Magi and Djinn World Tour! Student of the Dark Arts –

by INKblOt32

Raku; after beating back an alien princess's take over, now has a lot to learn as a full fledged half djinn and demi god sorcerer in training. In this series, John helps Raku to navigate his choices, to fend for himself and overcome adversity. Yet, will his actions speak loud enough when an old foe returns to find him at his weakest point? Find out!

24. Chapter 24

Magi and Djinn World Tour- Student of the Dark Arts

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Chapter 24: Dropping out is Not Permitted for a Budding Magi – Ugly Visions

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The doors to the school hall opened up wider in that very morning. No cock to crow of it. The blonde boy with a skittish personality tailed behind a suited, white-haired man in his fifties. His cloak was shorter, easier not to twist as he walked and made of fine materials only the wealthy might inherit.

"Please, Council head –

"I'm to think that this school was run purely on the alive and the ignorant acts of muggle - bloods." ( BORROWING.)

The man ignored the boy, the students all hushing each other and those bad kids all talking under their breath.

Even there, they weren't only talking about the man, but the boy trying to stop him from reaching the main offices if the academy.

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John had a clap of paper hit the desk while his knuckles were bruised after the night he'd had. Coming here against their wishes, was the right thing.

"He's to exit….and you? You staged this through Adam's kindness?"

"He wasn't prone to being heartless. Ever the angel, sir."

The stand in headmaster had his hands tied as the metronome if an old clock could easily had have John lose it. He was here, pulling Raku out of class. It wasn't safe. It wasn't right that something had put them all in a place of fear, madness. The headmaster had to understand why he had forged a certificate as a teacher to save them all.

"Constantine….there are doubts in the community that he would do well amongst your care –

"That was up to other figures. Higher ones, and I don't think you'd like me to bring them down from their respected duties to tell your staff the same."

Shoji, Astarte, A? Not a likely end if he fell from such heights; not after having promised the boy that he 'd one day becone a true guardian to protect tge later chosen. And, to live a better life than Roku had given a damn to owe of that time left suffering.

Raku wasn't even his true name in the past, yet the boy made do with his present and that couldn't be up and snatched back away. Adam had protected the school for years, staying beside John's next ring until he had it.

Azrael or Ezekiel or whom- ever wouldn't like that. Coming down now meant John would have occultic figures on both left and right to take him to the underworld courts for questioning.

Raku, was no real boy. Not a soul on earth could tell, yet he and those that did see, knew that Ignito wasn't spouting all riddles.

It did love to pick on the careless and cautious. Git.

"We'll have to deny the claim of wanting pardon, Johnathan. That boy is too dangerous and the elders all believe that he's well of an accepting. We had decided he be bumped up a few courses, grades apart. All of the highest warlocks and sorcerers have this –

"I don't advise it. He has to drop the course. There is a –

The door, there then came through a knock. The eyes of Michael were behind a tall and terrific man; the boy's father. A magi of council affairs in a heartbeat.

John's had ticked up, swallowed back into his chest and ears.

"Ah- huh. You're….a council director?"

"The, and I've heard of your plight. Adam, may he rest was a man naught. But, a Celestine being. As are you, a warlock with a reputation at the school."

"Twenty years apart, how did you guess? I've not met you, I do apologize-

"Yet, you have taught my son." The man coaxed the teen to stand smugly at his side, yet smug was he not. The boy looked anxious. As if a bad dream had kept him from waking to better hours for today.

"Michael is the prodigal child to my legacy. The Eirthurns are known fir their craft and care in the matter; lines preceding unto time. Dating from the beginning of the country, you would know better to best yourself in learning that name. Laughing magi…"

Constantine's eyes opened as he remembered nothing if this man, yet he was unhappily as ever spouting garbage- here while poor Michael looked ready to climb out the window to his demise. "The boy will be excelling and entering up a few grades along with whom I pressure is the adopted half blooded Raku?"

"Foster, he's very unhappy about being called anything else."

"Never did the underworld talk of that." Hummed the man, who'd still not given his damned name. "Nathaniel. I have telepathy as a secondary ability. My dear child is psychokinetic and clairaudient as well as a fine sorcerer upon the day he should graduate."

