The Magus Chronicles Ch. 08

Authors note: The characters, places, names, and such are not to be used, copied, or such actions without the permission from the author. Any places, names, descriptions of real life people, places, and such is pure coincidental. Much effort has been placed in keeping everything in this series very original as possible. This story contains, scenes of sex, violence, and use of magic. Let it be noted that all characters engaging in sexual activities are of legal age of consent.

Personal note: Sorry it's been a bit since I've posted. Aside from dealing with life and work, I'd been up against a writer's block wall. I had to step back and let myself reset and well, I've worked through it some and have started working on this series again. Thanks for those who've started following and enjoying my works. Sorry for any mistakes that might still be in the story.

CH. 8

Jack watched the standoff between the female warrior and the beast. It felt like minutes, but it was only seconds before they started attacking each other again. They attack each other with several attacks and the beast changes form to a dire bear with similar colors as before. They were going at each other for at least fifteen minutes so far. Jack hears them yelling and arguing with each other. As for what they were saying Jack had no idea. Jack sees the beast change form again but into a human female. She like the other female both have brown hair. The shape changer carried a staff and was dressed more in fur and robes and had a partial cow skull helmet with horns where as unlike the other who had on leather and shell armor and looked more like she was going to battle with her sword and shield. He sees the shape changer reach her bag on her hip and throw out something from her pouch and suddenly two totems appear along with two wolves. Suddenly her skin started changing to stone. The two of them seemed oblivious to Jacks presence or where they were currently at. The sword maiden as Jack was mentally calling her was very powerful physically. Her attacks put cracks in the druids stone skin. Their attacks were starting to mess up the area around them. Twenty five minutes had now passed.

Suddenly multiple lighting strikes struck the ground between the three of them. "Standa um atganga fra!" a loud female voice yelled out. Jack and the two females all turned to see Beatrice and her daughters standing behind Jack all looking powered up with glowing eyes and energy glowing around their hands. "Tros pinn skoo sioan fara!" Beatrice says firmly. Jack looks and sees the two of them actually looking around realizing that they were somewhere different and dropped their weapons. "Ummm what did you say to them?" Jack asked Beatrice. "I told them to stop fighting and drop their weapons and then behave. It took me a bit to understand what language they were speaking." Beatrice says as her and her daughters returned to normal.

Beatrice stepped in front of Jack and as he turned his head he caught a glimps of a figure off in the distance watching from the trees. He hears Beatrice talking to the females as he watches the female in the distance for a little bit. She's like a statue unmoving. Figuring she'd likely disapear again he begin to turn his attention to the two females that Beatrice was now talking to. He hears some gasps and more talking. "Alright talking will be easier to do like this. This is the master of this land Jack Thompson. And these are my daughters Zonarica and Alcaret." Beatrice said. Jack looked at the sword maiden and then at the druid. When he looked at the druid in her eyes time stopped and Jack saw another butterfly go from her to him and her eyes like the other flashed pink.

"Jack may I introduce Isabella and Adeline Darcen. They are sisters." Beatrice said gesturing to the druid and then the sword maiden. "As for why they were causing such a ruckus, Adeline and Isabella are betrothed to the heirs of the house of Preamwood. Isabella is for it where as Adeline is not. And they started fighting when Isabella showed Adeline that the heirs has become of age as her ring had changed from black to silver. Adeline saw hers had changed as well and got upset and started their little tiff." Beatrice said gesturing to the rings on their fingers. Jack looked at their ring and saw that they were wearing the same rings as he was. He looked at his and then with a shocked face raised his hand showing his ring. The two females faces suddenly show shock and drop to the ground bowing their heads."Ummmm what is going on?" Jack asked uncertain what was going on looks at Beatrice and the twins only to find them giving him a curtsey bow. "Come on please get up off the ground Jack said getting the two new arivals to look up at him. Beatrice and the twins compose themselves and Jack is hit with a bombshell of news.

Beatrice is smiling but Jack senses uneasiness under the smile. "Jack your world is about to be turned upside down again. But I think this conversation might be better made inside if we may?" Beatrice asks. Jack said certainly as long as there isn't any more fighting. The six of them make their way into the house and head for the living room. Beatrice excuses herself and her daughters a moment and Jack sees the Darcen sisters watching him. Isabella has a smitten look on her face whereas Adeline showed uncertainty. Batrice eventually returned with a kettle and some cups. She pours everyone some tea and then turns to Jack.

