11 A Trap (2/2)
”Oh, that's breakfast” he answered
”You made waffles all those, How long have you been up?”Sophia asked both curious and surprised, Sam was confused why before he remembered what the waffle tower looked like to an outsider, that he spent hours hand-making waffles which meant he had been up to do.
”Well it's about 7 so I've been up around four hours I think and no I didn't make all those waffles in that time there in the freezer”
”So they were store-bought,” the female said with hesitation
”No homemade just stored in the freezer” the hesitation was replaced by curiosity
”Okay so what kind are they”
At that sam paused ”what flavor were they again,” then he told her”mystery”
”Mystery” the hesitation was back
”Don't worry, there is nothing that will cause an allergic reaction, so there safe to eat but I can't say anything about the taste though?” he told her in a positive tone with a little mischief in the end
”Alright, ill keep that in mind,” Sophia said before she turned her focus to her tea.
Sam returned to the kitchen to make his own breakfast, grabbing three waffles from within the stasis field he placed them on a plate and then lightly drowned them in syrup, he also made himself a glass of milk to go with it.
When he was done with it all he put the dishes in the sink and rinsed them off so they would be easier to wash later. He returned to the coach to continue to watch another episode of the game show.
As for Sophia after she finished her tea she tries a piece of one of the waffles and must have decided that they were fine because she grabbed a few whole ones and put a little butter on each of them.
While she was eating, sam observed her out the corner of his eye, ”well she has relaxed considerably in the short time that she has been in my house, to fast to make sense really she was sexually assaulted and she knows a bit about my past there is no way she should be this calm in my presence or trusting. its possible that just what kind of person she is but that is way to fast and I don't for a second think that she was the innocent type not with that bra she was wearing last night,” as sam thought more on his house guest and how strange her trust for him had risen the way it did he remembered what happened with Tyrone's luggage, that and how easily he gained Sophia's trust made his suspicion of the situation arise.
These two things may seem completely unrelated and they were, there was no real connection to them but in how they happened by something being skipped and this was vastly related to many kinds of illusion what kind sam didn't know but he would find out and how much of the world around him was an illusion as well, he knew more than one way but for now he was going to see who won this game show.
When Sophia was done eating she joined him on the couch, but nowhere near him. Time passed as they watched the game show and a few other in silence, around 10:30 sam got up off the couch and head back into the backyard.
The Vegal's backyard was pretty simple and large when you went through the backdoor to your left you would find the shed which held gardening, training, workout supplies, and a few other things.
The farthest ten feet from the door was Mrs.veagal's garden, the garden contained mostly herbs with a dash of flowers and tea leaves. There were a few types of herbs in the garden medical, seasoning, and mystical. The flowers all fifty of them were from around the world and a gift from sam(he had called in a few favors to get them all), the herbs Mrs.vegal bought herself so she could start a garden when she and husband bought the house forty-something years ago. The herbs and tea leaves are grown in the garden were, when fully grown, dried in the shed to the right of the back door and then stored in mason jars around the house depending on their purpose and if there was extra it was sold at the island open-air market at the end of the week.
Sam walked near the center of the backyard so that he was far away from everything so he wouldn't damage anything. Folding his legs under him the dark-haired teen folded his hands in his lap and closed his eyes. He slowed his breathing and relaxed so he could enter a semi-meditative state.
In this state sam felt for the mana in the world, he did this to confirm the type of illusion that was being used on him, when creating an illusion there were two main methods infusing and replicating. When you used the infusion method you did so that you could control the real world when you used replicating you did so that you could make a world to control. At first glance, it was impossible to tell them apart but if you could see the signs you could see the difference, one of the major signs was the mana it was ether apart of everything or was everything.
But it seems that those two methods were not in use as the mana appeared unchanged. sam opened his eyes and narrowed them as he realized what this meant, whatever illusion sam was in it was made using a method he didn't know and that sent two shivers down his spin one of chilling fear, the other of burning excitement.
Sam went back inside and returned to watching the t.v., well he looked like he was in truth he was making a mental check of things of ways he could prepare for the invertible fight he was going to get into. He considered many things weapons, runes, clothes, environment, and his ability (this he considered very hard).
Sam spent the next few hours on the couch watching t.v. and making his checklist it was around noon that got he off the couch and went to his room to gather some supplies. After he closed and locked his door sam erased his presence completely, well as much as he could with how out of practice he was. Sam moved quietly and quickly around gather the thinks he needed, one of the knives from his collection, a plain-looking leather bracelet in the of his sock drawer, a woven green and blue wool and silver beads bracelet hidden in a sneaker,then he opened the loose floorboard under his bed grabbed a box that was no larger than a sponge, from a fake bottom drawer in his desk he grabbed a thin obsidian ring.
