You want to pass some time, you may have rested but you aren’t tired so instead you decide to explore the neighborhood. Also you need to get used to being here, since you will be spending the rest of your life here. You hate to admit it but you are curious about a certain place.
You walk silently to the exit of the mall, not wanting to draw attention (considering you already look very strange with the items you are carrying). You walk out and head towards the park. Once there you change your clothes and refresh yourself. You think it would be a good idea if you take out your information carrier. When you take it out and turn it on you go through the map of the city you are in and try to memorize it. You have already spent a year memorizing it so you just need to look at it for forty minutes. Once you have done that you prepare to leave.
Just as you are about to go voices emerge. There are 3 men and they seem to be arguing.
“We can’t do that or people will know what happened” says the first voice.
“Then what can we do?” asks the second voice.
“I already told you. We just need to draw him out of his house and take him” the third voice says.
“We can’t do that either. Someone might see us and than worse than his plan” replies the first voice.
“What is your plan then?” asks the third voice.
“I say we go back to the headquarters and formulate a plan there.” Says the first voice.
“Are you crazy?” shouts the second man
“Shut up!” says the first man angrily “you want to get caught?”
“How can we go back to the base?” asks the second man
As the voices come nearer to where you are you quickly hide behind trees. Three men wearing long black coats emerge into your view. As they come nearer to where you are hidden you move with stealth. You are moving when by accident you step on a dry leaf and quickly move away.
“What was that?” the third man asks. The first man signals the second man with a nod. The second man puts his hand into his coat and takes a gun out. By just looking at the gun you can tell it has a silencer attached to it. He walks slowly towards where you were standing only moments ago. He turns towards where you are standing and then opposite of where you are.
“Nothing.” He tells the first man and rejoins the men.
“I heard something. It wasn’t my imagination” says the third man.
“Probably an insect” the second man says.
“Let’s go to the hotel room and then formulate a plan.” The first man says.
The second man speaks “why go through all that trouble when just grab Ibra-”
He is about to say a name you know only too well when the first man shuts his mouth with his hand.
“Idiot .You are never to speak his name. Why shouldn’t I just kill you here and dump your body in a lake?” Asks the first man
“You can’t kill me, you have orders.” says the second man shaking.
“Let’s just go back to the hotel. I feel like I’m being watched.” The third man says.
The three men turn around and walk back to where they came from. You know it is not a good idea to follow them since it is more than likely they will catch you, if you can even follow them. There is something strange going on. One of the men almost spoke the name of Ibrahim Maqsood. That is very strange. Is it just a coincidence that they are trying to kidnap him or is there something else going on. Things are much more complex than you originally thought. The more you think about it the less it makes sense. Now you aren’t even sure that the men were real, so you decide to empty your doing what you were about to do.
You head out of the park and walk around. You are not yet used to so many houses so this makes you feel uncomfortable. Though you feel like you have come into an alien dimension you know each house even though you have seen them in an HEP (holographic environment projector). You keep on walking, guided by your instincts. You don’t realize where your feet are taking you until you are standing in front of an abandoned mansion.
Unlike the other houses you could never enter this one. The HEP never projected what it even looked from the inside through the windows. Ever since you saw it you were curious about it. You curiosity built up through the years and no it s unbearable.
You go over to the door and knock. Obviously no one answers. You turn the old door handle but the door is locked. You smile knowing what to do. From your pocket you take out the Icer (information carrier). You push the corner of the Icer to the door lock where the key is inserted. You hear a metallic click and you push the door open.
The air is dusty and though the furniture is still there no one has lived here for a century. The owner vanished without a trace and no one dared to buy this house, because back then people superstitious. Now its too old for anyone to live in it and it hasn’t been torn apart because the it’s the oldest house in the city, people want to preserve it. But no one could open the lock and people left it locked in the fear of damaging the house by breaking the lock.
Now that you are looking at it you are very disappointed. You expected to find something. You walk around and search through the whole house but find nothing. Eventually you are about to leave when you notice a door you didn’t go through before. You walk in and look around. Unlike the rest of the mansion this room seems different. It is messy unlike the other rooms; all sorts of instruments are lying on the ground. As you walk around you find something strange; when you walk around the floor creaks but when you walk in one corner the floor thuds. You know what this means.
You bend down in the corner and examine it. IT doesn’t take you long to find a small well hidden latch. You pull it and a trap door opens. A ladder is beneath you. You go down and find yourself in a dark room. You take out the Icer and enter a command which releases light like a torch. The room you are in is small and circular. In the center there is a circular table. On top of the table there’s a cushion, on top of which rests a small black sphere. It looks like it’s made of glass. You walk towards it and pick it up. It’s surprisingly light, you expected it to be heavy. Somehow however it starts to seem to be heavy to you but you still know its light.
