"Shit shit shit shit shit fucking shit fuck."

I curse out loud while dashing up the set of stone stairs of this school. It just had to happen on the top floor, while I was on the ground floor.

"Fuck I need to hurry."I mutter, before reaching the top floor. I stop to look around, while taking heavy breaths.

"GET AWAY!!"

I hear Natasha screams coming from the right, so I immediately start to run towards that direction. Running through the hallway, I hear footsteps coming towards me and judging by the loudness, they belong to Natasha. So I quicken my pace even more and when I reach a turning point, I grab the corner of the wall with my fingers digging into the wall. Thanks to this, I take the corner without losing much momentum.

The moment the turn is taken, I see Natasha running away from a dark and tall figure chasing after her. The figure is about two and half meters tall with slender body, which is covered with worn out black armor. In its arm, he holds a longsword wich blade is being covered with black aura.

"Kane!"she yells out my name, when she notices me running towards her.

"Damn."I mutter. I don't have enough energy to use Silent Casting, so I must recite the entire line to cast a spell to minimize energy usage.

"[Oh great wind of the world, grant me your great power, and allow me to use...]"as I recite the spell, I leave the last part out for a few seconds, as i am not close enough.

Natasha and I approach each other and instead of me catching her in a cliché way, I go past her and finish the spell.

"[Push]"I finish the chant and hold out my right hand, on where a black magic circle appears in front of my palm. In the circle, there is a pentagram with a smaller upside-down one inside of that and around the circle was decorated with runes.

The next moment, a powerful gust of wind blows out of my hand and at the figure in front of me. This was powerful enough to sent him flying away and crash into the wall at the end of the corridor. Now that i have i small window i grab the shocked Natasha and run. Behind me, I can hear it getting up, which means I have twenty seconds before i have to face him. But first I need to get Natasha out of here.

So when I turn the corner, I put her down on the floor and grab her head.

"Kane. What is that thing. What did you do. Wh-what the fuck is going on."she starts to panic, so I cover her mouth with my hands to quiet her.

"Listen to me Nat. You have to get out of here Now! I will explain it all to you later. Now run out of school. You will just get in the way. Now go!"I tell her and take my hand off her mouth.

Turning around, I feel her grabbing my jacket and saying"Kane. Be safe!"

She says and runs away like I told her, without being a dumb cliché girl in shows. I look at her leave and then walk to face the Shadow Hunter. I turn the corner and look at it, standing at the end of the corridor, holding his sword.

"[Oh Great Darkness that covers this world, grant me your power, and let me forge a Blade]"I finish chanting and use up the last of the Arcane Energy in my body, meaning I can't cast any other spells during this fight.

As for the spell, the same black magic circle appears over my palm, while darkness gathers over it. The moment the circle disappears, I grab the darkness in my hand and immediately, a black sword starts to form in my hand.

"Lets go, you bastard."I say and take a stance with my black sword.

"A-za-rath."he says with a ghastly voice and then aims the tip of the sword towards me."You will die."

"A speaking Shadow Hunter. That's first."I say and without waiting any longer, I dash at him with him doing the same. We swing our swords at each other with an intent to kill, but that doesn't happen. Instead, our blades clash with a loud clank and sound of cracking metal following it.

"Shit."I mutter, as I look at my cracked blade, with the Shadow Hunters blade stuck in mine.

"You-re a-re mi-ne."he says in his usual voice and starts forcing his blade onto me. Knowing that my strength may hold but my blade won't, I kick it in its knee. The sound of bones cracking and a knee being bend back follows it. The next moment, I jump away from it and open my right hand, making the cracked blade disappear.

"You ac-tual-ly ma-na-ged to hurt me. The sto-ries a-re t-rue."it says in its ghastly voice. What happens next, surprises me: his knee heals back to place, without leaving any sign of being broken.

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"Oh great."I mutter and take a few steps back. I'm out of Arcane Energy and the Hunter just healed itself. This means I have to get his sword to kill him. Shadows greatest weakness has always been their weapon. But ho-

"Oh shit."I yell, while nearly dodging the blade by sidestepping, making the blade hit the ground. I immediately follow the dodge with a powerful punch in its lowered head, dislocating it's jaw and cracking it a little. Then following it with a few quick punches in the ribs and assuming from the cracking sounds, breaking them. I try to get a few more hits, but I fail at it as I am thrown across the hallway.

"Fuck."I mutter and then crash into the metal door, bending it. Luckily, I land on my feet and recover myself pretty quickly. Okay. Hunters like to thrust while charging and behind me use a metal door. That'll work.

"Come at me asshole!"I yell and without wait, he dashes at me with the tip of the sword pointing at me. He closes at me pretty quickly and the moment before he could thrust the blade into my chest, I dodge it, making it pierce through the door pretty easily.

