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CHAPTER 2
Seranja awoke when the light of the sun hit her face. She was amassed by this because she normally
awoke before the sun. she yawned and went to the only door in the room. This second room had a whole about 20 feet wide filled with warm water there where bottles around the pool. She was about to take of her robe when she felt a tinge of excitement from a wall.
“ I would appreciate it if you left my quarters Dreach.”
she felt the room suddenly become vacant and took of her robe some of the water came up to match her hight and turned to ice. She looked at her body in the ice and frowned. She was a little plump she guessed that was from not doing any physical labor since getting into the school. Tough she didn't mind it to much because it help to hide her growing assets she was always troubled by how boys would look at a female like that. As she continued checking her body she noticed something that she had never noticed before, it was faint so faint she barely noticed it but the longer she focused on it and the more she used her minds eye the clearer it became.
Right in between her breast there was a symbol as she looked closer on she became terrified it was the same symbol the man had used in the dream, except there was something else inside of the circle something that the more she looked at it the more her head ached and her body trembled. She felt the lightest pulse of magic emanating from it. then her legs fell from under her. As she fell to the ground the ice melted and she returned to her senses.
She had to breath hard to get her heart to calm down. once she was calm she got into the pool she took a red bottle and poured some of its liquid into the water. The water became hotter and suddenly bubbles filled it. She relaxed against one of the pools wall. With her right hand she traced the symbol feeling the pulse the magic trying to repel her touch.
“ stop touching that.”
Seranja jumped surprised by the sound of someone in her room. She turned around and saw a white dog there. She blinked dogs and cats where a rarity in the world the only ones that had them where kings.
“ mistress Minth has sent me to tell you that is a seal. the more you touch it the more likely it is that whoever put that on you will gain more power over you. That and I brought you the needed supplies.”
“supplies?”
“isn't it about this time that the gift of the moon graces you? Class begins soon.” the dog left after giving its message. Seranja could not help but smile it seemed she had forgotten a lot thanks to the dreams. She closed her eyes letting her body relax and thinking of which class she would be taking today.
Yefah was unlike other magic schools in that the students each had one personal teacher of there opposite sex teaching them in the school of magic they choose to fallow but they also had groups of students teaching them of the magic that most could use or should be aware of. Today the students of the black dragon class, Seranja and Dreach among them, where being thought by Yevon Minth she was considered the arch Yevon of the school. Her familiar was a white dog that closely resembled the wolves of legend. Her icy blue eyes matched her dogs and her dog was always near its mistress. Even in class it was on a corner sleeping while she thought the class of the old worlds animals.
“ now where we left of would be of something that would be of importance to any of those who will participate in the coming celebration which would be all of you” her voice was soft and sounded almost like a song but the clod sting of command was there hidden so well only an expert or someone who has spent a lot of time with her like the Yechon's and Yevon of the school would be able to recognize
“ you can all already master your own kind of magic. But as you know some of you will have to soon leave the walls of this building. to help protect you you will all have to learn to summon your familiar. Now I would like it if all of you now wore the colors of your discipline.”
all the robes which where black to match hers suddenly change to a variety of colors. None of them black.
“good now I want you all to read this book and try to summon a creature. each of you will be teamed up with the one of a lighter and darker shade then you. That means it will be groups of three.”
Seranja could not help but sigh that meant she would be in a team with Dreach and Jen. Jen's robe was orange and he studied the craftsman arts. There where very few people that came into the school to belong to an orange Yechon for those three arts required the most patience to teach and to learn. Jen was about two heads taller then Seranja just like Dreach was, and that was where there similarities ended. Jen is a blond with dark brown eyes that seemed to wish the worst to people and this was only his third class with everyone. As they sat down on there table Sen drew something on the table with his right hand making some chairs appear As she sat down Seranja could feel the pulse of Jen's magic in the chair, unlike Dreach's this pulse was very calming.
“ whats a familiar?”
“ah young Jen a familiar is pretty much like a teacher its a magical creature that guides you in journeys helps you perform complicated magics, serves as communication for you to the great one and is the one that gives you your first wand.”
“ aren't we supposed to make those?”
“ you could but they would be weaker then any of the Yevon's and not because of how you built them. When we call forth familiars we summon them from a different realm.”
“h'm may I ask why are you so silent miss Seranja?” she blinked as she noticed both of them looking at her.
“ oh sorry I was lost in thought.” they booth blinked and smiled knowingly at her. “ but I have been wondering about what craftsman magic is could you help me understand?”
“ h'm sure after class, you can come too Dreach. I have felt your presence trying to come in during my classes.” Dreach smiled and nodded then he himself summoned the book that they would need.

