Elemental Summoner 1

by D. Levesque

  You are healing your target. Time to fully heal, 00:00:14:59.

  Jila’s total attention is focused on her leg as it’s healing. No one moves, and we stay like that quietly until finally, Bridget sits back down on her ass on the ground.

  You have healed Jila

  You have received 1 Heavenly Token.

  Heavenly Tokens: 11 of 200

  “Oomph,” Bridget says after her ass hits the ground. “There, good as new!” she exclaims and changes back to her Elf form.

  “How is that possible?” Nolea says in shock, looking between Bridget and me.

  “Oh, that’s easy, it’s because—”

  “Bridget!” both Leeha and I scream at her.

  “Oh right,” she says with a giggle, blushing. “I’m not supposed to mention that.”

  Nolea looks at me suspiciously again, but at least this time there isn’t anger there. More curiosity than anything else now. Then, unexpectedly everything in my sight goes black, and all I hear is my name being screamed, “Alex!”

  Chapter Thirty-Eight

  The first thing that I notice when I come to is a message. I can’t even tell if it’s visual or in my head. It’s so fucking weird.

  You have broken through your second of seven Chakras.

  You have received 1 Heavenly Token.

  Heavenly Tokens: 12 of 200.

  The second thing I notice is the pain in my eyes. My eyes are closed, yet I can still see tons of light somehow.

  “Alex?” Leeha says with worry in her voice. I feel a hand on my chest. “I can tell you’re awake. Your breathing changed.”

  “So you can tell when I’m asleep?” I ask her with a smile, still not opening my eyes.

  I can hear the smile in her voice when she says, “Yes, I watch you as you sleep, wondering why you love me so much.”

  I open my eyes and stare at her, but then I have to close them quickly. “What the fuck!” I blurt out.

  “Alex!” Leeha cries, and I feel someone’s arms on my chest. “What’s wrong. Look at me!”

  “I can’t. That’s the issue,” I tell Leeha. “When I look at you, I just see a burst of color.”

  “What?” she asks me, confused.

  “Bridget!” I shout.

  “What!” she shouts back from right next to me, making me jerk in surprise. She must be sitting next to my head. “Sorry, you yelled at me, so I thought we were playing a game,” she giggles.

  “What’s going on with my eyes?” I ask her apprehensively.

  “Oh, I guess me healing that little girl Jila opened another one of your Chakras.”

  “What?” I blurt out, moving my head towards her voice and opening my eyes, which is a big mistake as the burst of color coming from her is worse than the one I saw when I looked at Leeha. “Shit!” I cry, closing my eyes again quickly as tears run down my face.

  “What do you mean I opened another Chakra? How did I do that so quickly?” I ask Bridget, concerned. Fuck me. I can’t be opening them that fast! They fucking hurt. I mean, I can’t even see now! I’m blind. “And what is all that light then?”

  “Well,” Bridget says, and I feel a hand on my forehead, “your second Chakra, as you call it, that you opened, is right here.”

  Wait. What Chakra was that? There was the top of the head, which I think was called the Crown. And there’s a throat one. Was there one between that? Hmm. Yes! That’s right. It was called the Third Eye one. Could that be what is happening? Somehow a ‘magical’ eye is opening? Without opening my eyes, I address the two girls.

  “Are we alone?” I ask them.

  “Yes. Nolea and the others have already left for my home,” Leeha says. “You have been out for about four hours. It’s almost dark.”

  “Fuck, really? Wow. All I remember is not being able to see and then hitting something,” I tell her.

  “Yes, that was you hitting the ground. You hit it pretty hard. You broke your nose,” Leeha says with a laugh.

  “What!” I shout, my hand going to my nose. Shit, will I look all right with a crooked, broken nose? I move my nose back and forth, but it feels fine, and I hear the two girls laugh.

  “Bridget healed it,” Leeha says. “So don’t worry, you still look handsome.”

  “I was never handsome to start off with,” I tell them with a grin.

