Jesús: "Hey everyone, sorry for being late. Work has got me pretty busy lately. And I'm starting college soon, so yeah hardly any time to write. I'm kinda just squeezing this in right now. So without further ado…" [Disclaimer] "I don't either the RF or the anime/manga/videogames referenced in this story. This is a work of fiction so please don't sue me."

Ch. 13

Raguna POV

I'm right in front of Cinnamon's house and looking around the area carefully just in case Erik was around. After the nap I took in class I realized how he saw me at Cinnamon's, he lives in that neighborhood…In any case I'm here so I should buzz the doorbell before people think I'm suspicious.

"Who is it?" I heard Candy's voice from the intercom.

"Hey Candy. Is me Raguna." I replied

"Yay! Raguna is here to play!" she cheered happily.

"Actually Candy I'm here to see Cinnamon. Is she home yet?" I asked

"…" there was silence coming from the other end…what is Candy thinking? "Sis! Your Boyfriend is here!" She suddenly yelled, and loud enough for me to hear that without the intercom.

After a few minutes Cinnamon opened the door.

"Sorry about Candy." She said looking at the ground with a really dark-red blush on her face.

"Is ok." I said and then she lead me into her house and then up the staircase. "Where are we going?" I asked thinking we would have gone to the backyard in case the magic went wrong.

"To my room, you first have to hear the basics. All the books regarding that topic are in my room." She said and kept walking. I stopped mid-step.

"Excuse me…you said we were going to your room?" I replied

"Oh my." Mrs. Cari said "How forward of you Cinnamon honey." She said and Cinnamon just hurried up the stairs.

My mind went blank at that second and my body just moved following Cinnamon. Once in Cinnamon's room we both sat at a low table she had in her room.

"Here…" she said handing me a book, a thick book.

"Wow…" was all I said as I got it.

"Don't worry the basics are in page 3 and 4. After that we can start with actual magic." Cinnamon said and I started reading the instructed pages.

After doing so she asked me a few basic sounding questions like; what's the energy used to cast magic? Which I had just read and it was Mana. Then she asked me, what are four main nature elements of magic? Which I answered; fire, water, earth and air. After asking me a few more questions she got up and picked up a few more books from her bookshelf, 9 in fact. Then she placed them down on the table.

"These are the Elemental Magic books, and this one is how to unleash your Mana. After you read this book you will be able to start the actual magic learning." She said

"Ok." I replied and started reading; thankfully the book wasn't really thick and had a few pages with just pictures of some ancient magicians, the Element cycle and things like that. After about a half hour I started doing some meditations since in the book it said to do so to unleash at least 10% of the full potential of our total Mana. Cinnamon opened one of the books when I finished my meditation and it was the fire magic.

"Alright we'll start you off with the basic spells. You said your dad used a fire-rod-sword, so I'll teach you some fire magic first." She said

"Ok." I said again and just kept quiet as I listened to her.

"To start things off all you have to do is have a casting style. I have the natural no item casting style." She said

"I have a question. Could I have two styles?" I asked

"I suppose yes but why do you ask?" she raised her gaze from her book to me.

"I was thinking of having two magic using styles; one with my sword to cast things as I slash or simply by swinging the sword. And another one with my bare hands, in case I'm separated from my sword, so I still have something to defend myself with." I explained

"I see, I think you could do that but it will take a while before you can do both of them without a problem. What do you say we start you off with no item casting?" Cinnamon said and I nodded yes. "Ok then, I'm pretty sure you read already that you don't actually need some sort of incantation. You may do it if you want to, but it isn't needed."

"You mean like how you healed Selphy's foot that other day and didn't say anything, but you said something when healing Uzuki?" I asked

"Correct." Cinnamon said "All you really have to do is think of what you want to do. For example…" she said and raised her hand over a glass of water that was on the table.

After a few second the water started bubbling and eventually it even started steaming.

"Did you just?" I asked a little surprised

"Yes, I used fire element magic to boil the water." Cinnamon said.

"That's awesome. So you can pretty much use your magic for almost anything as long as your mind has a picture of what you want to do?" I asked

"Right." Cinnamon said and put her hand away from the glass of water and it slowly started to cool down.

"How about you give something in this book a try." She said and handed me the book she had. The book was "Starter Magic - Fire Edition" I opened the book to a random page and saw a small fireball.

"Do you mind if I put my arm out the window?" I asked and she nodded ok. I got up and did so. I started trying to generate the fireball and about a minute after I started a small fireball formed over my index finger. "T-this is awesome!" I said.

"You did it. Congratulations, this means you have potential." Cinnamon said and then we started talking again.

We went to the backyard since we were going to go into more difficult to control magic. By the time I had to leave I was able to access about a 30% of my full potential and could use about 10% of it with my sword, according to Cinnamon. Apparently according to Cinnamon the fact I knew the Return Spell also helped on my magic learning.

"Well then, I'll be leaving now. When do you think I should come back?" I asked

"Come back tomorrow!" Candy said jumping in front of me.

"Well…?" I said looking at Cinnamon like asking her 'would that be ok?' since it was the weekend.

"Ok…" Cinnamon said

"Ok then I'll see ya tomorrow." I said and did the return spell to get back home.

I walked to the door and opened it.

"I'm home." I yelled.

"Welcome back honey." Mom said

"Hey son, where have you been?" Dad asked

"Well…" I said and picked up my hand and made the fireball on my finger tip.

"Wow. Where did you learn that?" dad asked

"I was at professor Kain's house. His daughter knows how to use Magic and since I know her from School she agreed to teach me a bit." I answered

"That's awesome." Dad said "What else did you learn?"

"I learned this…" I said and drew one of the two blades from my sword. Then the blade itself went up in flames. "I can throw the fire, but since we're indoors I won't"

"That's smart." Mom said

"That will help you in the dungeons huh?" dad said

"That was the idea." I replied "But anyway, I'm gonna hit the shower. Activating fire magic so much made me sweat quite a bit." I said and went to my room and then the shower.

After I got out of the shower I had dinner with my parents and then I went to bed.

"This is awesome. I wonder how long will it take for me to master magic?"

Jesús: "Done. I know is shorter than usual but this is the best I could do. Anyway, comeback next time for another update and I'll work on it as soon as I can. Please leave a review and see ya later!"