Chapter Four
I walked out of his room. When I got back to my room, I checked the time and cursed. I missed part of my magic history class. I sprinted there as fast as my legs could carry me. When I got in, the teacher was already talking to his students. “So, you must be Lance! You had better not make a habit of this! Now sit down, and start writing down what I have on the board.” he snapped.
Now, as I was saying, I am Mr. Cringle. In this class, I will teach you about magic’s beginning, and its heights of power. I will also tell you about the Magic counterpart of Earth. But that is not for today.” Mr. Cringle said.
I sighed. This looked just like the average history class. After about five minutes, I decided I had found my most boring class. I started snoozing off and suddenly, there was a jarring pain in my head. I looked up to see the teacher had thrown his baton at my head and guided it with magic. I started to grin, thinking the class would be more fun than I anticipated. Then, when he assigned homework, my original idea proved itself right.
After Magic History, I went to Offense class. When we all got there, the teacher started giving us a speech. “Welcome to offence class. You will get broken bones in this class, and you will never leave unharmed. and there will be no magic. You will not always be able to use your magic, so I will be teaching you how to fight without it. You do not need to know my name, so you will call me sir.” He finished.
He looked around the class. Then his eyes fell on me, and he said “You there! Come up here, you will be my test dummy while I show you and the class how to get out of an arm lock. Now start here…” an hour later, I had more blue on my skin than white, and I ached all over.
So far it seems that all the teachers hate my guts. "I wonder of it was a good idea to join this, I'm just not cut out for it." I said, slightly put out.
Next, I went to summoning Class. "I seriously hope that this guy dosen't hate me as well" I thought to myself, but didn't have any high hopes.
I found the class and walked in, early. I saw the teacher there, and immediately, I liked him. He was tall, with swirling black eyes. He waved to a seat, and went back to whatever he was doing. I sat down, and waited for class to start. When everyone got there, he began talking. "This is summoning, Here you will learn how to summon demons from the first 7 circles. My name is John, and I will be your summoning teacher.” Still watching me, he cut his thumb, and drew a pentagon on the ground with blood.
As we watched, he summoned a small demon from something he called "the first circle." The little demon went around and passed out papers to all of us. I looked at my paper. It had a picture of a pentagon with some lines around it. “Now class, I want you to lightly cut your thumb, or bite it to blood, and draw the pentagon on the paper. Then imagine a small demon like the one I just summoned, appearing in the pentagon.”
I bit my thumb and drew the pentagon on my table. I then imagined a little furry red monster with wings appearing on the circle. Nothing happened. I tried again. Some other kids had already sucsedded in summoning a little circle one demon. This went on for five minutes. Soon, I was the only one without a summoned demon. I began to grow exasperated. Everybody was watching me.
I got so mad, I smacked the pentagon with my bloody, finger, not thinking, and put a bloody dot in the middle of the pentagon. John yelped and cried “Stop! Stop!” but it was too late.
I imagined a little devil, complete with trident standing in my summoning circle. There was a flash of light, and the pentagon turned black.
And just like that, the demon that I was thinking of was standing right there. John looked at it. “Lance, you just accidentily summoned a circle 3 demon. But your circle turned black… which means that it is captured, and you just have to name it now for it to be in your service until your death.
I looked at the demon. “Can I call you Staff?” I asked.
You may. It replied in a grating voice. I almost jumped back.
. “It can speak in my mind?”
"Sort of like my familiar, Shadow, but Shadow sounded…nicer." I thought.
John smiled at the class. Well now class, now that we have all summoned a demon, tell it to pick up your pencil. Pick up my pencil I thought at it. As you wish, master. It picked up the pencil.
I could get used to this. “All right class, times up tell your demon to return.” Return now. I sent to the demon. John sent us off to our next class.
I then went to my familiar class. The teacher was a tall, fat lady with blue eyes, and blond hair. I walked in and sat down in a seat near the front, to hear as much as possible. When everybody got here, she gave her welcome speech. “Welcome to Familiars and understanding them, class. My name is Mrs.Lawrence, and I will be your teacher.”
“Now you summon your familiar by sending a call to help to the upper circles of creatures. Now this is not summoning, class. Summoning summons familiars from the bottom circles, the place where all evil stems.
There are only 5 upper circles, unlike the circles of hell, which have 10. In the first circle we have the minor helpers to angels like doves, foxes and spirits. In the second circle, which is the most common one to get familiars out of, we have the light shadows, minor angels, and some winged serpents, which are holy serpents, not the dark ones you find in the 6th circle. In the third ring, where the more powerful familiars are, there are hippogriffs, minor dragons, and seraphs."
