Time continued and I settled into a retune. School progressed and my knowledge grew. While I had no additional issues with fellow students, I was not accepted. My magical training did show major improvements in all areas except the divine sphere. My Divine sphere of magic had zero improvement. My relationship with her royal princess continued to grow and I began to think things would turn out okay. I started to believe that life was going to be good this time around until one day 2 months after the start of school.
The day started fairly normal, as most days do. I awoke, had breakfast, got ready, and headed to school. When I arrived Ceanna was waiting, which I think took a lot of work on her part. Our princess never arrived early anywhere. She gave me a quick hug and we entered the school together. After arriving at our first class I noticed that something seemed strange. The class was empty, and normally we were never the first ones there.
We took our seats and that is when I felt it. Something was going to happen, something was wrong. I quickly stood up and looked around but did not see anything strange. ‘What’s wrong?’ asked Ceanna. I didn’t have an answer for her and I told her that. I just felt something was wrong. Then it happened, one second we were looking at easy other and the next I was hitting the back wall and I could only see smoke. It was strange, I could feel the magic in the air starting to fade as whatever spell had been triggered ran its course.
Things were a little fuzzy at first but then I heard screaming as people rushed into the room. Things seemed a little fuzzy as I looked around. The first thing I noticed was the damage, the second thing was that I could not find Ceanna. In a panic, I stood up and started to look for her. It took but a moment to locate her on the other side of the room. I ran over to check on her but before I could reach her several others blocked my path. It seems her guards had arrived and they were not in the mood to allow anyone near their charge. I noticed one of her female guards checking her other and then my mind went blank when I heard her guard start to cry.
At that moment I knew she had not survived the explosion. With that thought my mind went blank and I knew what I had to do. I pushed my way past the standing guards, approached Ceanna, and knelt beside her, I took her hand in mine and called upon my true power. I called upon that divine power that to this point had never been usable. I called forth that power and I commanded it to undo what had been done. I felt the power rise and pour out of my body and into the still form of the princess. Slowly a bright light appeared to surround us both and after a few seconds, I saw her take a breath and open her eyes.
As soon as her eyes opened I heard the sound of surprise escape the knelling guard and her eyes shot up to look at me. I’m not sure if I saw fear or joy in those eyes but I knew that things would now be different. I had just returned life to the dead, something that no one had ever been able to do before. I think at that moment what scared me the most was the fact that I knew beyond a doubt that what I had just used that power for was but a tiny fraction of what it could do.
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With that thought the room became busy. The headmaster and several teachers as well as what appeared to be about a dozen royal guards stormed into the room. With that, we were quickly taken out of the room and taken to a more secure location where no less than 10 healers were summoned and began to overly detailed check on the princess and me…well mainly the princess to be honest. After about an hour they declared we were both fine and we were escorted out of the school to a waiting group of around 100 guards and escorted to the castle.
HIDDEN QUEST COMPLETE – Survive Fire and Death!!
Looks like you pissed someone off and almost took a princess out with you! But you survived, go you!
REWARDS: Your life…oh and the life of the princess as well
HIDDEN QUEST COMPLETE – Unlock a Divine Spell!!
Hey look at that, you really can do divine magic. We were not sure it would really work…hey good job us!!
REWARDS: New Spell(Restore Life)
NEW QUEST – Who wants you dead!!
Find out who tried to kill you and why!
REWARDS: The joy and stepping on a neck or two and something else.
{Accept/Accept} <-- Auto Accepted…because.
Once we arrived at the castle we were taken to the royal wing and into the princess’s apartments. I was left standing in the outer chamber while the princess was taken into another set of rooms to get cleaned up and into fresh clothes. I waited no more than 20 seconds before the door flew open and the Queen entered. She walked up to me, put her hands on my shoulder, and looked me over. Once she was sure I was fine she asked to know what happened. I explained as best I could how we entered the class like normal and found ourselves to be the only ones there, which I found strange. I told her how we took our seats and how I started to feel something wasn’t right. I told her I later figured out what I was feeling was the spell form completed and the trigger preparing to fire. With that, I got down to my knees and told her how sorry I was for almost allowing the princess to die. I should have been better trained and should have known what I was feeling.
The Queen made me stand up and slapped my face. ‘Fool of a boy, you’ve had your powers for only a few months.’ ‘It takes years to develop the skills needed to detect a trap like that.’ ‘No you did not fail, you survived and what is more important, you saved my child.’ She let me know that her agents would find out who did this and heads would roll. For now, I need to continue to be there for Ceanna and continue to train and grow so that if and when this happens again I’ll be better prepared.
With those final words, the inner door opened and Ceanna came out, saw her mother, and ran to her with her arms out. Up until that point, my only intention with the queen was to see a strong and powerful leader, at this moment I saw a mother, holding her daughter and blessing the gods she survived. After a few minutes, the two separated and Ceanna came over and hugged me. ‘I’m not sure what you did, but I know you brought me back.’ ‘You have a great power and I’m happy to have you at my side.’ ‘I’ve never said it before but I can tell you now without a doubt that I love you and I’m thankful my mother brought us together.’
With that, the queen left, and Ceanna and I sat down and just enjoyed being together.