The Magicians heir

Chapter 7

*2 months later*

I stare at the target, it stands more then 300 feet away. I imagine a ball of energy swelling up inside my palm. I raise my hand to my face, a green ball swirls in my palm. I thrust my hand towards the target and the ball launches, it strikes it head on and a large explosion rings through the field. I smile and look at Daz who sits in a chair. He claps slowly.

"Creating energy is hard, even for me. And I've been practicing for years. You making that look easy, in two months! Is very impressive." He compliments, "I think your ready" he smiles. We both stand in the large room, his desk in the center. I smile, remembering the last time I was in here. That was 2 months ago, I made a ring of fire ignite and thought it was the coolest thing ever. I grin at the thought. A boy walks in the room. I almost yelp, he was handsome. He had blonde hair and piercing blue eyes, I mean very blue. He smiles shyly and I almost faint.

"Annie meet Thomas." Daz speaks. Thomas waves.

"H-Hi" I stutter, he laughs.

"He is going to be working with you for a bit" Daz instructs. I smile giddly.

"Alright" I reply. Thomas nods.

"Yep, now follow me. Lets start practicing" He says, his voice just the right pitch. I follow him out of the room, as we walk I notice his muscular figure. We wind ourselves through multiple halls till we come to a large dome. We enter and the large door closes behind us. He turns to me.

"Alright, we like to call this the 'sparing room" He spreads his arms out. I notice his biceps flexing. "Here we fight magical dummies" He laughs and I laugh with him.

"Alright!" I yell, louder then intended.

"Ok, you seem excited" He replies and walks to a door. He enters and the door vanishs. Suddenly two figures appear. They stand their like stone. All of asudden a light flows into their mouths and they slowly come to life. I back up preparing for a fight. I allow some of my power to flow out into my hands. Suddenly my hands alight, large fireballs dancing on them. The dummies charge towards me. I fire a ball and it sails towards one. It raises its hands up the fire explodes against it. The dummies stand, unscathed. They had magic! One fires a stream of glowing blue energy. I quickly throw up a shield, it shatters on impact. I quickly thrown out my hands, threads of icy light leap of my fingers and shoot towards one of the dummies. It reacts slow and the tendrals wrap around it. It spazes out flailing its arms around, then *poof* its gone. I laugh at the reaction. The other one advances quickly, it throws out its hand. A spear pops into existence and flies towards me. I panic and duck. I head it whistle above my head, launching my self up I gather as much power into my hands as possible. A green ball swirls in my hand, I fire it and a large explosion hits the dummy. Nothing remains.

Thomas emerges from the hidden door. He smiles his perfect teeth gleaming.

"Wow, your powerful" he bites his lip. I smile.

"Yeah..."

"What wrong?" He asks.

"Nothing!" I blurt, "there is just a lot of pressure on me"

"Its okay" he walks towards me and grabs my hand. I smile, every single darkness in me now shines. "Follow me" he tugs me out of the room. Suddenly we teleport and we stand in a grove. Trees rise around as, the warm sunlight beams on my face.

"Its beautiful" I manage to say, inspecting the array of flowers.

"Just watch" he replies. He drops my hand and I almost felt sad. He puts his hands up and rainbow color lights stream out and spread out. It was magnificent! He walks back over and grips my hand.

"That's what you call magic" I say admiring the beauty.

"Like you" he mutters. I turn to him, my cheek red.

"Thats so sweet" I say and hug him.

"Just a thought" he whispers, "Wanna go out sometime?" He asks.

"Yes!" I leap into the air.

"Alright" he smiles, suddenly we vanish and stand back in the large room. Daz sits at his desk staring at a document.

"Come here" He motions us over and we awkwardly do so. "I think we may have found where Merlin is" He points at the document. On it was map, I didn't recognize anything from it.

"What is this?" I ask.

"Its defiantly not this world!" Thomas laughs.

"Your right, its not" Daz replies. He points a an section of it. "Its the ShadowLand" he says. "We had people enter it and look around. They found the tree, it was guarded and they barely made it back. We believe Nimue has somehow transported it to the realm." He explains.

"What excactly is this ShadowLand?" I ask. 

"Its where shadows were originally from before they are attached to their host. The Nimue children and Nimue have the abilities to disconnect their shadows and control them. And now can grab more from the ShadowLand" Thomas explains. 

"Alright" I look back at the map. "Are we going to free him?" Thomas and Daz exchange glances.

"Yes, but you don't know how dangerous this place is?" Daz explains then shakes his head. "No. Your ready" He mutters. "Your leaving tonight" He rolls up the map. "Thomas is gonna go with you" He instructs handing him the map. I smile. I get to spend more time with him, even though its in a land of shadows that will try to kill you. Still lovely tho! 

"I'm fine with that" I glance at Thomas. 

"Alright" Daz looks me in the eyes. "You have to be brave Annie" I nod and he looks away. "You have two hours to prepare. I am going to get a portal open." He instructs exiting the room. Thomas grabs my hand.

"Lets go" He drags me off and we wind ourselves through a series of halls. We come to a dark corridor and we stop. "This looks as good as ever" He smiles shyly.

"For what?" I ask. Instead of answering he kisses me. On the lips! Heat instantly rushes through my body as his lips press against mine. My back hits the wall and he puts his hand against it. He pulls away and I smile, his kiss still lingering on my lips. 

"That" He replies.

"Ha!' I smile and he kisses me again, I push against him and his hand falls to my waist. I put my hand on his chest and push him away.

"What?" He asks, clearly offended.

"Nothing. Just. But one of us may not survive and I don't want to get to close to you" I stutter. 

"Its alright" He leans in but I back up.

"I'm sorry" and I vanish. I appear in my room, my face flushed. I sit on my bed and sob. 

The two hours pass quickly and I appear in the beginning room. Thomas stands a few feet away, he glances at me awkwardly but still smiles. Stands stands in front of a black swirling vortex. 

"You ready?" He asks.

"Yes" Me and Thomas reply in unison. 

"Alright. He looks at us both worriedly. "You can do this" He steps away from the portal and together me and Thomas jump in.