Magic comes to Riverdale

Chapter 1 Part 3

A month later...

Manhattan, New York City: July 30th, 2017

The scorching blaze of a summer heat wave hit New York City in the morning with a vengeance as everyone did their best to stay indoors as much as possible to avoid the sun and heat. For the past week, the temperature was hotter than usual which made being outside a chore and just unwanted but luckily it was the last day of the heat wave and things would hopefully get cooler. Dr. Christine Palmer was walking down the street with some bags of groceries and was returning to the Sanctum Sanctorum. You would think being out in the heat would be horrible, but Wong had given her a cooling charm so it was like walking around on a lovely spring afternoon. She walked into the Sanctum and smiled at some passing students before heading into the kitchen and unpacking the groceries. She put a carton of milk in the fridge when Wong entered the kitchen.

"How was the trip into the city?" Wong asked.

"Perfect thanks to your cooling charm. It was like a beautiful spring day." She replied, taking out a small bag and handing it to him. "There you go. Toasted Poppy Seed bagel with lox, cream cheese, tomato, onion, and capers."

"Thank you very much." Wong happily received the bagel and took a big bite.

"Where's Will? I got him a sausage, egg, and cheese roll. Not exactly a healthy breakfast but he's more than earned it the past month." She commented, putting the bag on the counter while she put other stuff away.

"Where he has been every morning for the past month. In the meditation room." Wong replied and she nodded.

"You'd think that he'd take one morning off after starting his training but no. He practices his spells, techniques, and fight training during the day while he astral projects and reads every single spell book, tomes, and history scroll in the library at night. He's running himself ragged." She said in worry.

"Not necessarily. Sure, it seems like he's been training at all times for the past month but technically his body and mind get the rest they do even if he astral projects in his sleep." Wong corrected her.

"Oh, you know what I mean, Wong. He's doing too much." She told him.

"I share the same concerns and thought that he would have burned himself out by not but...he's been getting stronger. In all my years and all the sorcerers I've seen, I've never seen one excel this quickly." Wong said, genuinely impressed with his progress. "Despite the fact that he's only been training for a month, his mastery over his magic is easily equal to that of my top pupils who have been training for years."

"He always was a fast learner but I've never expected him to pick it up this quickly." Christine told him. "I mean, even Stephen being the Sorcerer Supreme spent over a decade of training before he earned the title."

"Well he's his father's son. And the blessing of the Vishanti might have done things to speed up his training." Wong suggested.

"Could he defend himself now if necessary?" She asked and Wong took a moment to think it over in his head.

"During our training spars together he's shown a tremendous amount of comfortability and mastery of his father's more advance spells and he's already mastered the Eldritch magic of combat. He's young and his youth gives him a degree of ingenuity that more seasoned witches can't anticipate and it's something he has to his advantage. His large pool of natural magic energy means he can outlast most opponents before needing to draw on other forms of energy. He's more than capable of holding his own in a fight against Father Blackwood but training for a fight and actually being in on are two separate things." Wong told her.