared Asdimir was gone. I felt alone. I needed his presence, but I couldn't understand why. Having two personalities is such a fucked up thing, and Eremir must be borderline bipolar or something. Sometimes he is very angry and other times he acts like a six-year-old girl wanting her mummy.

Suddenly the door burst open and a very big gray wolf came crashing in, along with a very beautiful warrior salamander, the loneliness that I felt vanished away with the sight of those two gorgeous creatures. Behind them I could see all my friends and family, along with Ferim and two other Gods.

"Are you ok?" asked MJ as John growled something, I knelt beside him and put my forehead against his, and I wrapped my hand in MJ's.

"I'm fine." I said as John licked my cheek. I giggled as he transformed back into his human form and his perfect shirtless body was in front of me. MJ cleared his throat and handed him a shirt, I stood up and walked towards my family. "I'm sorry." I said.

Amelie slapped me. "This is the last time you do something like this. Is that clear!"

" As water," I answered, then everybody hugged me at the same time. Then all our friends hugged Syrena as well.

"What are you all doing here?" Syrena asked.

"We came to help," said Theo.

"You shouldn't have," Syrena started to say, but Theo kissed her.

"Yes I should because I love you. Stupid!" he said as she smiled.

"I love you too," then she slapped him. "...and I am not stupid!" Everybody laughed at Theo's hand marked face, even the Gods. I walked towards them. I could see Marebo and Fregar looking down at me.

"Hi!" I said.

"Hi..." answered a small boy of about twelve `ish'. "I'm Yur, maybe you don't remember me, but I remember you." He then hugged me, I smiled. I was introduced to Eneride, Ferim's daughter and Marebo's mother. I learnt that Marebo was also Ferim's son, and Fregar was the ex-lover of Eneride. Umm, so big a family and such a weird family. We walked to a garden near the room we were in. The garden was all covered in flowers of different colors, but all the flowers had the same shape.

"These are Eremiris, flowers you created," said Ferim. I remembered this flower. We studied it in botanic class. It has many magical and medicinal properties.

"So what now?" I asked looking at my friends and family. Syrena was walking with her father and Theo.

"Now we close the circle," said Sarah. Ferim waved his hand and a circle drawn with chalk with eleven smaller circles inside and many writings in different languages, some in draka, others in the languages of the Gods, others in Latin.

"Ok," I said.

"Ok?" asked Sarah.

"Yes Ok," I said.

"We were expecting you to fight back or something."

"Sarah I'm tired, really tired." I said and it was true. It wasn't only a physical kind of tiredness, but a mental and emotional one.

"Ok. Let's move on then," said John. Everybody in the group of friends took the place they had, had previously when the circle had been drawn. I was between MJ and of course John. Beside John was Oscar and beside him Gert, then Sarah and Alex, then Theo, Syre and Stella. Kibo was between Stella and MJ, thus closing the circle.

We joined hands and I felt some kind of electricity running through my veins. The drawing beneath us started glowing. Sarah began to chant some kind of spell. The second time every one of us chanted with her. I don't know why but this felt so good. I saw my family and Syrena's father standing two or three steps back. They smiled at us. I smiled back. An invisible barrier lifted to surround us.

"Now what?" asked Oscar.

"Now we tell secrets. Our deepest, darkest and dirtiest secrets," said Alex with a smirk looking towards Oscar.

"If you wanted to know all my dirty little secrets little boy you could have asked me in private. I could have taught you a thing or two," answered Oscar with a grin. Alex was always flirting with people, but most times people only blushed and looked down when facing that sexy smile and eyes of his, but I knew Oscar. I have never seen him blushing, he was this kind of confident cocky bastard that I always was jealous of. He talked with everyone with such ease. He never was afraid or ashamed, those are two words he didn't know.

"They don't have to be secrets. They can also be truths. Things you have not accepted and others do not know, things like that," said Syrena. "Who's going to go first?" she asked.

"I'll go first," said Oscar, "I am in love." He said catching all of our attentions. "I have been before and I know I fall in love way too easy with other guys, but there has always someone. Although I know this someone will never see me like that, it's good to know he will always be there," as he said that everybody looked at me including Gert. What the fuck was that about?

"Well very awkward. I think I'll say something now," said Stella. "I have used all of my fortune looking for a place. Since then I've been sleeping with humans for money."

"So let me get this straight," interrupted MJ. "My sister has been whoring around because she wasted all her fortune on some shit?" he asked angrily.

"It is not shit. You know what I was looking for," she said angrily with tears in her eyes.

