Chapter 75

Chapter 75
Shadow’s POV

Immortalis Academy.
The place that I had been waiting for so long to get in. It looms like a shadow soaked fortress as I stand at my window watching the crowds disperse after their classes. There is supposed to be something of a challenge or a duel at dusk. All this time that I had been waiting to come here to hone my magic to finally learn what I am and who I am and why was I abandoned, I was shocked by the amount of magic that was hanging heavily in the air and the nonchalance that every single student feigned at the effect of magic.
There was a knock on the door to the room had been assigned to me and before I could walk over and enter the room a strange looking guy came inside.
“Hey there, newbie. I am your neighbour,” said the guy as I saw the small horns on his head and I stared at him cocking my head said,” You are a centaur, right?”
“Oh no no…I am a faun. Centaurs are part horses. We used to have centaurs in this Academy but since the last war they have been all assigned to man the realms boundaries, that is why we don’t have them in the academy any longer. But what about you? I am Feris, and you are?”
“Shadow,” I replied with a kind smile. I could see from his aura that this guy was a good creature. There was no malice, no dark desires and no hint that he might be doing something wrong and I understood that there was some Fae in this creature.
“Wow! Cool name…you are gonna fit right in with everyone else. Come on, don’t you wish to see the challenge that is going to happen soon enough?” he asked and I raised my brow and said,” I have just arrived here. I mean, I know no one and I still haven’t unpacked and..”
“Oh pish posh. You are coming with us right now. It is going to be the best thing that you have ever seen,” Feris smiled as he caught hold of my hand and immediately he went rigid. His eyes went white and I knew that he was having some kind of vision. But he did not say anything and stayed in that position for quite a few minutes and finally when his eyes returned back to normal he gulped.
“You had a vision, didn’t you?” I prompted as I let go of his hand gently. I could feel my wings itching to get out but I could not do that. Not just yet. I did not know how this place worked or even if it was safe to let out what I was, but Feris looked visibly scared.
“How?” he asked me and I closed my eyes and sighed.
“I don’t know how. I have no idea of how I came to be….but I have come here to know how I came to be, and how I was born.”
“Does no one know what you are?” he asked, now I could see the sympathy in his gaze. I know that he did not mean to be pitying me but he must have seen something which must have triggered that in him.
“Marcellus knows what I am. He wanted me to come here because he had seen me in a vision and said that I was needed here and that I would find my true purpose here. Apart from that, I have been living for a very long time now…and my magic is really strong.”
“I got that. I am sorry if you felt that I intruded your privacy somehow,” he said and I shook my head but Feris continued,” It doesn’t always happen in this way to me but sometimes I have no control over it.”
“No I understood what you went through and you seemed to be in considerable pain but if I am not being too forward then may I ask, what did you exactly see?” I just needed to know if he had seen all the things that I had done over the years and if he hated me or not.
“I saw you wandering in the cave as you were a babe. You were crying and sobbing as the dark shadows covered and loomed over you but you had no idea. There was no one to protect you and then gradually you were found by some villagers who took you in and fed you. The clothing…it was ancient…I can’t believe that you have been alive for so long. How old are you exactly?”
“Um hundred and thirteen years to be honest and yes, that is one thing that I have no control over. It seems like that I am extremely hard to kill,” I said with a smile and he nodded.
“You are self aware, and that is a good thing. You will fit in right here.”
“If I may ask, I mean, I don’t know if it is ok or not to ask this or no…but what powers do you exactly have? All these years I have been on earth where magic was least existent and I have no idea about anyone else apart from the sorcerors and the witches.”
“I am a Precog. That is my power. Actually I have a sister, she is the one who is a Seer and I am the one with her opposite power. I can see the past. I have no idea of future or what is to come but there is something else that I can do and that is, if someone is hurting from some kind of past memory or trauma then I can take that memory away from them,” he said without any expression. I frowned at that.
“Why would someone want that?”
Now he smiled,” Well not everyone is as strong as you are Shadow, there are several people who want to escape the past and they wish to start anew. This is one chance for them because this can’t be repeated on someone or else their memories will get jumbled and it will be a disaster. But we will have enough time for discussing this, now come on. I will show you the cafeteria and we will get something to eat and then we will find where the challenge is supposed to happen. Are you a gambling man, Shadow?”
“I am. I am quite good at it.”
Feris smiled and said,” Then you are gonna love it here.”