She holds his hand as she begins to talk. "Jack, You're going to maybe think I'm crazy but I've spent quite a bit of time doing research on you and managed to do some digging in the archives at the high council. After some long nights I've gain some knowledge that holds good and bad news for you. So let me say what I need to say and then you can ask questions please. I wasn't certain but today has confirmed a lot for me. First the most important thing is your legal name is Jack Thompson but your birth name is Jack Preamwood. Your parents you knew are technically and legally your adopted parents. You and your birth family was brought here from a long time in the past to escape a evil man. Upon arriving here your birth family was trying to reach this very place. What I understand is a member of the Aurotheri caused an accident that claimed the lives of your birth family. From the research I've did as of right now from what I understand you three are the last three of your bloodline. The Darcen sisters here are your fourth cousins. And as I stated before they're betrothed to the heirs of Preamwood. Jack, the Preamwood family is lost royalty in matters of both the public and magi community. Your father Alasdair Preamwood, was a king and your mother Fanelma Ashmoss Preamwood, was queen. Although I found little about her I know your father did have ten other wives. From reports I found they all died from various reason with the last your father, brother, and mother being murdered." She said looking sadly at Jack.

Jack haven't known any of those she talked about didn't feel any loss per say. But he did feel like he was stolen from as he was robbed from knowing his birth family. Beatrice explained the wreck to Jack and the memory she saw. "Jack remember when I told you that you had to stay away from the magi high council? Well my worries were well founded. Jack going through the information I found out that the magi high council that your father originally created in the past, had your family killed here in the present per say. I don't know how they knew that your family was here. But I know and have evidence that they hired the guy who killed your family. The high council are the one who... tracked down every member of your bloodline through the years and had them killed off except for you three. I have that evidence hidden and locked away. The high council is not someone to take lightly. Their forces are in the thousands and much planning is to be done. I'll be meeting with someone soon. Another task is to find the lost crown of the Preamwood family.

Jack talks to the Darcen sister and tells them that he isn't going to force anyone to be with him that didn't want to be with him. Upon hearing that Adeline began showing signs of relief. Jack was surprised at how they were able to use passible english. They told him that they'd learned old nordic after their parents ended up living in a viking village. Their mother passed from sickness and father eventually from a beast attack about a year before they were transported to the present. While Adeline didn't have magic she was a very astute study in combat. Her sister Isabella turned out to be a ghestalt magi and was a shaman and druid. Jack said that since they're family they were welcome to stay with him. Jack set them up in rooms before Beatrice came up. "Jack they're going to need to be help getting aclimated here. So I'm going to work a bit of my mind magic to help them. And will be needed to measure them." Beatrice told Jack to give them some privacy for a bit while she dealt with the sister and the Davis twins went to town and get some clothes for them.

Jack let Beatrice do her thing while he sent a text to Jessica. "Hey Jessica. Giving you some heads up. I know this is going to be a bit crazy to hear or believe. But I just found out I do have some family left alive. And well I'll have to explain more in person. I'm still wrapping my head around it. But they're distant cousins. And well... we are the last three of our family. So anyways I'm getting them set up here. I'll introduce you and Kendra to them when we can get a chance. Again lots more to talk about. Later be safe.

Jack gets a text back that said defently will need to talk and get blood test done to make sure they're not fakes. Jack laughed texting back that blood test sounded good. Beatrice got the sister in the bath and went and found Jack. "Aunt bea I'm going to need to tell Jesica and Kendra everything. I trust the both of them and trying to keep this all a secret is going to be hard. The sister are fed, clothed, and put to bed. Beatrice and her daughters headed home for the night.

