The true Astrae and the coming of the priestess #2

Hey guys, sorry I am just updating now. I got some issues with electrical devices and stuff.

So now back to the main point.

As Raphael dragged Erika down the basement, against her will and she was screaming her lungs out saying "I knew I made a bad decision again, what are you going to do this time, torture me. Ha, I will never give in". Alas, just for them to actually arrive at a torture chamber. Erika mortified, looks at Raphael, Raphael smiles with utmost happiness. Erika thinks to herself "you monster, what I said just now about torture was just a joke. Hold up, is this guy actually sick in the head. He talked about training, wait is this one of those stories where the heroine actually goes through horrible stuff like sexual harassment, rape, vudu and etcetera. Nope never not me I need to run I rather die young than let that happen to me". As Erika was panicking, Raphael calls in some men dressed in blue and white robes. Erika, "oh no, it's the worst of all, I'm going to be used for some ritual, are these guys actually the bad guys, ahhhhhhh!!!! . I'm doomed, goodbye world, we didn't really get along but at least we understood each other. Mom, dad I'm coming over to the other side, soon we will be together again, wait for me*Erika lies on the floor as if waiting to be sacrificed*". All the men in robes are confused, Raphael is embarrassed beyond no bounds, he kicks Erika and says"please get your pitiful self together" , Erika"what is it already time for my sacrifice", Raphael"you are not going to be sacrificed, we came here to teleport you to your training grounds". Erika"wow I believe you*In a sarcastic tone* yeah right, who brings someone to a torture chamber and says*mockingly*, hey we came here to teleport you to your training grounds, do I look that dumb to you", Raphael irritated"yes you do look that dumb to me*sighs*we can't have the people meet the savior of the world when she doesn't even know what a three-year-old here knows, meaning we can't use the teleportation rune outside we have to use the one our ancestors made, which just happens to be in the torture chamber". The men clear the chamber, just for Erika to see a giant rune under, Erika"oh, hahaha you should have just said so*avoiding Raphael's gaze*". Raphael"and the men who want to sacrifice you in your words are the ones who can perform the teleportation magic, you get it, if you do answer me loud and clear*with an annoyed look on his face he stares at Erika*", Erika,"ok I get it I'm sorry*puppy dog eyes*forgive me". Raphael pats her head, Erika feeling as if this scene is very similar and nostalgic, Raphael breaking the ice by saying"if you are doing puppy dog eyes, then indeed you are no inferior to a quack and inexperienced priestess at this point", Erika's fantasy image of Raphael breaking into many pieces.

Raphael giving out a command to the men in robes "ok begin", the men saying incantations. Raphael realizes Erika staring at them intently, he asks "something wrong?", Erika"why do I feel like I've heard thesen incantations somewhere before? And I understand what they are saying but at the same time I can't grasp it, it's like my memory is in cracks and there are missing pieces while some parts are just foggy, is this part of the information you said I was supposed to have when you summoned me?", Raphael shocked and confused, he says "that impulse of memories which you are having now is not our doing", Erika turns to look at him, incantations going on in the background, he continues to say "the information that was supposed to come with you as you were summoned is supposed to come to you in the form of a book, more like a manual, so what you are seeing is yours own memories, maybe you had an accident and now some of your memories are in disarray", Erika puzzled"accident??, when??". Just then a deafening sound and an unbending headache immediately hits Erika, and she hisses in pain, for if she were to scream it would only make it worse. Then a flash of a scene in her head which was still hazy, she was on the ground in a pool of blood a really pretty woman shouting and saying some stuff she couldn't hear, and she sees another woman covered in a murky and murderous aura and magic, the woman opened her mouth and wanted to say something, just then Erika was snapped back into reality by Raphael. He said"Erika wakes up, what is wrong? Are you ok?", Erika wake up as if she had been pulled out from underwater"*gasps for air*what happened?" , Raphael with a relieved but worried smile says "you suddenly fell, saying you're head hurts, and you were breathing almost as if you were dying, *he pauses*, Erika what did you see?" . As he asked that again for a split second, the painful headache came back, Raphael says "you know what just leave it for now you need rest", just as he said that, the summoners, that is the men in robes said "sire the circle is ready". As Raphael was about to tell them to disable it, Erika grabs his robe to raise herself up and says "we are coming now". Raphael looks at her in awe "but.°", Erika smiles and says "don't worry I'm not dying, don't look like that worrying doesn't fit you at all. *She stands straight* if we keep on putting off my training like this there will be a problem and from what you said we have a time limit, and time waits for no one. So chin up, your a king don't go showing weakness in front of your citizens they would laugh at you ". Raphael heard her words and immediately got himself back on his feet"I can't believe I got a pep talk from a naive and dumb little girl ", Erika frowns"do you have to put it like that ".

