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Vastati fatum (Ravaged by fate).	By : Solaris & Manta Category: +M through R > Mighty Ducks Cartoon Views: 1533 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
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Chapter 8 - Uncertainty.
“Kala, Zahra, hurry up, breakfast is on the table! You two do not have much time before you need to hurry to school!” yelled Sophia.
"Yes mother! I'll be there in a minute." Zahra yelled from the lavatory.
Kala had emerged from the guest bedroom pulling her long hair into a ponytail; she was wearing her same clothes that she had on from the previous night. “I’m here, Aunt Sophia.”
Sophia spotted Kala. "Zahra pass Kaladan some of your old clothes, the ones that might fit her, she needs something other then her traveling clothes to wear."
“Okay, mom, come on Kala.” Zahra stated, as she headed back into her room and into her closet where she found several shirts and pants that might fit her.
Kala grabbed the blue shirt and the darker blue pants and changed into them. Zahra looked at them and smiled the pants fitted her nicely as did the shirt. She headed for the door with Kala behind her. They went for the dining room where they ate breakfast.
“I’ll be going to school with you two,” Sophia stated.
“But mom?” exclaimed Zahra.
“It’s because of Kala, Zahra. She needs to be registered for school, I don’t attend to have her depend on herself while she’s here, and she’s our responsibility,” Sophia stated.
Zahra nodded. "Ok, but don't embarrass us."
“Don’t embarrass you. The only one who would embarrass you is you, Zahra,” Sophia replied, as she placed the grilled fruit on the table.
Kala noticed that some of the fruit on the table was the same fruit from the orchard. She remembered how it tasted raw and had a little honey on it. She knew the fruit being grilled will even be better. She waited as the plate was passed around the table before she took three slices and placed them onto her plate. Zahra and Sophia were already eating their fruit when Kala started to eat hers. Just with one bite, Kala knew this fruit was delicious raw, grilled and boiled as that was how she ate it back with the Ancients. She finished her plate and drank the juice of a squeezed fruit down before Sophia told them that they better hurry.
They headed for the school and Kala noticed that the students were looking at them and was whispering. She glared at those students who were whispering about them and they were flung hard against the wall.
Sophia immediately wrapped her arm around Kala and whispered, “It will be okay, Kala. Let them have their whispers. They aren’t worth getting angry over,”
SkyFyre saw them coming and teleported over. “Hi Kaladan,”
“Hi Sky,” Kala said, after she realized who it was.
“Getting registered?” He asked.
“Yes, my Aunt Sophia is handling it for me,” she said.
"That's great; you will love it here, Kala. Anyways, I better go as my class is about to start." Sky said, as he vanished from view.
Kala smiled, he was nice unlike some Drakes she had encountered in her time, namely in blue cloaks.
The ladies that she encountered the first time were there in the academy office. They handed Aunt Sophia a registration form which Sophia had to fill out as Kala watched and waited by her side. Zahra already hurried off to class promising to see Kala at lunch.
Kala looked down at the form and saw what she had written. But the script was unfamiliar to her. “Aunt Sophia? What does that say?”
“This says possible magic traits; it means they want to know what other possible magic traits you might have. I jotted down we are unsure at this time, since you have not used your magic very often,” Sophia stated.
“Oh, I didn’t understand what was stated, the words are unfamiliar to me,” said Kala.
Sophia looked at her shocked. “You don’t know how to read the words?”
Kala shook her head and lowered it. She knew it would push her back even further in the academy.
"That’s ok; you'll learn it quickly enough here."
“I hope so, I am already so much behind the other students here,” Kala said.
“Don’t worry, they have tutors for students who needs them,” Sophia stated.
Kala nodded, this time was very different from the one she had come from, fresh fruit and vegetables were common and not restricted to the elite and the Ancients. The weather was nice, even during the night it didn't get cold. She knew she would get a tutor for her studies since she is probably way behind the students here at the academy. She knew it was a given. She didn’t even know the dialect for the spell that the administrator did when she first showed up. She wondered what else she would have to learn there.