"You do realize we have a vampire about the grounds? Could this be set on a later date? I want my charge out before he's hurt –

"The council is investigating matters and that boy…I don't believe his constitution matches your very own. Such a lonely face, his file talked of a greater past. I'd have you –

"I'll bring another of my company to discuss, yet you may want to stand back."

"What?"

Nathaniel looked at Jojn dumbly as the magi was at least glad to know that Ignito was not dead.

~ This space requires a cleansing. The miasma is thick. Johnathan?~

"As ever I'll be. Lookie, the director of the school sent a man mad enough to pull our charge from his classes? What are we to do…"

Ignito looked as sly as his given inherited features of a trickster. A wise sage, a healer and killer in one. A prophet and a fool.

~ Nathaniel Eirthurn. I know of it. Such shady work you've accomplished on your grandfather's back pockets. How much did it take? Decades to prune that tree to be right for the ripest fruits? The boy mus t be excused until the demon is caught, for the prediction is that it will find a way inside. And once it has your hearts in a vice a piece, it will never let go. Well?~

"Devil work! What is that creature??" Michael gasped out, his mind fizzling as Nathaniel glared at his son, then the aspect on its dark cloud within the void of time.

~ I am a protector, a seer, a magi and a reccord keeper of time and order. You cannot see me. The boy is the only one in whom I protect. ~

"It, is quite a powerful appearing familiar." The headmaster in his desk eyed the aspect with Ignito seeming less than amused either way. As for attention, it took to its solitude, grew stronger and did not attack unless provoked.

"Not exactly the term it is the shadow if what was, will never be and what Raku could very well access by that power. It'd be best for us –

"No. It cannot be done." Nathaniel cut John off. Ignito's eyes also flickered a bit. ~ Why ever not?~

"Our rules are clear that during the semester, dropping out since the late incidence with Atticus Grey, there is no way with any of our ability to excuse the boy. It would have to be one year. At the end of the school year, he will be allowed but until that time –

"The demon is walking about! What time is there?? This is not what Adam-

"He also was not allowed to be placed in the position you left him. Seeing as the boy is a target, you might think that had he not come here, none of us would have to call you to this office."

~ Then reject the boy. Send him away, tell him his days are best with a mentor. I think you fear his power more than respect it.~

"In a way, this is a legal concern, Constantine…and …-

~ Ignito.~ The aspect did a mock bow as the three just nodded briefly. "That daemon then cannot be allowed its leniency, father. Whatever that vampire is after, Raku is the cause if it all."

"He never asked fir it, and you…"

Nathaniel growled at John raising a hand. "If this is the way your child is raised, perhaps he should have another caretaker that is better accustomed to these changes in atmosphere."

"Say , what?? The boy is –

~ Johnathan.~ Ignito shook his head. ~ Never now. Raku is, complex. It is in his nature to reflect. The depth of his power is only by his birth, nothing else. Will you not simply allow Johnathan to remain as a teacher? If so, it would complicate a bit less for the council. And, yourself.~

"Sorry, yet when were Daemon ever allowed to speak of politics." Huffed Michael. " Your kind are meant to aid and away. A simple familiar with a complex for being correct always. I understand now why Raku is –

"SON." Nathaniel had a cane, a pretty one that tapped the floor and startled the child to be silenced. "We've had our full report. Ignito, I think it wise to watch from afar…for the safety of the students. Johnathan? You may continue as the Magic and Historical Alchemist you are – yet pay mind. If that boy brings in the energies to bring this school to ruin in any way –

~ You speak full ill of a god.~

The headmaster gawked as John jumped in. "Not God, but I'd advise that…the boy was through a series if abuses. I'm all he has until he's finished his studies. Insults won't help and I might carry on that energy that he's bound to notice. Being a powerful empath as well."

"That…" Michael bit his lip.

"The pribce, awaited, gentlemen. And Ignito?"

The aspect chuckled softly with a small smile as the two were let go. Michael ground his fists as Nathaniel groaned into his palm. "Constantine in an eyesore that would never have stepped foot through these doors."

