Spirits within - Abnomination
#2 of Spirits within
(not really happy with how this turned out, just so you know, hopefully the next 3 chapters will be better. And if there is something that seems out of content do tell so I can fix it, might be because of my recent changing of some points of the story.) Spirits within - Abnomination **Chapter 4-6
Chapter 4**
A week had passed since I had been discharged from the Ghost infirmary, the head nurse had also been unable to diagnose what had caused the seizure and stated that it must had been someone who had tested out a forbidden spell on my body or something, if she just knew the reason why I had been in pain, then she wouldn't have been sending me off with a smile.
The week after I had been discharged I spent most of my time in my room, studying all the magic books I hadn't had the time to while I was in the infirmary, and I had gotten through five big tomes in five days before I had to resume my schooling once more, it were soon time for the annual magic contest, an event where students have to show off their skills through duels in front of several "Sages" which simply are mages who have an extreme ability to measure magic abilities and are able to tell what rank you belong to, even I, who had been measured to rank 0 had to compete, for so are the rules and not even the headmaster are able to change those.
So I had spent two days preparing myself, taking various potions which would make it easier for the "Sages" to measure the magic of the students, though there was a minor incident where some of the potions had given me an electrical shock when I drank them, the teacher just told me it were because they might have been slightly too old, but they should still work just fine, of course my classmates all talked about me behind my back, it had been like this ever since the incident with Nick, who I haven't heard anything about since the white robed had taken him home to his family in the capital city.
"Its time class!" I heard a familiar voice shout out, and when I looked up I sighed "I knew it" I mumbled and looked towards Claire who were dressed up like she were a teacher, of course she had been dressed even more strangely as she for some reason seems to switch job each day, not that I minded, I liked to see her in a uniform.
"Now if you just will stand on a line here I will assign you with a number, the numbers will be scrambled afterwards and the order they are drawn in you will fight each other!" Claire said in a soft yet strict voice, when it were my turn to pick a number I did it without looking at Claire, I could tell this bothered her, I could almost feel her gaze upon me, "14" I said and showed her the number. She nodded and tapped my hand, the number getting printed onto it, "please return the number ball and proceed to the waiting area." She said in a extra hard voice, showing me how bothered she were about me ignoring her, I just returned the ball and patted her head before I left to the waiting zone.
The waiting room were already filled with all my classmates as well as almost all the other students from this generation, I only recognized a few because they had done something impressive doing the last few years.
There were Jonathan the creator who in an early age had shown a strong affinity towards animation magic, creating many golems for his own household as well as the school, then there were Sidna who just a few months ago discovered a new close combat spell which allows the user to turn stone and alike into soft yet hard body armor.
Then there were the most famous of them all, Dark Jack, who have mastered a series of barely legal spells which were created many centuries ago to hunt werewolves as well as criminals, in a legal way.
And of course I hoped not to come up against any of those, they are better off with someone on their own rank, instead of a weak rank 0 like me, "Attention! Attention! Everyone may I have your attention!!" I heard someone shout from across the hall.
It were the headmaster, and behind him were several of the teachers as well as fifty "Sages" who all were dressed in gray robes. "I know all of you know the rules for the fights, but just to remind you I will tell them once more! One! No killing, dismembering or mentally disabling your opponents! Two! Fair fights, I don't want anyone kick anyone in the crotch or throw dirt in anyone's faces while they are chanting a spell! And finally, don't hold back! We want accurate readings on your powers and that will only be possible if you don't hold back!" the headmaster shouted loudly, making sure all could hear it without mishearing anything, of course those at the front rows won't be able to avoid an headache for the next few hours after that.
A loud cheer filled the whole room as most of the students showed how exited they were to fight, "now, please take a look at the opposite end of the hall! The duels have been decided!" the headmaster shouted, every single student turning around on the spot, many talking to each other about their opponents, I looked after my name, and by the end of the list I saw it, my eyes going wide in an instant. "Nr. 14 John vs. Nr. 69 Jack" I mumbled to myself, someone must have heard me because soon everyone knew about my duel with the demonic Jack.
"Dude is fucked" I heard someone say nearby, "that John dude is totally gonna get crushed like a bug." Someone else said, it was then my mind shut the voices out, only hearing an endless amount of muttering all around me.
