Disclaimer:
This is a story based on a series of books from E. William Brown [Daniel Black]
All characters and storylines are his. I recommend you read the books, because they are awesome, and make it easier to follow the story. If M.r Brown isn't happy with me let me know. I'm just a fan bumbling around. First-timer here so don't shoot me down.
Chapter 1: Hey I read that book!
When I regained my consciousness, I was lying at the bottom of the stairs feeling …. nothing, you think this is great, falling down the stairs, and feeling nothing, except I couldn't feel my legs, arms, or my body.
It was getting worse because I'm a widower living alone in the countryside. Yep, there will be no rescue for me for at least 2 weeks. My family comes by once a month, and their last visit was last week. So I am pretty sure when they come back to visit, I'm probably dead.
If you think they will notice it when I'm not on social media, bummer for me, I hate that stuff with a passion, Facebook, Twitter, and so on? Never been on it, I even hate my cellphone, everybody knows it, so they don't call. Yeah, I would bash my head on the floor right now, if only I could move the damn thing.
After two days, I was trying to predict how long it would take to die, because thinking about my past life was getting boring, there was not much to think about anyway, I lost my wife and son in a car accident 15 years ago, and retired 2 years ago after 45 years on the same job, so a boring life with nothing to show for.
Now, do not take your hanky out to dry some tears, I'm not asking for pity, and sure don't need it, the family can divide what I leave behind.
I heard a voice say: "Hmm not much to work with, you are old, can't move, and with one foot in the grave. I have to throw some healing your way if you agree, will you bargain with me, Frank White?"
In front of my face I saw a pretty woman, all dressed up in leather and fur, and I mean sexy all over, the only thing missing was a whip and she could start in a scary SM movie. If only she was no bigger than my hand.
"I must be hallucinating already, if I'm looking at a nasty Tinkerbell, or are you here to take me to the afterlife, hell, reincarnation, or whatever?" I'm sure she wanted to smack me around for the comment by the eye roll and her fist getting balled.
"I don't have time Frank White will you bargain with me?" Still convinced I was hallucinating I said: "sure what are we to bargain about?"
"The Aesir have started Ragnarok on a world some octaves down from this one, and my last worshiper is in trouble right now. I need someone to rescue her so she can live on, and convert someone to keep the belief going. My divination tells me you are the best I can reach on time, so will you bargain with me? I need a yes or no. Rules of magic you know."
Definitely hallucinating, that's right out of one of my favorite books, so let's get along: "Sure, yes I bargain but who are you, and what is it about magic? "Sexy Tinkerbell looks at me and said "This world has no magic? But you have so many stories about them, so you have an idea WHATS what. And me, I am Hecate goddess of magic, and before you freak out I am good to my allies and a nightmare to my enemies.
For magic, I can grant you magic on the way to my world, you just have to shape it with your imagination. When I transfer you to my world you can get at least 3 to 5 of the elements on the way, if you concentrate on it, what you get is how good your imagination is, it's all up to you."
Now nasty Tinkerbell is floating above my face, I am so totally looking up her skirt, I got a bit of mind freeze while she continues: "The bargain is saving Cerise and her Coven mate, to protect her until she got her a follower, in trade, I heal you and give you all the magic you can grab on the way, I need an answer now!"
Meh, let's go with it, it's better than counting minutes until I'm dead anyway. I often fantasized about what I would grab for magics. Wondering what it would be like. I said: "Yes, I'll do it. How do we proceed?"
She smiles (I am still looking up the skirt) "Thank you, Frank, start concentrating on the elements you want and how you vision it, shape it into the magic, one at a time, remember you are going to be dropped right into the combat. If you do a good job, there will be other deals so do your best."
The room dissolves and I went down like a brick 'fuuuck this feels too real' I got shocked and tossed around, her voice said: "Focus or you blow up, remember one at the time." Now, let's get started with an element… Matter, not just earth but all Matter, atoms, electrons, neutrons, protons, quarks, matter, and antimatter, energies, even the fucking boson Higgs particles. How to conjure, shape, banish, combine and work with it. Yeah, finally national geographic and the science channel had some use.
My mind is directly filled with understanding of how things work, it seems so easy how everything fitted around, not only the earth but water, light and dark, it got everything. Next, space-time, can't forget about this, how to slow and speed it, how to create a pocket dimension. Just the basics, there is much more to learn. Then I had to go back to the book and learn force, dead useful, I concentrate on force fields, telekinesis, levitation, blades, and flight. It all flew into my mind. Fire, I can't forget about that, so how to put it on and put it out, I know to speed up or slow down some atoms do the same, but I wanted a different sort of magic for it.
