Chapter 1 The beginning
What if there was this world that existed right in front of you, hidden but right in front of you, would you run straight towards it, or be cautious? What if this world was filled with wonder, adventure, magic, and friendship, but came with a terrible price. Would you still witness it even though you might lose everything you care about? My name is Caleus, i’m seventeen years old and I have brown messy hair. I live in Massachusetts with my mom and dad. This story begins on a beautiful crisp morning, I was still fast asleep unaware that today was a school day. Then I felt like I was being hit, I opened my eyes to see my cat Bella pawing at my face.
“Bella.” I said sleepily, then I turned to look at the clock it was 7:15. Immediately I hopped out of my bed and got dressed.
I ran down the stairs and grabbed a piece of toast between my teeth. Then I flung my backpack onto my back and threw open the door. I ran as fast as I could to school, I started to pant and wheeze.
“Morning Caleus!” My friend Mat shouted.
Mat had long dark brown hair and a mustache.
“Mat how is it going?” I asked.
“Oh you know...Anime girls.” He replied.
Mat was a complete pervert when it came to anything. I looked at him and sighed. We sprinted to class with five minutes to spare, and then walked inside.
“Hey Caleus!” Jordan and Alex said.
Jordan is a skinny boy with messy black hair. Alex is a boy with black hair and he too was a pervert.
“Morning Caleus.” Sofia said.
Sofia was a beautiful girl with long red hair.
“Hey sofia.” I said blushing.
I had a huge crush on Sofia ever since day one, granted the first time I could barely speak to her. Mat and Alex elbowed me, I shook my head.
“One of these days you will be late Caleus.” She replied.
I sat down and pulled out a book.
“Caleus, what are you reading?” She asked, then looked down at the cover, she grabbed the book out of my hand, and shouted.
“Don’t fill your head with fantasties, focus on reality, magic isn’t real!”
Then without warning she threw the book through the window, I stared in shock of what she had just done, my heart broke into a million pieces. The girl of my dreams doesn’t believe in magic, or fantasy.
That book, I read it when I was five years old it was full of wizards, witches, magic and love. The magic fascinated me and I kept wondering was it real or not, despite what Sofia said. After class my friends, Sofia, and me all walked home.
“See you guys!” I shouted, Sofia still glared at me. It was starting to get late so I started to run home when out of the corner of my eye I saw, a large building with caution tape all around it, and a sign that said.
“KEEP OUT!”
I kept walking towards the house. My gut told me to run away as fast as I could but I kept moving, I tore the caution tape aside and walked towards the door.
I grasped the door handle and then my hand vanished. I stared at the door in fear and tried to pull my hand out, and there it was unscathed. I walked through the wall, my current surroundings disappeared and before me was hundreds of shops selling strange things Dragonhide, Slug repellent, and cauldrons.
I wondered if I was even in America anymore, I decided to walk further down the street and around the bend was a horrifying sight, a dead woman with blood spilling out. I started to panic.
“why was she dead! Who killed her!, where am I!” I thought to myself. Then a man with a black cloak with blood on it approached me.
I tried to back up and run but he reached into his cloak and pulled out a wooden stick. The man grinned at me, then pointed the stick at me and said.
“Asesinato”
A red spark flew from the stick towards me it skimmed me in the leg. Blood started flowing from my leg, I fell to the floor in pain, my head started spinning. The man drew closer.
“So this is the end, I’ll never get to say goodbye to Sofia and tell her I love her.” I thought, as I closed my eyes.
Then everything went dark, then I heard loud cracks and opened my eyes. Four men dressed in cloaks stood above me.
“How on earth is he alive.” One said.
“Where is his wand?” Another asked.
The sharp pain in my leg was gone. I got up to face the men.
“Who’s your Signore professor?” A man asked.
“Wait your, your a no mag!” Another shouted.
“He survived a Dark Wizard!” Another shouted.
“Signore, no mag and Dark Wizard.” I asked confused.
“Well looks like we will have to wipe his memories.” A taller man said.
He drew his stick and pointed it at me.
“Did you hear, the Dark Wizard will attack again.” One said.
The tall man flicked his wand and said.“Borrar memor-”
Immediately I knocked the stick out of his hand and ran as fast as I could. I ran down the alleyways and around the bend was The Dark wizard standing in front of a girl wearing robes.
I could not stand by and watch her die as well, but what could I do. Then it came to me.
“People are not meant to die by your hands!” I shouted.
He looked at me with an malicious smile.
“What you gonna do about it!” He replied.
Then at that very moment I felt a strong energy pulsing through my veins, magic energy flowed through me. I stuck out my hands, the man pointed his stick at me and laughed.
“Now you die!” He shouted.
Without thinking I shouted. “Asesinato!” Then a red magical burst erupted from my hands.
It hit The Dark Wizard in the chest, blood erupted from his body and he fell to the ground motionless. Then I realized what I had done, I fell onto my knees seeing the dead body. The cloaked men approached the scene and gasped.
“This boy a mere no mag!” The tall man shouted.
“He killed that man without a wand.” One muttered.
Then it hit me I had just performed magic and that “stick” was a wand.
So many questions were going through my head
“Wait the magic world is real?, how did I kill that man?”
“This boy is a danger to the Magical world, he could kill hundreds in a second, we must get rid of him!” The tall man shouted.
“What! No please my name is Caleus, i’m just a normal human being.” I begged.
“None of that, was normal for a no mag!” One shouted.
“All right let’s go to the Magical congress.” The tall man said.
They grabbed my wrist, all of a sudden I felt like I was spinning and then I wasn’t. When I opened my eyes I saw a luxurious Congress center, people where walking all over the place. We walked into what seemed like an elevator, the tall man pushed a button and the elevator lurched upwards, the elevator came to a stop, and a automated voice said.