the first of the three buildings was the students quarters the last building was the sleeping quarters of the Yevon's and the middle building was referred to as the school. It was where classes where held in one of the thirteen libraries. In the last library Ghan kept careful watch over his brother. The door opened and he looked that way to see Yevon Kit walking in, as always he had his obsidian staff with him. Yevon's Kit dark feline eyes looked over the room enhancing some of the weakening seals. He looked just like Ghan and Strich
“ how is he?”
“he is still dreaming father.”
“ he is?”
“ yes from what I can tell the dream is sent from someone more powerful then we are used to dealing with”
“why do you say that?”
“because whoever sent me this dream tried to hide all traces of his very existence from me.” they booth blinked as Strich stood up. “ call forth all the Yevon that study dreams and all of your own Ghan. I have a feeling we will have to go into the forbidden library.”
“ Strich?”
“ yes I have awaken on purpose. the dream I had has already been finished but I was not allowed to speak of it till you arrived father. It was sent by a council from the south.”
Strich breathed in deeply the seals in the room stabilizing as he did so.
“ are you sure about this Strich? A meeting of that kind hasn't occur in well over 500 years”
“ I understand Yevon kit and yes it is necessary”
“then I shall call for them”

Yevon Minth could not help but let out a small sigh it seemed most students wanted to impress her and tried to summon a dog or a cat they only succeeded in summoning the eggs of the creature. With a wave of her wand she made them vanished as she walked by. Then she came to the orange group. They seemed to still be writing seals down.
“ are you not ready?”
they jumped when they heard her voice.
“ sorry Yevon it's just that none of us have any real experience with this kind of seal so we spent a lot of time remembering it but we are ready.”
“good” she smiled. Jen robe brought out a solid oak wand. she could tell it wasn't magical it was just his medium. after breathing in he let forth his magic into the seal while Dreach began the incantation. Seranja let her magic flow into booth of them stabilizing them and helping them keep the proper power level soon the whole class was alive with there power and Dreach's voice which rose higher and higher until it seemed that his voice was the only thing that could exist. Then the sound of thunder came from the table and the pulse of strong magic sent the whole class to the floor when they stood up they saw Dreach Sen and Seranja holding solid oak wands trying to control there summoning.
They had summoned something that no one in the class have ever seen in any of the wildlife books it stood on its hind legs as if it where a human it's covered in white fur, it let out a commanding roar.
“obey” the voice of Minth once again had the edge of command on it as she pointed to it. “ announce yourself.”
the being looked at her as if in defiance. Her dog was next to her in a second its teeth showing.
“ I am Claus, I am a polar bear shaman. What do you wish of me. Tell me quick for I can tell I do not belong in this world”
the students stood quite as his mighty voice rang trough there heads.
“ nothing this was an exercise and you where summoned. I am sorry for that I will bring you back to your land.” she waved her hand and the bear vanished as if it was never there. “ Yechon's Dreach, Sen, and Seranja might I now what you where trying to summon?”
“we do not know. when the spell asked me for the name I just supplied what I sensed was in each of us”
“explain yourself Yechon Dreach” her tone suggested that he should be careful.
“ Jen is new in this school, he is foreign so I asked for that. Seranja is very peaceful yet has great power at her control so I asked for that. And I.... well I have a tendency to do nothing so I asked for that.”
“h'm I see.” a bell could be heard ringing of in the distance. “ you will all have to search what you summoned or tried to summon I will see you again next week class dismissed.”
as they walked together Dreach and Jen could not help but talk about the being they had summoned.
“ can you believe it? Imagine if we actually knew the specifics of what we wanted what we could summon.”
“ yes but only the ones in black robes get to study summonings completely and there hasn't been one that mistress Minth considers worthy of such teaching yet.”
“ um Jen”
“ yes Seranja.”
“why do you call her mistress?”
“ oh in the school where I come from our teachers have different titles I did not even know what a Yevon was till I came here we normally call them mages and sometimes sages.”
“h'm I see. What about you Dreach?”
“ I was raised here my mother died young and my father gave me to Ghan to train so I grew up with these terms.”
“h'm I myself haven't heard any such terms till I came here.” they all sat down on a table.
“ I have an idea. Its something I used to do in my other school to get to know people why don't we tell each other of where we grew up.”
“sure I will go first. As i said I grew up here, but there have been many times when my Yevon has taken me outside to go with her. The outside world is interesting but the best thing is the underground mage duels.”
“ah yes thats where i was found by my current Yevon he told me such a thing was dangerous and brought me here to learn.”
“um.... Yevon Strich was the one that found me he brought me here from my families farm. I still miss them but I guess I was meant to be a dreamer.”
“ um can I ask a question?”
“sure Jen”
“what exactly is a dreamer?”
“ well I get dreams from other mages who study dreams, sometimes they are warnings of whats to come and sometimes there just dreams telling me to watch out for something or whats going to happen”
“um alright so what do you guys want to know about my discipline?”
“ well for one how do you know so much of carpentry?”
“ ah good question Dreach, well I have always had a talent for carpentry so I studied when I could by taking apart and putting together desk and other stuff. I did not know I could make magical items till my Yevon told me so. So far I can only make charms and this things.” he brought out a small crystal ball it seemed to be glowing with energy. “ I can use it as a light or by breaking it a power source or distraction, and if really desperate and I have enough energy I can use it to fight.”
“ thats very cool how did you do that?”
“ I don't really understand it yet I just kinda have been doing that since I could remember.”
“Seranja you okay?”
she could hear what Dreach had asked but it sounded as if far away distant from where she was she saw her body grow further and further apart. Soon she was above the clouds and then she stopped she sensed it then. The accumulation of all her dreams tearing trough her as if someone was seeing all she had seen she relived each and every dream she had ever had whether magical or not. At first she didn't fight it then as the interrogator got deeper and deeper into her dreams she began to fight him using all her might she then began screaming for her Yevon while trying to put up walls she felt the symbol in the middle of her chest begin to hurt she felt it pulsing and as the pulsing increased she felt her power become one with something else she felt the same sense of being trapped in a storm of rage as she had before but this time she felt a calm behind the storm, as if a master hand was guiding the storm to vanish the intruder and trying to look into her as well. She gave in to him Letting him see into her dreams but in one brief second she smiled for she got to him suddenly everything went dark and when the lights came back on she was surrounded by a forest of gigantic metal and crystal giants she saw streets paved of a strange material it was as black as the sky. From the the giants came strange lights that produced no fames .after a few seconds she could feel the gaze of someone on her she turned around and could not breath for she realized she was at the eye of the storm. The worst and calmest of the rage lay before him as a slave lay before there master, this being was one of absolute power. he was sitting on a black throne his figure hidden by the shadows of other thrones behinds him she felt everything that would come of a demon yet she did not fear him she blinked and felt the horrible power of the man stop surrounding him letting her see a smaller seat next to his and the longing of before on the man and then nothingness existed once again, yet her breast ache, her head ached, her lips ached, her whole body ached. But not from pain oh no her body ached to see him again and that filled her with dread. She has had never been one to ache for a person especially a man the way she was now. What had he done to her?
“Seranja!” the scream startled her awake. She wondered why they looked at her with worry. Then she looked down she had drawn her dreams on the table and the surround floor, but where did she get the red ink? Fear began to creep into her as she realized she had used her own blood. that much blood had been used how did she? Before her thought could be finalized she was on the floor unconscious.

