Teenage Sorcerers: Prophecy Foretold

Chapter 13: The Outsiders

Os (Male)

Appearance: A 6'4 29 year old with short toffee brown fluffy hair and short beard. He wears a tattered up incomplete matching black suit with his trio, missing his suit jacket. His pants have a few small tears, but still in decent tact. His sleeves are rolled up and his button up black shirt has a couple of missing buttons on the collar area. Has black dress shoes to match.

Personality: Even though he can be immature, he's the most responsible one in the trio. He's protective of his friends, wanting to take on a majority of the fights that they get into with others. He's usually a nice guy, but is skeptical of anyone new. He can be accepting to most people, but can immediately back away when he suspects even the slightest malintent from a person.

Amias (Male)

Appearance: A 5'8 24 year old with honey blonde hair that goes a little past his shoulders but is kept up in a bun. Also wears a matching tattered up black suit, but has nothing missing in his outfit and doesn't have any further damage to his clothes. He has his pant legs rolled up a bit to reveal his ankles. Has black dress shoes to match.

Personality: Nearly the complete opposite of Elijah, is humble about his skills and believes he can do better. He has a close relationship with Os and Elijah, considering them more like brothers than friends, especially since he's always wanted siblings. He always figures out a way out of any problems his friends and him face, mainly having a plan surrounding his mythical ability.

Elijah (Male)

Appearance: A 5'10 21 year old with black curly hair and a small set of tiny freckles on his cheeks. He wears a medical eyepatch over his left eye due to an injury he got during the first time he used his mythical ability. He wears a slightly loose dark orange suit with his suit jacket missing its left sleeve and his matching pants having some ash smudges. His dress shoes are a bit worn out, but not in terrible condition.

Personality: Is known for having a sassy attitude and sly remarks. Likes to pick on his opponents to rile them up before attacking them. He believes that even though Os is the leader, he's better than him in both combat and leadership skills. He doesn't care when others talk smack, but gives it his all once physical altercations are involved. He'll also do practically anything for food.

