Canis Majora Training (1.1)
Seraphine POV;
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I finally made it! Almost got my legs broken because my grip became weaker by the second, and I couldn't hold onto the tree with my normal grip strength hence falling, but the second trunk saved me, and I landed on my feet correctly making the shockwave of the fall spread throughout my body.
"I'm meditating, and I actually don't know if I fell asleep, but I'm in the realm of my subconsciousness again, and I can still feel the brush of the wind on my skin...so is this meditation?"
"Good Job making it here"
"..." I looked at the voice and saw my other self, still dressed in a royal red gown with a crown on the head "Can I ask you, who you really are? I have a strong gut feeling that you're just posing as me, since I know that I'm me"
"Hmm" my other self hummed smiling, "I thought you still needed to have a strong sense of self, because you were confused in our first meeting"
"Of course I would be confused, who wouldn't? Suddenly falling in your subconscious mind landing only to fall again, and then another 'me' shows up to help"
"Good point, you have logical thinking, commendable"
"I doubt it's commendable, I can think clearly since I'm not in the sense of danger in my mind"
"So you panic when you are in danger"
"That's the normal thing to feel when you're in danger right?"
"Hahahaha, of course"
"Why are you laughing…?"
"Well, since you are the prophecy holder, shouldn't you stay calm since you have the power to do anything?"
"I don't even know how to activate it, I activate it by 'force' quote and unquote from Canis Majora"
"Yes, I also noticed that, at the Behemoth fight, you didn't want anyone to perish, and you know you had the power but do not know how to activate or use it, you even got Leo to have directions to use telekinesis"
"...Psychic terms, makes my head spin"
"That was called telekinesis, when you lifted the rocks, the one you used yesterday, is Levitation and you utilise the blue flame, into a shield."
"My body moved on its own"
"Yes, because you are not yet in control of the power"
"How can I control it?"
"I will escort you somewhere, here in your subconscious mind, but are you prepared?"
"...Why are you saying that?"
"I'm just asking, fortify your mind first and be ready to leave this white space," she says that while looking around.
"We can leave this white space?"
"Yes, deeper in your mind lies the prophecy power, and a point in your brain to use it"
"If I don't get out in that deeper part, I'd be in a coma?"
"Yes"
"Bloody Hell that I would be in another coma!"
"That's why you need to fortify your mind, FOCUS"
"Focus on what?"
"Getting the prophecy powers"
"...Can I back out now?"
My other self put her hands on her waist looking annoyed at me.
"You can't, you said big words and accepted big words already honour it."
"Fine"
I begrudgingly said, walking ahead, my other self followed, she walked beside me.
"I have a question"
"You're me, you should know everything by now"
"Hahaha, I know only a limited part of you, since I have recently awakened as well" I raised a brow at what my other self said, "My question is, why are you just accepting the responsibility of being the holder of the prophecy?"
"Because, I have no choice, and I'm already here?"
"Is that all?"
"Well...like what I said to my mother, the people here suffered enough with the absence of this power, they should also have the happiness that my mother had, on Earth, with us and with her family that she made"
"The people in the Vampire World labels her as a coward and your father as a traitor, abandoning this world"
"Do you want me to have an opinion on that?"
"Yes"
"I don't have an opinion on it, since they are right, the only thing I can do is make things right, with your help and the others help"
"..." My other self stops walking, she then tilts her head with a very deep thought, if that makes sense. "...You are the one"
"The one what?"
"It's not for you to know yet, I also have a limited time and one-time-use"
"What does that even mean?"
"You will know once 'you are ready to face certain things'"
"Huh?"
"You are still afraid"
What's with my other self being very cryptic, I'm not smart in solving puzzles.
"I will say one thing, I am not you, I am related to you and just took the form of you in order to not get detected by...well 'something', and I am just a remnant in order to help you, here, and on the outside once, but after that, I will vanish"
"I don't understand all these cryptic words"
"You will, soon," My other self said
"I'm curious, and getting confused at the same time, why is a remnant here, in my subconscious mind anyway?"
"I'm not in your mind, I attached myself onto the prophecy, so that I can be transferred around to the next holder, and so on and so forth, so that I can pass on a message and a mission."
"And that would be?"
"It's not yet time"
"UGHHHHHH" My other self is so frustrating.
"I'll reveal it to you when you are ready"
"Ready for?"
"Not being afraid"
"What-"
"Okay, enough chatter, let's go"
My other self started walking again, I groaned loudly again, frustration built up with the conversation that I had with my other self, it's not me, and it's related to me, what does that even mean? Related? In what form?
"If you passed on the messages and that mission you're saying, then why are you still here?"
"Because the past prophecy holders, failed to awaken me"
"And I did?"
"Yes"
"When did you even wake up?"
"At the Behemoth, you woke me up
"How?"
"By accepting the responsibility of being the prophecy holder, and understanding that this power is needed here, YOU are needed here, that is why you are here right now"
"Well, yeah…"
"That is what awakened me, the remnant"
"But what about the other prophecy holders?"
"...Regret"
"Regret?"
"Like your mother, and everyone else, even me, we all had regret, that we became the prophecy holder."
"But you're me"
"No, I am not you, I just took your form to hide, hahaha, like what I said earlier"
"Oh, right" I nod
We continued walking until we saw something shining above, I mean this place is darker than my humour, but the thing above is bright, it almost lights up this dark place, and it's my subconscious mind.
"You need to get that, flame sigil"
"So where's the ladder?"
"Hahahaha"
I feel like...I'm laughing at my stupidity, like looking into a mirror, the mirror laughing at your face, and you're looking at your laughing self dumbfounded.