“Level 12 presidential floor.”
We walked out and walked down a long hall, then into a door that said President’s office. A large man with blond hair got up from his chair and walked over to me.
“Hello Caleus. My name is Barty and I so happen to be the President of magic. I heard what happened and I’m very curious. How did a seventeen year old, no mag kill a dark wizard and without a wand?” He asked staring at me if I was yet another mystery to solve.
“Sir I have no idea,but I swear I didn’t do it on purpose.” I replied.
“Caleus what is the name of your family?” Barty asked.
“Clawwind, sir.”
“Wait you mean your Kasey Clawwind’s son!” He shouted.
“Kasey..She is my mother what does she have to do with all this!” I shouted.
“Nothing..nothing my dear boy.” He said, then started backing up.
Then a tall man with a grey beard that fell to his belt opened the door.
“Ah..Alpenfury, what are you doing here?” Barty asked.
“I have heard about what happened and I have decided to let Mr. Caleus go to Signore, Institute of Wizardry.” He replied.
“What, not after what happened with Zedall! never again!” Barty shouted.
“Barty give him a chance, let me teach him.” Alpenfury said.
Barry looked at Alpenfury then at me then sighed and said.
“Very well, good luck Caleus.”
Then Barty and the four men said goodbye and me and Alpenfury walked out of the office.
“Sir, um..am I going to learn magic?” I asked excited as we where walking.
“Why indeed Caleus.”
I was going to a wizard school, a real wizard school, I was so excited to go and start.
“Sir, if you don’t mind me asking who is Zedall and what does Kasey have to do with this?” I asked.
He looked at me very sternly and said.
“As you may have realized not all Wizards are good and Zedall he went as bad as you could go, at this very moment a Magical war is going on and as for your mother I can’t say.”
I looked at him and wondered how many more Dark Wizards were out there killing people.
Alpenfury took my hand and in an instant I felt like i was being sucked through a tube. Then it stopped, I felt like I was about to throw up.
“Teleporting can make some uneasy.” Alpenfury said.
We were in a bar by the looks of it, there where people Wizards and Witches probably drinking and talking. One was reading an article an the headline said.
“Caleus Clawwind kills a Dark Wizard without no wand, a mere no mag I doubt it.”
The people stopped chatting, they looked at me some gasped others backed away and some congratulated me.
“Well done Mr. Caleus, you are our savior in this war.”
“How did you do it, did you know you were a half blood?” Another asked.
“Half blood?” I asked.
“Means you have half no mag and half magic blood.” He responded.
I went upstairs to where a lady very cautiously was leading me to my room. I felt like everyone was treating me like a ticking time bomb ready to go off, or a monster about to strike. I shut my eyes still comprehending what had happened.
The next morning a man, not Alpenfury came to my room to get me. I awoke and heard a tapping noise coming from my window, I opened it, a brown owl flew in and dropped a letter into my hands. I opened it.
“Dear Mr. Clawwind we are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Signore, Institute of wizardry. Please find enclosed your list of items you will need.”
I went downstairs to find Alpenfury waiting, he led me out the back door and what was in front of me was the same ally that I had bumped into last night.
“Welcome to Dragontail Ally.” He said.
Wizards and witches were bustling from shop to shop, young students were chatting at a window, there were different shops with names like, Madam Connor’s Brooms, Evroult Wizarding Clothes, Mister Sunno’s Emporium of Creatures, Owls for all, and Madem Notger’s Magics. I saw a rustic looking building that said.
“Solidroar fine makers of wands since 1975.”
I went inside it was empty many boxes were stacked in shelf's, I went up to the counter there a white haired old man was asleep.
“Hello!” I said.
“Hun..what..who!” He responded, then opened his eyes to look at me. “Ah..Mr. Clawwind...I was wondering when you would come here?” He rasped.
He rushed off to a shelf and cautiously rummaged around for a box, then he grabbed one and walked over to me.
“Ah nine and a half inches dragonheart.” He opened the box and holded the wand out to me. I decided to flick the wand immediately a yellow spark flew from the wand towards the shelf, it exploded wand boxes flew everywhere, wands fell towards the ground. “No..No.definitely not!” He shouted.
Then he ran back over to a shelf and grabbed a box, he opened it and handed it to me. “Ten and a half inches Phoenix heartstring.” He said. I grabbed it immediately I felt a surge of magic power flowing through me. “Interesting.” Solidroar said.
“Why what wrong?”
“It is interesting because only the most powerful wands have those cores.” He replied.
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“Well for example Zedall has that core.” He replied, then stared at me. I walked out of the shop and got all my other belongings, I decided to buy a cat and I named it Luna.
I was holding Luna and walked with Alpefury through a wall to get back to Massachusetts train station, as we arrived he handed me a ticket it said.
“Platform 8 ¾”
I looked at the ticket with curiosity knowing I was back in Massachusetts and I knew for a fact there was no such platform. “Hey, sir there is no such platform.” I said, but when I looked he was gone. I pushed my trolley towards the different platform and not surprising, but there was no such platform.
I kept walking not daring to ask a conductor about the platform because I couldn’t expose the Magical world, then I would be in even more trouble. Then I heard a voice a woman’s voice.
“Platform 8 ¾ this way.”
I decided to follow her, there were two other boys with her. “Chad all right you go.” Chad grinned then ran at the wall and then vanished. I blinked a couple of times then slapped myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. I went up to the woman
“Excuse me how do I get through.”
“Oh not to worry its very simple Korius has done it many times, you have to run at the wall between platform eight and nine."
I ran at the wall bracing for impact and then in front of me was a glorious blue train that said “Signore Express”
