Antithetic's Tale

Chapter 21

"Darn!" I shouted. They are the owner of Mreine. Now, I think more and more about who Zeus Oxford is. He is not Zephyr Crawford, surprisingly he needs to change his name. Who is he? Is he like me too? If they own Mreine, it means he knows me. He knows what I have.

I want to get rid of my brain so that I can lose my thoughts as well.

I walked over to Ion's room. I want to answer all the questions in my brain.

"Open this damn door, Ion!" I shouted. He quickly opened the door. I immediately went in there and locked the door.

"Who are you?" I asked him. It is impossible that he did not have the same ability as me and Dwight. It's impossible!

"Hala, you don't know me anymore ?!" He asked nervously so I frowned.

"Why do you have amnesia?" I hit his head because of what he said.

"I'm damn serious! Who are you?" He snorted and soon after, he became serious again.

"I'm Ion." He answered calmly.

"Tell me, do you have dexterity too?" I asked him directly.

"Why do you want to know?" He asked seriously.

"Don't I deserve to know everything?" I will ask. They did nothing but add to my thoughts, they just kept everything mysterious to me.

"You don't have to know. It doesn't matter." He said suddenly. He turned his back on me and sat on his bed. He took his cellphone and put his earphone in his ear.

"It does matter, Ion. Stop giving me more confusion! My life is a living mystery, stop adding more." I pulled out the earphone he had put in his ear. I know he avoids talking to us, and because of his actions, I'm sure he has dexterity.

"I am afraid to hurt you because of those facts!" He shouted at me back.

"That's the mere fact about this world! Everybody will hurt me, Ion! They are all meant to hurt me so stop being a coward!" We are already shouting. I was angry with him not because he did not want to tell me the things I needed to know but because he was afraid of hurting me.

"I won't hurt you." He said softly but because the surroundings were quiet I heard that. I also bowed to what he said.

"You will, now tell me. What's the real score about you?" I approached him. He looked at me badly.

I was so close to the table when suddenly my position shook. The whole room is shaking and I think, the whole house is. Earthquake and that's for sure. After a minute, it also stopped. I just ignored that and looked at Ion again.

"That's me. Now, get out." He said seriously and angrily. I was stunned, my suspicion was correct. He is not normal, he is like us.

I turned around because I knew that was what he wanted me to do. Before I closed the door I looked at him again, I saw him looking out the window and seemed to be looking at the moon. I went out the door. Now, he is one of my suspect. I can't believe this.

Who are the people around me? Why do they give me so many mysteries? Am I meant to solve all of this?

I only need one person to go to now, I need her right now. I went straight to my room to sleep. I'm not sleepy yet but I think, this is my comfort zone. Thyra is my comfort zone, my dream is my liberation.

I lay down on my bed and closed my eyes. I'm not really sleepy.

I closed my eyes for a long time, and as I opened my eyes, Thyra's face greeted me.

Wait? Am I asleep yet?

I'm still here in my room but the only difference is that Thyra is here.

"What happened?" He asked me kindly.

"Am I dreaming?" I asked him. I used to dream in the forest.

"What happened?" He ignored my question. Maybe I was dreaming.

"Zeus, they are the owner of Mreine." I told him. He nodded at me.

"Another thing is, Ion also has dexterity. I can't help thinking that he will do something to me that is not good." I said seriously. I just need someone to listen to me, it doesn't matter if he doesn't answer me.

"If you don't love, the book would just be a book, not a prophecy. Just keep yourself cool about it." He told me. I know, if I do not love, no one will kill me. The content of the book they say will not come true. I know that, and it is also vague that I will love. The thing is, should I still trust Zephyr and Ion? I do trust them but when I think they have something to do with Mreine, especially Zephyr, I can't help but think. I don't trust Mreine, they are hiding something from me. They are hiding my own details.

That's why I am helping Dwight, I want to discover the real thing about myself. I want to know why I have this ability.

"I know, Thyra. I know." I answered him weakly. I told myself before, I have no one else to trust, but look at me now, I am trusting everyone around me. Maybe it's not that bad to trust. You can’t avoid that and you need that.

"Now, what are you going to do?" He asked me. I really don't know what to do.

"Stay cool, that's right. That's all I will do first while nothing bad happens yet." I answer him. Was my decision right? Wait when something bad happens? This is not me, but that's the only right thing to do. I do not want to rush into solving the mysteries they give me because it might only hurt me more if I rush it.

