*Rowan's POV*
After hours of driving and basically hours wasted of my life I could finally step out the car and take a fresh breath, we arrived at Joseph's place and for the love of God his neighborhood is a rich one.. guess Larisa's a gold digger huh, ...she's so gonna kill me later- "You two wait right here, they're very suspicious to strangers" reminds me of my lovely neighborhood, Joseph steps inside his house while Larisa expression turns into a frown "Come on Larisa, they're fine so don't worry" she turns to me and sighs "Hope you're right Rowan.. but could you please tell me what happened to you?" "Uh.. nothing happened to me though?" she rolls her eyes and a faint sigh escapes her lips "Right".
There was a small awkward silence but I decided to break it "So now that our trip is over, what are you gonna do? visit other countries?" "What am I to you Rowan? a rich queen? even though I love travelling around it's quite expensive.." oh really? I bet you have some hidden stash somewhere "Anyhow.. if I will travel I think France will be the first country, but how about you? what are you going to do?" "To be honest.. I don't know, I thought about moving out from my home because of the neighborhood, but I haven't thought about anything else"
She thinks for a while and suddenly claps her hands "So you want to move out? I know the best place for you, it's a bit far from here but it's quite nice there" I swear this woman has some sort of connection all over the world "Alright.. how expensive is it?" "Oh don't worry about too much, how much money do you have Rowan?" "Enough to take care of myself" she rolls her eyes, pulling out her phone "Thanks, genius... seriously how much money do you make?" "Almost two minimum wages, I suppose..." she grins at me, as if knowing my deepest secrets "Heh... not gonna dive into your schemes, but don't worry I gotcha".
Larisa knows too much at times... "Don't worry Rowan, I have a job for you there as well, very considerate of me~ no need to thank me" is she.. planning my life or something..? "But I don't want to spoil the surprise for you so you'll have to wait.. I suggest you start packing" start packing what..? what about the old place? what about the migraine of paperwork?? "Tell you what.. since this is going to take ages I assume how about you go back home and.. do other stuff? I'll call you when we have to do some.. business" totally not ominous at all, Larisa...
*Hariko's POV*
My eyes snap open as I was quick to look around me, everything was so colorful and full of life... I don't even remember how I ended up in here, the voice doesn't ring in my head anymore... "So.. this is my new home now?" all I remember is that I let that woman guide me and my vision went blank again, but then after who knows how long I found myself here "Alright can you come out now please? perhaps I'm dreaming right now.." I sit on the grass as my hair flutters in the wind, this feels like I'm just in a place on earth but yet.. it feels totally different "Am I.. dead?"
Suddenly I felt a pair of hands touching my shoulders and it was enough to freeze me "You're not dead, child, you're just confused" I turned behind as I saw the familiar purple looking woman "H-Hey it's you!" "That is correct young one" she laughs softly before she reveals her 1.. 2.. 7 tails "So your time has come to train and do not worry, I am here to guide you on the right path.. showing you the right steps" she cackles again before sitting next to me "You have a lot of questions Hariko and time shall answer them, but remember.. you have to be patient"
To be honest I expected her to be more.. severe and not nice at all, or maybe she's acting like that because I'm complete clueless? "Am I really-" she cuts me off with a smirk "A goddess? oh yes, can you feel some.. shocks going through your veins?" "So that's why my arms went numb at times..." "Heh... these shocks represents your powers and I have to warn you though, if you can't control them it may hurt.. a lot" I don't like the sound of that.. "What are my powers?" She pokes my chest, where my heart is and looks at me "You have to find them yourself child, all I can do is to train you the basic, intermediate and advanced magic, think of it as magic school, from there on, it's up to your hands".
Magic? come on don't be silly now.. magic doesn't exist. I quickly saw the women feign hurt "That hurts me Hariko.." I look at her confused "What- oh... mind reading..." "Of course young one, magic is indeed very real, seems like our last conversation is foggy for you" she snaps her fingers as some blue fire orbs appears, circling around us "W-Wha..?" "This Hariko.. is what I call fox fire, you can use it in so many ways that the options are almost endless" and I am supposed to do that? although they're pretty neat... "Also you can do this" she stands up and just stares at me, before I could give her a snarky question, slowly, her feet breaks the contact with the ground as she makes her way up in the sky "..How?"
"This is floating Hariko, at first it's scary but then.. it's very relaxing~" she spins in the air leaving me a confused fox, this is unreal.. "There's so much things you can do with magic.. funny tricks, getting out of unpleasant situations, summoning beings, making things disappear and appear.. even teleport" that sounds like fun, I could troll Rowan all day long and never get bored of it, even though I don't think I will see him again.. "Your magic will increase as you age. If you will treat is tiers... the more tails you have, the better. But of course... let us begin with something simple" She drops in front of me, hands on her hips, gesturing towards the woods with her gaze "Come, I'll show up a place" without giving me a chance to talk she started walking "...Okay okay I'll follow..." with a reluctant sigh I joined her side, venturing into the unknown.