Ancient Pasts - Tbate

First generation mage

Cathan Leywin Pov

"I had been meaning to help my baby sister in forming her mana core soon. It wouldn't be too much trouble to include Lilia in these lessons. I noticed that both you and Lady Tabitha are not mages so it might be impossible for her to awaken by herself, but if we start now, I think she'd be able to awaken around the average age," I said. 

My statement was met with silence. I looked up to see Vincent drop the stack of papers had been fumbling with nervously. His face was frozen in place as I could hear his heart beating faster, even Arthur was looking at me with disbelief.

I guess he didn't think of using his mana to awaken their dormant mana, Vincent didn't say anything for a while, although I could see the desperation in his eyes since Lilia most likely won't become a mage they're worried about her future.

"C-can I truly believe what you just said? Can you allow my daughter to become a m-mage?" He asked after a seemingly long moment of silence. 

"Sure. It'll be a long process, but it's possible. Er... I will have to ask you to keep the lessons on a low profile though. I would hate to be bombarded with doting parents asking to make their children into mages," I just chuckled, trying to lighten up the tension. 

He nodded furiously after failing to form a coherent sentence. 

"Sincerely... There would be no greater happiness than seeing my daughter become a mage," he managed to stammer out, tears on the verge of falling. 

"Great! Then we'll leave the items we discussed to you! Now, allow us to excuse ourselves out. Sorry for intruding in on your work." Arthur replied.

We walked out of the room, picking up the sleeping Azrael and Sylvie, it's hard to believe that these two were of draconic ancestry, at this point a thug smart enough to lure them with meat could kidnap them.

I'm glad that worked out well. Although...

"How are you going to make her into a mage?" Arthur started as we walked back to our room.

"For Ellie, it's going to be simple, all we have to do is teach her to meditate, for Lilia..." Arthur's voice trailed off.

"Did you forget the main part of our abilities? I'm planning on implanting my mana of all four elements to awaken their dormant mana." I explained.

"I suppose that will work." Arthur conceded.

Lilia Helstea Pov

I'm shopping with Mommy and Lady Alice and Ellie. Ellie seemed a little bit disappointed that her brothers didn't want to join us so I was holding her hand to comfort her. 

"Hey, Ellie. Do you like your big brothers that much?"

"En! But they're meanies for not shopping with us. I wanted to dress them up more," she pouted. 

"But I came here with you. I see now... I guess now that your brothers are here I'm not important to Ellie anymore..." I commented with a hurt tone.

"Wha? N-no Lilia is Lilia, and bruhders are bruhders!" Ellie panicked.

"You said that you loved me the best, but now that your big brothers are here, you can just throw me aw--" I continued with the same hurt tone.

"Why are you giving Ellie such a hard time!" Mom exclaimed.

"I was just teasing her because all Ellie has been thinking about these days is Cathan and Arthur."

"Really? Because to your mother, it looks like Ellie isn't the only one thinking about Cathan and Arthur. Could it be that my daughter has her first little crush?" Mom teased.