The Mage’s First Day

The blaring sound of an alarm pulled him out of his deep sleep. His first thought, “SHIT!”, he groaned as he stretched his limbs. “Another dreamless sleep”, he thought to himself. He struggled to get his eyes open to look at the clock sounding the alarm before hitting the snooze or turning it off. His eyes just wouldn’t open while he was lying down so he rolled himself over off the bed, unfortunately his limbs didn’t spring into action as he feel face first to the floor, but that got his eyes open.

He felt like a puppet as he lifted himself up. His eyes were half open when he noticed the time, “8:42!” He couldn’t believe how late it was, “FUCK! I’m going to be late!” he shouted to himself. “Class starts at 9, class starts at 9!”, he repeated to himself. He went to sleep a hour early to avoid this, and not to mention showering before going to bed, not something he does every day. His body still wasn’t responding as quickly as he wanted, “what the hell!?” he thought to himself. By 8:50, he was dress and out the door, no time for breakfast just pants, shirt, shoes, and his backpack. Its times like these he wishes that time magic wasn’t outlawed and forbidden.

He ran as fast as he could, but so long as he didn’t break a sweat, the last thing he wanted to do is look like the sweaty fat bastard the admission officer thought him to be. It took him years to get into Saints Cross Academy’s School for the Magically Gifted. He’d been what people call a “late bloomer” while the rest of his family had practiced magic in their childhoods, Lewis spent his a regular person, the black sheep of his family. That was until his 18th birthday. Why? Nobody really knows, he just woke up and his magical aura was on fire, so to speak…

But honestly he knows why. People don’t just awaken without some catalyst, most magically users are known from before birth as they augment their mother’s magic. Which it was such a shock that poor Lewis was born without, his mother at the time of his birth was known as one of the strongest healers in town but it was attributed to her soon to birthed child, as it seemed as such since his birth her power declined. And for almost 18 years they grew to believe that it was just her mother’s body compensating, until his 18th birthday.