What another story! How could you Haru you don't have time for this DX well ya I don't but this idea was buzzing around my head and it wouldn't leave until I wrote at least the first chapter down, it will continue.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters. All rights reserved to the one who actually made them.
mEDieval Times
It was quiet in the old mages castle. The only real noise that could be heard was the flipping of pages, and the soft flickering noise of a lit candle. The owner of the book was reading in the faint glow of the light from the candle, completely engrossed in his newest spell book, he had been reading it the second he got home, not thinking about anything else except for what new and interesting kinds of information he might find in the content of the book. He read at a ferocious pace, flipping through the pages as quick as he could, which for him was very fast, but he still made sure to absorb as much information from each page as humanly possible. It was his little knack, to read so fast and still be able to get so much out of the pages, his master had commented on this multiple times, telling him that if he read to fast he might just add to much to his brain and it would stop working. He doubted this, as long as there were still spells to learn and new forms to be taught he didn't want to stop learning, he figured that his brain was the same way.
He heard someone open the door behind him, but he didn't let that distract him from his reading.
"Edd?" His master asked, trying to identify the person on the desk at such a late hour. "Are you still awake? Go to bed young wizard." He moved in behind him, trying to see what the book was about this time. He was reading up on earth magic and its different uses. He could have sworn that he already told Edd that earth magic was a median between defense and offense; it was one that he himself used often when in a fight.
Edd didn't respond at first, he was still trying his best to take in the last bit of the page before answering. "Yes, well I would really like to finish this book before I got some rest." Edd blankly stated, still reading his book and not even looking at his master. For that he received a small bop on the head.
"Ow," Edd hissed, then looked up at his master. "O, my apologies Arnold I was on a really interesting spell, I'll go to bed." He placed a bookmark on the page before he rushed off towards the bathroom. Arnold looked at the book one more time before he went off too, blowing the candle out and letting the dark return to the room.
The Large boy walked around the training dummy again, hitting it with his wooden sword multiple times as he moved. He wasn't the fastest in his castle guild, but he was defiantly the strongest, his blows were so loud that they echoed all across the training ground just outside of the castle. Besides the most obvious noise which was the loud whacks that followed his blows, were the thunderous claps that followed each one.
"Come on Edd, just 20 more, and you can go clean yourself up!" His commander instructed, clapping louder and louder. "Not like you clean up anyways, but you get what I'm saying."
Edd struck at the dummy harder until his 20 reps were finally over, he then collapsed on the ground almost instantly falling asleep. Ed had been doing this since the sun had risen. His commander leaned over and pat him on the back.
"That'll do boy, that'll do." He soothed, smiling slightly at the sight of his apprentice, and remembering when he was a young boy training so hard and would get tired. "Here, I'll help you up." He pulled Ed's arm over his shoulder and walked into the castle, leaving the dark to go back in the warm glow of the castles lights.
"There!" one of the angry villagers yelled, pointing at the boy who was jumping from roof to roof. "That's the boy who stole our gold!"
"It's Eddy!"
"Is he really that young?"
"Get him!"
There was no way they were going to get to him while he was jumping, but there was a huge difference between angry villagers and skilled guards, and boy were they mad. One shot an arrow at him, which he grabbed by the shaft before it hit him. That's how skilled he had become, a life like his required skills like his, and he fit the roll perfectly. He crossed another gap between 2 buildings; there were some guards who were still keeping up with him on the bottom. Fat chance! There was no way they were going to stay with him, this was his 4rth time stealing from this part of the city and they still hadn't put up better security. The most they had were guys with bows that ran slower than a wounded dog.
Eddy jumped up along the tower until he was at the top of it. He looked down at the guards, they were taking the wrong turn to another building like complete idiots, he smirked. Eddy stood on the ledge and looked over at the full moon. It was a bright light that he wanted to go too like a bug driven to a flame, but unlike the bug Eddy knew what would happen if he went back to the light. He would burn.
So he turned around, flipping his hood over his head and moving his cloak so it covered the rest of his body. He jumped down the tower until he saw a dark alley to go into, he went back into the dark, letting the light stay behind him.
"Ok so you read 3 books yesterday," Arnold sighed, looking over at the books that were neatly stacked at the end of the table. "What did you read about anyways?" He turned to face his apprentice.
Edd's smirk was apparent on his face, "Well I read up on the 4 main guilds on this side of the earth, and what kind of power they hold." his smile widened, and he became more giddy, making him look younger than he already was. "where the Master guild usually deals in training knights, they also use a magic like source of power known as 'inner force', Also Tide as you know which is one of the so called 'run down' guilds actually used the same kind of magical force called 'assassins wisp'.
Arnold laughed lightly before he spoke, "Ya, I read up on that easy stuff when I was about your age too, I already know that only a select few are gifted with the ability to use such magical force."
Edd seemed to become sad; he was pretty excited to tell Arnold what he had learned from those books.
He was about to walk back into the vast library that was at the castles disposal, but his teacher stopped him by grabbing his shoulder.
"Good job though, I'm glad to see that you've taken an interest in other forms of magic, you're becoming a more powerful wizard by the day."
Edd's face lit up. On rare moments like this, when Arnold actually complimented him for reading always made the while day seem so much better. He wasn't used to receiving such high compliments so all he did was bow slightly and say a quick "thank you" in return.
"Your very welcome my apprentice, now we have to go outside the guild today I got word from the high order that they need our assistance."
