Ch3: an unfamiliar roof

Aric opened his eyes to see an unfamiliar roof above his head.

An obnoxious and stinging smell of medicine wafted into his nostrils further awakening him from his trance.

He felt confused and lost, the last he remembered his heart was crushed with a knife and he was left to die in the middle of the wilderness on his own .

Aric reached his hand into his chest and felt the skin over his heart smooth and straight, not even a scratch left from the knife wound he received.

He did feel a strange heat originate from the center of his heart, but the feeling of his heartbeat assured him that he was alive.

Aric proceeded to support himself on the soft bed he lied on and tried getting up on his feet but midway up he felt a hand lay on his chest and pushed him back down.

" It would be unwise of you to get on your feet straight after waking up from a coma, mister Aric " a soft voice issued from Aric's side, and he finally discovered a young gentleman sitting by his bedside, wearing a white robe and holding a small handbook in his other arm.

The man seemed to be in his twenties, his hair was snow white and in a mess, and his eyes were a pair of crystal clear blue.

He gazed indifferently at Aric and his eyes appeared almost lifeless.

"Who the hell are you ?" Hearing the man address him by his name put Aric on guard, everytime it had happened before was a sign that horrible things were coming his way .

Seeing the serious and cautious pair of silver eyes gazing at him, the doctor couldn't help but sigh, he closed the handbook and spoke " it's locus Leonard, the chief doctor in the ancestral paladins school, and It's a pleasure meeting you kid "

Hearing the words the doctor uttered, Aric still felt suspicious but he did relax a bit, he survived his surroundings and asked " what happened to me ? And where is this? "

" Well ,you're at the medical sector of ancestral school, the headmaster brought you here from the blackwoods and didn't seem explicit about what happened to you, and in fact , it's me who should ask you that question, can you recount me the last thing you remember kid ?" Leonard reached for a sheet of paper and a pan, and gazed indifferently at Aric.

Aric had calmed a fair bit, he gazed at the doctor sitting beside him and felt a sharp aura overflowing from within him, the likes of which no ordinary man would possess, it was obvious that if this man wanted him dead it would be as easy as crushing an ant.

Realizing this, Aric sighed and with no other way out, he decided to narrate the events that he went through from his caravan being attacked in the woods all the way to the point where his heart was crushed under the dark steel knife of the assassins.

Leonard listened attentively till the end, where he placed the sheet of paper by his side and sighed then looked Aric straight in the eyes and said.

"If I may, I do have some questions for you if you don't mind answering, mister Aric" hearing Leonard's say as such, Aric nodded his head ,willing to answer any question if it would clear the confusion surrounding this occasion.

" Alright then. Ahh… well have you by any chance recently met a certain, old man maybe,.or a very handsome young boy, maybe even a hot woman that left quite an impression on you? Like telling you about they're interest in taking you as a disciple or something?"

The question was nothing like what Aric imagined and it took him a couple of seconds to collect his thoughts and respond.

" I… don't believe I did, excluding brothels that is ? " Aric answered with a straight face, and slightly sarcastic voice

" Ah interesting, it's written here that you're sixteen! That's a bit young... Well anyways , how about cliffs? did you fall off a cliff recently and stumbled upon some old man that speaks bullshit that sounds really profound but doesn't have any meaning really?" Leonard played along and asked once again with a bright smile over his face.

" ... Well jumping off cliffs ain't really my kind of thing, I prefer hanging myself , I heard it's quite the way to go, but yeah not my thing ." Aric responded once again sarcastically, it was a surprise how a man waking up from death bed can find the heart for humor, but for Aric it was rather his own crazy edge.

" Well what about lightning? Maybe you were struck by lightning while hiking through the woods and then started to hear the teachings of some old spirit on the mysteries of the universe and such?"

" I was never hit with lightning, not the kind you're talking about at least , as for voices, i hear them all the time, but none speak of heavenly teachings, they just speak of booze"

Aric started to question the authenticity of this doctor after that series of mind boggling ,out of nowhere questions he asked, but he couldn't help smile languidly at this doctor who smiled back with the same expression and energy as him, he felt like he quite liked this doctor.

"Please be serious mister Aric, I'm just following protocol, and this is for your own good" Leonard responded indifferently while writing notes on the small white handbook in his hands.

" This is protocol ?!!" Aric seemed bewildered, if not for the sharp aura emitting from the guy, he would've passed this man before him for a mad man or a fraud.

" It ain't, it's just this dumbass of a doctor looking for a cool plot for his stories when there's clearly none" a gentle voice sounded from the other side of the room, and a blonde , breathtakingly gorgeous woman entered the room and smiled sweetly at Leonard.

Seeing the woman who entered the room, Leonard straightened his back and with a forced smile he responded stiffly " headmaster Laince, how lovely it is to see you here"

The woman looked Leonard in the eyes, and responded flatly " Leonard , get your ass to working "

" Yes ma'am" Leonard didn't need to hear the headmaster say it twice before he jumped off the chair besides Aric's bed, and went out of the room, checking on the other patients in the facility.

The headmaster made her way to Aric's bed and asked flatly " can you stand up? "

Hearing her words, Aric heardly supported himself off the bed and stood up, he realized that he felt refreshed and free, like his body was reborn anew and nothing like how a just woke up from a coma guy should feel.

The headmaster dropped a white robe and pants uniform on the bed and a jade bracelet, and then said " put these on and follow me "

Aric heredly took the uniform, he waited for the headmaster to leave the room before he changed into it and followed behind her, with his heart beating fast.