Ten Years Later

Time passed by like leaf in the wind as Marco trained with Michael to preform at his best when it came to physical ability. Marco's body grew more tone and hard as it was worked, beaten, and grinded against any obstacle micheal could think of, but even that wasn't enough for Micheal as he recalled seeing the eyes of his father through the boy he now trained. So he slowed down on practical obstacles and went wild on unnatural and unnecessary things to slow Marco down or at best stop him.

It had gotten so bad for a time he had Janna train with him until he was able to hold his own against her wild fighting, only to switch to her using magic and his body being put through agony again. As months went by he grew in dodging against her magic and even found familiar ways of reflecting them with his sword. It took time and patience since Michael would not allow him to use it until he mastered his body enough to handle Janna with no weapons, once he had proved he could handle Janna while she used both physical strikes and magical Michael made it clear that this was where the hell would truly begin for him.

Marco POV

"Janna where are you taking me" I asked her seeing that she was leading me down to the basement of the house.

"~Dad said it's time for you're next training and I'll be helping you~" she said with a smirk on her face and hungry look in her eyes.

"And what exactly will we be doing down in the torture room" I asked her not wanting to play games, I see that look in her eye 'I know she had to have made a deal with Michael to do something to me.'

"Oh nothing my dear old friend, we'll just be boosting your pain resistance with a little bit of "training" like always" she said with happiness in her voice.

"And by training you mean torture"

"Torture, training, beating, it's all the same really. You want to be prepared for the test that will prove you to be worthy and doing this will help you by a lot, plus normally by family rules we aren't allowed to even let you see this area let alone take part." She opened the door and walked in ending all conversation as Michael stood next to a chair in the middle of the room with black carpet the smell of blood and sweat filled the air.

"It's about time you two got here, now we can begin today's process. Marco I'll keep this short and sweet with you, what you are about to go through stays between us three and no one else." He said making hand gesture of the area, I nodded showing my agreement. "Good, now to start off the explanation certain families in our little town have one of these test to insure that if a young one wants to be like me then they have to go through this form of training where if they were captured we wouldn't want them to go spilling secrets out to the other kingdoms" he gestured toward the chair as Janna walked past him grabbing different tools.

"So this is like the normal training when I take a beating then." I asked trying to hurry this along as I sit in the chair.

"Not exactly, you see Marco we trained you slowly to handle things like that from the moment you made your decision to make a stand with us, but the one thing we never did was mind infuriating magic since you were so young." He said strapping my hands and feet down with leather belts to insure I don't do anything.

"So your going to go through my mind looking for infiltration."

"Well I won't but Janna will, she has practiced for years in the magical art and now it is time for you two once again take on the challenge and improve upon yourselves." He knelt down to my ear and whispered, "This means Marco that if you can use any method to escape then do so." He said before standing up and leaving the room.

"I heard that you know" Janna said to him as he walked up the stairs, "we don't know how his insane mind even works so I doubt he'll do anything. So I'll get to have some fun for a while.' she thought with a wicked smiled planted on her face.

Five days Later

"Mommy mommy I asked Ms. Harper to sleep over and she said yes" the child gleefully told his mother as she standing outside talking with the other parents.

It was a peaceful day in the village, the birds were singing and people were out and about enjoying there day.

But every peaceful moment has it's moment of chaos and the calm before the storm came in absolute silence as those with magical abilities and training froze in fear.

"Mommy did you hear me" the child touched his mother's leg only to see fear in her eyes, she glanced at the boy and hugged him preparing for whatever came next.

"Enough"

The voice was loud enough to be heard across the village and into the forest but the magical grip it had on the people was far more vast in area towards the point were other kingdoms felt it but couldn't figure out were it was originating from but the pain in their heads made itself clear it had Ill intentions.

All they knew were that it was causing people pain and suffering but couldn't figure out a way to stop it, but as quickly as it came is as quick as it left.