Sophia looked at Kala, studying her before she spoke, “Kala, what other gifts beyond telekinetic do you have?”
“I have telepathy but that’s not too strong,” Kala replied.
Sophia wrote it down, "Can you channel?"
“You mean other people from the realm of the dead? A little, I guess it will be getting stronger here,”
Sophia shook her head. "Channeling is focusing of energy and creating say a fire ball, what you are thinking is the talent of a medium."
“Oh, yes, I can do that. I actually burnt the faces of several bullies who were bullying me when I was living with my foster family and it was right after that, I fled from them.” Kala said.
Sophia patted her hand. "There will always be some form of bully, just stand up to them. But if you get more trouble then you can handle just report them, the administrator will deal with them."
"He's strict on bullies?" asked Kala.
"We have a low tolerance for such behavior, if a bully is reported; their minds are scanned and punished accordingly, most of it is before the other students as a deterrent." A secretary stated.
Kala smiled, attending a magical academy was definitely different from the common Puckworld schools. She really didn't have much to worry about and if all else failed there was always Zahra.
Sophia wrote down a few more other things about her family and then, turned back to Kala. “What was the last school you were in?”
Kala told her, Sophia shook her head. "Blader school, no wonder your education is so bad."
“But here, it will be better,” Kala said.
“Yes, it will,” Sophia stated, as she finished the paper work for the registration and handed it to the lady at the desk.
The lady looked at the form and went to one of the other ladies who started to write out the course for Kala. “It will be a bit before we get the course down for her. You can go back home or wait here?”
“We’ll wait,” Sophia said.
The secretary shrugged. "Make yourself comfy."
Sophia and Kala waited patiently for her information to be processed and a course outline to be compiled. It took about an hour before it was finished and a copy was handed to Kala and another to Sophia. The one Kala had received was in the language she understood.
"Due to her current illiteracy in the common surfer dialects, there has been a tutor as well as a student aide to translate for her till her literacy improves."
Sophia nodded, "I assume her classes begin tomorrow now that she is registered."
"That is correct."
"Very well, Kala it's almost lunch hour, we'll meet up with Zahra and then we are going to get a few necessities for you."
“Alright,” Kala replied, as she continued to look at her courses. There was several courses that she recognized the names of – train the mind, she figured that would be teaching her about her mental powers among others. There were also basic school courses such as math, social studies, language, and gym and to her surprise science. “Science?”
“Yes, what’s wrong with that?” asked Sophia.
“I never heard of it before,” Kala said.
"Science is used to understand parts of magic, and it helps with potions."
"Oh, but isn't that part of potion making?" Kala asked.
"You need to know your basics behind the potion in order to do them properly."
“I guess that would be wise, if I went in blindly and not know what I was doing, I could do serious damage to myself, my work partner and maybe even to the class itself,”
"You’re getting the pictures."
“I want to do my very best even though I am behind in my magical studies,” Kala said.
"Once, you understand the fundamentals; you should do well in your studies. Zahra and I will help as well as your assigned tutor." Sophia stated as they headed towards the doors leading to the hall as the bell rang. "Now let’s see if I remember the way to the lunch room, it's been years since I've been through these halls."
Kala followed, almost everything was foreign to her, she couldn't read the signs and she didn't understand a word the students or teachers were saying. Even her soon to be fellow students were different, some were ducks like her, others looked Raptrin or Suscan and then there were the ones with scales. She swallowed hard. She’d just have to get use to it.
“Aunt Sophia, the ones with the scales, what are they?” asked Kala in a whisper.
“They are Saurians, don’t worry about them, they may look fierce but they are not. Well, most of them are peaceful but you may find a few who are not. But remember if they bully you or any of the others just report them, alright?” Sophia said, as she looked at Kala and then started to scan over the crowd of students to find Zahra in the furthest table to the door.
Zahra spotted her mother. "Mom what are you doing here?"
"Just came to check up on you, why are you sitting by yourself?"
"I'm waiting for a classmate from my blood magic and demonology class, we need to work out a few details for a project."
Sophia raised a brow, "Just don't do anything dangerous."
