Kyle

It's been days since we started learning to master our magic from Darius. I can now perform basic and intermediate defensive, manipulating and combative spells. With my seal on, I still can't perfect advance magic but as Darius said, when my seal is released my magical affinity is boundless. Today I'm trying a blink spell, it's a basic teleportation spell which will transport you to a short distance. "Okay, I need to focus my energy to where I'm at and to where I want to go." I whispered to my self. I heard someone whisper to me a different spell. "Jıpılıqtaw." And within the last second, I pictured a picture of the beach, a memory from my childhood. When I opened my eyes, I saw my body is engulfed with blue light and a series of runic laces surrounded my body. "Kyle, what the hell did you just do?" Darius burst into the room. "I dunno Darius I..."

With a flash, I'm on a beach. "Wait, is this Hawaii?" I asked myself. "Aloha, Kyle. It seems you received our message." A woman's voice said, I turned around and she looks so familiar. "Clara?" I asked her. "Hi, Gjarpri zjarri." And a fiery serpent shoot from her hand. "Dridhem!" I screamed and I teleported within the forest. "I need to get out of here, I need to remember that spell I used to get my ass in this place." I whispered to my self, as I concentrate another fiery serpent shoot out of nowhere. I rolled sidewards to dodge and casted the flicker spell again. Now, I'm under a giant rock, I heard someone running around trying to find me. "Little Kylie, I can sense you. Come out come out wherever you are." Clara said. I took a deep breath and prepare to attack, there's no other way for me to escape this but, fight my way out. I ran out of the rocks cover and quickly casted a spell towards Clara. "Boltu astrale!" I shout at the top of my lungs and a bolt of cosmic energy shoot out of my hand which, sent Clara flying. I immediately go up from the slope and find Clara struggling to get up. Suddenly, I remembered the spell I used to teleport all the way here.
"Jıpılıqtaw." I whispered and the same light engulfed me, I know that this spell has a few seconds delay. With my bad luck, Clara is already on her feet looking pissed. "You bitch, you broke my bone! Die you little bitch!" She screamed and a barrage of fiery snakes shoot out from her body. I reacted quickly and casted a counter spell "Reflectum majika." I casted and a mirror of pure mana absorbed and reflect her attack and enhanced it. I prayed that the teleportation spell would transort me before Clara was engulfed by the roaring blue flame but, it didn't. I saw Clara screamed in pain as she burn in her own flame, and as I witnessed the horror I am trasported back into our room.

I sat there on the floor as I cried hard, I committed murder. That's all that's running inside my head. "What the hell Kyle, where have you fucking been?!" Darius screamed at me, I looked at him in tears. "I killed Clara." Was all I said. "You did what?" Dylan asked me. "I... she was one of them, they planned this. They somehow find a way to connect with me and cast a spell to be teleported out of here." I started to tell them. "When I arrived there, Clara, Clara Santos was there and, she started attacking me. I tried to escape without hurting her but, I had no choice but to fight my way out. I knocked her down and remembered the spell thay brought me there, when the spell is taking place because, it has a few minutes delay. Uhm she attacked me with powerful fire magic, I... I casted a defensive spell and her attack backfired at her and... and... I killed her." I sobbed harder when I finished, I murdered someone and I feel so sick of myself. Dylan rushed to my side and hugged me tight. "It's okay baby, you didn't had a choice." He comforted me. "She was ready to kill you and ready to die, if you didn't faught back, I'll... we'll lose you." He cupped my face and look me in the eye. "We are on war, they want you dead, this is our reality Kyle. If we won't fight we will all die." He explained. "We need to fight, we need to fight them so no more innocent lives will be taken." I relaxed in his arms and I feel my eyelids getting heavy and within a split second, I started losing consciousness.

I woke up with my head on someone's lap, I looked up and it's Keith. "Hi, I went home immediately when Darius sent the news." He smiled at me. "How are you doing?" He asked. "I'm starting to accept that this is how we work, I still feel guilty but, it's not eating me up anymore." I lied to him, I don't want to make everybody worry because, of my stupudity. "You're not being honest." He said. "I am, Keith please, stop using magic on me." I scolded him. "That's the thing, I can't use magic on you. You are blocking me, that's how I knew." Shit, I'm being defensive again. "You know what? I get you, that's how exactly what I felt when I fisrt killed someone. You wanna know why I became fine?" He asked and I nod my head yes. "I realized that there's a great difference between me and them. They wanted to kill and I, I killed people because, it's the only choice to save many." He explained. "It's a big decision to make and we have to make it, to protect those who can't protect themselves. Just like soldiers, we're like soldiers." I just stared at him as his words sink in within my head. We do it not because we want to, we do it to protect ourselves and most importantly others. I thought to myself, Keith's right, I grabbed the back of his head and kissed him. "Thanks Keith, for helping me understand." I told him. Dylan joined us shortly after he was done with the meeting with the council, Keith made him his right hand man attending meetings whenever I'm in trouble. I reached for him and planted a kiss on his lips to make him feel a little better from all the stress I caused him. "Hi, there baby. Are you feeling better?" He asked me. "Yes, thanks to both of you." And I smiled at him, and he gave me another kiss before lying down with us. "How did the meeting go babe?" Keith asked Dylan. "No trouble, the elders just decided to add security and precautionary measures to ensure Kyle's safety." He answered. "That's good, this means we have to be there when you practice magic." Keith told me and I just nodded. We just lay there in silence enjoying our peace, knowing that someone will break it eventually. We just gazed up the ceiling until we fall asleep.

