Chapter 3
First day of school, first day of troubles
Kastin had taken a seat near a window, most of the students where curious about him. He wasn't tall after all and most figured him to be in a lower grade than the others, Merlin was easily a foot taller than him but he didn't care
He was expecting something a little lower to be taught in this class, something he had come to expect seeing how him and his sister already hide themselves within a school or academy. But what was being taught was something more pointed toward swordsmenship and magic
It wasn't long before class ended, the sensei had taught him how to use that earring a little better than Merlin had. As he was leaving the class room Merlin walked up behind him. "Shall we check the cafeteria?" she asked
Kastin nodded.
The two of them walked over to the cafeteria, others students where there either eating or getting something to eat. He glanced about the large room; it was larger than he thought, and as he expected, a lot of the students in there glanced at him. "I get the feeling I'm being watched...."
"Thats because they've never seen you here." Merlin smiled slightly, then patted him on the back. "Come on" she said
The two of them walked out of the building and into what appeared to be a court yard, no other students where there but some of the adults where. "What are we going to do here?"
"Just felt like coming out here, it's quieter." Merlin said and sat down under a tree. Kastin joined her and also sat down, slightly confused about her actions but deciding against saying anything. "So, how'd you like it?"
He blinked, then smiled. "It's.... different..." Kastin said as he placed both his arms around his legs, tucking them close to his chest. Its different alright.... wonder how a world like this can survive like this... both technology... but there housing and form of living is all 17th century
"You have swordsmenship basics right?" Merlin asked
He nodded.
"Well then, your class starts in awhile." Merlin got up and grabbed Kastin by the hand and helped him up. She couldn't show him where the class was, so instead, she told him
Kastin watched as Merlin ran off, possibly to her own Magi Class. He folded his arms, a slight smile appeared. "I would normally hold back." he said and began to make his way to class. As he expected it was outside, but what he wasn't expecting was for it to be out in the open. His uniform changed to something far lighter than his normal Academy uniform. He walked up to the sensei, bowing curtiously. He nodded and gave him a training sword
"I want to see how well you can wield that." He said
Kastin glanced at him. He didn't have the streangth he would normally have with his magic, so he took on an attack stance, which he could tell by the look on the senseis face that it wasn't a stance he was used to seeing. He lept forward, swung, then landed. For a couple seconds everyone wondered if he had even HIT it, but then the training dummy slide apart into four seperate peices.
"Not bad..." The sensei said. Kastin was about to hand the training blade back to him when it, too, broke into several peices. The sensei laughed, "I guess it wasn't tough enough for what you just put it through"
Kastin sighed, and then shrugged. "Guess not." he said and took a seat under a tree and watched the others train. It was obvious by how the sensei hadn't said anything to him that he somehow impressed him. Because the others he was training weren't doing so good, some had already cut themselves and others had let go of there training swords, which promptly flew into the training pads that lined the course
He got up and continued to watch, someone was indeed watching him and he could feel it. He turned around and looked toward the forest and began walking toward it. As he got closer he felt it, although he didn't have his magic he could still feel the presence of someone in there; he glanced about.
Someone is here.... Kastin said to himself as he looked around. He jumped over a fallen tree and stepped on a twig, he looked down in time to get his leg caught in a rope. Throwing himself up into the air and hanging there. As he hung there he took out a small knife he carried on him and cut the rope, hitting the ground hard enough to almost knock him out, after a couple minutes he got back up and looked around, putting the knife back in it's holder. Someone had to of set that up
He heard something else and peered through the tree's. Someone was chanting a spell, and he could reconize the lyrics from it. "How the heck does a spell like this get into this world?" he wondered several people where around the man chanting the spell. He sighed and clicked this earring, to his amazement his clothing wasn't the only thing that changed, but a sword appeared near him as well. It was real.
Kastin took the sword and brought it up. It's real alright, guess this earring has a mind of it's own. It seems to know when I need something. He sprang forward from his hiding spot, plunging his sword into the chest of one of the guards there. He jumped backwards, the sword still in his hand and even before the guard he had attacked hit the ground, he was already attacking the one near him. The sword moved, dislocated the other gaurds legs, sending him to the ground in intense pain
He turned around to meet the other four, but quickly brought his sword up when he saw what was coming. An Axe. He blocked the blow but couldn't keep his footing, Man how I wish I still had my magic... a blow like this would be nothing he went flying, and hit the front of a tree, the blow was enough to send the sword in his hand flying away from him. He laid there in pain and two of the guards walked toward him. "Stupid kid" one said
Both guard's raised there axe's. "Time to die.... pathetic worm."