“We won’t try to do anything dangerous, ma’am,” spoke a male voice behind Sophia.
Zahra waves to him. "Hi Tyriel, I saved the table for us, mind if my cousin eats with us?"
"I don't mind, we'll talk about the project afterwards."
Sophia and Kala sat down next to Zahra. It was at that moment, Tyriel realized that Zahra’s cousin looked a wee bit like her. It was weird looking at them but when he asked Kala a question in Saurian tongue, all he got was a weird look from her and no response to his question. “Did I offend her?”
“No, she’s not fluent in Saurian and some of the other tongues in the academy, Tyriel,” Zahra replied in Saurian.
“Oh sorry, I guess she will be getting a tutor for all the tongues done in the academy,”
“It’s a given, Tyriel, she needs to know the tongues or she’ll be at a disadvantage here,” Zahra stated.
"So what does she speak?"
"Keltor Blader dialect, it's close enough to the common Cassiopian dialect to be understandable."
"Well, they are considered a bit dumb with branching off their dialect off from ours." Tyriel stated, turning to Kala. "I'm sorry, if you didn't know what I had asked. I'm wondering if you are going to be staying here with your aunt or simply disappearing like you had when your parents were killed."
"Tyriel be nice." Zahra told him.
"I'm serious; she disappeared all that time ago, and reappears out of the blue, what’s to stop her from disappearing again?"
Kala glared, it didn't help that he was one of the scaly magic users but he was criticizing her as well and he didn't even know her. "Who are you to judge me?" Kala growled.
"Who am I not to?" he said as he changed his form to that of a duck. "Who is to say you are what you claim to be?" and changed back into his normal form.
"I saw through that."
"I wasn't hiding, just making a point."
“Tyriel, please behave, you know my temper very well, you do not know hers,” Zahra pointed towards Kala. “Push the issue and I’ll let her show you her temper,”
“One thing, I am not leaving any time soon,” Kala stated.
"I'm willing to bet at the first sign of trouble and you’re gone, scared like a yellow canary."
Kala’s eyes just glowed yellow and Tyriel felt himself being lifted out of the chair. “I warned him. I warned him,” Kala said through gritted teeth.
Tyriel smiled and broke her telekinetic hold. "Not bad, but it'll take more that a simple parlor trick to make me back off." he said as he looked her in the eyes.
Kala scrambled to break eye contact, what she had glimpsed of his mind frightened her, it was like a place of nightmares.
Tyriel chuckled. "Did I scare you, yellow canary?"
Kala’s breathing got shallower as she started to focus her magic and she was glowing as she started to aim her magic towards Tyriel for some major damage she was intending on doing. He made her mad and he was not going to get off lightly.
But it was broken, by a hand on her shoulder. It turned out that the administrator had seen and heard what was happening and he halted everything. “Enough teasing, young man, she has been through enough.”
"Yes administrator, I simply wanted to see if she was for real."
Zahra frowned, he had glimpsed into the girl's mind. She'd have to ask what he got from it after Kala was gone.
The administrator turned to Sophia and then turned to Kala. “I hope he will not cause you to flare your magic like that again.” He did not make eye contact with Kala at all but looked around the room to see some of the students lowering their magic shields that some summoned after feeling the trouble that was coming from this area.
"Oh, I'm sorry, sir, my temper is . . . ," Kala started to say.
"Tied to your magic. You will be able to control it and your temper over the years here," he said, before he walked away from them.
Kala looked very relieved as the administrator walked away. "Sorry about my display of temper,"
Tyriel smiled softly. "What's there to be sorry about? We both got answers."
Kala gulped, he was definitely creepy.
Zahra stomped on his tail. "Behave; Kaladan has been through a lot."
"She has always been afraid to make her own decisions, she didn't run Zahra. They left her to die."
Kala kept quiet, how much did he see in her mind? She'd have to tread carefully around him.
"Why did they leave her to die?" Sophia asked.
“My magic," Kala stated.
"You mean you used your powers on them?" asked Sophia.