I woke up in the middle of the night with a dream that my dad is being murdered by the Stregoni Maligni, for a moment I wanted to immediately teleport to him but, I know better now. "This might be another trap from them." I was talking to myself, I decided to wake Keith and Dylan up to get advice. I told them about my dream and we decided to go together with Darius and Elise. "Okay guys, we have people guarding Kyle's dad but, if the Stregoni is behind this, our peole might not be able to handle it." Keith started the briefing. "We need to save them all and repel all the enemies." He instructed. "I already contacted the higher ups, they will send reinforcements with us." Darius informed us and we all nodded at him. After that brief meeting we transported ourselves together to my dad's rehab center. When we arrive there, everything is already in chaos. Magical and non-magical people lay dead on the floor, spells flying across the room relentlessly. It's a full on war and my dad could be the next victim. I felt magic flow all over me like adrenaline, I need to save my dad and I need to do it fast. "Dridhem." I casted. "Kyle no!" I heard Keith shouted but, I was gone. I encountered a mad witch killing every people in front of her, she saw me and then attacked me with a green flash of lightning. I dodge it and retaliate. "Coup de vent." I casted and a sharp gale of wind cut her throat, she's a sick murderer it has to be this way, this is war, there's no room for holding back. A group of dark wizards appeared as I made a turn andthey started firing spells at me. "Dridhem!" and I flickered behind them. "Kessinger umbra." And a wave of shadows send them flying accross the other end of the hall. It's been the same for the next situation, it's either kill them or immobilize them. As I reach my dad's room, I saw a woman in pure snow white robes taking my dad away. She was accompanied by men in crimson robes, they prepare to attack but, I lost control. "Noooo!" I screamed at the top of my lungs and the next thing I knew, I am engulfed in a peculiar looking flame. "Swpernovalar." I said and the flame rapidly expanded towards them, the men in crimson robes were instantly vaporized by the flame but, the woman in white countered it with sheer cold blizzard. My flame was so strong it managed to burn her hooded cape away and, her face was revealed. "V?!" I heard Darius speak and I look back they managed to keep up. Elise, instantly sent a spider demon towards V but, she just froze and shattered it. Then she summoned a cold mist and when the mist ceased, V and my dad are gone. "Dad no!" I yelled and tried to run to where my dad vanished but, Keith stopped me. "We will find him Kyle, for now, we need to help the injured." He explained. "But, what if they kill him?" I told him and he shook his head. "They will use him to catch you, they will not kill him." I still fear for my dad but, Keith's right. We need to help the wounded. We went to the area wherw all the wounded were held for healing. I sent a bolt of cosmic energy to make a big hole on the roof. "Selena të thërras ty." I called to the moon. "Shërimi i dritës së hënës." A beam of warm and gentle moonlight came down directly from the moon fully restoring the damaged bodies like nothing happened to them. When I look around, everybody's looking at me stunned with what I just did. "What, what did I do?" I look at Keith, Dylan, Elise and Darius for an answer. "You just used lost magic. An ancient spell long forgotten and can't be perfomed by wizards nowadays. Where did you learned how to unlock it's secret?" He asked me. "I always hear voices, they said that they are the celestials and they will grant me their power because, they chose me." I answered honestly, as the moonlight fades so does my consciousness.

