Sometimes...sometimes I´m wondering whether my life has to consist of the most peculiar adventures a person could ever experience. I already found out how weird my life could really get during the several occasions where I ended up being shrunk and INSIDE the body of my best friend, Jon. The things I had to witness there were...well, amazing doesn´t even begin to do them justice! The experience of a lifetime, something I will certainly never forget. And with Jon being a scientific genius, I knew that he was involved in the creation of some inventions due to the company he worked for, and I saw things no one would have ever dreamed of.
But little did I know that something was about to happen that would be equally amazing as my past adventures...and even more dangerous, for both me and my friend Michael!
Michael was my best friend together with Jon, so to speak, and I knew both of them for a LONG while. And both were equally important to me, so they were my best friends, and God, there´s no way any of them could have been more important to me: together with Kokoro, my dear girlfriend, they were something like a triumvirate of friends who earned their place in my heart fair and square. Each of them was equally important to me, mainly because all of them were simply great and wonderful friends to me. In fact, they were like a family to me, with Jon and Michael being as close as brothers to me, while Kokoro...well, you can imagine how much I adore and love her.
And one day, Mike invited me to visit him and his new girlfriend...Anyma. And what he told me about her sounded quite unique, to say the least. According to him, Anyma mastered the so called dark arts, which seemed to be something like magic. Surely a sane person would have known that this is ridiculous, and that magic does not exist. But after everything I had experienced in my life, after all those weird events with and inside Jon, there seemed to be nothing in this world that could be considered to be impossible...
Jon already had warned me when I told him about Michael´s new girlfriend. Of course he and Mike were pals as well, but he seemed to be a bit skeptical about this whole thing, and he told me that I should be careful whenever dark arts are involved, even though a dependable person like Michael was with me.
Of course I paid heed to heed to his words, but I thought that Michael´s presence alone would make things less dangerous than they could be...that is, if that girl really could perform some dark arts.
But somehow, I already felt bad when I entered Mike´s house on that fateful day and saw that Anyma for the very first time. Judging from her looks, she was unique, to say the least, a red haired girl with red and blue pupils and some scary black robes. One can imagine I was kinda surprised when I first saw her through the door to Mike´s house, that Michael would have her as a girlfriend...but then again, I always used to say "Never judge a book by its cover", and that Anyma was not exactly an ugly person...she was quite pretty, even though not as gorgeous as my dear Kokoro, but that depends on one´s point of view. To Mike, she certainly was gorgeous, and to me, my Kokoro was gorgeous. Easy as that, although I admit that Anyma was really good looking. Still...there was something about her that made me feel uncomfortable. I was feeling so unsettled when I looked into her eyes, as if she seemed to be more than her looks gave away.
Michael, as polite and friendly as he is, lead me into his house, and practically the first thing he did was introducing me to his new girlfriend. When I looked at her again, it seemed to me as if she was giving me a devious smile, but I thought that it was just my imagination.
"Julian, I´d like you to meet the new girl in my life, Anyma!" he then spoke, and he surely sounded proud of her. He had every right to be, a great person like Michael deserves a kind girlfriend he loves. He´s my best friend together with Jon, after all. But still...something about Anyma did not seem to be all right, I could feel it. But of course I did not voice my concern, for Mike´s sake, and after, it might have been just my imagination. So I extended my hand in order to shake Anyma´s hand prove myself to be a polite man, worth of being called Michael´s friend.
"Pleasure to meet you!" I said, but instead of extending her hand, she just gave me a strange and somehow creepy look, then she did a slight curtsy to me, which looked kinda forced and unnatural, as if it was a pain in the ass for her to do this. But again, I thought it was just my imagination.
"Likewise. So you´re Michael´s friend, are you?" she then asked, and she sounded a bit friendlier this time.
"Ah, yes, that´s right!" I replied.
In order to break the ice completely, so to speak, I tried to change the subject to those infamous dark arts she was talking about.
"Hey, is it true you know black magic?!" I then asked, sounding like small child, eager to see some cool show. And suddenly, her mood changed entirely.
"Why, yes it is!" she then exclaimed, with a child-like smile, obviously eager to show off her skills. It was kinda obvious that she was proud of her skills, and that she was happy to show them.
