Chapter 3, I'm trying to binge-write these chapters when I can. Writers block is a bitch.

Natalie's P.O.V

I dug through the chest, finding that it was somehow bigger on the inside. The chest itself seemed to be made of iron and diamond and different colors were on the top. I shrugged and continued digging through the clothing.

I eventually found a pair of leather pants, along with boots, a blue shirt, and a leather jacket. I stripped down and put on the new set of clothes, finding that they fit me nicely. Looking at myself in a reflective plate I found on the wall I approved of my look and left the room.

I found Scyrus walking through the hall with a book in hand, he appeared to be making notes in it with a metal device filled with ink rather than a quill. He glanced at me and closed the book, putting it and the device in his satchel.

"so, do you want a tour, or something" he shrugged while looking at the halls. I looked him over, he had strange weapons and tools attached to his belt, a set of gold and purple tinted glass eyewear was sitting on his head. I pointed at the eyewear "what are those?".

His eyes rolled up attempting to look at them then he shook his head and pulled them down over his eyes. "these are goggles of revealing, a useful tool to any thaumaturge. They allow the user to see nodes without the use of… you have no idea what I'm saying" I slowly shook my head.

He sighed and beckoned me to follow him. We walked through the twisting corridors until he suddenly stopped and turned to the side, opening a door to a very large room. At the center was a large structure built from stone brick. Near it were a number of containers filled with various colors of liquids.

Scyrus placed the goggles back on his forehead. "welcome to my thaumaturgy lab." I turned to him with a confused look "I don't like the name either, too many syllables, I just call it thaumcraft." He snapped his fingers and I saw a small thing run across the floor with a stick and some bits of iron in its stubby arms.

Scyrus picked the items up and handed them to me. "here are the pieces of a wand, you have to make it yourself or it won't work as well. Just pop an iron cap on both ends and it will become a novice wand. I did as he said and felt the wood and metal fuse together.

"good, now go and tap it on this book" he pulled a blank book off of a shelf an tossed it to me. I took the rod and gently tapped on of the iron ends to the book and it began to glow. When it stopped, it was much different. The cover and pages had been worn and the blank pages were filled with recipes and building instructions.

"thaunomicon" he gestured to the transformed book. I opened the pages and flipped through them until I found 'goggles of revealing' below it were some items in a circle with the words 'runic altar' written above them. I looked at the items, they were gold, leather and two strange disks.

I looked at them and tapped one thinking nothing would happen. The book suddenly came to life and the pages flipped themselves to a page on how to make the disk. I dropped the book surprised and Scyrus picked it back up for me.

I looked at Scyrus and then down at the large red sword that hung at his side. I began flipping through the pages to look for the weapon but found nothing. He glanced at the weapon and smiled "this is a red katar, a tool used by an alchemist rather than a thaumaturge."

He looked back at me and raised an eyebrow. "would you possibly want to become my apprentice of sorts?" I thought about it then nodded, thinking of all of the magical and strange things I had seen down here. "well then, eager to learn are we? I sense that thaumcraft is not all you want to learn. If that is so then here." He walked over to a shelfand appeared to pull out a book.

Next think I knew, pistons pulled the shelf into the ground and I saw the single biggest library ever. The walls were lined with shelves of leather, paper, and even metal bound books. I looked over the railing on the platform we were on and saw that the shelves extended down for as far as I could see.

Scyrus dug around in his pocked and pulled out a ring, he put the piece of jewelry on and proceeded to jump off of the platform. "Scyrus!" I screamed looking over the edge to see him floating in mid-air, the ring on his hand glowing. "jackass" I grumbled as he pulled a tan covered book from the titanic shelves.

"we'll start with the basics, then get into the more complex things" he tossed the book up to me and I caught it. I looked at the cover and read it aloud. "materials and you volume one"

Writing this made me smile, I am almost envying the pair in the story for being able to do all of this.