"So you are the one I have to fight" I head a voice say just behind me, when I turned around my eyes were met by a pair of dark green eyes, that were the eyes of my opponent, Jack, who beside his dark green eyes had slightly dark skin, red hair and a well toned body which made him dangerous in both close quarters as well as spell fights.
"Lets have a nice fight" Jack said and offered his hand, trying to be nice I took his hand and shook it very lightly, but when I wanted to let go Jack squeezed it very tightly and leaned in close whispering by my ear "you are so dead, you fucking Ghost" he said and then walked away talking to me before he disappeared into the crowd "good luck surviving."
I didn't pay much attention after that, my mind were in a state of panic, my opponent were the most dangerous guy in my generation, all who fought him out of the official duels always ended up with heavy injuries, and I would be no different.
I kept thinking as I moved with the other students into the arena area, luckily we were enough students in this generation that we had to be split into two duel teams, and mine were in the second one, meaning that I had an hour before I had to fight with Jack, I looked around quickly, very quickly spotting Claire over by one of the walls where she were writing something on a block of paper.
I hurried over to her and grabbed her arm, dragging her out of the closest exit, ignoring her protests until we were on the empty hallways, "what is wrong with you? I were in the middle of taking important notes" Claire said and tapped the note block with her pen "I'm sorry, but I have to ask you for advise" I quickly answered her and looked into her eyes, I could see that she still were a bit mad about earlier as she looked away "and why should I help you?" she said softly and turned her head away from me.
"Please Claire, if you don't help me I might get seriously injured!" I said and grabbed her hand softly "please.. I will make it up to you" I said softly and smiled softly as she looked at me, a sly smirk on her lips "really? Then I will take you on your word! After you have won the fight you will have to spend the rest of the day with me okay?" she said with a soft voice, I simply nodded and gave her a small quick kiss on her forehead "anything for you" I said and chuckled softly.
I saw her trying to her hold back her excitement, "then listen closely and remember this. Magic comes from here" She tapped my chest with one finger "and here" the placed her other finger on my forehead "if these two are out of balance you wont be able to use what I'm gonna teach you now" she said and took my hand, pulling out her pen and writing something on it.
"Now tell me what you read this as" she said and let go of my hand, I looked at her shortly, then at my hand where I saw the words "Artnare Altme" scribbled on with blue ink "Some kind of.. Random words?" I said and felt her pinch my cheek "Wrooong~!" she said "it's a spell, you pronounce it A-rt-nare Al-tme and it got a meaning too, it meaning is something you will discover later. There are other keywords to release other spells but you will have to stick to this one first okay?" she finished talking and released my cheek, I simply nodded, rather confused for some reason, like she just told me something completely without any meaning at all.
"Now, go sit and enjoy watching the fights, its soon you out there after all" she said and grinned a bit as she pushed me back into the crowded arena area, of what I could see there were only two duels going on by now, seems like many ended up fighting someone who were stronger than themselves, and soon I had to do the same, fighting a man who were many times more powerful than myself, though, for some reason I didn't feel all that terrified of the thought, instead, I felt a tingle in my hands, a lust to fight, it had been hidden by the panic earlier, but now the will to fight had filled me, driving me to the conclusion that this would be a very interesting fight. "Attention! The first teams are done, will the next please make their way to the arena's with their numbers on them" I heard the headmaster shout from the middle of the arena area, many students starting to move down towards the arena's with their numbers on them, I easily spotted mine as it were one of the first arenas down there, I took a quick glance around and spotted Claire who were looking all happy waving at me, I just blushed a bit and nodded as I stopped at my arena, two Sages at each duel zone, one at each side of the zones, using barriers to ensure that the spells wouldn't affect people outside.
"I see you haven't chickened out" I heard Jack say from the other end of the duel area, he had equipped some light chain mail armor which most likely had one or more enchantments on them, but there weren't any on this school who should be able to use higher ranked enchantments than 5th rank, which just equals more sturdiness alike.
"Who said I would chicken out, not that I got absolutely no chance of defeating you" I said and looked around at the crowd for a bit, I had been a bit stupid and hadn't taken on any form of armor, since I hadn't expected to fight him.
"Well who said that you, a rank 0 Ghost stand a chance against me?" he answered and pulled a short sword which were glowing with enchantments, I could by a quick glance tell that it wouldn't get dull from cutting bones and flesh and blood wouldn't stain the blade.
