Chapter 1
"Mommy! Mommy! More magic"
"Okay, honey, calm down" My mum says, pulling out her wand, a 11.5" beautifully crafted walnut wand, and proceeds to make several balls of light with different colours. A swish, and one flies around my head. A flick, and another boops my nose. And tingles. A combination of the two and several combine and change into a beautiful looking parakeet with psychedelic colours. I'm quite positively enthralled.
Sure it's just a relatively simple illusion, but Magic! Real life honest to god Magic. After 9 reincarnations I'm finally in a supernatural world, and from what I've gathered, Harry Potter. Whether it's an AU or Crossover remains to be seen.
"Ahhh my baby is cute!" mum exclaims, seeing my excitation and wonderlust and proceeds to hug the life out of me.
"Haha, Mommy stop it tickles" I've actually become quite good at acting like a toddler, an inevitable side effect of my wish and 70 years of cumulative practice.
It's not like I mind it, at first I was reluctant to be childish considering I was 22 in my first life, on a side note fuck cancer, but eventually I realised I had lifetimes ahead of me. So I allowed myself to act and live my childhood over again. And it was the best decision I made. Sure it took an existential crisis in life #3, but I got it sorted after. Yeah life 3 was a write off, it was also the first life I was born a girl. My sexual preference was and still is girls, but like all things I got used to being a girl. After all it wasn't the last time I was one.
I still acted like the resident little genius to all my parents, but I still balanced it out with my fair share of childhood fun. Balance is key, I can confidently say that. Everything needs balance otherwise you get burnt out and bitter real quick. Training in martial arts? Make sure you balance it with relaxation, rest and light recreational activities. Studying for a PhD in physics? Don't cram or write your thesis in long sessions. Space it out, go read some fictional books. Relax your mind.
How do I know this? Well obviously because I've done it. Just because my previous lives were mundane, well most of them, doesn't mean I was sitting on my arse. No I learnt all I could, all that interested me. From molecular physics to music composition to martial arts and even ballet. I had lifetimes to kill, and knew I'd have another waiting for me right after. I learnt and practiced all I could, and had all the relaxation and fun I wanted. I wasn't a natural genius, but consistent hard work and commitment put me in the same leagues. And after learning to play the stock market, I could follow the trends, and I might not hit big straight away or not at all, but I would always make money in the long run, so I was free from financial burden in most of my later lives.
"Alright honey, it's time for bed now. You start school tomorrow" mum said, whilst picking me up and taking me to my bed.
Yeah, I'm 5 and that means I start primary school. Mum knows I'm smarter than kids my age and I don't really need to go to primary school, but her being a single mother means she has to work to support us. She's a mundane born witch, so she has no family wealth or family elves to fall back on to take care of me when she is working. Sure I could've shown her more of my mental age, but I won't. The more I show, the more of her child she loses. I love her too much for that, just like I've loved all my parents. So I do what I can for all of them to give them the best parts of being a parent, without all the bad parts. If I wasn't an only child, then I would show more, but that's a moot point in this life.
Mum leaves me in bed and goes to her room, we live in a 2 bedroom flat, so I get my own room. Mum works in the mundane world, the wizarding world being bigoted as it is. I'll need to make sure to give her a good life as soon as possible.
Which I could do pretty soon actually. We don't have any capital to start any investments, but that's not an issue with me. See my soul carries my memory over each life as per my wish, but it goes deeper than that. It carries ALL my memories, what this means is I have an eidetic memory in all my lives. But not just memories, my skills and muscle memories as well, and they don't deteriorate at all. Every time I'm in a new body I can use my skills at the best level of the current body à la Takeshi Kovacs. I still would need to exercise to get my full capabilities, after all it's much harder to do a backflip if I'm overweight, possible but would be better if I had a stronger healthier body. Unfortunately that doesn't carry over, what does however is the potential.
My soul being what it is means it retains its strength, along with the 2 enhancements, affects how much natural talent my body has. What that means is if I trained my body for long distance running, I would have better natural stamina for less training, I would be faster than others and my body would be more efficient. It's not that big a gap that it can't be overcome by others with extra training, and it would have to be constant, whereas I wouldn't have to be as dedicated to it.
Not to mention I know how to make medical enhancement serums from my past lives, benefits of living to the year 2100 in multiple lives, and remembering everything. I literally have STEM knowledge of the future. This is all without adding Magic to the mix now. My strengthened soul means my magic is more dense and recovers faster, my reserves however are the same. Meaning? Stronger spells for the same amount of magic, and once again stamina. Yes I'm a cheat, but it did take me nearly a millennia to get to this point, so maybe not.
Well time to go to sleep, my magic control exercises tire me a lot. It's slow going, but it gives me a great foundation. Get ready, the wizarding world, Alex Knight has finally entered the supernatural and she plans on flipping it upside down.