When had collected everything sam laid it out on his bed, and for a few minutes he did nothing but look at all the object as memories of the past washed over him the good, the bad, and the weird.
Pushing the memories down Sam took a deep breath before he slowly geared up, the leather bracelet went on his right wrist, the wool and bead on his left, the ring joined the leather bracelet on his right hand, the box went up his left pants and was strapped there, the knife went down the front of his pants.
When everything was in its place sam walked back and forth a bit to make sure that nothing in his pants moved or would be uncomfortable. After a few small adjustments, sam left his room and checking on Tyrone (who was still asleep) returned to the couch to be surprised that Sophia was surrounded by a group of women in tuxedos, this surprised him a lot for a couple of reasons. One only certain groups can move outside, two he didn't hear the door opened and it was anything but quiet, three he set the houses security and the door wouldn't open with his or his parent's approval… wait, scratch that last one he forgot to do that. ”So that's how they got in the house probably but that didn't explain the other two things.
While sam walked over the door and set the house's security he tried to figure out how he didn't hear the door squeak, the whole reason his parents let the doorsqueak was so that sam could hear it open and close they had sound amplification installed on the hinges and on the windows so they could be heard opening anywhere in the house (this was done so sam would feel safe in the house, this was the first of many things they did for that purpose and all of them put a lot of warmth in sam's heart).
Sam couldn't figure out how they did it, any method he could think was disproved rather quickly, the man reason was time as he was only upstairs for a little over five minutes, ”it is by all reason impossible i can think of impossible” the moment he that crossed his mind sam froze ”that's right it is impossible, in the real world” sam now knew what was happening and why he didn't recognize it until now ”my house has been pulled in to an illusion dimension or at least something similar, well fuck” the green-eyed teen swore.
An illusion dimension is a trap, a very powerful one that required a monsters amount of power to create and sustain for even a moment. That is why sam had only encountered one, years ago, it had belonged to a ghost of an old school principal who was a little under a thousand years old.
The principal was a nice man in life but his death changed everything about him, for he was killed by a prank from one of his students while the school was undergoing some repairs, no one the specifics but it ended with the principle dying trapped behind a concrete wall and it was painful. The death caused his soul to bind itself to the school, at first there was not much he could do but over the years things changed asnot only did he grow more powerful but he saw many things going on in his school, horrible things from small bullying to straight-up assault of multiple forms, this causes rage to bloom in his heart, rage that only grew as time passed he tried many methods to help those who needed it, but it did little, and for almost one hundred years this continued before the principal's mind broke and his method changed. He started to trapping people in the school at first by sealing doors shut but luckily many people were able, then time passed he grew in power and his methods grew more complex fewer able to. After a year of trapping people, he learned he drain energy from the people he trapped and he grew stronger. Now i know what your thinking why was the school not just closed down two reasons one it was a reform school with a poor success rate and two they were only missing during the night during the day they attended their classes, so the principal's actions went unnoticed for years until sam arrived at the school for something he didn't remember but it must have been something big in the eyes of the law but not in his, this put him at the top of the principles capture list.
And Within a week he did it not that sam made it easy for him even after he was captured as for several factors the principle could not bring him under his control like the others but sam couldn't escape his grasp for the entire school was the doorway to an illusion dimension and sam had no clue where to find the exit much less open it.
So he spent almost a year in that dimension before he figured out how to escape using his ability at full power in the light of the moon he was able to tear space and escape into the real school where he found the principles real body, which he violently tore it apart and then burned with a special fire that left little ash.
Without his body gone there was nothing holding the principle to the school and this plane, without his soul to maintain the dimension collapsed and all those who were trapped were free, then many of them dropped dead in front the study body and faculty. After that the police were called the story was told, the school shut down, the students were sent home well those who had them, as for sam he skipped town hell he skipped the state.
Sam blinked away the memories as he returned to the present, he quickly finished up with setting the security to recognize his guest and that it was an island-wide emergency. With that done he turned to kitchen clock which was frozen at 4:58:45, fun fact about illusion dimensions certain clock types clocks didn't work in them because time was mostly depended on the creator of the dimension, if the creator didn't take account for the clock it would not work and would inform the traped that something was off.
Putting on a gentle smile sam greeted the new people in his house, only to get a cold and rude response from one of the women in suits with an apology from Sophia following it.
After he accepts Sophia's apology he asked the women if they would be having dinner with them, another one african women told him in a professional tone that the had bought their own dry rations. Sam spoke to Sophia about what he had in mind for lunch, at first he was planning to reheat the spaghetti from last night but destroying space takes a look of energy and if he fails he is going to need to eat something, something specific so he didn't do anything he would regret because of the side effects of his ability the witching hour!