Chapter 21: Chapter 7: The Eve Of The Odyssey Part 1

Zaiver was not looking forward to the climb up the stairs. While the courtyard was well insulated from the wind due to its walls, the stairs were nearly one hundred steps long and completely exposed to elements. There were no more walls until the building doors at the top of the steps. Frostbite could strike in the time it would take to reach them and Zavier had enough wounds. As they reached the foot of the stairs, Arigo lifted his left arm outward and made a rotating motion like he was unscrewing a lightbulb. His left hand had a faint white glow. The first thing Zaiver noticed after this was the quiet. He could only hear the wind in the distance. It was like they were indoors now. Arigo had essentially created a vacuum that encompassed the stairs. Walking up was a surreal experience. Zaiver could see the edges of the stairs, roughly twenty feet away from his either direction, had an energy barrier blocking the wind. It had a blurry visual effect not unlike a heat mirage. The trippiest thing was how artificially still the air was. Zaiver imagined this was like how moving through outer space was, except with gravity.

As they reached the top of the stairs, Arigo’s hand glowed white again, and the large door responded with the same light glow. Zavier heard a clicking noise and the massive double doors swung open. The inside was incredibly spacious but rather empty. It was like a church without pews. In both of the back corners of the large space were stairs that winded behind a wall heading up. In the back center of the room stood a door connected to a stone quarter cylinder enclosure that rotated down in the mountain, clearly an entrance to a basement. The doors automatically shut behind Zaiver as he completed his walk in. Argio motioned to the left back corner stairs and Zaiver followed him to them and up them. As they reached the top of the circular staircase, the door opened to a plain room with a bed and several chairs. It was not much different than the rooms Yafu and him were staying in. Arigo sat down and Zavier took the seat directly across from him.

Pointing to the unoccupied chair, Arigo spoke, “Lift it.” Zavier began to get up to walk over but Arigo stopped it, “No, do it our way. Focus your mind on it.” Zavier sat back down and readied himself. Hopefully after he failed, Arigo might be able to help rediscover the magic he had blocking the first attack from Shen. It would probably be needed if he was going to survive the way things were going. To his astonishment, the chair glowed blue and rose six inches off the ground. He could feel the same deep tightening in the back of skull and his hands glowed a soft light blue. It was unclear to Zaiver what he was doing differently.

“You’ve got too much juice to not be able to do that after a few days of first contact.” Arigo commented. “The second you were used as an anchor, your powers began to wake up. It will take time but I suspect you will continue to make meteoric gains in the coming months. I just don’t want you to be surprised out there.”

Zavier looked at Arigo. He had to ask the difficult questions now. He was still in shock but this was his best chance to get real answers. “Will I ever be able to come back?” The question was raw and straight to the point.

Arigo sighed and looked towards the opposite wall, “Right now, the answer is no. But you have an opportunity these next few months. Anenna will be watching you and how you react to your powers. Your ability to handle it psychologically is being noted. I can’t have you back here unless I’m absolutely certain you will not give in to temptation.”

“If you want me to stay quiet, I can do so. I’ll just go back to my life, take the heat for being missing for a week, and never bother with this stuff again.” Zavier knew there was no chance Arigo would let him do this, he had his mind made up. He was fishing for a better explanation that might open the door for him to go home eventually.

“Well, first Radia has to find out how you even exist, so I can mitigate you as a threat, whatever that may entail. That will be the easy part, she is the most brilliant mind in any world, you will be amazed when you meet her. The harder part is if you can be trusted not as an anchor but as a man.” Arigo had now moved his gaze back to Zavier making stern eye contact. “I believe you when you say you will not ever reveal any of your powers or anyone else to the world. I think as you are right now, there is no desire inside you for that. But life is long and sometimes difficult. You followed Yafu to near death out of dissatisfaction, despite knowing better of it. You gave into the temptation. Into ego and power. As much as you hate all of this right now, life will wear you down again. Do you really think there won’t be a day where you will want to feel spectacular despite the consequences?” Arigo took a long pause after this, letting Zavier mull the question internally. “When those days come, do I know for sure you’ll keep your head down. Everything I know about people, and I’ve seen a lot, says it’s only a matter of time. And much like you are discovering now, once the veil of ignorance is taken from the people of this planet, there will be no helping even good people from the worst of their instincts.”

Zavier felt discouraged from asking again. There was a deep seriousness in Arigo’s tone that made Zavier feel petty and childish for worrying about his problems. They talked a little bit more after that, mainly just some instructive things on soul energy. Zavier got the fundamentals of three basic skills. The universal translating power Yafu had been using, an ability to grab objects across the room, and a small discharge. It was surprisingly straightforward to acquire these skills in an afternoon, although he was clearly at a beginners level with these. He would still be hilariously overmatched against anyone he had seen in action so far. After getting the skills to a point where Arigo believed he had a good base to improve as time went on, the two men got up and descended the stairs.

“Return here tomorrow morning. Try to be ready to leave. Whatever you might need to do.” Arigo said as he ushered Zavier to the main doors.

“One more thing.” Zavier blurted out.

“Hmmm.” Argio mused.

“Who are you? What made you get into this?” Zavier asked.

“I love Earth, Zavier. That should answer both questions.”

Right before he walked out, Zavier gave a hard look at the door in the back center of the room. As the day had gone on he had become more sensitive to soul energy, not just his own, but that which was around him. As with his combat skills, he knew there were higher levels. The fact that Yafu could pinpoint Shen from outside the hotel had a new level of impressiveness to Zaiver. For Zavier, even the energy swirling directly around him was blurry and confusing as he felt it. Despite that, he felt an incredibly strong repulsive force coming from that door. He was not being physically pushed backwards but he felt a tug pulling him in the opposite direction that he could only feel more after an afternoon for practice. Arigo noticed he had stopped to stare at the door and motioned for him to keep walking.

“What’s in there?” Zavier asked as he reached the exit.

Arigo’s hands glowed white as he opened to door and parted the winds blowing over the stairs. Shutting the doors quickly before Zaiver had a chance to respond he uttered simply, “Never go through that door.”

Zavier hurried down the stairs. He did not want to wait to see how long Arigo would keep the winds at bay. As he got to the courtyard, he headed back to the room he had woken up in. Opening the door, he marveled at how fast his shoulder had healed. It definitely wasn’t a natural timetable. Whether that was some healing factor he now had or it was some manipulation by Arigo or Anenna, he was just grateful it was less painful to move around especially in the cold. Once he got to his room, he practically dived into his bed and fell asleep.

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