《The Priest Who Went Against God》 Chapter 1 : The World of Arkon When you hear about the old world of Arkon, Everyone says it is a nightmare from your darkest dreams. Vampires ruled the earth and humanity was pushed to the brink of extinction, Out of desperation the last of humanity looked to the church for answers and prayed to god. This was when the church let out a lone warrior, One who could be as fast as any supernatural creature and twice as deadly, They named them the priests because they always had a tattoo of Gods cross on there bodies. At first there was only one priest but then more came forth from the church and humanity had finally be able to push back against the supernatural creatures, After thousands of years priests became less and less as the supernatural threat was all but destroyed. You see many soldiers from the church but it''s much too rare to see a priest. The church has become the head organization for all things after their success with the priest. The heads of the church have a motto known by all who live in the world of Arkon. "To go against the church is to go against God". If anyone else had said these word it would have caused a rebellion, but as the priests who carried humanity of the brink of destruction were a part of the church so everyone accept this fact and over the years this became something more than a cult. It became people''s way of life. You cannot have the church without god and everyone in the church wererespected and trusted. Ever 5 years the church goes to eachoutlined town. which are much smaller than the ones that have a church in their town and they test the children with trails on their speed,skill,strength and heart, from there the group which would be chosen will go to a town which is a bit bigger then the outlined towns and they would be trained on how to becomerookie knights and start on their path to fight the evil of the world. "Lucas wake up, I want you to go out and get some wood for the fire please". "I heard it is going to be extremely cold tonight". A beautiful young woman named Alice was standing over me with beautiful brown hair and a smile which could melt anyones heart. "Ok Mother, I will go out there and get some wood for you, so we can be nice and warm tonight". I give my mother the biggest smile I can offer and get ready to head out to the woods to get some wood for a fire. I am quite happy to be mothers son, She is sweet and kind even though I am not her real child. She found me when I was baby in the woods and took me in and cared for me for 10 years as her own, because of this she could not find a husband because no one else wanted to raise someone elses child with no background. I have blue hair and aqua eyes so it was quite easy to tell I was not her child. But all in all, I love her regardless. I ran outside and the light of the sun shined up me, when I was about to run out the town to grab some wood I was stopped by 4 bigger kids who often bully me because they are quite big and chubby for their young ages, While I am smaller and more agile than they are. Even thought we are all ten years old, They have been spoiled from a young age and have developed a vile personality''s. The names of these boys are Nigel,Jacob,Nickel and theleaderis John. "Hello Little Lucas where are you off today on such a short notice haha" John says with an evil smirk like he is thinking of something really cruel. "Yeah Lucas why do you not come play with us" The 3 other kids chimed in eagerly like they wanted to impress, The bigger leader John. "Sorry I am about to go get some wood for my mother for these warm nights" I says while getting to dash off again. "She is not even your mother you little idiot, But do not worry when I grow up maybe I should take her has my second wife and have my way with her Hahahahah! " As soon as the words leave johns mouth, I feel my blood boiling and angry surfacing, Because it does not matter if anyone insults me but if the insult my lovely mother then even I can get angry. I charge at john at punch him in the face, He gets a blood nose and staggers backwards a big. "Grab this little shit" He shouts as the three minions of his come at me, I dodge the first swing of Nigel''s but I fail to dodge the swings of Jacob''s and Nickel''s and I fall face first in the dirt with my stomach and face in agony where the two little boys hit me. "DRAG HIS ARSE UP" John shouts with his first clenched, He did not think the little boy he has picked on for nearly his whole life so far would suddenly hit him and caused him to bleed, This gave way to new emotions in this young boy such as humiliation from being hit and angry from being caused to breath. "Bring him to me!" John shouts while he has a horrible look on his face like he ate something rotten. Two of his silly minion''s grab each of my two armsrespectively and the third moved my face so it was in line with Johns. He looks at me and starts punching me in the gut and face, Most of the people in this town see this but do not really care as I am not really part of this village, The only one who has ever seen me as part of this village was my mother but the rest of these people have always turned a blind eye to me getting bullied. "So I heard a weak little shit like you wants to join the mighty church and become a priest in the future hahaha!" John and his stupid minion laugh at this because every kid our ages is getting