A/N: Here is the infamous chapter 10. I have received all the reviews from the last chapter and you have my thinks for later chapter corrections, however, I will not go into the chapter to change the content of the but merely fix the 'holes' in the story with explanations later on. Also officially now, I will have the long break to correct and write Lords of Magic and maybe Power of Three. For now, I leave a pole at the end of the chapter for you all to send to me.
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-Raven Servathen
Chapter Ten: First Month, Bonding, and First Day of Term
The next morning, Haru was looking at the timetable he found on his desk. He sat down and looked through the list to seewhat he would need to bring with him.
7:10 – 10:00 Ancient Summoner's Language (Twenty second floor, Room indicated)
10:10 – 1:00 Foci Mastery (Twenty first floor, Room indicated)
2:10 – 5:00 Runes (Twenty second floor, room indicated)
5:10 – 8:00 Cloth Enchanting (Twenty first floor, room indicated)
Haru went over to the bag that he picked upin Shenlong Alley and put in the material and thread that he bought along with several scrolls with self-inking quills. He also put all of his books that he received from his order and The Complete Encyclopedia Language Set. He was glad that the backpack was charmed to be a comfortable weight or else he would have to drag his bag instead.
Making sure Yori was at his side, they went out of his room and through the Summoner's Hall. Looking at his watch, he saw that he did not have time for breakfast and went to the floor director. Telling Yori to think of the twenty-second floor, they stepped through to see the wall across from them light up showing the right floor. Haru walked through the halls trying to find which one was the Ancient Summoner's Language classroom. He passed several door outlines that were ruby red and continued down the hallway until he found a door outline that was a topaz color and had his class time of 7:10 written on the door.
Entering, he found most of his Summoner class sitting at their individual tables with their familiars at their side in one form or another. Finding a free table by Sasuke, he sat down and greeted his friend. He saw a black cat open one its golden eyes and look at him with curiosity before closing it again and going back to sleep on the table. Sasuke gave an exasperated look at his familiar.
"Isis is my feline familiar." He said to Haru. "She's a Midnight Shadow." To which Haru gave a quizzical look. Sasuke explained further, "Midnight Shadows are cat shifters. They can shift into any feline including magical and non-magical cats. Most of the time she likes to look like a regular house cat but when she's angry or playful, she'll change into a black panther."
Haru was surprised. He had never heard of an animal that could do that. Before he asked where he got it from, a woman a bit taller than their headmaster entered though the door. She wore platinum colored robes with a single unfamiliar rune on the back that was edged in gold. Her face was angular with attractive features; however her eyes were the most startling. They were a blood red. He wanted to think Veela at first but his gut told him that it was not. He heard Sasuke mutter 'demon' before she pulled back her black hair with a silver stripe in it. Her seductive and attractive aura suddenly dropped as if it hadn't ever been there to be replaced with the most terrifying aura that screamed danger right in the eardrum.
"I am High Lady Summoner Lin Riko. You will address me as either High Lady Summoner or Lin-sensei. Got it?!" She said growling at the end. They nodded not wanting to piss off the glowing eyed woman.
"Good, for the next three weeks you are going to learn theancient Summoner's Language for you Order and the other Summoners in the school will only address you in our language. If you don't learn the language in three weeks, tough luck for you," she said darkly. "Now since I count that all are here, we are going to start with the directions in the Summoner's Language or Nixel. North in Nixel is Formen. South is Hyarmen, East is Rómen. Finally, west is Númen." She turned to the board and picked up a piece of chalk. "This is how you spell them in our language."
She wrote them all down with everyone else copying her. She told them that it had to be exact or else you're swearing in Orc. Haru had no problem copying them down since he could recognize the differences in the runes that she drew.
The rest of the class was writing down the words mainly used in Nixel spell work. She told them that they were the most important words of all since they defined their magic. Since their spells were in their language they also had to have safety words in their sentences or else they risked activating their magic. By the end of class, the class had the main spell words pounded in their head with the threat of a test when they came back in the morning.
Haru and Sasuke both had headaches from all the information given them in class and they went up the twenty-first floor going to their next classroom. Sasuke and Haru entered the classroom to find it was very spacious and the chalk board read they needed individual tables. Sasuke and Haru picked tables beside each other before the other Summoners trickled into the classroom.
A tall, young man entered the classroom in Chinese robes with his black hair braided back as well. His piercing blue eyes made people uncomfortable as they felt they were being read by this stranger. He mouth quirked into a smirk before speaking in a smooth voice that made the females feel like goo and the males pay particular attention.
"I am Sage Wu or Wu-sensei. Welcome to Foci Mastery. Here you will learn how to make wands, bone wands, bone staffs, staves, orbs, orb staffs, and talisman foci. For the next three weeks, you will learn the ins and outs of making the foci that is right for you along with cores. Since you are all Summoners in this room, we will study orbs and orb staffs heavily. You will construct all types that I will teach you as well as deconstruct them back to their original states. During the fourth week, you will make your orbs along with putting all of different types of protections on it that you can think of without it exploding.
Now we will start with the weakest of foci to you Summoners, wands. A wand is the most powerful tool to a wizard or warlock. They start out with a single core wand at age six and build up from there. When there ready to attend school, they are ready for their second core and are able to customize the wand's look and protection. At their age of maturity, 16, their cores stabilize to allow for the rest of the cores that they need. The Wizarding world in general knows that wands need to be upgraded as the wizard matures so they can get the maximum effect and waste none of their magic. For a Summoner to use a wand is disastrous since a wand will actually damage the magic's pathway in the Summoner's hands. Summoners can't attune to wood since they draw magic from both themselves and anything around them. A wand is a magical artifact that has some passive magic in it that pulls magic only from the caster. An orb is designed to pull from both sources but it is ineffective for a wizard to even use.
Now the only way to get a wand to work for a summoner is if they put a gem in the handle for it to draw magic from around them. However, your spells at best will be sloppy and very draining for you will only be able to cast Wizard's magic." He saw them smirk at the thought of being able to cast other types of magic but they stopped when Wu-sensei continued. "However, the longer you cast wizard's magic, the worse your ability at your own Nixel magic becomes to the point that you can't cast it anymore." He saw their looks of horror at not being linked anymore with their summons.
"Now small doses don't cause long term damage. For cores selection, wands are limited to dragon heartstrings, Phoenix tail feathers, unicorn tail hair, basilisk fangs, werewolf fur, and gryphon feathers.
The next weakest is a staff. They are constructed of woods and crystals. They're a bit better foci for a Summoner since you don't have to modify it since a Sorcerer draws three-fourths of their magic from their core and the rest of their environment. The staff can have a minimum of four cores with a max of twelve. Sorcerers have the ability to access to all of their magical cores all at one time since they are at least twice as powerful as the strongest warlock. They construct their staff when they are ready to learn their magic. Sorcerers can do wizard's magic wandlessly while focusing their magic through their staff. They have at least one gem in their staff which they use to draw magic from the environment. The strongest Sorcerer will be able to do half core magic and half environmental magic.
The next strongest to use is a Bone wand. Bone wands are especially useful for Rune Summoners since they will never turn to ash when using them to write runes. Bone wands are made from the femur of a Necromancer soaked in Dementors blood for a year. Necromancers then cut a slit into the femur and put a core of their choice into the bone wand. Necromancers have no preference or alliance to cores since the Dementors blood will strip any originality from the core and follow the Necromancer's control. Since Necromancers and Summoners are so close in alignment for personal and environmental ratio there is no real distinction unless they summon the higher ups in their Summons.
Bone staffs are like Orb Staffs since the femur will grow longer becoming a staff. They are interchangeable just as a Summoner.
Orbs are the Summoner's weapon, soul, and power. They are constructed with all the cores that their compatible with in the shaft of the Orb. Since the shaft is made of a metal, they will design it themselves to reflect the summoner. Next, the summoner will also have to choose a gem that closely matches their core. A summoner has no restriction on what is used for a core.
An orb staff is the extended version of a Summoner's orb. They are used for the more powerful branches of Nixel and actual summoning most of the summons. At the extended version of the orb, instead of a flat end for an orb, it has another gem that is cut to a fine tip point. You don't have to construct an orb staff since it only requires an orb to be released in its more powerful form.
Sages, like me, can use any and all foci without repercussion and to their full extent. We, Sages, are given a small bit of knowledge to use Necromancy, Sorcery, and Nixel. However we are mostly elementals. Now for the next two days we'll construct a multi-core wand that a Summoner can use."
Haru spent the rest of the time learning to listen to his magic to be able to know what wood to use and what length to cut it. It took a long time to learn to listen to his magic and before long a tone sounded that made everyone who wasn't human, wince.
