monster and magic (end, for now)

ลำดับตอนที่ #8 : Chapter 8 First day of training

   Do you ever think something will happen, and it happen?

Like in Siberia, I didn’t knew weird dream might happen, so it didn’t happen, but tonight I knew weird  dream might happened, so it happened.

   Yeah, my life was pretty much a mess , I know.

   In this dream, I was someone else. I was older, at least for 2 years, I saw a red hair hanking on my left side, I was wearing a white long skirt, and a chest armor of some sort, walking through the hallway.

   When I reached my destination, I pushed the door open and oh my god, it was the throne room  Jordan was talking about.

   It exactly like what Jordan said, a red carpet  leaded to the throne and the same person on it, he was even scarier than I imagined, with that shadowy aura and scary cloak, even if he didn’t eat gods for breakfast, he still deserved that title.

   “Katherine…” said Ludwik the devourer of gods, “So you come.”

   ‘So that is this girl name.’ I thought.

   “Why did you call me, father.” I answered, and I realized this girl was his daughter.

   “Just think I need to update our plan. But first, I got an appointment that I need to get over with.”

   “Is this the last one?” I asked.

   “Yes, it is.”

   Suddenly, the door swang opened and three figures came in. When they in my sight, I realized what they really are.

   Two magician wearing grey robe was pushing one man in complete bondage toward us, he was about 30, black hair and black eye, wearing a golden helmet and a black viking armor.

   “Loki” Ludwik said.

  “Hello, my old friend, you still as scary as ever. And look at your daughter! Last time I saw her, she still a kindergarden.”

   He looked at me, with a smiling face.

   “Loki, you should be honour, you were the last gods we captured, by this time I have all the gods I need.”

“So what you going to do with me? Even if you beat me until I fell down to the deepest place in mystic realm, I can always trick myself out in a week.”

   “I not gonna do that.”said Ludwik,”I need your soul to summon my nameless friend.”

  He reached into his sleeve and brought out a black orb of some sort. Suddenly , Loki started to panic,  screaming insult and bad thing to Ludwik. He chanted something to the orb. It started to glow. And it seemed that the orb literally sucked Loki inside leaving just a middle age man lying on the floor.

   The two magicians dragged the man away as I asked Ludwik,” What do you want me to do, father?”

   “I wanted you to started observing the chosen two, it's about time.”

   I smiled “I think I can do better. But first, I need to get rid of our intruder.”

   I/She chanted something and I waked up.

   I was sitting there for a moment confused for what I just saw, that Katherine girl was going to spied us? And what with the god sucking.

   There was  a paper beside me, saying that I needed to meet Beta at the fountain, and I could wrote anything in this paper  to ordered that stuffs.

   After I requested what I needed, I undressed myself and took a bath, when I came out I found, a pair of underwear, brown jacket and black top, a jean, a pair of sock and a nice set of purple dye, there also an ivory staff and a boomerang wand, a pack of paper and a canteen of water. When I fully dressed up,  I walked out in my combat boots toward the fountain.

   And when I reached the place, I found my brother. He seemed to have good sleep. He was in a plain brown t-shirt and a short, still no fashion sense.

“How your sleep?” Jordan asked a really specific question.

   “Poorly.” I answered.

   “Wait, is this 22 December?”

   “I think so, it kinda hard tracking day when you changing time zone all the time.”

   Will he remember? Will he remember?!

   “This is your birthday, isn’t it? Happy birthday.”

   “I glad you remember.” I might seemed childish thinking about birthday, but I needed every happiness I could then.

  “Well then” A voice came from above, I looked up and saw Beta, standing on the shoulder of the hawk head god. She still wearing the same outfit or so it seemed, her hair was tied in a ponytail.

   “No time to waste, TO THE LIBRARY!”

   Normally library was my worst nightmare, but this one was an exception.  It was amazing, it was three story high, every bookshelves extend upward 15 feet, and there probably 1000 of it. And the book was flying across the air around the room glowing in light, did I mentioned that?

   [Fine Jordan, I will stop using ‘did I mention that’ joke.]

   “Today is winter solstice.” Beta said when we arrived at one of the table. “It the best day to start your path of magic, do you have the papers I gave you?”

  I brought it on the table, “What so special about it?”

   “It's a magic enhanced paper.” Beta answered . “Magic was summoned by the divine word. Try writing anything on the paper.”

   “Can it be English?” I asked.

   “Any language will do the trick, but an ancient language would be nice, it will have more power. After all, magic came from gods and there no gods in modern language.”

Jordan wrote the word ‘knife’ in Latin on paper.

