Chapter I: Flea the Magician
Flea practiced the dark arts under Ozzie's watchful eye, it was difficult at first, but when she made her first fireball everything made sense. It took her a month to just be able to manipulate fire to her will; she wasn't accustomed to the thought of making fire do as she pleased, but soon she learned how to channel her energies. Soon after that, Flea was challenged to make a fireball without using an already burning fire as a source. At first she didn't understand how she could create fire with her will alone, but soon she understood how she could emit magical energy to cause elements to merge how they would naturally. In this way, she could create anything, not just a mere fireball.
After her first year, Flea learned how to manipulate her own body by emitting and absorbing the magical energy around her. Her first form was that of a bat, she liked it so much that she took to spying on Mystic affairs disguised as a bat. Flea had progressed so much so soon, even Mystics who were born with the understanding of magic could not come close to her skill. Ozzie was proud of his young protegee, that she had gotten so skillful so fast. Now that she was becoming a strong magician, it was time to rally Flea to his cause.
Ozzie gave Flea the day off from studying, something he hadn't granted her and she hadn't allowed herself since she started, " Flea, you have progressed so far this past year; you are already one of the strongest magicians of all the Mystics!"
" Thank you." Flea said humbly.
" Now it is time that I must talk to you seriously, as a fellow Mystic. War is starting. You know just as well as I do that the humans are ignorant fools who hate what they don't understand." Flea nodded grimly, " They attack our kind, merely because we are different. They are evil, and they must be eradicated."
Flea closed her eyes, and saw the inferno that engulfed her family, and the murderous crowd that chased her out of the kingdom, " I agree. Humans are evil, and must be stopped. But there are so many of them, even if every Mystic fought, we would be overwhelmed."
Ozzie let out a proud laugh, " Wise counsel Flea, we are enormously outnumbered, but the average Mystic is plenty stronger than the average human; we have that advantage at the least. Yet we need years to prepare our army, as it stands we would only last a single battle. Not to fear, I have been planning this for a long time, and we still have a long way to go before our plans will come to fruition. I imagine...fifteen more years before we are able to defeat the 'grand' Guardia Kingdom. In that time, I want to teach you how to fight. You know magic, which is the first step, but now you need to learn how to fight with it. In the next fifteen years Flea, you'll be great. With you and Slash standing beside me, we'll be the great generals of the army, never losing to the wretched humans!"
Flea did not know if she was ready to go into war with her previous kin. When she arrived at Medina with Ozzie, Flea was officially named a Mystic so she cut her ties with the humans and adopted her new kin, but she still didn't know if she was ready to fight. She did believe what Ozzie was saying was right, however, and she decided to follow him.
The next day was the beginning of Flea's combat practice, and it was not easy! Ozzie got Slash to train her, since he wasn't a fighter in the least. Slash made Flea work hard, but since she was still a child, he only had her work with dummies made of straw. That didn't stop him from making Flea's life hard, he had her cast more spells than she felt comfortable with, and at the end of the day, she collapsed out of exhaustion on her bed. It continued this way for a year, and at the end Flea had much more vitality than she had before and was able to cast spells all day. Flea was only able to cast fire elemental spells, which severely limited her potential, so Ozzie decided that he would teach Flea how to use her magical energy to use enchantments, spells that affect the mind.
Flea never imagined that she would be training herself in mind and body to participate in a war against Guardia Kingdom, but here she was getting more and more powerful, and there was no other application for her ability. She was learning how to kill people, and she accepted it all. It was who she was now, a crusader against the evil people who chase innocent little girls away from their home after a horrible accident. Yes, she hated those people who exiled her. The more she thought about it, the more she hated them. Eventually she had stopped caring about their lives, if they were so ready to take hers, then why not return the favor?
Thus had the little girl Amanda transformed into Flea the Magician.