Young Druid Part 1

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Young Druid

Part 1

Copyright 2017

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Chapter One

He felt something cold underneath his bare skin. it didn't take long for him to realize he was naked with a thin sheet covering him from the waist down. Then the pain hit him in the chest as he remembered what had happened to him.
He saw an elderly man dressed in a white hooded robe with blue trim around the hood and the sleeves standing over him.

He knew who it was without being able to see his face. It was his grandfather, he could tell just by his voice. When his grandfather heard him let out a low moan of pain, he looked down at him. He gave him a smile as he spoke. "It'll soon be over little one. Soon you will be healed but the pain will truly never leave you. You were injured by the darkest magic ever created by the Dark One." His grandfather placed a hand on his forehead. "Sleep now and let us do the rest." As his vision began to fade, he saw his grandfather's face. Mainly his eyes, they were filled with both concern and love over him…

    Rhydian slowly opened his eyes as the sun peeked through the window, shining in his eyes. He groaned as he lifted his head from the pillow and immediately covered it. Only to groan louder as he heard a quick knock on his bedroom door.
    "Come now little one, it's time to get up and give thanks to the Creator for allowing us to have a new day." said his grandfather from behind the door. "Also, you don't want to be late for your first day of school. How would it look for you to be late on the first day? Not very good, especially when you're a Druid."
    "Be down in a minute, grandfather." Rhydian growled out. "Did I mention how much I hate mornings?" He uncovered his head just in time to hear his grandfather chuckle as he left the door to give him privacy as he got ready.
    Rolling over and throwing the blankets to the side, Rhydian sat up on the side of the bed. he found a pair of running short and pulled them on. He partly walked, dragged himself to the bathroom, grabbing a bath towel as he went.

    While waiting for the shower to get warm, he eyed the black scorch mark on his bare chest. As his grandfather had promised him, it was healed completely. And just as he also promised, there was still evidence of it still being there. Not only the occasional pain he would feel, without warning, that was so powerful, causing him to black out, but there was the black mark as well.
    Unlike regular scars, this one was a single inch long and half inch wide black mark, left by a sword. A sword made from the darkest magic any Dark Druid or other magical being could ever wield. Magic so powerful that it came from the

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Dark One, himself.
    Without thinking, like many times before, he traced it with his fingers, willing it away to no avail. The scar itself was a constant reminder that his pain would always still be there, waiting to manifest without any notice. He had to transfer from several schools because of it. He and and his grandfather, moved from his home in Ireland to London, England. From there to other schools that would be willing to take him but within a month or two of his blackouts, the headmasters would call him and his grandfather into their offices, politely asking them to leave the school and never to return.
    So one day out of the blue, his grandfather told him they would be leaving for America. To give themselves a fresh start and to a place where no one would know them. So they packed their belongings, sold their home and moved to a small town in Kentucky called Grayson.