3 A New Beginning
An unknown ceiling.
Huh... this was how a lot of books I have read started.
I'm lying down on top of an unknown bed.
I slowly try to get up but to no avail, I can't gather strength in my arms.
I'm slowly getting the feeling back from my arms, it's a good thing but I don't know why this is happening.
I didn't have anything that should be able to do that.
I see something moving in the corner of my eye and turn to see what it is.
I see an older girl with her eyes closed and with her hands in a prayer-like state.
Warmth slowly permeates my body and I slowly fall asleep again.
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I didn't dream anything this time, I don't even know if what I had before can actually be called a dream.
No... I should start to face reality.
Father left that message to me because he wanted me to face reality.
That he... became that demon.
So I shouldn't say that it was a dream.
Time slowly passes as I come to accept these facts.
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I wake up again.
It's the dead of the night, no one seems to be here.
Strangely my body is full of strength, it's as if all the fatigue I had was blown away.
Was that girl getting my strength back?
She must be a priestess then, that would explain why her hands were joined together like she was praying because she was indeed praying.
I seat on the bed and open and close my hands tightly to see how is my strength... From what I can see it seems I have even more power than before.
I should really thank that girl huh...
I slowly stand up and start to see if there is any problem with my body, but there doesn't seem to be anything wrong.
I start walking with the intention of leaving when suddenly someone opens the door.
It was the priestess.
"Eh?"
She looks at me as if she found a strange animal and a weird voice leaked out from her.
THUD
The door was slammed right in front of me.
"There is no way he is awake yet, get yourself together Aria, there isn't anyone that could get better like that after merely an hour of healing"
The door slowly opens again and after seeing me and with a THUD she closed the door strongly, again.
"Stop hallucinating me, It's time to go back to reality"
She is somehow getting on my nerves.
The door slowly opens, again, but this time before she shuts the door in my face I grab it and don't let her close the door.
"Can you, please, not shut the door in my face this time?"
I say with the nicest smile I can muster right now.
"E-"
The girl says with a scared face
"E?"
I wonder what she meant with that sound.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!"
I need to suppress the need to close the door or her face, come on Tir you need to be the better person, you wouldn't shut the door in the face of the person that saved you, would? such thoughts run through my mind.
"A DEMON! A MONSTER! A DEVIL!"
I think a vein bulged on my forehead. Maintain your calm Tir, be the better person.
"You know, It isn't nice to call a person all those names."
I say this while putting my hand on the girl's shoulder, Still, with the nicest smile I can muster
But the girl passes out.
"Eh?"
Such a stupid voice leaks from my mouth.
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The girl passing out made me enter in panic for a bit.
After regaining my calm I moved her to the bed I was before waking up.
It has been about 40 minutes since she passed out.
Just when I was getting worried if she got hurt, she started waking up.
"Ng..."
With a strange sound, she started opening her eyes.
I sighed in relief and talked with her.
"You had me worried there for a moment, I don't have any experiences with people passing out."
She seems a little apprehensive, but it seems she no longer fears me.
"Um... who... are you? also, where is the boy I was treating?"
Does she not recognize me? I wonder why...
"Uh... the boy you were treating, I'm him, my name is Tir."
The girl looks stupefied for a bit.
"I was sure you weren't a draconian though..."
What is she saying?
"But I'm a human"
She stares pretty hard at me, to be more exact she stares at my hair.
"Why do you have dragon horns, then?"
Dragon... horns?
"Umm... do you have a mirror?"
I say trying not to panic.
"I have one on my bag, can you bring my bag to me? since I'm still a bit weak on my legs"
I quickly get her bag that was a bit away from the bed and pass it to her.
She hands me the mirror and proceeds to get a small notepad for her.
I look at myself in the mirror a bit afraid of what will appear.
...She was right, my face right now does resemble my old face, but these horns are something that completely differentiates it.
I wonder if this was because of the power the demon gave me.
Ah, now that I remember, I had the letter father gave to me, I wonder if it explains why I have these dragon horns.
I get the letter from my pocket and start reading
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The letter went something like this
"Son, when you are reading this you probably have many questions to why I left you. But I will say this, I didn't leave you because I wanted to. I don't have much time to write this so I used my ability to write this letter, I never explained much of the world to you, and I regret doing so, I will now explain everything I didn't explain to you.
There are many abilities in this world, when you turn 16 your ability will manifest just like many others, before that you should study at the central kingdom school, it will help you during your life, it's where I studied before so I wish that you would go there.
My ability is to imbue my consciousness into things, of course, I don't lose my consciousness while doing that, that was how that demon gave you this new ability you have now, I imbued my consciousness into a heart demon and he gave you his powers.
Heart demons are beings that are born from the strong emotions of a person upon death.
I imbued my consciousness into a heart demon while I died and controlled his body, that was how that demon thought that you had paid a price to obtain a devil contract.
A devil contract is a way of obtaining power in exchange for a price that the heart demon deigned just.
There is also something else that I had to do to make you recover and that is to activate your bloodline.
You have two bloodlines within you, mine and your mother's.
The people I am sending you to will explain what bloodlines are better than me.
So I will end this letter with a wish I have for you.
Please don't think of this as the end of your life, there is much more for you to live, much more for you to enjoy, think of this as your new beginning. The beginning of your new life, not a life of running away and hiding, but a life where you can be without worries, one that you can live to the fullest and do what you want.
Your father,
Karius."