"He has, and…we should be thankful."

"He's a ruin – bringer!" Nathaniel spoke in a deep accent. "Johnny at the time also presented Atticus with souls, ones that never were returned to their bodies. I…he's gone as well once the council concludes to overturn the rule."

"You've not been well?" The headmaster knew the head of Eirthurn Agencies to a point here on earth. Not that business was better in the land of the fae.

"That devilish Constantine has just as irritating a pupil. I had believed he only did the grunt work of our fait country. Now, I know it was only a mistake to think that early."

"Father, put me in the class with Raku. I can watch and keep him I –

"I don't want to hear of it, anymore. We'll be going home, earlier."

"Ah, of course…"

Michael panicked. "Out of class? But…but I'm –

"I'm not to discuss it, yet you'll be attending tonight a venue for a very important asset to this school's future and your own, my son."

Michael knew it was fine. He'd make the grade even when he was absent from a lecture. That was how having a mogul father worked. You bought out their favor easily.

Adam did the same for that half blood, why do I still feel…"

"He is a threat. You were in a fight with a copy of him. Had you never guessed?"

Michael shook his head, stupidly assessing the situation as it was, yet mindful of his father's mood. He'd have listened to the odd hallucination of a black dog near the toilets. He hated that Raku brat even more now!!

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Raku's state was one of many. Zee wasn't allowed to see him. Jen was at her arm half of the time, nursing tea and trying to keep the loveliness of this….hotel room, vibrant with some easygoing chit- chat.

Zee was drawn to sleeping in. They woukdn let her sleep alone while Johnny scoured his books through a bottomless ruck sack that let him take from the House's library.

"No, damned…ah!"

He pulled bwck his hand as a crab instead , demon crab, gripped the man's thumb. "Cartoony." He sighed. "Zee? I have another. Catch." He tossed the book as she tried to levitate it from harm. "Ah, what is this? Spells? We can't stop him without killing him to free us."

"Well, we can find a loophole. There us one thing it did and that was not turn us entirely. Why? Why not…" John tapped his fonger to one book and let his jaw relax as the pages spoke of hie answer. "I'm going to skim this over. Alone."

"John? Lothos could-

"I'll have Ignito. We spoke. He's split himself to work in double." Admired the blonde face as it went into the one room wkth a door in this tiny hole of a waiting room. Toilet. Mirror. He'd lied, of course. Lothos was a vamp. He'd only appear if that incu – blood allowed it.

John pulled open the first chapter as it gave him vibes. Not the good kind.

~ A Necronomicon?? ~ Ignito was furious as John placed a seal on it. The Spook couldn't not touch it, not even Lothos. " I'm going to make a new deal. One that gives us a fighting chance. I don't fully get why, but that fat liar has my eye twitching to ask why he's a fan on my pupil."

~ The boy is bound not to say it. The book –

"What. The myth?" Frowning, John looked into the mirror. ~ What if that beast knows what you are about to commit? You can't give this book blood and sweat an oath –

"Back me up. Tell him, that we've just gone to our neighbor's for a cup of sugar…" John opened his mouth as the words poured out.

~ Deus meus in te speravi conlitebor tibi domine in toto corde meo quem ad modum cervus ad fantes aquarum. Ouver! Chameron! Aliseon! Mandousin! Premy! Oriet! Mayorus! Esmony! Estiot! Dumosson! Danochar! Casmiel! Sadirno! Eparinesant! domine meus Lucif-

~ What a paltry thing. That spell will never do the trick….~

John looked on as Ignito was spotted, bold and horrified by the stupidity of this pome magi. ~ Ah, you look familiar…~

In the mirror. Lothos was in it, full body as in his whole face. But…

John turned around. "You…you were already-

~ I told you, Johnathan. He is in your mind as a burrowing locust. There was never any doubt.~

"Fuck it. …" John has not realized that Ignito was teaching him a lesson. He was really too stubborn to hear a word as Lothos took his arm, pulling John along into the glass.

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The book remained there as Ignito searched for enough power to fabricate an illusion if John sitting on the…well, John?

