It was early morning when I woke up, weak light shone from my window into my eyes, it woke me up enough so I could stand up and start dressing. On the chair next to my bed, I found comfortable pants and a shirt that my mother prepared for me yesterday, from a closet I took undergarments. I quickly finished putting everything on, but before I left my room I put on slippers.
‘Ready to go eat breakfast’ I thought.
I push wooden doors and enter a square room; I stop and look at my home. My bedroom is in one of the corners, right to it is bathroom, further is another corner where I can see already opened doors to my parents' room. In the main room there are two big windows on both sides of entrance, which is located in the middle of a wall opposite of the one where bedrooms are. Close to my parents’ room is located kitchen where I can see mom preparing breakfast. My mother is a tall woman, her height being 1,8 meters. She has long black silky hair falling on her back, and right now is wearing a similar outfit as I, which is black pants and white shirt with short sleeves and sleepers in the shape of bunnies.
“Sweetheart, can you please go and call your dad for breakfast? He should be in the shack playing with his trinkets and magic.”
My mom said when she saw me when I left my room, so of course I answered.
“Yes Mammy.”
She smiled hearing my sweet (in her opinion) voice.
Not wanting to make her wait, I run out of the house. Outside world is still a little dark, but not enough that I would need a torch, so I can immediately see shack where my father is doing fatherly things, like sharpening tools or crafting funny things with his magic. The building itself is made from light brown wood that is common in our area, and there is one window that is next to doors that are visible from our house direction.
In no time I am in front of the doors, but I don’t enter (father doesn't allow me to), only knock, after a few seconds the doors open and I can see a very tall man, taller than mammy. He also has black hairs, but he cuts them short. His golden eyes look at me, and I can see light dancing in them. His clothes are all dirty, but I still can see the green color of leather they are made from. I still don’t know what animal has green hide, but I know that I will learn it in the future!
“How sweat, my little Rin came to call her father for breakfast”
“Mammy send me, She told me to tell you that if you make her wait again, then she will burrow this shack.”
Of course, mom hasn't said anything like this, but dad always is slow to come back, so I have to scare him a little if I want to eat sooner than later. Oh, and daddy is always making funny faces when I scare him like this.
It doesn’t take long before we are back, mammy has already made breakfast, and is sitting at the table when we enter the room, she looks at us with her bloody red eyes and smiles while saying
“Faster than I thought, good job Rin, but you shouldn’t lie to your father.”
I averted my head as if I didn’t know what she was talking about.
We start eating, and while doing so we have a small talk about what we are going to do today.
When I finished eating, I was about to stand up and go to my room to read, but father stopped me.
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“Rin, tomorrow will be your eighth birthday, you know what that means?”
His serious voice halted me, I thought for a minute before I said.
“Eight birthday is the day when everyone awakens their magic…” only then it hits me, I am going to get my magic tomorrow!
“Yes, but what you probably don’t know is that the awakening happens in your dream, where the Worlds Voice will tell you what your magic is, and in which way you will be able to develop it. So don’t be surprised when you wake up tomorrow, and accidentally use magic.”
My mother was smiling when she was saying that, probably she thought about some funny story from her past. I will ask about it when I will have nothing else to do.
After dinner, we all went out, on our own way. I went to my room to read about different types of magic, while my father came back to his shack to finish his projects, and mother was ordering her earth constructs to do some field work.
Nothing extraordinary happened that day, so it ended peacefully.
Do you know how to recognize that you are sleeping? It’s pretty simple, if you open your eyes and everywhere is just darkness and you are floating, then you are probably sleeping. So why am I talking about it? Well, I am in that kind of situation, and because I know that today I am supposed to awaken my magic, I am excited! Oh, and I can guess what will happen in a moment. Like mom said, at any moment Voice of the World can start talking about my magic! I can’t wait to learn what it will be!
When I was thinking this, darkness started to condense and shift, and everything started to move. From darkness appeared a person made from shadows; the void I was in so far disappeared. Now, I and this newcomer are in some kind of forest, around us are other people, none is looking at me, but everyone stares at the shadow figure.
“Surender now, and we will kill you painlessly!”
Said a man wearing brownish armor and holding a war-hammer. His skin was tanned, and his face was the most common looking you could imagine, simple nose, standard brown eyes, medium sized mouth, and blond hair.
“You can’t defeat us! Your shadows can’t manifest, and your blood won’t pierce our armors. You are weaponless and your magic is useless in this battle, surrender or fight and die painfully!”
Second man shouted, his face as boring as the last one, but his skin is pale as bone, and he is wearing red armor with a short sword in hand.
“Then I will just use brute force to kill you ALL! Who knows, maybe the light mage is among you!”
The Shadow said and then the fight started. Black blood covered its body, making an improvised armor, and from its hands emerged four claws. Shadow rushed at the man in red armor slashing at his face. The man wasn’t idly and blocked incoming attack with his sword and counterattacked with a wave of fire. Meanwhile war-hammer wielder hit the ground with his weapon, after this, tens of stone spiks emerged from the forest floor and impaled Shadow, but it didn’t react, it just brushed it off and broke them not bothering to remove them from its body. Like that the dance of blood, fire and earth began for good.
At some point the forest ceased to exist, and with its disappearance hidden enemies appeared. Precisely speaking there were four more, but Shadow was interested only in one of them, the young woman in yellow robes.
“Who could expect it! Light mage wears a yellow robe! So original, and it absolutely doesn't tell me whom I must kill to dispel the magic light that is blocking shadows!
While saying it mockingly, Shadow evaded every warrior and made it to a light mage in a blink of an eye and decapitated her with a blade made from blood. With a “poof” , shadows returned to the battlefield; The Shadow waited just for it; it raised both hands and laughed. The shadows darkened to unnatural levels, and then monsters started to form. After the tenth monster, everything started to fade, only shouts of warriors, roars of monsters and laughter of Shadow were left when darkness of the void consumed everything.
When even these sounds disappear, I am once again floating in nothingness.
Ok, that was strange, this was different than the books described it. I was expecting my copy to just appear and use magic in front of me, not some kind of fight scene from an adventure book. The worst is that I don’t know what my magic is, after all there were a few magic users, so there were fire, earth, light, shadow and blood magics, based on the fact that this shadow figure was central point of this dream I am guessing that my magic will be the same as its... so shadow and blood, not bad, but earth like my parents would be better!