I was starting my academic life, I was excited.
The magic academy is divided into different sections, depending on the specialization of the students as well as their classes and learning, the first time I came to this place with mom, for me it was impressive to see those buildings so old they have been almost 500 years since that were created and still stand as if time did not pass in them, large courts and fields for students to exercise, laboratories, alchemy rooms, wide corridors, study rooms and different student clubs in addition, a variety of teachers from all possible races and huge halls. What is clear is the classism that abounds in the academy, depending on your magic or invocation ability, it will also be your social status, that you can use magic does not make you better than someone else who cannot use it,
Although mom never studied at the academy, since she learned directly from her older sister, but dad did. I have heard stories of his student life, he was not the best because he was a special case like me, we are both sorcerers, we do not depend on mana in our bodies, that is because no sorcerer has mana in his body, we are a special case, our power comes from nature itself, we use ether the stronger our connection with nature, the stronger the spells.
"How I hate this aura" Mom always said when she was with me.
To tell the truth, I hate her too, I hate her since I was in school, I only put up with it for them and now for my sisters, when Dad disappeared it was a difficult time for everyone, many times I did not go to school, then Mom died and I couldn't go back to study. But thanks to the fact that Dad is back and now he takes care of the housework, I have been able to enroll again. It is still strange to me, but in the bottom of my heart I know that he is our father, he may look younger and his hair is a different color, that he has lost his memory, but I know it is him.
As I go to the classroom, I meet some fellow students, they greet me and some ask me why I had not returned, others already knew why and came to give me their condolences.
Then I feel a blow to my back that almost makes me fall.
"Hey, hey, hey, heyyy" exclaims loudly who hit me.
I was about to punch him in the face until I saw who it was, I stopped the punch in my tracks. The person raised his arms in surprise and then laughed.
"Hahaha" as aggressive as always Maki.
"Juliana" I replied cheerfully and hugged her tightly.
"Guuuuuu you're going to crush me" he said.
She was a tall and slender young woman, we were the same age, but not the same height, she almost looked like an adult, in addition her blonde hair reached her shoulders, she had pink cheeks, eyes as green as an emerald and a body developed by her hard training. He always showed off his physique to everyone and at this moment he did it just to annoy me.
She strikes a bodybuilding pose and looks at me smug.
"This is the body of a battle mage, lanky miss."
"Always showing off your Rumis features"
"By the way Juliana I thank you for helping me in my studies"
What things do you say Maki? "You're my friend, it's clear that I had to" then she makes a face at me and continues, you didn't say anything to her right?
I knew what she was asking me "I sent her a letter, I just hope things improve between her and us" my words sounded empty.
"Sooner or later you must solve that" my friend told me encouragingly, then she asked me a question and how is your father?
"He has improved a lot, but he has self-esteem problems"
I try not to get depressed, but she always sees right through me.
"Courage my dear and skinny friend, if you have a problem you can always ask the Severo family for help, we never leave a friend alone, especially you and your sisters"
I knew it, our mothers were great friends, they were both adventurous, Mom said, "Diana fought her fists against the most dangerous creatures that could exist" I don't know if she meant it or was laughing at me, although Dad said the same " once she beat me up and your mother laughed at me for a whole month, I still don't understand how Cesarion fell in love with her "
"Thank you Juliana"
"By the way Maki", you passed the tests so that we were on the same course right? She asks me stunned.
Who do you think you're talking to haaaa? I proudly reply, "I couldn't leave you alone, after all I'm the best sorceress"
I had taken a special test in order not to fall behind in my studies, to my surprise I passed it with honors, I was not the best or the worst student, but when I wanted to I could do anything.
So you came back! An irritating voice yells.
I hear an annoying, high-pitched voice. She was none other than Isabel, the other sorceress of the academy, always with her particular way of being, a girl the same age as mine and Juliana's, we are just as tall, her particular silver hair, her eyes brown and bulging eyes look at me irritably, his olive skin is just as particular as his hair, he always wears a small ornament in his hair, so that his right bangs do not bother him. Although it may not seem like it, it is very elegant and intelligent, but very yyyyyyyyyyyyyy annoying. Our two families also have a history, but I don't want to talk about it.
