Start of the Disappearance

Aileen's POV

Nothing much happened throughout the day. All we did was talk and such. I met the principal, which in my shock, is about only in his late 20s, usually, they would age around their 50s, but he seems to make good decisions as the teachers say.

"How was the day?" Mom ask as she injected the syringe in my arm and draw out blood. My blood will be use as the "water" to handle the mana that, maybe in the future, I'll be using. "That..seriously nothing new, I just met Rachel and really didn't expected to see her" I replied, she pulled out the syringe and put it inside a test tube-like container and secured it with a lid, "ohh..I forgot to tell you about that, she decided to transfer there after hearing you passed, she immediately cancelled her entrance at a university from the neighboring town" she explained, keeping everything inside a ziplock and down the tray, "I'll be giving you another one tomorrow" she turned her back after saying that, I stood up, "is there an activity tomorrow?" I ask, "your first trial is happening tomorrow, didn't you hear?" Without stopping she said and turned right to our pantry, "I didn't, Rachel didn't tell me what activities there are this week" I answered, she put down the tray on the shelf and face me, "did you practice?" She ask with a stern voice, I flinch. Looking away, I said, "wasn't you who told me to stop for awhile?" I reasoned out, "I don't remember telling you that" she replied back, oh shit, "was that father who told me that? That's odd, I surely remember someone telling me that, I better ask him" I said while trying to escape before the living hell, pacing my steps up to the stairs, out of a sudden, I felt heat up my back and my body responded as it stop midway, "I'll ask him so go outside" she said, by outside she means the "territorial".

"So I heard.." my dad started as he enter the barriers of this void, I stood up in hurry, "I seriously don't find what's the purpose of this when I don't even have my own Guide" I respond, he look at me up and down, "let's try this one more time" he said and regenerate a pack of mana around his hand, "wait wait!" I yelled out of panic. The blood drained on me also took a great amount of mana, maybe the amount left in me already diminish and left me with an abnormal state, my own state.

He didn't listen and continue on attacking. I step aside, letting him miss an inch, causing an explosion behind me that send me flying to the corner, "I won't take mercy on you" he said and started regenerating again, "oh come on.." I grumbled as I run to the other side, not a good idea, honestly, but let's get away for a little, "is this your punishment? Mae didn't let you drink the mana she prepared earlier"my dad said, eyeing my every movement, "maybe" I shrug, I stop on his side, "what good can learning defence bring to me? I don't even have a Guide" I said, standing in defense form, "in this world, whether or not, do you have a guide, that you will still be on the battleground" he said, jumping mid air to release a punch, "I can also fly out of the battlefield if I want to!" I yelled as I block it out, the air made out of impact blows hard on my face that I force to twist my neck on the left side, feeling as if it would break, shit, I'll die even before he releases his aura, I thought, coughing out the wind I caught, he step back after a few seconds, "your a weakling believing that your a cripple who can't stand with the world" dad suddenly said, "that's not exactly what I am" I said as I tried bringing out a non-existent mana to my fist, "I am a coward.. " I run towards him in full open, he pulled his leg backwards, his going for a kick, I immediately change my direction, facing his right side, "who knows when to stand and when to die down" I said as I launch my attack on his ribs, he drop after receiving the impact, he cough out a few specs of blood on the ground, later he faces me, "it seems it's still written all over you" he said, "but I still don't know your limits" he added, and in a blink of an eye, everything went heavy as the color of his aura covered the territory, I faint out of the gravity that was made by the intense aura, "a close one indeed, but you better toughen out those instincts of yours" he always say that whenever I'm close to victory, "yeah, now turn it off" I plead, the area began to clear a second later, and I feel light, "get in, I still have things to do" he ordered, I follow without a word.

"I lost again...but because of the aura" I said as I face the tiled floor of our house, "do you want me to fight you next?!" Mom yelled out of frustration, I run out of instinct, "we are not in a time of war!" I yelled back, going out to the front yard and out the small gate, I stop on my tracks as I stood at the other side, "I'll go for a walk so calm down for a bit!" I said and run off again to the park.

"Hah...." I sigh as I sit on a bench, all the pain from the fight with dad hurt my back and shoulders, but with the impact, I'm lucky this is all I got. "You look like you need to be at a graveyard" someone said as I heard a thump beside me, I jump off the bench and face the source of the voice, it was Rachel, "oh hey, didn't really know your there" I said and closed my eyes, "I got beaten up by dad and I nearly got my ass whooped next by mom" I added, still closing my eyes, I heard the bench creak, "well, there is more to feel in the university" she said beside me, I look over, "I'll probably go absent when that happens" I open my eyes to look up the sky, "Yu Zhang Wei, remember him?" She ask, "a boy died because of a student getting serious at the exam. The boy happened to be--" "yeah I don't wanna know that part" I said and stand up, "Zhang Wei hated this world anyway and wishes to be reincarnated, for hell I know if he really did or not, he thanked his killer as his words" I added as I faced her, "I'm going back" I walk away, bowing my head down, I'm talking again as if I have a Guide.

Time skip→ "I'm home..." I yelled out as I step in the front yard, closing the gate. I waited for a response but it was quite, is no one home?, I thought, I cautiously walk towards the porch, "Mom? Dad?" I yelled again, no response. That's odd, they should be welcoming me with verbal lashing if I done this kind of activity, but the house is completely quiet, "are they out?" I ask myself, reaching for the doorknob and twisting it open, I peeked inside, there's no one to be found, the house is clean and all than what I remember earlier, did they really left? Where have they gone to? Mall?

I climbed upstairs and look at each room, no one. I drop myself onto my bed, relaxing my body, but the quite feeling bothers me, I snatch my phone from the table and see if they left any message, none. "Maybe they're in a hurry" I finally said as I stretch my arms and close my eyes, falling asleep slowly.

Many people back then brag about their dreams. Dreams are way to connect with their Guides, whether a faelthan, member, or even an elite, they are expected to have a dream or else their Guides' will be said to be cold.

I, for once, never had one. I always find myself drowning down a dark swamp, unable to talk. There are legends and theories that reincarnated undergo the same thing, it makes me calm and think I am a reincarnated whenever I go back in this swamp, saving the sympathy I have for myself.

As I go deeper down the darkness, a small light slowly grows under the swamp as I fall closer. It felt warm yet eerie, it felt as if the light should never be touch nor seen, "that's right..." a voice echoed through the darkness, "you should swim back up or you'll be caught up with the light" it said, I didn't know where it came from but I followed what it said and swim back up, more like my body did.

After all that, I slowly find myself slump down the floorboard, still surrounded by silence and no signs of Mom and Dad.

Chapter 3 end.

To be continue