Chapter 5

The entrance to the Master Knight’s office was big, almost as big as the door they took to get to the MDSC. Lily knocked on the door, and they opened wide.

Tarin looked behind him to see the Master Knight in the Cafeteria, but when he turned back to the office he was sitting on a large chair. Tarin looked back to the Master Knight he’d seen in the Cafeteria, to see he was still there eating a sandwich. Tarin was well rounded in the laws of physics, and from what he was looking at he decided to scrap the entire idea of them.

Train walked into the room behind his friends, who were looking up at the Master Knight. “Good, you came.” He said, “We have to speak for a second.” He moved his hand, and the doors behind us closed. No sound emitted from it though. The Master Knight flew to the floor, and landed in front of us. “Your ordeal with Velmora, that must be handled as you know.”

Tarin rolled his eyes, “Any other news?”

“It must be handled by you.” The Master Knight pointed at Tarin directly.

Tarin couldn’t speak for a second, he went super fast and the Master Knight’s hand followed at the same speed as Tarin. He stopped on the left side of the office, and rolled his eyes again. “Alright what are you talking about?”

The Master Knight chuckled, “I’m not the one who figured it out.” He gestured to an old skull-faced scarecrow the size of a lamp, I jumped not noticing it before the Master Knight pointed it out and overall it was pretty creepy. The things eye sockets were empty, and the skull just stared off into the distance. “You remember Time class Tarin no? Time can only be changed by a certain event, this can foresee all of these events and changes.” The Master Knight and Tarin’s friends all approached the scarecrow.

After staring at it for a moment Aaron poked the head, and it immediately fell to the floor. “Oh.” He looked at the Master Knight, “Sorry about that.”

“Don’t be.” The Master Knight twisted his hand and the scarecrow's body started to move. The skull, which had been broken into two the jaw and head, rolled back to the scarecrow and rejoined to the body. The Master Knight poked the head of the oracle, “Show me the prophecy of Tarin Jacobs.”

For a moment everyone was silent. Colton decided to speak up, “Um sir, I think your halloween decora…” Before Colton could finish the oracle’s head jolted, Colton jumped back.

“The destiny of Tarin Jacobs is well underway,” Said a raspy old voice, “His prophecy the same.” Tarin became more curious than frightened. “The destiny I shall not tell you now, he shall not understand it well as he does not understand magic.” Everyone looked at him, he just shrugged. The scarecrow continued. “His prophecy! Dark, heroic! It ends in triumphant defeat.” Tarin didn’t know how a defeat could be triumphant, maybe for the enemy’s side? “He shall battle with his friends the servants of death.” The servants of death? Did Velmora have servants? “He shall lose his friends for the fight to the end.” He’d lose his friends? Why? What was this thing talking about? “He shall defeat death, but bring chaos with him. Wherever he goes it shall follow, his life will be dragged by it and he shall drag his friends with him.” His friends looked at him, as if asking what it meant. “A choice will be made, by a rush of red. The choice to see who prevails in the end.” The scarecrow looked directly at Tarin, “You shall go to the highest of feats, but you shall die with your friends in the least.” The scarecrow moaned, “I tell you this for the greatest! You shall not change it, for it is foreseen!” The scarecrow then moaned once more into a raspy gasp. It’s head lowered, but didn’t fall.

Everyone looked at Tarin, The Master Knight smiled, “You have a lot to prepare for.”