The next morning was a bit of a hassle, each teen taking turns on making breakfast for everyone as Rana would pull each member aside for their body measurements. He didn't want the teens to stand out too much from the other townsfolk, so he was going out to purchase some clothing for them all with the money they got the other day. He also planned a trip to the pharmacy to pick up something to help Lulu's sprained ankle. After Rana left, breakfast was finally finished, everyone helping with serving plates of food and setting up the table. The table was covered with several servings of bacon, eggs, slices of cheese, and pitchers of milk. While everyone was eating their breakfast, they began to discuss the topic of the town they currently resided in. "You know, this can't be the only town that exists in this sorcery realm, there must be other towns out there for us to visit!" Andre brought up as he finished drinking his glass of milk. "That may be true, but it's best for us to stay in this town. We don't want to cause any trouble with other people." Malik went against Andre's idea, setting his fork down. "C'mon, visiting other towns will be fun! Besides, maybe we can find something useful for restoring the Crystal Calamity!" Sabbi quickly supported Andre's idea and sat up in her chair. "Yeah, I want to explore other towns too!" Chaz chimed in as she scarfed down a piece of bacon. "Bora, back me up here!" Malik turned over to Bora, who quickly shook her head no. "Nope, don't get me involved with this." She turned her head away as she shoved an egg into her mouth to prevent herself from continuing the conversation. "Lulu, you're the leader, say something about this!" Malik turned to Lulu, who shrugged his shoulders. "I would say no, mainly because of my ankle, but you're forgetting that Sabbi is the leader of her half of the group. Whatever she says for a final choice matters too." "Why am I the only one with common sense..." Malik sighed, slowly eating his food. "We have common sense, we also have a sense for adventure!" Sabbi gently slammed her hands on the table before getting up and taking her plate to the sink. "Okay, but what about Lulu? His ankle is still sprained, what are we going to do about that? How is he going to go visit other towns when he can't even walk without using his hammer as a walker." Malik brought up, folding his arms and raising an eyebrow. "True..." Sabbi thought out loud, trying to figure out an idea. "Hang on, I got an idea!" Josephine exclaimed as she rushed into the girls bedroom. "Oh no...don't tell me she's going to use it on Lulu..." Chaz mumbled as she watched Josephine rush to the room. "What? Use what on me?" Lulu spoke up, getting a bit nervous on what Chaz was referring to. "She made something last night since she couldn't sleep..." Aurora spoke with a bit of worry as Josephine came back to the group with two busted up looking crutches. The metal was nearly completely covered in rust and the ends of the handmade crutches seemed to end with a sharpened point. "What the hell is that..?" Lulu moved back as Josephine went over to him, trying to hand him the crutches. "These are the crutches I made last night! You can use these to help you move around!" Josephine smiled widely as she forced the crutches into Lulu's hands. "Why did you make crutches out of all things..?" "I was bored!" Lulu sighed as he slowly got up from his chair and began trying to use the crutches. He was surprised to see that the crutches were pretty sturdy. "I guess they work alright..." He moved around the room with the crutches, showing he could move just fine. "Great, now Lulu can come with us!" Sabbi cheered as she went to put on her black combat boots. "Wait, we're leaving now?" Bryan asked as he placed his plate in the sink. "Yeah, so we can make it back home before it turns to night! Everyone, grab your weapons in case!" Sabbi tied her boots and quickly ushered her side of the group to the door, all of them excited to go exploring. "I still don't think this is a good idea..." Malik groaned a bit as he reluctantly followed the group, along with his friends. The teens followed the path back to the town square and began to think of where to go to find a new town. As the group was getting ready to ask some walking townsfolk for directions, Lulu noticed a familiar pathway nearby, seeing a shimmer of colorful light in the distance. "Hey Sabbi, remember the Kaleidoscopic Tree? Maybe we can show it to the others." Lulu went over to her and gave her the idea. She immediately agreed and led the others to the familiar pathway. The teens froze and stared in awe at the multicolored tree, admiring the heart shaped leaves. "This is beautiful!" Kennethn exclaimed, using his superspeed to rush around the tree in excitement. "Kennethn, stop running around like a four year old!" Bryan called out to him before trying to go after him with no success. Midway through his running, Kennethn froze in place when hearing something in the distance. He could hear a beautiful voice coming through the trees, practically mesmerizing. Before anyone could notice, Kennethn had already started making his way into the trees to follow the beautiful voice. "Huh? Where did Kennethn go?" Bryan noticed Kennethn's disappearance, bringing the rest of the group's attention to it. As Aurora heard some rustling within the trees, she turned over to the sound and saw Kennethn walking through the trees. "He's over here!" Aurora called out to everyone before rushing to catch up to Kennethn. "Aurora, wait up!" Malik called out to her before the rest of the group quickly followed behind her, Malik eventually following after. As the teens managed to reach Kennethn, they found him standing in front of a tall man wearing a tattered black suit who had his entire focus on Kennethn. The mans voice was angelic, but it seemed to only have this strange hypnotic affect on Kennethn. As the man lured Kennethn closer to him, he was hit on the side by a rock that was thrown by Chaz. "Leave him alone!" She yelled out to him, making the man turn his attention to her and the others while seizing his singing. "I'm not looking for trouble, you can take him back." The man spoke, ushering Kennethn back to his group. "Then why the hell did you lure him here? How did you do that with just your voice anyway?" Bryan asked as Kennethn quickly hid behind his friends. "It's my mythical ability, and I thought he was an animal at first." the man answered as he shrugged. "An animal? Why were you trying to lure an animal out here?" Bora stepped forward a bit. "I need it for dinner tonight for me and my friends, I didn't mean no harm to your friend." The man turned around and began walking down a more empty path of trees. "Wait, who are you?" Andre called out, causing the man to turn back around to face the teens. "Amias, that's my