This chapter starts exactly a year after meeting Imara, the day Cole comes back from the Demonic Wasteland. The exact End of Season Four, Piper's pregnancy with Wyatt Starts.
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"This is amazing... how did you make them?" Kyra held her present, a box of enchantment woven by Dante. "I have never sensed magic like this."
Dante giggled. "It wasn't easy, it's actually about forty minute enchantments layered over each other to create a barrier that masks sensing, stops people from just dropping in via teleportation unless you allow them, and a few other things like waking you up if someone breaks in and so core of the box is pyrite, which resonates intent and there are spells and potions mixed in to create a binding field. It took a solid month to make this... It is so complex it suppresses the magic of those around it, bar the owner. It wouldn't stop the Source from breaking in, if he was still alive, but it would slow him down until you fled."
"Groovy. I love it."
"I made three of them, one for Kyra, Imara and I." He held out his own box. "I am using it for my lair down here since I cannot cross the barrier to earth with my teleporting just yet. I have no choice but to find a nice cave and make it home. This box is my masterpiece, what a year of training with a badass enchantress has taught me."
Imara smirked, relishing in her praise."Well, if it works, then you really have made something amazing, that would sell for a killing... if you were selling it, which I am sure you are not."
Dante shook his head. "You got one for training me. Kyra for saving me and for teaching me to scry for the last few months, and for the scrying mirror she gave me for my graduation today."
He turned to the scrying mirror in question, it was rather simple, just a mirror ringed in silver but it was also deeply enchanted to allow him to focus his natural wizard clairvoyant magics so that he could spy on others, communicate with those he desired and so on. It was a gift from the lovely Kyra, who had not only saved him but started to teach him to harness those seer like powers of his, skills that all wizards had innately. She had also been teaching him divination, which was an art that could be learned even by those without an innate talent for it or even without magic at all provided they were aware of magic at all. That power, levitation and Astral projection were the only powers that could be mastered without being born with the power, so naturally, Dante was striving to master them himself to make up for his weaker active powers. He needed every edge to survive after all.
Kyra pulled him in for a hug. "I am glad you don't buy into that whole good and evil crap, so many do now a days. It is just a tool to get the two sides to fight... so many victims of this ridiculous war, like that poor baby the Charmed ones let die."
He shuddered, rage filling him at that reminder. The Charmed ones had killed their baby with the Source and did nothing to try and help it. His studies had shown that not even Demons were born evil, they leaned towards it sure, but nothing was born evil. If that baby had truly been possessed by the Source, then it was a victim and deserved to be saved. That they so easily let it go was... wrong and spoke of the brainwashing of Good and Evil towards each other. He gained quite a bit of loathing towards the Charmed ones for that. He vowed to only help them if it was really, really worth it.
"So... this is it I guess." He turned to Imara, holding out his hand. "Call me if you ever need me, I'll give you a discount for helping me."
She smirked. "Never free, I like that... I will miss you, I don't really respect people but you... I saw your potential when I first met you, from that first meeting it became clear you would be great. People like you are why the Source killed off your kind. Now that he is gone, you have the means to be fully great."
"So I hope... thank you, so much. I will never forget your service to me." Pulling his bags onto his body, he turned on heel and marched out of the cave with Kyra. Around his neck dangled a charm designed to mask his Wizard Aura, making his species unknown to all others. This way he could not be detected unless he allowed it. One of about ten magical objects he had created to protect himself. Including a flash bomb to stop blinking, athames to pierce defenses, magical pepper spray and a few other bits and ends. He could only hope they would give him the edge he needed to survive.
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"I found this cave a few months ago, I was going to use it as a replacement for my cave but I thought it was better suited for you." She showed him the three exits, the natural tiny pond and so many natural shelves. "It is perfect for you, not too big, with clear ways to escape and places to put your stuff."
"This is exciting... first things first, my wards." Placing the box on the ground, he opened it up. Focusing his powers, which he could feel vibrating in his chest. " Harmonize and release, powers within. Let this magic start, my protection begin. Enemies, fly and fall. Circling Arms, raise a wall. Detect my enemies and let me be free, So I say it, so mote it be!" The words of activation set, a crystal within released a wave of silver energy that sank into the walls and almost knocked both Kyra and him off of their feet.
"Wow, clever idea. You lack raw power as a new wizard, so you use potions and crystals, layering spell after spell to create a much greater spell. Even the Charmed ones would have trouble getting in here. You used intelligence, not raw power to make something epic. This is why your kind was dangerous. You remind me of the Evil Enchantress, I knew her you know. Centuries ago, she was the greatest force of evil of her time bar the Source."
Smiling, he started pulling out things from his bag, spelled to act like a Mary Poppins bag as in to store things within it bigger than it but weigh nothing. Within ten minutes his cave had a bed, his scrying mirror on the wall, a cupboard for his ingredients and spells, and so many other things like a dinner table and more. He felt right at home here already. The protective wards helped mostly, he was utterly safe here and that was great.
"So... " He started. "What's next.., I mean I have to get myself known, which will be hard."
Kyra laughed. "I want you to succeed... you may be my only path to humanity." He was startled, so much so that she laughed more. "I want to be human, to feel things one day... It's why I started teaching you Divination and Scrying, to harness your powers over the last three months. First, it was curiosity since I saved you... but now it's because I know that if you continue to grow... that one day you can make me human. Maybe even with a soul...
Anyway, I say this so that you know that I spread rumors about you, that you were great and skilled. I mean in terms of sheer skill with potions and enchantments you are beyond even the Charmed ones. You are not as powerful or skilled as Imara, she has centuries on you, but unlike the Charmed ones who spend most of their time trying to be normal, you have spent a year mastering the craft on a serious and daily basis. Your potion skills are perfect, you understand magic on a level that so few do. You can make great enchantments that last. You are physically able to fight above most demons and have potions and enchanted objects to make the most of those skills... you may never be the power house of a Charmed one, few are, but you are not to be trifled with. It is with that in mind that I got you known. People know to look for you, and I decided to act as your handler. You have three requests already."
He gaped. "Really?"
"Yes... please don't be mad, but you did need the help."
"You are the best... what are they?"
"A girl, badly maimed, wants to be free of the Fighting between her family and another witch family. She wants freedom, entirely, so I would start with her. I can help you summon her down here and take her back once you find a way to free her entirely. She is willing to give you her powers, entirely."
He had his jaw on the floor. "Really?"
"Yup, she is a Callaway, a powerful witch family known for their horrible feud with the Montanas. She was maimed with a curse and hit with an energy ball to the face. She's only seventeen, your age. If you take her powers, and slowly imbue them into yourself, you could gain some active powers. They would become like your other wizard powers and be ruled by intellect, but that would be a start in making you more combat-ready."
"What else is there?"
"Trolls want you to kill a Fairy Queen, Fairies are basically just prettier Trolls so Good protects them. Fairy dust is a powerful magical tool, you could really experiment with them. Same with most Fairy parts. The last one is a request, one that Sorcerers get often, to create a cure to Dark lighter poison. You game?"
"I'll take all three, but start with the Trolls. I'll need you to help me move between realms, but I should be able to kill the Fairy Queen without too much problem. Then with the ingredients, I can help the girl. Tell her... tell her to act as a supplier for magical ingredients and... other things and I will work on creating a talisman that will mask her from all sight and detection. Sound good?"
"Sounds great, I am sure the Poison cure will be on the back burner?"
"Something for downtime."
"Awsome... whenever you're ready, let's get to the Fairy killing."
"Let's."
Chapter end, tell me what you think in the reviews.
We will see all of his powers soon, his active powers.
Love, your Ninja Overlord,
Mika.