Kala said nothing. It was safe for Zahra to assume that Kala had used her magic aggressively, to what extent was unknown. Tyriel had seen in her memories and she'd coax the answers from him later. That fact the Kala may have killed someone intrigued her, the people of Keltor were not always the nicest.
Sophia sighed, "We should get going Kaladan; I want to get to the Suscan bazaar while there's still decent things to haggle for."
Kala nodded as she stood up. “It was nice meeting you Tyriel.”
“The same here, Kaladan,” Tyriel said, as he watched as she and Sophia walked out of the room.
“Okay, tell me what you saw in her memories, Tyriel?” whispered Zahra.
"Uncertainty and fear is what I saw. You should see if she'd help us with our project."
"I don't know if she could handle the prep and rites for blood magic, a lot of people are very horrified by it."
"People fear what they don't understand; she needs to understand magic in any form in order not to fear it."
"It could backfire on you, Tyriel."
"It's a chance I'm willing to take and that way you may also get more answers from her, the prep itself will only heighten your powers."
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Kaladan followed Sophia to what she referred to as the Suscan bazaar; the wide varies of items amazed her. Sophia handed her a bag of coins. "You can use that to get you some clothes," she said as she put a bracelet with the Thunderbeak crest of Kala. "This will keep you from getting lost or from someone taking you and selling you."
Kala nodded as she went down the row of merchants hawking their goods to passing Suscans, Saurians and other ducks. Kala saw a color that she liked and went to the merchant’s table and looked at the various clothes.
“You like the clothes I have?” asked the merchant, in Saurian tongue.
Kala looked at him. She noticed that the tongue was similar to that of Tyriel but the words he spoke were not. She didn’t know how to tell him she liked it. She took a deep breath and spoke in her tongue. "I didn't understand what you had said."
The merchant changed dialect. "I asked if you like the clothes I had for sale."
“Yes, do you have clothes in this style?” Kala asked, pointing to the shirt and shorts she wore.
"You want the merchants down the lane." he said.
Kala nodded and went in the direction the merchant pointed her in. Halfway there she stopped; there were a bunch of children around her age being displayed on a stage. She couldn't understand what people were saying but it was bizarre. She heard slave and shuddered as she continued to move down the lane. But she couldn’t help look at the children on the stage. They looked scared and yet some was standing there like it was normal. One of the Ducks who was standing there barked at her to get moving or he’ll throw her on the stage. Kala refused to move and the drake grabbed her only to pull away from her when he noticed the bracelet on her arm. He stated something in apology and said something about the children on the stage. She wondered if he was asking her if she wanted to look at them closer. But she came for clothes not a slave. She shook her head and continued on her way to the merchant who had the style of clothes she wore.
She noticed a lane of merchants who sold nothing but clothes. Kala looked at the first merchant’s clothes and found that he didn’t have the style she was looking for. It took looking at a few other stalls before she found what she was looking for. The style shirt and shorts were found. She also found them in pants and skirt style as well. She bought good three pairs of the outfit she liked. She had a few more coins left over in the bag as she went to find Aunt Sophia. The bracelet led her back once she figured out it could track other bracelets. Aunt Sophia was waiting for her by a fountain.
“I see you learned the bracelet’s ability to track down any other bracelet,” Aunt Sophia said, as she looked at Kala. “So did you find what you wanted to buy?”
“Yes, Aunt Sophia, three pairs of an outfit that I really liked,” Kala stated.
"Good, we'll head home then, what did you think of the Cassiopian bazaar? It’s much bigger than the one in Keltor."
“I spent most of my time in the shadows of the bazaar in Keltor snatching food from the food merchants to really notice how big or small it was,” Kala stated, as she held her package close to her.
Sophia simply nodded. "Any bad habits you may have picked up don't do them, you are lucky that you weren't caught and made a slave."
Kala nodded as they walked back home. It was only at home, did she change from the clothes she wore to the outfit she bought. The bracelet on her wrist looked good matching up with her outfit.
It was later in the evening when Zahra got home, she looked rather tired. "Hey mom, I'm going to lie down for a bit."
"No problem Zahra, do you want me to wake you up when dinner is ready?"