"Who said I'm just a rank 0" I said and felt mana surge into my hands, lifting my right hand slowly as flames grew from the fingers and spread to the palm, then the rest of my hand, the flames only staying for a moment before they vanished.
"Though I must confess that, that might have been all the magic I can muster, who knows, I'm just a rank 0 right?" I chuckled softly, feeling the mana run in my veins with my blood, I took a quick glance at Jack who seemed slightly shocked, but not a lot "I knew it were too good to be true that you were unable to use magic, how did a weakling like you graduate from reading to actually using magic?" he said and slowly walked towards me, his stance showing that he was ready to attack.
"About the same time my cousin left the school I guess" I said calmly and kept my eyes on him, readying my stance to make it easier to dodge or run away from attacks, holding my hands, palms down in front of me, the feeling of mana gathering there making a shiver run down my back as flames once more grew in my hands.
"Double fireball" I said and aimed my palms towards Jack, sending the two 3rd rank spells at him with an outstanding speed, but low destructive power, the two fireballs took Jack by surprise and hit him, but as quick as they hit they changed direction "deflecting magic, and the weak kind I see" I said.
"True, its weak, but its useful in a mage duel!" Jack shouted as he charged at me, swinging his dagger down at my shoulder, I barely managed to avoid the blade, I knew it were blunt while inside the boundaries of the barrier but a powerful swing like that would have broken my collar bone like a twig, "come at me!" Jack shouted at me and held his free hand in front of his face, starting to chant a spell.
Chapter 5
"Glorious is the darkness, its power, its embrace, its blessings, let its power give me the strength to defeat the enemies before me!" While he chanted I started my own chant "Before the dawn comes the night, the time of the demons, let my body become a vessel for the holy energies of the spirits who repel those demons" Both of us stopped at the same time, looking at each other while activating our spells "Holy blaze!" I shouted while Jack shouted "Dark fang."
Two torrents of powerful magic collided and then just vanished, as the two opposites rejected each other and cancelled themselves, "if you want to be a strong mage you will have to know the properties of magic" I said and closed my eyes for a moment, "darkness and light type spells cancel each other" I said and opened my eyes again, looking at Jack.
"Then lets see you fight this spell..! 17th rank spell, breath of death!" The moment he said the name of the spell I knew I were fucked, it's a spell without a visible body, meaning if you have to power to control it you can remotely attack from any angle with an blade of invisible mana.
"here is comes, here is comes!" Jack shouted and I felt something give my leg a small cut, "fuck!" I mumbled to myself and looked around, -I cant feel its mana, neither can I deflect it if I cant see it!- I thought to myself and once more felt the invisible blade cut me, this time at my side, leaving a deep cut.
I started to feel a bit lightheaded as blood ran out from the big cut in my side, "darn it" I said, feeling something strange inside my chest, a burning feeling around my heart, and it were spreading, a voice echoing inside the back of my mind, but I didn't hear it as the sound of flesh getting cut filled my ears once more, this time my other side got a deep cut in it, if I didn't do something I would die, then I felt a gaze, different from the other people looking at me, I looked at the stands behind Jack and there I saw Claire, our eyes locked together and our lips moved at the same time "Artnare Altme" I mumbled, and then the voice in my mind finally got through "use it!" it said, "use it and win!" it kept saying, the voice were Claire's, and she were somehow talking to me directly into my mind, through the magic rejecting barrier, but I didn't hesitate and made up my mind.
"I'm going all out now" I said, ignoring that Jack looked at me like I was stupid, "Behold, this is my most powerful spell" I said and held out my hands in front of my like I were gonna catch a ball falling from the skies "Artnare.. Altme" I said softly, the mana flowing in my veins exploding in a burst of fire, making fire shoot out of my wounds, my whole body aflame in less than the blink of an eye, but the flames didn't burn me, they simply became my body, replacing my flesh with flames, my eyes became cold blue flames and my hair turned into flames as silver as it used to be.
"W-what the hell! What is that spell!" Jack shouted and stumbled back as he looked upon what used to be a man of flesh and blood, I raised my hand slowly "I will end this fight now" I said, the flames dying down a bit and returning my body to flesh and blood, the wounds were gone, and my right arm had gotten a line of red glowing runes down along it, I recognized the runes from old scripts and smirked to myself.
