The Strange Apprentice- Book One

Chapter 1

Just another typical Sunday morning. The sun was shinning, no wind whatsoever. It all seemed great and ordinary at the baseball stadium where the crowds cheered for their team as they cursed and ate greasy foods, while being completely wasted. Pathetic. I could never understood why people were so obsessed about baseball,after all, it was just like a big game of fetch with a drunk audience.

I'm sorry, i haven't introduced myself. My name is Casey. Casey Kinmont. My grandfather is the notorious baseball coach Bill Kinmont, better know as the soul reason i attend this stupid games. I always get front seat tickets for these things, but i only accept it because, after the game, is the only time i am allowed to see my grandfather.I can't see him during week days because he is to busy with the team practices. Me and paps are really close. He is the only one who encouraged me to follow the career i wanted( I'm taking astrophysics at the NYU in case you were wondering), my parents wanted me to be a lawyer or a doctor, but i said i needed a challenge, plus I'm not great with people, like, not great at ALL.You see, since early age i was considered an overachiever,i never cared for child plays, so the other kids weren't so nice and tolerant with me, in fact they kinda gave me a hard time in school, eventually it passed, but long story short i was always better when i was alone and i actually didn't mind that, in fact i still don't. Of course when i got into college, nothing changed because i was forced to talk and socialize with empty headed kids who only think about drinking, partying and having sex with the most amount of people they can, also known as typical college students. Not exactly my type of people if you get what i mean. So surprise surprise, i don't have many friends. I guess i'm just a private person, i don't mess with you, you don't mess with me, everything is just fine. I guess that also answers to your next question...no, i don't have a boyfriend. I mean i'm not the typical girl so i'm not expecting the typical guy to accept me, but the world has 6 billion people, half of them are male, one of them should be good for me (so i hope). Yup, i am that girl in your school that always wears dark clothes, doesn't talk to anyone, has the best grades, and seems to live in a world of her own, and doesn't seem to mind with it. Yup life was great, until the day it wasn't, but we will get to that.

So hear i am, on another baseball game looking through my instagram pretending not to be annoyed by the guy screaming and spelling his soda on top of me completely unaware of what he is doing. Suddenly i see through the corner of my eye a baseball coming towards me. Lots of people tried to grab it but they couldn't. I caught it, and without looking away ,i tossed it to the field. Then i realized the ball had hit a poor guy in the head. It wasn't supposed to hit anyone and i didn't know i had that kind of strength. I got up, went to the hot dog stand, grabbed some napkins and went to help the guy. He was lying on the floor a little dizzy, and bleeding from a wound in the forehead. I offered to call a doctor and ask the stranger if he wanted to have my seat, i was really embarrassed and ashamed.

Now, what i am about to tell you may be shocking and probably unbelievable for most of you, I would not have believed if it had not happened to me. Some of you may ask this question but no... i wasn't under the effect of any drug or medication. So pay attention. What i saw, what I'm telling you, is the truth and nothing else but the truth.I will tell you about the moment my life changed and everything that i thought i knew, everything i took for granted or for a fact, was discredited.

You see, when i started to clean the blood out of the guy's forehead something weird happened. Golden threads started coming out of my hands and penetrated in the guys wound and in a matter of seconds, the injury disappeared like it was never there to begin with. No scar, no mark, no nothing. Suddenly he spoke:

- Incredible!- He gasped.

I started panicking, WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED, in one minute he was lying on a floor with a massive injury in his head and next minute he was standing up, completely cured.I drooped my glasses when i walked away in shock. Then things just got weirder. The guy made some hand gestures ( sign language maybe!?),and when i picked up my glasses the sky was black and purple and all the players of the visiting team looked like demons.I couldn't believe what i was seeing. In the mean time a paramedic arrived. I shouted at him to go away but he looked at me like i was crazy and started examining the guy like everything was normal. In fact no one seemed to be realizing that something was wrong. And then the guy spoke again: