Ten Days

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Ego

The egoism you bear

Is just too clear and rare

All you see is your ego surf,

What an egocentric dwarf

The problems of your statue

Just stops your even gratitude

All you want is an ego stripped

Eina

What an ego maniac

Of academic decadence

What an ignoramus

Of nonsensical pestilence

Poem by angela ivy croft

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Olive and I take turns for the driving till we reach the crib at the shore. It's looks like its been abandoned for a few years or months, it's looks like it stayed for generation to generation before the owner left it alone.

We don't mind. We'll stay anyway.

Olive looks tired from the fight, I feel for him. I ask myself; what if after all this, he leaves me alone forever? What if he's just using me to get his cure?

I'm a really sensitive person, I'm proud of it. I really don't think he loves me deeply, he's a caster right.

Let's just settle for the now I guess.

We walk into the house, Olive holds on to the walls for support as he moves slowly. We get in.

My new powers give me this confidence I've never felt formerly. It's captivating, I know it.. .

Will this push Olive away? I'm just insecure for no reason.

"What do we do here? " I ask, he walks upward to a chair to gain sitting balance. "we read the map. "

He takes a pause before he continues"its written in an ancient language, I feel like its clear but it's not". "maybe it's Greek?" all my life, I never understood Greek. Ever.

Olive looks like he's really disappointed in my thoughts and options in my head. "it's casterian, it's our language. The one we use when want to cast a spell, especially when it's a dark spell.

This right here looks more than ancient to me, I know our language but this is way back to the seventh or eighth generation before now.

Who knew Sparta wrote this? " I'm confused by the new name. "who's Sparta? ".

Olive opens the map before looking back at me "the only caster with the good and bad in him, he was a dark caster but also a light caster. No one thought of it but he did it.

He's a legend. He's epic and great. His words stayed in the hearts of the people all the time. "

Sounds like this Sparta Guy is a legend of all time, kinda like a basketball player with a good pay.

"He's a cousin to Grey, Gary and Gina " oh those three or probably one now.

Grey will be mine when I see him, that I know .

"A war is coming, mighty one. The light casters and the dark casters" I can't imagine this.

"It's not now but soon, this year. After the full moon it'll come. For now we need to focus on this orb, the sooner, the better".

Olive's facial expressions show nothing but fear, dismay and anger. I see him breaking but he's not saying anything. It's touching.

"Jake we better start now, they're coming". His words sends shivers to my spine. The immediate words come out and he's already going inspired.

I follow behind "who's they? Don't tell me another pack of vampires are gonna come for us. Or who? ". I need him to explain every detail because his world is different from ours. It's threatening. Deeply threatening.

"You'll stay indoors with me alone Jake. Tonight's the coral night, I need to bind this house with a force field stronger than any. Or else we'll die.

Or you'll die"

He looks at me with much concern in his heart, I feel the strings of care from where he stands. The connection is divine.

"We need to begin a spell ". Okay puzzled, furthermore I don't even know anything about any spell or spells. I just got my powers.

"Take this paper and read aloud what you see on it, don't make a mistake please". I feel like the fate of the world depend on solely us. Just us.

We begin the spell

Sparta we summon thee

to the space and void

We summon thee

to the future and past

We summon thee

to the lands and sea

We summon thee

to protect our own

We summon thee

Briefly after the spell. A shadow walks on the wall, soon after other shadows follow up. A strange hallow surrounds us, I feel scared with a bit of confidence at the tip.

Olive stands on his feet. He lifts up the curtain, the windows show a transparent bound over us.

I really don't know how long it'll last, I pray it's stays for us both.

Olive walks to the map, he hands it over to me. "Use your light to read it, I'm sure you'll get it right ". He's got so much faith in me, it makes feel like there's a thousand butterflies in myself.

I take it. It's a drawing. A drawing of a triangle, no wait two triangles.

"It's two triangles, one is upside down and the other well placed. Kinda like a pyramid with another pyramid for a foundation underneath.

It's at Egypt. The orb is at Egypt Olive !" I shout with excitement for the new clues.

"It's in between the pyramid, it's at a tomb. " now I'm feeling a bit sea sick. A tomb is the last place I wanna step into. Nasty!

"We could leave now, but then you need to kill someone. You have three days left, it's night time already" oh great! When I thought joy came up to me like a river for just a few seconds.

"Let's go, this place isn't safe" Olive is just wow! The spell casting and all that was for what then.

"What about the spell? ", "that spell's for us, it's suppose to protect us and give us the strength of Sparta. Not the house Jake. "

"Then we need to leave for a hunt, it's already 11:54" I look at my hands, my lord! They are pale, I didn't even notice it before.

Let's move.

