Disclaimer: I don't own Mahou Sensei Negima. This story is only for entertainment motives.
There is only one reality.
Almost every normal being thinks that. The possibility of others realities isolated and completely different from the own was a crazy idea. Even entities with powers of divine proportions share this thought, and the few who think otherwise believe the interactions between them is impossible. Curiously, this is a common belief among the infinite amount of realities.
Universes where the matter didn't win the battle against the antimatter. Others where gravity is only a word to describe the seriousness of an event. Realities full of life and other with only death. The possibilities are endless. With infinite worlds, it would be easy to imagine one where travel between them is possible. However, this skill is a long lost art. Even the first and last race who developed this ability had forgotten how to use it.
Nevertheless, in a infinite amount of realities, with a infinite amount of possibilities, the chances of a being who had learnt again this art wasn't zero, right?
It was a quiet night. Only the noises from the wind shaking the trees disturbed the silence. The forest was very far from any human or other being who could witness the events that would happen. That it's, because the spell has been made in that way.
Between two trees there wasn't anything. One second later, there was a man. He didn't come from a sphere of lights and magic schemes, neither the heavens opened nor the earth shook like it should have happened. It would have been more epic, but infinitely less stealthy. And he want to be very stealthy. Every now and then, there was beings who could deceive the filters of the spell, a feat only possible with great power, and by experience, the powerful ones were normally very dangerous as well. It was better be unknown until estimate the power level of the current reality.
The man did a routine check for missing limbs and other potentials problems due to the jump. Satisfied with the results, he examined his surroundings. He was in a forest, that was obvious. He could sense some animals nearby and thanks to his heightened hearing he could catch distant noises of a city too. Not detecting an imminent threat, the man began searching the real reason for his journey. For several minutes he remained still and with the eyes closed. His mind wandered in the folds of the boundary. Everything that enter a reality leave behind a mark, even him. Eventually he left out a sigh.
"No mark. It isn't here either." the man rub his eyes trying to suppress the disappointment. This was the usual result but he couldn't avoid the hope growing in him with each new jump. "Well now, how to kill some time?"
The man began to walk slowly toward the city noises. Actually, 'some time' meant about six months, the time he will need to regenerate the magic spent in the jump spell. Absorb energy of this world would make it too but the impact generated would be irreversible and it wasn't in his plan hurt a world only to save time. With this he returned at the question of how spend six months. Wait in the forest was a possibility but a real boring one. Explore this world look like a better option. So the next step was understand this world. There were exceptions but in general all the realities shared a similar structure. Maybe the reason of this phenomenon was the own structure of his original reality but not even him knew the answer. Whatever the reason was, it was something very convenient and discover the quirks of this one shouldn't take much time. After that, he could search a job to keep his mind working and analyze every bit of knowledge this world could provide in his free time.
"Sounds like a plan." the man nodded to himself and kept his walk. Finally, he arrived a little cliff. Out of the shadows from the trees, the moonlight illuminated his form. He wore a blue long coat, dark trousers and white shirt. His dark hair almost reached his shoulders. The face of the man would pass for a young of twenty years but his eyes revealed an ancient being, one who has watched the birth and the end of ages. From the cliff he saw the light of the nearby city and smiled. "Time to see what this reality can offer." and with a grin still of his face the man jumped.
Only a couple of minutes later, the traveler was walking in the streets of Mahora, the city's name he just learnt. It was night time and the light from shops and restaurants illuminate all the way. The commercial district maybe? Several persons wandered on the street caught his attention. He began to listen their conversation, rather for the language than for the message. The problem of communication was very usual when arriving in a new reality. The man had a sharp mind and in a few days he would speak like a native but for now a simple (and undetectable) spell could do the job. After make sure he understand the talk perfectly, he continue his walk.
Cars traveled on the roads around him. That and a girl talking with a mobile phone gave him enough information to speculate the technological level of the world. It was a relief the existence of means of transports. If he needed hide his supernatural powers cars and trains were more comfortable than walk to everywhere. The next task was learn the history of the world and how it worked. The perfect place to do it was a library. Testing the speech spell, he asked for directions a couple of times until reached his goal. The library in front of him was quite large. Probably, it had all the information he needed for the moment. The only problem was it would close in twenty minutes. Not much time to read a whole library. More than enough for what he would do. Saluting the librarian, the man entered and went to a remote stand, save from witnesses. After checking he was alone, the traveler took a book from a inner pocket of his coat. It was little, like a personal notebook. Made from the blackest leather and the whitest paper. It couldn't have more than three hundred pages but with magical artifacts nothing is what it seems.