"You need to teleport towards it and get it"
"So how do you do that?"
"Feel the surrounding energy in your physical body, FOCUS"
"...I can't feel my legs, it's numb"
"No, the surrounding energy"
"Oh"
"You also need to be careful around the spider webs"
"S-Spider?!"
"Are you afraid of spiders?"
"Yes"
"Don't worry its just spider cobwebs, and large webs, it's sharp though so be careful"
"Why must it be spider webs?!" I cried out.
"Good Luck"
"What are you going to do?"
"Provide moral support" I grimaced at what my other self said.
"You can do it Seraphine!"
"Okay, Focus" I locked onto the fire sigil that was floating above "Go!" I sprinted and tripped face first
"...Pft"
"Did you just laugh at me?!"
"No"
"...Hmp!" I huffed and stood up, "Feel the energy in your physical body…"
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(Meanwhile)
"Energy…"
"She has been c-chanting e-energy for a w-while now…" Aster says
-Hm
Canis Majora hummed.
Seraphine's eyes slightly opened, the blue flame lighting up on her body then it flew up gathering above her head, it then went towards the body of the tree making it light up in the inside, a magic circle appeared below it and the tree started to have buds and blooming flowers.
"Wow!"
-She is giving energy to this dying tree, and revitalising it, on the other hand, she is also taking the energy of the newly revitalised tree converting it into energy, through her body and then making it a psych energy.
"It's like when I use C-Cryo, I need to f-feel the e-energy of the wind and water c-combined so that it b-becomes I-Ice"
-That's correct, but right now she is taking in the energy of the earth, this tree being a conductor of that energy.
"So she w-will have the p-power of Terrene?"
-Let's see once she has finished her meditation
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"Teleportation is harder than it looks"
"Focus"
"Just have a pattern…" I mumbled to myself and teleported from thread to, thread to reach the fire sigil.
At the last thread I used the thread as a spring-board and jumped towards it, I reached out my hand and grabbed the thing.
"Very good"
The sigil went towards me and my body absorbed it, I felt the rush of energy throughout my body.
"So does this mean I have the power to willingly activate it now?"
"Why don't you try? You are falling" My other self pointed out.
Teleport to the ground.
With a blink, I was on the ground, but I still dropped with a soft thump, should have positioned myself upright.
"Now, defeat the spider"
"What…?"
"I lied in order for you to be courageous and get the sigil, but in truth, if there is a spider web there is a spider"
Eight red eyes lit up above, it then dropped and crawled towards me, it was huge.
"STOP!" I shouted and the huge spider stopped in front of me "I don't want to fight okay? I'm tired already and fighting a spider is too much"
"..."
"I even run away from a spider, but I can't outrun a huge spider, it even took less than a minute to get here in front of me, I'm sorry Spider, I'm afraid of you but I don't want to fight you"
"Um"
"..." The spider moves its fangs and then turned around and went away
"That was an unexpected turn of events"
"Let's go back to my comfort zone again"
We went back to the white space in my subconscious mind, and I successfully got the fire Sigil.
"You persuaded that spider to turn back"
"I'm not in the mood to fight now"
"Alright, I guess you can rest and stop meditating now"
"Thank you"
"Btw, because you got cut a few times from the spider webs when you failed several times, it will have a backlash in your physical body, and you will pass out for more than four hours, so be prepared"
"Thats-"
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"NOT HOW IT SUPPOSED TO WORK!"
I shouted opening my eyes, I looked around and saw Canis Majora and Aster looking at me baffled.
"Sorry about that"
"Was i-it a success?"
"Yes"
-Let me give you a simple test then
"Okay"
Canis Majora went to the edge of the trunk, I was going to unfold my legs, but it was numb
"A l-little help Aster?"
Aster went towards me and brought her hand above my sleeping legs, a green glow emitted from her hand and the numbness lifted.
"Thanks, Aster" She nods.
I stood up from the position of where I was sitting and went towards Canis Majora, but the pain in my body was travelling up and down, my hands also hurt.
"...What is it?"
-See that rock?
"Yes-"
I felt a strong push behind me, I dropped as fast as lightning, but I told myself to calm down.
Teleport.
I was surprised at the sudden push since I did not expect to get pushed like that, but I successfully teleported on the ground away from the rocks.
-It seems you are successful in your meditation, and before the sun completely sets.
I looked up, and it was beginning to get dark.
"I feel a little light-headed though"
Is this the backlash my other self was talking about? My vision just turned black.
"Seraphine!"
-She is just tired.
But I still hear their conversation...strange.
"Greetings, Holy Beast Canis Majora"
"Sam's voice?"
"Sir. Samuel, what b-brings you h-here?"
"I came to get you, since there is something going on in town"
"W-What is happening?"
"Girls started disappearing one after the other, someone is kidnapping them, Aden wouldn't stop nagging me about how you two are doing, that's why I'm here."
"T-Thank you"
-Just in time as well, you cannot carry the prophecy holder yourself, Princess of the Star, let this man carry her back.
"O-Oh!"
"What did the Holy Beast say?"
"Carry Seraphine back...i-if i-it's okay with you"
"Carry her?" I heard him hum "what happened to her?"
I'm clearly semi-unconscious, you know?
"She fainted"
-Exhausted, physically and mentally.
"I see"
I felt strong arms lift me up.
"Don't tell her that I did this, alright?"
"Eek! Yes! I-I" I heard Aster stutter her voice shaking
"Let's go"
"T-Thank you, Holy Beast Canis Majora"
-I shall take my leave now as well, same time, same place tomorrow.