In the world of Magic

It is the first thing that I remember that I was in a dark room with a small hole that shone just like a star in the night, pleasant but cold.

“Congratulation madam. You have a healthy boy!”

‘Wait am I just born?’ I thought. ‘Wait was the light I saw- err- not important.’

I still could not open my eyes but I could hear them speaking.

Slowly my eyes opened and I could see them staring at me with awe. My mother has dark blue hair with pure black eyes, she looked very beautiful.

Then I looked at how father looked. He had black hair but his eyes were brownish yellow, it gave me chills down my spine as if he was going to be strict until I don’t become mature.

“His eyes are different! They are electric blue.” Mother cried in joy.

They might have noticed it but I felt that something was different in my body. It was as if I could feel some kind of energy all around me. I looked around and noticed that I was in a small hut, which is supposed to be my house.

My father took me up and started to tickle me on my stomach but for some weird reason it had no effect on me.

“Say daddy.” He asked me.

“Alex he is just born.” Mother scold him. It made me feel that my life was going to be lively from now.

I was a kind of rebel, when my parents had no eyes around me I sneaked to experiment on the aura around me. But the reason that I could not walk and was kept in a high cradle it was hard to sneak out. I once tried to go near the fire place and keep my finger in fire but mother found out and took me away in a flash which I could not see.

I felt the same aura on her but it was much more refined than mine and purer which can only be thought in dreams, even for me it was beyond my limits. But she hid her aura as fast as she could not even I could get a proper nature of her aura. It felt the nature itself was in front of me.

For some reason I felt like I was grounded because I could not get out of cradle without her picking me up. I started to experiment my aura by spreading it as far as could, but it seemed that I could not make my aura outside the hut I lived in.

Slowly as years passed I learned to walk and speak but more importantly I learned how to conceal my aura inside myself. I was three years old now and was allowed to go out of this hut. As soon as I went out of the hut I got bewitched by the beauty of the nature. The hut was located on a peak of a hill but the window was facing the opposite side where was a forest. I thought I was living in the forest for years but the truth was completely different from the reality.

Father showed me the the hill. After the tour we went in back and mother was waiting for us on the door and was going to give a lecture to father for sure. I think I became good at reading expressions because mother sent me in my room and father to their room. I sneaked out of my room to hear their conversation.

“Don’t you care for his life? They might find us if we go out of this hut.” Mother told him in a serious but low voice.

“He has learnt to conceal his mana so he will be fine.” Father casually spoke.

“I know he different from us and specifically normal humans, but he has no nature to his mana. He has infinite mana but it is useless if it does not have a nature. What if they found us and try to hurt him won’t he die.”

“I know you are worried about our son but he cannot stay here forever. People like you, the mana users cannot conceal mana presence like him that’s why this house is a barrier to you but it is not for him. He might be able to hide his presence amongst the humans.”

“Yeah but won’t his brother or sister be left alone?”

“Wait what do you mean by that?”

“I carry Frey’s sibling.”

My father jumped in joy but I was more happy to know that I would not be alone in this small hut of similar age.

“But now I believe the world outside has changed. I heard many people got magic at the age of eleven or twelve and the government stopped human experiments on the people who had magic and established magic schools all around the globe.” Father scrolled the mobile screen to show it to mother.

Mother was relieved that we would be able to live like normal human without anyone chasing us. Father left his business for the woman he loved even though nobody was after him as he was not one of the magic users.

A year passed and we left for father’s house in the city. I stayed by mother’s side who held my little sister in her arms while father drove the car. It was the first time I was going to see a city, so I was basically excited. I realized that mother hid her mana presence by a mask. I still wondered why she hid her mana when we were out of danger. But I followed her lead. I realized that sister was a normal human just like father.

When we entered the city my hopes were shattered when I saw few people in rags being bullied by some middleclass people, but the tall towers lived up to the expectations. Instead of the towers we visited a friend of father with whom father had business. His friend was one of the richest people in the city.

“Laurel you seem to be fine.” He said it to my mother.