It were Spirit words, and for some reason I were able to read them easily -He who wore the purifying flames of Igneel and lived- I looked at Jack who looked very surprised, so did the Sages outside the barrier, as well as all who had been busy fighting or watching others fight, the whole room had been lit up in the intense glow from my flames for a moment, drawing in the attention of everyone in the area, even the eyes of the great headmaster had been caught by my magic.
"This ends now" I said and waited for Jack to respond in any way, and a few seconds after he came with a not so confident reply. "You wish, I'll end this with MY strongest spell, Ir il ran!" dark flames grew around Jacks wrists, "take this!" he shouted as he started to fire dark fireballs at me, "useless" I said and held out my hand "the eye of Igneel is upon me" I said and felt the mana concentrate inside my palm "his gaze is my aid against that which is unholy, blessed be Igneel" I saw a small orb of flames grow in my hand.
"Its too late! I WIN!" Jack screamed, confident that his dark fireballs would reach me in time and defeat me before I could release my spell, but I had pride in my chanting and just before the fireballs hit I said the last words of the chant "spirits bless us." The orb in my hand exploded in a bright red light which filled the whole duel area for a few seconds, while I was blinded I felt a sharp pain in my left side, followed by the burning sensation of unholy flames eating my flesh.
"Vanquish" I heard someone say and felt a cold hand touch my side, as the cold feeling spread I felt the fatigue grow in an instant, sending my body into a deathlike sleep, the final thing I saw before my world got dark were the eyes of my beloved Claire meeting mine.
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I slowly opened my eyes, almost wanting to close them again as my body were hurting all over, I weren't sure if it were from the fight, or the spell I cast, but one thing was for sure, I could still feel the mana run in my veins, even when I was sleeping for the last three days the mana told me all about what happened around me, who visited me, who talked about me outside the door, believing that I would not hear them.
"I see you have awoken" I heard Claire say as she appeared by the door, "you caused quite the commotion" she slowly swayed her hips as she approached me, a content smile on her lips "I hope you slept well" I heard her voice ringing inside my mind, followed by a cute giggle "I slept just well my love" I replied and smiled softly at her, chuckling a bit as her cheeks got a little red.
"I hope you are ready to tell me what I want to know about now, I think I deserve it after all this pain I've been through" I mumbled softly and tried to sit up but my muscles were way too sore for me to even move an inch, "let me help you" Claire said and helped me sit up, I couldn't help but to blush a bit, feeling a bit embarrassed for being in my current state.
"So love, what do you want to know?" She said and sat on a chair beside my bed, lifting a finger, making the door close and lock itself, "as usual you never cease to amaze me" I said and thought for a bit before I spoke again. "For starters, how about you tell me what you are, then.. What the hell happened when I used that spell in the duel!? And what is happening to my body, don't try and hide anything, I have noticed that something is changing inside me" I looked at her, kind of enjoying to see her overwhelmed face for once, a few minutes passed before she spoke, and she did so directly into my mind "For starters, what I'm telling you is gonna be between you and me okay?" I nodded and then she continued "Lets start at the beginning, you wanted to know what I was, well to be honest I'm a spirit, not just a familiar spirit, but one of the real spirits, you know, those from the legends of your people. And the spell you used is one used to make a contract with the spirit god of fire, Igneel. His fires are the ones which in the dawn of time purified the world of all evil, making place for the humans and other creatures which the great spirit gods created together" she paused for a bit, waiting for me to understand all of it.
I closed my eyes for a moment, believing everything she said, would be dumb to do anything else, or so I thought.
"Please continue" I said to her and she nodded. "Concerning your little.. "change" its nothing that I can explain, I haven't seen or heard of such a thing happening before, soon I will consult one of my superiors about this.. Hopefully they will have some clues to what is happening to you" she said and sent a mental smile to me, reaching out to touch my cheek softly with her hand.
I smiled softly as I felt her soft cold hand touch my cheek, my eyelids starting to feel more and more heavy
"I don't care what happens to me, as long I can be with you" I said and slowly put my hand over hers, both of us blushing slightly "anything else you want to tell me now that we are at it or is that all I need to know?" I asked and looked at her, she just shrugged "only time can tell" she said and sat beside me, kissing me softly on the lips "now you need to rest so you can get your lazy butt back in class tomorrow Mr. Ex-Ghost" she said and smiled softly to me as I closed my eyes slowly "wake me up before class starts love" I mumbled as I dozed off, her soft hand caressing my cheek gently until I fell asleep.