   “Nothing happen.” Jordan said.

   “Read it.” Beta answered.

  “cultro” a butter cutting knife popped up on the table. But suddenly Jordan fell onto the table.

   “Why am I so tired.” He questioned.

   “You don’t know how to control magic yet, that why it consumed too much power, if you use too much power, well, you will literally burned up. Here, drink this.”

   She handed in a cup of water, when Jordan drank it he seem to be all hyped up again.

   “This is a  magic-regenerating-potion, it… well you see what it did.” Beta turned to me. “Your turn”

   I was nervous, mostly because I didn’t know what to wrote, but suddenly I got a feeling of some sort. And wrote the word ‘light’ in Japanese on the paper, which is weird because I scored F in Japanese.

   “Hikari” I said, the paper turned so bright that it nearly made me blinded.

“You two were great.” Said Beta. “But in practice, no magicians do this sort of thing.”

   “Why?” Jordan asked

   “Because imagined how stupid you look if you fighting to the dead with someone carrying a heave of paper around. “

“Kasai.” I suddenly said because, I don’t know, something told me to.

   The paper lit on fire.

   “Sadie what did you do?!” said Jordan. “It will spredere…”

   He probably wanted to said ‘destroy’ but he slipped into Latin somehow. The paper corrupted into ashes, putting out the fire, at least.

   “I think…” Beta said.”You ready for a duel.”

   10 minutes later we were on some sort of arena.

   Beta drew a 20 meters radius circle around us. “Who knock one another outside the circle first win.”

   “You can’t be serious right?” I asked. “We didn’t even learn anything.”

   “Magic was learn by doing, you need to find your way of magic so I know how to teach you, if this battle go wrong I will oversee it, use whatever you have, now let the fight begin!’

   She didn’t seem to opened for arguing so I just followed her order. What do I have, a staff and a wand, that seemed to be useful. Jordan got the same plus a sword, which gave him an unfair advantage. And then I remembered how Dad summoned a dragon.

  ‘Dragon not my style’ I thought to myself

   I throw my staff to the ground, and it turned into a white 4-feets-tall  fox, it turned to me as if to said ‘What is my purpose’

   “Get him!” I said.

   The fox dashed toward  Jordan, I decided to name her Jasper, and decided it was a girl. It jumped, prepare for biting when suddenly Jordan’s body turned red. Sense of danger, Jasper jumped back as Jordan body lifted up, the aura glowing larger like a bubble of energy, when it started to took shaped, I was staring at a transparent warrior in roman armor, two times Jordan normal side. Jordan pulled his sword out, the warrior did the same.

   “Cool”

  “Wow” Beta said “You summoned a combat avatar already.”

   The warrior stab his sword though the body of Jasper, and it turned back into a staff.

   Poor Jasper, 10.43-10.44

   Anyway, Jordan’s combat avatar turned toward me; inside it I saw Jordan’s eyes blighting red with excitement.

   Even though we not been together quite a lot, I remembered that eyes of his, it ‘I don’t know what the heck is happening but I will just follow along because it fun to do’ eyes, and it the type that I hated the most, especially at that time he was really determined to defeated me.

   He slowly walked toward me like a killer in some horror movie, I was paralyzed in fear ( Fine Jordan, you were really terrifying back then, do you satisfy yet?) I was unable to move, and when he swigged his sword into me, I thought ‘If I die by my brother’s hand, I will be embarrassed to dead.’

   But suddenly, as his sword about to hit me, there was a light, and I appeared 2 meters  away.

   We both stunned, but I seemed to get out from it first. I run to grabbed my staff that lying on the floor, both two end of it the staff lit with fire even though I didn’t speak any magic word, I hit the back of the combat avatar as hard as I could that it crumbled and Jordan fell on to the ground.

   “Hey! I just summoned that!” Jordan complained.

   “Well, then I just learn how to destroy it.”

   Jordan turned his sword to me, and performed a strike. I used my staff to blocked, but suddenly he kicked my legs, made me fall to the ground. He turned his sword to the handle side and aimed it to my head. I rolled to dodged because I really don’t like having a bump on my head. I speak a Japanese word of burn, and pointed my staff to my brother, and his arm was on fire.

   He tried to flick the fire away, which was hilarious by the way; I took that time to stand up and prepared my next magic.

    Jordan took out his staff and blasted a magic at me in the same time I blasted mine. Two blast of light hit each other, and exploded like a firework.

   Suddenly, an arrow was shot between us; we turned to the position it from and saw Beta holding a really fancy bow.

“That enough.” She said, “You two really are gifted.”