This is intended as a short story that plays in the characters point of view in world of warcraft the game made by blizzard, I do not own it, only the plot. (this is based on one of my own character's but as you read the story you will understand i only used his name as i use his name for two characters with diffrent classes, i submerged them here ).

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A Strange Boy

Valadriel woke up, feeling his head he fell backwards as he created a slight bundle of pure white light. His head ache disappeared and he stood up to look around him.

He found himself in a barn, somewhere in the forest.

Turning around a young women was blushing at him, he looked down and saw they where both naked while his robe lay on top of them. 'Did I?' she nodded happily as she moved closer to him, ah well, this was better then that one time when he woke up next to a female Tauren…quickly he reached with his hands over her stomach as a bright light covered his hands once again, he made relieved sigh as he laid back down again, he didn't impregnate her.

'Ah yes, that was one wild party last night…but wasn't that in Hillsbrad?' he said out loud as he walked towards the nearest town; Goldshire, it seemed that he was just a tiny bit south of it.

Walking into the inn he asked for some roast chicken as he thought back to the first time he was in this small inn.

'Did daddy live here mommy?' the innkeeper looked up as he heard a young human boy around the age of 6 walk into his inn holding hands with a night elf priestess.

'Not quite dear, he never had a home remember?' she answered as she walked up to the innkeeper. 'A room for two please, and can you point me to the closest elf priest in the area? I need to consult her' the innkeeper mentioned the odd pair to follow him upstairs and showed them a room, next he knocked on the door next to it.

'Excuse me, there is someone here to see you' he talked to the door as it was a lady and then he left as soon as he received his 10 silver pieces for the night.

'Yes?' a young elf women opened the door and looked at the priestess and the boy.

'Theodora! How are you?' the elf opened the door completely and hugged the mother as the boy watched the whole thing. He lived with the elf's for his whole live but they where always perfectly in line and gentle. The woman released her and kneeled.

'Oh my, you have grown so much since I last saw you!' she grabbed the boy and almost chocked him. She released him and grabbed his shoulders while she inspected him, he had the appearance of a human but if you'd look closer you would see that his ears where slightly pointy and backwards and that he had a dark blue skin, instead of dark brown as everybody first thought.

'He has grown indeed…I got a letter for you from the high priest' Theodora waved the letter in front of her as she looked up. Her arm reached out and grabbed air as Theodora pulled away again. 'But first I need your help, I need your recommendation to get Valadriel into the academy' she smiled sympathetically as she took them inside.

'Is the high priest giving you a hard time?' Theodora nodded as she sat down. 'You know what she thinks of male priests…especially if they're not night elf's' Theodora looked at her son and grabbed his shoulder.

'He shows extraordinary talent for our magic, Valadriel, show her what you can do' the boy looked up afraid as he held his mothers robes tightly. 'Don't worry, I won't smite you' the elf winked as she bent down and gave him a pat on the head.

Valadriel looked at his mother and then up to the woman again, he raised his hands and a bright light began to circle them, suddenly a flash of light filled the room almost blinding them. The boy began to cry and his mother lifted him up as she circled her hand on his back.

'How did he learn that?' the elf raised her robe and looked at her knee, it looked perfectly clean and it showed no point of any wounds. 'I fell yesterday and I couldn't heal it myself!' she cried out as she looked at the boy. 'a few weeks ago he was alone in the house, and when I came home I saw that a bright light was inside, I knew he was afraid in the dark but thought he was sleeping, he told me that he saw me do this and wanted it to, only what happened just now…' she grabbed his head and pulled him away from her chest.

'Did you try to hard?' the boy nodded heavily with tears still flowing lightly from his eyes.

'Don't worry, you're my own little miracle' she kissed him on the forehead as she turned to the other elf.

'As you can see he already had a full-sized area heal, I don't know how…maybe because of his father, maybe because he grew up with priestess around him all day…but somehow he just does it without years of training' she smiled as the other stood up, quickly she went trough the room and recovered a pen and paper, she began writing down as she looked up again.

'If you ask me, he should get personal training from the high priestess…if she gives him her blessing and training then he would be a full fledged priest within 6 years, hell he might even surpass her by the looks of it!' she laughed a bit before she wrote down some elfish words.

'Mommy…who was that girl' he looked up as they walked towards Stormwind.

