Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.
I have no idea for how long have I actually fainted, but I didn't care at all anyways. What I truly wanted to know was where am I, and why does the person who lives here have such loud clocks.
Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.
What even happened..
"You are even more beautiful while being awake, miss I'm just gonna appear in front of someone's house and faint", the stranger said and laughed a little.
His voice sounded like thousands of thunders at once, yet it was somewhat calming.
"Excuse me?"
I could barely see him, as what I've seen was blurry, but I still could somehow feel that he was smiling, hells, even laughing at me. Which was understandable. I had no idea what's going on; I could barely remember my own name!
I couldn't do anything, and he was most likely satisfied to see that.
"Want some tea perhaps? You look tired. I'll explain everything."
I sure hope so.
I nodded. Not like I'm a big fan of accepting tea from strangers, but it was a good opportunity to talk about.. well, everything.
He left the room and started making tea, or so I hoped at least.
I had enough time to wake up completely, and to also finally see what's around me.
Darkness, mostly. His house looked the same from the outside as it looked on the inside. Just pure black.
He had quite a lot of decorations, that made his room feel like it's from last century. One of the decorations was an ancient sword; a somewhat familiar one, especially with its size. It was old, yet so pretty.
After some minutes he came back into the - as I assumed - living room, and brought me a big cup full of hot tea. Which was actually truly appreciated.
"Well? "
"Well", he said, as he was sitting in a couch in front of me.
"What would you like to know, little one?" he asked in a bit of flirty voice.
"Where am I? What is this cursed city? And who are you? I haven't met a living person in this city, gods know I tried. Nothing but houses and a creepy old woman, that could hardly be a human."
"In fact", he smiled, "I think it's better if you tell me who are you first. It's impolite that I accept you into my house and you forget completely about telling me your name even!" Sigh, as if I had a time for that!
His hair was completely white, and.. oh, and his eyes. "Uh...." his eyes were so bright, no poet would be able to describe their beauty.
"Mythia! My name is Mythia. I am a priestess. I serve our gods. And.."
"And you serve our crown. Or, used to."
"How do you know?"
"My name is Reficul. I own this city. "
That made sense. His house looked indeed like a house of s rich person. But his name was strange. I have never heard such name in my entire life.
"Very well, Reficul, how much do you know about the crown? About what's happening now?"
"I've only heard that a little kitten with a crown on its head got lost, and a priestess of some sort got arrested for it."
"Impressive ", I admitted. "Then you know more than most of the other people do!"
He sipped his tea.
"I do indeed. That's why I sent Yvonne to help you."
"Yvonne?" The young armored woman? "But why.."
"Because you, little one, have abilities that will be most helpful to me. I saved your life, therefore, you, priestess, must help me. " his reasoning made sense, somewhat at least. I tried to swallow the very rest of saliva I had in my mouth, unsuccessfully, for it was completely dry from being surprised and shocked. I needed to drink some of my tea.
"Then, what do you need, Reficul?"
"You, dear", he said as he got up from the couch and started walking closer to me. He grabbed my cheeks and looked deep into my eyes with the look of an angel. Angel.. and so, it started making sense.
"You have powers some of us can dream of. You can speak with gods. They will do anything you want. They will grant you power I cannot even imagine! You will be able to work with magic."
He kept staring into my eyes, tearing my soul apart with his look.
"Demon!" I got out of his hands and also out of the chair.
"You want to use me!"
"Oh Mythia, my dear.. you look troubled."
He started slowly walking towards me again. With each step be made, I stepped back. I couldn't let myself fall into this demon's hands.
"Liar! You want to use me to rule the world! Your name isn't Reficul, not really.. you aren't a human being. You are Lucifer, the demon! The lord of all evil!"
"Oh, and how clever she is; I can't remember anyone finding out!" he said as his hair started changing color, and two dark wings started slowly growing on his back.
He tried to slap me once he got close enough, but thankfully I was fast enough to dodge, although it was close.
I ran to a sword that was in his room, rather close to me, and as soon as I got close enough I tried to grab it, but it was too heavy.
Oh, gods.. please, help me. I served you my whole life. You saved me once, but I dare to ask again.. grant.. "GRANT ME YOUR POWER!" I yelled, finally grabbed the sword with all my strength and swinged it in front me.
The whole room got filled with black smoke. Something was missing..
Lucifer!
As the smoke started disappearing, quite a big number if colorful houses appeared in front of me together with a long road between them. And right there, in a middle of a road, the old lady was standing, smiling in a charming way.
"Very well, Mythia", a strong female voice echoed around me, as the old lady was staring at me still. She stood there, but her lips hasn't moved.
"Hear me, for I am Dizyja, the Goddess of chaos. The one whom you served the whole time."
I couldn't believe my own ears. But, I serve all gods..
"There is no one but me whom you served. Although you prayed to my sisters and brothers, it was me who made your wishes come true. It was me who saved your life twice. For you, my child, are my champion. You proved yourself worthy."
I kneeled before the old lady, waiting for Dizyja to reveal her true self. And so she did.
A Goddess with long red hair, dressed in red dress that you could easily see through appeared in front of me. The very end of her dress that barely reached her feet was burning, but it didn't seem to get any shorter.
"My champion," she put her hand on my right shoulder, "I am here to help you. I will show you where Viola is. But nothing is for free, my dear. Therefore, the banisher of evil, I need you to do one thing for me.."
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