Nostalgia Part l

[The next three chapters are written in the first form and with some dialogues]

Everyone by now was silent as they saw Perciveus lost in his thoughts. He had a bit gloomy expression which right away acted as a red flag to the group.

Fiona could not see him like that anymore and finally, asked," Is everything okay big boss? You seem to be a little distracted by something that's on your mind. If something is bugging you, you order us and we will kill them right away".

Veronica listening to how often this group talked about killing beings on silly mistakes made her a bit anxious but overall she had never felt the way she felt with them. However weird they were she felt like family with them and there was something that she felt about Perciveus that she couldn't explain.

Precious smiled sadly and said, " remember Tatiana?"

This name was one of the members of the council but hardly anyone knew about her as she was the most egoistic leader of all and never indulged in council much.

Everyone's expression had shown hatred for this name but Veronica and the two brothers had only heard the name but not the history or the mystery. Veronica was the most curious with the name being that of a woman and asked, "will you tell us about what you are thinking....please?", though the 'please' word was not heard by anyone as it was mostly a whisper.

And the story started:

Tatiana and I were young when we first met in our class of spells. She was a sweet girl back then and of course a beauty above all. I was never good at spells but she on the other hand excelled in them. She was a witch and an extraordinary one. I always tried to find ways to talk to her. I was stupid back then.

(Perciveus gave a slight smile)

And obvious that she noticed. I was twenty and she was seventeen, she came to me one day crying her eyes out. She told me that the witches had a ritual.

If they wanted to become a True Witch they had to take an oath, the Oath of Power. This oath meant that once you accept it and gain the power from the universe itself you had to renounce the rest of your life to be a maiden. She cannot have a partner for the rest of her life. But the brutal part was that becoming a True Witch not only gave you powers but make you somewhat of a goddess for the witches which means you could never rid of them or the day you will leave the sanctuary your powers will go away but also the basic magic. That means you will be more like a human without any supernatural powers.

When I heard her story I was baffled and the only thing that came to my mind was to elope. I asked her to run away with me and I would protect her forever.

So, we ran away. Days went by and we were madly in love. We came to this barren land and started to build an empire. Shelter people and grow stronger together.

Around thirty years had passed when we came across an orphan kid. He was small and from what I know, his mother was the one that had abandoned him on this land thinking that no one lived there and that eventually, the kid would die.

Tatiana could not become a mother and to some extent, it was impossible because if she would have borne a child then the child would suck all her magical powers while in her womb. I should have known by this that she wanted power more but I again was stupid.

Seeing this kid gave her hope so she decided to take him under her wings. I, on the contrary, was not so pleased with sharing her so I only saw the child as an orphan but decided to train him and make him stronger so he could act as a soldier for me.

We named the kid Cony. In the early years, I was not much interested and spent my days with my love Tatiana, she was all that I wanted. But her hunger could not be satiated for all she wanted was power and she was raising cony in her image, hungry for power. When Cony was sixteen years old, I found out that he too was a hybrid or an abomination like me. But unlike me he was not rewarded rather he was cursed and therefore he was left by his mother to die.

I was a Vampire by birth but I was blessed by the Stars to be a sprite too, but Cony was born to a werebear father and a mage mother and so he was a hybrid of werebear and mage. Thought his mother had asked a witch to suppress his werebear form and therefore he would only turn into a werebear on a full moon. But being a mage he was bestowed upon with an ability. The ability of Elemental Thief.

His ability allowed him to steal one's attribute and it would become his attribute till the next full moon. Though the stolen ability would be back to the user in the next 24 hours. This was a good ability to have but once you got the taste of others' powers, you will start hunting the stronger ones.

I tried to hide this revelation from Tatiana but somehow she got the wind of the news and then she started to accompany me when I was to train Cony. Years passed by and Cony became powerful beyond imagination.

He became my Right Hand Man. The one I trusted blindly. How much Cony respected me and stayed by my side all the time had started to annoy Tatiana and she grew colder and colder with every passing day. Till the point, she had no more love for me.

Or to be precise, she became void of any feelings just like her ancestors.