"Okay, as long as I'm just here next to you." Thyra said while smiling. I closed my eyes in frustration, I closed my eyes for a long time and when I opened my eyes, Thyra was gone. It looks like I woke up in my dream.

* Blag *

I got up from my bed, it was three o'clock in the morning. I already know who is on my veranda. He is the only one who does it at this time.

"Dwight." I weakly call his name. He turned to me and smiled at me.

I let him into my room, it looks like we have something to talk about so he is here.

"Why are you here?" I asked weakly because Ion might hear us in the other room.

"I came from Ion's room, to his veranda." He said to me, what did this man do there?

"He is still not sleeping. He looks so frustrated. What happened?" I bowed to what he said. What time is it but he is still not sleeping. Is it because of me? I shook my head to remove the idea that was in my brain. I should not say that.

"Nothing, I don't know." I lied. I don't know if I will say that Ion also has dexterity or not because he might know.

"Really? Okay." He surrendered. Fortunately, he gave up easily.

"Let's go out, let's train. I can't do anything." He said, I punched him in the arm softly so he laughed.

"You still sympathize with me." I said while laughing a little. I lost my sleep, so maybe it would be better for us to train.

"Come on?" He stood up, I shrugged and stood up. I followed him, to the veranda of my room.

"Shall we jump?" I asked him, sometimes I wondered how he could climb it.

"What else?" He said softly. He held my hand so I was dumbfounded, what was he doing?

I just realized that we were downstairs. I do not know how we got down because I was stunned by our hand holding. He let go of it as we got down, so somehow, the grip he had made on my hand was erased from my brain.

"Come on, we still have a long way to go." He said and started walking.

I also followed, he walked first so I had a chance to look back.

"You're too slow." He said, he stopped walking and seemed to be waiting for me.

"You're just really fast." I told him. It was night so there was no passing vehicle. We have a long way to go.

After about half an hour of walking, we also reached the forest.

"Inhale, exha--" I cut him off.

"Really? Is that even included in this training?" I asked him.

"Can you just do it?" He says. I did what he said, I took a deep breath.

"To tell you honestly, I didn't know how to prolong someone's stamina." I rubbed my forehead. Who will teach me then?

"That's why I called my friend, Kriziah." He told me. Who is that?

"She'll be here anytime soon." He added. He climbed a tree where I always saw him. It became his tambayan that maybe that.

I also climbed a tree opposite him. I'll just wait for the woman he says.

After a couple of minutes, a woman arrived.

"Dwight." He calls Dwight by name. He looked up at the tree where Dwight was. Dwight had no difficulty jumping. I also jumped down and looked sharply at the woman.

"Let's start." Said Dwight. The woman approached me, I immediately forgot her name.

"I'm Kriziah, let us start." He says. He took his cellphone out of his pocket and fiddled with it.

"You run around this forest. You go around the whole forest." He says. I am not used to running because I did not run when I was still in Mreine. I only ran when a chicken pulled me to the CR.

"START!" He shouted as we reached the edge of the forest. This is probably the longest I will run, this jungle is huge.

I ran fast, I knew they were clocking me and I didn’t want to be embarrassed. I even accelerated my pace. I see them running towards me to track me down. Pare we just both get tired of what we do.

I've been running for a few minutes but I think I'm still not halfway, I think, the lake is the middle of the forest. And since I haven't seen it yet, it means I'm not even halfway there.

I just ran a run. I was having trouble breathing because I was tired but I did not stop. Gradually, the sun was shining.

After a few minutes of running, I was able to return to my hometown. My knees weakened so I lay down on the grass. I gasped and could not breathe.

"Oh." I looked up and saw a water bottle in Dwight's hand. I immediately took you and sat down. I immediately drank the water he gave me. He stroked my back, he was also out of breath because Kriziah and I also ran with me.

"1 hour, 39 minutes, 58 seconds and 9 milliseconds." Kriziah said breathlessly as well. He was looking at his cellphone when he said that.

"Take a break, that's all the training for now, tonight, let's train again, you need to accelerate even more, you need to beat this time." He said at the same time show me the screen of his cellphone where my running time is written.

"This, you still have water." Dwight said and gave me some water again. I was so tired so I took it and drank it again.

"Later in the evening, let's meet again here." He told me. I nodded in response. I still have work this afternoon from seven to two. I do not know if I have fallen asleep or not. But I'm getting sleepy.

"I gotta go." Kriziah said and smiled at me.

"Dwight, I'm still not into this. I am just helping you."