Seated in a lavishly designed dining area, in a manor, a man with his family sat having breakfast. He wore a black overcoat with golden emblems on both shoulders and a badge on his chest. His eyebrows were furrowed, his elbows placed on the table and his fingers interlocked as he rested his jaw on them while staring at the younger male seated on the other end of the table.
"So, after everything I said and did, you still disobeyed me. You didn't take the entry exams, you deliberately missed it." Rowland spoke.
Keeping his head low causing his curly dark hair to fall over his face, Lecter avoided his father's gaze.
"Come on now, you know he doesn't want to be a knight." Anna, his mother said in a soothing voice. Ever since Lecter made known his desire to be a wizard, she had been doing her best to pacify her husband's anger. "Being a wizard isn't all that bad. My father is one, our son can be one too."
"My son, become a wizard?" Rowland raised a brow and a vein was then visible on his forehead. He dropped his food back on the plate and took his hands off the table. "Not to be disrespectful woman, but your so-called wizard father is a deadbeat who feeds off of others."
"Rowland!" His wife snapped. How could he speak that way of his father-in-law?
"Boy, I am very disappointed, there's no hiding it," Rowland said to his son, ignoring his now upset wife. "Why not be the kingdom's warrior? Why not become a great man?"
"Father, I, I can be a great man, a great wizard," said Lecter.
"Oh, please. You will only end up laying about speaking gibberish, holding sticks, and waving your hands in the air." Rowland huffed. "Since you decided to disobey me and follow this stupid dream of yours, you have to come out the best."
"Though I say this with high hopes, I have to keep them at bay because you always end up disappointing"
"Rowland that's enough!" Said Anna.
"Why? Isn't he a disappointment? His mates are out there casting spells and having abilities and he's here getting fat!" Rowland stated in anger. Lecter wished the earth would open up and swallow him at the moment. The indignity was hard to bear.
"You compare me with others who are being trained by wizards and all, whereas you don't even let me get help and yet you blame me?" Lecter wanted to say but kept quiet.
"You are going too far. What is with you today?" Lecter's mother spoke. She was tired of listening to the insults being rained on her son.
"This disappointment is my problem!" He pointed towards Lecter and then sighed. Folding his hand into a fist, he placed it on the table. "To give you a heads-up son, as the Knight Academy commenced their entry exams, so will Darkmoon. Be ready." He stood to leave.
"We could send him to my father to help prep him for the exams," Anna suggested.
"You and I know that it would be a waste. What will that father of yours be able to teach anyway?"
"Why ruin our moods this morning, Rowland? Why?" Anna asked with her head in her hands. She was frustrated with the whole situation, every day her husband comes home he would constantly talk to his with words that bore venom.
"Ask your son why he has chosen to be useless," Rowland responded. "You've seen it right? Our eldest son in Knight school doing so well. He isn't even done yet and already has a promised spot in the army, I hope it will be the same with your Alakazam boy over here." He suddenly got up and left.
Lecter dropped his spoon on his plate and walked out as well. "Don't listen to your father, okay? I trust you will do great." His mother said as he made his way to the stairs and up to his room. She stared at the food which was left untouched by the members of her family. She too had lost her appetite and stood from her seat. She then called on the maid to take it all away.
"What a way to start the day." She sighed.
Staring out his window and in the direction of the hill which was visible from his room, Lecter stood on the balcony letting the wind blow past his face. His father's words kept playing in his head. He closed his eyes and took in a deep breath trying to calm his frustration.
"What do I do? How do I get ready for this?" He wondered. "I, I must not fail." He then looked up at the hill once more and had an idea. "The twins! If they know about the entrance exams, they surely would get ready for it. I could join them in training, I could go through whatever they go through." He thought, but then paused. He remembered the light show he saw at their place and got chills.
"Can I really handle that?" He quivered in self-doubt but then slapped himself out of it. "I must not cower in fear and doubt at this moment, I need to not fail, so I need the help I can get. Hopefully, their father won't have a problem with one more student."
He began searching his room hurriedly for a certain item. "Where is it?" He ransacked the room and still couldn't find it. "Where could I have kept it?" He pulled on his hair and sat on the floor. "The store!" He said in realization and ran out of his room. He made his way down the stairs in a hurry, he almost tripped.
"Why are you in such haste ?" His mother asked from the living room seeing him sprint around the house.
"I am searching for something!" He replied and ran towards the back. A small shed which seemed to be part of the house, but had its door outside was to his left and he hurriedly moved towards it. He ran inside and began searching. Just like he did to his room, he ransacked the entire place moving every box and nail till he found it.
"My arrows! They're here, they're all here!" He breathed a sigh of relief. He picked up the bow as well and pulled on the string. "It's still good." Getting up, he cleaned the dust off his clothes and went back to his room. He placed the bow and arrows in a small bag and put on his boots.
"Where are you headed in such a hurry?" Standing by his room door was his mother blocking his path.
"You are never bothered about where I'm going, so why ask today?" He said and tried to push through.
"Lecter."
"I am going to help myself get ready for the exams so I must hurry. I am already called one, but I refuse to end up a disappointment." He responded and walked past her.
"Goldfield!" He yelled as he stepped outside. In front of him, a large beast flew in. "You keep growing." He rubbed on the fur a bit before getting on it. "Let's pay the Silverstones a visit." He said and Goldfield took off to the sky.
With a determined look on his face, Lecter rode his griffin to their place. "I will show you, Father, just how wrong you are about wizards."
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