ready for the church to come and do the trails, even the most vile ones. "I will become the strongest priest ever!" I shout at them while I feel the blood coming up, I cough a few times while the blood comes out. John comes up to hit me again but as he does I hear a resounding-SLAP-and I see my mother slap the young boy in the face and mother has a look in her eyes like she can spit venom. "IF I EVER SEE YOU TOUCH MY CHILD AGAIN THEY WILL NOT FIND YOUR BODIES" She slaps each one of the children and they go run off crying she picks me up and brushes of the dirt which was on my clothes, she then give me so many hugs and makes sure I am okay. hahah She is such an overprotective mother. "Do not worry mum, In a few days when the church organization comes and puts us through the trails I will become big and strong so no one can ever tease me or you ever again without having to fear the consequences" I give her another big smile. "Just do not get your hopes up to much ok?". Mother has a worried face, "Just make sure you know I will always be with you, In whatever you do. Now go get me some wood" She gives me a kiss on the check and pushes me away to go to the woods to get wood. The woods looked super dark and scary when I was 5 but as the last 5 years went by I went in little by little, Until I was not scared anymore. I walk around collecting the biggest stick my little arms can carry, I kinda use this as training my body. I also have a habit to run around the first dodging and weaving under sticks and branches to train. They said that the church will be here in a few days so I am trying to do everything I can to prepare for the trials because I honestly do not want to have to wait another 5 years to take the test after I fail, Who would want to do that?. I am running through the woods like a mad man, Twisting and turning ever which way and before I know it I am already pretty deep in the forest. I am quite proud of how far I have run.The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement. Grooowl, I hear a noise behind me and when I turn around I see a feral goblin, They are quite common in these parts but the adults tend to take care of them before they even have a chance to get this close to anyone. I am shaking with fear I guess no matter how much you run around the wood, as soon as I see someone who wants to take my life I get scared. But I am 10 years old with a bit of training I will become the strongest. The goblin charges me as fast as its little legs will take it, When it is about to bite me, I swing down my piece of wood I collected clumsily at the goblin with a screeech the goblin falls over, It''s just staring at me with hatred. I take a deep breath and keep hitting the goblin with the piece of wood until the life goes out in its eyes. I dump the piece of wood full of blue goblin blood and go to collect others ones. Even though I am scared and feel sick, I will overcome this and get the piece of wood so me and my mother want have cold nights. When I enter our little home with the wood, Mother sees some of the blue blood on my clothes and it scanning my body to see if I am okay, Ever since I was younger, I have noticed whenever I was hurt or injured my mother would now the remedy for these wounds and also she is really strong. Once the butcher would not sell to me because in his words "Alice is a very beautiful women and now thanks to you no one even wants to talk to her or make friends with her, Let alone getting a husband" and when mother found out I heard she went in there and the butcher needed to call a medic in from thechurchbecause he was hurt so badly.In everything I do my mother always supports me, So I will become big and strong so she can be proud.! I put the wood down and start eating dinner that mother has prepared for me, It is a type of stew which has chicken and beef combo, I think it is one of the best things to eat. "Hey Lucas, I just got word from someone I know from the other outliner city, That the church just came from there and they picked children to go and train with the churches order. It looks like they will arrive here tomorrow, I know I have asked this so many time now but are you sure you want to train and become a priest"? I look into my mothers eyes and see the deep fear in them but I think about what the worry could be for, But I came to the conclusion that she could just be worried for my safety. " Do not worry mother, I will train super hard and make you proud. I will past all the trails they will give us and prove that I can become a priest and be the one who is closest to god!" "hahah Sometimes you are so stubborn no matter what I say you will not change your mind?". This time she has a bit ofresolve in her eyes. "Of course, After hearing all the stories at priests and the vampire, I have decided to become one and help everyone! I laugh because in my heart I have always had the sense that this is what I am meant to do with my life. "Ok honey just go get some rest for tomorrow " My mother gives me a kiss on the check and pushes me to bed. POV CHANGE (ALICE) (Mother of the mc) Today has been a tiresome day for me. The start of the day was great when I got to see my cute little Lucas'' sleeping face, He is so adorable and his big smile when I asked him to go get wood was so cute. I swear that boy would do anything I asked, Even though I am not his Biological parent, I feel like I am