“Brother it has been five years since we last met, and this is all you say without giving me any gifts.” Mother acted like a spoiled brat.

“I see you haven’t changed yet, but I would never forget a gift for you because I still remember that you had almost killed me on your birthday and the recovered me with your magic until I agreed to give you a gift.” He sighed with regret.

He then gave mother a bracelet and removed her mask. The bracelet concealed mana better than the mask. Before he through the mask I took it so that it would be useful to me sometime.

“Are they your children? What are their name?” he asked. “My name is Frey and this is my sister Cassy.”

“What is your age kid? You have the same hair as your mother.” “Intros first.”

“Oh right my name is Simon Ashley”

“I will be five years old tomorrow.”

“You are the same age as my daughter for today.” He laughed.

Then he drove us to his mansion, which stretched out for a few hundred meters and was three floors high.

“Father welcome back.” A girl came running and hid behind uncle.

Her hair was caramel colored and her eyes were yellow and as sharp as a wolf. She was a normal human too but she wanted magic so she tried to buy magic equipment to learn magic but it was for waste.

First I went for bath so that I could go to bed fast. When I came out of the bathroom a group of maids took me to dressing room. It was the first time I felt embarrassed. I dressed in a cloth which was black from up to down. It suited me though.

Then I went to sleep without noticing that it was evening already where mother tried to woke me up for dinner. I was used to eat homemade food but mother insisted that we went out to eat food. Uncle took at one of his restaurant because it was one of the best food makers and the most expensive restaurant too.

They ordered and I munched it down till I was completely stuffed. I never knew that the food made out could be this good. When we returned home I noticed that I did not see aunt. Uncle did not say anything and said that she had fever and could not come down to meet us. If I guessed by his voice I realized that there was a hint of anger in his voice but it was not directed towards us.

Without asking anymore I went to bed with mother. Father and uncle were going to talk about their business. It was midnight I woke up as I was thirsty but I got lost in this freaking big mansion.

“Stay away from those people. They are bad people who want to live on your father’s hard work. I told your father to not let them come here but your father is soft hearted and did not listen to me and now they will take everything from us.” A women scolded a girl.

“Mom I was with them, they were good people.” Anne said

“Anne, how many times do I say, don’t argue with me. I told you so you have to do as I say.”

“Ok, mommy.”

“Never knew you would suppress your own daughter for greed. If you hate us that much then why don’t you tell uncle in front of everyone that you won’t money that’s why you want to kick us all out.” I said after opening the door.

“How dare a kid try to provoke me. I am going to make your life miserable in this mansion. Just wait for that.”

“Try me.”

I went out and banged the door as hard as I could useing mana. For a while it felt as if it was a minor earthquake.

I then went to the kitchen and had a glass of ice cold water as I loved cold water. For some reason it felt good to relieve my anger on someone like her before I went to bed.

“Good morning” Anne woke me up by opening the curtain.

I was refreshed and went for breakfast. She apologized and said that she was going to follow instructions of father and be friend with you.

After breakfast she told me that I needed to change my style and took me to a mall. First she took me to a salon and trimmed my hair from the side and made me look like some handsome model. Then she took me to clothes store. I felt presence of many magician who were teens but few who were lucky were some adults like my mother.

After entire day of shopping I swore to myself that I would try my best to stay away from girls while shopping. When we were preparing to return, a chaos broke out. Everyone started to panic and run around randomly.

In a second all the glasses shattered and a we heard a roar of a dragon. People started to evacuate the city. We started to run along with everybody but our body could not keep up with them.

I could see the dragon going on a rampage on the ground instead of flying in the sky. It seemed a bit strange. Why would a dragon put so much effort to destroy a city from ground instead it could do it easily if it stayed in the air?

“Anne you go ahead, I have something to do.”

“You mad?” “No smart, bye”

Anne got pulled in the crowd and I returned in the direction of the dragon. I spread out my mana to detect any abnormalities. I could smell blood. The dragon was wounded and sent in this direction by someone by mistake. I feel a nuclear bomb approaching in an hour.