Taking advantage of this situation, I quickly punch his wrist and break his bones. Then, I shoulder bash him in the chest, pushing him away and making him let go of his sword. Now, that I have removed him from his weapon, I take hold of it. Immediately, an immense wave of pain hits me, while I feel the sword trying to corrupt me, but with little effort on it's part.

Now, I pull the sword out of the door and start walking towards the downed Shadow, who tries to get back on his feet. With each step I take, I get closer to it, while dragging the blade behind me and leaving a thin path doing so.

"You actually dared to hurt someone I love."I said and swing the sword towards him, cutting of it's right arm. I look at the separated arm and how it starts to turn into a black smoke, slowly fading into the air.

"This is for targeting her."I say and swing the blade again, slicing it's other hand off. Like the last time, he took it without making a sound. His hand fades away again and I say"This is for scaring her."

"And this, will be forcing me back to this life."I say and swing the sword at him.

"You wi-ll suf-fer, so-n of-"he can't finish his sentence, before the sword slices his body in half, completely killing him off. I already knew what he wanted to say and so, I didn't care enough to finish listening to him.

I take a deep breath and then decide to look around the place. Most of the damages here were done by this sword and the other by me. For others, this could be considering a clean job. But for me, it is a complete mess of a job and which now, needs to be cleaned up. And to do that, I take out my phone from my pocket and dial a number.

"The National Library speaking. How may I help you?"

"Do you have Rain Walker's "The Amazing Cleaner"?"

"Yes we do have it? Where do you wish it to be delivered."

"The xxxx Highschool, fourth floor."

"It shall be done. Goodbye Sir."

"Bye."

The call ends and I put the phone away. The clean up crew has been called and now it's my time to get out of here. But before I go, I need to Force Regenerate my Arcane Energy. So, I grab the sword with my right hand and start drawing the Energy from it. Immediately, the veins on the right side of my body turn black because of the swords corruption. I myself, just grit my teeth from the painful experience and feel, how my body is being filled with Arcane Energy

"Aah fuck."I mutter and then letting go of the sword, which itself slowly fades away into a black smoke, meaning I sucked it dry.

"And now, time for Natasha."I tell myself and leave the messy scene.

Outside of the school, I see Natasha waiting there and the moment I step out, she immediately runs to me. She jumps into my arms and hugs me tightly, while rubbing her head against my chest.

"Kane. You're safe."she says and looks up to me with her beautiful eyes.

"Of course I am. It's me we are talking about."

"That's why I was worried."she comments and then asks"What was that thing and how did you launch it so far?"

"Lets go home first and I will tell you there. There is much you need to know."

"I see. Lets go then."she says and we walk away from the school side-by-side.

At home, I told her to sit down on the couch in the living room, while I stand in front of her. I see her looking at me with eyes that say; I want to know already.

I seriously hoped that this day doesn't come, but it came and now, the truth has to come out. I take a deep breath and say"Natasha...I'm a mage."

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"Huh?"is all I get out of her mouth.

"You know. The person who can use magic. Like Gandalf, Harry Potter and so on and on."

"I know what a mage is."she snaps back, thinking, that I'm thinking her to be stupid.

"It's just hard to understand exactly...like what the fuck?"

"Its easier to show you."I tell her and raise my left hand. This time, without reciting the entire line, I instead cast it silently. So, without a word, a white magic circle appears over my open palm and a white ball of fire starts to form above it in seconds.

When the white fireball is ready, I present it to Natasha, who looks at it with a confused and slightly scared look.

"T-that is real fire?"she asks with a confused voice from me and I answer her"Yes. This was created by using and energy, only mages can harness. Like me."

"Hehehe. So magic is actually real."she mutters, while letting out a few small laughs in between, while thinking

"So what was that black thing attacking me?"she asks him after a few minutes in deep thoughts.

"That was a Shadow. Shadows themselves are a corrupt race from another world that want to take over this one."

"Natasha?!"I call out her name, while crouching in front of her. She had stayed silent for a long time now and this made me worry.

"Natasha."I call out her name once again and caress her cheek. As I slide my hand down her cheek, she grabs it with both of her hands and looks at it. She then takes off my glove and looks at the black pentagram on my palm.

"What's the story behind this?"she asks, while looking at the pentagram.

"This helps to cast spells better."I hell her, while looking at her.

"And all of those runes and other things have some kind of magical reason? Am I right?"she asks me.

"Yes. All of them were meant to help me control magic better while strengthening it."I explain to her.

"I see. I guess this is better."she says something unexpected.

"Better how?"I ask her.

"I thought you were some kind of cultists, who sacrifices to their dark lord. But being a mage seems more reasonable...but all of this...is still.."

"Confusing? I know."I tell her and then proceed to pull her into a hug. She hugs me back and says"No matter what Kane. I will still love. I don't care what you are."

"Thank you, Natasha."