But I Was Almost There
Strength 210 (-200)
Speed 221 (-200)
Defense 220 (-200)
Intelligence 249 (-200)
"I don't understand any of this!"
My fist flies down hitting the table I was sitting at. Where's Akari when I need him?
I slouch back into my chair, I mean this is so frustrating. Sure I knew this process would be time-consuming but not straight-up frustrating.
All this "magic" talk really isn't up my alley. Sure I can fully understand the language but that doesn't mean I'll just understand words I haven't even seen before.
Normally Akari would help me out with it but I bet you there's a nine out of ten chance he's sleeping or snuck out and seeing as it's night time he's nowhere near the house.
The last time I tried magic it went nowhere. All these books about magic circles are confusing and idiodic.
I need to get home, I swear if I stay here in this random universe I'll lose my mind.
I get up and grab the book that had the picture of the magic circle. And march towards the hatch. We haven't been in here in a while and basically use it for storage.
I really hope this doesn't take long, Sara and Marissa are coming over tomorrow and I hope to be gone before they show up. I get to the middle of the basement and flip to the picture.
"To draw thy garanam the brightest stone is needed…" I stare at the sentence for a bit.
"Huh?"
Great, this makes even less sense once I read the actual words.
I turn my right hand over and look at the bright gemstone embedded into my hand. Maybe I could use this as the stone they're talking about.
I carefully copy the magic circle on the ground, I step carefully out of the circle, trying not to smudge the lines, and look at my work.
It looks alright, i mean it's a bit uneven but that won't matter, right? Welp it won't hurt to try or it will.
I drop the book out of my hand and kneel next to the circle.
My hands drop to the lines and close my eyes.
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I open my eyes
Nothing happened.
I don't know what would happen. I just felt like this was the best course of action. I know to do magic theres like a phrase or something to do but like thats stupid. But I want to go home.
I close my eyes, all i gotta do is make some bullshit up that's professional.
"Celectia, grant your wisdom and power into me to go back home.
I wait and wait, maybe five minutes pass and I open my eyes, nothing, nothing changed. Still in this same stupid world in the same stuffy basement.
Laughter comes out of my throat like a hellish sound, then the tears come.
It didnt work, this stupid magic shit that might have been the only way to bring me home. The only thing that could bring me back to my friends. It didnt fucking work.
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"Ren!"
My head shoots up and I have a banging headache.
I look to my left and see Vivian and kanna. Vivian looked a bit pissed but not really.
"Oh, hey guys, what happened?"
I picked my head up and looked around, nothing bad happened.
"You fell asleep like the dead, I was about to get kanna to fetch some water to throw on you."
Kanna holds up the bucket that could have been holding water.
"What's the rush?" i get up and start to collect my things.
"It's almost curfew, we didn't want you getting grounded, then it would just be me and kanna"
"What about rya?"
Suddenly a banging headache overcomes me and hurts so much I almost fall to the ground.
"She's not here."
I look to vivian and find her blank stare, then my eyes flicker to kanna, has she always have that filled with water,
SHE'S NOT HERE!
The screaming echoes in my ears, I feel dizzy.
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My eyes shoot open to the dusty basement and an image of my mom at the dinner table. The circle is like water when I touch it and it fades away it looks like it just poofed.
"No! Come back! COME BACK!'' I claw at the circle markings which are so smudged at this point it wouldn't come back even if I did it correctly.
I slump into the circle and more and more tears fall.
"Please, don't leave me here…"
!!!
I wipe my hand over my eyes quickly and look to the entrance expecting to see akari or marissa but nothing there.
"Who, what?!"
I hear a faint whisper of "why, why are you crying when you have this amazing opportunity!"
I feel bewildered, there's no other word for it, whiplash almost. Then comes the hatred, why in the world do you have any say?!