The high order was the selected few wizards in the Elton guild that were picked to command the others in the area, when it came down it that's where every wizard wanted to end up including Edd who knew with such power he could change the Elton guild in the best of ways.
Edd walked into his room to put on his mage uniform as he called it, which consisted of an orange robe top that was kind a loose on him, also has purple pants that were tied together to his black shoes. He made sure to straighten up in the mirror so he would look good in front of the council who were going to assign them their mission. He moved his pointy black wizard hat, the one he always wore, on his head to a more proper position. Lastly came his staff, it was a regular staff with a green gem on the top of it signifying which kind of magic he used.
"Let's get going my young apprentice." Edd heard his teacher call; he walked to the door and opened it.
The mage and his apprentice walked down the city to its heart, the Elton council castle. They had to go through many kinds of guards to finally reach the council gathering office. Edd's heart always raced a little when he got closer to the doors that would open to reveal the council members all sitting in the circle around the room as if they were judging you for an execution (which they did on occasions). When his teacher opened the large doors, they both walked in to be greeted by the 5 older gentlemen. He gave a quick bow, as did hid teacher before they spoke.
"Ah master Arnold. This must be the young apprentice we've heard so much about," One of the council said, giving Edd a comforting smile.
Edd was glad that he had his hat to cover his small blush, he had no idea that his teacher had talked about him to the council.
His motion only seemed to encourage them. "All of us have heard great things about you, and we've all seen the grades you get in your wizard training. You defiantly have potential to be a great wizard one day." This had caught Edd by surprise, because the head of the council had said that. Again he blushed; the head of the council rarely spoke yet here was complimenting Edd.
"t-thank you head council l-leader," He bowed again to show how thankful he was.
He smiled, a warm one that only someone who had been through many years could give. "Well now that we've embarrassed your poor apprentice let's get on to the task at hand," those words stopped all the fun, and it was back to work for them, they were serious now.
"The council has gotten word from the farmers in the outskirts of this city, that there have been some mysterious events happening near the Rinwood forest."
"If I may interrupt, like what?" Arnold asked, looking at the council member that was talking.
"Well we got a report that one said there was fire shooting up at night, and also that they heard roars that didn't sound like any animal they had ever heard."
"Hm sounds interesting, well then we'll be on our way." with that, they hurried outside towards the fields.
They walked in silence, just the way Edd liked it. He could think a lot better when he walked in silence without questions or any kind of compliments to throw him off his usually train of thought. When they got to the outskirts of the city Edd got a full view of the forest from atop the cliff they were on. It was a large forest that seemed to be dense with trees, Edd couldn't see any kinds or farms or clearings anywhere in the forest, he wondered how they would find whatever the weird creature was. His question was answered when the earth seemed to rumble beneath them and a fire spewed out of a hole in the ground like a geyser, somewhere to the west of the forest.
Edd shook long after the rumbling ceased, whatever had shot that fire was defiantly big, really big. Arnold seemed unfazed by whatever had caused that, and walked forward without even looking at Edd, that made him a little happy he didn't want his master to seem his literally shaking in his boots, he followed close by Arnold, making sure that if anything happened he'd be close by to help.
The forest was alive with small noises of the animals. Edd heard the chirping of the bird somewhere in the distance, a frog croaking in the bog to his left, and even a woodpecker hitting the small oak tree. It made him feel more peaceful even though he was going to go fight whatever was scaring him to no ends. The walk didn't take as long as Edd would have thought and when they got to the hole Edd's eyes widened.
It was huge. It looked like a meteor had come down and hit the ground, except it looked perfectly circular, and the dirt still looked charred. Edd tread carefully around the circle, inspecting it to the best of his ability. A part of him was tempted to look down the hole to see what was shooting the fire, but he didn't know when that would happen and he might end up losing a head, something that he intended to keep.
Arnold walked around it as well, inspecting it in the same way Edd was, but something in his eyes looked off to the young mage. He turned to fully face his student.
"Ok apprentice, the next time the fire shoots out I need you to jump in and shoot as much air under yourself as you can, just in case another fire burst comes out." his master instructed.
"What about you?" Edd asked, though he was already hoping for an answer that involved his master following right behind him.
"I will wait up here and join you after I've reported what our findings are."
Edd tried to think of another way for the plan to work, but Arnolds seemed to be the best way for the council to know and for him to get some snooping done at the same time. He breathed in; trying his best to calm himself before the fire came and he made a rash and bold move.
He hated doing that. The risk, the challenge, the heart pounding feeling that spread across his body and made his hands sweaty. It all just fed the fear the crept up on him from behind and made him slip up on the most desperate of moments, it was the reason he wasn't a full-fledged wizard and still an apprentice. He just couldn't cope under stressful situations like this one, he was scared to fail and jeopardize the whole mission.
But he took a deep breath and looked towards the hole. It didn't take long before the fire shot out of the hole again, and even as it was shooting out Edd was running towards it, counting the seconds until it stopped, and he was ready to go in.
"Be careful my apprentice!" He heard Arnold call behind him, and when he was a couple of feet away from the hole and it stopped, he jumped in.
He slowly floated down to the bottom by using his air magic and when he got to the bottom his breath seemed to freeze. He couldn't even speak, but the thing that stood in front of him had no trouble with that what so ever.
"Hello chosen one."
And here it is! Not as long as I wanted, but I think it's pretty good and my first cliffhanger ya! :D