Ch. 1-Humble Beginnings
This is the tale of a man, not just a man, a sorcerer and arguably one of the greatest and most powerful of his time. Even though his intentions were those of evil and revenge, still I sincerely believe that some good came out of his anguish. But behind every story of a great and powerful man lies more humble beginnings. Harry Potter, Albus Dumbledore, and even He Who Must Not Be Named, all began their stories in the most simple of ways. A letter, from a magical school, acting as a gateway to a mystical world in which anything is possible, and with even the wave of a wand. A man could bring the world to its knees.
Artemis Thaddeus Gridlock was born on the Ides of March in 1961 and received his letter as does everyone, and two very proud parents stood and watched as their young son opened his letter for acceptance into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. One must wonder as their parents stood in swelling pride if they could ever have imagined what would become of their child. Would they believe it if it was told to them, but how could they know how anyone could know that wandering the halls of Hogwarts, was A soon to be a ticking time bomb waiting to burst.
Artemis or Arty as some of his few but good friends would call him, was as most great wizards, different. Although I wish to speak more of his time at Hogwarts little is known of his social life as he didn't appear to have much of one to begin with. More could be obtained from his best friend at Hogwarts but as he is...well...we shall get to that later. Because of his unusual ways of harnessing magical energies, it was apparent to everyone on the staff at Hogwarts that Artemis required special unique training.
Artemis possessed what is referred to as antiquusmagicom a very ancient form of magic that is very rare and seldom appears in children anymore. This made learning impossible for Artemis as he had a different way of casting spells and was much more advanced than others in his level. And because of his antiquusmagicom his spells would have far greater and more powerful reactions. So simple a levitation spell would end up lifting everyone and everything in the room, and a simple disarming spell could quite literally take your arm off. Nevertheless, Artemis' parents sought the help of a private teacher who would be able to teach this kind of magic to him in a way that wouldn't cause harm to himself or others. They finally found a teacher who also possessed antiquusmagicom and was able to make Artemis his apprentice. The private teacher, Broderick Muldoon, taught him for many years and found that Artemis not only possessed "ancient magic" but also possessed an even more rare form of magic, so rare it has been seen but one other time in history. "Musica".
This form of magic allowed a wizard's wand to act as a kind of maestro's baton and conduct and make magic into music, and with this could will the music to do wonderful things, or terrible things.
Through his lessons with Broderick, Artemis learned to control his powerful type of magic and was also able to master musica. But every humble beginning has a not so humble ending, and thus begins the story of the revenge of Artemis Gridlock.
~Cody Marcukaitis