"Hey, why don´t you show him one of those little tricks of yours?" Michael then asked her, and he sounded like he wanted to break the ice as well. It was too obvious that he wanted me, probably his best friend, and Anyma, his girlfriend, to get along together, and of course I did not want to disappoint him in that regard, and it was not that I wasn´t interested in seeing some of those ominous dark magic tricks.
"I´d be glad to!" she yelled happily (even though to me, there seemed to be a slight evil tone in this exclamation). Then, all she did was snapping with her fingers.
At first I was kinda confused, because nothing seemed to be happening...until I realized a few seconds later that Anyma has caused my hair to catch fire! In panic, I began to scream and threw myself onto the ground, rolling around in order to make the flames vanish, but it did not work. That bitch! I knew something did not feel right about her! And now this mess! Hopefully, Michael would realize that someone like her did not deserve him as a boyfriend! But more importantly, I had to get rid of those flames before they´d burn my head off!
"ANYMA, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING??????!!!!!!!" I could hear Michael´s voice shouting, and it was clear that he was shocked and upset as well.
Yet what followed now left me quite awe struck, honestly. Because Anyma finally commented on my misery...and chuckled!!!! That mean woman was laughing about my horrible situation and the fire devouring my head! I could not believe it!
"Hehe, the fire isn´t real! It´s just an illusion, you idiot!"
I don´t know whether she was calling me an idiot or Michael, but when heard these words, I stopped rolling around on the ground like a maniac and touched my head in order to see whether she was right. She was. To my surprise, my head did not hurt in the least bit, and I could not even feel the heat of the flames. So these flames on my head were really just a stupid illusion...
Snapping with her fingers again, the image of the flames ultimately disappeared, so there was no doubt that she was just playing a trick on me...
Of course, Anyma was laughing maniacally about my surprise and how I was acting when I thought the flames would kill me. Well...you can imagine I was NOT laughing! I was even about to say something to her, something mean in order to defend myself against her behavior. But fortunately (?), my respect for Michael and his feelings for that girl, as well as his intervention, prevented me from shouting out my anger at her.
"All right, all right! Look are either of you thirsty? I´m gonna get some drinks!"
And miraculously, Michael´s voice seemed to have a calming effect on me. He was my best bud together with Jon, after all, and I knew he did not like the way Anyma treated me, but...heck, he was in love with her! And I accepted that, so I was NOT going to screw this for him, there was no way I would! If there would have been something he did not like about Kokoro, he would not have reacted in a mean way, either, out of respect for me. And being best friends, we have a hell lot of respect for each other and especially our decisions, so I let go off my attempts to tell that Anyma my "opinion" about this mean trick. Who knows...maybe she wasn´t even THAT bad, after all...maybe I just had to know her better?
Anyway, my anger was gone when I looked into Michael´s face that told me that he was trying to cool the situation down. And I did, as I wanted him to be happy with the girl of his life...even if it was Anyma...Even though I respected his choice of THAT girl, I was still glad that I found Kokoro...MUCH cuter than Anyma, from my humble point of view.
"I´ll have a sprite." I answered his question about what drink I´d like.
"7-Up for me." Anyma then said, and Michael immediately went into the kitchen in order to get us the cool drinks to quench our thirst.
As I stood there, next to Anyma, a thought crossed my mind. Maybe...maybe I could use the short time between us in order to say something nice. I knew that if she and me got along well, Mike would be overjoyed, and boy, I´d do everything for a friend like him.
"Pretty cool magic you performed, I have to admit that." I told her. Well, I lied, of course, because such a mean trick was everything but "cool" to me. But still, I wanted to sound nice and interested in her favourite subject.
"Thank you...Julian, right?"
"Yes, the name´s Julian. I guess Michael told you already."
"Well of course he did. He said you´re his best pal."
"Oh, did he? Now, that´s really nice of him! But yeah, we are great friends, that´s right."
"...say...would you want to see...more of my magic?" she then asked, and admittedly, I did not like the tone of her voice. Still...I had to be nice, so I overlooked this observation.
"Well, yeah, I..."
Before I could even answer, and before Michael was ready with the drinks, I suddenly saw a flash before my eyes, and in a matter of seconds, everything went dark around me....I fell onto the ground, being unconscious. It was only later on that day that I found out what this monster did to me...
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