Chapter 6: Chapter 6

Leo

Berlin, Germany

Before he could stand up and confront Heidi, she answered with a serious look on her face, “Alright, this might sound a bit weird, but you were in an accident three days ago.”

“Accident? What accident? I feel perfectly fine,” Leo said, looking at her again, and waved his hands around, which prompted the pounding in his head to increase up a notch. He pinched the bridge of his nose, closing his eyes. Heidi promptly ignored his mannerism, as she understood what Leo was going through at the moment.

She continued, “Yes, a car accident. I was also in it. That is a long story. In the end, my father took care of everything and brought you to our mansion to recover.”

Leo did not believe her. A car accident was not something he had experienced before. He had nothing to compare how he should feel, but now that she had mentioned it, he started to remember that he saw a car pulling up on him when he was driving. It was taking over a truck. ‘Was it a dream?’ he thought.

His mind was playing games with him. Thinking about what she had asked, increased his headache and made the pain worse in his chest. In a second, Leo started to have trouble breathing, feeling that panic was setting in. Next, the pressure increased, creating waves of pain in his head and whole body.

Heidi saw that something was wrong and reached out to the mana around her. She noted that it was being pulled in and contracting within Leo. She sat up sharply and grabbed his arm to steady him and said, “Calm down, Leo. Breathe in with me slowly, and breathe out.”

Leo barely heard her as more images flashed before his eyes, where he saw how a car was flying straight at him, while he was sitting behind the steering wheel. Next, he saw and felt how he flashed out of the car seat. He appeared on the road, next to the ditch. Then he saw how his car flew into it.

All the while, he was struggling to breathe. The following image was him checking on Heidi in the car and calling the ambulance. After that, it all went black.

Leo tried to breathe, slowly his senses were coming back to him and he heard Heidi once more.

“... are you feeling better now?” she asked in a concerned tone.

“Yes…,” Leo breathed in and opened his eyes, to find Heidi's face no less than ten centimeters away from his own, her bright green eyes, beautiful and symmetric face with pale and perfect skin, painted with a slight frown and concerned look.

“I started to remember some things. This morning I thought that it was just a dream and then my head started to hurt as well as my chest. This is all very weird and not a hangover…,” he said, catching his breath.

Leo noticed that a silver bracelet had appeared on his left wrist, which was not there just a minute ago. It resembled a snake eating its own tail, barely a centimeter in width, and made with such detail that Leo could see all the small scales evenly carved in the silver.

Looking at the scales closer he saw intricate symbols that reminded him of runes he had seen in the museum he visited in Oslo. Not understanding where it came from he asked, pulling his hand up, “Did you put this on my hand?”

“Yes, it should help you focus your thoughts and answer a few questions. What did you see just now?”

“I saw that I was driving. Then some car pulled up in front of me and I jerked the wheel to the right and almost crashed in a ditch. My car did, I somehow was left standing behind it, on the road, unscathed. What is going on?” Leo asked.

“Can you describe the feeling or your thoughts at that moment?”

“I thought that I wanted to be out of the car. The next thing I felt was something akin to being weightless for a second. Then I just stood on the road,” Leo answered, starting to feel a bit weirded out by the questions. “Where are you going with this and how is this connected to the bracelet?”

“It is not. Simply put, the crash happened. I was the driver who pulled up on you. I hit the field next to the ditch you are describing and passed out in my car. Judging from the videos my father obtained, you ran up to me and called the ambulance. They took both of us, unconscious to a hospital in Riga,” Heidi explained.

“Alright, suppose it happened. How I arrived here?” Leo gestured around him.

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“My father arranged for you to be transferred back to our mansion in Berlin.”

“Berlin?” Leo said in disbelief, “How the hell did I get to Berlin?”

“That is not the point, Leo. You are currently not well and your body is experiencing serious changes that are triggered by your condition.”

“What condition?” Leo asked, his head still spinning, not allowing him to think clearly.

“You have accumulated a very substantial amount of mana in your body. We do not see any core forming in you, while you continue to pull in more and more mana. That is what causes your headaches. It is very dangerous for you as the mana you accumulate will run out of place to go,” Heidi explained with a serious look.

“What…? Mana? Core? What are you talking about?” Leo asked, groaning, as the pain was back, this time slightly dulled. “What did you do to me?”

“I have given you a mana suppressor, that is what the bracelet is. It will help you to manage the mana accumulation, dulling whatever mechanism is allowing you to pull in more mana unconsciously. This is very new to us as well,” Heidi answered, surprised that talking with Leo was a lot easier than she expected.

“Us? Who are you exactly? What is this?” he asked.

“Sorry, I have not introduced myself properly,” Heidi said, getting up and bowing slightly, before continuing, “My name is Heidi Aer of clan Aer. We are an old mage clan, based in Germany. My father, Viktor, brought you over from Riga, from the hospital you were lying unconscious, in hopes that he can help you manage your condition.”

Leo stared at her with wide eyes and a stupid look on his face and thought, ‘Mages? What?’

“This must be a joke…,” Leo replied disbelievingly.

“Unfortunately it is not. Or fortunately, depends on how you look at it. Sure it is not the same as me telling you ‘you are a wizard, Leo’ in the dead of the night, right? However, that is the closest approximation you might pull as a mud, sorry, as a non-magic person,” she said.

“Alright, let's say that I believe you. What next?” Leo asked, gathering himself, as the pain had lessened and he started to feel himself again. “Assuming that we are in Germany, I have to get back to Riga, I have a job to get, and bills to pay. Hell, my friends will be looking for me.”

“All of that will have to wait. As I said, my father gave me instructions to give you an introduction to what is going on with you and around you. Now that you are, or we believe, will be one of us, you will have to train to catch up. The world is not safe for people like you, Leo”.

“Us? Me a mage?” Leo laughed. “Are you serious? And ‘train to catch up’? What are you talking about? It almost sounds like there is someone out there to get me.”

Heidi was running out of her patience. She expected him to disbelieve, to mock her, or even to just stand up and run away after hearing that they had kidnaped him. However, he was just sitting there mocking the whole situation, so she said, “Yes, Leo. There is someone out there to get you. And us as well, by proxy. Take this seriously.”

“Alright, alright, miss. Wizards, sorcerers, mages, and whatnot. Can I see some magic? Otherwise, this is just you explaining to me some bad joke I am in no mood for,” Leo asked in a mocking tone, crossing his arms, disbelief clear on his face. He believed that, while good-looking, the girl before him had a screw loose.

Heidi stared at him for a second and sighed, knowing how hard muds sometimes could be. She decided to cut the chase and moved her fingers for the first three sigils she learned as a kid and cast the only spell she knew would not destroy the kitchen they were in - gust. The mana pulled out from her core and converted itself to the energy that moved the air around her. She pointed a finger and struck Leo in his disbelieving face with the spell, shoving him out of the bar stool he was sitting on.

Not expecting anything Leo did nothing to avoid it, took to the face, and landed on his back, hitting his head against the kitchen tiles.

“Now do you believe me?” Heidi asked in the same mocking tone Leo had used a second ago, looking at him lying on his back.

Leo got up on his elbow, rubbing the back of his head, and turned to stare in disbelief at her beautiful, prideful green eyes. He knew that he was in over his head, as the world became a stranger place for him.

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