《Wishful's Dream》


 Prologue ~ The wait

    Empty.


    Void.


    ~


    There is not that many word to describe where I am. All around me is the dark. The dark and cold void that penetrate you up to the soul. Not that I have a soul, if you mind. I had a soul like every other being, but I lost it like my body and power when I died.


    How come I can be and think without a soul, you may thought. Well, I¡¯ll break it to you, you don''t need a soul to be and think. When your will is powerful enough that is.


    You know, when you die, you die. It may sound like a bad line from a third grade movie, but it is true. Whenever you die, you lose all you got. Your live, your possessions, your family, and contrary to what is teached even your soul.


    It was hard to die. Losing all you ever had and all that. But it taught me a lot. While I was dying, I had my first glimpse of the afterlife and what I have seen is that it was filled with flash of light. At first I thought that it was all, but after a while of these I started suspecting that something was weird. I was waiting for god or something, but all there was was flashes. So, I started watching them even more.


    At first, all I was seeing was white thunder like flashes, but has I was watching them I was filled with memories. Memories of joys, memories of passions, memories of hopes, memories of life. All these life, they filled me with memories. Memories of sciences, memories of martial arts, memories of love, but also memories from things that I had never heard of or always taught to be fiction.If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.


    All these memories filled me with happiness each time that I was experiencing them. Each of them teaching me way of life that I had not experienced. I was feeling contented. At first.


    The thing is, I was the one that made the flashes. As I was living each memories, each light were dying out in a flash. The problem with that was, as you may imagine, that all the lights would soon not be so light. The speed at which I was living the life of the lights was astonishing and that even if I had no way to tell time. It was epilepsy ingly fast.


    And even as many they were, they all died out soon enough. I was alone again, in the dark. But this time I had memories at last.


    You may think that all these memories fusioned and created the me of now, my consciousness and all of that, but no, this is not how this work. I feel more like I had gained something than if I had become something else.


    ~


    Now, I face trouble. I am all alone and have nothing to occupy myself with. That may pose a problem to myself. I think I should go find myself something to do. As a start, I should create myself a soul, now that I have learned how to.


    First I need will, that I have. The second and last thing I need is memories, I now also have that because of the lights. Then now I only need to will my memories into existence.


    Wow, a light is illuminating from where I am. It is so bright, and big. A thousand thousand time bigger that the area where the flashes were. Is that¡­ my soul? Were these flashes soul? Well, they sure were beautiful if they were.


    As the light finished expanding, a sound made my soul vibrate.


    And a blue box came to life in my face¡­ Well that what I was wishing for, but not all wish can be real¡­ I only heard the sound of my soul collapsing on itself. Like a sun forming a black hole. The black hole then concentrated and formed a light so bright that it even made the soulless me close my eye¡­ or whatever I was using to see...or sense.


    This is when I lost consciousness.

 Chapter 1 ~ Sage

    ~Unknow POV


    I opened my eyes and saw something.


    I was speechless.


    It was blue, not dark with flashes. What a beautiful sight.


    ~Yoko POV


    My name is Yoko.


    I am a Sage. A Sage is a great mage that have is so powerful that kings and queens bow to him in fear. I am proud to be Sage. it is one of the highest recorded rank an existence in the mortal plane. And It only took me two thousand years to obtain it. I can be proud of my fast learning speed, I¡¯ve got all the right to do so. The last great Sage recorded in history took ten thousand year to train in my path.


    Since my birth, I¡¯ve alway been the best in everything I did. That was normal, I learned things ten to thirty time faster than anyone. When my friends learned to count I was calculating the square root of pi. When they prayed to god, I was arguing with the priest about his teaching. When they worked as maid and guard, I was building my first trade empire that went from east, in the death desert palm, to the west, in the great jungle. This trade empire crumbled only six hundred year ago only because of war. At first I was self-taught but before long I needed to learn from external sources, so I had to go and trade for these sources. This is how my empire came to be.


    As far as I could remember I never saw my father. Mother told me he died after making me. I never had siblings as my father was not there to make them.


