I am Just an Average Tamer

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❖ Scene: Azurean Academy – Archive Ruins Exit

Dust choked the tunnel as Kai slammed the iron door shut behind them. It groaned against the pressure, then held. For now.

Behind them, the forgotten archive collapsed into nothing but a chasm of echoing screams and broken stone.

Dust choked the tunnel as Kai slammed the iron door shut behind them. It groaned against the pressure, then held. For now.

Behind them, the forgotten archive collapsed into nothing but a chasm of echoing screams and broken stone.

Dust choked the tunnel as Kai slammed the iron door shut behind them. It groaned against the pressure, then held. For now.

Behind them, the forgotten archive collapsed into nothing but a chasm of echoing screams and broken stone.

Dust choked the tunnel as Kai slammed the iron door shut behind them. It groaned against the pressure, then held. For now.

Behind them, the forgotten archive collapsed into nothing but a chasm of echoing screams and broken stone.

Rashira stumbled beside him, coughing, blood on her sleeve. Her serpent was wounded—deep claw marks across its back—and Vex limped as he slunk behind, hackles raised.

"Tell me that thing's dead," she gasped.

"No," Kai muttered, pressing his back to the cold stone. "It's just waking up."

The Archivist's pendant, still clutched in his hand, pulsed once—softly. Steady. Like a heartbeat.

"This thing's guiding us," Kai said, eyeing the hawk-shaped emblem. "It's tied to the Songbearer. I think it'll lead us straight to her."

"And who even is she?" Rashira hissed. "Some ancient prophetess? Another one of those creepy half-corrupted hermits?"

"The Archivist said she can seal the Spiral. That's all I need."

Rashira stared at him for a moment—then nodded.

"Then let's move before it sends more of those hounds."

❖ Scene: Azurean Upper Grounds – Crisis Unfolding

Meanwhile, the academy was unraveling.

Theron and Raven stood at the inner courtyard gates, breathless, battered, and surrounded by smoke. Parts of the tower had exploded. Beasts rampaged. Students had turned on each other—some out of madness, some under direct Spiral control.

"They're not coming back from this," Raven muttered. "This isn't just a corruption... It's a siege."

Theron slashed down a spiral-twisted falcon with his twin sabers. Its body burst into a cloud of black feathers that hissed and dissolved into smoke.

"We need to find the others."

"Kai's alive," Raven said. "I can feel it."

"Then we rally to him. He's the only one who seems to understand what the hell this even is."

From above, Professor Selene dropped into the courtyard like a hawk. Her cloak fluttered behind her, and her eyes scanned the chaos with icy precision.

"We're initiating Phase Zero Protocol," she announced.

"That's an evacuation order," Raven whispered.

"No," Selene said, lips tight. "That's containment."

She raised her hand.

And dozens of magic runes lit up in the air—locking the gates behind her.

❖ Scene: The Spiral Grows

Beneath the ruins, the Spiral was no longer sleeping.

The creature that had broken free of the crystal—its form now reconstituted in the depths—stood taller, clearer. Its shape was vaguely human, but elongated, stretched like a painting dipped in water.

A black eye pulsed in the center of its chest.

And beside it stood two figures.

One in a priest's robe—skin pale, with the spiral branded into his tongue.

The other in a student's uniform, though most of his face was gone—replaced with smooth, glassy bone and rows of fanged smiles.

They knelt before the Spiralborn.

"Your Herald walks again," the priest said, head bowed.

"Let him bring them all," the Spiralborn answered. "Let them see what they've buried."

❖ Scene: Outskirts of Azurean – On the Run

Kai and Rashira slipped past the outer wall through an old beast-release tunnel that Kai remembered from an old beast escape drill. The pendant burned hotter as they crossed into the wildwood.

"We're close," Kai muttered. "The Songbearer… she's not far."

The forest surrounding Azurean had grown strange.

The trees seemed taller. Thicker. The leaves were too dark. The shadows didn't match the sunlight. Even time felt off—hours passing like minutes.

"This isn't natural," Rashira whispered. "We're walking through something warped."

"A Spiral Veil," Kai said. "A place where the corruption folds reality. We're between layers."

"Great," she muttered. "I always wanted to go beast-slaying in an Eldritch nightmare realm."

"Beasts are the least of our worries right now."

He paused.

Then lifted a hand.

"Stop."

