2 EPISODE 2 - Stepping Stones

*In a wooden cabin there lay a family of three*

Baby: WAAHHHHHH

Mom(Lexia): Awww. What should we name him darling?

Dad: HOW ABOUT DAD JR.?

Lexia: Honey, take this seriously.

Vhint: Hehe, sorry sorry. How about Vhint Jr.?

Lexia: Geez. You're so bad at names, Dad. That's your name.

Vhint: NO ITS NOT. IT HAS JUNIOR.

*She sighs and looks at her child*

Lexia: Hmmm. How about...

*She thinks for a bit*

Lexia: How about Phize Gratham?

*She looks at the baby*

*He went silent*

Lexia: DARLING! I THINK HE LIKES I-

*The baby cries*

Vhint: He doesn't like it. He didn't cry from my suggestion.

Lexia: Oh sheesh. He's gonna get used to it.

*She proceeds to breastfeed the baby*

Vhint: Why didn't you breastfeed the baby immediately?

Lexia: Hmmm. I forgot~❤️.

Vhint: THIS ISN'T A LAUGHING MATTER! WILL THE BABY BE OKAY IN YOUR HANDS?

Note: 1 year later. Phize, Age 1.

*Phize is in a wooden crib*

Phize: M-M-MAWMA!

*Lexia rushes from the other room*

Lexia: PHIZE! DID YOU JUST SAY MAMA!

Phize: Mawma.

*She carries Phize in her arms*

Lexia: VHINT!

*Vhint appears where Lexia just came from*

Vhint: DID HE SAY DADDY?

Lexia: *She giggles* Nope, not even close.

Vhint: NOOOOOOO! BUT DID HE SAY MOM?

Lexia: HE SAID MAWMA!

Vhint: That's good news, I think?

Lexia: What's with that reaction?

*He whispers to Phize's ears*

Vhint: Come on, say Dada, pleeeeeeassseee, for me.

Phize: M-MAWMA!

*Vhint is depressed*

Lexia: *She laughs with a tone of arrogance* I guess, you can't corrupt my li'l ol' baby.

Vhint: But isn't he my baby too?

Note: 3 years later. Phize, Age 4.

*The three are on the table eating their lunches*

Lexia: Phize, say AAAH!

*Phize doesn't open his mouth*

Lexia: Awww...

Vhint: Let me.

*He shoves a bit of rice and vegetable stew in the spoon*

*Phize opens his mouth*

Vhint: HE LOVES ME!!!

Lexia: NOOO! AN INDIRECT KISS!

Vhint: Honey, sometimes, I question what's even working in that mind.

Lexia: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? MY HEAD WORKS JUST FINE!

*A few minutes later*

*Phize is on the floor with an old pencil, the wood which incases the lead is very old, the pencil is also very short*

*He draws something resembling a car*

*Lexia who is supposedly cleaning the table looks at what Phize draws*

Lexia: Honey! Honey! Look!

*Vhint who went outside goes inside the house to look at Lexia*

Vhint: What is it?

Lexia: He's drawing something. Do you know what that is?

Vhint: I don't know. It looks like some sort of machinery. I've never seen anything of the sort.

Lexia: But he hasn't seen any machinery right? THIS JUST PROVES TO SHOW THAT OUR LITTLE PHIZE IS A CREATIVE LITTLE BOYY!

Vhint: Yup, he's gonna grow up like a smart man... LIKE HIS FATHER!

Lexia: Yeah, it seems like your definition of smart is whack...

Vhint: HONEY!

Note: 1 year later. Phize, Age 5.

Phize: Mother, I'm going outside.

Lexia: Sure thing, Phize. Do you want me or daddy to accompany you?

Phize: No need mother. I can go back alone.

*He goes outside the door*

Lexia: *Releases a tear* He's grown up so fast.

*Phize goes out in the woods*

*He runs around*

Phize: My head. What are these things that I'm seeing?

*He remembers being hit by a car and his memories of his former parents*

Phize: This has been the fourth time.

Maybe it's time to ask mommy about it?

*He goes back inside*

Lexia: Hm? Back so early? I GUESS YOU REALLY MISS MOMMY DON'T YOU?

Phize: Mommy...

*Phize asks with a worried face*

Phize: Mom do you know anything about an auto?

Note: Auto, means car in German.

Lexia: Auto? I've never heard of anything of the sort? Where did you hear that term from?

*She carries Phize*

Lexia: Hup! Did your father teach you weird words again?

Phize: No, mommy.

Lexia: That's good! Alright, stay there, mommy has something to show you.

*Phize decides to sit down on a chair*

Note: After a few minutes.

*Lexia comes back with a staff, the staff looks like it was taken out straight from an oak tree and has been smoothened out a bit but due to age, it has been a bit run-down, it forms a shape of a question mark, with a violet spherical orb at the top connecting the two*

Lexia: From the blessings of those above, I cast upon thee an icy hazard, blizzard.

*A gust of cold wind shoots through Phize*

Lexia: I'm all out of mana, so I decided to use the rest to show you this.

*Phize shivers*

Phize: C-C-C-Cold... B-But awesome... W-W-What was that mommy?

Lexia: Magic. One of the most important things to learn in the world. Do you wanna learn it Phize?

Phize: Y-Y-Yes, please. But mommy, can I start learning magic now? I'm *he stutters* intrested in learning.

Lexia: Maybe not now, but let's start learning next week shall we? I'm all out of mana.

Phize: How about Dada?

Lexia: SO CUTEE! *she pinches his cheeks* Your father isn't well-versed in magic, but he is, however a master in swordsmanship, he was once called, Vhint the Invincible Juggernaut, they say he's on par with the 5th in the Gracious Knights of Heaven. But those were just rumors.

Phize: Who are they mommy? Gracious Knights of Haven?

Lexia: You're quite too young for that, Phize. Maybe once you start going to school.

Phize: Awww.

*She pats his head*

Lexia: Don't worry, you're a pretty smart kid.

Phize: OF COURSE! I am the son of such a beautiful mother after all!

Lexia: AWWW! YOUU ARE JUST SO CUUUUUUUUTTE!

*Vhint opens the door*

Vhint: I BROUGHT SOME GOOD NEWS!

Lexia: What is it honey?

Vhint: I found a good school for Phize to enroll in, and the best part is, the school is not too far from here.

Lexia: THIS IS PERFECT!

Vhint: Hey little champ! You ready to go to school?

Phize: OF COURSE!

Vhint: Then you better work hard! I'm rooting for you champ.

Phize: Yessir!

*He gives a salute to his father*

Note: 1 month later.

I've been getting more and more memories and scenes I never saw before. What are these?

Lexia: Phize?

*He spaced out*

*Both of them are outside near their little garden*

*There are little growing bean sprouts in their garden*

Lexia: Altrew to Phize?

Note: The term "Altrew to ___" is similar to "Earth to ___" in this world.

Phize: Oh sorry mommy. I was just thinking about some things.

Lexia: Now watch closely.

*She stands up and faces their garden*

Lexia: With the spirits' guidance, spread in and out at such little amounts, water.

*A magic circle surrounds Lexia's arm with a larger circle and between the two circles, there lies, some illegible writing*

*Water sprays out from her hand much like a sprinkler*

*Phize gets a flashback about a computer and him programming with Python*

W-what are these? Programs? Why do these sound so familiar?

Lexia: Did you see that?

Phize: Ah yes mommy.

I wonder what they mean.

END OF EPISODE 2