Raphael ignores her"summoners shall we leave ", Erika"unbelievable, one moment he is all over me the next he is pretending as if he is so great, I mean yes he is a king and a hero, but so what I am the PRIESTESS ", Raphael interrupts"in the making don't forget to add that, also I'm sure you have something to say but if you don't keep shut the spirit of time might get annoyed and throw you into a different timeline". Erika keeps quiet for fear, they started to disappear meaning the teleportation had started, and they were engulfed in light. Before they disappeared one of the summoners approaches Raphael and says"but sire the spirit of time wouldn't get annoyed over something so trivial ", Raphael says in a low voice"I know but that was the only way to make her be quiet and for us to have a peaceful trip". The summoner nods in agreement.

As they got fully teleported and the light faded. Erika struggles to open her eyes, but when she does, she sees a plain field of blue starry flowers, she says"you know if you guys just wanted to take me on a date I wouldn't have resisted, you didn't have to lie but oh well I forgive you. But remember only one of you can be the lucky one, for I'm no polygamist ", all stood in confusion, including Raphael, her says"you never seize to amaze me ". Erika being lost in the scene in front of her"you know what I think I'm just gonna marry nature herself at this point I don't even care if I turn lez, she is just too beautiful", as she was getting carried away, Raphael decides to bring her back to earth, "Erika, this is your training ground", Erika in complete enchantment"what, but I don't want to hurt the flowers". Raphael catches her head and twists it to behind her in which her body followed, Erika's enchantment broke immediately she turned around to see what Raphael was talking about and in her case she then knew that Raphael truly planned to kill her. Raphael says "that flowery field of flowers is not for you but for couples, these grounds behind it is for you". What Erika saw was nothing but a red flag placed 90° to the sky, literally her training grounds was a region of nothing but fire, lava and literally any other hot thing you could think of. Erika "you MUST BE KIDDING, you have to be kidding you want me to go in there, train and come out alive stronger, does this look like some fantasy to you", Raphael "don't be so harsh, we will walk in with you", that put Erika's mind at ease a little but what she didn't know was this journey was hers alone.

As they walked in, Erika was sweating like a waxed person in a 180° hot sauna, while Raphael and the rest were as cool as a rainy day. Erika says in exhausted anger "hold up, how is it that I'm about to have a heart attack and heat stroke and you guys don't even seem fazed". Raphael and the rest think to themselves*the fact that you are even still alive is something to marvel at, I mean most people would have burnt to Death by now, with a magic coat or without one*. Raphael says "this is what you will first learn, how to adapt to any natural manifested environment, I mean you are nature and nature is you. This skill is called, the magic coat and where you will be mastering this is in that cave called Hades cave". Erika says "what an ominous name, wait so how do I start out". Raphael shocked that she is taking everything so well. Erika thinks to herself*I need to find out who that murky woman was something about her puts me off, and to that I need to get stronger. So I'm gonna suck it up and do this*. Raphael sees her astras and sees what she is thinking, he feels proud that she has made up her mind. One of the summoners say "to manifest the magic coat one must coat himself or herself in their magic at a constant pressure, the difference in pressure the difference in magic outlet". Erika "ok I pretty much get it", she turns around and says "ok guys let's do this* but just then she felt a chill down her spine just for her to turn around and Raphael kicks her into the cave, and he says with a cold look in his eyes "sorry you go alone from her on, we will come back only in the night to pick you up so that you can eat and have your bath. I mean I can't have you die on me can I?" . All the summoners shocked at their sire's sudden flood of mood swings ever since the priestess arrived. Then again he has always been this ruthless, I feel pain for our dear priestess, they chant silently "fight on my priestess". And then they start to teleport back, Erika "DAWN YOU SWINDLERS, I AM SO GONNA MESS YOU UP WHEN I GET OUTTA HERE, GO BURY YOURSELF IN A DITCH RAPHAEL, "SIRE" MY *** ". The summoners marvelled at her choice of words and grit,"is that how the PRIESTESS is supposed to speak ". While Raphael smiled and said"indeed she is definitely different and interesting ".

...Oh! Our dear Erika what is going to become of her. Check it out in the next episode. ...

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