Everyone has a dream, I had one too. It was to become the strongest mage of my academy , I wanted to be at the top of the world. Like my father.
But as they say life is a bitc*, my dreams of becoming a mage , competing as a student and finally working with him ...all of them ....all are destroyed.
I was not a prideful man, not a vengeful soul, just a student I never asked for this body , for this life.
I NEVER ASKED TO BE BURDENED BY MY PAST!
*sniffles* i never asked for it , why ?....why? always me GOD , why?
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Yathartha's view
Today was the final selection of the academy , to make a list of people who get promoted and people who are sent back home. This was a opportunity and the last hurdle between , become a renowned mage and just another man.
My boi Tashi , he was always admant on bieng admitted into the university , to become a mage to learn magic and to join his fathers positon. But alas we he was rejected. They said that Halflings are not allowed and that their aptitude for magic is not enough.
It hurts when your efforts are wasted cause of some bullshi* reason. But what hurts more it that another person especially you friend was accepted regardless of that reason.
Tashi was a half vampire and a half human, while his another friend Alester was half elf and half human was selected regardless. This world is trully trash, but it cant be helped . As , much as I'd like to comfort him I cant. I have no idea !
Hearing that all along he had been a half vampire would alone be a shock enough for some serious existential crises.
It sucks .
I got selected as well I was a full werewolf and also had a average score, even less than that of Tashi. Still I got selected but he wasn't.
-_-_-
I decided to not go the university any ways it was never my goal. I just wanted to chill out succeed my father's business and live a easy life.
But Tashi, he wanted to become a mage , rise to the top a place where his father had gone , a place which his father died serving.
Today I decided to take him out, so that he chills out a bit , I reach his apartment a shady place filled with the smell of weed , and and what not.
I entered his room , the door opened.
Inside , I hear a creak, through the door frame to his bedroom I see his feet stretched upwards .
My heart skips a beat , dropping my suitcase on the cold floor, I rush inside .
There I see him holding a broom and cleaning his celling fan. My heartbeat returns .
"hi...."a dry reply comes from him at my baffled state.
"ay, my boi wadcha doin?"
"trying to find pourpose....I guess." his eyes sulk , his face baggy . His lips bitten to the point they were scared. Mustve cried his heart out.
"Leave this shi* , you see I was thinkin, what to do now that we are finnaly adults. And guees wha?"
"No" that's expected. From him
"I found a place, a motel all the hot girls there, think about it , about the possibilities we can have there."
At that moment a sudden and angry voice of a female come from behind, "No, my Tashi isnt going anywhere and not the motel." the girl swooshes past me and starts clinging onto his clothes.
It was Adela Aelo. Well, lets just say she has some issues , she is what we call a high level mad extrovert pro max.
Tashi moves himself of the chair and distances himself, "Stop being irritating. "with a clear forehead.
Adela she just smiles at this .
"Tashiii, lets go to the shrines, just the two of us and no unnecessary distractions. PLWEAS" It might sound cute normaly but she is a 18 year old flat washboard. It aint normal at all. But above all! How'd she call me a disstracion.
"Its decided then Tahsi, we go to the motel pack your bags and we are going now." Adela hits my stomach lightly after I spoke my words out.
"I am comming wherever he goes and he isnt going to motel" I was about to start a argument with her but at that moment tashi throws us both out of the room and locks the door.Now , who's the distraction.
But I know its no use talking straight with her , so "Oi , girl...I have a deal"she tilts her head ;anger still eminent on her face.
"What is it you devil ?" She callin me a devil and holding her pendant so tight that it might break.
"I know you want good for Tashi . So I say we both plan a vacation for him."I finnaly take a good look at her. Her bright red eyes still flaming with anger. The hair brown like mud, Her skin more whiter than a cloud and her hight above all, she was about 5'6 , and not developed at all.
"I am not sharing him with anyone. But I will agree for his sake."she becoming more aggresive and dominant in her tone.
"Not like you own him."I mumbling
It was done , we opened his door , for some reason Adela had his keys . As , much as I hate her for being a stalker , I can't deny that she does take good care of my boi. She cooks for him almost all the time and even tries to comfort him. Though as a hardened man he dosent accept anyone easily.
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Adela's POV
Today was the first day of our travels, together. Me and my dear Tashi were on the path in a caravan , sitting in front of each other. It would have been the best moments of my life. But, only to be ruined by this pig. Yatharatha a 18 year old boy , and a supposed 'friend' of my Tashi.
