The World Of Fantasy

Hometown

"Y/N, I've been thinking..."

Dad and I sat at the kitchen table. It was morning, and sunlight streamed in through the wide-open windows. Dad absentmindedly slathered some butter on bread, staring into space. 

"What, Dad?" I said curiously, looking up from my miserable breakfast. 

"You know where you were born?"

"... yeah?"

"The home of all magic. Witches and wizards, basically mages. After you were born, after your mother passed away, we moved straightaway here."

I listened silently. What did Dad want...?

"I want to take you there."

My eyes widened. "T-there?"

"Yes. You are a young mage yourself, Y/N. You have to see where it all comes from. The magic that is in your soul."

I gaped at him. We had spent the entire 13 years of my life here- I always felt this was where I came from. It was home, but I knew that my family came from ...

It sometimes felt too good to be true, a whole colony of magic. When I was a kid, I always wanted to visit the place. My dad and I where the only ones here who had any magic. People talked about us all the time. They didn't know... there was an entire population of magic, living away from the outside world. Magic users had believed that if the fact that so many of them existed was revealed to normal people, there would be trouble and people would want the magic to themselves. In fact... Todoroki's kingdom was the only one who knew that magic existed at all. Residents here were forbidden from spreading the word when they travelled outside, taken care of by Dad's spell. Though magic users had grown to accept the Todoroki kingdom, they still made it look like there were very, very few of them in the world, rare as a white peacock, to be respected as they lived among "normal" people.

Now all those memories came rushing back to me. I came out of my thoughts, looking up at my Dad. "R-really?"

"Of course. You may not have grown up there as most of us, but it is a second home to you."

"When are we going?"

"Soon. We need magic to enter, and when every magic user comes of age, they get to know the secret. It is always best to access it at night, so that there is little chance of someone catching you."

"Why can't I know the secret now?," I pouted. 

My dad laughed lightly. "As much I trust you, until you are responsible enough, it remains a secret."

"Hmm."

***

Before the day we were going to leave, my dad said he would work the entire day at the castle to make up for some of the work he would miss while we were away. "I've requested the king to let you stay at the palace 'til night. He said you can stay with Princess Fuyumi in her bedroom."

"Okay!" I replied. "When exactly are we leaving?"

"Midnight." What did I expect? Exciting stuff always happen at midnight.

I informed Fuyumi about our 5 day departure to my Dad's hometown. 

"My, that makes me rather curious," she said. "He must have quite the childhood, having magic while those around him had none."

"Haha, y-yes," I said nervously.

"His father used to be a mage here too, correct?" 

"Yes."

"How fascinating!" She said clapping her hands together. "I mean, magic is very fascinating, indeed." 

"Mhm," I hummed fervently. Yes, very fascinating. If only you know where I was really going to!