Coma
Recap
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I HATE YOU!!!!!!!
Everything happens in slow motion as blue fire erupts from Li Jing's mouth. Her eyes glow blue and blue veins seem to pop out from beneath her otherwise smooth and porcelain skin her hair is snow white and not raven black as it usually is.
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"Argh my head. It feels like a truck ran over it", looking around her surroundings, Li Jing realises that she's not at home or in the class. She is confused as to why she is in the school's infirmary when The principal, Mr Zhao enters.
"Ahem, allow me to trouble you Miss Li but I have something to say to you". Mr Zhao coughs nervously.
"Hello Mr Zhao and I'm fine you can ask your questions".
"Okay Miss Li, What do you know about the term Elemental?"
"Huh, not this bullshit again. I don't know anything about Elementals and frankly, I am not interested Mr Zhao", Li Jing says as she proceeds to cover herself with the blankets provided.
"Then how do you explain the blue fireball you blasted at Lu Chen". Mr Zhao asks calmly.
Li Jing jolts, she was actually hoping he wasnt going to mention that incident. She had even thought it was all a nightmare but to be reminded of it now, she visibly shuddered.
On sighting her obvious agitation, Mr Zhao tries to calm her down and when he is successful, he repeats his earlier question.
"What do you know about the term Elemental Miss Li?"
"I don't know anything about it". Li Jing answers sadly.
"Would you like to find out?" Mr Zhao asks softly while placing his palm in front of her.
Li Jing hesitates and seems to weigh the pros and cons before saying in a barely audible voice, "yes".
Then take my hand. Mr Zhao commands and immediately she places her hand on his palm, her eyes glow blue once again but this time, Mr Zhao's eyes turns pure white.
They stay like this for some time, staring into each other's face seemingly hypnotized before a glimmer of light appears between them.
They do not back down from their staring battle as the light slowly expands sucking her through it and just like it appeared,it slowly dimmed out.
Li Jing finds herself being transported back in time and in seconds, she is in a dark place.
The place remains dark for some time until a lamp is turned on and she counts twelve people wearing black cloaks standing in a perfect circle with a woman in white Cloak in the middle.
The woman's eyes also glow blue just like Li Jing's own had glowed earlier but her hair isn't raven black, its snow white.
The deal is done, the woman says and immediately, all the twelve people present take a knife and make a cut on their right palm making blood flow out.
They each hold a candle and with a spell cast by the woman, all the candles they hold flare to life.
They sequentially walk to the centre of the circle where a baby whom Li Jing didn't notice earlier, lay in a cot sleeping.
By virtue of their respective dates of order, they walk out in this order and chant just two words before smearing the blood on their palm of the forehead of the baby.
"Aries ‐ I am."
"Taurus - I have."
"Gemini - I know."
"Cancer - I Feel."
"Leo - I create."
"Virgo - I analyse."
"Libra - I relate."
"Scorpio - I desire."
"Sagittarius - I understand."
"Capricorn - I utilise."
"Aquarius - I change."
"Pisces - I believe."
When all is said and done, they all step back into their circle formation and suddenly, their star sign glows on their forehead.
"A boy born of an impossible union, his royalty rests on the head of a pin, he shall bring great destruction or immense strength and joy".
The woman in the middle of the circle says before slashing her palm also. But this time, she doesn't smear the blood on his forehead, rather, she let's it drip onto his chest.
Li Jing stares transfixed, so it was even a boy. She walks closer to get a better look but the next word of the woman makes her blood run cold.
"When fire sign Sagittarius meets air sign Aquarius, they fan the flames of what makes them unique rather than trying to tamp down on their individuality..."
This was the exact words she heard before she passed out. Li Jing is stricken in horror. However, none of the witches had identified her which meant that she was invincible.
So she crept closer to take a better look at the baby in the cot, she realised that he was shirtless and four symbols glowed on his little chest.
"The elements of earth, water, air, and fire, were classed as the fundamental building blocks of nature...."
The woman in the middle says as if reading Li Jing's mind.
The marks weren't the problem, the problem was that these marks were also on her body too.
They ran vertically down the right side of her back.
She gasps, horror apparent on her face. This is ridiculous. She had always wondered how she got those marks but it seems she underwent a form of initiation process or she was born with it.
She looks down on her body and realises that she has started to fade, however, before she completely fades, she hears a faint whisper;
"And he shall be the mate of our chosen one."
Next, she finds herself on a battle field. It seems there is a war going on.
She see's the same woman she saw in the middle of the coven.
The woman looks to be in a fierce battle, and unlike the first time, she isn't dressed in a white flowy attire but rather in a white leather battle dress and her snow white hair is packed in a bun with loose tendrils fanning her face.
After some time, the woman is able to kill all the enemies surrounding her and then she takes off into the dense woods. She is swift and fluid on her movement that Li Jing was barely able to catch the sight of a silver necklace that hung on the neck of the woman.
Li Jing tries to follow her into the woods but a force stops her. She tries so hard to break free from the restrictive force but her struggles prove furtive.
She heightens her struggles against the force when she sees a few men rush after the woman.
She finally breaks free from the force and starts to run after them to atleast warn the woman when..–
"Li Jing wake up, wake up".
"Is she dead?" She hears a confused Wang Xiu Ying ask aloud before she let's out a gasp and opens her eyes.
"She's awake!", She hears a voice saying and suddenly a few heads pop out from her bedside.
"Water", she gasps still trying to inhale gulps of air.
"Here you go", Wang Xiu Ying says while handing her a glass of water.
"Thanks".
"Yeah you are welcome". Wang Xiu Ying says with a grim expression on her face.
LI king looks around to see the people present, Lu Chen and his underlings, Wang Xiu Ying and Zhang Wei also Qing Yuan. Her mum is not even present and Li Jing is a bit sad but she guessed no one might have told her mum for security reasons.
Everywhere is filled with an awkward silence until Lu Chen breaks it.
"Care to explain why you have been in a coma for two weeks and tried to burn everyone that came within a five feet radius of you?"
Lu Jing brain nearly cracks with the intensity of his hard stare.
"What?!? she has been in a coma for two weeks?!?!?!?!".