The Brimstone Chronicles - The Book of Eternity (Book 3)

CHAPTER 5 - Circulus Magorum

"James?" Alexander could see nothing but darkness, but his heightened senses told him James and the others were close by. Heating a small group of electrons before him, Alexander conjured light into what now appeared to a windowless room with only one door. Everyone but James was still unconscious, come to think of it Alexander realized he had no idea when they were knocked out.

"Sleeping Charm." James answered the thought that hovered in Alexander's mind.

"Where...are we?" Marius was the next to wake.

"Not dreaming, that's for sure." Saiyan spoke sleepily as he sat up, the rest following suit except Pyro who continued to snore. Sapphira manifested a ball of water over him and dropped it.

"Gah!" Pyro sprung to his feet, fireballs in hand and eyes ablaze. Slowly he got his bearings and realized what woke him, "You did not just do that." He looked at Sapphira accusingly.

"Relax, Draconus." James stood up and faced the door, "Their coming."

Sure enough, a female voice came from the other side of the door, "Step away from the door human."

James did as was instructed and the door vanished. In came a very tall and slender woman whose snow-white skin made Alexander think of the comic book wife of DC's Mr. Freeze. Her waist –length hair was tied into one long braid, a closer look revealing to Alexander that it held a midnight blue shade. The woman walked proudly in a long pitch-black gown with gold cuffs, hemlines, and a collar. Her speech was flawless and held an air of royalty, "Your names please."

Each member introduced themselves with their first names only and titles:

"Isken-Ra, Egyptian God of Divine Retribution."

"Kyra, Princess of Hamunaptra."

"Genisis, Prince of Hamunaptra."

"Pyro, Half-breed: Human and Wyvern."

"Saiyan, Demigod son of Zeus."

"Marius, son of Tempest."

"Princess Sapphira, daughter of Poseidon."

"Arutimettodoragon, Wyvern."

"Umm..." Alexander was unsure what exactly to say, "Alexander...Arch Mage."

At Alexander's title, the woman's eyebrows furrowed, "Interesting. Follow me." She turned and left the room, leaving everyone to quickly follow her.

The group walked down a thin a corridor with pale blue walls. Two lefts, a right, one long left and a lengthy set of stairs upward, took them into a chamber with seven arches apart from the one they had just come through. Then they walked straight across to the one opposite them and took the arc on its right. From there, they descended a short flight of steps and came at hallway that went left and right, at which they went left. Some time afterwards the finally came to a single pitch-black door with no handle. The woman however, walked right through it with James following behind nonchalantly. Alexander was the last to go through, who hesitated, remembering what happened in one of the many Harry Potter movies he's seen. Mustering up the courage, he stepped towards the black door and went right through.

Nothing could have prepared Alexander for where they were now...in his bedroom, with everything in the same mess he had left it. "Umm...why are we in my..."

"Not yet," The woman interrupted as she stood in the centre, "what you are seeing here is an illusion. A simple spell that causes the inhabitants of the room to see the place they are most comfortable in. Allow me to lift this enchantment." Suddenly the room warped into a circular balcony with twelve arches. Nine black straight-back chairs appeared in a circle, plus one taller black chair. Once the woman was seated, the others followed and waited as she examined each of them in silence, lingering on Alexander before moving on. "To ease the tension, I must properly introduce myself of course. I am Galicia, Arch Mage the Third." That definitely decreased the tension, which was evident from all the sighs of relief that followed and Galicia smiled, "That there is a Fourth now however...is not a good a thing. It means of course, that the Universe in danger, again. It also means you are here because you need guidance, Alexander." She looked at Alexander with kind eyes that he had only just realized had pitch-black corneas and blue irises that faded to white before reaching her black pupils. "One thing that does greatly interest me though, is you." She then looked at Dora, "Seth banished you and yet here you are."