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I was led to a room by the guard that was in a different tree then the one I was "interrogated" at instead it was a smaller treee but my apartment was quiet nicely appointed.

'Glad I chose this place instead of the five kingdomes, wouldn't get something like this over their' I though. Since I had extra time I decided to look around my room...I was slightly bored.

On my little adventure I saw that I had a kitchen, bedroom, 2 bathroom, obviously the living room.

'Alright...what do I do now?' I contemplated.

After thinking it through for a bit I decided to close my eyes and tey to look deep in myself to try to sense my magic.

. . .

Tying to sense my magic I was taken into a black space that reminded me of a state of sleep.

*voom-Swoosh*

Fire a black torrent of fire surged to life, it was hot but soft and gentle to look at.

I was looking at the flame as it vanished by a almost invisible gust of wind that seemed to hold magic inside itself. The wind changed from a gust to a torrent of unrelenting wind and black lighting trying to pull me in. I dug into the solid ground refusing to just be taken by it. the wind and lighting setteled and I was finally able to stand on my own two small feet.

*whoosh* *BOOM!!!*

From above water fell down like a waterfall as it pushed me back a far distance.

*CRACK!!!*

Just as all seemed to have passed the floor below me creacked and split wide and far, as if there was no ground at all.

I had fallen for quite a while before I felt ground under me again, although I am suprised that I didn't feel any pain I couldn't complain. I stood up again but this time was different this time I was in a room that had pillars scattered all randomly around with light coming from an opening it looked like a exit. But thats when I noticed.

*Snort*

I wasn't alone behind me was a dragon big and black with scales that seemed impervious and indestructible.

"You have no I dea who I am. Do you" The black dragon spoke with a deep and strong voice

"I do not, quite frankly I have no idea where I even am" I said looking right at its red eyes.

"Then I shall answer your questions. Firstly you are where your mind thinks with no thought needing to pass through, it is a realm of where ones soul remains and where ones subconscious lay" The dragon said in a slightly cryptic manner.However I was able to decifer it.

"So I am in.....someones mind" I asked knowing were in a mind, but I don't know whose

"Not someones this is your own mind a place where your soul and subconscious lay" he said as his voice reverberated through the area we were in.

"Then why am I here, for a better note why are you here" I asked looking at the dragon straight in the face.

"You are here because you know nothing of your own self or the power you possess. I am here because I am nothing more than your subconscious given form to guide you. So for this one time I will be your tutor/instructor." The dragon said in a forboading manner.

"Then what is my first lesson." I asked not willing to beat around the bush with the limited amount of time I have.

Almost as if he read my thoughts he spoke

"You will stay here and master all that I will teach you the time in here will amount to the time outside" The dragon clarified

"Your first task what was the first element you saw on your was here" The dragon said as it got up from where it was laying.

"hmm, fire-"

*boom*

The moment I gave my answer he smacked me with his tail too fast to react to.

"Wrong, what is the first element you see on your way down here" The dragon said looking at me sternly.

I was getting up from the feeling of getting hit with something I would imagine a very big boulder moving at about 40 mph.

"The only thing there was that is a part of the six sources was fire." I complained but that led me to receiving another tail whip.

"This is your last chance, what was the first element you saw" He said eyeing me down as unbelievable amount of bloodlust.

"I wracked my brain around for something as the bloodlust paralyzed my body in fear.

'What was it I saw first if not for fire...think....think!!!....p-perhaps its that.'

"Darkness!!!, I first saw the dark."I answer holding the side of my stomach that was severely bruised and pulsing in pain, small bit of blood came from my mouth

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...Correct darkness is an element although dark magic is associated to the magic of what humans use, what you saw was dark magic." The dragon said refracting his bloodlust.

This let me finally be able to lay on my unbriused side on the floor and hold my pained side. The dragin on the other hand had no need for rest

"You know how to use fire, although sloopy and untrained you can use it, we will discuss this later. For now I want you to summon the third ability." The dragon demanded as it laied down to rest.

I did as it asked lest I recive another tail lashing. However as if the dragon already knew and laid down was the dract that drawing out the third element 'wind' is harder I could tell right away just from trying to summon and getting nothing as a result.

(1 hour later)

*swoosh*

*pant*

*pant*

After 1 hour I was fonally able creat a wind made of dark magic. The wind looked as if it contained shadows inside itself proving that has dark properties inside of it. The dragon was was looking at me once more to give further instructions.

"You were able to create wind. Now I want you to create water." The dragon said returning to a slumber once again.

I was back to trying to create water the same way I did water. Although it all failed and the feeling of not being able to create anything was the only thing that I could feel.

And so here I was I needed to make water but I had to make this from scratch.

