Dan's Wheel of Magic Ch. 01

Dan Treatron shook his head. What in the world was happening? He took a step out of his back door, and he was suddenly in a huge forest. A forest of gigantic trees like he'd never seen.

A turn around showed him that he was no longer at his home. He still had his hand on the doorknob, there was just no door!

Dan's mouth dropped open, pulling his hand to his face, he could only stare at the knob in his hand. A moment later he heard his best friends, the twins.

"Dan? "Where are you dude?" came Ella's voice.

"I swear I saw him step out the back door," came Bell's voice.

"Can you hear me?" Dan yelled, not really expecting them to answer.

"Yeah, where the hell are you?" Ella yelled.

"Not really sure, I stepped out the door, and I'm," Dan paused. "Not really sure where I am."

"I'm telling you I saw him go out the back door," Bell said.

"Alright, alright," Ella replied. A moment later a blond, tall, extremely beautiful, well-endowed female suddenly appeared. "Dan?" she said as she stared at him. "Is that you? Good god! You're ripped as hell! What happened?"

Dan looked at his thin chest and arms, which were no longer as he remembered them. Holy shit he thought his arms were those of a life-long body builder. His washboard abs surprised him the most.

He then noticed that Ella's body was losing all her fat as her chest and ass became perfectly shaped. Her hair had a shine that was unnatural, with her arms bulking up.

Less than a minute layer minute later her sister appeared an almost copy of what her sister had been. At least for a few minutes 'til she also started to change as her sister had.

"What the hell!" Bell shouted. "I didn't ask for a total makeover!"

Dan also noticed that a wave of water was washing out from her. Then an upset Ella had flames shooting out of her fingertips.

"Dan! What in the hell have you done to us!" shouted both females.

"What!? Why are you blaming this on me?" Dan nearly shouted in shock.

"You're the one that's into all that weird shit, witchcraft, occult, supernatural, you should know!" Bell said.

Dan could only stare at them, his mouth ajar. "I thought that both of you were witches. Both of you having the elements that you did."

Both females' eyes narrowed as they stared at Dan. "How the hell do you know that? "We'll have to kill you now for that knowledge!" Ella said as she pointed a hand at Dan.

A huge torrent of flame shot out of her hand; enveloping Dan. Dan crossed his arms in fro0nt of himself as the flames covered him. A sudden wave of water covered him, then covered Ella.

Sputtering Ella was lying on the ground trying to catch her breath. "NOONE hurts my sister!" Bell screamed as she let loose another huge wave that threatened to drown Dan. A flame shot out from him that grew hotter and hotter 'til all the wave dried up.

Bell blinked. What the hell?! Dan didn't have power. Here he seemed to have not only hers but her sister's also.

Bell ran to Ella, stumbling as she went. "Sister, are you alright? What did he do to you? I'll kill him!" Bell said, her fruy growing.

This time, a titanic wave started to fall upon Dan. His mouth dropped open as he crossed his arms again. An even hotter and broader wave of flame shot out from him, closing in on the water user.

Dan saw that it was gaining on Bell far faster than he thought it would. "NO!" Dan screamed as he felt the flames start to die as they crept close to Bell. Bell screamed a moment as the flames died, and she was left there panting, slightly singed.

He looked at both females, swearing that he could feel a wave of hostility coming from both of them. With a sigh, Dan turned and started to walk away, not wanting to hurt his friends.

He was barely out of sight when he heard Ella yell for him. Dan shook his head as he kept going faster, deeper into the forest.

Ella had managed to get to her feet as she checked her sister. The amount of flame she'd seen should have incinerated her sister. If Dan was as evil as she thought he was, then both of them should be beyond dead.

She watched as Bell's healing ability was making her skin beautiful again.

"I'm going to kill him!" Bell groaned as her eyes opened.

Ella shook her head, "That might be a terrible idea. His second use of the same elements we use, were almost twice as strong as ours. You really want to go up against that much power?"

"WHAT! No, they were not! I am far stronger than that, I," Bell stopped and dropped her head as her sister shook her head no. Bell sighed, then nodded, "So what's our next move?"

"Obviously, he is stronger than most mages if he is one. I've only met ten that could use two powers of the elements at the same time. One of those was a very old archmage. Several were very high mages. Though, I have never seen them have a doubling of their casting. As for what we need to do, we have to find him and apologize," Ella said.