"I thought you would not return, that you would flee from me your rival in sorcery" he says pointing at me.
"I have no rivals, you are the only one who comes out with that. Besides, the three of us were seeing each other all this time at Juliana's house "
She approaches me annoyed, I can almost feel her face against mine and then she lets go of all her retreat, I try to look away, but she goes on and on (I have to keep up appearances, what we do outside of the academy is very different from what we do here)
"I am the best sorceress, blablablablablabla, my connection with nature is better, blablablá, thanks to my connections with the nobles, blablablá"
Juliana just laughs, which annoys Isabel.
"At least let it come," Isabel tells him.
"You do not get involved in things of wizard sorcerers"
A) Yes! Because we don't go to training camp and try it out.
Yes we go now!
"We should all calm down," I reply to the two of them.
"You don't get involved", Isabel answers annoyed, "after I finish with this magician, you will continue"
I get irritated "okay, I'll wait for Juliana to make you mush, and then finish her work"
HAAAA!
Isabel gets even more upset and before we can continue, the three of us are thrown to the ground with such ease that it seems impossible.
Although it may not seem like it, the three of us are friends and they are my best friends.
"Whenever there are problems, one of the three is involved, and ohhh surprise I find myself at three" exclaims an annoyed voice.
She was our course teacher, one of the 3 black magicians who can use dark magic being a black magician does not mean that you are capable of using dark magic, you can also use impious or distortion magic, she uses only one finger to make us bite the dust.
She was our teacher Zenobia, always in her black dress as if she were an executive, high heels, her hair red like fire and greenish eyes that are protected by thin glasses but now seem full of anger, in her right hand she holds a book, while with a single finger of his left hand he holds us all three.
"A student told me that apparently a fight was going to happen, but to my surprise I find the three usual idiots making trouble"
None of the 3 responds, the teacher stops using her magic and we get up.
"Now go to your respective classes" she scolds us "at this moment I am going to this room to give my respective class"
Juliana and I raise our hands and say at the same time.
"Teacher, this is our classroom"
I can see a little tic in the teacher's right eye.
Isabel also raises her hand.
"Teacher, I also belong to this classroom"
The teacher massages her temple with her free hand, trying to lessen a throbbing pain in her head.
Not a joke right? She asks.
DO NOT! We respond.
The other students are paralyzed, they know how the teacher can react when she is upset, especially when it is with one of us three. But thank heaven he only points to the entrance of the room and orders us to enter together with the other students.
During recess I got together with my friends.
We always made ourselves on a platform near the alchemy laboratories.
Heavens Maki this is delicious! Juliana says savoring the fruit cake that Dad had prepared for me.
"Your dad is talented," says Isabel teasingly, who takes a bite of the meatloaf.
Shut! "But if dad has a lot of talent in the kitchen"
And are you still thinking about getting a job? Juliana asks me curiously.
"If he does it every day since I improve, he says he does not like to use money that he does not earn by himself"
Isn't that money yours? Isabel asks.
"Supposed to be, but the dad I knew is very different from the current one, which is not bad."
"Let him look for work, maybe that will help him"
Yes, stop overprotecting him!
Well, it's partly true. I'm afraid of losing Dad again.
I would not like him to get a job since he would get away from us a bit (I think) but still he does not like to use the money we have saved. I'm certainly a little controlling and jealous of dad.
"I will think about it this weekend that we are going to go fishing" I answer as I drink some juice.
"You are the worst"
"Yes, keep denying that you look like you know who"
"Those things run in the blood" laughs Isabel.
"Please don't say that" I reply.
"Come on, come on Maki every day that you pass you look more like her and less like your mother"
"I just wish I was as beautiful as her, it would be the only good thing"
"Keep thinking like this and in a few years you will be the one who orders in a certain district of the capital"
"Do not continue with that, it is what I least wish"
We continued talking for a while about what we planned to do now that we were in the academy, after all it would be 3 years that we would study here, my 15th birthday was approaching. Although for a witch age is only a number, but dad insists on doing a birthday party.
When are you going to invite us to your house? Isabel asks me.
"When I feel like it" I answer her, bothering her, she makes me pout "if you want you can accompany me to the lake this weekend"
"I'll ask my parents," Juliana responds.