Now to focus on my prince charming, he was a god of charisma if there existed one 6 feet tall, a slender body and his dark black eyes. Though right now , he is broken. His Father's shelter left him at the tender age of 5, his mother she...ran away with his fathers money leaving only the apartment behind him. The only ever attachment he had was Alester. He was a strand of hope Tashi tried to grab on, he grew up with Alester and his butler's help . But just when everything was fine Alester's family showed up saying that he could not stay with scum and they took that strand away from him as well.
Around the same time I entered his life at least that's what he says. I was a run away child ,...I stayed in his empty apartment , he allowed me to stay saying he never seemed to mind. By the time he was 15 he started to attend the academy the academy provided children like him with money for their sustenance. But still he always exchanged letters with his friend; and the week before he was happy smiling cheek to cheek.
He had scored highest from his academy , and everything was going smooth he was getting accepted to the best Magical university of the kingdom a place he dreamt of a place where he'd be reunited with his friend again. But on the day of selection he came back, lifeless, his shoulders bowed, accompanied by yathartha. He shut his door, on me that day I could hear him cry himself out, hitting the walls and breaking things.
Since then he has been distancing himself from me always looking at me with eyes of fear , afraid of something . Even after pushing he never opened up as to why he distanced himself.
Now , all I hope he gets recovered from this and gets a purpose to live .
Even though its a bit selfish i would like to be that purpose,
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Narrator's POV:
As the caravan kept moving on the hilly roads to their destination , a village about two kilometers from the city. It was a secluded village , separated by the hilly terrain and the ler lake.
The village's name was ZALITH.
Inside the caravan lay dead silence . No , body spoke anything , Tashi leaning his head over to the window his eyes having no light in them . Yathartha was asleep , having no care as to what happened. Meanwhile, Adela read a novel blushing as she flipped through the pages and stealing glances in the direction of Tashi.
The caravan driven by a old , muscular man , two horses on the front .
It was past dawn as they entered the village gates.
Adela kicks yathartha's in the leg ,"Wake up you pig, we are in the town now, go and book two rooms one for you and one for us both."
Yathartha still grogy ,"Are we there?"
The caravan halts at once on the station, the trio gets out. yathartha carrying all the lugage. He sighs at the sight of Adela trying to get Tashi to hold her hand and Tashi avoiding her,
Inside the inn
Inside Tashi's calm body was a storm of thoughts ,'A half vampire, a halfling . I had no Idea , no clue that one of my parent was a vampire, is my father really my father or ...that woman could she have...no , just the thought of it makes me want to throw up. As if losing my dream wasnt enough , the dread of killing Adela out of natural urges haunts me , everytime I notice her , I feel hands crawling all over my body as if guiding me to.....'
he covers his mouth .
'is trully a part of me or my imagination ..... the only person I can not harm even in this inn is yatharth. The times when the voices told me to.....I showed them ....as if they were nightmares but knowing that its just a feeling of hunger, it is hard. Hard to accept such a harsh truth, why God ...just why me?'
Tashi sat in the corner of his bed covering himself with the blanket, yathartha freshening himself, and Adela was shoved to another room .
Knock knock
Sounds of some one knocking on the door enters the room. Tashi gets up and opens the door, there a woman wearing the inn's uniform stood with a cart and a few dishes .Tashi spine goes cold as images of him eating the woman and drinking her blood flood his mind , he stares intently at the woman. The woman shyly looks away "Young master, this is your meal. " Tashi is shaken out of his thoughts he gasps shaking his head a few time "Thank you for the service ma'am" He picks up the plates and closes the door.
After closing the door he rushes to his bed and starts scraping , hitting his head, he stops after a few moments and he looks himself in the eye on the faint reflection of him on the glass pane of the window of the living room.
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'This feeling its just a imagination of me right?.....there's no way id'd eat a..... No i wouldnt.' Tashi starts shivering while looking at himself. He covers his mouth as he tries to organize himself. 'Its been fine all these years., it will be ok ... it will .....yes., but the feeling keeps intensifying and the smell. The smell of them keeps numbing my mind...it is controlling me.....what must I do God.....please this troubled child of yours begs you!!!!' Tashi slips into his bed leaving the food on the table and covers himself with the blanket , letting himself curl and cry in the warmth of the bed.