I ran towards the dragon and tried to communicate with it by the help of mana but it took some effort to bring under control. As soon as it got under control it fell dead. It was attacked with a nuclear weapon which made a huge whole in its belly from where it bled, but i was surprised that before it died it layed an egg of a size of a meter.

I took me few minutes to hide it and I went to the closest police station and told them to talk to minister of defence to divert the positioning of the nuclear bomb or the entire city along with evacuated people might die. They took it as a joke from a child but they did not realize that I read an entire library in the hut about the current world.

I could not do anything then warn them, then I realized that I was a magician and the responsibility with magic is to help the ones who are helpless. I looked around to find the tallest building and went on the terrace to prepare a mana field to stop the explosion. Everybody had evacuated the city except the police who were trying to get close to the corpse of the dragon.

As soon as the news of dead dragon was spread everybody started to enter the city again. The missile was still on the way maybe a few minutes away. I spread my mana all around the city and formed a barrier to the city.

Seeing the missile people thought it was a flare to show the military was here but they could not know any better. The explosion was too big and shook the entire barrier.

I could not hold it any longer, I was already at my limits so before I could pass out I lifted the barrier off the city from sides and trapped the explosion in a mana sphere and threw it as far as possible from the city in the air.

“Frey can you here me?”

“Mom?” I spoke with all my strength.

“You have grown up haven’t you? But you should rely on us too. You could have died of exhaustion. Promise me you will never do such things again.” She started to cry.

I slowly opened my eyes but it was itchy. I could barely open them at first and then I realized that I could not see clearly. My eyes had no problem but I became color blind. I could see everybody’s outline only. I looked around and realized that I was in the mansion.

“I promise mom.”

“Happy birthday” everybody wished me.

It was few minutes away from my birthday to pass. I welcomed them with a smile.

“How are you feeling?” Anne asked and everybody stared at me. “Fine just a bit dizzy.”

“Please can I borrow him for a minute?” uncle asked. Everybody left including my parents.

“Why did you not say anything about your eyes to your mother? She could cure it.”

“Mother cannot because it is out of her power. She does not have enough mana to treat me. Uncle I have a favor to ask for helping your daughter.”

“I will try my best to complete it. Is it you want to find someone to treat your eyes?”

“No, please keep this secret about my eyes. I don’t want anybody to worry about me. I can manage without eyes because I am not completely blind.”

“Your mana is not sufficient to keep yours eyes like that forever.”

“No it is not but I don’t need forever. I will find a cure on my own with my own money so that my parents don’t suspect even a small thing.”

“How will you earn money?”

I pointed toward the mask that I had of my mother.

“I cannot allow you to join a magician guild without proper equipments.”

“No worries, we own the biggest auction house in the world.” “But still.”

“Worried that my wife will blame me for not buying better equipment for my own daughter.”

“One of the thousand points.” We chuckled.

That night when everybody were asleep I snuck out of the mansion to find the egg. I hid it beside a trash can in an alley so that people would stay away fro it. As I touched the egg it cracked open and I saw a black small dragon. I tried to pat its head but it bit me and a tattoo appeared on the back of the palm.

“Hungry” the dragon trembled.

“You can talk?”

“No only you can understand me because of our bond.” “Bond?”

“We made a pact of master servant as mother had instructed.” “The big dragon?”

“Yes, before death she asked me to form a bond with you. The last remaining power she had, she fused it with your mana but you wont be able to use dragon force with your current strength.”

“Cool, now I have a pet of my own which can talk to me. Can this world be any more complicated?”

“Well it is.”

“What do you mean by that?” “I am hungry.”

“Yeah you are right nothing can be more complicated than you being hungry.”

“It is not what I meant”

“Then what did you mean?”

He suddenly transformed into a puppy.

“Yeah you have your own mana.” I made a face of gloomy geezer.

We returned to the mansion and I gave him biscuits to munch and I went back to sleep.

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