Ch.76 ۞ Verena ۞ Part II

"SKULL, THROAT, RIGHT CHEST, LEFT CHEST, UNDER THE RIBCAGE where our lungs usually are, on the middle of the back side of the hips, and on the center of their tail. Seven hearts. Seven deadly points," really a monster that came straight out of horror books. "But there's a catch!"

There always is. "What is it?"

"You can only kill it with a dagger made of Dragon bone and gold. Be it a water, earth, or fire Dragon. But it has to be Dragon bone," creepy.

"Very eerie," I finished my glass and ate more of the jellybeans. "Tell me you have one!"

She grinned, "We have five in the Maya's vault. Your mom gave it to my sister as a engagement present."

"Thank God she did," I chuckled anxiously. "That might save my life. Anything else I should know about the monster?"

Karol clicked her tongue, and gave me back my Const, "It's immune to all types of magic, except, fire and blood. And those two happens to be your strongest types. However, to use your Fire magic underwater, you will have to use it in a potent and brute strength. But it's not deadly. Do you know around when it'll be?"

Sigh, "No idea. It could be tomorrow for all I know."

"Ugh, I hate how unpredictable the powers of Seers can be. We'll find a way. You will have to train as much as you can for now because of how unpredictable it is!" I know.

"I know and I have a plan," I closed my eyes. "Why didn't you me the jellybeans were blood-flavored?"

She giggled breaking the tense mood between us, "You didn't ask. And I thought it would be good for you. Blood magic and all of that. And you liked it, didn't you?"

"Maybe," I ate another handful. "And to think my mom was so into drinking blood. It's so weird. Basilisks are fucking scary."

"They do sound scary, but your mom wasn't, Vee. Celeste was then best out of the best. I remember her. She was amazing and my idol. You look a lot like her. Not just because of the white part of your hair, or the silver left eye, but your personality. While Emma is more like your dad," I felt her hand in my hair, caressing it. "There's no denying that you two are their daughters."

I felt my cheeks burn, "She did seem badass."

Karol giggled softly again, "And she was!"

"Tell me a fact that people don't talk about here!"

"Hmmm," she ponded. "There was a rare type of magic called empathy magic that was characteristic of one family in Asphodel. And when they all seemed to disappear after the fall, they began to hide that from everyone else. The ones who knew about it, kept it quiet too, since it was a decision of the Astra Alliance."

Oh? "Seemed to disappear?" I opened my eyes and looked at her with feral excitement. "That entices a lot."

"The person who brought us the message from Asphodel, the one your mom sent you, has empathy magic. She's hidden within our clan. The Alliance has no idea she's alive, since they also have no idea that we know what they did to your parents and to Asphodel. She was your parents physician!" What?

There's some else who knew them, alive? "She escaped the fall and the destruction?" A nod. "Who is she?"

"Patricia Dallaire. The female who helped your mom on your birth. She's also the one who left you in the Human world. But as she couldn't stay there because the Fae would notice her energy and she didn't have enough power to hide it, as per your parents request, she was kept hidden with us," she took a glass for herself and drank pure whiskey with no ice.

I blinked, "I want to meet her. Can I meet her?"

"She wants to meet you too. But now is not the time. All the eyes are on you. We can't take you to the main house yet. How about when we take you and Emma to Venus to arrange your house? It'll be reason enough. It's a duty of the Maya, none of the other Royals can interfere on that," sounds good.

"When are we doing that?" I couldn't even hide my anxiety.

"In a week. On the next weekend!" Amazing.

The faster the better. "Can we go on Friday?"

Karol giggled, "Yes, but at night. You have classes during day and noon. And you definitely cannot skip them. We can go Friday at night, around 7 pm, and get back on Monday, around 7 am, before your classes start. What do you think?"

"It's good for me. Tell Emma that later. I ain't talking to her yet. And as prideful and petty as that is, I can't talk yet. I just, can't. Maybe it'll be good. If she thinks I'm still furious and stay away, I'll be able to use my time to train without her knowing or getting curious about it. Besides, she can't know about it!"

She seemed to be ponding on disagreeing with me on that, but I could tell she understood my reasons, "She might get on high-alert and get desperate to help you," I nodded. "And she won't be able to deal with the fact that you are the one in eminent danger now."

"Nope. And she doesn't understand future vision, Karol. Past visions are different. It already happened. You can't change the past. But the future? Emma is a hopeful girl, she'll try her everything to find a useless way to avoid that from happening. Even if I tell her that we can't change the visions. They are inevitable. We can only find a way to deal with the post consequences!"

Her eyes were full of worry again, and to ignore that, I drank one more glass of my strong drunk with ice. "My sister said your mom was always conflict because of it!"

"It must have been worse to mom, since she had both past and future visions. I can't even imagine the burden. And by what dad said in his profile, I could tell her was constantly worried for mom while she had her visions. That can consumes us. It's dangerous. And we could really die if we get lost too deeply on it," sigh. "To me it's even worse because I'm a anxious overthinker."

"Not just anxious, but severely anxious!"

"Yes, that," I chuckled. "It's fucked up."

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Neptune Gymnasium

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As per according to my plan, I left the Karol in the Hotel, with a mid-jar of jellybeans and a bottle of whiskey, I decided to train.

It was already 9 pm when I arrived there, after walking for a millennial, following my Const's map, and to my luck, the Sun God really seemed to be with me, as my shadow magic really camouflaged me after I spent half an hour praying for it, as Karol told me to do (and I was very skeptical at first). Thanks to that, I was able to get in there without any alarm sounding. After all, it closed two hours ago and no student was supposed to be near this place.

Which is pretty much a signal inviting me in.

There are five pools in here, all enormous and low key scary. The 1st one is 2 meters deep, the 2nd is 4 meters deep, the 3rd is 6 meters deep, the 4th is 8 meters deep, and the scariest of them all, the 5th and last pool is 10 meters deep. All of them go deeper than my height, nevertheless, in front of the others, the 2-meters-deep pool seemed very friendly to my eyes.

So, I went to the restrooms and already found my name on one of the lockers in the side of the freshman. It opened by touching my Const on the locker, and as I widened the vertical door, there was a pair of long full-body towels, two face towels, five different types of swimming suits, swimming gears, and everything was… crimson red with a new moon in gold. All my size, probably because they used some type of magical spell for this.

I took a pair of shorts, and a beautiful swimming suit that was very fit in my body. As no one will be seeing me in here either way, I won't need to care about having exposed skin.

After putting on and taking one of the full-body towels with me, I went to the 2-meters-deep pool and sat on the 1-meter-deep edge, since they all get deeper in a diagonal way, making so one side is way deeper than the other. Let's walk before running, shall we?