"Miss Alana, are you alright? Can you hear me?"

A distance voice pierced through Alana's subconscious. The voice echoed until she felt herself awakening. The minute she opened her eyes, Alana was instantly blinded by the brightness of the room.

She groaned, feeling a wave of a migraine.

Her response somehow released a series of relieved sighs around her. As Alana adjusted her eyes to the light, she realised she was laying down looking up at the ceiling of brightened lights.

What startled her was how her vision zoomed onto the crystalline lights suspended on the ceiling. She could see every minuscule detail as if she were looking down a microscope.

She closed her eyes again to adjust and when she opened them this time around, Mena's face blocked the light.

Alana struggled into a sitting position. There was something off about her body. It felt very light, airily light, as if she were floating.

It took a few whole minutes of adjustments, while watching everyone around becoming smaller than her, to realise she was actually floating. What was more shocking was the fact that she was floating onto a silver cloud.

It was Gigi and Fifi whom managed to diffuse her cloud. They brought her back down to earth, which was the bed she had been previously lying in.

"W-what happened?"

"You fainted." Two voiced echoed at once. What startled her was how these voice had echoed through her mind.

Alana panicked as she looked around her to see whom had spoken.

"Miss Alana, we are so glad you can finally understand us." The twinned voices spoke in unison.

"Gigi? Fifi?" Alana was shocked to realised that these voice belonged to the two fairie sprites happily flying around her.

"You understand them?" If was Zenos that further affirmed this. He sat at the other corner of the room, spectating, while Mena held her hand for support.

"What happened?" Alana asked.

"We were brought out of mediation when we sensed Master's strong spiritual essence. We saw him carrying you in his arms from his prohibited garden. I ran to inquire what happened. He didn't speak until you were safely in the recovery room with your energy stabilised. He then told us that you easily entered his garden without breaking the seal and managed to consume the sacred Rana apple without contaminating it. He explained that each scared fruit contained a thousand years worth of cultivation and that your mortal self that already has foul energy will be disturbed it." Zenos explained.

Mena was mothering her by checking her state of physical being. "You were unconscious for a full day, Miss Alana. We thought we were going to lose you." She told her.

It moved Alana as she realised that this immortal cared so much for her.

"How do you feel?" This question was spoken in unison between all four parties in the room.

"Apart from a sore head, I feel quite fine."

"Here, it's the last of the ceren herb I grew from last time. I made it into tea, it will clear your head amongst other injuries your bodies sustained from the sudden one thousand worth of energy you received."

As Alana drunk the tea, the sour taste instantly numbed her tongue. She was quickly going to spit it out of reflex, had it not being for Mena's deeply concerned expression. And so Alana dunk the lukewarm tea in one go to prevent herself from tasting it.

"How do you feel."

"Better." Alana replied.

The ceren herb's effect was instant and Alana's head felt much more clear. As she moved to touch her head, something similar to a silver light flew from her hand and landed on the wall.

The shock of the impact silenced everyone in the room, they watched as the bruised wall begun to sprout grass.

"What was that?" Alana asked, watching her shaky hands.

Zenos was instantly on the other side of her bed. His hand moved in sophisticated movements she couldn't decipher before he pointed his forefinger and thumb toward her forehead.

Silver light shone from her forehead briefly before Zenos stopped, his expression looking very troubled.

"Did you see?" He directed this question to the equally affected Mena whose eyes were so frozen in shock while staring at Alana.

Mena nodded to answer Zenos and Alana felt privy to their conversations

"What happened what did you see?" She instantly asked, wanting in on what was happening.

"I have to inform, Master." Zenos spoke quickly before preparing to leave.

"I will try to my best to prevent any danger?" Mena nodded at him while watching him leave.

Although her tone of voice was so calm, her expression said otherwise.

"What's going on?" Alana asked worriedly. "What is that?" Alana pointed at the growing tree stem from for the patch of grass on the wall. "How did it come out of me?"

"It seems, Miss Alana, that you've acquired one thousand years worth of cultivated powers from the sacred rana apple." Mena finally informed her.

****

Turn into a burger! Turn into a burger! Turn into a burger!

Alana stared intensely at the vegetable salad in front of her. Although quite tasty, she was sick and tired of consuming healthy meals. Her body drummed with the craving of sugar and fast food as if these types of food had all ceased from existence.

She closed her eyes, picturing a succulent beef patty coated in cheese, layered in onion, lettuce, tomatoes and pickles, and topped off with toasted bun. Since learning she had acquired powers from Mena this morning, Alana's joy and excitement exceeded the immortal fairie's expectations.

