The writing adventure of Jason Self

After writing my last short story involving this character and his troubles I started thinking about where I could go from that point. Most times when you read fantasy it takes place in far off lands yet to be discovered or in a far away time much different from the current one. I have decided to explore at least the idea of magic coming back into the world we know now, the boy in the story in advertently opens the portal between the magic world and the world of men. This portal will have been created in ages long since past by Merlin the last great magician in an attempt to seal off the dangerous and ever growing species of magic creatures that plagued the world. In this new world he finds he will embark on a journey that will lead him too the great city of Alhumaria. In this city he will get his first taste of what it is like to live in a world of magic, not everyone in the world can use magic and noone who uses magic can use all magic. There are many different types of magic that are controlled by different measures, Ice, fire, arcane, necromancy, gemstones, power words, imbuement. Each is considered a craft the same as in our world we would call a doctor, a teacher, and so on.

The boy will be captured within the city and will be sent away to live in a bording home with a beared older man, their relationship at first will be as a slave and his master, but when a dragon attacks the city the boy will risk his life to save the older man and get himself injured in the doing. The older man will heal the boy using his magical abilities which are centered around mending of wounds. This need for eachother will spark a relationship between them that will lead to the older man teaching the history of magic to the boy. Thru this he will learn of Merlins desperate spell that cast all of magic thru the portal of time back to the beggining of the earth in the time of the dragons. Here the magic using world would have to come together to create a city they could live in and defend themselves from the dragons and the like that ruled over the young land. Merlin was said to have gone mad with grief over his mistake and wandered out into the wild to never be seen in the city again.

The boy would soon discover that the magic that emenated from this world was a direct result of the mystical dragons that humanity feared so much. Each dragon bestowed upon the world an aura that effected anything and everything in it. The aura's fought for control of the planet in a never ending war that ebbed and flowed all over the planets vast lands, what decided the magical ablilities of each human was that ebb and flow, when the children were in the womb they would use whichever magic was in power at the time and draw upon it to help themselves survive, when they were born the babies would only be able to use or grasp the use of that one magic. There were few who were born at times with more than one, as a result of the magic changing while they were still in the womb, these were dangerous people and often even as babies they would cause great destruction thruoght the city, their uncontrolled magic raging wars on the surroundings. A law was adopted soon after one such tradgedy to prevent such things from happening again, any baby who showed proficiency in more than one magic type was placed in special schools where they were monitored at all times and if they became too dangerous they were banished from the city, given enough rations for one week and a pack with a tent and dry clothes they were sent out to face the wilds and demons that awaited there.

Soon the boy would begin to feel the effects of magic taking thier toll on him, at first he took a similar path too the old man who trained him and became proficient in healing. Then as he strolled thru the park he came face to face with a dragon hatchling, the mother was above circling, she had apparently dropped the hatchling while flying over the city. She screamed in rage as she could not land in the tree covered park that the egg had landed in. She was being pelted from may sides with the bolts from the sentry towers that surrounded the city. As if it were never a question of possiblity the boy pointed at the young dragon and spoke the words of power he had learned from his master, the dragon froze and stared the boy with astonishment as it began to hover higher and higher until at last it was high enough that the great dragon swept it out of the sky and with a loud screach was gone.

When the boy tells his owner of his multiple talents, the man tests him in each of the arts, tho he seemed more powerfull in the art of imbuement than any other, he found that the boy could indeed perform each of the arts at one lvl or another. They decide to keep this information secret so that the boy would not be thrown out of the city and they begin to explore the arts and build on the boy's knowledge of each.