much more than that because I made a choice to keep him as a baby. Not because of blood but because I knew as soon as I saw his cute little eyes, I had to protect him. Today I heard Lucas scream I am going to be the strongest priest which make me wryly smile, That boy just does not understand the top people of the church and I do not have the heart to tell him what kinda people they are. When I go outside to see what Lucas is doing, I see two kids holding his arms, While another is holding is head. When I see this you cannot fathom the kind of angry I was feeling, I walked over and slapped the main kid. Then I slapped all the others kids, I honestly do not care if they are all 10-year-old kids. You try to hurt my kid in front of me and your lucky I do not remove your head from your shoulders. After Lucaswentto collect wood for me like a good boy, I go for a walk to the children''s house who picked on my son. When I walk closer to the main house of the little bully named johns house I see not only are his parents outside the other boys parents are there to with some guard, Well this makes everything a lot easier to handle "That is the wench who dared lay a hand on my son, My son will be a priest one day!, I demand you take her head and kill that little brat of a boy before my son becomes a priest and sentence you all to death!" Some fat woman who looks like the main bully John''s mother is shouting and the other parents seeing their chance to get the guard to do there wishes start spouting threats at the guards who can only sigh and walk up to me. Guard 1"Excuse me I would like you to come over here and answer a few questions" The man who looks to be in his early adulthood seemed annoy and had lust in his eyes while looking at me and his question seemed nice enoughbut we both knew he was not asking, So I looked him in the eyes and nod my head. Guard 2 " Is it true miss you assaulted these 4 young children unprovoked?" "Not at all, These children clearly needed some parenting because their parents did not raise them right, So I just did what their swine of parents should of done ages ago" At this statement the faces of all the parents become red than blue and stop at something in between and the fat lady steps up and is about to go of again but I cut her of. "You have a three choices here, Number 1 is for all your children to go and bow their heads to my son and say they are sorry". "Number 2 is simple really, You can all go and leave this village in the next hour" "Number 3 is simplest of all, I will kill all the parents of the children here and make the children and village forget you even exist" I see this one in a much colder tone then the first two. The parents look at me like I am dumb and the guards have drawn their weapons then one of the parents shouts "Kill her she threatened to kill us"! The guards charge me and are ready to swing their swords down on me, I take a deep breath and say "I guess it is option three" I lift my hands up and caught the tips of both the blades with my fingers, From this action I can see the shocked face of everyone present. I push the two swords in finger two the left and right so they leave the guards hands and fly in each direction. I take a step forward and before anyone know it I was standing in front of the parents with bloody hands. "GUARDS GUARDS KILL HER" The parents are going frantic while the kids have fainted as soon as the swords come out. HmphMy child is better he can already face a goblin without fainting. "The guards have already lost their heads silly parents" At my words the parents all looked over to the guards who were standing up fine but what made their blood run cold was that the guard had no heads. They guards corpses slowly hit the ground with a Thud, And the parents turned their attention to the floor near me wear two heads without bodies laid. "PLEASSE Sob Sob Sob Pleaass--eeee weee will do anything, Just do not kill us" The parents are now begging for there lives and crying. "Do not worry after I kill you I will strip the memory of you from your children and even the whole town and then I will give them to the orphanage" My voice was calm while I explain what is going to happen to them, One of the parents had come to some sort of realization and looked at me with wide eyes". The sobbing parent who was looking at me with a scared and pitiful voice starts talking "I have heard in legends that the only one who can alter someone else memories are Priests!" When the words left his mouth the other look at me with a new kind of fear. "Former Priest" And that was the last thing any of them parents heard before they went to the blackness eternal. I look around and sigh, I see I have a lot of cleaning up to do before Lucas gets home from collecting wood, Maybe when he gets home I will make some stew? Chapter 2 : The Church. Time To Depart. Last Night, I was not able to sleep at all, I am so nervous about today. We have just got word that the church Knights and the children they have already recruited are on their way here before going to get some training in them and start their path on becoming priests. As soon as I went into get breakfast, I noticed mother was not around. I look around the house for a bit and found a note with a light blue necklace. To my beloved Lucas, I have to leave for a while. I cannot tell you where and when I am going to come back. I know your dream is to