Magic Bonds

Chapter 1: A New Beginning

??? POV

It's always the same fucking dream. A man shorter than me stand before me with a smile on his face, and love shining in his eyes. He has beautiful blue eyes, and some sort of accent that I can't quite figure out. He is pale like the shining moon, but brighter than the sun itself. 

"I love you, Mark." 

That's what the boy always says, but I can hardly believe it's true. Who can love a monster like me? I am feared everywhere I go by anyone I pass. I can hardly stand it. But I know this boy in my dreams is destined to be my soul-mate, and that's why I dream of him. My mother explained to me that it's one of those strong bonds we have that connects us. Which means he is most likely a powerful Mage as well, but why does he have to be a light user? How can he love a freak like me? Because of my family we can have children with any gender, and if our soul-mate is true we can share our powers. Which is still hard for me to also believe since dark magic corrupts light user. But supposedly we would be able to use both when we are with one another. I don't know I think it's a load of bullshit. 

I know that soon I will end up meeting him since I'm being enrolled in the elite school of Mage's. I can only imagine the looks, and rumors that are already being said before my arrival. I love being powerful I just wish everyone wasn't afraid of me. I'm better at controlling my cravings better than most. But I guess it's better safe than sorry after all light magic is basically like an addictive drug to us. And our small fangs that have grown to suck out that magic haven't really helped us look less scary. 

I sit up from my bed as the alarm blares in my ears. I shut it off before beginning my daily routine of putting my spell books in my bag, and getting ready for school. My brother Thomas has already left with my Father to learn more about his job as head of the council. Since I am the younger brother I won't have to deal with that mess. Thank God. I walk down stairs to see my Mother finishing up cleaning the dishes she used to make breakfast. And no it isn't some weird gruel, or dead people. She made biscuits sandwiches with ham, and egg in them. I grab two, and shove them inside my bag before hugging my Mom. "Thanks Mom see ya later." I say walking to the door strapping my feet into my hover board. 

"Be careful dear! Have a good day at school!" She says behind the closed door which causes me to have a small smile.

Even though we may seem like evil people we do act nice to people we have close ties with. It wasn't long before my magic filled the hover board enough for it to take off. I weave my way through the crowd without saying excuse me since I'm in a rush to not be late. Of course I'm getting the random stares of disapproval as I fly through the crowd, but I don't care really. My hover board ends up being hit by another one similar to mine, but before I can cuss out whoever hit me they began to speak.

"Hi Mark!" Bob says after leveling himself out. I chuckle knocking against him again. 

"Hey Bob, where is wade?" I ask which Bob just shrugs as we continue to hover through the crowd. "How much you want to bet he is already there flirting with Molly?" I ask an evil smirk growing on my face.

"5 Bucks." Bob says with the same smirk.

"I guess we will have to wait and see, wont we?" I ask with a chuckle as we slow down. We have to check in at the school gate before going into the school other wise we would be kicked out. They have a policy against us that causes us to wear a collar in order to protect the light magic users. 

"Name?" The security man asks pulling out a list, and two collars.

"Mark Fischbach." I say confidently before taking my collar from the man, and letting it clamp around my neck. It isn't tight, but it isn't comfortable either. Bob retrieves his collar before following me inside the gate. 

"Did you have that dream again?"

"Of course I did I will until I find them." I say with a huff not really wanting to get into the stupid dream at the moment. "What about you have you had the 'soul dream'?" I say with a smirk knowing Bob hasn't had one yet.

"Actually I have!" Bob says defensively with a bright pink blush rising in his slightly pale skin. 

I immediately chuckle at his response. "Please do tell is it a boy or a girl?" I say teasingly.

"It's a girl, and her name is Mandy she is a dark user unlike you and your boy." Bob says with a smirk.

"Shut up Bob!" I shout still not able to believe I will turn out to be gay. My parents weren't bothered by it that much since I will have children either way. But still! I've had the same dream for the past 2 years, and I haven't found him. It must be some kind of fluke! It has to be...

While I'm lost in my thoughts someone ends up running into me by accident causing me to stumble, but I catch myself along with the person who almost fell into me.

"S-Sorry." The boy says getting up quickly. "I-I'm still not used to the hover board mecha-..." When the boy looks up, and into my eyes he immediately stops what he was saying, and my thoughts freeze as well. 

My heart beat starts to beat faster, and faster I can practically hear it in my ears along with his. This boy, the one in front of me. "I-It's you." I stutter out quietly staring into the boys face amazed that he was actually real. I feel so light, so free it's almost impossible to describe. He makes my darkness feel at peace, and my chest is so light. I can feel the sparks between us clearly especially with my hands on his arms helping him stand. The boy looks just as amazed as I am, and quickly his lips move to form a small smile. 

"Hello Mark." The boy says his blue eyes practically gleaming with joy.

Bob shifts on his feet uncomfortably. "Mark? Who is he?" Bob asks confused.

I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding pulling my eyes away from the boy to Bob. "T-This is him... He is my soul mate." I say feeling my face heat up which is strange since I am so used to feeling cold inside. The boy moves closer hugging me, and nuzzling his face into my chest. I am practically melting into his touch as I hug him back.

"My name is Sean McLoughlin, but please call me Jack. I'm so happy we found each other Mark." Jack says hugging me tightly. I wrap my arms around him hugging him closer nodding my head in response. Everything about Jack; his smell, smile, eyes, hair, face, and body was just perfect. I could hardly comprehend anything going around me as I held this perfect person close to me. I could feel his happy tears soak my shirt lightly. Our magic starts to spark, and connect easily flowing between the both of us to the point we begin to glow slightly. It wasn't long before every eye on campus was on us experiencing the bond we were creating with our magic. I was glowing red with a few black orbs while Jack glowed green with white orbs floating around him. I could tell our magic was strong because of how bright we were glowing. 

My heart spoke before my mind could even comprehend what I was saying. "I will stay with you forever Sean." I could feel it as our eyes never left each others as if our life depended on the eye contact. I could feel a slight burn etch into my wrist as our bond was being completed. Both of our sir names was etched into our wrists in a beautiful script.

Fischbach-McLoughlin

Once the bond ceremony was finished we were able to break eye contact with each other. I looked at the words now etched into my tanned skin with a peaceful smile on my face. I looked up to see Sean was just excited as I was, but I noticed the quick change in his body language when he looked behind me and began to get nervous. I turned around as well my eyes meeting with the crowd of people that stood there watching with curious, and astonished faces. I looked over at Bob to see he shared the same expression as the crowd.

"What?" I asked confused as to why this was such a big deal. Wade ran up to us with a grin on his face.

"Dude! That was awesome!" Wade shouts excitedly looking at both Jack and I.

Bob cleared his throat to get rid of the expression on his face. "I-I believe you may have one of the strongest bonds ever recorded since the first bond.." Bob says still surprised by the words coming out of his own mouth.

My eyes widened as I looked over to Sean to see he was just as shocked as I was, but the excitement was short lived as the bell rang for classes to begin.