  I feel a kiss on my lips, and then another kiss from another set of lips. “We find you attractive enough,” Leeha says with a laugh.

  “That’s right! I am sure even if I wasn’t your Elemental I would find you attractive, for a human,” Bridget says, but I can hear the grin in her voice.

  “Gee, thanks,” I tell them both with a scowl, but inside I can’t help but feel loved. “But back to my eyes. So, this Chakra I opened. In my world, it’s called the Third Eye. Any clue what it does, Bridget?”

  “Hmm, not really. You say that when you look at someone, like Leeha or me, you see bright lights?”

  “Yes. Pretty intense ones,” I confirm for her. When I look at them the lights seem to coming from inside their entire body. But it’s so intense that looking at them caused me to have the mother of all headaches. It was worse with Bridget, but it went away when I closed my eyes.

  “What color?” Leeha asks.

  “What?” I ask her with a frown.

  “What color were the lights when you looked at me?” Leeha prods.

  “Eeer,” I say. What color was Leeha? It was so intense I don’t remember the light’s color. No, wait. There was a color, and it was an intense blue.

  “Blue,” I tell her after a couple of seconds. “Yeah. Blue, a powerful blue throughout your entire body.”

  “And when you looked at me?” Bridget asks eagerly.

  “Yours was more intense; it was like tons of colors, almost like a kaleidoscope of colors.”

  “So, say like red, blue, white, brown or green, and purple?” Leeha offers me.

  “What? You think what I am seeing is your magic?” I ask her, surprised. No fucking way? I can see the magic around me? Or in others?

  “Well, if it’s what you called it, a Third Eye, that would be amazing! Imagine what you could do with it!” Bridget cries happily, and I hear her clap her hands.

  “Like what?” I ask her, curiously.

  “Eer, I don’t know,” she says, sounding uncertain. “I figured you might have ideas.”

  I can’t help but laugh at her attitude. I need to remember she never really ‘lived’ before, and she might have knowledge, but that’s it. Getting up and sitting on my ass, I face the direction the girls’ voices are coming from without opening my eyes.

  “Let’s try this again, shall we?” I tell them both.

  “Are you sure?” Leeha asks me, concerned.

  “Yes, I can’t be walking around with my eyes closed now, can I?” I tell them with a chuckle.

  “True, but take it slow!” Leeha says anxiously.

  “I will, I promise,” I tell her, nodding towards her voice.

  Taking a deep breath, I open my eyes slowly, almost squinting, but I am blasted with the light coming from their direction. Closing my eyes again, I turn my head away from them so they will not be in my line of vision, and I open my eyes. What I see takes my breath away. There is light everywhere, it almost looks like vapors of light. And they’re all different colors! Whoa! Is that magic in the air? But I thought magic came from inside the person and their Elemental?

  “Bridget, where does magic come from?” I ask her curiously, turning back to them both but keeping my eyes closed.

  “From the Elemental, of course,” she says, as if I had asked a dumb question.

  “All right, and where does the Elemental get the magic from?” I ask her.

  “From inside them,” she says, but now I hear some doubt in her voice.

  Deciding to push it and see if she truly knows, I ask her, “Are you sure? What if you run out? Where do you, say, recharge from?”

  “I think we just do.” I can imagine the frow
n on her pretty Elven features.

  “Well, I think I might know where it comes from,” I tell her with a grin.

  “What? You do?” Bridget says in surprise.

  I wave my hand around me, still with my eyes closed. “I think it comes from all around. When I opened my eyes, not looking at you but just at the surrounding area, all I saw were vapors of lights. I saw blue, green, red, white, and purple.”

  “What?” Leeha says in astonishment. “You can see magic in the air?”

  “Yep,” I tell her with a laugh.

  “Can you touch it?” Leeha asks me hesitantly.

  “I don’t know,” I tell her in shock. Is it tangible?