"Sure, mom, thanks,"
Couple of hours later, Kala stood at Zahra’s door, knocked before she entered the room. She entered the room slowly knowing that she might have a magic ward up. “Zahra, Aunt Sophia says that dinner is on the table,”
Zahra nodded and rolled over onto her back. "What do you know of blood magic?"
“Blood magic? I do not know,” Kala said.
"Blood magic, it's used for summoning shadow creatures, demons and other such beings, depending on what you want them to…do depends on the ritual."
“But isn’t it dangerous?”
"It’s not dangerous, but it requires more from you then regular magic."
“Blood and a great deal of magical knowledge, I assume,” Kala said. “Which I do not have much of,”
"Bloods is a minor part of it, the sacrifices deal with most of the necessary blood, most of its carefully planned ritual."
“I never knew that,”
"Of all the rituals around the spells; this is the most carefully planned out ritual," Zahra stated.
"Why are you telling me this?"
"Tyriel thinks you'd be of better help then a sex slave."
"Why have sex slaves in a ritual like that? Isn't dangerous to have someone who could say something at the moment that the spell is being cast and the wrong effect comes about?"
"They’re not used in the ritual itself unless sacrificed but usually the sacrifices have to be pure virgin. Hard to find, those used in the prep for creating those sacrifices, the problem with that method is that it takes more sacrifices then if the sacrifices had a decent amount of magic in them." Zahra stated.
"So you use duckling as a sacrifice, that’s just wrong."
"The sacrifices wouldn't naturally live more then a couple days since they are conceived by unnatural means."
"It is still killing an innocent."
"Would you rather them suffer? After they are born they begin to slowly suffocate to death."
"How do you know that?"
"Because Kaladan, the first time, I couldn't go through with it, it couldn't eat nor drink and was in constant pain, Tyriel finally killed it to end its suffering."
Kala was shocked by what she had heard, what food that was in her stomach threatened to come back up. Kala bolted for the bathroom, Zahra followed as she held Kala's hair as she got sick. "I'm sorry about making you sick, cousin,"
Kala sat down on the toilet after finished flushing it. "What does the virgin do in the blood ritual?"
Zahra was shocked by the question. 'Does she mean she might be a virgin?' "Usually the virgin is the sacrifice, but that factor has been bypassed a long time ago. This particular blood ritual is to create an enchanted weapon so three people and two sacrifices are needed. One person is the conjurer, one is the channeler, and the other is the sealer. I was hoping you'd be the channeler."
"What about the sacrifices?"
"I will be carrying one; it's up to you whether or not you'd carry the other."
“How would that happen? Who would be the ‘father’ of the sacrifice,” Kala asked.
Zahra shrugged. "Doesn't matter, so does this mean you'll help?"
“If my teachers say it is okay, I’ll do it. It might be fun,” Kala said.
Zahra chuckled. "You don't need your teacher’s permission, it's up to you if you want to or not."
“Okay, it should be fun,” Kala said with a smile. “We best go out, Aunt Sophia is worried.”
Zahra nodded, "I doubt you will regret this experience."
Kala smiled as she headed for the dining room where Sophia and Mr. Thunderbeak were sitting down. “Sorry, we’re late.”
Sophia looked at them both. “Are you feeling all right, Kala? I saw you bolt for the bathroom.”
“I’m fine, Aunt Sophia,” Kala said as she sat down.
Zahra looked at her mildly shocked that she didn’t tell her mother that she threw up. Did she not want her to know about the plans to be a help to her project? “Mom, I told her about a blood ritual and she lost her stomach contents.”
“That what happens to most people, Kala, when they hear what it deals. Even I got sick when I was first asked about doing it.” Sophia stated, as she patted Kala’s hand.
"You did?"
"It takes a lot of will power to actually go through with it, but from what I have been told it does get easier over time. I did one once, I never got the courage to do it again." Sophia told her.
“Well, I’m going to try it with Zahra and . . . Tyriel right?” asked Kala, looking at Zahra.
”Yes, Tyriel.” Zahra said, as she looked at her.