He heard all of the non-humans swear in different languages about the horrific tone that made their ears nearly bleed. Sasuke and Haru especially were not happy. Since Haru had heightened senses from both Elf and Lycan, he had studied hard to be able to handle certain sounds after his ears went haywire the day after he and his father left Japan. It took him over a week to learn how to control his reaction to everything. Sasuke, on the other hand, was trying to calm down Isis. Since she could change form and with that came better and sharper hearing. The cat's hearing was a whole lot better than some of the other forms since they were kept on their toes for listening for mice and anything that could harm them.
When they left for lunch, many of them where complaining about the sound tone. The humans, on the other hand, could barely hear the tone which they though suited them just fine. They would soon regret this when term started.
After lunch, Haru and Sasuke looked at their schedule and went back to the same floor as their first class. Passing by their first classroom, they found the other topaz colored outline doorway and saw the time when class would start. Going in, Haru moved towards the front so that he would be able to properly concentrate on this class. He knew that Runes were his specialty besides being a Summoner. Sasuke sat in the desk beside him knowing that his friend would need to concentrate on this subject most of all.
The other students soon trailed into the classroom picking seats with their friends and allies. Coincidentally, Ki and Noir both had to sit in the back of the classroom when everywhere else was filled. Some of the Summoners shivered as the darkness seemed to be pulled towards to the front of the room. Stepping out of the darkness, stood a three foot goblin with his half moon spectacles on the tip of its nose, he moved to the black board before touching the board with one of his sharp claws. Thin writing started to fill the blackboard. He turned his attention back to the class.
His sharp tongue and thinning patience were evident in his voice. "I am High Lord Summoner Grimtooth. You will address me as Grimtooth-sensei here. I regularly teach only Goblin Magic during the term but for the first years, I teach basic Rune wards. This is for your advantage only since it will protect you from someone killing you during the night. All that you will learn are rune wards that can and should be placed into your room. Most if not all classrooms have the basic wards on the classroom to prevent injury and interruption, as you saw I was able to Lerorion into this room. That is because I am the keeper of the wards in this room. You can only Lerorion to and from a room that you guard but that's it. For the next three weeks, I am going to teach you the wards on the board." They looked at the board to see the list of wards.
Anti-apparation Ward
Anti-Lerorion Ward
Anti-Lerorian Ward
Anti-Underworld Drop Ward
Anti-Portkey Ward
Anti-Elemental ward
Solid Ward (For Doors and Doorways)
Pest Ward (prevents any living life formsfrom entering a room it hasn't been invited or keyed in to)
Clean Ward (keeps the room from getting dirty and automatically cleans dirt on items)
"This is all that I am willing to teach you. If you want more, look it up or ask the nearest Rune Master for they have something a lot stronger and better." He said before looking at Haru. His face turned into a scowl. "Kagen!" Haru jumped as his name was called.
"Yes, sir?" He asked.
The goblin's scowl deepened, "Do you know all of these wards?" He said. Haru shook his head.
"No sir, I've never heard of the Anti-Underworld Drop, Anti-Elemental, Solid, Pest, and Clean Wards." He said.
The goblin shook his head in mock dismay, "Then you should not have your position that you've been granted by Orion. You'll have a week to learn the ones you don't know and be tested them. I'll be the one testing you." He said with a growing grin. "If you fail, I'll add you to the growing collection of those that didn't pass my tests." He said as he flicked his wrist and a head appeared in his hand.
Haru paled and the rest of the room looked on in horror. The head was of a teen with matted black hair. His eyes were wide open in terror. The sight of the lifeless golden eyes staring straight ahead made some of them turn green. Sasuke was fairing much better than Haru.
"Got that, Rune Summoner." The goblin spat in disgust. Haru nodded slowly not taking his eyes off the teen's head that was being held by the hair. "Good, now get out of here since we're going over the first one only."
Haru scrambled out of his desk and left the room with his moon wolf hot on his heels. He ran to the floor director and remembered the Library, Telling Yori to think of the fiftieth floor, they stepped through before going into the library. He didn't know where to go seeing as how he didn't know how the Library was organized and went over to the Librarian's desk. There was an old house elf sitting in the chair reading a book. The elf looked up to see Haru and saw the troubled look.
"What can I help you with, young Summoner?" The elf asked.
Haru remembered what wards he need to know and spoke to the elf. "I need books on how to cast Anti-Underworld Drop, Anti-Elemental, Solid, Pest, and Clean Wards."
The elf gave a dubious look to the student, "Aren't you supposed to be in the Runes class to learn those runes?"
Haru gave the elf a pleading look, "I need those books so I can cast them by the end of the week." The elf's eyes went wide at what he was implying. The elf snapped his fingers a couple of times before several large tombs flew over to his desk in front of Haru.
"There you go young one. Go to sub-floor six for practicing rune wards. Tell the statue who you are and it will let you in." Haru nodded in understanding before taking the tombs and put them into his bag. He knew he would be unable to cast a single ward today. It took him over a day to learn the theory behind the unplottable ward before he was able to cast it correctly.
He went over to a free desk before pulling out blank scroll, a quill, and one of the tombs he had received from the Librarian. He looked at the title of the book, The Complete Household Guide to the Common Being by Rune Master Regulus Black. Opening the book he found that it covered everything from warding household items from small children to tying servants to the family. He soon went to the wards part of the book before finding what he was looking for.
Anti-Elemental Rune Ward
Elemental travel is most notorious for Sages, Mages, Sorcerers, Elementals, Vampires, Lycans, Demons, and magical creatures. All magic wielders that could travel with the elements are blocked from entering the warded area since it prevents magic from bending the common and uncommon elements that occur in nature. Shadows and Fire the most common elements used for traveling to an unwanted spot. Familiar phoenixes are the worst when wantingto stay hidden as they are one with their element. I personally had one fire phoenix that couldn't take the hint and leave me the hell alone until I cast this ward.
To cast:
Haru read all that was needed to cast the ward correctly and know when someone or something was trying to breach it. The author went into much detail as to when it could be at the peak of its power along with several add-ons to the wards to set the level of security so that the being won't try it again.
Haru wrote down how to cast the Anti-Elemental Rune Ward along with details of suggested add-ons. He never knew when it might be helpful in the future since he was definitely keeping everything that he wrote in scrolls for later reference since he was going to be living for a long time. He knew that memories would start to mesh together along with spells if not remembered well enough.
He looked up from the tomb to his watch to see he had enough time to do another ward before he needed to get to the final class of the day. Looking up Clean Ward in the same book, he found it several pages further into the book.
Clean Ward:
This is a ward that should be placed on every single house that a magic caster has. It's deadly useful for those who don't allow house elves in their house or can't afford one. This ward will keep all those rooms, furniture, and clothes clean. Though draining onthe caster's core, it will ensure that no dust, grime, or spill will ever stain your house. For those single Wizards, this is a blessing upon Gods and Goddesses.
To Cast:
Haru found that the author was meticulous when it came to detail of the wards but then again the book had been written by a Rune Master. They like to go into detail about their field and make sure that there was no misinterpretation in the way the ward should be set up. Writing the way to cast the ward, he finished up before packing it all away to return to when he had time later tonight.
He looked down to see Yori had been sleeping under the table. Calling her, they went back to the twenty-first floor for the final lesson of the day.
When he arrived, he took a look at the classroom to see it was vary large and had large tables in it. He also sawa book sitting on each table. Going to one of the tables in the front, he sat down and read the cover of the book, Having the Unseen and Hidden by Madam Melina. Opening the book, he turned to the first page where it explained the purpose of the book.
To the Reader,
This book is a guide to teach the common caster to make your own clothes and enchanting them more than what a regular seamstress could ever accomplish. For example, what if you were an Auror or Unspeakable on assignment and you needed magical manacles but they hindered your movement carrying them around. What if I told you that you could keep them on you without having it interfere with your movement or weighing you down.
Another example is if you are a student at a prestigious school. You need to carry around all those materials and you forgot one of your books because it didn't fit in your bag. Sure you could get a bottomless bag but they cost way more than their worth. What if you couldinstead hold all of your books within the inside of your robes.
This book tells you all how to accomplish this along with a lot more. Don't discredit this book if you're serious on saving your money and have a will to do what needs to be done.
He looked up to see the class had arrived and that Sasuke was also reading the first page of the book. Then Haru felt eyes on him for an awful long time. He looked around to see who was eying him, but he saw that the others were also curious about the book. He looked ahead and thought he saw a shimmer in front of him. He stared back at where he though it came from.
Suddenly, a familiar face appeared in front of the classroom. He remembered seeing this woman at Shenlong Alley. The Veela standing in front was the same as the one from where he got his material and thread. She gave a playful smirk to him before she shot sparks out of her hand. The Magi Summoner caught everyone's attention then.