Strich was surprised to hear what was going on. As he made it to he infirmary Ghan was there already. Seranja's naked body was on the cold slab of stone,it was a young body one that was flawless but it was marred by the mark in the middle of her breast. Which seemed to have grown since the last time they saw it.
“brother?”
“ my seal worked. For the most part it was kept at bay...but something tried to get in and who or whatever marked her first fought it of. It seems my seal is nothing but a joke to it... she is tied to strong powers brother.”
Strich could not help but laugh” when i told you that you would not believe me.”
“ that was before I saw her dream.”
“saw?”
he pointed to the wall. “It took a lot of man power but the blood drawing had been transferred to the infirmary it seemed that until they did that Seranja would not calm.”
“ by the heavens... this is....” he could not believe what he saw. It was a perfect replica of the world before magic. The world when man was at the brink of destruction. But the whole thing was disfigured thanks to the dried blood. It seemed that all the drawings led to one central figure one that was small compared to the surroundings But that smallness made him look like a god. He could not explain why but fear gripped his heart to see the shadowed figure almost staring at him. He could feel it. Its endless rage.
A rage of untold days a rage against the world. A rage that would burn many a city just with it's existence. He felt someone calling to him. But it was not till he hit the floor that he realized. He was dreaming. This being was talking to him! But the language was one that he had never heard of before yet he understood perfectly what the man was saying. And in that instant fear grew in him fear of who might be talking to him. He silently repeated the words spoken to him to his brother before he lost consciousness
“ the watchers are weakening”

