Golden Soul

He felt a cold sensation as the pill slid down his throat.

Ethan's heart was beating twice than normal, as he was anxiously awaiting the result of the soul pressure pill .

It has been almost a minute since he took the pill,but nothing seemed to be happening,he could not feel anything,no changes in his body,no pain,everything just felt normal.

His ecstasy and excitement bar began to wane rapidly,as disappointment and sadness began to build up in his heart.

Ethan decided to wait for some minutes before he finally gave up all hope,minutes passed and still,nothing happened.

Ethan was about to give up,but his hope bar suddenly accelerated as he suddenly felt a sharp pain,the pain didn't emanate from his body but from something inside of his body .

Ethan first thought,it was probably his anxious mind that was playing tricks on him but he dropped all doubts in his heart, when suddenly he felt as though a huge mountain was pressing on him.

"Its working,haahaha" Ethan yelled joyfully in his heart .

The pressure was not pressing on his body but on his soul,but the feeling of pains in his soul was kind of strange it didn't feel like the usual body pain it was a very strange feeling,at first the pain emanating from his soul was endurable but as time went on,the intensity of the pain escalated.

He did not just only feel pain in his soul but he felt it on even his body,his body was resonating forcefully due to the pressure,he gritted his teeth so that he wouldn't scream as he didn't want to attract the attention of the guards,not because he was afraid of not letting the guards know what he was doing,but if they noticed he was screaming loudly and constantly,they would be forced to inform his mother and that wouldn't be good.

While in the midst of enduring the pain,Ethan suddenly felt something leave his body,it was faint but he felt it,before he could even ponder about it,his darkened vision due to the fact that he closed his eyes suddenly changed.

Where he was now was strange to him,he had never seen anywhere like this before ,he motioned his hands to wipe his face to ascertain if he wasn't dreaming,but what he saw shocked the daylight out of him his hands were transparent like that of an apparition.

He scanned the rest of his body and to his amazement and dread they were all transparent,he was just like a phantom.

He was not standing on bare ground but was floating .

"Am I dead?!!, did I fail ?!!,and where am i?!! "Ethan was fidgeting, trepidation was building up in his heart,that is if he still had a heart.

His surroundings was new to him,every where was pitch black but there was something in this dark space that caught his attention,it was a huge golden ball that shined bright just like the sun,in true fact it was analogous to the sun,though it was far inferior in size to the sun .

It was able to illuminate the whole dark space,but that was not the most interesting thing,what baffled Ethan the most was that right on the golden ball was a huge silver tree,the tree was colossal and enchanting,the huge tree had only nine fat branches with a fruit each on the nine branches.

The fruits were sparkling and looked so much like gems.

The roots of the silver tree were anchored to the huge golden ball,flowing through the silver roots were dense golden rays of light.

If Ethan's guess is correct,the tree should be absorbing nutrients or should he say absorbing energy from the huge golden ball to stay alive.

Ethan decided to move closer to the huge ball,but something outlandish was happening to him the farther he moved towards the ball,the more he felt a strange connection between him and the golden sun.

He was very scared and decided to turn back,but to his shock he could not control his phantom legs any longer,they were moving on their own accord.

He wanted to scream but he immediately decided against it,if he was truly dead as he thought,then what should he fear again,and he didn't even have an idea of where he was .

After few seconds of floating towards the ball,he finally reached it,Ethan unwittingly had his mouth ajar the scene before him was mind blowing ,the light emanating from the silver tree were like that of the moon,to Ethan he felt as though he was looking at the moon placed on the sun.

He unwittingly stretched his hands to touch the golden ball,but he was suddenly halted by an ancient voice that Ethan could bet that he had heard somewhere.

"It isn't polite for you to touch your soul when its about to produce soul force "

Ethan was shocked badly,firstly by the sudden appearance of the voice and secondly,the voice referred to the golden ball as his soul.

The voice spoke once again,talking as if it knew what Ethan was pondering on.

"Yes,your soul"

Ethan was about to freak out how could this magnificent golden ball be his soul and where in the world is the voice that is speaking to him.

" Show your....." before Ethan could complete his sentence he felt a slight tap on his back.

"Here I am"

"Hahahahahaha"

Ethan screamed loudly in trepidation as he darted towards his left side like a mad cat.

Ethan turned to stare at the beast who scared the daylight out of him.

Floating behind Ethan was an old man who had a mocking grin plastered on his face,he was not like a phantom but rather corporeal .

The old man looked extremely mysterious with his green beards that looked twice longer than normal,he looked more like a beast with his striking green eyes.

Ethan had anger dancing in his eyes,he was even more annoyed when he saw the mocking grin on the old man's face.

But he decided to suppress his anger,not because he didn't know what to say,but he needed to find out where he was and it seems the old man knew a lot about this place,so he needed to apply patience.

"Can you kindly tell me where i am"

"Has I said before the golden ball is your soul,so this is the space in your body where your soul resides"

Ethan stared at the golden ball,it was just to hard believe,how in the world could this be his soul.

"If you say this is my soul,then what's this "Ethan said as he pointed at his ghost body.

" Idiot,it is just the spiritual projection of your mind that I pulled out "

Ethan was more than shocked "So am not dead".

The old man nodded his head in reply.

Ethan was more than happy,he was happy that he was not dead and that this beautiful thing right in front of him was his soul,no wonder he felt that strong connection.

But Ethan had a question he needed to ask.

" So who are you and why did you bring me here?!! "

"Ethan,you ask me who am I"

The old man replied as he bursted into laugher.

Ethan had angry expression on his face,what's so funny about what he said,but come to think of it how did he know his name,something felt so familiar about this old man.

Ethan stared at the old man as though he was a maths equation.

" Green beards, green eyes,and why in the world does his laughter sound like roaring "Ethan thought .

" Roaring,wait a minute"said Ethan aloud with a mysterious light in his eyes.

"YOU ARE DREGA!!!!" Ethan screamed with excitement and fear in his tone,excited because he found who this old man is and trepidation because of the fact that a dragon lived inside of his body.

" Yes lad,I am lord Drega" said the old man as he had pride written on his face .

Ethan unwittingly took a step back,he could not understand how a dragon he occasionally saw in his dreams appear inside his body.

" But I thought it was all a dream "

" A dream of six years "The old man said with a grin on his face.

"Then tell me what it is !!"Ethan could not help but raise his voice he was getting irked by the constant grinning of this old man.

" That's why I brought you here "The old man said with an extremely serious expression on his face.

" okay "

"when I begin to explain you shall not interrupt me,am I clear ".

Ethan nodded his head it seems whatever the dragon wants to say is very important .

" On the day you killed yourself,or should i say failed to commit suicide ".