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What=spells, incantations summoning etc.
"What"= Ancient/ powerful/ supernatural entities
What=Divine/full power form/ Mr White
''=The guy at centre stage/ protagonist
""=Other characters
What= distorted voice
WHAT=Yelling
() = Telepathic dialogue
[] = Authors Note
Chapter 6: Training Time
We find our hero and merlin travelling down a hallway adorned with tapestries portraying various events. However these tapestries differed from there mundane counterparts as these tapestries portrayed the events through the use of having the scenes portrayed were constantly moving in a loop similar to the paintings of the world of Harry Potter. However merlin and our hero came to stop at a door where Merlin turned to our hero "and this is your room where you'll be staying I've taken the liberty of including some modern conveniences". "Such a laptop that can connect to the internet that can connect to any computer network on the planet, a phone that can call anyone free of change and a TV and a game console that can play any videogame ever made". 'How did you get this stuff', "let's just say I have a special set of skills when getting stuff" 'please don't tell me you stole them'. "WHAT! no I got all the parts to build this stuff from as the Americans say landfills used a bit of magic to repair them then added a few hundred various enchantments to them". 'Huh ok' "well I've included a spare set of robes and we'll begin your training tomorrow, so feel free to explore the fortress and if you need anything just yell".
And with that he left and our hero opened the door to his new room and looked around, the room was a fairly large one with several chests of draws a walk in bath room a king sized bed, a large bedroom a significantly sized wardrobe and a large window looking out into the fortress and beyond. After he'd looked around his new place of residence he sat on his new bed and began to remove the various pieces of armour that his transformed form wore. After removing the cloak and placing it on the bed he finally noticed a strange feeling of something against his chest and finally noticed the string around his neck. Grabbing it and moving it upwards until the string was on longer around his neck he looked at the object attached to this necklace. It was a golden ring that was shaped in an unusual way, while the part of the ring that went round the finger was similar at the top the metal spread out to form a circle. The only time our hero had seen a ring shaped like this was something from DC comics known as a white lantern ring [For those who lack the imagination to envision this ring just google white lantern ring and imagine it gold and the symbol on the top replaced with something else OK!].
However on the top of that ring instead of the white lantern symbol there was something that resembled the Bill Cipher circle but also differed in several ways. Firstly the circle of symbols that surrounded the edge of the circle were far fewer as there were only six symbols. The top symbol was an S shape within a diamond shape easily identifiable as the House of El crest or superman's symbol. The top right symbol was easily identifiable by our hero as the lightning bolt shaped scar of harry potter which was only confirmed after looking at the other symbols. After that the bottom right symbol was the most unusual symbol so far which was composed of a five point star with two wing like shapes attached to the bottom legs. Between those two wing shapes was a smaller upside down five point star with the top point being pointing down and two point pointing at the bottom two points of the smaller star. Our hero spent several minutes staring at this symbol trying to recognise it before it finally came to him 'Alcor' deciding not to dwell he moved onto the bottom symbol which was simply that of a poke ball. With some annoyance at the fourth anti-climactic symbol he looked at the bottom left symbol which he was unsure about due to it being more complex than the other symbols so far. As such our hero's phone was brought out to use the zoom function to get a better look which still yielded no results he use his mobiles email app to email it to himself with the remaining mobile data he had (he regretted using it to watch shows due to the situation he was in).
And so he loaded up the new computer and brought up an internet search still thinking 'what is that symbol'? However a spark of electricity surged from our hero's finger into the laptop causing him to instinctively move his hand away like when you receive an electric shock. The laptop however was moving through various internet pages before coming to a stop on an avatar wiki page specifically the one on the avatar spirit Raava. Our hero looked at it then back at the ring 'how could I not tell this was Raava I watched all of legend of Korra how could I miss that'. Deciding not to dwell on his apparent stupidity he moved to the last symbol which he instantly identifies as the Fairy Tail symbol. His mind drifted back to when Merlin gave him is powers while looking at the various symbols 'Superman, Harry Potter, Alcor the Dream bender, Zekrom, The Avatar Cycle, Mavis Vermillion shazam'. Placing the ring on his right ring finger he began to change his clothes however when he was in the process of changing his shirt he realized two things. 1) He was in better shape physically than he'd been prior to these crazy events and 2) his arms now held two matching identical tattoos. However unlike the ring these symbols he remembered mostly due to the destruction associated with them. 'Fairy Glitter because why not' he mused while looking at the tattoo associated with one of the three grand fairy spells.
