Back To Life

Chapter six

The next morning, despite feelling less refreshed than the previous days, almiron was up and ready around 8:00AM in the morning, stepping out of his room just as the alarm on his phone sounded off.

Switching it off, he took a second to look towards his father’s study, taking note of how today of all days, the door remained closed.

That however, did not stop him from taking a few cautious steps towards it. “Dad, I’m heading out.” He informed and waited a few seconds, hoping that his father would respond.

However there was no response from him, almiron wasn’t surprised though because he’s father has done this for more than 6 years now, every year on the day his wife died he locks himself in his office and stays there for the rest of the day drowning himself with alcohol.

Wasting no time he turns around and walks away and on his way out he picks up the beautiful bouquet of flowers his driver got for today, he leaves the house finally getting the fear of being driven by his driver out of his head, his driver takes him to his mother’s burial ground.

Standing next to his mother’s grave stone he says

“Hi mom, it’s been a year again.” .

Every year almiron comes to her grave and pours out everything that happens around him, he wasn’t really that close with his dad so there were some things he couldn’t speak out to his dad.

That was the only good thing that came from that awful day.

“a lot has happened, but we still miss you so much.” He says while gently placing the beautiful flowers on the grave.

He takes a kneel and starts explaining all the event that had happened to him and how he had just found out that he had abilities.

“And the weirdest part of it all is that I might be able to do necromancy.” He says

While kneeling there on his own a strange idea entered he’s mind. He thinks about it for a while

Suddenly an unknown hand touched almiron shoulder, with surprise he looks up and finds out that it was zayn and maya was standing beside him.

“How you holding up.” Zayn says

“Thanks for coming.” He says while getting up and giving both of them a firm hug.

Maya hands over the flowers she brought to almiron and he drops it on he’s mom grave.

“13years.” Almiron says while looking down on the grave.

They stay there a little bit longer before deciding to leave.

“I know today’s not your day but c’mon let’s go see a movie, the bills on me.” Zayns says to almiron while putting his hands around his shoulders.

“Would have loved too but I have somewhere to be.”

“Really...where?” maya asked

“Its not important, you guys go on without me.”

“If you say so.” Zayn says while almost walking away.

“Zee...” maya calls out

“What! He said we could go.”

“Seriously am good you guys have fun.” He says

“you sure?” maya asked with concern

“Yeah, talk to you later.” He says while walking away.

“Dont worry his fine.. c’mon lets go.” Zayn says as he walks with maya.

Almiron splits up with them as he heads to the bookstore.

...........

Cling....

The sound of the bell as almiron walks into the store

“Hi.”

“Hello, good day.” The attendant at the bookstore replies back

He walks towards the various books shelves and starts searching for a particular book.

It doesn’t take time until he found what he was looking for.

He took the books and went ahead to make payments, the receptionist gave him a weird look when she saw the name of the book he took ‘Magic of the undead.’

He makes the payment and leaves immediately.

On getting home he heads to the kitchen to get some bread and on his way to his room he takes a look at his father’s office still finding the door shut

He walks into his room and closes the door behind him.

“Let’s see.” He says while setting the books down and scrolling through them.

While reading through the books he saw a particular sentence circled that caught his attention.

“Mortui Resurgent.” He muttered out with a soft voice as he read the words out loud.

Those words were rolling through his head as he picks up his phone to check the meaning, it was an ancient Greek Latin word that meant *THE DEAD RISE AGAIN.*

That was the sentence that caught his attention and made him dig deeper into the book.

He found the spell on page 487, a resurrection spell.

He was now more motivated than ever.

He starts preparing all the things he needed for the spell.

He opens up his window and scattered some bread crumbs on the window as he uses it to attract a pigeon.

He sits on his bed and waits for the pigeon to get in, and the pigeon did.

It stood there on the window slowly pecking on the bread crumbs.

He calmly stretched his hands out and the bird flew on it and immediately it did so almiron started killing the bird slowly as he suck the life out of it.

The pigeon immediately fell lifeless to the floor, and then almiron goes down on his knees as he closes his eyes and took a deep breath.

At that moment he slowly remembers a death image of his mother as he exhales and slowly opens his eyes.

Almiron eyes were glowing green as he looks down onto the bird, he stretched his hands forward and touched the bird whispering

"Mortui resurgent."

And at once the bird sprang to life again and flapped its wings, almiron was overwhelmed at this point as a smile spreads across his face, he had confirmed the fact that he was truly a necromancer.

“Whoa.. I did it.” Says almiron

The bird flew up and started flying around his room in a circle for sometime as he watched.

The pigeon finally landed on his desk and with a smile on his face he got up and walked closer to the bird but as he was just about to touch it he noticed something weird.

He looked straight into the eyes of the pigeon and noticed the eyes was blank white, he moved his finger forward and touched the pigeon, he could feel it was alive and breathing but there was no reaction.

There was something missing from the bird, its soul maybe?.... nobody knew, all he knew was that the bird did not come back the same.

He picked the pigeon up and opened his window as the bird flies away.

Knock knock!!

His room door opens as his house help enters to let him know that dinner was ready.

Suddenly she froze there on the spot as her heart and mind were suddenly filled with fear.

He turns back and asks

"What is it hilda?"

"D-Dinner." She replies

"Oh ok I'll be there."

As the house help left his room she felt her hands shaking in fear even tho she did not know why.

*~~*

Daxon entered his apartment with some groceries dropping them on the dinner table as he takes off his coat.

He takes a look at the picture he kept on the table as almiron, zayn and maya were in the photo accept that maya was circled with a green marker indicating that he would come for maya next.

"You're next." He says with a wicked smile.

Almiron was about to go down for dinner but he decided to wash his face first.

He enters the bathroom and looks at his reflection in the mirror.

He looked closely and his eyes began to glow bright green again, then it happened again.

The disgusting foul scent of a dead person filled the bathroom as almiron looked to his left through the mirror noticing a little girl standing beside the toilet.

But this time it was different, almiron was not scared this time.

He turned around and looked the spirit straight in the eyes as his was still glowing.

This time he knew that seeing spirits from the other side was a normal process as he had educated himself a little about necromancy.

He could hear a soft mutter from the spirit "help me..." she said with a soft voice as she raised her small arms.

"Hmmm." He was about backing away when he heard.

"The darkness..." she called again and at that moment almiron noticed that her neck was twisted to the side.

"What in the world happened to you."

"The darkness." She repeated

Then almiron noticed her eyes, those cold, lifeless, empty eyes.

Blank white like the pigeon he brought back to life.

He couldn't hold back his curiosity anymore, he wanted to know what she meant by darkness.

While taking a step towards her he was about asking her when

Knock knock!!!

Hilda knocked at the door.

"Sir...you coming."

Almiron immediately looked back with the bright green colour of his eyes fading out, he wasn't sure if the spirit was still there and when he turned back the spirit was gone.

He walked back to the sink and washes his face and headed down for dinner.