Gettysburg
Pa
Nov 23, 1991
The dark beast lifted it’s head to sniff the air, it’s prey was close.
It licked it’s chops in anticipation it had been so long since it had fed
on magic. “Soon” it thought.
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Magus Darius Smith was surveying the famous battle field for signs of the spectral
soldiers reported, not really his specialty, but the USDS didn’t always
assign you to your strengths.
Suddenly, a flaming streak shot towards him from the heavens. Stopping, just
shy of hitting him, it transformed into his partner and wife, Helia.
“Find anything?” She asked.
“Well, even if I had, your little light show would have scared them off.” Darius
answered, handing his wife her clothing. Being a nymph, most of her powers only
worked while she was naked (not that Darius minded this “down side“). “How
about you?”
“No, nothing, I think this was a bogus tip.” She answered. “We
should get going, I want to get home, before Cole wakes up.”
“You baby the boy too much, my dear.” Darius commented, while already
casting the return spell. “Well he is...” Helia suddenly flamed up,
readying a fire ball. “We’ve got company.”
“I’m almost done. Can you keep it busy, long enough.” Daruis
asked, but before Helia could answer, the beast that had been stalking them
bounded out of the shadows towards them.( awkward )
“I’m almost done. Can you keep it busy, while I finish?” Daruis
asked, but before Helia could answer, the beastly stalker leapt from the shadows
at them.
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Philadelphia
Little Cole was sound asleep in his crib, when the pendant around his neck flared
with light. He began crying for the first and only time in his life, and where
his tears fell, small flames burst to life and quickly died.
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Osaka, Japan
Sensei Sato Hakeri awoke from his deep meditation and looked over at his grand
niece, Rei, in her bassinet. Sighing quietly, “Her life will not be an
easy one.” he thought to himself. “The mark on her stomach will
see to that.”
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Pendragon Academy for the Paranormally Gifted.
15 years later
Cole Smith was unique, for a student at Pendragon academy. According to every
test the school ran on him, he was just another PR:0, that being someone with
a Paranormal Rating of 0, a normal average non-paranormal human. This confused
and frustrated experts from both the school and the USDS, after all wasn’t
his father the famous Mage, Darius Smith and his mother had been a fire nymph
of the royal line of Oberon. That pedigree alone was the reason the school
hadn't already tossed him out.
That is, until...