"Halfway there" came Hecate's voice, shit, shit! I have two big ones to go yet, flesh, life, how to heal and change, from one cell to the most complex organism. Curing disease, poisons, purify and strengthen. Full focusing on all the healing it clicked in place for a moment: keep the brain alive and you can fix the rest. The senses like vision, hearing, nerves, all can be enhanced and shaped. Then came transformations: wolfman, cat lady, elf, birdman, I felt like Ash in Pokemon, gotta catch them all. Most stuck, some not, again many thanks to TV for the inspiration, who knew it would help me someday.
Finally the big one: Magic itself: mana, how it works, what it is, how spells work, to link them to items and dispel them. Understanding how everything works in the world and how magic fits in it, how everything fits in the universe… in the world I'm heading to anyway. I keep on concentrating on every aspect of magic I could think of and it was flooding my brain.
I knew there was not much time left so I tried every combination I could think of, this was a major cheat, knowing the fundamentals of spells, enchants and how it interacts with the laws of nature and physics, these are some major shortcuts.
When I arrived, I can't really good describe the feeling, it was like dreaming of falling and waking up when I crash on the ground.
"Thank you Lady Hecate." I heard a girl's voice say "Quick champion, Avilla is buying me time, but I think she can't hold much longer"
I stood up, looked around, and found myself in a cellar standing in the middle of a pentagram, after checking myself, a happy "Hey I got to keep my clothes on." I looked at the girl in front of me… Really, I can't say I'm disappointed, at least she is full-sized, unlike Tinkerbell, no I must think of her as Hecate, she is a looker if you can disregard the dagger and the bloody dress… A Xena warrior princess look on her face that has danger written all over.
Then she struck me down: "Hey you are old.….." Son of a... "We talk later miss"
Pissed off I went upstairs, underway I put a force field around me, when I arrived, I had to stop and take the scene in. I mean it's different reading about it, seeing goblins? OK. Troll? OK, but seeing kitchen utensils coming alive, and fighting the bad guys, it needs a mental picture to save for the grandkids. Knives and forks I could understand, but the gingerbread men fighting with it was harder, including a big ass oven fighting, spreading his fire all around.
Cerise said: "Avilla step aside, Hecate got us a grandpa to help us, let him deal with it." Avilla jumped to Cerise and yelled: "They are all your's grandpa!"
What can you say when you got shot down, not once but twice in a minute? Yes, it's called [go berserk] I conjured some sharp metal disks and let them spin in circles, that would take care of the goblins. Oops, I forgot to focus on the troll and had to duck under his club, I might be old, but when I was younger I got a black belt in karate, took lessons in judo and aikido. I quit it 15 years ago, some of it still stuck, so I was on the right height to strike him in the nuts, I moved behind him, conjured stone around his face, and closed it off on his neck.
The troll, surprised with his stone helmet couldn't see or breathe and began stumbling about, trying to get it off.
I yelled: "Take that bitches!" inspiration struck, and I let spikes grow inside the stone helmet, no matter how much you regenerate, 20 spikes in the brain kills a troll any day.
Looking at what result I had, it surprised me, a dead troll in the middle and pieces of goblin all over the room, it was like they went through a wood shredder, I looked at the girls who stood on the stairs, eyes wide open, their heads just above the floor. "Grandpa he... meh, I'm going to mop up outside, try to put out the fire, I will help as soon as I can."
When I step outside, the goblins welcomed me with a hail of arrows, they bounced off my shields, I felt my magic reserves dwindle so I tried the stone helmet again, now instead of conjuring a complete helmet, I went for props in their mouths and throats. Easy when they are within range, I can conjure stone just on the place I'm looking at, no need to aim, just focus. Choking for air, the archers dropped one by one. My disks were following me, they were so easy to control, so sending them to the leftovers, cleaned up the rest.
Out of the woods, a second troll ran towards me, I was not waiting for him to arrive, so I went for the grand effect, and conjured a bunch of spears, put my force field around them, and hurled all of them together to the troll. The result was a troll pincushion, somehow he survived it, I called my trusty disks over, and I started shredding him from the bottom up. When the last pieces of the troll fell on the ground, he was sprayed all over the front lawn.
I yelled at the top of my lungs: "Come to grandpa!" Inside, Cerise and Avilla looked at each other, Avilla said: "I think we struck a nerve." Cerise grinned: "Yeah but it's funny, grandpa going caveman. Got to say, I'm impressed."
When I came back to my senses, I turned and looked at two girls staring at me with a house on fire behind them. I asked: "You need help with the fire, or are we going to let it burn?" Shrieking, the two ran to the house yelling: "Our stuf, my books, our clothes!" I began to extinguish the fires, levitated the oven outside, went down to the basement, and worked my way up, we had everything under control in 20 minutes. Couching: "Glad this is over"
Standing in the living room, Avilla and Cerise came closer "That was awesome grandpa, pretty impressive." Grinned Cerise. My left eye started twitching. "Cerise, be nice or he is going spank you."
"Hey I read the book, this wasn't in it!"
AN: this is my first try on fanfic, if you feel like killing it, do it gently. I hope MR Brown doesn't mind me butchering his book.