name. Now that I think about it, you guys aren't from around here, are you?" Amias went back to the teens, eyeing them all up and down. "How can you tell?" Malik crossed his arms and titled his head. "Your apparel isn't like the other residents here, it's more...unique." Amias's eyebrows furrowed as he examined all of their clothes. "Are you from Glimis? I heard some of the residents from that town are moving to this one." "Yeah! We're from Glimis!" Josephine quickly rushed to the answer for the groups. "I see...well, it was nice meeting you all, I need to get go-" "Amias! Did you catch the deer yet?!" another mans voice could be heard booming through the trees. "No, it was a false alarm, Elijah!" Amias called back to the man wearing a medical eyepatch over his left eye, who then stepped out from the trees at the farther end of the area. "We need to hurry up and find some animals for dinner or-" Elijah froze when he saw the group of teens standing with Amias. "Who are your new friends?" "Just some new residents of Rasferdon, they moved here from Glimis." "Hang on, Rasferdon?" Aurora asked in confusion. "Yeah, that's the name of this town, did you forget or something?" Amias raised an eyebrow, causing Lulu to step in for his side of the group. "Yeah, we're still new and all, guess the name must've slipped our minds." Lulu quickly covered for the others and himself. "I'm assuming interacting with banished people also slipped your mind, you guys shouldn't even be talking to us right now." Elijah walked over to them and chuckled a bit. "Banished? What do you mean?" Lulu moved forward with his crutches to now stand a few feet in front of Elijah, leaving the others back within the trees. "We've been banished from Rasferdon and all the other towns here. If you guys get caught with us, you'll all get banished too, so you all better go back home or wherever you came from." "We'll leave, but can you tell us why you were banished? What did you guys do that was so bad?" Sabbi quickly butted in, rushing over to Lulu's side. "Okay kid, you need to relax and learn to mind your business, we don't have to tell you anything." Elijah brushed Sabbi off before motioning Amias over. "Lets go, Amias, Os is waiting on us! He's been hissy all morning from skipping breakfast, I don't want to deal with him if he skips dinner too, so we have to hurry with finding an animal for tonight!" Amias nodded and began walking away with Elijah towards the side of trees he came out of before getting called back. "Wait, let's make a deal!" Sabbi called out to them. "We'll get you guys some dinner if you tell us why you're out here in the first place!" This proposition caused the two men to stop in their tracks and turn back towards the teens. "Hell yeah, you got a deal!" Elijah exclaimed happily before Amias quickly tried to talk him out of the deal. "Hang on, are you sure we should do this? I mean, we don't even know who these kids are!" "Who cares?! Free dinner just to tell some kids a couple of short stories is too good to pass up!" "That's exactly why we shouldn't do it! This could be a trap from the mayor or something!" Elijah and Amias argued back and forth, Elijah eventually winning. "So? Is that a yes?" Sabbi asked as the two men went back to the teens. "Yeah, it's a deal!" Elijah smiled widely, extending his arm out to shake Sabbi's hand to seal the deal. Sabbi shook his hand and smiled back before leaving with Lulu, Andre, and Chaz to get the food, leaving the rest of the group with Elijah and Amias. As the four teens made their way back to the house to get the leftover dinner from last night, Andre went over to Sabbi and tapped her shoulder. "How come you made that deal with those guys? Couldn't we have just left them alone?" "Those two men were saying something about other towns and how they were banished by them, so maybe they can tell us a bit about them! We'll have more towns to explore!" "Oh yeah! Let's hurry up then!" Andre rushed to the front of everyone and began to speed walk towards the house. A few of the townsfolk that were walking around would give odd glances at the teens walking by, internally questioning their outfits, but not questioning them up front. The four teens gathered up their leftovers after heating them up on the stove and made their way back through the Kaleidoscopic Tree area and through the trees before making their way back to the open area where they found Elijah and Amias, but only found Bora, Kennethn, and Aurora standing there. "Finally! You guys took forever!" Aurora groaned as Bora went towards a different section of the trees, opening to lead the way for the others. "Let's go, everyone else followed Elijah and Amias to their hideout." Bora ushered the remainder of the group through the trees before they eventually made it into another open area, but much smaller than the previous one. "Where are they?" Lulu asked Bora, his question quickly answered when the voice of Malik could be heard. "Guys! Up here!" Malik called down to them from an open window of a treehouse built within the tallest tree in the area, being covered by the branches and leaves to keep the treehouse hidden from others. A rope ladder was quickly thrown down from the open window, allowing the remainder of the teens to climb up into the treehouse, Lulu having to go first since he was struggling with his ankle. There were three dark purple blankets that were scattered around the treehouse, along with three pillows that had their pillow cases covered with stains. There were other items like slightly torn clothes sloppily folded and set in the corner of the space and some scrapes of bone with tiny pieces of meat still on it, the meat being unidentifiable. The rest of the teens could be seen talking amongst themselves, Elijah, Amias, and another man sitting on the opposite side of the space. "Did you bring the food?" Elijah quickly perked up as he looked over at Sabbi. "Yeah, here you go." Sabbi went over to the three men and handed the food to Elijah, who quickly handed out the leftovers with Amias and the third man. "Oh, this is our leader, Os!" Amias smiled as he quickly introduced the third and largest man. Os took his portion of the food and looked up at Sabbi. "So...you wanted to know why we're out here?" he asked, his voice deep and harsh. "Yup, that was the deal." Sabbi sat down along with the other teens sitting and surrounding the three men, waiting for them to speak. "Fine, a deal's a deal." "Also, since you guys know about the other neighboring towns, do you mind telling us things you know about them too? We want to try and explore them all!" Sabbi quickly asked and smiled. Os sighed before setting the food down and nodding. "Okay, we'll start with our story first, then we'll move onto the towns." Sabbi nodded in agreement as she and the others allowed Os to begin his story.