CHAPTER 2
(YEAR 2092 PARALLEL WORLD)
"AERTHOS"
♎ A shady figure of a man in his forties with fair skin, sharp jawline and long cream hair with green 💚 eyes and a tall muscular body wearing a white old English baggy shirt and a slim fit trousers; his footsteps rapidly approached from a dark corner in the huge mansion of Cratón Household, it's later revealed that the strange figure is the current head of the Household "Gorman Cratón" carrying his recently deceased second son in his arms while navigating through the vast hallways of the mansion. Gorman was sweating profusely with an expression of guilt, haste and hope as he treaded steadfastly, as he was passing by the maids and butlers bowed their heads in respect to their "PATRIACH".
Gorman came into a huge study, then laid the dead child on the table and then he started to navigate the many books arranged neatly on the shelf until he found a particular book, which had a purple leather cover and some inscriptions in a foreign language, He tilted the book towards him which activated a mechanism that opened a passageway in between the shelves, this passage seems neglected as it hasn't been used in a really long time, it had a particular rotten wood odour permeating from it, but Gorman didn't mind as he was in a rush, he lifted the corpse into his arms as he went through the passage stairway leading underground, he came upon an open space at the end of the passage with the only lighting coming from 2 flame torches on the wall and some light crystals scattered around the space.
Gorman asked "Is everything ready" into the darkness as his eyes hadn't adjusted to the low lighting down here, then a voice of a man in his fifties, wearing a typical black long coat and white shirt with black trousers, rocking a long moustache and glasses, answered
"Yes My Lord", the answer came from the Head Butler Anthony Goshen.
Gorman replied "Good, thank you, your further assistance will no longer be needed"
Okay sir' said Anthony as he left, before leaving Anthony said to his lord " I hope your endeavour reaps your preferred reward sir" I hope so too replied Gorman as he let out a short sigh, then Anthony left.
Gorman laid his deceased son on a purple, royal blue and gold embroidered wool mat which seemed more like a Persian rug, then he opened the leather bag prepared by the head butler that contained the goods needed for the ritual he was about to initiate.
He brought out from the bag a vial of blood, rainbow colored gems called Sunnite, and a gold and white feather 🪶 from a rare bird species. The blood vial contained blood from five different wild animals.
Just above Gorman's head on the wall in between the two flame torches was an adorned and intricately designed statue of a Beautiful young maiden petting a cat sitting upon a pedestal in the sky. Gorman bowed his head touching the ground. "Oh Lady Veradis of the Cartón household, our guardian goddess, our helper from generation to generation, your descendants have come today to ask you for the seemingly impossible but I know you can do it" I have prepared all the materials you need in exchange for the Life Restoring ritual as it is written in our Sacred Family Doctrine. In the 713-year history of the Cartón Family, the Life Restoring ritual was done twice and it succeeded on both occasions. Gorman took a blood vial the started drawing an octagramic diagram with the Golden White Feather on the floor close to Veradis' statue, then he laid the Sunnite on each point of the octagram and started an incantation in an ancient language. The Life Restoring ritual came at the cost of reducing the lifespan of the current Cartón patriarch by 46 years, as only the Head can perform this ritual. After the incantation, the Sunnite began to glow vividly then the blood diagram lit up in a bright light then Gorman placed the corpse of his second son at the centre of it all. "My second son, REXVILLE PRINCETON CARTÓN, in the name of our goddess VERADIS I call upon your soul, spirit and mind to return to this body" said Gorman then he recited a small hymn in ancient language.
♎ IN THE SUB-SPACE (wormhole) CONNECTING TWO WORLDS;
Jake floated aimlessly in an unconscious state as memories of his soon-to-be new life and body flowed into him, once done as if the memory download was completed a force dragged his unconscious mind speedily in the direction of the parallel world AERTHOS. The force which was none other than VERADIS herself guided Jake's condensed form of body, soul, mind and spirit into the deceased body of Princeton Neville whose own original soul had already shattered.
♎ PRESENTLY IN AERTHOS AT THE RITUAL SITE
The light slowly faded, as Gorman who was in a rigid state while praying 🙏 and hoping the ritual worked, opened his eyes then caught his breath as he noticed the once lifeless body now breathing again and full of life as colour appeared on his cheeks. He burst into tears of Joy thanking the goddess, but that was short-lived as he suddenly felt a heart-wrenching pain that lasted about a minute as streams of red ♥️, green 💚 and yellow 💛 light flowed out of his body representing his vitality and lifespan into Veradis' statue, taken as her compensation for restoring the life of her esteemed follower's child. The pain stopped as suddenly as it started, then Gorman with a sad expression at his lost longevity quickly changed to a happy face after remembering his resurrected son, he carried the child out of the secret underground chambers and into the Cartón mansion. Summon Veronica to my room 'said Gorman to Anthony who was waiting outside the Study, "Yes sir" replied Anthony as he smiled happily seeing his Master cheerful expression, then off he went to the outdoor garden where VERONICA ISELDA CARTÓN the Mistress of the Cartón household usually stay at the time of night🌃.
At the garden; Veronica (a beautiful woman with a slender curvy tall figure, ample bosom, and long lush blonde hair with Rosy red eyes, and plump lips wearing a short silver gown and some ornaments on her ears and neck with a flat blue slippers) held a sad expression and a face that hasn't slept in a while accompanied by her daughter and Rexville's sister Felicity (a 13 years old girl with long yellow hair with green eyes like her father, a round beautiful face and a body figure befitting that of a young princess wearing a light blue gown and some light jewelry and a flat light blue slippers) who was trying to cheer up her mother, along with two maids in waiting. Anthony came into the garden and then coughed a bit to get the ladies' attention, "Your presence is needed immediately in the lord's bedroom, Mistress, it seems to be good news". Upon hearing his words Veronica's face lit up as tears came pouring down, then she rushed up herself and ran to her husband, "Please be careful on your way Mom" 'said Felicity, her mom waved as if to say "I've heard you" as she ran out, Anthony excused himself from the premises too.