Chapter 6
When I awoke from my slumber it were the middle of the night, I could tell so by looking out of the window, I had forgotten how nice sleeping in the infirmary beds were.
The first thing I noticed about the night sky were a strangely red moon, its glow were mesmerizing, and for some reason it gave me this strange urge to take a walk, and it was an urge I was unable to hold back, so I got out of my bed and exited the infirmary, then I started wandering down the halls, my mind empty and my destination unknown.
For a moment I felt like all my senses shut off, like when you are sleeping, but as fast as they had shut off they returned, but the scenery had changed in that small moment I had been senseless, I had somehow gotten out of the school's area and were wandering the streets of the town surrounding it.
"Hey, you there! What do you think you are doing out here at this time of night, the streets aren't safe when the sun isn't out" I heard a deep manly voice call out from a bit longer down the street, when I turned my head to look at who it were I saw a tall, well built man equipped with an militia uniform, the militia were known for their nightly patrols which have been a great help in reducing crime at nighttime.
"Are you feeling alright? You look a tad pale" The man said and walked closer to me, I wanted to say that I felt fine, but for some reason I was unable to bring out my voice, instead I felt a burning sensation in my left arm, as if I had dipped it in boiling water.
"Hello? Anyone there" The man said and waved a hand in front of my eyes, I were just staring up at him, my mind in a completely different place, trying to figure out what was wrong with me.
"Is everything alright over there Jeno?" Another voice shouted from the opposite end of the road, the man who apparently were named Jeno waved at the other man and shouted "This guy seems a bit out of it, can you call Jane and make her take a look at him?"
"Sure thing, wait there for a moment, I'll be back soon" the other man replied and walked down an alley, soon to return with a woman wearing robes, I felt a strange feeling when I heard the woman's voice, I knew the voice from somewhere, but I were unable to put my finger on who it were "Who do you want me to take a look at?" She said and stopped a bit behind me, she were looking at Jeno then down at me "want me to take a look at this kiddo here?" She said and walked to in front of me.
Her voice were full of surprise and then I recognized her "John, is that you? What are you doing out here!?" She said, I had recognized her the moment she came into my field of vision, it were my older sister, Jane Irk'Niea, whom I haven't seen for five years since she joined the militia as a field healer, which our parents and other siblings were quite against by the way.
"Someone you know?" Jeno asked Jane and looked at me, I just stood there, my head spinning a bit "He is my younger brother" She quickly replied and put her hand on my shoulder, making a very unpleasant shiver run through my body, Jane didn't notice how unpleasant I had it right now, she first noticed when my body started shaking lightly "what's wrong John!?" she said and put her hand on my forehead, the unpleasant feeling getting stronger and making my insides burn like they were on fire.
My lips moved and spoke by themselves while I were unable to control anything that happened, it were like a dream where you are aware that something happens but are unable to interfere with it in any way "I-its coming.." I said and looked at my older sister, who just looked at me with a confused look in her eyes.
"what is coming John?" She said to me, then her eyes went wide and she looked at Jeno "Jeno, get some extra help, he is burning up, we need someone like Angela for this high a fever!" she said and forced me to sit by a wall, a weak sound echoing around inside my head "Here.. It.. Comes!" I said and held my head with both my hands, an incredible pain filling my head, making it feel like it was splitting, I started to scream loudly, my head feeling like it were getting torn apart by invisible hooks.
"John! Get yourself together!" Jane shouted and put her palm against my forehead, soft healing magic entering my head from her palm in waves, dulling the pain enough for me to concentrate for a moment "It's calling me" I growled under the pain which seemed to grow despite the healing magic my sister used on me.
"what is calling you?" my sister asked, clearly in an attempt to make me focus enough not to loose consciousness. My eyes went wide, the pain spreading to my neck, then my shoulders and all the way down to my lower back, the feeling I had when I had my seizure from forming a contract with Claire returning, but this time the pain were worse, it felt like something living were moving around under my skin, tearing it from my flesh slowly, only to heal it and repeat it all over again.