"I'll ask Mom, although she may say no," Isabel says as she lowers her shoulders.
Didn't you tell him about my father? I ask him.
"No, and I don't plan on doing it either" he replies, then adds "you know what would happen if he found out"
As the day progressed and we changed classes, Juliana was going to a defensive magic class to strengthen her spells, I was going with Isabel to a course on advanced sorcery, we were the only two sorceresses in the country, for the nation we are a very resource valuable, but at the same time living time bombs. Sorcerers have never been seen with good eyes, we are an exception to the rule of mana, we are not bound by the rules of magic.
Although it is called "special course in advanced sorcery" we do not have a teacher, we only depend on ourselves to learn, luckily for both of us one of our relatives was a sorcerer, in Isabel's case it was her grandfather and in my case it was my father They wrote many of their spells in books and what I really do with her is share information, although I am very irritated by her way of being, it is necessary that we both share the information to improve, of course neither teaches the other their best techniques.
Our practice field is as big as a football stadium, it is surrounded by trees and other types of plants, it also has reinforced walls capable of withstanding a large explosion, sometimes I feel like a prisoner, we may have enough space to practice, but they do it more for the safety of the other students than to give us space to learn, if they really wanted to, they would look for a teacher for us.
"Hey Maki"
What?
Do we blow up the wall? Isabel laughs when she asks me such a thing.
Are you kidding right?
"I hate this stupidity of segregating us as if we were a couple of monsters, I should blow this stupid wall to pieces"
"If you do, you will agree with those idiots"
She lies on the ground "I hate this damn box, they just leave us here as if only to get away from the others" she says annoyed.
"I know" I answer and also lie on the floor, "but it is the only thing we can do to improve"
"I appreciate you being here Maki"
Are you sick? "I never expected those words to come out of your mouth"
"Very funny" she answers annoyed, "we are the only two sorceresses in the country, it is not easy when everyone judges you, even in my family I have to live these stupidities, reinforced walls, keep distance from everyone, the only one with the one who could be was with his grandfather, but after he died everything went to hell "then he adds Why don't you tell everyone that you are Velvet's niece?
I shake my head and make a face "I have nothing to do with my aunt"
"But your aunt is one of the primordial witches, your whole life would be easier if you told everyone"
"I don't want to know anything about her," I exclaim reluctantly.
"Whatever you say, if you told everyone that you are a witch, everything would change."
"Mom always said that we should form our own path and that's what I plan to do"
"Our life sucks," I reply. "But we must go forward to show them what we are made of"
We get up and bump fists.
"I will not lose against you"
"Try it"
We don our combat uniforms designed to withstand a certain amount of magical or physical damage. We both prepare to start the fight.
"Ready to lose" I say while stretching my arms.
"How funny" she replies, while stretching with her legs and then with her arms.
When we go to face each other from the sky, a dark portal opens and releases a chimera the size of an adult male elephant, with three heads, the central one of a lion, the one on the left a goat and the right an eagle, its tail was a The serpent's fangs secreted acid, the body of the chimera was protected by scales, its front legs were those of a lion, but the hind legs were those of an eagle covered by feathers and scales.
As he falls his back opens and releases two hideous pairs of scaled wings then pounces on us. We managed to narrowly dodge it, the impact of the chimera destroys the ground.
WHAT IS THAT DAMN THING! Isabel yells, shocked by the event.
"The most important thing now is" How the hell did I cross the barrier!
The chimera watches over us, the ground trembles as it steps with its horrible legs, the monster prepares to attack us.
The two of us put ourselves in a defensive position, if that thing reached us it would kill us with one blow.
The chimera snorts then its tail throws acid at us. Although we dodge it with ease, it manages to separate us, that was what the chimera planned, in reality we do not fight against a single monster but with several who think and plan as one.
Isabel still have the pact with the elemental!
She was already making a pact with an elemental, a seal sprouts from the ground and gives a small flower that throws a seed which transforms into a fairy.
The fairy is our size, a beautiful creature with wings like a real butterfly, with a beautiful flowery dress and golden hair, big dark eyes.