"It's a legend! That place does not exist! If you wanted to keep looking you could have asked for my help. I would gladly waste all I have just to make you happy." He said, when I looked he was crying. "I know that we're not real family, but I love you like a sister. I would have done anything for you."

"Thank you, brother." Stela said with tears on her eyes, but a big smile on her face.

"What were you looking for?" I asked, my curiosity took the best of me.

"Some legendary place, where stars and shadows can touch without killing each other," she said.

"You're looking for Penumbra?" asked Syre as Stella nodded. Then I realized the guy that helped us in Russia, Rocky or was it Rocco, was a shadow and he was in love with her. Now I see the feeling was mutual.

"We'll help you look for it, for free," I said.

"You know what legendary means, right?" asked MJ, with an asshole tone in his voice.

"I don't know how you people can think something is legendary. You are fucking mystics!" I argued.

"Ok, but if in the end it really doesn't exist then she'll be sad and lonely." said MJ.

"Well, we `ll be there for her. That is what this circle is about. We will always be together." I said and everybody smiled, even MJ.

"Stella, please, stop selling yourself." begged MJ.

She nodded, "I will."

Gert spoke next, "Well I think is my turn. I'm not only human, I'm also a Clairvoyant." Everybody looked at her like she was dying or something. Human clairvoyants are very rare. Only one in millions of humans exist, some of them stronger than others. Some so weak that they live a normal life just having bad feelings when something bad was going to happen. Others so powerful that sometimes the visions take hold of their minds and the lose their sanity. The difference between human clairvoyants and Mystics is that human clairvoyants can talk directly with the destiny writers. They can write prophecies of things that are going to happen thousands of years later.

Suddenly Sarah said, "I'm afraid I'll become dark."

"Explain!" Demanded Theo.

"I... I have..." stammered Sarah, "...I have killed people."

"Whaaaat?!" shouted a shocked Oscar, looking at Gert he teased. "I bet you didn't see that one coming," he smiled.

"It's something I'm ashamed off. A black part of my past." Continued Sarah ignoring Oscar's Comment.

"What past? You're only seventeen!" stated Syre.

"Well... I'm a Darkstar. Children in my bloodline develop at a very early age to have pleasure from other people's pain.

"So, how many people are we talking about?" Theo asked.

"Does it matters?" she asked.

"Yes it matters. Killing one is not the same as killing thousands." Theo stated.

"It is still murder either way," stated Stella.

"True!" said Sarah. "Maybe three or four, but don't worry I'll not kill anyone else. I think I'm purified now."

"How can you say that?" asked John.

"Catarsis," I answered and Sarah nodded. "Now I'll say this to everyone, the ritual says we had to tell a secret, not that we had to judge each other. We will deal with that at another time."

"I don't want to be a dragon anymore." Kibo stated out of the blue. "I want to cut my wings, transform into human and let my inner dragon die."

"That could kill you," said Syrena. Sarah was awfully quiet. She was always the one to point the nerdy stuff.

"I know. I just want to be normal. I want be able to walk in a crowd without the fear of losing my temper. I want to be able to kiss a guy without burning him. I want to stop fighting. I am so tired." Explained Kibo and I knew how she felt. I only was like this after two months, she had been like it all of her life... if in two months you're very tired, I can't imagine how tired she must be.

"That's the problem though...Doing that you will not stop fighting, doing that you'll only give up and the two are very different things. I tell you by experience, giving up only leads to more fighting," said Alexander. "So now seems a fitting place to tell my truth, I gave up on my family years ago. I watched as my mother broke it into pieces and I did nothing to prevent it. I gave up when I saw my father killing himself because of my mother.

"He never loved her, he was actually in love with a girl from his town called Claudia or something like that. My mother put a spell on him so that she would have me, a daughter and another son. When she was tired of him she kept him as a slave. He did everything for her because of the spell.

"One day my mother left and the absence of my mother's magic took a toll on my father. He learnt that Claudia had been killed, probably for my mother. He didn't love us, he saw in us the very same monster my mother was. So he killed himself in front of us. I was nine, my sister seven and my brother five. After that my mother took us away, to some boarding schools and things like that. Always living the life of royalty, but always unable to be happy. You know the worst part? I don't even blame him." said Alexander.

I knew the part he wasn't telling us, "You blame yourself," I said without knowing I said it. Alexander nodded.