Bell was quiet for a few minutes, then sighed, nodding her head. "Alright, I can barely detect him though. There are also a great many elemental magic users here."

For a moment, Ella had a look of concern on her face as she touched her sister. Her face relaxed as she shook her head.

"They haven't the power to beat us, at least I don't think so," Ella said.

They both headed out in the same direction that Dan had. Ella shook her head. There was hardly a trail, since when did Dan have woodsman skills?

A great distance ahead, Dan was moving at a great clip. He looked at all the trees he didn't know, as well as the birds. Well, he thought they were birds.

He didn't want to, inadvertently, kill anything or one if he could help it. He was still moving forward rapidly when he heard a scream.

He crept forward, looking through the tall bushes. In shock, he saw a lovely, tall female with light skin and pointy ears.

The female had a wicked-looking sword that she was swinging at ten green-skinned beings. What the hell Dan thought Goblins? He shook his head as he watched as the female managed to slice one of them.

At her feet was a male that looked a lot like her. He didn't look too good with slashes across his chest and arms. The amount of blood he was losing wasn't looking good either.

Then the strangest thing happened. The grunts and squeals started to make sense. "You will make a great taste in the stew pots. "Your death will help his family to enjoy your death!" the leader of the Goblins snarled.

Dan's anger started to grow to an almost furious level. Pointing a finger at the leader and the one next to it, great flames flew out of it. The two he'd pointed at were suddenly on fire, then dead.

The other seven jumped back as two more were suddenly on fire, then as fast dead. The last five started to scream about magic users as they hauled ass as fast as they could.

The female sighed as she looked at the bushes where Dan was. "I thank you great mage, please," she started, then stopped short. "But you are a human! I haven't seen one of you in over five hundred years. How is this possible?"

Dan smirked at her as he walked out. "How is he?" Dan asked, shocking the female even more.

"You... you speak the sacred language of my people. No human has ever spoken it. You more than honor the people of the forest," the female bowed to Dan.

Dan blushed as he tried to bow to the female as she walked to where the male was. A gasp arose from her as she stared at Dan.

She looked at the male as a few tears fell from her eyes. "Elven tried to protect me. I am afraid that my brother hadn't enough skills. Nor am I afraid that he ever will," this last, almost a quiet whisper.

Dan felt a great sadness move through him as he touched the badly injured male. At that moment, his hands started to glow as he reached down, touching the worst cuts. Almost immediately, the cuts closed as the bleeding stopped.

Again, the female's mouth dropped open as all the cuts were sealed up, all the bleeding stopped. Dan then reached in feeling where the cuts above had harmed many strange feeling organs. As soon as he felt them whole again, he nodded to the female.

The female could only stare at Dan, her mouth still hanging open. Dan turned toward her, chuckled a moment, then reached out and closed her mouth.

"I hope I did enough to aid him. He had a great many cuts within," Dan said.

"I... I am sure you have helped him, though he is the healer, not me," the female said, still in shock.

Dan nodded, then noticed that the male was breathing a great deal easier. "Do you require help getting him home?" Dan asked, then had to touch the female to get her attention.

"Yes please. I find that my strength is greatly depleted," she said as she looked at the prone male with loving eyes.

Lifting the male, they traveled through the forest for over an hour before they came to an area with all the buildings in huge, great trees. An almost scared shout sounded as soon as Dan came within sight.

"To arms we are under attack!" The shouts sounded, then a huge number of warriors appeared with knives, swords and magic.

Dan looked at the female, backing away. "This way they will not harm you as they come after me," Dan said a sad look on his face.

At first, they attacked in mass, though this was fruitless against Dan's shield. Then they all stood aside as an older white-skinned, pointy-eared, much older male stepped forward.

"You are far more powerful than you appear. You also appear human, something that is impossible," the male said in broken English.

"I am, as you can see," Dan said in the older male's language. "Though I did not expect the reception that I did. Since I am not welcomed, I will leave. Though I hope that all I did for Elven was enough to help him. I am not a good healer yet, also he was attacked by goblins a few hours from here."

With that said, Dan turned back the way he'd come and started to walk away. "Wait!" a familiar female voice shouted, stopping him cold. Turning, he saw Elven's sister running towards him.

"I wish to thank you, please stay with our family," she said. "My name is Tygan, please stay."

Dan looked into her eyes, seeing the sincere gratitude there. "I would if I could, though, as with most of my short life? I do not stay where I am not welcome." Dan turned to the Elder, "Those that wished me ill, shall feel the pain that I did. I was rebuked by almost everyone here, for no reason than I am different enjoy the pain that you gave me."

