Elemental chaos

After a while, Axel calmed from the euphoria he was feeling and was back in the room relishing the fact that his body had truly healed. Axel with the help of Gizmo had achieved a lot during the past 5 years but his paralysed body was a constant source of sadness and helplessness. But now he could finally be free.

[Although I would recommend you to feign your disability for some time to get to know your enemies within the household better but I don't think that is going to happen is it?] asked Gizmo looking at the big smile Plastered on Axel's face.

'I could pretend for maybe almost a week or so, not more than that, but before you start making strategies for the future do you have any idea what happened to me back there? I could feel the strong pulse of light over my body and then suddenly all was blank and when I woke up, I was already cured. So tell me Gizmo what happened? ' Axel was truly surprised by the eventful night that he was having.

[Don't you remember anything regarding the trance? You were out for hours before you came to your senses, I was mostly sure that you had somehow gained the skill you had been working on, but for that, you must be able to remember during that trance?]

'Not really all that is a blank for me, I think I must have lost my consciousness during that time. I do feel invigorated but other than that nothing, didn't you tell me that from the moment someone acquires a skill they can tell how to use it and all, so how come all I am drawing is blank, are you sure I have a skill now?' asked the confused Axel

[Well I am not too sure now, what you have described is completely different from what all skill users have experienced on acquiring their skill for the first time. If what you are telling is true then we have to re-evaluate the phenomenon entirely] but before Gizmo could go on any further with its deductions it sensed someone's presence moving towards their room.

[Axel be ready someone is approaching] said Gizmo. 'Yeah, I can sense him too, it's most probably Silas, but what does he want from me in the middle of the night? Should I just knock him out and show him his place? I am definitely positive that I can do that now. What do you say should we teach this bastard a lesson?' asked Axel while the fire of revenge burned deep within him.

[If you let him know that you have recovered we won't be able to know his plans and who is he working for because I don't think he doesn't have something else planned. Just bid your time for now. He can't truly hurt you even if he tried, you have already formed a core, sorry two cores hehe ] Gizmo explained while laughing like a villain in the end.

Axel was not too shocked by Gizmo's behaviour as over the years he felt that Gizmo was slowly developing a personality of his own, was that personality going to be helpful towards his goals was a different question at hand which Axel had left for the future him to handle.

The door to the room opened and a middle-aged man entered the room, closing the door gently making sure that no sound was heard. The middle-aged man was gaunt, his frame almost skeletal. His skin, pale and wrinkled, was stretched taut over his bones. His eyes, deep-set and hollow, held a world-weary look. A wispy, grey beard framed his face, and his hair, what little there was of it, was thin and patchy. Despite his frail appearance, there was a certain sharpness in his movements, a flicker of intelligence in his eyes.

Silas slowly approached Axel's bed, Gizmo on Axel's command had already simulated Axel's right side to appear paralyzed and no one would be able to discern if Axel was now healthy.

"Oh my dear sweet Axel, you have been a thorn in my side for long, but not anymore, soon you will be a pawn on the chessboard for me to use just like your siblings. So do you have something to say before I hand you over to the wolves" said Silas in an eerie voice.

"Oh wait you can't speak right, how can I forget, HAHA. You Dumb fuc***, only if you wouldn't have been born. Huh but don't worry, Soon you will wish you were never born, HAHA" said Silas while laughing in an otherworldly voice.

Axel had a bad premonition regarding what Silas was planning but Gizmo had suggested for him to just go along with the flow, so he simply waited for events to take their course.

Silas took out a smooth, reddish-brown stone, pulsating with a faint, inner light, exuding a sense of ancient power. Seeing that stone, Axel's gut feeling grew stronger and he was about to take action, but before he could do something a dark black portal opened near him and sucked him in.

[Fuck, how come the likes of him got himself an artifact and that too an Artifact with Space attribute] These were the last words that Gizmo spoke to Axel before they were gobbled up by the portal.