Trip to The Heavens by Risa MV (different e readers .txt) 📖

Chapter 1 : A Huge Problem

The place was full of merry voices and melodious chants. Everyone was celebrating and praying to have another happy and healthy year. The entire village was in a festive mood. Everyone was gathering near the temple in the forest for his or her morning prayer. Even the birds on the giant tree, which was as tall as the mountains on the other side, were delighted and chirping joyously.

 

Lia and Sohe were searching for Sofey to go to the festival together. They found her lying in bed for some reason.

 

Lia said, “Hey sleepyhead! Wake up! Don’t you want to eat cotton candy? Hurry up and let's go…” Saying this, she pulled her blanket and saw blood on her pillow. Both of them started to call for their parents.

 

Lia picked up Sofey and started to go to the nearby hospital. The hospital admitted her and asked the others to wait outside.

 

After a few hours, the doctors told her parents that Sofey had a rare disease that will paralyze her body within a year and she might die within two or three years. All family members were struck by lightning. They were not rich and couldn’t take care of her medical bills. But they loved her too much to let go. Lia was devastated after listening to the news. They made plans to eat out when Lia turns 18 next year. But now she might not even live that long. She was the one whom everyone loved. Sohe, her twin sister couldn’t take it and started crying.

 

That little chubby girl of 14, with a small stature and big brown eyes, short and straight black hair, was about to leave them all.

 

There were no rooms for them to stay so they had to leave her alone in the hospital at night. After coming back home, Mom asked the sisters, “Who was the one who woke her??”     Lia, still in a daze replied, “I was the one…..”  “Then why didn’t you TELL US ABOUT IT!!!”

 

BAM!!! And her mother started hitting Lia with anything she got her hands on.

 

Lia was someone of very little importance in the family. She was a thin girl of 17 with white hair, having pale complexion. She wasn’t that good in academics and her cultivation was stuck on the 7th stage of Disciple rank. She spoke very less too, so everyone thought of her as insignificant. She was also being bullied by her classmates because of her hair color. 

 

Within a few minutes, Dad and Sohe successfully stopped her from hitting Lia. Dad said, “You shouldn’t be venting out your anger on her. This isn’t her fault. Lia, take Sohe and go off to sleep.” Lia and Sohe left, leaving Mom, crying and Dad, trying to calm her.

 

Sohe was so tired that she fell asleep the moment she hit the bed. But Lia couldn’t. She kept on thinking of ways to earn money and save Sofey. When the lights of her parent’s room turned off, she got up, took a few necessities and jumped out of the window. She headed towards the temple in the middle of the forest. After reaching the place, she went straight to the head priest’s room. Everyone was asleep by that time.

 

The priest was a kindhearted old man and highly regarded by almost everyone in the village, including both the poor and the nobles. He used to take the orphans to the temple and taught them for free. He even distributed food to the poor old people who couldn’t work themselves. He had helped Lia in her studies too. He and Lia were very attached even with this huge age difference they had. She was like his daughter.

 

After seeing Lia the priest asked her, “Why have you come here so late at night? And why didn’t you come to the Morning Prayer? I was waiting for you” After seeing him, Lia burst into tears. The priest took her to the garden bench and asked her, “Child, what’s the matter? Did someone bully you? Stop crying and tell me what the matter is? If you don’t tell me, how will I be able to help you?”

 

After a few minutes, she said, “Sofey has...*hic*…has a rare…*hic*…rare disease and she will die soon” She told him what the doctor said. “I don’t know the cause or the cure but I have read of something like that. Come with me.” And he took her to his small library in the temple. There he rummaged in a shelf and took out a book. It was a relatively thin one, which she did not expect. “We have less information on this disease so the book is thin,” said the priest.

 

“Here it is ‘Symptoms…..paralysis…..Aha!! Here it is. It says that the medicine can only be found in the City of Fire. It takes nearly 2 months to reach there….. No, no, not a good idea…”

 

“Why? If there is a way to cure her then why not”

 

“Because it’s dangerous outside the forest. Many monsters are strong enough to destroy the entire village.”

 

“But I want to save her!!!”  She said.

 

After listening to her pleas, he told her, “There will be a group which will be going to the City of Fire next week. You can apply to join them. But on one condition!! You will have to stay in the temple for the week and study about the different types of monsters outside and ways to defeat them.”

 

Lia gladly agreed and stayed there for the night. The next day, she went back home to tell her parents about the trip excluding the ‘dangerous stuff’.

