Nolamine appeared on the surface just as Nala had, with a pillar raising him up. To his surprise, there was a storm and it was dark. He looked over at the side and saw two tents that were placed not that far away from the waterfall.
Just like in Nala's case, the ripples of the water took him to the side and he stepped onto the sloping stones. His nose bled as he went up to the tents. He had a massive headache and could not think properly.
"Awe, mosquito repellent is back."
Langa appeared from the tent and said to him mockingly and playfully. King also appeared in the same tent after him.
"Damn it! So, I lost the bet!"
He said in a sickly voice. It was how he sounded all the time. Nolamine cursed them and looked up at the dark clouds like he was looking at his mother and saying, 'How could you do this to me? Such a name?'
"Guess I am partnering with Analka next time we go on a hunt. Too bad."
Langa said to King as he walked over to him.
Nolamine smiled. It seemed that the two were trying to woo Analka and he could not be happier. If any of them were going for Nala, his hair was going to turn yellow and long, and he would hit them with a beam of energy from his open palms.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey..."
The two said as they rushed over to Nolamine. He had vomited blood and was about to hit the ground face first if Langa did not get to him.
"He must be exhausted after spending 17 days in there."
Langa said as he picked him up and put him on his shoulders.
"Hey, if he dies now, does that still count as my win?"
King said as a massive mouth made up of curse energy and black with smoke continuously leaving it came out from his back and swallowed the two tents whole.
"You crazy bastard, if he dies right now it would be because of you. He vomited blood after seeing your sickly ass. You must have infected him with something."
King went quiet. He hated when someone called him sickly. Langa knew he had massed up.
"Ahhhhh!"
He screamed as he ran faster than a speeding car back to the village with a massive mouth trying to take bites at his butt. Nolamine was out cold through all this. His head would hit Langa's back as he ran.
"What the?"
Nolamine said as he woke up in his room again. He turned from where he was looking and looked up to the ceiling like he was looking beyond the universe with a look like he had been wronged.
"God, I thought we talked about this. Look, I have sinned again. I told you to take away these sinful eyes, for one of your creations was made curse with unfathomable beauty."
Analka could do nothing but laugh again. Nala would have plunged her twin blades up his.... after hearing such words coming out his mouth for another girl.
"I guess your healing capability is as impressive as your sinful eyes."
She said as she stood up from the chair she was sitting on.
"You need to rest and eat, you were in that water for 17 days and you were unconscious for 3 days. I had to force-feed you some potions but it seems that your metabolism now is as high as three people's worth."
Nolamine kept quiet. His mind did not want to believe he had spent 17 days with Aapep.
'We were able to only talk for around 7 minutes if I remember correctly.'
Nolamine thought.
"Mi-sun has been at the Grand Witch's hut for all the time you were gone. It seems they are brewing a portion."
She said.
"She will be done after 10 days."
She left thereafter, without waiting for him to say anything. He had to admit that the girl knew how to live a boy hanging.
"30 days just to brew a potion? What kind of portion is it then?"
He asked himself.
"Wait, what the?"
He said in surprise. He had gotten up and found himself completely naked and with his third leg saluting him. Next to him was a dash used to clean his body.
"ANALKA!!! WHO UNDRESSED ME???"
He yelled in embarrassment. It was a mystery never to be solved as she was long gone.
Going back to when Nolamine had been pulled into the water, Nala woke up and screamed. She looked up at the sky to where the moon was and her green eye's iris and pupil started to change.
It was still morning and so the moon was not visible and Mi-sun did not know what she was looking at, while the Grand Witch knew. Storm clouds were quickly gathering.
Her iris and pupil stopped changing when they resembled a full moon producing green light. Nala cried as she panicked for she had been reborn into something else, something more than human.
Only her Moon Eye cried tears and like she had turned into a tear collector that day, Mi-sun took another flask and collected them.
"Let's go."
The Grand Witch said after Nala calmed down and was unconscious again.
"Langa and King will be here when he comes back up. He will be in there for some time. We cannot waste them."