When I regain consciousness, I'm already lying down on our bed with all of them around me including the high council. "Hey there, how are you feeling?" Dylan asked me, my dad, mybdad got taken by the enemy. "Where's my dad, did you find him already?" I asked them and they just stayed silent. "I tried tracing your dad but, I think they are blocking any kind of magic." Darius said, I turned to Elise. "Please escort the council out and make sure they won't get involved with us for now." I asked her and she smiled at me. The council left with Elise, only Keith, Dylan, Darius and I remained within the room. "Darius, help me stand." I asked Darius, and he complied. "Hold my hands." I told him and he did. "Anemoi ju thërras." I called to the wind gods and they answered to me. "Help my friend and boost his abilities to trace my dad." I told them then different winds surrounded Darius and I. "Now Darius." I gave him the signal, and he started tracing. Darius' vision moved quickly, I can see all that he sees and it's giving me a headrush. Everything move so quickly, I almost let go of Darius because, this is too much for me. I see Dar's eyes completely turned blue due to the boundless magic that he's receiving, we stayed like that for a few more minutes hoping that we would locate dad evetually. "Nothing, I can't see your dad Kyle." He said, and we both break from the spell. The Anemoi kept talking to telling me that, the enemy may be using demonic rituals so powerful even celestials like them cannot penetrate. I tild everyone what the celestials told me, they are determined to strengthen ourselves because, we maybe facing death itself in this war. I just hope that the help of the celestials will be enough to get us through it all.

Days passed after the horrific battle between us and the Stregoni Maligni took place. We are now inside the magical training center built within one of the forests inside Keith's property. It was only Darius who's teaching us before now, even tje mkst capable and talented sorcerers of tje coven joined to train us for the upcoming battle. I am training with the best Lumos Magus in the world, Delta to improve my light magic. We are now simulating a battle for him to see if I can utilize light magic in battle well. I dodged one of his attacks but, Keith and Eli distracted me with their amazing battle. Keith has been training Eli for he is an elementalist and Eli is a electro brand. I was enjoying watching them for a split second till I saw Delta preparing for a powerful attack from my peripheral view. I harnessed magic for me to counter when an idea struck me, why wouldn't I make a spell that mix light and shadow magic? I focused more to hasten the process and when I composed the right words to form the spell I unleashed it to counter Delta's final spark. "Demak’i birihani ‘asa." I chanted and, a beam of overwhelming dark light burst from my hand. Beam of dark light absorbed Delta's light magic making it stronger, to the point where it also shattered the barrier placed on the walls of the facility. I hear people gasped with what they witnessed and my gang came running to me. "What was that Kyle, it's not from any known spellbooks." Delta said. "Is it another lost magic or another spell from the celestials?" A person asked. "No, I- I just made that one myself." I admitted and room was covered by murmurs from everyone.  "Can you explain it further, or can you teach us that spell?" Delta asked. "It's a mix of light and shadow magic, I don't know if everybody can use it because, it requires a lot of mana from the user." I explained. "Darius, you can use both like and shadow magic right?" I asked him and he nodded. "Okay, this is the spell, Demak’i birihani ‘asa. Try to harness as much mana that you can before using it okay?" I instructed him and he prepared himself to perform it. "Mana madegi." He cited and his mana overflowed from his mana pool, He took a deep breath and prepared himself. "Demak’i birihani ‘asa!" He chanted the way I did and the same beam of dark light burst out of his hand, it's not as powerful as mine bacause it didn't absorbed anothe magic but still, it managed to put a crack on the barrier. "That was, overwhelming." Darius said. "I think I get how this spell works." He further added. "It's powerful on it's own but, it's more powerful as a counter spell. If you use it against other forms of magic, instead of fighting it, it absorbs the energy and doubles its power." He explained. "It's only advisable if you are attuned to both light and shadow magic because, when I used it I felt that the spell reviewed my affinity to those elements before it made the merge of light and shadow magic. To those who might be able to use this, my advise is, use it only if you were attacked with a powerful spell because, this spell can drain your mana pool even with a boost. It also requires physical and mental fortitude for, it really exhaust the body and the mind. Sorry but, is my explanation clear enough? " Darius finished, everybody gave him applause for quickly making an evaluation for the spell that I created. Darius is certainly a genius, he's so amazing because, he quickly understood my spell and made the easiest explanation for it. We watch Dylan and Elise duel to demonstrate the dark light spell. Dylan casted it by embedding it on his arcane sabre. When he flicked his sabre a blade of dark light emerged insteaf of a beam. Elise quickly countered it by summoning a demon spider with crimson crystal on it's back. Instead of hitting Elise, the crystal absorbed the attack. We all cheered for the for they did it successfully, Elise was about to banish the demon spider when it shrieked violently. Black light started to flow on it's veins until it coverd the spider whole body, when the light faded the spider turned into a jet-black statue. A few seconds later it shattered into black dust completely erasing it from existence. Due to the danger that my newfound spell impose, all of us decided not to use it in practice battle. Everybody is also required to use a medium like wands, staffs and other artifacts if they wish to practice the spell as a safety measure. We might found a weapon that can end this war but, this weapon can also end us all.

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I just wish I can just Demak’i birihani ‘asa all the toxic people out of my life. LoL, I guess it's not murder if you completely erase them from existence.

XO's Ryo

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