The Witch's Apprentice
Chapter One: The Apprentice
Hello, my name is Aelita and I am the apprentice to two wonderful, powerful mentors. We live in the middle of nowhere, semi-underground, next to a large hilly meadow and a forest.
As long as I could remember I was a witch's apprentice and I couldn't see me doing anything else. I love using magic and learning about it! My mentors have taught me so much.
Speaking of mentors, like I already said I have two.
One mentor is a wizard who usually takes the form a cat. His name is Christopher but he usually just wants me to call him Chris. He is really nice and pretty smart, but he doesn't really act like it most of the time. Very rarely have I seen him in his human form but I usually look away because he is naked when he comes out of animal form. He says that he gets so used to not having to wear clothes that it's weird in his real form.
My other mentor is Lady Anne Marie. I don't know much about her past but I think she isn't much older than me, neither is Chris now that I'm sure of it. They look like it when it comes to appearances. Anyways, they know so much about magic that it makes me want to go insane. Anne Marie usually is kind sarcastic and hard, but she means well. She can be nice sometimes. Its fun watching her and Chris argue for some reason because they act like children when they do. We also have a horse that Lady Anne calls 'Nightshade'. He's a really cool horse that'll do just about anything.
Anne Marie tells me that my parents gave me to her when I was a child and she and Chris were raising me to become a witch ever since.
Oh, and those monster that Anne and Chris fought at the spring? They are minions of one of the evilest wizards in the land. The dark wizard Xana. According to my mentors, he was one of the best students when they were apprentices themselves, but he turned down a dark path and now wishes to destroy humankind as we know and rule in a new order. Of course, my mentors won't stand for it and have been fighting a war between their old companion. But it's like they know something about him that I don't. I mean, whenever I ask something about him, they dance around the subject or switch it. It's kind of odd…
Anne Marie is pretty easy when it comes to rules but there is one rule that always bugged.
'Under my instruction, you are never to fall in love.' She would say. 'Witches are never meant to fall in love.'
I ask her why, but she gives me more work and ignores the question. I don't really mind not falling in love, though. I mean, I have no time in my life to even do that! Besides…I've never really met anyone I could fall in love with. We're so far away from a city and Anne would kill me if I did.
But I still wonder…would it really be that bad to try it out just once?
