Magi and Djinn World Tour- Student of the Dark Arts
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Chapter 35: Spring Awakenings – Ascension of the Red Son
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Raku didn't trust himself to keep that promise any more than he was desperate in stopping Lothos from killing John off, it was a brutal reminder that no matter his "immense" potential, Lothos and Lil with any demon that could see into his heart, knew the very truth self that Raku hid.
Roku had been a mistake due to that fear of never being respected or heard, now?
Now, he was going to sacrifice himself when Aiden had warned him not to countless times. His families were crying out, as Raku shut his locker to turn round and see Michael standing by his ear. "Class is dismissed , yet you're not one to hide and run from the committee."
The boy looked right through the other blonde. His eyes reflected Marcus's as Raku knew that if he couldn't save…
He stopped. Michael's father was the puppet, not him. The only thing he'd done is keep them at this school by a false lie.. A lie that had fostered on until today. A spring dance and arrangement to die?
It was time to tell him the truth, Raku sighed, ushering the other boy to follow hkm towards the library. "You don't think I'm a stranger, a part of you recalls my true face from long a –
"I was told you have the power to fix whatever is happening with a blink. Is that true? Why is everyone up in arms not understanding what a threat, YOU are??" Michael pointed. "If I duel you here, it means nothing. That woman swayed my father, as if that w –
"MARCUS." Raku said aloud. "That was the nsne of my classmate in the time where someone….someone who hurt us, they took your soul and never let it rest."
"What?" Michael sneered on , through his questions and…and…
"Why am I not able to tell what the devil –
"Devils." Snorted the other as his book emerged from his chest. "I beckon thee….Recall what I see, help me to save our school."
As Roku, he would demand respect in those days through coercion, force. Michael was reborn against his knowing. He had been taken here to do some evil thing, yet Raku could tell he was lost as the rest.
"DEMONS EXIST, AND YOU SRE ONE OF THEM!!" Michael called out, then seeing flashes of a face and a boy with pointed ears and white silver locks. Raku was the hermit, the shadow as other boys defended him. Like royalty. The other looked snidely back at the other youth and was then devoured into the black .
All as Raku's own fate….
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Amber's horns ached as her form swapped out with he one she'd converted to long ago. Olden, she roamed freely after class. The committee was getting ready to do the same.
"Same time tomorrow, Ambie?"
The class treated her so perfectly, while her own hooves had bled to get a handle on the situation with one other. He'd not slipped far, as Jack searched the halls for poor Raku. His power emanated as the light from a library upstairs had Amber turn to find what she'd been hoping to learn.
"The gods hath no passion for our kind. For with them –
She opened the door to see that Jack had tricked her. His spells in hand as Jen overpowered the imp child. "Let me give! He-
Jack slapped a magical X over her mouth as teeth growled through. "We don't want you getting any ideas. Michael's plan before didn't do much good, so I faked being a lackey to your vampire king."
"We decided to as Astarte for a relic to create this false image, and we'll!" Jen grinned as she put her enemy in a sealed set of magical bindings. "That took shorter a time as expected. As for Michael, Jack did a grade A job of getting his attention. He spread the obvious "rumor" that Raku was the cause if things going as they djd, when we know…you helped kill off Adam with Atticus's help. And that man who claims to be his father, lost his real son - Marcus's body was the gift given while he was raised to be Michael. I am shocked this all seems too easy, is it?"
"Very….how did you know I'd been keeping the boy silent?"
"You cling to im" every chance you have, lov." Jack grinned. "There, then you are going to tell us…about the real reason behind the spring "feast of bloody devils?"
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John's blood pulsate as Zee wet his brow wkth a cloth. "It's ok. I brought in Artius, he was in Greece –
"A conference of the Dodona sect never dies, and my archetype of as Hermes …well, in retrospect." Chuckled the wandering magi. "How is my oldest pupil?"
"That, may be why we've asked you join us, Greggie."
"Artemis, is what I'm called by Catalina and her company, thank you." Smirked the wizard. "That self was a cursed side by Lilu's rage. I simply imagine she hasn't-
"No, bloke. He's well …."
Chas turned to John as the other sat up with his poor eyes seeing double. "Ow!"
"He was bitten, and…"
"I know of that appearance, it troubles me from such a long struggle. Stand back." Artius revealed his staff of sun and moon even without being Wiz Greg any longer. "As a guardian of time planes to – day, my intent should be as thus. That mark will devour every last sense, the creature placed this curse to have his way with I'm guessing…"
"You, guessed….right." John gasped out, Art raised his arms high, staff in them as the magic blew them all away for only mere seconds each.
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Astarte could feel her ears twitch relentlessly as she left the office with the headmaster God knows. Shedding as John and by damn.
How it felt right to snoop today of all days after hours. "My nephew has become a target once more, and here I fear –
"Fear, what .. my dear."
That foul miasma!
She turned to see Atticus only, his suit still on and not off the clock. "I know that you're possessed by a demon yourself." She let her fangs show as her body moved and morphed into that of a justice bringer. A leopard, as she struck a brave claw out.
~ Where is he?? Where is the boy, Lothos!??~
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The wizard, the witch, the warlock.
