I started off on the run with the same thoughts spiralling their way through my head as always. I wondered about many things now that I had the time to, for example there was what this world was like, how I got here, what's happening to my parents and friends and LIFE!!!!
But most of all as you can probably imagine, I thought about magic!!
It was so exciting!! I could still remember the first time I'd seen it after I first opened my eyes. I was bloody and injured on the gravel and dazed for the most part...and then for some reason the she-devil bitch witch came over to me and chanted some magic words although I dare say I can't remember them anymore. Suddenly I was healing, I could feel my bones shifting back into place and I could see my body ripple and move as blood flowed around my body faster than ever before. It was such a rush!!
My foot almost slipped on the wet ground next to the stream, slamming back to my present time. Magic was cool and all but right now I had bigger problems... for starters. This wasn't just any ordinary 10k run, it involved me going up the mountain making it steeper as I ran and much much colder. I shivered nervously at the thought of it. As I continued running at the top of the mountain I thought I saw something glow and it's flash beamed past my eye.
I recoiled in shock, staring at the peak for any signs of something to break the routine..any signs of freedom!! But alas nothing... I shrugged it off at the sun glaring at me out of disgust and I ran on.
At the base of the mountain I took a break taking a sip of water from the stream and readying myself for the hell ahead of me... I planted my first foot in the ground and started jogging up the mountain at a medium pace focussing on my breathing and my leg muscles contracting at the pushed against the muddy terrain.
I reached what I liked to call base camp after about 20 minutes and stretched my legs a little bit. I still couldn't get used to running straight up a mountain for a long period of time. I glanced up again searching for the end point still about 30 minutes away.
That was the other problem. Somehow every time I finished my 10k the bitch was already up there waiting for me with her warm fluffy coat and nothing for me to wear at all... she would always make me do my upper body exercises in the cold and on the slanted ground with my head pointing Dow the mountain making it difficult to maintain my balance. Even after months I still wobbled a little bit.
I carried on running towards the end point not looking forward to the torture when suddenly
*SWOOSH*
A net flew into me from the trees on the side and made me tumble into the side of a tree on my left making me scream out in a mix of shock and pain. I glared out at the forest opposite me for the person or creature who dared do this to me. Then from behind a tree a voice said:
"Ugh such a predictable little creature aren't you, I'll bet you didn't even see me staring down at you through my scope you idiot"
I searched randomly for the body the voice belonged too but to no avail. I called out:
"You coward, you call me stupid yet you had to use such an underhanded method to capture me"
A body started to emerge from the tree's
"Oh no boy, this isn't a kidnapping nor am I capturing you, this is a rescue mission"
The man fully emerged from the trees wearing dark green and black clothes and a cloth wrapped around his whole head but his eyes which stared at me intelligently with curious interest. The man walked towards me quickly and took his palm and without warning placed it on my forehead.
"Ddrrringggg!!!"
A mechanical sound came from somewhere on his arm.
"Wow a rank 10...they weren't lying this is a special case"
He looked at me again as if he was re-evaluating his initial thoughts of me and Leant in close and got something out of his bag.
While he was doing this I gave him inquiring looks trying to catch his attention.
"A rescue mission....? Who are you? What do you want with me? And what do you mean rank 10!?" I said loudly
He gave me a look which told me to shut the hell up if I wanted any answers and he simply said:
"Follow me and you'll find out"
At that moment he pressed a small disk the size of my palm with strange symbols and gold and blue colours all over it to my forehead. Suddenly a searing pain raced through my brain and it felt like the world was being forced down on me!
"AGHHHHHH, WHAT ARE YOU DOING...AGHHH" I screamed so loudly the birds nearby flew away.
"shut up kid or I'll tape your mouth shut, now all you need to do is stay there and I'll take you to our headquarters."
The searing pain had slowly disappeared but with it a million thoughts were now racing through my brain. And almost all of them were not my own, I could feel a strange language spreading throughout my brain that I somehow understood. Symbols collided with each-other forming a pattern in my brain until I could finally see something. I closed my eyes and focussed and felt my whole body tingle from the sensation.
My stomach started to twist in pain as what felt like a pool started to form and get rapidly filled up. In fact no it felt more like the pool was already there and that a chain had simply been broken allowing it to fill.
I opened my eyes and saw the world in a different perspective. I could feel the spells and magic all over my body. In my eyes down to my very fingertips this purple magic was spreading in a similar sensation to when I had first been healed.
I knew instantly at that point as I cast my head around the area and the man looked at me hesitantly...
"I know it all...I-..I know all the magic spells in my head"
Without saying a word I broke open the net like it was paper to me as I applied a muscle enhancing spell to my body. I felt so alive feeling even my fingers feel this new found power. I clambered out of the netting and was about to thank the man when out of nowhere an arrow of fire shot into his neck.
I stumbled backwards and fell over startled.
What the HELL was happening
"*cough cough* hel-...help me...pleaszzzz PLEASHZHSHXHZH"
The man collapsed on the floor in a pool of his own blood. I peeked my head down the hill to look in the direction of where the arrow came from. And there she stood the bitch herself with her hands out stretched and ready to fire another spell.
I ran.
I stumbled.
I forgot about magic completely, my primal instincts willing me to survive.
I ducked behind a tree and closed my eyes listening out briefly for anyone closing in. When I was sure she wasn't here yet, I searched my brain for a spell to get me out of this but it was still for the most part a big jumble of symbols!!!
My earlier clarity had gone and I couldn't make heads or tails of it. I decided my only way out of sight was to climb the tree, there wasn't much to hide behind and hopefully this would hide my tracks. I scrambled up the tree easily with my enhanced body and sat on a large branch holding myself in and holding my breath.
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5"
It had become a habit now to count away the time when I was waiting for something to happen.
I turned my head left and right but I couldn't see her anywhere, I could feel the spells effects wearing off and I was beginning to panic.
"34, 35, 36, 37"
"SHIT SHIT SHITTTTT WHERE IS THIS BITCH" I thought to myself not daring to speak.
Then I heard a faint whistling as something came towards me at high speed.
However
It seems I'd noticed a little too late...
Everything went black and my head lulled back on to the tree trunk.