Before 800 years (1)

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Myself and Drake were just 25 and we wandered to the places without any aim in mind.  We were the royal members of the family but for the next 300-500 years there isn't a worry for we were perfectly capable of doing things on our own and our family though a royal one knew that their children are perfectly capable of living on their own anywhere they left and the immortality added an advantage to it.  They wanted us to learn whatever we pleased and in full focus that we excel in that particular field.  I had always had the aim to become a healer not only by magic but also by learning about the different types of creatures and the drugs that are used to handle them.  We were trained from 15 years of age to learn to heal without magic and it perfectly was fine without any magic to prove miracles with the right amount of certain drugs to treat the people from so many diseases.

But the fact was that we had to specialize in it.  The fact that I was into dark magic was apparent when I reached 10 and from then they supported it to the fullest.  But healing was something one could do with the magic of light that knowing the Dark Magic had nothing to do with it, I decided to give the impossible a try.  Finally it was apparent that only the mindset of the one who's coursing his/her energy matters and not the kind of magic.  It was a revelation and from then we both were able to practice it successfully though many were against the idea of it and for further studies on its actual abilities we left the palace for many those who weren't supportive just went on spreading rumours that we had to have a change of pace so we could actually make it matter.

It was very little time before we found that the body of the humans were so fragile that they couldn't take a whiff of dark magic and could also affect the being if their soul was so much weak which wasn't a problem for other animals or creatures. Only humans are able to make themselves and their souls believe that it couldn't do anything against the dark magic for they are the ones who could identify the kind of power we use on them.  Their intelligence was a boon and also a horror for they naturally believed (also made their souls) that the dark magic was just some sort of evil thing. 

So, we were able to convert the dark magic to the lighter one while we treated them and it helped them to the fullest.  We wandered the unknown places and the cultures there were so interesting.  For nearly 5 years we wandered we never used the dark magic and decided to keep it that way for until we leave the human world.  

We decided to stay up in a mountain for the folk there needed attention on their health and we put up a makeshift tent in there and stock up the basic herbs we find and hold on to.  One fine day we went wandering about in some unknown mountain and it was nearly the time to return.  We felt something strange, like someone's trying to connect with us.  If we were normal human we would've left it but the fact that it was urgent was evident in his anxious aura that the spirit made itself evident and vulnerable.  Any other cultivator wouldn't have had a second thought before killing its fire.

We let our powers catch up to us and only then we were able to see that it was a ghost fire with its light burning so bright that attracted our attention.  Our ability to understand spirits were high that we understood that it was urging us to follow into the deeper parts and hoping for us to help it.  It was hella serious and we should've probably ignored it for it was common for the ghost fires to burn more if it were anxious but something about this one was so much different other than the ones we had encountered. 

We decided to follow it.

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