"I think you called me teacher in time" exclaims the fairy looking at the chimera.
"Maki"
"Yes"
"Hist and I will distract him, you try to kill her with a powerful spell"
"I need two minutes to cast the spell"
Hist use reinforcement spells and stay out of sight of that thing! "
"To the master order"
The fairy opens her wings and rises while singing to strengthen us, my body feels lighter and stronger. Isabel and I are sorceresses, but we use different unique spells, she uses the force of the plants which allows her to make contracts with forest beings and use the ground force as a defense. She throws herself face to face against the chimera, the monster throws acid at her, but she invokes a wall of earth that protects her, while the fairy passes at high speed over the chimera and tears off its tail with a blade-shaped sword. , the snake that is its tail twists and spits blood.
The monster writhes in pain and tries to soar on its wings, but realizes that it cannot.
Isabel had imprisoned its legs with a powerful earth technique, to top it off, the fairy attacks it at full speed and tears off the chimera's wings. The monster was cornered.
I am a distance sorceress and my spells take time to perform, my abilities are non-elemental, light and dark, depending on the time of day my spells will also be.
I quickly create two huge swords formed by pure energy appear on top of the monster and cut the heads of the chimera with a single cut, then open it from the trunk of the head to what was left of the tail, the monster becomes a sea of blood and visors.
"How disgusting" says Isabel with her fairy.
We finished quickly with the chimera, it seems that whoever invoked it believed that with a single invocation it could end us.
Isabel dusts her uniform and looks at me "we should inform a teacher about this" then watches her Fairy who nods and leaves the training ground.
"Your contracts are very useful," I compliment her.
"I know" she presumes. "Hist is not the strongest pact I have made, but he is the one with whom I have the greatest affinity"
Pacts are very different from invocations, a pact depends on how much affinity a sorcerer has with a certain element and on who responds to that call, they are made with low or high level forces of nature that depend on a specific rank. from F to SSS, although many do not believe it, making a pact with a fairy is not easy and Isabel has 4 contracts with different fairies, each one stronger than the other.
I drop to the ground and Isabel sits on the ground too, she looks at the corpse, while I look at the destroyed ceiling.
(It is impossible for anyone to be aware of this attack)
"It wasn't that strong," she says, looking at the corpse.
So you think? I answer.
"Yes, I always believed that chimeras were fiercer, that's what Grandpa always said"
"We fight against a medium level summon not against a high one, we also act fast"
Our rest is interrupted when 4 portals open at the same time from which 4 chimeras emerge.
"Damn" we exclaimed at the same time.
Isabel quickly calls another of her fairies while I cast a quick spell.
While the fairy is called, my fast action spell an energy sword that flies at high speed pierces the chest of one of the chimeras and explodes, the monster is killed on the spot.
The creatures rage and pounce on us in different directions, two of the chimeras shoot fire while one attacks head-on with its front claws.
Isabel breaks the pact and creates an earth dome that protects us.
Curse! Some acid had gotten onto Isabel's right hand.
"I will try to use quick spells, while you make the pact with your fairy"
She stops me.
Are you crazy? She says "those things will eat you alive if you go out" as she tries to resist the pain of the acid gnawing at her right hand.
My healing spell is very basic, I have never properly dedicated myself to them, even when I healed Daddy he did me more damage than I could heal him, I have only dedicated myself to offensive spells and Isabel to defensive spells.
"But if I don't try they will break the dome" in effect the dome was giving way. "Besides, if we don't do it quickly, your hand"
She knows it, the pain gradually increases I can see it on her face.
The chimeras keep hitting the dome repeatedly, the dome begins to slowly give way, if this continues we will both die.
"Don't die," she says, she answers with a sad look.
Actually, I don't want to die eaten by monsters, it would be the worst way to die, I don't want to imagine it.
Isabel makes an opening behind the dome so that she can get out, but before we perform our desperate feat, we hear how the monsters howl in pain, although everything quickly calms down.
"You can go out girls now," shouts a female voice.
Master Serafina?
"Yes" she replies, "your fairy informed me what happened and I arrived as quickly as possible"
Isabel breaks the dome, the teacher and her fairy observe the wound on her hand, they are immediately alerted. Your fairy begins to cry.
