Chapter 8: CH-8

Two days passed faster than I thought and my second meeting with the queen of Narnia was in an hour. I'm kind of excited and freaked at the same time.  

I have been having multiple thoughts about this all day, it's just driving me crazy, I still don't know what kinda universe I'm in, it makes everything so hard when taking my plans into consideration. 

For all I know, The Ancient One might not be a wise immortal sorceress but a pedo, now who wants that, definitely not me with this beautiful body. 

"Pete connect the diode in second one and if it goes like we thought, it would be sick," Pete and I are finalising our smoke bombs, it has been a long project and it's finally coming together like we thought.

The process was exhilarating, we put a small hole on a egg shell and drained everything on inside then cut out a perfect circle on top of shell, fill the rest of shell with potassium nitrate, sugar and a pinch of baking soda, now stick a small diode attached with a cell battery on it on the circle shell, it's gonna work like a button after that reattach the shells, press the top layer of the shell 'Tada' a 10 metre covering smoke screen.

"Ok Pete, you ready?," This is the moment whether I wasted my hours of night for this or found a potential piece of equipment.

"Yeah.. I hope this works," He nodded reaching out his arms with a smoke bomb in it.

"Ok on 3. 2. 1. Throw it!," He pressed the diode in and throwed it towards the sky with as much force as he could.

The Egg got into flight, I counted till three as I saw it explode and a purple smoke hovering in the air.

""Yes!!"" We both roared in unison. 

"It works!," I took a step back as he jumped inside his room from the rooftop. 

"Yeah, so cool!... But why did you go with violet? White would have been classic?," He said, taking another egg in his hands and playing with it.

"White is good but get a flashlight and a goggle it withers but violet has the least refractive number in index so light can't be through and goggles don't work.. and pretty flashy," I replied taking the egg from his hands putting it back on the table gently, he raised his hands seeing me give a playful glare to him.

"Huh, you're getting some brains sticking with me," He tapped on his head like pointing it and fell on the bed.

"Getting some brains? What are you talking about? From the egg to purple smoke it was all my idea, what did you even do?," I slapped on his legs, making him wake.

"Hey! I… I cut the egg shells for PeteBombs!," 

"What? Pete Bombs?! You are gonna shamelessly name them after you?," I growled, how dare he.

"Yeah I called it first, now you can't change it, you know the rules," He said grinning like an idiot.

"...Damnit!! Whatever I'm going," 

"Ohh to that new mystery friend's house?," He asked, standing up from bed.

"Yeah!," I nodded while wearing my jacket.

"Ok.. fine," 

We both left the room and came downstairs, he grabbed some snacks from the table and jumped on the couch right as I was about to leave I heard Aunt May's voice. 

"Ahhh…Guys? Did you do something? What's all this purple powder dropping from the exhaust?," we had an exhaust? I didn't know that, well it looks like I learned one more thing about the house.

But that's not important, when I heard Aunt May's question a psychopathic smile formed on my face, my hands stopped the doors from closing and with the smile still in my face I returned back.

"Pete, why don't you explain what a 'Pete Bomb' is to Aunt May," I stressed the word just so she could hear and she did.

"Pete? What's a Pete Bomb?,"

"Good luck with that buddy," I winked at him and ran out as fast as I could.

"TRA-," I didn't hear anything… nope I didn't.

Some might wonder why I'm being childish, well we all at one point of our life wanted to return back to our childhood, it could be because of the stupid things we did when we thought being a adult was cool or just to live a random memory once again and now that I have the chance I don't want to look cool but just be childish.

After walking for a good 30 mins I arrived at the door steps of the great sorceress supreme, taking a deep breath I knocked on the door unlike before it was already in its majestic form.

"Hey!! Magic bald lady! It's me Edward, you in there?," I took a moment seeing no responses, I knocked once again.

"Bald magic lady?!," The door swung open, her sense of door passwords was great, not many can guess 'Bald magic lady'.