"My familiar is a minor hippogriff, it is in the middle between the second and third ring. None of you will get above the second ring, you are all too weak.” She said, snottily.
This lady seems like a complete jerk. I don’t like her at all. I wonder why she hasn’t mentioned something like shadow yet… I wonder if he’s a minor dragon?... I thought. She continued. "In the fourth ring, you will find very powerful familiars like angels, high seraphs, and dead mages."
"But, in the fifth ring, there are only evolved familiars. Most of These familiars evolved from one of the previous ones. For example, there are arch-angels, which evolved from normal angels. There are also natural familiars there such as, the golden dragons, the mimics, and Guardians.”
“Now” she said, “All of you must remember, you can only have one familiar. The second you summon another one, you lose your first one. Now, everybody with me draw a square in the air by holding a fireball spell in your hand.”
"Wait, I loose shadow?" I thought, horrified.
“Wait!” I yelled
“What is it Lance?”
“I already have a familiar!” I said, panicking.
She laughed. “Well he is not strong enough, so you are getting a new one.”
“No way!” I yelled. “I bet Shadow can beat your hippogriff in a fight!”
Immediately I realized what I had done. I paled I just challenged an experienced teacher. She laughed, knowing what I had done.. “All right then lance. Let’s see your weak familiar beat my hippogriff”
She drew a square in the air and summoned a small cat like thing, but it had the head of a hawk and it looked like its tail was a snake. I’m so doomed. “Shadow! Come to me!” there was a flash of light and Shadow appeared.
He was longer than before, now a full 6 feet. He looked around. These humans are pathetic. Other than that healer over in the corner. He appears to have quite a bit of potential. He thought at me.
I looked where he indicated, and saw Bakar. He smiled and waved. I waved back. I looked back at Shadow. I’m sorry, I got you involved in this, I challenged my teacher saying you could beat her familiar. I thought to him.
Shadow laughed in my head. . No problem. Just sit back and watch. He said.
Shadow walked up to her familiar and looked it in the eye. Mrs. Lawrence looked at Shadow and sputtered. “A…a…a golden dragon?”
But she couldn’t back down now, that would stain her honor forever. So she sent out her hippogriff. The two familiars looked each other in the eye. Th
en Shadow flashed forward, and just like that the fight was over. His claw was at the hippogriff’s throat curled to kill at a moments notice.
Mrs. Lawrence looked outraged, but managed to force out, “I surrender Lance. Class dismissed.”
Shadow jumped up on my shoulder. That was easy. Why are you so respectful to her? He thought at me.
"Well, I replied, she is my teacher, and if I want to stay in school I have to be nice to her."
He looked at me. Well, I shall be going now, call me when you need me. He disappeared in a flash of light.
Bakar walked up to me as I exited the door of the classroom. He chuckled. “Well, you showed Mrs. Lawrence what for.” He said, grinning from ear to ear.
“I didn’t know you had such a strong familiar. I have a winged serpent. And I thought I had it good.” He laughed
“Wait you also have a…” I started.
“Well, I’ll see you at Monster information.” He walked off in another direction.
I headed through the packed hallways to Dark magic and elements class. I sat down in a seat near the front and waited for the rest of the class to get there. When the rest of the class finally got here, the teacher, like all the others started with an opening speech. “My name is Mr. Leonardo. You will refer to me as none other.” Now, reach above you. Is there anything there?” He looked at a pudgy boy near me.
“Marcus, what do you think? Is there something above you?” Marcus looked nervous.
He looked up and since nothing appeared to be there, said “N...No sir.”
“False!” Came the booming roar from Mr. Leonardo. “There is something all around you. The Energy. It is all around you wherever you are.” In this class, I will show you how to harness and use this energy. Weather for Dark magic, or elemental, and also for storage.
Now the first thing you will need is an Energybook. This is a book that records everything you learn.” He reached into the air and pulled out a dark black book. “This is my energy book. It is all black because all I can use is dark magic. If you can use fire and dark, you will have a mix of black and red.”
“Now to get the Energybook, you must picture a huge lake of energy just floating all around you. Then, you must reach out with your hand, and feel your book. Then grab it and pull it out of the lake.” He said.
“Now try it. Go!” I thought about it for a moment.
I thought back to when I felt the power around me, but like a river, not a lake. I pictured the huge lake that was near where my parents live. I put my hand forward.
I imagined the lake. Then I felt something. I moved my hand back and felt a thin and hard item. Definitely not a book. I grabbed it and pulled it out. I was holding a shiny laptop colored pitch black. There were swirls of light red around the computer. I looked around and saw that I was the only one that got a laptop. I sighed. "Go figure" I thought.