Ahead, the trees bent outward—forming a natural archway.

And on the other side, a clearing bloomed with golden flowers.

At its center: a woman seated on a massive, moss-covered stone.

Hair like silver silk. Skin pale, glowing faintly. A songbird perched on her shoulder.

She opened her eyes—one blue, one pure gold.

And she smiled.

"Kai of No House," she said softly. "And Rashira of the Riverwake."

"You know us?" Rashira blinked.

"I've been waiting for you."

Kai stepped forward, cautious. The pendant in his palm shone, then dissolved into light.

The Songbearer nodded.

"Then it's time."

❖ Scene: The Songbearer's Memory

As they sat, the Songbearer waved her hand—and the clearing shifted.

Reality rippled like a stone dropped into still water.

They weren't in the forest anymore.

They stood in a massive ancient chamber—open sky above, spiral banners hanging from ruined columns. Dozens of mages stood below, forming a circle around a crystal shaped like a black sun.

"This… this is the first sealing," the Songbearer said. "Three hundred years ago. I was one of them. The youngest."

"You were there?"

"I was the Voice. The only one who could sing the Spiral back to sleep."

The scene changed—mages burning, beasts howling, one of the elders betraying the circle and merging with the Spiral crystal.

"We failed," she whispered. "We only bound it. Never killed it."

She turned to Kai.

"But you… you can do what we could not."

"I'm not like you."

"Exactly. You're stronger. You've touched the Spiral and kept your mind. That makes you dangerous—to them, and to it."

She held out her hand.

"Let me show you what you must do."

❖ Scene: Songbearer's Grove – Spirit Realm

The moment Kai took the Songbearer's hand, the world turned upside down.

One blink—and he wasn't in the forest anymore.

He stood in a space that wasn't quite sky or ground. Everything shimmered in gradients of silver and deep black, like oil floating on water.

The air buzzed. His thoughts slowed. His heartbeat echoed in the stillness.

The Songbearer floated a few feet ahead of him, her form glowing faintly.

"This is the Veil Between," she said. "Where your soul echoes. Where the Spiral cannot fully lie—but neither can truth hide."

Kai looked at his hand. Veins glowed faint violet under his skin. A faint black spiral moved across his palm, shifting slightly when he focused on it.

"The Spiral marked you, Kai. But it didn't take you."

"Because I fought it?"

"No. Because you're a vessel with balance. Tamer and assassin. Beast and blade. You understand instinct and silence."

"So what now? You'll teach me how to kill it?"

"No."

She turned, golden eye shimmering.

"I'll teach you how to sing to it."

❖ Scene: The Spiral Song

Her voice echoed without sound.

It wasn't a melody in the normal sense—it was vibrations, intention, emotion strung like threads of soundless silk. As she "sang", the world twisted around her, rippling with ancient resonance.

Kai felt it through his bones.

He dropped to a knee, gasping.

"Your soul is attuning," she said, voice calm. "This is the first step to resisting the Spiral without relying on brute force."

"This feels like it's tearing me apart."

"That's because the Spiral already carved a piece into you. You must learn to hold it—not deny it."

She extended both hands now, light pooling between her palms.

"You were never meant to destroy the Spiral. You were meant to become its shepherd. Its jailer. You will learn to bind it—not just in others… but within yourself."

A spiral-shaped rune of silver fire floated toward him.

"Take this. It's a fragment of my Voice."

Kai hesitated—but then reached out.

The instant it touched him, everything fractured.

❖ Scene: Memory-Walk – Kai's Past

Suddenly, he was somewhere else.

Back in a dim alleyway. Blood dripping from his blade. His hands shaking. He was younger. Maybe ten.

A man lay dying at his feet—eyes wide in horror. A mark on his neck: the same spiral.

"This was your first kill," the Songbearer's voice echoed around him.

"He was hurting my beasts. I didn't have a choice."

"You did. And you still do."

The scene shifted. Now the orphanage. He remembered hiding Vael under the floorboards. He remembered selling his own food to buy medicine for Vex after the lynx nearly died.

"This is why you endured. You never fought to win. You fought to protect."

"So what does this have to do with binding the Spiral?"

"Because that's what it fears most, Kai. Not strength. Not blood. Selfless intent."

"That's weakness."

"No. That's what gives you control."

The Songbearer reappeared before him.

"Now… bind it."