    When I was 16 years old. My mother died. I did everything I could to prolong her life, but unfortunately, people without the necessary mana can¡¯t live long life. My mom had little mana in her body to begin with, she had a rare illness that make you lose your mana as you get older. I learned that later. So, even if I would have poured mana in her heart every day, she would have died anyway. But, at least, my mom died with a smile on her face. She said to me on her bed ¡°Yoko, I¡¯m proud of you. I know that you¡¯ll live more than me and experience many thing in you life. My only wish is that you find someone to be happy with. Your dad was the most precious person to me after you. Farewell my beloved daughter¡± She closed her eye while whispering these last few words. Since then I¡¯ve been looking all around the world for someone that I could love like my mother asked me.


    I didn''t find anyone, yet, but luckily I lived adventure after another and met countless people. One of my mother¡¯s dream was to travel the world. She could not because she had me. So I travelled the world for two, I am sure that she is loving the adventure so far.


    ~Nei POV


    Some people may think that my teacher is not right in her head. I know that she can act crazy, I myself can¡¯t think of anything else to describe her. But she may only look crazy because she is older and more knowledgeable than me¡­I don¡¯t know. I am not that old.Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators!


    Her name is Yoko, a pure blooded seven tailed kitsune. I¡¯m following her since I can recall. Just so you know, I¡¯m now 114 years¡¯ old. As a dark elf, I am but a child. But since I never lived with dark elf and always with my teacher, I don¡¯t really know about it. I feel more like a normal girl.


    My teacher got titles given by the seven great race. I know that because when we were passing through a great city somewhere, people were saying things like ¡°Look, this is the seven tailed kitsune Sage!¡±, ¡°Please bless me Sage!¡±, ¡°Heal my child Sage!¡± and so on until we got out by the other gate at the end of the city. When I asked master about it she only said that some people act like that because she is extraordinary. But I don''t believe her.


    If you ask me how much my teacher is old, I¡¯ll say that she is very old. In truth, I don¡¯t know. I asked, but she never said. To be shy of her age even after such a great life, It sure is cute. Her height is only ? the height of one human. At least, that what my teacher told me. I don¡¯t really know I did not see a lot of human in my life.


    One day, she acted crazy like every other day. While we were bathing, she suddenly got on her feet and turned south as if she was watching something in the horizon and said to me ¡°Come we got to run!¡± An we run.


    We runned like the wind south for days only stopping in villages to buy provisions. I am so exhausted and the worse is that I can¡¯t even sleep. We use our mana to fuel our body and never ever stop. We did not stop for nine months. My teacher is like that sometime. But I don''t mind it, she is like a mother to me.


    Not that I know how a real mother would be. My Teacher is great. So much, that I can now hunt beast with her in the wild. I can only do that because she taught me well.


    As we travelled south saw some great landscape and some beast.


    ~Yoko POV


    I was bathing with Nei. Her hairs were once more entangled with dirt and leafs. She always takes part in troublesome things. I really don¡¯t know what to do with her.


    The first time I saw her, was a dark night of July in the jungle of Natar. While I was running on tree¡¯s pinnacle, I saw her. At first, I believed that it was a little beast like a kitten of some sort. But after some light step to take me near the ¡°beast¡± I saw the most bewitching little creature in my life. It was a little dark elf baby.


    Since then she sure had grow a lot. I taught her all I know about this world and it inhabitants but she always forget what I teach her. What a troublesome student I took. I believe that with time anything is possible, so I keep teaching her in hope she learn at last. It may sound foolish but she is the best student that I had. Even if she was the only one.


    After untangling her hairs, I washed them with warm water. I am a little jealous of her hairs. She got deep black hair. I alway play with them when we take a bath. I feel lucky.


    While I was playing with her hair today, I suddenly felt something strange south. I felt like the air got tighter around me. A sensation I learned when I started the path as a mage. It was the flow of mana getting tighter. The flow get tighter when it move from a place to another. The flow always move, but always in every direction at the same time. Every little things in the world absorb mana to exist. Without mana things just can¡¯t exist. This is why when you remove all mana from an object, the object dematerialise. Just now the flow went to the south all at once. This is bad, it is something that should not be possible naturally. This need an inspection. As the Sage, I got to watch what is happening in this realm. So I said run to Nei, and we ran.


    ~Blue POV


    I¡¯ve decided, my name shall be Blue as the color of the sky I see for the first time in my new life.


    ...Why do I have a body?