"Greetings, young ones, I'm happy to see that none of you have a valid excuse to say that you forgot to buy the needed material and thread since I was there to witness all of you buying them." She said with a smile. Her eyes flashed for a moment causing Haru to blink to make sure he didn't accidentally miss it. "I am Magi Summoner Sophia. I expect you to call me sensei nothing more.
Welcome to your clothing class. Here you will make your own clothes, enchant them to carry your school material, shield you from minor spells, and protect you from some of the summons attacks. Before midterm and Christmas Holiday, you will construct your Summoner's Robes with the guidance of myself, High Lord Summoner Grimtooth, Master Lord Summoner Matsumoto Hiei, Lady Summoner Mizu, High Lady Summoner Mari, and Master Lord Summoner Flamel Nicholas.
For now we will learn the first Nixel spell for today. The spell requires a great deal of concentration, patience, and dedication. This spell is one of the few Nixel spells that doesn't come from the caster at all but from the ambient magic around them. The spell is designed for Summoners to construct their own clothes from the raw materials that you have bought. While having your mind's eye on what you want your clothes to look like, you start chanting the spell while holding the material with one hand and the thread in the other. It's easier to have your eye closed so you can keep the image firmly in mind. Also you cannot let go of the thread or material in your hands unless you don't want you clothes to fit you correctly. When it's finished, you'll feel a simultaneous tug from both of the material and thread. Then you're able to let go. The clothes that you had in mind will look exactly like the ones that you had thought of and will fit you. Then you're able to enchant the clothes to your specifications such as spill free, potion resistant, and immunity to low battle magic.
Now the spell is Rem quesse harma Ungwe. You need to chant in your mind or out loud while holding onto the material and thread at the same time as you have the image in your mind. It sounds harder than what it really is. The book in front of you is yours. The author is very knowledgeable about this along with giving tips to what this can be put to. Though she is a witch, she's a graduate of this school and knows the boundaries aren't as restricted as what the common Wizarding world thinks.
The spells in there will require you to do some studying in runes for they deal heavily with that. The magic that she has done is a branch off of common rune work to be what's called Threat Runes. Unlike Blood Runes, they need you to be able to work with ambient magic. Since we're not wizards and warlocks, we are more in-tune with ambient magic and natural magic for that's what we draw from.
There is some practice material and thread for you to use to make fingerless gloves on the desk. I want you to practice on this for the rest of the time. Tomorrow, we will start on making your clothes."
Haru found the same material and thread that he bought in front of him but in a much smaller quantity. Picking up both, with one in each hand, he closed his eyes to think of some black fingerless gloves with light blue flames on the back of the hands. Chanting softly the words that he knew were Nixel, he felt a pull on both the material and thread. He kept his eyes closed to keep the image clear.
No one else had gotten as far as Haru and so they watched him as his material and thread floated in the air before the thread started to move fast through the material. Scraps of material fell onto the table as it was disconnected from the main material. First there was an outline of a hand that had more material at the wrist before the outline was copied four more times and two of them were sewn together and the fingers of the gloves were cut off. When the raw glove was done, the silver material turned midnight black before the thread was stitched on the back in an outline of flames and then it filled the rest in. It then changed to an icy blue color. Some padding was added to the gloves for protection before both thread and material tugged once and the last connecting material between the gloves dissolved.
Haru opened his eyes and grinned when it worked. He looked over to see everyone shooting jealous or admiring glances at him except Sasuke who had his eyes closed and was whispering the spell. Haru watched as Sasuke's gloves were formed to be similar to his but instead of blue flames, his had white fangs on them.
Their sensei walked around and gave them a praising nod before helping the others. Haru and Sasuke both spent the rest of the time looking through the book for some ideas of what runes to use on the gloves. Haru saw some to prevent wear and tear along with physical shield charm to prevent objects from hitting him. It wouldn't work against piercing items since they go right through the shield.
When the class ended, Haru went back up to the library with Yori to write out the rest of the rune wards that he had been threatened with being tested on. He spent well into the night and early morning going through tombs to find the rest of the wards along with any other information to make them.
The week went too fast for Haru's liking but he found that he was enjoying his stay so far at the school. He spent all his waking moments when he had the free time working on the rune wards. He was easily able to do the anti-elemental rune ward since he had done the anti-apparating wards at home. The ones that troubled him the most was the Clean Ward and the Pest Ward. Though they sounded easy, they were the most difficult since you had to have the room clear of any living pest and the floor clear of any dirt when doing the wards. He had done it several times because he either found an insect that had gotten past him or when loose rock fell onto the floor from the ceiling.
It was on Friday when he was able to do the wards correctly. He knew then that he could pass what ever test that Grimtooth-sensei threw at him for the wards. Saturday morning, he arrived at his basic runes class for the first time since his sensei threw him out. He saw his sensei looking at him with a dark grin.
"So, Kagen have you made yourself respectable enough to be named a Rune Summoner." Haru wordlessly nodded. "Good, you pass my course." He said nonchalantly.
Haru's mouth dropped open with surprise. His eyes flashed auburn momentarily before the goblin summoner tossed him something from his desk. Haru caught it before seeing it was a scroll with a flaming dragon seal on it, the School's Seal.
"I was to give you this when you have passed my test. It's from the headmaster. He said and I quote, 'When Rune Summoner Kagen passes your test to prove his mastery in Runes, you are to give this scroll to him so he can be on par with all the others.' I checked around the school to hear that you hadn't left sub-floor six unless for sleep, food, and class. I also checked the logs for the floor to know that you had accomplished putting up all the wards within a three day period before disabling the wards. I don't need you to drain your reserves before the end of the day." He said before waving him dismissively. "Get out of here. There's nothing more I need to teach you."
Haru bowed and thanked his sensei before leaving for the Summoner's Hall to see what he needed to study before the start of the term. He found the scroll open along with instructions for the Summoner to put his hand on the scroll in order to know what he needed to study. He noted that several on the list were edged with gold before he let go and the scroll went back to normal.
"Basic History of Magical Beings, Magical Theory, and Potions," Haru mumbled to himself. He committed that to memory for what he needed to know before the start of the term. Looking at his watch, he saw that he didn't have anything else to do before the next class and headed for the library to study.
The next two weeks went even faster for the Summoners. They learned their complete language with their teacher threatening them with changing them into their familiar's favorite prey. The familiars all raised their heads and some of them even licked their lips. While in Foci Mastery, they had completely constructed and deconstructed all the foci that they had built before they were getting ready to build their foci. In their last class, most of them had made their wardrobe for the year which had to consist of black robes and a flaming dragon like the one on in the entrance hall. They also had been told to keep their gloves for the new term as they were going to need them.
The very last week was very special. Many of the sub-floors rooms had been reserved for they needed to build their foci in complete silence since it was a more volatile process than making other foci. It was also the point where they would bond with their foci and edge runes in it for protection. For Necromancers and Summoners, it was more. Summoner's Orbs and Necromancers Bone Wands would also grow into their staff forms when completed. Finally a Summoner's Orb isn't stored like a conventional wand or staff but is stored inside of their being.
All of Haru's Summoner's class kept their familiar with them during the twelve hour construction of their orbs. Haru was no different. Haru stepped into the warded room with Yori and before they went into the center of the pentagram, he took off his robes and his shirt to show his toned chest. Yori was standing on the opposite side of him and staring at Haru. Haru took out the crystal box that held the cores, gems, and raw metal that he had selected earlier in the week.
In the box lay a single tooth of a Lycan, a scale of the summon Raiden, a feather of a bird shape shifter, and a vial of blood from his familiar. The gem happened to be a large moon stone. The raw metal was of brass with chips of silver. He looked up at Yori and gave a heavy sigh. "Here I go." He said to Yori. She placed a paw on her master before licking him in comfort.
Haru sat on his legs and had both hands over all the materials before he started the long Nixel spell. "Formen Tinco Rem Unque." He chanted as he felt the room becoming heavy with magic.
The pentagram lit up like the sun. The cross section of star was silver while the rest of it was all gold. Haru's curse scar that hadn't been seen for about four years appeared in all its glory and was shining a bright emerald green color. Yori felt herself actually being lifted off the ground a few inches but didn't move knowing that it was by Haru's will.
Finally the brass material and the chips of silver floated up out of the box and started revolving around Haru and Yori gaining speed as it passed by Haru before it was a mere blur to both Yori and Haru.
Haru started again with the next phase of the spell. "Formen Tinco Rem Unque. Rómen Úre Amrûn Tinco Rem," He chanted next. It took over an hour before the metal that was the blur that circled around Haru and Yori at amazing speeds started to turn to a dark orange color before growing brighter.