  Turning so the girls are away from me, I open my eyes and see the lights again. They are all over the place! Though, when I look at a tree, where I expect it to be lit up with green energy, there isn’t anything. What the fuck? So the trees have no energy in them? Getting up and stepping away from the girls, I move until I am right in front of a cloud of white energy that is mixed in with some blue. I slowly reach out and put my hand in the cloud.

  Time to absorb the energy: 00:00:04:59.

  “What the fuck!” I blurt out in surprise. What the hell is this?

  “What?” Leeha says from right behind me. She must have followed me.

  “What do you see?” Bridget asks me eagerly, and she is behind me as well.

  “I can absorb the energy,” I tell them both numbly.

  “What?” they both shout in astonishment.

  “Yeah. It’s telling me for the small cloud that is in front of me, it will take five minutes to absorb its energy.”

  “Energy? Not power?” Leeha asks me carefully.

  “Yes. Energy. Oh shit. Energy, not power! When you use Elementals, they use power! But wait. How is there Elemental energy here, but not power?” I ask, mystified.

  “Alex,” Bridget says hesitantly. “When we Elementals give our mages power, we convert the energy into their power pool.”

  “So what does it mean that I can use energy now? What does it mean for you?” I ask her.

  “I am not sure,” she says slowly. “You are the first one I have ever heard of with this ability. Even with all the knowledge your God has given me.”

  “Oh,” I tell her.

  Closing my eyes, I turn back towards the girls and slowly try to squint my eyes open again. Once more, I am blasted with light, but I ignore the headache this time. I look at them and see that they are bright, but not as bad as before. Maybe I am getting used to it, or my Third Eye is.

  You have stopped absorbing the energy from your target.

  Energy absorbed: 01 of 50.

  Interesting, so I can absorb single units of energy. I slowly open my eyes wider and wider until I see the girls’ full outline, including their energy. Leeha is pure blue, and Bridget is the multicolors of all the Elementals, and I realize that Earth is green, not the brown that I expected. Finally, I’m able to open my eyes fully. I walk closer to them and peer at the energy. Wow, this is fucking cool! The energy in Leeha is moving around inside her, and it’s the same when I look at Bridget’s. Reaching out, I place a finger against Leeha’s chest.

  Time to absorb the energy. 00:09:59:59.

  “What the fucking hell!” I cry, pulling my finger away from her.

  You have stopped absorbing the energy from your target.

  Energy absorbed : 00 of 4000.

  “What?” Leeha says worriedly.

  “I touched you and it said I was absorbing your energy, and it would take 10 hours!” I say in surprise.

  “What? What about me?” Bridget says.

  Turning to her, I slowly put my finger against her massive chest and nothing. I look at her energy body, and I see it’s there, but I still get nothing. I frown and pull my finger away and touch her on her forehead instead. Nothing again.

  “I am not getting anything,” I tell her, bewildered.

  “That makes sense,” Bridget says with a giggle. “I am you, energy-wise.”

  “Oh,” I say. That makes sense. Bridget is my Elemental. But fucking hell, am I like an energy vampire now? I am going to suck your energy, blah blah blah?

  “Why are you grinning like that?” Leeha asks me suspiciously.

  “Sorry,” I tell her with a laugh. “It would be hard to explain. It’s something from my world. I wonder if I can turn this on and off, or will I always be seeing this way,” I say to them.

  Do you wish to turn off your Third Eye?

  “What the fuck!” I say for the second time in just as many minutes.

  “What?” Leeha asks me, concerned again.

  “I wondered if there was a way to turn this off, and I just got a notification asking me if I wanted to turn off my Third Eye!”

  “So say to turn it off?” she says hesitantly.

  “Turn off Third Eye?” I say out loud.

  Is that a Request or a Question?

  What the fuck? Seriously, if I see my God, I might have some choice words to say to him about his ‘new’ system.

  “Turn off Third Eye!” I shout.

  Third Eye is turned off. Was that hard?

  Clamping down on the anger I feel right now, I realize that if he was in front of me I would punch him. I take deep breaths until I am calm, but that is when I notice I can see normally again. The girls are looking at me with genuine concern.