"You're here, Ancient One and master Mordo has been waiting for you since morning," The same guy who would have pushed me in some nightmarish trap welcomed me.

"Ahh.. You! The guy who tries to kill children for work, what was your name again.. Disco!," I said pointing at him as I followed him inside the mansion.

"It's David and the trial of nightmare is not something that kills you," 

"I'm not falling for that," He led me back to the passage where I first met the Ancient one.

Two figures were standing on its front waiting for me, the Ancient one looked pretty much the same except she changed her uniform to yellow, the other guy.. Mordo was not exactly like his Mcu version, he was white not brown skinned and short, like equal to Kevin Hart.

"You're here Edward," I gave her a sarcastic smile and nodded to Mordo but he just stared at me like I'm his tuna sandwich for lunch. 

"Yeah just like I promised, now there are some rules, one, no more light shows, they are eye blinding and unexplainable, two, I'm definitely not signing any deal because you could be demons, I was not sure until I saw Mr.Tall but his face is giving me the creeps so, Three, I… I forgot number Three so let's move on, what's that you called me again for? Hey! Remember no flash eyes," 

"He can talk," Mordo said eyeing me up and down, my doubts about his sexual preferences are getting higher.

"Yeah, Edward, come with us," She pointed towards the stone wall with runes at the end of passage.

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"Come with you? Where?," I know where that may lead but it's better to confirm once.

"To Kathmandu, our sanctuary, The Kamar Taj," Mordo said with his arms wide and eyes up, I followed his gaze and all I saw was a grand chandelier on a very creative ceiling.

"Yeah, no, Is Kamar-Taj like your sacrificial ground? I heard it from Otomotto but I don't know what that is and What's Kathmandu?," She and Mordo looked at each other, before Mordo sighed and started to explain.

"Kamar-Taj is the place where we teach the mystic arts and Kathmandu is a city in Nepal," so the world is pretty much as Mcu at least the Kamar-Taj part.

"Nepal? Like the country?... Is it like teleportation? Can you teleport?,"

"Yeah Nepal as in country but I don't teleport, we use the spells to create a halo ground-," I gave Mordo a confused head tilt.

"... yeah we 'teleport'," I chuckled seeing him use the bull horn signs.

"So I have to come here to learn this.. mystic arts.. Ok! Fine, so tell me how much time it will take to learn it, is it like summer camp because my summer break is coming, if we can finish the class in like two weeks it would be great, see I have plans for break.. like bingeing Friends season five to ten and there's this new anime called Naruto, I have to watch that too, a lot of guys say it has a lot of potential… so?," 

"Two weeks? Learn the mystic arts in two weeks? Are you kidding me, look at him, he obviously needs a lot more handling than any student we must have taken in, maybe it's better if we don't," Mordo shouted with disgust in his voice at Ancient one. 

"Keep it down Mordo," She glared at him with a threatening voice, "Edward, it will take at least four to five years for you to get the level of a decent eldritch sorcerer,"

"Fiv-.. Five years? Does that mean I come here every evening for an hour, learn whatever you are going to teach and repeat it for five years? That sounds boring," I frowned hearing that, It's not like I didn't like it, It will be just tiring.

"No, not an hour, you have to stay in Kamar-Taj for five years," She corrected me, which just made me step back.

"Woah!.. woah!woah!woah!, are you saying I have to be in 'Nepal' to learn it? I can't, that's ridiculous, I can't just leave New York, I have Aunt May, Uncle Ben, school.. homework, I hate to say it.. Peter, this is my home, why should I leave it because you said so, I don't even know you guys," after my rampage of words there was silence in the room.

"Edward… the job of a sorcerer supreme is to protect mystical treats that fall on earth, Agamotto is the first great sorcerer and founder of mystic arts, he learned the power to direct magic, harness spells from other dimensions, use it to protect us.. but just like there is good, there are evil forces of nature those who want earth and by us under them, I am a sorceress supreme of my generation and I protect this blue planet," Ancient one replied sternly but it didn't end, it followed with a presentation.

