I woke up the next morning and guess what i did? I didn't go to the old mans house. Why? Because a two month old who understands speech can walk and read is not a child. I needed to blend in to conceal my secret. So today I walked into the house beside me with lizard. I did wait for the adults to leave their house and then just walked in. The adults of the house had cat ears. The first thing i saw was that it was rat infested. Disgusted i pointed to one and lizard understood what i wanted. He seemed quite happy and ran off in the house. As i explored the house i didn't find much. I did however find a closed door. I tired opening it but the handle was to high up. That’s when lizard came back. He somehow always knows when i need him. I stand on top of him and move the handle back and forth I’m not sure which way i need to turn the handle to open it. It all of a sudden “clicks” and then it opens. I look inside and see a young child with cat ears playing with blocks. If i had to guess the child would be 5 months old. The child after a moment noticed me and crawled over.
“goo goo”
yup just a normal baby although this one seemed semi smart as he already learned to crawl. I walked around and found nothing of importance in the room. When i turned around to leave the child had mounted lizard like a horse. Upon seeing this i felt like crying. Why? A baby had outsmarted me and thought of a fast way of transportation in 30 seconds and i had 2 months and hadn't figured out how to use lizard effectively. My only thoughts were of how i was going to defeat my new rival. GGRRRRRR.
I then hung my head in shame and returned home. Since it was almost lunch time i decided to feed lizard. Well its more of me letting lizard roam free in the field to catch field mice. However the child wouldn't let go of lizard. So a grand idea occurred to me, i would make a light show using my blue sphere while lizard ate his lunch. As I created a blue sphere around myself the child become mesmerized and let go of lizard and walked towards me. The lizard simply left and went to eat a meal. The child walked forward and touched the sphere. To the child the blue sphere seemed like a toy. Where the child had touched the sphere it seemed like that part was simply sucked in by the child. We continued this for about ten minutes and then i felt exhausted and couldn't bring up the sphere anymore. Being exhausted i wandered to my bedroom and since the bed was to high up for me i curled up on the ground and slept.
I awoke to yelling and so i stood up. I noticed something was clinging onto my arm and looked down. It was the child from earlier. The child also awoken from the yelling used me to upright himself and stand. We then hobbled over to where the yelling was occurring. When we spotted it it was the neighbours from earlier outside yelling at everyone else. It seems that everyone else had returned from the field and the were looking for something frantically. That’s when the mother saw us. She grabbed her husband and literally dragged him over to us. My mother was still in the field so she wasn't there. The mother picked up her son and said.
“there you are my princess did you find yourself a prince?”
i was really confused wasn't the child a guy??? then it dawned on me i had slept with a girl the same age as myself! I had finally passed this milestone after 18 years and 2 lives i felt so proud of myself! The mother then left with her child and once the child was more then two meters away the child started crying frantically and squirming in her mothers hands. The mother confused set the child down who made a crawling beeline to me. She grabbed onto my leg and would not let go. Seeing as how the child was older and stronger then myself their was no way i could escape the embrace.
My mother finally just came out of the field and asked
“whats going on?”
“my child Sophia is attached to your child.”
“you mean Charles?”
“yup”
she looks down and sees me being clinged onto by Sophia.
“well it works for me it will keep Charles out of trouble”
“ya Sophia is quite the handful but what about when they sleep?”
“your house is better then mine how about he sleeps at your house until we think of something better?”
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“works for us”
mom why are you throwing me to the wolves??? (they have cat ears, my mom was wolf ears). My mom then fed me and handed me off to the father of Sophia and we went to their house. From my original exploration of the house i knew that it was bigger and that it had an extra bedroom compared to my house. Seeing how i had already ate the family fed Sophia her meal. They fed her what appeared to be apple sauce. They then set us down to play again as Sophia was somehow still full of energy. I let her play with lizard and went to the extra bedroom and using a nearby block of wood i was able to climb up and sleep.
The next day when i woke up Sophia was crushing my tiny arm with her gigantic head. So after moving around a bit she woke up. We got out of the bed which took me and Sophia about ten minutes. We then walked outside. Sophias's parents had already gone to the fields so no one was around. At the top of the hill i saw the old crazy man lock his door. He then mounted a horse and headed out of town. Yes luck is finally on my side! So we walk to the old mans house. Knowing that he locked the front door we go all the way around. Sadly theirs is no back door. Put their is a crawl space. The crawl space is only big enough for me. Lizard and Sophia are both two big to fit in the hole as well. I then get on my knees and crawl in. I have to crawl on a downward angle for about 2 minutes. When i get through i notice that im right in a large room with tons of books. The room is bigger then the rest of the house so it doesn't make any sense also after wandering around i am able to conclude that their are no doors just the crawl space. As i look around i find
“Magic 101”
“Magic for beast tamers”
“Magic for self evaluation”
i grab all the books pertaining to magic that would help me. Each book in the library has a piece of wood separating them and as i take them out the shelves move by themselves to eliminate the new vacant space. After i have found ten books that could help me i bring the last one back and notice that all the books are smaller now. Almost condensed. So i keep grabbing books and the pile keeps staying the same size. I also notice after a while that the more books i grab the more that move done from the shelves. After about a hundred books i grab the pile and lift it. Its weight is equivalent to the one book. I then continue to grab book after book until the whole library is all in one pile. Tired and hungry i sit beside my books and make a blue sphere to eat/drink. As i make the blue sphere the books begin to absorb it before i can eat it. Frustrated i create the thickest sphere i have ever made which gets completely sucked up by the books. Now exhausted and hungry i grab the pile of books which has turned into one white elaborately decorated book. Chains shot out of the book and attach themselves to my arm. I fall back in surprise screaming.
“AHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHH”
the book then shrunk to the size of a cellphone and then nothing happened. Yup nothing. I was worried what the hell is this thing??? the book spoke some how using telepathy.
“I am the Grimoire of Charles Silver-Claw created in the lost library of the immortals.”
“ugh okay? Well i need to get home how do i do that?”
"go through the hole you entered through."
I followed the instruction and then their was a split in the hole leading to different ways.
“now stand up”
i followed his order and then
“turn around”
i did so
“crawl forward”
“how the hell does that help by going back Grimoire?!?!?”
“this is a magical path nothing makes sense now just crawl forward”
i followed his instructions against my better instincts and found myself out of the hole. However now it was night time. So i walked a portion of the way back home and lizard came to me. I hopped on then fell asleep.
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