Haru saw the blur start to turn yellow and began the next part. "Formen Tinco Rem Unque. Rómen Úre Amrûn Tinco Rem. Hyarmen Harma Mîr Tinco Unque Rem." It took over three hours for the cores and gem to start to levitate. Yori knew her part was up and took the stopper out of the vial so her blood could get free. The vial fell and shattered onto the ground leaving the blood floating in the air. Yori let go of the stopper and it fell to where the vial fell.
Both watched as the blur slowed down to show a very bright orange, putty like metal. The metal then started swirling like a top before Haru saw it taking the form of a shaft to an orb. It stopped for him to take a good look at it. The shaft had formed into a leg of a raven with the claw open at the top. Yori could see an opening at the top of the orb for the cores to go in. Her attention was pulled back to the cores to see them all starting to swirl around very fast making a faint roaring sound like a dragon before the cores stopped spinning and became as thin as a mortal's pencil before floating into the opening at the top of the orb. They both heard a sizzling sound before it all disappeared inside except the floating moon stone and the moon wolf's blood from Yori. The moon stone started moving at rapid speed in every direction before it stopped to show it was a perfect sphere with a pin sized hole in which the blood entered the stone. The pin size hole went right over the hole in the shaft of the orb. The claw gripped the stone its silver talons.
Haru knew he had to seal it then, "Formen Tinco Rem Unque. Rómen Úre Amrûn Tinco Rem. Hyarmen Harma Mîr Tinco Unque Rem. Númen Annûn Tinco Mîr Anna." Haru shielded his eyes as the orb glowed as bright as the sun just then with the heat being near that intense. Yori was blown out of the pentagram before the orb moved over and touched Haru's right shoulder blade. Haru screamed at the top of his lungs as he felt his magic bind with the orb he constructed. He also felt some of his skin come off when it pulled away.
He then felt the actual ambient magic within the room and for Haru it felt as though the magic was suffocating him due to how heavily concentrated it was. He then felt the magic start pulling at his newly constructed orb before he was blown out of the pentagram as well. Haru fell back against the wall with a hard smack. He groaned knowing that it would bruise. He looked back at where the orb was to see it had completely scorched and burned away any objects still within the pentagram. He watched as his orb lowered to the obsidian floor before the very bottom of it touched the floor and the stone started flashing random colors.
Haru knew from the research and the stories from Jericho that it meant that the orb was finally completed in its raw form. Stepping back into the pentagram, he looked over at Yori to see her coming back into the pentagram as well. Haru went back to his beginning position before pulling out his dementor's bone that he had received as a gift from the school when he passed the unofficial Rune Summoner's test. He jabbed the sharpened end into his wrist to draw blood. He closed his eyes to remember the combinations of runes that he could put on his orb. He had picked an assortment from both his Rune Summoner's scroll and some runes he had found in the Summoner's Library of the school.
He started writing in his blood around the still floating orb. He breathed the runes one by one as he wrote so he didn't forget. When he completed the circle, he motioned Yori to come over. She did as commanded and stilled herself as she felt a jab at her tail. She watched as a drop of her blood mixed with her master's and fell on top of the tip of the orb. The orb glowed a bright rosy red before turning darker and becoming a deep blood red color. She knew what her master did was to allow her to touch his orb and use it in emergencies.
The runes disappeared off the floor and would only reappear when Yori used his orb. Haru next took the flat end of the dementor's bone and started inscribing a single fat rune on the top of the stone. They both watched as the rune glowed a blue color before it dissolved into the stone. Haru knew that now it would only recognize him as its true master and protect itself from being used against him or his allies.
Haru knew he had only two rune rituals left that he could do. He knew automatically that the last was the indestructibility rune but he had a hard time deciding what else he wanted on it. He didn't need the auto return since the previous rune would ensure his enemies could never keep their hands on his orb. He then remembered that there was a spell that would unwind his orb back to its starting materials. He had decided that he didn't want that to ever occur and chose to counter that above all others.
Picking up the orb, he still didn't have his connection knowing that it wouldn't happen until he was finished. Writing very carefully with the tip of the dementor's bone on the shaft of the orb, the bone slid into the metal without any trouble. He made shallow cuts with his writing so he didn't screw it up. He wrote from bottom to top on four sides before he jabbed his bone into the stone. He felt the orb cool off and heat up at the same time for several seconds before a sizzle could be heard. Removing the bone, he felt the orb start throbbing erratically. He knew he was almost finished.
Picking his bone up again, he turned the orb upside down so he could see the flat surface at the base. He knew that this was the hardest part because the indestructibility rune could easily be messed up and would cause the opposite to occur and it would become very brittle. Writing the smallest he ever had he started with the outside and worked his way in a spiral to the center of the flat surface.
When he finished, he released the orb and it floated where he had let it go. It turned all red before turning blue, orange, and finally amethyst. The amethyst slowly drained of color before a black to emerald green aura surrounded the orb. It constantly throbbed out of sync for a minute before it slowed down to the point that Haru knew it was pulsing to his heartbeat. He then knew it was finished.
He reached out carefully with his right hand and softly grasped the orb. Haru felt his core sing with delight along with all the ambient magic around him. His core expanded painlessly to where it should be for a Lord Summoner, and he knew that he now had a firm gasp on his power. Twirling his orb with his finger he noted it was a light but a noticeable weight so that he never forgot it, not that that would ever happen.
Calling his magic from within his core to show itself, he pressed both hands flat against his orb right at his chest level. Haru was shocked to see that it was a size of a bludger. He knew that it wasn't normal at his age to have such a large magical reserve but he didn't want more attention drawn to himself. He looked over to see Yori's eyes were constantly flashing from silver and gold to her normal eye color.
Wondering if his would be the same, he made a mental note to check it out. Letting go of his orb, he saw it disappear in a wisp of smoke. Testing the already proven theory with bonded orbs, he imagined that he was gripping the orb and it appeared. He knew when he got older and wiser, he would be able to call on his orb staff instead of his orb when he needed it but unlocking it wouldn't be possible until his sensei's allowed him to know the trade secret.
Haru stood up only to fall back down. Yori caught him before he hit the floor but she knew he had exhausted himself physically and mentally. Yori was able to get Haru on her back before they went over to the doorway. Haru was half conscious and his only thought was questioning how his familiar was able to carry him? She pawed at the door several times before she was able to traverse through it. She stepped through to see a gryphon carrying one of the elves in her master's class.
She walked over to the floor director and thought of the thirtieth floor. She stepped through to arrive on the correct floor. Walking over to Summoner's Hall, she entered and went through the balcony doorway to arrive in the hallway to her master's room. Going to the right door, she stepped through and was greeted by the painting of her master's ancestor.
"You might as well put him in his bed; he won't be waking up for the next three days if I remember my own. I'll handle the rest." Yori dipped her head before she went into the bedroom walked over to the bed before she saw her master float above her and over to the bed. She looked back to see the man's face was in deep concentration. Looking back at her master, she saw he was now out of his clothes and in nothing but his boxers before he was tucked in. Yori jumped on the bed and lay down at her master's feet.
"Sleep Yori, for it is the time of recover for the both of you." The painting said. Yori knew this to be sound advice and closed her eyes.
Haru woke up to find himself in his room. He opened his eyes carefully to see Yori by his face. Jumping slightly, his familiar pranced excitedly and started licking his face. Haru heard a soft chuckle from the painting in his front room.
"Yori, I'm alright. I'm just a little tired." He said to the moon wolf. She paused to look at him and before he could even get up, she sat on his legs. Haru tried to get up to push her off but he didn't have the strength to do it. He heard another chuckle before he glared at the painting of Jericho.
The painting simply smiled at the frustrated eleven year old. "It's no use. She'll have her way until your rest. Besides, you just woke up from your healing coma after the completion of the making and bonding to your orb. You're going to be tired. Rest, tomorrow is Sunday and you have a day before the start of the new term. You seemed to have drained yourself more than the others but then again my own took the standard three days. But I had a feeling that it took more time for specialized Summoners. You've taken five days to even get to this point. By the way, headmaster was here two days ago to see if you had woken up and I told him you had not. He should be back sometime today or tomorrow." Haru nodded before he surrendered to the dreams that had been calling for him to join them.
Haru indeed slept until midmorning on Sunday when he woke to see Yori lying at the foot of his bed. Haru groaned making everyone aware of his presence as he moved to get up. He heard the familiar voice of the Headmaster speak softly to him.
"Careful, young one, you're one of the few that has experienced the need for more rest when bonding. No doubt from the rituals you performed to make your orb." Matsumoto said as he helped Haru up.
Haru blinked a couple of times to see Sasuke, Hiei Matsumoto, Griphook, Calmacil, Kado, and Alex all around his bed. At the foot of his bed, Yori was staring at him. He gave a small smile to see that he had friends like them. He never had that when he lived with the Potters.
"Thank you for your concern but I'm much better. I was just exhausted from when I woke up yesterday." Haru said trying to tell them not to become too worried.