With that, Dan turned as there was a great crying out of pain from almost all the small town. "What is your name?" Tygan asked.

With a sigh, Dan turned toward her with a small smile. "Not that it matters for the moment, it's Dan, Dan Treatron."

Dan then turned and disappeared through the trees. Tears fell from Tygan's eyes. She'd remember forever. She'd remember. Turning back, she could only stare at all the people that were on their knees. The pain and tears falling from their eyes.

She could almost smirk at what they were feeling. A few hours later, the one healer they had confirmed that her brother was almost completely healed.

"He said he wasn't a good healer yet. This is as good as almost any healer could do. It is amazing how deeply Elven was healed. It was truly a masterful healing," the healer said.

"Yes, I would agree with you," Tygan said, a hint of awe in her voice.

We will meet again, Dan, this I swear on my magic's soul, Tygan thought to herself.

Not far behind Dan, both females were hot on his trail. Bell was feeling bad that she had driven Dan off. He was, after all, an untrained wielder.

Ella wasn't sure if they could get Dan on their side, not after their response to his magic. At least she hadn't tried to kill him, thus he hadn't tried to off her.

Still, she thought, they had a lot of apologies and reparation to him. If he was what she thought he was, then they would have to tread lightly.

For the moment, he had two elements of magic. As easily as he had acquired them though, the others were close. If he indeed got all twelve of them, he'd deserve more than their respect.

Ella shivered as she thought of one possessing all twelve elements of magic. They would be unstoppable it had taken the intervention of several gods to stop the last one.

A sigh escaped her lips, the way Dan was would he be able to retain the honor that she knew was his make-up. Ella bowed her head as they stopped near, was that an Elfen town? Good god it was! Though she could sense that he was no longer here.

They had turned to go in the direction he had when they were startled by a soft feminine voice. "So you seek him also? What do witches wish with a human? He is far more powerful than you are, though I sense that you already know that."

They both turned in shock to see a lovely, tall female with light skin and pointy ears. Both had their magic up both's hands, manifesting their power.

"Who the hell are you?" snarled Bell. She then fired a pinpoint wave of water at the elf.

The elf female held a hand up as a light portal appeared the water passing through. Another portal appeared behind them, the water falling harmlessly behind them.

Bell snarled as she was about to launch another attack, then stopped when Ella placed a hand on her shoulder. "Be still sister, you know of Dan, I take it?"

The elf female's eyes got large for a moment, then she nodded. "So he is known to you. Ah, I see that your power has increased some. Not a lot, but better than it was. You are both actually a threat now, good. He'll need that when we are by his side."

Ella hesitated a moment, then extended her hand, shaking the elf's hand. "We are twins, though only in looks. We are from the same world as Dan. We attacked Dan like idiots, though my sister did it twice."

Bell lowered her head in shame, "I want to make it better. I would never have done that to him. I am ashamed."

"We just have to find him, then we can be of greater help to him as he can to us. As I said, both your abilities have increased somewhat. He can help all of us," Tygan said.

All three of the females nodded to each other as they set out after a wayward Dan. He had a good start on them, though at the moment he was wondering.

Dan kept going toward what he felt was pulling at him, then the pull was getting a little stronger, though not much yet. Dan shook his head trying to clear it. This wasn't natural, he thought. I need to go the opposite direction.

This seemed to make the compulsion three times stronger, enough to make Dan mad as hell. A fact that ten minutes later was apparent. He came across fifteen green-skinned, large-eyed beasts with twin tusks.

They all grunted as when they saw him, they roared with a blood lust as they pulled old rusty weapons rushing toward him. Growling, he released the fire magic he'd been holding back.

The first five vanished as if they didn't exist. The next five were shadows of incinerated ash. The last five were set on fire as they managed to scream before they fell.

The noise attracted a bigger number of green beasts. Still angry, Dan released another wave of flame almost twice as large. Ten vanished at the front, ten turned to ash behind them. The next ten screamed as they were ignited, then dropped.

Dan heard shouting as he then heard the sound of large feet retreating. Grunting, Dan sat on the ground again, the compulsion pulling at him even harder.

Growling and getting angry again, he started to push back. Dan could swear that he heard several voices scream as they tried to hold him.

Dan sighed as pulling almost completely stopped. Listening Dan, could her more of the green beasts returning? OK, he thought it was time to end this, he thought.

