!This chapter can be disturbing for some people. It may trigger traumas to some people. Please skip this chapter, if you can't handle this kinds of things. It is about Katelyn preparing for the plan and can be skipped. Anyway that's it. There might be more disturbing chapters, so keep that in mind!
"I can't screw this up. I have to be perfect for Reuben." I gave myself a pep talk while practicing my magic. "Remember, it will help Reuben." I tried to put more power and mana in my magic. I build the light sphere slowly stronger and eventually, "light!" A great amount of bright light flashed in the entrance. "I did it!" I made a proud face, but...
"Aaaah, my eyes! My eyes!! Am I blind?! I think I am!" A man was screaming,
he must have seen my flash.
"Oops..." I started to back off and ran away. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵?
I was immune for my own magic, but Reuben was not. So I walked my way to the clothing shop to buy him some sunglasses. 𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮. I also bought a large back. Swords were illegal, so we had to hide it when we sneaked out.
𝘚𝘰 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵? 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘵... 𝘯𝘰. 𝘈 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦. We needed a horse to get away. 𝘋𝘪𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦? 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦? I could ride a horse. I was not an expert, but I learned a few. The question was how could we get one.
If there was someone I could trust and would always be there for me, it was doctor Moisturizer. I was not sure, if he knew how to get a horse, but I could always try. So I made my way to the hospital to talk with Moisturizer. Like him he was not busy at all. He was just chilling in his office as always.
"Katelyn? I thought you were sick?" Doctor Moisturizer looked at me with a look of doubt.
"Well... you know... I..." 𝘈𝘸𝘬𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥...
"You lied, didn't you?" doctor Moisturizer sighed.
"Sorry..." I said making a shy sign with both of my index fingers.
"𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩... What do you want?" He made an annoyed 'that's what I thought face.'
"Teehee! Well... I need a horse," I said directly with still holding on to the shy sign.
"A horse...? What for?" The doctor made a questioning look.
"I... I will leave tomorrow," I said with a sorry face.
"Leave...? Why? where?" Doctor Moisturizer made a sad face.
"I want to go out and explore the world. I want to learn how to control my light magic. But I can't do that alone. I appreciated your help really. But a butcher can never learn you how to bake bread."
"I see..." The doctor looked down at the floor.
"I know this village needs me, but in this village I would never be able to chase what I want too be in live. I want to help people and make them stronger. I want to explore all the places in Polyhymnia. I've been locked up in this tiny village with my dad for so long. I want to move on and be myself. And..." I looked at doctor Moisturizer, "I met someone I like. Reuben has so much secrets and personalities. I want to explore him too. He makes me so curious and I love him. I want to help him on his adventure." I wanted my future to be with him. I will stay by his side for as long as he needs me and hopefully he will need me forever.
"Reuben huh...? But way so abruptly?" The doctor said.
"Because we're gonna steel a sword. Reuben needs it for his adventure and I will help him."
"Steal? From who?"
"From the prince himself. It will be his birthday present, so tomorrow will be our only change."
"The prince are you crazy?!" He made an 'are you serious?' face.
"I know... He is crazy, but I like it. I wanna know everything about him and we planned the whole idea out. The only problem is getting away... So I want to ask you for your assistance once more." It was awful to ask him thinks like this. The doctor always was an unmarried man. He probably saw me as his daughter.
"I see..." He took a deep breath, "well I want the best for you. I want you to live your dreams and be happy. I'm... kind of attached to you... I will help you." 𝘐𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘐 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘮. 𝘞𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴...
"Th-thank you doctor..."
"A horse you said... I think I can get one for you. There is a stable near Lori Village I can buy a horse there for you."
"You... You don't need to buy one really..."
"You need to be over twenty to buy one and I don't think you earn enough to buy your own horse." 𝘞𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴?
"I... I'm sorry doctor." Tears started to roll over my face. 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯...
Doctor Moisturizer walked close to me and gave me a big hug. "Please... call me Boris."
"..." I could not believe he told his first name too me. I looked up at him and saw tears on his face as well. "You're better not faking your tears with water magic," I joked.
"Hahaha! You little..." Boris scratched my head with his fist and smiled. I smiled with him. 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯...
After a while we told our goodbye's and I left. He told me his horse would be waiting at the entrance. He would leave a note attached on it's saddle, so we could find it.
I was almost ready. The last thing I had to do was packing my stuff. I went home and saw my father standing in front of my. He looked angry and closed the door behind me.
"I was about to sell ten bottles of dark potion to a traveller, ten!" 𝘖𝘩 𝘯𝘰... "You know what I found?"
I shook my head, however my entire body was shaking.
"I found nine bottles! That woman would pay me extra than the original price, if I had ten. But she paid the original price for those nine instead. Any idea why there was one missing?"
"N-no..."
"N n n n no?" he imitated me. I was going to have a bad time. "One potion costs an entire day and you snooped around to steal one. Why...?"
"I-I don't know."
"So you admit you stole it huh..." He looked up and made an irritated sigh.
I gulped. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵? 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴...
He grabbed my arm.
"No...!"
"No what? You think I will use my dark magic again huh? It will be far worse than that. This won't hurt you more physically than magic, but it will break you mentally."
"No... please..."
"Go to your room!"
"Yes father..." I walked upstairs and went to my room. I opened My drawer and took my knife out of it. There was still some dry blood on it from the previous time I...
The sounds of my father walking on the stairs was hearable in the whole house. I quickly hid my knife under my pillow and the door was slammed open. He pushed me on the bed and said, "I'm going to teach you a lesson, you screw up!"
I was too scared too move.
My father ripped my bunny shirt off. "It was an ugly shirt anyway." Then he placed his hands on my bra." 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘒𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺𝘯... 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦!
I moved my hand under my pillow and grabbed the knife. My father was about to rip off my bra while I quickly shifted my knife under my pillow and slashed my fathers neck open. There were no words coming out of his mouth. He could not say anything, but gagging in blood sounds. The blood shot in my face. At that moment my father died and dropped on me. There I was completely in shock laying on my bed with my father on me.
After a few minutes I slowly moved my fathers body and went to the kitchen too watch my face. I put on some new clothes and packed some more in. I also packed in my knife after I finally cleaned it. I grabbed both backpacks and went outside.
I walked and walked. Everything around me was dark. I could not see a thing. I did not knew, if people were looking at me or if was walking in the middle of the streets. But somehow I knew were I was going, to the entrance.
When I finally arrived at the entrance I dropped myself on my knees. The darkness left and I could see where I was. For some reason I wanted the darkness to come back, because now it left I remembered everything and felt everything again. I was scared and then... I screamed. I cried and screamed as loud as I could. "Aaaaaaah!!! Aaaahaaahaaa!!! Whyyyy!!!"
I grabbed my knife out of my backpack and looked at my scars. I held my knife firmly and moved it to my arm, but then... I felt something touching my shoulders. It was a comforting hand continued with a comforting voice, "are you okay?" It was my hero. I looked behind me and saw the purple haired Reuben standing behind me, 'Lucian.' He pointed his hand out and asked, "do you want to come inside?" I grabbed his hand and followed him inside. Here I knew I was safe, safe with him. Safe with them. Safe with Reuben.
TO BE CONTINUED...