The Book

"AH!" Nana awoke suddenly from her table, startling everyone in the classroom.

"No Nana, "AH" is not the correct answer, meet me after class, I need to talk to you." Magi asked.

Nana saw the school on fire, burning and blown to smithereens. She could feel the embers of the fire crawling on her arm. She felt the fire singe the hairs on her arm, this was no dream, this was a premonition.

"Now, where were we? Oh yeah, the wizard license exam. Now, you guys will be taking the exam in under 2 weeks and the test is made of 3 different parts." Magi drew 3 large circles. "Firstly, the first part of the exam will be a test on the knowledge of the herbs and berries, you'll be picking out different items from the forest to create an elusive potion. Secondly, a true wizard should be able to save others in times of crisis, thus the second part where you'll be needing to rescue hostages from destroyed buildings. Lastly, for the thir-"

"What if we fail?" A kid from the back of the class raises their hands.

"Well, the tests are pretty straightforward, failing then would be embarrassing, but if you did fail you'd be ranked as a class E sorcerer. The test isn't a binary system, it's an evaluation of your different skills and abilities. Doing well in all your tests will get you the maximum rank of A. Fret not, if you do fail your test, you'll be able to increase your rank by doing different quests." Magi added, "Anyway, class is ending soon at 9, so we better start wrapping up. As I was saying, the third test will be-"

BOOM!

A large explosion erupted, sending a large shock wave, shattering the glass windows in the class and sending glas shards towards the students.

"Agh!" Nana screamed. Her skin had been sliced open by a large shard of glass, entering her arm. She took cover beneath her desk as the classroom was in disarray. The black board in the front of the class had fell, the tables sent flying to the opposite direction, the walls cracked and destroyed. Nana clutched her arm and applied pressure to the wound, keeping the glass shard in her arm. She peered out of the window and the once morning sky had turned a dark crimson red. The once bright morning sun shadowed by a ball of darkness, the moon eclipsing the sun. Her eyes burned the image into her mind, the whails of students could be heard echoing through the walls, screams and crying alike. Nana felt a sharp pain in her neck, another shard of glass had pierced her. She laid motionless on the floor, slowly bleeding out, her vision getting blurry, the sounds around her blending and muffled. Eventually, she closed her eyes and all the sounds stopped. She opened her eyes and the sound of water trickling down entered her ears. She was back. Instead now, the walls of the dungeon were cracked, light peering through them. The glass murals shattered into a million pieces. "The time is now." The voice spoke in her head. The mural of the woman with the crescent on her chest was intact, only Nana's and Lin's had been shattered. The crescent on her chest was bright, reflecting Nana's reflection. In the reflection was book, only it was in Nana's hands. As Nana looked at her own hands, the book was there. The room started violently shaking, dust and small debris started falling down. She opened the book and there wrote "When the eclipse falls, so do the sounds of cries fill the halls. Echoing ever loudly, so one can sleep soundly." Suddenly, the ground beneath her feet started to shake again, cracks appeared on the ground.

"May the one hand picked by the gods be blessed with the powers of one."

Nana awoke, still in the classroom, it'd felt as if she blinked and she had woken up again, everything was the same. But her arm didn't hurt anymore, she looked at her arm, where should be a glass shard was now nothing. The bleeding had stopped and so did the rest of her wounds.

"Argh!" Magi screamed in pain, a glass shard had entered his thigh, making him incapable of moving. Nana stood up, the pain in her legs gone, she went over to Magi and knelt down.

"Can you walk?" Nana asked.

"No I can't, the shard is too deep into my leg, I need you to find anyone else alive and bring them out of the classroom." Magi muttered under his breath. "You just have to trust me."

Nana looked at his wound, she felt like she was being pulled to it. She reached the hand out and placed it on his wound.

Magi cried out in pain, he was biting down on a piece of his shirt he'd thorn off. "What are you doing?" Magi screamed at Nana, "Are you out of your mind?"

When Nana lifted her hand up from the wound, the blood had stopped and the wound was closed. All that was left was the hole in the blood soaked jeans around the wound.

"What? What did I do? I didn't even use magic? I don't know how to heal others." Nana said in disbelief. She looked at her own hands, they were dirty but not a single scratch.

Magi regained his strength, he had hid under the teachers table during the initial shock wave, only injuring his leg. He mustered up all his strength to stand up. He cautiously stood up one foot as he clutched the side of the table. He placed the other foot down, slowly applying more weight to it. It'd been completely healed. "What did you do? Healing magic isn't this efficient, it'd take 2 or 3 minutes to close a wound of that size even with the best wizards in the world."

Nana stood up, the eclipse blaring in her face. The crimson blood sun shined into the classroom through the broken windows. She felt a current flow through her body, this was it. This was what the voices foretold.

Suddenly, a large rift appeared infront of her, a hand reaching out. Nana instinctively pulled the hand towards her, only for it to send her flying. She was knocked down on the floor.

"You alright? You suddenly just went flying, we better hurry up and evacuate the students, we need to find out what happened." Magi didn't see the rift or the hand. Magi stretched his hand out for Nana to grab. As she tried to pull herself up, she felt an ominous presence to the side of her. As she turned her head, there it was.

The book.