"That's what friends do, Haru," Sasuke said. "We watch each other's back." He said before a fanged grin shown on his face. "So what does your orb look like?" He said bouncing. He could see everyone else also very curious to see what he worked so hard for.
Remembering what the headmaster told everyone a week ago about summoning their orbs, he clapped his hands together as if in prayer before pulling them apart slowly with his mind concentrating on his orb. Slowly but surely, his orb started to form in-between his hands. Everyone looked on in amazement when they could see the orb. The orb was completely made of brass and formed into a raven's claw with the tips made of silver. In its clutches was the moonstone that was black at the moment. Unlike mortals' moonstones where it shows the mood of the carrier, the magical moonstone will reflect the opponents' magical levels. The brighter it is, the stronger the opponent.
"Very nicely done, Summoner Kagen," the headmaster said appraising the orb. He could feel the firm connection from the orb to his pupil.
"Cool," Alex said admiring the work. Though she had worked hard on her own Necromancer's bone wand, it couldn't even be placed in the same category for synchronization. She was no slouch during the construction of her own focus but it wasn't as perfectly done as Haru's.
Haru nodded his thanks before looking over at Sasuke. "Can I see yours?" He wanted to see someone else's focus to compare to his.
They watched as Sasuke mimicked Haru's movement's and revealed his orb. It was made of a blood red crystal and was shaped like a vampiric bat with its jaws open to hold an onyx stone. Haru was very impressed by the results of his friend's orb. He knew that the crystal was completely made from Sasuke blood combined into a crystal forming elixir.
The headmaster smiled when his students started showing each other their on focus. He didn't want to interfere or interrupt and made his way quietly to Haru's front room where he saw Jericho staring at him with a smug look.
"What's the look for?" Matsumoto asked.
"You like my once descendant?" The headmaster didn't look surprised.
"He's one of my pupils, of course, I like him." Jericho shook his head negatively.
"No, that isn't the excuse I will allow Hiei." The headmaster turned his head away and stared out the spelled window before speaking.
"He reminds me of you." He said honestly. "He's powerful but likes to tone down his abilities and isn't cocky with his position."
Jericho nodded.
The next morning Haru woke up and looked at the clock to see he had only had a half an hour to get down to his first class. Going over to his trunk, he grabbed the workout clothes that he made during the first month of his stay at Yuuan Kouzan Mahou. He also whistled to Yori before walking out of the room with his silver wolf behind him.
He went through the series of corridors before he made it outside. He could see the hundreds of other students also standing on the grounds. The older ones were all stretching out and warming up while others had their weapons out to practice with. He walked over to his own group which consisted with all necromancers and summoners. He could see that some of them were dead tired on their feet but others were stretching out as well. He went over to a clearing with enough room for him to do his own stretches while waiting for their sensei.
After ten minutes of stretching, Haru stood up to see vines rapidly growing from the ground and bind one of the female necromancers before she disappeared only to be replaced with a well toned man in training clothes. His blonde hair was cut short and styled to defy gravity. His hardened earth green eyes stared back at the first years.
"Good morning," he said in a deep baritone voice. "I am Taro-sensei, one of the sages at the school, and your martial arts instructor for this year." Haru shivered at the cold smile on his sensei's face. He looked over at his friend's paling face. Both knew that this was going to be hell.
"Now, I want ten laps around the school." He said with everyone giving him incredulous looks. "Did I stutter?" He said as he motioned for several Venus flytraps to rise out of the ground.
Haru's legs worked first already acknowledging the threat with Yori hot on his trail. He heard someone squeal before hearing more people running trying to catch up. He moved as fast as he could around the school. He finished first and within the first hour at that. The sage gave a nod in Haru direction. He had a feeling it was something very rare that he would do that to someone.
When everyone else finally made it back with the last one being the necromancer girl that had been switched with their instructor, he directed everyone to line up before speaking. "I am disgusted that it took you over an hour to finish the task I complete you. Though I'm not surprised to see that most of you are Clan and family heirs and are too lazy, we will work on that. By the time the year is over, you'll be able to finish that in less than a half an hour before we go for regular class. This year, you'll learn hand-to-hand, weapon-to-hand, and weapon-to-weapon combat. Yuuan Kouzan Mahou doesn't allow you to have a valid excuse to not be able to fight someone without a magic. This is a hard core class that requires effort, discipline, constant vigilance, and focus. Now I want you to do three hundred kicks and punches." He raised a hand to have wooden posts come from the ground. Everyone went quickly to work so that there wouldn't be any more added incentive.
Soon after that, they had to swim in the pond twenty times before they were dismissed. Everyone was thoroughly exhausted and it was only the first class. Going to their rooms to change, they quickly took showers and went down for breakfast. Everyone saw a replenishing potion on their plate along with a note.
Welcome back Students,
As you may or may not know, here is your replenishing potion from your martial arts class. Please note that they will only be supplied for two weeks before you must be in shape for the course. Have a good first day back.
Headmaster Matsumoto
Haru gulped down his with everyone else following his actions as well. He felt his muscles' fatigue wear away replaced by a very slight increase in muscle mass. He was shocked to know that there were potions like this out there. His stomach interrupted his thoughts and he looked at the foods that everyone else had ordered from. Picking a classic Japanese breakfast, he broke his chopsticks and quickly dug in.
He looked up after he ate the last of the fish to see hundreds of flying scroll zooming around the hall. He caught one that dived towards him. Opening it up, he saw it was his schedule for day.
Rune Summoner Kagen Haru's Schedule
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Summoner's History 9-11 Level 16 Room 3
Nixel Magic 11-1 Level 16 Room 2
The Summoner's Art 2-5 Sublevel 35
Tuesday and Thursday
Runes 9-10 Level 6 Room 5
Potions 10-1 Level 5Room 4
Enchanting 2-5 Level 4 Room 1
He looked over it a couple of times before he pulled out the pocket watch that his father gave him two years ago. He saw the stars and the moon in a certain alignment and knew he had less than ten minutes before his first class.
Getting up, he walked towards the wall and thought the sixteenth floor. He looked down at Yori and told her all the floors that they had be on for the day. He knew his familiar was bright enough to figure out what she needed to do. Stepping through the wall he looked up to see he was on the right floor before going down the corridor to find the third room. He found it easily enough with the topaz colored doorway glowing. Stepping through, he found that it was a normal classroom for them.
Picking one of the desks in the middle of the room, he found that he hadn't been the first one in. The two elves had already beaten him to it. He opened his robe and looked down at the third rune. Focusing on the meaning of the rune, he stuck his hand through the rune until he felt a book being put into his hand. He pulled out his hand and the book to reveal that it was Peace, War, and Treaties: The cycle of life.
Sticking his hand back in, he touched the third rune on the opposite side of his robe before pushing past it to feel one of his notebooks and a crystal pen. Pulling his hand out, he put it on his desk to prepare him for notes that would no doubt help him in the future as well as for the end of the year exams.
The rest of the time spent waiting for his colleagues was spent on petting Yori. At the same time, looking over the book that he pulled out from his robe. As he finished looking at the last chapter of the book, he felt the overwhelming urge to look up. Doing so, he found that everyone else also looking at the source to see a stunning woman standing nearly six feet tall. Her golden hair was near her waist while her sharp cerulean blue eyes were focused on the class. Haru couldn't help but shiver from her eyes. Though the woman was breath taking, her eyes told a different story. He also noticed that she wasn't using a focus meaning one of two things. She was either a Mage or a Sorcerer.
"Good morning class, I am Yuiga Kagome. This is Summoner's History Class for first years. If you're not a summoner and a first year, get the hell out of my room." She said harshly. Haru shivered as he could sense her magic flare.
When no one moved, her face softened and gave a small smile. "Good, now that I've said my piece. I welcome you to Summoner's History. This is a mandatory three year study of intense history lessons that will cover everything ever publicly known of the Summoner Class. I personally am not a summoner but a Sorceress. I am one of the few that are authorized by all Summoner's Orders on Gaiater and Earth. Besides Summoner's History, we will also cover Necromancer's history and any of the few other classes that has ever summoned. Now open your book to the first chapter." They did as they were told and saw it was the Legend and History of the Summons.
"Now as you all can see we will be covering Summons first." She said as she waved her hand at the blackboard behind her. Fine script slowly took shape of her notes that she wanted to cover. "This year we'll cover the basic Summons as well as the well known more difficult ones before going on to well known Summoners, Necromancers, Druidic Wizards, and Celtic Sorceresses. We'll then finish up the year with the Summoner/Necromancer War.
Now the first summon that we'll start with is the infamous Shiva. Originally an Ice Elemental, she worked her way up the hierarchy of mastering her element. She spent years on twisting and bending the ice to her will. After a hundred and sixty nine years of studying her element. She had transformed from a mere mortal elemental to a living representation of her element. In so doing, her mind had taken a toll. Her heart turned to ice as well as her compassion and willingness to relate to the common mortal.
