Avalon: Magi - Chapter 1

Centuries ago, people believed magic was spoken with words, that a power within could be controlled, with a wand. What they didn't know was that, they were stories told by mortals to there children as magical fairy tales, to imagine them while they were young, but deep with in the worlds real magic was used by the minds of the users.

Three years ago, the lands of Camelot were shake by the presents of a man named merlin. With or Without a wand he could conjure magic. But something within leaked a darker power. With the death of the King of England, Merlin left leaving a legacy, and a gift to control the forces that surround them, a book known as the 'Power of Magi'. Word after word they read, learn the skill not knowing its true... nature. Each one handing down the skills of natural, and the unnatural. Five House of the Art, protected the Skill as it should, but far into the lands, ther are always those the wish to use it for the pwer to control the world.

Deep in the forest of Northern Lands, a boy looked over the lands its hills covered with rocks, lust meadows gloomed the lands with blue and yellow, his face smooth, his eyes bright as the sky, his hair rough, and messy. The boy looked at the sky watching the clouds, move, then he began to sing.

"Ma--De--Ka. En do je--h.
Po--Ji--se--mo----day.
Ma--De--Ka. En do je--h.
Pi--tee--jon..."

He stopped something in the distances could be heard, Standing up he saw men clad in armor rushing towards him, frozen The soldiers rushing towards, one with his sword raised, the boy eyes reflecting the sword slowly rushing through his body, blood covering the lands, seconds later, off into the distance screams could be heard as the village of innocent people were slaughtered. The Boy laying cold still was swept up by a man, "Good hes still alive." Still in the mans hand he watched, as his people die and his father being decapitated.

In this boys head he heard the song, that he remembered as a child repeating over and over. Slowly he wake to a smell of soup "Good your awake..." "Father...Ouch!" shouted the boy, gripping the stomach, a bandage covered what was the wound he felt, still remembering the image of the soliders sword raising at him. "Who are you..." the man older than 70, wore a hand pointy at the end, his beard long with a a touch of gray add into it, his eyes were narrow and kind "oh me...ha ha...well lad, i think i forgot my name long ago..." laughing "just call me...Gray...yes gray suits me well, and may i ask how you are", throwing bread at him "I-i am jin...sir" looking at the man he said again "Why did you help me" Mixing the soup and tasting it "We'll it was the song you were... well-singing...It was something i remembered, by a man older than i was long ago...his man was-ah-i forgot" tasting the soup once more he looked at the kid "Here eat you need it...I'll check the wound before night, then I'll take you to see my old friend he knows how to help you". "Thank you" said the boy eating the soup. In this head the song keep playing, he could almost here harps and flutes, and imagined a women dancing to it.

The Night had come, he dreamed of the hills and is friends, his father working on the mill, his mother making his meal, and then it was dark a fog in his mind had came over him, and when it faded he saw his mother, father and friends dead near him, "NO What-NO-O-O-O-O!" He wake,his eyes tearing, all he felt was anger..."Did the King do this..." "No, It was a Lord of the Eastern lands, These men were trained to kill, those loyal to the Noble...hummm...I forgot to tell you...i am a mage, but please boy sleep you'll need it...we have a long walk ahead of us" before he could speak his eyes were becoming tired, but this time he dreamed of nothing.

As they began to walk, jin noticed an unusual path they were walking, it bent into the wall, looking around thinking he was crazy, Grey then leaned himself close to it, whispering and then looked at the boy "Boy i think you'll like my old friend Oak.." "Oak, why the weird names" spoke the boy, thinking the names were uncanny while really unusual to people to be called. Jin then watched Grey open the wall, "the wall splitting in-half to make another entrance, very cool" though jin not sure what to believe at this moment. "Oh i must remind you, hes not one of those people that speak a lot, he tends to keep to himself" Jin looking at him as if to think he might have realized that while in Grey company. JIn and Grey both walked for two miles through heavy bushes and autumn like trees. Then as they turned the corner they saw a house, built inside a tree, its windows circler its door larger than any normal human "ooh boy hes also a Giant", "now you tell me..." said jin, looking at grey with a grumpy look. "yes, but hes not all Giant hes half.." said Grey then pointing at the house, jin not bothered to ask why hes was pointing at the house walked towards the door, suddenly the door opened "Ah your late, you said..." "i know this is why" Grey pointing at jin, smiling jin looked at Oak with the most unusual look, as if to think he may be fatter than what most giants are. Oak, tall and lean, his hair silver from the old age, his eyes narrow filled with wisdom and knowledge. Oak then looked at jin again "don't you think this is great weather, the skys are blue, there is no storm coming, and what is it..." looking at the boy, jin then remember his mother and father, the blue sky's the nights he had with them on the roof, watching the stars.

Grey leaning towards Oak whispered "I have something to talk about, but first this boy needs to sleep" Grey putting his hand to stop jin from crying, showed jin the room, the rooms wasn't that great the bed was a stub and the guilts were made of sowed leaves, from a bombi tree, known for there large leaves and for holding together under pressure.

As the light began to dim out, the moon made its presants, Jin looking at the moon unable to sleep, began to sing in his head repeating the song his mother sang to him as a young child.

"Ma--De--Ka. En do je--h.
Po--Ji--se--mo----day.
Ma--De--Ka. En do je--h.
Pi--tee--jon..."

"That song is the song of the Magi" grey entering the room, my master would sing it to summon a spirit, but there was more to that, i see why you sing it...if you finished it, a powerful spirit would come, there well-umm-called guardians, each guardian takes the form of a creature" Oak also entering "Grey here has told me of what happened and that he saved you, but i have one question about that song i heard, who told you that..." Jin still looking at the moon "my...Mother" Oak moving closer "her name..." Jin then looking away from the moon to look at Oak "Her Name was Cloud..." Grey interrupting jin, remembered the name "Cloud of the Wind Magi's...well now i see why i was told to go to your village by an older friend--well that is--before he died...poor soul" Grey and Oak both began to get up, moving towards the door, grey turned to speak "Well ill let you sleep, there is now something i wish to show you" and with that Jin began to sleep, all he could think of was his mother and father, all three sing the song, over and over again.

Suddenly jin began to hear the song more, the words began to increase. Did he know more? or was this just his mind pretending to know what he does not. Grey and jin both awake in the mist of the morning, smelling the fresh sent of clean aroma air. Jin Waving to Oak as both Grey and him left throught the forest, the forests creatures began to scatter as we got close. One creature on the other hand didnt "We bring no harm to your territory only to past..." the creature looked at both of them for just a seconds then, turned away. Jin letting out air he held from the fright. Jin look at the creature, it almost resembled the dog he had before--his mind wanding off "Come on or you'll miss what it is i want to show you..." Jin and Grey soon came out of the forest, Jin slowly making his way towards the cliff edge, starred with his mouth wide open..."What in the name of--" "--come...'spoke grey interrupting jins stunned eyes, for what he saw could not be explained in words or in any thought pattern in his mind. "what you see...is a Giant called 'Si'Polar' a very mean but sometimes helpful Giant..."Jin still having a hard time saying a word. "Umm--are we--going to talk to it..." said Jin "No...We will leave him alone...hes not in the mood to day...Look at his eyes" Jin could not look, he was afraid that his eyes might turn him to stone "no thank you".

Jin and Grey both left down the mountains, across the lakes before coming to a village, circling a lake, and with in that lake laid a tower.