Everybody looked at me and I figured out this was the perfect moment to say what I had to say "I've tried to kill myself loads of times! Only Oscar and Gert know. I tried because I always blamed myself for what happened to my parents. When I realized I was gay," I said out loud forgetting not everybody knew about me being gay. I looked at everybody and I didn't see surprise in their eyes, I saw in Sarah's eyes something that looked like sadness. "...When I realized I was gay, I thought it was because of that, that they had died."

I signed, "So here I am. I tried to kill myself, but every time I tried something happened. Now I know that was thanks to my friends over there." I pointed looking at the Gods outside the barrier oblivious of what was happening inside. "Eventually I learnt to love myself, but I kept blaming myself until last month. That was when I knocked the shit out of MJ. I spoke to my Dad, and then Aeon told me someone killed my family. I don't know who it was, but I will find out!" I finished.

"At least you have someone to blame now," said Theo. "You know the day that we were in Las Vegas and Lance told you our father had killed his mother and he was going to say something about mine but I stopped him? The thing is that when I was like five years old my father marked me. He sucked my mother's blood and made me do the same." Everybody was stunned, that was really bad parenting.

Theo continued as he looked vacant, "It was my first time with fresh blood. It was my first attack. She died on my arms." As tears fell he continued, "I didn't know what I was doing because my father used some kind of mind control that older vampires have. A form of compulsion."

"Then it wasn't really your fault!" intervened Sarah.

"Really? I was there. I saw everything happen. You want to know the worst part? ... I enjoyed the flavor of her blood running down my throat.," he shouted crying out loud. Everybody was crying now. Too much sadness. Too many sad secrets.

"Well I guess it's my turn," said Syrena, "I am afraid of water. I don't even know how to swim."

"But you're a mermaid!" pointed out Oscar.

"That's why. I have never touched water since my mother died."

"So how do you shower?" asked Oscar.

"I don't. I've been using cleaning spells since then."

"You know the amount of energy that you have wasted." said Alexander. "You need to overcome that fear sweetheart."

"We'll help you." I said. "Not only you. I don't know if the others want too, but I'll help everyone in this circle. You are not my friends, you're like my family." I finished and everybody was smiling.

"You are the closest thing that I have ever had to a brother," said Syrena.

"Let me ask something," said Sarah looking at Syrena, "You don't know if you can turn into a mermaid do you?"

She shook her head, "I don't know. Half mermaids start turning when they hit puberty. I have not touched water since I was eleven so..."

"You need to know!" shouted Theo. "If you can transform into a mermaid you can go back to The land beneath the Waves. Claim your right as an heiress and your grandmother would have to stop ..."

"It is not that easy," argued Syrena.

"At least give it a try!" Theo shoot back.

"I will try if you're with me..." she said.

"Always," Answered Theo. "Always!"

"So I guess we're the only ones left, eh John." said MJ.

"Don't talk to me!" shouted John with a lot of venom in his voice.

"What is your problem?" asked MJ.

"You're my problem. Ever since the beginning you've been an asshole to him. Now he is fucking well in love with you!" shouted an angry John, his eyes changing into a golden hue...his wolf eyes.

"You're really an asshole! Haven't you realized?" MJ was shouting now too. His eyes were two fire globs and his ears were smoking, the most awkward thing is that they were fighting over me and I was between them, holding their hands.

"What have I to realize?" asked John.

"That he's in love with you too!" stated MJ and everybody looked at me. It was true. I was trying to deny it, but it was true. I didn't know which one I loved the most They were so different, but I didn't like them fighting over me. I told them once I wasn't the kind of sissy boy who sits and cries. I am not, and I will never be. I used my magic to do something, I caused pain to them.

"What did I tell you both?" I asked in a very serious and cold tone, I was letting my other personality take over. "If you insist on fighting, then fight and kill each other. I will not stop you, but every time you do you lose me more and more. I do not know what I feel, that is why it is better if I stop seeing both of you." I said.

"Nicky! No please..." John pleaded. He was now calm. "No one has ever loved me. Wolf shifters are not very loving towards each other. We learn to fight from a very young age. All my life I have been fighting my siblings, to prove I'm the strongest and that I'm the best wolf in the pack. I've had to fight my whole life. I have beaten and raped, that is what they teach us. No love. No compassion. No mercy. No weakness. That is what is engraved in the stone over my father's throne. I've never liked that. I've always loved. Every time I hurt someone it hurt me too, deeply. You are the first person who has ever loved me in return." I was crying now.

"I guess that counts as a secret," said MJ. "Sorry John, I truly am. I know how you feel."

"You don't know shit!" cried Johnathan.

