1 Destiny

The water could be seen risen and falling, relaxed, with its waving shine, that calmed my red eye's. The warmth of the sun melted my foot, into the comfortable sand that stood like soft pillows, welcoming me into a new day of life, a very important day at that. The sun was orange tainted as it was about to sink down the ocean, and be replaced by the moon.

Looking at the water in front of me, I could see my reflection, slim, brown hair, crimson eye's, and a face that seemed elegant but filled with dirt.

As I looked up at the vast violet sky, it raised my body because it made me imagine of pulling my fingers into does mysterious white clouds, that drifted with the freedom of nature, and weightlessness.

"Brother Finley, daydreaming about flying, well look at this one day I will make you fly" One could see a kid, with yellow robes, scrolling against the sand, as air, started to scroll sneakily beneath his feat.

His hands raised, and the sand around him got pulled into the sky, the sun lightened the sand into dazzling light, like freckles of bronze. He looked up with his blue eye's, and smile that seemed to touch the sky, he was little, and had blonde hair, with puffy chicks, around like red apple, matching his red lips.

The sand started to swing and scroll towards, the violet horizon, dancing around the wind where a sky blocking tower with shining black seemed to darken the purple sky. It was tall to the point of cracking through the clouds, as if it touched space itself, making one wonder just how tall or what it had inside.

No one here where allowed to go to the tower not because of the kingdoms law but because doe's who arrived near the tower even from 10 kilometer's away got eaten by the violent currents, that seem to eat colonial ships, and ship fleets.

Some travelers say it was created by the Overlords, some say, it is the portal to the heaven. However what's inside only doe's inside know.

"If there is a day where I can carry people, with me and fly into does clouds, I will carry you, and make does floating clouds, into our little castle, that would be so cool right? We can even make it higher than that tower!" As he said that his innocent was evident beyond explanation, as it was a fact that he was 9 years old, my brother, and I was 15 years old and lastly yes, he is an air mentalist.

I raised my hand, as I added to what he said with more adventure and thrill.

"Jake, Imagine if we could go into that giant tower and become an overlord, become pirate's and drift the storming regions of eccentric-east, make friends, and build an empire that is fair and any one can be free from slavery!" As I took a big breath, I explained once more.

"I love the feeling where you want to know more about the world, and that feeling carries me, to know more about this world, i want to touch the edges of this world, I want to see what our father saw, lets become mage's, lets raise above because then we protect what we love!" I exclaimed, as the sand vanished into the towers.

The love I had for him wasn't ordinary because he was the only family I had, he was like my second part of myself, besides him I had no one. If i didn't have this little brother I would be alone in this hard world.

My words softly started to sink the air with a slight remembrance, that saddened the atmosphere, of our fathers death.

As we exchanged fantasied filled with saturated ambitions, the sun pulled down, with its last darkened orange tint, that calmed the shining energy into a tired night.

"We have to go, we are about to get our aptitude test!" My voice tightened with anxiety.

"I don't like the fact that our talent and potential is being measured by some divine force!" My brother exclaimed, with a big frown, that flattened my face.

"Well its a fact you already have manna its the fact we are living today without labor!" I told him, with gratitude.

As we walked out of the beach, we could see that in front of us, stood a giant mountain where thousands of houses decorated this mountain. As light leaked out of it, and lightened it, with life, it looked dense and rich.

It was a mountain with vitality, and fresh live, that seemed to pull us forward, as such it was our home, our kingdom, may be unfair by its governed laws but we belonged here, yet it felt like it castled over us.

The beginning houses where made, out of wood, and bricks, populated by the laborer workers of this kingdom or in other words the peasants.

While ahead, lived the prestige nobles and mages, who's houses where leveled like towers, tainted with stone, and magic crystals that twitched the atmosphere and dizzied the minds of does without the gift of manna.

As we walked in the stony roads, we could see, humans filling the roads, packed enough that its easy to get lost. The smell of magic potions and food of marines, sink into our bellies, making as hungry as we moved forward. One could see, a few people with long robe's and stern face's, they had wands, books and staff's with gems that swirled the air.

The workers and laborious stood away from them because some emitted an aura that crackled one's mind, as it was an easy win of power and prestige, due to their aura field gained by manna folding their core's with gravitating pressure. Are they mages? Yes they are mage's!

Now, to understand aura fields imagine a planet and sun, it is a fight of gravity, if they both don't out weight each other too much then the sun will govern the planet, as it governs many other planets. It was also said the same with mages, simple mage's caused the others to naturally draw away from them as if they had an invisible ball following them, and moving the sea of people away from them.

To explain the other latter, the more small the object, the less effect it has in the pool of gravitational net, like an asteroid and the sun, the asteroid won't be governed by the sun because its to small, same goes for very powerful beings and regular humans.

However the moment the piece of the small asteroid hits the sun, it vanishes like nothing. A regular man touch a powerful being, means instant death, in fact being around them a little close, is like a force field squished thousands of time's in a few meter's. Just like the sun burns the asteroid due to the heat it emits through that short distance.

Manna and gravity play's high correlation within this world. How do i know this because of an astronomy book, authored by mage wellington, which i stole, and the many other books also, they where common books in the academy library, we need knowledge, to survive, and my hunger never dies to know more, and what's next.

Besides them we could see, guards marching the ground with vitality and precise force. They practiced sword-man ship and vitality forging, which is cultivation of one's life force.

They are called warriors, guards, and knights they are powerful enough to smash tree's and climb the power ladder but are easily below the mage in terms of hierarchy power and status.

Any one could become a warrior, but to become one required a very high chance of death, because you are playing with your own life force, instead of borrowing manna.

"I am hungry!" My brother said.

"After we, finish this we can eat anything we want!" I exclaimed, as such after a big test one needs to celebrate, making me seek to what is next.

