The title of loser is not something one is born with, rather it is something that is imposed on them by others. The same happened to me.

Walking through the streets I reached the end of our world and the start of another.

Infront of me stood a wall that seperates the two world from one another.

As the one who traversed both worlds I understood one thing that none was perfect.

I suffered in both of the worlds, and the reason for my suffering was none other than my brother.

It all begun on our 5th birthday - - - -.

Lying on my bed I turned towards my brother and asked “ Hey-Hey Eldon what do you think father will do for our birthday this year.”

Eldon replied “ Azlan I know you are excited, but can’t you save it for later? I really want to sleep right now.”

His answer really put my mood down as I thought to myself “How can someone not be excited about their own birthday?”

Still I did as he asked me to, I tried but couldn’t fall asleep, I lied there waiting for the time to pass so that our birthday could come.

After some amount of time had passed I could hear footsteps and sounds coming from outside our door.

As the door was opening I put my head under the velvet sheets and closed my eyes to pretend to be asleep.

I could hear muffeled footsteps moving our direction.

The church bell rang which meant it was midnight. Father came near us and slowly removed sheets from us as he wished us “ Happy birthday my dear children.”

I acted like I was waking up from sleep and slowly sat up.

Me and my brother woke up slowly as father was watching over us.

As we sat up we smiled and he replied with a huge smile and spoke “Very happy birthday Azlan and Eldon.”

We stood up and gave him a big hug and he lifted us off our feet and picked us up in his arms.

We were very happy and laughing and enjoying our time together. He put us down on the bed and asked “What do you want for your birthday.”

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I looked towards Eldon and he looked towards me and then we both turned towards father and together shouted “We want to spend the entire day with you.”

He smirked and walked towards the gate and talked with someone for a few seconds and turned around. As he was walking back I could hear the sound of the door being locked.

He sat down on the bed and spoke “From this very second I will spend the entire day with the both of you.” Our excitement went through the roof and we hugged him once more.

We both sat back down as we both knew what time it was, he snapped his finger and a cake appeared out of the portal.

Slowly the candles materialised over the cake, a energy began gathering around fathers hand and a flame appeared at the end of his finger.

He lit the candles and pushed the cake towards us “Here you go, now blow them away.”

We blew on the candles simultaneously and blew off most of the candles except a few. We tried a few more time but still one remained. It wouldn’t extinguish no matter what the both of us did.

So out of curiosity I picked up the candle without know how hot it would be. The hot wax burnt my skin causing me to drop the candle on the velvet sheets.

Within an instant the sheets caught on fire, father jumped back and poured water over the fire in an attempt to stop it.

But this did not work the fire was spreading at rapid speed. He picked us up and ran towards the door but it was locked , He turned around and ran towards the windows.

He knew that we won’t be able to leave brecause of the metal bar design between us and the outside.

Within minutes the entire room was filled with flames, the smoke was accumuliating in the room making it harder to breathe. I stood up and opened the window.

Smoke starting exiting slowly, but the fire was spreading and temperature was rising.

Eldon went up to father and asked “Father are we going to be fine.” Father gave a small smile and replied “Yes, And I will make sure of it.”

Father sent us near to the end of the room and stood between us and the flames.

Eldon was sobbing, the fire creeping closer and even within all this I could hear everything happening around me very clearly.

I could hear the commotion outside, the sizzling sound of fire, and of water extinguishing fire bit by bit.

Father was standing between us and the fire trying to stop the fire from getting cl0ser. But he ran out of water father checked his portal but to no avail he couldn’t find anything that would help us get out this situation.

Yet he stood infront of us not even flinching a bit. He was being burned and we could hear his screams of pain, we were getting scared.

I shouted “Father don’t do this, Please.” Tears were streaming down my face but I couldn’t move my body.

I heard the door open and felt that there was a bit of hope.

I turned towards Eldon who was crying and I could feel a power accumulating inside him. While wiping of tears from his face he shouted at the fire “ Don’t hurt my father.”

After shouting that his entire body was covered in flames. These flames were not orange-red rather it was purple. I ran towards Eldon to see what was happening. I hugged him expecting the fire to burn me.

But it didn’t this flames were cool and pleasing, soon after that the flame burst out of his body and mixed with the fire that was burning the house down.

The purple flames were slowly replacing the fire, the heat was decreasing and when it came in contact with father’s burnt skin it started healing him.

I looked towards Eldon and he looked pretty tired, I spoke “Hang in there brother.” The power in him became stronger and purple flames were becoming faster.

And within an instant the flame replaced the fire and disappered. I turned towards Eldon, He was on the ground fainted, his nose was bleeding.

I sat down and put his head on my lap. The servants rushed into the room some came to us others went to tend farther.

After a few minutes father woke up and saw eldon lying here on the ground with a bleeding nose, he rushed over.

He bent down and askd “Azlan, How am I alright?,What happened to Eldon?”

I explained what had happened after he had fainted from the purple flames to Eldon, I told him everything.

He began laughing picked up Eldon from my lap and declared “Today, A new mage has been born in the Whitmore family.”

Everyone looked happy and congratulated my father. I didn’t what he meant by that, but I was still happy for my brother.

But this happiness didn’t remain for long.