CHLORIS POV

GOD! WHAT AM I thinking? Since I am a natural paranoid, I can't take the idea away from my mind. I might overdo reading fantasy books. I'm thinking absolutely nonsense.

‘Flame, you brute! Stop frightening me!

I wanted to yell but decided not. I must put myself into too much scare since the room was dark. I hadn't opened the light yet since it was still day when I entered. My hand suddenly bumps into the book beside me. I switched on the lamplight beside me and open the book, exactly on the page where the pentacle was drawn. I don't know if I was still dreaming, but I think the pentacle was radiating. The symbols were luminous and lurid. The colour of each symbol in the five stars in every wing of it is the same as its light.

I knotted my forehead. Has it been already a trend before, to put glow in the dark drawings in a book? Did they invent the glow in the dark pen when they published this book? I gently touched the drawing when I suddenly felt a great force that comes out in it. I did not know why I felt like a powerful force was pulling me in. I don't have any idea what is really going on!

The whole page was shining brightly. I don't even know why my mouth opened automatically and chanting something.

"Earth, Wind, Fire, Water

Earth, Wind, Fire, Water

Earth, Wind, Fire, Water

Earth, will protect you

Fire, will shine with you

Wind, will give you knowledge

Water, will give you peace

Earth, Wind, Fire, Water

By the power of the third magic

So mote it be!"

My eyes widened as a mixture of hot and cold felt seemed to permeate my entire body.

Six colours from the book blended together and infiltrate with me. White, black, yellow, blue, green and red.

It was as if I was pulled in by great force inside the book. My whole body, from my hand that glued on the book, down to my feet, was pulled in and was absorbed by the book. I shouted at the top of my lungs, but no voice came out. In my mind, I heard Flames voice calling out my name.

Chloris

I call out for him. “Flame! I shouted until I lost consciousness.

WHEN I opened my eyes again, I was in an unfamiliar place already. The surroundings are bright. Not like the last memory in my mind. I rose from lying down with one of the metal benches scattered all around. It was green on either side I looked. There are so many beautiful trees and plants that are well landscaped there. It seems like I was in a park or something. There are several people scattered around and busy with their concerns.

They make a lot of noise, and I don't know what they are talking and worry about. It just keeps coming into my ears. That scenario would never have been familiar to me because...

Wait…

My eyes suddenly grew wide. Where I am? How did I get in this place? And what kind of place is this?

I think back my last memory and how scared I was!

No!

I was just dreaming!

I slapped my face several times, just to wake myself up. I wanted to wake up! I wanted to go home!

But I just ended up hurting myself and yet, I still didn't wake up. Nothing around has changed. The place was still unfamiliar to me.

No.

The book couldn't absorb me.

Impossible!

That's really impossible.

I shook my head.

“I wanna go home! I cried out loud.

That is what stopped the noise made by several people all around. Their eyes flew away to me. After a few moments of staring at me, they shrugged, turned around and resumed their work.

I wanted to cry more. What am I going to do now? How the hell could I go back home? I stood up and look around the place. Where the hell am I? What am I doing to this place? And the book Where is the book I just held?

I started to roam around. I would instead find someone else I could ask to help me than sitting here and cried. Crying couldn't help me anyway. But as I looked around, I found out that there is something unusual.

Even though people are busy about what seems like a typical day, I think something is wrong. Why does everyone seem so excited and happy?

Yes, there is nothing wrong with being happy. But then why everyone is happy?

It should be, despite the great pleasure of many, there are always some or at least one who is not satisfied with life. That's how the world is, isn't it? People are never contented.

But now, in this place, no matter where he looked, no one is unhappy. I saw no fights and only excitement around. It seemed like everything was going well.

Aside from that thing, there was no noisy vehicle around, which should be the normal thing I should saw and hear from the outside of a community park. The road is wide but I didn't see any means of transportation.

My questions had been answered when I saw how people suddenly disappeared, and someone else appeared. There were lots of kids running after each other, one would suddenly this disappear and appear in a different place. The kid's playmate will follow her until they lost in sight. That was the same thing with the vendors in their respected place in different parts of the park. They will disappear yet will appear back, holding the supplies of their goods.

I was terrified of what I saw. What kind of place is this?!

I pulled back abruptly. I was afraid to approach any of them. I feel every one of them is strange.

“Ouch!

I turned to face who was shouting behind me. A guy not an ordinary guy