Chapter one:
Ray has just finished getting dressed and he places his hat on. He is wearing his favourite purple sweater, a black t-shirt, jeans and his hat is black with red ribbon around the base of the hat. He also has a realistic looking dark red rose pin attached to the part of his hat just above the ribbon even as the bottom of the rose covers part of the ribbon. He is a witch so the tip of his hat is curled so the tip ends in a spiral like shape.
A witch can either have their hats made with an inward spiral like what Ray has or an outward spiral though the inward spiral is more popular. Also some witches, and familiars, like Ray add their own special touch to their hats while others just leave the color of the ribbon as the thing that makes their hat different. Every witch and familiar has a hat as it helps identify them as witches or as familiars.
Today is a big test at school and though Ray isn't looking forward to it he knows that it is an important test.
Ray sighs hoping that he will be fine for the test... He hasn't found his familiar yet... So his powers are not as strong as those that have found their familiars. He shakes his head and stands tall. "No. I can do this. I will be fine and when I find my familiar it'll be the right time!" He gathers the books he'll need today, puts on his black runners with white bottoms and heads off out of his room in the male witch dorm. He locks his door behind himself and heads off to leave the dorm to get to the school building so he won't be late. He slows down once halfway to the school since he still has a little time before class.
"Hey Ray!"
Ray pauses and turns to Michael who approaches him. "Oh hey Michael." He greets. "How's it going?"
"Pretty good. There's a chance the last record will be beat soon!" Michael says proudly. He's wearing a grey t-shirt with an unzipped black sweater, jeans and black shoes. His hat is also black, as it is almost always is for both witches and familiars, with a mahogany ribbon and he went with the inward spiral like Ray.
One of the biggest rules on the dress code is nothing with words on it. It's to help avoid distractions. Though that's really the main rule as you can wear whatever you want as long as it follows the rules that also include nothing too revealing.
"But the last record was done not that long ago." Ray turns to the other in surprise as they walk heading for class. "You're not gonna take a break?"
Michael shakes his head. "Nah. Just a week of training then the test to see if there was improvement before a break is called for."
Ray smiles. "Alright then. I will do my best to be there to watch when you see how much improvement has been made."
Michael smiles back. "Thanks Ray."
"Say are you ready for the test?" Ray asks.
Michael blinks then clenches his teeth. "Shit! I was so busy with the record that I forgot the test."
"I kind of thought so." Ray shakes his head slightly.
They make it to class and go to settle at their desks. Their first class is with Griffon who is obviously a witch since the class is a witch class.
Ray then remembers that he never asked Griffon who her familiar is though Ray almost wonders if she even has one.
It's common knowledge that Griffon likes Geoff and they dated for a bit but ended up becoming just good friends.
The bell rings as other students hurry to their desks.
Griffon walks in. Her hat has the inward spiral and her ribbon is dark purple. She also added a pin that looks like a gold belt buckle, the ones that are a rectangle with the two bars in the middle space. She has it out on the ribbon so it sits on top of the ribbon obviously as its a pin but kind of look like it's helping to hold the ribbon on. "Alright class I hope you are ready for your test." She says stopping at her podium at the front of the class. "Did everyone bring their wands?"
Wands are used by the witches and they are made from sticks that they find at a young age that connects to their souls. When the stick is found a magical gem that they use before they find the stick is placed at the top. The stick grows the top to hold the gem in place in what it believes is the best way while making sure that there is as much of the gem that can be seen as possible and with that a wand is made. Wands are only used by witches because they are the ones that mostly use the most variety of magic, using a wand to channel their magic, between the two groups while familiars only have limited magic on their own.
Familiars magic is a little different than witches magic mostly by the fact that they use their minds and body to cast spells thus a wand is not needed. This happens as a familiars body has less magic in it thus it is able to flow easier.
On the other hand witches require wands especially since they have a wider range of magic that they can use. Thus a witches body has more magic in it causing the flow of it to be much more complicated. The witches use the wands to help channel the magic within their bodies because it doesn't flow through their bodies as easily as it does with familiars.
