Chapter 35 - The Venusian Sword

A night before Christopher returned to Trinity Bay, the master of the heart, Trisha, and the master of time and space, Abasi, had an unexpected visitor from inside their gathering place.

Trisha and Abasi were in the cavern in the middle of the rain forest of Brazil. This was where all the masters meet should a meeting be required. They were merely checking on their secret hide-out when two more figures appeared before them, slowly fading in.

It shocked Abasi, and Trisha to see them covered in the same layer of skin as them. If not for the fact that they were the current masters of the green and yellow crystals, they could easily be mistaken as the said elemental beings.

Threatened by their presence, Trisha's powers illuminated from her eyes. She demanded to identify themselves, "Who are you? What are you? And how did you find this place?! Answer me!"

The woman in the second skin of yellow emitted the same light and eventually opened her palms to reveal the power within her. She too had the yellow crystal. She softly said, "Relax, master of the heart. I am also the master of the same. Only that... I come from the future."

"My name is Cassandra and I will be the master of the heart thirty-five years from now," Cassandra smiled and bowed down before adding. "It's nice to meet you."

"And I am Khalid, the master of time and space in the same year as my fated has mentioned," said the man next to Casandra, also showing off his stone, the green crystal.

"We have travelled far and risked our lives for the fate of our future. That is how we know of this hideout as it remains to be our gathering place in the not so distant future," said Cassandra.

"What? From the future?" Abasi frowned at the tale given before them. He said, "That has not been done before, rather the risk of travelling through time."

"Trust me when I say it was you, Abasi the current master who succeeded in doing so," revealed Kalid before smiling. "We can only spend very little time when travelling to the past or to the future. So please allow us to tell our purpose."

"We are listening," said Trisha. Though she agreed, she had doubts in her mind.

"The earth will be in danger in the coming years. In fact, in our time, we may have already been too late - Oh no!" Khalid saw himself getting sucked into a void that he immediately told, "For now, the fate of our world will depend on a powerful sword from one of the mighty Kings of the planet Venus."

"This was the night that it had fallen from the sky - find it! Find it before its too - "

The masters of the future quickly vanished into the wormhole, and the cavern where Trisha and Abasi lingered was silenced once more. They only had a small piece of information which was to find the sword; A powerful sword from a Venusian King.

Both Trisha and Abasi were still overwhelmed by visitors from the future. They looked at each other and determined, there was nothing wrong with considering the facts given to them.

The two masters used their powers to reached through astronauts within the International Space Station, hoping to find the answer they were looking for. After determining the suspected location, it was Abasi who came looking for the said sword at the White Island, the volcanic crater in New Zealand.

At present, Abasi was still arguing with Amanda, insisting that she jump into the steaming lake.

Amanda countered, "Abasi, get serious. The fact that lava is beneath that water, the lake is practically acidic and might actually melt me altogether."

After minutes of disputing, Amanda still ended up being convinced. The plan was to slowly descend to the lake and see if there was any negative reaction. Should there be, at any point, she could retreat and fly back up.

The White Island was uninhabited and while it used to be a tourist spot of New Zealand, it took lives not too long ago which now prevented visitors from seeing it on land, merely passing by from the sea miles away. Thus, the masters could reveal themselves in their true form.

Preparing herself, Amanda's flames gradually came about. Her clothes burned and her eyes glowed in red. Soon, her phoenix wings sprung free and Amanda began to fly down to the misty lake.

When she realized she was unhurt, she yelled while looking up to Abasi, "Well! I'm still alive!"

She noticed nothing different, just the feel of her fire around her.

As she descended, she remained unharmed. She finally had a clear sight of the water amidst the fog. She muttered, "Okay. This is it. Let me touch the water."

Amanda lowered her toes to feel the lake, but to her surprised, she remained uninjured. She sneered and said, "Maybe I won't die in lava!"

"Abasi! I am still alive!" She reported while yelling altogether. "I suppose I can live in the - "

Her words were cut off by the sudden trembling of the earth, and the waters beneath her began to boil. She did not want to risk it. Her eyes grew wide as she screamed, "Abasi! Take us out of here now!"

Just as she saw the liquified earth ready to flare up from the lake, Amanda quickly disappeared from the volcano and so did Abasi. The White Island Erupted just seconds before they fled.

Amanda woke up in the middle of the night, resting on the seabed of Trinity Bay. She sighed, knowing she was apparently alive. She called for Abasi and asked, "Hey, Abasi. Are you alive?"

"How was your sleep, Amanda? If I had died, you wouldn't be in Trinity Bay now, would you? I don't think we will ever find that sword. The eruption was far too great," said Abasi in her head.

"We can try again when the volcano is no longer angry," said Amanda as she let her body up, and began to swim up to the surface.

Half-way up, she thought she saw an object glistening in the sea-bed. She turned around but saw nothing. She dismissed it, thinking it may simply be the glowing creatures of the sea, and resumed her swim back to the shores.

However, beneath the sands where she earlier lay was a golden sword with a ruby stone. This sword came with her as she sailed through Abasi's wormhole.. For now, it remained hidden under the sea of Trinity Bay.