As he expected somewhat the green beasts came through the bushes. Dan was beyond angry now, he'd been holding the magic 'til now. Releasing it, forty vanished in the front, another forty were left as ash behind them. The last sixty or so were incinerated within seconds.

Shit he thought as he listened, then he went through the bushes they'd come from. He found an almost completely abandoned camp.

The only life was three females that were in cages. One was a dark-colored female that looked like Tygan. The second appeared to be a cat woman. What the hell? The last seemed to be made of stone.

The dark woman looked at him, shock apparent on her face. "A human? What in the pits of despair! You need to leave before they return. "They will destroy you," she stopped, staring at Dan. "By all that is unholy! What are you? Your power is greater than I have felt in five hundred years!"

Dan just shrugged, then snatched the locks off the cages, then turned to walk away. He'd almost made the tree line when he was tackled by two bodies. He looked back, seeing the Golem whose skin was soft. On the other side was the cat woman.

Both were almost crying as they hugged him tight. The cat woman's gray fur was warm against his skin. The female Golem's soft gray skin pulsed against him.

"You're just going to run off and leave us here?" the dark-skinned female said, a look of anger on her face.

Dan could only stare at the three females. "I thought that you'd be happy that you were free. What," Dan started, then was interrupted.

"We are far from home; we were dragged around 'til they stopped here. I am sure that the Orcs were going to use us. You saved us, we owe you our lives, and you act as if they are nothing," the dark-skinned female said as her eyes glowed red.

Dan sighed, "The last two times I tried to accept female company, the first time they tried to kill me. The seco0nd time her town tried to kill me. As you can see, I am not having a very good day with females. So forgive me if I am not that trusting of female company!" Dan shouted.

He tried to get up, unable to move with the two female bodies on him. Then, to make matters worse, the dark female sat on him.

"Accept that we are going with you, or we will not move!" The dark female said with a smirk.

Dan sighed as he stopped moving. A moment later he said, "Okay, let me up before I pass out from lack of air."

The cat woman and Golem both got off giggling. The dark female smirked and arose.

"I guess we need to get the three of you home then. "Who is the closest?" Dan asked. The dark woman looked at the Golem.

"Ok, which way?" Dan asked as they all pointed north.

A shake of his head, they headed out. Less than an hour later three more females stopped where Dan had been.

"There was a battle of sorts. Dan was extremely angered. I am feeling at least a hundred and fifty dead orcs. It also appears that his firepower is five times as powerful."

"Hey," Bell yelled. "There are cages here, three have the locks broken, Dan?"

Tygan looked at them, then nodded. "We are closer. If we hurry, we might catch up with them. It appears there are three besides Dan.

Ella and Bell nodded as they started to move faster. Bell and Ella were still trying to figure a way that Dan would forgive them.

Tygan smiled as she felt the conflict between the other two. They were witches after all, so they had their magic to fall back on.

Tygan could feel that they were finally gaining on them. She was getting more excited the closer they got.

They had been going an hour when she started to feel Dan clearer. She could see that the two witches were feeling him also.

They all started to move as fast as they could. The pace they were pushing was starting to tire them out. Finally, another hour had them just out of sight of them.

Bell and Ella were about to break out into a run when Tygan stopped them. Something was wrong, she said then they heard the sounds of battle.

They crept just behind where the sounds were coming from. Ella and Bell's eyes went wide as they saw what appeared to be hundreds of goblins moving in on Dan and three females.

Dan released a swath of flame that took out a great amount. Still, they kept coming in an almost endless wave. They could also see that Dan was getting angrier. This time his flame covered the entire area in front of them.

All the females had to cover their ears as a few of the Goblins screamed for a moment, then were gone. This stopped the advance for a moment, then they started again. Now the dark female was starting to cast.

A wall of darkness appeared in front of them. A great number of the newly advancing Goblins disappeared into nothing, most screaming as they did.

Dan was about to release another wave of fire when a wave of hot flames erupted from the bushes beside them. Dan could only stare at the familiar attack.

He turned back as he released another wave of destruction. This time it went further into the forest, destroying everything in front of him.

This time there were hardly any screams as the forest was quiet. Dan released a breath and looked at the three other females as he rolled his eyes, then he passed out.

"What happened?" asked a worried Bell and Ella.

"It appears that he used all his energy, trying to protect them," Tygan said, pointing to the other three females.