"YES I DO!" shouted MJ. "I'm a salamander. Meanwhile other fairies are assigned to foster families to raise them and to look after them. Salamanders are taken to the army. We grow up as soldiers. Cold, merciless soldiers. My whole life has been like yours. When I got called to the celestial court and they revealed I was one of the Eleven. I thought everything was going to change, but it didn't. Asleena is far worse than any General in the army. That is why I treated Nick as trash at first, because I didn't know what I was feeling."

"Sorry," said John looking down.

Minutes passed and no one said anything. We knew the ceremony was almost done, but then feelings were skin deep. We all put out our hearts out, our deepest and darkest secrets were out. Things we protected all our lives were now out in the open to be judged and stepped on, to hurt us.

Sarah finished the chant and we felt as our energy entangled with one another, the drawing stopped glowing and the barrier disappeared. I felt a searing pain on my left forearm, I looked at it and I could see that what was drawn on the floor was tattooed on my skin. I let go of MJ and John's hands and backed off.

"Oh it worked!" said and enthusiastic Amelie.

"Was there a chance of not working?" I asked.

"Yes, sometimes once the ritual starts it stops and the members of the circle distance themselves from each other. Sometimes families brake because of that ceremony," she said.

"I know why," I said referring to the secret telling part of the ritual. I walked away until I reached the end of the garden. We were in one of the towers so the end was a railing that prevented me from falling hundreds of feet to my death. I leaned over it, looking at the labyrinth.

I got a cigarette out of my pocket and started smoking, I felt someone walking beside me and knew it was Maman. She hugged me from the side and I rested my head on her shoulder. It was an uncomfortable position as I was slightly taller than her. She took the cigarette from my hand and smoked then she passed it back to me.

"I know. I also had a circle once," she said. "How do you feel?"

"Honestly? Liberated. A little abused and scared, but liberated at the same time."

"I know it is hard to let out a secret when you've been holding it in in for so long. Sometimes these secrets are all about trust, and are so deep that they are attached to your very soul," she added and then we stood in silence, smoking and looking at the horizon.

It was noon the sun was high in the sky. Not a normal sun like the one on the earth, this place had three small suns and one big one. I knew we were on another world, but it was very odd to look at the four stars. More so when one of the smalls suns was blue, another red, and then the other yellow. The big one as white as the snow, so things looked different on this world; more bright, colors more vibrant. From this height I can see the end of the labyrinth. In contrast with the greenery landscape of the labyrinth, outside the walls, there is nothing, just an arid wasteland, and at the east I can see the contour of some mountains.

"What is that place?" I asked to Ferim signaling the mountains.

"That is the silent desert. All part of my dominions," he answered.

"No I am referring to those mountains." I said pointing again.

"Those are Samokir's domains, but that is over 300 miles. How can you see that far?"

"I have oculus, but how can I look that far? Is this world is not curved?" I asked and Eneride laughed.

"This world curve? This world is flat, and infinite," said Eneride laughing her ass off.

"Oh," I said and kept looking at the distance. I pushed my oculus a little more and I saw the mountains clearly. There were castles carved in the very mountain. I pushed a little farther and saw some kind of castle floating in the air over the mountains. It was completely made of some kind of with pearled stone. It had many towers and in the middle tower there was an eye. I stared at the eye and suddenly the eye stared back at me.

I jumped out of surprise and let out a simple "Fuck me!" My Maman slapped my head.

"Language please!"

"Sorry! It is just that a castle looked back at me. Everybody looked at me as if I had five heads except the gods."

"That is Sairei's castle. She lives over her husband's mountains." Yur told us with a smile. "It is some kind of creepy at first, but you'll get used to the idea of an all seeing eye."

Suddenly MJ came running from the other side of the garden. "The castle's under attack," he said

"How do you know?" asked Maman.

"Chrisson sent me a fire message. He says this time there are nigthcrawlers and Strigois attacking."

"But if it still day in there..." I said.

"They came from the tunnels," said Alexander. "The way I used to get out of the school without the faculty knowing.

"We have to go now!" shouted Oscar.

"One moment!" shouted Marebo. "That is your current residence, isn't it my Lord?" he asked me.

"Yes, it is. What does that have to do with anything?" I asked.

"Simple, we cannot attack or interfere in mortal's fights, unless they interfere with us," he said smiling. "It is a loophole in Asdimir's laws."

"Oh I love loopholes," said Eneride smiling. "Let destroy these vampire assholes!" Fregar said turning into his troll size body again.

"Let's kick some ass!" said Ferim as a golden light absorbed us all.

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