She had caused one of many wars that have occurred on Gaiater known as the Buriza-do Kousen, or the Blizzard Wars. She raised an army of Ice, Wind, and Water elementals in attempt to have all of the other elementals bowed down to her. Coincidentally, Ifrit was on the other side with his Fire, Wood, and Thunder Elementals army. Shiva had one several conflicts including the battle of Nankyoku, or Antarctic, battle of Tsunami, and the battle of Aisu Supaiku, Ice Spike.
While those had been very beneficial to her side and made her legendary at her tender age of ninety, the real territory that she so sought for was in the hands of Ifrit as he had already conquered the territory that held all of the Elemental leaders not including the ice elemental since Shiva herself was on the council as the Ice Leader.
After two years of training her troops to the maximum of her capacity, she stormed Ifrit's Castle in most destructive manor. She stood in front of her troops, leading them while at the same time flicking her wrist that sent out ice chunks the size of a troll's femur at scattered scouts. She was able to get to the castle with no problem except that Ifrit was waiting for her as Mars had told him do. Pluto, on the other hand, had prepared Shiva for this and she was able to lead her troops to counter Ifrit's forces.
At the center of all this was Ifrit in Battle robes composed of kitsune fur. His human features had long ago been replaced by dozens of rituals made of fire origin demons making him one himself of his own breed. Shiva had also changed. She too went through rituals but since Ice beings were extremely rare and very wary of human mortals, she had changed little from being human. Her once snow white skin had been replaced by cold blue skin and her ebony hair was replaced by ocean blue. Her eyes that were once cerulean blue were nearly white but held a very cold edge to it. Since she was also a very cold being, she wore the least amount of clothes so that she couldn't overheat. A nearly transparent cloak covered her skin tight clothes."
The Sorceress made a gripping motion with her hand to have her staff appear before she made a slashing motion in front of her. A large silver mist in a shape of a projector screen took shape before ice and fire outlined it. "What I am going to show you is a memory that Shiva and Ifrit themselves gave up freely over several thousand years ago."
Haru stared at the screen to see a three dimensional memory start to take shape of the forms of Shiva and Ifrit. He marveled at Shiva's appearance along with Ifrit's demon like appearance before it played.
"Shiva," A deep, resounding voice said that was filled with malice and intention of murder, torture, and pain.
Shiva nodded before spoke in her chilling voice that spoke volumes of cold indifference, carelessness, and being a heartless bitch. "Ifrit,"
Ifrit gave a cruel grin. "So the Ice Queen Shiva has graced me with her indifferent attitude. I was beginning to wonder if you would even come due to the overwhelming heat compared to the Artic cold that you are so use to."
Shiva said nothing but smirked and flicked her hair. The braided blue hair transformed into dreadlocks with hoops at the end. Ifrit's eyes widened slightly at the sight of the dreadlocks. "So the Frigid Bitch shows knowledge of the natural arts of Necromancy."
She didn't respond to the taunt except her wicked grin grew on her face. "You will not get a rise out of me, Ifrit. Emotions of anger and hatred are not known to me anymore." She paused before continuing with her grin widening in mockery, "Though I am willing to give you a kiss to make you death swift compared to the cold hell that I will inflict upon you."
Ifrit glared at him. "My honor and pride will not allow such a treasonous act to happen."
She shrugged her shoulders indifferently. "You're loss. My compassionate mercy has ended at that. I will not stop until your body is filled with holes from my ice and your head is frozen with horror at the things that I will show you."
Ifrit's eyes narrowed before, "Faia Jiten." (Fire Spin)
A whirlwind of flames shot out of his hands towards Shiva She only smirked before whispering, "Hyoutan." The whirlwind flames turned icy blue and passed through her harmlessly. She flicked her wrist and once again whispered but it echoed making Ifrit slightly nervous. "Hyouzan." (Iceberg)
A ship sized ice chuck flew out of her hand. Ifrit's eyes widened slightly before making a slashing motion with his right claw. The large chunk split in half, passing the fire incarnate harmlessly.
Both knew that they were just testing each other to start out with. Ifrit knew that she had a counter to his smaller and more controlled flames. Shiva, on the other hand, knew that Ifrit was physically stronger and with his claws, he could decimate larger chunks of ice with ease. Staring at each other for several minutes, ignoring the fighting on each side going on around them, they sized each other up before both disappeared. Shiva simply melted away into water while Ifrit was consumed by his flames leaving nothing but ashes.
Ifrit appeared first with him making hand motions and drawing lots of his control over fire and a little earth. "Maguma Tongari," (Magma Points) He growled. Shiva became visible again when magma shot out of the ground at an alarming rate, singeing some of her body.
She glared at him with irritation when he gave sly grin. "Hokkyokuken Senpuu." (Arctic Circle Whirlwind) She spun around at an alarming rate until she was standing still, floating in the air. She gave him a chilling smile before charging at him.
Ifrit gave a calculating look before making an arch sweeping motion. The magma holes that were created earlier were now pumping out lava towards the Ice Queen. Shiva extended her hands and made a clamping sound in front of her. Spikes of needle sized icicles hit the incoming lava but she still made her way to Ifrit.
Ifrit changed stance and planted his feet before trying to sweep large claws at Shiva. To Ifrit's horror, the claws were starting to freeze when he tried to touch her. Shiva made a chopping motion that Ifrit jumped away from. He looked to see a several spike had came out of the side of her hand when she had tried to hit him.
Landing on a pool of lava, he grinned and spoke, "Now Icicle Queen Bitch, DIE!" With that he started tossing flaming hot lava at her. Her eyes widened and she tried to block him with her arms crossed which did have some success but disastrous consequences. She was knocked back against the opposite wall with a grunt and Ifrit saw what she had done earlier. She spun in a full circle when she had landed. It had been an ultimate shield that was able to move with her and look like she hadn't moved at all.
She hissed in pain when she looked to see the patches of skin were red. She looked back up at him and gave him what almost looked like a grin of respect.
"If you want to do that, I will just have to finish you off." She said as she did her newly created ultimate attack. She spun around in a complete circle where ice formed to points at Ifrit. Ifrit knew that his own ultimate shield wouldn't be able to handle what she was going to throw at him since her magic was thick in the air. Ifrit knew only one counter, his own ultimate attack.
Shiva kissed the top of her index and middle fingers of her right hand before making a circle in the air that rippled with cold air. At the peak of her hands she held her element in her hands, Ifrit barely noticed that it was her magic along with several chunks of ice revolving around her hand before shoving it forward towards him.
Ifrit, on the other hand, gripped his claws into fist before releasing it to form large flames and melting lava and tossing them towards Shiva. He then opened his mouth wide when his eyes turned black as another ball of flames of melting lava was tossed at Shiva forming a triangle of raging infernos. He then slammed his claws into the ground and pulled out a very large chunk of earth and lava at Shiva. He growled out with all of his magical might, "Gouka," (Hell Fire)
Shiva shoved her element through the top pillar of raging inferno. Ice formed all around Ifrit as well as freezing him in place. He tried to get out of it only for her to snap her fingers a second before she collided with the final stage of his gouka attack. She was blown backwards by the impact as she released an echoing scream that could be heard all around. Her skin was littered with burns, her hair was gone, her face was bleeding and badly messed up, and she was missing her left arm and leg.
Ifrit wasn't doing any better from her ultimate attack. Literally, millions of needle pointed chunks of ice pierced his kitsune robe and hardened skin with ease. His arms and legs had spikes of ice going through it. Worst of all for him was that her attack had impaled him through the heart, stomach, and lungs at the same time blinding him. He couldn't see what had happened to the Ice Queen. He was only satisfied with the shrill echoing scream of Shiva before he died.
Shiva lay on the floor slowly dying. Her right eye was able to see the fire incarnate dead where he was. She too knew she had little time on this plane of existence. She dipped her left hand on the stump that was her arm before drawing on the floor with her blue blood. She had learned a way to live once more but for a price. She drew the rune sign that she had be able to obtain from a dying Master Mind Summoner. He told her that it would cost her freedom and life outside of doing the will of a Summoner. She knew that she wanted to be always remembered no matter the cost.
Finishing the last of the ritual writing, she grasped out in Nixel. "Toltho Nín Cuil, Lín Innas. Shiva, Heleg Bereth."
Pillars of icy light dropped around her. The columns of ice were at least a meter thick and three meters tall. Below her frail body, an eight star summoner's circle appeared. She felt her skin become numb for a moment before she felt compelled to sing in her native language. Her heart soared and her body floated up a few decimeters from the ground. A bright light engulfed her and shot out around the room. When it dimmed, Shiva's feet were floating a mere three centimeters off the ground. Her body healed along with her outfit being repaired and placed back on her. She wore her cloak but with a slight difference. The eight star summoner's circle was on the back with one of the points larger than the others with a kanji sign of Ice written inside of it in white.