My screams ceased in that moment, but not because I fainted or because the pain stopped, but because my voice simply disappeared, my vocal cords had torn themselves and were reforming in my throat, I could faintly hear the voice of my sister call out to me, but my hearing were weakened due to the extreme pain, then a thought entered my mind, -Am I dying?- I felt my consciousness slowly fade, the dark tendrils crawling into my mind and taking root, making me unable to focus for more than a second before I felt an electrical shock run through my head.
-wolves are magnificent being right?- I head a voice say inside my head, I closed my eyes, the pain disappearing as if time stopped, when my eyes opened I was standing inside a big dim lit room with statures of some kind of big humanoid creature with a wolf head, behind each of the statures were piles of bones and skeletons from all kinds of creatures, "what do you think of my lair?" a voice echoed from the end of the room.
When I turned to look I was met by a pair of golden eyes which screamed of wild raw power, and yet were signaled kindness and sympathy.
"Who are you?" I asked and slowly approached the eyes, half expecting to wake up from the dream and return to the world of pain that I knew my body was in, "me? I'm no one.. Yet! But you can make me someone!" the stranger said, not reacting to me getting closer, "what do you mean that I can make you someone? Explain yourself" I said as I got close enough to see some of the strangers body.
I could see that it was an animal, a large dog? No, it were too small to be a dog, it must be a wolf then.
"I have no obligation to tell you" The beast said and walked out from inside of the shadows, its fur were a hue of silver that resembled my hair perfectly.
"I am gonna give you a small hint and the rest is up to you, that's the rules.. Inside all living beings there is a spirit body, if a human.. that's you.. Starts to merge with their spirit body.. that's me.. Something will happen, but since -we- haven't heard about it before -we- cant be sure what it is. Get it? If not too bad, time will show it anyways" The silver wolf said, and for a moment I was sure I could see a smile on its lips.
"but enough of this, I'm appearing now because I have to make sure you don't die, thus I have to force the merging to happen a little faster than it should, so your body won't break from the mana that you recklessly have gained through the contract with Igneel, well not that you could do anything about it, being out cold for 3 days straight without any means of keeping the mana which your body haven't had time to adjust to before at bay, it is now slowly killing you, but don't worry.. I will take care of it, so you just relax and.. Don't blame me for this" the wolf said and in a flash I felt its fangs dig into my throat.
My eyes jumped wide open, all the pain from earlier was gone, but I still had the feeling of the fangs digging into my throat, -that couldn't have been a dream..- I thought. I looked around slowly, feeling very dizzy from the pain from before, only to see four other people beside my sister, one a woman who kind of looked like Claire, the second was Jeno, and the third, where no other than Claire in person, this time wearing a militia uniform, "you always.. Wear such strange things Claire" I mumbled under my breath, my voice were low, and even more feminine than it used to be, "its nice to see you too John" she said, her voice were worried, -does this mean she didn't know I were gone?- I thought and looked at the fourth person, an old man, he looked like the kind of man who would play chess with himself in a park, but I felt a strong mana force emitting from his body, he were most likely an high ranked mage.
It were around here I started to feel a fewer grow through my whole body, making it feel like I were burning up from the inside out, the world started spinning and I shut my eyes tightly, a killer headache playing drums inside my head.
"Can you bring down my brother fewer?" Jane said to the woman who resembled Claire, -so she is Angela?- I thought and looked at Claire, "sure I can, but I'm not sure how much I can cut it down, I haven't seen a case like this before, its like its his mana that is causing the fever." Angela said and put her hand on my forehead and my chest.
While Angela began using healing magic on me I head Claire speak to my sister, "are you Johns sister?" Claire asked, she sat down beside Jane, looking at her "yes I am, why? Do you know my brother?" Jane asked in return and looked over at me, I tried to smile at her but I were unable to move my lips.
"know and know.." Claire muttered "we are kind of lovers" she whispered quietly, but Jane heard it perfectly well and collapsed where she sat. "What!?" she shouted, only to be shushed down by Angela "quiet you!" Angela said and returned to the healing.
Jane muttered a "sorry" and looked at Claire, "are you saying you and my brother are.. You know.." Jane said and looked over at me, unable to imagine me together with a woman "yes, me and John love each other despite our big differences" Claire said and giggled softly "differences?" Jane asked and looked at Claire, "give some more details will you?" she added and sat properly, wiping some remaining tears from her cheeks.