"Master" she says through tears as she approaches and observes the wound "it was all my fault"
Your fairy takes your mistress to the infirmary as quickly as possible! Master Serafina orders "Go quickly before you lose your hand"
The fairy helps Isabel.
The monsters lay dead and dismembered all over the place, the cuts so fine and precise that there was almost no blood or destruction.
"Now I'll go visit you, while I talk to your friend about what the hell happened here"
The teacher Serafina is in charge of teaching all magicians the art of defense and attack, she is a specialist in invocation magic and reinforcement of weapons, of all the teachers she is the youngest with long brown hair, brown skin, With an enviable physique and dark eyes always alert, she always wears a blue sweatshirt, and is also one of the few humans who rival other races in magic.
"Master invoked those creatures within the academy" I reply, I tell what happened to the teacher and her face changes to an expression of annoyance.
"Yes" answers the teacher dryly, "it seems that we have a mole in the academy and he had a fixed objective" she looks at me "I wanted to kill the only two sorceresses in the country"
There is a lump in my throat. Why?
"I still don't know, for now also accompany me to the infirmary, the mole may be nearby and I could try again"
I follow the teacher to the infirmary, when we leave the training ground there is a crowd of students and teachers surrounding her, some murmur.
"Damn sorceresses"
"They are always to blame for all evils"
"Because they let them enter the academy"
"It must have been them" there was no distinction of who made the comments.
"Pay no attention to the comments," says the teacher. "Many are ignorant who still do not get over the old days"
Maki! I hear the voice of my very concerned friend in the distance.
Juliana!
"Thank the gods you are fine" she says worried "recently I heard that they attacked the field that you use with Isabel, besides that she was taken to the infirmary and I thought they had also injured you"
"Calm, I'm fine, but we'll talk later when I leave the infirmary" I briefly say goodbye to my friend and continue with the teacher, the tumult continues to observe and some teachers enter the training field to take note of what happened.
When we get to the infirmary I see Isabel screaming in pain sitting on a stretcher, the nurse was using regeneration magic on the wound, while applying a potion against corrosion and poisoning caused by the acid of the chimera.
Resist master! She was encouraged by her fairy, as she watched her teacher resist the pain.
"Easier said than done" her face was grimacing with pain and her legs were restless.
"Your fairy hold your mistress quick" says the nurse.
The fairy looks at her teacher, who nods.
The fairy obeys the nurse and holds her mistress's legs.
The wound begins to heal quickly and at the same time is undone, it is a tortuous procedure, to be able to do this procedure requires great skill with light magic.
"It will heal, but it will leave a scar," exclaims the nurse.
"It's better than losing your hand" intervenes the Seraphine teacher.
The teacher corroborates the information I gave her by asking Isabel the same question. She decides to stay with us until the end of the school day. We both notice the look of anger that the teacher has, her eyes seem to shoot sparks.
"Nobody hurts my students" she says full of anger, the nurse calms her down a bit, she knows how powerful the teacher is.
The nurse asks Isabel how she is, and she replies that she is much better but that she still cannot feel her hand.
The nurse tells him that the medicine that I apply is anesthetic, that without that medicine I would not have been able to apply the regeneration magic due to the pain it causes. Isabel says goodbye to her fairy who was very worried about her and undoes the contract. When the fairy disappears, she leaves a small flower for her mistress.
After the nurse checked both of us, she placed a bandage on Isabel. Luckily for me I was not harmed, but my partner did.
At the end of school Juliana was waiting for us outside the infirmary, and then running and hugging us.
"I was very worried about you two skinny girls," she yells as tears come to her eyes.
"Nohsss you are learning very strong" I try to get away, but it is impossible, we are very weak for her.
Let go of me now! Isabel exclaims trying to get away too.
She lets go of us and we fall on our backs to the ground.
"Damn you dirty my uniform" exclaims Isabel annoyed while cleaning her skirt.
I know she's upset about what we went through today, especially because she was hurt.
Juliana apologizes for the first time to Isabel, which leaves her stunned, and accepts her apology, rumis are very emotional beings and Juliana is too exaggerated, we explained that later we would tell her for now we were tired, the three of us said goodbye and I used my spell teleportation to go pick up my two sisters, who are surprised to see me, they notice me tired and a little wasted.
