Inside the library
Sloane and Priya cleaned up the tables and chairs before walking around the place; which seemed to go on forever.
"This library is bigger than I expected" Priya said "It even has more than one floor but there's no way to reach the upper floors. I don't see any stairs"
"The library is probably the name of the book you found" Sloane said "The name of this place is Beginning And End Library. It most likely goes on forever. Based on the concept that as far as living things exist, information will continue to flood this library and books will be created with both a beginning and end, depending on the being and topic related to it"
"In other words, to each being, is their own book" Priya said "It's like a detailed information on everything"
"Whoever built the library, must have wanted knowledge on everyone and everything" Sloane said as she came to a stop in front of a pillar
"Most likely, what really caused the civil war will be explained" Priya said before looking at the pillar "There's a hand mould on this"
Sloane brought her hand over the hand mould before setting it down and the pillar lit up as a screen appeared and some words began to appear
[What type of knowledge have you come to acquire?]
Sloane and Priya looked at each other, and Priya shrugged
"Don't look at me, I never went this deep into the library" Priya said and Sloane shook her head
"I want information on how the current civil war going on between the three demon races living on earth, happened" Sloane said
[Very well]
As soon as those words appeared, Sloane and Priya were lifted in the air and moved to a nearby table and chair
"What the hell?" Priya asked and some books began to fly towards the table before landing in front of them both.
Sloane didn't mind and opened the book in front of her, before reading it. Seeing that Sloane was fine with it, Priya also opened the book in front of her, and started reading.
An hour later, Sloane suddenly shut her book.
"You're fast" Priya said
"It's probably because I'm not human" Sloane said "We need to cover more ground. So, I'll explain what I read to you"
"Sure" Priya said as she shut the book in her hands
"The three demon races, the werewolves, the vampires, and the association of magic which was made up of witches and warlocks, came to the human world at different times. The association of magic had been around since ancient times but during the medieval period, the werewolves and vampires slowly began to appear. They fully settled down four hundred and five years ago.
Some centuries later, the three races decided on a ranking system for their people. But the ranking system was unstable, and more and more seemed to rank up. They decided to set boundaries and what the magic association and vampires proposed, was the merging of a devil's bloodline with that of their council members and their own royal bloodline. The werewolves took no part in it due to the fact that even if one were to be on the same rank as another, their powers were never the same level; the ones whom first entered the rank, were far more powerful and it wasn't easy to rank up either.
Even after all the experiments of the magic association and vampires showed progress, the devil's bloodline was unstable and unpredictable. For those at the bottom who were used as test subjects, they ran mad and killed themselves but the stronger ones could bare with the torment. The leaders of the three races at that time, were Supreme witch Alastair, King Alpha Mike and Vampire King Apollo. These three people were all relatives of mine"
"Relatives?" Priya asked in surprise "Your relatives are pretty messed up"
"When Alexa first told me about them, I couldn't believe that these people were related to me by blood either" Sloane sighed as she tapped on the book "But if it's in this book, then it's the truth. The unavoidable truth"
"Let's focus more on what happened" Priya said "This story is surprisingly interesting" she said and Sloane cleared her throat before continuing
"The King Alpha Mike, later found out about the demon seed in the southern werewolf tribe, that was equal in power to that of his family's spirit seed. He was tempted and wanted to destroy it. It was at that time, he heard a voice in his head that told him to give up one of his sons in exchange for power. He had two sons. One was my father, Reese and the other was the cause of the civil war, my uncle, Leon.
He greedily gave up Leon Michelle, in exchange for power. My father wasn't happy about it, and killed him. That was the starting point; as the children who weren't happy about their parents deeds, killed them off, replaced them in their positions and created an alliance"
"If they created an alliance, why is it that any human who enters the forests-"
"That's what I'm getting to. Stop interrupting like I'm telling a fairy tale you can just ask questions as you please" Sloane scolded
"Sorry"
"In other to stop the vampires and werewolves from continually fighting, my parents who had been in love with each other and were from the different races, announced their marriage to their races. It was accepted by all, except the council members of both races and Leon.
Leon had decided to work on a weapon when he had heard that my mother was pregnant for me. It was a weapon that was to remain with me after I was born and if I started suffering from either the devil's bloodline or the spirit seed, it's duty was to separate one of the two from my body, materialize it, and destroy it"
"So that was Josey's role?" Priya interrupted again and Sloane only shook her head "Sorry" she apologized
"As I grew older, Leon worried about several other things going wrong with my body. He also believed my father shouldn't have chosen my mother as a wife and have the spirit seed moved into my body. Once again, a voice was heard in Leon's mind and over night, he changed.
The civil war started soon after my father and mother were killed by him. He gained supporters and it was as though they were possessed by devils. They broke the rules and the alliance fell apart. Nobody expected Leon to act in such a manner and he was deemed as a traitor" Sloane said
"Everything started to go downhill after the voice he heard in his head" Priya said
"That's what I was thinking too" Sloane said "Good people don't just change overnight like that. He did a lot trying to keep me alive and he even did a lot for Josey, but after he heard that voice...." she suddenly went silent
"He changed" Priya completed her sentence "Your grandfather...also heard a voice. And he offered Leon to that voice. What if, that voice was the cause of everything and Leon...along with the supporters were all just pawns"
Sloane pursed her lips and frowned
"If that's so, I'll never forgive that voice" Sloane said "Whatever it was, there's got to be a way to defeat it here. We'll be getting stronger by ourselves here, while the others can stick to Dante"
"That's a bit unfair. This library has unparalleled knowledge about everything" Priya laughed until Sloane got up from her seat and moved to an open space. "What are you doing?" Priya asked as she followed Sloane
"Come, I'll teach you how to dance" Sloane said as she stood with one hand on her waist
"Wait you couldn't mean the Hell Dance right?" Priya asked and Sloane stood behind her and began to push her legs apart until Priya was forced to do a split with Sloane. And as her body landed on the ground, she winced
"Yeah. But you need to be flexible first" Sloane said
'I wonder what the others are up to' Priya thought 'They must be having it easy'
******
"Put your backs into it" Dante shouted on the training field
The others were told to take positions that help circulate air and magic round the body. They were also to move the magic round their body and find how they best used magic.
"If you want to make magic take whatever form you want, you need to first know yourselves" Dante said "For that, you need to learn how to use magic without those stupid circles" he added as he looked at everyone
Clark was able to bring out something the size of a pebble but without a magic circle, he couldn't control it and it exploded in his face. The same happened with Nathan and the others.
"You're doing it wrong" Mackenzie said as she stepped onto the field with a dog in the form of pink energy "You're not meant to force it. Act normal"
"You all should be ashamed of yourselves" Rielle taunted "She's nine. Younger than all of you with years and yet....she has perfect control"
'This isn't easy, damn it' the others shouted in their heads while staring at Mackenzie
Mackenzie just walked over to a corner and started playing with the dog, without saying a single word