Chapter 4 Revelation

Weeks after the hair incident, Beatrice returned to school with another hair. As soon as she walked in, everyone looked at her with mixed expression on their faces. Some had mockery on their faces while others had the look of disgust. Wondering why the people who adored her were looking at her like that, she turned to face Kristal who was wearing a blue headset as she sketched randomly on a sheet of paper.

Angrily, she walked up to her and slapped her hard on her cheeks.

"This is for making my mom hit me"

Whack

"This is for setting my hair on fire"

Whack

"and this is for telling everyone that am bald!!" Beatrice yelled into Kristal face as she slapped her thrice. By the time she was done, Kristal started bleeding from her nose.

As soon as she spoke, the class went up in uproar.

"Wait, Beatrice is bald??"

"her mom hit her! She said her parents doesn't hit her!!"

"how come you guys didn't hear the last part! She said Kristal set her hair on fire!!"

"How despicable! She's blaming her for something she can't do..."

The murmuring went on and on... Beatrice couldn't help but get more angry as soon as the realisation struck....

They didn't know about the hair incident! She had exposed herself! Turning to face Kristal who was cleaning her bleeding nose with her sleeve, an unknown rage consumed her. She grabbed Kristal's hair and slammed her head against the table making the whole class gasp in shock including Beatrice's minions.

"Stop pretending to pass out " Beatrice yelled as she pushed Kristal's head off the table expecting her to raise her head but instead, she rolled off the desk and fell on the floor with blood dripping from her forehead and nose. Everyone in class screamed.

"What have you done???" One of her minions gasped in shock.

"I....I....I don't....I don't know what came over me" Beatrice stuttered as she turned to run away. She stopped in her tracks when she felt a cold aura behind her. Slowly she turned back. Shock and fear was written on her face. Kristal was levitating in the air like a mummy she was lost. Her eyes were void of emotions as they turned white. All the students in the class began to run away in panic excluding Beatrice. Suddenly, Kristal screamed using a high pitched voice making the windows shatter. The ears of everyone within the school started bleeding. The principal ran to the class while manoeuvring through scared students. On getting there, he was shocked to the bones. With fear, he called Kristal's father who appeared almost immediately.

"Firefly?" her father called gently as he walked in while avoiding the broken shads of glass on the floor.

Hearing that, she turned to face the source of the voice. On feeling the presence of her father, she vanished without leaving a trace making her father panic. As soon as Kristal

disappeared, a drone that took the shape of a butterfly flew away after witnessing the whole scene.

Meanwhile, Kristal found herself in the same cell she saw in her dream only that this time around, it was snowing in the dungeons.

Without waiting for anything, she walked straight to the place where she saw that woman on instinct. On getting to the spot where she saw the woman, she discovered that the cell was empty. Looking around, she found a glittering item on the floor near chains which was coated with fresh blood.

"She was here" Kristal noted before going to examine the object that was glittering in the dark. She picked it up and after careful examination she discovered that it wasn't an ordinary object, it was a frozen phoenix feather.

"Frozen? Phoenix are fire animals or something like that right?" she asked herself. Just before she could get up, she felt a pull towards the feather. Carefully holding it in her two hands, she stared at it closely. Soon, she entered a time hole.

Everything seemed to move so fast that it was hard to pick out images from it. On getting to a point the flashing reduced slowly then Kristal saw a woman being tortured by trolls who wore hooded cloaks and black mask with the carving of horned Eagle.

"they're coming for you....."

"please leave...."

The woman begged as she was being tortured while blood gushed out from her wounds.

Ignoring the plea, Kristal stretched forth her hand towards the woman.

Just as her hand was about to reach the woman, the trolls that were torturing the woman turned to face her.

" there you are!" the leader exclaimed as he grabbed her hand and stabbed it with a sickle making her groan. The pain made her snatch her hand from him causing the sickle to give her an awful wound.

"I told you to leave!!!" the woman yelled in pain as the others continued with the torture.

"I can't leave you! Show me your face!" Kristal ignored her wound and ordered the woman who chuckled.

However, the injury on Kristal's hand healed without her knowing. Just before it could heal totally, a drop of her blood touched the dungeons floor making everywhere go pitch black. The trolls were nowhere to be found leaving Kristal alone with the woman. Weirdly, she wasn't scared of the woman, rather she felt at ease with her.

"Why are you here?" She asked straightaway.

"you really took after me huh..." the woman murmured using inaudible voice but it was loud enough for Kristal to hear.

"what'd you mean?" Kristal asked.

"You're too stubborn....you need to go back....if you don't, your soul will be stuck here for eternity and no one would be able to bring the prophesy to fulfilment" the woman said instead as she turned to leave with her head low.

"What prophesy? Who are you? Why not escape??" Kristal asked the woman.

"all in good times"

"Huh?" Kristal was confused but couldn't say anything.

"she said something about my soul...huh....this is not my body?" Panic set in as she began to figure out how to escape.

She turned around to leave before she heard footsteps approaching her. Hurriedly she ran to hide behind a pillar that was never in the cell.

Feeling her pocket, she felt the cold feather and wondered how it ended up in her pocket. She fiddled with the edge of the feather before pricking her finger with it

"Ouch!" she gasped as she brought out her hand to examine the wound caused by the feather.

The footsteps which she had heard a while ago approached her hiding place hurriedly making Kristal whimper in fear. She hugged the feather tightly against her chest. Slowly, the feather faded making Kristal Panic. The sound of the footsteps drew closer to her. Just as she was about to pass out in fear, she vanished leaving nothing behind for the person to see.

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"Kristal.....you can't stay like this. You have to wake up " she heard her father's cracked voice.

Kristal: huh?

She groaned before trying to look around.

"I feel numb...this is weird" she thought as she tried to talk.

"Dad?" Kristal called out to her father weakly.

"firefly! You're awake! Thank the heavens! I thought I'd loose you!" he said as he hugged her on the bed making her chuckle.

"How'd you find me?" Kristal asked.

"Well I met you here in your room. You were laying on the floor and your body was cold....."

She interrupted him "what'd you mean by you found me in my room? I wasn't in the room!" Kristal stated before narrating what she had seen to him. Her father was stunned.

" OK that was weird, do me a favour and don't tell anyone including your mom that is she is anyway." Her father said earning a smiles from Kristal.

After a few moments of silence Kristal asked her father how long she's been sleeping then her dad told after she had been in coma for two weeks making Kristal gasp in shock.

Meanwhile, the frozen phoenix feather that she saw had managed to find its place on her skin, thereby appearing as an odd tattoo on her arm which disappeared as soon as it came.