Chapter 26
It turns out that it was just a hologram
"So, you got caught in the hologram? You messed up my experiment!" Colette groaned. "I can't believe you saw my simulation die!" and Colette went up to her, looking very scary, as if she was going to severely beat her up.
"You do not tell anyone you just saw!" Colette spoke in a very dangerous tone "You saw a hologram starting from the Japanese scene to the cave. I will speak with you later."
The Enchantress of Love is a very beautiful woman, yet one of the most dangerous woman I have ever met, and she's my cousin! May thought. She then noticed Colette weaving a complex movement with her wand and May felt as if she had been sucked in a pipe, shooting at light speed at something.
May woke up in her bed. She opened the door of her pink bedroom and walked out. She got tripped by a girl with brown hair.
"Watch it!" May snapped at the girl.
"What?" The girl with brown hair spoke, clearly looking annoyed. May recognized her.
"Carmen, aren't you?" May asked.
"Oh, right. Colette told me so much about you!" Carmen beamed. She kicked May in the shins and ran away. So much for being nice to her. May walked down the stairs to the dining hall and somehow, she knew the house in the back of her hand.
At the dining hall, beside Carmen was a girl with black hair who she recognized as Lily, the Leader of Life and Scent. She was poking her forked in a bowl of chopped up mango floating in milk. May looked around and saw her other cousin Constance and their mother, Avril. Beside Avril sat her own mother, Juliet. In front of her was her favorite cousin Colette, even if she is the scariest woman in the universe. Just kidding.
"Sit." Colette ordered. "You are to meet in my office at seven every evening, and you bring all your magical tools with you necessary on your journey to your third year."
"Yes ma'am" May answered. She was sitting down looking down at her food that magically appeared before her. A plate of roses.
"May, you just have to eat the most expensive foods we have here." Colette laughed. May bit in the rose and exploded with delight.
"Hmm, this would be a problem." Colette spoke and wrote things down on her pad.
"What is this about?" May asked
"Oh, you didn't know that Colette is a very strict food critic? As she is a very dangerous woman" Carmen spoke. Colette was right behind her with a very angry reaction. May remembered with Iota said.
Do you know what happened the last time someone did that? Colette had literally destroyed the School of Enchanted Love with one blow! Just because they said the exact sentence!
May watched in horror as Colette raised her monstrous fist and brought it down on Carmen. WHAM!
May walked in the deluxe living room with Colette.
"I have a question." May asked
"What is it?" Colette asked
"Did you decapitate the School of Enchanted Love's roof physically before?" May asked. Colette's reaction was very dangerous, then she stopped.
"Yes, I actually have, and as you just seen in the hologram, I have already told you the reason." Colette concluded "And don't mind me knocking out my little sister cold, it happens very often. Well … less often than usual."
"Remember, everyday at seven in the evening. I don't care if any teachers have given you detention. You are to come here." Colette spoke "Confirm it for me."
"I am to meet in your room at the School of Enchanted Love everyday at seven in the evening." May confirmed.
Colette spoke "Good, I just need to hear it."
"What are we doing?" May asked
"We are learning magical sealings and increasing the efficiency in mana. I also will teach you in my way, making you more powerful than you are now. But right now, I must go over the nine branches of magic with you and all the elements to further increase your knowledge as well as it can be useful in battles." Colette explained and she brought out her E-board. She swiped her hand to the first art. There was a symbol of it and pictures of the wand used to perform the magic.
"This is standard arts of magic used with wands that are made of wood." Colette explained. "You are an expert at it as I heard from Iota." She then swiped her finger on the green board to the next slide. There was a picture of the everyday spells used, elemental spells.
"This is Elemente magic, with twenty six known elements. One of these elements are not taught. It is dream magic. I believe this is the magic Lady Elementress uses to counter Pure Arts. Please list all the elements." Colette asked.
"There is Mystic Arts, Pure Arts, Balance Arts, Dream Arts, Sky Arts, Psychic Arts, Music Arts, Water Arts, Ice Arts, Life Arts, Poison Arts, Fire Arts, Power Arts, Dark Arts, Medic Arts, Love Arts, Scent Arts, Light Arts, Myth Arts, Nova Arts, Lightning Arts, Wind Arts, Mineral Arts, Steel Arts, Earth Arts, and Fairy or Pixie Arts." May spoke.
"Very good." Colette spoke. "All the branches of magic use Elemental Magic. All these elements are split into four categories. Mystica Arts with Mystic, Pure, Balance, Dream, Music, Fairy or Pixie, Love, and Medic. We know that I teach Love Arts. Mystica Arts use the most mana and is the most powerful arts but is the most difficult arts you will ever learn. Spiritual Arts consists of Psychic, Death, Power, Myth, Nova, and Scent. I also teach Myth arts. This magic has average power of magic used. It is also not so difficult to use them. There is basic and complex nature magic. In basic nature, we have our simple Water, Fire, Life. Then our Earth, Lightning, and Wind. In complex nature, we have Light, Sky, and Mineral. Then our Ice, Poison, and Steel. This is all the arts. Mystica, Spiritual, Basic and Complex Nature."
"Then, our third branch of magic, Orb magic, seen with the Enchanter of Water." Colette spoke "I have already explained that Orb magic is really Elemental Magic but with a slightly different property and much more power is used at the cost of a lot of mana."
May nodded as Colette swiped along to the next slides.
