Chapter 58: Hints of the Past Begin

Chapter 58: Hints of the Past Begin

The heroes walk through a temple hallway. Sacred energy flows throughout it, giving the hall a golden tint. However, the sacred energy soon begins to affect their minds.

“I’m starting to feel dizzy…” Zeth says, holding on to the wall for a moment to try to regain his balance. He shakes his head rapidly for a moment, and the next thing he knows, the others are gone. Gone without a trace. Suddenly, the hallway seems to twist and change into a new location, like an enclosed gold room.

“Where did everyone go?” he wonders before voicing his frustration. “Aggg! Is this what that statue meant?”

He starts to hear voices in his head, each one different from each other.

“The boy…” “Destiny…” “My brother….” “Consumption….” “Run…”

“What are all these voices?” Zeth wonders as he starts to feel dizzy again. “So dizzy… What do I do…?”

The enclosed room begins to shift into multiple hallways with intersections. Zeth begins aimlessly running through the halls, stumbling along with poor balance.

“Where do I go? What is this? Am I trapped…? Make it stop!”

In his craziness, he ends up running into a wall and falls backward onto the floor. He just lies there with a blank stare, his eyes barely open. The voices continue.

“Your son….” “Demands….” “What do we do!?...” “Consumption…” “In danger…”

Still dazed and confused, Zeth mumbles, “The voices… won’t stop… what… do they mean…?”

His vision distorts, and when it clears up, he sees flashes of a baby.

“Is that… me…?”

The various voices persist. “His sacred power….” “Gone…” “Dark Goddess…” “Did something…”

He opens his eyes a bit wider. “What…?”

“My son…” “Hide him…” “Dark Goddess…” “Consumption…” “Crimson…”

Zeth’s eyes open wider, though still dazed. “Crimson…? What about him…?”

“My brother…” “Escape…” “I will help…” “Storm comes…” “Save him…”

Zeth mumbles, “Brother…?”

“Give him…” “Hope…” “A future…” “He deserves…” “Better…”

Zeth mumbles again. “What does… all this mean…?”

“Go to…” “Nearby city…” “Guard…” “Zeth…” “Your life…”

Zeth sees flashes of a cloaked woman carrying a baby on a dark and stormy night. “The story mom told me… This is it… isn’t it…?”

This begins a vision of the entire event in his mind. The cloaked woman approaches Miranda and Jack, who are walking down on the sidewalk with nobody else outside near them.

“Can you two adopt this baby?” the cloaked woman asks in a serious and distressed tone. “His name is Zeth. He’s four months old. Please, I beg of you!”

“Is this your child?” Miranda asks.

“No, but I am doing this for the baby’s mother. Please, you must adopt him! It’s urgent!”

“Why is that?” Jack asks, finding the situation strange.

“There is no time to fully explain, but bad people want to capture this baby and do horrible things to him.”

“That does sound bad!” Miranda acknowledges, not questioning the cloaked woman’s explanation at all.

“Yes, so please take him! If we hurry, they won’t know that he has new parents.”

The cloaked woman hands the baby over to Miranda, who holds it tightly in her arms.

“We will take good care of him,” Miranda assures.

“Thank you very much!”

Miranda and Jack leave with the baby as the cloaked woman heads to the forest where she came from to meet back with another woman. That woman is Zaydra.

“Will he be okay?” Zaydra asks with concern.

“Yes, the family seems very caring.”

“You didn’t tell them that we are hiding him from demons, did you?”

“No, I didn’t want to scare them. I just used a generic ‘bad people’ to say why it was urgent.”

“Good job, Clora. Now we must return.”

The vision ends. Zeth’s eyes fully open and he stands up. “I’m understanding more of it now. I must get back to the others. Who knows how this could be affecting them.”

With the others nowhere in sight, he begins moving through the halls again.

More of Zeth’s past has been pieced together! He must now return to the others and finally meet Harmona, the Light Goddess!

Chapter 58 END

To be Continued in Chapter 59: The Others See Hints Too