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SUMMARY

SETTING: FEBRUARY 25, 2023 ; HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA

TIME: 05:15 PM AST

A flash of light. Feet feeling autumn leaves. Running. Feeling snow. Fogginess. Blurriness. I look down and see myself. I look to my left and see you. I look ahead at this bizarre scene. A piercing scream. Crying. Figures in cloaks. I look back at you and my head follows you as you step forward and continue stepping into the fog. "Zay, WAIT!" I yell. A flash of light.

THREE MINUTES LATER

SIMON HIU
We both wake up in a gasping breath on the canvas. There's the guardian spirit glowing green and fading from my end, and this sapphire blue light that was glowing and then fading from your sword pendant. Our heads tilt and we look up at each other. We are notified by the ref, and another ref is now in the ring, helping both of us to our feet, that the match ended in a draw. I look up at you, and I see your expression is not as sharp and angry and bitter as before. Something changed. The ref escorts both of us to the locker room to recover. They bring in their medical team, which I turn down their offer of assistance. I finally feel connected to everything again. I feel myself healing. As we are seated on this bench in the locker room, I finally go to break the silence. "...Zay?"

ZAY RYCERZ
I feel like i just got warped to a different world looking at something i'm not familiar with, these hooded figures and us and then before i can say anything a flash of light happens which is so blinding, i have to shield my eyes by covering them with my arms "what!...." Then i awake and I'm back in the ring, i think to myself "oh yeah the match" then the ref tells us it's a draw and next they helped us to the locker room and we sit together as you refuse the medical staff's assistance. "Ugh huh? Jackson? What happened between us we never fought like that before. it wasn't like us what did we do to each other" as i look down mad at myself for hurting one of my closest friends and someone i call a brother and i grip my necklace hating myself for what i did and starting to tear up.

SIMON HIU
I see you avert your gaze now. I know you're beating yourself up inside for fighting the way you did. "...At least there wasn't any low blows," I try to joke out. "... Are you.. what are you feeling right now Zay?" I ask you, and continue, "...are we going to be okay?"

ZAY RYCERZ
I hear you and i can't bare myself to look you in the eyes "haha yeah at least there wasn't" i try to joke back, then i hear you asking me how I'm feeling and continue more asking are we going to be okay "why.... Why did you have to return now after everything, no messages or anything, i thought something happened to you and i lost you forever so of course I felt mad and hurt, 'cause to me it's like you didn't care about me and everything we did together was you just toying with me and my feeling."

SIMON HIU
I keep my gaze fixed on you now. Emotionally distraught, physically bruised. I close my eyes a bit and count to three in my head, nod, then look at you. "I know there is no excuse for the lack of contact, for three years no less. But it was such a different time for me. I was so lost, broken again.. Even though I know it's wrong, I felt like I couldn't face anyone I knew, anyone I cared about. I was weak and selfish. I never meant to hurt you or to make you feel like I was toying with you and your feelings. I was too focused on me, and I am so sorry." I let it all out and by the time I get to the end and apologize again, I look you right in the eyes and tears begin to fall down mine.

ZAY RYCERZ
"Jackson... I.... I didn't know the pain you had, why didn't you tell me" as i look up and see you crying and it hurts me to see you so upset and so i grab you and hug you.

SIMON HIU
I'm shocked but comforted when you hug me. As we hug, I extend out and cup my left hand and see I can consciously manifest the guardian spirit again. I take a deep sigh of relief and break the hug, wiping the tears from my face. "I was feeling so... ashamed... Can you... can you forgive me?" I ask you.

ZAY RYCERZ
"As long as you can forgive me for my anger and me snapping at you which was uncalled for, and for the pain i gave you" i ask back as i look down crying.

SIMON HIU
"Zay...." I look at you again, and then bring you in for a hug. "There's nothing to forgive, okay?" I try to comfort you as we work through all the anger we just threw at each other.

ZAY RYCERZ
"Still i feel awful for hurting you both physically and emotionally, your one of my closest friends and always been a big bro to me and i just gave you hell for no reason I'm sorry, oh Jackson wait no Simon..... Do you want to be a tag team with me? You know me more than anyone and i feel like you would be the best one to keep me in check if i snap ? Also... I want to invite you to live with me at my place!... If you would like to, that is..." As i look down embarrassed as i grip my necklace.