Mena had thought Alana would cower in fear over the news. What she didn't expect was for the mortal to quickly bounce off her bed, forming a silver cloud on a whim, like it was natural for her to do so. Alana had then flew on this cloud, to the battle ground outside the main house to test her powers.

By the time Mena had caught up to warn her to be careful, Alana was already shooting silver balls of light from her hands. What initially shocked Mena was how easily and thoughtlessly she harnessed her power, as if it was just mere sport she'd done since birth.

Mena had gazed in shocked silence and awe at Alana, wondering exactly what sort of mortal she was for her body to have easily accepted one thousand years worth of cultivation without a cultivated mind and also with foul energy still brewing inside her body.

For any species with essence, these powers didn't come easily to them. They had to practice and master cultivation for many, many years. And once those powers did eventual come, it took a lot of will and effort to also learn how to harness those powers. Alana didn't have that knowledge and yet here she was easily throwing silver balls from her hands, a day after her body acquired a thousand years of energy.

After Mena got over this shock, another made her freeze. She realised that the silver balls of light were turning into a patches of flowers and tree saplings after impact.

Mena was deeply troubled. She wondered whether Alana's original essence was sourced from earth. Hence, why her silver balls of light turned into earth upon impact, or whether the sacred fruit she ate gave her the ability to harness earth-like powers.

It was impossible for a scared fruit to have original elements that could control earth. The fruit only housed cultivation not origins. This meant then that it was Alana's true essence that was resulting in this phenomenon.

To be able to control elements of earth was one of the gifts only a few attained in their immortal lives. Individuals had to have been an immortal for a while to finally be able to learn how to harness this power. For Alana to have easily acquired this power with just mere thousand years of cultivation was very questionable. There must be something her essence to make do this.

Mena was curious and full of questions. She wondered about this mortal in front of her eyes.

Since morning Mena's eyes have not left Alana. Alana, at first, felt uncomfortable by the deep regard, however, the thrill of acquiring powers overcame any feelings of discomfort. Since morning she was over excited, she viewed acquiring this gift as a chance of a lifetime.

Mena had asked Alana how she was able to harness these balls of light she shot from her hands. Alana had shrugged in response, clueless herself. However, Alana did not care for the source, only the outcome. In her head she had ate the rana apple and it gad given her immense strength to turn anything she willed from her mind into reality.

However, there was a limit to her powers that Alana has been struggling to overcome since morning. Somehow the things she pictured from back home in the mortal realm couldn't bear fruition into this world.

It took a while for her to realise that the powers she had acquired were limited to things made only from the ground of this world. She could only harnesses vegetation and nothing else.

Alana sighed deeply once she realised she wasn't going to able to eat any junk food at all.

It was lunch and Alana was staring intensely at the bowl of salad in front of her. Mena was sitting opposite from her, happily eating her lunch. Alana on the other hand, had her fingers rubbing her temples with eyes closed and her mind picturing a burger.

Please turn into a burger! She willed, picturing the food, the taste, touch and feel of it.

Suddenly a tremor went through her, the vibration zapped quickly until it the whole table began shaking.

"Miss Alana?"

The slightly frightful tone of voice belonging to Mena made Alana slowly open her eyes.

The ground was shaking, quaking as if the whole world around them was collapsing. Alana quickly stood from her chair in fear. She was going to reach out for Mena, when a silver light cracked through the floor, bursting in the middle of the table and making the whole room tremble.

Alana flew from the impact, her breath catching when her back hit a wall. When she landed on the ground, her wrist strained and broke. The sound reverberated throughout her body, however, Alana was too shocked at what had happened for her to feel any pain.

When she stood up, she was rendered motionless by what she saw. What was once a huge lovely vintage dinning room was now a huge forest tree. The tree was too tall and long for her to see the beginning and end of where it had burst through the ground. The bark hard split the wooden floor and the branches punctured through the walls and ceiling. The tree had pierced the ceiling all the way up to the third floor. She could see the sky bathing the tree in light. Alana imagined the room she's been sleeping in was probably filled with leaves and branches.

"Holy sh—?" A new voice broke the silence.

Alana whipped her head quickly at the entrance because this wasn't just any voice. She would recognise this voice no matter what.

"Karla?" She spoke.

"Alana? What happened? Did you do this?" Karla was equally spooked.

Alana couldn't know for sure what the expression on her friend at that moment was. It was a two thirds a mixture of shock, a third of fear and also envy.

Then the voice behind Karla burst into the room.

"Mena?" Zenos called for her. "What wa—" Zenos stopped talking quickly as he adjusted to the state of the living room.

Lylas with easy strides entered after Zenos. He did a double take before his cold angry eyes stared at Alana accusingly.