This time I cast a hole to Egypt, I'm sure we'll find souls there. Immediately I turn back I see the door blasts open. It's from the parliament.

I'm grateful we left. The last three almost made me fried potatoes from ourselves. This looked like a pack.

Whoosh!

We're at Egypt for the first time of our lives. It's amazing, not! All we see is sand everywhere.

To make matters worse it's day time. I cannot sweat right now, I've got to save my sweat for later when we get to the tomb.

"We'll sleep there tonight, we check tomorrow. " Olive points to a big building with just a mat like material on it.

We move towards it. I notice a pyramid not too faraway from our chosen location, I look around to find another but none close by.

"We'll look for it tomorrow Jake, for now let's have some fun" fun with Olive sounds like a good thing to me.

Getting into the room I see the sky from our point, it's beautiful. It's been long since I've spent some me time with myself and well me.

We take a bath together, I'm starting to have this freedom around him. Never the less, he gets out of the shower before me, taking out the map.

I step out, I sit by the window receiving the fresh air from the surrounding. He just stays with the map giving it his all round attention.

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It's morning.

"Relax Olive, what's the fun in seriousness? ", "let's move Jake". I expected more of a pleasant reply from him rather I'm getting a serious kind. What's happening?

"What's happening?", he walks to the door, picks up his jacket and slips it on. "they're coming here Jake, we need to go now" his tone more serious than the actual first time he spoke.

"Alright bossy let's move", he picks a leaf from the floor as we walk down the road. He rubs the juice on my clothing and his clothing as well.

It smells like a rose but with wood in it. "This will hide our scent from the hounds coming. They don't like flowers so they won't like us".

Smart.

We get to the market, people looking at us like we're foreigners. Of course our dress code, why didn't we think of that? Why didn't I think of it?

I just lower my head with ease, the curious eyes give me chills. It's making me nervous.

Olive just walks through the crowd like a king with a crown.

He doesn't give a f**k about anybody, just the orb. I give a f**k about some food right, chicken perhaps? Who's with me?". I stop him "Olive we need some food from the market, I'm hungry " what a child he's looking at.

"Okay" that's all he says. This orb gets to him more than anything in the world. I get two free chicken for us both.

"Olive here's yours for the road" he rejects it. "You can eat it Jake, let's move" what a b***h!

I blame the orb.

We reach the market's middle point and an arrow hits the apple close to Olive and he stops, me too. We both look at the direction the arrow comes from, it's from the parliament of course. They're here.

With the casterian inscription on the arrowhead, anyone can tell its not ordinary.

We make a run for it.

Olive drags me into the thicker crowd, falling some persons down and pushing others out of the way. Others cursed while others just watched with amazement at the two foreign musketeers.

We dodge an arrow again from the parliament, it hits a man in his arm. I felt bad for his innocent pain but when push gets you to a shove you've got to stand your ground and adapt to it.

We reach a tunnel by our right, we follow it to a channel underneath the market. Getting there we miss our steps at the same time and flip over.

The flipping continues till we land on the last stair. All we feel is intimate pain, Olive faces the ceiling for a while leaving me sideways.

I spot the structure of our underground cave, it's old and dusted. I see paintings of people, some with blood and others with paint. The smell is quite odd due to the expired and decayed blood, the guts of a rat with worms attracts me. I look away.

On my left side, I see three doors. Usually in movies, this means the first two are bad.

Right here I can't even see the odds coming out to be in our favour. I sit halfway when I see the sun shine through.

Olive struggles to get up after the fall. His eyes scream for sleep but his lips and hands seek the orb.

I reach the walls, I touch them. They make me gasp in surprise.

How come for more than only God knows how many years, the artifacts are still in place. All of them complete without a scratch.

It's almost impossible "hey Olive take a look at this, can you? " I hear nothing but silence. "Olive? Olive? " he definitely up for the orb.

I turn around to look at him, only to find him looking upwards at the shining crystal book. "that's it", his confidence doesn't move me anymore but I remember when we thought it was it. You know how that turned out to be.

He looks around for a ladder to climb to it. None around for God sake it's a tomb. Who does that?

"I think we need to use the doors" I yell from my end while I point my hands to the doors seen. He didn't see anything before so he better be thankful for me.

"Let's walk into it then, come on we've got to find that orb." I freaking know that.

"Which one genius? There's three of them genius? ", Olive ignores me and tries to walk straight through the first one. Lucky enough for him it's locked.

I just look around till I see a picture with a stone, the door has no key hole but a space for a stone. I pick it with a minor force.

I place it in, it opens. This might be the right one but is it clear of danger? I've got lot of questions alright.

"Let's move", can Olive just relax for some minutes before we die from a quest for an orb? Someone hold him please.

I follow directly behind him, I'm not interested in mummy surprises anytime soon.