become a priest and travel around the world having adventures and killing vampires and demons but I just wanted you to know the world is not as black and white as the church will make it out to be. The church has a saying "To go against the church is to go against God" But remember as long as you are true to yourself and never regret your decisions, You will go against God. Do not trust the church too much. Always wear the necklace and we can always meet again. Always and forever, Your Loving Mother, Alice. The note my mother had left me is already soaked with my tears. I stand there wondering what kind of mother leaves their son at the age of 10 without so much as a hug. But after an hour of thinking, I remember If I get accepted as a disciple of the church I would have to leave my mother. So maybe this way was better without the farewell?. I folded the paper and put it nicely into my black pants , while putting the necklace on . I do not know why but mother laid really nice black clothes on my bed, I had never seen them before?, Maybe she wanted me to wear them today. It even had a cool look cloak that will go over my hair and cover some of my face if I pull it down, My mother is really nice as I thought. After sometime I hear noises coming from outside and mothers wishing their children luck, and fathers telling their children to have courage. I look down at my black attire and necklace and take a deep breath, My mother has all ready prepared everything for me I just need to overcome and trails or test they have and take my first step into becoming a priest! I run outside as fast as my legs could take me and honestly I feel like ever since I put my clothes and the necklace on , I have become faster but I shake my head and push these thought to the back of my mind. I look around and see 8 knights in white following a fat man who was wearing a robe, He looks like he has some high position in the church. There are a bunch of children behind them and they look smug and it is most likely because they are from the outliner villages who got tested before us. Will I am looking at the other children the fat guy starts his speech "Hello everyone my name is pope George of the church, and I have come today with a very noble purpose. To recruit the young men and women from the towns who are willing to train and become knights of the church and to help us pursue our goal of eradicating all the evil in the world." The pope looks around and has a kind smile, We he said about the evil in the world getting eradicated, even I could feel my young blood boiling. "I can see a lot of children who look like they want to become knights hah". The fat man''s face is now beaming red while he starts giving out some instructions. "Can all the child who would like to take the test/trail please step forward so we can see you". The pope gives a chuckle as he looks around and sees many of the parents pushing their children forward. I step forward and line up with the children. We are lined up from left to right, I am furthest to the right. I am looking around and am quite surprised I cannot see the kids who bullied me yesterday. I wonder if mother had a talk with their parents. "Usually there are many trails you must face to be allowed to train with us, But since we are lacking in people with give you simple test which make it much easy for all of you to join". The pope is eyeing of each of the children one by one. When he gets to me he stops for a second and keeps going, All the other kids are looking much brighter when they heard this test was going to be easier. "The test is a simple one" As the pope said this, One of the knights who was guarding the pope steps forward and gives us all a smug look "You will fight my knight and we will see if you have what it takes to follow the church and become closer to god" When the words leave his mouth, All the knights started chanting in unison. Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. To go against the church is to go against god, To go against the church is to go against god , To go against the church is to go against god, To go against the church is to go against god,To go against the church is to go against god. Honestly ever since I read mother letter the chant they are spouting now does to seem to be as entrancing as when I was younger, After their chant was over and children started going up one by one to fight the knight. Not one of these children even came close to hitting him, But all of them passed. When it came to my turn I rushed the knight and punched him in the face quite nicely which made the other guards laugh, Compared to a normal knight I was so slow, But by making use of the guard looking down on me and not taken me seriously I managed to smack him right in the face. He looked red and annoyed put the pope laughed it of and said I passed. After the other children who wanted to join the church were done it was announced we would have an hour to pack up and we would be moving to the town of Xera which is a well-known town for being where all recruits start the journey to become closer to god. I walk back into my home and check that I have everything. I grab a black bag and fill it will clothes, According to my mother the church does not need for you to pay for your food while you are in training, As long as you have your own clothes, you have all the church required you to bring, The hour was