"Yes ma'am!" The class all says in response.
"Alright good." Griffon pulls out her wand which is a dark brown straight stick with the top spiralled around the dark blue gem at the top. "Now then. The test can begin. When I call your name I want you to come to the front of the class. You will cast a spell that I choose from what we have been learning up to now. There will be no talking and we must go as fast as we can but please do try to show me what you can do!" She then looks down to her list. "Alright. Asha!"
Asha stands. She's a dark skinned woman with dark hair that is styled like her strands are braids and she has milk chocolate coloured eyes. She wears a dark blueish grey velvet witch cloak, a dark grey long sleeved shirt with a crescent moon on it, dark grey tight sweat pants and black boots. Her hat is black with the dark green ribbon that is a little bit darker than the gem on the top of her wand; the gem is held there by wrapping around the edges leaving the front and back open. She goes down to the front of the class and pulls out her light coloured wand. "What spell am I doing?" She asks happily out of excitement.
Griffons dark blue magic glow appears around a potted plant as she levitates it over to the desk that no one sat at so she moved it to the front of the class for the test. "Help this plant start blooming again."
When she places the plant down the magical glow around the object disappears as she stops her levitation spell.
Asha nods then raises her hands almost like a conductor to a music group as she closes her eyes. She takes a deep breath mostly through her mouth and her gem begins to glow green as to be expected from a green gem. She opens her eyes with fierce determination as she loves to make it seem as dramatic as she can. She twirls her wand then flicks her wrist upwards.
As the wand moves it leaves behind a trail of softly glowing green dust like light in the shape of a leaf; some spells don't need to have something drawn while there are spells that need to have something drawn though it is possible to become good enough at certain spells to not need to draw anything anymore.
Then Asha pushes the wand forward causing the trail to vanish with her green magical glow to appear around the potted plant and the plant suddenly has a new bud growing in the middle of the pot.
Asha lowers her wand after stopping her spell causing her magical glow to disappear, looking rather proud of herself.
"Very good." Griffon nods jotting some stuff down. "You may take your seat." She levitates the plotted plant to one of the trollies that hold the things that will be used in the test.
Asha takes a slight bow then heads over to her desk to sit down.
Ray glances away to let himself think while still listening for his name to be called. He starts to think about what his familiar could be and he wonders if it'll be something maybe like a wolf.
"Michael."
Ray blinks out of his thoughts when his friend is called up. He turns to watch as Michael heads to the front of the class. He wonders if Michael will pass the test.
"Your test will be a reconstruction spell." Griffon levitates a twig snapped in three places to the desk being used for the test.
Michael nods and once Griffon is no longer levitating the stick he pulls out his wand. His wand is a dark brown color and has a red gem with the top of the stick spiralled around the gem from the two sides of it so the spirals cross paths.
The gem on his wand begins to glow a red color.
He begins to move it in the pattern of pointing the tip towards the object on the desk. He then raises it when his red magical glow is around each piece. He concentrates as he begins the spell with the parts of the stick moving to move to where they should be before they were broken. He adds a little strength to the spell to make sure that the pieces will stay together. He finishes the spell and lowers the stick to the desk when done as it looks to be in one piece.
Griffon uses her magic to levitate the stick as twirls it around a little to make sure it is indeed in one piece. She then puts it on the trolley. "Good work." She says jotting down the final notes.
Michael heads back to his desk and he sits down.
Ray flashes Michael a thumbs up then turns back as Griffon calls up the next person.
After a few more names finally Rays name is called.
Ray moves to the front of the class pulling out his wand. His wand is a dark brown colour and his gem is dark purple.
"Alright Ray. You will be doing a sleep spell." Griffon levitates a small cage over that holds a small rabbit, that isn't a familiar but a normal rabbit, in it.
Ray nods and raises his wand.
The gem on his wand begins to glow purple.
He closes his eyes for a brief moment then opens them and waves his wand in a Z pattern creating a Z with the trail left behind by his wand. He then does a quick circle around it before pushing the wand forward in the direction of the rabbit causing the trail to disappear. His magical glow surrounds the rabbit for a moment or two then stops in which the rabbit falls.
