In a pitch-black room, like all light had been sucked out, a sixteen-year-old boy stood still as a statue. An invisible light from the eyes of a spectator scanned the boy from head to toe, focusing on his chest. After what seemed like hours, the room was lit up by a light coming from the crack appearing on the wall.

The crack grew to the size of a door frame, so the boy walked out. He glanced around the room, eyes darting back and forth as a drop of sweat slid down his back. A desk with a single phone on it, with an empty chair behind it, and in front of him sat in the middle of the room, with two potted plants on each side. A single door was in the corner.

"Please, Please, Please," his mind whispered desperately, as he walked over to an empty chair across the desk, and sat down. He rapidly tapped his finger across the desk, waiting.

Seconds ticked by as the boy got more impatient, standing up to pace. "When will my results come i-" the boy began, but the phone rang, making the boy jump in surprise. " H-Hello?" the boy asked, hesitantly.

"Hello, this is the government physicist, I'm sorry to tell you Hymine, that your brother, Joel, has died." the phone buzzed.

"Shit him too?" Hymine cursed, "who's left of my family now?"

"Out of the twenty-seven kids and five parents, your mother is still alive, all of your fathers are dead, you are your last brother out of fifteen, and you have two sisters left out of the twelve," the phone responds.

"Shit, how did my brother die?" Hymine asked.

"You know your family curse is magically based, so since no one in your family has magic, no one knows when it will react," the phone said, "have you gotten your test results yet?"

"No, not yet," Hymine sighed, "I'll te-," the door in the corner burst open, as a woman with a no nonsince face walked in, and sat down.

"Please sit," she ordered.

"Alright, tell you later," Hymine responded, sitting down on the chair opposite of the woman.

"I'll get straight to the point. We don't really test your magic abilities, only if there is a big enough trace of magic to use. Sadly, you do not have an average trace of magic," the woman stated.

Hymine's face fell. "Shit, am I just going to be like my siblings?" he thought, "Am I going to die before I get to do anything with my life?" Hymine stood up to walk away, but the woman lifted a hand to stop him.

"I wasn't finished!" the woman growled, glaring at Hymine, so he sat back down, " you..." she paused while glaring, but suddenly her face lit up, "have a small trace magic, like a thread."

Hymine stared at her, eyes blank and blinking, mouth agape. "y-y-YESSSS!" he shouted, pumping his hands straight up into the air.

"Now that you know, please leave. I have other patients than you," the woman firmly.

Hymine walked out of the office in a daze. He didn't notice the stares he got wandering in the halls and stopped walking only after he had reached the street. "I've done it," was the only thought running through his head.

"Hey!" a voice shouted, pulling Hymine's mind from the clouds, "Let me guess. the results of your test came out negative, so you're stunned to a stupor of your ever-approaching death... right?"

Hymine glanced over to his favorite sister walking over. She was only a year older than him, and always looked out for him. She was the one who taught him to stay safe and reach out with his sixth sense to always be aware of his surroundings.

"Come on, let's drive you home," she soothed, walking Hymine to her car. he sat in the passenger seat and clicked the seatbelt. "So, you just stay quiet, I'll be here for you when you need to talk." Hymine closed his eyes and tried to remember how to use magic.

The informative videos he had watched had told him, you need to reach out with your magic to feel the magical currents in the world. It also said that magic sense was an advanced technique, not useable for beginners, but he had been reaching out with his sixth sense for all his life, so he tried anyway.

All magic inside of a person could be activated in two ways. Either a life-threatening event shocks the magic to protect its owner, or you believe you have magic entirely, so you can use it.

Before testing his abilities by reaching out, Hymine searched inside for his magic. "Wow, I have magic!" the thought still shocked him. Searching inside himself, he let himself be pulled by the current to his magic. Floating down the stream, an indescribable touch inside of him grew stronger.

The touch grew stronger slowly, the farther he floated down the stream. Changing from a faint touch to a full hand. Hymine reached for the touch and was transported out of the stream to the end. Sitting at the end of the flow was the source of the endless, boundless... Magic.

Hymine stared at the core. He felt a strange faint pull to the core, "What is this pull? Is this all the connection I have to my magic?" Hymine felt disgusted with himself, "How am I supposed to become immortal when I can't even connect to my magic source?"

Hymine reached for his core, but before his hand could touch it, a shock blasted his hand back, spinning him. "What the hell was that?" he thought, turning. A golden glowing rune shined in front of his core. Just looking at it made him shiver in fear of the power it extruded.

"I will not give up! Nothing is getting in my way of breaking this curse!" Hymine shouted at the rune, "I will conquer these runes, the curse, then free my family!" The rune glowed brighter as if daring him to try.

"You are mine!" Hymine declared with finality. he felt the thread of pull to the core and wondered where it came from. "This rune is blocking me from using magic, and no one from my family have been ever able to use magic. It seems this rune in on all of my family members to restrain our magic development. The problem is that I formed a connection with it, I pierced the rune's crooked veil, but when and how did I connect?"

Hymine remembered that there were two ways to use magic. he was never told he could use magic, if anything, he was confirmed the opposite my family and enemies alike.

"If I had connected to my magic, it must be from some event, not from belief," Hymine thought. He opened his mind, and started scouring from top to bottom to find an event that might've caused his magic awakening.

"No way... it can't be..." Hymine started, thinking back to that horrid day, "I've got to remember, I can't run away from this. Not when the future of my family is on the line!"