probably for everyone to say goodbye to their love ones. I look at my black cloths again, I have never seen these clothes before today but they actually feel so comfortable, Like my mother is watching over me. After about 30 minutes I go outside to see most of the kids have already started connection with the other kids who came from other towns. I look around and see everyone most likely already have friends they are going to talk to, So it would be best if I move away from the other children. I walk over and go sit rock near the pope and his guards. There are many children who are waiting to leave excitedly. -Sigh- I guess I would not be able to make friends in this new town either. I pulled my hood down closer to my eyes so no one can see that I am actually on the verge of tears. Not only did I not get to have a proper goodbye with my mother, I also am quite nervous about going to a new place. After all I am only ten. Why I am sitting quite depressed I fail to notice the pope has come over and sat next to me, When I look over I am quite startled as he has quite the smile on. "Hey boy hah, You did great with my guard, Even now he is still quite annoyed he lost so much face with you hah" The pope looks quite happy when he is talking about the guard. "Not at all your lordship, The only reason I was able to hit your guard is because he was unaware, If we were to fight again, I would not have a chance to hit him". I say while matching his gaze with a slight smile of my lips. "Modest at your young age is very good hah, Oh by the way the clothes you are wearing are quite special, Do you have somebody in your family who is able to put gods blessing on your clothes?" the pope with a curious look in his eyes. "Sorry my lord, But I can honestly say I have no idea what gods blessing is or if there is anything different about my clothes, They where a gift from my mother but she left this morning so I am unable to ask" When I think of not seeing mother for a while it always make me sad. " Do not worry, When you get to Xera and start training you will see how special your clothes are and how special this mother off yours was to give you such a rare gift". After some silence the pope speaks once more. "Anyways kid let us go now it looks like everyone is just about ready to leave". The pope and I get up ready to head out. The pope goes back other to his guard while I go stand next to two other who seem to by themselves as we depart to go to Xera. The pope is leading us out of the town when he looks back at me walking along with a smile. I give him a nice smile back and we start to depart from the town I grew up in. Looking at the relationship between the Pope George and Lucas you would never believe in years to come that Pope George would die at the hands of Lucas on the day forever dubbed as the Darkest Night Chapter 3 : The Devastating Jungle We have been on the road for a week making camp ever night, It seems at first everyone was worried about demons or bandits coming out and attacking us, But the knights kept checking the area around us and are always on guard against any attacks. Their are about 25 kids who did not get cold feet and run back to their parents. For the 8 guards and pope to keep an eye of us is not easy task. Right now we are walking down a stretch of road what looks like it is going to go through a jungle, Just as we are about to go in the jungle the knights and the pope stops us. "Everyone we will be going through this jungle in a team of three, Since most of you have already made friends just take two of them in the jungle with you, The ones who make it out to the other side, where we will be waiting will be trained as diciple of the church." The kids are all shouting about how they already passed the test, After 10 minutes of grumbling and shouting the kids all start forming groups, I look around to realise, not only do I have none to partner with, I have no friends from my town so I am forever the odd one out. After everyone picked their partners, I look around and see a kid sleeping on a log by himself so I walk over and try to introduce myself. "Hello my name is Lucas would you like to be one of my partners for this journey in the Jungle?" When the words came out it sounded like I had a robot voice because I was so nervous in talking to another kid. Ah, The young boy with brown hair and had what looks like to be a staff next to him, Rolls his eyes and looks at me. " Sure". At first I thought the boy rolled his eyes at me because he was smug and did not want to partner with me, But it seems he was just tired and did not like getting woken up. ''My name is Lucas, Nice to meet you" I give a sly smile while I am looking at the brown haired boy. "My name is Raphael" He shakes my hand and picks up his staff and has a look around. "We need to find one more" I say to Raphael thinking he was asleep the whole time. " Their is a monkey kid in the start of the jungle over their, He points to where a young boy with red hair is located" I look over their and see a boy jumping tree from three all energetic. I walk over to him and look up at the tree he is jumping back and forward in. "Excuse me would you like to join Raphael and mines group?" He looks down and says "I will join if you guys can catch me". The instant those words left his mouth, A staff came flying through the air and hit the red boy in the head and he came tumbling down the tree. When he hit the floor Raphael walked over and put his foot on the boy. "My name is Raphael and Over their is Lucas, What is your name?" Raphael takes his foot off and smiles at the boy while offering a hand to help him up. "My name is Ronan please to meet you" He takes Raphael hand and looks at me with a smile. I cannot help but think these two boys are weird. I walk up to am both "So you guys ready to walk through this jungle, The quicker we do this, Is the quickest we can start our training in Xera" I am quite excited to start training and getting stronger.