But if you look it is still alive just sleeping.
Ray lowers his wand and Griffon nods.
"That was well done."
Ray heads back to his seat getting two thumbs up from Michael.
Everyone else does their test then as the last person finishes the bell rings.
Ray gets up gathering his stuff and Michael approaches him.
"I can't believe that the three people before me failed!" Michael chuckles. "They were given some of the easiest spells!"
"Guess they just can't quite grasp it." Ray responds with a smile and the two head out into the hall.
"Don't you have Geoff next?" Michael asks as if trying to remember.
"Yup." Ray nods. "And you have a class with Caleb and Kdin right?"
Caleb is a witch with his familiar Kdin who is a squirrel.
"That's right." Michael nods. "Well I should go. See you later."
"See you." Ray waves to him then hears the bell ring. "Crap! Geoff will kill me if I'm late!" He rushes to his class and gets in taking his seat by the window.
Geoff walks in making Ray sigh with relief that he made it on time. He is wearing a dark grey long sleeved t-shirt, black pants with grey runners. His hat has the inward spiral and the ribbon is dark brown. His wand is light brown with an orange gem and the top of the stick spirals around the gem. "Alright class! Today we will be going over using items to help in magic outside of potions." He announces.
Ray can't help but glance outside to the courtyard and he sees Michael standing with the group as they listen, facing, Caleb who is talking to them.
That class is for those who have found their familiars since when you find your familiar you transfer out of classes for those with no familiar yet to classes for those with familiars.
Michaels familiar is Gavin.
Gavin often wears a purple t-shirt, jeans and dark brown runners. His hat is of course black with the inward curve and a dark green ribbon. His familiar animal form is a brown falcon.
When he is in his falcon form he has dark brown tip of the wings, tip of the tail as well as the specks on his chest and stomach. He has yellow legs and feet that have sharp claws though he is careful when not using them to hurt someone. He has light brown rest of tail and the pattern on his upper body including the rest of his wings. The rest of his body is a tan brown color. Then finally he has the typical falcon beak.
Familiars mostly use their magic to switch between human form and animal form. Interestingly they do not have a form that is half animal half human.
Witches can ride on their familiar as long as they have the familiars permission and if needed the familiar must be able to use their magic to grow in size so the witch can ride them.
Familiars are also living beings so the witches and familiars must understand that and respect each other like every person should. This also helps them in their bond that they create, the bond is very important because without it the two may not truly be able to work together if they don't have that bond. Plus the bond can help give them strength as well as give them other benefits like if the bond is strong enough the two can communicate through their minds to only each other.
Ray partially wishes that he had found his familiar already because he doesn't feel right without one. He turns back to look to the front of the class before he's caught staring outside.
Currently Geoff is talking about how certain mushrooms can help when using some spells as well as listing a few that they have been used for... Including as a parachute.
Ray takes notes so he has something to help keep him paying attention.
Geoff can be strict on a few things but can be relaxed on others.
This continues until finally class is done and Ray quickly heads out wanting to stop at his dorm since its lunch.
Ray glances to one side only to slow to a pause in his walk as his eyes come to rest upon someone. He's never seen them before but they look pretty handsome and it makes Rays heart long for him.
The man hasn't seemed to have spotted Ray as he's walking away from Ray with his back to him.
Ray glances to the black hat with a dark blue ribbon and almost gasps as he notices that the hat is curved.
That man is a familiar.
"I wonder if he has a witch already..." Ray wonders to himself. "Could he be my familiar?" He glances to the way to the dorm then back to where he saw the man... But he lost track of him. "Damn it! I'll put my stuff away then chase him down." He hurries to his dorm putting his stuff away, putting them on his bed, and then races off to try to find the man that he saw.
Ray makes it to the courtyard and looks around wondering if he is here. "Oh. Where could he have gone?" He wonders to himself as he glances around not seeing the other so he turns wondering if he is somewhere else.
"Hello." A voice suddenly speaks behind him.