Alana looked away in shame, berating her body for making her heart skip a beat as seeing him again. Alana knew what the look in his eyes meant, she remembered seeing the exact expression in that dream.

If he was suspicious of her having ties with the demon king before, now his suspicions were probably confirmed.

"M-Miss Alana?" The weak voice of Mena called from the other side of the tree.

Alana quickly ran over and halted in shock. Mena was two feet away from the tree, lying on the ground with blood circling her form.

"Mena!" Zenos was instantly by her side, his hands slowly moving toward the wound in her stomach.

"Oh my god!" Karla's voice screeched behind Alana.

Alana was too shocked to react. All she could see was the blood pooling out Mena's abdomen which was impaled with a steak. Alana imagined what happened, the burst of the tree had probably broke the wood floor and the splinters from the floor had slashed through her.

"Mena why didn't you protect yourself?" Zenos asked.

"Too strong? The light from—foul energy—too strong!"

Zenos looked up at Alana, the mass of tears was unexpected but the accusative glare made Alana's heart wean with coldness.

How could he blame her? She thought. He should understand she had no idea what she was doing.

"You!" Lylas quickly grabbed Alana's arm roughly. "I should have never left you with these powers."

Alana was still looking back at Mena while Lylas was still hauling her by the arm.

"I-I-I'm sorry..." her voice was a mutter, barely audible.

"It's not your fault, Miss." The voices of Gigi and Fife reassured her inside her head. They were by her side, as if protecting her. "Mena understands it wasn't your fault, she will be fine."

And it was this that made the tears leak from her eyes. She couldn't believe the turn of events.

How did it come to this? All I wanted was a burger.

***

"I leave one minute and already you've caused trouble!" Lylas hauled Alana into a dark room making her skid backward almost falling.

The roughness of his voice along with his menacing tone was what made Alana suddenly feel pain. The pain of her broken wrist, the tightness of his hold on her arm and the way he threw her into this room.

"Master Lylas, please spare her," Gigi and Fifi spoke through mind on her behalf.

However, Lylas wasn't having it. He instantly bound them both in a rope and then magically made them disappear.

Tears pooled the corner of Alana's eyes. She wondered where Lylas had made them vanish to. An addition to more people she was causing trouble to.

"M-Mena...is she–will she be okay?" Alana's glossy eyes stared up at Lylas, making him falter for a brief moment before the frown replaced whatever made him hesitate.

He didn't reply her, instead he moved toward her with a determination. "It's my fault for being careless and blind, I knew you were trouble but I didn't think the rana apple's cultivation could activate your essence and give you powers."

"I-I'm not trouble!" Alana's looked down, frowning deeply in anger that the tears she tried so hard to hold back couldn't stop falling.

"I-I didn't mean to...I just...I just wanted... I didn't think—" Alana hated it, the fact that she was a blubbering mess in front of him.

The pain in her wrist was aiding to this, although it was slow burning and hardly unbearable. She didn't know if the powers she acquired was aiding in numbing down the pain, however, she couldn't move her hand.

"That's right, you didn't think...mortals don't think about consequence, they just do whatever please them. You're collateral damage."

Alana winced both at the pain and his words.

"I just wanted a burger."

"A b-burger?"

Alana looked again, gazing at him with her tear stained eyes. Lylas froze.

"I didn't think of what I was doing I was just picturing a burger, I wouldn't have guessed a tree would sprout in the living room." She explained.

"I really underestimated you...first the rana apple doesn't decompose at your touch, you managed it eat and it's one thousand years cultivation doesn't kill your mortal body, in fact you gain those powers instead. I know you had essence but it was dormant...it's my fault for not inspecting further into your origins. I also underestimated the fact that you've received the fire demon's foul energy...whether that affected the strength of you sprouting such a tree in my dinning room is probably likely."

"I'm sorry..." Alana apologised quickly, however she was now perspiring out of holding in how much pain she was in. "Can I see Mena?"

"Mena is immortal she will be fine, but you—you will not leave this room until those powers are completely dispensed from you. The foundations of this room are cold, therefore before you freeze to death your body will force those powers to protect you. The more you stay in this room, the quicker those powers will leave from your system."

And with that Lylas left her in the dark cold room. Alana heard the door clicking in a flash. Because her head was going fuzzy, it took her while to realise what he had said and what was happening.

He was locking her inside this room, leaving her on her own to freeze to death? Something as close to heartbreak quickly made her body tremble in fear. She knew he didn't care for her well being at all, she knew he viewed her life as meaningless, a mortal that she was. She didn't, however, think he would be this cruel.

All she wanted was just a burger!