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. "Yes let us go" They both said in unison. We walked very deep in the forest there does not to seem to be any enemies here so I guess the pope just wanted to see if we had the nerve to go in alone. Raphael looks at me and frowns. "Your black clothes do not suit a priest Lucas, But they do have gods blessing on them so they would be worth a fortune" My face turns into shock because this is the second time I heard someone say that "What is gods blessing and why is it rare to find it on clothes" Raphael laughs while smiling, "That is because only a priest can give a gods blessing to one set of clothes or weapon, But everything you''re wearing has separate blessing" I am speechless when Raphael told me this "butt I do not know any priests, Let alone any who would bless my clothes" "They where from my mother" "Then she clearly knows someone who knows someone or is stinking rich" Ronan says while jumping up and down like a monkey. I have never really thought about it much but my mother is a mysterious person. AHHHHHH, We look to our left and right in shock, All we hear are a bunch of kids screaming. My blood starts to pump and before I can even compute what is happening Raphael, Ronan and I are all in a dead sprint running as close to each other as possible. The screaming has not stopped and we hear kids crying and we smell blood. We hear growling approaching us and before it gets to close to us, We have jump into a small ditch in the jungle, It is round and kind it is own little house. "What is going on out there" I whisper because I do not want what ever is out their to get us. My hands are shacking and the adrenaline is going through my body Ronan and Raphael where both white as ghosts and have hands shaking as much as mine. "Do you guys think the church knew this was going to happen when we came in here?" Ronan has lost most oh his drive to jump around now "I just do not know" Raphael says with a frown. "We have to think of a plan guys, or else we are going to end up like the others" I mustered all the fake confidants I could build "We are to weak to fight whatever is out their attacking people, So I think we should, Wait a couple hours and hopefully when it has stopped hunting. Raphael says with a grim face. "So it all comes down to luck?" When I voiced my thought all our faces went pale again. "Everyone try and get some sleep and will run tomorrow" This is all I can say without letting sadness out in my voice. That Night was the longest, loneliest and scariest of my life, We had stayed there longer then we where playing to, The sun was just rising when we decided to head out, Not of us wanted to go out in pitch black. As soon as we got out of our hidden hole, We just sprinted and sprinted not daring to look back, How could we face what was in the jungle? After about 30 Minutes of sprinting, We can see the end of the forest but we do not slow down or stop in the slightest. As soon as we broke free of the jungle, we see the pope and the guards looking at us. We look around only to see we are the only kids who are here. Not one of the kids who went in have come out yet. Raphael and Ronan run straight up to the pope and start screaming up him, He just looks at them and laughs. "If they where to weak to even get out of this forest then they are to weak to become any use to the church" At this statement, Ronan Raphael and I are all shocked for words. Over 20 children have yet to make it back and they do not even seem to care, Is this the church we heard so much about? We sat there pondering while we waited for anyone else to leave the forest. By the end of the next day. There was only one more child who made it out. Her name was jenny and she looks like she has just been through a war zone, Her eyes are lifeless and her blonde hair was a mess, The only good thing you could say about her was she still had an aura that radiated that she wanted to live. After whatever horrors she has seen that would not be surprising. "The 4 of you have earned the right to join the disciples of the church, Let us all head to Xera" The pope starts walking off after that with the guards in toe, Not one of us are following and we are just standing wondering if this is the right thing to do . I look at Raphael,Ronan and Jenny " Hey at least after years of training we can just leave the church if we so wish" and with that I start following the pope and his guards. The other three follow after a brief hesitation. I promise to myself that one day, I will come back and kill whatever thing lives in that jungle. Chapter 4 : Town of Xera After a few more days of walking and camping we have arrived in the Town of Xera where we will start our training, Needless to say after the jungle experience, Ronan, Raphael, Jenny and I have all be come closer. Ronan''s