To the moon ♡ muke

8 - but i grew up, wishing on a star ☽

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Luke was more than grateful that Michael decided to go with him to professor Reina's cabinet.

The room was everything you'd expect from a place where a history teacher spends most of his time. There were maps all over the walls, old books about magical and non-magical history. The shelves probably haven't seen a cleaning cloth in a while.

They all sat down on old uncomfortable chairs and the professor stored away the books and papers he used in the class they just finished.

"So if you want to know about the war, we'll have to go over some of your basic knowledge. We'll learn about all of this in the class next year but I can see you're interested in this for personal reasons so I don't mind sharing it with you now."

Great, Luke thought to himself. Everyone knew about this matter yet he - who was a part of the family influenced by it didn't.

"Mr. Clifford, I'm curious to hear this from your point of view since you learned this at a different school - how did we, the human race, got this amazing gift of channeling the power of water, air, earth, fire, and the universe?"

Michael blushed a bit and Luke knew it was because he didn't like being in the center of the attention.

"Many years ago a meteor from a different universe flew into ours and crashed against Earth. The human race helped to minor and fix the damage and as a result, they got the power to use nature's gifts to their advantage."

Reina nodded approvingly. "Short but you managed to capture the point."

"Of course," he continued. "Everything in nature is balanced so the magic needed to be as well. That's how through generations more and more people got their tattoos blank when they made enough journeys around the sun and were able to channel it."

Professor noticed their confusion and smiled. "When your tattoo gets colors that's when your magic can be used to the fullest potential. Because when you have a soulmate you have someone who can balance it, someone, who can stop you from doing bad things for example. Your soulmates will be what will balance you out, your other half in this world. Some people liked to call it the Jing to the Jang."

"Professor?" Michael asked and Luke looked at him and saw he was just as into the story as he was.

"Yes, Michael?"

"If we all have our better half to keep us grounded why are then so many bad people walking around?"

"Great question. Luke do you have any idea why?"

Luke looked to his lap where he was playing with his fingers. He took a guess but he knew neither Michael nor professor would laugh at him if he'd be wrong.

"Because they keep our magic grounded. Yet we can still do horrible things without it."

Professor's face light up. "Exactly. Good job Luke. We can do great things with our magic, some of us better than others but even our magic is beatable. That's why we had so many wars and while we still have criminals. The war you asked me about Luke had happened over sixty years ago. Right now you two don't need to hear the details about it but it ended with a horrible explosion."

Now since our magic has a lot to do with the balance in nature this explosion ruined it. A lot of people couldn't use it for days, weeks even. The war was over but no one expected the consequences that had happened later. When the first babies were born after the war had ended everything was messed up. Some of them were born with tattoos, some of the tattoos already had colors and some didn't get their tattoo and therefore their magic till they were in their twenties."

"My grandparents were born after the war." Luke interrupted.

"And so were Mr. Clifford's."

Luke turned his face to Michael's. Michael knew all about this but Luke was still surprised over how many connections their families had.

"What does that have to do with why our families hate each other?"

"Well, I think that's something Michael could tell you. Will you?"

Michael was already looking at Luke when the younger boy turned around. His sage green eyes were wide open and he looked at him with questionable expression. "If you'd want me to?"

Luke whispered a quiet yes before he thanked the professor for taking his time to talk to them.

"Can I ask a question?" Michael made Luke sit back down.

"Go ahead." Mr. Reina looked way more excited in these twenty minutes Luke had spent in his office than in the last three months they had him talk in the class.

"Why do we only start learning about soulmates and magic in general when we get our magic? Our parents could already explain a lot to us and maybe that would make things easier in school."

"In general, do your parents teach you how the car works before you take lessons?"

"No."

"Mine did and when I first got behind the wheel I thought I knew everything but I almost crashed it. We also have veins, lungs, and heart long before we learn about how our body works in Biology class. Here at school, we're educated in teaching you to use your magic the proper way, we learn about the history and your body when you're able to understand everything. It's no coincidence you get your magic when you're old enough to use it more carefully than you would at a younger age."

After Michael's question was answered the two of them left the professor's cabinet.

Luke managed to trip over his feet and landed on the floor. Luckily for him, the hallways were empty so no one was there to laugh at him. Michael offered him his hand and pulled him up.

"Do you want to go to the library to talk?

"Sure."

Luke followed the older boy to their favorite place. He noticed his hand was still in Michael's but he didn't mind the warmth it gave away.

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I hope I'm not complicating this too much for you. I always forget everything makes sense in my head but I'm not always the best at putting them into words. I hope you'll enjoy this. ♡

Thoughts? Hand holding?

War thoughts?

What does the war have to do with the family feud?

Love, Lucija♡