CHAPTER 51 : STRANGE LIQUID

He put the picture aside and took hold of the other box inside. It was dark purple with some golden stripes at the edges of it. It emitted a mebacing aura which sent shiver down his spine when he touched it. It felt so cold. He traced the edges of the box, with it touch, shivers was sent down his spine.

They was a little hole on the top of the box with a kind of drawing at the top of the hole. Under the box was an inscription which he could read. He doesn't know why but he could read it as it was a normal language to him.

"Drop the fluid you inherited from us and thy the box open upon your will"

That's what the inscription said. Chandler was perplexed and didn't know why he was able to read this. This was just unbelievable for him. Just thinking about it was unfathomable. How was he able to read something he has never seen in his whole life? That's what he kept asking himself at that moment.

He just decided to push it at the back of his head. All he has to do now was understand what it meant by the fluid he inherited from them. To his memories, he didn't have anything which his parents gave him. He was understanding what they meant by that.

After some minutes of thinking, he just let it pass and took dropped the box on his bed. Then laid. He still was thinking about it and wanted to really open that box. He was curious of what he will see in there and what his so called parents left for him.

He then rook hold of the scroll and unrolled it. But this time, it wasn't that other language which was written on the box. It was written in the everyday language every body use. He then started reading what was it that it said.

"Hello, I'm Elizabeth, here is my son Chandler. Sorry for giving you this responsibility of taking care of my son, but if he stays with me he will be in great trouble. I have to give him to you to secure his future. There is a remnant danger around me which makes it impossible to keep him with me. Here is a bx which you have to give him at his 16th birthday. You have to give him all these by then and also tell him the truth for his own good. Don't forget to keep his name Chandler, his dad decided he will be called such and so should it be. Take good care of my baby"

After reading the scroll, Chandler then understood why his parents decided to tell him all this now. It wasn't them who wanted that. They just wanted to honour his mother's will. They wanted to do things as they were asked.

"So it's my mum who wanted things to be as such? I was all wrong in blaming my actual parents"

After reading the scroll, he rolled it back and place it in the box. He then too hold of the octahedron black crystal. He traced the edges again and again. Feeling it's cold nature. It was just like steel, his fingers was just smoothly passing on it with no restrictions.

It was then that at the top of the crystal, he saw a darker spot and touched it. Then the edges shone with golden lights. Then suddenly, a voice emerged from it. It was like a recorded message.

"Hi Chandler, it's mum. Hope you are fine. If you are listening to this message it means you are already 16years old, right? Ok let me present myself, I am Elizabeth, your mother. I know you are asking yourself why I left you, but I have no time to answer your questions. My time is really limited now but all I can tell you is that I did this to protect you. You might think that I just abandoned you but never will I do that. You are the best thing that ever happened to me in my whole life and I can assure you that. I love you so much my baby and mama will always be with you wherever you are. I would have loved to tell you about your papa but as I said my time is limited."

"But before I leave, I will sing you your best melody you love when you were still a baby. Ok here I go.... Ta..dada.... dada...dada....dada.... "

And so she sang his favorite melody. She always made it whenever she wanted him to sleep. Hearing this, tears ran down his cheeks. This was ultimate pleasure he felt. His mum's voice was so sweet and angelic, gallant and melodious. Calm and blissful. This was the sweetest voice he ever head in his whole life. And the melody she made was no other than perfect for his hearings.

He could figure himself in a cot and his mum by his side singing that melody for his as his eyes closed bit by bit to the sound. This was just unbelievable for him. He didn't know that his mum will be that beautiful when he saw her pick and he couldn't imagine that she will have such a pleasant voice.

"Woaw, mum I couldn't imagine you like that. I feel so warm in my heart right now that all my troubles are like they will just fade away. This melody just carried me to a paradise were I don't wanna leave but stay there forever. I promise that I will find you and dad wherever you are, I have some questions which I will like you guys to answer."

Chandler was so much glad. Just this melody of his mama gave him a much warm in his heart that he wanted to see her in real life. He wanted to see her real face, not that he wasn't sure about the picture but he wanted her to stand by him for real and talk with her. He careless about his father, all he wanted to see now is his mum and so he decided he will seek her wherever she is.

As soon as the melody finished, she crystal turned to it's original color as the lights at the edges dimed down. Tracing the edges again and again, he got cut on the thumb, blood started welling out of the cut. He just sucked it up and didn't care much.

Still intrigued by the dark purple box, he lived it up. Touching it surface, it was then that his thumb which was cut passed by the hole and some blood was deposited there.

It was then that the hole glowed a purple light and it opened. It shone a bright blinding light that he had to cover his eyes. His room was all shining at that moment. It was as if a star was deposited in his room. That's what one will think if he was to try and peek in there.

After some 15seconds or so, it died down and he opened his eyes. He was first seeing things blur but after some time, his eyes adjusted and he was seeing clearer.

Inside the box was a king of flacon containing a kind of dark crimson liquid in it. It was emitting a dim red light. It was a little menacing to him as he looked at it closer. He could feel like the liquid was attracting him to it while it emitted a menacing aura. He wasn't sure why but it sent him jolts of shivers down the spine.

He then kept it aside first and took out a pendent with another letter. He then read the letter.

"In the flacon is your dad's gift for you. He said you have to drink it for your 16th birthday. I know you might feel it menacing but it is not menacing for you since it's from your papa. Also, the crystal pendant was mine and so it's also a gift for your 16th birthday. I recorded your melody in it, so anytime you wanna listen to it, just touch it and send you mana in it and so shall the melody play, love you son.

Your beautiful MaMa"

That's all that it said. He smiled at how his mum was praising herself as beautiful. From the picture he has, she was really beautiful and so he didn't argue that fact of her being a tarnishing beauty. It is then that he held that crystal which was king of blue and cyan at the same time. It was like 5cm long and was a bipyramidal hexagonal prism crystal. It was so beautiful that he just put it around his neck after he kissed it.

His first gift given to him by his mum. This was so valuable for him. Even though he don't know her that we'll, from her words, he feels that his mum loves him so much. He just knew that deep down his heart and was happy with that. Now he felt like he really has a mum, even though he stilled loved Sakura as his mum, he still couldn't love her more than his real mum. That was just how he was feeling right now.