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Well here is my next chapter hope you like :)
The Common Boy
"Past Revealed"
The next Morning…
I woke up around four in the morning; I usually wake up at seven. I didn't have any dreams today, which is wonderful, because the usual dream I've been having is starting to get on my nerves.
I sat up and looked around; I saw that all the other kids were sleeping, except for Myles who was missing. The nursemaid was working on some documents on the counter, she saw that I was awake and said, "Good morning, you were out really late last night, is that man that carried you back here your friend?"
At first I didn't understand what she was talking about, then I remembered the day before, and falling asleep in Gary's arms. I looked at her and said, "I've worked for Gary a little 2 years, I guess we could be called friends but he acts like more of a father figure than a friend." I looked down and said, "he saved me yesterday, I was walking back here from the bank when a large group of men, led by Myles, dragged me off the streets, the people that Gary set to watch me went straight to him and told him what happened, he then brought half of the court to track me down, and rescue me."
She was astonished; I could see the shock set on her face. She was about to say, 'That man said that he would adopt you today,' then thought better of it, and instead said, "do you want to help me fill out me bills and pay my taxes, I know that you like math and I could use the help." I thought about it then nodded and said, "I will help as best as I can."
I walked over to the counter and sat on the stool next to her; I grabbed a pile of bills and started working. It was mostly basic math and simple algebra, I work at a moderate rate of speed finishing one page every ten minutes or so, but it still too me until 8:30 in the morning to finish working. The nurse maid went to take a break a few hours earlier and was just waking up again. When I put the last paper down in the pile that I had made, the door opened and in walked Gary and Beka walked in, at first I didn't think anything about it other than, 'I don't know they were married', I realized that they were going to adopt a child and said, "if you are here to adopted one of the orphans than you need to fill out this paper and choose the child that you want to adopt.
I watched Beka work on the paper, Beka told Gary, in a hushed voice, "you should look around and act like you're looking for a child to adopt and come back when I finish the documents and tell him that we chose one," Gary nodded and headed into the other room, he started looking at the kids. When Beka finished the paper work she walked up to me and said, "Here are the papers that you wanted us to fill out." I looked at her and said, "Have you chosen the child that you wanted to adopt?"
Gary walked back and said, "yes I have chosen the young man named David, he is about 4 feet tall, 8 years old, and works hard at what he does." I turned the papers to face me as he explained who they wanted to adopt, I wrote down the name David, at that moment I know that he meant me, as I figured out that they meant me I started to get filled with a great joyful feeling. I tried to hide my joy, knowing I was failing, I got up and said, "One moment, I need to get these papers signed." I walked over to the nursemaid and slightly shook her to wake her up. I placed the papers in front of her and said, "I need you to sign these."
At first she just stared at the paper not understanding, and then she saw my name and adoption document on the paper, she sighed and picked up the pen. She hesitated to sign the paper at first because she didn't want to lose me, and then decided that my happiness was worth more than money, she signed the paper. She said, "Fare well little one, I'll see you again one day."
I smiled at her then I ran back over to the desk, pulled open a file and place the final paper work inside, and gave a copy to Beka for proof of the adoption. When this was done I jumped into a strong embrace with my new parents. My parents each grabbed one of my hands, my dad on my right, and my mom on my left. I will call them Beka and Gary until we are all used to the change that has just occurred.
As we walked away I looked back at 'The Big house' with the nursemaid standing in the doorway, I said mentally, 'goodbye, this won't be my last fare well, you were my old home and the home of my friends, I couldn't just leave it behind never to return, Could I?'
("But unaware to him, he would never see 'the big house' ever again")
We headed straight to their (I mean 'OUR') house and headed into the front door. This house was fairly large and clean, there was a fire place in the center of the wall opposite to the front door. There were two doors one on the right and on the left that were bed rooms, there was two fancy chairs set in front of the fire place, when I looked at the fire place a chill went up my spine, Gary saw and said, "is there something wrong, are you cold," I looked away from the fire and said, "maybe I'll tell you about it later."
I looked at Beka and asked, "Are there any rules that I have to follow?" she looked at me and smiled and said, "I'll give you the list of rules at dinner, how about we show you your room." We headed toward the room that led to the right, Beka said, "This is your room we put some furniture in, if there is anything that you need just tell use."
I walked into my room; my parents leaned against the door frame watching. The room was small about 5 ft by 6 ft; there was a bed in the far left corner, with a small chest that fit perfectly in place at the end of the bed. There was a small desk to the left of the door and a dresser to the right; in the far right corner I saw a glimmer of light, that wasn't normal. I walked over to it and saw that it was an escape door; the light I saw was magic to conceal it from sight. But somehow I could see it; Gary walked over and asked, "You can see that?" I looked at him and said, "It's glowing,"
He smiled and said, "the only reason that it would glow is that you have the gift, or magic." I looked at him and said, "I know that I have magic, but all I know how to do is heal burns and put out fires, I didn't care about any other magic." This shocked Gary, he stared at me and asked why would you focus on just fire protection magic?" he looked deep into my eyes and tried to force the answer out of me, I said, "I'll tell you at dinner." He nodded and walked back to the door. I walked over to the chest and saw that there was no lock on it, I had heard of locks like this, I slide my thumb over where the lock should be to see if I can feel anything. It glows and I hear the pop that confirmed that the lock had opened. I slowly open the chest and looked into the it and saw my box sitting at the bottom.
