The Morphagus
Chapter 4
By Cathy-Ann
.The kid was there when the Marshals office served papers on his dad informing him his kid was emancipated. The Marshal has to explain what the word emancipated means. The kid handed his dad a cashiers check for $10,000 and tells him this should cover his expenses the past few years. The kid was already dressed so all he had to do was get his jacket and heavy coat, He strapped them across the bike and took off along with his camping gear.
Thankfully the fiber glass cover scooped the wind around the passenger area. The kid floored it and the motorcycle raced ahead up highway 99 at 140 mph towards Bakersfield to Hiway 58 to take it over the Tehachapi Pass. In a while he passed Red Rock Canyon, then towards Linnie, west of the China Lake Naval Air Station. He was heading north on Hiway 395 at a fast clip when he slowed and got off the road so he could make a pit stop.
Jamie saw a signpost that had '9 Mile Canyon' on it. He turned off onto the two lane paved road and drove the 29 miles up the road to the turn off near the General Store. 9 Mile canyon meant there was 9 miles of road with switchbacks and 20 miles straight as a crow flies.
He went south along the south fork of the Kern River. He found a grassy area between some small hillocks with pine tree's surrounding them. He parked within and set up the 4 man tent, with patio flap. Then he parked the motorcycle inside the tent, out of sight.
He hung up a plastic sheet for a shower stall and after heating up some water on the camping stove, he had warm water to wash with. He undressed and showered and got ready for bed as he was so sleepy. He closed the flap and zipped it shut and cast a elemental ward around the tent so if any people came by they would not notice it. He slept over 6 hours and woke up around noon.
As he got up the dream he had was fading from his memory.
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The kid at age five was sitting in the empty field. He sat there and meditated. He was thinking about what could you do if you sat and thinked about thinking. He thinked some more and all of a sudden an angel with bright shinning robes was standing there, in front of him. The kid mind opened up and powers he wondered about were now present.
He discovered he had an elemental chart in his mind. He thinked it into existence, yet he was unaware what was really happening. He scrolled thru the chart, past the gaseous and vaporous elements which included a diagram of the Nucleus (neutron) and the protons and electrons which orbited it. Then he scrolled thru the liquid elements, several which were highly toxic to humans. He watched as the solids formed and reformed and then the fire ones, such as U-235 and upwards thru to the 223rd element in his elemental chart. U-235 was listed in the low 100's of elements.
The kid learned he could levitate and 'fly'. What he really was dioing was using his telekinetic power to raise himself into the air and then move himself, by thinking about it. Yet he did not fully understand why this was happening.
The flashy dressed angel told the kid, "do not tell your dad about this."
However most kids who want to impress their dads will go and do what they have not been told to do and show off for their dads or tell their dads. What does their dad to, he calls them a liar and tells them it is not possible to do those things. Believing your dad then is the worst thing possible, because of you believe him then you will not be able to do it anymore. Instead if you tell your dad what he really means is that he cannot do it. So then you demonstrate it right there in front of him right? Not unless you are really stupid and are looking to get beat up by your dad.
Worst of all he will betray you due to his ignorance and lack of understanding which will cause him to fear you.
You can forget about love from him. The only love he has is for that which makes him feel enjoyment. Sex, food, money, power, in any order.
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He got up and then dressed. He took the camper stove outside. He pumped the plunger to the gas tank to pump up the pressure for the gas tank and then turned the dial on the burner and lit the burner with a wooden strike everywhere match. He adjusted the flame and then put on a pan with water in it, and a cover on the top of the pan so the water would heat quicker. In a few minutes the water was boiling.
He poured some water into a cup added a spoon of instant coffee. Then he took some oatmeal and poured it into a the pan so it could boil a while and cook. Then then realized he had no milk for the oatmeal. He took the motorcycle and drove down the road to the General Store, He went inside this old rustic looking building.
He looked on the shelves and bought several cans of canned milk. He also got some can's of meat, potatoes, vegetables, fruit. He also grabbed a couple of loaves of bread, a jar of mayo, mustard and pickles. He paid for it at the desk up front where the old lady was. She put it all into a cardboard box. He balanced the box on the gas tank of the bike and headed back to camp. He got there before the oat meal was burning up. He pulled it off the burner and then turned off the burner.