"Well.. I'm sure that John don't want anyone to know this, and I beg of you to keep it a secret" Claire said and looked with begging eyes at Jane, who automatically said yes, unable to resist those begging eyes.
Claire leaned close to Jane's ear and whispered very quietly "I'm a spirit" then she leaned away and looked at Jane who seemed quite frozen for some reason, she were thinking about how her brother who were a Ghost, void of magic, somehow had met a spirit girl, fell in love with her and become somehow become her lover.
"How does that even work?" Jane said and tilted her head a bit "I mean, you aren't even human, what if you suddenly want to have a child or something? What will you do then" She whispered quietly and glanced over at her brother.
Claire looked like she were thinking quite a bit before she replied "I think its possible through the mana, if the mana wills it then it will be possible." She said with a smile, "that's how it always have been and how it will continue to be for a very long time" Claire added and idly looked up at the heaven, her mind, thanks to Jane, was filled with thoughts of how having a child with a human would be.
"So.. For how long have you two been.. Together?" Jane asked and looked at Claire, who continued to stare up into the heaven while she spoke "its been a bit over a week now, since he summoned me, and since we formed our contract." She said and chuckled a bit "he is the sweetest guy I have met, though I haven't met many humans, there were this.. Nick, who tried to kill John when I was summoned, then various students who were so-so.. Uh and then a guy which John fought in a mage duel and won over..! I think his name was Jack or something like that, a real nasty fellow who uses magic as black as the night, I think he were a 15th ranker with the strength of a 17th ranker."
Jane thought for a bit, processing the new info when her eyes went wide "Wait a minute! Are you telling me my brother have fought a highly ranked mage and won! How is that possible!? He is a rank 0 Ghost, he should be unable to summon any mana forth for magic spells!" she said and stood up, looking up at the moon.
"Well that's true, but as you humans don't know there isn't one who is able to use magic, it just depends on what kind of magic, John is a very special case, his type of magic is called "Dranstur nigarum" and it is the art of forming contracts with spirits, gaining mana and spells from them directly.. Though I have broken many laws by teaching John the arts of Dranstur nigarum, the elder spirits as well as the spirit king forbids humans from learning these kinds of spells, and I'm sure that if my crime gets discovered I will be killed to atone for my sin" Claire said softly and looked at Jane.
"But no matter what I won't regret this, my whole being belongs to John, and that will never change, which is why I'm gonna break even more laws in order to stay with him till the end of time" She added, a soft wind blowing past her and Jane.
When Jane looked down at Claire she had disappeared, leaving no trace of ever being there behind, "what a strange turn of events" Jane muttered to herself and leaned onto a wall of a building, rubbing her temples softly, trying to focus on what she had been told. Her younger brother have somehow gained the ability to use magic by forming an contract with his lover, a spirit, who have broken many laws and risks getting killed if found out by other spirits, "why would she do something like that?" Jane muttered to herself and gave a short sigh before she returned her attention towards her brother and the healing progress "how is the fever coming along Angela?" Jane asked.
Angela panted a bit as she removed her hands from John, "I have somehow managed to remove it all, it consumed most of my mana so I'll have to take a few days off to recover all the mana which have been lost" she said and stood up "You'd better get someone with a lot of magical and medical knowledge to take a look at him, this fever.. It isn't something natural, yet its something his own body produced, might have been that strange mana I felt inside him." Angela said and looked at Jane.
"What do you mean by strange mana?" Jane asked and walked over to her brother, picking the light male up with ease and holding him in her arms.
"Well, I can't really describe it, but doing the healing process I somehow came in contact with the mana and I felt this strange feeling of being watched by something wild" Angela said, her arms crossed under a chest, her body shivering a bit, "it was rather unpleasant to be honest" she added and turned around "I'll take my leave now, I have to report back at headquarters about this before I leave for the time being" she said as she walked away.
Jane was standing back along, holding her brother in her arms, looking down at his face, his skin was pale, which were to be expected from what he had been through this night, and it seemed the treatment had put him to sleep at some point, which were good, made saying bye easier when she were gonna return him to his school and explain where she had found him.
See you in chapter 7-9. (which hopefully will be better, and with some good scenes :P)