The next morning, beautiful morning sunlight broke into Kiya's room through the class window, still wrapped in her blanket, Kiya didn't want to get off the bed. She was already awoke but the heavy burden in her heart still pinned her down. Thoughts of getting off the bed and going to school wrecked her heart, she would turn and sigh and turn and sigh again minutes after minutes. She suddenly lifted her head up when she heard footsteps on the stairs coming toward her door, "Moooom!" she grudged. She knew that her mom will disturb her peaceful routine of overstaying in bed every morning. Gbam! Gbam! Gbam! Zahra knocked on her daughter's door;
"Kiya! Are you awake?"
"Yes Mom, the door is open, you can come in" Kiya replied.
Zahra opened the door, slipped in and elegantly walked to Kiya. She sat on the bed, she cleared her through, sighed and started talking.
"I wanted to talk to you since yesterday but you were not alright"
Kiya slowly lifted herself to sit on the bed, as a sign of respect to her mom because she knew she wouldn't talk to her mother while laying.
"What was it about Mom?" Kiya asked.
Zahra continued;
"I know growing up comes with a lot of challenges, especially the teen age, but sometimes i feel like you overdo things, I mean what was it all about yesterday? Asking questions about weird stuff and talking back to your Dad.. That was a sign of disrespect Kiya."
Ashamed, Kiya lowered her head and replied her mother..
"I am so sorry Mom, I really didn't mean to disrespect Dad or you, I was only angry because you wouldn't answer my question, you even deemed my question as rubbish. As a young woman, I have so many questions that need answers Mom, you are a woman so you should know better."
Zahra smirked..
"Girl, ladies of your age ask questions about adulthood, boyfriends, gender equality and pretty much anything about women, but you.. you ask questions about Totems and weird stuff. What is wrong with you?"
"Do you know anything about Totems?" Kiya quickly asked.
"No i don't" Zahra replied.
"Well then, even though nothing is wrong with me, I need to find answers about so many things right now" Kiya calmly said.
"What questions do you have that Google cannot give you answers to?.. I believe even the word 'totem' would not give Google a hard time answering" Zahra tried to convince Kiya.
"Don't worry, Alisha will help me find the answers am looking for" Kiya replied.
She got off the bed and looked at her Mom, she wanted to start explaining things to her but Kiya reserved her words.
"Kiya please tell me. What is really going on with you?" a concerned Zahra asked Kiya.
"I will tell you everything when i get my answers. For now I need to go to school, sorry Mom."
"Well I pray you get what you are looking for. Please i only need you to be careful." Zahra warned.
After their heart to heart conversation with Kiya, Zahra left the room with a relieved but still bugged mind. She was glad she had the conversation as promised to her husband but now, she is more worried for daughter. Could it be that her daughter has involved herself into something that is dark or secretive? Could it be that her daughter has joined some group of friends that are leading her into trouble? Or what if her daughter had joined a gang of some thugs? Her mind could not rest, she really needed to have answers to all those questions. In her heart she decided she was going to put an eye on Kiya, she would watch her moves.
After school, In the evening that same day, as promised, Kiya set to go to Alisha's place. She filled her backpack with her dairy, some home made snacks and lastly the strange white horn. Before she stacked it in the backpack, she held it up for a closer look. The horn look rather captivating, it quite beautiful and very mysterious in nature. Kiya sigh and thought; "I don't know what you are or why you are here but i will find out no matter what."
Kiya left a note for her Mom on the dinning table and left for Alisha's place. She boarded a tricycle, held her backpack tight as usual to avoid any road side grabbers. While the tricycle moves, Kiya set her eyes on the sky, she observed the faint clouds, the blue sky and the shinning sun and for the first time in her life, Kiya observed the beautiful nature up there. She had always been too busy looking at the ground but never up. For until now, her thought had always been filled only with her studies, plants, flowers and her computer, for nothings else matters to her. From the moving tricycle, she saw the beautiful sky, the splendor, the arrangement of it. She began to wonder how the sun so bright and hot yet never burned out, forever shinning bright without failing or tired. Kiya rejected whatever that is magic or mysterious but now after the event of that fateful Saturday, after observing the sky for some minutes, after seeing all the people that stood by the road, Kiya came to the realization that perhaps even her life itself maybe magic afterall. "What is magic?" she asked herself, "Is it nature's language or a formation of mankind?" she asked further.
Few minutes later, Kiya reached her destination, she paid the tricycle driver off and began to walk toward the Youth Corpers compound where Alisha lodged. Kiya decided that instead of knocking at the huge gate covering the compound, she could just call Alisha on her phone. She dialed the number, the line started connecting, but just as Kiya was waiting for Alisha to pick the call, she had scratching sound on the gate. It almost like someone knew she was coming at that particular time. It true that she had already informed Alisha of her coming in the evening but she didn't tell her the very time she was coming, yet, the gate just got opened just when she needed it.
