The Rise Of Calamity

[Author's note: Flashes into unknown locations and reports will be done in third person]

In an unknown location far away, sat a slim mana on his throne within a castle. While the furniture and pillars were embroidered with gold and silver, while his thrown had multiple precious looking gems carved within it.

The man opened his eyes all of a sudden, looking almost startled until he asked "Did you feel that?" to a seemingly empty room.

Without a second passing, a blue hue started to erupted from one of the pillars as s beautiful woman with blue ocean eyes and long black hair emerged. She was more tanned than the average person, while her clothes showed more cleavage and skin than that was appropriate.

Her icy blue and white dress barley covered her bulging chest while it showed her fare shoulders and finally, with a slit at the bottom of her dress, it provided a clear view of most of her legs. The women's back was completely exposed to down to her hip, leaving almost nothing to the imagination.

"It seems one of the humans had achieved divinity. It had been over 300 years since the last one, he was quite old grumpy man. This one seems much younger though, does she not?" Said the tanned women.

"Yes, she might seem like child with barley enough power to even mess with normal soldiers, yet she gives me an ancient feeling that makes me shiver to my core..." said the man who had stood up from his throne, yet he was still covered in shadows, as if they were part of him.

"That's because you're a coward, not because she is anything more than a child" Snarled a fair skinned women with pale skin blonde hair. Her fiery red eyes were matched with her blood red dress, making her look like something out of a fairy-tale.

"I agree" chimed in a heavy voice. It was a man standing over 6ft 7 with a huge sword on his back. He was Mildly tanned too, but he was closer to being light skinned. His body was extremely muscular while his shoulders were broad, only more defined by the dark brown armour he wore.

"F*ck all of you! I'm trying my best while all you walking corpses do is complain!" snarled back the shadowy man on the throne.

"HEY! IM NOT THAT OLD YOU LITTLE SH*T!" Roared the timid red dressed female with crimson eyes.

The group kept arguing for hours and hours, non of them willing to back down.

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Argenta's POV

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While me, Rak and the wolf that Pandora called 'Juilam' Were flying in the air. I could see nothing but a magnificent golden aura the little girl with golden hair. The aura expanded around her while completely destroying all the darkness around her. The 10 meter long monster made of shadows was disintegrated the instant the golden aura had touched it whole the lion writhed in pain when it was enveloped by the golden tsunami.

Nothing much seemed to happen before Pandora moved in the blink of an eye, and just a minute later, a black and blue ball of energy was sent towards her, In the blink of an eye, the entire area in a 40 meter radius from Pandora had lost its colour. After a few seconds of nothing happening, the colour had returned to the area yet this time, Pandora had completely evaded the blue ball of energy and was at the right side of the lion, ready to strike.

"D-d-d-di-d... d-did she just teleport? No? Right? T-that must have been the use of an air spell or something, r-right?" Asked the shivering Rak who had sat in front of me.

"No one can teleport unless they use a gate silly" I said with a lecturing tone.

The wolf called Juilam then looked at me for a second, almost like he wanted to rebuke what i had said before he looked away and stayed quite.

There is no way... Right? Teleportation is simply too dangerous to use and too complex for someone as young as Pandora who had never used magic before...There is no way a person can teleport because it would instantly destroy your body while there is no way you can retain your conscience, well that's what I was taught. Plus, its not like there is an element for things like gravity and space unless someone used a treasu-.... The g-golden aura.... No way... It can't be, right? There is no way that it can make gates, It cant even be considered an element... Yes, of course! I didn't even see a gate! She must have been just really fast!

Before I could question the matter even more, A loud boom resounded as a lion was sent flying towards the forest, Its' right torso had been obliterated while a golden hue remained on it's body, slowly burning away the lion's skin, bones and muscles. As the body flew through the forest and broke through numerous trees, a golden figure appeared behind it again, almost like it had just teleported, clasping it's hands together and slamming down on the lion's body.

Trees from the area flew out of the ground in an instant while other trees started to be blown and bent towards directions opposite from the attack. The lion howled in pain as it's legs almost buckled, before being killed by another attack to the torso, making it's body fall to the ground lifelessly.

The golden aura that had once enveloped the surroundings was swallowed into Pandora's body, as if she was a a tornado sucking the air around her into it. Once the golden aura had been sucked dry out of the the air, Pandora tried to walk forwards when her legs also started to buckle under its' own weight.

"We got to help her!" I voiced, snapping the other two out of their daze

While Rak seemed hesitant about the idea of going closer to the battle field, Juilam did not think twice about diving down at a 180 degree angle, toward the struggling Pandora. Before we could arrive at the scene though, her legs finally gave out and she fell to the floor with a painful look in her face, as if her insides were being torn apart.