She smiled mysteriously before tapping her left foot three times on the ground. A wisp of wind blew her away from the plane.
Ifrit also found himself in the center of a summoner's circle but of a seven pointed star. He found himself in his half human state. He was on two legs with his feet exposed. He was dressed in regal fiery red kitsune robes. His hair was blood red with it fading into a yellow color at the tips. His hands were still claws but weren't as exaggerated. He also was found wearing a fire circlet on his head. He blinked his black eyes a couple of times of wondering how he was still alive. He then was able to see the fiery red pillars around him swimming with magma.
He then was given information mentally. He knew that he had ascended to become a summon before being given knowledge of the new spells that he could caste. He gave a grin that looked very dangerous before he too was floating with his feet only centimeters from the floor. He tapped the floor three times before he felt himself being carried away from the mortal plane.
The Ice and Fire screen then dissolved away. Everyone looked back over to the Sorceress waiting for her to continue. She smiled at them before speaking. "That is all that I will cover today. Shiva was one the most cunning and dangerous elementals known to the magical communities. Ifrit, while strong, wasn't as strong as her as you could tell. She is literally the Ice Queen of all planes. You don't ever want to cross her nor be her target. As you watched, she was very ruthless and smart about the attacks she performed. However, those aren't a fraction of what she is now capable of since she ascended to become a Summon. Homework tonight is to read the sections on Shiva and Ifrit in your book along with your Summoner's book collection for Wednesday's quiz on her and Ifrit." Haru wrote all of this down in his notebook before putting everything away for his next class.
Haru and Yori went out of the classroom only to go next door for his next class. When he entered, it was filled with statues of summons, a case of bo staves, and a book case of scrolls and books. The desks were in right beside the doorway while there was a large clear space for practical magic. Haru chose to sit on the end from shear habit when magic was involved.
Haru managed to grab hisSummoner's Magic Through the Age and his note taking items before a tall blonde haired man came into the room. His robes were of forest green and looked very heavy. His eyes were the clearest blue that Haru had ever seen. He then spotted the pointed ears and knew he was some sort of elf.
His voice was smooth but carried an edge that promised repercussions if you stepped a toe out of line. "I am Elrond-dono or to you all Elrond-sensei. I am here to teach you the branch of magic that very few have ever mastered, one of the most powerful yet difficult branches of magic that you'll come across in you long life. Nixel Magic is very potent since we mix our personal magic with natural magic.
This is a three year course study for you to learn all the necessary spells that you will and might need. Unlike Wizardry, we don't separate the branches of magic to charms, hexes, jinxes, and curses. The real classification that we might use separately would be curses. They sound as they are said, curses. Wizardry has become lazy in the spells and the classification of them. Dark Art to them are automatically classified as curses even if when majority of them were charms and hexes.
Another thing about Summoners that differ from the Wizardry art is our natural inability to use the branch known as transfiguration since it is more harmful to the natural order than simply conjuring. Another name beside Summoners, we were called Conjurors. Since our spells are half made of our core and half made with the natural magic, our conjured items will never disappear." Elrond saw that some of the students were getting entirely too smug for his liking and he told them something that would burst a few bubbles.
"Though we are a powerful class, we have a major weakness, time." He saw the confused faces on many of the students and elaborated. "We as Summoners are connected to Terra and Gaiater and as such, we age linear with the planet and realm. If we were instantly transported to a different time, we would slowly start to die because of the displacement. Dying this way out of our time is a very painful way to go. We age three times faster than the mortals and as such, our bodies will break down faster and our bones become brittle faster. To us, messing around with time is a highest level offense. We don't even use time against our worst enemies since it is something that is far crueler than others. Summoners have long placed a lot of research into time travel, time potions, time magic, and time spells in the fields of Wizardry and Sorcery.
The Impediment Jinx is a class two wizardry spell against Summoners however they have long since forgotten it. The wizardry jinx is a spell to slow down time to a stand still. To another magic user besides us, its affect would be to slow them down and their perception of time would be that everything else is speeding up. However to Summoners it would feel like they were under another wizardry curse, the Cruciatus Curse, three fold. Their bones would feel like they were on fire, their mind had aged rapidly and their muscles haven't been used in years. When released from the curse, the summoner's body will look like they have doubled in age.
Time Turners are however a class one wizardry artifact that allows magic users to tamper with time and change its flow. To us, that thing is a sure death trap. Since we are linear and have one starting spot and one ending spot, time turners disrupt the flow of time and bends time to almost to the breaking point. It is neither natural nor right in the rules of magic for two of the same beings to occupy the same time. For us, once we arrive in the same time, we simply cease to exist. The person's birth and all that he or she has accomplished will fade to a mere echo. To anyone else, they would have never heard of the person but since we are not anyone else, we would remember that person and to us they would have died a horrific way.
Finally, Aging potions are some of the worst to us since they are torturous. When consumed, it will age anything that it touches in our body. Our organs, bones, and mind will age to the point that we would have the body of someone who has lived a millennium. Since it is an unnatural change to our bodies, it is very, very painful. Most who has had this potion, have committed suicide since their soul and body are no longer compatible. The soul will exert more force to be free of the foreign body with the help of their orb since you linked your soul with a magical object. It isn't the same as a Horcurx, you are only linked, not splitting the soul."
He watched as they all paled at the implications. He inwardly nodded in satisfaction at a job well done. Every year the same effect would always occur. He did this so that the new generations wouldn't have their heads inflated so much that it would make them cocky and arrogant though he did have to remind them again right before they passed out of his class in third year so they wouldn't forget even though they don't ever encounter it.
"Now for today, and for the rest of the week, we will cover the weaknesses for Summoners, Necromancers, Wizards, Mages, Sages, Sorcerers, Elementals, and Warlocks. Now we'll cover the punishable offenses for spells against our race.
First is the Nixel spell for killing another being without probable cause. The spell is the equivalent to the wizard's Killing Curse, Avada Kedavra. It pulls the soul from a person's body as well scars the area where it resided so that no being is able to repossess it or use it for Necromancy purposes. Unque Thúle is punishable by crystal imprisonment for a sentence of no less than six hundred years. The main purpose of the spell is for placing the suffering and dying into a state of peace since it is better to die with less suffering and more soul magic than to hold on the last threads of life and be stuck on this plane until you recharge your soul magic to the point that you can pass on.
Thúle Aha is the next spell that is punishable by century of imprisonment. The spell is like the Cruciatus Curse in Wizardry and Necromancy. Its true purpose is for jumpstarting the body after nerve endings have been severed or closed. Though extremely painful, it regenerates receptors, reconnects broken nerve tissue, and jumpstarts a person's brain. When held on an unhealthy person, it localizes the pain where it needs to be. But for a relatively healthy person, it will cause body wide pain, an increase in blood cells which causes more bleeding and less healing, and overloads the heart's rhythmic pulse to cause heart failure and heart attacks. For you to hold this on a person for a certain amount of time without killing them, will result in crystal imprisonment for three hundred years, however, if you kill the person, you will be crystal imprisoned for eight hundred years for causing suffering and violent death to the victim.
Lastly,Thúle Ando is like the Imperious curse. The person is in a state of bliss and is unfeeling. They will feel like anything is possible and nothing could harm them. The subconscious and consciousness is placed in stasis, they will act like an uncaring and heartless being. They will have access to their memories for information except for the information about Thúle Ando as it was intended so for medical use. The main and real purpose for the curse was for times or warfare and themedical treatment of mind healing. In warfare, it was used to redirect enemy forces for either killing each other, forcing them to surrender, or to turn against their superiors. In the field of medicine, it was used for overcoming childhood fears, people who hid themselves in their minds, reversing brainwashing, breaking blocked memories, confronting nightmares, and reversing amnesia. It has even been used to rehabilitate magical drug users, and minor criminals. The spell is punishable by one hundred years of crystal imprisonment for non-death related control and one thousand years of crystal imprisonment for death related control for you committed murder of another along with causing mental illness to the controlled being.
These are the major ones that result in immediate crystal imprisonment however there are others. Depending on how much you disrupt our society and how much chaos you spread; you may find yourself in crystal imprisonment as high as even Thúle Ando.