"Our fourth branch of magic is hand magic, using the hand. Our fifth branch is illusion. The sixth branch of magic is dust magic, following the magic made from Fairy or Pixie dust mixing with the elements. Our seventh branch is card magic, using cards, mana, and pips. Our eight branch of magic is ocular magic, using the eyes. Our final magic is aura magic, using the auras in your body and spirits to help you fight without a weapon. The three most powerful branches of magic is orb magic, dust magic, and aura magic." Colette spoke. "Now you understand the arts of magic, do you? Does this explain many wonders in the tournament?" Colette asked.
"Yes. What magics do you use?" May asked.
"I use orb magic, if you haven't noticed, but this wand is not the greatest example of orb magic. But this wand is capable of using orb magic. I am actually able to use all the branches of magic up to the highest level. It is just that some wizards and witches prefer some over the other" Colette explained "Orb magic is wielded by mostly staffs. It is just that we leaders are able to make the original Elemental wand into an orb wand. We are able to wield any magical weapon we get our hands on. It is just that these weapons are our most preferred weapons and the weapons that will give us the maximum ability to wield power." and Colette left the E-board with May.
"What was that about?" Carmen asked.
"Oh, it was a lesson for the arts of magic" May explained and she told Carmen about the arts of magic. Carmen told May that she already knew this material that her older sister taught her.
Constance brought May to Cirque du Fuchsia Rosette to see more of the branches of magic used in a more beautiful fashion. May saw standard magic and could not believe how wonderfully it was used. It can be used to teleport as well, May found out. Then Elemental magic which brought beautiful fireworks. Orb magic from a demented old hag, displaying an astonishing ability in the circus. Hand magic for enhanced cartwheels and flips. Flowers bursted out of their hands. Illusions to make people look like their head was decapitated that still talks. Dust magic was very entertaining as the tidal waves in the story in the circus gave an electrifying feeling. The show when on and on. May could not get enough of it. She was sad to leave.
"Thank you Constance for letting me see this circus for free." May spoke gratefully.
"You're welcome May, if you need more help, you are welcome to ask me again." Constance spoke. Just then the whole room melted once again.
May found herself in the headmistress' room. Colette was tapping her table, thinking hard.
"May, you are too nice." Colette spoke "Do you say that to everyone? And how did you know how expensive those tickets to Constance's circus is?"
"Oh, there are books about the magical events. I was light reading." May spoke. Colette nodded, not surprised at the thickness of the thousand page book.
"As the Enchantress of Love and Myth, you will remember the lesson I taught you. As it showed in the hologram, you are to meet me in seven in the evening everyday." Colette spoke, completely surprising May.
"I used a hologram to save time." Colette spoke. May looked at the time. She had only been in Colette's office for only five minutes. It was seven.
"Sit." Colette spoke. "We will go over what you just learnt in the E-hologram, a very realistic setting where these events are based on real life situations. In the previous hologram, it was not me that had been poisoned, but Lily's sister. I asked Lila if I could feel what Lily was going through. I had no idea. Lila's first litter sister, Sylvia died from this poison. This is why I must not die as well. I am clearly able to resist the poison and hold it back. You seen the Enchantress of Dreams, haven't you?"
May nodded. The Enchantress of Dreams was a very powerful figure of magic. She possesses the dream element. Over the hour, Colette and May went over the elements, their properties, the nine branches of magic. Colette explained what each branch is for. Soon, it was already eight stated by Colette's E-communicate, a device used to communicate with anyone wherever they are. It showed 8:00. May started packing her bags as Colette told her what she will learn in the next days.
"May, in your third year, we will increase your knowledge of magic by ten folds and I will start personally train you to become a very powerful witch. Please state the line of prophecy that refers to you." Colette spoke.
"The third hero is a member of the beautiful garden
Who is found as the pink rose queen of the roses
She will is the hero who makes the foundation harden
And she will be the one to defeat and make him decompose!" May spoke.
"Excellent. I know that this refers to you May, because you are quite persuasive. You managed to make Dicup a friend. If you can do that, you are able to harden the foundation of the four heroes of magic. You will strengthen the bond between the heroes. The first line is about the Beaulieu family. In French, Beaulieu means beautiful, Beau. Garden, lieu." Colette explained, clearly excited. "Your name refers to the second line. May means bloom. Your pink hair refers to pink roses, as pink is the most powerful color. You are excellent in your magical journey, making you a very powerful apprentice. You are near being called a magician, the next level in the magical journey." Colette beamed at May and told her that she could go.
Everyday until the May's third year, Colette taught May sealings by E-table. May learnt that sealings are used with card magic. Card magic was extremely easy as it took no less than a week for May to learn all the card spells in the element of love up to a third year. She learned elemental strengths and disadvantages. For Love, their weakness lie in Fairy magic, Pure magic, Balance magic, and Dream arts but they are excellent against Musical Arts. Just like how Water is good at dousing the flames of Fire which burns Life which can suck up water like a sponge. May also learned that Matthew uses three elements. Water, Ice, and Wind arts. Abby knew only Lightning. Nicholas knew Mineral and Dark Arts. She learnt this from their common meetings between E-communicate, lunch parties that they have together, and E-mail. May felt home with her three friends.
May's second year examination was a breeze, as she found out her marks in the summertime.
May was in her house in Paris, when Colette entered May's room, giving her envelope, receiving her grades.
May had scored a Superior on every subject, the highest mark in the education system. Colette was looking over at her grades.
"May, no one in the School of Enchanted Love could ever score a Superior on everything." Colette laughed.
May nodded.
"We will start your magical love arts lessons next month" Colette spoke, reminding May that she still had a lot to learn. May revealed all the Year 4s and Year 5 textbooks and told Colette that she already knew the material.
"Well, that is surprising. You read my mind. I'll have to re-plan the lessons that you have." Colette spoke and left the room.