Hello there Charlie Bone fans; hope your enjoying the Fanfiction so far, if so please leave a review, here's chapter 11.

Chapter 11: White magician in training.

Mathowy had taken Charlie on as his apprentice, and Charlie knew that the journey from boy to magician would not be easy; he wasn't some hero from a Japanese cartoon who gets stronger in a flash and defeats the bad guys, he was a normal sixteen year old who had played way too much Xbox in his life and showed a fitness level relevant to that, so it was easy to say at the moment he wasn't up for the physical side of training, and Mathowy was about to explain why this was a problem.

"Magical energy is derived from two places in your body, there's your spiritual centre, and your physical body, magic is made when you mix these two things together with the help of spells, and if you have an object to channel this magic through like a wand, then the power and limitations are multiplied by limitless numbers" Mathowy threw off the top half of his robes to reveal his perfectly formed body; every muscle looked like it had been handcrafted, everything was the perfect size, and he even had an eight pack to boot. "My physical body is so balanced that I am able to call myself the most powerful magician alive today, even stronger than my father before me. I wouldn't even need a wand to take down Borlath"

Charlie couldn't help but doubt Mathowy's claims of power, Borlath was the original fire using endowed, Mathowy without his wand could possibly take him down. Mathowy saw the doubt in his face and screamed in his direction, Charlie flew off his feet and slammed into a nearby tree, Charlie no longer doubted Mathowy.

"That was just my voice remember, don't make my use my hands" Charlie didn't want to provoke him any further on fears for his life.

"If a high fitness level is needed then what am I going to do, I'm as fit as a dead horse" Charlie regretted the joke when he saw sparks travel throughout Mathowy's long white hair. He stopped grinning.

"well I can definaitly change that, see that mountain range, were going to be climbing that very soon" Charlie gulped at the thought of how cold it would be and how hard climbing sheer cliffs when climbing gear didn't exist was.

"Urm I don't think I want too" Charlie shut up and legged it towards the mountain when sparks started flying his way, let's say he had some minor electrical burns on his but by the time they reached the top.

The Bone Academy-

It had been a whole week since Charlie had left to go see the red king, and the whole community of endowed at the academy was worried, especially Neo Wyborn.

"Okay guys, it's been a whole week since he went, any ideas of why?" Neo asked the gloomy group while they sat around in the academy gardens.

"Maybe if he's there a week then it's a week here" Tancred suggested.

"No, it's always been that no matter how long he's there its only minutes here" Olivia knew all about Charlie's endowment, just a few years ago she had witnessed him take Emma into a picture of her father for a whole week, but it was minutes for Olivia.

"Maybe he's trapped there, it's possible that someone's put a spell on the painting" Henry put this forward to the group and it was the strongest point, they agreed on it.

Meanwhile Neo sat silent, it was impossible for her to tell them or secretly reverse the spell, she had let herself be hypnotised by Manfred to stop the guilt, but she had managed to make it worse.

"Hey guys just remembered something, Charlie knew that he would go through the painting one day, so he probably had a system to get a message forward to us, did he tell anybody about such a thing?" Neo wanted to make herself feel better by helping out.

"Come to think of it, Ben mentioned something about that it think, ill ring him up shall I" Emma dialled her boyfriends number and waited for as answer.

'Hello'

"Ben its Emma, I have a question"

'Yes, I will marry you, next question please'

Everybody laughed.

"No seriously, has Charlie ever mentioned anything to you about a message he could send forward in time?"

'Yes actually, he said he would inscribe a message on something... Urm in the ruins I think'

"Thanks Ben, we'll look around"

'Your welcome babe. See you later'

"Bye Benny"

The gang decided to search the ruins for any clues, the search went on for much to long though and eventually they began to leave with sunken hearts, but then Olivia remembered, there was a casket, the one she and Charlie hid in one time from the bad endowed gang, she ran off and the group shouted and ran after her until she found it. With the help of the others they flipped the lid and on the underside was writing.

"Yes! I knew it" Olivia shouted but shut up when she realised the writing wasn't in English. "Oh crap"

The group were considering writing it down but neo stepped forward;

"It's welsh, I can translate"

"When since were you Welsh?" The group were confused, all except Olivia.

"The message Sais; Hey guys, Charlie here, I'm trapped in the past and it's already been a year, but my magic is going very well. I and Mathowy have a plan to get me back so stay put. Oh and don't worry, I'm not aging" Neo took a longish pause "I love Olivia by the way"

Olivia let out a tear but wiped it away, she hoped to god that he would get back to her.

Later that night-

Neo had fled the dorms to be in her special place, her bedroom was lit by her open fireplace and the windows were thrown wide open to circulate the heat, Neo lay in her bed thinking over her options; She could tell Manfred of Charlie's message and form a counter plan, or she could fight the hypnotism and keep her mouth shut.

"I'll keep my mouth shut" Neo heard him before she saw him.

"Keep your mouth shut about what Neo" Manfred stood at the foot of her bed and the fireplace expelled itself, she was blinded in darkness and he came ever closer. "Look into my eyes and tell me"

Neo struggled but unfortunately for her Manfred gained a hell of a lot of power under a full moon.

"Tell me or ill run the one scenario through your head you dread... your death." Manfred had been into her head, he had seen how she died and he was willing to use it against her.

"Bastard... Charlie is returning another way!" She gave in very easily and Manfred now knew her soft spot.

"Good, that was my plan all along, I need him strengthening up for when I deal my final move" Manfred was plotting something evil and she didn't want to be around when it went down.

"But if he gets stronger how do you expect me to finish him?" Neo didn't want to die doing this life debt task of Manfred's.

"I'm just wanting to make it a challenge for you Neo" Manfred grinned and relit her fire "Nice place you got here... kind of romantic"

"What your game Manfred, suddenly attracted to me now" Neo really dint feel anything mutual towards him if that was the case.

"You wish you could land a fellow like me" Neo laughed at this and told him to fuck off, he left without much struggle.

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