He opened one of the cans of milk with his boy scout knife as it had a blade designed for cutting open the tops of cans. He pried the top of the can open and poured some milk into the thickened oatmeal. He added some milk and sugar to the coffee and sipped it. Afterwards he cleaned up his cooking area, used his elemental magic and changed all the trashes molecular structure so it became 'air' a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen. The trash vanished.
He took the bread and made 4 sandwiches with mayo, mustard and pickles, two which had tuna on them and two which had Spam. He wrapped them inside some aluminum foil then placed them in his jacket pockets. He cleans up, puts the food and mixings away into sacks and then into the box. He balances the box on top of the front fender up against the front forks. He runs a couple of straps around the box to attach and hold the box in place. He takes down the tent and puts it and his camping gear into the saddle bag on the bike. The stove gets taken down and placed into the other saddle bag.
He starts the bike and drives it back toward General Store, past the Ranger Station. He checked out the store and used some money to get maps of the area including fishing maps of creeks and rivers. He bought himself a fishing license and a fishing pole and some lures and bait. He attached those things to the front forks of the bike sliding them in under the bike shroud. He drive away on his fully packed bike.
It took a few minutes to get used to the added weight, but he did it. He headed up the road following a sign that said Troy Meadows Campground, 7 miles. He followed the signs to them campground but it was almost filled up. He wondered where all these weekend campers came from. He saw signs on the side of the campers, 'San Fernando Valley Happy Campers'. No he definitely did not want to stay in this camp ground.
Back at the campsite where he originally had been he then looked around and realized it would be nice of there were more trees. He concentrated on where some new tree's should be. As he was doing so he thought of Sequoia Giant tree's. He felt the wind blow and he looked around. There was now several giant tree's. He moved them with mind magic to where he wanted them. He ended up adding some more tree's but not as tall. The tallest tree's were in the middle of the acre of tree's he made, the shorter tree's at the edge. The shorter tree's were around 90 to 110 feet tall.
Then he concentrated on a rock outcropping comming up thru the very middle of the newly made forest. It morphed upward, reaching up out of the ground. The rock he made to cover a larger area within a spatial singularity. It took shape and changed into that of a castle, complete with bridge, moat and draw bridge.
He shoved some of the tree's to one side, again with mind magic and made a meadow that looked like Kennedy Meadows but was as cool as Troy Meadows. The campsite and these tree's were about 2 miles down the side road from the general store. He imagined a wooden rail fence around this area. It appeared overnight. There was a cattle guard on the road where the fence was.
A sign appeared on the fence announcing that this area was now private.
According to the map coordinates it was a tossup as to whether the land belonged to the state, federal or national forests or just state or federal lands. It was not private property, however it could become his land if he mined it. He needed something to mine and then make $300.00 per year for 5 years in improvements on the land to 'prove it up'. Then he could get a deed to the land.
He read a book on mining and mining claims he got from the lady at the general store. She always seemed to have exactly what he needed. Just like a mother should be, not the poor excuses for what his real parents were like.
She however was unlike his parents because she was a witch, a graduate from Hogwarts many years ago. She had many magical detection instruments in the general store from dark detectors to magical power detectors. The kids magical power had already changed from wizard to sorcerer and was headed towards warlock. The kid had a lot of power and it was growing daily.
She drove down the road to his tree's site. She saw a pathway go into the tree's. Tree's that had not existed the previous week. She decided she should call out his name rather than walk into those tree's. She called out, 'hey biker boy'.
Deep within the tree's he was working on his tree house about 50 feet up a 300 foot tall tree. His bike was hidden from view. He called out for her to follow the pathway to where he was as he was working. She followed the pathway into a small glade amongst the tree's. She had brought an apple pie. It smelled great. There was a table there with a few chairs. They sat down and had some pie. He fixed some coffee, but she preferred tea.
She was English he knew, by her accent. She told him she had been over here in the states now some 20 years and she enjoyed the peace and quiet life here. The kid asked what it was like in England. So she filled his mind with stories from her youth and the private boarding school she went to in Scotland. She had such fond memories of those days.
