Descendents of Magic

Party Time

I swayed my hips to the beat of the music pumping through the speakers, I danced amongst a crowd of mostly drunk hormonal teenagers that jostled around, jumping up and down. Feeling drained and tired after the strenuous amount of time I was dancing I decided to finally go get myself a drink and headed to the kitchen. I wiggled my way through a mass of people to get to my destination but managed to get to my destination arriving no worse for wear. Deciding I wouldn't be making any stupid decisions I decided to stay sober and went with a soda. Gulping the sugary fluid down I strode to the backyard, it was a bit more mild here so I sat and rested a bit, readying myself to continue partying.

"Hey! There you are I thought I'd never find you, what are you doing back here anyway?" Said a good brunette friend of mine.

"I'm only resting up a bit Becca the whole partying thing can kinda take some energy out of you." I replied with a grin. Becca and I went some time back, I had come to her school for my final year of middle school. She was the first person to talk to me and we hit it off from there. Hard to believe we're seniors in high school now, time sure does fly.

"Don't you get smart with me, I don't want to have to smack a bitch." she said giving a roll of her eyes.

"Please we both no you'd never hit me, I'm too soft and cuddly."

"Whatever. Anyways want to head back in, I just put in a song request for the DJ and he should be playing it soon?"

"Sure. I was kinda done resting up, I am now ready to PARTAY!

"Never do that again or I'll have to kill you."

"(Sigh) Yes ma'am!" I said running my hand through my brunette fringe. The crowd we walked through was a bit easier to get through than when I went to the kitchen, though a few bruised ribs and stubbed toes later I managed to break through the throng of people and meet Becca on the other side. She'd already started dancing to her hearts content, I took a step forward and stumbled.

"What the fuck?"I looked around my vision blurring and my head swimming. I put a hand towards the wall to support myself I slowly inched my way to a place to sit. Settling down on a nearby I gripped my head, the pounding in my skull frequent and unforgiving.

"Josh, you oka- Oh! Oh my god! Are you bleeding? No... nononono this cannot be happening now!"

"What are you talking about? What do you mean bleeding?"

"We need to leave now how could I not have seen this coming you just turned seventeen!" she rambled on hoisting me up and flinging my arm over her shoulder. Using some hidden strength she started dragging me to the front door.

"Becca ca-can you please e-explain? Wha-whats happening to m-me?" I pleaded.

"Your changing, internally I mean, to house the powers that you've inherited."she explained while opening the front door and began leading me down driveway and onto the sidewalk towards where we parked.

"P-powers? Wha-"

"Listen! You can ask questions when I get you somewhere safe but you need to start walking. We need to leave quickly and your kinda heavy," listening to her I began concentrating on moving my feet instead if talking. The car came into view, with it came menacing looking shadowy figures.

"Shit! Witch hunters! Fuck! Um where do we go, where do we go!" She looked around, the figures walked closer and closer.

"Josh, I need to put you down okay? I'm- I'm going to handle this." she mumbled leaning me up against a car. Once that was done she took a step forward, and the weirdest thing happened. Her right hand conjured a ball of flames into her palm. At this point the figures, which were clearly men, started to sprint towards us. Glints of light shone off weapons that they were carrying, it made my blood run cold. Were they going to kill us?Becca launched the fireball towards one of the men hitting him head on, summoning two more she threw them but missed both times. One of the men slashed at her only to hit thin air as she sprang back, Becca lashed out with whips of flame hitting a few targets and burning them. The last two men advanced trying to hit Becca one slashing horizontal and one slicing vertical. Becca let out a groan of pain as the vertical slash cut her stomach not too deep, but enough to stagger her. I felt a surge inside me at seeing this and with that came the feeling of clarity. I leapt forward unsure of what my body was doing and with great surprise shiny bright lights left my fingertips. Concentrating I willed them to seek out the man who cut Becca. He got knocked back just as he was going to deal the final blow, using my other hand I unsurely rose it upwards depending on pure instinct. Again to my surprise a white pillar rose from the ground knocking the other attacker away. Running to Becca's side I lifted her like she did me, my size not allowing me to carry her without some difficulty. I began moving us to the car opening up the passenger door I helped Becca into her seat. When I finished putting on her seat belt I ran to the drivers side and started up the engine, taking it out of park and pushing my foot down on the gas pedal the car lurched forward into the road.

"Becca, stay awake I need directions where do I go?"

"It's close by let me get up my GPS. There follow the directions. Ow for christs sake," I drove faster following the directions Becca set, she wasn't looking so good.

"Don't worry too much okay. This isn't going to bring me down, I've had worse. Calm down and relax, running into another car won't help us any."

"Alright... So um wanna tell me what all of that was about. I mean really what's going on, one second were partying and the next I'm doubled over in pain while your throwing fireballs at some mysterious killer dudes!"

"Okay. Don't freak out-"

"Little too late to be saying that now!"

"Right, anyway um well you sorta kinda might be a Warlock."

"Sorta kinda, really? What's a Warlock?"

" A Warlock is the name for the male counterpart of a witch. Witches and Warlocks harvest magical properties that are drawn from natural elements, like you saw mine is fire."

" Okay what is mine? My element I mean."

"Well light of course! Which is rare there is only one other user with that element. I wonder the headmaster will react to this?"

"Headmaster?"

"He's the head honcho of the school I used to go to. He keeps the students safe and makes important decisions for the school."

"And, you left the school why exactly?"

"Well if suspicions of another magical being reaches him he sends in a student to watch over that person and keep them safe until their powers finally present them self."

"When do the powers start start showing up? Is it like random?"

"No, it starts to happen after the persons seventeenth birthday, at first the changes are subtle. But as you saw sometimes they happen quickly in a short amount of time which results into what you felt during the party. Oh take this turn right here, the GPS doesn't show this road well you know secret school and everything," we took the well-hidden dirt path into a set of dense woods. Pulling up towards a gate I stopped, a lithe woman came towards the car doing a hand motion for the window.

"Hello, I'm sorry but this a private community, you'll have to turn around and leave please," she said in a kind and gentle tone. Becca leaned over the seat divider and shone the woman a small fireball.

I'm one of the students at the school, I'm returning with a new addition!"

"Oh right this way then, sorry. Open the gate!" she called back to a man sitting in a booth. Walking away she shouted out a goodbye and returned to the booth with the man. The gates doors began to fold inwards creating a huge opening. Driving forward and up the path a huge building came into view presumably the school. At the front was a valet which was super cool! I got out of the car and hurried to Becca's side and helped her out of the vehicle. We walked into the doors and were met with a front office and a lobby with a receptionist behind the desk.

"Go to the receptionist she can call the nurse to the front office," Becca said. I did as I was told and headed towards the receptionist, her head perked up at our approach and her eyes widened at the situation in front of her. She picked up a nearby phone and punched in some numbers chattering quietly to the other person on the line.

"The nurse will be right down! Please head to the main office, I've also alerted them that you're coming."

"Thankyou!" I called to her and headed towards the main office door. I twisted the knob and walked in. It was fairly spacious, and had nice carpeting along with luxurious waiting chairs. Placing Becca onto a chair I sat her down and waited for further instruction. A few silent minutes later a woman in scrubs appeared and helped Becca towards the back of the office. I went to follow only to be held back by the office secretary.

"The headmaster is coming to see you please have a seat I'm sure the girl will be fine," I nodded my head and sat down again waiting for the headmaster. I began to nod off in my seat this day has just left me drained of energy.

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Authors Notes: I hoped you enjoyed reading this chapter 😄. Please leave a comment if the chapters need to be longer I am writing this on an iPod. I also hope to be updating weekly! So until next time byeee!