Mysterious Fever

Aurora World 3-05

Cassy was 17 years old, and in a few days she would finally turn 18, she had been looking forward to this day because although she attended an ordinary high school, her family was anything but ordinary.

She was an only child and descended from the most powerful line of wizards that ever existed in Aurora, too bad her world was totally opposed to magic and they had to live day to day like all other mortals.

She was 1.60m and slender, she had medium-length blonde hair that reached just below her shoulders and her eyes were as blue as the sky.

She was still single and she never managed to make friends, it wasn't that she wasn't sociable, the problem was that she was a bit too weird for the common mortal, and they all ended up running away from her because of that.

But despite all this, Cassy was a very happy and smart girl, her family was really great and although she was an only child she had cousins with whom she got along very well and whom she saw often.

Her family was specialized in fire, but she had received other gifts in addition to be able to mastering the fire to perfection, some were blessings, while others were real calamities.

She could for example heal all kinds of small wounds, if someone got cut she could close it just by putting her hand over it and just by thinking about closing the wound, it would heal immediately leaving no marks behind.

She could also see the aura of the people around them and so she knew right away if she was dealing with humans or wizards. Humans didn't have any aura and wizards had colorful aura, there was a third category though, some have white aura around them but her family said that they weren't wizards and didn't use magic so she had to let them alone.

And then there were her gifts that caused her more troubles than they solved, she had too much magnetism and anything electronic never worked properly with her.

In high school her homeroom teacher had forbidden her to go near computers, she couldn't use a phone or a car either, because from then on everything on Aurora was full of electronics, which was a real pain for her.

And this was also the reason why she was looking forward to her 18th birthday, because her family was going to practice a very old spell that would get rid of the magnetism that was ruining her life.

She also had visions of the future, usually it was when there was imminent danger and she had just enough time to intervene and save the people in danger.

One would think that this gift was a blessing but for her this gift was a real torture. She couldn't always save the people she saw in her visions, and most of the time she would get hurt trying to help them.

Her mother was afraid she would end up killing herself trying to save someone, so she used a seal to block what the elders of their clan had called the third eye.

And after her mother sealed her third eye, she no longer had visions and she also lost the ability to see the aura around people.

She was still trying to negotiate with her mother to remove her seal because she missed her gifts, and even though her visions tortured her sometimes, she had still saved many lives thanks to them.

On the other hand, she couldn't blame her mother because she could understand why she had done it, she just wanted to protect her after all.

Two days before her 18th birthday, a solar eclipse occurred and according to the elders of the wizarding council, either it was a good omen and the world would continue to develop and flourish, or great changes would occur and unfortunately they would bring no good.

That day she was at school when the solar eclipse occurred and everyone was allowed to go and watch it as long as they wore special glasses to protect their eyes.

And as the eclipse was happening, the boy next to her, who was a real pain in the ass, took her glasses off and she felt her mother's seal break and she had then the most fragmented, apocalyptic visions she had ever had.

She saw battle scenes, dragons, phoenixes, giant white tiggers, black turtles and snakes, they were fighting beings that looked like humans but were taller, had crimson skin, completely black eyes and they had two small horns on each side of their heads.

She also saw different worlds ravaged by huge black flames, and in another vision she saw one of these demons who seemed to be the leader facing a beautiful woman who had a sword in her hand and she immediately noticed that the pommel of her sword was a pentacle.

This woman looked like a warrior and ... a wizard, she was dressed in an all black combat outfit, which looked like a military uniform, her hair was long, thin and silver colored and fell to her waist, she also had completely silver eyes and even though it was just a vision, just by looking at her she could imagine how her powers must be phenomenal and terrifying.

Her vision changed again and she saw this woman fighting with a golden dragon against the one she presumed to be the leader of the demons.

This dragon, which unlike the others she had seen in her other visions and which looked like those drawn in the stories of her world, was entirely golden as if its scales were made of gold, and just like this woman, it seemed to be taking an important part in the fight against these demons.

She kept having visions of people she had never seen before, of other worlds she didn't even know existed, and she kept seeing these battle scenes that looked like some sort of final battle of good versus evil.

When she finally regained consciousness, she was in the hospital, her head hurt terribly and she immediately felt that something was wrong, it wasn’t only her head but her whole body that hurt like hell and she was sure she had a high fever.

Doctors came to her, all dressed in white uniform that made them look like cosmonauts, and they explained to her that she had a high fever of unknown origin and that she had already been unconscious for two days.