 

After listening to her, her father said, “There is no need for you to go. I will go there myself.” But mother didn’t like this though, “Who will take care of Sofey and the house? I won’t be able to do it all myself.”

 

“But how can we let her go alone.”

 

“I’ll go with her. It’s better than letting this idiot go alone and making a mess there. Also, I am a genius cultivator at the 3rd stage of Practitioner rank,” said Sohe.

 

After a lot of arguments, Lia and Sohe were chosen to go. Lia didn’t want it but she had to take Sohe with her or else, no one would go. After that Lia went back to the temple and started studying and cultivating.

 

She studied in the day, ate with other disciples in the temple, slept whenever necessary and cultivated at night. This way, days started to go by and the departure was just the next day.

 

Lia was very scared and excited at the same time. The weather was bad in the morning and the storm started in the evening. She was sleeping at her house that night. The storm was so bad that the Giant tree in the forest fell blocking the way outside.

 

The next morning, she went up to see if there was still some place left for them to leave the village. Thankfully, the Giant tree fell on the temple, but it is a strong building protected by the great priest, who was at the 3rd stage of Emperor rank, was still standing and people were going in and out of it.

 

She met up with the priest and asked him if the trip was still on or not. He told her that the group was still going as the temple had a back door. They can use that to cross the tree. They decided to meet up at noon.

 

Lia went back home, took the supplies and started to set off with Sohe.

 

 

Chapter 2 : Saved at the Last Moment

Note: - Hey readers!!! I just want to inform you all that all the upcoming chapters will be the POVs of the characters. Soon I will add a chapter explaining the ranks and power levels for ease of understanding. I hope you all like it and share it too ;-)!!!

 

Lia’s POV

 

When we reached the meeting spot, we saw that there were only a few people who were going on foot. Many of them had carts, tamed magical beasts and horses.

 

I didn’t know of that!!! Now, HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO COPE UP WITH THE OTHERS!!!???

 

Calm down and think….. I can’t arrange a cart or a horse, don’t have money for a magical beast…… Have to walk…..

 

Sohe was staring at me as if I had committed a crime. Yeah, it was my fault for not knowing the mode of transport, but now is not the time for the Blame Game.

 

Then, a huge man with bulging muscles and an oppressing aura approached us and started talking to Sohe.

 

“Hey, so you are also joining the quest?” He said.  

 

“Yes, but why are you going?” She asked.

 

“Oh, nothing serious. Just for some adventure and experience. Who is she?” He pointed at me.

 

“She is just my older sister…”

 

I am ‘Just her older sister’ and nothing much…..

 

Still, I held out my hand and said: “Hello, my name is Lia”.

 

“Hi, I am Nick. Nice to meet you. You have a unique hair color”

 

“Thank you—“

 

“Are you using a vehicle or you are also going on foot?”

 

‘You interrupted me. This is so humiliating.’

 

“Why would I walk when I can ride a magical beast such as my Flame Lion? What about you?”

 

‘Now this is even more humiliating’

 

“We are going on foot, as certain someone forgot to get the entire details before arranging the trip” she glanced at me and then continued chatting about useless stuff.

 

I could clearly sense it that he was trying to flirt with her but did not listen to their talk.

 

‘This is awkward’

 

I started to observe others and see what they were doing.

 

Everyone was busy either talking or checking their equipment. Nick asked us to go with him as he had a place for two, but I denied. He seems like a shady person. We shouldn’t trust him. Sohe wanted to go but I told her that it would be uncomfortable for both of us to sit on the Flame Lion with him. She didn’t want to but had to agree to this.

 

After a while, everyone was called up, nearly 50 people were going excluding the animals and beasts and we set off to our destination.

 

Everyone was going on a slow pace to match others.

 

The entire day went by without any disturbance and the evening came by. The group supervisor told us to set the camp near the road. It was a full moon night. The moon showed brightly in the dark sky. The clouds near it had a silver lining and beautiful patterns. The soft and cold breeze brushed past us like feathers. We ate our packed food and were about to go off to sleep. I was looking at the bright moon and saw a swarm of some insects near the clouds.

 

DANGER!!!

 

“Sohe, take out the cotton and stuff it in your ears, close your nose and breath through your mouth with a tiny hole only. Hurry!!!!”

 

Sohe was startled but still, she did the same and closed her eyes.

 

 “Don’t move what so ever!”

 

I also stuffed the cotton in my ears, pinched my nose and started breathing through my