What happened to you sister!
Maki I'm sorry you're tired!
"When we are at home I will tell you everything" is the only thing I can tell you.
It was a very strange day, what girl my age is attacked by monsters? I doubt that the same thing would have happened to Mom or Dad at my age, or so I think? at least I made it out alive, my sisters are tense, I hug them both and use teleportation again, it is a very useful spell, but at the same time very limited, I can only use it in the areas that I have known and in which I can perform a circle of spells, in the academy it is impossible due to the large number of defenses against magic and spells that it possesses. So before dad disappeared he asked for special permission to place a circle outside the school, so that he or one of his daughters who was a sorceress could use it, it cost him a fortune to do so, but he did.
When I get home and walk through the door I see Dad and another acquaintance chatting about cooking recipes.
Dad suddenly gets up scared when he sees my state.
Maki! The scared man says what happened to you!
"It's nothing dad, I just fell in the academy" I lie to him, I don't want him to worry. I mean, I put my school supplies on a chair, but Anna and Antonia throw them on the floor like they were trash, if Mom was there she would have beaten them up, and I'm too tired to deal with them.
Antonia and Antonia run to hug him, Dad tells them to pick up their things, they both pay attention, then they go to his room.
"Hello Mr. Enrs, nice to see you again"
Mr. Erns belongs to the imperial guard and he is the one who is assigned to protect this region, he is practically the most powerful reinforcement and invocation magician I know, the teacher Serafina studied with him but could never reach his level, that is due to that he is an elf and any elf surpasses the magical level of the other races. But now I only see a man writing as quickly as possible an absurd amount of kitchen ingredients, in addition to recipes and instruments.
"Hi Maki," he replies, and keeps writing and asking Dad who is also engrossed in telling him his culinary secrets. Then Mr. Enrs comes to his senses, saves his notes, and introduces himself formally with us.
"Excuse me Maki, the reason why I am here today is because the empire has received secret information that had to be delivered to your mother" then he looks at my father and then his eyes fall on me, "but so What your father has told me, she is no longer in this world, so I must give it to the person closest to her and that would be you, since your father according to his own words or that I have been able to understand he is from another world? Or maybe he lost his memory "
"It's complicated" replies dad.
Mr. Enrt continues, "he himself told me that you were the one who was in charge of the house and that is why I must give you the letter." He takes out a letter and hands it to me, the letter bears the seal of the imperial dragon, which is only It opens when a specific person is designated in this case it would be mother, but since she is not there, she self-regulates to deliver it to the person closest to her. I blush a little because of Dad's words, he thinks I'm the boss in the house, he holds me in high esteem, Antonia looks very envious.
"Thank you .." is the only thing I can say.
"For the moment my work is finished, but I'll be back tomorrow waiting for your answer" Mr. Enrt takes his personal belongings and before saying goodbye to dad "Augusto has certainly practiced the recipes" he says goodbye and leaves us at home at the Four.
"By the way Anna, Antonia both come to the table" they pay attention from what I can see Dad has left the house like a mirror of cleanliness, even the old table looks in good condition.
I gather the family and tell them what happened at the academy, everyone is surprised by what happened, dad asks if I'm okay, my two sisters are scared, Anna and Antonia start crying thinking about what could have happened, they both hug me while Dad shows a worried face and asks me how such a thing could happen without anyone noticing, I answer that I don't know and even the teachers didn't know, how was it possible to attack two students? Even in the most protected institution in the country, the director of the academy had left a report to the imperial authorities to investigate the case, that was all he knew.
Having finished the day and with my sisters calm, I observe Dad with his nighttime reading and writing routine, then I go to my room and decide to read the letter. When I place my finger, the dragon seal disappears and the letter opens.
The cult of Cimejes has begun to move, your presence is required as soon as possible, in addition they have killed two of the seal guards, it is of the utmost importance that the entire region remains alert, as an imperial guard that is Lady Zenobia it is your duty to protect and report any irregular occurrence in your designated region
"Don't say bad words in the language I teach you," says Dad from the kitchen.
"I'm sorry dad"