She said as the rain started to fall and lighting could be seen at a distance.
Back in Nolamine's room, he was thinking of how all this could be possible and could not come up with an explanation. He just could not come to terms with the fact that he had been with Aapep for 17 days.
As he took the plate of food laid out to him, which was one of many, he remembered his conversation with him.
At first, he was disappointed that he did not want to tell him what his eye's abilities, Impenetrable Mirror and Devourer were. Aapep said he would learn all that when they made his wand, as time was running out for him to be there. He quickly moved on to himself.
"As I said, I am Aapep - Chaos Incarnate. I go by many other names, as they have called me many over the years, as I am the bringer of chaos. What you should know is that I am different than the monsters you know, or beasts, as I am what you would call a Mythical Creature."
"Nolamine was remembering Miss Park's class again.
"We are beasts that were born in Panthalassa long ago before the worlds rules took effect. Since we became powerful before that time, we gained the ability to move between these worlds, Earth, The Veil, and Panthalassa, but only being able to at a certain time."
Nolamine was more than impressed. He even felt he was disrespecting him by not bowing to him.
"You should know that each noble's house has a Mythical creature as its protector, but I am one of few who are different."
"Different?"
"Yes, Unlike the others, I can affect the rules of the worlds, as I said, I am Chaos Incarnate."
Aapep said with pride.
"Then how did you end up being a Guardian if you are so power...."
He could not finish his sentence and wished he could take it back. It seemed he had touched a nerve as the two eyes of Aapep looked at him like he would eat him right then and there.
"I was defeated by a Guzzler whose name I shall never speak after many had failed and ended up as my snack. Instead of finishing me off and harvesting my heart, he sent me here for a specific purpose. This was more than two thousand years ago. I have been eating curses for as long as I can remember, as people have been coming to me before the village or this great river even existed, further growing in strength and power. This also gave me new abilities, one of which I was tasked to part over to the one who shall gain the power of the wand I came to create. "
Nolamine had to admit, his bloodline seemed powerful to go against such a creature.
"May presence also turns the animals that drink water from this pool into beasts, together with those that make the area their habitat when I am asleep and they can't feel my presence. That is why the forest has been full of beasts as after they turn, they also reproduce frequently."
Nolamine thought of his memories of playing with some of these beasts.
"Now, since we do not have time, I shall tell you what we need to do."
Aapep said, as Nolamine's head started to feel like it would explode at any moment. A dagger floated over to him from Aapep's cave and he took it. It was kin to his mother's wand in make and design.
"You have three months to learn how to use that weapon. It will serve you after you devourer your mother's wand."
"Huh????"
Nolamine asked in disbelief at what he was had just heard.
"You shall also train in how to use a long sword as you shall need to go to Avernus to retrieve the Sword of Guzzler - The Devourer of Realms. The sword used to defeat me. You father was not able to take it with him and it lays in a secret place, waiting for its new owner. You shall be linked to it when your wand is made"
"Huh???"
Nolamine was still stuck in 'devourer your mother's wand'.
"Everything they left you shall be given to you when your wand is created, as that is the condition for you to receive them. Three months and 10 days is the time it will take to open the door, as the time it could be open will be then and also the time needed for the curses that have been seeping into your body to be devoured by it, making you stronger to survive what needs to be done."
Nolamine was at that moment still stuck at 'devourer your mother's wand'.
"At that time, you will be able to stay here a little bit longer and we shall continue with what you need to know. You must prepare yourself for new power and a new world as you will be born again, so, train hard. The techniques you need to know have been taught to the villagers."
A pillar of rocks came up under him and lifted him up to the surface. He had so many questions but even he could feel his limit.
'Why do I need daggers and swords when I will also be using a wand?'
He asked himself as he looked at the dagger Aapep gave him that was next to his bed.
"Awe well, all I need to do is to listen to the old and powerful Mythical Creature that was defeated by my ancestor... hahaha...."
He stopped himself. He did not know if he and Aapep were still connected or not and he regretted saying those words.