Chapter 37

Odetta

The sunlight and the chirping of birds woke me up. I groggily turned around, when last did I see the sun and when last did I hear the sound of the birds. I sit up and looked around, I am in an unfamiliar place. This place is so beautiful. I was sitting down on a green beautiful grass, I could see different types and colors of flowers, I breathed in and I could smell the fresh, beautiful air. I looked up and the clear beautiful sky, so blue and bright. I happily stand up and move around with the butterflies, I love this place. It's so bright and lovely I could see a lot of healthy trees. I fall on the grass breathing in. Ryker place is so horrible and dirty. Wait Ryker! I sit up confused. I was not feeling any pains, my body was how it was, no pains or anything. Am I dead?

   I stood up and ran around looking for the sight of any living person. I ran past a lake and I saw my reflection, I gasped. My hair is in its original color of gold and my eyes have gone back to being red and blue. I touched my beautiful hair that was reaching my waist, it's so soft and full. I stood up.

"Am I truly dead?" I said, out loud.

"No you are not," a voice said. I flinched falling into the lake but I used my water element to hold myself, the water dropped me back on the land. My clothes were not wet. I looked at the old man that had hair all over his head and beards, he was holding a black staff.

"Who are you?" I asked. 

"I go by many names, depending on the one you want to call me Odetta" he said. I looked at him suspiciously, I weld my fire and threw it at him, he moved back and stopped the fire with his staff and sent it back at me. My fire surrounded me but it didn't burn me. He looked at me in awe.

"Who are you?" I ask again.

"Call me Aureus," he said, bowing. I stopped my fire.

"What am I doing here?" I asked. 

"You are here to train and master your powers and I will be your teacher," he said. I looked at him, even though he looks very old he looks strong and I can feel his powerful aura which tells me not to be deceived by his appearance. He smirked at me like he knows what I am thinking, he definitely knows what I am thinking, I block my mind with an impenetrable iron.

"You are a very smart tribrid, and I feel honored to be your teacher," he said. 

"Why do I need teaching?" I asked.

"Because you my dear have a mission to fulfill, here you are at your full potential, I am going to train you in the hardest manner" he said.

"What is this place?" I asked.

"This is no man's land, the time is at a standstill here. 3 months spent here is 3 hours on earth, your body is in the earth but your soul is here. I can bring you here in your sleep and I will be returning you occasionally so Ryker does not suspect anything. Be aware that whenever you get back to earth you get back to how you were, it is only you that can free yourself from Ryker and you will when the time is right. Now we are going to start training, this training is going to prepare your mind and heart and also teach you how to fight like a true warrior. We are going to start off with easy things then we shall move on to harder levels but be aware that not all things are real so sharpen your mind" he said. I nod my head. 

"Now for your first training you are going to look for this" he said, throwing something at me. I caught it, it was a round black stone. What is this?

"That is a black stone that is only found in hell, now this stone has a smell but it is very faint. 15 of that stone has been placed around, all I want you to do is change into your wolf and sniff out that stone, this training is to sharpen your wolf nose, you have 5 minutes' ' he said. The environment changed and I was no longer in the beautiful field, I was in a desert. But this is no ordinary dessert, everywhere was blood red, including the sky and the sand. I quickly shifted to my wolf Louisa, I looked at my golden fur. 

"Stop admiring my fur and sniff out the stone!" She screamed at me. I smiled.

"Glad to have you back Louisa" I said. I raised my snout and started sniffing but I didn't get any smell, I moved around but no smell. I think about when I held that stone, the only thing I could feel was something that was lifeless, but how could a stone smell lifeless? Unless he lied to me! The stone doesn't have any smell! It only has the aura of something dead. I closed my eyes trying to get the feeling of something lifeless and I got them in different places. I ran to the place and used my paws to dig into the sand, I started bringing out all the stones one by one. And I brought everything out, my surroundings changed again and I was back in the field with the stones. I turned back to my human.

"You liar!" I yelled, sending my fire and water at him at the same time. He used his staff to stop it again. He chuckled.

"What did I do?" He asked.

"You lie to me, the stone doesn't have any smell" I said, glaring at him. He smiled.

"Yes it doesn't and you figured it out, that is very smart of you. Now it's time for you to go back, Ryker is coming"he said. My mood deepens.

"Don't worry Odetta, this is just a phrase that you must pass through and it's very important that you go through it because that is the only way you can be at your full potential" he said. 

"You mean if I haven't blocked my powers I won't be going through all this?" I asked.

"Yes in a way, you still would have passed through something just like this and that is your mate rejecting and killing you, but you obviously choose go to through this life as far as your mate accept and loves you now it all depend on you if you want to have an external life with him" he said. I wanted to talk but I could feel myself falling through an abyss that is going to take me back to my miserable life.