The kid asked her about the boarding school. She told him the school taught seven years of classes. They had year one in which the students had to be 11 years of age within one month of the school year starting. So if a kid was 11 years old in October then the kid started the next year. They had four house's and each house was like your family. There was a common room and then stairs which lead up to the dormitories of boy and girls based by year of school.
He asked about the house, how did you get into them. She told him their names. Gryffindor for Bravery, Hufflepuff which stood for Loyalty, Ravenclaw which stood for Intelligence and Slytherin for Cunning.
Just then a Owl flew thru the tree's and flew up to the kid. It had a letter tied to its foot. She suggested he hold out his arm for the Owl to land on. He did so. The Owl shook its foot and the letter fell into his lap. The Owl hopped over to the table. The lady handed the Owl a biscuit, which it nipped at with its beak until it swallowed it all. The Lady poured some water into a dish she conjured while the kid was opening the letter. The Owl then took sips of the water.
The kid looked at the letter. On the front side of the envelope it was addressed to Jamie Walker, Tree Glade, 9 Mile Canyon, Linne, Ca. USA. He turned it over and saw a logo on the back stamped onto the envelop. It said Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
She turned to face him, "Read the letter will you". So he took out the letter and read it,
Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Hogsmeade, Scotland, UK.
Dear Mr. Walker,
. You have been selected to attend H.S.W.W. starting Sept. 1st 1960. It is with great pleasure to offer you this chance to further your magical education.
Enclosed is a list of supplies you will need. They can be purchased at Sierra Alley, Ca or Diagon Alley, London, UK.
Signed, Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall.
A while later the lady, after explaining the difference between real magical power and that perceived by most people. She even did a demonstration of some of it.
Jamie tells the lady he is not a wizard as he had no magic. Instead what he has is a power of the mind. He can use it and he does not need to use a wand like she does.
He can levitate things, make, morph and modify things. As an example he makes (from air molecules) a table with plates, flower vases with flowers and even a few bottles of ginger beer. Then he changes the color of the plates and then the composition, the material they are made from. He leaves out that by just looking at a person he can scan their minds and know what they know.
For the finale, he takes out a stuffed animal, thinks for a moment about the personality the animal should have, he makes it become a live animal.
She is amazed. The animal is a baby animal, a baby cat, mountain lion variety. He conjures a bottle of warmed milk and begins to feed the baby.
She is amazed. She has never seen anyone who can do these things at such a level. This is beyond even Merlin Magic. This is the most ancient of magic, creation magic.
She is reeling. He scans her mind and says, "Maybe you should send an Owl to Albus Dumbledore and tell him why I will not be going there this year. You see I need more time to figure out how to use this power, which you seem to think is beyond anything you have ever seen or even read of."
She gets up and leaves in a hurry, realizing that the kid scanned her mind and knew her very thoughts. She runs for the truck and heads on back to the general store to floo call Albus.
Meanwhile the kid who had scanned her mind had learned about magical wards. So he wards the place making the magic as he needs it to protect this area. He wards the entire area.
He adds walls around the castle and makes it bigger and has it surrounded by water. He then teleports to Los Angeles to the Corner of Vine and Hollywood Blvd. Several people who saw him do that are shocked. He walks away and finds a book store selling fantastic comic books and magazines on fantasy stores with drawings. He buys them.
He teleports back, right thru the wards which are tuned to only allow him admittance.
He teleports to the forbidden forest. He then lifts himself up off the ground as he flies into the forest. The Groundskeeper at Hogwarts sees the young man fly into the forest. He runs into the castle to notify Albus Dumbledore.
He fixes himself a dinner back at the castle.
From the drawbridge, the road goes across the bridge and down the hill. It is 3 to 5 miles to the edge of the forest. The road has a few turns in it. The castle cannot be seen from the entrance area to the forest.
Meanwhile the kid tells Valerie that he has to prove up his mine by the end of August. He got a one month extension as the usual prove up date is the end of june. the business year runs from july 1st to june 30th. Because he filed in the interim time period, before July 1st he has to get it proved up by the end of August. So he has to open the mine and begin processing where needed.
She asks him how can he do all that so quickly. He replies, "Well do not I have access to magic? I will magic it where necessary and use muggle methods where possible.