Asta Silva - Childhood and travel

Chapter 5

<Asta>

"Are you sure?" asked Liebe, when I explained what weapon I had in mind.

"Yes!" I nodded furiously. "It's perfect!"

"But you know it's going to be hard to master? Especially with your clumsy hands"

"Hey! I'm not that bad!" I sulked.

"Yesterday, when you tried to sew something, you cut yourself so badly that I thought someone tried to cut your hand off" he reminded me.

I cringed, hiding my bandaged hand behind me. It's not my fault that that stupid needle is so slow and sharp! I have no patience for this.

"Whatever you say. Now, teach me how to use magic!" I urged excitedly.

"Brat. First you need to train you muscle strength. If you create this "weapon" from anti-magic it will be heavy and you won't be able to use it"

"Huh?! You didn't mention it earlier!"

"Well, I'm doing it now. Get to work!"

***

Two days later, Langris appeared again. Not gonna lie, he surprised me.

"Hi" he greeted, waving his hand with an awkward smile.

"Uh, hi? What are you doing here?" I asked, still surprised.

"I came to apologize. I didn't mean to lash out last time" he murmured, looking away.

"It's alright? No hard feelings, really. Um... You wanna go in?" I asked awkwardly after a moment.

"Sure!" he brightened up.

"Why have you actually come here, besides the apology? Not that I don't want you here, but I don't understand" I said honestly.

"Last time I saw a lot of pictures of flowers and other plants in your room, so I assumed that you have some knowledge on them." he explained, and I quickly caught on.

"You need help with studying?" he nodded. I wasn't particularly surprised. Botany is quite hard, since a lot of plants are similiar to each other. It's easy for me because my mom used to teach me a lot about this, but that's just me. I understand that others may have some problems with it. "Okay, let's go to the library then."

***

We spent a few hours studying. Langris made good progress, but he had trouble remembering names and recognizing a few flowers. That's why we agreed that he will come here every two days and we will study together. It was nice, talking to him. Liebe laughed at me, but I knew he was glad that I got a friend. Well, at leat I consider us friends, but I don't know what he thinks about us.I noticed that with time, I came to read Langris a bit better. It was really weird, because with Noelle - with whom I had good relations with and we saw each other often - I couldn't read her at all. Maybe it's because I'm going through puberty or something.

"Brat, focus" Liebe growled.

"I'm trying" I grumbled.

I sat in a meditation pose, and Liebe ordered me to focus on my energy and find anti-magic. I really tried, but it was just hard! I took a deep breath and began to focus on my body and soul. I felt the beating of my heart, the flow of my blood, and my breathing. After a while I began to feel thin streams of something... They ran probably along the blood vessels. I focused on them, and after a momet I felt a constant and slow pulse of energy. The feeling got quickly lost.

I don't know what happened, but I suddenly got thrown into cold water. I opened my eyes. All I saw around me was blue. I opened my mouth, wanting to scream, but nothing came out. I started to struggle, I felt as if I was under real water, but it couldn't be real, because I would've drowned long ago. I looked up and saw a light. I stretched my hand up to it, and tried to swim upm which was effective. When I breached the weird water, it turned out that I was in a lake? Around the lake was a snowy forest. Where the hell am I? What the hell is going on?!

"Liebe? Liebe?! Where are you?! Where am I?!" I shouted in all directions, coming out of the water. I began shaking from the cold. 

I looked around, but besides the snow-covered trees, nothing was standing out. Have I somehow teleported? But how?!

I started to walk into the forest. Suddenly, a path made from stones appeared in front of me. I walked cautiously, looking around warily. I didn't want to be ambushed. I wasn't sure for how long I was walking, but after a while I began to hear growling. I stopped and frantically looked around. I felt my heart beating faster, from pure fear.

I was scared of dogs, wolves and other such things. Once, Solid threw me into a cage with wolves, who bit me severly. Since then, everytime I hear just a growl, I get paralyzed by fear. The sound got louder and I froze. I'm not sure if because of fear, or because of awe. Behind me stood a wolf with beautiful, azure fur, and big eyes as black as a void. The creature still growled at me, and I still couldn't move. After a moment of staring, the wolf jumped at me, and I closed my eyes and began to scream.

*** 

 "Asta! Asta! Asta?! What the fuck is going on?!"When I opened my eyes, I was still screaming my throat raw, and tears were streaming down my face. I was laying down on the floor, and above me was flying a concerned Liebe. 

I stopped screaming and tried to gather my thoughts.

"Asta?! You woke up, what a relief! What the hell happened? Are you hurt?" The spirit was asking frantically. "Oh god, what am I asking, of course you are" he berated himself.  "What happened?"

What is he talking about? I woke up? And why should I be hurt?

Immediately after, I felt an immense pain going throughout my body. I wasn't abe to move.

"It hurts" I cried out.

"What happened?" he asked again.

"I don't know. I was in a forest. A wolf attacked me?" I summarized.

"What? What are you talking about? You were here the whole time." Liebe pondered. "Hm... Maybe..."

"What?" I asked quietly, trying not to move. "Well, when you meditated, you suddenly started glowing and it wasn't the anti-magic that I know. Then your bones started cracking and you began screaming. It was terrifying. Even though you weren't moving, I heard your bones shatter. At first I thought that you humans mastered a transformation into an animal, but nothing of the sort happened. You just fell back and continued screaming."

What...

"Liebe, hide!" I said. He didn't question it and flew into my wardrobe.

Maids stormed into the room. They froze when they saw me on the floor. I looked at myself. 

Oh... Around me was a pool of blood and bones were sticking out of my skin. 

Oh my, I will have a lot to explain, won't I? 

But with a bit of luck maybe they won't inform my father.

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