“No one is permitted to enter this mansion. How did you open the lock?” asks a voice behind you. You turn around and see the person who spoke.
“What are you doing here?” You ask
“I followed you. Didn’t you realize its already time for me to show you around?” He replies
“It is?” You reply astonished.
“May I see that”. You give him the sphere. He looks at it closely. “It was here?” you nod. He looks at you. “They say that from this mansion a bright light escaped out of this house and after that the owner vanished. Do you know what this is?”
“No I don’t.” You reply
“It’s an earth star, or at least that is its name after translating it into English.”
“What is it?” you ask
“You won’t believe me if I told you.”
“If you don’t want to tell me then don’t” you say.
“All right. Its crystallized magic, a product of alchemy.” He answers
“And I am a time traveler; I came from the future to give our world a warning” You say.
“You want me to prove it?”
“Go ahead” you say
“I wont. But you yourself will prove it.”
“Why don’t you do it yourself?” you ask
“Because I hate magic. I will never use it unless I have to save the world”
“Then teach me how to use it” you ask curiously.
He moves to you and whispers something into your ears. You listen intently as he tells you how to use the earth star. His instructions are long but simple. You take the star from him and hold it, concentrating with all your might. You wait and wait but nothing happens.
“You are thinking too many thoughts.” He tells you
You try again. It seems to take years and you feel you are the star, like you synchronized with it. The sphere starts to glow, you feel yourself glow. Nothing surprises you. The glow becomes brighter and brighter, but it doesn’t surprise you. You are almost at the finishing point when the sphere is pulled from your hands. You return to your body and feel shocked at what happened.
“Welcome back.” A person says.
“My name is Chris” you say
“Mine is Ibrahim” he says. Yu are too exhausted to understand what this may mean.
“What happened? Why did you take the star from me?” you ask him
“You were going too far. You could have killed yourself. You are not the type of person who can use magic easily” he informs you
“Are you?” you ask
“I am.”
“Is it possible for me to be able to use magic?”
“Up to a certain extent yes. You will need to train yourself for many long years. Then you may be able to use magic without injuring yourself. But then you can only use normal magic. That means you will never be able to use advance magic, the magic that is useful. To gain such a power you have to be born, not made”
“What exactly is this star and why isn’t magic used now?”
“Magic is usually gained by the help of beings from another dimension. I can’t explain these beings to you since I myself don’t know much about the, no human does. Items can be magicfied in their dimension so we can use these objects instead of calling upon these beings. This is why magic is very rare. Those beings rarely ever agree to give us magic and magicfied objects are rarely ever made. This star is the most powerful magical item. My great-grandfather brought it here but we lost it.”
“Why do you hate magic” you ask Ibrahim
“Magic can’t cure, it can only destroy. I once was using it when it almost destroyed our town. In the last minute I was able to stop it before I was too late. Otherwise I am very gifted. Tell me about yourself.”
“What about me?” you ask
“Something is different about you. If you tell me something now I will believe it”
“I am a time traveler” you say
“So can you prove it?” Ibrahim asks you
You take out your Icer and give it to him. He goes through it with you showing him how to use it. He looks through it for some time and gives it back to you.
“Any other artifact?” he asks you
“Yeah” You take out the gun. “Stand over there” he stands where you asks him to. You point the gun towards his left “3 2 1” from the tip of the gun erupts something white; it flows backwards so fast that it seems to blur. It covers your entire front like a cone. “Throw a stone” He throws a stone at the barrier. As it hits the barrier the stone stops in mid air and drops t the ground. You stop the shield.
“Very persuasive” Ibrahim says. “Why did you come to the past?”
“Because I had to” You say. Then you tell him everything, from the war to the meteor. So far you have just missed on thing: the name of Ibrahim Maqsood. “By the way what is your full name?”
“Why” he asks
“Because the one killed my parents is named Ibrahim Maqsood” you watch as he turns his back to you
“Impossible” he whispers. “Why? Why does this all happen”
“Look this persons history is unknown. It doesn’t necessarily mean you” You say. After meeting him you are certain it he can’t be him
“Yeah and my name is very common.” He says a little relieved.
“There are chances that if you are him I can stop you from becoming evil” You add. He smiles.
“Come on. I promised to show you this area.” He then shows you the city. After 4 hours you start to feel tired.
“Hey I want to meet a few people” you say
“Who do you want to meet?” he asks you
“Jane Blacksmith, Claire Barber and Alex Johnson. Jane Blacksmith raised me while the other 2 were my parents”.
He looks to you “Unbelievable. They are my friends”
This confuses you. Your parents were murdered by on of their friends.
“So who do you want to meet first? Or would you prefer if I call all of them?” he asks you
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