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Whatspells, incantations summoning etc.
WHAT=Divine/full power form
''=The guy at centre stage/ protagonist/ Mr White
""=Other characters
"What"= Ancient/ powerful/ supernatural entities
Chapter 5
The man in the suit walks onto the stage and faces the audience 'well guess its training time for past me'. And with that he walks off and the story begins.
We find our hero facing the semi corporeal form of merlin who looks back before stating "I said we can begin" which confused our hero further before he raised one of his hands to his opposite arm before pinching his arm 'ow that means this is real and everything that's happened is real, and what's wrong with my voice it sounds all different'. Merlin just looked at the boy "finally noticed that, the reason why your voice is so different is due to the fact that as well as your unique powers all guardians get what is best described as a low level SEP field around themselves" 'SEP field?' "Yes it stands for Someone Else's Problem field which is essentially a mystical form of ensuring anonymity for guardians". "You see several guardians have been high ranking officials which meant that if they were identified could be catastrophic so this field distorts a guardian's voice a little bit so none can recognise them". "It also makes it so no one even those looking directly at the person can remember what they exactly looked like, all they would be able to give is vague descriptions such as white or blonde". "Plus after using this phone I "borrowed" from a potential I summoned and catching up to the present day I tweaked the field so it will affect present day technology such as cameras amongst other devices".
'Huh By the way what happened to you, why are you see through'? "oh that yeah it turns out that channelling over half the magic that has been sealed away for centuries in order to empower the new guardian will shorten your lifespan until it reaches about a minute tops". 'Oh so your dead huh' to which merlin shrugged "meh it's not all bad I mean I don't need to eat or sleep so that's a plus more importantly why aren't you more disturbed I'd think that you would more scared on seeing a ghost". 'After everything that's happened this week I think I'm just emotionally numb to weird things such as this, so what happens now'? Merlin smirked "now you take the job you were supposed to take when I summoned you, you see there's two parts of a guardian the first part is receiving the backing of power which you've got the second part is sitting on the throne of the guardian" 'the throne of the guardian really'. "Were warriors not poets anyway back to the topic at hand the throne will judge you and if you're found worthy will appoint you a new guardian and may give you a few visions of the future and pass the seal onto you". "If not…well we'll cross that bridge if we come to it".
And with that pathetic not they walked up to an ornately carved door merlin turned to Black "some parts of this fortress can only be opened by saying a command in the language our incantations are spoken in for instance my incantation language is Greek while yours for some reason is English". Black faced the door 'ok I can do this DOOR AS THE NEW GUARDIAN I COMMAND YOU TO OPEN' and with that the door opened. Revealing a room with six stained glass windows containing the images of six beings clothed in various strange outfits and holding strange artefacts such as one of the beings in a golden suit of armour and another holding a strange staff. "They are the six masters" merlin explained "the ones who died to start this line and as such we honour them here and there's the throne so when you're ready". Our hero walked into the middle of the room where the throne was in the centre of a circle with what appeared to be incantations in several languages written down in almost all areas of the circle in the centre of the room. Black approached the throne and after a moment's hesitation sat down and was immediately obscured from a pillar of light coming down from the sky and covering our hero, the throne and the spell circle the throne was situated in.
Once again our hero our hero found himself in a dark void floating while being surrounded by six pillars of light. All around him parts of his life was playing from his time with his family to his education and the recent fight with Oblivion this continued for what seemed like hours. Suddenly the images stopped and voiced sounded from each of the pillars of light that spoke as one "we are the six masters and upon looking at your life we have determined that while you will be an unorthodox guardian you will be needed for the coming events as such you are guardian". "Through these visions we give to you the knowledge you will need to face the coming events" and with that the pillars faded and the void was replaced with what appeared to be a movie cinema but with only one seat he was currently sitting in. Soon an image began to be shown on the screen of an unknown man in suit before a barrage of bolts of mystical energy was fired by an unknown source at the man. However the unknown man simply smirks before putting his hands by his sides' palms facing the threat with his thumb and index finger forming an O shape and the rest of his fingers straight before the man states "Shield of Fate" and a multi-coloured dome forms around him. Upon the barrage reaching the dome they are either deflected from the dome or absorbed by it until the barrage ceased at which pound the man releases the spell with a smirk and with that the vision ends and the next vision begins but that vision is a story for another day.