'She is an old friend of mine, good as a priestess but not meant to be amongst us in Darnassus…much to wild' she laughed as they walked on.

At the city the boy was amazed, he never saw so many humans, dwarfs, gnomes and elf's together, and the buildings! Look at the many weird things! He thought as they walked on.

The night before she carried him while he slept, he missed Ironforge and Stormwind because he fell asleep somewhere around the wetlands. They walked on and ended up on a garden; the mages walked by them and they ended up at a small herbalist shop in the first road.

If it isn't Theodora!' the old elf behind the desk smiled broadly.

'How long has it been, 90 years already?' she grinned as they hugged and stepped back.

'You haven't changed one bit' she smiled as she looked at the old man, long grey beard, a leafy robe and his grandfathers wooden staff tied to a leather holder on his back.

'So, what have we got here, is it the orphan week again?' he looked at the child that held on to his mothers robe tightly and saw his ears, his eyes widened and he made a small step back. 'You didn't!' he looked at the women and she nodded. 'Ah well, we all knew you liked humans, but this…anyways, what are you here for, looking for some herbs to make his skin darker?' he grinned as he walked into the back and grabbed a small box.

'Actually I just got the last recommendation letter for the high priestess to let him train under her, I need a portal and hoped you could ask your mage friends, these adventurers these days ask entire gold pieces while I got a rune ready for them!' she glared at a gnome mage that sat in the corner while examining some herbs. 'Don't look at me! I just learned how to teleport myself!' he stated as he jumped down from the flower pot he was sitting on.

'If you give me a moment to call my assistant, she was in the druid training but decided that this was the life for her…' he yelled something elfish into the back and a young elf jumped in.

'Yes?' she still had a large flower in her arms, holding it like a baby.

'I need to go to the wizard tower, watch the shop would you?' he gave her a look before she nodded and they left.

They walked up the hill towards a large tower with a floating stone path circling around it, Valadriel looked up and couldn't belief his eyes, young and old mages where everywhere, some just sat there talking, meditating or just eating while others where canting alone, together and one group of 3 girls where discussing something just next to the path.

Suddenly two boys around the age of 16 ran past them, both wielding a wand and shooting each other with fiery balls.

They followed the stone path up and inside they went even higher, there they went trough big portal and suddenly they where in a large room, no one looked up at their arrival and they walked on until they reached a old man in the corner that was studying a small book.

'Good morning honourable mage' the man looked up from his book and his eyes widened, he jumped up and made a deep bow as he said with a magical voice 'a very good morning indeed honourable alchemist' he smiled broadly as he shook hands with the man.

'What brings you to my humble library' he looked at the woman and the boy and smiled.

'Do you have a student for me?' he bow down and a arcane glow filled his hand while he moved it over the boys head. 'If this is the case I'd gladly take him in, I can see the magic burst out of him already!' he smiled widely as he straightened again.

'Ellas my friend, this boy will need a portal from you only, and portal to Darnassus so that he might study the way of the priest under the high priestess herself perhaps!' the man sat down and frowned. 'This child has the magical potential to create a grand fireball if he'd wished to I think…why do you want to waste his talents on something as healing while he could change the fate of our world?' the old man began to glow brightly under his robes and looked down, dusting his robe he sat down again.

'I'm sorry, I envy him…if I had only half of his talent I would be Archmage already!' the man laughed as he looked at the women. 'I assume you are his guide to Darnassus, is he really that good?' she nodded as she gave the man an innocent smiled. 'Alright then, if he ever wants to come back and study under me or any of us he will be welcome, now let's get this started!' he stood up and walked to a small table, he grabbed one of the chests an opened it, revealing a collections of glowing runes.

He took one out and crushed it in his hands, the dust poured out of his hand in a straight line as he made a glowing circle with it, one hand reached down as he murmured some words, the dust took form of many different shapes and some circles even floated up and formed a floating circle of marks around the wizard.

Arcane light twisted around the sand and his hand as he closed his eyes in concentration, slowly, the air in front of him began to twist, turning and bending into a medium sized ball.

Suddenly the ball showed the temple of the priests from Darnassus and light shone out from it.

'There, I wish you good luck, may, as you say, the light be with you' he winked as he bend down. 'And for you, young boy, if you ever wish to learn the ways of the mage, use this to contact me' he pulled a necklace out that fitted him perfectly, it had a thin long blue stone that showed a small green flame inside.