I looked at Beka and smiled, and said, "Thanks," beaming at her, Gary said, "now that lock won't open for anyone but you." I nodded confused but not arguing, and then I headed to the desk. On the desk were a variation of different inks, there were at least 11 different colors, but there was something different about the last one, I opened it and wet a pen in the ink. I picked up the other ink bottles and wrote what each of them was colored. I picked up the last one and tried to figure out what to name it, to me it shimmered, but it might be a different color to someone else.
Out of nowhere I heard a voice say, "That is invisible ink, it is made for encoded messages, and there is a spell that makes it visible." I wrote magic on the vial and placed it back into place. As I did I said, "It shimmers like the trap door does, does that mean that I don't need the spell to read it?" my dad smiled and said, "I guess that's true, but if it's alright with you I still want you to memorize the spell, just in case it doesn't always glow to your eyes." I nodded and took a step back looking at the room in its full picture again.
My mother asked, "So, how do you like your room?" I take a breath and say, "It's wonderful, but I need to do one more thing before I will sleep in this room." Beka was about to ask what when I inhaled deeply and place my hand on the wall. They saw energy flow through my arm and into the wall, as the energy flowed over the wall my parents could feel the power that it took to make this spell. When it was finished the walls glowed a bright red white flowing black waves then the light faded and disappeared.
Gary said, "I will be back by dinner, there is someone I need to speak with," he sounded like he was upset but at the same time he sounded excited, Beka nodded with a sigh, he ran off, obviously in a hurry. Beka said, "come on, I'll show you around the rest of the house, then I will get started on dinner."
We headed on a tour of the house, which took longer than you would think; it was 7:30 in the afternoon when we finally finished the tour. Beka started making dinner; I stared at the flame that was sitting on the candle in the middle of the dining table. The flame started to float in the air until it was a foot above the wick of the candle, It was at this moment that Gary came home saying to someone outside, "he is in here is there anything that you need to check for hi…" he stopped talking when he saw the flame floating in front of me, a voice from outside said, "are you going to let me see your new son or no…" he pushed himself passed Gary and saw me at the table.
He noticed the flame in front of me but he didn't give it a second look he looked directly at me, but he didn't see a boy of eight years old, he saw a glowing man in armor that looked exactly like the god of the sun, Mithros' armor, except that it was silver not gold. He had prepared himself to test for even the most minute amounts of energy, but instead he saw the purest energy he had ever seen, every last drop of my energy that helped create me.
He knelt to the floor knowing that I had to be a great mage, or be the son/grandson of Mithros. I walked over to him and touched him, and asked, "Are you Okay?" while removing the energy over his eyes, he looked up again and saw a boy, he whispered, "great one…?" I shook my head and said, "I am no great one, I'm just a boy." He didn't respond instead he stood and said, "I need to go, I'll see you in a few days." He stepped out the door, got on his horse and rode it away.
I sat back in the chair that I had sat in before and looked back at the flame which had settled back onto the candle. Gary sat across from me and looked at the flame, Beka watched from over his shoulder. I looked deep into the flame, so deep that a memory appeared in my head, my father saw the flame slowly morph into a disk of fire showing the images in my mind:
'I was a baby again lying in my old crib, smoke was rising out from under the door, I started crying, fire creped through the crack under the door and flowed across the room. I heard a banging on the door, someone trying to get in, an explosion made the door fly off its hinges. A man came in; he ran to me and picked me up out of the crib. He ran out of the room carrying me. He ran down a set of stairs and into a large room, he started to run to the door that led outside, when the floor in front of him imploded and he was forced to stop. The moment that he stopped he caught on fire, he yelled to the heavens, "Great Mithros my father please save my son take him from this place to a faraway land, place him in a family that will help give him the power to defeat my evil family. Please!" as he yelled with the last of his breath his son glowed and vanished, he said, "thank you" and was gone,
We were standing outside the burning house and a voice said, "This memory will haunt you for the rest of your life, but I will prevent it from invading your dreams."
The scene went white.
The next moment we were standing outside the orphanage and we entered.
The image faded from the fire and Gary said, "So, that's why you have worked all your magic on fire protection." I looked down and said, "Ya." The food finish soon after, we ate and talked about my parents, and my work, about anything but fire. When we were done eating we headed to our beds and went to sleep.
So how's my story, this is my fourth chapter and there are many more left in this story, all are written in my journal, but I need to type them. I need help naming a character in my next story, she is the same age as the main character and a princess, and I can't give specifics yet, unless I'm asked nicely.
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