~ Our auras may sense the other. I'll only dive after that fool once he's truly been had.~ Ignito sighed and vanished like a ghost, present, yet resting.

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Alice went way down as the tunnel led to a room that was near constructed in blue and darkness. ~Always took you for a gold and green, John. Care for a light?"

Lothos's voice swapped as he introduced the long pipe. John shook his head, moving to where a long table sat. Before it was a meal. And the one at the head –

~ No….when?"

" Always." The demon took a puff if his own, this sin not his only vice. "That boy was mine once Lilu was in passing. Sorry for the gods to conclude our, agreement. This a lasting contract. I shan't be won over with custody battles. The child hasn't eaten yet, correct?" Chuckled the monster. "He's going to need to soon –

"In our world, he won't wake up."

"Maybe he's inside of a cocoon, becoming a breathtaking creature underneath all of the shame." Lothos sighed, his longing in the air as smoke swirled up into the blue room's ceiling "My castle used to be quite grand, never as grand as our time spent together. That little djinn owes me, even if he refuses to tell you why –

"You showed that he killed you off, who wouldn't? You –

"Necessary action in the…maturity of the soul. All sweet and innocent, do you really think that?" The demon nodded to the boy at the table.

"Eat." With one command, his toy didn't let free will win out.

The thing took its eyes to fall on the puppet, the boy who didn't exactly resemble Raku, yet his soul. He was trapped partly between planes…

"You invaded him, then got to me. Will you let us out, or can a trade be issued?"

"This, is…" The monster puffed a new swirling mound as the boy picked up his spoon, dead faced and mind controlled ….

Wait…

"His, his eyes…"

John squinted.

"Fine to me. Didn't you know that they were once very red?"

Shaking his head , John went to see if he could sit. Lothos motioned over as well, his hands too close to that boy's soul.

"Power, sourced. The very finest of a generation lost. Too bad. The raw elixir I once sought has been… tainted." He took in an inhale from over Raku's head as John's eyes got bulbous.

"The life he had was once sought in a fine tuned aura that could be touched, reaped, sworn unto. The very first they say was Horus. Isis would never speak of it, yet these histories intertwine."

"You…his magic could –

"Lilu was a fallen goddess, first woman. You think she didn't seek another fruit just as tart?"

He put his cheek to Raku's paling face. "How could one resist this? He's begging to give his all, become the very best!" The man swooned and purred mockingly at those very words. "You promised a positive encouragement on your earth, but…?"

"They'd have to get used to it. He's like us, more than human."

"Far more." Lothos toyed with the kid's long locks like a doll. "Do you know why a dragon must never cut his mane? A shaman, not his beard? In it, resides his power. If this boy were to suddenly be bald, I'd lose something far too precious."

"You were hungry for more, so you waited for his rebirth and used one of my enemies to –

"As luck would have it, no." Lothos corrected. "Atticus wanted something WELL before. You were, what? Fourteen, Jonny?"

John stepped towards the two, his heart wasn't sounding as sharp.

Maybe that smoke –

"I was sure of it. In a few years, Lilu had us all acting mad as the elders after a wild hunt. I, of course, was brought back. Though, with half of a mind. My corpse was revived only by Atticus because he STOLE IT." The demon grinned.

"YOU were just a delinquent from day one. Weren't you? This boy was sweet and stupidly naive. You have no idea!"

"Get off him, I'm not going to say it anymore." John growled low as a big cat from under his collar.

"His soul is bound, ah…as are you. If you want to go back. Did you…you thought I'd trade you off for him?? A power source??" The demon laughed spoke turning into a serpent and ten a wolf above the man's head as it fell to land onto the table. "You've overstayed your welcome. Supper is now ruined…" Lothos's tongue found the kid's throat as John was shoved back by a howling monster wolf with foam at its jaws.

"You can watch, if you promise not to fuck that up too. I made a fool out of the laughable magi. Isn't that sorry of us?"