wants to join the church because his parents where poor and kicked him out so he thought the church could offer him a better life. Raphael''s parents were killed my vampires and he wants revenge. Jenny story is like mine where she has heard about the church and priests being closer to god and wanted to become a priest. Honestly after the ordeal in the forest we are not trusting the pope or his men much. I look around the town of Xera, It has big walls around the whole town, There are a bunch of people going in and out of the city, There are guards placed at the entrance inspecting everything. The Pope gives the guards a wave while we keep walking into the town. There are merchants lined up in stores and outside, About ten minutes of walking we get to a big white castle, It has knights with white armour guarding it. We walk through the courtyard into the castle. The castle has so many people in it but I notice that not one looks over 25. We follow the pope until he stops at a huge door and he turns around to look at us. "This is the church training Castle. You will spend 5 years learning how to be closer to god". "You will take classes and learn how to fight". While the pope was talking a guard came out and started speaking. "We are ready for those four" the guard pointed at us then walked back through the huge door. "Hey what is in there" Raphael asks with a hint of worried in his eyes as he steps back. "No need to worry, It is a aptitude test, There is a little ball in the middle of the room, When you touch it, Then it will make a gold ball appear in the air, The more gold lights the air, The more gods power runs through you and the stronger you can become. We all walk into the room, It is a white painted room with old pictures of people, In the room there are a couple step where a ball of little is hovering in the middle of the room, Honestly we are all excited to see how much potential we all have, The first one who stepped up was jenny. She walks up the ball slowly and keeps looking back at us. We reassure her with a smile and she puts her hand on the ball, 7 Gold light appear in our surrounding and the pope looks excited at this.Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. "wow 7 Lights at such a young age is excellent you are going to become a truly remarkable person in the future". The pope looks quite excited for the new talent he has acquired. Ronan runs up to have his shot and he grabs it while jumping up, We look around to see 6 gold lights up. Jenny looks at Ronan with a smug smile and he looks embarrassed that he has less of the light then her. "You are all quite talented. Having more then 3 light is rare so you can all be hailed as geniuses at such a young age. The pope just wants people to raise his own power, But at this time we do not know how greedy he was and we thought he just wanted what was best for us. "Guess it is my turn" Raphael walk up to the light at takes a deep breath, He puts his hand on the ball of light, There are 30 lights in the air, and the priest nearly falls over himself trying to see all the lights. "YOU ARE A 1000 Year prodigy, You are amazing Raphael, You could become a priest If you put in a lot of hard work. The pope looks like he is about to wet himself. He has already got some guards to go and alert the top church leaders about Raphael. I watch Raphael walk down and I just think to myself, Is Raphael destined to become a priest and do great things?. Has his path in life already be laid out and he just has to walk it? "You''re up Lucas" "Cmon Go Lucas" "You will not beat my score", Them three idiots try and give me support, I walk up to the light and put my hand on it. As soon as my hand touches it the whole room goes up in gold and I cannot see. I try and look around but it is just blinding, When I finally get my bearings back, I see I am not in the same room, I am in a really weird room where half of it is pure white and the other is black, There is a seat with a girl sitting on it staring at me with a smile, She looks about 17, white hair and big black eyes and is one of the beautiful girls I have ever seen. "Hello who are you?" I am not even tiptoeing around. "hehehehhe, Hello Lucas, Take a guess who I am?" The young girl giggled and stares at me with her big black eye "Are you god?" I look at the young girl with intense eyes. ''hehehehheheheh no " "I am your power, I am light and darkness, I am forever and I am an instant, I am something older then a mere god". "What should I call you?" My hands started trembling when she first started speaking. It is like when a man ''Hehehhehe" She looks deep into my eyes and I feel my heart beating a mile a minute and I can feel my face getting red. "You can just call me Michelle" She says in the soft voice of an angel. "Why am I here, Is there something you need from me?" "There are not many chances for us to meet, So I thought I would pull you here while they where testing the gods power within you." She keeps giggling, Ah Michelle is so cute. "Michelle why would you come out if they are testing my powers?" It is quite strange she would come out, I am happy I met her but for what reason does come greet me? "I have been watching you since you where little, I am your power silly" She starts giggling " I am your power, I am your everything. I was their when you where born, I will be their when you die". "And I am here to begin your story"