Chapter 1- My Sorrow: Past and Present
I waited in my room for the nurse to come with my pills. As I wait, I think of life before the mental hospital. The joy of being with my family, being with society, having friends that aren't complete psychos. Oh, I should probably introduce myself. My name is Akato Hikari, and if you're wondering what I'm doing here, its a long story. Then again, I have my whole life to tell it.
I live in a world where magecraft is possible. Magic has been around since the beginning of time, and is an essential part of life to the 10% of the population able to use it.
Anyway, since its been here forever, you can imagine that during the cycles of evolution, some spells were lost. If you believe that, can you believe that they can somehow return through those with the will to control it? I didn't, at first. I had always been a struggling mage as a child, looking up to the guild mages. Yeah, you aren't considered a full fledged mage until you join a guild. My village friends and I had made a guild when we were 7 and would do odd jobs around the village. I would pretend to be the guild master. I heard this guild really became something now... And I'm getting off track again, aren't I?
My magic was uncontrollable, and was released when my emotions were violent enough, or if I had specifically called upon it. I could never determine its power when I called it. It could not be tied to a single element, since it depended upon my emotions.
Me and my parents were worried, so we traveled to 'Heiwa no Inori' to visit the High Priestess to identify my power. The High Priestess practically had a heart attack when she found the 'Arc of Empathy'.
She said there hadn't been a mage since the dawn of magic with a power so strong, yet dangerous, and suggested that they send me to a place for the insane, where they could control my power. This came at the cost of my freedom. My parents said yes without a second's hesitation!
I was angry, EXTREMELY angry, and before I knew it, my magic was expelled and suddenly Heiwa no Inori was an ash-filled, crater in the earth with no life (or so I thought). I cried a lot, and it wasn't long til the Magic Council's Royal Army came and sent me to the same fate the priestess would have.
It has been 3 years since that day, and it still brings tears to my eyes when I think about it. Then, my door opens, and the nurse enters with my pills. "Take the pill," she says "and I want proof you swallowed it." I take the pill, its sour after-taste lingering on my tongue. She forces my mouth open for an inspection. "Good boy." She said to me "Now don't be so sad, its free time. Go socialize with your friends. Oh that's right... you have none, except for that Ultear bitch." She ends this with a witch like cackle. She is lucky those pills disable my powers.
I sat here, crying like a baby about how bad my life sucks. I only have one friend here, Ultear. She is the only other normal one in this place. Hopefully that changes soon.