The pained look vanished the moment her head had hit the floor, making be unintentionally shout "PANY!"

When the wolf finally landed, I jumped off and ran towards her body while bringing out the tonics from the dimensional amulet we had. The wolf casually shoved me to the side when he observed this, promptly informing me she is fine, just exhausted.

"Where do you plan on going now? I can take you to your home but Atlas is coming with me. Even though she trusts you, as her teacher, I don't trust anyone but those who are blood related to her, and even then I can only trust her to her sister, since she cares for her the most." Voiced the wolf, breaking the silence between all of us.

"Where are you taking her?! And who the hell is Atlas?" I inquired, clearly showing the wolf that I did not trust him either

"To my tribe. They and I will personally care for her since we are proficient in white magic. For your second question, I had forgotten you humans call her 'Pandora'... Since of course, that is her human name." Snarled Juilam at my ignorance

Her human name?

"I'll let you take her on one condition! You have to let me, Rak or Aroura stay by her side until she wakes up." I bargained

"Only you and her sister, no one else. I'll let her father see her if I'm there instead. By the way, if that brat rats out what had happened here, I'll make sure to personally kill him before Atla- I mean Pandora can." proposed Juilam.

I looked at Rak for a second, looking at his reaction. He simply nodded, allowing me to reply with "Deal!"

We travelled to the tribe entrance where many wolves started to snarl at me until they saw who i was holding in my hand. A wolf, Larger than the rest yet smaller than Juilam came up to me before asking-

"What happened! Is she okay? She is not injured... but she seems extremely exhausted... There are signs of mana exhaustion, but that's it! Well, that is fortunate. Oh hello young lady! If you do not mind, please let me take lady Atlas away and find her a room immediately"

The wolf seemed to be half speaking to me half speaking to him self, yet, before I could retort his advances, Juilam thundered from behind me "She is going to stay in my lair until she recovers, and so will any of the guests who I allow to assist her. Please accompany both of them to Atlas' room that I made for her within my lair. I'll be taking this man back to his home"

"Remember what I said on the way here, Rak. Don't tell them anyone about the fight, but do tell them that we went to the white wolf tribe and they didn't accept you in. That should be enough to fill their curiosity." I said, making sure that Rak had understood and took in what I had said.

"for the 20 millionth time, I understand! I'm not a child!" Rak shouted back

"You sure do act like one though." cackled Juilam before grabbing Rak and throwing him on top of his back. He continued after looking at me by questioning me of how I would like to tell Pandora's parents.

"I'm just going to tell Aroura. Pandora and her mother aren't that close, while if I tell her father, her mother is bound to get upset, if not maybe even jealous." I voiced after thinking with my hand to my chin for a few seconds.

"Okay. Now get Pandora a bed so you get to rest as well." Said the wolf before flying off.

--2 Days Later--

Me and Juilam had become more adjusted to each other, while we might have talked normally, both of us were extremely worried for Pandora who hadn't woken up for more than 2 days now. While we were talking, I decided to finally ask the question that had been plaguing my mind for the last 2 days. It was a question that not only me, but Rak had also tried to ask 2 days ago, but we both got no answers. My thought process was that if I had gotten to know Juilam and showed him I was trustworthy, he might be able to tell me what happened back at the lake.

In these last two days, not only had I learnt a lot about the beasts within the forest and about Juilam himself, I learnt details about Pandora that he had slipped in randomly. From her training to her thoughts about people, none of it that I had actually knew.

Even though Pandora is child, close to being 6 years old, her views on things such as humans and beasts are drastically different to anyone, even those experts in their late 80s. From what I could inquire, Pandora seems to dislike humans and find them untrustworthy while she favours animals and beasts over them.

Due to Juilam not knowing the story that had been told to us about what happened when the humans attacked the tribe, spilled absolutely everything. Before, Pandora had just told me she injured some of the humans and allowed other wolves to kill them, almost like she was assisting them rather than fighting them on her own. However, from the story I had been told by Juilam, she fought an entire portion of their attack force on her own, while also beating that portion's leader.

When my interest had finally peaked, I questioned about wat happened 2 days ago in the lake.

"I can't tell you anything but, that she awakened" Said Juilam in a monotone voice.

"Heh? Wait so you know? Why don't you want to tell me then?" I inquired

"It is not for me to say. I do not know how close you are to Pandora, but if it is as close as you say, then she should tell you when she wakes up. It is not that I don't want to tell you, it is that even if you were the closest person to her, it simply is not for me to say" He apologetically informed me.

"If she truly trusts you, I can tell you there is a 100% chance she will tell you, since I'm sure she knows what is going on." He continued saying, before stopping and going back to his room.

Hmm, I guess I'll just wait for Pany to wake up.