“Good, I didn’t want to misstate his name. Not proper when speaking about someone to misstate his name,” Kala said.
“He wouldn’t be upset if you didn’t remember his name, Kala.” Zahra said. “You did just meet him recently.”
"I know . . . but he doesn't seem to be the type to let mistakes and other things be,”
"He was born on a Saurian colony; his father is the spiritual leader there. Tyriel has a lot of weight on his shoulders and can be quite moody."
"Moody? More like major issues look into his mind and you'll see a lot of nightmarish things." Kala said.
Zahra giggled. "It may seem nightmarish to you but you must consider that what most here are squeamish about was an everyday thing for him. So what makes you think he has issues?"
"I saw his mind today, when I was pulling my powers to attack him with," Kala stated.
"You should get a better look tomorrow, for the ritual to work at its best you are going to have to fully trust Tyriel."
“I guess I will have to ask him for permission to look in his mind then,” Kala said. “Hope he doesn’t mind me asking that of him.”
"I doubt he will, like I said blood magic needs trust between the people doing a ritual otherwise something bad could happen."
“Like summon the wrong demon or that the spell doesn’t work as planned,”
“The last set of people that did this particular ritual got into a fight a couple days before, when they did it they were not on good terms with each other. I'll introduce you to them after dinner."
"What happened to them?" Kala asked.
"You'll see when you meet them."
“Okay,” Kala said, as she looked at the dishes that were laid out on the table.
Dinner passed fairly quickly and Kala was anxious to meet those who had messed up the ritual to know what to expect if something went wrong. She trusted Zahra enough since she didn't seem to keep anything from her, she'd just have to get use to her somewhat creepy aura. As far as Tyriel was concerned she wasn't sure if she could trust him.
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They had been walking for almost an hour; Kala was really starting to wonder where the other kids lived. Zahra stopped at a large metal gate.
"Not much farther to go."
Kala nodded and followed Zahra past the large metal gates. It didn't take her long to realize they were in a cemetery. Maybe they hung out there?
"So what are their names?"
"Anati, Brock and Nani,"
Kala nodded as they walked further in. About five minutes later, Zahra stopped. "We're here."
"But I don't see anyone."
"They’re here; you are just not looking in the right places."
Kala looked around and then spotted the names on the tombstones. “You mean they died?”
"They were at odd with each other when doing the ritual, it cost them dear. Their internal organs exploded within them."
Kala shuddered. “Now I will make a point to see Tyriel to make sure if I can trust him,”
"Sorry if I'm being too brutally honest with you, it's simply necessary."
“Don’t worry, I’m glad that I know what would happen if you didn’t trust someone completely,” Kala said, as she looked at the tombstones of the ones who messed up on the ritual.
"Good, any questions?"
“Have you ever summon someone you shouldn’t have in a spell?” asked Kala.
"A few times, but it was due to a mispronunciation, nothing too severe."
"Good, this blood ritual when will it be done?" asked Kala. "I don't think I could carry one of the sacrifices, and I haven't experiences my first Lust."
Zahra looked at her. "That isn't an issue; we use a potion to create an artificial egg. As for the ritual, it'll take seven days to have the sacrifices ready and other prep can be done in that time span, so eight days from now."
"But doesn't it take six months?" Kala asked.
"The artificial egg that is created is accelerated in its growth. It stays within you for two days because it needs to form a shell, after that it incubates for four days and the last day the shell breaks open and the sacrifice is ready."
“Oh, okay. I guess we should return home and get some sleep since school is tomorrow,” Kala said.
Zahra nodded as they headed back home. Her mom was standing at the door with a lantern flashing its light out into the darkness of the night. Zahra acknowledged her mother’s lantern by creating a blue flame on her hand and waving it back and forth a few times before putting it out and headed towards the stairs.
“Best head for bed, children, you both have a big day a head,” Sophia said, as she looked at them both.
“Yes, mom,” Zahra said as she kissed her mom’s cheek before hurrying to her room. Kala did the same and headed into her room.
Stay tuned, the next chapter is coming.
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Vastati fatum (Ravaged by fate).