"This is us, Earth," She waved her hands as a earth formed in the air like a hollow projection, "many think this is the only plane but no," 

She swiped her hands and a bunch shining balls formed, some white and a bunch of other colours. 

"These are all the energy dimensions that emit 'energys', the negative zone, dark dimension, beginning dawn, light force and this.. Abyss night," every dimension she said had a colour of grey, purple, white, green and black respectively and weirdly I felt a strange sensation when I saw the Abyss night.

I could remember some of them, negative zone is where Fantastic four got their powers, dark dimension home of Dormammu, light force sounded like star wars but I'm sure it doesn't have any connection, Abyss night looked like a black sun, it was moving, it felt like it was burning, it.. it-it was fascinating.

"And you have a connection with Abyss night," She snapped her finger and for a second.. no, a mili-second, my body completely turned into black flames just like when I was in Eddie's dream.

"Woah!," I gasped seeing that, it was just a moment but it caught me off guard, I touched all over my face to see if anything happened but nothing changed.

"In all the years I have lived, I never saw someone with a link for it, expect one and trust me Edward, if you could do at least a percent of what he could, you are a target for lot of beings you wouldn't want to face and I'm not letting you defenceless," She explained and it made me doubt whether I was a walking dart board for mystical beings.

"But.. I can't leave home," I still holded my point. I know there should be a reason for my rebirth and I need to prepare myself for threats the universe has yet to throw at me but there was something inside me that didn't want to take her offer.

"Edward, your family and friends will be in more danger if you stay with them rather than leave them and you wouldn't be able to stop it, Edward, I'm not saying to leave your family in total but you have a gift that has to be controlled and furnished, I will train you until you can hold on your own," 

I found myself a chair and took some long breaths, she doesn't need to lie if she's anything like her Mcu version and if what she's saying is true then I might really need her help, I first came here to ask for help and now she's dropping it on my lap but why am I hesitating, because she might be lying? Or I'm afraid? I need to be stronger to protect things I value, my eyes darted to her as I came into conclusion.

"... Fine! I-I will do what you say but it's only for five years after that you should return me back home," I stomped my way to her while shouting each word.

"Edward, I'm not just going to take you away, you will still have access to connect with your family, speak with them, we are not savages, I already have a good reason to take you away from home and please if you don't want to be in Kamar-Taj after your training period, you are free to do your wishes," She smiled replying to my words, Mordo just grunted at her and stromed out of the room to what I suppose as kitchen.

"Cool!... Soooo.. now I'm going to be this next sorcerer supreme? Or what?," I asked excitedly, I know the possibility of that happening is low, maybe non-existent but who knows she may have another plan for me.

"No… but if you're really talented as I think, you could be teamed with master level practitioners," 

"A team that protects earth from other worldly threats, sounds like power rangers, oh.. if this is anything like power rangers I dib black suit, red is so severely overrated, why does red always has to be leader that's just favouritism," I know many will agree with me on this.

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Mordo slowly came out of the kitchen with a cup of tea in his hands, the Ancient one was standing alone at the passage front, her eyes on the door of the sanctum as a young boy was leaving.

"I liked your reason, just don't forget to inform them," The boy shouted before shutting the door.

The Ancient one just chuckled seeing the childish behaviour of the kid, Mordo came near her and took a sip.

"You could have made it in an instant, why did you have to make it all on your own," She asked but her eyes were still not on him.

"I make it myself because of the taste that differs every time, even someone that makes teas for a profession can't repeat the exact taste they have given before, it differs. I like it," Mordo answered, taking another sip.

"...." 

"Why is he different from any of us? What's so special about him?," Mordo asked.

"I think I already gave an answer for that," She replied with a smile while making a cup of tea for herself.

"I know that's not all, I don't have the rights but my curiosity beats me, what happens in his future? Who is he in this vast multiverse?," Mordo's question made her spine tingle about the sight she saw in the alternate futures and possible outcomes.

"He… is our lethal protector,"

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