SIMON HIU
You come in with a burst of thankful emotion. "Yes, it's Simon now, thank you," I say lightheartedly. "I think it would be a great idea for us to form a tag team; we complement each other very well." You then go on to ask me if I would like to move in with you, and then you grip your necklace. I can't ignore that blue flash of light I saw earlier when we both woke up. "Sure thing dude, I think that's a great idea. I just have to take care of some things in the states but I can definitely be a new roommate haha. I need a change in scenery." I accept your offer and then I lead in with, "...There is something else we should talk about, but first, open yourself up a bit and then sit still," I say with a calmer smile on my face.

ZAY RYCERZ
"Ah... Okay Simon" as i take a deep breath and close of my eyes in a almost tranquil state.

SIMON HIU
As I see you straighten your posture and open yourself up a bit, I move my right hand up to your naval and then up to your solar plexus, my hand glowing green, healing all the physical injuries and any emotional turmoil you may have felt. I whisper this indistinguishable phrase in Mandarin to help supplement the magic of the guardian spirit as I channel it to heal you physically and emotionally in a way. As your body begins to relax and I see the changes in your body language and face become more and more relaxed, the light from my right hand fades and I take my hand away from your torso. "All you may feel until tomorrow afternoon is a very slight soreness," I say smiling at you gently.

ZAY RYCERZ
"Thanks Simon" as i don't feel any physical pain and instead feel really relaxed "guess you did learn a few things after all haha like kicking my ass and healing haha" as i elbow you and laugh just like old times.

SIMON HIU
I see you really relax and begin joking again, I laugh with you. "Haha, well, this time it was a draw," I begin.. "Hey bro.. I think there's something else we should talk about... I think you're having some growing superpowers moment too. Your necklace? It glowed blue when we woke up..." Were you able to learn how to control your gift since the last time we both interacted with it three years ago?" I ask you.

ZAY RYCERZ
"Oh this?" I take my necklace off and show you it "it was a gift from a childhood friend of mine why do you ask? I didn't noticed a blue glow before but I'll take your word on it. And I don't believe i did."

SIMON HIU
I inspect your necklace in with my fingers, and then look at it intently, before looking up back at you. "Three years ago, I don't remember it glowing in accordance to any mystical act you did, but you never did perform much magic when we were hanging out three years ago. I think the power you have is leaking, currently being expressed through the necklace. You said it was a gift from a childhood friend? Mystical things tend to communicate through objects that hold deep personal meaning.. Look, I think we just found something more when I move in with you. We'll train not just to be better tag team partners, but I'll train you to help control your gift, what do you say?" I say and towards the end of my explanation and my proposition, I stand up and offer a hand down to you.

ZAY RYCERZ
"Sure Simon, or should i say big bro haha.. Also, I have to ask big bro... what was that vision i was earlier was it a nightmare of some sort?" As i take your hand as you pull me up.

SIMON HIU
I smile as you finally stand up with me. "Let's go freshen up and we can figure out what we saw together." It was then that I realize that we had a shared mental link and you saw into this ever warping nightmare I've been experiencing for the past couple nights. As we head to the showers, I can't help but smile a little that things have all worked out finally.
...
After we freshen up and change into fresh clothes, you take me back to the hotel so I can retrieve my stuff, check out, and begin moving in with you. We get to the bottom of this nightmare and how our mystical gifts connect to it. For the peak of experiencing it, it was the primary block to why I was so out of sync and disconnected, unable to feel anything, including the guardian spirit. It wasn't until we had the mental link that something was just.. unblocked. I stay exclusively at your place for the next week, holding off the business I have in the states. Even throughout this next week, I begin first in training you in discovering your own mystical gift. Once you know what exactly it is, you can train to control it. During one of the mystical training sessions, I look at you and say, "Zay, from now on, I'll keep you in the loop." And aside from being able to heal our bond, free the tension, we are able to reconnect like never before.

Magic and mysticism with the Guardian and the Knight, to be revisited. Stay tuned.

Published: 2023-02-26, viewed 36 times.