Two weeks passed relatively peacefully with no major problems and I didn't see the man in white or any other suspicious characters. Ella even managed to get home on time.
I woke up early this morning expecting something momentous to happen as it was the day of my 16th birthday. All of my friends had told me that they had realized their power not too long after they woke up, at the latest by noon, so I was a little worried since I had been up for a while.
In my anticipation I was worried about everything. Whether my power would be useful, or a trash skill, and whether the church would select me for my power. Well, for the most part I was just consumed by the irrational fear that I wouldn't awaken anything.
Ella hopped into the main room for breakfast and I gave her some pan bread and soup that I stored from yesterday after removing the bag. She scarfed it down quickly, went out to set some food for Angel, and then told me that she was going to tell her friends to come over since it was my sixteenth.
"If you wait a bit before coming over I can get you guys something from the bakery, so don't rush!", I said to her.
I too headed out, and practically drifted towards the bakery, lost in thought the whole way. As I looked up suddenly I realized that I was in front of the bakery, so I walked inside and talked to the clerk, Ava asking her if they had any joy cookies, which were rumored to be made with a cosmic egg, but I'm pretty sure that it was just lemons. She handed me a bag of joy cookies and I gave her some gelts to pay.
On my way out, for some reason I found myself walking back to the spot beside the town hall where the masked man in white had been talking to my sister. As I approached I saw a shiny marble a bit unearthed but sitting in the ground. I bent to pick it up and as soon as I touched the thing it flashed brightly for a quick second and disappeared. And a split second later I found myself falling towards the ground, only to blackout before I hit the dirt.
When I opened my eyes, a woman with navy-black hair and a long black dress that transformed from tight to flowy as it transitioned down her body was staring down at me. The weirdest thing about this was not the fact that I had no idea how I had gotten into this small white room, nor the fact that a strange woman was hovering over me, but it was that the color of her eyes were shifting as if they could not decide on a color and she had large wings protruding from her back that were casually folding and opening up!
[Ohh honey you finally woke up!]
"W-What?! Who are you? Where are we?", I was literally scared out of my wits. Yes, my rationality abandoned me in this moment.
[We didn't go anywhere! And you are just talking to me, there is no need to be afraid! Ohh! And I'm Lilith the Morrigan and you are now my little child! Now get up! You have some work to do!]
A second later I thought about waking up and when I opened my eyes again I realized that I was sprawled out on the ground with my newly acquired bag of joy cookies, not that I was too happy, sitting next to me. I got to my feet and discarded that whole experience as some weird hallucination day dream from hitting my head and I jogged back home hoping to beat Ella and her friends back.
Not two seconds later I was scared silly when I again heard the voice from earlier and saw the woman pop out of nowhere next to me.
[Hey, hey! You know that we have some tasks to do today, right? This is no time for slacking off when you don't have any power or little children yet.]
The strange lady spoke to me and I stared at her like she was crazy, or maybe I was crazy and immediately took off running towards home, hoping that this bizarre lady I saw in my dreams was just a figment of my imagination.
I kept running, looking over my shoulder as I went, calmed by the fact that I could no longer see her. I got to the front door of my house and turned back, when surprise! She was there again.
[Honey! You cannot run from me. Don't make me sad, my soul became your system. I only want to make you my little disciple! Don't you want powers? My powers I mean.]
I ran into my house and slammed the door behind me.
"No! I don't want any powers from a weird woman who is following me! Today is my sixteenth birthday so I'll get my power today", I said speaking through the door.
[Honey, you already have my powers just look at yourself. Aww... you are just so cute as an incubus and its all because of me. Don't worship me or anything, but that's accepted too!]
Lilith said haughtily but also with affection in her voice.
I looked down at myself and didn't see too much of a difference until I lifted my shirt and saw a black Norvik 'N' on the center of my chest. My eyes were about to pop out of my head until I fell on the ground in pain and a pair of black leathery wings popped out of my back and I could feel two searing pains on the top of my head.
I looked at the giggling woman with her wide grin and dumbly said, "I have wings".
[Aww... that's not the only thing you have dearie! I definitely did a good job with this one didn't I Stria... hehe] she said patting herself on the back.
"Umm... could you enlighten me?"
She pulled out a mirror from who knows where and shoved it in front of my face.
I reluctantly took it from her outstretched hand and when I looked at my reflection I realized that I still had the black wings and 'N' on my chest, but I also had tiny little horns poking out of the top of my head and my eyes were blue with purple bleeding in from the edges of the iris.