"Time to work Biblos" the man whispered. With this words, the book opened slowly and showed sheets full of words in a strange alphabet which not only spoke about magic but had magic. Little by little, each letter separated from the book and began to float. When the page became white, all the characters were dancing in a vibrant cloud. Whispering some words, he defined limits to the spell and its aims. When the man stopped, the magic began.
Each magical letter went for a book shelf. When one of them hit a book the character went through it and became a bit larger. Once finished the shelf, the letters flew to another to continue its task. It would have been a good sight if the man didn't make the spell invisible. He would hide his nature as long as he could. In less than a minute the job was done and all the letters return to their former sheets in his book like they never had disappeared. The man gave a quick look finding several thousands of new books in his collection. Satisfied with the acquisition, he left the library giving a little nod to the librarian. She looked at him surprised, it was unusual a person who entered and then leave after only one minute in.
Again in the streets, the traveler looked for a calm place where he could read. After wandering several minutes, he spotted a park. "Well, it could be worse." the man said and he sat in a bench. The man looked at the book in his hands and smiled. Reading was one of his favourites hobbies if not the most. That's why he created Biblos as soon as he could. The book contained a pocket dimension which could keep an infinity amount of knowledge. It could copy easily any book too, a very convenient ability. Now, the magic artifact had several millions of books which contained the history of all the realities he had visited and all the spells he had learnt or created. That made it one of his treasures and a very dangerous object.
Returning to his current task, the man open the first new book and began to read with an inhuman speed.
The sun was rising in the horizon when the traveler finished the last book. He stretched his back and let out a loud yawn. The lack of sleep was bothersome but nothing too serious. One of the benefits of a enhanced body.
Getting up to recover the sensibility in his legs, the man began to remember what he had read. Now, he knew the history of this world more or less. The wars, countries, organizations and important facts. One of this was the generally disbelief about anything related with the magic. Throughout the time, the demonstration of supernatural powers was replied with fear or wrath. The magic was considered like a demonic practice and any person who was found guilty, finished his days burned. He sighed, the fear to the unknown was a constant in all the realities.
All this gave two possibilities. One, all kind of magical organization had been erased from this world. Two, there were magical organizations but they were very hidden from the normal humans. Both answers made his last task, to study the magic of this world and every kind of mages group, quite hard. Well, as long he didn't reveal himself there shouldn't be any problems. Besides, his interest was in other information.
Thanks to the geography and history books he could recognize his localization as Mahora, a Japan city. The important fact was Mahora had an academy which contained the largest library in the world, so big that it hadn't been whole explored! For him this library was like a sweet candy. Scan the library and read all the books would be amazing. Maybe he would find magical books as well. The man smiled like a kid with a new toy, a toy that he would use for the next six months.
The only problem was how enter the facility. The traveler pondered his options. Maybe work like a teacher? It would give him access to the library. Sneak on the academy would be more easy but he already decided to take a job. Besides, it wouldn't be his first time as professor. When he looked for a job, with all his knowledge, working like a teacher was a common event. But this wasn't like a part time job. He would need a background, certificates from studies he hadn't. And a birth certificate would be recommendable. He would have to hack the systems of several organizations to do so.
Well, it wouldn't be the first time either.
With the next steps in his mind, the traveler climbed a tree. The leaves would hide him while he worked. Besides, the higher the place, the better the signal. When the man got the most comfortable position he could achieve in a branch, he took a purple crystal armlet from his coat. This wasn't his first world with networks and the armlet was his way to work in such cases. With the artifact in his right arm, the man began to enter in the world network. His mind at least.
The armlet was an interface mind-net which allow him to enter in any computer system with his conscience. Once in the system, the use of little electric spells would change bits of information at will. The changes were untraceable because they came from the database's core. That made very hard check if the certificates were genuine or no.
With all the necessary hacking done, the traveler began to create all he would need. In a few minutes he finished to fill the information. Only one remained blank.
A name.
He let out a chuckle. Entities of his same age changed their names in a regular basis, only words which paled in comparison with their owners. However, the traveler liked his name. It wasn't his true name but that had been forgotten long time ago so this worked as his true one. It was given to him by a woman who loved him but he couldn't correspond. She said the name represented what he was. An adventurer, a warrior, a custodian. She never knew the truthfulness of the last one.
With a last check, he filled the last space.
NAME: Alexander Gardian
First chapter of my first fanfic done. If you are here I will suppose you read it. In that case thank you for your time and since english isn't my first language if you find grammatical errors tell me so I can fix it (and the people don't hate me too much for them). Any constructive review will be appreciated as well.