Next on our list is the Wizardry Killing Curse, Avada Kedavra. This was developed purely for the use of ending suffering and item destruction. This curse was developed over two and a half thousand years ago by S. Myrridoc, an architect Warlock. He developed it when spells were not strong enough to destroy materials without overcharging and expending too much energy. He had found that the Killing Curse, originally the Myrridoc hex, didn't require too much energy and did the job in half the time. What he didn't know until later that it would break apart any ambient magic that is in all objects. When used on a solid object, it will destabilize the magic holding it together. However, he later found when he was teaching his crew this spell and it accidentally hit someone, killing the person immediately as it tore the soul from the person's body. When experimenting on it with dangerous magical creatures, he found that one hit with it will kill the being, the next one will destroy any magical core and the third time was to have the body's ambient magic destabilize and explode into blood and guts. On a mortal, it would only kill the mortal and the second time will cause their body to explode. On a Squib, it would take the same amount as a normal magical being seeing as how they have a magical core but are incapable of accessing it fully. To European Wizarding society, it carries an automatic life imprisonment if it does result in the sentence of having your soul removed by a Dementor no matter what the intent was for the curse. However most other parts of the world still recognizes it as Myrridoc Hex depending on what it is used for. In Asia, it is punishable by a very long and painful death. America is almost the same as Europe as long as the intent wasn't in self defence. South America and Africa are both very lax in their rules but if someone ends up finding out you used it; anyone can come after you and pay you back three fold for killing another.
Summoners and Necromancers have a different result when they are hit with the Myrridoc Hex. Our bodies go into stasis while our souls are captured into the Wizard's wand, Necromancer's bone wand, or Sorcerer's staff. The being casting the hex will receive a power boost because they have accumulated more power. However the only way for a Summoner or a Necromancer to return to their bodies is for the caster's foci to be broken or damaged severely.
Necromancers have adopted Myrridoc Hex in the use of their study though it is more taxing for them to cast it than their main branch along with the wizard's Cruciatus Curse, Bone Breaking Hex, Bone Shattering Hex, Bone Removal Hex, and Bone Regrowth charm. They also have adopted our Unque Thúle for when rituals and summons have gone wrong." He looked down at his watch to see that the class was half over and cleared his throat.
"Class is half over now and that means that I'm going to switch to practical now. Every class is divided between history and rules of spells while the other half is learning new spells to use. The homework for this half is to read the first four chapters in your Zero Williams book and take notes. I will collect your notes next class along with giving you a quiz on what we have discussed today." He heard groans from the students and gave them a piercing glare that made most of them shiver. "I will not teach whining children. I only teach Summoners and as such, I will fail anyone who whines in class for the day. More whining results in double homework and a pop quiz, there is to be no more, understood?" He said glaring at the class. They all collectively nodded.
"Good, now the first spells that I will teach you are for illumination, levitation, basic shielding, and basic conjuring. Today, we'll start will illumination. The spell is Annûn Anna. Your orb's gem will light up with the amount of light that the Summoner needs. All you do is snap your wrist inward while directing the incantation to your orb. Most problems occur in saying the spell to the orb. Since our language is the same as our magical incantation, you must direct the spell otherwise it will not activate. If you casually say it, it won't work since it doesn't recognize casual reference as a command. Another thing, any spell you do will activate your summoner's compass. Your compass is completely unique to any one else's but all have the common trait of revealing a nine point compass. Since illumination, one of the points will glow as representation of a light spell. Only you will know it was a light spell unless you have had an opponent who studied your nine point compass for a while. Now let's see you do the spell."
Haru gripped the air only to find himself holding his orb. Remembering what Elrond-sensei said, he snapped his wrist inwardly and whispered, "Annûn Anna." His moonstone glowed with a light bright enough for to see it worked. He wondered how to put it out and looked around to see that everyone else was wondering the same thing.
Elrond-sensei spoke again, "By now, you should be wondering how to put it back out. Anrûn Anna is the counter incantation and you need to snap your wrist outwardly."
Haru followed his instructions and saw the light went out as easily at it began. He was pleased that he was finally being able to do the magic that was his birthright.
"Now since you all accomplished that, we'll continue on with the details of the spell so you can find out the variations to the spell and so on." Elrond-sense said.
Haru paid close attention to what his sensei had to say. Writing down notes and doing the practical variations, he had found a number of uses for light spells. Everything from making a portable light, to having a floating light globe, a small pen light to read in the dark, make writing only appear in a pitch black room, or even have an object glow so that he didn't need to hold onto his orb.
When the class was finished, Haru made his way to lunch while talking with Sasuke about the different applications and pranks that they could use with it. They chatted with the rest of the ones at the table they normally shared about what they learned in class already. When Sasuke commented that they could spell their familiars to always glow, Yori and the rest of the familiars scrambled away fast. Griphook snickered at the familiar's antics.
Haru had just finished his bowl of rice when he looked at his watch and dragged his friend away from his food so that they wouldn't be late for their first Summoning class.
They along with their familiar's made it to their classroom just as their sensei came out of her office. Her short frame moved in front of her students and gave them a shrewd look. "You are to call me Dot-sensei since I will be teaching you the art of Summoning along with so much more for the next three years. I won't allow any misbehaving, tardiness, or absences without a very, very, very, good excuse. This is a dangerous practice and requires your total devotion and concentration. This class is where we outshine other classes." She stopped for a moment, before continuing in a low whisper however everyone could clearly hear her. "If I see any disruption, I will change you into a toad and imprison you in a crystal for the rest of the day. If you do something dangerous and without my permission, I will change you into a mouse and leave you like that for a month. Finally, if you piss me off, I will summon Leviathan and let him devour your body and soul." This made everyone pale ghostly white at her threat, no it was a promise. Her steely silver eyes flared up showing it was not an empty threat.
"Now we will start off with the basics, history of summoner's compass, summon's star point, levels of compasses, levels of summons's star point, changing foci from orb to orb staff, and unlocking your first summon.
Summoner's compasses go all the way back to when our class began. Summoner's are the guardians' of the world and mostly police the magical beings. We keep the balance from tipping in someone's favor. For instance, Basilisks were once a very large race of beings. The King of Serpents had it in their mind to try to take over the other reptilian races like Dragons, fire salamanders, water demons, alligators, crocodiles, and turtles. They went on a rampage throughout the world using the lower level serpents and snakes to do their bidding while they went after the dragons since they were the strongest opponents. The Dragon Rider race at the time sent for help to the Summoners to stop the Kings of Serpents from conquering the other races. We stepped in alright sending in two of the most notorious summons that had any connection to the ongoing battle, Raiden, the King of Lightning Chinese Dragons, and Leviathan, the King of the Water Serpents. Stretching over forty meters long, the two behemoths decimated the Basilisks and their allies to the number seen today.
That is only a sample of the power that we control. A Summoner's compass is like a vacuum in space. It pulls in the magic all around for the Summoner to use for summoning. The Summoner then uses all that is pulled in to do their kata, or set movements, to open certain gates for a particular summon to come onto our plane. These summons however are mere shadows of the true summon. The more you use the summon, the stronger it becomes and the more power it commands to control it. However, if you call the true summon with the effort of a group summon, then the shadow of the true summon cannot be brought to the plane until the true summon is released.
Now each summon is ranked from four to twelve with four being the most basic summon and twelve being a true summon. Nine is the exception due to it being a forbidden summon from when a person is too dangerous to ever be released onto the world. A perfect example is the Elemental Shinigami. The most dangerous and ruthless former Lady Summoner, she kills people for fun and out of despite.
Four star summons include Raiden, Leviathan, Verizern, Zin, Tazki, Reveasen, Angel, and Savex, which is where you start off at. Higher level stared summon are scattered around for you to find and discover. Shiva and Ifrit are both summons that you will acquire sometime in your school career. However, for now, we start with earth and fire summon first.
Now there are three levels of a summoner's compass. The first and most basic is level one which is earth, fire, wind, and water. Level two, which is intermediate, is lightning, non-elemental, holy, and dark. Finally, level three and the advanced level consist of light, shadow, ice, and wood. Today we'll be covering the first level and the most fundamental level of the summoner's compass.
Since each summoner is unique, the order in which the elements are placed is solely up to the summoner along with how to identify each of the elements. I have seen people use regular words, others used runes, some use pictures, and most of all I've see people use a symbol to represent each element. Since they are so different from one another, they also are used as a signature to identify one another instead of a name.
Since you are all beginners to the craft of summoning, you don't have your summoning compasses yet so we will spend much of the time learning theory and going through the set motions for your first summon."
They went through the theory and the precision needed in creating a summoning circle and the amount of time that a person would have to create it. Haru and the class took thorough notes so that they didn't make a mistake along with losing their lives from there sensei. Many of them knew the true depths of the consequences of a failed ritual.
By the time the class was done, many of them were mentally exhausted along with some of them having headaches from the concentration of information that was needed to get all the steps right and the workings of the summoner's compass.
Haru and Sasuke went for dinner only to find their friends look as exhausted as they did. They all had their dinner without too much conversation and soon went to bed so that they could do it all over again.
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