My Beginning After the End

Gideon

It was the next morning here in the half lab, half house Gideon worked in. Last night, I spent most of my time absorbing mana, besides that, nothing spectacular happened. I did talk with Kathyln some more, and Callias and I sparred once, which wasn't worth it, but getting him stronger was good, I guess.

I still haven't touched Uto's horns, I was getting closer and closer to saying screw it, and absorbing the one I planned on using, but I really did want to wait for Arthur. It was getting hard waiting to get into white core.

"Veer." A voice spoke out from behind my door. "Gideon wants to see you."

I got up from my little bed and made my way to the door. "Alright." I said as I opened the door to see Emily. "Let's go see the mad scientist."

"I wouldn't call him that, he'll get mad." Emily said seriously, and I nodded my head. I would never call him that to his face, that would be rude. "All we are doing today is running some test, we'll figure out how to fix it."

"I hope." No matter what, I was going to protect Dicathen and my family.

"Don't worry, if anyone can heal you, it's Master Gideon." Emily spoke with such confidence, the confidence I spoke with when I fought. We made our way to the stairs that led to the basement, which I suspected to be his laboratory. "Watch your step, some of the stuff he doesn't use is thrown on the ground."

"Okay." On the floor I could see scissors, pens, paper, blades, it was pretty dangerous. "I think you should clean this place up."

"I think you should mind your manners." Gideon came into view, and then turned into another room and shouted to us. "Bring him in here."

"After you." I motioned for Emily to lead the way, and she did. Inside of the room Gideon was in, there were a couple of things, a table, a light, a desk with a bunch of stuff on it, and needles laid out on a smaller desk next to the table. "Awesome, this looks like fun."

"It will be for me." Gideon grabbed a needle. "Get on the table and pull his arm out from under the cloak."

I made my way to the table. "I can pull my own arm out, Emily." I told her as I sat down and did as Gideon asked. "Here." I held out my arm, Gideon looked at it, and then at Emily.

"Hold his arm still." Gideon snapped, and Emily reached for my arm and held it in her arms. "I need a blood sample." Without hesitating, Gideon stuck the needle into my arm and drew blood from it. I watched as he placed the needle of blood on the large desk behind him, then picked out an unknown device.

"I thought you were an artificer, what makes you sure you can figure out something for me?" Gideon built things, didn't create cures from thin air. "I'm not trying to be rude or anything, I am curious." Emily released her grip on me, no longer needing to hold it still.

"I'm going to build something to determine what we need to do to help you." Gideon handed me some device, and I held it in the palm of my hand. It was like some sort of small device, that was shaped like a sphere. "I want you to push mana into this device."

I shrugged and did as he said, pushing the mana from within me to the ball, and I felt it start to consume it. After about two minutes, a light on the device turned green, and Gideon took it out of my hands. "What's that for?"

"Aren't you full of questions today." Gideon said sarcastically, and I turned to Emily.

"It's to study your mana." Emily whispered to me. "We are trying to trace every single ounce of where your mana goes and comes from, and how it does it. Hopefully, by looking into your core, we can find a way to stop whatever is happening to you."