A Tale After Four Lives - Volume 3

“What’s going on?!”

Asfius gave no response, there were others to speak for him.

“We are legion for we are many!”, Mournomon shouted out.

“Mythander?”, Lambert looked towards Mythander who in returned looked towards Alex.

“This is weird”, Alex said, then he turned his attention to Aura, “Aura, whether you believe me or not I just want to say that that question has been on my mind since they first appeared. I found no answer so the best way to deal with this is just to accept it and move on. I know this is bullshit, it doesn’t make sense and yes it might just be me going crazy after reincarnating too many times, again just accept it and move on.”

Aura stood there in a daze for a moment before nodding her head. Tosca that stood behind her stepped forward and looked at each of the myths, she already knew about Lambert, so she waved at him to which he gave a little wave of his own with a gentle smile.

She turned towards the person standing next to him, her eyes sparkled when she saw his ethereal beauty and long pointy ears, ‘An elf!!!!’, she screamed in her mind, as a lover of fantasy stories, be they books, novels, anime or movies, and like any fantasy lover she would be lying if she said she never wanted to see and elf, just like boy’s wanted their elven beauties, girls wanted to see their elven men who were known to be the most handsome of all the fantasy races.

‘The stories didn’t lie’, she thought as she looked at Mythander, he could truly be considered the most handsome man she had ever seen, though the other myths were just as handsome, being an elf gave Mythander a kind of graceful air that could never be replicated.

Mythander gave Tosca a small smile as he saw her blatantly staring at his face,that little action made him even more captivating, so much that it took a lot of effort for the girl to move her eyes over to the next myth.

When she saw him she was taken aback, she had never seen such a boring face on anybody before, his eyes were droopy his face slack and the only redeeming thing was that he wasn’t slouching but stood straight. When their eyes met, Tosca felt like she was teleported into an infinite universe covered in many stars, Asfius closed his eyes before she was affected bringing her out of her trance.

“S-sorry!”, Tosca said, she didn’t know why but she felt sad about the fact that she couldn’t look him in the eye. Aura placed her hand on Tosca’s shoulder. “Don’t worry not even I would be able to keep myself from getting lost within Master Asfius’s gaze, it is not because you are weak or do not care about him enough or any such nonsense it is only because you have not seen what he has. Although I should technically be older than Master Asfius, it would seem that the world he was from’s time ran differently, while I am only a few thousand years old, Master Asfius had seen billions of years.”

“Mhh”, Tosca nodded smiling at Asfius who to everybody’s surprise had the side of his lip quiver as if he was trying to smile back, but it ultimately failed.

Moving to the last person, Tosca gasp when she saw Mournomon, His majestic horns his wild aura, his savage grin. If not for his clear and caring eyes she would have mistaken him for a very bad person or worst a pervert.

“H-hello…”, SHe nervously said to Mournomon, whose smile only widened giving her a clear view of his sharp jagged teeth, “Hello t you too little one”, he said his deep voice boomed with power.

Alex watched as Tosca looked and greeted everyone, “Well from your left to right is Lambert, Mythander, Asfius, and finally Mournomon”

Tosca mumbled their names as she matched them to the myth’s faces storing them in her mind, “My name is…”, There is no need to introduce yourself, child, we have been watching over you since you became a part of this family”, Mythander interrupted her.

Tosca nodded with tears threatening to come out at the Mythander calling her family, his ethereal voice calming her nerves and giving her peace.

“Well I hate to stop this conversation but don’t we have a place to go”, Alex suddenly said which caused the Myths to suddenly become silent and nod.

“What do you mean Master”, Aura asked.

“Lambert you tell her”, Alex quickly said before stepping aside leaving Lambert staring agape at him.

“Uhm”, Lambert cleared his throat, “Well, we…we will be going on a short trip”, Lambert said while avoiding Aura’s gaze.

“So where are we going”, Aura asked nonchalantly.

“Uhm… you’re not going”, Lambert spoke again this time he looked beggingly at Alex.

“…”

Aura was silent while Tosca covered her mouth with her hand, tears about to stream out like an unending river.

“Master is leaving us!”, Tosca blurted out.

“Hell no!”, Mournomon came to the rescue as he shouted, “Don’t worry little one, we’re merely going to go and burn some things and will be back in a few day’s maybe a month at most”

“Is that true?”, Tosca looked at Mournomon with tearful eyes.

“As true as the horns on my head and the blue in Alex’s ba…”

“She doesn’t need to hear that”, Lambert clamped his hand on Mournomons mouth. His face was a bit dark.

“Oh yeah my bad”, Mournomon laughed it off while scathing the back of his head.

Alex rubbed the bridge of his nose as he contemplated the possibility of suicide, and how he would actually be able to pull off something that impossible.

“Well, we will be back in a bit so don’t worry”, Alex said.

“Ok, Master, I will be waiting as always”, Aura said

“Please come back soon”, Tosca said.

Alex nodded his head then looked into the sky.

“Yris!, I know you can hear me open the bifro… I mean open the gate to your divine realm!”