the magic battle

Chapter 8 inner learning stage (part 1)

I was listening to sean and Phoebe go over all the plans, but it was really hard to concentrate as i have just had a little battle again with them and still lost so god knows what the hell i have to bring out of the bag to win in the battle. Well i call it a battle what i didn't know it was a fricken war of hell.

"Sam are you ok? You look a bit confused." Phoebe announced.

"Er yeah just a bit nervous and stuff. But i really just need to do something to clear my head and just calm down."

"Well merlin once figured out, that the strongest of men aren't the ones who constantly learn from others but the ones who think and learn from them selves." Sean wisely suggested.

"What the fuck does that mean,"

" he said that no one will know the full potential of inner learning stage, as he called it, until tested and tried out, he said that not all wizards can do only the ones who need who need to become a leader and learn their full potential. " i sat there and thought for a few seconds.

"A shit, i have my stupid, fricken paper round. I totally forgot. " i revealed.

"Go, do it and do what sean told you to do even go to sleep after or just sit there with no distractions and it will just come to you, don't over think it though. " leah said with a helpful smile raped around her face. I just nodded. I turned around and flashed to my apartment room door, the papers were stacked there as they always are as the nice front door man brings them up to help me out. I shot with relief that there was no leaflets, meaning ill get less money but at the moment i don't give a shit i could be dead soon.

I lifted my hand up, and the pile of papers raised as well i carried them into the apartment and into the trolly's bag, i pulled it out of my apartment room and all the way down to the bottom with all the letter holes for each room, i put one in each slot, all 25. Then walked sluggishly out of the apartment to the next and did the same again. I repeated this like i do every week, for every apartment on my paper round trip, that contained 12 apartments all with 25 rooms. Meaning have to lug round 300 papers, but sometime if no one is round and its late i cheat and use magic to help out.

On the way round i was trying to think of what sean was saying. But nothing was happening nothing came to my mind, i didn't see any lessons nothing at all. It took about half an hour for my paper round to finnish. Although it sounds like i deliver a lot i don't need to do one by one it goes down easily 25 a time, and two apartments a street they are fairly big as the rooms are bigger as i live in the south, near the centre it would be different.

As i delivered the last round i walked into a small pizza shop two streets away, it wasn't a big company like dominos or pizza hut it was just called, Benny's pizza. I thought it would be nice to order my favourite meal may be for my last. I ordered a large meaty feast, with stuffed crust and a thin italian base. The nice man maid it extremely quickly, and i paid, and waited until he turned around, and as there was no people around i grabbed my trolly and flashed to my apartment. I tilted it on to its weals and pushed it controlling it, like a remote control car, into the cubed, where it stays.

I placed the pizza on my settee walked over to the fridge, to get out a bottle of WKD, and sat down, i ate away and drank the drink slowly, after drink another one. I just sat there, thinking really hard of, nothing but magic, but jack shit was happening. In frustration, i grabbed one of the empty bottles next to the three quarter empty pizza box, and chucked it at the front door. It smashed into hundreds of pieces scatted all over the floor. I just stopped and breathed heavily for a second angry, in nerves, then clicking the mess away.

I lay down on the settee just thought of nothing but a picture in my mind of what i hoped it looks like when we win the battle. It was a couple of minutes, but i slowly became really relaxed and light, almost high, i could tell i wasn't near tips from the drink as i would need a couple more for that to happen. I was looking up at the ceiling, but was interrupted by a dull glow of my skin, it was gold, the colour of my magic, my soal. It grew from my hands up my arms, into my chest and down my legs, as i wasn't wearing a jacket for once and just had a really nice dipped dyed top, with a make wrote over the chest in bold swirly white writings, with my short sleeves made even shorter as i rolled them up a couple of times, i could see the glow more strongly. I say dull but it was still see able in pure day light, it just wasn't blinding. But before i could even think of my unusual appearance glow, I heard a old croaky voice but sounded humbling muttering my name.

"Sam, sam , young feller" it came from my left near the island of a working surface at the end of my small but good kitchen.

"Um hey" i reply and to see a old man with long white hair that was so long it grouped up into his just as long beard that covered most of his wrinkly face. He was wearing a grey cloak, hand was clenching strongly with his right hand onto a old brown wooden staph which was styled in a three piece spiral affect from the bottom all the way up to the top where the three pieces split of separately still spiralling with a gap in between them creating a small cage, which had a small crystal lump inside, it glowed gold the same colour of the magic, i knew what it was, it was a magic crystal, and the last of them when held it glows your colour of magic and makes the staph into a big version of a wand, i wondered if the reason we both had the same colour of gold, it represented a link between us as, even in families each generation the colour changes slightly each time, how ever hundreds of years later i had the same colour, even though my every one else in my family had not. The crystal was made originally with loads more clumps like it in the volcano of bonitas which was destroyed in the big battle of Ealdor, legend says merlin cached the lump of crystal when Mordred and Morgana destroyed it at the battle as it is the volcano of pure goodness other (bonitas) so works for wizards with no dark inside of them.

"You are experiencing the inner learning stage well done." I stood up intrigued.

"Er thanks, what should i do, and why is it happening"

"Nothing but listen to the thoughts of your self that your mind over looks so much you don't even realise your thinking of them" he coughed viscously like he smoked 40 a day, but i put it down to age, " because you need to stop listening to others and think for your self, many wizards that have the greatest of intentions, like your self, in the hassle and nerves they often don't use their full potential of their brains creations of thoughts and ideas and only think with their body that they already know, hence the brake away from your friends that was granted to you. I wouldn't worry many good powerful wizards have not listened to them selves stopping them from proceeding in the magic skills and potential "

"Um ok thanks, who are you again"

"Why you do need the inner learning stage, i am Merlin, my spirit of what i was. I have been watching over you the last week, in hope to see you succeed as well as i have as you are in line to be the next worlds best wizard" i felt a bit angry that i was getting a calm telling of from a dead old man. Even though i knew he was the all and powerful.

"No need for the sarcasm" Merlin frowned, making me feel guilty " um sorry i didn't mean that I'm just a bit, freaked out at the mo thats all." Merlins ghost smiled and slowly moved forward and placed the end of his staph with the crystal on the top of my head and muttered wisely,

"Show what it is over looked, let him learn from, listen to, see the, lessons of his own protential, let him see success where success is not seen!" The crystal shown bright almost blinding me, but i all so think my glow, shone bright with it. Instantly my surroundings blurred out, merlin had gone and it was me standing in no where known. Suddenly sparkly magical blob of colours shot out my head, i was guessing out of my brain, it grew bigger and surrounded me. I started to shake un controllably, not in fear nor cold but from the spell. To sparkly thin tubes things grew from in front of me not that far apart, they shot write into my eyes, from that point i couldn't see a thing but purely what magic is made of sparkly stuff.

I shook even more furiously i could feel my self sweating for no reason, images wizzed down the tub into my head hundred, one after anther, to fast to normally see but i could see every single one in extreme detail. Ways to win the battle, ways to make me better in every single way, ways for be prepared for the un prepare able, although i was amazed of what i was being shown, it felt natural almost like it wasn't new to me it was only then i understood the meaning of inner learning stage, it took a few minutes for it to finish.

I flew back into the settee, effortless and extremely heavy, i felt so so heavy. I was sweating buckets, my hair was soaked, i was breathing heavily, gasping for air, as if i had not breathed a single air molecule for the entire experience.