Accidental Merlin

Chapter 1: the story begins at birth

Hello, let me introduce myself. My name is Emris, Emris Smith, and this is my story.

I suppose it all started when I was born, I was born near Calcutta India, in town called Krishnanagar, in the middle of a monsoon season, that according to my mom has not been surpassed. I was born to an Indian mother and an English father.

I had what I thought at the time was a normal childhood, my mother a proud strong Indian woman was the main breadwinner of the family, supporting my dad's craziness by being a science teacher and also tutoring private students to make sure everything was paid for. My father, an undoubtedly clever man with 2 PhDs, was always restless, looking for the next thing. We moved around a lot during our childhood, him finding one job only to find another "better" one in six months or a year, we moved 5 cities by the time I was 4.

I think finally my mom had enough of never settling down, if only to give me a stable childhood, we settled down in a city on the opposite side of India, in Gujarat. We bought an apartment and settled down, he never really settled completely going from a pharmaceutical engineer to ... something I didn't pay attention(I was 6 years old) and then to a professor of a masters level chemistry at a very respected university. Like I said; a clever man.

But like I also said he was a restless man, I think he just got bored and sometime around the time I turned 10 he decided to wander yet again. This time he went big, he decided to move back to England, and so off we went.

I now realise I haven't actually described myself. I was a perfectly boring introvert, slightly dusky toned, average looking, and 5'11" by the time I turned 19. Slightly overweight, not really athletic. With weird and eclectic interest: I liked rock music, I was into anime, really into blacksmithing spending a lot of my time scouring YouTube learning about how to forge metals into weapons. I even spent hundreds of pounds on courses to learn the basics of blacksmithing.

I grew up pretty normal, playing cricket in with the local kids in India, then playing football when we immigrated to England. I am not ashamed to admit it, I was terrible. I mean not the worst player in any group; but towards the bottom third. I actually wasn't that bad at cricket indoors, be it in the cricket nets or even on concrete when we played in the car parks, but put me on grass an all of my velocity and control went away. I personally blame it on the bad footwear, i didn't own a pair of Nike's till I was 18. My mom would rather spend the money on paying down the mortgage faster; I wish I had her wisdom.

I think I was 17 the first time I noticed my ability, I mean I might have noticed earlier that I HAD FUCKING SUPERPOWERS if it was something obvious like super strength, speed the ability to fly; but no, sadly my ability was much too subtle for a teenager to notice. I had the MASSIVE, TERRIFYING, AMAZING POWER OF making small objects disappear.

Seriously, I made small objects disappear.

I mean I was (and still am) extremely messy, so how could I have been expected figure out that I had "disappeared" the right half of my favourite pair of socks, or a pair of cheap poundland headphones or even my old mp3 player (no, my mother would not buy me an iPod, this was I think some no name 32gb mp3 player that was powered by AA batteries, that I saved up the money for and bought from Argos). Things like that go missing all the time and a messy teenager like me can't really be blamed for not figuring it out, can I? Plus who reading this hasn't misplaced something small like their keys or phone or their glasses. See this is the reason it took me so long to find that I had an "ability", my power was devious. Sometimes, my powers would make the missing things reappear nearby, so to me it just seemed like I had misplaced my keys or phone and I found them again after an half hour of desperate searching.