The meeting happened in that same infirmary. Non of them wanted to move Strich from his bed. Especially with the look of fear he had when they tried to moved him from Seranja.
“ so Yevon Strich what did you see that frightened you so much?” when Minth spoke the lightest air of concern was on her voice.
“ it is not one of the watchers that send her this dream. It is not one of the watchers that has marked or that she has seen. And her vision is one that does not exist in time.”
His proclamation made all chatter from the healing Yevon's to stop. They stopped treating Seranja's still sleeping body and stared at him.
“ but... how is that possible?”
“ it is simple. It is one of the sealed.”
The sealed.... the tittle given to those that brought magic back into the world only to destroy it. No one truly knew why they where sealed only that they where considered to be a great threat to the survival of the world. The watchers where also part of the ones that brought magic back . Yefah was considered to be the one to help seal the last of the sealed. The strongest of them in his own prison. Sealing himself in an eternal battle with it.
“ by Yefah” Ghan has been known as never being one to use such words so when he did all the Yevon's turned to him.
“you... brother you spoke a different tongue Could it have been a dream sent to you by Yefah?”
“ if it was. it is a big warning. All the dreamers that I have sent even an image of this drawing that Seranja did , all of them focused on that small figure and did the same thing I did... it is a message maybe even a call for hep. The watchers are weakening.”
it was as if the temperature suddenly dropped 50 degrees in a matters of seconds. A deep chill made its way into there bones.
“ we must open the seal To the forbidden library. If the watchers are weakening then there might be a way to help them.”

Seranja was stuck in this giant city. It was lonely there was nothing. She found that figured that was staring at her was not really staring at her. It was an obsidian statue of one of the watchers.
As she explored around she found she always felt as if she was being watched. She sighed once she found that everything here lead back to that statue. she did not know how long she was in this dream for what else could it be? This was a desolate place there was nothing there. Nothing except for that controlled rage
“ so.. another female comes to ask the devil for power over man.”
she jumped when she heard that. A man that seemed to be in his sixties seemed to materialize out of nowhere he had one a mischievous grin that frightened her to the core. He got closer to her.” he will definitely enjoy you. He will give you what you seek.”
she subconsciously closed her legs she felt a deep fear run inside of her till a mighty roar shook the foundations of the city. From behind the statue came a a creature she had only read about in books. It stopped running once it got between them. She was amazed by the way it looked. Its royal mane seemed to be made of black silk. His black body had not a bit of untooned muscle. And his skin seemed as obsidian, impossibly glossy for a thing that seemed to suck the light from the room, He roared one more time his tail swinging behind him as if in anticipation. As he roared she saw his pure white teeth. Teeth that she was sure could rip into the throat of any creature. For what stood in front of her protecting her was no other then a black lion.
The being in white quickly retreated the lion turned to her. His almost ember eyes staring at her lazily Only one thing seemed to be on his mind tough his eyes where lazy it was clear if she did not obey she would be eaten.
“ I do not know how to leave.”
he growled and lead her to the statue. As she got closer she realized what the statue was.
It was Yefah, The mighty sleeper, The rage that lay before him... why would it? Before she could guess the lion pushed her into the statue she felt a deep pain as the obsidian sucked all of her heat. She died almost intently

The gasp of air brought everyone out of there thoughts Seranja stood up and gasped for air as if she had been drowning. They where all thankful she was awake.
“Seranja are you capable of telling us?”
She looked at her master and nodded After she steadied her breath. She placed a hand near her heart feeling it beat faster than normal she related what she had seen in her dreams. But she was perplexed by Strich's look of amazement at her tale. When she was done she noticed the same look in all the Yevon's.
“Seranja what you saw was no dream. You where in the seal of Yefah.”

“you where in a seal?” Jen and Dreach booth looked surprised.
“ yes supposedly it is not that rare for Dreamers to enter the world of the person trying to contact them. That is why only the powers above us really send us dreams. That is why it is impossible to lie to a dreamer in a dream, or at least that is why it is supposed to be impossible.” she almost whispered under her breath.
Jen and Dreach had shown up to her room as soon as the nurses stopped fusing over her attire. Not that Seranja really cared much about that after what she had seen or felt. The heat still did not seem to dissipate from her body.
“ well.. I for one am glad I am not a dreamer” Dreach said. He looked at her as if he questioned whether or not she was truly ready for visitors
“ calm down Dreach. The healing arts are pretty good at things like this.” It seemed as if Jen was speaking from experience. “ they would not want to hurt a dreamer... tell us more about this black lion.”
“ well I have never seen a feline before. You know except for the wild cats that Strich sometimes brings from his jobs. But it was truly an amazing creature. Its eyes where just like Stitch's” she did not know why but she felt truly... giddy. As she said this she suddenly remembered her desire to hug the lion to death. “ it was a cute creature.”
Dreach and Jen could not help but stare it was the first time sher started to speak like a regular girl. They wondered just what happened to there friend, and how long till they would get her back