Jack walked into the day room where he'd put all of the supplies. Something caught his eye. The closet he had put his stuff in had a glow energy radiating from the closed doors. Opening the doors Jack sees that the ring is glowing again this time in pulses. Jack reaches towards the ring and a vision flashes before his eyes. He sees the prison and this time there is only five people alive and one of them which was a male was on the verge of death. The vision stopped and Jack is back in the day room. Jack takes the ring out of its case and slipped it onto his finger. He found himself in the prison and the atmosphere is going bad against Jack he feels something isn't right the shadows crept in and cries of anguish could be heard far off in the distance. The clanking rattling noises sounded as if the were approaching. Four floating eye balls round the corner turning towards Jack followed by a group of eighteen skeletons. From another corridor another group of zombies moved their way towards Jack.

Suddenly Jack feels something bad. He feels his energy being sucked from him quickly. He can feel himself start to get tired. "I'll be back as quickly as I can. Don't loose hope!" Jack yelled hoping they could hear him as he willed himself out of the prison. Picking up the phone he called Beatrice. "Hey Beatrice, I'm very sorry for calling you so soon but I have another emergency. Like it's a life or death situation I feel. And well you're the only other magi I know beside myself. I came into possession of a ring that is emitting a glow and I slipped it on my finger and well I found myself in a prison with dead and dying people. I need help." Jack lays out over the phone. She tells him to hurry to her shop and to obviously bring the ring. Jack left out the house after leaving a note for the sisters that he was heading out and would be back as soon as he could.

Jack arrived at the shop with Beatrice and the twins waiting. Jack tells Beatrice almost everything that happened from the time he had went shopping and then seeing the shop where he got the ring. He tells her how the monsters patrolled the halls, and the energy being sucked out of him. "If what you're saying is true, I'll have to go in and handle this quickly myself. No offense Jack, but you're too new to this to be able to handle everything that'll need to be done in a timely manner. Please hand me the ring so I can get those poor souls out of that place." Beatrice says stretching out her hand. He hands Beatrice the ring but nothing happened when she slipped it on her finger. She sighs and tells Jack that he will have to wear the ring and go back into the place he'd seen.

She'll have to take control of his body from the outside. She'll be able to see, and handle things through him. She says she needs to get a vile of mana replenishment before going in. One of the twins sniff at Jack and starts smirking. The other sees what happened smiles and tells their mom that Jack is full of energy. She asks what they meant by the statement. They said they smell residue on him. Jack says he bathed and should smell clean as he sniffed himself. "Oh they're not talking about body odor." Beatrice says as she smirks and says that they should begin then.

Jack finds himself back in the prison. He feels himself being controlled. He feels himself start to get drained of energy again. He feels the stinging sensation of being cut. He looks at his body and marks are starting to appear across his body in his mind and in the flesh. Jack rushes forward to the prisoners. It's taking some time but Beatrice begins to tear down the curses placed around the prison. Jack feels as his flesh is on fire. With the last curse broken, Jack headed to free the prisoners. Burning the way through a group of zombies a group of skeletons with swords start to attack Jack. Jack hears Beatrice's incantation for arcane missile but it's different than the one he knew. Suddenly a barrage of arcane missiles fly out striking down the skeletons. "Through my will and the hearts of embers I call upon thine heat. Mages fire I cast!" Jack hears as fire balls fly out hitting the flying eyeballs. They fall to the ground burning up into ashes. Jack sees that all the corridors were clear of monsters. Jacks vision is blurry as Beatrice while still controlling Jack, opens a portal as Jack collapses. His vision grows dark as he sees three figures enter the prison.

Jack wakes up in his bed. He's covered with bandages. It hurts to move and sit still. But if he doesn't get up out of bed, he'll end up ruining the bedding as his bladder was telling him that he needed to use the restroom. He flushes and washed his hands. He swallowed some pain medication and headed back to bed. Jessica walked in and is shocked at Jack's appearance. "Oh my god Jack, what happened to you? You went to a live edge event didn't you?" Jessica asked scolding him. Jack tells her that he didn't. Zonarica walked in startling Jessica and Jack. Jessica sees the tray of medical supplies and then glared at Jack. "Don't lie you did go to a live edge event. You're going to get banned perminatly from LARPing if the clans find out Jack!" Jessica says.

Jack looks at Zonarica like as he's asking for help. She waves her hand as if saying that it's up to him. Zonarica excused herself saying she'd be back. "Jessica, I haven't been to any live edge events. I can finally move around without pains in my leg do you think I would mess that up by going to a live edge for fun?" Jack said trying to calm her down. Jack sits down as he talks. "I happened to come across some people who were dying and I helped rescue them. I got hurt trying to save their lives. " Jack tells her.