Theodora grabbed her son and thanked the two old men before she turned to the sphere.

'Grab the sphere and you'll be home' she whispered to her son as they moved closer, together they laid their hands on the floating orb and suddenly the world around them turned into a bright light and darkened, they floated around in a dark room with stars everywhere, suddenly the stars turned into bright white stripes as they went towards one, it became large until they were very close, suddenly they where inside the light and it became darker again, shapes around them emerged from the light and they stood in front of the giant statue inside the temple.

'Theodora! Welcome back' a priestess that walked by greeted them and went on after she gave Valadriel a quick hug; he was a cute boy after all.

They moved up the stone path and found the high priestess discussing something with one of the guards, after waiting a bit they finally separated and she turned towards her.

'Ah Theodora, how was the trip?' she said with the same soft voice as always as she patted Valadriel on the head. 'Better then I expected, I got the recommendation and Valadriel did something incredible, in his nerves of showing a small flash of light he created a great flash that almost blinded us' she smiled broadly as the high priestess looked down on the boy.

'Is that so? Hmmm…let me see that letter' she grabbed the letter out of her hands and read it, at some point she looked down on the boy and continued reading, when she was done she laid down the letter on a small table and called a nearby priestess.

'This is Valadriel and he shall be following your every move from now on' she said, she pushed Valadriel forward and turned to Theodora. 'We'll see if he is as good as you think, but if he shows any signs of turning to a shadow priest I'm sending him to the humans!' she threatened, Theodora didn't worry, she explained all theory there was about priesthood and he knew all to well that shadow priests where not the high priestesses favourites.

A few months passed and the boy already mastered many ways to bend the light to his will, but there was something else, some times when they where training with the smiting he sometimes managed to blow the targets up, instead of cutting them, and one time he frost a squirrel when he chased it. After some consulting the high priestess decided that it was time that she took him under her guide.

A year passed and the boy was becoming highly known, as he now was playing with the light as if it was a toy, when people where nearby him they could feel their body rest and feel good, there was one battle where the high priestesses healing was needed, and when they where in the barracks healing the man…Valadriel managed to resurrect a man that was beyond help and he even closed the hole in his chest that a troll spear had made.

Time passed quickly as the boy turned eleven, the age where a normal student would receive the teachings of resurrection, but this time he was the teacher, he entered the opening with the hunters that had caught several wild animals, with a dagger they had killed the panthers by cutting the necks. The girls where crazy about him, he was the only boy in the entire temple and was of course very popular. He let the girls close the wounds and explained how to bend the light and allow it to fill the animal with life, then they had to mentally call its spirit back to its body. A druid was watching from the corner, as soon as any of the animals woke up she soothed it and at the end of the day all animals where back to life.

Finally he assigned every student to a hunter to go out and track sick animals to heal them, train some more.

The only thing that kept him from attaining a master rank was his mental age, he had a greater touch with the light then most priestesses but he lacked the experience and age, he was still just a child at the age of eleven.

After another year the high priestess took him to her personal room.

'Listen Valadriel, I guess you have already noticed but there is nothing I can learn you anymore, there is just one thing that remains and that is for you to go into the world, explore and learn how nature turns, feel live and learn to live for yourself. Only it isn't as simple as that, since you are too young I cannot let you go…' she looked into his bright white eyes and frowned. 'There is however, another solution…Do you remember Stormwind?' the boy nodded and grabbed the necklace; he never removed it ever since that day.

'Alright, I want you to focus, remember that long ago you froze a squirrel?' he nodded again and she pointed out to a small stone statue on her desk. 'Can you try to freeze that to the desk?' he looked confused but nodded, walking towards the desk he looked at his hands, he laid them down on the stone. He felt a cold pass trough them and concentrated on the element as he looked at the stone. Nothing happened.

'Hmmm, ah well, that's their problem' she sighed as she grabbed his hand. 'Let's go, you can say goodbye and then you're going to Stormwind!' they marched out towards the other side of town. After bidding his mother farewell they set of to the temple where the old wizard was waiting to retrieve the boy and set of towards Stormwind.

'Ah, I see they fed you well' the man walked around the boy, taking him into his view.

'The message told me that you where done with priesthood for now, tell me boy, does healing bore you?' the man smiled broadly by his joke.

