Chapter 82: 6 Years Later..
Lancelot Jr wasn't sure if his mother's suggestion would work, but he decided to try it.
He put forth his left hand and concentrated, fully immersing himself as the master of time and calling forth the ability to pause time.
Once again time stood still and everything stopped.
His energy level was dropping fast and he decided to look around quickly to see if there was a way out.
Suddenly he saw a door materialize out of nowhere and the door was about 30 footsteps away.
He ran towards the door and opened it.
Suddenly he found himself back in his human body on earth.
"Mom, it worked!" he exclaimed excitedly.
He sprang up and found himself lying on a bamboo bed, his back felt sore as he stood up. "Where are we?" he asked as he looked around the wooden house he was in.
"This...." He noticed some peculiar people moving around, some had single long hairstyles at the middle of their head while the remaining part had been cut off completely leaving not even a single strand behind.
Lancelot Jr walked out of the room and saw more of these strange men, most of whom were bald. They walked around with a common robe, the style with which they adorned the robes was peculiar, tying the robes around their shoulders and under the armpit of the other arm and flowing down to their shin.
"Why are we in a monastery, are you sure you came back to your original body?" The spirit speaker asked with a perplexed tone.
"Mom, this is my original body" Lancelot Jr retorted as he rolled his eyes.
"Hello" one of the monks had appeared by Lancelot Jr's side,
Lancelot Jr shrieked as he got scared momentarily because he was caught unawares, "hoooiiiii!!! You scared me, when did you...get here?" Lancelot Jr asked the monk.
"You're the one that Alisha brought in, she is in that red-painted wooden house, she has been waiting for you to wake up for so long" The monk spoke with a smile.
"Alisha.... Is she okay...?" Panic was evident in Lancelot Jr's voice.
"What of Xavier Xu, Gerald Guye, Rick Warren,
Rob drill, Lamil, and Zain? Where are they?" Lancelot Jr was hoping they survived.
"l know not those of whom you speak of, maybe Alisha could provide the answers you seek" The monk replied sadly.
He then cupped his hands and bowed slightly, "live in peace and harmony" the monk spoke softly, he then went away after saying that.
Lancelot Jr watched him go but said nothing to stop him, Lancelot Jr sighed and then went towards the red-painted wooden house and entered.
Alisha was on the floor with her hands folded and her eyes closed, her legs were bent and intertwined in a meditative pose.
Immediately she sensed the cold wind which blew in and hit her face softly, she opened her eyes, and lo and behold who she saw got her both shocked and excited.
Standing before her was....
"Lancelot Jr, you're awake" she shot up like a missile about to launch and pounced on him, tears started to drop from her eyes.
She punched Lancelot Jr's shoulders in a weak manner as she cried,
"you really scared me" she said between sobs, "l thought you were going to die"
Lancelot Jr scratched his head unable to understand the situation
. "l will explain everything to you, I didn't know what happened either". He kept silent then he spoke as he hugged her and cleaned her tears.
"I'm sorry Alisha"
Lancelot Jr suddenly noticed his body and stature, he had grown so tall at the very least a bit above 6ft, he felt his hair was bushier and longer, he also now had prominent beards that covered his face.
He was muscular, his bones were sturdier and denser. The contraction of his muscles was tougher.
"What happened to my body why....?" He also noticed the 'altered' body of Alisha Morgan
She was so pretty, her body shape had come out fully, like a woman at her prime.
She was so breathtaking to look at; in her simple linen clothes and jeans she was like a top model. Her bosoms were curved and busty like her waist. He was dumbfounded.
'Did something happen while I was asleep? Did Alisha go for surgery or something' he thought.
Alisha noticed the strange and confused look on Lancelot Jr's face and spoke.
"I'm sure you're wondering about the changes to your body. I was surprised too. You've been unconscious now for 6 years or should I call it a sleep state."
"Throughout that period, even without food or water, your body grew, and it always gave off this strange energy, recently the energy increased by almost 100 folds, we thought something had happened to you but you didn't wake up still." Alisha spoke in a reminiscent manner as she stared at the roof, recounting the past.
"6 years.... 6 years" Lancelot Jr was surprised, if the information was true he was now 19 years old.
He went into the dream state when he was 13, they were on the run and hid in a deserted house, he was unconscious then, only to wake up 6 years later in a monastery.
"We should catch up, Alisha, I miss my best friend a lot," Lancelot Jr said with a smile.
Alisha pouted, feigning annoyance, "That is all I am to you, your best friend?"
Lancelot Jr was confused on the spot, "ok what is with this new weird dynamic? Mom I don't understand" Lancelot Jr asked the spirit speaker inside his head.
"It is between you and Alisha, please leave me out" The spirit speaker replied with a hint of a tease.
"Mom, help, before I get in trouble" Lancelot Jr screamed in his head as he watched Alisha's play-acting, but the spirit speaker kept quiet and instead gave a little laugh.
"For six solid years without much food or water
I wept over your body and protected it with my
life and now you returned, you're telling me you miss your best friend. Is that all I am to you?"
Alisha said again and enunciated every word so that Lancelot Jr can read as much meaning as possible to it.
Lancelot Jr felt helpless.
He used his wind technique to try to make
Alisha laugh by getting into her sensitive spot, but it seemed she was now immune, in fact, her face grew more serious, "is she doing this on purpose, or am I really in trouble? Mom!!!!
"Okay, I'll help."
"She is giving you a hint of a relationship, she's telling you that no female makes this kind of sacrifice for just friendship, that there was something more involved. You're almost a full-grown adult now. The word used there is called 'Love', the Kind your father and I had before we produced you" The spirit speaker replied with a cough at the end.
"Mom, I know what love, relationship, sex, and marriage means,"
"Oh, I thought you didn't, hehe, so now you know why she is like that" The Spirit speaker www a but sarcastic.
Lancelot Jr and the spirit speaker conversed in his head.
Lancelot Jr took a deep breath and walked forward towards Alisha, "you're more than Just a best friend."