Beatrice walks in followed by her daughters. "Oh my, being around Jack is just nothing but surprises and excitement!" Beatrice says looking Jessica over. Jack and Jessica sees that her eyes were glowing which freaks out Jessica. The glow fades and Beatrice looks at Jack. "You should be in bed still. Get to it. Girls change Jack's bandages then meet us in the next room." She said waving at Jack then turning to Jessica. "Come child, let's speak out here." she says ushering Jessica out as the twins were getting started on Jack. "Maybe we should take a little EXTRA care of Jack the hero. Right sis?" Alcaret says to her sister trying to tease Jack. "Behave girls." Beatrice says as she lead Jessica out of the room.

Jack can hear them talking in the next room. "What Jack told you the truth. He did find some folk being held against their will and were close to dying. Unfortunately we took too long getting to them and one did pass away. Had he not acted when he did, the four we saved, would have joined the now thirty we didn't get to in time." Beatrice says. "Why not call the police or the feds?" Jessica asked. Beatrice tells her that law enforcement don't handle situations like this. Beatrice asks Jessica what she knew or thought about magic. Jessica tells her that she's an inspiring scientist. She believes in facts and proof. Magic from what she knew was just science in effect that the observer could not explain with logic.

"Well you are somewhat right. Magic is science on another level but you can say it's half science and half faith. Magic need structure, trial and errors, and cause and effect. But it also needs belief and faith. When you look at a picture the canvas was first blank. Then you applied things to create a image. That's proven science but magic is the same. You're taking energy and manipulating it to create something. Have you ever had something happened before that you couldn't ever explain? Something that you couldn't put logic behind?" Beatrice asks. Jessica is quiet for a moment then tells her that she hasn't. She tells her that she's been able to break anything down and come up with a conclusion that she could place a cause and effect. "I don't know how, but I've had a natural knack for science. It's what I'm good at. I'm going to go to college and get my degrees in engineering and chemical engineering. Wait I just remembered something I'd almost forgot. When I first got here I was looking at the statues around the place and I was seeing patterns glowing. And there was these little people with big eyes no taller than my knee. I thought I'd imagined it all." Jessica tells her. Beatrice is shocked and touches her necklace. "Jessica you're about to get proof and maybe you'll be able to tell me what you can see as I do this." Beatrice speaks some phrases and in a matter of seconds Jack hears Jessica freaking out.

"Oh my god, you just made a book appear out of thin air." Jessica exclaimed. "What... How... If..." Jessica says unable to make complete sentences. Beatrice tells her to calm down and apply her knowledge for what she saw. Jessica finally calmed down and thought on it. "You ummm had to have created a wormhole and then applied an gravitational pull connected to the book from your hand." Jessica tells her with an uneasy tone still in her voice. "Very good. I knew from the moment I saw you that you were magi. It took me a second to access your mind and see if you possess a calefactis monolith. It's unique design. I believe that you're possibly what we call a ghestalt." Beatrice says. Jessica is confused and Jack doze off as Jessica got a course lecture on magic.

Jack wakes back up as Alcaret was changing his bandages. The wounds were healing good and he'd be able to move around better soon. Jack asked about the twins heritage. He's told that they're half Maldivian, a quarter African, and part Asian. Jack was wrong about the Indian. Jack asked if they were seeing anyone and they said that their mom won't let them date anyone that she doesn't approve of. Jack goes back to sleep after eating and wakes up the next day. Jack hears a knocking sound and followed it to the closet in the antechamber entryway. He sees runes surrounding the door frame of the closet. There was a door knocker he didn't see there before and it was moving by itself. Jack opens the door to see who was behind it. He was shocked when he opened it and found Jessica on the other side in another place. She laughed at the look on Jack's face saying. "Well it took you long enough to answer. What do you think? It's a permanent quick travel between your house and Beatrice's shop. We had talked while you were out of it and figured it would be quicker going from here to there. Instead of thirty minutes of driving, we can use this doorway. The prisoners have been stabilized and are being cared for by Beatrice until help arrives to properly help them." She tells him as Jack shakes his head acknowledging what she said.

