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Chapter 1

"Mom, I'll be fine, don't worry." Eren smiled awkwardly as his mom scrambled around giving him food and drinks and putting them into his satchel.

"Sorry, dear, just immediate necessities. You won't need anything else, being a wizard and all." She flipped her short bangs and ran her fingers through her short blonde dirty blonde hair.

"If only your father was here to come and see you off but he's always working...", "It's fine Mom, just tell him I said bye alright?" He put his hand on her shoulders.

"Alright, I love you, honey." He tilted forward and she kissed his head lightly, a warm sensation slowed down and sent a tingle down his spine.

"What spell was that?" He asked with a smile, their blue eyes staring at each other.

"Don't worry about it now shoo."She pushed him out of the door, the rain drenching him in seconds; he knew she did it on purpose.

"Dryisus." He mumbled, his dirty blonde hair fluffs back up and grooms itself.

"Sheildem." A large black umbrella begins to hover over him. He takes out his spell book and begins reading over certain parts that he's trying to learn as he soon began his journey to Pixwith, The Institute Of The Arcane.

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Less than 30 minutes later while the rain was still pouring he made it to the main part of town, looking around at the different people; trolls, witches, fairies, and pegasi girls.

He smiled a bit and looked ahead seeing a cafe, "Nice." He said, his umbrella disappearing as he walked in for a quick drink.

He noticed that most of the seats are taken up by couples and friend groups. Looking around for a bit he sees a two-seater near the window with someone sitting at it, the large spellbook (much larger than the average spellbook) was covering the entirety of his face and body, and all he could see were brown baggy worker pants with suspenders, black combat boots, and a black shirt; a bow and arrow hanging from the chair.

"Hey, do you mind if I sit here?" Even asked.

Without even looking up the stranger makes a grunting noise, and the seat shifts back. '1st Magi-user, huh?' He thought as he sat down waiting for a waitress.

He looked to the one in front of him and tilted his head to try and see his face, but the book shifted the same way.

He moved up and the book followed. He tried a series of movements, but the book prevented him from seeing his face.

The guy was obviously toying with him so as he was just about to pull the book down a fairy waitress came over with a modern waitress outfit with light colors and a bored look until she looked up.

“OMG finally!” She gave a sigh of contentment. “A cute male customer, all I’ve seen today are ogres and bratty Pegasi girls, ugh! Anyway, welcome to the Cauldron Cup Cafe, what can I get you blondie?”

He smiles a bit. “Just a hot cocoa please, with cinnamon and whipped cream with a bit of heat potion, along with a cinnamon bun, I’m leaving pretty soon after.” He responded kindly.

“Aww boo, alright.” She pouts and turns to the male behind the book.

“And I’m guessing your usual black tea with milk? Coming right up!” She turns around and simply walks off with a trail of soft pink sparkles behind her.

Eren turned back to the stranger and stood up from his chair, the book shifting high so he couldn’t see. Annoyed, he sat down in a heap and pouted a bit. A stifled laugh came from behind and stopped when the waitress returned. She set the drinks down on the table and smiled.

“That’ll be 20 gold please.” Just as he was about to take out his pouch,20 gold came from behind the book and into her hand.

"Thank you!" She smiled and flew away again. Eren smiled a little at the one behind the book and drank the cocoa, taking out his notebook that was covered in notes and doodles and writing down what had happened.

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Eren had read the back of the spell book the other was reading,' Sight Of Spell In Combat' By Annika Von Stein.

"I've read this one..." He said, looking to the book owner, it was quiet before he sighed.

"..If you were looking for a place in the book for bow and arrow users, what page would you look at."

Eren perked up a bit, "Page 89 through 95, and for spells to use with arrows would be 101-107."

The pages of the book flipped and small whispers could be heard as he was reading, the sound of a highlighter moving across the page and notes being taken down behind the book.

Eren took the initiative and peeked over the book, a bit of fluffy brown hair was seen before the book obstructed his view, smacking him in the face in the process, making him groan in pain.

"You're nosy 'blondie'." The owner said.

He whined as he rubbed his nose, "Hey, I'm just curious." Suddenly the book closed and revealed its owner, a male with short shaggy brown hair, faded purple skin with an array of freckles over his nose and cheeks; his eyes had no iris for some reason and he had a firm jaw. Even without his pupils, his gaze was still powerful.

“Now wha-“ “You're really handsome.” Eren cut in, grabbing his pen off my desk. “Can I draw you?”

The stranger's face went a dark shade of purple and stuttered out, “W-what the hell..”

Despite the stuttering question, Eren started to sketch him out as the stranger watched him, not understanding how he got to this point with the other.

He slowly became distracted, and he looked out the window, staring out at the residents of the town, he made eye contact with someone, and they seemed to recognize the taller.

“Z!” They screamed and quickly began running through the crowd.

“Shit-“ He mumbled, grabbing his bow and arrow and without thinking, Erens arm along with him.

“H-hey what’s going on?!” Eren said, “We’ve got to go.” He said sternly, dragging him out the door and through the crowd. The blonde looked back and saw his stuff. “Retrevium!”

He said and all his stuff packed itself into the book and it flew at him, grabbing it as they continued running.

“What do you mean we?! What’s going on!” Eren said as the pair continued running through the crowd. “I said WE so I mean WE! Just hold up for a while and let’s get somewhere safe.” He said as an arrow flew by his head, covered in flames. The brown-haired cursed under his breath and took out his own bow and arrows, he pulled one out and quickly aimed it at the group behind him.

“Indigo!” He said and the arrow turned a purple shade. He pulled it back and released it into the mob, a purple smoke burst out and surrounded the mob.

“Alright come on!” He said, running into a nearby cave while Eren followed him in moments later.

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