CHAPTER 5:

"Don't shoot it!! Okay!! Don't shoot!!" Mom shouted hiding behind the door. "Okay!! But how do I dispel it??" I asked with hands hanging in fromt of me.

"Do the same thing but reverse the order!! And do it step by step!! If you skip a step it will explode!!" Stated mom, scared of what might happen.

I take a deep breath before doing the same thing I did before, but in a reverse order just as mom said. I first will the dirt to lose it's spiked shape, which slowly but surely it did turning into normal dirt.

Once the shape is gone, I had to will the dirt to become mana again. As soon as the dirt started to turn into mana it started to dissipate in the air, in the same way salt dissolves in water.

'I can still feel my mana in the air but I can't control it. I guess that this is what it mean to have your mana consumed. Since once you turn it into a spell, it can't comeback to you. I wonder what happens what would happen if I threw it? ' I start to wander to myself.

After doing the same thing 2 more times, I turned to mom."This wasn't that difficult nor scary mom, why were you so scared??" I asked perplexed as to why was she screaming and hiding earlier.

"Well, I am glad that you weren't scared. You have shown me how a battlemage should act like, and I am very proud of you son!" mom stated flashing me with a dazzling smile, that I reciprocated.

"Yeah!!! I am awesome, aren't I??" I jumped overjoyed with my magic, "Yes, you are!! Now, why don't you show your siblings what you can do??" mom suggested.

"Yes, I will!! Bye mom!!" I said to mom before runing to the library, as that's where all of us tend to be at.

"Rhea, Cedric !!" I shouted as I entered the library, joy written all over my face. "What is it Jade?? Rhea went to a party today!" Cedric answered looking over me, he had a big book open in front of him.

"Mom just taught me how to use magic!! Now I know how to use the first earth elemental spell: spike!!" I shouted with joy. "Ohhhhhh!!! is that so!! Show me!!".

I started going through the same motion as I did with mom, as a 2 feet tall spike made of dirt hovered above me, much to brother's astonishment.

"It's already this big! Right, This mean you are an apprentice mage now! Congratulations Jade!" Said Cedric with a grin on his face.

"Thanks brother Cedric!! Unfortunately sister Rhea isn't here. I wanted to show her that I too can use elemental magic now." I stated infuriated that I couldn't show her how cool I am now.

Soon a black cat appeared out of it's own shadow, "Young lord Jade, your father requests your presence in his office." Said the black cat, this cat is father's 1st familiar. "Okay, tell him I will be there." I said while slightly tugging at my tunic.

After hearing my response the cat jumped back into it's own shadow, leaving me so anxious that my legs were shaking like crazy and my hands were sweating.

"Don't worry Jade. Mom must have talked with him. And now he want to congratulate you. He did the same thing with me and Rhea so it's fine, trust me." Cedric said calming me a lot.

"Now go meet him, dad doesn't like being left waiting." he added, making me even more anxious.

I left the library quickly heading towards father's office, as I knocked on the door I heard father's voice inside beckoning me to come inside.

As I opened the door and stepped inside, I saw father's office clearly, it had a beautiful oak desk full with stacked letters.

Behind dad was huge window, that oversaw all of the west side of Braavos. The walls were decorated with relics from grandfather travel, one of them is an old sword that was used by the mad king himself, in one of the tournies. There is also a valeryen steel sword up there, I don't know which one it is thought.

All in all there is about 5 shiny swords, 2 shields, and 3 set of armors, one of which was pitch black, even more so than the others. And all these weapons and armours where enchanted by grandfather himself.

'I wonder when will I get to learn enchantment?? As it is one of our family's speciality. Alongside storm magic.' I thought to myself.

"I heard you did great in your lesson today. Your mom was telling me you managed to form a spike 2 feet tall. That's not something a apprentice can do in their first 100 spell cast, and yet you did. From your fist try none the less." Dad said, tacking me back from my train of thoughts.

I could see him behind the desk, reading a letter. He looked tired as if he hadn't slept for a long time, or fought against an army of chimeras and dragons none stop.

"Yeah, I did!!!" I said happy to get this much attention from dad. He is pretty much always out on jobs, or in here reading letters, so this is a nice change of pace.

I started releasing my mana above me, and slowly turned it into dirt, then I gave it a spiked shape and Tada. A 2 feet tall spike was above me, dad looked at me strangely for a second before smiling at me.

'Getting this much attention from dad was good from time to time.' I thought happily to myself.

Dad had a pensive look on his face for a minute, before losing whatever doubt he had "Get ready, 3 days from now we are leaving to visit some ^Friends^" Dad said with some disdain at the word ^Friends^.