Upon the end of the second vision the new Guardian finds himself once again in front of the pillars of light "you have received the visions now return to the world and do you duty protect it goodbye". And with that his is back in the throne room sat in the throne with a smiling Merlin "good you aren't dead so that means you're the new guardian, there's things we need to discuss". However Black was barely paying attention to the ghost instead his mind thought back to the first vision and as such took a few steps from merlin and put his arms by his sides and had his fingers take the necessary positions before trying to get the feel of magic and let it flow through him before stating 'Shield of Fate' and a pale multi-coloured dome forms briefly before it dissipates. This shocked merlin "what was that?" 'Not a clue I saw a guy in a vision who did it but it was stronger and lasted longer, guess I'm not strong enough yet to use it properly'. 'There is another thing I'm worried about though once the public knows about me I'm worried that the government may force me to work for them by threatening my identity and my loved ones'. To this Merlin smirked "really what do you take me for an amateur mage"?
Meanwhile back at the government base our hero had been detained at prior to oblivions attack the task force investigating the phenomenon merlin had caused while looking for a Guardian was in chaos. All of the data related to the phenomenon and the people who had been taken by merlin to be tested was wiped from all there servers even the emergency backups in several countries. Dr Alex Williams was trying to keep the task force from collapsing into chaos "come on people just because we lost the data doesn't mean we have to descend into anarchy after all we know the name of the man we apprehended who eliminated that creature". "We can simply use his identity and where we acquired him to determine his location and bring him in to question him about his "abilities" okay let us reclaim our new asset… what was his name again"? To this all those involved in the task force turned to those who collected him however what they said disturbed them. "We can't remember anything specific we remember being ordered to a specific place to find a specific person by Dr Williams but we can remember where we went or who we picked up or anything like that. This caused more fear as more and more members of the task force realised that they couldn't remember the specifics of the being with the strange abilities. This realisation caused further strife with the taskforce descending into anarchy with Dr Williams constantly repeating "what was his name what was his name WHAT WAS HIS NAME"?
Cutting back to Merlin in the realm of Eternity's fortress he was smirking at Black "I simply mind wiped every person investigating my summoning techniques and wiped there all their relevant knowledge". "By the way what's wrong with your eyes and your hair ever since you sat on the throne they're different". Curious about this new information Black turns towards the nearest reflective surface to inspect his appearance and found his hair had been turned pure white. However the most shocking change to his physical appearance was his eyes the white of his eyes had been replaced by black and his pupils had been replaced by pure yellow slits like a cats. This only further confused the young Guardian 'what's happened to me?' Merlin considered this briefly before coming to a realisation. "I'm guessing that your change in eyes somehow relates to your powers I'm guessing the Alcor powers due to how similar they are to that being". 'And the hair' "hmmmmm the only thing I can think of is that the only guardian you've seen so far aka me has had white hair". "So subconsciously you must have associated being a Guardian with white hair so when you rose to the rank you somehow changed your hair to that colour".
'Ok final question why was it that I blacked out after saying shazam and then wake up in a courtyard with people pointing guns at me'. "You don't remember wait your eyes were glowing white, and the only being in your group of power sources with powers like that is the avatar cycle". Merlin began to head in a certain direction while motioning from Black to follow him "you must have entered some sort of avatar cycle to defeat Oblivion since you have no experience fighting". They arrived at a large door with the carving of a large tree upon it "well here we are this is the one of the most important things you need to know about as Guardian this is the observation area for the entire planet". However Merlin's expression soon changed into one of surprise upon entering the room and finding what appeared to a sci-fi global monitoring hub including a holographic model of the earth. "Guess this room changed to match your view of global observation". "Anyway this room monitors the entire planet for any source of supernatural energies such as summoning's, sacrifices possession, supernatural artefacts etc." "But enough chit chat it's time for us to begin your training in using your powers properly and for you to gain your familiar amongst other things".
CHAPTER END
Next Chapter: Training Time