After changing into traditional robes and readjusting them several times due to them being made of some kind of material that wasn't comfortable our hero began exploring. As he walked down the hall he opened various doors finding bedrooms, what resembled a science lab and what looked like a zoo filled with creatures he'd only seen in mythology. Finally he came to a stop at a large door entitled in an unknown language, however the words seemed to flux and change before finally becoming the English world Library. Opening the door he found what appear to be a large circular room with a library built in all the sides with stairs to what appeared be higher levels and sat near a fireplace in one of two comfy chair sat the ghost of merlin who looked at our hero and smiled "ah I see you found the library" 'yeah it took a while, anyway how come the words on the door changed'. "Huh? Oh right Guardians have an enchantment attached that translates languages into their main language, it was put in after an apprentice got into a yelling match with a citizen due to the fact that they both couldn't understand each other". 'Really?' "Not all Guardians have a formal education like you know" our hero slumped down in the chair opposite Merlin the events and randomness of the past week catching up with him. 'Ok but what is wrong with these clothes are there any other clothes in this whole place or is it just this stuff "why not just use your magic to change your clothes it a basic spell" 'you've no idea how I hate you right now' "no I'm aware I just don't care" "so how do I do this?' 'Basically you just feel the flow of magic and say new clothes' 'really just say that fine new clothes'. A flash of light later his clothes had changed into an air bending robe with the combat boots which remained due to our heroes belief that the minute he takes them off he'll end up on a mountain or somewhere where trainers he usually wears wouldn't be effective. 'no this is to monkish for me new clothes', now he was dressed in what can be described as Hogwarts robes 'new clothes' water tribe clothes. 'For the love of….I am going to do this one more time and I better get something decent new clothes'. After the flash of light he is dressed in a decent suit and combat boots 'meh this is the best so far so I'll stay with these till if find something better' . 'Now I have to think of an alias' "you're Guardian of earth" 'going by a title like that I'll get sued by someone no I need something short an simple but won't draw attention to my loved ones' unable to think of an idea he brings out his mobile and selects the internet browser however before he can select a new tab he sees the page he's on which is a harry potter fanfic called make a wish. This gave him an idea 'since my last name is black I can't go by that alias so instead I'll go by the opposite colour, from now on my alias in this business will be Mr White'.
Merlin was seemingly unfazed by this "you can call your self Dorothy for all I care now let's go we have to get you your familiar and your weapon". And with that they went off again in silence until the newly named Mr White raised a question 'hey quick question what can magic actually do? I mean I know it can give me all those fictional characters powers but what else can it do'. Merlin simply responded "No-ones actually sure of magic's full potential I mean it depends on the person's mystical power and the limits of a person's imagination…. Ah he we are". They had arrived at another large door though smaller than that of the libraries and it was entitled familiar hatchery. Upon entering we find an entire room filled with what appeared to be egg shaped gemstones merlin motioned for White to take one of them and pointed up to above the door they entered the school in "read it, it make sense after". 'Fine whatever oh formless creature inside this egg allow my magic to give you form and allow us to form an eternal bond as master and familiar'. With that the egg began to glow with the light increasing until it was blinding before it slowly began to decrease in intensity. Merlin looked on at the still blinding light wondering which creature his successor would have as his familiar maybe a dragon or a griffin. However his train of thought was interrupted by the cry of "PIKA" and with that the light fades to reveal Mr White holding what looked like a yellow mouse. Mr White was even more surprised by this 'so my familiar took the form of a Pikachu why exactly' Merlin thought for a second before he responded "one of your six entities is a legendary electric Pokémon so it makes sense that you familiar could be a Pokémon as a result". Mr White looked at his new familiar 'ok whatever I'm going to call you sparky little Pikachu'.
Now Merlin, Mr White, and the newly named Sparky once again journey through the fortress once again. This time they stopped at a door entitled the forge where upon entering it the room found what appeared to be several forges and what appeared to be smelting equipment. Merlin walked to a certain lever which he somehow despite being a ghost managed to pull down which started the equipment which began to pour molten metal 'what is this stuff?' "It's a mix of silver and a few supernatural metals now shut up and watch the magic". The molten strange metal was poured into what looked like a metal cube larger than some cars then Merlin turned to White "ok this is like with the familiar thing focus your magic into it and your personality will form the perfect weapon for you". After some hesitation White placed his hands on the surprisingly cold cube and began to think of all the weapons that this cube could make for him from guns to lightsabers the possibilities were endless. However the cube split in half and in the middle was a podium with… 'a sword really a sword you know swords weren't as useful since guns weren't invented and WHAT IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY'. White's yelling was largely caused by the fact that the blade of the sword seemed to be melting and becoming liquid again however before it can reach his hand the liquid began to move in various directions restructuring into something new. What it became shocked its new wielder as it hand changed its shape into a pistol which gave White an idea 'hmm a bo staff', it turned to a Bo staff. 'A shield', it became a circular shield similar to captain Americas 'brass knuckles' it became a brass knuckle. 'A shuriken' it became the weapon 'heh this is more useful than any single weapon especially if I'm fighting someone'."what do you mean?" 'Well if I'm sword fighting someone they won't expect it to suddenly become a gun'. Merlin smirked at that "variety means you're harder to predict against while you're fighting impressive tactics that plus your unusual familiar" "PIKA" "could potentially make you potentially one of the most difficult to defeat guardians to date" 'then let's get a montage going' "what?" 'Never mind it's something I heard that I thought would work in this situation'.
NEXT TIME
When training under Merlin into various techniques for connecting with magic itself our hero has a vision of the fate of Merlin's teacher Nabu. Now it's a race to find the location of the final resting place of Nabu and maybe finding out along the way more information on the nature of the realm magic was banished to. Find out next time in The Quest for Nabu
CHARACTERS
Mr White (Jonathan Black)-Newest Guardian of Humanity believes himself to be over his head
Merlin- Previous Guardian currently dead spirit and acting essentially like a Jedi Ghost
Sparky – Mr White's familiar, new born, believed to have electric powers