'Healing is a necessary aspect of live that has great ability, the light itself is not only for healing, with the divine power of the light one may be able to inflict great damage itself' the boy looked offended as the wizard arched his back.

'I told you, he has quite the mouth if he needs to and never underestimate his control over the light' the high priestess bends down to end up face to face with the boy.

'No matter what they tell you about the light, you may always return and you must always remember its divine power' she whispered into his ear. 'Take this ring' she said as she removed a small silver ring that had a bright blue stone in it, engraved into the silver where some ancient runes that glowed lightly.

'It was given to me by my predecessor, may it provide you with the same enhancement as it did to me once' she smiled friendly, almost sadly as she gave his forehead a slight kiss.

'Say now boy, your name was Valadriel right?' the boy nodded as he looked at the ring.

'My name is not important at the moment, you may call me master or, if you like, you can call me Mithrandir' the man smiled as he grabbed a rune from his pocket, after crushing it he made another portal and they entered it.

At the academy Mithrandir showed him a room and gave him a big pile of books that he had to read. 'You can take 3 months to read these, explore the city as it will be your home for the upcoming years and you can take this time to get to know the rest of the mages in the academy' the room had a simple bed, a desk with a good chair and a book case, a small cupboard with some simple robes inside it stood in the back of the room.

'Anything else you need to know?' the man looked friendly at his new apprentice and received nothing but a simple nod. 'Well then, I'll be on my way, you may not always find me at the academy but most of the time I will reside in the tower at the garden' and with that he walked outside.

Valadriel walked to the window and looked outside, when they arrived in a basement he thought they would be somewhere near the mage tower but nothing was less true.

They where in the academy, close to Stormwind, actually it was overlooking Stormwind from the mountains above it, it was hidden to the normal eye and there was only one way to get there; trough magic.

As he walked around he was amazed by the greatness that was harvested in the halls of the academy, everywhere he looked it seemed as if the complete academy itself was about to change, sometimes it seemed like a dark place, dark wooden floors and blood red curtains where everywhere with cold dark stone walls covering every inch, this occurred at night and sometimes during dark stormy days.

During day however, it was a bright open space made of the best pure white marble that the wizards of old could conjure, light flew right in trough the many great gateways and windows and even the gloomy basement was engulfed in light.

The whole Academy seemed like a maze at first, sometimes he'd sworn that the walls stood differently at times and every now and then he came past a painting that had hung differently or somewhere completely else when he first saw them. During a night in the third month he found out what caused this; the academy was actually changing every moment, he walked into a hallway that leaded to the bathrooms and suddenly a wall began to move up slowly, revealing entrance to the library of elements.

He never found many books with the elf's as they had more love for that was known then that what was written. But in the academy there where more books then he could imagine, there where even whole library's that where just associating one aspect, until now he found several of them but with each week that passed by he found another library.

He first found the library of light, Mithrandir showed this to him and within one week he could expand the reach of his light with at least twenty yards if not more, just by being nearby the books for one long night, he studied was that where unthinkable.

Soon after he found the library of frost and fire, close together they where the second and third largest in the whole academy, then he found, trough a magical hidden door in the basement the largest library in the whole academy; Arcane.

It was a multi-dimensional chamber that held more books that in the entire ownership of every church, sanctuary or scholar. They had a special system of floating cups, one cup contained two chairs and it went everywhere where the strongest person in the cup wanted to go to, up, down, left, right or any other possible way that was thinkable of (depending on the mages power).

He had spent most of his time here, learning about arcane and it's history, secrets where found that where not meant for his young eyes and time appeared to pass by much quicker…literally, after the first week Mithrandir learned him a conjure spell for a basic water and bread so that, if he was deep in his studies, he didn't had to bother other mages or go all the way to the cafeteria to get a good dinner.

The spell came in handy as he left for a Monday morning; 12 days later he finally left the library and found out that only 3 days had past since he entered.

After the third month's passing Mithrandir found him again.

'And now, my dearest boy, we will begin' and with a bright burst of light they vanished from the room.

So, tell me what you think in review, I started this as a one shot but soon found that I wanted to make a good story so I think this will have at least a few chapters.

It's unfortunate that I had this idea just a hour ago as I am about to go on a holiday trip of two weeks, anyways, when I come back I hope to update soon and if the second chapter is up I am already back

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