Jessica entered Jack's house and they went and sat in the snuggery. Jack asked Jessica if she found out anymore about herself. She tells him to go on and visit her mind before she tells him what she knew. Jack presses his forehead to hers and whispers an incantation. When he finished felt himself connect with her mind and could feel a breeze. He smells something sweet and also oily. He felt solid ground under him. He opened his eyes and was shocked.

He found himself in a large strange room. Behind him he saw two large windows with a smaller window above the larger ones. Before him he saw a large warehouse sized room that was divided by a line. A little ways ahead of him he sees a strange statue of Jessica's calefactis monolith. Below the statue two bowls, the affinity pedestal, and seven mana calefactors that housed crystals. The calefactis monolith statue was divided down the center going around a third part in the center with the left half being made of metal and wood blended together, while the right half was a teal green clay looking flesh. In the center of the chest a large teal green and red stone with a golden band. She has one hand held up towards a floating orb that glowed pulsing golden brown and light green colors with a rune line exactly like his. Her other arm was held out down towards the pedestal. A flow of energy from the orb to the higher hand down to the lower hand can be seen. From the lower hand, the energy splits and goes to the crystals and then to the pedestal. He looks to the left and sees a two story library made of a red varnish wood. There was a spiral staircase to the second floor and the ceiling had a stained glass dome built in the roof. The room had a cozy feel to it.

To the right he sees the room turn into a workshop. Vat tubes with illuminated liquids connected to hoses. Shelves with drawers, bottles, containers, scrolls, and various objects surrounded the perimeter of the shop. He sees a work station table with scrolls and books spread across the top. He sees other shelves with crystals, liquids, and scraps. He headed to the statue and looking at the pedestal he saw it was made of a metal trimmed base with vines made of the teal green clay spiraling around the base and rim of the pedestal top. He sees she has five inlaid metal runes in the wooden top. Alchemy, enchantment, artifice, runeology, and acromancy. He looks up at the orb and readies himself to leave. He's suddenly brought back to the present. He'd spent a mere three seconds of real time in her mind.

"So yeah I'm a erospath like you. But I'm not like a normal magi. Beatrice says I'm what's called a ghestalt, am not even a normal ghestalt. Ninety percent of them are two classifications. She told me I'm three. But what I am, I feel is what pushed me into my elective courses. I'm a kineticist, alchemists, and a thaumaturge. Apparently I awoken myself without ever realizing what was going on with me. I thought I had just had a crazy dream. Beatric said she knew one person who was of the same combination. She had to handle cleaning up some of his things and gave me the equipment he'd had and some of ingredients and his books and journals. By the way... caaaannn... I set up shop downstairs?" She looked at him pleading. Jack acted like he was weighing the choices. He made a grim face looking at Jessica then smiled saying that it was fine and she should start moving things in whenever. Jessica in anticipation of him saying yes had already had her lab stuff already sitting in a moving truck at the side of the house by the bulkhead. She rushes off after kissing him and got started on moving stuff into the basement. Jack watched through the window as she moved various things out of the truck.

Jack went through the door and went to Beatrice's place. One second of coming from the doorway the twins poked their heads out to greet him with a wave. Jack peeked in on one room and was shocked at what he saw. Four cots were set up in their family room as a temporary medical room. Jack was shocked that he was looking at four sleeping females. But not just any normal females. He saw a tan female that looked like an orc, a dwarf, an elf, and a tiny person. They all had over-sized shirts covering their upper bodies. The orc looked more like a beautiful Amazon with small tusks tips sticking up slightly from her lip just reaching over her upper lip far less than any orc he'd ever seen in any fiction art. She looked to be around six feet and nine inches tall. She looked like she might be slightly under weight as he could slightly see her ribs. Her upward turned breasts were large and didn't sag from what he could see. Whereas most large breasted women have downward or outward pointing nipples, from how hers were pointing, her breasts swelled below the nipples curving the nipples upwards. They looked to be thick as thumbs and almost just as long as the first joint knuckle.

