To the very next morning at down, others were still asleep but Jaxson couldn't after that dream-or a flicker of his past. He was laying on his bed down watching the ceiling.
Then Khai-who also share the same quarter as Jaxson- slowly stretched his arms as he slowly opened his eyes.
"Ohh... Leader.You are already awake?" Khai murmured dusting away the sleep from his eyes.
"I am awake from almost 5 hour's. And I have told you before not to call me leader. Just call me by my name". Jaxson said sitting off the bed.
"I don't know how you are still looking fresh even after taking only 3 hours of sleep." He scoffed, slowly reaching out for candy on his cabinet. "If I were you, I would have already fainted from sleep".
"How many times I have told you not to eat candy before breakfast".
"But it will go into my stomach anyway even if I eat it after breakfast or no...."!???
"Oohhho! Ahhh my back!" He fell to the ground.
Jaxson hide his smile on behind his hand turning his head to the other side.
"I know you did it. I respect you but you cannot do all this to me" he said slowly standing on his foot and reaching to the candy. "All I want is to eat a candy peacefully-"
He unwrapped it and opening his mouth with pure joy of a little kid getting something precious.
But before he could eat it, the door of their quarter opened and a long tongue took out the candy from Khai's hand-
Gulp....
!!??!!!!
Khai froze for 2 long seconds before finally understanding what happened. He looked at his empty hand and then looked at the door.
There, leaning on the door with only it's two
legs was a beast frog-Toto.
Jaxson finally laugh freely this time untill Khai throw a pillow straight into his face. Then he turned towards Toto.
"Yo... You ate my candy without even letting me to smell it." He stared blankly again in his hand. "You... How could you even do that to meeee" he growled, summoning his Katana on his hand.
Toto really looked scared this time, trying to open the door but Khai already locked it with his powers.
Pls master. Forgive me. That candy was calling me to eat it and it was it's fault not mine. Sorry that I couldn't control myself.
"You know I can't start my day without a candy every morning and it was the last one I had and you also took that from me!" He snapped, Katana flowing up on the air into his hand.
Khai charged, but before his Katana could touch Toto, Toto jumped straight into Khai's head making him fall again into the ground.
Khai fell by his face this time, while Toto went to Jaxson for help. He makes bubbles-filled with words so he could understand.
Please.
Help.
Me.
Khai stood again glaring at Toto and Toto hides behind Jaxson.
"Hey. It was just a candy, just let him go".
"It was not just a candy. That candy is made only once a year in a single shop which is 60km away from here" he hissed.
"And I just bought it 20 days ago from my precious mission. And do you know how many I had?"
"How"
"200"
"You had that much? So you may still have some, don't you?"
Khai laugh humorlessly.
"Do you really think I reacted this way if I still had the candy." "He!" He pointed at Toto.
"I gave him 100 candy already when I bought it and do you know what he did then? He ate all of his in just 10 days and then he started stealing mine and it was the last candy I had for today and he also ate it" he growled, stepping forward.
Toto shook and hide further behind Jaxson.
"Ok ok Khai just calm down now. And it was also you who gave him candy for the first place and made him addicted to it like like you are".
"You are saying it's my fault?" He sobbed pointed index finger at himself.
"Not fully but you need to understand Toto and all and Toto" he said turned towards Toto "promise me you will not do anything like this again".
Toto nodded.
" See. He understood" he said finally standing off the bed and walking to the door.
"And where are you going?"
"I have a matter to talk with father. I will see you later". He closed the door behind him.
Khai slowly turned to Toto who was still in Jaxson's bed. "So now tell me who is going to protect you from me ToTo.."
Ahhhhhhhhh.
.....
Jaxson turned from corridor to corridor and then finally stopped in front of a chamber.
He knock twice. "Father".
The doors opened by themselves. Master Cameron was standing in front of the mirror, fixing his collar.
"So you have finally decided to go." He said, not asking, but as if he already knew he will come anyway.
"Yeah. I will go with you father. And I will meet her but from a distance. I still haven't made an idea of facing her". He claims, looking down to the floor.
"I already has a solution of your problem. You fear that she will recognize you if you go in front of her, right?"
"Yeah".
"Then see this". Master Cameron turns and moves his hand, murmuring words Jaxson couldn't understand and then slowly something changed in Jaxson.
When Master finished it, he said him to look at the mirror. There, when Jaxson saw himself, it was not him-but someone else entirely. Someone else's face, body, and voice but it was still him with the same eyes.
"What is this father" he stared at himself on the mirror, touching it with the tip of his fingers.
"It's one of the technique I have learned these days. I knew the meeting may happen soon and so to take you there, I learned this" Master explained with full pride in his eyes.
"So, finally I can meet her now. Thanks father." He turned and hugged Master tightly as he radiated with pure joy.