Chapter 1
“Asael, Asael, wake up.”
A long stick hit landed on my back forcing me to roll of the bed in a rush.
“Ouch, what’s the deal old woman?” I groaned as I tried to sit upright on the wooden tiles of the little cottage of the my master or mistress or whatever u call them in general.
“If you call me old woman again young man, I will knock the living out of you.” replied the old woman. She walked out of the room gesturing me with her stick to follow her. I reluctantly stood up and followed her.
“What is it?" I asked, " You know, I’ve always wondered where u get your strength from as an old woman.” I said avoiding her eyes while rolling my shoulders.
She sighed deeply as I was forced to look at her, ” You really want that beating, do u now? Sit, I have something to show you.” Before I could even sit, she swung her stick above forcing me to evade her attack, then with an impossible speed she swung down low, which made me to jump causing me to hit my head on the ceiling of the cottage and lose my footing and hit the wooden tiles with a thud.
" What’s your problem?” I asked rubbing my head ” You wanted to show me how you were going to knock the hell out of me?” I tried to stand up, but I was forced to sit my butt down due to the intense throbbing of my head.
I looked up at her expecting a response, but she was not in the room. I wondered where she went without me realizing, I took a deep breath and focused on trying to stop the throbbing pain in my head by gathering light from my core to my head.
“Asael, come outside.” the old woman said from the garden at the back of the cottage. “How in the light did she get out there.” I thought . I stood up with a groan and went outside. The sun is shining and the sky is clear. The air seemed to be clear as well.
“Wow, today seems pretty good for me to rest” I said, aloud breathing in the air. ” I have to get to the old woman’s lo-.”
“What did I say about calling me Old woman?” A still voice
I yelped. She was standing behind me now , her hands on her hip. To be hones, she was quite slim and average heighted to be called an old woman.
She looked at me and shook her her. “Follow me.” She walked to the back of the cottage and I followed her until we stopped at a cave I swore had never been there before.
“Where did this cave come from?” I asked inspecting the cave. “It wasn’t here when I moved to the cottage-"
She didn’t answer my question or even respond to my statement. She just stood in front of the the cave with her eyes closed and muttering some words i didn't understand. The caved pulsed with energy.
After what felt like an eternity, she opened her eyes and asked me, “Do u know who u are, Asael?”
I froze at her sudden question. “Huh? Are you playing with me? Why wouldn’t I kn-”
I stopped shortly when I noticed she wasn’t joking about the question. “Umm, yeah I am Asael.” Come to think of it I don’t know my family name or who they even are.
The old woman sighed deeply and gestured for me to enter the cave, which I did hesitantly.
As soon as I sat down, I felt the light inside me grow stronger and heavier for some reason. I felt a shocking pain and relief in my chest at the same time and began to see something or perhaps someone.
It was a woman that looked like me. She was calling my name, but I couldn’t tell since her voice was so frail.
Then someone appeared right in front of me, the energy was so dark It felt like I was in some kind of void or black hole.” It feels so weird.” I thought, then the void spoke to me in a deep voice.
“I’ ve finally connected to you. Young man, You will not live long. You won't free your family. I will continue to rule forever and wipe you out of existence entirely. then there will be no one to stop me.” The voice laughed in a very terrifying manner which cut to my bones.
I came back from the void or so with the Old woman looking at me from outside." I really need to find a new name for this woman, don’t I" I thought.
I noticed I was on my back, whereas I sat down before I entered the-, "what’s that word trap, nah trip, yeah trance I think".
“What did you see?”
“Huh?” I asked, trying to recall the face that appeared in the trance.” I saw a woman who looked like me and heard some kind of dark voice telling me how I ain’t gonna make it or tear down his kingdom.”
“Well," She signed , " looks like I have to tell you now.” Said the old woman. She took a deep breath and sat down on a rock that was never there.” Seriously where do these things come from?” I thought.
“The woman, you saw is your mother.” She said. “Did she say anything to you?”
“Well, she was saying something, but I could barely hear it since her voice was frail.”
“Sit down, child. time to learn about your past.” She said, as she adjusted herself on the rock.
I sat down on the ground and listened to her intently. ”Time to learn more about myself , I guess.”
“You are a prince, child.” She started, “Your family line is the keepers of light.”
I couldn’t speak, I was taken aback at her words." A-a prince?! How and who are the keepers of light?” I thought.
“Your family was sealed off by an evil force, but before that your mother sent you to my place when you were 3 years old.” She took a breath and continued, ” I have been training you all this while, since you are the last hope of the world. It seemed that while you were in that trance , the dark force found a way to connect to you. It is already time for you to go and face the dark lord, bring back your family and save the world. But mind you, there will be trials on your journey.”
I was speechless and left to my thoughts, ” I am the last hope of this world. How am I supposed to even go on this journey?” I asked her, “Umm, how am I supposed to go through this?”
" You will go through a 3 days fast, no food and water. The light inside you is a living being and will guide you but you need to be one with it and the only way to do that is through the fast. It will commence today.”
She stood up to leave, but before she left she gave me a book with gold words written on it ” The Holy Bible." Then she left.
I was alone, the back of the cottage with my thoughts and the bible in my hands.
"A fast, a journey and a destiny I never asked for." I chuckled at the thought.
But I had no choice.