"Ting, Ting, Ting!" A tall clock tower belled, usually does at night, as the sky started to get mellow and relaxing, the clouds blushing by the moon that was starting to cycle around us. One could see the horses followed by the carriages, going home, after a hard work, the only rest they had, sleep!

It was an era where they started merging physics with meta-physics together, to form different level's of comfort and power. Some even say they have build flying ships manufactured by a physical manna core, that fuels. Electricity! Yes the one from thunder. How it works? No idea.

"We need to go now!" I exclaimed to my brother who tightened near me, it was getting dark, as the sea of birds could be heard, harrowing the sky.

For the first time in many years, we where allowed to walk through the top area of the kingdom that was blocked because of a giant wall.

Easily could be said to be the division of noble to peasant. The surrounding stone wall, was filled with torches that melted the dark. As one could see the gate opened.

"Pass through!" A guard said, to the patch of people who where here.

We weren't alone we where just behind the current of people who where heading to the ceremony. As we looked ahead, we could see the stony road climbing up the mountain where thousand's of people walking ahead, the mountain, could be seen.

It gave an immense feeling of awe! Every one's destiny where about to be read, it felt like walking right into a book, where our potential will be bare naked for every one to see.

We where the last few to enter, so why did we see people before? That's because they are adults and already took the test 5 years ago.

Every one here is at the age of 9-16, as such only the ceremony permits that young age. We couldn't see this many people before because of the giant wall blocking the view, it only allowed to see the castle and academy, that stood at the peak but now we where about to enter it through for the first time.

Walking through with my brother followed along many fellow children, ahead of the gate, one instantly could feel a change of atmosphere, feeling heavier yet vitalizing. Like fire, to close, and you burn. Be near the fire and you warm up same can apply with a mage be around him and his energy may uplift yours, to close, death.

The buildings castled like towers, over us, as we could see the stern windows, filled with some nobles looking with despise, it looked strange to me its like they are imagining things from their own flesh. What could their teachers and parents told them? That we are devils?

The shops where more vibrant and larger, in other words everything was more luxurious, leveled buildings, restaurants, that could feet 100 people. In other words, there was another world here, secretly locked from the poor.

Hours passed by, as we suddenly arrived at a giant spaced area, that was much more brightened with blue light, as we looked behind us we could see the whole kingdom, sloping down, beneath us. As if for the first time the kingdom didn't feel like it over castled us. We felt powerful looking below, even my brother let go of my hand.

Beyond it stood the dark ocean and gigantic tower, that cracked through the clouds. A view, that even the high winds, touched us cold, and breezed our eye's.

Lastly stood the crimson moon, as the moon has many different color phases. Why does it have many different color faces? We have no idea except the stories of werewolf and vampires that fed from blood.

It was filled with many people of all age's filling every breath with mumbling words, that jungle led everything with exited anxiety, doe's who didn't past where destined to live a life of poverty, where labor will be their life works.

If their families didn't have a mage or anybody with a manna aptitude they will also fall into the pits, of depression and work, in the muddy roads. This kingdom functioned with much of the population at the bottom working and fueling the noble's with resources.

Because of this guessing their thoughts where as easy, as looking around how nervous everyone is. Because today was the day, they where going to announce the news of the graduation ceremony. Who is them? No idea, probably the king or the guardian.

Guardians are the most powerful wizards that govern the kingdom. However they are allowed to leave as they are replaced by another who is in second of power. Why? Because the most powerful have the most free will.

Besides that today is one of the most important announcement that every family, worker, and citizens, worried about, even prayed in hope for their child to have manna, because that meant the whole family will finally move out of the poverty zone.

It was the day where, one discovered if they had manna and where gifted to seek the world of power, as it was heavily fogged with mystery, making many wonder, what it is filled with.

The castle was more ahead at the peak of the mountain, right now we are at the second tallest peak where the academy is. Right next to the academy gate, where it gives birth to mage's and warriors, sometimes it gives birth to paladins! What are paladins? Well its...

"Bang!" Lighting strike out my inquisitive mind.

Everything stood still, ghost quite, only the wind stroke the silence. It felt heavy, as if a presence sneakily over topped every one combined. Breathing stiffened, as my heart was the only source of noise besides the rushing wind.

As we stood still in front of the gate, it opened. As a cat, started crawling and floating above us all, with violet eye's that blended with the other stars. Was the source of this lighting from that cat?

"Every, being here, will get tested in magical aptitude. It will test, your elemental affinity, grade of affinity, your spiritual signature, manna capacity, your aura color and to cut it short, your perception!" He said, as his voice actually traveled inside every single one of us. Making us feel cold naked in front of this cat. Mind reading? It seemed like it, but reading a thousand thought doesn't seem possible, and relaxed me.

"Now you will all follow me!" He floated, as his body emitted a yellow and blue aura for every one to follow. What is the color of auras? I have no idea, but my curiosity only keeps growing the less I know.

The academy was massive and most of all, it was utterly tall. Like a sculpted mountain. At the entrance, it has a giant water fountain that seemed to be made of magic potions to drink. While the academy, looked like a castle, itself. With many towers, spaced out of the castle, but bridged into it, a total of 7. This towers where 120 meter's tall, and 70 meters wide.

As we walked through the gate's we, there where various guards, guarding every corner, my brother hold my hand, as we stood at the back of the line. Like an emperor looking at its army trope's.

Every one started to snake into the inside of the castle, where the long silence broke out. Voice's trembled the air without knowing if it was excitement or terror. Every one felt worried but every single one still went inside.

I didn't know if it was something good or bad but inside the castle there where flashing of lights. Trembling the air! Our hearts started pumping, even i could feel my brothers hand shaking. Finally, we got to the gate and as we entered we where shocked.