  “Sorry,” I tell them both. “I think my God is fucking with me. All good. It seems I can turn it on and off. How useful this will be, I have no clue. I don’t want to be an energy Vampire.”

  “True,” Leeha nods in agreement.

  “Wait, I just said Vampires, and it wasn’t in English!” I blurt out in shock.

  “Of course not. They are real,” Leeha says, nodding at me.

  “But they aren’t one of the races you told me about!” I exclaim.

  “Of course not. They are a monster race,” she snorts derisively.

  What the fuck kind of world is this?

  Chapter Thirty-Nine

  Seriously, Vampires? As I think about that while we head back towards where we had left Mig, I wonder what else am I going to find here? Am I going to find slime girls? Not sure I want that. Though, a nice lamia girl would be interesting, I chuckle. I remember one of the manga I read online, which had a hot lamia girl. Though, with the number of times the main character got squeezed, I’m not sure I would survive as well as he did.

  After a couple of minutes, we get back to where we had left Mig. He is sitting on the same log that we had left him on, and he is looking pissed.

  As we get closer, I say, “Go,” releasing him from his paralysis.

  “About time, I need to piss badly. You have been gone,” Mig looks up at the sun, “for hours! What? They were too strong for you so you decided to come back?” he says with a sneer.

  “Oh, no,” I tell him with a smile. “They are all dead, and the Elves are on their way to safety. We came back here to get information out of you.” I wave to the bush. “But I am at least civil. Go ahead and do your thing. You’ve got five minutes,” I tell him.

  And he knows I mean five minutes. While the collar can’t shock him, it can get hot, as the Fire Elemental inside it showcased to me once when Mig went for a piss and decided he wasn’t going to come out of the bush. The Elemental took it upon itself to heat the collar until it was hot enough to hurt, and Mig came running back, yelling at me to cool down the collar.

  He glares at me but doesn’t say anything as he turns around and heads into the bush. A couple of minutes later he returns and sits back down on his log.

  “So you killed them all?” he asks me hesitantly.

  “Yup, all five of them,” I tell him, not giving him any details.

  “Even the warrior with the mana stone in his shield?” he asks with a frown.

  “Yeah, I overloaded his shield and he got something in the middle of his forehead for his efforts,” I tell him, directing a lazy smile at him from the l
og that I am sitting on. “The others never had a chance to even get a spell off before they were dead.”

  I am eating some berries we had found on our way back, popping one at a time into my mouth and chewing. I have no clue what they are, but they are the size of blueberries, but orange in color. Leeha said they were safe. Orangeberries? Nope, she called them something totally different. Kikaberries. Whatever they are, they are sweet and delicious.

  At my news, he gets a nervous look. “So now what happens to me?”

  “That depends,” I tell him, popping another kikaberry into my mouth, feeling the fruit explode in sweetness down my throat.

  “On?” he says, skeptically.

  “On how you answer the following questions,” I tell him, and now my smile has turned into a predatory grin, making him swallow hard.

  “What is at the Lake of Ruins?” I start out with the important question.

  Instead of answering, Mig shakes his head vehemently. “No fucking way am I telling you anything about that.”

  “Why not?” I ask him with a raised eyebrow. Doesn’t he understand that I can kill him?

  “Because either you kill me or they kill me. Either way, I am dead. At least with you, it’ll be quick with this fucking collar,” he says with a growl, tugging at it to make his point.

  So they are doing something there. And something so important that apparently they’ll kill anyone who talks about it, gruesomely, if what Mig is hinting at is true. But I need him to talk. I need to know what Leeha, Bridget, and I are walking into. I know if I ask Leeha for ideas, she would just use Water Daggers on him. The Water Bullets would do too much damage. What about Mind? I can use sleep. Can I use something else?

  “Mind. Truth,” I say, and Bridget, who was leaning against me, turns into her purple-colored Elemental.