He noticed that she had scars that had long healed. Her right shoulder area muscles were larger than the left. Her left arm that bared a large rune was slightly larger than the right. Her finger tips were covered with calluses at the tips. He had seen these indicators before on bones archeologist dug up that he did a report on. He could tell she was likely a hunter or archer. Her hair like the others was not maintained. It'd grown long and was wine red. He see her ears are pointed like the elf but where the elf's ear was spear shape pointed, her ears were leaf shaped pointed.

Walking to the next cot he looked at the elf. The elf could reach about five foot eight inches tall. She was slim with moderate sized breasts. Her skin was what looked to be a dark shade of grayish tan. Her hairs were chestnut brown. As stated before her ears were pointed and looked like she'd had several piercings. Her face around her eyes, forehead, and below her lips down her chin, along with other areas exposed from the shirt showed elegant light grey tribal swirls marking her body.

Next he looks at the dwarf. Now when you hear dwarf you'd think of a person like a midget. Short limbs and small body. No this was not the case. He guessed she'd be around five feet tall. Her stocky body was creamy colored and she was quite busty with some notable sag. Maybe she'd been or was pregnant possibly. His foster mother had same issue or so she had complained about. Her very long and thick hair was of two colors split down the middle. Half of her hair is golden blonde and the other half is dark redheaded. It is long and she had hair coming down the sides of her face like mutton chops stopping at her under her ear, but the hairs were almost two feet in length. Her eyebrows and sideburns matched her hair. Her palms and fingers were also covered with calluses showing she worked with her hands. He could see old faded flash burns below her neck on her chest maybe she worked around hot metal or a welder though that was unlikely.

The little female was about three and a half feet tall. Although tiny, her light pale fair color skinned body was proportioned properly with a normal person just at a much smaller scale. Her hair was very light blonde that was almost white. Her feet and hands all had small light patches of short hairs that matched the hairs on her head and brow. Her ears were lightly pointed at the tips.

Jack noticed that they all had tattooed bands of runes around their wrists and throat. They'd been set up with IVs with saline water getting them properly hydrated. They had glowing energy surrounding them. They all had rapid eye movements under their closed eyelids and were likely having nightmares. Off to the side of the room a trashcan held their tattered clothes remnants. Jack guessed they're being kept for evidence possibly. Jack hears a cough and sees Beatrice wave him out to follow her. She brings him to a office and she sits down at her desk. She was apparently studying the runes placed on the women.

"How are you feeling?" She asks as she looked up at him over her glasses. He tells her that he's feeling better. She shakes her head saying good. "As you've just noticed, those women aren't from this world or this realm possibly. Due to the runes all of them had massive flux build-up to where they were starting to show physical signs. We had to immediately put them in detoxing for an hour each. I've tried to find out exactly where they're from but that memory has been blocked or removed by strong magic. I did find out that they along with others were brought here against their will. But here's the funny thing I found. Aside from the rune on the large ones arm, only one of them is able to do actual magic. The runes around the wrists block the subject from performing or using magic of any kind by their hands without blocking the magic of the runes around the head. I'm trying to figure out the deal with how exactly the runes work, but am at a wall. I've got a guest coming here to try and help them. I've gotten some of the minor things taken care of but they'll need a divine to get rid of the major issues. It seems taking them out the prison didn't stop everything that was happening to them. After the girls got the living out, I went through that entire place and scorched it throughout the entire place getting rid of the dead, and the prison itself. All that's left is a clean empty space." She said tapping the ring. Jack places the ring on a necklace and slipped it under his shirt.

The doorbell rings downstairs and Beatrice excuses herself to go down to the shop. Jack walked back to look at the sleeping women. They all had distinguished physical characteristics that were strange, but they were each very beautiful. Jack hears something behind him and sees Beatrice enter the room with Freddrick Silson and Sue Bickma. He laid his eyes on Jack and waved and smiled. Beatrice gives them a rundown of what happened and Freddrick said he must quickly tend to the ladies. Jack excused himself and went home to do some cleaning

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At the magi high council, Calsidus made his way down to the vaults. He made it way through glancing off to the far distance, at the slumbering guardian of the vault. He glances at the 'Conflux jewels' and smiled as he remembered using them to combine the two ladies who'd been fighting over him. They'd each held their own place with him, he just combined them together, until he had his fill of them. He smiled a sinister grin as he recalled their outcome.