Stalker Issues

Wandering the halls of Ash Forest Academy you hummed a small tune to yourself as your white knight followed quietly behind you. The Academy was still silent with the absence of students gone for Winter break. Looking around it was an improvement as aside from the teachers who typically lived and worked in the school you could be left alone. However as you turned right down the hallway you saw out of the corner of your eye a dash of red hair. It seemed you were being followed yet again possibly by that red haired girl you had seen a few times.

Continuing to walk you subtly drew some of your magical dueling cards rubbing them in your fingers looking for a specific one. Unlike most wizards you had the cards engraved with braille dots the same that blind wizards used for their magical dueling cards since blind wizards rarely came to Ash Forest Academy the office of student accommodations had been more then happy to engrave your cards. You had read that Lucas Wellington the first ever dueling champion of the Wizarding World had won his fame and renown by knowing his cards being able to tell simply by the raised fabric despite not being blind. Taking a page out of his book you decided to do the same even though most wizards never bothered to do so not even the modern champions as well. As you palmed through your cards you stopped as you index finger brushed the specific card you were looking for.

Smiling Nathan drew the card muttering a couple of words before the card vanished and in Nathan's hands were couple of seeds. As Nathan walked along he dropped said seeds as he went. As Nathan turned another corner and sprinkled the last of the seeds he quickly ducked into the corner out of sight and waited. It wasn’t long before the sounds of cracks could be heard before silence overtook the hallway. Turning back he stood and stared as a red haired girl about his age was trapped between two grey dead trees tangling her in their roots.

Nathan smiled before walking forward his knight watching his rear. "Why have you been following me I have seen you doing so for a while now so don't try to lie to me.” Nathan said as waited for a response.

The girl sighed before speaking “My name is Sarah Bloodwood.” The girl said. “Right and am I supposed to know who you are?” Sarah seemed surprised as you said those words before replying. “My father told me to find you saying something about needing to speak with you urgently and I guess you weren’t told but the Bloodwood family and the BlackThorn family have been close allies for centuries and we still are to this day.”

Nathan rubbed the little stubble on his chin before sighing as the dead grey trees sank into the ground releasing Sarah. “Give me a time and a place and I will be there.” Nathan said before walking off leaving the girl alone in the hallway.

Thinking to himself things appeared to only become more and more complicated first his void training, Russian lessons, not to mention the arrival of his dueling teacher whenever he decided to show up. Nathan sighed as he left the castle that was Ash Forest Academy walking past the castle walls before leaving through the main gate headed to his dorm.

Looking at the falling snow Nathan stopped and admired its beauty for the briefest of moments. Before a man in a heavy Russian-accent spoke “Pretty is it not da?” Looking behind him he could see a giant Russian man wearing a thick black fur coat, his grey beard reaching to his stomach and a Russian fur hat with what looked to be a red star pinned to the front of it, “Ah where are my manners my name is Makarov Smirnov and I was wondering if you could direct me to the headmaster’s office da?”

Nathan nodded to the giant Russian man before giving him directions to the headmaster’s office. The Russian man thanked him before leaving Nathan alone once more in the snowy world that stood before him.

Smiling Nathan looked over to the metal knight his guardian standing still as a statue hand poised at the sheath of his sword ready to be drawn at a moment’s notice stand silently as the snow landed on its shoulders.

“Come on let’s go home before we catch a cold we have a lot of work ahead of both of us and I want to get a nap in before we go find something else to do.” The knight remained silent as you spoke only seeming to nod as began walking home.

As you trudged your way through the snow you wondered if you would succeed in your endeavors to become a dueling champion you hoped it wound fix your family’s name heck the idea of a family not stained by war and suffering would be nice but knowing your history and just people in general you knew it would be an uphill fight no doubt fraught with challenges and issues yup there was no doubt this was going to be difficult. As you stopped in front of your dorm and checked your mailbox you noticed an elegant velvet red envelope with a black wax seal sitting inside.

Turning the envelope over you saw the letter addressed to you before sighed and entered the dorm it seemed the universe just didn’t want to give you a break.