"Attention, can I get everyone's attention please?" Rio, who is now standing on the stage had said and called out to request everyone's undivided attention. With a microphone in hand, he starts to speak, "As you all may or may not know that I have a very important announcement to make, hence the reason for this tea party," he spoke.
"If you've noticed the 'chosen one' frames I've projected to all of you has become all crosses," he stopped for a moment to go to the wall of that stage and pulled the curtains down, revealing all the frames of the previous so-called chosen one. "When my whole mansion fell to the ground all destroyed, these pictures and the empty frames are all that's left that did not break with everything else so I have decided to place it up on the grand hall with the picture of the true chosen one in the middle," he remarked and pointed towards my picture which is now in a golden royal frame in the middle making it the center of attention.
"Arran Frye, that is the name of the person that our whole lives revolve around. We need to assist him to save the world for what may come and protect him for any further mission," he said, making eye contact with me. "Arran, boy, would you like to come up and say a few words?" he invited.
I looked at Rhea and Athea to which both nodded towards me and I smiled and gave Rio a small nod. I stood up and everyone's eyes were on me. I awkwardly bow down slightly towards them before I start walking towards the stage. Nervousness filled my insides as I walked up the stage. Rio handed me the microphone which I had to bend down slightly to get. He pats my back and left the stage before I stood back up.
I cleared my throat and my eyes roam across the room. The two front tables are seated by guardians. "Well, hi. I'm Arran Frye and I'll be turning twenty-two soon and I am apparently the final and true 'Chosen One'," I said, putting air quotation on 'chosen one', "I'm sorry, I'm kinda still taking this in and accepting this fact. I will try my best to take care of everything and make sure everything is balanced," I said, "let's work together."
"Thank you, everyone," I thanked the audience and headed down the stage, passing the microphone back to Rio on the way back to my seat. "Not bad," Rhea commented. I snorted, "Well, what did you expect?" to which she snickered, "I thought you'd do worse, like get so nervous you could barely speak."
I looked at her with a slightly offended look, but it didn't last long. We both broke into a fit of giggles earning a few looks but no one dared to glare our way. I saw Rio who is already back on the stage with a microphone at hand, "With that said, everyone, please enjoy the meal," he finished and everyone gave a few claps. He came back down to our table and take his seat.
A row of sprites from the back of the call trailed in and served the food at each table. "Please, enjoy the food," I had said to the guardians who sat at our table as a polite gesture when the sprites had dropped food at our table.
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"Rio, when can we do the procedure?" I asked, a little panicked. Rhea had zoned out after the meal. Thankfully everyone was about to leave so they did not pay any attention to her condition but it's been a whole night and she still isn't conscious. "We can get to it tonight but not right now, I'm pretty sure there are a few guardians who will try to come over to have a talk with you. I'll talk to them though because I need you to take care of Rhea since Athea might need to spend some time off of her physical form."
I looked at Rhea's unconscious state sadly and turned back to Rio with a nod. Athea had changed Rhea into something comfier before she left. Rhea now wore a baggy t-shirt and sweatpants. Her body is placed on the bed and here I am sitting on a chair beside her. I saw Rio leave the room from the corner of my eyes leaving me and Rhea in the room.
"Arran, there's a book I left in the drawer of this room for you. It's a book of magic, I want you to learn magic. I think that book is the magic of memory," I heard Athea in the back of my mind. I looked around and spotted a small table with three drawers. I sighed, "can you specify?"
"The first one," she said. I got up from my seat and walked towards the table and pulled the drawer. A normal-looking book sat there. It has brown covers which I think is leather. I picked it up and read the title, "Mémoire." There was nothing else on the cover except the title.
I took the book and went back to my seat. I open the first page and there was just a line. "When your deepest, darkest memory is used against you, nothing shall you do that won't harm you." Do I use the magic of memory to extract their memory and use it against them?
"You think you see, you think you re-live but you don't know you are tricked." That was said on the next page. What does this line even mean? Hallucination? "Power even you cannot change will engulf you and pull the emotional strings you may not know of." I am currently getting even more confused.
"Take your time, Arran. The moment that you understand every single sentence in the book is when it will teach you the magic behind it," my guardian angel had said. I heaved a tired sigh, "Alright."
I calmed my nerves down and continued reading the book. I think the best way to go about with it is to go through the whole book and then go through it again and try to understand it. Yeah, I'll do that. I have a whole day's worth of time anyway.