The Astral soul system-Chapter 153: A vision of the future

"uhhh... what was that?" Theia asked, looking at Zyro questioningly.

"What was what?" He asked curiously.

"That... you just...."

Zyro tilted his head, looking like he didn’t know what she was going on about.

"Did i do something wrong?"

Theia sighed, rubbing her temples

"No, it’s cool. Don’t worry about it" Theia said before muttering under her breath

"You sure know how to pick ’em G"

Zyro shrugged and skipped happily to Aurora who was signaling to him.

"Yeah,teach?"

He asked in an upbeat tone, his voice back to normal.

"What was that? Why was he here for you?"

Zyro shrugged.

"I’m not sure. He said something about levels but I wasn’t really listening. He seemed really upset too."

"..."

Aurora glared at him suspiciously, not completely sold on the simple explanation.

Backing away sheepishly, Zyro quickly waved his hands in a show of surrender.

"Seriously. Appearantly there was a thing between him and Zen back a few weeks before i woke up but i still don’t have the details. You can ask Sable who’s right here if you want, I’m being honest. "

"...."

Scratching his ear awkwardly, Zyro mumbled, looking at the ground sheepishly.

"I haven’t been too focused on what happened while I was gone due to training so... I’m still not completely caught up on some stuff "

Groaning, Aurora waved him off.

"Just go. I don’t have the time or energy to ascertain if you’re lying or not"

"Isn’t she doing nothing but just standing there?"

Theia muttered, squinting her eyes and scrutinizing the teacher

"Thank teach"

Zyro said before going back to his corner.

"Alright,we need to talk abo-"

[Scan complete]

"Oh crap. Now?"

Theia said, sounding annoyed 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

"What is it?"

Zyro asked curiously.

"A soul scan. It’s nothing serious, just cross checking something"

"What?"

Sighing, Theia decided to explain in full detail.

"That girl, Celia,she-"

"Little whore"

Freya suddenly interrupted, the simple mention of the girl’s name displeasing her

".... anyway.... She mentioned she was looking for something,or at least Zen deducted that. Appearantly that’s also why she approached both him and Gary to try controlling them,of course failing with Zen"

"Oh, but what does that have to do with this? Do you know what she’s looking for?"

Theia shook her head

"No, but considering she can subtly or not so subtly influence people’s souls like she did with Gary, chances are that she’s not human, and even worse, not from this realm. What she’s looking for is possibly a specific kind of soul or something in the soul "

"Wait "

Zyro interrupted

"There are types of souls?, and you can keep things in them"

"Just listen. I can only tell you this now because it’s counted as useless information in every way but it might not be for long. She couldn’t find what she was looking for in Gary so she used him as a pawn to help her, and when she searched Zen... well we can’t be sure what she thinks she saw but whatever it is she’s looking for,you don’t have it. So-"

Zyro suddenly interrupted

"So, she either still thinks i have what she wants and is desperate to rip out my soul to get it,or she’s realized that I’m on to her since i saw her use two abilities, and wants to either control me like Gary,or get rid of me completely "

Theia was a bit stunned but nodded grimly, affirming it.

"Not to mention she knows about..."

Zyro looked at his right hand covered by the glove and clenched his fist.

"She has something she can hold over me and use to blackmail me, and I have no evidence of her supposedly using two abilities. Not to mention that if she squeals, and I also talk, it’s obvious that her words will be taken with more weight than his, considering her last name"

Zyro took a deep breath and closed his eyes

Celia was standing above him with a malicious grin, smirking down. Desperately he tried to reach her, pouncing on her but ghostly arms suddenly appeared , sprouting out of the ground all around him and he was suddenly held down from all sides, military officials, students and others, watching in disdain,horror and hatred.

Laughing victoriously , Celia walked towards him. He struggled and tried to escape but the hands held him tighter, holding him down and forcing him to kneel completely in front of her while forcing his head on the ground like a common criminal about to be decapitated.

The entire world turned dark and dreary and void of light as he struggled but no one came to his aid.

Laughing maniacally she forcefully stepped on his head, pressing her heel heavily against his skull as she monologued.

"You worthless rat. Did you really think you could escape after i claimed you as mine? I always get what i want"

Leaning down, she held his chin before suddenly giving him a kiss on the cheek.

"You’re mine"

Hearing her husky and possessive tone he struggled to look up at her, suddenly noticing a lot of strings tied around the hands holding him down. Looking around at the people watching, his fellow classmates, teachers, even his friends and aurora looking at him like a monster,he noticed a thin string all tied around them. Looking at where they all led, he noticed that all the golden strings were wrapped around Celia’s finger.

Looking up at her face he suddenly noticed that in the dark dreary world, behind her head was a halo of light resembling the sun that completely eclipsed her form.

A golden chain was suddenly in her hand and she looked at him with a perverse glint in her eyes.

Some of the hands suddenly grabbed at his glove attempting to rip it off as he tried shaking them off.

Like it was alive, one end of the chain flew to Zyro, wrapping around his neck.

"You’re my chosen. Out of this pack of senseless beasts and apes,i chose you as my little pet monster. Be grateful "

The chain almost wrapped around his neck when suddenly.

"Haahhh"

Zyro let out a sharp gasp, his eyes opening.

He looked around and found himself still on the floor in class.

"What just-"

"Zyro, your hands!"

Zyro looked down at his hand and noticed he was grasping a golden string, similar to the ones Zen saw before. Before he could think it suddenly lost its glow and dissipated like it was depleted.

"What was that?"

"I...i don’t know"

Zyro took a deep breath and tried to remember what he saw, especially the details around him.

First of all, Sable. Her eyes were a vicious red with blood flowing out of her eyes like tears, she was on her knees in her full vampiric form,her hair was out of its ponytail and flowed in the air wildly and looked like she was screaming at the top of her lungs. Her body was riddled with injuries from top to bottom. Even stranger she was surrounded by a pack of wolves pouncing at her. She was screaming, looking at the wolves and behind her was the shadow of an individual, their hand placed on Sable’s shoulder and the shadow of a sinister smile on their face. Around her were more shadows, and although he couldn’t tell how, he was sure that they were out to get her.

"Hey!"

Zyro’s eyes suddenly opened as someone called him and shook him slightly.

He looked at who it was and his eyes locked on a pair of blue eyes as a sweet smell entered his nose.

"You’ve been sitting here for hours by now,class is almost over"

Zyro looked up at her as she gave him her hand to pull him up to her, however he didn’t take it, staring up with a blank stare, looking at the brightly smiling little vampire,the image of her agonized kneeling form, flashing in his mind and constantly overlapping with the normal image of her in his mind.

"..."

"Hey! Earth to Zyro"

He still didn’t react,after his initial reaction, he was also suprised at how he didn’t notice her at all when she walked up to him, he’d been so focused he’d completely ignored his senses, even the sweet smell he perceived when she was near.

"Zyr-"

"I’m fine"

He answered, taking her hand and getting up.

"I’m...fine,Just a bit dazed"

"You sure? You know you can tell me if something’s up"

Zyro went silent. He remembered how when Zen had touched the strings, he’d seen the past. Could it be that while Zen had seen the past, he’d... seen the future?

The image of the girl who called herself his... or at least Zen’s sister completely covered in blood,alone and agonized while being hunted flashed in his mind and his eyes twitched slightly.

Well if it really was true then was what he saw... Sable’s future?