"Alisha?" Kiya asked in amazement.
"Yea babe.. What up? I am excited to see you" Alisha calmly replied.
"How do you know that I was at the gate? I was gonna call you."
"Well when I saw your call I thought you might be at the gate so i zoomed to check.. like literally."
"Haha!" Kiya chuckled.. "Hmm, you zoomed uh? Well, good thing is that you are here. Can we go in please?" She asked.
"Abosultly!" Alisha answered.
The duo casually walked into the lodge. On getting inside Alisha's apartment, Kiya jumped on the bed to make herself comfortable. Without wasting any extra time, Alisha sat close to Kiya and asked her what was going on. Kiya dipped her right hand into her backpack and gently pulled out the white horn, she turned to Alisha to show her the horn. "Look at this" Kiya said.
On setting her eyes on the white horn, without any control, before an eye blink, Alisha's senses heighten seven times normal, every hair on her body rose, she felt a terrible sensation that started from the very end of her spine all the way to her brain. She felt a powerful imposing aura that she could not stand against, and before both she and Kiya could even think about thinking, she felt her back hit the wall of room with a very heavy impact.. BOOM! the wall she jammed, cracked completely but did not collapse. Kiya could not fathom what happened, all she knew was that Alisha was sitting right close to her but now she is not. In a speed faster than thought itself, a speed faster than light, Alisha's senses used the speed power in her to move her away from the horn which Kiya held.
"What the hell is that?" Kiya asked terrified.
"Get that freaking thing away from me please." Alisha blurted even more terrified.
"OK I will do that.. I will put it back inside"
Kiya hurriedly threw the horn back in the backpack and quickly zipped up.
"Am amazed.. What is going on with you Alisha?
Alisha sighed, "That explains it all." She said.
"What explains what all?" Kiya curiously asked.
"Ritekhye!" Alisha answered still breathing heavily.
"What is that?"
"Are you kidding me now? The freaking white horn in your backpack.. That is Ritekhye." she answered furiously.
"Oh ok.. am really confused here" Kiya admitted.
"I can't believe you are moving around with that thing in your backpack without knowing what it is."
"That is because I don't know what it is." Kiya yelled.
"What?" Alisha was surprised.
Both ladies became silent for some minutes, only the sound of heavy panting could be heard in the room, non of them wanted to speak first.. they just locked their eyes on each other, until Kiya decided to break the ice.
"This horn thing is confusing but what is more confusing to me right now is how you teleported to where you are right now.. away from me. How did you do that?"
Alisha got up from the floor where she sat after cracking her wall, she wiped the dirt off her indoor trousers, turned to look at her cracked wall, she felt sorry for herself, she walked to Kiya and gently sat at the exact spot she sat before zooming off in fear of the horn. She never wanted to respond to Kiya's question but when she saw Kiya's eyes locked on hers, she decided she had no choice but to explain things to her best friend.
"Haa.. [sighed heavily] I know this may shock you but well it shouldn't because being in possession of that horn mean you have seen things that even I haven't. But Since your mind is bugged with too much questions, I will start from here."
"Yes please.. tell me everything, I need the answers."
"Well what you saw me did was not teleportation, I simply ran but pretty fast. I have the ability to run very very very fast, even more than that."
"Oh my Gosh..What?"
"Yes.. I can run in the speed of light, you know like.. ffew ffew ffew."
"Aha.. Ok you mean you can run fast like flash?"
"Yes?"
"I didn't even see you run.. you where right here and then right there.. you didn't even move. You basiclly teleported, I've watched a lot of movies, i know what teleportation is."
"No.. I didn't teleport, I ran fast, and by the way flash is a fictional comic character, I am not."
"Haha.. Ok what about that fast guy in X-Men movies?"
"Babe, Quicksilver is also a fictional character.. but well he is closer in the comparison. Like Quicksilver, my speed powers comes from inside of me, it fused within my DNA.. Flash uses speed force to run fast. See the difference?"
"Ok.. Wait! So you have superpowers, like real super powers?"
"Yea.. and so do you. I mean you are in the possession of Ritekhye."
"Wow.. the horn in my bag is also a super power?"
"Even more than that babe.. That horn is the source of great cosmic powers no one can comprehend."
"Haha Ok! That thing almost turned my brain into a sponge for just one day but ever since, it been like this, as ordinary as any toy."
"Yea.. Yet, it is the source of my speed abilities. As a matter of fact, my powers came from only a debris of it powers. We never even had the chance for a direct contact with the horn, but what it did to us changed our lives forever."
"We? Who are we?"
"Mom and I. [Bows her head in sadness] May her soul rest in peace. Unlike me, the abilities she got from the horn killed her. She was the one with the teleportation powers."
"Oh no.. What happened?"
"Ha..! [she sighed] it a long story."
"I have all evening, so I am all ears." Kiya assured.
And so Alisha took them both into six years back in time.