From a distance away, the LGBTQIA vibe was deeply fabricated. Raku's image was more so ambiguously asexual, gay, and had what one might call being too shy or…though undecided the interest in women was nothingness, almost unlike a teen boy to be. Yet, this…

Wasn't a pretty light to shine on the present, nor past. "RAKU….I know if you can hear, there is an earwig right by –

The thing tongued into the canal of the boy's left lobe as Raku dropped his spoon, breath hitching as John used his silver tongue in magics to cast a counter attack and save the damned day. ~ Beast of the hell fires, deliver yourself to the one that sees all ends in time. Return and –

"Are you ordering my pet around? Oh, which one, you might say…" The boy's ear was nipped, only, it wasn't a human ear. But a moon shaped one as a faire being.

Or a djinn.

Or, a dragon.

"I thought you'd had enough rest for today, dear sweet child..." Lothos cooed fondly as he nuzzled the kid, pulling him in like a teddy in his lap. The chair that was for Raku soon had him appear nearly ten years old and in it with Lothos fully clothed in a more military regalia. It struck a chord as John shouted his curses. The dog and demon spells against him had the whole room a cacophony of echoing riots.

All while Lothos had the younger Raku, the more fae like version in his lap. Hair pushed back and it looked uglier by how no touches ever lingered long enough. The boy's outfit was wide necked and falling from his smaller shoulders. Easier access to a midnight blood letting, or worse…John had only seen this with Lord Dragul and the fae child he'd enslaved as a food source. That was a fight between dragons in another land. ( Constantine laughing magician presents story I have. He stops a war.)

"CREEPER, I'M GOING TO MURDER YOUR LEGACY, ALL BY MYSELF IF I HAVE TO!! LET HIM GO!"

"Hush, we don't want to think of this as anything more than a part of our binding contract. You don't even know that the school is run by those that serve the immortals. Who do you think had Atticus spared, not me?" Snorting, Lothos gripped Raku's hair and tugged it to expose the boy's throat. From it, was a bite much left to fester. Red and puffy. Right as John saw it, the gates to the mirror started as a vacuum, pulling him backwards from the hound and the very dark display of dominance. The bite was sucked on without teeth as the child turned his cheek away, only to be held closer. ~ You won't ever become a vampire, John. It's a damned shame…~

The pop sound of Lothos letting go of the scarred over wound had John's eyes squint harder. Tears couldn't yet form. He was too angry. The very spirit of that child was being violated and he couldn't stand by.

"This was long ago, John. You're just seeing what has already come to pass. It could happen again. He is now of consent to these eyes of a listening wall. Who's to say I won't get my wish…"

Tipping Raku's head up with a long incubus's tail, the man went for not the throat, but a wet kiss on the lips, finding his way down the boy's throat. Raku's muffled protests were as dim as a tap on your shoulder as all cries were lost to the duller shades of time.

As for John, he was shoved through the mirror with shards in him, unable to look any longer at the debauchery of his student.

Some…there, yet not. It was the illusion of being had.

Ignito looked on at the tainted item, then he saw the earlier spell book floating as Lothos's cruel and playful timbre rung outwards, now in their world.

~ Have yourself a better tome, poor magi. If you play nice whence I should call on you again to feed, I could lend you thousands from the archive. Maybe your blood would be enough for some type of lee - way…consider this…safest, compared to playing with your petty toy replicas.~

The book was sliced, diced in mid air as the powers within had all but been butchered before John and the aspects very four eyes.

~ A half of his soul is mine. I shall come to claim the rest, very…very soon. Once I am to be sated. Otherwise, get a new hobby.~

His laughing red eyes were gone, yet John felt them as he held his neck and cried out. In his head , his body…Raku, was….

He'd only been free before. Who had really caused this all to happen??

If not Atticus's pardon, then whom??

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Raku was hurt in the past, so Lothos is saying it as a threat and because Raku is still a victim of the past and Lothos has his myth arc volume he does control Raku in his dreams.

Window to the soul? Mirror? John is going to find out how wrong he was. That was Raku in the past when Lothos was grooming him to awaken while Lilu had the ok. As Raku dreams, the entire bit if Lothos's power will grow. Waking him is going to be tough because his magic now is too weak to break the hold. The only thing, is fighting dirty. A lot of unsettling stuff in here. Letting you become aware! And who set Atticus free after he was let go?? Find out!