(2 Hour later)

The exotion of creating wind caught up to me during the process of creating air. However in the end I was able to make a black water that seemed to be dence in nature. The dragon moved once again to instruct me further.

"You have created fire, wind, and now water. Next is to bend the earth."

"Why bend and not create." I asked in curiosity and to catch my breath.

"You will discover this when you are able to achive this." He said plainly.

I had almost wished the Explanation was longer even if it didn't in the end.

And back to this act of making something from nothing.

(4 hours later)

"WHAT AM I DOING WRONG!!" I yelled into the endless area of pillars that reverberated my voice.

'I can't get a steady grip on my magic since my fatigue has been dragging me down and further down the longer I do this. I have been failing on how to make earth. The process of making them where tiring and there seemed to be no progress unlike water and wind. Flame was something that came to me naturaly and seamlessly.

'Bend earth' The dragons last words on instructing me suddenly came through my mind as I rested and was able to gathered my thoughts.

'Bend...with the other three he said to create and I was able to successfully create rather then to bend like he said this one....HOW COULD I BE SO BLIND!! his words carry more then w

what meets the eyes, my own fatigue and confidence caused me to not see what should have been right in front of me.' With new found energy and a new understanding I gathered my magic and instead of making something I visualized my magic gather into the earth and move it like that.

Black small tendrils of my magic seeped into the earth and started to spread as if it was contaminated.

*creack*

a creack was heard where the black rock bellow me was, I was able to get the black rock to where my hands were and they had been slowly spinning in place. I was marveling at my a accomplishment when the fatigue had forced me to collapse on the ground and recover what I had spent.

(1 day later

*Grrrugh*

I groaned as I layed their exactly where I collapsed out of the magucal requirement I needed when I first met mister dragon over here.

"Nice to see you finally awake. I hope you rested well because the only rest you can get is sleep through fainting by hard work. Now you will spend however many days it will take for you to master the magic you have, including the ones you just learned." The dragon said in its deep voice.

"Fine I don't think I have a choice anyway." I replied to his relentless demand.

. . .

And thats how my time was spent in this place where I have been in isolation from the world and have had no one to talk to, not even the dragon whose name still eludes me.

I can't remembrr how long I've been in this place where the pillars seem to grow more distant and the glow of the cave has grown more tempting to cross. However I must stay focused on growing stronger in a world that can be very unforgiving no matter who or where you are.

As the feeling of time becomeing more irrelevant and harder to keep track of as my days turn from days, to weeks, to months, and mabey even years.

That estimated time however was not wasted on goofing around or messing with my surroundings. I have trained all of my magic to the point of mastering them and if not then close to it. I can cause black water to create a large lake, a black fire to burn a forest, a black wind that can rip trees off their roots and toss them to nearly 300 feet away. I have learnt in my self mastery the combanation of magic to create different reactions among them.

For example I can summon fire and water and combine the two this will make a dark steam that would be controlled by me using wind. I can use wind to make my fire more potent and deadly like a fire tornado. I can toss a spear of black rock using wind and rock and separate them mid-air to create a area of effect that dammages any hit my the accelerated debris.

I have also Found different variants of the magic of wind and water. I can create black lighting through my wind and black ice through water/wind.

Feeling confident in my mastery of my abilities I turn to the slumbering dragon. That had just awaken conurming my theory that I am done with this task.

"Well only took you 4 years to complete this task *claps* well done normal people can take their whole lives and never do what you can do now. However there is one element that you have yet to master or even try. Can you guess what that is" He asked as he looked at me with his red eyes.

"If I were to guess its what you asked the first time I met you. Its the dark magic I have yet to use or master." I said remembering the beat down I recived by this guys tail.

"Yes, but there is one other thing I will give you that will prove extremely helpful on your many journeys." He said as he raised his claw into the air and a great mass of darkness from our surroundings and into his clenching fists

*wo,wroo, fwoosh*

Apon releasing his fist he reveled a sword that looked to be primarily if not entirely black as light bounced off of them.

The first sword was pretty normal if you discount the entire color is black. The second one is the one that has me questioning a lot since it looks like a broken blade.

"You may look at them weirdly, but these swords were made from your soul and subconscious. So I'm sure you will feel natural with them in your hand." The dragon said as the swords floated twords me as I grabbed a hold of them and he was right they feel like they were made for me funny since they were made from me?

" My time is up, you will be the one who learns how to use both dark magic and those swords your own world." He said as he looked at the taunting light that made itself a socre of light throughout my whole time here.

"Well I guess this is good buy. Thank you for helping me even if you were made from my soul and subconscious. Thank you for teaching me."

I said in gratitude as I crossed the white exit after 4 years and escaped my own subconscious.

The dragon after shade leaving disassembled into a dark shadow returning to shades soul earning his long deserved rest.