Astarte in her form was quite determined to stop what this puppet had in store for her charge. ~ John has failed him, Lady of a loyal heart. Not so loyal, since I'm the one that stuck.~
~ Come out of that mortal and face me.~ She gruffly demanded. ~ My charge is freed of all past spells. He cannot –
~ HE can and HE will submit, even better than the strix wished him to. Of his own will, you see.~
Astarte was forced to change back as she blocked miasma surrounding the man with Lothos's own voice. " I gained followers the way my father's forefathers had. Always, we have the first nibble of their consciousness. Then. We take them for a ride unto new planes. Stealing souls, ripping apart the bonds of compassion and whatnot. My goal is to recover what your kind took from us. A future king, relic. The very creature that can determine our very worth…only if his power belongs only to he."
She frowned and then snapped up her blades to the warlock. "Whatever your worth, it is to dust! Lilu could not win, nor shall –
"I have already, goddess…" The man cackled. "He came to save them, and I allowed a bet. How can I not tell you before my minions rip apart your flesh. You're surrounded this entire time!!"
The demon laughed wildly as she took a good look around. Monsters, creatures trying to snip apart the barrier as they looked into the earthen one as clear glass.
"No…your puppet broke this law, and I shall see it standing. Ye shan't win!"
She used her lips to speak of light, of fire as a circle formed while she, had transported herself to safety.
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Lothos in Atticus's body emerged as he let the headmaster appear with the father of Michael right by the hoards surrounding them.
"YOU! I recognize that tone. Could you be the same attendee of the council meeting that had this teacher…."
"And the very man who saved your child. I'd keep him alive a bit longer. If I were you." Lothos opened up a vortex as it shown the boy and Raku, the story of their past as Michael's father put down his eyes to the demon Lilu and her dirty tricks.
"I supplied the child by her orders then, yet you…you realize that he is your boy in spirit, not in body."
"I…you promised to keep him alive for us. He has no one else." Michael was more than a figment to the man as he recalled his real son before the accident. The boy's mother had been long gone in that hospital bed, the monitor's noise brought the council chair to his knees as the tied-up headmaster shook whilst watching.
"Adam laying dying let us enter these walls, and did you ever think as to why? Raku is a god's child. He has the power to bring back your real son."
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Raku let the visions heed. The boy was shaking as he didn't reply, he only was shattered. Raku scrunched his brows, not…why was this not the response he had pictured? Marc –
"Marcus –
Raku put a hand to his mouth as the boy, Michael, screamed and ran for the doorway. "Let me out! You demon! Let…me! Go!! Help!!"
"Wait! You should have recovered the past, why?" Raku begged out. "Why can't you remember what you did to us both??"
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"I….was fine, that boy isn't a part if where we are now. You keep on trying and trying while what am I?? You just said it!" Wept, Michael. "I'm fake, all of it…I'm just a resurrected bag of flesh that father loved even less…why –
His eyes shone as Raku knew that look. It was a plea, a dark cry for help to end all suffering. He stepped back, his arm up to halt the other wizard. "Kill me…if you kill me, you can have him back, I can be free…father wanted Michael, am…I am…am I….Mar…cus?"
The dark haired boy saw the door open wide as Astarte rush in. Her hair was at her side with a change of body, her form had indeed been no longer at ease. "Aunt –
"Get away." She snarled. "That mortal has a walking stake of death upon him."
Michael wept as the next to seek out them had been Amber, who ran to Michael's side. "What have they done?? Teacher, are…are you…is he to blame?"
Astarte walked past calm as a statue was still. "Let us go."
"But, Ma-
"NOW." She commanded the half – djinn.
The boy was yanked by his arm as he put his neck down, only to still see the lost eyes of Michael. He wanted to be real, yet was a false face.
And of Amber, whose eyes shown in a way that was of all, no longer human.
But a devil's grin in each , green round orb.
Taunting them, gripping Michael until he came and wept over her shoulder. He glared at Raku as the boy was taken away. Raku saw, and his memories of that same glared declared it.
That was Marcus, and once again, his vengeance would be brutal.
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Oh, wow. Raku's forced Michael to see his past self before he was taken and given a new body; Michael was the boy who died in an accident. Atticus came and offered to bring him back, for the price of a seat protected at the council table. This was before he was let go from his teaching position. After that later, Lothos called out and Atticus was unconsciously his servant in bringing back Lothos's body and also what comes next?
Astarte is pissed! She doesn't want John to train her nephew since she knows what he may do to make a bigger mess. Ardius was Wiz Greg – before Lilu put a curse on him and made him our "wizardmon" counter part in my older stories "new beginning" and so on. She said is John fails this time, Raku is going back to the Eternal realm to live out his training years to become a true guardian and God elemental of Ether.
Michael now is angry at Raku, so what happens when Amber tries to lie her way into his heart?
Jack and Jen got her to talk but her real face is well hidden as a devil imp for Lothos. She was once a young Faunus, but gave up her soul to live and serve his forefathers. We will see her backstory as to why she wants Raku alive soon.
Mind you, Michael or Marcus was the only character besides Amber an d Raku that were de- aged and had later ages in the past, but Marcus did not. Amber however will reveal that she did age, yet is about sixteen in the past.
John is going to be ok, sort of but he has to hurry. The miasma that affected Astarte cane from Lothos, but his body was as Atticus to remain private. What is the spring event r rally, but a way to introduce the school's newest top dog!
Find out!