Evil Magic

"I command you to sleep," ordered the master of the heart, Trisha. She had her power held up in her palms, right in front of Christopher.

She watched as Christopher took a step back and slowly lost consciousness. Abasi had to help him up to the bed.

"He is a heavy one," complained Abasi.

Trisha walked over to Christopher, observing while he lay unconscious on the mattress. She let her power shine brightly and with her eyes closed, she ordered the spirit of the heart, "Kardia, the spirit of the heart. The man before me has captured the affection of the master of fire. Tell me, what do you see in him?"

She believed against the possibility that a man from Pelagy was the master of the blue crystal. However, because she witnessed for herself how Christopher could touch Amanda freely, she had to try. She had to least feel the presence of the crystal within him.

After a minute of exhausting her power, Trisha heard a strange voice. It was asking for her help.

"Help me out! Let me out! Let me out!" The voice called out to her head that she abruptly opened her eyes.

She clenched her fist and said to Absi, "I - I don't sense the power inside him... but I - I think there is... something inside of him."

"What do you mean?" Abasi asked with a frown.

Trisha remained to study Christopher. She noticed his forehead was sweating. "Wait, is he awake?"

She was about to lean closer when they heard a knock on the door.

"Chris! It's Cassy! Wake up, brother! Father is arriving!"

The masters looked at each other before Abasi said, "We need to go."

Abasi acted to take them out of the room, when all of a sudden, a yellow shadow sprung out of Trisha's body. Abasi and Trisha were in utter shock. Their hair stood up and their eyes grew wide. For the first time in their lives, the spirit of the heart came out from its crystal.

The spirit of the heart was a female soul named Kardia. She glowed in yellow, barely visible in the eyes of the masters. They could see through the spirit's cloaked body.

Kardia, the spirit of the heart, glanced at Christopher closely for seconds.

Disrupted by another knock on the door, the spirit looked back and told to the masters, "Let's talk somewhere else."

Slowly, they disappeared from Christopher's room. They travelled back to earth, reappearing in the forest of Brazil. Inside the cavern of the master's gathering place where Abasi, Trisha and the spirit of the heart came about.

Abasi and Trisha were still dumbfounded, seeing the spirit of the heart reveal herself before them. They picked up what the spirit said, "I heard - I heard a voice call out to me from inside that boy. That's why I came out... That has never happened before - at least not for a long time."

"He is someone special. Maybe not made of the earth, but he is meant to be someone great. For now, that's all that I could say. Still the same, I did not feel the presence of the blue crystal within him."

The spirit slowly disappeared before them, returning its form inside Trisha's crystal.

After seconds of being on their own, Trisha said, "It must be because he is from another world and is meant to help the dying life of Pelagy. Maybe that's why he could touch Amanda. Maybe he is blessed with the spirits of Pelagy?"

"It's possible," said Abasi.

The two masters contemplated on their next move. They both saw the brief happiness in Amanda's face as she bid goodbye to Christopher earlier from inside her chamber. They were both observing from a corner of the room, fading in and out through space, that Amanda failed to notice their presence.

"We still need to try. She has a responsibility to the lives of this earth and we need her," said Trisha. She looked up to Abasi and said, "Let's go back for her. Let's try to take Amanda back with us."

Back at Pelagy, from inside the castle of Aeros, Christopher remained to lie on his bed. Beads of sweat formed on his forehead and he slowly peeked through his eyes-lids.

Seeing that no one was there, he abruptly sat up, panting. He rested his elbows on his knee as he brushed his fingers through his hair.

Slowly, he analyzed the earlier appearance of two strange beings in his room. When the woman ordered him to fall asleep and forget their arrival, he concluded it was best to play along. However, Christopher did not forget everything that happened just minutes ago.

The images ran vividly through his head; two powerful beings in green and yellow, the sudden appearance of a godly-looking spirit and their abrupt departure suggested, they could travel through spaces.

"What were those two? Who were they?" He mumbled to himself.

Lastly, the voice. The voice that his father had tried to keep hidden for years; it was back. He was hearing the same voices again.

"Let me out! I am here to help you! Tell the healer who locked me inside you to let me out!" The voice of a man inside his head called for Christopher. The same voice that used to call him when the symptoms of his illness started to fade.

He was sweating and panting, thinking he was either going crazy or... like what happened six years ago, he was getting sick again.

Christopher was twenty years old when his body frequently turned cold. Back then, his father concluded he was sick. After a year of this symptom, his eyes occasionally glowed. He was brought to one of the best healers in the nation. It was there that they were convinced that evil magic was behind his manifestations.

The healer cast a powerful spell to keep the evil magic contained, and slowly his symptoms gradually faded as the years went by.

The knocking of the door quickly cut off his thoughts. He heard his sister calling out to him, "Christopher!!!! Are you listening to me! Father is about to arrive! You need to get your butt up because... He... brought Diana with him!"

He let out a heavy sigh and cursed. He knew his day was about to get worse.